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Somewhere over the Mediterranean Sea, an X-jet flies, manned by Storm and Gambit. This is why they cannot teleport in, Storm announces. The vampires are generating a sort of forcefield around their island. He isn’t seeing anything, Gambit remarks. Storm explains that she can see how it disrupts the flow of weather patterns, air currents and temperature. Pure corruption. And she can smell it. Vile, like rotted flesh which means dark magic. She always did have a flare for the dramatic, he teases, and a nose for trouble. He is one to talk, she smirks. C’est vrai, ma reine, he replies.
They know you’re here, Ororo suddenly hears as though someone is speaking to her mentally. Get out of the plane now! What did he says? Ororo asks startled. He didn’t say nothing, Gambit protests.
Suddenly, vampires attack and the plane is taken down. Hovering far above it, the two X-Men remark they have barely begun and are already one plane down.
After the flying vampires leave, Gambit suggests they go down. Storm wants to stay a bit longer. They don’t want the vampires to see them. If not for that telepathic warning… He appreciates that warning as much as she does but maybe they could talk about it on solid ground… It can’t be, she mutters, suddenly sensing something on the ground. She lands the two of them.
She apologizes. For a moment, she thought she saw who was helping them. But he’s gone. Their target himself. Dracula. The undead dead guy? Gambit asks. The guy whose head is 15,000 miles away? After everything he’s been through with the X-Men, is that so hard to believe? He was just here, standing next to this path. Clearly, he meant for them to go that way. Whatever she says, he decides. Just point him at what it is she needs blown up.
flashback:Utopia, eight hours ago. The team is gathered. And thus, thanks to Northstar’s superspeed-staking all of the vampires before she could read their minds, their mission to find intel on this “vampire island” was a colossal failure, Emma Frost summarizes. Dazzler warns her not to blame Northstar, who did it to save her. Those stupid medallions the vampires wear not only block sunlight but her ultraviolet light blasts too. Point taken. Dazzler was completely useless in the fight, Emma remarks, except for giving her those unfortunate tan lines she mutters and ogles the top of her breasts critically.
Cyclops reminds them that the vampires have declared war on them. They need to do better. All Blade could tell them about this place was that the vampires are keeping Dracula’s body there. Up till now, he thought it was a myth and he is the expert on these people.
Storm suggests alerting Dr. Strange or his successor, Doctor Voodoo. But Cyclops already tried them: nothing. The vampires are masters at controlling what information they let out. He turns to Storm. She and Gambit agree to steal Dracula’s body so they can resurrect him. Are they sure, just the two of them? Scott asks. Other than it being a Greek island, they know nothing of its population, defenses, layout… The two are not impressed.
Northstar suggests they have Magik or Pixie teleport in and have a quick look around. Emma explains the vampires are blocking both Cerebra scans and teleportation gates in a 100 mile radius of the island. That means walking into a potential minefield with no back up, Cyclops warns. The perfect mission for two thieves, Storm believes. Two master thieves trained since childhood, Gambit corrects her.
Oh please, Emma mocks; they know what this is about. Storm’s bored with her proper husband and wants some excitement. Going to play Twilight with her old lover Dracula, hmm? They weren’t lovers, Ororo coolly informs her. He attacked her. But this experience gives her a potential advantage. Dracula created a psychic bond with her years ago. Perhaps this will somehow help in finding him.
Again, Cyclops warns her of the danger. But Storm believes they are prepared. And she will do whatever it takes to get this done…
Now:As they make their way through the vegetation Storm insists she received a telepathic warning. Gambit replies he tries not to think about magic or vampires or anything like that too much. He leaves that to people like her. But he does know she never steered him wrong. If she says she needs him, that’s good enough for him. ‘Course, he doesn’t know if he trusts that voice she’s been hearing… Especially if it says to go down there, a cave.
Ororo beckons him to the cave’s entrance. Can he feel it? Happy to say he doesn’t… She leads him inside. He asks about her claustrophobia. Much better she assures him. Charles gave her some excellent coping exercises. They do not notice someone standing behind them at the cave’s entrance…
They walk further and further down for what feels like hours. Is she picking up Dracula yet? Gambit asks. She shushes him. She needs to concentrate. She is manipulating the air saturation around them. It masks their scent from the vampires. Is she all right? To use her powers, she must bond with the elements, she explains. The air here fights her. It’s very essence is corrupted. It’s this whole place, Gambit decides. Like a vampire itself. Feels like it’s sucking the life right outta—
The next moment, a vampire jumps on him followed by others who attack Storm. Ororo calls lightning to hit them but senses something wrong. A female vampires topples her. She grabs Ororo’s hair, musing she’s heard mutant blood gives you a rush for hours afterward…
Gambit gets rid of his vampire attacker and hits Storm’s assailant with his staff. The first vampire grabs him again. No more tricks, he announces. No more anything for him, it turns out as Storm kills him. She figures she needs to limit the use of her powers here. They are too volatile.
A young looking vampire newcomer stops another attacker from leaving, remarking he doesn’t think Queen Ororo is through with him yet. The newcomer greets the two X-Men and explains they’ll need his help if they are going to survive the experience. Storm demands to know who he is and how he knows her. Gambit points out as Queen of Wakanda she is kinda famous. The stranger introduces himself as Janus, first son of Dracula. And he knows her because his father spoke of her often. “The one that got away…” She grows tired of that misconception of his father and her, Storm announces haughtily. So what does he want?
The same as them, comes the reply. To restore his father to the throne. Unfortunately, the body is simply too well guarded and the entire vampire nation has orders to kill him on sight. He cannot do it alone. But together…
Why should they trust him? Ororo asks. Janus points out he already saved them once, revealing he was the one to telepathically warn her on the plane.
Gambit whispers he is against it. Janus gives off a big bad wolf vibe. And they are Red Riding Hood. Ororo whispers back that her powers are questionable at best now. They need every advantage they can get. She accepts Janus’ help. Splendid, he replies. Shall they begin by interrogating their prisoner?
Later in what looks like the interior of a church, where according the guard they were supposed to find Dracula’s body. Is this a temple? Storm asks. The entire island is, Janus explains. The oldest place of worship on Earth. They are the first humans here. This is where the vampires fled after being hunted down in Atlantis. The legends say Varnae constructed it completely from magic, the structures the land, even the air itself. Hence the problem with her powers, Storm realizes.
Gambit demands Janus stop staring at him. Janus apologizes. This is all new to him, he is a pureblood. He explains that he was born as a vampire and spent no time as a human. His only real interaction with non-vampires—- has been as prey, Gambit finishes. Janus assures him he can control his urges, they needn’t worry.
A moment later, they are attacked and Storm is dragged down a hole by monstrous vampires. Storm finds herself alone down there. Janus telepathically contacts her. She can’t fly up as she is too drained. She tells them not to come down, they tumbled through some crevice. She is too far out. She tells them to get Dracula. He is the priority and they are running out of time. She’ll be fine.
She gathers up a sword and beheads a vampire, then walks along the tunnel until around the corner she sees a guarded cell. She tells Janus she thinks she has found the source of the shield. Once she brings it down, they can summon the rest of the X-Men to finish this.
She kills the guard and enters the cell. In a circle sit vampires concentrating on a spell. They are linked to humans, which serve as food source being slowly drained of blood. One of the persons hanging from the ceiling addresses Storm and begs for help.
Janus and Gambit, in the meantime, have found the headless body. Gambit isn’t sure whether Janus told him the truth about Storm. Janus scoffs that he is a prince of the vampire nation. If he wanted him dead, he would be.
“Prince Janus”, a newcomer announces, he honors them with his presence. And how gracious he brought dinner! a vampire woman surrounded by other vampires smirks.
Elsewhere, the prisoner asks Storm to help. He’s been down here for days. Those things don’t sleep or move. They just sit here. They are feeding on them.
Gambit and Janus do battle. Storm reaches Janus telepathically, explaining the situation that the shield is generated by a group of vamps in a trance. There are humans connected to them. Janus explains it’s a mother bond. Vampires in dormant states use them to feed. How does she free the humans? Storm asks. Janus fears she can’t. The procedure was designed to serve vampires, not humans. Storm suggests she kill the vampires. Do that or sever the chord, he tells her, and the humans will bleed out immediately. But whatever she does, she has to hurry. Because after them they will come for her and if the shield isn’t down, it’s all over.
Storm asks the victim if he knows how to stop this. He doesn’t know and pleads for helps.
Janus again tries to contact Storm as the battle rages on and they finally are beaten. Storm apologizes; she doesn’t know how to set them free.
Janus pleads they are going to die if she doesn’t act now. The vampires close in and Storm is out of options. She apologizes for not being able to save the victims an destroys the vampires, thus also killing the humans. She then calls Cyclops to inform him that the shield is down and he can send in a team. She adds that Janus helped them. Have Emma instruct the others not to kill him.
A moment later, help arrives for Gambit while Storm sits amidst the dead vampire victims.
Upstairs, Magik has teleported in Emma Frost, Wolverine, Colossus, Dazzler, Northstar, Psylocke and Angel. Oh dear God, these people smell terrible, Emma announces. “Let’s wrap this up quickly, please!”
Immediately, the X-Men attack. At super-speed, Northstar takes away the amulets that protect them from UV rays, allowing Dazzler to pulverize them all. “Go team Jacob!” Northstar announces.
With the battle over Storm rejoins them as they transport away Dracula’s body. Gambit was beginning to think she’d left with Janus. He made sure she was okay, then vanished. Is she okay? For a woman who may have just saved mutantkind, she doesn’t look so happy. She recalled that when she joined the X-Men she swore to never take a life. But that changed. She made an exception. And exceptions became justifications. Taking a life became less horrifying. And today she crossed a line. She took another life. Not a monster or a vampire. An innocent.
Gambit understands her. But it’s when she stops feeling bad for hard decisions that’s when she has to worry. She’s worried now, because she wonders, the next time she crosses that line… will it be too hard to bear?


