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Diamonds Are Forever
Nighttime on Krakoa:In her bed, Emma Frost muses that she has a secret. She has taken to sleeping in her diamond form. Were she to be asked, she’d say it was a defense. A psychic is most defenseless when asleep. She sleeps in this form because a diamond is unchanging. Do they think she is shallow? Mere vanity is the least of her flaws. She can admit that to herself even if to no one else.She’s done far worse than vanity. She’s done petty. She made a girl think she’d cooked her own horse, so she’d come to Emma for sympathy. She wasn’t at her best.Let’s just say that Emma Frost was in her snow phase. But if you’d call her on it, she’d fix you in the eye and say: “if you call a horse something as ghastly as Butter Rum, you deserve everything you get, darling.”Emma gets up and walks to the mannequin with her gala outfit.She can’t sleep because she is a cocktail of excited and petrified. The Hellfire Gala looms. Of course, she is restless. She knew she would be, so she chose to sleep the night alone, tossing and turning and all diamond hard. Scott told her when she sleeps as a diamond, it is uncomfortable, cold. “Nothing people haven’t said before.” She turns human, musing she doesn’t know what Scott sees in her. She also knows exactly what he sees in her. It’s difficult knowing how magnificent you are while also knowing you are nothing.She stands in front of the mirror, holding up the Gala outfit.Telepathy allows two things: control and empathy. In her darkest hour, she wonders if that is why she is not quite up there with Jean. Emma could only ever commit to the former. She has to be untouchably perfect, which means that she never will be able to achieve perfection. For that, one must be touched profoundly. And she is aware that, when she is touched, she is hurt.She is still a little angry with Scott. She funded Utopia and then was ruined by it. X-Men. She is more than a little burned out at the men part. They don’t realize how important Krakoa is for her. She went all in with Xavier and Magneto, to find out about Moira and the risk they were taking with all their futures.She goes back to bed. She will not let her children suffer harm. And perhaps the only order is that which they apply with a stiletto heel to the throat of the world.She starts thinking about the Gala. It’s a shame they haven’t-got a big announcement, but what could compare to last year’s revelation of bringing life to a dead world? But they must be unforgettable.But then the Daily Bugle drops with the headline “Immortal X-Men” revealing the mutant secret of resurrection. Emma wishes the news could have broken after the gala but goes ahead with it thinking what is the worst that can happen?A few hours later, soaked with pig’s blood she again stands in front of her mirror and seethes: “how dare they?”Flashback, somewhat earlier at the Gala:Emma walks down some steps, past a crowd that is kept outside. Chinese ambassador Mingyu asks for a few words. Emma tries to brush him off. She is busy. He can imagine, Mingyu replies. Immortality. Mutantkind offered humanity five additional years, when they had this. Not stopping, Emma replies they can talk about this another time. She has a trillion fires to fight now and… Mingyu insists is the right time because of those fires. Their analysts have been at work and say this is going to get out of control, unless the do something. The mutants have something everyone else wants.Emma stops and turns around. They can’t share this. It is a limited resource and not a duplicable technology. Mingyu insists on more information. Do they mean it won’t work on humans or do they choose to not make it work or… Sixteen million dead, Emma cuts him off. Yes, it is awful that humans are dying, but sixteen million mutants are still dead, killed by Sentinels. Even if they could, she doesn’t see why one human should be brought back as long as the mutants are still in the ground.Over sixteen million dead and they all watched. Some of them even cheered. And some of them made profit selling the pieces of the machines that tore mutants to pieces. She is sorry that their children die, but she has to look after her own children first! She turns around, ready to leave again.Mingyu remarks he understands her position but tells her to be realistic. If she says it is a limited resource, it need not be shared with everyone. Give access to their leaders, key donors. Industry figures. Once they have it, they can assure the majority accept this. Krakoa has made deals to assure its future before. This is just another one.Emma hesitates, then promises to talk to the Council. Someone calls her name. And an angry protester tosses the pot of sheep blood at her.Wolverine and Beast hold the woman back. Emma learns that her husband died in a boating accident last week. Her anger washes over Emma and she wonders how Charles can let them just in. All the pain in the world? She has enough of her own.Present: The ambassador’s words haunt her. He is right: this needs to go away but how? People don’t care about Mars. They care about life. There is one upside: Dear Scott brought her a gift. He told her something. Tomorrow, she gets to hurt the worst of men…The next day at the Quiet Council:Mr. Sinister stands in the center, suggesting this might be an opportunity. If world leaders are interested in letting him clone them and fiddle with their genes, they should embrace it. Who wouldn’t want kill-switches on all world leaders? Mystique groans. He tells her she is against it, because it would put her out of a job.Xavier orders them to stop, then announces he has awful news. A sick man injected himself with Mutant Growth Hormone and then killed himself. He thought if he died a mutant, he could come back… oh the poor fools!Everyone is silent for a moment, then Exodus asks if they can be blamed for humanity’s stupidity. No, but they can feel sympathy! Nightcrawler shoots back. This is only the start! They must hold fast to their empathy, their humanity! Humanity? Mystique repeats and asks if he is sure he should be on this mutant council. Shaw calls her a pedant. She should at least understand this is terrible PR. Doesn’t matter if they give a damn or not, they should make the appropriate frowns in public. This may even be profitable: line their coffers a little and…Emma interrupts. There is something else they should discuss before this goes any further. She has some memories from Scott. She asks the other psychics to confirm that the psychic signature is that of Scott Summers. Xavier and Exodus confirm and Sinister jokes he’d recognize the lack of quiver in that stiff upper lip everywhere.Emma then projects the memory to everyone. It shows the X-Men fighting Dr. Stasis, who is wearing a helmet that cover his face. Scott thought he was a human geneticist working with Orchis but when he destroyed the helmet, he saw a – slightly more human looking – twin of Mr. Sinister with a club symbol instead of a red diamond on his forehead. Emma adds that Stasis claims to be the real Nathaniel Essex, not the clone they have here.Sinister stammers, he doesn’t understand! He is silent for a moment and Emma almost believes him. He doesn’t even joke.Suddenly, he throws a grenade to the ground that copies Nightcrawler’s teleportation effect (smelling even worse) and disappears. He runs through a nearby crowd.When Exodus spots him, Sinister swallows some pills with the letter M on them, allowing him to copy Multiple Man’s ability creating an army of dupes or as Exodus states, he has given more people the opportunity to punch him. “I am Spartacus!” all the dupes shout as they flee or fight (except for one who shouts “I am Brian!”). “I am out of here!” the real Sinister mutters as he heads to the gate to his secret lab.Destiny stands next it and greets him mildly. Doesn’t he want to know what’s going on? She chides him not to be a coward. Thanks for the food for thought, he replies while he fires a gun at her. Good to catch up! She dodges the blasts, expecting them. Sinister steps through the gate. In his lab, Sinister, obsessed with Dr. Stasis, utters, a club on his forehead? Ridiculous! He would never be in a club that would have him as a member! He orders the turtle Professor Plod not to look at hm like that. He knows!Diamonds, clubs… two more. He’s not stupid, he bets even Colossus has worked that out. Maybe he can get past Judgment Day this time… but this is new. How could he have missed that? He orders the system to add up all information to the latest Moira. He decides to go back and see what he can find out about that Stasis ruffian. Burn this timeline. He takes aim at a Moira, then recalls Destiny’s words chiding him not to be a coward. He muses she could have stopped him. So, did she think playing to his pride would stop him? Infuriating, infuriating woman! he rages.He decides not to act for the moment. He can still blow it all up if it gets too much. He gives the order to purge all his personalities and make a clean install. The system announces basal state is operational. It continues installing core motivation, mainly that Sinister is the only real person in existence, the only one that matters. He orders personality overlay, charisma chafe and generalized memetic stew: a cocktail of Deadpool scraping, five seasons of Drag Race and a sample of Oscar Wilde. He muses that of course Oscar Wilde was a mutant. The twist is he was a feral sort of like little James. The clue is in the name. He pronounces there is only one Nathaniel Essex in any way that counts. He walks toward the gate announcing he is read for his close-up.He steps out of the gate back on Krakoa, hands raised in a pacifying gesture. He is back and quite contrite, he assures them. He apologizes, claiming he panicked. Dr. Stasis was like him, just hideous. He is sure they understand. He kneels down offering to help clear his name.Mystique has a gun aimed at him. Unimpressed, Exodus suggests they kill him. They can always bring him back if they need his expertise. Nightcrawler protests this isn’t what the Spark is about. Destiny suggests the Pit. However, suddenly, energy surrounds Mr. Sinister and, a moment later, he is gone.Please say he is dead! Emma pleads. Destiny doesn’t think so. He has been kidnapped.Emma returns to her room and her bed, musing about the war Desitny has been predicting. She thinks Sinister’s kidnapping is part of it but doesn’t know if he is party to it or not. And you can’t tell if Destiny really doesn’t know or is hedging her bets. But Emma trusts her in that she would save mutant lives. Destiny believes in Krakoa.Which makes Emma realize something profoundly sad. She is still sleeping in diamond form. She is acting like she is going to get old. The thing about telepathy is you can make everyone believe everything… except yourself.


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Meditations on the “X”
What seems to be the past, a desert:Bennet du Paris, dressed in a Templar knight armor makes his way through the heat, his mouth parched, his skin cracked. He is on a quest that is going poorly. It is months after the siege of Jerusalem. No, he realizes this is a memory and wonders why he is having this memory.
He walks across a dune. He is half a mile short of dying. A half mile short of being reborn. Apocalypse waits for him. To others, “Apocalypse” means the end of the world. They are short of learning. Apocalypse” means “Revelation.” Revelation is way of seeing and in this desert, he saw clearly for the first time.
Others would say he was hallucinating, but then he thought himself a man of faith. Was it Moses’ burning bush? Was it akin to Constantine’s vision of the burning cross? Somehow both? Something else? As a man of faith, he had no answer but, now as a mutant of faith, he understands perfectly!
What he sees on the other side is the burning Phoenix raptor.
