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Ultimate Knights: part 2
Peter’s teacher welcomes Kitty into her new class and suggests she takes the empty seat next to Mary Jane. Kitty does as told, while MJ and Peter look shocked, though remain silent. Behind them, the other students are all whispering to one another. The teacher asks the class if they’ve got any questions for Kitty. Jessica takes a picture of Kitty with her cellphone. The teacher remarks that the principal said she was a mutant. As she takes some books out of her bags, Kitty confirms it.
Kong recognizes Kitty as one of the X-Men, which Kitty confirms this as well. When Kong asks if she got kicked out, Kitty just says they parted ways. Kong still thinks Kitty got kicked out and asks what she did. However, Kitty repeats that she wasn’t kicked out and just parted ways with the X-Men. Flash asks about Kitty’s mutant powers, while Kong actually wants Kitty to show her. She is against it, but Kong keeps insisting so she agrees to do it. She picks up a book and phases her hand through it. The students are all stunned and Kong asks if that hurts. “No,” Kitty smiles.
Liz angrily says that Kitty thinks she’s better than them. Kitty denies it, but Liz remarks Kitty calls her “Homo superior.” Kitty mocks she didn’t coin the term, though Liz doesn’t care, as that’s still what Kitty calls herself. Kitty makes it clear she believes everyone is equal, but Liz still doesn’t buy it. As MJ tries to calm Liz down, Kitty explains she didn’t say that she was superior or even hinted at it. She’s sure there are tons of things Liz can do that she can’t. Kitty mentions she’s not very good at math and maybe Liz is. Liz says she isn’t, to which Kitty’s point has been made.
Flash asks Kitty if she fought Magneto. She confirms it and wants to tell an exited Flash about it. Jessica again takes a picture of Kitty with her mobile phone, remembering that she’s the one dating Spider-Man. Kitty asks Jessica who she is. Jessica introduces herself as the student executive producer of the school television news. “Great,” Kitty sighs as she quietly looks at Peter, who doesn’t say a word.
Kitty denies that she’s dating Spider-Man. Flash thinks that’s why Kitty is going to school here. Because she’s dating Spider-Man and everyone thinks he goes to school here. Kitty again says she isn’t dating Spider-Man, but Flash does believe and that means the web-slinger goes to school there. Kitty repeats she doesn’t know what Spider-Man does because she isn’t dating him. To this, Kong smiles it’s good to know Kitty is single. The teacher suggests that the class leave Kitty alone for now and go back to their curriculum. After all, it’s Kitty’s first day there and it’s obviously a big deal.
Ignoring this, Jessica interrupts the teacher and asks Kitty why exactly she and Spider-Man broke up. Kitty glares at Peter, who doesn’t look back. She phases through a shocked Flash and through the wall. She emerges through some lockers, and lots of students see this. They all stare at Kitty who runs away.
Flash mocks that he’s got “first dibs” on Kitty. Kong disagrees, joking Flash doesn’t even like girls. Flash disagrees, mocking that he likes Kong’s mom. They argue about it, until the teacher slams his fists on his desk shouting it’s enough. Kitty was nothing but nice to them and what do they do? They make her feel cheap and a freak and unloved. While the teacher says this, Jessica looks at a picture from Peter she took on her phone, and notices how sad he looks.
Later, outside…
Peter and MJ find Kitty sitting on the tribune. Upset herself, MJ tells Peter she’s sitting on her spot. Peter wants to go talk to her, and MJ warns Peter not to be mean. She’s going through hell. Peter promises he won’t. MJ knows but she just feels bad. Peter jokes MJ should, because she stole Kitty’s boyfriend away from her. He’s the most popular super hero right now, and quite the catch. MJ looks angrily at Peter and he realizes he’s in trouble. MJ asks if Peter asked Kitty to transfer there, which he denies. She then asks if Peter didn’t even hint at it. “Yeah,” Peter jokes, he said to Kitty, “You should leave that cool private school with your own plane and the coolest workout room… ever. And you should come here and have beans three days a week.” Oh, and the wedgies. Peter jokes MJ should have seen Kitty’s eyes light up when he told her about the glorious wedgies.
MJ smiles that girls don’t give wedgies. Peter knows, but girls do give verbal wedgies. This, MJ has to confirm. Peter promises he didn’t know Kitty was coming there. He swears. He hasn’t even spoken to her. MJ asks how Kitty knew she and Peter had broken up. That’s what Peter wants to find out now. He tells MJ he’ll talk to her later. MJ asks Peter if he’s going out later and be Spider-Man, but he reminds MJ he’s got his aunt to worry about. He walks over to Kitty.
Peter says hi to Kitty, but she just tells him to leave. Peter asks Kitty if she doesn’t want to talk, but she gets upset about that, saying it’s a bit late for that now. Peter mentions he has been trying to call Kitty. However, Kitty thinks Peter should have gotten his butt on a train and come to Xavier’s and told her he was breaking up with her in person. Peter reminds Kitty he has been a little busy. And, she’s not at Xavier’s so that trip would have been a waste. And Peter wants to know why exactly Kitty isn’t at Xavier’s. Kitty doesn’t think that matters, but Peter says it does. Kitty lies Xavier politely asked her to leave. Peter doesn’t understand. Wiping a tear from her eye, Kitty says the school was too crowded and she made Xavier’s choice very easy by letting him have it when he refused to go into Peter’s aunt’s mind and make her forget he’s Spider-Man.
Peter is startled to hear that. Kitty informs Peter that she and the X-Men saw him on TV and came to help. By the time they got there, it was over and they found out Aunt May had had a heart attack. So, she and Jean went to the hospital and Jean read Peter’s mind and she asked Xavier to help him out with his mind powers but he wouldn’t. And she lost it on Xavier like she’s never lost it on anyone. Peter doesn’t know what to say. Kitty asks Peter if he’s feeling bad now. He is, and she says that’s good. Peter tells Kitty that was an incredibly cool thing she wanted to do, but he wouldn’t want Xavier to do that as well.
Kitty is confused. She knows Peter didn’t want Aunt May to know. That he wanted to tell her on his own time. Peter knows, but it happened and, when stuff happens, he’s got to take responsibility for it. Kitty recalls that’s what Xavier said. But, Peter appreciates the thought, though. However, he still wants to know why Kitty is here. Kitty explains that her mom moved eight blocks away so now she goes to school here, of all the juicy joints to chose from. Peter agrees it’s crazy. Kitty mentions she arrived just in time to find out by coming to Peter’s rescue, only to see him making snuggle noses with Mary Jane! With whom Peter has been in love with the entire time and Kitty knew this.
Peter promises it’s not about Kitty, but about MJ and that he almost lost her. Kitty isn’t really glad to hear that. Peter exaggerates that he really almost lost MJ. Really lost her. And he realizes that he made a stupid mistake. Kitty gets upset believing she’s that big mistake. Peter wants to say something, but Kitty interrupts. She says she can’t wait until they’re seniors. They get yearbooks and Peter can write in hers that she was his “big mistake.” She takes her bag and phases through the tribune, leaving Peter alone. Below, MJ was watching the whole time. Her hand starts to shake heavily, and she holds the shaking hand with her other hand hoping to make it stop.
Later that night…
Peter is at the hospital visiting his aunt May, who is asleep. He thinks he needs a vacation, thinking about finding his clone, Jessica, and hang out with her. He hates the idea that his clone is having a better life than he is. He stares at the clock and notices it’s only 7:45 PM. Peter thinks about going to the movies and just relaxing. He hated the talk he had with Kitty and the fact that everything nasty she said about him is true. But that talk will be nothing compared to the one he’s going to have with Aunt May once she is recovered. That’s going to be even worse and Peter’s worried he’s going to give her another heart attack when they discuss the mess he has been giving her this year. Peter stares at the clock again and sees only two minutes have past. He tries to make himself stop from thinking he isn’t interested in seeing what Daredevil is planning against the Kingpin.
He does his best not to put on his costume, but can’t resist it. He web-slings through town and lands on a rooftop where he sees “a rooftop filled with crazy people.” One is Dr. Strange, who is on TV more than he sleeps. Another guy is Iron Fist, whom Peter doesn’t know anything about except he has an iron fist and that the guy hangs out with Shang-Chi, who is also present, and who is a Master of Kung-Fu. He thinks that’s actually pretty cool. There’s also Moon Knight, whom Peter is certain is crazy. And he’s not making that assumption based on Moon Knight’s costume. And last, there’s Peter’s “best friend,” Daredevil. Peter at first doesn’t believe Daredevil has super-senses, but when Matt touches his cheek to indicate he knows Peter is there, Peter is inclined to believe otherwise.
Peter knows he’s going to regret it, but lands in the middle of the group and says hi to them. Moon Knight wants to attack Spider-Man with one of his moon-shaped weapons, though Spidey immediately tries to calm him down. Daredevil tells Moon Knight to put the weapons away, explaining they’re all friends there, and he does as told. Dr. Strange says hi to Spider-Man, and Peter mocks that Strange is on late night-shows all the time. Strange jokes back that it’s better than having a real job. Shang-Chi and Iron Fist remember Peter from their last encounter, for which he apologizes. Iron Fist mocks Spidey should be sorry, and he changes the subject by asking what this party is all about.
Daredevil reveals it’s like he said: he wants to bring down the Kingpin. They all have different reasons for doing it, and they’ve been tripping over themselves and each other to get him. And what do they have to show for it? It’s Kingpin who has an army and a fortress-police and politicians in his pocket. And they’re still surprised they haven’t been able to bring him down. Peter asks Daredevil that by “bringing the Kingpin down,” he means… Daredevil smiles at Peter. He recalls Daredevil said yesterday he wanted to kill the Kingpin, to which Daredevil indicates that may be their only option.
Considering this, Peter warns that, if they do this, someone else will be there to take the Kingpin’s place. “Not necessarily,” Iron Fist believes, but Peter is headstrong that it’s inevitable. Daredevil agrees with Iron Fist, reminding Peter they killed Hitler. And that was for the Third Reich. Peter jokes it eventually came back in the form of MTV. Seriously, he asks if they are all comfortable with killing a man at his own tower. “No,” Dr. Strange admits and Peter thanks him for that.
