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Power Play
Beast, before the water began to consume them, realizes that they are in trouble. As the water starts to rise up and the X-Men and Ororo are threatened to drown, Jean realizes that she has to do something, as she is the only one who can.
Deluge triumphs, finding it ironic that the same waters Ororo created to help the villagers will now be responsible for her very own death! Jean doesn’t know how much longer she can hold her breath, but realizes that the quickest way out of this situation is to use the still-unconscious Scott the same way she used him against Magneto a while back, namely by using her telekinesis to lift his head, and open his visor so that his optic beams can help them.
Jean panics, not sure if she can do this because Scott is still unconscious, and his eyes are closed. She doesn’t dare use her telekinesis on his eyelids. Her control just isn’t fine enough, so she could tear the delicate flesh. But, there might be something else she can do. She decides to try it out, and it works. Cyclops releases an optic beam, which hits the dam and breaks it apart so the water can flow through it. Hank thanks Jean for the rescue, and uses his strength to break himself free from the ropes that had him tied up. Once free himself, Hank also frees Scott, Jean and Ororo.
Ororo doesn’t understand how Cyclops could have used his powers while unconscious. Jean explains that she couldn’t use her telekinesis to open his eyes, so she used her telepathy to go inside his mind and take over control of his motor functions. She doesn’t like using her powers this way, but Hank defends that he’s certain Scott will forgive her. Elsewhere in the Savage Land…
Lykos has brought Iceman to his hut and notices that the boy is getting up. He tries to figure out what to do, remembering that Iceman saw him once in his human form, but only from a distance. He doesn’t want to be captured again. Bobby wakes up, but finds himself tied to the bed and wants to know the reason. Also, his head hurts. Karl defends that the ropes were needed in order that he might pick Bobby up and transport him to his hut. However, Karl also claims that he isn’t really sure where they are himself, except that the hut seems to be the remains of the former headquarters of a German exploratory team. And one that apparently failed.
When Bobby doesn’t know what he means, Lykos points Bobby to the skeletons sitting on a table. Bobby freaks out, and wonders why he is feeling so weak and can’t remember anything. He can’t even remember who he is!
On that moment…
Lorna, while tending to the fallen Ka-Zar, orders Havok to stop demonstrating his powers on the villagers, thinking they have the point now. Alex calms down, thinking that the villagers will probably think twice before they start throwing with stones again. When he then asks Ka-Zar how he feels, the jungle lord gets up, smiling that only his pride is injured. He hates the fact that these villagers would try to fight him, and he believes that his name as Lord of the Savage Land hasn’t reached this deep into the Land itself yet. Suddenly, a woman corrects Lord Pluder that isn’t entirely true.
Continuing, the woman claims that some of the villagers have heard of the mighty Ka-Zar, but she admits that most of them were enslaved in the city of the Nhu’ghari many years before Ka-Zar came to the Savage Land. Lorna finds that suspicious, as most of the villagers, including the woman, look really old. At least the ones who aren’t tossing with rocks. And she knows that Ka-Zar has been in the Savage Land for about twenty-five years by now. The woman confirms that’s true, but claims that most of the people Lorna and her friends see are about a hundred years old!
Meanwhile…
Jean asks if Deluge is some kind of energy vampire, and Ororo believes that’s one way to describe their adversary. She reveals that Deluge draws energy directly from his surroundings. But he’s also able to shape that energy and use it to create more. Hank realizes that’s how he could gain control over Ororo’s storm. He knows that she intended the storm to be no more than a few days rain, but that Deluge turned it into something that spawns almost a whole hemisphere. When Jean wants to know how they can stop the villain, Beast replies he already has some ideas on that matter, based in part on the manner which Jean engineered their rescue. But first, he suggests they go find Deluge again.
Deluge himself is still flying into the skies, proud of his work. He admits that the power of this storm is beyond measure, and that it is still growing! And, as the storm grows, so too does his own power. So, he is able to make the storm even greater. He wonders how he could have guessed, when he was born into “this miserable world” that he would have one day the power to destroy it. He remembers how his life was filled with loneliness, because his unique pigmentation made him an outcast in his own village. But it was also that status which shaped Deluge’s daily life and caused him to wander far beyond the boundaries of his village, to find a world of wonders.
He had no way of knowing the meaning of the strange things he found, only that they were utterly alien to his existence. But the greatest surprise was yet to come, when the people who had created that strange place came home and discovered him. Those people imprisoned Deluge, while they jabbered in their foreign tongue. It would take Deluge years before he understood what his captors said that day. He remembers that the woman who trapped him realized they couldn’t kept him against his will, but the male believed that, if Deluge went back to his village, months of their work, and years of potential research could all be destroyed. The man believed they had no choice but to keep Deluge as their… guest.
In the weeks that followed, as Deluge discovered his attitude for the learning of languages, he also learned that, when his absence was discovered, no one from his village attempted to search for him. His captors were making a study of his village, because its isolation had preserved it in a state such as humans knew thousands of years ago. So did Deluge’s hatred grow greater and greater. He grew hatred for his own kind who had abandoned him, and hatred of those “white skinned devils,” who saw in his people nothing more than subjects to be studied upon.
Until one day, some months in Deluge’s captivity, the pain that burned his gut turned out to be appendicitis. He now realizes that, if he had been at his village at the time, he surely would have died. But his captors shipped him back to their world. And there, Deluge learned that the man who had made the decision to leave his people in their isolation, so that they could be studied, had himself grown up in a village not so very different from Deluge’s!
Deluge remembers how angry he became when he learned that startling news, and asked the man how he could treat people like specimen the way he did. The man defended that he had already explained that those people aren’t harmed in any way. In fact, the potential for harm lay in their exposure to the man’s world. Deluge found that to be hypocrisy. He asked the man if he has been harmed by his escape from such primitive squalor. The man defended it was hardly squalor. He defends that Deluge’s people now live like they have for thousands of years, and are happy to do so.
Deluge angrily confirmed that, shouting that his people are happy because they are ignorant. They are happy because they don’t know there is another way they can live. Neither Deluge nor the man was prepared for what happened next. It was as if his rage became a living thing, exploding from his being as lightning explodes from the heart of the storm. It was on that moment that his powers manifested themselves, and Deluge killed his captor. Blind panic seized him. He ran until his lungs burned and his heart seemed fit to burst. Once Deluge’s mind was once again his to command, he hid himself, and set about learning the secrets of his new powers.
He came to realize that he was a mutant, and in his mutation lay the power to shape his environment to suit his needs. It was then only a matter of time before he found the perfect application of his power. He stole and harnessed to his own purpose the storm that was created by the weather-witch named Ororo. Now, at last, he stands upon the very threshold of the moment he can purge from the Earth all those that have wronged him.
Suddenly, Ororo comes flying in, defending that the only harmful things in Deluge’s life are his own rage and bitterness. Deluge doesn’t want to hear any of Ororo’s lectures. He knows that she has lived her whole life being worshipped as a goddess. How could she possibly know anything about suffering? Ororo defends that she suffered more than Deluge knows. They start fighting, but Deluge defends it’s no use, confident that Ororo can’t steal the storm away from him again.
Beneath the battle, Jean, Hank and Scott move to their side of the plan. Jean asks Hank if he’s certain about this. Hank defends that he’s now as certain as he’ll ever be, because he has no time to test his theory. Jean realizes that, but she feels bad about using Scott like he is nothing but a mere tool. Hank is certain that Scott would approve of what he has in mind. After all, it’s the best way to defeat their nemesis. Jean worries about the consequences, should they or Ororo fail. Hank does too, but they don’t have any choice. He realizes that, in another few minutes, Deluge’s storm will be beyond Ororo’s power to command. He asks Jean to get ready to link his mind with Ororo’s, so they can start doing this.
A mere moment later, Ororo can feel Jean’s mind within her own, and realizes it’s time. Deluge notices that Ororo hesitates, and he thinks she has started to doubt herself. Ororo defends it’s quite the opposite. She attacks him with a bright lightning bolt, causing Deluge’s eyes to hurt and he falls down. Ororo warns Hank to help her now, because they only have a few moments to complete their plan. Hank agrees and starts explaining to Ororo what she has to do. He wants her to shape the water droplets in the clouds as he instructed her earlier. Ororo can read the configuration in Hank’s mind, as Jean links them.
Ororo understands what she has to do. She only prays that she has the time for it. She uses her powers to broaden the storm, and a bright light starts surrounding everyone. Jean believes that the plan is working. Deluge becomes angry, not knowing what the X-Men’s plan is, but he is confident he won’t be defeated. Jean uses her powers again to open Scott’s eyes, and he unleashes a powerful optic blast, which hits Deluge! Deluge laughs, calling the X-Men insane because Cyclops’ power will only help increase the one he already had.
Hank states that Deluge is so drunk with power he isn’t thinking straight. He is now sucking up all the energy of Scott’s beam, and it will only take a few more moments before that gets out of control. Cyclops keeps firing upon Deluge, and he keeps absorbing. But suddenly, he feels strangely and realizes his mistake. A moment later, he explodes! Ororo flies up to the skies and confirms that nothing is left of their former adversary. And just in time, too. The storm was only seconds from being too great for her to control. After calming the weather down and a beautiful sun shines again, Ororo lands in front of Beast who explains his plan to her.
