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X-23: Target X – Part Two
Captain America hands Matt Murdock the report on the assassination of presidential candidate Greg Johnson. It details the precise and professional manner in which each victim was killed, twenty-seven in all including Johnson’s teenaged sons. Stunned by the gruesome thoroughness of the entire operation, Murdock asks why. Wide-eyed but far from innocent, X-23 answers “It was my mission”.
Four years earlier…
Captain America arrives with a squad of SHIELD agents after receiving a tip about an assassination attempt on presidential candidate Greg Johnson. Cap leads the squad into action after shots are fired with SHIELD director Nick Fury advising via comlink. Fury is insistent that they catch the would-be assassin. As Cap makes it to the room where Johnson is, agents greet him with grim news: Johnson and his entire family and campaign entourage are dead. Cap enters the room to see the eviscerated bodies of the slain.
As he surveys the carnage, Cap hears a whimper. He scrambles through the corpses until he finds the body of a young girl with leg braces. She asks him to please help her. As he carries the girl to safety, he fails to even consider that she might be the assassin. He also overlooks a camera on the ground that captured an image of the girl slaying Johnson. Cap gets the girl to an ambulance and assures her that she’ll be okay.
 A SHIELD agent approaches and reports that an EMP took at surveillance before the hit but that the building is locked down and no one has left since then. Cap thinks to ask the sole survivor what she may have seen and looks over at the ambulance. When he sees blood dripping from inside the vehicle, he immediately realizes that the girl was the killer and he had let her get away.
In the interrogation room, Cap confesses his role in this situation to Matt Murdock who recognizes that Cap feels personally responsible. Cap tells Matt that he holds himself personally responsible for every single life that X-23 has taken since that day. Murdock tries to tell Cap that his personal investment is too great but the Star-Spangled Avenger insists that they continue.
 He asks X-23 what happened in San Francisco with Megan after she verified the girl’s claim of being abducted. X-23 tells them that Megan wanted her to tell her mother that it was all true.
One year earlier…
Megan demands that Laura tell her mother and Desmond the truth about her being kidnapped. Laura acts as if she has no idea what Megan is referring to. Desperate, Megan begs Laura to tell them how she killed the man who took her, that he was real. Debbie pleads with Megan to calm down, while Megan begs X-23 to tell them that she’s not crazy. Megan runs away, upset by Laura’s refusal to talk. Debbie is concerned about Megan but Desmond blows it off as just another tantrum. Debbie begins to explain to Laura but can’t. Instead, she takes her upstairs to get her settled in. She tells her she can borrow some of Megan’s clothes until they can get her some of her own. Laura is pleased when she sees the wilder fashions that Megan insists on wearing.
The next day Laura is ready for school, dressed in a racy outfit from Megan’s closet. Her Aunt Debbie asks if she’s sure she wants to wear that and Laura assures her that she is. Debbie says they’ll figure out someway to get her enrolled in school and asks awkwardly if she has a birth certificate. Laura tells her that she has seven of them as she identifies Megan’s scent. She tells her aunt that she knows the way to school and can find her own way. Debbie tries to insist but X-23 merely thanks her and takes off after Megan.
She finds her cousin alone on a pier. Megan has been crying and asks why X-23 didn’t tell them the truth. X-23 explains that when she saw Megan’s drawings she assumed Megan remembered everything. Had she realized that she only had vague recollections, she wouldn’t have confirmed the veracity of them. She tells Megan that she is safer not knowing the full truth as those who made her might come looking for her. Megan is surprised to hear this and asks Laura what she is.
 In response, Laura pops her claws causing Megan to gasp. She tells Megan that if anyone knew she was there they would kill Megan and her mother to get to her, so no one must know. Megan agrees as Laura sheathes her claws. She tells Megan that they should get to school as she doesn’t like to be late.
As they arrive at school, Megan is enthusiastically asking for details about X-23’s claws. As they make their way down the hall, they are taunted by jeers. Terms like “freaks”, “Goths” and “Sluts” are bandied about. A pair of jocks stops Megan and teases her about her new ‘friend’. When a young boy named Henessey grabs Megan’s arm, X-23 tells him fiercely to let her go. He asks if she’s going to hurt him if he doesn’t and she answers yes. Megan pulls Laura away as the jock notes that she’s kind of hot for a freak.
In French class, the teacher notes the arrival of his new pupil and asks in French if she has any familiarity with the Romance languages. X-23 answers “oui” and he snottily asks if she can say more than “yes”. Laura rises and in perfect French gives him a lengthy and detailed explanation of how to bribe and torture international peace officers while obtaining information. This lands Laura and Megan in the principal’s office.
At lunch, Megan tells Laura that until she came along no one believed her about being abducted and thought she made it up to get attention. Even her mother thought she was crazy. Laura tells her that she doesn’t think she’s crazy at all. Megan tells Laura that she’s her only friend.
Later in biology class, Laura corrects the teacher when he gives incorrect information about the amount of blood in the human body. He chides her for interrupting his lesson and asks if she has any other trivia about the human body to share. She stands and shares with the class details on the most effective way to kill a person without leaving a trace. This leads to a second trip to the principal’s office for her and Megan.
The principal unleashes a tirade on the two girls about the topics that X-23 has brought up in class and the disruption they’ve caused. She assures the girls that they are nothing special and undeserving of the attention they are clearly seeking. She shouts at them and asks if they are even listening. Laura rises and shouts back at the principal, reiterating word for word everything she has said since they entered the office to prove that she was listening. This gets both girls suspended.
As they leave the school, Megan is amazed at what Laura did and comments on how her mom is going to kill her. X-23 asks what sort of training her mother has. Megan says off-hand that she wishes they could just run away and Laura agrees. Megan notes that they don’t have a car as Laura eyes the principal’s convertible. Moments later, the girls are joy-riding throughout San Francisco.
 They spend the day exploring the city, enjoying a museum, a movie, shopping and even drive out to a nearby amusement park. Laura provides cash to buy jewelry at Tiffany’s after which the girls take in a Dazzler concert! They stay out all night and watch the sun rise at Fisherman’s Wharf. Laura tells Megan about her life and confesses that she was forced by those who made her to kill her mother. She explains that her creators made a scent that triggers a blackout and when she wakes up, everyone around her is dead. Megan tells her that she’s sorry and Laura tells her that she is too.
When the girls return home, Debbie is furious having spent the whole night trying to find them. Megan stops her mother and tells her that she’s sorry… for everything. Debbie hugs her daughter and Megan promises that things are going to be better now.
The present:
In the interrogation room, Captain America guesses that things didn’t end up being better and X-23 confirms this. She explains that she followed the proper protocols and was careful but that they had already found her and were going to make her kill Megan. She didn’t even realize it.
As Megan and her mother were patching things up, Debbie’s boyfriend Desmond drove to a desolated part of the city where a man gave him an envelope and told him to call in. He reports that he almost lost her and that he can’t take X-23 down on his own. He opens the envelope and inside is a vial marked “TRIGGER”.


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X-23: Target X – Part Three
Matt Murdock leans in close and asks X-23 if a scent is truly all it takes to send her into a killing frenzy. She replies “yes” and he asks if she will kill anyone marked with it. Again she replies in the affirmative but she adds that she doesn’t mean to. Murdock turns to Captain America who asks what else she can tell them about “The Trigger”. She tells them that the conditioning began early. She was eight years old. She recalls her head being held under water followed by a jolt of electricity administered by Dr. Zander Rice. Dr. Rice’s assistant is unsure they should be doing this but Rice coldly expresses his intent to continue. X-23 screams as the jolt enters her wet body. This process was repeated again and again and again over the next several years.
When she was eleven years old, they tested the trigger scent for the first time. They placed a single drop in a dog and then placed it in a room with X-23. She immediately killed the poor animal. From an observation booth, Dr. Rice comments on how she will now react to the trigger scent without any sort of physical reinforcement. His aide asks if they should prep another animal for a demonstration for Director Sutter. Zander replies that he has another test subject in mind.
In the interrogation room, Matt Murdock is in disbelief at what he has just heard. Capt. America asks if the trigger scent was used on all her missions. X-23 does not look him in the eye as she tells him that it was only used on those she couldn’t be trusted to kill or for exceptional targets. Cap asks what this means.
Three years earlier…
Wilson Fisk, the notorious crime boss known as the Kingpin, sits at a posh restaurant eating a steak. Behind him stand two armed bodyguards wearing infrared sight goggles. The guards are shocked when they hear someone nearby call out “Wilson” in an overly dramatic voice. Fisk coolly comments “How theatrical” as his bodyguards frantically try to locate the unseen person in the room. They tell their boss that they need to go but their warning comes too late. The invisible man has maneuvered behind the Kingpin and now holds a knife to his neck. The Kingpin calmly orders his men to stand down assuring them that Mr. DiLorenzo is simply trying to make a point. DiLorenzo drops his invisibility and expresses his surprise that the Kingpin would agree to meet him in person. Fisk tells him he would have come alone had DiLorenzo not insisted that he bring his men and all this high-tech detection equipment. DiLorenzo explains that he merely wanted to illustrate that he is completely undetectable when he goes invisible. Fisk tells the man that he’s aware of his abilities and that they should get down to business. The Kingpin tells DiLorenzo that by kidnapping his niece he has made their turf war personal. DiLorenzo smiles and adds that he’s surprised that Fisk would leave himself open to extortion of a personal nature this way. The Kingpin replies that he is also a man of many surprises.