He collects himself. He remembers he is on Krakoa at a meeting of the Quiet Council, then realizes it is still not quite now.
Destiny informs the Council about her vision. Their enemies are the Eternals, who will soon wage war against them. Xavier expresses surprise at this. Shaw leers about the Eternal (and sometime Avenger) Sersi. Will she be coming in her skimpy costume? Storm asks if Destiny is sure.
The precog admits all things are in flux, but she is as certain about this as that Xavier will share new information from Forge. Xavier remembers and shares said info… regarding the abduction of Mr. Sinister. Forge was studying how he was taken and found Celestial technology signature. He compared it to recent activities of the Eternals averting a disaster in a town called Little Hollow. It was a match. It seems poor Nathaniel was kidnapped by some Eternals. Or rescued, Exodus announces grimly.
Emma would usually be throwing a parade at this news. But right now, she is worried. There was a lot of polite politicking at the Gala, but she did get a surface scan from some awful CEO that lingered with her: “Apocalypse is gone. Magneto is gone. All your big dogs are leaving, and it’s just you in an expensive dress, trying to look fierce.” It was all she could do to stop herself from psychically imprinting him with the desire to soil himself whenever he heard her name. They need people to know they remain strong. If the Eternals are warring against them, they need more than a slap on the wrist. First, they brief the war captains and prepare a defense. Scott will have plans. He always does.
Forget defense! Shaw shouts. Offense, dammit! How can they strike at the Eternals?
Exodus reveals the Eternals have their own cities locked off from reality, citadels caught between molecules, shadowing dimensions. There they have engines that can rebuild their bodies, time and time over. They can besiege the mutants at will Mutantdom will not find it easy to return the favor.
Xavier is surprised he knows so much about the Eternals. Exodus stresses he has lived a thousand years. Didn’t he spend most of the time asleep? Destiny asks. Exodus continues that, shortly after Apocalypse tried to recruit him to his false church, he met an Eternal. They fought in their minds and he won. He learned a lot as he hurt her. He silently thinks that fighting in their minds seems relevant.
Xavier muses that he isn’t aware of a grudge the Eternals carry against them. They were expecting Orchis. Exodus interrupts that Sinister’s absence is suspicious. They should purge him.
Time slows in that moment. He tries to understand. He sees Destiny twitch in her chair that once belonged to Apocalypse. He is gone…
… Apocalypse is here, again in his memories:On the other side of the desert. Exodus, still Paris then, was nearly dead. He had faced trials and Apocalypse told him he was worthy. He revealed his blessing, turned Paris into Exodus and his understanding of the world shattered. He would be a knight in a new crusade. It would take him a while to reassemble his faith, but Apocalypse offered him purpose in that moment. He was to be an apostle. An Acolyte. It had a cost. He just had to kill the man who was like a brother to him. The Black Knight (really Dane Whitman in the body of Exodus’ friend Garrington) together with the Eternal Sersi.
Exodus knew him as Garrington and attacked him. But Sersi sprung to his defense. Exodus thought her a witch as their minds battled. He thrashed her and rode away with his knowledge of the Eternals like spoils from a sacking. He was drunk with power, like a knight who had forgotten his oaths. He saw she was not a witch. She was more machine than woman, unlike a human. Cold, awful, angelic!
But he humbled her. Garrington was defenseless. Exodus could have killed him. He looked into his eyes and looked within himself and realized this was not God asking Abraham to slay Isaac. He was still in the desert and he was being tempted by the devil! He turned against Apocalypse and was disappointed when he saw how small his dreams were. He did hit all for his family? A mutant of faith thinks of a bigger family.
The Black Knight and Sersi fled. Exodus remained behind slumbering. Still, Apocalypse means revelation. The brain of the witch, so unlike a witch, unlike anything human. Cold like an angel. Its familiar.
He slept for the best part of a thousand years, until something more than man – Magneto – set him free. The world outside shocked him. The Mass was no longer said in Latin. Paper was so plentiful that one could wipe one’s behind with it. He suspects some would have been lost, but he was a mutant of faith and he had Magneto, the man he first thought a messiah, to guide him. He was in a tomb and Magneto rolled the rock back and let him breathe. In time, he learned Magneto was just a mutant prophet but it gave him time to learn and assemble his faith.
He thinks of popes and antipopes. When there are two people who aim to be pope, one is the antipope, the one not recognized by the church. The church could flip tomorrow and all popes become antipopes and vice versa. All it requires is the church to have a certain insight. A revelation.
He is now the only true church, because he is a mutant and his journey has shown the cross from another angle. An X is a rotated cross. There is a cross in the genes of every mutant. All mutants carry the cross.
Magneto was lost to him, time and time over. All too flawed. Not a messiah. That meant the messiah was yet to come. Magneto is gone and in his place sits Hope. He must be there for Hope- he must find the now!
He battles his way free to the present.
What blasphemy has occurred? he demands as he sees Wolverine, blades in his shoulder, standing in front of Hope. Wolverine explains the Eternals have some sort of shadow-walking killer who is going for the Five. Killed Egg. Nearly killed Hope. They know how to hurt them!
Xavier announces he is protecting the Council from the psychic assault. They must defeat the Uni-mind. Emma orders Hope to copy Exodus’ gift and for them to come with her.
As they enter the astral plane, Hope swears at the Eternals’ audacity. He has a sweary messiah, Exodus states dryly. Emma explains Xavier is on defense and they are on offense.
Exodus muses that he must see the telepathic conflict in terms he understands. To him it is a battle in a desert. He is a knight. On his left hand is a diamond shield - for all her barbs, Emma is protective. In his strong right hand is his sword, his faith in Hope. The Eternals appear to him as a many-headed dragon. He smirks as he attacks. A knight is well accustomed to slaying dragons.
Moving together, the three attack and surprise and hurt the Eternals. The Uni-mind realizes Exodus is the linking part and concentrate on him. He feels low but recalls he has felt lower…
Flashback:… when almost all mutants had been depowered by the Scarlet Witch, with barely 200 remaining. He went on a pilgrimage looking for purpose and found none. He tortured himself to find clarity. He was near the sun about to commit the mortal sin of suicide. He would only have to relax his mental defenses for a second and the fire would consume him. But then he remembered the fire in the desert. Hope. A child had been born. The first mutant birth since the witch had wiped them all away. The Phoenix Child would return to save them all. Exodus returned to Earth.
He was right. His messiah returned and the people kindled.He will never kneel as long as she stands.
Present:“Get up, lazy!” Hope offers Exodus a hand to get up. Happily, she informs him they kicked the Eternals’ asses so hard, they’ll wipe their behind every time they brush their teeth. Emma rolls her eyes. Sometimes one really can tell Hope spent crucial years of schooling wandering a radioactive wasteland drinking repurposed urine.
Exodus informs the others they chased the Uni-mind away. Xavier checks. The Eternals are retreating. He muses it shouldn’t be that easy. They’ve had second thoughts. They have a moment to consider their next step. What now? Emma suggests they get that lovely telekinetic carpenter here to get the furnishing repaired. Destiny, supported by Mystique, warns the Eternals will be back. Drawing her gun, Hope promises they will be ready for them.
Exodus hears how an Eternal – namely current Prime Eternal Druig - makes a speech to humanity. He is disinterested, as there is nothing new. Druig mentions the Hex – giant Eternals – though, which has the witchy ring of Sersi. He remembers when he first walked the streets of New York seeing those giant glass lances. It made Apocalypse’s tower look like a shack. He never thought anything could be so big. Now six beings of that size attack their sacred land.
Scratch that, Hope admits. Not ready for them. Exodus corrects her, they are ready. He tells her to return to safety and help restore the fallen warriors. Be an inspiration! Guard the flame of mutant life. Be herself. It is more than sufficient. And he? she asks. What does she think he is going to do? he asks as he flies up to meet the enemy.
Exodus thinks to himself he is the pope of a new church, like Peter was long ago. Peter was the rock upon which the Nazarene mutant built his church. Exodus is that rock, but he is also the rock in the hand of Cain.
With a smile he flies to confront the Hex.


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The Devil’s Party
On Krakoa, Destiny gets a telepathic alert from the missing Mr. Sinister. He briefly explains that he was kidnaped by some Eternals and helped make the big old Celestial. They hoped it would go better.
Destiny presses for him to return. There’s a break in the attacks, but they are still under psychic siege. They could really use him. He refuses and complains that awful plagiarist Dr. Stasis has made them all suspicious. He has to prove himself. She told him they should be on the same side. This is him trying. He smirks. A certain opportunity has presented itself. He explains how the Celestial is judging everybody. Depending on the sum of passes and fails, the whole world passes or fails. He saw him fail Captain America earlier. He doesn’t think the planet will cut the mustard if they play along.
However, it turns out, there is an off button. The Avengers don’t want to press it, as there’s a risk for a little collateral damage. Something about Iceland. The Eternals don’t want to press it, as it will be killing their god. However, he thinks, the mutants would press it, if a certain person in the know made them think the risks were only marginal and timed the vote correctly…
Destiny calls for her wife Mystique, announcing they have work to do…
She considers the vote ahead. If she reveals the odds for Iceland’s destruction, the vote will fail. If she minimizes it, there will be a stalemate, but if she minimizes it and times it to when Xavier is absent – it will pass. So, she times the vote to a point where Xavier is dead and being revived and Storm is on Arakko.
The mutants attack and destroy the Celestial, the detonation destroys Reykjavik and then the Celestial reveals it was all a delusion, a test. A test most failed.
The Progenitor appears to Destiny as Mystique. Irene defends her actions. She tried to protect her people: better an island burns than the world, and better their island than this one. The Progenitor gives her the thumbs down. It judges her not for that, but for lying about her gift to achieve it. It judges Destiny for her fear of losing her. She says there is no destiny but, with her every fearful action, she proves otherwise. She thinks herself better than this. With her actions, she shows she is not. Let’s hope her peers have greater moral fortitude. Or Destiny’s wish will be true. The island will burn. And the whole world with it.
