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True Friends
The Kinross Highlands, Northern Scotland
Kitty Pryde steps onto the dark road. She looks up in confusion, as a car comes speeding up at her. She phases but, out of some strange reason, solidifies in part. She falls off the road and tumbles into a ridge, going down hard.
She wonders how injured she is, as she hears somebody whistling. She looks up to see an old, ugly woman singing, as she washes a flight jacket full of bullet holes in the river. Confused, Kitty passes out.
Earlier that night, at the Wayfarer Inn, the village of Ardscarran, hard by Loch Carran, where each Saturday night local folks gather for the weekly ceilidh (pronounced Kaylee). From dusk till closing, songs run freely as beer and every person present is expected to do his part to contribute to the evening’s entertainment. For Kitty Pryde, the moment the band began to play, the hardest part was not dancing. As she finishes her reel, one of the players, Douglas, starts to flirt with her and commends her on her dancing.
That moment, a hush falls on the assemblage, as Rachel Summers enters. All eyes are on the leather-clad silent beauty, including those of Kitty’s beau and she soon realizes that the evening is pretty much spoiled for her. Annoyed, Kitty leaves.
Silently cursing Rachel, she phases out of the room and goes up to her room to get some more sensible clothes – namely her Shadowcat costume under a flight jacket. She decides to go and explore the stone circle nearby.
The hike turns out to be longer than she expected and the hill the circle is on is steeper than Glastonbury Tor. She wonders what made the priests choose this particular lonely spot. Nothing special about it. Suddenly, she becomes aware of light behind her, as Phoenix flies to join her. Rachel sensed she was troubled and wanted to know if she could help.
Angrily, Kitty thinks that Ray is the flaming trouble. She only walked into the room, Rachel defends herself. Is she responsible for the way people act? Kitty becomes even more annoyed with Rachel, reacting to her thoughts and tells her to stay out of her mind. That’s hard when someone screams her thoughts as loudly as Kitty does, Ray retorts. Oh, so it’s her fault now, Kitty asks. Rachel asks why she is so angry. They went on this trip to have some fun, didn’t they?
And here she thought it was because everyone insisted she needed a chaperone, Kitty retorts. Because everyone thinks she is a little crazy right now. Rachel asks what this is all about. She thought they were friends. Friendships are built on sharing and trust, Kitty shouts back and she doesn’t think Rachel knows how.
Rachel finally gets angry as well. Her power flares, as she tells Kitty she’s not the only one who has suffered. In the future she comes from, she was trained to hunt down mutants. In the end, of all her friends, there was just she and the grown-up Kate Pryde left. And then just her, cast into this present, where so much seems the same, yet so much is different. And she’s afraid of having to live through that nightmare again. The Phoenix effect flares, as she curses the adult Kate Pryde for sending her back, instead of allowing her to die with her.
The girls suddenly notice something happening, as the stones react to Phoenix’s power display. Suddenly, they witness a mystic ceremony where a girl is sacrificed by the priests. The strange energy of the ceremony interacts with Rachel’s. The priest’s eyes glow and are replaced by a headlight and, finally, by a girl, as Kitty wakes up in a bed. Without thinking, Kitty phases out of the bed before realizing that was just a kid.
They are joined by a handsome young man, who heard the ruckus. Instantly smitten, she introduces herself and the young man tells her he is Alasdhair Kinross, while the young girl is his cousin Lilibet. The housekeeper comes in, telling Alasdhair off for being in a lady’s room without her being properly dressed. She chases Lilibet and Alasdhair out, while telling Kitty she has found some decent clothes for her.
Looking at the oldfashioned thirties-style anklelength skirt and blazer she is now wearing, Kitty wonders whether she couldn’t get some jeans anywhere. She tests whether he powers still work. Phasing her hand into the mirror’s surface, she thinks of how her natural state is still to be phased. So how does that explain what happened to the car? She notices only too late that Lilibet saw her. She stumbles and falls into a clothes trunk. Lilibet tries to pull her out and they both fall, surrounded by a heap of clothes, just as a very disapproving Mrs Fraser returns.
Outside the room, Alasdhair is waiting, asking if she’s an American. When Kitty mentions that she’s from Chicago, Lilibet excitedly mentions Al Capone and Tommy Guns and Eliot Ness. Kitty figures she’s a fan of the Untouchables. Is she here on holiday, Alasdhair asks. Sort of, Kitty admits. She’s hoping to attend university in England. But she was travelling with a friend. They were staying at the Wayfarer Inn. Could they perhaps ring there to let her know Kitty’s ok?
Alasdhair uses the decidedly old-looking phone, while Kitty wonders why Ray hasn’t contacted her telepathically already. If Kitty really was out for a day, Ray could be really worried and probably already called all of Excalibur. Unless something happened to her as well… Looking around Kitty takes in her oldfashioned surroundings. Everything seems antique but in mint condition.
Alasdhair gets off the phone, explaining that the numbers Kitty gave him are not in service. Three cheers for British Telecom, she mutters. The constable hasn’t seen any sign of her friend either or any admissions to the casualty ward that fit her description. And he’s fairly certain that there were no new guests at the Wayfarer Inn all week. They arrived yesterday, Kitty retorts. And all her things are there: passport, traveller cheques, the works. Can’t he call the place? They don’t have a phone, Alasdhair explains. Of course they do, Kitty retorts. That’s how she booked there!
Alasdhair reminds her of the nasty bump on her head. Perhaps her memories are muddled. Kitty agrees. After all, her last coherent recollection is of some odd old crone in rags, singing to herself, while washing torn clothes in a bloody stream. Lilibet suddenly turns pale screaming the bean-nighe!
A spirit akin to the Irish Banshee, Alasdhair explains. She foretells the death of the person whose clothes she’s washing. A flightjacket just like hers, Kitty recalls, as she tells the two of them that this is the 20th century. Do they really believe this stuff? Strange things happen in the Highlands Alasdhair retorts. Not her problem, Kitty announces. She has to find a friend. Is there anyone else they might contact, anywhere else to look? There’s Lady Windermere a way along the Loch, Alasdhair admits. Not very hospitable, but worth a try. Better than nothing, Kitty agrees, while Lilibet enthusiastically shouts that they are going on an adventure.
A little later, they get up on some horses, much to Kitty’s displeasure, as she has little experience riding. They pass a boathouse, which, according to Alasdhair, is leased to R.J. Mitchell, who is working on the S.10 - an aeroplane. Alasdhair’s been helping. He tells her how it should do better than hundred miles per hour. How provincial can you get, Kitty thinks to herself. She is used to flying four thousand miles per hour. The way Alasdhair is acting, it’s as though he thinks this is cutting edge technology.
They reach Lady Windermere’s castle, which is said to be haunted. Alasdhair announces their presence to the butler, who tells them that the lady is indisposed and not receiving guests today. Kitty tells him they are looking for a young woman and describes Rachel. She notices that the Butler recognizes the description but he tells them to leave. They are blocking the driveway, where a black limousine just arrives. As the men greet the butler with a raised right arm, Kitty recognizes them as Nazis.
Kitty compares them to cockroaches and tells the others that the man was lying. Alasdhair agrees and recalls that his mother mentioned Lady Windermere was a great supporter of Oswald Mosley and his British Fascist Party. Back in the dawn of time, Kitty scoffs. Hardly, Alasdhair replies. She heard him speak two weeks ago at a rally down Newcastle. Last spring, she is said to have met Hitler himself. Kitty suddenly gets agitated. Where is she? When is she? What’s the year? 1936, Alasdhair replies.
Utterly in shock, Kitty runs off trying to grasp the scope of what has happened, of what Rachel has done. She stumbles and cries. Alasdhair rushes to her side and she makes an excuse, of all this adventure being a little too much. Alasdhair tries to be kind and promises he’ll always be there, for as long as she needs him. Kitty realizes that he means that, even though he knew she was lying just now.
Lilibet seems worried and Kitty makes an excuse that she feels just bad because of the Nazis. Alasdhair understands, but many in the country feel differently and see them as England’s natural ally against the Bolsheviks.
Alisdhair suggests they return and Kitty refuses. She wants to go after Ray. Considering the butler’s reaction, she must be there. She intends to bust her loose. She can’t do that alone, Alasdhair tells her sternly and offers to come along. He orders Lilibet to stay with the horses. The young princess refuses and Alasdhair gives her a stern talking to, reminding her that this is a serious job. If they aren’t back in an hour, or she hears an alarm, she is to get back to the manor and inform Mrs Fraser.
As Alasdhair moves the stones away, he alludes to trouble in Lilibet’s family, especially due to her uncle, who’s set on having his own way. He leads Kitty through a tunnel, which his father discovered when he was a young boy. Kitty notes that Alasdhair talks bout him in the past and Alasdhair explains he died in the Great War. Kitty suspects that these passages are way older than the castle and Alasdhair explains that his father didn’t explore them that much. Something frightened him. He never went back either.
Kitty warns him to douse his match. They have company. It’s a kind of patrol. They have nowhere to hide, Alasdhair realizes. In response, Kitty warns him to take a deep breath and phases both of them through the wall into the next cavern. Alasdhair wonders what she just did. Kitty is lost in thought, though. She recognizes the stones before them. She remembers what happen with her and Rachel.
There was a child on the altar. She and Rachel materialized just as she was killed. Rachel screamed, as though the knife had been plunged through her heart. The high priest was furious and something about him frightened Kitty. She ran and abandoned Rachel. Through the walls, through the earth, she just kept running until she reached the road.
She feels deeply ashamed. Alasdhair asks her who and what exactly she is. A mutant, Kitty tells him and explains her phasing power to him. Alasdhair doesn’t believe it until she phases her arm through his body. Alasdhair reacts shocked at first but then announces that this is fantastic. In spite of Kitty’s fears, he is not repulsed and actually thinks this is great.
