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Superdestroyer
On a Shi'Ar Superdestroyer space ship, Cyclops and Xorn are held captive by the Imperial Superguardians. Both encased in restriction devices and held upside down, Xorn leans his head toward Cyclops and dryly asks if their situation is typical of life with the X-Men. Cyclops apologizes to Xorn, telling him that while he has no idea what hit them, they are currently on board a superdestroyer of the Shi'ar space empire. G-Type, the lead Guardsman on the deck, commands the two to silence. She then informs Cyclops and Xorn that she is to recite the Hymn of Purification prior to firing them into the Earth's atmosphere in a cremation ceremony.Cyclops attempts to reason with G-Type, but Cassandra Nova, still in Xavier's body and surrounded with psychic energy, dismisses Cyclops as being insane. Cassandra, as Xavier, tells the mind-numbed Lilandra that all has been lost. He tells her that they must save what they can of the Institute's mutant gene-base and start again with clones on another world. Through the protestations of Cyclops, Cassandra/Xavier tells the superguardians that he and Lilandra barely survived the monster, Cassandra, in 4-space. "She" wrecked their craft and fled to Earth. Now, she says, the Imperial Superguardians can cleanse the planet of mutants. Controlled by Cassandra's telepathy, Lilandra tells Imperial Sage Araki to order the inhection team to kill them all.Upon receiving authorization, Neosaurus leads four flying superguardians (Arc, Manta, Oracle, & Plutonia) over the Xavier Institute. Calling back the ship, he confirms the intelligence gathered by their primary scans. Oracle informs the group that there are telepathic sources all over the area; with a huge emission underground that she theorizes is Phoenix. Manta, using her ability to detect infrared heat sources, confirms the body count. Plutonia, after detecting an unusual alarm signal on the Imperial band, flies off to investigate.Still in communication with the superdestroyer in orbit, Neosaurus questions why a team of superguardians is needed to take down a group of mutants when one superguardian alone could sterilize a city. Neosaurus gently floats to the ground, still complaining. After landing, Neosaurus points out that he has the most magnificent artificial brain in the galaxy, and that for once he would like to be treated with the respect that he deserves. A moment later, Wolverine bursts forth from some foliage and expertly removes Neosaurus' magnificent artificial brain with a single swipe of his claws.Neosaurus' team, still nearby, have shackled Emma Frost and placed an inhibitor helmet on her head as they hear Neosaurus‘ death scream. One of the Stepford Cuckoos girls taunts the superguardians, telling them that the sound they heard is the noise Wolverine makes when he's chopping people into quivering lumps. Superguardian Stuff, back in his Kato guise, tells her to be quiet, and then informs the superdestroyer that he has seven mutants for sterilization. Another of the Stepford Cuckoos girls continues to chastise Esme, Kato's former girlfriend, for dating a "Prince Charming" that turned into an "ugly space frog". This statement draws the ire of Stuff, who tells the girls that he is glad that at least he is not stuck in one shape. Oracle, the supervisor of the prisoners, chastises Stuff for "morphism".This distraction of attention by Oracle's telepathy gives the Stepford Cuckoos their opportunity. One of the girls tells Oracle that she should have been careful of distractions. While she has only one mind, they have five minds in one. As they speak, Oracle is drawn into a cloudy world of fear that exists within her own mind. Angel presses the surprise by knocking out Stuff with a right cross. Unconscious, Stuff reverts to his green one-eyed balloon form and floats helplessly before the girls. One of the Cuckoos, already sensing Angel's plan, tells Angel that if she runs away these horrible space people will kill everyone. Afterwards, she adds, they will come after her as well. The Stepford Cuckoos girl, not hearing any protestations, presses her plea and asks Angel if she has any idea how to fight super heroes. Cross-armed and angry at her situation, Angel says that she does: Dirty.Through the halls of the Xavier Institute, Jean leads the dozens of invited reporters. Trying to concentrate on telepathically corralling the panicked media, Jean asks Beast to repeat what he has just said. Beast reiterates that they have been infected by Nano-Sentinels, which have been making them all more and more sick during the past few days. Jean tells Beast that if she looks hard and twisted enough, she can see how Cassandra planned the whole thing. Moments later, Jean, Beast and the group of reporters reach their destination: the vault. Jean opens the vault's massive door and explains to the reporters that they will be safe behind its ten feet thick walls. As a final thought, Jean places the students in charge of the people's safety and departs with Beast.As they walk away, Beast points out to Jean that the ten feet thick walls will matter little to the Superguardians, who can punch through mountains and fly through steel. Jean asks Beast what they should do, Beast suggests self-destructing Cerebra if Cassandra makes it to them. Beast's next thought is interrupted by the Superguardian Monstra, who discovers their presence. Beast acts swiftly by raking Monstra's face with his powerful claws, effectively blinding her. The Guardian calls out to Fader, an unseen ally for help. Fader, hiding in the ultraviolet, fires his spazzgun at Beast but misses. Beast laughs at Fader, explaining that his hearing is ten times better than human and that his smell is the envy of aesthetes the world over. While Fader may be invisible to one of his sense, Beast assures Fader that the others are all over him. With this, Beast knocks out the unseen superguardian who slowly fades into sight.Monstra, still blinded, calls Manta and Squorm for backup. Manta arrives first deftly avoiding Beast's claws as she flies over. Unfortunately, she is unable to avoid Jean, who manages to side kick her. After an elbow to the jaw and a wrist blow to the chin, Manta is down and out. By this time, Beast is under attack from a new Superguardian in bulbous armor, Squorm. Beast is able to tear apart Squorm's armor, effectively incapacitating him, but afterward falls to the electrical blasts of Arc, who has arrived with two more Superguardians. Through a window above, Wolverine bursts into the room. As he falls, Wolverine slashes Blimp, one of the two new Superguardians, with his claws. Blimp, who seemingly floats with an helium filled suit, starts venting his gas and begins to fly about the room uncontrollably.To the Superguardians' surprise, Wolverine does not continue to fall, but floats in the air. Monstra announces to her comrades that Wolverine is employing an imperial flight patch, which has made him into an airborne foe. As the Superguardian calls her warning, Wolverine attacks the other floating Superguardian, who has split into two people. Turning a liability into an asset, Wolverine merely knocks their heads together, knocking them out. On the ground below, Arc activates his wrist communicator and calls Gladiator for assistance. Meanwhile, Beast, who has recovered from Arc's blast, uses the formerly helium filled Blimp as a bludgeon against Monstra. Next, Beast uses Blimp as insulator, wrapping him around Arc.Beast has no time to revel in his victory as the wall begins to melt. Realizing his situation, Beast tells Wolverine that he believes that they are out of time. Through the hole he just created, Gladiator calmly strolls. He tells the X-Men that they have maimed Monstra and Blimp and have killed one of the exo-bodies of Neosaurus. This, he says, is proof of the sickness that Charles Xavier has described. Wolverine bears his claws at Gladiator and tells him to forget what Xavier has told him and think for himself. Gladiator ignores Wolverine's pleas. He tells the X-Man that he cannot help what the Cassandra Nova entity has done to him. Further, he tells Wolverine that as the infection is irreversible, he and his entire species must, unfortunately, be sterilized by imperial order.Within the sealed vault, one of the reporters asks Jean what the noise he hears is. Another reporter asks for verification that Jean told them that the door had ten feet of steel. Realizing that nonetheless someone was coming through, he asks Jean if there is anyone that they can call. A white starry hand bursts through the door and opens a large hole. Through the hole Gladiator and another Superguardian enter. Both Superguardians drop Wolverine and Beast, whom they have been carrying. Wolverine, beaten and bloody, looks up at Jean and dryly tells her that he tried to talk them out of it.Taking charge of the situation, Jean tries to reason with Gladiator. She tells the guardian that there is no psi-plague and that Charles Xavier's consciousness is trapped in the frail body behind her. Gladiator begins to counter Jean's argument, but is interrupted. He and everyone else turn to see Plutonia entering the room, carrying the half-dead Smasher. Plutonia tells Gladiator that she found Smasher, broken like glass and dying. Gladiator takes Smasher in his arms and listens to his weak words. Barely audible, Smasher tells Gladiator they have been betrayed. The monster lives within Xavier and has taken the mind of the Empress Lilandra. Jean nearly collapses in relief at their turn of fortune. Stoically, Gladiator looks upward and mutters that the empire has been polluted.One of the reporters helps Jean back to her feet. She tells Beast that she feels like she's dying and asks what Cassandra has dosed them with. Beast, feeling the effects as well, tells them all that the have been dosed with tiny Sentinel machines developed in the Ecuador Master Mold. As Wolverine helps him up, Beast continues. He explains that bacterial robots were hiding in the blood Cassandra showered them with. Looking at his own hand, Beast mutters that the miniaturized Sentinels are inside them, eating them away.Back on the Superdestroyer, Cyclops and Xorn are still held captive. They are held in the barrels of two cannons pointed toward the Earth. As G-Type continues the Hymn of Purification, Xorn tells Cyclops that he tires of these chains, this treatment and of restriction and death. In a moment of seeming revelation, Cyclops points out to Xorn that he possesses a star for a brain and that G-Type is composed of living solar plasma. Unaware of the information that Cyclops has given Xorn, G-Type finishes her hymn and solemnly ordains the extinction of the species Homo Superior. G-Types final statement is interrupted by her own gagging, and after a moment, she falls to the floor. The room's guards likewise find themselves on the floor unconscious, thanks to the swift action of the now freed Cyclops and Xorn. After Xorn asks Cyclops what their next move is, Cyclops simply replies that they are going to try to put things right.


