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(law officers of Jennifer Walters, a.k.a. She-Hulk)
Northstar is seated opposite Jennifer, there to enquire about his immigration status. She tells him, in all honestly, that he’s basically up the creek. “Excuse me?” he replies. She explains that he can start praying but that won’t help. He can save the city of New York. That might buy him a month or two, but the law will catch up with him. When that happens he will have to leave the country and then it’s a matter of negotiating for how long. She’s sorry to have to say this to him.
Jean-Paul asks if she’s joking. She replies that he didn’t just pay her thousands of dollars to kid around. He reminds her that he paid her thousands of dollars to get results! She stands and tells him that lawyers aren’t magicians and the law doesn’t care that she’s green and gorgeous and he’s not. Unfortunately, the letter of the law is clear. His marriage to an American citizen isn’t recognized by the federal government and even if it was, he is in the country illegally and always has been. She asks if he even owns a passport. Jean-Paul doesn’t respond.
Jennifer looks out the window and says it’s funny how their powers make them feel entitled to certain privileges. You just go where you want because you can fly across borders, but there are consequences, and even though they aren’t fair he’s getting off easily compared to some of the people she represents. Jean-Paul is subdued, unable to comprehend all this bad news coming his way. He asks what he’s going to do. Jennifer places a comforting hand on his shoulder and tells him he’ll do the same as always. They keep fighting and hope for the best. Jean-Paul leaves and flies off, despondent.
(meanwhile)
Karma, Wolverine, Iceman and Gambit are having a snack and reminiscing. Remy mentions a time in Tokyo with Jubilee in prison, the ninjas and Logan getting strip searched at the airport. Logan asks what about it. Remy says he misses those days. Hard times but not like now. Logan admits that they were the golden years, even if they didn’t think of them that way. Remy whispers to him, asking if he’s okay with what they’re doing. He knows it can’t be easy. The other ‘him’ was his best friend. Logan replies that it doesn’t matter. It has to be done. Karma is sitting there humming to herself. The woman behind the counter asks if she’s okay. Bobby tells her she’s fine. It’s the new thing… meditative trances. Like yoga, except for the mind.  She’ll snap out of it in a minute.
(elsewhere)
Sitting on a park bench is a young woman. She has a book open but is reading a hand-written letter inside it. It reads ‘Is it too early to say I love you? Because I do. I love you. No world exists where you and I would not be together.’ She smiles as she reads the words on the page. Watching from a tree behind her is Nightcrawler, wearing an overcoat and hat. A woman pushing a pram walks past and her young son stops and stares at him. “Oh, hello,” says Kurt. The boy reaches out and touches his tail. “You have a tail,” he says. Kurt tells him it’s funny how that happens. The boy’s mother is shocked and asks if he’s a pervert. She warns him not to touch her son with that thing. The boy tells her it’s a tail, but she replies that she doesn’t care what it is. He’s a freak. Kurt teleports away before he attracts too much attention.
Kyle is in a yoga class with Cecelia Reyes. As they assume their positions, he explains that he loves Jean-Paul but it’s been hard. He’s had to make so many compromises over the years, but now, finally, he feels like they’ve got a chance. New York has been a miracle; a place for them to start fresh and it means so much to him. Cecelia replies that she can’t imagine what he’s been through, not that she’d ever date a man with super powers. Kyle jokes that she’s such a liar. He’s seen the way she looks at Gambit. She tells him everyone looks at Gambit that way. And anyway, she adds, it’s too difficult. Too complicated. Kyle reckons that she’s too afraid. Maybe she still has feelings for a certain blue doctor. “Don’t,” she warns. Kyle crosses his legs and raises his body from the floor. “Hmmm,” he says. “Isn’t yoga relaxing?” Cecelia, now out of sorts, replies, Uh… sure.”
After they’ve finished, Northstar meets them outside the studio. Cecelia takes this as her cue to leave and so Jean-Paul and Kyle go for a wander. Kyle asks him how it went with the lawyer. Jean-Paul stops walking, looks at Kyle and kisses him. “That bad, huh?” replies Kyle. Jean-Paul asks how he’d feel about moving to Canada. Kyle turns and walks away. Jean-Paul asks him not to be mad, but Kyle tells him this is him processing what he just said. He points to a tree and tells Jean-Paul he wants to sit in it, right now.
They fly up and perch on a large branch high up in the tree. Jean-Paul asks if that’s better. Kyle replies that he likes being high up when they have stressful conversations. It puts everything into perspective. He turns to his husband and tells him he doesn’t want to leave New York. It feels like home. Jean-Paul replies that he’s an American. This country is real for him in ways that it isn’t for him. He’s not even sure he wants to be American. He touches Kyle’s hand and tells him he wishes things were easier.
(elsewhere)
The woman that Kurt was watching heads to her apartment and finds a vase filled with flowers inside. There is a note next to it. ‘My darling,’ it says. She reads the note and smiles again before picking up the phone.
(meanwhile)
On a hotel rooftop, Wolverine looks out across the city. Iceman informs him that Gambit and Karma are still questioning the hotel staff. It seems like Kurt really shook some of them up. Heck, catching Kurt taking a shower would traumatize him, too. He reckons Nightcrawler wasn’t there very long. He stole an empty room for the night, emptied the mini bar and teleported around in nothing but a towel. He wonders where, if he were an alternate version of Nightcrawler from an apocalyptic dimension, he would hide. He checks his phone and finds an online reference to Kurt being in the park earlier in the day. With no response, Bobby turns and says Logan’s name. Logan simply stands there and sips his coffee.
Bobby tells him it must be real good. “Hello?” he says. “Earth to Logan. Sasquatch is calling. He wants his hairy chest back.” Still no reply. “Sometimes I wear Storm’s underwear.” Logan turns to look at him and Bobby assures him that he only said that to see if he was listening. He doesn’t really wear her underwear… seriously. Logan apologizes but says he isn’t much in the mood for listening to anyone right now. He reckons they should round everyone up.
They head back inside. Bobby says he still hasn’t explained why it’s so important that they find this other Nightcrawler. He thought he was one of the good guys. “Wolverine reminds him that he killed a man. Shouldn’t that be enough for him? Bobby guesses so, but it’s not usually enough for him. No offense, but Logan’s moral compass isn’t always attuned to true north. Wolverine asks Bobby not to call him by that name. He’s not their Nightcrawler. Bobby reckons any idiot could figure that out, but he still doesn’t understand why they’re hunting him so hard. What isn’t he saying? Logan asks him to drop it.
They hook up with Gambit and Karma, who is checking the contents of the mini bar. Logan tells them that this has been a waste of damn time. They can wrap it up. As they depart, Karma asks Gambit if he saw all the bottles. Remy reckons it’s a sign of a man drowning his sorrows. Karma thinks it all feels so lonely. Bobby tries to get something out of Wolverine. He asks if he can guess. Did he want to take over the world and nerve-gas kittens? Or, did he want to start a master race where everyone is blue? Or, maybe, he wants to take their old friend’s place. Maybe he just want to be their Nightcrawler? Maybe Logan just got a little mixed up about it, too.
Wolverine snikts his claws and orders Bobby to shut the hell up. Bobby ices up and replies that he will when he starts talking. Karma grabs his arm as Logan snarls that he has nothing to say. Gambit steps in and says they’ve known each other too long for this. They are here because they trust him. He should trust them a little, too. Logan retracts his claws and turns to the door. He tells him that’s the problem. Trust is what caused this mess. Bobby asks where this leaves them. Logan informs him that there’s only one place left to look. A man doesn’t forget the woman he loves… no matter what universe she is in.
Watching from a window opposite, Kurt teleports when he sees Northstar rejoining the team. The mystery woman is in her apartment and on the phone. She tells her friend Michele that she wishes she could tell her more about him but she’s afraid of jinxing it.
She beams as she looks at one of the flowers he sent her. “He’s perfect. Like he’s known her forever. How do you explain something like that?” she asks. It makes her believe in crazy things, like fate. Sitting hiding behind a cabinet, Kurt closes his eyes and holds her scarf to his cheek.
She realizes there’s someone at the door so ends the conversation. She opens it to find her boyfriend, Bruce. “Hey, Linda,” he smiles. She tells him she didn’t think he’d be back until next week. He says he flew home early. He missed her too much. “Missed you, love you,” she replies as she gives him a big hug. As they kiss, Kurt cowers in the shadows. He then teleports to the roof and puts his head in his hand. “Oh, God… Linda,” he sighs. He notices a cat looking at him, inquisitively. He yells at it, saying it doesn’t matter that he’ll never have his wife again, he still doesn’t regret what he did. He never will. “You tell him that!” he snaps. As Wolverine leaps over the rooftop and catches sight of him, Kurt teleports away. The other X-Men join Logan, who tells Karma that she had a chance to possess him there. Why didn’t she? She explains that she tried but she couldn’t enter his mind. “Well, try harder,” he replies.
Karma says that maybe it would help if he gave her something to go on. Who is this guy and why are they doing this? Bobby adds that they’re not his soldiers. They’re a team. Northstar wonders if they’re done here. He needs to get home and have some make-up sex. Everyone looks at him. “What?” he says. Wolverine admits that he made a mistake and that’s the reason they are here. He made the mistake of wanting his friend to be alive again. He explains that when he saw that Nightcrawler from the other universe, part of him wanted to believe it was the same man. He ignored the facts. He trusted him because of the way he looked; because he needed to believe this was his friend, and he double-crossed them.
Shan says it must feel like he’s lost his friend all over again. Wolverine replies that he’s pissed. More than pissed. He’s afraid he’s gonna kill Nightcrawler if he confronts him. That’s why he needed the X-Men with him. He can’t control where he’s gonna go. Jean-Paul asks if he even knows what he wants to do. “No,” replies Logan, “And that’s the worst part.”
(meanwhile)
Kurt teleports to the top of the Empire State Building. He talks to himself, saying that all he wants is his life, his world, his memories. He doesn’t belong here. He never did. And she isn’t here. He places the scarf to his face and breathes in. “I’m coming home, Linda,” he sighs, and he releases the scarf into the wind. He then teleports away as a fissure opens in space near the top of the building. A face then appears in the shadows bearing a rather nasty set of teeth.


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The Fabric of Reality
(Chapter Three)
In the beginning, there was only darkness. And then there was light. But the darkness remained in all of its magnificent hunger, waiting to trip everyone up.
