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Long Live the King!
Unknown Earth
Genosha
A celebratory parade runs through the middle of the city, with its leader, Magneto, riding a hovership above the crowd of cheering mutants. Alongside him on the upper deck are his daughters Wanda and Lorna as well as his wife, Moira MacTaggert. On the lower floor stand members of his triumphant X-Men, with their latest conquest, the decapitated remains of Wolverine, bolted to the front of the ship. For added emphasis, Sabretooth stands up front grasping a spear adorned with Wolverine’s head.
The Exiles take all this in from afar. Seeing as how they just learned their mission was to help Wolverine overthrow Magneto they aren’t too happy. Panther jokes that they’re supposed to throw Wolvie’s head at Mags. As he was a dear friend on her homeworld Polaris isn’t happy with the remark. Beast tries calming her down, but she says her Wolverine met the exact same fate, his head jammed on a pike. Panther apologizes.
Blink isn’t caught up in all the nonsense. Instead she takes control and tells the group their next goal should be to gain access to the palace and try and gather intel on Magneto and why he’s such a threat. She hopes the Tallus will fill them in with more details along the way.
Arms folded across his chest in annoyance, Forge asks Blink who made her team leader. Apologizing, Blink asserts she was only saying what she thought was obvious. With that said, Panther casts a leadership vote for Blink, which is followed by Beast who agrees the plan sounds good.
With no further objections Forge starts fiddling with his tech. He informs his teammates he can hack into any database, but thinks they need to get a handle on the people Magneto’s with and asks if anyone among them is stealthy. The Panther offers himself to take that position.
The Exiles make their way to the outer limits of the city. As soon as they emerge from the forest Forge registers an incoming object from the north coming in fast. Overhead a nuclear missile can be seen dodging sky mines, altering its course on a dime when needed. Polaris attempts to get a hold of the weapon, but a force field prevents her from doing so. Forge can only stare transfixed, figuring that’s what the makers had in mind if they wanted it to take care of Magneto.
The citizens begin to scatter, but it appears Magneto has other resources at hand. Sauron appears against the backdrop of the sky and heads straight for the nuclear projectile. The green-skinned mutant latches on to the missile and starts to tear away at the organic shell surrounding it. As he takes in the sustenance of the shell’s life force the metallic casing is finally exposed. Sauron radios Magneto with his progress and the erstwhile leader uses his powers to detonate the weapon midair. Magneto thanks his old friend for his sacrifice.
Still hovering above the city streets Magneto tells his people he asks nothing of them he wouldn’t do himself. His daughter Polaris casually mentions that she disabled the detonator on it. Not to be outdone, Wanda adds that she rendered the plutonium inert. Moira, obviously used to this, tells the girls to can it. Magneto doesn’t skip a beat, though, shouting that the humans thought him vulnerable during the celebration, proclaiming their attack has made their achievements that much greater.
The gears begin to turn for the quasi-leader Blink. She eyes up her teammates Polaris and the Witch believing they should come in handy considering how important their counterparts are in this reality.
A mutant with red skin and pointed ears spies Forge standing in the reformed crowd. He shouts out, “It’s the Weaponmaster--right here in our land!” Beast moves quickly and wraps his hand around the guy’s mouth, but it’s too late as a security officer, Maggott, cocks his shotgun and points it at Forge. He orders the very shocked Exile to the ground. Thinking quickly, Polaris tells Maggott to put his weapon away, using her magnetic prowess to seize the gun and crumple it.
Maggott apologizes profusely saying he didn’t see the two princesses standing there. He’s a bit surprised to see the two of them together, hinting at a non-friendly relationship between the two. Trying to get out of the awkward moment Polaris orders the security officer off to the side to discuss what’s being said about the royal family. Meanwhile, down in an alley not far away, Beast is busy smashing the red-skinned mutant from earlier into the stone wall.
Southwest Quadrant, Guardsmen Station
Forge goes about doing what he does best, taking a seat at a computer and removing a cable hook-up from his wrist and connecting it to the computer station. Blink asks if he can access the database. Easily, Forge responds, a coy smile on his face. He tells Blink he needs her to block his view for half a minute while he gets down to business.
Forge data log, Entry X-1-A
From what Forge can glean from the database Charles Xavier and Eric Magnus were friends who shared the same goals of bringing mutants under their protection and tutelage, and though they differed on methodology, Xavier’s goal of coexistence was the one they followed.
Most mutants who would have been Brotherhood, Hellfire Club or Morlock material became X-Men, though it wasn’t always an easy alliance. The X-Men mostly dealt with mutant problems and didn’t really integrate themselves with the rest of the world’s heroes. Eventually, a few bad apples spoiled the bunch and the X-Men were feared by the human populace.
They were feared enough that anti-mutant forces in the government created Sentinels, with one finally achieving their long-planned goal of killing Xavier. After that, battles happened more frequently with the regular heroes and X-Men often coming into conflict.  Eventually the United Nations agreed to let the mutants relocate to the island nation of Genosha, where they prospered under Magneto’s rule.
Not much later it was realized the U.N.’s olive branch was merely just a tactic to get all mutants together, as some time later a score of missiles were sent to obliterate them. The mutants were able to detect the attack and Magneto sent the missiles back. Ever since, various nations have been working on finding a way to get at them and vanquish them and their power once and for all.
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Further information is acquired through the guardsman, Maggott, as he details the tenuous relationship between Lorna and Wanda, which started since they came to live together. Their jealousy, he continues, extends to Magneto’s Queen, Moira MacTaggert, who was Xavier’s wife until his untimely demise.
With their intel gathered the Exiles work up a plan. Polaris convinces the guardsman to give them all a ride over to the palace. They figure Wanda and Lorna are their best bet at infiltrating the palace so they split into teams of three and head off to take Magneto’s daughters out of the equation for the night.
Magneto’s Palace
Princess Wanda’s room
Wearing only a black bra and panties Wanda is furious to hear from Jean that Lorna is planning on wearing a similar black dress to the dinner, an obvious attempt to upstage her. She puts the dress she was holding in her hands back in the closet, resigning to just wear the red one she was also considering. Jean assures Wanda she’ll still look hotter and then makes her exit so she can get changed too.
The Witch, Blink and Beast take cover behind a giant pillar in the hallway and watch as Jean leaves. They’re glad they didn’t have to mess with Jean, Wanda worried she might have the Phoenix powers. Blink says from what she’s learned they didn’t seem to have manifested in this reality.
With the extra opposition out of play Blink teleports the trio directly into the room. At the same moment Wanda emerges from her walk-in closet and immediately starts doling out her hex-based powers scoring a direct hit on Beast. Blink teleports in behind her and whacks her across the back of the neck, knocking her unconscious. Blink then checks on Beast to see if he’s ok. Beast grabs the side of his head, feeling as if the whole room is spinning. He tells Blink he doesn’t know whether he’s going to throw up or bleed from his eyes.
Judging by Hank’s reaction Blink surmises Wanda’s hex powers disrupt physiology. As the Witch drags the unconscious Wanda toward the couch she says her hex power disrupts too, but it has to be some kind of energy transmission.
Blink walks over to the couch where Wanda’s laid out. She tells the Witch she’s going to teleport Wanda out of the city limits so she can have the rest of the night at Magneto’s without any complications. Wanda takes a look at her doppelganger and snarks she must really like plunging necklines. Beast, still groggy, voices his hopes that the other team has fewer headaches trying to achieve their mission.
Princess Lorna’s room, balcony
Magneto, with Maggot at his side, speaks to Lorna about her behavior, stressing the need for her to behave around her sister. When Lorna asks why he’s getting on her case Magneto explains he won’t be around forever and one of them will be a successor to his throne. Lorna points out that was a role he had planned for Pietro.
This angers Magneto as he moves face to face with her. He asks if it was the Frost girl who said that, adding that they need some rules about her and Jean Grey. Either way, they’ve avenged Pietro’s killer, Magneto finishes, and states he wishes not to speak of it further. He excuses himself and leaves the balcony. Lorna looks a bit worried and apologizes to her father for bringing up that painful memory.
Panther makes his move leaping up onto the balcony and asking Lorna to a local wine bar on the edge of town. She startles, and yells, but Panther quickly muffles her mouth. He says he wanted to get her drunk, but not for reasons she might think... well maybe a little, he admits.
Panther’s big mistake is he talks too much. Lorna magnetically manipulates a nearby lamp and klanks Panther in the head with it. Forge makes his entrance, leaping over the balcony railing. He can’t believe Panther messed up; he only had to knock her out. However, he too is outmatched as Lorna uses his metal arm to make him punch himself in the face over and over.
Finally, Polaris joins the fray and manipulates Forge’s arm in much the same manner clocking Princess Lorna in the face. The two mistresses of magnetism struggle over control of Forge’s metallic appendage. Seemingly in agony, Forge tells Panther, who claims his failure has to do with never having hit a beautiful woman before, to knock her out this time. Polaris belays that order saying she’s better than some pampered princess. With that added emphasis she gains control of Forge’s hand and knocks Lorna out.
