[User]
<image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image>
Provide a full summary of the comic book.

[Assistant]
Necrosha: Earth Give Up Your Dead, part 1
Four miles of the West Coast of the United States of America. The dead rise. And Utopia, home to over two hundred mutants, including the Uncanny X-Men, burns. ‘It’s the mist! They’re coming out of the mist!’ Kurt “Nightcrawler” Wagner exclaims as he dodges the sonic attack of deceased X-Man Sean “Banshee” Cassidy. ‘Then let us go in after them!’ Piotr “Colossus” Rasputin exclaims while he grapples with deceased mutant Louis “Stonewall” Hamilton. Scott “Cyclops” Summers tells Colossus to stay where he is, and let them come to them, as he blasts the deceased Dark Rider known as Spyne with his optic blasts, and Elisabeth “Psylocke” Braddock takes on the deceased Dark Rider called Tusk.
Cyclops asks the Stepford Cuckoos what they are reading, and the three blonde girls - Phoebe, Celeste and Mindee - reply that it is all fuzz and static. ‘Changing all the time. They’re out there - but we can’t bring them into focus’. Suddenly, the deceased former X-Man known as Maggott runs towards Cyclops, who is helping Psylocke up. ‘These are dead men, Scott. What are we supposed to do, kill them again?’ she asks. ‘If that’s what it takes, yes’ Cyclops declares, as he blasts Maggott across the area, where he smacks into a column. Cyclops declares that they hold this base and protect their people. ‘And then we take the fight back to whatever’s doing this. Any questions?’ he asks.
Suddenly, Ruth “Blindfold” Aldine appears on the battlefield of Utopia, ‘I believe - no thank you. Not yet. But I have an answer. To a question you haven’t asked yet’ she declares. Cyclops asks Blindfold what she is doing here, to which Ruth asks if they could talk somewhere quiet. ‘Somewhere quiet? We’re in the middle of a war zone!’ Cyclops points out. ‘Yes, please. I would speak quickly. She said - it might not be too late to stop this’. Psylocke tells Blindfold that she really picks her moments, while Cyclops turns to the Cuckoos, who instantly know what he wants them to do. ‘On it!’ they exclaim in unison as they send Cyclops and Blindfold to the Astral Plane.
Getting in touch with her surroundings, the young blind mutant feels around, before exclaiming ‘This - this room -’, to which Cyclops explains that the Cuckoos took it from her memories. ‘Presumably it looks like this because you only knew it by feel’ he adds, before telling Ruth that even at subliminal speeds they do not have any time to waste. ‘Yes. Excuse me. She said - “Genosha. Muir Island. Not just the Queen, but the cancer, too”!’ ‘She said? Who said?’ Cyclops asks. ‘Destiny’ Blindfold reveals.
Meanwhile, on another island nation, formerly Genosha, now known as Necrosha, a dark mist covers much of the land, while in the palace dungeon, ‘You! Keep your hands away from the bars!’ a handsome shirtless man exclaims as he walks past the cells. ‘Does that anger come from fear, child?’ the deceased mutant Irene Adler, better known as Destiny, asks as she grips the bars. ‘Fear? You think I’m scared of you, you old bag of bones?’ ‘No. Of yourself’ Destiny replies. The young man readies a whip and exclaims that the Queen said she was not to talk, not to move. ‘I think maybe you need a lesson in obedience!’ he exclaims as he moves the whip behind him.
‘I’ve had many. But I’m not an apt pupil’ Destiny replies, staring at the young man, she exclaims ‘You died by fire. And now you’re alive. Is that not wonderful, and terrible? To be drawn up again into the light, like a fish on a hook. And without even knowing why?’. Destiny declares that his name is Leon Matheson, and that he was twenty-three years. She adds that his power was influencing rainfall and his ambition was to buy a farm. ‘But your girlfriend wanted to see the world. And you’d finally bought the plane tickets on the day your world ended’. Leon readies the whip, preparing to bring it down, he asks Destiny who told her all this stuff. Destiny replies that she is a mutant, like he, and that is part of her gift. ‘I see timelines. The past, and the future. I’ll trade you, Leon. My freedom - for your fortune’ Destiny offers, extending an arm through the bars as she reaches out to him.
Back in the Astral Plane, ‘Wait. Destiny was on Utopia?’ Cyclops asks. ‘In a dream. A true dream. I felt it become true as she said it. Muir Island. The other monster. I have to stare into his face’ Blindfold exclaims. ‘And that’s all you can tell me?’ Cyclops asks. ‘”To fight a war on two fronts…” Exactly. We don’t choose it’ Blindfold replies. Scott asks why then do they do it, to which Ruth replies ‘All the old reasons. All the old wounds, coming back. It - it changes’. Ruth touches a stuffed toy on a chair, ‘Please. You said my mother was dead. Was that true?’ she asks. Cyclops tells Ruth that when she was found, as a child, in the room, there was a dead woman beside her. ‘You didn’t come to us until much later, and the records had mostly been lost’ he explains, telling Blindfold that they will talk about this another time. Scott informs the Cuckoos that they are finished here, while Blindfold picks up the toy, ‘I had a name for this toy. It was -’ she begins, unable to finish her sentence as she is surprised when they return to reality, and the toy vanishes from her hands.
As the mist rolls in around them, Cyclops tells Nightcrawler that he needs him to lead an away team. ‘Cyclops, we’re under attack. Where are we going?’ Kurt asks. ‘To Muir Island. I’ll brief you as we walk’ Cyclops announces. Psylocke approaches Blindfold and asks her if she is okay. ‘No. Not really’ Ruth replies as Betsy puts a hand on her shoulder. ‘I can see where I go, but not what I do. Or who it is I’m fighting’ Ruth exclaims. The Stepford Cuckoos, run from a blast of fire, and Psylocke helps Blindfold evade the flame, telling the young mutant that she needn’t sweat it. ‘Whatever happens, Cyclops is going to make sure you and your friends stay out of danger’ Betsy adds. ‘Oh no. You’re wrong. We’re right in the middle of it’ Blindfold replies.
Three hours later, in international airspace across the North Atlantic, where inside the Blackbird, Nightcrawler sits on a console, while Colossus pilots the jet. Psylocke sits up the back with Blindfold. Accompanying them on the mission are Rogue, Erik “Magneto” Lehnsherr, former X-Woman Paige “Husk” Guthrie, and Blindfold’s teammate Hope “Trance” Abbott. ‘Okay, explain it to me again, Kurt. Because I’m still not getting it’ Husk exclaims. Nightcrawler tells her that In order to explain it any better he would need to understand it himself. ‘And since that mist rolled in off the sea I have understood very little’ he adds, before explaining that Blindfold was visited by Destiny, who said that their enemies are both on Genosha and Muir Island, and that Blindfold’s own visions agree with this.
Nightcrawler reveals that the Genosha part was confirmed by spikes in Cerebra, so Cyclops felt that they could not ignore the Muir Island part of the warning. ‘Thus, we’re leaving our friends behind to battle an undead army of our former friends and foes’ Kurt adds. ‘Seriously? All this because of Hide-And-Seek girl? Trance asks. ‘Do you know how often she gets it wrong?’ Magneto turns to Rogue, ‘No welcome for the sinner that repents?’ he asks her. ‘I’d hoped you might be pleased to see me back in the fold’ he tells her. Rogue apologizes to Magneto and tells him that she doesn’t have feelings one way or the other. ‘No? A pity. I entertain pleasant memories of our time together in the Savage Land. We seemed to find a kindred spirit’ Magneto tells Rogue.
‘We did’ Rogue replies. ‘Then you went and killed someone again. Ah sort of lost mah enthusiasm ‘round about that point’. Magneto touches Rogue on the cheek and remarks that he must remember to do that less around her, before telling her that it is heartening she admits to being enthused. ‘There’s a kiss that stands out in my mind. On the most unlikely occasions - a child’s funeral’ he recalls. Rogue pushes Magneto’s hand away as she calls him Magnus and tells him it doesn’t count, as she was trying to absorb his powers so she could beat the tar out of him, before Nightcrawler announces that they have arrived, he tells everyone to prepare for landing.
The eight mutants leave the Blackbird, and as the ocean laps at their feet, Kurt asks Ruth if her vision showed them where they are going to meet this enemy. ‘Yes, indeed. In the ruins. Where the baby was found and Xavier shot’ Ruth replies. Magneto suggests that they do not go into the Island’s interior until they are sure the site is secure. ‘Thank you, Magneto. It’s good to have you on my team. From now on you can be in charge of stating the obvious’ Nightcrawler declares, before telling Trance to search the cliffs thoroughly in her astral form, and if she sees anyone to tell Rogue or Colossus. ‘Yes, Mr Wagner’ Hope replies, while Kurt announces that he is going to check out Moira’s lab to make sure they are not walking into a trap. He teleports away, while Trance releases her astral form.
Sitting on a rock on the shoreline, Colossus watches Psylocke walk through the wet sand and asks her what she is doing. ‘Scanning for other minds’ Psylocke replies, adding that if they are dead, then they might not think the same. Piotr asks Betsy if her powers have shifted back to what they were then - telepathy rather than telekinesis. ‘Why are you asking?’ Betsy replies. ‘Only because the timing is unfortunate. If ever we stood in need of a heavy hitter, now would seem to be -’ Colossus begins, before Psylocke uses her telekinesis to slam him across the beach, sending some gulls flying for their lives as his heavy armored form hit’s the sand and skids along. ‘Heave enough for you?’ Betsy asks as she puts a foot on Colossus’ chest. ‘Da. I believe so’ Colossus exclaims, before Psylocke helps him off the sand.
Nearby, Rogue approaches Blindfold, ‘Tell me everything she said’ she exclaims. ‘What she said, I told. Then she fell silent’ Ruth replies, adding that the silence was part of the message, too. ‘A secret she chose not to tell’. Blindfold then reveals that it seems Destiny thought she was Rogue. ‘Why’d you say that?’ Rogue asks. ‘She called me daughter. Yes. Then seemed surprised when she saw my face’ Blindfold explains. ‘Of course - most people are’ she remarks as she lifts the wrap from around her eyes, revealing that she has no eyes - skin covers her eye sockets.
Back on Necrosha, ‘Majesty - your servants have failed you’ Lois “Mortis” London exclaims as she stands before Selene, with Leon Matheson on his knees. ‘In what respect?’ Selene asks as she sits on her throne. Mortis reveals that they found this one trying to hang himself, and failing of course, but that the old crone has escaped. ‘He set her free, and she stole a seaplane from the dock’ Mortis reveals. ‘Please! Please let me die again! It’s not fair! She didn’t get brought back! I can’t live without her!’ Leon exclaims, reaching out to Selene. Mortis shoves Leon’s head to the ground and asks if they should go after Destiny. ‘Please - please -’ Leon cries, but Selene declares that there is no need, as the die is already cast. ‘And she told me all I needed to know. What she does now is irrelevant. Let her chase ghosts and shadows as much as she likes’ Selene declares, while another of her Inner Circle, Senyaka, drags the unconscious James “Warpath” Proudstar of X-Force to Selene. ‘I promise you - there’ll be ghosts enough for all!’ Selene exclaims.