At the Quiet Council meeting, embarrassment dominates. All eyes turn to Emma Frost (which annoys Shaw). So, that could have gone better, Shaw remarks. Quite, is Emma’s curt reply. It seems they are forced to play the Celestial’s game. They will all be judged in many ways. And when you are judged, it seems it may appear to you, either as itself or something else. Kate notes that sounds like experience talking. What happened? Thumbs down for yours truly, Emma replies breezily. Colossus asks why. She didn’t vote for the attack on the Celestial.
Shaw thinks to himself he is an idiot. Emma abstained to have deniability. Playing both sides. Making a careful bet. Smart. Seems like the big guy with the thumb doesn’t like smart.
So, who did it appear as? someone asks. Emma recalls, crying, as she was judged by all her students who lost their lives. Not one person in particular, she claims. Just enough to make her feel terribly judged. Has anyone else had a visitor or a test? Kate reveals that she passed. She doesn’t even know what she did. Healthy living and early nights, she bets. It just looked like a creepy Celestial for her.
Xavier remarks that, if he was being judged, he is unsure he would notice. He is wrestling with angels on the psychic plane and, if he flinches, there will be terrible devastation. If that’s not a test, what is? However, his test to all of them is this: If he dies again, he’d appreciate it if this council did not bloody the hands of Krakoa any further in his absence.
Shaw silently notes Xavier is sulking but no one rises to the bait. A man involved in a marathon bout of psychic bare-knuckle boxing gets the privilege to be a little passive-aggressive, it seems.
Nightcrawler, Colossus and Storm all haven’t had a test yet. Kurt expresses how uneasy he is about a god like that judging people. Exodus agrees with him: it is a false idol that would be better off melted down.
Mystique points out they tried that, and here they are. She failed and, if anyone asks for details, she will cut out the tongue of that person. She asks Destiny, who admits she was visited. After the disaster. Emma is correct: it can appear as someone you feel judged by. She lies that it appeared as her mother. She was disappointed in her.
For getting the chances wrong? Emma asks. No, Destiny replies. Chances are chances. There is no destiny, but judgment from they whose censure we fear the most may await them all. Destiny’s words resonate with Shaw.
Flashback:Shaw recalls how as a child he rushed into his father’s office, wanting to show him something. Hiram Shaw shushes him. He is trying to rebuild their fortune. He orders his son not to distract him. But, Sebastian begins. His father cuts him off. “But” is a weakling’s preposition. No sentence needs it. He orders him to be a man. Say what he means without preamble. Why should Sebastian take priority over his work? Does he have even a paltry sum like – say, a million dollar – to his name? No, the humiliated child replies. Then when he is at his desk, Sebastian is very much beneath his notice, Hiram announces and orders him to come back when he has something to offer him. When he has made something of himself.
Years later:Sebastian as a young man stands at his father’s grave with a bag. He opens it to show the first million he has made. He drops the money on the grave site stating he can make another and another. Once upon a time, the Catholic Church used to let people pay off sins for the dead. Spend money to spare the purgatorial whip for souls who had gone to the hereafter. He lights a match. Consider this the opposite. If there is a God listening, this first million is in memory of his daddy to keep the hellfire burning nice and hot.
Present:Enough lily-livered soul-searching! Shaw demands. They need a plan! If they’ve hours to live, let’s spend them doing something!
Storm announces she needs to return to Arakko. Uranos left machines there that need to be destroyed. She echoes Xavier’s words. If the Council acts in her absence, there will be consequences.
Emma announces, much of their forces are tied up with defending the island against the Eternals. There is a ray of hope, however. Another faction of Eternals have reached out with a plan of saving the world while playing by the Celestial’s rules. They think they can soothe the anger caused by the mutants’ immortality secret. They want to talk.
Shaw sees an opportunity and announces he will handle it. They’ll do it at the Club in New York. Near enough that he can crack a few dullard heads if he gets bored. And before anyone objects, they are all busy here. Send Leland and the Angel boy with him to make sure he is playing fair. They may not all trust him, but they can trust him to make a good deal, yes?
Everyone looks at Storm and Emma. Storm shrugs. Emma allows it and again warns of tests that may be subtle.
That moment, a giant demon bursts from the ground holding a prisoner: Eobard Garrington, the first Black Knight, who implores Exodus for help. Garrington shouts it was a mortal sin when he gave his life for Exodus in the twelfth century. He is in hell! If Exodus takes his place, he can go!
Shaw groans inwardly, more so when he realizes Exodus is buying it. Exodus reaches for Garrington. He shouts he loves him, but his work remains. The mutant church is still in its cradle. He cannot sacrifice himself, not even for Garrington!
However, when the demon wants to drag Garrington back to hell, Exodus begins to fight him.
Shaw figures it would be no problem if Exodus died, thanks to the Five, but one of their biggest guns lost in hell? Absolutely not. He drops his jacket, announcing he will save the fool. Someone save his jacket!
As he walks closer, he realizes the fire is no illusion. It’s consuming even Exodus. But he is Sebastian Shaw and the hellfire only makes him stronger.
He hits Exodus. The demon disappears but not before he gives Exodus a thumbs up. Shaw offers Exodus a hand. Exodus marvels that Shaw came to his aid. He is not a mutant of faith; if anything he is the opposite. True, Shaw agrees, but he knows a lot about making mistakes. His passions have gotten the better of him more than once. More than once in a night even. This Celestial gets under their skin. Let’s try not to make it too easy for him, yes?
Later:In the New York Hellfire Club, Shaw gets dressed and tells Harry Leland via comm to keep them busy. Yes, it is the end of the world, but he will be damned if he turns up to a business deal with scorched cufflinks!
A message pings on his computer. Some agent informing him about an Orchis shell account looking for investments to produce a new generation of anti-mutant weapons. People always ask him if he regrets investing in Sentinels. Of course, he does. If he had got in earlier, he could have made a few more points! He gives the order to buy all they can.
A moment later, he notices a glow behind him. Shaw is unsurprised, he knew this was a test. With all he’s done, what god would ever pass him? He figures, if they survive today, it will be because the good find a way. If the good find a way, it doesn’t matter what he does one jot.
He turns around, expecting his father, instead the Progenitor appears as a smirking Emma Frost with one thumb down.
It thinks he respects Frost? Shaw scoffs. “I do it for the children?” Hogwash! She is like him and always has been. She does it for the money! She does it for the power! She does it because she knows she is better than people! And it doesn’t get to judge him!
As the Progenitor disappears, Shaw rages at it to come back. He gave his fealty to hell a long time ago, Shaw shouts. When his time comes to burn, he will do so with a smile on his face! With a cognac in his hand and a fat roll in his pocket! Does it hear him? He will burn and he cares not one fig for its judgment!
A little later and much calmer, Shaw has his meeting with Eros of Titan in the Club. Eros explains he wants them all to survive to have breakfast tomorrow. They can do that by being better. Let’s try that. But he’s surprised to be speaking to Shaw. With his reputation, he suspected, he’d be spending his final hours with more carnal activities than a business deal.
Shaw replies there are many things he finds agreeable. And striking a good deal ranks among dallying in the fleshpots he has so carefully cultivated.
Well, if he enjoys it that much, they have to make a deal that leaves his knees weak, Eros suggests. The immortality secret is what started all this. They’ll have to work out something the mutants can give up here.
Shaw silently thinks of the profit he could make on the side with whatever compromise they end up with here. But then he thinks of Frost’s eyes cracked with cosmic fire, that upturned nose, that downturned thumb…
Shaw announces Krakoa isn’t going to strike a deal that would leave a lot of men like himself better off. Whatever happens, it should help the children. He raises his glass. So does Eros. He likes the way Shaw thinks. They can work with this. He’ll send his suggestions. Then he apologizes for having to leave. He has a lot of meetings today. Of course, he does too, Shaw agrees.
Later, he stands in a cellar, in front of him a pentagram of blood on the ground. He wonders what possessed him and admits to disliking how this is another way the White Queen got him. He likes it not one jot. Maybe she is very good - exactly as bad as his old Black Queen ever was. Selene animated the External Gate into a monstrosity. A lot of mystic punch for a girl in a corset. He was interested, investigates, discovered something. And here they are.
He holds a human heart in his hand and squeezes it… and something happens within the pentagram. It seems Selene has been making deals with a new player and, if that player is the person who makes deals, he is interested in meeting them.
He turns to pour another drink as the person solidifies and observes she wasn’t expecting this number to be used again, with Selene being all bullet-headed. Though maybe not a surprise to see him, a man of sins and her in a pentagram. They are all the same symbolically. Perhaps the surprise is him being interested in making deals, with the apocalypse ticking and all that malarkey. She’d have thought a man with his reputation would have his head buried in some buxom girl’s cleavage.
Shaw replies that the world may end today. If it does, all investments turn bad. One has to plan assuming they are going to live. If he lives, he is immortal. And immortality demands funds of a similar magnitude. A mere billion is pocket change on the scale they have to think of. And he plans to be sipping brandies that would cost entire worlds from now until the end of time. He sits down. So what the hell should he call her?
“Oh you sweet little man,” she coos. Call her what he likes, as long as he calls her often, but most call her Mother Righteous. And is Sebastian Shaw someone who is interested in a deal? He’s a businessman, woman, he smirks. What does she think?


