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Fear the Future, part 2: Start the Clock
Tuscola County, in the “Thumb” of Michigan. A farmer stops his tractor in the middle of a very large corn field. He gets out of the tractor and stands beside it, drinking some coffee from a thermos. Suddenly, crows begin to drop out of the sky around him. ‘The heck? Geez. Why’d them crows drop dead? They bin poisoned?’ he calls out as he spits his coffee out, before touching his head, and mutters to himself that he doesn’t feel so good. ‘Feels like that day-shah view thing…’ he mumbles. Funnily enough, the farmer gets out of the tractor and stands beside it, drinking some coffee from a thermos. Suddenly, crows begin to drop out of the sky around him. ‘The heck?’ he mutters as he spits his coffee out.
Time bugles and blisters, and in the tight locality of that one Tuscola County field, time spins on itself. Play. Replay. Crows die of old age, then live, and die again. That tiny moment of the farmer’s life loops over and over. There is a blinding light in the sky. Play. Replay. And, as Sam “Cannonball” Guthrie and Shan Coy Manh a.k.a. Karma both appear, time resets. ‘Margin of error?’ Karma asks. ‘Six months, plus or minus. Twenty-eight miles, plus or minus. Not bad, considering. I got a fix on Stroud’ Cannonball replies. Both mutants appear older, and their costumes are black and yellow - the yellow glows - it is made up of Warlock technology. Cannonball blasts back into the sky, ‘Ten minutes east, as the crow flies. Allow me’ Cannonball remarks. As they leave, a large flaming “X” remains in the corn field. ‘What in -?’ the farmer gasps as he stares at the symbol.
Meantime, at the Jean Grey School, in Westchester, New York, ‘Everybody stay where they are. I’m trying to get a scan’ Hank McCoy a.k.a. the Beast orders as he stands in the living room where his teammate Karma has vanished. He wears some high-tech glasses that gather readings, while Bobby “Iceman” Drake tries to keep several student from entering the room. ‘What happened?’ Kid Gladiator asks. ‘Professor Drake, what’s the flash?’ Oya asks. Genesis and Broo are with them, while Iceman tells them all to get back to their lessons. ‘We’ve just got a little situation here’ he explains.
Inside the living room four members of the visiting New Mutants are still in shock at their former teammate’s disappearance. Warlock, Doug “Cypher” Ramsey, Amara “Magma” Aquilla and Bobby “Sunspot” DaCosta listen to the Beast as he tells them that there is no sign of Karma, not even the micro-organic traces that you would expect if she had been sitting in the room until recently. ‘Which she was’ Cypher points out, while the Beast announces that he is definitely picking up scads of temporal residue. He then contacts Dani Moonstar via communicator, and tells her that there was definitely some kind of episode here, and would even use the word spasm, before asking her how Face is.
‘Very upset…I got him sedated in medical’ Dani replies, before confirming that she is down at Cerebro. Dani informs the Beast that Rachel Grey is running a sweep. ‘Wherever Sam and Karma went, we’ll find them’ Dani declares as she stands beside her teammate Nate Grey a.k.a. X-Man and their friend and current resident of the Jean Grey School, Clarice “Blink” Ferguson. ‘Sure, unless it’s “when” ever they went’ the Beast replies over the communicator. Dani suggests they put a in in that until they know they have to freak out about it. Suddenly, Rachel announces that she has a fix on both Cannonball and Karma. ‘Except it’s not Sam and Karma. Ooooh. That’s hard to explain’ Rachel mutters. She tells the others that it is like they are different somehow, before stating that she has pinpointed their location and it is a place called Stroud in Michigan. ‘Stroud?’ Dani asks, looking at Nate and blink. ‘Crap’ Blink mutters. ‘We gotta go’ Dani calls out as Blink teleports them into the living area, and then collects the rest of the New Mutants, before teleporting out again, as the Beast tells them to be careful.
Stroud, Michigan, a local community that is still putting the place back together after recent storm damage. The concert venue is a real disaster place. ‘I don’t remember this place’ the older Cannonball tells the older Karma as they walk through the debris. Karma replies that they weren’t on the mission here, as they were both on sabbatical. ‘It was definitely here though. This is where it happens’ she declares. Cannonball tells her to set her Lockware to scan, to see if they can get a context. Karma does so, but replies that she isn’t getting much. ‘Turns out we can learn more the lo-fi way. Look’ Cannonball calls out as he pulls a poster from a wall. ‘The bad…Diskhord. We’ve missed it’ Cannonball tells Karma. ‘Oh, no. please no’ Karma utters. ‘Damn that margin of error. We were so close’ Cannonball points out. Karma tells him that they should scan again and confirm that, as readings all point to this being the epicentric moment.
‘Sure. Of course. But we’ve got to face facts. We’ve probably failed’ Cannonball points out. Suddenly, amongst the rubble, the New Mutants and Blink materialize. ‘There! It’s them! Both of them! Thank God!’ Moonstar exclaims. ‘Hey, you two!’ Sunspot calls out as he approaches them. Moonstar grabs his shoulder and tells him to wait. ‘Why are they ignoring us’ Sunspot asks. ‘Is that what you see?’ Cypher asks, before stating that he sees entirely different patterns of body language in both of them. ‘They are Sam and Shan, except…’ his voice trails off. ‘Except what, Doug?’ X-Man enquires. Moonstar tells everyone to stop talking while she approaches them. She walks ahead of her fiends and calls out to Sam and Shan. ‘Sam Guthrie, this isn’t funny’ Dani exclaims when she gets no response. Sunspot waves his hands in front of Karma while Warlock pulls funny faces at her. ‘Can they see us? Why can’t they see us?’ Sunspot asks when Karma doesn’t react to he or Warlock.
Moonstar frowns and asks what is up with their costumes. ‘Is that Warlock Tech?’ Dani asks, before deciding that it isn’t her, but Sam and Shan look older. ‘Not sure. I don’t know them as well as you’ X-Man replies. ‘I’m serious, Nate. Like ten years older at least’ Dani exclaims. ‘So…future versions?’ Cypher remarks. ‘See, Doug, you say something like that and I’m already liking it less. Time travel stuff freaks me the hell out’ Sunspot declares as he looks at Karma. ‘I thought Asgard stuff freaked you out?’ Magma remarks. ‘This is getting silly. Sam, please -’ Dani calls out as she touches Sam on the shoulder, only to be knocked back by a surge of energy from the Warlock Tech. ‘Don’t -’ the older Cannonball begins, while Nate rushes over to the fallen Moonstar. ‘What the hell did you do?’ Sunspot calls out.
‘God, Shan! I didn’t want to hurt anybody. The contact field just shocked her. We have to explain this…’ Cannonball tells Kara, who replies ‘No communication! You know the rules!’ and her Warlock Tech shocks Sunspot, knocking him back. Warlock and Magma tend to Sunspot, while the older Cannonball is still concerned about Moonstar. ‘Guthrie! Come on!’ Karma calls out. Cannonball replies that he knows, but that he didn’t realize it would be so hard to see Dani again after all this time. ‘Enough. Let’s go. We have to end this contact’ Karma exclaims as she grabs Cannonball by his arm and starts to pull him away. However, ‘You’re staying right here’ Blink declares as she teleports in front of Karma, blocking her. Karma frowns, annoyed, she tells Cannonball to access his powers and resist the New Mutants as necessary.
Suddenly, a massive surge of lava rises up from the ground, separating the New Mutants from Cannonball and Karma, all courtesy of Magma. ‘Whoa! Magma, what the hell?’ Blink exclaims as she is knocked backwards. Cannonball tells Blink that he is sorry, and announces that they are leaving now. ‘Are you kidding me? Shan is using Amara against us!?’ Cypher calls out, annoyed, while telling Karma to get out of Magma’s head and to leave her alone. The possessed Magma continues to raise the lava from the ground below them. ‘Sam! Tell me what this is! Tell us what’s happening?’ Moonstar calls out. ‘Ignore her’ Karma tells Cannonball, who replies that he can’t. He steps through the flames, and tells the New Mutants that he doesn’t want to hurt any of them. ‘It’s so good to see you again. So Good. Dani…’ Sam exclaims as he embraces the surprised Moonstar. ‘Whoa, okay’ Dani declares.
But Karma is still in opposition and tells Cannonball to stop this. ‘You know what’s at stake!’ she exclaims as she still controls Magma, who aims some lava towards the others. Cypher reports that he can read the harmonics of their force field cycles - 3456.78 kilocepts. Doug tells Warlock that a sonic cannon should work, ‘Got it, Self / Friend’ Warlock replies as he transforms his arm into a sonic cannon and aims it at Karma. ‘Their force fields are disrupted!’ Cypher calls out, before turning to X-Man, who exclaims ‘X marks the spot’ as he takes Cannonball down with a psychic attack. ‘No!’ Dani shouts, but it’s too late. ‘They’re both down. Slick play, Ramsey’ X-Masn congratulates Cypher as he, Blink and Warlock gather around the fallen Karma.  Moonstar tends to Cannonball, while Sunspot goes over to Magma and asks her if she is okay. ‘Why did she do that? Why did Shan use me? She’s our friend!’ Magma exclaims, rubbing her head.
Later, at Mission Street, San Francisco, California, in the New Mutants’ apartment. ‘Friends? Friends explain things. Friends don’t act like that’ one of the New Mutants declares. With a scar over one of his eyes, the older Cannonball sits at the kitchen table and replies that he knows, but that he has to be careful as everything he says is a risk. ‘Of what?’ someone asks. ‘Creating ripples in the Timestream. Creating paradoxes that will wreck the future’ he explains. Moonstar and Magma sit at either side of Cannonball. X-Man stands with his arms folded behind Moonstar, Blink has ready the first aid kid. Warlock stands away from the others, while Sunspot brings over a tray of drinks. Cypher sits on a nearby sofa, where Karma is still unconscious.
Cannonball announces that they had to come back here, that there was an adjustment they needed to make - small, but vital. ‘What happened to Sam and Karma? I mean our Sam and -’ Moonstar begins, while Cannonball explains that you can duplicate, so they had to take the present Sam and Shan out of now. ‘That way we could step into your now without bad things happening’. He adds that it created a gap that he and Shan could transfer into so they could make their tweak. He adds that traveling back was a radical step, that they really didn’t want to, but that it was a last resort. ‘For months in our now we’ve been trying to make the adjustment remotely, using Karma’s power. We tried to make one of you make the adjustment. But there was no fine control. It just was too clumsy’ Sam explains, hanging his head.
‘So some of the weird things that have happened to us…the blackouts…that was Karma trying to control us from the future?’ Nate asks. ‘Yes. Oh, God, I’ve said too much already’ Cannonball exclaims, before raising a hand, and a small bubble of energy appears courtesy of the Warlock Tech. ‘What’s this?’ Moonstar asks. Sam explains that he is accessing his Lockware memory archive, and adds that it is just his personal images - his now, their future. ‘A photo album?’ Amara enquires. ‘Hey, look at that!’ Sunspot exclaims as an image of the New Mutants appears. ‘When is this? We’re all there. We look older’ Cypher remarks as he examines the holographic projection which consists of the New Mutants together for a photo shoot. ‘You can look, but I can’t explain. Words create much worse paradoxes’ Cannonball tells the others, before another projection appears. ‘Hey, look at Doug there!’ Blink smiles. ‘Nice apron, man’ Sunspot laughs as they watch the older Cypher standing over a barbeque.
