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The war ended. The president came. The mutants were offered the Cure and most of them took it. Only twenty mutants remain who want to stay mutants. Twenty to forge a new community, a new nation and identity…
A bus, flanked by military cars and brings them to their new home - a piece of desert in southwestern Utah. It’s all theirs, a soldier announces and hands Kitty a paper to sign. It’s her deed, he explains. They’ll own the place – roughly eighteen miles in all directions. The government used to maintain this place. Some sort of Hoover era testing grounds. They can’t even get the mountain goats to survive here now. If the lack of water doesn’t kill them, the alkali in the soil does.
Fantastic, Kitty remarks. The soldier continues he thinks they are getting a bad deal. He’d follow Captain America to hell and back if he asked him, but no way would he settle out here!
It’s the deal they gave them, Kitty replies curtly. Anything else? The soldier explains this is now sovereign land and no longer part of the United States in any legal or practical way. The laws of the land do not apply and they are no longer American citizens. That means they have to stay inside their own borders. Come outside and they are considered criminals. Around here, that typically means you get shot at.
About nine miles away is an army base. It’s a training facility. Captain America has personally instructed them to respond and provide assistance if their safety or sovereignty is in any way threatened. They will all be issued identity cards. They have to carry them with them all the time. About two miles roughly northwest of here are limited plumbing and electrical hook-ups. FEMA will be delivering basic shelters to that location by noon today. Here’s her receipt. He’s seriously giving her a receipt? Kitty asks. Why not? he shrugs, it’s all theirs now. He has nothing against them all. Good luck.
The soldiers leave. Garbage, Blackheath, a young man with green dreadlocks announces as he sifts through the soil. Not fit for man or beast. Or for much anything, really. Essentially toxic, this soil is.
Who taught her how to negotiate? Mach Two mocks. She had the ear of the president and this is what she got them? She get them their freedom, Kitty retorts. Jimmy reminds them all they don’t have a choice. Don’t focus on the negative. They can make this work.
If they are so free why is Kitty automatically in charge? Nomi asks and demands a vote. Warpath agrees. Nomi continues the start of a brand new nation deserves a new leader. Of the people, by the people, right? She came out of the same tunnels Kitty did. Kitty’s not that special. They don’t have to stay here. They can demand better land. They fought down an army of Sentinels.
Kitty Pryde fought the Sentinels, Rogue corrects her and orders her to show some respect. Nomi came late to this show. Kitty rallied them into an army. She brought back the head of a Nimrod and took down the Stryker-bot. As she recalls, most of what Nomi did in the tunnels was watch YouTube videos and talk about boys and complain in general.
Is she still hearing voices? Nomi challenges her. Still tweaked in the head? Still thinks she’s seeing ghosts? No, Rogue replies calmly, not anymore. Everything’s really clear these days.
Jimmy whispers that Kitty needs to shut Nomi down. She’s a kid. Most of them are, she replies and tells everyone to listen up. The deal’s been done. There’s no chance at demanding anything else. She takes their president at his word – this is was the best he could do for them right now. So this is their home, but before they let that get them down, think about it. This. Is. Their. Home. When was the last time they could truly say that about any place they lived in? They all had hideouts, squats, hospitals, camps, the street. Now they can build something permanent. Something that belongs to them. They can build that. But Mach Two’s right. They should vote who leads them. Vote for Mach Two and follow her back out into the hateful world the all just fought to escape. See how far that gets them. Or stay here with her and they’ll show the world they are not to be underestimated.
Blackheath, Warpath, Psylocke, Shola and Mach Two herself vote for Mach Two. Iceman, Storm, Armor, Black Box, Micromax, Magma, Jimmy, Rogue and Zero vote for Kitty while Kitty herself abstains.
Zero interrupts the discussion, wanting to show them something. Sam called this land garbage but it’s actually quite beautiful. Very dense, molecularly speaking. Lots going on. He can work with this nicely. When he was in the camp, he would never dream his abilities. He was to feel ashamed. He has Kitty to thank for saving him from that self-destructive mindset. He was once an artist. The path forward is obvious. Kitty Pryde has earned his respect and so his vote. By his count, that means she wins.
As the others begin to walk Warpath tells the sulking Mach Two that she should learn a lesson here. Actions lead to popularity and popularity to power. Kitty earned her votes. Doesn’t matter that she’s wrong. So stop pouting and think about the future. And make sure her next move sticks.
As they walk to the settlements in the glaring sun, Kitty asks Rogue if Nomi got to her with what she said. Rogue tells her she has thicker skin than that. Especially when the insults come from fourteen year old girls. Truth is, she feels pretty great. She feels like herself. Whatever was twisting her up inside is gone. She feels healed. She loves this feeling and that’s part of why she feels so sad at the same time.
Quentin? Kitty asks. He’s a dork, Rogue replies. That stupid hair and hipster pants. But he healed her. He did it like it was nothing, a snap of the fingers. And she could really touch him. TMI, Kitty tells her. Rogue reminds her she is untouchable all the time. And then the one guy, the one exception to the biggest curse of her life opts for the Cure and now he is gone too. Why does a guy with powers like that want to give them up? Kitty hugs her.
Sam complains he will wilt in the heat. All he had to do was ask, Storm replies and creates a rainfall. Not bad, Sam admits. They should get together and compare notes. They could do wonders for the place. Jimmy laughs. They stick them in the salt flats and they give it its first proper rainfall in a millennium. This is amazing! he remarks and kisses Kitty on the cheek.
The sight of the camp quickly shuts them up. Twenty metal shipping containers. To call them shelters is pretty insulting. The mutants get to work organizing them into something resembling a community. Utopia, Blackheath sneers and the name sticks. They have water pumps and Storm can bring down more when the conditions permit. Nomi’s people claim a block of trailers to themselves. They have water and shelter but no food. And they are weeks away from growing any. Fury sends them a Stark Industries aid package with food and a special small case for Kitty. Inside, Kitty finds a gun and note by Fury: From one freedom fighter to another: The war never really ends. Keep this secure and keep yourself alive. With respect, Fury.
Later, Kitty, Storm, Zero and Blackheath discuss the soil situation. Zero tells them the soil is dead, toxic to plant life. Nothing will ever grow here, as it stands. It’s clear this land was used in the past as a military fighting range. All sorts of trace particles. He can fix that. Shift molecules, he can remove the offending matter. Can they use what he removes? Kitty asks. Probably, he tells her. The dirt isn’t too great, even after it’s cleaned up. Pretty arid, but sandy. But if they cultivate small areas at a time they’ll get there.
Blackheath announces they need a greenhouse and steady water. That’s Storm’s job. Kitty tells them there was plastic in the crate from Stark. They can probably assemble a shelter to make what they need.
Zero suggests they need to do a proper survey. He’s picking up all sorts of ground contaminants… lead, uranium, PCBs. All trace, but there are sure to be hotspots Kitty asks him to keep that between them until they know what’s going on. She’ll send Jimmy out with him, to do the survey quietly. They can’t risk more dissension.
Later at night in Mach Two’s trailer:
Blackheath tells all of that to Mach Two. He asks her what her power is. He may be linking his fortune to some wee girl whose power may be to sprout interestingly colored patches of hair. Look outside, she tells him. He opens the door to see the caravan is floating high up in the air. If it’s metal, she can move it, she explains. So, are they cool now?
Sam tells her to officially consider him in her camp. His eyes and ears are her eyes and ears. But why Mach Two? What does that have to do with metal? Maybe it’s just the name of this shade of blue hair color, she replies nastily, or maybe she has more than one trick up her sleeve…
Evening outside: Kitty shows Bobby and Jimmy how she has divided their land into a grid. She needs them and Zero to cover it as quickly as they can. She doesn’t know what he is looking for… soil samples, contaminants, stuff like that. But what she needs from them is a thorough survey. She needs to know what they have here. She needs to know what their borders look like and if the government is monitoring them or has installed listening devices and motion detectors.
Jimmy wishes they hadn’t disarmed the mutants or maybe this is the reason, Kitty wants this done at night, and only tell her. Jimmy calls her paranoid. He would be too if a significant minority of people tried to vote him to the sidelines.
Magma is freezing. She turns to her lava form and starts a fire. She suggests they celebrate. Kitty silently decides to destroy the handgun the next day, figuring violence shouldn’t be part of their system. Psylocke reads her mind and tells Nomi to have Warpath search Kitty’s trailer.
From high above, a flying, armored being named Farbird observes them and contacts the SEAR. Her mistress asks if she can land nearby. Farbird reminds her she cannot land and that she will stay on station as long as required. Karen Grant, mistress of SEAR, thanks her and instructs Farbird to keep her updated. She wants to know exactly what Kitty Pryde is doing there…


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Valerie Cooper, special liaison to the president on superhuman and mutant affairs, returns to the White House. One man praises her job at the press conference. She tells him to shut up. She sees an angry Nick Fury storming out of the Oval Office. Val smirks, remarking she hopes he isn’t pissed about those budget cuts she suggested for his department. He doubts it, the Secret Service agent guarding the door informs her: At least not at the moment. She better see for herself.
She enters the office to see the president’s guest, one Pietro Lensherr aka Quicksilver. He is barely bigger than his file, she announces as he tries to kiss her hand, after which she asks how come this terrorist didn’t end up riddled with bullets the second he stepped onto the White House lawn.
“Please, Valerie”, Quicksilver begins. Miss Cooper, she corrects him. If the men were to fire on him, he could be to South Africa and back before the bullet could reach the intended target, any number of times.
