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Prisoner of Fire - part 4: Shadow of the Soul
On a coastline that travels near Valle Soleada, the mutant women of the X-Men prepare themselves for a tremendous fight against Elias Bogan, hopefully their last, they think. Sage and Magma peer at one of Sage’s holographic projections and Sage requests Amara’s help in filling in some of the gaps. She tells Magma that they are looking at a replica of every topographic map ever made of Valle Soleada and she needs her to use her power over the Earth’s crust to find every gap that her map may not contain. Sage tells Magma that Elias has covered his tracks so perfectly that no one has ever been able to track him, till today.
A few feet away, sitting on a pile of cut timber, Kitty Pryde and Anna Raven discuss philosophies. Kitty tells Anna that she likes the name she has chosen and is excited that Rogue now has a chance to settle down to a semi-normal life. Rogue tells Kitty that she is happy as well for Kitty, because she is finally completing college. The two women share a bottle of “Weet Water.” Anna apologizes for not knowing that Kitty’s father was one of the sixteen million people that died on Genosha. Kitty tells her that it was just a case of wrong place / wrong time. Anna reaches over to touch Kitty only to see her jerk away. Anna reminds Kitty of her power loss. Apologizing herself, Kitty tells Anna that some habits die-hard.
Kitty asks how her power loss feels? Anna tells Kitty that it’s like a roller coaster, but the best one she has ever been on. Rogue ponders towards Kitty about Sage’s secrecy, asking if she believes Sage will reveal her plan to them. Kitty tells Anna that she believes Sage will, when the time is right. Kitty goes on to say that Charley taught her, Scott and Storm, so when it comes to “management philosophy some apples don’t fall far from the tree.” Katherine explains that it makes sense, though, when a person is surrounded by telepaths it almost becomes instinct to even keep their thoughts secret. Anna asks Kitty what her thoughts on Bogan are. Kitty tells Rogue that Sage is scared of him and that’s something she thought was impossible!
Standing to her feet, Anna tells Kitty that she sees the bad in this world in very different ways, but Bogan is evil that must be stopped. Kitty tells Rogue that her philosophy of good versus evil is different. She goes on to say that she believes the fight that matters is the right of every human and mutant to live together in peace. Anna places Kitty in a playful headlock. She tells Kitty that she is such a dreamer, agreeing Kitty tells her that Charles Xavier taught her too.
Sage stands to her feet and tells Shadowcat and Rogue that they are ready to find Bogan’s lair. Anna grasps a hold of Kitty’s arm and she asks her if they can truly trust Sage. Kitty tells Rogue that, of all people, she should be able to see Sage’s point of view better. She goes on to say, as Sage and Magma draw into hearing range, that Storm brought Sage in and that’s enough for her. She tells Anna that, since they are heroes, they are required to walk blindly into faith when it comes to their enemies becoming friends, because it is the X-Men’s nature to trust. Katherine continues on, saying that Sage most feel troubled due to the fact she cannot fathom why they would be so committed to her. Shadowcat hugs Anna, as she says all this and Sage tells her that her display of emotion was unnecessary.
The women grasp hands and Shadowcat instantly uses her phasing powers to stop them in mid-spin. This means that, while the world continues spinning on its axis, thanks to Kitty’s powers, the quartet of women stop spinning. This enables the four of them to float at three hundred miles per hour into the Earth’s mantle. Kitty tells the others, as they pass by dinosaur bones and layers of rock, that they need to stay calm, because if anyone of them breaks their connection with her they will instantly materialize solid into the rock around them. The thoughts of the women are different. Magma is amazed at the beauty of her mother, the Earth. While Rogue thinks to herself how jealous Remy will be that he could not be there to see the excitement, she has been through. Shockingly, Sage is panicked by the darkness and she wonders if she is being buried alive. Her thoughts change rapidly though to success and she says aloud that they have reached the next point on their journey.
Just as Sage surmised, Magma senses the flow of lava nearing them and immediately erects cocoons around her three friends to keep them from being seared by the heat. Using the flow of lava, Magma navigates the four of them through the nearby caverns, until reaching Bogan’s lair. She solidifies the lava around her and disappears into a mountain of lava herself. Another part of their plan is also working above ground. Thanks to Magma’s lava flow, it causes a tiny earthquake in Valle Soleada, which is just sufficient enough to knock out power to the entire town.
Shadowcat phases the women through their solid cocoons. She tells Rogue that she did not enjoy that ride and she will never do it again. Standing to their feet, they instantly realize that their compatriot, Magma, is no longer with them. Rogue tells Sage that she was cold for sending Magma away. Sage explains that Magma’s liabilities outweighed those of her assets. She explains that Magma has no mental blocks against telepaths and she did not want Elias using her against them. Kitty asks Sage where they are. Sage explains that they are in a few caverns that travel directly under the Los Angeles branch of the X-Corp. Sage shows in holographic form her thought. She explains that Bogan built the Los Angeles chapter of the Hellfire Club’s mansion where the X-Corp building stands almost one hundred years ago.
Rogue is shocked that Bogan is so old. Sage explains that there is evidence that links Bogan to being a charter member of the Hellfire Club in 1780. She tells the others that Bogan built most of the caverns and rooms that are hidden under the L.A. Branch of X-Corp’s building. Rogue ponders that age would explain why Bogan works through puppets. Rogue and Sage begin to argue, but Kitty steps in and tells them that, if the three of them don’t begin to work together, they might as well put on the lingerie style outfits of the Hellfire Club and start calling Bogan master.
Just then a voice is heard (that of Manacles) and it tells them, as barbed chains fly in and grab hold of Kitty, that her words are going to come to place no matter what. He tells her, as she is being bounced off of walls, that she must be wandering how his solid chains can be affecting an un-solid form? Manacle finishes with Kitty by telling her, if she is going to play in the big leagues, she is going to have to learn how to take hits. Manacle switches his attention now to Rogue. He sends his chains after her but she is somehow able to dodge them all the way to their source where she plunges into his chest with her feet. Rogue looks around for Sage but she has already disappeared and Anna ponders to herself if Sage will be the death of them. Manacle, still standing, is downed a final time with one more well placed kick to his head. A few feet away Revenant nears the fallen Kitty Pryde and is shocked to see Manacle’s chains begin to unravel. Suddenly, Kitty awakens and kicks Revenant in the face, knocking her also to the ground. Anna throws Manacle onto the top of Revenant and tells Kitty that she is impressed that she has such a temper. Kitty asks Anna how she was able to beat Manacle. Rogue tells Kitty that if she doesn’t ask / she won’t tell.
A voice is heard from behind the women, that of the mysterious telepath. She tells the women that their moment is now over, because it is her turn now. Behind the telepath stand all of her previously fallen teammates; Skids, Sunspot, Cannonball, Gambit and Bishop. Also, the rest of Bogan’s thugs are there as well. Elias seems to have control over the entire lot of them and she demands them to capture the two women. Beginning to move, they seemed tripped up. Gambit apologizes for his mistake, as the lot of them was just too cramped. Like a stack of dominos, hero and villain begin to fall, till only Cudgel, Rolling Thunder, Bishop, Gambit and the mysterious telepath are the only ones standing. Rogue declares that Gambit was able to con Bogan.
Quickly, Gambit grasps the cudgel of Bludgeon and takes out the thug Cudgel. He races towards Rolling Thunder and, with grace, he sweeps her of her feet and begins to charm her with his eyes. Rogue can be seen grimacing but it is the telepath’s voice that can be heard in anger over his betrayal. The telepath tells Gambit that she won’t make the same mistake twice. Behind her, Bishop tells Bogan that, where the X-Men are concerned, one mistake is all it takes. He reaches forward and places his hand through the telepaths head, where she screams in pain and falls to the ground.
Elsewhere in the caverns, Sage is in search of a mysterious jewel. She thinks as she searches that Bishop and Gambit must have made their move by now and Rogue probably considers her a traitor. Nearing the jewel, she is shocked to hear Bogan’s voice. The voice is coming from the body of Magma but it is Bogan telling her that his reach far exceeds her imagination. Sage grasps the jewel as Magma glows with fire. He speaks through her, saying how he recognizes her plan of using Magma as their failsafe, in case the mission was a failure and how Magma was to flood his house with lava if they did not succeed. He tells Sage that it is fitting that he will use her plan against her now. He tells her to burn!