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Emma Frost, left in charge of Utopia since Cyclops is out hunting vampires, requests a meeting with Dr. Nemesis to ask him about the X-Men’s Science Club’s latest vampire projects. Dr. Nemesis says that Emma may be an expert in “Bedroom Ceilings of the World” but is not intelligent enough to comprehend anything the X-Club does. Emma informs him that she may not be scientifically minded but she is “in charge minded” and asks about the X-Club’s “lab guest.”
Dr. Nemesis admits the vampire that the X-Men captured is “cranky” and reflects on the incident that occurred upon the vampire’s arrival. Wolverine had decided to take off the vampire’s light-bending necklace before it was safely inside, causing the vampire to begin to disintegrate.
Dr. Nemesis describes Dr. Kavita Rao’s attempts to reverse vampirism by tackling the changes that occur at a nucleic level by locating the RNA sequence behind the physical effects. Madison Jeffries has created parvodrones, tiny robots, and has trained them to go into the body and release a serum that with will go into the cell to silence the RNA code found in vampires.
Content with their progress, Emma moves on to ask about Dr. Nemesis’ progress with curing the virus that was released when a vampire exploded all over Union Square after exposing himself to sunlight. The civilians who were exposed to the vampire’s “splatter” found themselves infected by a behavior-altering bug, one of them being Jubilee who found herself overcome with the desire to join the vampire’s ranks.
Dr. Nemesis informs her that it’s been challenging and, even after numerous tests on the six infected civilians that they have chained up downstairs, he can find no trace of the mechanism that’s affecting their minds. They are increasingly becoming more predatory and desire the company of vampires more than anything.
Emma switches to telepathy as she tells Dr. Nemesis that “not every problem can be solved in a lab” and suggests he opens his mind up a bit more. She uses her telepathy as an example of things that are unexplainable and beyond science. Dr. Nemesis shrugs her off and proclaims that he and his colleagues are geniuses and “Nothing beats science.”
Meanwhile, a small fire starts in Utopia’s science complex and Dr. Rao and Jeffries discover that the captured vampire has escaped! Jeffries immediately rushes to protect the civilians as Dr. Rao gathers the serum.
After Jeffries informs the six civilians of the situation, most of them seem more thrilled than frightened. When the vampire approaches the group, they begin to flee as Jeffries attempts to fight it off. One of the female civilians gets in his way and willingly sacrifices herself to their “noble guest.”
As Jeffries and the remaining civilians watch in horror as the vampire devours the girl, Dr. Kavita Rao arrives and shoots the monster with the serum. The serum fails to work and the group continues to run.
Arriving at the laboratories, Dr. Nemesis realizes what’s going on and tells Emma that he’s going to seal the complex to prevent a “catastrophic superpandemic biohazard.” Emma agrees with his decision and inquires whether Dr. Nemesis will be sealing the complex from the inside or out…
Jeffries, Dr. Rao and the remaining civilians arrive at the machine room. There, Rao questions how the cure failed, as the civilians cryptically tell her that the she cannot stop the “dusk-masters” with science. Jeffries seems to think he can kill the vampire by exposing it to UV rays.
Unfortunately, the power grid becomes overloaded and the whole complex loses power. As Dr. Rao grabs flashlights, Jeffries explains that the vampire managed to fry the entire electrical system by feeding the power surge back to the core. Dr. Rao doesn’t understand how the beast managed to do such a thing, since tests showed it to be a simple-minded creature. Jeffries tells her that she can ask it as the vampire begins to approach them.
The civilians are horrified but one young man tries to console himself by considering horror film clichés, including “seniors dying first,” which upsets the older black lady among them. They begin to slowly move away but one of the civilians calls out to the “glorious lord of the dark,” revealing their location. The vampire quickly finds them and kills the apologetic loudmouth as the rest of the group flee as the infected young man once again brings up horror film clichés, suggesting the vampire takes the “ethnic chick.”
Dr. Nemesis arrives and exclaims, “Those are my lab rats,” as he shoots the vampire with a high-grade weaponry, causing it to flee. The immediate crisis passed, the group settles down and Nemesis informs them that he is the only person with the codes to unseal the complex and that nobody is leaving until the “hammer reject” is dead and the human infection is cured. Dr. Rao suggests contacting Emma for help, resulting in a very bitter and grumbling Dr. Nemesis. Emma uses Cerebro to attempt to find the beast but claims only to detect human and mutant psyches and adds that the situation seems to be making her powers “fuzzy.”
As the group decides what to do next, Jeffries informs them that the fire has reached the chemistry lab. When Dr. Rao cries out that they can’t let her research burn, Dr. Nemesis agrees and decides to accompany her to the lab. Since Dr. Nemesis is the only one with the codes to the doors, Jeffries tells him to stay safe with the remaining civilians as he goes with Dr. Rao to the labs.
When the vampire reaches Dr. Nemesis and the remaining three infected civilians, Dr. Nemesis decides that logic has taken a vacation and decides to try out the magical “stake-in-the-heart” approach by slaying the vampire with a chopstick. His plan fails and he realizes the vampire has transformed himself and now has a techno-organic appearance...
The infected young man again reminds himself out loud of horror movie clichés as the vampire moves closer. As he suggests the idea that he and the remaining young girl will be survive and become romantically involved, the virus overcomes her thoughts and she kills him by tossing him into the vampire’s mouth.
As Dr. Rao desperately tries to save her research notes from the fire, Jeffries comes to a realization. He informs Dr. Rao that he must have become infected when the vampire was exposed to sunlight upon arrival. Jeffries believes that he’s been unknowingly helping the beast all along including its initial escape and the power loss. Dr. Rao is horrified, as she begins to wonder about the machines that Jeffries made for the serum…
Dr. Nemesis realizes the truth as well and rushes to where Jeffries and Dr. Rao are.
The virus takes over Jeffries’ mind as he pulls a gun out on Dr. Rao. He manages to fight the infection and, instead, turns the gun on himself. However, since his mutant powers seem to have sided with the infection, the gun falls apart. He tells Kavita that she will have to kill him herself.
As the remaining two infected civilians succumb to the virus and attack Dr. Nemesis as the vampire approaches, the doctor reflects on Emma’s early advice as well as her failure to detect the beast. He realizes that the infection is not viral but is actually a psychic signal and hastily tells Emma to target Jeffries’ parietal cortex and send a “psychic spike” to the pain center, which she does effortlessly.
Jeffries and the two infected civilians cry out in pain and Dr. Nemesis watches as the pain overloads the vampire, causing the psychic signal to cease.
With the voice in his head gone, Jeffries destroys the vampire using the parvodrones that he placed inside it. The two cured civilians embrace each other as Dr. Nemesis expresses relief that the situation is finally over.
Emma demands to know what the hell just happened and Dr. Rao informs her of Dr. Nemesis’ hypothesis that the infection was actually a telepathic broadcast, which they overloaded with feedback thus breaking the link and curing the infected. Emma asks why Dr. Nemesis isn’t explaining it to her himself and Dr. Rao delights her by saying that he’s cranky.
With the infection crisis solved, Emma inquires about the cure for vampirism. Dr. Rao admits that, although the cure is perfect, it just doesn’t work…
As Dr. Nemesis and Jeffries burn the vampire’s body, Jeffries expresses his thoughts that these creatures are beyond science. Dr. Nemesis cuts him off and states that he refuses to “believe in a state of being that doesn’t obey the laws of nature.” Jeffries explains that it doesn’t matter whether he believes in it or not, since the vampires do believe in it and they’ve been around longer… so it might be their opinion that matters in the long run…


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Outside Tokyo, Japan, blood is splattered across the grounds of a large temple. Ninjas lay motionless, their bodies smoldering. ‘HAAAGH! Where is she?’ a voice roars, throwing another ninja out of the house into the grounds. He is a gray-skinned man with very sharp claws. He tears his way through more ninjas, ‘She’s here’ he declares, boasting that if he has to take apart this entire place, and all of them with it, he will. More ninjas are thrown to the floor, blood dripping from all of them.
As the clawed man enters another chamber, he sees a hooded man standing over the body of a woman who is laid out on a table. ‘Master…’ an armored ninja ventures. ‘Kill him’ the hooded man orders, announcing that the ritual must not be interrupted, not now. ‘She will be ours. Of the Hand for the Hand’. The clawed man looks at the ninja who holds up his sword. ‘One blade? That’s all you brought to the fight? Not me… I brought plenty’ he declares as he shoves his claws into the ninja’s chest, spraying blood everywhere.
‘It will be finished!’ the hooded man cries, raising his hands over the woman, but the gray-skinned man rushes forward and shoves the hooded man aside. ‘You’re done now’ he tells him, while touching the woman on her head, ‘Cyblade?’ he calls out. ‘Come on, Dom, I didn’t track you down halfway around the world just to end up with you on a slab. Dominique?’
Some blood drips from the man’s claws onto her face, but she does not wake, until, suddenly, ‘Ahh… Ripclaw? Robert? You came for me?’ Cyblade asks as she sits up. ‘Always, Dom’ Ripclaw replies as he helps he off the table, ‘Easy. Looks like you’ve been through hell and back’ Ripclaw comments. ‘Where are we? This place…’ Cyblade begins, as Ripclaw reveals they are in an old temple outside Tokyo, or at least that is what it looks like on the outside.
‘It must be a safe house for the Hand’ Cyblade supposes, adding that she sees Ripclaw has met some of them already. She explains that they are assassins and mystics, and were trying to strip her mind from her, make her into a pawn to do their bidding. ‘From what I’ve heard, not the first time they’ve attempted such a thing’ Cyblade explains, while the hooded man, the mystic, gets to his feet, and Ripclaw declares: ‘Look like a bunch of guys in their pajamas to me’.
