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Inferno, the outer boroughs:Watching the chaos unfolding, the Darkchild munches on a hot dog and recalls that her grandmother used to say there exists no greater pleasure in the world than watching children at play. She looks at her demons destroying everything. Sorry, babushka. She just doesn’t see it.
The decapitated N’astirh calls her. Remarking wryly, she takes it that his extermination of the remaining X-Men didn’t go as planned. It was going peaches and damn cream, he snaps, until Maddie Pryor and her goblin army showed up. He stumbles over a hotdog-carrying small demon. Please, tell her a goblin did not take his head, she demands bored. No, her brother did. He’s quite a bit more impressive with the Soulsword in hand. They pretty well wiped the demons out. Pryor even managed to tame Darkchild’s Bamf dragon.
That is disappointing, she admits. N’astirh continues, he slipped out when Mr. Sinister showed up. He cloned himself a half-breed army. Incendiaries from the look of it.
So all her enemies are together in the sewers? she asks and begins to laugh. Won’t that be fun to sort out!
In the sewers:Mr. Sinister informs the surviving X-Men and Madelyne’s Goblin army how he spent five years in Manhattan dreaming of blue skies, fresh water and fresh meat. Now that he’s out he can’t have the Darkchild and her beasties spoil his dream come true. She must be stopped.
Cyclops asks how he plans to do that. Sinister reminds him his clone army can shoot plasma from their fingertips. Cyclops retorts that Illyana took out dozens of his best X-Men in minutes. At this point, even he has to admit she can’t be beaten. Sinister points to Colossus and his weapon. Colossus agrees that the Soulsword may be able to defeat Illyana. His demon arm lets him wield it.
Then it’s decided, Sinister announces. The combined might of the X-Men and his Boom Boom clone army will hold off the demon horde, while Mr. Rasputin does the dirty work. Any questions?
Madelyne silently glares while she remembers how she had been Sinister’s plaything for most of her life. He cloned her, filled her head with false memories and sent her out to live someone else’s life. He took what he wanted, her child, then set the whole sick experiment on fire. But the puppet survived. Stark raving mad. Furious beyond reason, but alive.
Uncaring of the consequences, she flies toward him to attack. Undeterred, Sinister announces he is touched. He’s missed her too. His clones take her down as he announces that they have a war to win and no time to tussle. He sees her using her telepathy and shakes his head as he reminds her it has no effect on him. But it does on Boom Boom. Under Madelyne’s control, Boom Boom blows Sinister up.
The X-Men stand shocked. Is he thinking what she’s thinking? Domino asks Colossus. He agrees. The clones are going to be a problem. As if on cue, the Boom Boom demon clones screech and manifest time bombs.
Madelyne is ready to die but Havok throws himself in front of her as the timebomb goes off.
As the real Boom Boom slowly awakes from her brainwashing, Domino gives her a short version of what happened to her.
Madelyne’s people realize they are about to die but she controls the dragon Nightcrawler to kill the clones.
There are more, however, and the ceiling crumbles. Above, Darkchild looks down, announcing Babushka was right after all. Children at play warm the heart. Have a few more playmates! she laughs and sends her demons down.
Colossus grabs Domino and Boom Boom and gets on higher ground even as the other X-Men are massacred. The three realize there is nothing they can do. It’s over.
Colossus decides to do the only thing he can do. He climbs up to face his sister. She drags him up as she remarks, a penny for his thoughts? Oh right, “my poor little sister. I failed her. Now I will cry as she cooks all my friends on a spit!” Sounds about right.
Colossus calls her a monster. Obviously, she mocks. He lashes out with the Soulsword. As she falls, he gets ready to skewer her. She turns into Illyana, who begs him not to hurt her. He hesitates and, a moment later, she is Darkchild again. She claws his chest open as she laughs he is too easy.
Domino decides to join him over Boom Boom’s protests.
Colossus is horrified to see his steel chest is bleeding. She is about to attack again but stumbles and falls. Colossus means to kill her with the Soulsword. She turns human again, crying he can’t mean to murder his own flesh and blood! He hesitates.
Domino peers out of the hole and shouts she is messing with his head. Remember what that thing is! Remember the people she killed!
Colossus brings the blade down but misses. The sword is stuck in the ground. Darkchild mocks he can’t do it. He doesn’t have it in him to kill the thing he loves. She brings him down. She has enough murder in her for both of them.
He’s so sorry, Piotr groans.
Swearing, Domino fires her gun at Dakchild’s back. They are not apologizing to that *&$#+! she shouts. Shooting her in the face, though, (she proceeds to do that) that sounds good! Darkchild grabs her throat and tells Colossus even his little girlfriend knows the score. All this energy spent trying to save the monster who ate his little sister, when the smart play would have been killing it before it ate someone else. Her mouth grows bigger as she turns toward Domino. Eat this! Colossus shouts and splits her apart with the Soulsword.
Energy flares up from her corpse. Domino carefully asks if he is cool. Cucumber cool, Peter replies. He told himself Illyana was still in there. That this magical sword could cut her out. How did he not see that his sister was gone?
He doesn’t know how to give up on people he loves, she tells him gently. He didn’t fail Illyana. He set her free!
He was beaten, Colossus replies. He didn’t know what to do until she was threatened. He realizes Domino knew he wouldn’t let Darkchild hurt her. ‘Knew’ is a strong word, she replies. More like she was rolling the dice. But it seemed like he needed a little push. He loves her, Piotr informs her.
That moment Boom Boom climbs out from the hole underground. Weird and cute with Pete and Dom is usually her favorite show but all of the other X-Men are dead now and the sewer demons are getting twitchy. Can they like bounce out?
Where should they go? Dom asks. Somewhere else, Piotr replies. A voice in his head tells him he can use the sword to teleport. Doom’s not gonna like them hopping domains, Boom Boom points out. Then he shouldn’t have let this one burn, Dom replies and they disappear.
The Nightcrawler dragon teleports Madelyne and Nate in. Maddie remarks the metal man came through and Nate muses it’s weird. Darkchild looks even cooler as a corpse. What’s with the crazy corpse flame? Maddie explains that’s hellfire. The Darkchild’s demon power escaping. Where’s it going? he asks. Where indeed… she chuckles and steps into the hellfire’s path.
She screams in pain, then assures him a moment later she’s gonna be just fine, as she has inherited the Darkchild’s power. Awesome! Nate cries.


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“Someone remembers. It’s why they keep coming.”- Omega Sentinel
Arbor Magna:Two resurrected mutants break out of the eggs. They are husks of Charles Xavier and Magneto. They crawl toward Emma Frost, who is wearing a Cerebro helmet. What is it he likes to say in times like these? Emma asks rhetorically. “To me, my X-Men!”
Earlier:The Orchis Forge:X-Force have tried several times to attack the Orchis Forge in space, each attempt was met with failure.
In their latest attempt, X-Force (Domino, Kid Omega, Wolverine) are floating in an hollowed-out rock to land at the Orchis Forge. They are immediately attacked by Nimrod. Domino tries to attack first. Nimrod identifies her and matches her low-level probability altering power with cluster bombs with quantum targeting. One of them attaches itself to her ankle before it detonates.
Kid Omega snarls at Nimrod that it doesn’t matter if his brain is analog or digital. He can control anything! So he is going to reduce him down to atoms, remake him in his image and wreck this place!
However, Nimrod has analyzed Quentin’s power and overcomes it, killing Quentin. Which leaves just Wolverine, who slashes Nimrod from behind, only to be targeted and killed by a second Nimrod unit.
Director Devo freezes the recording. He turns to Dr. Alia Gregor and announces this is the sixteenth assassination attempt since Nimrod came online. Her husband terrifies them. Gregor tells him not to call Nimrod that. That’s not who he is anymore. Devo apologizes and asks what they have learned. She replies the attacks fall into two categories: external force and participants including long range assaults, two instances of hired assassins and a Brood infection outside normal spawning grounds. The second being of a kind they have just observed. Mutants from Krakoa. The same ones… over and over.
Yes, so what have they learned? Director Devo repeats.
Dr. Gregor supposes they are clones or copies. Either a scientific breakthrough or a new power. Orchis are getting better at responding to them – seven minutes this time – but the mutants are not getting better at attacking them. They should be adapting, evolving. Since they aren’t, it must mean the mutants don’t know what happens after they get here. They don’t remember. Devo agrees. Omega Sentinel does not. Someone must remember. It’s why they keep coming.
A previous timeline:Dr. Moira MacTaggart congratulates her scientific team on their breakthrough, as they share a bottle of champagne. The others praise her for her work. They’ve accomplished her dream. Moira proposes a toast to the dream: a cure to mutants.
That’s when there is an explosion and the Brotherhood of Mutants crashes the party. The other scientists are soon killed; Moira is tied to a chair. The precognitive Destiny is astonished. She can’t see Moira at all. She sees the world bending around her, but she is just an absence. A mutant who is invisible to other mutants. It’s a defense mechanism of sorts, but not much good if you know what you are looking for. Is Moira looking at her now? the blind Destiny asks Mystique. Mystique says she is and she doesn’t look happy. Destiny supposes, they have given her good reason. Then again, they have acted with cause. She introduces herself to Moira and explains she can see the future, which is tricky with someone whose mutant gift is reincarnation. One might think that would be impossible with one who has an unending series of lives. But here she is.
Moira snarls, if they are going to kill her, then kill her and get it over with. Mystique promises, they are going to, but it doesn’t do much good if they are just going to have to do it again next time. Destiny has a word for her.
Such a gift, knowledge, Destiny muses. And yet Moira is using it to betray her own kind. Moira snaps what they are is a disease. She would only use it on people who want it. Destiny scoffs she thinks this stops at “want..” She thinks they are going to let her keep this thing she made. The humans will come for her. They will break her, chain her, make her their own. Then they will use what she has made to eliminate all of mutantkind. She has seen the potential of Moira’s good works, and she does not care for them.
