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Part one
Utopia, home of the Uncanny X-Men, and most of the rest of mutantkind. Scott “Cyclops” Summers stands with his arms behind his back and stares out a meeting room window. Professor Charles Xavier stands several feet away, also looking out the window. Towards the rear of the room are several senior X-Men including Wolverine a.k.a. Logan, Rogue, Emma Frost a.k.a. the White Queen, Warren “Angel” Worthington III, Namor the Sub-Mariner, Kitty “Shadowcat” Pryde, Piotr “Colossus” Rasputin, Erik Lehnsherr a.k.a. Magneto. Doctor Nemesis of the X-Club is also with them. No one speaks as they look over at Cyclops and Xavier.
Kitty breaks the silence when she announces ‘Maybe we were wrong. Maybe it’s not coming -’, but the White Queen interrupts, declaring that it is coming, and they will not be able to stop it. ‘There’s nothing we could have done to prevent it’ Emma adds. Doctor Nemesis tells the X-Men that they are going to have to act quickly, as even the slightest delay will put lives unnecessarily at risk. He never thought he would say this, but if this is really what they think it is, their changes of surviving an encounter rest somewhere between nil and zero. ‘We must begin an immediate evacuation’ he declares.
‘So we turn tail and run just ‘cause you’ve done a few calculations, Doc? We evacuate Utopia ‘cause you’re worried the fight might get messy?’ Logan asks. ‘Call me crazy but it seems to me we just got here. I for one ain’t gonna jump ship at the first sign of trouble. Not even for this’. Kitty points out that it doesn’t matter what they do, as long as they do something. They cannot afford to wait, they don’t have time. ‘What’s Scott doing in there?’ she asks, as Magneto walks over to Cyclops, and stands at his side.
Rogue tells everyone that this doesn’t make any sense. ‘We’re Scott’s senior advisors and if ever there was a time for consensus it’s now. God, I hope he knows what he is doing’ Rogue adds. Wolverine frowns, while Colossus asks ‘What if we don’t have to evacuate? We could make a stand here. There’s enough to us to hold back the first wave -’, but Piotr is interrupted by Rogue who asks what good that would do, as holding it back is just delaying the inevitable. The White Queen points out that nothing is inevitable, and that no one said they were delaying anything. ‘Besides, even if we could try to evacuate we’re already past that point’ she remarks, telling the X-Men that they have to give Scott time to make the best decision.
Magneto turns back to the X-Men and informs them that Scott will be with them present. ‘He asks me to apologize on his behalf,  but as I’m sure you’re all aware, this is a moment of monumental gravity’. The X-Men have questions: ‘Did he say what he wants us to do?’ someone asks. ‘I don’t see how what we do is anybody’s choice anymore’ another remarks. ‘Anyone listening to me? We have to move now’ someone else declares.
Charles Xavier looks at Cyclops: ‘When I think of you now…I think of a field of barley’ he remarks telepathically.
Flashback, narrated in parts by Charles Xavier:
Years ago, Charles Xavier sits in his wheelchair, and moves through a field of barely - towards where two beams of optic energy are emanating from, bursting into the night sky. ‘The glasses were giving me a headache’ young Scott Summers, leaning back in the barley, tells Charles. Charles informs Scott that he is getting headaches because he keeps taking the glasses off. ‘I’ve told you, Scott. It’s dangerous to use your powers for prolonged periods of time’ Charles reminds the young mutant. Scott assures the Professor that he did not look at anything. ‘I promise. A plane went by and I didn’t even glance at it’.
‘Still, it’s dangerous. And you’re going to draw unwanted attention from the FAA’ Charles tells his pupil, asking him to close his eyes and when they have adjusted put the glasses back on. Scott complies, and shuts his eyes, while asking the Professor if he can ask him a question. ‘Of course’ Charles tells him. ‘Why are we here?’ Scott asks, lying back with his eyes closed. Charles replies that it is a very complicated question, one that has troubled philosophers since the beginnings of existential debate. ‘I didn’t mean that. I mean why have you brought me and the others to Westchester? Are we in trouble?’ Scott explains.
But Charles tells him that is far from it. ‘You’re here because I want you here’ he assures the young mutant. Scott asks Professor X what he is training them for, to which Charles tells him that he wants them to be able to control their powers. He points out that people will want to see that mutants are nothing to be feared, and that as mutants they are developing certain natural abilities that science is only now beginning to understand. Charles states that he believes humankind is changing, that they are going to wake into a realm of existence that was previously only dreamed of. Xavier puts his hand on Scott’s arm and tells him that they are two of the very first, and that even though they are few, he is convinced the world will be brimming with new and astounding mutations within just a few generations. ‘Which makes you a very special young man indeed’ Charles tells Scott.
But with his ruby-quartz glasses on, Scott gazes away, the stars burning in the sky above him. ‘I don’t want to be special. I want to be ordinary’ he replies. Standing up, Scott tells Professor X that he doesn’t want to be like this. ‘Who wants to shoot laser beams out of their eyes?’ he asks. ‘They’re not laser beams -’ the Professor begins, but Scott declares that it doesn’t matter what they are, as all people see is a freak - an outsider. Charles and Scott move on to a path as Charles tells Scott that he understands how he must feel, and assures him he is not a freak. ‘I think it’s time you understood that not everyone sees you that way’ Charles remarks, adding that it is important that Scott spends time among them so they can see how normal he is. Charles suggests he may take Scott and the other boys into town tomorrow afternoon.
‘That won’t make me normal’ Scott replies, and points out that in town they will have to run into normal people, and that normal people are always afraid of him. ‘And sooner or later it just comes out. People talk behind my back. Sometimes to my face’ Scott declares, before remarking that it is not fair, and that it makes him angry. He tells the Professor that he feels like punching out the next moron who calls him a freak. ‘What if I took off my glasses and just blasted someone -’ Scott begins, but Charles interrupts, and reminds Scott that he possess quite a mind, that he can even read the minds of others - but he cannot predict the future. ‘Even so, I’m going to predict yours’ the Professor tells his pupil.
Charles tells Scott that one day he is going to run into someone a lot weaker than he who is going to try and push him down. ‘Why?’ Scott asks. ‘Because you’re stronger, and weak people fear you. And what will you do when that day comes?’ Charles replies. ‘Push back’ Scott declares. ‘No. You will simply do nothing’ Charles tells him, explaining that real strength comes from keeping his glasses on until the time is right to take them off. ‘A truly powerful man doesn’t need strength. He needs control’ the Professor points out. Scott looks up to the sky and replies that he does not understand. ‘I know. But you will’ Charles tells him, before asking him to come over, just a for a moment. ‘I know this has been so hard on you and the other boys’ Charles tells Scott as he gives him a hug and tells him that he is going to be a fine young man.
Present:
Scott gazes out the window still. ‘You wanted to speak with me, Scott?’ Professor X asks as he approaches Scott, who replies that he we would welcome the Professor’s advice. ‘Can you join me for a moment, please?’ Scott asks. The Professor looks away, and replies ‘I can only tell you what I know. It’s not going to be easy’.
Flashback images, narrated by Professor X:
‘Nothing worthwhile is ever easy’ Charles remarks as he recalls Jean Grey’s introduction to the X-Men. He reminds himself that those first few weeks at the school were always full of surprises, and he is not sure he knew what to expect once he had brought Jean into the mix. ‘But I suppose she always had a better idea of it than I’ Charles admits, recalling how Jean was always so sure, while Scott was the exact opposite. Charles remembers the early days of training as if they were yesterday. ‘You and Hank blasting away any obstacle I could throw at you, Warren swooping by…everyone slipping on Bobby’s ubiquitous slides…those were truly the best times’.
Charles remembers how badly the other boys always wanted to impress Jean, and he can remember one day realizing that they were never going to hit their mark. Charles recalls the boys fooling about, and Jean and Scott’s coy glances. As he remembers the X-Men’s first battle against Magneto, he declares ‘I sent you into battle as children’. But the X-Men emerged into the world as a benign force, set against the forces of evil. ‘It was all so simply back then. All so black and white’.
‘You and Jean were going to be heroes in a world where everyone loved you. Perhaps as much as you loved each other’. But things changed.
Flashback:
Charles Xavier wheels himself towards Cyclops who is slumped over a desk, head in his hands. ‘I don’t need to read your mind to know what you’re thinking. It’s about Jean, isn’t it?’ Charles asks. Scott looks up and tells the Professor that he just wants to look at her with his eyes - just one time, he wants to have it the way other people have it. Scott assures the Professor that he does not mean to complain, as he knows some people are disabled or blind or something. ‘But if they get to dream about being better, why can’t I?’ Scott remarks, tears streaming out from under his ruby-quartz glasses.
Cyclops wipes his face as the Professor tells him that he is not sick. ‘You’re a mutant. And this just happens to be a side effect of your power’ he explains. ‘It’s not fair’ Scott replies. ‘If life were fair, I’d get out of this chair’ Charles remarks, before telling Scott that it is his sad duty to report that this is not an academy lesson, but a life lesson - everybody gets them, which makes Scott just as normal and ordinary as can be. ‘I wish I could walk - I wish I could fly, even. I wish the world were a better place and I understood all of its mysteries’. Charles adds that he wishes that in his lifetime that all mutants could come together on common ground, united under one flag and for one cause. ‘But I’m not going to get my wish, am I?’
Present:
‘I was wrong. Not about me. About you’ Charles tells Scott telepathically. ‘You’ve done what I could never do: You’ve united mutantkind and provided us a safe haven and a common purpose. You made it happen’ Charles declares, before pointing out that suddenly it is not so safe. That they have only just come into being, and yet it may be all gone by this time tomorrow. ‘Unless you make your first big decision as our leader a good one’ Charles tells Scott.
Flashback images:
‘All of those sacrifices. Were they worth it?’ Charles asks Scott, while he recalls the original Phoenix incident. ‘Jean - wait! You’re not giving us any choice!’ Cyclops said to her, but it was useless, as she sacrificed herself.