Various voices yell out amid the chaos. One calls for Alison to wait but she yells back that she won’t. Her voice is suddenly cut off and someone screams her name in horror. Someone else asks if anyone else is seeing it. That thing is eating her power. Another voice yells that it’s not working and someone else yells to get her out of there as it’s going to kill her too.
Dazzler is facing off against the monster that just killed her team’s Xavier. She is firing her light beams at it as hard as she can but it’s not doing any damage. A little way off, Wolverine yells again for someone to get her out of there. Gambit throws some charged cards at the monster but Sage tells him not to. Howlett calls for Kurt to get Dazzler, which he does. She passes out and Kurt tries to wake her.
Prophet holds back Jean Grey but she tells him to let her go. He tells her they haven’t survived this long by being stupid. Sabretooth notices there are two versions of Wolverine, much to his dismay. Horror Show tells the rest of his team to let the others make the first move and maybe they will learn something valuable.
Sage tells Gambit the monster just fed off the blast he gave them. They absorbed and converted the energy. Their mass has increased by 20% in the last five minutes. Gambit acknowledges Sage and she tells him long time no see. Wolverine tells Howlett that he may look and smell like him but he’s learned not to trust appearances so he had better stay out of his way. Howlett says he will watch his back and they can save the fussing for later. Howlett then launches Wolverine through the air towards the monsters whilst telling Hercules to stay back. Hercules ignores him and charges forwards. He says he is a god and can never be… His words trail as he is stopped by the monsters before he finishes. There is a haze around them and when Howlett gets into it notes that the air around them is made of acid. He is barely making a dent in them too. Wolverine agrees and says they heal fast too. He slashes one across the head but the claw marks immediately start to seal.
They jump back down and Wolverine says they are not healing fast enough. The skin has been removed off one of his arms and his bare muscles are showing. They are getting burned alive and they won’t survive another minute at this rate. Howlett asks if he wants to run but Wolverine says he just got started.
Cyclops from the X-treme X-Men goes to fire an optic blast at the monsters but Sage stops him. She reminds him what happened when Dazzler used her powers on them. They devour energy and organic matter to survive. Cyclops says they have to do something and Dazzler says that he’s right. But first they need to separate Wolverine and Howlett from those things. Their healing factors won’t save them. A blur suddenly rushes past Sage, startling her.
Northstar flies so fast he punches a hole on one of the monster’s chests. As he speeds away, he tells them to try and touch him or at least get up from the holes on their chests. He gets to Wolverine and Howlett and drags them back to their teams. Gambit grabs Dark Beast and asks what he did. McCoy swears he did nothing but Gambit charges a card and holds it to his face. The monsters start to get up so Karma tries to possess one while it’s weak. However, she starts to scream in pain and purple mist flows out of her eyes and mouth. Possessed by the monsters, she turns to the team. She tells them all they taste so sweet after so many eons of darkness. The monsters tell the X-Men that they freed them but Wolverine tells them they didn’t. They says that they broke the walls the Celestials built to contain them. They have felt it for some time… tears, fissures, cracks… growing wider with each of their leaps. Cyclops suddenly realizes that it is their fault.
Jean tells Prophet that they have to do something. He says they are and then tells her to hold tight. Sabretooth says that Karma is being eaten from the inside out; they can practically see the life leaving her body. Still speaking through Karma, the monsters say that they crossed dimensions too many times and weakened the Celestial prison that bound them. They are now free and they will feed. And they will grow strong.
Iceman suddenly glides into the fight and blasts the monsters. He says they are not hurting any more of his friends. He envelopes them in ice as the team rush to Karma’s aid. Sabretooth says he hasn’t seen Iceman in a while; he thought he might be dead. Jean says that he is and that isn’t their Iceman. Nightcrawler and Kid Nightcrawler suddenly teleport in to the X-terminators. Nightcrawler says that they are strangers down there no matter how familiar they look. Deadeye pulls a gun on Kid Nightcrawler but the other two teams approach them. Wolverine, still healing from his wounds, points his claws at them and says they better run like hell because they are cowards. He tells Jean and Sabretooth he thought better of them.
Prophet interrupts and tells Wolverine to say it to him because he told them not to help. What Wolverine calls cowardice, he calls intelligence. Gathering data to formulate a strategy. If that meant some of them dying, then he can live with it. Especially if they learn something useful. Wolverine asks if he found out anything. Prophet asks what makes him think he’ll share anything with him, but Jean interjects that they don’t have time for this. She tells Prophet that if he knows something useful then he should share it with the rest of them.
Dark Beast says it’s too late. They wasted too much time and now those things are about to break free. Horror Show asks if Prophet found out anything useful. Prophet says that they consume energy and matter. Dazzler sarcastically says to tell her something she doesn’t know. He continues and says they can also be temporarily wounded and contained. Jean points out that it’s very temporary, as they watch the three monsters burst out of the ice. Prophet says that if they don’t find a way to permanently trap or kill them then they will look fondly on the days Apocalypse ruled the world.
Kid Nightcrawler asks Sage what the plan is. Sage says that her telepathy wasn’t strong enough to capture their thoughts. Now that they are stronger, they are projecting. She suddenly spins around to Dark Beast and screams to shut the portal. On his knees, McCoy says that there is no way to shut the portal from here. They watch as one of the monsters walks through the portal and disappears. Wolverine asks if it just went to their world and Dazzler swears. Sage says they smell life and power. They will take their world and this one. She turns to Prophet and asks what he is hiding because, whatever it is, the creatures can taste it. He tells her to stay out of his head.
Wolverine says they have to go after the monster. Prophet tells him he has no plan or weapon. Howlett tells him it’s better than just standing still. Wolverine yells for Northstar to give him a push past the other two monsters. Howlett says he is going too as he has an itch that needs scratching. Hercules chips in and says he is also going. Dark Beast says they have no idea how to close the portal but then gives up telling them otherwise. As Hercules grabs Wolverine and Howlett, Northstar tells the three men they have no idea what they are doing. Wolverine says they can’t let that thing loose on their world without a fight. Northstar slams into Hercules and the three men are catapulted through the portal.
(Chapter Four)
One of the monsters heads of towards the city of New Apocalypse whilst the other starts to feed off the energy of the portal. Iceman asks what they do now, to which Karma says they should go home. Dazzler tells them they can’t leave these two monsters and walk away from this world. Gambit says he can but Prophet tells them that they’ll all die and their world too. On the other hand, he might have a weapon… Apocalypse. Jean adamantly tells him he can’t, not for any reason. Prophet says she should know better than anyone that power is not buried forever.
Gambit asks if Apocalypse is there and Sage realizes that’s what the monsters can smell. Prophet says that whilst the man is dead the power that made his Apocalypse still exists and they have contained it. Dark Beast realizes that he means the Apocalypse seed and comments that he has been busy. Prophet turns to him and tells him to wipe the drool of his mouth.
A little way off, Nightcrawler tells his child counterpart to get away from him. Kid Nightcrawler is intrigued by him, though. Dazzler asks how the Apocalypse seed can be used as a weapon against the monsters. Prophet says the Apocalypse seed rivals the Phoenix Force in its transformative potential. Not even Apocalypse pushed it to its limits to see what it could do. It can inhabit anyone and it can be molded. It was created by the Celestials, who are apparently the enemies of these creatures.
Nightcrawler tells Kid Nightcrawler they are nothing alike and not to be deceived by appearances. The kid says that he has seen a lot and he has seen how different the same people can be. Alternate dimensions are his thing but he has never met himself before. He thought he was alone in the multiverse.
Prophet asks what choice they have and says they can’t rely on the other world to stop the creatures. If there is a possibility then it must be explored. Kid Nightcrawler says it’s all their fault from jumping through the dimensions. His older self tells him it isn’t just their fault. Karma tells Prophet he made a great argument but on the other side of that portal are friends and a world that needs them now. He agrees and says some of them will have to go back and some of them will stay.
He indicates to AoA Nightcrawler, Iceman, Cyclops and Dazzler. He reasons that a teleporter is essential and Bobby is the only one who can slow them down. And the other two have energy based powers that may prove useful when activating the Apocalypse seed. Dazzler tells him she doesn’t like the sound of that. Prophet says the rest of them will be going through the portal. Kid Nightcrawler tells Dazzler he doesn’t want to leave her but she says that they might need a teleporter on the other side. Sage tells him that she’ll be with him as well as Howlett and Hercules, who are already on the other side.
Prophet tells Jean he’s going with them. She tells him she had a feeling and then asks him if he’s going to shut the portal. He replies that it’s one less creature to come back to their world and it might give them a better chance. When she says he has no chance, he tells her he never thought of her as a pessimistic. He tells her there’s something she needs to know about the Apocalypse seed. He whispers something in her ear and she looks forlorn.
As they watch the monster feed off the portal, Iceman comments that it’s grown bigger. Sage tells him the more it eats the more mass it has. Imagine what would happen if it ate a world? Gambit says they had better not waste any time. Deadeye says they can’t get near it without it killing them and Sabretooth asks if Iceman can freeze it again, but he replies that he could barely make an ice cube right now. Horror Show asks about the teleporters but Nightcrawler says their powers don’t work like that. Sabretooth says it calls for a distraction and Horror Show looks at him and asks if he’s thinking what he’s thinking. Sabretooth replies that if it involves insanity and death, then they are on the same wavelength.
Jean tells Sabretooth they have been through too much together and they can find another way. He says there is no time. If anyone is going to save the world, it’s going to be her. Horror Show takes off his mask and asks if she has any words for him but she simply kisses him. Karma tells Iceman he might get stuck here and he tells her he’s trying not to think about that. Gambit tells him he doesn’t have to stay but Iceman replies that he would always wonder if he could have made a difference. Dazzler comments that they are strangers in paradise, but Gambit points out it’s more like hell.
Deadeye goes and stands next to Prophet, causing him to say he didn’t ask her to come. She replies that he didn’t have to as she wouldn’t have stayed behind, even if he asked. Kid Nightcrawler teleports Sabretooth and Horror Show closer to the monster. They thank him and tell him to get out of there. Both men look at each other and Horror Show tells Sabretooth he was a lousy dad. He says he knows but he still loves him. Horror Show says he really wants to die now. As they charge at the monster, the winds and energy from the portal swirls around them. Sabretooth tells his son to make it count but Horror Show says he doesn’t think that’s a possibility. They start firing weapons to get the monsters attention. It stops draining energy from the portal and turns towards them.