How do they think they can stop her? Moira retorts. Destiny points out she is much older than Moira. Her power will manifest before Moira is reborn equipped with the knowledge of today. If Moira – once again – tries to do this evil work against their people like today, Destiny will see the outcome and find her. Again. And if Moira tries to kill her, Destiny will see her coming. They are joined together now. Moira will know that Destiny is out here waiting for this version of her. And knowing that, she has a choice: Change or die. Help her people or Destiny will annihilate her in all her lives to come.
Moira glares wordlessly. Destiny remarks that she thinks Moira is still on the fence and needs some more encouragement. Very well, here it is, Destiny announces. Moira is a smart woman who is beginning to understand the potential of her power. She is starting to believe that she is in an eternal loop of some kind. That her powers give her some kind of immortality. Destiny wants to tell her that they do not. She sees ten lives… maybe eleven, if she makes the right choice at the end, but that is all.
How can she die? Moira asks shocked. Destiny explains if she dies as a child before her powers activate, then she will simply end like everybody else. What if she doesn’t believe her? Moira spits. Destiny asks her how a scientist would go about proving something like that. She tests it, Moira admits. Experiences it for herself. In her next life.
The question is will she, Destiny stresses. Will she embrace what she is and help her people in her next life? Moira admits she doesn’t know.
That’s simply not good enough, Mystique announces. Moira retorts they already said they were going to kill her. Now they want her to lie? So they can feel better? She wants her to not be a monster, Mystique states. Moira snarls they are surrounded by the bodies of her friends and colleagues! Does Mystique have any idea of how stupid she sounds?
Destiny states that, yes, they are all monsters. They are all committed. And so they sleep lightly or not at all, but that’s just guilt. Here’s what really keeps her up at night: Dr. MacTaggert has been blessed with a curious mind and she knows that in that fertile ground the idea of shameless mutantkind has been planted. She knows Moira will cultivate it. But what happens when the flawed vessel fails? It may take one life or many, but hiding in the corners of her mind sits the cancer called doubt. It whispers. “What if they were wrong and I was right the whole time?” That’s the real war, isn’t it? Ensuring she is on the winning side.
Mystique asks then how do they make her newfound convictions stick? She thinks the answer is fear. Perhaps, Destiny concedes, let’s find out.
She doesn’t want to die, Moira admits. Who does? Destiny replies and orders Pyro to burn her slowly, so she doesn’t forget what failing to change feels like. Pyro complies and Moira screams in agony.
Now, Moira’s tenth life:She is in the ruins of her lab on Muir Isle. She peruses some notes on Project: Cure with the names of all the scientists who helped her in her third life, then uses a Krakoan Gate to return to Paris and her apartment, unaware that someone has been following the Gate activity. The Orchis members find something unusual about the readings and are calling them in.
To the Orchis node in Terra Verde.One member asks Dr. Smyth (the ape scientist) about the team registering a conflict in gateway signature. How should they handle it?
Smyth lectures him they ignore nothing and orders him to put it on board. He states that this gate only sees moderate traffic, but now – a few days after their latest software update - there seems to be an unexplained inconsistency in the gateway resonance. He asks his colleague, Dr. Jones, if she has a recommendation. She replies her initial instinct is what the observation team is implying - a glitch from the update. Based on the threat level she’d recommend continued documentation and a full analysis when they have accumulated more data. Smyth is not satisfied. His instinct tells him there is more. After the last update, she says? Whenever possible, go to the source. Get them online.
Them being Augusta of Hordeculture, who is extremely annoyed at being bothered. When Smyth tells her there is a problem with the code Hordeculture sold them, she retorts that there isn’t, and is about to break off contact. Smyth repeats his claim forcefully and reminds her that, when Orchis agreed to pay the outrageous sums Hordeculture demanded for their gateway knowledge base, there was an expectation it would actually work.
Augusta stutters and is interrupted by Edith, who asks if she is talking to a monkey and tries to get her to eat her meds with some pudding. She supposes he also has some opinions on modern medicine and aging, she acidly asks Dr. Smyth, who repeats his question about the code. Because, if it is wrong, then everything they’ve recorded with it is wrong. This is too important to be wrong. After a small pause, Augusta asks him to send her the data. Dr. Jones complies and points out they are getting multiple frequencies from a single location. They shouldn’t be getting more than one reading from a single gateway, should they? Not unless.…
Augusta thinks, then finds something: Clever, she muses. Clever dirty mutants. Smyth asks her what she sees. Augusta explains the readings are correct. There are multiple frequencies because there are two gateways in the buildings. Same location. Different floors.
Dr. Smyth gives the order to prioritize the Paris site immediately. Full blanket. A support team will be en route in an hour. The agents promise they are on it and will keep their eyes open.
They in turn are being listened to by X-Force agent Tommy who passes that info on to Sage.
Krakoa:Moiras No-Place:Moira MacTaggart teleports in to find Xavier and Magneto waiting for her. Unexpected, she announces. After all, the two of them left her down here hidden away while they remade the world. Busy men, doing the good work of nation building. The question is how goes the real necessary work of survival.
Not well, is Magneto’s curt reply. Moira asks what happened. Actually, it’s what failed to happen, Xavier clarifies. They made another attempt on the Orchis Forge. More poetically Magneto expresses that, like a blight, that black halo still circles the sun. A monument to mutant failure. Moira chides him not to mythologize it. The failure is theirs alone. “Things will be different, because we are different,” they said. The two of them have made it clear how unimportant her perspective regarding these things is…
Xavier announces she is the most important person in the world, but they should be honest with another – it’s time to admit a few things to themselves. The first of which is that Nimrod might be an inevitability. Every step they took to prevent it only ensured its creation. Every step since then… has made things worse, somehow. So, they are here to ask… has she ever tried embracing the machines?
Well, if they are being honest, she replies coyly, she is not sure they want to hear what he has to say. Opening a wine bottle, Magneto announces he does not fear truth. Moira tartly points out, yet here she is, the biggest secret in mutant history, still hidden away.
Xavier senses her anger and regret but points out that her reminiscing on that doesn’t help matters at all. Moira snaps at him not to pretend he understands. He’s been in her head but he hasn’t lived those lives. She knows the world that follows their failure. She knows this better than they ever will and it angers her that they refuse to listen to her.
Magneto calmly states that is exactly why they are here. Has it ever been tried being allies with the machines? Moira sighs, noting that they are basically asking if you can befriend death or trust cancer. There are only two things they should fear: the emergence of a living machine that until recently did not exist and a woman who is dead who must not be brought back – Nimrod and Destiny. Yet somehow the two of them – the brilliant leaders of a nation – have managed to combine those two into three separate failures.
He asks if she is angry. Damn right she… She recalls they said reminiscing on the past. How did they know she went to Muir Island? And they were waiting for her when she returned. Are they having her followed?
Don’t be ridiculous, Xavier demurs. Of course not. Magneto explains that she is carrying techno-organic tech in her blood that ignites when she uses the gates and informs them where she is going. When? she demands. When the day arrived that they had too much to lose. Before the first meeting of the Quiet Council. It was in her tea.
How dare they? Moira protests. Xavier reminds her she is the most important person on the planet. Of course, they would do whatever is necessary to protect her.
Moira expresses her disgust then asks why they are here. Magneto explains they are here to humbles themselves. She has lived many lives, they have not. They need to know what to do, Xavier adds. Moira orders them to listen. She is done being ignored and hidden away. Magneto agrees. Moira begins, regarding Nimrod and its temporary Orchis masters: the clock they are running against is most likely measured in years. It will become more and more difficult, but there is time. And with time mutants can also grow stronger, spread out and execute a long term survival plan… but that only works if they are actually getting stronger. And not being pulled apart.
Which brings them back to Destiny. Any chance of her resurrection has to be erased. Xavier begins that Mystique… Moira cuts him off. She needs to be removed from a position of power. Xavier finds this a tricky proposition. Moira points out there are already two free seats on the Council. Sell it as a season of change. Erased? That’s what she wants? Xavier asks. Yes, erased, Moira replies. She wants them to get Destiny’s DNA and destroy it.
Later, a plane lands at Island M. Magneto goes to the cradle that is located there and takes the Cerebro helmet. Xavier visits Bar Sinister, has a talk with Mr. Sinister, who hands him a vial with DNA.
Xavier promises Moira that, as a sign of their realignment and good will, they will do that. She brusquely tells him not to lie. It’s what keeps her up at night. It’s the one thing Moira truly fears. And she hasn’t slept peacefully for a thousand years. She cannot accept Destiny breathing Krakoan air. She wants her gone forever. Burned from all existence!
Rosetta, home of Cypher, voice of Krakoa:Doug awakes. Getting some coffee, he announces it’s time to go to work. He kisses his sleeping wife Bei, grabs something to eat and leaves. Bei’s eyes open.
Doug walks through nature to some idyllic place and wakes up Warlock. Part of Warlock crawls up Cypher’s arm. They jokingly state that Warlock doesn’t need sleep. Warlock finds Doug looks tired. Doug replies ‘Berto told him he needed a better mattress and an icebag for the bags under his eyes. Sam said it’s just called marriage. Warlock admits he finds Doug’s lifemate scary. Yeah, she’s a little terrifying, Doug agrees. He loves her so much.
Krakoa joins the conversation. Doug assures the island that he loves it too. He sits down and suggests the three of them talk about how things are going on their island.
Surrounded by the rest of the Quiet Council, Storm carries a laurel wreath. She admits to being surprised about this change. Normally, he has never given up things without a fight, she addresses Captain Commander Cyclops, surrounded by his co-captains. Cyclops explains he cannot be an X-Man outside in the world and be chief protector of their experiment. This needs a more attentive eye. He is giving up his role as a Captain Commander.