He goes on to tell DiLorenzo that he must have had someone working deep within his organization to obtain such insight into his personal life to be away of his niece, Samantha. He assures that she is in good health despite her abduction and DiLorenzo says that she will remain so as long as Fisk cooperates. The Kingpin asks that he state his terms and DiLorenzo asks for twenty percent of the Kingpin’s assets. Fisk offers him eleven, stating that Samantha is worth that but not more. The Kingpin produces four large briefcases and tells DiLorenzo that three of them contain 55 million dollars as a sign of good faith. DiLorenzo enthusiastically accepts the offer but says that he will have to hold onto Samantha until the deal is finished and the other crime bosses notified. On a final note, the Kingpin asks DiLorenzo to deliver a note to Samantha from her distraught mother. DiLorenzo agrees and then notices that there is a fourth briefcase. The Kingpin tells him coolly that the fourth case contains the remains of DiLorenzo’s mole within his organization. DiLorenzo is horrified by this and the Kingpin bids him “good day” as he departs.
In a warehouse in New Jersey, DiLorenzo’s thugs drag young Samantha to an audience with their boss. She is dressed in a school uniform and her head is covered by a sack. They tell her she’s going home and express their regret that they didn’t get the chance to know her better. DiLorenzo tells Samantha that her uncle is a sick man but that he has agreed to pay for her release. As his men remove the bag from her head, DiLorenzo reaches into his pocket and gives Samantha the note from her mother. “Samantha” is revealed to be X-23.  DiLorenzo asks smugly if she’d like him to read the note aloud and suggests that perhaps he should just grab her mother and get the other nine percent he demanded from the Kingpin in return. X-23 takes one whiff of the note and smells the trigger scent. Her eyes turn a blood red as she pops her claws and dispatches both the guards in one motion. DiLorenzo is surprised and immediately turns invisible. He asks what the girl is as he fires his gun at her.  X-23 lunges at him, scoring his face with her claws. She follows up with a full frontal assault.
At the Facility, Zander Rice confers with the Kingpin about the final details of their operation. He assures Fisk that a clean-up crew will secure the evidence he requires of the assassination. Fisk demands to have DiLorenzo’s skull on his mantel that night. Kimura listens in as Zander ensures that payment will be made. The Kingpin explains that DiLorenzo should have the cash on his person. Fisk adds that if this operation is a success he will have others for their young assassin. He asks to be updated accordingly. Kimura tells Rice that she likes the man and Zander replies that he likes his money. He instructs Kimura to personally make sure they bring the target’s head back when they collect X-23. He says that they’ll take a DNA sample before passing it along to Fisk.
X-23 continues her attack on DiLorenzo in a relentless and efficient manner. He has time to begin begging for his life but his pleas fall on deaf ears. He falls against his desk. Blood runs off of X-23 and across his invisible face. His eyes are open wide but devoid of life.  With her mission complete, X-23 snaps out of the trance-like rage induced by the trigger scent.
In the interrogation room, Matt Murdock notes that he’d heard rumors about DiLorenzo. He was a superhuman assassin for the mob that they called Fade. Some thought he was a myth and no one even knew what he looked like or if he was real. Shortly after rumors circulated that he was moving in on the Kingpin’s territory, he simply disappeared. His wife and child vanished shortly after. Captain America glares down angrily at X-23 and asks if she had anything to do with their disappearance. X-23 looks up at him; her wide eyes look wounded or remorseful like a child who knows she has done something wrong as she tells him yes. He notes that the trigger scent was used only on those she couldn’t be trusted to kill and asks which targets. She replies, “My sensei…, my mother and…” Cap finishes her sentence adding the names “Megan and Debbie.” X-23 replies “Yes.”
San Francisco – One year earlier…
As Megan and Laura make their way home, they call to see how Megan’s mother, Debbie is feeling. Desmond tells them she’s doing a bit better and he’s making her some tea now. He asks if Megan can pick some medicine off on the way home. Megan agrees and says they’ll be there in about twenty minutes. Desmond sets down the phone and prepares the tea. Sitting next to the teapot is the trigger scent sample sent to him by the Facility. Megan tells Laura they need to pick some stuff up for her mom and asks X-23 if she has any money. Laura calmly replies that she has $147, 692. Megan asks if she’s serious and then asks if she can borrow twenty bucks. Laura tells her yes but that it’s at her house. As the girls pass an electronics store, X-23 sees a news bulletin from the Xavier Institute. The reporter announces that Professor Charles Xavier has “come out” as a mutant and revealed that his exclusive school is the home base of the X-Men. The camera swings to show a pair of X-Men, Beast and Wolverine. Laura’s eyes fixate on Logan’s face, one she has seen before in countless training sequences. Megan pulls her back to reality and says they have to get home to grab some cash.
Back at the house, Desmond offers a bed-ridden Debbie a soothing cup of tea. She coughs but says he doesn’t have to do all this as it’s likely just a 24-hour thing. He replies that in 24 hours he’ll go back to being a jerk. Until then, she should enjoy her tea. He tells her that Megan’s on her way home with cough drops as well. Debbie thanks him and comments on how much Megan has changed. She suggests that Laura may have something to do with it but that whatever it is, she’s happy to see Megan doing better. He tells her that he’ll be happy if she drinks her tea as he hands her a cup. She asks what flavor it is and he replies “chamomile.”  As he heads downstairs with the tray and remaining tea, Megan rushes through the front door. She collides with him, spilling the tea on his shirt and face. He pushes it away and says “Oh god, oh god…” as Megan apologizes and reaches to help him up. He looks up at her, panicked and says “X-23”. Megan is surprised to her him use that name and he yells “Where is she?!” Megan tells him to chill and pulls away from him, her hands soaked in tea from his shirt. He again asks where X-23 is and it dawns on Megan that he called Laura X-23. She asks him what he called her. At that moment, X-23 catches the scent. She pops her claws and zeroes in on Megan and Desmond. She stalks up the front steps of the house. Desmond looks up in terror, fully aware of what is going on while Megan seems surprised. She looks up at her cousin and says “Laura?” X-23 stands over them, her eyes a blood red and her claws at the ready.


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X-23: Target X – Part Four
Captain America asks X-23 if she killed her aunt and cousin. Matt Murdock jumps in and tells Cap that she was under the influence of a mind-controlling drug and cannot be held responsible. Cap tells Matt that despite that people are dead and he has to understand what happened and that it will be up to someone else to decide what X-23 will be held responsible for. He asks her what happened when the tea spilled on Megan and Desmond.
One year earlier…
As X-23 pops her claws, Desmond immediately realizes what is happening and begins to panic. Megan, on the other hand, is bewildered by Laura’s behavior. Desmond calls Kimura on his cell phone and begs her to abort the mission and evac him immediately. Megan asks what he means by mission and he pushes her aside.
 As he screams into the phone for help, X-23 leaps at him. She lands on his back and in seconds he is dead. As he cries out, Debbie who is upstairs in bed is startled and spills her tea. Megan cries out for Laura to stop but she doesn’t. As Megan watches her kill Desmond, she recalls the story that Laura told her about killing her mother while under the influence of the Trigger Scent. Megan quickly surmises that the tea was laced with the stuff and rushes upstairs.
 She cries out for her mom and asks her franticly if she drank the tea. Debbie tells her that she spilled it and Megan takes her by the hand and hurries her into the bathroom.
 X-23 makes her way up the stairs in search of her next target. Megan slams and locks the bathroom door and Laura’s slice come slashing through it. Megan is stammering to her mother that they have to get out of there and Debbie is confused by all that is happening.
 Turning to the window, Megan sees the shower. X-23 is cutting the door to pieces to get to them. Megan thinks fast and shoves her mother into the shower. They both scream as X-23 bursts through the door, and yanks back the shower curtain.
 As X-23 pulls back for a full force attack, the last of the Trigger Scent is washed from Megan and Debbie’s bodies and swirls into the drain. X-23 sniffs and her eyes clear. She stops and then realizes that Kimura is here and coming for them.
 Nearby, Kimura reports in that Desmond is dead and they are going to have to do this the hard way. At her command, a small contingent of armored troops makes their way towards Debbie’s home.
present:
Captain America interrupts X-23’s tale and asks her who Kimura is since she has now mentioned her twice. X-23 recounts the story of their first meeting.
X-23: Age twelve….
Just days after her claws were surgically removed and laced with adamantium, Dr. Rice enters X-23’s room and introduces her to Kimura. The older woman stands imperiously over X-23. When Rice orders x-23 to kill Kimura, she strikes without hesitation. Her blows do nothing to the woman, who simply stands there and takes it.
Rice taunts X-23, ordering her again and again to kill Kimura. Finally, Kimura blocks X-23’s blow. Rice sneers and tells X-23 that she has failed to follow his orders and must be punished. He signals Kimura who smiles sadistically and says “hi, sweetie” before viciously head-butting X-23. She then proceeds to pummel on Laura until Rice tells her to stop.
 He then tells X-23 that Kimura will be her handler from now on and that if she fails to complete an order or disobeys him in any way, she will answer to Kimura. He tells X-23 that she can’t hurt or kill Kimura who they made just for her.