She threatens that this place has other defenses. It has ever since his father attacked it. And he is here to add to them, Pietro claims smoothly. As he was telling the president the events of the last twenty-four hours have left them all a bit shaken. Learning that their government was the driving force behind the creation of mutants, well, he simply couldn’t believe it, and he immediate thought of the president and the threats to this great office that would no doubt soon emerge. The angry, perhaps militant responses from other nations. The riots. Perhaps most frightening, the possibility of mutants themselves seeking retribution. And that’s not even to mention the political implications…
Val interrupts him: the mix of veiled threats and smug condescension is great, really, but how about getting to the meat of the conversation? He has the leader of the free world’s ear, now try hers.
Of course, Pietro agrees smoothly. She is a very important woman. He hardly wishes to waste her time. His point is, all these new threats come from all sides. And so many! Their security measures are defensive in nature. If only the technology existed to help them track and identify those threats as they emerge. To empower them to act proactively and decisively! Does she know what a Cerebro is?
In Times Square, Stryker addresses his people. They used to come down here on Saturdays after dark, he reminisces. Always full of tourists but she loved the sights… One of his men announces the snipers are in position.
All over the US, citizens are in an uproar, plundering protesting, fighting the police. Let’s take our country back! Stryker announces.
Kitty, Iceman and Johnny have led Rogue to their hideout, the Morlock Tunnels beneath Manhattan. Kitty refuses to listen to Rogue. God didn’t tell her anything, she insists. Rogue is post-traumatic or something. It was bound to happen with all that went down this year!
Rogue appeals to Bobby, who refuses to get involved. Kitty tells her she can stay until they figure out how to get her help or something. In the meantime, try to sleep off the crazy.
Suddenly, they  hear a noise and Kitty orders Johnny to make light. After he flames on, they find a little African American boy, who asks if they are the Morlocks. How did he get here? Kitty asks. His friend said the Morlocks live here. Is that them? Secret hideout, Johnny mocks. Kitty still wants to know how the boy got here. Behind the boy, a giant barbed slug rises defensively, scaring them back. The boy apologizes. That’s his brother Joshua. He won’t hurt them. So, are they Morlocks? Not exactly, Kitty replies. Well, whoever they are, can they help his friend Jimmy? He points towards an injured Jimmy Hudson lying in the dark. Jimmy almost died saving him and Joshua…
Narration.:
The boy tells them how they were all imprisoned in cages. So was Jimmy. He clawed his way out and freed the other youngsters. He fought the armed guards and kicked in the door to freedom.
They ran into the courtyard, but the other soldiers noticed and fired at them. Many of the kids died and Jimmy was shot too. He grabbed the two boys and jumped into the water with them. The boy dragged the unconscious Jimmy ashore.
Present:
Jimmy awakes with a scream. Oh good, he can have his bed back, Johnny remarks. Not now, Kitty chides him. Jimmy recognizes her. He tries to get up and stumbles. Bobby tries to support him. Where is he? Jimmy asks. They tell him not to worry and ask what happened. Jimmy asks for the kid who is asleep with his brother. Jimmy insists they go back for the others.
Johnny points out that he lost a lot of blood and probably shouldn’t go anywhere. He’s gonna kill them! Jimmy shouts and explains he has a bunch of mutants in cages. He said he was gonna kill them. He wants the world to watch. Jimmy begs them to come. They haven’t got much time.
Who is doing this? Kitty asks. Mean bastard, Jimmy explains. Looked like a Sentinel with skin. Said his name was Stryker.
Elsewhere, Stryker orders his men to fire at the cops. As officer after officer fall to snipers, explosions level Times Square. The chaos subsides, Stryker steps out into the conflagration. ”O Babylon the great, how you have fallen…” he begins to quote. “Your sins are so many.” He climbs upon an upturned car. “And you have strayed so far from the truth. Now heed the word of the Lord…”


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New York City, the day of Magneto’s attack:
William Stryker dives downward into his apartment, looking for his family. He finds his wife and son drowned.
Later, he preaches, gets his hands on Sentinel tech and creates Sentinel suits for himself and his followers for attacking the X-Men. When he does, Rogue fights back viciously.
Stryker alone manages to flee and sinks down to his knees in the forest. “Oh, for God’s sake!” he hears a voice and turns around. “Get up, boy!” his father, Admiral Stryker, orders him. He tells his son he looks like he’s seen better days. William babbles that they killed John, killed Kate, took everything! That right? his father asks. William hugs his father’s leg. He doesn’t know what to do… They’re gone, it hurts too much… Please tell him what to do!
What should he do? His father asks disgusted and slaps him. Man up, soldier! He kicks him in the stomach. He almost had him impressed for a second. Getting together with them other fellas, putting on that armor, taking the fight to this place. He thought to himself: “Hell, there’s that son of mine.” Look at him now. Some little girl punched him back and he comes crying home. Surprised they didn’t send his mother, so he could get his damn feeding.
“What do you do?” He finds their wives, their sons and daughters, and gives them some of what they gave him! And then some! Damn shame he ain’t got the spine to lay down something like that, right? But don’t worry, God sent him here with a mission and he aims to follow his instructions to the letter. No, don’t worry one bit, Willy-boy. He’ll make a man of him yet!
And as Stryker lashes himself with his father sitting in a chair watching, one of Stryker’s men calls him, announcing they are ready.  He announces they are all real exited to hear him speak. Some of the folk here are like him… lost loved ones in the flood. But then Strkyer and those other men hitting the Xavier school the same night… it was inspiring the groups to get back.
How many are they? Stryker asks. Most places saw a big increase after the last election and a bigger one after Magneto’s attack. Total membership these days is around four hundred. But he’d say only about two hundred are real believers. They’ve got all the families living at the compound and you’d rather give some of the wives the guns. It’s complicated.
Stryker asks about the arms situation. They protect their arms pretty damn well, he is told. Got plenty of guys with all the way clean records.  Some good chemists too. He can take Stryker over to see the armory after the sermon, if he wants. But they have heard rumors about Abilene. The miracle. Is it true? That he can heal them? Stryker asks. Yes, it’s true, but songs and wonders are not what matters.
The Present:
Standing amidst the conflagration on Times Square, Stryker announces that He has called him to a higher purpose than that!
The White House:
An incredulous Valerie Cooper asks Quicksilver if he is trying to sell them arms. He doesn’t want to sell them anything, he clarifies. He was offering it as a gift. She’s sure that doesn’t come with any strings attached, Val mocks. Is she questioning his integrity? he smiles. If she could confirm its existence, Val shoots back.
She reminds the president they don’t need Cerebro. SHIELD has its own mutant tracking technology. Pietro points out it’s horrendously outdated and obviously quite useless, given this government’s complete inability to locate most of them. They are talking about finding needles in haystacks, Val points out. Invisible, telepathic needles. Which is precisely what his technology can empower them to do, Pietro replies smugly. His Cerebra upgrade provides comprehensive global coverage.
They are interrupted by a White House employee bursting in to inform the president about what’s going on at Times Square. Val suggests they reschedule with Quicksilver while Pietro points out this is exactly the time for this discussion to take place. The president orders him to stay.
Philip, the employee, explains that six minutes ago snipers took out every cop and National Guardsman working downtown. Then a series of bombings all down Broadway between Forty and Forty-fifth! And before the glass has even hit the ground William Stryker Jr. steps up on top of a NYPD van and starts rallying what’s left of the crowd!
In Times Square, Stryker shouts he does not hate mutants. God taught him to love. To love all of his creation, even the ones that would harm him and his family, even the ones that would destroy this once great country! But what he does hate is the sin that made them. The sin of arrogance! The sin of conceit! When man built his tower reaching high unto the heavens, God scattered his children to all the ends of the earth and divided them in language… and yet he still builds! They always want what they should not have. They always demand what they never earned!
But God has given him a message to deliver. He has seen their transgression. All they have done in their hubris. As they tried to make themselves high and placed their idols into the temple. On this day, he will judge them for what they have done!
Stryker’s men open the vans with the imprisoned mutant children inside.
In the Morlock tunnels, Kitty, Johnny and Bobby watch the news on their tablets. Jimmy Hudson announces he is going there. Are they coming? The boys agree, Kitty does not. Bobby reminds her there are about a hundred mutants in those trucks. Stryker’s gonna kill them.
She agrees it’s awful. But there is nothing they can do about it. They can kick his… Johnny begins. No, they can’t! Kitty retorts. Or maybe they can win this one, but not the next one or the one after that! Eventually, this stupid game where they pretend the hero always wins and gets to walk away? It ends!! And when it does, they have to bury someone! “Just like we did with Peter!”
Did she say, “we”? Johnny asks. Bobby tries to calm him down. But Johnny is sick to death of getting lectured by Kitty. Like she’s the only one who cares Peter’s gone?
Kitty shouts back she noticed how the boys were goofing around during the fight like he wasn’t… Like he wasn’t gone? Johnny asks. Yeah, she’s right, because that’s what he would want them to do. He’d want them to stay alive! Kitty cuts him off. End of story!
And she knows so well? he shouts. Well, how does he know so well what Peter wanted when he died? Kitty asks. Johnny points out that he remembers fighting Osborn that night with Peter. He remembers Bobby being there. But where the hell was Kitty?
Kitty hits him hard with her super-dense strength. Without a word the others, including Rogue, leave.
The boy has awakened from the noise and asks where everyone went. To get his friends back, she replies. Can he go with them to help? he asks. Kitty tell him to let the older kids handle this. Why doesn’t she go with them? he asks. Because she’s scared, Kitty admits.
She shouldn’t be, he tells her. Jimmy can beat the guy up! And besides the bad man would never hurt that white-haired girl. He thinks she’s his friend. He saw them talking back at the place where they kept them. He likes her. What?! Kitty shouts.
