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Storm Warning
Then, Amenth, the Ivory Spire:Sitting on his throne, the White Sword announces that Genesis is coming. And not as she has come before. In times past, she came in the name of Arakko that held their rear and fought the leavings of the White Sword and his Hundred. He recalls how, centuries late, Genesis arrived with her armies, resplendent in their arrogance, and his Hundred showed their guests their most gracious hospitality – handing out steaming cups of their own traitorous blood. When she came again, in thrall to the Dmon Helm, backed by the daemon forces, the result was the same.But the helm is now the staff, and the staff is not the helm. Saturnyne plays her games on many levels - and petty vengeance is one of them. Any gift she gives has a curse upon it. And in Genesis’s hands, the curse has come for them.The young-looking man with horns he is addressing protests that it still seems impossible. Possession is one thing, but to think that one born of Okkara would ally with Annih…The White Sword cuts him off and orders him not to say the name. The staff is not the helm, he repeats. Its power is insidious and its reach is long. To speak its name when it is close to them could give it claim on their souls. Not on his soul, the other man laughs. Even his, the White Sword corrects him with a smile and calls him “old friend.” Even though it has been pledged to the White Sword for millennia. Though he was first to fall and rise, Jon Ironfire.Jon Ironfire simply replies, his life came from the White Sword. His life is for him. Say the word and he will spend it again, cleaving that stick of gold in two.He has died for him too often, the White Sword replies. He asks more of him now. He asks Jon to survive. He gives Jon the sword Purity and orders him to bring word to Arakko: tell them all, especially the Seat of Loss…Jon refuses to leave him. The White Sword touches him. As his eyes glow, he releases Jon from his obligations. For Jon, it’s like waking from a dream. He no longer calls the White Sword “general.” Addressing him as “Blue,” he tells him he got old. The White Sword touches his shoulder and Jon lays his arm on his friend’s. The White Sword tells him, now he will get to see what it is like. He has kept Jon alive as long as he could, but now the bond is broken, he cannot heal him anymore if Jon dies again.They are interrupted by another of the Hundred, who announces that Genesis is not coming - she is here (as well as a giant army)!Outside on the fortress’ battlements, several of the White Sword’s Hundred look down on the army. One of them, Anika wonders why they snuck up on them. Why this change in tactics after centuries? A man with an energy bow replies that they used to be the obstacle. Now they are the prize. He loosens his energy arrows at the enemies, felling a Summoner atop a tentacled monstrosity.The Apocalyptic Horseman War is displeased at the death of the Summoner. She asks her three siblings, who shall answer. Death, returned from Sevalith but now a vampire, mutters the hunger is upon him. His sister Pestilence promises him he will have a hundred feasts, each one ever-replenishing, once Mother’s work is done. Famine is impatient about that. The Spire is impregnable, and he is not willing to wait.Pestilence speeds matters along by loosening one of her sickness-causing arrows in response to the attack.Tarius is hit in the chest and a black infection immediately spreads. He touches Anika and the plague infects her. Another soldier shouts to get the general. The two-headed Rukos forbids it. He has to stay inside, protected by the Spire. If the enemy reaches him, all is lost!Not all, the White Sword corrects him as he steps out. Honor is not lost. As it would be if he let his troops suffer agonies for his own comfort. He tells Rukos he has served him well, and so he won’t strike his head off for showing fear. With his touch, he heals Tarius.A voice demands where his sword is. It is Genesis, riding a dragon. With a grin, he shoots back, asking where her husband is.Anika calls her “traitor queen” and fires an energy spike at them. Unimpressed, War returns the attack with actual fire.Genesis repeats her question. Where is the sword Purity that cleaves through everything? If he has it, hold it high. Even with all the power at her command, he’d still have a chance. A chance for what – to hold her at bay? he asks. To hide in the Spire, forcing her to come to them like a coward? She should know by now he’d never stoop to her tactics.Eyes aglow, she notes his insult. But if insults are all he has, the time has come for him to acknowledge her rule. She holds up the Annihilation Staff. Arakko calls for him and she will not take ‘no’ for an answer, Genesis warns.The Staff whispers and eventually the White Sword and his Hundred bow to their queen. All save the one he loved best, Jon Ironfire, whom he had sent away with the sword Purity.Arakko, The Red Lagoon, current HQ of the Brotherhood of Arakko:Ironfire narrates how he made his way to Dryador, to Blightspoke and how he used Purity to cut a way to here, to them.The Fisher King announces that Roberto was right to bring this to the Night Seats. But this is bigger, he suggests to Storm. This is a matter for the Great Ring. She agrees, they must convene and discuss the response…Ironfire interrupts angrily, wanting more than a discussion. There is only one response: Gather the troops! Khora carefully agrees. If they face Annihilation, time is of the essence.No thrones on Arakko, Fisher King reminds her. No generals either. They are a planet of survivors, trying to heal, not a hundred soldiers fighting under one iron fist…What does he know of the Hundred or of healing? Ironfire bristles. He fell dead in their greatest healer’s arms, and he was healed and healed and healed, and woke, still young, in a fight eons old – to watch it lost. To watch him lost! Where was he? he demands of the Fisher King. Not there, Fisher King agrees. But somewhere. And maybe he will teach Ironfire how he fought. If he wants to test his fancy weapons against his bare hands…Storm interrupts angrily, her powers shattering the window. They all have pains, she reminds Ironfire. They all have the right to speak it aloud and have it heard. But it demeans that pain to reduce it to a contest. She chides the Fisher King, having expected better of him. Fisher admits Ironfire reminds him of himself. Makes it hard to keep his temper watching him ready to make his old mistakes…Ironfire apologizes. He admits that warriors at rest have still known war. Everyone in this room has been steeped in despair and death…Well, personally he wouldn’t say “steeped,” Nova protests weakly. Roberto whispers he is a little steeped. Richard has at least been dunked once or twice. Kind of a death donut. A what? Nova asks.Ironfire continues that there is no time. Genesis has the Annihilation Staff in her hands and darkness in her heart, and she is coming! When she arrives, it will already be too late!On Arakko Prime, a gate grows and as Genesis steps through. A voice announces that there was no Krakoan gate planted here, no life in the soil at all. The entrails said Genesis would arrive at this place and time but wasn’t specifying this method. An evolution of mutant technology, Genesis explains, the secrets of the Okkara Gate are hers to keep. But, it is as the other woman said, now and when they last met. The living island Arakko is a blasted plain, barely alive and marked with the bones of their dead, because Genesis was not here to prevent it!The other woman asks if she is disappointed. Genesis replies that she is glad. It would be terrible indeed if she had done what she had done on the strength of a lie… and more terrible for the other woman.Marianne Stern smiles. She’d still get what they both want: war. She thinks she wants a war with Arakko? Genesis smiles, telling her this is almost precious. She has lit a flame that may consume this world. Does Coven Akkaba believe that fire won’t spread?The magical projection of Marianne Stern bows respectfully and assures Genensis that in this Coven Akkaba speaks for Orchis. And they are counting on it…


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The Annihilation of Arakko
Arakko:The Great Circle has been joined by several new members. Among them is Lycaeon, a two headed man-wolf both of whose heads have a different personality which – in their own opinion at least – makes them wise and the perfect holder of the Seat of Stalemate. His statement is greeted by a thrown knife, courtesy of Lodus Logos, which hits one of Lycaeon’s heads in the brow. Lodus Logos suggests he acquire the wisdom to duck. Lycaeon‘s left head calls this an indignity. He draws the knife and already heals, comparing this to true wisdom always winning over those who would silence…Storm asks him to be silent and adds he is not the first newcomer Lodus Logos has tested, and they have more pressing business than his grand entrance. Indignity upon indignity! the wolf-man protests and demands decorum.Kobak Never-Held, new to the Seat of Victory, agrees with Storm. They are still missing their Seat of Dreams, but they have a quorum and should proceed. Jon Ironfire, first of the White Sword’s Hundred, has the floor. The Ninety-nine now, Ironfire corrects Kobak. He is not of the Hundred anymore. Blue cut him loose from his healing, from his army, and now he walks alone.He shows them the white sword Putity which he gave Ironfire, for if their enemy got ahold of it, that would mean the end.Which enemy? Kobak demands. Have the demonic forces of Amenth risen again? Worse, Ironfire informs them. The forces of Annihilation. But the helm was destroyed! Sobunar of the Depths protests. The helm is not the staff, Ironfire replies. The power is more subtle… but perhaps more potent. Particularly clutched in the cold hand of…Lycaeon interrupts him and tells them to look. A lone figure in the distance is walking toward them.Storm, Ora Serrata, Lactuca and Lodus Logos immediately realize who it is, and so soon do the others, as the lone woman demands Ironfire finish his sentence and say her name. In the hand of who? In the hand of Genesis! he replies, looking her in the face.The council members have different thoughts:Kobak is immediately aware that Genesis will want his seat which used to be hers and accepts the danger. He is not afraid of a life that ends.Lycaeon Two Wolves bows his head in reverence, admiring her as both a tactical leader and a living goddess.Storm senses the anger coming from the Annihilation staff and its subtle influence.Lodus Logos is aware that Genesis has little love for poets and even less so for those who change things.Sobunar is already being influenced by Annihilation.Ora Serrata is mostly interested in keeping her life and position. What is left of Xilo realizes how little he remembers about her and is aware he needs someone to fuse with.And is this her welcome? Genesis demands. A desert of bones where proud mutants once lived? A Great Ring so lessened? A history so diminished? A feckless poet in the seat that guides the turn of the world? If she was weak enough for tears, she would shed them now, at how far Arakko has fallen.Arakko has fallen, Annihilation whispers. Did someone speak? Ora Serrata asks nervously. She heard nothing, Genesis replies, but then hearing isn’t Ora’s strong point. She who oversaw the law in Genesis’s land. Who was her iron gaze. Why does she allow the lies of a madman in this place? It offends her!Madman, Annihilation whispers and Ora Serrata stammers that Ironfire seemed coherent. Did he not come here from the White Sword’s own spire? Genesis asks. Death is their daily sacrament, rebirth their nightly religion. These are not sane people. Of course they’d try to stir up a civil war between them. Even such a lessened Great Ring, as this one can surely see that the boy is mad! she argues. See it, the staff whispers. In his delirium, this refugee from the Hundred’s asylum even considers the nobility of Arakko as equal to daemons…The daemons turned up to fight! Ironfire shouts. She never showed up. She’s lower.He cannot say such things to her! Ora Serrata protests weakly. He can say what he pleases! Ironfire shouts and unexpectedly asks if they know why the Hundred live in the Ivory Spire. They didn’t spin that ivory from the air. They weren’t fancy mutants with fancy gifts. Be silent! Lycaeon orders. They built it from their bones! Ironfire shouts. As they died and they died and they died! For a hundred years! A thousand years! Waiting and waiting! They were the frontline. They were the first wave, and Genesis’s people were meant to be the second! Their reinforcements. Yes, they died every day, because she left them to die! He was there! he tells her as he points Purity accusingly at her. Where was she?She’s sorry, she replies in feigned disbelief. Reinforcements? Did they hear this grubby little nobody whom they’ve allowed to address them? Do they hear