Some time later, after making their way into he castle proper, they witness two Germans making their entrance. One of them is military, the other is dressed in a civilian suit. The officer angrily announces that he is Wolfgang von Strucker, a baron of Prussia and an Oberst of the Wehrmacht. He will no longer be party to any more of the Egyptian’s cheap theatrics. Hardly cheap, the civilian, Herr Geist, comments wryly, considering his fee. He belongs to the Reich’s military intelligence and explains that they feel differently. Then he and his Admiral Canaris are fools, Strucker scoffs. The Egyptian calls himself a mentalist and a necromancer. He has seen better performances in Berlin nightclubs.
Still, he pulled something out of mid-air, Geist reminds him. Even if it was not the provenance they thought, it might yet benefit the Reich. Must he remind Strucker that the Führer has faith in the Egyptian and in Lady Windermere? Strucker sulks and states that Germany’s military might will give the Reich mastery over the world, not those damnable fawning occultists. Why does he listen to them? Perhaps because Hitler knows something they do not, Geist suggests slyly.
It doesn’t matter whether the cow – referring to Lady Windermere – proves her cause or not. The object of their mission is to discredit the ruling house of Windsor, not to put Lady Windermere on the throne. By destabilizing the monarchy, they will assure that Britain will at worst remain neutral in the coming war. At best, under the leadership of Oswald Mosley and his fascist party, Britain might become an ally of Germany. That moment, Windermere and the Egyptian are expendable.
Lady Windermere joins them, asking why she was not informed of the American who was accompanied by Lord Kinross. There was no need, Strucker explains and Lady Windermere angrily points out that she is in charge there. Geist whispers to Strucker that, while she fancies herself a queen, even Il Duce has more grace than Lady Windermere. Certainly better manners, Strucker wryly agrees.
Kitty and Alasdhair are still watching and Kitty announces that she didn’t understand one word. German isn’t one of her languages, as opposed to Japanese, Russian, Imperial Shi’ar, Galactic trade and gutter Hebrew. He’ll explain later, Alasdhair states, but the conversation so far has put a noose around Lady Windermere’s neck for high treason.
Suddenly, Strucker receives a message and loudly announces that there are intruders in the castle: and adolescent boy and girl As the men hurry upstairs, Kitty phases herself and Alasdhair once again out of sight.
Strucker and Geist leave. As the security of the location has been compromised, they will shift to their alternate venue to continue the work. Let Windermere and her pet thugs hunt for the brats. However, their henchmen are to make sure that the phone lines are cut and the roads are to be watched and they are to make Alsdhair’s death look like an accident.
Kitty and Alasdhair return to the horses, but there is no sign of Lilibet. A little later, back in the Windermere castle, Kitty grabs the butler and phases him down to where Alasdhair is waiting. They figure he is responsible for Lilibet’s disappearance. Alasdhair intends to beat the answers out of him, but the other man is far stronger. Kitty, though, easily knocks him down and angrily explains what will happen to him should she choose to partially phase him into the ground. Horrified, the man confesses that they took Rachel and Lilibet to Edinburgh.
Kitty wonders how to reach hem. Alasdhair suggests that he has a short-wave radio at home, but they’ll be watching his house by now, Kitty assumes. Alasdhair has an idea and leads her to Mr. Mitchells’ home, where he proudly presents the prototype of Mitchell’s newest fighter aircraft. Kitty recognizes it as a Spitfire. Alasdhair wonders how she knows that, as it is top secret, but doesn’t press. He explains that he is a cadet pilot with the Royal Airforce, so he can fly it. As he hands Kitty a flight jacket, he adds that he’s been Mitchell’s assistant the past summer.
A little later, they fly off heading for Inverness, where they intend to stop the Nazis. Kitty admits that her strong suit is physics, as opposed to history and politics. Can Lady Windermere pull off her coup? Alasdhair explains that the monarchy is in rather a delicate position at the moment, thanks to the King’s relationship with the American, Mrs. Simpson. He refuses to give her up, but many feel he cannot be King with her at his side. If he’s presented as an unsuitable monarch and, at the same time, the legitimacy of the house of Windsor is successfully challenged, it could be the Glorious Revolution all over again, when James II was deposed by Parliament in favor of William of Orange and his wife Mary. Almost certainly, it would mean the fall of Ramsey MacDonald’s government. Discredit King Edward and you discredit those who champion his cause, chief among them Winston Churchill. And then, who will listen to his warnings about Hitler? Kitty gets it. Alasdhair agrees. If the new monarch then aligns with Mosley’s fascists, the worst might happen. Basically, it might lead to Europe being Germany’s for the taking.
Kitty muses how Phoenix fits into this. Alasdhair asks what she can do, then suddenly shouts out as he sees light in the sky - a firebird. Kitty explains that that’s her friend’s power manifestation. She seems to be attacking their plane. Alasdhair tries to twist the plane clear, but the Phoenix raptor’s claws have grabbed the plane. Kitty phases it loose, but the plane is put into a flat spin. They are heading straight for the ground.


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Royal Hunt
Kitty Pryde and Alasdhair Kinross were flying to Inverness in a prototype Spitfire to save Rachel Summers and Alasdhair’s cousin Lilibet from the Nazis. Unfortunately, Rachel seems to have other ideas, as she attacks their plane with her Phoenix raptor.
Kitty surmises that the Nazis are somehow forcing her to attack. She keeps the two of them as well as the plane intangible, aware that the slightest slip will allow Rachel to use her telekinesis on them. She tries to reach her friend mentally and succeeds in slipping to the astral plane, where she sees Rachel kneeling. Kitty addresses her when suddenly a fat, Arabian gentleman wearing a fez appears and tells her that has broken Rachel swill so that she will serve him. Recognizing the man, Kitty bursts out “Amahl Farouk! The Shadow King!”
Farouk is surprised that Kitty would know him, not to mention his secret name, while she and Rachel on the other hand are an enigma to him. He intends to change that, but finds that Kitty’s thoughts are almost impossible to grab. Kitty returns to her body to break free. Unfortunately, Farouk has now taken over Alasdhair, intending to make them crash. Kitty silently reasons that as her power disrupts electrical circuitry and the nervous system is nothing but a biological network, phasing through Alasdhair at the right frequency could scramble hum enough to purge Farouk from his skull. She does so and grabs the steering wheel getting the plane to fly up again.
Alasdhair awakes with a start to find that Kitty has landed the plane on a lake. He is still shaking with tears. Kitty calms him and explains that’s a normal reaction when a world-class telepath ties to take over your head. It will pass. Alasdhair is still reeling from the experience the Shadow King wanted to make Alasdhair kill Kitty. He made him enjoy it. That’s his style, Kitty agrees as she pours him something hot to drink from a thermo. She explains she was able to resist, partly due to training, in part, because thanks to her powers her thoughts can be as hard to hold as her body. She knows him then? By reputation, she admits. She explains that she doesn’t know where she set them down. It was the first decent stretch of land she could find. The Nazis probably thought they were finished.
However, the two of them can’t begin their chase anew right then. Something broke. Alasdhair grabs the toolbox and begins fixing the motor. Kitty cracks some jokes and they start discussing Americans. Alasdhair remarks that she certainly is a… pleasant contrast to the King’s… companion, Mrs. Simpson. Kitty asks why he seems to disapprove of the relationship and he explains that, as a monarch, King Edward has to stand for something. A true sovereign must be worthy of his crown. Towards sunset, they are ready to fly again and the plane takes off transporting them to Scotland’s capital Edinburgh.
They dress in eveningwear to confront Regina Windermere in Edinburgh castle. Outside, Alasdhair doubts the wisdom of their plan. Kitty reminds him that they couldn’t contact his mother and everybody else in authority is a guest at Lady Regina’s party. And, whatever, the Nazis have planned will occur that night. Then into battle they will go, Alasdhair decides but first gives Kitty a thin gold crown. He explains that it has been in his family for as long as anyone can remember. It was worn by the Laird’s lady when she rode beside him into battle. It would mean the world to him if she were to wear it. Giving him a peck on the cheek, Kitty replies that she would be honored.
The two of them have barely been announced when lady Regina grabs and monopolizes Alasdhair. A moment later, Herr Geist of the Third Reich’s diplomatic corps approaches Kitty with two glasses of champagne, intent on making conversation. Kitty is icily polite and, when Geist remarks that he isn’t very fond of Lady Windermere either, she shoots back that this surprises her, as Lady Regina seems to be so full of qualities the National Socialists admire. Geist asks her not to judge all Germans by such surface impressions. ‘Not judge a book by its cover,’ he means? Kitty asks. Sadly, she’s read the book – Mein Kampf – that is, it gives her nightmares.
While elsewhere in the room, guests discuss that Nazi Germany is necessary as a bulwark against the danger posed by Stalin’s Soviet Union. Geist and Kitty walk across the room continuing their verbal fencing. ‘Pryde’ is not an English name, he observes. American, she replies curtly. The land of fabled opportunity, Geist marvels. The refuge for every mongrel race on Earth, Kitty replies provokingly. When Geist asks if she has any affection for such creatures, she tells him that perfection is a state, leading to inbreeding and ultimately the corruption of everything they hope to achieve. Mongrels may be ugly, but also tough as nails. They might give one a nasty surprise. Geist asks if he should consider that a challenge. Kitty excuses herself, blaming the champagne and opts for a bathroom break. Geist kisses her hand and waits outside, intending to continue their conversation afterwards.
As if, Kitty thinks to herself inside the bathroom, as she disgustedly shakes the hand Geist kissed. She recalls seeing Geist in Windermere’s castle along with Strucker. As she phases outside the bathroom, on the other side she recalls that Edinburgh castle is a military headquarters, so it’s not likely the Nazis would hide prisoners in the public rooms. Best bet to search the catacombs. As she does so, she congratulates herself for having explored the fortress the first time she was in the city in the present. Thanks to her photographic memory, she knows every inch of the place.
In a dungeon cell, she finds two trunks, big enough to hold a human being inside. Kitty phases into them and finds the unconscious Lilibet and Rachel. That moment, she hears a voice. It’s Lady Windermere, her Nazi entourage and Alasdhair. Windermere tells Alasdhair a cockamamie story about how Mary Stuart’s baby was actually stillborn and exchanged with the child of a lady in waiting making the succession from that point – 400 years ago – on a fraud. She is the true heir to the throne. Kitty doesn’t much care about this. She just wants to get her friends.
