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Born Free
“This is how I became the most feared and hated terrorist in the history of the United States” is what Kitty Pryde once said. This is where that story starts.
New York city, Port Authority bus terminal:
Kitty, Iceman, Jimmy Hudson and Rogue are about to enter a coach out of New York.
Flashback:
In the Morlock Tunnels, the young X-Men and the mutant kids they saved watch the news about the Sentinel attack on the Southwesters states. The president in effect cedes power over the Southwestern states to the Sentinels.
Kitty no longer listens as she muses about the consequences for mutants. Later in her room, she puts on her Shroud outfit, preparing for a trip to the surface. A younger teenager, blue-haired Nomi Blume, joins her and accuses her of lying. She said it’s okay. It’s not okay. Kitty admits she’s right. She guesses that’s a thing grown-ups say sometimes. Nomi points out Kitty isn’t a grown-up. She’s like her. She was like her, Kitty retorts. Now Nomi’s more like Kitty than she realizes.
She phases upward and leaves the tunnels, musing she just turned seventeen. She phases through the air thinking she just saw the country give up on TV. Between Stryker and the Sentinels, the anti-mutant militia, the internment camps and the hunting of mutants in the Southwestern States, they found yet another way to hurt them. By ceding authority to stop any of this.
And she decides she doesn’t want to surrender. What she’s just heard was a call to arms. She isn’t interested in standing down. She wants to stand up and get out of the hole she’s been hiding in. She doesn’t want to cede power. She doesn’t want to cede anything to anyone.
She sheds her Shroud outfit, now dressed in a white tracksuit. No more running. No hiding, she decides. No more code names, no more Shroud. They may have created mutants, but they will never be able to snuff them out. She swears on her life.
On the streets, a pro mutant protest group is fighting the police who are ordered to take them down with live rounds. One of the protesters shouts that mutants have rights just like them. Unbelievable! one cop mutters. They’d stand with the kind of scum and perversions of nature that attacked this city and killed his wife and little boy? They are nothing like him! They aren’t American or even human!  He takes aim and gets ready to fire at the protesters.
Kitty phases up in front of him, calmly announcing this is not going to happen. They aren’t going to let them do this anymore. Before he can fire, she phases apart the gun. The other cops get ready to fire. She grabs the cop’s shield to protect the protesters and orders them to get to safety.
She wonders if the protesters really mean it. Shouting slogans is easy. Still, these protests were the only sign of… humanity she’s seen since Executive Order 3144 passed. And it gives her hope.
With the protesters gone, Kitty strides towards the shooting policemen, their bullets passing harmlessly through her. Remember this, she tells them. Next time they think about killing some mutants, they might surprise them.
Later, back in the Morlock Tunnels, she informs her teammates that she is going to the Southwest states to fight the Sentinels. And she wants them to come along.
Jimmy Hudson reminds her, the last battles against them didn’t go that well. And now she wants to go up against hundreds of them? Kitty tells them they are on their own. She just saw soldiers suppressing protesters. They were humans and stood up in support of everyone, human and mutant alike. She thinks it will get worse.
Rogue points out they are safe here. They are in a hole!  Kitty retorts. Out there, people are risking their lives for them and they sit down here and argue! They can stop being the victims, make their own protection and security!
Against an army of Nimrods and William Strykers? Bobby asks doubtfully. Would he rather stay down here until one day the next president on his TV is someone like William Stryker? They’d all be dead before that happened, Rogue admits. She’ll do it.
Unlike Rogue, he doesn’t have voices in his head giving him life advice, but what the hell – he’s in, Jimmy decides. Bobby offers to come if Johnny will.
Johnny Storm hesitates. He agrees on an intellectual level. They are asking him to walk into a war zone for a cause he will never be able to fully belong to. And they are forgetting the little ones. Are they going to leave them alone?
Kitty retorts they have each other. Their kind faces genocide. They are only a few years older than the kids. It’s time for all of them to grow up just a little bit faster. Here in the tunnels, they have a family. If they don’t fight each other, if they support each other and help each other out, they’ll live. They’ll be a hundred times stronger for it.
So she would leave them, Johnny states. He’s heard a lot of mutants being abandoned and running away at really young ages. But he’s never heard them romanticize it before. He’s staying. He’ll watch over them.
Kitty agrees and leaves. As she packs her stuff, Nomi Blume joins her and informs her she wouldn’t have been scared. None of them would have. Kitty is right. They’ve lived through worse. Johnny doesn’t understand. He isn’t even a mutant.
But he’s smart and in charge, Kitty announces, understand? Nomi wants to go with Kitty. In a couple of years, she can come, Kitty tells her. Nomi can do that. She is a leader. She can do anything. Just remember who she is. They hug as Kitty tells her not to let anyone tell her she is wrong.
Present day:
The four enter a bus, one of the many leaving the city. They pretend to be displaced youths searching for their parents. Jimmy presses Kitty’s hand for luck. She hands each of them a small parcel. In each is an armband with an X symbol. They’ll put them on later, Kitty announces. And then every day until mutants are free. And once that happens, they will never need to wear them again. They’ll see and on that day, they’ll truly be free.


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Divided We Fall – chapter one: Road Worn
Kitty’s dream:
New York, a troop of soldiers attacks the Morlock tunnels, ambushing the mutant kids. Nomi Blume takes charge as the men threaten them. Johnny Storm tries to make peace, shouting they are just little kids. They stand their ground! Nomi orders.
Reality:
Kitty awakes in the car.  Jimmy stole the car after they couldn’t get any further by bus. She figures they are somewhere in Kansas by now. She leaves and tries to phone Johnny, but there is no reception.
Washington D.C was bombed, totally taken out. The government destroyed. As if things couldn’t get any worse. The further west they get, the more the anti-mutant movement makes its presence known. And the cops fall right in line. The militias fully bought into Stryker’s hate-filled philosophy.
Again she tries to reach Johnny without success. Rogue joins her. When Kitty asks how she is doing, she replies the same. Crazy girl with voices in her head, as per usual.  At least hers aren’t telling her to start a war like Kitty’s. Kitty ignores the dig and suggests they wake the guys and go on driving.
She notices that Jimmy keeps claiming “shotgun.” Seems he want to be next to her all the time. Jimmy works on deciphering the maps. He protests what good is it when the local militia starts removing the highway signs. Don’t get them lost! Bobby warns from the back. Rogue seems depressed as she tells him to relax.
Jimmy touches Kitty’s hand but she is busy thinking about what they are not discussing: the horrors waiting for them in the west. Kitty tells herself she is responsible. Like Rogue said, she is starting a way, although she decides she is only fighting back, since the other side started the war long ago.
Throughout the Southwest, containment centers were built. Not the nice facilities like Camp Angel. The new ones are brutal, designed to hold mutants in kennels, to keep them out of the general population, to punish them. Rumor was that Sentinels tech was used in new ways. Micro drones, nano tech as the ultimate perimeter defense. Nimrod guards and human guards, trained militia empowered by Stryker, armed with weapons looted from National Guard bases. She figures Sentinels at least are not capable of that hatred.
Once upon a time, you could ignore them but that changed with Stryker. It was a surprisingly short road from simply being hated and feared to having your whole species face extermination. From beyond the grave, Stryker can still hurt them.
She vows that’s’ not going to happen. She decides it’s not enough to just take out the figurehead. She’s going to dismantle his whole organization, take it apart and erase his influence entirely.
Checkpoint! Jimmy calls out. Some masked men with guns are blocking the road. Kitty stops the car, figuring they have to bluff their way past. Thought she wanted to fight, Jimmy challenges. When it counts, Kitty replies. She’s not wasting it all on a few rednecks blocking the highway. Keep it together, they can pass as normals.
One of the men asks if they have I.D.s., to which Kitty replies that they are refugees. She has an aunt in California. They are trying to get there as fast as they can. He orders her out of the car. California is a long way from here. Better that staying on the east coast, she replies. Would he want to live near D.C. or New York? No thanks, he has a real nice place close by, he replies, groping her during the search. Rogue calms Jimmy, who is about to go ballistic.
Kitty tells the rednecks to take it easy. Do they think everyone’s their enemy? They come in all shapes and sizes. They don’t take chances. They get a lot of refugees passing by. They also get a lot of mutants trying to do the same. He holds his rifle to Kitty’s head. Are they mutants? Kitty replies mutants killed her family and destroyed her city.
He unfastens the safety. If he pulls the trigger, what’s gonna happen? The bullet gonna bounce off that gorgeous skin of hers? Are her friends gonna pop out of the car with all sorts of powers and take him down?
What’s going to happen is she’ll die right here and he’ll have killed an honest, God-fearing, normal, American girl! she replies. One who hates mutants as much as he does. How’s that going to help the cause?
He laughs impressed and tells her to be on the way. He suggests they pick a more northerly route. It gets hairy further south.
She drives on. When they are out of sight, she stops the car and hugs Jimmy. The others swear they got her back.
But not all the way, Kitty considers, because if what it takes to end Stryker’s poisonous influence is giving her own life, she is prepared to accept that… But she won’t take any of her friends with her.
They stop at a rest stop diner. When the others are glumly silent, Kitty points out they are ok. If it feels too hard try to think what the people in the camps are going through. It’s not okay! Jimmy snarls. Kitty reminds him she took care of it. Save the fight for the southwest! She saw a payphone outside. She’s going to try to call Johnny. As she leaves, Bobby teases Jimmy about his interest in Kitty.
Kitty uses the phone, not noticing the white van coming to a stop. The paramilitary group from before enters the diner. The one cop in the diner ignores the problem, not willing to make an enemy of those guys.
Kitty finds the connection is lousy. It’s Nomi Blume who answers, telling her Johnny is not here. Kitty can only understand somebody took him away. Then Nomi scoffs he is not even a mutant. She’s got the kids, don’t worry. Then the connection breaks.
The paramilitary group addresses the kids, asking what happened to their cute friend in white.
Kitty tells herself she has a plan and a contact waiting for her, one she can’t tell the others about yet.
That moment, she hears gunshots coming from the diner…


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Divided We Fall
The USA is in shambles. Washington has been scarred by a bomb blast, the government is decimated. The Southwestern states have taken anti-mutant violence to extreme levels, with human-run militias doing the grunt work and killer Sentinels. Mutants now face total extinction.