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Prisoner of Fire - part 5: Liberation
Bogan talks to Sage through their mental contact. Bogan tells her that he will make her his pet. She tells him that he is welcome to try.
The Astral Plane:
Around twenty years ago, in the Hindu Kush, a young woman we know today as Sage looked out into the mountains. She was dressed in the standard desert attire, with light clothes and a scarf to protect her face from the desert sand. Winter was close by and Sage knew that the Kabul Government would be attacking the nearby insurgents. As helicopters neared her position, they let loose with gunfire on insurgents that were below. This did not startle the young woman, but what did was something strange. Her blossoming mind grasped the fact her eyes could not see a presence near her, but her mind told her that someone was nearby.
Hearing a voice in her head, she chooses to follow it. Already, she knew that she could remember anything corporeal that was shown or told to her, indefinitely. She remembered the stories of her elders, about the mountains she was being drawn to and how her elders taught them that they were haunted. Sage sank into a shadowy cave and, armed with her automatic rifle and a flashlight, she came upon a man, crushed by great stones. The man was Caucasian and bald, he looked extremely weak, but in spite he still grasped to his pistol at the incoming presence of Sage.
On the physical plane:
In the catacombs of Bogan’s lair, the X-Men have seemingly defeated Bogan’s pet telepath, as Bishop has her in his grasp. Bishop tells her that she should have known that he has taken on telepath’s before. Seemingly in agony, the woman writhes, as Bogan talks through her. Bogan tells Bishop that he is not fooled often. Struggling, the young telepath is able to take control and, with a burst of energy, hurls Lucas towards his allies, knocking Gambit and Rogue down to the ground.
Shadowcat seizes the opportunity and hurls her body at the telepath in attack. The telepath seems to know Kitty’s plan, asking if she plans on using her phasing powers to disrupt her central nervous system? Kitty does phase through the telepath, but only she writhes in pain, as the Pryde of the X-Men falls to her knees in shock. Kitty stutters out that she recognizes the telepath. Kicking towards the fallen X-Man, the telepath tells her that her revelation is something she will have with her in the grave!
Luckily, Gambit steps in and, using his Bo, he is able to stop the force of the telepath’s attack. He teasingly asks why she would want to take away all nine of Kitty’s lives, when she has only just begun her first one? Swiftly maneuvering, the telepath calls Gambit the other deceiver, while Remy boasts that she may turn his head with talk like that. Moving in unison, Rogue and Gambit attack the telepath. Kitty shouts out a warning, but it is too late, as the telepath uses her mental powers to attack the two lovers, stopping their attack.
Back on the Astral Plane:
Sage knows that the American she found should be dead. She also hears him tell that his name is Charles Xavier. Announcing his injuries, he tells her that his legs are crushed from mid-thigh down. She thinks that his will must be extraordinary to keep himself from screaming, as she helps to splint his legs. She asks Xavier what business he has in these mountains; is he is a drug smuggler or a spy? He tells her that he is neither. She replies that he must be a fool to venture into the caves, knowing that they are haunted. Xavier tells her about meeting the demon of the mountains, commenting that she will not have to worry about him again.
When Xavier asks Sage how she found him, she tells him that she heard a voice in her head and followed, till she met him, a person that speaks, but without words. He explains to her that he is a mutant; he also states that he believes she is as well. Sage asks what it means to be a mutant? He tells her that it means she is unique. Smirking and picking her gun up, she tells Xavier that she is not unique. He retorts that she is a girl that sees everything and remembers it all. She places the gun to Charles’ head and asks is her is stealing her thoughts. Xavier explains that the core of her mind is protected from intrusion, but the way she acts and the way she presents herself, those are the things that tell him what she is. He tells her that there is no crime in needing help. She tells him that needing help means you are weak, while the weak die in the mountains. He tells her that he needs her help. She smiles at the American, stating that he is not weak, just injured.
Minutes later, Sage has used a gurney to remove Xavier from the caves. She looks out across the valley and tells him that there is trouble up ahead and the two of them should go around it. Suddenly, Bogan’s voice is heard from behind her, coming from Xavier’s lips.  He asks her, is she is trying to change history? Sage states that she was wondering when he was going to show himself. Bogan tells Sage that, even in the vault of her memories, she will not let her friends see her for who she truly is. He tells her, as Sage begins to walk to a nearby ledge, to peer through her scope, that her friends are heroes, but she is a monster. He goes on to say that she rejected Xavier’s offer to join him at his school, because she thought it would mean weakness to say she needed help. Finishing, he tells her that she will not asks them for their help in defeating him, because she still believes that weakness brings death.
Sage fires round after round into the insurgent troops ranks, killing them. Walking through the dead, she notices the few that are alive, but what catches her attention the most is the death of a young woman. Almost ambushed, Sage turns around to pelt the oncoming attacker with a rain of bullets. A nearby attacker begs for her mercy, as Sage reaches for her knife. She plunges it next to his terrified face and the man stares at the blood soaked knife in horror. Walking back to the woman, Sage places a jacket over the woman’s chest, as if she was just molested by the man that Sage had just spared from death. Sage looks at the woman’s dog tags and then notices the woman’s blood has covered her own hands. Sage begins to weep and her eye-markings begin to become visible once more, as she is seen in her present garb.
Sage stands before the X-Treme team, along with Bogan’s pet telepath; Bogan asks them what their verdict on her killings would be. Gambit asks Sage if she thinks any of them are different than her? Lucas states that this is something they all have in common. Rogue, grasping to Cannonball in tears, tells Sage that this is why Storm chose them all to be on the team. Cannonball wipes his eyes and tells Sage that they know what they are struggling for, because they have seen the alternative. Bogan in Xavier’s body, stands atop the nearby hill and screams to Sage that she cannot win against him. As he rants, the X-Treme team tries to talk sense into Sage and to allow them to help her in this fight. Suddenly, Bogan’s pet telepath draws close to Kitty and they all reappear in the catacombs of Bogan’s lair.
On the Physical Plane Once More:
Sunspot and Skids, who were not with the others on the Astral Plane, are just awakening from Bogan’s earlier attack. Shocked, the X-Treme team just now realizes that they were not on a physical battlefield and that their struggles were carried out in their own minds. Just then, a scream is heard and Sam recognizes it as his friend’s - Magma!
Racing into a nearby room, the others watch, as Amara sits on her knees, screaming about how she has killed Sage. In front of her, encased in ash is a huddles statue of Sage, holding something in her hand. Sam rushes to Amara’s side to comfort her. He tells her that Sage is not dead, as they were just with her. Bishop looks worried, telling the others that Sage still could be badly burned. Gambit, taking charge, tells Sam to follow his lead, as the two mutants use their skills to knock Sage out of the hardened ash that she was encased in. Lucas grabs Sage as she falls.
Standing to her feet, Sage grasps hold of an odd shaped jewel. She tells the others that she had thought she could defeat Bogan alone, but she was wrong. Sage squats low to the ground, while Bishop moves towards her back. When Lucas asks if she has a plan, she tells him that she has hope. Gambit states that her answer works for them. Rogue and Shadowcat meld into one another. Sage tells them that, inside the jewel, they will find Bogan, as well as the essence of the telepath. Kitty tells Rogue that she will have to take on Bogan, as she will go after the telepath.
Being sucked inside the jewel, Rogue notices a distorted world, as she dodges Bogan’s immediate attack. Kitty sneaks out of Rogue’s body and through this horrifying world that Bogan has created for himself. Rogue keeps being pummeled by nearby debris, as Kitty approaches the shackled form of the telepath that is being held prisoner. With a touch from Kitty to the telepath, Bogan is instantly alerted to his error, Rogue teases that they have surprised him again.
Sage uses his surprise to use Bishop to channel energy through her, through Rogue, and against the psychic chains that bind the telepath to Bogan. Sage also uses this time to piggyback the psychic chains to the source, but Rogue hears her thoughts a little too soon. Rogue travels near to Sage, Kitty and the telepath, telling Sage that she will not allow her to make herself a martyr. With that said, Rogue uses her borrowed powers to suck the telepath, Sage and Kitty back into the physical world with her. Rogue bursts out of the jewel, destroying it in the process.