As she tries to wake Rachel, suddenly Amahl Farouk addresses her telepathically, telling her he knew she would come. As the real Farouk opens the trunk a moment later, Kitty has already phased away. Angrily, Farouk tells his men to remove the trunks and to destroy them at the first sign of pursuit. He vows to himself that he will find the ghost, then leaves to join Windermere and the others.
In the catacombs, a strange ceremony is about to take place. Regina Windermere stands in the center of a pentagram, claiming that her necromancer will raise the sprits of the dead, so that they may learn the truth about the Stuarts’ heritage and prove her claim. Strucker just shakes his head at these follies. Is it a reward of his loyalty to play nursemaid to a lunatic with delusions of grandeur?
Unaware of the dissension in the ranks, Windermere asks Kinross if he will join her in this patriot cause or prove himself traitor. Farouk interjects that Kinross will defy her with his dying breath. He doesn’t even need his mental powers to see that.
Somewhat later, Alasdhair is bound in the center of the room, meant to become a human sacrifice. By killing one of the royal bloodline, Farouk’s spell will exterminate all royals and, as a result, allow Lady Windemere, who is pro-Hitler, to assume the throne. Strucker is unhappy with these dishonorable means of fighting. Geist tells him they must adapt. He tells him to think larger. Suppose the same enchantment could be turned against the “mongrel races” that pollute the Aryan realms. Wouldn’t that be a most expedient final solution?
Farouk summons eldritch energies and intends to strike but, at that moment, Kitty appears and drags Alasdhair through the ground with her. Farouk’s blade shatters and the energies he summoned go wild. Angrily, he lashes out and hits Kitty and Alasdhair with a mindshock. Strucker orders his men to eliminate them, but they all find they are frozen in place. They turn to Farouk to see that he is struggling with the primal forces he has summoned. The malefic forces required to extinguish an entire bloodline are more than even his body can withstand. Therefore, he must banish the spell before it consumes him.
The energy hits and dissipates the Nazi soldiers with the exception of Strucker and Geist, who are looking on horrified. At least now they know Farouk is no charlatan, Geist offers. Strucker threatens to throw him to Farouk if he makes another remark like that. Farouk turns to Lady Windermere. Royal blood opened the gate. The same must be employed to close it. Over Regina’s screams, his energies consume her. Kitty, in the meantime, has regained her bearings and drags Alasdhair with her through the wall.
Finally normal again, kneeling over Lady Windermere’s ashes, Farouk tells Strucker to put away his gun. He is no threat to him. Plus, Strucker should know he cannot harm Farouk with a gun. Geist reminds the two of them of Kinross and the girl. Farouk becomes agitated. As he shows them a glimpse of his true psychic form, he promises that, while Hitler may have lost the opportunity to put Lady Regina on the British throne, Farouk has the power to give him dominion over the world. Geist is now at a lack of words, but Strucker decides that, for as long as their interests coincide, they shall work together.
Elsewhere, Kitty drags Alasdhair through the castle walls, as quickly as she can. They have to get out of the castle before Farouk decides to hit them with another mindshock. They’ve almost made it when Farouk’s astral form announces itself and tells them they’ll never escape. They are high up in the air as another mindshock hits them. Due to Kitty’s training and her phasing power the Shadow King is unable to properly lock onto her mind. Before she passes out, Kitty makes sure they fall into the back of a truck. Not the brightest of ideas it turns out, as moment later Farouk contacts the drivers who are working for Lady Regina. He explains that there are two unconscious intruders in the back of the car and they are to be killed. The men protest. They cannot get away with murder in the middle of Edinburgh. They decides to get rid of them at the docks where they can drown them.
Alasdhair heard this and tries to fight the one man. They fight for the gun, while the other man tries to keep control of the truck. As it swerves, several crates fall right on Kitty. The villain finally shoots at Alasdhair, grazing his skull, and the boy passes out. The man asks his colleague to slow down. He is in for a horrible surprise: the bullet that only grazed Alasdhair’s skull hit his friend point blank and now the car is heading right for the water.
Moments later, Alasdhair, having regained consciousness, dives to the surface. The impact threw him clear, but what about Kitty? Suddenly, he shouts out in horror as, before him, he beholds the Bean-Nighe. The spirit of the old hag begins to sing again, as she shows him a flight jacket he recognizes as Kitty’s, riddled with bullet holes. He shouts at the spirit to get away and she fades away laughing.
Angrily, he dives down and actually finds the unconscious Kitty between the crates. He manages to shift one of them off her, but to his horror finds that he cannot touch her. He recalls her telling him that her natural state is to be intangible. It saved her from being crushed by the crates, but now it keeps Alasdhair from getting a solid grip on her.
Suddenly, strong arms push him aside and moves the rest of the trunks aside with ease and unnatural strength. Impossibly, the stranger manages to get a hold of Kitty and the three of them swim upwards.
Alasdhair emerges first, wondering where the stranger is. He calls out and, a moment later, a rough voice tells him he may find himself answered with a bullet if he doesn’t keep quiet. Alasdhair tells him he is in his debt and the man gruffly replies he is Logan to his friends. Everybody else calls him Wolverine. Alasdhair exclaims that his coming was a miracle. Nothing of the sort, Wolverine hints.
Suddenly, German voices come closer and announce that they are there. Logan pushes Kitty into Alasdhair’s arms and shoves the two of them under the dock… while he himself is riddled with bullets. Alasdhair believes he sacrificed himself for them. Kitty awakes that very moment and shouts ‘Logan’ in disbelief as she sees their savior. Alasdhair tells her there’s nothing they can do for him. The Nazi swine shot him to pieces. Kitty tells him not to worry. That man is even harder to kill than she is. And how would she know about that, Logan asks, having recovered, considering they never met? He adds that they can postpone their talk, until they are clear of this mess.
Kitty asks if Alasdhair is okay. He cannot believe that Logan is still alive and acting as though being hit by a score of bullets means nothing. Is he a mutant like Kitty? Kitty agrees and adds that a more honorable man, a truer friend he’ll never meet. He’s also the most dangerous. That’s how he thinks of her, Alasdhair replies and kisses her.
Above, the Nazis wonder where two of their colleagues are. Logan attacks telling them not to worry about their pals. They are about to join them. Claws extend from his hands as he takes care of the Nazis even as yet another score arrive. He wonders why they are so intent on catching the kids when one of the Nazis tries to garrotte him from behind. Logan realizes that he may well take his head clean off, but struggles as he put a hand between the deadly wire and his throat. One Nazi intends to shoot him with a bullet to the brain, when suddenly a ghostly hand emerges from his stomach. Kitty uses her power to momentarily disrupt his nervous system, allowing Logan the opportunity he needs to break free. The two of them make short work of the Nazis and Alasdhair joins them.
Kitty silently studies Logan. Seeing him there makes her question all they shared together – or in Logan’s case will share – as X-Men. Finally, she thanks him and he returns the compliment. A still alive Nazi tries to shoot them, but Alasdhair does it to him first. To him, it is a shock. He never killed before. But he saw the man take aim… Kitty calms him and assures him there is no reason to feel guilty. Alasdhair supposes she must take this for granted. If he believes that he doesn’t know her at all, she protests.
Kitty tells him things are getting worse. She searched the crates. They are empty. She saw a set like them used to transport Rachel and Lilibet. The Nazis must have pulled a switch and now they have no idea where the girls are. Logan interrupts them, pointing at a set of girl’s clothes he found in the Nazi limo They belong to Lilibet. Kitty asks if he can lock in on her scent. He might, Logan concedes and asks how she knows so much about him. She could say the same, Kitty retorts. His being here was no coincidence, was it? He never said different, Logan tells her. Some people he works with called in a marker, said there’d be trouble, young folks needing help. Nazis needed to be taught a lesson. He is a sucker for punching Nazis.
Alasdhair muses that Logan makes it sound so simple. He always wondered how it’s possible to take another life. And he always prayed he would never have to learn. Now he knows. His grandfather’s generation talks so easily of war, but those of his father’s age who fought the Germans in the Great War hardly speak of it at all. The scars run too deep. But horrible as that was, tonight they face something else. He’s never been so afraid. Part of him wants to flee. But he has to take a stand.
As does she, Kitty silently thinks. She knows what’s coming, what the Nazis have planned for her people, the Jews. She vows that there will be no Shoah, for she intends to kill Adolf Hitler.


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Claiming the Crown
(the Astral Plane)
Inside her mind, Rachel Anne Summers is running for her life, fighting for the freedom of her very soul.
Days ago, she and her best friend, Kitty Pryde, found themselves transported to the Scottish Highlands in the year 1936 and enmeshed in a plot of the Third Reich to destabilize and overthrow the British monarchy. At the heart of that conspiracy was a being the X-Men know as the Shadow King. He follows Rachel, trying to possess her. The girl flees, ending up at Xavier’s school.
Having crashed through the skylight, Rachel is welcomed by a worried Storm, who draws the girl near to her, assuring her she’ll always find a safe haven at Xavier’s school. A moment later, her face shows the Shadow King’s ubiquitous black glasses and speaks with his voice as he rummages through Rachel’s memories, learning of this school of mutants.
Rachel leashes out at Storm and runs outside, where she is expected by an already-possessed Colossus, who muses that their mentor, Xavier, must be a man of rare qualities. He will enjoy corrupting him. As he shall her, an equally possessed Nightcrawler who tackles Rachel announces.
Rogue turns up and the Shadow King muses whether her absorption powers will also work on the astral plane. Rachel causes them all to fall down the stairs to find the memory of the person most important to her -her mother. Turning from Marvel Girl to Dark Phoenix the Shadow King announces that to her Rachel represents a future of unimaginable horror as the blood of her friends and family stains Rachel’s hands. Rachel denies this as a possessed Xavier holds her prisoner learning of her Hound past. He asks her to yield to him and her past will never haunt her again. Rachel uses her memories against him now, for one of Rachel’s seminal memories is the one of Xavier being murdered by the army; a memory she uses to surprise the Shadow King now.
