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Thief of Time
Gambit somberly sits on top of the Church of the Lost Thieves and mourns about ancient times. Remy remembers when he and New Orleans were still young, and how Thieves came to this church to confess their sins. Gambit, however, didn’t come to this church to confess, but to hunt an enemy.
Meanwhile, inside the church, Julien waits impatiently for Pierre to return with the final vial that’s missing to make the Elixir of Life work. Julien realizes that, only when he’s drank the Elixir, shall he have enough time to defeat Gambit, the one who stole his sister away from him. Gambit breaks into the church and attacks Julien, taking the vial from him Gambit informs Julien that Pierre won’t be coming, as Remy caught Pierre when he was trying to steal the Elixir for himself.
Gambit says that he informed the others about this, and they didn’t like that very much, of course. Julien doesn’t want to believe Remy, but Gambit says tells Julien that he hasn’t got much choice. Gambit walks away, but Julien begs him to just have a taste of the Elixir, or else, Julien explains, he’ll die! Gambit doesn’t believe him. Julien takes off his mask and reveals his horribly scarred face, explaining that the Elixir did this to him. And, without another taste from it, he’ll die. Julien reveals that the Elixir could do the same to anyone who drinks from it.
Gambit and Julien walk out and meet with Jean-Luc. Jean-Luc can’t believe the look of Julien’s face, and also sadly realizes that the Elixir has done this to him. Gambit is surprised that his father is aware of this result. Jean-Luc explains that they’ve seen the casualties before, but that very few experience the side effect. But the ones who do suffer and crave to have more of the Elixir, believing that it will take away the pain. Jean-Luc explains that some members of the Thieves Guild have suffered, and all have died. But they were aware of the possible side effects before they drank from it and made their own decisions.
Gambit becomes angry that he has to gamble with the life of his wife. Julien begs to have just a small taste and promises to leave when he has drunk. But then, an explosion takes place and the Tithe Collector appears. He has joined forces with both Thieves and Assassins and told them that Gambit is a traitor after he fought Candra and that only Remy’s death will make things right again. They open fire, and Gambit and Jean-Luc jump to safety behind a statue. Jean-Luc tries to convince his son to hand them the Elixir, so that they’ll be back on their side. Gambit doesn’t want to, because his wife is waiting for him. And besides, he’s got a plan.
Gambit charges up the statue, which makes a huge explosion, causing the Thieves, Assassins and the Tithe Collector to run out of the church. Jean-Luc shows up as well, informing his former friends and enemies that his son is gone. The Tithe Collector commands a pursuit and for them to kill the traitor at sight. Meanwhile, Tante Mattie tries to calm a rampaging Bella Donna. Mattie asks Rogue what caused Bella Donna to act like this, but the X-Man doesn’t answer and just stares out of the window. Rogue thinks, wondering what it would be like if she and Gambit kissed. Rogue has had enough, and wonders where Remy is.
Gambit has made it and stands before the house. He notices that it’s too quiet, even for a calm place like this. Suddenly, the Thieves and Assassins show up and open fire again. Gambit fights back, using his various fighting styles and explosive card tricks to make his way through safely. Gambit takes some time to catch his breath and concludes that, from now one, he’ll never look up to this house again without remembering how much blood has been spilled there tonight. For this, he curses Candra. Gambit walks into the house, doubting if he should give the Elixir to Bella Donna or not, knowing the possible dangers it contains.
As he makes it to Belle’s room, Remy is startled by a devastating sight. The Tithe Collector shows up and, in his arms, he carries the defeated Rogue and Bella Donna. The Tithe Collector informs Gambit that Candra ordered him to kill everyone Gambit cares about, and gives Remy the choice to chose which one he wants to see die first. Gambit wants to attack his enemy, but has no cards left. The Tithe Collector laughs aloud at him, saying that they wouldn’t have helped anyway. The Tithe Collector uses his energies and attacks Rogue and Bella Donna, though Rogue begs Gambit not to listen to him. Gambit acts like he’s groveling, but the Tithe Collector tells him that it won’t have any effect. Gambit says that he has dignity and is instead charging up the Tithe Collector’s trench coat!
When the scared Tithe Collector drops Rogue and Bella Donna, Gambit quickly kicks him out of the window, and the Collector explodes on the fall down. Watching, Gambit says that the pact is broken now and that Candra would never honor it again, plus the Elixir is his now. Rogue gets up, and tries to tell Gambit what happened with her and Belle. Gambit tells her to wait with that, while he mixes the vials together so that the Elixir will work. Rogue doesn’t listen and says anyhow that she accidentally absorbed Belle’s memories, and that she loves Gambit. Gambit hasn’t heard much but, before they can go on, Julien drops in, holding a sword, wanting the Elixir for himself.
Julien doesn’t listen and stabs Gambit through his hand and breaks the Elixir! The bottle the Elixir is in breaks and drops fall on the bed Bella Donna lies in. Gambit becomes mad and takes Julien’s sword from him, saying that they’ll continue their duel but, this time, Julien will stay dead! Gambit stabs Julien a few time, but he’s still alive. Julien jumps at Remy and wants to kill him using his claws. Rogue tries to warn him, but is too late. Suddenly, Julien is killed by… arrows?! Marius steps into the room, telling his son that it’s over. Marius knows that Gambit did his best for his daughter and thanks him for that. But Gambit doesn’t want to accept the thanks, as he failed Marius and, more importantly, Bella Donna. Gambit asks Marius to kill him.
Suddenly, Candra appears, congratulating Gambit on the fine “act” he just played. Gambit gets angry at Candra, saying that he isn’t playing any act and would rather die now, even if it is as a Thief. Gambit points out to the Thieves and the Assassins what happens if they continue to take orders from Candra, making them remember Julien. Candra tells them not to listen to Gambit and promises them all both the powers and the Elixir. Marius speaks, denying the offer, saying that they are all sick of the old ways. He is done taking orders from her. He has now lost two children to her and won’t lose his Guild to her as well… the only family he has left.
Candra realizes her defeat and asks Gambit what he gained from it. Nothing, he says, and Candra teleports away. Jean-Luc congratulates his son, as the old ways are over now. Future generations will see Remy as the cause for it, both good and bad ways. They will see Remy as a saint. However, Jean-Luc orders Gambit to leave and never return to this city, or to the family. Jean-Luc walks away, taking good-bye from his son.  Marius goes over to his daughter, wanting to give her a chance to spend her final days with her family. Gambit holds him, explaining that he saw some contents of the Elixir fell onto the blanket. He shreds it off and drops the contents into Belle’s mouth and… she awakes!
Gambit is so happy that he immediately hugs her. Belle pushes him back, as she doesn’t remember who he is. Gambit, hesitating, says that he’s just a concerned friend. Gambit introduces Marius, telling Bella Donna that he is her father. Bella Donna gets up and walks away with Marius, while Gambit stares out of the window. Rogue looks at him, but Gambit tells her not to look at him that way. He knows that he had to lie to her, not to giver her too much information all at once. And, besides, Belle’s life is still there in New Orleans, and he can’t come back after what he has done.
But Gambit says he won’t weep, they have won the day. He grabs Rogue in his arms and wants to kiss her. Rogue asks Gambit if he still loves her. Part of him always will, Gambit reveals. As their lips move closer to each other, Rogue panics and flies away, shouting that she can’t do it.
As he stares out of the window, watching Rogue fly away, Remy says that he knows that he’s a thief and they can’t have loyalties or love. They can’t hope to dream of the future. Remy picks up a wedding picture of him and Bella Donna, charges it up and throws it out of the window. With a sad look on his face, Gambit lights up a cigarette and goes out, deciding to walk home.