Kitty holds the telepath in her arms, as the shadow begins to fade off the woman’s form. Kitty says aloud that she thought the telepath would be cured once Bogan’s influence was severed. The black fades away, revealing a redheaded, Caucasian female with no clothes on. It’s Rachel Summers! She tells Kitty that she knew if she continued to hold on that, one day, she would find her. The two women embrace one another, crying tears of joy.


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Prisoner of Fire - part 6: Liberation
At Rogue’s Beach House in Valle Soleada, California, the woman named Marie D’Ancanto is talking to Evangeline Whedon about how the life of the X-Men seems to be so unpredictable. As if on cue, her face becomes horrified, as she opens the nearby closet. Callisto wraps her tentacles around the fainted D’Ancanto, while Storm walks out, telling Callisto how she should feel bad for scaring such a young girl. Picking the child up, Callisto tells Storm that her being scared was not her fault.
Vange hears the commotion nearby and walks out to find Callisto and Storm. As Vange believes the women to be attackers, she begins to transform into her dragon form, as she warns them to surrender. Storm readies herself for the attack, telling Vange that they do not take kindly to threats. Oddly, it is Callisto that stops the two women from fighting one another, by telling them to calm down and take a breather. With the two women still at each other’s throats, Shadowcat bursts onto the scene by phasing through the walls to tell them to hush, since Rachel has finally fallen asleep. Looking towards Ororo, Kitty comments on how, every time she goes to Tokyo, she comes back a different woman. Both women comment on how the other looks good, then Kitty takes Ororo to see Rachel. She explains that Rachel was the pet telepath of Bogan’s and she has been working for him for months. Kitty pulls the sheets over Rachel’s chest, telling Storm that Rachel is “one tough chica.”
After Kitty and Ororo leave Rachel’s room, Kitty comments on Callisto’s new look, and Callisto tells her that it is due to Masque’s so-called revenge. She goes on to say that it backfired, giving her a new look and power. Callisto’s tentacles maneuver to try and play with Kitty’s hair, but she stops at Kitty’s request. Kitty walks to the nearby closet, where the two women came from, asking them how they got here. Kitty looks back and sees Callisto and Storm acting strangely, with Callisto caressing Storm’s entire body with her tentacles. Vange asks Kitty if they could be another Callisto and Storm from an alternate dimension?
Inside the closet, Kitty meets Lila Cheney’s sentient house. The house tells Kitty that she is on file as an authorized user, meaning she could visit anytime. Kitty, shocked over the sentient A.I. technology, rambles to herself the technical words for what she is seeing. She is startled by Callisto’s tentacles, as wells as the fact she cannot phase through them to escape their grasp. Callisto pulls Shadowcat near her, telling her that she can sight-see later, because right now she needs to fill her and Storm in on Bogan and the others.
Kitty tells the others of Sage’s plan to bring her in as a wildcard, since Sage probably already knew about Rachel’s kidnapping and brainwashing. Ororo tells Kitty that she always assumed the telepath was Psylocke. Kitty sits on a nearby couch, drinking. She tells Storm that, if she thought about it, Psylocke could only use one power at a time – telepathy or teke. When Marie asks Kitty if Bogan is finally gone, Kitty tells her that the X-Men hope so, but they are checking his catacombs even as they speak to make sure.
In the catacombs, Sunspot, Magma and Bishop stand inside a vast room, containing books and trophies from Bogan’s past. The X-Men comment on how most of his trophies are dinosaurs, meaning Bogan must be a very old mutant. They comment as well on his books containing tales of cruelty. Bishop tells them that, according to Sage’s observations, Bogan was the Hellfire’s first Lord Imperial. When Sunspot ashamedly recalls aloud that his father was a member of the Hellfire Club, one of the Lords Cardinal, Magma tells Sunspot that he is not his father. Looking at two of Bogan’s trophies posed in a battle scene, Sunspot tells her that he could be worse than his father! Bishop shuts the book he was looking at, sending dust shooting out. He asks Magma if she is still able to track the others in the Catacombs. She tells him that, thanks to her powers, she can tell that Gambit and Sage are one level above them.
Gambit and Sage burst into a chamber in the catacombs, revealing a throne room. Gambit tells Sage that it seems the Catacombs are empty. She tells him that, with Bogan, appearances can be deceiving. Looking at the room, decorated with shackles on the walls, Gambit tells Sage that a thief could retire on what he sees there. Pointing out that this room is a replica of the original Hellfire Club’s throne room, she asks him if he is tempted to steal anything. Gambit sits in the throne of Bogan’s, telling her that some things are too tainted for even a thief to steal. He asks her what she is looking so hard for. She tells him that she is looking for an item that is almost as deadly as Bogan himself before … Sage busts through a mirror.
With Bishop’s team in the catacombs, Sunspot sees a mannequin that looks oddly enough like Magma! Sunspot calls to Amara, telling her to take a look at the mannequin. Nearing the item, she notices that the mannequin is covered with items from her family. Picking up the sword, she asks aloud how her father’s sword could be there? In answer, the mannequin begins to speak. It is Bogan, speaking through it! Suddenly, masks jump off the mannequin and attach themselves to Sunspot, Bishop and Magma. Elsewhere, the same things are happening to Sage, Cannonball and Rogue. The only two shown not affected are Skids and Gambit. As Sage is attacked, her last instinct mistakenly sends a bullet from her gun, striking Gambit in the chest. Bogan talks through Sunspot, telling them that he always saves the best for last.
Rachel awakens from her sleep, screaming to an unseen attacker. She tells him that he got her once, but it won’t happen again. Rachel begins to turn to her shadow appearance and a tattoo of the phoenix glows brightly over her left eye. She uses her powers to grasp every member in Rogue’s house and hurls them into Lila’s sentient house, with herself following close behind. When Storm asks aloud if Rachel is attacking them, Kitty tells the others that it doesn’t seem like an attack, but like Rachel is trying to protect them. Inside Lila’s house, Rachel tells them that Bogan cannot reach them here. Kitty comforts her terrified friend, but asks her who will protect the others?
Amara’s dream:
Back in the catacombs, Amara dreams of awakening to see her old tormenter, Selene, standing before her. Amara stands in defense, holding her father’s sword between herself and Selene. Selene tosses a Romanesque helmet at the feet of Amara, telling her that her mother had worn that same headpiece when she claimed her! Amara is shocked to see Selene as her attacker. Selene states, where else should a mutant child that wields the very power of Gaea be found, but at the feet of the reigning Black Queen of the Hellfire Club.
Sunspot’s dream:
Roberto dreams that he is the Lord Imperial of the Hellfire Club. Standing in the original throne room, the friends that followed him into battle against Bogan are all shackled to the walls, paying homage to him. Bobby, dressed like royalty, looks out towards his one-time friends and sadistically smiles.
Rogue’s dream:
Rogue stands above Sage, Gambit and Storm, as a hidden voice congratulates her on killing her friends. She holds onto a two-edged double-fisted sword and tells Vargas that she will do better! Vargas stands close by, bare-chested and holding his own sword. He tells her that Destiny’s diaries predicted his death at her hands, but he spits in the eye of prophecy. Vargas closes in on Rogue and the two one-time enemies passionately kiss. He tells her that he wants her by his side. Transforming into Mystique, Rogue tells Vargas that it works for her, “sugah.”
Bishop’s dream:
Bishop sits in nothing but his shorts, in a Yoga-type stance. The mutant smiles, as he reaches for his face to pull the mask off of himself. Back in the catacombs, Bishop lies on the ground with his mask shattered around him.
Sage lies on the floor of the throne room, as a shadowed figure nears her. Sage sits up quickly, with her mask shattered about her and the gun pointing straight at her supposed attacker. Gambit swiftly grabs the gun from Sage’s grasp, telling her that he has had enough of her foolishness with guns for one day. Sage looks angered, wondering if she hadn’t shot him. He tells her that she did, but his X-Men armor protected him. He goes on to say that he is glad she didn’t aim for his head. Sage smirks, telling him that he has such a good-looking head, who would want to blemish it? Gambit helps Sage to her feet. Sage explains that Bogan is trying to anchor to their souls, but it seems that Gambit was spared, since he was so near death. Gambit bows to Sage, offering her the gun back; he tells her that he could not have captured him anyways, since he is so slippery.