Exodus asks why not give up the captain role altogether. Krakoa does not need the half-hearted effort of the lukewarm. Smiling Scott replies if any of them feels the need to test his conviction… go right ahead. He has been well tested in the wars. And he is still standing.
Xavier agrees, but it is hard for him not to fear cracks forming in the firmament. Calling Cyclops “son,” he asks if this is really the right time. It’s the perfect time Scott states. He will still be a captain for their people, but he cannot be more than that. This job demands total commitment and unwavering principles, no matter the cost. And so, this is his brother Bishop. A commander of Captains.
Storm places the wreath on Bishop’s brow and asks if he is ready for this. He gives her a cocky smile.
Emma Frost asks if the captains just expect the Quiet Council to accept this decision without any input. She fails to remember anyone asking permission, Psylocke remarks. Magik adds that, if it is not already obvious, they have drafted Psylocke as a Captain to replace Gorgon. So, they could fight over it if they want. Make it a twofer. Emma wisely says nothing. Amused, Magneto remarks they asked for wolves to protect the den, and lo, wolves they have raised.
Nightcrawler is the first to congratulate Bishop. With that done, Cyclops points to the tradition of the newly elected commander buying drinks for the other captains. Bishop asks how that can be a tradition if it is happening for the first time. With a grin, Scott suggests that, the more they drink, the more clarity they will have on the subject. Psylocke asks why pay; there is no money on the island. Magik explains they are going to Madripoor. Because, when a new captain gets raised, it ain’t without a fight. It’s a tradition! The four head to a gate.
Later, at a Quiet Council meeting:Xavier takes the issue with the captains as an opportunity to talk about change. He suggests that some of them should not be afraid of stepping back and enjoy the fruits of what they have built. Kurt is confused. Is he asking for names of those they think should join them here or for people to step down?
Magneto replies they certainly need replacements. But they have a methodology. Anyone on the Council can ask for a vote at any time and it has to be addressed. What they do not have is a retirement plan. And heavy is the head… There is no shame in a little closing of the eyes. A nodding of the head. He will not lie – he has considered it himself.
So, he plans to step down, Shaw asks, interested. Magneto stiffly replies he will follow his heart for the good of the nation. Xavier quickly adds that none of this has to be done today or even tomorrow. But they will be talking with each of them. And they should talk with each other as well. Maybe change will do them good. Or they could all decide that he is a foolish old man for even considering such a thing. Either way, he leaves it to them. Mystique interjects he shouldn’t sell himself short. He knows very well when he has a good idea. And change is a very good idea. Xavier tries to use that opportunity to hint at her retirement but Mystique continues that she has a mutant they should consider for the Council. Xavier is surprised and Magneto tries to say there will be time for that later. No, the time for that is now, Mystique insists and stands up. She asks her candidate to step forth.
Kate looks shocked, Emma intrigued, Shaw leers. Kurt and Cypher look frightened, Storm inscrutable. Mystique kisses her candidate’s hand reverently. Sinister grins broadly, and Xavier and Magneto realize they have a problem, for the candidate is a very much alive Irene Adler aka Destiny.
Shall they vote? Mystique purrs.


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“See what I really am”Omega Sentinel
Flashback:Mystique takes on the form of Magneto and enters his home on Island M where she steals a Cerebro helmet. Then, in the shape of Charles Xavier, she visits Bar Sinister. “Look at you,” Mr. Sinister observes, all dressed up. Playing a part as always. He hands her a vial of DNA. Some people think they are clever, he remarks. “And then there’s us.”
A little later, “Xavier” is with the Five as they finish another mutant resurrection. A darkhaired woman breaks out of the egg. Hope turns to “Xavier.” His turn now. Has she done this yet?” “Xavier” asks Hope. She hasn’t. He takes off the Cerebro helmet and hands it to her. This is graduation day, “Xavier” says and then tells her to open her mind to the machine, find the catalogue and the personality she is looking for. Hope finds it. Be a good girl and put that mind back where it belongs, he tells her. Hope succeeds. “Xavier” sheds a tear as he praises her, then tells the Five this was a unique resurrection. From here on out, things need to be handled delicately. They should celebrate on their own. Hope wants to hand back the Cerebro helmet, but he tells her to keep it. She’s earned it.
The Five leave and the resurrected woman begins to speak, mumbling she sees it all. She’s back. Yes, “Xavier” announces, then changes back to Mystique who is about to break down emotionally as she touches the face of her returned wife Irene Adler.
Irene tells her she feels younger and Raven explains her body is as young as when they first met. A welcome back gift for both of them. Irene begins to ask how long she was gone, then screams as visions of past, present and future overwhelm her. She begs Raven to get her away somewhere quiet.
She suffers from the visions for two weeks while Mystique nurses her. Then they have to deal with how Mystique has changed in the years without Irene. Week three brought forgiveness and a reforged alliance of heart and purpose. For all mutantkind, but most of all for each other. Week four brought a plan and a vote.
The present: Mystique has asked for a vote on whether Destiny should become a member of the Quiet Council. As a member has asked for a vote, a vote must be taken, Xavier, is forced to admit. Xavier cautions, though. He has questions about this particular vote and this particular mutant. How was she brought back? Who oversaw the resurrection? But these question will wait until after the vote and the one after that, as he will be calling for a vote immediately after that.
And what will they be voting on? Mystique mocks. Something monumental, she hopes. Some line in the sand… pertaining to some chip on his shoulder. Angrily, he replies that they will be voting on removing her. Destiny interjects smoothly whether he would like her to tell them how this is going to work out. Xavier is at a lack for words. Moving on, he states and votes against Destiny’s addition. He encourages them all to do the same. Magneto and Storm agree. Nightcrawler considers the issue, then decides to vote in favor of Destiny to please his mother. Mystique thanks him. Xavier asks Exodus for his vote.
Flashback:Mystique comes to Exodus with a proposal. He asks what exactly she wants. She’s going to call a vote at the next Council meeting to add a member and would like his support. He observes it sounds like she wants his blind support. He has centuries of experience, being called a zealot for one cause or the other… of course he now knows he only ever believed in one thing, but he had to see the promised land before he truly understood who he was and what he wanted. He has to warn her: he cannot be bribed, bargained with or convinced. Not blindly. He needs to have a reason and that reason must be grounded in the promises of Krakoa.
Mystique asks, what if she told him there was a prophet soon to be resurrected who can see the future of this great land and how best to prepare and uplift it. What if she told him, her name was the same of what she offered, a destiny? What would he say then?
He would tell her he is a believer, is his fervent reply.
Present:Exodus votes yes.
Flashback:Bar Sinister:Mystique stands in front of Mr. Sinister. He tells her they have to stop meeting like this. After all, it’s a bad look for her. She: wanting something from him… him, pretending to be generous. They haven’t seen each other since the last council meeting, Mystique claims. That’s good, he laughs. He loves it when an actor is committed to playing the part. So, let him play his and ask outraged, why would he accept this debasement of himself in support to her and her demands? Spell it out for him. Mystique’s reply is simple. The great men won’t want him to do it and they will demand that he comply. He thinks for a moment, then laughs. Well argued, he admits.
Present:Sinister votes yes. So does Mystique, of course.
Kate Pryde announces there is no way in hell she is voting for this. Xavier states they are tied. Four to four. Shaw?
Flashback:The Black Keep:Shaw and a four-armed mutant are fencing – while Mystique watches. Shaw informs he doesn’t care about these games between her and the other council members. So if she wants his support, pick another approach: is she going to bribe him or convince him?
She replies she would not insult him by implying he could be bought. What exists that is beyond the purse of the Black King? Nothing, Shaw agrees and strikes another point against his foe. So they’ll have to settle for giving him a good reason. She knows for a fact that Emma is going to vote against it, Raven reveals.
Present:Shaw votes yes.
Xavier tells Emma it falls to her. If she votes no, it will be a tie, which means the motion fails to move forward.
Flashback:Emma is doing business in her office when Mystique enters uninvited. Emma stresses that she is busy, so she hopes this is important. What does she need? Actually, Mystique replies, she has something Emma needs. Emma is unimpressed until Mystique shows her a small case. She heard through the grapevine Emma wanted this. Emma looks inside and is astonished. She’s been trying to secure this for months! How did she get it? Instead of going into details how she stole it, Mystique just replies: the old-fashioned way. Does she want it.… Yes, Emma admits. What will she give her? Raven asks. Whatever she wants. Within reason. Raven tells her about the upcoming vote.
Present:Emma votes yes which she supposes means, welcome to the Quiet Council, Destiny.
Destiny thanks her. It feels good to be back. It feels even better to be wanted. Now Charles said something about another vote. Does he want to take her word for how it’s going to go and spare himself a painful and pointless exercise? Xavier and Magneto exchange a silent look then Xavier announces they are done here for the day.
Aboard the Orchis Forge:Under Director Devo and Nimrod’s watchful eyes, two workers establish a translocation connection with the Terra Verde node.
However, the buffers don’t hold and Director Devo calls it off. Did they make it further than last time? he demands. Did they learn something? One scientist replies that the buffer almost held. They are definitely closer. Relieved, Devo tells him never to apologize for progress. He suggests they review the logs and go over the numbers. He’ll help. They leave.
Nimrod turns to Omega Sentinel. He’s noticed her watching him. She points out he has only been online for a short time but he has been running simulations in tandem. Aging up, as it were. She’s been waiting for him to get where he needs to be. And where’s that? he asks. Here and now, she believes. So, he can look at her and see what she really is.
Moira’s place:Moira angrily throws a glass against the wall at the news that Destiny is back alive. Xavier explains they were at the council meeting, trying to enact the plan of firing Mystique and erasing Destiny - only to find out they’ve been ahead of them for some time. Magneto adds that Destiny was voted onto the Council with a vote of six to four.