(reality)
Rachel is frozen in a cocoon, while the Shadow King announces that he has never encountered such transcendent glory. That round may be Rachel’s but it is but the first of many. In the end he will win. The Nazis wonder if he is indeed that all powerful and, within Rachel, a tiny free part reaches out to Lilibet.
The girl awakes in a stage room. Servant’s quarters, she decides, and finds that the door is locked and guarded. She recalls Kitty telling her that her friend Rachel was held prisoner by Nazis. Is she their captive, too? She turns to a roof window. It’s dark and raining outside. Going out is madness but she’d rather brave the storm than meet that ‘toad-man’ with his horrible black glasses again.
Elsewhere in Edinburgh, Kitty Pryde, having freshly showered, tries her luck on the phone. Each time, she is asked for the number by the operator. Grasping her Star of David, she finally begins to cry. Alasdhair Kinross enters and tries to comfort her He believes in miracles. Right now, she could use one, she replies bleakly. Calling her ‘accushla,’ he asks what is wrong. She asks what the word means as he keeps using it. Somewhat embarrassed, he tells her it’s a term of endearment. She tells him not to be embarrassed. It’s good to be loved … especially under such circumstances. And… to love in return. He promises that the villains won’t escape.
That’s the least of their troubles, Kitty replies. She was trying to telephone her relatives in Poland. Only she doesn’t know the number. She can’t even send a telegram or a letter because she doesn’t know where they live. Why should she? That whole branch of the family was murdered before her parents were born. Even if she got through how could she make them believe?
To Kitty’s generation, this is history. And too many people think it’s a lie. In five years, one of the most enlightened societies on the globe, home to Bach, Buxtenhude, Handel, Goethe, Kant, Max Planck, Thomas Mann and lord knows how many others will decide as a state policy to exterminate an entire race of people solely because of their religion. Six million Jews will die in camps designed to murder them. She knows what’s coming and who’s responsible and she has the power to stop them. From Hitler on down, she can kill them.
All by herself? he asks. Does he think she can’t? she asks, gently reminding him of her power by phasing through his arms. He is praying she won’t, he replies. Guess again, she shoots back, tight-lipped.
Downstairs, in an elegantly furnished room, Logan paces about nervously, while a blind woman plays solitaire at a table and a dark-haired man with sharp features stands beside her protectively. That was a new carpet this morning, the man observes sardonically. Logan tells him to get stuffed. He still doesn’t see how one kid can be so damn important and they should please spare him Benjamin Franklin’s epigram about the horseshoe nail. He got the message the first time Franklin told the story.
The blind woman begins to explain that Katherine Pryde is the right instrument in the right place at the right time for the wrong purpose. Addressing the woman as Irenie, Logan mockingly asks her if the position of the Oracle of Delphi has become available, with her suddenly turning all obscure on him. He likes his speech plain and his answers simple. Would it were so easy, Irene sighs. The problem with perceiving the futures is that not all choices presented are simple. If that were so, the problem would have been dealt with a decade ago with a car accident in Munich or a quiet stabbing in prison before Mein Kampf was written. The danger in creating the vacuum ever lies in what replaces it.
So they tell her, Logan replies. Irene stresses that they must not tell the child what to do, because what matters above all else is choice. Fate has cast them in the mouth of a crucible without knowing whether they are to be tempered or consumed. They literally hold the power to shape the world in their hands. What good is that power without the insight that tells them if they act for good or ill? ‘Mr Raven’ chimes in, adding that they have all learned to kill, but more importantly they have learned not to kill. To know the difference. Now its Kitty’s and her friend’s turn.
Alasdhair enters, announcing that he is sorry, but Kitty is adamant. And he cannot really blame her. Kitty phases into the room, wearing an approximation of her Shadowcat costume. Looking pretty grim, Logan observes. It serves the occasion, she replies. What are her plans, he asks. Calmly, she tells him that she intends to start at the top and work her way down: Hitler, Hess, Goering, Goebbels, Rosenberg, Frank, Streicher, Heydrich, Eichmann. Does she figure anybody wearing SS insignia or a brown shirt is fair game, he asks incredulously. If that’s what it takes, she replies.
Catching Alasdhair’s look, she warns him not to try and stop her. He wanted to remind her of a prior obligation. He has faced the Shadow King as well. He beheld in him evil incarnate and he cannot leave his cousin at his mercy, anymore than Kitty should abandon her friend.  She can do what she wants afterwards but not at the sacrifice of those she loves.
Kitty suddenly smiles, as a telepathic contact reaches her. Rachel has managed to bust Lilibet loose. They have to hurry if they mean to save her. Logan sniffs at the girl’s clothes, getting her scent.
The royal palace of Holyrood. In the pouring rain, Lilibet runs there shouting for help. The surprised caretaker, Mr. Carmody, lets her in. Lilibet warns him and his wife that they have to call the police. Carmody replies that that’s impossible, as the storm has cause power outages. That moment, the possessed Rachel enters. The Shadow King speaks through her, announcing that Rachel is his Hound. Psychically, he remakes the Carmodies in his image, while Lilibet runs.
Outside, waiting in a limousine are Farouk, Geist and Strucker. Farouk explains that he will extend his influence through the palace. Lilibet will find no help. Eventually, his hound will find and kill her. The blame for the death will be fixed on the mysterious American girl, who will also be blame for the Death of Lady Windermere. The resultant tragedy with a slight psychic assist will persuade her father to retire from public life and to refuse the crown that will be offered to him upon his brother’s abdication. The ensuing constitutional crisis will ultimately lead to a government more sympathetic to the goals and the policies of the Reich. And none of these events can be traced back to Berlin. Very neat , Geist admits. Strucker is still suspicious though. Neat schemes are the ones that invariably go wrong.
Suddenly, he exclaims that he hears a noise. What is it?! Opening the car’s roof with his claws, Logan wryly remarks he’d say it’s the sound of their scheme going way wrong.
Farouk lets loose a psychic blast strong enough to incinerate his brain. The driver finds himself faced with another problem. The engine is literally gone, courtesy of Shadowcat.
Strucker shoots several times at Logan to make sure while Geist suddenly finds his leg is stuck. Not caring about Geist´s troubles Strucker tells Farouk to enter the palace. Now it is time to prove his worth by finding the girl quickly. Left behind, Geist angrily trains his weapon at the arriving Kitty and Alasdhair, still deluding himself into his ability of getting out. Wolverine threatens him and Geist gives up.
Wolverine tells Kitty she knows what to do and tells her to hurry. He enters the palace and Kitty asks Alasdhair to stay behind and watch Geist and the driver until reinforcements arrive. Alasdhair asks her to wait. He apologizes for speaking out of turn before. Kitty admits that these things needed saying but she is still determined; but won’t that change her future? he asks. She can’t run from evil, Kitty replies. She has powers and with them comes responsibility. Her folks, her friends and Logan have made her the person she is and she has to be true to that person and to her conscience. The future will have to look after itself. Alasdhair tells her he is afraid of losing her forever. Considering what’s at stake is a pair of broken hearts so high a price, she asks. Alasdhair declares his love and asks her to be his lady if she agrees. They kiss passionately.
Within the palace, the possessed guards search for Lilibet. Wolverine tries to attack a group of them but is repelled by the equally possessed Phoenix.
Lilibet runs for her life, realizing that she is being herded by the soldiers. She finally recalls a secret passageway Alasdhair had shown her during a past visit and slips inside the secret door only to fall. Frightened, she cries until she gets a hold her self. She suddenly realizes that her clothes have changed. She is now wearing a Scottish tartan. She sees a new passageway ahead of her and feels herself drawn to the light as she passes Celtic murals. She enters a treasure chamber and is reminded of Carter and Carnavon excavating the tomb of Tut-ankh-amun. She recalls that tomb was said to be cursed. She reminds herself that this is Scotland and the door was left open. Is this a barrow, she wonders, one of the places held holy by the ancient fairy folk?
She grows excited as she realizes that in front of her are the most sacred objects in Scotland: the Stone of Scone, the Royal Caledonian Crown and the Sword of Scone. Prized beyond price, Strucker agrees. The Nazis have found her. And the Reich will put them all to good use, he continues.
 In your dreams, goosestepper, Kitty snarls as she phases through von Strucker and grabs his gun. She points it at the Nazis but von Strucker is certain that she will not kill. From the likes of him she could learn, Kitty retorts. She has her back turned to Lilibet. Big mistake. Momentarily possessed by the Shadow King, Lilibet grabs one of the object and hits Kitty with it. The Shadow King uses Kitty`s lapse of concentration and tries to possess her while she struggles wildly. At the same time, he enjoys mentally torturing Lilibet.
Grabbing the girl to his side, he rants that there is no pathway of the human mind he does not know, no decency he has not corrupted. He will not break their spirits, but seduce them and they will worship him for it. He points to the treasures explaining that they are what Regina Windermere sought, Talismans that only the true heir of the Highland throne may wield and survive. If the brat touches them and lives, the future monarch of the isle will be the puppet consort of the Shadow King… and the Führer. If she dies, then Berlin has its proof that her line is illegitimate.
Like it matters, Kitty scoffs. Where she comes from this is ancient history. England is a joke and the “thousand year reich” didn’t even last a generation. Ignoring Farouk’s command to be silent, she continues that they can leant the hard way – whatever – it will still be for nothing. Farouk accuses her of lying. Kitty gives them three dates which they can use to be sure: September 1st, 1939. Germany invades Poland, December 11th, 1941: Germany declares war on the USA. April 13th, 1945: Hitler commits suicide in Berlin with Marshall Zukhov and the Red Army on his doorstep and the Americans at the Elbe. Germany will be reviled throughout the world as a home to a race of murderers. The Baron reveres Hitler and he worships the Shadow King… and they all deserve each other!
Enraged, the Shadow King commands her to be silent and points out that with the knowledge he can glean from her mind, he may stop this prediction. Just be sure to ask Adolph’s permission first, Kitty shoots back. While she taunts him, Lilibet unclasps the brooch from her outfit and stings Farouk with it. Unused to pain, her reflexively lets the girl go and she jumps to Kitty’s side.
