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Aftermath, part two
Chapter One: Black
‘Well, that was the fastest trip Ah ever took that didn’t involve teleporting!’ Rogue exclaims as she and Magneto arrive at museum memorial for victims of the Holocaust. ‘But Ah still think we missed the open hours’ Rogue points out as she touches the museum sign. ‘That needn’t trouble us’ Magneto replies as he uses his power to easily open the front doors. ‘Breaking and entering needn’t trouble us?’ Rogue asks, suggesting to Magneto that he doesn’t get this whole being-on-the-right-side-of-the-law thing. Magneto tells Rogue that they will touch nothing, explaining that he was looking for a little privacy to talk to her, to tell her a story in a fact - a parable of sorts. ‘And it has to be here’ he adds.
They walk through the museum as Magneto reveals that there is an item in the permanent collection that will serve as a visual aid, adding that it is at the end of the hall, and is a photograph taken by Ruth Gruber. They look up at the photograph, and Magneto informs Rogue that it is of August Hirt, Director of Anatomy and Strasbourg University in the 1940s. ‘You knew him?’ Rogue asks. ‘Not well, and not for long’ Magneto replies, before announcing ‘Just long enough to murder him!’
Flashback to the 1940s:
Magneto explains that Hirt was a dull and plodding mind, but that three of his superiors in the biology faculty were Jews. Their dismissal in 1936 paved Hirt’s way to the directorship - and to membership in the Ahnenerbe, the Nazi brain trust. Magneto tells Rogue that Hirst was sincere in his fanaticism, and that he worried that once the inferior races were exterminated, it would be difficult to prove their inferiority. So, in October 1941, Hirt went to Heinrich Himmlker with a simply yet ambitious solution - 100 human specimens would be chosen from among the undesirables at Auschwitz. Full physiological measurements would be taken, then, the subjects and their skeletons and organs preserved for posterity.
Himmler loved the idea, and Doctor Hirt arrived at Birkenau in the April of 1942. It was a raw day, but then it was a bad spring, even in April there was frost on the ground. Magneto informs Rogue that they were not yet blasé about scientists at Auschwitz, as this was a year before Mengele’s reign began. With a letter of introduction from the Reichsfuhrer in his pocket, Hirt was given every courtesy. ‘Him. And her. Not these’ Hirt would say as he examined the prisoners. ‘I need healthy specimens, not walking bones!’ he declared. But, even celebrity endorsements have their limits. ‘And him. I’ll take him’ Hirt declares, motioning to a young Max Eisenhardt.
But the warden informed Hirt that the boy was Sonderkommando, that he belonged to the work detail, and asked Hirt to choose someone else. ‘Absolutely not. I am preserving a record for posterity. It’s of the highest -’ Hirt began, but the warden interrupted him, ‘Herr Doktor. Posterity is all very well. But I have quotas to fill. Choose someone else!’ Hirt frowned at Max and told him that it is only a matter of time and place, that his story is finished. ‘My job is to write its epilogue’.
Magneto informs Rogue that, in the end, Hirt selected not 100, but 115 subjects, as he didn’t want to leave Asians, Romanies or Poles from his catalogue of inferior peoples. The measurements were then taken at Natzweiler-Struthof, under Hirt’s direct supervision. Afterwards, Hirt recorded in his journal “Death was induced by means of an aqueous mixture of potassium cyanide and oxalic acid. Death was induced” - the very language of science has about it the shine and edge of a fresh scalpel.
Mangeto continues with his memory, informing Rogue that the bodies were sent to the faculty of biology at Strasbourg, to Hirt’s own department, and they were to be preserved and rendered over the next seven weeks. But the assistances there were overwhelmed by the sheer number of corpses, and, moreover, the chemicals for rendering the bodies were not available. So, they were in a warehouse in Dortmund, where it seemed the papers required to move them had not been presented.
In April of 1945, the allies were moving on Berlin, and the thousand-year Reich was prematurely winding down. Dr Hirt was painfully aware that he had a basement full of corpses whose origin and purpose might be difficult to explain. So, Hirt fled across the border to France, and was held there by troops of the French provisional government. Hirt’s papers identified him as August Bremmer, a salesman of gentlemen’s formal attire. They had no reason to doubt him, and only held him in custody overnight because there was a curfew. But, to be confined - to look through the bars from the wrong side, made Hirt feel uneasy, as though the world had turned upside down.
‘And oh - it had’ Magneto tells Rogue, revealing how he tore open Hirt’s cell. ‘Who are you?’ Hirt gasped, before Max Eisenhardt introduced himself. ‘Have we met?’ Hirt asked. Max frowned as he revealed that they met in Poland, outside of the town of Oswiecim. ‘At the camp called Auschwitz’ Max announced. Hirt looked worried - ‘Oh God! Oh God! I remember you!’ he exclaimed, before seeing that Max was holding up a rope. ‘A rope? Why do you offer me a rope?’ he asked, to which Max replied ‘That will become apparent’ and holds it out to the Doktor, asking him to take it, as a gift. ‘You’ll be glad soon, that you have it’ Max added.
Hirt took the rope and announced ‘I’m a scientist, you understand? I serve scientific truth. I don’t need to plead my case to you’, as he looked at the rope. ‘No. You don’t. And it would be pointless ‘Max told him, before announcing that he also serves truth, in many small, but necessary ways. ‘Your case has been heard, and sentence has been passed’ Max declared, before announcing the sentence is death - by hanging. ‘Are you mad?’ Hirt declared as he rose to his feet. ‘I’m like yourself, Herr Doktor, mad enough to commit atrocities and sleep well afterwards’ Mac replied, informing Hirt that he is tonight’s atrocity, or at least, his first choice, just as Max was Hirt’s choice long ago.
Max informed Hirt that if he chooses to live, which is his prerogative, then he will fall back on his other choices - Leopald Hallstein, for example - and Greta Kaiser. ‘My father and my sister!’ Hirt exclaimed, covering his face. ‘And your children, Theodor and Sylvie are still alive, you’ll be happy to hear for the moment, at least’ Max added. ‘You wouldn’t! You wouldn’t hurt them!’ Hirt cried, to which Max replied that with God as his witness, he would. Max announced that his aim was to punish Hirt, that is all. ‘If you refuse this squalid, self-inflicted death, the punishment must take some other form’ Max explained.
Hirt dropped back to the floor, and announced that he cannot do it, as he does not have the courage. ‘;But you have all night, Herr Doktor’ Max replied, assuring Hirt that a rope is more than strong enough for the task. Max then suggested to Hirt that he use the roof-beam though, as the pipes will not take his weight. And later, two French soldiers entered the cell - to find Hirt hanging from the roof beam, rope around his neck, he had indeed taken his life as Max ordered.
Present:
‘A parable?’ Rogue asks. ‘I’m sorry?’ Magneto replies. ‘You said this was a parable, Magneto. Ah think that implies some sort of a moral’ Rogue points out. ‘Yes’ Magneto agrees, adding that he would prefer to avoid facile sermons, but obviously they are all shaped by their past. He adds that though much has happened since, the era that shaped him was a time of darkness and nightmare. Rogue asks Magneto if that absolves him, then - ‘Do you come pre-absolved?’, but Magneto replies ‘No. Quite the opposite’ and informs Rogue that he is telling this to her for her own good. He explains that he learned from his oppressors, took the darkness and the nightmare into himself, and became adept at using them.
‘You felt some - fondness for me, at Fortress X’ Magneto states. ‘Yes’ Rogue admits. ‘Even some desire’ Magneto adds. ‘Hell, yes’ Rogue tells him. ‘But you hesitated. You didn’t act on what you felt’ Magneto points out, before turning from her and declaring that her instinct was right, that she should follow it and go back to Gambit. ‘He loves you. And your love ennobles him’ Magneto explains. He tells Rogue to rest east with the choice she has already made. ‘But if he ever makes you unhappy…tell him the story of Dr Hirt’.
Chapter Two: Red
‘So the room went quiet, and he said:’ Frenzy a.k.a. Joanna Cargill thinks to herself inside the cafeteria on Utopia, as the Toad sits at a table, several empty bottles lie strewn before him. ‘Apologize? Apologize for what?’ the Toad asks. Joanna decides that the question was fair, so she gives the Toad a fair answer - by punching him through the cafeteria wall and out into the open. ‘You want some more?’ Frenzy asks. ‘Not so much, actually’ Toad replies. ‘But you’ve been begging for it, you piece of crap!’ Frenzy declares, before grabbing Toad by his collar and telling him that Megan Gwynn is Tempo Cadre. ‘You spit on Tempo Cadre, you spit on me. You think that’s a smart move?’ Freny asks.
Suddenly, Remy “Gambit” LeBeau appears and charges a playing card with kinetic energy as he tells Frenzy to stand down. ‘Get out of my face, LeBeau, or I’ll rip yours right off your skull!’ Frenzy shouts back. ‘Alors, we fight! But what are we fighting about?’ Gambit wonders, while Frenzy tells herself that now she has Gambit to deal with him, but has dealt with him lots of times, so she feels like she owes him some bruises. Gambit reminds Frenzy that Tempo Cadre never existed outside of a dream, and points out that she is not dreaming now, so there is no excuse for sleepwalking - or for pulping Toad because he spoke out of turn.
Blood on her fists from punching Toad’s face, Joanna suddenly steadies her fist, and looks at Gambit. She thinks it funny - strange - as she looks at her hand and sees the blood over her knuckles, and, just like that, she realized what she as doing. ‘Here. Keep him!’ Joanna exclaims as she throws Toad towards Gambit. ‘Keep me. Please!’ Toad declares, while Joanna remarks ‘I feel dirty just touching him’. Toad lands at Gambit’s feet and Frenzy turns and walks away, she tells herself that Gambit was right about sleepwalking - you cannot do that and live.