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Falling Star
One week ago:
Using his telescope to observe the stars from his church in Rome, Father Miguel Bonavita spots a falling star, realizing that the star has more meaning. At the same time, the celestial portent streaks also Tante Mattie Baptiste, a healer of the Cajun people in New Orleans. Mattie is suddenly strucked with a divine vision of the stars and fallen angels and of a lone thief who seeks to repent for the sins of his past. And in New York City, a malevolent smile appears on the face of a suspicious looking businessman. A man called Oliver Stoker.
Calling Stoker a businessman would be a gross misstatement, as he presides over a “business” that exists on the edge of human depravity and immorality. Stoker doesn’t even react when behind people, three businessmen, hit their captured, naked man. Stoker feels that, tonight, that which has fallen from the nighttime skies, shall be his.
A few moments later, back in Rome, Father Bonavita calls two of his small band of young acolytes to the catacombs beneath the city. There, Bonavita and his pupils plan on recovering that which has fallen. They scroll charts of ancient fallen stars and world maps and don’t stop until they they know where the star has fallen. The two followers decide to begin with this sacred quest and, one week later, they arrive in…
Miami Beach
A member of the X-Men and, as well being a member of the Thieves Guild, climbs up on a roof. The man, Gambit,  relaxes and looks at the beautiful city below him. He opens a rooftop window and climbs down to the building, which is revealed to be a museum. Gambit concludes, to himself, that it’s good he is doing something he likes to do, after saving galaxies and civilizations with the X-Men. Gambit puts on special glasses, which makes him able to spot the security beams. Gambit spots what he came to steal: the Cross of Redemption! Though that this is a museum of stolen art, Gambit sees no harm in doing the part.
Gambit takes out a lock and is able to shut down the security systems. Gambit takes the Cross and puts it in his coat. Suddenly, a voice from behind orders him to put it back, as they’ve got work to do. A startled Gambit turns back and can’t believe his own eyes. Gambit sees Tante Mattie, and can see right through her. Funny, Gambit says, as he never heard that she had died. Mattie explains that she isn’t dead and tells him to stop asking fool questions and look where he is going. Gambit wants to walk to the exit, but accidentally trips on a remaining security beam!
Lots of security guards show up and point their guns at Gambit. Mattie points out to Remy that he’s in over his head again, just like Remy was when he was just a child. Mattie again tells Gambit to be quick, as they’ve got important business to do. Though Gambit asks what she means by that, the guards don’t know whom Gambit is talking to, as they can’t see anyone. Mattie explains to Gambit that they’ve got the Lord’s work to do. Gambit says he isn’t interested and doesn’t believe in that religion stuff anymore and certainly won’t do His work. Mattie tells Remy to be quiet, as she has known him ever since the Thieves Guild took him from since they took him from the streets and made Remy into one of their own.
Mattie says that she knows that Gambit believes, even if he has forgotten how. Mattie reveals that she prays for him every day. Gambit smiles, saying that Mattie always had to high an opinion of him. Gambit apologizes and takes out his staff hidden in his coat and wants to bring himself into safety. He attacks the guards and fights his way through, and eventually escapes through the window. Watching Gambit fight, Mattie says that she’s certain that they’ll meet again, because it is God’s will.
The Vatican…
Father Bonavita informs Brother Marcelo that Sister Katrina has arrived in Miami, and that his flight shall leave in an hour. Bonavita claims that this will be a most sacred task on both of their shoulders. But Bonavita knows that the Fallen must be recovered and be returned to the church before it is allowed to be corrupted by the forces of darkness. Marcelo comforts the panicking Father, promising that he shall succeed, as his faith is strong. Bonavita knows that, but claims that it might not be enough, since the evil forces are seductive and will try to get the Fallen for themselves.
Marcelo promises that will not happen, but wants to know what will occur when the Fallen has returned. Bonavita explains that, from there, it goes on to its proper place in the heavens. Marcelo asks how. Bonavita hands Marcelo a sacred relic and tells him to take a look in it. Marcelo opens the relic and can’t believe his eyes. Bonavita explains that few have gazed upon this celestial gift, which is the embodiment of their order, of faith. The mere sight of which shall embolden on Marcelo’s faith and increase it tenfold. Bonavita begs Marcelo not to fail and that the Fallen must be recovered. Marcleo promises that it will be done.
Miami…
Gambit hurries back to the airport, realizing that the guards will probably come after him. Remy notices some people move over to the same point and gets interested. Gambit follows the people to the beach and is astonished by what he sees: a beautiful, blond-haired and naked woman falling from the sky! The woman walks towards Gambit. He notices how she’s shivering and gives her his coat against the cold. Gambit asks for the woman’s name, but she doesn’t say anything. The woman touches Gambit and he feels like she’s looking into his soul. Gambit tells the woman that she betters not looks in there, as his soul is a pretty dark place.
Ramone and some other guards from before notice Gambit and want to run to him. Their way gets blocked by a car, and the man inside tells Ramon that he has need of his services. After all, the man says, they do desire the same thing. Gambit touches the woman too now and asks her to say something. Gambit doesn’t know why, but he says that he needs to hear her voice. It’s almost as if he hears it in his head already. Gambit keeps talking and the woman moves closer to his mouth, wanting to kiss Remy. They are disturbed by a shot, which was aimed at Remy.
Gambit picks up some sand from the beach and charges it up, and throws it at the guards. The explosion gives Gambit and the woman time to escape. Meanwhile, Stoker steps out from his car and concludes that Gambit is exactly what he needs to help him recover the goods. Gambit’s techniques are what Stoker is interested in. Stoker knows that the guards, who are in fact gangsters, will never subdue LeBeau and is afraid that they may damage the goods along the way. Speaking to a woman in his car, Stoker orders her to attend to it. The woman says that she thought Stoker would never ask.
Meanwhile, Gambit and the woman have made it to the pier. The guards catch up on them and Gambit tells the woman to keep moving. She suddenly stops and stares at Stoker, who observes from the far back. Gambit doesn’t know him, but notices how scared the woman seems to be of him. Suddenly and in the blink of an eye, the woman is gone. As Gambit wrests with this, Tante Mattie appears again, explaining that she’s gone, like Remy should be. Mattie tries to warn him, but the guards open fire on Gambit. They hit him and Gambit falls unconscious into the river.
The guards are happy that he’s dead, but their boss Santana won’t be happy that the stolen Cross is gone as well. One of the guards has noticed that the woman was wearing Remy’s coat and wants to go after her. Suddenly, Stoker makes his face appear overhead, blotting out the sky, and commands the guard not to bother about their boss or Gambit, and that he wants them to get the Fallen one for him. And, if they refuse, their torment will be unending.
Meanwhile, a still-living Gambit continues his fall into the river. Remy knows that he’s dying and says his last prayer for the fun of it. Tante Mattie shows up, telling Gambit that it’s not his time yet, as they’ve still got the Lord’s work to do, and Gambit simply doesn’t have a choice. Gambit believes that, this time, he does have a choice. He thinks otherwise when, suddenly, the woman appears again and transforms herself into a bright light. Gambit wants to move towards that light. Mattie agrees and says, “You do that, child. You do that.”


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Shadow Rise
Gambit denies the fact to himself that he is running out of air and makes it out of the deep river. Gambit climbs up and finds himself at a graveyard, where he finds a tombstone with his name on it! At least, the name of Remy LeBeau, the name the Thieves Guild gave him when they took him off the streets of New Orleans.
Gambit stares at the stone for a while, but panics and runs away. Gambit runs through some bushes to the back of the graveyard and then stops to catch his breath. Gambit lights up one of his playing cards, and behind him stands another tombstone with his name! Gambit believes that this must be hell. His hell. Out of a sudden, zombie arms crawl out of the ground and reach for the Cajun, calling out his name. Gambit gets pulled back into the river and gets distracted by the face of Sister Katrina. Gambit can’t understand it and fades away.
A few moments later, Gambit awakes back on top of the river. Gambit panics, but gets hold back by Brother Marcelo. Gambit notices the astral form of Tante Mattie above Marcelo and wonders what she is doing here. But before Gambit can figure that out, he faints again. Later, Gambit wakes up in the bedroom of Marcelo and Katrina, who explain that they rescued him. Gambit is wounded, but is lucky that the bullets that hit him passed right through him. Marcelo grows impatient and cuts to the case, demanding to know where the just-fallen is. Gambit, exhausted, doesn’t like Marcelo’s attitude and jokes that he liked him better when Marcelo was kissing him. Marcelo gets upset and defends that he was only performing C.P.R.
Katrina holds the angry Brother Marcelo back. Marcelo decides to leave and look for the fallen angel himself. Katrina is left behind and she continues to take care of Gambit. Gambit is confused and asks Katrina if she too believes that Anielle is an angel. Katrina isn’t sure, explaining that she finds faith not that easy. Gambit agrees and goes back to sleep. That night, Katrina reports the events to Father Bonavita by phone. Gambit’s fever rises up and he shivers. Katrina hears it and goes to his room, and goes to lie next to him, holding him tight to her body.
The next day, Gambit feels better and asks where he is. Katrina explains that they are at Our Lady of Sorrows, a building in the like of a Vatican safe house, if you will. Gambit asks Katrina where Tante Mattie is, as he saw her when Marcelo rescued him. Katrina asks if he is talking about Mattie Baptiste, the Grigori’s contact here in the South-Eastern United States. Gambit confirms. Katrina explains that she and Marcelo immediately went to her when they arrived here and she instructed them where to find Remy, before she vanished.
Gambit asks for more information about the Grigori Katrina mentions. He believes that they are “angels” from the dawn of Genesis, fallen in the sundering of heaven. They were not heavy enough with sin to crash through the Earth into the burning abyss with their darker brethren and, instead, they became the “Sons of God,” who favored the daughters of man, supposedly spawning a line of divine hybrids.
Gambit says that he is afraid that he knows Tante Mattie way too well to believe that she is any kind of angel. Katrina takes out a sponge and playfully washes her neck with it. Gambit stares at it and, concentrating, listens to her explanation. Katrina says that she prefers a broader interpretation herself, something more allegorical. Even at face Vallie, considering the millennia that have passed since, the blessed bloodline would be thin, at best. Katrina explains that the current Grigori are more of a sect, a silent strand running through most organized religions, serving as self-appointed keepers of Angel Arcana. But nonetheless, Katrina says that she is impressed by Gambit’s knowledge of Christian Canon. Gambit explains that he has been a lot of things in his life, at least enough to know that you don’t have to be an angel to fall from grace.
Time passes and an angry Marcelo enters Gambit’s room, asking where Katrina is. Gambit says that she is back in her room. But Gambit reassures Marcelo that he is more interested in Anielle, if that what he’s worried about. Marcelo doesn’t understand and asks Gambit if he truly claims that Haneal is the one who came to them. Gambit corrects that her name is Anielle, and isn’t claiming anyone. He dresses up, while Marcelo corrects that it’s a title, and that “grace of God” means that beings in their order, sex is hardly a… Marcelo looks at Gambit’s bed and recognizes Katrina’s sweater lying on it.
Marcelo asks how Gambit could do this, because Katrina was only weeks away from her vows. Gambit realizes his mistake and that he made love to a nun! Marcelo wants to continue his search, warning that other dark forces are searching for Anielle as well. His warning comes too late, as Sybil and her guards attack. Sybil holds Katrina in her might and wants to kill her. Marcelo rushes to rescue Katrina, but one of Sybil’s zombie guards shoots him. Sybil punishes the zombie, slashing it, and tells them to move over and kill Gambit instead. Gambit tries to escape the shooting. Gambit defeats all the zombie guards. Sybil is left, but she finds it better to leave and vanishes in the shadows. Katrina mourns over Marcelo, who dies in her arms.
Gambit runs over various rooftops and eventually finds Anielle, still wearing his coat. Sybil arrives too and grows wings and tries to get to Anielle. Gambit makes it to Anielle first and crashes through a rooftop and lands in a church. Katrina’s there too. Gambit tries to understand what’s going on, but doesn’t have much time. Especially not when Oliver stoker, and his minions, Wormwood and Cerebrus, arrive on the scene and are ready to attack!


