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The Age of X-Man:What would you sacrifice for your dreams? Nate Grey wonders. A moral question he could never answer until he met an alternate version of himself. Unlike the old Nate, he knew the infinite value of autonomous existence. He knew the virtue of selflessness leads to safety for future generations. That Nate is responsible for who he is now. He gave up everything to save a universe.
No matter how big a question he asked him, the other Nate always recounted the same parable. A curious boy asked his deity: What is the self? What? What is the body? What is divinity? The deity replied: they are the flowers at your feet. They are the flowing waters of the ocean. They are the dreams you dream. All are one. All are the same.
Now that humanity has evolved, he finally understands what the other Nate meant. They are all the same. They are still friends; they still work together.
As he meditates, Colossus paints, Storm does laundry. Magneto cooks, Nature Girl is busy in the garden, X-23 is fixing some pipes, Nightcrawler is hanging up posters from his movies and Jean Grey is reading several books at once.
But Nate knows better than everyone they are always alone. The difference is in this new era they embrace it. And indeed, the X-Men aren’t spending time in the same building, but each has a home of their own.
A little later, a klaxon calls the X-Men to X-Sanctuary. X-Man announces that a forest fire is threatening to engulf Los Angeles. Jean interrupts that it is worse. It is threatening the mutants of tomorrow. It’s encroaching on Cerebro West. Nature Girl mutters that’s where she was born. Nightcrawler demands instant action. Magneto asks if anyone has been displaced and if they have anywhere to go. X-Man scans and reveals part of a suburban zone has already been consumed. No reported injuries. No safe zone yet. Jean adds, the blaze is spreading quickly. Storm states the winds are picking up, spreading the fire. She will need Nature Girl’s help to reclaim the forest. X-Man and Colossus volunteer to accompany them. The rest are with Jean. She telepathically tries to calm the children’s minds but there are too many.
A little later, the X-jet hovers over the fire. Storm’s team jump down, while Jean and X-Man establish a psychic link between their groups.
Colossus and Nature Girl focus on saving wildlife, while Storm and X-Man try to contain the blaze from above.
Nature Girl leads Colossus to some trapped small animals. He is amazed how much life is in the woods. It’s easy to forget sometimes. It’s literally all she thinks about, Nature Girl replies grimly.
X-Man senses 315 people terrified nearby. Storm tells him to go, she has the wind under control.
The other group reaches the already burning children’s home. Magneto keeps up the building’s stability, while Nightcrawler start evacuating. Jean heads for the nursery. Left behind, X-23 mutters she will figure something out.
Jean reaches the nursery where the nurses are hiding with the kids and helps to get them out.
X-23 heads for the hatchery telepathically, asking what to do about the unborn children. Nightcrawler swears, then promises he will be down with her in a moment.
X-Man helps a plane, while Storm asks for his help. Colossus and Nature Girl have evacuated the animals and Nature Girl informs him Isabel, the black-tailed jackrabbit, adores him. She can tell he has a strong heart.
Inside the home, X-23 is told the babies cannot be taken out of the pods yet. She decides to take them in the pods. She grabs one pod and suddenly is hit by a memory of being together with her sister Gabby. She feels a sudden burst of pain then snaps out of it as Nightcrawler complains they won’t get all out in time. They have to try! she snaps.
In the sky, Storm and X-Man work on containing the smoke created by the conflagration. Colossus and Nature Girl evacuate more animals and Nature Girl asks Storm for more rain for the plants.
In the home, Jean leads the kids to the roof, where Magneto waits to evacuate them. While she psychically reaches out, she suddenly hears the message: are they tired of being alone? It’s okay to love.
X-Man flies towards the building and erects a telekinetic shield within hatchery. He informs Jean that they are protected.
Afterwards they lead the kids out. Several kids tell Kurt how much they love his movies arguing over whether “The Spy Who Bamfed Me” or “Planet of the Sapiens” is better. He tells them to wait until they see “Moonbamfer.”
Nature Girl and Colossus join them with several animals and Nature Girl insists on adopting the grizzly. In the meantime, Jean and Magneto give an interview.
Later, they all watch the interview on the news and agree this is the reason they are X-Men, to do good. Nightcrawler recalls how, in the past, they just fought instead of doing what really mattered. Nature Girl asks Jean if it is true that mutants used to procreate like other mammals. Jean is shocked at the question. Nature Girl presses on asking what romance is. A dead idea, Jean replies. A concept they have outgrown like family.
X-23 stands alone at the window, a tear running down her face. X-Man notices her trouble and suggests they take a walk. They do and Laura explains she saw something back there she can’t shake. Like pain… torture.
Nate offers to take a look inside her head but Laura demurs. She thinks just getting it out will help. He tells her he will listen. Laura continues that it was like a memory. It was a single fleeting image but more memories came with it. Feelings she doesn’t remember having. She doesn’t know anything about it… about her. She must sound crazy, but it happened. And with it came so much rage. She felt like hurting people for the first time in a long time. It was like being brought back to her childhood. She hesitates. No, not hers. She thinks she had a sister…. It’s all a mess. She grew up in a place like Cerebro. They weren’t always so friendly.
Nate tells her she is not crazy. He knows how she feels. Their “births” weren’t that different. He is also a product of cruel, unrelated genetic tampering. Stuff of the old world. Before the Resolution. He continues that he is an impossibility. He comes from a timeline that never existed. How absurd is that? He was manufactured in a lab from the genetic material of Jean Grey and Scott Summers. And, like her, he was designed to be a weapon. He was so powerful he barely understood it.
How have they never talked about this? Laura wonders. Because that would be bonding, he replies. Getting close. And that means moving away from perfection. He reveals that the truth is she does have a sister. Her name is Gabby and she is like her. A product of James Howlett’s DNA. But he can’t let Laura see her…
What? she shouts and unsheathes her claws. His eyes glow as he states, strictly this kind of recklessness can’t be part of their world. It is exactly the kind of negativity he is trying to eradicate. He is sorry but this is bigger than just them. He adjusts her memories and she walks away. They all had to give things up, he muses. It’s the only way dreams can last.
The next day, most of the X-Men are in the garden, all busy in their own way. Suddenly, Jean is hit by a telepathic message and loses her concentration. Are they tired of being alone? she repeats the message as she is caught in a seizure. It’s okay to love. They can show them the truth. Join their cause in Central Park this Saturday. Embrace the bonds that make life worth living.
The message over, Jean recovers. She explains she intercepted a psychic signal… a kind of rallying cry. Kurt points out the words she uttered sounded like the ones on the flyer. There is a resistance forming, Jean explains. What could they possibly be resisting? Storm wonders. Their way of life. Individualism, Jean replies. Storm is shocked. What more could they want? How could you denounce everything that makes the world good?
Nature Girl wants to know who is behind this. Jean got a few names: En Sabah Nur, Genesis and Kitty Pryde. Who the hell are they? X-Man wonders…
“There is a tyranny in the womb of every Utopia (Bertrand de Jouvenel).”


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The mysterious guru called En Sabah Nur is holding a speech in Central Park, surrounded by a large curious audience. They all know, deep in their hearts, that something isn’t right in this world, he explains. They’ll tell you that the problem is wanting to be together. Wanting a connection. Longing for the warmth of another in your bed, he scoffs. He begins drawing a circle of lines around his right eye.
They’ll tell you that your emotions are base, that they’ll corrupt your capacity to be an individual and that such autonomy is the key to a more advanced form of life. En Sabah Nur stresses that he and his people are here to tell people that “they” are wrong. They are here to embrace the connections that make life worth living. As a society, they have accepted that all mutations are beautiful. But they say they are more. All mutations are beloved. Whether they are blue, winged, horned or made of moss, they are made to be loved. Yes, those mutations make them themselves, but the same traits make them appealing to others. And they are not only talking about romance but about all bonds. Bonds extend between every one of them. They are in their blood, they are part of their DNA.
Kitty Pyde and Genesis also step onto the stage. En Sabah Nur puts his hand on Genesis’ shoulder. When he first learned of his son, Genesis, they were told their love is alien. That his desire to be close to him is the enemy. How can you separate what was once part of you?
He kisses Genesis gently on the forehead to the shock of the crowd. They have no enemies, he announces. Not when they love one another!
The X-Men have reached the crowd. X-23 announces he sounds insane and Magneto muses they should put a stop to this. To what exactly? Jean Grey demands.
En Sabah Nur continues and points to his right eye. It has become a symbol of individuality. It is the eye of Hope Summers, a hero they are told acted alone to give them all mutations. This is a lie. Today they reclaim this mark as a symbol of unity. That they are indivisible from each other. As proof that they are strongest together. Today they reclaim all these false prophets of isolation.
He points toward a huge statue of Wolverine. Some members of the crowd get ready to tear it down. X-23 has had enough. She runs towards the statue. As one of the statue’s claws breaks off, X-23 has a memory flashback.
Flashback:During her X-Force days, she and Wolverine are fighting some enemies. He points out she was made for this, designed to kill. Sometimes she will want to tear them to shreds because that is her nature… his nature. Even though it is in her blood, the choice is still hers to make, he warns.
Present:The girl who broke off the statue’s claw lies on the ground bleeding and shouts that X-23 cut her. X-23 stammers confused. Magneto draws her back and tells her she lost her temper. She tries to tell him what happened.
As the crowd argues on whether an X-Man would do what X-23 did, X-Man announces this has gotten out of hand and suggests they all take a deep breath. &%# you! the girl whom Laura cut replies and decks her. Laura’s apologies don’t stop her. Others in the crowd attack as well and X-Man protects the X-Men with a telekinetic shield.
Some crowd members intend to ram through the forcefield. Colossus takes the ram away, chiding them for not understanding how dangerous this is.
Genesis suggests they get out of here. En Sabah Nur refuses. They must show them the way.
X-Man intends to calm the crowd by disrupting the flow of hormones from their pituitary glands. Jean chides him to let them feel what they need to feel. It’s not their place to suppress emotions.
Storm and Nature Girl use their powers to keep the crowd at bay and Nature Girl marvels she has never seen such anger before.
Other crowd members hit Colossus, who doesn’t even notice the blows and tells them they are throwing their lives away for En Sabah Nur.
Addressing En Sabah Nur as “murshid,” Kitty Pryde points out that every second they spend here increases the danger against him. Who will guide them if not them? he asks.
Magneto has had enough. Storm reaches out to him, warning they are not worth losing everything they built. She has a short memory flash of another time, of battling each other, as does he.
En Sabah Nur addresses the crowd, announcing there is no room for hate in his family. They believe love is not war. The crowd look down ashamed.
