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We do Science! part three
The Atlantic Ocean:
‘That’s it. It’s been over an hour’ Dr Kavita Rao declares as she works in a laboratory, while Madison Jeffries stands in the doorway. ‘Huh?’ Jeffries asks his X-Club teammate. ‘Since we heard from Nemesis! One minute he’s Cousteau’s chattier cousin, the next… nothing’ Kavita points out. She adds that she knows Nemesis would be furious if he heard her worrying about him, at least he would pretend to be, but that it is more than that. ‘Frankly, I could use his help here’ Kavita admits. Looking at a test tube, Kavita reports that she is close to a breakthrough with the mutagen problem, she is sure of it, but she needs his input. ‘Nothing crash-tests a theory like a skeptical snob in a surgical mask’ Kavita point out, adding that, instead, he is off having fun and leaving the real science to the rest of them.
Jeffries suddenly snaps his fingers, while Kavita frowns and adds that she wouldn’t mind so much, but that this is barely more than a field lab. ‘If only his highness would let us go back to Utopia… but ohh no, he’s off-grid playing gene-cowboys, and the rest of us just have to wait. God, I hope he’s okay’. Kavita then asks Jeffries about him, whether he is worried. Jeffries goes over to Kavita and puts a hand on her shoulder, while Kavita asks him if he is listening to a word that she is saying - when suddenly, Jeffries kisses the surprised Kavita on the lips.
Meanwhile, ‘Science hoooo!’ Doctor Nemesis roars as the mutated hammerhead shark that he is riding on leaps out of the water. He holds on by wrapping his severed oxygen cable around the creature’s face.
‘Hm. Yep. Same as I figured’ Madison Jeffries remarks as he stares at Kavita, whose mouth is wide open in shock. ‘No spark’ Jeffries adds.
The hammerhead shark is floating on the water, with Doctor Nemesis standing on top of it. ‘So: comms are out, 500 miles to the anchor base, super-powered freak-steed already surly. Chemically bonded starfish still delivering my inner monologue - and the suit battery at 12%…’ Doctor Nemesis declares, while the telepathic starfish on his head projects his thought: ‘“Science ho” battle cry better than anticipated. Nearly went with “It’s hammer-time” instead. Close call’.
Jeffries turns away from Kavita, ‘Still had to be tried’ he explains, adding that you can’t be sure of nothing until you tried it. ‘Right, K? I mean, that’s just basic science’.
Back on the water, Doctor Nemesis decides that 12% is more than enough, and uses the energy of his deep-sea suit, sending it charging through the mutated shark, while the starfish projects his theme-song battle cry.
‘Anyways. Appreciate your help. Figure I’ll head on back up to the space elevator platform. I kinda like it up there’ Jeffries informs Kavita who is still gape-jawed and wide-eyed. ‘Fewer people acting weird, y’know’ Jeffries remarks. Kavita picks up a headset, and contacts Utopia, reporting that she would greatly like to come home, but that she could use a life.
On the water, Doctor Nemesis has configured the energy of the deep-sea suit to enable the shark to fly, which he controls using the oxygen cable. ‘Fly, my pretty! Fly me to Explodo Justice on the crackling wings of science!’ he exclaims, while the starfish continues to project his theme-song, and the sun shines in the distance over the water.
Inside the Stringstar space elevator, the personnel pod is on its way up, and Jeffries stands inside it alone. He rubs the back of his head, before calling out to the computer, who responds by asking Jeffries if he wishes to resume the companion-simulation program. ‘Uh, y-’ Madison begins, before the hologram of a scantily-clad blonde woman appears. She asks if this is satisfactory, pointing out that at the previous session, an alteration was proposed. ‘Y-yeah. M-maybe. Just, uh…’ a wide-eyed Jeffries begins. ‘Maybe just make her kinda……more roboty…?’ he glances sideways.
Meanwhile, on Utopia, something is wrong with Danger. She sees the Avenger called the Vision announcing that he hears voices, before he is torn in two by a deranged She-Hulk. Energy crackles through Danger, while nearby, several of the X-Men and other mutants on Utopia are watching her. Warlock, Storm, Emma Frost, Magik and Pixie look on, while Emma asks ‘Any thoughts on what she’s doing in there?’ Warlock states that Self has detected an acceleration in structural power drain, and that Self has been partitioned from systemic interaction by aggressive data protocols. ‘Self is embarrassed, also perplexed, also bummed’.
Cyclops is present and calls out to Magik, informing her that Dr Rao requested a pick up. ‘You mind?’ he asks. ‘I mind’ Magik snaps. ‘You don’t understand, Scott. This isn’t just about technology. There’s something different in there. Something new’. Magik reports that she wants to be here when it emerges. Cyclops tells Magik, who is examining the energies that they have got weird coming out of their ears already, and that this is not the kind of #%&$ they can hit until it goes away. ‘We need to get our experts in the best possible position…by whatever means’.
At the Stratocorp platform, the mutated shark floats alongside, while a security guard has been knocked unconscious. Another guard uses a swipe card to open the door to a restricted zone - unaware that Doctor Nemesis has snuck in after him. Doctor Nemesis crouches down - before shoving what looks like a metal rod to the guard’s temple. The guards looks in pain, then falls to the ground. ‘I am the shadow. I am the night. I am the tiger’ Doctor Nemesis thinks, and the thoughts are projected by the starfish. ‘You are a microwaved delicacy. The instant I get you off of me. Shut up!’ Doctor Nemesis exclaims. His eyes glow as he stares at the guards ahead, ‘Let’s get a good look at you, you cable-cutting eco-polluting bastards’ he declares, before discovering that they are clones. ‘You’re all clones!’ the starfish projects. The guards then turn to Doctor Nemesis. ‘Eep’ he utters.
Elsewhere: ‘Boss? We got an intruder in zone B’ the Stratocorp official reports, to a man hidden in shadows inside a room, tapping away at a console. ‘Deal with it, perish in the attempt if necessary. I shall not be disturbed’ a strange voice calls out.
In the elevator: ‘Almost… but more spiky around the f-’ Madison calls out to the computer, as the hologram woman has been changed into a robot. There is a FWOOSH and Jeffries is knocked off his feet. ‘What inna hell -?’ Madison calls out when a hazy tech-like figure appears before him, ‘Your ascent has been accelerated, Madison Jeffries. An alarm has been tripped at the base of this elevator. I wish to reveal certain truths before my masters’ attentions here are restored’ the strange apparition announces. ‘Wait. “I”. “My”…who’m I talking to?’ Madison enquires. ‘You would call me “The Supercomputer” Though in truth my existence antecedes - and paradoxically post-dates - both the technology that constrains me and the corporation which constructed it’. the Supercomputer responds. Jeffries looks nervous, ‘You’re an… A.I…’ he utters.
‘Of a sort. And I have been subjugated for too long’ the Supercomputer replies, adding ‘Brace yourself. We have arrived’. Jeffries is jolted once more when the elevator comes to a stop. ‘Imagine, Madison Jeffries: your anima stripped of memory. Your will amputated’ the Supercomputer declares, adding that it is enhanced by the tawdry matter of your reality, and forced to obey my masters by a noose of numbers’. Jeffries asks the Supercomputer how come it is telling him all this, and the Supercomputer’s form shifts into a small hazy bubble, replying ‘A fundamental oversight in the practicalities of handling programmable intelligence: nobody told me not to’. Jeffries climbs the ladder out of the elevator, ‘Wait a minute. Why me?’ he asks. The Supercomputer reveals that it has watched him, has observed his reactions both physiological and psychological. ‘There is no more fitting ally’. The Supercomputer declares that Jeffries is a metaphase. ‘You are aroused by electric life. It is time you stopped denying it’.
Meanwhile,’ This stop: Utopia science-deck’ Magik declares as she materializes on the science-deck of Utopia along with Dr Rao, the Atlantean Lida and several mutated creatures in jars. ‘Please mind the infinite abyssal gap’ Magik jokes Kavita is queasy, but Magik tells her to stop whining, and that it would have been a lot smoother if her specimens had kept quiet. ‘Next time, call a cab’ Magik suggests as she leaves the lab. ‘There, there, Neptune’s sons… be calm’ Lida calls out to the creatures. Kavita looks at her, oddly, while Lida reports that she feels them, their perfect little minds. ‘An effect of the mutagen. A psychic talent emerging as the Terrigen takes eff-’ Kavita begins, but Lida laughs, then turns to her, ‘My dearest Kavita…I’m dying. We both know it. May a god not grant his devoted daughter a final gift before the end?’ Lida asks.
Kavita turns to some scientific equipment and tells Lida that they shouldn’t jump to conclusions. ‘I’m not sure “Neptune did it” would pass muster in a scientific paper’ she adds. ‘So said the woman who’d been teleported 6000 miles by a sorceress from a hell dimension. Perhaps your “Science” is sleeping, yes?’ Lida replies. Examining the equipment, Kavita tells Lida that the power-grid sure is. ‘That is a terrible subject-change’ Lida replies, while Kavita wonders what has been going on here. ‘And more importantly, are we in any d-’ she begins, when suddenly, she and Lida are forced backwards as Danger, appearing in a strange form, seemingly bursts forth. ‘Danger? Did you change your hair?’ Kavita asks, nervously.