Back on Muir Island, Nightcrawler teleports over his former home and headquarters, before reaching Moira’s lab. He checks it out, before teleporting back to the Blackbird, telling his allies that they have a clear route to Moira’s lab. ‘There’s no sign of any opposition’ he exclaims. Blindfold ties her wrap back around her eyes, while Rogue asks Kurt what the plan is. Nightcrawler announces that they will go in from two sides, while he will teleport the teams into position and give the signal to move in. ‘We treat the terrain as hostile - and we take down anyone we see’ he announces.
Moments later, Colossus punches down one wall of the lab, while on the other side, Psylocke busts the wall open with her telekinesis, and Magneto and Husk follow her in. ‘Nothing’ Psylocke announces as she, Magneto and Husk regroup with the others. ‘And nobody’ Colossus exclaims as he walks in front of Rogue, Blindfold and Trance. ‘Didn’t’ see any footprints on the way in, either. Place is as quiet as - pardon my language - a tomb’ Husk declares. Rogue turns to Blindfold, asking her if she is sure about what she saw. ‘It was here?’ she asks. ‘Right where we’re standing, yes. But - I don’t know what it is I do. Or why his face is hidden’ Blindfold exclaims, before suggesting that perhaps he doesn’t have a face - perhaps he is just a pretty pattern.
Trance exclaims that it looks like they are wasting their time, but Nightcrawler tells her that is his call, which he is not prepared to make yet. ‘We don’t leave until we’re sure there’s no threat here’ Kurt announces. Colossus tells Blindfold not to worry, assuring her she was right to tell Cyclops what she saw. Head in her hands, Blindfold replies that there is not much of him to see. ‘No? But then what did you -?’ Colossus asks as he puts a hand on Blindfold’s shoulder. Blindfold moans, and energy crackles around the two of them, before Blindfold lunges away from Piotr.
‘What’s the matter?’ Rogue asks her. ‘His hands! His hands. Oh, God, can’t anybody see it? The blood on his hands?’ Ruth asks, before exclaiming ‘Leave me alone! Leave me alone!’ and running away from the others. ‘I’d better -’ Kurt begins, but Rogue tells him to leave it to her. ‘Ah’ll talk to her. And then Ah’ll bring her back’ Rogue exclaims as she leaves the group. Husk runs her hands through her hair, muttering that it gets better and better. ‘People could be dying back home’. ‘True. But we were warned twice - first by Destiny and then by Blindfold. Do you believe they were both wrong?’ Magneto asks her. ‘Right now? No. I think they were both lying’ Husk declares.
Meanwhile, Blindfold runs through a corridor, before falling over. She puts her hand on a wall as she helps herself up, and the same energy crackles. ‘Here. You were here. But so long ago! What - what do you want from me? Who are you?’ she calls out, when suddenly, a voice exclaims. ‘Shhh, child’. Ruth screams, ‘We mustn’t spoil the surprise’ the voice calls out. Blindfold turns around, and another voice calls out to her, ‘Ruth - I’m sorry I brought you here. I hope there’s still time to put that right. Please stand still. You mustn’t touch anything’ exclaims Destiny as she walks out from the shadows. ‘You! What do you mean?’ Ruth asks as she slowly walks towards Destiny. ‘He used me. I saw him, in my mind’s eye - saw him kill Rogue, right here on the Island. I tried to warn her. Tried to warn you all’ Destiny declares cryptically.
A small amount of the pink energy flickers around the base of her skull as she exclaims that he clouded her sight, and she only saw what he let her see. ‘And the warning was part of his plan’ she exclaims. ‘It - it opens out of your words. I felt that. But there’s something else -’ Blindfold begins. Destiny tells her not to move, as hi energy is everywhere. ‘And now it gathers, it eaves itself into one skein. Locked in the soil. In the walls. In the people he touched’ Destiny exclaims. Ruth shouts that she doesn’t care. ‘You came to me by mistake, but what was it that brought you? What do you know about my mother? Is it you?’ Blindfold asks as she reaches out to Destiny, who exclaims ‘N-no! Ruth, you mustn’t -’ but it’s too late, as Destiny is knocked out, and the pink energy soars into Blindfold.
The voice from earlier now comes from Blindfold, who smirks, ‘Aaaah! Yes! I believe this is what they call critical mass!’ .’Ruth? Ruth, darling, I heard shouting!’ Rogue exclaims as she finds Blindfold. ‘Rogue’ Ruth exclaims, with the strange voice. ‘Are you okay?’ Rogue asks. ‘Oh, aye. And I’d prefer it if you kept yuir distance’ Blindfold exclaims without looking Rogue - before Rogue is knocked backwards onto a bench. Blindfold hovers above Rogue, ‘She knows about yuir touch. She knows yuir dangerous’ the voice from within Blindfold declares. ‘There. Better’ the voice declares as Rogue suddenly finds herself wrapped in steel beams. ‘This - this isn’t possible. Ruth Aldine can’t do any of these things!’ Rogue exclaims. ‘No. Of course she can’t. But they’re child’s play for Proteus…!’


[User]
<image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image>
Provide a full summary of the comic book.

[Assistant]
Necrosha: Earth Give Up Your Dead, part 2
Muir Island, where an eclectic band of mutants are now fighting for their lives. A series of BAMF’s are seen through a forest, while Elisabeth “Psylocke” Braddock, Magneto, Hope “Trance” Abbott and Paige “Husk” Guthrie have sought refuge on a hill overlooking the rest of the Island. ‘Another survivor. Down in the valley’ Psylocke remarks. ‘Don’t - don’t break - silence’ Magneto utters, exhausted. Betsy addresses him as Magnus and tells him that if they cannot trust each other then they are already dead. Betsy telepathically contacts Kurt, telling him that she cannot open her mind fully, as Proteus can track back along her channel and touch her through it, before revealing to him that they are up by the cairn, and asks him to join them.
Instantly, Rogue arrives in a BAMF of brimstone. ‘Kurt’s dead, Psylocke. Ah was there when Proteus took him’ Rogue reveals. Rogue stares out over Muir Island as strange colored clouds hang low over the Island. ‘And Ah don’t see the five of us holding out long against this’ Rogue exclaims. ‘So you think we should just lie down and die?’ Betsy asks. Rogue replies that is not a habit she ever got into, but points out that Proteus is insanely powerful. ‘He can change the world just by thinking about it!’ she points out, adding that she is talking about sending a warning. ‘If we lose here, Cyclops has to know about it’ she exclaims.
Paige agrees, but points out that they cannot leave without Colossus. ‘I - I think he might be - he might not be coming back down again. Like, ever. I mean, you saw, right?’ Trance mumbles. ‘Psylocke - you were in Proteus’ mind. What does he want? Why has he - returned? Is there anything we can - use against him?’ Magneto remarks, still hunched over. Betsy replies that Proteus wants to eat, and he wants to live. ‘He tried death, and it didn’t work out for him. He’s not going back’ she exclaims. Husk asks if Proteus is with Selene, if this is all part of one big plan. Psylocke replies that she doesn’t think anybody planned this, that it is fall out. ‘Uh - I don’t want to worry anyone, but did you take a look at the clouds?’ Trance asks. Husk points out that they are getting lower, and remarks that once the clouds cover this ledge, they will be fighting blind. ‘We have to move now’ she exclaims. ‘Move where?’ Trance asks.
Psylocke declares that they will go to the Blackbird and use the radio to raise Utopia and tell them what has happened. She points out that they will need to walk as Magneto is too weak to survive another teleport jump. Rogue and Psylocke help the Master of Magnetism to his feet, as he tells them that there is no time, that Rogue has to teleport them. Rogue tells Magneto that he is dying, that his blood is turning to slurry and his brain is shutting down due to lack of oxygen. ‘You’re out of fight!’ she tells him. But Magneto replies that he is not out of fight until his heart stops beating. ‘And things being what they are - probably not even then’ he adds. ‘Sure about this?’ Rogue asks. ‘You’re wasting time’ Magneto replies. ‘Better than wasting you’ Rogue tells him. ‘I’m touched by - your concern. Just do it’ Magnus responds, and a moment later, there is a large BAMF.
Three hours ago…
‘YES!’ booms Proteus who has taken over the body of Ruth “Blindfold” Aldine. Proteus exclaims ‘At last’ as he explains that he could not feed on the older one, as something inside her made her indigestible. ‘I was so long in the dark, I’d almost forgotten what this felt like!’ he exclaims, while Rogue, tied up with a steel pipe, calls out to Ruth, telling her that she has to fight Proteus, that she must not give in. Proteus tells Rogue not to be absurd, as what he does is not mind control, but full physical possession. ‘This is my body now’ he boasts, ‘Or, rather, one of my bodies. I’m still anchored in this ruined flesh, too’ he adds, kicking the unmoving body of Irene Adler a.k.a. Destiny. ‘Perhaps death changed me more than I knew’ Proteus remarks.
‘Change - change is what finally kills you’ Destiny whispers. ‘No. Change is where I flourish. That’s why I can never die. Everything changes and everything that changes is mine’ Proteus replies, declaring that this pattern is his essence, his immutable self. ‘Everything else is perishable’. He adds that there is no point to any of the others. ‘How can you even call yourselves alive when life only flickers in you for a moment?’ he asks. Suddenly, Magneto, Piotr “Colossus” Rasputin, Psylocke, Trance and Husk appear, with Magneto warning Proteus to release his hold on Blindfold. ‘Or I’ll send you scampering back to your grave like a god to kennel’ he warns him.
‘But how did you know -? Ah. Of course. A telepath. Dirty, greasy little fingers, grubbing in my mind’ Proteus exclaims, telling Psylocke that he has to teach her manners, he proceeds to harm Betsy, causing her to scream. Proteus warps the floor, causing it to crumble into a series of blocks, and exclaims that it all comes back to him now - the desperate improvising, trying to win by strength of numbers, because every one of them is so weak and helpless alone. ‘But this is one of your own, X-Men. You can’t hurt me without hurting her!’
 Magneto responds by exclaiming ’If you are counting on that to save you, creature - allow me to disabuse you!’. Proteus, manipulating Blindfold’s movements of course, smiles, in a way as he exclaims ’The iron in the blood. That’s what your power depends on isn’t it. Cold iron. You make it dance’ Proteus exclaims, before Magneto keels over. ‘See if you can do that when most of the iron in your own blood has turned to lead!’ Proteus exclaims.