In Middle America:
Kitty Pryde has heard the gunshots from the diner and runs towards it. One militia member who is waiting outside tries to stop him. She phases through him and elbows him in the back, then keeps on running.
Ah, there she is, the militia leader smiles. Inside, she sees Jimmy Hudson lying shot on the floor. Grinning, the terrorist explains he was just chatting with her boyfriend. Their kind always sticks together, don’t they? He guesses he is the kind of mutant who isn’t bullet-proof.
Jimmy, Kitty addresses him. The man mocks he is gone. Now! Kitty orders calmly. Jimmy extends his claws and stabs the terrorist closest in the foot.
Rogue and Iceman, who were hiding under the table, jump into action as well. Iceman freezes one of them with his touch. One of the diner guests shouts that he killed that man. Iceman replies that he brought his core temperature down to eighty-six degrees. He’s not dead but he’ll probably wish he was, for at least a week. He orders them down.
Rogue asks what their rules of engagement are here. How far do they take this? Ask Kitty! Bobby suggests. Hitting a militia member, she points out they are regular folk, not Sentinels.  They are worse, Kitty shoots back and orders her to put them out of commission.
Rogue grabs the militia member and makes skin contact to see into his mind. Oh my God, she breathes a moment later. How can he live with himself?!  And now she has that hate in her head too? She gets ready to hit him, even as he begs. Rogue hesitates. It’s okay, Jimmy Hudson tells her. He’s got it. He breaks the man’s neck.
The other X-Men are shocked. Why did he do that? Iceman demands. Why? Jimmy repeats. “Two to the head,” he snarls, remember? He points at his head. But he didn’t die. And why is that? It’s the same reason all the people here are staring at them like demons. They’ll never stop. They’ll never leave them alone until they find a way to kill them all.
Jimmy storms outside followed by Kitty. Be honest, he demands and tosses her a gun. This is what she had in mind, isn’t it? Rogue asked what the rules of engagement were. He thinks he just defined them for her. They can’t declare war and expect the enemy to automatically surrender. He was after her, he stresses. The one that shot him came looking for her. And Jimmy stood up to him. He’d do it again. He’ll do anything for her.
Later, Jimmy is driving the car. Kitty is very much aware the people in the diner will tell a story that will paint the militia as the innocents. Kitty is holding Rogue, who now has that guy’s horror in her head. And now she has a war…
Kitty orders them to stop. Jimmy drives them off the road. She explains the militia has the make and the plates and the people at the diner can describe them. They go on foot until they can figure something out. Rogue is disturbed when Kitty takes the assault rifle she took from the militia.
Kitty reveals that, before the fight kicked off, she was on the phone with Nomi in New York. Something happened to Johnny. Bobby wants to know more, but the connection was bad. Kitty only knows about a raid. The tunnels were cleared, the kids probably taken into custody. Nomi was free so she maybe has some with her. But Johnny was taken.
Bobby wonders if he is dead. Jimmy muses if they’d be able to tell him apart from a mutant. Would they care? He doesn’t see them being that picky. They don’t know that, Kitty decides. They only know he’s been taken into custody. And she has no way to contact him.
Kitty insists they go on. Rogue protests; they have to help Johnny and the kids. Jimmy points out they have probably been shipped to a camp and suggests a vote.
Despite his personal feelings, Bobby votes for Kitty. She realizes the gun might be overkill but it’s a powerful symbol and reminds them this is real. She realizes Rogue needs a win soon. She is impressed with Bobby’s control back at the diner and his pragmatism about moving forward. Johnny was his best friend. Is, she corrects herself.  She wonders about Jimmy. Is all the attention he gives her a bid for power?
They reach an empty building site. Jimmy searches it and comes up with some soda. As it is the weekend, the camp is empty. They spend about thirty hours there eating and resting. Kitty finds a radio and hides it from the others. The news is bad and they don’t need to know that. They steal the car and leave rested and more optimistic.
Five miles from the border, they stop though this stopped feeling like America twenty miles back. Streets are empty, buildings burning. This town harbored mutants is sprayed on a wall. Rogue tells Kitty to put the gun down, she looks ridiculous. Kitty reminds them they are close to the border. They hide from a Nimrod patrol.
Every twenty-seven minutes, a voice pipes out from a car. They patrol the outer perimeter every twenty-seven minutes, the dark-haired girl clarifies and introduces herself as Paige. Paige Guthrie aka Husk. She asks if they escaped from the camp too. She thought she was the only one who got through security.
They get her some new clothes and Kitty tries to debrief her. How many mutants? Kitty asks. In the camp itself are dozens, Paige figures. In the hills surrounding it might be hundreds. They live underground in these cool old military bunkers. That’s where she was before she was picked up.
“Hundreds” is an army, Kitty figures. Paige warns her everyone’s pretty scared. Kitty tells her why they are here. Paige agrees to take her to the guy she knows who seems to be in charge. They head to the mountains where somebody is already expecting them.
Nick Fury welcomes them and asks if they are ready to get to work.


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United We Stand – part one
The Southwest:
The young X-Men have been welcomed by Kitty’s secret ally: Nick Fury. Kitty tells him she is ready to get to work. He asks to see her rifle. Nice weapon, he admits and tells her to maintain it. Learn how to clean it. Sleep with it. Respect it.  They are in this now, no screwing around, he warns them.
Kitty points out they weren’t screwing around when  travelled 2000 miles to get here through checkpoints and patrols and  are not about to start now. Sir.
He warns Kitty he knows her type: young, idealistic, on the receiving end of governmental oppression, in possession of an assault rifle and more than a little bit of charisma and leadership skills. He spent a good two decades of black ops work putting revolutionary upstarts like her out of business in crapholes around the world. And look at them now.
Warily, Kitty asks what he is doing here? Why her? Why them? She stepped up, he replies simply. Did she think the Ultimates would sit this one out? He had a hell of a time talking Cap into letting him take this one. Things like concentration camps and mass graves tend to bother him. Consider him at her disposal.
He knows what’s going on here and waited for her to show up? she asks angrily. Why didn’t he bring an army down on this place? Those crapholes he mentioned? They did bring the firepower there, and in the end diddly-squat changed. It’s gotta happen internally. A mutant’s gotta fix this. He’s got their back: intel, supplies, whatever  they need. Ms. Pryde is in command here. He warns her that all he sees in these tunnels is a lot of scared, beaten down people. She’s got her work cut out for her. He tells them to fight like hell. This ain’t no third-world craphole. Never forget what they are trying to save. What they need to preserve. Kitty silently figures he means America. But she isn’t here for that. She’s here to fight for mutantkind.
Later:
Hidden from patrols, Kitty and Page Guthrie aka Husk observe one of the later mutant internment camps, the one Paige escaped from. At that time, it had something like fifty or sixty prisoners. Packed in those buildings? Kitty asks.  Looks like mobile homes. Paige points out it isn’t meant to be permanent and warns the Sentinel patrol will be by in a minute.
What’s New York like? she asks apropos of nothing. She’s only been there as a kid. Did touristy stuff. She saw the Christmas tree light up in Rockefeller Plaza. It’s exactly like that, Kitty tells her. Except with riots and lots of soldiers. Not a good place to be a mutant either.
Paige notes that Kitty is even more intense than Fury. Kitty tells her in New York they were hiding in tunnels underground, a whole group of them. They did that while all this was going on. What Paige and the others went through. She couldn’t do it anymore, listening to her friends goofing around and cracking jokes, exploring the tunnels, watching TV on their tablets like the world was normal. So she got them to pack up and come with her here to fight in the ground zero of mutant oppression. And yeah, it required a fair amount of intensity on her part.
Paige notices a Sentinel patrol, “husks” and pushes Kitty down. How’s that for intense? she asks when  they are gone. Her new form was how she was able to escape. Some of her forms don’t show up on infrared or Sentinel optics. She asks her to look away. She has to come back. Also, the guy that came with Kitty. the broody one in the cowboy hat - don’t tell him she sheds.
Husk takes Kitty around the whole area. Hours of hiking and dozens of camps. Husk answers all her questions but is less forthcoming about her own time in the camps. By the time the mutants arrive, they have already been beaten down, demoralized, humiliated. And so they are herded like sheep.  Kitty asks about the executions and mass graves. They come when all attempts of intelligence gathering have run their course. What intelligence? Kitty wonders. What available information do mutants possess? None, so they make it up. The best liars live the longest. But the end comes for them anyway. Kitty asks why. Paige explains it was hard to see past the guards. The guards are human militia and thugs. It’s all garden variety bigotry with them. Stryker’s the dangerous one.
Kitty point out that she killed Stryker. She doesn’t think so, Paige replies. She does think so, Kitty snaps. In New York, in front of witnesses. Well, then there are two of them or something, Paige insists. Cuz all of this? Stryker’s in charge. And he wants mutants dead and the country clean. So if Kitty ever gets another chance, kill him for good this time.
They return to the mutant caves. Bobby tells Kitty they took a census. There are forty-seven mutants in this cave and apparently there’s dozens of shelters, maybe hundreds scattered all over the southwest. Their army, Kitty states. Jimmy disagrees. They are beaten down and have no fight in them. They are useless. Whatever’s gone down out there, it’s put them all into what looks like post-traumatic stress. She knows a little about it, Kitty states.
Fury contests that she doesn’t know half of it. But Jimmy’s right about one thing and wrong about another: everyone here is beaten down, but every single one of them has the fight somewhere deep in their guts. He guarantees them that. You just gotta bring it out of them.
What a jarhead, Jimmy whispers. Fury means her, Kitty realizes. Well, he sure as hell doesn’t mean her cowboy sidekick, Fury agrees. Does he have to tell her everything?
Kitty tries to directly talk to some of the mutants, to no avail. They are traumatized. Finally she calls a gathering, telling everyone they think this is hopeless. They’ve already lost. She wants each and every one of them waiting for her when she gets back. They are going to talk!
Does he want to kill a Sentinel with her? she asks Fury. Wouldn’t miss it, he agrees. Jimmy asks if he can help. She has to do this herself, she explains. Hold it down, cowboy, Fury orders. Jimmy is seething.