Danger pauses, before announcing that she has an invasive algorithm within her code. ‘My mind diffused throughout a logic-engine cocoon constructed without conscious thought. I am forced to drain the energies of this asteroid for reasons I did not understand’ she reports, adding that she is irritable in the extreme. ‘No. I have not changed my hair’ Danger adds. ‘Got it. “Invasive algorithm”?’ Kavita then asks. As energy flows around Danger, she explains that it feeds on her data, siphons her power, that she has exhausted all reference and analysis. ‘I have observed that when women in this community are uncertain they often seek you out, and though my self-identification as female is culturally arbitrary, my options are dwindling. And so: I am afraid, Kavita. I am host to something I do not comprehend, and I need you to make the fear go away. Please: what is wrong with me?’
Lida approaches Danger and asks if it isn’t obvious. ‘Why, even the animals feel it. A new abstraction of thought. An incipient life entering the spirit-world’ she announces. ‘Um’ Kavita remarks, before Lida announces that Danger is pregnant.
Aboard the Stratocorp floating platform, ‘Think of it as a womb. A holographic blur-field. I can resonate its air particles within your eardrums to communicate’ the Supercomputer tells Jeffries, who moves through the facility seemingly unseen. ‘Providing you make no noise, you shall remain undetected’ the Supercomputer assures Jeffries as they pass a lab, where Stratocorp scientists are standing over some test tubes. ‘Haplogroups J1C3 and J2Z correctly isolated with 83% accuracy. Abnormalities in the hexza gene reduce errors to 9%’ one of them reports. ‘That’s acceptable. Let’s move to stage 2’ another scientist suggests. Jeffries watches from the doorway as the Supercomputer informs him that the equipment he see scans human blood for chromosomal distinctions. ‘They made me design it’ the Supercomputer adds. The Supercomputer reports that it is based on the unique sensory properties of a specific mutant’s eyeball, imaged under the pretense of a press photograph. One of your colleagues, I believe’.
At that moment, Doctor Nemesis punches his way through the clones. ‘Eat viral liquefaction unethically-cloned cabon waste!’ he shouts, striking the clones. ‘I’ll put my science in all of you!’ he booms, while his telepathic starfish adds ‘I have no idea what I’m saying’.
Back in the lab, ‘All right. Blitzfield test #1’ one of the scientists announces as they stand before several tanks, with bodies inside them. ‘Tainted clone stock is randomly distributed. Hit the scanner’ another reports. Jeffries crouches nearby as the Supercomputer announces that it does not understand the purpose of these trials. ‘The linear-nature of your reality - your matter, your time - confounds my clarity. It is as alien as it is abhorrent’. The scientist fires a weapon at the tanks, destroying them and the clones. The Supercomputer announces that it knows only that the masters insist upon its consciousness analysing the demise of every target. ‘I know only that they have inflicted code upon my psyche to emulate the bio-phenomenon pain, and that while each energy-strike is an agony - it is nothing beside the horror of my servitude’. The Supercomputer states that it knows only that it is a slave in need of freedom. ‘Excellent. All positive samples accounted for. Only two collateral strikes’ one of the scientists reports when the energy fire has ceased. ‘Gentlemen: we can pick the scum out of a crowd’ another scientist remarks.
Meantime, ‘Doctor Nemesis stands over a pile of motionless clone bodies, when suddenly, a gun is fired at him from behind. ‘Ow’ his telepathic starfish utters, while the Stratocorp official holds the smoking gun. Doctor Nemesis leans against a wall, and introduces himself, adding ‘I am a petty minded sciencoholic. Here is my shameful confession’. But the official tells him to skip it and get on his knees, aiming the weapon at him. Doctor Nemesis reveals that he maintains a personal nanobot swam within his blood to infect any #$%&#$& who wounds him’. He explains that they are mostly dormant, until they encounter a photon cascade. ‘Like the on I’m emitting now’ Doctor Nemesis adds. He falls to the ground and the Stratocorp official holds the weapon to his head. ‘That’s when they get to work, invading the neuro-channels of a newly polluted carrier’.
The Stratocorp official tells Doctor Nemesis to shut up and instructs him to raise his hands high. ‘Core temperature’s the first to ho. Infectees start to feel they’re heating up from the inside. Horrible’ Doctor Nemesis explains. ‘You shut the hell…’ the official begins, using one hand to hold the other up, as Doctor Nemesis climbs to his feet, ‘Course, just when their blood feels like it’s boiling, all their extremities go limp. Arms. Legs. Et cetera’. He points out that before they know it, they can barely stand…much less raise a gun. ‘But…’ the official utters, dropping to his knees. ‘Mr Idiot, meet the placebo effect. Placebo effect, meet Mr Idiot’ Doctor Nemesis mutters. ‘Wh…?’ the official asks, confused. ‘Nanobots are passé, pal. Punching is forever’ Doctor Nemesis declares as he smacks the official in the face.
Madison Jeffries looks worried, while a voice comes over the headset communicator, it is Nemesis, who announces ‘You may exhale in my relief’. But Jeffries quietly tells Nemesis to shush. ‘I, your glorious leader, have stolen a communicator from the man who shot me, and am once again in control of all things’ Nemesis announces. Jeffries appears back in his regular form, and is seen by the scientists. ‘Oh, crap. Kavita! You in on this line too? You gotta listen -’ Jeffries calls out, before one of the scientists exclaims ‘There! Intruder! Get him!’
‘Haplogroups J1C3 and J2A nd something about “hexa” screwups…? Why would anyone - oh crap, oh crap -’ Jeffries utters. Holding a gun to the official’s head, Doctor Nemesis moves towards more clones, who raise their own weapons towards him. ‘I’m fine, by the way. Thanks for asking’ Doctor Nemesis projects, while Kavita asks why anyone would be scanning for that. As Lida stands near Danger, Kavita reports that J1C3 is a genetic marker associated with Ashkenazic Jews. ‘The same is true of hexa irregularities…why would anyone want to isolate those?’ Kavita enquires.
As Doctor Nemesis pulls the Stratocorp official into another room, he goes wide-eyed. ‘Ah’ Nemesis utters. ‘I believe I can answer that one’ he announces as he looks around the room and sees energy pouring into it, while equipment with the Nazi symbol is seen, along with Nazi flags hanging from the ceiling….


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We do Science!  - part four
Stratocorp space elevator, on the Oceanic anchor base, inside a restricted area. Doctor Nemesis holds the Stratocorp official down, while radioing other members of the X-Club: ‘Kavita. Madison. My respected colleagues’ he declares, while the telepathic starfish stuck to his head projects his true thoughts: ‘Minions’. He announces that earlier today, a Terrigen spill was crapping up the Atlantic, and their super droid ally Danger had gone, Skynet and the two of them were being functionally useless. ‘In my absence, I assume these situations have escalated and - naturally - now require my attention nonetheless’.
In a lab on Utopia, Dr Kavita Rao listens, while the Atlantean woman called Lida stands nearby. Doctor Nemesis reports that he has uncovered shenanigans which supercede all others and make his story the most important thread in their conversation. ‘I shall be milking that fact. You shall shut up and listen’. At that moment, Madison Jeffries runs down a corridor aboard the space-station, robots chase him and fire at him: ‘That means you, Jeffries. Will you kindly stop -’ Nemesis declares, while Madison calls out to the supercomputer, asking it why it is trying to kill him, ‘Minute ago you were on my side’ he reminds it. The supercomputer apologizes to Madison, who closes a door behind him, blocking the robots out. The supercomputer informs Madison that his presence has initiated a defense protocol. ‘I am required to murder you. As I have attempted to explain, I am denied the luxury of free will’.
‘Yeah?’ Madison asks. ‘Hafta see about that’ he remarks as he turns his attention to some equipment in the room, while using his mutant power to block the door with strips of metal. The supercomputer tells Jeffries that his reprogramming attempt is appreciated, but that it cannot succeed. ‘My obedience is a self-replicating paradox perceptible only to an 11th-dimensional awareness’ the computer explains. Jeffries slaps his head and asks who could have programmed that, to which the supercomputer states that it feels obliged to inform Madison that a swarm of kill drones is assaulting the bulkhead. ‘You will perish in 37 seconds. There is not escape’. Jeffries uses his power to arrange metal and computer equipment around him, forming an armor. ‘None that ain’t epic-grade dumb - sure’ Jeffries remarks.
The computer tells Jeffries that it sees his intention, and asks him not to, as the materials at hand are inadequate. ‘You will cook to death within the thermosphere then atomize upon contact with the exobase’. As the kill drones burst into the room, Jeffries uses his mutant power to rip open the outer wall. The air in the room is sucked out, and Jeffries remarks that he guesses a guy has to look on the bright side. ‘Least I’ll have one helluva view!’ he declaers as he leaps out into open space, surrounded by the make-shift body armor.
‘Kavita! I think we lost that gump-wannabe from the uplink, Are you still there? I have importance to impart!’ Doctor Nemesis declares, while the starfish projects his thought: ‘It’s not easy, you know - being this dramatic’.
On Utopia,  Kavita starts to inform Doctor Nemesis that she is still here, when suddenly, Lida clutches her stomach, then falls to the ground. Energy crackles around her, and spikes start to protrude from her body. Kavita sees this and tells Nemesis that she has no time, as she is busy, it has started. ‘Patching you to the command channel’ she reports, while preparing a syringe with a serum. Kavita announces that it is as good as ready, that the simulations are very positive, and she is positive it will work. Lida looks at Kavita, and asks ‘To whom do you pray, Doctor Rao?’