X-23 explains that Kimura was there when they the first tested the Trigger Scent and forced X-23 to kill her sensei. They chose her sensei because he had disobeyed orders by being kind to X-23. This was their way of punishing him. As X-23 grieved for her sensei and realized what they had forced her to do and why, Kimura dragged her away by the hair to punish her for her role in all of this.
 She notes that Kimura always punished her even when she had not failed. When she failed to rendez-vous at the assigned time following a mission, Kimura relished this and took the opportunity to punish X-23. In other instances, Rice lied just to create a reason for further punishment at Kimura’s hands.
present:
Both Cap and Matt Murdock are disgusted by the lengths that Rice went to manipulate and control X-23. Cap asks if Kimura was a mutant whose mutation allowed her to withstand X-23’s claws. Laura tells him that she wasn’t but was created by the Facility as a specific counter to her abilities. Cap brings the interrogation back to the night that Debbie and Megan died.
past:
As X-23 leads Debbie and Megan downstairs, Megan mentions that Desmond said he was on a mission. She asks what’s going on and if Laura’s creators were after her. Debbie asks Megan what she means about Desmond just as they come upon his dead body in the foyer. Debbie begins to freak out and Megan asks Laura to help her with her mother. X-23 punches Debbie in the jaw and knocks her out with a single blow.
 Megan asks Laura why she did that and Laura hurriedly explains that they are coming there to kill the two of them. At that moment, a tear gas bomb crashes through the living room window. Megan asks if it’s anthrax as X-23 leads them into the basement. She then uses her claws to slice through a water pipe. She tells Megan to stay down here no matter what she hears and to not make a sound. Megan agrees though she is freezing and unclear on what Laura is doing or why.
Upstairs, armored goons enter the building and scan for targets using infrared devices. They pick up life-signs in the basement but conclude that the body temperatures are too low to be human. X-23 takes one out from behind and then braces herself against the ceiling above a doorway in an adjoining bedroom in order to take out a second. She then takes out a third in the bathroom.
 A pair of troops sees this and opens fire. They report this to Kimura who sarcastically wishes them luck in taking her down themselves. X-23 dives into the kitchen and then kills the two men by hurling meat cleavers at their faces.
Downstairs, Megan can hear the sounds of battle and is frightened when the basement door swings open. The armored troop stands there a moment before falling down the stairs. He lands at Megan’s feet, several knives are sticking out of his neck.
The battle continues upstairs as X-23 uses the claws on her hands and feet to take out four goons at once. She stops to assess the field of battle and catch her breath. In that moment of pause, Kimura grabs her from behind and snaps her neck. She smiles sadistically and greets X-23. She asks “Did you miss me?” as X-23 falls to the floor.


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X-23: Target X – Part Five
X-23’s interrogation by Captain America and Matthew Murdock continues.
X-23’s narration:
 She tells them that Kimura found her living at the home of her aunt, Debbie Kinney. X-23 defeated Kimura’s troops but was no match for Kimura who broke her neck. Kimura asks X-23 how many people she will have to kill before she will finally accept that she is not a person but a weapon. She mentions her sensei, Tanaka and her creator Sarah Kinney before saying that now she’s going to have to kill her new family in San Francisco. She handcuffs X-23’s wrist to hers and drags her into the basement so she can watch her aunt and cousin die.
Megan hears them enter and is horrified to see what Kimura has done to Laura. Kimura smiles sweetly and says hi to Megan as she levels her crossbow at the girl.
As Kimura fires a bolt at Megan, X-23 reacts and slices it into pieces before it can hit Megan. She tries to cut herself free of the handcuffs but they too are made of adamantium. Kimura says that she’s now going to have to kill Megan with her bare hands. X-23 fights back, kicking and punching Kimura relentlessly. Kimura is unhurt and reminds X-23 that striking her handler is against the rules and warrants an appropriate punishment. She reminds X-23 that there’s nothing she can do to hurt her and that she’ll never beat her. She then takes a piece of wood and savagely beats on X-23 to reinforce her point.
Megan cries out for Kimura to stop and tells her that she’s killing her. Kimura corrects Megan and that it’s really her that she’ll be killing and that X-23 has to watch. Kimura slams X-23 to the ground and holds her there by placing her boot on her throat. She then asks X-23 if she should shove one of her indestructible fingers into Megan’s brain or into her heart. She wants X-23 to be the one to decide.
 X-23 begs Kimura not to do this. She promises to return to the Facility and do whatever she’s told, if she doesn’t kill them. Kimura tells her that she’s going to do both those things anyway and that Megan is going to die. She then begins to press her finger into Megan’s chest. She tells X-23 that she could end Megan’s suffering by killing her herself. It would be swift and merciful, unlike this. As Kimura’s finger punctures her skin, Megan screams in pain. This wakes Debbie. Kimura admits that she forgot about her and tells her that she’s next. Kimura asks X-23 again what it’s going to be and X-23 pops her claws. Megan gasps in horror.
Present:
Matt Murdock is shocked to hear this and asks X-23 is she killed Megan. She replies that she didn’t. Instead, she used her claws to cut off her own hand. This freed her from the adamantium handcuffs.
X-23’s narration:
 Kimura can’t help but be impressed by X-23’s cleverness. She begins to lunge for X-23 but finds that Laura has handcuffed her to a pipe. Kimura shouts at X-23 that this isn’t over and that she will kill her for this.
 X-23 orders Megan to go upstairs and tells her that she has three minutes to pack the essentials before they leave. X-23 reattaches her hand so that it can begin to heal as Megan and Debbie head upstairs. Kimura rants that she will not rest until Debbie and Megan are both dead. She tells X-23 that she will personally kill everyone that she loves.
Present:
 X-23 tells Murdock and Cap that Kimura meant it and she knew that eventually, Kimura would find them. She decided that she couldn’t let that happen.
Murdock asks what she did and Cap interrupts and offers to explain it.
X-23 listened as Kimura threatened to kill her. She then sliced through the pipe and turned on an overhead light bulb. Together, this caused an explosion that destroyed the house. Cap explains how SHIELD responded after the fire department found the remains of 27 men and remnants of advanced technology.
 X-23 asks if they found Kimura’s body and cap replies that they did not. X realizes that this means Kimura is still out there. Murdock asks how Megan and Debbie were after all this. X-23 explains that Megan was okay and Debbie was sad. As they were driving away, Debbie asked Laura to stop the car. Debbie showed her a photograph that Sarah Kinney had taken of her at the Facility when she was around seven years old. Sarah had given her sister the picture and explained that she needed to get her daughter away from where she was living. At the time, Debbie had assumed that Sarah was simply in a bad relationship. She explains to X-23 that she couldn’t have imagined the truth of the situation. She tells X-23 that she saw something in her sister that day that she hadn’t seen in a long time. Sarah had truly loved Laura. Debbie told X-23 that she was the first person Sarah had managed to love since she was abused by their father as a child. Sarah’s love for Laura had saved her from all that and now Laura had saved them too. Debbie hugged X-23 and thanked her. Laura simply replied “You are welcome.”
Narration:
Laura drove them to Sacramento where she doctored the passports that her mother had created so that Debbie and Megan could use them. Megan asks if she’ll need one and X-23 replies no. A few days later, Laura takes them to the Canadian border. She gives them detailed instructions on where to find a safehouse and some money to start a new life. She tells them to keep moving for the first month and alternate their cover stories as they go. Megan realizes that Laura doesn’t intend to go with them.
Laura explains that she can’t join them because the Facility and Kimura will never stop until they have her. This is the only way they have a chance at surviving. Debbie seems to understand and tells Laura how much they love her and that they’ll miss her. Megan asks how Laura will find them. Laura cannot look at her and simply turns and says good-bye. Megan tells her to wait and gives her a locket. Inside is a picture of her mother, Sarah and one of Megan herself. Laura hugs Megan fiercely and says thank you. She walks away, leaving her aunt and cousin behind forever.
present:
Matt asks where she went from there and X-23 replies that she went after him… the one who started it all and made her a weapon and a killer. She went looking for Wolverine at the Xavier Institute.


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X-23: Target X – Part Six
Captain America and Matt Murdock continue their interrogation of X-23. Cap begins to ask her about her visit to the Xavier Institute and asks if she was looking for Wolverine. She replies yes and he asks why. Meanwhile, Murdock “looks” over the evidence that they have gathered, including Laura’s personal effects. This includes the locket her cousin Megan gave her, a tattered copy of Pinocchio, bloodied letters from her mother, a gun, piles of cash and more. Matt interrupts and picks up the book, asking the others if it’s Pinocchio. X-23 says yes and tells them that her mother used to read it to her. Murdock asks her if she ever said why she read that particular book and X-23 replies no. He touches the letters which are covered in blood and states that he can’t read them. Laura tells him that they’re letters from her mother but that there was so much blood on them that the words were washed away. Cap interrupts and suggests they wrap up this interview. He asks X-23 what happened at Xavier’s school.
X-23’s narration:
X-23 explains that it took her a while to find Logan as there were so many mutants at the school. When she did find him, he wasn’t alone. She watches for weeks, carefully avoiding detection by the nine telepaths living at the Institute. On her twenty-fourth day observing the school, the wind shifted and Logan caught wind of her. That night he left the Institute on his motorcycle and X-23 followed him.
She finds him camping out near the Canadian border. Without turning around, he said to her “Quit messing around, kid” and notes that he caught her scent an hour earlier.