Present:
Charles telepathically tells Scott that it was a hard road that brought them here - possibly too hard. He points out that a straight ad featureless road never possessed beauty, nor presented a worthwhile challenge. ‘You’ve brought us all the way to its end. Thanks to you, we’ve arrived here together as one people’ Charles tells Cyclops.
Flashback images, narrated by Professor X:
‘But all of us have suffered’ Charles remarks, recalls when his legs were crushed. ‘I too was once broken’ Scott tells Cyclops, reminding him that when he was a young man, his legs were crushed beyond repair, and as he lay in a hospital in India, he fell into a great depression. Charles reveals that one day soon after his injury, a very wise old Indian doctor came to visit him, and offered to show him a way past all of his pain. The pain, so the doctor said, was no longer physical, it was mental, and he would only overcome it if he could heal his mind.
Charles tells Scott that the doctor led him to a dark, empty room, not much more than a box, and told him not to come out until he was had accepted his far - that he was never going to walk again. ‘And the truth was self-evident’ Charles adds, before revealing that he sat in the dark room, and mourned for what he had lost, until he was ready to come out of the room. When the old doctor returned, the pain was still there. “I didn’t tell you it would go away” the doctor told Charles. “I told you I would show you a way past it” he reminded him.
Present:
‘I have seen you go into that box many times’ Charles tells Scott as they both continue to stare out the window.
Flashback images, narrated by Professor X:
Charles reminds Scott that after Jean’s death, he put his heart and soul inside a very dark place. The X-Men moved forward and Cyclops moved on, and Charles never saw or felt any sign that Scott would lose control. But Charles tells Scott that he knows the pain never left - that it hung around him like a cloud, and Charles could never tell if Scott had emerged from the box, or if he was simply surrounded by it. ‘But you never seemed to lose control’, which is when Charles realized how badly he had failed Scott. That this is when Scott should have cried.
‘I have seen you reject your former life and head off for parts unknown’ Charles tells Scott, referring to when he left the X-Men and joined the crew of the Arcadia. ‘But you did it on your own terms and at your own pace’. Charles reminds Scott that they have disagreed, as any father and son might, and they have sometimes taken different paths to reach the same conclusion. ‘We have witnessed on M-Day what we imagined to be the end of our entire species’ Charles reminds Scott, and points out that they have seen half of creation together, that Scot has visited other dimension and other times. ‘You have looked down the barrel of a gun held to your face by your own son, and never once did it seem as though you were going to lose control’. Xavier reminds Cyclops that they have listened to the shouts and cries of those who fear mutants - because they are weaker. ‘And we have simply walked away’ Charles declares, adding that they have demonstrated true power by the way in which they are restrained. ‘All of this under your steady guidance and leadership’.
Present:
‘And now we are here’ Charles announces. ‘I beg your pardon, Professor?’ Scott asks. “And now we are here”, Charles repeats himself. ‘As opposed to where?’ Cyclops asks. Charles explains that it is a little mantra he likes to repeat to himself in situations like this, as it reminds him to deal with the moment and not to distract himself worrying about the past or the future. Cyclops points out that is very profound, and tells the Professor that he cannot remember him ever telling him that before. ‘I’m full of surprises’ Charles remarks. Scott replies that he likes it, but adds that he would have to say he is not sure either of them has ever been in a position like this.
There is silence between the two men, before Cyclops asks the Professor if he thinks they should evacuate. ‘I’m not thinking of giving up, if that’s the question’ Charles replies. ‘Then we stay and fight. It has to be all of us. Every single mutant on Utopia’ Cyclops declares. The Professor remarks that he has sent children into battle before, when he was in Scott’s position. ‘When you and the others didn’t return from Krakoa, I sent mere children after you. And as it turned out, I sent them to their deaths’ Charles reminds Scott, adding that of all the decisions he has ever made, it remains the one he regrets the most.
‘If we take a stand, it has to be all of us. We won’t make it unless it’s everyone’s power combined. Not against this’ Cyclops announces. Charles tells him that he has to be sure what he is doing is correct. ‘If I could predict the future, I would. But I can’t’ Scott replies. ‘Then I suppose you’d better make the right decision’ Charles tells Cyclops. There is silence again, before Scott turns to the Professor and thanks him, before asking him to tell the others that he will be with them momentarily.
‘I think of you as a father thinks of his son. I want so much to tell you how proud I am of the man you have become’ Charles thinks to himself as he turns and approaches the others. But he realizes that it is no longer his place to tell Scott anything. ‘You have become a greater man than I’ Charles concedes to himself. He knows that the fate of all mutantkind rests heavy upon Cyclops’s shoulders. ‘And should we survive the night it will rest on your shoulders again tomorrow’ Charles thinks to himself. ‘But if you ever collapse under the weight I will be there to share the burden, my boy. I will always be there’ Xavier thinks to himself, while Cyclops glances back at him.


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Part two
Flashback:
Nuremberg, Germany, 1935. A young boy is playing with magnets.
Several paper clips are stuck on one of them. The trouble with magnets, however, is that they do not always work they way they are supposed to. Bring two together, and you can never be sure what’s going to happen. Chances are that just when you think they’re going to pull - they separate and move apart. The boy holds one of the magnets up. He thinks they are all like that. Everyone is a magnet.
Present:
Utopia, home of the Uncanny X-Men, now. Magneto, the Master of Magnetism holds his fingers as if he was holding up a magnet - something in the distance is framed by his fingers. ‘Erik, what are you doing?’ Scott “Cyclops” Summers asks his associate. Magneto turns to the X-Men’s leader and explains that it is a trick he used to do as a child. He remarks that it helps to imagine things you are afraid of being smaller than they really are. ‘Given what’s about to happen, Scott, I’d much rather face things with a little artificial courage than no courage at all’ Magneto adds. ‘So you’re scared?’ Scott asks. ‘Aren’t you?’ Magneto replies, turning away from Cyclops. There is silence, before Cyclops announces ‘Yes’.
Elsewhere in the room, gazing out the window, Shadowcat suggests ‘Maybe we were wrong. Maybe it’s not coming -’, but the White Queen declares that it is coming and they will not be able to stop it. Wolverine, Colossus and the Sub-Mariner stand nearby as the White Queen tells her colleagues that there is nothing they could have done to prevent it. One of them looks over at Magneto and Cyclops and wonders what they are talking about over there.
Cyclops continues to look Magneto, who wishes he knew what Scott was thinking. ‘How does one lead those who are finally free to possible destruction in the first few moments of their freedom?’ Magneto wonders. He tells himself that if they survive this ordeal, should mutantkind be permitted a chance to write the history of these times, then history will see Scott Summers as a great man - the leader who united the mutants and who brought them to their promised land, their Utopia. Magneto tells himself that he has known great men - such a man was his father, Jakob Eisenhardt, of Nuremberg, Germany.
Flashback, narrated present tense by Magneto:
Nuremberg, Germany, the mid 1930s. Young Max Eisenhardt stares out his window, as his father, Jakob, walks by. Several Nazi supporters have rallied outside, further down the street. Jakob Eisenhardt fought with the German Sixth Army at Ypres in October of 1914, since a battle known as “Der Kindermord Bei Ypern”, which meant ‘The Massacre of the Innocents”. Forty thousand young men died in that battle, and Jakob was blinded by mustard gas and spent five days in a field hospital. At night, under the light of flares and tracer bullets, the young men of Germany would bury their dead in mass unmarked graves. Jakob loaded many corpses into those mud-filled trenches, and perhaps left a piece of himself there, as well.
In the summer of 1916, Jakob Eisenhardt, showing no concern for his own safety, pulled a Bavarian major named Scharf to the safety of a nearby trench under heavy enemy fire. For this, he received a commendation for bravery under gratitude of his superiors. Months later, that same officer pinned the iron cross to Jakob’s lapel, and loudly proclaimed him a “Proud son of Germany”. And a proud son of Germany Jakob Eiusenhardt remained - even as his country grew to hate him simply for the accident of his birth.
‘There’s so many people. Where are they all going?’ Max asks as he looks out the window and points to a rally of Nazi supporters. Jakob explains to his son that they are going to listen to Hitler. ‘I’ve heard he’s putting on a big performance in the town square. Maybe he’s going to sing -’ Jabob suggests, but his wife, Edie, tells him not to fill their son’s head with jokes at this time. ‘Don’t be so serious, Edie. A father wants to joke sometimes with his son’ Jakob replies. Edie asks what happens when other boys ask Max why he is making fun of their Fuhrer and points out that this is not the time for Jews to be seen doing anything.
‘Nonsense. This is just a passing phase. That’s all. Hitler’s going to be voted out once the people come to their senses’ Jakob replies. But Edie points out that they do not know that. She reminds Jakob that people have been boycotting their business ever since Hitler became Chancellor. ‘And all those people being sent to the camps!’ she adds, before revealing that she hears they are planning to impose new laws at rallies this year. ‘They’re saying we’re going to be denied citizenship in our own country!’ she exclaims. Jakob hugs Edie and tells her not to worry. He announces that he believes in the greatness of this country he fought for. ‘They would never do such a thing to a man who believes in them so’.
There were so many things they never thought the Nazis would do. They would never round them up like dogs and send them away to their concentration camps. The Nazis would never forbid them to marry non-Jews. They would never deny them health insurance or prevent them from attending their schools. They would never impose curfews, nor beat them if they failed to observe them. Whenever Max would cry at the injustice, his father would soothe him with his optimism and his courage. “Remember who you are, little man”, he would say. “Never forget you are a proud son of your country no matter what anyone says. And if the day comes, promise me that you will live to serve all of your people. Never just the chosen few”.
