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Return to Weapon X - part 6: End Game
(Finland, somewhere in the woods:)
Sabretooth stands before Wolverine, who lays the snow, and displays his new adamantium claws - four on each hand. He really put a lot of thought into that redesign, didn't he? Wolverine mocks. That should shake his rep as the made-in-Hong-Kong version of him. He also had his teeth done, Sabretooth snarls. With the Brotherhood of Mutants attacking, Weapon X has sent a condition red to every SHIELD agent on the continent. There's never been a better time to just off Wolverine and get away with it. So what is he waiting for, Wolverine, whose hands are handcuffed on his back, snarls as the other man attacks.
Meanwhile, at the Weapon X HQ, it's pandemonium as the X-Men, the other captive mutants and the Brotherhood strike out against the soldiers. One of the soldiers shouts to hit the back-up generators. He needn't waste his breath, Quicksilver points out, the Blob already ate them.
Wraith is panicking. Can't Dr. Cornelius somehow use Xavier against the mutants? Not while electricity is down, Cornelius explains. And since there's nothing keeping him in check, their biggest problem is going to be Xavier waking up. Suddenly, one of the advancing soldiers points his gun at the X-Men and shouts "freeze, you freaks!" He really shouldn't give Iceman openings like this, Cyclops remarks as Iceman buries them under a snow avalanche.
Wraith wants to know, why Cornelius thinks Xavier is going to wake up. Because they were only controlling him via the neural clamps. And with those no longer working, they probably have five to ten minutes to get out of there. Unacceptable, Wraith replies and shoots Xavier several times in the chest. Oh, smart move, Cornelius sighs. Xavier probably was their only chance of convincing those kids not to tear their heads off. Who turns the other cheek these days, Wraith asks rhetorically and turns away. They should get to the search and rescue choppers before it's too late.
Outside, Wolverine, lying in the snow, keeps on goading Sabretooth, making fun of his claws and the fur coat he used to wear. Sabretooth yells at him to shut up about the coat and tears through the handcuffs. Which is what Wolverine's been waiting for. Furiously, he strikes back and the two men tear at each other with abandon.
(Weapon X HQ:)
The Beast races through the building searching for Dr. Cornelius, the man who operated on him and turned him into this inhuman furry creature. He hopes that Cornelius can appreciate the irony, Hank rants. If not for those operations, Hank's sense wouldn't be acute enough to sniff him out. Cornelius surprisingly tells him to shut up and help him to get the bullets out of Xavier's chest before he bleeds to death. Hank is taken aback.
Outside, Sabretooth and Wolverine tumble down a slope and Wolverine keeps on mocking. Everybody laughed at Sabretooth behind his back, even the guards. They just couldn't get why he volunteered for those missions others had to be blackmailed or brainwashed into. Was he born stupid or did he just like the killing?
No, he loves the killing Sabretooth replies as he throws Wolverine against a tree. Unlike the others, Sabretooth continues, he was smart enough to realize what mutants are. Monsters, plain and simple. Men were born crueller than apes and mutants are born crueller than men; that's the natural order. He takes a look at Wolverine who seems to be unconscious and drags him away. He refuses to live a lie like Xavier or the Brotherhood, he continues. At least Weapon X recognizes them for the trash they are.
Inside the building, the mutants are still busy fighting the Weapon X personnel. Wraith intends to take off with a helicopter but Blob grabs onto it, threatening to eat the hysterical Wraith. Scarlet Witch, in the meantime, ecstatically announces that this was the way it was meant to be: mutants fighting side-by-side against human oppression. They and the X-Men should put aside the quarrel between Xavier and Magneto and declare this the year zero for the species that will inherit the Earth. She tells Colossus that the "cattle" has been herded into the main block. Would he do the honors? He doesn't have the nerve, Juggernaut mocks. "Want to bet," the Russian replies, intent on collapsing the building around the humans.
Outside, Sabretooth stands in a river; beneath him is Wolverine. He holds his foe's head under water intending to drown him. Here they are, the next step in human evolution and they are still fighting each other. See, what he means about them being trash? And he's sick of all this "Itchy and Scratchy" garbage between the two of them, always slashing each other and healing: Drowning might actually finish Wolverine off or at least turn him into a vegetable. Wolverine awakes and does something unexpected - popping his claws into his foe's unmentionables With a scream Sabretooth lets go, Wolverine tackles him and they both tumble way, way down over a cliff.
Inside, Quicksilver demands why Colossus isn't finishing the humans off. What is he waiting for? For some reason his arms won't obey him, Colossus announces incredulously. That's because she is interrupting the signal, Marvel Girl states. She doesn't know how long she can fight them but she refuses to stand by and just let them murder people. They'll have to kill her first. Wraith shouts for Marvel Girl to ignore the idiots in the canteen and help him instead. His shouts are summarily ignored.
Cyclops asks Jean how she can say that after what those animals made her do in India. They're not animals, they're humans, Jean replies. They kill because they don't know any better. But mutant are supposed to be better. Homo Superior, remember? She killed that scientist in India, because she didn't have any choice. That doesn't apply to the current situation. If they can rise above base emotions like revenge they are on the road to truly becoming X-Men; otherwise Xavier taught them nothing.
Elsewhere in the building, Beast has come to a similar conclusion as he frantically assists Cornelius in the necessary surgery on Xavier.
As Jean still urges the others to make the right decision, Rogue reaches out to her and intends to shut her up but Iceman freezes her hand in a block of ice before she can touch Jean. He agrees with Marvel Girl, as does Cyclops, who asks the Brotherhood to stand down and do things the X-Men's way. Storm angrily shouts why they should let that go just because Cyclops is too scared to disagree with "little Miss Empathic?" Has he forgotten what those monsters did to Henry? Murdering five hundred people is not going to make him look human again, Cyclops retorts. Wrong answer as he instantly realizes.
Storm turns towards Wraith, who's finally managed to get his helicopter free from Blob's grip. While he already believes himself to be home-free, Storm sends a killer of a lightning bolt his way. But as the bolt hits the chopper, Nightcrawler teleports in and gets Wraith out - a split second before it explodes. Back on the ground, the exhausted boy shouts that Weapon X already ruined enough lives. He won't let Wraith turn Storm into a killer. Beautiful last words, Wraith agrees and aims a gun towards Nightcrawler's head. Somebody shoots - at Wraith - hitting him several times in the chest. The mutants turn around to see the shooter: Nick Fury, agent of SHIELD, dressed in an immaculate white suit as usual and backed up by several hundreds heavily armed SHIELD agents.
Ok, Quicksilver decides. They can handle this, if the X-Men take down the two hundred agents on the left and the Brotherhood attacks the four hundred on the right. Fury asks them to cool down. They were after Wraith; everyone else is free to go. Scarlet Witch expresses their doubt. Why would they give them a general amnesty? She tends to be suspicious of international spy networks and their well-paid stooges. Well, she shouldn't be when they are with him a familiar voice replies, as Wolverine, the source of the voice, joins them. It was Fury who helped him to escape from Weapon X two years ago.
Jean anxiously asks what happened to him. Last they heard, Sabretooth and some guards had taken him into he woods... The guards took off when the Brotherhood attacked and Sabes and him duked it out in the snow for a couple of hours. Eventually, Wolverine football-tackled Sabes off a three hundred foot cliff. And then? Colossus asks. Well, Wolverine replies, let's just say he woke up first.
(back at the Xavier Institute:)
Jean is checking up on the recovering Xavier, who tells her that, while they all did well, he is especially proud of the way she and Henry conducted themselves The X-Men are supposed to be a catalyst between warring species. The moment they resort to murder, their credibility disappears. He'd better not tell Wolverine, Jean jokes, or he'll be on the first bus back to Canada. But he must be somewhat disappointed that most of the other prisoners went over to the Brotherhood. Tired, Xavier sinks back into the pillow. Actually, he's rather pleased with how phase two went. Wraith and Weapon X gone, Fury about to become the head of SHIELD. The only surprise was Nightcrawler opting to go home, but it's only a matter of time before he joins them here with Magneto and the others, he adds drowsily. It will be so magnificent with all of them living under one roof at last.
Jean can't believe her ears. Is he still under the influence of the anaesthetic? Xavier killed Magneto. No, he replies. As they just discussed, he doesn't believe in murder. Jean still can't believe it and asks him to please tell her that he was joking.


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You always remember your first love - part 1
Somewhere in a bad part of New York city a little girl watches from a car, how her mother, her boyfriend and another man are arguing about money they owe him. Finally the man draws his gun and shoots them. As the girl screams, he notices her. He tries to open the car, but it is locked. Displaying superhuman strength, he suddenly destroys the window by smashing through it with his oddly-shaped head. The panicked girl opens the door and escapes his grip, always holding fast to her stuffed animal, although she loses one shoe in the process.
Later, in another part of New York, Remy leBeau a handsome, but shabbily dressed young man with red on black eyes, entertains a captive audience with card-tricks, using among other things his abilities to levitate cards. And – in order to impress a lovely lady – he charges an ace of hearts, burning away the card and leaving only the heart.. The woman gives him phone room number of her hotel room, but asks him to come by a little later. Remy good-humoredly realizes that she doesn’t want to be seen with him.
While the crowd has dispersed, the little girl is still there looking up at him, Remy tells her to go to her parents. She runs after him and asks him to come with her to see her mother and her boyfriend by the water. Remy, still friendly, but not taking her seriously, explains not this time, ok? She starts crying and tells him she needs him as he can do magic. Suspicious, Remy asks why? So he can bring her back to life, the girl explains to the shocked youth.
 She takes him to the site of the murder, where the bodies are being taken away by the coroner. Remy asks the girl, whether she has any relatives – an aunt Elizabeth, in Las Vegas – to far for Remy to take her. He’ll have to take her to the police, even though he’s not a fan of them. She hysterically asks him to bring them back with his magic, until he hugs her and promises to find a way.
From another rooftop the killer, dressed in a police jacket, watches the two of them.
