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Blockbuster - part 5
Wolverine’s dreamscape:
Wolverine finds himself floating in a tank of fluid, cables and wire attached to his body. He screams in pain, getting out of the casket-like tank and unsheathing his claws. Shadowed figures surround the tank. There’s one person, however, he can perceive clearly; a person who doesn’t belong into this scenario: Charles Xavier.
Xavier apologizes for forcing Logan’s mind into this. But, seeing as how Logan has no ability to just come out and ask for help, Xavier went ahead and started without him. If this were just about Wolverine, he’d let it go and have let Wolverine go on letting himself be punished at the hands of his mystery assailants, but he fears that this might affect the rest of the X-Men.
Logan asks if this is Weapon X. Just his memory of it, Xavier explains. The exact moment Logan found out that he had been the victim of heinous experiments that give him his adamantium skeleton and claws. Thanks to the mind-wipe they performed on him, it would be his very first memory. Xavier’s already been busy the last days, skimming through Logan’s memories, as he had surmised that this woman and her soldiers somehow have access to Wolverine’s Weapon X file. Plus, they seemed rather put out that Logan didn’t remember them. So, Xavier thought a little trip to Weapon X might reveal something. So, does Loan recognize anyone in the room?
Logan studies the shadowy figures. One man stands out: The sadistically leering John Wraith, the man who ran the project. He will go down in history as the warden of the first mutant concentration camp, Xavier states bleakly, and for that he hopes Wraith rots in a hell more horrible than he has the imagination to conjure. He asks Logan to focus on the other people in the room. Logan looks harder and finally sees someone right behind Wraith. A blonde sharing Wraith’s sadistic smile, the same blonde who is the leader of the soldiers chasing him. Memories of the time she shot him with adamantium bullets come up. Xavier tries to snap him out of it and Wolverine screams.
Reality:
Wolverine lies in a bed in the X-Mansion’s medical facility, Xavier sit at his side and apologizes. Putting a hand to his head, Logan states that Xavier got into his head pretty good. He thought telepaths couldn’t do that. Thanks to his Weapon X training and the mindwipe, Xavier agrees. But he has been sitting here with Logan over twelve hours and has quite the headache. But they have what they need. His mystery opponents do seem to be decommissioned Weapon X soldiers. Who does he think they’d assign for something as inhumane as Weapon X, Xavier asks and answers his own question: soldiers trained for nothing but dealing with Wolverine. Soldiers who are trained to hate him. And, all of a sudden, the program is decommissioned, they are decommissioned and Wolverine suddenly is on the cover of Time magazine. You could see where they might be a little upset…
Wolverine apologizes. Xavier sighs that he doesn’t understand him. He had agreed to come back to the X-Men. Cyclops came to get him. All was forgiven. And, the next morning, Logan was gone again. Why?
Wolverine keeps silent for a moment. He repeats what Xavier said: that they had asked him back and said they’d forgiven him. But he can hear the whispers. He can smell what they really think of him. And, to be honest, he doesn’t disagree. So he did them all a favor and took off. Xavier hesitates then reiterates that Logan is welcome here. But he is going to have to earn the X-Men’s trust and respect. He mustn’t forget that they are still mostly children. Unlike Xavier and Logan. They need reasons to trust him. So he should give them something more than running away. They can talk about this another day. Right now, Xavier needs to make a call on Logan’s behalf.
After Logan leaves, Xavier makes a call to General Fury. Fury assures him that SHIELD will take care of the problem Xavier wants to know how this could have happened, but Fury pulls the “National Security” card. He adds that Weapon X was the baddest of the bad and its leader, John Wraith, had damn loyal soldiers. They did a psych evaluation on most of them, but…
Xavier stresses that he’d like the situation to be taken care of immediately. He doesn’t want them to attack the school. So his X-Men will- Fury curtly says no and asks Xavier to sit this one out. This is a military problem. It’s a mutant hate crime, Xavier protests. Fury cuts him off and stresses that they don’t know how big the problem is. It could be anything from an isolated incident to a widespread military conspiracy, considering the hardware those guys had. A lot of that stuff isn’t in circulation yet. Fury asks Xavier to control Logan, threatening that otherwise they will do it, and ends the transmission.
Wolverine enters the dining room. The X-Men look at him wordlessly. Jean shoots him a filthy glare. Understandably, Logan chooses to eat his sandwich outside. Surprisingly, he is joined by Jean, who asks if he doesn’t have anything to say to her. He tells her that she is the mindreader. She can a pick a thought and enjoy it. Jean states that she came here to tell him that she does not forgive him and never will. He tried to kill the man she loves. She believes in Xavier and therefore stands by his decision that there is something of value in Wolverine. But, if he ever so much as entertains a romantic thought about her, even for a second, she will use her power to stop his heart. Just so they are clear.
She continues, but suddenly breaks off. Something distracts her. She looks into the sunset mumbling that there is something and floats upwards.
Close by, there’s a helicopter with some of Wolverine’s hunters. They are in contact with their leader, the blonde who warns them not to fly any close. The men protest, stating that she wanted them to get positive ID. Tara repeats that hey are not to fly any closer. Two of the most powerful telepaths on the planet are within that mutant school. One of the soldiers boasts that he has three CC-9 missiles on board. He can launch them from here. Why don’t they just vaporize that roach motel and fry the baby mutant filth? The other man suddenly stutters “uh”. Something’s coming at them. Tara shout at them to retreat. The man looks at the screen –: it’s coming right at them. “It” being Jean Grey surrounded by the Phoenix raptor.
Telepathically, she repeats the insult, “baby mutant filth,” telling them it’s the fact that they use words like that that really gets her. Their choice of words. The Phoenix raptor lights up the sky and it is unclear whether Jean is truly in control as the chopper catches fire and detonates. Logan can only watch from the ground as Jean gets caught in the explosion. Inside the mansion, a shocked Xavier whispers, “oh, no.”


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Blockbuster - part 6
Jean Grey lies in the grass after she blew up a helicopter, her clothes torn, her eyes closed – still there seems to be a faint smile on her lips. She comes to as she hears the voices of her fellow X-Men, who have been looking for her. They see her and the wreckage of the helicopter nearby. Her boyfriend, Cyclops, worriedly calls out, asking her what happened. He gives her his coat, while she starts babbling, ordering the others to stop talking about her. Scott is confused. Nobody is talking. She cuts him off, shouting that she can hear them, their thoughts. Burying her head in Cyclops’ chest, she shouts for them to stop it. Scott contacts Xavier and Jean begs him to do something. Xavier orders Cyclops to get Jean back to the mansion.
The team’s teleporter, Nightcrawler, is unsure about this – it’ll take e few leaps. Cyclops just says “please,” and Kurt complies. After several jaunts, he has reached Xavier’s office with Jean in his arms. Jean hysterically runs to Xavier, telling him that she killed those men. Xavier hugs her, calming her and telling her it didn’t happen. Nightcrawler asks if she is going to be ok. Xavier brushes him off, telling him to rejoin the others. Hesitatingly, Kurt complies.
In the meantime, the other X-Men have been examining the wreckage of the chopper that had been manned by some of Wolverine’s mystery assailants. Suddenly, Logan announces that he knows where they are. It’s someplace he’s been before. Nightcrawler wants to know if those men were truly from Weapon X. Because, if that is the case, he wants to come with Wolverine. There are issues he has to address… Cyclops announces that they are all coming. He doesn’t buy Wolverine’s brush-off routine. This is a mutant hatecrime, so they are all coming. Wolverine gives in.
Woodstock, New York
In some sort of army barracks, Tara, the leader of Wolverine’s attackers, is in video discussion with her mystery superior, who announces that it’s over. They’ll have to fold the mission… for now. “Coward!” Tara snarls at the man. Her superior angrily reminds her that he wasn’t the one who made a disaster out of this. Roughly, he orders her to shut her hillbilly mouth and reminds her that, despite her unlimited budget and her unlimited access to equipment, she did not only not manage to capture Weapon X. Instead, she risked civilian lives in a public display of firepower. When she protests, he shouts that she botched the job. She got all revved up about going after the animal and she blew it. And she got Logan to run right back into the arms of Xavier, who, for all they know, may be right outside her door. She protests one final time: This is a war! Yes, the man agrees. And she is a casualty. The screen goes black.
Her remaining men ask the dejected woman what they are going to do. Should they get out or fight or-? Suddenly, it gets icy-cold. So cold that the computer screen cracks. In panic, they reach for their guns as Tara orders them to go into two beta formations. She can’t even finish her sentence before Cyclops’ optic beam crashes the door and the X-Men rush in.
Tara trains her gun on Logan, who tells her to put it down or he’ll put her down. Cyclops backs him up. With a last scream of rage, Tara shoots several times, not at the X-Men but at her men. Finally, she trains the gun at her right temple and shoots before Logan or Nightcrawler can stop her. Looking at her corpse and another chance of getting answers gone, Logan’s scream echoes the previous scream of Tara.
Suddenly, they are joined by several helicopters. Several men approach them, their leader a wizened old warhorse asking them what they think they are doing. Who are they? Cyclops demands. Dugan. SHIELD Commander, mutant ops division, the scarred solider replies. So they’d better get used to the face. And he wants to know what part of “stand down” it is they don’t understand. Is there a special mutant word for it?
Who told them to stand down, Cyclops inquires. Fury, Dugan replies. Apparently, he only informed the professor. He turns to Logan, greeting him as James. Do they know each other, Wolverine asks. Dugan tells him that he really made a mess of this, he and the kids. Six dead bodies and all their equipment destroyed. The X-Men protest that she shot them. Yeah, well done, Dugan states sarcastically.