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Red in Blue
Krakoa:The Quiet Council is gathered, waiting for the Progenitor’s judgment.Nightcrawler thinks to himself that he tries to look on the sunny side of things. To a fault, sometimes.He announces he thinks it is going really well. Xavier points out sourly that Magneto is dead and they cannot resurrect him without disrespecting his legacy.Okay not, really, really well, Kurt admits, but compared to where they were at breakfast? This is good. War with the Eternals? Over. Eros is a much better Prime Eternal. He’s promised reparations, and he seems sincere. And the plans for the future of the planet? They are good plans. Hell, the deals to offer Krakoan foreign aid to soften the immortality situation are inspired. Shaw thanks him wryly. Credit where credit is due, Kurt continues. It’s going to make a better world. Most of all, they’ve shown that as a planet they can make progress when given a suitable motivation. The Celestial gave the world a test. He thinks they are going to pass.Shaw asks if he is willing to wager on that. When Kurt points out that that makes no sense, since if they lose, they die. Shaw schools him on disaster capitalism. Besides, he believes if they don’t pass, Krakoa can take it if it comes to it. Emma asks if he cares to take a wager on that. Absolutely, Shaw shoots back. Start with hundred th… Xavier interrupts them and asks for some decorum. The Progenitor’s final judgment will be any second. Eros is making his speech as they speak.Mystique turns to her wife Destiny, noting she has been quiet. Destiny admits she is terrified.There is a booming noise and fire rains from the skies. Shaw wryly notes this doesn’t look like a pass and tells Kurt to pay up.Kurt thinks that he does try to look on the sunny side, but sometimes suns turn into supernovas.It’s chaos as the Quiet Council try to discuss plans for war, evacuation, futile stands. Irene interjects sporadically, shaking her head. Sometimes just shaking. The plans grow more extreme, and it gets worse when Mr. Sinister makes his way back. He suggests churning out as many Magneto clones as they can.Disgusted, Kurt thinks never mind the disrespect. Never mind torching their relations with the Arakkii. Never mind anything. Just Magneto as meat.Kurt calls him out. Sinister turns to him and grins. He thought this precious Spark of his was about trying new things. What’s more a new thing than throwing a couple of American football teams worth of Magneto at a Celestial to see if it will crack?Kurt thinks to himself that maybe the Celestial was right. Maybe they don’t deserve to live, but he can’t accept that.He looks at Destiny, figuring there is something she isn’t telling them.Mystique asks Destiny if she is okay, but Irene warns her what happens next will be fine. What happens next is Kurt grabbing her and teleporting them both high into the air. As they fall, he suggests: “Let’s catch up, evil stepmom!” What isn’t she telling the Council? She replies he isn’t going to kill her. Kurt points out she sees probable futures. What if she is wrong?He teleports them a few times until they reach the ground. He tells her she is right, but he wanted her to feel it when you are hurtling at the ground with terminal velocity. To know you are dead, unless someone else uses their gift to save you. They are all hurtling toward the floor. She has the gift.With a small voice, she replies the path is narrow and uncertain. She does not wish to walk it. Kurt offers his hand. None of them do, but he’ll take every step that is needed with her, hand in hand. What’s the first one? She tells him.A little later, he is outside the Treehouse in New York. He is in telepathic contact with Xavier. Irene said their best chance is to kill the Celestial. It is not impossible, but their best shot is everyone together working as one. There is only one person who can unite the world like that.He sees Captain America and Jada sitting on a fallen tree and talking, around them a pile of dead, anti-mutant protesters. Kurt notices their pamphlets on the ground and takes one up. It was created by Orchis. He is disgusted. The world is ending and Orchis is using it for their advantage. Like Sinister. Like Shaw. Maybe they do deserve to fail. The angry part of him knows that, if they fail, at least they die too. The spark of hate could consume him, but he uses it to fuel him.He addresses the two. Captain America agrees to the plan. Kurt figures this was always the easy part. He begins a series of teleportation jumps to get the two the North Pole. He takes a blood sample from Cap a minute into the jumps. A minute after that, he passes it to Magik… because if the plan doesn’t work, they have a plan B.Xavier sends the image of Cap confronting the Celestial across the world. His heroic sacrifice unites the world.Nightcrawler has died too. He awakens in a resurrection egg, remembering the pain of dying. They have done what they have always avoided. Charles was backing him up live. He can’t afford to lose any seconds. He muses about the lie of Krakoa. They don’t bring a person back from the dead. They bring back an earlier self. The person who dies feels the pain of death. The person who comes back never had that memory. Now he does. He will always recall what it is like to be rent asunder on a molecular level.The battle against the Celestial fails as hero after hero falls. So, it’s time for plan B, the path that had Destiny trembling because even more of them will have to die.Flanked by Xavier and Nightcrawler, Hope Summers speaks to the Krakoan mutants, explaining the plan. She explains that the Celestial is going to destroy Krakoa. They can evacuate most of them, but Destiny says they need people to stay to trick the bastard. She needs volunteers. One in ten will do.A lot more than one-in-ten volunteer. Overcome, Hope swears she will save them all if she can. She won’t rest for a second!While she wells up, Kurt just gets angrier. How dare this parody of a god force them down this road?Certain people have to die to make the Progenitor believe the lie including a member of the Five.He doesn’t want to die, Egg complains as the others hug him. Why does he always have to die?Destiny explains someone of the Five has to stay. As long as they still have some eggs, the Five can operate without him. So, it must be him.And he knows what they say, a grinning Sinister adds. Can’t save the world without breaking a few Eggs!Kurt attacks him, threatening to cut that smile into his face if he makes another joke like that. Sinister is momentarily startled, then gets ahold of himself and leers, he likes this different side of him!Kurt thinks of all the people dying on Krakoa. He tries to imagine how dying would feel.Destiny and Mystique hold each other as Destiny explains why they must be among the dying. She died on Muir Isle in the hope they would be together again. They will do the same here. She tells her wife to close her eyes as the fire reaches them.Nightcrawler thinks of the sacrifice and Sinister’s levity and he doesn’t understand how he can still act as if none of it matters.Secretly, Mr. Sinister enters his hidden lab, ready to kill a Moira engine and start a new timeline, as he figures that, once again, he will not make it through Judgment Day. At least he is going to get himself some pointers. He orders Professor Plod (the turtle) to upload the data, but the upload fails again and again. Sinister decides to try again blindly. He tries to shoot a Moira, but the rifle is blocked for some reason. Really? he shouts.Avengers Mansion, New York City:Kurt figures he would not get this plan past the Council, but he needs only Xavier and Hope. And Hope is on team hope. The freshly resurrected Exodus bristles at this blasphemy - it is a mutant miracle! he stresses. Hope orders him not to question her. This is the plan. He says she is his messiah? Have some damn faith in her! Exodus gives in and then the remaining four members of the Five resurrect Captain America. What now? he asks.The plan as it stands is for a small group to enter the Celestial’s body and activate the fail-safe and destroy it.Mission 2 is to save as many people as possible. Mission 3: the Progenitor is using the Machine that is Earth to destroy the world. The AI is fighting back. They have to find a way to support its resistance. The AI part gives Kurt an idea. He thinks of Churchill’s saying “If Hitler invaded hell, he would at least give a favorable reference to the devil…”Kurt’s plan is underway. It has been fifteen hellish minutes already, as he crawls from another egg. Hope has new shells of him already prepared for download. Xavier updates his mind live. He dampens the pain a little, but there is still a scream and panic, as he claws free. He remembers what he needs to know. Proteus uses his reality-altering power to give him clothes. He reminds Kurt that change is possible. Kurt grabs a sword. Exodus looks at him in awe. Earlier, he said this was a waste of eggs. Now he’s scared, humbled. He mutters, a martyr needs to die just once to follow the holy path!Kurt can’t think about that. He walks to a Krakoan gate which takes him to the Marauders’ ship in space where Magik is waiting for him. He tells her to open the spread 37 meters forward from the last. Orbiting at a distance means her gift is better for an insertion.And, a moment later, he is back on the Orchis Forge near the sun. Several of his corpses lie on the ground. Nimrod stands nearby. Moira notices Kurt, shouting here he is again and gives the order to kill him.Today he is the Spark, he figures. They don’t snuff him out that easily. He teleports several times to dodge their attacks. He has been killed several times and by now they know he wants Moira. He touches Nimrod’s head and teleports away a small part of it. Then he grabs Moira and presses something on her head. He claims it is an invention by Forge. A personalized ECM hunter-kill virus combo – it’ll wipe her clean. Talk or die!He is lying. It is part of a microwave, but he believes that she is more scared of true death than anyone he has ever met.What does he want? Moira asks. He explains he comes with words from Destiny from beyond the grave. The Celestial will destroy this station in twenty minutes. Well, in three minutes now, thanks to their wasting time by repeatedly killing him.They flee in an escape pod (including the damaged Nimrod). Angrily, Moira demands why he didn’t just message her. He retorts that he had to get her to believe. They need to pretend they are still on the same side for just one day, because really? Today there are only two sides. Life versus death.She only believes him when the station explodes. He starts to explain there is an AI on Earth that’s in trouble. With them all being the experts he figured… Moira interrupts that Orchis and the X-Men on one side will never last. With a grin, he tells her they have hours to live. Don’t be such a grump!