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Losers
With vacant eyes and a slight drool, Empress Lilandra Neramani, ruler of the Shi’ar Imperium addresses her Empire. She tells them that if they love her, she commands them to die for her. On the view screen ahead and on holograms at her feet, Lilandra watches as her Imperial fleet fires at her cities, laying them to waste. Addressing one of the holograms of her fleet captains, she commands the Imperial Craft "Exceptional Paragon of Annihilation" to immolate itself for its Empress. To the rest she commands them to make war in her glorious name.Lilandra's rants are interrupted by Imperial Sage Araki. He tells his empress that she has brought doom on galactic civilization. On bended knee, he implores to Lilandra that the man at her side is not Charles Xavier, but his terrible opposite, his anti-self. A monster dressed in friendly flesh, he exclaims that this thing that has taken her soul is what their books call Mummudrai, an immensity of hate. As Sage Araki weeps, he is joined by G-Type who has arrived answering the call of Lilandra. G-Type informs Lilandra that contact has been lost with the Superguardian team on Earth and that the two captive X-Men have escaped. Coldly, Lilandra tells G-Type that they must destroy Sage Araki as he has, in a fit of madness, unleashed war and brought chaos to the empire. Wrapped in malevolence as much as Xavier's body, Cassandra tells G-Type that the mutant mind plague has infected the Sage and orders her to burn out the contagion.As G-Type clasps her hands around Araki's head she begins to cry in pain. Torn asunder herself she becomes putty in the energy controlling hands of Xorn. Bolting into action, Cyclops elbows a guard in the face, fires his optic blasts at others and informs the rest that they are facing "those pesky X-Men". Seeing the control room fall to the two X-Men, Cassandra informs Lilandra that she will not be needing her anymore. Saying her goodbyes Cassandra tells her Lilandra that she was hopeless in bed and throws her body over the railing to the deck below. Xorn, witnessing the toss, jumps from another deck and catches the empress. After twisting in the air, Xorn lands on his back, absorbing the brunt of the impact.Above, having dispatched the rest of the crew, Cyclops approaches Cassandra. In a mocking tone, Cassandra tells Cyclops that he is as tough as a roach. She tells him that she knows what goes on in his mind. His wife Jean, Cassandra continues, hates his weakness, timidity and restraint. Grim faced, Cassandra tells him that Jean wishes he could be more the hero behind closed doors. Opening his visor in rapid successions, Cyclops fires, trying to penetrate Cassandra's psychic aura. As he does so, Cyclops hears random thoughts of despair, trying to drain his spirit. Finished with his probing blasts, Cyclops tells Cassandra that she is nothing but a bodiless lifeform of pure emotional energy that needs the professor's nervous system to work through. With a sneer, Cassandra asks Cyclops if he really thinks that he's faced the worst. Surviving a broken heart and shattered soul has not made him strong, but has left only pathetic emotional debris. Turning her back to the X-Man, Cassandra calmly walks to the transit stream. As she does so, she tells Cyclops that he is broken and dead inside. He should face up to it and kill himself. Silent, Cyclops watches her walk into the transit stream.From the deck below, Xorn runs up the stairs carrying Lilandra. Steam billowing from the vents atop his helmet, Xorn tells Cyclops that he can hear the electromagnetic alarms of the superdestroyer machine. It is about to commit suicide. Staring into the transit stream, Cyclops tells Xorn that Cassandra has already walked through and is heading for the Institute. Almost babbling, he tells Xorn that he had a chance to stop her, but with her wearing the Professor's body, he couldn't. Pleading to his teammate, Xorn reminds Cyclops that the spacecraft is about to commit... His words are interrupted by the explosion that tears apart the superdestroyer.On her tenth attempt, Angel manages to fly straight enough with her insect wings to reach the Institute's second story window. As she crawls through the open window she is goaded on by the Stepford Cuckoo sisters who are watching through Angel's senses. Searching through Beast's office Angel tells the eavesdropping sisters that she is familiar with the room, as she once looked through the office for drugs. Incredulous, the sisters tell Angel that they can see through her and tell her they know that she has never taken a drug in her life. Back in the greenhouse where the girls are hiding, a sister admits that Angel has had sex, which is more than any of them could say. Another sister, still in contact with Angel, tells her to grab the jar that says "Cassandra Nova Sample". On a nearby bench, Emma Frost, her head encased in a smooth alien-tech confinement hood, sits with her hooded head in hand. Another sister, seeing this, instructs her sister to tell Angel that Miss Frost is becoming incredibly impatient.Back upstairs, Angel finds her way into the lab and hears a frightened voice. Following the voice, Angel finds a teenager with a birdlike face and a feathered body to match sitting in a holding tank half-filled with liquid. In the same quivering voice, the teen tells Angel that he is totally naked, self-conscious, crazy in the head, and also deserving pants as a basic human right. Contacting her telepathic friends, Angel tells them that she is setting the freak loose for the hell of it.Minutes later, Angel and a robed Beak arrive at the greenhouse. One of the Stepford sisters chastises Angel for finding no alien superheroes but the Beak instead. In retort, Beak replies that Angel told him that they had an army. Looking at the five of them, the Beak remarks that this is the only army who can all go to war in the same taxicab. One of the Stepford sisters replies that their number will increase if they can remove the helmet off of their teacher, Miss Frost. Pointing to the floating green alien (Stuff), Beak asks why don't they ask him how to remove the helmet. Another Stepford sister remarks that while Barnell Bohusk is an undeniable weirdo, he has had a very good idea. Using their unified mental powers, the Stepford Cuckoos reach into Stuff's mind. After a few moments, the helmet covering Emma Frost begins to melt away.After gasping a lungful of fresh air, Emma vows to never again use spearmint toothpaste again. Next she thanks the girls and asks where they were before all Hell broke loose. One of the sisters tells Emma that they have a plan. Holding up a vial, the sister tells her teacher that they had Angel steal this particular DNA sample from Dr. McCoy's laboratory. Running her hands through her nappy hair and grinning ear to ear, Emma tells her girls that she is immensely proud of them.In the bowels of the mansion, Jean struggles to remain conscious, her brow sweating profusely. Looking to her side, she asks Hank to continue what he was saying. Before Hank can speak, Wolverine butts in, telling Jean that they are up to their necks in it. Even though Cassandra ripped through them last time, he is spoiling for the fight. Standing among his Superguardians, Gladiator tells Wolverine that they stand by his side. This is his vow. As she begins to fall, Jean is caught by Wolverine. Taking her to sit down, Wolverine tells her that her temperature is way out of control. Putting her hand to her head, she tells him that she feels sick and that she can't concentrate. Hank reminds her of the Micro-Sentinels in their bodies. Hearing this, Gladiator approaches Jean. Using his micro-vision, he confirms the statement, reporting that there are ten billion active machines in her bloodstream dismantling white cell immune structures.Across the room, Beast tells the group that the Professor's vital signs are going. Fumbling with an injection gun, he theorizes that a Sentinel inoculation will enable his dormant healing factor. Reminding them that the Sentinel enriched liquid is what drove the U-Men technology, he postulates that Cassandra left it behind to bring her body back from the brink. As Beast reaches to inject Cassandra's body, Jean springs to life, yelling no. She tells Hank that it is what Cassandra wants him to do. She hurt him so that he would have to do something to prove himself. Beast reminds her that Charles' mind will die if they don't save the body. Speaking deliriously, Jean tells Beast that Cassandra knew that he would work on a solution. She was counting on him saving the body in time for her to return and retrieve it. However, she states, she can save Charles' mind. He will not die. Beast tells Jean that he has already watched her push herself to the limits of her telepathy. Jean replies that she has not been pumping her brains to fight Cassandra, but to make space. Beast and Wolverine argue further until they hear the commotion from above. While Beast mutters that they are out of time, Wolverine simply states that the bitch is back. As Wolverine lays Jean next to Cassandra's bed-ridden body, Beast ushers to civilians to safety.After leading the group to the Danger Room, several of the reporters express solidarity with Beast against Cassandra. One reporter even apologizes for calling Beast a monster earlier. Seeing someone else, Beast tells the man that he must have missed it and says that he's sure he didn't mean it. Walking up to the person he noticed, Beast says hello to Trish Tilby. He apologizes for not noticing her earlier. Trish tells Hank that she is so sorry for her overreactions and begins to gush. Not having much time, Beast tells Trish that while they had fun together, he is not currently interested in a relationship with a human being and adds that he thinks that he might in fact, be gay. As Trish stands open mouthed, Beast excuses himself as he must answer the intruder alert that has just sounded.Gladiator, Manta, Smasher, Plutonia and another Superguardian walk out the front door onto the front lawn. Ordering their mind-armor on, Gladiator reminds his Superguardians that without the empress to command them, hope is their only weapon. Helping Smasher stand on his feet, Plutonia begs her darling not to push himself. Marshalling his strength, Smasher tells his teammates that they will need him, as they do not know what she can do. Silencing Smasher, Gladiator says that after she almost tricked them into exterminating the mutant species, he does not need to know any more of what Cassandra Nova can do. He only has to stop her.In the Cerebra room, Jean dons the helmet linking herself to the Cerebra machine. As she reaches out with her powers, Jean tells Xavier that the body can't contain him anymore. It is too sick. She tells him to die. It is all right. She will catch him. Staring into the luminescence of Jean's telepathy, Beast tells Jean that Cassandra is right outside. Taking off the Cerebra helmet, Jean addresses Beast as Henry and tells him that she knows. As blood seeps from her eyes, Jean tells Beast that she isn't sure if she can hold him. Then staring far off she tells Beast that she can see Cassandra and knows that she has come to kill them all.On the Institute's front lawn, clad in Xavier's body and bathed in psychic energy, Cassandra holds Gladiator helpless as the rest of the Superguardians writhe in agony. Speaking to Xavier in Jean's mind far below, Cassandra tells him hello and that it will be his turn next.