Magneto states he must be En Sabah Nur. The guru replies he is honored the exalted X-Men have come to their first gathering. He apologizes for a few passionate individuals taking things too far. He wants them to know, he loves them. Colossus and Kitty Pryde share a glance. He loves them all. En Sabah Nur lifts himself, Kitty and Genesis into the air.
Later the X-Men discuss matters in their HQ. They are just going to leave them alone? X-23 asks. Nature Girl retorts, what should they do? Nightcrawler interjects Charles wouldn’t want the X-Men to hurt them.
Jean points out that they have all been forced to violence by the other side. How can they be so quicks to judge? Colossus replies it is their duty to keep the world safe, and they pose a danger to it! They don’t know that, Nate points out calmly. Colossus continues he called that boy his son! And kissed him in public!
X-23 complains about the way they looked at her. Nature Girl retorts that they looked at all of them that way. X-Man points out that, of the 40 mutants present, less than a dozen turned violent. They shouldn’t judge them by the actions of a few.
So, if they just ignore them, they think they’ll go away? Nature Girl asks. The X-Men didn’t, Jean points out. All movements start small, Storm agrees. Nightcrawler adds they must act now before this gets out of hand.
Nature Girl muses she sees violence all the time with animals, but mutants don’t seem to like it much. Is it sometimes okay then? She is answered by a ‘yes’ from Colossus and a ‘no’ from X-Man. Magneto admits he isn’t sure anymore.
Jean points out the majority in the park were calm and happy. They were preaching love, outdated as it may seem, and the X-Men didn’t actually speak to a single one of them. Maybe they are blowing this out of…
Ne Nado! Colossus shouts and hits the table. They protect mutantkind! They uphold their values! There is no room for error! They are obligated to anticipate and counter threats before they can threaten the world. Yes, the threat has changed! Yes, there is only a small chance they might turn dangerous. But it is no different than a spreading forest fire. Angrily, he gets up.
Jean suggests they all agree they have to keep an eye on this. Nate adds they have to inform Department X.
Soon, Jean, X-Man and X-23 visit Department X, where they talk to Psylocke and Moneta. They explain what happened. They have ruled out mind control? Psylocke asks. Jean explains the people were acting of their own volition. Zut alors, Moneta swears. She wouldn’t have believed they’d see the day when mere words stoked mutants into violence.
Psylocke tells them that, unless En Sabah Nur’s people rush down the middle of Fifth Avenue blocking traffic, there isn’t much Department X can do. Moneta pipes up and suggests they can put up a memo to the rest of the department and see what comes up on this Sabah Nur fou. Make this disgusting ‘grade a person of interest. Psylocke telepathically chides her the less the X-Men know about what they do, the better. With her voice, she replies that, as long as En Sabah Nur doesn’t expose himself to the crowd, they can’t do that. If they find the mutants who defaced the statue, they can hit them with some mandatory volunteer hours. If they find the ones who got violent…
X-23 interrupts it was just a misunderstanding. Moneta lectures her they need to make sure mutants don’t act like hat. Violence negates harmony.
X-Man asks about En Sabah Nur’s ideology. Words are more dangerous than fists. Amour? Moneta scoffs. Sounds like he found an old sex ed text book and now thinks he’s Allen Ginsberg, Psylocke jokes. But the X-Men were actually there. What do they think? Jean is silent for a moment, until Nate calls her name, then states it is a dangerous mindset. It represents a backwards leap. She’s more concerned when his words translate into flagrant displays of affection. Moneta grimaces in disgust as she recalls En Sabah Nur kissing his son on the forehead. C’est degoutant!
Psylocke points out Moneta is dunking Blob’s blueberry cookies into orange soda, then recalls the X-Men mentioning two lackeys. Who was the other one?
She was beautiful, Colossus muses as he thinks of said other lackey, Kitty Pryde, in his home. He thinks of her auburn hair and dark eyes while painting a small purple dragon. He wonders why he can’t stop thinking about her. He doesn’t even know her. He tells himself she cannot matter. All she stands for is in direct opposition to his way of life. He just scolded his team- Spoke the truth from his heart. But here he is with these perverse obsolete thoughts. As Mother used to say, he carries fire on one hand and water in the other. Disgusted, he tosses his paintbrush against the wall.
In his own home, Magneto tries to drown his sorrows. He muses that he destroyed his helmet to open himself to others. To begin anew. But he has yet to accept that vulnerability and freedom go hand in hand. What he has accepted is that he used to be a villain. A term he always thought rather reductive and, yet, what he saw today made him fear that part of him could come back.
He sits down, wondering that it seemed real like a memory or desire. The bourbon doesn’t make it better. He felt rage. A flash but within it he wanted to kill Storm. Irrational. Fearful. Emotions he hasn’t felt in years, but which are dragging him back to the man he used to be. He won’t go back. Angrily, he tosses the glass to the ground.
A crack opens from it and an image emerges an image of the Scarlet Witch, the woman he believed to be his daughter. She announces he was used. The great Magneto a pawn in someone else’s game.
He sees himself cradling Quicksilver, while the Scarlet Witch in the sky announces that Magneto has no family. That he is alone. The two of them battle.
Magneto tells himself those images lie. Wanda and Pietro… his children. Stryfe killed them. Wanda’s bones shattered in her chest. Pietro’s heart slowed to a stop. That was before the Resolution. They’ve been dead for years. He tells himself it’s the drink or guilt. He tells himself it is not real but he feels the pain linger. Feels a bond to a past that does not exist.
He is unaware of Storm hovering outside, looking in.
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Six hours from now, a superstorm starts to build up in the sky. Surrounded by it, hovering in the sky, are Storm and Magneto. In the midst of the tempest, Storm observes that this is what they have come to.
Freeport, Bahamas, now:In the storm, the X-jet flies as close to the island as possible, then Nightcrawler teleports the team in. Storm flies upward to try and calm the weather before the island is swallowed.
While the others evacuate and help people, Storm does her best, aware that she can’t simply abort destructive weather. She has to work with it and sometimes it has to run its course.
She has calmed the weather somewhat but Magneto senses a strong magnetic field. There is still lightning on the way. Storm announces she is working on it and then challenges him that he can’t even look her in the eye. They need to talk! Magneto flies away without another word.
Home again, Nightcrawler wonders if they made the news. X-23 worries if they left to soon but X-Man praises the Bahamians as a strong community of individuals. They put the X-Men’s effort to shame.
However, when they turn on the TV, it is the face of En Sabah Nur that they see. He is being interviewed and talks about how his X-tracts have touched the lives of countless. As they approach Xavier Day this year, he asks that they consider their past. And once they have done that, they must consider what they and their loved ones want for the future.
Colossus angrily reminds his teammates, they should have stopped him.
Nature Girl wonders why they didn’t know about this. X-Man points out they had other pressing matters do deal with.
The news anchor continues that this is just one of several worldwide love protests. While the movement is led by the mysterious murshid, others are starting to take the lead. Take Kitty Pryde, for example. They show a short clip of Kitty demanding their right to love.
Jean criticizes the channel for showing this and giving people bad ideas. Kurt points out they are keeping people informed. Laura muses she hates seeing a girl like this involved with a group of psychopaths. Nearby, Colossus stares and is strangely silent.
Magneto orders them to turn off the interview. X-Man and Storm protest: they need to know why people listen to them.
The interview with En Sabah Nur continues, and there are questions about his son. En Sabah Nur encourages everyone to look for their family members - they weren’t all born in test tubes. When asked whether he will be in London on Xavier Day, he replies the flames will burn brighter than before.
Colossus has had enough and smashes the TV set. They heard him! He threatened the day they hold most sacred! X-23 tells him to chill; they are pacifists. Colossus doesn’t accept that but Nightcrawler chimes in; they are relief workers. They should leave this to Department X.
Magneto supports Colossus. Today they may be a movement, but by Xavier Day they will be a cause! Nature Girl points out the blue man is speaking to people’s biology. For millennia, their biology has been coded to live in groups. They may be evolved now but that survival mechanism is part of them. She doesn’t agree but can understand why his teachings are comforting.
X-23 asks Jean for help but Jean replies she also understands why this is comforting and therefore why it is dangerous. Department X isn’t enough. They need to make a stand for evolutionary rights.
Kurt apologizes that Studio X won’t allow him to be part of something so political. Nate announces they are each their own tribe and free to roam as they please. But they must also support the others in their decision to stay behind.
Colossus agrees. Those of them that choose to – him, Jean, Magneto and Nature Girl – will meet En Sabah Nur on Xavier Day.
Later:Magneto still wonders about the events in his home, unaware that from outside Storm is watching him.
Nature Girl is busy pampering a sick plant. X-23 muses about Logan whom she misses. Taking a shower, Jean wonders why it feels like the X-Men are always running in circles. Colossus paints the girl he saw with En Sabah Nur. He remembers her name is Kitty. Kurt complains the studio always calls him back, as soon as he gets home. All he wants is a moment alone!
Meditating, Nate feels claustrophobic even as he sends his mind into orbit to look down on Earth. There’s so much to take care of, but he’s stuck dealing with petty arguments, the same ones they always had. There’s a division within the team. It’s in factions; even when trying to be individual heroes, they group together! He reminds himself that none can see on the same scale as he can. Every moment they drift further from their dreams. Building bonds, getting too close. But he has to abide by his own teaching. Show them enlightenment isn’t a destination. It’s a way of life along an ever-winding river.
In his home, Magneto fastens a metal plate to the wall to cover the fissure. Storm enters without knocking and confronts him about this, how she saw Pietro and Wanda saying these horrible things to him… but they remember Stryfe killing them!
Magneto decides they can’t talk about this here. As they rise up into the air, he hopes to find somewhere safe from the two most powerful psychics in existence.
They end up in the clouds in the middle of a thunderstorm. Storm admits that she saw visions too! She saw herself leading the X-Men, she saw their kind going extinct. Something called the Terrigen Mists. Forced to watch beloved friends already dead die again. The most disturbing thing is it felt like memories.
He agrees, and that makes these past few years of peace seem like a dream. She wonders what to do and Magneto admits for once he doesn’t have all the answers. She asks where he was on the day IT happened. He was back in Munich recovering from his injuries. His vision fully returned the day of the Resolution. The first thing he saw was a four year old girl flying outside his window. He walked out into a world of mutants. It felt like the first time he could truly see.
Ororo clarifies she meant before the Resolution. The day they died. Magneto replies he had to leave Quadra Island. Mister Sinister severed his optic nerve with a telekinetic scalpel. He thought they had Stryfe handled. Had he known Wanda and Pietro were going to…
Storm apologizes, but he knows better than anyone that history makes them what they are. Which is what makes these visions so troubling. Ororo muses, whether those X-tract people are responsible. Could En Sabah Nur have reality-altering power like Wanda? Magneto doesn’t believe that. He thinks those X-tracts and their followers are uneducated. It is a fetishization of their struggle. Storm figures it is their job as X-Men to educate them.
