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Phoenix: Warsong, part 2 of 5
Mansion Lawn:
“Not again!” says Emma Frost as Scott Summers shields her from the fury of the Phoenix-powered Stepford Cuckoos. Emma tells Scott that it is all right. They are her girls. They are Cuckoos, not the Phoenix.
Could have fooled me, says Wolverine, as his body heals after being incinerated by the Cuckoos, who hover menacingly in the air with the Phoenix Raptor around them. Wolverine pops out his claws, but Emma telepathically tells him to wait. Wolverine tells Emma that he heard what she said, but he just doesn’t believe that they aren’t the Phoenix. He then leaps at the girls, ready to kill Phoebe.
Emma begs Scott to stop Wolverine, but Scott agrees with Wolverine and tells Emma to just look at the girls. Suddenly, Scott’s head turns towards Logan and he takes off his glasses. He realizes that Emma is going to telepathically make him blast Logan away, and she does.
Wolverine is knocked away before he can reach Phoebe. An angry Cyclops asks Emma if she remembers what happened last time. The Raptor disappears from the girls and they take advantage of the X-Men’s disagreement to fly away and escape. Scott watches and tells Emma that the Phoenix fed off his optic blasts last time. He if hit those girls, who knows what would have happened?
Wolverine, who lies nearby still burning and healing, tells the two to stop arguing. The girls are getting away. Scott tells Logan to stay put and heal. He tells Emma to get Beast to lock down the mansion and to get Colossus to prep a jet. Emma complies and uses her telepathy to relay the orders. When she is done, Cyclops tells her that she can start figuring out how to explain what the hell she was doing back there.
Moments Later in the Hangar:
Cyclops is suited up and he and Emma reach the X-Jet, with Kitty and Colossus already on board. Someone calls out to the couple to hurry up, as the Cuckoos are almost out of range. The two board as Kitty secures the hatch, and Cyclops tells Colossus to punch it. The jet ascends into the sky, passing by the gold and blue Sentinel.
Cyclops asks Kitty how long they have to catch up, but is told that at this rate they won’t. Cyclops sees that Colossus is armored up, and tells him that they need to lose some weight. Colossus complies and turns back into flesh. He then brings up the last time the Phoenix came and how Scott didn’t think that Piotr would help well. Cyclops tells Colossus not to worry. Kitty and Piotr are there now, because Scott knows that they will do what needs to be done. The then turns to Emma and asks if she is ready to do what is necessary.
Emma tells Scott to trust her, as she knows these girls. Cyclops tells her that they manifested the Phoenix Raptor and incinerated Wolverine. It is safe to say none of them know anything about these girls. Jean Grey was one of the most powerful telepaths on the planet and she couldn’t even control the Force, so he doesn’t see how these girls can. He needs Emma to tell him why they shouldn’t blow them out of the sky the second they find them. He hopes she has a good answer.
Emma looks away and holds herself. The Phoenix took her over once and she knows how it feels like to hunger. However, the Cuckoos don’t feel that way. They have the fire, but not the hunger of the Phoenix. If the Phoenix is in them then it hasn’t awakened. All right, says Cyclops.
Shocked, Kitty asks if that is it. Emma mumbles something unverifiable and there is nothing to worry about? Emma repeats the question mockingly. She never said there was nothing to worry about.
Mansion Sub-Basement:
Logan walks through the halls, still burned and with his clothes tattered. Beast follows him and tells him that he has run tests on the mansion and the Cuckoos are gone. They should just prep the next jet and go. Logan, however, asks Beast if he cannot smell it. Unfortunately, all Beast can smell is Logan’s burnt flesh. The two come across the entrance to the Cerebra chamber and see two figures outside it. There, says Wolverine.
Beast calls out to the two figures and asks them what they are doing there. The students are supposed to be in their rooms, not loitering. They aren’t kids, says Wolverine. They are not even alive. The two figures turn and the X-Men can see that they are literally walking zombies. Logan pops his claws as Beast mutters a “good Lord.” However, the two girls rush into the Cerebra chamber and close the door behind them before Wolverine can attack.
In the chamber, Sophie and Esme sit at Cerebra and say hello their sisters. Where do they think that they are going?
In the air:
The three Cuckoos stop flying. Phoebe, puzzled, calls out the names of Sophie and Esme. Of course, replies the voice of one of her dead sisters. Celeste, also confused, says that they are dead. One of the dead sisters replies that the three of them still don’t understand, do they?
Sophie tells her sisters that the fire has her hooks in them. The Phoenix woke them up too early and now she is trying to lead them away. Esme, however, tells the girls that they have a different destiny. Sophie tells them that they must fulfill it.
Scared, Celeste realizes that the fire her sisters are talking about is the Phoenix. It must have resurrected Sophie and Esme and now it wants to take over the rest of them. They are going to go nuts just like Professor Grey and destroy the whole world.
Sophie tells Celeste not to be stupid. It isn’t what the fire brings, it is what they bring. It is what they have all been hiding this whole time. In our bones, says Esme.
X-Jet:
Kitty tells her teammates that there are Zombie Cuckoos in Cerebra. She patches Beast in to everyone else.
Sub-Basement:
As Wolverine, now healed and in uniform, tries to slash his way into Cerebra, Beast tells the others that it is Esme and Sophie. Confused, Scott asks Beast what they are talking about. The two girls are dead. Beast corrects Scott and tells them that the girls are holed up in Cerebra. Is Emma sensing any of this?
Scott asks Emma, who tells him that they are talking with their sisters. It is too fast for her to understand, though. Wait… it’s… data? It is ones and zeros. Emma cannot read it. The Cuckoos are not thinking… they are processing. Pentium Cuckoos, jokes Kitty. Great.
Beast asks Kitty if she can scan for any wireless signals. Kitty is already on it and finds an encrypted stream. She asks for a moment, but then suddenly Colossus visually spots the Cuckoos.
In the air:
As the X-Jet approaches, the Zombie Cuckoos ask their sisters if they see. In unison, the three girls tell their dead sisters that it is too much information. They are overloading. The Zombies, however, tell them that they will process it all. It is what they were made for. It is time.
Emma opens up a psychic channel for Cyclops to speak to the girls. The girls finish Scott’s thoughts and tell him that they hear him. They then mock what he is thinking. He is thinking “great, they are reading his mind with their stupid psychic girl games.” Now they must be thinking that the Cuckoos aren’t telling them what they are thinking. They are telling them what they are thinking before they even think it. Scott turns and, instead of Emma, he sees the Dark Phoenix. The Cuckoos tell him not to worry. They are not Jean Grey. They are much worse.
Cerebra:
Wolverine breaks through and attacks Sophie.
X-Jet:
The Cuckoos tell Cyclops that he is going to hit the flash bomb button in .7 seconds. As their words register in his head, he will try and stop since they told him that they know it’s what he’ll do, so no doubt they want him to do it. However, by then he will already have pushed the button.
Everything the Cuckoos say comes true, and Scott pushes the button, too slow to stop himself. However, the girls are long gone.
Mansion:
Sophie and Esme crawl on the walls of the mansion to escape. Esme teases her sister about dropping her arm again. Sophie tells her that she didn’t drop it. Professor Logan cut it off. Esme tells her that their sisters are almost there and they still need them. She hopes Sophie is ready. Sophie tells her that she has been ready since her second burial.
Beast and Wolverine catch up with the girls, and Wolverine has Sophie’s arm stuck in his claws. Beast tells the girls to get down off the walls. Sophie apologizes and asks if this is better. The two girls then fly out the window.
Cute, says Wolverine. Beast asks Logan if he is ready to go to the second jet. Yeah, says Wolverine, but then looks down at the Sophie’s arm that he has. He tells Beast to pack his microscope, as he discovers that the arm is laced with metal bones.
Second Jet:
Beast and Wolverine take off. Wolverine calls Cyclops and tells him that they can’t find the flying zombies. They talked about finding their sisters, so the two will come to Cyclops’ coordinates. Cyclops understands and then asks about the bones. Beast explains that it is some kind of nanotech laced throughout the skeleton. That explains how the corpses can move. He can’t confirm it yet, but this substance might have a virtual neural net and the capacity for memory. That explains how the Cuckoo Zombies are able to talk. Confused, Cyclops tells Beast that every student in the school had a complete physical. Why didn’t they notice this before?
Beast agrees. He doesn’t even remember asking. He doesn’t even remember thinking of asking. Wait… what are they talking about again?
Stuttering, Cyclops can’t seem to remember. Clever little girls, says Emma. From the moment they came, none of them, not even Jean, ever wondered. Using her powers, Emma finds the problem. Psionic blocks in all their minds kept them from asking the appropriate questions. This might sting a bit as she removes the blocks.
The other X-Men feel a wave of nausea, but it passes. Cyclops asks Beast if he got the treatment too, and the other X-Men confirm that they did. Cyclops is pleased, and now wants to ask the questions. Who are these girls, asks Kitty. Where they came from, asks Emma. And where they are going, asks Beast. Wolverine tells the group that he has the answer to the last question, because now he remembers where he smelled the scent on the arm before.
The World:
Special S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Jake Oh reports back to the Hellicarrier from The World. He speaks into his intercom and explains that, three months ago, he was sent to the Weapon Plus headquarters, where super-soldiers were created. It sounded cool, and it was for the first few weeks. Where else can he see time stopped, literally in the middle of an explosion, with debris hanging in the air, while giant whale-brained war machines are frozen in mid charge? However, after a while, frozen time gets boring. He is there to monitor the facility while scientists figure out how it works, but he is trained for active combat duty. He is submitting a request to be transferred to anywhere where something might actually happen.