Rogue walks the tunnels, looking at the other mutants when a boy with a pink Mohawk addresses her, stating she looks lonely. Maybe, she agrees. She’s not used to being around so many of them. He felt the same way once. He noticed she likes to look at people touching; couples, stuff like that. Is he going to call her a perv? she asks. He thinks it’s hot. The one good thing about these shelters is there is no reason to be lonely or to hide. She warns him he can’t touch her. Her skin is sort of lethal to most guys. Most guys, he repeats. Try him. They kiss and nothing bad happens.
Out in the mountains, Kitty tells Fury to shut up when he lectures her. That’s an order, she adds. He snorts amused but obeys. She notices a Nimrod patrol of two and orders Fury to cover her.
She fires at the first. Any day now, Fury, she orders as she evades the Nimrod’s shots. Fury fires a missile at the second one, while she finishes the first one up close.
Impressed, Fury calls her one scary teenage girl. He wants to give her a hand getting this back to the shelter? she asks.
With everyone gathered Kitty shows them the ruined Nimrod unit. This is her first day here and she killed a Nimrod. Two actually, General Fury got the other kill. This is what frustrates her. She is a tourist. She doesn’t know this area and she hasn’t had the first-hand experience they all have. She is seventeen years old and her mutant powers are mostly defensive. If she can do this, so can they.
It’s impossible! a young man protests. It’s not, Jimmy retorts. The deck is stacked against them but it’s not the first time mutants have faced down the odds. The point she is making is they gotta unite and work as a team. She was thinking more of an army, Kitty corrects him.
A redeyed boy wants to touch the inert Nimrod and announces he can use it, take it apart. He understands circuitry, signals, binary language. Its primary communication systems are inside its head. He can take it apart and figure it out. He could hack their communication. Kitty tells him to do it. He introduces himself as Gareb. Black Box.
Anyone else ready to take a stand? Kitty asks. Who wants to be her mutant army that takes out Stryker’s Sentinel network once and for all?
Elsewhere, the Mastermold receives snatches of her speech, recognizing Kitty’s voice…


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United We Stand – part two
The Southwest, an area where Nimrod Sentinels and anti-mutant militia keep the mutants imprisoned in camps.
Kitty Pryde holds a speech which is broadcast, announcing that today the mutant nation declare themselves free people. They may still be discriminated against. They may still be hunted. They may still be imprisoned, denied due process, their human rights violated and they may yet be executed without a trial but they are a free people. Today they no longer cower and hide. No longer will they lobby for acceptance and equal treatment. They declare themselves equal. They claim their human rights. Whether the humans accept them is irrelevant. Today they start defending themselves. Today they stop running and they turn and hold their ground. They hold what’s theirs.
In the southwest states, the mutant population is at risk. It’s here that their survival is most fragile, where their very survival is challenged. She calls upon very mutant hearing these words to come to the southwest states and join them. Their numbers are their best defense. They can support each other. They can stand up to their enemies. No more hiding! Her people and she used to live in tunnels under New York City. Now they’ve taken the fight to the enemy. It’s time to remember who they are. That they were born with inalienable rights and must be respected.
Watched by the other X-Men, Kitty trains with Nick Fury and beats him.
While it is not their intention to incite violence, violence may be inevitable. They will match any aggression with an equal and appropriate response, and no more than that. There has been enough fighting. The mutant cause is ultimately one of peaceful coexistence.
The mutant nation recognizes that there are humans who believe in and actively support their push for real standing and protection. They look on them as example and inspiration.
All of the youngsters train. Rogue in the meantime is kissing Quentin Quire.
In an internet cafe in New York, Nomi Blume listens to Kitty’s speech. So do Jean Grey in the SEAR and the Nimrods in the Southwest.
One of Kitty’s allies, the technopath boy Garab aka Black Box, examines a disassembled Nimrod, trying to figure it out. He berates himself for not finding the weakness while Kitty and the others are fighting. That way he will never get noticed by Kitty! Suddenly, he finds an oddly silent piece which is nevertheless transmitting data at an incredible speed. Oh no! he exclaims and calls for Kitty.
Jimmy Hudson and his blue team (4 other mutants) are moving in on Stryker camp zone designation 14. Jimmy hears incoming humvees. They can’t have reinforcements now! This is a problem! On it! a young African American man named Shola Inkosi replies and telekinetically takes out the Humvees with a shower of boulders.
Fifteen minutes later, Jimmy calls Fury to inform him they took out a convoy and took some prisoners. Fury tells them to drop a GPS pin. He can call for an extraction. They are not set up to take on POWs. Are the vehicles usable? Turns out they aren’t. Fury tells him next time they could use some wheels. Jimmy adds they caused serious racket. Camp 14 will be on alert. Gold team moving in now, he is told.
Gold team consists of Iceman and Husk. Bobby ices up the camp’s fence, so that a mere tap is enough to shatter part of it.
Fury calls them and warns them about the camp’s mobilized security. Bobby replies everything is quiet, then notices two Nimrods flying west.
After they sneak inside, Bobby wonders why there are no guards, but Paige explains everything is automated. She warns him he hasn’t seen the camps. It’ll be rough! Can’t be worse than New York, he jokes. She then husks into a metal shape and gets in front of him to protect him from the fire of the automatic guns. She tells him to freeze out the prison locks.
Inside, they find an Asian girl and tell her to come with them. Suddenly the image / exoskeleton of a dragon manifests around her. When guards arrive their gunfire can’t shatter the dragon’s hide and its claws take them out. Who is she? Bobby asks. Hisako, she replies smiling. Bobby welcomes her to the Liberation.
By nightfall, Stryker camp 14 is controlled by mutants. Kitty asks Hisako why nobody rebelled. Fear she guesses. She didn’t think there was any point in fighting back. They are mutants! They dehumanized them. But seeing Husk and Bobby walk through gunfire to reach them and Jimmy and his team coming back from killing two Nimrods got the message across. They can fight back.
Kitty greets Fury, telling him he is right, they can do this. He warns her she can win a battle or two but she’s gonna be fighting this war her whole life. He wants her to understand the reality of the bigger picture. No one’s calling this a war. But it is a war. America’s at war!
They are working on that, right? Kitty asks. He warns her fighting will get her part of the way. Politics might get her a little further. Sometimes reaching peace takes more time and compromise than just bullets.
This is from General Fury, the warrior? she mocks. Fury, the realist, he corrects her. He’s been round too long to be anything else. He’s just saying a time will come when she needs to put the gun down.
They are interrupted by Garab.  He tells them he found a device in the Nimrod head and it was transmitting a signal. He wrote a little script to translate the binary signal into English.
Kitty listens and realizes this is all stuff they said, days ago. It was recording them and sending to off. Presumably to some central command, Garab suggests.
Fury orders all teams to prepare for attack. He tells Kitty when they come they’ll come in force. Maybe she’ll get her chance at peace sooner than he thought.
In the SEAR, Jean Grey aka Karen Grant is trying to get all intel on Kitty and her associates. The SEAR is the true home of the mutant population, she announces. Let’s see what they can do about Kitty’s manifesto…
In the mutants’ bunker, Quentin is kissing Rogue.
And the Master Mold and Nimrods gather, aware that their quarry is prepared for them…


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United We Stand – part three
The news reports the civil war in the southwest and the idea of a mutant nation. New president Captain America has promised a swift resolution.
In other news, a young man calling himself Johnny Storm was found on the streets of Brooklyn, severely dehydrated and showing signs of horrific and sustained torture.
In the southwest, Kitty Pryde and Nick Fury are organizing the resistance. As the Nimrods come flying, Kitty orders the telekinetics to attack. After the first volley is done, the fliers are next to attack directly.
Fury warns Kitty not to expose them for any longer than she needs. Kitty calls them back. One boy ignores the order and is killed by a Nimrod blast. Fury shouts at them to get out of the sky. Their one advantage is surprise and the Nimrods are adapting to them!
Kitty fires her rifle at one Nimrod, noting that, while their army is growing with every liberated camp, the seemingly inexhaustible supply of Nimrod Sentinels is dwindling. The mutants are winning!
Armor uses her psionic armor to contain a Nimrod about to explode. Jimmy Hudson jumps on its head and decapitates it with his claws.
Kitty calls Storm, who suggests everyone get under cover as she electrocutes the Nimrods.
Looking at the fallen robots, Kitty wonders how to get used to this. You can’t, Fury tells her and adds it’s time he left. She doesn’t need him anymore. Like he said at the start, a mutant needs to do this. She’s ready. He has duties to attend to elsewhere.
The new government? Kitty asks. It’s the first step towards putting all this behind them, he explains. America, he means. She tells him he helped them so much and the world should know that. In time perhaps, he tells her. She and her people still have a few more steps to take to get there. But they’ll get there.
Is the new government going to be a friend to mutants or another enemy? she asks. He admits he doesn’t know. He believes mutants have a genuine friend in Cap. But he has a whole country to put together. And mutants aren’t exactly polling high. So he doesn’t have an answer for her on that. But he will have her back, no matter what a bunch of politicians have to say about it. Now come on, shake his hand. She does and tells him she believes him.
Fury gives her one last piece of advice. Remember he told her there would come a time to put down that gun? He’d recommend she try and remember to do so before Captain America comes to visit. He’s coming here? she asks nonplussed. When?
Elsewhere, a last Nimrod fleet closes in, led by the Master Mold, which repeats the words Thy will be done and Kitty Pryde will die.
In the caves, Rogue tells Quentin Quire that they say the battle is over but she still feels like a loser… a freak… and she’ll never be able to change that. He tells her she is not a freak. He thinks troubled. Broken, she suggests. Just confused, Quentin amends. She admits she hears voices, sees things, she doesn’t know what’s real anymore. She knows her friends don’t trust her. They’re just waiting for the next time she starts ranting about God or ghosts or horsemen and they’ll bounce her from the team.
Quentin offers to fix that. Fix her friends? she asks. Fix her, he clarifies. She muses that people tend to die when they touch her. She doesn’t understand how he’s immune. Who cares? Quentin shrugs. What’s important is that he is. He’s a powerful telepath. Mind over matter. Can he make the visions and voices go away? Yes. Can he make her feel normal and not crazy anymore? Like the old Marian Carlysle?  Is this what she really wants? He asks. When she says ‘yes,’ he kisses her and a moment later she laughs that she feels amazing.
In the meantime, mutants are dismantling Stryker Camp 14. Warpath mutters that it’s degrading to have to clean up their own prison camp. Iceman tells them they can reuse the stuff, repurpose it into something that will help them in the future. Consider it spoils of war. What future? Zero mutters.