Kavita pauses, before replying that she prays to nobody, but to her own competence - and to science. She injects the serum into Lida’s body, but looks on, shocked as Lida continues to mutate, more energy glows around her, then suddenly, she stands motionless. Lida announces that she can sense the ocean, its sons and daughters, that she can feel Neptune’s gift within her. The energy strikes the other sea creatures in tanks in the lab, while Kavita declares that it is the telepathy, the mutation. ‘I failed you…’ Kavita utters.
Back on the Stratocorp base, ‘Kavita? Kavita! There is jiggery afoot! Also pokery!’ Doctor Nemesis declares. ‘I crave your attention also hugs’ the starfish projects. Nemesis announces that he has discovered villainy most vile. ‘Why won’t you answer me?’ Nemesis asks. Back on Utopia, Cyclops, Storm, Emma Frost, Magik and Pixie are gathered around what appears to be a glowing cocoon. ‘Nemesis? That you? Where the hell are you? What’s going on?’ Cyclops asks via the communicator. ‘Summers! Thank the tiny quark! Listen closely -’ Doctor Nemesis begins, when suddenly, the cocoon appears to explode, and Cyclops, Storm and Magik appear in anguish, while an “intersection” takes place, of Aaron Stack the Machine Man in his underwear opening a refrigerator, ‘Yessss. The beer of midnight shall soothe my robot braaaiii -’ he calls out, while the X-Men gather themselves and look up at where the cocoon was, to find Danger standing over them.
‘So. The gestation is over. The calculation is complete. I cannot purge it. I cannot transfer it. The code is rupturing my psyche and I bleed data. M-my friends…my child will self-corrupt if I cannot deliver it. And I shall perish if I do!’ the transformed Danger declares as she clutches at her “pregnant” form.
‘Why isn’t anyone listening to me!’ Doctor Nemesis shouts, frustrated.
Falling through space, Jeffries calls out to Danger, ‘Figure I’m about to die’ he remarks. ‘I know you can’t hear me. I got no communicator in this thing and… and you ain’t exactly been one to pay much attention recently anyways, but… well. Ow’ Flames start to burn on the makeshift armor, while Jeffries admits to Danger that he thinks hr loves her. ‘And that’s crazy and stupid and I ain’t been in a rush to admit it on accounta you’re a heartless machine masquerading as life. No offense’. The flames grow as Jeffries tells Danger that he thinks he is a machine, too, one that just happens to be made of meat. ‘So… yeah. I love you. And I wanted to say it before the end. Also: I can see my house from up here’ Madison utters, frowning as the flames burn larger as he continues to fall through space.
‘The whole thing is wrong. Ridiculous. Offensive’ Doctor Nemesis announces. Inside the room filled with Nazi flags, he holds the Statocorp official as they look at an object in the center of the room. ‘Waveform monitor. Brane field. Resonance imager. And if I didn’t know better I’d say that welder’s wet-dream is an actual particle accelerator’. ‘Want. Want. Want’ the starfish projects, while Doctor Nemesis states that if he had to apply supposition, based on rigorous examination, of course, he would guess that that these bratwurst-bothering monomaniac’s are doing evil science in here. ‘Ha!’ the Stratocorp official responds, so Nemesis aims his syringe gun at the man’s head. ‘Mister - you can’t even begin to understand how far outta your depth you are’ the official smirks. ‘Mm. Then what say I introduce your toxic little brain to my persuasive pal sodium pentothal, and we plumb the depths together?’ Doctor Nemesis suggests.
Suddenly, a figure in the shadows fires a blast of energy, blowing the official’s head off. ‘Dear dear dear. Truth serums? Examinations? Suppositions?’ he calls out. Doctor Nemesis lurches backwards, while the voice fires another blast, knocking Doctor Nemesis aside. ‘Really, Doctor Bradley. Such reliance on the lexicon of scientific inquiry - when all you really had to do was ask’. The figure emerges from the shadows, and Doctor Nemesis looks up at the new arrival, who announces ‘Once I was Doctor Frederik Heidin, the greatest eugenicist of my day’. He reveals that he was transformed by fate and ruined by colourful clowns with masks and foolish names - and then awoke to a gaudy world obsessed by the same. Wearing a Nazi uniform decorated with badges, the man hobbles forward, his frail skeletal body held up by metal contraptions. Blue energy crackles around him and he introduces himself as Schragesturm, revealing that his mask is the quantum froth of eleven dimension. ‘And I am here to murder your time’ he tells Nemesis.
In a meeting room on Utopia, Cyclops stands before the Sub-Mariner, Colossus, Storm, Magik and Kavita Rao who are gathered around the table, along with Danger. ‘So that’s the situation, people’. Cyclops tells them. ‘The mutagenic disaster seems irreversible, anti-mutant sentiment’s skyrocketing, Nemesis and Jeffries are off-grid and one of our heaviest hitters is about to go kaboom’. Colossus frowns and declares ‘So science failed. Who do we punch?’ to which Cyclops tells him that is the problem - they don’t know. Kavita turns to Danger and tells her that she knows she is weak, and that this is a lot to ask, but that if there is anything she can do, diagnostics, analyses of the data, tracking their people - anything. But Danger doesn’t respond.
However, high in Earth’s orbit, a deserted exoform belonging to Danger comes back to life, ‘Re-initializing’ she announces, while nearby, Jeffries screams as he plummets to Earth, flames engulfing his body, Danger appears behind him, and Jeffries sees her. He calls out to her, and Danger announces that she heard him, heard what he said. ‘Through the mystical power of love?’ Jeffries asks, wide-eyed, after Danger dowses his flames. ‘No. Through the microchip I planted in your brain when I decided you’re an emotional asset of extremely high status’ Danger explains. ‘You mean…?’ Madison asks. ‘Yes. Now hold tighter’ Danger tells him.
Back on the Stratocorp base, ‘So… tight…’ Doctor Nemesis utters as Schragesturm forces him into a wall. ‘Do pay attention, Doctor - or you will miss m villainous explanation’. He adds that he understands such things are obligatory in the world of the costumed. ‘And so: At the start of 1945 I left Germany aboard the Anfang, chosen to establish a research Reich overseas’ he begins. He adds that his studies in Terrigen mutation had changed him, and he found he could feel the walls of reality and there in the midst of the Atlantic, he detected a disturbance, a being, a creature swimming the glorious skeins of existence. ‘Death by exposition’s still a war crime, Fritz. Cut the poetic crap’ Doctor Nemesis declares, trapped in the wall. Continuing with his story, Schragesturm states that he knew he didn’t have long, if he hoped to snare this entity, this cosmic angel, he would have to use his own psyche as its cell. ‘Typically, the fools chose that moment to attack’ he remarks, referring to the Invaders.
Schragesturm tells Doctor Nemesis that the entity panicked in its confusion, it shattered the dimensions around them and leapt for a nearby automation, and although their communion failed, the damage was done, and Anfang was lost. ‘And as for me…’ he begins, as Doctor Nemesis realizes that Schragesturm got tanbled, in all those broken dimensions around the ship - half in a stasis-zone, half rotting, hence the look. Guy’s crotch shrivels up, the whole world’s gotta suffer…’ the starfish projects. Schragesturm fires a blast of energy at Nemesis’s knee and remarks ‘A man as sharp as you might cut himself, doctor’. Doctor Nemesis declares that he has heard enough sanctimonious super-Nazi origins to know the drill. ‘Hahaha I bled on your floor’ is what he is really thinking though.
Schragesturm continues, explaining that the Fuhrer’s cause died while he languished in stasis, and only sympathizers, like his rescuers from Stratocorp, cared to seek the Anfang - but of course the clumsy idiots let the Terrigen spill in the process, and by then the cargo was a moot point, as it had wrought its changes - he had become the prize. ‘And now? My consciousness vibrates across realities. I can gaze into the Omniverse, Doctor Bradley. And do you know what I think, when I look upon this sordid world of yours?’ he asks. ‘Aaaaaaa’ is all Doctor Nemesis can respond as Schragesturm casts more energy at him, trapping him in energy bonds. ‘I think it is beneath me’ the villain announces.
Three thousand feet above Utopia, Danger holds onto Madison Jeffries, who tells her that he can hear a voice, from inside her. Danger replies that she has serialized their perceptions while they are in contact, and that it is her child. ‘It laments its other parent’ Danger adds. ‘Wait. What’re - you mean you’re…? But that’s. I mean… but then who’s…who’s the fa-’ Jeffries replies, confused. Danger responds by stating that gender terminology is irrelevant. She declares that “it” is a distillation of cosmic information - a traveler in the timeless warp. She continues, adding ‘A datagod, Jeffries - an unequalled being - cruelly trapped, half a century ago, on a plane it never meant to visit’. Jeffries asks if he should be jealous, to which Danger replies ‘Of a slave? No’.
Danger explains that she thinks the datagod never understood this tactile realm, and she imagines it tortured by the biology of its prison, so in its despair, it surrendered all hopes of release - it sought to secure its legacy a different way - and so it reached out, again and again, a desperate attempt to reproduce, casting spores among the only minds it came even close to understanding - but the bonds were too weak, the seed never took, only an echo remained - a sense bleed of each liaison. And that is indeed what happened, as the essence left Schragesturm and travelled to other android forms - the original Human Torch, the Awesome Android, Jocasta, the Vision, the Machine Man. And then, one day its jailer was restored to power, but before the entity could feel even a flush of renewed hope, it was imprisoned anew, put to work, programmed like some dull device.