Everyone grabs a hold of Kid Nightcrawler and he says he has never teleported this many people before. Kurt teleports them in a huge cloud of smoke. They appear on the other side of the portal and Kurt passes out.
In New Apocalypse, Sabretooth and Horror Show are continuing their assault on the monster. Eventually, they are overcome by the energies it is wielding and they are vaporized. Jean Grey sheds a tear and then tells the remaining group to get a move on. Nightcrawler tells Dark Beast he can’t believe they let him stay. McCoy replies he told the woman with a computer in her head how to shut down the portal. He might be useful on this side. Nightcrawler replies that he just wants to get his hand on the Apocalypse seed. McCoy grins and says that power does have its temptations, even at the end of the world. The team wanders off as the other monster continues its rampage on New Apocalypse.


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A Final Goodbye
(Chapter Nine)
Power corrupts they say. Armed with the Celestial death seed, the mutant Apocalypse enslaved the world, killed billions and destroyed the X-Men. Upon his defeat the power passed to Weapon Omega, who also fell victim to its corrupting influence. He attempted to finish what Apocalypse had started and brought humanity to the brink of extinction. Luckily, he was also defeated. Though the vessels were both destroyed, the power of the death seed survived and it returned to corrupt and kill. Now the power of death passes to another and this time it is the last hope of life. Life, not only for this world, but the entire multiverse.
(New Apocalypse)
Jean Grey has taken in the power of the death seed and has been transformed into something new. Clad in silver and blue armor and sporting the familiar lips of Apocalypse, the other members of her group seem wary of her. Howlett cradles the lifeless body of Kid Nightcrawler as Prophet calls for Jean to talk to him. Jean asks what he would have her say. Does he want her to tell him she’s still Jean Grey? She is her for now. Prophet reminds her it isn’t the first time she has held god-like powers. She wielded the Phoenix Force and she is stronger than the death seed.
As Howlett holds Kid Nightcrawler, he tells him he never knew anyone braver or kinder than him and he was a hero. The older Nightcrawler overhears and agrees with Howlett. He says he didn’t let bitterness rule him and he didn’t lose him compassion. Howlett says he was young and he still had ideals. He had a way of looking at the world the way it should be. Old people like them forget how to do that sometimes. It takes something like this to remind them of what they’ve lost. Nightcrawler says he doesn’t want to forget it again.
Prophet tells Jean that the death seed is an anti-power. It does exactly what the creatures do. It takes life and it will take theirs. Jean tells him the power is alive and it has a voice. That purpose is eating into her mind like a cancer. It wants her to do terrible things. In the distance, the three monsters are feeding off the energy from the portal. Winds swirl around them as the building nearby start to crumble. Dazzler looks at them feeding and tells everyone that they are going to eat the world.
(Chapter Ten)
Jean yells out “NO” and then blasts the monsters, seriously wounding them and drawing their attention to her. One of them goes to fire some energy at her but she repeats herself and blasts it instead. The rest of the group watches her fight back.
Watching this nearby, Nightcrawler tells Prophet that it isn’t a true solution, as the power will eventually corrupt her. He admits it’s his fault and he created this whole mess because of his anger. Prophet tells him that it’s war and they all make mistakes. They can worry about Jean later. Right now the portal is their biggest threat. If the monsters don’t destroy their world then that will.
Prophet tells Nightcrawler to direct his guilt towards a solution and not self-pity. Prophet tells him to find Sage, as her mind and the black box from the Celestial are the last two things they need from the other side of the portal. He says he knows how difficult it was for the other Nightcrawler to travel through the portal. Nightcrawler says he will do it and immediately teleports away.
(Inside the portal)
As Nightcrawler reappears within the portal, the dark energies swirl around him. He has trouble seeing through it, as well as navigating. Suddenly, he spots something that fills him with terror. He looks out to see a huge swarm of monsters heading his way. Millions of them are flying towards the portal.
(Golden Gate Park)
In the 616 universe, the portal is causing high winds to rip through the area as well as starting to tear up nearby trees. Northstar tells Wolverine if they try to go through the portal again they won’t make it to the other side. Wolverine tells him all he knows is that he isn’t willing to try. Northstar tells him he’s right as he has a family here. He apologizes to Deadeye but her world isn’t his priority. She agrees but adds that his world might not have much time left, given how quickly the portal is expanding.
Meanwhile, Sage is messing around trying to figure out how the black box of the Dreaming Celestial works. She suddenly makes a breakthrough and says, if she’s correct, it will link her mind to the Celestial’s. She uses it and her mind in inundated with information. She says that the Celestials were there at the beginning of the universe. They were so full of pride but also so lonely. So they shaped creation and made life from the darkness. They were stupid, though, playing gods. They thought that life was a game or a poem to be arranged. They thought that with life must come death. So they created the monsters to be the destruction and to erase their mistakes. But instead the creations turned on them.
The Celestials couldn’t destroy them, so the best they could do was imprison them. They split the universe into the multiverse with nothing but their will. They trapped the monsters inside one of the universes and sealed it off. But instead of learning from their mistakes, the Celestials did something stupid again and created the death seed. A force with the same purpose as the monsters, but more manageable. The Celestials couldn’t hide their mistake forever though. The evil Xaviers the X-treme X-Men were hunting down weakened the walls between the universes. This weakened the barrier to the monster’s prison and they escaped. From there, they can travel the multiverse and consume everything like they were supposed to.
Nightcrawler makes it through the portal and appears in front of Wolverine. Nightcrawler tells Wolverine that he will let him kill him after he takes Sage back through the portal where she’s needed. Sage tells him he’s right. She needs to speak to Prophet as she knows how to save them, but it means a lot more people are going to die before they are through.
(Chapter Eleven)
In New Apocalypse, Jean is still fighting the monsters. She asks if that’s all they can do and tells them she can taste their lives. All the power coursing through their bodies makes her shiver… as does their fear. She blasts the monsters again but one of them punches her. She falls to the ground but starts laughing sinisterly. She launches herself into the air and cockily asks if they think they can challenger her. She slams into one of the monsters, creating a huge explosion. The rest of Jean’s group can only watch in awe as they fight.
Dazzler yells to everyone else to get over to the portal as more of the monsters are coming. As they look at the portal, six more monsters emerge from it. Howlett tells her it’s been a pleasure but she tells him to shut up as they’re not dead yet. More and more monsters emerge and descend on the group. Jean suddenly lands between them and creates a force field around everyone.
Prophet warily approaches Jean but she tells him it’s still her. She says the power is changing her and she doesn’t know how much longer she can last. She can feel everything that ever mattered slipping away. She keeps looking for it but it’s gone. She’s emptying out and becoming a shell and death is replacing her. She didn’t know death could be so beautiful and a thing of joy. Death is a new beginning and it clears the way for something wonderful to emerge. Death is nothing to fear and they should all embrace its promise and light. Prophet tells her that’s not her and that’s not what she believes. She replies that it will be soon and she’s going to die like a monster.
Dazzler tells her there’s still a chance and asks how long she can last against the monsters. She replies that she does not know. She is anathema to the creatures just as they were an abomination to the Celestials. One side will break before the other. The planet may not survive, nor the galaxy. But she promises the ending to be sublime. Jean turns to Prophet and asks if he agrees. This was his plan and surely he knows the endgame.
The monsters start breaking through the force field so Jean goes to confront them. She tries to remember she is still Jean Grey as the monsters begin to fight her. A little way off, the group watches the fight. Howlett asks why the monsters are ignoring them, to which prophet tells him they are not the real threat. As Jean and the monsters clash, huge explosions rip through the area. Dazzler looks on in shock and wonders how anyone can survive that.
The portal has now grown to the size of a building and the remaining citizens of New Apocalypse flee in terror. Prophet looks on and thinks of all the things they accomplished and fought for. Nightcrawler suddenly teleports in with Sage. Howlett goes to Sage as an exhausted Nightcrawler kneels on the floor. Sage tells Prophet she connected with the black box and she knows how to stop the monsters. He thanks her and says she doesn’t need to say anything. She can fill in the gaps but he already knows the truth. The monsters broke free from one prison and must be imprisoned again. If they don’t, they’ll escape through the barrier they broke from and destroy the entire multiverse. Worse still, they’ll destroy the whole structure of the multiverse, just like a mold that rots the walls of a house. Everything will cease to exist.
They watch as dozens of monsters crowd around Jean and attack her. Dazzler asks how they building the prison but Prophet says it’s already built. It took a universe to imprison them and nothing but a universe can contain them. Howlett says they already travelled the multiverse, surely they can find a place that’s dead or dying. Prophet says there’s no time. Jean was right in that eventually one side will break. And it will be her, they will tear her down. He says the army of monsters is coming here. As long as they aren’t flooding Dazzler’s universe, then the prison has been chosen.
Jean continues to fight the monsters. She unleashes more and more energy and bigger explosions rip through the city. With tears running down her face, Dazzler tells Prophet he fought so long to free his world. They will find another way. He tells her he won’t give up the fight but this isn’t her world and it isn’t her battle. Before it’s too late, they must get them back to where they belong. Howlett says it won’t be easy, as the portal is a mess with a billion monsters coming through. Sage adds that, assuming they make it, they need to find a way to seal the portal. Nightcrawler adds that he can do both.


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Tokyo, Shibuya District, where a young woman walks through the busy streets. Tapping something into her mobile phone, she approaches a door and climbs the stairs to an apartment. As she does, her form changes from the young woman - to Raven Darkholme a.k.a. Mystique.
Inside the apartment, Victor Creed a.k.a. Sabretooth is seated at a table, watching several monitors with news reports about the X-Men. ‘What’s that?’ Raven asks Creed as she looks at a small cage on the table with three kittens in it. ‘A snack’ Creed replies. ‘Hey!’ he snarls when Mystique picks the cage up and takes it away from him.
