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A Hard Lesson
A cheerful bank clerk greets Proessor Xavier and asks if his name is pronounced “Zay-vyer” or “Ex-zay-vyer”. Giving him a stony look, Xavier informs him that Professor will do. The clerk is somewhat taken aback by his attitude and begins to explain that, when he watches NCAA games, the Xavier coach always goes ballistic whenever anyone mispronounces… Xavier interrupts him. He has been banking with this institute for nearly twenty years and this day he discovers that all of his assets have been frozen.
The clerk takes a look in his files and explains that Xavier’s account is currently under investigation. Someone is trying to seize his assets. The estate of a Mr. Sebastian Shaw is claiming that there was an unauthorized transfer of funds from his account into Xavier’s several months ago. “The Hellfire Club,” Xavier mutters under his breath, before turning back to the clerk and asking him to release as small portion of his checking account at least. He has a school to run. It’s out of his hands, the clerk replies, before asking unhelpfully if he can help him with anything else. Xavier thinks at the man that he could force him to sign over the entirety of his personal saving directly to him and make him believe he lost it all in a drunken night. Blissfully unaware, the clerk repeats his question
Xavier intends to leave when, suddenly, the lights go out and a being with two heads and two set of arms enters the bank pointing guns at the people. They introduce themselves as Syndicate.
 Is that a mutie? a young man murmurs and his girlfriend whispers back that she thinks they are Siamese twins. Overhearing that remark, one of the heads turns to the girl, asking her if they look like they are from Siam? They are conjoined. And they are mutants, his brother adds. He adds that their heart pumps out an electromagnetic pulse with each beat so the security system is already fried.
The agitated clerks asks them not to hurt anybody, while Xavier telepathically notifies the police, while making them believe they are hearing this report on their radios. The security guard blurts out that he isn’t armed and tells them to take what they need. The clerk asks everyone to be calm. The bank is insured. He asks everybody to cooperate. One of the Syndicate brothers pistol-whips him.
Xavier telepathically announces that he gave them one chance to end this of their own free will, but that is a privilege they no longer deserve. He orders them to lay down their arms and stop this madness. The brothers notice somebody trying to hack into their brain, but the effect is not the one Xavier desired. They turn to a geeky-looking teenager, asking him if he believes he can control six pound of interlinked grey matter. They are immune to tricks like that. Is he immune to a hole in the face?
Xavier speaks up now, asking them to leave the boy be. He is responsible. He is a mutant just like them. Nice try, one of the brothers replies, but they know the differences between a mutant and a regular old freak. With that, he kicks Xavier out of his wheelchair. His brother is hesitant. He thinks Xavier looks familiar. All bald dudes look the same to him, his brother retorts. He adds that he smells about nine grand in each of those machines and suggests they pry them open.
Suddenly, the police interrupt from outside and demand they give up. Still believing the nerdy boy to be the psychic, Syndicate threatens him. Surprisingly reasonable, he points out that, if they fire so much as one shot, the police will storm in with their guns blazing. His lines are being fed to him by Xavier, who has him suggest they use the humans as hostage. Kreskin’s got a point, one of the brothers admits.
 In the meantime, Xavier contacts Jean Grey, asking if the X-Men have already contained that situation in New Jersey.
In Jersey, the X-Men are battling  the shapeshifter Warlock and Jean informs him that they haven’t yet. Does he need them? Xavier assures her he will be fine.
Syndicate orders the geek to get out and tell the police they want a personal jet parked outside with an unarmed pilot in one hour or they will begin executing hostages every 15 minutes. They order the rest to get into the vault.
A middle-aged woman mockingly quotes her husband as they all comply. “Don’t sign up for direct deposit,” he says. They’ll just steal your money,” he says. Her husband tells her to shut up. The security guard suddenly breaks down with a heart attack. Does anyone know CPR? the middle-aged man asks. Xavier addresses his wife, stating that she used to be a lifeguard once. She doesn’t remember anything! she claims. Xavier informs her that he is tapping into the recesses of her long-term memory. The detail should return to her… now. The woman recalls what to do and gets to work.
 A young man remarks that Xavier really is a mutie, isn’t he? He is the man who’s going to get them out of here alive, Xavier retorts. The middle-aged man protests that they need to keep their heads down and wait for the cops to sort this out. Xavier replies that he believes Syndicate will go through with their threat of killing them. The clerk, Michael, agrees, remarking that the authorities won’t negotiate. Xavier thanks him and states that some of the bank’s moneybags contain certain theft-prevention-devices. He needs Michael to gather as many as he can.
 He turns to a young woman named Sara and states that she has studied Tae Kwan Do for the last six years. She only made it to second gup, she replies defensively. She sucks! her boyfriend adds. Xavier explains that she didn’t reach black belt because of her failure to believe in herself. He can remove the mental block she placed in her way to give her the skills to disarm those men. He’s going to turn her into the ultimate fighting machine by giving her a pep talk? the boyfriend scoffs. That’s bull, Morpheus!
The middle-aged man, Mr. Thomas, agrees. Xavier cannot send children to fight that monster. Xavier seriously replies that they live in the society they live in today because they have trusted their youth to fight their greatest battles for them. They are far better prepared to face those dangers than they often give them credit for. Besides, he will need him to carry Mr. Kleinfeld, now that his wife has finished reviving him. Mrs. Thomas is almost in disbelief that she has saved the man. Mind over matter, Xavier tells here. Now here’s the plan…
In the other room, the Syndicate brothers are arguing. The one remarks that the other said they wouldn’t have anything to worry about once the EMP wave knocked out the surveillance cams. The other tells him to calm down. They can still pull this off. They have to think of Alice.
Xavier wheels in, a bag with money on his lap. He tells the men he wants to buy his way free. These are the containments of his safety deposit. The brothers shout at him to get back into the vault. Xavier throws the bag at them. The disguised dye pack explodes in their eyes. Xavier telepathically orders team one to get out while team two, the two young people are to strike. Sara disarms one of the brothers with a kick, while her boyfriend hits Syndicate with a fire extinguisher. Xavier commends them and asks them to get out. He will finish this.
The kids are barely outside when Syndicate grabs Xavier by the throat. One of them asks Xavier to give them one reason why they shouldn’t make him a quadriplegic? Calling them Matthew and Luke, he announces that he has the leverage now. They set him down and he introduces himself. He may not be able to control their minds but he can read them. He knows about their ailing sister and about their plans to steal enough money for the operation. Unless they do exactly as he says, he will order her to go to the top floor of her hospital and throw herself to death. The brothers believe he is bluffing until he gives details about the hospital room and seems to be in the process of going through with his threat. Panicked, the brothers ask him to not. They’ll do what he wants.
A little later, the brothers step outside with raised hands. Suddenly, one of them goes wild, shouting he won’t go out as a punk. Picking up on the hostility, the cops shoot. The brothers die.
From inside the building, the real brothers watch the scene, asking what the cops were shooting at. They didn’t see anything. Xavier explains that he broadcast an invented scenario into their minds. Eventually, they will forget everything. He tells the brothers to look for redemption. They can do more good for his cause out here than from inside a cell. Does he want them to be X-Men? No, he wants them to complete a mission for him in which the X-Men mustn’t be implicated. The last vestiges of the Hellfire Club are attempting to rob his children of the funds they need to wage peacekeeping efforts. He wants Syndicate to use their special skills to get his money back. But if they take one single life in the process, he will not pay for their sister’s operation.
He announces that he will escort them to one of his Manhattan safehouses, where they will lay low and away further instruction for his assignment. Assignment, the brothers protest. Are they his students now? Of, course, Xavier replies. They all are and the world is his classroom.


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Shock and Awe – part one
El Paso, Years ago:
A dusty road, a sunny sky. Ororo Munroe is riding on a shiny modern motorbike, followed by another biker, whose face is obscured by a helmet. The other biker demands Ororo give back the bike. Calling the other person “Yuri,” Ororo retorts that it isn’t Yuri’s bike. Technically, it still belongs to whatever rich jerk Ororo stole it from.
Yuri has been looking for a Mugmoni for months and Ororo wouldn’t have known how to hotwire that thing if Yuri hadn’t taught her. Ororo reminds her partner that she has already paid for her “education.” How much longer is she supposed to give Yuri ninety percent of what the chop shops pay her? For as long as she keeps poaching all the best wheels from Yuri’s turf, comes the reply. If she doesn’t like it, she can go back to Monaco. She can’t! Ororo replies, as they both have their bikes jump over a stretch of nothingness. For one thing, she is from Morocco!
Whatever, just go back there, Yuri tells her. Ororo refuses. Her family is dead and, if she ever sets foot in Marrakesh again, she will be as well. She tells Yuri she needs this place. The climate reminds her of home. Yuri tells her to buy a humidifier and move to Pittsburgh. Yuri continues that she has overstayed her welcome. Ororo replies that she learned English from old John Wayne Westerns. Yuri will have to do better than scare her with “this town ain’t big enough for the both of us “speeches.” It’s too late for speeches, Yuri replies and takes out a chain.
Yuri tries to hit Ororo with the chain, while they are still both moving at breakneck speed. Ororo warns Yuri. “You suck at riding slick roads.” Yuri has no idea what she is talking about. It is drier than a martini out there. The next moment raindrops begin to fall. Another moment and it is a torrential downpour. Yuri remarks that Ororo is just like Charlie Brown with her own black storm cloud following her wherever she goes. Ororo asks Yuri to stop it and pull over. Yuri has no intention of doing so. However, not having paid attention, Yuri has ended up on the wrong side and ends up being hit by a truck. Ororo is horrified.
Alberta, Canada today:
Outside a bar, a now shorthaired Ororo, sporting an elegant leather coat sees a bike just like the one she was riding that day. Rest in peace kid, she says quietly. A biker watches, asking if she wants to take her for a spin. She replies that the bike just brings back memories. Does she ride? She mostly flies those days. She adds that she is looking for a man. A friend. Scrappy little dude named Logan. He disappeared a few months ago and – a cry of pain comes from inside the building. Never mind. She found him, Ororo states.
Inside the barroom, Wolverine is holding man by the shirt and snarls that he can smell the blood all over the man. Now he wants to know who helped him kill that kid the night before. The man protests that they shot a monster … a sasquatch. He was a mutant, Logan snarls. A sixteen year old boy.