More images appear: ‘If this is the future, it looks pretty good’ X-Man declares as he looks at an image of the New Mutants relaxing at a beach. ‘Hey, Amara, babe, look at us!’ Sunspot declares as a projection of he, Magma, Moonstar and Cannonball out at dinner is shown. ‘Are we moving out there? When does that happen?’ Moonstar asks as another image is shown. Cannonball remains silent, before another image appears, with Karma smiling as her arm is covered in the Warlock Tech. ‘When do we all get that?’ Magma asks, confused. ‘New uniforms!’ Cypher exclaims, while Warlock examines the new uniforms and tells his friends that it is not just Transmode, but more. ‘It was derived from your bio-organics. It was supposed to make things more - anyway…’ Cannonball announces, his voice trailing off.
Blink asks Cannonball why he would want to make an adjustment to this future. ‘Why would you need to? It looks great!’ she exclaims. Sunspot agrees, and points out that he has seen a few futures, and that they mostly suck. ‘This looks…pretty sweet’ he adds. ‘Oh God, you don’t see it, do you?’ Cannonball remarks. ‘I look at the pictures and I realize how they must seem to you. Happy, secure. But it’s not…it’s not’ he tells the New Mutants. ‘Take the Lockware. It was meant to liberate us, but it’s just on of his controlling devices’ Cannonball states. ‘Who are you talking about?’ Moonstar asks him, before Cypher enquires as to why he isn’t in any of the later pictures. ‘Sam, why have you avoided looking at me all night?’ Cypher asks. ‘Do I die? Sam, do I die again?’ Cypher exclaims frantically.
Suddenly, ‘EEARRRGHHH!’ Karma exclaims. ‘NYYAARGGHH!’ she calls out as her body convulses and she writhes about on the sofa. ‘What’s wrong with Karma?’ someone calls out. ‘He’s found us! He’s tracked us. We must’ve made too many ripples’ Cannonball announces. ‘Who?’ X-Man enquires. ‘The true / friend! He -’ Cannonball begins, before he is pulled backwards. ‘My Lockware! He’s trying to control my bodysuit!’ Sam exclaims. Karma is thrown to the ceiling, while Sunspot wonders what is happening to the tech in her suit. “Tendrils” extend from Karma’s armor and lash out at Blink and Sunspot, while Moonstar helps Cannonball up and asks him how they fight this. ‘Sam! God, we’ve got to get this suit off you!’ Moonstar exclaims. ‘You can’t!’ Cannonball replies. Dani looks into Sam’s eyes and asks him to tell her how to help him. ‘It’s part of us! Te tech is part of us!’ Sam replies.
Karma’s “tendrils” continue to lash about the room, and knocks Nate, Magma and Warlock over. ‘Holy crap! We’ve got to contain Shan before she levels the place!’ Sunspot calls out, before he blasts some energy towards her, but realizes that it has no effect, that she isn’t even feeling it. Moonstar calls out to Cypher, telling him she needs his help, as there is something wrong with Sam. But, Cannonball pulls away as Cypher comes over. ‘No! No! Don’t let him touch me!’ Cannonball exclaims, before he is also pulled into the air by tentacle extensions from the Lockware armor, ‘The true / friend. The true / friend!’ Cannonball exclaims. Karma joins in and they repeat that over again, while faceplates cover their faces. ‘Sam. Shan. You went behind my back. That’s not what friends do. Have I got to take control in this now too?’ a voice calls out, as identical faces appear where once the older Cannonball and Karma’s were. Sunspot and Moonstar stare up in horror: ‘Is that…Doug?’ Bobby asks. Dani replies that she thinks both of them are, and adds that they are in really big trouble.


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Fear the Future, part 3: All Present and Correct
‘I’m the True Friend? The…the True Friend is going to be me? Th-this isn’t happening!’ Doug “Cypher” Ramsey exclaims as he stares at a possible future version of himself, decked out in Warlock Tech armor. ‘It is, Douglas. It will. It already has for me. Face your future, don’t fear it. Tell yourself to embrace the possibilities!’ the future Doug announces.
But, chaos has erupted in the New Mutants’ San Francisco home, as the future Cypher has taken over the bodies of both the future Cannonball and future Karma. Tentacles spill from both bodies, comprised of Lockware, they thrash about, breaking furniture and generally creating a big mess, while the present New Mutants - Cypher, Dani Moonstar, Bobby “Sunspot” DaCosta, Amara “Magma” Aquilla, Warlock, Nate Grey a.k.a. X-Man and their friend Clarice “Blink” Ferguson watch on in horror.
The True Friend announces that he is very disappointed with Sam and Karma, as he had no idea they were so unhappy with things that they felt they had to come back here and try to change them. He adds that it’s required him to expend a ridiculous amount of energy projecting himself back through their Lockware to take control of the situation. ‘I’d come in person, but we can’t both be here, Douglas. And you have to be here’ the future Cypher remarks. ‘This really isn’t happening…’ Doug mutters, while Moonstar shouts ‘Explanation, somebody! Fast! How the hell is this happening? Doug…why is he you? Doug?’, but the present Cypher has no response. The True Friend, in the other body this time, states that the trouble is, Sam and Karma have made a mess, that they have created terrible ripples through direct interaction. ‘All of you now have fore-knowledge, and that makes you a ripple. I have to act decisively. Forgive me’ he calls out.
‘Look out!’ Magma warns as both future Cyphers launch an attack, knocking Magma and Sunspot aside. ‘What would make Doug turn against us?’ Sunspot wonders. X-Man is thrown aside by a tentacle as the True Friend explains ‘I haven’t turned against you. Quite the opposite’. Warlock catches X-Man in a net which he has transformed his hand into. ‘Dani! What do we do? Do we actually fight our friends?’ Sunspot asks as he dodges a tentacle which slams into the table. ‘We’ve no choice!’ Dani replies as she, too, dodges a tentacle. ‘Non-lethal restraint! Take them down before they trash us and the house!’ Dani calls out.
Suddenly, ‘Got it. Take them down…or take it outside!’ Sunspot exclaims as he grabs both future Cyphers and tackles them through the large window, taking himself with them. They land on the street below. X-Man, Warlock, Magma and Moonstar rush over to the window, ‘Good play from Sunspot! We’ve got more elbow room outside!’ Moonstar exclaims, while telling her team to back Sunspot up and protect the civilians and neighbors. Parked cars are turned over onto their sides as the future Cyphers attack Sunspot, a surge of energy rocks through his body. ‘Ouch! Bobby’s done!’ X-Man calls out, while Moonstar sees Bobby land against the door that leads to the apartment of the neighbor who lives below them. Dani drops down from the window onto ground level. She starts to walk down their stairs into their neighbor’s house, calling out to Bobby, and to Mrs Livitz, their elderly neighbor.
The two future Cyphers turn their attention to Magma, X-Man and Warlock. ‘Let’s keep them at arm’s length!’ Magma exclaims as she releases a burst of lava along the road. ‘Affirmative, Amara. The tech they wear makes them super-tough and dangerous!’ Warlock exclaims. Magma’s lava reaches one of the future Cyphers, the one in Karma’s body, but the one in Cannonball’s form is still moving. ‘As you’ll eventually learn, the Lockware soaks up pretty much any kinetic attack…and can effortlessly reuse the energy!’ the future Cypher exclaims as he uses the lava to raise a nearby car overhead. At the same time, Moonstar has found Sunspot, who is okay, but Bobby mutters that his head is spinning. ‘No sign of Mrs Livitz. I guess she must’ve been out, thank God’ Moonstar remarks, while the present Cypher points out that he doesn’t think anyone is anywhere.
‘Look out, Self / Friend Nate!’ Warlock calls out as the future Cypher throws the car towards Nate. ‘I got it’ Nate exclaims as he creates a telekinetic pulse to knock the car back - ‘Crap! I hit the tank!’ Nate warns everyone as there is a massive explosion. Nate, Magma and Warlock are also knocked backwards. Cypher moves forward and tells his teammates to look around: ‘With a blast like that…why is the street empty? Why aren’t there people fleeing?’ he calls out. Moonstar decides that Doug is right, and exclaims ‘The place is deserted!’ The two future Cyphers appear overhead, and one of them announces ‘Everyone is still there, Dani. it is you who are not. I’ve shunted us all sideways out of the timeline so we can stop damaging it. I have placed us in a state of un-time’ the True Friend explains.
The True Friend continues, revealing that he had to stop the ripples, so by removing the New Mutants from the timeline, he can shore up the butterfly effects. ‘It doesn’t matter what you do now, because there is no now. My future is safe’ he explains. ‘Can he do that? Is that even a thing?’ Blink asks as she suddenly teleports away. Sunspot tells Nate that they should check it out, and he pushes himself upwards on a surge of energy, landing on a rooftop high above the others. Nate closes his eyes and concentrates, informing his teammates that there are no minds here, except for them. Standing on the rooftop, Sunspot looks around the brightly-lit city and reports that there is no sign of any life as far as he can see.
Blink returns, ‘Did you -?’ Cypher asks her, but Blink announces that she went to Utopia, Westchester and Avengers Tower - ‘The whole planet is empty!’ she exclaims. The New Mutants and Blink regroup and look up at the two Cyphers. ‘Okay, you’ve got us. Explain why you’re doing this’ Moonstar calls out to them. ‘To stop Sam and Karma. I told you that’ one of the Cyphers replies. ‘They came to the past to alter the future. They didn’t want me to make the connection that would enhance me…but it had come so far. That device in Stroud…it showed me dimensions. It rewrote my brain so I could speak the language of dimensions’. The future Cypher continues, explaining that it could take total control of the Transmode technology in Warlock and splice it with the genome’s genetics.
The True Friend continues, stating that he could right all the wrong that had been done, that he could make everything better. ‘I could create the perfect closed system and look after everyone on Earth forever. Isn’t that what a true friend does?’ he asks. ‘Okay…that sentient alien black box interdimensional sat-nav thing? I think it did way worse things to Doug than we realized’ X-Man announces. ‘No kidding’ Dani mutters, while Cypher exclaims ‘But…but I don’t feel like that. And Sam and Karma - they can’t like this perfect future you’ve made if they’ve gone to these lengths to stop it!’ he adds. Warlock tells his friend that even benign dictatorship still equals dictatorship. ‘Warlock’s right. Can’t you see that? It doesn’t matter how good your intentions, if you control lives you don’t make them better’ Moonstar tells the future Cyphers.