Mystique goes into the bathroom and sits down in the bathtub, the hot water covering her body. The three kittens are on the floor, out of the cage, and they look at her gun, on its holster, hanging over a chair. ‘Hand ‘em over, Mystique!’ Sabretooth shouts through the wall. Mystique just tells him to go away, as he is boring her. She sinks back into the water, when suddenly, from the vapor, hands reach up to her. ‘What the…’ Mystique exclaims, as she is pushed back, ice now pushing her back in the bathtub. She reaches for her gun, and starts firing into the bathtub as she manages to escape it. ‘Show yourself right the hell now!’ she shouts. The kittens are at her feet as she utters ‘Damn it, Bobby’.
In the meantime, half a world away:
‘I’ve been having nightmares, Doc’ Bobby Drake a.k.a. Iceman confesses. He adds that he has never had great dreams, not since he was a kid, but that these are different - they feel real. The doctor asks Bobby what he is doing in these nightmares, to which he explains that he isn’t doing anything - just sitting in the dark, in the snow or in the middle of ice, but the nightmare comes from what he is feeling - hunger. The doctor asks Bobby to explain why that hunger frightens him. ‘Because I’m not hungry for food’ Bobby responds. ‘I’m hungry for something else…’ his voice trails off, as the doctor suggests ‘Love. Intimacy. Connection’.
Bobby looks away as he sits on a chair in the psychiatrist’s office, while the psychiatrist tells the mutant hero that it seems to him, that his nightmare is about craving those things. ‘That’s nothing to be afraid of, Bobby’ the psychiatrist assures him, but Bobby replies that it feels pretty dark. ‘Of course it does. Intimacy requires vulnerability. And being vulnerable is the one thing you fear most’ the psychiatrist explains. The psychiatrist continues, telling Bobby that it is common among people in his… profession, as so much rides on being strong, invulnerable. Bobby rubs one of his wrists as the psychiatrist adds ‘But that’s not real life, is it? The stresses are overwhelming. So are the sacrifices. Mistakes cost lives. You can’t have a bad day when so much is at stake’. Bobby continues to look away as the psychiatrist tells him that all of that is bound to affect other parts of his life. ‘Sure’ Bobby replies casually. ‘But you sound like you don’t quite believe it. Bobby?’ the psychiatrist suggests, but gets no response, as Bobby looks away nervously.
When the session is over, Bobby walks down the snow-covered sidewalk, hands in his pocket, head hanging. He reaches a café and enters. Several of his teammates - the X-Men based at the Jean Grey School - are inside, sitting a table reading reports. ‘I thought you wanted to restructure, Shan. Maybe even sell Hatchi Tech’ Kitty Pryde asks Xian Coy Manh a.k.a. Karma, who tells her friend that she did, but that after going over the projections her sister was developing, she doesn’t know if any of them can afford to let the company go. Remy “Gambit” LeBeau tells Kitty that Karma is right, as Hatchi was making some dangerous toys, so if Shan sells, they will just end up with someone else. ‘Better we have ‘em, non?’ he points out.
‘Hey, Kitty’ Bobby greets her. Kitty looks up at Bobby and tells him that she is so glad he is here, as Hatchi Tech’s books are in a mess, and they need his accountant super-power. Bobby leans down and kisses Kitty, who is slightly taken aback. ‘What? You act like I never kiss you’ Bobby tells her. Kitty replies that she didn’t know they were at the public display of affection stage. ‘Nothing to be embarrassed about, Kitty’ Bobby remarks, to which Kitty points out that she didn’t say that.
A waitress comes over and tells the quartet that her manager just told the staff they are closing early today because of the storm, so if they have any final orders, she needs to take them now. Karma points out that it isn’t even noon, and asks if the storm is going to get that bad. ‘Sure you haven’t been playing with the weather?’ Kitty smiles at Bobby, while Gambit asks Karma if she hasn’t been watching the news. ‘Practically calling it the apocalypse out there’ he declares. Bobby’s eyes go wide, and he does not look impressed.
‘Apocalypse? You think that’s funny?’ Bobby asks as he jumps to his feet and starts pointing his finger at Gambit. ‘It is!’ Gambit replies. Bobby tells him ‘Don’t use that $#% word at this table, Gambit’. ‘Ooookay, never mind’ the waitress mutters, walking away from them.
‘Bobby’ Kitty calls out, grabbing his arm, his hand has turned to ice, and he has covered the table in ice as well. ‘Sorry. I’m really sorry’ Bobby replies as he retracts the ice and sits down. Bobby admits that he is still not over what they had to deal with in that other world. ‘Hearing you say… apocalypse… triggered something’. Karma points out that it has only been a month, and tells Bobby that it is okay. Gambit apologizes to Bobby, and tells him that he knows what it is like. Bobby informs his friends that he has been on edge lately, not sleeping well. ‘You haven’t mentioned that’ Kitty replies, concerned. She puts her head into her hands when Bobby replies that he didn’t want to bother her with it. ‘I just need to… chill out. Ha ha’ he laughs. Gambit and Karma look up, ’If you’re stressed now…’ Gambit begins. ’Run, Bobby. Run for the hills’ Karma tells him.
Bobby and Kitty turn around to the door, where Lorna Dane a.k.a. Polaris is standing. ’Hello, Bobby. Sorry I’m late’ Lorna smiles. She is wearing a long purple coat and walks over to Bobby, kissing him on the lips. ‘Mmm… you taste as good as I remember’ Lorna remarks. ‘Uh… wow’ Kitty utters, wide-eyed. Lorna sits down next to Bobby and reminds him that he told her it was just going to be the two of them. ‘Not that I mind, it’s lovely seeing all of you. Been too long, especially you, Gambit. Remember when we were two of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse? Haha, that was hilarious’ Lorna declares. ‘What?’ Bobby utters, looking at Kitty.
Polaris tells everyone that it’s ugly weather out there, and that she should have just worn boats instead of her Christian Louboutins. ‘Of course, I solved that problem by simply floating over the snow’ she adds. ‘Oh, mutant powers, it’s like magic sometimes’.
When she gets no response, she turns to Bobby and asks ‘Um… hello?’ Bobby looks back at her and tells her that it is great seeing her, but that they haven’t talked in years. ‘Is that some kind of joke?’ Lorna asks, seriously. ‘Er… no’ Bobby tells her. Lorna reminds him that he has been texting her for weeks, and that they have spoken on the phone. ‘It was your voice’ she insists. ‘You said you missed me’.
Bobby smiles and tells Lorna that he does miss her, but that it wasn’t him who contacted her. ‘Bobby, if this is another prank -’ Lorna begins, while Kitty looks sceptical, and someone calls out ‘Bobby!’ This causes Bobby, Kitty and Lorna to turn around, so they face a woman in a gray coat, with a little boy at her side, all wrapped up in a puffer jacket to keep warm. ‘Oh my God. Opal?’ Bobby gasps at seeing Opal Tanaka and her son Robert.
Kitty frowns, while Karma covers her mouth in shock, and Gambit grins. ‘Mon dieu. Ex-girlfriends. Current girlfriend. This is my idea of hell’ he remarks. ‘Shut up. You know you’re loving it’ Karma tells him.
Bobby gets up and goes over to Opal, telling her that he can’t believe she is here as he puts his hands on her shoulders. ‘Neither can I’ Opal replies. ‘No, really’ Bobby declares, before asking her why she is here. Karma walks over to the little boy. ‘Your name’s Robert, right? Why don’t I get you a… cookie’ she offers, leading him to the counter, away from the confusion.
‘Why are you here?’ Bobby asks Opal. She asks him what he is talking about. ‘You invited me here. I was going to be in town for my book tour, and -’ Opal begins, before Bobby asks ‘Wait, you’re a writer now?’ Opal frowns at him, before turning to the X-Men and asking ‘What the hell is wrong with him?’ ‘Everything’ Kitty replies, arms folded, clearly unimpressed.
Bobby tells Opal that he has not talked to her in over a year, that he would remember. ‘We’ve been duped. And someone is definitely getting a laugh out of this’ Lorna mutters, while Opal tells Bobby that it was his voice, that the texts came from his number. ‘I can show you’ she offers, but Bobby tells her that he believes her, and remarks that someone is just trying to ruin his life. ‘It’s nuts. Who would do this?’ he asks. ‘Is it really that bad seeing me?’ Opal asks. ‘God, no. Opal…I…’ Bobby’s voice trails off, when suddenly some asks: ‘Er…hello?’ Bobby turns around. ‘Hi, Bobby’ a woman remarks. ‘$#%#. Annie’ Bobby gasps. Gambit tells the other that few men can handle so many beautiful women. Kitty tells him to shut up. ‘Wow… you… don’t look happy to see me’ Annie points out.
Kitty gets to her feet and puts her coat on. ‘Greetings, former girlfriends-of-Bobby-Drake. Let’s all go somewhere else, okay? We obviously need to talk’. ‘I need a drink’ Polaris announces as she too puts her coat on. ‘Oh, save it. You can’t even handle orange juice without getting a sugar high’ Kitty declares cruelly.
Annie looks at Opal and asks her if she is also Bobby’s ex-girlfriend. ‘Yup’ Opal confirms as she takes her son’s hand. ‘This reminds me of why I stopped working for the X-Men’ Annie remarks. ‘Is that how you met Bobby? I was working in a music shop…’ Opal begins. ‘Someone kill me’ Polaris mutters as she follows them out. ‘You are so dead, Mister’ Kitty warns Bobby.
Bobby, Gambit and Karma follow the women out of the café, while Bobby tells them that this isn’t his fault, that he doesn’t know who called the women. ‘That’s not why Kitty’s angry, mon ami’ Gambit explains as he walks off. ‘You were happy to see them. And she saw it’ Karma tells Bobby, before she leaves as well. Bobby hangs his head, and the waitress in the café sees him, before turning and leaving out the back entrance - where Mystique returns to her default form. Someone else working in the café sees the open door at the rear and rushes over - but looking into the alleyway at the back of the café, all they see is a dog running away.
The city is blanketed in snow now, as a an announcer reports that forecasters are not calling it the storm of the century, but predicting that this unrelenting blast of cold air could spell worldwide disaster. The announcer continues, stating that crops across the southern United States have been destroyed and that farmers in South America are reporting huge losses as this cold front sweeps down into the tropics, and scientists are at a loss to explain the weather, which they are calling “Apocalyptic”. The announcer asks whether they might be seeing the beginning of a new Ice Age.