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The Curious Case of Dr Essex and Mr. Sinister
“Fate is the word cowards use to describe the things they are too weak to change.” Nietzsche (?)Alamogordo, New Mexico, 1943:Mystique muses that, even when they were together, they were often apart. They trusted one another, but there was always her curiosity. She couldn’t stand it when Irene locked her out. She couldn’t stand not knowing.Two guards find themselves distracted when, suddenly, a blonde bombshell stands in front of them, claiming to be lost. She gets close enough to knock them out quickly and takes one of the guards’ clearance. She changes her shape to look like a guard and enters the facility.There, she is shocked to learn that Irene is helping experimentation on mutant children. Irene shows up behind her with a smile and hopes she didn’t kill the poor guard.They find a room to talk alone. When Raven tells her the two guards are unconscious in a cupboard, Irene is relieved and asks her to leave. Mystique wants some answers first. Cloning vats? Eugenics? What is she thinking? She could never stand mysteries, Irene sighs. She can share a little. The project head is one Amanda Mueller but the power behind her is a certain Dr. Milbury.Mystique doesn’t get it. First name Nathan, Irene adds. The man isn’t being subtle, he rarely is. Their friend Nathaniel and she disagree on everything but one single point: that mutants are important. That they are ultimately on the same side. Sinister is gathering crucial information on the mutant genome. This work is an abomination but it will ultimately be for her benefit, she tells Mystique, and the benefit of them all.Mystique follows her up the stairs. Can she really trust Mr. Sinister? Of course not, Irene replies, but being here lets her watch his games. She can eavesdrop on nearby futures. She’s learning a lot about what’s a problem and what isn’t. For example, he’s going to hide his DNA in certain individuals. Families with names like Shaw, Marko, Sullivan, Xavier, Ryking. When he dies, he’ll try to take them over. A psychic broadcast.She likes how she says when he dies, Raven replies wryly and asks if it will work. Irene replies, not as far as she can see. The methods prove insufficient to overcome his primary target. A powerful, annoying bald psychic thrashes him while quoting German philosophy. That does sound annoying, Raven agrees. But she figures Sinister will find a way back from death.As she hugs Irene, she wonders how he did it the first time. Somewhat enigmatically, Irene tells her equally enigmatically. It’s something she never worked out.Raven recalls that, even when she was the great detective, her love was always better than her…Flashback:London 1895, Baker Street, 221b:A sharp-featured man in a deerstalker assures his client he will take the case. His assistant will accompany him out. The man is a genius, the client marvels on his way out. Wrong on all counts, Irene smiles as she accompanies him out. She turns back into the flat, where the sharp-featured man has change to his real form -- that of Raven Darkholme.Why are they going out in this awful weather this time? Irene demands. The game’s afoot, Raven replies. Surely, she has read the paper. Of course, she hasn’t read the paper! Irene huffs. Raven is wicked and cruel to mock a blind woman, and yes, she does love that. For that, Raven will have to do this one without tips.Raven explains the article about a series of East London murders, apparently not connected to Jack the Ripper. There has been one survivor, one Nathaniel Essex…And so, in a stormy night, the great detective and Irene Adler arrive at Milbury House. A pale and sickly-looking Nathaniel Essex answers the door. The detective wishes to speak with the master of the house. Essex introduces himself, adding he is alone with his work since the passing of his wife. He must miss her, the detective remarks. Essex replies, not anymore. He took steps to purge himself of such weaknesses. Regrets are for foreigners, lesser men and women. He only regrets his wasted years.He leads them into the living room, continuing that his work on the Essex-Factors would be much more advanced if he could be returned the years he wasted on fripperies like love. He coughs blood.Irene announces she is aware of his work and his Essex-factors. Lord Darwin said it was a monstrous misunderstanding of his work, and she agrees. Has he read Nietzsche? His talk of superior beings echoes him. His work also ended in madness. It is not too late to turn back.Essex sniffs, he doesn’t know what intrigues him more - that a blind woman claims to read or a woman claims to have sufficient mind to read him.The detective changes the subject to the attack Essex suffered. Essex replies curtly. He was walking and attacked from behind. The brute was disrobed, Essex survived. He can be of no further help to the great detective.Of course, Raven was suspicious but he looked like a man about to die of tuberculosis, too weak to be the killer.The two women leave. Irene offers Raven a clue, which she refuses.Instead, Raven walks the street as a prostitute, an arsenal hidden under her morphed petticoats. She hears a scream and morphs to her true form, rifle in hand. She met Essex earlier. Now she meets Mr. Sinister, a muscular, naked being with white skin, red eyes and a red diamond symbol on his forehead. He just smashed a man against a wall killing him. She looks interesting, he leers. He bets her blood would look super smashed against the wall. Raven grabs her elephant gun and fires. She bets his will, too! Oh yes, he grins, still standing. Abuse him like a French impressionist abuses paints!He crawls up the wall with inhuman speed. She follows over the rooftops, far enough to see that he heads to Milbury House, where Irene is already waiting for Raven. Raven tells her she found him all by herself. Well done, Irene replies.Raven, again in her male form, kicks in the door. Don’t look! a weak voice pleads from inside, as Sinister transforms back into a weakened Essex, who immediately lectures them that this is beyond their understanding. They look beyond the realms of daylight into the awful demimonde of life.Unimpressed, Raven interrupts his rant by displaying her shapeshifting ability. They are locals in the dark, she informs him, he is but a tourist. They are Essex-Men! he realizes Irene agrees and asks what is happening to him. I He should never have trusted the Egyptian, he sighs and tells his story.He tells them how an ancient Essex-Man came to him and gave him great power. Essex tried to escape him but, without the Egyptian’s tight leash, his gifts are running wild, killing him. The passions and joys he wanted to get rid of are there. Out doing things at night. He cannot live without what Apocalypse gave him, yet he cannot live like that! With what he did to him, Essex may not outlive this century. And he cannot die yet, he must be ready for the battles the future holds! The 20th century… the bonds of civility between civilized men will be over, he predicts. He sees war on a scale unimagined.Irene reveals he sees probable futures and fears he may be correct. She sees wonders and horrors. She sees some wonders on such a scale they may become horrors. But there is a way through. Good, Essex continues, he figures the following century will be the real trick. Then, by his math, Charles’ monsters will be upon them… Darwin? Irene asks. No, Babbage! he clarifies. Another idiot Charles! Will he never be free of annoying men called Charles? Irene fears not.She steers the topic back to Babbage, the engineer. The mechanical brain? she asks. Yes, he rants, and Byron’s daughter who tried to draw a map of mathematics to make it think. She is a genius, as is he, but the machines they are birthing… they will be grander geniuses! And those grander geniuses will create even grander geniuses and in time the gears of clockwork minds will crush them all! He has looked for escape, has divined the different routes. They must never forget that mankind is capable of great things. Even the fortunes of war she hints at suggest that much. What else could humanity do?He hears of plans to fire a manned bullet to the moon, and that holds promise. What can they find there waiting? He thinks, the science of the stars the Egyptian used on him… Perhaps there are worlds who have defeated the mechanical brains. Or tamed them somehow. They must consider all possibilities.There are men of science trying to touch the beyond. A path he has barely skirted. A golden dawn for reason and unreason - new alloys of thought. Science-tamed superstition? The machine-brains couldn’t handle that. And, of course, the Essex-men… he has to plan for the long game, despite his current predicament. The monster in him will be tamed and he will see the 20th century’s wonders. And the next, and the next and the next… Raven asks why he is telling them this. He replies, one day there will be war between people like them and people who aren’t people. They must be on the same side!Irene hits him and pronounces she will never be on the same side as men like him!A little later, they have brought him to Bedlam, in South London. They explain they are giving him a chance. He will stay here until the gifts from the Egyptian settle. He will be fed and watered and roll in his own soil until he is either better or dead, and no more will be murdered on the streets of London. Irene wishes him good luck. When next they meet, she hopes he is a better man.Alone, in his cell, in his straitjacket, Essex shouts he will live! Suddenly, he seems to see something in the distance. Transfixed, he begins to grin and rants: “red and black, red and black, red and black and red and black and…” Suddenly, he looks horrified, whispering “You’re a ghost,” several times.The next day, the great detective and Irene are told by a guard that he died in the night. The detective asks if a payment could make him claim Essex was released safely. He agrees, which means she swiftly kills him, because he isn’t trustworthy. Is he dead? she asks Irene, who crouches next to the body. That remains to be seen, she replies enigmatically.Raven wonders today how much Irene knew back then. Irene told her that Essex’s impact stretched to the future. That he was needed to reach the paradise on the hill on the horizon. Raven doesn’t know how Essex came back and she doesn’t know if Irene knows…In the past, Irene listens to a last recording of Essex talking about how Darwin was right. The solution is survival of the fittest. She walks down into a cellar, where there are four-man sized broken tubes. Whatever or whoever was inside has long escaped. Above each tube is a symbol of a card suit: spade, club, heart and diamond…


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The X Lives of Moira VI