Present:
Magneto remembers his father’s words, and looks at Cyclops, asking him if he has something specific to discuss. ‘Unless you just asked me to come over here and watch you fret?’ Scott looks at Magneto and apologizes, claiming that he did not mean to go AWOL on him. Scott adds that he has a lot to consider, and not as many options as he would like. ‘I understand. So what can I do for you?’ Magneto replies. Scott admits to Magneto that they have had their differences, but that this nation, or whatever they want to call it, will only be built on acceptance and tolerance. ‘We’ll have to move forward every day, Erik. Because we’re all going to be surpassed by our own children in a matter of years’.
Magneto replies that he thinks he took far too long to come to that conclusion. ‘But you didn’t ask me over here to wax lyrical about the potential of mutantkind’ he points out. ‘You’re right. As a matter of fact, I hoped I might get a little guidance’ Scott reveals. ‘Of course’ Magneto tells him. Scott looks out the window once more and informs Magneto that he has heard every piece of advice that Charles Xavier ever had to offer. ‘And it was mostly wonderful advice’ he adds, before telling Magneto that now he wants to hear from him. ‘What’s the one thing you’ve learned in all your years that I’ll need to know moving forward?’ Scott asks. Magneto smiles and replies that his best advice would have been to seek advice from those older and wiser than you. ‘But you already seem to have that covered’. Magneto adds that Cyclops never talks of the end - only of the future, and tells him that, in that respect, he reminds him very much of his father.
flashback, narrated in parts, present tense, by Magneto.
Nuremberg, 1935. ‘Get them! They’re dirty Jews!’ a small child shouted as he and several others begin to throw rocks at the Eisenhardt family. ‘Papa -’ Max cries as he looks back and sees a soldier. Jakob tells his son to shush, and to look straight ahead and keep going until they get home. As they rush towards their home, Max tells his father that they should have thrown their stones back at them, when suddenly, ‘Jakob: look!’ Edie exclaims as they see something painted on their front door - a star and the words Achtung Juden. ‘Well. A nice fresh coat of pain. Now we’ll always know which front door is ours if we ever get lost’ Jakob tells his family.
Jakob Eisenhardt retained his blind optimism, his faith in goodness of others - as the Nazis claimed ownership of his beloved country. As the National Socialist Party - led by an ugly, syphilitic Austrian - sized power all across Germany and crowed about it all their rallies in the Eisenhardts’ home town of Nuremberg. Jakob Eisenhardt was turned from a hero of Germany to a “problem” that had to be solved. The Jewish people were blamed for mistakes made by all the countries of Europe, when they forced them to sign the Treaty of Versailles. On the 9th of November, 1938, Max stared from the windows of the family home and watched the events of Kristallnacht unfold. Crystal Night was so called because the shattering of glass could  be heard all across Germany as synagogues and Jewish businesses were destroyed, an act incited by Joseph Goebbels.
One year later, Max and his parents were expelled from Germany as “Filthy Jews” and sent to the Warsaw Ghetto. Max entered alongside his father, Jakob Eisenhardt  of Nuremberg - a proud son of Germany and a hero of the Great War.
Magneto still pretends to himself that he has forgotten how his father and mother died at the hands of the Nazis - he was too beaten and tired to even register it one day - they were simply dead, and he was alone. Magneto remembers being sent in a boxcar to a place near Oswiecm in Poland, and this, he knew, was a destination. The Vernichtungslager -  extermination camp  - at Auschwitz-Birkenau was the epitome of Hell on Earth. Here, men, women and children were murdered and brutalized with terrifying efficiency as a part of the Nazi’s so-called “final solution to the Jewish problem”.
As a young and fit teenager Max was forced to act as a sonderkommando - their job was the disposal of the bodies of those that died in the gas chambers. The victims were told they were to be showered and deloused to prepare them for work in the camp - but they were being sent instead to their deaths. This is where Max finally became just like his father - burying bodies in a trench.
Flashback, narrated in parts, present tense, by Magneto:
‘We’re all magnets’ Magneto thinks to himself. ‘Sometimes we push and sometimes we pull’. Life pulled Magneto to a girl named Magda, and together, they escaped the hell of Birkenau in hopes of a new life. Magda and Max went to live in the Ukraine, and she was half of everything he held dear - all that remained for him in this world. The other half was their beautiful daughter, Anya. Yet, at that time, Max was beginning to feel a scraping across his nerve endings - an emergence of a frustrated power inside him - a jolt of bioelectric energy that rattled his teeth.
When the worst inevitably came, Max’s nerves screeched like burning violin strings and ozone seemed to fill the air. As he watched his daughter burn to death in his home, he felt the pull of every metal object around for miles around him - his nerve endings became a red-hot knife. He pointed that knife towards any and all human beings who would hate him for a simple quirk of his genetic code - turning the farming equipment against the attackers that prevented him from reaching his burning daughter.
In Auschwitz, Magneto had watched many Jews walk to their deaths with a sense of inevitability and a complete and utter loss of hope. When you have lost hope you never talk about the future. Now, he had the means to change things. Now he would talk of the future like his father before him. He had a purpose - he was armed with power he never had before - flanked by power on all sides - drunk with power.
Flashback:
Cape Citadel Air Force Base, Florida. ‘He’s coming this way! Fall back!’ a soldier shouts as Magneto approaches. They unleash fire upon him, but he deflects it with ease. Magneto suddenly downs a jet, while a soldier shouts ‘Whoever this person is, I want him looking down the barrel of an M270 in the next five minutes!’ A soldier tells his commander that there is a negative on that, as the intruder just knocked one of their raptors out of the sky. ‘I don’t care what he did! I care about what we can do to him!’ the commander shouts. The officer tells his commander that he cannot comply with that order - as the whole board is fried. ‘We’re flying blind out here!’ he exclaims.
Magneto looks upwards at an approaching jet which soon lands, as Magneto topples a nearby tank. Five youngsters emerge from the jet - Cyclops. Marvel Girl. Beast. Angel. Iceman. ‘Children, Charles?’ Magneto calls out. Charles Xavier appears behind his students, the X-Men, and replies ‘Always a jump ahead of the gun and a step too far, Erik!’ before asking ‘Why, when we could have pooled our resources and worked together to prevent bloodshed?’ Magneto takes to the air, hovering over everyone, he raises a tank. Angel soars upwards as well, while Magneto asks ‘With you calling the shots, Charles? So that mutantkind simply waits for its master to feed it the occasional bone?’
Magneto tells Charles that changing things his way is like watching a chess tournament - lots of strategy for very little of consequence. ‘This is not the way, Erik!’ Charles shouts, while attempting to use his telepathic power on Magneto. ‘You want humanity to hate and fear us, just to provide justification for this lifelong fool’s errand you’ve chosen?’ Charles asks. Magneto touches his helmet and replies that he doesn’t want them to hate us, as they are no longer important enough for him to care. Magneto then thrusts the tank forward, but Marvel Girl stops it mid-air with her telekinesis, although she tells the Professor that she cannot hold Magneto off, as he is too powerful.
The tank cuts Iceman’s ice-sled in half, while Xavier telepathically tells Jean to stay calm, to breathe and concentrate. Xavier telepathically orders Angel to move directly towards the target and maintain evasive pattern delta-alpha-seven, while Cyclops and Marvel Girl will pull fire. Iceman announces that he will take left flank. ‘Last one to slap the crazy guy around the head is a rotten egg!’ the young mutant calls out. ‘Five bucks, Bobby: You in’ the Beast asks as he bounds forward. Iceman replies that he is in.
‘Hehh. Oh dear, oh dear…’ Magneto utters, as he forces several metal beams into the Beast, knocking him back into Iceman. ‘Hank! Look out!’ Iceman exclaims. Angel dives towards Magneto, who glances up and informs him that the little vanity “X” on his uniform is comprised of metallic fibers - and an instant later, Angel is blown backwards through the air. Magneto thinks to himself that this is bombastic fun - such sport. He secretly chose to hate Cyclops and his repulsive little friends - Cyclops was the sonderkommando that Magneto once was, forced to do the dirty work of others. ‘Professor, I can’t…I can’t stop all of it!’ Jean calls out as she attempts to hold Magneto’s force at bay.
Charles tells Jean not to give in to the sheer volume. ‘Stopping one object is the same as stopping them all’ he explains, before Jean passes out. For Magneto, it felt good to bully someone - as opposed to being bullied for a change. To exact retribution. It felt just and fair to act the part of a loose cannon for once in his life. And all of a sudden, Cyclops was there, in front of Magneto. Cannon fodder. ‘I think you’re probably too young and too stupid to be scared. So I’m going to kill you to teach you a lesson’ Magneto warns the young mutant. ‘Give it your best shot!’ Cyclops shouts as he unleashes a powerful optic blast, but Magneto throws a force field around himself.
Present:
“Give it your best shot”, Magneto recalls, and decides that it was hardly the comeback of the century. But, then again, Cyclops was hardly much more than a snot-nosed little punk in his opinion. That was until those ten-trillion-volt-generator eyes of his almost knocked Magneto out of his bots. Magneto remembers his opinion changed, he remembers looking into Cyclops’ eyes - the truth was that this was his first glimpse into a very different future from the one he had intended. Magneto tells himself that he is not ashamed to admit that the first time he looked into Cyclops’ eyes, it was he who blinked first.
‘We’re all magnets. Some are just more powerful than others’ Magneto tells Cyclops. ‘Excuse me?’ Scott asks. Magneto looks at Scott and replies that he was wrong, just as foolish old men always seem to be wrong in the end. ‘I found myself attracted to the wrong things’. Magneto informs Scott that the best advice he can give him is not to be a slave to passion, as he has been. ‘Don’t ever be a slave to anything’ he tells him. ‘Thank you, Erik. I mean it’ Scott replies. ‘Yes, well…I’ve been thinking: If we get through all of this I’m going to take the name I took as a child. It would be fitting, I think, for my friends to call me Max, as my parents did’ Magneto reveals. ‘Of course’ Cyclops tells him. Scott asks Magneto to tell the Professor to come and see him.