Kitty follows suit, trying to knock him out by phasing through his nervous system, but she finds the network is so dense that she cannot absorb the pychic backlash. Both she and Farouk scream in pain and both of them fall down exhausted.
With the Shadow King’s control over Phoenix broken, Wolverine is also freed and he hurries towards von Strucker, who draws two sabres to defend himself, as he boasts that he was champion of sabres in Germany. He does not know how Logan came by those claws but they will not save him from honest German steel and skill. Logan backhands him and announces that, sometimes, the finest pedigree in creation isn’t worth a tinker’s damn!
Farouk intends to turn his anger on Lilibet. She grabs the Sword of Scone to defend herself and Farouk notices that the silhouette behind her is that of a grown queen. Rachel intervenes, telling him he is done here. Farouk mocks her and while Logan and Strucker still battle brutally both telepaths’ telepathic aspects rise. Farouk is sure of himself. Rachel may be more powerful but she lacks proper training whereas he can draw on the experience of ages.
Logan again hurts Strucker revealing that thanks to his healing factor, he cannot be killed. He is the next generation of humanity’s evolution, so Strucker’s master race is pretty much obsolete before it’s even been born. Seeing no chance, Strucker finally yields.
Lilibet, speaking like an adult queen, turns to Kitty charging her to be champion of the realm. Taking the sword and calling her majesty of Britain, Kitty accepts. She tells Logan and the others to leave. Her place is with her friend. Another thing Logan taught her. She asks him to tell Alasdhair that she loves him.
Kitty walks towards the two battling telepaths and is awestruck as she sees Phoenix’s power unleashed for the first time. Kitty warns Rachel that she cannot kill the Shadow King. Grabbing Farouk with the Phoenix effect’s claws, Rachel tells Kitty to watch her. It is no less than he deserves. Kitty argues whether Ray wants to become like him. If that’s what it takes to be free of him… Rachel who seems less and less human replies. Afterwards, what will it take to be free of her, Kitty demands. With a vicious grin, Rachel replies that perhaps the answer is right in Kitty’s hand.
Kitty apologizes and strikes both Phoenix and Farouk. She expects blood. Instead, because they were in a state of transcendental energy, they are merely restored again to corporeal physicality. Kitty grabs Rachel anchoring the other girl in this plane and together they channel her energy into the sword and at Farouk, who sees to be blasted apart.
Later. The girls find themselves alone, wondering if they are still alive. Rachel admits that for the first time in an age she feels clean and states that they didn’t kill him, did they? Nothing permanent, Kitty replies. Ray asks why Kitty stopped her. He was evil. Sheathing the sword Kitty explains that, by draining him, Rachel was drowning herself in his corruption. Evil means can pervert the most noble end. What about Kitty then, Rachel asks as they walk back. Kitty admits that she cannot just go ahead and kill all the Nazis. She needs Rachel’s help to find another way to save her people. Peeking out of the door that leads out of the secret passage, Rachel informs her that decision has been taken out of her hand.
They are crashing a formal reception, one that is taking place in the present, among the guests Wolverine and Brigadier Alysande Stuart. Alysande orders the girls to stay put. There is someone who wants to meet them. Logan welcomes them home and explains that this is the formal opening for the new Scots Parliament. Kitty wonders desperately why she was given a chance to save her relatives if she wasn’t supposed to.
Sandy brings back the person who asked to see them – Queen Elizabeth II. The Queen tells them that they are but mortal. And it is not for them to comprehend the why and wherefore of God but only hope to draw to themselves a portion of his true nature. In those dark days, this land needed a champion and in Kitty and Rachel the realm and Lilibet could not have found better. She invites the girls to walk in the garden with her and asks Sandy and Logan to make sure they will not be disturbed.
Queen Elizabeth marvels at the strangeness of the situation. They are just as she remembers, while she has grown up to be a grandmother and a queen. She tells them what happened after they left. They never found the tunnel again. Strucker and Geist were returned to Berlin in disgrace.
Kitty asks after Alasdhair. The queen just replies that he loved Kitty with all his heart and the girl begins to understand. The Bean-nighe hadn’t come for her that night. Queen Elizabeth explains that Alsdhair died a hero and made a difference during the War. She hands Kitty the Kinross crown and explains he wanted her to have it. She’d rather have the man, Kitty laments. Even old. Even just for a day.
They reminisce about their lost loved ones and old adventures and the queen tells them that they saved more than they knew. After the girls had disappeared, Alasdhair told Lilibet that they had been singled out to look true evil in the face and combat it. Once so challenged, no honorable person could ever stand aside from the fray. Like Kitty, Alasdhair was prepared to fight and die for good. He had many dreams but no regrets and neither should she.
An official reminds the queen of the time and she tells him that reception can wait. She is quite aware of her duties as monarch but, for a few minutes more, she is responsible to an older obligation. That of friendship.


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World Apart
Night in Wakanda. A shaman sits at a fire. He senses someone approach and cries out: “I can feel you there, my child.” He asks the other person to come out. Suddenly, he senses the other’s anger and then he cries out as he is brutally attacked. He shouts and screams and bleeds and dies.
The tunnels under Manhattan:
Her name is Ororo Iqadi T’Challa. She’s been a thief, a goddess, an X-Man and a queen. And yet, somehow, she always ends up in a sewer under New York City. These are Storm’s thoughts, as she and Cyclops are looking for any mutants still living here. As she lights the way ahead with some lightning, Storm asks Cyclops to tell her again why Frost isn’t with them. Emma said she doesn’t do sewers. That it was more Ororo’s area of expertise. Her words, not his. Wryly, Storm tells him to remind her to thank Emma for that recommendation.
But, of course, she does know these tunnels well, she thinks. They hold memories, mostly bad. What seems a lifetime ago, she became leader of the Morlocks, mutants who dwelled beneath the world of man. She was not elected, the Mrolocks’ method of choosing a leader is much more… violent.
She beat the former leader, Callisto, in a fight to the death. Under Storm’s “leadership,” the Morlocks were hunted to near extinction. Her utter failure stings still.
Cyclops requested she join him to extend an invitation to all mutants for refuge in San Francisco. She should have led the Morlocks there herself. Instead, she was a world away.
Is she in Wakanda? Scott interrupts her reverie. Excuse me? she asks confused. It’s a simple question, Scott remarks. Is she here or is she in Wakanda right now? Because he can’t afford any more mutant casualties… especially not one that’s royalty.
Is her position a problem for him? she asks coldly. Absolutely not, comes the reply. It has potential to be good for mutantkind, but he needs to know that when she’s here, she’s an X-Man. He can’t have her distracted. Because they both know, if she’s no here, not focused… she’s dead.
Is that it then? Ororo asks annoyed. She can’t be more? She can’t be an X-Man and a wife? Wife is one thing, Scott shoots back. Queen of Wakanda is another. When his son was born, he tried to hold on too tightly to the X-Men. He tried to be a leader and a father. She made him see that he couldn’t. He had to commit to one or the other. Her in Wakanda, Wolverine with the Avengers… he sees the value, but how many missions has Logan missed? How many has she missed? Would her presence have made a difference?
The temperature drops to match her anger as she shouts that he’s talking about Kitty! No, he amends. What happened with Kitty… nothing could have changed that.
Storm calms down. But one day she’ll have to make a decision… is she an X-Man or a Queen? He knows how Storm would have answered. He’s not sure how the Black Panther’s wife will. Suddenly, her phone beeps. She should probably answer that, Scott states.
The Black Panther’s counselor N’Gassi is on the phone, telling her she is needed in Wakanda. Ororo states she told him she has duties here… What duty is greater than that of the queen of Wakanda? comes the reply. The king is away and there has been a death.
She ends the call. Scott tells her to go. He can handle things with the Morlocks. You see to your kingdom. I’ll see to mine, he tells her.
Ororo flies over New York, and considers using the entire might of the Wakandan military to destroy a certain somebody. But, as angry as she is with Scott, she is more angry that part of her agrees with him. So much has changed with her, Scott, the X-Men, the world… does she even know who she is anymore?
She lands at a river where her high-tech flightcraft is hidden and returns to Wakanda, still musing that she is torn between both Wakanda and mutantkind.
She is welcomed back by N’Gassi, who informs her that King T’Challa was called away unexpectedly to the Wakandan embassy in England. He specifically requested she see to the matter. A death, he said, Ororo repeats. Surely the king and queen do not see to every…
N’Gassi apologizes and clarifies this was a murder. And while common in America, murder is nearly unheard of here. But more importantly, the murderer is known to her.
On a security camera, she sees the murderer in his cell. Nezhno Abidemi, a mutant. Her mutant, to be specific. He was born there in Wakanda and, on Storm’s advice to T’Challa, he was sent to the Xavier Institute. She was his teacher. He possesses strength that rivals Colossus’, and a spirit to match. And now he is being held for murder. Another failure.
N’Gassi explains the victim was a shaman named B’Chaku. He was an advisor to the king. B’Chaku was a mystic. He could look into a man’s soul and read its truth. The king found this useful.
Ororo remarks that she knows Nezhno. He spends nearly every waking hour meditating. He goes to great lengths to maintaining calm and order, for good reason. He’s risked his life to save others. He is a hero. This is not within him.
The act was caught on camera, comes the surprising reply. They watch the tape’s replay. How Nezhno sees the shaman, looks up at the camera and then murders the old man. Enough! Ororo cries.
N’Gassi remarks that Nezhno has been isolated since his return. Given his heritage, perhaps it made him snap. His heritage, Storm repeats coldly. He means that Nezhno’s mother dared fall in love with someone not Wakandan. A crime to be sure.
Realizing his faux pas, the advisor tries to apologize. Storm orders the technician to rewind the tape to twenty two fifteen. Pause and enlarge the image.
Storm muses that she truly barely knows Nezhno. Yet something about the image, Nezhno smirking and winking at the camera before proceeding to murder the old man, strikes her as wrong. She decides to see Nezhno.