He concludes that it seemed obvious, once he realized it was still daylight above the cloud cover. And, with him also realizing that Ororo could shape the water droplets into a lens that would focus only the proper wavelength into Scott’s body, they were able to boost him back to full power, and use that power against Deluge. Ororo wonders if Deluge is really destroyed. That, Hank cannot say, as it wasn’t his plan to completely obliterate him. He couldn’t have possibly calculated Scott’s blast would result into such a gigantic conclusion. Ororo believes they better stay vigilant then. She takes off, wishing the X-Men farewell, hoping that, if they ever meet again, it will be under more pleasant circumstances.
Cyclops finally comes around again, and Hank thinks that’s probably with them messing around with his body like that must have jumpstarted his brain functions again. A confused Scott wants to know what happened and who it was that flew away. Hank calls Ororo a remarkable young woman, and he suspects that she was a mutant like they are. He also believes that they better inform the Professor about her once they get home.
Jean hesitantly admits that the Professor already knows about Ororo, as well as a whole lot of other mutants he hasn’t even told them about. Scott is surprised that the Professor has more secrets than they knew he had, and wonders if he knows Charles Xavier at all. Hank believes that, perhaps, they know as much as they need to know. He wants to go home now, as it’s a long trip, and also worries about Warren, as they haven’t heard from him at all!
Elsewhere, at the South Atlantic Ocean…
The sailors can’t believe that their captain is serious. He is, and walks to the lower decks, where he has Angel and Avia tied up! He is ready to make some money out of them.
Later that night, at Xavier’s…
Hank is glad to be home again, but still worries about Warren. Scott is confident Angel can take care of himself. Jean notices that the mansion is so dark inside, and that the power is off for some reason. Scott believes they are probably dealing with a blackout, or perhaps the Professor shut it down on purpose, for some reason. Hank doesn’t think that all is as it should be. To borrow a line from Mr. Skywalker “I’ve got a bad feeling about this…”
Suddenly, a mysterious woman comes out of a room. An intruder! The X-Men start fighting the woman, who dodges all of the attacks. Suddenly, her rocky partner hits Hank to the floor, telling the X-Men to stand down. Scott initiates maneuver 374, and tells Hank to act like they practiced in the Danger Room. Scott, Hank and Jean get into defense mode, as suddenly, flame appears and a rubbery body stops them! A voice orders the X-Men to stop fighting, as they’ve got better things to do. Cyclops, Beast and Marvel Girl stand down, and surprisingly recognize… the Fantastic Four!


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Shadow On The Stars
Four weeks ago…
Cyclops is wearing the original costume of the mutant speedster known as Quicksilver. Jean Grey masquerades as the Scarlet Witch, and the Beast performs a wonderful impersonation of the Toad. Together, they activate a simulation in the Danger Room, where they fight as some of their deadliest enemies against simulative Sentinel robots. The students of Charles Xavier carve a path of devastation through the ranks of the Sentinels, the machines that have been built to destroy them. Together, the X-Men team-up and perform a wonderful battle against the gigantic robots, hoping to win the day. But, now, it’s time to move over to the more important things…
Present day…
Cyclops, Beast and Jean are startled when they arrive at home after spending some time in the Savage Land, and find none other than the famous Fantastic Four as their guests! Scott asks them why they are there. Reed confirms that they are here for a very good reason, as the Professor claimed the reason might involve the safety of the entire human race. Beast doesn’t really believe that, as they X-Men have heard that phrase all to many times before, because mostly it resulted in yet another attack on mutantkind.
Reed didn’t mean to hurt Hank’s feelings and apologizes for it, claiming that, unlike most others, he does see mutants as ordinary humans and doesn’t hate them. Ben wants to know why Xavier went into their heads when they arrived. Xavier defends that it was just for safety reasons and nothing more. He tells the young X-Men to get into their uniforms, and to meet with him later in the Briefing Room in about ten minutes.
As she returns to her room, Jean finds it odd that she can still sense something wrong with the Professor. She believes that the gamma radiation which Xavier instructed them to use to restart his mind may not have had the effect they all hoped it would have. However, she can’t be sure about it. Jean realizes that she has only been a functional telepath for a short time, and isn’t anywhere near adept enough to probe all of Charles’ mind. Not without him detecting it, anyway. She opens up her wardrobe and notices that no one did any laundry while the team was away, resulting in her not having any clean uniforms to wear. She opens up a drawer and stands corrected: she found her original black and gold uniform again. Jean wonders if it would still fit her, and puts it on.
Jean happily smiles at the lovely result. She always liked the design of these old suits, and believes that a little trimming here and there has brought this one right up to date. Charles meets up with Jean and notices she found the costume he laid out for her. He wants her to follow him so he can continue the introductions to the other X-Men. Jean doesn’t understand. Charles suddenly gets a headache, and apologizes for it. His mind seemed to have wandered off for a moment. When Jean asks if he’s alright, Charles claims that he’s fine, and tells her to follow him as the Fantastic Four are waiting. Jean agrees, but promises to herself that, the first chance she gets, she’s going to inform Scott and Hank about what just happened.
Later, at the Briefing Room, Ben jokingly congratulates Xavier on the nice furniture he has in the room. It looks like Reed isn’t the only one who shops at Toys ‘R’ Us. Reed doesn’t want to hear any more jokes, and wants Xavier to explain things now. Xavier confirms that indeed, nine days ago, he used his telepathic powers to create a link between the minds of every man, woman and child on this planet! It was only by such an extraordinary bounding of the human race that the X-Men were able to beat back the invading army of the Z’Nox. He asks everyone to turn their attention to a far wall, and explains he shall create a series of mental images, which will tell his tale in full. He uses his powers to show the Fantastic Four a picture of the Z’Nox, and Johnny is startled by their hideous looks, joking that they sure don’t look like Mel Gibson.
Ben tells Johnny to be quiet, as he’s got the feeling something really serious is going to come out of this. Xavier can only confirm that. He further explains to the Fantastic Four that the Z’Nox are a marauding race spawned within the vast lens of the Andromeda Galaxy. Millennia ago, Z’Nox scientists, or perhaps scientists of other races the Z’Nox enslaved, developed the most powerful weapon imaginable. It was a gravity transformer drive, which allowed them to transport their entire planet across the cosmos! This, the Z’Nox did, heedless of the world-shattering damage they wrought upon other globes.
Ben is surprised that these creepy aliens seem to come from Andromeda, and asks Reed if that isn’t where the Skrulls also originate from. Reed asks Xavier if the Z’Nox recently attempted an invasion of the Earth. He explains that his instruments at the Baxter Building indicated something of the kind. He discovered the readings when they returned to their headquarters after their recent encounter with the Mad Thinker. Xavier confirms it. He believes that if such a wholesale slaughter and destruction could be considered as an invasion. The Z’Nox are space-bourn locusts, and salvage and pillage their target plane and then move on!
Crystal doesn’t understand it. She asks, if what the Professor says is all true, how all this led to him using his telepathic powers to link every mind on Earth with each other. Xavier defends that it was the only defense he could conceive against the Z’Nox at the time. He reveals that, some months ago, he detected at the school the approaching planet only by the most fortuitous stroke of luck. He knew he would have to devote all of his energy into finding a defense. And that was when the mutant called Changeling arrived.
Changeling broke into the school, surprising Xavier that he had managed to break in. Changeling claimed it wasn’t so tough for him, because he can easily change his shape. He admitted that he and Xavier had been on opposite sides in the past, but now he had a favor to ask. He knew that he was a walking dead man, since he’s had cancer, with the doctors concluding he only has a few months left to live. Xavier’s mutant powers allowed him to confirm the serenity of Changeling’s reason for coming to the X-Men’s headquarters, and so he only informed Marvel Girl about his plan. Once Jean was brought to the Professor, he explained to her that the Changeling would use his morphing abilities to assume his form. Xavier himself would then share his power with both Jean and the Changeling, so the Changeling can take in the place of the X-Men’s leader.
Thus did the Changeling hope to find his own kind of redemption. But then, something happened which Xavier hadn’t anticipated. While in battle with the subhuman Grotesk, the Changeling was killed, while still wearing Xavier’s form! Jean was aware that it wasn’t the real Charles Xavier who had died that day, but she couldn’t inform the others about this without permission from the Professor. He was still locked away in the mansion, out of contact with even her newfound telepathic powers!
Reed realizes that this is a most unfortunate situation. But, there is still one question left unanswered. Xavier realizes that Reed is talking about the precise nature of the defense he conceived against the Z’Nox. As the Z’Nox world approached, Charles was able to learn more and more about their alien nature. And he discovered that they were a race upon whom uncaring evolution had played a cruel trick. They were utterly and completely without compassion. The aliens understood nothing but cruelty and war. And so Xavier set about training his X-Men to focus their most individual talents in a most unique way!
An advanced scouting party of Z’Nox had built a base on the eternal icecap of the South Pole. This base, the X-Men penetrated, and as they did so, Xavier reached out with his telepathy, pushing his mind past all limits he had previously known, to create a fleeting link between the minds of every human being on Earth! The power of those entwined minds he then channeled into Marvel Girl, who in turn transmitted the mental energy into Havok, who focused his portion into the brain of his brother Cyclops, while Iceman used his freezing powers to insure the terrible force of those energies did not consume all of them. Thus, all in one shining instant, the true meaning of what it is to be human was thrust into the alien minds of the invading Z’Nox.