Colossus sneaks up behind Proteus, ‘Enough! Blindfold, forgive me - but this monster must be made to let go!’ he exclaims, smacking Blindfold across the face. Blindfold / Proteus falls to the ground. ‘C-Colossus! Don’t - don’t -’ Blindfold exclaims, ‘Don’t touch me. Murderer!’ Proteus declares, before smashing Colossus through the laboratory and out into the open. ‘Wind-up toy. I see him broken. The spring - bent out of shape -’ Destiny remarks, while Magneto is still on the ground near her.
Trance and Husk rush towards Proteus, ‘Little children, little children, this just won’t do!’ Proteus exclaims, telling them that they will all get their turn, but that he needs to get used to being alive again. ‘So go play outside’ he exclaims, and with that, the two young women vanish. ‘Much better. Now I can hear myself -’ Proteus begins, before Kurt “Nightcrawler” Wagner arrives, and teleports repeatedly as he punches Blindfold / Proteus, who falls to the floor, motionless. ‘Unglaublich! Every friend we ever lost, and every enemy we ever killed. How can we win this?’ Kurt exclaims. Rogue, still tied up, tells Kurt to get out of here quickly, explaining that it is only Blindfold who is unconscious, not Proteus.
Too late, as Proteus’ essence takes over Nightcrawler as well. ‘Kurt! Oh, no!’ Rogue gasps. ‘This is incredible! I can possess multiple hosts at the same time. I knew I wasn’t the same as I had been!’ Proteus exclaims, interchanging between Nightcrawler and Blindfold. ‘No. Me neither’ Rogue remarks, as she reaches to Nightcrawler, and touches his face, absorbing his power, she teleports away. ‘It doesn’t matter. You can’t escape me, Rogue. Nothing can escape me now. And I’m not going back to that emptiness. Not ever!’ Proteus declares, exclaiming that death will have no dominion and life no lease. There’ll just be me forever and ever!’
Now…
A BAMF signals the arrival of Rogue, Betsy, Magnus, Husk and Trance at another location on Muir Island, and while Betsy helps Magneto, Rogue tells Trance to get them some recon, to see if anything is between them and the Blackbird. Trance agrees, and shifts into her “Trance” astral form, while Rogue tells the others to be ready, as when they move, it will be fast. Psylocke sees Husk removing some of her costume and asks her if she is stripping for action. Revealing a solid rock-like skin, Paige replies that she is slipping into something more comfortable, adding that it is a good thing about carrying your wardrobe on the inside, is that she always has something that fit’s the occasion. ‘How about it, Betsy? You feel like spilling the rest of the beans now?’ Paige asks.
Betsy replies that she is not hiding anything, but it is hard to describe what she saw in Proteus’ mind. Psylocke explains that Proteus is not made of flesh and blood like the rest of them, but a lattice of energy. ‘He inhabits bodies briefly, uses them as storage batteries, then moves on when they’re empty. Referring to the events where Proteus was merged with the being Piecemeal, Betsy tells her companions that they should have considered the implications of that, and when he dispersed his being and seemed to die, he instead entered a low-energy resting state - dead and alive at the same time.
‘He remained like that for years. Then something moved in those borderlands. Moved in the wrong direction. Something came back from life, and a little piece of Proteus was carried with it’ Psylocke explains, referring to Eli Bard infecting Destiny’s body with the TO Virus. ‘Destiny’ Rogue exclaims. Psylocke replies that it was bigger than that, but that Destiny was part of it. ‘Maybe the fact that she died here, in a place saturated with his energy, created a link Proteus could use’. Psylocke continues, revealing that Proteus knew he could not die, and he wanted to be free from the prison he had created for himself, to reassemble the pieces of his being, so he distorted Destiny’s visions of the future, made her think she was passing on a warning, when in fact she was triggering all this by contacting Blindfold.
Psylocke points out that Blindfold is a sensitive, and that might have been enough, or perhaps when he was right up close he did something to Ruth’s mind, made her into a psychic magnet so she could collect up the rest of his fragments, then she got the final piece from Destiny and went critical. Suddenly, Trance’s astral form returns and merges with her body as she announces that the Blackbird is exactly where they left it, with no enemies in sight. ‘Good. We get Magneto on board and we get airborne. Soon as we’re off the ground, we raise Scott. Let’s move’ Rogue exclaims.
Soon, the five mutants have made it to the edge of the Island, the beach where the Blackbird landed. ‘Helm on defenses red. Authorization Rogue Alpha - No! Oh no!’ Rogue exclaims as she sees Colossus’ motionless body strewn about the Blackbird. Rogue puts Magneto down and rushes over to Colossus: ‘Peter! Peter, talk to me!’ she exclaims, while Betsy contacts her telepathically, asking her what is happening. ‘Nothing good, Betsy. The radio’s out and the ship’s not going anywhere. We just lost our exit strategy’ Rogue exclaims. Suddenly, Psylocke tells Rogue that she best get on outside. ‘Night not be all we’ve lost’ she tells her as she readies her psychic knife: ‘I think things are about to get ugly’ Betsy declares as Nightcrawler, Blindfold and Destiny approach her.
‘You weren’t going to leave, where you? Things are just getting interesting’ Proteus exclaims. ‘You don’t scare me’ Betsy tells him. ‘Really? Then maybe you just haven thought this through. I control reality you imbecile. What I think becomes real’ Proteus exclaims. ‘And I think you’re dead. Again’ he tells Betsy, who moans as her right arm is stripped to the bone. ‘Just messing with your head, Betsy my love. You see Kurt Wagner knew all your worst nightmares. And they gave me a lot of material to play with’ Proteus tells her, while Husk rushes over to Blindfold, and grabs her by the throat while telling Psylocke to snap out of it. ‘That’s not Kurt. It’s the thing that killed him!’ Husk exclaims, telling Betsy that she will kill her too if she doesn’t fight back.
‘Actually, I’m going to kill you whether you fight back or not’ Proteus replies through Blindfold. ‘Kill you. And eat you. And spit out the bones!’ he exclaims, knocking Husk backwards. Trance releases her astral form, which passes through the Proteus-possessed Destiny. ‘This is your new ghost girl is it? The old one had a dragon if I remember rightly’. Proteus tells the three women that they are all equally irrelevant, and surrounds them with an energy field - taking possession of them all!. ‘And you’re all equally me!’
Rogue and Magneto have made their way out of the Blackbird and see the desperate situation awaiting them. ‘Magnus, Ah wish Ah could say it’s been a pleasure’ Rogue tells him. ‘It will be, Rogue, when - it finally comes. And all the sweeter for being deferred’ Magneto replies, before telling Rogue that, in the meantime, he suggests she ducks, as he has used his powers to take control of Colossus’ metallic body. ‘Borrowed - for the occasion. And I trust he’ll forgive the indignity’ Magneto remarks as he uses Colossus to knock aside Husk, Nightcrawler and Psylocke.
‘He might, Magneto. I won’t!’ Proteus declares, through Trance, he blasts Rogue and Magneto with an energy bolt. ‘Why aren’t you dead yet? Do you need another push?’ Proteus asks. ‘Trance!’ Rogue calls out as she touches Psylocke’s leg, absorbing her power, while the surf splashes up around her. ‘En garde, shugah!’ Rogue exclaims, reading her newfound psionic abilities. ‘This sword cuts spirit, not flesh!’ Rogue declares as she shoves the psychic knife through Trance. Proteus screams, to which Rogue tells hi that she hopes this means he is feeling this somewhere where it really hurts. Trance falls to the ground, as Destiny approaches Rogue, and Proteus asks her if she can do the same to her dear, dead Irene.
‘No. Thought not’ Proteus exclaims as Nightcrawler teleports towards rogue and punches her in the face, before he, Blindfold, Husk and Destiny surround the fallen Rogue. ‘Proteus. Stop this!’ Magneto calls out. ‘Let the final battle be between us. As it was always going to be!’ Magneto exclaims. Blindfold approaches Magneto as Proteus tells him that the battle is already over. ‘And you’re dying’ he adds. ‘True. And yet - you haven’t tried to possess me. You threw me across the Island to die at a safe distance from you. That has the smell of fear about it’ Magneto points out. ‘Fear? You think - you seriously believe -?’ Proteus begins, boasting that he controls the elements. ‘The world is wet clay in my hands!’ he exclaims as he rips the earth up from under Magneto, causing the Master of Magnetism to fall to the ground.
‘What are you compared to me?’ Proteus booms. ‘A distraction. And a thief - of other people’s good ideas’ Magneto replies. ‘You say you control the world? Then let’s conclude our business somewhere else!’ he exclaims as he uses his power to rip a small piece of the earth up off Muir Island, and into the sky, high above Earth - with just Magneto and the Proteus possessed Blindfold on it….


[User]
<image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image>
Provide a full summary of the comic book.

[Assistant]
The Telltale Heart
07:22:18:
‘I keep trying, but - I can’t - it won’t -’ the young mutant called Indra cries out, frowning, energy crackles around him as he attempts to cover his body with armor - he screams, and Rogue tells him to power down. Indra falls to the ground, telling Rogue that it is no use. ‘The - the Yaks has - the Enlightened Ones. They can see how unworthy I am. They’ve abandoned me!’ he exclaims. Rogue tells Indra that nobody thinks he is unworthy. ‘Nobody except you’ she adds, before removing one of her gloves and asking him to let her try. ‘What?’ Indra frowns. ‘Let me borrow your power and see if it works for me’ Rogue suggests.
But Indra tells Rogue that she cannot take this burden from him. ‘The sin was mine, so the karma has to be mine. That’s how it works’ he explains. Rogue crouches down beside Indra and tells him not to do this to himself. ‘It’s a judgment’ Indra replies. ‘If it is, ah think you’re the one who’s doing the judging’ Rogue tells him. A telepathic message to Rouge informs her that Cyclops is waiting for her in the main complex. ‘Ah know he is’ Rogue replies, before telling Indra to let this lie for a while. ‘Ah’ll be back real soon, and we’ll work on it together’ she assures him.
07:48:22:
‘Is there any way this could wait?’ Rogue asks Cyclops as she approaches him, standing on the ramp which holds the Cerebra machine. ‘Sorry, Rogue. It can’t’ Cyclops replies, adding that the Cuckoos will explain. The Stepford Cuckoos tell Rogue that when they were fighting the Predator X pack, the Phoenix Force left them. ‘We’ve searched for it since, but we can’t find any trace of it. And something that big is very hard to hide’. Cyclops tells Rogue that she must be able to see the problem. ‘This is a power that swallows suns and splits planets in half. If we can’t control it, at the very least we need to know where it is and what it’s doing’.
‘Mindee thinks active scanning might not work’ one of the girls remarks, explaining that the Phoenix can bend psi-probes around itself the way a black hole bends light. ‘But if we pull our own power levels down low enough, we might be able to detect it with a passive scanning field’. ‘You want to switch your power off?’ Rogue asks. ‘We want to give it you. Part of it, anyway. Just for a few hours, while we do this’ one of the girls explains. Rogue replies that she thinks she could take the same amount of power from each of them so they would stay in synch. ‘Ah’m willing to try, anyway’ she replies.