Magneto walks along the edge of the room and passes Professor Charles Xavier. ‘He’s all yours’ Magneto tells his old friend. Magneto joins the others - Namor, Colossus, the White Queen, Shadowcat, Wolverine, Doctor Nemesis, Rogue and Storm. ‘We could make a stand here. There’s enough of us to hold back the first wave…’ someone calls out. ‘What good is that going to do? Holding it back is just delaying the inevitable’ another points out. Someone else suggests that nothing is inevitable, and that no one said they are delaying anything. ‘Besides, even if we could try to evacuate we’re already past that point. We have to give Scott time to make the best decision’.
Magneto tells the others that Cyclops will be with them presently, and that he apologizes to them on Cyclops behalf. ‘As I’m sure you’re all aware, this is a moment of monumental gravity’. Shadowcat asks Magneto if the Professor said what he wanted them to do, but Magneto replies ‘Not yet, I’m afraid. Don’t blame the messenger’. Magneto looks back at Cyclops and Charles, and decides that he won’t thank Cyclops for what he has done, or for what he is about to do, as thanks are not enough. ‘Instead, let me thank you on behalf of Jakob Eisenhardt of Nuremberg: a good Jew and a true hero of Germany’. And as Cyclops stares out the window, Magneto sees not Cyclops’ reflection, but the reflection of his proud father.


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Part three
Darkness has set over Utopia, the island nation home of the X-Men and nearly every other mutant on Earth. Scott “Cyclops” Summers continues to stare out of the window of a large meeting room, gazing into the darkness. ‘Been thinking about you a lot lately’ he tells himself, as if he was talking to whomever he has been thinking about. Scott tells himself that it is funny how he always seems to think of them when he has a big decision to make. ‘Times like this, I can never get you out of my mind’. Scott supposes it is because he has that same old question keeping him up at night. ‘If I can’t see, how am I supposed to lead?’ Scott glances back as Charles Xavier is walking away from him, and Scott “tells” the person he is thinking of that something bad is about to happen - perhaps the end of everything just as they have begun.
‘I’ve let me people to the brink of freedom - and then to the brink of destruction - in the blink of an eye. The end of the mutants. The end of Utopia. Sometimes I wonder if I’m seeing things as they really are. I wonder if these lenses of mine don’t give me a rose-colored version of reality’ Scott remarks. As Xavier regroups in the room where the senior X-Men and other senior mutants on Utopia are residing, Scott thinks that what he sees is mutants working together - his people as one people. He sees integration in the face of overwhelming diversity that it makes his heart swell with pride, that the sum has become greater than the parts. ‘We’ve gained control of our destiny by gaining control of our power. Everyone, I guess, but me’.
The X-Men and the others all look to Xavier, while Cyclops begins thinking about those in the next room. Charles Xavier, whom he thinks of as a father - a good man who bore the brunt of mutant kinds trauma over the last few years - an altruist without an ego. Magneto - a man who has found his way, and perhaps the most powerful of them all. Emma Frost, who is gifted and centered, and who has become a trusted adviser whom they can never afford to lose, while Angel is like a rock star with wings - always here, and always will be. Kitty and Storm are powerful mutants who possess the best qualities of their sex - compassion and concern in equal measure, strength of mind, body and character.
Scott’s thoughts about his colleagues continue: Namor, who is regal and distant, but a valuable ally. Doctor Nemesis, a creator, a savant, a willing aide to the cause. Colossus, by name and all that is his nature. Finally, Wolverine, the best measure of everything that Cyclops does. A good man, strong, abrasive and singular of intent - a leader of men. But Cyclops is supposed to lead them - supposed to show them the way, and he seeks their guidance. ‘The person I really want to ask is you’ he thinks to himself.
Xavier informs the others that Scott will be here any moment. ‘He wanted me to tell you he’s made his decision -’ Charles begins, to which Magneto interrupts, asking ‘And were you actually able to have him tell you what that decision is, Charles? Normally I wouldn’t push, but given the potential annihilation of our species, it seems apropos’. ‘Hold on for one second, please, gents’ Emma calls out, before announcing that it is getting stronger now - that it is bearing down on their position. ‘Knows we’re still here. We’re really beneath its concern. It doesn’t even see us as a threat’ Emma tells the others.
‘Then what are we waiting for? It knows we’re already beaten. We’ve got to move our people out -’ Angel begins, but Wolverine interrupts him, ‘No. We covered this. I ain’t about to jump ship without some kinda fight, even if you are’. Storm, ever the voice of reason, tells Wolverine to hold on, as no one said they were about to jump ship. ‘That’s what it sounded like to me’ Logan tells his friend, while Emma sarcastically suggests that they should all bicker like idiots until the end of the world shows up. ‘That’s be really helpful’. She tells the others that since they have the bickering covered, she will go and get Scott. ‘Ha ha! Well…that went well, I thought’ Magneto smiles.
Scott continues to look out into the darkness, ‘Someone’s going to die. No way around that now. Just a question of who. A question of when’ he thinks to himself. ‘I’m going to have led them here, only to find their haven lies right under the feet of a giant. And no one’s ever going to know. Because there won’t be anyone left to tell the story’. Emma enters the side room, and Scott looks at his long-time lover, while thinking that all of these people - these amazing creatures - are going to turn their gaze to him, their leader, and they are going to ask him what to do. ‘They’re going to want to see in my eyes that I believe in my decision, and that I believe in them. But my eyes don’t work that way. That’s what they don’t know…because I never tell them…how much it hurts’.
Flashback, years ago, narrated by Cyclops in the present:
‘There you go. Open wide. Just a little longer’ a doctor announces as he stares down at a young Scott Summers, shining a bright light in his eyes. ‘I wanna blink -’ Scott calls out, but his mother, Katherine Summers, tells him ‘Just another moment, Scotty. Then you can close them. You’re being a good boy’, before she asks the Doctor Odukoye if he says anything, reminding him that Scott said the headaches are getting worse. A short time later, Katherine and Scott sit before the doctor in his office, as Scott today, continues thinking to his mother: ‘You always said, loving your kid was a blessing and a curse, mom. I remember how you just about jumped our of your skin wanting to find out what he saw in those x-rays’.
Scott remembers that no one wanted to give his mother a list of the possibilities, not while the tests were ongoing, so she had to struggle with the list of hideous diseases that ran through her mind - migraines, aneurysms, cancer. Scott remembers staring at the big metal machine, a big dark tunnel, an x-ray machine for scanning the brain. ‘Okay, Scott, you’re going to lay back on the sheet and keep as still as you can’ a nurse tells him, asking him not to blink if he can help it, she adds that the machine will make a loud noise, and informs him that he will be in there for about twenty minutes. ‘Twenty minutes? He can’t say in there that long! He’s six!’ Katherine exclaims.
As Scott is placed on the table, he asks his mother if it is going to hurt, and whether she can stay with him. Katherine tells her son that it will not hurt, and that he has to lay back like the nurse says, while she holds his hand. ‘Don’t let go’ Scott tells his mother. Scott remembers his mother holding his hand as long as she could, but eventually she had to let go, and he disappeared into a tunnel of noise - craning his neck to see her as she saw him off. Scott recalls the “thump thump thump” of the MRI machine as he fell into the tunnel of darkness - him below, and his mother above, far away in the distance. And then, all of those magnetically charged lights - no one else could see the things he saw in that metal tunnel.
Present:
Emma stands in the doorway and waits for Scott, who strides towards her. He stands several feet in front of her, and there is nothing but silence, until Emma asks ‘So…how are you doing…?’
Flashback, years ago, narrated in the present by Cyclops:
Inside Christopher Summers’ small plane, young Scott and his younger brother Alex sit in the back, discussing what flavor milkshake they want, when suddenly, ‘Chris, did they say we were close to any other planes?’ Katherine asks her husband, gazing out the window. ‘What on Earth is that up there?’ she asks as she tries to make out the craft above them. They sky turns red, and Cyclops today still remembers everything that happened: lights in the distance, and a sudden shard of ruby red power lighting up the sky. The whole thing seeming like a dream he had once before.
As the small plane careens sideways, Christopher tells his wife that there is only one parachute, that she has to put it on Scotty who can hold on to Alex. But as Katherine moves towards her sons, she tells Chris that they cannot go by themselves, as they will not know what to do. ‘Just do it! There’s no time!’ Christopher exclaims. ‘No time’ Scott remembers. He recalls his mother saying that she loves him, and to hold on tight as she wiped his crying eyes, her own eyes dripping with tears as well, while realizing that he sometimes forgets what her face looks like. There were ruby red lights in the sky, like a dream Cyclops once had. ‘Boys - we love you. We love you both. Scott, hold on t o Alex. Hold him tight. No matter what happens, don’t let him go’ Katherine exclaims as she put Alex in Cyclops’ arms, and pushed them out of the plane.
‘Hold on tight. Don’t let go. That’s the last thing you said to me before you let me go. I remember falling into a tunnel. I still see those ruby red lights. You above, me below. You promised you’d hold my hand. And then I lost you in the distance’ Scott remembers, recalling how the parachute opened, and he looked up as his parents plane vanished. ‘Hold on tight. Don’t let go’ Scott thinks to himself. ‘Eventually, you always have to let go’ he decides, recalling how the parachute snapped off his back as they neared the ground - but there was still a decent distance to the ground - which he smacked into, hitting his head hard, as he cushioned his brother.
As Scott lay there on the ground, stunned and confused, he wonders how he could have known that moment would have such an impact. That once his power manifested, he would never be able to control them because of that concussion. All he could see was the brilliant blue sky. All he could think of was being up there, with his mother.
Present:
‘We’re out of time, boss man. You need to go do this now’ Emma tells Scott. ‘Now, huh? How did I know you were going to say that, Emma?’ Scott smiles. ‘You must be psychic’ Emma jokes, before telling Scott that the others need him. Scott looks out through the doors at them. ‘They need me. A man who doesn’t see things the way they do’ he thinks to himself. ‘Makes me wonder who is the fool: the blind man who leads? Or the fools who follow him?’