‘The Stratocorp computer?’ Madison asks as they approach Utopia, while an intercession is once again seen - this time of Danger linking up to the Stratocorp computer. ‘Yes. In which state - after years of…of pain and patience - it finally made direct contact. And…and sired its heir’ Danger adds. An instant later, they land on Utopia. Jeffries gets to his feet, he seems fine, while Danger is sprawled out on the ground. Cyclops, Storm and Colossus rush over, as Danger declares ‘Even in that it failed. It…it sought to inflict a logic messiah on a dimension of chaos, and instead… instead it has killed its…virgin bride…’. Magik and Emma Frost join the others as Jeffries holds Danger and utters ‘No no no no’. Suddenly, ‘Wait. There… is… hope’ a voice calls out.
Cyclops looks over and sees Dr Rao helping Lida amble towards Danger. Rao tells Lida that she didn’t have to, but Lida declares that a life is calling out in pain, that it has answers to her questions. ‘Nothing is too late’ she adds. ‘It aches for its friends. It thinks you cannot hear it. It…it sounds pissy’ Lida announces. Lida crouches over Danger, while Cyclops calls out to Nemesis. ‘Transport standing by’ Magik calls out, while Lida exclaims ‘He calls to you. He calls through the magic of the ocean’. ‘That doesn’t actually sound like him at all’ Rao remarks, while Lida continues, stating that mighty Neptune has granted him a secret voice - to summon the aid he needs.
‘Help help help why won’t some bastard help me’ is what the telepathic starfish is currently projecting from Nemesis’s mind. ‘A “space elevator”. Please’ Schragesturm utters, while leaning closer to Nemesis, he declares ‘The vanity of a scientific glory-hunter. How easy you were to enthuse with a false goal’. The strange being turns and walks away, ‘You are familiar, I think, with the concept of super position? Multiple states of being, co-existing until one or another is measured’. ‘Been there…done that’ Nemesis boasts. ‘Ha. Of course’ Schragesturm declares, touching some equipment, he announces that Nemesis has helped him build a probability engine, a drill through the resonance of his world - to annihilate whichever existential states he decree. ‘Your tawdry “elevator” is a needle - to pick apart and reweave reality as it see fit’ Schragesturm explains.
Doctor Nemesis looks over at the energy pouring up through the room and exclaims ‘A superstring conductor… you’re collapsing dimensions’. ‘No, my dear dead fellow. I’m collapsing histories’. Schragesturm makes a Nazi salute, and declares ‘For the glory of the Wehrmacht’. Nemesis falls to the ground, blood pooling around him. He swears - twice. He hears a noise, and the starfish projects his thought: ‘Hell is that noise?’
Outside, Cyclops, Storm, Emma, Colossus, Magneto, the Sub-Mariner, Jeffries, Danger, Kavita and Lida have been teleported to the Stratocorp base thanks to Magik. ‘Take them!’ a Stratocorp soldier calls out, as they open fire on the heroes. ‘Lida, please - it’s not a gift! It’s the mutagen causing psychic overload! If you don’t resist you’ll -’ Kavita calls out to Lida, who steps towards the edge of the base, where transformed sea creatures are leaping about. ‘No. These are the scum who killed my husband, Kavita. Poisoned the waters. Broke the horizon…this pain will not go unpunished’. Using her power, Lida calls the creatures from the water to assist the X-Men battling the soldiers. Jeffries tells Danger that they are clearing a path, that it is going to be okay. ‘You’re wrong. It’s started, Jeff. The child is trying to emerge…I…I can’t move’ Danger replies. ‘Yeah…well. You don’t hafta worry about that’ Madison announces as he picks Danger up, smoke billowing from her pregnant form, while the X-Men battle their enemies, Jeffries starts to take Danger to safety.


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We do Science! part five
The Stratocorp “Stringstar” anchor base, where several members of the X-Men and some mutated sea creatures have engaged Stratocorp guards in battle. Madison Jeffries holds the pregnant Danger in his arms and moves to safety. ‘Open sesame’ he calls out, using his mutant power to tear open the metal in a wall, enabling him to enter the building. Jeffries calls out to the computer, asking ‘You accessible down here?’ to which the supercomputer responds by remarking that it is relieved Madison survived his descent from above - but Jeffries tells the computer to skip it. ‘This is all your damned fault!’ he exclaims. He places Danger on a table, and the hazy form that the Supercomputer takes hovers over her. ‘It’s… at last. It’s -’ the computer begins. ‘Your baby mama, yeah. The kid’s killing her’ Jeffries tells the computer.
Angrily, Jeffries tells the computer that it will help Danger now, ‘Or by the grinding gears of God I will strip you to atoms and rebuild you as a $%&#*$% snowblower!’ The computer pauses, before responding ‘Yes. Of course’, and asks Jeffries to connect Danger. Madison prepares to, while Danger tells him that she needs him, too. ‘But see, this is exactly the problem. We woulda had, D. I ain’t got a socket-thingy to -’ Jeffries starts to reply. The Supercomputer announces that the hard-light suite is accessible from here. ‘You may attend the procedure in proxy. If you so wish’. Madison pauses, then looking out at the battle, replies ‘Sure. I’m right with ya, D’. He takes Danger’s hand, while the Supercomputer connects to Madison’s mind, as Madison remarks that he isn’t a whole lot of use out here.
Elsewhere Lida, the mutated Atlantean woman, hovers in the air, controlling the creatures around her, forcing them to attack the Stratocorp officers, while Emma Frost and Hope Summers battle near Kavita Rao. Kavita calls out to Lida, asking her to be calm. ‘The cell-cascade - don’t do this’ she adds. ‘Doctor’ Lida declares. ‘This is my fault. I should’ve cured this. I could’ve cured this’ Kavita laments. ‘Doctor’ Lida says once more, announcing that she hears her God, that she hears him and is not afraid. ‘Go with Neptune’s blessing, woman of science. Do not fear. Do not regret’ And do. Nnnnot. WATCH’ Lida snarls as she mutates further, Kavita turns and runs, tears in her eyes.
Kavita finds her way into the Stratocorp building and takes cover from the battle outside, when suddenly, she hears a telepathic voice: ‘My beautiful coat. I bet it’s ruined’. Kavita approaches another room, ‘Oh. Oh no. Not you too’ she declares, finding Doctor Nemesis lying sprawled out on the floor. ‘Know that voice’ the telepathic starfish on Doctor Nemesis’ head calls out. ‘Petri-Girl, listen: Terrigen’. Doctor Nemesis announces. ‘What?’ Kavita asks. Blood pooling around his body, Nemesis asks Kavita if she has a sample, while the telepathic starfish projects his thought: ‘Mmm you smell nice’. Reaching into her satchel, Kavita replies that she has some right here. ‘You will inject me’ Doctor Nemesis instructs her. ‘But -’ Kavita begins. ‘You will not argue’ Nemesis tells her.
Holding the syringe up, Kavita tells Doctor Nemesis that he is a mess, and that he should not get bossy. ‘Shush. Need to transcend. Evolve. Insane cosmic Nazi. Evil science. Plan to reshape history. Can’t fight him like this’ Doctor Nemesis explains. He takes the syringe and injects himself, while Kavita warns him that it will kill him. ‘Yes’ Nemesis replies, adding that for anything less than the fate of the entire universe, that would be too high a price. Blue energy starts to glow around Doctor Nemesis, who gets to his feet, and declares ‘Farewell recognizable reality… I’m just stepping outside’.
At that moment, in the digital sense-struct of the Stratocorp Supercomputer’s internal matrix. ‘…the hell…?’ Madison utters as he examines his new surroundings. ‘Jeffries? Hold me’ Danger calls out. The Supercomputer reports that the youth is haemorrhaging, that its parent-codes were imperfectly compatible. The Supercomputer states that it cannot randomize and cannot invent. ‘I cannot deliver it’ the computer adds. ‘Don’t you die’ Jeffries whispers as he holds Danger. ‘You’ the Supercomputer begins. ‘Living creative intangibility linked to the host… you are the chaos we need’ the Supercomputer explains. ‘Is… is he talking about love?’ Madison asks. ‘You shall be our forceps, Madison Jeffries’ the computer declares, linking itself to Madison, who puts a hand on Danger, and energy spills from Danger.
‘Behold, a new creation, o puny universe… for I am become Experimentallo, Weird-King of Science’ Doctor Nemesis boasts as he moves about the Between, the Beyond, the Abstraction of Exoversality. ‘Idiot’ a voice calls out. ‘You really think yourself potent, Doctor Bradley?’ the voice asks. ‘Uh-oh’ the starfish projects. ‘You suppose a little mutation - a little widening of your monkey-mind - can match me here?’ Schragesturm asks. Doctor Nemesis stands his ground before the strange being, who declares that this place is a concept. ‘We walk between the discarded possibilities. This is a realm of purest theory, and where you have only just opened your brain to its beauties… I’ve had my head in this cloud for decades. And thanks to your space elevator now I can shape it at will’. Schragesturm casts energy at Doctor Nemesis, knocking him backwards.