Meditating in orbit, X-Man feels a fissure having opened up. He needs to find it. He vowed to himself that he would create the world that they wanted. That they needed. They are in the middle of this story and it has to work. There is no other choice. This is all he has. The gift of healing falls on his shoulders. He is hit by an energy blast and falls, seeing a thunderstorm on Earth.
Inside the storm, Magneto continues his argument. Not everyone is capable of learning. They have to do away with En Sabah Nur. Ororo criticizes that he has always looked at things as “us versus them.” But there is only “us.” Mutantkind. They can’t do anything before they consult the others. He retorts that this is exactly why he didn’t want to talk to her.
Storm insists that, if anyone can make sense of this, it is Jean and Nate. Magneto believes if they tell the telepaths, they will reveal less about what they actually know. Ororo is disappointed at his lack of trust.
That moment, Nate interrupts them. He’s been looking everywhere for them. He’s detected some sort of anomaly in the Rocky Mountains. Are they free to take a look? Glaring at each other, they agree and follow Nate.
Soon they see energy emitting from the mountains but neither Storm nor Magneto senses anything.
They find another fissure. Through it, Magneto sees the Phoenix possessing Cyclops as he attacks Charles Xavier. He watches horrified as his alter ego pleads with Cyclops not to throw everything away.
Storm tells X-Man this isn’t the first time she and Magneto have seen something like this. They were just talking about these manifestations. They don’t know what they are, but… He knows! X-Man interrupts, they weren’t meant to see this.
“You are not my father!” Phoenix Cyclops shouts and kills Charles Xavier.
Magneto suddenly senses Nate within his mind. Nate apologizes. This all happened so fast. He’s doing the best he can. The last few years have been so hard on mutantkind. He gave them the story they deserve.
Magneto gets ready to fight, while Storm gets between them. Magneto accuses X-Man of betrayal. He replies that is a concept of those who see the world in black and white. He believes there is a way to achieve peace without killing people. He orders them to go home, makes them forget. He needs some time alone.
Nate concentrates on closing the fissure, while hating what he has to do to people he respects. He wishes he could tell them the truth of his dream and knows they’d understand. Instead, they are too focused on forming bonds that force them to see themselves as others do. They still see him as the brash headstrong time-lost kid in a leather jacket. So, he is forced to see himself that way and he hates it. Because he is not his past. He is the world in front of himself.
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London, England:Xavier Day is celebrated with fireworks. Jean Grey has come here with Colossus, Magneto and Nature Girl and muses how surreal it is to be back here. Ground Zero for Stryfe’s initial attack. They lost so many.
The celebrating mutants treat them like celebrities. The mutants write their wishes on slips of paper which rise into the air. A UK team of Department X is also secretly surveilling the celebrations, among them American (Franco-Canadian, really) member Moneta, who is angry at the people wearing En Sabah Nur’s eye mark. She is sure they will come.
Jean muses that the answer to how to connect past and future eluded Xavier to the last. It eluded her for years, too, but it was right in front of her Any separation in time is artificial. There is just life. There is just here. Because the past and future mean nothing without the individual moment. Without now. Nate had this figured out for years. His ways became the example. He taught her how to transcend herself. She had to accept the time for mourning was over. She had to transform her regret into the realization that those who died are in all of them. Always here now.
Suddenly, the wishes in the sky disappear. A portal appears and out step En Sabah Nur and his acolytes, Shadowcat and Dazzler. They assure the crowd they needn’t fear them and tell them to hug, kiss, touch, feel, embrace!
A few immediately obey and Moneta shouts at them to stop. A telepathic teammate tells her to focus on En Sabah Nur.
In the sky, En Sabah Nur announces their love shows them the way. The crowd reacts in differing ways: some with disgust and panic, some with happiness. En Sabah Nur continues that even Charles Xavier had many lovers. He knew the benefit of sensuality; he knew the raw power of eroticism.
Colossus races towards them and grabs for Kitty but she phases. He gets a look at her face and remembers her. “Am I finally alive?” he asks, then kisses her. Moneta gapes at them open-mouthed.
While members of Department X try to close in on En Sabah Nur, the crowd revel in their displays of lust, egged on by their guru. He tells them he needs to go into hiding, as the X-Men want to capture him. He assures them he loves them all, before he and Kitty Pryde disappear.
On Magneto’s urging, Jean Grey telepathically convinces the crowd to disperse and go home.
Afterwards, the X-Men meet. X-23 is uncomfortable. For the first time in years, they agreed to meet violence with violence. She made a vow when Logan died. To never become the weapon that she was created to be. Magneto points out that En Sabah Nur would become a symbol if they killed him. Storm and X-Man protest against the very idea of killing, as does Nature Girl. Jean tells them to turn on the TV. Something is wrong.
The news shows strange fissures opening in multiple cities across the world. Department X insists citizens are not to look inside, as they show disorienting and false images of the past.
Laura muses she’s been feeling nothing but disoriented since the first rally. When she saw Logan, he told her she always has a choice. Her team is forcing her to choose. Now she has another choice to make. She wonders whether she should tell them what she saw, then decides he wouldn’t. She suggests the X-tracts are behind the fissures. The others discuss her theory.
As the news shows the image of a fissure, Storm points out it looks like the Askani Eye, the symbol En Sabah Nur adopted… and inside it is an image of human procreation. This is too much like old times to be a matter of coincidence.
Magneto points out that they would need an immensely powerful mutant in their ranks for that. Someone like… Wanda, Jean finishes. Nature Girl points out that they don’t make omega mutants anymore.
X-Man interrupts this is all conjecture. But they need to close those fissures. He and Jean believe the fissures are psychic in nature. He suggests they take a rest. They’ve been together for days! The others agree.
Jean and Nate fly toward the city. He notes that he senses her regret. Jean admits that on Xavier Day she used her power to manipulate the crowd. She took away their autonomy. To create harmony, he points out. What good is power if you are too wary to use it? Sometimes they are forced to do things that go against their character – himself included. He lied back there. He’s certain these fissures are psychic rifts in the world. He’s seen these things before.
Shocked, Jean asks why he would lie. To protect the others. They can’t handle it, he replies. She can. This doesn’t make sense to her. It will, he promises and flies on. She follows.
They see a rift in which a powerless Storm is being cared for by Forge. Painful images from lives they worked so hard to move beyond. Nate closes the fissure but suffers a spell of weakness. It’s temporary, he tells her. Everything is.
Morning:All the X-Men greet it their own way. Colossus berates himself for being a failure and the impurity of his thoughts. He looks at his paintings, abstracts showing Kitty and recalls his brother Mikhail’s favorite saying: “A guilty conscience needs no accuser.” He has been guilty for too long. She phased through him and, in that moment, he saw everything. A life; a choice.
He throws his X-Man uniform into the fireplace. He packs some things and leaves, but outside he is expected by Moneta and Northstar from Department X. He armors up and attacks. He easily takes out Moneta and runs.
Jean stares at the fissure, muttering that never happened. She sees herself addressing other X-Men, and announcing that their new mutant nation starts here. Nate tells her to pay it no mind. They need to get it closed.
He asks her if she ever has problems relating to people. Not since everybody turned into mutants, she replies.
Another vision shows Dani Moonstar telling Nate she loves him. He’s out there. Watching, waiting for her.
Nate continues that the two of them experience reality in a fundamentally different way from everyone else. They feel it. Everything at once. Jean replies he is overestimating her.
The fissure shows Charles Xavier thinking he can never tell her.
Jean doesn’t know how long she can stomach these things. Nate replies he endures every one of them. It’s all so complicated. He doesn’t even know where to…
Jean sees another vision of the X-Men fighting Sentinels. In the vison, Jean saves Cyclops and they kiss.
Nate apologizes for her seeing this. He can explain everything. No! she cuts him off. He doesn’t have to explain anything. This is a pathetic propaganda tool! They have to find En Sabah Nur! His movement ends now!
She concentrates but can’t close the fissure. Nate does so easily. Jean admits she has always been in awe of how easy things are for him. Sometimes she thinks they don’t deserve him. It’s the other way around, he assures her.
X-23 cannot sleep. The smells are driving her nuts. She finds a second wall within the closet and a cache of uniforms and weapons that clearly do not belong to her behind it. Someone else’s stuff in her house. But she’s always lived here.
Someone knocks wildly. X-23 snarls at Nature Girl what her problem is. She’s gonna break the door. Something horrible has happened! the other girl tells her. There’s been a murder!
“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.”William Blake: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell


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Long ago:Four of the original X-Men – Angel, Cyclops, Iceman and Marvel Girl - stand outside Xavier’s school with Professor X. Cyclops suggests they get started. Xavier asks for a moment. He is trying to reach him. Angel complains that he insists time doesn’t apply to him, but he realizes it applies to them, right? Iceman complains, he creeps him out. Always staring… with that eye. Marvel Girl chastises him - he is part of their family!
Cyclops grumbles, this is all a laugh to him. It comes all so easily to him… except understanding others. He understands more than he thinks, comes a voice from above.
Floating in the air is Nate Grey, dressed in an original X-Man uniform. He’s late, Cyclops points out. X-Man retorts that he is two minutes and twenty-six seconds late on his way from Brazil. He had to stop a bank robbers in Miami, he apologizes, but he has a responsibility to the world. Xavier corrects him, his responsibility lies with this group. Xavier lectures him that, in order to save everyone, he must first learn to be part of this team. In every story ever told, the hero doesn’t start as hero but has to learn to become one. And every story needs a villain, Nate retorts, but they are not talking about stories. He and Xavier, they could change the world in a day. But would that be real change? Xavier challenges.
Present:Nate Grey, visibly growing older, is shocked at how far things have gone, as he looks though a fissure. He recalls the other Nate Grey told him a parable that has a second part. Unsatisfied with the answer of his deity, the boy asked a second question. Are the self, the body and divinity the entire world? To which the deity replied, yes, and that world lies in each of us.
Elsewhere, the rest of the X-Men (save for Jean Grey) have gathered and called Psylocke, as one of her teammates from Department X Moneta has been murdered. Psylocke explains that Moneta went rogue a few hours ago. They have no idea how this happened. She blames herself for this. She asks where Jean and X-Man are.
Magneto replies that they are fixing those fissures. They need to ask the right questions. What is this place? Why was she here? Psylocke replies it is a counterculture club. Typically reserved for beatniks, poets, musicians. Anyone who had anything to complain about. Possibly an X-tracts hideout. As far as they know, she was chasing a lead…
X-23, who has been sniffing the corpse, announces that she smells like Colossus. Storm points out that he has been missing since this morning. X-23 sniffs more and also smells En Sabah Nur. Nightcrawler curses. This is murder! They argue whether or not they should warn the public, while Nature Girl kneels down next to Moneta. She asks the bacteria inside the corpse for help and they show her what happened.