Rogue’s dream:
Her and Vargas are still passionately kissing, when a “snikt” sound is heard, leaving Vargas clutching to his chest. Rogue, still in Mystique form, tells Vargas that she is an X-Man. Awaking from her dream, she says aloud that she will be an X-Man till the end. Surrounding Rogue are the shattered pieces of her mask.
Sunspot’s dream:
Sunspot looks down at the crown in his hand. Using his massive strength, Bobby crushes the crown between his hands. Awaking from his dream, he screams out that he did it, he defeated his temptation. Surrounding him are the pieces of his mask. Crawling over to Amara, he is shocked to see that she is still in her trance.
Amara’s dream:
Selene tells Amara to not make the same mistake her mother made in defying her. Amara strikes out with her father’s sword, asking Selene if she killed her mother. Selene dodges the attacks, telling Amara that she is such like her father, as he tried to defend her mother with the same bravado. Selene tells Amara that her sword cannot harm her. She goes on to say that the Rome that is legend to Amara is a memory to her. Amara scream out, as Selene’s cape begins to wrap Amara in a prison of it’s own that Bogan will never have her. Selene tells her that this has nothing to do with Elias. Amara drops the sword from her hand, as she is imprisoned in Selene’s cape. She asks Selene what she has done. Selene tells her that he mother refused the glory she was offered. Amara surrounds herself in flames, telling Selene that she refuses it as well. Selene tells her that she refuses this time, perhaps, but immortality breeds patience. Selene laughs as she is covered in Amara’s flames.
Bishop hurls his body over Sunspot and Amara’s, as the room around them begins to shake. Gambit and Sage rush into the room that Bishop’s team occupies. Gambit tells them that, if this earthquake is caused by Amara, only she can stop it. Sage states that they have no time to awaken her, as it seems they have little hope of saving themselves or the city above them. Bishop points an accusing finger towards Sage, telling her that she needs to have more faith. Firing an energy blast at the ceiling, he tells the others that he will give them an exit.
Above them, the blast penetrates through the roof of the X-Corp building, giving them moonlight to reach for. Just then, Cannonball flies through, holding Rogue and Skids. The two women grasp hold of Sage and Gambit, while Cannonball flies the five of them to the surface. Bishop tells him to hurry up and return for them. He does not get the chance, for as soon as he exits the Catacombs a huge lava flow grasps the stone floor that Bishop, Sunspot and Magma lie on and jettison them to the surface.
Outside, on the property of X-Corp L.A., the team watches as the building sinks beneath the ground in a flurry of lava. Sage tells them that the eruption seems to be subsiding, meaning Amara is waking up. Amara apologizes to Roberto for destroying his building. Comforting her in his arms, he tells her that the building is insured; the important thing is she was able to defeat the monster that lived inside her. The team huddles around one another, as Sunspot looks up, telling them that next time he prays it is Bogan’s and not his house. Gambit looks at the small volcano where the building used to be and asks the others how they are going to explain that?


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One For My Lady… One More For The Road
The X-Men, each in their own way, spend a day in leisure activity. Storm surfs the beaches of Valle Soleada barefooted, Bishop and Sage play a game of chess, Gambit and Rogue sit on the beach finishing a late-night dinner, Lila Cheney and Sam Guthrie eat at a fancy restaurant, Rachel and Kitty spend a day shopping, Callisto juggles her knives as she plays on the beach, and Magma watches the volcano she created earlier as Sunspot informs reporters what happened.
Their leisure time is interrupted, as late that night they are shocked by Neal Conan and Manoli Wetherell's report of the devastation wrought by Magneto in New York City. Conan reports that Magneto seized control of Manhattan Island and its two million inhabitants and took America hostage. Conan continues on, as the television shows the destruction that Magneto caused by destroying bridges, as well as the famous Statue of Liberty, describing the destruction Magneto caused. Elsewhere, Manoli Wetherell shows the Red Cross tents, with the many hundreds of cots and body bags lining the grounds before them. The X-Treme team watches with their friends, as on the television they see Wolverine decapitate Magneto; they also see Cyclops's tears, as he holds the lifeless body of his wife, Jean Grey. The narrator on the television, Bob Edwards, comments on how Xavier's Institute has been destroyed. He continues on to say that the X-Men's victory came with a cost, the death of one of their members.
The phone rings, Gambit picks it up, telling Storm the phone call is for her, its Val Cooper. After hanging up from the phone, Storm tells the others that the president has called a halt to the X-Treme team in their involvement with his government. Bishop looks up and exclaims, with the recent events, who could blame him. Magma walks to the door, as Sam states that he doesn’t care if they are government sanctioned; he is still going to help the injured on Manhattan Island. Roberto stands to his feet, telling Sam that he can count on his help. Storm tells the others to get in uniform; they will for Xavier’s in one hour. With that said, Magma pops in, telling Storm that she may want to rethink her plans when she sees who is outside.
Looking outside, the team is greeted by a host of mutant and human residents of Valle Soleada. Vange tells the X-Treme team that she and the others saw what was happening on television and they’re there to go with them – to help. Jack Freestone tells them that they are mutants, humans, first-responders, and even some of them have military training… Marie states that they can roll bandages, pour coffee, and hold kids… Guy tells them that this is their country too – their all Americans. Without hesitation, Roberto starts barking orders; he commands them to get everyone organized by powers, skills, contributions, and then make him a list. Roberto looks behind him and asks Lila if she can teleport them all. She gleefully replies that as long as they do not mind traveling via the Crab Nebula, she can. Behind the X-Treme team, Rogue approaches Sage, telling her that they need to talk. Sage replies that she wondered how long it would take her to ask.
Gambit walks into Rogue and his’ room, startled to see rose petals across their bed. Gambit looks around for Rogue, telling her that Roberto and Lila have almost got everything prepared. He begins to question if he forgot a Birthday or Anniversary? From behind a door, Rogue steps out in a sexy, lingerie-type outfit, showing her pink undergarments through a see-through top. Gambit tells Rogue that it is killing him to say this, but this moment is not the time for them. Rogue approaches Gambit, wrapping her arms around him, she tells him that its carpe diem. She leans in to kiss him, saying that moments like this may never come again.
Rogue kisses Gambit - she states delicious. Hearing this, Gambit suddenly realizes she is not Rogue. He tries to pull away, but to no avail. She tells him not to be afraid, as lightning courses through his body. She states that he will feel pain, but it’s for the best. Gambit falls to the bed, as the true Rogue comes bursting through, telling Gambit that everything will be okay. Sage stands to her feet, as the illusion that surrounded her falls away. Gambit, angered, screams at the two women, asking them what the two of them just did to him. Sage pulls a card from her brazier and tosses it to Gambit. The thief catches the card in mid-flight, telling Sage that he can knows he has the ability to catch a card. Sage tells Gambit that he is not paying attention. Gambit looks at the card, glowing in his hand with kinetic energy. The card is seen as the Joker, as Gambit powers it down. Rogue explains that Sage needed the right surge of adrenaline in him to jump-start his powers again. Gambit caresses Rogue’s cheek and asks if she can do the same for her.
At Manhattan Island, the Avengers, along with other relief workers, are already busy rebuilding. Storm waves towards Captain America as she flies by him. Minutes later, she looks down on Thor, as he works hard carrying steel. Looking out onto the vast devastation on the ground below, she watches as Xavier’s Estate is being rebuilt. Above her, a shadow of an Angel appears in the sky. The shadow calls down to her and she recognizes the voice of Archangel. Storm maneuvers around Warren, asking herself if he still blames her for Psylocke’s death. She tells him, as lightning courses around her, that he should not expect an apology from her about Betsy’s death. Archangel tells Storm that her accusations are not the reason she is there, but to see if she is okay after the news of Jean’s death is. Storm tells him that she and Jean were best friends.