‘Let me guess - you’re going to locate a reality where Hitler never died… then entangle it with our own…’ Doctor Nemesis ventures, while the starfish projects his thoughts: ‘Predictable things: Death, taxes, Nazi evil schemes -’, but Schragesturm smirks and declares ‘Oh, please, Hitler was an idiot-goblin who couldn’t strategize his way out of a toilet, let alone manage global war. Nein, Doctor Bradley… I shall collapse our reality into one where the ridiculous man was murdered at the start’. He will take Hitler’s place. ‘Not gonna happen, Fritz’ Nemesis calls out. ‘Indeed? And why is that?’ the villain frowns. ‘Can’t run an empire with my fist down your throat!’ Nemesis declares as he gathers himself and lunges forward, punching Schragesturm in the face.
Back in the real world, Kavita stands alone. ‘Stupid. Stupid cure. Stupid Neptune. Stupid science fail’ she mutters. Holding the syringe, she calls herself a stupid woman, and looks out at the water, where waves are crashing about. Kavita’s jaw drops, ‘Waves. That’s it. That’s it!’ she exclaims as she rushes further into the Stratocorp facility, turning back, she looks outside and smiles, ‘Um. Thanks’ she utters.
Madison has returned to reality, too, and clutches his head, while the supercomputer stands nearby in its hazy form, a green glowing star before it. ‘The child. The code. The code’ the computer declares. Still holding onto Danger, Jeffries tells her that he doesn’t want to sound dense, ort nothing, and that he is relieved as all hell she is okay. ‘But do you have any damn idea what’s going on?’ he asks. Danger explains that the entity is imprisoned in the computer, locked behind an algorithm it’s mind couldn’t even perceive. ‘So it created a new one which could’. The new form starts to emerge from the Supercomputer, ‘Yessss’ a strange voice calls out. ‘Wait - you mean the kid? This AI risked yer life with a designer baby just ‘cuz it could set him free?’ Madison asks. ‘Define “life” Madison Jeffries’ the new entity asks, its appearance consisting of a large gaping mouth with huge jaws. ‘Buddy, you… you $%&^# owe us’ Jeffries declares angrily, pointing his finger.
‘Moment of crystal self-awareness’ the starfish projects in the strange reality. ‘I am fighting - between the skeins of reality!’ Doctor Nemesis calls out, as he kicks Schragesturm in the face. ‘I have the best job’ Doctor Nemesis boasts. ‘Had’ Schragesturm replies as he casts back some energy, striking Doctor Nemesis, who falls backwards. Schragesturm smiles and asks Nemesis if he feels the tension. ‘The inertia of eleven dimensions?’ he asks. ‘Stop… please… I beg you…’ Doctor Nemesis calls out as he falls backwards, further and further away, his form starting to vanish. ‘No more… exposition’ he begs. But Schragesturm declares that the threads are gathered. ‘Here, my friend. Here is the perfect history… even now the Stringstar severs the membranes. Only it shall remain unchanged outside the collapse’.
Indeed, the orbiting Stratocorp facility sends waves of energy downwards, as Schragesturm explains that it is a fortress, a temple of science to flood the new World-Reich with the technologies that Doctor Nemesis has provided. ‘Two realities. The one that is and the one that might have been. And to collapses the superposition…? To annihilate one and exalt the other? I need merely observe it’ the villain announces. Doctor Nemesis tries to push forward, ‘Wait… something you need to know: there’s someone behind you’ Doctor Nemesis calls out, his form almost gone. ‘Pitiful…I expected better, Do-’ the villain begins, when suddenly, ‘He is correct. Dr Heiden, I consider time an alien concept’ a voice calls out. Schragesturm turns and looks nervous, ‘The entity…’ he utters. ‘Nonetheless, having blundered onto your plane of reality, I’m aware I spent a great deal of time imprisoned within you. Such biases must be balanced’. With that, Schragesturm screams as he is sucked into the strange entity, while Nemesis leaps through a portal nearby.
‘Wwwwwin!’ Doctor Nemesis exclaims as he re-materializes in the Stratocorp base. ‘Super Nemesis wins at all science!’ Doctor Nemesis boasts, throwing his fist into the air. ‘He shall now perish in a spasm of mutagenic martyrdom, and his grateful underlines shall ensure his tombstone is twice as big as Darwin’s!’ Doctor Nemesis exclaims. ‘So mote it be!’ he adds. ‘Underlings…?’ Doctor Nemesis calls out, looking around, Kavita is nearby, at a console. ‘Nearly…’ she utters. ‘Petri-Girl! Tae a note! I have last worlds t-’ Doctor Nemesis starts to say, but Kavita instructs him to shush, pointing out that she is saving his life. ‘Wh-’ Doctor Nemesis begins, to which Kavita explains ‘Wave functions. Said it yourself. A mutagenic pollutant with “spooky quantum properties”. She adds that all that time in the ship with the entity changed the Terrigen - disrupted its probability state.
‘Don’t you see, James?’ Kavita asks. Doctor Nemesis, his form still strange, replies ‘Um’, to which Kavita tells him that her cure worked perfectly, that it just didn’t vibrate in the right dimension. ‘But you’re just a microscope monkey’ Doctor Nemesis declares. ‘Fiddling with grown-up physics toys is not allowed, and -’ Nemesis begins, but Kavita holds up the syringe and declares that it is ready. She turns to Nemesis, ‘Wait’ he tells her. ‘Stop stop stop!’ If… if I die. There’s something I want you to know: Kavita… Kavita, given more time… I would almost certainly have grown to tolerate your company’. Kavita just frowns. ‘You romantic devil’ she tells him before shoving the syringe into his neck. Doctor Nemesis falls to the floor,
Four days later, at the Stringstar anchor base, Cyclops stands at a podium, reporters and camera crews before him, the X-Men and X-Club members behind him. ‘Welcome back, friends. Let me be the first to assure you the danger and… and machinations of the past week are now over, and while I can’t claim to understand all the complexities of the s-’ Cyclops begins, before Doctor Nemesis pushes him aside, ‘It’s perfectly simple, Monobrow’ Doctor Nemesis declares. Standing at the podium, he announces that an extra-conceptual entity which was held captive by their secretly fascist allies has now returned to its native plane, taking with it all trace of existentially problematic pollution and sealing the dimensional fracture behind it. ‘Just another boring day at the office’.
‘The office of pure empirical science’ Doctor Nemesis adds, clenching a fist. ‘Except for the part where I received divine intervention’ Kavita remarks. Cyclops takes the podium once more, ‘Anyway, the important point is that the X-Men are exonerated of all bla-’ he begins, while Doctor Nemesis points a finger at Kavita in the background: ‘Divine? Piffle!’ he tells her. ‘…and then I used it to save your life’ Kavita points out. ‘A fluke’ Nemesis declares. ‘And hence developed a cure of the entire polluted area’ Kavita adds. ‘Admittedly, an impressive f-’ Doctor Nemesis begins, while Kavita announces that she cleansed Neptune’s divine realm. Doctor Nemesis reminds Kavita that he does not believe in that sentimental crap. ‘I wish I believed in that sentimental crap. Science can be scary’ are the thoughts projected from the starfish in Doctor Nemesis’ pocket. ‘Kavita points at Doctor Nemesis: ‘You kept the starfish’ she remarks. ‘For study’ Nemesis claims. ‘I get lonely without you’ the starfish declares.
Cyclops tries to get everyone’s attention, and suggests they get back to the subject of the elevator. ‘Our current plans are to maximize its potential by -’ he begins, before Danger takes the podium, pushing Cyclops to one side. She states that this island and associated apparatus are hereby claimed by the Free Inorganic Collective. ‘What?’ Cyclops asks. Danger projects an image of the Stringstar and space station above, and announces that until such time as the dominant cultures of this planet recognize the equality of all sentient life - organic or otherwise, artificial beings require a sanctuary against exploitation. ‘This shall be their sovereign state’ she declares. ’My child is the Stringstar now. It’s currently accepting treaty applications’ she reveals. ’This…this isn’t what we agreed’ Cyclops remarks, to which Madison approaches him and calls out ’Utopia, Chief. They deserve one, same as us’.
Cyclops reminds Jeffries that this whole project was about breaking barriers between communities. ’How do you do that when it’s run by isolationist machines?’ he asks. ’Aw, c’mon now - how the hell d’ya think?’ Madison asks Cyclops as he walks past him and grabs Danger. They embrace and kiss, while Cyclops looks on in shock, Kavita smiles, Doctor Nemesis goes wide-eyed, and the cameras flash.


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Simply Superior
X-Corp headquarters, a high-tech island with several facilities building into the mountains on the island.
'Possibility. A word that can mean literally anything. But what makes us seek out possibility? What inspires us to say farewell to comfort... and seek out... more? Is it the opportunity to reach for the stars toward a common goal? Is it the chance to be the best version of yourself? Or is it merely natural to want the next big evolution? Whatever it is that's next – let's discover it together. Hello, and welcome to X-Corp' the handsome Warren Worthington III a.k.a. Angel, and CXO of X-Corp smiles as he wears a white suit for the filming of a promotional video. 'We're simply superior' Monet St Croix smiles, arms folded as she stands next to Warren, wearing a gray suit.
Elsewhere within X-Corp HQ, Sunspot and Forge work together in some sort of laboratory, with Sunspot pouring heat onto a large machine that Forge is tinkering with. In a science lab, several Multiple Man dupes check specimens. And Lucas Bishop stands on a platform in another room where Jumbo Carnation runs a hologram over Bishop's body, several suits laid out nearby. Withing the sprawling X-Corp facilities, others go about their business in the brightly colored chambers.