Flashback:
Stryker preaches to a hopeful crowd. Who would like to be saved? he asks. A young woman with a hood drawn into her face gets up and walks towards him. Rogue takes off the hood, and begs that she wants to be forgiven.…
The present:
Unaware of all of this, the X-Men run into battle, Rogue at their side…


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Seventeen years ago:
Young William Stryker is working on the car when his mother calls him to lunch. His father, an army man, asks why he is not at school today. His wife explains he needs rest. All he ever does is rest, Stryker Sr. scoffs. His fault, his son mutters. It’s his fault his own flesh and blood turned out to be a sick little weakling? his father mocks. He is not a weakling! William snarls. Oh yes, he is, his father assures him. But do what his father tells him now and he will make him stronger.
Times Square, now:
Stryker’s men have gathered the captured mutant kids. Stryker addresses the crowd, reminding the people that the government created those mutants and now demands trust! The fruits of their evil killed millions and now they say they should put the mutants in camps. Spend billions feeding them while humans die of cold in the streets! So that one day they can tell them again what the mutants are is normal? That they should accept them? That’s what they want and they won’t stop until humans have accepted them, until they become them! Until their minds are so twisted by their perversions that they can’t tell the difference. Put them in camps? He says: bring them to him!
Stryker draws a huge knife. A handcuffed, lizard-like boy is brought to him. The boy tries to reason, saying whatever he thinks he did he is sorry, okay? Just don’t hurt him!
Very well then, Stryker announces and touches him. “Be healed!! The boy groans in pain as his lizard scales fall off and he finds himself normal looking. What has he done to him? he demands clearly unhappy. And this is what troubles him, Stryker continues as he stabs the boy. For a man to be able to look at his sin with his own two eyes and still he does not repent.
The White House situation room:
Valerie Cooper wonders where she knows the name Stryker from. Philip reminds her that his father was in the Joint Chiefs years back. The president recalls there was something else. Val remembers William Stryker lost his wife and kid in Magneto’s attack on New York. Afterward, he and a bunch of angry followers gabbed some discarded Sentinel tech and used it to hit Xavier’s school. She isn’t sure what happened to him after though.
Phillip checked up. FBI and Southern Party Law Center have both kept an eye on him. He’s been making the rounds talking to various militia and human supremacy groups, preaching about mutant healing.
The president asks why this wasn’t in his reports. Val reminds him he doesn’t read the reports. And, even if he did, this guy wasn’t a big enough blip on the radar to warrant the president’s attention.
An exemplary job of intelligence gathering, Pietro mocks. Val suggests he leave. The Cerebra discussion can wait for another day when they have room on their schedule for murderous psychopaths…
On the contrary, he tells her. This administration is facing the gravest threat. This isn’t like the flood. The people will demand the president accept full responsibility. The government has admitted its responsibility for the creation of mutants and allowed a domestic terrorist to launch major attacks within hours. The case is easy to make that the president appears to be staggeringly incompetent.
The president points out things are beyond his control and the people will understand. They won’t, Pietro replies. They can bring Cerebra online now and connect the emergent database with the Nimrod Sentinel fleet. Overnight, this means the apprehension of nearly three quarters of the Homo superior population of the United States.
Val point out just getting the technology here would take… Behind her, Pietro points out smugly. Val turns around to find the Cerebra device assembled. Pietro got it from Wundagore while she finished her sentence.
Pietro points out that for the entirety of his term the president has appeared weak, the victim of external forces, perhaps, but weak all the same. He is offering him the silver bullet he has prayed countless sleepless nights for! All it takes is a little decisive action. Dispatch the Sentinels to deal with Stryker, then activate Cerebra! The world will see a leader who has answered adversity once and for all. They will see the challenges, but also that he met them.
Val asks him not to do this. The president politely sends her out.
He’s in his head somehow, Val announces outside. Literally? Philip asks. He thought Worldwide Solutions had set the whole place up with safeguards against telepaths. She doesn’t know, Val admits, but something isn’t right. Get her everything he’s got on the guy. Lensherr or Stryker? Lensherr first, she orders, then changes her mind. Stryker first. None of this is happening by chance.
In Times Square, a teenage, mutant girl is brought before Stryker. Will she be forgiven? he asks her. She orders him to stab himself in the face. Her power doesn’t work. He raises his knife and tells her to close her eyes.
Hey, he knows him! a voice calls. His grandma used to send Stryker ten bucks of her social security every month when he was on cable, Iceman mouths off. The cavalry has arrived! Is that a soulpatch? the Torch mocks Stryker and Jimmy just orders him to let the kids go.
“Well, you finally came back to me!” Stryker gloats, and here he was beginning to worry. He expresses disappointment though.  He thought there’d be more.
They are enough! Jimmy snarls. He plans to do the most work on Stryker himself… Does he really think it’s gonna take more than four of them? Bobby mocks. He’s a dude wearing the Windows version of Iron Man.
Stryker tells Jimmy he misunderstands. He wasn’t talking to him. Rogue stands silent, her arms crossed…
Flashback to two weeks ago:
Rogue sits alone in a room with Stryker. Quite a stunt she pulled in the tent revival, showing up like that. If those people knew who she was, they’d tear her apart, he muses. She can take care of herself, Rogue snarls. He admits she can, but from the way she looks now he doubts she’d even put up a fight. Now why is that?
Rogue stammers. No need, he replies. He knows she heard His voice. It’s true then? she asks agitated. That he could heal her? Stryker asks. The Lord has given him many gifts. Please, she asks. He tells her that firs she must repent. She does, Rogue assure him. She knows this is a sin… what she is is a sin. She just wants it to end!
And it could, he tells her, but with deeds, not words. Crying, Rogue promises to do anything. He tells her he thought a great deal about her since that night at Xavier’s school. The way she killed all of his men. The anger, the wickedness, the evil. It occurred to him that, of all the sins her kind manifest, hers must be the worst. After all, she takes their sins as though they were her own. She isn’t just a murderer, but a thief as well.
Crying, she asks him to tell her what he wants. He tells her to come back to New York with them. The Lord has given him an important mission there. He wants her to seek out her old friends from Xavier’s… Find them, gain their trust and, when the time is right, bring them to him, so that he may witness to them as well.
Present:
What’s he talking about? Bobby asks confused. She’s sorry, Rogue tells him and touches him, absorbing his power. She creates an ice column which takes out the Human Torch, while Stryker attacks the confused Jimmy and goes for his throat.
Rogue protests that isn’t the deal! They made a promise before God. He only gets them if he heals her. That’s what they agreed to. She kneels down. Say it! he urges. “Forgive me,” she announces.
He is about to touch her when Kitty shows up as the Shroud, announcing she may be getting this mixed up here, but she pretty sure she’s asking that from the wrong guy. Rogue shouts “no.”
In the White House, the order to engage Sentinels is given. At the same time, Val Cooper is getting Stryker’s file and Quicksilver is activating Cerebra. “Oh hell!” Val swears when she reads the file.
The Nimrod units swarm out.
Quicksilver shows the president all the mutant presences in the USA and explains that Cerebra is uploading the data to the Nimrod fleet as they are speaking.
Times Square:
Nice suit, Kitty goads Stryker, then phases through him, making the electronic parts of the suit go haywire, hurting him badly.
The Nimrod fleet has almost reached Manhattan.
Val rushes into the Oval Office, shouting he is a mutant.
Stryker sinks down bleeding. “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me…” he prays.
Val tells the president that Stryker is a mutant. His old man kept him doped up so he wouldn’t know. Told him he was sick. It’s in his medical records. What’s his gift? Pietro asks. He can control machines! Val bursts out.
“Yet not my will…” Stryker moans, “but… but…”
He falls down, gurgling blood.
“But thine be done…” all the Nimrod units echo as one.


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Reservation X – part 3
Utopia:
Tony Stark is holding a press conference. What has America given the world? he asks. An example! From the time of revolution to their struggles through depression and recession, their scientific and civil right accomplishments, they have shown the world the benefits of hard work. They have demonstrated there is peace in commerce. Every generation brings with it new avenues to success and prosperity. These new Americans would like to offer a gift to the world: something to benefit them all. Hope for millions of people, humans and mutants alike. He introduces Kitty as a symbol of a new era of global change.
Kitty begins talking, announcing they have something to offer the world. They might see it as an olive branch. It’s also a seed.
Not far away, Psylocke bitches she can’t believe it’s all about Kitty. Storm and Blackheath and Zero are just as much – Storm shushes her.
Kitty announces they may have come to Utopia thinking this lonely place was anything but a paradise. That’s what she thought too. That’s what they all thought. Since they got here life hasn’t been easy for them. But no one ever promised them an easy life.
So much of the conflict in the world happens when resources are scarce. Here in Utopia, they have some of the most talented, unique and capable people anywhere. They used those talents to come up with a solution.
How many times can you fight the same fight? A wise man once told her you have to put down the gun. Which means you have to let go of prejudice. She believes that the world can be changed. She believes that an act of charity is a seed that can sprout into goodwill. So that’s what they are offering the world. She holds up the sentient seed, announcing that this seed will grow in any climate. It immediately adapts to any conditions, programs itself according to its surroundings. It can thrive in any type of soils. They’ve named it the sentient seed. And it will end world hunger.
As expected, the media discuss the mutants’ gift.
On VNN, two anchormen argue, one calling it a gift, the other pointing out the farmers’ point of view, believing someone will be making money.
NBS tells how some groups have threatened legal action against the mutants for the dangerous mutant seed, which they believe could be harmful to humans. According to one expert, it may even turn children into mutants.