Cyblade reveals that she crossed paths with them years ago, before she joined Cyberforce. ‘But that was the past…’ she mutters as she raises a fist to the mystic’s face. He tells her that this doesn’t matter. ‘The will of the Hand won’t be -’ he begins, as Cyblade concludes what she was saying ‘…when I was no better than they are’. She then unleashes electromagnetic energy from her hand, which strikes the mystic in his face and he falls to the floor.
Cyblade asks Ripclaw if anyone else came with him, to which he tells her that he didn’t need anyone else. ‘When you went off the grid, I picked up your trail, took the Jump Jet and followed’ he explains, when suddenly, the roof above them is torn apart - as giant purple and pink robots burst through.
‘Ninjas and giant robots. Hell of a party you throw, Dom’ Ripclaw remarks. Cyblade looks up at the robots and suggests that these might be the friendly kind, as this is Japan. ‘I wouldn’t count on -’ Ripclaw begins, before he screams as one of the robots releases a powerful surge of energy from its hand at him, spreading more blood over the floor.
Later, the blood-stained floor suddenly gets an adamantium claw shoved into it as Wolverine a.k.a. Logan stands in the temple and uses his claw to pick up some cloth that was torn from Ripclaw‘s trousers. He sniffs it, and smells blood, the Hands and cybernetic implants. ‘But once you get past all that, there’s something else’ he tells Betsy “Psylocke” Braddock, who asks ‘What?’ ‘Sentinel’ Wolverine frowns, sheathing his claw as they stand in the room littered with weapons. Betsy asks Logan if he is sure, as she hasn’t heard of Sentinels being active in Japan. ‘Last I knew, they didn’t send out bulletins to announce themselves’ Wolverine remarks. ‘All right’ Betsy replies, picking up something on the floor she asks ‘Why the Hand? Believe me, I’m not shedding any tears for them. But why would a Sentinel tear apart a Hand stronghold?’
Wolverine explains that the Sentinel was not here for the Hand, they were just collateral damage. He suspects that most of them were smoke before the Sentinel ever showed. ‘That Sentinel was here to grab up somebody, Betsy. More’n likely, a mutant’. Betsy ask if they call in the rest of the X-Men, or maybe Sunfire, but Wolverine tells her that they haven’t got time. ‘We each had our own reasons for being in Japan, but this was showy enough to bring both of us down here’ Wolverine remarks, figuring that the two of them are enough to track down a three-story mutant-killing robot and see if there is an unwilling guest or two. ‘Then where do we start? Sentinels don’t send out bulletins to announce themselves. Or so I hear’ Betsy jokes. Wolverine touches his nose and replies that he has a map right here.
‘You take all your dates into the sewers?’ Betsy asks as she follows Wolverine through the dank tunnel. ‘Just the ones I think I might get lucky with’ Wolverine jokes, before reporting that they are getting closer. ‘How can you tell with the stench down here?’ Betsy asks. Logan explains that it jumps out at him like a landing strip in the dark. ‘Speaking of, I don’t need ‘em, but feel free to turn on the lights when you do, Bets’ Wolverine adds.
Betsy creates her psi-knife, which lights up the tunnel, and reveals that they have changed into their X-Men costumes. ‘I really liked it better when I couldn’t see what I was wading through’ Betsy mutters. ‘Down this way’ Wolverine calls out as he leads the way. Through the tunnel. Betsy tells her friend that she accepts the nose knows, but nevertheless asks if he is sure about this. ‘Sentinels under Tokyo seems like a bit of a stretch, even for the world we live in’ Betsy points out.
‘Here’ Wolverine announces as they come to a panel in the side of the tunnel. He pulls it open. ‘Forget what I said’ Betsy tells Logan, who wonders if the Tokyo Department of Public Works knows about this. ‘Looks like they’re shut down. Maybe hibernating. Be nice if they stayed that way’ Wolverine declares, adding that this must be an access tunnel big enough for them to come and go.
There are two Sentinels in the room through the panel. It is filled with high-tech monitors and equipment, which the Sentinels seem to be linked up to. Pointing at another part of the room, Logan announces that they have found their missing mutants, too.
Indeed, Ripclaw and Cyblade are unconscious in some tanks. Wolverine and Betsy crawl through the access panel, and Betsy asks Logan if either of them look familiar. ‘Nope. But I ain’t about to leave them… or any mutants… in the hands of Sentinels’ Wolverine announces. Wolverine then pops his claws, a familiar SNIKT sound filling the room as he slashes both of the tanks open.
Betsy and he help Cyblade and Ripclaw from the tanks, as Betsy asks Logan if they can get out of here, as hanging around a couple of Sentinels, even if they are taking a nap, is not exactly comforting. Ripclaw and Cyblade start to come to: ‘Where are we… and who the hell are you?’ Ripclaw asks. ‘Wolverine. Or Logan. Take your pick. She’s Psylocke. We’re X-Men’ Wolverine replies. Cyblade introduces herself as does Ripclaw, adding that they are both part of Cyberforce. ‘Thanks for being the Cavalry’ he adds.
Logan explains that he has been on the receiving end of the Sentinels’ tender mercies, and that it ain’t much fun. ‘They’re called Sentinels? That’s more than we knew before. We were… having a disagreement… with a group called the Hand… then one of those showed up and took the roof right off the place. Didn’t seem like the sort of thing the Hand would employ’ Ripclaw explains. Psylocke tells him that it is not, adding that both she and Logan have had their dealings with the Hand - other stories for other times, though. ‘Sentinels are programmed to track down and capture or kill mutants like us’ Psylocke adds. ‘“Like us” - what’s that mean? We’re not mutants. Robert and I had cybernetic implants, but as far as I know…neither of us is a mutant’ Cyblade explains.
Wolverine tells everyone that this doesn’t make sense, for if the two of them ain’t mutants, there is no reason for the Sentinels to grab them. ‘What if they’re a sleeper cell? Trask could’ve put these things here years ago, in case he ever needed them. They could be functioning on outdated programming…or malfunctioning’. Betsy points out that Cyblade and Ripclaw might not have mutant genes, but their genetic sequence might be close enough for them to - ‘Son of a bitch’ Betsy utters when the two Sentinels suddenly wake. ‘Go after the other one, Bets…see if you can knock it down to size!’ Wolverine calls out as one of the Sentinels bursts through the ceiling of the tunnel, breaking out into the public, causing civilians to flee in panic. ‘Excellent idea. Thanks, Wouldn’t have thought of that myself’ Betsy replies sarcastically as she attacks the other Sentinel.
‘Everybody’s a smart-ass these days’ Wolverine mutters, before the Sentinel picks him up. ‘Damn this is gonna hurt’ he realizes, as the Sentinel releases energy from the hand, blasting Wolverine back to the ground. ‘Your friend’s going to need a hospital. Or a morgue’ Ripclaw tells Betsy, who unleashes her psi-knife and tells him not to worry about Logan ,as he tends to be a quick healer.
The impact of the blast knocked Wolverine into a store, and runs from it towards the Sentinel, ‘Here’s the thing, I have had a bellyful of fighting damn robots!’ Wolverine roars as he lunges at the Sentinel, shoving his claws into each of the Sentinel’s eye sockets, causing the mighty robot, not on fire, to fall to the ground.
The other Sentinel fires a blast at Betsy, but she leaps out of harm’s way. ‘One down and this one coming down. Ladies. Do what you do’ Ripclaw calls out as he slashes the Sentinel causing it to topple backwards towards Betsy and Cyblade, who both shove their respective powered fists into the robot’s face.
As the fires rage around the heroes, Wolverine approaches the others asking them if they are all in one piece. He tells Cyblade and Ripclaw that he is sorry they got dragged into an X-Men problem, but that they handled themselves pretty well. ‘We’ve had some practice’ Ripclaw replies. ‘Seems like’ Wolverine agrees, adding that if they want a little more practice, he knows a place. ‘You might not be mutants, but close enough’ he remarks, explaining that the X-Men have a school, and he thinks there is a couple of extra bedrooms. ‘Assuming it wouldn’t be overly confusing having two guys with claws and two ladies with energy blades. Interested?’ he asks.
‘Thanks…’ Cyblade begins. ‘But no’ Ripclaw announces. Cyblade explains that they have their own affairs to look after. ‘Can’t say we didn’t offer’ Wolverine points out, adding that it looks like this one is short and sweet then. He and Ripclaw then shake hands and Wolverine smiles: ‘But maybe there’s a next time’.


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Odyssey - chapter 1 : If Looks could Kill
Cyclops, Beast, Wolverine and Jean Grey are fighting a group of sentinels. After efficiently destroying them, the Sentinels and surroundings fade and the team are standing in the Danger Room. Charles Xavier calls Scott into his study. Professor Xavier asks Cyclops how things are going. Scott believes Xavier is asking about the progress of the X-Men and starts to talk about their training. However Xavier was actually referring to his personal life. They have a discussion, which throughout most of it Cyclops is confused. The Professor tells Scott that he needs to take some time off, to get his head together. Reluctantly Cyclops agrees.
Cyclops decides that he should go to Alaska and so heads out on his motorcycle, down the Trans-Canada Highway towards Anchorage. On the way, however, Cyclops is forced to pull over as he is met by a blizzard. He finds a motel to stop for the night. Scott enters the motel and is greeted by a female attendant. The motel attendant flirts with Scott, However before the conversation can go very far, Black Tom Cassidy and the Juggernaut burst through the door, interrupting them.
Scott realizes that a fight is about to happen and asks Black Tom and Juggernaut to take the conflict outside. Juggernaut obliges by throwing Cyclops through the window, and into the snow outside. Black Tom and Juggernaut exit the motel and as they advance upon Cyclops, they tell him that they have been employed as mercenaries. Apparently their employer has paid them to capture, or even kill Scott Summers. Scott responds by shooting a full force optic blast at the Juggernaut, however he just laughs off the attack. Cyclops switches from his ruby quartz glasses to his battle visor. Cyclops now has better control of his optic blasts, which he then uses to blow up a nearby truck by aiming at the gas tank.