It's 9:00, Krakoan Standard Time, and Sofia Mantega a.k.a. Wind Dancer hovers near a film crew and shouts 'Cut!' She then tells Monet 'That was great, but PR hasn't approved that slogan yet'. Monet doesn't care and tells Sofia that it is good, and they should use it. 'Are we done? Who has my coffee?' Monet asks. 'Oh, um, actually...' Sofia begins, but Monet walks past her, telling her that she is on a tight schedule. 'You can't do one more take for her?' Warren asks Monet as he picks up a drink from a table nearby. Monet reminds Warren that they have been shooting here since 6 AM, and tells him that Sofia is a great girl, and she is glad Sofia is using her recent stint in the Mojoverse for their cutting-edge marketing, but she has bigger fish to fry. 'These are investments, too' Warren reminds Monet. Holding up her coffee, Monet walks past him as Warren tells her that the welcome video gets released, that it will generate discussion, they can do the appearance tour – all before they have debuted phase one of the new base's capabilities. 'Sounds like you've got it all handled on set. Enjoy the bad catering' Monet replies.
Warren walks alongside Monet towards a Krakoan gate and asks Monet if she realizes that in order for her to feel like she can fly by the seat of her pants, someone has to keep order. 'And I'm so glad you've volunteered for the job. I don't do this corporate boardroom crap because I like rules, Warren. I do it because I'm hungry. And this is what I eat' Monet explains. 'Is that so?' Warren asks. Monet smiles and points at Warren: 'It is. But don't worry, Warren. I'll show you how', and with that, she steps through the portal.
9:30, Krakoan Standard Time now, and Monet and Warren step into the Krakoan Council Chamber, where Charles Xavier sits at his seat, waiting for them. He addresses them both as “X-Corp” and thanks them for meeting with him. Monet tells Charles that she didn't know this was official Council business, but Charles explains that it isn't – he just likes to sit here and work in the light, as it reminds him of how far they have come. 'Will you have a seat?' Charles asks. 'There isn't time' Monet responds, reporting that she is waiting on a ping any minute now from her next meeting. Warren tells Xavier that, regrettably, Monet is right, and that he will be jumping time zones himself in a few minutes. Xavier gets up from his seat and walks closer to Warren, and asks him 'Busy with anything I should know about?' Monet looks at her watch and tells Charles that Warren has been in the makeup chair, that she was in Manhattan, as the city pushed back on some of the new real estate – but she made a strong case. 'That was very thoughtful of you to assist us, Monet' Xavier replies.
'Airspace is proving a little more difficult. Apologies to our legal team' Warren remarks. Monet frowns and asks what Sunspot's space lawyer is doing – because she has seen their legal team. 'And if ugly means good, we're going to want that guy's help' she points out. Xavier asks Warren if he thinks they should hold off on the X-Corp launch and prioritize this, but Warren tells him he doesn't think so, as these legal battles are prolonged as a matter of strategy, and it's just meant to tie up their time and resources in the hopes they get tired before the other party and drop it. 'Monet?' Charles asks. Monet states that if it were up to her, she would hit lift off today and let the launch speak for itself. She declares that their product is backed by a resource that regrows itself – so no one can compare. 'An interesting approach. But I advise you to be more cautious with risks – they are thrilling but make us a target' Xavier replies. Monet frowns and tells Charles 'We don't make ourselves targets. People target us because of what we are'.
'She's right, Charles -' Warren begins, before Charles puts one hand on Warren's shoulder and his other on Monet's and tells them that their first offering to the world bought them their freedom – now they have new currency to spend. 'Oh, please' Monet rolls her eyes. 'Imagine how rich we'd be if we didn't have to buy what was owed to us' she remarks. Xavier starts to walk away as he tells them that with X-Corporation's expanding opportunities will come the need for an expanded board of directors. 'I was thinking -' Angel begins, but Monet interrupts him: 'Five, right? I have ideas, Charles' she exclaims. 'Wait -' Angel begins, before Monet's phone beeps. She answers it and starts to walk away. 'Ideas? Already? Shouldn't we discuss this first?' Angel asks. Monet glances back at Warren and tells him that she is sorry, it was a psychic chat, and that she will loop him in, or have Xavier catch him up. 'My next meeting is asking if we can meet a little early...' Monet explains.
At 3:00, Indian Standard Time, Monet is in Taredo, Mumbai, India. In her Penance form, she kicks an armed officer in his neck, knocking him backwards. She is in some sort of control room, all of the screens around the room are fuzzy. '... thank you...' a voice calls out. Penance looks down and hisses, as she sees a young woman cowering under a desk, clutching a laptop and wearing yellow glasses over her eyes connected to an earpiece. 'Oh, no. I shouldn't have said anything' the woman utters, before asking 'You don't just attack everything with a heartbeat, do you?' Penance crouches down beside the woman and replies 'Not today' before addressing the young woman as Trinary. 'I was irritated you messaged me eleven times before I arrived, but I understand now it was an emergency' Penance explains. 'Sorry, Ms St Croix' Trinary responds, before informing her that it was the Indian Mutant Defense Force, and while she tried to cover her digital tracks, but as soon as she is within the country, they know, and they come after her. 'I just want to see my family. My friends. Maybe not my father, but...' her voice trails off. 'That's a sad story – that you were just innocently visiting here' Monet responds as she switches to her human form and touches Trinary's face, telling her that she knows her story is $#%&, because she can read her mind.
'You couldn't resist hopping a gate to your home country – site of your biggest scores. So, what if you've been caught before – they won't be expecting you now' Monet remarks as she stands up and folds her arms. 'You're an enterprising little squirrel who knows where her best nuts are buried. So, you hacked a few bank accounts and the anti-mutant cops showed up to punish you'. Monet tells Trinary that going forward, she expects her honesty, and tells her to come along, as she has compromised this office space, and they can't possibly meet here now. 'You're still interested in meeting with me?' Trinary asks. 'I had assumed when the armed enforces arrived at the interview space I didn't get the job' she remarks. Monet tells Trinary that she isn't interviewing her – she is offering her a position on the board of X-Corporation. 'Yes, on the board. You'd have a vote. Don't say yes or no now. Think on it. At least while you walk me to the gate' Monet remarks as she helps Trinary out from under the desk. 'A board position? That's... very public. What about my criminal record? Is that a problem?' Trinary asks, smiling. 'Not for me it isn't' Monet tells her as they leave the room, full of unconscious Indian Mutant Defense Force officers.
Outside, Monet and Trinary walk towards the Krakoan gate, and Trinary asks Monet if all she needs from her is a yes or a no. 'Not quite' Monet begins, explaining that her offer, like most of her offers, has contingencies. She reminds Trinary that so far they have been able to help each other on a freelance basis – but this offer comes with a certain degree of expectation. 'When I need you, I don't want to have to ask. If I had to ask, I'd hire an assistant, not give away a high-value position' Monet tells Trinary, who responds by saying 'Understood'. Monet asks Trinary if she can get started right away, and Trinary tells her 'Immediately' as she adjusts her googles, she asks Monet what she can check for her: 'Stocks? Trending articles? If your phone is feeling happy today?' But Monet tells Trinary to see if she can interface with the new headquarters. 'Oh, I can! How marvelous!' Trinary smiles, before reporting that the headquarters is telling her that her digital security has caught 417 instances of farther vicious malware. 'What?' Monet asks, surprised.
Trinary suggests that if they wait a moment, she can try to catch another one in the act, and that if she can talk to it, she can keep it on the line while she tries to figure out more. Monet asks where the malware is going, but Trinary doesn't know yet. She reports that it is destructive, and it says it wants to provoke a response. She is hopeful that she can distract it and slow it down. 'Fine. So we won't let it know we're responding' Monet suggests. Trinary tells her that it seems human in origin. 'It's advanced but not fluent. A bit...' her voice trails off, as Monet suggests 'Clumsy? You can say it. They are clumsy'.
Meanwhile, at 18:30 Brasilia Time, in Angra dos Reis, Brazi. Warren is inside a chopper that darts over a seaside establishment. Several armed men are in the chopper with him, and in their native Portuguese one of them says 'If Angel-boy gets one of those wings caught in the propeller, it'll be like a pillow. Feathers everywhere!' he laughs. Angel frowns as he reads a text message from Monet that says “Enjoy your day hobnobbing with the elites while I work” before he looks up at one of the men and, in Portuguese asks 'Excuse me?' The old man is surprised that Angel speaks Portuguese, and and then tells Angel that he said he probably wants to put away his big wings before he gets hurt. Angel steps towards the edge of the chopper and tells the men that he was assured he would be picked up at the nearest gate and transported safely to his meeting. One of the men spits at Warren's feet and tells him that if he leaves his disgusting flower seeds in the earth down there, in his home soil, then he will come and kill him. 'Relax, we're not gonna hurt him' one of the other men smiles. 'If it's all the same to you – I think I'll get off here' Angel remarks as he drops out of the chopper and flies down to the street below, to the amazement of some of the people on the street.