MNBCN: Tony Stark announces that Stark Industries will perform any necessary testing before distributing the seed. Kitty assures the press that they aren’t the enemy. The seed is a gift freely given in the hope that one day the world will see mutants as friends and partners, not enemies.
At another press conference, Carol Danvers, chief of staff to the president, calls this a stunning display of patriotism, a triumph for modern science and an inspiring act of charity. A reporter asks about the economic impact of the seed. Carol commends the mutants for their contribution, not only to their nation but the world.
A shadowy group watches the conference. Pointless rhetoric, they decide and call it a science fair project from a group of kids. It goes against their interests, another man observes. They were led to believe by members of this group that the Cure was more divisive than they are seeing evidence of at the time. They cannot proceed as planned with a volatile mutant population. The reservation should have brushed them into the shadows. There are what, twenty, left. They can make it fewer, one man suggests.
The next morning, Stark welcomes Kitty and Jimmy in his private jet (seeing as how Utopia doesn’t have a five star hotel). Although, after the events of the day, who knows? Tony jokes and adds the charitable hand needs a strong arm. Kitty remarks they’ve done the world a favor. They don’t need to be a military entity. Tony clarifies they need to be willing to defend themselves. Perhaps even from internal threats. Kitty remarks they are still getting their sea legs. Mach Two and the others will understand. They are all committed.
Jimmy warns her that they were insubordinate. She isn’t a dictator! Kitty insists. Tony tells her they leave the internal politics to her but this seed makes them a major player in the world market. They need to be savvy. They must be prepared for backlash. If they prepare for battle, they invite war, she remarks. Tony retorts war never waits for an invitation.
Jimmy is sure they can defend themselves. Tony warns them their enemies won’t use non-lethal means. Kitty announces they don’t want to fight anymore. If they aren’t an example to the world, they aren’t anything! The seed is their opportunity to be peacemakers.
Jimmy agrees with Tony. They need to be ready. It’s this simple, Tony announces. If you discover gold, you put it in a safe. Allow Stark to provide some surveillance and basic non-lethal perimeter defenses.
Outside, Blackheath bitches, what’s next? A press tour? They created the thing and Kitty gets the credit. Don’t they get a say? Storm reminds him Kitty is the face of Utopia. She looks normal. Stark’s just being a business man. Business at their expense, Sam retorts, and he doesn’t remember Kitty consulting them. Zero points out Stark is doing what they wanted,  to get the seed out there. Sam insists he didn’t vote for that. He didn’t vote for the seed and he didn’t vote for Kitty to be queen of the mutants!
Zero reminds him the point is to help make peace. Peace is his silly ideal, Sam snorts. Did the world reach out and offer it to them? No!
Ororo calls him a bitter man. He reminds her she was in the same camps as him. Maybe he’s bitter but he’d call it realistic. The world was content to look the other way while they were abused. Until Kitty came along, Ororo reminds him. Her royal highness! he snorts. At some point, she is going to start to give orders and make demands. All “great leaders” do.
In Tian, Karen Grant while meditating discusses matters with Liz Allen and Derek Morgan, who point out that Tony Stark is still in Utopia. Karen calls him a media diva. He smells a profit and is using them. This’ll blow over with the next news cycle.
Liz points out that Kitty is too smart to fall for any of that. Her alliance with Stark might be legit. What if this thing of theirs takes off? Derek agrees. They need to do something. The mutants in Tian are starting to talk.
People will always find something to talk about, Karen smiles. As long as they keep monitoring the situation, they will be fine.
Derek insists that the mutants here are talking about how Kitty fought down the Sentinels. They are passing around copies of her manifesto. They haven’t been truly unified in Tian since the war with the City, Liz adds. Derek remarks some people are saying that after what she’s accomplished Kitty should be the leader of Tian.
Karen warns them not to fall for the hype. She won’t last. Utopia won’t last.
Somewhere in the desert of Utopia, outside the settlement, Mach Two, Warpath and Psylocke sit around a campfire. Warpath bitches it’s disgusting how Kitty makes the humans a peace offering after they cast them out on this patch of desert. They shouldn’t have stopped fighting them. They should have beaten them, beaten them to the ground and kept on beating them. If they had bled the humans dry, they wouldn’t be meeting in ditches, would they?
And now their self-elected leader invites them to the dinner table, Nomi agrees. Psylocke asks if she has better ideas. She’s thinking, Nomi replies. They can’t rush into anything. They have to lay this trap carefully.
Warpath asks why wait when Nomi can suppress Kitty’s phase power. Betsy offers to provide a distraction. Nomi refuses. What does killing her do? They are the bad guys then. They need to humiliate her. They need to discredit her.
Psylocke whispers in her ear she’s been communicating with someone who can help. She is en route now and if they can turn her it will be the key to unraveling Kitty’s world.
Nomi announces that Kitty is a traitor both to their kind and to their future. She is not one of them. Warpath agrees. If revenge on the humans is their plan, Kitty’s gotta get taken care of first. They need to get her out of the way. Extinguishing the fire, Nomi bitterly replies he doesn’t have to remind her. Kitty Pryde’s been holding her back since New York.
Later at night, Black choppers land outside the settlement and armed men get out. Tony is alerted and immediately dons his armor. They picked the wrong jet to sneak up on, he announces.
The noise wakes the mutants. Kitty runs out to find Micromax, Iceman, Black Box and Jimmy already fighting. She tells them to stop, but Bobby points out that the bad guys are too busy shooting to listen to her.
One man tries to shoot, Kitty who phases. When Iron Man takes him out, the man fires at the jet. Shooting at Kitty was one thing, Tony announces. But that’s his favorite jet!  With little effort, he takes the others out.
This is all wrong! Kitty shouts. They had a deal for protection. Captain America promised that the integrity of their borders would not be compromised. Who sent them? When the men don’t answer, Jimmy threatens one of them, but Kitty takes out her anger on Jimmy. This was a refuge, she snaps. They were building peace and he slashed and cut and fought! She’s working with every ounce she has in her and he doesn’t care! He just tears at their peace with his claws!
What did she expect him to do? Invite them for coffee? he shoots back. They came here with guns! She wants this new country, this brave new world, but isn’t willing to get her hands a little dirty. Well, someone has to and if it won’t be her hands it will be his claws!
Enough! Iron Man orders. He defended them but draws the line at babysitting. There are people in history who have changed the world, he tells Kitty. If she wants to be one she needs to know that change doesn’t come easy. He tells Jimmy while they must have a defense, they can’t run into a fight without knowing who the players are. These guys are mercenaries. Killers with experience. If someone hired them to send a message, then this is going to get much worse before it gets better.


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Three weeks ago…A rainy day.
Rogue enters a church and begins to pray, crying. Don’t be afraid, a voice behind her says. Her prayers have been heard. The world’s not going to end just yet…
Now, Times Square, New York:
Amidst the conflagration, a dejected Rogue sits next to the corpse of Reverend Stryker. She’s killed him, she announces bleakly to Kitty Pryde, who warns her she will be next. Calmly, Rogue states Kitty wasn’t supposed to do that. She’s not the one who betrayed, Kitty begins. She didn’t betray anyone! Rogue replies. She just needed to get him to touch her. She needed to take his powers, so he couldn’t… Couldn’t what? Kitty asks. Phase! Rogue orders. The Nimrod fleet comes down to attack. Oh right, Kitty replies.
The White House Situation Room:
The president, Val Cooper and Quicksilver are watching the goings-on. The president doesn’t understand this. What’s hard to understand? Val replies derisively. Strkyer is a mutant. He can talk to technology, tell it what to do. How was he healing mutants like that? he asks. What does he think the X-gene is? Val asks. It’s a machine. Microscopic and bio-engineered, sure, but it’s still tech. Stryker’s obviously been telling it to self-destruct. Or at least play dead. And they didn’t know anything about this? he asks.
Valerie Cooper’s narration:
 It was buried in Stryker’s medical record. When his father – not a big fan of mutants - found out, he had Junior put on experimental drugs to keep his abilities dormant. The kid stays on the pill through his life, eventually convinced he does have in fact some kind of condition. But years later after Magneto’s attack killed his wife and his kid, they can now safely assume he went off the meds.
Present:
Leading to just the sort of destructive behavior that makes him such a hit with the city news right now, Val concludes her summary. And their Nimrods? the president asks. As best as they can tell, Stryker who just bit it thanks to some mutant girl who decided to hit back, with his dying breath has taken over the Nimrods the president sent to dispatch him. Presumably just after they uploaded all these Cerebra data to them.
It’s only a handful of Sentinels, he points out. Surely the Ultimates can—Val cuts him off. These things have a shared network. A network they no longer have control over. The entire Nimrod fleet is off the reservation now.
What has he done? the president groans, burying his face in his hands. He just gave a terrorist-controlled army of killer Sentinels the coordinates for every mutant in the USA, she replies mercilessly. What do they do now? he asks helplessly. They watch while thousands of innocent mutants die, tonight, then they start working on resignation letter drafts, Val replies. He insists they can stop this and turns to ask Quicksilver, who is no longer there.
In Times Square, the Nimrods are massacring mutants. Kitty helps up Iceman, stressing Rogue betrayed them. Angrily, Rogue insists she didn’t. She had a plan until Kitty… she doesn’t know what Kitty did, but she made them a hell of a lot meaner! How did she know anyway? Kitty replies the boy Jason remembered Rogue from Stryker’s prison. Rogue insists she was getting him to trust her. He would have been the first, Kitty retorts bitterly.