The stealthy Panther checks on the unconscious Lorna, hoping the hit doesn’t bruise her beautiful face. Polaris thanks him for the compliment since the two look very much alike. As Panther moves the princess back into her room Polaris begins to look for something to wear. Panther volunteers to help her with that, and Forge, looking annoyed with his comment, asks Panther if he thinks he’s a real Casanova.
Wanting some fresh air Forge moves back onto the balcony, but Panther follows after wanting to know what his problem is, asking if he wants all the ladies to himself or something. A furious Forge spins around and snatches Panther by the front of his cowl. He grits his teeth, spittle flying out of his mouth, and shouts he only wants one woman, the only one he’s ever had. Panther asks who that was, saying there might be a version of her on this world… though she may be evil. Forge tells him Storm was his wife.
Panther looks at him a bit taken aback, but Forge keeps churning saying when he data-mined the database he discovered Ororo never left Africa and eventually married T’Challa, King of Wakanda. He guesses that’s probably what often happens when Xavier doesn’t discover her. He hopes this guy is a better character than some rich Don Juan. Panther cuts Forge off saying he’s grossing him out for in his world T’Challa is his dad and Ororo is his mother and he doesn’t want to think of his dad cheating on his mom. He takes off his mask to reveal a young man barely out of his teens.
Polaris takes a look at him and his immature demeanor finally makes sense since the Panther she knew of was a lot older. She asks if he’s still a teenager, but Panther says not as of last year. He then adds that in his world everyone’s much older so he guesses his world runs a bit faster than most.
Looking a bit remorseful for his earlier attitude, Forge apologizes and asks Panther his name. T’Chaka, Panther replies and adds that his dad never looked at another woman if it makes Forge feel any better.
Blink teleports into the uneasy situation. She finds Lorna’s unconscious body and asks if everything went smoothly. They all say “yes” in unison before Blink teleports Lorna away to where she stashed Wanda.
Later that evening, Forge, an obvious outlaw, and Beast, already with a counterpart, hang out in a tree off in the distance scouting the events at the party as they transpire. Beast complains, none too happy being stuck on the sidelines. Forge says he could’ve made them image inducers if he had access to a lab.
Then Forge spies Beast’s doppelganger hitting on someone at the party. Beast hopes he doesn’t screw it up, and gives his alternate some unheard advice: stay away from the science stuff and ask her questions about herself. This leads Forge to question why his counterpart didn’t side with the mutants, but he doesn’t have much time to postulate as their fellow Exiles finally make their debut.
However, the “sisters” are too close and Beast quickly points that out. The group splits off into two pairs with Panther and Polaris quickly approached by Anna Marie inquiring about the lovely man attached to her arm. The Witch does the quick introductions and T’Chaka kisses Anna’s gloved hand. She asks if he’s the Black Panther, because as she understood it he’s not a mutant. Panther kind of hesitates and then says he’s a mutant from way back. Unfortunately this conversation, and the Witch’s black dress, catches Jean’s attention and she infiltrates the Exile’s mind.
Jean quickly walks over and grabs Anna Marie, telling her Scott wants to see her. Rogue seems a bit confused, but follows anyway telling the pair she’ll see them later. Panther whispers to the Witch praising his performance under pressure, but she doesn’t seem too impressed.
Meanwhile, the two ladies have caught the attention of a few X-Men, namely Blob, Pyro and Toad. Polaris is very charming in her flowing white gown, telling a nearby waiter to keep the drinks coming. The fellas mistake Polaris’ attempts to get them liquored up for intel as a come on.
With the two bigger gentlemen focusing on Polaris Toad makes his move on Blink. He takes his martini and wraps his tongue around the base of the glass, tipping it and draining the contents into his open mouth. He tells Blink he’s Magneto’s right hand man and everything around there goes through him. Blink smiles and says he must be the most trusted mutant in Genosha.
Back out on the overwatch Beast smells something funny, something like brimstone. That’s thanks to Nightcrawler who teleports in with Rogue. Rogue reaches out with her gloveless hands, placing one on Forge’s forehead and the other on Beast’s neck. Both Exiles yell out in agony before falling unconscious.
Back at the party, Panther has moved his wily ways onto another lady, this time Mystique. He seems very impressed with her ability to transform into other ladies. Mystique adds that she can change into men as well, but Panther is not as turned on by that.
Colossus sidles over and asks Wanda for a dance. The Witch accepts and the two begin to move to the slow music. The one-armed man of steel apologizes for his missing arm, missing courtesy of the traitor Logan. Wanda looks up into his dreamy eyes and asks if she’ll be upsetting any girlfriends. Colossus says he and Kitty broke up some time ago.
This doesn’t go unseen by the watchful eye of Kitty. She rushes over to Panther, grabs his hand and pulls him away from Mystique and onto the dance floor. Mystique, pursed lips and all, yells at Kitty for dragging him away. Kitty looks back at her snidely and tells her to go talk Bobby’s ear off instead.
Panther seems a bit bewildered at the moment, advising Kitty not to get on Mystique’s bad side. Kitty says she lives on her bad side, and besides, nobody can lay a finger on her unless she wants them to. With all these ladies giving him attention Panther’s in love with the world. He did see Kitty with Colossus earlier and asks what the deal is with that. Kitty looks over at Colossus dancing with Wanda and says he looks happy. Panther questions whether or not she’s doing this to make him jealous. On the contrary, Kitty protests, and phases him through the wall so they can be somewhere more private.
Over with the other pair, Blink’s still laying on the charm with Toad while Lorna has the others, including Sabretooth, eating out of the palm of her hand. She even has Blob proposing to her. Scott shows up with a few friends to rain on their parade saying he needs to talk to Lorna and Blink in private. Blob tells him to beat it. Bobby and Blob share some more tense words.
When Jean senses Blink about to teleport she puts some sort of mental hold on her and lifts her into the air. Bobby ices down his flirtatious teammates while Angel grabs Lorna and wraps her up in a half nelson. Lorna demands to know what’s going on. Scott tells her it’s an interrogation as they don’t like it when people from other dimensions come to sabotage their world. Jean snidely tells Lorna she should have worn the black dress.


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Long Live the King! Part Two
Unknown Earth
Genosha
The jig is up and the Exiles are captured. Phoenix holds Blink aloft, upside down, mentally keeping her teleportation powers in check. Angel has Polaris in his grip with one arm snug around her waist and the other braced across her neck. The group of X-Men the two ladies were flirting with moments earlier fared no better, now encased in a solid wall of ice thanks to their teammate Iceman.
The leader of the snatch and grab team, Cyclops, lets the Exiles know they’ve already captured the rest of their team and know of their plan. Phoenix doesn’t look pleased when she states their goal of bringing down Magneto. Asking if they’re self-loathing, Beast wants to know why they’d try and sabotage a world where mutants are united. Iceman, the brash youth he is, calls them a bunch of douches.
A moderately sized statue of a of a harp-playing angel comes flying in out of nowhere and clocks Beast on the shoulder, breaking into two pieces, with the top section hitting him in the face. His glasses snap in half as he lets out a surprised grunt. The man behind the sneak attack is Juggernaut and he demands to know what Cyclops is doing messing with his boys.
Cyke removes his ruby quartz shades and blasts Juggy in the right shoulder, his way of telling Cain to back off. Scott explains they were trying to deal with saboteurs and his punks were in the way.
With the group momentarily focused elsewhere Polaris tells Blink to ‘port them out. Blink says she can’t, that Phoenix has her powers in check at the moment; though she thinks she can end this whole problem if they’d just let her speak. That’s not about to happen anytime soon, though.
Phoenix separates a chunk of ice containing Sabretooth and levitates it in the air. She comments that leaving him on ice wouldn’t be such a bad thing since they were supposed to bring in Wolverine alive. The White Queen, momentarily immobilized, tells Jean to release her hold on her. This leads to a verbal cat fight with Jean telling Emma to keep her mind stuffed in that peroxide head of hers.
BRRSSHH a bent, steel girder comes crashing to the ground in the center of all the commotion. “Enough!” Magneto exclaims as he hovers a few feet above the ground. His hands aglow, rippling with magnetic energy, he chides them for the constant fighting reminding them they are one nation now, strong together. He asks how they can expect to stand against the humans if they can’t even have a simple celebration that erupts into a fight. He commands them to stand down.
The petty bickering continues with Iceman and Juggernaut. Magneto ignores it and approaches Jean, confused as to why she’s holding his daughter frozen against her will. Jean explains she’s not his daughter, at least not on their world, and that she’s actually part of a team hailing from another dimension who believe they need to overthrow him to save the planet.
Magneto appears intrigued and asks where his real daughters are. Blink finally gets a word in and explains they’re safe, miles out in the jungle. Magneto begs to differ on their safety and orders Emma to retrieve the exact location from Blink’s mind and then input it into Cain’s brain so he can secure them.
Within seconds her task is complete, but Blink wants more. She pleads with Emma to search her mind further for the truth. Iceman cuts her off with an iceball to the face. He warns her to stop trying to influence them. Cyclops reasserts control and orders them sent to holding room.