 X-23 pops her claws and jumps down from her perch. Logan tries to calm her and tells her they don’t have to do this the hard way.  X-23 lunges at him and he back-steps to avoid her claws. She advances and he continues to dodge without retaliating. She then pops her foot claw and catches him by surprise. He blocks her next attack and tells her to stop since she knows that he’ll just heal from any wounds she inflicts.
 She finally connects and slices through his neck. Her next blow cuts his leg. Logan pushes her away and takes off his jacket. He tells her that if she won’t listen then he’ll make her listen and he pops his claws.
They both charge at each other. Wolverine misses, X-23 doesn’t. She drives her claws deep into his chest. She then grabs a handful of dirt and rocks and shoves it into the open wound as Logan tries to recover. He tells her it stings but assures her he isn’t going to die from an infection. She says nothing but continues her attack pattern, cutting him deep with one hand and forcing gravel into the wound with the other. Logan cries out in pain and asks if she’s trying to annoy him to death. X-23 doesn’t speak and continues her assault.
 Her next blow is to the neck and again she clogs it with a handful of earth. Logan throws her off him and asks what’s wrong with her. He then realizes that his wounds are not closing up and that she’s trying to bleed him out.
 His astonishment gives X-23 another opening and she takes it, slicing him across the face with her foot talon. He falls to the ground and X-23 pounces on top of him and places her fists to his throat, ready to pop her claws.
 He wryly says that he’s starting to think she’s “got a beef” with him. She tells him to shut up and that it’s over for both of them. He asks why. She yells at him that they are weapons and that they have to be destroyed. He tells her that if she’s set on killing him, then do it, but he refuses to let her kill herself. He positions her claws under his throat again. X-23 is confused and says that they both have to die. Logan replies that that may be true of him, but not her. He tells her that she didn’t choose this life and there was nothing she could have done to prevent what happened.
 X-23 begins to tear up and says that it has to stop and she has to die. Logan tells her to look at him and tells her that her mother sent him a copy of the letters she wrote for X-23. He knows what happened and that none of it was her fault. Laura begins to cry and tells him that they made her kill her mother too. Logan tells her that he’s sorry and calls her by her name: Laura.
A while later, X-23 and Logan are sitting around the campfire talking. She is wearing his X-Men jacket.  Logan explains that by the time he received Sarah’s letters, X-23 had left the facility. He tells her that no one, especially a child, should have to go through what she did. But now she has a choice. He tells her that her mother’s letters are in the inside pocket of his jacket. She gets to choose to be what the Facility wanted her to be, or what her mother dreamed she could be. He tells her he knows that it won’t be easy or quick to overcome all she’s endured but that there’s a guy at the Xavier Institute who could help her like he’s helped him. She tells him that they’ll come for her, even at the Institute. He tells them they’d find a world of hurt waiting for them if they tried.
Their heart-to-heart is interrupted by approaching helicopters. X-23 pops her claws thinking it’s the Facility who has found them. Wolverine tells her it’s worse than that… it’s the good guys. A pair of SHIELD assault copters drops from the sky. The agents aboard receive orders to take them down.
Logan tells X-23 to get out of there as the SHIELD agents open fire. He dives in front of X-23 and is ripped apart by the spray of bullets. He yells at her to run. She hesitates for a moment and then flees. As she runs away, she is hit by Captain America’s shield. He places it on her back and steps on it, announcing that she is under arrest.
The recent past:
Later in New York City, Daredevil returns from a night of patrolling to find his phone ringing. Captain America is on the other end of the line and asks for a favor. He needs him to meet him immediately. This leads to the intense interrogation of X-23.
The present:
At its conclusion, Murdock tells Cap that he should have left X-23 with Wolverine as this was her best chance for a normal life. Cap is surprised and points out that she is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people. Matt holds up Sarah’s letters and asks Cap if he read them. He tells Cap that it’s a confession written by one of the people who are truly responsible for all those deaths. He notes that Sarah claimed responsibility for every murder committed by X-23 including the executions of the other guilty parties from the Facility.
 Cap says that that doesn’t change anything and Murdock argues that it changes everything. He tells Cap that all the people he’s after are dead already and that Laura was as much a victim as any of the people she was forced to kill. Cap argues that she can’t be set free and has to be held accountable.
 X-23 sits there, listening to them arguing her fate as if she wasn’t there. Matt asks Cap what he thinks SHIELD will do with her. He says that giving them X-23 would be like handing them a weapon and that they’d use her too. Cap says that the conversation is over and grabs X-23 by the handcuffs.
Matt steps in and says that speaking as her lawyer, he cannot allow this. Cap gets in Matt’s face and says “Don’t do this.” He tells Matt that he needed him there to verify that she wasn’t lying and that now that she’s confessed she has to face justice. Matt argues that she won’t find any justice and tells Cap that he’s wrong on this one. Cap apologizes for involving Matt and realizes it was a mistake. Matt tries to tell Cap that they can still fix this but Cap just walks away with X-23 in tow.
Cap drives X-23 to a SHIELD substation and is ready to turn her over to them. He tells her he has no other choice and can’t just let her go. Then he looks at her for a long moment. Perhaps he sees her for the first time, not as a weapon or as a killer but as a girl who never got the chance to be anything but what she was created to be.
A short time later, Cap puts X-23 on a bus. She asks why he’s doing this and he explains that when they first met after her assassination of a presidential hopeful and his entire family and campaign team, he made a mistake and she ended up back in the hands of those who created her. He realizes if he turns her in, others will use her in the same way and he can’t let that happen. He says that he’s not sure she can build a normal life for herself but he has to give her that chance. He tells her that Matt was right and she should find Logan.
X-23 thanks him and gets on the bus. As she boards, she sees a mother and her son doing flashcards. The boy smiles at her and she smiles back. The mom asks him what the word is for a bird’s foot claw and he hesitates a moment, then remembers that it’s called a “talon”.  Laura pulls her mother’s letters out of her bag and begins to read them. They begin as a plea for forgiveness for all she has done. She acknowledges that these things can never truly be forgiven and that all she can do is tell her daughter the truth of what happened. As the bus pulls away, Laura begins to cry.


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The Infernal Gallop
The story starts off with a young mutant from Detroit, going by the name of Switchback, on a ferry in a dark cave. Reaching land, she runs into her guide to the promised land, a monk named Cain Marko. Trudging days into a swamped area, Switchback remember her journey to this place. During the long trek from America, all her companions were killed, even her lover Gary drowned and she was the sole survivor to make it to Antarctica. Her guide doesn’t speak much during their long walk and finally they reach their goal, the haven paradise of Avalon, secreted deep in the Savage Land.
New York City, or what’s left of it. In the nightclub of Heaven, Warren Worthington has a private meeting with Kurt Darkholme, aka Nightcrawler. Warren is needed by Kurt to get him out of America and into Antarctica to meet up with his mother. Asked why, Kurt explains that Magneto has ordered him to find a woman named Destiny who happens to know his mother. They need Destiny to corroborate a story, and as Destiny is residing in Avalon, Kurt has to travel there. Kurt’s mother has been ferrying refugees to this Avalon for years. Warren insults her, saying that she takes all these refugees possess and dumps many of them in the freezing sea to die. Angrily Kurt punches Warren and demands the travel arrangements. Wiping blood from his jaw, Warren tells Kurt to seek Proudstar at an abandoned place called Stark Holding.
Over at Magneto’s stronghold, Magneto gets an earful from Mystique, talking to her via video comm-link. She wishes not to go to Avalon but Magneto tells her that is it not a request and that she WILL meet her son. She tries once more time to get out of it but Magneto informs her that if she does not help out then not only will he divulge her location to Apocalypse, but also he will be the one to tear her limbs off. Magneto reminds her that she is the only person who knows what Destiny looks like, so he needs her. Reluctantly Mystique agrees and tries to make the best of it, after all she can look forward to seeing her son again.
Kurt arrives at Stark Holdings and sees people dancing around a bonfire. A man walks up to Kurt and introduces himself as John Proudstar. He informs Kurt that they are in the Ghost Dance, a church, the first link of the Infernal Gallop. Kurt cringes at the notion of a church. Asking about the dancing, Kurt gets educated that the dance, which once was a dance to God to wipe out the white man, is now used for the erasure of Apocalypse. Kurt comments on of the stupidity of it all, only to find out that Proudstar knows his last name. The crowd gathers around Kurt, and Proudstar explains that they know his mother and don’t like her, and neither do they like him. Turns out, Kurt’s mother charges a hefty fee for dropping people off at Avalon. John points at Kurt while further slandering Mystique. Annoyed, Nightcrawler grabs a hold of the finger and ports off with it. He further defends his mother and calls the “Infernal Gallop” vermin. While Proudstar is holding his bleeding hand in agony, Kurt demands to get on the next transport to Antarctica unnoticed. Neither one recognizes an eavesdropping indian woman dressed in red.
The woman heads to Apocalypse’s citadel where she is stopped by one of the Madri. She creates an psionic arrow and kills the guard, then proceeds inside the citadel. Turns out the eavesdropper is Danielle Moonstar, a servant of Apocalypse. Apocalypse orders her to cease the killings, or she will be the next to die, and then listens to her report. Danielle tells Apocalypse what she has learned at the Ghost Dance. Apocalypse orders Damask, Dead Man Wade, and Moonstar, the Pale Riders, to follow Kurt.