‘That is the most ridiculous story I’ve ever heard. Bobby is so screwed’ Jubilee tells Gambit via mobile phone as Gambit sits on a bed wearing only his underwear, and eating some food, while reading some letters. ‘Nothing that I haven’t gone through and survived, non? He’ll be fine’ Gambit assures Jubilee, who replies ‘You love it’. Gambit brushes her off and asks her if she is drinking the blood of any handsome young men, to which Jubilee replies that she is just trying to stay warm, as it is snowing real hard where she is. Gambit informs Jubilee that it is snowing in New Orleans, and he would believe anything right now, adding that even Storm doesn’t know what is going on. ‘So, listen, I was thinking of coming back to -’ Jubilee begins, when Gambit tells her to hold that thought, as he has to go. He hangs up the phone, and looks up, to see Mystique standing in his room.
‘Why yes, Remy. You do’ Mystique smiles. ‘Always in a rush, Mystique. Want some?’ Gambit asks, offering her some pie. ‘You’re a slob’ Mystique tells him, aiming her weapon at him. ‘It’s peach’ Gambit explains, but Mystique replies that she only eats apple. ‘Too bad’ Gambit mutters as he throws the plate towards her. ‘You stupid -’ Mystique begins, as she fires the gun, but Gambit grabs his bo staff and dodges the bullet. ‘Go on, chere. I love a compliment’ Gambit jokes. ‘Oh, I’m going to rip you apart’ Mystique snarls as the staff strikes her in the cheek. ‘Cute’ Gambit says as Mystique morphs her body so that two tentacles sprout from her back, and she uses them to try and strike him, but Gambit leaps back over the bed, and picks up a necklace that is lying on the bed. He charges it with kinetic energy, and throws it at Mystique, striking her in the face. ‘I should just… kill you… right now’ Mystique declares when she composes herself, lunging for her gun, at the same time Gambit does.
Mystique wraps a tentacle around Gambit’s neck, pulling him back, while Gambit points out that Mystique would have dropped a bomb on his apartment if she really wanted him dead. ‘I hope you die. All you X-Men, murdered horribly in a wood-chipper’ Mystique snaps, aiming her gun at Gambit’s head. ‘That sounds more like love than hate’ Gambit smiles, to which Mystique just tells him to shut up. She turns him around to face her, and announces that she has come to give a warning about Bobby Drake. Remy tells Mystique that he wondered if she was behind all those ex-girlfriends of his showing up today, and asks her if she has got a reason, other than being flat-out sadistic? ‘I had nothing to do with those women. I assure you, I’m not that bored’ Mystique replies.
‘You expect me to believe that?’ Gambit asks. ‘You already do. I can see it in your eyes’ Mystique replies, adding that something is wrong with Bobby. ‘What?’ Gambit asks. But Mystique confesses that she doesn’t know. ‘You don’t know. But you came all the way here to warn me that something is wrong’ Gambit mutters as Mystique frees him from her tentacles, which disappear. Gambit drops to his knees to pick up a photograph of Jubilee that he was looking at earlier, while telling Mystique ‘If only you hadn’t cried wolf all those years and told so many lies’. ‘Don’t forget I stabbed the lot of you in the back, again and again, and again’ Mystique points out. ‘I still got the scars’ Remy tells her, adding that so does Bobby. ‘He loved you, once’ Remy reminds her.
‘Yes, well. Men tend to do that with me’ Mystique points out, picking up some jewelry that was on the bed, and she tells Remy ‘I’ve given you a warning. The rest is up to you’. ‘You’ve told me nothing’ Remy replies. ‘I’m here, aren’t I? That tells you everything’ Raven replies, adding that as should today’s little soap opera. ‘You might at least agree that was unusual’ she points out. But Gambit tells Raven that it doesn’t explain why she cartes what happens to Bobby. ‘No, I suppose it doesn’t’ Raven admits, suggesting they keep it simple and call it a debt. As she stands before the door, ready to leave, Raven smiles at Gambit and tells him that she left him something. Gambit turns to his kitchen table, where the three little kittens are waiting for him. ‘Huh’ Remy remarks.
At the Jean Grey School, in Westchester, snow covers the grounds, as Bobby approaches Kitty’s room. He enters, asking her if she is awake, as they need to talk about yesterday. But he finds her room in darkness, her bed empty.
‘Hey, did I wake you?’ Logan a.k.a. Wolverine asks Kitty as she enters the kitchen to find him cooking some food. Kitty huddles into her dressing gown and replies that she couldn’t sleep, and then smelt the meat. ‘Delicious, juicy, meat’ she adds. ‘Well, come on then’ Logan tells his friend. Kitty informs him that she needs some relationship advice. ‘No’ Logan tells her. ‘You haven’t heard my problem’ Kitty points out. Logan tells her that it doesn’t matter, as it is too early in the morning for feelings. They sit at the bench as Kitty asks Logan if he knows she has been dating Bobby. ‘I mean, it’s not serious or anything. Or maybe it is, I don’t know. We’re just taking things day by day. No big deal. Like, totally casual. That’s smart, right? I’m trying to be smart about this’ Kitty exclaims.
Kitty informs Logan that this afternoon there was this thing that happened - this crazy thing - and it was like Bobby forgot she was there, that she didn’t exist anymore. Kitty adds that when it happened, all she could think was Piotr Rasputin would not have done that. ‘I’m trying to eat this steak Logan replies. Kitty ignores his remark and tells him that it is nuts, remarking that if Piotr came back, she doesn’t even know if they could be together again - not like they were. ‘But I remembered what we had…and there was nothing trivial about the way Peter loved me. I mattered. I never felt forgotten’ Kitty tells Logan. Kitty turns away and states that she wishes she could forget - for every time she thinks she is ready to move on, something happens that makes her miss him all over again. ‘Peter was the love of my life. And I guess… there’s a part of me that things…’ her voice trails off.
‘You can have him again’ Wolverine finishes Kitty’s sentence for her. ‘That’s crazy, right? He tried to destroy the world. He even tried to destroy me’ Kitty points out. ‘Welcome to relationships, darling’ Wolverine smiles. Kitty tells him to shut up. ‘What? Take it from an old man. There’s a reason so many women want to kill me’ Logan tells her. ‘And the ones who don’t?’ Kitty asks. ‘I miss them’ Wolverine tells her as Kitty leans her head on his shoulder, and he puts an arm around her, while, Bobby, in his ice form, stands outside the kitchen, listening to them. He grits his teeth, his form changes slightly, jagged shards of ice appear on his head as his eyes glow red.
Meantime, at Avengers Tower, ‘Jeez. Gods are such sore losers’ She-Hulk remarks as she, Hawkeye and the Black Widow, gathered around a poker table with Thor, stare at the Norse deity. ‘I don’t think he’s foaming at the mouth because he lost a hand of poker’ the Black Widow remarks, while Hawkeye asks her if she is experimenting with those old Russian poisons again. ‘I only paralyzed you for a week’ the Black Widow reminds him, adding that he needs to let that go. Thor then utters ‘Fimbulveter…’ over and over.
‘It’s the end of the world. That’s my other dream. There’s nothing left. Not even me. I feel my soul breaking apart, like I’m the snow. And what scares me is that I don’t care. Sometimes I think I’d like to lose myself. It would be easier to disappear. Become someone new. But I don’t think I could. Even if I tried. I’m not that lucky’ Bobby thinks to himself. His becomes one with the snow flakes, falling over the harbor. He merges with the water, and washes past some men out fishing. Penguins swim alongside him, as he approaches an icy landscape. His body reforms as he moves along the ice, until he is in his Iceman form once more. He pulls his chest open, and inside, there is a pink glow. He then evaporates himself in the form of a mushroom cloud - like a nuclear explosion.
In her hotel room, Opal reads a book, while lies next to her. She tells him that tomorrow they will play in the snow.
At the hospital where she works, Annie sits with a man wrapped in a blanket and tells him that he is safe from the storm, that he is nice and warm now, and they will take good care of him.
At the Jean Grey School, Logan tells Kitty that they should get some coffee, and adds that Betsy isn’t having any of it. ‘And she takes that sword of hers and threatens to cut off his -’ Logan begins.
And, Lorna lies in bed, ‘Havok…’ she utters in a restless sleep, before suddenly waking, wide-eyed in horror, she is unable to scream as ice suddenly blankets her….


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Egypt, where tourists take photos of the Sphinx covered in snow. The Big Islands, Hawaii, officials examine some birds who have died in the frostbite. In Brazil, at the Amazon Basin, the locals huddle in their huts for warmth. And in Madripoor, a boat is stuck on the frozen water, while down an alleyway, three men in trenchcoats keep an eye on a woman standing further down the alleyway. She has a flower in her hair, and a sword on her back. ‘Wolverine, pick up’ she says into her phone.
But, at the Jean Grey School, in Westchester, New York, Wolverine a.k.a. Logan hangs up the phone as he is in his office with Ororo “Storm” Munroe, Remy “Gambit” LeBeau, Kitty Pryde and the alien Warbird. ‘It’s impossible. Insane. You can’t believe a word Mystique says. She hates the X-Men. And she tried to murder Bobby. Hello? No one’s going to agree with me?’ Kitty exclaims.
Storm agrees that of course Mystique cannot be trusted, while Logan tells her that it is not that simple. Warbird holds one of Gambit’s new kittens, as Storm remarks that this weather is unnatural, and that at first she thought it might be the fault of some machine, as it would not be the first time someone has attempted to control the weather in such a way. Storm informs the others that after a long communion with the elements, she is forced to conclude that something else is at work.
‘There is sentience behind this weather. A great… tumult of emotion’ Storm adds. Kitty declares that it can’t be Bobby, as his powers don’t work that way. Gambit points out that no one knows how Bobby’s powers work, and that he doesn’t even think Bobby knows himself. The alien Warbird states that she has been a great admirer of Iceman’s abilities, and has observed him at length. ‘He is strong. Strong enough to do even this, I think’ she adds. ‘Question is, why?’ Wolverine asks. ‘Listen to yourselves! You’re accusing Bobby of trying to destroy the world!’ Kitty shouts, while Xi’an Coy Manh a.k.a. Karma enters Logan’s office and announces that whatever the hell is happening, Bobby is not here and is not answering his phone.