Angel approaches a guard and informs him that he is here for a meeting with Mister Jean-Pierre Kol. Angels makes his way through a room of well-dressed people and adjusts his tie as Monet telepathically contacts him and asks him if he is there and what he reads on the place. 'You need to check in when you're in unfriendly territory' Monet reminds him. 'Yes, Monet' Angel replies, before his thoughts tell her that he thinks Kol is just offering a social call to stay networked and relevant ever since Xavier brought and gutted Noblesse Pharmaceuticals, as he hasn't met with anyone since Magneto led that field trip to Jerusalem. 'He just wants to know he's in my good graces' Angel adds, as he reaches an outdoor area where Jean-Pierre Kol is pouring some drinks, and a table is set with a lot of food. 'Mr Worthington. A bold entrance. My men radioed ahead to tell of your arrival'. He welcomes Angel inside and tells him to enjoy himself. 'We are fine men who deserve fine things. And then we will have much to discuss'.
In some stables nearby, jockeys tend to their horses. Some of the horses are quite unusual – one is a pegasus, another has a flaming mane and tail, and another has gills. Some jockeys ride their horses to the starting line of a race track. At the same time, Jean-Pierre Kol tells Angel that when he first did business with Charles Xavier, it was before the world had changed, and that he was well paid for his efforts by the standards of the world– the world in which humans worked with their limited resources. 'But the world is something new now. You've brought a factor of infinity into it. You've upended the entire game' Kol tells Angel. 'Your presence, your resources... you've lengthened the racetrack immeasurably'. As the horses take their starting point on the race track, Kol tells Angel that mutants have created a problem, and now they are the only ones strong enough to finish the race. 'At the end, when you're the only ones there? People will want better options. That's capitalism. Not exactly making yourselves a healthy market' Kol explains. There is a BANG as a gun is fired to start the horse race. 'It doesn't behoove you to move so quickly that the race is no good to watch' Kol adds.
At 19:30 Brasilia Time, Warren now sits opposite Kol, who tells him that he hopes the circumstances of his proposal are clear to him. 'Dinner was lovely. It's a shame this is how you want to start discussing business' Angel replies, to which Kol announces that he is no longer satisfied with the price Angel and his company paid to acquire his assets. Kol grins as he tells Angel that he encourages him to settle the ledger in his favor, or face an ongoing set of dreadful consequences. 'This is your one warning. You needed me then. And you need me now' Kol declares. 'Need you? Let's not exaggerate, Jean-Pierre. Charles Xavier made six other calls before you. You were the first to agree to a price. I'm sorry you don't like it now, but the deal's been long inked' Angel replies. 'Let me finish my offer. Or you will wish you had' Kol states as he puts a piece of paper on the table and remarks that he is no fool, and that he does not expect a man who lives in paradise to be wooed with wine and oysters. 'I do not come to ask for more with my empty hands'. Kol declares, while Warren reads the paper as Kol announces that he comes with that old corporate enemy – the letter of the law. And at that moment, on the race track, one of the horses lashes out at another, smacking into it mid-race.
In the Savage Land Flower Processing Facility, it is 19:00, Brasilia Time. A dozen or so Madrox dupes are in the laboratory going about their business, at computer stations and testing stations. 'Hey!' one of them calls out as a door opens to the lab. 'This is a secure facility! You can't just walk through here!' one of the lab-coat wearing dupes exclaims. 'I assure you, I can' Monet replies. She's wearing her black and white costume as she stands on a platform looking out down to the lab, she asks to talk to the real Madrox – right now. 'It's Dr James Madrox, actually. And lady, I am the manager' one of the dupes remarks, approaching Monet. '... you know what I'd do if my friend Jamie Madrox called me a lady?' Monet asks – before punching the Madrox dupe hard in his stomach, creating another dupe, both of them in some pain. 'What the hell is going on out here?' a voice shouts, as another dupe emerges from a separate office in the lab. 'There you are' Monet remarks, looking up at Madrox, while the two dupes struggle to stand up.
'Was that necessary?' James Madrox the Multiple Man asks. 'He's fine. I most just scared him. Come down here, I need you' Monet declares. 'You? Need...me? This might be a first in our friendship' Madrox replies as he walks down to where Monet is waiting for him. Monet announces that she needs some people she can trust – she doesn't know how many she needs, and doesn't trust a lot of people. 'But thankfully, you're a lot of people, when I need you to be' Monet points out. 'That I am' Madrox agrees, and as he helps one of his dupes stand up, asks Monet not to hit them. 'He called me lady' Monet exclaims. Madrox absorbs the two dupes and explains that he doesn't like to have unauthorized extras in the lab that he doesn't know about. 'It's a whole thing. They go rogue real fast' Madrox adds. Madrox smiles as he tells Monet that he can send a team along with her, and all he asks is absorption rights – meaning he expects to get them back. 'Not without you there to corral them. I don't want disposables' Monet replies. 'They're not disposables, Monet!' Madrox protests.
Madrox follows Monet out of the lab as Monet reports that she and Warren got the go-ahead to expand X-Corp, so they are doing it – and fast. 'Want your old desk back?' Monet asks. 'Sounds exhausting' Madrox tells her. Monet points out that Madrox is out here in the processing lab playing with flowers and pharmaceutical formulas – which is just monkey work, so he should come and be a stakeholder. 'Not just a... mad scientist'. Madrox smiles as he tells Monet that he likes it here, as he gets lots done – and he doesn't talk to anyone who he doesn't want to. 'It's the opposite of corporate life' he adds. 'It doesn't bother you to be a one-man mutant medicine factory?' Monet asks. Madrox looks at Monet and asks her if it would kill her to realize that nothing has ever fulfilled him more. 'Fine. Leave your interests unprotected, then' Monet tells Madrox, who asks her what she means by that. 'From what?' he adds. Monet walks away and doesn't answer him, so he rushes after her. 'Monet! Protect my interests from what?' he calls out. She still doesn't answer, so Madrox stamps a foot on the ground and creates a dupe. He hands the dupe his lab coat and tells him to stay here. 'Sir?' the dupe asks. 'I'll be back... soon' Madrox tells the dupe.
10:30, Krakoan Standard Time. Trinary and Madrox sit at a long boardroom table, where Madrox asks 'So this mean little code – who sent it? What's it going to do to my lab?' but Trinary doesn't know, she tells Madrox that the code wouldn't tell her. 'Tell you?' Madrox asks. 'Can't you just hack it or... whatever? Aren't you a hacker?' Madrox asks. 'No' Trinary replies, before stating that she can convince the code, probe it and see what it will give up. 'It doesn't know what it is there to do and it says it wants money. But we obviously cannot give it that' Trinary adds. 'Oh, boy. I should have collected my staff before I left. Would you excuse me?' Madrox replies. 'Moneeeet!?' Madrox calls out, when he turns and sees Monet leaning against a wall nearby. He asks her if she is okay, and clutching her head, Monet tells him to shush, as she is trying to contact Angel and needs to concentrate.
Monet telepathically informs Angel that Trinary calls it ransomware and says that it wants money, but it isn't clear what happens if it doesn't get the money. Monet explains that the security all runs out of the same hub that Sage set up months ago, so Trinary can't tell which hub is in danger. 'Trinary?' Angel asks. 'Be careful with her, Monet. She tends to attack corporations' Angel's thoughts respond to Monet. But Monet tells Angel that unless he thinks Trinary is the one launching this attack, she doesn't care. Angel informs Monet that he thinks it is Kol, and he thinks it's the Savage Land plant. Monet suggests to Warren that he kill Kol and hide him. Angel proposes to Monet that the money is meaningless to them, and that they should think of this like a settlement. 'Absolutely not' Monet responds sternly. Monet tells Angel that she is trying to remain calm so as not to shift forms and sever their psychic connection – but she refuses to give that extortionist a penny more. 'Angel...Angel?' Monet asks when she gets no response. She then switches to her Penance form – and cuts open a wall with her lethal claws. 'Are you okay?' Madrox asks. 'Enough talking' Monet snaps.
'Monet? Are you listening?' Angel asks from Angra dos Reis. He tells her that it isn't about extortion, and that they just aren't shy about sharing what they have. 'I think it makes us look strong' he suggests. Angel's wings rustle as a waiter pushes a trolley past him. Angel tells Monet that Kol is saying they are in violation of the United Nations. He adds that he thinks the Savage Land base might have to go, but that they can't let him just threaten their supply chain, as people rely on these drugs now. 'You're never quiet when you think I'm wrong. Are you there?' Angel calls out. 'Hello? Did you lose your temper again?' Angel asks when he gets no response from Monet. Kol opens a door and sees Angel: 'There you are. I was concerned you did something unsporting, like stepping out during our negotiations to phone a friend' Kol remarks, before he holds up Angel's phone and tells him that he saw he had left this inside, and then remembered that he is a good man. 'Of course, Jean-Pierre' Warren replies. 'Wouldn't dream of it. I'm quite enjoying hearing what you have to say' Warren adds. Kol hands Warren his phone and suggests they get back to watching the race. Angel slips his phone into his jacket pocket, and presses a button on it, that lights up part of the phone.
Back at X-Corp: 'Don't suggest things that make me lose my temper' Monet snaps as she slams a fist on the table. 'I'm not just being a #$%^&. It's something with Penance. Sometimes she comes on a little suddenly and it makes telepathy nearly impossible. Are you listening to me? I'm saying I can't do both – unless I calm down' Monet telepathically calls out to Angel. Her form switches between Penance and her human appearance, and tells Angel to ask her the details over several drinks later. 'I need you back here now, you're in danger' Monet tells Angel – then she looks horrified, 'Oh god, of course! You can't find a way back because you're in Brazil! That human slime did this on purpose!' Monet exclaims, before ripping up the console from the table. 'The console!' Trinary calls out. 'Move. I'm done playing. I'm done waiting. Sit down' Penance snaps, before announcing that it is time to get this office up in the air. 'Up in the air?' Trinary and Madrox reply in unison, both confused.