The Cuckoos all reach out to Rogue, telling her that she won’t just get the power, but the perspective as well. ‘Triangulating on people’s minds from three directions. That might feel weird, at first’ they tell her. ‘At least - it did for us’ they add as they all touch Rogue’s hand. Rogue lets out a little cry, and keels over. ‘Did it work?’ Cyclops asks. ‘It did from our point of view. We’re down to the power level where we need to be’ one of the Cuckoos replies, while another points out that Rogue is experiencing disorientation. ‘Ah’ll be fine’ Rogue declares.
‘You’re sure?’ Cyclops asks. ‘Ah’m certain’ Rogue tells him, adding that this is too important to hold off on while she gets her bearings. Cyclops tells the Cuckoos to get moving. ‘If we can’t find out where the Phoenix went when it left you we’ll have to talk to the Shi’ar. I’d prefer to keep that as a last resort’ Cyclops declares.
08:02:15
Soon, Rogue and Cyclops walk side by side out across Utopia, and Rogue informs Cyclops that she is worried about Indra. ‘Why? I thought he’d gotten over San Francisco by now’ Cyclops replies. ‘No, he just stopped talking about it’ Rogue replies, explaining that now he cannot change into his armored form, that it hurts him even to try. ‘And Ah don’t know if it’s a psychological problem or - …’ Rogue’s voice trails off, as she begins to pick up on many thoughts across Utopia:
‘Could’ve flipped a coin for all the difference’
‘Radiation, convection, and - I know there’s one more, but’
‘Got to be way down lower than 150 now, I’d say, unless’
‘Love that episode where Mal wakes up and finds he’s married to’
‘Seven samurai, seven deadly sins, seven sisters. Nothing comes in sixes except eggs and’
‘Love the way he looks when he’s trying not to laugh and’
‘Never told anyone about that dream because it was so’
‘Started that letter but only got as far as’
‘Kind of miss the Mansion. Life was’.
‘Something the matter?’ Cyclops asks Rogue. Rogue smiles and replies that she is good, before telling Cyclops that Surge asked if she could see her after her gym session. ‘Ah’ll have to catch you later’ she tells him.
09:00:31:
Rogue enters the gym, where Surge is waiting for her. Other “Young X-Men” are going about their own training regimes in the gym - Anole, Mercury, Dust, X-23, Loa, Match, Bling! - while Surge tells Rogue ‘It’s my power. It keeps going out of control. Like, I’ll try to make a tiny arc and I’ll get sheet lightning’. Surge releases a small spark and Rogue tells her that it seems fine right now, to which Surge replies that it only happens when Magneto is around. ‘It’s like he’s putting the evil eyeball on me or something’. Surge thanks Rogue for doing this, claiming that she would see him herself, only he is way too scary. ‘Plus he’s seriously got the hots for you, despite being about a million years old’ Surge adds, smiling.
Rogue makes her way back through the crowds of mutants on Utopia, and picks up more of their thoughts:
‘Tell young Summers that I don’t work with children or animals unless-’ Doctor Nemesis is thinking.
‘If you hate your kid enough to name him Mortimer then--’ the Toad thinks to himself.
‘Doesn’t stop hurting but you’re afraid that it might stop hurting and you’d forget what--’ Colossus tells himself.
‘Never get away with Prussian blue underwear unless’ the fashion doyenne Ariel thinks to herself.
‘Then gone and then back again as though I never--’ Rockslide tells himself.
Suddenly, Rogue picks up some very unique thoughts - projected in French. Following the trail, she finds Gambit sitting on some steps near the edge of the island and calls to him. Gambit turns and looks up: ’Rogue. Long time no see’ he remarks. ’Very long time. You must be wondering why Ah’m avoiding you’ Rogue tells him. ’You said you needed time, chere. To think things through. To decide what it is you want to do. I guess you’ll let me know when the time is up’ Gambit replies. Rogue tells him that she will, ’But this isn’t about us. Or - not so much, it’s about you’ she adds. ’What do you mean?’ Gambit asks her. ’Ah’m babysitting some of the Cuckoos’ powers. And Ah keep getting glimpses of things Ah’m not supposed to see’ Rogue explains.
 ‘Something is inside your mind, Remy. Something that isn’t you’ Rogue declares. ‘Quoi Encore?’ Gambit replies. Rogue puts a gloved hand on her ex-lover’s knee and tells him that it is like there is another him behind the real him. ‘Sitting there real quiet, looking out through your eyes. You gotta tell someone about it, Remy. You gotta get the Professor or Emma to help you’ Rogue declares. ‘So this is why you’ve been avoiding me?’ Gambit asks. ‘No. Ah didn’t even know about that until just now’ Rogue tells him. ‘Then what?’ Gambit asks, pulling back as Rogue puts a gloved hand to his face. ‘Ah’m trying to tell you. Ah wanted to tell you a hundred times, but it’s kind of complicated’ Rogue replies.
‘Since the Professor fixed mah mind, Ah’ve just been making it up as Ah went along. Going on gut instinct. It feels like mah control could slip any second. Like Ah could lose everything Ah just found’ Rogue tells Gambit. ‘If you want my help, chere, you’ve only got to ask’ Gambit replies. ‘Ah know that. Of course Ah do. But don’t you see that you’re the one person who can’t help me? It’s all about control. About reining mah power, making it obey mah will’ Rogue replies. ‘I see that. And I can -’ Gambit begins, as he clasps Rogue’s hand in between his. ‘No, you can’t. Because Ah associate you with loss of control’ Rogue replies. Rogue tells Gambit that she doesn’t mean that in a bad way. ‘You were just always there, inside mah guard, under mah skin. There’s a part of me that’s always been joined with you, even when we couldn’t touch’ Rogue tells him.
Images of Rogue and Gambit in years past flash by, as Rogue remarks that when they could touch, it felt like she could never get enough of him even if she melted into him like snow on wet grass. ‘Like every inch of me needed to touch every inch of you, and even that wouldn’t be -’ Rogue remarks, before Gambit tells her to stop. ‘What?’ Rogue asks. ‘Your memories are a little vivid, chere. Maybe a little too vivid. You’re tele-sending. Broadcasting your thoughts!’ Gambit reveals. ‘Oh no’ whispers a wide-eyed Rogue. And moments later, Rogue hangs her head as she walks past Psylocke, Warpath, Madison Jeffries, Pixie and several other residents of Utopia, all looking at her in a variety of ways.
Soon, Rogue sits with Indra on a crate in a lab, and Indra tells her that it is just going to be the same as before. ‘The power has been taken away from me. I think forever’ he exclaims. ‘Ah think not’ Rogue tells him, adding that she believes he is doing this to himself. ‘And the pain? Am I ding that to myself, too?’ Indra asks. ‘Well, if you seriously want an answer to that - Ah;ve got some of the Cuckoos’ psi-powers. Ah could go inside your mind. Help’ Rogue tells him. Indra stands up, ‘So that I can be repaired, and fight again?’ he shouts. ‘Betray my parents and my religion, again?’ he asks. ‘No, Indra. To make the pain stop. That’s all Ah want to do’ Rogue assures him. But Indra leaves the laboratory, telling Rogue that the pain is the pain he inflicted visited back on his own head. ‘It’s not a punishment. It’s a blessing. It’s to keep me from forgetting and sinning again!’ he declares.
11:23:22
‘Come in, Rogue. I’ve been expecting you’ Magneto announces, hovering inside the generator room. Rogue tells Magneto that it can wait, as he seems busy. The Master of Magnetism lowers himself to the ground, explaining that he is charging the auxiliary generators. ‘The work of a moment’ he boasts, before remarking that he assumes this is about Surge. ‘Surge thinks you might be messing with her power’ Rogue replies. ‘That’s right. I am’ Magneto declares. Magnetism crackles around Magneto as he tells Rogue that it is simple electro-magnetic induction, that he is boosting her to about ten or twenty times her normal energy threshold. ‘Once she learns to channel those power levels, she’ll be able to do it unaided’.
‘Magneto, you can’t do that!’ Rogue tells him. ‘Nonsense. Remember, I was the headmaster of Xavier’s Academy for a long time. This is a training regime planned to meet Noriko’s specific needs’ Magneto declares. ‘Then you explain it to her and get her consent!’ Rogue declares, waving a finger at Magneto. ‘Does Cyclops govern by consent?’ Magneto asks. ‘It seems to me that he forms his own judgment and acts on it’. ‘In battle, sure. When he needs to act fast. The rest of the time, he’s - he’s more -’ Rogue begins. ‘More democratic?’ Magneto asks. ‘Yes’ Rogue replies, as she and Magneto move closer and closer together. ‘I accept that distinction. I’ve seen -’ Magneto begins, before he and Rogue kiss.
‘Pleasant though this is, Rogue, you have to control yourself’ Magneto declares. ‘Uhhhh?’ Rogue replies. ‘I see what’s happening here. To both of us’ Magneto tells her. ‘You’re feeling my attraction to you - then sending it back to me telepathically’ he explains, adding that it is a psychic feedback loop, which intensifies with each iteration. ‘Damn! It’s - it’s the Cuckoos. Ah’m sorry’ Rogue declares, holding her head. Magneto assures her that there is no need to apologize. ‘But bearing in mind what you were saying about consent - this removed it from both of us’ he tells her.
Rogue assures Magneto that she has the empathic part of the power locked off now. ‘That won’t happen again’ she adds, before telling Magneto that he has to back off Surge unless she agrees to accept his help. ‘That seems unlikely to happen any time soon’ Magneto replies. ‘Then work at it. Earn her trust’ Rogue tell him as she leaves the generator room. ‘And yours, Rogue?’ Magneto calls out. ‘Dream big, Shugah’ Rogue replies.
15:51:02:
‘What do you mean, scared? I’m not scared of anything!’ Rockslide shouts. ‘I mean, I’m invulnerable for starters!’ he boasts. ‘But it’s how that invulnerability works’ Rogue replies. ‘The fact that you have to blow yourself up and start over’ She tells him that she wasn’t trying to eavesdrop, but she heard him thinking about it. ‘So? Lots of stuff goes through your mind. It doesn’t have to mean anything’ Rockslide replies. ‘If it doesn’t mean anything, then fine. But if you’re worried about the regenerative side of your power, maybe you should avoid detonating yourself for a while’ Rogue suggests.
‘It’s not that. It’s more - well, I’m used to thinking of myself as this. This body. Big. Heavy. Solid. It’s too weird, kind of. How I’m really a sort of - ghost’ Rockslide declares. “Ghost in the machine” Rogue tells him. ‘Huh? What does that mean?’ Rockslide asks. Rogue replies that the mind, or the soul, inside the body, it is how Descartes saw all of them. ‘Everybody hits that one and bounces off, Santo. In a way, you’ve got a better handle on where your soul is than most of us’ Rogue tells him. ‘Hah! Guess it do, at that’ Rockslide replies, to which Rogue tells him that she is still reading some of those stray thoughts of his. ‘’Oops. Sorry’ Rockslide mutters.