Another man trains a rifle on him and remarks that they put him out of his misery. He threatens to do the same to Logan. Drop it, Elmer Fudd, Ororo states. Bullets only make him grumpy. He turns the rifle on Storm, ordering her to get out. Logan tosses his victim away, shouting at Storm that he told her to stay put. He unsheathes his claws and in one fluid movement destroys the rifle, then kicks the man.
Ororo warns him of another man behind him. The man tosses a table at Logan’s head. Wolverine just gives him an annoyed look. That the best you big-game-fairies got? The other man jumps him and Ororo shouts at him not to kill them. She got a funnier idea? he inquires. She hasn’t much weather to play with in here, she retorts, Then open a window, he tells her and proceeds to do so by throwing one of the men through a window.
Thanks, she tells him, as her storm winds brutally sweep the men against the walls, knocking them out. Somebody’s been practicing, Logan grudgingly admits.
Ororo notifies him that she heard sirens on the way. He called the Mounties fifteen minutes ago, he retorts as they head outside. So he wasn’t going to kill those guys, Ororo asks. He hadn’t decided yet. Either way, someone would have to clean up his mess. He tells her to jetstream out of there. He’ll stay behind to deal with the law. That’s not gonna end well, Ororo jokes as she begins to put a strip of cloth around her fist.
He explains that the biker he hitched a ride with took off and there is no way that an air current can carry his metal bones back to the States. Smashing a car window, she tells him they are not riding the wind out of here. She begins to hotwire the car, remarking that this is the hunters’ truck. The cops would just impound it anyway… Since when did she know how to boost cars, Wolverine asks. Since she was eleven, Ororo retorts with a smile. Did he think he was the only X-Man with a past?
They are being watched by a person with a pair of binoculars. The person remarks that they have reacquired the target and asks for permission to engage. In a secret lab, a scientist forbids it. The rest of the team will be there in twenty minutes to help fight Wolverine. Deathstrike replies that he is breaking up; she cannot understand him. The woman smiles.
In the car, Ororo asks if this is why Logan left the X-Men, so he can wander the countryside like Shane, righting wrongs from town to town. Shane is crap, Logan replies. Any Western without Eastwood isn’t worth the film they wasted on. And it’s not like he goes looking for trouble. Then what is he looking for? she asks. Logan shows her a wedding ring.
After examining it, she asks if he is in love with a guy named James. James is him, he corrects her. He remembers nothing about his life but supposedly his wife gave him that ring. The Professor got it from the government guys at SHIELD. They got it from the military guys who turned him into what he is today. This is the only part of his history that Weapon X didn’t destroy.
Ororo offers to help him find his family. He declines. Too dangerous. Weapon X will be waiting for him. Colonel Wraith may be gone but there are still decommissioned soldiers floating around. He doesn’t want her to get mixed up in his old battles again. Is that really why he wants her to go or is he afraid she’ll tell his wife that they kissed? Ororo asks. “Stop!” he shouts at her. She apologizes. No, he tells her with a horrified face, STOP!
Before them, in the middle of the road stands a woman. Suddenly, her fingers extend into claws and she tears apart the car, which comes to a crashing halt.  Long time no see she mockingly states.
Wolverine, who crawls out of the wreck, angrily asks if she is insane. He has never seen her before in his life. She wasn’t talking to him, she retorts, calling him a pathetic waste of adamantium. She was talking to her. She points at Ororo.  “Yuri?” Storm asks, uncertain.


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Shock and Awe – part two
(Flashback, El Paso , Texas)
A wheelchair-bound young Japanese woman is looking outside the window of her hospital room. A voice addresses her as “Yuriko Oyama.” Without turning around she replies that her name is “Yuri.” The elderly gentleman replies that his name is Dr. Cornelius. She interrupts him. Unless his name is Kevorkian, she is done talking to doctors.
He read about her unfortunate accident he remarks. He is also familiar with the young woman Yuri holds responsible for putting her in that chair. He continues that Ororo Munroe murdered the only man who ever really supported his research. Witnesses say that she destroyed his friend’s helicopter with a bolt of lightning.
So, she is a mutie, Yuri states. Cornelius agrees. He should know. He dedicated his life to studying Homo sapiens superior. He once attempted to turn dangerous mutants like Ms Munroe into instruments of national security but, thanks to her assassination of Cornelius’ sole defender, he ended up going to prison for his service to his country. After spending the last year in federal hell, he intends to make the witch pay, but he needs Yuri’s help for that.
She’s not exactly in fighting form these days, Yuri points out sarcastically. She will be, he replies surprisingly. He believes he can give her the ability to walk again and possibly much more. His days of experimenting with mutants are over. Why make one’s enemy more powerful than he already is? Instead, he plans to use his knowledge to augment humans like her.
Yuri isn’t buying it. If all he wants is to take down a punk like Ororo, why go to the trouble of turning her into a six million-dollar woman? Why not shoot Ororo himself? Killing Munroe won’t be hard, Cornelius replies. Putting down her attack dog will be.
He shows her a picture of punkish Ororo and Wolverine walking the streets of New York. He explains that Wolverine is an unrepentant psychopath who was turned into an indestructible soldier in the earliest days of something called Weapon X. His programming eventually wore off and he’s been loosed upon a helpless world since. Intelligence suggests he and Ororo are rarely apart these days, so Yuri won’t be able to terminate her without going through him. He thinks he can transform Yuri into Wolverine’s equal. He warns her that the surgery is untested on humans and there is no guarantee of survival. Has he come to the right woman?
(Alberta, Canada, now)
With her car going up in a conflagration, Storm looks in surprise at the person responsible for this, barely believing that this is really Yuri. She’d heard the other woman was dead! Yuri is dead, her opponent shoots back. She is Deathstrike. She has been given orders to end her, just as Ororo ended Colonel Wraith.
Logan corrects her. Wraith was shot by SHIELD. Ororo adds that she only tried to kill him. She is not helping, Wolverine sighs. Storm explains that this has nothing to do with Wraith. She’s known Yuri since she was a kid. She still is a kid, Logan stresses and orders her to stay back. He will handle this.
He attacks Yuri who has claws of her own. Both of them lash out. Wolverine makes contact, slashing Yuri in the abdomen over Storm’s protest cry. Bending over, Yuri mocks that it is a bit late for the girl who never visited to start faking concern. Besides, thanks to a spliced gene or two, she heals twice as fast as Ororo’s little bodyguard. Some DNA from James turned her into what she is today.
Wolverine demands to know how she knows his name. She knows a lot more, Deathstrike taunts. She knows about his weaknesses. With that she extends one claw, hitting Logan in the chest. He screams as he falls down. Yuri explains to Storm that Logan’s Xiphoid hadn’t ossified when Admantium was bonded to his skeleton, so now it is the only fragile bone in his body. Break it just right and the whole nervous system shuts down. She learned a few tricks from Cornelius, the same guy who turned Ororo’s old pal Hank into a furry blue freak. Oh, sorry, that freak’s a corpse now, right?
Ororo’s eyes turn white and a bolt of lightning hits a nearby tree. She needs to work on her aim. Yuri mocks. No, she doesn’t, Ororor replies coldly. Moments later, the tree falls – onto Yuri.
Ororo tries to help Logan up. While Storm’s thunderstorm still rages a Weapon X helicopter with Cornelius aboard as well as several soldiers is closing in. They have learned that Deathstrike is unconscious. Cornelius informs the men that despite what he told Deathstrrike the primary target is Wolverine, not Storm..
The chopper shoots at Storm and Wolverine. Wolverine tells Storm he needs her to fly him up there. She protests that she can’t carry him. That’s not what he meant. A little later, Storm winds propel Wolverine like a missile directly at the helicopter. He slices up the cabin and begins taking out the soldiers.
Ororo watches in horror as the helicopter catches fire, plummets down and explodes. She is so distracted that she doesn’t  notice Deathstrike, until the woman’s claws are wrapped around her throat. Look at Ororo, pretending to be the hero, she mocks, does that act really fool her new friends? Don’t they know she is nothing but a second-rate thief? At least she was never a third rate car thief, Ororo spits back.
Yuri describes how she is going to kill Ororo. Storm apologizes for Texas, for everything. Does Ororo honestly think she will accept an apology? Deathstrike asks. No, Ororo replies and her eyes begin to crackle with electricity. Yuri warns her off. As long as she is holding Storm, she’ll fry too. Nevertheless Storm summons a bolt of lightning that hits them both.
Wolverine, still smoking, runs to their sides. He is close to panic. He doesn’t even know CPR. He knows how to break stuff, not to fix it. Nevertheless he tries and succeeds in making Storm’s heart start again. No problem he can’t punch his way out of, he jokes as he cradles her. He tells her to rest and promises everything will be fine. Claws unsheathed, he runs towards the unconscious Deathstrike.
Storm awakens from blackness to find herself in her room at Xavier’s school with a worried Nightcrawler looking down at her. He points towards Logan telling her she has to thank him for her return. Logan asks for a moment’s privacy and Kurt teleports away.
Storm asks what happened to Yuri. Long story for another day, is all he says. He wanted to say “hey” before he took off. He doesn’t want to risk bringing more enemies to the X-Men’s door step. Storm explodes. Weapon X was coming after her and if he hadn’t been there she’d be dead now. They need him. He still has a wife out there, he reminds her.
No, he doesn’t! Whoever he used to be might have somewhere but that man is gone, Storm retorts. They are both too obsessed with their pasts. She’s been running from hers and he’s been running back to his. Maybe it’s time they stop running. Today isn’t so bad. Tomorrow can only be better.


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Magnetic North: part 1
Wolverine sits in Xavier’s office. His cat, Mystique, roars at Logan. Logan threatens Xavier to control his cat, or else he’ll do it for him. Xavier calls Mystique to him, and it goes to sit on his lap. Logan wants to know what kind of a name “Mystique” is anyway, for a cat. Xavier becomes sad, and remembers he used to date a woman with that name. Logan smiles, joking and wants to know if that woman was a stripper. Logan jokes that, for a guy sitting in a wheel chair, Xavier does get around, remembering he used to go out with Moira MacTaggert and Emma Frost as well.
Xavier changes the subject, as they’re not there to discuss his past. He wants to know what happened to Deathstrike, the woman Logan and Storm faced in Alberta. Logan corrects that he didn’t kill Yuri, if that’s what Xavier means. Xavier didn’t, but explains he already has been brought up to date by Nick Fury, who told him that Wolverine had Deathstrike brought into SHIELD custody, and that she’s now trapped in a holding cell deep within the Triskelion. He thanks Logan for that.