Flashback:Moneta entered the club full of righteousness, questioning people if they had seen Colossus around. Annoyed with the lack of answers, she hijacked the stage and announced they were violating the guiding principles. She would turn a blind eye if they told her where they were hiding Piotr Rasputin.
Suddenly, En Saha Nur stands in front of the stage and everyone else retreats. He greets her coolly and observes she has nothing better to do than disturb people enjoying art. There are no exalted X-Men here. They are not welcome, and neither is she!
Department X walk where they want! she spits back. He sees passion in her eyes, he observes, mockingly calling Moneta mon amour. This is her final chance to choose love. She vows mutantkind will forget him the moment he is behind bars in the Danger Room. She’s never wanted to dig inside someone’s head more. Her fingers extend tendrils into his head. Let’s see what disgusting secrets he is hiding in there.
En Sabah Nur’s memory:X-Man talks to him in his hulking Apocalypse body informing him “Apocalypse” no longer exists. He is only here to fulfil a role. He is En Sabah Nur and will lead a movement called the X-tracts. He will preach a message of love. He will be what he always was. A regressive force to oppose. A test. A villain. An Archetype in a story to give the heroes purpose.
Turning into the smaller En Sabah Nur form, the villain grunts that without him X-Man wouldn’t exist. Nate acknowledges that their existence is intertwined, but he was created to end the Apocalypse. He is just a boy who never was! En Sabah Nur groans. In this world, he is all that was, all that is! Nate boasts.End of memory
Moneta breaks off contact. Shocked she shouts that’s impossible. En Sabah Nur angrily grabs her. She has seen the end of the morning light. And now she knows why it’s okay to love. He burrows a finger into her forehead.
Reality:Nature Girl wakes up and informs the others that En Sabah Nur killed Moneta. But they have bigger problems: The X-tracts, En Sabah Nur, love… it’s all some sort of play and Nate created all of it. Psylocke reads her mind and states she is honest. Kurt protests he knows Nate. He’s been there for him when he joined the X-Men. How dare she?!
The others begin discussing but X-23 interrupts them. She is sick of pretending nothing is wrong. She wants to show them something back at X-Sanctuary. Kurt isn’t interested but Magneto suggests calm and asks Psylocke to keep Department X out of the loop for now.
They return home. Nate keeps away sensing they are afraid. He decides that maybe it is time he learned from his tribe.
Magneto enters Jean’s home and asks her to wake up. She is confused when he tells her she has woken up to a world she will not recognize and to find the others in her living room. They give her permission to read their minds. It is a lot to take in. Did Nate have anything to do with Piot leaving? Jean asks. But they don’t know. Accusingly, she asks why she couldn’t read Magneto’s mind. Old habits, he replies.
X-23 opens her bag. She explains she has found those things hidden in her home. She believes someone lived there before her, but she remembers living there since the house was built. She shows them a big man’s outfit and several firearms. She bets X-Man has something to do with that. And she finds herself remembering things that never happened. Jean asks if she looked into a fissure. No, she remembers it. She remembers Logan alive…
Kurt asks if anyone has any idea who those things belong to. Jean suddenly remembers. His name was Lucas Bishop. Somehow, they have forgotten him. He was part of the team since almost the beginning. When she read their minds, there were gaps in their memories. Some moments were completely blank!
Jean tries to remember more. They were at war with Nate. She tried to help him but failed. Then there was an endless darkness, his presence all around. She felt terror then suddenly everything was perfect. There are two timelines in her mind. She can’t decipher which one is true. The only person powerful enough to do all of this is Nate.
Magneto catches her when she stumbles and asks if that means none of them are exactly who they think. It’s more complicated, Jean replies.
No, it’s not! X-23 insists. She was designed for this. She’s gonna kill him! Nightcrawler is reeling, considering how much he sacrificed for this. He asks the others to have faith. Laura refuses. Storm insists if they are going to face one of their own, they have to do it as team. Nature Girl muses they are wading through pathless woods. Then let them chart a path, Magneto announces. They need a plan.
X-Man floats in space, considering how often the X-Men sabotaged their own dreams. They are so scared. They are blind to their own story. They don’t know they have been here before. He decides to give them what they want, no more wiping minds. They deserve the truth.
He flies downward to Earth, musing the cycle must end and that once again he is two minutes twenty-six seconds late. He enters their HQ, looking like an old man. He apologizes for being late but he has a responsibility to the world.
Ignoring the plan, X-23 attacks him, claws unsheathed. Nature Girl and Nightcrawler follow up with attacks of their own. Please stop, Nate asks as the others join. Finally, he freezes them telekinetically in the air. He promises to tell the truth. As much as he can. He didn’t have much of a choice. If he hadn’t brought them here, none of them would have survived. He did his best to give them the story they deserved. He had to move quickly. After years of watching them fight all for their rights, they couldn’t see the sacrifices that had to be made. They’ve been blinded by hate and repetition. This is about proving a better tomorrow is possible. This world was built from a collective vision. One he drew from all of their minds.
Did he create this world? Jean asks. He didn’t just create it. It flows through him and he through it. He is this world.
“You can’t make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can’t last.”Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451


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'Ha ha ha ha ha' Bobby Drake a.k.a. Iceman laughs as he sits on a kitchen bench, apron over his shirtless body, while Jubilee stands nearby, also wearing an apron, holding a large spoon, she tells Bobby to stop laughing and declares that she is serious. 'What did you just ask me?' she enquires.  'Is a baking sheet the same thing as wax paper?” Bobby laughs in response. 'What?' Jubilee asks. 'Is a baking sheet the same as wax paper?' Bobby repeats himself, raising his voice. 'What?' Jubilee shouts. 'Well, is it or not? You still haven't answered, Jubilee!' Bobby exclaims, while Jean-Paul Beaubier a.k.a. Northstar sits at the kitchen table, reading a newspaper and paying Iceman and Jubilee no attention. 'Is! A baking sheet! The same! As wax paper!' Bobby laughs between breaths. 'Lemme see that' Jubilee snarls, snatching a small card off Bobby, she looks at it front and back, before looking up at Bobby and telling him that the recipe says baking sheet. Bobby is still in hysterics, and continues to laugh while repeating the question.
'Oh, for Pete's sake' Jean-Paul snaps, looking up from his newspaper. 'What?' Jubilee asks. 'He's just messing with you, Jubilee' Northstar declares, but Jubilee tells him that she isn't sure, that she thinks Bobby genuinely doesn't know what a baking sheet is. This causes Bobby to burst into even more laughter, while Jean-Paul mutters that trusting the two of them to bake Department X's than you cookies for the X-Men was a mistake. 'No, it's not! Trusting Bobby was' Jubilee responds. Bobby's now removed his apron and is standing up, as Jubilee tells him 'A baking sheet, Bobby. A “cookie sheet”. A baking tray. Cookie pan?' to which Bobby laughs some more and as he wipes the tears of laughter from his eyes, he tells Jubilee that those are all different. 'NO, THEY'RE NOT!' Jubilee shouts, when suddenly, she falls silent, and turns, as do Northstar and Bobby, to the Blob a.k.a. Fred Dukes, who enters the kitchen and informs them that he just got a tip about Luke and Nezumi Sen, so they need to suit up and head out. 'Again?' Northstar asks, remarking that this is the third time with those two.
Bobby puts his apron back on and Jubilee asks him why he is doing that, as they are leaving. 'I wanna fight crime wearing it. Make it my thing' Bobby responds. 'Okay, I still call sh-' Jubilee begins, too late though as Bobby suddenly drops his apron, switches to his ice-form, 'I CALL SHOTGUN!' he shouts as he speeds out of the kitchen on an ice-sled, down the hallway where he passes Moneta who was about to bring a mug of coffee to her mouth, but cringes as Bobby's sled knocks her, and causes her to spill her coffee. Bobby sleds towards a van that is parked outside, but as he stops at the front passenger door, he finds Northstar sitting there, continuing to read the newspaper. 'I called shotgun' Bobby declares. 'And I got here first' Northstar points out. Bobby tells Northstar that he is disrespecting the rules of shotgun, and that is bad mojo. 'You don't hear yourself when you speak, do you?' Northstar asks, before the Blob tells them to get along. He adds that he knows this mission is one they have handled before, but he is always says “A good team is one where -” he begins, before Bobby, Moneta, Jubilee, Betsy Braddock a.k.a. Psylocke and even Northstar join in with him: “- everyone works for everyone. A part and not apart”. Moneta folds her arms, while Jubilee shoves her hands in her pockets and Psylocke stands with one hand on her hips. Bobby smiles, while Northstar doesn't even look up from his paper.
Later, Psylocke drives the van while Northstar sits at her side, and Bobby, Blob, Jubilee and Moneta are sitting in the back. Moneta asks why the 'Grades always hole up in places like this, as it has taken them hours to get here. 'They're hoping the inconvenience will dissuade us from coming, Bibitte' Northstar replies. 'Arretez! You know I hate it when you call me that!' Moneta exclaims, unimpressed. 'Bold words for someone who just used a slur to describe the people we're arresting' Northstar responds as he turns around and looks at Moneta. 'Bold of you to assume je me soucie!' Moneta snarls. Bobby asks Jean-Paul if the protege just cussed him, 'Alas, non. It means she doesn't care' Northstar replies, before the Blob informs everyone that they are here. The van pulls up at a house nestled within a forest near a lake. 'Let's go make the X-Men proud' Blob tells the others, but Northstar declines the offer, and states that he is going to stay out here and finish his book. 'Okeydoke! That should be fine... Luke and Nezumi have never given us too much trouble before...' Blob recalls.
But, once inside, the Blob finds himself confronted by Nezumi Sen, a woman with long black hair. He tells her that she doesn't remember him, promises that they don't want to hurt her, and asks her to cooperate. Nezumi kicks the Blob, and suddenly transforms herself into a giant rat. She snarls at the Blob, before turning and running away from him. The Blob reports that Nezumi Sen has bolted, that she is heading due east, towards the kitchen. 'It's the same thing, Bobby! The same! Except for wax paper!' Jubilee shouts at Bobby, who laughs. Nezumi decides against going into the kitchen, and turns and runs down a corridor, but she isn't watching where she is going, and slams into Psylocke, who contacts the Blob and reports that she has got Nezumi near the master bedroom. 'My psychic sword won't do her any harm' Psylocke announces, as psychic energy manifests around her hand, she looms over Nezumi and tells her to stand still, before she plunges the blade towards Nezumi, who suddenly switches back to her giant rat form, and bites down on the psychic blade.