him beg for help? Beg. For help. Annihilation whispers.Ironfire is silenced and tied up, by the vines she controls. She wants to hear the excuses the others have.Sobunar stammers the word “help” is not the shame it once was.Shame, Annihilation whispers and Sobunar looks down, realizing they have fallen. Yes, they have, Genesis agrees mercilessly. It is such a simple concept: The strong survive, the weak do not, for if they did, they would be strong. Thus, life is a test. How can you pass that test, if another takes it for you? Their mutant weapons define them, the powers define their place in a glorious hierarchy. They may rise or fall as individuals, but the hierarchy is eternal. So how can they truly win if none lose? How are they truly thriving if there are none beneath them? How can they conquer if…Eyes ablaze with lightning, Storm stands and demand if that is who they truly are… is that what they fought for, stood against Annihilation for? To hold that same power in their own hands. Is that all they can be?While in the background, Ironfire tries and fails to cut himself loose from Genesis’s vines, she informs Storm she is bringing her emotions to a place of hard cold facts. The strong are strong and the weak are weak! That is simply nature. But, with proper encouragement, the weak can be made stronger. This time of “peace” was a time of opportunity, a time to fortify themselves – to fortify the Earth. To teach that world which they coddled with their sacrifice to stand on their own feet. Instead, under Storm’s influence, Arakko fled… to grow fat and complacent in a place of luxuries. And paid a dear price. For the Seat of Loss Storm asks many questions. But she has only one for her: Who is the “we” she is talking about? While true Arakki fought and died against the daemons of Amenth and the Eternals of Earth, where was she?Sobunar again weakly protests, recalling the words of the unarmed king: if she wasn’t there, she was… Nowhere, Annihilation whispers. Coward. All of them soft cowards! Soubnar groans.Lycaeon’s one head eagerly supports Genesis’s ideas. The other head adds that in the spirit of compromise he would go further still… Kobak Never-Held cuts him off. He will not hear this slander. He faced Ororo in the Circle Perilous and she prevailed. She was instrumental in caging Uranos…Not killing him, Genesis states. And what is this “instrumental?” If Ororo truly was to be respected, she would have finished him alone. Instead, Genesis hears, she leaned on humans and dying old men. So she will not take a personal endorsement of Storm’s brave character from one who wept like a child over a single death.Enough! Storm shouts and fires a lightning bolt but, thanks to Annihilation’s influence, misses. Enough indeed, Genesis agrees. A crying child sits in her seat. This is an insult against her person she will not tolerate. Does Kobak accept her challenge? Angrily, he jumps up, as he agrees, here and now! Let those present be their witnesses. And let none interfere! The staff tells him he will lose and die, while Genesis promises to make it quick at least. She doesn’t want her chair to get cold.Ironfire orders Kobak to stand down. He claims prior challenge by about a thousand years! He finally frees himself and charges at Genesis, the sword Purity drawn. But the staff orders him to miss and he does. Genesis mocks he missed his chance and adds, poor Blue chose the wrong warrior. She grabs the sword Purity and chooses it as her weapon. Any last words? she asks Kobak. Storm shouts, she will not allow this.Genesis is right, the staff whispers. Finally swayed, Sobunar challenges Storm, as he attacks with his control over water. Rising into the sky, Storm asks if he truly wants the strong to rule. A world without pity and mercy? She warns him she will show him this world!Lodus Logos turns to Lactuca and pleads, she knows this is wrong. She seems to be on neither side, though. What is it to her? she asks. Lodus Logos explains that Genesis wishes to shape Arakko’s soul. She has lost that right. She wore the helm. She failed Arakko! Now she wants to own them and calls that a challenge to all. Let them answer it, not by her rules but their own terms. The stars move still, Lactuca replies, what is a world to her?Nevertheless, she notices the whispers of the staff tipping the scales, so she intends to tip them back. To be strong is to survive, Genesis says? Rebels of Arakko, survive! she orders and teleports away Lodus Logos, Storm, Kobak, Xilo and Jon Ironfire.Genesis seethes. Ora Serrata carefully muses that you cannot call it running away, but one could argue that Lactuca committed a challenge to Genesis. She could, Lactuca agrees. If Genesis wants Lactuca to challenge her.They ran, Annihilation whispers and that is what Genesis chooses to believe. They have all lived at the whims of the weak long enough but those days are done! Rightful rule has returned and, when the true rulers of Arakko march to war, it will be under her banner!


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To War We March
The Great Circle of Arakko:Those members who remained and Genesis. The first act was one of creation:Genesis reaches out with her mind and her mutant weapon, coaxing the heart of Arakko prime. Plants grow in the desert and the living island turns alive again. The Mother of Arakko is once more in the Seat of Victory, consulted first and last on all matters, for the victories would surely never end, and the staff in her hand whispers that it is goodAt Genesis’ side, but not on it, Lactuca watches. By removing the rebels to their own corner – giving them a fair chance – she has countered the Annihilation Staff.Craig Marshall can feel the wind change. In the commune, half his neighbors are talking loudly about the past glories of Arakko – the other half is tense and watchful. He catches words like “weaponless” and “human” aimed at his back. Peter Corbeau messaged him days earlier, offering a post at Port Prometheus. Taking his adopted kids, he figures it is time to reply.The Fisher King notices something wrong with today’s catch. It is one of Sobunar’s, but the fish is sluggish and confused, all but hurling itself upon the spear. The Fisher King fears the worst.In the Morrowlands, the artists find themselves influenced by Annihilation. On Okkara swords were a form of art and the artists are fashioning them again.In Port Prometheus, there are rumors about a shift in power on Earth. Something affecting the mutants. At the local bazaars, the blaster sales are through the roofs and the various alien dignitaries eye each other cautiously. Tensions are high. They are higher in the Red Lagoon, where the fugitives Storm, Kobak Never-Held, Xilo, Lodus Logos and Jon Ironfire are in the backroom.Kobak angrily berates Lodus Logos for asking Lactuca to teleport them away. Lodus Logos agrees he did that and reminds Kobak that they would have fallen under Annihilation’s sway or died where they stood. Kobak reminds him he was challenged for his seat. When did any on the Great Ring ever not defend their seat? He accuses Lodus Logos of bringing shame to him.Storm tries to intervene. Kobak replies it is taking all his control not to destroy everything in the room. He demands Lodus Logos tell him why he shamed him like that. Why does he hate him so? Because he didn’t want him to die! Lodus Logos shouts. He looks away and admits he cares about Kobak. He didn’t want him to die that way. Taken aback, Kobak points out stupidly that Lodus Logos didn’t talk in a haiku. Smiling slightly and back to poetic form, Lodus Logos admits he has found a truth he cannot cage. He wronged him. Kobak replies that he meant well. If he dies, let it not be to build a throne on Arakko. He’ll find a better reason than that.The warm moment is interrupted by the words “Sam’s dead.” Roberto enters. swaying and bleeding from the nose. Frenzy too, he continues. Dazzler, Prodigy, Jubilee… all the newly announced X-Men are dead. Everyone at the Hellfire Gal is dead. Jean Grey is dead. The Treehouse is burning, so Scott is dead. He thinks Captain America might be dead. A lot of people are dead.Storm stammers: the Five - are they--? Roberto isn’t sure. He thinks so. Resurrection is off the table for now.He plugs his bleeding nose, explaining he wasn’t at the Gala, just keeping an eye. Waiting to make a late entrance. Business on Earth, very secret. Don’t ask…Ironfire observes he sounds concussed or drunk. Roberto sits down and explains, telepathic hangover. The Professor giving orders in his head… evacuation orders. Roberto used the Red Triangle Protocol to resist but the order was strong. Keeps thinking about gates… go through the gates…Storm hands him a glass of water and asks why Charles would… Doesn’t matter, Roberto cuts her off. Gates are locked now. He got up here with Cable’s tech. But then that stopped working, so he’s probably dead, too. And they don’t know where the mutants who went through the gates are. So they are all dead. He leans back exhausted muttering, and Sam’s dead…Who is responsible? Storm demands. Some other dead people. named Orchis, he seethes.Storm turns away thinking this happened on Earth and at the same time the Great Ring split.Roberto correctly figures that Genesis appeared at the meeting and it all went to hell. He was hearing scuttlebutt about “political upheaval on Mars.” Storm figures Orchis orchestrated this. They are using Genesis. She would never work with them.Xilo asks what does it change if she made such an alliance. Sobunar is with her and the people will listen to him. To oppose her will mean civil war. What will they do? They go to war, Storm replies.Seventy days later into the war, a battle rages at a site displaying giant monuments of Genesis and Apocalypse. Nova orders his troops to hold the line. Ground weapons to the front, range weapons to the rear! he bellows. He orders the air corps with him and warns, if they lose the air, they lose everything. For Arakko! He is joined by Sunspot who teases, asking if battle cries aren’t his mutant power. And what if you are a flier, a puncher, a blaster and a planner? Nova tells him to pick his poison – anywhere he is needed. He describes the corridor between the giant statues of Apocalypse and Genesis as the choke point of the western front, between the Vile Lands and Tharsis Mounts – the no-go-zones. If the Genesis Horde gets through here, they’ve got a land route straight into the Morrowlands. And they’ve been planning this assault for a month or more.They notice a light in the sky to their right coming closer. It is Orrdon, the Omega rocket. Genesis’ new Seat of Loss. Sunspot figures he hasn’t impressed her yet. Nova warns Sunspot of his capacities and gets ready to fight. Sunspot holds him off and reminds him, it is not all up to him. Orrdon is coming from the wrong direction. He is flying over Isca’s territory.Which proves to be a mistake. Fully invulnerable or not, Orrdon loses to the arrow Isca fires. Calmly, she announces that they all know the rules. The mountains are hers.However, Genesis has sent every who joined her side against them. Nova summarizes that they can’t get past Kobak’s troops on the ground, but they will have air sovereignty if they beat the two of them. It’s all up to…From higher up and in a red cape, Storm interrupts that Genesis challenged them all and nobody here fights alone.Storm uses her power. She could have killed the armies of Genesis. Instead, she only blocks their way by toppling the two giant statues. She knows Genesis will scoff and call it weakness, but mercy is what they are fighting for.Genesis’ airforce withdraws but, as Kobak bitterly states, they only won the day and it cost them another piece of their history. What history? Ironfire demands. All he sees are monuments to their sworn enemies. Let the wreckage lie in the dirt! It will make a fitting tombstone for two traitors!Later at the Red Lagoon:Storm wonders aloud to Ironfire whether the plural is correct here. They have seen no sign of En Sabah Nur, and he is not the type to be kept in reserve. He may have been the first to fall. Ironfire interrupts. The mage - referring to A - is not the true threat. They haven’t seen his children either or Blue (referring to the White Sword) or the Hundred. When they arrive is when the war starts, he predicts grimly.Storm is calmer. She has danced with death before, but she is sure the next strike will be here at Port Prometheus. That would cut off their supply lines and contact with their allies. She observes that so far Genesis has avoided attacks on sea. Her hold on Sobunar may be weaker than they think. But with her ground attacks consistently being beaten, it’s her only option. She will send everything she has, Storm predicts.So be it, comes a voice from the doorway. If Genesis’ forces try to take them here, they will finish them. Arakkii have a history with siege warfare. Read their history. It is in their blood!It is the Fisher King now in a symbiosis with Xilo, half his body covered with Xilo’s worms.