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Cyclops and Xorn, carrying the unconscious forms of Lilandra and her advisor Araki, run through the Shi'ar Superdestroyer starship, which is exploding around them. Following his friend and ally, Cyclops, Xorn asks him if he has no doubt that they can survive this. Stiff faced as always, Cyclops tells him none at all. Further, Cyclops informs Xorn that he is carrying the single most important woman in the galaxy and that Xorn is carrying her guru, Araki. As a side note Cyclops tells Xorn that Araki gives very good advice and he would probably enjoy talking to him. Entering a larger chamber, the two X-Men see the Ship's transit streams. Cyclops tells Xorn that the streams are thought guided so he must think about the Xavier Institute. Still carrying their unconscious charges, the two jump into the transit stream and disappear.From the grounds of the Xavier Institute, Cassandra Nova, clad in the body of Charles Xavier points to the exploding starship in Earth orbit. Asking if they can see it, Cassandra tells the Superguardians that it represents the end of galactic civilization. Grasping a helpless Gladiator with her psychic grip, Cassandra tells him that the system he served is now in ruin and its figurehead is insane. Declaring the most powerful of the Superguardians a failure, Cassandra tosses him aside and calmly walks toward the mansion.From the hedges next to the greenhouse, Angel and the Beak watch Cassandra. After declaring the events spooky and sick, Angel asks who the "Baldie" is. Beak continues trying to tell Angel that the headmaster is a good guy. An evil old woman is using his brain and will kill her [Angel] for laughs. Putting everything together, Angel realizes that she is the woman responsible for the millions killed in Genosha. Next, taking a stab at pessimistic prophecy she tells Beak that the "space psycho" is going to hand it to them on an ass-shaped plate and eat their brains. Using morbid humor of his own, Beak tells Angel that Cassandra would throw up if she ate his and would cut her own throat if she had to be him for more than five minutes. Nearby, Stuff pleads to Emma Frost not to hurt him. Cross-armed, Emma instructs her wards, the Stepford Cuckoos, to do as she taught: swing him merrily from a psychic gibbet and braid his thoughts until they ooze. Sensing that Stuff's morphic record and copy functions are online, Emma holds out one hand and asks the girls for the tissue sample they have acquired.In the bowels of the mansion, Beast looks into Jean's blood-tear filled eyes and asks if it is her in there. Jean tells Beast that she is fine and has stored the professor's entire consciousness in her own memory. Suddenly speaking with Xavier's personality, Jean addresses Beast as Henry and is surprised that he has changed again. Beast suggests that they check Jean's blood pressure but is rebuffed by the Xavier's controlled Jean. Xavier tells Beast that Cassandra is here and they must deal with her once and for all. Jean strides confidently through the Institute halls toward the Cerebra chamber and passes the Institute's students. One student, Frida, addresses Mrs. Grey-Summers and asks if Cassandra is going to kill them all like the people in Genosha. Dismissing the fears of the student, Jean tells her that she will not. When another student asks if they are going to kill Cassandra, Jean tells her that they will have to think about that. Turning her attention to the Beast, Jean tells him that it seems the obvious solution, but it goes against everything that they have ever believed. There has to be a better way.On the ground level above them, the immense front doors of the mansion implode, throwing Wolverine to the ground. Wracked with pain, Jean clutches her head in agony and screams that Logan is down. Gradually losing coherence, Jean tells Beast that she is losing Charles. Babbling, she says that she can't remember the smell of soap at his grandmother's house, or how good it felt to overcome the monster Onslaught. The twelfth birthday party is gone, along with a nice day with Moira. Cradling the helpless Jean, Beast yells to the students to get to safety and asks if he has to start roaring at them like some Leonine Martinet. Resolute, the students tell Beast that none of them are going to hide with the humans in the Danger Room. Cassandra killed their people and now wants to kill them. Deciding they no longer want to run, they tell Beast that he can't stop them from defending themselves. It is the way their teachers taught them. Jean pleads with Beast to not let them go. Almost inaudibly, Beast asks somebody, please, to help them.Two forms of pure white light fill the hallway blinding everyone. When the light subsides, Xorn and Cyclops, carrying Lilandra and Araki, stand before the group. Cyclops quickly hands Lilandra to someone else and asks Beast if Cassandra has arrived yet. Jean stretches out her hand and tells her husband that he is her favorite super hero, to which Cyclops replies that he loves her too. After picking up his wife, Cyclops asks Beast to bring him up to speed. What is wrong with Jean and what is wrong with him? Beast informs Cyclops that they were infected by microscopic Sentinel machines from the Ecuador Master Mold, which are resistant to every antibiotic he has tried. Beast tells him that Cassandra has made them sick to weaken them and it is a miracle that they are still alive. Pointing to Jean, Beast tells him that she has Septicaemia and could go into toxic shock and die.Unwavering, Cyclops tells Beast that he doesn't believe that and neither should he. Entering the Cerebra chamber where Cassandra's body lay, they find Xorn at Cassandra’s body. Probing Cassandra's body with him powers, Xorn informs Cyclops that she is dead. Cyclops begins to grow enraged, reminding Xorn that he told him that he could bring the professor back. Turning to the collapsed form of Jean whom Cyclops has lay in a chair, Xorn tells Cyclops that his task is now clear; he is there to heal her. Xorn places his hands on the sides of Jean's head, which begins to glow with blue energy. After the energy subsides, Xorn tells her that the Sentinels in her blood stream are all dead. After Cyclops tells Jean that they are going to be all right, Xorn tells Cyclops that he is next, and then Beast. The strongest first, while there is still time.As Xorn heals Cyclops, Beast looks at Cassandra's corpse and wonders aloud what she is and what they are dealing with. Healed by the touch of Xorn, Cyclops admits that he feels better. Sometimes one just doesn't know how bad they feel until the feeling's gone. Beast informs Cyclops that he was dying of blood poisoning. In answer to Beast previous musing, a rejuvenated Jean tells him that Cassandra is what the Shi'ar legends call Mummudrai which is a type of Yin to a Yang. Legend, she continues, is that each of us faces their own personal Mummudrai in the womb shortly before birth. It is our first experience of the alien, the other... the different. She asks him imagine a bodiless parasite species, born without flesh or real substance. Cassandra, she explains, is Charles Xavier's Mummudrai. She copied his cells to build a body and accessed the full spectrum of latent mutant functions in his genome.As Xorn heals Beast, Jean, speaking with Xavier's personality, tells them that he felt Cassandra monstrous thoughts and her raging hunger, vast enough to consume the world. Lashing out in their mother's womb, his first conscious act was a murder attempt. Though born dead, the Mummudrai survived as chaotic cellular matter. After forty years, he explains, of clinging to a sewer she was strong enough to walk free. Xavier tells them that it was his original sin. His flaw. His failure. Putting the Cerebra helmet on Jean's head he tells them that Cassandra wants to reach Cerebra. Through Cerebra he/she explains, Cassandra can control the minds of the entire mutant race and wipe them all out at once. Sensing Xavier's plan, Cyclops tells Xorn and Beast to remember that Cassandra is in the professor's body. Confuse and disorient her, but do not hurt her.In the foyer of the mansion, Cassandra confronts the recovering Wolverine. Towering above the X-Man, Cassandra offers him a deal; if he takes her to Charles, then she will let him survive as a soldier-drone. She tells him that it is her best offer... and then address him as James. Unflinching, Wolverine tells Cassandra that her telepathy will not work on him when he can switch to pure instinct. Beast arrives to provide Wolverine with help, but the two are attacked by the Institutes students, under the control of Cassandra. Watching the two defend themselves against their students, Cassandra tells the two X-Men that she will humiliate and annihilate them all. Suddenly the room fills with blue light, and from behind his metal mask Xorn tells Cassandra that he will not let her hurt or humiliate anyone. Throwing himself through her psychic aura, Xorn grabs the body of Xavier and proclaims that he can heal her. With Cassandra distracted, Beast, with a syringe in each hand, jumps onto Cassandra and injects her with their contents. Seemingly unfazed, Cassandra repels Beast and throws Xorn to the ground. Ignoring Wolverine and the students, she leaves them and heads to the bowels of the Institute. Quickly, Beast realizes that the students have been freed from Cassandra's mind control. As if in answer to the unasked question, the Stepford Cuckoos stand in the doorway telling the students to stop it.In the Cerebra chamber, Cyclops tells Jean that Cassandra is coming and implores her to self-destruct Cerebra. Jean disagrees, telling him that it is their last chance. The consciousness of Xavier, she tells him, is too strong for one mind to contain, but maybe she can use Cerebra to split him... and hope that he survives the ordeal. As she voices her plan, mutants around the world look into the sky and sense something. Taking the helmet off, Jean tells Cyclops that she thinks that it worked. Even her memories of what she has done with Xavier are gone. Her words do not even register with Cyclops, however, as he collapses under the power of the just arrived Cassandra. Moving toward Jean, Cassandra orders Jean to give her Charles... and her body. Defiantly, Jean tells Cassandra that she thought she would be scared of her, but is not. Angrily, Cassandra slaps aside Jean with her psychic aura's "hand" and enters the Cerebra chamber.Placing the Cerebra helmet on her/Charles' head, Cassandra tells Jean that she will use Cerebra to amplify her thoughts tenfold and directly access the minds of every mutant on the planet. She will then turn them against on another. However, as she touches all of the minds Cassandra senses one mind in particular: that of Charles Xavier. Still recovering >from Cassandra's blow, Jean tells her that she just remembered what she forgot; that she broke Xavier's consciousness into pieces and stored a little part of him in every single living mutant mind. These minds were just waiting for Cassandra to connect them all back up. In the Cerebra chamber, Cassandra begins to howl in pain, feeling like white-hot claws are tearing through her head. Through the pain, Cassandra hears the voice of Jean, or more correctly, Phoenix. A fiery Phoenix raptor surrounds both Jean herself and the entire Institute.Now expelled from the body of Charles Xavier, Cassandra stands as a being of pure psychic energy, bodiless and blind. Telepathically, Jean tells Cassandra that she is not welcome in their Xavier's body or in this world. Not while she is there to protect it. Xavier, now returned to his own body, lifts the Cerebra helmet off of his head. Yelling to Phoenix, he tells her that he is back and the Mummudrai is loose. With gritted teeth, he tells her they have to strike while she's helpless.Staggering aimlessly in her psychic body, Cassandra's speech begins to degrade. Through her nearly incoherent muttering, she begs for a body. In answer, Emma Frost arrives from the corridor. Clad in her protective diamond form, Emma holds the limp form of Cassandra's old body. Addressing Cassandra, Emma tells her that she has her body and is willing to trade for it. Before offering the deal, Emma tells Cassandra to check the body's DNA to be assured that it is a living breathing, real deal. While she does so, Emma tells Cassandra that she knows that she can't stop something like her, but surely they can still bargain. With a dry, tight smile Emma tells Cassandra that if she lets her and her girls live, the body is all hers.Horrified, Beast yells to Emma that if Cassandra gets back into her own skin, she's practically invulnerable. Holding the massive Beast back with his arm, Wolverine tells him to just hold it. Nearby, Emma approaches Cassandra's psychic form and tells her that she had better do it before she changes her mind. In broken speech Cassandra says that she understands Emma's need to live. Her mind is all shiny, a reflection like prism. Still aghast, Beast says to Cyclops that Emma has just betrayed them to a genocidal maniac. Once a villain, always a villain. As a dry afterthought, he asks if someone will please act worried. In response, Cyclops tells Beast to calm down and think about the situation.Accepting Emma's deal, Cassandra's psychic form engulfs her old body. Her assimilation complete, Cassandra's flesh-body opens its glowing eyes. Instead of springing to life, however, Cassandra gurgles. After a moment, Cassandra manages to address Emma, who holds her body. In a semi-mechanical voice Cassandra asks Emma what she has done. Dryly, Emma tells Cassandra that she has reduced her to the status of a pocket calculator and suggests that she consider it her just desserts. Still in Emma's arms, Cassandra's physical body begins to lose its form. Turning briefly amorphous, Cassandra's body eventually settles to that of the Superguardian Stuff.(inside Cassandra's mind)Cassandra peeks through her fingers, which have been covering her face. Now wearing the old female body she wore for so long, she sits in a classroom filled with orange chairs and desks. In the desk behind Cassandra, who is sitting in the front row, is the monstrous psychic form she manifested while inhabiting Xavier's body, which now struggles with a pencil and paper. Still taking stock of her surroundings, Cassandra asks Xavier, who is sitting behind the teacher's desk in the front, what she is doing. Xavier dryly replies that Cassandra must be new here. Still trying to sort everything out, Cassandra asks what she is... and how come she no think good? Jean, who was sitting next to the door, rises and addresses the pupil. She tells her that it is okay. This is a school and she is here to learn. Turning to the blackboard Jean begins to draw a large "X". Meanwhile, Xavier picks up the apple on his desk and tells his pupil that they will be starting from the beginning. "A is for atom", he begins.(in reality)Emma continues to carry Cassandra's Stuff body, which mutters "B is for bomb". Emma informs the group that Cassandra is trapped in a synthetic brain, programmed to learn. She tells them that they all have her girls to thank for the eleventh hour plot twist. The children, she says, were a revelation. Taken aback at the plan, Beast apologizes for his "once a villain" statement. Finally having a moment to themselves, Cyclops asks Jean if she is okay.From within the Cerebra chamber the X-Men realize that in body and soul, Xavier has returned to them. Addressing his X-Men, Xavier asks God to bless them all and then tells them that he feels like a very, very long lie-down. As Xavier begins to move in his seat, Beast tells to not try to get up as he has his chair. Stepping out of the Cerebra chamber under the power of his own legs, Xavier thanks him, but says that it seems that he won't be needing his wheelchair any more.