The present Cypher announces that he wouldn’t want to live in a future run by him, or anyone else for that matter. ‘How would I even begin to know what the best choices to make for people are?’ he asks. ‘You know because it’s in your head. The scale of insofar. The omniscient scope’ one of the future Cyphers replies, adding that he will immediately know he knows what is best. ‘No. We reject this. Utterly!’ Moonstar calls out, annoyed. Suddenly, Warlock is taken under control by the future Cyphers. ‘Reject all you like. Protest. Be defiant. You forget…I control everything!’ the future Cypher exclaims as he downloads himself into Warlock, and using Warlock’s form, shifts into a larger size, and lashes out at the New Mutants, smashing his fist down, he breaks up the ground and knocks them over.
‘Warlock! He’s taken over Warlock!’ Sunspot shouts. ‘Look out!’ Cypher exclaims as he dodges the punch. He then calls out to Amara, who is wrapped up in one of the tentacles. ‘It’s got me!’ Amara shouts. The future Cypher tells her to relax, to accept the Lockware and let it end her fears, worries and doubts. Moonstar urgently tells her team to keep clear of Warlock and not to let his tech touch them, while ordering Sunspot and Blink to help Cypher. Blink teleports them up to where Cypher has been captured. ‘Get offa him!’ Sunspot exclaims, tugging at one of the tentacles. Blink then teleports away with Cypher, while X-Man tells Warlock that he is sorry, before knocking him over, crashing him into a nearby car, with a telekinetic surge. ‘Impressive’ Moonstar tells Nate, while Blink and Cypher teleport in. ‘Exhausting. Biggest TK push I’ve managed since my powers got cropped’ X-Man announces.
‘Pardon me for saying so, but aren’t we just delaying the inevitable?’ Magma enquires as she uses her power to melt the tentacle that is wrapped around her. She drops to the ground, while reminding her friends that the future Cypher can soak up anything they throw at him and dish it back - he told them so. ‘We can’t keep going indefinitely. It’s not like someone’s going to turn up and rescue us’ she points out. Moonstar tells Blink to take Warlock out of the equation, to put some miles between them. ‘I’ll give it a shot’ Blink replies, while Dani tells Doug that she thinks he is their only hope. ‘Give us some insight. Something!’ she exclaims, while Doug remarks that Nate is the real expert in alternate timelines. ‘I think that’s what we’re facing here’ Doug adds. ‘It’s not the future. It’s a future. This version of me is desperate to stop us doing anything that will change the course of his development’ Cypher points out, while Blink approaches Warlock, still possessed by the True Friend.
‘I mean, I can’t see the shape and inter-connection of space and time the way this other me does. But I can see the basics’ Cypher remarks, while Blink teleports herself and Warlock to Antarctica, and drops Warlock onto the cold landscape below. ‘He’s afraid of ripples. They damage his future. So let’s make some’ Cypher exclaims. Cypher points out that two versions of the same person can’t exist in the same time. ‘He told us that’ Doug adds. ‘So what happens if we bounce this Sam and this Karma back to wherever our Sam and Karma are?’ Doug suggests, before exclaiming that he needs Nate. The future Cyphers, still in the bodies of the future Cannonball and Karma, continue their rampage, tentacles thrashing about.
‘You know, I’m enjoying this. I’d forgotten how tenacious we used to be. But there’s really nothing to be afraid of - wait. What are you doing in there?’ one of the future Cyphers exclaims, while the present Cypher and X-Man are inside the Doug’s head. Doug explains to Nate that this is a trick he learned on Paradise Island to defeat the Ani-Mator, that Warlock helped him interface with his internal landscape, only he is not around now, which is why he needed Nate to form a rudimentary telepathic interface. ‘Dunno how long I can sustain it…’ Nate begins, but Cypher tells him that he just needs it to be long enough for him to disrupt his latent control of the Transmode, because what happens to him now happens to him then, even if they are outside the timeline.
At that moment, Blink teleports back to regroup with the New Mutants, as the future Cypher inside the body of the future Karma falls own, followed by the future Cannonball, who has regained control over his body. Dani and Cypher rush over to him, and Dani tells the future Sam that Cypher thinks he has restored the use of the Lockware to him. Sam replies that he has, and announces that he is not under the true friend’s control anymore. He turns to Cypher and remarks that he knew he would make sense of it, and decipher the problem. ‘I knew we could count on you, Doug’ the future Sam exclaims. ‘Not forever, clearly. You’ve got to go back’ Doug replies.
Suddenly, Warlock, still under the control of the future Cypher, appears. ‘Look out! He’s still got control of Warlock!’ Magma exclaims as the New Mutants are knocked aside. Cypher explains that he couldn’t disrupt the Transmode completely, while the future Cypher tells him to stop fighting. The possessed Warlock picks Doug up and the future Cypher states that he has only accomplished what the present Cypher is already thinking. ‘I am the future that you’re already designing. I am your outcome, and it will be better for everyone’ he states. ‘Let me GO!’ the present Cypher shouts, when suddenly, the future Karma puts the future Cypher under her possession, and he drops the present Cypher. ‘I’ve got him. God, he’s strong. Fighting me’ the future Karma exclaims.
X-Man tells the future Karma that they have got to go back, for if they go back, they break the un-time and reset things, at least for a while. ‘Ripples, huh?’ Karma remarks, while the future Cannonball tells Moonstar that they are going back, and that she should brace herself. ‘I hate to go. I hate to lose you a second time’ he adds. ‘What does that mean? Sam?’ Dani asks. ‘We’ve said way too much as it is’ the future Cannonball quickly adds. The future Karma taps something into her Lockware and announces ‘Temporal dilation set’. ‘But -’ Moonstar begins, before a brilliant light engulfs them all. ‘Can you feel that? It’s -’ Moonstar exclaims, before she, Sunspot, Magma, Warlock, Cypher, X-Man and Blink find themselves back in the New Mutants’ living room, with the present Cannonball ad Karma asleep on the sofas. ‘Everything’s back. Reset’ Moonstar remarks, before someone adds ‘Okay, so outside…’.
And, fifteen minutes later, Sam and Karma are awake, and everyone gathers around the kitchen table. ‘It’s like business as usual. A normal world full of people’ Nate reports, while Dani adds that putting two Sams and two Karmas in the same place caused enough of a paradox to whiplash everything back in place. ‘I hate time stuff’ Bobby mutters, while Cannonball announces that he doesn’t really remember anything, just a vague déjà vu, and Karma adds that she doesn’t even know where they went. ‘But I do. I don’t honestly know how I could ever become that, but it’s clearly a potential I have. Now I’m forewarned’ Cypher exclaims, while Warlock puts a comforting hand on his friend’s shoulder.
‘But that’s half the battle, Doug. That’s always the thing with alternate pathways. Trust me on this. You know what steps to avoid because you’ve seen the consequences’ X-Man declares. Cypher announces that he is going to seek help - expert help - and that he will work to get this out of his head. ‘This imprint the alien tech left behind’ he adds. Magma smiles at Doug and assures him that they will be here for him, every step, and Bobby agrees.
Shortly, Blink, Karma, Warlock, Cypher, Sunspot and Magma walk down a sidewalk, with Moonstar and Cannonball walking some distance behind their friends. ‘Come on, let’s go look at the world the way it should be. Remind yourself it doesn’t need fixing too much’ Nate tells everyone as he leads the way. ‘I could remind myself I’m really hungry’ Doug suggests. ‘That’s the spirit, man!’ Bobby exclaims. Sam and Dani both frown and narrow their eyes. ‘We have to watch him’ Sam remarks. ‘Oh, we really do’ agrees Dani.


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Fight the Future, part 1
San Francisco, specifically a booth at Ribstickers BBQ restaurant. ‘Okay, who’s hungry?’ a waiter calls out as he approaches the booth where nine friends are crammed in. ‘Why, that would be everyone’ Dani Moonstar calls out. ‘Well, enjoy your - food?’ the waiter gasps as Warlock extends a forked tongue and grabs some meat straight off the plate. Clarice “Blink” Ferguson laughs, while the waiter turns to Amara “Magma” Aquilla and tells her that Ribstickers hopes it all “sticks to your ribs”. ‘Well done staying on company message despite the distractions’ Amara smiles. The waiter quickly walks away, past two other staff, one of whom remarks ‘That blonde girl, Amara, nearly worked here. Can you imagine?’ to which the waiter sighs ‘Let’s cherish the “nearly” part of that sentence.
Sam “Cannonball” Guthrie pours himself a glass of soda and announces ‘This is great. How long has it been since we all hung out together like this?’ and adds that all it took was the threat of an insane megalomaniac from the future to do it. ‘Nice one, Sam!’ Dani whispers as she sits between Sam and Doug “Cypher” Ramsey. Sam quickly realizes what he said and tells Doug that he is sorry. ‘I dint mean -’ he begins, while Dani points out that the True Friend wasn’t Doug, just a possibility, which is never going to happen now. Doug frowns and replies that he isn’t sure. ‘The point is, it was my potential. It’s still…inside me. What if I can’t change my future?’ he asks. Doug reminds Dani that he can read her-  he can read her slightest micro-expression, and he sees that she has doubts. ‘That’s okay’ he assures her. ‘Self has no doubts, Self / Friend Doug! You are A-ok!’ Warlock exclaims as he leans into his dear Friend and wraps an arm around him. ‘Warlock! Ow! Not so tight!’ Doug exclaims.
Doug remarks that he is still feeling odd, and asks ‘Am I the only one?’, explaining that it feels like something is not right, that something is off. ‘I can’t put my finger on it. It’s like it’s right in front of me, but I can’t read it’ Doug explains. Dani asks Nate “X-Man” Grey if that could be shock from temporal shifting, ‘Absolutely’ Nate replies, adding that you shift enough alternates like he, and you’ll wind up with a father who’s only ten years older than you are, and a niece from an alternate future that may or may not exist. ‘And I’ve met enough other me’s to last a lifetime!’ Nate adds. With a martini glass in hand, Clarice tells Doug not to let the fact that might become a mad, universal dictator spoil a good time. ‘That could happen to any of us. Carpe Diem, my serious friend! Carpe Diem! Or, in this case, Carpe Margaritas!’ Clarice shouts, and one by one the young friends put their glasses into the middle of the table and clink them together - Sam, Dani, Doug, Warlock, Nate, Clarice, Amara, Bobby “Sunspot” DaCosta and Xi’an “Karma” Coy Manh. ‘To a new start!’ someone exclaims. ‘New start!’ everyone agrees.
Later, at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning in Westchester, New York. Doug sits in a chair, a device attached to his head with lots of wires sticking out of it. ‘I probably shouldn’t have…enjoyed myself so much last night. I am a little fragile’ Doug mutters, while telling Dr Hank McCoy a.k.a. the Beast that he is probably getting all sorts of weird readings. ‘Nope, just tequila fumes’ the Beast replies while hanging from the ceiling and reading monitors at the same time. The Beast tells Doug that he is fine, that there is a little background temporal radiation and some tachyon residue, but otherwise, Doug is as clean as a whistle. The Beast flips down to the floor, near where Sam, Warlock and Dani are sitting.