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True Colors
Gambit and Anielle jump through the church window and find themselves being followed by Cerebrus and Sybil. Gambit attacks Sybil, who falls down, this buying Gambit and Anielle time to escape. Gambit wonders why Katrina wasn’t with them, as she was with them a few moments ago. While they are running, Gambit’s thoughts go back to a few minutes ago, when Oliver Stoker and his minions arrived.
Moments ago…
Besides Anielle, Stoker also seemed to be interested in Katrina, and has been searching for her for a very long time. Katrina told Gambit to do whatever it takes to get Anielle to Rome, to a man named Father Bonavita. Katrina promises that Bonavita will give Anielle a way to return where she belongs. Katrina pushes the church candles over, and the church catches fire.
Stoker and the others are unharmed by it. Stoker moves over to Katrina and wants her to be his. Stoker mocks Katrina that she gave everything up what she ever wanted to take care of Gambit. Katrina defends that Gambit was near death and simply needed her. Gambit charges up a bench with his powers. This gives the bench some fuel, allowing them to escape through the church window. But Stoker doesn’t allow Katrina to escape and pulls her back to him. Katrina doesn’t understand why Stoker doesn’t do the same with Anielle. Stoker says that isn’t important, and wants Katrina to understand what she sacrificed to take care of Gambit. Katrina doesn’t understand. Stoker walks through the flames and moves some of the flames towards her.
Now…
Meanwhile, Gambit and Anielle have made it and catch a plane towards Paris. The stewardess wakes Gambit (using his alias of S. Templar) and he and the stewardess flirt with each other. At the church, Stoker and Wormwood get close to take over Katrina’s body and mind. At the plane, Gambit and Anielle make it outside the plane without being seen by escaping through the backdoor. Gambit and Anielle steal a car, and don’t notice that they are being watched by Martin, the seventh servant of the Seventh House, who reports the events to his bosses. Stoker gets to Katrina and tells her that she needs to understand with her heart. Katrina looks at her hands, and black blood flows out of them!
Meanwhile, Martin continues to follow Gambit and Anielle. He stops to catch his breath. Martin lights up a cigarette and hears something. He turns around, and gets attacked and killed by a crowd of locusts! Gambit and Anielle take the train and move over to Bern, Switzerland. Gambit knows that it isn’t the most likely rout from Paris to Rome, but that’s the point, as he wishes to ditch his enemies.
On the train, Gambit and Anielle order some dinner but Anielle doesn’t even touch the food. Gambit worries about what could have happened with Katrina and then notices Anielle staring. She still doesn’t say anything. Gambit says that, on a different time and place, he would have taken Anielle straight to a Professor he knows, by the name of X… Gambit stops talking and notices Anielle’s scent again. And her song. Anielle is alive again! Anielle speaks, saying that she is not a mutant… and that Gambit makes her feel special. He and one other. Gambit doesn’t know what to say.
Suddenly, their entire wagon gets filled with locusts! Gambit charges up their knives and forks and throws them at the locusts, but nothing happens. The locusts multiply themselves, surrounding the mutant and his new friend. Gambit throws a charged-up card to the top of the wagon and pushes Anielle through it the new hole. They make it to the top of the train, but are attacked by Cerebrus and Sybil. Sybil has had enough and opens her mouth, spreading even more locusts! Gambit prepares himself, hoping that he can fight a threat that came straight from hell itself!