Later, the little girl runs in front of a shop assistant carrying some chicken into the shop. The man is horrified and believes he ´s hurt her, unaware that he’s the victim of a scam, as Remy liberally helps, himself to the unattended food. Gambit worriedly asks her, if she’s ok, and she tells him it was only pretense. He grabs her and runs away from the furious clerks.
She later explains that her mother told her lying is bad. He tells her, she has to work with him, at least until he figures out what to do with her. They’re interrupted by two men from the Salvation Army (or a similar Christian group), who offer them a place to stay. Gambit rudely brushes them off, and explains to the girl, he doesn’t like God or his mercies. He leads her into the underground, where he stays in a rundown train carriage. The girl almost gets killed on the way, by reaching out for a incoming train.
The girl reacts hysterically, when Remy angrily shouts at her, believing he will hit her and Remy remembers his own past, when he was physically abused by his father. He hugs the child and tells her, he would never hurt her. He suggests some music, but by that time, she is already falling asleep.
When Remy wakes up later, he is alone. He finds a note telling him, that he shouldn’t look for her. He tears it apart furiously and screams while the energy of his powers crackles around him…


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You always remember your first love - part 2
Four gangsters busy with a game of Poker (And fighting about the rules) are interrupted by a furious Remy. They don´t take him seriously, making condescending remarks about his Cajun background. He describes the girl he´s looking for, the murderer of her mother (and probable kidnapper) and the case. When the men mock him, he attacks them with charged cards. Finally one of them – Patch – gives in – the man Remy is looking for is Hammerhead – an enforcer of the crimelord Allan Silvermane.
Remy puts away his card and leaves. Another gangster threatens Patch for snitching. The two furiously shoot at each other.
Back on the street, Remy suddenly finds himself addressed by a bald man in a wheelchair accompanied by a white-haired girl – Prof Xavier and Storm of the X-men. Xavier offers him a place in his school. Remy cynically insinuates, that the Professor has ulterior, sexual motives. Storm angrily snaps at him, but Xavier tells him he understands his fears, should he change his mind call him, and gives him his card. Gambit takes the card, but coldly tells them that he has a habit of losing cards.
Remy enters the lobby of Silvermane Enterprises which is a swanky skyscraper. When the receptionist asks him, if she can help him, he answers no and throws a charged-up card at the office door. He asks an employee injured by the explosion, whether he´s Hammerhead. The man draws his weapon, Remy throws another card at him and threatens the men until the man tells him where Hammerhead and the girl are.
Remy goes to the address the guard gave him, a run-down factory crying out Hammerhead´s name. Hammerhead answers from a bridge above, telling him he admires his moxy and that he killed the girl yesterday, as Gambit finds himself surrounded by armed men.  Hammerhead adds that he only let Remy live so far, because Silvermane owes Nathaniel Essex a favor. Apparently Remy wasn´t always a knight in white armor.  Things change, the boy answers and throws charged-up paper at the men around him. Amid the explosions he shouts Hammerhead´s name, threatening him.  Hammerhead rushes him and intends to beat him to death and then, he adds, he´s going to go into the backroom and slit the girl´s throat – revealing that he lied before – with Remy´s useless trick cards. The power´s not in the cards, Gambit answers, as he puts his hand into Hammerhead´s mouth and charges him up, till he explodes.
He then frees the girl, whose stuffed toy held the diamonds the gangsters were looking for and takes her to the Salvation Army people from last issue, telling them he has powerful enemies. She wants to stay with him and she cries. Remy distractss her, to stop her crying, and asks whether she´d like to fly with her umbrella. He tells her to close her eyes, think herself light, charges up her umbrella and up she goes. The girls sinks down again and asks whether they can do it again, but he´s already gone.
Later she cries herself to sleep, wondering what she did to make him leave, when suddenly a charged up ace of hearts appears in the air, explodes – till only the heart is left.


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It doesn't have to be this way
This issue on the one hand is about an article of Xavier´s about mutants in society. On the other hand it is about several goings-on in the X-Men's lives (in brackets).
Xavier's article  starts with a definition of the term "mutant", before going on to describe what role mutants can play in society. Xavier points out, how foolish it is to hate another person for their special talents.
[The X-Men in the meantime are shown playing baseball and using their special powers in the process. Even Wolverine cracks a smile, watching his teammates' antics.]
In the article Xavier explains why he thinks young mutants have to be embraced by society and taught the use of their special gifts. He cites his X-Men as examples: Marvel Girl was almost driven mad by her psychic powers, until Xavier suppressed them, Now she works with mentally ill people herself and helps the police with missing people.
Storm, blossoms academically, in spite of her past as a runaway and uses her powers to help the farming community.
Cyclops, usually a poor student, shows exceptional leading skills and does extreme sports with underprivileged children, thus offering them a positive role model.
Iceman helps the poor.
[At the same time Iceman is shown to "mistakenly" walk into the girls dressing room, while Jean and Ororo are changing; apparently not for the first time.]
Beast works on a project to find alternatives to expensive pharmaceuticals in third world countries.
[Beast is shown to have an Internet chat with a groupie.]
Xavier gushes most about the two former criminals Wolverine and Colossus, who spend their nights solving crimes and helping the hopeless.
Xavier admits, that not the entire mutant influence is positive, citing Spike Lee's upcoming Magneto biography or Professor Bolivar Trask's theories about cruelty being hardwired into mutant genes as negative influences
Considering the Brotherhood's renewed attack on financial districts, Xavier admits, detractors might have a point.
[Xavier has a meeting with the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver and asks them to consider less violent alternatives to simply blowing targets up: for example proving the corruption of politicians or outing mutant celebrities.]
In the article Xavier excuses his inaction against the Brotherhood with the claim that outright battle is an outmoded solution. Violence begets further violence, but ideas change the world.
[On a walk in Central Park Xavier introduces Colossus to Erik Lehnsherr, a social worker, who works with handicapped children, a man, who's the amnesiac reprogrammed Magneto. Xavier says, he doesn't believe in killing, but he staged Magneto's death, because the public was howling for blood. Now he has the chance to reintroduce Magneto into society and eventually rehabilitate him.
"Erik" feels that Xavier is kind of familiar and he has a problem with his watch that always stops, proof of his still existent magnetic powers.
Back at home, the X-Men prepare for the photo shoot. Cyclops is gossiping with Toad on the phone. Apparently Storm retaliated for Iceman's Peeping-Tom-tendencies by creating a tiny thunderstorm in his intestines. And Blob turns out to be Beast's secret Internet "admirer".]
Xavier finishes his article with the thought, why mutants should only be considered an evolution of all that's bad in humanity, as Trask claims. Isn't it possible that they are also an evolution of man's capacity for good?
[Some time later Iceman and Xavier discuss that the magazine turned the article down, because it is too pro-mutant in light of the Brotherhood's terrorist attacks.]


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World Tour - part 1
Lands End, Scotland:
A group of policemen weathers the storm at the coast in search of nineteen-year old David Xavier, who ran away from his mother’s – Dr. Moira MacTaggert – hospital on Muir Island. The Policemen are nervous: they are aware that David is a mutant, who can jump into other peoples bodies, but also pity him, as he’s been sick, since he was 13.
They enter the boat that came from Muir Island and find the crew dead. One horribly withered man is still alive. David is within him. The police try to talk reason into David: he will not last another day away from his mother’s hospital. David replies that he still has one day more than they do and making eye contact with the sergeant jumps into his body and shoots everybody else. Then he makes an impossible far jump from the boat to land.
Searching the contents of his host body’s wallet, he happily goes in search of the next fast-food restaurant.
London, two days earlier:
Marvel Girl and Storm are rollerblading at a breakneck speed through London. They pass a bookshop, where Prof. Xavier´s new book on mutant affairs is shown in the shop window.
Storm says that she didn’t read Xavier´s book, yet – it was too highbrow for her taste, even though thanks to the book they are now on an eight week long promotional world tour.
The girls chat about London: to Jean the city embodies everything she loves about pop culture, whereas Ororo is happy just doing the  “touristy stuff”. Changing the subject, Storm asks whether Jean is still interested in Wolverine. Jean denies this vehemently and hopes that Cyclops is finally going to show the nerve to ask her out. Storm doesn’t buy her disinterest in Wolverine.
Jean shoots back, that Storm is a fine one to talk about love triangles, considering Iceman has a crush on her. The two break off the subject, as they notice a shady looking woman with a gun ahead of them.
Colossus, Iceman and Wolverine share a table in a Soho nightclub. Iceman is having a discussion with his mother on his cellphone; she is not in the least happy, about this world tour. Wolverine butts in, taking the phone, intending to sweet talk Mrs. Drake and claims that he and Colossus are taking care of her son.
Considering that he is a known killer and Colossus a former member of the Russian mafia, Mrs. Drake is less than pleased and lets Wolverine know that.
Wolverine tells Bobby to cheer up, by the time they are back in the USA, his mother will have relaxed. Besides Bobby shouldn’t have brought along a cellphone in the middle of the narcotics sting, the three x-men have been preparing, as this one is finally going to get them better grades than Beast and Cyclops, or so they hope.
On Leicester Square Cyclops and Beast are looking for someone to help for their project.  Beast chooses very carefully and finally decides on several youths, who are about to mug them.
Two days later, during breakfast at the Ritz plaza, Xavier wants to know, how the British press reported his student’s heroics.
Jean proudly points out that her and Storm’s actions against a terrorist cell made the first three pages of the Sun.
Iceman and his team busted an international drug ring, as reported in the Daily mirror, pages three to five.
A completely self-assured beast happily announces that they showed a group of muggers the error of their ways, which never actually made the papers.
To the surprise of the others, Scott and Hank get the best grade, while the others flunk.
Xavier explains that they were supposed to save lives, not act like thugs. Phase three of Xavier´s grand plan is to promote pacifist alternatives to traditional human problems. The X-Men are supposed to gain the humans´ confidence and maiming and mutilating criminals does not help.
Later Xavier and the X-Men attend a press conference, but first -protected by Marvel Girl’s forcefield- they have to pass a huge group of anti-mutant protesters. Colossus takes a long angry look at the hate filled faces.