Black Tom gets caught in the explosion and is injured. Juggernaut seeing his friend in pain goes into a mad rage. Cyclops, knowing he can't beat the Juggernaut by brute force alone, turns ands runs across a frozen pond. He draws Juggernaut closer to him, and Juggernaut attacks with a handclap shockwave, which knocks Cyclops off his feet to the ground. Scott's has got juggernaut where he wants him and he shoots a blast into the ice below the juggernaut.The Juggernaut falls through the ice into the cold water, as Cyclops leaves to try and find Black Tom.
Tom is trying to reach for his wooden staff, through which he could channel his power. However Cyclops arrives and stops him from getting to it. He picks him up, and demands to know who has employed him and the Juggernaut.
Juggernaut has freed himself from the pond and has taken the motel attendant as a hostage. He threatens to harm her unless he gives in. Cyclops fires a small optic blast at Black Tom's head, and tells Juggernaut that he has ten seconds to drop the girl or else he'll kill Black Tom. Juggernaut decides to give in and releases the girl. Before he releases Tom, Cyclops demands to know then name of their employer. They tell him that a man called Ulysses, who has a strong grudge against Cyclops, has employed them. The Juggernaut and Black Tom leave, however Cyclops has planted a tracking device on Black Tom. Cyclops gets on his motorcycle and rides after them, hoping to be led to their employer.


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Odyssey - chapter 2 : Eye of the Storm
Cyclops stows away on Juggernaut and Black Tom’s plane to follow them to their boss, Ulysses. Black Tom checks in with Ulysses and tells him that they have successfully completed the mission. Ulysses doesn't believe them and tells them the only reward they deserve is death. He then cuts the power of the plane, forcing it to go down. Cyclops reveals himself to Juggernaut and Black Tom, and tells them the only way they'll survive is by jumping free and using Juggernaut's protective force field to save them. Black Tom argues but Juggernaut agrees and jumps out of the cargo bay holding onto Black Tom. Cyclops remains on the plane and tries to keep it in the air. Just as it seems as though he will crash and die, the plane is teleported to the Savage Land. The plane's autopilot re-engages and lands the plane. Cyclops steps out and asks Ulysses to show himself. Ulysses tells him to wait and then explains that he wanted to meet him on neutral ground and without the other X-Men interfering. Suddenly, Ulysses attacks from behind and injures Cyclops’s ribs. Cyclops fires back, drawing first blood with an optic blast. Ulysses decides to even the odds, and renders himself invisible. Cyclops fires off some optic blasts but can't hit what he can't see. Ulysses hits Cyclops a few times before he realizes his best option is to run. Cyclops runs past a Tyrannosaurus Rex, which attacks Ulysses because it is able to smell the blood from his wounds. The tyrannosaurus Rex starts to feast upon him when Cyclops saves Ulysses from the dinosaur’s grasp by blasting it with his optic blast.
Cyclops notices the dog tags around Ulysses' neck and wants to know whether they are trophies. Ulysses reveals the reason for his hatred for Cyclops. Ulysses was once a Green Beret and his unit was called to the sight of a battle between the X-Men and some mutant terrorists. His squadron was caught in the crossfire, which killed five of Ulysses’ men and left him paralyzed. Ulysses blames Scott for their deaths, because Cyclops is the leader of the X-Men. He tells him that with the aid of resources from some human enemies of Cyclops along with one of his mutant adversaries, he had his body repaired and enhanced. All he wants is justice for his friends that died. Without warning Ulysses attacks again, removing Scott’s visor. Cyclops runs and retreats into a nearby cave. He puts on his ruby quartz sunglasses, however one of the lenses is broken. Scott makes a temporary eye patch with some of his clothing. He realizes that without the visor he can’t control the power of his blasts and has no depth perception so couldn't pull off anything too tricky. His only option would be to open full blast on Ulysses, killing him.
Faced with this decision, Cyclops opts to cave in the entrance to the cave, trapping himself inside. Ulysses leaves the site of the cave, saying that seeing as Cyclops is too scared to face him, he'll go kill the rest of the X-Men, to make Cyclops suffer. Cyclops wonders what he is going to do know as he needs to let his teammates know about Ulysses but he can't blast his way out of the cave without causing a cave-in.


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Odyssey - chapter 3 : In the Kingdom of the Blind
Cyclops is stuck inside a cave in the Savage Land, a predicament he brought upon himself in the previous issue. He turns on a torch and sees some blue bat-like creatures attack a redheaded girl in the cave. Cyclops tries to help the girl and starts fighting the creatures. He takes out a few but then he gets surrounded. A screaming noise is heard and the creatures retreat because they have sensitive ears. The tribe of the girl are responsible for the noise. They are carrying the girl who is unconscious. Cyclops tries to talk with them but he is knocked out by the tribe leader, and taken to their home.
When he awakes, Cyclops talks with the girl he helped save before. She is called Kendra, and her people are forced to live in the caves to avoid being killed by the Visigon, a horrible monster. The monster, when looked upon, renders a person blind. All of the cave dwellers live without sight, and in fear of the Visigon. Daniel, the leader, thinks that Cyclops is a spy for the visigon and takes off his glasses causing Cyclops to fire an optic blast. He asks for his glasses back. The tribe people offer to help him escape the cave, as long as he destroys the Visigon. Scott wonders how he should do that, as he needs to look at something to use his power, yet looking at the Visigon would leave him blind; yet he agrees to the task. Cyclops tells the tribe people a little about where he comes from and about his ‘tribe’, the X-Men. He takes the tribe leader’s sword and seeks out the great beast, although Daniel tells him that it will be no good against the Visigon.
Cyclops steps out of the cave into the village where the visigon awaits. He blindfolds himself, so that he won’t be able to look at the Visigon and, like the tribe people, lose his vision. He challenges the Visigon to come out and fight. After a brief moment he hears it come towards him. It is a giant slug like creatur with many eyes and teeth. Cyclops strikes a few blows to the monster’s tentacles, but his sword is knocked away and he is then caught and is pulled towards the mouth of the beast. Kendra rushes to save him, she grabs a spear and taunts the visigon. She is able to divert the Visigon's attention allowing Cyclops to escape the creature’s grasp but not without getting hit by one of the tentacles. Cyclops has enough and removes the blindfold, firing a tremendous blast into the monster’s mouth, which essentially obliterates it. He checks to see if Kendra is ok and finds that she is fine and her sight has been restored. It appears that killing the Visigon somehow restores the sight of the tribe, whom are eternally thankful to Cyclops.
They show him a portal to escape the Savage Land. Kendra asks him to stay but he refuses as he must return. He gets on a boat and enters the portal in order to hunt down his enemy, Ulysses.


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Odyssey - chapter 4 : Point of View
Cyclops has left the Savage Land via a dimensional portal, which brings him into eastern Paraguay. As he docks his boat, Cyclops is met by a group of bandits. The bandits let Scott pass in exchange for him handing over his expensive Shi’Ar built watch,
An hour later, Cyclops is waking through Ciudad Del Este, he wonders what the bandits reaction will be when the watch selfdestructs. When Ulysses betrayed Juggernaut and Black Tom, they gave Cyclops the location of Ulysses’ hideout, which happens to be in this city. Cyclops finds the hideout and stakes out. Scott climbs onto a roof of a building and looking through a window finds that Ulysses has gathered former members of his squad to help him in his plans to terminate the X-Men. One of the men is unsure about this course of action however Ulysses tells them they will be getting justice for their fallen comrades. He tells them that after he was enhanced he was provided with plenty of equipment to take the X-Men on. Cyclops decides that this is going to far and needs to end now. He uses his optic blasts and crashes in through the roof, surprising the enemy. He strikes Ulysses, knocking him to the ground. Ulysses drops Cyclops’ visor, which he was keeping as a trophy. Cyclops picks it up and puts it on. He is now able to control the intensity of his optic blasts again. Ulysses quickly turns invisible and lets his cohorts, who are now wearing special armor, deal with Scott.
Unfortunately for Scott, Ulysses has outfitted his men in ruby quartz armour, a substance that the X-Man’s optic blasts cannot penetrate. Ulysses himself rejoins the battle, knocking Cyclops outside into the street. Cyclops tells the civilians to get away so that they don’t get caught in the crossfire, however Ulysses thinks he is trying to retreat. The villain opens fire upon Cyclops, but unfortunately one of the bullets strikes an innocent kid who was house painting. Cyclops tells them that an innocent has been hurt but Ulysses denies that this happened. The three commandos then charge towards Cyclops.
Scott aims his optic blast to ricochet off of Hernandez and strike Shepard, whom was flying above him. The blast destroys his mechanical wings. Shepard falls to the earth and lands on Hernandez, and both men are knocked out. Yuri is about to attack Cyclops, but stops as he realises that Ulysses really did wound a civilian. Yuri and Cyclops start talking, Yuri understands that Cyclops didn’t kill their comrades. Suddenly an invisible Ulysses returns and begins to pummel Cyclops. He smashes him into a car and then picks him up by his neck strangling him. Cyclops tells the painter to throw the paint can, which he then fires at with his optic blasts, spraying Ulysses with a white paint, making him visible once more. Ulysses grabs Scott, but Yuri, realising Ulysses has gone too far, strikes him in the chest with a sharp, mace-like weapon, which shatters his armor. As Ulysses prepares to escape and turn invisible again, Scott nails him with a powerful optic blast to the chest. Yuri tells Cyclops that he will take him to the proper authorities.
Cyclops returns to the X-Mansion to rejoin the team. Professor Xavier asks him if he found what he was looking for. Cyclops realises that he is capable of a lot without his team or powers and will never look at himself the same way.