Back in her quarters, Frenzy stares into her mirror and tells herself that she was a soldier, and when you are a soldier, the red rage carries out, it sees you safely through like a lucky rabbit’s foot - like armor that you wear on the inside. But even before that - before Fortress X - it was always there. Images of her time at Fortress X - on the battlefield, and with Scott Summers - flash through her mind, as she tells herself that the blood tide, the hot wire in her brain, glowing like the filament in a light bulb - bright, bright red. Frenzy gets into the shower, the water runs over her as she thinks that when she loves someone she feels the same - like she is halfway fighting them, tearing some trophy of joy or lust out of their lips, their flesh.
‘Feeding that red screaming thing at the core of me’ Frenzy tells herself, while wondering ‘Who am I? Who’s the me that’s here, now, staring in this mirror? Thinking these thoughts? Joanna Cargill? Sometimes. Not too often’. Frenzy takes to her hair with a pair of scissors, and soon, stands before a mirror, examining her new, sleek short-on-one-side-long-on-the-other hairstyle, and trendy new black and blue costume. The style she had during the Age of X. ‘Frenzy. To name it is to own it’ Joanna tells herself.
Soon, a shirtless Gambit is shooting some hoops on the basketball court. ‘LeBeau!’ Frenzy calls out to him as she walks towards him. ‘Frenzy. That’s…a good look for you’ Gambit tells her. ‘Shut up’ Frenzy snaps back, before telling Gambit that she was losing back there. ‘Yes’ Gambit tells her. ‘And you stopped me from killing the little puke-stain, so I’m grateful’ Joanna admits. Gambit spins the basketball on a finger and tells Joanna that she is very welcome.
Frenzy tells Gambit that the truth is, and sick as it may sound, that she actually liked the way they had it back at Fortress X, as it made sense to her. ‘I was off the leash the whole time, and it made me a hero. A legend. But in the real world, there’s…morality. Context’ Joanna remarks. ‘Consequences’ Gambit adds. ‘Exactly’ Joanna tells him, adding that she thinks it is mostly garbage, but that she is going to learn to handle it, because there is something she had back there and wants to have it again. Joanna hangs her head as she announces ‘I’m going to be an X-Man’.
Chapter Three: A Color that Tastes like Screaming
‘Ready, Legion? Let’s try - one eight six’ Doctor Nemesis suggests as he stands inside a lab, and calls out the number assigned to one of the personas inside Legion a.k.a. David Haller. ‘One eight siz. Johnny Gomorrah’ Legion announces as he holds up his wrist-band control that modulates the power of the personas inside him. Legion aims his new power to one of the robot targets inside the lab, and releases the power. Dr Kavita Rao stands nearby. ‘Target still intact’ she announces, before revealing that the target has been transmuted into chalk - ‘No. It’s salt’ Kavita realizes as she tastes the remains of the robot.
‘Excellent. Two two seven’ Doctor Nemesis calls out, but Legion replies that he is tired. ‘A dozen more, then we’ll stop for the day. Two two seven’ Doctor Nemesis states once again. ‘Two two seven. Time-Sink’ Legion calls out - but as he attempts to activate the power, nothing happens. ‘Try again’ Doctor Nemesis orders, but Legion replies that he is trying, only nothing is happening, just void. He adds that there is synesthetic interference - a color. ‘A color that tastes like screaming’ Legion explains.
Doctor Nemesis begins tapping away at consoles, ‘That’s impossible!’ he declares. ‘You mean it’s impossible for you to get it wrong? You’re not infallible, Nemesis’ Kavita tells her colleague. ‘Bo. But that wrist control is’ Nemesis replies, before remarking that he and Jeffries collaborated with Reed Richards on the switching mechanism, and that each channel is a neural link to one of Legion’s sub-personalities, bypassing his schizophrenia to five him complete and direct control for up to a minute at as time. ‘Try again’ Doctor Nemesis orders.
‘One thousand and twelve’ Legion announces. ‘What? I said try again. The same number’ Nemesis declares, but Legion tells him that he is trying something else. Legion’s form shifts to blue and energy swirls around him as he remarks that the Delphic will answer three questions truthfully, and there is nothing she doesn’t know. ‘You just have to ask the write questions’ Legion explains. ‘Very well. We’ll try it your way’ Doctor Nemesis mutters, before asking the Delphic the first question: ‘It appears that one of Legion’s sub-selves has been de-powered. Is this the case?’ The Delphic, though Legion, replies’ No. This is not the case’.
‘Interesting. Let’s try another tack, then. Is Time-Sink resisting us in some way?’ Doctor Nemesis asks. ‘Yes. He resists you. He will not be a genie in your lamp. A slave toiling in your sunless fields’ the Delphic responds. ‘Won’t he, now? And what’s his -’ Doctor Nemesis replies, until Kavita interrupts him, ‘There’s only one question left. Don’t waste it!’ she tells him. Kavita turns Delphic, ‘Assuming that you meant your previous answers literally, that this is some kind of rebellion - are others of Legion’s personas involved in it? Please tell us their names’ Kavita asks. The Delphic replies that he will do more than tell. ‘I will show you!’ he announces as Legion uses the Delphic’s power to reveal six images of the personas involved - Endgame, Susan in Sunshine, Time-Sink, Chain and the Bleeding Image, as well as one other.
‘And Styx. Styx is leading them’ Legion announces as he loses control over Delphic’s power, and collapses, asking ‘Call my father. Please. Call my father’.
Epilogue: Black Revisited
Rogue tells her self that she thought about it a long time - and maybe that was the problem right there. “When it comes to live”, she remembers Remy saying. “Reasons for and reasons against - they should just fall away”. Rogue supposes that Gambit was right, and supposes that they do.
In his quarters, Magneto removes his helmet, then cape, when the door opens. ‘Ah got so many reasons to hate you’ Rogue tells him as she stands in the doorway. ‘Hate? I’d prefer you stayed away from me out of fear’ Magneto replies, adding that would be more flattering to his ego. Rogue replies that it doesn’t tend to work that way, pointing out that most people want things that know are gonna turn out bad for them. Stern-faced, Rogue states that she is too big to be afraid of the dark. ‘And Ah’m not promising you one damn thing…beyond tonight’ she announces as she puts her fingers to Magneto’s mouth so that he cannot reply, and instant later, they are locked in passionate embrace….


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Lost Legions, part one (first story)<br>Flashback (second story)
1st Story:
Punta Brava, Tenerife, 20:48. The X-Men have found what they were looking for. ‘Dieu!’ Gambit a.k.a. Remy LeBeau gasps as he comes across several bodies, littered across  street. ‘Is that a body, Gambit?’ Professor Charles Xavier calls out telepathically. ‘A whole lot of bodies, Professor. Alive, but out cold’ Gambit replies, before asking the Professor if he is getting a trace yet. From a rooftop nearby, the Professor telepathically replies ‘Nothing. The entities we’re hunting may not have minds in the normal sense, so they may be invisible to my psi-scans’, before he calls out to Legion and Rogue, asking if they have anything to add. David “Legion” Haller looks at Rogue and he knows that she has nothing to add, but he does, as he knows these monsters better than anyone. Legion tells the Professor that they are dealing with either Chain or Time-Sink, but not Styx, for if it was Styx, they would be looking at corpses.
Rogue adds that they still have to go up against him sooner or later, and votes for sooner. Up in the air, Magneto hovers over the town and announces that there is a man running along the Calle de Oro. Charles asks for a description, and Magneto explains that he is short with dark hair, perhaps thirty years old with glowing hands. Charles tells Frenzy that he will be heading towards her, and just like that, the man rushes past Joanna “Frenzy” Cargill. ‘Damn’ Frenzy mutters, before lifting up a car. Legion recalls that Frenzy was a terrorist once, who is now trying to be a hero, and decides that is admirable, but that at rock bottom, Frenzy’s instincts have not changed all that much. ‘AAA!’ the man cries out as the car lands in front of him.
He holds up his hands - one glowing blue, the other glowing red - and exclaims ‘Don’t! Please don’t make me do this!’ as Frenzy approaches him. ‘Don’t make you do what? Hemorrhage?’ she asks. ‘I just want to live. I’m warning you!’ he calls back. Legion reminds himself that Magneto and Rogue were terrorists, too, and Gambit was a thief, while he has been functionally insane for most of his life. Magneto announces that it appears Frenzy has engaged the enemy, while Legion wonders what his father sees in them all. ‘One more lost cause, perhaps’ Legion decides. Charles asks Magneto to make sure Frenzy doesn’t kill him. ‘She gave me her word, but in the heat of the moment -’ Charles remarks, to which Magneto replies that he understands, and as he hovers over Frenzy, informs Charles that she has not broken her promise to him. ‘Thank God!’ Charles calls out telepathically.
‘But I’m afraid I have some bad news, too’ Magneto adds as he looks at Frenzy, who destroys the car with one powerful punch, though her opponent is nowhere in sight. ‘One of him, and six of us. Lined up like beaters in a hunt’ Legion thinks to himself, while the young man races across a bridge, ‘Damn! Damn! Damn!’ he calls out. ‘Driving him into the open and then moving in for the coup de grace’ Legion tells himself, as Magneto lifts the young man into the air. But Legion tells himself that this is Time-Sink and he cannot be trapped or cornered. Having a fourth dimension to move in makes all the difference. Magneto unleashes a burst of magnetism against Time-Sink, but he just leers at Magneto and declares ‘Trying to shut down my brain with an electromagnetic pulse? I shunted your shock-wave into the past, Magneto!’, before asking him if he remembers the bodies he stepped on over the way here. ‘You just did that!’ he explains.