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Heaven’s Promise
Sybil opens her mouth and releases a horde of attacking locusts on both Gambit and Anielle. Gambit tries to keep his face covered while fighting the locusts to protect himself from harm, but that isn’t so easy. He and Anielle try to retreat, but Sybil’s hellhound Cerebrus cuts the way off.
Sybil shouts at Gambit that she wishes that he could see what she is seeing. She explains that the left track of the train railroads leads to a completed tunnel, as intended. It cuts safely on south through the Italian Alps toward to Gambit’s final destination of Rome. The right track, on the other hand, is not finished yet. Sybil reveals that she forced the switch-box of the railroads herself. Now, it’s a win-win-win situation for the demoness. She tells Gambit that, should he abandon the train, everyone else on board of the train will jump into sudden painful deaths. But should Gambit decide to stay on the train, Sybil continues, he too will die! But Sybil says that she will spare the Cajun if he hands Sybil over to her.
Gambit himself can’t see anything no more. He can only hear nothing but Sybil’s screeching. He decides to use that to his advantage. Gambit tries to concentrate on the noise, runs quickly to her and kicks her down! The locusts fly away from him and Sybil is stunned. Gambit realizes that his victory hasn’t come yet, because he still has to deal with the train tracks. He takes a playing card out of the pockets of his pants and charges it up. He knows that this isn’t going to be about his bio-kinetic mutant energy powers, but about his skill. A practiced skill he owes all to himself. The trick is not so much about power, as precision. He throws the card against the tracks, and hopes that a short circuit might trip the switch-box back to the default setting. Luckily, the plan works and the train heads into the right direction. Gambit happily smiles, but that feeling soon turns over into something worse, when Cerebrus attacks him again! And Sybil stands up, too.
Gambit orders Anielle to run and go to Vatican City herself and search for Father Bonavita of the Grigori Order, where Katrina was part off. “Never,” Anielle shouts. She promises Gambit that, in the name of Stoker himself, the sword of darkness and depths, that with or without Gambit’s covenant of delivery, the just-fallen will never belong to the light again! Gambit hears Anielle’s voice in his head again, but this time, her song is getting louder. It seems like it’s clearer to. And he is right about that statement: Anielle speaks: “I… am… the… light!” Sybil looks at her, and her body shatters into hundred pieces of pure light. “Amen to dat…” Gambit says, while relaxing from the fight. He lies down on top of the train and Anielle goes to lie next to him, and they lay like this for the rest of the ride.
Elsewhere, Katrina takes off her clothes and walks over to Stoker. Surrounded by fire, Stoker informs her that Sybil is gone. But he doesn’t care, because now, his little kitten has come. He laughs.
Some time later, Gambit and Anielle arrive in Rome, but decides to go underground for safety reasons. Gambit remembers what a long and strange way this trip has been. He recalls how innocent it all started. Gambit remembers that he stole the Cross of Redemption from some Cliban mob member in Miami Beach, just to keep his mind of other things, referring to Rogue and the X-Men, and a history of mistakes he has been running from for too long. But that all changed when his old teacher, Tante Mattie, showed up and told him about some spiritual things and told Gambit that he didn’t get to choose.
Next thing he knew, Gambit remembers how he met Anielle and began to rescue her from someone or something, in the shadows. Gambit remembers how he died, at least as close as he wants to be coming for a long, long time, until he was rescued by Marcelo and Katrina, who told him about some spiritual things about the Grigori, which is some sort of religious secret sect that is dedicated to all of the Lord’s work. But unfortunately, Gambit remembers how Marcelo was killed, for good, at the hands of Sybil and her zombies. And of course Gambit remembers his amoureux Sister Katrina, who ended up in the hands of Oliver Stoker himself, a devil who is after Anielle.
But Gambit wants to know what he has got to do with all of this. He knows that he cased the Vatican enough times before, weighing the odds, considering all the possibilities, to know that the Bell Arch Gate is the most publicly accessible. And Gambit also knows that the city is protected by a “Swiss guard continent,” like he calls it. Gambit assumes that a hefty horde of the seemingly innocent people who are hustling the Piazza this morning, are actually Stoker’s pet demons, who only wear human skins and are already positioned and primed to tear him apart, as soon as they catch him and Anielle’s scents. And Gambit knows that they are out of miracles.
There’s nothing much left of Anielle’s glow any more. Not since she did whatever it was to kill Sybil. And Gambit can hardly even hear her song either. But if Anielle is really what people say that she is, what Gambit hopes as well, what he hopes she can be… to him… Gambit knows that it’s up to him to get Anielle out of there as soon as possible. Anielle and Gambit look at each other and Anielle kisses him.
The kiss is disturbed by a growl. A startled Gambit looks up and can’t believe his eyes: it’s Cerebrus! Or rather, one of a legion of Cerebruses, an entering Stoker reveals. Gambit tells Anielle to go out of the sewers while he covers her back. Anielle does, but Stoker isn’t impressed and continues to explain that his hellhounds are an ancient lineage. They are apparently more pure and true than humans. Stoker tells Gambit that he would do well to respect all their places in the scheme of things. The scheme of things to come.
Gambit, while climbing out of the sewer as well, notices that Stoker is carrying a limp with him and asks why. “Injuries sustained in a… fall,” Stoker reveals. “A long fall,” he is afraid. “Long ago.” But Stoker tries not to let his injury slow him down. Gambit and Anielle make it to the top of the street and find out that Stoker’s statement is correct, as he makes it above at the same time!
Gambit concludes that Stoker is good, but Gambit always has got one last ace up his sleeve and throws a charged-up play card against Stoker. The explosion makes Stoker bounce back and gives Gambit and Anielle some time to run away. To himself, Gambit realizes that was the last card he threw away. The townspeople notice Gambit and Anielle and attack them. Gambit can’t tell friend from foe under these circumstances, so he tries to knock out everyone who comes at him. The people transform into demons and rage towards Gambit. Gambit picks up some bricks and charged-up throws the bricks against the demons, but they quickly recover and outnumber Gambit and Anielle. The Guardian wants to lock up the church to protect it from harm, but Father Bonavita holds them. The Guardian don’t understand it, but Bonavita tells them all to have faith.
Stoker tells Gambit that neither he nor Anielle will ever reach the holy ground. Dead or alive. Stoker says that Sybil’s sacrifice – forcing Gambit and Anielle to abandon the train far earlier than they had planned – allowed him more than enough time to prepare a proper welcome for them there. Gambit tries to have a good look at the bad situation and can’t believe it when he sees an old friend. Stoker introduces her as the Black Kat, but Gambit easily recognizes her a turned evil Sister Katrina! And on Katrina’s shoulder sits someone who calls himself Wormwood.
Father Bonavita sacredly runs out of the church and asks Stoker what he did to Katrina. More to the point, Wormwood mumbles, is what Gambit has done to the little Sister and asks him what the noble thief has stolen from her. Gambit tries to explain that he didn’t have a choice and had to run and abandon her in the fire that she started. That it was all part of the plan to get Anielle there to Father Bonavita and the Grigori sect that might be able to send Anielle back home again.
But before Gambit can finish his sentence the Black Kat slashes him with her claws. Bonavita shouts at Katrina and tells her that he can’ t believe she would actually raise her hand like that to another. Gambit notices the priest and tells him to get back into the church before it’s too late. But Gambit’s warning comes too late and Stoker commands Katrina to grab Bonavita by his throat, and she does as told. Stoker says that he can’t believe that Gambit still doesn’t understand it. Stoker asks Gambit if he finally sees the value of such gray, flawed humans such as himself and the Black Kat, who are able to cross so many sacred boundaries of black and white and are able to deliver one unto the other. Stoker tries to take Anielle’s hand, but Gambit frees himself from the demons and prevents Stoker from doing so by jumping between the two.
Gambit says that he understands. He says that to keep the light from burning dark directly, Gambit now realizes that Stoker used him from the beginning, because he needed him to handle Anielle. “Or one like you,” Stoker says. Stoker tells Gambit to believe him and says that they are legion. Found over Gambit’s dead body, if necessary, over all humans dead bodies, but Stoker tells Gambit that the choice is his. It always has been. Stoker reveals that Katrina’s soul is still relatively intact, despite the innocence Gambit so casually shattered and can still be saved, if Gambit hands over Anielle to him. Gambit doesn’t believe anything the demon says.
Gambit wants to attack Stoker, but Anielle stops him and walks over to Stoker. Gambit tries to hold her, but Anielle simply gives him a smile. She takes off Gambit’s coat and walks to Stoker. Stoker is glad to be together again with Haneal, and says the following phrase: “Fire shall melt ice, water shall cool flames. And, together, they shall create a force to survive the reckoning, spawning a third millennium beyond nature’s wildest imagination.” Then they disappear into the air.
Wormwood can’t believe this is happening to him and that he is left behind. Gambit runs over to Katrina and makes her drop Father Bonavita. Katrina is back to normal. Bonavita says that Haneal is gone, and that she took Stoker with her. The Father suspects that Anielle was merely ephemera: an angel created for one specific purpose and granted a very limited lifespan. Gambit recalls how Anielle told him that he made her special. He and one other. Gambit takes a look at the scarred Katrina and realizes that she was the other.
Bonavita concludes that it seems that the devil got what he wanted, but that it would appear to have been the far less valuable prize. Bonavita explains that souls come so effortlessly to him in these dark days, that Stoker ignored his “easy catch” for a shot at the brighter, more alluring jewel. But luckily, Gambit did not. Not when it counted. In the end, Gambit realized the priceless value of one woman’s soul over everything else in all creation and just may have found his own in the process.
Gambit is afraid that it’s not that easy. Not for him, he adds. Gambit says that a man died because of this. A good man, in the service of his Lord. Bonavita promises that he and Katrina will grieve and pray for Brother Marcelo together. He says that no soul alone can save itself. Bonavita explains that it takes a human spirit to salvage a human spirit and, when one does redeem another, perhaps it also redeems itself. “If,” Gambit says, “And only if he chooses to believe so…”
Gambit walks out of the church and the Guardians lock it up. It starts to rain and Gambit gets passed by Wormwood and Cerebrus. Wormwood notices that Gambit still doesn’t understand what happened. The little creature says that, in the end-times, as the light fails, all will turn to the dark for its familiar comfort and that you don’t get to choose. Wormwood and Cerebrus walk away and leave a confused Gambit behind.
The next morning, Gambit returns to Louisiana in New Orleans and visits Tante Mattie. Gambit tells Mattie that she told him more than once that he didn’t get to choose. “Really?” Mattie asks. Was this before she was a floating ghost what no could see but Gambit, or when he was losing oxygen to his brain during the drowning. “Both,” Gambit replies. And then, he tells to Mattie, Wormwood repeated it in Stoker’s voice, before vanishing. Gambit asks Mattie if she is trying to tell him that she wasn’t there and has no idea what he is talking about? Gambit doesn’t understand that, because Katrina told him that Mattie was the one who led her and Marcelo to rescue him in Miami. Mattie says that, what she is trying to say, that it’s just not all that black-and-white…
The next evening, the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City…
While standing on a balcony of the chapel, Gambit notices Katrina praying, but she is in civilian clothes. Katrina seems stronger to Remy, surer of step somehow, but out of her habit. Katrina walks away just as Gambit jumps down, without seeing him. Gambit knows that just a word is all it would take, a chance to see if Katrina is all right. Gambit hesitates for a moment, but… no. Gambit considers that his damage here is done. All that is left to do is a measure of restoration. Missing pieces, like the Cross of Redemption, lost in shadows for so long, dulled by darkness, finding their way home again, into the light.
Gambit takes the Cross of Redemption out of his coat, and places it into a bigger cross, where it was stolen from. With the Cross of Redemption now complete again, Gambit kneels down before it and then disappears into the shadows.