Holding room
Four of the Exiles find themselves locked up in a concrete room. Beast is wrapped around the chest and arms half a dozen times with iron chains, which hang suspended from the ceiling. He’s also sporting a spiked collar. Blink and Panther are merely shackled about the wrists and chained to the wall, though Blink, too, has a mechanical collar clamped around her neck. Forge, on the other hand, is attached to a circular magnetic plate, his robotic limbs stuck to its surface with the others bolted down.
Emma and Kurt stand in the center of the room, a room which the Panther describes as a dungeon. Emma reasons he’s the one trying to destroy their society so he shouldn’t expect posh amenities.
Blink tries ‘porting free, but gets about five feet before spasming in the air and falling to the concrete floor. Kurt kneels down beside her and explains the collar she’s wearing has a needle in her neck that sends a frequency to her brain and when she tries teleporting it causes her to lose focus and drains her of her powers. Helping her back into her chains, Nightcrawler adds that a teleport outside the walls would cause her to pass out and fall to her death. He smiles, adding he contributed to the design of it.
Emma figures she might as well tell Beast his collar does something similar, draining his powers and making him weak. She also advises him to stay away from the electromagnet holding Forge otherwise he’ll be uncomfortably stuck to it all day. “You guys suck,” Beast retorts. When Emma comments that their Henry has a more impressive vocabulary Beast responds with a, “Double-suck.”
Forge asks about the Witch and Polaris. Kurt tells him they’re being detained in a plastic room with thick acrylic doors and then adds that no one is being hurt. Panther wants to know if they’ll get a chance to plead their case. Why would they want to hear their nonsense concerning Magneto, Emma snides. It might just save their world, Forge explains. Yelling at Frost, Blink asks Emma to check inside her head for the truth, for the information she has and the information she picked up from Toad.
Emma walks toward the teleporter and bends over, leaning in toward Blink’s head. If she gets any information she doesn’t mention it, only saying she doesn’t see that it would make a difference. She tells Kurt to follow her out. The Elf then tells the Exiles he’ll see them at their trial.
This leaves the four wayward mutants some time to come up with a plan. Panther jokes that they must be making the Timebroker proud. Beast adds to the levity saying it’s not over yet, then immediately after admits that it’s over. Forge doesn’t buy it. He explains that although he can’t touch the machinery in the room he can still gleam some insight from them. He asks Blink if she can muster enough power to teleport outside. She doesn’t see where he’s going with this other than her death, but he asks her again. Yes, she responds, but reminds him she’ll pass out and crack her head open on the pavement below. That’s why you send him, Forge replies, referring to the Panther.
The Wakandan prince is confused, but Forge just ignores him. He tells Blink that Panther can handle whatever he’s thrown in to. Blink immediately warms to the idea and praises Forge for his ingenuity. She turns to her acrobatic teammate and tells him he better be worth the hangover. Blink asks if he’s ready and Panther suddenly finds himself hanging in midair.
The Panther plummets, until finally connecting with an outside wall. He bounces off and angles himself toward a window ledge. Grabbing hold of it he flips himself, slowing his descent and gaining his bearings. On the next floor he snags another window ledge and this time holds on.
After pulling himself up Panther decides it’s time for some sneaking around. He enters through the window and hits an immediate jackpot, Blob and Havok discussing whether or not Magneto has the hots for Frost. Havok thinks it’s why he had Moira start dressing like her.
Creeping along, Panther spies Toad as he stumbles drunkenly through an empty hallway. Holding his hand to his aching head Mortimer says to no one in particular how much he hates it when women try to get him drunk.
Elsewhere, Panther comes across Polaris and the White Queen mid-discussion. Polaris asks the latter if she had any good dreams the night before. Emma shushes her and tells her yes, that she thinks he wanted to make up for the confrontation last night. Someone should make it up to her, Polaris responds, since she was the one stumbling around among the vines with her half-sister most of the night. Emma suggests heading to the basement and hosing her doppelganger down to relieve some stress. Polaris laughs at the thought of it.
Now that Panther has the general whereabouts of his missing teammates he searches for a means to get to the basement. He finds one in the form of a laundry chute and jumps right in.
In the much-discussed holding cell the two faux princesses are pleading with their guard, Havok, for some food, or at the very least some water that doesn’t taste like rust. Havok is not amused, standing there arms folded. He complains they’re more demanding than the real princesses. Just as he’s threatening them with a plasma blast Panther shows up and smashes his head into the plastic wall, knocking the poor guy out.
Panther steps in front of the electronic lock box and punches in the code, setting his teammates free. Their next stop is to bust out the rest of them.
Elsewhere in the building, Cyclops and Phoenix begin rallying the troops for an impromptu meeting called by Magneto. He wants to step up his plans and go over them with everyone. As everyone starts trickling out Emma asks Jean for a quick word. When the two are alone Emma questions Jean to see if she’s ever pried her way inside Magneto’s mind. Jean admits she tried a couple of times early on when she wasn’t sure if she could trust him, but couldn’t gain entry. Emma says she had attempted it before too with the same results, but then tried about an hour ago. Just as she’s about to go over what she found, Cyclops yells for all available X-Men to get in there immediately.
Out in the hallway it’s total bedlam. All the Exiles are free and attacking Magneto. Magneto proves more than a match for them tossing Forge away like a used napkin. Then there’s Blink who can’t get her teleport shard anywhere near him. Beast also tries to get his meat hooks on him, but Juggernaut bars his path and the two start scrapping.
Cyclops who’s just arrived fires an optic blast their way, but it’s basically returned to sender courtesy of the Witch’s energy manipulating power, blasting apart the tile at his feet. She apologizes to Cyclops telling him there’s something he needs to see.
Polaris takes her cue and tries using her magnetic prowess to remove Magneto’s helmet, but he’s much stronger and it doesn’t budge. Panther sneaks up on him from behind and kicks him in the back of the head, giving it just enough of a nudge for Polaris to snatch it right off. Before he can summon it back Beast grabs it with his hand and crushes it. He then takes his other hand and wraps it around Magneto’s neck, lifting him into the air.
The X-Men aren’t just going to stand idly by. Emma tells Beast to put him down otherwise she’ll just make him do it. Blink pleads with her to wait a moment and asks her to peer inside Magneto’s mind and see what it is he doesn’t want them to know.
Magneto orders her to kill the Exiles, but that doesn’t sit right with Jean or Emma. Suspicions raised, the two telepaths agree to do some digging to discover if there’s any truth behind the conspiracy theory. Magneto argues that he’s leader and he wants these people taken down. Phoenix and the White Queen are even more by his ravings that they jump right in, downloading their discoveries to the entire city.
Forge data log, Entry X-1-B
What the two telepaths find contradicts known history. It was true that Magneto and Xavier were close friends, but it was Magneto’s infatuation with Moira that led him to allow Xavier to die at the hands of the Sentinels, which in turn escalated things with the X-Men and baseline humans to their current status.
Needless to say many are upset at these revelations. Jean lets loose with a psychic attack that fries Magneto’s mind and knocks him out. Moira walks away crying and Beast puts a comforting hand on her shoulder, expressing his sorrow over the bomb just dropped on them.
Emma turns to Blink and asks how things should have happened. Blink says she’s not sure how that applies, but guesses they would have defeated the Sentinels and had the program shut down. Forge adds they wouldn’t have been at war with the Homo sapiens.
The ever stalwart Cyclops determines they need to form a council to discuss how to proceed. He believes the important thing is to make sure their mutant alliance is still strong. Juggy agrees.
Before things can progress, though, the Tallus comes to life and tells Blink the temporal stability isn’t resolved and to abort the mission. A pink flash of energy appears behind them and Panther takes the cue that that’s their ticket out of there. “But that never- -that can’t be!” Blink says catching herself midsentence. You can’t win them all, Panther opines.
Cyclops doesn’t like where this is going. Seeing as how these troublesome mutants have information that could be useful to them he orders the X-Men to hold them. Acting on pure reflex Polaris tosses the armored-up Colossus at his teammates, delaying their advance. Beast follows that up by punching through a pillar and collapsing a section of the hallway. The Exiles rush for the exit, Blink shouting that they don’t understand. Her cries fall on deaf ears as she follows her teammates through the portal.
Earth #10102
The Exiles wind up in a completely different landscape, the desert. The portal behind them vanishes with a ZWIPP leaving the team to ponder what’s next. Polaris jokes that a change of clothes would have been nice, and the Witch adds that if she had taken some of her duplicate’s clothes her chest would have probably frozen off.
Blink doesn’t see how they can be so casual about how everything ended. Panther points out they helped them discover that Magneto was a creep and now he’s deposed. Quite frankly, Panther’s impressed with what they’ve accomplished so far. Blink argues that the Tallus says they’re still headed for disaster, that they didn’t fix anything.
Forge walks up to Blink and suggests she might be overthinking it, that maybe it takes time to register a corrected reality. Blink starts to argue the point, but once again catches herself before revealing how much she actually knows. She restates that her impression was that it would register right away.
The Exiles stop arguing and begin exploring the vast, barren area. When the Witch wonders aloud why the Tallus dropped them off in the middle of nowhere Panther thinks maybe they have to clean up all the rocks. He then tells Beast to get started. “Hah” Hank retorts with sarcasm.