At the conference Xavier explains that his school is funded through his inheritance, that you don’t have to be a mutant to be an X-Man and he denies the rumor, that there is a second school in Europe, where less socially acceptable mutants are trained. When asked, whether scenes as the one that greeted him make him resentful of humans, Xavier replies that one can never get used to hate.
The next morning the X-Men find out that Colossus checked out during the night. Jean wonders, whether he has gone to the other side. Logan doesn’t believe this, claiming Piotr isn’t the type to betray his friends with a pointed look at Cyclops, who reacts angrily. The Professor isn’t paying attention to them, as he is receiving a phone call from Muir Island- from his ex-wife Moira Mac Taggert! She anxiously explains that half her staff are dead, the hospital is trashed, that she’s under House arrest and all of this, because their son David has escaped.


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Burial Service
Cyclops, Iceman and Colossus are on the X-jet. Iceman asks Scott if he is sure of the identity of the mutants they are tracking. Cyclops answers that the Professor tracked a mutant running over 200 miles per hour, so it's logical that Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch are near. They are going to invite them to join the X-Men. Peter wonders if that's a wise decision since they are, after all, Magneto's children. Cyclops answers that, both of them have helped them before, and that it's Xavier's decision. Iceman peers out the window letting the other X-Men know he has spotted the twins, however, gazing on the battle waged below, he wonders if the Professor shouldn't reconsider his proposal.
Wanda and Pietro are attacking a military convoy, with Wanda using her hex-spheres and Pietro using his speed to knock opponents down. The convoy leader tries to tell his troops to secure the cargo truck, but he is punched by Pietro. Meanwhile Wanda asks him if they have a right to be doing this. Quicksilver answers that they have every right. In that same instance Pietro hears Bobby's voice behind him, and manages to avoid a wave of ice at the last second. However, he isn't fast enough to avoid a shard of ice from breaking of the wave and impaling itself on Pietro's leg. He turns around to see the three X-Men charging towards him.
Just as Scott is about to ask what Pietro is up to, the Marines begin to fire at them as well. Iceman makes a wall of ice and tells them they're X-Men. Peter remarks that they don't seem to care. Cyclops reaches Wanda and grabs her arm, asking her what they are doing and how many people have they killed. She answers that no one has been killed and they are there because of Magneto. In the same instant Quicksilver knocks Scott back with a big piece of metal debris, ordering Cyclops to not touch his sister. Scott lands on a few marines and Iceman's wall. Colossus charges forward, mumbling how the twins can't be trusted.
Quicksilver encircles Peter and hits him repeatedly to no avail. He asks the X-Men to allow them to grieve. Bobby tries to freeze Wanda, while taunting her that Pietro can't hurt Peter since he is made of organic steel. Wanda answers that it is an easy change to trigger. Using her magic she turns Colossus back to flesh, just as he is telling Pietro that he is going to break his hand. Before Peter can react Quicksilver lands four fast punches, effectively knocking Peter out. The Scarlet Witch returns her attention to Iceman and tells him that he has a lesson learn: he is careless and so is his work. She uses her magic on Bobby's iceslide, destroying it in the process. She tells him there are many flaws and cracks to exploit.
Suddenly an optic blast is thrown in Pietro's direction. Scott tells him to leave Peter alone. He remarks that he thought they were free of Magnetos influence. Dodging Scott's blasts, Pietro answers they are there looking for some peace, as the convoy is transporting Magneto's body. Quicksilver rushes to the back of the truck, which Scott has opened with his last blast. Pietro says he doesn't want his father to be dissected by a government surgeon. Even though Magneto was a madman/martyr, he deserves a proper burial.
Pietro finds only his father's helmet inside the truck. He rushes to the leader of the convoy, demanding to know where his father?s body is. He threatens to unravel the general's intestine, if he doesn't answer. The general informs him that they scanned the area and found nothing other than the helmet.
Cyclops hits Pietro with an optic blast and orders him to leave the humans alone. He offers to help them work out their anger and frustration. He asks them to join them on the Professor's behalf, despite Bobby's objections. Pietro says that they would be betraying their father, even in death. Scott answers that Magneto was a madman, just like Pietro himself admitted. Quicksilver remarks that the professor is mad as well. He and the X-men have no concept of the daily horrors mutants have to endure every day. They are safe at their school, pretending to be human. Cyclops says that they are all human. Not wanting to fight anymore Wanda tells Quicksilver to listen to somebody else for a change. Pietro kneels down and wonders if Wanda is right.
At that same moment a cry of: "Die, Mutant!" is heard. A marine has fired his gun at Wanda. Quicksilver manages, in one move, to catch the bullet and knock the soldier down. As he is showing Scott the bullet, a symbol as to why they can't join the X-Men, he tells Wanda to take a deep breath. The Scarlet Witch knows this means they're leaving, she says goodbye to Scott and kisses him on the mouth.
Later that night the twins are sitting at the top of a Washington skyscraper. Wanda asks Pietro if they are wrong. Quicksilver answers that they are not, humans will never change. They turned their backs on their father and it cost him his life. They will never do that again. Wanda remarks that Pietro hated Magneto. Quicksilver snaps and grabs Wanda's arm. He says he loved their father and that he loves her too. Wanda, shocked by the sudden revelation, runs away. Quicksilver is left alone and begins to talk to the helmet as if it was his father. He wishes that wherever he may be, that it be far away from this land. He prays that he will be in a better world. Picking up the helmet, he examines it and puts it on. In that moment a tear falls from his eye.


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World Tour - part 2
Iceman, Storm, Wolverine and Beast accompany Prof Xavier to Muir Island, where Dr. Moira MacTaggert and STRIKE (the British division of SHIELD) agents Braddock and Thomas greet them.
Moira asks about the rest of them. Beast explains that Colossus has disappeared and Jean and Scott are following him to Russia. Moira wonders, why Xavier seems to be in a trance. Beast explains that he is conducting a psychic search for their son, David. Moira snorts and comments caustically that this is more concern than he hadever showed in David, when he and Moira were still married.
The X-Men are still rather surprised that Xavier has a family, let alone another secret school. Moira answers that despite their 15-year marriage she never knew, what Xavier was thinking either. The hospital is older than the Westchester school and Xavier's sponsors are hoping that some of the mutants will eventually be able to graduate to the other school. As the others wonder, that they though Xavier paid everything with his inheritance, Moira points out how ridiculous that is, since you'd have to be a billionaire to fund an operation of that magnitude.
Getting serious, Moira explains about David's condition: During their marriage David seemed to be a perfectly ordinary boy, until his father left them. The he started convulsing violently. His powers manifested as limited control over the matter around him. The drawback being, the slightest use of that power has disastrous effect on his body. David was kept sedated for years.
Last night he started convulsing again – something connected with the arrival of Xavier and “his little surrogate family” in Britain, Moira assumes. The convulsion would have resulted in David's death, had he not jumped into the body of one of the attending nurses.
Agent Betsy Braddock of STRIKE´s PSI division and Dai Thomas, another STRIKE agent, chime in. As far as they can ascertain, David has switched bodies three times since then.
Xavier snaps out of his trance. He's located David in Aberdeen. Cooly, he and Moira greet each other.
A little later in a Burger King restaurant in Aberdeen, the employees are listening to the news, describing a submarine disaster in Russia, when suddenly David enters the restaurant in the burn-out body of the policeman he took over. David orders a huge amount of food, but staggers suddenly. He surmises that someone is influencing his mind- correctly, as outside Xavier and the X-Men are waiting and order him to stay calm and give up.
Wolverine enters the restaurant, appealing to David's good side and trying to establish a connection with him. David reciprocates by mentally knocking Xavier out of his wheelchair and telling Wolverine that he enjoys hurting people and proves this, by killing everybody in the restaurant except for Wolverine. Logan attacks him. David reads his mind and makes fun of him having written poems for Jean, then possesses him. Jumping out of the restaurant, David exclaims, that he has found the perfect body in Wolverine.
With Xavier unconscious, Beast assumes leadership, quickly jumping at David/Wolverine trying to keep him off-balance. David creates illusions of Beasts´ old schoolmates, who made fun of him and plays on Beast's insecurities.
Iceman tries to help his friend by attacking David with an iceblast. David isn't fazed and reveals Iceman's shameful secrets: that he knows that Iceman lusts after Storm – Beast's girlfriend and that he still wets his bed, when he has nightmares about their fight with Magneto. While he is occupied with mocking Iceman and attacking him with illusions of Magneto, Storm hits him with a lightning bolt and Betsy follows suit by tossing a “psychic grenade” at him, hurting David/Wolverine badly. As reinforcements are arriving via helicopters, David jumps in front of a heavy truck and possesses the truck driver, leaving Wolverine to be run over.
Meanwhile, Cyclops and Marvel Girl are in St. Petersburg in search of Colossus. Scott wonders, if leaving the others was such a good idea. Jean replies that they’ll be able to handle everything and besides both she and the professor have the gut feeling that they'll need Colossus soon. Scott hopes, that Piotr has nothing to do with the sunken submarine. As Jean senses Colossus nearby, they park the car and the conversation turns towards Wolverine and why he didn't accompany Jean.
Jean hints heavily that she is single these days, but Scott apparently doesn't get, what Jean is driving at. They find Piotr and Jean hugs him, relieved. Piotr though, is less than happy to see them and tells them he quit the X-Men, as he is tired of Xavier´s nonsense pacifist ideas.
Aberdeen
David drove the truck off the bridge creating a huge pile-up and escaped in the melee. Wolverine's healing factor in the meantime is working overdrive, healing him from the awful injuries he sustained. Wolverine tells the professor that David hates Xavier so badly, it scares even him.


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World Tour - part 3
Saint Petersburg:
Marvel Girl and Cyclops have a hard time believing that Colossus wants to have nothing to do with the X-Men anymore. They ask him to at least consider helping the Russian seamen in the sunken submarine. Piotr replies, they should stop trying to trick him into rejoining their “stupid cult”. There are experts dealing with the submarine and in any case, that’s the sort of situation the Ultimates were created for. He prefers his poorly paid job in the car-factory to hiding from a world that hates his guts. Besides unlike Jean – who needs the school to keep her psychic powers in check – and Scott – who needs his ruby quartz glasses – he can appear normal and intends to do so. He claims that mutations are actually disgusting and asks them to leave.