'You parry with your teeth? How? It's a psychic sword!' Psylocke exclaims, as Nezumi begins to run away from her, only to find her escape blocked as the Blob bursts through a wall. 'Oh hey, Betsy' Blob remarks as Nezumi finds herself trapped between the two Department X clerks. 'Hi, Fred' Betsy replies, befor Nezumi lunges towards her, growling, she slashes out with her claws rat hand, but Betsy blocks the attack with her psychic blade, and slams Nezumi to the ground, while she asks Blob if Bobby and Jubilee have located the other one, Luke.
At that moment, in another room, Luke is backed up against a wall, and throws his hands up in an attempt to shield himself from the ice and plasma fireworks that are thrown his way. 'How could you think you could just bake cookies on wax paper and nothing else? A baking sheet is the same as a cookie pan or cookie sheet!' one of them shouts. 'Oh yeah? Well, let me just go write that down on my pan of paper!' the other retorts.
Blob looks up at the ceiling above him as he hears several thuds, and ice starts to form. 'I'll go check. I think they're upstairs' Blob tlels Betsy as he begins to climb the stairs. Nezumi gets to her feet and tells Psylocke 'You won't take me this time' to which Psylocke asks 'This time?' Nezumi lashes out with her tail, wrapping it around one of Psylocke's ankles, she trips her up and asks 'Don't tell me you don't remember', before Psylocke forces Nezumi to the ground and informs her that she has been accused of breaching the guiding principles. 'Now for your third offense of -' Betsy begins, before a powerful voice can be heard booming through the house: 'NEZUMI! NEZUMI! ARE YOU OKAY?' Both Psylocke and Nezumi cover their ears, as Luke runs through the house, followed by a beam of ice, he continues to shout: 'DON'T WORRY. I'LL FIND YOU AGAIN NO MATTER  WHAT. JUST LIKE LAST TIME. I'LL FIND YOU, NEZUMI!' Luke promises, as Bobby appears behind him, and ice begins to form around Luke. 'I'LL ALWAYS FIND YOU. I LOVE Y-' Luke utters, before he is completely encased in ice.
'Ow' Bobby mutters, rubbing his head, while Jubilee enters the corridor, rubbing her head, too and muttering 'That's a couple high-frequency ranges I'm never getting back'. 'WHAT?' Bobby shouts at her. 'I SAID -' Jubilee begins to shout back, before Bobby raises his hands and tells her to stop, that he is better now. 'MONETA!' Bobby calls out, causing Jubilee to rub her head again. 'You're fine' Bobby mutters at Jubilee, who tells him that she didn't need to hear high-pitched sounds anyway. Moneta enters the corridor and complains that she hates when Bobby ices them before she can confirm, as her fingers get cold. 'Did you hear something, Bobby?' Jubilee asks. 'They're psychic fingers, Jubes. I feel the cold in my soul' Moneta mutters as she extends her fingertips towards Jack's frozen body. 'Oh no! Not your soul!' Bobby mocks as he reverts to his human form.
'Yeah, yeah' Moneta mutters as she concentrates, then suddenly, she breaks her contact with Jack, going wide-eyed, 'Eugh! Degueluasse!' she gasps, before turning away from Jack's frozen body she exclaims that he is guilty, and so is the other one – she doesn't even want to know what she just saw – whatever it was, it is definitely intimacy violations. Moneta tells Bobby and Jubilee that she will go let Fred and Betsy know, while they load this out into the van. 'I think she just didn't want to help us lug Luke out of here, Princess Jelly Bean' Bobby remarks. Jubilee agrees with him, so Bobby tells her that he has an idea, explaining that he can make an ice chute, then they can scrape the guy up, adjust the ice and he can ride it out like a surfboard. 'Him' Jubilee replies. 'What?' Bobby asks. 'You said 'it” instead of “him”' Jubilee explains. 'He's a person, Bobby' she adds.
'Oh, for crying out loud. I meant 'it' like the surfboard. The whole enchillyada' Bobby replies as he grabs some roe. 'He's still a person, Bobby' Jubilee points out, hanging her head. 'Okay, well fine. How's this: we scrape up the guy, I'll adjust the ice and then I can ride him out like a surfboard' Bobby corrects himself. Jubilee takes one end of the rope and tells Bobby that he knows they can't do that, as Jack is in their custody now, and that means they are responsible for his well-being. 'Which reminds me – you made the arrest, so you still need to read him his rights' Jubilee tells Bobby, who asks 'Why bother?' to which Jubilee tells him that he knows why, that it is the right thing to do. 'Honestly, what's gotten into you? This is unlike -' Jubilee begins, but Bobby tells her that he means “why bother” as in Jack won't remember any of it happening anyway, as he is going to Cerebro.
'Hey, that's not nice' Blob tells Nezumi as she bites down on his arm outside by the Department X van. '%$&# you!' Nezumi retorts. Blob tries to hold Nezumi back as he calls out to Jean-Paul, informing him that this one has rat powers. 'Isn't that wonderful?' he asks. 'C'est fascinant' Northstar replies without looking up from his novel. Blob then asks Northstar if he wants to help him out here, while Nezumi continues to lash out at him. 'Non. But thank you for asking' Northstar responds, also without a glance. 'LET ME GO!' Nezumi shouts, before the Blob shoves her in the back of the van. 'Come on, Miss Nezumi, I don't want to hurt you. Please cooperate' Blob asks her, as she tries to resist being placed in the van. 'Please! Please don't do this!' Nezumi pleads, reverting to her human appearance. She tells the Blob that he doesn't understand, and asks him to let her go and she will swear that this will never happen again. 'Heh. That's what you said the first two times' Blob replies, but Nezumi cries and tells the Blob that he can't do this, as she is pregnant.
Nezumi turns as Luke is brought down to the van, 'Luke?' she gasps, wide-eyed, before suddenly, she is frozen in a block of ice. 'Did I hear her right?' Bobby asks as he and Jubilee move the ice encasing Luke towards the van. 'I – I don't know' Blob  replies, while Bobby asks if you can tell by looking at her. He and Blob look at Nezumi through the ice, and Blob asks Jean-Paul to come look at her. Northstar joins them, 'I mean, it's just not possible, right?' Blob asks. Northstar tells him that he thinks so, as there hasn't been a natural childbirth in years, that they have evolved past this. 'Mais, c'est possible... non, I don't want to say' Northstar suddenly utters. 'What?' Bobby asks him. Northstar remarks that even if now that all mutantkind are created in a more holistic, sanitary environment inside the birthing facilities, their physical capacity to procreate is still present. He points out that they have evolved past the divisive barbarism of love and “marriage”. 'Oh, you're saying...' Bobby begins. 'The...ah, organic architecture required for pregnancy is still intact' Northstar confirms.
Blob suggests that they should ask one of the ladies, but Norhstar reports that Betsy and Moneta are doing a final sweep. Bobby looks around and asks where Jubilee is, as she was just here. 'Jubilee? Jujube! My little Jelly Bean!' he calls out, before Jubilee emerges from some shrubs. 'Whatcha doing over in then shrubbery, Jelly Belly?' Bobby asks. Jubilee tells him that she had to use the facilities. 'Hey, speaking of how gyou do that – she said she was pregnant' Bobby tells Jubilee, who looks at Nezumi, 'What?' she asks, shocked. 'She said she was pregnant!' Bobby declares, before Betsy and Moneta arrive. 'Oh, good, there's more of you now. Welcome, ladies. Please, come one, come all! Step up! Witness the spectacle of pregnancy!' Bobby calls out to them. 'You're joking, right? Je reuse. That's repulsive!' Moneta exclaims, shocked.
Northstar asks Moneta if she confirmed guilt through Luke, to which Moneta utters something in French, adding 'Disgusting! Foul!' before the Blob asks her 'How did you – I mean, what were they – what did you see?' Moneta reports that she saw sweaty bodies, smushing – they were doing the open-mouth thing that sounded like animals. 'Let me see' Betsy asks as she telepathically links herself to Moneta – then goes wide-eyed. 'Oh' Betsy utters. 'She's... pregnant. We...' her voice trails off, before Northstar helps load Jack into the back of the van and suggests that they can't take them to Cerebro, as there is no protocol for this. 'Who cares? She's a freak who did this to herself!' Moneta mutters. 'She's still a person, rookie!' Bobby snaps back. Jubilee points out that even the hospitals wouldn't have a way of dealing with this, as they junked that system ages ago.
'So if some complication arose...' Betsy utters, her voice trailing off, before Bobby tells his teammates that they could be dealing with the first  pregnancy and murder in years. 'Bobby! That's not funny!' Jubilee exclaims. Bobby admits that he knows, before asking the Blob what they should do, but the Blob admits that he isn't sure. The horrified expressions of Nezumi and Jack stare back at the Department X clerks. Someone suggests that after they drop Luke off at Cerebro, they can bring Nezumi back to the office, de-ice her and make her comfortable, then deal with her one way or another. 'What a mess. As if I could hate the 'Grades even more...' Moneta mutters, to which Bobby suddenly turns away from the group, hanging his head, he tells Moneta that “Retrograde” is a slur – and she needs to stop using it....


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'Have you ever been stung by a bee?' Betsy Braddock a.k.a. Psylocke asks as she crouches beside a little boy who has fallen from his bicycle onto the sidewalk. 'Y-yes' the boy replies, while Betsy tends to his bloody knee. Bobby Drake a.k.a. Iceman is nearby, checking on the boy's bicycle, he concentrates as he tries to repair the wonky wheel. Betsy asks the boy if the bee sting still hurts, to which the boy sniffs and wipes his eyes, 'No...' he responds. Betsy tells him that is right, because pain goes away, just like this hurt will. She helps the boy to his feet and tells him to remember that all pain is only temporary – that no hurt lasts forever. The boy looks up at Betsy, wide-eyed, some tears still falling down his face, before he rushes towards some nuns. One of the nuns apologizes for this, as the other asks for forgiveness, and remarks that they don't know how he slipped the fence. 'It's okay' Betsy responds, while Bobby holds the bicycle up and tells the nuns that he is sorry, he tried to fix it. 'That's fine. Thank you for everything you do, Department X' one of the nuns smiles, as they carry the boy and the bike away.
Betsy watches as the nuns carry the boy away as she asks Bobby if he remembers the last time that he was little enough to be held like that. 'No' Bobby replies. Betsy tells him that sometimes she thinks about the fact that as children there was a time when their parents held them for the very last time – at some point, they were picked up and then set back down, never to be picked up and held again.