Suddenly, Oh is cut off as three firry females descend into The World. Jake whips out his gun and tells the girls to freeze as they are in restricted area. Phoebe is curious, but Jake tells her to drop their guns. Calling him by his name, Phoebe tells him that they don’t have any weapons. He then tells them to put their hands up in the air, before wondering how they knew his name. He’s cute, says Mindee. You think so, asks Phoebe. Celeste does, says Mindee.
“Ohmygod!” screams Celeste, “Shut up!”
As the three jump off the whale-brained war machine they are standing on, Jake tells them to stop moving and he is not kidding “you guys.” Phoebe tells Jake that they are girls, to which Jake replies that he knows as they are in their pajamas and everything. He then tells them to stop moving again. Phoebe walks away, agreeing that he is cute. Mindee tells her that it is too late. Celeste already called him. No I didn’t, shouts Celeste.
Annoyed, Jake tells the girls that, in three seconds, he will shoot sleeper darts that will leave a nasty bruise. Scared, Celeste tells Phoebe to stop playing around. They will get in trouble. This whole place feels wrong. She wants to go home. Phoebe turns around and tells Celeste not to fight it anymore. This is where they belong. She then tells Jake Oh that he better duck.
Jake turns as time returns back to normal around him. The explosion completes and the debris shoots around. The whale-brained war machine attacks him as he ducks for cover. One of the war machines announce that the sterile environment has been breached. Jake shoots the creature and tells the girls not to worry and to stand behind him. However, the girls are already gone by then, and Jake finds himself surrounded by three war machines.
Suddenly, the three Cuckoos descend from the sky feet first and land on the war machines, destroying them. Jake speaks into his intercom again and cancels the request for a transfer.
X-Jet:
Emma telepathically speaks to Cyclops and tells him that he is very quiet. Scott tells her to get out of his head. Emma pauses, and speaks out loud that she did not plant those psionic blocks. The Cuckoos did. Right, says Scott. The last time he went to The World he fought an artificially evolved super-soldier who could disintegrate people by looking at them. He was part of a team of monsters created to exterminate mutant kind. They were bred in The World, where the Cuckoos are from.
Emma tells Scott to look on the bright side. Three little Weapon Plus manufactured killing machines should be a bit easier to subdue than a trio of Dark Phoenix channeling apocalypse bringers, yes?
Scott looks at Emma, dumbfounded. Emma tells him that it isn’t love in his eyes. Emma tells her that she is wrong. He loves her, even now. He can’t help it. He just doesn’t trust her.
The World:
The three Cuckoos descend down a large tunnel, with Phoebe in the lead. Mindee tells her that they have to slow down as Celeste’s boyfriend cannot keep up. Annoyed, Celeste reiterates that Jake Oh is not her boyfriend. She then sees bugs and freaks out, asking if they can go home. Phoebe tells the girls to shut up. Celeste begins to argue, but Phoebe asks if she was not listening. They have a function. I don’t want a function, says Celeste. A purpose, says Phoebe. You sound like Sophie, says Celeste. She wanted to be a super hero and look what happened to her. A power, says Phoebe.
The three reach the bottom, with Jake Oh not too far behind. They reach a computer console with a hand print analyzer. Phoebe puts her hand on it and says that they are going to claim that power.
A video monitor flashes on, and John Sublime appears, welcoming the girls back home.
The giant doors before the Cuckoos open, and before them they see a giant labyrinth filled with thousands of green containment vessels, filled with liquid, and thousands of girls that look just like them!
“…We’ve all been waiting for you,” says Sublime.


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Phoenix: Warsong, part 3
The World - Sub-Basement Area:
Home, repeats Phoebe, confused, as she looks around the labyrinth that contains thousands of tubes, each with a Cuckoo suspended inside.
Yes, says the voice of Weapon Plus Director John Sublime, on a video monitor. This is the Weapon Plus facility known as The World. Phoebe doesn’t think that this is right, but Sublime tells her that it is. He sent them away from the nest with the X-Men so they could develop their talents. However, now they should just look around them. This is where they belong.
Celeste goes up to the monitor and tells Sublime that being naked in a test tube is not where she belongs. She then asks him who he is. Sublime introduces himself and explains that he created the Weapon Plus facility. He built it for the three Cuckoos and all their sisters. “Ew,” says Celeste, realizing that the thousands of Cuckoos look-a-likes are their sisters.
Phoebe tells Celeste to hush, but Celeste tells Phoebe that this is creepy and that Sublime put those girls in bottles. Phoebe asks Sublime, if the girls are their sisters, then how come the Cuckoos cannot hear them in their telepathic collective mind? Sublime tells her that the three don’t know the language yet. If Phoebe listens harder, she will understand… just like how Mindee has.
The two girls look over to see Mindee standing face-to-face with a Cuckoo sister in the tube. Sublime continues to explain that it is a sound they have heard in their bones all their lives; energy transformed into information. These thousands of Cuckoos still in tubes were created to collect that information and now it is time for the three remaining Cuckoos to use it. The three girls face their sisters, and notice three pods emerge from the coils that suspend the tubes in the air.
Phoebe tells Mindee not to touch the pods, but Mindee refuses to listen and tells Phoebe that she knows Sublime is right. This stab at individualism has been fun, but they belong with their other sisters. It is what they were meant for. Phoebe tells Mindee that it may have been right before, but they have a different purpose now. She then creates a fireball and tells Mindee that, when the fire came for them, it scared the X-Men and Celeste. She can even feel Celeste right now trying to snuff it out. Celeste complains that she isn’t doing anything, but Phoebe tells Mindee that Celeste thinks that the Phoenix is there to destroy everything, but it feels so right to Phoebe. All this Weapon Plus talk, however, feels wrong. Mindee tells Phoebe that it is the Phoenix that is trying to confuse her. They were made for one purpose.
Suddenly, the pod opens behind Mindee and coils and mechanical tentacles fly out and attach themselves to her. Phoebe is horrified, but Mindee, as she is pulled into the pod, tells her sister that she is part of the collective now and it is so clear, if only Phoebe would listen. She can hear it.
Mindee begins to become enveloped in fire as she becomes angry, but before she can do anything, Sublime apologizes to her, saying that he really must insist that the remaining Cuckoos join their sisters. A giant robotic construct rises from beneath Phoebe and grabs her with its tentacles, knocking her unconscious, with the video monitor of Sublime at the top of the being, acting as a head.
Terrified, Celeste screams and runs for dear life.
The World – Outside:
Cyclops’ team of X-Men arrives and confirms visual of The World. Cyclops bets that Sublime has a dozen killer cop cars down there for them, and tells Colossus to have the jet hover over the facility. They have to figure out if they are there to rescue the girls or destroy them. He then asks Emma if she is picking up any signals. Emma concentrates and then finds that the girls are quiet - almost muffled, as if they were sleeping. Cyclops asks Kitty about any wireless signals, and Kitty explains that there is a lot of noise. The only clear signal is one coming from a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, so that must mean someone is down there in the ground.
Wait, says Emma. She announces that the girls are talking. Emma hears the Cuckoos call out to her, and so do the other X-Men. Cyclops asks Emma about the Phoenix, and Emma replies that there is no trace. The girls are back in their all-in-one mind and are scared, but safe – or at least that is what they want them to think. Cyclops asks her if she thinks it is a trap, to which Emma replies “don’t you?”
Colossus armors up and asks Cyclops if this is a rescue mission or not. Cyclops tells him that they are still figuring it out, but either way step one is the same. They will kick some butt. The four X-Men jump out of the craft, with Emma in diamond form, and descend through the broken hole in the dome of The World, where they begin battle with the whale-brained war machines.
The World – Tunnel:
S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Jake Oh contacts the Helicarrier and reports that he is below the facility, trying to track down the girls. He informs them that the girls call themselves Mindee, Celeste and Phoebe and they are in their pajamas. When Jake hears no response, he pauses, and then frustratingly says that he has been yapping into his intercom with no response for a long time. Is anyone going to talk back to him? Suddenly, he hears a loud explosion and then tells S.H.I.E.L.D. command that, if they happen to care, he is heading back up. Something is happening on the surface.
At that moment, Celeste grabs Jake, who whips out his gun and spins, pointing the gun under her chin. Realizing who it is, Jake tells her that she is going to get herself killed sneaking around like that. That is the idea, says Celeste, which confuses Jake. She tells him to shoot her, again confusing Jake. She tells him to do it before it is too late, making Jake ask what again. Annoyed, Celeste tells her to stop asking what. Then stop talking crazy, Jake says. Celeste tells him that only Miss Frost understands that they cannot control it. Has Jake ever heard of the Phoenix?
The World – Far End of the Tunnel:
The X-Men reach the tunnel and Colossus begins to punch his way through. Cyclops asks Piotr what he sees, but the Russian has found nothing yet. The group hears gunshots from the other end of the tunnel. He tells Kitty to take point and then begins to speak to Emma, but Kitty points out that she doesn’t think Emma can hear them.
Cyclops turns to see Emma, who is overcome by voices calling out her name. Emma tells Cyclops to follow her, but Cyclops tells her to stop as she said herself it might be a trap. Emma tells Scott that she knows, but her girls need her. Emma then hears the voices telling her to please hurry. Cyclops and Colossus follow Emma, while Cyclops sends Kitty to track down the gunfire.
The three X-Men reach the end of the tunnel, and Emma is shocked to see what she finds. Before her are many tubes, each containing a person in them that looks so much like the Cuckoos, but these girls are each deformed and inhuman looking. The mutated girls are surprised to see Emma and are happy that she came for them. They call Emma… mother.