Magneto asks Time-Sink to consider what they came here for. ‘You’ll be back where you belong’ he tells him. Legion reminds himself that he tried to brief his teammates as to the nature of the threat they face, that he tried his best. ‘Back where I belong? I like it fine right here’ Time-Sink announces, adding that when Gambit catches up to him, which will be in about two minutes from now, he will teach him the same thing. Magneto is then knocked to the ground, and Time-Sink walks away from him. “Teammates” Legion tells himself. ‘I said, “the nature of the threat we face - is me”!’
Twelve hours ago, on the island home of the X-Men, Utopia. Inside a laboratory, Rogue announces that she is not happy with one single part of this, as she stands beside Doctor Nemesis and Charles Xavier, while Legion lies on an examination chair. Rogue asks if rummaging around in Legion’s head, again, is a good idea. ’Depends if you want to go into a fight blind stone’ Doctor Nemesis tells her. Rogue asks what they are fighting, ’Give me some context here’.  Charles declares that it may not come to that, to which Dr Nemesis remarks that it may come to Armageddon. ‘Bearing recent events in mind, I think we should keep all our options on the table’. The scientist adds that just one of Legion’s personas caused the whole of reality to be dismantled and reassembled, and now, probably as a result of that same reality storm, they have mislaid six personas. ‘From here, the view isn’t pretty’.
“Mislaid” Rogue asks, before telling David that they are talking about parts of his mind here, and she doesn’t understand how that could happen. Legion replies that he doesn’t either, before showing her the neural switchboard that Dr Nemesis gave him, explaining that it lets him access the powers of his sub-selves one at a time, but six of them come up blank, no contact. He adds that in Moira’s reality bubble, all of his personas had physical bodies, but these six just did not come home. ‘Which brings us to you, Rogue’ Charles announces. But Rogue replies that she is not seeing the connection. Charles reminds her that her powers allow her to absorb memories and abilities from other mutants directly by skin contact.
The Professor continues, explaining that he has already conducted a search, but that Legion’s psi-powers are prodigious, that the missing personas are shielded from him somehow. ‘If so, you should still be able to sense their presence and draw on their memories’ Charles informs Rogue. But Rogue points out that Legion has more than a thousand personalities, and that she has no idea whether she can zero in on one, or a few, as she has never tried to do that. Doctor Nemesis reminds Rogue that she dealt with billions of personalities at once when she absorbed the Hecatomb. ‘And it almost killed me!’ Rogue points out. ‘Almost. Not quite. Double or quits?’ Doctor Nemesis asks. Rogue looks at Legion and asks him if he wants this. Legion replies that it has to be done, and informs her that he trusts her to do it thoroughly. ‘I - I have to know’ he adds.
As Rogue puts her fingertips to Legion’s temples, she asks him if he has names for her. ‘End Game. Susan in Sunshine. Chain. Time-Sink. The Bleeding Image. And Styx’ Legion replies. Rogue tells him that there is no way of telling how long this is going to take, adding that her mothers did not raise her to be a search engine. Personas flash before Rogue, and soon after, she announces that they are gone - all six of them. She explains that she couldn’t sense them and couldn’t make any kind of contact with any of them. Charles thanks Rogue and remarks that it seems their duty is clear. ‘And it begins with disclosure’ he adds, announcing that they need to talk to Cyclops.
Soon, Charles, Rogue and Legion stand before Scott “Cyclops” Summers, who declares that if these things are loose in the world, then they have to be dealt with, before asking Charles if he understands correctly that he is volunteering for the job. Charles replies that Legion defeated Moira by absorbing her back into his mind, so it seems at least possible that he could do the same for the fugitive personas. Scott replies that he follows the logic, and tells Charles to continue. Xavier explains that a telepath would be needed to monitor that process, and that Rogue has offered to be their pilot, and Gambit to act as a tracker if they need one.
Professor X tells Scott that he is aware he has other maters on his mind right now, and that this would free him to spend time with Rachel until she - while they still have her here. Cyclops turns to Legion and asks him if any of these personas are in Moira’s league. ‘I - no. Of course not. Nobody is’ Legion replies, to which Cyclops points out that they have their own powers all the same. ‘Only until I get close to them’ Legion replies. Cyclops tells them to go, but to stay in touch, and if they get into trouble, Pixie will teleport in reinforcements ‘I want this contained quickly’ Cyclops orders.
Soon, the heroes are preparing to board the X-jet, as Charles thanks Gambit for helping with this mission, to which Gambit asks if they even know where they are doing. Charles reveals that they are going to Europe, as Cerebra detected residual energy traces there - echoes of a mutant presence. Charles adds that, for once, the absence of any other mutant mind signatures works in their favor. ‘There was nothing to disguise or drown out these faint -’ Charles stops himself as he sees something is wrong with Rogue. ‘What is it?’ he asks. Rogue replies that there is something she has to do before they leave. Charles points out that time is already short and asks if it can wait until their return. Rogue replies that it can’t, that she thinks it is now or never. Rogue offers now further explanation, and leaves quickly. Legion notes that the Professor did not try to stop her, as he realized that they had visitors.
‘Magnus. Frenzy’ Charles greets the arrivals inside the jet. ‘Good evening, Charles’ Magneto replies, to which Charles asks them what they are doing here. Magneto explains that he was told to come - an explicit order from their commander in chief, but that he believes Ms Cargill is here on her own initiative. ‘Right’ Frenzy, sporting her sleek new look, replies. Charles remarks that he doesn’t understand. ‘Perhaps Cyclops felt that your team was under-resourced’ Magneto suggests. ‘Seriously? Rogue and Gambit are enormously powerful and experienced. And Legion is a whole army in himself’ Charles declares. Calmly, Magneto replies ‘True. But then, that’s where your problem lies. Legion isn’t just your biggest gun. He’s also the enemy’.
Charles is annoyed and tells Erik that her doesn’t appreciate being overruled in this way. Magneto tells him that he sympathizes, but that they both have their orders. ‘I said I’d deal with this’ Charles states, to which Magneto replies that they will deal with it together. ‘My turn?’ Frenzy asks. ‘No’ Charles tells her. ‘Listen, I just want to -’ Frenzy begins, but Charles states “no” once more and tells Frenzy that he knows why she is here. ‘Redemption isn’t so easily bought. You’re chasing an illusion. Go away’ Charles snaps at her. But Frenzy declares that she wants to help. ‘And yet you tried to kill me. Twice’ Charles reminds her. ‘You want an apology? A promise? I’m not about killing people any more. I -’ Frenzy begins, before declaring that she wants what she had - the other her - in the Fortress. ‘I want everything she had. Just…read me, for God’s sake. Don’t make me say it!’ Frenzy exclaims. Charles stares at Frenzy and says nothing, before turning from her and muttering ‘Well, Jacob worked fourteen years for a wife’. ‘What?’ Frenzy asks. ‘It doesn’t matter. Strap in. We leave as soon as Rogue returns’ Xavier announces.
At that moment, Rogue walks past Bling and Loa as she approaches the laboratory complex. ‘Rogue!’ Dr Kavita Rao exclaims as Rogue enters one of the labs. Rogue informs Rao that she is going to need a few minutes in private. ‘Well, I’m very busy analyzing -’ Kavita begins, but Rogue interrupts: ‘Ah meant with your patient’ she tells her. ‘With what’s left of her, you mean. Fine. I’ll take a walk around the block. It’s been hard, just standing around and watching this happen’ Kavita remarks as she leaves. Rogue approaches Revenant - Rachel Summers - who sits in another room. Rachel thanks Rogue, and remarks that she knew she would come. ‘Then it was you? You did call me, just now? It was so faint…’ Rogue remarks. ‘So am I. I need a favor, Reaper. And there’s nobody else I can ask’ Rachel replies.
Now, Gambit rushes towards Time-Sink, while Legion recalls Cyclops saying that he wanted this contained. David tells himself that it might have been contained, but that there is a law that operates in cases like this. ‘It concerns worms. And cans’ Legion tells himself, as Gambit calls out to Time-Sink, telling him that he has got some cute tricks. ‘Oh, you haven’t seen anything, yet, Gambit’ Time-Sink replies. Gambit tells him that there is nowhere left to run to, as that is the trouble with hiding out on an island. ‘Who said anything about running?’ Time-Sink asks, as he raises his red-glowing fist. Suddenly, images flood into Gambit’s mind:
Gambit sees Belladonna, telling him that they were married only yesterday and now he is running out on her. ‘I would never have believed the man I loved was such a coward’ he remembers her saying. Another memory - this time of being very young and sitting before a safe, with his father standing over him. ‘Would be ashamed of you, even if you were not my son’ he remarks, before ordering his son to being again, and to do better this time, with no excuses. Gambit looks at Time-Sink, and asks ‘Wh - what did you -?’ before more memories flash before him - battles this time - Sabretooth, New Sun, Grovel and Bullseye.
‘Time’s up’ Time-Sink declares as Remy collapses before him, and lies motionless on the pier. Legion appears behind Time-Sink and tells him that this has to end, now. Time-Sink looks at Legion and replies ‘Yeah. It does. You know, I’m glad you came to me first. Some of the others didn’t have the stomach for a fight. They hadn’t worked out the equation yet’ he remarks. ‘What equation is that?’ Legion asks. ‘That for us to be free, you have to die’ Time-Sink replies, before telling Legion that he knows what he is thinking. ‘You’re thinking “I got this fancy control on my wrist. A thousand powers I can call on. This is gonna be real easy”. You’re thinking you’ll come out of this looking good. But trust me. Whatever you throw at me, I’ll hit a second early ot a year late’.
Legion holds up his wrist, and calls out ‘Seven-four-nine’. An instant later, energy crackles from Legion’s hand, straight towards Time-Sink - who suddenly appears behind Legion. ‘Missed me’ Time-Sink exclaims as he shoves a knife into Legion’s shoulder. Legion drops to his knees, and Time-Sink stands over him. ‘Wow. That’s bleeding really heavily, man. Wonder if you’ll last until they get you to a hospital. Here’s a clue: I can keep you lying there for a hundred years, and still hit the bars for happy hour’. Time-Sink crouches beside Legion and tells him that they should have rushed him all at once, as that one-at-a-time stuff was insane. He asks if that was just so they could stack up the fails and then he could come in and save the day.