Continuing, Strange indicates that, if someone of them does kill the Kingpin, he would like to have the opportunity to throw Nerf balls at his fat head on a stick as it’s paraded up and down midtown. Spidey reminds the group they’re supposed to be representing something. “We will,” Daredevil says, but Spidey was talking about something loftier. Moon Knight angrily tells Spidey to grow up, and Iron Fist explains that they’ve tried that and tells Peter to look at where that has gotten them. Peter isn’t defending them but, if they do manage to whack the Kingpin, or whatever, he’ll go straight to Nick Fury and tell on them. He’ll point fingers and make a stink. He warns that, if they want to bring the Kingpin down, or get the goods on him so the guy goes to fat jail forever, that Peter will be behind. But he won’t allow this to happen. And it won’t.
Daredevil can’t believe this. Peter also warns Daredevil that, if he ever shows up in his civilian life again, they’ll fight each other for real. And Peter doesn’t think Daredevil will like the end of that chapter. Daredevil answers he doesn’t fight kids, but Peter rejoins that he won’t have a choice. Iron Fist interrupts, asking what the plan is, other than killing the Kingpin. Actually, Daredevil admits, he really liked Shang-Chi’s idea. He tried to infiltrate the organization by auditioning to be the Kingpin’s new assassin-bodyguard. He’s been looking for weeks and feels naked without one. Shang-Chi explains Kingpin calls his bodyguard his “fist” and that he’ll be looking for a new possible infiltrator, and can’t try it again. Iron Fist also informs that Kingpin knows him.
Dr. Strange says he’s on too many talk shows and that he can’t kill anyone. Daredevil tells Strange he doesn’t have to kill anyone, just try to convince the Kingpin that he did. Chiming in, Peter remarks he has midterms and that the Kingpin has seen his face. Moon Knight thinks he could do it. Shang-Chi thinks they can make a new identity for him, and Spector really thinks he can do it. Dr. Strange could cast some enhancement spells to boost Spector’s appearance and power. Daredevil likes the idea and thinks Spector is perfect for it. If he gets up there, he can hurt the Kingpin where it’ll hurt him most. They’ll break the back of his day-to-day operations, hit him where it hurts. He’ll get sloppy and paranoid.
Later, at an unknown location…
Iron Fist sits in a dark room where only one light burns. He repeats Daredevil’s last words. Someone asks who Moon Knight will be posing as. Rand doesn’t know as they’re still working on it, but doesn’t believe Spector is a well man. Shang-Chi knows, but they haven’t told him. Fist promises to work on that. When the man asks about Spider-Man, Iron Fist confirms he’s a kid. He thinks he might be thirteen and jokes Spidey’s a real wise-ass, too. The person corrects that Spider-Man is older than thirteen, but agrees he’s a wise-ass. Iron Fist asks if they’ve got a deal now, because he won’t go back to prison. Not for them, not for the person he’s talking to now, not for anyone.
It remains quiet for a while. The person tells Danny Rand, the Iron Fist, if this turns out to be true, he has certainly earned his friendship. Danny looks up and looks at both the Kingpin and Rose…


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Ultimate Knights: part 3
The Kingpin, nicely dressed in a tuxedo, stands besides the bed of his ill wife, Vanessa, who still lies unconscious and is supported by a life machine. Rose interrupts Fisk, informing him that the man auditioning to be his “fist” is waiting for him. Kingpin reminds Rose that, even though he knows he is still new to this level of operation, they do not discuss business in front of his wife. After a visibly frightened Rose apologizes, Fisk warns him that those roles will not be broken again, as Vanessa is an ill woman. There’s no need to fill her head with their ugliness.
Elsewhere, in a dreamworld…
Standing near a swing, a girl with red hair asks for an explanation. Steven Grant doesn’t know what there is to explain, as “he” goes undercover. The little girl is surprised he’ll be going as the Kingpin’s hit man?!? Grant explains putting “him” in prime position will take the Kingpin down. Down down. Permanently down. The little girl reminds them this was Daredevil’s idea. Actually, Marc Spector corrects, a man named Shang-Chi thought it up. The girl knows, but it was Daredevil that came to Moon Knight with this idea of all the underworld vigilantes teaming up with a plan to take the Kingpin down together. And she doesn’t like this plan.
Grant says that Daredevil is the gun, but their boy will be the bullet. The girl dislikes the idea of creating a new persona to do it. Grant reminds her “he” has done it before. The girl recalls that, and asks Grant if that doesn’t concern him. Spector is just glad they’ll be taking the Kingpin down. This is what they’ve always wanted. He doesn’t see the problem.
The girl agrees to explain a bit about Moon Knight. Their boy, their guy, he’s a sick man. He suffers from multiple personality disorder. To the point that none of this is real. They’re all part of him. She herself, Marc Spector, Steven Grant, Moon Knight… they’re all the same person! They’re all him and now they want Moon Knight, with his history of fragmented psychosis, to create another persona? They want to create a killer. A hit man. And she’s surprised that doesn’t worry the two men. Marc points out they’re only doing it to take the Kingpin down. The girl fears what’s going to happen if this new personality becomes the dominant personality.
Grant doesn’t think the girl should be talking like this. Spector agrees, as he can hear them. The girl again says he is her! And she thinks this is too dangerous for them. It will kill them all. Grant shouts at the girl to stop it. Spector claims that nothing else matters but to take down the Kingpin. Nothing! The girl tries to calm them down, wanting to know the name of this new killer is going to be.
Fisk Towers, the parking lot…
A costumed individual, wearing a black uniform with a facial mask and green gloves and holding nun chucks in his hands, introduces himself as Ronin. An interviewer wants to know what Ronin does, to which he answers: what needs to be done. “Uh-huhm” the Kingpin smirks. He wants Ronin to prove himself. Ronin begins by beating up the Kingpin’s bodyguards, with great ease at that. When he’s finished, he looks at the Kingpin. Smiling, Kingpin says this isn’t what he had in mind, to which Ronin apologizes.
Kingpin asks Rose how Ronin checked out. Ronin reads from a file that Ronin’s real name is Marc Spector, an ex-Navy Seal. He’s the product of a Gulf War experiment gone wrong. He worked for Roxxon under the name Paladin until the company fell apart. He checked. To this, Kingpin asks if Roxxon was as big an idiot as he appeared to be, but Ronin replies that he doesn’t get paid to gossip. He gets paid to act. Kingpin likes that answer. Ronin wants to know how he has to prove himself. “Spider-Man,” Kingpin grins. Ronin has to wreck Spider-Man’s life and bring him there. Ronin asks for an address, but Kingpin wants Ronin to figure that out by himself.
Peter and MJ’s school…
Mary Jane is making a documentary about her school, and the fact Spider-Man possibly goes there. She says that every day his name echoes through the halls of Midtown High School. The theory that this costumed figure may either go to school there, or is on faculty, does not go away. Just two weeks ago, in the very alley Mary Jane stands now, Fred Thompson, a sophomore here at Midtown High, was kidnapped by mystery assailants who mistakenly took him for Spider-Man. She goes to interview Flash on the football field outside.
Flash is kind of sick of talking about it. He is just happy to be alive. He mentions they did this poll thing on the internet… and half the world thinks he is Spider-Man, anyhow. And he might as well be. MJ points out that Flash still claims he isn’t Spider-Man. “Duh,” Flash jokes. If he was Spider-Man, why would he be sitting at school all day? MJ also asked Principal Siuntres his feelings on the growing Spider-Man controversy. The Principal explains he doesn’t know if Spider-Man is one of the students, but they’re pretty sure he’s not one of the faculty. He shows a file, adding they’ve done a thorough investigation of all faculty members and school employees. And no one who works here matches Spider-Man’s physical type. The problem is – really, it doesn’t matter if Spider-Man goes to school there.
So far most of the damage to this institution has come from the local media who keep reporting this story based on nothing but rumors! They reported it with no facts. The principal pulls a curtain open and shows MJ that outside a lot of news vans are waiting for something spectacular to happen. The principal continues on to say Flash Thompson was abducted by people who thought Spider-Man goes to school there, which still doesn’t make it a fact. And it won’t be a fact until they catch him and unmask the webslinger. Right now it’s still just a rumor. But the vans still remain, they park in the school’s parking lots, they distract and harass the students. And the principal fears they’ll keep doing it until somebody gets hurt. And he’s sure they’ll report that and pretend like they have nothing to do with it.
The principal worries about the students and families of this school every day and they take this Spider-Man situation very seriously. It cost his predecessor his job. But the truth is the principal would be proud to know Spider-Man went to school there, because he once saved his mother from an out-of-control bus. Mary Jane asks if that’s true, which he confirms. So, the principal concludes, if Spider-Man does go to this school and, if he’ll be watching this, he wants to tell him to keep doing what he’s doing. The world desperately needs good people. And the principal would be proud to hear that their school helped produce someone like him. But he can’t have chaos in his halls and can’t have children put in harm’s way. He wants Spider-Man to keep it off the school grounds. MJ ends her interview there.
Later…
Mary Jane has shown her interview tape to some people who are quite impressed by it, especially since nobody helped her with it and that she edited there. Only Jessica Jones is a bit jealous when she hears that MJ’s only fifteen years old, and will turn sixteen in a month. One of the men present welcomes Mary Jane to the Student News Network and gives her a camera. MJ is thrilled, but Jones doesn’t like it one bit.
Again later…
MJ tells the good news to Peter by the lockers and jokes, “Ben Urich… in your face!” Peter jokes MJ totally used him to get a good interview. MJ reminds Peter all the things that have been happening in her life because of Spider-Man, so she had this coming. Peter and MJ start flirting with each other, until Kitty appears from behind a corner and sees them. Peter sees her too, and wants to introduce Kitty to MJ, but she just leaves, clearly upset. MJ sighs and wonders how many times that’s going to happen, to which Peter jokes they’ve only got two more years of high school left. He hopes maybe Kitty will meet someone.
Liz and Kong show up and Liz thinks Kitty should go back from where she came from. Mary Jane tries to calm her down, but Liz calls Kitty dangerous and disgusting. MJ reminds Liz Kitty is just a mutant, not a leper. Liz is confident Kitty should stick with her own kind. Mary Jane wants Liz to stop talking out her mutantphobia in front of her because it creeps her out. Kong wants to know why Liz hates mutants so much, to which she leaves.