Confused, Emma begins to mumble “no” over and over, but one of the monster Cuckoos tells her that it is true. They remember. The Cuckoo explains that Emma’s students, the Hellions, had just been killed and Emma was hurt. She slept a really long time. That is when John Sublime came and took them from her. He had thousands of eggs in a single syringe. They were so little then. He brought them to The World and helped them grow. He said one day they’d be all together again. The girls have been waiting for so long. The monster Cuckoos then begin to call Emma mommy, and tell her that they love her. Emma screams in horror and falls to her knees.
Emma switches to diamond form to block out the cries of the Cuckoos, and Cyclops comforts her. He asks her if she is okay. Emma asks Cyclops in what strange alternate reality would a woman who just learned that her eggs had been harvested to create a roomful of deformed, psychic daughters ever consider herself okay? Fair enough, says Cyclops. It gets worse.
He tells Emma that this is a Weapon Plus Project. Sublime made these things for war and now they are talking about thousands of embryos. He doesn’t want Emma to open his mind back up to the Cuckoos, but he wants her to probe them. They have to find out where the rest of them are, and what they can do. Suddenly, the wall breaks open as Kitty comes phasing through a whip of metallic tentacles. “Uh, a little help here?” asks Kitty.
Cyclops attacks the tentacles, and nearby Jake Oh and Celeste arrive. Jake starts shooting at the tentacles and tells Celeste to stop freaking out as her friends are here. They are too late, says Celeste. He needs to kill her. Jake tells Celeste to shut up. Kill me, says Celeste. Shut up, says Oh. Kill --, says Celeste. Shut --, replies Oh.
Emma sees Celeste and switches back to her flesh form. She reaches for her and asks her where Phoebe and Mindee are. Jake covers Emma and shoots at the tentacles behind her, telling Emma that Sublime has the other girls, whatever that means, and Celeste is probably going to ask her to kill her. Celeste does just that, and Jake tells her that the killing thing is getting old. Emma hugs Celeste and tells her that she sees that she likes the boy, but the crazy telepath act only attracts a very specific type of man.
Celeste begins to cry and tells Emma to get out of her mind. Emma cannot help her. Doesn’t she get it? The Phoenix wants to come out and Emma cannot control her. However, Emma tells Celeste that maybe she can stop her if Celeste just lets her in. When Celeste asks her what she is going to do, Emma tells Celeste that she will just flick a few switches in her brain, the same way Professor Xavier helped Jean Grey back when she was the Dark Phoenix. Celeste tells Emma that Xavier put in psychic blocks to hold in the Phoenix, but it did not work. I know, says Emma. Celeste realizes that Emma isn’t just going to put in psychic blocks. She is going to psychically lobotomize her. Will… she still be herself? I don’t know, admits Emma.
Celeste tells Emma not to cry as she opens her mind to her. She calls Emma mother, and admits that she is ready. Emma is about to begin, but suddenly a tentacle hits her in the back of the head. Emma is knocked out. Celeste apologizes, and then releases a blaze of fire from her body.
The World – Outside:
Beast and Wolverine arrive in the other jet and spot the first jet hovering over The World. Beast radios Cyclops and tells him that they lost the zombie Cuckoos, but they are there. Suddenly, they see an inferno blast out of the hole in the dome.
The two open the hatch and look out. Beast has put the jet on autopilot. It will get them over the hole, but that is assuming the fire doesn’t kill them both. This is pretty bad. Wolverine, however, tells Beast that it is worse than he thinks. The two are then attacked by the zombie Cuckoos, who are glad that their professors finally made it. The girls pull the two out and they free fall to the ground. Beast battles Sophie and tells her that he has had it up to here with them. Sophie tells Beast not to be angry. They are all on the same side now.
Tentacles rise out of The World and grab Wolverine. Esme rides on one tentacle and Wolverine tells her that they are not on the “zombie-Cuckoos Weapon Plus destroys all mutants side.” Esme tells Wolverine that they is bigger than that. It is time to save the world.
The World -: Sub-Basement Area:
Celeste falls to her knees in the crater left after unleashing her fire fury. She grabs her head and says that she isn’t going to let the Phoenix out and chants it over and over. Emma recovers and Cyclops tells her to reach out to Celeste and help her control it. I can’t, says Emma. Cyclops reminds Emma that Celeste is her daughter. Emma tells Cyclops that Celeste told her that neither Emma nor herself could contain the Phoenix. It is too late to rescue. It is time to destroy.
Cyclops turns to Colossus and Kitty and tells them that Celeste has nano-tech in her bones. Perhaps phasing will do something. Kitty isn’t sure if that will help or not, but Cyclops tells her that now is the time to find out. Colossus grabs Kitty and prepares to throw her, though Kitty tells him to wait.
Celeste looks up and says, “Oh, hello.”
Wolverine comes out of the sky and slices through the top of Celeste’s head.
“Ouch,” says Kitty.
Nothing personal, kid, says Wolverine to the dead Celeste, who has blood streaming over her face from the three slices across her skull. Suddenly, fire erupts from the wounds and Celeste turns to Wolverine, calling him the “funny little man…”
Realizing that the Phoenix has emerged, Cyclops begins to shout an order to Colossus, but it is too late.
Celeste’s clothes burn away to reveal a light blue Phoenix uniform and she flies out of the area and into the sky, with the Phoenix Raptor ablaze, erupting the entire facility in an explosion. The Phoenix announces that she is life. She is fire. She burns away that which does not work. Her name is Phoenix.
Below, Jake Oh lies unconscious under some tentacles, possibly dead. Kitty rushes to the aid of Colossus, who is back in his flesh form and unconscious. Beast comes to the aid of Cyclops, who is also not moving.
Emma gets up and looks around at some of the tubes, which are now shattered and damaged, injuring some of the Cuckoo Collective. As Sophie and Esme come to Emma’s side, the White Queen announces to Celeste that mommy is mad.


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Phoenix: Warsong, part 4
The World – Cuckoo Clone Chamber:
“Mother!” screams the telepathic cries of dying Cuckoo clones, suspended in tubes now cracked open and surrounded by fire.
Emma calls out to Celeste, who now has succumbed to the power of the Phoenix, and tells her “daughter” that she knows that she can hear her sisters. Celeste tells Emma to be quiet, but Emma tells her that the other girls have done nothing wrong. They don’t deserve this. Celeste rockets into the sky in a blaze of fire, knocking Emma side, though luckily Emma switches to her diamond form in time to avoid injury. Celeste flies into the air and out of the dome, wearing a light blue variant of the Phoenix costume.
Above The World:
Celeste/Phoenix announces that she is life. She is fire. Her name is Phoenix. The Phoenix Raptor stretches out into the sky, but suddenly Celeste screams. The girl suddenly starts babbling that she is not the Phoenix. She is just Celeste. This is too much for her. She can’t stop it and needs help. The fire before Celeste suddenly takes on a form that just looks like her. The Phoenix Force, mimicking Celeste’s body, asks the Cuckoo is she is not any fun, is she?
Confused, Celeste asks the fire-woman who she is. The Phoenix, silly, replies the Force. Well, just a fragment anyway. The Phoenix was shattered into a billion pieces, but then she, the little fragment, heard the Cuckoos call. Celeste, confused, tells the Force that she didn’t call her. Oh, but you did, says the Force. Celeste’s hungry little mind called the Force. The Cuckoos were always wondering what it is like to feel and to burn and to live. How could the Phoenix pass them by? However, now Celeste is scared. She couldn’t even tell Jake Oh that she likes him!
Annoyed once again at someone teasing her for liking Jake, Celeste tells the Force that she must met the guy. Besides, Jake isn’t a boy; he is a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent! Realizing that she sounds a bit silly arguing with a universal being made of the fire of life about her boy troubles, Celeste cuts back to the important things, and reminds the Phoenix that she destroys worlds.
“Where on Earth did you get that idea?” asks the puzzled Phoenix.
An image of the Dark Phoenix appears between the two, and Celeste tells the Force that the Phoenix killed five billion people. And saved the universe a few times, adds the creature. Too much, repeats Celeste, over and over. Of course it is, says the Force. It is too much for any human to bear. The Phoenix then asks Celeste how can killing five billion people, or even a single person, ever be considered anything evil? How could this power, this hunger, be anything but evil? However, the Force could not have come to the Cuckoos if there wasn’t a reason for all of this. Celeste asks what the purpose is, but the Force tells her that she already knows. She spoke the words. She is life and fire. The Phoenix and Celeste unite once again, and the Force tells Celeste to stop fighting her and just do her job.
The World – Deformed Cuckoo Chamber:
Emma looks around and the burned bodies of several dead Cuckoo “daughters.” Suddenly, the Sophie and Esme zombies come to Emma and tell her not to cry. She still has them. Angered, Emma grabs both girls by the throats, and Sophie asks if this is any way to treat her favorite daughters. Emma tells the two that they are not her daughters. They are just Weapon Plus zombies filled with recorded memories and nano-tech!
Sophie rolls her eyes and says “whatever.” Their sister Celeste is about to destroy the world and the zombie Cuckoos don’t want to be incinerated. Are the X-Men going to help them or what? Cyclops turns to Wolverine and asks if the zombies are lying. Wolverine tells Cyclops that he can’t smell lies if the subject has been dead for more than a week. However, the zombies have a point.
Cyclops and Wolverine head off to rendezvous with the others, and find Beast, who asks where Emma is. Cyclops replies that she is flying with the zombies, and he doesn’t have time to explain. He just hopes Beast came prepared. Beast says that of course he came prepared. He wasn’t happy with the last Phoenix containment device he made, so he miniaturized the psionic inhibitors and put them in a dart. Here is the best part: there is a circuit to prevent the Phoenix from absorbing Scott’s powers. As long as Celeste wears the tag Scott can blast her away.