Leaving Manhattan is a submarine labeled the “Excalibur”. Going through the poisoned Hudson for the Arctic, nearly a hundred refugees are in the bay, including Kurt. He wonders how much of the stories about his mother are true.
In Avalon, Cain introduces Switchback to his “sister”, but she tells Cain to stop calling her that. She lets Switchback know that if she refers to herself as Switchback then she is Destiny. When they touch hands, Destiny screams out in pain that all she can see is the burning and the Apocalypse of the land.


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Burn
In Destiny’s vision, is Avalon is in flames and people dying everywhere. The vision was triggered by touching the newly arrived Switchback, and once she lets op the vision stops. Destiny sinks to the ground and Cain catches her.
Over in Manhattan, the Madri are attacking the Ghost Dance. The inhabitants fight back but get overpowered. Proudstar, firing with guns in hand, tells the Madri that the Ghost Dance and the people they helped to smuggle to Avalon will never be forgotten. Before Proudstar can fully finish his sentence he is shot from behind for his actions against Apocalypse’s rule.
Meanwhile, a thousand miles southeast of New York, the Excalibur submarine is on his way to Antarctica, carrying a hundred refugees and Nightcrawler. However the refugees are choking to death after the air conditioning unit has blown up. Kurt uses a com link to speak with Newell, the captain of the sub, only to learn that the ship’s stealth arrays took a power surge. The submarine resurfaces, hoping that they are beyond american detection range, yet when they break air the crew discovers that the surge is keeping the cargo bay doors closed and the refugees are still trapped and dying. The Excalibur is forced to send out a flare for an incoming ship.
A freighter arrives and brings a torch to cut through the doors. Callisto, the freighter’s captain, makes a deal with Newell to take the refugees to Avalon as the doors finally get opened and most of the refugees are still alive, yet Nightcrawler is nowhere to be found. Turns out, Kurt selfishly ported himself out to safety, although he hated leaving the others behind, he could not gather the strength to teleport anyone else with him.
Above in the skies is the craft of the Pale Riders, hidden in the clouds. While Damask is bored waiting for the ships to move, Danielle is having fun with Dead Man Wade by playing the “disappearing graffiti trick“ with razors and Wade’s healing factor. Apocalypse sends them a message of new orders. Instead of simply following Nightcrawler to learn the location of Avalon, they are now told to kill everyone living there. Apocalypse also informs them that he sends a secondary expedition to follow them. After the transmission ends, Damask hears Wade scream. She gets annoyed that Dani is still cutting at Wade and finally having enough of it, kills her. Wade curiously asks why there is so much blood and why Dani is no longer moving.
Back at the ships, the refugees transfer over to Callisto’s ship. Newell still doesn’t like it, but he  knows he has no other choice, after all he will be lucky if they can restore partial power on the submarine and get back safely. The Excalibur leaves as the refugees are put in the ballast tanks, which Callisto claims are scan shielded. After the crew sealed the tank hatch tight and got up top, Kurt exits the shadows he was hiding in. His instinct told him that it was safer to remain hidden. Suddenly he hears screams from the tanks. Kurt hurries to open the hatch but it is already too late. The ballast tanks open directly into the atlantic and Callisto has all of the refugees into the ocean where they die of cold shock within seconds.
The crew take some time to relax and celebrate “another job well done“, they fail to notice that their ship drifts into the Atrocity Zones, an area in the Atlantic where Apocalypse’s forces dump the millions of dead bodies from the pens and the cullings. The props get clogged with bodies so the ship stops, opting not to shatter the blades on the bodies. Callisto gets angry and shoots the crewmen who was manning the helm, as they are now stuck for several hours till the tide changes. Kurt, taking advantage of this time, kills crewmember after crewmember. The only one left is Callisto. She and Kurt have a standoff as Mystique finally shows up, hanging on a ladder from her aircraft. Pointing her gun’s to Callisto’s head, she tells her to leave her son alone.


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Body Heat
The story starts off with a reunion of mother and son. Mystique goes straight into mother mode about the state of Kurt’s fur is in. Next to them are the dead bodies of all the pirate crew, including their captain, Callisto. Mystique and Nightcrawler head into her air ship. Turns out, she wasn’t even looking for Kurt but rather the pirate crew. It appears these pirates have killed the last two shipments of refugees and she was ready to give them hell for the bad business they’ve been giving her.
Hidden in the clouds is the craft of the Pale Riders. Damask is highly impressed by Kurt’s fur, the way his muscles move under it make him look like velvet. Wade, holding the dead body of Moonstar, is still in agony about the loss. He asks why Damask had to kill her. Damask tells him to shut up and that it shouldn’t take three to torch Avalon. With a smirk, she tells him that Moonstar never even liked him.
Mystique lands her ship at her Antarctic station. Kurt grumbles about the cold so his mother pipes him down saying how thankful he should be that his father carried a fur gene. Kurt starts to get into an argument about his father but Raven shuts him up. Kurt asks her why she doesn’t want to go to Avalon. She tells him she goes there all the time but Kurt snaps at her that she’s been TO its shores but not UPON its shores. She tries to change the subject but Kurt teleports in front of her and slaps her saying how everything everyone’s ever said about her seems to be true. She claims unawareness of the subject but Kurt educates her stating how she dumps the refugees just like the pirates and if she doesn’t dump them then she fleeces them. Raven tries to defend herself that she doesn’t fleece but rather charges a tariff. As Kurt tells her that a tariff doesn’t mean you take everything they own, Raven shoves him back and screams out that it’s not her fault that some do no deserve peace.
In the under passages to Avalon, Kurt and a cloaked Mystique land at the shores. Mystique loathes being there, having been talked into going. Kurt addresses that they are about to cause some major trouble. Cain, who meets them at the shores, tells them to go back if they have no hope. Kurt starts to yell at Cain, but the still cloaked Mystique tells Cain that is it imperative that she speaks with Destiny. Cain tells her that Irene has been growing frail so she can no longer meet refugees. Raven tells him to take all the crates, but forgets to notify him that they are filled with weapons, as they go on. Stopping for the night, Cain tells of his past, mentioning his stepbrother Charles. He shares that once he himself was a man of violence, using his God-given talents of strength for evil purposes. He recollects that he must have had hundreds of murders, knowing so many ways to kill people and yet none to help them.
After days of walking, a now uncloaked Mystique tells of how incredible Avalon is, almost like heaven. Kurt speaks of how glad he is to see his mother finally smile. Raven asks where Destiny can be found and Cain tells her that Irene will be in the first fields awaiting new refugees with her son. Raven gets shocked to hear about a son but Destiny shops up and says that Douglas, her adopted son, was one of her secrets that she kept from Mystique. Raven tells that she never kept any from Irene, at least non-intentionally. Irene tells Raven that it’s good to finally see her at Avalon, to share in its wonders. Raven sadly tells Irene that she’s here to take her out of Avalon. After an hour of silence, they all reach Avalon Village. Irene escorts them to a home and introduces Raven to Switchback. She tells them that the day Switchback arrives she brought with her a future of death.
Meanwhile, Dead Man Wade and Damask have made their way to Avalon’s entrance too. Damask is in shock of how beautiful Avalon is, but Wade on the other hand is disgusted by the many living things that make this place what it is. Birds, plants, Insects, everything is alive and he wants to see it all killed. However Damask is in tears, she never knew of Avalon and no one ever told her that such a place could exist.
Back in the Avalon Village, Mystique tells everyone what Magneto has told her. The X-Men discovered Bishop, a man who speaks of a timeline in which Apocalypse does not come to power. She tells them that Destiny is needed to confirm his story so that they can change time to become that better world. Destiny is afraid that her departure might cause the destruction of Avalon like in her precognitive vision. Besides she would have to consider her own position in this new world order, she might loose someone dear and points towards Doug. Mystique, pointing towards her own son, says how she understands but it’s a cause worth fighting for.
Right then an explosion catches everyone off guard. After questioning Switchback to see if she knows how to use a firearm, Mystique hands her a gun. Cain says how he cannot be harmed, especially from a hand-launched rocket attack. But he also says he will not fight. After some yelling by Kurt, Cain falls down muttering “Charles”. Turns out he had an aneurysm from the strain of contemplating to be peaceful or violent. Still firing, Wade questions why Damask isn’t using her powers. She says how wrong all of this is, how she has always wanted to do the right thing but was the product of a world gone bad. She then jumps on Wade from behind and rams her knife into his throat. His healing factor kicks in but it is not fast enough to do anything when Nightcrawler teleports off with his head ending the life of Dead Man Wade. Damask then defects to their side. Switchback asks about the caliber of the bullets in the guns, not recognizing them. Kurt then goes on to explain that they were .44 calibre but they are now customized with an “x” stamped on them as a joke. Mystique declares that they WILL get Destiny off of Avalon.


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On Fire
Mystique, Nightcrawler, Switchback, and Damask stand over the headless Dead Man Wade. Seems an outside presence is around as well, one that cannot be seen or heard. Kurt questions Damask on who or what the reinforcements of the Dark Riders will be, but before she can answer, Switchback startles Mystique by demonstrating her powers without warning. She was starting to get headache so she drove herself and her body’s chemistry a few seconds into the past to the point before she received the headache. Mystique warns her that pulling such a stunt without warning could get her killed. Then and Switchback head back to Destiny to convince her to return to America with them. Meanwhile Damask tells Kurt that she has no idea who Apocalypse will be sending as reinforcement. Damask then startles Kurt by bringing him down for a kiss, feeding her curiosity on wether his fur felt like velvet.