Outside, Ronin steps inside a bus where he puts on his costume. He activates the vehicle and drives it through the school’s entrance! The students are shocked and Peter warns everyone to get into safety.
Into Moon Knight’s head, the young girl asks what he’s doing. In reality, Ronin starts shooting around and demands a word with Spider-Man. MJ asks Peter who the villain is but he has no idea. The girl warns Moon Knight to stop because he’s going too far, but he ignores her. Peter warns the students to go to the kitchen or the football field where they’ll be safe. Ronin keeps demanding to see Spider-Man.
Kitty shows up to fight Ronin, and mentions she has been wanting to hit somebody for a week now, and he’ll do. Ronin shouts that he just wants Spider-Man and points his gun at Kitty. She jokes that the line forms behind her.
The girl in Moon Knight’s head fears it’s going on wrong, but the Moon Knight identity promises Ronin is just trying to lure Spider-Man out, and that they need to gain Kingpin’s trust.
Outside the school, the principal warns the students to just run home and not go back inside.
Inside, Ronin shoots Kitty! Steven Grant, the girl, Marc Spector and Moon Knight are all shocked by it. Luckily, Kitty survived the shot by phasing her body with her mutant powers. She punches Ronin and warns that she has been trained by Wolverine, meaning he’s toast. Ronin pulls a fire extinguisher off a wall and fires foam across Kitty’s face, and then hits her with it.
The red-headed girl warns that innocent people are getting hurt and that Ronin is taking over. They need to do something! A gigantic spirit-form of Ronin appears behind Moon Knight, ready to attack. The girl tells Moon Knight to do something. A battle begins and Moon Knight is the first to have a winning hit.
In reality, Ronin continues to hit Kitty who is slowly starting to faint.
Ronin’s form gets up and punches Moon Knight out of his way. The girl shouts at Ronin not to do this.
Spider-Man arrives and starts fighting Ronin and jokes that he hopes prison really sucks, and calls him an idiot for wanting to hurt kids. In Ronin’s head, he gets hit by Moon Knight again and the other dual identities cheer for their hero. Peter tends to Kitty but has no time, as Ronin quickly breaks free from his webs and continues the battle. He throws darts at Spider-Man, who manages to outmaneuver some of them. However, one manages to find its target in his neck, knocking him out.
In the other world, Ronin manages to defeat Moon Knight and strangles him with his nunchucks. The girl panics but Grant and Spector want to let this happen. After his victory, Ronin glares furiously at the other identities.
In reality, police sirens are heard and Ronin makes his escape with the unconscious Spider-Man. He uses Peter’s webslingers to websling away, carrying Peter along with him. Outside in the football field, some of the gathered students wonder where Peter is. MJ looks up in the sky and sees Ronin and records him with her camera, worrying as she does so.
Inside the school, Kitty wakes up but is surrounded by soldiers, who wonder if SHIELD will show up.
Elsewhere…
Ronin is back at the Kingpin’s office and shows him the defeated Spider-Man. The Kingpin and Rose smile, and Ronin asks who’s next.


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Ultimates vs. Ultimate X-Men
An eighteen-wheeler loses his load on the Brooklyn Bridge, leading to a traffic jam. The people on the bridge are doing normal things, trying to cope, when, suddenly, the bridge explodes.
Normal people and Ultimates alike are listening to the ensuing broadcast by the arch-villain Magneto, who, until this point, was believed to be dead. Magneto announces his return and that he intends to speed up his agenda. The Brotherhood of Mutants will take their place at the top of the food chain. As he dislikes speaking to humans, he will keep this message short: humanity has six months to surrender the world to Homo Superior. During that time, mutants will prepare the new society and decide which races "should be kept as slaves, which should be fuel, and which should be saved for the larder."
In the White House, President Bush and Vice-President Cheney demand an explanation from General Nicholas Fury. Why was Magneto believed to be dead? Because, Fury replies, according to Professor Xavier - not to mention five thousand eyewitnesses - Magneto was executed six months ago. The same Xavier who used to be an associate of Magneto's and who can control minds Cheney sardonically asks? Fury agrees, but also points out that Xavier and the X-Men saved the life of the President, his daughter and everybody else "in this room". Besides, this time they are not only relying on the X-Men, but also on the Ultimates - that's the kind of threat the team was created for. Cheney hopes that the Ultimates are effective, because, otherwise, they might have to look for a new Chief of Security.
At the Triskelion (the New York Headquarters of the Ultimates), the Wasp and Dr. Brankin are watching the rescue work at the Brooklyn Bridge on the screens. According to the Wasp, Iron Man and Thor are trying to help, but it's been ninety minutes since the explosion. They can't do much more than fish corpses out of the water. Captain America, Black Widow and Hawkeye are following some leads on the perpetrators the FBI gave them. Both Brankin and Janet are clearly shocked; they thought the Brotherhood had been neutralized and Magneto was dead.
In a hotel room in New Jersey, the six Brotherhood members who were responsible for the attack - Hard-Drive, Juggernaut, Mastermind, Rogue, Toad and Vanisher - are watching the news reports on their handiwork. Juggernaut comments that they could have caused more than eight hundred deaths if they had toppled the truck further up the bridge. The news reporter mentions that members of the Brotherhood are believed to be responsible for that attack and that the Ultimates are following positive leads to their whereabouts. Rogue gets nervous when she hears that, but Toad and Vanisher calm her. News reporters always say stuff like that to make the people feel better. It means nothing.
At that very moment, a gas grenade is thrown into the hotel room. Before they can react, Captain America jumps in through the window and easily keeps them off their toes with a skilful throw of his shield. Vanisher teleports out, where he is already expected by the Black Widow, who quickly takes him out with one kick. Toad jumps out of the window with the somewhat ungrateful Rogue, assuring her that he won't let Cap get her. Unfortunately, he lands badly, injuring his ankle, because of the extra weight. Even more unfortunately, they are already expected by Hawkeye - bow all ready - and several SHIELD agents.
Rogue assures them they won't make any trouble as long as her friend gets medical attention. Over the radio Cap tells Hawkeye not to trust her, but it's too late - Rogue has already touched Toad, absorbed his powers and now attacks the agents. She jumps away, over the cars, and one SHIELD agent radios the others that they've lost her. Hawkeye tells her to calm down and shoots a trick-arrow at Rogue, tangling her legs with the electrically charged trapwire that comes out of it.
At the Triskelion, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch - the former, now disgraced Brotherhood leaders - are being escorted in by heavily armed agents. What are they doing here, Quicksilver complains. Their father is the most wanted terrorist leader on the planet and they are blithely walking into a U.S. army facility? That invitation has to be a trap. Wanda replies that they are hardly going to use them as bait, considering the Brotherhood now wants them dead. Besides, hanging with those supersoldiers is probably going to save them from their father.
Entering the conference room, Quicksilver haughtily asks the Ultimates not to stop gossiping about them on their account. Actually, they were discussing the new anti-terrorist measures he and Secretary Rumsfeld drew up this morning, Cap replies, but he's sure Wanda and Pietro could make valuable contributions. Black Widow interjects: she thinks it a foolish idea to have the two former Brotherhood leaders in the room, while they are plotting against their father. After all, they know what is said about leopards changing their spots? Cap replies that Wanda and Pietro proved themselves on a number of covert missions for the U.S Government, while at the same time toning down the Brotherhood activities and, if they are going to exclude colleagues with a colourful past, does that also apply to former KGB superspies? Touché Natasha admits.
Returning to the business at hand, Cap states that the main objective is to take down or kill Magneto, but the first priority is public safety. Therefore, at least one superhuman is going to be placed in every major city and mutants with known anti-human tendencies are to be detained. Thor protests that these measures had better be more humane than the Sentinel program. He is not going to tolerate another mutant witchhunt. The Wasp interjects that she is the last person to want an anti-mutant witchhunt, but the president has assured them that they are only detaining mutants with Brotherhood links and that they are doing so in accordance with the Geneva Convention.
Hawkeye wants to know where the X-Men are in all of this? Cap explains that Fury couldn't reach them on the hotline so he sent Iron Man to their headquarters to investigate. He then radios Iron Man who's standing in font of the X-Mansion with his SHIELD team. Stark admires the camouflage technology that hides Xavier's Mansion in plain sight. Viewed at a normal frequency, what you see is the local chapter of the Jehova's Witnesses. Switch to a secret frequency, however, and you see a beautiful Georgian mansion with Xavier's name on the front gate.
Since the perimeter scan isn't picking anybody up, they enter. Stark get the impression that Xavier's people left in a rush. Perhaps Magneto attacked them? Cap tries to stay optimistic, but then has a call from Fury, who tells him they just received intel on the X-Men situation and asks to be patched through to Iron Man as well. Iron Man reacts shocked, when he hears what Fury has to say. He then tells his SHIELD team grimly that he has just received the worst of news: Apparently, Xavier and Magneto managed to patch up their ideological differences. The X-Men have joined forces with the Brotherhood.


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The Wasp pays a visit to Professor Grey, Marvel Girl's father, who's currently busying himself in his greenhouse. As the diminutive Wasp addresses him from among his flowers, Grey is startled. She apologizes and grows to her normal form, but she thought he'd be used to this kind of thing. Grey recognizes her as the Wasp from that "Ultimate defense deterrent [Americans] are spending stupid amounts of money on." Nevertheless, both he and his wife refuse to give the government any information on heir daughter, he insists.
Wasp reminds him of the gravity of the situation. Their agents believe that Xavier and Magneto have been working together from the start. Slyly, she adds that this could put his daughter into grave danger. Grey scoffs at her conspiracy theories. He was aware that the X-Men kept Magneto alive, while faking his death, but he also knows why: Xavier was trying to rehabilitate Magneto as a productive member of society and nobody's more upset about his old persona's re-emergence than Xavier.
And why did the X-Men go underground then the moment Magneto resurfaced, Janet demands. For the same reason that Iceman and his family probably went into hiding, Grey shoots back: they knew the government would be coming for them. Xavier saved his daughter's life and gave his word that the X-Men wouldn't rest until Magneto was captured. Xavier's word is good enough for him. Does that mean he won't give them the address of the east coast safehouse they are allegedly cooped up in, Wasp asks. They weren't stupid enough to tell him when they called. So the Wasp might as well call her psychic friends off. After spending three years having breakfast with one of the best telepaths in the world, he recognizes that particular little itch in the hypothalamus. His choice, Janet states, as she turns away. They tried to make it easy for him...