How unfortunate’ a voice remarks, and everyone turns to see the Black Widow and She-Hulk waiting nearby. The Black Widow informs the X-Men that they just spent the entire night coddling a semi-comatose Norse god who seems convinced that a “man of ice” is about to bring on Ragnarok. ‘I don’t like Ragnarok, do you?’ the Black Widow asks She-Hulk, who replies that she doesn’t, but that she is flying to Maui next week and if there isn’t warm weather when she gets there, Ragnarok is going to be the least of everyone’s concerns. ‘Now… where is Bobby Drake?’ they ask.
At that moment, Bobby “Iceman” Drake sits on a park bench with his ex-girlfriend, Opal Tanaka, watching her son, Robert, build a snowman. ‘He’s gotten so big’ Bobby remarks. Opal points out that it has been a couple of years. ‘I guess it has’ Bobby agrees, while Opal tells him that they have lives - that is what happens, and it is better than the alternative. ‘And what’s that?’ Bobby asks, while a caretaker is nearby shoveling the snow. ‘Holding on to the past’ Opal tells him. Bobby touches Opal’s hair and tells her that some things are worth holding on to - and that she is still so beautiful. Opal narrows her eyes at him, and puts her fingers to his lips when he leans in to kiss her. ‘No, Bobby’ Opal stops him, explaining that when she thought it was him contacting her, she admits she had some hope. ‘But now that I realize it was all some… stupid trick… and that you’re with someone else…I need to get my head straight’.
‘I guess… I do, too’ Bobby admits, adding that he should never have agreed to meet Opal today. ‘What was I thinking? We’re over, done. It’s better that way. I’m not the same person I used to be’ Bobby tells her. ‘Bobby -’ Opal begins, before her son calls out to her and turns over to the bench. Opal takes her son by his hand and gets up, while her son points at the smiling snowman. ‘Come on. You’re here. We’re still friends’ Opal points out. ‘Some other time, Opal’ Bobby replies, before congratulating her on her success. He starts to walk away. ‘Bobby!’ Opal calls out to him, but gets no response. Bobby walks on, and sees the caretaker in the bushes. ‘Oh’ the caretaker remarks as he steps in front of Bobby. Bobby immediately switches to his ice form, and creates an ice wall around them both. ‘Hello, Mystique. You’ve been spying’ Iceman remarks.
Mystique drops the disguise, ‘You’ve been doing more than that’ Mystique a.k.a. Raven Darkholme replies, before asking him if he is going to waste her time and try to deny that the snow and ice blanketing this world has nothing to do with him. ‘Well? Don’t have anything to say for yourself?’ Mystique asks. When Bobby does not respond, she adds that he was certainly a bundle of sentiment with his ex-girlfriend just now. ‘Do you trust me?’ Bobby asks, ignoring Mystique’s comments. ‘Of course not’ Raven replies. ‘That’s very wise of you’ Bobby agrees as the two of them are now on the tip of an ice-slide, over the park.
A television in a hospital shows an interview with a reporter and a local in the Arctic. The reporter remarks that the death toll from this freak storm is rising, but that their community has been largely unaffected, and asks the representative if he can explain that. ‘You’re shivering and I’m not. Traditional gear protects better than the synthetic’ the man replies, adding that they always imagined a return to the old ways, but that this wasn’t how they thought it would happen.
At the hospital nurse’s station, a nurse tells Wolverine and Gambit that she wishes she could help, but that Annie stepped out last night during her break and never came back. ‘That’s not like here. We’re all worried’ she adds. Wolverine asks if anyone visited Annie, and Gambit inquires whether it was a brown-haired man a couple of inches shorter than him. ‘Sorry, no’ the nurse replies.
Wolverine and Gambit leave, and go outside, as Logan tells Remy that this all seems like a wild goose chase. ‘I may have given the go-ahead to check things out, but we both know this is probably one of Mystique’s games’ he tells Remy, who replies that he doesn’t waste time on games. ‘You’re standing here because you think she might be right’ Gambit suggests.
Wolverine’s phone rings, and he answers it, asking Karma what she has found, while Gambit suggests that it can’t be a coincidence, all these women from Bobby’s past were lured here now. As the icy temperature lowers around them, Logan asks Karma ‘Aw, hell. You sure?’
‘I’m absolutely positive that Lorna’s gone’ Karma reports via the mobile phone. Examining the ice-covered hotel room, Warbird suggests that, or, Polaris has developed new powers that allow her to manifest ice, perhaps making her the cause of the foul weather that has befallen this planet. ‘Which would mean that she is, in fact, our true enemy’ Warbird adds, announcing that they can slaughter her. ‘Um, yeah. Bobby’s definitely been here’ Karma adds, before asking Wolverine if anyone has been in contact with Kitty, as the frosty temperature circles around her and Warbird.
At that moment, Kitty is sitting across from Opal in her hotel room, while her son Robert is in bed. Kitty tells Opal that it was nice of her to see her on such short notice. ‘I know it must be kind of…’ her voice trails off. ‘Awkward? Maybe a little. But it’s nothing against you’ Opal replies. Kitty tells her that she knows, and feels the same. ‘I hate it when women get together only to talk about a man’ Kitty smiles. Opal laughs, ‘Me too’ she agrees, before pointing out that since Bobby is the reason Kitty is here, the answer is yes. ‘I saw him today. But don’t know how he could possibly be involved with all this crazy weather. That’s not even his power, is it?’ Opal remarks. ‘Not that I know of’ Kitty replies.
Opal tells Kitty that Bobby wasn’t himself. ‘In what way?’ Kitty asks. ‘Oh, you know’ Opal tells her. ‘No… I don’t’ Kitty replies. ‘Oh. Well. Maybe he’s just gotten better at hiding it’ Opal suggests. As ice starts to creep up the outside wall, Opal explains to Kitty that when she and Bobby were together, he always put on a good show of being cheerful, but that it was all an act, and sometimes the mask would slip, and that would lead to a bad day - mild depression, anger, that sort of thing.
The ice seeps into the room where Robert is sleeping, and Opal remarks that she always blamed Bobby’s father - a total racist dictator, as Bobby was never good enough for him, never man enough, never strong enough - and being a mutant didn’t help. ‘It led to Bobby never feeling good enough for anything. Not even me’ Opal reveals. Kitty tells her that she had no idea, while Opal adds that, like she said, maybe Bobby is better. ‘I always told him he needed to talk to someone. His life… being a super hero… only made the pressure worse’.
Kitty’s phone rings and she gets up, informing Opal that she has to take it. ‘No problem’ Opal replies. Kitty tells Logan that she is fine. ‘I’m here with -’ she begins, while Opal turns to the room where her son is sleeping. Her breath can be seen it is so cold, and she goes wide-eyed, at seeing Iceman standing over her son. ‘What? Lorna and Annie? But -’ Kitty asks Wolverine, before looking up, and seeing Bobby standing next to her. ‘Oh, God. Bobby’ she utters, while Opal and Robert are now trapped behind an ice-wall, and Opal screams ‘No!’
Kitty calls out to her and races into the bedroom, phasing through Iceman as she goes. Once there, she finds three more copies of Iceman loading Opal and her son, trapped in a solid block of ice, onto an ice-sled. ‘Kitty!’ Opal calls out.
‘Hello, Katherine. And… goodbye’ two of the Ice-men remark. Kitty phases through them, and one of them tell her to wait. ‘No… you… don’t!’ Kitty exclaims as she leaps forward out of the door to the balcony and manages to grab onto the edge of the ice-sled. She calls out to Iceman who is sitting on the block of ice. ‘Bobby… have you lost your damn mind? What the hell are you doing?’ Kitty asks him. ‘So very stubborn. But this is for the best. You should be with the others. You’re special to him, too’ Iceman replies. ‘Him? What are you… oh, forget it. We are so… out of here!’ Kitty declares as she phases through the solid block of ice and touches Opal, phasing her and young Robert out. ‘No!’ Opal calls out, arms wrapped around her son as they plummet to the ground. Kitty tells her to hold on, while the Iceman copy on the ice-slide moves down towards them. ‘Opal! Katherine! Stop this! Don’t! There’s no time!’ he tells them, but Kitty phases Opal, Robert and herself into the snow. The three Ice-men standing around the snow where Kitty phased into, before merging themselves into the snow.
‘I can tell you’re angry. Would you like to talk about it?’ Bobby’s psychiatrist asks. ‘No’ Bobby replies as he stands, arms folded, beside the bookcase. His psychiatrist asks him why he is here, to which Bobby tells his doctor that he doesn’t have anyone else to talk to, that he can’t talk about this to his friends - not about this. ‘Have you tried?’ the psychiatrist inquires. Bobby asks the psychiatrist what the point would be - what is anyone going to do? ‘Bobby feels bad, boo-hoo. Now let’s go save the world’ he mocks, adding that no one cares, as no one has time to care - and he doesn’t blame them. ‘Of course you blame them. You want to be seen. You want to be heard’ the psychiatrist points out. ‘You want to be loved’ the psychiatrist adds.
‘That’s not going to happen’ Bobby replies, revealing that Kitty still has feelings for her ex, Opal wants to move on, God only knows what Lorna and Annie ever saw in him other than good “friend” material. ‘I’m tired of just being a friend’ Bobby reveals. His psychiatrist asks Bobby what he wants. ‘Or can you even answer that question? Can you allow yourself to ask it?’ Bobby doesn’t respond, he continues to look away, so the psychiatrist asks him again what he wants. ‘Bobby?’ the psychiatrist calls out when Bobby does not reply. He just smirks, and narrows his eyes, which glow pink.
‘Finally’ Karma declares. ‘You are both late’ Warbird points out as Gambit and Wolverine approach them. Gambit explains that they had to walk twenty blocks through ice and snow, and Wolverine tells her to get over it, before noticing the cops nearby, and enquiring as to what they are here for. ‘There appears to have been a battle’ Warbird replies, while Karma announces that Kitty is not answering. Logan adds that he heard Kitty say Bobby’s name just before their call was dropped. ‘Pssst!’ a voice calls out, and Logan turns around and looks to the ground, where Kitty has phased herself, Opal and Robert back up through the snow. ‘Ohmygod. I am losing my mind’ Opal utters, while Robert is crying and calls out to his mother. ‘You guys, we are so screwed’ Kitty tells her teammates.