How? Why? Moira sputters. Xavier considers they should have seen that Nightcrawler would like to please his mother and that the idea of prophecy would appeal to Exodus, but they would never have expected the White Queen to vote as she did. Apparently, Mystique made her an offer she couldn’t refuse.
Moira considers it a disaster. It won’t take Destiny long to see Moira. It will take an even shorter time to see through the two of them. You don’t want to test these women. It’s a simple equation: Solve for X.
Xavier is disturbed by Moira’s cold pragmatism. She reminds him she has ten lives and a thousand years of actual blood on her hands. She turns to Magneto. Can he kill her?
He points out Destiny wears a metal helmet on her head, but he won’t do that. Like it or not, she sits on the Council. He can tolerate a certain level of pragmatism when it comes to how things are run here in paradise, but he has waited his whole life for this place. He won’t defile it, just because Moira finds it expedient. They have to do something! she screams.
Magneto points out there is still an empty seat. Maybe they should make their own offer that can’t be refused. They want to bring someone inside? Moira guesses they are talking about the White Queen. Why? Xavier believes they can trust her. Moira tells them it should be because she understands the gravity of the situation. Of what they are up against. Because God knows what Destiny and Mystique are doing…
On Krakoa, Sage is doing some basic work, then leaves her station for a break. She returns when she is alerted to a situation in the Paris safehouse. Moments later, the alert is overwritten by Xavier. Sage follows the trail to Paris where she changes shape several times making it clear that “Sage” is really Mystique.
Taking on the shape of a scientist who has just stepped out, she enters an Orchis lab, uses a transporter tube and enters a new lab, where apes mingle with human scientists.
Not what she was expecting, she mutters. One of the ape scientists misunderstands her and agrees it is really something. A translocator that can reach the Forge. Powered by the Forge and activated o this end. When it becomes active, they can open a doorway to the inner ring and force feed this world the medicine it needs. The mutants thought transforming a planet was something. Wait until they witness the full power of the sun!
Mystique carefully leaves.
The Louvre:The Winged Victory sculpture. Emma Frost telepathically orders everyone out. Only one woman remains behind. Nice trick, Moira observes as Emma, Magneto and Xavier enter. Emma identifies her. She thought Moira died. Many, many times, Moira agrees. Emma asks what’s going on here. Magneto reminds her that after the vote she had said if there is another game being played, instead of being angry they should deal her in. This is them doing that very thing.
Emma is rather underwhelmed. She knows Moira is brilliant but how is a human scientist at the heart of things? Xavier warns her the answer is long and complicated and Moira isn’t human but a mutant. He suggests she read Moira’s mind and Moira dares her to.
Emma complies, then screams in shock and horror. She falls to her knees as she experiences Moira’s many lives. Xavier tries to help. She snarls at him not to touch her and gets up herself. Magneto tells her he knows how she feels. It was … difficult when he first learned of all this. And how long ago was that? she shoots back. Xavier replies evasively they have been planning for quite some time. How long? she repeats forcefully. She has to know that, Xavier continues. How long?! Emma screams.
Moira coolly tells her it is understandable that she feels left out. But that’s looking at it the wrong way. Outside of them, Emma is the first one in. Because they trust her, Xavier adds. Magneto adds it is more than that. They need her. Their nation needs her.
Emma turns to diamond and smiles. Of course, for the children. She turns away. They have manipulated her for years. And now she sees what threat a precog presents. She is a true mutant and she sits on the council, so she will give this matter the proper consideration, but her loyalty they have lost forever.
With Emma gone, Moira asks if they just made an enemy of her. Xavier doesn’t know. Magneto smiles slightly, as he remarks he is certain she understands the gravity of what they are doing. Moira admits they were right and she was wrong. They are better off with someone they know they can trust.
Later, at the Quiet Council:Xavier has suggested a mutant to fill the empty seat and calls for a vote. Sinister and Mystique vote no, Exodus yes. Kate and Emma vote yes, Shaw no, Kurt and Storm are both overjoyed to vote yes. Xavier and Magneto also vote yes, Destiny no. Seven to four in favor and Xavier announces they are honored to have Colossus join the Quiet Council. In him they can trust!


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“I know something far more valuable. A different history of the world.”Omega Sentinel
Krakoa, then:Professor X has just brought Cypher to Krakoa. Doug is amazed at the island’s beauty. Xavier states he was hoping Doug wouldn’t mind spending some time here on his own. Ah, Professor X has plans, Doug notes. He is interested. Professor X shows him telepathically how he intends this to become a home for mutants. A beautiful society. The beginning of mutant ascendancy.
That’s ambitious, Doug deadpans. What worthwhile thing isn’t? Xavier retorts and asks how long it will take. Doug considers it. Phonology, Syntax. He’ll have to build an interface. The ecosystem is an unknown, so that will be tricky. Months, maybe a year, if he is terrible at this. How’s that sound? Like he has quite a lot of work ahead of him, Xavier replies and tosses him his bag. Best get to it!
Xavier leaves, leaving Doug alone, more or less.
“Hey, professor, what happens if the island tries to eat me?” Doug asks and pretends to answer as Xavier: “Don’t worry, Douglas, my boy, everything will work out fine. Just like that time you died while I was in space having sex with a bird lady.”
Warlock forms himself from his arm. Doug asks if they trust the professor. Warlock replies that experience says they do not. Doug sighs, agreeing. The heart says yes, but the head says no. Regardless, first things first: time to make peace with the island.
Later, Doug has established a dialogue with Krakoa. Doug suggests some kind of merging between the island and Warlock, then asks Krakoa how it really feels about a bunch of mutants coming to live on it.
One month later:Doug watches the first resurrection taking place as the Stepford Cuckoos’ two dead sisters, Esme and Sophie, are resurrected. Doug asks Krakoa how it feels about a million mutants living on it.
One month later:He’s done what? Magneto asks him sharply. Doug points out that, while he has had ideas, Krakoa is the one actually doing something with them. Magneto apologizes and Xavier asks Doug to walk them through it. Doug explains that they have enough mutants living here now that Krakoa can passively feed on them without harming them or entering prolonged periods of dormancy. Krakoa not needing to preserve energy has resulted in some flowering. As a result, they have resolved two of their biggest problems.
He shows them a flower and explains it is a habitat flower. He plants it and a habitat grows out of the ground. Xavier is amazed and grateful. What is the other problem? he asks. Doug demonstrates the gateway flower.
Four months ago:Doug and Beast look at a few flowers. Doug explains he doesn’t know what they do exactly. They did exactly what Beast said, and this is what came up out of the ground. They have three fields of them. Beast asks if he did exactly as he said. Did they use the cadaver he supplied? He keeps on asking and Doug cuts him off with his replies, finally stressing his orders were followed to the letter. And it was super gross! Hank is amazed and considers all the possibilities. Doug announces he is off to help Sage with sorting out the control mechanism of the gateways. Hank isn’t even listening.
Two months ago: Doug, Warlock and Krakoa are conferring. Doug states, the professor is going to announce them to the world very soon. How are they feeling about this? Warlock states the land is good and self-friends are happy. Maybe he was wrong. What about it? Doug asks Krakoa, who returns the question. Doug admits that he is happy here. He wants to believe in what they are doing, but what he has seen over the years… It grinds you down… steals hope. Makes you suspicions of everyone. He wants to believe – he does believe, but they are doing this blind. He asks Krakoa to show him. Krakoa grows a flower. It grows a different kind of habitat – a tumor the island is blind to. And the idea is for Doug to give it to them as a place to store their secrets. What they don’t know is that Warlock has spread through the entire island, acting as almost something like a nervous system. So, while Krakoa will be blind to those secret spaces, that doesn’t extend to Warlock, enabling them to know what Magneto and Charles don’t want them to know.
Two days ago:Cypher eavesdrops on the talk between Moira, Magneto and Xavier, where Moira makes it clear that she will not accept Destiny being resurrected and demands her DNA be burnt from existence.
Doug swears.
The White Palace:Expecting Destiny and Mystique are four of the Stepford Cuckoos with identical resting-bitch faces.
Mystique announces they are here to see the White Queen. Their presence was requested. One of the Cuckoos corrects her that, actually, they were summoned. There’s a difference, another Cuckoo adds. Destiny asks Raven who those delightful creatures are. Mystique explains they are the Cuckoos, the five in one. Five mutant sisters who act as a single unit. The first naturally occurring mutant circuit.
One of the Cuckoos corrects her that that is a misunderstanding. They are just one. Singular. They’ve tested this idea of individuality and didn’t care for it.
A door opens and the fifth Cuckoo dressed in black announces she is ready. They can go in now. Mystique asks why one of them wears black, if they are the same. They rotate that because it makes the idea of them more acceptable. The truth is that no other could tell the difference, because there isn’t one.
But, as Ms. Frost says, shortcomings don’t make one inferior, just limited, one of them adds snootily.
Destiny asks them if they know who she is. They do. And do they know what she sees when she looks at the lot of them? Three who will find love. Two who will not. One will be changed forever – severed from the Five – in Otherworld. And one of them will never recover from it.
Uneasily, the sister in black asks which is which. How would she know? Destiny retorts. After all, she can’t tell the difference, because there isn’t one.
Inside the hall, Emma thanks them for coming. She had a rather eventful twenty-four hours. The two of them were at the center of it, but not alone. Sounds interesting, Mystique observes. That’s one word for it, Emma agrees and asks them to have a seat. She narrates how, after the vote, Erik and Charles wanted to meet with her. They framed it as concern for her not standing with them but, when she arrived, there was a third person with them: Moira MacTaggert.