Colossus asks what they are waiting around for. ‘It’s like we’re playing some kind of game -’ he begins, to which the Sub-Mariner interrupts him, ‘We wait. He will tell us when it is time’ he exclaims. ‘Gotta be kidding me’ Wolverine mutters, before asking Namor ‘Who died and made you spiritual advisor. You’re here as a guest, not because you were born into it -’ Wolverine points out, to which Namor retorts ‘You would speak to a king of Atlantis that way, you arrogant little midget? I paved the way for utopian freedom!’ Doctor Nemesis tells Namor to take it easy, assuring him that Wolverine didn’t mean anything by it, but Logan shouts ‘Yeah? Well I do now, fish-for-brains! Why don’t you come over here and call me a midget!’, to which Namor exclaims ‘Because I said it over here!’
Cyclops knows that his colleagues are getting restless, and they need him. ‘But why should it be me?’ he wonders, as his mind wanders back once again….
Illustrative flashback images, with Cyclops’ thoughts in the present:
‘I’m the one who lost his mother. Had the power to save you and didn’t know it. Lost you anyway’ Scott thinks to his mother as he recalls falling from the plane all those years ago. ‘I’m the one who lost his way. Discovered I was more than an orphan teenager with cluster headaches. Almost became a murderer the first time I turned on my powers’ Scott thinks, recalling that first time, blasting a hole though a wall, then holding his eyes shut tightly.
Scott remembers being accepted into a team of kids with amazing abilities and who could never control himself - never quite “got it”. Either because he knocked his head one time on the ground, or because he never had the discipline to succeed. ‘I’m the one who lost his first battle so convincingly and utterly’ Scott remembers. ‘Who closed his eyes to all possibilities. Who was accused of closing his eyes to the future’ he remembers. He remembers being the one who lost his nerve in the presence of a certain girl he once fell for - ‘Lost the girl. Been falling ever since’ Scott tells himself, recalling that certain girl’s death. ‘I’m the one who lost his way’ Scott thinks to his mother, before deciding that he found it again, when mutantkind was united.
Present:
‘Before I do this: damage assessment. How am I doing?’ Scott asks Emma. ‘May I?’ Emma asks, reaching for his temples. ‘Of course’ Scott tells his lover. ‘You’ve made your decision’ Emma announces. ‘Yes. How sure am I?’ Scott asks. Emma tells him that he has some concerns, which is natural. She points out that he would be crazy if he didn’t consider both sides. Emma tells Scott that he is thinking about something - a strong light, that there is a female presence, a sense of falling .’What’s that about?’ she asks. Scott tells her it is ancient history, to which Emma replies ‘Fine. Let’s stay in the present’, before she tells Scott that he truly believes he has weighed all of the available options, that he has moved quickly and resolutely and is prepared to accept fully responsibility for his decision.
‘You’re worried about losing more friends. And you’re torn about evacuating any of the children. All in all, about eighty to eighty-five percent. Close enough for rock an’ roll. Let’s go!’ Emma announces. Scott asks her if she is sure it is coming - really sure. ‘Let’s just say if you’d stayed much longer at that window, you would have been able to see it across the bay’ Emma replies. Scott tells her that they are doing the right thing, to which Emma points out ‘That remains to be seen’. Scott looks out the door to the others and asks Emma how the mood of the room is. ‘Pretty much as you’d expect. You’ll need to stroke Namor. Logan’s ready to rip someone’s head off. Warren’s trying to make the peace’ Emma explains, before turning to Scott and telling him that this is his big moment. ‘You ready for this?’ asks. ‘Yes’ Scott announces as he opens the door, and enters the other room.
The squabbling stops immediately, as everyone turns to look at Cyclops. There is silence for a time, until Cyclops announces ‘We stay. We’re going to defend Utopia’. ‘What took you so long?’ Wolverine asks as he approaches Cyclops. ‘I had a few hundred lived and the fate of a nation to consider’ Cyclops replies plainly. The others begins to gather around. ‘The fate of a nation. They need me to be their leader now more than ever. And I’m ready’ Scott tells himself, before announcing that they have to move quickly, as there is no time to lose. He tells Shadowcat that he wants her in charge of the youngest. ‘Keep them in reserve for now, but I want them ready if need be’ he adds. ‘You’re talking about children, Scott. They could get killed if I get this wrong!’ Kitty exclaims. ‘That’s why I expect you to get it right’ Scott tells Kitty.
‘That’s why I am a leader’ he thinks to his mother. ‘The blind man leading the blind, maybe…but a leader nonetheless’ He adds that he is a leader because he is prepared to take the fall, and because he is prepared to make the hard decision - such as the one his mother made that day she pushed he and Alex out into the sky with a single parachute between the two of them. ‘Because a leader knows, it’s not so hard to die for your people. It’s hard to order your people to die for you. And leading with certainty into an uncertain future doesn’t require sight. It requires vision’ As Wolverine, Emma, Magneto, Storm and the others leap into action, Cyclops stands his ground, ‘It requires holding on. And no matter what happens, never letting go’….


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Part four
Utopia, darkness covers the small island home to most of the world’s mutant population. Scott Summers a.k.a. Cyclops stands and gazes out a window, while Magneto and Charles Xavier stand behind him. Several senior X-Men and other senior individuals who reside on Utopia await further instruction nearby. Among them, Wolverine, Storm, the White Queen, Colossus, the Sub-Mariner, Shadowcat and Doctor Nemesis. Everything looks thoughtful, while Wolverine stares ahead at Cyclops.
‘How can you be so certain?’ Kitty Pryde a.k.a. Shadowcat asks as she looks up at the Sub-Mariner. Hands on hips, Prince Namor declares that all of the signs are known to them, that this was written in the oldest ledgers that survived the Great Cataclysm. Namor adds that from a time in humanity’s calendar, a thousand years before the birth of Christ, his people, the Atlanteans, made detailed records, though two-thirds of their number were annihilated. ‘But this could just be something similar’ Piotr “Colossus” Rasputin suggests, until Namor tells him that if they were lucky, they will be dead before they can be sure. ‘If we’re unlucky, we’ll see it come from above as it always does’.
Ororo “Storm” Munroe tells Kitty not to take it personally, explaining that Namor’s ego is taking a beating. ‘If I didn’t know any better, I’d swear he looked scared’ Storm adds, before announcing that he has every right to be scared. ‘I know, Ororo…it’s just…maybe we were wrong. Maybe it’s not coming -’ Kitty suggests, until Emma Frost a.k.a. the White Queen announces that it is coming and they will not be able to stop it. Emma adds that there is nothing they could have done to prevent it.
Wolverine a.k.a. Logan continues to stare on ahead, ‘If you think you can’t do something, chances are you’re right’ Logan thinks to himself, before deciding ‘Then again, chances are you’re wrong’. If there is one thing Wolverine has learned in his time on this planet, ‘And trust me, I’ve been around for awhile’, it is if you say those words out loud, you are usually one hundred percent correct.
Flashback, narrated by Wolverine in the present:
Alberta, Canada, 1981. ‘James! Master James! Master James!’ a young woman calls out as she rides her horse around the grounds of a large mansion, searching for James. ‘Oh, where is that boy? He’s going to be the death of me yet, Master Kenneth!’ the girl tells an older man who rides up near her. ‘If we’re late for church, he’ll be the death of us all, Rose. The old man won’t stand for it’ Kenneth tells Rose.
Up in the mansion, the “old man” stands at a window, and declares that he will not stand for it. ‘John, do you hear me? If that boy goes without discipline he’ll wither and crack under the pressure’ the old man tells John, who sits pensively in a chair and asks ‘What pressure? The only pressure he endures is the constant pressure you’re so adamant about heaping on him! He’s only nine!’ The old man tells John not to be proud that he is the only source of discipline James receives. ‘He needs consistent punishment by a strong hand -’ the old man remarks, before John interrupts him, ‘And I suppose that “strong hand” would be yours?’ John asks, before shouting ‘Why do you think he’s hiding?’
Indeed, down below in a shed attached to the mansion, James Howlett sits against some hay, hugging a dog. Wolverine remembers this time, and tells himself if you think something is a certain way, sometimes you are correct, and sometimes you are not. When he was a kid, he used to think that the old man - his grandfather - was the devil. The old man was a cruel man, with cruel eyes, a cruel mouth and a cruel heart. Logan remembers that he used to say “firm but fair”, like those words could justify any action dictated by his cruel mind. Logan remembers that his grandfather believed in the “old ways”, some nebulous concept that gave him permission to bully anyone he encountered. It was these old ways that sent Logan’s grandmother to an early grave, and kept the servants in their place. “Firm but fair” was supposed to let them know where they stood.
‘Papa…Is that you? I heard a noise -’ Young James sleepily called out as he entered another room in the mansion, only to find a man armed with a shotgun, standing over his father. Wolverine recalls this time, and remembers popping his claws for the first time over his father’s corpse, and at that moment, he suddenly had no idea where he stood. Wolverine doesn’t remember much about the moments after it all came down, because something very bad happened - his brain was trying to heal itself, paper over the cracks. He remembers Rose,, her autumn red hair. She was the only person who could have saved him. But when they went to the old man to ask for his help, all Wolverine can remember are his cold, cruel eyes.
The old man sent James and Rose into exile, far from their home Alberta. Rose and James huddled together on a third-class carriage because the old man had not seen fit to provide them with money for food and clothing. His words still hung over them like a cloud of loathing. The old man called James an abortion, an aberration. Rose took him to the only place she knew they would be safe - a stone quarry at the northern edge of his homeland. Wolverine remembers her saying “don’t worry”, and “I won’t let anything happen to you. I promise”. It was at the quarry that James learned how to break the rocks in the quarry by hating them and bullying them. He would strain every sinew to smash them into dust, and he didn’t know why. That was the old man coming out in him. James kept a piece of his devil personality, though he never knew it. ‘If only I’d known what I know now. If only I remembered’ Wolverine tells himself. If only he understood - he would have gone back down south, strangled the old man and put him out of everyone’s misery.
