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Planet X - part 2: Magneto Superior
Magneto gazes out of the skyscraper’s window and looks upon the vista that is Manhattan Island, the heart of New York City. Rising from the city streets, arcing over towering buildings and plunging back into the streets below dozens of metal tentacles, which begin to wrap themselves around the city itself. Closing his eye, Magneto concentrates on these items of his creation. One day, he says to himself, imagining himself out in the city. As the tentacles flex, destroying the buildings around which they are wrapped and unleashing carnage most foul, Magneto opens his eyes once more. I did it all in one day.
The task begun, Magneto walks away from the window, not bothering to watch the devastation that he has unleashed. No longer clad in his former X-Man uniform, which he wore in the façade that was the X-Man named Xorn, Magneto is clad in a variation of his old costume. Purple and magenta in color, he still wears his cape, but his battle armor has been replaces with a sleek, business-style uniform, unadorned by visible buttons or snaps.
“I’ll call it New Genosha,” he announces to himself. It will rise like an accusation… or better yet… a promise. Approaching the floating mask that he once wore as Xorn, Magneto asks himself if it was worth all those long months sweating under the mask… biding his time. Was it worth all the time spent eating away at Charles Xavier’s school from within? Tearing the X-Men apart and slowly killing them, one by one? Not bothering to answer his own question, Magneto states that they shall build an empire there… they’ll have a high-speed magnetic induction monorail system, clean antigravity public transport…
Magneto’s thoughts are interrupted by the voice of Esme, who sarcastically tells Magneto to not mind her. Having gained Magneto’s attention, she informs him that they brought Professor Xavier back from his Institute. He didn’t put up much of a struggle, she tells him, after he took away his legs. Finally getting to her point, Esme addresses Magneto as Erik and asks what he wants them to do with him. As an afterthought, Esme adds that Xavier is naked.
Snapping back, Magneto informs he that he is Magneto… “Erik” was the name their oppressors gave him. Placing her hands on her hips in incredulity, Esme is flanked by the rest of the Institute’s “special class” and a new arrival and former follower of Magneto, Toad. Replying to Magneto’s request by addressing him as such, Esme points out that she did all this to help him. He could at least say “thanks.” Smiling wryly, Magneto reminds Esme that he promised her a new world… and there it begins. Where mutants are kings, not freaks. Where the outcasts, the despised, the rejected… are champions. Where they are all part of a great fraternity… his Brotherhood.
In punctuation to this remark, Magneto levitates his old battle helmet to his side and places it upon his head. Solemnly, he turns back to the window and is joined by his new Brotherhood; Esme, the Beak, Angel, the children of Angel, Basilisk, Ernst, Martha Johansson and the Toad. He has turned the world on its head for them, he continues. And the lowest are now the highest.
Breaking the moment, Ernst innocently asks when Mister Xorn is coming back. She doesn’t get it. Asking if she is a monkey from a medical experiment, Basilisk informs Ernst that Xorn was just a character! Magneto was totally acting! Which makes him, Basilisk continues, a Xornvestite. To this punch line, Basilisk gives a chuckle. After replying to this that “Mister Xorn” was nice, Ernst is told by Esme, most emphatically, to stop going on about it. She’s been privileged! Doesn’t she understand anything? Privileged! Turning to Magneto with a sneer, Esme once again calls him Erik, telling him that she would never hang out with people like this. They can do better.
As Ernst protests once again, stating that Mister Xorn was nice… and that she misses him, Magneto approaches the window, flanked by Toad. Crouched close to the ground in a way that only he could be comfortable, Toad asks his master where he found these losers. Replying simply, Magneto states that they build the armies where they can. They were all losers… once. Remember?
Nearby, Basilisk approaches Esme and softly repeats the name of “Erik,” mocking her. Grinning stupidly, he tells Esme that she has an obsession with old Xornvestite and that she should have her own special website. Replying coldly, Esme states that they shall see. She has nothing in common with any of them, she tells Basilisk and the rest. Magneto’s going to be King of the World this time! He worked this while thing out and she helped him. Turning away, Esme repeats that they’ll all see. He needs her more than any of them.
At the window, Magneto calls out to the masses below. My reach is long now… he bellows. … the sentimental message he left mankind upon his “death” was actually a virus designed to cripple all electromagnetic technology! Not receiving the reaction he anticipated, Magneto turns to Toad, asking where he found the crowd. They’re hardly reacting! Speaking in an impossibly articulate manner, given that his meter-long tongue is extending from his mouth, Toad replies that a lot of people aren’t really sure what’s happened yet… and the speakers are distorting his voice. He’s been declared dead so often… it’s… they don’t know it’s really him.
Taking this in, Magneto looks back outward. As he does so, his gaze falls upon four jet fighters making a run toward the city. Watching as they four jets begin their run on the Brotherhood’s position, Magneto asks if they really don’t believe it is he. Did no one tell them his name? Magneto? Master of Magnetism? Reaching out his hand, Magneto gestures at the airborne war machines. In the street below, the mutant masses look up into the sky and witness the four planes begin to come apart. Almost magically, every individual piece of the planes detaches itself from the body of the jet, until there are no more jets. Far below, the mutant populace cheers at the miracle they have witnessed.
The threat over, Magneto declares that this is an end… and end to fear… an end to hiding… an end to Man. As Toad begins to protest at Magneto’s declaration, he hears his master ask what is happening… why are they all looking away? Replying simply, Toad states that no one can see him all the way up here… Turning away, Magneto instructs Toad to work the crowd for him. He needs some… some water. To this end, he calls out to Esme, even as he leaves the group. Watching his master leave, Toad protests, telling Magneto that they won’t listen to him! What’s he supposed to do? Sing anti-human songs?
Joined by Esme in the lavatory, Magneto states that they lose interest so quickly now… he can barely finish a sentence… They have short attention spans and high expectations, Esme replies. They want to see the world’s most charismatic terrorist at the height of his powers. They want him to be the way he used to be. Or… preferably better, she continues, producing a small black inhaler, adorned with a simple, red ‘X.’ Kick can take him there, she states, hading the inhaler to Magneto. Hesitating slightly as he reaches to take it, Magneto replies that… yes… just this once more.
On the street below, Toad does his best to do as commanded. Speaking haltingly over a microphone, he tells the huddled masses that they will replace the old ways with… new ways… shiny new ways. Toad’s words do little to assuage the screaming mob, who yells back for him to leave and for him to prove Magneto is there. In answer to their cries, Magneto appears, levitating above the ground like an angelic being. Speaking through the loudspeaker system, he tells Toad to step aside. Now addressing the crowd, he proclaims that sixteen million mutants were exterminated in Genosha; sixteen million potential warriors, leaders, scientists! Murdered by man!
Unable to fly, unable to burrow or crawl without the aid of machine monsters, he continues, the human germ threatens all life. With its cringing fear of everything it cannot understand, with its greed for oil to power the machines it needs to survive, the human disease has consumed the world! Unchecked! He is Magneto, he proclaims, he does not issue demands here today. Nothing the humans do can change what is to happen. This is how it will be. Nature itself has triggered an extinction sequence in the human genome… humankind is dying! As the agents of evolution, they mutants must deliver the killing stroke.
Punctuating his speech, Magneto pulls together the magnetic forces of the area, which swirl around him like a whirlpool. Directing the energies of this eddy outward, Magneto lifts cars and people alike, lifting them high above the street. Focusing his attention elsewhere, toward the Brooklyn Bridge, Magneto proclaims that Xavier and his X-Men wanted them to build bridges between man and mutant… but they can fly and swim and leap! They have no need for bridges! Illustrating this point, Magneto flexes the forces he has gathered and rips the bridge to shreds, the remains falling into the East River below.
Addressing the crowd again, Magneto informs them that they have no need for human laws or human opinions. Or human beings. Directing the magnetic forces once again, this time into the harbor, Magneto lifts the small plot of land called Liberty Island, causing the 19th century creation known as the Statue of Liberty to fall to the ground, in pieces.
(later that evening)In Central Park, Esme directs a mass of mind—numbed humans with the crack of a whip, corralling them like cattle. Speaking to the other Brotherhood members present, Beak, Basilisk and Toad, Esme informs them that he’s pushing the humans along with her mind… the whip’s just for show. Standing next to the self-sure teen, Toad informs her that she can push him around with a whip anytime…
In the crowd below, a group of mutants have captured a U-Man, still in his environmental suit. Egging on the others, one mutant orders them to kill the human flatscan, an order to which another complies. Looking upon this in ambivalence, Basilisk proclaims that only a total drug addict could think this up; Magneto hates people, doesn’t he? Aghast at the site he cannot tear his eyes away from seeing, Beak simply repeats to himself that this is terrible… this is terrible.
Back in the skyscraper, Magneto uses his vantage point to look upon the lights in Central Park. The view is framed by his still-present metal tentacles, which helped to tear the city apart. Speaking aloud, Magneto announces that he wishes he could exterminate them all… all at once. But, one can hardly expect mutants to clean the sewers or carry away their trash in the midst of this great transition to a new way of life.
These creatures, he continues, speaking now directly to Charles, have no desire to integrate. They never have! He worked it all out. Waiting. “Meditating.” His pacifist “institute,” he tells Xavier, is where he trains his soldiers now… a place for young warriors to be indoctrinated with a burning hatred and contempt for the genetically impure.