Kitty arrives and Cyclops tells her to phase Beast down through the floor. Beast, however, interjects. He knows Celeste and thinks that she trusts him. They need every advantage that they can get. Cyclops ignores Beast and interrupts, telling him that he has another job for him. They need to tap into the Weapon Plus systems and figure out the purpose of the Cuckoos and their vulnerabilities. Beast complies and he and Kitty head off.
Colossus armors up and meets up with Wolverine and Cyclops. Wolverine wants the dart so Colossus can toss him to Celeste, but Cyclops says no. Jake Oh gets first dibs. Wolverine and Jake are both confused. Cyclops tells Jake that Beast was right about needing every possible advantage. The zombies say Celeste has a crush on him. Embarrassed, Jake rubs the back of his head and informs the three men that he assures them that his dealings with the civilians have been nothing but professional.
Colossus grabs Oh, now armed with the dart in his gun, and chucks him at Celeste.
Above The World:
Celeste begins to hover closer to the ground of the world, and notices Jake Oh flying right at her. She smiles at him. “Don’t kill me!” says Jake. Celeste tells Jake not to worry. The Phoenix isn’t there to –
Sorry, says Jake, as he pulls out his gun and shoots the dart into Celeste’s chest.
Cyclops then unleashes his optic blast and hits Celeste square in the face.
The World – Ground Level:
Celeste falls to the ground as the Phoenix Raptor disappears and she returns back to her pajamas. Before she can recover, Emma, who is being carried by the flying zombies, lands on her and tells her that they have her now. No, screams Celeste. They don’t understand. Emma tells Celeste to let her into her mind so they can solve this problem like they talked about before. Snip, taunts Esme, referring to Emma’s plans to lobotomize Celeste. Sophie tells Esme to hush, as she is scaring Celeste. No, says Celeste. She will never be scared again.
The World – Sub-basement Area:
Kitty and Beast arrive at the entrance of a chamber. They are met by a video display of John Sublime, who welcomes the X-Men. He recommends that they leave, as the car-cops are on their way. Beast tells Sublime that there are one or two more deadly things in The World than car-cops right now, or hasn’t Sublime noticed. Why doesn’t Sublime come out in person? Because there is no person, says Kitty, as she examines the technology around her. Sublime tells Kitty that he has no clue what Kitty is talking about.
Kitty explains that this isn’t Sublime, but a recording. To be more precise, it is a massive interactive databank of recorded powered by automated response program. Kitty tinkers around with the controls, and pauses “Sublime.” Beast is pleased and tells Kitty to give him a moment so he can reprogram it to give them the answers that they need. Kitty obliges Beast and tells him that, in the meantime, she’ll look behind this door to see what is there. She then phases through, and sees something that could possibly make her crap her pants.
Kitty hears Beast call through the wall that she can open it anytime now. Kitty opens the door and Beast stands with the monitor, asking Sublime what they are looking at. The reprogrammed Sublime console tells the X-Men that it is Ef Protos Batch 121 through 1123, but for short they can call it Weapon XIV!
The two X-Men look into a massive cavern area that extends further than the eye can see, and is littered with literally a thousand tubes, all containing Cuckoo clones.
The World – Ground Level:
Celeste becomes the Phoenix again, Raptor and costume including. She suspends Esme and Sophie in the air with her, while the other X-Men watch below. Esme begins to feel weird and asks what is going on. Celeste tells her that they are dead animated corpses with artificial intelligence. Now they are alive for real. With that said, Celeste restores the two zombies back to their human forms.
Actually, no, says Sophie. They aren’t alive again. All Celeste did was layer fresh cells over their dead bones. Not that they aren’t grateful, says Esme. However, says Sophie, the Phoenix isn’t the savior that Celeste likes to imagine. You all think you know the Phoenix, says Celeste, but they don’t understand her. She didn’t come to destroy. She is life incarnate.
Tell that to your sisters, says Emma, as she looks around at the shattered tubes and dead Cuckoos.
Celeste descends to the ground with Esme and Sophie. Emma explains that this used to be a lab full of Weapon Plus experiments. These were her daughters, and Celeste’s sisters. Now she killed them when she manifested the Phoenix Force. Didn’t she even notice? Celeste tells the group that it is okay. She can fix them. Celeste then raises her hand to resurrect the other clones, but nothing happens. Confused, Celeste tells Emma that she cannot. Sophie tells her that this is because Celeste now understands what the Phoenix came here to do. She is here to kill them all, but it will be all right. Esme interjects and tells Celeste not to listen to Sophie as it isn’t all right.
Celeste grabs head, and as tears of fire stream from her eyes, she tells her sisters that she is life and fire. She is sorry. Celeste then incinerates Sophie and Esme. Celeste flies back into the air, realizing now what must be done.
Cyclops speaks into his intercom and calls Beast. He tells Hank to hurry up with whatever he is doing, as Celeste is ripping up the ground and is heading their way!
The World – Original Cuckoo Clone Chamber:
Beast walks around the cavern and tells Scott that he understands, but he needs a minute. Cyclops tells him that he doesn’t have a minute. However, Beast tells him that Cyclops needs to hear this, and he patches Scott in.
Kitty then asks Sublime what the Cuckoos are. Sublime responds that they are a thousand psionic mutants raised from the eggs of Emma Frost. What do they do, Kitty asks. Sublime responds that they are meant to collectively process information at an exponentially greater power level than any living telepath. That power can be controlled and unleashed via three focal points. Two of those focal points have come home and been integrated into the machine. However, the third is infested with the Phoenix Force and is now incompatible with the machinery.
So Weapon XIV is a bust, Beast asks. Not quite, responds Sublime. Even with just two focal points, Weapon XIV can shatter a person’s mind merely by thinking about him, which is an excellent way to destroy all mutants.
Suddenly, Celeste arrives in the chamber. As fire begins to slowly spread, Celeste finds the containment eggs that Mindee and Phoebe were earlier taken into. The two girls peer out of the cracked containment vessels and see that their sister has come back. Celeste asks her sisters if they are ready.
The other X-Men arrive, and Wolverine realizes that the first problem is solved. They will let the Phoenix take out the Cuckoos. No, wait, interjects Emma. Wolverine interrupts her and tells her that she heard Hank. They are death machines. My little death machines, retorts Emma. She then sends Cyclops an image of her plan, which Scott understands, but isn’t sure if she is up to it. Emma isn’t sure herself, but she knows that she has to be.
Celeste approaches her sisters and tells Mindee and Phoebe not to struggle. She has come to burn them away, so life can grow again. Suddenly, Cyclops blasts Celeste away. Celeste gets up, but Cyclops hits her again. She then flies above him and tells him that his dart has burned away. His optic blasts just make her stronger.
But not smarter, says Cyclops. Before Celeste can realize that she was just being distracted away from the Mindee and Phoebe, she sees Colossus chuck Emma into the air over her. Celeste is hit by another optic blast. The third containment vessel senses Emma, and confusing her for Celeste, reaches out with tentacles and takes her in, much to the confusion of Mindee.
Phoebe tells Emma that it wasn’t made for Emma, as she isn’t like them. Emma, now in the vessel, tells the two girls that they are right. She is much stronger than them. Now if the girls would kindly follow her, they have much work to do.
The three women burst out of their containment vessels, just as Celeste grabs Cyclops by the throat. They confront Celeste and use their psychic powers on her. Emma tells Celeste that it will only sting for a moment. Celeste reels back and tells Emma to stay away from her brain. They are killing her!
No, says Emma, crying. They are only disconnecting a few parts of her mind. Emotionally, Celeste tells Emma that those are the parts that make her… her! And the parts that make you Phoenix, says Emma sadly. Celeste screams in agony.
The Phoenix Raptor disappears, as does the costume. Celeste falls to the ground back in her pajamas. Emma approaches Celeste, who can only just make a few incoherent sounds, like a newly born baby. Emma, crying, tells Celeste to hush. “Mother is here.”
Colossus asks what they will do to the Weapon Plus machines. Aren’t they designed to kill them? Kitty watches Emma kneel by Celeste and tells Peter that Emma is in charge of them now. After all, she is their mother. They don’t have anything to worry about, do they Mr. Sublime?
Nothing this instant, says Sublime to Kitty. Emma’s powers give her total control of the Cuckoos in this present state. Of course, there are some mechanical aspects of the system, which he himself can access. Confused, Kitty tells Sublime to hang on and explain himself.
Suddenly, mechanical tentacles come out of the machines and latch onto Celeste, pulling her away from Emma. The tentacles lift Celeste into the air, and she suddenly wakes up and screams, fire erupting from her body.
The fire spreads and begins to envelope the thousand Cuckoo clones. Beast tells Sublime that he made a stupid mistake. He just realized Celeste’s Phoenix fire and it is burning away everything that he created.
Not quite, says Sublime, as suddenly the thousand Cuckoos open their eyes, which glow the hint of fire. Confused, Beast tells Sublime that he said the machines couldn’t possibly handle the Phoenix.
“I know…” says Sublime, as the three Stepford Cuckoos stand united with their sisters, now raging with the power of the Phoenix. “I lied.”


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Phoenix: Warsong, conclusion
The World – Cuckoo Clone Chamber:
Dr. Sublime, asks Celeste, what happened?