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The Man of Steal
Elysian Enterprises has discovered the twelfth tomb of Garbha-Hsien, a Celestial who became an Asian dictator in Asia for a thousand years, thanks to his spacecraft, which was later stolen by Apocalypse (X-Force #37). They have brought in Agent Denti to help break through the security measures. While he discusses the situation with Anwar Anubar and archeologist Sekmet Conoway, Remy is already inside the temple, and Indiana-Joneslike, he bypasses many hidden traps, steals the treasure (a gauntlet) and gets away, though not before saving Sekmet from a fall from a great height. Remy delivers the price to the Courier of the mysterious New Son, who saved him from freezing to death in Antarctica (see Uncanny X-Men #350).
(dream session)
Investigating Remy, Fontanelle invades Jean-Luc LeBeau's dreams. The guilds have been squabbling since Candra disappeared. When Remy was born with red eyes, earning him the name "Le Diable Blanc", the Antiquary had the Thieves' Guild steal him. Jean-Luc regretted this, and arranged for him to become part of Fagan's Mob. Fagan, the excommunicated offspring of an assasin and a thief, takes care of many orphaned children. Later Remy and Bella Donna (the daughter of the head of the Assassins' Guild) met, fell in love, and married. Thus, Jean-Luc arranged peace between the guilds, until Remy was challenged to a duel with his brother-in-law Julien, killed him and got exiled. After wandering around as a thief, Remy joined the X-Men.
(present)
Since returning to the estate, Remy has been staying in the boathouse. The team visits him there, and horseplay ensues. Remy surprises the others with a time-delayed kinetic charge. He receives a message from the Courier, which worries the team; they are unsure of him since Antarctica.
Denti guards a shipment to Elysian Enterprises' facility in Croatia. (He was partner to Fred Duncan, who was killed. Now as X-Cutioner, he uses leftover weapons from the X-Men's foes to kill mutants he thinks are dangerous.) The New Son sends Remy, who disables the convoy and destroys the cargo, but gets glued down by Denti. He charges his chewing gum and spits it at him; Rogue arrives, having secretly followed Remy, and carries him away .
Fontanelle investigates Courier's dreams and learns Remy's next assignment is to steal from the X-Men.


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Stormbringers
Remy tried to steal data from Moira; the security system blasted the datacore into space with him still aboard. He jumps off, but his parachute catches fire and Remy crash-lands. Much debris falls towards him.
(A few hours earlier)
Remy and Storm fly to Scotland commercial, and reminisce about their thieving days (Uncanny X-Men #265-267), when Storm was regressed to a child’s body. She admits that she framed the Thieves' Guild for the Safilios job, and he in turn hired the Assassins' Guild, starting a clan war. She and he have each made mistakes in life.
At Muir Island, Moira examines Remy's new power to delay his charges; Remy jokingly credits the green energy succubus inside him (see Ann. ’99).
The X-Cutioner hires the former Elysian Guard to help him nail Remy: they had been fired after failing to stop Remy (last iss.).
Fontanelle investigates Tante Mattie's dreams; in 1891 she was a child voodoo practitioner,
unable to heal a powerful man, and Remy (somehow there as an adult) saved her from a
vengeful mob.
The electricity goes off in Muir Island; Moira has rigged the system to blast into space and explode in such a case, to protect it from Bastion or any other attempted download. Remy goes to retrieve the data (he rigged the power failure, so he could steal the data). He rides the data core up; parachutes down when it blows; and is able to save and copy the hard drive.
(story has now caught up with the opening scene)
Remy avoids the debris and returns to Moira’s lab and hands her the rescued hard drive. She thanks him, but he doesn’t feel heroic, as he copied the data, which he was hired to steal for the New Son.
The Mengo brothers kill someone in Chicago, and are off to New York.


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Monsters Like Us
Remy is restless fulfilling his debt to the New Son, so he follows his messenger Courier to find out more about him. Courier addresses the Crew A.S.K.E.W., a for-profit research group. One of them, the Pelican, interrupts; he has acquired a will-sapping gas, which he wants mass-produced. The canister cracks; turns out the gas has the side effect of melting your face off. The gas is sucked back into the canister; the Mengo brothers enter; they now control everyone (they are working for the Pig), except Courier; he can control every cell in his body and can’t be affected by the gas. Remy blows his way in and leaves with Courier and the canister.
Fontanelle investigates Sekmeht’s dreams: digging up relics of En Sabah Nur in Egypt, confronting Ozymandias, being rescued from a fall by Remy. Fontanelle says Sekmeht mixes her need for parental approval (archeology) and her repressed desires (Remy) in her dreams.
The Mengo brothers trace the canister; Remy rides to "Onslaught Alley" on the east side, where the air is still energized, to throw them off. They catch up and start shooting; Remy redirects missiles and collapses two buildings onto each other, but lets the canister drop.
The homeless Huey and Quiet Bill are present during the fight. Bill, probably a mutant, has a portal of green energy around him, in which images of other realities appear, but he can’t control this. Suddenly a large portal forms and envelops the Mengo’s ship full of A.S.K.E.W. scientists.
The Mengos pick up the canister and escape; Remy invites Bill to Xavier’s, but he declines. Turns out the Mengos only have the outer casing: Remy has the gas in a container and knows the Pig will come for it.


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Old Wounds, Fresh Blood !
Chicault is a former Assassin who is now a vampire, and he has been attacking children in the Antiquary's collection in New Orleans. Blade interrupts, and much window glass is broken, but the vampire gets away.
Tante Mattie summons Remy home, to a cabin outside the city. She says Fontanelle and the Antiquary are after him; his father Jean-Luc arrives with the boy Jerome, who was attacked last night.
Tome and Hoard, ministers of the Antiquary, inform Bella Donna that her dead Assassin is actually undead and is killing their clan; Remy arranges to overhear.
Fontanelle investigates Ryking's dreams; he was a boyhood friend of Prof. Xavier in Alamogordo, and he saw an old woman there who said "black womb."
Denti has been preparing his new team, the former Elysian Guard,  to catch Remy, and he plans to use Rogue as bait.
Remy searches the graveyards all day for Chicault; at dusk Blade attacks him, assuming him to be a vampire because he has red eyes. After the misunderstanding is cleared up, they talk and ally to go to the Antiquary's museum. He is missing; Tome and Hoard are curators now. Clan LeBeau offers to stop Chicault if they get access to the library.
Duiring the original attack Chicault bit Jerome on the wrist, apparently enough to have some mental hold over the boy. At night he instructs him to bite the rest of the Antiquary's slave children. They open the door for him; he enters the library, planning to spend his eternity doing historical research. Blade, Remy, and Jean-Luc attack. Blade decapitates the vampire, and the children revert back to normal and are freed. Tome and Hoard grab Chicault's notebook without anyone else noticing it.
The Pig stops torturing the Mengos for their failures and sends them after a boy named Shirow, who is the source of the mind-controlling gas (last issue) and has escaped with Zoe, who drives with him towards New Orleans.


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Of Mice and Men
Denti questions the disparity between his roles as FBI agent and as the X-Cutioner. But both halves of him agree to hate Remy. As planned (last iss.), he has Maria Ellenthorpe ambush Rogue with one of his gizmos, to use her as bait.
Realizing Rogue is missing, Xavier lectures Remy on total truthfulness within the team, saying he should have informed them about his earlier fight with Denti. (Does anybody remember the Changeling?) The X-Cutioner sends a message, and at his coordinates, the X-Men find a stargate. Apparently a trap, they decide to use it anyway, but it only takes Remy.
Fontanelle decides to look at the dreams of the New Son, who hired her to investigate Remy. Strange images: some recognizeable as Rogue and Magneto at the end of the AOA and the Dark Beast. The New Son discovers her presence and kicks her out of his mind.
Remy, exhausted, emerges from the stargate. The green energy entity within him breaks loose; they argue briefly, but then she returns to his body. Remy bests the Firing Squad and gets past Denti but is knocked out by his last gizmo. But before Denti can deliver the killing blow, Rogue breaks free, and Remy shoots Denti with his own staff and leaves with Rogue, meeting the X-Men at the other side of the stargate.
Denti, his face mask damaged, shoots at the Firing Squad, mistaking them for Rogue and Remy. He realizes his error, too late. Just like his father, an army man who lost control and shot his own men. As X-Cutioner, he should execute himself.
Zoe takes her brother Shirow to the New Orleans Thieves’ Guild for sanctuary. The Mengos are right behind her, hunting them down for the Pig.