And what could they have done better? Cyclops snaps. Well, being a decorated SHIELD agent and all, he probably could have come up with something a little more covert than blasting the front door open with red laser eyes, Dugan shoots back. They have a whole lot to learn. They’ve pretty much screwed up all chances they have of tracing her communications. She was not the point of this. He decides to tell the X-Men more: those rogue Weapon X guys were just the appetizer. They’re sure that they were the first wave of what looks like a coup d’etat against the president. The only people with access to Wolverine’s flies are high-ranking government officials. And, if high-ranking government officials are disobeying the order of the president… attacking mutant on American soil, that is a treasonous coup.
Why were they attacking Logan, Storm asks. Because if there is a weak link in mutant-human politics it’s him. Wolverine is a trained mutant military assassin. His very existence could be twisted into proof of a mutant conspiracy inside the government. They went on a world tour and put him on a magazine cover. For every person they won over… five guys clenched their cheeks together in such utter hatred for them that they dedicated their lives to destroying them. All because Logan was on the cover of a magazine, Storm asks incredulously.
Well, Dugan states, he’s sure Logan has done a few other things. Logan shoots him a silent filthy look.
As Dugan leaves, he reminds them of how slavery split the country in two. Who knows what mutants will do to it? No offense.
Later, back at the mansion in Jean’s room, someone inquires how she is feeling. She’s killed two people, Jean states dully. Anti-mutant terrorists, the other reminds her, who would have killed her if they could have… Jean wonders if they had families. She doesn’t know if she can live with what she’s done. Yes, she can, the other person tells her. “That’s what the professor is here for. And I’m here.” Jean doesn’t answer.
Cyclops comes in carrying a tray of food. He looks around. Wasn’t she talking to someone? “No,” Jean replies. Both look out of the window. They see Logan sitting there motionlessly. Cyclops wonders what he’s thinking about. Jean tells him that this has been hard for Logan. He’s looking for something to hold onto. Sitting in the garden Logan just stares at the wedding ring in his palm.


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New Mutants - part 1
The Worthington estate, a beautiful walled-off mansion where Professor Xavier has come, accompanied by Jean Grey, to meet the Worthingtons’ son, Warren. To his surprise, he doesn’t get to meet the parents, though, but their lawyer and the major domo, Mr Travis. The attorney informs Xavier that the Worthingtons, while loving their son very much, still could not stand the sight of him and therefore live on different premises, having left the son’s upbringing to the staff.
Xavier is rather disgusted, especially as Worthington’s lawyer clearly seems to expect that Xavier will be taking Warren of their hands for monetary reasons, although Xavier insists that this is about the boy. The lawyer explains that this means Xavier will, in essence, be Warren’s legal guardian, absolving the Worthingtons of any obligation Their discussion is interrupted, as Warren swoops in from his morning flight, an extremely handsome, young blond man with the wings of an Angel.
A little later, the three of them arrive at the school, where the X-Men are enjoying a lazy afternoon at the poolside. Xavier telepathically informs them that they have a new student. The X-Men just stare at the new arrival, until Cyclops offers him some food and Hank shows him his room.
Xavier addresses Rogue, who just cannot stop gaping after Warren. When he asks her what is wrong, the young Southerner excitedly asks them if they don’t understand: an angel! A real sign from God! The way she was raised… when angels start walking the Earth that means something bad is about to happen. The others don’t take her concerns seriously, pointing out that he is just a guy their age and that he didn’t just “appear.” He’s a mutant, Xavier adds, just like all of them.
Rogues still tries to get her point across: of all the possible way a mutation can express itself, why does he look exactly like an angel, like something out of the bible or a painting? Over there – she points at Nighctrawler – they have a demon (Kurt protests) and now they have an angel. It’s like something out of the revelation. Rogue apologizes to Kurt, telling him she knows he isn’t really a devil, but this cannot be coincidence. Xavier ends her rant by diplomatically suggesting out that religion is and always will be a touchy subject. They will discuss her points, but for now they should just let Warren settle in. Rogue still protests and the others start teasing her. From his new room upstairs, Warren just watches the scene silently.
Two days later:
Religious pro- and anti-mutant protesters have gathered in front of the X-mansion waiting for a sign from the angel. Inside the den, the X-Men watch the scene being shown on TV with the CNN headline: “Angel in our Midst? – is Professor Charles Xavier harbouring messenger of God?”
Xavier sternly looks at his students, noting that, before he asks them which of them is responsible for this major leak to the media that has resulted in this, they should remember that he is probably the most powerful telepath in the world and already knows who did it.
Hank protests that he doesn’t see how he can be blamed for this. Storm impatiently cuts in that he was on that fansite again, wasn’t he? She explains to the others that there is a web site about all of them and Hank goes to the message board and gives them little updates and answers questions. They’re his people, Hank defends himself, plus it’s good public relations. The others just scoff. He just doesn’t see how he could have known that all those people would come all the way up here, he complains.
Jean angrily shouts that people will stand outside a ratty apartment in Brooklyn for days in the rain because the dirt on a kitchen window kind of looks like maybe something! What did he think would happen if he announced it to the world that there was a freaking angel here? He didn’t announce it to the world, Hank stubbornly insists. He put it on the Internet, Jean seethes. What part of world wide web didn’t he get!
Suddenly both she and Xavier become aware that Warren has flown away. Cyclops wants the team to go after him but Xavier decides that just Storm should go. While he doesn’t want to be too manipulative, Warren is very attracted to her, so he’ll listen to her. Storm hesitates than agrees to do it, while Beast, her boyfriend, looks hurt.wonderful it felt that even they, the freaks of society, were looking at him like he was the most repulsive thing they’d ever seen. Ororo just stares at him wordlessly before she starts to smile. Did he read that wrong. She proceeds to explain that they – at least the girls (and possibly Colossus) – were staring because he is stunning. But she’s sure once they get to know him, they’ll find something annoying or disgusting about him, she adds playfully. Warren looks away and almost smiles.
Storm says that she may know some of what he’s going through. Sometimes, she thinks hat her entire personality has become about her powers. And while she loves her powers, that’s not all she is. People don’t see her. She loves to write, she confides, she does it every day. Warren offers that he loves to fly. She agrees and he can really do it on his own. She has to get all these little jet streams lined up. She tentatively touches his wing and he asks her not to.
After a moment’s silence, he confides that his father dumped him with them. Warren disgusts him. Tough noogies for his father, Storm states decisively. If he can’t get over himself and see his son for the miracle he is, that’s his problem not Warren’s. More silence. Warren asks what he would do at Xavier’s school. Whatever he wants, Storm says. Fly. He hates that he has nowhere else to go, Warren sulks. So does she, Ororo replies, but it isn’t a bad place. They get to look people in the eye and try to convince them that they are just people. Maybe one out of every five really hears them. But Warren? He could probably make one in every two listen. He sure looks like a messenger. He silently broods and then flies away.
A little later, he lands among the protesters in front of the school. He tells them that he is Warren Worthington and he is seventeen years old. He’s not really an angel, in spite of what they think. He’s a mutant.P>
Some time later, Beast, sitting in a diner, reads the Daily Bugle headline “Angel is mutant hoax.” Suddenly, an unseen person addresses him, referring to the other guests: they don’t know they stare. They think they are not staring. That’s the funny part. Hank McCoy, right? The person alludes that he or she can help Hank and asks if they can sit down. “uh…sure,” Hank replies.


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New Mutants - part 2
A young teenage boy wakes up. There are X-Men posters on the walls of his room; clearly he’s a fan. Dressed, he walks down in the kitchen. Scrounging for some food, he finds the fruit bowl is empty and, strangely, the tap is running. He turns it off and shouts out for his mother. He’s late for school. No answer. Strangely, though, he finds her clothes on the ground. He shouts out again. No reply. He writes his mother a note and leaves for school.
There’s nobody outside the house, either, and the streets are empty. The trees have no leaves and the grass is brown. He finds a dog collar on the sidewalk. He looks at it, clearly weirded out, before walking on. As he walks for some time, he sees cars and people across the street and is relieved. At least there are some people. He thought he was going nuts for some time. He passes them, never noticing that, after he’s walked by, smoke begins to rise from the people.
After he’s reached school, a girl runs towards him asking why he hasn’t called her. He’s not allowed to use the phone after 10:00, he defends himself. She begins to argue but, suddenly, breaks off, looking sick. A moment later, smoke begins to rise from her mouth and eyes and the same is happening to all the kids around them. Horrified, the boy has to watch, as she turns into a lifeless mummy and crumbles to dust, her last words being it’s you.
All around him, people, leaves, grass, anything organic crumbles to dust and the boy just stares in horror.
Much later at night, in a cave somewhere, a man enters the fissure, lighting a match. It’s Wolverine. He sees the McDonald’s wrappers and a pile of wood. He uses his match to make a fire. A voice orders him to get out. Wolverine sits down at the fire and grabs a beer from his six-pack. The boy shouts at him to get out or he’ll die. Not today, Wolverine replies calmly and hands the boy a beer. The boy recognizes him. Wolverine explains that he has a healing factor so the boy isn’t going to hurt him. He’s here to talk to the boy. How did he find him, the boy asks. The guy he works with, Xavier, has a mutant finding machine, Wolverine explains. He’s a mutant? the boy asks.  So it was him.
With his eyes welling up, he states that he thinks that he’s killed his parents and all those other people. All because he’s a mutant? Wolverine agrees. The boy buries his face in his hands. Sniffling, he asks how many people died. Wolverine tells him he really doesn’t want to know. When the boy insists, Wolverine states that there were, at least, 265. The boy stares at him wide-eyed.