16:10:29:
Rogue walks through a large corridor, where several residents of Utopia are milling about - leading to more stray thoughts:
‘Wish I had an energy power instead of a--’
‘Waiting for a chance to say “X marks the spot”!’
‘Never knew that Benny Hill tune even had a name—‘
‘Told him the angle that subtends towards the vertical is called the--’
‘So if we keep on going west we’ll end up in--’
‘Can’t see why you’d need lip gloss if you--’
‘Nine consecutive strikeouts. That’s one less than Seaver managed in--’
‘Wonder if you even know I’m here, Rogue. Still less how I feel about you. How I burn for you’.
That last thought causes Rogue some concern, and seeing Iceman she quickly asks him what he was thinking about just now. ‘Uhh - sadly enough, baseball’ Bobby replies. ‘Good. That’s good. Fine. Just wonderful’ Rogue exclaims as she walks outside, where Cannonball, Avalanche, Nightcrawler and others are going about their business.
18:00:00:
Rogue re-enters Cerebra, as the Stepford Cuckoos inform Cyclops that they have done all they can. ‘There’s no trace of the Phoenix on any psychic wavelength’ they tell him, adding that there isn’t even a residue, that is just seems to have vanished. Cyclops asks them if they got any sense of vector when it left them. ‘Not one that makes any sense. It seemed to get further and further away without going anywhere’ one of the Cuckoos replies. Cyclops frowns and announces that they are switching to plan B, revealing that he has asked the X-Club to come up with some ideas. ‘Whatever happens, we don’t give up on this’ he tells them.
The Cuckoos tell Rogue that they will take their powers back, and touch her, asking if she had any trouble getting used to them. ‘Nothing Ah won’t live down in a couple of years’ Rogue replies. ‘You might find it hard to re-adjust. When you’ve had psi-power, and then lose them - the silence can be a little deafening’ the Cuckoos tell her. ‘Actually, girls, Ah kind of like the silence. Makes it easier to think’ Rogue replies.
20:12:45:
Back in the lab, Indra exclaims ’I don’t understand. I’ve already told you, Rogue, I don’t want you to read my mind’. Rogue tells Indra that she cannot do that anymore, so this will be more like him reading his own mind. ‘It’s a sort of a paradox Ah want you to mediate on. It might help you’ Rogue explains. ‘I doubt that. But go ahead’ Indra replies. ‘You’re a Jainite, so you believe in ahisma. Absolute non-violence’ Rogue tells him. ‘Yes. It’s the first and most important of the five duties’ Indra replies. ‘But when your mutant power activated, you chose the name Indra’. ‘So?’ he asks. ‘Indra, the Armorer of Heaven. The God of War. Ah wonder why you thought that was okay’ Rogue tells him. ‘Well - but that’s - it’s only a name’ Indra stammers.
‘Ah know it. Ah jus think it’s a strange name for you to go for. As though you were labelling a part of yourself. Or a potential you saw inside yourself’ Rogue replies. Indra closes his eyes and declares that it isn’t like that. ‘You don’t understand anything’ he tells Rogue, who asks him to explain it to her. Annoyed, Indra exclaims that there is nothing to explain. ‘It was just the first name I thought of. I don’t want to talk about it!’. Indra hangs his head and Rogue asks him if he is running away from something inside of him. ‘Something you saw, and gave a name to, but then backed away from’.
Indra exclaims that he doesn’t want to be a fighter. ‘It’s okay. Ah’m not asking you to’ Rogue replies. ‘I won’t use that - that -’ Indra exclaims, before clutching his head, power swirls around him: ‘This - this isn’t me - it’s somebody - somebody else!’ he shouts as in spectacular display he is covered in armor - and holding two swords, while other weapons point at Rogue, he stands over her. ‘Yeah. Ah can see that’ a wide-eyed Rogue replies.
22:51:50
Rogue sits on the edge of Utopia, the last rays of the sun touching the sky, and Gambit approaches her. ‘A long day, chere’ he asks. ‘Yeah. It sure feels like it was. Don’t know how much Ah’ve got to show for it, though’ she adds. Gambit asks Rogue if she thinks the job Cyclops gave her is the right one. ‘Jury’s still out’ Rogue replies, adding that she has been doing her best to make a difference. ‘Some days it seems to work. Others - it kind of comes apart in mah hands’. Gambit smiles, and tells Rogue that he knows her better than anyone else. ‘Better than you know yourself’ he adds. ‘If you’ve tried to make a difference - then for good or bad - that’s what you’ve done’.
And at that moment, Indra walks past Rockslide, down to the edge of Utopia. He users his power to form a small dagger - and throws it into a rock, slicing the top off of the rock. Frowning, Indra looks at his hands.


[User]
<image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image>
Provide a full summary of the comic book.

[Assistant]
Second Coming: Chapter 4
The Headquarters of the Right, where the diabolical man-machine Cameron Hodge ins his spider-like robot body leans over the gravely injured Karma. ‘Vile little brat. Thought you could vomit your mutant filth into my brain. I can touch people’s brains, too. Let me show you’ Hodge remarks as he prepares to shove his deadly-sharp appendage into Karma’s head - ‘How about we don’t?’ Cannonball suggests as he blasts forward, smacking Hodge upwards and away from Karma. ‘On account of the punch line’s a little obvious’ Cannonball adds, before calling out to Mirage, Magma and Sunspot, telling them that they have to get Karma back to base. ‘Take out the rest of the smileys!’ he orders. Sunspot punches one of the Right, while Mirage tries to remove the helmet off another. ‘I’ll finish up here!’ Cannonball exclaims as he blasts past them, still pushing Hodge upwards.
At Utopia, inside the monitor / control room, the White Queen places a finger on Rogue’s head. ‘Nothing. Nothing at all’ she remarks, to which Rogue quickly replies ‘Ah can only tell you what Ah feel, Emma’. The White Queen replies that, regardless, Rogue’s mind is a lot less crowded than it was the last time she visited. ‘I do like what you’ve done in there’ the White Queen jokes, before announcing that there is no psychic or empathic link between Rogue and Hope. ‘Then it’s something else. Ah didn’t say Ah could explain it’ Rogue replies, declaring that she is tied to Hope. ‘Ah felt it when she first arrived, only then Ah didn’t know what it was. Scott, Ah know how this sounds, but -’ Rogue begins, before Cyclops declares that it sounds like perfect timing.
Cyclops tells Rogue that she will rendezvous with Wolverine’s team, then she and Nightcrawler will take point, and the rest will follow her in. ‘Right now?’ Rogue asks. ‘Right now’ Cyclops replies, announcing that Ariel will take her, and Emma will let the others know she is on her way. ‘Someone order a cab?’ the flamboyant Ariel asks as she appears in the room, creating a doorway which she and Rogue then leave by. ‘Another act of faith? Or just strategy on the fly?’ the White Queen asks. Cyclops reminds his girlfriend that Hope brought Rogue back from her coma just by touching her. ‘I can believe that there’d be a bond between them. And the strategy is what it’s always been, Emma. Survive’ Cyclops replies.
Back at the Right stronghold, ‘My, you’re a persistent soul, aren’t you, boy?’ Hodge declares as Cannonball blasts towards him. ‘Might even do some damage, if I stood still long enough to let you’ Hodge adds - suddenly, Cannonball comes to a stop as Hodge raises Karma from the ground, sans her missing leg. ‘But you don’t corner too well, do you?’ Hodge asks ‘Shan - no!’ Cannonball gasps. ‘That was always your problem’ Hodge remarks, before declaring ‘As for your invulnerability - I understand it switches off as soon as you stop moving. Back when I was in public relations, I would have had to work hard to sell that one’ Hodge jokes as he uses an appendage to smack Cannonball aside.
Hodge has Karma and Cannonball both hanging off his appendages and remarks ‘You see. This is what’s in store for all of your tainted bloodline. This is how it ends’ Hodge boasts as he drops Cannonball down a hole in the floor. Inside the Blackbird, Cypher and Warlock watch their teammates battle the Right. He analyzes the battle moves, and tells himself that it is all the same language - but he is the only one who can read it. ‘And it’s soon to be a dead language. Unless -’ Cypher thinks to himself before turning to Warlock, telling him that they have got what they came for. ‘But we’re not getting out of here if you don’t hold up your end’.
Warlock holds up a hand as if to protest, and exclaims ‘What does self-soul-friend mean? Self is still weak!’ Cypher motions to the Right operatives on a monitor and tells Warlock to take their strength. ‘Negative! Negative! This thing must not be! Self promised not to kill -’ Warlock declares. Cypher tells his dear friend that he understands. ‘Listen to me. This is war. We didn’t choose it, but it’s war. The rules are different now’ Cypher explains, telling Warlock that he either does this thing, or else it is all over and they have failed. ‘And every single one of us dies!’
Meanwhile, ‘You notice the static cling? Happens every time’ Ariel smiles. Rogue tells Ariel that she will live. ‘You’ve got a lot less to lose, miss green-jeans’ Ariel remarks, before they are approached by Wolverine, Psylocke, Archangel, Colossus, Nightcrawler and X-23. Standing around an abandoned gas station. Wolverine tells Rogue that she is a sight for sore eyes - provided she can really do this. ‘Bastion’s got a through-link on Cable and the kid, unlike us. All we can do is chase the carnage, and we’re pretty much running on empty’ he explains. Nightcrawler mutters that they passed empty a thousand miles back. ‘I saw it waving’ he adds.
Wolverine tells Nightcrawler that he is up, that he can take Rogue and keep the jumps right and short. ‘And talk to us in every time you land. We’ll keep pace with you as far as we can’ Wolverine exclaims. But Nightcrawler asks if they can’t all go together, using Ariel’s power. ‘Sure. So long as we only go places where there are doors. Out in the wilds of where-the-hell-are-we, I’m a lot less limber’ the striking young woman replies. Wolverine declares that Ariel is there back up, so she stays with him and X-23. ‘Now move. Every second we waste, these guys are stealing another yard on us’ Wolverine declares.
Nightcrawler complies, and several bamfs are seen as he teleports himself and Rogue across a field. Exhausted, Nightcrawler pauses at one point, and asks Rogue where they are going next. Rogue motions ahead: ‘That way. Northwest, more or less. Maybe half as far as we’ve come’. Rogue remarks, before calling out to the White Queen, who, replies that Doctor Nemesis is tuning into a grid reference, which she will feed to Wolverine as soon as she has it. Cyclops is standing nearby and orders Rogue to keep moving. They teleport again, although Rogue asks if Nightcrawler can take a breather. ‘He just jumped eight hundred miles inside of a minute - with a passenger’ Rogue points out. Nightcrawler replies that he is fine, that this is like a vacation trip, only greatly accelerated. ‘Next time, we must bring a picnic’ Nightcrawler jokes.