Present:
‘It’s coming. We won’t be able to stop it. There’s nothing we could have done to prevent it’ someone declares. ‘Then we’re going to have to act quickly. Even the slightest delay will put lives unnecessarily at risk’ Doctor Nemesis declares. The scientist adds that he never thought he would say this, but if this really is what they think it is, their chances of surviving an encounter rest somewhere between nil and zero. ‘We must begin immediate evacuation’ Dr Nemesis announces. ‘So we turn tail and run just ‘cause you’ve run a few calculations, Doc? We evacuate Utopia ‘cause you’re worried the fight might get kinda messy?’ Logan asks. ‘Call me crazy, but it seems to me we just got here. I for one ain’t gonna jump ship at the first sign of trouble, not even for this’ Logan announces.
Logan looks at his friends and associates, among them now Warren “Angel” Worthington, and thinks to himself that if you think you don’t have a chance, you could be right and you could be wrong. So you have to keep saying you got a chance - keep saying it so your mind can hear it loud and clear. Angel points out that it knows they are already beaten. ‘We’ve got to move our people out -’ he begins, but Wolverine interrupts, reminding everyone that they covered this. ‘I ain’t about to jump ship without some kind fight, even if you are’. Storm turns to Logan and tells her friend that no one said they are about to jump ship. ‘That’s what it sounded like to me!’ Wolverine exclaims.
‘Here’s a thought: maybe we should all bicker like idiots until the end of the world shows up. That’d be really helpful’ the White Queen mutters, before telling the others that as they have that covered, she will go and get Cyclops. Colossus asks everyone what they are waiting around for, like they are playing some sort of game, to which Namor interrupts and tells him that they wait, and Cyclops will tell them when it is time. ‘Gotta be kidding me’ Wolverine declares. ‘Who died and made you spiritual advisor, Namor? You’re here as a guest, not because you were born into it -’ Wolverine begins, before Namor interrupts: ‘You would speak to a king of Atlantis that way, you arrogant little midget? I paved the way for Utopian freedom!’
Angel tells Namor to take it easy, that Wolverine didn’t mean anything by it. ‘Yeah? Well I do now, fish-for-brains! Why don’t you come over here and call me a midget -’ Logan threatens Namor, while thinking to himself that you have to be an agitator sometimes, you have to rile them up to make them say stuff out loud - because that helps everyone to think the impossible could come true.
Flashback, narrated by Wolverine in the present:
Yukon Territories, Canada, 1910, inside an arena with a large cage in the center. ‘And in this corner, weighing in at half of what your wife probably weighs…the little Wolverine himself…Logan!’ the referee announces. Wolverine remembers that they used to say no one could beat him in a cage fight. And the more they said that, the truer it became. Logan stared up at the massive opponent, who lunged at him, but Logan aimed his fist for his opponent’s gut, before the large man lifted Logan up above him - only for Logan to head-bash him, smacking his own head into his large opponents, knocking the large man out. The referee then grabbed Wolverine’s arm and held it up - champion. Wolverine remembers that is why people have sayings, so they can repeat stuff out loud to make it come true. Back in those days, he used to hear one phrase a lot. He really liked that saying: “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight. It’s the size of the fight in the dog”.
Present:
‘And another thing, you big fat -’ Wolverine begins to say to the Sub-Mariner, before Cyclops and the White Queen appear before everyone. ‘He’s here!’ Storm announces, before whispering to Wolverine that she thought he was about to tell them all what to do. ‘Nope’ Logan replies quietly, as he watches Cyclops, who stands before the others, and says nothing. ‘Not yet’ Logan adds.
Flashback, narrated by Wolverine in the present:
The past - Logan’s naked body floats in a tank with greenish water. His body is hooked up to all sorts of wires and cables, while much of his skin is punctured with what appears to be needles. ‘They tried to tell me I was an animal’ Wolverine remembers. Two men stand and watch. ‘Steady. Heart rate at 44 BPM. Brain activity nominal’ a voice states, before initiating a wash cycle, bubbles being to toil around Logan’s body. ‘You are not a man. You are not an individual’ a computer recording speaks into Wolverine’s head. ‘Stat. He’s getting the audio feed’ a voice calls out, adding that the heart rate is at 62 BPMs. ‘Can he hear us, Professor? Is the subject aware of the situation?’ someone else asks. The Professor replies that Logan is under deep hypnosis, and that the wash cycle will rinse his preconceived notions, allowing them to replace his memories and motivations just as they replace his bone structure.
‘Being a man disgusts you. Individuality leads to suffering and death. You are not a man. You are obedient. You are an animal’ one of the men says through the computer which resonates into Logan’s mind. ‘Steady’ someone calls out. ‘Stat. Brain activity increasing’, while the older man continues to speak into Logan’s mind. ‘Listen to the sound of your heart. It beats in time with my instructions, if you disobey, it stops beating -’ he orders, when suddenly, Logan’s eyes open. ‘Professor! We’re purging! He’s pushing back! Tank’s losing containment!’ someone calls out. Armed soldiers rush into the laboratory, ‘Stay here and cover the tank! If it gets out, eliminate it!’ the Professor orders, while one of the soldiers orders all essential personnel to the secondary security level, as there is a breach. Suddenly, Logan shoves his fist through the glass tank, and with wires and cables still attached to his body, claws ready, he steps out towards the soldiers.
‘Open fire!’ someone shouts. Wolverine remembers that they tried to tell him things that would change him, to make him believe their lies. The soldiers open fire as commanded, but Logan surges forward. Carol Hines calls out to Doctor Cornelius, informing him that they have lost containment and she cannot get a feed. Cornelius orders the experiment over, and shouts ‘Use the cyanide gas! Now!’, as Logan skewers his way through the soldiers. Wolverine remembers that he did not believe their lies. He would never say their words out loud, for if he repeated their lies, he would have made them true. He wouldn’t say them, so they tried to kill him.
Logan rushes towards the Professor, Dr Cornelius and Carol Hines, but as his bloodied fingers slam against the protective glass, Logan falls to the ground. The scientists look down at him, as Wolverine lies motionless. Today, he remembers that they didn’t kill him. They just made him stronger.
Present:
Cyclops still remains silent, before looking at his teammates and announcing ‘We stay. We’re going to defend Utopia’. ‘About damn time. What took you so long?’ Wolverine asks. Scott replies that he had a few hundred lives and the fate of a nation to consider. Orders come: ‘…we move quickly. Kitty, I want you to take charge of the youngest. Keep them in reserve’ Cyclops orders. ‘…about the children! They could get killed…!’ someone declares. ‘…set up defenses at the outer perimeter…’ ‘..it’s coming in from above’ are exclaimed and announced. ‘Good answers’ Wolverine whispers.
Wolverine watches everyone, and thinks to himself ‘Look at us: They said it could never be done. Not possible. And so that’s what we believed. They said we were a threat. They said we were dangerous. Unpredictable. Evil. But we never believed that. They said we would never be united. That mutant would destroy mutant until only the strongest survived’. Logan recalls anti-mutant protestors, and his teammates Angel and Iceman battling villainous mutants the Blob and Toad. Logan looks at Charles Xavier and Magneto, and thinks ‘Cats and dogs living together. Turns out we were wrong after all’. He sees Xavier and Magneto shaking hands, and recalls that he never believed they would see this day, but admits he was wrong. He tells himself it is not always what you believe.
Logan looks at Cyclops and thinks ‘You were the one who believed the most. You were the one who told us, who said it out loud. It was you, Scott’ Wolverine remembers fighting alongside Cyclops, Jean Grey, the Beast and Rogue, and thinks that he had been to the end of the universe with Cyclops, been his friend, and been his rival, that they have seen some rough times and a few good ones. ‘But you were the one who brought us here. The question is: what next?’ Wolverine wonders.
Logan strides towards Scott, and stands alongside him, gazing out into the darkness that envelops Utopia. ‘Well. Here we go, I guess. Got anything in mind?’ Logan asks. ‘Nope. You?’ Scott replies. ‘Nope’ Wolverine tells him. ‘Bummer’ Scott mutters, before suggesting that they will have to follow Angel and wing it. ‘A wing and a prayer’ Logan replies. ‘Funny’ Scott tells him, before informing Wolverine that they could die today, as they have never faced anything like this. ‘Yeah, well…’ Wolverine begins. ‘We could lose everything’ Cyclops states, before asking Wolverine to say it out loud: ‘You think you can do this?’
Wolverine looks forward still, and tells himself that the end of the world is coming. He admits that he doesn’t think he can face it, he knows he can. Logan looks at Cyclops and replies ‘Sure. How about you?’ But Scott remains silent as he looks out into the darkness….


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The Hate Machine – part 1: Heal the World
They say you can’t control what a person thinks…Nighttime, somewhere in the US:A young girl, Heather, sleeps in her bed, when suddenly a telepathic call awakes her. She is warned they are coming. The voice tells her to run thought her window. The girl obeys, even as the door is kicked in by a man, followed by a torch-wielding mob. Mutant! they cry as Heather slides over the awning and lands on the ground.
She runs and the mob follows. Heather slips and falls down, even as she pleads she is not a mutant. Abomination! a woman above her calls and aims a gun at her. It is Heather’s mother.
She fires but that moment Jean Grey, dressed in a new red and blue suit of armor, stands in front of the girl and deflects the bullets with her telekinesis. She is joined by Nightcrawler and the new Wolverine, Laura Kinney. Jean informs them they are shielded. Laura helps up Heather. Nightcrawler tells the child to take his hand. When she hesitates, he jokes it’s the thing at the end of his wrist. Yes, it has three fingers, but it is still a hand. Heather complies and Kurt teleports them out.
A few more teleportation jumps follow, Closer and closer to the ocean and suddenly little Heather finds herself face to face with a shark. They are under the sea, protected by a transparent dome. Gabby Kinney aka Honey Badger tells Heather it’s a Great White and can’t hurt her. She calls him Harold.