Wolverine tells him he’s sorry and explains that he hit puberty last night. He takes out a note to explain it better. His specific mutation radiates a series of toxins and acid-like poisons and everything in a radius around him… basically all he does now is kill organic tissue. His mutant power is to kill everything around him? the boy repeats. Wolverine again tells him he’s sorry. The boy shouts out that he can’t live like this and quietly repeats it.
“I know,” Wolverine agrees and looks at him. The boy finally opens his beer, stating that he should have done more, enjoyed life more. He starts talking about all the things he wanted to do and never will. He and his girlfriend never…
Wolverine again tells him sorry. If it makes him feel better, nobody will ever know that it was him. They have a cover story and will blame this on a chemical leak. Because if it ever got out that a mutant did this, that would be it for mutants. They’d start rounding them up.
So, like one chromosome or whatever to the left and he would have maybe been one of the X-Men? the boy asks. Maybe, Wolverine replies and tells him to finish his beer. The boy tells him to just do it.
Some time later, Wolverine leaves the cave alone.


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New Mutants - part 3
The White House:
This is insane, US President George Bush exclaims. One of his advisors tries to calm him, introducing the young Asian woman besides him as Xi’an Coy Mahn, adding that she is going to work with the president for a little while. She isn’t even American, the President points out and Xi’an protests that she was born here. What, like four days ago? The president shoots back incredulously. The advisor explains that Xi’an is one of their BlackOps trainees, who’s enrolling in Fury’s beta team soon. The First Lady interjects, stating that she is against this. If she wants any hope if a second term, the advisor sternly explains, she’ll have to settle down. As she won’t stop protesting, he tells her to leave. The president says that he’s going to have to pay for this later and adds that he’d like for this to take as little time as possible. Xi’an tells him to relax and look at her. Her eyes begin to glow.
Xavier’s School for Gifted Children
Scott Summers and Jean Grey are sitting on the lawn. Jean addresses the silent Scott, complaining that he is screaming at her … in his head. He asks her if they are ever going to talk about it. It’s been a week. Jean doesn’t know what to say. He reminds her that she lost control of her powers and killed two people. Two anti-mutant terrorists, she corrects him. And it was an accident and they wanted to kill the X-Men. He repeats his accusation. Jean tells him hat she’s not taking this lightly but she doesn’t know how to react. They’re being trained as soldiers. They fight and this time they were causalities. She’s not happy about this, but she doesn’t know what else she should do right now. Scott repeats his point. She can’t control her powers. She can, Jean protests feebly. Most of the time.
Scott asks what the Professor did to her. She was about to lose it and now she’s just—he’s helping her and all of them, she states. That’s why they’re here after all. He can’t be jealous of everyone, she adds. He’s not, Scott protests and then adds that he can’t help what he thinks. Neither can she, Jean agrees. Scott tells her that he loves her. So does she, she replies and hugs him. Telepathically, he tells her that he will always be there for her. So will she, she replies, but she doesn’t meet his eyes.
Later, Xavier calls his students into his office and informs them about a mutant about to go public. She’s a performer who wants to out herself to the media for the attention. He wonders if any of them felt like taking a trip to meet this person and talk to her to get a sense of how she intends to present herself. Maybe coach her a little. He suggests Scott go, as he is very good at this kind of thing. He asks him to take a couple of classmates of his choice. Is it someone famous, Kitty asks curiously. Not yet, Xavier replies and shows her the announcement of Dazzler’s gig. What kind of music does she play, Kitty inquires.
Very, very loud and trashy music, it turns out later, as Scott, Kitty and Peter witness Dazzler’s show. Kitty, at least, enjoys the show. Afterwards, the three mutant look up the punkish Dazzler and her band, who are sitting on the stair outside the rundown building where they performed. Cool show, Kitty enthuses and asks for an autograph. Dazzler spits on her paper. Somewhat taken aback, Scott introduces them as X-Men and asks her about her future plans. Dazzler is annoyed. Another mutant group? She’d already said no. She doesn’t need this mutant crap. She needs distribution for her album. Not giving Scott a chance to continue, she tells them what she told the other group. Get her a record deal and she’ll sign with them. Who else did she talk to Scott wonders. She has no idea, doesn’t care and tells them to leave.
Back at Xavier’s, Ororo sits on the lawn, focussing on her physics book. Finally, she succeeds in creating a micro storm cloud, above which a tiny bolt of lightning appears and bores a small hole into the book. Happily, Storm calls out for Hank, wanting to  tell him about her success. She flies up to his room to find that it is totally empty, as if he had moved out. A moment later, the sky goes black and thunder can be hard.
The Situation Room of the White House: The director of intelligence explains to the president that they are here because this is the only guaranteed psi-proof room they have. Even Xavier or Jean Grey couldn’t hear them in here. Bush asks why Nick Fury isn’t present. Because this is in part about Fury, the other man explains and continues that recent anti-mutant attacks in New York and on the X-Mansion have bought to light the possibility that there are powerful people in the administration who believe that the president is under Charles Xavier’s control and that his new pro-mutant policies are a direct result of Xavier’s influence.
This morning, they had one of the BlackOps mutants psychically analyze the president’s recent brain activates, followed up by a series of MRI-type scans. There is no evidence of any prior psychic manipulation. Then everything is hunky-dory, Bush states. No, the chief of intelligence replies, because there is nothing they can say to convince some people. The problem is the president’s relationship to Xavier. Though his idea of peaceful coexistence is a noble one, the very nature of his abilities makes him untrustworthy. And the anti-mutant factions in his country are going to suse this to take down any pro-mutant agenda – and maybe even this administration.
First, Xavier’s misjudgement regarding the Magneto situation and now his increasingly erratic choice of students, especially the growing problem of codename: Wolverine. Here was another incident last week: The President is informed about the 387 people that died in a what seemed to be an chemical accident last week in Bromelt, South Carolina and is shown a picture of Wolverine at the place that was picked up via satellite. Intel analysis believes it was a mutant-related problem and Wolverine may have been sent there to “clean it up,” presumably by Nick Fury.
It all adds p to the point that Xavier’s mutants may not be the mutants this administration should be in bed with. The president admits that he is very uncomfortable with this entire situation. Right, the other man agrees. He cannot turn tail on the mutant issue but should distance himself from the X-Men, while, at the same time, strengthening his mutant stance. They need some new mutants.
The president asks for suggestions. The chief of intelligence asks for someone to be sent in. A moment later, a cool blonde appears, introducing herself as Emma Frost and adding that she has put something together that might interest the President.


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New Mutants - part 4
The X-Men and Xavier are gathered and Xavier asks one of their number – Storm – to calm down. She is calm, the weather-controlling mutant insists. Outside, the foul weather belies her claim. The reason for her foul mood is the fact that her boyfriend, Beast, apparently just left without any discernible reason. Maybe he was kidnapped, Cyclops suggests. He wasn’t kidnapped, Storm angrily states and Wolverine agrees. You don’t pack a bag when you are kidnapped.
Did Ororo and Hank have a fight? Jean suggests. Storm emphatically denies this and thunder rolls again. The X-Men look at each other nervously. Cyclops asks if Xavier happened to pick anything from his mind. Xavier vehemently states that he doesn’t read minds he doesn’t have permission to read. It’s immoral. Can he use Cerebro to find Hank? Scott asks. Yes, Xavier replies. It’s just so disappointing that he has to.
At the White House Situation Room, Emma Frost introduces herself to the president as a Chicago schoolteacher, who can help him with his mutant problem. Is she a mutant, the president inquires. Yes, Frost calmly states. The Secret Service agents panic: one of them smashes Frost’s head onto the table ordering her not to move, while another shouts for everybody to get down.
The president angrily orders them to stand down – she has security clearance. He apologizes to Emma but, since Magneto’s attack … Emma understands and the president wants to know more about her. She explains that she has been running some mutant education seminars in her school district. Their governor supported it and, last month, she met the chief of staff. What’s her power? he interrupts her. Can she show him? Emma agrees and, a moment later, displays diamond hard skin. She explains her power and the president states that, a moment ago, she could have pretty much taken out the whole room if she wanted to. She wouldn’t do that, Emma explains. The answer isn’t violence, it’s education. Mutant racism is a social problem and you can only treat it by educating people.
Perusing her file, the president points out that she used to be affiliated with Xavier. Frost agrees, admitting that, for some time, they were more than just student and teacher. A few years ago, they had a falling out over the matter they are just now discussing. She doesn’t believe that mutants should set themselves up as a police force. Instead, mutants should be role models, educators and live by example, instead of popping their claws and shouting ‘bring it on’ when faced with adversity. This, in her opinion, is where Xavier’s failed. The X-Men may be noble but they are just naïve. The president’s curiosity is piqued.
Elsewhere, a nervous bellboy shows Hank McCoy the Beast to his room. So eager is he to get away from this obvious mutant that he won’t even touch the tip Hank wants to give him.
It’s not getting any better, is it? a voice announces to Hank. He turns around to see the astral form of Xavier, standing in the room. He shouts at Xavier to get out of his head. The professor explains that he found him with Cerebro. This is merely a mental projection. He just wants to talk. Why did he leave? Hank doesn’t answer. Is he mad about him or the other students? Xavier inquires. Angrily Beast states that Xavier knows exactly why he left and what he’s doing here. No, he doesn’t, Xavier assures him. He respects Henry as a student and a friend and would never read his thoughts.