Berlin airport:
The rest of the X-Men, Moira MacTaggert and STRIKE agents Dai Thomas and Betsy Braddock are waiting for the Ultimates, Braddock has called to help them with David, whom she has tracked to Germany.
Storm, Iceman and Wolverine are not happy at the prospect of having to fight the incredibly powerful David instead of enjoying the world tour. Hearing their snippy remarks, Moira angrily points out that David is a young boy with a very serious medical condition – something that doesn’t really interest the X-Men. On the other hand, they are thrilled at the prospect of working with the Ultimates.
Bobby wonders how Betsy could track David to Germany, when Xavier couldn’t – because, Beast explains, David was in Xavier’s head and devised defenses against him.
The X-Men are somewhat bothered at how well Betsy and Xavier seem to get along, something that’s typical of psychics, Thomas explains. When Storm sardonically remarks that maybe Betsy has the hots for the Professor, Moira cries out in horror. Not because of Betsy’s possible intentions, but because she realizes, why David lured them to Berlin, of all places – this is the place, where she, David and Xavier had their last family holiday together.
In the meantime Betsy and Xavier are communicating telepathically with each other. Betsy wonders why Wolverine is so shaken after David’s attack. Xavier answers that Wolverine is a feral beast and thus relies entirely on his senses. For the first time he was up against a foe, where his powers proved useless. Xavier adds, that he is confident that they’ll be able to capture and rehabilitate David. Betsy is dumbfounded. Rehabilitate him? Xavier explains that David is a nineteen-year-old, who spent the last seven years bedridden. Added to that, he’s probably the most powerful mutant in the world. He needs to be educated more than anyone else. Betsy is starting to become intrigued by Xavier. They continue their conversation in a restaurant, where the topic shifts to Moira.
Xavier tells Betsy, that they were very much in love once. Theirs was a whirlwind romance: they met a t a post-graduate course in genetics in Glasgow and married a few weeks after. Together they pretty much invented mutant science. Moira was the one who designed Cerebro, which was originally used to track down young mutants, who needed medical help.
Eventually, their work attracted the attention of Erik Lehnsherr, the first adult mutant Charles met.
Erik and Charles were fascinated with each other. An emotion, according to Charles, stronger than the love they felt for their human wives. They spent hours at a piece mapping out the future.
David however was somewhat less happy meeting Lehnsherr’s twin children, as they terrorized him.
The fascination and the growing alienation between him and his family led to Charles leaving his family one-day with Magneto to build a utopia.  Of course later Magneto and Charles had their infamous argument, which led to Magneto paralysing Charles, after he had discovered his plans.
Later when investors approached Charles with the idea to create an open school and a secret one for less fortunate mutants, he once again contacted Moira.
Betsy asks, whether he did so because of guilt. Partially, Xavier admits, but mainly, because Moira is the foremost expert in genetics and this ensured, that his ill son had a secure home.
Betsy wants to know whether he feel responsible for David’s reality-warping powers emerging after he left his family.
Charles denies this nonchalantly. His powers would have emerged anyway sooner or later. What he does feel guilty about, is not having been there for David, when it happened.
Provocatively he states that he loved his son, sometimes like a pet, but he loved him.
St. Petersburg
Piotr is having dinner with his mother and his two younger siblings. Jean states that Russian intelligence just called. The Submarine cannot be reached by the experts and it all hinges on Iron Man now. What if his armor can’t handle that kind of depth, jean asks. Piotr doesn’t buy it. Scott snaps why he doesn’t want to use his powers to help people. After all Xavier helped him, when he got him out of the Russian Mafia.
Piotr replies that he paid his dues to Xavier, whom he considers a madman for trying to rehabilitate Magneto. He wants a normal life, nothing else.
Scott tries to explain that Piotr isn’t normal and has nothing in common with normal people, the X-Men are his family now.
The X-Men don’t even know him properly, Piotr snorts and admits that this is one of the reasons he left. He asks whether either of them could name one of his favorite tv shows, for example. Sure, Jean pipes up, “Will and Grace”. Seeing as how she is a mindreader, Piotr is not impressed.
Jean asks him, whether the problem isn’t truly that he wants the one teammate he loves, to love him back? In response, Piotr angrily throws them out.
Later the Rasputins watch the news and learn that Iron Man is occupied elsewhere and nobody can help the sunken submarine. Piotr makes his decision.
The Barent´s Sea
Piotr is sent down to dislodge the submarine. He dives down, armed only with a flashlight, and lifts the submarine.
Jean and Scott hear of the newest developments in their car.
The news crews find an exhausted Colossus on the shore along with the submarine, which he carried all the way up. The people go wild, Colossus is interviewed, he’s the center of attention and he loves every moment of it.
Berlin, later
Munching a packet of M & M-candies, Betsy asks whether Moira went to pick up Colossus with the others, at the airport. Charles explains that Moira needed to lie down, because of her aching hip. But the X-men are very excited about Piotr coming back and are all meeting him at the airport.
Betsy asks whether he’s glad to have his whole class together again.
Charles suddenly addresses her as “David” and tells “David”, he’s probably glad as well, since this gives him the chance to revenge themselves on them all.
The conversation between Charles and “Betsy” is surreally calm.
David asks, when Xavier figured out he had taken over Betsy.
In the restaurant, Xavier replies, since his demeanour and table manners were more those of a male teenager than of a well-bred young lady.
When did he take over Betsy, Xavier wants to know. Back in Scotland, David replies, right after the big crash. He has also murdered Dai Thomas and not called the Ultimates or the backup S.H.I.E.L.D. team the X-Men are waiting for.
Xavier remarks that David has certainly created an excellent trap for them by flying them halfway around the world and cutting them off from any support system. He notices that David has better control of his powers, as Betsy’s body hasn’t disintegrated yet. Are they going to fight now, Xavier asks.
First he’s going to finish his package of M & Ms, David replies, then he’s going to kill Xavier, the X-Men and destroy everything Charles ever built.
Xavier calmly states that he’s going to find a way to stop him despite his powers. “We’ll see”, David replies cryptically.


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World Tour - part 4
Berlin:
Unaware that their quarry, David Xavier and STRIKE agent Betsy Braddock are one now, the X-men are in a car en route to the airport, to await the arrival of Colossus, Cyclops and Marvel Girl.  Storm asks the others, if they ever wonder, whether Xavier telepathically manipulates them to be X-men, as heroic, selfless behaviour simply isn't like her. Bobby doubts it, after all, if that were the case, why would he even allow them to consider this possibility?  Beast points out, that Xavier might allow that in order to convince them that they do have free will, after all.
The conversation is cut short as they see David in Betsy's body floating in front of them, dragging his imprisoned parents in tow.  Xavier asks David, whether he enjoys murdering innocent girls, referring to Betsy. David replies that Betsy isn't innocent, as she's a hypocrite and a sell-out. Plus, the tumor in her breast she was unaware of would have killed her anyway.  Moira asks him to stop. David transforms Betsy's shape into a monstrous version of his body and replies, he won't stop until his father's surrogate family – the X-Men – are dead.
Wolverine orders the others out of the car and heads towards David in full gear. David simply changes the car's path and tosses it into a building.
Then he urges Xavier to tell his X-men to fight. Xavier does just that, assuring the team, that the battle isn't as hopeless as it may seem and formulates a rough battle plan with them.
On Xavier's orders Beast attacks David, giving the others time to make their preparations.
Iceman, who's supposed to work in tandem with Storm however, panics and in a fit of hysteria feels unable to use his ice powers.
David pushes Beast aside. As Hank lands, he finds himself in an illusion created by David, where he ´s surrounded by his loving mother and beautiful adoring girls. David explains that he could make the world like that – a world where Hank's parents aren't drunks, and where he isn't ugly, if only he kills the X-Men. As Beast protests this isn't real, David points out to him, that neither is his relationship with Storm. Playing on Hank's insecurities, David claims that Xavier has her hypnotized to love Hank, so Beast will keep on staying at the school. Beast tells him to drop dead. David hits him and tells him, he was going to kill him anyway.
Storm shoves Iceman aside and attacks David with lightning. David however merely erects a wall to fend her attack off and cheerfully tells her that he's currently reading the minds of her teammates on the plane and that Colossus originally quit, because he was as dissatisfied with Xavier's hippie-philosophy as she is.  David destroys the plane above Berlin, but saves Cyclops, Marvel Girl and Colossus. He wants their deaths to be personal.
David approaches Cyclops, intending to take over his father's “favorite” student. However, Scott surprises him with a full frontal optic blast, managing to hurt David and tick him off.
Xavier telepathically urges Iceman to get over his fear and help the others, as something seems to be wrong with David's powers. As Bobby angrily asks, why Xavier isn't doing anything himself, the telepath replies that David has too powerful telepathic defenses in Betsy's body.
Bobby sees David choking the life out of Storm and finally ices up, turning into a spiky version of his usual ice-form and attacks him. David throws him into a car, mocking his effort.
David asks his father sarcastically, if he had cared more for him had he sported powers in the past. Could he call himself Proteus and join his father's fancy school?
At the same time he is teleporting the two of them to Paris, the next planned stop on Xavier's book tour. David then proceeds to slaughter the people around them, before teleporting them to Madrid, Rome and all the next stops of the tour, always murdering people. As for some reason he cannot teleport them to New York, he transports them back to Berlin, a place fraught with meaning for him.
He erects a forcefield around them, keeping the X-Men out and explains. Here they witnessed the Glasgow Rangers vs. Borussia Dortmund soccer match on their last family holiday. David noticed how his father spent the entire game telepathically talking to Magneto instead of paying attention. From that moment on he felt he had no father.
David intends to make Xavier's head explode, but is stopped by Betsy's personality trying her best to jam his powers. Xavier urges Betsy to try and undo the things David did. No time, Betsy replies. He's too powerful. She tells the incredulous Xavier that he'll have to kill her – and David along with her. Even Moira urges him to do it, but Xavier refuses this, searching desperately for another option, but not coming up with anything.