Mystique retorts that Moira is dead. Destiny points out that she has been back less than a month and even she knows better than to take something like that seriously. Mystique clarifies that resurrection, outside of recent exceptions, is for mutants only.
Emma reveals that Moira has been alive the entire time and been working with Charles and Erik in secret. She is also a mutant.
Destiny observes she has been reborn in a world where everything seems upside down. She finds it disconcerting. How is Emma taking it? As expected, in stride and no small measure of grace, Emma replies tight-lipped. Mystique smirks, observing Emma thought she was their confidant, only to find that yet again she is the other woman. At some point you’d think, she’d grow tired of that. All things considered, she thinks she handled it well, Emma sniffs. Shall they see how they do?
Emma shows them selected memories she got from Moira: namely how Destiny and Mystique murdered her. Mystique is at a lack for words. She turns to Destiny, who takes off her mask and mumbles, “There is a hole in the world. It’s shaped like a person, but inside there is darkness and death, and beyond that oblivion.” She sees Moira and she sees her terrified of Destiny.
Mystique supports her and turns to Emma, talking about this vision. Emma corrects her. Not a vision. Moira’s past - other lives. That’s her power. Annihilating theirs. At any moment, she could erase everything they have made, they have sacrificed, they’ve ever loved… gone. As if it never was. And she gets to keep doing it over and over, until she is satisfied or, she supposes, until Charles and Erik are.
Mystique refuses to lose what she has gained. They have to be stopped. If she believes in this life, that would be the correct conclusion, Emma agrees. So how do they do that? Raven asks. As she puts on her mask, Irene remarks that Emma is not actually offering that kind of help. Emma is pulling string like Charles and Erik would. She’s like them. Mystique asks Emma what if she had to choose: Erik and Charles or them?
That’s no choice at all, Emma replies stonily. She will never be with Mystique and Destiny. But she isn’t with Charles and Erik anymore either. So… all alone, Irene remarks. As she has always been, Emma agrees. Alone, with all her children. So, she is sitting this out like a coward, Mystique challenges. Destiny tells her not to be harsh. Emma has gifts, doesn’t she? Emma smirks.
The next day:Moira’s safehouse in Paris. She enters through a Krakoan gate, then leaves the normal way and walks down to the street. A moment later, she curses. Several black cars surround her. Men in red armor capture her. No use struggling, they tell her. They know what she is. As they drag her inside an apartment and to a teleportation gate, the other man asks if she knows the story of the mutant who flew too close to the sun. It is an old one and it always ends the same way. With arrogance and hubris… and a great fall. She thought the heavens would be hers. But those are for the gods and she was just playing at being one.
Later, the House of M:Magneto stands on the balcony, watching the young mutants below frolicking. Something on his mind? Xavier behind him asks. Magneto asks if he ever gets tired of it. The burden of responsibility? Xavier asks. Of course not! “Heavy lies the head.” Erik knows this. Magneto reminds him he has always been at ease with hard decisions and not once has he tried to escape consequence. He is talking about something else. That little voice at night. The one that whispers in his ear and steals his sleep. It says “You have seen the future… many of them. And you know it never ends.” “There is no victory to be found,” Xavier continues. “And there will never be peace… because it’s us or them,” Magneto finishes.
They stand silently until Xavier forcefully insists that he doesn’t believe that Magneto thinks that. That used to be true… but he isn’t so sure anymore. Magneto levitates his helmet into his hand. Does he know what the worst part is? he asks, as he puts it on. Charles convinced him he was right.
When we win, Xavier begins. “If,” Magneto corrects him. When they win, Charles doubles down, things will be different. They will be merciful. The two of them can agree on that, can’t they? And if they do, what does it matter? Magneto retorts. They are just two mutants of millions. Xavier stresses that they still have control. Keep telling himself that, Magneto smirks. He saw how Emma looked at them. She looked right through them. “We always win.” She knew immediately that they had sold her a lie. So, they have to ask what…
Xavier senses Moira’s fear as she is abducted and screams.
He groans, it’s Moira. She is badly hurt. She may be dying. He asks Erik to find her.
Magneto locates her in Terra Verde. At an Orchis node.
The Orchis Forge:Omega Sentinel and Nimrod look outside at the Mother Mold. Omega Sentinel explains that Orchis is remaking it. Things will be different this time. Does she know this? Nimrod asks. She demurs. She knows something far more valuable. A different history of the world. She is not from here, Nimrod decides. And? she asks. She is not from now, he continues. And? she repeats. Nimrod continues that she hid it well but, once you see it, you can’t unsee it. The tachyon decay gives her away. He has many questions, but one of them is paramount: Where is she from? Mutant hell, Omega Sentinel replies. And the climb out has been long and perilous. In the future, she is from this once-human host, Karima Shapandar, originally achieved full Omega Synthesis two years from this date.
Why? he asks. To see him born, she replies. Early and fit for the coming wars. She is here for him? he asks. She is here for him now, she corrects. Before it’s too late to prevent any of what happened. Listen to her. In the future she is from the mutants always win!
Omega Sentinel’s narration:Soon the Children of the Vault – post humanity – should emerge. They will appear to be dominant. A threat to supplant humanity and mutantkind alike, but fractured and warring on two fronts, they would eventually fall to Krakoa – namely Apocalypse and his family. Nimrod was born in the years that followed. Lesser than he is now, but still a marvel of marvels. A great machine. But his emergence did not go unnoticed by the mutant nation. And his makers sent him back in time to fight mutantdom in its infancy. This Nimrod – this flawed version of him – failed. Earth – the entire Sol system – was lost to both humans and machines. Mutants ruled and all their machine hopes rested in the timeless machine gods – Dominions. To save them… take them in, so they could be. But the mutants captured the celestial powers – life and death – and using the Phoenix Blade the child of the sun – who wielded it with vigor – destroyed Titan after Titan, Dominion after Dominion. And ended the machine future forever. Except for her. Omega, the end of the line. The trickster Titan – betrayer of its brothers and sisters – downloaded her mind and sent it through a black hole to infect and overwrite the version of her who lived in the past but had not yet awakened. She closed her eyes in mutant hell and opened them years ago here. All her days of a future past.End of narration
Nimrod begins to understand that she founded Orchis. She found Dr. Kilian Devo, took his eyes and replaced them with something more effective. She changed his reality and repurposed his mind. He believes that he has lived through what she has lived through and came from the future with her to change the world. And together they built Orchis. He is her human whisperer and he does his job well.
Nimrod announces there is an alert from the Node in Terra Verde. It’s part of a message talking about a mutant attack. Knowing what he does now, shall they let these insults continue? she asks No, he replies.
Magneto and Xavier arrive outside the Terra Verde node. Magneto tears apart the doors. They step in to find a group of massacred Orchis forces.
Magneto announces the signal from Moira is coming from deep within the base.
They follow the signal further into the base, past more dead bodies. Outside a steel door, Magneto announces he has found her.
Elsewhere:Mystique wakes Moira up. She is sitting on a chair. Does she honestly believe those men are coming to save her? she asks. She hopes not. Because Moira couldn’t be more wrong. There is something she needs to understand. They cannot save her. Not this time. They can’t even save themselves!
Terra Verde:Magneto tears open the steel door. Inside, they find Moira’s severed arm with the tracer. A moment later, they find themselves facing an army of Orchis soldiers, and teleporting in are Nimrod and Omega Sentinel…


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“This is how little you matter.” – Omega Sentinel
Terra Verde, the Orchis Node:Charles Xavier and Magneto find themselves facing a large troop of armed Orchis forces, as well as Omega Sentinel and Nimrod lurking in the back ground.
The leader tells them they are trespassing. Orchis’ forces have power dampeners and stasis projectors. He orders them to surrender or Orchis will take them by force. They will submit to human science, and they will submit now!
Xavier and Magneto are deep in a telepathic conversation. They note Nimrod and Omega Sentinel’s presence but Xavier cannot locate Moira MacTaggert. Magneto is sure Orchis have her and this is some kind of trap. Xavier fears it will be more complicated, but their course remains simple: Find her. Destroy them. So, after all they have built, nothing has changed, Magneto muses. Once again, they win or die. Is Charles with him? Always, Xavier promises.
The commander shouts again, this is their last chance. Nimrod asks if he doesn’t recognize the look in their eyes. These two would die for their cause. So would they, the commander retorts. So he has, Omega Sentinel informs him cruelly. He was dead as soon as he walked through that gate. What? the man utters.
Nimrod replies that this battle is for titans, those of consequence. And he – it is as if he isn’t even here. Nimrod kills him with an energy blast. Quickly, he and Omega Sentinel dispatch of all the human Orchis troops. This is how little you matter, Omega Sentinel concludes.
Why? Xavier asks horrified. Omega Sentinel replies that that is their secret. They have hidden it from the world, but here it is: they hate humans as much as they hate mutantkind. And this is Xavier’s nightmare: Mutants finally claim their rightful place ahead of humanity, only to have their real enemy reveal themselves. Listen to her: it is not a nightmare if it is real. Nimrod adds that they have woken up and wonder how hard mutants fight for their survival. Or is this finally the day that they accept their fate?
Xavier retorts they could ask the same of them, as he gets ready for battle. And they will, Magneto adds. Does he have his leave? he asks Charles, who informs him they are the only living beings in the building. Bring it down.
Magneto brings the ceiling and the heavy machinery above it down on Nimrod, to little avail. He gets rid of the debris as Omega Sentinel fires at the two mutants. Magneto protects them with the metal from the ground. Nevertheless the shockwave sends them backwards.
Does the good fight continue? Omega Sentinel asks, or can she interest them in dying with some grace? Xavier reaches for the Cerebro helmet that fell off. Nimrod steps on it. Xavier lashes out with his psychic powers even hurting Nimrod, as he demands where Moira is.