He made his decision and that’s that, Beast stubbornly insists. Xavier points out that he hurt Ororo a great deal. She’ll find somebody to take her mind off it, Beast snaps. Is he talking about Angel? Did he leave because of that? He said Angel was attracted to Storm, not the other way round. Beast refuses to talk about it. He’s grateful for everything Xavier did for him. But he doesn’t want to put his life into danger for people like Wolverine anymore. He doesn’t want to be there anymore and he wants Xavier to leave. Xavier admits he’s disappointed but Henry will always have a home with him. With that, he leaves. And Hank silently stares outside at the Capitol.
In the Situation Room, Emma Frost shows the pictures of several young mutants to the president. Not trained warriors but smart, attractive mutants, potential spokesmen for the White House’s mutant agenda. Who is this Dazzler person the president asks, holding up the singer’s picture. A rock and roll star, Emma replies, whom they got a record deal and MTV backing. The president scoffs and Emma points out that MTV got Clinton the White House. Why not get his mutant agenda out too - Can she imagine if Eisenhower had to deal with MTV, he asks.
Suddenly, he notices Beast’s pictures among the others. Emma quickly explains that Henry McCoy was affiliated with Xavier but is no longer with him. A political advisor adds that this was his idea. Distancing himself from Xavier will seem rather abrupt. But including one of his students as a spokesman will soften the political backlash. Beast’s a teddy bear. He tests well.
Emma points out another interesting candidate. Alex Summers, Scott Summers’ elder brother. Also a mutant but one who turned down Xavier’s invitation. The brothers haven’t spoken since. Politically, he’s a homerun. His powers are energy distribution. Emma starts to talk about Alex’s girlfriend, Lorna Dane, but when the President sees that she has magnetic powers he refuses to even consider her. Emma points out that this makes things difficult, as Alex and Lorna are a couple. What does Alex want the most, the president asks. To be more famous than his brother, Emma replies. Then he’ll dump his magnet girlfriend.
The president decides on the line-up: no to “the wolf-girl,” no to Bishop with his criminal record, no to the magnet girl, no to the one who looks like she crawled out from under a rock. But they should add the Asian girl who was in his head this morning he adds, referring to Xi’an Coy Manh aka Karma. The president decides on a few members and then reluctantly adds, “the idiot with the idiot MTV hair,” referring to Dazzler.
Over the objections of the forces’ commander, the president decides that he wants this to go through and he wants it smoothly. They can sell these kids. They can sell education. They can make history. This feels right, he decides and walks Ms Frost out, telling her they’ll have to create some new kind of title for her. And somebody better get Nick Fury on the phone. He’s going to hate this.
Several advisors remain behind, clearly unsettled by this turn of events. Of all the mutants in the world he is angling up to Xavier’s ex-slut, one states derogatively. And one of his students? And the “brother” of one of his students? Xavier is manipulating all of this. They botched the Wolverine job with those Weapon X grunts and, now, Xavier is onto them. He can read their minds! This is their country and now mutants are taking it away from them. From inside the White House! Another man reluctantly states he sees no choice. And one elderly fellow decides, rather ominously, that they are going to have to make a stand.
Back at Xavier’s Scott, Jean and Ororo join Xavier in his study. The professor asks how Dazzler reacted to Scott’s invitation. Cyclops explains that, according to Dazzler, another mutant organization had approached her and that she told them whoever gets her a record deal she’ll sign with. But she didn’t remember who they were. He doesn’t think she remembers talking to him either. Ororo asks if the professor has talked to Hank and the professor replies that he doubts Hank will be returning anytime soon. Jean interrupt them. She feels something coming. So does Xavier.
A helicopter lands on the School’s lawn, covered by a psychic shield. Jean’s hands flare but Xavier tells his students not to act. He knows who it is. A somber-faced Nick Fury accompanied by his right-hand, Dugan, exits the chopper. They need to talk with Xavier.


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New Mutants - part 5
Angel walks trough a beautiful, woody landscape. Wolverine watches him crouched on a tree. He unsheathes his claws and jumps down at his teammate. Angel just screams in terror and tries to protect his body with his hands. Confused, Logan stops, asking him what he’s doing. He doesn’t want to fight, the boy explains. But he asked him to teach him some moves. How can he learn if he isn’t going to fight? Angel tells him to forget it. He though he should learn some moves, because the others can all handle themselves. Well, he should, Wolverine states. He’s never hit anyone in his life, Angel confides.
Wolverine switches off the Danger Room hologram and wryly states that at least Angel can always fly away. If the Danger Room is for practice, why was Wolverine trying to cut him, Angel asks. He wasn’t, Wolverine shoots. Back. Angel doesn’t believe it and insists that he was out for blood. Wolverine lunges at him with unsheathed claws and stops millimetres before the boy’s throat. He reiterates that he needs practice. Uh oh, he suddenly announces, as he catches whiff of a familiar scent.
In Xavier’s study, the newly-arrived Nick Fury suggests Xavier send his students, Jean, Ororo and Scott, outside. He doesn’t have any secrets from his students, Xavier states. Hedoes, Fury points out. He doesn’t, Xavier shoots back. Fury gives in and explains that this is an almost indescribably difficult situation and Xavier is in the center of it. His black ops at SHIELD have been running an Intel underground search to find out who was behind Wolverine’s recent run-in with renegade Weapon X soldiers. They believe that a faction of the government’s highest echelon thinks that Xavier is using his mental powers to manipulate the president. And they believe that is why the president is now on the pro-mutant bandwagon. Fury assures Xavier that he knows that isn’t the case. Nor is Xavier manipulating Fury. If Xavier were, he wouldn’t be s angry with him so often, but other people believe Xavier is doing something. Fury believes that these people have now decided to do whatever is necessary to counter the public mutant menace.
Who are “they,” Xavier asks. If he knew that, he would be here to tell him the problem was solved, Fury replies. He has some good guesses, but these are higher ranking government officials. He can’t accuse these men without any proof. Fury explains how delicate the situation is, only to interrupt himself and suggest that Logan, who is eavesdropping behind the door, can come in.
He continues that the president is about to announce a new mutant education campaign. He has hand-selected a group of young mutants to be spokespeople for his agenda. The campaign is led by a schoolteacher from Chicago – Emma Frost. “Oh” Xavier mouths, adding that he used to know her. Fury explains that this plan was specifically created so the president could distance himself from Xavier, without turning tail on the mutant agenda. Fury may be out of the loop on this but he does know that the group includes one of Xavier’s ex-students  - Hank McCoy – one of Fury’s trainees and Cyclops’ brother. Cyclops has a hard time believing it, though he and his brother don’t really speak.
What does he want from them, Xavier asks. Fury explains that he cannot confront the men he believes to be a threat to the president. Nor can he alert the president without alerting them. He is also not allowed to enlist the aid of the X-Men, because they are civilians. The president is holding an outdoor press conference on the steps of the Capitol building to announce his new mutant agenda. Fury wholeheartedly believes that his safety and the safety of the mutants are at risk. But he cannot tell Xavier this without breaching protocol.  He can’t do anything. So the question is, what are Xavier’s plans?
The Capitol. The media, pro- and anti-mutant protesters and the X-Men are present, as the president announces his new agenda. Quoting Dr. Martin Luther King, he announces that humans and mutants must come together through understanding, compassion and most of all education. He introduces Emma Frost and her ideas and explains that he has handpicked Ms Frost to join him and his administration and she, in turn, has introduced him to these fine young men and women.
As he continues his speech, Jean caustically remarks that their fifteen minutes of fame were up about six minutes ago. One young man recognizes Kitty as an X-Man and asks why they aren’t up here. Kitty throws him a scathing glance, until he explains that he thinks they are awesome. She smiles at the guy, who suddenly looks scared, asking what that is.
Up in the sky hovers a huge Sentinel. The Secret Service men try to get the president away, as everyone panics. Frost’s mutants are confused and Xavier orders his X-Men to save both the president and the mutants.
Another Sentinel appears and shoots optic blasts at the mutants on the steps of the Capitol. Beast tries to get the others away but gets hit by a piece of debris. Angel stupidly asks Wolverine what that is and Logan just orders him to fly him up and get him near the robot’s head. Angel proceeds to do so, all the time moaning that he can’t do it. Wolverine is too heavy. He panics when the Sentinel lets loose another optic blast that incinerates the flesh on Wolverine’s foot. Wolverine curtly tells him it’ll grow back.
When they are high enough, Angel drops him on the Sentinel and Wolverine makes short work of it with his claws, till Colossus catches him. Cyclops lets loose with an optic blast, while Storm asks Jean to help her on the steps.
Xavier moans “oh no” and the others stare in shock as they find a lifeless Henry McCoy buried by heavy debris.


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New Mutants - part 6
It’s the worst day in the X-Men’s life, as they see one of their own – Beast aka Hank McCoy – slain at the hands of robot Sentinels on the steps of the Capitol. Beast’s girlfriend, Storm, first can’t believe her eyes, as she cradles her lover’s corpse. She looks to Xavier, who tells that he’s gone. With a shout of denial, Storm goes ballistic. She flies up into the air, warping weather patterns and wildly throwing lightning at one of the giant robots.
The other X-Men watch in awe, as she strikes again and again. She’s going to drop it, Jean realizes and telekinetically pushes the crowd out of the danger zone. Just in time, as the robot falls. Undeterred, Storm still attacks furiously. Xavier finally telepathically commands her to stop and to fall asleep. Iceman catches her, while Cyclops fights the other Sentinel.
Kitty asks Nightcrawler to teleport her up to the Sentinel’s head. When she phases through machinery, she messes it up. Maybe she can end this. Kurt complies and ‘ports them above the Sentinels’ head. Kitty phases inside. Not really knowing what she’s doing, she just phases through as much circuitry as possible. The robot finally drops, with Colossus managing to hold off its weight long enough for one child, who’s still standing there, to escape.