(Pier 88, in New York City, the X-Men's aforementioned safe house)Xavier is radioing Moira MacTaggert in Scotland. Moira exclaims in mock-surprise that sheÄd thought heÄd be too busy plotting the downfall of man with Magneto to call. Times like these, Xavier sighs, he realizes precisely why they got a divorce. Changing subjects, he asks how things went with her evacuation from Muir Island. The island was better equipped to deal with patients than the old Glasgow tube station they are currently residing in but, as long as itÄs only temporary, it will have to do, Moira replies. What about the X-Men? Missing the school's home comforts Xavier sighs, but this place is fine, until they find out what happened to Cyclops, Kitty and Wolverine. Their radio seems to be broken and he doesn't dare attempt a long-distance telepathic call to the Savage Land for fear of being tracked.
Moira states that she read in the herald that Senator Turk is trying to get the Sentinel initiative started again. Does Xavier think things will go that far? If Magneto pushes them so far possibly, but right now ordinary mutants have little to fear. At the moment their priority is to capture Magneto and convince the Ultimates that they haven't joined the Brotherhood. Well, faking Magneto's death wasn't exactly a smart move, Moira admits. Can he blame them for thinking the worst?
Colossus and Storm join them, just back from a shopping expedition for all the necessities, from tech to toiletries. Did they think of the sniffers, Beast, who's busy with repairs, asks. Storm forgot. Beast gets aggressive: she thought of Peter's comics, but forgot the sniffers he needs to create an untraceable line to the Ultimates? What planet is she from? Jean plays peacemaker: things aren't that bad. This place has most of the things the mansion does, including a small danger room. Trashcan tech that doesn't work, Beast mumbles. When he set the fight program for ninja assassins this morning, he spent twenty minutes defending himself against orthodox Jews.
Well, it's his own damn fault for landing them in this mess, Ororo snaps. If it hadn't been for him and his "little internet slut" they'd all be home now and those people on Brooklyn Bridge would still be alive. Jean tries to calm her down, but Storm cuts her off: typical that she would intervene on Beast's behalf. Between Jean and the Beast trying to get the X-Men killed lately, who needs Magneto?
Somewhat angered, Jean threatens that, if they hadn't noticed the link between Ororo's mood and atmospheric conditions by now... she trails off. She's telepathically sensing that the others have returned from the Savage Land and are bringing the cloaked X-jet down right now. Everyone's happy that Cyclops is finally going to return. Things make more sense with him around. Although Colossus interjects that he's happy for Wolverine to return.As the jet lands, Jean exclaims "no" and runs towards the plane. Scott isn't with them. Logan hugs her and apologizes. He tells her that he and Kitty spent three days trying to find Cyclops' corpse, but half a mountain fell on him... Is Scott really dead, Colossus asks Kitty. She just replies "yeah."
(the Triskelion)Despite the tension, the mood is informal. Stark and Captain America are out of uniform. Cap studies their files on Wolverine and announces "Jim Howlett." He explains that he recognizes this man from WW II, before he was called Wolverine. He was a Special Forces hotshot from Toronto and they did a couple of airdrops together in 1944. Jim would always get up again, no matter how badly shot he was. That's why they nicknamed him "Lucky Jim". But why does he still look so young?
Maybe he and Cap are using the same moisturizer, Stark suggests. And while he hates to revert to stereotype here, would anyone else like a drink? He's starting to suffer from a serious vodka-deficiency. The others have hardly pronounced their choice of beverage, when it's already in front of them, thanks to Quicksilver's super speed.
Cap brings them back to the subject at hand. They have three main objectives: find the X-Men, find the Brotherhood and anticipate the terrorist tactics they're going to use against the public. Black Widow and Hawkeye just busted a cyber terrorist attack at the stock exchange. That might give some indication on where they're about to strike. He asks Stark about the status of the mutant-location system Stark International's working on. It's an update of Xavier's Cerebro tracker, operating on a global scale and tapping in a worldwide net of satellites, Tony explains. By the end of the month, they'll be able to pinpoint any mutant on Earth, whether they're cloaked or not.
Cap asks Wanda and Pietro about further Brotherhood hideouts. Wanda replies that all the hideouts they know about have already been smoked out. There are probably still bases they don't know about and concludes that their father never really trusted them. Thor commends the twins for helping them. It's very brave to side against their own flesh and blood. Their father is a lunatic, Pietro shrugs. Deciding to help bring him down wasn't such a hard decision.
Suddenly, the lights go out. Stark is surprised: he designed the lights in this place to never go out. Elsewhere in the building, a tech informs them about a glitch in the system, as the back-up systems kick in.
In another part of the building, two nurses mock the imprisoned doctor Banner. Did he hope this was his opportunity to turn into the Hulk again? Tough. At that, the lights again go out.
Cap tells Thor to grab his hammer - something is going on. Suddenly, the walls outside cave in. Soldiers fight against what's coming - to no avail. Wanda realizes that it's Magneto who's coming. Cap orders Thor to his side. Wanda and Pietro are to back them up and to keep danger away from Tony and the regular Joes.
Magneto enters with a bang. Cap throws his shield at him but Magneto easily tosses it back at him. Next is Thor, who throws his magical hammer. Magneto makes it stop right before it hits his face and chides Thor. Why he of all people chose to throw his lot in with those government lackeys is beyond him. Does he think he can change them by virtue of his example? He's an idiot. With that he directs the hammer to cause some destruction in the room.
Cap shouts at the twins to take him out. They reply in panic that they can't, he doesn't understand. "And they never will," Magneto agrees, telling them to step forward and accept their punishment. He asks Pietro if he understands why exactly he's being punished. Because he took the X-Men's side against him and stole his helmet in Washington, allowing Xavier to take control of his mind, Pietro replies. Actually, that showed admirable ambition for once, Magneto counters. No, he's angry because they took a great organization like the Brotherhood and turned them into a stooge for Homo Sapiens. Wanda interjects. She's as guilty as Pietro. It's unfair if only he gets punished. Oh, her punishment will be to watch, he explains, magnetically points several guns at Pietro's knees and pulls the triggers.
Afterwards he informs Cap that the generators and computers work again, though they'll find that the information on the Brotherhood has been deleted from the hard drives. Incidentally, they are going to keep this place around after the fall of man, as well as the White House and the Pentagon. They'd just agreed that they wanted some elaborate toilets for the new mutant order. As Magneto leaves, Cap swears that he's eventually going to break every bone in his body. Unimpressed Magneto flies away.
Several agents join them, one of them exclaiming that they have a video-call from Xavier who wants to clarify why he and the X-Men lied about Magneto. They want to broker some kind of deal. After this? Cap snaps. No more deals! He couldn't care less about Xavier's reasons for not killing that monster. They are to tell Xavier that the Ultimates are going to bring the X-Men down as hard as Magneto.


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L.I.N.C.O.L.N., USA: A deceptively ordinary, calm, American small town. A nice place, President Bush, munching on a pretzel, tells General Nick Fury. However, he doesn't see how Lincoln can possibly be the safest place in America. First off, it's not "Lincoln," but an acronym meaning "Leaders In Need Christian-Only Lockdown Network," Fury explains. And secondly, this little town has served as a safe haven for every US-president in danger ever since John Wilkes Booth bought a theatre ticket. He couldn't be anywhere safer. The president still wonders if a simple army base wouldn't offer more protection against the likes of Magneto and Fury asks the Black Widow to demonstrate. The former KGB super-spy draws a gun and aims it at the president, while telling him he needn't worry. She'll be down and pumped full of Acetylpromazine, before she's even pulled the trigger. And indeed, she is struck down by the nice citizens of L.I.N.C.O.L.N. - highly trained SHIELD agents, all of them.
President Bush admits he's impressed and asks how things are progressing on the outside. Well, they managed to keep Magneto's attack on the Triskelion out of the newspapers but the average American is still getting more and more frightened. Record numbers of people are refusing to go to work in major cities. If this keeps up, the economy is going to take quite a nosedive. So, they have to find Magneto and cut him down soon. What about the X-Men, the president inquires. Is he actually starting to feel sympathy for them, Fury asks sharply. While he had commended them for saving the president's daughter some time ago, that was before he learned that the X-Men were responsible for keeping Magneto alive. For that alone, he holds them responsible for every human being Magneto kills. Bush urges him to at least try and bring Xavier in alive. He owes him that much. Fury bluntly replies that he is not in the habit of making promises he isn't sure he can keep.
At the Triskelion, the Ultimates' HQ, Captain America, the Wasp and several agents survey the damage done by Magneto and - as it turns out - one of their own. During the black-out Magneto caused, Bruce Banner turned into the Hulk, managed to escape from the holding bay and ate all six members of the nursing staff. Cap asks the sickened Wasp if he can speak to her alone for a moment. He tells her that he knows why she is so upset about this case with the Brotherhood and Magneto. They all know she is a mutant. Fury's known since the day she signed up - in spite of the false DNA sample she gave. It really doesn't matter, that's why Fury never brought the topic up. Cap just wants to remind her that they are waging a war on terror, not on mutants.
Cleveland, Ohio: The Drakes are watching a news report that describes how captured members of the Brotherhood are being flown to Cuba into the controversial Camp X-Factor, which has both Human Right Groups and church leaders up in arms. On a talk show, Ultimates' member Hawkeye stresses that they are not waging a war on mutants but on the Brotherhood and the X-Men. An anchorwoman announces that Professor Xavier has pledged that the X-Men will capture Magneto.
Mr Drake sharply tells his son to not even think about getting in contact with the X-Men again. Friends or not, the X-Men have completely screwed up the Drakes' lives. No more jobs, no more home, on the run, forced to hide with an old friend... He loves his son but if he returns to that cult of his, that's going to kill his mother. He makes the X-Men sound like the Brotherhood, Bobby sullenly replies. As far as he is concerned, the only difference between Xavier and Magneto is about three pounds of hair, his father states.
At the lower East Side of Manhattan, in the X-Men's temporary headquarters: Storm and Colossus admit to still being shocked from the news about Cyclops' death. Sure, X-Men were injured before but nobody has died yet. Now they can't help wondering who's next.