Not hearing a response, Magneto asks Xavier if he remembers the Institute. He had to redesign it a little, but it’s made all the difference. This said, Magneto projects a mental image of the Institute to Xavier’s mind. The school is in flames, torn asunder by magnetic forces. Gutted from the inside out, it is now only a shell.
Back in reality, Magneto approaches the vertical tank in which Charles Xavier now resides. Kept aloft by the buoyancy of the liquid, Xavier’s feet do not touch the ground. To keep him from drowning, an air regulator is taped to Xavier’s mouth, while other tubes and wires are attached to his head and spine. Lacking clothes of any type, Xavier floats naked.
Fully garbed in his new uniform, Magneto looks up to his defeated and helpless foe. To this old adversary, Magneto instructs Xavier to tell him that he was right… Whether he tells him now or later, Magneto informs Xavier… he will in the end.


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Planet X - part 3: Survivor Type
In the vacuum of space, Asteroid M is drawn ever closer, second by second, toward the sun and ultimate destruction. Watching this process through the machinery within the asteroid itself, Wolverine can do nothing about it. Calling out to his partner, Phoenix, Wolverine tells her that the good news is that they probably have air for another 36 hours. The bad news is they’ll hit the surface of the sun in 24.
Walking into the next room, Wolverine sees Jean moving pieces of machinery around with her telekinesis, attempting to construct something that might aid them. Speaking as she does so, Jean informs Wolverine that the station’s too heavy to move and she tried to slow down the air molecules with her mind but everything’s just too hot. 130 degrees and rising, Wolverine replies, unless he can do something with the power.
Half-turning to look at her teammate, Jean asks Wolverine that happened to him. Realizing that she is speaking of Weapon Fifteen, Wolverine replies that he dropped his guard and he gutted him. Sensing a possible protest from Jean, Wolverine adds that he was all set to lead the charge against the mutant race, so she shouldn’t give him a hard time. He blew the Weapon Plus station to hell… they wrestled… and then they hit this rock.
Taking in their surroundings, Wolverine regards the place they are in: Asteroid M, as Magneto used to call it. It swung right into place and waited in orbit until she got there, he tells Jean. An’ he didn’t see it… he didn’t smell him until now. Lost in the very thought, Jean looks up at the window above, which shows the blazing sun moving ever closer. And he’s sure it’s him, she asks Wolverine, taking in the sight. Yep, he replies. Magneto nailed them this time. To this, Wolverine brings the subject to the present. Twenty-four hours, he states, somberly. They’d better use’em well.
The metal mask of Xorn floats in place, held aloft by nothing more than the ambient magnetic field placed there by its former wearer. Studying every detail of this emotionless face, Ernst states, to no one in particular, that she misses Xorn. He used to tell them stories about China and Buddha and… nice things. When is he coming back?
Hearing this, Magneto approaches the youth with a sneer. He was a fiction, he reminds her. How often must he explain? Undeterred in her own logic, Ernst replies in kind that Xorn was nice… There is no Xorn, repeats Magneto, more emphatically. There is only he… Magneto! Finally relenting to the futility of the argument, Ernst apologizes and then asks if she is early for the Brotherhood meeting.
Arriving on the scene with leaps and bounds, Toad can barely contain his composure at the situation outside. Yelling out the word chaos repeatedly, he reports to Magneto that there is chaos in the streets! People need to know what’s happening, he continues… soon. Not responding to his disciple with the same concern, Magneto orders Toad to calm himself. He doesn’t want bad news! He wants to be brought good news! Then, he should feed him a few soundbites everyone can understand. Seeeeee, Toad exclaims, sounding shrill, they really have no idea what he’s talking about when he does all his big Shakespearean stuff. He’s only telling him what it’s like out there… they’re baying at the moon for some action. A public hanging! Anything!
Turning his back and beginning to depart, Magneto asks Toad since when did a good education and an extensive vocabulary become handicaps? “Shakespearean stuff,” he repeats, in afterthought. As he departs the room, Magneto instructs Toad to stay there and wait with the others where he belongs. He wishes to be alone for a moment. Gliding into the darkened room, Magneto’s eyes adjust to the dim lighting. Calling out the name of Charles, Magneto comes to the tank holding his former foe. Now laid horizontal, the green-liquid filled tank contains the unconscious form of Charles Xavier.
Lording over the unconscious form, Magneto cannot help but enjoy the situation. He’s fed them so many lies, he tells Xavier, engineered a species war in his name. He doesn’t expect he’ll have much time before reprisals commence. He will have to do something… unforgettable. Speaking of an old plan of his, Magneto asks Xavier if he remembers the reversal of the Earth’s magnetic poles he talked about before but never went through with? North will become south. The event will obliterate the weak human, rewire mutant brains and alter planetary consciousness forever. One his old ideas, admittedly, he declares, but a good one. As Magneto rants, Xavier opens his eyes.
Continuing his diatribe, Magneto tells Xavier that, each day, more and more mutants flock to his cause, empowered by supplies of the drug Kick. Xavier’s timid, colorless leadership has been forgotten. He failed to inspire, he tells the Professor. While he… he became a legend in death and a savior upon his return. He always comes back, hasn’t he noticed? Perhaps that’s his secondary mutation. To always come back.
Finally seeing Xavier’s open eyes, glaring at him, Magneto sneers, ordering him to not look at him like that. He has no right to judge him. They’re establishing a nation, a species. He’ll rest when his work is done and the devouring sickness of man and his ugly machines has been erased from their planet. Cradling a Kick inhaler in his palm, Magneto tells Xavier that the drug is only for as long as he needs it to boost his strength. With this said, Magneto takes a long inhalation of the drug inside.
Instantly, Magneto grins anew, his senses coming alive with both the augmentation of his power and the accompanying rush from the drug itself. You! he bellows at Xavier… You offer them a long difficult process of “peaceful integration” with a species which is neither peaceful nor inclines to integrate with any other living thing. Now standing before the map of the world, his map, in which traditional North and South are upside-down, Magneto declares that he offers a new map of tomorrow… and the triumph of Homo Superior. The city, he gloats, is only the beginning. Casting his arms wide in self-adulation, he informs Xavier that he offers them Utopia! There and now! The shining morning of mutants!
In the bowels of Asteroid M, Wolverine and Jean continue their work on the station’s machinery. With the temperature having risen more, the two X-Men have removed their shirts. Wolverine is now bare-chested and Jean is stripped to her bra. Working with some wires, Wolverine tries to make a little small talk. Stating that he knows she has the Phoenix Force inside her, and that he knows everybody’s scared it’s gonna eat her up and kill them all… he has a question: can it fly in space? Cause if it can’t, he states, wiping the sweat from his brow, they’re on a one-way trip. Nothing works in there.
Responding with her mind instead of words, Jean tells Wolverine to not talk… telepathy, she points out, conserves oxygen. Answering the question, Jean asks Wolverine to let her tell him what she knows about the Phoenix.
When she was thirteen, she begins, she realized she could control matter with her mind… just crude stuff at first… lifting things and throwing them across the room. Then, it progressed, with the Professor’s help, until she was manipulating dozens of objects at once. Now, she’s learning to move molecules around and expand her senses beyond all boundaries.
Having “listened” as he worked, Wolverine mentally responds; so potentially she could do anything? She could be like a god. She could make her own universe and set it right… Jean, however, disagrees, pointing out that the Phoenix isn’t like that. It’s more like… it burns away what doesn’t work. It eats planets and stars. It talks to her and, if she gets too close, it… it replaces her.
Continuing his work, Wolverine mentally responds that he’s still waiting for the note of hope. If this Phoenix is there to judge the Earth, then why the hell would it allow her to be killed before it’s done? Contemplating this thought, Jean responds with the idea that maybe it’s judging her too. All she knows, she tells Wolverine, is her body still needs oxygen and water to function… and there’s nothing but vacuum out there… she can’t fly through space. Not yet. Not the way he means.
Suddenly, Jean’s musings are interrupted by an explosion from Wolverine’s direction. After the dust has cleared, Wolverine, back in full health, lays among the wrecked machinery that he was just working on. Visibly frustrated, he declares that there’s ‘gotta be a way out of this! There’s always a way out! Rising to his feet, Wolverine pops his adamantium laced claws and pulverized the remaining pieces of the machine, which crumbles from the blow. Now calm, Wolverine examines his handiwork and, almost to himself, states that he’ll find a way.
Nearby, Jean looks off into the distance, her face drenched with sweat. Remarking to a stray thought, Jean recalls that Esme, the little blonde girl from Emma’s groups, was caught dealing Kick… she tried to kill Emma and implicate young Angel… so where does Magneto fit into all of this? she asks.
Back on the isle of Manhattan, now renamed New Genosha, Magneto addresses his Brotherhood. He informs them that he paralyzed their precious TV screens and they offered to negotiate. Can they imagine the idea? Homo Inferior, he says, referring to humanity, seems to have forgotten the unresolved matter of 16 million murdered mutants in Genosha.
Well, Esme starts, rising to her feet, they should have the most appalling series of human sacrifices as soon as possible. It has to look like they’re absolutely serious about changing the world, doesn’t it? Shooting back that he is serious, Magneto tells Esme that he will set the agenda for their campaign and to stop interrupting him. Proceeding to said agenda, he informs Esme that several of Charles’ X-Men remain unaccounted for and it will be her task to locate any troublesome survivors using the Cerebra machine.