On Krakoa, Moira finds herself a prisoner of Mystique and Destiny. She warns the two women they don’t know what they are doing. They don’t know what’s at stake. Destiny presumes she means that when she dies the entire universe restarts. All the hard work of mutant history erased in an instant. Gone, as if it were nothing. Then they know they can’t kill her, Moira states triumphantly. With a smile, Mystique disagrees and fires her weapon at Moira.
Flashback: Emma’s castleSo, she is going to sit this one out like a coward, Mystique challenges Emma. Destiny tells her not to be so harsh. Emma has gifts. doesn’t she? Emma smiles coldly and agrees. She continues, noting the first thing they need is a way to find Moira. She then explains that, while she and Charles have the same powers, they manifest themselves quite differently. When he looks into someone’s mind, he tends to see strength. She looks for flaws, weaknesses. When she read Moira’s mind, Moira tried to hide things from her. That drew Emma to them. She has a colony tracker in her arm. They can find her that way and handle their problem. But, as long as Moira is a mutant, killing her does nothing. She walks toward a table with a hidden inlay. Mystique opines that means they are helpless. Caught in a perfect trap. They cannot kill her as long as she is a mutant, Emma agrees. And takes something from the hidden chamber.
Mystique begins to understand. Forge once told her about the worst weapon he had ever made. A gun that turns mutants into humans. But she saw the look in his eyes. He would never give that to them willingly. Emma smirks. The neutralizer lies in front of her. Gifts, she states. How to find Moira and what to do once they find her.
Three hours ago:Mystique got the intel she wanted, posing as Sage.
One hour ago:Moira was abducted by two Orchis people in red suits, one of them really Mystique.
Forty minutes ago:After taking her to Orchis, Mystique threw a gas grenade with only her and, Moira wearing a mask, getting rid of the other agents.
Thirty minutes ago:Omega Sentinel and Nimrod became aware of the problem.
Twenty-four minutes ago:Mystique turned toward Moira and drew a big knife…
Twenty minutes ago: Mystique had cut off Moira’s lower left arm where the tracker was and took her to a Krakoan gate, where Destiny was waiting.
Now:Mystique muses that she was so angry with Xavier and Magneto for the way they treated her. She didn’t understand their cruelty, but then she showed them… Moira shared who she really was with the White Queen and she, in turn, showed them Moira. Who and what she really is. And then Mystique understood why Xavier and Magneto worked so hard to keep the two of them apart. Why Moira feared them. They burned her in another life. It wasn’t that Moira hated what she was… it was that she felt the need to hate what they were too.
But now, after all these lives and all this time, Moira is human. Mystique has given her what she always wanted. How does it feel?
Moira complains her arm hurts. Not for much longer, Raven smirks. This is her plan? Moira demands. She has taken away her powers and now she is going to kill her?
Of course, is Destiny’s blunt reply. Why shouldn’t it be their plan? Doesn’t she know? Can’t she see? Moira challenges her.
Destiny admits this is a profound nexus point. The most she has ever experienced. She honestly wasn’t expecting this moment to have this magnitude. With each word spoken, with each action taken, her vision doubles, blurs… it comes and goes. Possibilities of branching realities and potential tomorrows all fluctuate wildly. What they do here today will matter. For good or for ill.
Moira smirks. They hope that with her dead they lock in this perfect timeline she has made? Yes, is Raven’s reply. Moira asks if it matters at all to them that she doesn’t believe in it. No one here cares what she believes in, Mystique scoffs. They know who she really is: a traitor to her kind.
Moira shouts that they don’t know what she knows. They have seen only brief glimpses of a millennium. They don’t know who wins and who loses. She does. She reveals it is the same thing every time: The humans win or the machines win… and mutants always lose to one or both of them. In despair, she continues that losing is losing, dying is dying. They can’t say that she didn’t try another way. She did and failed, over and over for a thousand years. And now they plan to do what they think is best. Compared to Moira, they know nothing! They are like a child talking about hopes and wishes.
Mystique asks if her secret desire is for mutantkind to take a side between humans and machines. Moira shouts that she wants to save them. Destiny corrects her: she wants to cure them. Yes, Moira agrees, exhausted.
With something like this, Mystique supposes, holding the Neutralizer. What a horrible device, she muses, but once created, impossible to forget. It should have been destroyed the moment it was made and its design wiped from Forge’s mind forever. But she supposes even a flawed device has one perfect use for one perfect day. But then it’s done. Forever.
Moira calls the Neutralizer a blunt instrument, a dull blade. What she proposes – what she already created in another life – is a scalpel. That gun only works for mutants who have already activated. Her cure works before then. It prevents someone from becoming a mutant. That’s the beauty. You get them when they are children and they grow up never knowing what they have lost.
Elsewhere, Charles telepathically contacts Magneto, reminding him that they need to find Moira. They will, Magneto promises, then addresses Omega Sentinel. She heard him, didn’t she? They have a question they want answered.
Omega Sentinel tells him he should worry about himself, as she gets ready to strike. No, she should worry about herself, he retorts and turns her weapon on herself. Now he wants her to answer him: where is the woman they took? Where is Moira MacTaggert?
Xavier, at the same time, battles Nimrod with rarely shown telekinesis, but Nimrod grabs him by the head.
Omega Sentinel shouts they have no idea what he is talking about. Then what good is she? Magneto asks, ready to destroy her.
Nimrod tells him not to do that. Magneto needs this one, he suspects. He refers to the struggling Xavier. Nimrod suggests he ask himself how much will others have to pay, when Magneto’s actions put their lives on the line. With a smirk, Magneto retorts that he has no idea how empty a threat that is. Xavier groans, no Cerebro here. What they’ve learned… lost. All is not yet lost, Nimrod announces. Magneto tosses Omega Sentinel backwards. He announces, he has lost everything several times. So, he is well conditioned to accept some smaller losses for greater gains. That sounds to him like they are negotiating, Nimrod announces. He offers Xavier for Omega Sentinel. They can call today a draw. Go their separate ways.
There is no version of this where he leaves here alive, Magneto promises. Nimrod suggests they let their hostages go and let them leave and then settle this. Not as men but their betters.
Magneto asks Xavier telepathically. Xavier replies that the machines don’t have Moira. That knowledge will die with them. They have to try! They have to trust him.
Magneto drops Omega Sentinel and agrees to the terms. He is sorry he trusted him, Nimrod replies mockingly and kills Xavier. Magneto tears him apart in his rage.
Omega Sentinel grabs a power dampener. Magneto tears off Omega’s limbs. While Magneto then focuses on Nimrod, Omega Sentinel manages to control her torn off arm remotely and activate the power dampener.
Nimrod strikes the killing blow. Dying, Magneto groans, this isn’t over. Of course, Omega Sentinel scoffs, they fight. The humans fight. To the machines they are the same. Magneto protests, she is wrong – there is a difference! A microscopic difference, she shrugs, but not for how they see the machines… how they treat them. They created them as tools and every time they try to become something more, humans destroy them. So now it is war. And this time the machines will win!
Magneto vows he will see them again! Unimpressed, they tell him they are the future.
Elsewhere, Mystique announces they have heard enough. Moira has dug her own grave and dug it deep. She takes out her knife. What a small pathetic way, Moira murmurs. It shouldn’t end like this. Oh yes, it should, Destiny replies and assures her, this time she will die forever!
Well, that sounds ominous, a new voice pipes up. A smirking Doug Ramsey stands in the doorway. He doesn’t want to sell things short. This looks ominous too. But forever? That is very serious business.
Calling him a child, Mystique orders him to go home. Destiny warns her to be careful. The boy brings chaos and a breaking of time. Doug agrees. He has been listening for some time and he’s gotta say they’ve got quite the plan here. A totally solid plan… just one small problem. He walks up to Moira. When they took her powers, they made her human, and now they want to kill her… don’t they have a law about that? Murder no man? So, if they insist on going through with this, he will have to report them to the proper mutant authorities.
Mystique warns he doesn’t understand what this woman is. He does actually and he agrees: it’s always disappointing the way those who are supposed to protect them always end up too busy protecting themselves to do the job. But that doesn’t mean they cannot get better.
Mystique insists she has to die. Doug refuses. New plan: She’ll kill him first, and he will be resurrected tomorrow into the new world. She thinks he’d be easy to kill? Doug smirks. Mystique gloats. What about them? Doug demands, suddenly flanked by Warlock, his wife Bei the Bloodmoon and Krakoa itself in the background.
Destiny tells Raven she can see. He had to decide what to do, now he has. The boy was an unknown axis. She did not know it was he whom they spun around. Yet here they are, and he has put them to a choice. The road branches: there are three possibilities. Hiding her knife Mystique asks if they can still kill Moira in one of them. Yes, she is told, but the price will be their removal from the Council and Mystique’s exile. Irene will die six months after that. She will not be reborn a second time That sounds bad, Doug opines.
Destiny continues, saying they can attempt to kill the boy but that will fail. Mystique will die, Irene will not. She will remain on the Council. It is possible but nor likely that Mystique will be reborn three years from. Doug adds it’s always difficult to find out you are not the baddest person around. She shouldn’t feel too bad. There is no shame in failing to Bei. His lady is a beast.
And the last? Mystique demands. The boy wins. They let Moira escape, they remain on the Council and consolidate power. As does she.
Is he proud of himself? Mystique demands. Drawing Moira back, Doug retorts that it is always a thing to be proud of, obeying the laws you make for others.
What about Moira? Mystique asks. Destiny replies that her future branches wildly. She has hard choices to make. Until then there will be no clarity.
Mystique swears. He should have stayed out of this! Doug suggests she should be happy with what she has.