The boys try to fight back and suggest they run. Kitty orders them to stop scattering. Find cover! She was the only one who ever paid attention in Logan’s classes, Iceman points out.
Kitty orders everyone to grab onto her. The Sentinels can’t touch her. She tells all the kids to pile on each other so she can phase them. Several kids don’t manage to reach her as the Sentinels’ blasts hit and are incinerated. The ones touching Kitty survive. She is strained to her limits but the Nimrods suddenly fly off.
When they wonder why they are giving up, Jimmy guesses they can tell when they are gonna lose. Kitty grimly announces it’s just that they have a lot of other targets out there. Jimmy wonders what they should do now.
20 minutes later, all the kids have been evacuated to the Morlock tunnels. She knew this would happen, Kitty announces darkly. Bobby protests they don’t have enough bathrooms for this. And that dude is lying on his bed again, Johnny complains. They are not gonna be here long, Kitty remarks. Neither are they, Rogue announces, joining the conversation.
Kitty angrily orders her to explain why she is still here. Rogue repeats she had a plan. She was trying to take Stryker out. She needed Stryker’s powers to do it. Then Kitty came in and made a damn mess out of it! Kitty snarls backs he is lying and untrustworthy.
Bobby wonders who to trust. Rogue hit him back at Times Square. Yeah, but Kitty hit him before they left, Johnny points out. They get beat up by girls a lot more often than he’d like, Bobby sighs.
Kitty demands why Rogue couldn’t have just told them her plan. Because he told her not to, Rogue replies. She wanted to. He. She means God. Fantastic, Kitty sighs. Any other instruction from a higher power she should know about before Rogue gets them killed? Yes, actually, Rogue replies. He told her once this is over, they need to go to the SEAR. The South East Asian Republic SEAR? Kitty asks rhetorically. Why the /%$& would they go to the SEAR?
At that moment, a holographic image appears, announcing this is the voice of the revolution. He is the oracle of change. The establishment of Tian is complete. Heaven now exists on Earth. There is a nation where you can become something more than what you are. For all who seek it, the Source will transform the flawed into the perfect. It will transform the old into the new. The human into Celestial. The Deviant into the Eternal.
They will accept anyone who chooses to come to their shores with a desire to change in their heart. They make no restrictions. If they are persecuted, come to Tian. If they are hopeless, here is their new home. They are waiting for them. He is the Oracle of change. And this is a new day. The message ends.
Persecuted? Hopeless? They boys figure they meant them. Checking his tablet, Johnny remarks that, according to the news, everyone everywhere got the message. Where the hell is Tian? Kitty demands. Like she need even ask, Johnny grins.
Angrily, Kitty asks where Rogue is getting this from. Who told her to come here? Who told her to do all this? Rogue hesitates. And if she says God one more time, so help her… Kitty threatens. Rogue looks away remembering.
flashback:
Three weeks ago, she sat in the pews of a church, hopeless. She understands what she is to do then, somebody asks her. She doubts how this is gonna work. The other repeats his order. Go to Stryker. Tell him she wants to be “healed.”
Why would he wanna help her? Rogue asks. He hates her! He is an arrogant delusional fool, she is told. He will offer her a deal to grant her request in exchange for the lives of her friends. Bobby and Kitty, Rogue spells out.  When she comes to Stryker, he will touch her. In that moment, she can seize his power and use it against him. Therein lies the key to salvation for all of them.
Why can’t she just tell Bobby and Kitty what she is up to? Because the time is not right. At least not for all his students, Professor Xavier tells her.


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Stormfront
When Camp Angel falls, Colossus and Storm flee together, chased by Nimrod Sentinels. Colossus shields Storm from their attacks with his body and she uses her lightning to destroy them.
The Rockies. Three weeks after the fall of Camp Angel. They run forever. Storm steals a truck and Colossus drives them into the mountains. They camp in the wilderness, changing their location every couple of days, avoiding the hiking trails, monitoring the park rangers and staying under heavy canopies.
Ororo knows nothing about the mountains but Piotr does. They are wanted for murder and the so-called crime of being a mutant in America. After Camp Angel that is no joke. Storm realizes she should leave Piotr. She knows he was tortured but he executed Colonel Lake. She relives it in her nightmares sometimes. Nevertheless, she loves the time in the mountains with him.
They drive on. When he wants to turn on the radio, she asks him not to. He suggests the find some news; maybe something’s changed. Nothing’s changed, Ororo is sure. There is nothing out there for them. Their friends are out there, he reminds her. They just have to hope they are safe, she replies. They won’t help them by getting picked up by the cops and tossed in jail. And the social experiment that was Camp Angel won’t happen again. It’ll be more like Gitmo. Total black bag, vanish off the face of the world thing. But the news won’t tell them any of that, so why bother to listen to the lies?
Later, they both lie in bed, neither sleeping. This can’t be their life, Piotr finally announces. They are hiding in the woods like criminals. He is a criminal! This is not a vacation! When she looks at him like that, it only hurts. He takes his jacket and backpack and leaves for good. He tells her to rebuild her life. Be happy. Find balance! Find love! He cares for her like family! With that, he leaves.
The next couple of days, Ororo stays in the trailer and is depressed. Afterwards, she packs for two weeks of walking and heads out into the mountains.
Reaching a shop, she buys some stuff before walking on, not noticing the man inside phoning someone. She is walking along the road when a car with armed militia attacks. She tries to run, not even thinking of using her powers, when she is shot. She hasn’t used them since Camp Angel.
She is black-bagged and sold to the camp administrator for three hundred dollars. After four days in the SUV, she is broken, no longer caring.
In the camp, Blackheath addresses her, remarking he had her all wrong. Sorry to hear that, Ororo shrugs. He heard she was an X-Man. He believed it too until he got a good look at her. She’s just as broken down as the rest of them. And who is he? A fan, he tells her. She better be careful, He might ask her to sign an intimate body part. Ororo smiles weakly.
Weeks later, they see the Sentinel fleet passing over the camp. Blackheath announces this is it. This is where they join Kitty Pryde. Psylocke scoffs she is a myth. The stories are bogus. No one but him believes them. He informs them that Camp 14, twenty miles southwest, has been taken over by mutants. He heard the guards talking. Kitty’s is real and she’s taking the fight to the enemy.
Storm can’t believe that. Kitty is a child, not a revolutionary. Show him he is wrong, he demands. Prove to him the X-Men can’t pull that off.
Ororo admits he has this way in under her skin. Totally schoolyard tactics. But it works. She shaves her short hair into a Mohawk and joins the group breaking out that night. In the car, she thanks Blackheath.
They join the fight for freedom. And instead of having the words of Stacy X in her head, Storm now has Kitty’s manifesto, speaking not of murder and revenge but mutant self-determination.
They win easily. Ororo feels part of a community, fighting for a common dream. Nevertheless, she misses Piotr and wishes he had stayed to fight in this righteous battle and not run for common murder.
Much later, as most mutants sign up for the Cure, Storm looks at the lines, hoping to see a familiar face. A guard tells her this is the last batch. They are pulling out this evening. Storm asks if there is a list of who took the Cure. She sneaks into the medical tent to grab the list. At first, the doctor tells her this is confidential government property, but finally he relents and asks who she is looking for. However, the name Piotr Rasputin isn’t on the list. He didn’t take the Cure. She is relieved and joins the rest of the mutants on the bus.


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Quicksilver runs in despair, recalling how well it went, when he convinced the president. The horrors that followed when his plan and Stryker’s death led to an out of control Nimrod army hunting mutants who cannot hide anymore thanks to Pietro. All this is his fault.
Flashback:
His business associate, Phil Hanstead, presented the Nimrod model Sentinel prototype to him. Exclusive long term government contract. Five thousand on order with a promise of ten thousand more within two years. Vibranium casing, virtually indestructible. Different weapon grades, sophisticated AI and a lot faster and more compact than the old type.
Touching the Nimrod unit, Pietro asks about the trials. Not everything they hoped for, Hanstead admits. Every target poses a different kind of problem. They are still trying to develop one weapon to counter thousands.
Pietro suggests adding a power dampener. Only at close range obviously, but effective enough to solve some of those problems. Pietro shows Hanstead another device, a helmet that serves as protection from mutant telepaths and mind controllers. Hanstead announces this will be the biggest consumer electronics article since the iPod. The only trouble is he won’t be able to build them fast enough. Pietro announces he will be manufacturing them here in Wundagore and he will have them next week (thanks to the many dupes of Multiple Man).
The present:
… and Pietro runs, while all the mutants die…
Flashback:
Hanstead informs him stock is up 39 percent. They’ve moved into unanimous buy territory. He’s never seen anything like this! Pietro is unsurprised. When Devon brought him to Pietro, he thought he was talking to a lunatic. Shame what happened to Devon. She was a very troubled young woman, Pietro replies politely.
Present:
He thought they would bow before him, would love him. Instead they are all dead. He reaches Wundagore, angrily shouting out sister’s name. He begins throwing around furniture, demanding she show herself and answer to him for all their lives. She has made him a murderer! he shouts. He has the blood of thousands of innocents on his hands now – because of her! Answer him! he shouts.
Oh, dear brother, the Scarlet Witch addresses him, he never fails to disappoint, does he? He repeats his accusations. Mutant children are screaming out for mercy right now, being hunted and killed like animals! Because of her!
Her? She scoffs. He reminds her that this was her plan. This was God’s plan, she stresses. God told her to murder her own people? he scoffs. Not in so many words, she replies.
She told him he would be a savior, he reminds her. Rule their people as their father had dreamed of. All of that could have been his, she replies, had he not disobeyed his word. It really is a pity. Disobey? he asks and begins to insult her.