Sitting nearby, Basilisk grins stupidly at Esme, chucking that Magneto sees through her bra-stuffing tricks. Visibly irate at the humiliation, Esme spits back for Basilisk to shut up. After agreeing with his lieutenant, instructing Basilisk to shut up, Magneto turns his attention to Beak, informing him that he will be in charge of tomorrow’s mass extermination of all remaining Homo Inferior in New Genosha. It is time, he states to Beak, that they put some steel in him. Look at Magneto in shock horror, Beak can barely repeat a near-inaudible “extermination?”
Deep within Asteroid M, which continues its way toward the surface of the sun, Jean thinks to Wolverine, asking for him to repeat himself. Apologizing before he does so, Jean adds that her mind’s drifting all over the place… she can’t stop thinking about ice cream. Or a long, cold beer straight from the icebox, Wolverine adds. Finally repeating himself, Wolverine states that somebody’s been undermining the school and dividing the X-Men, and now there they are in a deathtrap that looks exactly like Magneto’s old headquarters. Hell, maybe Magneto has nothing to do with it after all. Maybe it’s Xorn.
Apologizing again, Jean tells Wolverine that she didn’t hear any of that… she’s stopped sweating… that’s a bad sign, isn’t it? She… she doesn’t think she’s going to get through this after all… she doesn’t feel good at all… Letting down her hair, already drenched with sweat, Jean tells Wolverine that it can’t end like this. Not to them. They can’t just die, can they? Thinking back in response, Wolverine replies that, one time, he survived for six months under a glacier by eating strips off his own arm… healing factor grew the flesh right back… there’s always a way.
Grinning at the thought, Jean asks Wolverine back if he is going to fight the sun for her. What happened? she asks. Something happened to him on that Weapon Plus space station, didn’t it? Something happened? Wolverine replies, you bet something happened! The floor fell out from under his life is what happened. With the memory returned to his forefront consciousness, Wolverine is unable to keep the thoughts from running to Jean. Seeing it all, Jean tells Wolverine that he’s been having flashbacks, she knows that much… a woman with red hair calling his name… James. He thought he was starting to remember who he was… but…
Kneeling to Jean’s side, Wolverine touches her hair gently. It could be a lie, he counters. It could be a cover story they implanted to keep him under control. They made him into a Sentinel… part-man, part-metal, brainwashed and trained to murder his own people. Now thinking more softly, Wolverine adds that she wasn’t calling him name… she was calling for help. They chose him because he liked to kill… all he’s good for is killing… Now speaking aloud, Wolverine tells Jean that, if she knew what he was, she’d hate him.
Struggling to remain conscious, Jean replies in thought that, no, it doesn’t matter who he was… she knows what he’s gone through to be the good man he is now. How could she ever hate him? With this “said,” Jean collapses into Wolverine’s arms. After reviving her, Wolverine asks Jean to hang on. Any minute now, she continues, Scott and Hank are gonna turn up, waving flags. Barely about to respond coherently, Jean replies that she’s trying to concentrate really hard… but she can’t find the Phoenix anywhere now… maybe there isn’t… isn’t a way this time…
Trying to calm his teammate, Wolverine tells Jean to hush. Is Scott there? Jean asks in response, beginning to ramble in thought. Hearing her incoherent worries about her husband, Wolverine cradles her head on his shoulder and replies that Scott is just going through some growing up. It’s okay. It’s okay. He said he was a little confused, but… he still loves her.
Not listening, Jean continues to babble about the Phoenix, it burning and disinfecting… dying to return. Blood and flame and sacrifice… it’s not a place, it’s not… Finally returning to a moment of lucidity, Jean tells Wolverine that she feels terrible… everything’s wrong inside her… horrible voices in the heat… she’s dying… As she trails off once again, Jean begs Wolverine to not leave her.
Never, he replies. He’s right beside her. He’d die to save her life. He’d take all her pain on himself. But he can’t. He can only take it away. This said, Wolverine pops his claws and sinks them into Jean’s stomach, their blades emerging from her back. The death is instantaneous.
The moment passed, Wolverine tries to regain his composure, horrified at what he has just had to do. Finally, he picks up the inert form of Jean and walks her to the giant airlock of Asteroid M. He and she, he tells Jean. He and she in a blaze of glory.
Before the two, the giant airlock opens, revealing the blinding light and heat of the sun, which has already begun to consume Asteroid M. Without moving a muscle, Wolverine withstands the heat as it begins to consume his and Jean’s flesh, searing it from their bodies. Aflame from the sun’s inferno, Jean’s corpse begins to move. Her eyes open and begin to blaze with a fire of their own. A moment later, Asteroid M and everything on it is reduced to less than a cinder under the sun’s fury.


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Planet X - part 4: Phoenix in Darkness
In Bethesda Terrace in Central Park, a mass of humans mull about, void of hope or spirit or life. In the center of their mass, reflecting their souls, the Angel of the Waters fountain is separated from them by a barb wired fence. The statue itself has been decapitated and is missing a wing. Far beyond, looming in the night sky yet illuminating it, are giant smoke stacks, belching forth black plumes of death into the raining night.
Seeing all of this and finding it good, Magneto addresses his followers, the Brotherhood, telling them that, for humanity, extermination is too good for them. Look at the state of these last dregs, he continues, stumbling like cattle towards the abattoir. Turning to Beak, Magneto asks if he is ready to activate the crematoria. Still too shocked by the sights that he cannot turn away from, Beak responds with his own question: this all started as politics and freedom… when did they all turn into such Nazis?
Repeating the work “Nazis” with bile, Magneto clenches his teeth and his eyes begin to glow. Does he look like a failed artist with a neurotic grudge against his father and the world? he asks. He is a force of nature. He is Magneto. A new world demands new resolve. They are laying the foundation stones of paradise… this is no time to be squeamish.
There is nothing new about people marching into the ovens, Beaks retorts. Agreeing, Angel adds that she doesn’t know if she really wants her kids growing up to be Imperial Stormtroopers. Undeterred, Magneto informs Angel that her children will grow strong and proud in a world without persecution or fear. One day, he states, they will build statues in his honor. Turning to Toad, Magneto asks for confirmation. Agreeing without question, Toad tells Beak and Angel that Magneto’s spent a lot of time thinking about this, so they should just shut their yaps.
Stepping into the argument with a more intelligent reply, Esme declares that it’s a scientific fact that humans are a lower form of life. They practically admitted it themselves when they called mutants Homo superior. Magneto, she then adds, wrote a brilliant article about how they can’t even feel pain like they do. Chiming in again, Toad grins wildly and tells Beak that he should have been there for the experiments…
Horrified at what he is hearing, Beak squawks that everyone can feel pain. Even a dog or a carrot can feel pain! Hearing this, Magneto moves himself closer to his disciple, asking if a carrot can really feel pain. Spurred on by his whole train of thought, Beak asks why not. Okay, he admits, maybe a carrot’s the wrong fruit to pick but there’s no way he… Beak’s words are ended by the blow from Magneto’s backhand. Shouting the word vegetable, Magneto informs Beak that carrots are not fruit and this is not Xavier’s school! This is Magneto’s empire.
Running to the aid of her children’s father, Angel tells Magneto to leave him be! Leave him alone! Flanked by their children, Angel hugs Beak close to her and glares back to her leader. Spitting out her words in night’s rain, Angel tells Magneto to look at himself. He’s eight feet tall and Beak’s nothing but chicken bones and hair. He’s not a killer.
As Esme chuckles at Angel’s protestations, Magneto turns his back on the two. Not even bothering to look at them, Magneto tells them that their children are soldiers. All of them are his soldiers and they will learn discipline. Speaking to other followers, Magneto orders them to put Beak with the humans. Immediately, two followers comply, grabbing Beak by the arms, dragging him away. With or against him, Magneto continues, as his orders are being carried out, the must make their choice.
Spitting out the words, Angel tells Magneto that he’s just like her daddy. Replying back simply, the mutant master states that he’ll do what it takes to save mutantkind. Struggling to avoid being taken away, Beak yells out to the other mutants that Magneto’s no hero; he’s a jerk. Magneto is nothing but a jerk! Stone-eyed as he looks away towards his handiwork, Magneto replies that he was designed by Mother Nature to prey on the human organisms. Blame her.
A few feet away, Basilisk, another of the Brotherhood, voices his humor at the situation, saying that somebody ruined it… Who “passed gas” at the most dramatic moment? Enraged at the juvenile comment, Magneto’s eyes glare with energy, which he focuses with his outstretched hand. Repeating his call for discipline, Magneto reaches out and instantly crushes the throat of the youth. Collapsing, Basilisk is dead before his body hits the ground.
Shocked at what he just instinctively did, Magneto stutters that he didn’t mean to… He… he… he only meant to teach Basilisk a lesson… Quickly recovering his composure, Magneto levitates himself and begins to depart. Speaking out to Toad, Magneto declares that the Brotherhood will be recruiting a new inner circle. Taking charge now that Magneto has departed, Esme calls out to other followers, ordering them to find a pyrokinetic and dispose of the body or else they’ll need a truck to get rid of him.
Nearby, still not having been taken off the platform, Beak calls out to Magneto, telling him that he’s losing it big time. The X-Men, he calls out, will beat him senseless. Riding the magnetic waves away, Magneto tells Beak that he had such high hopes for him. He thought he could transcend his limitation. He will be a soldier or he will be dead.