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Nothing and Nobody
The Fisher King’s memory:He was born in a prison. He has never left, nor can he leave. Now, at the age of six, he finds himself in the depths of the Tower of Broken Thought. Chained to the wall is an emaciated nightmarish creature whose head consists of several giant brains with mouths. The being warns the young boy carrying food not to come closer. He killed the last food bearer. His thoughts buzzed. They stung! Blind and chained, he is still Azatoth, the dark one, the mind-ripper! His power cannot be bound by another’s.The boy replies that he has no weapon to bind him with. The genetic seers say it will never come. Azatoth laughs at the thought that he is feared so much, they send a powerless child to bring his stale bread. Does the boy know what he could do to him if he came too close?The boy comes closer and puts down the food. He could tear his mind open, he recites. Flay it alive in pain beyond pain. Azatoth laughs and agrees. Cut away his past, his name, everything he has been, the boy continues. Scar his very thoughts until they become unreadable. Until he becomes invisible, the boy smirks.The present:Storm calls the Fisher King’s name. Now, joined with Xilo, it is easy to become lost in history but, having added Xilo’s tactics to his and preserving Xilo’s history, they have both become more. He apologizes to Storm and focuses on the present. He tries to ignore Xilo’s worms’ writhing and show the rest of the Brotherhood a map. He shows them where they stand. Argyre’s lost but their western front is standing fast against attacks from that direction. The territories to the east are safe for now. To reach them by land, the forces of Arakko Prime have to pass between Isca’s lands and the Spire Vile of Tarn’s Locus.That leaves the Autumn Continent, mostly dead land after Vulcan’s rage. Uncontested by either side. To open a new front, Genesis has to attack by sea, Sobunar’s ocean. Since she hasn’t done it yet, he believes she is treading carefully with Sobunar. But now she’ll push, and the place to push will be Black King Bay and the river route to Lake Hellas. He warns them to get ready. He believes, before the day is over, that sea will run with blood.Flashback:The prisons of Amenth:The nameless boy is fifteen years old. He is a blank spot to the Vile omnipaths. He has learned to be invisible. He has learned to take lives. All for this moment.Past the cells strides Tarn the Uncaring, flanked by the High Summoner (son of War) and another tall being, Rurik Slime-Weeper.Any improvement on the Solem situation? Tarn demands. The Summoner regretfully replies that they cannot take Solem’s DNA by force due to his adamantium skin. There are other means… but he has a certain discipline if he wants to. Physically he does not provide… Tarn cuts him off. No need to spell it out. Rurik carefully praises Tarn, but why covet another’s weapon? he asks. To suggest he needed unbreakable skin would be an insult for any on Arakko. Any of Amenth, too, Tarh replies. He doesn’t need it. He wants to study it. As for posthumous glory, let them say he doesn’t fear a life that ends either. Death is only the beginning of change.The hidden boy observes them. Knife in hand, he is ready to kill Tarn, but another hand grabs him. A bald girl with glowing eyes grabs his hand and orders him not to. If he does this, he will die. The boy replies that Isca is not with Tarn. He may not get a better chance! To what? she demands. Replace Tarn with the next in line? The Summoner, En Sabah Nur’s grandson, is hungry for more power and influence. Does he want to replace evil with evil? Or just feel he did something, as he dies at the weapons in their hands? The boy boasts he has nothing. And with enough nothing you can do anything! The girl, Zsora, smiles and replies, then let’s not do any one thing.Present:Genesis’s fleet is on one of Sobunar’s oceans, as predicted.Here, Annihilation orders at a certain point and Genesis gives the order to stop not too far from the shore, but out of their foes’ range.Sobunar protests as the Seat-Below-Us. They are Arakkii and they are enough! And his ocean does not belong to the land. His children are not hers, he adds in a smaller voice. She chides him this is not a decision for the depths. They are at war, so all defer to the Dawn and, as neither side can currently advance by land… She turns to Lycaeon as Seat of Stalemate and asks what he recommends. Predictably, both his heads, while claiming to be objective, enthusiastically support her course.The two new members agree with Sobunar, they only need his permission to use their ships on his ocean, not anything more, but Ora Serrata sharply admonishes them that Ororo’s rebels and their ideas have weakened the very concept of Arakko itself. A challenge to all may be answered by all and all is all!She turns to a green man called Satis Exotica and permits him to proceed. Satis Exotica drips some of his blood into the ocean. Blood is his power. It confers strength, and therefore all of Arakko shunned him, because it carries the stain of insult, but a fish has no pride. A seabeast has no honor and only one of them will be able to carry his gift to their enemies.Storm gets a message from the Keep, which is still manned by Peepers and Hairbag, who didn’t attend the Hellfire Gala. Peepers warns them of the fleet. Storm is doubtful, as Genesis must know Storm’s powers can bring down a fleet. They soon get the answer, as they see the giant mutated beast striding toward Port Prometheus.The image of the creature touches something in the Fisher King and Xilo, and Fisher tries to find out what it is.Flashback:The unnamed boy and Szora of the Spirit Flame fall in love and marry. Even more, they and Szora’s sister, Syzya of the Smoke, join together as the Night Seats and try in their own way to rebel as much as possible in the prisons of Amenth.The man is 45 now, and he and Szora have two daughters.The three Night Seats break into the cell that holds Solem, who is more amused than anything at their daring. Do they really think they have a hope…The nameless man interrupts that it is not about hope. To be of Arakko means to fight without it. They fight, knowing they’ll lose, though they’d have more of a chance with Solem at their side.Solem has managed to get luxury goods into his cell and busies himself with his musical instrument. He let them meet here in his lonely cell, Solem points out, and he even sent away his usual visitors, because he likes them and because their weapons let them pass his notes and keep his secrets. Tarn’s great omnipaths – so all-seeing, he mockingly sings, yet blinded by smoke, burned by flame, bamboozled by the lack of a name. An epic song he is composing for their awesome victory. Now what rhymes with “awesome?” Dare he say “foursome?”Business before pleasure, Syzya chides him. In a week, Tarn will make the trek to the Vile Colleges and this time Annihilation will go with him to inspect the new abominations. As protection, the Horsemen and Isca will ride along. Why all on a single journey? Zsora asks. Fear of the White Sword, her sister explains. His Hundred can die as many times as Isca can win, after all. Even so, the Annihilation helm can hide the truth even from her, Zsora admits, and some things are too good to be true.Nevertheless, her nameless husband votes with Syzya. They need to use this one-time-chance. Ora Serrata dies first. Once out of law’s shackles, the Great Ring can act…That simple, hmm? Solem asks mockingly while feasting on some grapes. It’s their chance, Zsora pleads. Should they ignore it? They don’t all have his long lifetime. He agrees. He is ageless and beautiful and his heart is as unbreakable as his skin. But that’s not sure of everyone, is it?Present:Fisher King recalls they ignored Solem’s advice. The giant sea monster lumbers toward Port Prometheus. He observes that this kind of attack is unlike Genesis.Storm takes to the air and, in the upper atmosphere, a hailstorm the size of a giant skull forms. Huricane winds throw it toward and through the creature’s head.The attack is as elegant as Genesis’ should be. Fisher feels Xilo coil in his body. Merged as they are, Xilo can only speak in warnings from his history and Fisher’s own. The present becomes the past…Flashback:It is one day later, after they attempted their attack. The man and Zsora were caught. Now they hang from the wall in chains, facing Genesis / Annihilation, Famine and Pestilence.Annihilation states an example must be made. Zsora asks if Solem betrayed them. Annihilation chides them not to mention that name to War. She imagines he suffers. Their teleporter has fled and they will deal with her when they catch her. But they know the punishment for conspirators. One dies to teach the others. And there are no exceptions for age. Death brings in the couple’s children: Zsen – still a preteen – and Khora, little more than a toddler.While the nameless man is still protesting, Zsora already cries, she takes the punishment on herself. No! he protests. Was she supposed to let him go there first? she smiles sadly. She swore an oath to protect him with her life.As she speaks, Famine unleashes his power taking all the water from her body and she dies.Has the lesson been learned? Genesis asks. Good. Then she reveals that there was no traitor. Genesis’ power is control over plants. There is flora in their guts. The spies were inside them. Does he understand her, king of nothing? He has no weapon. She has all of them. He will never escape!She leaves with her entourage. The man hangs there broken and, while little Khora weeps, Zsen despises her father for his weakness.Present:Fisher King realizes what Xilo has been trying to tell him with the memories: there is a spy inside. He shouts at Sunspot to destroy the creature’s corpse. Before he can act, vines break forth from it. With Xilo’s knowledge Fisher realizes what is happening here: This is ancient magic - an Okkara Gate.Unlike the other gates, which need answering gates to link with. Instead, it creates one at its destination. The magic feeds on spilled blood and grows across realities to the Ivory Spires in the land of Amenth and the nightmares waiting there. 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The Fall of Prometheus (1st story) – Scales and Shadows (2nd story)