Suddenly: 'WHAT!' Betsy screams as she finds herself hoisted into the air, as Bobby holds Betsy up and starts carrying her down the sidewalk. 'Bobby! What are you doing?' Betsy asks, surprised. 'Proving you're not too big to be picked up' Bobby responds, before telling Betsy to come on, as the others are waiting for them inside.
'Bobby, put me down!' Betsy exclaims as Bobby carries her into the Department X office space where their fellow clerks Jean-Paul Beaubier a.k.a. Northstar, Jubilation Lee a.k.a. Jubilee, Fred Dukes the Blob and Moneta are sitting behind their desks. Some are working, while Northstar is reading a newspaper. 'I, uh, trust everything went okay with the little one?' Blob asks as he stands up. Betsy looks at him and tells him that it did, and apologizes for holding everyone up.
'Uh, no problem at all. Right, guys?' Blob asks. Jubilee smiles and points at Betsy, while Moneta shrugs, and Northstar doesn't even bother to look up from his newspaper. The Blob pours himself some coffee and remarks that now they are all here, he will go over the day's work detail. He informs his teammates that there is a controlled purge on the docket today. 'Even with all these wildfires? Is that wise, Blob?' Northstar asks, looking up from his newspaper. Blob sips his coffee and tells Northstar that it is, now more than ever, as everyone works for everyone – a part and not apart. . 'I mean, we still need to give the X-Men a fire they can actually put out. People will feel safer' Blob adds.
Shortly, Moneta stands on top of the Department X van that the clerks use as their transport. She peers through some binoculars as smoke billows around her. 'Northstar, Betsy's -' Moneta begins, but doesn't get to finish her sentence as Northstar speeds away from her. 'D'accord. Bye, then' Moneta mutters. In the forest, Betsy uses her telepathic powers to command the wildlife to run to safety. The ground rumbles as the many creatures rush past her. Northstar tackles the flames darting around him with ice-walls, as Northstar flies towards him, telling him to wait as Bobby starts to finish the ice-wall, blocking the forest. He leaves a small gap, as Betsy and several more animals run through it. 'That's the last of them. This quadrant is cleared' Betsy reports. Bobby closes up the ice-wall and remarks that he hates this part. 'You got every last living creature out of there, right? You're sure?' Bobby asks Betsy. Betsy tells him that she is sure, admitting that she is no Nature Girl, but that she can nudge a stress response one way or the other, at least in organisms that actually have one. 'R.I.P... bees?' Bobby asks, but Betsy tells him that they are fine, that insects are especially sensitive to stress.
'Light 'em up, Princess Jelly Bean!' Bobby then calls out to Jubilee, who raises her shades, and looks at the flames before her. 'On it' Jubilee responds as she fires her plasma blasts towards the flames, which crackle upon contact. She fires more, and lowers her shades to watch her work, a grin on her face, she is distracted as Northstar calls out to her. 'Huh? Oh, right. Thanks' Jubilee calls back as she raises a hand, and Northstar swoops down to pull her to safety. 'Shouldn't we have at least made it look like a campfire started it?' Moneta asks atop the van as Northstar flies over and drops Jubilee down, while Betsy and Blob stand on the ground nearby. Blob tells Moneta that doesn't matter, as people won't be asking those kind of questions about the wildfire. 'I'm asking those questions...' Moneta declares.
'Yeah, but that's why you get to be in Department X' Blob replies. 'Good on you, little buddy' he adds as Bobby seals off the ice-wall surrounding more flames. Blob and Betsy looks at each other and smile, before Bobby sleds over to his teammates. 'Here we go, folks!' Blob calls out. As the Department X clerks gather together and watch as the heroes arrive. 'Right on time' Blob points out, before telling the others that they did good work. 'Dang it! I forgot to bring hot dogs and marshmallows again!!' Bobby mutters. 'And yet we still suffer an abundance of weenies' Northstar points out. 'Haha. That's mean. You're mean' Bobby replies. 'Better than being a weenie, though' Northstar boasts, as they look down at the X-Men – Storm, Magneto, X-Man, Nature Girl, X-23, Colossus, Nightcrawler and Jean Grey, who have come to fight the fire.
Later that night, Blob shuffles some papers on his desk, while Betsy looks over at him. 'Betsy? You are staying late tonight?' a voice asks. Distracted, Betsy turns to see Northstar standing behind her and she tells him that she is going to hang around for a bit. Northstar announces that he is leaving, but wanted to let someone else know that bibitte is downstairs checking on their guest. 'Oh, how nice of her' Betsy replies. 'Nothing Moneta does is nice. That is why I'm letting someone know she is downstairs with our guest' Northstar replies. 'Oh – understood' Betsy replies, assuring Northstar that she will pop down in just a moment, but she needs to do something else first. 'I don't care enough to object' Northstar responds, before stating that he is off and that he will see Betsy in the morning. 'Goodnight, Jean-Paul' Betsy replies, her hair blowing behind her thanks to the gust that Northstar creates when he speeds away.
Betsy gets up and walks over to the Blob. 'Ah, Fred?' she calls out. 'Oh, hey, Betsy' Blob replies as he looks up from his papers. 'Burning the midnight oil too, huh? I'm usually the only one left by now' the Blob points out. Betsy tells Fred that she knows, and that she wanted to talk to him alone. 'You don't say? Well...gosh. Is everything all right?' Blob replies. Betsy tells him that she is certain it will be, but that earlier today, in the controlled purge, she caught something coming from his thoughts that they need to discuss – specifically, his attraction to her. 'Er – that's -' the Blob begins, but Betsy interrupts him, telling Fred that he doesn't have to explain, and adds that she could also pick up on how hard he was working to hide it from her – so she knows it is not something he would ever act on. Betsy tells Fred that as a professional courtesy, she would be more than happy to take care of that for him. 'Take care -' the Blob begins, surprised. 'Take care of erasing all traces of your romantic feelings' Betsy clarifies, assuring him that he wouldn't remember ever having them at all. Betsy adds that she could even implant a mild feeling of disgust towards her to ensure his physical attraction doesn't happen again.
'I – uh – umm -' the Blob begins as he gets to his feet, confused. 'Fred?' Betsy asks. 'Uh -' the Blob begins, before turning and running away. 'Fred, what's wrong?' Betsy calls out, but gets no response, as the Blob rushes out of the office, knocking a door off its hinges. 'Fred! Wait!' Betsy calls after him. She goes over to the doors, but is too late, as the Blob is gone. 'Mon dieu, what happened here?' Moneta asks as she approaches Betsy, who tells her that she has no idea.
The next day, papers begin to pile up in the Blob's in-tray, although he doesn't show up for work.
The day after that, even more files stack up in the Blob's in-tray.
Day three of the Blob calling in sick to work, the stack of papers in the in-tray towers high as Moneta places another paper on the stack – only for it to collapse, sending papers scattering across the floor. 'What a mess. Where is he?' Moneta mutters, as Betsy helps her to collect the papers. 'Fred said he has strep. Go easy on him. He's not feeling well' Betsy replies, to which Moneta declares that is no excuse, and that they can't just stop prosecuting offenses because one of them falls ill. 'Who knows what is being reported that we haven't been able to investigate in his absence!' Moneta exclaims, before standing up and volunteering to take over the Blob's planning duties. Northstar looks up from his book, while Jubilee and the shirtless Iceman turn from their idle chat to look up at Moneta too. No one says anything, and they return to their other activities. 'What is wrong with you all? It's like you're happy to just stay here and push papers instead of doing real work!' Moneta shouts at them. 'Pushing papers is real work' Bobby replies as he makes a paper plane.
Still angry, Moneta goes over to Northstar, who doesn't look up from his book, and asks why it is that they keep getting calls about the same retrogrades over and over again. 'I think these intimacy violation calls are just a distraction to keep us from finding the real problem!' Moneta exclaims, while Bobby throws the paper plane towards her, it lands on Northstar's desk, so Jean-Paul uses his book to knock the plane away as he tells Moneta that intimacy violations are a real problem. 'Not the only problem! Or even the biggest one!' Moneta snaps. 'Maybe so, petite bibitte' Northstar replies, casually returning to his book. 'Stop calling me that! Arretez!' Moneta exclaims, while Betsy notices an envelope with her name on it on her own desk. She picks it up and looks at it, as Northstar, in his native French, tells Moneta that he will stop when she stops being a bug. Betsy opens the envelope, to find a hand written note that reads “I don't want to forget. Forgive me” as Moneta swears at Northstar in French. 'Ooh, even I can hear how spicy that was' Jubilee remarks, while Bobby asks Jean-Paul if his protegé just cussed him out. 'Somewhat. She said she's had enough and she is leaving to -' Northstar begins, before Moneta interrupts him, 'I AM GOING TO INTERROGATE OUR PRISONER!' she shouts as she storms away. 'GUEST!' Jubilee calls out after Moneta. 'Call Nezumi our guest, you little monster!' Jubilee exclaims, while Betsy holds the letter to her chest and turns away from her fellow clerks.
'We demand cooperation, you deguelasse waste of resources!' Moneta calls out to the pregnant mutant Nezumi, who is chained up in the basement. Jubilee gasps as she sees the pregnant Nezumi, who looks up at Moneta, 'Oh...you demand, huh?' Nezumi scowls. 'This...this is awful' the wide-eyed Jubilee utters, seeing the rubbish that is scattered around the chained Nezumi. 'Why did you tell me she was comfortable down here?' Jubilee asks. 'Because she is. She's fine' Moneta snaps, pointing out that Nezumi has water and blankets, and she brings her food every single day. 'This is unacceptable. It's horrific. We can't just -' Jubilee begins, before turning and walking away, announcing that she is going to get the team 'Non! You will not!' Moneta replies as she grabs Jubilee's wrist. 'HA!' Nezumi laughs as she stands up, and holding her pregnant stomach, asks what kind of secret police force are so inept that they can't even imprison a hostage right?'
'When I get free, I'm going to -' Nezumi boasts, interrupted when Moneta goes over to her and slaps her hard across her face. 'Moneta!' Jubilee gasps, shocked. 'She is a rat shifter retrograde! Vermin! She does not deserve our compassion' Moneta snarls Moneta wipes her mouth and remarks that rats are fiercely intelligent creatures. She swears at Moneta, who tells her to shut her mouth, calling her a “'Grade”. '“Grade”? Retrograde? You're all  so stupid. Tell me what kind of benevolent authority creates terms like that, huh?' Nezumi asks. 'You spit that word out like it's poison' she adds, to which Moneta tells her that she is poison. Jubilee grabs Moneta and tries to pull her towards the door, telling that she needs to leave. 'Poisonous to everything we work for!' Moneta exclaims, telling Nezumi that she is poisonous to the life for mutants that is free of all pain and subjugation – and poisonous to everything Hope Summers died for.