Hearing this, the followers holding Beak begin to take him down the steps to the park below and, reaching the bottom, stuff him in the backseat of a car. Hearing him declare that he’s a father, one tells Beak that people like him shouldn’t be allowed to breed. The other remarks that he should call this natural selection. Looking on in this with tears, Angel almost silently tells them that this isn’t right! What are they doing to him?
In answer to Angel’s question, Magneto uses his powers to lift the car that Beak is inside, along with dozens of others. Almost magically, the automobiles rise, high about the street, followed by dozens of humans. Seeing all of this with glee, Esme proclaims the sight spectacular! Listen to them screaming! Is he going to fling all the humans into space, she asks. His eyes aglow with the effort, Magneto tells Esme to be quiet. He is trying to concentrate.
High above the ground, Beak kicks the door to the backseat open, freeing himself. Quickly shedding the X-Men coat that he had been wearing, Beak bravely and without thought jumps from the airborne car, into the raining night. Flapping his feathered arms, the youth tells himself over and over again that he can fly, he can fly. For a few moments, his words seem to convince himself, as well as gravity. However, reality reasserts itself and he begins to fall, toward the street below. Falling at an angle, Beak hits the side of one building and then continues his fall. Impacting harshly, he remains motionless among the trash and refuse littering the pavement.
An untold amount of time later, possibly hours or possibly moments, Beak’s body is discovered by a group of youths. Viewing Beak’s motionless form, one youth informs the rest of the group that his shoes are his. This said, the whole group begins to pound their fists into Beak, beating him to a pulp. When their victim begins to stir, muttering about the Xavier School, the first youth replies that Magneto rules and follows his statement with a kick to Beak’s face. Their task complete, the group departs, leaving the bleeding Beak behind.
Using the last of his strength, Beak manages to raise himself, first to his hands and knees and then, slowly, to his feet. Talking to himself as he does so, Beak repeats the word Magneto spoke earlier, “soldier.” He will show him, Beak tells the non-present Magneto. He wanted a soldier? Well he is not… not working for him…
Noticing something out of the corner of his eye, Beak turns to the sight: a large luminous orb, surrounded by a circular plane, which gives the impression of a flying saucer. Rather than floating, the otherworldly object has four segmented legs, which hold it aloft from the ground. Addressing Beak as X-Man with an ethereal voice, the object introduces itself as E.V.A. He can fall over now, it tells him.
Concussion? one voice asks. Agreed another states. Fractures? another inquires. Opening his eyes, Beak sees a young girl in triplicate. However, as he sees that it is three of the identical sisters of the Stepford Cuckoos, he immediately knows that he is fine. Still speaking to themselves, one answers the question of fractures, stating that there is no sign. Now recognizing that their patient is awake, the three speak as one, informing him that he has a skull of concrete. Rising to his feel, Beak retorts that it’s too bad the rest of him is of cheap, broken glass.
Taking in his surroundings, a dingy, run-down, old structure, Beak asks the girls where is this. Their sister told him that they were all dead or gone to Magneto’s army at the Institute. Replying coldly, one sister replies that Esme’s no longer part of them anymore. Replying to the first, calling her Phoebe, a second states that they’re the Three-In-One now, right? Esme is the worst liar, says the third. There are actually still quite a few of them… and they’re all very cross.
Entering the room, Beak sees a group of mutants, including Dust of the Special Class. Seeing their gaze, Beak asks the sisters why everybody is looking at him like that. Immediately answering his own question in his mind, he quietly tells all that Mister Xorn tricked them all… they totally trusted him. Yes, maybe, one of the Cuckoos replies. But Dust told them what they all did to the Professor. To this, she adds that he is lucky that she is a telepath… she knows Esme was using Martha Johansson’s super-brain to influence their minds.
As the sister begins to tend to his wound, Beak tells the group that Magneto is not for beginners. He hates to say it, he continues, but he would kill all of them in one minute flat. Is there one guy here who can fight? Answering Beak’s question, Cyclops, flanked by Fantomex, emerges from a corner, saying that there’s always them. Will they do?
Looking in glee at the two with his one non-swollen eye, Beak announces that they are saved! Telling Beak to calm down, Cyclops asks him what is Magneto’s plan this time. The streets are in chaos… who’s in charge down there? Stepping up to the youth, a human policeman tells Beak to get out with it, seeing as how he’s on the genetic hit-list and all. With this, he introduces himself as Officer Foster, NYPD mutant liason.
Replying bluntly, Beak tells the officer that there’s no policeman who can fight this guy. He saw what he did to Fifth Avenue! There is no one in charge, no even Magneto. Chiming in, one Cuckoo adds that they shut down all electromagnetic media. Effectively, another continues, he’s blinded the planet. Which makes telepaths, finishes the third, the only reliable news source. Unfortunately, Magneto keeps his thoughts shielded.
Continuing with his own information, Beak reports that Magneto is also keeping Professor X naked in a bottle with his mind paralyzed. And he made five phone calls and sent all the super-heroes on a wild-goose chase to find a black hole bomb in Brooklyn just before he trapped everyone else inside his magnetic shield. He worked it all to win this time.
Telling Beak that they know, Cyclops adds that the only thing capable of breaking though that shield is a super-sentinel machine. Luckily, he says, they have two. Switching back to questions, Cyclops asks the youth what happened to the X-Men. The others? Saddened that he is the one to have to tell this news, Beak reluctantly reports that Doctor McCoy and Miss Frost were blown up in a plane and… and Mister Logan and Mrs. Grey-Summers were sent into the sun days ago. There are no X-Men.
Stoically, Cyclops looks on the group assembled… Fantomex, Beak, Dust, the Stepford Cuckoos… and replies that that’s not how it looks to him. He announces that he hopes they paid attention in class, because this is going to be one hell of a test.
Cocking his gun, Fantomex blithely asks Cyclops if he intends to lead a children’s crusade against the world’s most dangerous super-terrorist. He heard the telepaths, Fantomex tells Cyclops, war has begun. The final war between man and mutant. His arms wide in desperation, Cyclops asks his detractor what is his alternative? They roll over and die? There won’t be a war! He won’t let Magneto start a war and he doesn’t believe for one second that Jean and the others are dead… It’s already started, Fantomex interrupts. Humans were waiting for any excuse! And Magneto just hijacked Manhattan, in case he hadn’t noticed.
Voicing his own opinion, Beak adds that the humans have not long to make their move. Tomorrow, he informs the group, Magneto is going to turn the magnets of the Earth upside down and kill them all. Magneto wouldn’t, Cyclops begins. He doesn’t believe he would try something so stupid. He could wipe out mutants as well and… and he doesn’t have the power. No, retorts Beak, there is more… Magneto is using the drug Kick to make his powers greater. He is fifteen times the Magneto of before!
Taking the inhaler to his mouth, Magneto activates it, taking in another lung-full Kick. His ritual complete, the Master of Magnetism resumes his talk with Esme, telling her that he genuinely didn’t mean to kill the boy… he was just so… irritating. The other one was dangerous but… Interrupting her lord’s train of thought, Esme turns the conversation to Kick, telling Magneto that he’s taking too much of that stuff. Why can’t he just turn the world on its head now? Is he waiting for them to stop him?
Before Magneto can answer, a voice skims over the air around him, telling him that here comes his downfall once more. Voicing a confused “what” to the spectral voice, Magneto hears Esme reply that she didn’t say anything. To this she asks Magneto what is wrong with him these days. What happened to the brilliant, charismatic mutant outlaw she fell in love with?
Love, Magneto mocks. Esme, in the name of sanity, he says, does she honestly believe that this is about her? She’s a child. Growing angry at his words, Esme reminds Magneto that he said they’d take over the world together. He said! She helped hin do all this so that they could sit on the thrones together…
Enraged himself, Magneto turns back to the teen and grows in corresponding power. In a shouting voice, he asks Esme if she is insane. How could she be anything to him by a means to and end?! Destroyed by these words, Esme can muster no reponse, save from a nearly inaudible declaration of that’s not what you said. Repeating these words, she departs Magneto’s sanctum.
Now alone, Magneto hears another’s voice, the same from before. As predictable as ever, it accuses. Turning his gaze around the room to anything that might have uttered the sentence, Magneto’s eyes fall upon the mask of Xorn, still floating several feet above the ground and over warped piece of metal, acting as an ersatz mantle.
Approaching the seemingly inanimate object, Magneto quietly orders it to say something again. Seemingly in compliance, the voice returns. You made Xorn too well… in the image of your idealism, your strength, your wisdom. Incensed, reaches out with magnetic energy and topples the metal helmet from its magnetic perch. The helmet’s fall seems to take forever, falling through the seconds that pass as much as the distance to the ground. The jaw of the skeletal-like helmet become loose and lands separately from the rest. Laying on the ground, its vacant eyes upright, the helmet seems to stare at Magneto, piercing his inner soul. I am your inner star, Erik the voice continues. I am the conscience you can never silence. I will never let you be.
Moments later, Magneto finds himself in the chamber housing the imprisoned Professor X. As he has been since his capture, the Professor floats in a tank, now once again vertical, held aloft by the green liquid inside. Tubes feeding air and nutrients are taped to his mouth and body. As he regards his captive, old friend, Magneto sees that Xavier is quite conscious and looking at him.