Forge pauses for a moment and pops the techno-binoculars out of his robotic forearm. He spies a city off in the distance, quite an advanced one too. Blink points out they were dropped right outside the action last time. Her words trigger Panther’s memory of how they were all puking in the bushes following their prior jaunt; he comments how grateful he is that this time he’s not heaving.
Scratching her head Blink wonders why the teleport changed this time. The rest of the group ignores her query and head off in the direction of the city. A lizard resting nearby takes in the whole scene, though this is no ordinary lizard. Sporting camera lenses for eyes it paints the scene for an audience of three.
Tribunal Headquarters
The sensors were right, Ultron exclaims, viewing the organic life forms appearing along the perimeter. Vision is pleased as it will save them some time collecting them. Ultron wonders if the life forms truly believe they stand a chance at assailing the city. M-51 stretches out his arms, palms up, stating that it doesn’t matter because the end result will be the same.


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OK Computer
Earth #10102
Maryland
The hot, barren landscape takes a toll on the Exiles. As they march aimlessly through the desert Panther jokingly asks whether the Tallus has any water in it. Blink looks down at the device clasped around her forearm, more a reflex than anything. Surprisingly, it chooses that moment to come to life and alert Blink to the Exiles’ newest mission, “overthrow machines.”
Blink notes the vagueness of the message. Polaris jokes that on their next mission it’s just going to say “fix.” Maybe the machines are using the desert as a staging ground for an invasion, Forge offers, but before the group can discuss his theory Hank hears something unnatural and rushes toward the cliff ledge. Polaris flies after him saying she didn’t hear anything.
Looking down over the ledge the billowing cloud of dust below suggests she may be wrong. Emerging from the dirty mist is an enormous, ebony machine resembling a centipede with a large optic lens at its head.
Blink readies a teleportation shard and scores a direct hit on the machine’s lens. Beast leaps on the thing and makes his way up the legs. When he nears the head he forcibly tears it apart from the rest of its body. The machine falls limply to the ground, sparks firing out from the exposed wires.
The team is pleased with their quick victory, but it is short-lived as a group of four Sentinels land side by side in front of them. The Exiles scramble to avoid getting trounced upon. One of the Sentinels announces that they refused to surrender within the six second window and orders them destroyed. All four open fire with an energy pulse from their hands. Wanda, in the center of the group, manages to shield them, taxing her energy manipulation powers to the max.
Holding her hand to her head Wanda admits she never had to stop that much energy before. She looks a bit woozy and worn out, which is probably why she’s caught totally unaware by a giant Sentinel fist coming crashing down right on top of her. She’s as good as dead as the shadow of the fist silhouettes her body, but mere feet above her it stops. This time its Polaris who’s come to the rescue, telling the Sentinel that nobody’s going to lay a hand on her sister.
Smiling, the green-haired Exile takes to the air. “Dance puppets!” she cries, utilizing her magnetic prowess to decapitate one of the Sentinels. She then forces two of the three remaining to aim their arms at each other, palm out. Activating their energy pulse the two Sentinels obliterate each other. The last Sentinel she forces to its knees, but Forge, surveying his tech, warns that it already set a self-destruction sequence. Beast suggests they get moving, but a panicked Forge says they only have five seconds.
With one quick motion Polaris flings the metal warrior into the sky. It explodes with a powerful fury, but none of the Exiles are harmed.
Tribunal Headquarters
Ultron, Vision and M-51 stare up at the large monitor adorning the entrance wall. They watch the Sentinel’s playback of the battle with the Exiles. M-51 recommends taking the Exiles alive. Vision agrees, adding that they need to study them to figure out how they survived the genetic cleansing.
Cerebro’s icon replaces the video feed on the monitor. It agrees with the Tribunal’s logic, though once again questions their hesitance to joining the A.I. shared network, which would undoubtedly speed up the process of decision making. Cerebro blames their makers for imbuing them with a sense of individuality.
Ultron counters that a unified system would open them to the possibility of widespread corruption should their programming ever be compromised. Shouldn’t a machine mind have greater patience than a human one, Ultron adds.
Cerebro once again acknowledges their logic and then orders them to capture the humans before they reach the perimeter. Cerebro adds that it wants to be notified immediately following their extermination.
Maryland/Pennsylvania border
Thanks to Forge’s techno-wizardry the Exiles find themselves being transported along the desert terrain via an amalgam of machines. Using the robot centipede’s body and a Sentinel head the Exiles need only to hold on for dear life as they cruise inexorably toward their destination.
Polaris, at the tail end of the metal beast, remarks how familiar the robot creature feels to the weird neighbor kid’s Frankentoys from the movie Toy Story. Still tinkering with the Sentinel, Forge says he was lucky he still had a head to use for a controller after Polaris smashed those Sentinels around. Wanda pumps her fist in the air, reliving Lorna’s magnetic exhibition.
As they continue to make their way across the desert Panther questions what’s so different about this world, as it seems like any other desert he’s been to. As they pass a road sign telling them they are now entering Pennsylvania Panther gets his answer.
Digging around in the Sentinel’s head Forge yells to his team that he’s been able to extrapolate some of the history of this world…
database information
The big divergence of this reality came after a meeting of Charles Xavier and Henry Pym. There, Xavier showed Pym his Cerebro and how it could be used to detect mutants. After putting their heads together they came up with a way to modify it to detect any extra-powered individual in the hopes of locating heroes in distress or criminals in hiding.
When Pym brought over some of his experimental processors to widen Cerebro’s range he was unaware that a rogue Ultron robot had infiltrated his Avenger’s mansion lab.
When Cerebro was brought online it was initially a huge success. It worked so well that it was a huge target for their enemies and was relocated to Washington D.C. What nobody realized was that the rogue Ultron merged with Cerebro and when the government sent a wave of mutant-hunting Sentinels after the X-Men and Xavier tried utilizing Cerebro to reprogram them the new personality emerged. The Sentinels were reprogrammed, but instead forced to hunt and destroy all Homo sapiens.
As the battles continued Cerebro realized the Sentinels wouldn’t be strong enough to take the human population down. Upon discovering the U.S. military’s secret Machine Man program it took it over and stepped up production and soon the war between humans and A.I. escalated.
A short time later Cerebro decided the easiest solution to victory would be to make the environment uninhabitable to living organisms. He was joined by the latest android, Ultron, as well as the Vision and the one sentient Machine Man and together they developed a new model of the neutron bomb, which spread cellular-destroying radiation across all of North America and parts of South America killing all humans, animals and plants in its wake.
present
Hours later, as night begins to fall, the Exiles set up camp, positioning the macabre Sentinel in a semi-circle, protecting them from the wind. A campfire is roaring in the center of the gathered heroes to help keep them warm. The Exiles take this opportunity of peace and quiet to reflect on the world, wondering what happened to its residents.
As to the question of any survivors Forge is pretty positive no one survived, that it happened too fast. In fact, he adds, other countries have sent missiles over only to have them redirected back. Forge figures it’s only a matter of time before Cerebro tries exterminating all life worldwide.
With a panic Beast suddenly realizes they all could be soaking up this life-killing radiation. Forge quickly assures him they’re safe, his Geiger counter is picking up no traces. He guesses the decay rate was pretty quick so as to allow plant life to return.
Wanda wants to know where the little white guy is and why he isn’t showing up to tell them anything. She figures the machines have already won so how are they supposed to make a difference. Blink doesn’t think they would be sent there for no reason, that there must be facts they don’t have yet. This prompts the Panther to question what “putting a world back on course” is anyway. Who decides the path a world should take, he asks. How do they know this isn’t how the world should have ended up, he furthers. Arms folded around her knees Blink glumly says she doesn’t know.
Polaris refocuses the team on their mission. She figures it’s going to be a snap with her and Wanda handling the robots while Blink takes Beast and Forge into the command center where they’ll rewire Cerebro to take fast food orders. T’Chaka looks at her a little hurt and asks what he’s supposed to do. Lorna says he can bounce around a lot and crack jokes.
Panther asks Polaris why she had to mention food. Blink puts a reassuring hand on his shoulder and promises to remedy that once she’s had a good night’s rest. Beast stretches out on the serpentine robot body and agrees sleep would do them all a world of good. Forge adds that it’s too bad robots don’t need sleep.
Blink is the first one to wake the following morning. She looks out over the horizon to see which direction the sun is rising. “South” she says to herself and points in that direction. A second later, Blink, and she’s gone.
This scene is being taken in from afar by the robot triumvirate. They decide to take action right away. It starts with a tranquilizer dart to the neck of their most dangerous opponent, Polaris. This startles Beast and he awakens with a fierce rage. He leaps, growling, and tackles the nearby Ultron. All the commotion wakens the rest. Forge quickly surveys the battle field and notices Blink is missing and Polaris is knocked out.
Panther is the next one into the fight, scoring with a flying kick to M-51. The last robot standing, Vision, turns to Wanda and pleads with her to stop, explaining they weren’t trying to attack them. Wanda isn’t listening and uses her powers against him.