Iceman slaps his neck. He hates mosquitoes! Another mutant tells him there are no mosquitoes in the desert. The ‘mosquito’ turns out to be a Sentinel micro-drone. Moments later, the fleet is upon them. The fight begins.
Kitty comes running, addressing the Master Mold as William Stryker. He recognizes her as the mutant who killed him in New York. He fires a missile at her but she easily phases though the explosion. She asks Warpath to throw her up to the Master Mold.
Why doesn’t she die? it demands. Why doesn’t he? Kitty retorts. She killed him. She lands on his head.
His vision is a world devoid of mutants. It is perfection. He can never die! She calls him a self- loathing psycho and fires her rifle at his head. She’s beaten him from one side this country to another. She doesn’t lose, not to hate mongers like him! Adamantium-tipped jackets, incendiary core, forty to a mag, courtesy of SHIELD. This time he dies forever!
The fight over, Captain America soon arrives in the Southwest states and meets with Kitty. They shake hands in front of the journalists.
In private, Cap thanks her for meeting him. Nick Fury thinks the best of her and he will pay her the courtesy of not wasting her time. He is prepared to offer the mutant community two things. A home and a choice. He tells her of the SEAR virus. It removes the mutant gene. SHIELD scientists were able to replicate it. And he’s offering it to them.
He wants to take her mutation from her? Kitty bursts out. He’s not asking her to give up who she is. But he is offering the choice to her and every mutant. They’ve suffered unspeakable persecution and loss. There may be some who’ll want a new life, one where that would never happen again.
This is what General Fury said would happen, Kitty realizes. He’s making a political deal. Cap tells her he has an entire country to consider. This is an offer. No one will be compelled. He’s also secured federal land for the mutant population and it’s freely offered as a gift. A safe haven for those who decline the virus.
Is that all? she asks. He reminds her he has an entire country to put together, an entire spectrum of people. Some of those people will simply never accept an integrated mutant population.
Is that all? she repeats. He wishes her and her people nothing but the best. For some, the virus may be what allows them a safe and fulfilling life.
Kitty leaves the room, realizing she should have seen it coming. It’s like something Fury would say, about swapping one enemy for another…


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At the Speed of Mach Two
An interrogation room: An official-looking blonde asks Kitty Pryde to go over it one last time. Annoyed, Kitty points out it was the last time two rounds ago! Just be honest – she is waiting for Kitty to trip up and contradict herself.
The blonde replies this is a friendly debriefing. The situation is complex. The new administration is reviewing Kitty’s file. And they need to be sure of a few things before moving forwards.
Kitty asks to see her file. The blonde refuses and immediately gets a phone call. “As you wish, Sir,” she replies and hands Kitty her file. Which consist of a copy of Kitty’s birth certificate and her dental records from when she was twelve.
Shall they start again, go over it one last time? the blonde repeats. Kitty sighs. She didn’t know about the bomb. None of them did. When they arrived in the southwest, all of this had already been set in motion…
The blonde summarizes that Kitty arrived seven weeks ago. In that time, she raised a militant force comprised of displaced mutants, organized a coherent insurgency and defeated the Stryker-led army of Nimrod-Sentinels… not to mention dozens of militia cells comprised of human aggressors. Impressive.
Nick Fury helped, Kitty begins. The blonde cuts her off. Whatever assistance she had from Nick Fury will not be part of the official record! The blame is all hers then, Kitty mocks. Blame, responsibility, success… whatever she wants to call it. What happens next will determine that. Kitty repeats she didn’t know about the bomb.
The blonde wants to talk about her manifesto, the call to arms she broadcasted. Did she intend that to be a declaration of war? It was a statement of identity, of purpose, Kitty replies. It has a clear non-violent message. What is she talking about… a declaration of war? Mutants have been victims of genocide—
That will not be part of the official record, the blonde repeats. They are prepared to place the future of mutantkind into Kitty’s hands. But they cannot pull that off with words like ‘genocide’ being casually tossed around. There’s nothing casual about what happened to them, Kitty retorts. The blonde reminds her Captain America has offered salvation. Take it! Take the Cure and be free of any future persecution forever. Take the political settlement and truly become a mutant nation. This is a historic moment. Be part of it! Now… tell her about the bomb.
Flashback: three days ago:
A long line of mutants has formed in front of the Cure tents. In the line stands Paige Guthrie aka Husk. Bobby Drake tells her she doesn’t have to do this. Captain America promised Kitty he’d protect t mutants who didn’t want the Cure. She can stay who she is. Paige reminds him Cap also offered them the Cure. Besides, she’s sick of shedding. It’s gross. It’s great being the girl who can turn into diamonds. It sucks being the freak who then flakes her skin all over the floor. Who’s gonna ask out that girl? Him! Bobby retorts.
She smiles. He’s one of the sweet ones. How about right now? she suggests. Wanna buy her a drink? She asks him to get her a bottle of water. They have them at the station. Coming right up, he promises and runs. He deserves better she smiles and presses a button on her hidden bomb harness. An explosion ensues.
Present:
Kitty can’t talk about the bomb without first talking about the Cure. Such a hopeful word, but it’s another form of genocide. Some of these mutants have known nothing else but violence and abuse, simply for being different. She can’t judge their choice to take all that away. The Cure is a series of injections, each of them quite painful, to be followed by four to six hours of induced coma while the ‘reversion’ takes place.
Kitty’s narration:
They came from all over, travelling for days along prescribed corridors. They set up camps, shantytowns and communal kitchens while they waited their turn. The news media was all over it. ‘Woodstock’ for the mutant generation, one VNN reporter called it. Kitty wanted to punch her. Her dream was slipping away. Is this what they risked their lives for? To just become human in the end?
Putting his arm around Kitty’s shoulder, Jimmy Hudson asks if she is going to take the Cure. Of course not, she protests. Him neither. Just had to ask. Everybody gets to choose, babe. She shakes off his arm and orders him not to call her babe.
Husk made her choice. From the moment they picked her up outside Stryker-controlled territory, she was playing them. She was no escapee, she was a plant. Her goal to undermine the mutant cause afterwards, to show the world that if you give mutants peace, they’ll return the gesture with violence.
Husk survives the bomb and is arrested by soldiers. Mutants must be exterminated! she screams. Stryker was right!
The doctors say she was brainwashed in the camps. If they didn’t have a friend in the White House, she may have succeeded in destroying them from within. Kitty won’t be feeling bad for her ever again.
Present:
The blonde asks Kitty to account for the whereabouts of her primary team at the time of the explosion and afterwards.
Jimmy was with her. At her tent. About half a kilometer from the blast. They assisted with triage of the wounded. She should have multiple witnesses. Rogue was with Quentin Quire. She doesn’t know where they were. The blonde finds Quentin checked in at the Cure tent. Poor Rogue, Kitty sighs. The blonde asks about Robert Drake.
Kitty’s narration:
Kitty explains Bobby is the youngest of them. For all she knows, Paige may have been his first real crush. Maybe he was really in love with her. She didn’t return the feelings but that wouldn’t have changed how Bobby felt. Bobby was there when she did what she did. Kitty wishes Husk had died. It might have been easier to move ahead.
Bobby’s in the desert, hitting an ice object he created, refusing to talk to anyone.
Present:
The blonde observes that for such a tight-knit team things are really falling apart. Is that a question? Kitty asks. The blonde reminds her that the government is prepared to invest a great deal of capital, both financial and political, in the future of mutantkind. She’s asking the tough questions required. In many ways, Kitty and her team are the core. She certainly has made herself a figurehead, a full-fledged media personality. You can buy a shirt with Kitty’s face on it in malls across the country, did she know that? Kitty spits back she hasn’t been in a mall lately. She’s been living in tunnels and caves, fighting for her life!
Does she want to continue helping her kind? the blonde asks forcefully. Of course, Kitty shouts back. Excellent, just one last area to cover. Tell her about the young Woman known as Mach Two…
Kitty’s Narration:
Nomi Blume. An orphan who lived in the tunnels with them in New York. Kitty liked her. She was genuine and far nicer than you’d expect, given her upbringing. Kitty saw her as a kindred spirit, someone who could work with her. She was just so young.
As the X-Men are arguing, Nomi comes running, addressing Kitty. What the hell is she doing here? Kitty bursts out. Instead of letting Nomi finish, Kitty announces that they have to get Bobby someplace quiet. Find them later, okay? Nomi senses and takes away some shrapnel from Bobby’s back of the head that could have gotten infected otherwise. Kitty thanks her, and again tells her to find her later. They’ll talk!
Angrily, Nomi clears the blood of the shrapnel. Later, Nomi, she mimics. They should feel lucky she didn’t put this right back where she found it!
Present:
So she’s underage, the woman asks. They all are technically, Kitty points out. They either are or aren’t, the woman replies sharply. This is one of the more troubling aspects of the mutant situation in the eyes of the administration.
Are they going to find their parents and see how many want them back? Kitty mocks. She’d almost dare them to but she doesn’t want to see any of those kids have their heart broken twice.
The blonde goes back to Nomi. They had an altercation….
Kitty’s narration:
Kitty wasn’t prepared for the degree in which Nomi’s powers had changed. Back in the tunnels, she had a slight magnetic effect. It was real enough but minor compared to her control over anything metal.
Present:
The woman interrupts. Is she saying mutants can evolve their abilities? Improve them? In rare cases, Kitty admits, but it’s always involuntary. Does she have to write that down? Absolutely. She is told to continue.
Kitty’s narration:
They fought a bit, Kitty admits.
Kitty finds Nomi eating a sandwich. So this is later? she mocks. Thanks for working her into her busy schedule! She saw Kitty on VNN a dozen times. She was fighting Sentinels and had a gun. What happened?
They won, Kitty reminds her. This is peace. Everyone wants to help. Nomi snorts, she didn’t think humans want to help mutants. A few do, Kitty points out. More so now that Captain America was elected. A lot of the hate and rage went away. It feels like a fresh start.
Nomi replies she travelled all the way here to fight in the liberation war. So why did they stop? Stop what? Kitty asks. Um, the war? Nomi mocks. Because they won, Kitty repeats. They defeated Stryker’s Sentinel army, liberated the camps, opened up the southwest. They had to fight them, but that is not the same as wanting to fight a war.