This, Magneto begins haltingly, this is your doing? Turning to the monitors hooked into the Professor’s tank, Magneto answers his own question. No. His mind… still jammed. Regarding the Professor once again, Magneto asks aloud, more to himself than his captive, if this is some side effect of the drug that little witch forgot to mention.
Now speaking to Charles, Magneto asks him where does he find them? These ghastly, rebellious children of his? Why did they only ever listen to him when he was Xorn? Now facing the tank with but a few inches between he and it, Magneto tells Xavier that he almost misses their talks… their struggles. He was thinking about letting him walk free when it’s over. When there are no humans left to save.
To this, Xavier begins to protest, convulsing in rage and the impotence of his captivity. Grinning manically at this, Magneto continues, telling his foe that he’ll show him a world where there is no strife… where no one has to hide in the shadows, quaking at the sound of jets overhead. And he’ll turn to him finally and he’ll say… “It’s really so much nicer without them, isn’t it Erik. You were right.” Continuing his struggle, Xavier tries to reach out with this telepathy, but cannot. I was right, Magneto continues to prophesize, and you were wrong, Charles!
Suddenly, the tense interchange is ended by the words of a youth, telling Magneto that now he’s in for it. Turning to the source of the voice, Magneto finds a very flesh-and-blood origin. It is Ernst, carrying as always the chain leading to the disembodied brain of Martha Johansson in her anti-gravity case. Nobody likes what you’re doing, she tells Magneto. It’s boring and old-fashioned. Martha, she informs him, says it’s all coming to an end and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop it.
Back in the tank, Xavier suddenly finds himself in a different place. At first, it is a white nothingness, inhabited only by a voice, calling out his name. What is this place, he asks? Suddenly, the scene changes and coalesces into the streets of what was once Manhattan. It is in flames and the mighty skyscrapers that once lined the streets are in pieces, lying in rubble. He Xavier finds himself sitting before Jean, her hair lit in flames. He is asking her if these are words from the future. What is happening? Jean responds that it’s not a place… it’s not a place…
Xavier opens his eyes in his tank and returns to reality with a harsh realization. Jean, he asks telepathically. Is that you?


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Planet X - part 5: Phoenix Invictus
Out of the blinding inferno that is the sun, a creature of legend takes flight on wings of flame. It is the form of the Phoenix, created by the woman who has taken the same name. In this cocoon of thought and cosmic energy, Jean calls out to her teammate, Wolverine, and asks if his eyes have grown back. Riding inside the Phoenix raptor, Wolverine’s flesh has begun to reform, including his eyes. Speaking through the unimaginably pain he must feel as his nerve-endings reform, Wolverine jests that he doesn’t know; what’s he supposed to be looking at?
Wolverine’s humor quickly turns to amazement as he finds himself no longer wrapped in soothing flame, but within an ethereal void, inhabited by himself, Jean and globes and tendrils of quicksilver. Jean herself, now garbed in the costume of Dark Phoenix, is aglow with energy, energy she wields with outstretched limbs. Trying to take this in, Wolverine asks her what did she just do… he was on fire…
Replying simply, Jean informs Wolverine that he did it. He released to Phoenix Consciousness. She used the disintegrating asteroid and the sun’s energy to build and power their transport. Total telekinetic control of matter on the molecular level. She had to die to come back, she tells him. But she doesn’t know how long they’ll let her stay. This said, Jean takes the quicksilver-like asteroid metal and forms in into a sleek, silver vessel, in which they will ride back to Earth.
In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a small island, comprised of the remains of an X-Plane, drifts aimlessly on the deep waters. Speaking to the only other survivor of the crash, Emma Frost tells the Beast that he’d never have survived the explosion if it hadn’t been for her quick thinking. Perched on a high spot of the fuselage, the Beast retorts that he cannot believe she’s still going on about this three days later. She’d never have survived the crash, he tells her, if it hadn’t been for his quick thinking. Rubbish, Emma replies, sitting on a part near the water and lowering one of her legs until it almost touches the waters. She wouldn’t even have been on the aircraft if she hadn’t listen to him.
Trying his best to change the subject, Beast uses his claws to scratch calculations and formulae into the hull of the crashed aircraft. Something awful’s happened, he says to Emma. He knows it has. It’s all adding up… Sublime Pharmaceuticals, Feng Tu, the Kick drug, human aggression, the riots… and… and… Suddenly snarling in frustration, Beast looks at his claws; all dull from his hours of scratching. Speaking aloud, Beast states that he’s ruining his claws doing this. He has so many ideas he needs to get down… he needs a pen.
Correcting her teammate, Emma retorts that he needs water. She’s immune to thirst in her lovely, shiny diamond form, she continues, but she’s afraid that she’s hearing delirium in his voice. Suddenly distracted, Emma looks at a point of light in the sky, noting that something is coming at last. Chiding his fellow castaway, Beast replies that that’s what she said before and it was a speck of dirt under her contact lens. Turning her head toward the Beast, Emma begs his pardon. This isn’t visual; these are telepathic emissions. Massive telepathic emissions… and all too horribly familiar.
Told by Emma to brace himself, Beast places his own spectacles above his snout and squints at the sky. Stating that there’s something there, he instructs Emma to tell them he needs another ten minutes. Half a moment later, the tiny spec in the sky becomes a thing of fire, wrapped around a silvery core. The core is seamless and smooth and resembles a flying vehicle, but lacks all features of being constructed. Looking up at this vision, Beast mockingly asks if they should be worried, followed by the rhetorical question of what it is. Almost pouting in her response, Emma asks Beast what does he think it is? It’s bloody Jean, showing off again.
In the Oval Office of the White House, the president of the United States receives an update on the situation in Manhattan. One aide reports that Magneto’s holding Manhattan hostage; he’s paralyzed their communications and threatened to use his magnetic powers to tilt the Earth’s axis. Pointing to an image of the master of magnetism, which is frozen in place on a screen, the aide instructs the president to look at the hate on his face… do they need any more proof that mutants are their natural enemies? This is why they destroyed their Weapon Plus Super-Sentinel Initiative. The human race, he continues, must not go gently into the night.
When the aide continues, reporting that they’ve deployed Y-23 experimental ceramic planes, the president interrupts, stating that he can’t ask him to drop bombs on American soil. Replying coldly, the aide states that theirs is a species fighting for its life. And these neutron warheads kills all known mutations stone dead, leaving architectural heritage intact. He has just to say the word.
On the island formerly known as Manhattan and now re-christened New Genosha, Magneto confers with his own aide, Toad. Bowing subserviently, Toad tells Magneto that he can yell at him all he likes but he’s only telling the truth, like he always does. If something doesn’t happen soon, they’ll lose any support he still has. They’ve gone days without food or water out there.
His back turned to his underling, Magneto scowls from beneath his helmet. They’re all too impatient, he declares. This is war. It takes time and sacrifice to accumulate the power, to probe the weak spots of the planetary Magnetosphere. To stand the Earth on its head is hardly the work of an afternoon!
Chiming in, Ernst, holding the chain to Martha Johansson’s anti-gravity vessel, reports that Martha says he’s waited too long. He should have stayed as Mister Xorn - now he’s going to die. Leering down at the diminutive form of Ernst, Magneto snarls, announcing that he always suspected that there was more to her than met the eye. Now enraged, Magneto begins to raise his arm, stating that, now, let them see what that might be.
Leaping between the two, Angel yells out, “No,” repeatedly. Spitting out the words, she asks Magneto what is it with him. Does he want to give Ernst a heart attack? Now giving an order, Angel tells Magneto to not dare lift a hand to one more of them or… or she’ll puke all over him! Her kids don’t want to see a murderin’ junkie in charge of the whole world. Taking this opportunity to speak her own mind, Esme states to Magneto that he should have listened to her. But, oh, no… she was just a “means to an end” for the great strategist. Nobody knows who’s in charge or what’s going on anymore!
To this latest verbal attack, Magneto coldly and simply replies that he is in charge. Yeah, another voice counters sarcastically, maybe if crazy on drugs is his idea of being in charge. Turning to the new voice, Magneto and the Brotherhood look upon the still very much alive Beak, patched up from his scrapes. Wielding a titanium bat, he gives the news to his previous allies: the X-Men are there to kick their butt big time. Calling out to Angel and his kids, Beak Barnell instructs them to get behind him.
Grinning devilishly, Magneto asks Beak if he is joking. With but a wave of his hand, Magneto summons Beak’s bat to his own hand, disarming him. Rather than pressing this new advantage, Magneto congratulates his former follower. He passed the test and returned a stronger man, he states. Standing at Magneto’s side, Esme laughs at the brilliant idea of using a titanium bat against the Master of Magnetism. To this, she asks Beak how he even got in there, anyway. Snarling in rage, Beak replies that maybe this key he forgot to take away when “he” was being sent to his death. Xavier’s school is the best school, he then states.
Hearing this useless but defiant statement, Magneto turns to Esme and orders her to pacify him. Replying in a defiance of her own, Esme tells him to pacify him if he’s so great. Wishing to end this cancer of disobedience, Magneto begins to apologize to Esme but is interrupted by a sight outside the window. It is a man, clad in all white, who stands with pistols crossed against his chest and standing on a floating flying saucer. Immediately recognizing the man, Esme identifies him as Weapon Thirteen, while Magneto names him as Fantomex.