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Muddy Waters (Pig Pen - part 1)
(In the past)
At age 15, Remy shepherds his cousin Etienne through the tilling, the Thieves' Guild rite of passage. They get caught by Candra in Granada, Spain; she has met Remy before, though he doesn’t know her (time-travel is hinted at). She was buying a shipment of children from the Pig; he takes Remy and Etienne to his Pig Pen training facility, intending to sell them to Viper. Remy, still learning about his own powers, blows their way out of their cells and then blows up the Hydra airship. The Pig catches Etienne and beats on Remy, who picks up a spilled deck and finds his motif of throwing charged cards. Both boys fall into the ocean, Remy is rescued by a fishing trawler, but Etienne drowns.
(present)
Jean-Luc informs Remy that the Pig attacked the Thieves Guild and tells him about Zoe and Shirow, whom he had to take in because they belong to the Tokyo branch. They are now missing, but Remy can track Shirow’s bio-gas (iss. 3).
Fontanelle investigates the dreams of Mary Purcell's sister. Mary is dead, but her spirit will turn out to be the green ghost in Remy's body.
At the Pig’s place, Shirow's flesh explodes with mind-sapping gas; Zoe is trying to rescue him, but the Mengos catch them. Remy comes to the rescue, but the Mengos explode a building onto them and plan to deliver all of them to the Pig.


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Dirty Troughs (Pig Pen - part 2)
The Pig plans to use Shirow's mind (and skin) altering gas to bring unity and peace to the
world, under his rule, of course. He has Shirow strapped into a machine that leeches the gas from his pores.
The Mengo Brothers torture his captives for information, but Remy and Zoe refuse to talk. When alone Zoe tells Remy that when her brother's bio-gas started, it was painful, and the Tokyo Thieves' Guild just wanted to milk him. Zoe interfered, was ousted from the Guild, and escaped to seek the protection of the New Orleans branch.
Jean-Luc worries about Remy: no word since he went after the Pig, days ago. Genard says the Guild is unable to find any trace of him or the Pig.
Fontanelle investigates Scalphunter's dreams: Remy led the Marauders into the Morlock tunnels but didn't know there was going to be a Mutant Massacre. During it, he resued the child Sarah (later Marrow). Waking, Fontanelle is brought to the New Son, who asks for conclusions: she says that Remy was stupid, but not a murderer. The New Son hints at things to come, and images of Sinister and Apocalypse are seen.
The Pig’s base is on Mallorca, and he still uses child slaves. Zoe breaks free and blows up the power plant, which also destroys the gas sucked from her brother. Remy insists she stays and frees the children, while he goes after Shirow. The Pig realizes Remy is the boy he fought years ago (last iss.), who took his eye. They fight; Remy uses the remaining gas on him and orders him to walk off a cliff. Remy, Zoe and the freed children return to New Orleans.


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Destined to Repeat It
Xavier has disbanded the X-Men (X-Men 2nd series, #92), but Remy, suspicious, breaks his way back in, wearing Xavier's aftershave and keeping a charged card near his head to avoid detection by Wolverine's nose and Xavier’s and Phoenix’s telepathy. He copies files from Storm's computer and leaves. The files reveal that Xavier disbanded the team because he has reason to mistrust at least one of them (this will turn out to be the Skrull imposter of Wolverine).
Remy decides to figure it out and needs to retrieve something from his past. He hides out in Arizona, where he once knew De Luc and Scalphunter. He asks De Luc if she has seen Scalphunter recently; she denies it, but Remy thinks she’s lying.
At night Fontanelle invades Remy‘s dreams; she finds many odd images: Apocalypse’s head at the bottom of a tree, Sabretooth lurking behind it, Magneto embracing Rogue, five Dr. Dooms next to each other, people selling newspapers, a pregnant woman in a lab, and a house. In the dream Fontanelle talks with Remy: she wonders why these images didn’t show up in her other “patients,“ and Remy hints that they might not have happened yet, though they are not precognitive. Fontanelle admits that although she is working for the New Son, her discoveries have given her a more personal reason to continue this dream quest.
Courier wakes him up and zaps him directly to the New Son's crystal cathedral. Remy says he's only working for him because he had no choice, and because he believes the New Son is trying to help human-mutant relations. The New Son says they have reached a crisis point in time, that will shape reality. Similar events were the Dark Phoenix saga, and Cyclops sacrificing his son to the future. This time the convergence point involves Apocalypse. In case the X-Men can't stop Apocalypse, the New Son wants ensure that life will rise from the ashes. He says he knows all this because he already saw it happen elsewhere and elsewhen.
Remy awakes; Scalphunter has knocked out Courier and is compelled to attack Remy. (He is a Marauder, cloned and under Sinister's control.) De Luc makes them stop fighting; Remy needs info on Sinsiter’s hideout. The one that the X-Men knew about was blown up (X-men 2nd series, #34), but surely there are others. Scalphunter says the Marauder clones will self-destruct if they betray Sinister, so only Sabretooth can reveal the information since he is not a clone.
Remy takes Courier to the Andes to find him. They are attacked by a natives calling themselves the Blood Tigers. Remy surrenders and says he has come to help the God of the Hunt, so they take him to Sabretooth, who is dying.


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With or Without You
While working out in the Danger Room, Marrow has accidentally stabbed Remy through the heart. But it doesn't kill him: he pulls the bone-knife out, and it explodes, but his wound is healed. Xavier wants tests run, and Rogue, who has seen the green spirit, is suspicious, but Remy isn't answering questions.
Xavier double-checks Moira's test results (Gambit #2), then confronts Remy as to why he now has two psi-patterns. Moira says the entity is hyper-charging his powers; Xavier nudges them back, and the entity emerges and knocks everyone out.
Remy wakes in Manhattan, Indiana, and he sees glimpses of the past: Mary trapped in an
explosion at a gas station. He researches the event in the library and police station; she was
a mutant whose powers blew her up; then the coroner hushed it up.
Beast finds and wakes the unconscious X-Men. Unable to trace Remy, they go to Antarctica where he evidently met Mary. They find Remy's footprints in Magneto's abandoned base and learn he wandered around and ate plastic to survive. On a tape recorder, Remy spoke about his mistakes and regrets, and a video data log shows Magneto, his robot Ferris, and the green spirit in a tube. Mary attacked Magneto, and he fought her off but didn't know she was sentient. The video log also shows that Magneto impersonated Eric the Red and held Remy's trial (Uncanny X-Men 350), to distract and weaken the X-Men, while plotting his own return in the Magneto War.
Remy visits Mary's sister Kimberly, who says Mary always knew she was different, but nobody believed her, till her mutant power caused the explosion and killed her. Her father started to drink, and the family fell apart. Remy leaves and then asks Mary what more she wants: she wants to die with him, so creating a new being which can live in all planes of existence. Remy has other ideas. When he found her in Magneto’s abandoned base, he didn’t know she was sentient: he just wanted energy to survive the cold.
Using Magneto’s files, the X-Men find them. Rogue flies to the rescue with a device that removes Mary from Remy‘s body, but that starts to kill her. She reminds Remy that she helped him when the X-Men abandoned him, so he charges a card and explodes the device. He is knocked down but is fine; Mary has disappeared and is presumed dead.
Later Remy is tested in the lab, and no trace of Mary is found. He and Rogue visit her grave, and Rogue apologizes for having abandoned him in Antarctica.


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To Thine Own Self Be True
Remy easily defeats the dying Creed and considers finishing him, but he needs help with Xavier's secret (last issue). Creed agrees, so he can live to revenge himself on whomever attacked him. He will get Remy to Sinister’s hideout in exchange for Sinister jumpstarting his healing factor.
They fly to Tasmania and infiltrate Sinister's base, through a portal under a rock in a river in a gorge.  Remy sees it’s like the one in Nebraska (X-Men 2nd series, #34), and Creed explains it’s the same base, with entrances around the world.
The Marauders attack; Scalphunter shoots Courier and Creed; Remy harpoons Harpoon and blows up Riptide and Scalphunter. He considers destroying the clone vats, both defeating and freeing them, but Sinister interrupts. Courier, shot through the head, is still alive.
(dream sequence)
Fontanelle investigates the Tithe Collector's dreams and sees Remy a century ago in London, when Candra made a pact with the Thieves' Guild.
Remy holds up the vial Sinister gave him in exchange for assembling the Marauders, intending to pay Sinister with it, but he tells him things aren't that serious yet. He says Creed's adamantium was removed, off-planet, and gives him a booster shot of healing factor. He hands Remy an injection that will detect frauds (see Uncanny X-Men #375), and in exchange asks that Creed be left with him. Remy doesn't want him to be able to clone him; instead, he offers him a piece of Courier, to study his cellular control (which is how he survived). Courier can grow it back, but he's getting shorter over the years.
Exiting, Remy gives Creed to his worshippers, blows up Sinister's portal, and has Courier kill
the cells he left behind by remote-control.