1st story:Space: a shuttle is on its way to Arakko. At the controls are the X-Men’s old friend, Dr. Peter Corbeau, and the mutants’ new friend NASA scientist Dr. Craig Marshall.Corbeau jokingly asks, if, when he joined NASA, Craig ever pictured himself ferrying mercenaries to a war on Mars. Arakko, he corrects himself. Craig glumly replies that he never saw this coming. Everything he’d ever theorized about growing crops on a terraformed world… thanks to Ororo and the X-Men he got to do it. And he thought that was all he came to do. Just science. Like, if things got crazy, he’d just grab a shuttle home. He wouldn’t pick a side. it was still Mars to him then, but now… it’s Arakko. And Arakko has a way of making things personal!Further back in the shuttle sit Craig’s adopted Arakkii kids, Looloo and Kobb, as well as Weaponless Szen and the mercenaries Blackjack O’Hare and the Prince of Power. The Prince is trying to make conversation with the kids by announcing he heard their home was destroyed and everyone they loved killed. But take heart: the Prince of Power knows how they feel: His planet was likewise annihilated in battle with a fearsome villain! Granted, he did the annihilating, he adds sheepishly, but they say it’s the thought that counts, he adds more happily. And as he’d given it no thought at all, it therefore doesn’t co…His partner Blackjack O’ Hare admonishes him to shut up, they are just kids!Weaponless, Szen studies the scene and asks if he has something to draw with. He has a marker.  As she draws, she explains that painting truth is her mutant gift. She finishes a drawing and shows it to Kobb. She tells him she knows how he feels. She hopes that this helps him in his fight. Kobb stares at the picture, fascinated, then begins to both smile and cry. He thanks her, speaking for the first time in months.Craig enters, hearing he missed Kobb’s first words. He tells them that they got word from Peepers and are changing course for the Keep. They won’t make it to Port Prometheus today. Why not? Looloo asks, to be told there is no Port Prometheus anymore.On Arakko, Port Prometheus is burning at the hands of War, while the inhabitants try to flee in panic. Her siblings stand next to her. Famine congratulates her but wonders if that funeral pyre is earned. Isn’t it meant for warriors? All he sees in the flames are traders and diplomats. Is he offended by her methods? War demands. It will not do, he shakes his head, but have no fear, he will correct her error…Inside the burning backroom of the Red Lagoon, Kobak Never-Held shouts where the others are. Syzya of the Smoke teleports in to tell him the others are already gone. Word is to get to the far riverbank and regroup.Kobak asks her to help him look for survivors, but she has another mission first: to get something that Roberto kept here for safeguarding, something Ororo entrusted the Night Seats with.She opens a secret safe to take out an unassuming small box – the Uranos Trigger. After Judgment Day, the Eternals, as a gesture of reparation, had given the device to the mutants. If used, Uranos the Undying would, for one hour, fight for the person who released him, killing everything in his way. Syzia touches it and an unexpected telepathic contact with Uranos is formed.The frightening Eternal sits in his cell in the Exclusion. Sooner than he thought, he observes. He addresses her by name and tells her the rules. If she says the word, one hour of killing begins.Kobak gently shakes Syzia to break contact. He tells her they need to leave. He asks what that weapon is. Death that walks, she replies and teleports them away.In the skies, Sunspot transports Fisher King / Xilo and describes how his team were attacked and overran, when their foes came through the gate. He blames himself for not seeing this coming or seeing the Hellfire Gala coming. Exhausted, he asks where Storm is. Somewhere in the smoke and the demons, Fisher replies and reminds him he doesn’t know where his daughter Khora is either. They focus and save who they can.Not enough! Roberto mutters, sounding for once very much like his friend Nova, as he fears it won’t be enough and every death here is on him.In Port Prometheus, Nova is busy trying to control the fires, when some civilians shout at him to look at the sky.Famine reveals his power, which is control over water. He creates a giant image of himself made of water, which then floods the city, sweeping everything away.A moment later, Famine is hit by lightning.Hovering in the sky, Storm coldly thanks him for showing her who he is and what mercy to him brings. She warns there will be no more. War angrily agrees. Who is Storm to challenge them? She is a pawn of the powerless, while they are children of Arakko’s greatest power. Kings and queens of the world! They are the true omegas! They know their worth!She blasts fire at Storm, who counters her attack with wind and ice. She reminds War that they didn’t side with their mother, but the Annihilation helm. So, she knows their worth, too. And battle between omega level mutants is not a matter of power but versatility.A whirlwind surrounds War, cutting off her air, as Storm announces she is weather. She is pressure and temperature and wind. She is many things. War is one thing, fire. What is she when the fire leaves?And the fire is extinguished, leaving a blackened husk.Death addresses Storm, telling her he still senses a spark of life in both his siblings. Ther is still mercy in her. She is not death. And he is. He challenges her to their last dance.Unnoticed by either of them, Pestilence nocks an arrow and aims it.Storm tells Death that her people are dead and dying. Children are dead and dying. Does he think his rules still apply? They have to, he replies after a moment. Or what was this for?Pestilence interjects that rules are made by the winner and loosens her arrow at Storm.Instead, it hits Nova who flies in front of Storm. The young hero falls, the blackness of Pestilence’s illnesses already breaking out all over his body. Storm hurries to his side and promises to fly him out of here.Death grabs her hand and warns that the plague spreads by touch and kills by pain. Only he can survive it. He turns to his sister and accuses her of interfering. She tells him to grow up. He’d have lost again out of his misplaced puppy love. These rules and customs are meant to serve them. She is the enemy! And on Arakko, they destroy the enemy – no matter who they are. Yes, Death repeats. No matter who they are. He takes off his helmet and shows his deadly face to his sister. Pestilence crumbles to dust.As he puts the helmet on again, Storm carefully addresses him. He interrupts that Pestilence interfered. That was a challenge by insult. And she said such things meant nothing… She was wrong! She has to be.Syzya teleports in and Storm asks about the evacuation status. Clearly shaken, she replies that some got out and luckily the enemy is taking prisoners. The few who can still fight are retreating to the Morrowlands. She hands Storm the small cube and explains Storm has to decide. She is the Seat of Loss. And Syzya can’t listen to him anymore.Once Storm holds the cube, telepathic contact with Uranos is established. Uranos curtly greets her and announces that he has been watching the situation, so he won’t preamble. As he told Syzya, release him and in his hour of freedom he will end their war by ending every single life on the planet that is not of their faction. The trigger is in Storm’s hands. Choose!The Autumn Lands, now a molten desert of lava:A gateway grows and A and his daemon companion step through. A observes that, under the dead rock, the sun is caged. A useful ingredient. And with the Storm coming to meet them, for where else can she turn? Yes, here, A decides. Here they will remake the world. 2nd story:Sunspot is researching a string of disappearances at the Brazilian coast. He has travelled to a place called the Isle of Snakes, where allegedly demon snakes guard a pirate treasure. With him he has brought the perfect back-up: Lara dos Santos aka Shark-Girl. She comes up from the water with two bodies, telling him she found more bodies among the shipwrecks. The place is giving her the creeps.They study the bodies but see no snakebites. He teases Iara by pointing out she has fast healing and can control animals. She retorts she can control marine life, not snakes. She points out that one of the men’s neck is busted, the other’s is pulverized. Plus, she can smell heavy chemicals on them. The Brazilian Navy reported the fishermen were killed by snake venom. But she is picking up concentrated doses of industrial toxins. It makes her think that…A moment later, she screams, as a huge snake has bitten her on the ankle. She tosses the snake away and asks what the plan is. Sunspot asks if she is okay and needs a hospital, but she shrugs it off. Fast healing, remember? He tells her she will search the water, he the air. Not much of a plan, she shrugs and warns him of a snake coming for him. It’s just a prank though.She jumps into the water and he flies above her. Lara muses that the tides and currents are weird, like someone’s redirecting the waterflow underground. She figures there is an underground cave system, and whatever poisoned those men comes from there.He follows her and they find an entrance flanked by giant carved snakes. They enter and Roberto wonders if the legend about the treasure guarded by snakes could be true.Inside, they see the missing fishers, surrounded by armed people in green uniforms. On a ledge stands their leader, who tells the prisoners that they are here to serve the serpent god.Sunspot figures that is probably King Cobra’s nephew, Piet Voorhees. He explains the Serpent Society works like an evil cult.The cultists force the fishermen to drink from a chalice. Sharkgirl smells jararaca venom and the chemicals she smelled before. Before their eyes the men are transforming into lizard beings. Sharkgirl runs to attack the guards.From what hellish realm came this demon? King Cobra Jr. demands. The official name is Refice, Sunspot remarks as he hits him and, the way they see it, he is the demon here!Sharkgirl tries to hold on to her humanity while she battles, trying not to eat the cultists. Sunspot uses his solar heat to weaken King Cobra and beats him.On the ground, King Cobra protests that those men were poachers, after the snake venom. He protected the island. Unimpressed, Sharkgirl points out he was poisoning these guys.A little later, Sunspot announces that he will take the cultists to the authorities, but Vorhees was right that the island needs to be protected. Lara replies that there are better ways to do that. And, the next night, the two of them scare several poachers away, making sure that they learn that monsters protect the island.