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Of Living and Dying
Tenderly, Xorn cradles the neck of a dead police horse as it lies in it's own blood on the street. The blood from the horse trickles from the street to the nearby sidewalk, which is covered by trash and other refuse. As he runs his hand along the horse's neck, Xorn thinks to himself that if he could save every life, he would do it.
Having taken his moment to mourn the innocent animal, Xorn jumps to his feet and runs back into the out of control, rioting mob. Caught in the middle of the rioters, Cyclops attempts to avoid swings and punches. Yelling to his teammates, he tells everybody to get down. With his teammates warned, Cyclops unleashes three optic blasts knocking down rioters and separating others. Despite this show of power, the rioters continue their rampage. Suddenly, they grow quiet and look to the sound of the voice of a red-haired woman. The woman, Phoenix, tells the crowd that they are the X-Men. Haloed by an aura of light around her head, Phoenix tells everyone that they are all thinking nice, calm thoughts now, okay ?
Some distance away, a rioter asks her how they are supposed to be calm when there's a monster on the loose. A mutant monster seven feet tall ! Answering the man, Phoenix tells him that nobody here is a monster. Holding up the severed leg of a dog, a boy tells her to tell that to Snuffy. Another man yells that it came from Mutant Town and that those people don't belong anywhere near normal folks. As the rioters move in with broken bottles and "Nuke Em All" signs, Phoenix erects a telekinetic shield to protect herself, Cyclops and Xorn. Seeing this, the mob begins to throw debris and trash, which harmlessly ricochets off. Various rioters yell that they are all monsters and all support one another. Another calls them cannibals. Seeing their situation only escalating, Cyclops tells Jean to close 'em down. Xorn, looking into the hate filled eyes of the mob, tells his new teammates that they only want to stop them from hurting one another and asks them why are they so angry?
Later in the Cerebra room of the Xavier Institute, Xorn stands cross-armed while Xavier works. Recalling the word Monster that the crowd used, Xorn tells Xavier that he too was called a monster by his jailers. On one knee and examining the inner workings of his machine, Xavier reminds Xorn that he healed his spine, giving him one more reason to be rather fond of monsters like him. Asking his healer to think of it a new way, Xavier tells Xorn that humankind, with no special gifts other than its intellectual skill, survived for many thousands of years in a very dangerous world. One of the ways they survived, he continues, was by forming themselves into groups or tribes, gathering around flags and books and laws. A shared ideal, he says, is one of the best ways to hold a tribe together in the face of chaos. But now, the tribes are all sharing the same tent, and we can be guilty sometimes of mistaking our ideas for things. Rising to his feet, Xavier says that sometimes the idea of a monster is more real than the monster itself. The job of the X-Men, Xavier says he sees it, is to help build bridges between human and mutant thinking.
Xavier rises and begins walking, with his cane, across the room. Following him, Xorn tells Xavier that it is his gift. That he likes to mend broken things. Motioning his head to some nearby tubing, Xavier asks Xorn if he wouldn't mind carrying it, as he is still not used to his legs. Returning to their conversation, Xavier tells Xorn that Scott and Jean spoke very highly of his skill and sensitivity during the riot assignment downtown. Picking up the tubing, Xorn tells the professor that he doesn't know what he is. Continuing, he says that he was once a boy in China who then became a mutant sun inside an iron mask. He knows color and wavelengths, he feels the movement of energy and emotion on many scales, and speaks by shaking the particles in the air with his gravitational senses. Looking back at the professor, Xorn tells him that he could look into his finding machine and see if there really is a monster lost and afraid in Mutant Town. No one, he says, should suffer in chains like he did.
As he tries to connect the tubing that Xorn carried into a machine, Xavier replies that he'd certainly be willing to try as soon as he's finished. One of the students, he says, suggested an upgrade to the Cerebra system's X-gene detection functions, which would allow him to telepathically remote-control mutants out of dangerous or threatening situations. Continuing his work, Xavier says that when the trials are over he will have a look for the "monster". Until then, Xavier suggests to Xorn, he should conduct a search in the purely physical realm and get to know something of the city and its people. Holding his Cerebra helmet in his hands, Xavier tells Xorn that when he thinks of what he suffered at the hands of those frightened, cruel men, he is very glad that he didn't give into despair. And he's glad that he chose to join them there at the Institute.
Hooking up the other end of the tubing to a machine, Xorn admits that he sometimes misses the certainty of his iron prison. While there, he sat motionless in deep meditation and he now walks in the great turmoil of the world and tries to learn. Turning to the professor, he asks when he looks into his mind, what does he see? Now in the Cerebra chamber, Xavier dons the Cerebra helmet, covering most of his head. Even with his eyes covered, Xavier looks onward and answers. He sees orchards in China, a star falling across the sky, a radiant star of pure thought.
In Manhattan's Chinatown, Xorn travels the subway, walks through the streets and shops in a grocery store. Meeting the people, Xorn talks to them and learns. One old man he meets knows the roads of Urumqi below the lake of heaven in the Xianjiang Uygur autonomous region. From him, Xorn learned the tools he needs to set down his thoughts in the form of symbols. Meeting another man, Xorn looks over his shoulder and sees his grandfather and his own uncle meeting on a dusty road near the One Thousand Buddha caves. He tells Xorn that he is proud that someone from Xianjiang Uygur has done so well for himself on television and calls Xorn a man of peace. Walking away from the man's store, Xorn is pummeled by soda cans from people and thinks that he would like to live up to the man's words.
As he walks through the streets of Mutant Town, Xorn sees dozens of mutants openly displaying their mutant abilities. One man casually walks around aflame, while two winged mutants soar scores of feet above the street level. As he watches one of the mutants fly, two police officers stand a few feet behind him. Talking to his fellow officer Dan, one officer remarks that in New York, there is one section for gays, another for poets, anarchists are in one place, and copy editors are in another. Now, he continues, militant mutants are setting up flags in Alphabet City. What happened, Dan asks, to the nice, quiet melting pot they promised him. Jokingly, the first officer suggests they all just drink the same damn beer to establish a global culture. As an after thought, he asks whoever listened to Officer 375 ?
Looking down briefly at the ground, Xorn says aloud that there is no word for monster in any mutant dictionary. With this said, Xorn continues his stroll. The first officer, Eugene, asks Dan if he has any idea what he was talking about. Getting Xorn's idea, Dan tells Eugene that he meant that Mutant Town was the wrong place to look for the dog-eating freak. Trying to make it even simpler, he tells Eugene that it's a zen thing.
Making his way up a stairwell, Xorn ignores the snide remarks of two of the tenement's residents. Walking along a hallway, Xorn thinks that he has no eyes to see with. As his hand finds a door, he thinks that his brain is a tiny sun in a bottle made of thoughts and feelings in raw iron. After pushing the unlocked door open, revealing a pitch-black room, he thinks that he only knows things by their light. Further inside, Xorn finds another room with a tiny light in the corner. On a stool next to the couch, sits a woman with a water drenched rag, using it to cool the head of the being on the couch. The being, she tells Xorn, is her son.
Lying on the couch in a fetal position, the woman's son is the size of a large bear. Hairless, with a reddish scaly skin, the boy lacks all human features, save the obvious pain of his condition. As her son moans softly, the mother tells Xorn that he only got out once, when he was smaller, just when the change began. In pain herself, she asks Xorn how was he to know what he was eating? The dog, she points out, was always yapping anyway. Approaching the two, Xorn admits that he has eaten dog once, a long time ago and doesn't believe it to be a capital offense. Hugging her boy, the mother says that he likes chicken soup and Cheerios.
Moved to tears, the mother says that she is a human being, so why isn't he too? What happened ? He's a twelve year old boy. No, Xorn corrects her, he is a mutant, like himself. This is a time of great change, he tells her, and he will not be alone in this new world. No, she corrects him. He will be a monster. Holding up a vial of now spent pills, she tells Xorn that she took half of them and gave Sonny the rest. Now it has nothing to do with him. She doesn't want people to hang him from a traffic light. She doesn't want to see people cheer while government robots trample him to mush.