Inside Xavier's study, Jean incredulously takes in Xavier's announcement that they will no longer chase the Brotherhood. Trying to seek a compromise with Magneto would be more helpful, Xavier states. But, going soft on Magneto the last time is the reason the X-Men are in this mess Jean points out. They have nothing else to lose, hence they must think the unthinkable, Xavier announces cryptically. Opening a dialogue with one's enemy is not the same as surrendering, he states and asks her to trust him. He will make Magneto an offer even he cannot refuse.
They are joined by Wolverine, who announces that the Porsche's back in shape. Does Chuck need anything else fixed up before he heads into town to get the vegetarian food for Jean? Xavier thanks him and asks if he'll take Kitty along. She looks busy with helping Hank iron out the kinks in the virtual reality fight program, Wolverine replies and leaves.
Xavier notes the amazing development in Wolverine: he's really trying to be there for Jean. For him to open up to his feelings after a lifetime of violence and betrayal is quite remarkable. Jean seems less convinced. She confides that it's quite possible that she's having some sort of paranoid aftershock from the Phoenix experience but she's been getting flashes into his mind.Impossible, Xavier interjects. Weapon X designed him to be impervious to telepaths. She knows that, she replies, so it's probably nothing. But every time their skin touches, she gets flashes and she suspects that Wolverine let Cyclops die so he'd have another chance with her.
Later at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts, Xavier and his X-Men meet with Magneto or - to be more exact - his proxy: Magneto speaks to them through a psychic mutant. One can never be too careful when engaging with the enemy after all. Xavier assures him of his earnest motives. He's not here to trap him but to offer a compromise to end this madness. "A deal," Magneto mocks but is nevertheless curious. What kind of deal? Xavier suggests that their groups join forces. The interests of his students would be better served within the Brotherhood. They have to stand together or be eliminated. Is he really ready to kill every human, Erik asks, incredulously. No, just America, Charles answers. That's the compromise: he'll consent to Magneto executing theses fifty American states, if he swears that they'll take the rest of the world peacefully. And why would the other nations give in peacefully, Magneto demands. Because they'll see how quickly and perfectly their mutant manifesto will change the USA, Xavier explains. Their fight was always about the means of acquiring utopia. Once they agree on an appropriate body count, the argument will be over.
And what does she think of this, Magneto asks the silent horrified Kitty. She doesn't look too happy about this "compromise." Xavier interjects: her hesitation is understandable. But what are her options, realistically speaking? Magneto admits that Charles surprises him but he appreciates that he tries to look out for his students. He'll discuss the offer with his inner circle. The offer only extends for 48 hours, Xavier warns as they all get ready to leave.
Outside, Wolverine lies in wait and watches Magneto's agents leave the building. Did they swallow the bait, he asks. Xavier tells him "yes" and Wolverine jumps on his motorbike and begins tracking them.
Storm, in the meantime, starts to protest. She has no interest in siding with the Brotherhood. What was that all about? A ruse, Xavier explains, to give Wolverine the chance to track them to their address. Once he's found them, the X-Men will join him. Kitty wonders why he didn't confide in them before. Because, that way, the telepaths couldn't see the plan in their minds Jean deduces correctly.
At the Brotherhood's HQ, Magneto discusses Charles' offer with one of his inner circle. Unus wonders aloud if the offer is on the level. Of course not, Magneto scoffs, it's an obvious trap. Clearly Wolverine is secretly following their little expedition party. No, Charles is too far gone to join them but the children might be saved. Unus admits that Xavier is a lot craftier than anyone would have imagined. So is he, Magneto states. Charles wasn't the only one who arranged for his opponents to be followed back to their secret base...
The Ultimate have received an anonymous tip-off, informing them on the X-Men's whereabouts. Floating in the air, Iron Man validates that claim. SHIELD agents secretly move into the area and evacuate the crowd. Fury tells Captain America, from the Triskelion, to hold tight for another ten minutes until they neutralize the telepaths. Agents inform Fury that the neuron scramblers are active now: the team has a twenty-five minute window to act. With those words, Iron Man flies in, causing maximum damage to the base while Captain America orders the rest of the team to get ready to go kick the X-Men's heads in.


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Manhattan, the lower Eastside: Wolverine was giving chase to Magneto’s agents on his motorcycle. Now he finds that he is chased himself by helicopters. The SHIELD agents in the choppers warn him; they have him surrounded and the X-Men are being taken care of even as they speak. His two remaining options are a swift arrest and transfer to Camp X-Factor in Cuba or a thousand shells from Uncle Sam and an unmarked grave. So what’s he gonna say? Hearing the noise “snikt,” one of the agents wonders what he just said. Having reached sufficient height, Wolverine jumps off his cycle and straight onto one of the choppers with his claws out.
Elsewhere, Control informs Iron Man that they just lost contact with all four units deployed to bring in Wolverine. Is he in any position to investigate? Iron Man lets them know that he just fond two more possible escape routes for the X-Men and has to swoop the place again. Fury tells him that he needs a final assurance that the neural scramblers are up and running to disable the telepaths before he deploys ground troops. Neural scramblers are on, an agent assures him, and all six mutants are reacting as per simulation.
The six X-Men are leaving their destroyed hideout with Kitty and Beast taking care of the disabled Marvel Girl and Professor X. Storm tells the others that she and Colossus can keep them covered if they want to make a break for it.
Fury radios Iron Man telling him they just got a visual of what Wolverine did to those pilots. Could he please head up there and tear him a new one? In the meantime, Colossus decides to tackle Iron Man while Storm intends to take care of the SHIELD agents outside the building. Peter changes to steel and lets Iron Man fly right into him – he can take it. Smashing Stark into the ground he tells him to “stay down, idiot!”
Control radios Hawkeye and Wasp, informing them about Iron Man’s troubles. Wasp replies that all agents outside are paralyzed until someone feeds them a sat–trace on Storm. The non-stop lightning is keeping them out. Control addresses Storm, warning her that this is her one chance to surrender peacefully before they send Thor after her. Does she really think her weather powers compare with those of a real life god of thunder? Storm rudely tells them what she’s going to do with Thor. Admitting that she has nerve, the thunder god attacks. With Ororo focussing on Thor, Captain America and the SHIELD teams are free to storm the building.
In the meantime, Beast takes Xavier through the bowels of the building, taking a detour through the training area and setting the fight-simulator for “ninja assassin” to slow their hunters down. So Hawkeye and the other SHIELD agents suddenly have to face orthodox ninja rabbis who are out for their blood. The other team, led by Black Widow in another part of the tunnels, is expecting the two X-Men to come their way, but Beast and Xavier are already in the X-wing, flying straight over them. Henry believes they are already home-free, unaware that the Black Widow is hanging on to the plane and depositing a few explosives. Before the plane explodes, Beast ejects both Xavier and himself and, up in the air, they are already expected by Iron Man, who captures them.
Suddenly, Fury screams for him to gain altitude as fast as he can. Before Tony understands what’s wrong, Wolverine jumps at him from a skyscraper roof, slashing at his armor and forcing him to drop the two X-Men on the roof. Beast shouts at Logan to go save Kitty and Jean, who will probably have run into trouble by now. Cutting into Stark one final time, Wolverine leaves to go help the two girls. The ladies have indeed run into trouble – two overtly trigger-happy SHIELD agents, one of whom has lost his cousin in the Brotherhood’s attack on the Brooklyn Bridge. As a result, they wouldn’t mind taking it out on them.
Wolverine arrives in the nick of time, tears into the soldiers and shouts at Jean to cover Kitty’s eyes. He doesn’t want the kid to see his stuff. A voice announces that Wolverine has about the most screwed-up sense of morality he ever encountered. Finished with the agents, Wolverine turns around to face a disgusted Captain America. Somehow, he had a hunch, this thing would come down to the two of them, the mutant announces.
Doesn’t he remember them having met before in Normandy in 1945 and in Africa in 1944 Cap asks, calling him “Jim.” That’s not his name, Wolverine contradicts him. He is Corporal James Howlett of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, Cap insists. Did they wipe all those memories when they redesigned his brain to hold all those fancy fight maneuvers? Why is he unlocking all that messed up stuff in his head, the obviously confused Wolverine demands. Tactical advantage, Cap coldly replies and shoots him with the firearm he hid behind his shield. Now they’ll see if that healing factor is as good as he remembers…
Cap radios the others telling them that Wolverine is down and they are bringing in Pryde and Grey as well. How are they doing with the Russian? Badly, actually, as Colossus is just busy wiping the floor with Thor. Hawkeye is trying his luck with a small-scale, localized nuke-arrow. The tiny nuke hits Colossus and finally knocks him out, while the other SHIELD agents have found Beast and Xavier on the roof and are about to pump them full with tranquilizer darts.
As Fury tells them to get it over with, another agent in Control warns him that something big is heading towards the teams, at a speed in excess of one hundred and twenty miles an hour. People near the block start screaming in panic as around them everything freezes up. Ice suddenly covers the SHIELD vehicles. It’s Iceman to the rescue. With everything frozen, SHIELD’s tech fails, including the neural scramblers, Xavier once more takes up telepathic contact with his students and paralyzes every non-mutant mind on the block.
Xavier urges Jean, Kitty and Iceman to grab the others, get out and leave him behind, before SHIELD figures out a way to close him down. How are they supposed to survive without him, Jean asks. Didn’t he teach them anything, Charles inquires impatiently. They have to carry on without him.
In the meantime, the SHIELD agents debate what to do. Every agent sent in automatically gets zapped. But Fury has a black belt in thinking ten steps ahead. Isn’t that right, he asks the Wasp. Jan sarcastically replies that now they know why he keeps his little secret mutant on the books. Being a mutant, she can enter Xavier’s psychic bubble without coming to any harm. Closing in on Xavier, she admits that she’s not happy with this. Fury tells her to think of the dead in the East River and hit him with the biggest Wasp sting she’s got –which she does. A moment later, communications are back on and Cap angrily demands to know why there’s an eight-minute time lapse and why those X-Men just disappeared. A satellite check doesn’t help either. The X-Men are gone.