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‘This is a disagreement. A profound disagreement, yes, but still just a disagreement. Go to one. Go to the other. Or go your own way. But we want you to all choose what you think is best. Because this is about beliefs. And neither Westchester nor Utopia need people who don’t really want to be there. What do you believe? What do you really believe? Think carefully…and when you know, choose. And rest assured, whatever you decide, nether Logan nor I will hold any grudge’ Scott “Cyclops” Summers announced to the residents of Utopia.
Utopia is the island home of the X-Men and the majority of the world’s mutant population. But not for much longer. Wolverine a.k.a. Logan leans against a wall and knocks back a can of beer, holding the remainder of the six pack in his other hands. He enters a room where Bobby “Iceman” Drake is making an ice sculpture on a table. ‘Bobby. I need to talk. You got a minute?’ Logan calls out. ‘Sure. What’s up?’ Bobby asks, to which Wolverine reveals that word has not broken yet, ‘But you know what went down between Scott and me’ Wolverine points out. ‘Yeah’ Bobby replies. Wolverine informs Iceman that he is leaving and is restarting the school. ‘We need a place for kids to be kids…and that place isn’t here anymore’ Wolverine declares.
Bobby’s mouth drops when Wolverine announces ‘I want you with me. I want you there and teaching or…something. We’ll work it out. I haven’t got all the details yet. But I need you there, Bobby’ Wolverine tells him. Bobby looks thoughtful and asks Wolverine who else is with him. ‘No one, yet. I was thinking, “Who’s everything this place isn’t’?” And I thought of you and came right over’ Logan explains. ‘Wow’ Bobby smiles. Logan asks Bobby not to make him beg, and holds up the remainder of the six pack, pointing out that he has two cans let and one is his. ‘You came to me first. You total suck-up. You better be glad you sweetened the deal with beer or I’d kick you out of here’ Bobby smiles.
Shortly, ‘A school? No. Not for me’ Betsy “Psylocke” Braddock telepathically tells Wolverine as she dodges his attack as they train together. ‘Betsy!’ Wolverine replies through his thoughts. Betsy flips backwards and telepathically informs Wolverine that she is with him in his other endeavor, because she believes some things must be done. She explains that she is like that in secret, and that by staying here, she will be the same in public. ‘We have to go forward. The school’s the opposite of that’ Betsy points out as she kicks Wolverine in his side. ‘Okay. Right, but…’ Wolverine replies, before Betsy bows at him, and telepathically tells him that she is with X-Force as long as there is work to be done.
Wolverine leaves the room as Cyclops enters. Both men frown at each other. ‘By the look on Logan’s face, I take it you’re staying?’ Scott asks. ‘You presume right’ Betsy replies as she towels her hair. ‘Good. I want you to lead a team. You and a group of stealth specialists. You’ll -’ Scott begins, to which Betsy interrupts: ‘You mean re-creating X-Force’. She turns to Scott and sternly tells him that she is not going to be in X-Force for him. ‘No. Not that’ Cyclops assures her, before pointing out that their security simply is not good enough. ‘You saw what happened with Kruun. And when that went down, you were the surest hands on the island’ Scott reminds Betsy, announcing that he wants to put the island’s defense in her hands. ‘So…not a hit squad?’ Betsy asks.
‘Correct. No killing unless absolutely unavoidable’ Cyclops assures her, adding that reconnaissance will be as needed, but that the role is primarily defensive. ‘You want me as a spy catcher and a spy…’ Betsy remarks, voice trailing off. ‘If you want to put it like that’ Cyclops replies. Betsy smirks, and tells Scott that if he wants her to spy, she will be a spy.
Outside, watching the sunset, Colossus a.k.a. Piotr Rasputin announces that he has to stay here, that there is no choice in this. ‘Pete! What are you thinking? You loved the school. Is it because of us?’ Kitty “Shadowcat” Pryde asks. ‘No, Katya’ Colossus assures her. Colossus does not look at Kitty, despite her staring at him as she asks if it is because of Illyana. ‘Because if it is -’ Kitty begins, while Colossus interrupts, announcing that his sister needs him, but that this is not about her, either. ‘Then why?’ Kitty asks, tapping Colossus’s steel form with her elbow. When Colossus does not reply, Kitty sits down on the ground, and stares up at Piotr.
Eventually, Colossus speaks: ‘It’s a school, Kitty. With everything I now carry inside me, I am not safe to be around children’. Kitty continues to look at Colossus, who looks back down at her. Kitty stands up and points a finger at Colossus, telling him that if he needs anything, to call - no matter way. ‘I’ll come running, you big idiot’ Kitty declares, before turning and walking away, brushing a tear from her eye. ‘You really are the biggest idiot’ Kitty whispers.
Elsewhere, Dr Henry “Hank” McCoy a.k.a. the Beast crouches on a computer chair while checking his email during the middle of the night. ‘Hank! Need affection! Immediately! Mangy-body! In here! Now!’ a voice calls out from another room. ‘In a minute, oh beloved of mine. Something’s come up!’ Hank calls back, while reading the message: Avengers Update. Subject: Logan to reopen Westchester School. Hank announces that he needs to make a call, and picks up a phone. ‘Logan. I am, of course, in’ Hank tells his friend. ‘Affection emergency critical!’ the voice shouts. Hank asks for just one more second, explaining that there is one more call to make. On his second call, Hank tells Cyclops that it is gratifying to find himself a pioneer in what he can see has swiftly become a terribly fashionable movement.
Hank returns to the bedroom, where lying in a circle-shaped bed is Abigail Brand. ‘My dear, I’m going to help Logan run a school. By which I mean, I will actually be running the school and Logan will merely have the best office’ Hank announces. ‘Great’ Abigail mutters, asking Hank if this means he is going to cut down on the whining about what Scott’s done to the X-Men. ‘Alas, my beloved Abigail, I suspect the contrary’ Hank replies.
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Back on Utopia, Magneto, the Master of Magnetism, uses his power to raise a massive building up from the edge of the island, and tells Rogue that no sooner than they return from the depths of space, they find the world of the X-Men falling apart, before asking Rogue if she has made her decision. Rogue replies that she doesn’t really know, to which Magneto tells her that if she does go to the school, it would at least be possible to visit. ‘Assuming, of course, the Canadian is letting us dangerous influences anywhere near the precious little sanctuary’ Magneto adds. Rogue tells him not to be like that, pointing out that Wolverine is doing what he believes, before asking Magneto if he has considered leaving.
Magneto doesn’t respond, he stares at Rogue, then smiles, before Rogue smiles as well, and they begin to laugh. Rogue wipes tears from her eyes, and remarks ‘Okay. No, I know you wouldn’t’. Magneto points out that it is his life’s work, but that doesn’t mean that it is the only thing he cares about. ‘That almost sounds sweet, Sugah’ Rogue tells Magneto, smiling at him.
At a restaurant, Lorna “Polaris” Dane and Alex “Havok” Summers find their dinner date interrupted by Wolverine. ‘Let me guess. You heard from Rogue that I was fighting my father and you thought, “Ah - an ideal recruit”’ Lorna asks. Wolverine tells his friend that she has this wrong, admitting that he was an inch away from popping Cyclops’s eyeball, but that this is not about fighting. Wolverine points out that Alex and Lorna have been out there in space, a long way from anything they know, and mind-controlled. ‘I figured you’d want to be with tour own people for a while’ Logan tells them, adding that if he was them, he would be looking for a familiar project, a long way away from family who wants to give him orders. Alex asks ‘What do you know about X-Factor Investigations?’ Wolverine asks them. Alex smiles and looks at Lorna.
‘This is the one thing Logan and I agree on completely. It would be better for Idie to be somewhere else’ Cyclops announced.
‘This is my team. Over my dead body!’ Hope Summers shouts as she exits Cyclops’s office, and storms past several of her teammates - Transonic, Oya, Primal and Zero. Transonic aka Laurie Tromette frowns at Hope and watches her leave, before following her friend to her quarters. ‘You’ve taken a pretty broken fourteen year old girl and found a way to smash those pieces even more. She’s going to…’ Laurie calls out as she enters the room, to find Hope lying on her bed in the darkened room. ‘Shut up! She has to be here!’ Hope stammers. ‘You’ve got a problem, Hope’ Transonic replies, holding a weapon behind her back, she suddenly, aims the weapon at Hope’s head, and tells her that she is not going to get away with it anymore. .
Hope edges backwards on the bed, before looking away from Laurie, and asks ‘I never told you about my Dad, did I?’ Laurie continues to hold the weapon to Hope’s head, while Hope explains that he wasn’t her dad-dad, but he raised her, protected her, and took her to the end of time and back. Hope tells Transonic that her “dad” taught her how to punch, to break a guy’s nose, and how to be cut without crying. ‘Anything worth teaching, he taught me’ she announces. Hope looks back up at Laurie, and reveals that her “dad” died in front of her, two months ago.