Back on Utopia, the White Queen glances at Cyclops and tells her boyfriend ‘You want to be out there, don’t you?’, but Cyclops tells her that he is fine. The White Queen assures him that he made the right call, as they cannot afford to have both he and Wolverine away from Utopia at the same time. ‘At least this way, we’ve -’ the White Queen begins, before she convulses and begins to scream. ‘Emma, what is it?’ Cyclops asks. ‘Massive psionic feedback, oh God!’ the White Queen exclaims. ‘From where?’ Cyclops asks. ‘From - from -’ the White Queen begins, when suddenly: ‘Mister Summers?’ a voice calls out. Cyclops spins around, and in the doorway sees the Stepford Cuckoos, blood trickling from their noses, they exclaim ‘Cerebra just screamed. Really, really loudly. And then shut down’.
At Bastion’s stronghold, ‘Exquisite timing. Mr Pierce has done his job’ Bastion grins. ‘How did you - did you feel it?’ Stephen Lang asks. Watching several monitors, Bastion replies that every Cerebro-type device creates perturbations in its own scanning field. ‘Yes. I felt it when those disturbances stopped’ he adds, to which Stephen remarks that the X-Men can no longer track their own people. ‘You’ve dropped a hood over Scott Summers’ head, and tied it tight. While our own Cerebro-tech is functioning as well as ever’ Lang declares. ‘No. Better than ever. Without that slight deform in the scanning field, I see their soldiers that much clearer. They’ve called in reinforcements, which was exactly the right thing to do’ Bastion exclaims, adding that in fact, he was absolutely relying on it.
Back at the Right’s anti-mutant personnel weaponry manufacturing plant, Mirage, Magma and Sunspot continue to battle the Right operatives. ‘This, my children - this is how you kill mutants. A joyous harvest. A Solemn sacrament!’ Hodge booms. ‘A sacrament! Yeah! I give this kill to the Right. To the just. To - wha -?’ one of the operatives gasps as a techno-infection spread through his armor - and engulfs him. ‘No! God, no!’ he pleads. Warlock stands in amongst the Right operatives, connected to all of them via the techno-infection, he apologizes to them. ‘Self mourns your soldiers, entity-designate-Hodge’ Warlock exclaims. ‘But self will not mourn YOU!’ Warlock shouts as he lunges towards Hodge.
At that moment, Archangel flies overhead, while two black jeeps travel through an oil field. ‘Okay. We’re getting close’ someone in the first jeep announces, adding that according to Nightcrawler, there should be a turn up ahead, a dirt track. Ariel leans forward from the back seat and remarks to Wolverine and X-23 ‘Big surprise. The last time we saw blacktop was three counties over’. Psylocke telepathically contacts Wolverine, telling him that she doesn’t like this. Wolverine asks his friend ‘What’s the matter’. As she drives the second vehicle, Psylocke explains that something is flattening the air, that she can feel it in the same way she feels her own telekinetic fields.
‘I think it’s something coming in our direction - high up and very fast. We should get ready for -’ Psylocke begins, before calling out to Archangel, concerned for him. But, up in the air, Archangel manages to dodge a fighter jet, which suddenly appears overhead - and fires a missile! ‘Oh, spit!’ Ariel exclaims as she looks out the window - just as the missile crashes into the first jeep - engulfing Wolverine, X-23 and Ariel in flames. Archangel shouts out in anger as he swerves around, and flies into the jet - tearing it apart, it bursts into flames.
The second jeep stops, and Colossus and Psylocke get out. ‘Bozhe moi!’ Colossus gasps. Suddenly, two figures emerge from the flames - ‘Logan -’ Colossus exclaims as Wolverine and X-23, badly burnt, both approach Colossus and Psylocke. ‘It don’t matter. We’ll heal. Ariel won’t’ Wolverine declares. Psylocke turns away, while Colossus hangs his head. Wolverine tells his friends not to look back. ‘We gotta keep going. We stop now, they win. Payback comes later’.
In the control / monitor room at Utopia, the White Queen holds her head as she announces that there was a missile strike, with a direct hit - and that Ariel is dead. ‘I’m so sorry, Scott’ the White Queen declares, as she, Cyclops, and Pixie hang their heads. Cyclops breaks the silence, declaring that now they are blind and lame. ‘And they know who we’ve got in the field. Where to hit to do the most damage’ Cyclops points out. Pixie asks Cyclops to send her, exclaiming that she can do it. ‘The answer’s no’ Cyclops declares. ‘But -’ Pixie protests, to which Cyclops declares that Nightcrawler has been through hell a thousand times, so once Rogue finds Hope, he will get her back here no matter what Bastion throws in his way. ‘I can’t send you out there to die’. Cyclops adds that every death matters.
Back in the Right stronghold, ‘Gods of hearth and home! What is Warlock doing?’ Magma gasps as she rushes over to Cypher, who replies ‘What I told him to do, Amara. What he has to do’. Warlock is attacking Hodge, clutching at his head, while Hodge exclaims ‘You’re not one of them! You’re an alien! You’re not even part of this fight! You don’t have to -’ Hodge exclaims, but Warlock exclaims ‘Negative. Self does!’ And with that, Warlock pulls Hodge’s head from it’s spider-like robot body.
The techno-infection begins spreading into Hodge, who is exclaiming ‘Hodge. I’m Cameron Hodge. The Right. The truth - the life - you can’t -’ his voice trails off, as Warlock holds his withered head up. Sunspot picks up the liberated but still very wounded Karma, while Mirage tends to the rescued Cannonball. Sunspot contacts the White Queen, telling her that if she can hear him, they are done here. ‘And we know how they’re tracking Hope and Cable. You need to hear this. Like, now’.
Meanwhile, at the site of the former Three Creeks Trailer Park, in Nebraska. Inside one of the run-down units, Hope tells Cable to sit still, ‘We’ve done this a thousand times and you always squirm. Knock it off’ she exclaims. Cable replies that he cannot reload without moving, while Hope tells him that his arm is all kinds of messed up. ‘I have the shell patched, but I can’t fix all the crap inside it’ she tells him. ’I’ll be fine’ Cable replies, before telling Hope to get something to eat, as they are moving out again in five minutes.
Hope complains that they only just got here, to which Cable tells her that he knows. ‘And it’s in the middle of nowhere. There’s no way they can find us all the way out here’ Hope declares. Cable replies that he knows, but that the enemy has been one move ahead of them all the way. ‘No way they should be this good. So we keep moving. And we brush over our trail as we go’ Cable declares. ‘We don’t give them a chance to get a fix on us’.
But, outside, members of the Sapien League have surrounded the unit where Cable and Hope have sought sanctuary. ‘Got them. Two heat signatures, closely grouped’ one of the Sapien League members announces. One of the Sapien League operatives begins giving out the orders - when there is a familiar noise - snikt - as Wolverine, Psylocke, Colossus, Rogue, Archangel, Nightcrawler, and X-23 appear. ‘It’s a great plan, bub. With just one tiny little flaw. Let us spell it out for you’ Wolverine exclaims.
‘What was that?’ Hope asks, nervously. Cable explains that there is movement on the perimeter, and orders Hope to stay here and get down. Suddenly, ‘No need to trouble yourselves. The job’s already done’ Nightcrawler announces - although he finds a gun aimed at his face, he smiles and informs Cable that Wolverine wishes to speak to him, outside.
Cable and Hope go outside, to find bodies of the Sapien League lying on the ground, while the heroes stand around them. ‘Not like you to leave yourself with an exit, old man’ Wolverine tells Cable. ‘I had seven exits. And we’re about to take number six’ Cable boasts. Wolverine informs Cable that there is something he should know first, that they received intel from Cyclops. ‘This garbage keeps piling up for a reason’ Wolverine declares, revealing that the enemy’s entire grid is riddled with the techno-organic virus, just like Cable. ‘And like calls to like’ Wolverine points out. Wolverine adds that the enemy can pinpoint Cable close enough to count the hairs on his chin, before asking him if he has another plan. ‘Of course I do’ Cable replies.
Cable and Hope go back inside the unit, and Hope exclaims ‘What??? Is that - is that meant to be some kind of stupid joke?’ she asks. Cable puts some items in a bag and assures Hope that it is no joke. ‘Good. Because I’m not laughing’ Hope replies. ‘Look at me, Nathan. Dammit, look at me when I’m talking to you!’ Hope exclaims. Cable looks up and hands Hope the bag, while Hope tells him that they always stick together and watch each other’s backs. ‘Not this time’ Cable declares, to which Hope asks him why not and reminds him that he taught her to be a soldier. ‘Now let me fight’ she asks. Cable tells Hope that she is not a soldier in this war, but a strategic asset. Hope hugs the backpack that Cable gave her, while Cable looks down.
Back outside, Rogue touches Wolverine’s face and asks him if he is sure about this. ‘Deal’s done. You go with the Elf - and the kid. You’re the only one who can find her again if something goes wrong’ Wolverine points out, before asking Rogue if she has everything she needs. Rogue’s form is transformed - now appearing with metallic skin, feathered wings, deadly claws and psychic power, Rogue thanks her teammates for the loan. ‘Ah guess Ah’m as ready as Ah’ll ever be’ she announces.
‘Then let’s go. Let’s get out of here’ Hope mutters as she approaches Rogue. ‘Now? But -’ Rogue begins, to which Cable tells her that the sooner they leave the better, as they have a lot of ground to cover. Nightcrawler approaches Cable and remarks ‘If you two need a moment to say goodbye -’, but Cable interrupts, declaring that he never says goodbye and suggests that they get moving. ‘Ready, Hope? Rogue asks the girl. ‘Yeah. More than’ Hope mutters. Kurt touches both Rogue and Hope and declares that their carriage awaits, before he teleports them away. Wolverine grins and raises his claws: ‘Okay, people. We’ve drawn decoy duty. Anybody know any really short prayers?’


[User]
<image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image>
Provide a full summary of the comic book.

[Assistant]
Second Coming: Chapter 8
On Bastion’s “oil rig”, the three members of X-Club - Madison Jeffries, Doctor Nemesis and Kavita Rao - rush through the corridor, while Jeffries exclaims ‘We were meant to raid this place! We were played!’ Doctor Nemesis tells the former Alphan to save his breath, and to speak for himself. Kavita Rao contacts Cyclops, telling him that this station was a diversion, tailor made for them. ‘Bastion’s plan includes us being away from Utopia!’ she declares, as the trio reach the edge of the platform - and leap into the water. ‘Dammit! My hat!’ Doctor Nemesis complains as his hat falls off. ‘Please. Plan. Accordingly!’ Kavita tells him as they hit the water - and the massive station above explodes.