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Waiting for the Princess
(Year 1916)
In World War I, Strucker was a young soldier in Leipzig. He sees a floating blue jewel (the "Momentary Princess"), which shows him the past and future and disappears before he can catch it.
(Year 1943)
In World War II, the Howling Commandos are fighting Nazis in Leipzig. They are escorting Jean-Luc to get the jewel before Hitler does. Candra and Strucker, now a baron, are also on the trail.
(present)
Jean-Luc has asked Remy to get the jewel. He fights his way into a formal dinner party, where Conoway and the Strucker twins are gathered. They chat lasciviously.
Courier gets into the New Son's base for the first time, delivering Quiet Bill and Huey, who “is the key that opens the door to everywhere“ (see iss. #3).
Fontanelle investigates Angel's dreams and sees him hung up in the Morlock tunnels (X-Factor #10). She asks him if he blames Remy.
(Year 1943)
In World War II, Jean-Luc gets the jewel; Strucker attacks him, and Candra offers to end the pact if he gives it to her. The Commandos show up, and during the fire-fight, Jean-Luc is forced to give up the jewel, which vanishes. All vow to try again.
(present)
Remy makes his way to the basement, where the Earth's orbital drift has shifted the jewel. But Sekmeht and the Struckers interrupt, and the jewel disappears during the fight.
(Year 2028)
Rogue and Remy, now married and kissing, go behind Sentinel lines to a sewer pipe, where he gets the jewel.
(Year 2084)
The Witness watches as the stasis shell, containing information, is activated in all its time windows simultaneously. He says he's waiting for it in the past.


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The Hamster Run
Daredevil beats on Constrictor; he has bystanders drive off the building as a distraction; DD saves them, then continues the chase. Constrictor has stolen an adamantium stomach, which was supposed to go into Judge Buechler.
Remy shows up, fighting both of them. He needs adamantium to save Creed: although his healing factor is restored, he has become dependent on adamantium to survive. They fight on top of a train to Jersey, then all jump off a bridge.
Fontanelle investigates Sinister's dreams. A century ago in America, he buys a paper with the headline “Black Womb Killer Acquitted!“ : someone is selling fetuses.
Constrictor makes it to Donato's place; as a young man he worked for the mobster and fell in love with his daughter, whom he is now holding hostage for the stomach. His own has been destroyed by ground glass, a slow assassination attempt while he was in prison.
Turns out the judge bumped Donato down on the organ donor list; Remy makes a deal: he charges the ground glass, dissipating it, Constrictor donates part of his adamantium coils to Creed, and the jerk Buechler gets the stomach.


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The Sunset Dawn - Book 1 : The Time Trap
Chapter 1
Remy asks Sekmeht for help. The Thieves' Guild wanted the Momentary Princess (issue #10) to explain a hundred-year old suitcase. It contains a picture of Remy in 1891. He must go back in time, because he saved the guild from Candra; as well as rescuing Jean Luc and Tante Mattie as children.
Sekmeht directs him to time platform in Latveria (last reported destroyed in X-Force #64), which is now ruled by Stryfe. He gets Courier and hires the Mengo brothers (!) to help. They sneak in, destroy some Doom-bots, and find the reassembled platform. Since Courier is also in the picture, Remy takes him to the past, leaving the Mengos to guard Sekmeht.
Chapter 2: It Takes a Thief (or perhaps a Dozen)
(London, 1891)
Remy and Courier go to Worth (a master thief, the prototype for Doyle's Moriarty). He knows Jacques LeBeau.
Candra strolls into the United Service Club in London and berates the Tithe Collector for not punishing the Thieves' Guild for failing to get the Momentary Princess (run-on sentence). Jacques had sent his son Jean Luc to get it, as his tilling, but he failed, and Candra has withheld the elixir from them, so they are rapidly aging.
Remy tracks the Guild to Milbury house, Sinister's abandoned home.
Candra has Jean Luc and Belize, planning to kill them to punish their fathers. She explains she wants knowledge to keep herself safe from other Externals. The Thieves' Guild has been investigating the Old Kingdom, so she allied with them.
Remy has the Guild offer Candra Sinister's research; yet she is angered and takes the Guild members captive.
Chapter 3: Cards on the Table (and a Few up the Sleeve!)
Remy follows the Guild to Candra, leaving Courier behind as cover, impersonating a Bobby. The Tithe Collector uses Dr. Strange-like sorcery to get past Courier, who reverts to his true form and is knocked out.
Remy bursts in, frees the Guild and confronts Candra. The research the Guild brought her was about Apocalypse, whom she doesn’t want to confront, but information on Dr. Essex could help. The Tithe Collector arrives and confirms legends of Essex, with ghostly pale face, linked to the ancient Egyptian warlord. Remy offers to bring more on Sinister, if Candra will restore the pact, but the Guild refuses his help, since they already know Essex is in New York. Candra hands over the boy Belize and promises to release Jean-Luc when the Guild returns, but Gambit doesn’t trust her, causes an explosion and escapes with Jean-Luc.
Later at Worth’s place, Remy waits for Courier to wake. He sees in a newspaper that Essex, calling himself Milbury, is connected to the Black Womb. It's a race to New York to investigate.


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The Sunset Dawn - Book 3: Tomorrow Starts Today
(Year 1891)
The Thieves' Guild is trying to steal from Ozymandias for Candra; Jacques (who doesn't know Iehovah from Yahweh) gets them caught, so he asks Ozymandias for information on Apocalypse. He gives them
some texts about the Old Kingdom, then Candra shows up.
Remy is with Sinister, who released the Guild two weeks ago and offers to restore Courier; now stuck in female form. All this in exchange for a piece of Courier. Remy wants “Jaqueline“ to repeat the trick (iss. #9) of killing the cells he gave to Sinister, but somehow he can’t do it.
(present)
Fontanelle investigates Rogue's dreams and warns her that Remy needs her help in the past. She needs to go to Jean Luc.
Angel, who has decided to be a humanitarian, makes a deal with the New Son and is told he must kill Remy.
(Year 1891)
Candra traps Ozymandias, and the Guild translates Old Kingdom texts so she can fold space using magic. They are interrupted by Sinister, who uses Apocalypse's transport to do the same, and Remy is with him, cards flying. Sinister has Courier's morphing abilities now and attacks Candra, handing her
over to her fellow X-Ternals, who are angry she risked waking Apocalypse.
Back in New York, Sinister removes the Guild's memories of the Old Kingdom texts and locks them away in Remy's subconscious. He notices previous work done to the base of his cerebellum, which looks like his own. Remy refuses to explain.
Courier summarizes: they have saved the Guild and put the kibosh on Candra, but they gave advanced abilities to Sinister and froze Courier as a woman. Plus, they don't know how to get back to the future.


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Folding City
Jean Luc tells Rogue about Remy's time adventure. She goes to Anubar, who gives her a device he uses to track his daughter Sekmeht, and she finds herself in the mountains of Latveria.
Seems Sekmeht found the Folding City, built by Dr. Doom had to study holes in space, which disappeared. Rogue hears her own voice from within, and investigates: it’s a maze of space-time fragments. She finds Sekmeht and the Mengos, who have been on the run (since issue #12) from the self-Exalted One, former rent-a-cop of the facility, who controls the spatial anomalies. Turns out, he's the
Mengos' father.
At his citadel, the New Son shows Fontanelle many variant realities, in all of which Remy dies with a spear in his belly.
The Assassins' Guild has a contract on Remy, and Bella Donna prepares.
When Mengo pere hears Doom is out of power, he decides to expand his anomaly to all Latveria. Rogue attacks, breaking the gauntlets that he uses to control the anomaly. Various useless gates to reality open; Rogue realizes Mengo, Sr.'s, armor is the real gate, and flies them all through him. Mengo, Sr., reaches through the rift to catch Rogue's leg, but to his surprise his own son attacks, cutting off his forearm. With only one gauntlet left, he‘s stranded inside the city.
But they still don't know where Remy is.
(Three months later)
Mr. Sinister is monitoring mutant power levels. Sabra operates at 67%, X-Man at 85%. Then a peak 100% registers, with Remy’s signature.


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The More Things Change ...
Remy is lying in an alley in Manhattan, beaten and about to be killed with his own cards.
(8 weeks ago)
Remy is able to kiss Rogue, and it tingles. He got back from the past by altering his bio-kinetic field, and now it is like a gauze wrap protecting him.
(7 weeks ago)
The New Son has Courier scanned, but he is still she. He dismisses Fontanelle and sends Courier with a message for various people.
(6 weeks ago)
Remy visits his father and is followed back to Westchester. He has been readmitted to the Thieves' Guild, refuses to say more, and gets angry when Rogue questions him.
(5 weeks ago)
Tante Mattie is unable to get Bella Donna to cancel the contract on Remy.
(4 weeks ago)
Hammer gives Constrictor new vibranium coils. He sends him to kill Remy, at Courier's behest.
(3 weeks ago)
Remy has trouble controlling his powers; he burns Colossus and Rogue in the Danger Room and explodes things at random. He remembers: to return from 1891 he had Sinister treat him with the contents of the mysterious vial (cf. Uncanny X-Men #350), and the improved powers seem to be a side-effect. Later, he is attacked by Batroc and Zaran and easily dismisses them.
(2 weeks ago)
Beast and Cecelia examine him and find evidence of surgery. He can now charge things without touching them and is constantly kinetically hyperactive. He says this happened when he manifested his powers at age eighteen, so he went to Sinister, who removed part of his brain to limit the power. The tissue was placed in the vial, and Remy was indebted to Sinister. Remy realizes Rogue and he aren't ready to move forward together and breaks up.
(Last week)
He returns to New Orleans and assumes control of the fractious Thieves' Guild.
(present)
Bullseye stabs Remy.