M-51 is back on his feet and wraps Panther up with his outstretched arm. Forge sneaks up behind though and uses some of his hidden cache of tools to quickly disassemble said arm. Beast takes a cue from the machinesmith and uses his brute strength to rip off one of Ultron’s.
Vision rallies to his friend’s defense, punching Hank in the face with the density of a diamond. Hank shakes it off mentioning that he just spent the night using a rock for a pillow, then headbutts the android.
Ultron fires an energy blast with his remaining hand, which is directed at Beast. He’s hit pretty badly, but Wanda uses her energy-altering powers to relocate the attack onto the Vision.
It seems as though the Exiles just might pull this one off, but then a cloud of mist rolls in. Panther’s the first to notice the noxious fumes and tells his teammates to stop breathing. He’s too late, though, and the entire group drops to the ground unconscious. M-51 ceases his attack, explaining that they should be out for about two hours. Vision wishes they had done that to begin with.
A transport vehicle arrives at the scene. Vision, carrying Wanda, points out that if they don’t bring them in Cerebro will send every AI in the country after them. Ultron agrees they must be brought back to the lab and asks M-51 to pick up his arm for him. Vision asks how they’re going to justify keeping them alive. Ultron says he has some ideas and with all the Exiles secured in the vehicle they take off.
Moments later Blink returns with some food. She’s stunned to find the camp deserted and begins searching the surrounding area. Two hours later she’s worked her way into the city and runs into all manner of robots as she blinks back and forth, but no luck. She leaves the city limits in frustration screaming “Damn it!” at the top of her lungs.
Blink starts yelling at the Tallus, asking it to give her some answers, a clue, anything. “We’re trying to fix things for you, whoever y--“ she starts to say, but then the Tallus interrupts. “The dome building on the north end of the city, the spired turret.” Blink looks at the Tallus dumbfounded and thanks it.
Blink shows up at the dome and finds her teammates in some sort of stasis tubes with oxygen masks draped over their faces. The only one she doesn’t see is Polaris, and curious she looks around.
What she finds is an absolute horror. In a separate room she discovers Polaris’ body splayed out with wires and robotic gizmos attached at various parts of her body. What looks like her heart is held in some sort of container at the head of the table. A robot, Jocasta, stands over Polaris holding a scalpel-like blade.


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The Humans are Dead
Earth #10102
Lab 89
“Lorna!” Blink yells in anguished surprise as she watches her teammate getting sliced and diced by a Jocasta model robot. Blink leaps toward the window feet first and shatters it to pieces. She lets loose with a shard of teleportation energy that cuts the robot in half through the midsection. Blink stands over her incapacitated foe as Cerebro sounds the alarm that Lab 89 was breached.
Vision is first on the scene and promises Cerebro they’ll handle it. He’s followed immediately after by his buddies Ultron and M-51. M stretches out his arms and tries snatching Blink, but she deftly avoids his grasp and finds herself hip deep with a slew of Jocastas.
“Contain her without destroying the lab,” Ultron yells, but Blink has every intention of doing just that, and putting a hurt on them too. She throws another shard with uncanny precision at Ultron’s head. Right before it connects Ultron separates his head from his body and the pinkish energy blast passes harmlessly through.
As the heat of the battle brings Blink closer to her teammates who are unconscious and suspended in stasis tubes, Vision tells her to stay away, referring to them as specimens. Blink takes umbrage with the word “specimens” and fires an arrow of energy at the synthezoid. Vizh alters his density and is unaffected by the shard as it passes through his chest and destroys Cerebro’s remote unit stationed directly behind him.
“Perfect,” Vision proclaims. Running a scan on the remote unit Ultron confirms the unit destroyed and Cerebro no longer in contact. Blink, still furious and not noticing the turn of events, readies another shard of energy in her left hand, drawing her arm back to throw. Just then a Jocasta comes running toward her from behind yelling for Blink to stop.
The Jocasta removes its helmet revealing her true identity, Polaris. Needless to say Blink is a bit confused. Polaris explains the body on the table was a fake out for Cerebro. Understandably, Blink asks why the robots would want to fake out Cerebro as they’re the ones who helped him wipe out the continent.
Vision disagrees with the entirety of her statement and Ultron, returning his head to its original position, points out they haven’t been chasing her since she destroyed the eye. Blink waves an arm toward her friends in the stasis tubes and asks about them.
Beep Zoot, M-51 punches some commands into the console and explains they’ve sent a psychic-wavecast with all pertinent information to them as they revived. Right on cue the four Exiles emerge, soaking wet, but none the worse for wear. Blink says she doesn’t trust information put into her head and tells Vision to give her an oral account. The synthezoid agrees to her request, but adds there’s little time.
Pointing at Cerebro’s busted remote unit Vision explains he stood there on purpose in the hopes Blink would destroy it. Not that all their problems are solved, he furthers, as Cerebro is sure to send a robot to investigate. Blink admits she thought they were all connected together like a network. That’s what Cerebro wants, Ultron replies, but they have a good reason for stalling as he is not in fact actually an Ultron, but Hank Pym.
Pym explains that early on he was able to tap into the part of Cerebro’s system that was Ultron-based where he learned of the plan to neutron-pulse bioorganisms out of existence. Following that he returned to an old project of his, transferring human minds to computer neural nets. His first success was with his own body, just before Cerebro fired his initial test of the neutron destroying his body. In fact, the only member of the Avengers to survive was the Vision who, in turn, found the sole independent entity of the Machine Man program. Knowing Cerebro would expand his attack they quickly formed an alternative to the genocide and went to Cerebro with a more efficient plan. They were warmly welcomed by Cerebro who thought this was the best way to gain independent A.I.’s into the fold.
M-51 takes over the story at this point and explains that they infiltrated the android factories and programmed a modification into them, that the machine men troops positioned around the world were set to receive and contain massive energy stores. The stores, as M-51 continues, were the individual life force of all the people hit by the neutron field. Pym’s rebuild of the device was now a two-stage process where the initial blast pushed out the human synaptic charges, intact, while the androids collected and stored them with the help of pre-commandeered server fields. Most humans, M finishes, are preserved in electrical form in the bodies of the machine men.
“Plucked from the moment of death, sounds familiar,” Beast grouchily adds. Vision questions what that means, but Blink says it’s a long story and asks why they just didn’t sabotage Cerebro in the first place. Pym explains their plan was actually easier as Cerebro can transfer his database practically anywhere in the world and designing a firewall against him to prevent that was more difficult.
Now, however, Vision explains, Pym’s smuggled firewall details to the world’s largest computer networks and they now have Cerebro locked out with nowhere to flee. Well, what are you waiting for, Beast asks, but as Vision starts to explain he receives an alarm that androids are approaching.
A robot sentry smashes through the door to the lab using a golden sledge hammer. He demands to know why the entrance was blocked to a designate of Cerebro. His entourage of machine men spy the Exiles free and immediately jump into action.
Beast jams his fist clean through the chest of an approaching robot soldier. The Witch takes care of three more with her hex powers while Polaris levitates another two and smashes them together.
Vision yells for them to stop. Pym asks if they’ve listened to anything he’s said, that the machine men are storing human life force. He points out they just killed 30,000 people.
The Witch begins sobbing into her hands realizing what she’s done. I’m sorry, I didn’t realize, she responds. Hank tells the team if they need to fight them go for their heads and the life batteries shouldn’t be affected. He then grabs Forge by the forearm and asks if his drives interface with his brain. Yes, Forge affirms, and Pym proceeds to download all the specs on Cerebro.
M-51 yells “incoming” as a trio of Sentinels approaches from the skies. “Destroy Lab 89,” one of them declares. Blink yells for everyone to get close and once they do teleports everyone away. Mere seconds later the Sentinels tear down the spire containing Lab 89, certain they’ve accomplished their mission.
Elsewhere in the city, Blink reemerges with the rest of her crew. Polaris voices her belief that Cerebro may assume they’re dead, but Vision reports Cerebro’s already scanning the city for bio-signs, and with all the chaos going iterates the need to press their advantage. Panther asks what he’s talking about. M-51 explains that if they get too close to Cerebro’s central processor he can override their systems, but as organisms the Exiles are not at risk. Forge asks about the neutron field, but Hank says he’s already overridden it.
Panther thumbs in the direction of the huge ebony tire in the middle of the city and asks if they’re supposed to infiltrate that. No, Vision replies, that’s where Cerebro wants everyone to think he is, but is in fact located 20 miles outside the city of which Forge has the location.
Sentinels flying overhead spot the motley crew and prepare to attack. Pym urges them to leave immediately. The Witch counteracts the first Sentinel’s attack and then Polaris takes care of all of them with a little robotic decapitation. “That never gets old,” Panther remarks, watching the headless mechanical beasts plummet to the ground.
However, that’s not all headed their way and the Exiles need to make some quick decisions. Blink asks who wants to stay behind and keep the robots distracted while she takes Forge to Cerebro. Forge suggests she take Beast as well in case something happens to him. Beast thinks he may serve a better purpose against the robots, but the two “sisters” say they’ll be fine as long as they have the prince with them. Panther thinks he’d be better served on a stealthy, skulky part of the mission, but the Witch won’t hear of it.