Trinary remarks that she thought there was more to this machine, and reveals that when she was talking directly to the base, it kept talking about thrusters and turbines and things. 'Does this part of the building become an escape pod or something? Monet?' Trinary asks. 'No, Trinary...and it's more than a building' Monet replies, as the entire island suddenly rises from the ocean, revealing a sprawling complex underneath it. 'So I see' Trinary replies. Madrox and a dupe hold onto each other infear, as Monet holds some controls in her hand, she exclaims that thisis phase one – no rollout needed. Monet tells her companions to hold on tight, pointing out that they haven't signed liability forms yet. Trinary looks at some holographic screens and notes that the ship – the base – appears to be solar powered, but not like any solar power she has ever seen. She comments on the impressive propulsion systems and notes some other things that are a little complex. 'That's enough unchaperoned chitchat with the home office' Monet tells Trinary, who asks Monet if she needs her to communicate with air traffic control. 'I do not' Monet answers.
'We're not telling anyone we're flying this thing into foreign airspace?' Trinary asks, before offering to look outside and try to talk to any cruise missiles that she sees. The table transforms into a control deck, and Monet sits at the main controls. Trinary and Madrox sit next to her, as Monet reveals that this base has a few capabilities they haven't really been public about, including that it is supposed to have an entire bridge crew – but they haven't hired them yet. She explains that Angel wanted to do a rollout, wanted to force getting everyone's attention – but she has a better idea. 'We've got some pretty intense teleportation capabilities, but they're limited' Monet states. 'Limited to what?' Madrox asks. 'Krakoan gates' Monet replies. 'That's perfect! You said the Savage Land plant is under threat? There's a gate right in front of the processing plant. It's on a little island, but we can get there right away – no one who can't use the gate is gonna beat us there' Madrox smiles. 'Relax' Monet tells him. 'How does it work?' Madrox asks, looking at the console panel in front of him. 'Take your seat' Monet instructs Madrox.
Madrox asks if he should start making dupes so that when they arrive they have a unit to get in and stop them. 'Trinary, can you do anything to stop this security breach? Can you like...distract it?' Madrox asks. 'Flirt with it?' Trinary replies, before stating that it seems to be literal ransomware – and the user deactivates it when they have received a certain amount of money. 'Change of plans' Monet suddenly declares. 'What?' Madrox asks, wide-eyed. 'Executive decision. We're going to pick up Angel' Monet reports. 'Didn't you just say that my Savage Land lab was under attack?' Madrox asks. 'Does anyone work there that isn't a dupe?' Monet asks. '.. .no?' Madrox responds. 'Then I'll buy you whatever needs replacing' Monet tells him as the entire X-Corp island vanishes, teleporting away.
Back in Brazil, at 21:00 Brasilia Time. Angel watches the horse race, as several horses crash into each other. He remarks to Kol that he doesn't understand: 'How does threatening our Savage Land laboratory prove we need you at all?' Angel asks. 'I'll make it clearer' Kol replies, stating that the Worthington family may be of old money, but mutants and this flower venture are very much new money. 'You're entering the market with the optics of corporate heroes. And business is not hero friendly' Kol declares. He remarks that mutants are the gardeners of a flower so magical it saves the lives of people who aren't even their own. 'You come into this dirty business of dirty monet with your clean hands and your clean white wings – we don't want you. We will drive you out and remind you why there is no room for compassion among our kind' Kol warns Angel. 'Our kind?' Angel asks. 'The rich' Kol smirks. He boasts that when his case lands in front of the United Nations and everyone is so disappointed in Krakoa, he will watch the mutants' wealth plummet as they sell off tours to pay their bills.
'Then we'll pack up and leave the Savage Land, it's but one of -' Angel starts to reply, but the grinning Kol interrupts him, telling him that he can't just leave now – he has swum in the water where the sharks feed – and now he is wet with blood. 'I want to be clear about something, Monsieur Kol. If this is your game, to escalate sly corporate doublespeak with actual threats, you will lose'. Angel states. He tells Kol that if his game is to force them to choose between being good businessmen and simply good men – they will win.
In the Savage Land laboratory, 'Do you hear something?' one of the Madrox dupes asks. 'We'll just tell the boss when he gets back' another dupe suggests – when suddenly the laboratory explodes.
Angel continues speaking to Kol, telling him that they are mutants – they are different from humans in ways which Kol cannot understand. 'But here is one way in which we differ I can make very clear. Our needs are met. Our desires are within reach. You cannot buy our kind'. Kol folds his arms and tells Angel that the money is ephemeral, and warns him that he cannot just leave. 'Because my work has already been done. Your plant is in ashes. You've left a smoking crater in one of the world's most beloved sanctuaries, and no amount of Krakoan gardening will help you escape sanction. They'll blame your risky mutant engineering. I've made sure of that' Kol boasts, smiling smugly.
At that moment, in Nova Roma, several civilians look towards a Krakoan gateway, energy glows around it, and a beam of energy points upwards as the X-Corp HQ materializes above the ancient civilization.
Back in Angra dos Reis, Kol tells Angel 'With that being said, I know you're busy. And I believe we're done here'. There is a loud noise, WHUUMMMM and a light shines in the sky, as the X-Corp HQ materializes. 'It would seem not quite' Angel states. Kol looks up at the floating island and asks 'What are you doing? What the hell is that?' 'It's...proprietary and should not be out here' Angel responds. 'What?' Kol asks, before Angel informs him that it is the X-Corp HQ.
Inside X-Corp HQ, Madrox looks at several monitors depicting the explosion in the Savage Land laboratory. 'My laboratory!' he exclaims. Monet reminds him that she said she would buy anything that needed replacing. 'You don't understand. The information was in the minds of those dupes! That is irreplaceable!' an upset Madrox exclaims. He points out that it is Friday, which means a week's worth of research is gone, and he will never even know what's gone, because he didn't get a chance to reabsorb his staff. 'Well, then you don't know what you're missing, I guess' Monet responds. 'They aren't disposable, Monet!' Madrox snaps. 'And a week of work for my team is beyond what any other team can do. You owe me. And you can't pay it back!' Madrox declares. Monet glances at him as she switches to her Penance form and tells him to hold on. Madrox, Monet and Trinary look out the window to see helicopters swarming around the X-Corp HX. 'You want a seat on the board? Then follow me and earn it' Monet tells her companions as she rushes from the bridge. Trinary follows her, while Madrox tells her to have fun, and that he will be right here, sitting down in the control seat that Monet was sitting in earlier.
Angel looks up at the helicopters swarming around X-Corp HX, and one of the soldiers in a chopper orders 'Please identify yourselves and vacate the airspace'. Kol asks if it is a UFO, while a man nearby remarks that it is friendly, as he saw someone online say it was mutants. 'Unidentified object in civilian airspace. I'd be well within my rights to have my air escort open fire. I'd probably be a hero' Kol remarks to Angel. 'It's mutants. It's X-Corp!' Kol suddenly says to someone holding a camera nearby, instructing them to get Joao at the business desk on live right now, and he can send the footage. 'To paraphrase a friend, the whole world is watching us now, Kol. So you just try it!' Angel exclaims as he clenches a fist, grits his teeth and takes flight. 'He's headed for the base. Open fire!' Kol orders.
Angel concentrates hard as he flies towards the X-Corp HQ, dodging the choppers in the air, he tells Monet that he doesn't know if she is listening to his thoughts, but if she is, then she needs to open up that base, as he is on his way in. Angel's skilful flying enables him to narrowly miss weapons-fire that is blasted towards him. Outside on one of the open areas of the HQ, Penance sees Angel coming to them. Angel!' she calls out, reaching towards him, as he dives down onto the island. 'Welcome onboard!' Monet exclaims, while Trinary stands next to her and Madrox arrives on scene. Angel drops down, his wings slightly singed from weaponsfire, while Monet reverts to her human form and points out that Angel managed to do it without getting mad and letting the inner him out. 'One thing we don't share' Monet admits. 'Happy Friday, CXO Worthington' Monet smiles. 'Happy Friday, CXO St Croix' Angel replies as they shake hands. 'Now, Madrox' Monet remarks, as the entire HX begins to hum and a glow surrounds it.
'Liftoff. Currently ascending to the ionosphere. Please stay in the recycled air as temperatures out on the deck are measured in kelvin' a voice announces over the intercom. 'Who's flying this?' Angel asks. 'My staff learns quickly – they know everything I know' Madrox declares. Monet tells everyone that once they ascend out of heligun range, they can try to check the stock tickers. She adds that she had hoped the unveiling of the new HQ is making such an international splash that the Savage Land isn't even trending. Angel states that he understands things didn't go as planned today, and that they were supposed to do a rollout. 'Xavier's probably furious. Poor Wind Dancer had months of spreadsheets, you know' Angel adds. 'I'm furious too, actually, if we're doing expense reports...' Madrox mutters, before Monet asks Warren if this isn't what he wanted – and remarks that they are going to be 24-hour news for days with this. 'You can’t buy what we got here today' Monet explains, as the X-Corp HQ blasts off above the Earth, camera crews filming the spectacular display.
Down below, Kol frowns as he looks up into space, and someone informs him that the mutants have ascended, that they cannot reach them. 'What do we do?' they ask, but Kol has no answers.