The Beast then gives Doug some pills and tells him to take one every four hours. ‘Are these for the temporal radiation?’ Doug enquires. ‘No, the hangover’ the Beast replies, before suggesting Doug lay off the “laughing juice” as he is a lightweight. The four friends leave the laboratory, and Warlock remarks ‘So you’re all right, Self / Friend? Hank / Friend says so, and he is an expert’. Doug replies that he doest feel all right, to which Dani suggests that that is the hangover talking.  Further down the corridor, they are greeted by Bobby, Amara, Clarice and Nate who are standing with Iceman and Kitty Pryde. ‘Kitty!’ Doug exclaims when he sees his old friend. ‘Hey, Ramsey. We were all worried about you’ Kitty tells him.
Doug turns away, but Kitty points out that some bad stuff happened to him, so Amara and Bobby were just explaining. ‘Whatever you need, we’re here for you’ she assures her friend, before asking him if he wants to stay at the school for awhile, adding that they could use his smarts for some language and semiotics tutorials, plus he could use a rest. Kitty then tells all the New Mutants that they are welcome to stay if they want. Dani thanks Kitty, but points out that they should probably stay in San Francisco. ‘Sure’ Kitty remarks, while Dani explains that she promised to keep the team close to Cyclops after the split. Kitty looks confused ‘“Split”? What split?’ she asks. The New Mutants all look concerned: ‘The split between Scott and Logan?’ Cannonball remarks. ‘The one that led to the two teams’ Dani declares.
‘What? That didn’t happen’ Kitty remarks. Iceman adds that Wolverine and Cyclops had a falling out, but that they patched it up, which is why a school was established here, to balance out their points of view. ‘Everything’s fine’ Iceman adds. ‘No, Bobby, it’s not. It’s not. I should have seen it! I should have read it! But I was too upset!’ Cypher exclaims, and he turns and walks away, with Warlock following him. ‘Ribstickers’ colors are red. Red, not blue. Not blue. Not blue’ Doug mutters to himself as he walks down the corridors. He tells Warlock that it is right in front of their faces - ‘X marks the spot…on the wrong side! It’s reversed!’ he exclaims, turning back and motioning at the X logo on the right side of Kitty’s jacket. ‘Doug! Calm down!’ Kitty exclaims.
Later, at Greenwich Village, Manhattan, in the dead of night, the darkness is shattered by a burst of pink light as Blink teleports in with Dani, Nate and Warlock. DanI points out that Doctor Strange alerted them to this crisis in the first place, so they need his insights. Nate tells everyone to remember that everything is going to feel odd, and adds that Doug was right - an alternate reality has imposed itself upon them so convincingly they can barely detect it. ‘It has absorbed us, making us forget our own “now” by gradually overwriting out memories’ Nate explains. Looking at Dr Strange’s house, Dani points out that it looks really quiet, before tapping on her wrist communicator, calling into Sam, she asks him how Doug is. In a communications room at the Jean Grey School, Sam assures Dani that Doug is fine. ‘He’s immersing himself in data, trying to read all the differences in this world’ Sam explains. ‘Tell her I’m trying to detect the point at which things switched, and fix it’ Doug calls out.
Blink asks if they are sure this is the place, for closer inspection reveals that Dr Strange’s home is boarded up and run down. Dani agrees and remarks that it doesn’t look very promising. Blink then teleports everyone inside, and they find books stacked up high. Dani tells her friends not to let her remind them that this world likes the way it is, and just because they want to change it, doesn’t mean it wants to change. ‘We’re the intruders’ she points out. They make their way up some stairs, ‘Spooky, much?’ Blink mutters, before exclaiming that it smells like something died in here. Moonstar calls out to Dr Strange, as they enter another room. ‘There!’ Warlock exclaims as he sees a dishevelled man in the corner. ‘Go away!’ the man calls out, before suddenly large worm-like creatures with gaping mouths appear. ‘Uh-oh’ Moonstar exclaims. ‘What the hell is this?’ X-Man exclaims. ‘Magic. That’s what’ Blink declares. ‘Definitely magic’.
Moonstar tells her teammates that they are just a distraction and to take them down hard and fast. X-Man fires some TK blasts at the demons, which seems to hurt them. Blink teleports about the room, while Moonstar attacks one with a knife. ‘So does steel! I think they’re pretty weak…more an illusion than full-on sorcery!’ Moonstar announces. Blink declares that they also can’t harm them if the creatures are not here, and she teleports them away - but in the process, webs flick toward the young mutants. ‘Cobwebs!’ X-Man exclaims. ‘Okay, they do have some threat potential’ Moonstar mutters as some cobwebs wrap around her. ‘Don’t let it stick to you, Self / Friends! It will pin you!’ Warlock calls out. Blink comes to Moonstar’s rescue, as Moonstar tells her that she thinks they are better off stopping the guy behind the spells rather than trying to fight the spells themselves. ‘On it, Dani!’ Blink replies as she chases after the dishevelled man who is making his way out of the room.
‘Stop this, now!’ Blink calls out, but the man spins around and tells her to leave him alone, while casting a spell - only for Blink to retaliate by opening a portal around his neck. ‘All right! All right!’ I’ll cancel the spell!’ the man exclaims. ‘Doctor Strange?’ Moonstar asks as she approaches him. ‘Is it the same guy?’ X-Man asks, while Moonstar tells him that they need to talk. Shortly, they are gathered in another room, with a fire blazing in the fireplace. ‘Doctor, we came to find you because you and the Defenders visited us. You warned us about a problem, a problem concerned us and our friends’ Moonstar reminds him. ‘You’re just manifestations…manifestations of the reality that went wrong…’ Dr Strange replies.
‘Do you remember, Doctor? You and the Defenders?’ Moonstar asks him. Dr Strange tells her that there are no Defenders, that they were disbanded years ago. ‘Never saw Surfer again. Never saw Hulk after they exiled him into space…’ he reveals, adding that he knew something was wrong, that he knew reality was twisted out of shape, but no one listened to him. Holding a mug of hot drink in his hands, Dr Strange states that only those rare few sensitive to the vibrations of reality could tell, but some had seizures and breakdowns, while some took their own lives in madness. ‘Poor, poor Clea’ he mutters, before telling the New Mutants that his life fell apart, that he was acutely aware that reality had buckled, but there was nothing he could do, as a malevolent entity outside time was choking the Timestream and creating eddies and ripples. ‘It’s taken a hard toll on me. As you can see by my present circumstances’ he adds.
Moonstar tells Dr Strange that they need his help, they need the Sorcerer Supreme. ‘But I’m not that! I’m nothing! I’m not the Sorcerer Supreme!’ Dr Strange exclaims as he throws his mug to the ground, shattering it. ‘I’m just a drunken wreck’ Strange mutters as he stands up and puts his head in his hands. Moonstar goes over to him and puts a hand on his shoulder, ‘I think you’re still in there, Doctor’ she tells him, pointing out that what he did with the dust and the cobwebs takes skill. ‘Just tell yourself this, Doctor. For the first time, someone believes you’.
Back in Westchester, Kitty enters the communication room and sees Amara and Sam. ‘How’s Doug?’ she asks. Amara announces that he still noting everything down, all the discrepancies he can find, like he is obsessive compulsive. Sitting at the desk, with various monitors in front of him, Doug calls out ‘I can hear you. I’m not going mad or anything…there are just so many tiny differences’. Doug adds that he is becoming convinced that this isn’t just not their timeline, but that it is worse. He stands up and holds a piece of paper with his notes up into the air. ‘Forget the reversal of our uniforms and Ribstickers having the wrong color scheme. Myspace is more popular than Facebook! Lennon is alive!’ he shouts. Amara and Sam look shocked, while Kitty asks ‘Your point?’ Doug decides that this isn’t just the wrong timeline, but that it is a timeline that should not exist. ‘This reality is a mash-up. It’s laden with paradoxes. This timeline has been forced into being’ he tells his friends.
At that moment, Bobby enters the room carrying a tray of food and drink. ‘Snack break! Hey, we need to eat, right?’ he points out, before asking why everyone is so serious. Kitty tells Bobby that things are getting weirder, and states that they are going to have to call Logan and Scott in, as this is getting big. Karma enters the room, with her companion, Face. ‘Hey, everyone. I thought Face could join us for a while’ she tells the others, adding that Face has been really upset since she went missing. ‘Karma, maybe this isn’t the best time to -’ someone begins, when suddenly, Face pulls away from Karma and then pushes her aside. His Face glows, and Cypher tells him to calm down, before Face releases a surge of energy.
Bobby manages to pin Face to the ground, and he tells the others to help him get Face under control. Iceman appears behind Sunspot, who then asks if everyone is okay. Sam and Amara are beside Kitty, who is holding Doug’s motionless body in her arms. ‘He was just grazed, but…Bobby, oh no, look!’ Kitty exclaims, when she sees a burnt form nearby - and then announces ‘Karma’s dead!’


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Fight the Future, part 2
There is a language to life and death. It varies in nuance from universe to universe, but it is essentially the same. A binary state. First it is off - 0. Then it is on - 1. And out of life comes death, and out of that temporary death, life is rewritten. Recoded. Reformatted. Transmoded. Transformed. Returned. Deep within an ocean, some fish swim about. Suddenly, a hand bursts up, right through one of the fish, which is then infected with the Transmode Virus. Following that, several figures burst through the water’s surface.
Utopia, San Francisco. And, when life is recomposed in such a way, when it is rewritten and sent back - 0110 - it is invariably with a purpose. Six figures appear on the shore of Utopia, trudging up through the water. The purpose needs no translation. 01100101011. Their eyes glow red. They are the Hellions. ‘010001101101’ exclaims one of them.
Elsewhere, Doug “Cypher” Ramsey screams as he wakes from his dream, or, rather, her nightmare. He sits up in bed. The pain of his burns keeps him awake. He remembers what happened. That awful thing - Face lost control and he blasted him, hurting him. Big deal, for much worse than that, Face killed - suddenly, Doug looks out the window, and sees several figures walk past, three of them are carrying a coffin overhead. ‘Wait! Wait! I can’t be late! I can’s miss the funeral!’ Doug calls out as he rushes outside. ‘Not her funeral. Not Karma’s’ he thinks to himself, remembering the attack that killed Karma and injured him. He stands amongst some gravestones - Jean Grey. Banshee. Nightcrawler. Caliban. Synch. ‘Wait! Don’t start without me!’ he shouts.
But the others don’t turn to him, they just walk past him. ‘Hey, can you hear me? What’s happening?’ Cypher exclaims, when, suddenly, ‘What is that? What is that?’ he gasps as a tentacled creature rises from another crave - his own grave. The headstone reads “Doug Ramsey: Born. Died. Reborn. May he rot in hell for eternity”. Doug realizes that it is some kind of Transmode / organic hybrid, some kind of horror. ‘Help me! Can’t you see it? Help me!’ Doug exclaims as the mourners turn to him, surround him, reach out to grab him - but when he sees their faces, they are different - they are Transmode. ‘100001’ one of them gasps. Another tells him not to resist, and another orders him to comply.