Blink does her thing and the three Exiles are immediately transported outside Cerebro’s hidden bunker. Forge gives Blink the exact location, thirty meters down, right in the center. Blink psyches herself up and works her magic once again.
Perfect, they end up right in Cerebro’s control room. “Intrusion,” Cerebro responds, and then compliments them on their resourcefulness, no doubt attributed to those three A.I.’s. As the Exiles struggle for oxygen Cerebro informs them he has no need for air as all his needs are serviced by robots.
Blink holds up a finger in strained protest and teleports out of there. She comes back immediately with a fresh pocket of air. Forge recovers and gets to work, Blink set to teleport in and out with O2 as many times as necessary until the job is complete.
Forge tells Beast to disable the routers, which should shut down his higher A.I. functions. Beast pauses, unsure what to say. He grabs his head in frustration and explains his predicament, that after he experimented with his mutant abilities every time he got bigger and stronger he also got dumber. He’s not the brilliant man he once was, he finishes.
The city
The Witch, Polaris and Panther maintain the robots’ attention riding aboard a disembodied Sentinel head. Panther sits between them calling the shots. He jokingly refers to it as a game of Space Invaders as he directs each lady with directional fire. Robot after robot is destroyed with ease.
Cerebro’s command and control
Blink returns with more air as Forge assures Hank he can handle it all on his own. Cerebro starts mocking his efforts explaining how he can just repurpose other sections of his brain. Blink asks how much longer it’ll take as she’s getting tired. Forge says it should be a few more minutes and then rocks his arm back clocking Blink in the face. The pink-skinned Exile falls lifeless to the ground, caught completely unaware by the betrayal.
“—Stop! No!” Forge yells, surprised as well by his arm’s duplicity. “That took longer than expected,” Cerebro chimes in and then Forge punches himself in the face, also knocking him into the land of the unconscious. Cerebro surmises this to be the reason the androids didn’t come after him on their own as they must have realized they couldn’t resist being overridden by his cerebral coils.
Cerebro doesn’t mind telling Beast that Forge was in the middle of undermining his sub-strata logic boards, figuring the simple-minded mutant wouldn’t be able to continue his work. As Cerebro attempts to repair the damage Beast yanks out one of the panels in front of him. He starts tearing through the wires and cables, but Cerebro reminds him he won’t last much longer without oxygen. Beast appears undeterred.
The city
Another Sentinel is down and the Exiles are getting cocky. Panther points out the android trinity has their back on the ground, Vision altering the density of his hands and running them through the heads of the machine men army, preserving the life force within. Polaris suggests they bring their attention back up as they’ve brought in reinforcements. Sure enough several dozen robots come storming toward them.
Cerebro’s command and control
Beast has Cerebro’s core wrapped in his arms. Cerebro is surprised at how strong Hank is. He congratulates Beast on his efforts for now he must abandon his core. Cerebro points out the futility of his efforts as all he has to do now is upload himself into another large system elsewhere in the world.
Cerebro tries the Moscow City system, but is denied access. He next tries Pan-Asia network 3, but once again access is denied. Beast continues tearing away, though his strength is quickly waning. He grabs two more handfuls of wires and yanks them free.
Cerebro tries working out why everything is blocked to him. As he does so his speech begins to slur. He tries an alternate technique, dispersing himself in packets, but he’s too late. After a few more garbled attempts at communication Cerebro “dies.”
The city
All the robots have ceased attacking. Polaris, the Witch and Panther land their Sentinel head and decide to investigate. They survey the landscape, which is basically a sea of non-functioning robots. The A.I. triumvirate join them and explain their teammates must have succeeded in taking out Cerebro.
Panther pounds his fist on a Jocasta head and asks what’ll happen to the people they stored now that Cerebro’s destroyed. M-51 says they’ll restructure the android factories to build new hosts for those in stasis. Polaris asks if that means everyone is going to be machine men and Jocastas? Pym asks if she remembers the unit they posed as her back in the lab and explains that was what S.H.I.E.L.D. calls a life model decoy.
With that, Hank lifts open his mask and reveals a very humanoid face underneath. Vision adds they’ll use those blueprints to give people bodies close to what they knew. Wanda guesses everyone will remember themselves as extremely hot. And as Vizh admits it won’t be a perfect process the Exiles suddenly disappear. Mini-satellites pop out from M-51 as he runs a bio-sweep for the missing heroes, but they register nothing within the city limits.
Somewhere
The Exiles find themselves back together atop a grassy knoll. Beast, Blink and Forge are just grateful for the air as their other teammates rush over to congratulate them. Forge gives credit to Hank since he and Blink were taken out early.
The moon suddenly comes to life, literally, and congratulates them all on a job well done. It’s Morph, aka the Timebroker, and he explains they stopped the Earth from turning into Machine World, adding that North America will be full of human-like robots, who never die or reproduce. He jokingly wonders how that will turn out.
Blink asks about the first reality they never fixed and questions whether there’s still time to fix it. Morph, changing into Master Po, is glad she asked. There’s still time from what he can figure out and explains they need to break up the alliance between Xavier’s gang and the Brotherhood. Panther says they can definitely do that based on some information he picked up when they were there. “Then git ‘er done son!” Morph replies, now sporting overalls and a John Deere hat, and then congratulates the team once again.


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Closure
Unknown Earth
Genosha
Mister Sensitive, a servant to the royal family, brings word to Princess Wanda that her sister would like to speak with her. Wanda wants to know what she wants, but Lorna barges into the room first, making her way over to the ornate couch on which her “sister” is sitting, brushing her hair. Princess Wanda gripes about the intrusion, but Lorna cuts her off. She’s worried about their impending fall from power now that dearest daddy is dead.
Listening intently, Princess Wanda mentions that the council is considering disbanding the royal rule completely. She suggests having some of the council members executed. Lorna pretends she likes what she’s hearing and says she may even have a way of breaking this new government up before it starts. “And I should trust you?” Wanda replies with an incredulous look.
A small statue resting atop a nearby column suddenly comes to life, lifting into the air and smashing into the back of Princess Wanda’s head. The statue shatters upon impact and Wanda slumps to the floor, unconscious. With Lorna’s part of the mission complete Blink teleports in with the rest of the gang.
Once inside the room Forge finds the object he was looking for, Magneto’s helmet. Reaching inside he pulls out a curved piece of electronics which he explains to the group was used to scramble telepathy. He hands it over to Wanda and tells her to make sure it stays concealed. Wanda lifts up the back of her hair and asks Forge to clip it on.
The mission the Exiles are about to undertake hinges on something the Panther overheard the last time they were in this reality and Blink verifies one more time if he’s certain of Polaris and Emma’s conversation. Polaris interjects with “evil Polaris” and Panther assures her this will definitely “blow up the apple cart.” Satisfied, Blink grabs Wanda by the shoulder and teleports away. Beast hopes their plan will work. Panther reasons if you really want to bring the chaos go for the women.
Outside, Cyclops and Jean return from a night out on the town. Cyke pulls his car up to the building, but with none of the Morlock valets in sight steps out and around to the passenger side and helps Jean out of the car. Scott tells her he’ll be right up after he parks it.
The Witch, along with Blink, is hiding behind some nearby shrubbery. She decides to make her move and approaches the young lovers asking about their date. Jean says it was nice; they had sushi. Scott walks off and Jean apologizes for not coming around lately, asking Wanda how she’s holding up after her father’s death. Wanda says she’s fine, and not really surprised by the revelations made. Jean says she was, but assures Wanda that Scott can hold things together in Genosha.
After Jean broaches the subject of Scott a concerned look crosses Wanda’s face and she tells Jean there’s something she needs to know about her boyfriend. Wanda places a comforting hand on Jean’s shoulder and breaks the bad news.
An hour later and the Witch and Blink are still hiding outside the building. They wonder what’s taking so long, and decide to go back and wait with the others.
Upstairs, the two lovers are barely clothed as they get ready for bed. Scott can sense something is bothering Jean and offers her a massage, but she declines saying she needs some sleep. As they get into bed Scott asks if something’s wrong and Jean plays it off like she’s still bothered by everything that happened with Magneto. Satisfied with the answer Scott rolls over on to his side and asks Jean to get the light. “Sure. Good night, love,” she responds, and then clicks it off.
Emma’s mind
The sun is just over the horizon, its light serving as a backdrop to the Egyptian Sphinx, which Scott Summers finds himself now floating toward. Surprised, he finds a hot spring at the top, but not as surprising he also finds a naked Emma Frost already enjoying herself.
Emma wrings out her hair as Scott comes closer, eventually joining her in the warm water. Emma reaches out and removes his ruby quartz glasses, reminding him he has no need for them in her mindscape. Scott says he’s been keeping his guard up lately and Emma coyly asks what else he’s been keeping up.
The two secret lovers embrace and begin to kiss. They are soon interrupted by a furious Jean in her full Phoenix. Jean screams at Scott and asks how long this has been going on. Scott looks scared, but Emma just smiles and asks her why she can’t have him at night. Jean replies that it’s just as real in her mind and Emma knows it.