In the burning village, Destiny and Douglas are trying to calm injured residents. One of them cries for his shoes as his feet are so cold, but Mystique tells him that he no longer got any feet. Doug, insulted by Mystique, tells that it is hard to believe she and Destiny are friends. When Mystique calls him a human, Doug says that he is a mutant and that it is thanks to his language power that everyone in Avalon can understand each other. He also tells her that Destiny is not going with them because a crazy man called Bishop tells some crazy story of alternate world. Switchback tries to put things into perspective. That what Bishop is saying can’t be as weird as a darwinist ruling America, that a man with wings runs a bar in Manhattan, or that in the middle Antarctica is a tropical paradise where humans and mutants co-exist. She and the rest of X-Calibre, the name they thought up for their group, just want at least a chance at confirming Bishop’s words. Doug wonder at their teamname and Mystique tells him that it comes from the bullets, carved with an “x“ that they use.
Finally the reinforcements come, in the form of a five-year resident of Avalon named Wendy. Suddenly her electric bolt power goes haywire. Mystique wants to kill her but Doug says that Wendy is not herself. Using his powers, Doug can pick up on the background noise in a person’s thoughts and he hears two within Wendy. The being is then revealed to be the Shadow King, who has possessed Wendy. He came in with Dead Man Wade but after he was killed he tried to jump to Switchback, but before he could get a grip on her mind, she managed to lose him by using her powers.
Mystique, armed with a rifle, shoots right through Wendy. As she flaunts her victory, Damask comes up to tell them that the Shadow King is still at large, that killing the host bodies will not kill him. She also tells how he lives for causing pain and by now he’ll be doing that in another host body, or maybe even in multiple hosts. To prove her right, the Shadow King goes from body to body of the many settlers causing pain and death. He manipulates a human to stone his mutant friends, and causes a pyrokinetic to release his napalm and burn the minds around him. In the many other people he brings forth their worst nightmares and fears to kill them from the inside. Kurt asks Damask how the Shadow King moves from body to body, thinking it must be some form of teleportation. She tells him that Shadow King traverses into an adjacent dimension, and also mentions that Apocalypse wanted everyone to know each other’s abilities, incase someone decided to go rogue.
Behind them, Destiny was having a problem of her own. The Shadow King attacks her, in the form of her friend Marcus. He goes on to mock her and her dream, saying how worthless it is. Destiny replies that she’ll die for the dream if she has to. Switchback isn’t sure if she should shoot the possessed Marcus or not. Damask pushes her out of the way and uses her mental powers on Marcus. She’s always had a dream of using her psionic skinning on him, her former teacher. The blades jab into Marcus’ brain, paralyzing parts of his body, yet she narrowly misses the Shadow King’s mind who again escapes. Doug calls X-Calibre a group of animals and accuses them that the massacre is their mistake, as they brought the Shadow King with them. Kurt tells him to shut up, that all this was inevitable. He goes on to preach that the residents of Avalon did nothing else than to run away from the problem, and sooner or later Apocalypse would have caught up with them anyway. Possibly the dream of coexistence could have worked out better if they had not hidden themselves at the end of the world. They got cut off as the Shadow King then takes over the body of Mystique. Knowing her memories, he shape shifts into the form of Sabretooth.
Kurt comes up with a plan. When he teleports, he spends a fraction of a second in an adjacent dimension. Hoping that his is the same as the one the Shadow King travels through, he teleports Switchback, Damask and himself. Switchback shuts them back in time, extending their transition time to hold them in place for a few more seconds where they find the mind of the Shadow King. Using her powers, Damask psionic skins the mind of Amahl Farouk, reducing the intelligence of the Shadow King to shreds.
The Shadow King uses Marcus, who is lying on the ground, to fire off one last blast towards Destiny to at least spoil the plan of The X-Men. Only Doug sees it and with his head still full of Kurt’s words, he intercepts the blast and dies instead of his adoptive mother. Doug’s death finally makes Destiny agree to come back to America to see Magneto and his X-Men. Destiny swears by all things she holds holy, that they will bring down Apocalypse.


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Greenwich Mean Time (Chapter one)
Cyberno (Chapter two)
Chapter One: Greenwich Mean Time
(Caldecott County, Georgia, three weeks ago)
Anna Raven is in the local police station. The office is tiny and narrow and she finds it hard to breathe. The sheriff has switched off the fan to make it more uncomfortable, but he's the one who's sweating. He mops his brow and tells Anna he'll start again. Walking around her as she is seated, he remarks that they say she is a smart girl, so she can prove it by telling him everything. He wants to know what happened between her and Cody Robbins. The boy is in a hospital bed, in a coma, and only she knows the truth.
"The truth?" replies Anna.
(flashback)
Anna recalls that fateful day. The truth is, they only kissed their first kiss. They were in the park, and it should have been something special. Instead, she picked up his thoughts and saw his memories. It was like being him. After the kiss he collapsed. The truth is, she's the one who hurt Cody, but if she told the sheriff that he'd think she was insane. She remains silent; her arms folded in a defensive manner.
(present)
The sheriff knows he's on to a loser, so he takes Anna into the corridor where her aunt awaits her. He hands Anna over, telling her that the girl is a real southern rebel. She kept her mouth shut the whole time. Maybe she'll be more talkative with Social Services. Anna's aunt warns him not to even think about it. She doesn't want any strangers in her house. She raised her niece on her own and she's going to carry on doing so. The sheriff retorts, "Given the results, I wouldn't tell too many people if I were you." The aunt tells Anna that they're going home, but Anna pulls away, asking her Aunt not to touch her. She runs to the car and her aunt drives her home.
During the journey her aunt informs Anna that she met Cody's parents that morning. They'd like to talk to her. "To ask me what?" replies Anna. Her aunt says that what happened is terrible, but the most unbearable thing for them is not knowing why. Anna wonders what if there isn't an explanation. Why should there be a reason for everything? she snaps. She says she's been hearing the same questions for two days. People in the street look at her like she's some kind of rare animal and the sheriff treats her like a criminal.
As they pull up to the house, Anna marches towards the door and exclaims that she's had enough. Her aunt assures her that the Robbins are not the sheriff. They're not accusing her of anything and aren't expecting her to explain something that even the doctors can't explain. They only know that Cody isn't going to wake up from his coma and that she was the last person to see him. They just want to listen to her and have something more to remember. "Great," replies Anna. "I'll write them a letter." She's had enough of the people of Caldecott County. She doesn't want to see anyone anymore. She doesn't want to kiss anyone anymore. She sits on her bed, pulls on a pair of gloves and strokes a photograph of herself and Cody. She doesn't want to touch anyone anymore.
(seven days ago)
Anna's aunt retrieves a letter in the post box. It's from the Robbins, and she offers it to Anna. Anna asks her to leave it on the table. Maybe she'll read it later. For now, they have visitors. A silver car pulls up and two people step out, one male, one female. Anna's aunt tells them that if they're from Social Services, they've wasted their journey. The woman replies that Connecticut isn't exactly just around the corner. She offers her hand to Anna, but she tells the woman, Carol Higgins, not to take it personally, but she doesn't wish to shake it. Carol understands. She tells Anna that it may seem bizarre, but she is in Caldecott County to make her an offer. It's a scholarship at the school she runs. "A scholarship!" exclaims Anna. "Me?" Carol asks if she's ever heard of the Worthington Foundation. It's a special school for gifted youngsters. Anna reckons she must have come to the wrong place, because Jenny Kincaid lives on the next street and she's great on the banjo. Carol assures Anna that she's the one she was looking for.
(Greenwich, Connecticut. The Worthington Foundation. Today)
An audience of staff and students are seated in a large auditorium. Warren Worthington II is introduced to the audience and is greeted by applause. He thanks them before launching into an introduction that one of the students, Logan, has heard before. Worthington says that he hopes the foundation which is named after him will give everyone the chance to find what they are looking for. A path... an answer. Help to achieve their dreams. He tells them that they are all gifted young people. Some of them are aware of that already. Others will become so.
He adds that he always had faith in the future, and they are the future. The years they will spend in the Worthington Foundation will be intense and demanding. This will be a time of growth and discovery. They have been given an opportunity which is all he longed for when he was their age. As teachers Charles Xavier and Jean Grey look on, Worthington breaks out of character. "Thank heavens my father died. I became obscenely rich and my life got much easier." Carol Higgins lets out an audible gasp and steps in. Worthington asks what's so funny. What did he say? Carol Higgins laughs it off and tells the audience that Mr. Worthington is incorrigible. Could they give him a big hand to thank him?
(later)
Logan catches up with another student, Scott Summers, in front of the school. "You're a first year, right?" he asks. Scott asks why he wants to know. Logan places a finger to his lips and says shush. He warns Scott that next time he tries something like that again, he's gonna cut his finger right off. As he slopes off, a guy named Sebastian appears with his arm around a blonde named Emma Frost. He asks if there's a problem, and adds that if Logan tries to steal his lunch money, he can come see him. He complements Scott on his ruby glasses and walks off. Scott heads past a tree, under which Anna Raven is relaxing in the shade. "I don't know about you," she says, "But I'm missing home already." Scott turns and replies that he was in an orphanage until three hours ago. He'll be fine there.