Warren and Storm fly through the sky as they talk. She asks Warren why Magneto would have killed Jean. He tells her that the reasons are not needed. She replies that losing her last time was unbearable; it doesn’t get easier with time. They fly closer to the Institute and, as Warren and Storm embrace, he tells her that, if she needs a shoulder to cry on, he is there. She exclaims that she always wanted a kid brother. As the two part, he tells her, jokingly, to call him a big brother.
On the ground, somewhere near Westchester, New York, the woman called Sage has the scope of her gun set on the winged X-Man. Sage, sarcastically, comments on how the X-Treme team are supposed to look towards Storm for their example. Behind her, Bishop arrives and lowers her weapon. Checking the setting, he sees that the gun is set for stun. He states that it is a relief the gun was set that way, but he wonders why she thought Warren would harm their leader. Sage explains that she was not worried for Storm; she was worried about Warren. She continues to explain that, since Storm’s arrival back from Tokyo, she has become a different person, unpredictable at best.
Harry’s Hideaway is a quaint tavern near the Xavier Institute that has been almost like a second home to the X-Men, ever since their formation as a team. It is there that Storm first arrives, knowing that friends will be there. She thinks, as she floats to the ground, about her first reaction to Warren’s approach and how she was truly ready for a fight. The first friend she greets is Rahne Sinclair, a.k.a Wolfsbane. Turning feral, the young woman tells Storm to get away from her and she pounces into the bar, escaping what she thinks is danger. Storm exclaims to an approaching Dani Moonstar that she has known the child for years, but has never seen that reaction out of her. Dani tells her that Rahne’s senses are honed to their peak; that maybe Storm is not the same Storm Rahne knew.
In a room adjoining the tavern, Amara sulks over a few mementos from her days as Allison Crestmere. Sam Guthrie enters the room and questions Amara about her sad look. She shows him what is left of her belongings after the recent destruction of the mansion at the hands of Magneto. He asks her why she has called herself Amara, as of late, because he thought she had discovered that her past was a lie and that she was truly a girl named Allison. She tells him that after her recent crucifixion and Archangel’s saving of her life, her memories came flooding back to her, making her remember the truth about her past. She explains that her name is Amara Juliana Olivans Aquilla and that her father is the first senator in the lost city of the Romans and Incas. Sam holds Amara, as she tells him that Allison was just a vicious vision that stole her from her home and plagued her true family.
At the Xavier Institute, two women are hard at work on what is left of the mutant detection unit, Cerebra. Kitty asks for a screwdriver, which is handed to her via the telekinetic powers of Rachel Summers. Rachel sits with her legs crossed, as Lockheed sleeps in her lap, hovering in mid-air. Rachel asks Kitty if it was worth saving her life, only to be brought back into the X-Men again. Kitty tells Rachel that it was worth it. Rachel exclaims to her, that she needs to be careful, as people may start talking about them, relationship-wise. When Rachel asks Kitty how many times the mansion has been destroyed, Kitty tells Phoenix that it is a Zen thing, that they will keep rebuilding the mansion till they finally get it right. Rachel tells Kitty that her mother’s name was Phoenix, and to call her Marvel Girl. The two X-Men rise and walk towards the exit, as Kitty tells Marvel Girl that the name was also her mother’s. Rachel states, “Absolutely.”
The two women phase through the floor and into the kitchen, to the surprise of a few of the workers that are helping fix the mansion. Kitty tells Rachel that she will do her mother proud. Rachel, changing the subject asks, a nearby Sam Guthrie what the heavenly smell is that is permeating throughout the kitchen. He tells her, as he and Amara set the table, that Gambit is teaching Bishop a Cajun jambalaya recipe. Nearby, still in the kitchen, the Cajun sprinkles in some spices, as Bishop stirs the pot. Remy tells Lucas not to forget about the rice, as he goes off to cut up some Andouille sausage. Rogue appears behind Remy, as she tries to steal a piece of sausage from the chopping block. Remy smacks her hand with the blunt part of his knife, telling her not to be so grabby.
Sage asks Remy if he is sure they cannot help. He asks if either one of them is good at making salads, as Rogue menacingly stares at her lover, Remy. Gambit allows Rogue to eat a piece of the sausage, as nearby the kitchen table the others talk about what is going on. Kitty tells Sam that the city is considering suing Xavier for the New York tragedy. Sam asks if they are talking billions. She tells him that billions is at the low end of the monetary damage. Sam asks how they can possibly atone for Xavier’s student’s actions. Kitty tells him that she is not sure they should even try. Kitty goes on to say that at a time the team needs their leaders the most, both Xavier and Logan have left them. Sam watches the doorway. Seeing Dani walk by, she interrupts Kitty’s speech, rushing over to talk to Dani. He asks her if she has considered his invitation. She tells him that he can be the Marshal, as she is content to stay a teacher. Dani kisses Sam on the cheek, as two nearby students whisper to one another.
Later that evening, Storm has joined the others, as she toasts them with a glass of wine before their meal. They all stand, as Storm speaks. She quotes a Charles Dickens’ phrase, from the book A Tale of Two Cities. She tells them that it was the best of times and the worst of times, though it seems now that the later statement is true. She goes on to say that their efforts have all been reduced to ashes thanks to Magneto’s terror. She tells them that they are more feared now than ever before, that there is talk about governments branding mutants as outlaws, not even letting them have children, and sending them into concentration camps. Storm continues to talk about how some people believe that a war between humans and mutants has already begun and that is why the X-Men must stand up to both factions, fighting against one another. She tells them that both sides will hate them and jeer their successes, but with great power comes great responsibility.
She holds and X.S.E. badge in her hand; as she raises it up, she tells them that she has a badge for each one of them; she asks who will join her in shouldering the responsibility? Near her, the others hold their wine glasses up, as if in approval of her words.


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With a look of concentration on his face, Charles Xavier introduces himself and says that he believes in infinity. A voice calls out to a boy and asks what the holdup is. Kid Nightcrawler is wearing a cerebra helmet and is sitting on a device in the center of a round room. Attached to the device are dozens of glass orbs, each one containing the severed, let living, head of a Charles Xavier.
Kid Nightcrawler apologizes and says he has linked the Xavier heads and has given them a directive. They’re crunching the numbers and should be ready to jump. Xavier continues and says that once you accept infinity you accept the multiverse with its innumerable parallel worlds and “you’s.” He says it’s just science, ask any physicist.
In the streets, the people are running around in fear as buildings start to crumble. Howlett speaks to Kid Nightcrawler over the radio and tells him they are out of time, as the planet is breaking up. Behind him, Armor and Storm are trying to stop a building from falling down and crushing people.
Xavier asks what else but infinity could explain not just the infinitesimal possibility, but also the absolute inevitability, that one days a team of cross-dimensional X-Men – including Captain James Howlett, Emmaline Frost-Summers and Kurt Waggoner – would direct a hundred of his severed heads from their own realities to find an alternate Earth and teleport the entire human population of an exploding planet to a new home?
Kid Nightcrawler is watching over the Xaviers as they make the event happen. Entire cities, buildings and all are teleported to a new reality. Once they arrive, the chaos in the streets stops and the population stops to marvel at their new home. In the chamber, Kid Nightcrawler rejoices that it actually worked but his joy is cut short when all the Xaviers cry out in pain and their glass containers shatter. Using her telepathy, Emmaline explains that they overloaded themselves, as no-one has ever teleported six billion people and hundreds of trillions of tons of architecture all at once before.
One of the Xaviers remains intact and he tells Emmaline that it’s not just that; something has gone wrong or maybe it’s not gone right. In the sky above, a portal starts to appear. Xavier tells Kurt to look to it and then says that in all the universe of infinite possibilities someone was eventually going to usher in the end of everything.
(Meanwhile in our world, San Francisco)
On a street in San Francisco, Dazzler is dressed in her silver stage costume. Holding a microphone, she addresses a small crowd and tells them that she knows it’s hard. Who doesn’t want to jump off this crazy ol’ world most days? But she’s been through it all and she’s still here…she’s Alison Blaire… The Dazzler. And that means she’s here for all of them.