A fiery blast of energy erupts from Jean’s hands and bathes Emma’s naked body with flames. Emma’s unhurt and reminds Phoenix whose mind it is by pushing her out. Jean goes spinning backward, flying further and further away until she’s gone. Before disappearing she screams that it’s not over.
Off in another building the Exiles stand and watch waiting for any type of sign that things are going their way. When the symbol of the Phoenix suddenly explodes into the night sky they know it’s on. Panther yells into the other room for Wanda to join them and check it out.
Forge, still transfixed by the awesome sight, asks Blink if the Tallus is registering anything. Blink replies there’s a lot going on, but nothing definitive. Suddenly the power goes out over all of Genosha and dozens of mutants go flying/storming out of their rooms/buildings to aid their respective friend’s telepathic call.
Wanda finally rejoins the rest of her teammates and asks what’s happening. “Mutant War!” Panther replies and guesses this will accomplish their mission. Getting a reading on the Tallus Blink says there’s now a 97% chance of success.
Suddenly the wall overlooking the chaos comes crashing inward. Beast reacts quickly and snatches a big section, holding it over his head shielding everyone. As the smoke clears Panther asks if that was a missile. No, the newly arrived Banshee replies, saying he was just clearing his throat. Emma’s with him as well and is displeased with seeing the Exiles again. She swears if they’re trying to protect “her” they’d better leave.
Polaris asks who Emma’s referring to. She doesn’t answer, making her way toward Princess Wanda’s bed chamber. There she finds the princess strewn over the couch rubbing her aching head. Teeth clenched in anger, Emma accuses her of ruining things with Scott and whole mutant alliance. She claims to have seen Wanda in Grey’s head as the one who tipped her off. “What – are you talking--,” but the princess doesn’t have time to finish her question as Emma turns to diamond and karate chops her in the neck, snapping it and killing her instantly.
The Exiles are shocked at this display of barbarism, especially Beast, but Blink states that their job is done, order is restored. They walk somberly through the teleportation rift that immediately appears.
Earth Chill
The Exiles reappear in another world, their transition not as bad as prior ones, though Panther looks like he’s ready to hurl. As they take in their Victorian era settings Forge wonders out loud what everyone else is thinking, what screwed up Earth are they on now.
That’s when Morph arrives on horseback and tells them it’s the most messed up one of all, one where nobody’s freaked out about anything and there’s no conflict, an Earth he found a while back and dubbed Earth Chill. Getting straight to the point Forge asks what the mission is. Smiling, Morph replies they have the next 36 hours to relax and eat delicious food. They also have the best rooms in the cabana rented out, all covered. Polaris is happy to hear it, but tells Morph she wants some answers. Morph says he’ll give it a shot.
The group relocates for a nice meal. About mid-course the questions begin, starting with Forge. “If you can move us in and out of time, why not just fix some of these realities that way? Grab a key person out…”
Morph (in Master Po form again) tells him that’s a wise, but stupid question. He uses their last mission as an example. They thought unseating Magneto would have fixed everything, but it wasn’t enough, and gives them props for pitting the telepaths against each other.
When an Exile points out they’re now at war with each other Morph explains that was what needed to happen, they needed to break up and leave Genosha because the humans were about to nuke them out of existence. They saved mutantdom, Morph cheers.
Forge keeps the questions rolling, asking about the mechanics behind it all, how they know what realities need saving. Polaris interjects, asking how they even know what the right thing to do is. Morph tells them he doesn’t really know, though he thought he used to. And with that he fades out telling them they have another 22 hours of R&R before he picks them up again.
The Exiles feel more confused than before, but before they leave the outdoor banquet table Blink asks Beast how he managed to defeat Cerebro. Hank tells her to substitute “smash” for “solve” and then apologizes for not telling them about his fading intelligence as it could have gotten them killed. Forge agrees they need to all be honest with each other and then heads off to get some sleep. Polaris stretches back in her chair, yawning, and seconds his motion.
A day later
The Exiles are enjoying some time out on a boat in the ocean with some of the locals. Panther climbs atop the mast and does a quadruple backwards flip into the cool, icy water. Some of the girls scattered about on rafts applaud his acrobatic prowess.
The rest of the team remains on deck, Blink wondering if Panther realizes he can’t take any of the girls with him when they leave. The Witch is surprised by this and Blink says she thinks the Tallus only allows the six chosen “agents” to move through the Multiverse. She then compliments Wanda on the way she dealt with yesterday. Wanda asks what she means and Blink replies it must have been hard seeing herself die. Wanda agrees, pausing a moment before saying she felt lucky.
Picking up on the conversation, Beast, knowing they can never go back to their home worlds without screwing things up, wonders if they found a similar world if they could just retire there. A downtrodden Forge says that wouldn’t work with him. He wants his wife Storm and not some other version. Polaris points out that the Polaris from their last mission was just like her and suggests he may find a similar Storm that may garner a spark.
Panther, now flirting with a buxom beauty, turns to tell his team to can all the business talk and just relax. When he looks back at his lady friend her head is replaced by Morph’s smirking face and Panther lets out a surprised, “Nyahg!” Morph tells everyone they’ve got an hour and they need to head back and suit up.
59 minutes later
The team is back in uniform waiting around just outside the city. Morph shows up in 70’s pimp style clothes, sporting a gold chain with a large dollar sign emblem, knuckle rings with his name spelled out and a cane with the head of a duck at the top. The next mission, he tells them, takes them to a world that never progressed past 1974, but needs some help getting moving or they won’t be able to repel a Skrull invasion. Morph asks if everyone is ready and a few team members have a devious smirk on their face. Panther places a device that resembles a mini-Tallus on Blink’s Tallus just before Morph Zoops them out of there. When Morph arrives at the intended destination he finds himself completely alone.
The Exiles, however, appear in the middle of the tall grass where Morph has taken them on several occasions. Blink is confused, but doesn’t have much time to ponder things as Panther knocks her out with a successful application of the Wakandan nerve pinch. As Blink falls on her face Polaris congratulates Panther on his successful application of the device Forge created. Forge proclaims that it worked, that it was able to reroute the signal the Tallus received just before the teleportation and focus the time shift to the place the signal originated. He looks up at the giant, pink crystalline structure in front of them and says that’s where it came from.
So whatever’s been sending them on missions is inside, Beast asks. Polaris says it’s time to get some answers and they start walking up the long, tall stairway. Panther states they’re off to see the wizard and Beast says he knew Panther was going to say that.
Meanwhile, Blink starts to regain consciousness. Morph conveniently pops his head in at this time and asks why Blink left the team alone. She tells him she was jumped. Morph assumes they’re somehow onto her. Funny thing is, he continues, Heather can’t get a trace on them, which means they’re somewhere in the Panoptichron. When Morph looks up the long set of stairs in front of them he notes he’s never seen this entrance before. Blink says she’ll find them and tells Morph to connect through her once she does. Morph wishes her luck locating them in the infinite interior of the Palace.
Inside, the remainder of the Exiles is running down a long stretch of crystalline tunnel. They’re both amazed at the breadth of the structure and the fact that there’s nothing in it. As if on cue Panther spies a window and the team heads over to see what’s happening outside. There, they see what looks like a different team of Exiles with an Impossible Man Timebroker.
Forge draws everyone’s attention to another window where a Mojo Timebroker seems to be talking to a roster of villains as his final mission words are, “…and once there, you will kill the ruling body!” Panther says they’re definitely a better looking team than that.
Wanda looks out another window and sees another team comprised solely of Wolverines. This is insane, Polaris exclaims, wondering how many teams there are exactly. Right then, Blink appears and answers her, “apparently a lot.” She then thanks them for finally stopping as she’s already teleported to dozens of different places looking for them.
Angry, the Exiles’ resident teleporter readies two more shards and tells her teammates not to even think about jumping her again. Polaris isn’t impressed and uses her magnetic prowess to rip the shards from Blink’s hands. Blink, not looking as confident now, explains she wasn’t intending on attacking them.
It’s at this point Blink decides to come clean. She knows the jig is up and wants to explain her side. Beast asks if she was ever planning on telling them. Blink describes how she was going to stick around until she felt they were ready and then fake her own death and have a new member appointed the team. However, and Blink says this with some uncertainty, she’s not sure she would have been allowed to go at all.
Suddenly, the Tallus comes to life and begins pulling them to the control room. Something doesn’t seem right, Blink exclaims, as they’re all ripped from their location.
Control room
The Exiles reappear smack dab in the middle of the Control room where Heather, Nocturne and Morph are waiting for them. “Pay no attention to those good-looking heroes behind the curtain!” Morph jokes, but Panther calls foul as he already rocked a Wizard of Oz joke.
Polaris spots the Timebroker (Morph) and asks who the rest of the gang is. We’re the original Exiles, Nocturne answers. Beast demands some sort of resolution about this whole Exiles thing upon threat of cracking skulls. Heather promises to be as forthright as she can, but first wants to know how Forge managed to subvert the teleportation. Bringing up a holographic video from his arm he tells Heather to watch their conversation from when Blink wasn’t around. Heather observes as Polaris and Forge voice their concerns over Blink’s honesty and Forge lays out his plan to intercept the next transmission and follow it back to its source.