With the danger over, Xavier telepathically addresses Emma Frost, telling her that that’s why they have to do more than just teach. The humans aren’t ready for them yet..
Secret Service agents run to Frost’s side and she hysterically shouts get away from me, human! Looking at Beast’s corpse, she just repeats the word “no,” while one of her group of mutants, SHIELD Agent Karma, contacts Nick Fury.
Fury, Dugan, as well as other SHIELD agents arrive and Fury orders the Black Widow to debrief Karma. Dugan asks if Xavier and his kids just disappeared. Not yet. Fury explains that he just wants them to think they are gone. They’ll leave quietly. They should let them. Dugan states that they took the blue guy. Frost’s gone too. Let them bury their soldier, Fury replies. Back to business, he asks his agents about the president’s situation. They have him online, another agent replies. Fury talks to President Bush, making sure he’s all right and then stating that he will take care of this. But he needs the president’s executive permission to pursue this matter to its conclusion. Only three people in the world had access to the Sentinel program and one of them is dead. Clearly, those people want to be caught. He assures the president that this will be over in an hour.
Elsewhere in the White House, two of the conspirators - the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Secretary of Defense - discuss matters. They’ve declared war on mutants, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff states. This isn’t easy on anyone. He and the president went to college together. He’s known him longer than his wife. He was the president. And now he’s just another casualty, a victim in this. And they aren’t the ones that made him one, he states. They were. The second Xavier raped the president’s mind to further his mutant agenda. The second he started to use the government for his own mutant purposes. Xavier did this. He takes no please in his. But they have to be ready for the next step. They have to publicly declare what they did and why. They have to walk into the White House pressroom right now and tell the country that the president is a casualty of mutant hostility and that they have control of the situation. They have the White House. The world must know that America…
The other man has been silent throughout. Suddenly, he announces that it’s amazing. You people have done what so many others could not… You have virtually destroyed human/mutant relations.
“You People”? the chairman repeats. He was also involved. What’s wrong with his eyes?
He isn’t speaking to the secretary of defense the other man replies. He’s speaking to Special Agent Xi’an Coy Manh. SHIELD Black Ops codename Karma. She’s one of Fury’s BlackOps trainees and one of the people they were trying to kill today. She’s taken control of he secretary’s mind and body.
On the screen, Fury’ face appears- He announces that they are under arrest for a number of reasons. But, for the time being, let’s go with treason and conspiracy to assassinate the president. He’ll get to the entire list of sins later.
The secretary slumps down like a marionette, whose strings are cut. Karma and other armed agents enter, announcing to the president that these are the last of the conspirators. The chairman draws his gun, intent on killing himself rather than submit to a mutant. Karma takes away his weapon and smashes his head against the table. He’s going to go down in history as one of the most evil scum on the face on the Earth. Don’t be a coward too.
Later, the X-Men, Fury, Karma, Frost, Alex Summers and Dazzler are at the funeral ceremony of Hank McCoy. Ororo cries, while Wolverine and Cyclops cover their friend’s coffin with earth.
Later at Xavier’s, they watch a news display of the events in Washington. Turning to Emma, Alison and Alex, Xavier tells them that the school is open to all of them, for as long as they like. He knows that they had things in their lives that were important to them, people they cared for. But, for the moment, those lives are over. They are now targets of the world media, which will, for a while, make them a target of aggression and prejudice.
Emma tells him that she’s not thinking very clearly at the moment. This violence is not her world. He knows. Xavier telepathically urges her not to blame herself. This was an act of hostility and racism. He wants this to be a school of new ideas. Not just his ideas. All ideas. And if he had any regrets in this world, the first one was always shutting her out.
After all this crap between them, he ended up at Xavier’s anyhow, Alex Summers tells his estranged brother, Scott. Is he all right, Scott asks. He froze, Alex admits. Happens to the best of them, Scott tells his brother. He froze, Alex repeats, and Scott was all like—
Scott asks him to stay for a while.
The reports show the death of Best and Ororo starts crying again. Xavier announces that a man once said, “there are only two questions man can asks himself that mean anything. Why did God create the world? And what do I do next?” What do they do next, Scott asks. He doesn’t know, Xavier admits.


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The Tempest - part 1
Stuyvesant High School, New York City.
A crying dark-haired teenager stands on the building’s roof. Suddenly, he hears a bamf sound. He turns around asking who’s there. Step away from the ledge, Herr Beaubier, Nightcrawler tells him. Jean-Paul shouts out in terror at the demon-like sight of Nightcrawler. He steps back, stumbles and falls off the roof—
Right into Angel’s arms. Calling him a freak, Jean-Paul orders him to let him go. Nice thanks for saving his life, Angel comments, as he brings Jean-Paul back to the roof. What is he talking about? That…thing made him fall, the boy shouts, pointing at Nightcrawler. He was not trying to commit suicide? Nightcrawler asks in a heavy German accent. He came up here to think, Jean-Paul angrily protests.
Angel apologizes and introduces them as Warren and Kurt. They are mutants, he states and starts explaining what mutants are. Jean-Paul interrupts him impatiently and calls him a tool. He knows all that. What do they want with him? Nightcrawler explains that, at yesterday’s track and field invitational, Jean-Paul ran the mile in just under three minutes. He’s already been kicked off the team. Jean-Paul protests, stating that he doesn’t take steroids and… He suddenly understands. He can’t be one of them. Actually he kind of is, Angel says apologetically. Their professor has a machine that detects—
Great, Jean-Paul rants. Sophomore year he realizes he’s gay and now he’s a mutie?
He may want to live the life for a bit before starting to sling derogatory terms like that, even if he is trying to reappropriate them or whatever, Angel suggests. “Gay?” Nightcrawler repeats, taken aback.
Angel invites Jean-Paul to their School for Gifted Children – a haven for their kind. “Our Kind,” Jean Paul repeats dramatically - they are worse than his mom. When he came out of the closet, she tried to make him enrol at Harvey Milk. The boys don’t understand. It’s this “special” high school, Jean-Paul explains, making quote signs with his fingers, just for gay kids, where they can supposedly get an education without being harassed by idiots.
But he’d rather get called a homo ten times a day than segregate himself from the rest of society.
This is different, Nightcrawler protests. It may not be safe for him there. And their school is? Jean-Paul asks sarcastically. Didn’t one of their classmates just get murdered? How does he know about Hank, they ask. His dad is the Canadian ambassador. He plays Canasta with Nick Fury. He warned Jean-Paul about their little cult. Even as the boys protest Jean-Paul runs off, telling them to leave him alone. This city is dangerous, Kurt protest helplessly. He would be better of with them. Wouldn’t he?
Back at Xavier’s, Wolverine and Colossus take out their frustration on some Danger Room robots. Colossus is dissatisfied with their exercise. As Wolverine suggests they move up to the expert level, Colossus replies that he wants a real workout. He wants Wolverine to cut him. He’s to come at him with his claws. Logan extends his claws and tells him not to be dense. He’d poke though him like a big dumb voodoo doll. Theses things are made of hundred percent –
Colossus hits him with an armored fist. Has he gone blood simple? Logan angrily demands.
They have a word for men like him, Colossus goads him. Sobaka. Wolverine attacks with extended claws.
An agitated Emma Frost and an uncharacteristically dispassionate Xavier watch the display from the observation booth. Emma tells Charles to stop his. Combat lessons may be necessary, but this is barbaric. They are dealing with the loss of their friend, Xavier replies Young people often struggle for ways to –
Wolverine isn’t a “young person” Emma points out. He’s a grown man and a killer. The Rasputin boy has no idea what… His mutant name is Colossus, Xavier interrupts. “Mutant name?” What is wrong with him? Emma demands. When he was her professor, he had told her that mutant had to find ways to connectwith humanity, not to distance themselves from them. His curriculum has… evolved of recent, Xavier retorts coolly. As has he. Emma forcefully tells him to drop the Ming the Merciless crap. They both know he’s a candidate for sainthood, so he can quit hiding behind the ridiculous facade of vague menace.
She doesn’t know him as well as she used to, he hints. She knows him better, she replies, undeterred. And she knows this is his way of not dealing with the death of his pupil. Until he’s ready to grow up, she can’ help him or his school. They need some space and his students need a more healthy environment. She’s going back to Chicago for a few weeks and taking whichever children want to come with her. He wishes her luck finding volunteers, Xavier states coldly. Emma reminds him that he promised her not to push her away again. She’s holding him to that. She will be back. All he has to do is wake up and start dreaming again.
A little later, Alex Summer loads his luggage into Emma’s car. He’s the only one she could persuade into coming with her. She can’t wait to introduce him to some of her other little hellions, she tells him.
From some distance, Scott and Jean watch. Doesn’t he want to say goodbye to his brother, Jean asks. Why should he? Xavier and he welcomed Alex with open arms and he’d rather run off to play teacher’s pet with some substitute. Sibling rivalry really brings out the color in his cheeks, Jean teases. Does he want to go for a walk somewhere, she asks. What does she have in mind, he asks. The Phoenix burns in Jean’s eyes and, suddenly, they find themselves dressed in their uniforms and somewhere else.
(Scott’s mindscape)
Where are they, he demands. It’s his brain they’re taking a stroll through, she explains. He looks at the madcap science fiction world around him. Skyscraper, fighter planes battling robots. This is Corsair, he exclaims. Scott explains that Corsair is a make-believe world he created after his dad got him a tape of the Empire Strikes Back when he was seven. He’d imagine these complex military campaigns, month-long battles with monster and … space pirates. Were did she get the power to…
Jean tells him she just wanted him to see what an incredible leader he is and has always been. He couldn’t have crammed more strategies and maneuvers into his head if he tried. She knows he still feels responsible for what happened to Hank, but it wasn’t his-- Shh, Scott tells her and puts a finger to her lips. Engulfed by Phoenix energy, they kiss.