Eldritch scarlet bonds tie him up and tighten around his throat, silencing him. She warns him to hold his tongue. Sister still knows how to hurt him best.
He has done everything she instructed, Pietro wheezes. Really? Wanda mocks. Then what did he find in Egypt? He is taken aback. She reminds him that night in New York she told him to go to Egypt. Did he?
He was very busy, he begins. She drops him and calls him pathetic. He apologizes profusely. This is his sin that caused all of this, she tells him quietly. His arrogance and weakness.
What must he do? he asks pleading. He wouldn’t she tells him. He begs. Just don’t leave him ever again! Then go now, she orders, as she strokes his hair. Go to where He waits. Tell Him what he has done. Beg for God’s mercy and forgiveness! Will she come with him? he asks. She looks at him. No, she decides, but before he goes to see Him, go change clothes! He looks ridiculous!
And so, in a new black uniform, Pietro arrives in Egypt outside a cave where dozens of pilgrims have gathered and are praying. One elderly man greets him. The prayers have been answered, he announces. Confused, Pietro asks who all these people are. Servants of God. Just like him, the man informs him. He has called out for Pietro night after night, for hours on end. Shrieking and wailing. They thought perhaps he’d forsaken Him.But Pietro only needed to know where to find him, yes? Yes, Pietro lies. The old man urges him to hurry. He waits!
Pietro enters the cave and utters “my God” when he sees who is waiting. Is that really him? the other replies. He supposed he could ask the same, Pietro replies hesitating. He knows the truth. He always has, comes the reply. Now, tell him what happened.
He tried. He did what she told him, every word! Pietro pleads. He went to New York, and to Washington and he convinced them to do as he said. He did all he was asked. He only didn’t come here!
And why didn’t he? Because he was afraid! Pietro admits. And now? Now they are all dead, Pietro cries. His people are being killed and it’s because of him! Because he can never do anything right! He tries and tries and every time he ruins it!
The other holds him, trying to sooth him. Enough of that. He did his best. He’s been strong and faithful to the cause. He would never ask him for more than that.
He is not angry? Pietro asks. Angry? Someday he hopes Pietro will come to know all that he feels for him right now. It is not anger, Magneto tells him. It is the love of a father for his son.


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Natural Resources – part 1
The future:
Surrounded by US military personnel, the mutants of Utopia – Storm, Blackheath, Rogue, Kitty Pryde, James Hudson – stand back to back, realizing that everything is falling apart.
Two weeks earlier:
Kitty Pryde tries to make her way through the jungle that the Sentient Seed has created around the Utopia settlement. She finds a puma which growls and sniffs at her, then runs away.
James Hudson cuts his way to her with his claws. He tells her to check out his new trail – runs north-south along the long axis of Utopia. He’s calling it the Hudson Passage. Cute, she remarks. He continues that they gotta get Blackheath to talk to this seed of this. Two weeks ago, this was salt flats, so what’s it gonna look two weeks from now?
In the past few weeks, a lot has changed in Utopia. Amara Aquilla raised the ground, giving them a natural border defense and microclimates. Thanks to the mountains, Storm now has the raw elements to make weather on command. Zero and Blackheath unleashed the Sentient Seed and, with that, the return of wildlife and a sort of natural beauty most of them have never seen before in their lives. They now have building materials, farmable soil, protection, water and food, resources… a purpose. And the name Utopia isn’t a joke anymore. Kitty thinks it’ll be their life’s work. They’ll raise families here.
Their numbers keep growing as well. They arrived as twenty lost souls. But as word spread – thanks to Tony Stark and the media – mutants who never dared show themselves before arrive. The original inhabitants take turns at greeting the newcomers, to see the look on the faces of the newcomers when they realize they’ve come home.
Storm asks the musing Kitty if she thinks Mach Two and her people are still even inside Utopia. Maybe they followed their own advice and left to take the fight to the enemy. Kitty reminds her she is the enemy. She’s frustrated. Ororo offers to take her flying. Kitty refuses, waiting for Jimmy. Ororo suggests with all these new people arriving it’s a good time to be single. But at least Kitty got time to get a haircut.
Kitty muses they’ve all changed for the better. Rogue’s pulling out of her shell. With her madness banished for good, she is finally free. She spends hours every day in the forest surrounded by life she can touch.
They’ve had debates on the nature of the Sentient Seed and the forest it grew for them. There is an intelligence there. They figure a sort of symbiosis.
Rogue tries to communicate with it.
Elsewhere, the plants withdraw from Warpath, who remarks: “Screw you too, mother nature!” “Behind you!” Psylocke’s telepathic voice tells him. How is she? Warpath asks. Mach Two? Still the angriest fourteen year old ever, Psylocke replies and asks for his report aloud. Nothing to report, he replies. “Claw boy” is still running his search grids but always misses them by miles. And they are welcome for that, she smiles. Telepathically she adds she should be in charge for all she does for everyone.
He’d vote for her, James agrees. Of course, he is in love with her, she shoots back. Telepathically she tells him to think, not talk. Especially when it’s about her royal highness, Nomi Blume.
He’s not an idiot! James protests. Betsy agrees loudly that he has his qualities, and continues telepathically that mutiny isn’t one of them. As long as Nomi is running this little insurgency, she’s the one with the target on her back. Psylocke has no burning desire to be that person. It leaves her free. To do what? James asks. To fully infiltrate the army base of soldiers down the highway, she reveals. Kitty’s back-up, should she ever call it, won’t be picking up the phone. They are welcome for that too. Wanna take a walk in the woods? With him? he asks dumbly. She orders him to stop both the talking and the thinking, and everything will go better.
Tian’s aerial recon over Utopia, Farbird, calls his mistress Karen Grant who was sleeping. Farbird apologizes profusely for waking her. Karen asks for news. Farbird has had no visual contact with Utopia since the foliage grew. Karen thanks him and tells him to come home to rest. Farbird admits he loves her. Casually she tells him she loves him too.
Karen phones Liz Allen, informing her they lost aerial recon. Karen decides to become a refugee herself and see Utopia first-hand.  She suggests they and Derek meet at 06:00 and asks Liz to call her Jean Grey from now on…
Back in Utopia, Kitty is proud that since the discovery of the Sentient Seed they have started inventing and innovating. Creating new technologies and approaches. With Tony Stark’s help they are filing patents and incorporating. They are a true nation with a small treasury, mineral wealth, a viable population that grows every day and the start of a governing concept. That’s her contribution: a peaceful collective. A promise of non-violence and a dedication to the sciences and to human rights.
Elsewhere, a gloomy Mach Two walks through the jungle. She aims her gun and fires, then keeps the bullet frozen in midair with her powers. Bang, she says and the bullet flies freely.
In Washington DC, three politicians meet clandestinely, agreeing on more overt attacks on the mutants. An elderly man remarks the mutants have been shoring up on their defenses. They need to work the political angle. A woman remarks her legal counsel sees nothing in Captain America’s executive order that can’t be undone. Public perception will be the biggest hurdle.
The third member notes that mutants are toxic in the polls. They’ll steamroll over them. The law can sometimes do wonderful things. No American is going to support these creatures once they start breaking federal law. He asks the older man about the business community. Have his office submit candidates. Once they make the case that the mutants are United States government property, so are their patents and copyrights.
And the Sentient Seed? the woman asks. Including that, she is told. They can reverse-engineer the seed and nullify its effects in weeks. They agree on five days. America can be great again, the older man assures them. They can again be the strategic and economic powerhouse they once were. Think of their children.
At the border of Utopia, James Hudson meets up with Warpath and Shola Inkose…


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Days ago, Camp Angel, one of the mutant relocation camps, guarded by Sentinels:
Somewhere inside, in its bowels, the imprisoned Colossus is tortured with energy batons. Two men in black suits tell him this can stop. Just as soon as he tells them what he knows. Colossus replies he doesn’t know what they are talking about. The men give orders to start the torture again. They explain their hourly rate is very high and the government’s budget is limited. They’ll only ask one more time and then they’ll move to the next stage. What does he know about the last time the world ended?
Elsewhere in the camp, some amused guards watch the display on the screen. Shame they can’t get audio, one of them remarks. They ask one Major Walker if he can help them out there. ‘Fraid not, he replies. Company took out the speakers. That’s the problem with these public- private partnerships, isn’t it? Colonel Lake, who just enters, announces. They always end up getting the short end of the stick.
The men are clearly embarrassed at being caught and salute. At ease, he orders, and turn it off! He asks John Walker to come outside with him.
Walker begins that he knows what Colonel Lake is gonna say. He always does, Lake interrupts. But seeing as how he can’t put his things on Lake’s desk just yet, he’d probably best listen anyway. Walker agrees, but the men… ever since what happened to Gale and West— Lake agrees that was a tragedy and what they do here is dangerous. That doesn’t excuse making a spectacle of another man’s suffering.
Of course, Walker agrees, but the fact remains every day these men are asked to guard prisoners who are vastly more powerful than they are. They’ve seen two of their own die and seeing this, unsavory as it may be, might help them feel more in control, remind them who’s in charge here.
Lake points out Walker called them prisoners, but that’s not what they are. Camp Angel was set up to keep mutants safe from humans as much as the other way round. Never forget that! It’s a temporary inelegant solution to the most certain problem of their age: How do they co-exist with their evolutionary replacement? Because he is certain of one thing: The future won’t wait much longer.