Moneta walks out of the basement and Jubilee tells Nezumi that she is sorry about her, that she is new and way overzealous. 'I had no idea about the way she's been treat -' Jubilee begins, while Nezumi tells her that she is worse. 'Excuse me?' the surprised Jubilee asks. 'Far worse!' Nezumi  exclaims, spinning around to face Jubilee, she announces that she will take the monster she can see coming over the one who pretends they're anything but, any day. 'I haven't done anything to you!' Jubilee points out. Moneta lurches towards Jubilee and asks her how she doesn't understand  what it means to be complicit. 'You haven't done anything to me – but definitely not for me, either' Nezumi points out, adding that she had stupidly hoped Jubilee would be different than the rest of her team, but after a few days down here, she has realized that Jubilee is just perfectly content seeing another Asian woman chained up in the basement – and a pregnant one at that.
Nezumi tries to move closer to Jubilee, but the chain clangs against the sink pipe it is attached to, restraining Nezumi by her neck. Jubilee assures Nezumi that she had no idea she was being kept here. 'And you didn't ask, did you?' Nezumi points out. Jubilee tells Nezumi that it is for her own good, that there is nowhere else safe for her condition right now. 'Oh, sure. Being held captive and tortured is great for the baby' Nezumi mutters. Jubilee tells Nezumi that she definitely isn't being tortured. 'You think this isn't torture?' Nezumi shouts. 'No!' Jubilee replies. 'Yeah. That's why you're worse' Nezumi mutters. Jubilee turns and walks away, telling Nezumi to calm down, and that she is going to look for the others and tell them what is going on. 'Hate me all you want – they still need to know' Jubilee adds.
Under the light of the moon, Betsy stands outside an apartment door, and looks at a moth flittering around a light that hangs from the ceiling above her. There is a creaking noise as the door opens, 'Betsy?' the Blob calls out as he sees Betsy standing before him. 'Hi' Betsy replies, turning to Fred. 'Hi...' the Blob replies. Another moth flitters around the light, as the Blob asks Betsy if everything is all right. Betsy tells the Blob that she just remembered that as a child she had a terrible fear of moths. 'Why?' the Blob asks. 'They fly like they're broken' Betsy points out, as they look at the moths on the light. Blob tells Betsy that the moths are just doing what they are meant to – that they don't know anything else. 'They're meant to kill themselves by violently plunging into light bulbs over and over again?' Betsy asks. The Blob tells her that the moths don't know it is a lightbulb – they think it is the moon. He admits that it is a fatal attraction, but to moths, it is everything they've ever wanted – the only thing they care about.
Betsy holds out the note that Blob left her and asks him if he wants to be unwell. The Blob tells Betsy that he will explain himself, but isn't comfortable discussing it out here. 'No funny business, I promise, but do you maybe want to -' the Blob begins, as Betsy walks past him and enters his home. 'Oh -' the Blob utters, while Betsy tells him that moths don't care about anything – they are moths. The Blob closes the door and tells Betsy that he would argue that moths only care about one thing – and that one thing they care about a great deal. 'They're just $#%&*#%% moths, Fred' Betsy points out. 'They're so stupid that their evolution was disrupted by the invention of artificial light bulbs'. Betsy goes wide-eyed as she looks around Blob's home, and sees floor to ceiling bookcases, all filled with books. 'This is what you care about, then' Betsy realizes. The Blob nervously rubs his hands as he tells Betsy that he can care about more than one thing at a time. 'I mean, I'd hope that I'm at least more complex than a moth...' his voice trails off.
The Blob then tells Betsy to look around and grab something if she likes, that she can feel free to borrow anything she wants. 'Do you drink tea?' Blob asks. 'I'm English' Betsy reminds him, to which Blob goes into the kitchen to make the tea. Betsy goes and sits at the kitchen table, and the Blob looks over at her. 'Okay – you're in here now -' the Blob begins, before putting a cup of tea on the table and looking at his note that Betsy holds. He sits down across from Betsy and sighs, before telling Betsy that he is sorry, and he would rather lose his job than ber forced to forget his feelings for her. Fred adds that he would never impose how he feels on her, never, it's not something that comes with any expectations of her. 'I'm already screwing this up' he mutters, before explaining to Betsy that he just needs it – the way he feels about her.
The Blob continues, explaining that he needs to feel something, and being sick with longing every time he looks at Betsy is better than the alternative, which is feeling nothing at all. Blob asks Betsy if she understands, that she is a hymn that he sings, a fever dream, the one luminescent thing hanging brightly in a blackened sky – and he is dumber than a damn moth, because he knows how out of reach she is. 'But...have you ever ached in a particular way so deeply, and for so long that you get used to the pain and then start to look for it every day? Even if it's just...to comfort yourself with the familiarity of something? You just start needing it?' Blob asks, adding 'And you don't know when it happened because... at some point, what began as a burden then became your only anchor'. The wide-eyed Betsy stares at the Blob, who tells her that he is sorry. He starts to say something else, but she tells him that he has said enough. 'You dragged me into this, and now you have to let me speak!' Betsy declares.
But, Betsy falls silent, looking away from Blob, she hangs her head and reveals that when she was a little girl, she had this recurring nightmare about a cemetery that was a pond – she doesn't mean a cemetery that was near a pond, she means the pond was the cemetery. 'To mourn a loved one, you would have to fish their bloated corpse up out of the water' Betsy explains, tears begin to well in her eyes. The Blob listens intently as Betsy tells him that she would wade through all these fish-pale dead bodies bobbing in the water lillies to find the one that was her mother so that she could drag  her from the water, pay her respects, and then roll her rotting corpse back in. 'Betsy? What are -' the Blob begins, before Betsy climbs onto the table, she starts crawling towards the Blob, asking him why she can recall something like that, but not the last time her mother ever held her? Betsy tells the Blob that she will let him keep his feelings if he answers one question for her: The Blob clears his throat, 'What?' he asks. 'Does it still hurt?' Betsy asks as she comes to the edge of the table, leaning over the surprised Blob, they stare into each other's eyes....


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'Does it still hurt?' Betsy Braddock a.k.a. Psylocke asks as she leans down across Fred Dukes the Blob, who looks up at Betsy with wide-eyes. 'Yes' he utters. Kneeling on the Blob's kitchen table, Betsy then pulls back and folds her arms. 'Okay' she tells him, before getting off the table and walking out of the kitchen, telling the Blob that she will see him tomorrow. The Blob lets out a gush of air as he continues to watch Betsy, wide-eyed.

“Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse”
TS Eliot's “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock”.

The next day, the Blob sits at his desk in the Department X office, and looks over at Betsy as Jubilee hands her a report. 'You wanted this, right?' Jubilee asks, telling Betsy that it is the Danger Room intake reports from last year. Betsy thanks Jubilee and tells her that she had forgotten she even asked for it. Betsy then looks over at the Blob smiles. Blob looks sheepish, and smiles back.

Shortly: 'Please, I'll be good. It won't happen again! Stop!' a mutant with green skin calls out as he is brought into the office by Bobby Drake a.k.a. Iceman and Jean-Paul Beaubier a.k.a. Northstar. The mutant looks over at Moneta and tells her 'I'll never see her again, I promise! Just don't make me forget her!' Scowling, Moneta remarks to her colleagues that it is funny how they always say that. 'Nope' Bobby replies. 'Non' Jean-Paul agrees. This annoys Moneta, who calls out to Betsy. 'Yes, of course. Coming' Betsy responds as she gets up from her desk and approaches the green-skinned mutant, 'Nooooooo!' the mutant screams, while Betsy tells him that should be it, and asks if he feels better now. 'Yes' the now drowsy mutant replies, looking at Betsy. Betsy tells the others that they should give him some time to rest before they go back in for confirmation. 'That was quite a lengthy infraction to clean up. And I don't want to be more invasive than we have to be' Betsy remarks. Jean-Paul agrees, and Bobby leads the mutant to a comfy chair, while the Blob tries to focus on the work at his desk.
At Noon, the Blob looks at some papers on his desk. At 2:00 pm he answers his phone, 'Department X, Fred speaking. Gosh, that's too bad. What night did you say that was? Okay, we'll investigate and get it cleaned up in a jiff. Don't you worry' he tells the caller. At 4:34 pm, Jubilee tells the Blob that she really needs to talk to him, but the Blob interrupts her, 'One sec' he tells her, before asking Jean-Paul if he has a minute. 'Possibly' Jean-Paul responds. Jubilee frowns and folds her arms as the Blob informs Jean-Paul that he got a tip about the condemned building off route 9 – a group of kids are rumored to be throwing a party there a few nights from now. 'Kids being teens, teens being kids, you know how it is – but we should plan on getting there before anything goes wrong' Blob suggests. He adds that he thinks he has caught everyone else up to speed, but asks Jean-Paul if he sees Betsy to let her know. 'Non. Tell her yourself. She's in the kitchen with the clown' Jean-Paul mutters.
The Blob enters the kitchen to find Betsy and Bobby making some food. 'So, listen – what do you call this?' Bobby asks. 'Do you mean the hob or the baking tray?' Betsy responds. 'Fascinating. And this?' Bobby asks, picking up the food. 'Biscuits?' Betsy replies. 'I didn't know you could cook, Betsy' the Blob calls out. 'Oh! Hi! Sorry -' Betsy utters, covering her mouth as she eats some of the biscuit. Betsy then declares that she absolutely cannot cook – she just remembered this one recipe for sage biscuits. Betsy admits that she thinks she might have picked up the recipe accidentally from someone's mind recently, as it is not her knowledge, as far as she knows. 'Betsy, you scoundrel! What if this was someone's prize-winning recipe you stole?' Bobby asks.
Suddenly, Moneta enters the kitchen and calls out to Betsy. Bobby gasps, 'They found you! I'll destroy the evidence!' he jokes. 'Mon dieu, tu as du front tout le tour de la tete, Betsy!' Moneta snaps. Betsy, Bobby and Blob all look over at Moneta blankly, when Jean-Paul speeds into the kitchen and informs Betsy that Moneta said “You have some nerve, Betsy”.
'What did you do?' Jean-Paul asks. Betsy tells him that she doesn't know, that she hasn't done anything, before Blob asks Moneta what this is all about. 'She's been lying to you! To us all!' Moneta exclaims as Jubilee joins the group, too. Betsy asks Moneta what she is talking about, to which Moneta announces that she just went to confirm with the retrograde they brought in earlier, but she found no trace of a mindwipe – none!