Gambit asks her what happened, to which Kitty explains that Bobby attacked them, only it wasn’t Bobby, but like ice clones, and they were crazy and kept saying weird things. ‘Damn it!’ Wolverine exclaims as an icy hand reaches up and grabs him by his ankles. More Iceman clones rise from the snow, ‘Bobby?’ Karma calls out. ‘Not the Bobby we know’ Logan tells her as his pops his claws. They group find themselves surrounded by the Iceman clones, ‘Oh wow’ Karma utters as she informs her teammates that there is nothing in their minds for her to hold on to - that it is like they are not even alive. ‘This isn’t you, Bobby. If something’s wrong, let us help you’ Kitty calls out, while Opal looks on, concerned. ‘You don’t understand… we’re trying to help you’ one of the clones announces.
The Iceman clone extends a hand, ‘Hurry. You need to come with us. Where it’s safe’ it tells Kitty, who asks the clone what it is talking about. ‘Safe from what?’ she demands. ‘Hey, guys’ someone calls out, and the X-Men, Opal and the clones all turn to see Bobby Drake standing nearby. He smiles casually and tells them that he is so glad they are here, as he has been looking for them. ‘Stop. Please. Don’t do this’ one of the clones states as it steps in front of Bobby. ‘Do what? Maybe you should stay where you belong’ Bobby replies as he touches the clone and it starts to shatter. The others do the same. Bobby tells his teammates that he is sorry about that. ‘Sorry? What in the hell is going on here, Bobby?’ Wolverine asks.
Gambit quietly tells Karma not to wait, and she replies that she is trying to enter Bobby’s mind, but that it is just like the others, as if beneath his skin he is all ice. ‘Opal. Kitty. You both look nice’ Bobby tells them. ‘Bobby, you better answer my damn questions -’ Wolverine warns the younger mutant, but Bobby responds by covering Wolverine’s mouth in ice, and replying that he doesn’t need to answer any of his damn questions. ‘I’m done being the nice man. The good man. I want more, Wolverine’ Bobby declares. ‘I want more. And I’ll take what I want’ he adds, his eyes glowing pink, he boasts that he will take this whole world and everyone in it. ‘It’s mine now. It always was. I just didn’t realize it’. Kitty looks horrified and tells Bobby to stop, before Warbird shoves her sword through Bobby’s chest and tells him that she is sorry, but that he has clearly lost his mind.
‘Warbird, no!’ someone calls out, but they all look on in shock, as they see Bobby stretch apart the hole in his sweater, revealing the hole that Warbird created in his body - only there is nothing on the inside except ice. ‘Oh my God. Bobby’ Opal utters. Bobby smirks and explains that he is trying to be someone else - that he is trying to be him, for once. ‘This is me. Finally’ Bobby claims as he covers himself in ice and increases his mass, towering over the others, and eventually, over the skyscrapers. ‘Iceman’ Bobby declares, while civilians look up in fear.
Huge icebergs start to appear through the city, breaking through cars and encasing buildings in ice, until eventually, the entire city is frozen in ice. ‘Okay, this is…’ Karma begins. ‘Amazing’ Warbird declares. ‘I was going to say… terrifying’ Gambit tells them. Wolverine steps forward, standing near Iceman’s massive feet ‘Bobby! I don’t know what’s wrong with you, but -’ Logan starts to say, as Bobby replies that there is nothing wrong with him, and he stands on Wolverine with his big toe. Bobby looks up to the sky, and grins, ‘I’m exactly who I want to be’.


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New York City, completely blanketed in a thick covering of ice, as Bobby “Iceman” Drake, towers over the city. ‘Come on, Wolverine! Ready to peel yourself out of my footprint?’ Iceman asks. ‘Show me what you’ve got!’ he shouts, while Wolverine a.k.a. Logan tries to slice away at the ice.
The alien called Warbird slashes at the ice with her swords and remarks that the ice shards are as sharp as razors. Wolverine tells her that there is nothing she can do here except get cut to pieces, and asks her to help Karma get the civilians to safety.
‘Already got that covered, guys’ Xi’an Coy Manh a.k.a. Karma announces as she mentally controls some civilians, instructing them to run.
Atop a building, Kitty Pryde tells Bobby that he has to stop this. The massive Iceman smashes the side of a building and asks Kitty if she is disappointed. ‘I thought you might appreciate the new me. Bigger and stronger than Piotr, wouldn’t you agree? Or are you missing my sensitive side? BECAUSE I CAN GIVE YOU THAT!’ Bobby shouts.
Pink energy glows from inside Bobby’s chest, and he tells Kitty that he can give her anything she wants. ‘You can’t imagine the power inside me. I’ve never felt so alive’ he adds. Kitty tells Bobby that she doesn’t think he understands what is inside of him. ‘But it has nothing to do with living’ she points out. Remy “Gambit” LeBeau stands near Iceman’s massive feet. Releasing kinetic energy onto one of them, he tells his friend that he is sorry. Gambit then runs away, as the kinetic energy explodes, shattering part of Iceman’s foot and ankle. Iceman screams and starts to topple backwards. Kitty makes herself intangible and floats towards him. Entering him through his chest, she “swims” through the ice, moving closer to the glowing pink energy. ‘What… is that? That light… it’s pulsing like a heart…’ she thinks to herself, before reaching out to touch it - she screams.
Bobby cries out, and Kitty falls out of his body, while Bobby collapses to the ground, his form dissipating as he melts into water that starts to flood the streets. Wolverine rushes over to his friend and calls out to her, but gets no response as she lies motionless on the snow.
Flashback:
‘Bobby. You go next. Your ice has had some effectiveness against the monsters’ Dazzler tells Iceman, while the Age of Apocalypse’s Nightcrawler and the Dark Beast stand nearby. Dazzler’s associates and Prophet are also present. ‘Here we go…’ the Age of Apocalypse Nightcrawler cries as he starts to teleport himself and Iceman, but the Dark Beast lunges forward, ‘Not without me!’ he snarls, grabbing Iceman, who struggles to break free, but the Dark Beast slams his hand, where a small ball of glowing pink energy sits, on Iceman’s back.
Present:
‘Tell me what you did to Bobby Drake, McCoy’ Wolverine demands. ‘Why, Wolverine, what makes you think I did anything to him?’ the Dark Beast asks, sitting on the toilet in his prison cell. Wolverine reminds the villain that he had a fragment of the Apocalypse power in his hand before he stole a ride back to this universe, only when he arrived, it was gone.
The Dark Beast reminds Wolverine that they have had this conversation before, and explains that he lost it in the jump. ‘You lied’ Wolverine declares, adding that back in that hellhole, the only thing keeping it from burning through McCoy’s hand was Bobby’s ice, as ice made that power sleep. ‘So I don’t think you lost the fragment, McCoy. I think you just stored it somewhere, for later. Right inside Bobby Drake’.
The Dark Beast smirks, ‘You’re no fun, Wolverine’ as he looks up from the newspaper he is reading. He adds that, under normal circumstances, he would continue to prevaricate, but prison, dare he say it, has made him a new man. ‘I have better things to do. And I’m doing them right at this moment’ he adds. Gambit and Wolverine frown at the Dark Beast who admits that he did stick a fragment of unmentionably terrifying power inside Bobby Drake’s back. ‘And the results… are proving to be quite fascinating’ he adds. ‘Wouldn’t you say, Gambit? Or did you ever manage to rid yourself of the unfortunate second personality that Apocalypse embedded in you?’ He gets no response.
Wolverine puts a hand on Gambit’s shoulder, and declares that they already know Bobby is not himself - what they need to know is how to fix it. He asks if the fragment can be removed, to which the Dark Beast grins and replies ‘Well, sonny… I guess we’ll just have to find out’.
A news announcer informs viewers that live reports from New York City are difficult at this hour, as power is out across three states and the President has declared a state of emergency for the entire Eastern Seaboard. Two men are trapped in ice, while elsewhere, a family huddles into one bed, as the announcer states that officials are urging people to stay in their homes, while millions are stranded on roads, at work and in airports, the sudden onslaught of snow and ice making travel impossible. Elsewhere, people are trapped inside the lobby of a building, and are attempting to chisel their way out. The announcer reveals that few experts still consider this to be a “natural storm”, while some are in fact calling it an act of terrorism. The She-Hulk and Thing are escorting school children to their bus, as the announcer reports that stories are trickling in from Manhattan about a giant figure made of ice who appeared at the same time as the deep city freeze.
A river ferry has come to a standstill, stuck in the frozen river, while a man nearby has carved a hole in the ice and is fishing through the small hole, as the announcer asks if this is just the result of panicked hallucinations from the storm, or whether they are looking at the face of a new, unearthly enemy? Thor hovers near the frost-covered Statue of Liberty, while the announcer concludes ‘One thing is for certain… if the snow and ice doesn’t soon melt, here and across the world… humanity will be facing a true apocalypse’.
Meanwhile: ‘Hey, Dad’ a voice calls out. William Drake looks up from where he is shoveling snow on his drive, to see Bobby. He asks him what he is doing here, and Bobby replies that he came to see if he needed help. ‘What… the big super hero making time in his busy schedule to lend his old man a hand shoveling snow?’ William asks, frowning. He reminds Bobby that he didn’t even call his mother on her birthday. ‘So save it, I don’t need anything from you’ he tells his son, before suggesting that if he does want to help, he can start by clearing the driveway, as he fell into a drift this morning and almost suffocated. ‘No, you didn’t’ Bobby replies. ‘What was that?’ William asks. ‘You didn’t “almost suffocate”. You didn’t even fall. I was right there with you’ Bobby explains.
Bobby continues, telling his father that he was in the snow all around him, just like he is in the snow and ice and water everywhere in the world, at this exact moment. ‘Children in Santo Domingo throwing snowballs at each other… a fox walking on a frozen lake in Wyoming…I can see it all, Dad. I’m filled with it. Like… I’m a… god’ Bobby declares, glancing away. ‘Hey, God. Stop being a jackass and help me clean this driveway before I break my neck’ William tells Bobby, throwing a snowball at his face.
Bobby’s mother, Madeline walks out of the house, ‘Bobby? Is that you?’ she calls out, while Bobby wipes the snow off his face, ‘Dad - after all these years… why? Why couldn’t you ever just… accept me? Not one choice… not one thing I ever did… were you proud of’ Bobby tells his father.