KrakoaA session of the Quiet Council. Everyone is gathered, except for Mr. Sinister.Kate Pryde is musing to herself that everything is just normal, or as normal as things got since Judgment Day. Xavier still refuses to talk about Magneto. No one has any idea about why Kurt has grown horns and he isn’t telling. And she has no idea that in two minutes they’ll all be picking brain out of their hair.Xavier asks Storm about the situation on Arakko. They are hurt and proud and satisfied. She talks about the treaty with the Eternals: reparations and the keys to Uranos for an hour. Magneto’s death is a tragedy but it seems to have convinced them of the Krakoans’ sincerity. She may be optimistic, but she thinks they understand each other better now.Nothing wrong with a little optimism! Kurt chimes in. The Arakkii are looking at him differently, too. He thinks they realize immortality isn’t always cowardice.Shaw raises his glass to optimism.Kate agrees. They have won the Eternals war, and despite the Reykjavik near disaster and Orchis’ new role, she agrees.Not everyone does, though. Exodus sniffs that sharing the gift of immortality with the humans is an abomination.Kate has enough. Calling him “Mr. sulky pope,” she announces Jean running the Phoenix Foundation is good. It’s just a small fraction of resurrection, given to those who really deserve it. Kids in a coma after a car crash or landmine injury. Whatever your ethical calculus is, that’s good. If you have a soul rattling around your heart, it’s just a good thing to do. Who doesn’t want to save children? Even Emma, on her worst day, wants that. If you swapped your heart for a spreadsheet, it’s good optics. They do foreign aid. Shaw toasts to optics. And if you’re perverse, giving it to the poor instead the rich absolutely drives those bastards mad, she directly addresses Exodus.With a grin, Hope tells him to let it go. Didn’t he tell her about “JC” sharing his miracles with the lowly? Trying hard not to smile, Exodus sniffs he didn’t share his theology with her, so she could use it against him. Everybody laughs except for Destiny and Mystique, and Kate thinks to herself maybe this Quiet Council can really work.And then Mr. Sinister walks in. Emma wryly greets him and wants to address the subject of Dr. Stasis. Walking past Kate, he snarks let’s not talk about his crucial part in them all surviving Judgment Day. Let’s spend time chewing over an impostor. As if all of them haven’t had an evil version ruin their name before…When he comes closer to their side, Destiny addresses Exodus and announces Nathaniel is about to kill Hope.Just going for his gun, Sinister curses her. The next moment, Exodus telekinetically detonates Sinister’s head.Disgusted and covered with blood, Emma wonders if that was meant to be some kind of plan. A furious Hope kicks the corpse. Kate figures it wasn’t a surprise. Shaw has even been running a betting pool on how long it would be until Sinister would betray them badly enough to be thrown into the Pit. Sinister has always been the dumb kind of smart, but this? What’s going on? Kate wonders.Death of Moira Vi.1 Earlier:Destiny finds Sinister standing on a cliff and asks why he is so glum. They survived Judgment Day. And while their scheme didn’t work out as hoped, they worked well together. “Yes, yes, yes, we must be on the same side,” he quotes annoyed and sighs, then asks if she got judged. She replies she failed, for an assortment of mistakes. Him? He reveals the Progenitor didn’t judge him. Destiny calls him a monster and comfortingly adds that she will always be there to judge him. She tells him not to give up. As a parting shot, she wonders aloud if Dr. Stasis was judged.Sinister steps into his secret lab and seethes he has had enough The Dr. Stasis situation needs a permanent solution. He decides to erase the timeline and go back to before Magneto left the council, to Moira V. Perhaps even earlier to Moira I and take another route to…He recalls Destiny telling him not to give up. He really doesn’t want to go through Judgment Day again. The Progenitor had the power to stop his Moira engine. That was rude! Plus, he feels particularly judged not being judged. As if he’s not the most important person in existence. The gall!He decides that the first step is a success. He has his Moira engines, Hope’s on the Council… he sinks down and pet Cy-cat and Professor Plod. Let’s see if he can get the second stage up and running. He gives the order to prepare two Moira Engines.He uses Velocidad serum to speed-grow Moira VI, leaving Moira VII aside for now. He orders Cy-cat to take notes. Being a cat, it refuses, so Professor Plod, the turtle, has to do the job.For some reason, the clones wear down the more often they are cloned, so any individual clone has ten deaths at best. So, he has ten shots to murder the Quiet Council. He can make that work!The Machine announces Moira VI’s X-gene is activated and a safe point stored. As Sinister grabs a gun he asks for download information. With no information coming, he realizes he is the first iteration. He orders if his life signal is cut for five seconds, activate the Moira failsafe and kill the timeline. Well, here goes, he decides, A little later Destiny tattles and Exodus explodes his head.Death of Moira IV.1Moira VI.2:Sinister has learned that Destiny will interfere. One way to sidestep that. He has a bomb donate in the Council chamber, but Destiny has warned the rest of the Council beforehand then told them where to find Sinister. And before they can question him, Exodus again explodes his brain, leaving Kate to wonder what is going on.Death of Moira VI.2Moira VI.3:Everything is normal then Sinister comes in. Destiny shouts, he plans to kill her and Hope. Mystique immediately grabs him and proves he is carrying a weapon. Xavier sighs, this is a disappointment. But hardly a surprise, Emma adds. Hope borrows Exodus’ gift. Xavier doesn’t like that, causing Hope to hurl some insults at him before she enters Sinister’s brain. A failsafe makes sure his head explodes. What the hell is going on? Kate wonders.Death of Moira VI.3Moira VI.4:Sinister rages, and wonders if he can arrange for Destiny to be absent, then he begins to understand. If he avoids direct confrontation entirely, she just saves everyone. If he comes for Destiny, she’ll stop him before the plan can kick in at all, but if he goes for someone else, she gives a warning but late. Enough time for the plan to actually go into action. She wants to be above suspicion. “We must be on the same side,” he recalls. When this is over, he will come for her, he decides, but until then? Let’s dance!He attacks the Council wearing a battle armor and kills Exodus. Hope copies Storm’s power and fries him.Death of Moira VI.4Moira VI.5: Sinister enters the Council wearing battle armor and carrying a huge weapon and kills Exodus and Hope. With a sigh, Storm fries him.Death of MoiraVI.5Moira VI.6:Sinister enters the Council battle armor and carrying a giant gun that immediately starts fritzing out. He curses Celestial tech and then shoots himself with a smaller weapon.Death of Moira VI.6Moira VI.7:Suddenly, someone starts shooting Council members with a high-tech sniper rifle. Hope and Emma are hit. Exodus finds the shooter - Sinister - who swears “oh, for flip’s sake!” and shoots himself.Death of Moira VI.7Moira VI.8:Sinister announces he can clear his name if someone scans his mind. Xavier does so and his head explodes. Emma turns into her diamond form and pushes her fingers through Sinister’s eyes into his brain.Death of Moira VI.8Moira VI.9:A tentacled monstrosity covered with energy beam-blasting eyeballs attacks the Council. It kills half the Council. Mystique takes Destiny to safety, Kate phases and Exodus teleports himself and Hope away. The monster screams in frustration and explodes.Death of Moira VI.9Sinister’s master plan has changed. His order of killing is now Hope, Xavier, Exodus, Emma and he doesn’t really care about the rest. He figures Storm needs to be distracted and Shaw’s alcohol habit can be used…Moira VI.10Sinister is in his lab, standing over a board with pieces symbolizing the members of the Quiet Council. This is quite impossible! he rages. What does he think? he addresses the head of the Dark Beast, who demands he let him out and threatens to murder him. Unimpressed, Sinister tells him he isn’t even the darkest Beast anymore. One last try, and then he has to go back to Moira V and do Judgment Day again. And that is not happening! That was a lot of work. He tells himself to make a better plan. Be sneaky!The council is in a partying mood. Shaw has gotten a crate of cocktails which he was sharing with everyone (except for Hope who is a minor). Storm left for some Arakkii situation… some mercenaries causing trouble. Then Sinister comes in, announcing he wishes to clear his name. He has been accused by a psychic imprint from Scott. He will use one to prove his innocence. He asks the telepaths to examine the psychic signature in his head. Real psychics, not plagiarists like Hope, he adds, making sure that the contrary Hope of course borrows Exodus’ power and goes along with Emma, Exodus and Xavier.Connected to his brain is a battery of clone Xaiver brains, stunning the telepaths. A moment later, the brains send the order “telekinetic pulse, torso height.” The rest of the Council dive for cover but the paralyzed telepaths cannot. Hope and Exodus are indestructible, Xavier and Emma are killed.Flying Cyclops eyeballs with wings come flying in, wildly attacking the other Council members. Sinister puts a wafer into Exodus’ mouth made of Gambit’s cells, turning mass into energy and Leland’s, increasing mass. Exodus explodes from the inside.With Exodus dead, Hope no longer copies his gift and Sinister simply shoots her with a forcefield bullet based on Unus the Untouchable, which tears her apart.After ranting about how he brought them paradise, he announces he is nothing like Dr. Stasis, and they are nothing without him! He teleports away.Horrified Kurt points out that, without Hope, resurrection will no longer be possible. Colossus replies that there are contingencies. If they can bring her back, it will be fine. But if they can’t…What the hell was that man thinking? Shaw asks nonplussed. Don’t worry, she knows what’s going on, a blood-covered Kate announces. Someone is about to win Shaw’s betting pool.Destiny states she can find him. Good, Kate replies, taking charge. Then let’s dig him out of whatever hole he is hiding in and throw him into theirs…


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Hated and Feared
Sinister’s secret lab:Mr. Sinister is frantically trying to grow Moira clone VII with Velocidad speed growth. He needs a safepoint and needs to be out of here! He tries to convince himself that he can work with the current situation. Shaw can be played and Storm is always going to be a problem… He can handle it! He has to! He is not going back to bloody Judgment Day!The clone is activated, but there is no data waiting for him, meaning this is the first iteration of this Moira cycle. He hopes this will work. He could really do without being trapped in the Pit forever.He walks through a door.Charles Xavier thinks (though probably not now), wondering if people are suspicious of him. He hopes so. After all, he has done much to be suspicious of. It is one of his ways of protecting everyone. People should be suspicious of him.Cable and X-Force are in the ruins of the Grove, looking at the bodies of Hope, Exodus, Emma Frost and Xavier. Cable carefully lifts his daughter’s corpse. He carries her outside, where the rest of the Five and a huge crowd of mutants are waiting, as he brings the body to Arbor Magna.Xavier explains he is an idealist whom experience has taught to be practical. It’s hard to hold onto idealism when he knows what people really think about mutants, about him.They talk about Xavier’s dream. Not Xavier’s sensible and achievable policy or even Xavier’s five-year-plan. It’s a dream. He did not form the X-Men to fulfil the dream. He created them to ensure there was a world where the dream could come true. Yes, “sworn to protect a world that hates and fears them” but protect it from whom?The rest of the Five, the Stepford Cuckoos, Dr. Nemesis, Cable, Synch and Mimic have gathered in Arbor Magna. While the other members of the Five can be replaced, Hope (and whatever she brings to the resurrection process) was always unique. It is hoped that either of the power copiers can at least help to resurrect her by synching with Hope’s dead body. Mimic breaks under the pressure of expectation. He runs away, apologizing. Synch calmly announces he will do it. When he opens the body bag, Dr. Nemesis tells him he doesn’t have to do that. Synch explains it makes him feel closer… he needs to be as close to her as he can. When he sees the disfigured corpse, he decides they have to bring her back. They can’t leave her like this.Xaver thinks he is a father to many. In turn, he has had many fathers. They were each, in their own way, terrible. Even the monster who killed him had a hand in his upbringing, in a failed, foolish attempt to buy himself immortality.Scott and he share Sinister as a meddling foster parent. They never talked about it, which is so like them both.He wished not to become like any of his terrible fathers and succeeded. He became a terrible father in his own way. He tries to dream a world where terrible fathers are gone, but it is, of course, just a dream.The Five with Synch do their thing. Now they stand in front of an unmoving egg. A moment later, Hope bursts out.Cable covers her with a blanket and she asks what happened. Sinister, is Synch’s reply.A little later, Exodus, Emma and Charles are also resurrected.Does Sinister still breathe the same air as actual mutants? Exodus asks acidly. For now, Xaiver replies. The Council is leading the X-Men to him. Oh good, if they hurry, they can get a little revenge, Emma adds. It has such an ugly reputation, but sometimes it just hits the spot!