The Sublime A.I. tells Celeste that there is nothing for her to fear any longer. She is home. The Phoenix cannot touch her now. Confused, Celeste tells Sublime that she is still there inside of her. Frozen in your heart, says Sublime. The Phoenix is not in her organic diamond body that prevents her from escaping. She is too strong to be contained like that, says Celeste. Sublime explains to Celeste that the Phoenix is divided among all her sisters. They are helping Celeste now. There are a thousand Cuckoos holding the Phoenix. The Phoenix no longer controls them; they control the Phoenix. The true beauty of it all, though, is that he controls them!
The X-Men stand and face the Cuckoos, who now each contain a piece of the Phoenix in the diamond hearts. Sublime tells the X-Men to prepare themselves, as the power of the Phoenix is his. He will destroy all mutants. To hell with that, says Cyclops, as he destroys the monitor with his optic blast.
Another monitor appears and tells Cyclops he is very aggressive. Scott is just reinforcing stereotypes. They should thank Sublime for putting their twisted genome out of its misery. Kitty phases through the monitor, destroying it. Another monitor comes and Sublime tells them that they can destroy all his avatars if they like. Colossus complies and smashes the cords, while Jake Oh shoots at the screen. Emma wrestles in her diamond form with another monitor, and Sublime tells the X-Men that the girls already have their orders.
Emma sees the three girls erupt in fire and tells the team that they girls are about to fire, so they should hit the ground! Maybe instead he’ll raise it, says Colossus. He then rips out a slab of concrete and uses it to shield the X-Men from the fire of the Phoenix. Cyclops praises Colossus and then tells Emma that she has to hit the Cuckoos like a hammer telepathically to buy them time. Emma switches to her flesh form and tries, but something is wrong. Colossus tells Cyclops that the fire is breaking through.
Cyclops tells Colossus to go high while he goes low. Cyclops then starts blasting away the ground beneath them as Colossus throws the concrete slab at the girls. The girls destroy the slab and unleash their fire on the X-Men, but the team thankfully gets into the hole that Cyclops has made and into a tunnel below.
Cyclops turns to Agent Oh and asks him if he has any ideas since he knows this facility better than the rest of them. When Oh asks how powerful his blasts are, Cyclops tells him that he cannot attack the girls directly, as the Phoenix can absorb it. However, that is not what Jake has in mind. There is a power core a hundred feet below them shielded by lead. The explosion would take out everything within half a mile. He then asks Kitty how many of them she can phase at a time. Cyclops interjects as he won’t kill children, but Wolverine tells him that they are the Phoenix. Kitty interrupts and tells them all to wait and listen. They all pause, and Kitty tells them that it is quiet. They’ve… stopped.
Cyclops pauses and looks around. Where is Emma?
The World – Ground Level:
The Stepford Cuckoos fly around and tell Emma that they know she is there. Emma might as well as come out. Emma comes out from hiding and tells the girls that this is disappointing. They have been ordered to destroy all mutants and they are channeling the power of the Phoenix, which means they can split the world in half. Yet she still lives. One of the girls tells Emma that they just want to see her face when she burns.
The Cuckoos unleash fire on Emma, but Cyclops tackles her out of the way. Emma begins to call Cyclops her big brave hero, but he tells her that they have no time for this and orders her into her diamond form. Emma tells Cyclops that the diamond won’t be necessary. The flames won’t hurt them. Cyclops realizes that he and Emma are enveloped in fire, but nothing is burning them. Emma tells Scott that Celeste is still with them. She is holding the others back.
Phoebe turns to Celeste and asks her what is wrong with her. Celeste, worried, asks her sisters if they remember when Professor Grey nearly destroyed the world. They helped her remember all the people that loved her. Maybe all they have to do is remember as well. Phoebe and Mindee blast Celeste away. Phoebe grabs Celeste’s head and yells that they are the Thousand-in-One. This is their freedom. They don’t think or feel or remember. They just do what they are made to do. Celeste argues that she wants to remember. They barely started living their lives and barely know them all. However, Dr. McCoy, Jake Oh, even Mr. Summers behind the visor and Miss Frost…
The X-Men regroup and Cyclops calls out to Celeste, telling her that the X-Men are with her. What should they do? Celeste tells Cyclops about the technology and the machinery that are connecting them to the collective Cuckoos, but Phoebe yells at her to stop talking to the X-Men. Celeste yells to the X-Men that if the girls aren’t connected then they cannot channel the power. Do it while she is still holding her sisters back!
Cyclops unleashes his optic blast on the containment eggs that connect the three girls to the collective. The other X-Men get to work dismantling the machines. Emma looks up and sees Mindee losing her power and falling from the air. Let’s just make sure, says Kitty as she phases through Mindee, interrupting the nano-tech within her.
Beast catches Mindee, who weakly calls out to Beast. Beast tells her that it will be ok. She is free of the machines and Kitty shorted the nano-tech in her bones. It is all over.
Nearby, Celeste stands by Phoebe, who is on her knees. The Phoenix fire is fading from her. Celeste tells her to be grateful, but Phoebe liked the fire. She wants it! She then slams all her fire into the ground and then falls unconscious. Celeste is confused, but Jake Oh realizes that Phoebe has punched the power grid and the whole place is going to blow. Kitty comes to Beast and Mindee and orders everyone to get around them as she will phase them. Colossus, however, is concerned about the thousand girls in the tubes.
Jake picks up Celeste and tells her that she cannot give up. Her sisters need her. Celeste tells him that they will all die now, just like the others planned. Jake tells Celeste that he was wrong before. He didn’t know that she could control it. But I can’t, yells Celeste. Oh tells her that, if Phoebe had enough strength left to set off the blast, maybe Celeste can stop it. Celeste, however, tells Jake that this is exactly what Phoebe wants her to do. Jake looks at Emma and tells her to talk to Celeste. Now prepare for her judgment.
Confused, Emma barely mutters a “what?” Jake tells Celeste to wait, but Emma tells him that she cannot. She chose the Phoenix. And this is what the Phoenix came to do.
The thousand Cuckoos look up at Celeste and tell their sister that they just realized they were living and now she is going to –
The Phoenix incinerates the thousand Cuckoos. Goodbye, say Mindee and Phoebe in unison, to their sisters.
The two look around, and Phoebe tells Mindee that Celeste killed them all. Of course, says Mindee. They were created to rub out mutants and to thwart the progress of life. The Phoenix couldn’t let them live.
Emma cries and tells Celeste that she didn’t know that it would end this way. Celeste, crying, turns to Emma and tells her that she is Phoenix. Suddenly, she says no. She is Celeste. With that, she returns back to her pajamas and expels the Phoenix Force from her.
Celeste looks up at the Force hovering over her. She tells it that it did what it came to do. It used all of them. Now go. Go!
The Phoenix takes on the appearance of two girls and tells Celeste that they are not done. The Phoenix then attempts to merge back with Celeste, who does not fight. Fine then, says Celeste. She then unleashes her fire on Mindee and Phoebe. When the fire subsides, the three Cuckoos are now in their diamond form. Confused, Mindee asks where the Phoenix is. Celeste tells them that it is split into the three of them. It is so cold, says Phoebe.
The three girls revert back to flesh, except for their hearts, which remain diamond. Celeste tells them that their hearts are diamond permanently now. They will never feel again, but the Phoenix will never escape.
Emma hugs Celeste, who doesn’t embrace Emma back, and tells her daughter that she is sorry. Emma pulls away, but the emotionless Celeste asks Emma if they will not go home now. She walks towards the X-Jet that begins to descend. Jake calls out to her, but she ignores him, no longer feeling any sort of feeling for him.
“If I could feel anything,” says Mindee, “I think I would cry.”
The three girls then walk to the X-Jet.
Sometime later, Xavier’s Institute:
As Beast runs tests on the Cuckoos in his lab, Emma thinks to herself about the events. Hank says that there is nothing to worry about. Their organic diamond hearts are beyond perfect. Nothing on Earth can get inside of them and the Phoenix fragment can’t get out.
The girls wanted to live, learn and grow, but now they are the same as they were before, only more so. They are quiet. They are obedient. They are removed. Emma can taste their memories. They remember everything, but it matters not. They cannot feel anything. It is as if nothing ever happened to them. And nothing ever will.
However, Emma remembers. She had a thousand daughters, who were thousand bright lights. A thousand little minds slowly awakening and shining. And then you snuffed them out.
Maybe you are just Jean Grey gone insane. Maybe you’re the Phoenix, obeying cosmic laws that we will never understand. All Emma knows for sure is that when you come back, you will have to deal with her.
Emma looks up at the night sky, with anger in her eyes.


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Pixie Strikes Back! – part one
Five teenage girls walk the halls of a high school. In the center of the group is Megan “Oh my God, seriously?” Gwynn. (Most likely to be liked as well as hop up and down when she is happy.) On her left is Hisako “It’s a family name” Ichiki. (Has already finished her comunity service quote but is worried it didn’t make her a better person) On Hisako’s left is Cessily “I can kick over my head” Kincaid, head cheerleader. (Most likely to mistake reverse for first).  On Megan’s  right is a dark brooding girl in leather. Laura “don’t make me come over there Kinney. (Professional hardcase with zero patience. Thinks bananas smell like nail polish remover). And rounding up the group is Ruth “what are you, blind?” Aldine. (Amateur grammarian with little patience for people who can’t see what’s right in front of them).
She thinks it’s time they all stopped kidding around and take this situation seriously, Megan announces as they walk into the school’s cafeteria where Hisako immediately ogles at the baseball players. She means it, Megan stresses. If they don’t get their ducks in a row, they’ll regret it.