Apart from Gabby, Laura, Jean and Kurt there are also King Namor, the young Wakandan X-Man Gentle and a young Indian woman calling herself Trinary. Jean introduces them and promises Heather that what just happened is not quite what she thinks. Heather wants to know where she is. Searebro, Jean replies, three thousand feet down. She is safe. The hate can’t reach her here…
Two months earlier:Roosevelt Island, NYC:Two masked armed men hold a car at gunpoint and force the driver, a woman, out, unaware that her baby is still strapped in the backseat.
That quickly changes as little Toby begins to wail and then his screams take on inhuman dimensions shattering the glass in and around the car.
Laura Kinney aka Wolverine and her clone sister Gabby aka Honey Badger spring into action and run towards the car. They are surprised to find a screeching baby and Laura covers Toby’s mouth with her hand. For a moment, there is silence, then Toby protests so loudly the sound liquefies all the meat of Wolverine’s hand, leaving only the bones.
Both Laura and Gabby are thrown back by the sound waves. However they never land on the ground but are instead caught in mid-air courtesy of Jean Grey’s telekinesis. She has just been teleported in by Nightcrawler.
Laura tells Jean it’s a child. Reading the baby’s mind, Jean informs them his name is Toby and he is very scared. Telepathically, Jean calms the child and he stops crying as she picked him up and carries him out of the car. Jean hands him back to his mother, Amy, and explains that mutant powers can manifest early under great stress. She has given him a psychic suggestion to not cry so much. And she has had a psychic conversation with her associate Hank McCoy. He should be able to construct a dampener necklace. In a range of different colors. Fashion shouldn’t be ignored when nullifying deadly screaming powers, Honey Badger agrees.
Overwhelmed, the mother thanks her. Jean warns her this is only temporary. As Toby gets older, they can work with him to control his powers at the Xavier Institute. She warns Amy that there will be a fallout of this. She’s sorry and she will be monitoring. And Wolverine lives nearby if she needs help. Or sanctuary.
On the ANB network, two pundits discuss the events. The man, Harold, shouts that that was no baby. From the moment of its conception, it was a ticking timebomb. His female colleague sees things differently, insisting that of course he is a child. So what does he propose? He replies that the United Nations are already meeting to discuss the rise of mutant-related incidents and if they are a threat to their way of life. But he thinks it’s obvious that it’s time for genetic testing in utero. And if an unborn child is found to have the X-gene, what should be done? She asks. Exactly what should be done, is his grim reply. He’s sick of political correctness getting in the way of their safety.
Jean has had enough. She’s been gone too long to watch the world through a screen. She flies outside into the night sky. She reaches out telepathically hearing pain, fear and anxiety. She wants to help. She doesn’t know how, but she will learn.
So she travels all over the world, meeting people from Turkey over Pakistan to East Timor and finally Wakanda. Years ago, a world died, she tells the Black Panther, who reminds her that wasn’t her but the Phoenix. She was a part of it Jean insists and she won’t let mutantkind and this world tear itself apart. Not if she has the power to prevent it. She wants to heal the world but she doesn’t know where to begin…
Soon Black Panther has helped her gather the people she spoke to before, some of the greatest thinkers on Earth: artists, scientists, psychologists, doctors, mathematicians, authors, historians, educators, engineers, humanitarians, activists, leaders and Peace Nobel Prize winners. All of them have once in a generation minds. She’d like to borrow them.
T’Challa asks what she is hoping to discover. An idea, she replies and starts reading their minds. A way forward.
Later at the Xavier Institute, Jean telepathically contacts Nightcrawler and asks him to follow her thoughts. It leads him to a cliff, where Jean is standing somewhere in the mountains. She tells him she has an idea and telepathically shows him. Later, they watch the sunset and he agrees. It is a beautiful idea, but she’s going to upset a lot of people. She will need protection. And they won’t just take it out on her. They will need to protect the entire world. They need a team. “They?” Jean asks. Did she think he’d let her do this without him? Is she the least intuitive telepath ever?
Jean admits she was hoping he’d join her. She’d like a friend and the soul of the X-Men with her. But people fear change even more than they fear mutants, and she is talking about changing the world. Kurt assures her he truly believes she can. He missed her. Please do not die again. She promises, but only because he asked so nicely. What’s first? he asks. First, she heads into the sea…
And she does. King Namor welcomes her in Atlantis, adding they don’t get a lot of visitors. After some small talk, she tells him she is building something. She would like him to be part of it. She wants him to be an X-Man? Namor scoffs. He doesn’t have time to play the hero. He is a king. He has far larger responsibilities. Jean points out that he is a mutant leading a nation. And she is not here for him alone. She is headed to the United Nations and needs a country behind her.
And so, Jean speaks in front of the United Nations on behalf of mutantkind. She points out that every time power speaks about dealing with a minority without involving said minority in the conversation, it ends badly. There are countries represented here where it is legal to imprison mutants without charge. There are countries where it is legal to kill anyone suspected of being a mutant. Mutants need a voice in this organization.
Ambassador Mabury from the United Kingdom, a middle-aged woman, points out mutants are a species not a nation. They are stateless. Jean retorts if others treat them as one group, then they need to speak as one group, and every time mutants have come together to live in one place - Genosha, Utopia - they have simply made themselves a bigger target. Wherever mutantkind has tried to live alone, apart, they have been slaughtered.
Ambassador Mabury refers to Jean’s telepathy. They can’t expect not to be manipulated with her present. Jean points out she could be outside and still reach their minds. This is about trust. Charles Xavier had a dream. A simple dream. Humans and mutants at peace. Charles believed they could win humans over by being heroes when needed and being invisible when not. But mutants shouldn’t need to be heroes to be accepted. Some see them as evolution, she speaks telepathically: She is inviting them all to evolve with them.
King Namor stands up and announces Atlantis recognizes the mutant nation.
The Wakandan representative stands up and announces the same.
Later outside the UN building, thanks the Wakandan representative. Wolverine approaches her. She is glad she and Honey Badger came to watch. That was impressive. It was a first step, Jean replies. Gabby remarks her first step stomped a lot of intolerant nations. She can’t wait for Jean’s second step.
Ambassador Mabury joins them and asks to speak to Jean. Jean remarks she would like to convince her. Her vote on the Security Council— The ambassador tells her to ignore her posturing for the camera. It’s supposed to convey strength or some such nonsense. The UK were once a leading power but they have been pulling ever inwards. They need allies. If the world wills it, Britain will not threaten its standing further by voting against mutantkind. Of course, there is one problem. She begins to grin evilly. Jean is not in control here, she states. She is not the Phoenix anymore. She cannot rise. Not against the true power.
What? Jean asks, not understanding. The woman continues that Jean upset the status quo. Now the status quo will upset her right back. She is quite annoyed. She was working on something and Jean has ruined this ambassador for her.
Jean senses something in her mind. The Ambassador begins to scream in agony. Jean shouts ‘no’ and reaches out for her, and a moment later the ambassador’s head explodes. Cops and security turn against Jean, even as Namor gives orders not to shoot and gets in front of the shocked Jean to deflect the bullets. Wolverine disarms the cops. Nightcrawler teleports in. Jean protests that she needs to speak to them but he already teleports them away.
They say you can’t control what’s in a person’s head. They say this because they are unimaginative weak-willed sheep, Cassandra Nova muses to a Sentinel head. She is Cassandra Nova and she can control what’s in a person’s head. She can make them see red…


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The Hate Machine – part 2: Trinary
1st story:A cell somewhere in India. The prisoner is a young woman with a bag over her head. She protests, asking why can’t she feel anything? Calling her Trinary, her captor sarcastically welcomes her to her new home and takes off the bag. Trinary is a slim young Indian woman with her hair gathered in a waist-long braid. Her captor describes the cell to her. The TV is analog, the windowless walls are made of thick metal. No signal will get in or out.
Trinary asks why she isn’t in prison. If he knew what she did… It is because of what she did she is not in prison, he explains. She is far too powerful to let her rot. They are going to find a way to use her. But she will be punished, he adds. She made a lot of powerful men looks small. She remarks there is no way they could have traced it back to her. He agrees, but her father contacted them. He is a good man who loves his country and clearly hates her. Still, she is not the most hated mutant in the world today. He switches on the TV which has terrible reception.
The news shows what seems to be Jean Grey using her powers to murder the British UN ambassador. Dignified, Trinary addresses him as Laksay Singh. She knows who he is and has made arrangements to get out of here. And when she does, the first thing she will do is email his internet search history to his mother…
The news report shows how the assassination of the British ambassador has sparked a wave of anti-mutant protests across the world. Pro-mutant groups have sprung up in response. Violence has erupted as the two groups clash across the USA.
The anchorman and his colleague arearguing. She doesn’t buy that what they see is all there is to the story. She wonders what was said between Jean Grey and ambassador Marbury. After that speech, why would Jean Grey murder someone so publicly? Her co-anchor Mason believes he has all the answers. Mutants believe they are above the law, he announces. He berates his colleague for trying to give Jean the benefit of the doubt, claiming that anyone who defends those actions is as dangerous as those committing them. And the political situation has gotten worse with Grey and her damn mutant associates offered asylum in Wakanda!
Wakanda:Said refugees, Jean, Laura Kinney and Kurt Wagner, are standing on a roof looking at the city. Laura remarks T’Challa has offered them to stay as long as they like. Kurt adds, Namor of Atlantis has offered them asylum too, but he told him they enjoy breathing oxygen. Jean apologizes. Laura pragmatically points out that unless Jean actually killed the British ambassador she doesn’t see how she is to blame. She thought she could change the world, Jean explains. Her hubris… Kurt interrupts, he saw her vision for the future. Wanting a better world isn’t hubris and this isn’t over. “Your wings aren’t melted, Icarus, they are just a little singed.”