Approaching her, Xorn tells her that the pills she has swallowed are damaging organs vital to her body's function. He tells her to stay still and let him help. There's nothing wrong with her son, he tells her. It's only that his mutation is not complete and he is not fully grown yet. Impaired by the medication, the mother loses consciousness. Releasing the pill bottle in her hand, it falls to the floor. Concerned by his now unconscious mother, Sonny rises to his feet. Still not at his full height due to the ceiling, Sonny towers threateningly over Xorn. Looking up at the enraged but powerful youth, Xorn tells him that he can still help her.
Xorn flies through the brick wall of the apartment and falls several stories, finally landing on a NYPD patrol car. Engulfed in flames, Xorn tries to regain his senses. As amazed as they are at what happened to their vehicle, the police are even more started when the nearly two-story Sonny crashes through the tenement building's entrance, still holding his mother. The police open fire, but are easily dispatched by the enraged, powerful youth.
Back on his feet, Xorn thinks that Sonny is still not yet grown. In ten days he would have become something new and wonderful. Something never seen before. Something rare. Unique. Still enraged, Sonny bursts though the glass window of the nearby drug store. Knocking patrons aside, he demands through slurred speech for medicine. Xorn runs in and attempts to subdue Sonny, but is knocked back by his powerful arm.
The police enter enforce through the now demolished window. Both Sonny and Xorn look in their direction, with the same concern. Despite Xorn's yell to wait, the police open fire, making Sonny cry in pain. A new officer arrives with a flame-thrower and tells the others to back off. Grasping his mother in one arm, and this prized medicine in the other, Sonny in slurred words tells her that the medicine will make her better. The flame-thrower ignites, engulfing Sonny and his mother. Still aflame, Sonny runs to the street and collapses.
Xorn reaches the collapsed youth and tries to heal him. Talking to the officers, he tells them that in ten days, it would have been all right. He would have awakened to his potential. Uncaring about this information, one officer offers only a curse.
Sometime later, as the paramedics treat the injured, Xorn lends his healing skills. On a large stretcher, medics wheel Sonny, sealed inside a massive body bag, toward a crane. Xorn watches as the crane is used to hoist the massive bag, and the tragic Sonny inside, into the bed of a dump truck. The pouring rain makes Xorn think reflectively, and he writes his thoughts to Xavier in his recently purchased journal. "The clouds", he writes, "recycle water molecules onto the concrete. You wished to see my thoughts and were blinded by the sun beneath my mask. So I have tried", he continues, "to capture his feelings in the form of symbols on the book of paper leaves. But these lines and curves are not much like thoughts or feelings at all". Reflecting on a conversation with the old man he met earlier, Xorn tells Xavier that while the rain fell, they spoke of living and dying below the lake of heaven.
"And life goes on."


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New Worlds
Standing behind a podium, an austere man in a suit addresses his audience. Starting off simply, he introduces himself as Charles Xavier and admits that he is a mutant. He tells his audience that the doors of his international X-Corporation offices are now open and asks them to consider them a worldwide refuge in time of trouble.
In counterpoint to Xavier's words, outside the building housing his speech, a group of mutants are under siege. A mob of anti-mutant zealots have chased over a dozen obvious mutants and corralled them behind the safety of an iron fence surrounding a statue monument. As the mutants try to defend themselves as best they can, Xavier tells the mutants in the audience, and those around the world, to simply think of the emergency "X" and they will register on their Cerebra machine. Once registered, trained X-Men will be on hand to help them. As if to illustrate Xavier's words, a team of X-Men consisting of Cannonball, Darkstar, M and Siryn drop out of the sky to the rescue.
Later in the X-Corporation building in Paris, Phoenix congratulates her group. As the team changes into fresh uniforms in their locker room, Jean tells them that from the ashes of the X-Corps debacle they are making a public relations comeback. Examining his costume, Rictor makes a disparaging comment about the X-Corps. Putting on a new shirt herself, Siryn tells Rictor to see her stupid dad for starting it all. She then adds that she's there to atone for his sins. Noticing Jamie Madrox, the Multiple Man, holding his forehead, Jean inquisitively states that he doesn't feel well. Straining under obvious pain, he replies that one would think that he would be able to divvy up his hangover among all of his duplicates. No such luck. Sitting next to Madrox is one of his duplicates, who pops an aspirin and asks whose idea it was to have an emergency mission the day after they all go mental on the dance floor.
Now finished dressing, Siryn asks Jean what is the next gig. Looking over Jean's shoulder to her notes, Monet answers for Jean, telling the group of a train wreck in the Channel Tunnel. The wreck left one hundred twenty passengers and thirty asylum seekers trapped. Continuing on her own, Jean tells them that the Professor's contact in London mentioned a potential gene-hazard on the train, which is why the X-Corporation Europe got the call. As the team makes their way to the roof, Jean explains that because of the hazard, they have to get the people out of there before anyone else gets hurt. Reaching the roof, Jean mentions that Siryn wanted to talk about codenames. As the non-flying members enter the X-Corporation's aircraft, she asks if they can all use their school nicknames instead of the "daft, ponsy 'gladiator' names". Considering the idea cool, Cannonball mentions that the name he was called for five weeks as a kid, "Jet-Ass" is much better than Cannonball. As the craft and the rest of the group take to the air, Darkstar says that she wouldn't mind changing her name. Monet, ever dry in humor, informs her teammates that she was bullied at school and will stick with Monet, thank you very much.
From his office in the X-Corporation building, Xavier and Jean look out over the city. Having stretched his mind out to the city, Xavier tells Jean that there is a young man in Montparnasse who is thinking about how cool those X-Men looked on TV. He tells her that it is hard to believe, but they are finally listening to them. As Xavier continues his gaze outside, Jean walks back to the nearby chair. Continuing, Xavier says that all they had to do was to take off their frightening masks and step from the shadows. Sitting down, Jean replies that combining the goodwill tour with a branding exercise has led to their having a list of mutants all begging to volunteer for work at the X-Corporation offices. On the table before Jean, a glass and a bottle of Perrier water begin to float, seemingly of their own accord. Methodically, the cap unscrews itself and the bottle approaches the glass. Turning on its side, the bottle pours its water into the glass, and then repeats the maneuver into a second glass. Still looking outside and lost in contemplative thought, Xavier voices his disbelief that he's been able to leave Emma, once a sword enemy, in charge of the school. When Xavier comments that Emma has been a revelation, Jean quietly "hmphs" to herself. Not hearing Jean, Xavier admits that it's been a long time since he's felt this good... or this nervous. No more need to hide their mutant natures. No more human rules.
Hearing this, Jean tells Xavier to watch it; he sounds like Cassandra Nova. As one of the glasses of Perrier floats to his position, Xavier admits that Cassandra was right to go on television and break their silence. She was right to reveal them to the rest of the world. She took the step he always knew he had to take, but he always found an excuse not to put his reputation on the line. In trying to do evil, Xavier says, she freed them from their self-imposed exile. Finally noticing the glass of mineral water floating at his side, Xavier plucks it out of the air and thanks Jean. He then apologizes for his ramblings and brings them back to the reason for their meeting: Jean's desire for him to take a look at the growing power source in her skull. Reclining in her chair with her arms crossed behind her head, Jean tells Xavier that everybody at the school seems terribly worried about her expanding telekinesis. Basically, she tells him, she needs him to tell Scott that she's not turning evil.
Along one of the old, narrow streets of Paris, five special ops military soldiers are tracking someone. One of the soldiers at point exclaims that their quarry has gone to the right, and begins to lead the rest. Finding their path dead-ended by a metal gate, they begin to argue about calling the chase off and returning home in time to watch the European Cup final. With his pursuers distracted, the soldiers' quarry drops from his perch high above. His guns at the ready, he begins firing at the soldiers, taking them out one by one. Unable to take them all, the masked man jumps the metal gate, stating that there will be no Cup Final today. As he makes his escape, the masked man is hit with a stray shot.
In a X-Corporation office, Xavier and Jean sit across from each other with only a glass table between them. As Xavier sets a briefcase on the table, Jean explains her situation. She tells him that it's like she's seeing more of everything, but it all melts together. It's not just sight and sound, it's like all of her senses are rippling through her surroundings. Noting the briefcase, she fingers the latches. As she opens it, she asks Xavier if he thinks she is nuts. Dismissing this, Xavier tells her that the briefcase is simply an experiment he has devised using the very expensive dining set someone ordered for the staff canteen. As Xavier says this, Jean looks at the contents of the briefcase: a very expensive set of cutlery. As Jean studies the silverware, Xavier explains that when he was dying, she held his consciousness together. Even though he did lose a few memories, what she did was impossible; the storing of a human mind intact. Even for an omega mutant, Xavier says, her feat should not have been possible. Closing her eyes, Jean tells Xavier that if she can think it, it's possible. Telling Xavier she is ready, Jean begins to lift telekinetically all of the cutlery into the air. One by one, she arranges them into a circle. Even though Jean considers this a test for beginner telekinesis, Xavier believes that there could be more to it. On a hunch, Xavier reaches out and gently touches a fork floating before him, asking Jean if she can feel it. Amazed, Jean responds that she can and says that she didn't know she could do that. As little flames begin to appear in her hair, Jean exclaims that she can feel his pulse through the stainless steel.
The circle of cutlery, previously aligned in the air perfectly, begins to fly in multiple circles. Sitting before this aerial display, Xavier tells Jean that telekinetic sensitivity this extreme is known as the Manifestation of the Phoenix by neuro-mystical surgeons of the Shi'ar Space Empire. He also reminds Jean of the great trials the X-Men underwent during a previous rogue Phoenix manifestation and coldly states that no one wants anything like that to happen again. Her hair now aflame, Jean tells the professor that she knows, but it's nothing like that. She tries to voice what she sees, explaining that it's like colors on fire, burning in every direction. Tapping into Jean's psyche, Xavier replies that he feels it. It is like he is on the shores of what seems an ocean of psychic light. If he actually dared to come any further into her consciousness, all his thoughts would turn to ash. Leaning forward in his chair, Xavier looks hard at Jean and asks bluntly if he can talk to the Phoenix. With a voice not her own, Jean replies that Jean is only the house where she lives.