Only it isn’t the real Dazzler but a male impersonator instead. The crowd look on unbelieving as “Dazzler” continues and says he knows what they are going through and he swears today he will never let them go. One of the onlookers, a man in a hoodie, starts to laugh as another man scowls at him. As “Dazzler” starts to sing, the man in the hoodie shouts for him to play Freebird. The man who was scowling at his tells him that isn’t cool. None of them notice a woman walking towards them. She is carrying a guitar case on her back and is hanging her head down low under a cowboy cap.
As she walks past the singing impersonator, she waves her hand and light comes out of it, though it is unseen by the crowd. As the impersonator belts out one of Dazzler’s songs, bright, colorful light suddenly surrounds him to the amazement of the crowd. The crowd  suddenly gets into the song and start to dance. The impersonator looks out at the woman and gives her a wink. The woman, the real Dazzler, walks away smiling as a voice calls her shameless. Alison says that she always sticks up for the underdog, particularly when it’s her.
The voice belongs to a young Asian man who also has a guitar strapped to his back. Alison apologizes and says she doesn’t usually show-off on a second date. The man says if he had impersonators and magic powers then he would have done the same thing. Alison corrects him telling him, it’s mutant powers. As the walk up to an ice-cream van, the man tells her not to get all “sciency” on him but she just says that it’s Homo superior 101.
The man says that he doesn’t know all about that… he’s just Johnny Ito, a simple country session musician… but he knows magic when he sees it. Johnny becomes embarrassed and asks if that was corny. As they take a couple of ice-cream cones Alison asks him if she’s blushing. He tells her she is and so she replies that corny works. She points out that he’s now blushing but he brushes it off saying it was a sympathetic reflex like yawning… and he’s still wrapping himself around the fact that she just called it a date.
As they walk across the street, Johnny starts babbling about how they were just hanging out after rehearsals but everyone else left except the two of them and then it happened, two days in a row. Alison interrupts him and tells him she thinks he’s cute when he self-depreciates. He smiles at her and says that accounts for about 28 percent of the cuteness. Alison smiles back and bites her finger nail as she tells him she is about to make some rash decisions. However, before she can go on, her phone starts ringing. When she looks at the display, she sees the call is coming from Utopia, much to her annoyance.
(Utopia)
As they walk through the Utopia complex, Dazzler tells Madison Jeffries that it had better be good, as she was about to get lucky. He tells her that he will pretend he didn’t hear that, to which Dazzler quips that it’s “all coming up Dazzler.” Madison says that they have rebuilt the ghost box that teleported Cyclops back from his alternate world adventure. Dazzler comments that she loves the way it trips off his tongue as if that’s totally normal. Madison replies that it actually is, for the X-Men. He continues and says that Cyclops made some friends in that reality and he thinks that they are in trouble.
As they approach one of the research labs, they overhear Cyclops and Danger talking. Cyclops says they don’t have time to fool around; if they need a power source he’s got it covered. Danger tells him his optic blasts aren’t directly convertible but Cyclops interrupts him and says that he has seen the specs and the ghost box requires a massive amount of energy. Just as he starts questioning Dazzler’s powers, she walks in and loudly clears her throat. As Cyclops greets her, she says she heard that Cyclops was running a little low on awesome.
Madison walks over to a device that is holding a ghost box. He starts it up and tells Dazzler that he can create any sound she likes. To his surprise, she gets out her guitar and tells him that she has better control her way. Danger starts to tell her how the system is built but Dazzler just asks where to hit it. Danger simply tells her to hit the little red dot. As she starts playing her guitar, she begins to generate bursts of light around her. She tells Cyclops not to sweat it, as she understands it’s easy to underestimate “the Dazz.” Even she has trouble putting confidence in a former drug-addict disco queen with daddy issues and one hit record to her name. But some days you walk down the street and realize your dopey behind-the-music life may have made a difference to somebody in some way… so it’s all good.
With that Dazzler lets out a blast of light that hits the ghost box. Madison tells her that was perfect and Danger says it is at 100 percent powered.
As the ghost box turns on and starts to open up a portal, Cyclops thanks Dazzler and tells her to stand back. Before he can finish, though, dozens of huge tentacles reach through the portal. Along with the tentacles, Kid Nightcrawler, Xavier, Emmaline and Howlett jump through. Howlett yells to Cyclops to close the portal or the whole world will die. Before he can react, Cyclops is hit by a blast coming from one of the tentacles. Nearby, Madison and Danger are both flung through the air as Dazzler dives for cover.
On the floor Cyclops is bleeding but he recognizes his friends from the other dimension. Dazzler grabs her guitar and starts playing. As she swings her arms around, she lets out daggers of light that hit some of the tentacles, which are in turn sliced apart. Wrapped up in one of the tentacles, Howlett yells to Dazzler to shut it down. Danger agrees with him but starts to malfunction due to her injuries. As Cyclops starts to get up, Dazzler tells him to stay down. She runs towards the portal and tells him not to worry… this b-side rocks. With that, she leaps in the air and lets out a huge blast of light right into the core of the tentacles.
However, some more tentacles wrap around her and pull her through another portal. Kid Nightcrawler yells for the other not to let it get away. Emmaline, picking her fur coat off the floor, asks why… as “away” is good. Howlett tells her that in his world it is considered bad form to let the monster eat the girl. Emmaline replies that she seems fairly well grown and she can take care of herself. Kid Nightcrawler grabs the rest of his team and tells them to get ready. As Emmaline tells them it’s a bad idea, he teleports them through the portal to Dazzler and the source of the tentacles. Dazzler yells for them to wait, as it would just be better to teleport her out instead of everyone else in.
They arrive on the other side of the portal to find themselves in a huge cave. In the middle of the cave is a giant, squid-like creature with a huge, exposed brain which has lots of cables coming out of it. The squid-creature lets them go and they stare at it in shock and disgust. Xavier tells them that it’s what Xavier looks like on this world. With that, the Xavier-squid lets out a psychic blast that causes the team to collapse on the floor in agony. All, that is, except Howlett. Xavier tells him it’s all up to him. With that, Howlett leaps forward at the Xavier-squid and starts slashing at it with his golden claws, spraying blue blood everywhere.
As the rest of the team start to recover, Dazzler asks how he did that. Howlett replies that he has an adamantine-laced skull that protects him from psychic attacks. Howlett introduces himself to her as James Howlett, Former Governor General of dominion of Canada and Viceroy of her Majesty’s expedition to Shangri-la. She replies and says she’s Alison Blaire but everyone calls her the Dazzler. Emmaline says that they don’t on her world. As Dazzler starts to ask what they call her, Emmaline cuts her off and tells her not in polite company.
Kid Nightcrawler turns to Dazzler and explains that she is Emmaline Frost-Summers of the Albion X-Society. He then whispers that actually she isn’t that polite. He then introduces himself as Kurt Waggoner of PS 1214, Brooklyn of the United States of California. He tells Dazzler that he has her album, or rather the album of the Dazzler from his world. He says he has never heard anyone play the accordion the way she does.
The Xavier head in a jar then comes forward and introduces himself. Dazzler jokes that he must be from the no-body world. He tells her it’s a long story, so he’ll cut to the chase.
A hundred other Xaviers and he just saved the entire human population of a dying planet in the largest trans-dimensional teleportation ever attempted. Kurt chips in and says it was awesome, they even moved the cats too. Dazzler tells him that was impressive but she didn’t think the Xavier on her world had that kind of power. Xavier tells her that neither did they… alone. He goes on and tells her he can concentrate enough information to create a miniature black hole, warp space and time and trans-dimensionally teleport a handful of people at a time. Only by combining all their powers could they transport so many… and that’s what caused the problem. They broke something in the multiverse… or rather created something.
Howlett says he is losing track of the cut-to-the-chase part. Xavier tells them he has a mission for them. Across the multiverse, ten different Xaviers a thousand times more powerful than the squid-Xavier have been awakened. They must find them and kill them before they destroy all of creation.
Dazzler tells him there are about a jillion problems with that plan. She says that firstly X-Men don’t kill, a fact which Howlett can’t quite believe. And secondly, assuming everything else about the story is true, how do they know that he isn’t the first evil Xavier? Emmaline says that he is telling the truth, to which Dazzler says that maybe she is an evil Xavier too. Emmaline tells Dazzler that maybe she is as well. Dazzler says that maybe she is so don’t mess with her. Kurt stands in the middle of the group and asks what they are fighting for, as they all know they are going to do this. When Emmaline asks why that is, Kurt replies that it’s because they are X-Men.