Within his cell, the young mutant announces calmly that they should execute him. It was a mistake for him to come back to Wakanda after the X-Men disbanded. He is an outsider. He is dangerous. He never should have come back.
Did he do it? Ororo asks simply. Nezhno stammers. From his meditation, he knew the anger deep inside of him. He knew part of him resented all of them for the way they treated him. The way his mother shunned him. They all knew he was an outsider but the soul reader knew better than any how tainted he was. His anger blinded him. They were all looking at him, all of them. He couldn’t ’think of anything else. And then it was like a nightmare, It did not end until the shaman was dead.
Storm orders him to wink at her. What’s a wink? the boy asks puzzled.
Storm gives the order to open the cell. N’Gassi begins to refuse. Storm stresses that it’s his queen who is ordering him to do it.
He obeys reluctantly. Storm naively believes she will be obeyed in word and spirit. A mistake.
As she and Nezhno step outside, a contingent of armed soldiers awaits them and orders them to stand down. Nezhno is immediately willing to surrender, while Storm coldly asks what the meaning of this is. Is the captain aware of who he is addressing?
The captain orders his men to put dampeners on the boy. He’s a confessed murderer, with irrefutably evidence of guilt, he informs Storm. This is not her America where the guilty run free, he adds with contempt. The boy is an outsider like her. She does not belong in Wakanda. Her gene filth will bring ruin to them all. Then, he strikes her with his weapon.
Nezhno protests that treatment but is held back by other soldiers. The Captain orders power dampeners to be brought for Storm but too late as lightning flashes in the sky and gusts of wind blow away Nezhno’s captors.
The captain finds that he cannot breath. He breathes when she allows it, a furious Storm announces. The air in his lungs obeys her every whim. He would be wise to do the same. What is the meaning of this?
He moans that he was given orders to detain her. By whom? she demands. By me! comes the voice of her husband, accompanied by his Dora Milaje. But Ororo senses something wrong and feels cold.
The Black Panther takes off his mask. When she calls him my love, he tells her she has lost the right to address him as such. Again she tries to talk but he turns towards the crowd that has gathered and addresses them, telling them their king stands before them in shame. He brought a plague upon their homeland. The same plague that killed his father, King T’Chaka. The mutant called Nezhno has reminded him of this threat. T’Challa allowed him stay within Wakandan borders and now he is responsible for “murder.”
Nezhno drops to his knees and asks for forgiveness. Storm tells T’Challa to speak to her now, not his people. He wishes him to talk to her? he snarls. He will open himself to her and tell her something he would never admit to anyone. He was wrong! Their childhood flirtation was not love. It was a youthful indiscretion. This was never meant to be. But for her to bring her madness down on his kingdom… He trusted her and her X-Men to help Nezhno, teach him. The only thing they taught him was violence and now they’ve brought that violence here. She was Wakanda’s queen, but she never stopped being an X-Man.
Again he addresses the crowd, announcing that he has been deceived by his queen. This union was a mistake which he intends to rectify.
Then he turns around and winks at Ororo and she realizes that the nightmare has only just begun. Suddenly, her psyche is torn from her and on the astral plane she faces the one responsible for all this – Amahl Farouk – the Shadow King. With the exception of Charles Xavier, the most powerful telepath on the planet. He is now in control of one of the most powerful men in the world and a nation whose might has few rivals. Professor Xavier is gone. Psylocke is gone. Emma Frost is a world away. As Kitty would say, she has a bad feeling about this.
How he’s missed her, Farouk purrs and suggests they play…


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Worlds Apart – part two
In the Morlock Tunnels an hour ago :
The Shadow King had tainted the Morlocks before Cyclops and Storm had even arrived in the tunnels. It was easy for him to push them, using their hate for the “beautiful people.” And so soon, Cyclops found himself attacked by Masque, Erg, Bliss and more.
Cyclops easily dispatched of them, but then that’s what the Shadow King expected. He just needed an opening into Cyclops’ well-trained mind, a distraction, and once inside he festers like a disease.
Cyclops hesitates, but then the Shadow King finds the doubt and fear inside and exploits it. Emma, is all that Cyclops says.
In Wakanda, Storm demands on the astral plane what Farouk wants. Furious, she is aware that he is toying with her. The static in her mind has held the Shadow King at bay before but, given time, he could take her. He believes he has already won and perhaps he is right. Everything, he replies with a toothy grin, but Wakanda is a good start.
They thought him dead, Storm recalls. They should have known better. And now her husband is paying the price.
Grinning, he points to the Black Panther’s astral form, captive within his own giant shade. Look how he struggles, he tells Storm. His spirit is strong, just like Cyclops. With T’Challla though, Wakandan blood had to be spilled before he could get in. But once he did, it was so easy. So easy to make him turn on her, so much doubt!
He lies! Ororo hisses. He doesn’t need to, comes the reply. The thoughts and feelings, are T’Challa’s, not his. He only brought to the surface what was already there. Just as part of Cyclops knows that Emma Frost will betray him. That’s why he’s in the skies over America right now, flying to stop her. He know she’s taken over the X-Men. It’s all his fault! She has to be stopped, no matter who dies in the process.
And as for Ororo’s king, well, she knows how he feels now. And over time, he’ll change. His kingdom will belong to the Shadow King. And she… she’ll get to watch. She’ll get to watch her own heart be cut out, because she’ll try so hard to save them and she’ll fail. But T’Challa is right in front of her. Imagine the things the Shadow King can make him do if she leaves. So let’s play. She has a choice to make. Try and save her love or her precious X-Men.
He releases Storm’s mind into her body and the Back Panther tells her to stand down, this is her last warning. Get your filthy claws out of my husband! she snarls. With a smile, the Panther orders his troops to kill both her and Nezhno. Enraged, she lashes out and a lightning bolt strikes the ground between them, unsettling everyone.
Ororo orders Nezhno to power up. She avoids the Dora Milaje’s attacks and tackles T’Challa, praying to the Bright Lady she will help her husband fight the Shadow King. She urges him that this is not him. He is stronger than this. They are stronger than this! Fight him. The fight is over, he tells her.
Armed forces surround Nezhno, who pleads that he doesn’t want to fight them. He begs the king that the queen is not to blame. He is the murderer, not she.
Do they think he wants this? the Panther asks. He took the boy in, raised him in his court. Storm has brought this down on them. Nezhno’s punishment is on her head. He swears to Nezhno it will be quick.
Storm snarls at him to shut his mouth. The troops fire at Nezhno but for the moment his Vibranium tattoos save him.
Another soldier intends to take out Nezhno from closer proximity but then the temperature within the gun drops about 200 degrees, making it useless. The Hatut Zeraze holding it will need skin drafts for the frost bum.
Storm grabs Nezhno’s arm and flies off with him against his will.
The Panther informs the Dora Milaje that their status as his wives in training is returned. He has been betrayed. They are to prove their devotion to him. Doing so, they jump off to find Storm and Neznno.
The advisor, N’gassi, admits he doesn’t understand. Surely the queen has not caused this. Not queen, the Panther corrects him, betrayer! N’gassi is his trusted advisor. Now he is to trust his king for once.
Storm lands hard in the jungle outside the city. What has she done? Nezhno accuses her, still calling her “my queen.” She has made them outlaws!
Ororo can’t believe he still will not call her Storm. She concentrates. Right now, she fears, Cyclops is in the Blackbird, flying from New York to San Francisco. She can feel him cutting through the atmosphere. She tells Nezhno a creature called the Shadow King has infected his mind, and he now believes with all his heart and soul that he has to kill the X-Men. This is the same creature that caused Nezhno to kill the Soul reader. This abomination has taken over her husband and now controls Wakanda. So he wishes to know what she’s doing? She’s saving the X-Men!
A thunderstorm gathers around the Blackbird and lightning hits the plane, shooting it down.
In the royal palace, the Black Panther suddenly screams in pain. He seems nonplussed for a moment, then gathers his wits. Storm, you do not disappoint, he seemingly addresses nobody. He then tells N’gassi to come. He must prepare.
In the jungle, Nezhno asks if she is saying she just killed Cyclops. She prays she hasn’t, comes the reply. If anyone could survive, Scott Summers could… he would find a way. More than likely she has simply bought the X-Men time. Time they need. They must free T’Challa.
Nezhno asks why this Shadow King made him kill the soul reader. You tell me, Storm replies. Nezhno suggests the soul reader knew. He was a threat. He could sense it and the Shadow King used Nezhno to kill him. What is this monster? Nobody knows, Storm replies. A mutant, perhaps. Pure evil. A psychic entity that feeds on hate and fear. He slips into your mind and finds the worst in you. The darkness.
The darkness in him, Nezhno muses. In all of them, Storm corrects him. He cannot… she breaks off. They are here, she announces. Who? Nezhno asks.
The Dora Milaje jump out of the jungle. The Black Panther’s body guards and formerly potential wives. Of all Wakanda’s traditions, not one of Storm’s favorites. T’Challa assured her it was a political tool. That when she became queen, they were freed of any obligation to the throne. And yet sometimes she sees the way they look at her and cannot help but think this is about to become very personal.
Each of the two girls chooses one target. Storm tries to fight hers, telling the girl the king is not himself. The Dora Milaje warns Storm if she says his name again, she will remove Storm’s tongue. Definitely personal, Storm decides and hits her.
Nezhno on the other hand refuses to fight his foe. To strike a Dora Milaje is to strike the king himself. This is what Nezhno is thinking right now. And that belief will kill him. Storm orders him to power up and fight, but he refuses.
His foe hits him with a stick. Now Storm faces both of the girls as the second girl shouts at her the king loved her. He forsook all others for her! He fought for her before the Panther God! And now she’s betrayed him, betrayed his love!
Storm asks them to help her if they truly wish to help T’Challa. Their king is in grave danger. They are blinded by… You know what? Never mind, she decides, realizing they love him too much to listen to her. She headbutts the one holding her in a deadlock and kicks the other.