Professor Magnus looks out of the school window at their future. He turns around to where Warren Worthington II is seated and he congratulates him on his fine speech. Without the crucial ending it would have been the usual pompous nonsense. He asks since when has he been taking these initiatives? Since when has he started using his own brain again? He turns to Mesmero who is standing close by, and wonders more importantly, since when has the great Mesmero not been doing his duty? Mesmero assures Magnus hat everything is in order now, but Magnus reminds him that it wasn't before in front of a room of two hundred people! Mesmero admits that he can't explain it. It was as if someone was talking through him. Magnus tells him that this isn't the time for a mystical crisis, but Mesmero adds that he meant it was somebody with psychic powers. Magnus immediately grabs the phone and asks his secretary to get hold of Emma Frost... now!
As the call goes out and Emma heads to the director's office, Carol Higgins meets Anna Raven in the corridor. She tells Anna that she is pleased that she decided to come to Greenwich and convinced her aunt. Anna informs her that she didn't, but that doesn't matter. She wanted to leave Caldecot and they showed up at the right time. This place or somewhere else... it wouldn't make a difference to her. Carol says it would have made a difference to the Worthington Foundation. There's something she's not quite sure about, right? She still thinks this is some kind of big mistake? Anna replies that they're looking for talented people, but she's only good at being mediocre in everything she does. She asks why she is there.
Carol tells her that each one of the kids at the school asks themselves the very same questions. The Foundation, she explains, looked at thousands of school reports. Their scouts visited schools all over the county and these are the results. They look for intelligence, empathy and determination. They're not looking for geniuses, but for valuable people. Anna thinks she is teasing her, but Carol assures her that this is no dream. If she thinks it is, then the bell will wake her up tomorrow morning for the start of classes. She asks if she's met her roommate yet.
Anna turns to the door which now has her name on it, above that of Miss Munroe. She opens the door slowly and peeks inside. She sees a striking, tall black girl with white hair checking out the letter she received from the Robbins. Anna makes a noise and the girl stuffs it back inside Anna's bag quickly. "Coming," she shouts. She opens the door and says, "Hi! Anna, right. I'm Ororo." Anna doesn't like her already. She thinks Ororo is a good name for a parrot... or a thief.
(meanwhile)
Robert Drake pulls away his bed sheet to reveal a puddle of water. Henry McCoy, sat on the adjacent bed, assures him that it's no big deal. It happened to him until he was eleven. Robert tries desperately to assure him that it's water, but Henry launches into a description of how urine is created. Hank probably knows full well that it's only water, but he certainly enjoys teasing his roommate.
They call for Scott Summers by banging on his door. Scott is struggling a little as his ruby quartz glasses have shattered and his eyes are beginning to glow. He asks them to go down and he'll be right with them. Downstairs in the cafeteria, Warren Worthington III, the foundation owner's son, approaches Logan's table and comments that he didn't sleep too well. The mattresses are just too soft for him. Logan abruptly warns him not to sit down. Just because they share the same room doesn't make them best buddies. He doesn't like daddy's boys and it's only fair that Warren should know that.
(elsewhere)
It's time for a biology lesson. Charles Xavier and Jean Grey are taking this class, and they have already discussed three of these youngsters. Robert Drake looks like he produces and controls some kind of organic ice. Henry McCoy has superior intelligence and agility, whilst Scott Summers is able to emit concussive blasts from his eyes. Jean was impressed. Logan and Warren, on the other hand, have both got something to hide.
Charles introduces himself to the assembled class along with his assistant, Dr. Jean Grey. He explains that biology is their subject, but studying life is first and foremost their mission. To understand what they are and the world around them is the only way to face the stars. He hopes that, at the end of this journey, they will know a little more about themselves. He adds that they are the result of six million years of evolution. They surely don’t want to stop now, is he right?
He hands over to Jean Grey who dishes out a little test. It's just a couple of questions for them to see their level of knowledge. They shouldn't worry if some of the questions are difficult. Bobby Drake looks at the paper and scratches his head. "Some? he remarks. He doesn't know if he's holding the page upside down! Henry replies that they’re not so difficult, and yes, he is holding the page upside down. Jean watches over them as they crack on with the test. Bobby isn't sure he got number twelve right. 'All nucleids are... sour?' Henry says the correct answer is 'All nucleids are polymers of nucleotydes' but he was close enough.
Logan leans over to Emma Frost and informs her that the guy with the glasses, Hank, knows all the answers. Why doesn't she just take a look around his head and then pass the answers his way? She tells him not now. She can feel something else. It's a terrible feeling. There's somebody who doesn't feel well nearby. Behind her, Scott Summers is visibly sweating and shaking a little. Jean asks if everything's all right. His answer sheet is blank and he's sweating. Scott, now wearing a new pair of glasses, replies that he just has a really bad headache. He groans, removes his glasses and clenches is eyes tight shut. He can't stand it any longer and he jumps to his feet, heading for the door. "No! No!" he cries. "Not now! Not here!" He dashes for the boiler room, and his antics are picked up by Charles Xavier seated elsewhere.
Scott reaches the boiler room and stands still. "My eyes are burning," he exclaims. He then opens them and smashes the floor with an optic blast. Scott then looks up and his blasts demolish some of the boiler's pipework. Charles calls for everyone to get out of there and, moments later, the boiler explodes, taking a large chunk of wall with it. The students inside panic and make for the exits. Jean Grey becomes trapped between falling masonry and a fire takes hold. She calls for help from Anna Raven, but knowing how her power works, Anna freezes, unable to assist. Fortunately, Logan appears and grabs Jean. As they leave, Jean remembers Professor Xavier. Right on cue, Hank McCoy leaps into action, literally. He lands besides Charles and pulls him to safety.
Soon, fire crews are on the scene and the place has been evacuated. Many are in shock at what happened. When a firefighter leads Scott Summers from the building, Sebastian offers a smirk. "You're in trouble, Summers."
Chapter Two: Cyberno
Anna Raven reckons that she'll be telling this story with a sigh, somewhere ages and ages hence.
(Worthington Foundation, yesterday)
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less travelled by. And that has made all the difference."
Miss Brooks is taking English class, reading from Robert Frost's 'The Road Not Taken.' Sebastian leans over and asks Emma if he's a relative of hers. She thinks not. They don't have poets in her family. Miss Brooks concludes the lesson and gives them some homework. She warns them to work extra hard this time. Mr. McCoy won't be so kind as to let them copy. Hank grins. "It's just the free circulation of knowledge, Miss Brooks." She asks Anna if she and Emma want to study together. Anna knows that a simple no would have been enough, and she could have gone without the others. But, there's something about Emma Frost that she likes: her confidence, her unique way of always being the center of attention.
Emma asks if they can meet at her room at four. Anna likes Emma because basically, she wants to be like her. Later that day, she gets into a car with Emma and Sebastian to go for a drive. Anna wants confirmation that they're not going to be back late. She hasn't done her homework yet. Emma asks her to relax. There's always time for that. Sebastian agrees. They should try have some fun.
They pull up outside a shopping mall, and Anna isn't overly impressed. Sebasian asks her not to judge by appearances. He promised her a 'special' evening and that's exactly what she's going to get. She should forget about those first year losers. They're completely different.
(flashback)
At the school, Bobby Drake is organizing a basketball game for that afternoon. He asks Logan if he can count on him for that. Logan replies that it depends who's involved. Drake says it's only him for now, so Logan says okay. He'll be on the other team and he wants McCoy with him. A guy who can jump like that should be on his side. Hank agrees, but in exchange he wants them all in the movie theater afterwards. After dinner there's going to be a screening of some classics from his private collection. "Strong stuff?" asks Ororo, cheekily. "Is a Molly Ringwald marathon strong enough for you?" asks Hank. Ororo says she'll pass, and Logan does likewise. Hank asks them not to be like that. It's time for a reappraisal of Pretty In Pink. And besides, he adds, she's good. It's not her fault if the eighties were depressing.
Bobby smiles and tells Anna that she can't say no. Logan reckons she's asking too much from Anna. She didn't lift a finger to save Dr. Grey during the fire. Why should she get her gloves dirty in a basketball game? Anna tells him to give her a break. He's not funny. Ororo backs her up. She might have done the same were she in her shoes. It's normal to be scared. Anna replies that she wasn't scared, but Ororo insists she was just trying to help. Anna says she can look after herself. She doesn't need her help! "I don't need any of you losers."
Hank takes offence at her remark and Bobby reckons it's a nasty word. He reckons he should organize a nice Steve Guttenberg evening and not invite her. That'll teach her.
Anna heads outside and slumps against a tree. "Losers," she repeats again. What do they know about her? What do they know about her hands? Watching from an upstairs window is Emma Frost who is in Magnus' office along with Sebastian. She reckons that in a herd, the animal that strays away is always the most vulnerable. Magnus provides a second option. Maybe they're the strongest. They should never underestimate Anna Raven. She's confused and isolated, he explains, but she isn't helpless. They should treat her as a friend and welcome her to their little exclusive circle. That way, they'll show her which side the winners are on and which side is for all the others.
Emma promises that they won't let him down. She can be very persuasive when she wants. She and Sebastian head for the door, but Magnus asks them to wait a moment. He has a task for the. "Cyberno talked to me."