Suddenly, Xavier finds himself and Jean no longer in the office, but in the rubble of a city in ruins. Still speaking to Xavier, the Phoenix Entity tells him that it is born and consumed in blood and flame and sacrifice; always coming back. Referring to the carnage and destruction around them, Xavier asks Jean what is this place? Are these words from the future? What is happening? As quickly as the new reality surrounded the two, Xavier and Jean are back in the X-Corporation office. The Phoenix Entity, replying to Xavier's queries, explains that it's not a place; it's how it feels to be the last hope and to know you'll win against all the odds. It's the wing of the Phoenix touching your heart with flame. Taking all of this in, Xavier rubs his eyes. As he does so he tells Jean that his mind feels blinded and dazzled, and asks if she is all right. Looking up, he asks Jean why she looks so strange. Fully restored in mind, Jean looks in horror at something behind Xavier. Through the window to Xavier's back, an airborne craft has appeared. Pointing to the menacing and armored black helicopter, she asks what it is doing there.
From the shadows a voice apologizes and answers that it's he that they want. Xavier and Jean turn in surprise to the origin of the voice. They see a masked man emerge from the shadows. He is clad in an all white body suit and coat, stained with blood from several gunshot wounds; wounds he received earlier from his altercation with soldiers. The stranger tells them that he can read body language, so he knows that they're wondering how he got in and why they only see white roses when they try to look inside his mind. Pointing to his cowl, he tells them it's made of thought proofed ceramic panels. Emerging from the shadows, the man says that he heard Xavier's speech on TV and decided to put them in a morally compromising position. He tells them that he is asking them to harbor the most notorious mutant criminal in Europe. Introducing himself as Fantomex, he tells them that he is a mutant and demands sanctuary.
Near the Channel Tunnel entrance, the X-Men team arrives. As he lands, Cannonball voices his regret that he ever ate that sandwich. Darkstar adds that everyone without an umbrella in downtown Beauvais regrets it as well. Talking to one of the already arrived Madroxes, Siryn asks if that was he who was trying to sing "Justify My Love" and declares that it was the most perverted thing that she has ever heard. When the conversation moves to possible sexual practices by Madrox by himself, Monet requests that it stop and asks for an update on the Tunnel situation. Madrox replies that he hasn't seen anyone and then asks Cannonball if he really threw up over Beauvais.
Looking out the window down to the street below, Jean sees the gathering of military forces. She tells Xavier that they have been surrounded, and that the forces below have orders to bring in their guest at any costs. Tapping into their collective minds, Jean says she's they are terrified of Fantomex because they don't know what he can do. Taking a cup of water offered by the professor, Fantomex tells the two that he is a thief and stole something that he shouldn't have. Something big and bad got loose in the train wreck; something called Weapon XII. Pouring the water onto his still cowled head, Fantomex informs Xavier and Jean that their emergency team is probably already dead.
In the Channel Tunnel, the X-Men emergency team find themselves under attack by the very people they were planning on rescuing. Being pulled down by several of the passengers, Madrox yells for the team to fall back. Crying aloud about the hundreds of attacker, he yells for the team not to let their attackers touch them. He is able to repeat the order once more before his world enters darkness.
In a darkened room, illuminated partially by shafts of sunlight, two chairs sit; one occupied the other not. From the shadows, a voice admits supposes that he just wanted to talk to somebody about Jean and he. Emerging into the light, Cyclops takes the seat. He tells his confidant that through all the death and horror and wonder they've seen, he's trying to hold onto that shining, unmistakable thing they felt once on the moon together when he thought he'd lost her forever; but it's phony. He admits that they were faking this teenage, uncontrollable love in the face of unstoppable chaos and change. Cyclops says that while he still loves Jean more than his own life, he is not who he was and can't seems to tell her who he is ... in case she hates what he has become. Leaning forward, Cyclops says that he can save the world a dozen times before breakfast, but can't talk to his wife about the stuff that matters most. Looking at his feet, he tells his listener that he guessed that she could help. Finally speaking, Cyclops' confidant tells him that he's been keeping rather a lot bottled up. Reclined in the side of her chair, Emma Frost tells Cyclops that he came to her just in time.


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Fantomex
Just outside the top floor of the X-Corporation building in Paris, three heavily armed helicopters hover menacingly. Through the amplified sound of a bullhorn, the lead helicopter informs the floor's occupants that they are surrounded and are instructed to hand over the terrorist Fantomex.
Standing with his back to the window, and the helicopter beyond it, Xavier holds a cellular phone to his ear. He tells his associate, Pierre, that he is sure that he and everyone else in the 18th arrondissement (district) heard the ultimatum. Further, Xavier tells Pierre that his staff is practically being held hostage downstairs. Drawing his attention to the wounded Fantomex, being watched over by Phoenix, Xavier tells Pierre that while it is becoming very clear to him that he is the most wanted mutant in Europe, the Xavier Corporation will not hand over a badly wounded man without a better explanation than "he's a dangerous man and must be destroyed ..." Xavier grows silent for a few moments as he listens to Pierre's response. After replying that he sees, Xavier thanks Pierre for trying and hangs up.
After solemnly looking at the phone he was just using, Xavier turns to Jean and Fantomex. Disheartened, he tells Jean that his friends in high places have realized there are higher places. Passing along what Pierre told him, Xavier tells Jean that they are apparently dealing with an "international strike force" sanctioned to capture Fantomex by any means necessary. Still bleeding from his left arm and abdomen, Fantomex tells Jean and Xavier that all he wants is sanctuary and a moment to catch his breath. Trying to examine the wounded man's arm, Jean asks him why they want him so much? Did he kill people? Steal?
Dismissing Jean's questions, Fantomex tells her that he's trying to concentrate as he's bleeding quite badly from a femoral artery. Suddenly, Fantomex looks at his arm in surprise. Examining it closely, he mutters that the bleeding has stopped. Looking back at Jean, he asks how she is doing that. Almost smirking, Jean replies telekinesis and says that she can make his blood clot by thinking about it. Looking back at Xavier, Jean says that she thinks they have to help him. Eyeing the still present helicopter outside, Xavier says he agrees. Staring intently, Xavier tells Jean that he is planting doubts in the pilots' minds. One boy is worried about his promotion; his heart is beating faster. The other is afraid that his collection of mutant pornography might be found by his wife. Sensing accomplishment, Xavier says that they are no longer sure what their orders were in the first place.
Sensing Xavier's complacency, Fantomex tells him to forget the mind stuff, as they will switch to robot targeting system. Undeterred, Jean states that she can think her way into the computer system. Replying no, Fantomex begins to stand, and asks Jean to keep her mind on his blood flow; he will handle this. Raising his arms and stretching them out toward the helicopter outside, Fantomex says that he has special powers too and he just needs to call his partner. The copter pilot has but a moment to wonder what is going on before a flash of smoke and light seem to consume the office containing the three mutants.
In the lobby far below, soldiers react to the apparent explosion at the top floor. One panicked soldier tells the others that the copter pilots are spacing out, which another blames on the telepaths who he says are everywhere. An officer, wondering if his thoughts are even his own, holds a phone to his ear and requests a volunteer with no mind of his own worth controlling. From the back of the group a lone soldier raises his hand and introduces himself as Corporal Animal. Walking through the rest of the unit, Corporal Animal tells his officer that he is a highly trained death machine with no human feelings. Sir! One of the soldiers Animal passes thanks aloud the Lord and the Marine Corps above for that and encourages the volunteer to do his duty.
Upstairs in the very much intact top floor office, Fantomex tells Xavier and Jean that it's all misdirection. Leading the two toward the exit, Fantomex tells them that they all look at the smoke and the lights, but they don't see what you're really... Fantomex stops in mid-sentence when he notices the towering form of Corporal Animal blocking the doorway. Holding his assault rifle in readiness, Animal guesses that they are wondering who he might be. Asking for them to let him tell them, the Corporal informs them that he is death in human form. Looking up at the threatening Marine, Fantomex tells Jean and Xavier behind him that as he's sure any one of them can handle this moron, this is the last chance for the pacifist lobby before he blows the man away.
Back in the lobby, the X-Corporation's mutant receptionist holds her branch-like arms above her head. Looking toward the marine whose rifle is pointed at her, she explains that he has a lunch date with a very famous French film star and asks if he is going to point that gun at her all day. Still aiming his rifle at the young woman, the soldier tells her to shut up and then adds that he really hates French movies. Nearby, the officer speaks into his phone and asks if there are any results upstairs. Just outside Xavier's office, several soldiers cautiously look inside. In the center of the office they see a downed soldier sitting with his head cocked to the side. Quietly, they ask the man if he is Animal. Not moving, the Corporal begins to ramble.
He tells them that when his daddy died, he was too young to make sense of it; he was just four. Turning around, Animal tells them that when you're a kid, you got no place to put those big old feelings, so he sort of stored up all the resentment about losing his dad right in his chest. Over time, he tried to be like his father, and became tough so the world could not hurt him. This made it difficult for him to make personal relationships. Looking now at the floor, Animal begins to wonder if he should reconsider his life with the military and begin to work with handicapped kids. Still standing in the doorway, one solider asks Animal what did they do it him.
High above, Xavier and Phoenix follow Fantomex to the roof of the X-Corporation building. Sitting amidst a protective smokescreen, is a giant sphere sitting atop four squatting insect-like legs. Circling the sphere at it's mid-section is a flat plane, which runs parallel to the ground. Pointing to the craft, Fantomex tells Xavier and Phoenix to meet E.V.A., his partner. After entering the craft through a luminous portal, the three mutants take their seats. Holding his head in disbelief, Xavier reels at the apparent flying saucer, remarking that he can barely get used to walking. Under the control of Fantomex, E.V.A. rises gently through the smoke to a point high above the city.
Sitting in her chair, an old, blind woman removes one earphone from one of her ears and asks aloud if it is Jean-Phillipe she hears. Holding a bag of groceries, Fantomex replies to his mother that, of course, it is he. Holding out a present, he tells her that he has brought her a new CD. It is the "Flutes of the Tibetan Damned". After pointing out that the sleeves notes are in French Braille, Fantomex notes to his mother that he always takes care of her. Sensing Xavier and Phoenix, Fantomex's mother asks him if there are people with him. Replying negatively, Fantomex tells her that it's just a play he's recording on the radio for her. Immensely proud, Fantomex's mother remarks how happy they are in their house, to which Fantomex agrees. Walking outside the house, Fantomex takes his guests to a stairwell, which rises into what would be the sky. However, instead of the sky, it leads higher into the monstrous structure in which the house has been build. Completely enclosed, the structure sits atop a mountain and provides a separate reality for the occupants to those who live outside.