It was more than the Z’Nox’ alien minds and souls could tolerate. It corroded their will to conquer as acid corrodes unprotected metal. To save themselves, the Z’Nox destroyed their Antarctic base and fled, hurling back into the immeasurable infinity of the universe!  Both Ben and Johnny are impressed by the story. Jean adds that the strain was almost too much for the Professor. He nearly died for real this time!
Hesitant, Xavier admits that it was all well worth the risk. He only did what had to be done. Reed still isn’t sure about it. Ben jokes that he recognizes that tone in Reed’s voice, thinking he is about to say something frosting about all this. Reed defends that isn’t his intent, but he must admit he is troubled by it all. He asks Charles if he is saying that this stunt of his caused some sort of permanent change in the inherent nature of the Z’Nox.
Xavier denies that. He defends that he wishes that was the case, but all he was able to do was drive the Z’Nox away from Earth. Crystal realizes that means the aliens are still out there, somewhere. Reed thinks so too, and that the Z’Nox are probably already making plans to attack another world. Cyclops admits none of the X-Men thought about that possibility. Xavier admits he didn’t, either. His focus was entirely upon the salvation of Earth and he gave no thought about anyone else.
Ben cheers Xavier up telling him not to worry about it. After all, the X-Men aren’t used to dealing with this kind of stuff like the Fantastic Four are. Reed admits that isn’t how he would have put it, but it’s accurate. Cyclops believes that the question now is trying to find out if the Z’Nox are still out there, and what they are going to do about it.
Meanwhile, elsewhere on the ocean…
The sea captain still can’t believe he let Arnstrong let him talk into doing this. Arnstrong defends he didn’t do much talking, because the captain realized that this is where the money is. The sea captain confirms it and steers towards another ship. Along the way, he explains that he has been on the seas for forty years now, and with this one act he’ll get more money he ever made in all those years combined. They meet up with another captain named Kreuger, who confirms the Captain’s thoughts. Arnstrong shows Kreuger that they brought the tied-up Angel and Avia with them. Kreuger happily smiles, and thanks the two for it.
Four hours later, at a secluded private airfield in Upstate New York…
The Fantastic Four have brought the X-Men to a giant hangar, and Beast is impressed by their gigantic spaceship! Cyclops is impressed as well, but thinks the ship doesn’t look like it has just been built with human technology. Ben confirms that, and mentions that the bigger part of the ship has been built with alien Skrull technology. Reed confirms that, and mentions that for all intents and purposes, this is a Skrull spaceship. And therefore, it is ideally suited for the pursuit of another race spawned in the Andromeda Galaxy!
As they head into outer space, Beast gets more and more excited and impressed, and jokes he discovered another reason why people call Reed “Mr. Fantastic.” Ben jokes that Beast will get more used to this if he does this kind of thing on a monthly basis, like the team does. Reed smiles that it’s always nice when people appreciate his work.
Scott walks over to Jean, who sits alone in the back of the ship. He asks if she’s alright. He noticed that ever since they left the Earth, she has been strangely quiet. Jean apologizes for it. She thinks that she’s probably just overwhelmed by the sheer majesty of all this. Scott doesn’t buy that. It’s more than just that as he can feel it. He wants to know what’s troubling her. Jean admits that lots of things are troubling her mind right now. And this trip hasn’t got anything to do with those things. It’s just a strange feeling she has. Ever since they left the Earth, it almost feels like someone is watching her.
Reed instructs everyone to stand by, mentioning that they’ve locked onto the ionic distortion pattern of the Z’Nox gravity drive. Reed has made the ship ready, and a giant vortex opens, making it clear to everyone that they are now entering hyperspace!
Meanwhile, back at Xavier’s…
Candy arrives at the school again, and calls out wondering if anyone’s home. But, nobody answers. She believes that it looks like Xavier kept his word, as her entering the mansion isn’t setting off any kind of alarms. She likes that idea, as she would hate to be involved with another robot sentry, like before. However, a security robot does arrive and asks Candy to identify herself. She does as told, and later asks the robot to step aside as she’s got some disturbing news to tell to Warren. But the robot refuses to step aside, at least not for as long as Professor X gives him his permission.
And at the Savage Land…
Havok steers the ship where he, Lorna and Ka-Zar sit in back home. Lorna jokes that this has been a lousy trip: they came there looking for the missing X-Men, who came to the Savage Land to find out if Magneto had really died, and now they have learned from the natives they encountered that it was in fact Magneto’s ghost, who had been causing the trouble down there. Ka-Zar thinks that’s all Havok and Lorna need to know. Alex isn’t so sure about that. He recalls that the ancient native woman said something about something “magic” being there that made people live forever, and he fears what’s going to happen if Magneto somehow hooked onto that.
Lorna warns Havok, as the mini-Cerebro unit mounted in the dashboard is registering a mutant presence. Alex recognizes the signal. It’s not just any mutant: it’s Iceman! Lorna remembers that Iceman quit the X-Men, so she wonders what he’s doing here in the Savage Land?
In outer space…
Reed informs that the hyperspace jump has been successfully completed. Beast got a little sick by it. Ben jokes about it, mentioning that Reed has a bad habit leaving out comfort for others. Reed warns everyone to head up, and that his calculations were almost correct. They will be entering orbit around the Z’Nox world in thirty seconds! Z’Nox already spot the heroes, and start attacking them in ships without provocation. Johnny thinks that’s great, as now he’ll finally get the chance again to use this oxygen web suit that allows him to fly into space. The Human Torch flames on and flies out, ready for action!
Hank and Jean are impressed by the fact that Johnny is able to fly outside. But, they notice that the door of the ship is still open, fearing that the cold air might kill them soon! Crystal calms them down, explaining that this ship is encased in a permeable force field. That field won’t allow the air to escape, but will allow the passage of large bodies, and will let them able to fight back. Cyclops thinks that’s great to hear, and admits that after the Professor described the looks of the Z’Nox, he was kind of hankering for a chance to take them down. He fires an optic blast and destroys a couple Z’Nox ships.
Ben attaches a rope against the ship and flies outside, wanting to have his share of the action. He heads towards another Z’Nox ship and starts tearing it apart. Johnny is thrilled and is happy to finally be fighting. Beast follows Ben’s example and joins the fight. Scott compliments Crystal about how good she is with her energy zaps that come from her hands, and asks if all the Inhumans are so adept. Crystal smiles that she does have the honor of belonging to the Royal Family.
Jean remains at the back of the ship, and can feel that “it” is still there. She can feel a… presence in her mind, which has been there ever since they left the Earth. It almost feels like something is probing her, scanning every atom of her being. It’s… reaching into her… and changing her! The force is turning her into something else. Something that is the living embodiment of raw, naked power! A yellow/orange glow starts surrounding Jean, and she unleashes a vast amount of power, which shapes itself in the form of a phoenix!


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Dark Destiny
Whisper Hill…
This is a place of secrets and mysteries. And tonight, it’s also a place of dark forebodings. Sue walks over to Agatha, who stands alone in her room. Sue asks if everything’s alright. She realizes Reed insisted that both she and Franklin came to her house for safety, but now she senses something weird. Agatha admits that she feels something too. She feels a… disturbance at the very center of those most dearest to Sue!
Sue immediately thinks about her family, and knew she shouldn’t had let them go off alone. Agatha defends that Ben, Johnny, Reed and Crystal all had a mission, one which they knew might be fraught with unspeakable dangers. Sue doesn’t believe Agatha can be talking about any more danger than the team has faced before, not ever since they became the Fantastic Four. Agatha takes Franklin into her arms and nurtures him. She feels that Sue feels frustrated that her place in the team has been taken by another. Sue admits that. She realizes that Crystal is skilled and competent, but she believes that what both she and Agatha feel may be a threat that could demand all of their powers to stop it!
Space, Z’Nox orbit…
Cyclops panics, and has noticed that Jean has been taken over by a terrible, and evil looking force and asks if she’s alright. Jean claims she is, but mentions that she isn’t “Jean” anymore. Scott is startled by it all and wants to know what happened to her. It’s as if all of her natural inhibitions have been stripped away from her. He wonders if this might be something the Z’Nox did to her. Jean starts attacking Mr. Fantastic, so Scott fires an optic blast on her before she kills the man. However,, Jean isn’t even harmed by the blast!
Jean calls Scott a fool, and uses her telekinetic powers to lift him up. She noticed he didn’t use the full power of his optic blast, and that the love he feels for Jean made him hesitate. The force guesses that’s the sole human weakness. She demonstrates her fire powers, and torches Scott’s entire body!
Seeing this, Beast quickly attacks Jean, and asks her what happened. “Jean” smiles that she has been faced with such imaginable power and is ready to use it. She also torches Beast’s body, like with Scott! Crystal sneaks up on Jean, and attacks her using her Inhuman powers. Crystal proudly claims that she won’t ask questions like the others, and instead she’s going to tell Marvel Girl that in her she will face one who manipulates energy as a sculptor shapes his clay. There isn’t a force Jean can unleash that Crystal can’t turn back upon her.
Crystal starts using her powers on Jean, who isn’t so impressed. She can feel that Crystal is powerful, but claims that the girl never had to face the likes of her. The force attacks Crystal, and she faints due to the large amount of energy in the room. The force sarcastically laughs, claiming that she has so much power not even the universe can contain it!