At that moment, with the forcefield down, Colossus smashes Betsy/David with a car.
The others are incredulous, but are brought out of their shock, when Storm screeches that Iceman isn't breathing.
Muir Island, Scotland
A few days later a funeral is being held for David. Moira tells Charles how Betsy's father, Lord Braddock showed his condolences, even bringing her a prayer card. She feels ashamed, as her child basically killed his and he's still capable of acting like a gentleman. Moira feels, she couldn't act that way, if situations were reversed, in fact she doesn't know, if she'll dare show her face at Betsy's funeral at Westminster Abbey. Xavier replies that his students don't know how to talk with him anymore. He's made a horrible mess out of everything with David and Betsy dead and Bobby fighting for his life in Intensive Care. He feels he was being dangerously naïve and will therefore disband the X-Men.


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Resignation
Westchester County, New York.
Xavier gets up in the morning and goes through the motions of showering, shaving dressing, before he sits down and composes a letter to Cyclops, to be opened at midnight.
The Auckland Sky-tower, New Zealand
In the meantime the X-Men are engaged in a fight against the mutant terrorist Acolytes, a splinter group of the Brotherhood, who felt that the Brotherhood has betrayed its cause. Cyclops orders Jean to create a forcefield around all team members and orders Storm to take out the Acolytes with her winds. Wolverine and Colossus quickly and brutally dispatch the remaining Acolytes.
Xavier's letter
In his letter Xavier writes, that by the time, the X-Men return to the mansion, he will have left and this letter is his farewell. Xavier wants to leave, because he feels he has failed in every possible way, as father, husband and teacher. He no longer believes in the naïve dream of co-existence – only one species will sit at the top of the food chain. Therefore he's glad that his New York lecture was cancelled and – yes – that new terror groups are starting to replace the Brotherhood. His biggest conceit was however trying to rehabilitate Magneto. Therefore he intends to give him back his memories and let nature take its course.
Xavier's school
Wolverine and Colossus are taking a shower and discuss the battle. Wolverine is amazed, how the Acolytes broke away from the Brotherhood, because they deemed them too soft.  Colossus replies that Quicksilver's cease-fire is very controversial. He is in talks with the UN and that has caused great unrest among the ranks, he expects more splinter groups to show up.
Wolverine complains about the bullets under his skin and Colossus tells him, he's glad to be back. Giving him a friendly look, Wolverine tells Colossus, it's good to have him back too.
Central Park
Erik Lehnsherr (the amnesiac Magneto) approaches Xavier and tells him he recognizes him from the newspapers. He has seen Xavier quite often here in Central Park and asks him, whether he knows one of the kids, Erik works with. Xavier denies this, claiming he just likes coming to the park to think. Plus, he finds it reassuring, that he is not the only teacher having to deal with disadvantaged youngsters. Erik laughs at the comparison. He agrees that the two of them are doing the same job in a strange way. Maybe this explains why he is so interested in Xavier and the X-Men. Possibly, Xavier agrees flatly. Erik introduces himself to Xavier and then asks him why he is here, when the X-Men are fighting terrorists in New Zealand. Xavier replies that this is their last mission under his jurisdiction. He plans to close the school this night. But why turn his back on his pacifist mission, Erik asks, shocked. Certainly he is aware of what his son did, on the planned book tour, Xavier replies, somewhat coolly.  Erik urges him to not blame himself. Many people are saying, things would have been even worse without the X-Men.
And that's the point, Xavier explains. He wanted to promote non-violent thinking and his students stop a foe by crushing him under a car. And what's worse – they were probably right to do so.
Westchester: the Danger Room
Storm asks Beast whether he wants to go out for dinner with her. Beast claims he has work to do on the virtual reality facility and declines. Ororo presses on, asking whether he'd like to see a movie instead. When Beast declines again, Ororo asks him, when he will stop shutting her out. A few weeks ago, they were considering moving out of school and getting their own place, now he treats her like a casual acquaintance, because he's afraid that the professor telepathically made her love him, so he'd stay at school. Beast tells her, he loves her too much, to simply accept that she loves him, without evidence that this is the case without Xavier's interference.
Central Park:
Erik asks Xavier, whether he now sees violence as the answer. Xavier replies, he really doesn't know. But the history of evolution is one of bloodshed. Why should this phase be different? Perhaps Magneto was right and Xavier's simply clinging to some old-fashioned human sentiment. Actually, Erik replies, according to his girlfriend, Magneto was the one whose tactics were based on a traditionally human mindset. After all smashing one's opponents into submission is a pretty imperialistic idea, no? And even the Brotherhood of Mutants are following Xavier's lead these days – thanks to talks and negotiations, not violence. What would Xavier's quitting do to the cause, Erik asks. Xavier feels that Erik is overestimating his importance. How can he be a saviour, when he ´s really an emotional vacuum. He asks full of anguish. How can he shape a generation, when he couldn't even raise one boy? He feels like a fraud and anyone who believes in his ideas is mad.
Erik replies that he takes that as an insult and shows him the tickets he had bought for Xavier's cancelled Madison Square Garden appearance. He's holding onto them just in case.
Xavier is astonished that Erik did something like that of his own free will. Without Xavier having to mentally nudge him.He breaks down crying, thanking Erik, who hugs him.
St. Charles Hospital.
Marvel Girl and Cyclops secretly stand guard at Iceman's bed in intensive Care. Jean telepathically prevents the guard from perceiving them, as Bobby's parents have forbidden the X-Men to visit him.
The two feel sorry for Bobby. Jean understands, that his parents are against the X-Men now, how could parents act otherwise? But she doesn't blame Xavier – they all knew, what they signed up for after all.  Jean then asks Scott playfully, that she hopes he's not considering leaving and joining the Brotherhood again, as he did last time an X-Man was hurt badly.
Cyclops assures her, he'll stay. Good, Jean says, because she was terribly lonely, when he was away that time and Scott is the only one who understands her. She asks Scott to put an arm around her, claiming she's freezing. Jean leans closer, assuring him, that she knows his feelings and kisses him. Scott reciprocates.
Westchester.
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Hellfire and Brimstone - part 1
Somewhere in a big city, 14-year-old Kitty Pryde and two of her friends plan to deceive their parents and secretly attend a party. Kitty is surprised, as she comes home and her mother Theresa already knows what she she’s up to. Kitty denies this and dares her to call Shelly’s parents. Theresa calls her bluff. She already did that and as a result Shelly is grounded. Kitty marches off in a huff, while her mother calls to her to microwave her dinner: spaghetti and meatballs. Another affront, as Kitty has been a vegetarian for a month and a half, after all. As Kitty grabs the plate it suddenly slips through her fingers and Kitty starts to sink into the ground. She calls her mother for help, and ends up in the apartment beneath, where her neighbour is just having an adulterous love affair. Mrs. Winterbottom shouts at Kitty to get out or she’ll call the police. Kitty apologizes and as she stumbles backwards, she starts phasing again, as she finds herself outside the house.
Hysterically Kitty shouts “get out of the way!”, as she is run through by a cab and then a bus. She cries for someone to please just hold her hand. She needs something tangible, but people shy away. Kitty slips through the ground again and ends up in the sewers, her little power display finally stopping. She calls her mother on the cell phone and tells her, that “it” happened again.
Later, while Kitty is asleep, Theresa gets an E-mail from Professor Xavier, whom she asked for help. Xavier writes that he believes, his school can help Kitty and he´ll send Marvel Girl to transport them to school.
One or several days later.
Jean drives the two of them to Xavier´s. Theresa asks her, whether she´s the telepathic one. Jean replies amused, that she´s telepathic enough to know, that Theresa doesn´t really believe in such things- Theresa wants to know, whether she was the first student. Jean corrects her. The first student was Cyclops, whom the professor saved from a lynch mob. A week later he checked out Jean from a psychiatric institute. Cyclops, she points out is the nice lad, piloting the jet that races above their head. Cyclops, sounding uncharacteristically relaxed, tells them hello, and Jean replies, he can probably look forward to a month of detention for this road violation. Cyclops brushes her off and Jean states amused, he´s loosened up incredibly ever since he got a girlfriend.
The Car approaches the school, protected by a hologram. Xavier mentally explains to Theresa and Kitty that this is one of the school’s eight main security features. There are enough lunatics who’d love to burn the school to the ground after all.
Xavier then apologizes to Theresa for the telepathic conversation. He’s hardly used to using his voice these days. Kitty is very shy, when introduced. The Professor and Jean try to calm her. Yes, she is a mutant, and yes, it’s perfectly normal to have shameful thoughts, when being close to a mind reader. Jean offers to show her the school, while the Professor takes Teresa to his private office.
Kitty curiously asks Jean how she met the professor. Jean repeats that she was in a mental institute at the time and the Professor taught her how to get a grip on her extrasensory perceptions, which had put her there. Apart from the occasional migraine and telekinetic nightmare, she’s been okay ever since. A lack of control of one’s mutant power is perfectly normal at the beginning, Jean explains. Even Cyclops couldn’t control his optic blast without the special ruby quartz glasses. And Storm used to hit things with lightning every time she sneezed, Jean says as they look out of the window and see Storm and Cyclops, who just left the jet, waving up to them.
Do they get flying lessons as well, Kitty asks eagerly. That and driving, jet skiing and defusing nuclear bombs, Jean replies. But those two just returned from an undercover mission in San Francisco, investigating the disappearance of a young mutant.
Jean then points to Colossus who just comes in carrying the injured Wolverine. They come from a joint effort with the NYPD to bust an illegal street drug derivative of a telepath’s cranial fluid. Colossus jokingly tells Kitty not to worry about Wolverine’s injuries. His healing factor is coping and he’s already scheduled for his next Danger Room session.
That’s their training area, Jean explains. They used to use a virtual reality program, but as it kept on crashing they went back to the basics.
Kitty asks, who’s in the room they are passing, another cute guy perhaps?
That’s Beast, Jean answers evasively, their genius, but after breaking up with Storm and Iceman being injured, he’s not feeling very sociable.