Does she think she’s stupid? Nomi asks. Kitty is suddenly paralyzed and dragged into the air. She’s not, Nomi continues. She picked up a few things since Kitty left. She’s not the Nomi Blume that magnetized her ankles and hung upside on from the pipes to make the little kids laugh. She’s the Nomi Blume who can isolate the iron in her blood and control it. Feel that? She bets Kitty can’t phase now. She’s not fooled and she’s not going to be co-opted! She remarks that all these humans, when push came to shove, wanted to see them dead and in the ground. She wants a war but she knows she can’t win that one.
She did some walking round after Kitty blew her off earlier. Thousands of mutants are taking the Cure because of some deal Kitty cut with the president. Kitty disarmed. Kitty allowed the future of the mutants to be a political decision… a human political decision.
She levitates the bit of shrapnel in front of Kitty’s face. Maybe the war she should fight is the one that saves mutantkind from Kitty. Nomi, please, Kitty asks.
Rogue comes back, asking what’s wrong. Nomi drops Kitty. Nothing wrong, she claims. She was catching Kitty up. Rogue replies she wants to hear that from Kitty. Is that Rogue she is talking to or one of her multiple personalities? Nomi mocks. She used to babysit her, Rogue reminds her. Who made her the tough guy?
She helps Kitty up and asks what happened. Nomi has some secondary mutations, Kitty explains. And none of them allow her to hear ghosts, Nomi quips. She thanks Kitty for the talk. She looks forward to another one soon.<?>
As she walks away, Rogue wonders what happened to Nomi. She grew up before she was ready, Kitty replies somberly. Just like them. She warns Rogue that Nomi is actually dangerous.
Present:
The blonde states that Kitty chose to not report the assault. Kitty isn’t sure she would call it an assault. But she had bigger problems to deal with. Such as? The sheer number of mutants lining up to take the Cure. Husk’s bomb had its desired effect. To amplify the mutant fear that the world is full of people who want them dead and they’ll stop at nothing to achieve it. Thousands took the shot. She began to see what the future of the mutant race was going to look like. About twenty people. Pretty effective solution to the mutant problem, right?
The blonde reminds her it is not her Cure. She is just here to ask the questions, that’s all. And with that, she thinks they are done.
The US government has its answers, Kitty agrees. Or should she say, its intelligence? The blonde repeats they are done. Before she walks out of the door Kitty states she knows what the woman is thinking. The mutants’ numbers are decimated and so they are at each other’s throats. It’s tempting to leave her with that impression. But she will give her a warning instead. Don’t think they won’t stick together. Don’t think if they give them the slightest bit of trouble they won’t fight back. They backed the mutants into a corner. If they think they fought hard before, they haven’ seen anything yet. And now they are done.
South west Utah, 18 miles from the reservation:
A few days later, the government begins the process of relocating them. Jimmy calls it a reservation. Kitty hopes they can think of a better name. She is depressed, having fought only to see the number of mutants reduced past extinction level. What’s the point? She keeps telling herself they are free as the twenty mutants left board the bus.
Jimmy reminds her how they sat together on the bus from New York. Want to find the same seats? Kitty tells him she really wants to be alone right now. She figures tomorrow is a new day…


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Reservation X – part 2
The outskirts of the new mutant home, Utopia:
Jimmy Hudson is trekking the area. Climbing a hill, he watches the sunrise.
In the settlement, most of the others are still asleep or only just getting up. Armor, who shares a room with Magma, sees a lizard in a corner. With her armor, she mimics its shape. What is she doing? Amara mumbles. Nothing, she is told.
Kitty and Rogue meet for an early morning jog. She sleep okay? Rogue asks Kitty. Yeah, and her? More or less, Marian replies. Does she wanna talk about it? There’s not much to say, Rogue shrugs. Who knew feeling normal was so boring?
They pass the container of Mach Two. Warpath mutters there go the cheerleaders. Mach Two orders him to stop ogling them. So cliché. Is he sure Kitty doesn’t know he swiped her gun? She hid it pretty well, he tells her, so she probably won’t realize it’s gone until she specifically goes looking for it. He doesn’t know why she wanted it so bad. Most everyone here has powers that can outperform a gun.
She takes the gun apart with her magnetic powers. The gun itself isn’t important, Nomi replies. What’s important is how she can use it to take down Kitty Pryde…
The settlement comes alive. Kitty welcomes Jimmy back with a hug after spending eight days in a desert. Kitty admits she’s glad he’s back. She feels like she’s surrounded by people who hate her guts. It’s nice to know he’s supporting her, no matter what.
She asks what he found. He explains the first two nights he was security for Zero, who took soil samples. They covered a five mile radius around the camp. Kitty agrees. He said the samples were fine. Some toxins but nothing Zero can’t screen out.
Then keep everyone within that five mile radius, Jimmy replies. Cuz after he started his solo recon, he walked the borders, reconned the whole pace. At a glance, it was a whole lot of things. Some rusty old towers. Some Korean War era bunkers. All pointed to what they knew. These were the DOD proving grounds way back. But nothing’s alive. No foliage to speak of, a few aged lizards. No birds, no insects. Then one night he was walking along and his boots started melting. Radiation probably. He literally ran the whole way for at least a mile.
He thinks he isolated the hot area. It’s sizeable, maybe twenty percent of the reservation and the readings are off the charts. Nomi was right. The government gave them a bad deal. And if word gets out, people are going to think maybe she’s keeping things from them.
Nomi stole her gun, Kitty suddenly states. A gift from Fury. Jimmy reminds her they can’t have guns here. Part of the conditions of the deal. But Nomi doesn’t know she knows. Jimmy warns her not to be sure. That girl has come a long way.
Later:
Outside the makeshift greenhouse Storm critically stares at the sky. She doesn’t know what to tell him, she informs Blackheath. She can’t work with what’s not there. Maybe she can divert some precipitation from Yosemite, but they are dry there too.
Never mind, Sam tells her, bowed over a microscope in the greenhouse. He tells her to come inside. He asks her if she really thinks Kitty is up to the whole task of running this endeavor. Ororo warns him not to recruit her. Mach Two and her friends give her the creeps. Kitty liberated the camps. That’s all she needs to know. Fair enough, Sam concedes.
Looking through the microscope again, he is surprised. He tells Storm he may not have liberated any camps but he may have just fed the planet. He asks her to run and fetch Kitty.
Later, Kitty looks through the microscope and asks what she is looking at. Just seeds. Modified seeds, he tells her and the small crowd that has gathered. Immortal seeds. Ghost seeds. They think. They assess and adapt. They don’t ever die. They create ideal condition for success around them. They are sentient. They don’t have brains but they have an awareness of sorts. They do little terraformations of not only the soil around them but on themselves.  They adapt so they can thrive. Drop them anywhere on the Earth and they will grow.
He can guarantee that? Kitty asks. Give him a week more, Blackheath replies, then he will. Then they can announce it to the world. Kitty asks him to talk to her in private. She leads him away from the others and asks for a little discretion. He asks her what she is on about. They just invented something that will literally change the planet.
He explains how Zero had cleaned a bit of soil, Storm sucked whatever moisture from the air and they created a biosphere in the greenhouse. Zero and Blackheath did some genetic tinkering on some suicide seeds that came in the Stark package, they tried to turn off the termination genes. They don’t exactly know what happened. They were trying to create a tough bastard of a seed that would maybe grow in this dirt. It’s possible they created a sort of life form. The thing mutates at an alarming rate.
Right there, Kitty interrupts him. Mutates. That word. Does he want to tell the public they invented some mutant seeds and want to sprinkle them around?  He asks what she suggests. They created it, they own it and they have a bigger issue than they can handle. She tells him to do his tests. She’ll work on the business end of things. She thinks she knows who to call.
Elsewhere, Rogue is walking when a voice calls her. Psylocke enters her mind, learning about her boyfriend. She mocks her when she learns he took the Cure. No one to touch her now. Who would want to? Rogue exclaims. She deserves to be alone. The first step is admitting you have a problem, Psylocke tells her. Enough about her lame boyfriend dramas. Let’s talk about Kitty Pryde. She’s in more trouble than she knows. She’s a fool to trust Captain America. The soldiers out there who are supposed to watch over them? She is in their heads too. They aren’t going to lift a finger to save them.
Maybe she should have taken the Cure too. She can see Rogue is having second thoughts. She and Bobby Drake. A couple of sad cases they are, pining after those they can’t have. Loyal to a leader who is in way over her head. Tragic.
This isn’t real, Rogue insists. She is the new voice in her head, Psylocke whispers. She thinks she likes it in here.
Rogue awakes with a gasp.
Kitty figures that for them a peaceful revolution is the only way. Soon military vessels arrive. Kitty explains she has one number in her phone book. Luckily, that person knows this one. This one being Tony Stark, who asks for the person in charge. Kitty welcomes him to Utopia. Oh, is that what it is? Tony mocks. He’ll take her word for it. So, she has something to show him?
In the greenhouse, he sees a few small seedlings in their beds. Tony remarks he expected to see acres of lush gardens. This looks like a second grader’s science experiment. He planted these five minutes before Stark arrived. The same base seed into different soil recipes. It’s already mutated into four different strain of grain. That’s a little more interesting, Tony admits.
Afterwards, he asks them do they know what they are up against? Genetically modified seed stock is a lucrative enterprise. Companies spend billions developing proprietary strains designed to protect that investment. Developing nations are in fact enslaved to a brand for just that reason. What they have here is a magic bullet that could eliminate an entire industry just like that. That said, the benefits are obvious. Distributed correctly, they could literally feed the world, and they would be so rich their offspring wouldn’t have to work for a millennium. They want to give it away, Kitty announces.
Stark agrees (despite the stocks in agriculture Stark owns). He’ll have his men bring the truck around. He explains he’s her new business affairs and military consultant. In the next twenty four hours, two things will happen for sure. They will hold a press conference to announce their gift to the world. He has a team that will make that happen. After that, possibly within a couple of hours, this Utopia will be attacked.
By who? Kitty demands. He could make her a list, but it would be a rather long one. They’ll want to capture the seed if they can but are just as likely to firebomb the place to ashes, but lucky for them he has something to help with that too. In the truck is a red, white and blue Iron Man armor.