Logan appreciates being allowed back at the school, but tells Xavier he doesn’t need to give him a “gold star” every time he did something good. Xavier adds that Fury violated a longstanding extradition treaty with the Canadians and risked demotion in order to answer Logan’s call for help, and only told Xavier that it was simply his time to turn the favor. Logan wants to know what Fury meant by that. Logan hesitates and, with a serious look on his face, answers that isn’t a door Xavier wants to re-open.
Meanwhile at the school’s game room, Kitty disturbs the quality time between Angel and Dazzler. She’s furious, and demands to know where Bobby is. Dazzler angrily responds that Iceman’s downstairs, but wants to know why. Kitty wants to rip his heart out of his chest, and phases through the floor. Warren thinks they best go check that out, but Alison has other ideas, remembering that love is a battlefield.
At the same time in the Danger Room, Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler and Iceman are fighting a simulation of Magneto, fighting in the city. And they aren’t doing so well. Storm defends that they need to pull together, or else humanity’s a stain under Magneto’s boot! Kurt teleports besides Ororo, and doesn’t like having to fight a simulation of Magneto for the tenth time this month. Storm corrects that this is also the tenth time Magneto has defeated them. She explains to Kurt that he wasn’t around the last time they faced Magneto, so he needs to know what he’s capable of.
Colossus defends that the last time they faced Magneto, it was he who defeated the master of magnetism, and thinks he can do the same with a mere simulation. Storm remembers that Magneto is a tactical genius, and that they can’t possible know all of his moves, so they need to be ready. Iceman is with Kurt, and thinks that Magneto is cooler in reality, and that they need to fight guys who can really bring trouble to them. Kitty phases through the Danger Room walls, and shouts at Bobby that she can give him a fight if he wants one. She demands to know why Iceman has been e-mailing with Rogue!
Kurt smiles, and Storm ends the simulation. Colossus asks Bobby if he knows where Rogue is. He denies that, but explains that Rogue sends him short messages while on the road, but she never tells him where she is. Bobby goes down to Kitty, and wants to know what she has been doing in his account. Kitty becomes sad, defending that she didn’t do that, but that Bobby accidentally CC’ed to her! Kitty reads a print of a mail from Bobby, in which he asks “Rouge” when she is coming back, as he still has feelings for her.
Bobby rips the printout out of Kitty’s hands, not wanting her to read on. Kitty doesn’t understand, as he told her that he wanted to make things work between them. Iceman tells her to knock it off, as he’s only trying to make things clear between him and Rogue. This makes Kitty even angrier, thinking that Bobby is only using her until Rogue gets back. She punches Bobby in his stomach, telling him that it’s over between them.
From the Control Room, Cyclops shouts at Bobby and Kitty not to fight each other. Jean calms Scott down, and asks him to let them blow of some steam, as Bobby and Kitty are still kids. Scott knows that, but they are driving him insane, as Kitty and Bobby are fighting each day: one moment, they’re at each other’s throat, the next, they’re making out at the attic! Jean asks Scott to understand, and to remember how difficult it was to hold a relationship at that age. Scott gets silent. Jean wants to know if Scott has been dating other girls before her. “Only one,” he sadly nods.
Meanwhile in Chicago, Illinois, Lorna Dane introduces herself to a new, handsome student. Lorna welcomes him at the Academy of Tomorrow, one of the best magnet schools in the school. And Lorna knows a thing or two about magnets. Roberto introduces himself, and explains that somebody mailed him a plane ticket to an open house but, when looking around, Bobby thinks that there’s been a mistake, as his grades suck. Lorna mentions that grades aren’t everything. Headmaster Frost sent her an article from the Star that wrote about Bobby, and she knows he’s a star. Alex walks up on them, and jokingly tells Bobby not to get any ideas, as Lorna is already his girl!
Lorna introduces the two gentlemen to another, and explains to Bobby that it was Alex who convinced her to contact him in the first place. They shake hands, and Alex suggests that he gives Bobby a tour around the school. They walk around, and Bobby recognizes a kid nearby, and asks Alex who that it. Alex explains that the boy’s name is Doug Ramsey, a junior there. Bobby can’t believe that the all-time Jeopardy champion of a game show is a mutant.
Emma walks over to them, correcting that Douglas is gifted. She explains that, at her school, people don’t judge people at what they are of what they can do or how good their grades are, which goes the same for Bobby. Emma introduces her to Bobby, and mentions she was truly impressed by that neighborhood watch Bobby formed back in Harlem. Bobby gets a serious look on his face, explaining that somebody has got to take care of the community while the X-Men are too busy fighting all over the world in their private jets.
Emma corrects that her school isn’t anything like Xavier’s. Her students aren’t soldiers, but ambassadors, charged with tearing down walls between mankind and mutants through education. And, Alex mocks, unlike with the X-Men, their class president isn’t an uptight control freak. Lorna jokes that Alex can’t seem to stop thinking about Scott for two seconds. Suddenly, someone shouts at Emma to get her attention.
It’s Jean-Paul Beaubier! Emma calms the speedster down, correcting that they don’t need him re-opening his old war wounds. Jean-Paul apologizes, but explains that, while preparing their cafeteria food, he noticed a five-alarm over at Cabrini-Green! Alex and Lorna follow Jean-Paul, ordering him to lead the way while he and Lorna will follow in Emma’s car. Emma corrects Alex that they can’t interfere, unless the Fire Marshall specifically asks them to. Bobby powers up and wants to tag along. Emma explains he can’t yet, as only students who’ve passed their Advanced Leadership Workshop are allowed to participate in off-campus community service missions. Bobby brags that he can help with his powers. Emma touches his shoulder, and calmly notices that Bobby is a bright boy, who has a lot to learn. They head towards the academy together.
Some time later, Havok, Lorna and Jean-Paul arrive in costume at the crime scene, where a huge building has caught fire. One of the firemen recognizes them, and isn’t thrilled to see the freaks, but another calms him down, realizing they can use all the help they can get. Alex gets out of the car, and asks for an explanation. The crew leader explains that the structure has been cleared. They only know that someone pulled the alarm ten minutes before the blaze started.
Havok suspects they are dealing with arson. He orders Northstar to run across the area, and search for any suspicious people trying to flee of the scene. Jean-Paul does as told, and leaves. Alex orders Polaris that he wants her reinforcing the building’s steel underframe, as the last thing they need is the building falling down on people’s heads. Lorna does as told, and powers up. But, something goes wrong. Their car suddenly flies up in the air! Alex panics, and asks Lorna what she’s doing, but she isn’t doing anything! She feels that the electromagnetic fields are all… wrong! The car lands among the firemen, and kills one of them!
Suddenly, the firemen’s car flies up in the air as well! Lorna freaks out, still claiming it’s not her doing this. Alex begs her to calm down. Lorna can’t, and begs Alex to help her, as she can’t control this. The fire wagon breaks apart, and its many pieces hit the firemen’s faces, knocking them out. Lorna begs Alex to make it stop, even kill her if he has to! Alex powers up. He quietly apologizes, and hits Lorna with his powers! Lorna falls down, and her powers fade away. Alex promises her that everything’s going to be okay. Northstar arrives back on the scene and wants to know what happened. Alex takes the unconscious Lorna in his arms, and cries. He shouts at Jean-Paul to go get Emma, right now!
Meanwhile, 20,000 feet above Genosha, Nick Fury sits in his plane and gets a priority transmission from SHIELD Commander Dugan. Dugan reports that they’ve got a Mutant Ops situation, and informs Fury about Lorna’s case. Dugan adds that she’s unconscious now, but that there is no guarantee she won’t start killing again. Luckily, Dugan mentions, they own the one prison cell that can hold her. Fury wants to know why he’s being bothered then. Dugan remembers Fury that said cage is one of a kind, and at the moment… occupied. Fury realizes the situation, and starts to think.
Meanwhile, deep beneath the Triskelion, Magneto finishes his game of chess. “Check.”


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Magnetic North: part 2
The Savage Land, somewhere in the South Pacific…
Longshot finds himself fighting in the jungle, chased by a wild pterodactyl. He has found a spear, and as the giant lizard descends, Longshot sticks the spear right through its stomach! The bird lands, but hits Longshot. Luckily, he is unharmed, and goes to hide behind a tree. He sarcastically hopes that the pterodactyl tastes better than the triceratops.
A female voice calls out to Arthur: it’s the Scarlet Witch! She jokes that a good man is so hard to find, but she finding a horrid one is even harder. Longshot corrects Wanda that “Arthur” is what the humans call him, and that Longshot is his mutant name. Wanda adds that her full name is Wanda Lensherr Maximoff. Upon hearing the “Lensherr” name, Longshot realizes that Wanda is… Magneto’s daughter?! Wanda smiles, and supposes that she is just that. Longshot recalls that Wanda used to live here in the jungle, and thinks she came to rescue him.
Wanda tells Longshot that he murdered an unarmed man, and helped make mutants look like dirt everywhere. She isn’t here to rescue Longshot: she is here to bring him to justice! Longshot is sad to hear that the rumors are true, and that Wanda is working for the flatscans. Wanda claims not to work for the humans: she works only for herself. And, she believes, any wretch who would slaughter one of the majestic creatures she helped raise is no longer worthy of freedom. Longshot calls Wanda a which, and throws knives at her.
Wanda manages to jump in safety and dodge the knives, and mentions that a “witch” is what the humans call her, though rarely in her face. One of the knives almost hit her between the eyes, but luckily she can catch it just in time. Longshot is startled: he never missed before, and stuff always works out for him. Wanda sarcastically finds that curious, as altering probabilities are part of her powers as well. She powers up, and hits Longshot with a Hex bolt, and Longshot is transformed into a black cat!
The Scarlet Witch reports back to Fury that their bounty is under control, and she believes that he owes her dinner at Nobu. Fury congratulates Wanda on the fine work, and promises to be there to pick them both up before the spell works off. Wanda doesn’t really want to hand Longshot over back to those anti-mutant haters back in Genosha. Fury denies that, since Wanda managed to capture Longshot in neutral territory, so he’s theirs until his people request extradition. Wanda picks up the cat, and asks Fury where they’re going to take him. Fury replies that they’re going to imprison Longshot at the same place they take every worthless psychopath they run into: home sweet home.