Later at the Triskelion, Fury inquires about Stark’s health. He’s well enough to sweet-talk the nurses while they stick his arm in a cast, Cap replies while he watches the bound Xavier in his cell. Is Fury still beating himself up for not getting all of them? At least he got the brains of the operation. A couple of weeks from now, the X-Men will also be locked up in camp X-Factor with their old master and every other rogue mutant on the run. The hardest part is over.
In Xavier’s cell, Magneto (or a very convincing simulacrum) floats before him. All right, Xavier admits, he’s managed to pique his curiosity. How can he be standing there without their video cameras detecting him? All that matter is that he is here, Magneto cheerfully replies. All that matters is that kind offer he makes him in the hour of his greatest embarrassment. He has told him a hundred times, that he is not interested in anything Magneto has to offer, Xavier snaps. Must Xavier actually be executed before admitting that Magneto was right? He offers to remove those psychic blocks and free him. If Xavier joins him, he can have the southern hemisphere when they are done. A hundred and one times, Xavier replies. not interested.
Well, that doesn’t really surprise him, Magneto admits, hence the reason he engineered the distance between Xavier and his disciples. How long before they will come looking for a new master? That’s what this was all about: setting his opponents at war with an eye to feeding in those well-trained scraps. A new era for the X-Men begins, but Charles is no longer a part of it…


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Wolverine lies unconscious in the snow, bleeding. He wakes up, wondering why he can’t feel the other half of his body. Suddenly, he remembers.
(three and a half minutes ago)
Wolverine and the Hulk are fighting each other. The Hulk, having had enough from the battle, takes Wolverine into his big, strong arms and rips his body in half!
(now)
Wolverine still doesn’t know how that could happen, since he thought he was unbreakable, guessing that no longer counts. Logan snikts out his claws and smells something. It’s his own legs, but unfortunately for Logan the Hulk threw them four miles away, meaning he has to crawl over there in order to get them. After almost reaching his legs, Logan smells that the Hulk threw them on top of a high mountain. He snikts his claws out again and starts climbing, realizing he has no choice but to go up there as his legs won’t grow back by themselves. Logan tries to remember how he got into this mess, and isn’t pleased at all with the mission Nick Fury gave him.
(earlier)
At a base, Wolverine stares at a painting until Fury approaches him. Fury asks Logan if he likes the Bosch painting. But Logan doesn’t care much about it. Fury and Logan go sit on a big table, and Fury offers one of his cigars. Logan isn’t interested in art or cigars: he demands to know why Fury brought him there. Nick admits he forgot Logan dislikes the small talk. Logan explains that’s because small talk is for small people, and both he and Fury know that they aren’t small people. Fury suggests that Logan tell him why he thinks he’s there. Logan believes it’s either because he’s in trouble for some reason, or because Fury wants him to do something nasty.
Fury wants to know which of the two options Logan thinks he’ll have to do. Logan noticed that they aren’t at the Triskelion, so it has to be something SHIELD wants to be rid of. Logan admits that he didn’t even know Fury had a base in Harlem. Fury smiles that Clinton has an office in this building as well and asks Logan if he wants to meet the guy. Logan doesn’t, as he’s more interested in finding out who the girl is standing behind the painting.
Fury claims he doesn’t know what Logan is talking about. Logan corrects himself that there are actually two girls behind the painting. He congratulates Fury on the fine vents he has behind it, but he can smell the ladies’ soap. And one of them is sucking on an Altoid. Fury sighs. He takes a look at his belt and presses a button. The painting disappears and, truly, believes two female scientists!
Nick introduces Logan to both Betty Ross and Dr. Jennifer Walters. Logan says hi to them, and they wave their hands. Fury explains that Betty takes care of SHIELD’s publicity and that Jennifer is one of the two big brains in their super-soldier research and development. Logan smiles, wanting to know who the other big brain is.
Fury walks Logan to a lab, where they hold a finger in an experiment tube, which belonged to none other than… Bruce Banner. Logan wants to know what this has got to do with him. Betty doesn’t trust Logan and even calls him an animal. Fury tries to calm her down but she refuses. She believes that this is their problem, which needs to be resolved quietly. She also doesn’t think Xavier won’t get involved. Fury calmly tells Betty to shut up, and she does as told. Fury explains to Betty that Logan is the one man whose brain Xavier can’t pick.
Logan admits that’s true, and that the Professor still doesn’t know about the dirty magazines he’s got under his mattress. Jennifer smiles at that. Fury reveals that they are showing the jar of Hulk body parts to Logan because they found them just yesterday. Logan thought that SHIELD had nuked the guy. Fury claims that they did, but apparently the Hulk’s a little tougher than they thought he would be. Logan wants to know how Fury has known Banner was alive. Fury admits they haven’t known it for sure for that long. But, there have been a series of incidents that got SHIELD’s radar up.
Bombing in Paris leveled an entire building, but no bomb materials turned up and there also wasn’t a fire. No terrorist group taking responsibility. There was a massive cattle massacre in Ireland. Authorities wrote it off as a “roving pack of wolves.” But Fury knew differently. And there also was an “earthquake” in India with no activity on any actual fault lines and also no aftershocks. These are not low-profile events. Fury believes there’s a certain inevitability to finding out what’s causing them. And Nick believes that the culprit is Bruce Banner. Logan jokes that would explain the PR lady.
Betty explains that Banner killed eight hundred people in New York City when he was the Hulk, and was tried for mass murder before being executed in a very public way. SHIELD was responsible for that execution. Logan now believes that he’s here to save Fury’s job.  Fury explains that he brought Logan in to find and kill the Hulk. Betty, in a hesitant way, corrects that Fury brought Logan in to find and kill Bruce. Logan doesn’t see the difference, knowing that the two are one and the same. Betty remains silent.
Logan agrees to do the job. Fury is surprised that he doesn’t have to threaten Logan to convince him, or give him a million-dollar motorcycle or something. Or maybe help out piece Logan’s mysterious past together. Logan smiles that since Fury said the Hulk was tough, he thinks it will be fun. Fury laughs at that statement. He asks Logan what he can do to help him get started. Logan mentions that he needs to know Banner’s scent. Jennifer will help him with that. And Logan also needs to find out where to start looking. Fury reveals that they found Banner’s remains in the jar in Tibet.
Jennifer takes Logan to a lab, explaining that there are only a couple of doses left after Bruce got out of the base. Logan wants a confirmation that this is the stuff running through the Hulk’s veins. One sniff is all he needs. Jennifer confirms it and Logan takes a sniff. He also wants to know for how long Banner was “doing” Betty before he went postal. Jennifer is surprised that it’s that obvious. She explains that Bruce and Betty were pretty hot for a while until she dumped him for Freddie Prinze Junior. Bruce… overreacted. Logan realizes that’s why the Hulk killed those eight hundred people.
Jennifer heard that Logan’s bones are laced with Adamantium and is curious about them. She would love to have a chance to scan Logan some time. Logan thinks that would be fun. Jennifer concludes that Bruce is a nice man, and wants Logan to make his death a quick one.
(Tibet, four hours ago)
Logan sits in a bar and asks the wounded bartender, Tenzin, another round. He also wants to know why there aren’t any girls in this town. Tenzin claims he doesn’t speak any English, but Logan doesn’t believe that. He takes a look around finds a suspicious man lurking around and leaving the bar.
(ninety-one minutes ago)
Wolverine, wearing his X-Men uniform, stands on a roof and stares at some people below. One man gives another some money, upsetting Logan a bit.
(twenty-three minutes ago)
Logan climbes up a mountain, and hears loud bounces in the cave. He goes inside it, and is startled at what he finds: the Hulk, sitting there like a king, surrounded by beautiful girl dancing around him! The girls stop dancing as they notice Logan staring at them. The Hulk angrily gets up, and Logan says hi to Bruce. Wolverine snikts out his claws, and both he and the Hulk are ready for action.


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The not-so distant past…
Bruce realizes that they are going to kill him, and that they are going to do it with a megaton bomb. He also realizes that he’s responsible for the deaths of 815 innocent civilians of New York City. Sixty-two of those civilians were under the age of eighteen. They were just kids. He knows he killed two kids, and is responsible for it. And he realizes that he deserves to die.
While still unconscious, Bruce is dropped on a platform in the open sea. Iron Man places the bomb nearby him, and sets it go off. While Tony flies himself into safety, the bomb explodes. However, before the explosion, Bruce quickly wakes up and transforms into the Hulk, and dives into the ocean! He didn’t die. The Hulk gets the upper hand and, while swimming, he calls Banner an idiot for trusting Betty, thinking she wanted to blow him up as well. He notices a whale and thinks it looks yummy.
Not much later, at Omaha Beach, Normandy…
An old man asks James if he know how many people died that day. He doesn’t care that, when the old man was his age, he couldn’t wait to fight the Krauts. The old man thinks that’s the problem with kids today: now, they’ve got super-soldiers and the Ultimates fighting their battles for them, and that one man with a gun in his hands can’t make the difference anymore. James notices the Hulk rising up from the water and freaks out by it. The Hulk reverts back to Banner, who says “bonjour” to them.
One month later…
His psychiatrist asks “David” how he feels today. He claims to feel good. She wants to know if he called Betty today. Bruce admits he did, but immediately hung up afterwards. The psychiatrist asks Bruce where he thinks the anger will go to if he doesn’t talk to Betty. He claims not to feel angry, but the psychiatrist doesn’t really believe that. She reminds Bruce that they’ve been working together for a month now, and knows that he’s an intelligent man, and adapts fast. So fast that she can’t even notice his accent anymore. He could pass for a genuine Parisian easily. But she does fear that his intelligence is getting in the way of his growth.
Bruce suspects that his intelligence is responsible for his growth. The psychiatrist claims that one can’t grow when he’s in denial. Bruce claims he’s not in denial, because he knows Betty doesn’t love him anymore. The psychiatrist wants to know why Bruce won’t let himself get angry with Betty. Bruce again claims he isn’t angry with her. The psychiatrist reminds Bruce that he’s talking to one of the best psychiatrists of Europe, and she knows that he’s angry. Bruce again claims he isn’t angry. If that’s true, the psychiatrist wants to know why he always hangs up the phone when he calls Betty. She wonders if he’s afraid to discover why she left him. She wonders if he’s afraid Betty will tell him he’s impotent.
An angry Bruce transforms into the Hulk, shouting that his name isn’t “David,” and that he isn’t impotent or angry. He smashes through the city, and roars!