They enter a room where Ororo Munroe is waiting. Colonel Lake introduces Storm and Walker and asks Ororo how things are going. She explains there is a flu going around in the camp. Lake replies they can get some vaccinations in. Can Ororo convince them to actually let them inject the mutants? Ororo muses that some inmates have medical training. She suggests a buddy system, one human nurse, one mutant nurse, they might go for it, but, she points outside to a young woman holding a speech in the yard… she’s not going to make it easy.
Said young woman in the prison courtyard, announces that their oppressors call her Miranda Leewald but they all know her by her rightful mutant name, Stacy X. She is a political prisoner of war, like all of them.
She holds up a picture of another mutant, one Andres Merino. They claim he killed two of the guards here, that they were justified in shooting, him, riddling his body with sixty bullets. When is that kind of violence ever justified? And they all know they were the ones who provoked him, who attacked him in the middle of the night. They all know what’s really going on here: the torture rooms down in their basement, the random attacks in the workrooms and showers—none of this will end until they decide to fight back!
Lake tells Ororo they all have their opposing arguments to deal with and thanks her. Anything she needs from him? Piotr, Ororo replies. He’s working on that, he claims without meeting her eyes. He and Walker leave.
Walker suggests this Stacy X thing could be a problem. Should he get some guards and shut it down? Lake refuses. This will only help her get where she wants to go. Better they follow Ororo’s suggestions and try to foster some good will.
He tries to make Walker see this is the only way and he needs him to understand this if he is going to replace Lake. If anything good is to come out of this, it starts with them talking to each other. His hope is, when this whole mess blows over, what they do here can be a model, one the entire world can follow…
An agitated soldier comes with a message. Lake is horrified when he reads the news. When did this come out? he asks. Just a few minutes ago, the soldier, Jansen, replies. Lake gives the order to kill the TVs.
Ororo has joined the others in the courtyard listening to Stacy, who announces some of them believe they can appease their tormentors. That Xavier’s old ideas still apply even here as they press the heels of their boots against mutants’ necks. How much longer will they tell them to bow to their inferiors, their aggressors?!
Ororo begins to walk away when two excited kids stop her. Did she hear the news? they ask. They head her inside where several startled mutants are listening to Val Cooper’s press conference where it is revealed to the public that mutants are the result of a series of experiments in bio-engineering that were conducted and funded by the United States government.
Suddenly, the TV is switched off, the signal killed. The other mutants are confused, some turning to Ororo who clenches her fists.
Soon, Colonel Lake holds a speech. Nervously, he begins while Stacy whispers to some of her followers that this is her moment. Some mutants ask why they killed the internet and TV connections. What doesn’t he want them to know?
Lake apologizes for that but there is a lot of speculation out there and his feeling was they’d get through this without the chatter. He reminds them he’s here to keep them safe and admits he doesn’t know if this is true.
In her room, Ororo looks at herself in the mirror, then begins cutting off her long hair.
Lake continues he does know they’ve all been deceived and that’s bound to make people angry. And where there’s anger, sometimes things get violent. It’s easy to understand. He can’t imagine what’s going through their minds right now, where their hearts are. But he can tell them this: The only way they get through this without any innocent people getting hurt, is if they keep cool and stick together. He’s not telling them not to be outraged. He’s not telling them not to blame this government and all the people who did this. But he and his men are right here with them. No matter what comes next, they are side by side now. No one here chose this. No one here wanted this. If that’s what has to hold them together then he can live with that because it’s together. Still it beats a lot of people on both sides of the fence dying because of another man’s careless ways. So who’s with him here? Who can get behind standing together on this?
Ororo, her hair shaved to a buzzcut and now wearing a leather suit, shouts “no!” and uses her lightning to overload the Sentinel guards. The riot starts. “No more lies!” Ororo announces.


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Camp Angel prisoner detention camp:
When Storm started the attack on the Sentinels guarding the camp, the other mutants joined in and beat and imprisoned the military personnel. That done, they begin to free the mutants behind bars in deeper security and destroy the anti mutant tech. Underneath the camp, though, the mutants turn more sombre as they find other mutants who have been experimented upon and worse. They free whom they can and mourn those for whom it is too late. This is how Camp Angel fell.
Smiling ,Storm enters Colossus’ cell and tells him to break his chains. He does and the reunited friends hug.
All the guards have been captured, tied up and blindfolded. John Walkers asks Colonel Lane if he is all right. As Lane tells them they have to wait, Stacy X interrupts them, smirking that if their government were going to send help they already would have. It’s just them from now on….
Storm puts Peter to bed in a room. She notices several people running past the room excitedly and asks what is happening. A kid explains that Ms. Stacy is on the stage and has announced she is going to kill the guards.
Stacy is indeed on stage with the tied up Lane and Walker. This is not murder! This is justice! she shouts. In their society, they say that, if a man kills another, he should be put to death. In their society they say, in war killing is permissible. They’ve seen the bodies of their murdered brothers and sisters that they hid in the lower levels. And they know this is a war! So who can condemn them for this? History will call them revolutionaries! Or butchers, Storm states calmly. Certainly not heroes. And as the person who began this uprising... This doesn’t make her leader! Stacy interrupts. Never said it does, Storm agrees. But it does entitle her to have her voice heard.
She joins Stacy on the stage and addresses the audience. If they are talking about freedom, about no longer sitting in prisons, waiting for the human to realize the error of their ways, she is with them, but this is something else. Last night, the world told them they aren’t the next step in evolution. They aren’t improvements, aren’t God’s chosen. They are abnormalities, freaks! But she says that’s up to them to decide. No matter how they were created, they can still inherit the future. But not because of their powers, because of their choices. Because they rejected the fear and hatred of what came before them. If they do that, then they’ll have a true revolution on their hands.
The man who taught her – Charles Xavier – was a hero to their cause. He believed they could be something better. Not to rule, but to help! And some of them look at where they are now and mock him. Say his dream failed. That he was delusional. But Xavier wasn’t killed by a human but a mutant.
So they should decide who they are. And if they still want to be the future, then here’s where they decide what kind of future they are living.
She can’t just... Stacy protests. Ororo agrees and suggests a vote. She and Stacy agree on a system. The vote is anonymous. One vote each: X means the guards die. O means they live.
The vote begins and the votes are counted. The result is a tie. Stacy impatiently demands they vote again. Someone will have changed their mind. He believes he can settle this, announces Colossus, who has woken up. Hs vote is yet to be counted.
Stacy is against it. Smiling, Ororo replies he has as much right as any other. Feeling she has lost, Stacy snarls if they want to be lambs, wait for their slaughter. They are going home and take back what is theirs.
Storm thanks Peter. He tells her that is not his choice. Stand! he orders Colonel Lake. Horrified, Ororo asks him not to do this. Colonel Lake addresses Peter, telling him he knows how angry he is. No, Colossus replies, he does not, and crushes Lake’s head in his bare hands.
The crowd goes wild while a shocked Ororo mumbles this isn’t right. This isn’t what they were taught. They will pay for this.
As if on cue, the Stryker-controlled Nimrod Sentinels appear in the sky, echoing the words “his will.”


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The Capitol, Washington DC, where Resolution 334, having passed the House of Representatives with a veto-proof majority, now passes the Senate by similar margins. It is also called the Protect American Ideas and Property for the Vitality of the Homeland Act.
A reporter remarks this will place enormous pressure on the office of the president as major leaders of industry have expressed support for the bill as well as the financial, pharmaceutical and defense sectors. Going unspoken is what some critics claim the true target of the legislation. According to Tony Stark, this is less an issue of restoring America’s economic power but a direct attack on mutant sovereignty. It’s a complete betrayal of the special arrangement Captain America has with the mutant community, one that the mutants themselves have fully complied with.
Jean Grey pretends to be one of the many mutant refugees heading for Utopia. She wants one mutant homeland Tian, one that befits and honors the mutant race. Looking scornfully at her relieved, fellow refugees, Jean thinks to herself this reservation reeks of pity and guilt.
She and the others are welcomed by Magma, who gushes about Utopia and then tells her the rules. She can shower and change and eat and they have temporary housing set up for new arrivals. They feel it’s important not to rush them getting a permanent home, since most people like to help build theirs. The Sentient Seed is involved in that process as well. She is sorta in charge of how they use the trees and stuff. They live in trees? Jean asks, causing Amara to retort where she’s from anyway. From everywhere, it seems, Jean replies evasively. She’s heard about Utopia but figured it was all rumor and wishful thinking.
Amara calls Kitty over to meet Jean. Jean uses her telepathy to make Kitty not recognize her. Kitty offers her hand to welcome her. Instead, Jean hugs her, telling her she has no idea what it’s like to actually meet her, the leader of the mutants!
Deeper in the forest, Rogue climbs up a tree and jumps down. Vines catch her and break her fall before she hits the ground. Rogue laughs, telling the Seed-developed nature she loves it too.
Elsewhere, Nomi Blum aka Mach Two is shocked when Psylocke has revealed to her James Hudson came to Warpath and Shola with a proposal of joining up a protective force and they accepted. The two young men try to reason with her. Wait, wait wait, Nomi interrupts. They agreed to team up?
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James Hudson explains to Warpath and Shola that they are the warrior class here. The protectors. He loves Kitty, but can’t buy into her pacifist philosophy. He’ll support her all the way up to until he can’t. He’ll fight anyone to the death if need be to save Utopia.
Warpath points out he sounds like Mach Two. He sure he doesn’t want to defect? James scoffs. Nomi is a child. Kitty used to basically babysit her in the tunnels in New York. Nomi worshipped her. At some point she decided Kitty wasn’t living up to whatever ideal Nomi has in her head and to her that’s worth pitting them against each other. Don’t let a temper tantrum bring down Utopia. All they have to do is agree to a common defense.