‘N-no. Wasn’t that’ Legion replies, explaining that it took his father a long time to even make contact with Time-Sink’s mind, and then a little longer to give him a blind spot. ‘NO!’ Time-Sink shouts as Rogue comes up behind him and touches his face. Rogue tells Time-Sink that she is sorry, she had to come at him from a bad angle, otherwise he might have gotten a kiss out of this. ‘I’ll rot you to the bone, woman!’ Time-Sink boasts as he elbows Rogue off him. ‘I’ll rot you to dust, and laugh, while you -’ he remarks, as Legion gets to his feet, and calls out another number: ‘Three-ought-two’ he says, before punching Time-Sink at a rapid pace, and telling him to laugh this off.
Shortly, Magneto, Charles and Frenzy have arrived on the pier, and Gambit has regained consciousness. Legion thanks Rogue for the timely intervention, to which Rogue suggests he thank the Professor, adding that she had to get real close to do that. Rogue remarks that it was not easy, as absorbing powers like his was like keeping hold of a live eel. Charles adds that, for the same reason, he found it so hard to make psi-contact with him, as Time-Sink isn’t a living being in the conventional sense. Charles tells his son that they have a very narrow window. ‘If he recovers -’ Charles begins, but Legion crouches back down beside Time-Sink and replies that he knows, Time-Sink would be a lot harder to take down the second time.
Legion adds that it is better to do this while Time-Sink is unconscious, in any case. ‘That way I don’t have to look him in the eye’ Legion explains as he places his hand over Time-Sink’s face, and tells himself that he already knows how to do this, as he did it in the reality bubble, to Moira. ‘I am not one, but Legion. There’s a whole world inside me. So this…this is just the force of gravity’ Legion tells himself as he re-absorbs Time-Sink back into himself. Legion stands up and tells his father that Time-Sink is safe and stowed. ‘That’s one down…and five to go’. Charles thanks his son, before telling Rogue that the next part depends on her. ‘Were you able to retrieve any memories from Time-Sink when you touched him?’ Charles asks. Rogue replies that she picked up fragments, but maybe enough.
Rogue explains that the personas agreed to separate and to lie low, they thought Europe was far enough away that it would buy them a little time. Rogue adds that Chain and Susan in Sunshine are both in London and that Styx spoke to them before they split up. Magneto announces that they will go to London. ‘Rogue and I will go ahead’ he adds, suggesting they will reconnoitre, he tells the others that they will meet them in the center of the city as soon as they arrive. Rogue and Magneto take flight, while the others walk back towards their ship. ‘That was the stupidest fight I was ever in’ Frenzy mutters. ‘You weren’t in it for long, Joanna’ Gambit points out. Frenzy tells Gambit that it has been a while since she broke any of his fingers, and points out that there is no in-flight movie. ‘Better shut that mouth’ she warns him.
At that moment, deep inside some cold catacombs, a blonde woman lies on a slab, several people surround her and reach out to her. ‘Been awhile since I broke any of your fingers, LeBeau. And there’s no in-flight movie. Better shut that mouth’ she calls out, somehow repeating Frenzy’s words. ‘But then, you just watched your girlfriend leave in Mangeto’s arms - you’re already hurting, aren’t you?’ the woman remarks, once again, calling out Frenzy’s words. Out of the shadows, a frightening figure emerges - it is Styx. He announces that he has heard enough, and orders3the connection cut. One of the others standing around the woman calls Styx his master and informs him that there is a risk, as the psychic backlash may destroy her mind. ‘Why should that matter? She lives in me…just like the rest of you!’ Styx replies.
2nd Story:
Somewhere in space, an undetermined amount of time ago, the heroic Starjammers are currently under attack by a large number of tech-heavy beings. Korvus wields a massive sword to use against the enemy, while Lorna “Polaris” Dane casts forth a surge of powerful magnetic energy, and Alex “Havok” Summers releases a burst of plasma at the enemy, as he calls out to Rachel Summers, who is lingering back from her teammates, ‘We’ve got your back!’ Alex shouts. ‘Just do it, Rachel! Go!’ someone yells, and as Rachel cowers behind as boulder she reaches out with her psychic power, reaches out far across space - and pummels into Utopia, the island nation home of the X-Men - just as reality is warped by an escaped persona belonging to Legion. In this new reality, she is known as Revenant. Seven days pass, and she finds her essence stuck on Utopia.
Now, in a lab on Utopia, Revenant hovers in a room, ‘I believe…I was trying to reach out to you. Either to warn you about something, or else to ask for help’ she explains, adding that, any other time, she might have made it. ‘But this is hopeless. Where is my body right now? Am I asleep and dreaming somewhere? In a trance, or a coma?’ Rachel asks as Professor X uses his telepathy to attempt to answer these questions, but to no avail. ‘The truth is - I don’t even know if I’m alive or dead’ Rachel adds as the Stepford Cuckoos use their power to try and learn where she is. ‘Which is the very definition of futility’ Rachel adds as the White Queen frowns at her.
‘Amplitude 15’ Dr Kavita Rao tells Doctor Nemesis, who replies ‘And periodicity right down to 20 micro-seconds’. Doctor Nemesis announces that Revenant cannot last much longer like this. ‘Minutes. An hour at most’. Doctor Nemesis stands before Revenant and tells her that he doesn’t know what to say. ‘Truly. We failed’ he admits, adding ‘Failed to stabilize you. Failed to back-track you to your source. Failed even to define what you are. Whatever it was you needed from us. We came up empty’. Doctor Nemesis turns and walks away, while a solemn Kavita looks up at Revenant and tells her that she is so sorry, before announcing ‘I’ll tell your father’.
Scott “Cyclops” Summers soon stands before Revenant and informs her that there are a number of things they can still do - that they are doing. Cyclops explains that the star-gates were shattered when Vulcan left Earth, but adds trhat there are other ways they can reach the Shi’ar. Scott tells Rachel that he is not going to say goodbye to her, that he is not going to stop looking. Rachel calls him “Dad” and thanks him for everything, adding that she missed him so much.
Sometime later, Rogue enters the laboratory. ‘Thank you. I knew you’d come’ Rachel tells Rogue, who asks ‘Then it was you? You did call me, just now? It was so faint’ Rogue replies. Revenant replies that she is faint, and calling Rogue “Reaper” explains that she needs a favor, and that there is nobody else she can ask. Revenant hangs her head as she asks Rogue to stay with her, to be here when she fades away to nothing - the way she was there for Heather and the others when they were in that place. Rogue explains that she is not the Reaper any more, and adds that this is not the time. Rachel replies that she feels like she is water that someone is holding in their cupped hands, like she is losing herself one drop at a time.
Rogue tells Rachel that it is not like that, assuring her that she will close her eyes here and open them somewhere else. ‘Right. That works either way, doesn’t it?’ Rachel asks. ‘Ah think you knew what you were doing when you came here’ Rogue announces. ‘But I didn’t know - couldn’t imagine - what I was walking into. When Moira’s mind-wipe hit me, my real memories just shattered. Maybe they’ll come back. Maybe they won’t’ Rachel replies. Rogue raises a hand towards Rachel and announces that she will try, but not because she thinks this is the end. ‘Ah’ll try because anything Ah get from you might help us to find you’ she explains. Rogue and Rachel touch finger-tips, and there is a burst of energy, as Rogue announces that it is working. ‘Ah’m seeing - Ah don’t know what Ah’m seeing, but Ah know it’s a place Ah’ve never been!’ Rogue exclaims.
The energy burst subsides, and Rachel’s hand passes through Rogues. ‘Gone, now. Whatever it was. This was a waste of your time’ Rachel declares. But Rogue assures her that it wasn’t, to which Rachel asks ‘You think - what? That there are grounds for hope?’. Rogue tells her ‘Better than hope’ and assures Rachel that she will see her again soon. ‘You’re sure of that?’ Revenant asks. ‘Ah’m sure of this much. God didn’t let you fly halfway across the universe just so we could watch you melt like ice in hot water’ she declares. Rachel’s form begins to fade away, but she tells Rogue that she is right, as this doesn’t feel like death. ‘But I think I’m about to find out’ Rachel calls out, before she vanishes. ‘Rachel! Rachel, talk to me!’ Rogue calls out.
But, there is echo on fruitless echo. And then, the past dropped down on Rogue like sand in an hourglass. What was close - what only just happened - came rushing in first. Second after second folded back into itself. The river flowing uphill. Because backwards was how Rogue got it from Rachel. And then it unwound, but backwards, and for a while, there was nothing.
Shortly, Rogue enters the room where Cyclops is working and informs him that Rachel is on a space station somewhere in the Shi’ar Imperium. ‘Go on’ Scott asks as he stands up. Rogue reveals that she thinks the place is really remote, that she caught an echo of Havok’s voice saying “five miles south of the universe”. Rogue tells Cyclops that if he can get in touch with anyone on Chandilar, or Lila Cheney, then tell them to look for a solar system that is really crowded. ‘Seventeen planets. Thirteen orbiting bio-habitats. And this station, which is as big as a couple of worlds put together’ Rogue reveals. ‘You got all this from Rachel’s mind? Where Emma and the Professor failed?’ Scott asks. Rogue reminds Scott that she was the Reaper, that this was pretty much all she did. ‘Ah guess it stays with you’ she tells him, adding that, whatever he can do, he has to do it now. ‘Because every last thing in that system is about to fall into the sun!’