Chicago, Illinois…
Havok is angry. He doesn’t agree that Emma let Lorna be taken away. Emma feels sad as well, but she had no choice: Lorna brought a lot of damage. Alex shouts that Polaris had nothing to do with it. Emma is afraid that a dozen eyewitnesses have a different story to tell. Alex defends that they are wrong, and so is Emma.
Emma defends herself that she didn’t enjoy letting Lorna be taken away. She explains that, if she hadn’t remanded Lorna to SHIELD custody, they would have taken them all away! Emma did what she had to do in order to protect the school. Alex apologizes for bursting out like that. Northstar asks Emma what she thinks they’ll do with Lorna. Emma thinks that they are going to help Lorna find a solution about how this problem started.
Alex doesn’t believe that. This is the government they are talking about, the same people who built the Sentinels. He believes that they are either going to cut Lorna open, or strap her to a missile and drop her into the Middle East. Emma doesn’t believe that. She knows General Fury, and he is a friend who would never do such a thing. She promises Alex that Lorna has good people watching over her.
As the three talk, none of them notice that two people, standing in the shadows, are watching them.
The Triskelion, New York City…
Polaris wakes up, and finds herself… in the plastic prison! A voice calls out to Lorna, and tells her not to be frightened, as she is among friends. Lorna looks up, and recognizes… Magneto! He reaches his hand to her. Magneto congratulates Lorna, thinking her magnetic abilities must be formidable if they have chosen to put her in this holding cell.
Lorna thinks she’s in hell. She remembers killing all those people, and now she’s in hell. Magneto recalls that’s how the human once known as Malcolm Little once felt when he was incarcerated back in the 1940’s, but over the years, prison proved to be Malcolm X’s salvation. Magneto moves closer to Lorna, and gently touches her hair.
A voice over intercom orders Magneto to get away from her. It’s Quicksilver. He sits in the guard’s room, and can watch everything from viewing screens. Pietro swears that he’ll run down to the cell and snap Magneto’s neck before Magneto can even lift a finger on her. Magneto asks his son to calm himself. He was merely going to invite Lorna for a game of chess. He asks Lorna if she is familiar with the game. Hesitant, Lorna says she isn’t. Magneto tells her not to worry, as he is an excellent teacher.
The Xavier Institute…
Emma has contacted Xavier, and through a big TV screen they can talk to each other. Xavier informs Emma that they have put Lorna with Magneto. Emma thinks that’s insane. She believes that there’s no way they would lock up an adolescent girl with a convicted mass murdered! Xavier gently says that if Lorna’s powers are as Emma describes them, he has to agree that Magneto’s cell is the only structure on the planet capable of holding her.
Emma wants to know how Charles can be so certain about that. Sadly, Xavier responds that he built it. Emma thinks that this is all her fault. She always thought that Charles was naïve to segregate his students from humanity, to keep them locked up in that old castle of his. But now, Emma realizes that she has been the idiot. She knows that Charles wasn’t protecting his students from the world; he was protecting the world from them.
Charles tells Emma that her tears help nobody. He asks Emma to dry her eyes and to be strong for her student body. But until he has looked into matters, Xavier wants that nobody can know about Lorna’s cellmate. Emma understands, and gives Charles her word.
Emma Frost’s academy…
Meanwhile, while sitting in one of their rooms, Havok has gathered his friends and they’ve eavesdropped on the entire conversation between Emma and Xavier. Alex had Doug hack into their cable box and turn it into a receiver so they could listen as well. Doug just can’t believe that Lorna is actually locked up with the guy who once blew up the Brooklyn Bridge.
Sam agrees, and also doesn’t like it. Alex promises that Lorna won’t stay locked up for long though, as they are going to break her out. Northstar thinks that’s impossible. He remembers that Nick Fury gave his dad a tour around the Triskelion once, and his dad told him the place is like Fort Knocks on ‘rolds. And they even have the Ultimates as protection!
Alex sees the Ultimates as just humans with lamer outfits, though he means no disrespect to humans. Doug hasn’t taken any, but he doesn’t think he’ll be of much use in the field. He thinks he’s better off staying there looking for something that might exonerate Lorna. Sam agrees, and thinks he’s going to stay behind as well and help Doug.
Havok gets furious and blows up the computer! He tells Cannonball that he can’t ditch them like that. Sam apologizes, and explains that there isn’t a school in Kentucky that will accept someone like him. If he does anything to get kicked out, there’s no place he can go. Alex picks Sam up by his clothes, and shouts that he must stop thinking about himself for a few seconds now: Lorna needs them. A startling Sam agrees, not wanting to get hurt by Alex.
Alex asks Roberto what he’s going to do. Roberto defends that he isn’t even a student there yet. Alex asks Roberto if he really wants to enroll in a place where the teachers give you a timeout with this century’s Hitler every time you’re accused of doing something you didn’t. Roberto understands. He powers up, and asks when they are going to leave.
The Triskelion, Magneto’s cell…
Magneto plays chess alone, and Lorna sits frightened in a corner. Magneto asks Lorna if she’s a student from Emma. Polaris doesn’t answer. Magneto mentions that, back when Emma was Lorna’s age, she was in a most heated relationship with Xavier. Lorna doesn’t think that’s possible, as Xavier is practically old enough to be Emma’s father.
Magneto agrees on that. He always believed that it is reprehensible for men in positions of power to pursue their female subordinates. Magneto told this to Xavier once, but he didn’t want to hear it. He said that Emma was a “unique case.” Magneto knows that, for Xavier, the world is nothing but shades of gray. He supposes that’s what Emma learned Emma as well. For Magneto, the world is black and white. There’s the right and the wrong. The positive and the negative. He asks Lorna if she agrees. She doesn’t answer, but quietly thinks about it.
The Xavier Institute, the McCoy Memorial Hall…
Xavier has summoned all of the X-Men for a briefing. Nightcrawler teleports in a little bit late, but Xavier doesn’t mind and cuts to the chase. He has some unfortunate news of which he had hoped to shield his students from, but he can’t do that anymore. He explains to them, as they might have heard on the news, a young mutant has lost control about her mutant powers and has killed several civilians. Thanks to her young age, this mutant’s identity has not made public, but Xavier can tell his students that they are dealing with Lorna Dane.
Cyclops panics a bit, knowing that Lorna can handle her powers better than anyone else there in this room. Storm is surprised that Scott seems to know so much about her, and wants an explanation. Scott gets a serious look on his face and turns away from Jean. He reveals… that Lorna used to be his girlfriend! Jean is shocked. Xavier claims that, despite Scott’s history with Lorna, her culpability in this matter is not for them to decide.
Sadly, as Xavier shows a hologram of him, Charles tells them that Lorna’s current lover, Alex, does not agree with that statement. Hoping to rescue Lorna from the Triskelion, Xavier has learned that Alex and some of his classmates have stolen a vehicle and moved over to action.
Iceman jokes that if Alex is dating his brother’s ex-girlfriend must bring up some stings. Kitty tells him to shut up. Xavier wants Cyclops to take Nightcrawler, Wolverine and Shadowcat into the X-Wing and to go find Alex. He trusts that Scott’s feelings won’t cloud his judgment. Scott promises that will never happen. Logan jokes that if Alex is using as much aftershave as Slim is using, it won’t be a problem to track him down for him.
Colossus wants to know, if Kurt’s probation is over, why he isn’t allowed to help. Xavier explains that’s because he wants Peter, Marvel Girl and Iceman to form a defensive parameter around the Triskelion. They will be the X-Men’s last line of defense in case Alex and his companions make it past the guards.
Angel mentions that his wings have recovered and he suggests that, if they need an extra eye in the sky, he’s there. Alison agrees to help, since she and Warren first handed experienced some brats with a murder case. Xavier corrects that this situation is a thousand times more serious than the Longshot debacle they were involved in. But he assures the X-Men, for reasons he is unable to explain at this point, that, if this particular prisoner is allowed to escape, the world will be doomed. Cyclops starts to think.
Elsewhere in the city, night time…
Forge and his friend are behind police lines, and picking up something. The friend warns that they’ve got to get Forge’s contraption out of here before some do-gooder heroes show up. Forge still thinks that this is lame. He means, they’ve got a multi-directional electromagnetic field generator. They could probably use something like this to bust Magneto out of prison by themselves. He doesn’t understand why they go through all this trouble to rescue some green-haired girl.
The friend explains that breaking Magneto from SHIELD isn’t going to be as simple as him helping Forge escape that supermax. Besides, the friend remembers, the “big man” has a plan. A police officer notices them, and wants to know what they are doing. The friend smiles, and kicks the police officer real hard, killing him. Forge doesn’t think that was necessary. The friend recalls that their orders were to kill any humans who interfere with their affairs. Anyway, a healthy body count is kind of Magneto’s calling card.
Forge’s friend starts changing shape, and looks exactly like the killed police officer! The woman smilingly concludes that a healthy body count is kind of Magneto’s “mystique!”


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Ultimate Sacrifice
The X-Men are under attack by… the Green Goblin! The Goblin sarcastically congratulates the young mutants, as they have the “honor” of being killed by him. Unimpressed, the X-Men stare in front of them, and look at their other opponents: Dr. Octopus, Sandman, Electro and Kraven the Hunter. Wolverine knows that Xavier programs these Danger Room holograms they are presumed to train with, but he wants to know who writes their lousy dialogue.
Storm, while quickly dealing with Electro by using her thunderbolts, reveals that she writes it. And, she mocks, if Logan understood the first thing about writing, he would know what she was trying to accomplish. Nightcrawler defends that he likes the stylized dialogue, but fails to understand why they are fighting these creatures, as, sinister as they may be, these villains aren’t mutants. Jean explains that they are peacekeepers. They have to be ready to defend against anything, whether it’s human, mutant or whatever. Cyclops mentions that it was Kitty’s idea to practice against other threats from SHIELD’s database.
Iceman suspects that Kitty only came up with the idea so she could suck up to Spider-Man about having fought his enemies. Kitty doesn’t want to hear it. Plus, she hazes Bobby, it’s him who sneaks into the Danger Room at nights to go on simulated dates with… Iceman moves his ice-slide quickly towards Kitty’s direction, and angrily shouts at her not to even say her name. Colossus, while fighting Dr. Octopus, wonders if Kitty and Bobby are still together, or if they broke up again. Dazzler jokes that, since the two are sixteen years old, it changes by the hour.