As Xavier tells them to prepare for the first jump, Dazzler tries to object but it’s too late. The team starts to move through time and space. As they do so, they see an image of a man sitting on the stairs outside a house whilst playing a guitar. Dazzler recognizes the man as Johnny and calls out to him but Xavier tells her he can’t hear. Dazzler thinks they are going to her world but Xavier corrects her and says they are just on transit and that her psyche is reaching him through the cracks. He says he would appreciate it if she would stop but she tells him the heart wants what the heart wants. As she stares at him she says she was supposed to meet him at eight and he’s getting stood up as they speak. Just then a woman approaches Johnny and hugs him much to Dazzler’s alarm. She reaches out to him but the image disappears as the team reaches their destination.
They arrive in a courtyard that styled in a similar fashion to the ancient Greek or Roman times. Large columns made of stone hold up buildings, which in turn are decorated with carved scenes and statues. Dazzler curses as they arrive and Howlett asks what’s wrong. As she starts to tell him it’s nothing, a voice yells out and calls them blasphemers. The voice belongs to a guard dressed in ancient Roman-style armor. He orders the other guards to kill them, and with that they let out a flurry of arrows at the team. Dazzler creates a shield made of light above them to deflect the arrows.
Kurt points out they have swords too as the guards charge them. Howlett engages the guards and shatters their swords with his claws. Dazzler looks towards the guards and asks how hard this can be. Just as she says that, another voice calls out and orders them to kneel. The team look up to see this world’s version of Angel, Storm, Iceman, Namor, Sabretooth and Thor looking down at them. They are dressed in a similar fashion to the guards, except their armor looks much more ornate and is gold. Angel continues his orders for them to kneel down and pay homage to the gods of the temple they so foolishly desecrate. In reply to Dazzler’s earlier question, Kurt simply says “that hard.”


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Flying high above the team, Waran, The Herald, introduces himself. Calling the team blasphemers, he tells them to hear of the gods who will break their bones. Pointing to a large muscular man with long blond hair and sharp teeth protruding from his lower jaw, Waran refers to him as Sawtooth, lord of the wild. Next he turns to a man made of ice whom he calls Draka, king of the ice. To his right, he gestures to Thor, god of thunder and Namor, god of the sea. Finally, he comes to the almighty Storm, Skybreaker and All-mother. All the “gods” are wearing intricate golden armor fashioned in a similar way to their 616 universe costumes.
Storm tells the newly arrived X-Men that they are strangers here… ignorant of the temple they have desecrated in their blundering. She then offers than one chance to save themselves… kneel and pray for her mercy. Looking up at the gods, Dazzler and Kurt aren’t keen on obeying, especially since Kurt is Presbyterian. But Howlett kneels down first and tells him to think a bit more ecumenically. He whispers to the other that back on his world he had some experiences with gods and if you disobey them you don’t do it to their faces.
Xavier telepathically agrees with him and says that his psychic probes reveal the goddess will lose her patience in twelve second, to which Emmaline corrects him to seven whilst kneeling down. Dazzler doesn’t bow down. Instead, she says they aren’t gods, but a bunch of alternate-mutants. She’s all for respect but she isn’t going to… Before she can finish, Thor shouts “enough” and slams his hammer down amongst the team.
The team is thrown backwards and Kurt yells to Dazzler to give him her hand. She refuses, telling him to “bamf” himself out of there as she is doing fine. With that, she creates a barrier of light that blocks shrapnel thrown at her by Thor. Howlett grabs the head of Xavier and uses his claws to anchor them both as the wind created by Thor’s hammer blows them backwards.
Howlett asks what she is doing but Xavier tells him that she is absorbing the sound waves from the gods’ attacks but he doesn’t know is she’ll be able to survive long enough to use it. He is cut off, though, by Dazzler releasing a huge blast of light that sends Thor crashing backwards into Storm. Storm calls him husband as he lies on the floor but he tells her not to worry, as it’s just a little cut. It’s been so long he has forgotten what it feels like to bleed.
Seeing her husband injured angers Storm and her eyes start to crackle with electricity. She tells the team to prepare themselves as she starts to charge up for a lightning blast. Howlett tells Dazzler to run but she says she’s got this. Storm unleashes a blast of lightning right at Dazzler but Howlett jumps in the way, take the full shock. Emmaline comes up behind Dazzler, calls her a stupid girl and puts her hands around her head. As Dazzler collapses on the floor, Kurt cradles her and asks what that was. Xavier tells him it was a psychic blast; it was the only way. Emmaline walks up to Storm and kneels on the floor in front of her and begs her forgiveness and says that they pray for her mercy.
Next to her the dazed and smoking body of Howlett lies. Sawtooth walks up behind Storm and tells her Howlett smells good. She agrees and says it’s like roast pork and then says that he is all his. Sawtooth walks over to Howlett and grabs him by the arm. Howlett tells him to keep his hands off but Sawtooth says he has eaten his kind before. With that, he starts to slam Howlett around to tenderize him. But Howlett pops his claws and slashes Sawtooth across the wrist. Namor, watching the fight, tells Storm to finish it, as he doesn’t want any of the mortals to brag about how they survived a fight with the gods. Waran yells down to him to wait as he recognizes the head in the jar as that of Xavier. Smiling, Xavier says now they are getting somewhere.
Dazzler wakes up suddenly and sits bolt upright. She is now lying in a bed in a room decorated with ornate marble and columns. Waran is standing over her and tells her she is as lovely in repose as she is fierce in battle. Realizing she is naked, Dazzler asks for her clothes but Waran says they are optional here. She decides to opt in. Waran waves his hands and a skimpy, pink outfit appears on Dazzler. He tells her that she seems strangely familiar and she replies that a couple of years and a few multiverses ago, she had a thing with someone like him. She looks down at her new clothes and sarcastically thanks him for the classy outfit. She stands up and creates a dagger of light in her hand and demands he tells her where her friends are.
Dazzler and Waran walk through the building until they come across Kurt and Howlett being escorted by Draka and Namor. Kurt takes a look at Dazzler’s clothes and asks if they have Leia cosplay on her world too. She tells him to shut up and then asks why he doesn’t just teleport them out of there. Kurt tells her he can’t, as there’s something in his head; he thinks it’s Emmaline.
Dazzler asks where the traitor is and Howlett tells her she’s talking to the All-mother. Dazzler scoffs at the All-mother name but Howlett tells her these are real gods. Dazzler asks why they didn’t kill them when they had the chance. Waran answers her by saying the woman she speaks of so contemptuously just finished negotiating their temporary deliverance. Dazzler notes the word “temporary,” to which Waran tells her they attacked the gods. Whether they escape punishment now depends on how they amuse the gods.
The team comes across Emmaline and Xavier. Emmaline is dressed in a similar outfit to Dazzler’s, only hers is white and gold. Emmaline tells them that the queen of all there is requests their presence. Dazzler asks if that’s what she’s calling herself now but Emmaline tells her she was referring to Storm. Dazzler asks what’s going on and Xavier tells her that it’s serious. They are doing their best to keep her alive but now she has to do some of the heavy lifting. A voice calls to her and she looks round to see Johnny Ito standing before her, dressed in a guard’s uniform and carrying a guitar-like instrument on his back. He tells her he’ll be accompanying her today. Astounded, Dazzler assumes he is a god too but he tells her he is a slave (although Xavier tries to infer he is a servant). With an annoyed look on her face, Dazzler mutters that this is all crazy.
The team is escorted outside and across a bridge to a large temple. Below the bridge are bare, stepped fields that are being worked on by peasants. Dazzler says this is getting worse and Johnny says that this is where the mortals live. She asks about the desolation and he tells her it’s the ninth year of the drought. She asks about the drought and Draka mutters “there she goes again.” She continues and says that the heads of their pantheon control the weather. Howlett points out that the gods aren’t like them, they look upon the human suffering and don’t care.