With strength of body, Fantomex propels himself from the platform that is E.V.A. toward the window of Magneto’s sanctum. Calling out to his partner and ship, Fantomex instructs it to prepare of retrieve Professor X. Just moments before impacting the window, Fantomex raises his pistols and fires silver slugs, which seem to scream with fury as they are fired. Their force impacts upon the window, shattering it and making an entrance for the one who fired them. Two of these bullets then impact upon Magneto, forcing him to the floor in pain.
Struggling to get back to his feet, Magneto calls out to his Brotherhood, ordering them to destroy him. Rather than springing into action, however, the Brotherhood remain where they are. Almost declaring herself leader of the group, Esme asks why should they. And get themselves shot? Of the group, only the Toad leaps into the fray, shouting that Fantomex is his. Asking he and whose knees, Fantomex fires two bullets at Toad, shattering his kneecaps and causing him to fall, head over heels.
Pressing the attack, Fantomex fires two more bullets toward Magneto. Unflinching, Magneto raises his arms, generating a magnetic field and declares to his foe that he’s missed. Staring down his foe from beneath his cowl and mask, Fantomex asks Magneto if everything he says is a cliché. Behind Magneto and unseen by him, the tank which imprisons Xavier begins to drain, green liquid seeping from the two holes created by Fantomex’s bullets.
Finally moving to counterattack, Magneto causes the floor to come apart beneath Fantomex. As the building comes apart in the attack, Magneto commands with but a single word: “Die.” Rather than a swift death, Fantomex finds himself wrapped in metal, which begins to form a cross, upon which he will possibly find himself crucified.
The moment, however, is lost on Esme, who senses something telepathically. Unfortunately for Magneto, all she can announces is Here he comes. From underneath, Magneto finds himself under the full assault of Cyclops’ optic blast. Temporarily stunned, Magneto falls into the newly created hole and finds himself at the feet of the X-Man. Teeth gritted in fury, Cyclops informs his foe that, even after everything that happened to him, he still trusted him. He thought Xorn was a genuinely good man… he gave him hope… and it was he all along. Lies, Cyclops yells as he strikes Magneto over the head, followed by a right cross. You filled all our lives with lies!
Pressing his advantage, Cyclops picks up the terrified Magneto by his cloak with his left hand, drawing back right for another strike. Continuing his diatribe, Cyclops asks Magneto if he knows how stupid he’s been? Of course, he does, he’s been watching them for months! He kept running from all the rotten feelings En Sabah Nur brought out in him… running from this rage he’s repressed all his life. So, no more running. No more holding back. He’s decided to let the rage loose. He’s decided to let it loose on people like him.
Drawing his head close to Magneto’s, Cyclops rhetorically asks Magneto if the helmet keeps him safe from telepathy. To this, Cyclops follows with the opening of his visor, from which blinding scarlet erupts, filling Magneto’s helmet with a pulverizing force, which causes it to shatter. Having been able to use his powers to protect his head, unlike his helmet, Magneto remains alive but severely wounded from the ordeal. Trying his best to crawl away, Magneto talks to himself, announcing that he cannot see… his eyes are bleeding… eardrums burst…
Hearing these words, Cyclops begins to snap back to a calmer state, realizing what he just did. So distracted is he that he does not see the metal helmet of Xorn rise from the rubble behind him. Having recovered enough to enact this plan, Magneto sneers at Cyclops. You want Xorn he snipes, Have him, Mister Summers. With this, the heavy helmet hits Cyclops in the back of the head, with great force.
Across town, the three remaining Stepford Cuckoos coordinate the attack against Magneto. Calling out telepathically, they inform the forces that X-Men street team’s on Fifth Avenue. Telepathic crowd control is underway but the pilots overhead are preparing to drop their bombs. With a final but enthusiastic unison, the girls tells Professor X welcome back, from all of them.
Back in the rubble of his recent headquarters, Magneto struggles to return to his feet. Clutching the mask of Xorn in one hand, he cradles his own head in another. With sudden horror, he realized that the pain in his head could be one thing. Charles? Is that you prowling…. Suddenly, pain erupts through Magneto’s mind and he collapses once again to the floor.
Addressing Magneto’s concerns, Esme approaches her former master and asks if she looks like an old, bald man. Has he ever even  noticed  how she looks? How she dresses because he made her believe in herself? She thought he was special. The greatest mutant who ever lived. But he’s just a fossil. Reaching out with her powers, Esme enters Magneto’s mind. This is how Alzheimer’s feel in fast-forward, she tells Magneto.
Not surrendering, Magneto pleads with Esme to not do this… don’t make him… Esme’s attack comes to a sudden end, as Magneto’s powers rips apart the metal within and without her body. Most visually, her earrings erupt and liquefy, presumably followed by the minerals within her. Esme is unable to produce more than a gurgle as she collapses to the ground. Having risen to his feet, Magneto stands over the inert form of his former lieutenant and asks he to forgive him. May the future forgive him, he then says.
Calling out with his powers to Xorn’s helmet, Magneto summons it to him. Continuing his thoughts as he places his former disguise upon his head, Magneto asks that may history judge his actions, great and small. In the final reckoning… when he has given them paradise and the world is free… these poor dead will not seem so many. Now, he concludes, let the sky fall.
As they approach the war zone that is Manhattan, four stealth bombers break radio silence as, inexplicably, a second sun has appeared. Even more bizarre, one of them is telling them that they shouldn’t be engaging bomb release…
Elsewhere, the Beast adds his own voice to the airwaves, informing the pilots that the baritone voice of the sun is his. Introducing himself as Doctor Henry McCoy, PhD from the Xavier Institute, he informs those listening that the X-Men mutant rescue teams have the terrorist situation in Manhattan under control and they ask for a moment to confirm Magneto’s capture.
Responding to this, the president retorts that Magneto has declared war on the human race and their scientists tell them that they have nothing to lose. So… how can they trust a word they say? Responding directly to the president, the Beast replies that he’ll leave the details of that to him, but he may just have to accept that not all mutants are his enemies. See, there’s only one person in the world who’s figured out how to repair the gene that’s threatening humankind with extinction. Moi. Telling the president to check with his scientists, the Beast suggests that, surely, there’s some way they can all be friends.
In the tower, Esme continues to struggle for life, unwilling to give up. It is in this paralyzed state, blood tears dripping from her eyes, that she is discovered by Emma Frost. Picking up her former pupil, Emma states, in her own attempt at kindness, that she turned into such a wonderful little femme fatale in the end, didn’t she? She’s ever so proud of all her girls. Fighting with rage against her paralysis, Esme managed to utter a few words as she glares at Emma, stating haltingly that she’s nothing like her. Furrowing her brow in internal pain, Emma replies to this that she thinks she’s most especially proud of her. With this, Esme dies.
The arrival of Cyclops causes Emma to place Esme’s corpse back down. Regarding her teammate and former lover, Emma mockingly states that he finally decided to show his face. Getting right to the point, Cyclops informs Emma that he’s had a lot of thinking to do… He’s an introvert. He always runs away to think. He didn’t expect to get as far as space but… Getting back to a point, Cyclops states that Magneto did all of this.
They bloody shot me, Emma announces. And then Jean brought her back in some New Age nightmare of forgiveness… and now this! Look, Cyclops states, trying to get back to a point; When this is all over… He’s made his decision between she and Jean.
The conversation is halted by the arrival of the three remaining Stepford Cuckoos. Something strange is happening now that Esme is dead, one of them announces. To this, a second adds that Magneto thinks he can top the world over on its head. And he’s going to do something to gravity and time, finishes the third.
Floating over the streets of Manhattan, Magneto, clad in his Xorn helmet, announces to his followers below that the day he promised has now come. Magneto is there to shake the world’s foundations. However, clad as he is in the disguise of Xorn, they do not recognize their leader. In various voices, they all call out for Magneto, asking when they get to see him.
One of the voices below, however, is neither a follower nor mutant. Dressed in the remains of his officer’s uniform, Officer Foster tells Magneto that he is under arrest. If he’s got a spare day and a half, Foster adds, he’ll read him the charge sheet. Sniping back in disgust, Magneto replies to Foster that his race will be extinct by morning. Where will his laws be then? To this, Magneto states that he can’t help but notice that metal pin in his hip. Line of duty? Reaching out with his magnetic tendrils, Magneto uses the metal pins to lift Foster into the air. Calling out to his followers, Magneto tells them to look at the human, who is trying to threaten them. Kill it, he orders. Kill them all. All.
Not death but salvation comes to Officer Foster, dressed in the Phoenix powered craft. Seeing Jean’s current form, Foster tells her that she has nice timing! He was three seconds from messing himself.
Beckoned by the officer that he softened Magneto up for him, the Beast tackles Magneto and then injects two syringes into his collars. Magneto attempts to struggles but Beast’s grip is too tight and he finds himself beneath the weight of the X-Man. Narrating his actions, Beast informs Magneto that the syringe contents should help neutralize the Kick enhancer in his bloodstream. To this, Beast adds that he can’t believe he’s do this. He of all people, Xorn.
Angered at this name, Magneto summons enough of his power to force back Beast and to remove the syringes from his own body. Now propelled by magnetic forces, the two syringes impact themselves into Beast, injecting their remaining contents. Now recovered, Magneto stands once again to his feet and announces to the X-Men and the world of who he is. He is Magneto!