Jean asks Laura how her younger sister Gabby is taking being displaced from her county. Laura suggests she see for herself. In fact, Gabby is having the time of her life. Nearby she jumps down a waterfall, while shouting that political asylum is awesome! She accidentally splashes the mutant Nezhno Abidemi meditating nearby and apologizes. Nezhno doesn’t reply when she addresses him. She wonders if he is in a trance. Jean suggests he is just ignoring her. Nezhno smiles slightly, but doesn’t react otherwise.
As they walk away, Gabby wants to know more about him and Jean explains that Nezhno Abidemi is one of the strongest mutants the world has ever seen. Laura wants numbers. Jean adds that, according to Hank McCoy’s tests, at his peak Nezhno could go toe to toe with the Hulk. Laura senses a “but” coming. Gabby mutters that sensing approaching butts would be a super weird mutant power. Jean explains that when Gentle uses his powers it hurts. The stronger he gets, the more pain it causes him. Using his power could literally kill him, so he doesn’t use it. He meditates. He stays in control.
A Wakandan tech informs Jean there is a message for her… they think. He leads her to a computer center and explains the message came through every public communication platform Wakanda has. There’s is a link. The message offers Jean help and asks for help in return, It’s password-protected, he explains, but they think it is asking for— her bank password? Jean asks surprised. She types it in.
A video message showing Trinary begins. The young woman explains that if Jean is reading this they got her. Her name is Trinary and she is a technopath. She explains she is responsible for a cyberattack in India last week. India has one of the highest gender pay gaps in the world. On average, men are paid 25 percent more than women. Last week, every working woman in India was paid 25 percent more. Trinary topped up their accounts from the accounts of the 25 highest-earning CEOs in the country.
And just like that, she has a new hero, Gabby remarks.
Trinary continues that there is no way they could trace it back to her, but she still thinks they are coming for her. She saw Jean’s speech. She saw what happened next. Trinary believes she can help her, but first she will need Jean to help her. She asks Jean to please find her, and the message ends.
Laura suggests they go get her. Jean points out if the others are found in India, they could be extradited. So she’s not going? Laura asks. Of course, she is going! Jean retorts.
Sometime later, Jean, Laura, Gabby and Kurt, trying to seem inconspicuous using shawls and hoods, find themselves in the streets of New Delhi following Lakshay Singh, the head if India’s mutant defense force. They figure he knows where Trinary is being held. Jean tells the others he is going to step into that alley in 30 seconds, since she has planted a suggestion he do so. Surreptitiously, they follow him.
Out of sight from others, Jean orders Singh to think back about yesterday. Singh, in the meantime, is convinced he is ordering a coffee and goes through the motions. Jean remarks he has some half-decent telepathic blocks in place but nothing that poses a problem at her level. That’s awesome, Gabby enthuses. Can she poke him? Jean is taken aback, then allows it.
Transaction completed, Singh hands Gabby the money and Jean announces she knows where Trinary is and Lakshay is going to take them there.
He takes them into the HQ in his van. Jean orders the others to stay quiet. They can do quiet, Laura points out. Kurt adds the three of them will handle the extradition. Jean will stay and use Lakshay’s knowledge of the building. She’ll be in their minds. Gabby nervously apologizes for anything weird Jean will see in there. Also, she hasn’t fully explored her feelings for the girl on the bus, so if Jean could just leave those alone, it would be appreciated.
Jean telepathically guides them through the rooms, warns them of guards and helps them disable cameras. When they have reached Trinary’s cell, she warns them that the door has an alarm. Kurt teleports inside and wishes Trinary a good evening, then teleports out with her. Gabby says hello and announces she is a big fan. Trinary asks if she isn’t a little young for an X-Man.
Jean hears shots being fires outside and announces they have a problem. Outside, anti-mutant protesters are overwhelming the military.
Jean sends a telepathic order for everyone to fall asleep. To her surprise, several armed protesters are still standing and walk towards her. Repeated telepathic orders have no effect on them either. She realizes there is something else in their minds, even as a woman fires her rifle at Jean.
Kurt realizes they have lost telepathic contact with Jean and teleports to her side. He finds she has disabled the attackers telekinetically. However, when she focused on them, she forgot about Singh, who is calling a Code Sentinel. Laura hits him but it’s too late. The ground below them rumbles and a Sentinel rises.
2nd story:The streets of Delhi:There is a panic as a Sentinel walks through the streets. A young man falls about to be trampled by the mob. Another man lifts him up and tells him he doesn’t to get trampled by a Sentinel. The young man thanks him and complains this chaos is the fault of the mutants. They are going to be the death of humanity! He too should run! These streets are no longer safe.
With a smile, Logan agrees. He’s got better things to do anyway…


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The Hate Machine – part 3: Rising Storm
The Xavier Institute, Central Park:Nighttime:|Cassandra Nova simply enters. She walks past an arguing Kitty Pryde and Colossus, making sure they do not notice her. Who does notice her, though, is a sensitive young boy named Kyle. The boy studies her and announces Cassandra is scared of her, isn’t she? She muses no one should have been able to detect her. Imagine what he could have become. She kills him with one gesture.
She enters a bedroom where an X-Man lies sleeping and takes a vial from her pocket. Go protect Wakanda! she orders.
Delhi, India, outside the HQ of the Mutant Defense Forces:Jean Grey and her team are battling a Sentinel, as well as several humans who seem immune to Jean’s telepathy. Jean tells her team to keep moving and not let the Sentinel target them. She tells Honey Badger to get Trinary under cover and Nightcrawler to teleport Wolverine up into the air to her.
They comply and Laura slashes the Sentinel’s head. Gabby drags Trinary away, pointing out that letting her be squashed by a Sentinel would look bad for their rescue mission. She swears and pushes Trinary aside a moment before a blast that was meant for Trinary hits Gabby. Trinary is horrified and furious. She uses her power and orders the Sentinel to sit. It obeys.
Wow! Gabby comments. Trinary is shocked. Isn’t she dead? Aren’t those her intestines? Gabby apologizes and proceeds to push them back inside. Never mind her. What did she do?
Jean explains Trinary took control of the Sentinel. Laura wonders how that works. Isn’t the whole programming of a Sentinel to kill mutants? Trinary explains most of the program is dedicated to finding mutants. It can still do that but she has removed the killing. If she wanted to, she could reprogram it to find mutants and cook them a light meal. Gabby is up for it.
Nightcrawler asks about the protesters Jean has frozen. She explains she can’t reach a part of their minds. Trinary reveals that the program that is running in the Sentinel is also running inside of them.
Trinary nervously examines one of Jean’s prisoners and explains the operating system in the Sentinel isn’t as complex, but basically it is the same. Kurt asks if the protester is a robot. Human, Jean replies, but there is something else as well.
Jean asks Trinary if she can turn it off. It’s not that easy, is the reply. Gabby scoffs, she just took control of a giant robot. Running a simplified program from years ago, Trinary informs them. And not inside a living person’s head! She’d need time.
Kurt fears they don’t have time. Between the giant killing machine, the unconscious angry mob and the whole destruction, their covert action isn’t so covert anymore. Jean has an idea on how to get out of there. And soon the Sentinel under Trinary’s control flies them away.
Wolverine asks Trinary how she was found. She replies hesitatingly that they said her father turned her in. Kurt suggests they may have been lying. They weren’t, she replies, eyes down cast. Jean tells her she is sorry. Nobody should face persecution from the people who are supposed to love them unconditionally.
Trinary replies she saw Jean’s speech at the UN. Does she still believe this is possible, even after everything that happened? Jean does. They’ll start planning as soon as they are back in Wakanda. They’ll have a hurdle or two in their way, but they will get back there.
Trinary replies this is more than a hurdle and offers to show her. Does anyone have a phone? Gabby hands her her phone and wants to tell her her password. “Jonathan rules” with ‘z,’ Trinary replies.
Trinary explains she’s been monitoring the rise of anti-mutant propaganda in social media. Their feeds are being filled with this. Stories of mutant violence and accidents. Half-truths taken out of context or outright lies. It’s spiked over the last month. Algorithms targeting people with known biases and concerns. Stoking this into fear. Turning the fear into hatred. And a little hit of dopamine every time someone “likes” a post filled with intolerance. It’s all coordinated. She believes the human race is being programmed to hate mutants.
In a town in Louisiana, an anti-mutant mob with tiki torches marches through town. There are protesters one the others side as well, one of them a winged young mutant named Cara. Her friend tells her not to do anything. It’s not worth it. Cara flies off and lands in front of the protesters. One of them addresses her as mutie. Her name is Cara, she replies. No it isn’t, the man shoots back. Names are for important things like people and dogs. She doesn’t get a name. He is about to hit her with the tiki torch when someone holds it back.
It is Gambit who pretends to be shocked at the price. Two garden torches for $12.99? So this is how they afforded the crowd scenes in Frankenstein? He tells Cara she can fly away. She retorts these are her streets, too. He warns her not to get singed, charges up the torch and quickly touches the other torches carried by the protesters doing the same.
The people are shocked and run and Cara admits that was incredibly satisfying.
Gambit suggests to a racist in a truck that he leave like his friends. They can’t call themselves a mob if they don’t stick together. Instead, the man calmly gets out of the truck and trains a gun on them. “Mutant,” he states and fires his gun. Gambit fires a charged card at him.
When a young man shouts Cara’s name, Gambit is horrified to see that the bullet struck and killed the young woman.
En route to Wakanda, a bored Gabby asks if they are there yet. They are flying through the air on a giant robot, Kurt points out. Can’t she just enjoy the ride? Definitely, she replies. Are they there yet? They are almost there, he replies and begs her to stop asking. Trinary asks if anybody reached out to the Wakandans and warned them they are arriving in a giant killing machine.  Jean tries to telepathically contact the Black Panther.
Laura notices a storm gathering over Wakanda and quickly realizes that it is Storm. Protect Wakanda! Storm chants. “Abominations!” she hisses then fires lightning at the Sentinel.