Meanwhile, in the Control Room, Angel wonders and asks Xavier if he’s certain he can’t do anything to help his classmates. Xavier appreciates the offer, but he wants Warren to remain on the sidelines until his wings have finished healing. Xavier stops the discussion, as he receives a priority transmission from SHIELD. Xavier tells Warren that he’s excused, and the winged mutant departs.
A viewing screen with Nick Fury’s image opens. Fury’s afraid that there is some trouble, as an escape occurred. Xavier freaks out, fearing Fury’s talking about Magneto. Fury calms the man down, mentioning that the master of magnetism is still trapped in the Triskelion. Unfortunately, he is talking about one of the other savages who helped blew up the Brooklyn Bridge. They were transferring said person to a detention facility originally designed to contain the Hulk, but there was an incident en route.
Xavier wants to know if any of Fury’s men were hurt. Fury doesn’t see that as Xavier’s concern. What should be Xavier’s concern is the fact that one of his students turned state’s evidence against this psychopath. Xavier immediately realizes that Fury is talking about Rogue. Fury tells Xavier not to worry, as he’s sending a platoon of guards to the institute to provide additional security, just in case. Xavier sadly has to report to Nicholas that Rogue is no longer with the X-Men.
Fury becomes outraged. He remanded the girl to Xavier’s custody with the implicit understanding that Charles would act as her legal guardian! Xavier did, he concludes. But, Rogue chose to seek a different path recently, and he was not there to prevent her departure. Fury wants to know where Rogue is at this point. Sadly, Xavier has to confess that he has no idea.
Meanwhile, at the Fenris Resort and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada…
Rogue manages to slip passed a lot of security laser beams, and is about to steal a very tiny, yet valuable ruby. She reports back to Gambit that the job will be done in two shakes. Remy, having defeated all of the guards, still is surprised that Rogue managed to get inside a vault with six million dollars. Rogue defends that there’s no need to be greedy, as she’s certain that after the Fantastic Four crashed their space shuttle on the Strip a few months back has hurt Fenris’ Vegas earnings enough already. Gambit warns Rogue that, she can take it from him being a former street performer, that it doesn’t matter if it’s David Blaine or Doctor Strange, “magic” isn’t nothing more than smoke and mirrors.
Rogue manages to grab the ruby, and explains that, according to that flunky whose memory she absorbed back in Dallas, their former employers bought the ruby from an Irish arms dealer named Black Tom Cassidy. She has no idea what the ruby does but, if they are keeping it out of the Von Strucker’s hands, she knows that they are doing the world a favor. Gambit remembers that Fenris has got holdings in every country on the planet. It doesn’t matter how many jobs they pull, Remy fears that they will never be able to dismantle Fenris’ whole empire.
Gambit wants to know if Rogue is certain she wants her whole life being a never-ending string of heists. Of course Rogue wants that, as long as her Prince of Thieves is by her side, she doesn’t care. Gambit just sometimes feels guilty about stealing Rogue away from the X-Men. Rogue jokes that those kids are a lot of things, but definitely not “men.” All they do, she claims, is sit in their school and practice. Rogue thinks that, if she is ever going to make up for all the awful things she has done in her life, she needs to get out in the world and actually do something. She asks Remy to leave now, and slip into something less comfortable.
They leave and go put on their tuxedo and beautiful, red dress, and spend the evening walking through a casino. Remy wishes he could be there to see the look on their faces when Andrea and Andreas watch the tape of them walking out front door with their family jewels. He thinks that they should stick around and win a few hands of blackjack just to rub it in. Rogue doesn’t want to, as her family has had nothing but trouble when it comes to games of chance. Gambit asks if Rogue’s father was a gambling man. Rogue sadly has to confirm, at least he was, up until he lost their house. That’s also when she ran away the first time.
Gambit mentions that they can visit Rogue’s parents if she wants. Rogue thanks him, but she claims that the only family that matters to her now is Remy. She thinks that finding him was the luckiest day of her life. Rogue and Gambit suddenly stop, as they get hold in the middle of the street by none other than… the Juggernaut! He jokes that it has been a long time since he and Rogue last saw each other.
Rogue freaks out, fearing that Juggernaut is working for Fenris now. That obviously isn’t true, as Juggernaut doesn’t even know what “a Fenris” is. Gambit asks Marian if she knows this man. Juggernaut mentions that he and “Marian” used to be partners, until she stabbed the Brotherhood in the back and hooked up with the X-Men instead. Rogue mentions that she isn’t with the X-Men anymore. Gambit confirms that, as they are done running.
He charges up some playcards and throws them at the giant. The cards explode on the Juggernaut’s armor, but he is unharmed. He jokes that must have been the dumbest mutant power he has ever seen. He grabs Gambit by his clothes, and tosses him high up into the air! Luckily, some boxes below break his fall. Rogue warns Cain to stop it. Ignoring the threat, Juggernaut picks Rogue up and holds her tightly. She wants to know how Cain found her.
Juggernaut reveals that he busted his old helmet out of storage, as this thing lets him track anybody who was ever branded by Weapon X. He thinks that Rogue has perhaps forgotten what those animals did to them. Rogue, with a serious look on her face, warns Cain to leave right now, as she doesn’t want to hurt him. Juggernaut laughs, as he is aware that Rogue can only absorb him when she doesn’t wear any gloves, as she is right now, and she can’t use them because Cain holds her tight by her arms. Rogue notices that Cain is as stupid as ever. She moves her feet until her shoes fall out, and kicks Cain so hard he has to drop her.
Cain tells Rogue she can fight him all she wants, as, unlike her new boyfriend, Cain’s mutant power aren’t some stupid card tricks. He is unstoppable! He punches Rogue in the face. Rogue remembers that and, thanks to the fact that Cain hit her, she is now unstoppable as well. Thanks to the punch, Cain touched her and allowed her to absorb enough strength to blow Juggernaut to the other side of the street! But, he’s still standing. Cain shouts at the scared bystanders to get out of here now, before he beats them to pulp. While they escape, Cain notices that they even bring their children to this hellhole, and can’t believe that Rogue actually sympathizes with these animals.
Rogue wants to know if Juggernaut is still working for Magneto and taking orders from him, suspecting that Magneto might have send Cain after her to kill her. Cain denies that. He would never kill Marian, as… he loves her!
He grabs Rogue’s arm tightly, and she has to scream from the pain. Cain asks Rogue to touch and absorb him, and to look straight into his heart. Rogue has no choice but to do that. Rogue recognizes images from their shared past back as prisoners inside the Weapon X compound, and them spending time together in their holding cells. Cain sees him and Rogue as two sides of the same penny, as they are both trailer trash made good. Rogue was the brains, and Cain was the brawn: they were the perfect team. Sharing a cell with Rogue was the only time Cain felt like a free man.
Rogue passes out. Gambit returns, and asks Cain to drop Rogue, remembering him that Rogue is still just a kid and can’t handle so much information. Cain wants to know how the Cajun would know that. Remy knows enough to not force Rogue into being something she doesn’t want to be. Cain thinks that the only reason Rogue is with Gambit is because he reminds her of her father. Gambit takes the ruby he and Rogue stole earlier. He charges it, and throws it at the Juggernaut. On impact, the ruby phases inside Cain’s armor!
Energy starts surrounding Cain. He laughs. Cain doesn’t know what the Cajun did to him, but he hasn’t felt this good since he turned thirteen and crushed his father’s skull with one hand. He has never been this strong! He is even able to lift up a car, and throw it away. Now there isn’t a force on this planet that can prevent him from being with his girl.
Gambit won’t allow that, and pulls out his bo-staff. Unimpressed, Cain starts fighting Remy. Gambit puts his staff on the ground, jumps high up and lands on Cain’s back. He starts running amok through the city, smashing everything in his way, until he eventually manages to grab Remy and throw him back on the ground. Remy mentions that he now had enough time to charge up Cain’s helmet with enough energy to demolish a city bus.
Uncertain, Juggernaut wants to know what that means. At that very moment, his armor explodes. Cain smiles and calls Remy stupid. Gambit still has an ace up his sleeve. He charges up some more cards, and throws them at Cain, but they all miss. Cain laughs again, but this was all part of Gambit’s plan. He tells Cain to look behind him. He does, and realizes his mistake: the cards hit a giant constructing plate, and it crushes down on both Cain and Gambit!
Rogue wakes up, only to see Remy’s fate. Rogue senses that Gambit is still alive, as she can still feel him. She moves some bricks away, and finds Gambit, almost out of breath. He now realizes that there really is exist some true magical things in this world. Police helicopters can be heard in the distance. Gambit knows he won’t be in this world for long anymore, and wants to at least steal one final kiss from Rogue.
Marian has no other choice, and kisses her beloved. Gambit’s energy fills the air and floats inside her body.
Three days later, at the Xavier Institute…
Iceman sits alone in his room, and makes ice sculptures of Rogue. The phone rings. It’s Rogue. Bobby immediately wants to know where she is, as he has heard on the news that the cops found Gambit’s body.
Rogue changes the subject, as she is scared. Normally, the transfer only lasts a few hours, but this time it’s different. Bobby asks what’s wrong, hearing that Rogue’s voice doesn’t sound right. Rogue mentions that she can still hear Gambit’s voice, as if he’s standing right next to her.
Rogue apologizes, but she has to go as her phone card has almost run out. She stands nearby a gas station somewhere. She takes goodbye from Bobby and hangs up.
Rogue turns her head, and her eyes are now similar to Gambit’s, and she is able to charge up playcards like he used to.


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Magnetic North: part 3
Cyclops wants to know what’s going on. Jean, standing with him, suggests that Scott explain it to her instead. She tried to summon Scott’s most vivid memory of Lorna Dane, and this is what his memory pulled out. They are literally standing in Cyclops’ memories of his very own past. Scott and Jean look in front of them, and find the time when Scott and Lorna were dating. They see Scott using his optic blasts to make a heart-shaped figure in the sky, meant to prove his love for Lorna. Cyclops, upset, wants Jean to stay out of his past, and shoots the images away.
Jean, while using her concentrated psychic powers outside the Xavier Institute, asks Scott to remain calm. She just wants to know why he never mentioned Lorna to her before. Ashamed, Scott reveals that he and Lorna were just kids when they started dating. Lorna was the only person Scott had met who was just like him, except for his brother, of course. But, Scott was more into school at the time than girls, and Alex was pretty much the opposite. In the end, Lorna chose Alex over Scott. And Scott can’t say that he blames her.