She dislikes that expression, Laura announces. No one tells a duck what to do. Cessily disagrees. She was at this hotel once and the ducks came right out of the elevator and climbed those little steps into a fountain. So cute, she gushes. She’s confident that her experience in the field of water fowl management will be invaluable in a crisis, Laura declares. Well, they never know what’s going to be thrown at them next, Cessily retorts, addressing Laura by her name. Laura orders her not to call her by that name She is—
Before she can finish the sentence, she runs into a baseball player. She’d watch where she was going if she were him, she warns him. This is all part of their plan to ruin their musical, isn’t it? he accuses her.
Megan draws Laura away, reminding her that they have plans to hatch and they’re gonna gang aft agley if this gang doesn’t get organized. Why does she always have to be in charge? she sighs as they walk into the ladies room. Megan is t he last one. She turns around into the cafeteria to see the other baseball players brutally beating up the boy who ran into Laura. She is confused but nevertheless follows the other girls. On the door to the ladies room is a crude drawing of a demon.
Hisako is in one of the stalls while the others are waiting outsides. Megan tries to announce her plan but is shushed by a hyper-nervous Hisako, so they wait until she is finished. Afterward, Megan suggests they pool their resources. She’s got a buck fifty which will get fries but if she can get another two dollars then she can get the monster upsize and she’ll share the burger too and they can just drink water. She’s really not that hungry.
Hisako leaves the stall, announcing she hates talking in the bathroom. She hates hearing people talking. It’s as bad as hearing your parents you know. Without mosquitoes there would be no more malaria, Laura informs her wisely. She knows, and without cowboys there would be no cows, she retorts. What’s her point?
Oh my God! Cessily suddenly exclaims. Look at her, she’s horrible! The others stare into the bathroom mirror as she does. The reflection shows them in their X-Men uniforms and there mutant looks but they don’t notice. Cessily just complains about her hair. Hisako tells her to calm herself. She almost made Laura take her mace out. It’s a switchblade, Laura corrects her. Why would she carry an absurdly large object such as a mace? Megan tries to calm Cessily, telling her she looks cute. She wishes she was a redhead. Ruth complains she thinks there is something in her eye. Can they leave now, please? Megan hugs Cessily and suggests they go eat. Her blood sugar must be low. She thought there was actually something wrong with Cess.
Utopia, home of the X-Men, outside a bunker in which is a girl’s bathroom. Rockslide and Anole are nervous, as she’s been in there a really long time, even for a girl. Rockslide finally knocks. Inside, Ruth Aldine aka Blindfold (looking the way she is supposed to look) “looks,” if that can be the right word in her case, at her reflection in a locker door. This is not what it looks like, she announces, it is not. Go away. Go away, everyone should go away.
Rockslide finally kicks in the door. Boys, go away; she is hiding, she states. Rockslide replies this stupid asteroid is totally falling apart. Please, where is everyone? Ruth asks. Looking at a tampon, Rockslide mutters girls have a lot of weird stuff while Victor tells Ruth that’s what they wanted to ask her. Where are Pixie and X-23 and Cess and Hisako? There’s really a lot to do and they could use help. They are gone, Blindfold replies. Expiring. Not themselves. Trouble. There is going to be trouble. But they’ll be back soon. They better be, Rockslide mutters, then finally realizes what the object in his hand is. Is this the girl’s washroom? he shouts at Victor. He is totally dead! This is so wrong!
Elsewhere, in what seem to be another reality the girls are in the school cafeteria. Like wrong on every possible level, Megan mutters about her food. They find a place to sit down. A guy suddenly addresses Laura remarking it’s not her fault she’s in love with a big gay cheerleader who won’t return her phone calls. What the hell did he say? she demands and unsheathes her switchblade. He said how long has she been seventeen? he claims. Stop talking to them! another boy shouts and wrestles him from behind. He will pay for that, the first boy threatens. They will all pay, the other boy replies, if he doesn’t do as he is told. Does he think he is in charge here? He hits the first boy in the face with his food tray For a moment the firs boy’s face changes, suddenly looking like that of a green goblin. Uh-oh, the second boy mutters. A group of footballers has gathered threateningly.
The girls watch as they hit the second boy. She’s not moving, Laura mutters, not for anyone. Not until their mission is… she sputters off. Megan exclaims her name. Next! the cafeteria lady repeats senselessly and suddenly stabs Megan in the back with her knife. Passing out, Megan tries her teleportation spell. Shut her up! someone announces.
Megan find herself somewhere else, dark lab. She’s hurt. She needs them to call someone, her mother, she demands. Please call her mother!
Someone who looks like the food lady from afar but more like a golden goblin with tentacles from close up tells her to sit down. Megan still acts as though nothing seems wrong when she asks if they need the number. She’s sure it’s in her file. They can look it up. She’s Megan Gwynn. She spells her name. Can she have some aspirin. She’s going to be late for fourth period.
Stop talking! the creature orders. She’ll stop talking when they call her mom, Megan shouts, or at least she’ll start talking to her mom and the woman won’t have to listen. Doesn’t this school have some patient-mom privilege? Nothing is worth this, the creature mutters, preparing a drink and handing it to Megan who pleads she wants to go home. She doesn’t feel well. The creature tells her her strength is ebbing They… she’ll need all her strength. If she isn’t on the phone with her mom the time this hits her molars, she’s gonna call so loud she won’t be needing a phone, Megan threatens. They are counting on it, comes the reply.
Somewhere else, the shores of Utopia where Kurt Wagner aka Nightcrawler tells Betsy Braddock aka Psylocke one of the longest words in the German language: Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän. Not interested, Betsy asks if he sees anything moving out there. Nothing, he replies and insists the word is very funny. It’s the word for “steamship captain “but Germans are so precise they must name the river in the word itself, it’s so amusing! They call a river Donald Duck fart? Betsy asks. No, Kurt corrects her. “Donau” is German for the Danube. There is a longer word regulating the labeling of beef, but--
Suddenly Betsy warns him to step back. A moment later a woman in an old-fashioned dress with her hair in an equally old-fashioned knot stands before them. Her eyes are fully black, her ears pointed and her hair is lavender, making her look very much like an older version of Pixie. Where is her daughter? the woman demands. “Fraulein,” Kurt begins. Don’t fraulein her, she orders strictly. Unless he is the one in charge and she tells him frankly that would not be her guess.
More direct, Psylocke demands to know who she is. The stranger continues that his teutonic charm might have worked on her granny Griffith when she just up and married that officer who never should have escaped from camp 198. But those bridgenders were known to be numty, bless them and she can tell them it won’t work on her.
Madame, Betsy remarks. Don’t “madame” her, the stranger now turns on her. Don’t they know who she is? Not really, Betsy retorts. She is Mrs. Gwynn, she announces. Betsy and Kurt share a look, clearly not having any idea why this should mean anything to them. Mrs. Pixie’s mother, she clarifies annoyed and again asks where her daughter is.
Kurt politely asks her to give them a moment. They turn away and whisper. Betsy remarks she must be nuts. Pixie’s been helping shifting tents and getting people settled in. She’s probably asleep and she’s totally earned it. Have the ever even seen a picture of this woman? Oh, it’s her all right, Kurt insists. She even smells like Pixie. There’s magic here, he believes. Hers or someone else’s, he doesn’t know. Betsy replies exasperated that she smells of bananas and she has nothing on her. She doesn’t know if the woman is blocking her or someone else. Still….
Kurt turns to the woman trying to be charming. He assures her they are always happy to meet the parents of a former student, now indispensable X-Man. Especially one so charming. He suggests they go find her daughter. Her daughter is lost! the woman insists. Literally or metaphorically? Betsy asks. She wants an answer! she shouts and swats Nightcrawler away.
Get. Back. Now! Psylocke orders and manifests a psychic dagger. They were supposed to look after her, the woman accuses them. Kurt teleports onto a rock next to Mrs. Gwynn and suggests they not jump to conclusions. Even if she is right, Pixie has a good head on her shoulders. She comes from good stock, no?
Megan would not call to her for no reason, the woman states. She insults them. Locked away on their island of dreams. That girl has got her for a mother and she assures them her father was no better. Edging closer, Kurt states, her father was a coalminer, yes? Salt of the Earth… Children do not come from nothing. Do they actually think that girl was bred from milk and butter? she snorts. If her father was a coalminer, she is the president of the Pothmadog Rotary Association!
Kurt suggests they go find Cyclops to clear up her question. Too late! She announces. She makes a small gesture and dust gathers around her. She stalks off, announcing do they think she has all day? That she doesn’t have things she’d rather be doing than chase after her foolish girl? She was the fool to think they were the lesser of two evils. She slowly floats away. So, does he really think she might be magical? Betsy asks sarcastically. Because she still thinks the jury is out.
Back at the high school, Megan looks through the empty hallways, wondering where everyone is. She hears a slamming noise coming from the infirmary. A green, goblin-like being, clearly hurt, drags itself around the corner. Cessily comes running and tells her to run. What is that horrible thing? Megan asks but Cess has no answer. It becomes clear soon that she is running (as are her other friends) from a group of demons that are hot on their heels.
Why the hell are there demons in her high school? Megan protests. Shut up! a red demon orders and hits her in the stomach. She’ll get them all in trouble!
Megan’s jacket tears and beneath it she finds to her surprise she has wings. Loudly she cries if she is a demon, too? A moment later an even bigger demon appears, demanding to know who is responsible for this. “Dad’s home,” one of the demons mutters.


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Pixie Strikes Back! – part two
Ten hours ago:
X-23, Armor, Mercury and Pixie herself are all on Pixie’s scooter. She speaks her teleportation spell and they arrive in front of a somewhat derelict looking building. She thought Megan said this was going to be fun, Mercury states critically, wereas Hisako demands to know where the hell they are. Megan assures them this is going to be fun. It’s a surprise! They will love it. She was surprised when she got the invite.