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Scott Summers introduces himself and explains that, when he was eight years old, he and his brother Alex lost their parents in a plane crash that wasn’t exactly a crash. It turns out it was an alien abduction. That isn’t the strangest thing that has happened to him in his sixteen years, not by a long shot. He is a mutant and some people hate him for it, because some people simply hate anything that is different. A couple of weeks ago, he joined a school with other mutants, run by a man named Charles Xavier. For the first time since his parents died, he had a place and he had friends. Then there was Jean Grey, who he was possibly falling in love with, he’s not quite sure.
Then all of a sudden, he wasn’t there anymore and he was in the future instead. It turns out he grows up to not be a very nice man. Also he ends up marrying Jean Grey but things get miserable and confusing. But on the bright side, it turns out his dad isn’t dead and he is a space pirate.
In the vastness of space, Hepzibah and Cyclops float outside the Starjammer, Corsair’s spaceship. The alien woman holds him close and tells him zero gravity is wonderful. Cyclops agrees, once they get past the part he loses his lunch anyway. She suggests they try her idea and explains that it’s simple physics. The energy field of his spacesuit mask is synchronised with his visor and she promises there won’t be any danger. As she leans over his shoulder, he thinks his father’s cat-skunk girlfriend is actually rather wonderful.
Cyclops readies himself and then unleashes an optic blast, propelling the two backwards. Both he and Hepzibah are pleased with the results and he continues to fire the energy out of his face mask. They laugh as Cyclops uses his blast to move through space, but Hepzibah looks behind her and notices they are headed towards the Starjammer. Hepzibah manages to twist out of the way but Scott collides with the side of the ship, embarrassing himself in-front of his almost-stepmother. As he recovers his dignity, Hepzibah comes up to him and tells him he was doing very well. She should have warned him about the ship. Scott says he has had enough of the spacesuit for now and the two decide to get back on board the ship. Hepzibah wants to tell Corsair of his son’s success but Cyclops doesn’t exactly see braining himself on the hull as a success.
As the airlock closes and he enters the main part of the ship, Cyclops thinks of the list of things he wanted to be when he grew up. All the stupid stuff you think is possible when you are a kid. All the stuff you believe until life starts punching you in the mouth. He wanted to be a pilot like his dad, an astronaut, a pirate, a knight, a hero and he wanted to be good. He has seen the man he is supposed to become and he doesn’t like him very much.
Hepzibah asks if he wants to go see his father but Cyclops wants to be alone. He walks back to his room and looks at a hand-written letter address to Jean Grey. It airs his thoughts about whether this is a good idea or not to run away with his dad rather than stay and face his problems.
Elsewhere, the Starjammer’s robotic, dragonfly-like doctor, Sikorsky, is inspecting Corsair. The man stands in an energy field, naked except for a pair of boxer shorts. Sikorsky flies around and tells him he is a horrible patient, but Corsair shrugs it off, saying he has told him before. Sikorsky flies up close to his face and tells him he must take his prescribed medication. Corsair tells him he will be better about it, to which the doctor says he has heard it before and flies off. He says he doesn’t know why he bothers, and a voice comes from behind them saying that it’s because he adores their captain-gallant. Hepzibah walks towards them and grabs the shirtless Corsair, kissing him passionately.
Sikorsky becomes angry and tells her she is ruining Corsair’s baseline vitals. They both ignore him and Corsair asks how it went with Scott. She tells him the boy would have enjoyed it more with his father as he just wants to spend time with him. Corsair walks out of the scanning device and tells her that’s the problem; he doesn’t know how to be a father.
In his room, Scott crumples up the latest letter to Jean and throws it on the floor with the rest of the letters he has started but not finished. He begins another one and tells her he has started the letter six times and stalled each time. When they parted, he meant what he said, that he wanted them both to have a chance of happiness. He really did mean it but now he is wondering if that is even possible.
Scott is suddenly surprised to see the small rodent-like Cr’reee at his feet. He yells in shock and the small alien chirps back in its strange alien language. Scott relaxes once he sees that it’s just Cr’reee and he picks the little critter up. He asks if it has any idea about romance but the alien just chirps back, enjoying the scratch Scott is giving it. The lizard-like Ch’od walks in and tells him he wouldn’t take anything he says to heart as he just wants Scott to continue petting him. Scott replies that he was mostly joking as he cannot understand what Cr’reee says. Ch’od tells him he doesn’t either, as Cr’reee bounds across the room, climbs him and comes to rest on his shoulder.
Ch’od says that he understands the energy field on Scott’s helmet worked as intended and it should be very useful. Scott jokes and says that it will be brilliant tactically because it will look like he is running away when he is actually headed towards them. Ch’od tells him he has his father’s sense of humor, but as he says it the ship’s alarms go off.
The Starjammer is under attack by a Badoon hunter-killer ship. Everyone runs to their battle stations including Scott, who muses that he does it as if he knows what he is actually supposed to be doing. On the bridge, Korvus tells Corsair the ship just dropped out of nowhere. Corsair orders him to cut inertials by a third and to put the power into the shields. As they reach the bridge, Ch’od asks if he just hear correctly that a Badoon ship is attacking them. Trying to steer the ship, Corsair tells him the Badoon are always looking for something to vaporize.
Cyclops thinks that a dogfight in space should probably scare him but it’s actually the coolest thing ever. He says to switch the deflectors on, which confuses Ch’od. Sitting at another consol Raza tells everyone the Badoon is dropping shredders and Corsair tells him to put the nose into it. Standing at the back of the room, Scott looks at his dad giving orders and thinks that’s who he wants to be… not the other guy… the future Cyclops.
Scott asks what shredders are and Corsair explains that it means weaponized debris that could put ten thousand punctures in their ship. Thankfully, their shields can take it. Scott looks at him and marvels that he is saying it as if it happens to him every day. Outside, the shields easily protect the ship from the thousands of tiny objects bombarding it. Hepzibah smiles and asks if Corsair wants the ship in one piece. She presses something on a holographic display and tells him that this is for him. Scott worries that there might be something wrong with him because she sounded way too sexy when she said it. The Starjammer fires a beam of energy that hits the Badoon ship and engulfs it in an electric charge.
Hepzibah announces the Badoon core drive is now disabled and the ship is theirs for the taking. Corsair stands up and says that they are going to board them and asks Korvus to take the helm. Raza says he shall come too as he has not wetted his blade in a while, but Corsair tells him to stay on the ship. Raza replies that he cannot take Hepzibah as the second person; they will need at least one more for safety. Corsair agrees and asks Scott if he wants to come along. Scott immediately accepts and the three walk off to get ready. Raza looks disappointed and tells Korvus that wasn’t what he expected. Korvus tells him to relax and he can board the next ship they sack.
As the three put on their spacesuits, Ch’od enters and tells Corsair that the ship will have power back in four minutes, so they have three minutes to take it. Plus they know they will be coming and will be prepared to repel boarders. No disrespect to Scott but maybe he wants another one of them to go instead. Corsair looks at Scott and replies that, unless another one of them can fire concussive blasts out of their eyes, Scott will be fine. With the spacesuits on, the airlocks open and the three use jetpacks to blast off towards the Badoon vessel.
They make for the airlock and Cyclops arrives first and asks his father if they should open the door. Corsair tells him the Badoon will be expecting the door and they are waiting behind it. He gives Scott his number one rule in life…never do what they are expecting you too. In other words, think like a pirate. A group of Badoon soldiers stand on the other side of the airlock with guns pointed at the door. Suddenly, the side of the ship explodes and the three Starjammers float in the hole. Corsair theatrically introduces all three of them and tells the Badoon to surrender, unless they want Cyclops to carve them a swimming pool to go with the new sunroof.
A short while later, the Badoon are in shackles and being escorted by Hepzibah. They board the Starjammer and Ch’od greets them, assuming that it all went well. Corsair suddenly radios through and asks her to be discreet. Ch’od escorts the Badoon as Hepzibah hangs back to talk. Corsair says he has the ship patched up and he was thinking that it’s not a bad ship. It’s small though and really only designed for two people. As he finishes patching up the hole in the side, he looks at Scott and tells Hepzibah he wants to do right by the boy. He asks her if she knows what he is thinking. She replies that she does and she loves that he is thinking it. She tells him he does know how to be a father, as he is Scott’s father already, he just has to be himself. Corsair tells her he needs her to bring him some things from the ship.
After speaking to Hepzibah he wanders over to Scott, who has found a Badoon sword. He commends Scott for spotting a good sword, as most Badoon blades are useless and he would be better off using kittens and harsh language. Scott says that he figure that swords were mostly for show or ceremony, considering there are blasters around. Corsair takes the sword and inspects it. He tells Scott that most armor and spacesuits are blaster proof but a good blade can slice one open. The sword he is holding isn’t a Badoon blade but he doesn’t recognize the make. He hands it back to Scott and tells him to put it on as he will need to get used to wearing it. The first couple of weeks he wore his, he was knocking into people and tripping over left and right. Scott takes it and says that he will try and be careful.
Hepzibah approaches, carrying two metal cases. She says that Korvus suggests Limiter’s Band in six weeks’ time. They will wait for a month there, otherwise they will come looking. She says she has cleared Scott’s room and reminds Corsair that Sikorsky says to take his medicine. He agrees that Limiter’s Band is a good place and says that he is a big boy and he can take care of himself. Scott is confused that Hepzibah cleared his room, but she ignores him as she kisses Corsair. She turns around and kisses Scott on the cheek, telling him to take care of his father.
Later, Scott and Corsair are on the bridge of the Badoon vessel, operating the consoles. Scott muses that he wanted to be an astronaut, pirate and a hero. As it turns out, he wants to be like his dad, but maybe not be him. He looks at his father and asks if they are taking the ship, just the two of them. Corsair says he is programming a random set of destinations and the six wonders of the universe are waiting for them. He puts his hand on his son’s shoulder and says he has no idea how to be a father to a sixteen year old son and he is liable to pooch it big time. Scott tells him it’s ok as he’s pretty sure he stinks at being sixteen. Corsair tells him a secret: everyone stinks at being sixteen.