At that moment, inside the space station, Rachel Summers awakes with a gasp. ‘Captain. It’s awake’ an alien voice calls out to its commanding officer, as Rachel looks around on the slab that she lies on. ‘Let me talk to her’ the Captain replies in his alien language. Someone readies their weapon, but another voice calls out ‘No, no. I’ve been practicing. I think my terran is up to this’. This alien grabs the weapon and aims it at Rachel’s head, informing her that they killed her friends and took their time doing it. ‘The next word you speak better be the one I want to hear…’.


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Lost Legions, part two
‘Hope you’re listening in, Professor. This is Rogue, and we’re down. No problems so far’ Rogue calls out as she and Magneto land in London, hoping that Professor X will pick up on her. Looking around the square, Rogue adds ‘In fact, no people. Did we pick a quiet neighborhood?’ But Magneto informs Rogue that they are in the very center of the city, in Piccadilly Circus. He motions to a statue, and tells Rogue that it is of Eros, the God of Love. ‘Is it, now?’ Rogue replies. Rogue looks at Magneto and calling him Magnus as she usually does, tells him she would hate to think he took this assignment just so he could talk dirty to her. Magneto assures Rogue that their relationship was not a consideration, confirming that he is here at Cyclops’s express instruction. ‘And why did Scott think we needed -’ Rogue begins, before stopping herself. ‘Okay. Maybe that questions better wait a while. Ah heard a shotgun being cocked’ Rogue declares.
Looking around, several dozen people surround Rogue and Magneto. ‘So Ah guess we don’t have the place to ourselves after all’ Rogue points out. However, the “people” are all in fact one person - the same person, or, rather, persona. Chain. ‘I know what you’re here for, X-Men’ he declares as he walks towards them, this one armed with a machete. ‘I know everything about you’ he adds, this one armed with another sort of weapon. Each of them have different sorts of weapons, as a third introduces himself and points out the obvious - that each iteration of him has a different set of weapons. ‘Three or four of me are an army. And you’re facing an entire city full of me’ he boasts, as Chain - all of them - lunge towards Rogue and Magneto. ‘There’s no way you’re getting out of this alive!’ one of them boasts.
At that moment, aboard one of the X-jets, Legion a.k.a. David Haller tells his father, Professor Charles Xavier, Remy “Gambit” LeBeau and Joanna “Frenzy” Cargill that after Styx, he thinks Susan in Sunshine and Chain are the most dangerous of his escaped personas. Legion explains that Chain spreads like a virus, turning anyone he touches into a copy of him, only the weapon changes, while Susan amplifies emption and then feeds on it - turns it into raw energy. ‘Are you sick or something, Haller? You’re talking like this is nothing much’ Frenzy declares, reminding him that these are pieces of his mind, loose in the world. Legion replies that he is far from calm, explaining that this sort of fragmentation terrifies him.
Gambit announces that London is directly below them, and suggests to his comrades that they keep their seatbelts fastened, for unlikely as it sounds, they are drawing ground fire. Indeed, as the X-jet approaches Piccadilly Circus, Chain - all of those he now commands - aim towards them. ‘Stxy was right’ one of them shouts. ‘They’ve come to destroy us! To reduce us back to one!’ another exclaims as they continue to fire their assorted arsenal at the X-jet. ‘Better to be dead!’ another shouts. ‘Bring them down!’ yet another declares. Inside the jet, Gambit informs the others that the center is infested, so he is going to try to land on the parkland in the west. Charles turns to his son and tells him that he knows his sub-personas better than anyone. ‘How do we deal with them?’ he asks.
‘With Chain?’ Legion replies, explaining that you have to find the 1(A) iteration, the original, for if 1(A) falls, the others revert to their normal selves. He adds that Susan’s powers dissipate when she is unhappy. ‘We have to pick on a little girl and make her sad?’ Joanna asks. ‘Yes’ Legion confirms. ‘I’m taking the virus guy. Seriously’ Frenzy declares. Gambit announces that they are coming in for landing, while one of them remarks that, any other time, they could stop and do some sightseeing. Charles tells the others to get going while he searches for the 1(A) version of Chain telepathically. He informs them that they need to extract Rogue and Magneto, as they are heavily outnumbered. ‘How do you outnumber Magneto?’ Gambit asks.
At that moment, Magneto uses his power to rip every weapon he can out of the hands of all the various Chains. Rogue knocks one who approaches her aside and tells Magneto that they cannot hurt these people, as they are innocent victims. Magnus replies that he has never encountered innocence, but that he believes in it, as a theoretical possibility. Magneto casts the weapons aside as he tells Rogue that he will keep his response sub-lethal wherever possible. Suddenly, one of the Chain calls out ‘Non-ferrous units, converge on target one!’. ‘Copy’ several Chain reply as they rush forward, armed with various bows and arrows. ‘Magneto! On your left!’ Rogue warns Magnus. An arrow strikes Magneto, while Rogue calls out ‘My turn!’ as she leaps to Magneto and touches his cheek, under his helmet, with her bare fingers. ‘Non-ferrous units, take her down!’ Chain orders again. ‘You’re welcome to try, boys!’ Rogue declares, now in possession of Magneto’s power.
Legion, Gambit and Frenzy arrive at the battle in an energy bubble, and begin to engage the various Chains in combat. Legion tells his companions to avoid skin contact at all costs. Holding one by its neck, Frenzy lifts the Chain into the air and mutters ‘Pity. These losers would look at lot better with multiple contusions. ‘But you work with what you’ve got!’ she exclaims as she uses this Chain by tossing him about, knocking several others over. Legion uses the abilities of another persona, one which enables him to give instructions to Chain. ‘Panic. Flee. Turn on your brothers’ he orders those he can, before he sees Magneto, and asks Rogue if he is wounded. Rogue replies that it was crossbows, that Chain adapted their weapons to whoever they have to fight. ‘Yes. They do’ Legion replies, suggesting that, for the moment, it is probably best that they retreat. He then uses the power of one of his personas to teleport himself and his allies away. More than a hundred have fallen to Chain’s influence, and they gather around the statue of Eros. ‘Okay. Stand down. And tell Styx he’s clear for phase two’ Chain identity 13(b) calls out.
Moments later, Legion and the others materialize inside Elephant and Castle. Frenzy asks how come they ran away, and boasts that she could have taken those toy soldiers out by herself. Legion and Rogue help Magneto walk upright, and Legion informs Frenzy that taking out the lower links in the chain is irrelevant, as the target is 1(A). ‘Then let’s find him and put some creases in him!’ Frenzy declares. Legion asks his father if there has been any progress on that front, and Charles replies telepathically that Chain 1(A) is close to where they are now, which is why he asked them to teleport south of the river. From inside the X-jet, Charles tells Legion that all of his personas are extremely hard to read telepathically, and that Chain, with his near-infinite flawed copies, is the hardest of all. Charles tells everyone to stay where they are and that he will have directions for them soon. ‘So we sit and wait while this freak is out there high-fiving half of London?’ Gambit holds up some playing cards: ‘If anyone is interested…I have a deck of cards’.
At that moment, in the catacombs beneath Paris, the horrifying persona Styx sits on a throne, with his “subjects” standing before him. ‘In a spirit of proper reverence - with souls sanctified by terror and awe…you may approach’ Styx calls out. One of them informs Styx that the woman - the conduit - spoke again. ‘Indeed? And what did she say?’ Styx asks. ‘That Chain has engaged your enemies in London’ another reveals. He adds that they attacked in the configuration expected. ‘And was there something else?’ Styx asks. The first replies that the conduit said these things and then died. ‘Her body died. But her spirit lives on in me. So rejoice!’ Styx proclaims.
Back inside Elephant and Castle, Frenzy throws a car against the wall, smashing it. ‘Joanna’ Gambit calls out. ‘What?’ Frenzy asks. Gambit points out that the noise is a bad idea, as they want their next encounter with Chain to be on their terms. Frenzy turns to Gambit and tells him that would be a novelty for him, as most things in his life happen on “hers”, referring of course to Rogue. ‘You think I’m jealous of Rogue’s closeness to Magneto? You’re wrong. I sent her to him!’ Gambit retorts. ‘To get over her feelings for him, all she has to do is look at him from close up. It works every time’ Gambit explains, suggesting that Joanna try something similar, if she wants to conquer her desire for Cyclops. ‘You might want to shut that mouth before I shove a five-door saloon into it!’ Frenzy retorts as she rushes over to Gambit, who points out that Joanna critiques his relationships, and yet hers are off-limits. ‘It doesn’t work that way’ he tells her.
Joanna grabs Remy by his trench coat and declares that it works however she says it works, and calls him a pocket-picking piece of garbage. ‘Crois pas’ Gambit replies, to which Frenzy tells him that if he keeps speaking French to her, she is going to rip his tongue out. ‘Any time you want to try -’ Gambit begins, before Frenzy begins to kiss him. Gambit kisses back, but suddenly, ‘What - what’s going on here?’ Joanna gasps as she pulls away from Gambit, who replies that he doesn’t know. He suggests it might be some kind of mind control, when they both notice a young girl standing before them. She smiles and introduces herself as Susan. ‘Isn’t it a lovely day?’ she asks.
Nearby, Legion and Rogue are with Magneto. Rogue has wrapped a make-shift bandage around Magneto’s leg and tells him that will hold until they get back to the Blackbird. Magneto thanks Rogue and tells her that she might like to step out of the line of fire. ‘The line of?’ Rogue asks, before turning around and looking at Legion, who calls Magneto “old man” and asks him if he really wants to do this now. ‘An entire city is on the brink of destruction. Can you think of a better time?’ Magneto asks. Legion tells Magneto not to scrape around for justifications and asks ‘This is why you came with us, isn’t it?’ Magneto informs Legion that Cyclops is aware of his potential, and that he instructed Magneto that if it came to a choice between saving him and saving the world, he should choose the world.
‘What?’ Rogue asks as she stand between the two men. ‘You’re the kill switch. The final sanction!’ Legion declares. Magneto replies that is exactly what he is, before asking Legion is he has any last words, or a preferred epitaph. ‘I’ll write yours!’ Legion boasts as he surges with energy.