‘You’re me! You’re all me! You’re -’ Doug bursts out as he sees the faces in more detail. ‘You’re everything and everywhere and inside my head and in all universes and -’ Doug thinks to himself, when suddenly, he screams again, and sits up in bed. ‘Okay. I hope to God this is waking up for real this time’ Doug tells himself inside the lodge home of therapist Gus Grim, in the Colorado Mountains. Doug remembers that Mr Grim invited the New Mutants here after Karma’s funeral. ‘Morning’ a woman calls out as Doug enters the kitchen, where some of his teammates are eating breakfast. ‘Good morning Ellie’ Doug replies. Doug knows that this is a safe place, a sanctuary where they can quarantine themselves from this altered reality and interact with it as little as possible.
‘Breakfast, self-friend?’ Warlock smiles as he and the others turn to Cypher. Bobby “Sunspot” DaCosta, Nate “X-Man” Grey, Amara “Magma” Aquilla and Clarice “Blink” Ferguson all turn to Doug and smile, but they are too nice, he can feel their caution when he is around. ‘They know the bottom line is I did this’ Doug tells himself. A television is switched on, and a news reader announces that King Namor of Atlantis, whose war with the so-called “surface dwellers” has intensified. As he sits down, Doug tells himself that this reality is so messed up. The news reader explains that King Namor has been in conflict with the surface since his wife, Susan Storm, and their young children, were slain in battle with Ms Storm’s ex-husband, Reed Richards, and subsequently King Namor has vowed vengeance on all. ‘Soooo messed up’ Doug thinks, watching a recording of Namor attacking some soldiers.
Magma tells everyone that they need this to stop, or that they need to find a way out of here. Blink agrees, and adds that she recognizes everything about this world, but that none of it fits together. Sunspot asks Doug if he has figured anything out yet, to which Magma tells Sunspot to give Doug time, but Doug replies ‘You mean about the evil, future version of me who’s behind all of this?’. Sunspot tells him ‘As a matter of fact, yes’, and asks about Dr Strange’s idea, and whether Doug is strong enough to try it. ‘I…I…uh…’ Doug’s voice trails off, and suddenly, he knocks a glass of juice off the table and onto Sunspot. Bobby brushes the juice off and after Doug apologizes, tells him that it was not his fault. ‘It is! It damn well is! Everything is my fault!’ Doug exclaims, before turning and walking away. Warlock calls out to his friend, but Doug tells him that he just needs to be on his own. ‘Is it just me, or is he getting closer to the edge? How long are we going to let him…you know…go around unsupervised?’ Bobby asks. ‘I mean, shouldn’t we watch him? What if he…starts to become what we all know he’s going to become?’ Bobby suggests.
Outside, ‘Hey, Douglas’ Gus Grim calls out to Doug as he approaches a barn, where Gus is prepping a horse, Sam “Cannonball” Guthrie leans against a fence, while Danielle Moonstar is riding a horse. ‘Mr Grim’ Doug replies, while Sam asks his friend if he has come for a ride. Doug replies that he doesn’t think it is his thing, while Dani sees Doug and waves and smiles at him ‘How are you?’ she calls out as she rides over to the fence. ‘Oh, not so bad, you know…’ Doug replies, when suddenly, the horse starts snorting and looks panicked. Dani tells the horse to take it easy, while Doug turns away and throws his hands into the air, exclaiming ‘Actually, I’m not okay. Even your horse knows that there’s something wrong with me!’ Doug points out. He throws a hand to his face and exclaims that this is all his fault.
Dani tells Doug to calm down, and points out that the future isn’t set. ‘You are not that person’ she assures him. ‘Not yet’ Doug mutters. ‘Not ever’ Dani declares, and tells him that if he helps them, he is the best chance they have got of altering his destiny and putting things right. She reminds him that Dr Strange has a plan, if he is up to it. ‘Only one way to find out, right?’ Doug asks. ‘Pretty much’ Dani tells him.
When the New Mutants tracked Dr Strange down, they found he was a drunken mess. But they have brought him with them to dry out, as they are going to need his help if they are to put this right. Now, night has fallen, and the New Mutants have joined Dr Strange in a sweat lodge. Dr Strange tells them that what they are about to do is dangerous, delicate and they may not succeed. ‘Question, Dr Strange? Do we have to do it in Grim’s sweat lodge?’ X-Man asks. Strange explains that it helps focus the efficacy of the conjuration. ‘It helps focus the efficacy of my perspiration, more like’ Doug mutters, while Strange announces that he is going to attempt to unlock and trace the astral pathways to Doug’s future self, and thus discover exactly where and how reality has been dislocated.
The Multiverse appears above them, and Strange states that it is the infinite temporal link between possible Earths, and that time flows with unnatural rapidity in this reality. Strange explains that the future is pressing backwards into theirs now like a malevolent entity, that it is shaping the present to suit its own needs. ‘How? How can it do that?’ Doug asks. Dr Strange tells him to think of the future like a black hole, altering the universe around it with its extreme gravitational force. ‘So…we’ve got to change the future to make the now revert to normal? We’ve got to change the future rather than the past to get the present to reset?’ X-Man asks. ‘Yes’ Dr Strange confirms.
As the fire flickers on the ground before them, Doug remarks ‘That sounds like a paradox. An infinite and inaccessible recursion’. Strange confirms that it will be hard and very demanding. ‘Wait…wait…there’s something in the flames’ Doug exclaims, as an eye starts to form. ‘Everything. You’re everything and everywhere and inside my head and in all universes’ Doug reminds himself, before shouting ‘Look out!’ as the mysterious creature appears, its tentacles wrapping around Sunspot and X-Man, knocking them back. Dani orders everyone to get clear of that thing, while Strange casts a spell to banish the entity. It works, and the tentacles disappear in the flames, as Dani goes over to Cypher, who was whacked by the tentacles before the creature was banished. ‘It may be too late, Doctor. Doug’s hurt!’ Dani exclaims, but as she helps him up, Doug whispers to her that it is okay, that he saw it, and he knows what to do.
‘I know what I have to do now’ Doug thinks to himself, as the next day, he stands on the edge of a cliff, looking very far down to the canyon below. ‘I have to end. If I end, my future self never happens. His future never comes into being. Time should snap back to where it’s supposed to be. It should reset and undo all the changes. It should bring Karma back’ Doug decides.  ‘A life for a life. One life for the whole future’ he tells himself, some small rocks suddenly giving way beneath his feet as he stands on the edge. ‘If I only I could! But I’m not brave enough…’ he realizes. Suddenly, a strange voice calls out ‘Don’t you dare!’, and he turns his head around, but in the process, loses his footing, and he falls. ‘Help me! I can’t!’ Doug shouts, but he manages to grab hold of a ledge, though he is hanging hundreds of feet in the air. ‘What are you?’ Doug calls out.
However, Doug manages to pull himself up onto stable ground, ‘Wait…I know you! I recognize you! Oh my God!’ Cypher exclaims, as standing before him are the Transmode infected Hellions - Tarot! Roulette! Catseye! Jetstream! Beef! Bevatron! ‘We’re here to keep you alive, Douglas. Whether you want to be or not’ Tarot announces. Beef grabs Cypher and picks him up. ‘Let me go!’ Cypher exclaims, while Tarot points at Cypher and remarks ‘Who would have thought that something so great could emerge from such an unprepossessing pupae?’ Suddenly, blasts from above are fired down on the Hellions. ‘Solar blasts!’ Tarot exclaims, as a teleport signal above sounds the arrival Moonstar, Sunspot, X-Man, Magma, Warlock and Blink. ‘Back. The hell. Off’ Sunspot warns the Hellions.
The New Mutants drop down to ground level, and Moonstar aims her bow and arrow at the Hellions, warning them to let Doug go. The Hellions stand in front of Cypher and Tarot announces that if they want Cypher, they will have to get through them. ‘We’ve already died. What are you going to do to us?’ Tarot asks. ‘Stop! Stop this!’ Cypher calls out, before screaming and putting his hands over his head. X-Man points out that Doug is having some kind of seizure. ‘It’s starting!’ Tarot exclaims. While Blink asks how Doug is making those noises. ‘Yes!’ Jetstream declares. ‘Doug!’ Magma calls out, concerned, while Roulette tells the New Mutants that Doug doesn’t need their help. An instant later, Doug emerges from a sack of tentacles, his body is gray, with lots of glowing eyes all over it. ‘I don’t need anything anymore! The time has come, quite literally. The future is now!’ Cypher exclaims - ‘And the future is ME!’


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Fight the Future, part 3
Danielle Moonstar feels a surge of power - unmistakable power. Unbidden, the gifts granted to her by the goddess Hela manifest. That can only mean one thing, that even here, trapped in a version of the world that has been twisted beyond recognition, she is not just Dani Moonstar of the X-Men, but Dani Moonstar, Valkyrie. Clad in Asgardian attire, her sword glows, as Dani and her teammates in the New Mutants face off against the Transmode-infected Hellions. At the same time, Doug “Cypher” Ramsey has been transformed into a diabolical future version of himself. ‘Take them, Hellions! Take them down! Occupy them long enough for me to overwrite this timeline with my future!’ the True Friend orders. ‘New Mutants! Move! Protect Doug!’ Moonstar orders, while thinking to herself ‘Protect him from himself. A screwed up future version of our friend Doug Ramsey. No matter what we do, we can’t seem to stop this grim destiny from coming true’.
‘He’s throwing our old rivals, the Hellions, against us’ Dani tells herself, knowing that Doug has brought them back from the dead using the Transmode Virus. Sam “Cannonball” Guthrie goes up against his old sparring partner, Haroun-ibn Sallah al-Rashid, alias Jestream, and uppercuts him in the face. Moonstar decides that the Hellions, being dead, are perfect time-travel servants, because being dead they cannot create temporal paradoxes by existing in the same time twice. Bobby “Sunspot” DaCosta and Amara “Magma” Aquilla face off against Buford “Beef” Wilson and Fabian “Bevatron” Marechal-Julbin.
Dani knows that the Hellions are also why her Valkyrie powers have kicked in, as New Mutant ally Clarice Ferguson, better known as Blink, faces off against the luck-powers of Roulette a.k.a. Jenny Stavros. Moonstar is a Valkyrie once more because she is in the presence of the dead, compelled to collect their souls. Marie-Ange Colbert a.k.a. Tarot attacks Nate “X-Man” Grey by creating a large knight to battle him, while in her purple Catseye form, Sharon Smith lunges at the alien New Mutant called Warlock.
‘Fend them off! I have a plan! And you’re not going to like it’ Dani tells her team, before ordering Magma to rip the ground out from under Bevatron. ‘Got it’ Magma exclaims as she ducks a blast of energy that Bevatron fires towards her. Bevatron loses his footing his footing, and Dani leaps up from behind him, she then shoves her sword into him, and Bevatron screams in anguish, before collapsing to the ground, the Transmode infection spilling out of his body. ‘Oh my God! Dani ,you killed him!’ Magma gasps, but Dani explains that she unbound his soul and freed him from the infection that was chaining him to his reanimated corpse. ‘It was a mercy’ Dani adds.