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The Pin Cushion - Assasination Game, part 1
Remy has been stabbed by Bullseye and is near death. Three Daredevils appear and chase off Bullseye; they are Fifolet, Gris-Gris, and Questa, who can fiddle with people's minds. Then they track Gambit, their
real target, who has meanwhile escaped.
Valerie Cooper reports to the Comission on Superhuman Activities that Zaran and Batroc were captured and released, and Denti will track them to Remy.
Tante Mattie watches as Remy's enhanced powers heal him; the remnant of the Thieves' Guild plans to find out why there's a contract on him.
Fontanelle investigates Courier's dreams; she tells him to choose between Remy and the New Son.Then she goes into Remy's mind and has him replay his fight with Bullseye.
He is awakened by Constrictor, who knocked out the Thieves Guild. After a short struggle, Deadpool appears (also as a hit-man), shoots Constrictor, then threatens Remy, who bribes him to let him go (he made some good investments while he was stuck in the past). Farley is now Fireballs, with some of X-Cutioner's toys; Remy quickly dispatches him, then Denti arrives, identifies himself as FBI and Remy goes with him. Suddenly the car is attacked by a new X-Cutioner.


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Working the Treadmill - Assasination Game, part 2
X-Cutioner stops Denti's car; Denti tries to arrest him, but Remy gets them out of there. Denti had chosen to die (issue #5), but when his space station collapsed, failsafe systems teleported him out of his armor. He had assumed it destroyed, but someone else now wears it.
Fireballs has balls, until Remy blows them up with a glance. Then he uses some to knock down X-Cutioner.
Bella Donna and the Assasins Guild question Deadpool and find he let Remy go. During the questioning Constrictor wakes and is knocked out again.
Although he hired the assorted villains for the New Son, Courier calls Archangel for help, while Batroc and Zaran attack Remy again. Denti is wounded; Remy blows up the Thieves' Guild escape boat and the villains with it.
Crossbones is on deck; he drops his guns when Remy charges them, then Denti pulls his gun and gets away with Remy. Crossbones crosses paths with Batroc and Zaran; they have an old feud.
Deadpool pulls a gun on the Thieves' Guild, but they convince him they're just trying to help a relative. Constrictor again wakes and is again knocked out.
Remy tries to catch his breath. Denti notes that he seems stronger when using his enhanced powers. Just then, Fireballs and X-Cutioner attack again. Denti considers, then arrests Fireballs. He's glad he's no longer X-Cutioner.
The new one chases down Remy, but the Assassins' Guild rescues him, so Bella Donna can kill him herself. Fifolet disrupts X-Cutioner's systems, and he explodes. A building under construction topples; the debris buries Bella Donna and Remy.


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In Dreams
Remy kisses and cavorts with Rogue on a beach, then she turns into Bella Donna, who tries to drown him. He uses his enhanced and restored powers to turn the water in his throat to oxygen. The New Son appears, having turned out to be Remy himself, or a clone, alternate universe version, or twin brother,
and blasts with much more power than Remy.
He wakes; it was a nightmare, and Fontanelle says it a warning from his subconscious mind. She reveals her real name and says she was an obscure therapist with a taste for S&M, whom Courier hired to profile Remy. She started with the dreams of the X-Men and learned they stranded him in the Antarctic (Uncanny X-Men #350), so the New Son sent a rescue party, which is why Remy owed him. He said he planned to create a new, perfect world and then move everyone to it, and Remy agreed to help. He rescued Courier from the High Evolutionary (Wizard #1/2 Special), who had stolen plans for terraforming equipment, then stole a blueprint for an alien ship, for transportation (# 1), then stole Moira's files on mutants (# 2), to be able to restrict resistance, then tried to help Courier recruit the Crew ASKEW (# 3). But the New Son's plan went hincky, because Dr. Doom shifted an alternate earth (Heroes Reborn) into the spot the New Son had wanted to use. So he tried to use Quiet Bill to find a vacancy in an alternate universe.
Fontanelle says his friends and foes all respect him but see his internal conflicts. She recounts his twisted history with the Guilds and reveals that Amanda Mueller (# 13), whom he saved from Sinister in 1891, was her mother, but she doesn't know what happened to her. Since Mueller was an adult in 1891 and Fontanelle was born in the 1950s, Mueller must age very slowly.
The New Son grew frantic and threatened to kill Remy (# 15). She started seeding the minds she investigated, to help save him, so the New Son fired her.
The X-Men confronted the New Son and found out he looks like Remy (2000 Annual), but they still don't know his origin or agenda, or how this fits into the Guilds and the Old Kingdom, or why the New Son thinks Remy will destroy the world. Fontanelle says they need answers fast, before the New Son returns, and they should start by investigating their mutual past.
Remy goes to Washington, DC, and asks Courier to impersonate Xavier and infiltrate Kelly's Commission on Superhuman Activities to get information about the New Son.


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A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing
Remy has sent Mercy and Lapin to sneak into the hospital to get his birth records, but there aren't any, like Jean Luc said, and computer records have been erased.
The unified Guilds are headquartered at Bella Donna's ancestral mansion. Ministers Tome and Hoard oversee the Unveiling ceremony to open The Casket of All Tomorrows, which turns out to be empty.
Courier impersonates Xavier and meets with Denti in the Pentagon to get access to Fred Duncan's files on Black Womb. Turns out Amanda Mueller lived at least until World War II and headed a genetics research program by that name. Mystique, herself impersonating a staffer, realizes Courier’s an imposter, when he, thinking himself unobserved, stands up to get a drink.
Bella Donna is mad that the casket was empty, since it was supposed to tell the unified Guilds how to resurrect the Old Kingdom. Tante Mattie says they still have to try, and Remy is the prophesied savior.
A fireball explodes in Siberia.
Lapin insults Gris Gris, who then starts choking him, so Remy kinetically charges off his dreadlocks.
Fontanelle calls Remy, worried because Courier didn't return. Theoren hacks into the Pentagon computers to create a fake meeting, and Remy as Robert Lord walks in, finds Courier, and gets cornered by Mystique. He uses his new power to burn her hand, making her drop her gun, and she realizes she is not up on recent events. He wants to just walk away, but she pulls knives, and he charges her body, forcing her to yield before she dissolves into a blue puddle.
Remy summons Theoren and Gris Gris, accusing them of erasing his hospital records and destroying the contents of the casket. They confess, but say Jean Luc LeBeau ordered them.


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Follow the Leader
Rax shoots a crossbow bolt at Remy, shattering his wine goblet and ruining his shirt. Remy remote-charges the crossbow, the knife Rax pulls, and then the ground around him. Rax runs, and Remy considers letting him go but then chases him, because of his sense of responsibility and his desire to avoid Bella Donna.
At the Boudreaux mansion, she is holding a vote of confidence on Remy's leadership, which Theoren and Gris-Gris have called, because of the empty casket of All Tomorrows. She advises the Guild to give him more time to prove himself.
Remy chases Rax into the Metairie Cemetery, trying to forget how his father had his grandfather Jacques ousted as patriarch by a vote of confidence, in 1923. His father and Marius Bodreaux agreed to the marriage of their children six years ago, to unify the guilds and bring in “Heaven on Earth.“
Fontanelle investigates Quiet Bill's dreams of alternate Earths, finding Remy dead in each of them, always impaled through the chest. Then she sees the New Son fighting the heroes of his earth.
In DC, Courier investigates government records on Black Womb, which involved federal agent Fred Duncan, Amanda Mueller and alien technology. He also finds a photo of the the X-Cutioner armor.
Remy and Rax scuffle in the streets. Remy refuses to use his enhanced powers to just blow him up and has to protect bystanders. Rax shoots a bolt in his shoulder and is about to kill him, when he is interrupted by Domina, who reveals that the Neo have been watching, and then the Guild, who did have a vote: Remy won 7 to 6.
Domina returns Remy to them, saying the Neo were once allies with the Old Kingdom. She claims she would have won, but Rax and Remy exchange glances: they both know Remy was superior.
The New Son breaks out of a slab of rock in Siberia. He finds Remy’s message on the ground and laughs. He did not realize they thought he was the “New Son,” when it’s actually “New Sun.”