Back in the other area, Gambit looks at Susan in Sunshine and tells Frenzy to be careful, as this is Legion’s other persona. ‘I know who she is’ Frenzy replies. ‘Okay, little girl, you’re coming with us’ Frenzy announces. Susan replies that she is happy here, and but thanks Frenzy anyway. ‘I’m very happy here’ Susan adds, before releasing a massive burst of energy, which creates a small crater. ‘This is why we fought, and why we kissed. She manipulates emotion, and uses -’ Gambit begins, to which Frenzy interrupts again, ‘I said I got the sleeve notes, LeBeau’ she tells him, before ordering Remy to go and warn the others, and to pray that they are out of Susan’s range.
At that moment, Magneto ducks two powerful beams of energy that surge towards him from Legion. However, Rogue goes over to Legion: ‘Sorry, David’ she tells him as he she pulls him away. ‘This is gonna hurt. But you got more powers than you need, in any case. Ah don’t think you’ll miss a few’ Rogue tells him as she touches his skin and absorbs several personas from him - ‘Either way…nobody dies here’ Rogue declares as she uses several of the powers on Magneto.
Susan in Sunshine sings a song as the glowing energy continues to radiate around her - but Frenzy surges on and steps closer and closer to her opponent, until finally, ‘ENOUGH!’ Joanna booms as she tears the head off of Susan’s doll. Susan begins to cry, ‘M-my dolly! My doll’s all broke!’ she cries. Gambit returns and asks Joanna if she is all right. Sitting down in the crater, Frenzy replies that she is just a little hot to the touch right now, while Susan begins crying about her dolly. Legion and Rogue follow Gambit, and Legion calls out to Susan, asking her if she wants to go home. Susan sniffs and asks him if he can fix her dolly. ‘As good as new’ David assures her. ‘Then yes. Yes, please’ Susan tells him.
Legion absorbs Susan back into him while Susan exclaims that it is time for a picnic and that all the toys are invited. ‘Won’t it be fun!’ she declares. Rogue looks at Legion and tells him that no one was thinking clearly back there. ‘Ah don’t believe that Scott’s orders to Magneto were -’ she begins, but David interrupts, telling her that there is no need to spare his feelings. ‘If I were Cyclops, I’d probably already have pressed that switch’ David claims. Suddenly, the Professor’s voice resonates in their minds, telling them to listen. Rogue asks the Professor to go ahead, so Charles announces that Chain’s 1(A) self is at the location he is sending them now, a derelict housing estate in Peckham, surrounded by many thousands of his other selves. ‘Then what are we waiting for? Let’s go do some damage!’ Frenzy declares.
In Peckham, literally thousands of Chain are gathered. Inside one of the buildings, ‘You hear anything just then?’ one of them, sitting on a chair, asks. Another addresses the seated Chain as 1(A) and tells him that he is fine. He adds that there are three thousand copies between here and the road. ‘Nothing is going to get close enough to -’ he begins, before there is a crash, and Chain 1(A) vanishes. ‘Uhh - 1(A) wh- where did you?’ one of the others calls out, the chai lying upturned on the floor.
But Chain 1(A) is lying on the ground, with Legion standing over him, and Frenzy, Gambit, Rogue and Magneto standing nearby. ‘Among the millions of cells of my brain, there’s one where you belong’ Legion tells Chain, who orders Legion to leave him alone, warning him that he will kill him. ‘Really? That would be interesting to see’ Legion replies. Chain aims his gun at Legion, but does not fire it. ‘No. Of course not. If you could win a fight by yourself, you wouldn’t be so desperate to raise arms’ Legion remarks, as he absorbs Chain back into himself. ‘We’re done here. Tell my father to fire up the engines’ Legion calls out casually.
Soon, a glow of energy at the X-jet signals the return of the mutants. But as they enter the X-jet, ‘Look at the door! Something isn’t right here!’ Rogue calls out. The heroes look around and Gambit finds blood, while Legion announces that his father is gone. ‘There’s this, too’ a wide-eyed Frenzy calls out, she holds up a white lily. ‘A white lily. For the dead’ Legion announces, revealing that is Styx’s symbol, and his calling card. ‘Cute. So he wants you to know he was here’ Frenzy remarks. ‘More than that. He wants us to follow him’ Legion declares, adding that they thought they were hunting Styx - but it is really the other way around - Styx is waiting for them!
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Lost Legions, part three
Paris, ‘So what, we search the whole damn city?’ Joanna Cargill a.k.a. Frenzy asks as she walks alongside the Master of Magnetism, Magneto, who tells his former Acolyte ‘Exactly’. ‘For one man?’ Joanna asks. ‘Part of a man’ Magneto corrects her. Elsewhere in Paris, Remy “Gambit” LeBeau and David “Legion” Haller walk side-by-side as Gambit asks if they even know for sure that Styx is here. Legion nervously replies that the coordinates were on the Blackbird’s flight computer, that Styx put them there for them to find. Gambit points out that this is still a very big haystack, adding that it is a very sharp and very dangerous needle, while, elsewhere in Paris, Rogue searches on her own.
Magneto tells Frenzy that they work with the tools they have, explaining that Legion is using Time-Sink’s power to freeze the city in a single moment, at some considerable cost to himself. At that moment, Legion tells Gambit that he left them with full freedom of action, which means his escaped personas have that freedom, too. ‘So anything that moves is either us - or the enemy’ Gambit remarks, pleased, adding that it is a plan with no drawbacks, unless the enemy moves first. ‘Well, now. Who might you be?’ Rogue asks as she comes across someone in the city who is moving. An unattractive man rushes towards her, declaring ‘What I might be is unknown. What I am - the Bleeding Image. The image that bleeds’ he replies, adding that he shall bleed for Rogue.
Rogue stands her ground and the Bleeding Image comes to a halt, as Rogue tells him that she doesn’t care what he does, ‘We came for Styx’ she tells him. ‘You tell us where to find him, we’re done’. But the Bleeding Image announces that Styx is not ready yet. ‘He told me that’ he adds, before suddenly slicing himself with his knife, and declaring that the timing is everything. Rogue suddenly clutches her shoulder - in the same places as where the Bleeding Image sliced himself. ‘There, you see? That’s my power. I’m a living voodoo doll’ Bleeding Image announces. He explains that he sticks pins in his own flesh and others feel the pain. ‘How much must David hate himself, to have imagined me!’ the persona declares. The Bleeding Images pulls his shirt away, revealing a series of explosive strapped to him. ‘Styx set me free. And he’ll do the same for you. Once he touches you, nothing matters anymore’ the Bleeding Image declares, before remarking something in a foreign language. ‘If you get my meaning’ he smirks, before pushing the detonator.
There is an explosion, and Rogue is blasted across the area, landing in agony, her costume tattered and torn, she is in serious  pain. Soon though, Magneto, Gambit, Frenzy and Legion arrive on scene. ‘Here!’ Legion calls out. ‘She’s wounded!’ Gambit gasps. ‘Looks like she met the enemy and blew him the hell up’ Frenzy points out. But Magneto announces that the enemy destroyed himself, explaining that the volatized iron in the air is the by-product of a thermite explosion, before he asks how badly Rogue is hurt. Gambit and Legion stand over Rogue as Legion announces that her physical wounds are not serious, but that this was the Bleeding Image, and he amplifies pain. Legion explains that the shock to rogue’s nervous system would have been immense.
‘Stop babbling and get out of my way, Haller!’ Frenzy orders as she pushes Legion aside and crouches beside Rogue, grabbing Rogue’s hand, Joanna remarks that she doesn’t know if her invulnerability works against shock, but that it cannot hurt to try. ‘Take what you need’ she tells Rogue, who tries to say “thank you”, but Frenzy snaps back ‘I didn’t say we had to talk about it’. Gambit soon picks Rogue up and follows the others onwards, and he remarks that this is insane, as they don’t even know for sure that the Professor is still alive. ‘It’s been twelve hours now since Styx took him’ Remy points out. Frenzy agrees, and suggests that it feels like they have lost the initiative, and that unless they can get it back, she has a feeling that they are going to lose a hell of a lot more.
Soon, the mutants are gathered inside a building, and Gambit informs the others that Rogue is resting, that Frenzy’s intervention saved her. ‘Doesn’t matter squat if we don’t have a plan’ Joanna mutters in reply. ‘And that, in turn, depends on a full knowledge of what we’re fighting’ Magneto points out, before asking Legion for a repeat in what he has told them. Cringing, Legion explains that Styx calls what he does “the death touch”, but that it is more complicated than that. Legion tells his companions that if Styx touches them, he absorbs their spirit, their consciousness, and controls the empty shell of their body. ‘You become his slave’ Legion adds. ‘Great. So we take him down without touching him’ Frenzy suggests. Gambit points out that they treat everyone else they meet as a potential enemy. ‘I do that anyway’ Frenzy mutters. Magneto suggests that, in the meantime, they all rest, and stay with Rogue until she is well enough to move. ‘Then we’ll go back into the field’ he announces.
Soon, darkness has fallen across the city, and Magneto absorbs the city night view from a balcony. ‘You like the view?’ Joanna asks him as she walks into the balcony. ‘No’ Magnus replies. ‘Can’t take your eyes off it, all the same’ Frenzy points out. Magneto explains that it evokes memories, as the last time he was in this city, he was on a trial - for crimes against humanity. ‘The great Magneto in chains. Yeah, I remember that, too’ Frenzy tells him, explaining that it was why she joined Apocalypse back in the day, because the flatscans did that to Magneto. ‘What they called crimes - well, that was what made you our voice. Made us want to follow you’. Frenzy asks Magneto what happened to that, and Magnus explains that they outgrew each other. ‘I want no followers now, and you want no leader’ he tells her. ‘Can’t always get what you want’ Frenzy points out. ‘I find that I do, for the most part’ Magneto tells her. ‘Speaking of which - how come you’re not mopping her fevered brow?’ Joanna asks. ‘Because it would demean both of us. The strong prefer to have no witnesses to their weakness’ Magneto explains, telling Joanna that she should know that better than anyone.