But the two girls hold their own. They are excellent fighters, younger, faster and very, very motivated. They were trained by T’Challa himself and know Storm inside and out. They stay close, forcing her to defend herself hand to hand. That is what they want. They know not to let her use her powers. They begin to draw blood, and Nezhno can no longer stand to watch.
He smashes the ground with his firsts, creating a shock wave which momentarily confuses the Dora Milaje. Storm now has the chance to use a gust of wind to take out one girl while Nezhno hits the other.
He hates this! he states moments later when only he and Storm are left standing. All his life he has only wanted to be accepted by his people. He has always been an outsider and now this! Now it is truly over! He has attacked the king directly. He will never be accepted now. Storm tries to comfort him. He has saved her life and she will never forget this. He will always have a home with…
Suddenly, something strikes Nezhno from behind. He sinks down and Storm inwardly pleads. She thought he would send pawns; instead, she now faces her husband. The Shadow King knows. He can see right into her heart because, whereas she might risk killing Cyclops, she would rather kill herself than harm T’Challa, and that is why she already has lost!


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Worlds Apart – part three
Yuma, municipal airport, Colorado, where nearby a certain plane crashed. The man in the control tower is in for surprise when a bruised and beaten Cyclops knocks against the window from outside. Can he help him? the controller asks confused. Does he need a first aid kit or something? No, Cyclops replies, he needs a plane. It’s a matter of life and death. Nervously, the man goes for the phone, stating Cyclops should stay right there. He’s going to call the police and he can tell them. Cyclops eyes begin to glow…
Wakanda, now. The Black Panther attacks, slicing through Ororo’s flesh. And yet, she finds it takes everything it takes within her power not to laugh. The Shadow King has taken her husband, twisted his mind and taken control over what is arguably the most powerful nation on Earth. Simultaneously, the Shadow King has possessed Cyclops, leader of the X-Men. He intends to use Cyclops to kill them all. And she wants to laugh… because she had lost all hoped and the Shadow King just gave it back to her.
The Panther briefly holds back. Her entire world is crumbling around her and soon she will breathe her last breath. What could she possibly have to smile about? Because, she replies, if the Black Panther were truly in control of that strike, she would be dead right now. T’Challa is fighting the Shadow King. And she will do no less.
She attacks with lightning and he hits her in the stomach. She realizes that, even on his worst day, he is still one of the single greatest hand-to-hand fighters on the planet. Whereas she is bleeding, bruised and tired. For all her bravado, this will be over very quickly. Luckily, she is willing to cheat…
She calls down rain and winds, minor distractions to him. Manipulating the air pressure in his inner ears, that is more effective. As he loses balance, she drops him to the ground. Part of her knows this is exactly what the Shadow King wants. More than power, more than ruling the world. He wants to see her suffer. The more she and T’Challa hurt each other, the more he enjoys it. This is entertainment to him, seeing her heart break. And if she dies at the end of the performance, all the better. But then it would end. At last. Her heart could rest.
She creates a snowstorm, wondering why it still beats at all. It has been broken so many times. She thinks of Kitty, of Jean… of the family and friends she has lost. The thought of losing him…
Enough! she tells herself. Enough self pity. Enough games. He may be the Shadow King. He may be the Black Panther. But what matters right now is who she is. She lets several lightning bolts strike around T’Challa. He moans out her name, assuring her it is he. That he is free. She has done it. She has beaten him. Please help him up. In response, Ororo kicks him in the face.
On the Astral Plane, the Shadow King screams in pain.
Storm has known T’Challa since she was a child. She knows his strengths. But more importantly, she knows his weaknesses. And the Black Panther does not ask for help.
She cradles his unconscious form, praying they will survive this. Startled, Nezhno asks her what she has done. She has beaten the man she loves, his king, half to death, she replies. And now they are going to break into his palace.
Ororo recalls when Charles Xavier brought her from Africa to upstate New York. The weather was terrible. She half expected all of New York to worship her on her arrival. Perhaps more than half. Instead, she was introduced to hate and fear on a level she couldn’t comprehend. That’s her normal now. So as she creates fog to sneak them into the city where every single Wakandan soldier is ready to kill them in horrible ways she almost relaxes. She breathes and smiles. Unwinnable is her element.
Her student on the other hand is about to explode. They are doomed, Nezhno, carrying the Panther, whines. Even worse than before. When the Wakandas see them, see what they have done to the king, they will lose their minds and slaughter them. They cannot win this, they… suddenly he interrupts his rant. Is she fixing her hair? The X-Men are all insane! he explodes. They thrive on this chaos. He doesn’t understand how they are even supposed to get inside the palace without bringing the entire military down on them. If they use their powers, they will be heard!
She orders him to breathe and shows him the hairpin she produced. He still has much to learn about her. One, never tell her she cannot win. And two? She was a thief long before she was a queen.
They infiltrate the place with the help of Storm’s fog and Nezhno asks where they are going. The other X-Men reported to her that he did not talk much while at the mansion. That has not been her experience today.
They stand in front of the Panther temple. That is where they are going. Nezhno lays down T’Challa on the altar of the panther god, the same altar before which Ororo was married. Nezhno kneels down, and soon they are joined by D’gassi and the military who order Storm to surrender.
She cannot, she replies. The king of Wakanda is incapacitated, and she is queen. This is her country. They are her people. And they are all in danger from a creature called the Shadow King. She kneels down, stating that not matter what they think of her, she would give her life to save them.
Is she surrendering? N’gassi wonders. A soldier replies she is too dangerous. He asks N’gassi to give the order.
Ororo prays to Bast, asking him to hear his child’s wife. And just like that she is gone.
The astral plane:
She finds herself in the spirit world, the realm of the panther god. The last time she was here was the first time she was here. On her wedding day. And even on that joyous occasion there was danger to be had here. Today? This could go very badly. Or it could go very, very badly.
You! the giant white Panther snarls. The pretend goddess! He is not pleased with her. Not at all.
She seem to anger gods quite a bit, Ororo thinks. She needs to work on that.
Ororo asks the panther god to listen and it orders her to be silent. It calls her arrogant and self-involved. She has not given herself fully to T’Challa. And now she brings her enemies down on its child. Making him slave to a monster. This is unacceptable!
Are you done? Ororo asks. Enraged, the panther god snarls. She dare speak to it that way? There is nothing she will not dare! Ororo shouts. She does not care what it thinks of her right now. What she cares about is saving the life of T’Challa, of her friends and all of Wakanda! Now, will it hear her out?
A little later, Ororo is back in reality. Hear me, she addresses the Wakandans. She is their queen now and forever. And then it happens, the sacred panthers surround Ororo and bow to her. One after the other, the soldiers sink to their knees and address her as queen. Storm orders them to rise.
She tells N’gassi to shut down all offensive capabilities of the military and put all diplomatic actions on hold while she is gone. If a single thing changes in status from yesterday, don’t trust it. She is leaving? N’gassi asks.
She adds they are to keep T’Challa unconscious until she returns. Sedate him, if need be. He must not wake. Where is she going? he asks. To end this once and for all, she promises and asks Nezhno to come along. Yes, my queen, he replies. X-Men work, she specifies. Yes, Storm, he amends.
No one is answering in San Francisco. They enter her plane. He doesn’t understand, Nezhno remarks. If Cyclops is still alive, they are still half a world away. Walk in the park, she replies. Has he had lunch? No. Good.
At the X-Men’s HQ, Pixie asks an annoyed Emma when Cyclops is returning. When he’s done, comes the reply. Pixie babbles and Emma suddenly screams. Is she having a seizure? Pixie asks.
Cyclops orders her to step away from Emma. Emma turns to her diamond form and orders Pixie to run. She betrayed him! Cyclops accuses her. She betrayed the X-Men; she turned them all against him. And she turned him against Jean! Now she pays! And he unleashes his optic blast against her.


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Worlds Apart – conclusion
She is Storm and she does not do this often. Affecting the planet on such a scale as she currently does is unnatural and will have repercussions across the world, but time is of the essence. Thos she loves are in jeopardy. So she risks everything.
The wind pushes their plane past the upper atmosphere and, unless the craft breaks apart, it will take them down again a world away. Not the easiest way to travel, but the fastest at the moment.
Nezhno’s vibranium tattoos absorb some of the trauma. She, however, has no such protection. “Storm,” he whimpers. She ignores him and concentrates. There is too much at stake. She will not let people die because of her weakness.
Graymalkin Industries, Marin, the new headquarters of the X-Men. Cyclops, possessed by the Shadow King, has already taken down Pixie, Emma Frost and Dazzler as well as injured his old friend Angel. Fight it, Warren urges him, while holding his injured arm. Scott is stronger than this! He’s sorry, Cyclops replies. He was about to say the same thing to Warren. He has to do this. To save them all.
He doesn’t think so, Scott, Beast states as he attacks him from behind. Or rather not Scotty. He thinks he’ll go with mind control. They’ve all had enough of shapeshifters. It’s Emma, Scott chokes, she betrayed them! He let this happen. And now he has to save them.
Cyclops fires an optic blast at the wall in front of him. It ricochets several times, finally hitting Beast in the back. Warren flies Scott upward and tells him it’s not them, it’s him. He’s begging him, don’t make him fight Scott. He knows what he’s capable of.
Scott agrees. He hits him in the face with the back of his head. This isn’t a fight, it’s a rescue operation. They both land with Warren taking the brunt of the fall.
Karma enters, asking what’s going on. She gasps in horror a moment later, recognizing the shape rising from Cyclops. Farouk! Karma, he states. How he’s missed her.
Himself for a moment, Scott shouts at her to run. The Shadow King begins to psychically attack Karma, telling her Cyclops is resisting. He doesn’t know him the way she does. When you belong to the Shadow King, it’s forever! Karma screams.
Pixie flies at Scott, souldagger in her hand. She shouts at him to get away from Karma. He kicks her in the stomach. Nonono, Karma mutters and begs Pixie to kill her before he takes her again.
That moment, Storm and Nezhno enter via a skylight. Storm braces herself for the hard part. Shadow King or not, Cyclops is a force to be reckoned with, much like her husband.