On that very moment, Jean suddenly turns back to normal! Scott gets up again and tends to her, telling her that, in the middle of the attack, she just froze! Reed wonders if the aliens are perhaps using some kind of psionic device against Jean. Crystal believes that might be true, since with Jean being a natural telepath she might be vulnerable for such a thing. Jean knows for sure it wasn’t that. But, she can’t remember what it was, since what happened is already fading away from her mind. It’s like she dreamt the whole thing. Scott can confirm that they aren’t in a dream, because the Z’Nox have redoubled their assault!
He points Jean’s attention to outside, where the heavy battle can be seen. He explains that Beast, the Thing and the Human Torch are in the middle of the battle, and he and Crystal have been using their energy powers for precise surgical strikes. Reed mentions that, although he reverse engineered their ship from Skrull technology, he didn’t include any weaponry in the ship’s equipment. Their powers will have to do! Jean confirms that that’s all the X-Men could use the last time they faced the Z’Nox.
All in one searing instant, memories flash across Jean Grey’s mind. A scant nine days ago, when Charles Xavier, the leader of the X-Men, told the youthful teammates of a terrible threat to their world. Jean remembers how Xavier revealed to the team that the Z’Nox use a powerful gravity transformer drive to transport their whole planet across the galaxy. The aliens are like swarming locusts and pillage a planet, and then move on. Making his erstwhile students at last aware of his plan, which Xavier had been formulating in secret for many months, he set about honing each of the X-Men’s special mutant powers towards a selected task.
It was a task which linked not only through the minds of Cyclops, Iceman, Havok and Marvel Girl, but also through the minds of every man, woman and child on the entire planet Earth! After the Z’Nox were finally defeated, Xavier released the humans from his grip and wished them good luck. However, just a few hours ago, the Fantastic Four arrived at the school, having learned about the Z’Nox’ existence and potential danger to other planets. Xavier admitted he hadn’t thought about that possibility, so he sent the X-Men along with the Fantastic Four in outer space to battle the aliens.
Beast hops back into the spaceship, and unfortunately has some bad news. They are highly outnumbered against the Z’Nox! Reed realizes they’ll have to try out something unconventional. Crystal panics, as she notices that Reed is picking up the orbital maintenance controls, and they can’t be altered! The ship goes out of control, and pulls Ben along with it! He panics. Johnny tries to help his friend out, but the ship is going so fast, that the cold atmosphere in space might end up killing Ben!
Xavier’s…
The security robot brings Candy to the Cerebro room, where she meets up with Xavier. He’s angry with her, due to this he lost mental contact with the other X-Men. He wants to know what she’s doing there. Candy claims that this isn’t a social call, and needs to speak to Warren. Xavier informs Candy that Warren hasn’t yet returned from the Savage Land mission, but wants to know if the news is important. Candy claims that that depends on how Xavier looks at it. She asks when the last time was he read Hamlet.
Space…
Reed orders Crystal to use the wrench to pull Ben back into the ship before the atmosphere gets too tick. She quickly does and manages to pull Ben back into the ship and he wants to know what happened. Reed apologizes for spoiling Ben’s fun, but he believes he finally has a solution to their problems. Johnny notices that the ship is steering back to normal and is glad to see that. But now it seems to be diving right at the base of the bad guys. Reed warns everyone to prepare themselves, as he has activated the inertial dampers, but this will still be a bumpy arrival.
The ship lands in front of the entrance of the Z’Nox spaceship. Johnny notices that everyone is stepping out of the ship and following Reed. He wants to know what’s going on. Ben jokes that Reed is having another big solution, which he, as usual, isn’t sharing with anyone. Reed claims that this time, talking means wasting time and they’ve got to hurry. He takes out a scanning device and points the direction to go. However, as the team goes, they have to face the Z’Nox guardian again. It looks like the huge monster found its way home again. Cyclops starts attacking it, and Jean mentions that the monster is too big for her to use her telekinetic powers again. Scott notices that Jean is sounding like her former self again, but he still can’t figure out what happened to her back on the ship. But those are concerns for later.
Scott notices that his beam is slowing the monster down a bit, but recalls that, the last time they faced the creature, they only managed to elude it. Reed thinks that will have to do for now as well, and orders Beast and Ben to follow him. They do as told, and Reed orders the others to do what they can to hold the monster back. Ben admits he’s a bit angry for being left out of the battle and hopes Reed has a good reason to do this. Reed explains that, before they left the ship, he was able to pinpoint the precise center of the Z’Nox gravity drive, and now they are at the exact room where it lays!
Hank takes a closer look at the drive and notices it has a long tunnel down. Ben wants to know what they are looking for. Reed explains that the “tunnel” is in fact a shaft, which reaches down to the very core of the Z’Nox world. In order for the gravity drive to do what it does, it must harness the electro-magnetic fields of the entire planet. And that is what Reed is intending to bend to his own purposes. Ben notices that Reed still isn’t explaining what he’s going to do. Reed uses his powers to stretch down into the tunnel and attaches a device against the drive. He asks Ben if it would help if he told him he hopes to cross link the interstitial field generators, who are going to cause a sub-protonic flux emission, which will translate the molecular structure of the Z’Nox world sideways into the negative space. Ben jokes that his point has been made, and that Reed still isn’t explaining anything.
As Reed continues to give his answers to Ben, the battle against the guardian continues. Jean doesn’t believe that this can possibly be the same monster they faced before, as this creature seems to be able to adapt to their powers. Scott believes that adapting is the answer! He realizes that they have been hitting this thing piecemeal, and need to coordinate their attacks. He wants everybody to focus their powers on one spot.
Johnny doesn’t believe the plan will work, but Crystal tells Johnny to listen to Scott, believing he’s on the right track. She also suggests that they hit the monster right between its eyes, to which Scott agrees, and orders everyone to do so. The plan works, and the monster falls! Jean notices that they didn’t kill the beast, as she can still sense low brain functions in it. Scott is just glad they gave their foe a headache it won’t forget anytime soon, and suggests they go to Ben, Hank and Reed now.
The Savage Land…
Karl notices that Bobby is awake and asks how he’s feeling. Bobby guesses he’s okay, as he doesn’t know how he’s supposed to feel. He still can’t remember anything. Karl isn’t surprised that Bobby’s amnesia isn’t showing any sign of abating. He explains that, when he found Bobby, he was washed up on the shore and near death. In some ways, he is more fortunate that he didn’t suffer anything worst than just a memory loss. Bobby hopes his memory will only be temporarily lost. But either way, he thanks Karl for all the help, and for the food he brought for him. As he watches Bobby eat, Karl wonders how grateful the boy is going to be if he would recall that he is actually Iceman, a member of the X-Men…
Space…
Ben believes that’s something’s wrong. Reed explains that the Z’Nox drive mechanisms have reached down deeper into the shaft than he had originally anticipated. He isn’t sure if he and Beast can withstand the pressure. Hank cheers that they can’t give up. Ben jokes that he can take a hint. He jokes that this is where his old Aunt Petunia’s most handsome nephew finally gets to earn his salt. He just wants to be told what he has to hit so they can move on. Reed isn’t sure if that’s going to work, but Hank doesn’t think they’ve got another choice. The Thing is the only one of the two teams who can hope to survive the crushing pressures so far down!
The Thing dives into the shaft and, after a while, Reed asks over intercom where he is. Ben mentions that this was a whole lot easier when Reed was playing elevator. But he can see the mechanism Reed described just a couple of yards further down the shaft. He takes out the device and plugs it in the mechanism, just like Reed told him. However, as Ben puts the device in, the shaft starts making an odd sound. Reed panics and Hank realizes that these shifting mechanisms are threatening to seal the Thing below! Reed believes that the Z’Nox must have detected their actions, and engaged the gravity drive again. It will only be seconds before Reed’s modifications kick in!
Beast believes they’d better act quickly then, now that there is still time. He tells Reed to allow himself to become maximum ductility. As Reed stretches his body until he has become that way, Hank explains that the pressures down the shaft might still crush them, if they are too long exposed to it, but they have to give it a shot in order to rescue Ben. While Reed holds on to something above, Beast uses Reed’s body as a rope to dive into the shaft. There, he picks Ben up and pulls them both back up into safety, by using Reed’s elastic body like a snapped rubber band!
The others catch up with Ben and the two scientists, and they decide to head back towards their spaceship. Reed activates the ship again, and just in time, as the entire Z’Nox world starts to glow in a green light and then… disappears!
The heroes all watch the spectacle, but Scott can’t help but wonder to where the Z’Nox world has disappeared. He can’t figure out a place where they won’t form a threat. Reed explains that he send the Z’Nox into the distortion zone which lies between Earth’s dimension and the Negative Zone. There, the Z’Nox will find energy aplenty, but no planets to conquer and hurt. And, Reed adds, since their adaptation of the Z’Nox’ drive will have also caused it to fuse into an useable mass, the Z’Nox will have to become self-sufficient, living off the resources of their own world, instead of the ones they pirate from.
Cyclops congratulates Reed on the fine solution and is certain the Professor will approve of it. Hank suggests they head back home again so they can inform their mentor about the events. Ben jokes they might, and also check out for any other loose ends the X-Men left behind their tails. Jean smiles, as she thinks they don’t have to worry much about them, as normally the X-Men don’t leave a job unfinished!