‘No! This is not good at all! She can cut their souls free?’ the True Friend booms, unimpressed, before ordering Roulette to bring them to him, one by one. ‘Yes, True Friend’ Roulette complies, as she throws a bad-luck disc at one of Blink’s portals, teleporting her straight towards the True Friend, who looms over her. ‘Dammit! She jinxed my portal! Blinked me straight to him!’ Clarice complains, while the True Friend tells her that it is time she was overwritten by her future self, before Blink screams, as the True Friend puts her under his control. ‘Dani! He just switched Blink out! She’s fighting for them now!’ Magma alerts Moonstar, while throwing some flames between Blink and herself. ‘I see it!’ Moonstar replies, while telling her team not to let evil Doug touch them, as he will replace them with their future self.
‘Dani! Look out!’ Cannonball cries from above, before he swoops down and tackles Jetstream from behind, as Jetstream tried to grab Dani, but Dani already saw Jetstream and she holds her sword up, as Cannonball gasps ‘Jeez, Dani!’ when he blasts forward, with Jetstream held out front, and the Hellion lands on Dani’s sword. ‘I’ve freed his soul. That’s two of them down!’ Dani exclaims. However, Sam is still propelling himself forward, and he takes Dani with him. ‘We’re spinning out of control. Turn off you afterburners!’ Dani tells him, before they both crash to the ground. At the same time, the True Friend manages to grab hold of Sunspot, ‘You should have listened to Dani and no let me touch you!’ the True Friend exclaims, while Sunspot cries out, as he falls under the True Friend’s touch, although Warlock is nearby, and Bobby manages to tell him to stay back.
‘You too, Warlock. Self / friend’ the True Friend exclaims, turning his attention to Warlock, he wraps some tentacles around him, while Dani gets to her feet and tells Warlock to break free. ‘Self…cannot!’ Warlock shouts, so Moonstar cuts the tentacles trapping him, but too late, as Warlock just disintegrates.
Moonstar leaps towards the True Friend, who reveals that Warlock has no future self, ‘In the future, he is me’ the True Friend explains. ‘Damn you -’ Dani begins, but she screams as the True Friend shoves a tentacle through her stomach. ‘You won’t have me! You won’t - I -’ Moonstar begins as her form begins to change, but, suddenly, she realizes that she is somewhere else. ‘Smells wrong. Feels wrong. I’ve changed places…times even’ she tells herself. Moonstar realizes that she is covered in what the True Friend calls Locktech, and it crawls over her, starts getting inside her, but she fights it, using her might, she forces the Locktech out of her, and appears normal once more, in her Valkyrie attire. ‘GET OFF ME!’ she screams, before deciding that she has to find a way out of here. She holds her sword out and starts to cut her way through the black and yellow that seems to surround everything.
Suddenly a voice calls out, ‘Dani?’ and she turns, to see Sunspot and the others, ‘Oh my God, Bobby? All of you!’ Dani gasps as she sees them all wearing Hellion costumes, all trapped in the black and yellow Transmode. ‘You came. You finally came. We’ve been waiting for so long, Dani. Waiting for you!’ Sunspot states. Bevatron tells Dani that they are here to take her to him, that he is waiting for her. ‘He’s your True Friend’ Bevatron promises. Dani hangs her head and supposes that she has come this far, so she had better see him - face-to-face. Sunspot motions in the direction, telling Dani that the travel veins will transport them to the True Friend. They enter the travel veins and Dani sees that everything is covered by the Locktech and controlled by it, as if hr used the Warlock techno-virus to take over the whole world. ‘Is this the future?’ she wonders. ‘Is this the future Doug makes for us?’
Suddenly Dani asks ‘What on Earth -?’ as literally everything is covered in the Locktech and huge tentacles billow up into the air. ‘No, Dani. Not on Earth at all’ Sunspot tells her. Moonstar turns to him and asks him what he means. Sunspot tells her to look through the enclosing membrane that protects their world, and she does, seeing the Earth above her, covered in blackness and flames. ‘That’s the Earth? Dead! We’re on the moon?’ Dani exclaims. Sunspot explains that it is their home now, the perfect closed system, hermetically sealed and controlled by the True Friend for the good of all. Dani finds herself in another strange surrounding, with pink all around, and blue and green balls floating past. ‘Where is this?’ Dani enquires. ‘It’s my inner cortex. The place that runs the world. The mind that runs the human race’ a voice calls out. ‘Doug?’ Dani asks. The True Friend’s face drops down on some tentacles, and a body starts to form from it.
‘You’ve enslaved everyone, Doug!’ Moonstar tells him, but the True Friend claims that he has taken charge, that he had to, as the New Mutants forced it on him. ‘What? How?’ Dani asks. ‘You defeated me. I ran the future…this future…benevolently, as a kind custodian. But Sam and Shan rejected that. They fled back to your era. They warned you. And you stopped me’ he reminds her, adding that this is the replacement future, the future where he takes full control. Arms outstretched, the True Friend explains that his first act was to absorb the bastardized timeline that the New Mutants were stranded in, and that he is currently overwriting its reality with this future. ‘My future is consuming that past, making this a certainty. Your Douglas must now become me’ the True Friend adds.
However, the True Friend admits that Dani is an anomaly, as her Valkyrie powers offer her some immunity from his control. He reveals that he cannot bring himself to harm her, because she is the one human he has ever truly loved. He extends a tentacle and brushes it across her face. Images of dead Dani’s appear around the True Friend as he explains that in every other iteration of reality, in every other possible timeline, Dani has died and has love has been unrequited. ‘I have brought you here so that it can never happen again’ the True Friend states. ‘I have brought you here so that we can be together in this perfect future’. But Dani tells the True Friend that Doug would never do this, not the Doug she knows. ‘He wouldn’t ruin the world in some insane effort to save it. And he wouldn’t do it in the name of love’ she adds.
The True Friend throws his head back and laughs, ‘I don’t think you realize just how much he loved you. He -’ the True Friend begins, when suddenly, he cries out in agony, and Moonstar sees Doug, the real Doug, as the future overlaps the past, Cypher is trying to take control. ‘Doug! Fight him! Fight the future!’ Dani encourages. The True Friend tells Doug to stop, that he doesn’t understand anything and wouldn’t know the first thing to do with these powers and capabilities. ‘Let me find out for myself!’ Doug retorts as he tries to pull away from the True Friend. ‘I can’t make a much worse job of it that you!’ Doug points out. Dani tells Doug to control the Locktech, as that is how the True Friend commands everything. ‘Take the system down!’ she calls out.
Moonstar falls to her knees as a cascading effect follows, and the struggle between the present and future Doug Ramseys starts to tear this place apart. She doesn’t know how much more the moon can take, while Doug glows above her and announces that he has him, for a moment. Doug, in control of the True Friend, tells Dani that he refuses to be ruled by his past, by the Re-Animator or the alien black box - and he refuses to be ruled by this future. He asks her to end this now, while there is still a chance. Dani looks at Doug, he appears half as his present self and half as the True Friend. ‘Only you can do it. End it! END ME!’ Doug shouts. ‘Damn you, Doug. That was why you did this, wasn’t it? That was the real reason you sent the Hellions after us. You knew the dead would activate my Valkyrie power. And make me the only person who could do this’ Dani thinks to herself, as she shoves her sword into Cypher / The True Friend.
Energy bursts forth from Doug, while Dani knows that he was planning how to kill his future self for a very long time, that he buried the idea in his own mind so he would make the right choices. ‘You always were so very smart’ Dani thinks to herself. The energy pours over their friends who are nearby, ‘You’ve killed the future…to save the past’ Dani tells herself, before there is a large surge of white energy, and Cypher whispers ‘Thank you’.
‘Yyaaaahh!’ Doug screams as he sits up in bed. Dani is sitting at his side, while the Beast stands nearby. Dr Strange holds glowing hands out over Cypher and tells him to be calm, and that all is well. ‘where am I?’ Doug asks. The Silver Surfer is also in the room, as Dani tells Doug that he is in Westchester, at the Jean Grey School, and that Dr Strange has just finished performing mystical surgery on him. Dani smiles as she informs Doug that Dr Strange has removed that interdimensional entity from his mind and banished it. The Beast asks Dr Strange if everything checks out, and Strange confirms that everything is back in order. ‘Reality as we knew it…and as we would wish it…is restored’ he announces.
Dr Strange tells everyone to be aware that all of those who were present in the fractured future will remember fragments of it for some time - a temporal hangover, if you will. Cypher looks at Dani and tells her that he doesn’t know what happened, or what he did - or didn’t do. Dani kisses Cypher on his cheek and tells him to relax, as he needs rest. But Doug gets up and looks out the window, while Dani tells him that he saved the now by giving everything in the then. Gazing out the window, they see Karma alive, and sitting outside with Face, while Sunspot, Warlock, X-Man and Magma are fine, and are outside with Iceman and Kid Gladiator. ‘Self / friend!’ Warlock calls out. ‘Hey, Doug!’ Karma exclaims, waving up at the window, she asks him if he is coming to join them. Tears begin to form in Doug’s eyes, while Dani smiles and remarks ‘And they all lived happily ever after. All of them’.


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House Party
How far away from Earth is this? Who knows? The edge of Kree space, close to where the cataclysmic cosmic phenomenon known as the Fault once tore space open... and devastated these systems with lethal interdimensional energies. Now, these ruined planets are just a battleground. A horrific techno-organic beast rises, and a lone alien stands before him. ‘Self spent so long defeating you, Siredam. So very long... but in self’s hour of weakness, you have returned. You will not best Self!’ the alien exclaims, before he takes flight, adding ‘Even if you pursue Self... to the ends of time and space!’ And with that, he soars through the cosmos.
Meanwhile, at one end of time and space, in the city known as San Francisco, ‘Yeah, that’s dead. Really dead, Sam’ Bobby “Sunspot” DaCosta tells his friend Sam “Cannonball” Guthrie as they, Warlock and Nate Grey a.k.a. X-Man stare down at a destroyed barbeque grill. ‘That’s the deadest BBQ grill I’ve ever seen’ someone remarks. Holding up a strange device, Sam explains that he thought this fusion lance he borrowed from the Beast’s R & D might do the trick. ‘I mean... I come from a big family. Someone else always lit the grill’. You’ve just killed it, man. You’ve killed it dead’ Nate tells him, and Sam looks quite nervous as Amara “Magma” Aquilla enters the New Mutants’ backyard. ‘How’s it going out here, masters of fire?’ she asks them, smiling. ‘Amara, we –’ one of them begins, but Amara glows with flaming power and mutters’ Honestly, if you want something done right...do it yourself!’ There is a rumbling, as Magma raises a small piece of land in the backyard as if it was a volcano, which the others can use as their new BBQ. ‘Thanks for the... magmatic char-grilling mini-volcano’ Bobby calls out.