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Cyclops says that Professor Xavier had them reading Shakespeare’s Hamlet as part of their coursework before they got ripped through time. The last couple of months, ever since learning about the man he would grow up to become, since learning about a future that is anything but good for himself and his friends (especially Jean), since learning that his father is not only alive but a cross between Jack Sparrow and Han Solo, since heading out on his tour of the galaxy… this one line from the play keeps going through his mind. Act I, Scene V. “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” As it turns out Hamlet was right and it’s awesome.
Cyclops and his father, Corsair, spend time together as they travel the galaxy. They visit alien bazaars, ice planets, alien sports events and numerous other strange worlds. On one such world, Corsair teaches his son how to land the Badoon ship they stole. As Scott uses the small, disk-like ship’s thrusters to touch down, his father congratulates him on a job well done. At the control panel, Scott smiles and marvels that he actually landed a spaceship. Corsair tells Scott to secure the landing ramps, as he is going to grab some stuff before they hit town.
He leaves Scott to it and goes to a dresser draw in his room, taking out a small box. He shouts back to Scott to not forget his sword but his son says he doesn’t know how to use it. He points out that they both know that but he doesn’t have to advertise the fact. Scott says he worries he is going to trip and look like an idiot. As Corsair examines the two remaining vials of liquid in the small box, he shouts back that it is all about attitude. People see what they want to see; you just got to fake it till you make it. Corsair takes one of the vials and injects it directly into his neck, wincing as he does so.
They leave the ship and head into town. As they walk down a busy street full of different aliens, Corsair tells Scott that Yrzt is like the Las Vegas of the Spinward Arm of the galaxy. What happens in Yrzt stays in Yrzt. Scott has trouble pronouncing Yrzt and after Corsair corrects him he declares he must be making up these names. He is suddenly distracted by two female aliens walking by and he is astounded they are naked. His father tells him not to stare but, as Scott begins to ask him another question, he is silenced. He sees a group of aliens completely covered in black fabric walking towards them. Corsair tells them they are the Shrouded and they are to be given respect if he sees them.
They walk into an alien bar and Corsair shouts to the owner, Baroque. Baroque tells him he is closed, so Corsair shouts back that he owes him money and he better pay up or he will thrash him like he did at Pyrion’s Run. Baroque menacingly looks at him in disbelief at the concept but Corsair does not back down. The giant purple alien grabs Corsair, laughs and wraps one of his tentacle arms around him. He happily asks where he has been keeping himself, because the last he heard Corsair was dead. After Baroque puts him down, he elusively replies that he just got better and then introduces his son. Baroque jokingly says he finds it impossible that Corsair would find a consenting female and says he is honored to meet the boy. Scott holds out his hand and Baroque wraps a large purple tentacle around it.
Baroque asks Scott what his father has told about him. He says they are all lies anyway, especially the one about he and Ch’od and their all-nude review. Scott replies that his father must have forgotten to tell him about that one, to which Baroque says they are all grateful. He asks if Scott likes games but, before the boy can reply, he calls for someone called Vass. A blue-skinned girl with long, pale-green hair, walks up to them and tells Baroque he doesn’t have to shout. Baroque tells her he likes to shout and then introduces Scott to the young girl. He tells Vass to show Scott “the senex” whilst the grown-ups talk. Vass dryly jokes that it’s lovely how they dismiss them and then asks Scott to accompany her. Scott says he would be delighted, even though he hasn’t a clue what the “senex” is.
As they walk off, Baroque tells Corsair that Scott is a good kid, except for his genetic similarity to his father of course. Once the kids are out of earshot, he says that he got Corsair’s message and asks what he needs. Corsair opens his bag and takes out the case containing the one remaining serum in it. He tells Baroque that he would appreciate some discretion but he needs a refill.
Scott and Vass are sat in what looks like an American diner but there are aliens all around. Sat in a booth, Vass tells Scott that she assures him it will be pleasant but the boy is unsure. She tells him it is like chocolate milkshake and he asks what it’s made of. She smiles and replies chocolate, and he gingerly takes a sip out of the glass in front of him. He looks up, surprised at how good it tastes. A waitress with a large bushy tail walks over to them and asks if they are content, to which Vass replies they are. The waitress smiles back and says she is so glad to hear it… as they will die happy. As she says it, the waitress’ face morph into a green-skinned alien with pointy ears and ridges on her chin.
Revealing herself to be a Skrull, she swings an arm, which is shaped like a blade, at the two teens. Both duck as the blade slices over their heads. Her other arm turns into a spiky ball and it smashes on the table, causing the two to leap out of the way. Vass laughs at the slowness of the Skrull, but she doesn’t notice another one coming up behind her. Scott hits it with his optic beam as Vass tells him he will be fine. He rolls along the floor and says that the milkshake tasted real, so what is to stop the blade from being just as real? He fires another blast at the waitress-Skrull and shoots a hole clean through its chest.
The Skrull starts to fade away, along with the entire diner. A voice comes from behind them and tells Scott that it is an excellent question as this is a sensory experience. The room disappears in the same way the X-Men’s Danger Room does. Baroque, standing in the door with Corsair, continues and tells him it would be a poor experience indeed if one could perish in it. As Vass helps Cyclops off the floor, she tells him she hopes she didn’t alarm him. He replies she didn’t; it was just very realistic. Vass says of course it is; otherwise it would not replicate the experience. She says she has enjoyed spending time with him and hopes they can do it again. Scott smiles and rubs his neck as he says he hopes so too.
As Scott and Corsair leave, Baroque tells them to be careful, as it is a civilized world and he is still a wanted pirate. As they walk through the streets, Scott asks his father how he knows Baroque. Corsair explains that he ran the black market in this sector back in the day. Cyclops is a little surprised that he is a criminal, to which Corsair points out he is too, depending on who you talk to. Baroque’s gone straight now, or so he says, but he’s still the guy you talk to if you need something. Scott asks his father what he needed but is given an evasive answer. Standing at a stall, Corsair hands him a strange alien fruit. He tells his son there are enzymes that react with the human pallet so it starts tasting like spiced vanilla. Scott asks what it ends up tasting like but his father simply smiles and says he can’t know that until he tries.
As they continue walking, Corsair asks if Scott had fun with Vass. He replies that he has been in simulations before but never anything like that. The milkshake actually tasted like milkshake, which is weird considering it was virtual. He asks his father if he saw the waitress that looked like Hepzibah, and Corsair informs him she is a Mephistoid. As Cyclops sniffs the fruit Corsair game him, he says she was until she turned into a monster. Corsair tells him it was a Skrull and Scott is alarmed that they are actually real. Corsair looks at him and says he keeps forgetting that the other Scott… the older Scott… has faced them before. As they walk up some stairs and into a small pillared-area, Scott says that it’s kind of terrifying that they can shape-shift. Corsair says he thinks of them as a living object lesson. It’s a big universe and things are not always what they seem.
As he says that, he holds his gun out to his side, pointing it at some aliens who have suddenly appeared. They come out from behind the pillars they were hiding behind, surrounding the father and son. Corsair tells Scott to take this for instance. There could be a simple misunderstanding of some folks asking for directions, or something more sinister like a robbery. One of the aliens, a yellow-skinned man with green facial tattoos, tells Corsair that he is wanted by no less than three galactic governments and seventy-nine private individuals. The bounty is substantially higher if he is brought in alive. With the gun pointed at the man, Corsair says he is slipping if he is only wanted by seventy-nine. He asks who the highest bidder is and Scott is shocked that he just wants to stroke his own ego. Corsair says that he has a reputation to consider and he wants to know what people are saying about him. The man agrees with Scott and tells him he has more pressing concerns right now. With that, the various aliens rush forward and begin their attack.
Corsair shoots and knocks the staff-like weapon out of one of their hands. He swings round and shoots another in the leg, whilst asking who is offering the most for him. Scott, using a sword to block an attack, still is amazed at his dad. As the two stand back to back, Scott tells him he is so embarrassing. Corsair ignores him and tells him to parry with the forte or else he will lose his blade. As he says it, one of the aliens swings their staff and knocks Scott’s sword out of his hands. Another comes up behind Corsair and electrocutes him with his weapon, knocking him out. The aliens cease their attack as Scott tends to his unconscious father. The yellow-skinned man tells him not to worry, as it was just a shock stick and he wants Corsair alive. If Scott tells them where the rest of his crew is, then he will go easy on him.
Scott turns and snarls at the man, asking if he will really go easy on him. Picking up his sword again, he tells the man he isn’t taking him and he isn’t taking his dad.  The man replies that Scott talks a good game but they have all seen that he isn’t good with a sword… he’s lost. Scott replies no, and tells the man he is tired of losing. He fires off his optic beam, hitting a pillar directly behind the man. The optic beam splits and bounces off the other nearby pillars, hitting all the bounty hunters. Before they have time to recover, Scott grabs his father and the two stagger away before more of them arrive.
They get back to the ship and Scott tells him he needs a doctor. Corsair refuses and asks if he can handle the liftoff. Scott says he thinks he can, as Corsair leans against the wall. He tells his son he will just lean there a bit and catch his breath. Scott walks off but turns around and asks if he is sure he will be okay. Corsair tells him he just got knocked for a loop and he will be right as rain in a couple of minutes. As he opens his bag and takes out his case, he tells Scott he did well back there. Scott replies that he didn’t and it was his fault he got hit. Corsair opens his small case to see all the vials of serum have been smashed. He tells his son that things happen in a fight but they were the ones that walked away. It’s like he said before it all started, things aren’t always what they seem.
Unbeknownst to them, a tracking device was planted on them at some point and they are now being tracked by the bounty hunters.


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Sitting in the cockpit of the spaceship, Cyclops starts writing a letter to his old teammates but he doesn’t know who to really write it to. Instead, he crosses out their names and writes a letter to himself.