Wide-eyed, Betsy asks Moneta what she did that for. 'I told you we needed to let him rest!' she exclaims, before asking Bobby to go check on him. 'If any harm was because of us -' Betsy gasps, 'On it!' Bobby replies as he ice-sleds out of the kitchen. Betsy reminds Moneta that she can't go into their minds until they settle after a wipe. 'You know this. It's a delicate process!' she exclaims. Moneta sarcastically responds that she is sure that's it, and not Betsy stalling to find a way to get him out of here with his memories intact. She then accuses Betsy of working with the Resistance.
'Enough!' Blob exclaims, looking down at Moneta, he tells her that these are very serious accusations she is making, and states that Betsy didn't do anything wrong. He asks Moneta if she even stopped to consider that perhaps their guest has an ability that allows him to get his memories back somehow, and adds that there is no resistance movement. 'You can't even make a decision about the prisoner in the basement!' Moneta snaps. 'Quiet! Call her a guest, you little w-' Jubilee begins, but Moneta glares up at Blob and asks why she should listen to anything he has to say. 'Because I'm the one who communicates what Department X does to the X-Men' Blob responds, before suggesting to Moneta that she take the rest of the day off to clear her heard a bit – and before she says something hurtful that she might regret later. 'But there is a resistance movement! I'll prove it to you!' Moneta retorts  as she rushes from the kitchen, right past Bobby, who has returned.
Betsy asks Bobby how the young man is, to which Bobby assures her that he is okay, and suggests that the mindwipe probably didn't take is all. 'Has that ever happened before?' Jean-Paul asks, arms folded. 'First time for everything!' the Blob points out. 'I swear, I didn't mean -' Betsy begins, as the Blob tells her that it is okay, and they know she didn't mean to, that it is fine, everything is fine. 'Uh, no' Jubilee calls out. She hates to say it, but remarks that Moneta was right about one thing – they have to do something about Nezumi. 'This is what I was trying to talk about earlier, Fred. Have you... seen the way she's being kept down there?' Jubilee asks. Blob replies that he hasn't. 'I assumed -' he begins, to which Jubilee informs him that for one thing, Nezumi is in chains. 'WHAT! Who -' the Blob utters. 'Who do you think? Bibitte, who also runs down there to refine her torture techniques every chance she gets' Northstar declares. 'Why -' Blob begins, to which Jean-Paul asks 'Why is there still a pregnant woman chained in the basement in the first place?'
'Because no one will take her in, Jean-Paul. I've called every hospital within 500 miles and no one will accept a pregnant patient. And I'll be honest, I'm too afraid to process her for the Danger Room. I don't want to be the person responsible for Miss Nezumi giving birth in prison after we cleared out all her prior knowledge of the pregnancy. It seems...I don't know...you folks know what I mean' Blob responds, to which Jean-Paul tells him that he will have to do something about her sooner rather than later – because that pregnancy will force the moment to its crisis – whether they are ready for it or not.
Night falls, and Blob returns to his home, tossing his jacket aside, he lays shirtless on his bed and closes his eyes – only to open them when he hears a knocking. He goes to his front door, and opens it – Betsy is standing there. 'I wanted to see if you were okay' Betsy smiles. The Blob lets her into his house, 'Some day, huh? I tell ya' he remarks to her, as Betsy walks to the kitchen and announces that she will put the kettle on, before asking Blob to bring her his favorite books. 'Okay' the Blob smiles.
Shortly:'I hate it' Betsy declares, slamming a book called “The Age of Anxiety” by WH Auden onto the kitchen table. 'It's so – it's too raw' Betsy explains. The Blob looks up from his book, “The Waste Land” by TS Eliot, and tells Betsy to try this one as he puts it on the table. Betsy sighs and tells Fred that she doesn't know how he stomachs this stuff, that it makes her feel so embarrassed that they ever carried all these things inside them.
She pulls her legs up to her chest as she sits on the chair and adds 'And all the time, too! I remember – I mean, I'm fairly certain this is my memory, because look – it can still make me cry' she utters. Blob calls out to Betsy, who assures him that she is fine. 'This is how I know it's mine' she sniffs. Tears welling up in her eyes, Betsy tells Fred that she remembers hearing a classmate describe the first moment when she felt beautiful – she distinctly recalls the understanding she had upon hearing this, because she had yet to feel that way – so then she thought it might just be some kind of rite of passage, then to look in the mirror and discover she no longer hated every inch of her body.
Betsy continues, revealing that she had always hated her own physical imperfections, but after that, she just grew up thinking she was waiting for her turn to finally feel good about her body – but it never happened. Because nothing she was would ever be enough for her – and she had already developed an eating disorder long, long before overhearing her classmate breathlessly gossip about the first time she felt beautiful. Betsy sniffs again as tears roll down her face, she wipes the tears away and informs the Blob that she has always had a deficit of selflove, or an abundance of vitriol, perhaps, towards her own body – but now there is just this calm void in her head where there used to be a hissing, living abyss of self-hatred instead. She remarks that she never felt that way toward Kwannon's body, only hers, that it was so much easier to be kinder to herself through Kwannon's body – she didn't struggle with here eating disorder when she looked like Kwannon. 'Because she is not me, and she is beautiful' Betsy utters, before sighing and telling Blob that her point is that she doesn't miss anything about the old ways, it was confusing and she can only seem to remember hurting all the #$%&$#& time'.
Blob tells Betsy that he knows hearing him say it won't make a difference when it comes to combating the kinds of difficult internal processes she has been dealing with, but he does feel honorbound to state that, for the record: 'Betsy, you are so beautiful that I'd sell out every single member of the team just for a chance to #$%& you forever' Blob reads from a book. Blob tlels Betsy that he means it, that it seems downright criminal that she can't even see how lovely she is. 'Faces like yours would've started wars in ancient Greece, you know -' Blob adds, before Betsy bursts into laughter, before telling Fred that that is the worst thing she has ever heard. 'Oh. That? That's nothing. How about: “Hey, Betsy, you're so beautiful that when you crawled across my kitchen table yesterday, I was both turned on and terrified”' Blob reads. Betsy laughs again and asks Fred if it would really be that easy for him to leave behind Department X for her. 'So much for “apart and a part” then, I suppose' Betsy adds.
Blob tells Betsy that not every part is created equal, pointing out that he wouldn't prioritize his toenail over his heart, would he. Betsy stands up amongst the stacks of books around them and asks the Blob if, by default, he isn't more like the brains of the operation. Blob supposes that her would be the central nervous system more than anything else. 'And I didn't mean me – you're the heart' Blob adds. Betsy smiles at this, before frowning and remarking 'Monet's the $#%&, isn't she?' to which both she and Fred burst into laughter.
Days later, a few miles off route 9, the Department X team arrives at a run down old building. 'Are we sure it was tonight?' Jubilee asks. 'Yes? I mean, yes. This is the right time and place' Blob replies as they enter the building, with the Blob adding that they did want to get  here before anything went wrong. He suggests it might be farther inside, and that the party these kids are throwing is supposed to be a real doozy. 'Did you know?' Betsy asks, looking around at the dishevelled stacks of books. 'That this place used to be a library? No' Blob replies, adding that he kinda wished he had.
The team comes to another area, where several mutants are seated around a small fire. 'Great party, you guys...' Bobby mutters. 'Again, I ask: are we sure this “doozy” of a party was tonight?' Jubilee asks her teammates. Betsy reminds the others that Fred said whoever called in the tip insisted they be here at this time. Jean-Paul points out that leaves the question of who phoned in the tip. 'I did!' Moneta announces, while a moth flies against a nearby light. 'None of you would believe me...so voila. I brought you right to the Resistance!' she exclaims, before rushing towards the mutants gathered in the room, declaring that they are all known members of a dangerous retrograde cult. 'It's the X-Tremists! Everybody scram!' one of the mutants exclaims. 'What did they just call us?' the Blob asks. The mutants begin to run, while one of them asks they others if they can't see that this is a test from En Sabah Nur, and declares that they must prove themselves worthy. 'For the glory of the father – LET US FINALLY DESTROY DEPARTMENT X!' they shout, as they begin to fight Department X.
Northstar grabs two of the mutants and flies upwards, while Iceman sleds about the room and covers one of them in ice. Jubilee fires her plasma fireworks at two of them, knocking them back, while Betsy readies a psychic sword, and Blob stands his ground as two of the mutants run towards him. 'Stop fighting us! It doesn't have to -' Blob begins, as the other mutant punches him, only his fist gets trapped in the Blob's stomach. 'We believe community is not conflict!' one of the mutants calls out, while Betsy alerts the Blob to the fact that these mutants are totally untrained, easily knocking one of them backwards. 'We believe love is not war!' one of the mutants exclaims, as Iceman throws up a wall of ice that blocks a large bookcase filled with books from falling on Northstar who is cornered by two mutants. 'Yeah, they don't know what they're doing. Great resistance, Moneta' Bobby mutters, as one of the mutants declares 'We believe mutant is not God!'

Northstar creates a brilliant light which causes the ice near him to melt. 'I don't need a nanny. Worry about yourself' Northstar snaps at Bobby, before the Blob slams a fist against the ground, knocking several mutants over. All of the other mutants are defeated, and Bobby turns to Betsy, 'Do you, ah, wanna...' he begins. 'What?' Betsy asks. 'You know, destroy the evidence? Erase their memories of us?' Bobby asks. 'Is that ethical?' Betsy enquires. 'No' Bobby tells her, while Jubilee announces that she doesn't feel good about this. Northstar agrees, and declares that whether they were resistance or not, they weren't breaking any laws. 'Bibitte... what have you done?' Northstar asks Moneta, who declares that she did what she had to. 'By leading your teammates into a trap?' Northstar asks her. Clenching a fist and looking very proud of herself, Moneta announces that she proved the resistance exists. 'Proved? The only thing you proved is that we're all a bunch of monsters!' the Blob replies.
'THEY WERE AFRAID OF US, MONETA!' the Blob shouts, looming over Moneta, pointing out that she instigated a fight with unarmed mutants – who weren't even breaking any rules. Blob tells Moneta that she endangered everyone in this room and all because she was petty enough to prove a point that way. 'You wouldn't listen to me! I was just doing my job!' Moneta protests. Enraged, Blob looks furious as he asks Moneta 'What job? You don't work with us'. A shocked Moneta goes wide-eyed and tells him that he can't do that. 'I'm the only one who can do that, little buddy' the Blob informs her. 'YOU CAN'T!' Moneta snaps, to which the Blob tells her that he did, and that she is done. The Blob looks up at several moths who fly into lights hanging nearby.
The Blob informs Moneta that they will have an independent contractor take care of her exit interview so there is no conflict of interest. 'You won't even remember there was ever a “resistance”!' the Blob exclaims as he grabs the light, and crushes it, while his teammates look at him. Betsy then takes Fred's hand, 'Thank you' she utters, looking at him and smiling.