Jean wants to know if Scott still has feelings for Lorna. Scott tells Jean that she knows how important she is to him. That’s not what Jean asked. She recalls that Scott’s first love is trapped inside a cell, maybe for a crime she didn’t commit. She was just wondering if Professor X has sent Scott to Chicago to stop Alex, or to stop Scott from breaking Lorna out of prison himself. Scott isn’t sure, and wants Jean to tell him. After all, she is the one who spends too much time with the Professor inside his head.
Getting angrier, Jean wants to know what that’s supposed to mean. Scott apologizes. He didn’t mean to say that. It’s just that he and his brother have fought before, but not like this. He’s worried they’ll end up even worse than before. Jean calms her beloved down, confident that Scott will take care of everything, like he always does. She wants Scott to come home soon, and tells him she loves him so much it hurts. Scott smiles, and tells Jean the same.
Back to reality, Wolverine, sitting with Cyclops in the X-Plane, hopes that Scott wasn’t saying that to him. If not, Logan jokes, he reminds Scott that he’s sitting in an ejector seat. The X-Plane continues its ride, and flies across the freeways.
The Triskelion, superhuman detention facility and headquarters of the Ultimates…
As Iron Man flies away from the base, Nick Fury moves to the lower levels of the magnificent headquarters. Accompanied by two SHIELD agents, he helps carry Longshot to his prison cell. Fury jokes, and asks Longshot how this place looks compared to that Podunk island people were hunting him. Longshot tells Fury to burn in hell. It isn’t because this place serves three meals a day it’s not as much a hate crime as Krakoa. Fury, with a serious look on his face, wants to know who said anything about three meals?
Anyway, Fury gives his thanks to whomever tipped them on Longshot’s last hiding place. He opens a door, extra guarded with laser beams, and suggests it’s time that he introduces Longshot to his new neighbors. They pass a cell in which Yuriko Oyama is trapped. Fury watches Yuriko shredding her prison clothes, and asks the woman how life is these days. Yuriko mocks that it’s her body, so she can change it the way she wants to, and that can’t be a crime.
Ignoring the woman, Fury moves over to the next cell. He introduces Longshot to Nathaniel Essex. He’s not quite right in his head. Either way, Essex has been on permanent suicide watch, ever since he tried to swallow his own tongue. They overhear Essex mumbling something about a child that is coming and that his master will be reborn.
Longshot wants to know what kind of place he’s in: the ghetto where the Ultimates hide all the “lowly mutants?” Fury corrects that his prisoners aren’t mutants. They are just screwed-up humans who illegally pimped their own rides. Fury and his people just figured that Longshot is no more dangerous than these genetically modified wannabes, so they decided to throw Longshot there in jail with them. Once Longshot is in his cell, Fury mentions that they keep the real monsters below the base.
Further below…
Magneto, startled, tells Lorna that she has trapped his queen. Lorna thinks that only happened because Magneto let her. Magneto corrects that he has lost his fair share of battles in the past, but never by choice. Lorna shouts that Magneto must see the world as one big game of chess. He hates humans so much, they’re just expandable pawns to him. Magneto, with an immense serious look, reveals to Lorna that he doesn’t kill humans because he hates them. No… Magneto kills humans because… he loves them.
Magneto explains that, when the Americans dropped the first atomic bombs, which are the seeds of the unique mutant race, it was not because they hated the humans. It was because they loved their brothers, and were wishing to save them from a long, costly war in the Pacific theater. Magneto explains that, when they take an “innocent” human life, they do so to spare the blood of fellow mutants. He wants Lorna to understand that they won’t surrender quietly to Sentinels the humans built to destroy them. Whether or not Lorna’s killing of those humans was an accident, he adds, Magneto can assure Lorna that doing so, she ensured long lives for her loved ones in the mutant community, who will once again be rightfully feared by everyone else.
Lorna cries, confirming that her killing really was an accident and didn’t mean to hurt anyone. She hugs Magneto. Magneto tries to cheer Lorna up, telling her that people like them make the sacrifices others can’t. It’s their gift to the future.
Downtown…
Havok and his friends are driving along the freeway, but Alex thinks they are completely lost. Roberto defends that, even though he’s from New York, he doesn’t know how to get there. Visiting Alex’ school was the very first time he even left Harlem! Sam suggests that they pull over and ask for directions. Jean-Paul thinks that Sam has no idea how men work. Suddenly, Nightcrawler teleports in front of the car! Alex can’t see anything anymore and freaks out. He loses control over his wheel, and drives against a lantern post, destroying the car. Luckily, none of the kids is unharmed.
The other X-Men arrive, and Cyclops orders Alex to stay where he is. He’s outmanned. And out-wommaned, Shadowcat jokes. Storm agrees with that statement, but wants to know why they had to smack Alex’ ride then. Kurt mentions it’s because they are facing dangerous mutants, and next to Cyclops’ brother is Roberto really something, meaning a headstrong fighter who Kurt and Marvel Girl have faced before. Kurt also introduces Jean-Paul Beaubier to his teammates, a Level Six speed demon who survived a brutal attack from Sinister. Wolverine wants to know who the other goofy kid is, in the back seat.
Sam Guthrie proudly steps out of the car, and informs the X-Men that they can call him Cannonball! He quickly attacks Wolverine with his powers, making the tiny mutant understand how he earned his codename. While Nightcrawler goes to pick up whatever’s left from Wolverine, Cyclops orders Shadowcat to make the other passengers intangible before they come too. Kitty goes over to do it, but warns Scott that, after this mission, she’s going to change her codename, as it sounds so Neopets. Before Kitty can reach the car, she gets knocked out by Northstar! He apologizes, but just can’t let Kitty keep them away from Lorna.
Storm congratulates Northstar on his great speed, but she doubts that he’s faster than lightning, and is ready to strike if necessary. Northstar doesn’t know if he’s faster than lightning, but mentions that his new hot pal is hotter than a sunspot! Roberto angrily gets out of the car, and always knew that the X-Men were just tools of the man. He powers up and, with full solar power, attacks Storm! Cyclops has had enough, and defends Storm by attacking Roberto with his optic beam and knocking the guy out.
Alex finally gets out as well. He notices that his Baby Brother is still putting on the alpha male routine for the ladies. Scott, dead serious, warns Alex to give up now. If he’s going to attack, it’ll be a fight for them until death. Alex thinks that sounds like a plan, and powers up.
Meanwhile…
Angel and Dazzler are flying high up in the sky, but Warren thinks this is stupid, since Professor X specifically told them not to get involved with the Lorna Dane situation. Alison corrects that Xavier just told them to stay out of trouble, and they can’t help it if trouble happens to find them while they are out on a perfectly normal date. Alison also mentions to Warren that they have been both on Xavier’s ignoring list for months now and perhaps, when they tackle Alex Summers, he’ll treat them with the proper respect once more. Warren mentions that Cyclops is already on the mission.
Alison quotes that you don’t send a shepherd to catch a black sheep. She thinks that a teacher’s pet like Cyke is never going to able to predict how a bad boy like his older brother thinks. And she thinks she and Warren can. Warren just doesn’t know. He still has this terrible feeling something awful is going to happen tonight. Alison doesn’t care. She mentions that, should Xavier kick them out of the Institute because of this, they’ll simply hit the road. She’ll put her Dazzler band back together, and maybe Warren can join them.
Warren smiles that he doesn’t know how to play an instrument. Alison jokes that all angels know how to play trumpets. She suggests that Warren just puts his lips together. Warren does. He moves Alison closer to him, and they kiss in mid-air. Alison makes it beautiful by creating lights around them using her mutant powers.
Downtown…
Havok attacks Cyclops, but he is unharmed. He thinks that Alex has forgotten that their powers don’t do jack against one another, and reminds Alex about all those battles they used to fight over Lorna. Alex hasn’t forgotten at all, and wonders if Scott remembers he always used to win those battles. He thinks he’s going to again. He takes out a crowbar, and hits Scott!
Northstar doesn’t know what to think. Alex corrects that he didn’t do anything, and that Scott let him win. That Scott had to put up a good show for his teacher. Alex knows that Scott wants to rescue Lorna as much as they do. Jean-Paul mentions that either way, they should leave now they’ve got the chance. Alex doesn’t feel well about leaving Sam and Roberto behind. Jean-Paul corrects that they’ve already done enough. Lorna may be their classmate as well, but she’s also their friend in need. Jean-Paul picks Alex up, and starts running away.
A few moments later, Nightcrawler, together with Wolverine and a defeated Cannonball, teleport in front of the X-Jet. They notice the battle damages, and with their other adversaries gone.
Further away…
While sitting in a police car behind a “Fenris Casino” billboard, Mystique notices that only two mutant kids are left. Forge suggests they waste them before the kids ruin Magneto’s plan. Mystique mentions Forge that has to be the world’s slowest genius. After all… Havok and Northstar are Magneto’s plan!
Outside the Triskelion…
Cyclops sadly reports his defeat telepathically to Jean, but mentions that at least they’ve got prisoners and will transport to her and the others as soon as possible. Jean tells Scott he can relax, and thinks it’s unlikely that Alex and Jean-Paul can pass through her. If even, Colossus and Iceman will surely defeat them before they reach the base. Bobby mentions to Colossus that the speedster he visited at the hospital a few months back is part of Alex’ party.
Colossus, surprised to hear it, asks for a confirmation that Jean-Paul’s coming there. Jean corrects Peter that this isn’t the prom. Right now, they need to focus all of their attention on keeping Havok and company away from the Ultimates’ clubhouse. Suddenly, a confident voice tells Jean that won’t be necessary: the club itself will take it from here.
Jean, Peter and Bobby look straight forward, and are surprised to see that they are joined by none other than Quicksilver, the Scarlet Witch, Captain America, the Wasp, Iron Man and the Black Widow!


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Magnetic North: part 4
Emma Frost’s Academy of Tomorrow, Chicago, Illinois. Now…
Doug Ramsey, sitting behind his computer, jokes that he rocks. He calls out to Emma, who’s standing nearby, and explains to her that he has been scanning footage of all the traffic cameras around the building where Lorna supposedly killed those people. Emma corrects Douglas that he is supposed to be reorganizing the school’s library as punishment for failing to notify her on his classmates’ plans. Besides, Emma adds, she has already watched every gruesome moment of video from that day.