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Illinois, some fifteen miles west of the town of Dunfee. Far from matters which would seem of any concern to the uncanny X-Men. But certainly, Ashley Martin, a young girl at the age of 10, has no reason to believe she would be of interest to the X-Men. If only she would know what is about to happen.
While playing with her Barbie dolls, young Ashley suddenly hears a loud bang behind her. She turns around, and finds herself stalked by… a Sentinel!


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Home Is Where The Hurt Is…
In an ice-cold ocean far away from the Savage Land…
Swimming below the surface of the ocean, a panicking Amphibius encourages himself not to give up. He is determined to find the person he is looking for. And so, a little while further, the mutated creature finally finds his objective: Magneto! Amphibius quickly grabs his fallen master, floating unconscious in the deep, and drags them both back to shore. Though Amphibius doesn’t know the island he is heading towards to, he realizes he can’t give up if he wants his master to survive.
Meanwhile at Muir Island…
Moira concludes the examination on Jean Grey’s body. She confirms to the Professor that something definitely has happened while she and the other X-Men where in space but, whatever it was, it appears to be completely out of her body. Charles agrees, believing that it might have been nothing more than a dream, like Jean described the events that happened to her.
Jean isn’t so sure about that, and wants a confirmation, since they are using all of these Star Wars look-a-like devices in the lab. They should be able to detect something. Moira explains that whatever force flew into Jean’s body, it would appear it completely erased itself. But, she does warn the Professor to keep an eye open, just to be sure.
After Jean has put on her uniform again, the Professor prepares the jet to head back to the mansion. Moira meets up with Jean and asks if she can speak to her privately for a while. When Jean agrees, Moira admits she can’t help but wonder if there had to be more to Jean’s experience in outer space, and wants to know for sure if Jean really doesn’t remember anything that happened to her. Jean claims she doesn’t, only the slightest feeling of not being in control anymore of her body’s actions for a while. The force also felt like it hadn’t experience any human emotion before, and was suddenly all experiencing them all at once, through her own body!
Moira realizes the force started out with the worst emotion: hurting people and liking it. She adds that she isn’t a telepath like Jean or Charles, but that her interest lies in mutation so that’s why she wants to know about it. Jean recalls that she became a telepath when the Professor triggered those powers that lay dormant within her a while back. Jean also admits that she’s worried, especially about this research center that Moira runs. Before coming to this place, Jean had no idea it existed. She and the Professor even lied to Scott and Hank, telling them they were just going to doctors in Boston who used to be his partners. Moira defends that the lie was necessary, because there exist a lot of evil mutants who would want to destroy her center, should they know about it. This includes some non-mutants as well, like her and Charles old partner who turned evil, Karl Lykos.
Jean admits that Lykos became bad and turned into the monster called Sauron because she and the X-Men have faced him before. But, she only finds it suspicious that the Professor seems to have so many secrets he only shared with her, and not with the others. While heading back to school in their plane, Jean asks the Professor if he has more secrets. The Professor admits he has, but can’t share only a few right now with Jean. He explains he only shares them with her because, with her telepathic powers, she can shield those secrets from detection, and the others can’t. Jean can almost accept that, but she isn’t sure how much longer she can lie to her friends.
Later, back at Westchester…
Once they are back home, Cyclops and Beast welcome Jean and the Professor back. After Xavier informs the two that “his old colleagues” concluded that Jean’s fine, he notices that the two aren’t doing their monitor duty, like he had ordered them to do. Scott and Hank mention that they were, but mention that Cerebro detected a new mutant, so they came here to warn him about it.
Elsewhere…
Ashley’s mom warns her daughter that she’s going to be late for her bus to school if she doesn’t speed up. When her mom can’t find Ashley, she panics a bit. Ashley suddenly comes running through the kitchen door and, after taking her bag, she takes off without mentioning what she was doing. Mrs. Martin notices that the door of the barn behind their house is still open, and wonders what her daughter was doing in there.
Back at the school, Xavier discovers why Hank was feeling so edgy. The signal of the new mutant is strong and shows a lot of potential, but it’s also close to his birth town of Dunfee in Illinois, and his parents still live there. So, the Professor agrees for Hank to join him in the investigation, just to make sure his parents are alright. P>
Once in Dunfee, the mini-Cerebro still hasn’t found a better location of the mutant. Xavier suspects that some sort of signal might be blocking the tracking device, but isn’t sure about it. As they arrive at Hank’s parent’s house, Hank thinks about the fact that it hasn’t been that long since he left this home to join the X-Men. However, with so much having happened in such a short amount of time, it feels like years since the last time he was there.
Hank’s mother happily meets up with him, and hugs Hank for visiting her. She also shakes hands with the Professor and feels honored. When she asks what brings them there, Hank mentions that they are looking for a new student to join the school, just like the Professor was doing when he first approached him. Edna invites them both in, and mentions that Hank’s father will sure be glad to see his son again once he comes back home.
At Xavier’s, Scott and Jean are trying to use the Cerebro computers to locate Warren, who is still missing. Scott thinks he might have found their friend, but the signal is weak. Suddenly, Candy approaches them. Jean recognizes her from the few times they met her with Warren, but isn’t so glad to see her at the school. She quickly explains that the Professor is aware that she knows about the X-Men’s secrets, and has granted her access to the “less sensitive parts” of the school, so that’s why none of the alarms went off when she entered the room. She also suggests that she joins in Warren’s rescue mission, because she has some important news to tell him, and she’s certain he would rather hear it from her than from anyone else!
At the same time in the Savage Land…
While in their jet, Lorna wonders what Iceman is doing there in the Savage Land, because he quit the X-Men a while ago. Alex thinks that Bobby must have caught the telepathic warning signal the Professor had send to them about the X-Men being in danger, so he did what he was trained for to do and joined the rescue mission. Ka-Zar agrees with that, but now Bobby apparently got himself into trouble. Alex doesn’t worry too much, since their mini-Cerebro has already located Bobby’s position so they shouldn’t have too much trouble picking him up.
Meanwhile, as he watches Karl Lykos work, Bobby can’t help but think about the fact that Karl looks familiar too him somehow. Karl claims that can’t be, because Bobby has amnesia and that this is the first time they met each other. However, to himself, Lykos recalls the truth.
He realizes that, if Iceman would come to recognize him, he would immediately attack him, because he is the X-Men’s old nemesis known as Sauron. He concludes that the strange and welcome peace he found in this savage place makes everything that happened seem like such a long time ago, even though it only happened a couple of weeks ago.
With the hypnotic powers of Sauron, Karl was nearly able to turn the X-Men against each other, and even have Angel help him escape. It was only when Sauron almost fatally injured the woman he loved that he realized how dangerous he was in his transformed form. It’s was after that moment that that they took him back to the place where it all began: a cabin on an icy cliff in Tierra Del Fuego. It was the place where Karl was born.
He had hoped that he could forget the trouble he caused, together with his beloved Tanya. However, he didn’t want to risk Tanya’s life anymore, fearing that Sauron’s hunger might consume her, and so he jumped off a cliff to protect her. But, an unexpected edge saved his life once again, and he wasn’t even spotted by the searching X-Men at the time. After the X-Men went back home again, Karl came out of his hiding place and discovered the beauty of the Savage Land. On a certain day, he found the old, abandoned shack of a German expedition team that was investigating the volcanoes on this island. However, with them gone, their home proved of value to Karl so he took it over.
At Dunfee…
Beast and Xavier arrive at the home of the new mutant. When nobody answers the doorbell, Hank goes to check out if everyone’s at the garden behind the house. While doing that, Hank notices that the Professor still treats him and the other students like rookies, and it seems like he hasn’t fully recovered yet from the coma he was in not too long ago. In the garden, Hank sees some dolls and a sandbox, and also a barn. He enters it, thinking somebody might be in there. However, as he searches through it, a giant robot appears behind him!
Elsewhere, across the ocean…
Jean gives Candy a spare copy of her green X-Men uniform, to protect their identities and also to protect Candy from harm during their upcoming mission. Candy doesn’t like the uniform, mostly because green has never been her color, but she understands the reasons behind it, so she puts it on.
Nearby, Scott jokingly asks if he can open his eyes again now, since flying a plane with your eyes closed isn’t so easy as it may look. When Jean says it’s okay, Scott opens his eyes to Jean’s current outfit and asks her why she is still wearing her old uniform, and gave Candy her new one. Jean defends that, with so much happened lately, wearing her old uniform helps her gain a sense of continuity. Plus, it feels comfortable.
Suddenly, they come upon the freighter Cerebro told them Angel was on. After hovering their craft next to it, they climb aboard it, but on first sight it seems like nobody is there. They search through the place and, once in the lower decks, they are attacked by lots of angry mutant-like people!
The X-Men and Candy fight, but Jean notices a weird thing about their attackers: she can’t enter their minds, and fails to get any mental imagery from these people. It seems like their minds are closed somehow. Cyclops notices that the goons are trying to prevent them from going through a door, so he blasts his way through them and through the door as well. Candy goes through it first, and notices a familiar looking white feather. Realizing it must come from Warren, Scott notices another closed door and blasts through it as well. Once going through that one, they find someone spiked against a wall!
At Dunfee…
Ashley arrives back home, and finds the Professor. Scared at a stranger in their yeard, she asks him who she is. The Professor introduces himself, and telepathically senses that Ashley really is the new mutant Cerebro found. Ashley defends that she can’t let the Professor in because her mom hasn’t come back yet. He understands.