“To me my X-Men.” See what that implies? They are his. So, he chose who to call.The X-Men, several X-Force members, Cable, Rogue, Forge, Angel and the other council members have reached a cordoned-off area in Alaska, which seems to consist of a huge hole in the ground.Cyclops gives the order to take Sinister alive if they can. The X-Men will take the lead, the Council members will stay behind for the time being. It may be a trap. Storm corrects him, it will be a trap. He agrees, and they will close it around his scrawny neck. Kate asks Destiny if she is sure he is here. Nightcrawler adds, the question is whether she is more or less sure than about the Celestial not exploding. Destiny calmy chides him for his sarcasm and explains Nathaniel has returned to an old lair to attempt an escape.Cyclops orders deployment. Kurt is the only council member to come along. As they jump downward, Jean Grey asks what this place is. She was dead at the time, Cyclops replies. Sinister has a city under Alaska. They destroyed it when they were the Phoenix Five.As they are about to land, he guesses they are going to do it again. They look at the remains of Sinister’s once proud city.Xavier thinks that, between his powers and Cerebro, he could have chosen anyone. The Morlocks? He left them in their tunnels. He ignored so many others who he couldn’t help, not yet.Sinister’s Shaw batteries are only 94 percent charged. While he waits, he deploys Cyclops/ Eye Boy chimeras at the X-Men to slow them down.Who did he choose? Bobby, an ocean of untapped talent. Beast, a mutant gift chained to a genius that exceeded Xavier’s. Warren, a mutant gift married to wealth that exceeded Xavier’s. Jean, a prodigy beyond imagining, and Scott who had already been carved into what a team so badly needs.Cyclops calls the council members when the chimeras attack. This has escalated. They need support. At last, Shaw smirks.Then later when he expanded the ranks: a goddess with the honed skill of a thief, a trained circus acrobat, a former Interpol agent and, of course, let us not forget the black ops killer. Even Kitty wasn’t the girl next door, unless the girl next door is a prodigious hacker.He gathered people to do a job: protect a world that hates and fears them. In what way do they do that? Mostly by fighting other mutants.The council members join the fray against more and different chimeras. Jean senses Mr. Sinister and sends Nightcrawler to those coordinates, only to find a decoy brain.Shaw batteries are loaded 98 percent. He sends out the Proteuses.Xavier had a son who could have destroyed the world with a runaway thought. Moira’s son was a serial killer who could carve reality. When Jean Grey lost control, a planet burned. And these are the weaknesses of character and fortune, not actively planned malice. He has looked at Sinister across the Quiet Council and shuddered thinking what he would choose to do if he had complete reign, and how he wished they hadn’t needed him to make their paradise.Finally, the Shaw batteries are fully loaded, and Sinister’s flight is ready for launch. Running to his plane Sinister shouts,Krakoa wasn’t made by them. It was made by him! Moira, Magneto! Other people whose name doesn’t start with an M. Apocalypse! His fancy name kind of looks like an M if you squint. As the plane starts, he shouts, every time they cheat death, say a prayer to Mr. Sinister!Xaiver thinks this is the awful truth. When a child comes out to bigoted parents, it destroys lives. When Magneto came out as a mutant, he killed a whole town in his grief. Being a mutant shares traits with other persecuted groups, but it is different in one way: they are dangerous!Nearby Hope, Exodus, Emma and Xavier calmly stand. Hope takes Exodus’ hand and borrows his power. Together, their telekinesis brings down the jet. The four walk calmly toward Sinister, who sits in the rubble.Mutants are dangerous. Humans are right to be frightened. Imagine asking those who Magneto tore apart in his grief for little Anna, whether mutants should be feared. He believes there were mutant corpses in that town too.They hurt their own. They hurt everyone. If there isn’t someone to stop that. The X-Men are born of fear of their worst potential and are a first line of defense, ensuring they do not kill themselves. It has worked but there is one key question that should be asked: Why was he so worried about the potential of mutants with grandiose powers. He has a mirror. He looked in it.Mr. Sinister orders his clone army to attack them. Xavier telepathically makes them kill each other. Emma kicks Sinister in the face. Xavier calmly informs him he doesn’t need Irene’s gift to guess what happens next…Xavier thinks, he often thinks how lucky it is that he was given his gifts and Erik the gift of magnetism. If their places were switched, and Erik had had hid gifts when he was at hist worst, there would be no humanity today. If he wanted to, he could place a psychic trigger in every mind within a decade perhaps. One day, he could have made them all kill themselves. And that’s if he saw the world as Erik did then. Imagine if he was simply corrupt!Cable leads Sinister past a jeering, furious crowd to the Grove. He is thrown to the ground in the center. Emma walks towards him.Xavier thinks Emma believes he is manipulating the Council, and she is right, but she also knows he could have done so in a far more brutal direct and immoral way. As could she. The entire world could follow their whims, and sometimes he wonders whether he is wrong not to do that.He has a secret. There will never be a nuclear war. If the Doomsday Clock ever reached midnight, all those war mongers’ hands would hover above the red button and find themselves incapable of pressing it. If one tried to bypass that, those who are trained to fire the missile would also stop in their tracks. He put a psychic block there to save the world from themselves. Like he did the X-Men.Kakoa’s tentacles grab the screaming Sinister and drag him into the Pit.Emma wishes they had an even harsher punishment for Sinister. Xaiver retorts that is beneath them. He was a sickness and his presence made them unwell too. This is a wake-up call. They must be better in the future. They cannot act like they have. A useful monster is still a monster. Sinister is gone. Let them make a better, kinder Krakoa. Kurt happily agrees.The Council breaks up and Destiny tells Mystique they need to leave immediately.Xavier enters his quarters and thinks to himself, people should be afraid of him. Mutants have been victims, but he is not. He has never been a victim. He chooses to let them persecute him, because the alternative would be the death of them all. He is a martyr. So he makes people suspicious of him, so they are watching him, in case he turns to even shadowier paths. He hopes he has succeeded. He is far from a perfect person, but they should all wake up every morning and be grateful that his power and skills are not in the hand of one who is even slightly worse than him…Xavier takes off the Cerebro helmet and look into a mirror. He smirks at the red diamond on his forehead…It would be a disaster neither species could survive…


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Thirst Things First
Orchis Safe Site XII:Selene surprises a group of armed and armored Orchis agents. Shaw had asked her to investigate what happened to his men on Krakoa. She made him say “please.”They all ran, rather than spend another second on the island, she purrs. That seems rather strange - not like professional murderers at all. She walks up to one of them seductively and begins to caress his face. Instead of using telepathy, though, she drains his life essence and with it his memories.When the others attack, she absorbs them as well, considering them little more than a snack.Once she is done, an annoyed Shaw joins her and asks if she had to kill all of them. No, she didn’t, she replies, but she thought if she wasn’t meant to eat people, they would be less delicious. That was the problem with his little island, she lectures him. Thinking a mutant law was enough to wrap them all in. She doesn’t want to live in a happy paradise. She doesn’t want to be freed from her oh-so-terrible curse. She wants to eat people!Unimpressed (or at least pretending to be), Shaw retorts that he bets her act got yawns even back in Carthage. What’s going on? No fingerprints or psychic tampering she can see, Selene reports. In other words: someone who is very good indeed. Xavier, Shaw announces and decides that is good. Xavier they can deal with.Soon, they are back on Shaw’s ship, some distance away from Krakoa. Stark Sentinels hover in the air around the island. Shaw activates psi-blockers and asks Selene to test them. Selene orders the men to throw themselves into the water and forget to breathe. Since they don’t, they assume Shaw’s blockers work. Where did he get them from? Selene asks. Shaw replies that he built them. In disbelief, she scoffs, when was the last time he built something? He built Krakoa! Shaw grandstands, and now he is going to sell it for parts! No room for sentiment in business. Krakoa is a grave. Someone has to rob it. Who is grandstanding now? she laughs.Selene turns to the agents and warns them to secure the External Gate for her. Those bones are of her fraternity; secure it for the glory of Selene. Shaw adds the warning that Xavier is on the island and has some telekinetic powers now. Try not to kill him.As the men leave, Selene observes that she is not sure whether not killing mutants is Orchis’ position. Shaw claims that Xavier’s brain is a resource. Is money all he thinks about? she sighs. Shaw retorts that she is the telepath. She knows what else he is thinking about. With a grin, she agrees, and agrees that she does look fantastic!Selene thinks of Xavier suffering dramatically on his island, very Ozymandias, king of kings. She wonders if she should burst his bubble and tell him this wasn’t an Orchis plot. The mutants were meant to end up on Mars.Where the lost mutants are is an unknown place, an endless desert. They stand looking up on a cliffside to Exodus, who is using his telekinesis to create rain. He strains but succeeds and they gather the water. He instructs them to drink, but not too much. They have a long march ahead to the promised land.Some mutants exclaim that it’s a miracle. Destiny glumly points out that it is water vapor gathered from miles around. Hope retorts, they are drinking in a desert. It feels like a miracle to her. She asks Exodus how long he can keep this up. He replies that he and Hope can take turns, as she can copy his gift. They will carry each other, as Hope carries the ungrateful Destiny. They will survive until the promised land.Has he really had a vision of the promised land? Destiny asks pointedly. Exodus isn’t sure, but that is the nature of faith. Destiny groans and Hope points out, they have to give the people something! Everyone needs hope. She muses that her name makes things difficult or egotistical. Exodus replies that her name is important as the messiah. They cannot forget what it means or forget her. They abandon her or what her name represents, and they have nothing!Destiny writes down the situation in her journal.They barely have water and the little they have they owe to thanks to Exodus and Hope, no food except what a few mutants can generate, no shelter.Not all who went through the gates are here, including the rest of the Five. Hope and Exodus do