Lying in a bed in the nearby room, ‘Ah was expecting you sooner. Come on in’ Rogue calls out to Legion, who sits down on the bed and asks if she is sure, remarking that she seems troubled. Rogue replies that she was thinking about Havok, Polaris and Marvel Girl, wondering if Cyclops managed to pinpoint where they are, before asking Legion what he needs. Legion rubs his forehead and replies that he was wondering if Bleeding Image said anything before he died - a clue to where Styx might be hiding. Legion explains that he cannot do this much longer, as the more he draws on Time-Sink’s powers, the stronger his personality - suddenly, Legion stops himself and goes wide-eyed, his complexion garish, Time-Sink’s voice calls out ‘Going to keep me in here forever? Not a chance. I’m climbing up your throat like a bad taste, Haller, and this time -’.
‘David?’ Rogue calls out, sitting up. Legion looks away and assures Rogue that he is still here, but afraid of this fight. He tells Rogue that Styx planned it out to the last detail, and knows the whole team as well as he does. ‘Well, like Remy always says: ‘If you don’t have any good cards left in your hand…play a wild card’.
In the other room, Magneto announces that it is time. ‘A gun you borrowed out of a dream. Cute’ Frenzy remarks to Gambit who holds up a shotgun. Gambit tells Joanna that this is not the rifle he used in Fortress X, as that gun was destroyed, this is simply a replica that he made for himself. ‘A toy, in other words. Or is it real enough to do some damage?’ Frenzy asks. Gambit tells Frenzy that he believes he could hurt her if he tried. ‘Now how could I turn down a challenge like that?’ Frenzy smirks. When Legion re-enters the room, Gambit asks him where Rogue is. Legion replies that Rogue is not back to full strength yet, but they cannot wait. ‘Seriously. We can’t’ Legion declares.
Legion explains that the time-envelope was meant to keep civilians out of this fight, but that Time-Sink is fighting him from the inside. ‘If he wins, you - you’ll have to face him all over again’ Legion tells his companions. ‘So?’ Joanna asks. ‘So I’m thinking - I should let the envelope fall. We know Styx wants us to come to him. Makes sense to let him do the work’ Legion announces. ‘It sounds as though you’re asking our permission’ Gambit points out. Legion supposes that he is, as the risk is very high. ‘We’ll be meeting Styx on his home ground, and on his own terms’ David explains. ‘Well, we didn’t come here for the fine dining’ Frenzy mutters, while Gambit remarks that the longer they wait, the more harm Styx can do. ‘I’d say we need to end this’ Gambit remarks. ‘Then we’re agreed. Legion. Drop your barrier’ Magneto orders.
Down on the city street, Legion releases the Time-Sink persona. ‘Okay. Okay. It’s done’ Legion announces. A massive swarm of insects appears overhead, and Magneto presumes this to be Styx’s reply. Joanna looks up and sees the swarm as she asks ‘What’s that sound? Like the whine of a drill or -’, but an instant later, the four mutants are engulfed by the swarm. The flies continue to swarm past the mutants, who begin to rush after them. ‘Flies. We’re following flies’ Joanna mutters. Magneto points out that for the self-styled lord of the dead, this is a banal and obvious touch.
The mutants come to a halt when they reach Denfert-Rochereau, the entrance to the Paris Catacombs, which the flies swarm into. Legion announces that he will lead the way, to which Frenzy asks him if he even knows the way. ‘No. But it’s me he wants’ Legion replies as he enters the Catacombs. The four mutants walk along a ridge, below them naked people are pulled into a pool of lava by large tentacles. ‘I thought this was just the basement to a church?’ Gambit asks. Magneto points out that it appears Styx has redecorated, and that he has delusions of grandeur. ‘Pity! Show us some pity!’ someone strapped to a wall calls out. ‘For God’s sake - save us!’ another exclaims. Magneto orders his companions to just ignore them, explaining that all of this is an illusion designed to make them falter and hesitate.
‘The less attention you pay to it, the better’ Magneto remarks. ‘So the lousy little runt can mess with our heads, too’ Joanna mutters. Legion replies ‘No. But my father can. At Styx’s command’ and suggests that they maybe too late. Suddenly, they come to a stop. ‘Hey! That’s -’ Frenzy begins. ‘- that’s us!’ she declares as they stand before skeletons of themselves strewn against the landscape. ‘It’s meant to be’ Legion explains, and Frenzy realizes that it is another illusion. But Gambit remarks that he disagrees, pointing out that this place was an ossuary, and the one thing Styx had plenty of was bones. ‘These are real’ he remarks as he touches the bones.
Suddenly, several people appear up ahead, carrying candles, they approach the mutants. Gambit remarks that they are real too, and one of them steps forward, announcing that they are the sacrifices. ‘Do I look like I give a damn? Get the hell out of my way’ Frenzy declares, before suddenly picking the sacrifice up by his throat, and suggests that she wads him up into a ball and punts him out of her way. ‘Frenzy! No!’ Legion calls out. Frenzy drops the man to the ground as Legion explains that Styx has enslaved them, that they are not in control of their actions. Frenzy replies that she is getting that way herself. ‘Where’s the boss man, pukestain?’ she asks the sacrifice, telling him that he doesn’t need to talk, just point.
The sacrifice replies that the master will speak to David Haller and to none other. ‘Only he may pass’ the man explains. ‘You really think you can keep us out?’ Frenzy asks him. ‘Yes. We can. If you care about the loss of innocent lives, you will stop here’ the sacrifice replies, as Frenzy moves back from him. The sacrifices all pull back their cloaks, revealing bombs strapped to each of them. The man whom Frenzy had pinned down announces that if they don’t stop here, the master will detonate every last one of them. Legion announces that he will go, but Magneto tells him that they stay together. ‘He has my father. We can’t fight him in any case’ David points out. Magneto stands in Legion’s way, pointing out that if Styx touches him, he will have access to the whole spectrum of his powers and they will have lost their best weapon against Styx. Legion frowns and replies that he doesn’t need Magneto’s blessing.
‘And I’m not going to let you stop me!’ Legion exclaims as he releases a powerful punch, knocking Magneto back. David walks towards the sacrifices, but Frenzy calls out to him, only he interrupts her,  ‘Enough. Let me through. It was always going to come to this’. David remarks that he was stupid to think it could end any other way. He comes. Make way!’ one of the sacrifices shouts. They part to form an aisle which Legion walks down - and at the end of the long line of sacrifices, Legion frowns as he comes to Styx, who sits on his throne, while Professor Charles Xavier stands motionless at his side. ‘I’ve waited for this moment for a long time, David Haller. You may abase yourself before me’ Styx declares.
‘Thanks, I’ll pass’ Legion replies. Styx remarks that Legion is straining every nerve, trying to drag him back into that fetid oubliette that he calls a brain. ‘Trust me, that’s not going to happen’ Styx declares. Styx explains that one of the reasons he delayed Legion as long as he did was to allow his father to weave a matrix of inhibitions into Legion’s mind. ‘You can’t absorb me. Or harm me. Or use any of your thousands of powers against me’ Styx declares. Legion asks Styx to let his father and the others go, and then he will surrender himself to him. ‘That’s what you want, isn’t it? Because you’re not sure whether you could consume me if I actually fought you’.
Styx ignores the comment and asks Legion to come closer. ‘Show me from here. I’m not blind’ Legion replies. Styx remarks that all men are blind until their eyes are opened for them. Styx points out that Legion’s father’s body stands at his side, but that it is no more than a husk. ‘Here is his spirit - locked within me, along with so many others’ Styx explains, holding up Xavier’s spirit. ‘And this is why you will come to me. Because if you don’t, he will be like this forever. His being sundered, into the shell and the screaming ghost. The choice is lies with you’ Styx tells Legion. David replies that he has already chosen. ‘You win’ he tells Styx. ‘Of course I do. Take my hand’ Styx replies.
Styx’s long, spindly arm reaches out to Legion, whose fingers brush through Styx’s long claw-like finger nails. Their hands clasp together, and Legion keels over at Styx’s feet. ‘And now - Endgame!’ Styx calls out, as the Endgame persona appears over Magneto, Gambit and Frenzy, tearing the landscape apart….


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Lost Legions, conclusion
Paris, specifically the Catacombs beneath. ‘This is as far as you come, X-Men. Terminus EST!!!’ the escaped Legion person known as Endgame shouts as the massive being releases energy beams down towards Remy “Gambit” LeBeau and Joanna “Frenzy” Cargill. ‘Oh man. What are you, besides ugly?’ Frenzy asks as she picks up a large concrete beam. ‘I am Endgame’ the being replies. ‘I am the final sanction’ he adds, while the beam that Frenzy slams against him simply shatters. ‘Takes more than a cute name and a fancy suit!’ Gambit declares as he throws several kinetically charged playing cards towards Endgame, who asks ‘Does it? They seem to be the main requirements. But I have more work’, then he prepares to vanish.
‘No!’ Frenzy exclaims, throwing the rest of the beam at Endgame’s fading form when, suddenly, ‘Enough!’ booms the Master of Magnetism, Magneto. ‘Styx should have known better than to send a man in armor against me. This is over’ Magneto declares as he holds Endgame in place magnetically. ‘Yes. That’s what I keep telling you’ Endgame replies, before somehow breaking the magnetic hold that Magneto has over him, and punches the ground, sending several of Styx’s followers flying backwards.