Douglas smiles that may be so, but Emma probably didn’t watch the videos from three days before the accident! He shows Emma a video, on which two people are seen planting some kind of machine right by where Lorna was standing when the accident happened. Doug doesn’t know who the black guy on the video is, but he ran the Indian guy’s profile through SHIELD’s facial recognition program (Doug sort of guessed their access password) and it says there’s a ninety percent chance that the Indian guy is named Forge, a mutant villain who used to be affiliated to Magneto.
Emma is startled and could kiss Douglas! He smirks that would be nice. She immediately takes the phone and contacts Xavier, wanting to be transferred to Fury immediately, as they just discovered Lorna is innocent, only being one step away from freedom.
New York City, outside the Triskelion base, thirty minutes ago…
Marvel Girl, protected by Colossus and Iceman, mentions that this wasn’t part of their plan. Captain America orders the X-Men to go home, unless they want a repeat of Russia. Bobby tries to make a joke, but Peter shuts him up. Jean tries to explain to the Wasp that they are only trying to help. Janet corrects that she and the other Ultimates are not ungrateful about that fact, but the Triskelion is their jurisdiction. Jean defends that’s the reason why they are standing across from it, so Alex Summers can be stopped before he even reaches the island’s gateway.
Colossus angrily shouts that’s true, because, if they would leave Havok to the Ultimates, they would just lock him up before he even gets a trial, much like they did with Lorna. Iron Man defends that isn’t fair from Peter, as Polaris was a special case. The Black Widow agrees with Peter to be wary of Americans, but she assures him that the Ultimates can be trusted. Iceman doesn’t know why they should trust a team that has both Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch on the team, as those two psychopaths tried to kill them not too long ago.
Wanda knows that Bobby has every right to be angry with them, but assures that their extremist days are behind them. Pietro agrees, adding that, while Polaris may be sharing a cell with their reprobate father, Pietro can personally attest that the girl is receiving excellent care. Colossus didn’t even know that Lorna was sharing a cell with Magneto and is startled to hear the news. Captain America gets angry with the twins because they just revealed a state secret. Pietro apologizes but he had assumed Xavier had informed them about it. Jean mentions she’s starting to think there’s a lot of things the Professor isn’t sharing with them.
Nearby, on the freeway…
Northstar, still carrying Havok on his shoulders, runs as fast as he can. Alex asks Jean-Paul if he’s certain he can get them across the pond to the Triskelion. Northstar defends that “certain” is a strong word. He explains that he has run over water a few dozen times at their academy pool, but Jean-Paul fears that one hit from a super-type will be enough to knock him out.
Alex isn’t concerned about the Ultimates. He has been studying footage of them taking down the Hulk and thinks to have found a few vulnerabilities. Besides, Alex thinks that the other half of the X-Men are probably going to be waiting for them as well, thinking they might be able to play both sides against the middle. Jean-Paul wants to know what’s going to happen if that doesn’t work. Havok corrects that failure isn’t an option, as they are the only people who can pull Lorna away of the jaws of hell.
Magneto’s plastic prison cell beneath the Triskelion…
Polaris finishes a game of chess with Magneto and has won, thanks to a checkmate. Magneto is impressed that it only took eleven games for Lorna to understand it all, and is even surprised that, despite Lorna’s natural aptitude for strategy, she was not elected as class president and that Havok got chosen instead. Lorna panics a bit, wanting to know how Magneto knows about Alex. Magneto gets up, claiming that’s a story for another day. For now, he regrets that he will soon be forced to take leave of this chamber!
Lorna doesn’t know what her cellmate is talking about, since he’s a terrorist serving a million life sentences. Smiling, Magneto believes they are about to be commuted. Lorna wants to know if Magneto thinks he can escape. Magneto calmly explains that “escape” is such a charged word. Regardless, it’s his hope that Lorna might join him on the outside. Lorna defends that she can’t as she hurt all those people. Magneto explains to Lorna that, if she stays there, the humans will torture her for the rest of her life for she did to their fellow men. But, if she comes with him, he promises he will reward Lorna for her boldness. She can be a leader in his Brotherhood and not just a follower.
Lorna defends that she isn’t like him. Magneto knows that. But, without polar opposites, he also knows that planet Earth would spin off its axis. He knows that they need one another and that the world needs them. He asks Lorna what she thinks about it. She turns away, but declines the offer! Magneto mood immediately changes and walks over to a chair, picking it up, correcting that he never truly cared about Lorna and that she was jus another tool he could use.
Lorna reminds him that, if Magneto hurts her, the guard will see it. But Magneto knows that the “guard” is preoccupied elsewhere. He’s correct, as the chair where Quicksilver sat, in the observation deck is empty. Magneto walks over to Lorna, and hits the chair against her face!
Outside the Triskelion base…
Captain America has just heard something and asks if anyone else did. Iceman thinks it sounded like… a car backfiring… inside his head. Jean feels the wind changing and asks if one of the Ultimates is doing it. Pietro defends that it isn’t the wind changing, that blast they heard was a sonic boo…!
Suddenly, Quicksilver is knocked out! Cap realizes that Havok is attacking, and immediately orders Iron Man to secure the perimeter and that the Widow should get the X-Men out of there.
Jean realizes that it isn’t Havok attacking, but his teammate, Northstar. Colossus wants to know how Jean-Paul suddenly got this fast, as he wasn’t like this before. Jean thinks Jean-Paul probably evolved like the rest of mutantkind tends to do. Iceman thinks he’s got a lock on Jean-Paul and tries to freeze him, but Jean-Paul is faster and Bobby instead freezes Captain America!
Natasha panics, but Janet calms her down, remembering that they froze out Cap before and can do it again. She attacks Bobby with one of her Wasp-stings and knocks him out. Peter shouts that that shouldn’t have happened, as what Bobby did was just an accident. Jean gets angry and uses the full potential of her psychic powers to knock the Wasp out. Iron Man orders the Scarlet Witch to do something about Marvel Girl. She attacks with her Hex powers, and Jean suddenly disappears! She emerges in New Jersey, telepathically contacts Cyclops asking him if they could make one more stop after they dropped off Havok’s defeated teammates.
Meanwhile, at the Triskelion’s front door…
Forge can’t believe their plan worked. Thanks to the X-Men, there’s nobody preventing them from entering the building. Mystique warns Forge not to get cocky, knowing the Ultimates aren’t the only security this place has. Forge is confident their stealth equipment will prevent them from running into those guys. Mystique corrects that the stealth suits will only get them past the hull and through the vents.
She asks Forge where his electromagnetic field generator is. He explains that he fit all the components into his backpack. It’s like Forge told Mystique: if she had given him three more hours, he’d probably be able to install everything into his wristwatch. There’s nothing he can’t build. Mystique, taking out a gun, smiles there’s nothing she can’t break.
Outside the Triskelion…
Colossus angrily fights the Scarlet Witch, demanding to know what happened to Marvel Girl. Iron Man and the Black Widow fligh toward Peter, warning to let go of Wanda or else they’ll use force. Northstar stops running, and Havok notices that mutant life doesn’t seem to mean much to the Ultimates. Iron Man notices Havok and suggests they talk about this. Tony mentions to have had his fair share of beautiful, dangerous women, but Lorna Dane is a killer.
Havok becomes furious and uses his maximum power and blasts both Iron Man and the Widow down!
Elsewhere, up in the sky…
Angel and Dazzler have seen the blast from Havok’s power. Warren wants to go help. Dazzler doesn’t, realizing that’s what Havok wants them to do. She thinks that the blast is probably just a distraction so Alex’ friends can sneak by and burst Lorna out of jail. She suggests that Warren uses those eagle eyes of his to scope the scene to find out if anyone sticks out. Outside the Triskelion…
Colossus holds Wanda hostage, as everyone else of the Ultimates is defeated. Wanda smirks that the X-Men kids are up to a nice holiday at the Guantánamo prison, as they have just damaged technology worth the combined G.D.P. of several civilized nations. Havok defends that this hasn’t got anything to do with money: it’s about his girlfriend imprisoned together with Wanda’s monster of a father. Peter warns Alex that he’s going to end up locked up too, unless he surrenders right now. Alex tells Peter that he isn’t a sheep like his brother Scott is, and that he can think for himself.
Jean-Paul asks Peter why he doesn’t help them. They’re going through with this with or without Peter, but they sure could that muscle of his once they’re inside. Peter hesitates, but Wanda has heard enough. She prepares to attack again, but Havok thinks faster and blasts both Wanda and Peter down. Northstar doesn’t think this was necessary. Havok doesn’t care and wants to go rescue his girl. Jean-Paul, turning back from Peter and following Alex, mentions that at least one of them is going to get lucky tonight.
Below the Triskelion, Magneto’s cell…
Mystique and Forge have reached Magneto, and Mystique says “hi” to her love. Magneto is surprised to see a beautiful blonde girl, and asks Mystique if that’s really her. Mystique confirms, and transforms back into her normal, blue, mutant self. Magneto walks out of his cell, and takes a look at all the downed soldiers. He wants to know if they had any troubles getting inside. Mystique denies that, they only had to exterminate a couple of these soldier guys in order to get there.
Forge thinks that getting out is going to be the hard part. Mystique confirms, fearing that Fury has probably called in the cavalry by now. Magneto tells his friends they don’t have to fear anything and walks over to an unconscious Lorna and picks her up. He orders Mystique and Forge to get them past this plastic nightmare and he shall handle the rest.
Elsewhere inside the Triskelion…
Dazzler and Angel walk through the halls and find nothing but bodies of soldiers, thinking this is probably the reason why they didn’t face any resistance and could easily get inside. Alison asks Warren if he thinks Havok and his friends did this, uncertain if a couple of high school kids could do such a horrible thing.
Suddenly, a female voice calls out for help. Alison smiles, and recognizes… Deathstrike! Storm told her she gave Oyama a beating back in Canada. Yuriko gets furious, hearing Alison is friends with Ororo, and warns she’ll murder them for it. Alison isn’t impressed. Warren suggests they don’t waste any time here and go to find the burglars. Suddenly, an explosion is heard!
Warren doesn’t know what that was, but something weird happens to Dazzler’s face. Suddenly, all of her piercings are pulled out of her body! And then, the entire building seems to be moving! Alison corrects that only the metal parts seem to be switching place. Another explosion takes place, which destroys some walls and turns off the electricity. Oh, no…
Deathstrike walks out of her cell and sarcastically smiles. She stretches one of her adamantium claws, and sticks it right through Dazzler’s stomach!