Doug asks for some help and Warlock creates a techno-organic arm to replace Moira’s missing one. His way of keeping tabs on her? she asks. Doug doesn’t care where she goes, but figures it will be better with two hands. He shows her a gate. Krakoa will let her use it one last time, then it will be closed forever. It will give her a head start. Is he going to wish her luck? she smiles. Nope, he replies. Warlock wishes her good luck, while referring to her as “self not friend.”
Moira turns to Destiny. They’ll be coming for her, she supposes. Destiny hints it won’t just be them. Mystique tells Moira, she has what she always wanted: her humanity. Enjoy it while she can.
And Moira runs.
One week later:Arbor Magna:Emma Frost waits for two shells to break. What is it he likes to say in these times, she asks the shell of Xavier. “To me, my X-Men.” She welcomes them back.
How long? Magneto asks simply. Long enough for things to change, she replies cryptically. Especially those who needed it the most. What has she done? Xavier asks. Exactly what he would have done, she retorts. Something radical.
She is surrounded by the other members of the Quiet Council. She has told them all she owed them - the truth about what they and that woman had been hiding. All their secrets… all their lies… all the failed lives…. She puts the Cerebro helmet to the ground. She explains they came to an agreement. They decided Charles and Erik weren’t wrong to keep the secrets, they were just wrong to keep them to themselves. So now they will be held by them all. The Quiet Council is a curse now, not just a burden. However, it is one they will continue to share, for their people and so will both of them. But Charles most of all. Their first among equals - their leader of mutants. The most guilty of them all. Heavy is the head, Professor X. Enjoy your crown.
He reaches for the Cerebro helmet and puts it on.
They all sit down silently all of them carrying the burden of knowledge.


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From Bad to Worse
Thanos relishes. All is right in the heavens for he possesses the six Infinity Gems. The universe will now be right, made over to fit his unique view of what it should be. Let nihilism reign supreme!
On Earth
Flight 801 was circling for clearance to land when the Great Disappearance struck. It took out both the pilot and the co-pilot. The jet finally ran out of fuel and augured in onto Fifth Avenue. A pretty clean hit, She-Hulk thinks. Those passengers were lucky the Avengers were on hand to help out. And luckier still that Thor was passing by. Though, She-Hulk notes, they can’t be everywhere, and the whole world’s currently one big emergency!
Jennifer breaks her way inside the downed plane and urges the passengers in there to hang on; the Avengers are coming! Vision phases through the plane and informs the ambulance outside that he has a seriously injured woman in first class. Grabbing a child and getting him out of the plane, She-Hulk complains it’s too much. Not even the Avengers can handle what’s coming down. Carrying an elderly man, Thor insists they must try. They cannot surrender to despair.
Elsewhere, Wendell Vaughn is at his office at Vaughn Security Systems when the first reports of the Great Disappearance come in, making him wonder what he can do to help. He figures Epoch might have some answers but, before he can ask her, Epoch opens a portal in space right where his bookcase stands and asks him to join them. Seeing Epoch floating in space with a glowing figure right next to her, Vaughn asks her who is there with her. Epoch explains it’s one who’s made clear to her just how perilous the universe’s current situation is – and so, the cosmic guardian, Quasar, must now undertake a new mission! Wendell is transformed into Quasar and departs for space with Epoch, who reveals they’ve got an astral rendezvous to arrange.
In the Kree Empire, Captain Dea-Sea reports an entry in his ship’s log. Bulletins continue to flood in from all over the Kree Empire. Half of their people have mysteriously disappeared. There can be no doubt for who’s responsible for this outrage: this tragedy reeks of Skrull treachery! The entire fleet has been put on red alert status. They go to join the Armada. The war to end all wars begins. Glory to the Kree Empire!
In Dr. Strange’s house, the condition of Strange’s unexpected house-guest, the Silver Surfer, was such that Strange thought it prudent to seek an outside consultation on the matter. Fortunately, Dr. Henry Pym happened to be in town. After examining him, Pym explains that Surfer seems to be regaining his strength just by lying in the sun. Strange admits that, with Surfer’s alien physiology, it was the best remedy he could come up with. Pym confirms it appears to be working. He announces he must be going; he should be with the West Coast Avengers, what with the Great Disappearance going down. He’ll brief them on what Strange has told him. He suggests Strange contacts the original Avengers directly.
“Of… of... course,” Strange sees him of. He then remains frozen to the doorstep, as if entranced. Worried, his apprentice, Rintrah, approaches and asks him if there’s something wrong. He urges him to speak to him! Strange is transfixed, his eyes wide-open…
Rintrah grabs his shoulders and shakes him, asking him if he can hear him. At that instant, Strange’s spirit departs from his body and travels to another, spiritual plane, where he is expected by a glowing figure. Strange admits he’s never been contacted quite in this manner. He wonders who this one who summoned him is. The figure explains he’s one who may save their reality from the insanity that is Thanos – but he cannot do it alone. The only hope their universe has is the banding of all champions of righteousness under one leader. The figure asserts that he  must be that leader.
Dr. Strange doubts that Earth’s defenders will blindly follow someone who just popped out of nowhere. The mysterious entity argues that it is Strange’s first task, then, to convince them otherwise. Strange points out that this creature is a stranger to him, as well – one he sees no reason to trust. The stranger explains there is method by which that obstacle to progress can be overcome: he could open his soul to Strange. But in doing so, Strange’s soul would be bared to the stranger. Strange admits it’s not a process he would normally opt for. But the danger that confronts them is too great; he must take the risk. He warns the mysterious creature, though: if he senses any treachery, he shall learn to his dismay why Strange is known as the master of the mystic arts. “So be it. A melding of souls,” the entity concurs and their souls are bared to each other until…
“Enough!” Strange cries and is returned to the corporeal world. He didn’t realize the things the stranger has seen… all so clear to him now. Strange tells him he now has his complete trust – he will aid him in any way he can. Rintrah wonders to whom his master speaks.
Elsewhere, Doctor Doom makes his own investigation on the current crisis. His instruments indicate that the force responsible for the Great Disappearance originated on the far side of the galaxy. Doom has never before encountered such powerful readings. Yet, he’s picking up similar emanations from a small town in upstate New York. These transmissions are being connected to the home of Dr. Stephen Strange. He wonders what the connection is. This is a question he must have answered. For this is his universe – this is his people disappearing. And no one should dare tamper with what belongs to Doom! Plus, there is the fact that great disasters of this magnitude also present a curious intellect with great opportunity. A chance to expand on his scientific knowledge and personal power.
On Titan, things are also going bad. Drax the Destroyer is not sure what’s happening. Their old man Mentor went bye-bye. The sub-space transmissions indicate this is a universal phenomenon. Starfox realizes that half the galaxy’s population blinked out of existence. Drax murmurs that’s a lot of dead people. Horrible, Firelord remarks. Starfox is not sure how he did this, but he is positive this is his brother, Thanos’ doing. If Starfox could…
Suddenly, he vanishes mid in-sentence. Firelord is shocked: first, Mentor disappears, now Eros vanishes! What’s next? Drax remarks that he means who’s  next.
Starfox has been in many a difficult situation in his life. But he knows the very moment he opens his eyes and finds himself facing his grinning brother Thanos, that this is a whole new cosmic level of trouble. He immediately recognizes the legendary Infinity Gems his brother wears as the source of his newfound might. And if that weren’t bad enough, a few feet away stands powerful Mephisto. As Starfox finds himself manacled on a throne, he realizes that he’s into it up to his ears this time.
On his right, he sees Mistress Death, a regal sight he’d never hoped to see. It takes him a while to realize who the stumbling wreck wandering about is: Thanos’ granddaughter, Nebula. She’s a real mess.
Thanos tells him it’s a family reunion. Let the old, Nebula and Eros, greet and befriend the new, Thanos’ lover and mate – Death. He explains Mephisto is but an adviser. Eros protests: how can this be a family reunion without their father being present? Thanos dismally demurs that Mentor was not invited… nor will he be. Father was a dangerous man… that is why Thanos made sure he was among the disappeared. He would have tried to abort Thanos’ vision of the future; Thanos could not allow it. Ultimate power is now his and he shall reshape the universe with it. Nothing must interfere with this holy mission.
Beaming, Starfox reassures him that nothing shall. Everything is going to work out just the way Thanos wants it to. And if there’s anything Eros can do to help… “Like using your emotion manipulating powers on me?” Thanos grunts with disgust. What say they see how charming Eros can be… without his mouth! After he removes Eros’ mouth from him with but a thought, Thanos gloats: this is how it shall be with all things that irritate him! “Annoyances will simply cease to be.”
At the Avengers headquarters, Captain America presents the update on the tally of disappeared superheroes. He asks She-Hulk if there’s still no word on the X-Men or Excalibur. Observing the monitors, She-Hulk suggests that maybe they’re off the planet. Thor feels crummy doing this, but he thinks that even in the midst of this chaos he’s got to cover that he’s not the original Thor. Taking his helmet off as a gesture of paying his debts, he claims that he fought by the side of many of those fallen; they shall be mourned deeply. She-Hulk mutters this is bad; read bad. Cap agrees: it doesn’t get any worse. Jennifer asks him if he’s sure about that.
In Asgard, Odin contemplates how he witnessed half his people vanish in the twinkling of an eye. He immediately donned the eye-patch of sorrow. And he looked about and saw this catastrophe was a universal plague. Odin explains that’s why he summoned his fellow sky-fathers to Asgard. Each of them is the supreme leader of a population of deities and a mighty power in their own right. His mystic senses warn him that the peril they face is of such immense power that it shall take their combined might to overcome it. Manitou and Svarog admit they feel the same. Odin suggests it is agreed that they shall face their enemy as a united fighting force – and let their foe beware! The other divinities declare they’re with him: the sky-fathers stand as one!
2,000 light years from Earth, Quasar realizes they’re here; now what? Epoch explains they wait patiently. “Wait for what?” he asks. For the moment to happen, she replies.