Hope lies back on her bed, while LAurie still holds the weapon up. ‘Him and a bunch of other people. All because…I dunno. They thought I was some kind of messiah. That I could save everyone’ Hope tells Laurie. She announces that she thought it was insane, that it was stupid. ‘I mean…me? A messiah? No way’ she declares. ‘Look at the way I act. I’m no messiah’ . She turns to Transonic and states that she comes back and the Lights all appear, that she touches them and they are all cured, then they are bonded together. ‘And I thought…my dad must have been right. It’s all for a reason, like fate or something’ Hope declares. ‘Hope, this isn’t about you -’ Laurie declares, still aiming the weapon at Hope’s head, but Hope ignores her friend, and tells her that it has to be for a reason.
‘Because if I’m not the messiah, my dad died for absolutely nothing’ Hope announces, looking out to the darkness. ‘We’re together for a reason. We have to be’ she tells Transonic, who lowers the weapon, then steps backwards into the shadows, and drops to her knees. ‘Oh God, Hope. I didn’t - you’re so strong and together and -’ Laurie utters. ‘A total bitch. Yeah, I know. I know’ Hope replies. Transonic looks up, and asks Hope ‘You want to save people?’, and tells her that there is only one person she can save for sure.
‘Idie should go’ Hope tells Wolverine as she enters a kitchen, where Logan is sitting at a bench, drinking beer. Idie aka Oya remains silent as Hope pushes her towards Wolverine. ‘Take better care of her than I did’ Hope asks Wolverine. ‘Hope…I will be there for you. When you need me’ Idie tells her friend. Hope replies that she knows, and tells Idie that she is sorry.
Outside, Danielle Moonstar a.k.a. mirage approaches Cannonball and Husk, a.k.a. the Guthrie siblings Sam and Paige. They are relaxing on a rooftop and Sam tells his sister that he thinks it is the right move. ‘…yeah, me too. I’ll go get packed’ Paige replies, before walking past Dani. ‘Hey, Dani. There’s something I…oh, forget it. Can’t remember’ the young mutant mutters, before telling Mirage that she supposes they will speak later. ‘She’s flaky’ Danielle tells Sam as she goes over to him. ‘She is. She made a joke about it: “In every way imaginable”!’ Sam replies, before telling Mirage not to sit down. ‘Huh?’ Dani asks as she turns to the chair, and sees some of Husk’s skin, flaked on the chair. Sam remarks that he thought less “flaky” and more “coming apart at the seams”.
Sam tells Mirage that Paige’s powers are off, that she is molting everywhere, and they don’t know what it means. Sam looks out to the orange-colored sky as he tells Mirage that it seems it is a bad time for the Guthrie family generally, what with his head and Paige’s powers, they are in a bad place right now. ‘A big of a scenery-change might do us good’ he announces. ‘You’re going?’ Mirage asks, sitting down. ‘Uh-huh’ Sam replies, before handing Mirage a can of drink and telling her to come, as he will miss her. ‘Sure you will. And I’ll miss not kicking the asses that clearly still need kicking’ Danielle replies, pointing out that those asses have not gone away, and she couldn’t do anything else knowing they were out there, un-kicked.
‘Never change, Dani Moonstar’. Sam tells his friend as he knocks back his drink. ‘And do change, Sam Guthrie’ Moonstar tells him, before grabbing him by his shirt and pulling him to her, planting a kissing on his lips. Sam goes wide-eyed, before Danielle pulls away and smiles, telling Sam to get better. She adds that if whatever is going on in his head had an ass, she would kick it to hell and back for him.
In San Francisco, Dazzler a.k.a. Alison Blaire has been joined by Cyclops at a café. They are sitting at a table out on the side-walk, and Dazzler informs Cyclops that she was thinking just about leaving, as she doesn’t really fit into the whole “Army of Scott Summers vision-thing”. Alison adds that as good as she was in class, it is not where her heart has ever been. Scott replies that he understands that, and asks Alison if she is still doing that residency in San Francisco. ‘Oh yeah. Me and a stage. Once a week. You gotta love it’ Alison smiles. Scott tells her that he was thinking about something similar, and explains that his attention is going to move to the world-scale, but that they need to keep up their work in San Francisco. Cyclops tells Dazzler that he wants someone to run the street teams - a couple of experienced X-Men and a few of the recruits. ‘Dazzler and the X-kids, basically’ Scott adds, before declaring that he needs someone to take the kids and make them stars. ‘Oh, Scott. You are so cheesy’ Dazzler laughs.
Back on Utopia, many of the island’s young mutants have gathered at the baseball diamond. ‘You’re fooling yourself. Just because you go to a school, don’t think that the world will let you be students’ Prodigy announces. Standing behind him are Pixie, Surge, Armor, Crosta, Primal and Zero, while facing them are Hellion, Anole, Mercury, Dust, Rockslide, Blindfold, Bling, Match, Graymalkin, Trance, Indra and Glob Herman. Nezhno stands in between the two factions. Hellions raises a baseball bat with his “hands” and replies ‘Say what you like about Westchester, but I didn’t have to hand in both of my hands as part of a homework assignment’. He tells the others that if they stay here they are just meat in the grinder.
Prodigy begins counting on his fingers: ‘One: more kids died at the school than here. You’ve got a bus full of dead friends you’re forgetting. Two: you’re under threat everywhere. At least here we get a chance to do something about it’. Prodigy declares that Wolverine wants them all to be children, which is a nice dream, but that none of them have been a child since their x-gene kicked in. ‘You’ve been a target. And if I’m going to be a target, I want to be a target who shoots back’ Prodigy adds. Hellion tells the de-powered Prodigy that he will not get his x-gene back by overcompensating.
The two move towards each other, ready to fight, until Rockslide steps in between them, telling them to cool it, before quietly telling Hellion that he is not wrong. Nezhno steps forward between the two groups and exclaims ‘Hellion is Hellion, David. And you are you. You forget the real truth here: Everyone is themselves and everyone is different’. Nezhno tells Prodigy to consider Pixie, who has travelled through time and space, and is now among the first Cyclops calls when trouble comes. ‘She is an X-Man. Conversely, some just wish to live’ Nezhno declares.
Nezhno points out that he cannot control the world, and that he cannot even truly control himself, but that the first step in making the world they would wish it to be is to act as if it is the world they would wish it to be. ‘Hey, enough philosophy!’ Rockslide calls out, before calling out to Blindfold, asking her where she is going. ‘Westchester, but -’ Blindfold replies, to which Rockslide shouts ‘See! She can see the future. Anyone who doesn’t go to Westchester is fighting fate itself!’ Rockslide declares, to which several of his friends throw things at him.
All around Utopia, the residents are interviewed. Namor the Sub-Mariner stands in the ocean and announces that he admires those who would fight for their people, and adds that Atlantis is going nowhere.
‘Of course I’m going back to the school! I’ve been in space forever! I didn’t even know we left the school!’ Rachel Summers exclaims, smiling.
In the brig, Danger stands in front of the cell containing Scalphunter and announces that her interest is in the rehabilitation - or not - of criminals, so she will remain here because this is where the criminals are, primarily.    Quentin Quire states that Utopia is the place for him, before asking ‘What are those chains for?’ .   Barely looking up from his microscope, Doctor Nemesis asks what the lab facilities are like at Westchester, before declaring ‘Actually, no. this experiment is at a very delicate stage. A move is unthinkable. In fact, why are you disturbing me? Be gone! Scurry! Science stalks this night!’
‘Is there any other choice?’ X-23 asks as Wolverine stands over her.
 Back in the brig, Magik points out that she is a prisoner, but that even if she wasn’t, she suspects she would find it just as difficult to leave. .
 Matha Johannson obviously cannot speak, but Celeste of the Stepford Cuckoos reveals that Phoebe thinks they should go, while Irma thinks they should stay. ‘I get the deciding vote’ Celeste points out. She declares that Quentin Quire is going to be at Westchester, and that him being on the other side of the continent is not nearly far enough, but it will have to do.
‘Can’t see Frost pawing Cyclops from the East Coast. Easier to keep food down. Advantage Westchester’ Frenzy announces.
 Gambit flicks a couple of kinetically-charged cards up and remarks that he has found all the trouble there is to find here, so he may as well head east.
 At his bar, Avalanche points out that his mutant power is not bar-teleportation. He adds that being associated with Utopia has all kinds of protective benefits, even for anyone who is not on the team.
‘Logan! Let me come!’ calls out the Toad. Wolverine doesn’t turn around, he simply replies ‘You don’t get to call me that, Toad’. The Toad leaps towards Wolverine and asks him ‘What do I call you?’. Logan simply tells Toad that he doesn’t call him anything. ‘You get to quit bugging me’ he adds. Carrying a box of beer, Wolverine informs Toad that he is restarting the school. ‘You only went to the school to attack it. And the only job you’ve pulled off is punching bag’ Wolverine declares. Toad quickly announces that there is nothing here for him. He reveals that he is just going in circles and it is driving him crazy. ‘I’ll do anything. Anything!’ he pleads, adding that he will even be their janitor. ‘Hmmm…’ Wolverine smiles.
‘Scott, don’t turn this into an embarrassment’ Storm a.k.a. Ororo Munroe tells her long-time friend and teammate while she packed her suitcases. Ororo tells Cyclops that she has never been entirely aligned to his direction here, and points out that X-Force in theory and practice was an abomination. ‘Even if you don’t believe in Xavier’s dream anymore, I do’ Storm declares. But Cyclops asks Storm to not go, and tells her that he needs her. Storm turns to Scott and tells him that she knows what he is planning, and that he doesn’t need her. ‘You need my power’ she points out. But Scott tells Storm that she doesn’t understand. ‘Hank left. Kitty’s leaving. Bobby’s leaving. Look at who’s going to be at my side: Magneto. Namor. Danger. Doctor Nemesis. Emma. Even Peter and his sister…’ his voice trails off, and declares that this can’t go wrong, that he needs someone to make sure this doesn’t go wrong. ‘They don’t need you. I need you’ Scott tells Ororo, who frowns.