On that very moment, an attacked Beast gets thrown through the house by… a Sentinel! The Sentinel recognizes the three nearby mutant signals, and also recognizes the data from Professor X and Beast. He quickly grabs Xavier and tries to grab Beast as well. Luckily, Hank jumps into safety, but the Sentinel strikes him down with delta-7 nerve gas.
Ashley angrily tells the Sentinel to put the two men down, as she didn’t help the robot so it could destroy her home. The Sentinel defends it can’t do that, since it’s only performing the task his creator, Lawrence Trask, programmed him to complete: Destroy all mutants!


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Destroy All Mutants!
Four weeks ago…
A furious young Lawrence Trask commands his Sentinels to secure all mutants in the nearby area, and to destroy them all! Judge Chalmers desperately tries to stop him. Trask doesn’t see why Chalmers suddenly changes his heart like this, unless he of course is a mutant as well. Chalmers defends otherwise, and hits Trask in the face, taking his medallion away from him. Chalmers apologizes for hitting the boy, but is certain that he’ll understand his motives once he learns about his true plan. Lawrence realizes his mistake, and orders the Sentinels to ignore his earlier command. However, the Sentinels claim they can’t do that and area ready to destroy all of mutantkind. And, since they are eager to begin, they grab young Trask in their fists and want to destroy him as well.
Lawrence tries to explain that he isn’t a mutant, but a shameful Chalmers claims that the Sentinel is telling the truth… Lawrence really is a mutant! Chalmers reminds Lawrence about his medallion, the one his father ordered him to never remove. He explains that there are hidden circuits in the medallion that damps down and masks Lawrence’s mutant powers. And that was the power to forsake his own mother’s death. The Sentinel holds Trask tighter and wants to destroy him now, as ordered.
Two weeks ago…
At the same, now destroyed base, the Sentinel that was about to kill Trask, starts repairing its very own body!
Today, at Dunfee…
The Sentinel has also grabbed Ashley, and is ready to destroy her, like his programming is required. An angry Ashley orders the Sentinel to put her and the Professor down immediately, and the robot does so. Xavier is surprised that the Sentinel seems to obey the young child, who apparently is the new mutant Cerebro detected. Ashley apologizes for the misunderstandings, as she doesn’t understand what’s gotten into her robot. After all, he so well-behaved since the moment he arrived at her home.
Elsewhere, at the freighter ship…
Scott and Jean recognize Avia from their earlier meeting, and inform Candy that she befriended Warren during their mission at the Savage Land. Scott helps her down from the wall, and Jean gently uses her telekinesis to help Avia down. Scott notices that their attackers seem to have caught up with them, and starts attacking them. Kreuger approaches his men and, with just a wave from his hands, stops Cyclops’ optic blast from hurting them! He walks towards the X-Men, and introduces himself. He also mentions that he has followed the X-Men’s career ever since their appearance at Cape Citadel. Kreuger claims that like Professor X, he has gathered a band of mutant misfits, though they don’t have the need for words like “mutant” and don’t hide behind science like the X-Men. Here, they can just be themselves.
Meanwhile, at the Savage Land…
Amphibius spies on Iceman and Karl Lykos, unnoticed by them. He decides to report this news back to his master. Magneto is starting to recover, and believes that apparently, there yet lingers some aftereffects of the healing radiation of the deep island volcanoes. It would seem that even his fading magnetic powers have been to some degree restored. Only his tattered garments stand between him, and the full majesty that is Magneto!
Dunfee…
Xavier asks Ashley if it’s true that the Sentinel arrived at her home a week ago. Ashley confirms that, explaining that the Sentinel, which she calls “Big Bot,” just dropped in her back yard like a meteor or something. Beast recovers and quickly starts attacking the Sentinel again, but the Professor tells Hank to stop doing that. Ashley orders the Sentinel to stop the fighting as well, and the robot strangely enough obeys yet again.
When Hank wants to know what’s going on, Ashley instead simply compliments Hank on the big jumps he makes, and wants to know how he did that. Hank jokes that it took him years of practice. Ashley’s mom arrives back home, and is glad to see her daughter alive and well, because she was frightened about her well-being when she saw the house when she was driving by. She wants to know who the Professor and Hank are. The Professor believes it’s time they had a little talk.
The Teratos freighter ship…
Scott demands to know from Kreuger where Warren is, since Cerebro told them he was on the ship. Kreuger claims that’s none of Scott’s concern right now, and promises that he’s safe. Candy doesn’t believe that, remembering what Kreuger did to Avia. Kreuger claims that Avia brought her punishment on by herself and he had no choice but to do what he did. He tells “Marvel Girl,” thinking Candy is Jean by her uniform, to remain calm. Scott is also interested in finding out how Kreuger could block his optic blast like that, since he’s claiming that he isn’t a mutant.
Kreuger smiles, and mentions that he never said he wasn’t a mutant. He starts waving with his hands again, and causes Scott, Jean and Candy to fall unconscious! His follower, Remiped, comes to inform his master that they managed to place contact with the others. Kreuger triumphs, finding it ironic that the X-Men didn’t foresee that he could have the power to suppress their special mutant powers. He walks towards the radio deck, and hopes that his “business partner’s” mood is improved since the last time they spoke. He reports to the receiver that he’s got more captured X-Men, and hopes that the guy is interested in them.
At the other end of the line, Blob, Mastermind and Unus smile with an evil grin on their faces, glad to receive the news, as they are always glad to have the chance to settle old scores!
Meanwhile, at Dunfee…
Xavier confesses to Mrs. Martin that her daughter really is a mutant. He apologizes for it, because normally he doesn’t inform the parents about their children being a mutant until they had a little time to prepare them for it. But right now, with the Sentinel, he didn’t have much choice. Mrs. Martin recognizes the Sentinel, as they were all over the news a few weeks back. He wants to know why it came here and how it found Ashley. The Professor asks Ashely to ask the question to the robot. She agrees to do it, and asks the robot the question.
The Sentinel reveals that it assembled itself from fragments of five separate Sentinel units that were destroyed in an earlier battle with the X-Men. The repairs took several days, but intact memory banks indicated removal from compromised base to be a priority. A random selection set the newly rebuild unit on a westward flight plan. While scouting ahead, the Sentinel’s automatic scanners detected a mutant presence when flying over Dunfee. The Sentinel located Ashley in the backyard of her house playing but, with his weapons not fully repaired yet, the Sentinel couldn’t destroy her and was at her mercy.
Ashley’s mom is startled to discover her daughter just hid the robot in their barn. Ashley knew her mom would make a fuss out of it all, so she decided to keep the Sentinel a secret. The Professor believes that the Sentinel is the reason why Cerebro had trouble scanning Ashley’s exact location. Hank agrees, thinking that the Sentinel must have been scanning at the same time they were, so it must have scrambled Cerebro. Ashley’s mom still panics though, realizing that the Sentinel has been build to destroy mutants, and her daughter is one. The Sentinel’s program to destroy all mutants kicks online again. Beast and the Professor panic.
The Sentinel fires blasts from its eyes, but luckily Beast drags Ashley and her mom into safety. Hank asks the Professor what to do, but Ashley shouts she’ll handle it. She tells “Big Bot” to stop fighting. The Sentinel identifies Ashley as a mutant, so it can’t stop. Ashley corrects the Sentinel that they are friends now, since she saved its life, and that it doesn’t have to pay any more attention to its old programming, which is dumb, anyway. The Sentinel quotes that his programming can be stopped, but only by a specific stimulus. The Sentinel fires a blast again, and luckily Hank dodges Ashley into safety. Ashley has had enough of it. She doesn’t want to be friends with “Big Bot” anymore. She points her hand at the robot, and it begins to unravel into thousands of tiny pieces!
Ashley’s mom calls out to her daughter, wanting to check if she’s alright. But the Professor warns her to be careful, as something’s still wrong. Ashley angrily turns towards her mother, with her powers fully realized and floating out of her body. She wants her mom to stop whining at her, before she gets really mad.
The Savage Land…
Bobby and Karl have been attacked. Bobby panics, and somehow feels he should be able to do more than instead of the mere running away. He finds an exhausted Karl, and checks if “Joe Smith” is feeling alright. Karl warns Bobby to stay away from him. Bobby realizes that Karl used his name, and wants to know how he could possibly know it, because Bobby couldn’t even remember his own name thanks to his amnesia. He gently touches Karl’s shoulder to help him up, but Karl panics and shouts at Bobby to stay away from him.
However, the warning comes too late. His energies have sunk too low. There is nothing Karl can do to stop himself from draining the life force out of Bobby. And, Karl also doesn’t even see the point of not doing that. Why should he deny himself the power that is his birthright? He grabs Bobby, and absorbs all of his powers until the boy faints. Karl doesn’t see why he should run and hide, when victory can be his for the taking. Karl Lykos may be ill equipped to deal with the invader who attacked this island, but that invader will now stand powerless, now that Karl has completely transformed into… Sauron!


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And Death Alone Shall Know My Name
In a secret grotto, hidden on an island off the coast of the Savage Land…
Magneto has finished rebuilding his old helmet. Amphibius compliments that it looks perfect, but Magneto disagrees with that. However, he guesses, for now it will have to do. Magneto mentions that he has also remade his old costume, or at least something that looks close enough like it, with the aid of the raw materials that their hiding place currently provides. The reason why he changed costumes is because he will soon attack some people again, and he wants them to know who killed them!