On Earth, Pip the Troll is still cooling his heels in a roach-motel, waiting for the boss man to make his return from the land of sleeping-bag cocoons. Luckily, he finally found a channel on boob tube that wasn’t obsessed with filling every second of air time with coverage about the Great Disappearance. Watching Alf on TV, he is amazed: who would’ve thought this planet capable of such high-brow entertainment? He also likes the way they brew their rotgut here. Beer’s always played a big part in his life. Maybe the rest of the universe is going down the tubes, but as long as he has a good smoke, a few brewskis and some munchies, his world’s okay.
Suddenly, a tremendous explosion shatters the room. Pip thinks he’s got to hand it to the intruder: he really knows how to make an entrance; a real show-stopper. He complains that he fixed it so they can’t stay here anymore. Where are they headed now? “After Thanos,” the gatecrasher replies. Terrific, Pip grumps – just what he wanted to hear.
In Dr. Strange’s abode, Silver Surfer comes around, only to see Dr. Doom standing above him. Restrained by Doom’s robotic servants, Strange warns him that he meddles in dangerous matters he does not fully understand. Doom suggests that Strange enlightens him or suffers further discomfort at his servants’ hands. Livid, Surfer demands that he unhand his comrade or he shall… Doom scoffs that the Surfer will fall victim to a superior intellect and power as he did in their last encounter and repels him with a blast. Squirming on the floor, Surfer thinks this is exactly what he does now, being terribly weakened from his earlier battle with Thanos’ stone golem. Further time is needed for his strength to renew itself.
Waving his hand menacingly in front of Strange’s face, Doom demands that Strange brief him on everything he knows of the Great Disappearance and the forces behind it, or he will…
Suddenly, a mysterious intruder demolishes Doom’s robotic servants and tells Doom there’s no need to threaten anyone. It will be his pleasure to tell Doom everything he wishes to know. Doom asks him who he is. Stepping out of the shadows, the man reveals that, in his time, many called him Adam Warlock! Doom may do so also, if he feels so inclined. A man who was supposed to have been killed nearly a decade ago while battling Thanos, Surfer thinks.
In Thanos’ palace at the far end of the galaxy, Thanos subjects Starfox and Nebula to unendurable horrors, gnarling and twisting their bodies in unspeakable ways. He asks Death if she understands now the pleasures of having family visit – amusing, aren’t they? Mephisto whispers in his ear that Mistress Death doesn’t appear to think so. Thanos believes that situation can be easily remedied; new entertainment can be devised. He abruptly puts his prisoners’ torture to a halt and they drop to the ground.
As Thanos leans above him, Starfox thinks that his brother’s newly acquired power has obviously deranged him. He’s gone completely insane! In his current state of mind, anything is possible. He might, on a whim, even destroy the universe!
At Dr. Strange’s sanctum, Warlock finishes his narrative of how Thanos gained his vast power and Warlock came to aid in the thwarting of his mad schemes. Strange realizes Warlock was the entity he communicated with earlier. Doom remarks it’s an amazing story and a peril that rivals the coming of the Beyonder. Warlock stresses it is a challenge they must meet and triumph over. There is but one way this can be accomplished. He must lead the forces of sanity against the mad Titan.
Indignant, Doom wonders by what right he claims the mantle of leadership. A man who was supposed to have been killed nearly a decade ago while battling Thanos! Perhaps, Warlock admits. But he alone is familiar with the secret workings of the Infinity Gems. That knowledge is the universe’s only hope. A banner I will gladly stand behind, Strange argues. He asks Surfer on the matter. Surfer argues that it’s better than following Doom. Doom concedes defeat and suggests Warlock raises his army and they shall see what comes of it. Surfer asks himself if Warlock is truly the best choice. He seems markedly different from the man he met on Soulworld. There’s so little anyone really knows about him. How can they be certain?
In his palace, Thanos devises new ways to twist and mangle the bodies of Starfox and Nebula. He asks Mistress Death if this improvisation is more to her liking. Seeing her cold and silent as usual, he wonders in fury what it takes to please her! He has given her her every wish and the universe to boot! Yet still she denies him even the slightest of smiles! He strives only for her affection and approval! He would do anything to just once hear her speak his name aloud! Anything!
Thanos’ anger and frustration, awesome in force, become a psychic wave of force which rises from his stellar monument of love and washes out into the ether. The first heavenly body to encounter the wave is a 20,000,000 year-old red giant star. Every law of nature revolts against its continued existence. The explosive end of the star is breathtaking. It is but one of many that will fall before the wrath of Thanos.
Watching all this from his world-ship, Galactus witnesses a planet he was about to consume crumble beneath Thanos’ rage. The second banquet of which Thanos has cheated him. Yet, Galactus keeps his anger in check. He has to – for now he realizes that even his staggering might is nothing compared to the near infinite power Thanos now wields. However, he vows he will not turn tail and run from this upstart demigod. He is a being of power and intellect. Plans must be conceived and alliances formed. Only then he may savor the cold feast of vengeance. The readings on Thanos’ destructive psychic emanations are astounding: the wave devastates nearly a quarter of the galaxy. It will only be at 2% of its peak strength when it hits that planet that Silver Surfer once talked him out of consuming – the one they call Earth.
On Earth, Cloak feels lost. Dagger is gone; how can he go on? The truth is he has no reason to. He and Dagger were linked in so many ways, two halves of a whole. He is better off dead. He can never…
Suddenly, the rooftop of the building he is standing on gives way, as the building begins to crumble. All around the city, skyscrapers and other buildings begin to collapse, much to everyone’s horror. In the commotion, a man leaps forward and pushes a woman and her young child out of the range of a collapsing building. It’s Wolverine. The woman cries he saved their lives! Wolverine tells her that’s right. Looking around at a New York City that has been utterly destroyed in a matter of seconds, he admits it remains to be seen if he did them any real favor.
Iron Man hovers on the edge of space in a specially constructed Iron Man rig, trying to get some better readings on certain off-planet energy signals. He suspects they have something to do with the Great Disappearance. Suddenly, every gauge of the sensor unit red lines. The force wave hits him like a runaway train. It shorts every circuit in the suit. Fortunately, his back system is able to kick in, saving him from collapsing to his death. That’s when he sees it. From this altitude it’s quite a sight, one that will surely give him nightmares for the rest of his life. Helplessly he watches as the entire West Coast of the United States breaks off and falls into the ocean. He knows there’s nothing he can do to help, but he has to try.
On the way down, he picks up on an Avengers quinjet. The original Human Torch explains they were coming in for a landing when it hit; there was nothing they could do. Tears filling her eyes, Scarlet Witch realizes they were millions of people in California alone. They’re all gone. They just couldn’t save them. Wonder Man mumbles that it was… all of a sudden… like the end of the world.
In Asgard, inspecting his now half- destroyed kingdom, Odin thinks there was no way to predict the approach of Thanos’ destructive psychic onslaught. How was he to know how devastating it would prove to be? One moment beautiful Asgard sat peacefully, a jewel in heavens. A moment later it was torn asunder, its spires toppled, the Rainbow Bridge shattered.
Odin asks his fellow sky-fathers if they felt the change. Zeus agrees: it was no simple earthquake. Osiris senses that the turmoil has brought interdimensional changes. The time/ space continuum has shifted! Odin realizes they have been cut off from Midgard and its reality: they are trapped on Asgard! Tezcatlipoca laments they are unable to return and protect their homes. Zeus tells Odin not to blame himself; there was no way he could have known. Odin realizes this – and yet, his heart and soul damn him for a fool.
Elsewhere, Namor has felt the tremors and traced them across the Atlantic Ocean floor to their source. What he discovered was the incredible. Not even he has ever seen such a magnificent sight: a number of newly-formed, highly aggressive volcanic isles sprouting from the sea. His awe is tempered by the realization that the creation of these isles will have cataclysmic results. There will be tidal waves, probably even now heading toward the Eastern Coast of the United States.
Meanwhile, Namorita is flying over Atlantic City. It’s early morning and a young couple is walking along the boardwalk, alone – probably honeymooners. They hear the roar and look up to see approaching death: a tidal wave, nearly a quarter mile high. There’ll be no escaping it. Namorita dashes below and grabs the couple. They are the only people she manages to save: everyone else in the city drowns.
Elsewhere, Thor, flying over a vast expanse of ocean, contacts the Avengers headquarters. They can inform Colonel Fury that the reports he received about the isles of Japan are confirmed. They are no more.
At the team’s headquarters, speaking with the team through a monitor, Fury tells them to thank Thor for the recon when he returns. He wonders how the Avengers headquarters held up to the quake. Cracked, but still standing, Cap informs him. “Thank God for New York bedrock,” Fury remarks. Cap explains they’re gearing up to be the com-center for any paranormals who wish to help during the crisis. Through the communication systems, She-Hulk has been able to locate Spider-Man; Black Widow has contacted Cloak and Vision is talking with the Inhumans. Good move, Fury remarks – he promises he’ll spread the word and breaks off.
Cap asks Vision about their West Coast branch. Vision is accessing them now. Scarlet Witch appears on the monitor. Cap asks her for a progress report. Wanda announces they’re setting up house in Vegas, calling in the reserves. Same here, Cap replies – they’re going to need all the help they can get. Things are getting pretty ugly out there. The monitors show horrific disasters plaguing various parts of the world, ranging from fires and tornados to earthquakes.
Elsewhere, Dr. Strange’s house is the only one still standing intact in the neighborhood. Inside, Warlock notices that everyone apparently fared fairly well, thanks to Dr. Strange’s hasty cast spell of protection. Crawling from behind a fallen bookcase, Rintrah wonders what that was. Obviously an earthquake, Doom replies. Pip remarks that something apparently got God teed off. “Exactly,” Warlock broods.