Inside, Dani Moonstar and Xi’an “Shan” Coy Manh a.k.a. Karma are preparing some food. ‘Ooops, I think Amara just shamed the boys and their fire-making abilities’ Xi’an remarks. Dani points out that the boys should have asked Amara in the first place. ‘How’s that punch coming, Doug?’ Dani calls out to Doug “Cypher” Ramsey who is sitting on a sofa stirring some punch. He doesn’t respond, so Dani throws a tomato at him. ‘Ow! Tomato?’ Doug calls out. Karma’s student Face sits in another couch, while Karma announces that she will take the rest of the salad out to the yard. Face follows her, and Dani tells Doug that he has to stop brooding. ‘But, Dani, the future where I ruled the –’ Doug begins, but Dani interrupts, assuring him that it isn’t going to happen. ‘And Shan –’ he begins, ‘She’s fine!’ Dani tells him, adding that the timeline where she got killed was reset, so Doug needs to stop being weird around her. ‘Okay, okay. But what if no one comes to our party?’ Doug asks, pointing out that it was supposed to start a half hour ago.
‘Everyone’s just fashionably late, Doug, and –’ Dani begins, when suddenly, there is a BLINK, and she announces that the first guests have arrived. Dani and Doug head out to the backyard with some food, joining the other New Mutants amongst their guests from the Jean Grey School – Wolverine, Iceman, Kitty Pryde, Blink, the Beast, Angel and Doop, as well as several Asgardians and Gus Grim. ‘Let’s get this party started!’ Dani shouts as everyone mingles with drink in hand, and Kitty starts taking photos.
Warlock stands with Bobby as they cook on an actual BBQ, while Iceman creates some more ice to fill up a drum full of drinks, ‘Well, this is a bit more like it...’ Dani tells him, before hearing the doorbell ring. The Beast talks with Volstagg who is chomping away one some meat, while Sif sits nearby, and Wolverine and Doop are deep in conversation.
Dani opens the door and greets her neighbor, the elderly Mrs Livitz, who is accompanied by Dr Stephen Strange. ‘And, more importantly, some of Mrs Livitz’s delicious prokporzhki prod’ Dr Strange announces. ‘Braised pork, potatoes, allspice, cream and paprika. It’s world-famous in this house, Doctor’ Dani smiles, as she brings Dr Strange and Mrs Livitz through to the party. As they pass through the kitchen, Nate is getting something from the refrigerator, and Mrs Livitz tells Dani ‘I so want you meeting my newphew. Him over from Latveria. Unhappy, he not in today to come. Such a handsome boy’. She then carries on out to the backhard, while Nate turns to Dani and asks if their landlord is trying to set her up. ‘Ha! I think so!’ Dani replies, before seeing a frowning Sam standing behind them. ‘Didn’t mean to interrupt you and Nate’ Sam remarks as Nate carries on back to the party. Dani tells Sam not to be dumb, that he isn’t interrupting. ‘Drink beer’ she adds, tossing him a can.
‘Look, I didn’t want to be in the way. You and Nate –’ Sam begins, but Dani tells him that she knows she and Nate may be awkward. ‘But you and me, Sam Guthrie, we’ll always be you and me’ she smiles. ‘Friends forever’ she adds, remarking that all this bounding around in time has shown her that friendship is the one lasting commodity. ‘Okay?’ she asks, kissing Sam on the cheek. ‘Heh. Absolutely’ Sam replies, while the doorbell rings once more. Blink goes to answer it, and she turns back to Dani, ‘It’s for you’ she calls out. Dani goes over to the door, and finds three ghoulish warriors standing at the door. ‘Brun! Gondul! Kara! Welcome!’ Dani calls out. ‘We hope we’re not overdressed’ one of them replies, all three of them wearing their warrior armor. Dani shows them in to the party, while Hogun stands near Cannonball and Magma and remarks ‘The Disir? What in Odin’s name are we going to feed them?’
Doug is sitting on a sofa by himself, until Gus sits down in an armchair next to him. Gus greets him ‘Dani’s asked you to chat to me, hasn’t she, Mr Grim?’ Doug enquires. ‘Only if you want to’ Gus replies. Doug leans back on the couch and replies that he seems to be second-guessing everything, that he sees every action in terms of what effect it will have on the future. Gus tells Doug that the future is unwritten, and the bad version of him has been erased. ‘Use your powers on yourself. Read yourself. You’ll see there’s no harm there anymore’ he adds, before the doorbell rings once more.
Sunspot answers it, and shouts ‘YOU!?’ while charging a solar-powered punch as Mephisto stands in the doorway. Magma sees this and tells Bobby that it is okay, and to let him in. She hands Bobby a bowl of food and asks him to go pass these around while she deals with Mephisto. Holding a bottle of wine and a bunch of flowers that appear to be on fire, Mephisto tells Magma that he has brought this bottle of claret from the sea chest of the Marie Celeste, and this bunch of flaming blooms from the Third Circle. Mephisto smiles and tells Amara that he really wants things to work out between them. But, Amara tells Mephisto that she doesn’t think that is going to be possible, as she saw the real him – and his illusions of happiness don’t work on her anymore. ‘What if I don’t want it to be over?’ Mephisto asks. ‘Then I’ll have a word with my friends the Disir’ Amara warns him, pointing to the ghoulish Asgardians. ‘Ahhh...laters!’ Mephisto exclaims as he vanishes in a burst of flame. ‘Did he hurt you?’ Sunspot asks, rushing towards Magma, who tells him to calm down, and turns around, kissing the surprised Bobby on the lips. ‘You’re a big, incurable romantic fool, Roberto! Let’s go dance’ Magma tells him ‘Okay!’ Bobby smiles.
As the party continues outside, Moonstar looks somewhat frustrated. ‘Penny for your thoughts?’ Wolverine asks her as he slices a bottle cap off his beer with one of his adamantium claws. ‘Oh, just that my team is split in two. The X-Men have never been in a sadder state, Logan’ Dani tells him, before asking what they are to do now, after all that has happened. After Scott...’ her voice trails off, before Wolverine tells Dani that they will do what they always do – what they do best. He adds that Cyclops was on the money with Dani’s team, that he believed in her – real world, real problems, real business to tidy up.
Bobby and Amara enter the backyard holding hands, Dr Strange accompanies Mrs Livitz around, while Sif stands with the Disir, and Blink, Nate and Sam sit on a rug on the ground, and Warlock cooks on the BBQ. ‘Look around, Moonstar. Xavier’s dream of human / mutant integration. Keep going. You’re doing the right thing’ he tells her, tossing her a can of beer.
Smiling, Warlock holds up a sausage and exclaims ‘Self / Friends? Who wants a burnt wiener?’, when suddenly, he falls back as techno-organic energy flutters around him, as Warlock convulses, everyone sees this. ‘What’s happening?’ someone calls out. ‘Are we under attack?’ another asks as Warlock is then pulled away. Everyone stands ready, while Dani shouts ‘Something grabbed Warlock and carried him off! Doctor Strange, can you trace him?’ she asks, and Dr Strange reports that Warlock has been taken to a deserted warehouse on the Bayside Waterfront.
Indeed, Warlock crash lands into the warehouse, ‘What is this? Who assaulted Self?’ he calls out, before a large fist punches him down. Warlock manages to get to his feet, and sees the techno-organic being standing over him – Tyro? Is that you? Speak to Self! What has happened?’ Warlock demands. ‘Warlock! Warlock!’ the transformed Tyro calls out, before suddenly, ‘Self’s Siredam! Self’s Siredam is back in control!’ Warlock exclaims as he is infected. ‘Self cannot fight it!’ Warlock cries, before Tyro, though Siredam, explains to Warlock that it was after Warlock left, that he carried on working in the Kree worlds, curing the Technarchy plague, but then a huge war happened, and the great hole known as the Fault was closed. Such energies struck Tyro and hurt him, and he was left for dead. It was then that Tyro’s Siredam woke out of dormancy and was able to retake control of his body, so with no control, Tyro came looking for Warlock, because he is the only being who can help Tyro. ‘And Siredam will not allow that!’ he declares, slamming Warlock against a wall.
Tyro / Siredam then punches Warlock to the ground, ‘You will perish before Tyro is freed!’ he threatens. Suddenly, ‘Not on our watch’ a voice calls out, as Blink teleports the New Mutants, Wolverine, Angel, Dr Strange and the Asgardians into the warehouse. ‘You picked the wrong party to crash, freak!’ Dani exclaims. The New Mutants know what is at stake, for Tyro is another being of Warlock’s race, a techno-organic creature. Like Warlock, and like every other member of the race, Tyro has a Siredam, a ruthless and destructive parent organism that seeks to annihilate its offspring. Warlock helped Tyro suppress his Siredam, locking it deep inside Tyro’s core, but the malevolent force is regaining control. The Siredam will consume Tyro, take over his form completely... and then unleash its wrath on the human race – unless it is stopped.
The heroes engage the Siredam / Tyro, with Dani telling everyone to keep it distracted, as they have to get to Warlock. Blink teleports herself, Dani and Cypher to Warlock, ‘Self / Friends!’ Warlock calls out. Cypher wraps his arms around his friend and assures him that they will get him out of here. Warlock explains that Tyro is battling his own self, his own Siredam. ‘Self / Friend Doug must help him!’ Warlock urges. ‘There’s no stopping this thing!’ Sunspot exclaims as he and Cannonball battle side-by-side.
Doug tells Blink that he needs a fast ride, as the creature is fighting itself and he knows exactly how that feels. ‘Where to?’ Blink asks, before teleporting Cypher onto Tyro’s head. ‘Close enough to make contact’ Doug explains, and he starts pulling at wires on Tyro, remarking that he needs to be close enough to interface with one of the Siredam’s sensory antennae, as he needs to connect Transmode Virus to Transmode Virus, and rewrite. He does so, and the Siredam convulses, before falling to the ground. ‘I gotcha, Doug!’ Cannonball calls out as he blasts down and picks Cypher up, preventing him from being crushed by the Siredam. ‘Did you... kill it, Doug?’ Cannonball asks.
Cypher replies that he is done with that, and that he just used the experience of fighting his future self to help Tyro overcome his patriarch. ‘His Transmode is purged. He’s in control again. Good thing I speak the same language. The Technarchy Code’ Doug adds. Tyro returns to his default size and looks at Doug and Warlock as he says ‘Self / Friend Doug saved Self!’ Doug tells him not to mention it. ‘Another piece of unfinished business finished’ Dani smiles, before telling Doug that was amazing, and suggests they get the party restarted.
Shortly, back at the New Mutants’ home, balloons have been let loose as the party is once again underway. ‘See, Doug? You couldn’t have done that if you hadn’t been through all you’ve been through’ Magma points out while she and Sunspot holds hands. ‘Yes, Self / Friend./ Remade through trauma. Stronger. Better. Like the New Mutants’ Warlock adds. And, as Cannonball, Moonstar, Sunspot, Magma, Warlock, Cypher, X-Man and Blink stand together, they all put their hands in together, as Dani declares ‘Here’s to business... never finished’.