Despite Magneto’s protestations, Wolverine addresses him as Xorn and asks if he remembers him. He’s the guy he threw at the sun. And, telling him the truth, right now the only thing keeping him breathing’s a pacifist creed he doesn’t wholly subscribe to. Staring at Wolverine’s bared claws, Magneto is taken aback at Wolverine’s words. What’s this Xorn garbage, he demands. He knows who he is. Must he tear his adamantium skull form his head just to prove it? Yeah, yeah, Wolverine counters. Quit stalling.
Finally revealing herself in her flaming glory, Phoenix tells Magneto that Wolverine’s right. He shouldn’t let them stand in the way of his big moment. It’s hard to believe he went to such lengths this time… he should have been an actor. Looking up at the Jean’s Phoenix form and costume, Magneto informs her that his helmet is thought-proofed. This isn’t going to end… Interrupting her old foe, Jean replies that they’re too late to stop him making another destructive bid for attention, true. So go on, she tells him, seize his moment. Talk to the people he wants to rule. Make his pitch for world domination.
Having been witness to the events between Magneto and the X-Men, the mutant crowd objects, announcing that they don’t want this guy in charge of things. Who does this “skull-face” freak think he is? Take over the world? He couldn’t run a market stall! Enraged at these words, Magneto asks how dare they. Don’t they recognize who he is? What he is? The chaos, he tells them, is only the first stage! He is Magneto!
Egging on the sentiment, Jean repeats the name of Magneto inquisitively, pointing out that he doesn’t look anything like him. How can he be Magneto when Magneto is dead? Now addressing the crowd, Jean asks if this is the Magneto anyone knows. Is this what he looks like?
His thoughts as fluid as a cascading waterfall, Magneto stammers, nearly incoherently, announcing that he is suffocating. Magnetically, he levitates the Xorn mask from his head, freeing his face to the air. Now unmasked and thinking more clearly, he calls out of the crowd of followers, telling them to see. He… is … Magneto!
And the worst thing he ever did, a voice announces, was to come back. Turning to the voice, Magneto sees the rest of the X-Men, with Fantomex and the remaining Brotherhood. Continuing, Xavier tells Magneto that he had become a legend in death, an inspiration for change. Now look at him… just another foolish and self-important old man, with outdated thoughts in his head. He has nothing this new generation of mutants wants… except for his face on a T-shirt.
They have ideas of their own now, Xavier continues. Perhaps it’s time they put away the old dreams, the old manifestos… and just listened for a while. His way, Xavier tells Magneto, will never work. This can’t go on. He’s had enough. He thinks they’ve all had enough. Hearing these words, Magneto once again collapses.
Tenderly, Jean kneels next to their fallen foe, who seems to babble about having had enough. However, as she approaches, Magneto’s hand grasps her arm. Reeling in pain, Jean asks in horror what he has just done. Grinning, Magneto returns to his feet, his last task accomplished. It was a lethal electromagnetic pulse, he tells her. She’s having a planetary-scale stroke. All that power he stored, he continues, had to go somewhere. Placing the Xorn helmet upon his head once again, Magneto announces that he will not be judged. Give him death. Make him immortal.
In one swift stroke, accompanied by a roar generated by pain, anguish and sorrow, Wolverine severs the head of Magneto, which bounces on the ground several times before coming to a rest.
Rushing to his wife’s side, Cyclops call out to Jean to hold on. Wracked with pain, Jean cannot even hold herself up but managed to tell her husband no… no… Nearby, the three Stepford Cuckoos watch the demise of Jean and tells everyone in unison to look; something’s wrong with the whole universe now. Cyclops, however, is unable to regard anything but his wife and the life that is leaving her. But a short distance away, Beast tries his best to subdue Wolverine, telling the rest of the group that he’ gone feral.
Cradling his wife, Cyclops tells her that he’s so sorry about everything. He never meant to hurt her. Replying in an otherworldly voice, Jean states that the Phoenix understands. This is followed by Jean’s regular, fading voice, which informs her husband that she hasn’t seen him so alive for a long time. Scott… her best friend… she has to go now… In her final breath, Jean tells her husband to live. All she ever did was die on him.
As Cyclops voice gets louder and louder in their attempt to call out to his wife, the words he speaks fades further and further away into the white light of the beyond, until there is only light left.
(150 years later)A small spacecraft, constructed from the remains of a terrestrial automobile, skims over the barren wasteland that is the lunar surface. The wasteland, however, is soon left behind, as the vehicle enters the ancient city that is known as the Blue Area of the Moon.
Exiting the vehicle in a space suit, one of the craft’s two passengers makes his way to a crevice. The other passenger calls out to the explorer, reminding him that Corona said she saw it; but does he think it’s true? Aye, the first replies, seeing the object in question. In the bottom of the crevice, surrounded by graffiti on the ancient walls, is a glowing oval orb. “God help us all,” he states, eyeing the horrible prize, “I think we found the Phoenix Egg.”


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Here Comes Tomorrow - part 1
(150 years from now, in the here and now)At breakneck speed, a lone figure makes his way over and through the crags of the rocky shore. As he hastily makes his way over the desolate terrain, he smells the telltale scent of sulfur, telling himself he should have known. Crawlers.
There could be ten of them, he muses, then thinking there might be only one. Hard to tell with the way they jump all around. Behind the fleeing man, nearing ever closer with each appearance, are two clouds of brimstone-like smoke. As the man speaks into his helmet’s microphone, calling for Rover to get down there, two more plumes of dark purple smoke explode into existence, through which two blue-furred, elf-like demons appear, both of whom favor in appearance the X-Men of a century and a half ago called Nightcrawler.
One of the two Crawlers gives a playful Boo to his prey. From behind the man, who has just entered the remains of an ancient building, comes another Crawler, who drops down from the ceiling with another boo. Taking stock of his situation, the man notes that there are five Crawlers. Outnumbered five-to-one, the man is weaponless and protected only by his helmet and X-Man jacket. Speaking to these generally silent creatures, the man tells them that he supposes that they’re all thinking, “Let’s just pick on the poor little human out on his own,” aren’t they? Well, he informs them, they haven’t met his big mate then – have they?
Looking up at the massive hole in the building’s roof, the man looks at his “mate,” Rover, and instructs him to introduce himself. When the five Crawler look up, they see the silhouette of a gigantic Sentinel, horrendously damaged but very much functioning and following the instructions of the human. Obeying its master, Rover introduces itself with a single word: Destroy. The five Crawlers stand motionless as Rover lifts its hand, repeating its single-word vocabulary, and displays the glowing energy weapon in its palm. They are likewise motionless as Rover fires his weapon, incinerating the flesh off the skeletons of the Crawlers where they stand.
Speaking to Rover, the human muses that the Crawlers probably figured out who he was… but he didn’t catch any of their names; Wankers. As Rover flies down into the building at the human’s side, the man looks over the remains of four Crawlers, telling himself he could have sworn that there were five. Changing the subject, the human tells the Sentinel that this is bollox. They can’t stay out there one minute longer; the Beast knows the place like the back of his hand. Rover remains silent as it looks down at its master, who thoughtfully surveys the ruins of the mansion that was once known as Xavier’s Institute for Higher Learning.
An electronic voice breaks the man’s thoughts, as it apologizes for being late. Looking to the source of the voice, a slightly luminescent, floating silver ball, the man mocks that it is sorry. Five minutes ago he could have done with some help! To this, the floating ball explains that it ran into Apollyon the Destroyer. Otherwise it would have made the rendezvous on time. Suddenly, the ball begins to change shape, growing arms and legs from its mass until it has formed a humanoid body. As it transforms, it explains that the servants of the Beast get closer all the time. It’s transformation now finished, the now female silver humanoid welcomes the human to Megamerica and introduces itself as E.V.A. She’s from the Institute.
E.V.A. surmises to the man that he must be Tom Skylark. In reply, Tom states that he doesn’t use his own name, mostly. The pair of them work as a team – “Rover and I.” He’s good with machines, if he may say so. Surveying the giant Sentinel, which has clearly seen much time and action since its creation, E.V.A. notes that it seems to be a first generation Sentinel… one of her remote ancestors. Such a strong machine. She is a Generation N unit from The World, she continues. As an external artificial nervous system, she was bonded to the man Fantomex once, but… that was… long ago. Before what happened to him… Now, she continues, she is all alone.
Saying he is sorry to hear that, Tom tells E.V.A. that Rover may be an antique but they built their killer robots to last in the old days. Now calling out to Rover, Tom tells his Sentinel to say hello to E.V.A. Obeying its master, Rover lets out a bellowing Destroy. Introductions made, Tom lowers his helmet’s visor, which looks very much like an homage to Cyclops’, and tells E.V.A. that Rover’s vocabulary’s not much to write home about but he means well. And, he continues, he’s saved his life more times than he can add up.
E.V.A. ignores Tom’s attempt at humor and stares transfixed at an object strapped to the back of Rover. It is a slightly luminous, giant egg. Speaking of it, E.V.A. tells Tom that the energy signature is so symmetrical… so profound… Is it really… Fearing that she will never finish her sentence, Tom breaks in, asking her what she thinks. The Proud People, he informs her, found it on the moon. If it wasn’t real, does she think the Beast’d be so eager to get ahold of it? They’ve been chased the whole bloody way across the Atlantic!