Later in the evening:
Kitty and Jimmy are alone. She asks him if she is crazy to do this. No crazier than before when she announced they were all going southwest to rile up the Sentinels. He takes he hand. Is he crazy? Basically, yeah. But he’s also had her back in everything and that’s the sort of thing an armed revolutionary girl tends to notice. She warns him she is about to get a lot more negative attention. Now might be the perfect time to find a little distance. Or not, he tells her.
Night time:
Kitty wakes up in bed from a clicking noise. The gun hovers above her. Kitty pleads with Nomi this is madness. What is she trying to prove? Is this some desperate bid for attention? She’ll just phase and the bullet will phase--
The gun changes direction, pointing at the sleeping Jimmy. No ! Kitty exclaims.
Jimmy awakes. The gun is gone. What’s wrong? he asks Kitty. Everything! she sobs and hugs him.


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Reservation X – conclusion
The world reacts to the mutant seed. Agriculture stocks plummet. Anti-mutant protesters in Paris turn violent. Senators demand sanctions, claiming the mutants want to destroy the American way of life by killing the economy. Tony Stark has refused to comment, though Stark Industries enjoys a healthy stock boost.
A weak, dehydrated young woman arrives at the settlement of Utopia. Storm recognizes her as Husk aka Paige Guthrie. Rogue warns the others not to trust her. She tried to kill them all! Zero asks for someone to get Kitty. Storm chides Husk for having a lot of nerve while creating a mini rain cloud to get her some water.
A little later, Paige is debriefed by Kitty. Husk knows how mad everyone is. She’s afraid to go out there and face them. Kitty points out everyone already knows she’s here. It’s probably best she stay indoors.
Is Kitty angry with her? She wouldn’t blame her. Kitty reminds Paige that she strapped on a bomb, walked into a crowd of mutants and killed five of them. Wounded 17. Does she really need her to answer that?
She refused the Cure, Paige points out. She is one of them. This is where she belongs. Kitty spits back she made it clear she isn’t one of them. Paige insists she was brainwashed but they treated her. She was released. She is fine now. Kitty doesn’t buy it. Paige tells her that, because of the mutant seed, most of the mutants left in the country are coming here. Word is spreading this is the new homeland.
Bobby Drake knocks at the door, wanting to see Paige. Not now, Kitty tells him but the two ignore her. No one else, ok? Kitty tells Rogue. Paige and Bobby hug, and Bobby promises her everything will be fine, though Kitty still worries.
Night time, six miles away, Iron Man has a vehicle put there. Jimmy Hudson asks why they aren’t putting up weapons. Stark replies you shouldn’t shoot until you know who you are shooting at. Jimmy points out that, if they come without calling, they can assume they aren’t delivering pizzas.
Tony tells him they have become an economic entity, and that’s a very different thing than just being mutant rebels. All people are paying very close attention to what they do next. But to start thinking they are a nation with a military? They aren’t prepared for what comes after. They don’t have the numbers or the allies.
Jimmy replies that they have weapons and they’ve proven they know how to use them. They liberated the Southwest. Tony explains he has to approach the idea of fighting maturely. If Kitty means to stick to this idea of non-violence, he is going to have to become her enforcer. She doesn’t know how much that depends on him being in that role.
He wants him to be her bodyguard? Jimmy asks. He wants him to be Utopia’s bodyguard, Tony clarifies. The strong- arm reserve, reserved, but capable. Preferably invisible. If the mutants break the laws of trade and commerce, there are penalties, but if the other side thinks they can get away with it, they will wipe Utopia off the map. They don’t want to pick a fight with anybody. But when the time is right, they may need to let the world know there will be a penalty if they come after Utopia. Jimmy promises he will be ready.
The sensor alerts go off. A plane is heading right for them. Stark tells Jimmy to stay here and cover him from the ground. He dons the Iron Man armor and flies off. He takes out the flier and captures the pilot. He gets to have all the fun, Jimmy sulks.
Iron Man takes brings his prisoner with him. Jimmy asks who sent him and threatens the man. Iron Man tells him to bring him back to camp. From there he’ll call SHIELD to collect him.
There is another sensor alert but it’s quickly gone. Tony figures it was just a bird. He doesn’t see Farbird hovering above.
Later, Tony, Jimmy and Kitty question the man. Kitty reminds him this is a sovereign nation, and he just violated international borders. The man refuses to talk. Jimmy suggests they chop him into small pieces and toss them in the desert for the coyotes. Tony suggests if they want to set an example, they should send him back. Take the high road. He’ll take back the message that the kids in the desert are maybe a tougher target than they might seem. And they get to be the peaceful ones. They could use that PR. Over Jimmy’s protests, Kitty agrees.
In the morning, they send him away with a jeep. Kitty tells him to inform his superiors they are no threat to anyone and they have friends in high places who would not respond well to further attacks.
The man finally speaks, suggesting she check in with those friends of hers. Make sure they still have their back. She might be in for a surprise.
Tony tells them he was posturing. He reminds them they need the PR. Does he think he was a US soldier? Tony is sure but the identity of his handlers is the question. Kitty decides she has something to tell everyone.
Very soon, all of Utopia is gathered for Kitty to hold her speech. She wants to talk about them. About who they are – a divided community. And in light of recent attacks, that’s only going to make them more vulnerable. They simply have too many enemies in common to be divided. Why do they ask for help from people like Fury or Tony Stark when they are only going to destroy themselves from within?
She addresses Nomi directly. She’s been challenging and challenging Kitty, undermining her decision, splitting the community… and the threat against her life? Don’t think she doesn’t know it was her! But she is prepared to let that go. For the sake of a unified mutant nation.
If Husk is right, there are more mutants on their way here; they are coming for a place of refuge. Is this what they want them to find here? Arguing and backstabbing and grudge holding? She has said they want to be an example to the world. That starts with each and everyone being an example to each other first. The world expects them to act like children. To be targets to further abuse.
Do they remember what happened when they pulled together and started working together? They liberated the camps! Shola calls out. They killed the Sentinels! another boy states. They won their freedom! Jimmy adds. They did all that together, Kitty agrees.  And they can build a homeland together. For the future of mutantkind. For Uto –
At that moment, the greenhouse blows up. They run there and find nothing left. Kitty’s people believe Mach Two was behind this, but Mach Two has gathered her followers, telling them this is what they get when Kitty makes deals with humans. Cheated, attacked, bombed. Shola suggests Kitty set off the bomb herself. At this point, they can’t rule out anything. She suggests they get away from Kitty and the others and find a place to start a true mutant nation.
Mach Two, Warpath, Psylocke, Shola, Zero and another boy start to leave. Nomi looks back at Husk and Iceman. Husk asks for a minute. She explains to Bobby that Kitty’s people will never accept her. But Nomi will. This is the only future she will have here. But it won’t be much of one without him. Come with her? Please! Silently, he agrees.
Soon the news reports that the explosion reportedly destroyed all traces of the so-called sentient seed. To some parts of the world that were expecting delivery of the seed to resolve food shortages, this loss will be lamented. Though many groups will certainly be glad.
Kitty accompanies Stark to his plane. She announces now that the world thinks the seed’s gone forever, this plan might work. It is already working, he replies. Kitty admits she hates lying to her friends. He tells her that she bought them some security from future reprisals and in time they can start to release the seed through back channels. It may take years but he promises her it will get out here. History will have the final word but he believes that word will be: mutants cured world hunger.
Kitty hugs him and thanks him. He tells her to trust her people and that he gave some of the seed to Storm and Blackheath. They had some ideas for it.
Elsewhere, the shady group states that this does not solve the mutant problem. They decide to accelerate the plan. Start to bring pressure to bear on key individuals. Captain America’s executive overreach cannot stand. They state a recommitment to their goals to see that the mutant species is stripped of any and all protection and that we the people tolerate them no longer!


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Natural Resources – Utopia United!
Rogue tells the Sentient Seed- based jungle she can feel them too. They come with noise, with crushing and fire. They are not of this place. They are intruders. Now, Utopia! she orders. Rise up! And the jungle turns against the soldiers, vines trapping, trees falling.
Listen to them… the screams, a broken Psylocke tells Jean Grey. They’re being ripped apart. She sounds like she approves, Jean observes. They all die, Psylocke replies telepathically. And for their kind it’s rarely peaceful. Jean tells her she is nothing like her. She is evil! Farbird agrees.
Psylocke scoffs. “Evil” is a poorly used word. Would Jean not consider herself a villain? By her silence and thoughts, she knows she agrees. She believes in the greater good, Jean replies. They all do, Psylocke agrees.
Farbird announces she is dying. Psylocke asks Jean to come close. She was here to preside over the extinction of mutantkind but, in these last moments, she sees her death need not be an obstacle to success. She believes there is one that may yet bring her mission to completion… Who is that? Jean asks. “You, Jean Grey”, she is told.
The battle ends soon after Psylocke’s death. Free from her influence, the soldiers soon see the situation for what it is: a battle needlessly escalated, one that the army has little chance of winning.
General Ross orders a cease-fire. He addresses Kitty Pryde, who tells her people it’s okay. The fight is over. She meets Ross, who informs her he has ordered a full retreat and withdrawal. He still has his orders, but if Washington persists in enforcing their resolution, they’ll have to do it diplomatically. He admits her jungle is an effective deterrent. She is one of theirs, Kitty replies.
Ross explains this needn’t have happened and advises her that they have won their war of independence. They have their land and people, even an ideology. People are afraid of her and them. Of what this place represents. Stop reminding them of it. Stay off the internet. Stay off the airwaves. Stop holding press conferences where they offer to fix the world’s problems. Lay low, work on their own problems. Live their lives. Stop giving people excuses to come after them.
Does he think that’s what they are doing? Kitty asks. Stop blaming the victim! All her life, all their lives, all they’ve felt is the pressure to hide who they are. That the way to avoid prejudice and violence is to be as meek and quiet as possible, and even that doesn’t always work. The problem isn’t them. They don’t need to change who they are.
Just a suggestion, he shrugs. They are all so young. Wouldn’t they rather just enjoy themselves? What they wouldn’t give for their childhoods back, Kitty replies. What human kids take for granted they can only dream of having. Tell that to his bosses in Washington!
Jean observes how the Utopians deal with the aftermath, now that they can track Psylocke’s influence even to their own problems. Kitty and Nomi make up, the two groups become one again. They are proud and celebrate.