‘This again?’ William snaps. ‘How many times have we had this conversation, son? Nothing changes, does it? You don’t like my choices, I don’t like yours. We live with it. We don’t whine’ William declares, adding that he is surprised Bobby even bothered coming here today. Madeline steps between her husband and son and asks them not to fight.
‘I bothered… because I wanted to give you one last chance’ Bobby tells his father, his eyes suddenly glowing pink. William moves closer to his son, ‘One last chance at what? Being your father?’ he demands, before telling Bobby that it doesn’t matter what kind of freak power he has got, or how far he runs, he has only got one father. ‘Hate it all you want, but that’s me’.
Bobby starts to ice-up, ‘You’re right. I’ve only got one father… and I don’t need you anymore’ he declares as he grows ice wings, and William suddenly starts clutching his chest. Bobby takes his leave on an ice-sled, while Madeline calls after him, ‘Bobby! Help him!’ she exclaims. ‘No’ Bobby responds. ‘You… you’re doing this… to me…’ William struggles to say. ‘You had a cold heart already, Dad. I just made it even colder’ Bobby responds casually. Madeline calls out to her son once more, but gets no response, while William collapses in her arms. ‘Bobby!’ Madeline shouts.
Just outside of the city, Mystique a.k.a. Raven Darkholme stands on an iceberg and gazes out at the whiteness around her. In an ice-cave, Lorna “Polaris” Dane and Annie Ghazikhanian are motionless, wrapped in sleeping bags, while Iceman sits and watches them. Mystique enters the cage and asks if Lorna and Annie are still unconscious, to which Iceman tells her that it is easier that way, as there is no time to fight them or answer questions. ‘Oh, poor you’ Mystique mutters, before telling Iceman that he is quite a bit like Bobby, always avoiding conflict, no matter how much of an ass it makes him. ‘I have no idea what you’re talking about. Avoiding conflict is survival’ Iceman replies, adding that he is Bobby, part of him, anyway, as his mind protected itself by creating them, and placed them in all the parts of himself that will need to survive what he is going through right now. ‘And what’s that? A midlife crisis? The world as his little red corvette?’ Mystique asks.
‘Death’ the Iceman clone responds. Moving closer to Mystique, he adds that Bobby Drake is dying, that the man he was, his soul, he is being eaten alive and he doesn’t even know it. ‘So what?’ Mystique enquires. Iceman kisses her, then pulls away, reminding Mystique that Bobby loved her once, genuinely, without reservation. ‘That doesn’t have to matter to you… but it mattered to him’ Iceman points out, adding that, pretty soon though, he won’t be capable of loving anyone ever again, as Bobby Drake will be dead inside, and when that happens, the whole world will die with him. ‘Ice, forever’. Mystique stares back and replies ‘I hope you don’t think I can save him’. Iceman moves away on an ice-slide, ‘No. I don’t know who can’ he replies. ‘So we run. We hide. The parts of him that are still Bobby Drake. The parts that don’t want to die… and that don’t want the ones he loves to die’.
Raven folds her arms and asks ‘Why are you so certain he doesn’t already know we’re here?’ The Iceman clone replies by asking Mystique how many memories she can recall at any given moment. ‘How much have you forgotten about your life, or even the last hour?’ He adds that they are an idea that slipped away, and they keep slipping away. ‘He won’t notice -’ the Iceman clone begins.
Suddenly, there is a cracking noise, ‘You were saying?’ Raven asks as she, the clone, and the still unconscious Polaris and Annie are raised on a massive hand by Iceman, whose torso towers over the icy land. ‘No! Listen to us! It doesn’t have to be this way!’ the clone calls out, but Iceman declares that he is done with them - with all of the voices of his past. ‘Even me?’ Raven asks. ‘Mystique’ Iceman declares, before Raven tells him that she likes his new look.
‘But it’s missing something. Me’ Raven smiles. ‘Is that so? You have nothing I need, Mystique’ Bobby replies. Bobby surrounds Mystique in a bubble as she tells him that he has the world in his hands, true, and that he might kill this world before long - bury it in ice and snow. ‘But what then?’ she asks. ‘What’s the use of power… of being a god… if you’re all alone?’ Iceman asks Mystique if she wants to be his companion, lover, friend or fawning sycophant. Iceman to the sky on a spout of ice, his massive form holding Mystique in the bubble as she tells him ‘Never’ and that she wants power, the same as him. ‘I want power over those left behind. I want that dance, that taste - just once - of what it feels like to be part of something absolutely, beautifully monstrous’. But Iceman reminds Mystique that there won’t be anyone left behind.
‘No. You’ll stop before you murder them all. Because there is one thing I know about you, Bobby Drake. You hate being alone’ Mystique tells him. They reach the atmosphere, and still standing on the very long spout of ice, Bobby gazes out at the blue globe beneath him. ‘Bobby…you’re amazing’ Mystique utters. ‘I almost believe you mean that’ Bobby replies. ‘Believe it’ Raven tells him, hands pressed up against the bubble as she stares below in awe.
‘He’s not the Bobby we knew. We have to accept that. The Apocalypse power corrupts the soul. Doesn’t matter how good you are, or how strong. You change to suit its mission - and that’s to kill’ Logan tells the others as they gather in a church along with stranded civilians. ‘Logan…you act like there’s no hope’ Kitty tells her friend. Logan explains that unless they can get that thing out of Bobby, he doesn’t think there is any hope. Wolverine remarks that Bobby is freezing the planet like it is an ice cube, and they are all going to die, and he won’t have to lift another finger. He can wait them out until everyone dies of the cold or starves to death. ‘We don’t even have a way to find him’ Logan adds. Karma is on the phone to her younger brother and tells him to stay at the school with his sister, as they are better off there. Kitty is sitting next to Opal, while her son rests on her lap, and Kitty tells everyone that there has to be a way to get through to Bobby.
‘I don’t care what kind of power is inside him… he’s still our friend. He has to remember that’ Kitty adds, while Opal quietly remarks that she doesn’t think friendship will be enough. Kitty asks if that nut, the Dark Beast, had any suggestions, to which Gambit, who is playing with his deck of cards, replies that in the other universe, a machine was used to extract the Apocalypse power. ‘He said he could build it. So we’re letting him try’ Gambit reveals.
Karma informs Kitty that the Dark Beast is at Hatchi Tech right now, with SHIELD agents guarding him. ‘Uh-huh. That’s the worst plan ever’ Kitty declares, to which Gambit points out that there is no such thing as a good plan right now, and adds that Bobby won’t just sit back until they are all dead - he will want to prove a point, push it in their faces. Gambit adds that Bobby has got too much anger in him - anger at them, and some part of him feels betrayed.
‘Please don’t do that’ Karma remarks, while Kitty exclaims ‘Betrayed? We’ve never betrayed him!’ Only Gambit tells her to grow up, as they are a family, and families hurt each other all the time. ‘Trust me, I know that better than you’.
Suddenly, there is a massive BOOM! BOOM! Coming from outside, and Warbird turns her head to the high windows in the church. Outside, lightning crackles, as Thor shouts ‘ROBERT DRAKE!’ Wolverine and Warbird rush to the church entrance and look up. ‘Aw, hell. When I called the Avengers, I wanted the sane ones to come’ Wolverine mutters. ‘Thor commands thee to -’ Thor shouts, when suddenly, a burst of ice, resembling the head and neck of a dragon moves forward and devours Thor.
Dozens of Iceman clones start rising from the snow, ‘Overwhelming odds, Wolverine’ Warbird remarks. ‘You love it’ Logan tells her. ‘But I don’t’ Gambit mutters as he joins them outside. Mystique appears amongst the Iceman clones, ‘What are you -’ Wolverine starts to ask her, but Mystique coughs and tells Logan to shut up, raising a hand she points at him, and one of the clones blasts dozens of shards of razor-sharp ice at him, knocking him backwards. ‘Wolverine!’ Gambit shouts while firing some kinetically charged playing cards at one of the clones. Warbird slices her sword through another, while Wolverine tells Gambit to worry about himself. ‘Take care of the -’ he starts to say, before Logan finds himself trapped in a solid block of ice. ‘There. Much better’ Mystique smiles.
At Hatchi Tech, the SHIELD agents are also frozen in a block of ice, while the Dark Beast is working on the machine. ‘Oh my’ he utters as the ice creeps up around him.
Only the tallest skyscrapers remain with floors not covered by ice. Iceman in his ice-dragon form swirls up around the church, before Thor smashes his way free with his trusty hammer. ‘Fight all you want, Thor. Rage at me with your fire and light’ Iceman adds as he wraps more ice around Thor, telling him that it will not save him. Thor summons more lighting, to no avail. He goes wide-eyed as he sees Iceman loom over him, ‘Can you feel it, Thor? Can you feel your blood freezing? Your heart stiffening? Your brain turning to ice?’ Suddenly though, ‘Bobby! Stop this!’ a voice calls out. Bobby returns to his regular size, but with his ice-wings still, and exclaims ‘Opal? How dare you?’ as he traps her feet in ice. ‘When I think about what I felt for you… it disgusts me. I was so weak, then. So pathetic. You are nothing to me, Opal. This world is nothing’. Arms folded, Opal looks Bobby in the eyes and tells him that if he doesn’t stop, he is going to kill her son. ‘Robert is all I have’ she adds.
‘You once told me Robert was my son, too. But that was a lie’ Iceman reminds Opal. Opal glances to the ground and tells Bobby that she is sorry. ‘Sorry? Do you understand how devastated I was?’ Bobby asks, as he starts to wrap ice around Opal. She holds herself, freezing, and explains that she realized she couldn’t rely on Bobby, so she thought it would be easier for everyone, especially Robert, if Bobby wasn’t in his life.  ‘I wasn’t good enough for you, was I? Am I good enough now, Opal?’ Bobby shouts, when suddenly Thor declares, ‘Have at thee!’ as he breaks out of Iceman’s form, smashing him to shards of ice. Opal is freed from Bobby’s trap, and collapses to the snow, while Thor stands on the ground where Bobby broke.
Thor hangs his head, when suddenly, a large ice spike is shoved through his chest, and he falls to his knees. ‘Oh, how the mighty fall’ Mystique remarks as she walks past Thor, and picks up a small glowing ball of pink energy. ‘And how power in small places can rise…perfectly, delightfully, monstrous’ Raven adds as she smiles, then swallows the Apocalypse seed….