Cyclops enters his quarters which he shares with Emma “the White Queen” Frost, and informs her that Storm said yes. Emma holds a wine glass in her hand while Scott announces that he needs Storm to be his field second, as she has led the X-Men before, so people will follow her. ‘Are you okay with that?’ he asks. ‘You presume I’m going to be here’ Emma replies, before reminding Scott that she loves children, that she is a teacher and longs to rock that blessed world-ruling cradle. ‘I’ve sacrificed so much of what I love to be here with you’ Emma tells Scott. ‘We teach here -’ Cyclops begins to reply, but Emma interrupts, declaring ‘A little. But we mainly train. The difference is of paramount importance’.
‘And most of all, I don’t like being taken for granted’ the White Queen declares. Scott tells Emma that he is so sorry, and claims that he wanted her to look after the recruits, apart from what to do when a Nimrod shows up, he hasn’t a clue what the kids should know. ‘That’s you. No one’s better than you at that’ Scott declares, before assuring Emma that he cannot do this without her. Emma smiles and tells Scott that he will have to if he carries on with such unconscionable wetness. ‘Please, cease your groveling. It’s undignified’ she tells him. Scott asks Emma if this means she will stay, to which Emma points out that with Warren Worthington away, Utopia needs funding, and while her corporation is not quite enough to swallow the running costs of Utopia, she will set her army of accountants to task.
Emma sips her wine and tells Scott that her accountants believed by dissolving her corporate holdings, she should be able to bankroll Scott’s little endeavor for the foreseeable future. ‘I did consider cutting my stylist’s budget instead…but, you understand, some sacrifices are simply unthinkable’ Emma announces, before revealing that she dissolved her corporate holdings yesterday. ‘This better be worth it, Summers’ Emma warns him. Scott tells Emma that she is an incredible woman. ‘That I am’ Emma replies as she touches Scott’s chest, adding that she will be wincing every time someone decides it is a good time to crash one of the Blackbirds.
The White Queen sits down on their bed and remarks ‘So…the sides have chosen themselves. What now? After, of course, the first of the many back-rubs you owe me’. Cyclops tells Emma that the two factions will go their separate ways, with as few hard feelings as they can manage, and then deal with whatever is out there. ‘Oh, Scott. You really are delightful. Do you really believe that?’ Emma asks. She gets no response, so calls out to him again. ‘Scott? Do you really believe that?’ - but she still gets no response. ‘Scott?’ Emma asks. No response.
And with that, mutantkind goes their separate ways. Whose side are YOU on?


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Hajime No Ippo (translated: The First Step)
Somewhere in Japan…
A redheaded girl wearing green clothes runs for her life. She rushes into an alley, but unfortunately, it’s a dead end. The girl panics when she sees a wall in front of her and screams, “No!” She turns around, and panics even more when she sees her pursuers have caught up to her. The girl asks the mysterious ninjas who they are and what they want with her.
The female ninjas, all wearing black & red uniforms, introduce themselves as members of the magnificent Shadowcat ninja clan. And their services have been contracted to capture the girl called Jean Grey! Jean gets a headache and again screams, “No!” A powerful blast merges from her head, which besides Jean even brings the ninjas to their knees. Jean tries to focus, but this gives the ninjas enough time to regroup. They stand in front of her again, in full pride, mocking Jean that perhaps she doesn’t have enough juice for all three of them.
However, three mysterious figures coming out of the shadows proudly declare that perhaps they do have what it takes to bring them down. They’ve even brought enough for everyone. Jean stares in shock of her when she sees three costumed individuals standing in front of her: a man with only one eye, a girl with silver hair that can fly and a man wearing a special gauntlet. The ninjas activate their claws, and bionic claws and sais come from it. They obviously came prepared to deal with... the X-Men!
Wolverine snikts out his red, glowing claws as well, which come from his special gauntlet. He jokes that the ninjas could have come prepared, but obviously it is inadequate. One of the ninjas is immediately ready to take Wolverine out. Wolverine snikts out three white claws coming from his other hand and jumps at the ninja. The battle has begun! Both Wolverine and the ninja slice at each other with their claws, but it’s the ninja that bites the dust. Wolverine, with his back turned, stands in triumph.
Another ninja starts throwing several small objects at Cyclops, who takes them all out with the special device on his head. Powerful eyebeams come from it, and when Cyclops fires for the last time, he successfully takes out his adversary as well, who lies defeated on the ground.
Wolverine wants to take out the final ninja, but Storm tells Logan-san to let her do it. The ninja jumps on the roofs above, and Storm declares that she’ll take this one. She lifts her hands in the air, and suddenly lightning bolts appear out of nowhere! Storm flies up into the skies, with Wolverine and Cyclops waiting patiently for the outcome. A short while later, Storm lands back right next to them and smiles: she has won the battle.
The three X-Men all stare at Jean, and Cyclops helps her up. He promises “Jeannie” it’s okay now, as the good guys are there.
Meanwhile, at the Hellfire Club...
Tessa has sensed the defeat of the ninjas. She asks Emma if she sensed it as well, because this means Jean Grey got away from them, and Emma’s hired ninjas have failed. Emma, staring unpleased out of her window, reminds Tessa she can mentally scan as far as she can. There’s no need for the play-by-play. Tessa, making a cup of coffee ready for herself, wonders why Jean chose to associate herself with those “ugly” X-Men anyway. She doesn’t know what’s more perplexing: how the public has come to see the X-Men as heroes despite their freakishness, or that any mutant would waste their time running around saving the lives of some “measly” Homo sapiens.
Emma honestly doesn’t care what the X-Men do with themselves. She’s only interested in Jean Grey and... Tessa interrupts and, as she drinks from her coffee, smiles Emma must meant to conclude getting “made,” as the Italians might put it. Tessa reminds Emma that, if she wants the position of White Queen, she’d better hurry up and find a suitable pledge. Emma telekinetically lifts up a coffee can and pours some coffee for herself, shouting at Emma not to tell her things she already knows.
Tessa suggests that Emma takes some advice from her in that case: she’d better forget about those Shadowcat ninjas. If she must employ lower-end mutants, she has to find someone capable of a simple kidnapping. Emma stares out of the window for a while again, thinking about that possibility. She agrees with Tessa, and says this wannabe capo needs a better crew.
The X-Mansion...
While watching Wolverine and Cyclops train at the Danger Room while fighting simulative images of the Hellfire Club, Jean asks Storm to tell her about their enemies. Storm mentions that’s a subject Jean shouldn’t concern herself about right now. After all, she adds, Jean is still recuperating from the earlier attack and needs to rest. Jean tells Ororo she’s just fine, and she just has a little psychic fatigue, which she already slept off. She just wants to know who the Hellfire Club are.
Storm explains they’re a lot of organizations out there that want to exploit mutants. She’s talking about criminal syndicates, common street gangs, the Army and even the police force. Some of them have... rather aggressive methods of recruiting. The Hellfire Club was formed overseas by former yakuza, who are mutants. It seems they are now setting up shop in the X-Men’s neck of the woods. Hellfire members hold themselves above humans and other mutants. They call themselves “Homo sapiens supreme.” And, Storm is angry to admit, just when the X-Men gained some level of acceptance from the general public, along come these mutant thugs who seek to destroy the respect the X-Men have fought to earn. And what’s more, the Hellfire Club only recruits people with “evolved minds”... like Jean.
Jean stares at the boys training again, and looks doubtful at Wolverine, who lets the beast in him get the upper hand while destroying one of the robots.
The Hellfire Club...
Emma and Tessa sit with their 2 associates on a big table, having dinner. Their mysterious leader, who’s covered in shadows, asks Emma how the recruitment progress is going. Emma doesn’t say anything, which is fine for the bald man. Emma can even block her thoughts if she wants too, because the man has no trouble reading Tessa’s mind, which is like an open book. The man suggests that perhaps Emma can shift focus to another candidate. Cerebra has located some young people with potential... and not as much baggage. The psychic surgery shouldn’t be as complicated.
The recruits are young mutants with open minds who haven’t been “tainted” by the X-Men yet, the man grins. The man suggests that Emma looks these mutants up, and drinks from his red wine. Emma wipes her mouth clean with a napkin, and the man believes that Jean may come around by herself. “Isn’t that right,” the man asks to a sarcastically smiling Cerebra.
Japan Town...
Storm takes Jean into the city. Storm happily rushes through the crowd, but Jean has a hard time staying focused, and her psychic powers distract her. Storm sees that Jean has stayed behind her and calls out to her, reminding her friend to keep up. Storm reminds Jean they almost lost her once already, and doesn’t want to go through it a second time.
Ororo buys a drink, and tells Jean to try this herbal drink she was telling her about earlier. It might even bring Jean back to health to 100%. Plus, it’s quite delicious. Jean, a bit angry, tells Storm she already told her she was fine. All she needs is more time to practice her powers, not some power drink! Jean takes a sip from her drink anyway and turns around, asking Storm if she knows they’re being followed.
Storm panics for a moment, thinking Jean is talking about more Shadowcats. Jean starts to smile, denying Storms fears. She’s talking about a boy standing behind them, who’s more like a tomcat in heat. Storm looks behind Jean and recognizes the boy. Jean wants to know who that cute guy is, who fakes that he wasn’t looking at the two girls and starts to whistle a bit. Storm smiles she has seen the boy around before, and he always... stares at her.