His space trip of the galaxy with his not-so-dead dad started well enough and they saw some amazing sights and visited amazing worlds. He has personally seen more aliens that in all the Star Wars films combined and the cool stuff has been very cool. But, things have gotten a little more interesting since they left Yrzt. That reason is because of his not-so-dead dad Corsair, leader of the Starjammers, the most wanted pirate in the known galaxy. Everywhere they go, there is someone waiting for them, looking to take his father alive for the bounty. The sightseeing part of the journey is kind of over and now it’s mostly running, sneaking and fighting. This, admittedly, can be fun if you aren’t worried what will happen if they actually catch you. There is one more thing too… He thinks his dad is addicted to drugs.
During their journey after Yrzt, Corsair and Scott have been attacked on numerous worlds by various alien bounty hunters. On one such world, the two had to disguise themselves as they walked through some of the darker areas of the cities. Cyclops caught Corsair making a mysterious transaction with a seedy-looking alien, but didn’t saying anything.
As Scott sits in the cockpit, writing his letter, the ship suddenly lurches to the side and all the alarms go off. The computer issues a warning and says that there are multiple system faults and hull breaches have been detected. Corsair comes running in shirtless and asks Scott if he touched anything. He says he didn’t touch anything as the computer says the reserve power has been engaged. The ship leans to one side, with flames and debris trailing behind it. Sitting down at a console, Corsair says it is bad but not catastrophic yet. Scott, on the other console, jokingly says he is glad because he was getting worried. His father tells him that it’s the Badoon ships and the second they are out of warranty…
Almost as if finishing his sentence, one of the consoles explodes, causing the two to shield their faces from the flames and metal.
Grabbing hold of the steering stick, Corsair tells Scott to get on the short-range and find them a place to land. When Scott asks what he means by “land,” his father replies it sounded better than crash. As the reserve power hits fifty-four percent, Corsair tells his son to relax, as he has crashed lots of times. Scott says he has found something with an oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere and a temperature that is on the high-end of the tolerable range. With more flames coming off the ship, Corsair tells him to strap himself in, as it is going to get bumpy.
The ship plunges into the atmosphere of a nearby planet and streaks across the sky. Scott looks behind him to see a large hole has been ripped open in the back of the ship and everything is being sucked out of it. As the ship gets closer to the ground, it clips a spire of rock, sending fragments of rocks, as well as metal, across the landscape. The ship hits a body of water and skips along the surface like a stone until it slams into a beach and skids to a halt. Numerous strange, flying creatures are scared from their nests in the nearby blue trees and up into the sky.
Inside the cockpit, Scott and Corsair sit, slumped over in their seats. Slowly undoing his seatbelt, Corsair tells Scott he has to admit, his old man is one hell of a pilot. Scott gets up and goes to help his dad, telling him that he crashes with the best of them. Corsair asks if anyone else told him he was a smartass, to which Scott replies only his father has but no-one ever listens to him. As they climb out of the wreckage and look around, Corsair says it may not be a garden spot but he has seen worse. Scott says he isn’t reassured, in fact he is scared. His father turns to him and says that he would be an idiot not to be. They begin to inspect the wreckage and Scott asks how bad it is. Corsair tells him it will never fly again and they are stuck there till they are rescued.
Amongst the many pieces of metal strewn around Scott finds a strange black device that is slightly damaged. He shows it his dad and tells him he doesn’t think it was part of the ship, to which the man agrees and tells him it’s a quantum tracker. He holds it up and guesses the bounty hunter must have stuck it on them back on Yrzt, which would explain why they haven’t had a moment’s piece since leaving there. Scott tells him he doesn’t want to rely on bounty hunters to rescue them and Corsair agrees. If they are getting out of it, they are doing it themselves, so they are going to need to salvage everything from the ship that they can because they will be there a while.
They unload various crates off the smashed ship and cut down some nearby trees to build a shelter. Later that night, around a small campfire, Corsair is watching Cyclops sleep. He silently opens a bag and takes out a small box that contains eight vials of serum. Scott suddenly speaks and asks if he is seriously going to get high now. Corsair asks what he means and Scott, sitting upright on his makeshift bed, tells him that’s what he is doing... taking drugs. Corsair tells him they are medicine but his son says not to play mind games with him. He hates it when people don’t deal straight and he hates it more when it comes from someone he respects. Corsair tells him he isn’t a junkie and asks why he even thinks that. Scott gets angry and tells him he’s seen him making his deals and trying to hide what he is doing. Corsair says he is right that he has been trying to hide it but not for the reasons he thinks, and it isn’t what he thinks either.
Corsair looks forlorn and says that he died, or at least close enough so there isn’t a difference. The serum is what’s keeping him alive. Scott tells him you don’t buy your medicines on a street corner, you go to a pharmacy or doctor. Corsair replies you do if the medicine is illegal and you are injecting yourself with a nano-serum that forms a collective intelligence. It’s a bunch of invisible thinking machines that are using him as their vector. Every galactic government has their own take on piracy and, as long as you are not going after them, they are okay with it. But they all agree on the threat that uncontrolled A.I.s pose and they ones they can’t track, that hide inside a host, they scare them back to the stone ages.
Scott says that he understands but it still doesn’t explain why he hid it from him. Looking away from Scott, Corsair says that it’s not because he died, it’s how he died. He looks at his son and tells him he was killed by his brother. Not Alex, but a brother Scott didn’t know about and he didn’t know about either. He continues and says that Kathryn was murdered by Emperor D’Ken whilst carrying Scott’s brother. Their brother, Gabriel, survived and took the name Vulcan. He was one of the most powerful beings the galaxy ever encountered and he was fueled by rage and madness. He took the lives of countless sentient beings but in the end he died as he lived, in a war soaked in blood.
Hepzibah, Sikorsky, Ch’od, Raza… the whole crew didn’t like him dead. But Hepzibah, she once told him she had lost too much she loved to lose him too. She wouldn’t take death as the final answer and convinced the others not to accept it either. Corsair says he doesn’t know what it cost her but he suspects too much. They took his body to the Shrouded and the mysterious beings attempted to put him back together again. It’s not that easy though, as you don’t just get to thumb your nose at death. Injecting himself with the serum, Corsair he has to take it to feed the little machines in his body, continuing what the Shrouded began.
Scott asks how many doses he has left and Corsair replies he has eight. If he can push it, he can go down to one injection every three days using Earth standard to mean a day. Scott does the math and says he has twenty-four days but Corsair corrects him and says it’s closer to twenty-seven but they are splitting hairs. Scott tells him it’s good to be precise about these sorts of things and his father agrees.
They sit in silence for a few minutes, contemplating what was just said. Eventually, Scott speaks and wonders if he can ask his father something. Corsair tells him he can ask anything, and so Scott looks him straight in the eye and asks why he never came back for him and Alex. Corsair explains that their mother was murdered in front of him and he was turned into a slave and broken. When he finally won his freedom, he wanted revenge and he wanted to hurt the Shi’ar for what they had done to his wife and family. That kind of anger is the same as what destroyed Gabriel and turned him into Vulcan. That kind of anger is toxic and it shamed him and he couldn’t go back to him and Alex like that. It was easier to tell himself that they were happier and had moved on, that they didn’t need him.
Scott stares at him in silence, and then gets up. He angrily tells him that he was their dad and of course they needed him. From everything he has seen of the other him, he needed him a lot. Scott walks away down the beach and stands on the shoreline. Corsair comes up to him and tells him he is right and he’s sorry. Scott says that being right doesn’t actually make him feel any better and everything is unfair. He tells his father not to say that life is unfair, to which Corsair replies that it would just be stating the obvious.
Scott kneels down and starts sifting through stones on the beach. He says that he doesn’t need to hear it because his father only has a month to live and they are stranded on a planet a million light years from home. He doesn’t need it when finally gets a father and he turns out to be a dead man walking. Scott selects a round stone and throws it, skipping it across the water.
They both stare out across the water and Corsair commends him on his throw. He puts his arms around Scott and tells him twenty-seven days is not enough time but at least he gets to spend it with his son.


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In the campsite on the alien world, Cyclops writes another letter to whoever may read it someday. He explains that his grand galactic tour with the infamous and dashingly handsome pirate Corsair (his father’s words, not his) has hit a snag. They are now stranded on an alien planet with very little hope of rescue, which would be bad enough but it’s made worse by the fact his father is dying. Not for the first time it seems either, although this time it looks like it will take. The medicine he needs to stay alive is running out and, not to be bitter about it, but after he buries his dad he will be alone. Which begs the question: who will be left to bury him?
The next day, Scott and his father are sword training on the beach. Corsair says to keep his eyes on him and use his peripheral vision to account for the other threats. Do not get distracted by the blade. Scott holds his sword out in front of him and says he could just use his optic blast. Corsair tells him that his optic blasts may not always be the best solution and holds his own sword out, telling his son to take his best shot. Scott lunges at him but Corsair manages to counter it and flick his sword out of his hands. As Scott walks to pick it back up, he asks if his father likes making him look like an ass. Corsair tells him it was a glissade and it’s a move he will see over and over again, so he needs to know how to counter it.
Scott grabs his sword and asks why he should bother. It’s not like he is ever going to fight anyone other than his father. Corsair says he will but Scott replies that he won’t and they both know it. A little way off in a tree, a small, winged, lizard-like creature watches them. Corsair spots it and Scott says the animals have been biding their time. Looking up at it, Corsair says he bets it tastes like chicken, which disgusts his son. Scott says there is no way he’s eating it, as it’s too creepy looking. He walks back over to the campsite and Corsair tells him if he wants to continue to eat flora and fish then that’s fine but he may want to diversify his diet.