After some thinking, Warpath agrees. Shola warns him Kitty is playing a dangerous game with the seed and Tony Stark and her stupid press conferences.
James asks them to return the handgun Mach Two stole from Kitty as a sign of good faith. He’ll owe them one…
Present:
“Hit’em!” Mach Two orders Psylocke, who telepathically tortures Warpath and Shola. For how long? she asks. Let’s wait and see, Nomi shrugs, as she leaves. Maybe James Hudson will show up and save them?
In a temporary residence, Jean muses that in a way she can understand Kitty and Utopia. Tian fought their own war and they lost much. She recalls Xorn and Zorn beaten, possibly dying. She cradles two small idols of Xorn and Zorn in her hand and puts them on the ground before she bows deeply. All hail Tian!
Later, there’s a party outside. Magma creates some fireworks. Kitty talks to Jean, musing they were lucky with their original twenty. Their abilities were well suited to the task at hand. Task? Jean asks. Creating Utopia, Kitty replies.
Jean secretly bristles at the word and Kitty’s implication that they created an actual paradise here.
Kitty muses then they were only trying to secure the basics: food, water shelter. They had no idea. Jean thinks her arrogance is repulsive. Kitty asks Jean what her ability is or are. She just admits to telekinesis. They lost their telekinetics, Kitty tells her. They are with the others who rejected Utopia. Rejected Kitty, Jean thinks. She knows all about Mach Two and decides after reading Kitty’s emotions she should be in therapy.
Jean asks if this is some kind of interview. In a way, Kitty replies. They are a collective. A community. They all bring something to the table and they all benefit from each other’s strengths. She makes it sound like everything works perfectly, that it’s so ideal, Jean points out. It should be, Kitty replies. She feels like she was given a gift. She and everyone else here have this once in a lifetime chance to do something so important it can benefit mutants for generations. There’s nothing like it anywhere else.
What about Tian? Jean asks. Tian’s not really the same thing, Kitty muses. It’s more a kingdom… a walled garden, a playground for Xorn and Zorn, right? She has a hard time imagining scores of refugees knocking on their door. Utopia’s the true mutant homeland. More grounded, more honest, where mutants can build their future with their own hands. Tian just seems a bit … much. She doesn’t see Jean’s eyes flare.
In the jungle, Warpath asks Psylocke to stop causing them pain. Lover, she can’t, she tells him and reminds him he has no secrets from her. She tells him he has no respect for Nomi. Mach Two needs his support. She’s just a kid, he moans. She tells him to look at the big picture. Think of his meeting with Hudson. Kitty is just a figurehead. James knows that. He’s taking steps. The true power’s never at the top. Telepathically, she orders him to suck up to the little blue-haired monster, so they can get to work!
US Army base, special operation, 80 miles north of Utopia:
General ‘Thunderbolt” Ross looks at the order he was just given, scoffing he’s never seen a commander-in-chief so unwilling to take command. A fed reminds him this operation is domestic. Ross tells him he has no problem with the feds taking point, but he is not going to stand around while another Waco or Ruby Ridge goes down. This Utopia is an embarrassment to the country. To the world! His youngest daughter sees that girl leader of theirs on TV and all he can do is not put a round thought her set. So if those mutants so much as twitch at them… He commands his troops, informing them Operation Natural Resources is go!


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Camp Angel is overrun by Nimrod sentinels overwritten with Stryker’s personality. The Nimrods attack mercilessly, killing mutants and Storm watches horrified until John Walker, who has freed himself along with some other guards, snaps her out of it. He can get them out of here, he tells her. He orders her and the other guards to save as many children as they can and Storm finally begins to move and herds a group of children.
Walker leads his people and the few mutants they could save down a tunnel into the sewers. Why? Storm asks him. Why would their government send these things to kill them? Because of the uprising? That wasn’t them, Walker replies.
The White House situation room, Washington DC:
Watching the Sentinel attacks all across the USA, Phil mutters this can’t be happening. Val Cooper orders him to keep it together and run through it again. Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma. That is where the camps are, Val remarks. Phil points out that they are not just hitting the camps. They are attacking the cities. Punishment, Val decides. The Nimrods are punishing them for letting mutants live.
Phil moans this is worse than New York. Worse than the flood! Coolly, Val agrees. Phil asks what about Nick Fury and the Ultimates? Val replies the Ultimates are at half strength if that and halfway around the world, and even if they weren’t they wouldn’t stand a chance against this.
Phil remembers that his aunt retired to Arizona. Val tells him to pull himself together. Phil takes up a sheets. The police, National Guard units, they are refusing to fight. Why? Isn’t it obvious? Val asks. They know it’s already over.
And the Nimrods attack Oklahoma City, Albuquerque, Phoenix and Las Vegas.
In New York City, Kitty Pryde returns to the Morlock Tunnels with some groceries. Johnny Storm shuts the others up. He wants to see the president’s speech.
The president begins, informing the country they have witnessed an attack on their soil unparalleled in their history. Just after nine pm eastern time, under the control of a radical anti-mutant terrorist, their Sentinel fleet was lost and turned against their own defenses. The Sentinels have slaughtered thousands across the country, humans and mutants alike, and have laid waste to the vast majority of the southwest region of the country.
They mourn the dead, pray for the injured and do what they must to end this senseless devastation. They have under his orders effectively ceded power over the states of Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Oklahoma. All citizens of these states are ordered to stand down and seek shelter immediately, so that further bloodshed may be avoided. If there is some intelligence behind all this destruction he begs them to consider the pain and suffering they are causing. They can have peace. They can come to an understanding. Mercy is not weakness.
To the American people: those trapped in what is now enemy territory and those waiting that this horror ends, he says: be resolute. Their nation has been torn asunder before. They have faced grave threats, both at home and abroad. They triumphed and rose from it stronger than before. They will persevere. They will overcome. They will be united once more. Good night and God bless America!
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Kennerman Acres, mental healthcare facility, Carmel, New York:
A black limousine stops in front of it. The man who exits it tells his driver he won’t be long. An orderly comes running out to protest he cannot park here. The man apologizes, claiming it wasn’t his intention to violate any policies. He just needs to speak to one of their patients. As he does so, the orderly ages dramatically and sinks down dying.
Alex Summers aka Havok crouches in his cell, wearing a straitjacket. He still has the same dreams, doesn’t he? somebody asks. Alex agrees. The other person encourages him to tell him about it. He insists.
Alex remembers it’s before the flood. Before everything! And he’s in this room. There’s nothing, just it really. Just one door. And there are other people in there with him. Other mutants.
Does he remember who? No, but there was a woman. He remembers there was this door and behind it… it looked like death!
Who was the woman? Alex can’t remember. Then everything explodes, he describes.
A nurse looks into the room with his medicine. She asks how he is feeling today. He’s fine, he replies. He wants to go home. She tells him they want that for him too. They just need to make sure he is healthy first.
She’s lying, the first speaker, Scott Summers, whom only Alex can see, tells him. They are never going to let him out, but he can get him out of here, if he will listen to his brother for once.
The man walks through the hospital and everywhere around him withers and dies.
An alert is sounded. The nurse tells Alex she’ll check back.
See, it’s starting already, Scott tells him. What is happening? he asks nervously. Scott warns him the next part isn’t going to be easy.
“Hello Alex,” the stranger greets him and exclaims in pity what have they done to him. Who is he? Alex demands. Take it easy, Scott warns him. He’s not going to hurt him. He’s not a friend but he not going to hurt him.
He heard screams, Alex hesitates. Just now or in his dream? the stranger asks. Alex demands to be left alone. Scott tells him that’s not going to happen. This is what has to happen. They’ve talked about it. He has to be strong. Hate to admit it, the stranger remarks, but Scott’s right this time. Surprised, Alex begins to listen.
Roxxon International headquarters, New York:
At a board meeting a young woman named Layla Miller suggests to the board members they make acquisition of the M-serum their top priority. One man reminds her that the serum is in SHIELD’s hands and something tells him Nick Fury won’t be willing to share. That’s why God made lobbyists, Layla replies.
An assistant interrupts to hand Layla a note and she excuses herself. Impatiently, she joins the stranger, reminding him they have a board to pander to. He tells her to see for herself. She looks into a high-tech room to see Alex sleeping there.
Layla is impressed and asks where he found him. In a mental hospital, she is told. They had him in a straitjacket keeping company with the ghost of his brother. Does he remember anything? Layla asks. Apparently so, she is told. His records spell out some very interesting dreams. The White Hot Room? Layla asks. He may know who the fourth one is! Their luck never ends, it would seem, he agrees.
She warns him not to get carried away. They don’t even have the other two they know about.
Just a matter of time. They already made contact with Rasputin. Doesn’t bring him here any faster, she replies. He assures her the government won’t be an issue much longer. Layla fears Tian won’t be that easy. Still, this in an incredible breakthrough. Has he told him yet? On his way, he assures her. Just wanted to make sure she knew.
They (presumably referring to the X-Men) hated this world around them, he muses as he recalls Apocalypse’s battle against the X-Men. They hated that which made them. So they decided to change it all. Make it better. So that’s what they built in its place? He recalls the catastrophic flood. What they thought superior? Now the ghosts of the old world (Xavier, Magneto, Scarlet Witch, Cyclops) appear to them trying to show them the way home, but it is already too late. They will be judged for their sins!
He enters an apartment. To be told he is here. He begins to stutter as he promises his master his will be done. He takes off his suit while his master replies they will restore what has been lost. They will make right all that was corrupted and, when that is done, then and only then, he shall sit at his right hand.
Sinister kneels down in front of the mannequin of his lord Apocalypse.