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Date Night
Xavier’s…
Cyclops finds Xavier in the Danger Room. Scott asks the Professor why he is there, since everyone has been looking all over the place for him. Xavier claims he is just practicing his powers, defending that every mutant at this school has still got a lot to learn about their powers, including him. He mentions he’s confident his telekinesis could provide him with the means to walk again. He asks Scott what’s on his mind. Scott explains that he thinks everyone is going out for the night. After all the business with Emma’s students and Magneto, not to mention with the Ultimates and the Fantastic Four, Scott thinks everyone needs to blow off some steam.
Xavier thinks that will be good for everyone, joking that lately Kitty seems to be the only one who gets out to do anything. But Charles realizes that’s only so she can have her little adventures with Spider-Man. But he thanks Scott for reminding him. He mentions that the car service will arrive at the school any minute now, and Charles doesn’t want to be late for his dinner date. Scott is a bit startled to hear the Professor has a date. Charles smiles that he’s handicapped and not dead. He is meeting a woman, though will be discussing business with her. But still, he sees it as a date.
Scott smiles that he understands it: it’s a business date but the woman is attractive enough for the Professor for him to wish he were on a date. Charles jokes that he thinks Jean is finally rubbing off on Scott, which is not a bad thing. Scott defends that actually, Jean is in the other room changing clothes and getting ready. Scott jokes that he thinks Jean made him say what he just said.
As they walk out, Kitty approaches Scott and the Professor. She asks Scott if he and Jean are going to the movies in Westchester or stay at the school. Scott explains they’re staying home. Kitty notices Storm and Wolverine leaving. She asks Logan for a ride, but he doesn’t have room enough on his bike. Charles smiles that his car will arrive here shortly, so he could easily drop her off on his way to the restaurant. Kitty cheers and happily hugs the Professor. Charles takes off to freshen up a bit, and Kitty mentions he’ll meet him in the foyer. She leaves with Scott, and asks him what movie he and Jean are going to see. Scott honestly doesn’t know.
Kurt asks if anyone has seen the Professor. Kitty explains that she’s meeting him in a minute. Bobby jokes at Kitty that, now that she and her new boyfriend are going on a date again, she must be his new sidekick instead of a girlfriend. Kitty defends that she doesn’t know what Bobby is talking about. She thought they were going to be nice against each other again. Bobby remembers, joking he forgot about that. Jean descends the stairs, and she and Scott leave. Charles arrives as well. He notices that the car has arrived and tells Kitty they have to go.
Kurt holds the Professor, asking if he can take one of the cars to go visit Alison at the hospital, since he didn’t have a chance to go visit her yet since her accident. The Professor gives his permission. Peter asks Kurt if he can join him as well, since he too hasn’t gone visit Ali. Hesitant, Kurt agrees for Peter to tag along. Rogue comes out of a room, surprised asking where everyone is going. Kitty explains where everyone is heading, and sarcastically jokes that it’ll just be Rogue and her ex here at the mansion. Once everyone is gone, Bobby goes back to his room, avoiding Rogue’s presence.
Upstate New York…
A man finds himself in a big, empty mansion. He calls out to his dad, but doesn’t get an answer. He wonders where he is.
New York City, the restaurant…
A waiter informs a beautiful woman that her guest has arrived. The woman thanks him. Xavier arrives at the table, apologizing for being late since he had to drop off Kitty in the city for her date. The woman isn’t disturbed, since this gave her time to order some wine. She suggests they skip to the point of this meeting. Xavier agrees, interested in what this is all about since his lawyers failed to tell him much about the woman in front of him. The woman explains that her organization has recently learned of Xavier’s separation from the U.S. government and, more specifically, their funding. So, she thinks that the first thing Xavier should know about her and her organization is that they would like to give him a substantial amount of money.
Westchester cinema…
Jean asks Scott to hurry up, as they are about to miss the trailers. Scott doesn’t care, but Jean does, since she sees the trailers as the best part of the movie.
Westchester General Hospital…
Kurt teleports himself and Colossus in Dazzler’s hospital room. Peter asks Kurt why he used his powers to get inside, since visiting hours aren’t over yet. Kurt explains that someone with his appearance can’t just walk in somewhere. Kurt sighs, thinking that of all girls at the school, Alison would choose the devil over the angel.
the Nowhere Special bar
Storm and Logan are playing some pool. Storm already won two games and tells Logan to get the balls ready again. Logan does, and tells Ororo she might want to stop using her powers, like they agreed. Logan jokes that either the table is rigged, or they’ve got trouble of tiny gusts of wind guiding Ororo’s balls into the pockets. But Logan is confident that Ororo wouldn’t know anything about that. Storm smiles, agreeing with that last statement.
Logan coughs, as he can’t stand the many smoke hanging around the bar. Storm doesn’t understand that, remembering that, when Logan first came to Xavier’s, he always had a cigar. She wants to know when Logan lost his tolerance. Logan admits he lost it right after he moved into the school and can’t even stand cigars now. He guesses that change in his behavior has got Jean’s name written all over it. Storm smiles that Logan should ask her to improve his game. Logan smiles that he could, or perhaps Ororo could stop cheating.
Xavier’s…
Rogue sneaks by Bobby’s room. She hears him laughing and asks Bobby what he’s doing. Bobby turns around, mentioning he’s just watching the new national pastime and watching funny videos on the internet. He invites Rogue to join him, if she wants to. She agrees.
Westchester cinema…
Scott and Jean are sitting alone at the theater room. She is having it cold, and telepathically informs Scott about it. He gets the hint and puts his arm around her shoulder.
Westchester General Hospital…
Colossus mentions he didn’t even knew Kurt had feelings for Alison, as she was an X-Man for such a short time. Kurt hears someone coming in, and quickly teleports him and Peter away. The stench of his teleportation stays hanging in the room. The nurse smells it, but suspects that someone put something wrong in Alison’s I.V. Hiding in the closet, Kurt admits that this wasn’t one of his best ideas. Peter smiles at him.
Westchester cinema…
Jean angrily and telepathically asks Scott they didn’t really come here simply to watch the movie. Scott turns over to kiss her, but Jean angrily turns away from him.
the Nowhere Special bar…
Ororo is about to win another game. Logan notices another man staring at her and doesn’t like it. The man suggests to Ororo that she dumps Logan and instead joins him to have a more fun night out. Ororo smiles that won’t happen, and tells the man to move along. He refuses. Logan defends that the man tries to suggest that question to him now, and they’ll see what happens next.
Xavier’s…
Bobby and Rogue are still laughing at the funny videos. Bobby thinks the one with the monkey was the funniest one, but Rogue likes the one with the guy surfing on the truck better. Bobby looks at her, asking if that’s true. Rogue confirms, but quickly turns away from Bobby since she noticed she was looking at her eyes. Bobby mentions that they look exotic to him, and just likes them. Rogue is surprised that her red and black eyes don’t creep Bobby out. Not even a little bit, as Bobby even compliments Rogue that she looks pretty as ever.
Rogue is glad to hear that and gently touches Bobby’s shoulder with her hand. Bobby asks her to wait, remembering her powers. Rogue claims that she doesn’t have her old powers anymore, since she absorbed Gambit’s abilities, meaning she can touch anything now. She kisses Bobby, but doesn’t notice that she is accidentally kinetically charging up Bobby’s shirt.
Bobby does notice and jumps away. He transforms into Iceman. The shirt explodes but, thanks to the fact Bobby changed into his mutant form, he remains unharmed. Rogue smiles that the explosion saved her the trouble of ripping it off from Bobby’s chest. She jumps off her chair and quickly, passionately kisses him!
Westchester cinema…
Scott and Jean are kissing each other. Jean waves one of her hands, and a sound is heard. Scott wants to know what that was, but Jean claims it was just a bug she killed. Scott admits that he noticed Jean has been acting a little strange lately, and suggests they need to talk about that.
New York City, the restaurant…
Xavier admits that, when his lawyers set up this meeting, he knew next to nothing about the woman or her organization. But he did do a little research before coming to this dinner, and understands that the woman is in a religious organization. The woman confirms, explaining that the government recognizes her group as an organized religion, but claims that they are much more than that. Charles mentions that it would be wrong of him if he wouldn’t admit he had some trepidation about this proposed agreement. He can assure the woman that he’ll hear her out. He asks for her name.
The woman introduces herself as Lilandra Neramani, revealing she is Majestrix of the Church of Shi’Ar Enlightenment. She’s confident that she and Charles are going to become very good friends.
Xavier’s…
Rogue is ready to make love with Iceman. Bobby admits that he has never done this before, but neither has Rogue.
Westchester General Hospital…
Kurt quickly pushes himself out of the closet, gasping for breath, joking he thought the nurse would never leave. Peter smiles he didn’t have such a bad time in there.
Elsewhere…
Kitty is fighting some thugs with Spider-Man, complimenting him that he sure knows how to show a girl a good time.
Westchester cinema…
Jean angrily runs out of the cinema. Scott follows her, asking what he did wrong.
the Nowhere Special bar…
Wolverine and Storm have teamed-up to knock the guy that was hitting on her out. Storm thought it was fun. They leave the bar and head towards Logan’s bike, where another man approaches him. The man has noticed that Logan is still causing trouble, but isn’t surprised. Logan is startled, as he recognizes an old enemy… Sabretooth!
outside Westchester cinema…
Jean angrily shouts at Scott it that isn’t about what he did, but what he didn’t do. Scott claims he honestly doesn’t know what Jean is talking about, and begs at her to for just this once to explain it to him. Jean sadly does and tells Scott that, for him being the leader of the X-Men, he is a total coward around her! She had to ask him to make every single move he ever made on her and she’s sick of it. She thinks it’s just stupid. She mentions that she knows Scott likes her because she’s telepathic but doesn’t know why Scott can’t just take that one extra step.
She doesn’t know if it’s just nerves or fear of rejection. Jean admits to Scott that, if it’s that last one, she can tell him that she has read his mind. She knows every single thing he wants to do with her. Everything. And there are just two things she will refuse to do. The rest is fair game. So, she begs of Scott, in the future to just be a little more spontaneous. Scott passionately kisses her. After the kiss, he asks Jean how that felt. Jean smiles that it’s a start.
Upstate New York…
The strange boy continues to walk around in the big, empty mansion. He calls out to his parents, but doesn’t get a response. He knows he can’t be the only person around this place. He tries to call out someone again, just wanting to have a clarification that he isn’t alone. But nobody says anything. The boy enters a room, and finds both his parents dead! The boy fears what he has done.