One month later…
Bruce finds himself in a bar. He tries to call Betty. She answers the call, but Bruce doesn’t say a word. He wonders why he keeps doing this to himself, as he has the hardest time controlling the Hulk.
Later, at County Clare, Ireland…
Pat and his friend walk over to Bruce, who calls himself Bixby now. Pat wants to know what he’s having between his sandwich. Pat’s friend tells him to leave Bixby alone, but he ignores his mate. Bruce explains he’s got lettuce, tomato and tofurkey between his sandwich. Pat laughs, wanting to know what tofurkey is.
Bruce reminds Pat that he has been working on the farm with Pat and the others for two weeks now. And every day, they go through this. He doesn’t think it’s amusing that he’s a vegetarian. Pat didn’t hera his question answered. Pat’s friend explains that tofurkey is actually tofu that tastes like turkey. Pat wants to know if Bruce knows what they say about men who don’t eat meat. Bruce gets angry, and transforms into the Hulk, shouting that “tofurkey” isn’t funny. He kills Pat and his friends, and starts eating the cows around him!
One month later, at an unknown location…
Bruce, having shaved his head bald, is in a phone booth and paid sixteen dollars to call Betty. He reminds himself not to hang up again now, as it already costs him too much. Someone answers the phone, but… it’s a man! Bruce grows angry at the thought of a man answering Betty’s phone, and transforms into the Hulk, with lots of people witnessing it.
One month later, on a snowy mountain…
Bruce helps himself and his donkey up the mountain, and knocks on the door of a monastery. A monk answers it, and says hi to Bruce. Bruce is surprised to hear the monk speak English, and claims he found this place with a map. The monk congratulates Bruce on his fine donkey, as most of them turn around and later die. But his didn’t. Bruce turns around, and watches the donkey die from the cold! The monk smiles that at least the donkey served its purpose. Bruce wants to know what that “purpose” is. The monk reminds Bruce that he’s the one who hiked many kilometers up the mountain to get here. He can’t possibly know the purpose.
Bruce reveals he’s looking for the Panchen Lama. When the monk wants to know why Bruce is looking for the Lama, Bruce replies that he thinks he can cure him. The monk wants to know what disease Bruce has and Bruce shamefully admits that he’s got anger in him. The monk wonders what makes Bruce think the Lama can cure him. Bruce defends that’s because the Lama is the wisest man on Earth. The monk hears Bruce flattering the Lama, and Bruce laughs, thinking that this is a “Yoda thing,” but the monk doesn’t understand that. Bruce thinks the monk is playing dumb, and talks about the Lama like he’s another person than him, but secretly the monk is the Lama himself. The monk reveals he isn’t the Lama, and that his name is Steve. Bruce realizes his mistake. The monk asks Bruce if he would like a hot cocoa.
Not much later, Bruce has gotten his hot cocoa, but has also been left alone in a big room. A boy enters, warning Bruce that he might want to blow on his drink first, knowing that Steve tends to make it too hot. Bruce takes a suspicious look at the boy, who thought that Bruce probably thought he was younger. Bruce doesn’t know what to answer to that. The boy wants to ask Bruce something, like what he thinks he knows about him. Bruce explains that he knows the Panchen Lama is considered to be the greatest scholar in Buddhism. And that the boy is only second to the Lama himself. When the Lama dies, the boy is responsible for finding him again. Or at least, his reincarnated body. The boy asks Bruce if he knows who found him. The one who found his “reincarnated body.”
Bruce is aware that the Lama found the boy. That’s what he does. And that’s the boy’s job. For over a hundred years now, maybe even a thousand years. Bruce knows that the boy and the Lama find each other. The boy agrees with Bruce, wanting to ask him another question. He asks Bruce, if his job is to find the Lama, and his job is to find him, who found who first? Bruce doesn’t know the answer to that. The boy claims that Western people have a much more amusing way of posing this riddle, the question about the chicken and the egg.
They both stand up and the boy asks Bruce what he’s doing here. Bruce is even surprised that the boy knows who he is. The boy reveals that the man who gave Bruce the map to this temple ran his fingerprints through Interpol and called him on his cell. Bruce is speechless. The boy defends that these are dangerous times they live in, and sometimes it is better to be technical than mystical.
The boy leads Bruce into a large room, where he finds lots of Buddhists praying in front of a golden Lama statue. The boy asks if the Buddhists aren’t awesome. Bruce asks the boy if he knows why he is there. The boy admits that and is aware that, when he’s angry, Bruce transforms into the Hulk, a monster with green... and sometimes even gray skin. Bruce smiles, claiming that the Hulk’s skin changes sometimes. The boy supposes that “change” is the point of all this.
Bruce doesn’t even know what the point is. The boy wonders what if Bruce looked at the Hulk in another way. Bruce doesn’t understand what the boy means. He explains that the Hulk is dangerous – a murderer, even. The boy thinks Bruce speaks of the Hulk like he isn’t him. Bruce defends that he and the Hulk are not the same. The boy thinks that this is the other way. He wants Bruce to ask himself what if it isn’t him changing into the Hulk, but the Hulk changes into him? Bruce is startled. The boy tells Bruce to think about the chicken and the egg question.
One month later, ten minutes ago of present day…
The Hulk sits in the same temple, with lots of dancing girls around him. The door opens. It’s Wolverine! He says “hi” to Bruce, and angrily snikts his claws out. The Hulk says “hi” to Logan as well, wondering if he would like to have a hot cocoa. Logan is speechless.


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His Father’s Son
Most folks didn’t take to his father.
Evening, a plain and a street. Several teenagers have gathered. A thin blond boy with unruly hair and a cocky grin is making out with a girl named Tammy (not that he bothers to remember her name). Is Jimmy gonna win that one for her? she asks. He promises to and she promises in turn to make it worth his while. See her at the finishing line. Hey, Hudson! another built boy calls to him. They haven’t got all night! He in a hurry to lose? Jimmy grins. Both of them get into their cars and Tammy gives the ready sign.
Women on the other hand… Women couldn’t keep their hands off him. One night. Sixteen yeas ago. I hadn’t seen him since Iraq. The first one. The good one. The one they say we won. And cradled in his arms. A baby. Crying so loud you could hear it halfway across the country.
He saves my life over there more than once. Introduces me to Heather. So when he showed up out there in the dark holding that baby it’s not like we had a choice. Everything I’ve ever had I owed to this man.
The two cars race close to each other. But Jimmy’s car hits a pothole; it somersaults violently and falls down the ditch and catches fire.
He told us the baby’s mother had died in childbirth and he wasn’t fit to raise a child. Heather couldn’t have been happier. She’s been talking about having children… but it hadn’t happened. Life has a way of finding the missing jigsaw piece when you least expect it.
Horrified, Tammy runs down, seeing the conflagration. Jimmy stumbles from the wreck, covered in blood, yet not as badly hurt as he should be.
We called him “Jimmy.” Jimmy Hudson. Same initials as his father. Strangely enough, mine too. He gave me his only son. His son. But mine and Heather’s to raise as our own. And all I remember thinking was I could smell a hurricane coming.
He needs help! Tammy shouts. He tells her to run as the cops are coming. She kneels down beside him to see the wounds are healing before her eyes. Is he one of them? she asks accusingly. She withdraws disgusted. And she was going to let him – gross! He begs her to listen. He is not one of them-- but she runs away with the others.
 The sheriff’s helicopter lands, it’s his father. Is he all right? he asks Jimmy. He thought he was gonna die, the boy replies. Blood everywhere, he broke, and now he feels just fine! How is that possible? What’s wrong with him? Instead of a reply, his father suggests they go home. He’s sure his mother has been listening to the police band.
Heather’d tease me by calling me the Guardian. It’s a carpet cleaner she brings home from the piggly-wiggly. “Cleans up other folks’ messes.”
Later, James and his wife Heather are discussing matters in the kitchen. She knows what they say about him, Heather states forcefully. That he was born bad. She doesn’t actually listen to that nonsense? he asks. Sometimes it’s hard not to, she replies. The fights at school. His grades. If James weren’t sheriff, he’d be in jail for sure. But he’s their son and she loves him so much. What are they going to do? Maybe it’s time to tell him, he suggests. Don’t you dare! she warns him as they hug.
Jimmy sleeps on the trailer’s roof. In the morning, a voice calls up, asking if he bites. A young girl with curly brown hair refers to the alligator in the garden. Who wants to know? he asks. Me, she replies. She’s Kitty. Kitty Pryde. Yeah, he bites, Jimmy replies with his cocky grin. He’s an alligator. Does he think there’s a place they could talk where he can’t bite? Like, specifically her? Why would he wanna do that? She’ll give him candy, Kitty promises annoyed. He jumps down, dressed only in a pair of jeans. He knows somewhere…. He gonna need shoes? Kitty asks. Nope. Then she guesses a shirt is out of the question… Heather looks after them out of the window.
Jimmy takes Kitty to their boathouse. She has something for him, she tells him. Not candy, he realizes. Sorry, she lied. She gives him a box, explaining it belonged to his real father. Inside there are James Howlett’s dogtags, an issue of Timesweek with the X-Men on the cover, a lock of red hair.
What is all this stuff? Jimmy asks. He doesn’t get it. What’s any of this got to do with him? He takes out a strange round device. Kitty tells him he is supposed to press the button. When he does a hologram message of Wolverine appears, addressing him as Jimmy. If he’s seeing this, then Kitty did what he asked her to. He hopes that means that the world didn’t go to hell and he didn’t die for nothing. There isn’t any way to say this but to say it. Jimmy’s his kid. Don’t bother asking about his mother. That’s in the past and he needs to start thinking about the future. That future? Talk to Kitty about this idea he has. But listen to his folks. The Hudsons raised him and he’s gotta respect them. At the end of the day it’s his life. He’s gotta live with his choice like Logan hadda live with his. For what’s it’s worth, he never regretted havin’ him for a second. The message ends. The hologram disappears.
How long has she known? Jimmy asks. A while, she replies evasively. He gave her that box to give to him just before he died. A while? he asks. He’s lucky she came at all, Kitty replies sharply. Does he have any idea what’ it’s like out there for them? What door to hell she just opened for him?  What does she mean – “them?” he asks. He s a mutant, Kitty spells out. If he inherited any of what his dad had he’ll be able to heal from like any wound, he’ll be strong enough and maybe stupid enough to take on the Hulk!