On the top floor of the structure, Fantomex leads Xavier and Phoenix into a grand room. Ornately decorated, the room is filled with objects from a multitude of cultures and time periods. Sitting along the wall is a giant Egyptian stature of Anubis, suspended from the ceiling is a Viking boat, and sitting along another wall is a sarcophagus. Examining the décor, Xavier tells Fantomex that he'll try to ignore the deliberate strangeness of it all. Reclining in his massive chair made of spheres, Fantomex asks Xavier why ignore it? Embrace it! Taking control of the conversation, Xavier tells Fantomex that they did what he asked; they protected him from the mob. But, he continues, they are not in the habit of aiding and abetting self-confessed criminal terrorists. Cutting to the point, Xavier asks Fantomex what is happening to the X-Men in the Channel Tunnel and what is Weapon Twelve?
In the darkness of the Channel Tunnel, surrounded by the corpses of the Channel train's passengers, Monet calls out to her team. Calling to anyone who will respond, Monet asks what just happened? Rictor? Madrox? Siryn? Walking through the darkness, Monet finally sees movement. Unfortunately, the movement is from shadowy figures bearing glowing eyes and bared fangs.
Answering Xavier, Fantomex tells the two X-Men that Weapon XII is the latest in the series of living weapons tests being carried out by the military industrial complex. Bred in incubation units that speed up time itself, Weapons XII is created through artificial evolution to be the latest answer to the mutant threat. Through this process, mixed with sentinel microtechnology splicing genetic material, human scientists have run through a million years of cyborg mutation and development in eighteen months. Bringing the conversation back to the tunnel, Fantomex tells Xavier that the train wreck was faked. Monsters developed to kill mutants have been released and the Channel Tunnel situation was faked to set up to field test Weapon Twelve against a group of trained mutants. Being able to conveniently eliminate a number of asylum seekers was simply a perk. All of this, Fantomex tells Xavier is what he learned when he stole a dossier on disc from a research and development operation. If he wants to know more, Fantomex tells Xavier, the disc is for sale.
Dryly, Xavier points out to Fantomex that he could gift it to the Xavier Institute. Uninterested, Fantomex replies that he's a mutant with no scruples. Also, as Xavier's fortune is valued at 3.5 billion dollars and the Institute's teaching staff includes at least three millionaires, Fantomex says that he would prefer to sell. Bringing their subject to a more personal note, Xavier informs Fantomex that one of their close friends was designated Weapon X in this program, and was tortured. Unsympathetic, Fantomex mutters a mocking boohoo and then points out that it's Weapon Ten, not Weapon X. Holding up a disc, Fantomex tells Xavier that it includes all the details to the entire Weapon Plus program dating back to World War Two; all the failed experiments and the successes, the result of a thousand illegal tests on human, animal and mutants... like Mister Logan; for one billion dollars. As an after thought, Fantomex remarks to Xavier that he'd be interested to see how much money he'd be willing to sacrifice for his ideals. With this, Fantomex places the disc in a safe behind a framed poster.
As Fantomex calmly walks away, Xavier shouts that they need that data to know what they are up against. Sitting on a medical table, Fantomex begins to remove his torso vestments. Looking to Xavier and Phoenix, both of who has followed him, Fantomex tells them that he's read the Weapon XII file, and knows what he's up against. Angry, Xavier asks Fantomex if he's driven entirely by self-interest. Reaching for a medical instrument, Fantomex tells the professor that he would like to answer all of his questions, but he has to remove several bullets from his body. As he probes his own wound, Fantomex says that he prefers to self-operate, so he will be putting himself into a state of auto-hypnosis while his body works on itself. As he begins, Fantomex states that there's wine and a selection of fine French cheeses in the fridge. Asking them to make themselves at home, Fantomex tells the two that it won't take long.
Meanwhile, in the darkness of the Channel Tunnel, dozens of people run for their lives. As they do so, several of these people run over the fallen form of Monet, who is slowly regaining consciousness. Through her communicator on her wrist, Monet hears the voice of Darkstar calling to see if anyone is there. The fleeing crowd finally comes to a stop when they find a locked gate, and can proceed no further. Looking back from where they have fled, they see the approaching forms of wolves, accompanied by people not quite human. Finding their prey unable to run further, the wolves begin to tear the people apart. Elsewhere in the tunnel, Darkstar tries to protect another group of train passengers. In vain, she tries to calm the crowd. Their only response to her questions is "don't let them touch you." Through the darkness and mist, Darkstar sees wolves and other menacing forms approaching. As she calls out through her communicator for the rest of the team, Darkstar uses her dark force powers to repel her apparent attackers. Despite her efforts, they continue moving forward, step-by-step.
Looking out of his mountaintop home, Fantomex tells Phoenix that his mother thinks that they still live in their family home outside of Marseilles. He didn't have the heart to tell her it was demolished four years ago. Instead, he recreated it in the mountains. Watching Fantomex pour a liquid on his still cowled head, Phoenix asks him what he was trying to prove with his self-healing when she could have easily removed the bullets? And why won't he take off his mask? Replying simply, Fantomex says that he wanted to prove that he was serious. Also, he takes his mask off all the time, just not in front of her. With two telepaths around, he tells her, he prefers to keep his thoughts to himself. Wittily, he then asks Phoenix if she hears any complaints from him about her leaving her wonderbra on all the time?
Growing impatient, Xavier tells Fantomex that he's becoming concerned about his staff. Cross-armed, the Professor tells Fantomex that if he intends to return to the wreck, then he would like to travel with him. Anticipating this, Fantomex begins to back his weaponry. As he does so, Fantomex states that while he did humiliate their foes by stealing their data, he wants to make a much bolder statement against mutant vivisection. Even though he is brimming with self-confidence, he knows his limits; limits which are expanded with two of the world's most powerful telepaths running shotgun. Recalling his earlier offer to Xavier, Fantomex says that he was playing a little chess with morals. Now he is offering another difficult ethical situation: he will save the lives of the X-Men and everything else in Weapon Twelve's vicinity, if the two of them help Weapon Twelve itself. Not waiting for an answer, Fantomex dons his trench coat and strides toward the door. As he does so, he warns the two X-Men to not spend too much time deciding. Weapon XII must die.


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Weapon Twelve
In the darkness of the Eurotunnel, Siryn, Rictor, Cannonball and a cadre of Madroxes fight for survival against the glowing-eyed thralls of Weapon XII. Calling to Madrox, any of him who will listen, Siryn asks what is plan B? Trying to avoid the swoops and strikes of airborne ravens and bats, a number of Madroxes voice one word each their answer: we... have... no... plan... B... Siryn. Seeing a need for change in their strategy, Siryn yells to her teammates to cover their ears if they don't want this to be the last thing they hear. With her teammates sufficiently warned, Siryn emits an ultra-sonic scream, which knocks back a wave of possessed tunnel train passengers. Now granted a brief respite in their battle, the strike team turns toward the French end of the tunnel and begins to run. As fast as they are already running, Madrox urges them faster after seeing the towering form of Weapon XII approaching. Holding up the rear, Cannonball thinks of his other missing colleagues, Monet and Darkstar. Where are they and what is the team up against?
High above Paris, Fantomex pilots the craft called E.V.A. toward the channel tunnel. With his head covered by the organic tendril of E.V.A., Fantomex manipulates a corresponding sphere with his free hands. As he does so, he explains their situation to Xavier and Phoenix. The Weapon Plus program, he says, was an attempt to create supermen to fight future wars. Weapon 0 was classified and Weapon I was a volunteer program. Weapons II through III were animals and Weapons IV to VI used various ethnic minorities. Then, for the Weapon VII trials and onwards, they discovered the ideal subjects; kidnapped mutants, the scum of the Earth. Repeating what he said earlier, Fantomex tells the two X-Men that Weapon X wasn't a letter; it was a Roman numeral; ten. Mister Logan, he continues, was only the tenth generation living weapon. They've gone far beyond that now. Weapon XII, he says, can become his enemies, or more accurately, they become him. He is a soldier who recruits just by touch.
After a vain attempt to divert this discussion back to the X-Men, and who knows how many innocents, trapped in the tunnel, Xavier makes an offhanded remark about Fantomex's ship. Quickly, Fantomex corrects Xavier. E.V.A isn't a vehicle. She, he says, is his partner. His mutation. Holding his thumb and forefinger a few inches apart, Fantomex states that she was only this size when she emerged from his mouth the day his voice broke. From his seat in the back row, Xavier reaches out to a section of the ship within arm's length. Reaching out with his mind, Xavier states that he can sense her aliveness now... pure machine consciousness. Likewise touching a section herself, Phoenix states that she seems friendly and asks what happened. Fantomex replies that he used to keep her in a birdcage and feed her Swiss chocolates. It was years, he says, before his pet saucer began to talk to him. Fantomex's story abruptly ends with the three's arrival at the Eurotunnel. Reaching out telepathically to the tunnel, Phoenix asks Xavier if he can feel it. Doing so, Xavier asks Fantomex if this is what he was talking about. As E.V.A. descends to the tunnel's entrance, Fantomex tells Xavier, yes; Weapon XII's mind spreads like a disease into whatever it touches.
In the darkness of the tunnel, one of the Madroxes looks up at the illuminated form of Weapon XII. The towering mutant bares his razor claws and beads down with his incandescent eyes. Sprouting from his head like a glowing plant, Weapon XII's powerful brain pulses with energy and power. Standing nearly beneath this massive form, the Madrox informs it that if it needs help, they're there to help mutants in trouble. Reaching out with his powerful limbs, Weapon XII sinks his talons into the sides of the Madrox's skull. As the Madrox screams in pain, Weapon XII, in halting speech, tells Madrox that he is the one in trouble. After Weapon XII releases him, the Madrox does not fall, but instead turns around to face his fellow duplicates; but now with glowing eyes. Another Madrox looks in horror at what has happened to his fellow duplicate. Analyzing the change in his fellow dupe's mental rapport, now Madrox senses Weapon XII's voice; eating him, thinking his thoughts. Nearby, another Madrox realizes that Weapon XII is a bacterial consciousness while yet another announces that everything he touches spreads his thoughts.