Inside the room, Beast hangs from the ceiling and intently watches CNN, where a lobbyist speaking on the Drake family’s behalf preaches about the mutant menace. According to him, Bobby drake now has steel pins in his legs and will probably on painkillers for the rest of his life. That’s why his parents are suing Xavier for fifty million dollars.
Kitty in the meantime wonders, where Xavier gets the money to pay for all that state of the art tech. Jean doesn’t really know either. The school’s being sponsored by an anonymous consortium of billionaires, but the Professor refuses to divulge any more details on the matter, Understandably really. If any of those guys is outed as a mutant sympathisant, he can forget about business.
Wolverine – feeling a lot better already – and Colossus are starting a Danger Room session under Cyclops´ supervision. Wolverine expresses, that he hates having to jump through hoops for the little snot. Colossus teases him and tells him he is just mad because Cyclops is now with Jean. But Wolverine had his chance with her after all. Wolverine tells him, he doesn’t get it. At least he and Jean always knew the score. Peter asks him not to start with that paranoid theory again that Xavier is brainwashing them. Why did Cyclops join the Brotherhood then? Why did Peter go home to Russia?
But why, Wolverine shoots back, did they all end up returning to Xavier?
In the professor’s office Xavier and Theresa are having tea and discuss Kitty’s future. Theresa’s very impressed by what Xavier has to offer, including a scientific syllabus, as opposed to the creationist nonsense Kitty might be exposed to at another school. But considering, Xavier’s preaching pacifism, the place seems very occupied with violence. While Xavier tries to defend himself, Theresa keeps on insisting that she doesn’t want Kitty to have a codename and take part in dangerous missions. She doesn’t want to run the risk of her ending up like Iceman.
Xavier agrees to respect her wishes, although he feels, she’s making a mistake.
Outside, Colossus is supposed to drive the Prydes back home. As Kitty’s concentration drifts, she phases out of the car, and ends up rather hard on the snowy ground.
Xavier asks Jean, whether she feels Kitty is truly as enthusiastic about starting school as she seemed to be. Jean replies sarcastically, that Kitty’s a little more enthusiastic about Colossus in his tight white shirt, but it’s always nice to have an extra pair of hands with the washing up.
Suddenly Jean notices a change in her surroundings. She seems isolated and feels something terrible is waiting behind her. She involuntarily turns and is dwarfed by a giant burning Phoenix.
Jean has a seizure and cries for the professor. While Xavier asks the others to hold her down so she doesn’t bite through her tongue, Jean gets violently sick, crouches on the ground and cries that the mind-blocks aren’t working anymore and the visions are back…


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Hellfire and Brimstone - part 2
Pakistan
The Brotherhood of Mutants is attacking the Pakistani Army. The huge animal-mutant Sumatran flattens thirty soldiers and breaks into the camp, managing to fracture his skull in the process. Quicksilver complains, that he told everybody, Sumatran should have a helmet like the Juggernaut, but nooo…
In the meantime, the other mutants are attacking the camp. One of them – Orb Weaver, a spider-like mutant, is tying a soldier up with webbing, coming out of his mouth, while Prosimian, a militant ape-man shoots everything in sight.
Scarlet Witch notices reinforcements coming from the south west. Quicksilver asks her to approach the missile silos, while at the same time stating, by the time she’s there, he’ll have them taken care of. He races into the silo, disables the alarms and tells the scientist inside that their machines are now being infected with a self-replicating mutant virus called HHVX.
Scarlet Witch then uses her Hex-powers to have all the missiles disappear in space. Quicksilver states that he hopes that Sabretooth and Toad and all the others who mocked him are watching this. Even Magneto never neutered a country.
The Brotherhood are preparing a videotape, where Quicksilver explains that while they were disarming Pakistan of their nuclear weapons, other mutants did the same to India. Mutants are going to inherit the Earth and -- Quicksilver breaks off and tells Blob to run the autocue faster. Blob answers that Pietro is talking too fast.
Prosimian and the other animal-mutants are disgusted. Magneto never even used a script for his broadcasts and Quicksilver is too dumb to read from autocue. The diverse “animal” mutants start discussing Quicksilver’s tactics – some of them are grateful to him for freeing them, but most of them – especially Prosimian - are dissatisfied with the Brotherhood’s overall goals – they want to be terrorists, not human right campaigners who take on anti-globalization missions. After all, they’re not the X-Men. Besides they – the animal evolutionaries outnumber the old Brotherhood members three to one, ever since Rogue and Juggernaut walked out. The Caterpillar woman Kathleen complains about Blob’s behaviour. He spends all day on the Internet pretending to be a bulimic supermodel. What kind of leader puts up with that? A very temporary one, Prosimian replies, ominously.
At Xavier’s school the Professor and Jean discuss her hallucinatory breakdown four weeks ago. Xavier explains that the CAT scan revealed no unusual brain activity. He tries to calm her believing that her vision was one of a kind, a result of her powers expanding, but they can work on that. If she has to worry about anyone, he jokes, she should worry about poor Beast, who’s been acting like the Phantom of the Opera ever since he broke up with Storm and Iceman left school. He asks Jean, whether she could try to include him more, as she’s been doing with Kitty oh, and perhaps she should spend some time with Wolverine as well. He’s the most dangerous mutant in the world after all, and he’s been taking her relationship with Cyclops very badly…
In the map room Cyclops is studying a map of the Savage Land, when Kitty phases in, asking him, what he thinks of the codename Shadowcat and why he’s studying the map. Scott explains that he and Colossus may be leaving on a mission for the Savage Land the next day. The military spent the last six months there, stripping Magneto’s former base, but 24 hours ago the Pentagon lost contact and Professor X volunteered to help. Kitty asks, if she can tag along. Scott explains that she is at school to learn to control her powers, not to go on missions into jungle hellholes. Is he afraid, she’ll end up injured like Iceman and sue them she asks.
Wolverine, who silently sneaked into the room, sarcastically replies that maybe Cyclops is just afraid of not being able to keep his hands to himself, what with him being the resident ladies man. Scott notices that Wolverine has been drinking and tells him to go to his room and sober up before the Professor notices. Wolverine ignores the order and keeps on needling and provoking him, making fun of his relationship with Jean, until Scott snaps and belts him. Scott then calmly tells Kitty to get the professor, before the two of them will trash the place. Wolverine hits Scott with a low blow, telling him, if it weren’t for Jean, he’d be using his claws. The two men keep on exchanging blows, until Scott uses his optic blasts to blast Wolverine through a wall.
Kitty finds Colossus and Jean in the living room, and asks for the professor. Wolverine and Cyclops are killing each other, she exclaims.
Scott goes looking for Wolverine, telling him to keep his hands of his girlfriend. Wolverine pops his claws out and angrily jumps at Scott. In mid-jump however, he’s telepathically frozen by Xavier and falls down unconscious. Xavier reprimands Scott for landing the first blow. Wolverine could have killed him. What if Xavier had already left for Magneto’s psychic rehabilitation hour?
He places both men into cerebral detention for the night, while slowing time down to an eighth to give them time to think about their behavior.
As Xavier’s consciousness returns from the astral plane, he hears Kitty shouting for him. She crouches beside Jean who is lying on the ground and having another fit. She feels as though she were attacked by a horde of goblins.


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Hellfire and Brimstone - part 3
Kitty Pryde phases into Beast’s room, telling him there’ll be a Danger Room session in ten minutes. Beast claims he’ll be along, right after he’s finished his critique on Marx’s “Das Kapital”.
Once Kitty is gone, though, Beast returns to his actual activity – writing an e-mail to his online girlfriend: international mutant supermodel Naomi – actually the Blob.
Hank tells “Naomi” how much he’s missed their conversation while she was on a lingerie shoot, and how he wished they could break their rule and actually meet.
“Naomi” apologizes, but she’s only just discovered her mutation and is unable to talk face-to-face about it at the moment. Beast apologizes, she has so much more at stake than him after all.
Blob is having the time of his life, playing this prank on McCoy, while his team mate Prosimian wonders, if his cyber-transvestism is getting a mite out of hand… Anyway, it still has to be more interesting than the PG-13 missions Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch have been sending the Brotherhood on, he admits grudgingly. What would Magneto say if he knew the Brotherhood is looking for account irregularities in multinational companies these days?
Blob nastily suggests that Prosimian could take a break and watch the discovery channel. There’s a documentary on ape love-making rituals on…
In the meantime Marvel Girl and Cyclops seem to be sharing a tender moment in Westchester County Park. Jean tells Scott, she’s feeling certifiable: there’ve been three more hallucinations within twelve hours. She feels just the way she did before Xavier found her in the hospital.
Scott reminds her that it was much worse back then. She’d chewed her knuckles down to the bones.
But she’s feeling just the same now, Jean exclaims, except that this time, whatever’s trying to get through to her, isn’t being stopped by the painkillers or the Professor’s psychic barriers. She believes that she’s been chosen to be the host of an ultra-dimensional entity that wants to annihilate this reality like it has destroyed billions of worlds before. It calls itself the Phoenix Force and talks to her in Latin. As she said, certifiable, she tells Scott ironically.
Changing the subject, Jeans asks, when Scott will arrive in the Savage Land and whether he thinks any of the Marines who went missing in Magneto’s base are still alive. Scott wishes he could stay with Jean and he wishes that Colossus would be his partner on the mission, as originally intended, not Wolverine – who Xavier switched him with to get them to overcome their personality conflicts.
At this point it becomes clear that the two of them are meeting on the astral plane: Jean is actually in her room and Scott on the jet with Wolverine. Jean assures him that the last months as his girlfriend have been the best of her life.
In the meantime Beast is keeping “Naomi” up to speed over the ongoing soap-opera at Xavier’s.  He describes how Scott and Wolverine almost killed each other over Wolverine’s jealousy and how Xavier then sent them together to find the missing US Marines in the Savage Land as a favor to the government. “Naomi” wonders why Xavier would risk the life of his people for the government, who’s clearly conspiring against mutants. Beast points out that not everyone’s against them. In fact their mystery sponsors – the Hellfire Club – sent a representative that afternoon to ask how much money they needed for their legal battle against Iceman’s parents.  When Naomi asks what makes them think that Xavier isn’t controlling the minds of those sponsors, Beast points out that they can’t afford to have it open that they support mutants. Naomi gently makes fun of his naivety: does he really think those people spend bucks on them out of altruism?