(reality)
What once was Xavier’s indoor pool is now ice and Bobby Drake is trying to teach Rogue how to skate. Does she know how old Kurt Cobain was when he died, he asks, while telling her to keep her feet under her hips. Forty, she guesses. Twenty-seven, he corrects her, while he elegantly skates around her. How about Jimi Hendrix? Twenty-nine, she guesses. Twenty-seven as well, he informs her. Rogue falls, while he asks about some other performers some of which she’s not even aware of: Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison… All of them died at twenty-seven. What’s his point, she asks. Isn’t that messed up, he wonders. That the most talented people are always the ones that die super young. Twenty-seven doesn’t sound young to her, Rogue states sadly. Seventeen, that’s young. Glumly, he agrees.
“Bobby Drake,” an angry voice exclaims. Kitty Pryde stands before them, dressed only in a skimpy bikini. Has he frozen the pool again? she asks exasperated. He was just teaching Rogue, he explains, as his protégé takes another fall. Bobby offers her his hand and Rogue hysterically shouts at him no to touch her. He’s wearing, a glove he calms her. It’s safe. Kitty rolls her eyes, announcing this is starting to sound like a bad sex-ed video.
She phases through the pool and ends up in the hall in front of her and Ororo’s room. The door’s locked. She shouts at Ororo to open. She’s standing there in her itsy-bitsies. She has nowhere else to go.
Suddenly, there’s a crashing sound from inside. Worried, Kitty phases into the room.
It’s dark inside. Nevertheless, Kitty sees the mess. The object that was hurled against the door was a framed picture of Ororo and Hank. Get out, a voice suddenly announces. Is she okay, Kitty asks. What does she think, Ororo, who has cut off most of her long tresses and now wears a low-cut mini, asks her.
Jean_Paul Beaubier wanders the streets at night. Evening, Jean Paul a voice greets him. He already told them to leave him alone, Jean-Paul announces, only to see that it’s not the X-Men but a powerfully-built tattooed man with dark hair, dressed in jeans and a wifebeater shirt. C’mere, the man orders him. He’s not into older dudes, Jean-Paul replies. The man repeats his order, as his eyes start to glow red and a white-red glowing diamond shaped symbol appears on his brow.
Despite himself, Jean-Paul joins the man in the back alley. The man tells him to get up against the wall. What is he staring at? Jean-Paul reads the word tattooed on his right arm in old-fashioned letters. Sinister? he asks. The man draws his gun, telling him to be careful. He shoots. That’s Minister Sinister to you.


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The Tempest - part 2
No! Jean-Paul Beaubier screams in disbelief and horror, as a bullet comes hurtling towards him, only to stop in midair, mere inches before him. A voice tells him to be cool. Jean-Paul turns towards the voice, only to see Marvel Girl in her X-Men uniform. She assures him that everything is going to be OK. The confused young man asks her who she is and what this is. Jean introduces herself and explains she’s an X-Man. Jean-Paul replies that two members of her group already visited him. Jean explains that she’s a mutant like him. She’s telepathically entered his mind, so they could take down a walk down memory lane together. Because, in another mili-second or so, Jean-Paul’s going to be shot.
He’s dead? Jean-Paul asks, dumbfounded. Jean explains that, thanks to his reflexes, the bullet meant for his heart ended up only grazing one of his lungs. If this is the past, where is he now? Jean Paul demands. In a comatose state at the hospital, Jean reveals and adds that he has an excellent chance at recovery. He’s really very lucky. What’s so lucky about being in a coma? he scoffs.
On that cue Jean shows him telepathic images of four young mutants: a schoolgirl with pink pigtails and bone growths protruding from her forehead, an African American young man with a shaved head, a young scruffy-looking leather-clad man with a Mohawk and piercings and a hooded girl dressed in rags. Last night, those four mutant kids were also shot in Manhattan by the same weapon used on Jean-Paul. He was the only one who survived. She was hoping he could show her the dirtbag who did this.
 Jean-Paul freezes and admits that he doesn’t want to see him again. Jean implores him. He doesn’t want this to happen to anybody else, does he? What he wants is to be awake again, Jean-Paul cries. That can’t happen until he allows himself to move beyond this point. Jean-Paul recalls the man’s eyes. They made it hard to move. Jean takes his hands and promises that he can’t be hurt now. Not when they look at the memories together. One, two …
Three! the memory of Sinister states, as he shoots at Jean-Paul.
(Reality)
With a scream, Jean-Paul awakes to find Jean and Colossus at his bedside. Jean thanks him and introduces Peter, who watched over Jean-Paul through the night to make sure he was save. Is he single, the drowsy Jean-Paul asks. Peter automatically turns into his metal form at the unexpected question, while Jean drags him away with a grin. They’ve got work to do, she announces.
Midtown Manhattan, later. Two cops at the home of one of the victims going trough her belongings. Addressing the female cop as Nagra, the male cop asks if she knows what you call four dead mutants. If he says “ a good start” she’s going to shoot him in the kneecaps, the woman threatens her colleague. Outside the building, Wolverine carefully listens to their conversation.
Browning is undeterred by his colleague’s foul mood. Angrily, Nagra reminds him that a lunatic snuck into the apartment in the middle of night and shot a 14-year-old kid. Hw about he show some respect? He defends himself, by pointing out its gallow’s humor. It’s how he deals – Nagra scoffs reminding him of the last time they handled a dead girl case. He cried like a woman back then. With their backs turned to the room, Logan sneaks in through the window and sniffs at the bullet they’ve found.
Browning continues to defend his stance, asking what kind of life this girl had with those things growing out of her head. There are varying degrees of tragedy in life, he claims. A dead mutant is sad, but not exactly a red ball. What if she told him she was a mutant, Nagra asks. She has 26 ribs instead of 24, like ten percent of the population. Technically, she’s a mutant. But she can’t blow up people with her brains, he points out. Suddenly, they hear a noise. Drawing their arms, they run back into the room. The window is open. Nobody’s there.
Training at Xavier’s the hard way, as Rogue learns when an optic blast grazes her leg. She’s dead, Cyclops announces grimly. It was just her leg, Rogue retorts. If that had been a bullet, Cyclops explains, it would have hit her femoral artery. She’d have lost five pints in seconds. So, off the field with her. He looks up, asking Angel how things are with their dirty bomb. The bomb he’s referring to – a football – is nestled smugly into Angel’s hand, as the handsome mutant asks why they are having a midterm exam now, when there’s a mutant massacre. Shouldn’t they—
He screams in surprise as he flies straight into a hail of ice. He drops the football and Iceman, on an iceslide, reaches for it while at the same time burdening Warren’s wings with ice. Angel crashlands and Iceman gloats, until a hand phases through him and grabs the football. Hands off the detonator, Shadowcat threatens, or she’ll get all touchy-feely again.
Kitty hands Cyclops the “bomb.” Instead of praise, she receives a stern reprimand though, as Cyclops reminds her that her phasing power disrupts electronics. If this had been a real nuclear device, Westchester would be a crater now. Cyclops chews all the junior members out. He knows their minds are elsewhere, but the fact that someone is killing their people means they have to train harder than ever. They have to be ready for anything, so they are to try again…
Inside the mansion, Professor Xavier confides to General Fury that he can’t do this alone. SHIELD may be their only hope for finding the responsible killer. He adds that one of his students found out that this “Sinister” possesses some kind of hypnotic power, but Xavier has been unable to locate him with Cerebro. Perhaps he’s not a mutant but the result of genetic engineering. He doesn’t have proof, Fury points out. Four mutants are dead, Xavier retorts. All shot with the same gun, Fury agrees. This is definitely a hate crime and another argument for better gun control laws but it is not Fury’s jurisdiction.
Has he forgotten about Hank, Xavier asks. If he makes Xavier send his children into battle he could condemn another one to the same fate. Nobody’s making him do anything, Fury retorts. He’d advise him to stay out of this altogether. It’s a complicated time for SHIELD, he explains. If it looks like they’re sacrificing resources meant for national security to help a special interest group— Oh, is that what they are now, Xavier asks snarkily. The telepathic transmission of Fury fades out, as he tells Xavier’ he’ll be in his thoughts. Not literally though, he hopes. His image disappears and Xavier is left alone in the Cerebro chamber.
Over the mansion, a localized storm is brewing. Floating in the air stands the young woman who controls the weather effect – the X-Man, Storm. Having undergone a startling transformation after the death of her boyfriend, Beast, she has cut most of her hair short and now wears a skimpy leather ensemble.
Hearing a characteristic bamf sound, she tells her teammate, Nightcrawler, who has teleported on the roof to go away. Undeterred, Nightcrawler mentions that Kitty told him about her new look. Very … interesting. She wants to be alone, she coolly states. Kurt replies that here is an assembly and her attendance is required. If she called down a big bolt of lightning right now, does he think he’d be able to teleport away in time, she asks. Because he is three seconds from finding out! Her eyes crackle.
Nightcrawler tells her he is sorry. He knows how much Beast meant to her. Is that why he’s always bothering her, she snaps. Because she’s the one who falls for furry freaks? Maybe he’s hoping to fill Hank’s shoes. Her Weltschmerz is no excuse for cruelty, he calmly retorts. He explains the term: a word coined by the German Romantics; it is the depression that comes when one compares the way the world should be to the way the world is. No one feels pain like poets, right?