Trying to reconcile this new information with their situation, Cannonball hopes aloud that the silver flying saucer out there's on their side. From within that same saucer, Professor Xavier tells Jean, now ! Back in the tunnel, the legion of Weapon XII thralls halt their forward movement. Taking advantage of the respite, the strike team doubles their pace toward the exit.
Still in her seat, Phoenix concentrates intensely as small flames dance about in her hair. To Xavier, she states that she's got it, though she doesn't know what it is. She continues, stating that she's suspending its motor functions, but doesn't know how long she can keep it up. Its mind, she says, is like a bag of worms, weird, bending around her mind. Rising from his seat, Fantomex warns Phoenix to not get too wrapped up in his thought processes. They are entirely viral. Wincing in pain, Phoenix states that it's adapting to her attack. Millions of little brains... all thinking at once. Having landed E.V.A., Fantomex opens the exit portal. Looking at the train tracks below, he tells Phoenix that she can probably paralyze it long enough for him to finish this. The off-switch, Fantomex informs them, is in the train that was transporting it. They couldn't risk the experiment getting completely out of hand.
Having exited E.V.A., the three mutants stand at the mouth of the tunnel and greet the escaping strike team. As she checks out the group, Phoenix is surprised to learn that Rictor has a kind of natural psychic defense against Weapon XII's infection. Nearby, Xavier congratulates Cannonball, crediting him with saving Siryn's life. Ever humble, Cannonball responds that it's his job and then adds that he thinks he can do more. Addressing the young X-Man as Sam, Xavier tells him that they will call him if they need him. Pointing to the outside, Xavier says that with Siryn's vocal cords bleeding badly he first wants him to get her to safety.
As Cannonball flies Siryn away in a blast of fire and smoke, Madrox approaches Xavier's guest, Fantomex. Offering his hand his friendship to Fantomex, introduces himself only to have Xavier's guest respond, "good for you". Turning toward the tunnel, Fantomex calls out the name Zona. When asked who Zona is, Fantomex answers that he's the guy with the "external brains". Zona, actually Zona Cluster 6, Fantomex explains, had a life in the real world before the program twisted him into a super evolved killing machine. As the mind controlled thralls of Zona begin to emerge from the tunnel, Fantomex tells the X-Men that they must kill him before he can be returned to his life pod and debriefed. Running at a sprint toward the emerging enemy, Fantomex clarifies: he has to kill him now. Her hair now alive with dancing flames, Phoenix runs after the charging mutant terrorist, yelling that there are still people trapped in there!
Watching in horror, Madrox yells for Jean to stop. Turning to Xavier, Madrox tries to explain that the enemy is contagious, with hundreds of infected people and animals. Inside still, he says, are Darkstar and Monet... Xavier tries to calm to hysterical Multiple Man, telling him that it is all right; he is being relieved of duty. Placing his hand on the shoulder of the visibly exhausted youth, Xavier tells Madrox that he believes he can beat Weapon XII at his own game, without further bloodshed. All he needs, Xavier tells him, is to borrow his nervous system. Looking up at his leader and mentor, Madrox replies that it is no bother and he doesn't even have to try to explain it. All he needs is a little rest. Placing his hands on Madrox's temples, Xavier tells him to rest; he deserves it. As Madrox's eyes go all white, Xavier softly tells him that he will take telepathic control now.
Illuminated in the darkened tunnel by the burning wreckage of the train, the possessed passengers of the Eurotunnel train await the approaching Fantomex and Phoenix. Not slowing in the least, Fantomex draws his two handguns and fires at a full run. Those thralls not mowed down before his arrival, are dispatched as the mutant terrorist leaps overhead, firing from above. Fantomex's leap comes to a stop with a controlled drop and roll maneuver. Rising back to his feet, the one-man combat team snags part of his cowl on nearby debris, partially removing it. Still not missing a beat, or taking the time to fix his cowl, Fantomex continues his firing, unleashing silver-white bullets with ghostly images on their tips. Having taken out the last of the apparent thralls, Fantomex stops firing and surveys the situation.
Next to the derailed train, M and the uninfected passengers within look at Fantomex in horror. Calling the white trench coat clad mutant a lunatic Matrix freak, M exclaims that the last person he has killed was Darkstar. She was a super hero. Still bearing his weapons, Fantomex retorts that she stopped being human the instant Weapon XII touched her. And, he tells M, judging from her lack of genuine concern in her vocal modulation and body posture, he deduced that she was only some girl she never cared much for. An associate at best, right? Dumbstruck, M can only respond that they were standing there in the middle of this and... she didn't get the chance to make friends. Examining an open containment pod, Fantomex coldly retorts that she never will. Life is tough. Now as Phoenix is buying her time, he suggests to M that she use it to do her job as a rescue worker.
Standing in the mouth of the tunnel, Xavier, surrounded by scores of Madroxes, calls out to Weapon XII and introduces himself. Emerging from a side tunnel, the towering incandescent Weapon XII reveals himself. Announcing that he was born to make war on the mutant race, he asks has war begun? Is this war? Has war begun? Striding with colossal steps, Weapon XII and his thralls make their way toward Xavier. Within steps of the professor, Weapon XII and his minions are met by the scores of Multiple Men. Clawing at the wall of Madroxes and infecting them, Weapon XII commands his new agents to make new world for man; make war in the name of eternal man. Concentrating on all the minds of the infected Multiple Men, Xavier replies that this isn't war. Speaking now through the numerous infected Madroxes, he tells Weapon II to call it medicine, if he likes. His own mind now vulnerable through the recently possessed, Weapon XII's face contorts in visible agony and a silent scream.
Arriving at the derailed train, Phoenix finds M assisting the uninfected passengers to the ground. Informing the young X-Man that the way is now clear, she tells her to get the survivors out. Still shocked by the carnage around her, M stammers out that everything went nuts... and he killed Darkstar. The calm and collected antithesis of M, Phoenix explains that it wasn't her anymore. Next, trying to keep M's mind on the present instead of the past, Phoenix tells her to take it easy and walk toward the floodlights. This taken care of, Phoenix turns her attention to Fantomex and the containment pod he is inspecting.
Finding several component pieces, Fantomex's methodical search is interrupted by the questions of Phoenix. She tells him that she hates to bring this up, but if there was only one Weapon XII, then why are there two cages? After the telling silence and stray thoughts from Fantomex, Phoenix comes to a revelation. Telling him what he already knows, Phoenix tells him that the second pod was his pod, wasn't it? And everything else was a lie... that's why they never heard of "Fantomex". Holding a hand-held detonation switch with a thumb-button, Fantomex rises to his full height. Fixing his thought-proofed cowl, Fantomex realizes his situation and rhetorically asks if their minds are leaking, aren't they? His cowl replaced and his mind re-secured, Fantomex tells Phoenix that they dipped them in liquid time; injected them with micro-Sentinel machines. The world, he tells her, is smaller than this one. Its rules and its people are very different. While Zona turns his enemies into himself, he is much smarter than they bargained for. He won't be anyone's soldier.
Stepping closer to him, Phoenix asks Fantomex to not tape up his thoughts. It was just getting interesting. After a beat, she asks him if there is no European super-thief, is there? There is now, he answers. Illusion and misdirection. He, he tells Phoenix, is a new form of life and this place is so much more fun than the world in the Weapon Plus Program. Reeling at Fantomex's connotations, Phoenix asks about the house in the mountains? Who was the old woman? Pressing the button on the hand-held detonation switch, Fantomex asks, what old woman? Elsewhere in the tunnel, surrounded by the scores of Multiple Men, Weapon XII's head explodes in blue light.
As the corpse of Weapon XII collapses to the ground, so do his thralls, killed by proxy. More curious than surprised, Xavier asks the Multiple Men if they did that? Did he think too hard at Weapon XII? Surveying the scores of bodies, the Multiple Men state the obvious; everybody's dead. Stroking his jaw, Xavier states that he was rather hoping they could avoid this pointless, brutal solution. Examining the pseudo-skeletal remains of Weapon XII's skull, Xavier remarks on it's bizarre, branching brainstem system, comparing it to coral. Arriving from the tunnel's depth, M leads the train survivors. Still unable to regain her composure, she tells Xavier that Jean is still in there with some gun nut who shot Darkstar. She's dead. Otherwise, she says, mission accomplished.
Lies, Phoenix tells Fantomex. Dropping the detonation switch, Fantomex begins to search his trench coat pockets. Defending himself, he tells Phoenix that Weapon Plus is the real, the world is real, but there's no dossier, no disc. The secrets of the program, he says, is here, in his head and available at a price. Holding a new detonation switch freshly pulled from his pocket, Fantomex informs Phoenix that it is his, now disabled. Pointing deeper into the tunnel, Fantomex tells the X-Man that England is that way down the track and the tilt of her pelvis tells him that she finds him too attractive to permit them to capture him again. Cross-armed and stony faced, Phoenix stands stoically as the ceiling begins to collapse around her. Ten minutes of falling debris, she tells "Fantomex". Run.
Standing over the corpse of Weapon XII, Xavier and his X-Men greet the arriving troops. Their commander, an old soldier in a command beret, tells Xavier that he recognizes him. He's seen him on TV, with the light whanging off his sweaty shaved head, just like it's doing now. Recalling Xavier's reported telepathy, he tells the professor that if he looks into this "dumb chimpanzee's head" he won't find anything except re-runs of the adult channel. Taking the offer as genuine, Xavier does so and then voices his surprise; he thought that the soldier was joking. Smiling broadly, the commander boasts that it's a little thing that they've been teaching them to protect the privacy of their minds.
The introductions over, the commander tells Xavier that the official story, if they want their activities to continue to meet the encouragement of the appropriate authorities, is that "the nice X-Men were on hand for a biological weapons accident in the Eurotunnel. Many lives were saved, but one fine mutant died a hero. Boo hoo. We love you." This statement/warning said, the commander tells the X-Men to stand aside, while they take back what's theirs and get this hole cleaned up. Moments later when the troops reach the derailed train, the troops find not their missing weapon, but Phoenix. Staring down the tunnel that leads toward the British Isle, she apologizes. She doesn't know what happened. He must have slipped by her. Weapon Thirteen, she says, has left the house.