Meanwhile, a still amnesiac Iceman helps Karl with rebuilding his hut. Suddenly, Bobby realizes Karl never told him his name. However, Karl claims that, since Bobby has been unable to tell him his name, Karl lies that him telling his name has never come up. However, he lies again, Bobby can call him “Joe Smith” if he wants. Bobby jokes that “Joe” mustn’t have much trouble registering at hotels with a name like that. He hopes Joe doesn’t take any offense, but his name sounds kind of fake to him. Karl doesn’t care, and tells Bobby that he asked for a name and he has given him one. To himself, Karl silently reminds that he can’t tell Bobby his real name, on the fear that it might trigger his memory back and he’ll attack him, realizing he is his powerful enemy Sauron. Bobby calms Karl down, not wanting to cause a fight between them, since after all, Karl did save his life.
Elsewhere, Havok and Lorna have taken the time to drop Ka-Zar back off at his home. Alex mentions to “Magnetrix” that it isn’t far anymore to Bobby’s location. Lorna warns Alex to stop calling her by that name, as they both agreed it was the dumbest codename she could come up with for herself. After all, Lorna reminds Alex, she doesn’t see him coming up with a better codename, as he has gotten his from a bad guy! Alex gets the point. At that moment, the mini-Cerebro’s warning signal goes off, and Alex thinks that Iceman must be on the island they can now see in front of them.
Meanwhile back at Dunfee, Illinois, present time…
Ashley’s mom calls out to her daughter, wanting to check if she’s alright. Hank warns Mrs. Martin though because, right now, Ashley’s powers are at their peak, and those powers are something neither him nor the Professor have ever experienced before. Ashley’s mom is still surprised that her daughter took down the Sentinel all by herself. Ashley defends that was the robot’s own fault, as she thought it was her friend but instead the machine betrayed her. And she blames it all on the Professor, because “Big Bot” was just fine until he got there.
The Professor explains that it’s true that his and Hank’s presence triggered the Sentinel’s mutant-hunting program, but he fears it would have been only a matter of time before Ashley’s own mutant powers would have kicked in and would have done the exact same thing. Hank warns the Professor to be careful about what he says, as this might be familiar to the two of them, but is terra incognita to little Miss Martin.
Ashley’s mom admits she would have never thought her daughter would possess such amazing powers. However, she suddenly remembers that, sometimes, it looks like Ashley’s toys seem alive somehow. The Professor explains that term is called “psychokinetic bounding.”  He explains that, somehow, Ashley is able to project her own life force into unliving matter, including that Sentinel. He tries to approach Ashley, but she warns him to stay away from her! She attacks the Professor with a powerful beam, but luckily Hank rescues him just in time by pulling him out of his wheelchair. Charles mentions that he could feel Ashley commanding the very molecules of his chair to obey her very will. This is something much more than Marvel Girl’s telekinesis. Something much more dangerous!
At the same time on the freighter ship, present time…
As the anchor is weighed as the ship is in sight of land, Kreuger’s men report that they’ll wait for the buyers to come to them. A two-headed mutant carries away Candy, mistaking her for Marvel Girl because she’s still wearing her uniform. The mutant jokes it’s a shame Kreuger had to use his mutant powers to knock her out, because he sure could have some fun with a beautiful little girl like her. After all, girls like her don’t come aboard their ship often. Candy suddenly wakes up, surprising the mutant and knocking his heads against each other. Having knocked out her captor, Candy begins to climb the stairs to a higher deck. As she ascends, Candy thinks that, in the short time she has been hanging out with the X-Men, she sure has learned what it means to perform the impossible.
Nearby, Blunt mentions to his master that the buyers are coming in their ship. Kreuger states that he can see that for himself, and warns Blunt not to let his enthusiasm consume him, because they have business to content. Kreuger steps forward, and welcomes none other than… Mastermind and Unus! He notices that the Blob isn’t with them this time and wants to know the reason. Unus jokes that the Blob tends to fall through the bottom of boats like theirs. Mastermind explains that the Blob is waiting for them back on the shore, but has given the two of them enough power to negotiate.
Kreuger has his men reveal the unconscious body of the real Jean and Cyclops. Mastermind reminds Kreuger that he informed them he had captured three X-Men, so he wants to know where the missing person is. Kreuger replies that Marvel Girl is still below and that his men are bringing her up as they speak. Mastermind doesn’t understand what Kreuger is talking about, since he can see Marvel Girl right next to Cyclops. As Kreuger becomes confused, Candy jokes that Kreuger thought wrong, and throws a steel hook against his head. Confused himself, Mastermind wants to know who Candy is, and Unus notices that she’s dressed like Marvel Girl as well.
Candy starts to run away, realizing that this situation is turning out to be less fun than she thought it would. She thinks that this may not have been want the real Marvel Girl would have done, when she told her to pretend to be her when Kreuger captured them earlier. She runs further on the ship, but more of Kreuger’s men show up and recognize the imposter, and begin to chase her. Candy runs away again, thinking to herself that clocking Kreuger the way she did didn’t wake up either Jean or Scott like she would hoped. And somehow she doesn’t think the self-defense course she took at the learning annex is going to do her much good against this attacking crowd. She races into the ship’s interior, and descends some stairs. However, something is wrong. She has only walked down about ten steps and, as she looks in front of her, it appears there are a million more before her! Candy starts to panic and wants to know where the exit is!
Little does Candy realize that she has been fooled by Mastermind’s power of illusion. She can’t handle the strain, and faints. Kreuger admits he’s impressed by the great power Mastermind possesses. To this, Mastermind jokes that he didn’t became a charter member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants by being anything less than being the best at what he does. Unus mocks that Mastermind is also the most humble one of their crew, too. Mastermind warns Unus to get smart with him, and makes him believe that snakes are crawling all over his body!
Kreuger warns Mastermind to stop, and thinks it’s no wonder mutants never accomplished the goal of world conquest: they spend too much time fighting amongst themselves. Now, Kreuger wants to negotiate about the price for the X-Men: it’s one hundred thousand dollars. He wants to know if the Brotherhood is prepared to pay that price. Mastermind smiles that they are, and throws the money at him. He jokes that Kreuger can add this pile of money to the 30 big ones they already paid for Angel earlier.
Later, Mastermind and Unus have returned to their ship, and meet up with the Blob who’s being treated like a king by lots of beautiful girls. He can’t believe that Kreuger fell for Mastermind’s illusion again. He almost wishes he could be there to see the look on Kreuger’s face once he realizes the money Mastermind handed over to him was nothing but fake. Mastermind reminds the Blob that he has seen how his powers work. He explains that the ones who are the most easily fooled by his illusions are the ones who think they can’t be fooled.
Blob still compliments his crew for the good work they have done. Unus smiles that they realized Kreuger that they, as “evil mutants” would be at each other’s throats, so that’s what they exactly gave him to see. Mastermind laughs, and adds that the prize for their little performance is worth more than all of the Oscars in Hollywood combined. Blob agrees with that, and looks at the caged X-Men, and thinks he’s ready to kick their butts! He concludes that this is something Magneto never got a chance for to do.
The Savage Land, a few moments ago…
Magneto leads Amphibius through a dark cave, and they arrive at the spot he wanted to be. Amphibius wants to know where they are, since he can’t take much more of the incredible heat that is in the tunnels. Magneto reveals that they are now deep under the island. He then shows Amphibius a shaft, and explains that it penetrates down into the deep lava fields from which the Savage Land draws much of its unnatural temperature from. And, as Magneto suspected, it looks like others came to this place before he did. He further explains that these mechanisms are a crude attempt to tap that potent geothermal energy. The intent was well-focused, but Magneto feels it was lacking in the single most important element, which is one he can provide.
Amphibius watches how his master waves with just his hand, and how the lava suddenly begins to boil and dance, almost as if it were alive! Magneto corrects that the lava isn’t alive. Nonetheless, it’s obedient to his power. Now, they only need to wait for the right moment, and their enemies above will be obliterated!
Meanwhile above, Iceman has wandered off from Karl. He can’t help but think there is more to his “Joe Smith” than meets the eye. Sure, he has done nothing to harm him ever since he woke up there, but Bobby realizes that in every one of their conversations, there has been an undercurrent, like “Joe” was a cork ready to pop at any second. Bobby suddenly notices Karl in a nearby tree, and wonders what he’s doing. Bobby realizes that this is the time of the day when “Joe” takes off to meditate. But, by the way he’s climbing those trees and gazing at something, that sure doesn’t look like meditating to Bobby. It almost looks like Joe is hunting.
Karl really is hunting. He locates his prey, a lone dinosaur, below him and attacks the creature, grabbing its neck tight! Karl realizes that the dinosaur is just an infant, but its life energy will be the paltry rations to help him get through another day. Bobby has watched the whole thing happening and wants to know what Joe is doing. He rushes over to Karl and asks him what he’s doing. Karl is already starting to absorb the dinosaur’s energy, and knows that he has been caught. Not here! he screams in his head, not now!!!