The boy feigns reading a newspaper, but still keeps a close eye on Storm. Jean walks over to him, and tells the boy that her friend’s name is Ororo. She asks the boy’s name as well. Hesitant, the boy claims that his friends call him Forge. Jean smiles that’s an odd name. Jean tells Forge not to just stand there; he has to go introduce himself. He can even get Storm to buy him one of those funky drinks they just had.
Later that night, at the Dazzler’s disco
Sitting at a bar, a man denies it’s his turn, as Drake bought only one round so far. Bobby angrily tells both his friends to shut up. He’s trying to watch the striptease act in front of them. Their female friend calls Drake cheap, and shouts at him it’s his turn to buy her a pint. The other man tells Pyro to stay calm and believes she’s drunk already. Drake angrily asks Pyro to repeat what she just called him. Pyro, drinking from her pint, tells Drake he heard her.
Iceman freezes up and attacks Pyro with his ice-powers, shouting at her that he thinks it’s time she chills out! The other mutant ducks, and the disco visitors stare in shock about what just happened.
Not far behind, sitting in a coach, Tessa sees Emma staring at their three potential recruits and asks Emma what she’s doing. Emma, with her eyes bright and glowing, doesn’t answer.
The ice cube in which Pyro is trapped starts to melt, and not much later, Pyro breaks free, completely on fire!
With the other visitors of the disco running away scared, Tessa is angry with Emma, because she’s ruining the dance act. Emma just smiles. Pyro shouts at Iceman that he’s a wet spot. Emma telepathically enters Drake’s mind, and asks him to tell Pyro to bring it on. Drake does as told, and Emma stands up. Tessa believes Emma’s playing action movie theater again, mocking that the fight scenes were cliché and the dialogue was trite. Emma corrects Tessa she’s just recruiting.
The other mutant activates his powers as well, and his skin turns into stone! Emma quickly takes his mind over as well, and fires blasts at both Pyro and Drake. They all fall down, and Emma brings their minds back to normal. She and Tessa stand in front of the stunned mutants, adding that it’s showtime now.


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Bunraku (Translated: The Puppet Show)
The Hellfire Club…
Emma sits in a dark room in a chair, with a cup of coffee ready next to her, which stands on a small table. Emma’s eyes are wide and glowing again, meaning she’s controlling Drake and his friends.
The X-Mansion...
Drake, Pyro and their friend have reached the X-Mansion during the night. Inside the mansion, Jean Grey is sleeping in her bedroom.
The Hellfire Club...
Telepathically, Emma orders her new recruits to find Jean for her.
The X-Mansion...
Jean starts to act oddly, and writhes uncontrollably on her bed.
The Hellfire Club...
Again telepathically, Emma spreads out the question: “Where is Jean Grey?”
The X-Mansion...
The question reaches the mind of the big mutant in Drake’s company, who repeats Emma’s question. They burst open the door of the mansion, and Jean can even feel the shakes of it up to her room! Pyro sets the place partly on fire and Iceman holds his ice-powers ready to go. The three start searching the big house, when suddenly Wolverine stands in front of him, still in his boxers. He jokes that they “don’t want any.”
Pyro asks Logan-san where they can find Jean. Iceman stretches his arm out, and with the aid of his ice-powers makes his fist bigger in size. He fires it at Wolverine, who tries to block it. Luckily, thanks to his special gauntlet, he is able to destroy the ice-attack. Cyclops walks down the stairs, and smilingly tells the three mutants that Jean is currently indisposed at the moment, but he can be of assistance if necessary. Storm flies into the room as well, agreeing with Scott.
Wolverine kicks Pyro out of his way, and snikts his glowing claws out from his gauntlet. He tells Storm to play fire extinguisher, and he’ll make like an ice pick! Cyclops, a bit doubtful, mocks that he’ll take the big guy. The big mutant, unimpressed, stares at Cyclops and punches him away!
When Pyro asks Storm where Jean is, Ororo asks what they want with her. Pyro just tells Storm to bring Jean to her. Her flames create the illusion of a dragon, and Pyro has it attack Storm. Meanwhile, Drak tries to freeze Wolverine’s arm up, but he reminds Drake he already tried this trick, but he can have it his way. Logan-san punches Drake out with the arm he had put on ice.
The big guy tries to trap Scott in stone, and he jokingly tells him Jean is standing behind him. The mutant loses his control, which is just what Scott hoped for. He reminds the mutant to never take his eyes off him. Scott takes his visor off, and the full power of his optic blasts blast the mutant out of the house! Storm uses her powers to create both wind and rain in the mansion, which actually extinguish Pyro’s flames. Defeated, she falls on the floor. Storm taps on Pyro’s shoulder, and as the girl looks up, Ororo punches her out!
Standing over his fallen opponent, Scott asks his teammates if they should turn them over to the police right away, or if they should detain them by themselves and see if they can get some answers out of them.
The Hellfire Club...
Emma has telepathically watched over the lost battle, and is displeased.
The X-Mansion...
Storm, staring at the defeated Pyro, guesses that, where there’s smoke, there’s hellfire. Logan, dragging Drake by his jacket along with him, tells his teammates to forget about the police. He believes those crooked cops will just find a way to make them look like the bad guys in this situation. They need to shut down the Hellfire Club before they’re fully operational. Jean walks downstairs and, looking at the defeated enemies, guesses she’s already too late to help out.
Some time later...
Wolverine has Drake tied-up on a chair, ready to interrogate him. Drake claims it’s like he told Logan-san before: he can’t help him. All the info he has is a name... Frost. He doesn’t have anything else. Wolverine, not buying it, snikts one white claw open, right next to Drake’s face! Drake freaks out and reveals that Frost was a telepath who controlled their minds and made them attack the X-Men. He swears it’s all fuzzy, and doesn’t remember anything else.
Logan-san snikts out another claw, who hits Drake’s face and causes it to bleed a little. Wolverine grins that perhaps the middle claw will help jog Drake’s memory. Drake starts to sweat. A while later, Wolverine leaves interrogation cell 1, and ignores the fact that in cell 2 they’ve apprehended Pyro. He finds Jean in another room, who is busy trying to focus her telepathic powers to repair something. She apologizes to Logan, realizing she should have acted faster. She guesses she’s still recuperating from the Shadowcat attack. She promises to do better next time. Logan starts to take off, telling Jean’s she’s on the injured list for now.
Shortly after Logan-san has left, Jean finishes repairing the metal ball. But, without warning, sets the ball on fire and completely destroys it!
Outside, Cyclops is busy controlling the robot workers, who help the X-Men repair the damages on their mansion. He can’t help but love these robots. He sees Wolverine coming out of the mansion and asks where he’s going. With a serious look on his face, Logan tells Scott he’s going to add up the bill for repairs... he’s going to find the person who’s going to pay for this.
Just as Logan is gone, Storm walks out and tells Scott she’s going out for a while. Scott, looking at the beautiful dress Ororo is wearing, asks where she is going. Storm knows Scott has everything under control here, and the prisoners are secure. And since there’s nothing to do until Logan-san returns, she’ll just be out. She promises to be back soon. Jean comes out next, and angrily tells Scott that since she’s grounded, she isn’t going anywhere. Scott blushes.
Japan Town...
Walking past a river and a temple, Ororo tells Forge it’s good to see him again. Hesitant, Forge thanks Ororo for agreeing to meet him. Storm sees a tree and suggests they go sit under it. They walk over to the tree and Forge gives Ororo a drink he bought for her earlier. Moving close to him, Storm, with a big smile, asks Forge if he’s really finishing up his rookie year as a police officer. Forge admits that, claiming he’s actually with a special project. It’s pretty intense and they won’t let him out much.
When Storm asks what kind of assignment it is, Forge hesitates and then tells Ororo he’s just (she knows) trying to do his duty and fit in as best as he can, and apply his special skills to the job. He apologizes but he can’t talk about it too much. Storm thinks that means Forge is some kind of “secret agent.” Starting to sweat, Forge says they’ve talked enough about him and asks what Ororo does. Storm jokes she can’t talk about her work either. Forge thinks Ororo is mocking him, but she smiles that some people might call it flirting.
Later that night, the Dazzler disco...
Two door guards have already been taken out and lie unconscious on the floor, where everyone can see them. Wolverine, having taken out another guard, now has Emma’s scent and sarcastically thanks the guy for it. As people run away scared, Wolverine takes out his cell phone and contacts Cyclops. He tells him to gather the troops... he has found their target.
Again some time later, outside the Hellfire Club...
Standing in front of the gate of the Club’s house, Emma looks as if she’s waiting for something. After looking at her watch, Emma walks down the streets. She goes to stand in front of a dark alley. Wolverine appears in the shadows behind her, and asks Emma if she’s the girl he’s looking for. He explains the fine folks over at Dazzler’s tell him she might know something about the Ronin who thrashed his house last night. They were looking to hurt a friend of his.
Emma smirks that it looks like Wolverine needs to choose his friends better. Logan smells that Emma is new in town, and asks if she’s looking for new friends. Emma claims they could never be friends. She doesn’t associate herself with evolutionary missteps like Wolverine. And, she also believes, neither should Jean Grey. Jean shouldn’t be with “aberrant mutates” like the X-Men. Wolverine announces that Emma just spoke fighting words.
Frost grins at Wolverine that she hopes the guy better had brought help with him, if he wants to cross swords with her. Wolverine smiles he sure did, and Storm and Cyclops appear behind him. Emma runs away, and the X-Men follow her. Emma telekinetically lifts up some cars and throws them at the mutant heroes. Dodging the cars, the X-Men run over some other cars, so they can follow their new foe faster. The X-Men don’t notice they also ran over some police cars, who report to their base they’ve got a situation.
Emma continues to run away, but Storm flies up and lands right in front of her. Emma fakes she’s getting scared, and cries out for help. Armored police officers arrive, believing that “monsters are attacking that schoolgirl.” While calling for back-up, the police officers really see a young version of Emma, looking like a schoolgirl, who has made the officers believe she’s actually being attacked by monsters instead of the X-Men.