He doesn’t know what he’s talking about Storm insists. Perhaps not, Kurt agrees, but he was there the day Weapon X turned Hank into something else. He remembers how furious Storm was that they had hurt him. She wanted to kill the ones responsible, but Kurt would not let her. He didn’t wish her to become a monster as well. How sad Hank would be to learn it took his death to do that. Mutants and humans continue to die at the hands of others, he reminds her. If she cares to rejoin the fight, the X-Men will be there for her. With those last words, he teleports away.
He reappears at McCoy Memorial Hall, where all the other X-Men, save for Wolverine, are already in attendance. Xavier addresses them all and, at that moment, Storm joins them. Cyclops pipes up, explaining that he has already come up with a few plans to locate and neutralize the killer. Actually, they will not be involved in the hunt for Sinister, Xavier reveals. In the foreseeable future, none of them will be permitted to leave institute grounds. Despite the X-Men’s shocked reactions, he continues that someone is targeting mutants and he refuses to put any of them in his crosshairs. Jean tells him she saw the man. He’s a psycho, not a Sentinel. They’ve fried bigger fish. And that’s why the threat should be left to the police, Xavier sternly replies. Most cops don’t want to find the killer, Chuck, a disrespectful voice points out. Wolverine has joined the assembly. And the few that do …won’t.
Does he have information, Xavier inquires. He has jack, Logan replies, which is the scary part. He visited the crime scenes and found nothing. No scent, no tracks, no nothing. Even the security cameras caught squat. That guy isn’t human. Seems like he is invisible to everything but the naked eye. Meaning they have to find him the old fashioned way… following leads, pounding pavement, knocking down doors. The more of them comb he city, the more kids they are likely to save.
Xavier thinks hard, then announces that this mission is strictly for the senior class. Angel, Shadowcat, Rogue and Iceman will remain here with him. This doesn’t sit well with Bobby, who loudly protests: why is he being lumped in with the new kids? He’s been holding himself with the others since day one! The Professor’s decisions are final, Cyclops sternly remarks. The others will split up in groups of two, Xavier continues. They’ll start searching Manhattan as all five shootings took place there.
Cyclops takes over deciding on the teams: he and Jean will search uptown, Storm and Colossus will take midtown and Wolverine and Nightcrawler will handle uptown. Xavier tells him he appreciates his recommendations, but the teams will be comprised of Cyclops and Colossus, Marvel Girl and Nightcrawler, Storm and Wolverine. Cyclops wants to protest, while Bobby gleefully reminds him that the Professor’s decisions are final. Once their target is found, Xavier announces, they are to report back to him. Sinister is not to be approached directly. Whatever they are dealing with is evil beyond the pale.
The man called Sinister sits in an apartment, his eyes glowing red. Four in one night, he mumbles, stutters even. A single slug in the left ventricle of each of their beating mutant hearts, just as he asked. A voice orders him to save his self-congratulatory muttering. Lord? Sinister asks. Were it not for his carelessness, he would have had five. A shadowy figure appears in the room and Sinister asks the shadow for forgiveness. The shadow continues that Sinister will only know his grace when he has delivered all ten innocent souls. He shall have the final six soon, Sinister promises, as he gets down on his knees and addresses the shadow as Lord Apocalypse.


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The Tempest - part 3
The Danger Room:
He’s bored, Iceman announces, as he freezes the Brood attacking him. Why are they playing with these lame CGI Alien rip-offs, when they could be looking for the whackjob who’s killing mutants, he complains. From the observation booth, Professor Xavier announces that their adversaries aren’t computer generated images, they are solid-light holo-ponents. And Bobby is not hunting for Sinister with his elder classmates precisely because of the flip attitude with which he approaches these exercises.
While Iceman keeps on arguing, Rogue, who is captured by several tentacles, announces if she got her hands on the guy, she’d drain every last drop of life from his hide. Flying above the Brood, Angel protests that they wouldn’t better than the murderer, if they killed. Oh, please, Rogue scoffs. He doesn’t really buy that tired old line, does he? Some folks are so awful you can just put them in the dirt and hope they won’t crawl out. Says the chick who used to work for Magneto, Kitty Pryde retorts. Rogue protests that that isn’t fair. She was just a dumb kid then. Besides, even Magneto never hurt his own kind.
The computer informs them that Dazzler is entering the room. Drunk, high, still carrying a bottle and aglow, Alison Blaire informs the others that she is back from the party of the @#*&ing millenium and she is lit! Get it? He forgot they started accepting losers on the team, Iceman remarks sarcastically. She smells like her grandfather, Rogue complains. Is her grandfather dead, Angel inquires. The entire day is beginning to smell like that, Kitty announces.
Back in his apartment, his weapons all laid out, Sinister holds a rat before his face, intending to gut it. The voice of Apocalypse orders him to let it go. He has bigger game this evening. Of cuh- cuh-course, Lord Apocalypse, the killer stutters. His master orders him to stop stammering. This mission requires a fierce horseman, not a stuttering man-child. The square on Sinister’s eyes start to glow red, as he thanks his lord for giving him strength. He bows before Apocalypse and promises he will kill the final six mutants for him tonight.
On a roof stand the six senior members of the X-Men. Cyclops repeats the mission parameters. He and Colossus will be searching for Sinister in midtown Manhattan. Wolverine and Storm will work street-level downtown. And Nightcrawler and Marvel Girl are staying here in Harlem for the uptown detail. Are they really still going with “Marvel Girl?” Jean jokes. She outgrew that handle two bra-sizes ago. At least she isn’t named after a worm, Nightcrawler states comfortingly.
Cyclops orders them to knock it off and reminds them that Jean uploaded Sinister’s visual she got from Beaubier into all of their occipital lobes. They are to contact the Professor if they spot anything. Sinister’s got some kind of hypnotic stare so they are not to engage him alone. That means especially Logan. Wolverine grunts non-commitingly.
If they come up empty, they are to rendezvous at the X-Wing at sunrise for further instructions. He also reminds them that Sinister is supposedly invisible to everything but the naked eye.
Hugging Jean, Nightcrawler teleports himself and her away to reappear on another roof.
If there is a man alive whose buttons are easier to push than her boyfriend’s, he has yet to meet him, he jokes. Jean tells him not to be too hard. After what happened to Beast, she can’t blame Scott for being a little uptight. Kurt apologizes but it surprises him that a fiery young woman such as she would be drawn to so dour a boy. Take it from a telepath and Cosmo subscriber, men are never what they seem, Jean states with a smile. After all, who’d guess that a guy like Kurt would constantly daydream about Pirates of the Caribbean? Kurt begins to swoon about Kiera Knightley before asking whether Jean is spying on his fantasies. She can’t help overhearing Jean explains. If she tried to block out every dirty thought the boy ever had, she’d never get any work done.
Getting back to business, she tells him to keep his eyes peeled. According to Cerebro, Harlem has the densest concentration of mutants in all of Manhattan. Hey, a voice shots and a shape crackling with black energy appears behind them. He’s been waiting for them to show themselves on his turf, he announces, before letting loose an energy blast at Kurt.
Jean’s eyes begin to flare dangerously. Ashes, she pronounces. A moment later, a Phoenix shape rises behind her and she telekinetically attacks the young man, who turns to his normal shape of a handsome young Brazilian black man. What … what are they?  he inquires.  What is he? Jean shoots back annoyed. Still angry, he introduces himself as Roberto DaCosta, a member of neighborhood watch. He’s been on patrol ever since they started putting holes in mutants like him.
Jean and Kurt correct him: they are the X-Men. Roberto still isn’t impressed. He’s heard of their little club. So they’ve finally decided to climb down from their ivory tower to grace the “second-class” muties with their presence? They just want to help, Jean protests. Where were they when some bigots torched down his apartment because of what Magneto did to the president, Roberto asks. Where were they when his friend Anglo was beaten wiring an inch of his life simply because of the texture of his skin? The have learned to live just fine without their charity. Whatever they are offering now is much too little, much too late. Até logo, “X-Men” he tells them and leaves. Kurt hopes their comrades are receiving a warmer welcome.
Kill them both, Boris orders his henchmen of the Russian mafia and they start shooting at Colossus and Cyclops. Firing his optic blasts, Cyclops asks if Colossus didn’t say that those guys were his friends. They used to be, Colossus explains. But Russian arms dealers are notoriously temperamental. Except when it comes to money. Here, their love is unwavering. He grabs one of the men and adds that they would happily sell an unregistered .45 to some lunatic and not lose any sleep when he starts murdering young men and women with it.
He is wrong, Boris announces. They stopped selling .45s years ago. Three is much more profit to be made in a nice TEC-9, like the one he’s holding to Cyclops’ head. Colossus orders him to let Cyclops go. Boris refuses. The X-Men took his most valuable muscle from him. It’s only fair if he takes something from them in return. Colossus asks him to kill him instead. Suddenly, Cyclops fires his optic blast at him. Colossus’ steel form deflects it and it hits Boris in the head.
Amazing, Colossus marvel and asks how Cyclops knew that the blast would ricochet. He did know that, didn’t he? Cyclops just tells him to come. Sinister’s gunrunning is a dead end. They’ve got to start thinking outside the box.
Downtown. Storm breaks the silence between them by suddenly thanking Logan. He hasn’t said one word to her today, he replies. Exactly, she explains. Since Hank died, the rest of the team can’t stop trying to… fix her. Well, she lost her one and only, Logan shrugs. Who is he to judge if that makes her want to give herself a dumb haircut and start dressing like street trash. She’s not the first person life ever stomped on.