Walking with Farbird, Jean muses they will be assets to Tian. But they are not there. Not yet. She orders him to return to Tian as quickly as possible, go directly to her private quarters and prepare for project activation. Codename: Supersonic. Use her private password. And wait for her word. She tells him it is important but hopes it will be unnecessary. He tells her that her people love her for her wisdom and protection. With that, he leaves.
Later in Kitty’s home, Kitty calmly confronts Jean with the fact that she knows who she is. Glad to see the whole “Karen Grant” thing’s passed. Jean asks how. Only an omega level telepath could have seen through her telepathic screens. The sentient seed, Kitty explains. She’s known almost since day one. The others are just finding out now. It’ll be interesting to see how this conversation plays out because when Jean leaves this house everyone is going to treat her differently.
So she knows why she’s here, Jean states. Well? Kitty walks toward her and looks her in the eye. The answer is no. Utopia is not Tian and never will be. There eventually has to be a place where mutants and humans coexist. Where there is tolerance and respect. A segregated society… when has that ever worked? Jean’s eyes begin to flare. Kitty tells her to go home. Utopia may be young and imperfect, but Jean doesn’t understand the first thing about what they are doing here.
Jean goes for her throat and calls Kitty an idiot. All of them walking around like they’ve won some victory. They’ll be back! They will always come back. This is why Tian exists! she shouts. But Kitty and her arrogance will doom all these people to this … ghetto in the desert and let their enemies plot their extermination at their leisure! She is an embarrassment to all mutants! Well? she demands Kitty phases through her and tells her she just doesn’t get it.
Fine, Jean states. Why doesn’t Kitty tell her what she doesn’t know. Kitty suggests she take the pulse of the community, then recalls she can’t. The jungle is blocking her telepathy. So she’ll explain. Had Jean come to them openly and honestly, they might have considered a partnership of sorts with Jeans. Sister nations etc. It wouldn’t have stopped anything they are doing here but a global community would be nice. Working together might be nice. But not with Jean. At least not the “mistress of Tian” Jean Grey.
Kitty accuses her of being a despot. Utopia will never be closed down or abandoned. Tian may be beautiful and unique but so is Utopia. And every day it gets more so, because they are building it with their own hands. She knows Jean wants them as part of some sort of mutant empire but she’ll never ever have them.
Jean flares with the Phoenix effect. Kitty calmly states Utopia won’t kneel to anyone.
The mutants outside see the flare. Rogue tells them the Seed promised her they are safe. What are they seeing then? Shola asks. A Utopia that’s learned to win, James replies, without ever having to fight.
Kitty tells Jean to go home.
And in Tian, Farbird activates Jean’s project…


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World War X – part one
James Hudson tells Kitty Pryde she’s won. They all won, she corrects him. He clarifies that he means her ideas won. Her vision for the future of mutants. Congratulations.
Why is he angry? Kitty asks. He’s not angry, he’s resigned, James explains. She doesn’t need him anymore. He’s designed for battle, for surviving violence, for bringing the fight to the enemy. She wants a world without violence, no conflict, no war. And she will do whatever it takes to get there. Kitty agrees. He wishes her the best of luck. But being at her side feels more and more like standing in her shadow.
Utopia and the mutant nation thrive. In the wake of the US government’s attempt at nationalization, the deal ex-president Captain America struck with mutant leader Kitty Pryde was deemed legal and binding in a Supreme Court emergency session. All rights have been returned to the mutants. Additional land surrounding Utopia was awarded as part of a damages settlement, extending their sovereign borders by several thousand acres. The land was terraformed using mutant technology and now supports several hundred individuals. The original reservation is mostly wild land but a few of the first twenty mutants still reside within.
Blackheath is farming. Storm remarks that he helped create the Sentient Seed and Kitty has him down in the dirt working with his hands? She keeps them honest, he explains. They are building all this with their own hands. There’s that much more pride of ownership and connection to the land. He teases her and they embrace.
Good for her, a wistful Colossus remarks, observing her from some distance away. He has come with a friend.
Generating a huge surplus of water and arable land, the mutants have assisted humans nearby. Their sentient seed technology via Stark Industries started deliveries to Third World nations and hard hit disaster regions this week.
Iceman and Husk watch Rogue swinging from tree to tree.
Mach Two sits outside, writing down something, still concerned the humans will never leave them alone. Some small object drops from the sky. She is too late to stop it; though, using her magnetic powers, she grabs something else from the air.
The next morning the trees are barren, their sentient-seed grown jungle dying. Blackheath explains it’s a herbicide that was spread hundreds of meters. It’s bio warfare. There might be a bit of sentience in the virus. It’s adaptive. But the seed is fighting.
Kitty asks who did this. Nomi tells her to come. Some vines are holding Farbird fast. Rogue asks the Seed to let him speak. They need answers. Farbird introduces himself.
Nomi explains she pulled him out of the sky and the Seed tied him up. He dropped the bomb. Kitty ask how high he was. Pretty high, Nomi replies evasively. Kitty is impressed by her range.
Blackheath asks why Tian is launching bombs at them. A rivalry is one thing… Storm agrees, but Jean Grey’s gone off the deep end.
Kitty steps closer to Farbird. She admits she didn’t think Jean would take it this far. What does Farbird have to say? Just that his mistress will want him back. Bloody hell, Blackheath mutters.
Kitty gives orders to move homesteaders into Utopia proper, into the tree cover. Spread the word!
Rogue tells her the Seed’s really hurt. And Blackheath warns the herbicide is an infection. Can she still fight? Kitty asks. Rogue tells her she is in terrible pain. Blackheath suggests Kitty let the Seed kill that winged monster, for morale. No murder, Kitty orders. Rogue walks off, announcing she is going to do what she can to help her. Anything they can do to help? Kitty ask. Rogue suggests she not try to start another war.
In Tian, Jean Grey meets with fellow mutants Liz Allen and Derek Morgan, announcing they are her war council. They need to move to stage two. The other two are doubtful on the need for this war, besides her wounded pride, Derek remarks. Jean tells him mutants will never have the respect they deserve if they remain a divided people. If they are seen to be split, they are already halfway to being conquered! Tian is the mutant homeland. They were there first. And they are the best option in every conceivable way. Utopia would jeopardize them all for the sake of a land boxed in a patch of desert, a twofaced gift given to them out of pity and guilt!
But she wanted Utopia, Liz reminds her. She wanted the people, Jean snaps. In the interest of their shared future, if the Utopians won’t work with them, Tian has to absorb them. This public division can’t be allowed to exist. They see how many times mutants in America have come under attack.
Jean explains that stage one was neutralization of their bio-engineered jungle defenses. She’s seen what that Seed can do first-hand. As of six minutes ago, Farbird dropped an experimental herbicide over Utopia. It’s designed to self-replicate and adapt and render the whole matrix inoperable. Stage two will be the landing of several Tian soldiers within Utopia village. This is a diplomatic effort, Kitty Pryde’s last chance for the peaceful resolution she swears by. She can make the right choice and this will never be a war at all. She’s designated the northwest sector of Tian to settle the Utopia mutants—
A shocked Derek interrupts and reminds her the Sentient Seed is alive. It’s a mutant like them. An experimental herbicide? Tian soldiers? What are these things? Liz points out they came here on a humanitarian mission. She’s never heard of any of this either.
Jean is silent, then reveals that Xorn and Zorn were developing several initiatives in top secret projects that she has since inherited and repurposed. The first of which is a soldier program. It was complete. She simply activated it. Would they like to meet them?
Morning in Utopia. Storm leaves the bed she shares with Blackheath, downs some coffee and takes to the sky for first watch as the sun rises. A fleet of Xorn-looking fliers passes her by.
Storm flies after them. When she reaches the last one, he turns around and attacks her in the air. They fall into the foliage and land on the ground. Sam, she moans. No, it’s Piotr, Colossus tells her as he tears the Tian soldier away from her and slams him into a tree. He tells her to warn the others sin the village. They are circling back. They’ll talk later.
The soldiers have landed. One asks if he defends the apostate Utopia nation. He defends his friends, Colossus replies gravely. What are they? Your cleaning fire, is the reply. All hail Tian!
Kitty meditates, wondering how she can have such a perfectly defined philosophy yet feel so wholly out of control of it. Jean Grey helped them during the siege. Now she seems intent on hurting them. Is this the burden of the pacifist? To be constantly tested? Or is this an excuse? She wonders if their community would be less of a lightning rod for conflict if she weren’t a part of it. Should she be more like James and accept the inherent violence of her mutant gifts? Where did he go? she wonders, when she hears shouts from outside.
In Tian, James Hudson kneels before Jean Grey, who welcomes him to her side…


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World War X – part two
Tian:
Standing on a balcony, James Hudson takes in the sight of the floating islands that make up Tian. Glorious, isn’t it? Jean Grey asks him. James considers it terrifying. He doesn’t understand this place. Yet he came, Jean points out. She knew he would.
She has prepared a sumptuous meal. James devours a pear. He explains he hasn’t had something this fresh in years. It’s amazing! She would have thought they ate well in Utopia, Jean remarks innocently. They do, James defends his former home. It’s just… simpler. The Sentient Seed helps them, but doesn’t serve them. He thinks climate and soil are factors… and what the ecosystem supports. They eat what they can grow but ultimately she’s in control. Sounds like kind of a tough lady, Jean smirks. Maybe she just needs to be put in her place.
In Utopia, the Sentient Seed is dying after the sneak attack Jean ordered. At ground zero, Rogue tries to support the Seed, begging it to recover. She needs it!
Nearby, Colossus and his partner, Aleks, fight the Xorn lookalike fliers Jean sent. Kitty and several others run to join them.
Mach Two repels a few fliers with her magnetism. Kitty asks if they are alive, to which Mach Two replies they seem like dolls. Kitty orders her people to hit them hard. Kitty follows her own advice and uses a rarely seen aspect of her power. By heightening her density, she smashes their heads. Ignoring her stubbornness, Iceman and Husk help. Bobby tells her they are in this together. Learn to delegate! More Tian fliers are coming.
In Tian, Jean hushes James and concentrates. She speaks through the fliers, ordering the Utopians to stand down. Further fighting is counterproductive. They will be one people. Tian has spoken.
What did he miss? Colossus asks. Too much, Kitty replies curtly before addressing Jean via the fliers. She reminds her she gave her an answer. Jean didn’t like it, but it was given in peace. And now, she sneak-attacks them? She hurts one of their own? She might have killed her!