The Drake’s place
Senator Turk is holding a press conference in front of the Drake home and explains that they will sue Xavier and the X-Men for a hundred million dollar instead of a fifty as originally planned. Bobby himself will be making a public statement on that matter the next day.
The Drakes inside watch the proceedings. Bobby doesn’t want to badmouth Xavier. His parents explain that Turk paid the medical bills the Drakes never could have afforded otherwise. Bobby would rather have his legs broken again: Turk isn’t fooling him: he just wants Xavier’s closed, because mutants are the biggest threat to all those religious groups that he represents.
His father reminds him that he was fired from his job at the car factory, when it became public that Boy was a mutant. Their friends aren’t talking to them anymore and their neighbours are treating them like pariahs. They need the money from that lawsuit or they’ll end up on the streets.
Back at Xavier’s Beast and “Naomi” are still conversing. Hank tells Naomi how estranged he feels from the others now, he doesn’t even understand why he dated Storm all the time. They have nothing in common. The only one he feels connected to right now is Naomi. “Naomi” asks, whether he ever wonders that he might have joined the wrong side. Maybe he’d be happier fighting humans. Beast answers that he believes that the Professor’s ideas are the best bet BOTH species have for surviving. But isn’t he a hypocrite Naomi asks. He promotes non-violent solutions, but he murdered Magneto after all.
Beast tells Naomi a secret, that Magneto’s death was an elaborately staged ruse…
Cyclops and Wolverine have arrived in the Savage Land. They follow the trail of the missing Marines northward. Cyclops is trying to make conversation, reminiscing about the time at Magneto’s base. Wolverine cuts him off; he shouldn’t try to find anything they have in common, because he’s never going to like him. They are surprised and startled as a dinosaur passes by, they and someone else, as their stowaway – a frightened Kitty Pryde – reveals herself. She hitched a ride on the Blackbird and since she stayed intangible the entire trip, Wolverine’s senses didn’t pick her up.
Cyclops and Wolverine have found something in common after all – as they both order her back to the Blackbird.
In the meantime Blob, Prosimian and the animal-mutants are speechless over the bombshell Beast just dropped. Blob/Naomi asks for details and Beast cheerfully explains that Magneto’s death was just a mass hallucination. Actually Xavier brainwashed Magneto and gave him a new life. They even meet for chess every Thursday afternoon. Prosimian orders Blob to arrange a date between “Naomi” and Beast. Beast happily agrees, having no idea what he’s letting himself in for.


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Hellfire and Brimstone - part 4
Five Miles below the Savage Land Cyclops and Wolverine are nearing the city’s computer system. Wolverine reacts to Cyclops’ questions about the systems with sarcasm, until their discussion once more turns to Jean. Wolverine however changes the subject back to the missing soldiers they are tracking, since he has picked up their scent.
Meanwhile back at the Blackbird Kitty Pryde is being read the riot act via phone. Xavier is extremely angry for her sneaking out on this mission, and he makes it clear that she is going to be expelled, when she returns. Her mother had insisted on her not taking part in missions and Xavier doesn’t want another injured student to sue him like Iceman is doing. When he asks her whether he should send Colossus to pick her up, she replies arrogantly that being intangible she’s hardly in any danger.
Back at the mansion the exasperated Xavier asks Jean, how she’s feeling. She’s getting better, Jean answers, last night there were no hallucinations about any weird world-destroying phoenix gods. Xavier is convinced that this was just a phase as her powers are expanding, since she’s growing up. A similar thing happened to him, when he was young, he confides, while they all settle down in front of the TV set, waiting for Iceman’s press conference.
Upstairs, Storm asks Beast whether he wants to come downstairs, but he’s too busy dressing up for his date with “Naomi”.
Meanwhile at the Brotherhood’s headquarters, Prosimian reminds the other animal mutants that this matter has to be kept secret - especially from Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver.
Outside the New York trial court the press conference is about to start. Senator Turk tells Bobby how proud he is and reminds him that Xavier screwed up his life and that he needs the hundred million Dollars. Bobby sees his parents in the crowd wishing him good luck. Turk addresses the crowd, introduces Bobby and tells of the pain that Bobby had to suffer thanks to the X-Men.
Bobby is then supposed to read his prepared statement. Instead he tears the sheet up, telling the press that none of the things Turk told them are true. He reminds them that the dangerous missions Xavier sends the X-Men on are meant to actually help ordinary people and injuries are about par for the course when you’re training to be a superhero. He knows his parents could use the money and he feels sorry for screwing things up for them, but he has integrity and he has Xavier to thank for that.
As Bobby walks away with his stupefied parents in tow, Turk angrily threatens him, telling him that the money he gave the Drakes for the medical bills is refundable. So what? He can take it out of Bobby’s weekly allowance, the boy replies.
Cyclops and Wolverine have in the meantime closed in on their goal. The smell of rotten flesh tells Wolverine, that the missing soldiers are on the other side of the door. Suddenly the animated corpses of the missing soldiers attack them. Wolverine orders Cyclops to hit the floor and goes into berserker mode –he finishes off all of the zombies on his own. Finished, he strains to reign himself in. Suddenly a computer-voice tells them that that batch was only supposed to rein them in, the soldiers with the guns though, are willing to use lethal force, if necessary.
The animated computer greets them. When Cyclops dumbly asks who it is, it introduces itself as the digital mind that used to control Magneto’s entire city. It remembers every minute detail about them, when they stayed here. With Magneto gone, the city expected to “die”, until it adopted Magneto’s evolutionary theories for its own. It decided to evolve and adapt. Since it lacked the manual dexterity to rebuild itself, it reanimated the dead and then started to assimilate the soldiers. Now, it plans to create a new post human species – humans and mutants will be assimilated. As the machine muses that it has apparently evolved pride, as it felt necessary to boast of its plans, it suddenly explodes as a result of Kitty Pryde phasing through it. Kitty got scared by a dinosaur sniffing at the plane and decided to rejoin the guys, but then noticed that her powers are messing with the electronics. The men order Kitty to leave and attack the now leaderless zombies.
In the meantime in New York the members of the mysterious Hellfire Club seems to know a little too much about Jean Grey.
The men assembled around a large table discuss that she hasn’t had any visions for 24 hours, a sure sign that her body is getting accustomed to the idea of acting as a host. Xavier has no idea what they are up to and believes them to be just billionaires investing in the future. The alignment, Sebastian Shaw points out, is only 48 hours away. After a thousand years of waiting they only have to be patient for another couple of days…
It’s time, he concludes, that the X-Men meet the Hellfire Club.


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Hellfire and Brimstone - part 5
Dressed up to the nines, Professor X, Storm, Marvel Girl and Colossus are attending a function by the Hellfire Club in Manhattan, held in the X-Men's honor. The biggest names in business have finally decided to come out as the X-Men's secret bankrollers. As a servant asks Xavier whether he should escort him to the wheelchair ramp around the corner, Xavier showcases his minor telekinetic powers and levitates his wheelchair up the main stairs.
Storm asks Jean if she's up to this. Jean replies that she's feeling better than she has in weeks, she's just worried about Scott in the Savage Land. He's out of her telepathic range and her psoriasis is flaring up again, something that usually only happens when someone she cares about is in danger. But they have to be here for the professor. For Xavier this gathering is a dream come true. The X-Men mingle with the upper ten and enjoy themselves, though Jean wonders why those people seem to know so much about her recent health problems.
Mr. Seville introduces Xavier to Sebastian Shaw, the Club's current grandmaster. Xavier profusely thanks Shaw for the Club's involvement in founding the X-Men. Shaw jovially assures him that the Club is just investing in the future and, as for finally announcing this to the world press? It's time to take a stand, he states, and toasts Charles. Seville and a Hellfire guard watch this scene from some distance, mocking Xavier's naivety. Seville shows the guard an article Xavier had photocopied and passed around to some people: an article by Stephen Hawking on the subject of mutants being mankind's last defence against the evolution of artificial intelligence. It won't matter after this night, Seville states.
Shaw calls on everyone's attention, first praising Xavier and his cause and then promising another surprise. Xavier is intrigued, but he doesn't expect an attack by the Hellfire Club guards, which stuns him, Storm and Colossus. Shaw tells the fainting Xavier that this was all an elaborately staged ruse. The press has no idea the X-Men are here. Jean, in the meantime, is in some kind of trance-state and doesn't react at all. The club members calmly watch as the X-Men are being taken away, while Shaw takes Jean by the arm.
When Xavier wakes up again, he sees that he and his X-Men have been placed on an altar outside a huge circle. Twelve of the Inner Circle members are standing on the edge of the circle that boasts a huge Phoenix head. Shaw is standing in the pentagram in the center and a robed, hooded Jean stands opposite him. Shaw explains their plan to Xavier: they intend to free an ancient Phoenix god from its many-angled prison and usher in a new age. Xavier mocks Shaw and states that he's bought hook, line and sinker into Jean's psychosis.
He and his people have clung to the prophecies of the Phoenix for thousands of generations and drawn their power from it, Shaw retorts. Their faith stretches back from the Founding Fathers and the French Revolution to ancient Egypt. In fact, even the eagle in the Oval Office is actually a phoenix. Shaw states they only needed Xavier to help Jean expand her mind for what was in store for her. Now he and his students will make a nice snack for the Phoenix.
Sebastian then notices that the one of the X-Men's communication devices is active. Beast is trying to page them. Sebastian starts the ceremony to summon the Phoenix. Flames rise around Jean and something... happens.
Shaw humbly addresses Jean/Phoenix only to find out his master is rather displeased at their presumption. Jean, now with completely red eyes and a different voice tells them how foolish they were to give the greatest power in the universe to that girl, after betraying her three friends. She quickly kills the Inner Circle members, then mentally takes away all of Shaw's riches, gives them to Xavier and kills Shaw as well. When Xavier addresses her, Phoenix orders him to shut up. She will now bring about the utopia he was too weak to create. Phoenix starts to change things around her, influencing the celebrities in the next room, healing children, comforting the suicidal.