Further in the catacombs, the vile Styx sits on his throne, with David “Legion” Haller at his feet. ‘There. Was that so hard?’ Styx asks. ‘Oh God. Oh God’ Legion utters. ‘You’re too kind, Legion. But yes, that’s what I aspire to’ Styx replies, adding that he already has the defining attribute of godhead - power over life and death. Legion suddenly keels backwards, and Styx asks him if he feels it - ‘Your will, your soul, pouring out of you and into me. You’re mine, now. Your body a puppet that I move as I wish’. Styx’s hand hovers over Legion’s face, as the villain remarks ‘And your spirit - well, the good news is that you’ll live forever. The bad news is that your new home - is me’.
An instant later, Legion’s soul wakes up in the nether. ‘Help us!’ someone else trapped within Styx pleads. ‘Please! Help us!’ another exclaims. ‘It’s so dark! So cold!’ someone else declares as they stand on the space-like nothingness. ‘We want to go home!’ someone else calls out. Professor Charles Xavier is standing with several of the other imprisoned souls and tells his son, David, that this is what they become here, shadows of themselves, with their life-force feeding Styx and making him stronger. ‘You should not have come here, my son’ Xavier tells David. ‘You should not have let him take you’. Charles tells his son. Legion frowns and replies that he knows. ‘So I didn’t’ he announces.
Endgame tosses Magneto into the air and boasts that he cannot be beaten, as for every attack, he has the perfect response. “The Master of Magnetism” mocks Endgame. ‘Look at you’ he remarks, before Frenzy suddenly smashes her fists against Endgame and telling him to keep looking and hold the position as she calls him “Play-date”. ‘That’s Endgame. You should have treated me with respect. I might have made this easier for you’ he tells Joanna as he grabs her between his spiked-ball hands and smashes them together. He forces Frenzy to the ground and shouts ‘I’m Endgame! Endgame! ENDGAME!’ The persona begins grounding Frenzy into the dirt, boasting that the only way to win against him, is not to play. Suddenly though, ‘No’ a voice calls out. ‘Wh-what?’ Endgame gasps as he turns and sees Legion standing nearby. ‘There’s another way’ Legion announces.
At the throne, Styx stands over the motionless body of Legion, and boasts that now Legion belongs to him, that means all of Legion’s powers are now his, also. ‘But you know which one I want, David. Moira’s power. The power to twist reality into any shape’ Styx declares, ordering Legion to remake the world for him, to bring everything that lives under his rule. ‘No’ Legion replies blankly. ‘No? What does no mean? You can’t defy me!’ Styx declares, perplexed. ‘No’ Legion states again. ‘Then do it! Do it now!’ Styx orders, but Legion once again replies ‘No’. ‘You must!’ Styx snarls. Legion replies that he cannot, explaining that he does not have that power. Styx declares that Legion is not making any sense. ‘Unless -’ he begins, as he removes the scarf around Legion’s neck, revealing a collar that says 1(b). Styx is horrified. ‘Oh. Oh no. That’s -’ he utters.
‘That’s impossible! It can’t be you. This is a trick!’ Endgame declares as Legion approaches him. ‘A response for every attack. But I don’t need to attack you, Endgame’ Legion replies. Endgame tells Legion to keep away from him, otherwise he will blow the morons up, referring to Styx’s sacrifices. ‘I’ll detonate every one of those suicide belts!’ Endgame warns Legion. ‘Ah yes. The suicide belts’ Magneto remarks, and with a wave of his hand, completely detaches the as he sends the explosive careening towards Endgame - and the resulting explosion knocks Endgame over. ’Time to go home’ Legion declares as he stands over Endgame. But Endgame boasts that he will not go home and warns Legion not to come near, otherwise he will kill him. ’Whatever’ Legion mutters as he re-absorbs Endgame back into himself.
‘What the hell is going on here, Haller? You went that way’ Frenzy declares, pointing towards the darkness. David asks Joanna if she remembers Chain’s power, the power to make endless doubles of himself. ’It’s my power again, now’ he explains, adding that it was not him who they saw.
At the throne, ‘What have you done to me? Let go! Let go!’ Styx shouts. But the Legion double holds onto Styx and replies that it is too late for that. Suddenly though, the Legion 1(b) looks up - and it is actually Rogue! She tells Styx that his power is flowing into her, and her soul is trapped inside him. ‘Ah think this is called…a short circuit!’ Rogue declares, and at that moment, every soul trapped inside Styx spills out into the catacombs. Even down the other where Gambit and the others have remained, the souls come forth to find their body - and dive into Styx’s sacrifices. Magneto points out that the souls Legion stole are returning to their bodies, to which Frenzy asks if that is good, if that means he has done right. Gambit points out that they don’t know what it means. ‘You sent Rogue against that monster alone. Come on!’ he calls out as he makes his way towards the throne.
‘What about us?’ one of the sacrifices calls out as the mutants race off. ‘Hey, count your blessings. I’d have let you explode’ Frenzy calls back. The mutants soon find the Professor, and Legion calls out to him, asking him if he is all right. Charles just tells his son, and everyone, to stay back. ‘That’s Rogue in there. God help her!’ Xavier utters as the others round the corner, and witness Rogue battling the hideous Styx. Xavier explains that there is some sort of feedback loop, that each is physically and psychically embedded in the other, and that they are in agony. ‘Then do something!’ Gambit exclaims. Legion steps forward, offering to try, suggesting that if he absorbs Styx, he will have to let Rogue go. ‘Grotesque as it sounds, Haller. You’re probably her best hope. Do it. Quickly’ Magneto orders.
Legion prepares to absorb Styx back into himself, and Charles announces that it is working, as the psionic signatures are drawing apart, or at least starting to. He tells Legion to focus, and Styx is drawn closer to Legion, but he reaches out and grabs Rogue, ‘Woman - you destroyed me! Let me - return the favor!’ Styx booms as he grabs hold of her and drags her towards Legion also. Legion screams in agony as Styx tries to pull Rogue inside with him. Charles orders Frenzy to hold on to Legion, and she does, but announces that Legion is shaking like a Tokyo high-rise. ‘What do you want me to do with him?’ she asks. Xavier tells Frenzy to just anchor him, and not to let him injure himself or anyone else.
‘I’m going in!’ Xavier calls out as he enters Legion’s mind. There, he is confronted by several of Legion’s personalities. ‘Oh, and here comes the cowboy in the white hat, saving the day’ Time-Sink mutters. ‘Stole my only chance to live! I hope you rot, Xavier!’ the Moira personality shouts, while Susan in Sunshine tells her dolly not to listen to Moira as she is a bad lady. Charles telepathically calls out to Legion, announcing that he has found the place where Rogue’s mind and Styx’s are locked into his, that it is a knot of psychic energy enfolded on itself. Xavier tells his son that he thinks he can sever the knot, but that it will hurt - a lot. ‘Do it! Just do it!’ Legion calls out while Frenzy continues to hold him down.
Xavier does it - and the psychic knot shatters. Rogue emerges, and towers over Xavier. ‘You’re free - but - my God!’ Charles utters. Rogue tells the Professor not to worry, and explains that she just tapped into the mother lode, that she couldn’t help it, it just happened. ‘Ah’m touching - and drawing on - all of Legion’s personas at the same time’ Rogue reveals. Psychic energies rush around her as she tells Charles that it is like a tidal weave made out of people, that it is incredible. Suddenly, Rogue informs the Professor that she made a promise, and has just found a way that she can keep it. ‘What does that mean? What are you doing?’ Charles asks her. ‘It’s done. Ah’ll see you on the outside’ Rogue replies.
Xavier returns to his body and thanks Frenzy, who remarks ‘For what? He screamed once and then went real quiet. Whatever you did to him, he’s barely breathing’, before asking how it went. ‘Rogue!’ Gambit gasps as he rushes over to her. Rogue gets up and assures Remy that she is okay, despite being a little weak. Gambit holds on to her, as Rogue reveals that she is better than okay, as she found them. ‘Ah put it all together and Ah found them’ she remarks. ‘What do you mean? You found who?’ Gambit asks. ‘Rachel, and the others. Ah know where they are. And Ah can take us there!’ Rogue announces.
Frenzy walks over to Rogue and asks her if she is serious, ‘You couldn’t walk to the end of the street’ Joanna points out. Rogue replies that it doesn’t matter, as she was plugged into about a thousand super-powers in there, adding that there are more being born all the time, it seems like. Rogue explains that Legion has a persona called Compass Rose, with a locator power, like teleporting but to a person instead of a place. Rogue announces that she is going to jump to where they are and bring them home. Gambit tells Rogue that she cannot do that alone, and Magneto announcers that they will go as a team. ‘Aren’t we due a furlough, at least? Nah, skip it. Of course we’re not’ Frenzy declares.
Charles kneels beside his son and tells the others to go, ‘And Godspeed. But I won’t be coming with you’ he adds. Charles explains that Legion has suffered a massive shock to his nervous system, so to throw him into another conflict would be insane. Rogue goes over and touches the Professor’s hand, thanking him for saving her life, she tells him that she will see him soon. ‘I hope so, Rogue’ Charles replies, before asking her where exactly she is going. A brilliant light surrounds Rogue, Gambit, Magneto and Frenzy as Rogue replies ‘Couple of thousand light years, is all. Don’t worry’. She explains that she can hold on to this power for at least the next twelve hours. ‘And that should be more than enough to -’ Rogue begins, before they vanish.
An instant later, a portal opens inside a space-station or space-ship. Rogue falls into it and slams against a wall. Rogue remarks that the landing needs some work, but that she hit the target pretty much dead-on. Rogue sees Rachel Summers lying on the floor nearby and calls out to her, ‘Cavalry’s here, girl. You okay?’ Rogue asks. Suddenly, several weapons are thrust at Rogue’s head. She glances sideways, and finds several Shi’ar warriors standing around her. ‘Smells like a mammal, doesn’t it? And we’ve already got one’ one of the Shi’ar remarks, adding that he doesn’t think they need another….