As he speaks, Tom strides easily into the open arms of Rover, which gently scoops him up. Nearby, E.V.A. begins her fluid-like transformation into a sphere, this time with a circular plane, which circumnavigates her equator. Now floating, E.V.A. informs Tom that after two more miles of irradiated ocean, they’ll reach the edge of the Manhattan crater. Hearing this, Tom tell Rover that there are two more miles of salt in its joints – what does he think of that? Answering his master as he rockets into the sky, Rover replies with an emotionless destroy.
In the center of the island that was once the city of Manhattan is a gigantic crater, filled with water. Outside the peaks that line the crater are the ruins of the once mighty city. Many landmarks dot the remains of the one-time metropolis, several of which did not originate there. Among the desolation rises the Eiffel Tower, London’s tower clock of Big Ben, the leaning tower of Pisa and the Taj Mahal. Now striding among the relics are newcomers Tom Skylark and Rover, guided by E.V.A.
Speaking of the city, E.V.A. informs Tom that they are walking through the Institute. They are trying to preserve the achievements of the past before they’re all used up as fuel or compost in the race to dominate the biosphere. They figured an interspecies group of X-Men might be the only way forward in a conflict like this one. The Xavier Creed, she tells them, has always stressed integrations. Never mind integration, Tom rejoins, the Proud People all died because of that bloody egg. He wants payback. If her X-Men think they can take down the Beast, then she can sign them up.
(Transatlantis)On a craggy peak, which rises from the sea like a constructed tower, sits a darkened fortress, from which smokestacks filled with orange plume rise. From within this malevolent structure a cold voice declares that God has abandoned his failed experiment, the Earth. Now is the time of blasphemous creation. Where men once walked, new monstrosities thrive… his ruined cities, their breeding grounds.
The source of the voice, bulky in form and draped with a purple cape, treads softly through the menagerie that is his laboratory. In giant, slanted vats grow more Crawlers, almost ready to be “hatched.” Almost in sermon to these still lifeless creatures, the figure preaches that Mankind nears final extinction. The mutants are but one of many species fighting for survival in this new world. All, great and small, rich and poor, will fall to his dominion and receive their maker’s mark. His mark.
His gray-furred claws dancing over a keyboard, the figure activates a sequence for the tubed Crawlers. As the liquid within begins to bubble with activity and life in all the vats, the figure, bearing an animal-like snout and fangs for teeth, announces to the Crawler that he will code such traits into it. He will give it wings and eyes that burn and voices which can shatter stone and bone and flesh. His pronouncement made, the figure steps into the light, displaying his regal attire which contrasts to his animalist features which earned him the name as the Beast so long ago. Snarling at his armies as they are being born, the Beast orders them to open their eyes and to prepare to die in the Apocalypse.
Back at the Institute, E.V.A. takes Tom and Rover through a populated area. As the Institute’s populace marvel at the sight of a Sentinel walking through their midst, Tom views the giant stone statue of Charles Xavier, whose attire and book he is holding help to portray his image and memory of his occupation as a teacher.
The attacks, E.V.A. tells Tom, come more frequently now… the Beast is pumping Crawler chimerae out of his bio-foundries as fast as he can dream them up. And he has the entire stolen mutant genebase to code and splice from. Great, remarks Tom. And the good news it? In answer to his own question, Tom states that the Beast can’t find them there. They have security shields. He saw them opening them to let them in.
Barely a moment goes by before Tom’s words are made folly. From its hiding place within the chest cavity of Rover, a single Crawler teleports with a gaseous explosion. Trying to compute the meaning of what just happened, the confused Rover can only offer an inquisitive destroy?
Moving into immediate action, E.V.A. begins to transform both arms into mini-canons, informing those gathered that a Crawler hitched a ride. As new Crawlers appear, all from small cloud of brimstone smoke, Tom states aloud that he thought they couldn’t teleport through the shield. Replying negatively, E.V.A. rejoins that there was only… but it’s duplicating itself. Pausing a moment to scan the Crawlers’ DNA, E.V.A. announces that she detects “Cyclops” traits and “Multiple Man” codes. Within minutes, she proclaims, there could be hundreds.
Hearing this, Tom speaks into his watch, ordering Rover to protect. As one of the Crawlers orders in German to fire, Rover moves swiftly, as ordered. Lowering its massive hands, it shields Tom in a cupping motion, which easily absorbs the optic blasts of the Crawlers. For the briefest of moments, the Crawlers begin to close in but Rover soon acts. Moving with lightening speed, it pulls its hands apart, swatting swaths of surprised Crawlers, as it emotionlessly says destroy.
Nearby, E.V.A. uses her arm-canons to dispatch the surrounding Crawlers. Still evaluating the situation, she informs Tom that each new duplicate increases its teleportation capacity. The meaning of this: Don’t let them near the egg! Continuing her onslaught, E.V.A. decides to call for help, declaring X-Men, emergency. In response, the Beak flies overhead, baseball bat in hand, shouting an emphatic Woo Hooo!
Robust and muscular in physique, the Beak uses his powerful, winged arms to fly over the Crawlers, striking their skulls with the bat and clawing at their faces with his talons. His stoic, bird-like face belies the humor within, as he uses his arms to break a Crawler’s head, telling it to charm on.
Nearby, the battle has taken its toll on Rover, as several Crawlers continue to cling to its head, tearing it apart from the inside. Stuttering an electronic destroy, Rover’s voice fails and it collapses to the ground, taking the clinging Crawlers with it. Their target felled, the Crawlers jump the egg, still strapped to the Sentinel’s back, and begin to remove its trappings, shouting in German the whole time. Too late do E.V.A., Beak and Tom notice what the Crawler’s are doing. Once finished, the half-dozen disappear in a cloud of purple smoke, taking the Phoenix Egg with them.
Sometime later, back in the Beast’s fortress in Transatlantica, the host of Crawlers swarm about the egg, asking their master, ist gut? and are clever, ja?. Coldly, the Beast approaches his prize, telling his minions that they are all that he made them to be. Now eyeing the egg itself, he declares that it is greater than gold. More deadly than bombs. His Phoenix egg. His sweet Jean.
In a transplanted cathedral in the Institute, three unified voices call to one three address as wayfarer, telling him that his arrival may have come too late. Their last hope was taken from them, they continue. That immense power, that dread potential, now lies in the hands of the Beast.
Almost in explanation to their existence, the three remaining sisters of the Stepford Cuckoos emerge from the Cerebra chamber, announcing that they are the Three-In-One. In their dreams they have seen the Dark Age. Seen all history set back a thousand years by ignorance and war. Seen, worse than all these, a terrible flaw at the heart of things. How did his happen so quickly?
Standing in the shadows and casually leaning against the doorway, the wayfarer replies that he guesses no one thought Rome could fall either. Those guys had a postal service that could deliver mail across 170 miles in one day. They had indoor plumbing, the women were free, they had art and science and a communications network that spanned the civilized world. Within a hundred years, it was all debris and lice. Sometimes, he says, you gotta take care of what you got. Any more joy to share?
Answering the question of the wayfarer, who man who was once known as Wolverine, an aged, bald woman speaks out, replying “not much.” She explains that she has spent the last three months in silence, observing bird and insect behavior, cloud patterns, tides… somewhere, somehow, something has gone fundamentally wrong. Regarding the old woman, Logan jokingly mocks her with the name of Bad News Cassie and tells her it’s nice to see her looking so perky… “Missus X.”
In response to this, one of the Three-In-One asks Logan for a little respect for their headmistress. She is Cassandra Nova Xavier. Respect, Cassandra repeats with a laugh. Their universe is broken. They have no idea where the break occurred… all they know is there’s no one left to put it right. Except for them…
(150 years earlier)In a desolate graveyard, a long man stands in silence as he stares at a gravestone through ruby-quartz glasses. The setting sun shines behind him, casting his shadow over the grave before which he stands. On the tombstone, the name of Jean Grey-Summers is engraved, below which the words she will rise again are etched.
From behind him, Scott hears a voice remember aloud that this will only be the third or so time he’s had to bury her. The words originate from Emma Frost, decked out in her costume, which reveals more flesh than fabric. Over this, however, she wears a fur coat and cap, to keep out the chill of the autumn air. It must be getting rather tedious, Scott dear, she mocks, returning to her joke - these reruns of his grief.
When Scott snaps back that it isn’t funny, Emma protests that it is, and he knows it. Replying no once more, he says aloud the name of Magneto, followed by Xorn… this last year, he says in exasperation. His eyes were opened, he tells her. Something about them, the X-Men, makes others want to kill them and nothing they do makes a difference. Difference to what? Emma counters. To people? For God’s sake, she asks Scott, who cares about them?
Switching subjects, Emma bluntly tells Scott that she wants to open the school. His eyes still cast down at the grave, Scott replies that it’s over. Even Professor X has retired, he tells her. The costumes, the heroics… done. As Scott begins to walk away, Emma calls out to him, telling him that she and he, together… think of what marvelous teachers they could be to a new generation of gifted bloody brats. They could inspire them to greatness!
Catching up to Scott, she asks him to imagine what they could do for one another. Doesn’t he want to inherit the Earth? After pausing for a moment, Scott continues his walk away, his face as grim as ever. Someone else can have it, he tells Emma. “No… I quit.”