Just as she is about to raise a homeless man from the dead, she notices that Xavier is trying to mentally influence her. Charles tells her to stop that nonsense. She isn't an ancient goddess, but an eighteen year old with delusions and a discipline problem. Phoenix denies this, but Xavier keeps on reiterating that she is just Jean and mentally attacks her. All the windows in the building explode and Jean seems to be herself again. When Colossus asks whether that thing is still in her system, Jean is unsure, as on her chest there is a little mark in the shape of a Phoenix.
As the X-Men leave, they notice their communication device - Beast is finally getting through to them: He's lying in an alley - badly beaten up - and tells Storm that he was going to meet this internet date, but that the Brotherhood was behind this. They tortured him and forced him to tell the truth about Magneto. Suddenly cars, lampposts and other metal objects fly up and form a message in the sky. "Thank you, Charles."
In a penthouse, the perpetrator of this message is staring at his work. When Blob inquires after his health, Magneto replies that he's fine, just a little light-headed from the psychic deprogramming. He then asks whom he has to thank for this rescue. Prosimian pipes up and introduces himself as an evolved primate who was freed from a lab during a Brotherhood anti-vivisection mission. Magneto puts his arm on Prosimian's back, commends and thanks him. Then he uses his magnetic powers to kill him, stating that unfortunately Prosimian also stands for everything that has gone wrong with the Brotherhood in Magneto's absence. "Evolved primates indeed" ...
With the other Brotherhood members suddenly growing a lot more attentive, Magneto orders them to send messages out to their old friends, telling them they have two hours to come and apologize. When Blob inquires whether that also includes Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, Magneto states that he is less forgiving of his children. An example has to be made of them: "Just tell them daddy's home, eh"...


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Return of the King - prelude
(Scotland, 8 years ago)
Charles Xavier, in the process of leaving his family, steps outside his mansion, where he finds Erik Lensherr waiting for him. Erik inquires about how Moira took his walking out on her. Xavier shrugs. He's not even sure they discussed it, to be honest. It's been awhile since they communicated verbally, but she'd been thinking about a separation for quite some time now. What about his son David, Erik asks, while he puts Xavier's luggage into the car's trunk. He'll be fine, Xavier assures him. David likes football, video games, wrestling and similar things. Realistically speaking, what's he going to miss about his father? Well, they're both history now, Erik states as they drive away. Only the future beckons. Neither of them notices or cares that Moira and David look after them from the windows.
(San Antonio, 7 Years ago)
A group of "good old boys" have taken a young, black teenager prisoner, tied his hands and now intend to kill him somewhere away from the houses. The boy, Ricky, begs them to let him go. He's only sixteen. The men are unimpressed. One of them saw how he exploded behind his house last week. Another one, Jim-Bob, witnessed the same thing too and then there was the damage Ricky did at the gas station. What if, next time, he'll explode inside a shopping mall or in church? Somewhere near small kids? They couldn't live with themselves if that happened.
He'll get medicine or something, Ricky begs. One of the men, Nadolsky, aims a gun at him and tells him, he's got his medicine right here. He pulls the trigger but the gun doesn't go off. Instead, they are joined by Erik who calmly leans against a tree and explains that the bullet never left the gun. Charles turns up too, mentally ensuring that the men now realize how much they love their families and how little time they spend with them. They'd very much like to spend time with them right now. And off they go. The two men free Ricky, who explains his problem: he involuntarily explodes two or three times a day. He simply cannot control his power. Not yet, Charles says kindly and offers the boy his hand.
(San Francisco, 6 years ago)
Charles and Erik lead Mr Eisenstein, a reporter from Rolling Stone, through their mansion. Eisenstein admires the place. Did they pay for this with church donations? Erik corrects him: the Brotherhood of Mutants isn't a church - it's more like a school. A sanctuary for persecuted mutants. Besides, they do not ask for or even need donations. All this has been paid for with the money Erik inherited from his late father. Eisenstein interjects, he heard about his family connections. Is it true that one of his family are in some kind of business partnership with the Bush brothers down in Texas?
He has no longer any relationship with the surviving members of his family with the exception of his children, Erik informs the journalist coolly, just as Wanda and Pietro are happily running pas them. So he'd appreciate it, if his family weren't mentioned during this interview.
So he isn't allowed to talk about money or the Lensherr family's oil interest? Why did they invite him here anyway, Eisenstein wonders. Rolling Stone doesn't exactly do house-and-garden features. They asked him here, Charles explains, to tell him about their mutant manifesto to make the world a better place. Stepping onto the balcony and showing the reporter the mutant children lounging at the swimming pool, Charles enthusiastically explains that they have children, within these walls, with the power to solve an energy crisis, to rewrite the laws of physics, to end world hunger! They'd offered their services to the government and industry but neither seems interested in upsetting their fragile status quo. Instead, they pretend that mutants don't exist, although their numbers are growing daily. They already know of two hundred post-human beings worldwide.
Eisenstein points out that maybe people are afraid of them. Two hundred superpowered teenagers? That's quite a security risk. Xavier assures him that they are here to educate, not dominate. Nevertheless, the journalist insists, it's not easy for people to realize that they've been knocked off the top of the food chain.
(the Savage Land, 5 years ago)
Here, seven hundred miles from Australia and seven thousand miles from the USA, Charles and Erik are looking for a new refuge for their students after they were met by hatred and mobs in the USA. They are not running away, Erik states, just thinking ahead and building a home for a brand new kind of population that is thriving. By the end of the year, there are going to be five hundred of them living here. By the end of the decade, it might well be ten times as many. Nobody will find them behind the three-dimensional image Erik is putting together. Erik shows Charles the plan for the city: the parliament, the opera house... Within ten years, he muses, every government will be taking orders from this insignificant little island. Within twenty, the human race will speak the mutant language they invented. Voluntarily, of course, Xavier insists. But of course, Erik replies.
(4 Years ago)
The futuristic city in the Savage Land stands tall and proudly. Young Ricky asks Erik if he wanted to see him. Erik, now already wearing his "Magneto" costume, calls Ricky Detonator and asks him, in turn, to call him Magneto, now that they've washed away the last remains of their human origin.
 Ricky admits he feels stupid, saying "Magneto," let alone be called "Detonator". Magneto explains that the name "Ricky Gibson" pays respect to his homo sapiens forefathers. "Detonator" honors nothing but the gifts he was born with. He's not starting to regret his rebaptism as a post-human being, is he? Of course not, Ricky quickly assures him.
Magneto asks him how the others reacted to his proactive proposal. Ten-to-one in favor, Ricky replies. While Professor X might still pull a lot of weight, especially among the telepaths, even they are getting shirty about being cooped up in the Savage Land. Considering how fast they built paradise here, they don't understand what's keeping them from cleaning up the rest of the world. Precisely, Magneto agrees. Charles always considered this a place of learning, whereas he has simply been building an army.
(Five months later)
Magneto has now taken to wearing his helmet and Xavier tells him, over a chess game, how ridiculous he's looking. Coolly, Magneto informs him that he is beyond caring what Charles does and doesn't approve of. All that matters is that the helmet blocks out "nosy, telepathic minds." Charles angrily defends himself against this implicit accusation: he's never been anywhere near Erik's mind. They are supposed to be friends, for God's sake!
"Friends" don't use their powers to shift a vote their way, Magneto spits out. "Friends" don't have secret telepathic rendezvous with the "genetic deadwood"out there. He's quite aware of Charles' chats with the Americans and the British, he rants. Charles' psychic friends may know how to keep their mouths shut but the boys in radio communication picked up an unusual amount of feedback. How dare Charles call him immoral? "Immoral" is standing back and watching an entire species annihilate everything. "Immoral" is doing nothing when you can create perfection. Oh, and he's noticed that Charles stopped mentioning him in interviews, even though it was Erik who started this enterprise. Charles flips him the bird and tells him he is growing paranoid. "We'll see," Magneto states somberly.
(Three Years ago)
Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch enter their father's study to find him lying on the floor. Angrily, he tells them that Xavier and his band of "human appeasers" attacked him and are now making their way to the beach to get picked up by their friends.
Some distance away, Xavier and three mutant teenagers are indeed fleeing. Pietro angrily swears that he will reach them and break their necks before they can make another step. No, Magneto replies. If they haven't got the stomach to take what's theirs by right, they should go, but they need a permanent reminder of what happens when they fight the course of evolution. Bleakly, he adds that he is leaving Charles the option of coming back here to apologize and concentrates hard. One of Charles' companion shouts at him to look out, as a sharp piece of metal flies towards him and impales him.
(One week later, in the Savage Land)
Magneto holds a speech before an agitated crowd of mutants, telling them that, as of tonight, the Brotherhood of Mutants is going to take the war to homo sapiens!
(Two weeks later in New York)
Charles awakes in a hospital, where a doctor coolly informs him that the injury shattered his fifth and sixth vertebrae. As an educated man, he should know what that means.
(Three weeks later at the Pentagon)
Detonator finds himself surrounded by armed military personnel, ordering him to lay down his weapon. Removing his sunglasses, he tells them "I am the weapon, stupid."
(present, the Arctic Circle)
Sabretooth, Magneto and a crowd of mutants are present. Sabretooth asks Magneto if he thinks this is a good place for the headquarters of the new Brotherhood. He hasn't really decided yet, Magneto replies. It's better than the desert or space. Plus, there's a pleasing amount of iron ore for an entire mile beneath their feet. But he needs to soak up the atmosphere for a moment and read the magnetic fields to see whether they are healthy. This isn't a ridiculous little hideout, like Xavier's school after all. This is going to be the future parliament from which they'll command an entire species.
Sabretooth grins and states that Toad was worried that the six months of having Xavier in his head may have changed him, taken away his fire. He needn't have worried, Magneto replies. Six months of "cleaning up after spastics, sharing a bed with an idiot and tolerating those gangsters in the White House" merely strengthened his resolve. "Words can't do justice to what lies ahead for man," he swears.