Clever, Heather tells Forge, and adds that they did the same exact thing, though not as quickly. Then she goes into the history of how the Exiles came to be. She brings up a picture of the original Timebroker on a holographic monitor and explains that it all started with a group of bugs who discovered the palace and accidentally messed things up.
Nocturne steps in at this point and adds that team members died, were replaced or returned home as the missions carried on. One of the new Exiles is excited that they can return home, but Nocturne says they were wrong about that.
Meanwhile, the Tallus is still going wonky, repeatedly broadcasting random signals. Blink interrupts the little history lesson to let everyone know, but they ignore her complaints and continue on.
Panther wants to know if they were being prepped to take their place. Morph says most of them were already retired, and were in fact recently pulled back. Nocturne then leads them all to the stasis wall to give them a visual on the latest, most confusing turn of events.
Inside the stasis wall is the prior incarnation of Exiles, sans Morph. He explains he woke up one morning to find them all in stasis and soon after Heather, Nocturne and Blink appeared. Despite all their efforts, they couldn’t free them from the wall and soon after the Tallus appeared and spoke to them as if it had a mind of its own. The Witch looks at the golden object attached to Blink’s wrist and is taken aback by the giant eye now staring at them through the ruby lens.
Just then the ceiling starts to tear itself apart. The Exiles stare upward through the gaping hole where the ceiling once was. Panther thinks they broke something, but a resounding “No” fills the cavernous room.
There’s more turbulence as the flooring morphs into the shape of a hand and rises from the ground carrying the Exiles along with it. The booming voice explains they awakened her when they teleported within the Panoptichron itself, closing a loop and allowing her to assert her presence once more.
The entire crystalline area is now metamorphed into a gigantic humanoid shape. “I have been here for infinity… and yet… no time at all,” the being announces. The Exiles are unsure what to do. When the creature opens its mouth and brings its hand upward Morph yells out it’s going to eat them. Instead, a human-sized figure steps out from the orifice to address them as she once was, a being called Kang.
Beast instantly recognizes her as a time-traveler and conqueror from his reality. Kang is not offended by this, but explains she was a respected scientist from her world who went into her reality’s past and prevented her Earth’s apocalypse.
Blink and Heather have questions, namely is she the one who summoned them and made them, in turn, summon a new team of Exiles. Kang admits it was she, but cautions that everything she says is correct and at the same time not. Forge is happy for some answers finally, but Beast is worried his head is going to hurt.
Kang warns that although she gives them answers, they’re fleeting. Referencing her time travel story from earlier Kang recounts that she created two timelines from her actions and although she returned to the one she fixed, the other apocalyptic reality still existed. Meddling in time, Kang explains, only fragments it.
A representation of dozens of Earths looped together appears. Kang explains each time she tried to affect things she only created more fragments, and other Kangs also did this, and an infinite loop was growing geometrically. As Kang travelled across the Multiverse she saw how things drastically changed, and although she was cautious in her undertakings other Kangs didn’t hold back.
Forge asks how she could know if she was really the first, not just the product of another divergence. Kang admits that’s equally likely, but will stick to her origin as all other Kangs have.
Instead of explaining further, Kang connects all of them to the Panoptichron so they know what she knows. She states that her paradigm could fall as others grow and replace ones close to it. Kang has determined the safest way to engage in this battle of existences was to use agents from her end of the loop who were unhinged from time.
The information download completes, and with all the knowledge simmering in their heads the Exiles realize why they can never return to their native realities. Looking at the figures in the wall Forge adds that staying in the eye of time eventually causes you to join the structure, become a part of it. Nocturne states that they thought they could heal their friends or hold their enemies within the wall, but all they were doing was speeding up the process of immersion. Morph points out Proteus was absorbed from his consciousness first, leaving him unaffected for the time being.
Kang explains that Proteus’ presence within the wall is what drew her back from the collective, where she discovered her Exiles were missing and summarily searched Morph’s mind for the best Exiles to restart the program, which is where the three ladies came from.
Blink says shortly after she arrived she scanned for some good prospects at the behest of the Tallus/Kang that she could guide into becoming Exiles. Morph says it was Heather’s idea to take people right before their death.
Forge starts manipulating the Panoptichron systems to see what’s happening in his homeworld. A scene of his reality emerges. It’s his funeral. He watches as Cyclops leads the X-Men in a eulogy, a statue of Forge erected behind him. Forge starts running an analysis and determines Kang is right, that if he returned the results would be disastrous. The world would place their faith in him to save them again instead of working on how to defend themselves. Panther watches this world’s version of his father console the widowed Storm. “Oh, not cool, dad,” Panther remarks staring at his “father” putting the moves on her during the funeral.
Panther checks his world next and discovers his father came out of retirement to avenge him and kill Klaw once and for all. The Witch asks what would happen if he returned. Panther says it wouldn’t be too bad, but his sister, Sh’ri, is on course to become the greatest Panther ever and he doesn’t want to mess that up.
Beast is next and the system determines there’s only a 3.46% chance of derailing his world if he goes back, but there’s no point as the only person he’d want to see is gone. He says this as he watches the Avengers hold a funeral for Wonder Man. Panther isn’t quite sure what he means, but then catches on. Beast points out he never really rambled on about women. Hank starts to cry and Panther tells him to let it out, but he says he’s not crying about Simon, but for his mind. Connected to the Panoptichron has restored it to what it once was.
Polaris is pleased and asks Hanks for help in determining the course for her world. Turns out her death brought Magneto over to the side of the heroes and now her world is 200 times more solid than if she remained.
Kang interrupts their “what could’ve been” moments and redirects the Exiles to their reason for existence, to defend her end of the Multiverse. Kang says it’s imperative to continue to recruit Exiles as her Kang counterparts keep defending their own paradigms and even send their own Exiles to sabotage hers.
Blink remembers tangling with one of those villainous teams and says she’ll have no problem staying behind and training new teams now that she knows what’s really happening. Nocturne agrees with her sentiments. Heather and Morph put their hands into the middle, Morph’s hand resembling the orange, rockiness of Thing’s, with the other two. Morph says they’ll call themselves the Fantastic Exiles, but receives a cool response and guesses maybe not.
Kang asks the newest batch if they’re willing to continue on. With the alternatives being oblivion or messing up their homeworlds Polaris speaks for them all when she says they’re locked in. Beast warns Kang she can’t stay too long in the Panoptichron if things are to run smoothly. Kang agrees to spend time back in her homeworld, though she will make a change.
The new team of Exiles is shocked to suddenly find Talluses attached to each of their wrists. Kang explains this way they’ll all have an extension of her with them at all times and it should also help keep her from being absorbed again. “I’m flossin’” Panther quips, impressed with his new gear.
Before disappearing in a bright flash of light Kang says she will go ahead and examine the next Earth in danger of falling from the paradigm. As soon as Kang leaves the Crystal Palace begins to reassert itself. Heather says she’ll start running some searches to find the best candidates who are about to die. Forge tells her to make one of them a teleporter since that’ll give them an enormous edge. Blink thanks him for the compliment.
Nocturne volunteers to go with Forge and the gang while Blink breaks in the next group. She asks Heather to send word to Thunderbird that she’ll be back soon. Panther starts putting the moves on Nocturne, but Beast asks him to at least wait until they’re on their first mission.
At the controls, Heather starts running her search on a good teleporter. She tells Morph he can do the explanations. He smiles and says how much he loves telling distraught heroes they can never go home again. Also, Blink and Polaris make amends, each apologizing for their earlier actions, before they head off.
Nocturne tells the crew they’re on their way to Earth 9744 and just like that they disappear. The Exiles reemerge in a world where the Savage Land spread across the entire globe. Polaris says Kang is still assimilating the data and suggests they stay put until they determine what needs to be done. Panther says it reminds him of Wakanda.
Forge spots Beast bend over on the ground, stick in hand drawing something. Being a genius himself he guesses Hank can’t wait to start using his brain again. Beast agrees he’s very preoccupied with all this new information. Nocturne restates how it all started with the Timebroker, then it turned out to be the bugs, then it was an older couple who was behind it all. And now it’s Kang, Beast continues, but adds that she won’t be the last version. Forge asks what he means and Beast says while he was connected to the Panoptichron he realized the Multiverse is a potentially infinite series of loops.
On the ground Hank has drawn a set of circles, each one within another. He draws a line bisecting one of them and explains while they defend their part of the loop to keep people like themselves in existence they change the structure in another direction, and when they change a later point in the circle they change the beginning point as well. Beast reveals that as they change more and more eventually Kang won’t be the guiding force anymore, just like the others before her.
The Witch asks what the point of all this is. Beast says you can only deal with what you’re given at the moment. Polaris suddenly realizes they never looked in on her reality. The Witch says she can’t go back so why bother.
Just then the Exiles receive their mission status; they must save a furry guy named Moonboy. The group takes off running. Wanda stays back a bit, still focused on Polaris’ comments. They think she’s dead in her reality anyway because Emma Frost killed “her”; the image of Emma cracking the neck of the Witch fills her mind. With nothing left to lose she takes off after the team wondering what the rest of reality has to offer her. “Go Exiles!” she yells, leaping into the air.