One minute ago inside the hangar bay on Utopia, the Blackbird burst into flames, and several X-Men and other mutants are scrambling into action. ‘What do you mean?’ Cable asks. ‘I mean - all this. It’s not going to stop. It’s going to keep on getting worse’ Hope replies, exclaiming ‘People have died, Nathan. And for what? For me. It would be better for everyone if I’d never come here’. Cable tells Hope that responsibility and guilt are not the same thing, and points out that if she did leave here, does she really think Bastion is going to suddenly stop killing mutants?
‘Fanatics don’t sign off until the job is done. Question is - do you?’ Cable asks. Hope is about to answer, when the massive “oil rig” explosion shockwaves across Utopia, knocking the mutants about. ‘No shrapnel. No fire. That wasn’t us’ Wolverine points out. Colossus remarks that he thinks it was out in the bay. Cyclops contacts Prodigy, asking for their status. In the control / monitor room, Prodigy replies that it was the rigs, that they just exploded. ‘Everyone outside, now! We’re under attack!’ Cyclops orders. The mutants race outside, with the White Queen asking Cyclops if they know that. ‘Cerebra. The Teleporters. The Blackbirds. He blinds us, then immobilizes us. Bastion had to be sure we’d be here when he made his move’ Cyclops exclaims.
Arriving outside, the X-Men and the other mutants find a strange red substance in the sky above them. ‘My God - what is that?’ Psylocke asks. Cyclops orders Iceman and Angel to get up there, and to keep whatever it is from closing in. ‘On it!’ Iceman shouts as he creates an ice-sled, enabling him to move towards the red substance. Angel flies alongside his best friend and remarks that he might wear his other face, if that is okay. ‘Uh…sure, man. Do what you have to do’ Iceman replies. Thanks. It just seems to fit the situation a little better’ Angel points out.
At that moment, all over San Francisco - in Colma, in Oakland, and in San Rafael, the red substance closes down - like a force field - and massive force field which has engulfed parts of San Francisco and the bay. Iceman unleashes and ice-beam at the force field, but it does not even dent it. Unleashing his razor-sharp wing-knives, Archangel replies that they don’t do anything either. ‘Whatever it is, it’s harder than diamond’ Archangel exclaims. Down below, Emma exclaims ‘Nothing. It closed, and they can’t break through. Cyclops asks his girlfriend to tell them to keep hitting it, and maybe there will be a cumulative impact, while asking Psylocke to focus her telekinesis on the same spot. Cyclops turns to Emma and asks her to get the Sub-Mariner.
At that moment, inside his stronghold, Bastion announces that it is done. ’The containment area -?’ Stephen Lang remarks, to which Bastion declares that it is established and the X-Men are trapped, so the final phase can begin. Bastion tells Lang and Graydon Creed that they may stand down their troops, as they will not be needed again. Creed approaches Bastion, asking him if he may congratulate him on succeeding where each of them has separately failed, in annihilating the mutant race. ’Yes, you may’ Bastion replies, before asking ‘And yet - what will define us now, Mr Creed?’
‘I - I’m sorry, master? What do you mean?’ Graydon asks. ‘What purpose will we serve once this profane edifice - Homo Sapiens Superior - has fallen?’ he asks. Bastion declares that it was such a fine campaign, such a glorious war, but that slaughter, necessary as it is, is banal. ‘It does not tax us. It does not ennoble us’ he remarks, before turning away from his associates and ordering the membrane to be triggered. ‘And tell me when they’re dead’ he adds.
Back on Utopia, Psylocke hovers in the air, using her telekinesis. She the attempts to destroy the force field. But she tells Cyclops that it is no use, that she cannot push against it, as there is no traction. ‘It’s like it’s not even there, until you try to go through it’ she explains. Cyclops tells Psylocke to stand down, before turning to Colossus and asking him if he managed to get some transport. Colossus replies that he got a small cargo ship and a twin-prop Cessna, before asking were they are going. ‘That depends on what happens next’ Cyclops replies, before asking the White Queen to patch him through to Namor.
‘I told you that I’d report to you when I was done here, Cyclops’ the Sub-Mariner responds. ‘Yes, you did. But seconds count’ Cyclops tells him, asking him what he found. Deep underwater, Namor replies that the barrier resists all their efforts. ‘You were right. It carries on right down to the ocean floor - and into it!’ Namor announces.
Cyclops tells Emma get call a team together. ‘Roster?’ she asks. ‘Read my mind. Tell them to assemble at the dock. We’re going into the city’ Cyclops announces. ‘Why are we -?’ Colossus begins, to which Cyclops explains that they were wrong, that they assumed it was a dome. ‘It’s not. It’s a sphere’ Cyclops announces. ‘Am I missing something?’ Rockslide asks. ‘Think about it’ someone tells him. ‘A sphere encloses us completely. We can’t dig or swim our way under it’ he explains, adding that it also cuts through every power, water, sewage and data link in the city. ‘San Francisco is probably close to meltdown right now. And it’s only gonna get worse’.
As mutants gather on Utopia’s dock, Toad, flanked by several of his comrades, calls out to Rogue: ‘Hey, Scarlet O’Hara. You X-Men should be staying here and protecting us. We’re the targets, right?’ he exclaims. Rogue assures Toad that they are leaving a force to protect Utopia. ‘Maybe you’d like to be a part of it? Ah could deputize you as an X-Man’ Rogue offers. ‘Oh, that’s - yeah! Really funny, Rogue, big joke. Hey, you offered us sanctuary. We’ve got rights, you know!’ Toad shouts. Rogue, Surge and several others walk past Colossus, onto the boat. ‘Raise the anchor!’ Colossus calls out, until Surge explains that they don’t have an anchor, that they are tied to a post. ‘I got it’ Wolverine exclaims as he cuts the rope tying the boat to the dock with his claws. ‘Now let’s move!’ Wolverine exclaims.
Meanwhile, a small airplane follows Cyclops, using a jetpack, the Sub-Mariner, Magma, Archangel, carrying Psylocke, towards the Golden Gate Bridge. Cyclops announces that once they reach the mainland, most of them will deal with keeping order on the streets, while Psylocke and Domino recon. ‘Once we see hoe bad it is, we’ll assign priorities’ Cyclops adds, while the Sub-Mariner tells him to look to his left. ‘That glow from the bridge is not from the sun. It appeared a few seconds ago. And It’s not moving’ Namor adds. ‘Change course. We’ll check it out’ Cyclops announces. Psylocke points out that it could be another decoy, like the rig. ‘You know how Bastion works’ she adds. ‘Could be. But I’m not betting’ Scott replies, pointing out that Bastion doesn’t need decoys now, that this is his endgame.
Standing on the edge of Utopia, Cable looks out over the water. ‘You didn’t go’ Hope remarks as she approaches him. ‘My place is with you’ Cable replies, adding that Cyclops will not risk having her on the frontline. ‘It’s him, isn’t it? It’s Bastion. He’s come for me’ Hope asks. ‘That would be my guess, yes. So it’s probably time to make up your mind’ Cable tells her. ‘About what?’ Hope asks. ‘About what we were talking about before all this blew up. Staying or going’ Cable reminds her. Hope points out that going is not an option, as they are shut in, there is nowhere to go. Cable replies that the X-Men are shut in, but he has got enough power left for one last jump. ’Say the word, princess…and you can find out how this turned out from the history books’ Cable offers.
On the other side of the sphere, the X-Club made it safely to shore, and Doctor Nemesis uses a small projector to display the current situation. Kavita asks what they have, to which Jeffries explains that it is nothing mechanical or electrical that he can talk to. ‘It’s just one undifferentiated structure’ he explains. Doctor Nemesis agrees, but points out that it is such a clever structure. ’Clever how?’ Madison asks. ‘It’s quantum-irresolvable. Scan it was an electron beam, it shows as matter. Touch it with a probe, and it’s energy’ Doctor Nemesis replies, declaring that it is a barricade that knows how to duck, and that it even fights against being analyzed, let alone being breached.
‘You mean your skills didn’t live up to your rhetoric - again’ Kavita mutters. ‘Dr Rao. I’ve lost my best hat, I’ve been manipulated and dumped into the ocean, and my mood is best described as “not cordial”. For you, I’m sure this is a welcome break from cleaning test tubes. For me -’ Doctor Nemesis is interrupted by Jeffries, asking his teammates if they could have a little decorum. ‘I mean - in front of the visitors?’ he points out. ‘The vis -? Oh my! I - yes. Right. Okay.’ Kavita exclaims in shock, as standing before them are five super heroes - Hawkeye! Iron Man! Thor! The original Spider-Woman! The new Captain America! ‘We’re the Avengers. We’ve come to help, if we can’ the new Captain America a.k.a. Bucky Barnes exclaims. ‘Unless this big red bubble belongs to you. In which case we’ve come to ruin your day’ Hawkeye declares.
Bucky turns to Doctor Nemesis. ‘You’re James Bradley. I met you once’ he exclaims. ‘No, I don’t think I -’ Doctor Nemesis begins, but Bucky replies ‘Different uniform’ before asking what is going on here, ‘Why did San Francisco just fall off the grid?’ he asks. Doctor Nemesis explains that the barrier was erected by Bastion, to trap the X-Men and the rest of the mutant race, and that it seems to be indestructible. Iron Man declares that he does not believe in indestructible, and analyzes it with a beam, announcing that it is not going to fall to any kind of energy attack. ‘The structure is -’ he begins, but Doctor Nemesis interrupts, ‘ - quantum-irresolvable. I know. It’s wonderful, isn’t it?’
Spider-Woman exclaims that the Avengers have a tool for indestructible barriers, and tells Thor that he is up. Thor tells Spider-Woman that Mjolnir is not a tool. ‘Sorry. I meant gadget’ Spider-Woman replies. ‘Nor is Mjolnir a -’ Thor begins, but Spider-Woman tells him to just hit it with the hammer. Thor does so, creating a massive energy boom - but he does not penetrate the force field. ‘“Indestructible” Defined as -’ Doctor Nemesis begins, to which Thor replies ‘That was but a single stroke. Stand back, mortal man, and let me work!’
Over the bridge, Cyclops, Psylocke and the others close in, as Cyclops announces that they have got a glowing sphere, a hundred meters across, with no weight or mass as far s they can tell. ‘No energy emissions apart from visible light. And it’s absolutely fixed in space’ he declares, communicating to the Beast, he asks him to theorize. From inside the control / monitor room on Utopia, the former X-Man replies that he thinks this may be the exact center of the large sphere that contains them. He adds that it could be the source point from which the main sphere is projected, except that it appeared later.
Psylocke announces that it is a portal, that she is picking up readings through it. ‘No minds, as such, but a more generalized psionic presence. Something big, that has a kind of sentience’ she declares. ‘What kind of sentience?’ Cyclops asks. Psylocke exclaims that she thinks they are about to find out, as the portal is activating.