On that exact moment, they are attacked by a powerful energy blast! Magneto apologizes for the attack, but he mentions that he needs the resources of this island, and the two of them are simply in his way. Karl recognizes Magneto, who attacks him and Bobby again. Bobby jumps safely away, and heard that Joe called their attacker “Magneto.” He wonders why that name sounds so familiar to him. Bobby notices Magneto looking for him and goes to hide behind a tree. He wonders why he’s feeling so helpless suddenly. He knows it’s not just because Magneto is attacking him, it’s this overwhelming feeling he’s having, that he should be able to do something more to help out. Bobby notices that Joe also survived the attack and is getting up, but is in a bad shape.
Karl shouts at Bobby to stay away from him, calling him by his last name, Drake. Stunned at the name, Bobby asks Joe what he called him, and how he knew what know what it is. However, Bobby gets too close to Karl, who is no longer panicked. Suddenly, Karl grabs Bobby and starts absorbing Bobby’s life force, and there is nothing he can do to stop it. Euphoric at the absorption, Karl thinks to himself why not. Why should he deny the power that is his birthright? Karl Lykos may be ill equipped to deal with Magneto, but Sauron sure isn’t! Sauron triumphantly soars into the sky, ready for a battle!
At that moment, elsewhere in the Savage Land, present time…
As they speed over the water toward the island in their hover vehicle, Alex asks Lorna if she’s okay. Hesitant, Lorna replies that she isn’t sure about that. She just felt short of… woozy for a moment. Alex sure hopes Lorna didn’t catch something back there. He mentions that they can’t know what kind of prehistoric bugs that might still be running around in this land. Suddenly, all of the instruments aboard their plane start going crazy! Their readouts have gone haywire. Lorna wants to know if Alex can still fly the plane. Alex can’t, and their plane crashes down on the island below! Ironically, Iceman was just below them, and heads out to help his teammates.
Meanwhile, Sauron notices that Magneto has turned his attention away from him, and calls him a fool for doing that. Unaware of Sauron, Magneto heads back towards Amphibius, thinking he has destroyed his foes. He also compliments Amphibius on his fine work, and wants to continue their inspection of the site. He notices some restored ancient mechanisms, and thinks he has his “late friends” to thank for that. Suddenly, Sauron attacks Magneto again, who doesn’t even recognize Sauron in this form.
Sauron quickly hypnotizes Magneto, and he thinks he’s battling the X-Men again, this time in a weird landscape. An imaginary Cyclops hits Magneto with an optic blast, and an imaginary Beast kicks him from behind. Magneto still stands though, and angrily lashes out at Beast and hits him hard in the face, taking him out. Magneto wants to kill him with his powers, but to his surprise they do not work. Suddenly, an imaginary Jean Grey appears, who informs Magneto that they won’t work there. However, her powers work perfectly, and she uses her telekinesis to rip the ground from beneath Magneto!
The Savage Land…
Bobby has heard Sauron using his real name of Karl Lykos and, thanks to this, he now remembers who he is. He goes to check out the crashed plane, and thinks he recognizes Havok, who doesn’t look like he’s been hit that bad. He finds a girl unconscious outside of the plane, and immediately recognizes Lorna! Bobby tries to shake her awake, and it works. Lorna is surprised to see Bobby, and he now finally remembers everything again. Seeing Lorna was the missing link, which brought all of the pieces together again. Havok wakes up as well, and the three X-Men notice how Sauron keeps hypnotizing Magneto. And it looks like Sauron is also absorbing Magneto’s energy to become the strongest being there is.
Bobby knows exactly what they can do about it. Proudly, he quickly transforms into Iceman, and creates an ice-wall between the two villains. Sauron panics and loses control, giving Magneto the chance to come back to normal. He recognizes Iceman, but since he and his friends are the youngest members of his old colleagues’ team, Magneto foolishly believes they are the least of his worries. Sauron thinks that, when there are three X-Men around, more will definitely follow. Magneto finds Sauron to have a stupid name, since he knows it is pirated from a stupid fairy tale. Magneto admits he doesn’t recognize either Lorna or Havok, which she doesn’t understand, because it was only weeks ago Magneto claimed to be her father.
Sauron realizes he lost the element of surprise, but thinks he has an idea. He spies Havok, and quickly hypnotizes him. He has Alex use his powers on Magneto, and Sauron states that Havok’s power is even greater than those of his brother Cyclops. Magneto is surprised to learn that Cyclops has a sibling. Below them, Lorna suddenly starts to feel dizzy. Bobby quickly de-powers so she won’t freeze to death, and asks Lorna what’s wrong. Lorna explains that she’s feeling the same dizziness she felt when she and Alex first traveled to the Savage Land, and it feels like every cell in her body is tingling.
Magneto admits that Havok’s power is great, but he knows how to fight against it. He uses his powers to lift up the molten lava from the ground beneath him, and aims it towards Havok! Sauron triumphs, as this is exactly as he had hoped Magneto would do. Lorna has herself and Bobby running away from the battle, as she realizes something. Every time she gets near Magneto, she feels weird. She also remembers that the instruments on her plane started acting weird, and according to what Bobby just told her, it was around the same time Sauron and Magneto began fighting each other. She thinks some kind of device is making her feel this way. The two find Amphibius, and see him messing with some sort of device. Iceman thinks this is the cause to Lorna’s problems, and uses his powers to release an ice-attack on the device Amphibius holds, and destroys it!
While flying in mid-air, Magneto feels that his powers suddenly fade away and starts falling. He believes that the X-Men must have found Amphibius and the broadcast power antenna! He falls onto a rock floating on the magma. We explains that in a moment the whole area will collapse into a sea of boiling lava. However, Magneto offers Sauron a partnership, so that they can both escape and defeat the X-Men together. In return, Sauron shall receive a place in his kingdom.
Sauron doesn’t think so because, there in the Savage Land, he already is his own king without anyone’s help. He notices that rock on which Magneto stands is about to go over into a crevice, in which the magma is flowing. As he goes over, Sauron takes off and says farewell to Magneto. As they return, Iceman notices Magneto falling. He realizes that, even though Magneto may be the worst enemy the X-Men have, this death he doesn’t deserve and uses his ice-slide to go after him, hoping he can rescue the master of magnetism.
Lorna shakes Alex back to her normal self, and hopes Bobby will safely return. As they wait, Sauron sneaks up to them and tries to hypnotize them again, so that he may feed upon them. Luckily, Iceman quickly returns and uses his ice-powers on Sauron, bringing him down. The crisis averted, Bobby explains to the recovering Alex and Lorna that he wasn’t able to save Magneto. Alex, however, tells him not to lose sleep over it. He did his best.
The trio then returns their attention to Sauron, who has recovered and begins to use his hypnotism again. He explains that they will do nothing with him, just as “nothing” is what he will do to them. If he kills them, then surely the rest of the X-Men will come searching for them. And he does not want that. Taking to the air, he explains that, as the destruction of the geo-thermal equipment robs him of any hope he might have harnessed that power to meet his own needs… Flying off, he tells them that he has removed their memories of knowledge of what has transpired there. They did not meet Magneto there, they did not battle Sauron. They simply…
Later, as they speed away on their craft, Lorna, Alex and Bobby have no memory, thinking they just found Bobby and are now bringing him and themselves back home. Alex warns Bobby to sit down, as their plane is flying at top speed. Alex doesn’t know what caused the damage which had the plane crash down, but thinks the Professor can figure it out once they get back home.
Below them, Amphibius watches the X-Men departing. With the X-Men, Magneto and Sauron gone, Amphibius suddenly transforms… into his human form! He explains that, with Magneto gone, so too at last is the power which kept him in his mutated form. He starts walking away deep into the Savage Land, thinking that all the dreams are away now, and all hopes dashed. All that remains is for him to find a way home, home to the emptiness that was his life as a savage in the Savage Land.
Epilogue, three days later…
Smoke still rises from a shattered site. Deep within the broken crust of the Earth, fire still burns. Suddenly, Magneto rises up from the ground. He lives! Some flickering remnant of the healing power of the island radiation must yet linger in his cells. Still, Magneto is weak and barely able to even support his own weight. He can’t go any further, and collapses again. On that moment, dinosaurs start flying above him, ready to feast on his body!
Prologue (of sorts), two days later…
A mile or so off the coast of the Savage Land, a sleek, mysterious vehicle moves silently through the dark waters. In it are Namor the Sub-Mariner and his servants. Namor asks his captain if they have reached their target. The captain confirms that up ahead is the site of the mysterious shock wave. Namor orders his troops to stay where they are while he investigates the matter. He jumps out of the ship and dives into the ocean, whose waters feel warm even though they should feel cold thanks to the ice above. Namor wants to know how this could be possible.
He flies up, and notices smoke in the distance. He notices the attacking dinosaurs, and quickly defeats them. Namor notices that there is apparently only one survivor to the disaster that just took place on this site. Namor has found Magneto! Namor checks if Magneto is still breathing, and he is. He believes that’s the only reason the dinosaurs hadn’t started eating up his body. Namor wants to take Magneto to Atlantis with him, yet it somehow doesn’t feel right to him. Magneto is known to him, and whatever dealings they had in the past have left Namor with little reason to trust him. But, this doesn’t mean he won’t help him, so Namor flies back home.
And so, Namor leaves the battlefield, never guessing the deadly game which he has been played here. No more than Namor can guess what lies but a few short hours later ahead, namely a great battle between Magneto and the Fantastic Four!