While X-23 and Armor bicker over whether she repeated her question or varied it, Megan continues to gush how super this is going to be. They are all invited to an exclusive private Dazzler show. At least she was. They’ll just have to suck it up and be her posse. Problem, Mercury warns. No problem, Pixie insists. It doesn’t have to be “posse.” How about “crew” or “gang” or “marching band?”
“Oh,” she states when she realizes Mercury was referring to the man holding a pipe in front of them. He orders them to give him their money. She’s got a better idea, X-23 replies threateningly. She too, Pixie pipes up, before Laura can do anything and uses pixie dust on the man.
She really wishes Megan wouldn’t throw that stuff around like confetti, Armor complains after the man passes out. It only produces nice results, Megan informs her. She thinks. She never tried it out herself.
This is the place, Megan tells them. They walk inside the dimly lit club. The invite was really cool, Megan tells the others. No address, just GPS-coordinates. She just punched in the numbers. She has trouble pushing the right buttons on a vending machine, Armor snorts.
Critically looking at the other guests, Cessily remarks she always wondered which club only let in really ugly people. She always thought it would be in Oakland, X-23 adds. They had better not be in Oakland, she tells Megan threateningly.
One man with a barely human face hisses, it’s them. Another tells him to fix his face (which the other man does). The second man adds he’s followed that little girl around for month. Scrounging up after her. Blood and pus, bile and bone. Sparkle and magic. And he can’t wait to shove it all back down her throat so far that she’ll be able to polish her shoes with her own tongue!
Inside the disco, it’s dark and so loud the girls can barely hear each other. When they look up, they see artists hanging from the rafters performing. Pixie is enthusiastic and believes it smells like heaven.
Now:
A dream has come true for Megan, as she has been elected Prom Queen. She doesn’t notice that most of her fellow students look decidedly inhuman. She apologizes for her freakout and for calling them all those horrible names. It was before she knew she had wings but she’s okay now. It’s the new “normal,” so thanks for voting for her.
However, she is unhappy that her “so-called” friends aren’t enjoying themselves. She turns to the other girls who have been quiet. They are her friends, Laura points out. Her friends wouldn’t be so rigid, Megan spits back. Her friends would just be happy to go along with whatever fun idea popped into her head. Her friends would want to see her happy, and she is happy. Get it?
From not far away, the demons watch them. The nurse tells Saturnine she can keep feeding the little girl her own magic but she’s starting to restructure the illusion herself. She’s filling in gaps. She fears it’s coming apart before its time. Saturnine tells her to watch. Pixie ran towards her mutant deformity with open arms. As long as she was adored, as long as she felt she’s beloved. She takes to it like a match to gasoline. She is adaptable; she comes from a world where everyone is told they are special. Where everyone has the right to be happy. Lies!
The nurse still believes she fights too hard but Saturnine is convinced there is a dark place in Gwynn’s soul and he is going to pry it open if it kills her! He’s been without a master for so long. And soon he will have no need of one…
In Utopia, the White Queen sighs in her office, telling the students to come in. Anole, Rockslide and Blindfold nervously do as told. Impatiently, Emma demands to know what’s going on and Anole explains that they cannot find Pixie, X-23, Mercury and Armor. They’ve gone missing or something. Emma explains she is not interested in policing their every move. She doesn’t tell them everything and, frankly, expects the same courtesy. So, unless they’ve got something more concrete…
They’ve found Blindfold hiding in the girls’ bathroom, talking about trouble, Rockslide points out. Well, that makes a world of difference, Emma remarks sarcastically.
That moment, Nightcrawler teleports in and asks if Emma knows Pixie’s mother is here. No, she isn’t, Emma replies. Why would she be? And, to be honest, she thought they found Megan Gwynn under a cabbage. Kurt explains that he and Psylocke just had an unusual interview with Mrs. Gwynn. She believes her daughter is lost. Literally or metaphorically? Emma quips. Why does everyone keep saying that, he sighs. How can one be expected to resist? Emma points out.
They did not! Blindfold blurts out. They will not resist. Not a one of them. Not one of them! He told them she knew something, Santo remarks. He’s a stone-cold genius, Anole quips. A precog who knows things.
Emma puts an arm around Ruth’s shoulder, asking if there is something she would like to share with the class. How bad could it be? This isn’t high school. And she doesn’t have all day.
Elsewhere, Megan accuses her friends of not making an effort to fit in. They all really look like a bunch of freaks. She addresses Cessily, remarking she feels she isn’t showing her true colors. She points at a demon, stating he isn’t ashamed of what he is. Why is she?
Cessily retorts she doesn’t know what Megan is talking about. Why is she so mean? Stop it! Ruth moans. She will not stop, Megan shouts, and she is not being mean. She is getting impatient. She sees she is going to have to convince them individually, so she manifests her souldagger. She picks Ruth first. She stabs Ruth with the souldagger.
In the real world, Blindfold sinks to her knees repeatedly shouting ‘trouble’. Emma asks how long the girls are probably gone. Since last night. Well, that’s not long, Emma muses. How far could they get? Literally or metaphorically? Kurt suggests. Emma chides him to be serious. He is, Kurt insists. With a day off, a recipe for Sauerkraut and a box of rabbits those girls could go all the way to the White House!
“Private Party!” Ruth announces, and they said “yes please yes please yes please.” But she said “no, no thank you, I do not like dancing.” Razzle Dazzler. They went to see Dazzler? Emma asks. They went into the city? Yes, maybe, the girl replies. Of all the stupid idiotic wastes of time, Emma sighs. She wants to see their rooms. Now.
Elsewhere, X-23 grabs Pixie’s wrist and orders her to stop. She can’t, Megan replies. Laura turns away and begins hitting the demons.
On Utopia, Emma, Psylocke, Kurt, Anole and Rockslide search the room Pixie, Armor and X-23 share. Is everyone up to date with their tetanus shots? Emma announces disgusted. Rockslide gets drawn to underwear drawers, before Psylocke chides him. However, Santo also finds something useful: An invitation to a Dazzler show. “Thank God,” Emma announces and asks Kurt if they permanently displaced Mother Gwyn.
Said mother Gwynn is looking for a certain house, all the while complaining about her daughter and that she left her family and brains. She sighs their women are easily won as wives, allies, weapons and trophies. But there is a single reason for it, because they allow it to be so. She enters a mansion. Until the moment they do not.
The daughters have come home, it seems, she remarks and enters the house. In the grand stairway, the portraits of a dark haired woman and a blonde hang. Suddenly, there is a crashing noise and said two women come rolling down, while trying to scratch each other’s eyes out; the sisters Regan and Martinique, daughters of the original Mastermind.
Mrs. Gwynn greets them and remarks it seems they have been making their father proud. Protecting the Wyngade fortune. Putting the ‘mine’ back in Mastermind…
What does she know of their father? Regan asks. A lot of things, she replies, not the least of which is that it is high time they stopped acting like the babies of the family. They have been usurped.
Elsewhere, Pixie is slumbering in the hands of a huge demon…


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Pixie Strikes Back! – part three
Pixie is asleep, dreaming, unaware that she is surrounded by demons. A big red one, their leader, orders the others to wake the chained girl up. The other asks what difference it makes whether she dies with her eyes open or closed.
Semi-aware, Pixie tells herself she isn’t dying… The red demon snarls at the “nurse” demon that, if the girl dies, he will hold her responsible. The nurse retorts it’s not her fault they drained her dry. He said they could control her, that they knew her weakness. She has a void in her soul, the red demon replies. She has desires. She is nothing but weakness. Pressing a button, the nurse agrees. They filled the void. Spoke to those desires with her own pixie dust. It has controlled her and will bring the other to them, but-but with what force? He said that Pixie would come alone and what happened? Near disaster!
Pixie’s fantasy of the school prom:
Pixie orders her friends locked up.
reality:
While in reality, the demon complains it took all their resources to get X-23 back under control. And worse, unlike the others, no part of her has been willing. And because of that, they are in the prisoner business.
Nowheresville: In the basement of the building. Mercury, Armor and X-23, still asleep, are being kept prisoners. Laura awakes relatively quickly.
Upstairs, the red demon addresses Pixie directly. He knows she is just as much magic as want and soon she’ll know it too. She just needs some convincing. She wants her mother, she moans. He wants her mother too, isn’t that nice? But he wants her here away from her land and people, away from her defenses. Again the nurse presses a button.
Elsewhere, Pixie’s mother sits on a small desert island, her only company a penguin. She’s seen slaughtered pigs with more imagination, she announces bored. But then they were lovely Welsh pigs. She yawns demonstratively and remarks Regan at least looks old enough to have learned a thing or two. The surroundings change to space. Unimpressed, Mrs. Gwynn remarks that somehow she is still breathing.
Finally, the illusions dissipate to reveal she is in the Wyngarde mansion. Regan protests she is not old. She is afraid this side of the room begs to differ, Mrs. Gwynn announces and asks her to sit down.
Regan and her estranged half-sister, Martinique, ask what the hell she wants. She wants them both to grow up, is the blunt reply. She wants them to help her find her daughter, their half-sister. Not interested, comes the reply, there is nothing she can tell them about their father they don’t already know. At least not in the broad strokes. And she may have noticed they aren’t detail-oriented. Regan adds they know that they are half-sisters. That horndog Wyngarde  left a string of brats from here to next breakfast. It’s nothing to do with them.
Aren’t they the least bit curious? Mrs. Gywnn asks and creates an illusionary image of Pixie. She has to be joking! Martinique bursts out. Does old Frosty knickers know? Regan adds. Mrs. Gwynn tells them not to be ridiculous. The X-Men think Megan the miracle progeny of a coalminer and the town totty. Not a mutant and a faerie. And that’s the way she wanted it. It was better she rambles that Megan be raised by her grandfolks. And the X-Men were meant to better the best things about her, but they lost her and she is done with them.