Back on Utopia, Cable tells Hope that he needs an answer either way, as the one luxury they don’t have is time. ‘You have to decide now’ he tells her. ‘But what about the X-Men? What about all our friends?’ Hope asks. Cable asks her if she remembers what he said about responsibility. ‘Mine is you. Nothing else comes before that’ he declares. Hope points out that the X-Men got into this fight on her behalf, and they have paid for helping her - a higher price than they ever imagined. ‘It was my battle before it was theirs and I…’ she looks down as she thinks about it, before announcing that she has to stay. ‘Then I guess we’ve got work to do’ Cable smiles.
Back on the bridge, Iceman and Wolverine have joined up with the others now, as Cyclops announces that they have activity and movement. ‘Get ready. Whatever this thing was put here to do, it’s doing it!’ Cyclops announces. Iceman moves close to the portal - and suddenly, a metal arm reaches out and grabs him by the neck - as a robot type being emerges. ‘Assimilating new data. Processing. Adjusting’ the robot declares. ‘It’s a Nimrod. We’re facing a Nimrod’ Match gasps. ‘Hit it with everything you’ve got’ Cyclops orders. Claws ready, Wolverine tells Cyclops to look again - as several more Nimrod emerge from the portal. ‘Threat level maximum. Response - ultimate force!’….


[User]
<image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image>
Provide a full summary of the comic book.

[Assistant]
Second Coming: Chapter 12
Utopia, now, ‘Not yet, you soulless bastards. Not quite yet!’ exclaims Magneto as he keeps several deadly Nimrods at bay.
San Francisco, in the future, where Archangel flies close to a massive future Sentinel, unleashing his razor-sharp wing-knives on it, he exclaims that nothing this big can be light on its feet, and suggests to his teammates that they hit and run. ‘We can take it down’ he declares. ‘Keep telling yourself that’ Wolverine shoots back, before announcing that it is a lot quicker than it looks. ‘Armor’s about a foot thick!’ X-23 exclaims as she tries to claw her way through the Sentinel. Domino asks her to back off so she can try, and tosses six pounds of plastique, pinhead emps and white phosphorus at the Sentinel. ‘A kiss on the cheek from Satan!’ Domino adds - before the device explodes, sending Domino and X-23 careening backwards.
Up above, the Sentinel grabs Archangel by his wings, pulling him backwards. ‘Mutants threat level moderate. Cauterize and contain’ the Sentinel states. ‘Warren!’ Domino screams, before telling Wolverine that they cannot even scratch this thing. ‘We don’t have to. We just have to keep it looking our way’ Wolverine replies, ‘So it doesn’t figure out what Cable and the kid are doing’.
Meanwhile, Cable covers Cypher, who is inside one of the futuristic Sentinel robots, as they enter a complex. ‘You sure this is where we should be going, Ramsey?’ Cable ask the New Mutant. Cypher replies that everything he read indicates that there is nothing important here. ‘So what they hell are we doing here?’ Cable asks. Cypher points out that the Sentinels are doing whatever they can to distract them from this point. ‘This is where they don’t want us to go’ Cypher declares.
Inside, he approaches a computer, announcing that this is why, as the data density here is insane, so it has to be the Master Mold’s processing core. ‘Can you cover me?’ Cypher asks. ‘That’s what we’re about to find out’ Cable replies, weapons raised. Controlling the robot, Cypher points out that the suit he is in should gain entrance without issue. ‘I shouldn’t be -’ he begins, before finding himself inside the data.
‘Mutant point of origin confirmed. Anomalous timeline designate 22554-23. You represent data. Data of tactical and strategic importance. Your mind will be assimilated - and then erased’ the Master Mold announces. ‘Yes. Please proceed’ Cypher replies, adding that it means the Master Mold has to hit him with some machine code, that it cannot assimilate him without building an interface. ‘Talk to me!’ Cypher shouts.
Back in the present, on the Golden Gate Bridge, 1 hour and 27 minutes since the portal opened. Bling and Rockslide are doing what they can to hold back the Nimrods, while up above, Storm unleashes lightning bolts at severeal of the Nimrods, exclaiming ‘You do violence to the daylight, monsters. The sun is ashamed to look at you. But the tempest has no such qualms!’ But, as the Nimrods are struck, they begin to adjust their internal capacitors to teravolt configuration. They build a charge up - then release it on Storm, who falls to the bridge below.
One of the Nimrods lands beside her. ‘Targeting -’ it begins, before several bullets are fired at it. It turns, to see Rogue and Hope guarding Storm. ‘It’s rebooting. Come on!’ Hope orders. Rogue touches Storm’s skin and absorbs her power, creating a gust of wind to knock the Nimrod backwards. Hope crouches down beside Storm, who thanks her. ‘Don’t thank me too soon’ Hope replies, before noticing another Nimrods approach them. She calls out to Rogue, ‘This one’s mine!’ She spins around, remarking that they see an attack once, they reconfigure to block it.
Hope boasts that the rifle she is carrying was built in the year 2712, so she is betting the Nimrods have never seen this cute little “hail Mary” before - and she unleashes the weapon, which literally tears the Nimrods apart. ‘That hurt!’ Rogue exclaims. ‘And it propagates outwards. So imagine how it felt when it got to him’ Hope replies.
On Utopia, Cyclops asks the White Queen who they have over there. But his girlfriend knows what he means, and announces ‘That was Hope’. Cyclops frowns.Elsewhere on Utopia, a Nimrod hovers over Magneto and exclaims ‘Mutant energy capacity at 32%’, Magneto declares that is more than enough, to which the Nimrod replies ‘Tactical analysis suggests otherwise’ and unleashes a blast of energy at Magneto, knocking him backwards. Several Nimrods descend on Magneto, and he tells them that their analysis overlooked one thing - the fact that he built this asteroid. ‘Primarily out of iron’ Magneto adds as shards of metal rip up through the ground - and through the Nimrods.
Back in the future, the Master Mold exclaims ‘ Brain activity mapped as repeating cycle. Periodicity 6...5, valency level .098V. Peak/trough mapping +/- .17 angstroms in mid-delta band. Presence of methyl para-tyrosine in concentrations of .043/.091...G regulates peak/trough variation. As sorts of cables begin to wrap around Cypher, he exclaims ‘You’re missing the point. There’s more to this than raw numbers’. But the Master Mold tells him that is an erroneous statement, as all things are expressible in digital form. ‘All things are algorithms - predicted and controlled via mathematically derived models. Interface established. Assimilation proceeds’ - and with that Cypher is engulfed completely by the cables.
The battles continue in the future, on Utopia, and in San Francisco, while Cypher decides ‘So, you’re killing me, I get that. Killing me with numbers. Terrible, perfect numbers.’ Cypher announces that he can see the pattern now, and can copy them. ‘Write back in the pieces of my mind that you’re destroying - and then -’ Cypher exclaims, while a Sentinel approaches Cable, and the operator inside it remarks ‘Don’t know how you stayed alive this long, mutie. Must’ve been a miserable, sneaking kind of life. But I’ve got two barrel loads of mercy aimed straight at your brain’. But, before the Sentinel can fire at Cable, they all begin exploding, as Cypher exclaims ‘ - I can start to improvise!’
Elsewhere in the future, Wolverine, part of his body badly wounded, looks up at the massive Sentinel: ‘Come on, you piece of crap! Come on!’ he snarls. The Sentinel halts ‘Unauthorized input - re-routing -’ the Sentinel begin, before collapsing to the ground with a mighty THOOM.
On the Golden Gate Bridge, the Nimrods lose control: ‘Binary’ ‘Scion’ ‘Mutant’ ‘Detect’ Abort’ ‘Abort’ they utter as they crash into each other. ‘What - what’s happening to them?’ Husk asks. Colossus tells her that he doesn’t know, but that it looks terminal.
On Utopia, ‘Look at this. Did Magneto kill them all?’ someone asks. The Stepford Cuckoos are nearby and one of them replies that she doesn’t think so, as one minute they were everywhere and the next they just fell out of the sky and stopped moving. ‘Over there. He’s alive!’ one of the Cuckoos exclaims as they approach Magneto. ‘Just about’ another points out. Magneto rises and tells the girls not to be afraid, as the danger has passed. Wounded, Magneto looks at the girls and asks weakly ‘Did I ever tell you that your destiny is to inherit the Earth?’
In the future, Wolverine and Domino find Cable. ‘How’s it going, old man?’ Wolverine calls out. ‘It’s done. He did it’ Cable exclaims, emerging from the rubble. ‘Yeah, we kind of noticed. Are you okay?’ Wolverine replies, before Cable shouts ‘Never mind me, Check on Cypher!’ Domino finds him and announces that Cypher is still breathing, but that they had better get him out of here. ‘Domino. Let me’ Wolverine orders, and he goes over, and picks Cypher up. Leaving the room, they meet up with Archangel and X-23 - who is badly burnt. Wolverine calls out to her and asks Archangel what happened. ‘She’s alive. She tried to step through the time membrane. Intel was right. Nothing organic can go through’ Archangel replies.
X-23 cowers against Archangel as she replies that she had to try, as the membrane was shrinking. ‘When it closes it is gone for good. ‘Seriously, are we going to stand here and watch it blink out and strand us here forever? Because I don’t think I could take that’ Domino exclaims. Archangel declares that they have to get to cover before nightfall, as there will be other Sentinels out there. ‘Best we can hope to do now is. Cable frowns.
In the present, Cyclops marches towards Rogue and Hope, and addresses the girl. ‘Hope. Thank God you’re safe’. He tells Rogue that he will talk about this with her later, as the priority is to do a final sweep and make sure - but he is interrupted by Hope who snarls ‘You use my name again - I’m going to part your hair with a big piece of your jawbone’ and holds her weapon to Cyclops’ face. Cyclops pushes the weapon aside and tells Hope that Cable did what had to be done. ‘He saved us all. And he did it for you’ Cyclops declares, assuring Hope that he mourns for Cable as well.
Colossus and Husk gather around as Hope exclaims ‘You mourn him?’ Cyclops tells her that he mourns them all, as they were his friends. ‘They were your canon fodder!’ Hope shoots back. Tears roll down her face as she exclaims that Cyclops sent them to do what he didn’t have the guts to do himself. ‘You sent them to die. And now you’re gonna stand there and make speeches about them!’ she screams. ‘Cyclops - the membrane!’ someone calls out. ‘Something is coming through the membrane!’ And at that moment, Cable emerges from the portal.
Standing on a hill overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge, Bastion stands with Graydon Creed and Stephen Lang as they watch the goings-ons below. ‘As you can see, gentlemen, our plans have suffered a serious setback. But there’s still time for us to reclaim the initiative’ he declares. ‘They think they’ve won. But the dome is still closed. The only thing that has changed is who will kill this filth!’….