(yesterday, the mall)
Emma heads back into the faculty, and when Anna tries to attract her attention, she finds Emma distracted. Anna says they've been wandering around for an hour. Can't they go inside or maybe back to the campus? She's starting to get bored. Emma turns to Sebastian and informs him that the target is upstairs. He's sitting on a bench alone. Anna asks what's going on. Sebastian starts running. "Did you say you wanted some action, Anna?" he asks. Emma asks her not to be scared. It's time to make some new friends. "Let the party begin!"
(flashback)
Emma is listening to the Lovin' Spoonful's Summer in the City as Anna arrives. Emma asks her to step inside her room and wonders what she's doing there. Anna reminds her that she's there for the literature homework. Emma reprimands herself. Of course. She asks Anna to put her books down and make herself at home. Anna looks around, gobsmacked that Emma has all this place to herself. Emma opens her arms wide and introduces Anna to her little kingdom. She and her gang call it the Hellfire Club. Every so often they throw a party that's a bit wild. Her door is always open for her friends.
A blond-haired guy appears at the door. He asks why she doesn't close it once in a while. He's trying to study and her granddad’s records aren't helping at all. She offers Donnie Pierce a word to the wise. He should show a bit of respect when he's talking about the Lovin' Spoonful. She won't warn him twice. She introduces him to Anna, explaining that Donald is a second year student who flirts with every girl around. Donald tells Anna that she adores this girl and Emma's friends are his friends. Emma shoves him out the door. "What a character," remarks Anna. Emma says he's a nuisance but she can put up with him. Her classmates must be far worse judging by how far she stays away from them. She's seen Anna in class and out. She keeps them at a safe distance.
Anna admits that a couple of them she really hates. Logan is a savage and her roommate's a thief. Apart from that, Drake's an idiot, McCoy is unintelligible, Worthington you can see right through and Summers doesn't say much. Actually, she decides, he's not too bad after all. "Poor Anna," replies Emma. "You deserve better. She informs Anna that she and Sebastian are going downtown later on. If she doesn't have anything else to do she could go with them. "Are you serious?" asks Anna.
(yesterday, the mall)
The three mutants find their target sitting on the bench wearing a hoodie, and Sebastian places his hand on the guy's shoulder. "Hey..." he says, "Can we have a quick word?" The guy makes a run for it, teleporting once he's out of sight. Sebastian follows but finds that he's disappeared. How the hell did he do that? Emma explains that he can teleport. Cyberno never makes mistakes. She concentrates, still sensing that he's not far away. He's going towards the parking lot. Sebastian sets of running again, whilst Emma asks Anna to save her questions for later. She needs to keep her eyes open.
Sebastian dashes through a door and crashes into another guy on the other side. Sebastian warns him to move it. The jock clenches his fist, ready to fight, and Sebastian relishes the challenge. Emma warns him not to, but Sebastian assures her that he won’t be long. One punch is all it takes and the jock is down. Anna follows Emma, asking her what they're doing. Emma explains that the guy who escaped needs their help. Their task is to find him and bring him to the school. He's like herself and Anna. He's a superhuman!
"No!" exclaims Anna.
Meanwhile, the target teleports away from the mall and then once again. Emma does a quick scan of Anna's mind and tells Anna that her Aunt Carrie isn't there. It's sweet of her to think about her, but nobody can help her now. She should forget about normal people. She is superior! Sebastian spots the target and he can see that he's getting tired. The teleporter comes to an unceremonious halt on a road barrier and Emma explains that he becomes tired when he teleports. He's worn down but he won't surrender. Sebastian asks what they're waiting for. They should go get him. The stranger gets a second wind and starts running. Anna doesn't seem too keen on this whole plan, and Emma tells her that it's a long way back to campus. Is she coming with them? Anna decides to get in the car and Sebastian drives off in pursuit. She asks Sebastian what the plan is. Sebastian says that the guy made them run a lot. Now it's his turn for a bit of exercise.
The car races after the runner, and Emma wonders if they're going a bit fast. She reminds Sebastian that they're not supposed to hurt him. Sebastian replies that he just wants to scare him a bit. Anna can't believe this. She grabs the steering wheel and yanks it to the left. Unfortunately, the car veers straight towards their intended target and both Emma and Sebastian wince as they're about to collide with him. Luckily, the guy has just enough energy for one last teleport, possibly brought on by adrenaline, and he disappears as the car slides down an embankment and into a tree. He takes this opportunity to make a run for it. Soon after, Anna recovers and looks out the window to see a figure looming above the car. Emma tells Sebastian to wake up. Magnus is there.
Magnus begins to dismantle the front of the car using his magnetic powers. He asks them not to be afraid. He's not there to tell her of her failings... but to say hello to a new student. "P-professor?" exclaims Anna. "Anna Raven, right?" replies Magnus. He informs Anna that she can absorb other people's memories and abilities simply through contact. He finds that remarkable. It's people like her, he beams, that will make them great! Anna nervously asks what they want. Who are they really? Magnus explains that he's a man with a dream. The Worthington Foundation gathers together many promising young people. And then there is herself. He's been looking for some of the most powerful mutants to create a small community... a brotherhood of people sharing the same vision. Anna asks what on Earth he's talking about.
Magnus replies, "Ruling the world. What else?" He teaches history, and he knows very well that in the course of time, there has always been just a handful of people dominating the masses... even when the masses thought otherwise. It will always be this way in the future, too. The Foundation will create a superhuman elite, and she will play a great role in his project. Democracy, he concludes, is a misunderstanding, but it's not up to them to make people see that. Anna is confused after everything she's seen.
Magnus uses his power to rebuild the car's engine followed by each of the body panels. He asks her to forget about it. She's had a revelation tonight. She's discovered her mutant powers and been reborn. Together they will grow. Using their mutant powers to the utmost, they will easily reach positions of economic and political power. Some people spend their whole lives at war to obtain the very same result. They will rule tomorrow's world thanks to a silent revolution which nobody will be able to stop. They are the dominant species. Speech over, Magnus looks over to Anna. Does she want to join them?
Anna replies that with all due respect, he can forget about it. Magnus tells her that from all the possible answers, she picked the wrong one. She should think about what she's doing. As he takes to the air, he adds that in the human world she will always be an outcast... a freak, but in his world, it will be her making the rules. He flies away over the forest, and Emma tells Anna that she can walk back. She and Sebastian drive off, leaving Anna to ponder what on Earth just happened. Watching her from a branch high up in a nearby tree, the teleporting stranger remains silent.
Anna finally returns to the campus, alone. She'd really like to talk to somebody right now, but her friends will be asleep at this hour. Inside, though, this isn't quite the case. Logan is taping up wounds on his knuckles. Warren Worthington is discovering something strange his room. Bobby Drake and Henry McCoy are amusing themselves with a hologram of a bikini beauty and Scott Summers sits nearby looking deeply unhappy. Anna returns to her room and gets ready for bed, as Ororo lies there, pretending to be asleep. 'My friends...' thinks Anna. 'I must really be in trouble to call them that.
(next morning)
Scott Summers heads to Carol Higgins' office, and informs her that he wishes to leave the foundation for personal reasons. Carol replies that she respects his reasons, but she would like Scott to reflect a bit more. He won't be given this opportunity again. He may join another school but it won't be like the Worthington Foundation. She asks him what happened. The boiler room incident? he asks. He admits that it was him. Carol tells him that it was a gas leak. If he has another explanation then she is all ears. Scott pauses a moment. "I'll think about it, Missus Higgins."
He leaves her office and finds Anna sat on a chair outside. They exchange hi's before Anna enters the office. Carol asks what brings her to her room. Anna says she has a story to tell, and she only asks that Carol believes her.
(elsewhere)
Magnus is in a large room with Mesmero. He is wearing a helmet but keeps his glasses on. He tells Mesmero that it may take a day, a week or a month, but it's only a matter of time. The girl will fall. If she were who they think she is she would have left, but instead, she decided to stay. Cyberno has spoken. He asks Mesmero to keep an eye on Anna. He can leave it to his boys with the usual recommendations. Mesmero says Toad, Blob and Pyro will love it.
Over the course of the next few days, Anna is watched over by the three mutants. Toad poses as a gardener, Blob as a food counter operative and Pyro as an on-campus caretaker.
Magnus, in his office, explains to Mesmero that Anna told Principal Higgins everything. She let the cat out of the bag about Magnus and her project. She wanted an ally in her lonely battle, but ended up even more alone, losing her faith in the only person she trusted. After all, he adds, holding the Cyberno helmet in his hands, who in their right mind would believe in such an absurd story. Carol, stood listening, tells Magnus that she's sorry but she had to let Anna down. Magnus asks if she's getting attached to the girl. She did what she had to do. If it makes her feel better, she should consider it a necessary evil. When Anna is with them, he's sure she'll understand, and each one of them will finally be free to be themselves. Carol Higgins transforms into her normal appearance; the mutant shapeshifter, Mystique.
Outside, Anna Raven is slumped under a tree reading a book. Hank McCoy approaches her and tells her it seems like he needs to congratulate her. She asks what for. Hank tells her that her literature essay got a better grade than his. It was a really deep analysis. "And to think," Anna replies, "I had to write it last night." Hank walks with her and says he'd like to talk about it with her, if it's okay with her. Anna thinks not, but she'd like to watch one of his movies. He suggests Wargames. It's part of a tribute to Ally Sheedy... a 1983 classic.
Watching from a distance are Charles Xavier and Jean Grey. "Okay Jean," says Charles, telepathically, "Now It's our turn."