She’s sorry it didn’t work out, Regan mocks. Annoyed, Mrs. Gwynn orders her to stop prattling. They can continue to take their frustration out on their dead father and each other or they can choose a destiny full of power older than they can imagine! For a moment, it seems as if the flames from the fireplace engulf them. But it takes three, she continues. Always has, always will. Bell, book and candle, Deer, boar and wolf. Bacon, lettuce and tomato, Martinique adds, they get it.
For now, she will be their third, Mrs. Gwynn states, and when they find Megan they will be complete and even more powerful! Martinique points out that, as an X-Man, Pixie will never agree. Mrs. Gwynn retorts that Martinique and Regan never agree on anything and still wreak havoc together. And what Megan wants is irrelevant. It’s what she is, that matters…
X-23 has gotten up in the dirty cell she shares with Mercury and Armor. She unsheathes her claws and begins to strike at the wall with a snarl, only to find another wall behind. Armor asks her to stop and pull herself together. She hates it here! X-23 mutters and sinks to her knees. Her too, Mercury agrees. Armor suggests she could find a hole with her power. However, when Cessily tries it, she begins to scream in pain. She sinks back, caught by Armor. This is all her fault, Cess muses. She felt this wasn’t right, but she was so happy to look normal again she didn’t fight hard enough. X-23 agrees.
Armor points out that Pixie and her stupid pixie dust did this to them. She said the dust only made nice things and this is what they got. She never gets nice things, Mercury complains. Laura orders her to stop it. Megan Gwynn wanted this. This is what she wants. Maybe somewhere inside her, probably right next to the place where she’s missing a piece of her soul, Armor defends her. No excuse, Laura retorts, and why should she give a damn about Pixie’s soul? Pixie doesn’t give a damn about them!
Standing outside the ruined club with the X-Men, Emma Frost remarks this is a little déclassé. Even for Dazzler. Rockpile points out he thinks this wasn’t a real Dazzler show and Emma sarcastically praises him. Psylocke points out the correct building and Santo smashes an entrance for them. Inside remains of the party can be seen, even though the place is still a wreck.
Elsewhere, the demon nurse gives Pixie her “medicine.” She tries to think of only nice things. Her bike. Being in the kitchen with her grandparents. The image changes to her doting father, to her friends laughing at her. She shouts for someone to help her.
Instantly, both Emma and her mother make contact. The red demon Saturnine picks her up, satisfied. Pixie mutters that she is coming, she can feel it. And everything is going to be different from now on. Still out of it, she asks where her friends are. Relaxing, the nurse tells her.
Saturnine carries her outside. The nurse runs after him, warning that the others downstairs have been away from the dust for hours. They will be recovering! He brutally shoves her away, cracking her head. They will be too late! he shouts. And he will have what he needs.
He steps outside the school building, where Mrs. Gwynn and the Mastermind sisters are already waiting. “Hello mother,” Pixie greets her. Thank the powers she is here, Mrs. Gwynn exclaims. Ahem, Emma Frost (flanked by Anole, Rockslide, Psylocke and Nightcrawler) announces. They are all here…


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Pixie Strikes Back! – part four
Both a group of X-Men and the Mastermind sisters, led by Pixie’s mother, have arrived to save Pixie, who is currently under control of the demon Saturnine. Ignoring Saturnine’s demons, which stare down at the humans from the roof, Emma asks who invited the Mastermind trolls. So pejorative, Nightcrawler chides her. German trolls are not so very ugly. The Mastermind twins aren’t German, Psylocke points out. They aren’t twins either, Kurt retorts.
Emma orders them to shut up. One of the demons throws a school desk from the room at them. Unimpressed, Emma remarks that someone has a sense of humor. Let’s see that they don’t keep it for long.
And so the fight of X-Men against demons starts.
A short distance from the beginning battle, Lady Mastermind tells Mrs. Gwynn she is suddenly questioning the cost benefit structure here. Mrs. Gwynn tells her to get her daughter and they’ll discuss payment… of a kind. How is she planning to wrench Pixie away from her new pals? Mastermind asks, ground her?
Nightcrawler takes out the nurse demon.
In the meantime in the basement, Armor, X-23 and Mercury have freed themselves from their cell but have no idea how big the place is. Armor figures there may be another way out. X-23 cuts the water pipes. She’s gonna be sick, Mercury warns, to which X-23 points out she doesn’t eat. An octopus doesn’t have a brain but can still open a jar of peanut butter; it’s a mystery, ok? Mercury replies annoyed.
They climb into the hole X-23 created. Armor vows it’s no mystery what she’s gonna do to Megan Gwynn when she sees her. Mercury plays devils’ advocate, pointing out Pixie’s not been herself. Using her own Pixie dust against her. It’s like being made to drink your own pee. They can’t know what that’s like. Armor retorts she thought she knew who Megan was. She knows who she is. Hisako Ichiki. Armor. Mutant.
Helping her up, Mercury complains she is an elephant in a little Asian girl body. And if she’s so certain, then why is she so sensitive when Wolverine teases her about her name? She is over it, Armor claims. Now she’s like Big Bird. Like when he decided he wanted a real name, not just a description. He is a big bird, Mercury points out as they begin crawling through the pipe. That’s not the point. That’s like saying she is made of mercury. He found out that nobody else though he was just a Big Bird. He totally owns his name. She’s like that. She’s like nuts, Mercury sighs, then admits she loved Sesame Street. Hisako agrees.
A mistake, Laura announces. She just realized that, if they had let Pixie stab them with her Soul Dagger, the spell would have been broken. Forgive her for not wanting to get stabbed! Mercury complains.
Outside, Saturnine orders Pixie to get his sword. He tells her to go to her mother, show her the Soul Dagger and bind her magic to it. He wants her magic, Pixie’s soul, his sword. And if she will not give it to her, then she will take the dagger and cut it from her. Pixie accedes and, after some concentration, teleports to her mother’s side.
What are they doing here? she complains as she sees the Mastermind sisters. Mrs. Gwynn explains they are here to help. Family helping family. They are her blood. They share a father. “Hello, little sister,” Regan states with a wave. They need them… With a smile, Megan remarks she always wanted to be part of a real sister act. Very Enid Blyton. A moment later, she attacks Regan. Manifesting her Soul Dagger, she warns her mother she’s next…
Emma orders Psylocke to take care of the big one. Here comes grandma, Martinique warns as Emma joins them. She touches Pixie’s shoulder and turns to her human form. She came, Megan marvels. Of course she came, Emma agrees. Pixie hits her in the stomach. As Emma goes down, Pixie tells her she shouldn’t have, not yet, and apologizes.
She draws her Soul Dagger and starts a spell with her mother, allowing the dagger to turn into a larger Soulsword which she hands to the demon Saturnine. Having what he needs, he kills the other demons who have outlived their usefulness. He loves it when someone else does his homework for him, Rockslide remarks. Saturnine announces that, with this newly forged Soulsword, once more he will be the ultimate reckoning on the road of lost souls, but not merely as a guardian, but its ruler! Where once Zarathos spat upon him, where once Asmodeus treated him as his minion, there he will be triumphant. But the magic of this sword will not cut their stinking mutant flesh from their bones!
Psylocke taunts why doesn’t he put his new toy away and come and get them? Their pain will be his pleasure! he announces and impales himself on the sword. The result – his slaying – seems to come as a surprise, as he was victim of an illusion.
Inside the airshaft, X-23 smells fresh air and brimstone and kicks out the grate. Outside, they see Nightcrawler out of it and barely conscious as he recites German children songs. Pixie dust, Armor remarks. She recognizes that demented rictus anywhere. They get him up. He is so happy he found them, he slurs. X-23 orders him to cooperate or she will render him unconscious. She thinks he’s doing the best he can, one of the other girls points out. Together they try to lead him away, complaining it’s like trying to carry a giant blue lasagna without the pan.
They find the others. With no idea what-s going on, X-23 nevertheless attacks the Mastermind sisters. “No!” Pixie protests and teleports the sisters away. That’s new, Armor admits.
Emma order Mrs. Gwynn to get her hands off her or she’ll put them in a box and mail them to Liberia! Crying, Pixie hugs Emma and apologizes. She couldn’t let her stop them from making the illusion. Saturnine still had to think she was in his grasp but… She begins hiccupping. She wasn’t, Megan explains. Not since the moment she was able to remember she’s an X-Man. And Emma came and… and they are not her sisters! Her mother just brought some extra firepower and she’s not known for her excellent decision making and… Emma orders her to stop babbling, then explains Megan needs to talk with her mother.
Psylocke asks Emma if she thinks it’s true. Emma thinks so. Pixie angrily tells her mother her father was a coalminer who died in a mining accident. No, her mother tells her, her father was Jason Wyngarde. He died in a hospital, asking Jean Grey for forgiveness and the stupid woman gave it to him. She’s just being crafty again, Megan accuses her and orders her to tell the truth. She is, Mrs. Gwynn assures her. She made many mistakes but she doesn’t count giving her to her gran and, though it pains her to admit it, giving her to the X-Men among them. And now she is giving her the gift of her past and her mother’s craft.
Pixie doesn’t want it, still not willing to believe the truth about her father. Mrs. Gwynn assures her it’s true and they hug. She tells her daughter it’s time to go home. Just let her say goodbye, Megan asks and turns to the X-Men. In the meantime, her mother teleports away. Pixie belatedly realizes she was tricked again. “Well, bye, mom,” she states bitterly.