And those claws? Jimmy asks, looking at his fists. The ones that pop out of his hands? Has he tried? Kitty suggests. Jimmy stares at his hands. He concentrates, something moves… he shouts in pain as three bloody bone claws pop out from each hand.
He bends over. Is he going to be okay? Kitty asks: It hurts! he replies, but suddenly the pain is gone. He notices his claws are bone. Kitty explains the Adamantium wasn’t Wolverine’s originally. The government grafted it onto his….
Suddenly metal oozes out from the roots of the claws and covers them wholly. Could he do this? Jimmy asks. No. Has she ever seen anything like it? No… well, she hesitates, maybe. Colossus could turn his skin into metal, so maybe. Yes.
Jimmy stares at his metal claws. He is Wolverine’s son. He startles as the claws suddenly contract. He just thought about it and… What was he like? he asks Kitty. She smiles sadly. Dangerous. And sweet. And horny. And mean. And unpredictable and the only person you’d ever want to watch your back. What was all that abut his “future?” Jimmy asks.
Suddenly his parents enter. James orders him outside while Heather gets into Kitty’s face. She had no right! No, Kitty replies calmly, but his father did. James Hudson is his father, Heather insists. She didn’t come here to cause them any heartache, Kitty explains. There has been enough of that already. By doing this, she put her own life in jeopardy. She loved Jimmy’s dad. He was hard to handle, but he cared and fought for her wherever and whenever he could. Her guess is just like the Hudsons would for Jimmy. Heather calms down and asks what next.
James and Jimmy sit at the pier, staring into the sunset and talking. The law regarding mutants says the sheriff has to run Jimmy in to the government or shoot him on sight. And he knows how his mother doesn’t like it when he discharges his weapon in the house. That’s a joke, he adds.
Why didn’t they tell him? Jimmy demands. He wanted to, James admits. That time he got famous and on the cover of that magazine, he thought it would be easier but it wasn’t.
The truth is I didn’t want to tell my boy. I loved Jimmy so much that I couldn’t stand losing him.
He guesses that means they are not sailing their boat around the world, James states and hugs his son.
I should’ve known better. You can’t hide who you are or what you are if you love someone. Particularly your children. And whether I liked it or not – Jimmy Hudson is his father’s son.


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Ultimate X: Origins – Chapter Two: Who is Karen Grant?
I met Karen Grant about three years ago. She had just moved here to Baltimore. She kept to herself. Didn’t talk about where she came from. Kinda… mysterious. But I’d never seen a more beautiful girl in my life. At first she seemed to good to be true. And guess what? She was too good to be true.
A nice neighborhood in Baltimore. A young woman is going through her morning toilette, having just applied black dye to her hair.
See, a guy like me, I figured I’d never have a chance with a girl like Karen Grant. I didn’t go to college. I got a job as a security guard at the Cherry Square Shopping Center. We’re called “mall cops” ever since that movie came out. God’s honest truth… I was an ordinary guy without a clue why she ever spoke to me.
She dries her hair, levitating her dryer telekinetically and gets dressed the same way.
Karen, on the other hand, there was something different about her, like once upon a time she was a movie star or like she saved the world…
The young woman looks at her jewelry box. Inside, beside some custom jewelry is a magazine of Timesweek magazine, the issue with the X-Men cover. She smiles, looking at it. Next, she takes up a visor to hold back optic blasts and begins to cry, as she holds it to her chest. In her mind’s eye, she sees all the dead mutants she remembers, friends and enemies both. “Please forgive me!” she whispers, her eyes are on the corpse of Scott Summers  who was shot, after they had survived the horrors of Ultimatum. So unfair, she mutters, overwhelmed by the memories.
Finally, she becomes calm again and puts the visor away, instead taking out an identity tag, identifying her as “Karen.” She gets on her bike, greets her neighbor, Mrs. Tilley, and rides to work.
I must have asked her out about ten times before she said yes. Even after she agreed to it, she cancelled on me three more times. I didn’t mind, though. Much. A girl like Karen you wait your whole life for. Which brought me to today. Today was going to be different. Today after work I was going to ask Karen to marry me.
Karen arrives at the Cherry Square Mall and locks her bike. Hands clap over her eyes as someone is trying to surprise her. Reflexively, Karen takes a hold of the hands and bends the fingers back. It’s Dave, the security guard, who apologizes. She didn’t hurt him, did she? Karen asks. Dave suggests she kiss it better. “Dave,” Karen warns him.
Dave stutters he got a bit carried away, it being their anniversary and all. Anniversary? Karen asks, not understanding. Embarrassed, Dave reminds her that two years ago today they went on their first date. They saw Wall-E. Oh, right, she remembers. Dave walks her to the boutique, making plans for dinner. Karen agrees and again apologizes about the hand. They are not aware that they are watched by two customers in a another store who recognize Karen.
In the boutique, Karen is in for a surprise as her colleagues expect her with party hats and sing “for she’s a jolly good fellow.” One of them explains that Karen had the top sales or the months. As they begin cutting the cake to celebrate, Karen stares at the picture of her that the other girls have.
And that was Karen in a nutshell. Loved by everybody… except maybe herself.
Karen puts down the picture and asks her colleague, Etta, where they got that photograph. From Dave’s Facebook page, she is told. Karen glares at Dave, then stalks out of the store. Dave follows asking her to wait. What has she asked him not to do? she demands. No photographs, he stammers… but… But what? she snarls. She likes him. He’s a sweet guy and she thought a fairly bright guy. But for the life of her, she can’t imagine why he’d put up her photo on the internet where anybody could go and see it! She turns away. He asks her to talk about it. There’s nothing to talk about! she cuts him off. She has to figure out what to do!
A smaller, teenage girl wearing a hoodie has watched the exchange with a slight grin.
I messed up bad. Greatest girl in the world. I blew it forever. Worst of all: I didn’t really begin to understand what I’d done wrong. One little photograph. I wasn’t even in it with her…
Karen sits in a coffee shop in the mall, dejected and wondering how could she be so dumb. She didn’t seem like the talk-to-yourself type, someone addresses her. But after what they’ve been through she guesses anything’d be okay. Karen looks up to see the girl with the hoodie. Rogue. Hi, Rogue greets her. Karen hugs her. Rogue tells her she goes by “Anna” these days. Right, “Karen?”
Karen draws back with a start. She isn’t Rogue. Or “Anna.” How did she find her? “Anna” takes her true form, that of Mystique. Facebook, she replies. You can find about anybody on there. Take it easy, she tells her. She’s not the enemy anymore. They are all in this together. If she wanted to ambush “Karen” she’d be dead. She came to her out in the open in a public place. Hoping they could just talk.
Karen tries to use her powers on Mystique who shifts back to Rogue’s look. Trying to mindwipe her? Mystique asks unimpressed. Like she did with her co-workers? How long do they all think “Karen” has lived in Baltimore? Two, three years? More like two, three months, right?
How is she blocking her? Karen demands. The same way Magneto could stop Xavier, comes he reply. They took the basics of his helmet and made it smaller. Smarter. Who’s “we?” Karen asks. Mystique tells her to take a walk with her. Karen threatens that she could close Mystique’s throat until she chokes to death. She remembers Vic, doesn’t she? Mystique asks mildly, pointing at a shop. Sabretooth stands there, incongruously dressed in civvies, in the middle of many bystanders, most of them kids. Just look at all these kids, he remarks. They cleaned him up and still can’t get the “Sabretooth” out of him, Mystique remarks as she drags Karen away. With Sabretooth following, they head for the exit.
Karen asks what they want. Mystique reminds her of the law: all mutants must turn themselves in to the authorities or they will be shot on sight. They could have turned her in. Wrecked her perfect life down here. She doesn’t want to make a scene and do that herself, does she?
As they head outside, Dave sees them. He wants to apologize. Karen tells him everything is fine. Sabretooth orders him to get lost. Karen whispers at him to leave him out of this. Dave, now suspicious, demands some ID from the strangers while reaching for his gun.
I never saw myself as a hero. I only took this job at the mall to get free slurpees and hot dogs. Maybe I’d meet some girls. I got so lucky when I found Karen.
Seeing the gesture, Sabretooth reacts reflexively and slashes one of Dave’s arteries. As Dave sinks to his knees, blood spurting Karen shouts out “no!” and Mystique reprimands Sabretooth.
They shouldn’t have come here, Karen announces, her eyes aglow. Telekinetically, she smashes Sabretooth into a bus. All she wanted was to be left alone! She earned that much. More cars begin to move and fly towards Sabretooth. He swears. He’s not gonna be happy when he hears about that. The cars land on him and catch fire causing an explosion. She has made things worse, Mystique calmly states, and for what? “Leave!” Karen orders her, while she still can.
She kneels down next to the dying Dave, telepathically promising help is coming. He asks how he can hear her in his head, then who she really is. If she had any feelings for him at all… Crying, Karen telepathically tells him her name is Jean Grey. She was one of the X-Men. She saved the world, he realizes. Couple of times, yes. Why didn’t she tell him the truth? Because she didn’t want him to get hurt. Dave’s grip on her arm becomes slacks as he dies. Jean telepathically convinces all bystanders that a man with a knife attacked the security guard and ran off, causing a terrible car accident. They will forget everything else, including her.
That was the story of the last day of my life. Because of what happened, it was also Karen’s.
Karen / Jean returns to her home. Her neighbor, Mrs. Tilley, tells her she just missed her friend. A nice young boy who said he was a friend of hers. She told him to check back in the morning. Jean looks up critically while thanking her. What young boy? she wonders while she packs her things.
She had no choice but to disappear. Make everyone forget she ever existed.
Jean sees a shadow outside her door. Using what looks like a knife, the intruder jimmies the lock, then sneaks in.
I only wanted what was best for her. It didn’t matter if I knew her for three years or three days. I fell in love with her and that was real.
Jean telekinetically grabs all knives from the kitchen and uses them pin the intruder’s clothes to the wall. Who the hell is he? she demands. He’s Jimmy Hudson, the clawed young boy replies. She knew his dad! He was Wolverine. Jean is at a loss for words .
My hope is that wherever she goes she’ll be safe and happy… someday living in a world where she’ll finally be remembered…