Cyclops blasts away at Nezhno who apologizes as he goes for Cyclops’ throat.
And while her husband’s “tough guy” stance can bring men to their knees, Cyclops’ stare can punch through steel. She orders Nezhno to punch him out quickly.
Suddenly, Nezhno’s face contorts in hate as he accuses her of never being there for him. She realizes her chance is gone. He too is influenced by the Shadow King now.
Angrily, he lets go of Cyclops, reminding her she was supposed to be his teacher, his queen. She brought him to Xavier’s and look what happened! Why did she leave? Angel asks accusingly. Mutantkind is dying, Beast adds. They are going extinct and she left them.
Nezhno bulks up, reminding her that the students died. He was attacked, hurt, pulled into hell… all because of her. She abandoned them, Karma, continues. They needed her, Pixie adds.
She has already tormented herself for these decisions… these failures. The Shadow King attacks her directly, goading her that her mental defenses cannot keep him out. He can have Wakanda any time he pleases and the X-Men are his. It is over. She has lost.
And perhaps he is right, she thinks. Perhaps she has lost. Perhaps not. Never! she shouts and uses her winds to blow the others away. She concentrates on taking Xi’an out first. Always go for the psychics first. Nezhno will recover quickly, she hopes. As the vibranium absorbs the impact. He also has the most anger towards her, with the possible exception of Cyclops. The rest, she takes as they come.
She strikes Angel and Beast, but exhaustion and pain are making her sloppy. Logan would not approve.
Cyclops, in the meantime, has left and heads for Emma intent on finishing what he started. Storm notices and creates a tornado to blow them all, including Scott, outside.
Cyclops gets up. He remembers. Fight him, Storm urges him. He remembers how she humiliated him. With no powers, she beat him in front of everyone and she enjoyed it. This is not him, Ororo tries to remind him. Don’t let him do this. Now she has her powers. Now it’s his turn.
He unleashes a lethal optic blast at her, not holding back.. Storm uses lightning to deflect it. Is that all? she asks coolly. She attacks, still dodging his blasts.
She tries to mask the fear in her chest. But that fear is only eclipsed by anger, by defiance. Cyclops kicks her in the stomach.
The Shadow King played his game, and she promised to show him who she was. And now the moment has come. She knows who she is. She just prays she can live with herself after this.
Scott hits her in the head. On the ground, Storm states that Cyclops asked her who she was… X-Man or queen? She will tell the Shadow King. She is Storm. And she doesn’t have to choose. And if everyone she loves is in danger, then she will save everyone. And if she cannot beat him, she will make sure that his victims do not suffer!
She hits Cyclops with a bolt of lightning.
Scott falls. The Shadow King laughs in triumph as his psychic shape rises from Scott’s still body. Did she really think that would hurt him? he asks. He survived the death of his own body… did she think that a host’s death would do anything to him? But she… the stain on her soul will never go away. All the years they battled… her spirit was what attracted him to her. And now she is broken. He envelopes her and enters her. Now she is his.
In reaction, Storm begins to laugh. On the astral plane, he demands why she is laughing. He will find she does not digest well, Storm tells him. Burn in hell! He doesn’t understand.
Shadow King, comes another voice and he finds the Panther god standing above. He has much to answer for. No one touches his children! And the Panther God devours him.
In reality, Storm snaps out of it. The Panther god had agreed to her plan, hiding within her mind. The promise of vengeance for what the Shadow King did to T’Challa was too great not to put aside her pride.
She won, but at what cost? She starts giving Cyclops CPR, recalling that, for all their time together, Scott and she were never friends like she was with Jean or Kurt or Logan. He was always separate, above them. He was the leader. She understood. After all, she was the “goddess.” She knew his responsibilities. And now, because of her, this man is dead.
Get up! she orders. Open your eyes and get up! She keeps on administering CPR, fearing she will never get to tell him how he taught her to be an X-Man. He taught her to be who she is. She’ll never get to tell him how much she admired him, how he inspired her, how she envied him.
Finally, his arm reaches up to stop her. Welcome back, he states weakly. Thank you,she replies.
Wakanda, days later. T’Challa awakes in his bed, his wife next to him, braiding her hair. Did she deal with it? Of course, she replies haughtily. She is the queen of Wakanda and an X-Man. She does not need him to take care of such minor things! He married well, he states and hugs her. He has no idea, she laughs.
Later, the king and queen are dressed. Ororo explains that there has been no sign of the Shadow King’s influence within Wakanda or the X-Men. With any luck, the Panther god ate the monster. T’Challa admits he’s impressed. The Panther god never ate anyone for him. They have a connection; Ororo retorts. He would not understand. And Nezhno? T’Challa asks. He will return with her, she replies, to the X-Men.
Nezhno and the senior X-Men, Cyclops, Emma, Colossus, Beast, Nightcrawler and Wolverine, are waiting. T’Challa tells Cyclops he has three broken ribs and a fractured jaw. How did he fare? Lightning bolt to the heart, comes the reply. They are lucky men, T’Challa states. Now, let’s sit down and talk about how to never make her angry at them again. Cyclops agrees and shakes his hand.
Emma thanks Storm for saving Scott. In reply, Ororo thanks Emma for making him happy.
Later, Ororo flies above Wakanda. She is both queen and X-Man and whatever she wants to be. She is Storm and, for her, there are no such things as limits.


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Kicking and Screaming
X-Nation run for their lives and know that they can’t stop, or else she will get them. Sister Nicholas attacks in full rage and the children beg her not to kill them for breaking curfew. Willow shapeshifts into a Sister to escape the punishment, but Shakti shows up and tells her to knock it out.
Nicholas is even angrier now, Shakti calms the woman down and suggests that, as punishment, X-Nation should do some construction work. “No!” the kids disappointed shout out.
Meanwhile, at the Million Palms Family Fun facility in Havana, Florida, a kid tries to get in without paying. The sentry guards notice him and begin to chase the lad. The guards open fire and don’t seem to care about their customers at all. The boy fires back and the guards recognize him as Metalhead. Metalhead defeats the guards and tries to climb up on the monorail to get out, but runs into Avian. Oh, shock.
Avian tells Metalhead not to bother using his mental powers on his armor, since like everything else around Avian it’s plastic. Avian knocks the boy out and shouts at his security guards for failing their job to contain Metalsmith.
The guards apologize and DeLano says that nothing can escape from him. Foreman sarcastically whispers that Willow could escape. Avian hears that and kills Foreman for that remark. Avian wants his other guards to assemble a team: it’s time that Willow came home.
Sister Nicholas goes to complain to Morphine about what happened, and wants Cerebra and X-Nation gone if they can’t keep them to the rules. Morphine would hate to see Shakti leaving, since it would tear her apart, since Shakti is so devoted to her messiah quest. Nicholas doesn’t know what Morphine is talking about and wants an explanation.
He’s surprised that Nicholas doesn’t know about it, but says that Shakti wants to find a mutant so powerful that he will lead all mutants into a golden age, etc, etc. The Sister wonders what makes Morphine and Cerebra think that this prophecy will affect their decisions. Nicholas warns that they believe in one messiah, and He has already come.
X-Nation begins to work. The others look how professional Wullf is working, since he used to do this kind of work for a living. When the frame is ready it’s up to go, and the kids all work together to place the wall where it belongs and cheer at their work. Shakti is glad to see them all so devoted. Uproar is rather tense and hates working. He even destroys the building his teammates had built. They are a bit upset about it.
Meanwhile in the underground of Halo City, Avian and his guards make it to the point where they wanted to be, thanks to the Halo City plans Herod has given to them. Avian’s bird minions set out to retrieve Willow, but Avian doesn’t want to come because he isn’t ready to face her. But Avian tells his minions that they can shout when they really need him.
Avian proudly watches his goons take off and doesn’t realize that he’s being eavesdropped by Dorian of the Wild Boys, who wants to use what he has just heard to his advantage.
Meanwhile, Shakti has brought the X-Nation members to a grassy place and tries to talk to them about how they really feel about Uproar’s actions. She knows that they are upset about what he did to the building, but wants them to explain their feelings to Uproar in constructive terms for a change, and not into shouting and name-calling. But nobody is interested in that.
Shakti gathers everyone around and tells them all to listen carefully to what she is about to say. Shakti explains to the kids that Homo sapiens tend to see themselves as individuals, and act accordingly. That’s fine for them humans, Shakti adds. But she believes that mutants should see things differently. They bound in groups. That’s their heritage. That means that mutants must work together, and communicate, no matter how tough it might be.
None of this seems to get through X-Nation. Shakti thinks for a while, and continues to talk. She asks the young mutants if they know why mutants form groups. Shakti says that it’s because they have to. Because the world is full of thugs and bullies who want to see every mutant dead, and it always has been this way. So, Shakti concludes, the kids better get their act together if they want to live.
Willow says that Halo City is supposed to be safe. Wulff doesn’t believe that this is actually news to Willow. Uproar thinks that Willow is just trying to scare them. Nostromo tells his friends to look up: they are under attack! December recognizes the goons and knows that they are after Willow!
The Sisters hear the noise of the fighting. X-Nation begins to attack their enemies. Twilight tries to catch one of the goons in her “own special place” but the guard knows about the power and how to duck out of it and knocks her out. Another guard manages to grab Willow and tells her that she’s going back to Avian. Clarion sees it and tells Willow to jump away, as he blasts the goon with his powers. The plan works and Willow is free.
The Sisters of the Howling Commandments decide to go help the kids out and shoot some of their foes. Twilight gets defeated and Shakti wants to bring her into safety. December covers their backs. Wulff and Nostromo work together and destroy some of the robot goons. Avian sees everything through Razorwing’s eye transmitters and can’t handle the failure. He commands Razorwing to make the goons pay for their failure and to kill them all. Razorwing does as told.
The bird escapes. Nostromo and Clarion try to hold it but the bird fires on them, so they decide to let it go. Everyone tries to recover and cheer at the victory. But then they notice that someone isn’t with them anymore: Willow! Did the goons manage to catch her after all?