telepathic forays at night.Evening time:A tree-like mutant named Phil made a jar of glucose and asks his friend Kafka, a young black boy with wings, if he wants to march with him. Kafka replies he is on patrol – meaning he will fly wobbly a few hundred meters at a time and look out for “monsters.”Kafka flies off, not convinced of the presence of any threats or anything at all. He is in for a surprise when he sees what looks like a feral Wolverine, attacking an injured Mother Righteous. Panicked, he flies back to the camp, shouting he is coming for them. He lands hard in front of Hope and Exodus and, moments later, several feral Wolverines are attacking.This is a time of testing, Exodus decides and Hope replies, then *#$% pass! Exodus telekinetically lifts the Wolverines in the air and detonates them. Regenerate from that! Hope gloats. Nice work!Nice work? Kafka protests. They are dying out here! They are not made for this! He can barely fly! He got stabbed a bit! he babbles, then realizes he is standing up to an eight-foot-angel. Don’t pop him! he pleads. Exodus tells him mildly, he only pops beasts, not mutants.She is glad he didn’t. She owes this little fella, comes a new voice, that of Mother Righteous. She explains that, if not for Kafka’s distraction, Wolverine would have gotten through her shield. Her magic isn’t working great, wherever they are. Good to see friendly faces. She saw the lights in the distance and was heading this way, when he jumped at her like a killer rabbit. Recognizing the accent, Destiny asks if it is Mother Righteous. The one and only, Mother Righteous replies and observes Destiny is looking a bit wobbly. Destiny replies she cannot see from here. But, even before, Mother Righteous was always a hole, a gap…. She has a huge secret.She is right, Mother Righteous admits, before revealing she is a mutant. She heard the voice of baldy and walked through the nearest portal. Now she is wherever this is.Hope announces that the other four members of The Five went through the portal with them. They must be somewhere out there and they can’t find them. Suspicious, Exodus asks why they didn’t know she was a mutant. Mother Righteous points out that she’s seen how they treated the Scarlet Witch. She is a witch and as scarlet as it gets. And her mutant bit has never been a big part of her. She learned magic on her lonesome - her mutant gift never did much and was not reliable.Destiny asks Hope to see what her gift is. Hope scans Mother Righteous and finds that her gift is diffuse, like Legion’s gift, just microscopic. Many gifts, none of them solid. Maybe she has huge potential? she suggests. That would be nice, Mother Righteous simpers. A British working-class girl done good. She could be Margaret Thatcher, except not evil.Exodus welcomes her and offers to seal her wounds, then she can join their march. She suggests they do it at her place. It’s been pretty lonesome - a whole city just for her. Or they could go to wherever their base is. Where is their city anyway?Nighttime, and Selene and Shaw have sent another team to Krakoa, this time equipped with anti-psionics.For Selene, this is about the External Gate, which Apocalypse magically created by killing and transforming her fellow Externals. Her goal is to free them. While they will owe her, she also does it for sentimental reasons. Across twenty thousand years, the few faces who stick around get feelings attached.When Xavier realizes the men are protected against his telepathy, he reveals his recently developed telekinesis. A little later, the men lie dead and torn apart on the ground.Back on Krakoa:Xavier sits back on the beach. No more, he vows.Elsewhere:Mother Righteous leads the mutants to her “city,” the verdant growing Atlantic Krakoa. Happily, they all walk there, though Exodus, despite his smiles, believes this doesn’t’ mean the test is over. An oasis is of the desert. And the desert is a place of testing and revelation. As in finding out where they are and how to get home? Hope suggests. Roll on the testing! Logan stabbed her once, back when the Avengers and X-Men were at war. It was awful but she handled it then and she can handle it again!Exodus warns her to be careful. The testing has barely begun. The Logans are dogs, but far from the greatest threat. She shouldn’t forget, the desert is also the home of Satan!And somewhere a Wolverine joins his master - Apocalypse who is holding another chained prisoner – Jean Grey…


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The Island of Dr Xavier
Krakoa: empty except for one man, Charles Xavier, who stares into the sunset.On a perimeter around the island is an Orchis vessel, commanded by Sebastian Shaw and Selene, who watch Krakoa via an orbital Stark Sentinel.Shaw orders it to focus on the External Gate. Shaw orders a zoom, then he sees the slaughtered bodies of his men and realizes they pushed Xavier too far.Back at Shaw Industries, Selene follows Shaw into a vault. When she asks what this is, he explains this is where he keeps his most precious belongings. His collection of vintage pornography? she deadpans. Even more precious, he replies. For example, this precious thing. Here, in case he needs it. He puts a small vial into one of the safes and hopes he will never have need of it. Today he has this! He shows her his Hellfire Armor. A suit similar to the Iron Man armor, with Victorian ornaments. Designed by him, he preens. Commissioned and prepared for when he’d need it.Selene is somewhat impressed but doesn’t understand why they don’t simply send in the Stark Sentinels. Climbing into the suit, Shaw retorts that’s what Orchis wants. But Krakoa is his to exploit. He is not going to lose anything of value in the process of squashing a bug like Xavier!Hellfire Armor, Selene muses. Bit embarrassing, when he is no longer the Black King. He sees things are back to normal, Shaw snarks. Working with people he despises. He misses the Krakoan Age already. Now let’s kill this fallen saint, so he can get back to exploiting it for a truly grotesque amount of money!Xavier is still waiting, when Shaw in his armor fires missiles at him. Xavier runs.Somewhere else, someone (who looks like Apocalypse but is not) watches the missing Krakoans planting food in their small oasis and anticipates a time of testing.On one of their forays into the desert, Exodus and Hope find Egg being captured by versions of Bishop. He can’t die again! Egg shouts unhappily. Exodus swoops down to carry him away but gets jumped by a feral Wolverine. Hope copies his claws and kills him. Horrified, she recalls the look in his eyes being exactly like when he came for her.Egg is somewhat impatient, while Exodus shields them from the evil Bishops’ attack. Hope mutters this is all so weird - and Bishop’s trying to kill her again. Her nightmares are bad enough without crossing over into real life, but good news: Egg is the last of the Five. The eternal life gang is back together!Exodus telekinetically carries them back to the Krakoan oasis, where they have made their home.Having spent 107 days in the desert by now, they have water from they don’t know where. They have begun planting food and shored up their defense. But Hope’s and Exodus’s forays have shown an endless desert around them.With the Five complete, they turn back to resurrection. While they have no Cerebro, Mother Righteous believes she can get the dead’s essences from the Waiting Room. She tries with a magical dance and, indeed, the Five’s resurrection goes right with her help.Afterwards, Hope thanks Mother Righteous. She shows them a holographic image and explains there is another missing mutant. Destiny warns them it is a mistake to trust Mother Righteous. She is hiding more than her mutant nature. Exodus cuts her off and acidly reminds her that Mother Righteous has returned the Five to them, and therefore immortality. She is useful. Cruelly, he reminds her that Mother Righteous’s visions are true, while Destiny has none. What use is she to them? She is proving her use by warning them! Destiny shouts back.Hope sensibly points out that she is asking a lot. It would be easier if she allowed them to read her mind. Destiny refuses: trust her or don’t trust her. She knows things that would burn the skin from their bones and tear the sky asunder. It would endanger everything if they looked into her mind. She repeats her warning: Mother Righteous isn’t what she seems.Exodus apologizes for his harshness and urges her to have faith. Her visions have abandoned her. They will not. Hope promises they will be careful while they are away. Watch Mother Righteous. Not literally… but you know.Unhappily, Destiny replies that she needs to know what happened to her wife. They don’t know what it’s like. Hope promises her they will get out. And while they are gone, Destiny has to be the council. They take off.The despondent Destiny is disturbed by Kafka and Phil. They explain that the tubers they are trying to grow look all peaky. What should they do? Tend to them. Love them, she explains. You should cherish that which gives you life. You should cherish what you cannot live without.Krakoa:In his battle suit, Shaw informs Selene he is going to drive Xavier to her, as he chases him with firing explosives. While arguing with Shaw over psychic blockers, Selene animates wood and fires dozens of splinters at Xavier. Shaw adds more explosives.Xavier mentally reaches out for Emma Frost and asks what Shaw wants. Are they talking again? Emma demands. Xavier retorts that things are somewhat pressing. Emma sends a telepathic infodump. Xavier learns Wilson Fisk has stolen control of the Hellfire Club. Despite the psychic blockers, Xavier manages to contact Shaw and tells him he has just harvested the passwords for a dozen key Hellfire accounts. Shaw can use them to take back control of the Hellfire Club. It’s a battle, but he can win, if he acts now. He tells him to recover his club. Krakoa will still be here, when he is done.In the meantime, Selene almost squeezes the life out of him with animated tentacles. Shaw shouts at her, Xavier got through his psi-shield. He then takes her out.Shaw tells Xavier that Selene just wants the External Gate. Let them have that and he will keep her off the island, until he is done with Fisk. He demands the passwords and Xavier gives them to him. As Shaw carries Selene away, he remarks somewhat disgusted that Xavier always was a manipulative bastard, but murderous him is something else. He thinks even Selene quivered when she saw the bodies. Taken aback, Xavier bursts out, he doesn’t understand - he hasn’t killed anybody.Elsewhere, in the desert, Hope and Exodus reach the location Mother Righteous gave them, where to their surprise they see Jean Grey lying in the sand. Jean doesn’t even notice them. She is out of it, her mind elsewhere, as she mumbles about Scott not surviving the Phoenix.Hope carefully touches her and wonders what they are missing. Their Satan, comes another voice, as Apocalypse rises from the sands. Facing him, Exodus exclaims that prideful grandiosity was always on Apocalypse’s list of sins. Hitting him, Apocalypse replies he is who Exodus says he is. Here that is true. They are in Exodus’ desert. Hope telepathically asks what he is on about. Exodus explains he had visions of this place long ago. And he is right! He thinks of Apocalypse as his devil! Hope realizes the horrors that they face: Logan as he killed her. Bishop as he hunted her. Now Apocalypse – Exodus’ Satan in his desert!Revelation awaits, Apocalypse calls to her. Is she ready? Hope decides that she is going to read Jean’s mind. She does and is pushed out. Hope announces she is okay; Jean isn’t. Her mind is on fire! So hot. Beyond hot! She knows where they are. But she doesn’t know what it means. What is the White Hot Room?In the meantime, Xavier is on a quest for revelation and all its consequences of his own. He follows his footsteps to a cave and finds a lab. An ape with Cyclops’ visor points him further.He looks into a mirror and sees a red diamond painted in a position of his reflection’s brow. “Don’t kill yourself, please,” is written below.