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The Sextant
Krakoa:Rahne Sinclair aka Wolfsbane sits in the idyllic nature, just enjoying herself. She flashes back to her recent resurrection.
Flashback:After the work of the Five, Professor X and Storm welcomed her back from her cocoon. Storm welcomed her as a Krakoan, gave her a kiss on the forehead and promised her that all things that made her a prisoner of past sins are gone. So, let the past go… and live.
The Present:Rahne smiles. She is joined by her friend Xi’an Coy Manh aka Karma, who asks what she is grinning at. Rahne tells her it’s like she died and went to Heaven. Shan points out she kind of did. She’s sure some people would say to take the gift for what it is, but truly heavy stuff has a way of sticking around. Experiences like that lend themselves to broader questions of self, faith and fate – things that are tough to ignore. She offers to talk, if Rahne wants to. But Rahne surprisingly announces she’s good. She really is.
Elsewhere on Krakoa, Mondo is meditating, his body taking on the structure of the ground. Anything? Doug Ramsey aka Cypher asks him. Mondo asks him to remind him what he is looking for. Doug explains that Krakoa is sentient, so he was thinking because of the way Mondo’s powers work when he absorbs part of the island he might be able to sense it or communicate in some other way. Monod tells him he is sensitive but he felt nothing. So, are they done?
Doug asks Krakoa to give it a try. Mondo groans. The next moment a plant-face appears on Mondo’s chest and greets Doug as Krakoa speaks through Mondo. Well, he’s never gonna sleep again, Doug mutters. Krakoa calls that unfortunate. He needs his sleep. Doug asks how this works. Is Krakoa remote-piloting the body or just its motor functions. Is Mondo in there with it? Not in the way he means, Krakoa replies.
Indeed, Mondo’s consciousness is somewhere alone in the dark, wondering what’s going on.
Doug suggests they should try to figure this out. Krakoa calls this a bad thing, and now it’s over. It breaks contact with Mondo, who panics and asks what that was. Doug admits that was pretty creepy and Mondo warns him, if Doug asks him to do that again, he will probably punch him in the face. So. Many. Times. Sounds fair, Doug agrees.
The Akademikos Habitat:In the center is the Sextant where the New Mutants live. Dani Moonstar and Roberto da Costa walk there and muse that this turned out better than they ever thought it would, especially if you consider how they got here. First there were ancient mutants like Apocalypse… and then came those like Xavier and Magneto, elders of a more modern time -- and after them came the first widescale emergence of mutants. The X-Men Sunspot agrees. And after that, the mutant population exploded both exponentially and globally, Dani continues. Which resulted in… more X-Men Sunspot muses. Which is weird, right? You’d think there would have been a brand change or something. Maybe Xavier couldn’t afford a marketing budget. Dani doubts it. Roberto admits those guys aren’t worth what they charge anyway.
Dani continues that, after that, there were enough of them that they could start building a real community. Which is where they came in, Roberto agrees. And the school.
They walk past Monet St. Croix screaming at her younger sisters, both in Penance form.
Which is also where it failed, Dani opines, because human ideologies and institutions were never built for something better.
He doesn’t know if anyone has told her that today, Roberto states smoothly, but she is an amazing woman and she deserves better. Taking up his tone, Dani thanks him and calls him all man. Nonsense, he replies. He is all mutant! You can’t stick this in a people farm and expect to get an accountant on the other side.
They walk past the new Hellions, arguing with one of the original ones. As they enter one of the domes, Roberto continues. So here they are in the sixth generation of mutantdom, trying something new: a mutant sextant. Dani suggests they call it what it is. Home.
Inside are Chamber and Magik and the smell of coffee. Chamber explains that Synch and Monet talked this new kid Fauna into seeing what would grow on the island and it turns out he grew a coffee bean that they swear is one part innocence and one part sincerity.
Cradling a full pot protectively, Magik explains that Chamber brought them some. He adds that he can’t drink it, but damn, does he love the smell!
Roberto asks Illyana for a cup. Holding on more tightly to the pot, she announces it is hers and… empty. When he reaches for it, she tells him not to make her cut him.
Luckily, Chamber made a second pot and proffers a cup to Roberto and Dani, as well as Rahne and Xi’an who join them. Illyana drinks hers straight from the pot.
Doug and Mondo enter as well, Doug gladly takes some coffee but Mondo passes. He saw how that stuff was made. With sincerity? Illyana asks. With innocence? Rahne suggests. Not what he would call it, Mondo mutters. Not how it smelled.
This is fun, Dani chuckles. It is almost perfect, Roberto agrees. Dani predicts he will say to be perfect Sam would have to be here. Roberto agrees. Sam would love this more than anyone. Dani reminds him Sam is several hundred thousand light years away in Shi’ar space. With his family. That’s true, Roberto admits and asks her a moment later if she wants to go for a ride.
And so, sometime later, the New Mutants (plus Mondo and Chamber) hitch a ride on the Starjammer.
Their leader Corsair points out that they and the Shi’ar have a complicated history and he is putting his crew in danger by entering Shi’ar space. Roberto retorts Cyclops said that after the visit that was exactly where they were headed anyway. Of course they are, Corsair replies. They are pirates, they laugh at danger. Ain’t that right, baby? he asks his lover, Hepzibah who asks him stone-faced if he can’t see the smile on her face.
Corsair tells Roberto they can get them to Shi’ar space. But if they want to get to the throneworld Chandilar, they will have to make the rest of the way on their own. Roberto assures him he has a big smile and pockets full of money.
Cypher and Mondo walk the corridors of the Starjammer, trying to find the Krakoan portal which they came through originally. They finally find a chamber which contains a big garden and the Krakoan portal.
Enjoying the ground, Mondo notes this is better. It’s good to get that island off him. It was itching, which isn’t normal. Doug muses that there is more going on. On the island, he didn’t notice because Krakoa is everywhere, but here he notices a pull between the existing portal and the gateway flower.
An annoyed Ch’od announces, they are talking to each other. This is a closed, carefully regulated biome. So, when he started getting alerts that the helium, nitrogen and oxygen mixtures were elevated, he came down here to see what was wrong with the equipment. But it’s not the equipment, it’s the gateway and flower’s proximity. They want to terraform!
Chastened, Doug points out they will be off the ship soon. Ch’od kneels down to some desiccated plants. Those are Pomi. A delicacy from his home world that only ripen once a decade. It took him years to get the environment right and this was the first time they were ready for harvest. Now they are dying. The two apologize. Either the plant goes out the airlock or they do, Ch’od replies. But they need the plant to create a gateway home from the Shi’ar world. Mondo puts the plant inside his body which is good enough. Still Ch’od’s mood is sour.
Several days later:Magik and Raza are testing each other in a sword battle, watched by the others. Insults are hurled and bets are made: Corsair bets his good bottle of Kentucky whiskey against Sunspot that Raza will win. When Raza hits Magik’s nose, all bets are off, however, and she slices off his prosthetic arm. To his shocked exclamation, she tells him to get over it. It’s just a robot arm. That was her real nose. Threatening him with her sword, she demands an apology. Gloating, Sunspot demands his bourbon.
One day later, they have reached the station Benevolence on the edge of Shi’ar space. Corsair tells Sunspot this is the ass-end of the galaxy. Fortunately, they are just making a short pitstop. He orders him to get his group together. He has to lay down some ground rules.
When the mutants are gathered, Corsair informs them the Starjammers have some business down there. Karma inquires after their sort of business. Pirate business, Corsair answers curtly. And while the Starjammers are down there, the New Mutants are to stay aboard. Rahne and Jono protest, both want to stretch their legs a bit.
Corsair stares at Jono, assuring him there is nothing for them outside the ship. What’s the worst thing they can imagine? Judgy fundamentalists, Rahne ventures. People with four arms, Chamber adds. Corsair reveals he has bad news for them. The space port is owned by the Nuwabi’ka, a real angsty group run by the grand priest Kaliwaki. Dude makes the pope seem like a pentagram-worshipping heathen. And he has four arms. They took the place over, force-converted who they could and put the rest into prison. They hate sinners. And you pretty much can’t sneeze without offending them. You commit one sin and you go to prison and get tortured. Corsair describes the torture to some extent.
Dani asks why they do business with them if they are so bad. Corsair retorts they don’t. They do business under their nose. They are here to pick up a shipment that the powers that be don’t know about. He repeats his order for them to sit tight, then leaves.
With him gone, Sunspot tries to make his friends see Corsair’s point. Karma protests that they need to help. Bobby points out they are not here to interfere on another planet but to get Sam home. He offers the bourbon he won off Corsair to take the edge of. Dani suggests he get it.
With him out of the room, Dani asks Magik to follow the Starjammers. Illyana got a look at the map so she knows where they are going. So, when Bobby returns with the bourbon, the team is gone.
The mutants find themselves in a huge, almost empty chamber. In the center, atop a kind of altar, hovers a multicolored egg. Rahne climbs up and grabs it .A moment later, she is ordered to put it down as the Starjammers burst into the chamber. Corsair orders them away from the containment unit.
Look, it’s a one-armed preacher! Magik snarks and Mirage demands answers.
While Ch’od and Raza grab the small containment unit of the egg, Corsair reminds them the Shi’ar are a monoculture. They don’t allow any other religions. This is a containment facility of exotic matter. And they are pirates. Why else would they be here but to steal stuff. He tells them to go and the Starjammers race off.
The mutants muse what makes this worse is that Bobby was right. Magik gets ready to teleport them back aboard the Starjammer but is hit by an energy blast, courtesy of a Shi’ar weapon. The guards have arrived.
The Starjammers take note of their situation but decide not to help. They are expected on Pshor Prime in days.
With Illyana out, Karma tries to possess the guards but their helmets make them psi-proof. Mirage orders Chamber to use his psionic energy against them.
In the meantime, the Starjammers have reached their ship. Sunspot asks where his friends are. The crew gets ready for take-off and Corsair bluntly informs him, his teammates met some Shi’ar shock troops and it isn’t going to end well. Roberto states they are going to rescue them. No, they have to haul ass, Corsair replies. They have a deal with a very serious buyer. They can’t just leave them! Roberto insists. Yes, they can, Corsair shoots back, and they are.
Why would they do that? a bemused Roberto asks. What have any of them done to deserve that? They ruined his plants, Ch’od reminds him. The angry girl cut off his arm, Raza adds. Hepzibah admits to simply not liking children. And Roberto stole his whiskey Corsair adds. Roberto shoots back Corsair lost that fair and square. And now he’s lost a ride, Corsair decides.
And so, a little later, Sunspot and the bourbon are left behind on the planet. Sunspot sensibly downs some bourbon before deciding to save the day.
A little later yet, he and his teammates are forced to surrender but Roberto is still cheerful. After all, he has the number of a really good space lawyer…