He points to some punk kids, explaining that all these people have been hurt so bad, they have to push the world away, just to make sure it doesn’t hurt them again. But the only thing worse than being in pain is being ignored, so they have to find a look that says  everybody pay attention, just don’t get too close. They like to think they are loners. But check those get-ups. Looks more like an uniform that whatever fancy crap the Professor makes them wear. He is the oldest, grumpiest young man alive, Storm interrupts him. He touches her shoulder telling her that he truly is sorry. About everything. With a weak smile Ororo adds that she is not the only one around here with a stupid haircut…
As they pass a tattoo shop, Logan says wants to investigate there. He remembers the word written on Sinister’s arm in the mug shot Jean zapped into their brains. Looks like the kind of lettering they used to do in that joint. What does he know about tattoos; Ororo inquires. He’s gotten a few dozens in his days. He goes on to explain that like scars they basically fade after a few hours. There are a great way to impress new girlfriends, though. He figures they can get some leads from their client list. Isn’t that confidential, Storm asks. Logan shoots her a pitying glance.
Get bent, freak! the very pierced shop owner exclaims when Wolverine threatens him with his claws What’s he gonna do to him… pierce him? Has he seen his face? Storm calmly tells her teammate to let her handle things. The man mocks her as weather girl. A moment later, a ball lightning appears on Ororo’s outstretched hands. Has he heard of acid fog, she asks him. She wonders what would happen if she filled his lungs with a cloud of supersaturated nitrates. She continues threatening him with weather effects, finishing that mother nature is a mutant. And unless he gives her a name, she’ll show him what she thinks of man. The man gives in, telling them that a guy got the word “Sinister” tattooed on his arms a few weeks ago, but he doubts he has the stones to shoot anybody. He lives rightndown the street. Stuttering geek named Essex.
A short while later, Storm comes in through the window, while Wolverine crashes the door. Seeing something in the next room, Storm screams. Wolverine joins her to see what spooked her: an almost clown-like life-sized puppet with blue make-up and a prominent red “A” on its belt. While Storm makes fun of the puppet Logan looking at the wall is suddenly horrified. They gotta go back to Xavier’s, he announces. On the wall, there are pictures of Sinister’s victims as well as of Professor X and the five junior members of the X-Men. He ain’t in Manhattan anymore … Sinister’s at the school!


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The Tempest - part 4
Camera 13:
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Camera 14:
Angel informs somebody on the phone to tell his father it’s gotten so bad around here, the Professor won’t even let them leave campus.
Camera 18:
Kitty Pryde is taking care of Dazzler, who is nursing a major hangover.
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The living room: Bobby Drake has his arms protectively draped around his girlfriend, Rogue, as he assures her that Scott and the others will catch the guy who murdered all those mutants.
Professor Xavier studies all the impressions he gets when, suddenly, a voice behind him calls him a dirty old man for spying on his underage students… Surprised, Xavier turns around, as the intruder announces that he doesn’t show up on any of his voyeur cams. He doesn’t photograph well.
Xavier recognizes the man as Sinister. The villain retorts that he knows a thing or two about Xavier as well. Lord Apocalypse told him stories. Xavier stalls as he asks who Apocalypse is. Sinister assure him he won’t be able to slip him any telepathic suggestion. He’s got a few mindtricks of his own. As the red diamond on his forehead starts to glow, he orders Xavier to be still. He then pushes the wheelchair with the helpless Professor out of the room. Where is he taking him, Xavier demands. To the one true enemy of the great Charles Xavier, the villain retorts. Stairs. He pushes him down.
In the X-jet, en route to Westchester, the mood is tense. Wolverine snarls at Scott to go faster, adding nastily that Hank would have gotten them home fifteen minutes ago. Scott stoically reminds him that Hank is dead. And, if he pushes the plane any harder, he’s going to have company. He’s going to have company if Cyclops doesn’t, Storm interrupts, reminding everybody that they left the school defenseless. They played right into that psycho’s hands. Nightcrawler tries to calm her, pointing out that the Professor can weather any storm that blows his way. Plus, Jean will already have warned him, Colossus adds. Jean replies that Xavier’s not on-mind right now. But it’s late. Maybe he fell asleep.
Xavier lies passed out at the bottom of the stair. Sinister is standing above him, announcing that Lord Apocalypse would help him complete his transformation after he brings him six more innocent mutant souls. He has his doubts about Xavier being innocent, but he figures it’s worth a shot. He points his guns at Xavier. At that moment, as voice shouts ‘freeze’ and Iceman encases the guns and Sinister’s hands in ice. Sinister, nevertheless, shoots hitting Bobby in the chest.
Alerted by the noise, Rogue runs out shouting Bobby’s name.  Little girls. I like the noises you make when you bleed, Sinister leers as he fires at Rogue point-blank. Both are amazed to find she is untouched – thanks to Kitty, who has dived up from below and is phasing her teammate. She drags her down, even while Rogue is protesting asking about Bobby.
Getting his bearings, Sinister shouts at them to run and hide. The last four kids he popped were no fun at all. Suddenly, huge wings flap, hitting both his guns out of his hands. Illuminated by the moon, Angel stands before him. At a loss for words Sinister utters that he’ll be damned.
He thought he’d be scared of him, Angel announces, but he is not. Sinister is nothing without the weapons he hides behind. Choke yourself, Sinister commands, as the diamond on his forehead starts to glow red. Against his will, Angel’s hands move to his neck and he begins to follow the order. They say a man can’t strangle himself to death, Sinister announces, but he isn’t a man. Where did he come from? ‘Cause he sure as hell doesn’t believe in heaven. He’s more a reincarnation kinda guy, he rambles. Spiritual equivalent of evolution. That’s always been an obsession of his.
Behind Sinister, a voice starts singing boom boom boom, and light rays hit him, causing him to fall backwards out of the second floor window. That’s the way we live, Dazzler continues singing, as she climbs down. An old David Byrne song, she explains to Angel. Really gets her lightshow tripping. She’ll mop up the banger wannabe. Facing the lying Sinister, she explains that she’ not really part of this band. But when some bald guy says you can crash at his mansion whenever you need digs, you don’t say no. She kneels above Sinister and starts singing again as her finger glows. Sinister grabs her wrist and bends her arm behind her back. Ugly voice, pretty colors, he observes, as he takes out a knife and holds it to her throat. Let’s see what colors she has on the inside…
Let her go, a voice commands from above. Rogue stands at the window, pointing one of Sinister’s guns at him. Or don’t, she continues. Either way he’s getting one between the eyes. Angel urges her to put the gun down. He killed Bobby, she continues. The only boy who ever treated her halfway decent and for that he gets to… Kitty phases up to her, telling her to rewind. Bobby’s alive. His ice absorbs most of the impact.
Hey morons, Dazzler shouts. Hostage situation here, remember? Sinister orders Rogue to drop the piece or he’ll turn her friend into a fountain. Angel urges Rogue to comply. She was knocking tin cans off fences long before she started stealing other mutants’ mojo, she shouts. She can make the shot. Angel still protests and, as he touches her shoulder, she absorbs his powers, growing wings.
Looks like she did his job for him, Sinister gloats. Furiously, she flies downwards, grabs him by his shirt and flies him high up in the air. Give me one reason, she demands, why she shouldn’t’ drop him so fat his bones burst out of his skin when he hits the ground. The diamond on his forehead glows, as he claims that he can survive the fall, but can she? Go ahead, crash, he orders.
Rogue is mesmerized for a moment, until another voice tells her not to listen to him. Storm has arrived. She tells Rogue it’s over and asks her to put him down gently. Her feathers will soon disappear. Rogue protests. Why is she acting all soft? That piece of trash is no better than the animals who killed her Hank. He deserves to die. Storm stays calm for a moment, then tells Rogue that Hank always said that if mutants are the future, they’ve got to stop thinking like the—
Rogue interrupts her, reminding her that he murdered people. An eye for an eye! What has that ever solved in the history of mankind, Storm asks exasperated. They’re supposed to be what’s next. How about they try something new?
Sinister stutters that she is right and begs to be let go. Rogue knocks him out. Not exactly the non-violent solution she had in mind, Storm wryly comments, but it’ll do. Rogue shrugs. She probably absorbed some of Angel’s halo with his wings…
Three hours later, SHIELD has arrived to take Sinister into custody. Fury commends Xavier. He just got the initial ballistics back from SHIELD and the 45s Sinister brought there are a match for the weapons used in the other homicides.
Who is the man? Xavier asks. DNA confirms he’s one Nathaniel Essex, who used to work as a bioengineer for an Oscorp subsidiary in New Orleans. He couldn’t get permission to perform experiments using hypnotic persuasion and “urban stealth” on other humans, so he started testing on himself. Whatever he did made him crazy too. He was fired after he started interacting with the voices in his head. Then, he just disappeared.
As Fury leaves, Storm apologizes to Xavier. They should have been there. Xavier assures her he couldn’t be more proud of the way they handled themselves. He should be apologizing. Had he permitted the younger X-Men to accompany the rest, this evening’s nightmare could have been avoided. Then, he still would have been a target, Storm point out. That’s why it’s wrong to keep any of them here against their will, Xavier insists. They are no safer on school grounds than anywhere else. He realizes they will not be students forever and, if they are to survive in the real world after they graduate, perhaps they must learn to be part of that world today.
The Triskelion, SHIELD headquarters ad detaining enter.
In his cell, Sinister buries his head in his hands, complaining that his mind is breaking. He can’t tell what’s real. As he whines about his nightmares, a voice mocks him for the useless roach he is. Lord Apocalypse? he asks. This is the last time he will ever hear his voice, the voice states. Sinister’s failures exhaust him. It is time to find a new horseman to help bring forth the dawn of the final age. Sinister begs him not to leave him. He’ll do anything. He need just name his command. Very well, a very real Apocalypse replies: Choke yourself.