Kicking the ashes in the burnt-out campfire, Scott says he doesn’t want to talk about it but his father tells him that avoiding the unpleasant truth won’t make it go away. If Scott rations the ship’s stores, then they may last one or two weeks after he has gone. Sooner or later, the food will run out and he will need to eat something until he is rescued. Scott folds his arms and angrily asks if he thinks he is going to be rescued after his father has died. He isn’t seeing it, he sees himself dying there… alone.
Corsair becomes upset at seeing how distraught his son is. However, he quickly overcomes it and tells Scott that while he is alive he won’t stand for it. His son snaps back that it’s the truth but Corsair tells him not to confuse truth with fact. At this moment in time, the fact is their situation stinks, but the facts in five minutes, tomorrow or a month from now may be different. Scott relents and says he might be right but he isn’t going to hold his breath, and then walks away.
Corsair becomes angry and asks his son how he thinks his older counterpart got the way he is, because he sees it in him. He lost hope and, as trite as it sounds, once you lose hope you may as well lay down and die. Scott doesn’t say anything back, so Corsair tells him it will be getting dark soon and they need to get the campfire started.
Later on, once it has gotten dark, the two of them sit by the campfire eating some rations. Corsair says that they need to catch more of the fish, as they taste infinitely better than the reconstituted nutrient paste. As he says it, he squirts some out of a tube and curls his lip up at it. He puts it down and tells Scott they could go for some bird things. He still bets they taste like chicken. Scott asks if that is how he survived, to which Corsair replies that he ate more than chicken. Scott says he knows what he is talking about and means being a slave and seeing his mother murdered. He asks if it was just about hope. Corsair prods the campfire and tells him it was that and anger too. The anger is toxic, like he said before, but it was Hepzibah who helped him let go of it.
Scott says he could see the anger inside the older Cyclops, like it was burning him from the inside out. Corsair gets up and walks over to his son, telling him Cyclops wasn’t always like that. From what he has said, though, he thinks the older Scott traded hope for rage. He asks Scott to trust him when he says hope will nourish him but rage will eat him alive. Scott says he won’t be like that and gets up. As he walks away, Corsair tells him to give him a round of applause because apparently he is one hell of a motivational speaker. He sees Scott start to look for something and asks what he is looking for. Kneeling on the beach, amongst the debris of the spaceship, Scott says he is trying to find the quantum tracker the bounty hunters stuck on their ship.
Eventually he finds it and Corsair asks if he knows how to fix it. Scott says he doesn’t, and his father also confirms he doesn’t know either. Looking at the smashed device, Scott says they had better get started then.
Morning arrives and the flying creatures in the trees are starting to group. Corsair greets them as he takes his box of serum and removes the second to last one. He injects it in his neck as Scott leans over a crate, working on the device. He tells his dad there are three more flying creatures in the trees by the wreck and they both know what they are waiting for. Corsair asks Scott how it is coming along and his son replies “slowly” and he wishes Hank was there. He would have fixed it and built another spaceship by now. Scratching his head and looking puzzled, Scott asks if the communication system on the ship uses similar technology.
Corsair tells him they should go find out and they split up to search the ship. Scott gets on the roof to inspect some of the antenna whilst Corsair goes into the wreckage. He shouts to his son and asks if he knows what he needs. Scott jokes that he needs to get rescued and his father says he needs to work on his fencing. Walking into the ship, he starts picking up charts and shouts that they should be sparring twice a day. As he takes off a panel on the roof, Scott replies his ego doesn’t need that much abuse. Above him, the flying creatures take to the air and start circling him. Corsair says he is better than he thinks and it must run in the family. He starts picking up various devices from a storage box but, when he doesn’t get a reply from his son, he stops and calls out.
He draws his sword and quietly leaves the wreckage to find no sign of Scott. All of a sudden, he is attacked by one of the flying creatures and he drops the gun he was also carrying. A whole group of them start to swoop around him, but a red beam of energy knocks three of them out of the sky. Corsair turns to see Scott huddled under some a sheet of metal. He rushes over and says that he could have warned him but Scott replies that he was using him as bait. He wanted to get as many at once whilst he could. He says sorry but his father tells him not to apologize as it was good thinking, he could just warn him next time.
Corsair uses his sword and slices the wing off another creature and then asks Scott how many are left. His son tells him six, fires another optic beam into the sky then corrects himself to five. The two men stand back to back and Corsair asks him to cover him as he goes for his blaster. As Corsair runs, more of the animals attack but Scott blasts another one out of the air. Corsair makes it to his guns and turns around, firing, hitting three more. The final one swoops down and goes to attack his face but Scott hits it with another optic beam.
After it is over, Scott walks up to his father and they look at the dead animals on the sand. Corsair asks his son if he knows what he is thinking and Scott reluctantly says he does. Corsair picks up one of the bodies and walks off, telling Scott to salvage what he can from the cockpit as he is going to start the fire.
That evening, as the creatures roast over the campfire, Corsair asks for a verdict. Scott, eating one of them, tells him he doesn’t want to say. His father smiles and says that he does and that he isn’t too big to spank. With crumbs around his mouth, he gives in and tells his dad it tastes like chicken. Corsair is pleased and stands up, telling Scott they should see if they can get their sunburned selves off this rock.
After a long night of playing with the tracking device, they finally manage to fix it and turn it back on. Scott asks his father if he knows who they just called to come rescue them and Corsair answers with “the bounty hunters.” But they will never know what hit them.


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It was an audacious rescue. Heading directly into the belly of the beast! In this case, directly into the mouth of a flying space whale that served as the fortress of Mr. Knife. In the fortress, young Scott Summers, Bobby Drake and Groot are being held prisoner. Scott tells the others it won’t be long now. He can feel it.
Among the new mercenaries hired by Mr. Knife is somebody who had used his underground connections to become one of them – Cyclops’ father Corsair, who then sneakily busts them out. Grinning, he tells them they’d better be ready for a fight. And they are.
It’s the story Cyclops would be talking about for years. Perfectly planned. Perfectly executed.
Reality:Of course it never happened.
Iceman asks the brooding Scott if he is oaky. He is not coming, Scott whispers. He thought he’d be here by now.
Bobby tells him their little X-Men group wasn’t the same without him. They’d be happy to have him back. He suggests Scott tell them about his adventures as a badass space pirate. Scott is reluctant, but a guard suggests he do it. They’ve got lots of time to swap life stories, he replies, unless Mr. Knife decides to execute them. Speaking of which, the boss wants an all hands meeting to address some stuff going down. He’d tell them not to make trouble while he was gone but, with the cell’s power inhibitors going, they couldn’t if they tried.
Soon the guards are gone. In spite of the inhibitors, they still have some power left, enough for Iceman to chill up the metal bars where the guard’s fingerprint is made visible and Scott using his power copying the heat finger print with his optic blast, allowing them to switch off the inhibitor.
Moments later, they are out of the cell and, moments after that, they run into dozens of Mr. Knife’s mercenaries who give chase to them. Iceman ices up and blocks the entrance behind them.
They find themselves alone in a room with the Black Vortex. Iceman announces it is obvious they have to submit to the Vortex. His icewall is not going to hold up for long. Scott refuses. With great power comes great responsibility. But power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. What about cosmic power? Infinite power? They know what happened to the older Scott Summers. Or how Phoenix became Dark Phoenix. Some things in the universe you just don’t want to mess with and maybe the Black Vortex is one of these things. They don’t know what the repercussions will be, if they submit. Well, if they don’t do it, the repercussions are that they are going to get killed, Bobby snarks.
Suddenly, Scott hears a telepathic voice. It’s his father Corsair and Jean Grey, who linked them up. Corsair tells Scott he knows what he’s worried about. That there’s a darkness in him like in the other Scott and that the Vortex’s power will bring it out. He promises Scott that he won’t be that man. Their time together has shown him that. He has to trust himself. He can control the Vortex’s power, not the other way round. But if he wants to save himself and his friends, he is going to have to do this.
He’ll do it, Scott announces. Let’s go, they don’t have much time. That’s what he’s been saying! Iceman bursts out confused. All three of them reach out and submit to the Black Vortex.
The mercenaries are about to break down the ice wall, when they are swept aside by Iceman and Groot’s enhanced powers. Easily, the three of them take down the rest of the soldiers and marvel at their new capabilities. I am Groot! the taller, blazing Groot remarks. Iceman critically states godlike powers should come with a vocabulary upgrade.
They shouldn’t stick around, Scott replies. They have the Vortex and its power, which means they have the upper hand. He suggests they get out and get it somewhere safe.
Outside, they see the Slaughter Lords fighting Beast, Angel, Gamora, Captain Marvel, Nova and Drax. Does that look safe to him? Iceman asks. Looks like they just entered a warzone, Scott admits. Iceman wishes for a punny, ice-themed equivalent of ‘out of the frying pan, into the fire.’
Cyclops tries to reestablish telepathic contact with Corsair, to no avail, and mistakenly lets go off the Vortex. Iceman breaks his concentration and sends Groot after it. But Captain Marvel is already on it. She tells them to join the battle. She’ll take the Vortex off their hands. Kitty has big plans for it.
Iceman and Groot join the battle, but Cyclops stays behind and is indecisive. Carol asks what he is waiting for. He asks if she knows what’s going on with his father. He can’t reach him. She explains to him that Spartax was frozen in an amber-like substance. Along with everybody on it, which includes Corsair.
He stammers and his father appear in his mind again, admitting he’s not real. That telepathic message was all in his head. Scott insists it had to be real. He never would have worked up the courage to submit to the Black Vortex without his help. Corsair tells him he’s wrong. It’s always been Scott. And this version of him in Scott’s head is just telling him things he already knows. Is he dead? Scott asks. Who knows? Corsair shrugs. Scott doesn’t know, so he doesn’t. But he does know, if he’s going to be rescued, there’s no one he trusts more than Scott to do it. Scott is a hero and he’s going to do the right thing. He’s got courage, smarts and inner strength. And now when entire worlds need saving, he’s got even more power to do the right thing. Get out there and save the world!
Assured, Cyclops joins the fight.