Who is she talking about? Jean asks James. The Sentient Seed is one of them, he explains.
Kitty announces that from here on out violence will be met with violence. No hesitation, no quarter, no exception. She addresses Storm whose lightning takes out all the Tian fliers. That’s his girl, Blackheath grins.
In Tian, Jean is horrified. She’s killed them all. She’s a murderer! Jean bursts out. James reminds Jean she told him they were drones with no sentience, unlike Utopia’s jungle, which Jean-- They had potential! Jean screams. And they were expensive. They were the legacy of Xorn and Zorn who she has sworn to honor.
So it’s her reputation, James states. It’s Tian’s, Jean corrects him. She misjudged Kitty’s pacifism. It seems she has a breaking point. Seems like she has a war on her hands. She wanted a war, James reminds her. What she wants is obedience, Jean snaps.
After some thinking, she asks him about the United States’ current stance on the mutant situation and Utopia. After the failed attack, they backed off. Seems the policy for the foreseeable future is live and let live. No wonder Kitty feels emboldened, Jean muses.
James points out, Kitty isn’t looking for a fight. She’s escalating the situation, Jean insists. She no doubt feels secure in her position. Let’s see what she can do about that…
Soon, global news channels show a press release by Tian. Jean Grey announces that Utopia attacked Tian which, Jean stresses, respects freedom and humanity. It would never force itself or its beliefs on the rest of the world. Utopia sees things differently and has chosen to press the issue. She asks the world to let mutants clean up their own mess.
Later, Jean shares a bed with James. Grinning, she wonders how that will cramp Kitty’s style. James replies that was one of the biggest displays of cowardice he has ever seen and a repulsive play to the worst fears humans have when it comes to mutant rights. He hates her so much right now. He sounds like Liz and Derek, Jean scoffs. But here he is. If she is so repulsive why doesn’t he leave? Because he knows her plan will work, she adds and gives him a kiss on the cheek. A mutant war to end all mutant wars.
At Utopia’s western ridge, Amara and Nomi climb up a mountainside. Amara does so effortlessly while Nomi complains. She asks Magma why Kitty wants her along. Wartime protocols, Amara reminds her. Mutants travel in groups. At least one of them has to have combat-adaptive abilities.
Amara helps her up and explains she designed Utopia to be a fortress as well as a cradle of life, hence the sheer walls and the single entrance. But until now, the mountains were only here to help Storm create microclimates… Now it’s time for some fine-tuning. She touches the ground and the mountain moves. She explains she is creating caverns, passageways, tunnels… networking the reservation. New water supplies. Huge lake. Geothermally heated. She just created America’s latest hot spring. Nomi asks if she isn’t destabilizing something somewhere else. Amara laughs and tells her to give her a little credit.
Nomi admits she’s stunned. Magma’s the most powerful mutant she’s ever met. Why doesn’t Kitty have her down as combat-adaptive? She’s kind of more the deterrent type, Amara replies. The sort of weapon no one likes to acknowledge because she can sink continents and divert oceans and stuff.
In the village, Kitty has asked Colossus to come to her home. She explains that Storm told her about her time with him in the camps. She adds Storm loves him. Piotr replies it was unhealthy for her to stay around him. He murdered someone, Kitty spells out. An officer, he agrees. Word gets out he’s representing Utopia, that could mean trouble. Does she want him to leave? A month ago, she would have said ‘yes.’ Now she needs people like him. She doesn’t have it in her to make tough calls. Does she plan on murdering someone? he asks. Kitty doesn’t reply.
If they fight the war, she’ll have to commit herself to it 100 percent. No room for ideologies or codes of conduct. Like she told Jean: She’ll meet her move for move. Is he to be her soldier then? To his surprise, she asks him how he would like to run Utopia.


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World War X – part three
News reports that, out of nowhere, a super typhoon has descended on Southeast Asia, locating on Tian. A pilot sees a flying woman engulfed by lightning. Soon the news has identified her as Storm, working for Utopia and terrorist Kitty Pryde, thus lending credence to Jean Grey’s statements.
In Tian, Jean stands at the window. The window shatters, some shards lightly cutting her face.
She just wants her to know she is still here, Kitty announces. Move for move.
Later in the evening: Jean coolly informs James that Kitty has to die. That wasn’t part of the deal, he protests. He’s here, so she leaves Kitty alone! Oh is that the deal? Jean mocks. She doesn’t think so. He is here because he is a warrior and the hippie commune that is Utopia was frustrating to him. He came to her where the action is.
Angrily, he replies he can chalk up poisoning the Sentient Seed to her ignorance. The media campaign? They are used to it in the States. But she wants to deliberately assassinate Kitty. She escalated-- Jean begins. No! James shouts and unsheathes his claws. Every single thing Jean has done is making preemptive moves on them. Them, Jean echoes. The word speaks volumes about his loyalties.
She tells him to choose: Tian, where he can be a valued member of a pro-mutant rights movement that will defend itself properly, or peace-loving Utopia, where he can be the most pointless mutant in that sorry patch of dead grass. Choose carefully, because if he chooses Tian he will be expected to support every single decision she makes. James turns around to find himself surrounded by Xorn fliers.
In Utopia the residents evacuate into the cave system set up by Magma. Kitty climbs up one of the dead trees where Rogue has made her home. She hugs her and asks how the Sentient Seed is. Rogue doesn’t know. Kitty asks if Rogue, Zero and Blackheath can bring it back. The guys think they can and have set up a lab to work on it. Can Utopia survive without her? Rogue wonders. Kitty doesn’t think so. She tells Rogue a secret. After the battle with the Tian fliers, she found a message from Jean at her house. Terms of surrender of Utopia and repatriation to Tian in exchange for the herbicide cure.
What will she do? Rogue asks. Kitty wanted to ask her. She won’t give up Utopia wholesale but, if Rogue thinks it is their best chance at saving the Sentient Seed, she’ll find a way to give Jean something she wants.
Rogue announces this is her calling. Her purpose in life. She is the Seed’s best friend, her caretaker, her partner. How can she make the decision? She has to, Kitty replies. Rogue thinks and admits she can’t find the criteria to make a rational decision, so she’ll make an emotional one. No deal. Kitty promises to make Jean pay for this.
Later, Kitty has gathered a small group and explains they are both her war council and her army. Blackheath, Shola, Husk, Warpath, Iceman, Armor, Mach Two and Aleks, who arrived with Colossus. Rogue is in the trees, Storm is maintaining eyes on Tian and Amara is seeing to the shelter in the mountain. Everyone else is underground. They are the first and last line of defense. Then she announces that Colossus is the new leader of Utopia and she is the final member of Utopia’s army.
The others are surprised. Isn’t Colossus a murderer? Husk bursts out. Kitty explains that Piotr took a life while imprisoned in Camp Angel. Colossus readily admits he did it and regrets it. He and Aleks have both done things they regret, but always in the pursuit of freedom from persecution. He would not have accepted Kitty’s offer if he felt otherwise.
Blackheath criticizes that Kitty didn’t pick someone who was with them longer. Kitty explains she wants the survival of Utopia and for that two things have to happen: She has to be removed as the face of Utopia. She is hated by too many people, a reminder of a dark period of American history and there are some people in the American government who will never trust her. They need a new public face, someone who projects strength and intimidates without being provocative. Colossus fits part and is a fresh face for people who hate her on sight. Such as Jean Grey.
Shola asks if she thinks her stepping down will prevent the war. No, but it will make it harder for Jean to smear her and by extension them in the media.
Husk insists he is a liability. His boyfriend isn’t a mutant! Kitty reminds them Aleks risked his life in fighting the Tian fliers.
Too much to hope for a vote this time? Nomi needles. Piotr explains he only accepted this position for four weeks. Even if the Tian conflict is still unresolved, he will step down and everyone votes. He is here to help turn the tide. He agrees with Blackheath. Utopia should have a Utopian as leader.
What will Kitty do now? Armor asks. Fight like hell, she replies grimly.
The next day, Nomi and Shola take Piotr up a cliff side. Nomi explains she and Shola have been tinkering awhile about weaponry. Ways to use their powers that haven’t been done before. She asked Magma to seed these mountain ridges with iron, stuff she can use. There is a line of iron, nickel and coal all the way up to the slope. A perfect line. A rail, Shol adds. Nomi shushes him. She lifts some of that mass, a small nugget, magnetizes it, Shola telekinetically lobs it up and Nomi fires the nugget up the rail into the air.
Colossus is impressed and asks about its range. A 700 meter rail gun, she reckons. Between Magma, Shola and herself they can make one as long as 26 miles. With another day of tinkering they could probably reach Tian.
In Tian, it’s icy cold, thanks to Storm. Jean Grey walks to a high security prison and opens it. She informs her prisoner he needn’t try to move. She is controlling his parietal lobe. He’ll find moving impossible. It’s now been nearly thirty hours in containment. Impressive, given the cold and lack of food. But she guesses a guy like him could stand a lot more, right? While she’d be up for the challenge time isn’t on her side. Things have changed.
And Kitty? James asks. Just abdicated her throne, so to speak. On TV. Colossus has taken her place. All very clever, Jean admits. Puts her in an awkward spot. She could continue to prompt the war but, without even an appeal to this new leadership for a non-violent resolution, she’d look unreasonable. So the new boss has to be made to look as bad as the old one. Which is where he comes in. She’s going to set him free. And then all of Tian is going to try and kill him. It’s going to be open season on James Hudson, Utopian terrorist, wreaking havoc on Tian soil. Not only will he die but her subsequent retaliation on Utopia will be swift, decisive and justified.
He tells her she is insane and doesn’t know when to give up. She’ll know it when she feels it, Jean replies telepathically. She tells him goodbye. It was almost something real, he and her.
She leaves the cell door open and telepathically alerts Farbird, ordering enough with that weather. Find that miserable witch Storm and pluck her from the skies! She tells him he is free to take any steps. She need not be taken alive.
Jean addresses all citizens, warning them of an escaped prisoner. He is extremely dangerous and completely deranged. She asks all loyal sons and daughters of Tian to join the hunt and bring the terrorist to justice. There’s a monster loose in their homes. They are justified in putting it down. She snaps her fingers: Go!
And with a cry of fury, James runs from his cell.