They reach the temple and enter it. A voice calls out and says he once had a Howlett. They look to see Sawtooth walking up some steps towards them. He continues and says he ate a little bit of her every day, and the next morning she would be all healed ready to go again. But one night he got a little too greedy. He goes up to Howlett and says that he would be happy to have a second chance. Howlett pops a claw and says “whenever you’re ready.”
The team has moved to the middle of the temple, which looks like an arena with circular seating around a centre pit. They stand in the middle and look up at Storm and Thor, who are on a balcony above them. Storm tells Sawtooth to wait, as the psychics have pledged them their service. In turn, she has promised to give their companions one last chance to prove their worth.
Dazzler turns to Xavier and Emmaline and asks if they serve these psychopaths. Xavier tells her she doesn’t understand this world and to remember the mission… they have an evil Xavier to kill. Dazzler says she is getting a good fix on where he might be.
Storm addresses Dazzler and says that Emmaline told them she can sing. She glares up at Storm and says she does… for her friends. Thor starts to become angry and his hammer begins to crackle with lightning. Waran bows his head next to hers and tells her to sing. If she passes the test, he will protect her as his new concubine. Dazzler picks up on the word “concubine” and, when Draka makes a snarky comment on Dazzler, Waran tells him to shut up.
Sawtooth interrupts them and tells Waran to shut up himself so that the yellow-haired one can dig her own grave. He says he wants to see what the blue boy tastes like too. Dazzler turns to Emmaline and tells her to get out of Kurt’s head so he can teleport away. But Emmaline says she won’t, because if one of them resists or runs then the rest die. Johnny confirms this and tells Dazzler that sometimes they burn things for miles around when they get mad.
Becoming enraged, Thor slams his hammer down and demands Dazzler make her choice. Nearby, a baby belonging to one of the peasants starts to cry. Its mother tries to quiet it down to no avail. Dazzler steps forward and asks Johnny to give them something minor in the same key as the crying baby. He gets out his guitar and starts to play. Dazzler turns the sound of the guitar and the crying baby into light as she starts to sing. As she starts singing to the baby, it stops crying and then looks up to the sky. High up above, clouds start to form until eventually a roll of thunder is heard and rain starts pouring down.
All the peasants in the field stop what they are doing and look up to the sky. They start rejoicing at the All-mothers mercy as they fall to their knees. Inside the temple, Storm tells Thor she cannot remember the last time she was moved in such a way… an unusual feeling for a goddess. As Xavier congratulates Dazzler, Storm continues and says she doesn’t like the feeling very much and then orders the team to be killed.
Sawtooth leaps forward and grabs Kurt as Draka fires ice-shards at Dazzler. Emmaline ducks behind Draka and starts to apologize but Dazzler blasts her with a beam of light. Dazzler yells to Kurt that Emmaline’s down and for him to grab Howlett. Before she can finish, though, Waran grabs her from behind and raises an energy-charged axe above her. He starts to apologize for what is about to happen but he is suddenly shot at from behind. As he falls to the ground, Dazzler seems a flying car-like machine above them. Riding on it are two men. The driver yells to every mortal who longs for freedom. The man in the back introduces them and says that Xavier and Magnus fight by their side.
Dazzler looks to Johnny and says she’s good with it... is he? He confirms and they turn to leave. Dazzler shouts for the rest of her X-Men as Johnny mentions his name isn’t actually Johnny. Before they can get away, though, a huge crack of lightning slams down next to them. As Dazzler lies on the floor, Thor flies down next to her and yells Xavier’s name. Using his psychic powers, Xavier mind-blasts Thor.
Xavier yells to the team on the ground and informs them that Thor won’t be down for long. As he calls everyone on board, Howlett asks him to wait a second as he slashes Sawtooth across the face. Kurt teleports Howlett on board and Xavier asks him if he has enough power to teleport them out. He asks them to wait as he ‘ports and grabs Dazzler. As he does so, she says she has to find Johnny, but Kurt teleports her away before she can finish. Thor regains his power and starts to charge up a lightning bolt. He aims the blast at the flying car but Kurt teleports them all away just before it hits.
Emmaline picks herself up off the floor and starts to curse Kurt. Storm flies down to her and the head of Xavier and declares war, a sentiment to which Xavier agrees.


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As Kurt teleports the hover car away from the gods, Dazzler asks him what he is doing. He tells her they were about to get fried by a bunch of angry gods but Dazzler tells him they left Johnny behind. He says he thought she had him and then starts to apologize when he realizes she didn’t. Howlett tells him it wasn’t his fault and Dazzler apologizes to him. He says he screwed up just like before. Dazzler asks him what he is on about but he can’t explain. The native Xavier tells them not to worry, as the gods have no interest in Johnny. When Dazzler asks why, Magnus says that Xavier can read minds and Xavier adds that he also has eyes. In the distance, they look to see large explosions covering the landscape, complete with earth-shattering sounds.
The hover car is hit by some of the shockwaves from the explosions and the team is thrown off balance. Xavier tells her they are watching gods doing what they do best… breaking stuff when they are angry. Dazzler asks him if Johnny is in danger but Xavier tells her that he created false mental images in their heads and he lead them too an uninhabited region so there are no civilian casualties. Magnus adds “this time,” which prompts Howlett to ask how many they have killed. Magnus says that they have killed three thousand five hundred and six this year but, in his lifetime, they have killed millions. As they fly the hover car, they pass over ruins of old cities and huge graveyards with innumerable gravestones.
Xavier says that’s why they fight them. With that, he turns to Dazzler and asks why they have come here to kill him. Dazzler says he isn’t much of a mind reader if he still thinks that’s their plan. He says he has only skimmed the uppermost thoughts, digging the deeper secrets out can damage the subjects and he still wants them to be friends. Dazzler asks Howlett his opinion and he says that Xavier smells alright; no lies yet as far as he can tell.
As the hover car flies out to sea, Dazzler explains that their Xavier said he was evil, right before he threw in with the gods who tried to kill them. They are a bit in flux when it comes to the mission. Xavier is pleased and welcomes them to Utopia on behalf of free mortals everywhere. Ahead of them they see an island covered with houses and towers and shielded by a red force field.
Xavier flies the hover car down and they land in a street. The street is covered with market stalls and people walk about amongst them. Xavier tells the team that five thousand refugees live there. They are hidden by artificial psychic shielding he rebuilds every morning. They strive towards knowledge to find a way to replace the caprice of the gods with human science. As Xavier disembarks the craft, a local welcomes him back and Xavier greets him as Reed.
Xavier says that, from their surface thoughts, he can see they are from technologically advanced worlds and Kurt’s personal expertise is almost overwhelming. Kurt says he isn’t so great with steam but there’s no reason that he can’t fit things with a Sterns-Banner fusion reactor. Xavier says that with their help they could bring the freedom of Utopia to every mortal on the planet.
Howlett interrupts him by popping his claws and shouting that he has a god down there with them. He is suddenly punched in the face by Hercules, who simply says “damn straight.” As Howlett lies on the floor with Hercules towering over him, Xavier explains that Hercules is a demi-god but he has always stood by his mother’s mortal people. Hercules gives a wary Howlett his hand to help him up. Hercules asks his name and compliments his firm grip. Howlett tells him and still seems uneasy. Dazzler picks up on it and asks Howlett what that was all about. He tells her he knew a Hercules on his world. Dazzler smiles and says he knew a Hercules. Howlett says he has no idea what she is talking about, much to her disbelief. He tells her to shut up as they have a war to plan.
(The Utopia Amplification Room)
Hercules, Magnus and the team are watching as Xavier sits in a chair in a large round room. Above the chair is a golden machine with a device attached that Xavier has put on his head. Xavier tells them to stand by as he is going in. In his hands, Xavier makes a holographic construct of a building and tells them that it is the fortress of the gods. Howlett comments that it doesn’t seem to be well fortified but Hercules points out that it doesn’t have to be, as the gods are virtually indestructible.
The image turns to show a scene of Johnny in shackles and carrying a large urn. Dazzler attention is grabbed by this and she says that he has been kidnapped and that no matter what their plan is they have to rescue him first. The image then shows Emmaline holding Johnny’s chains. Xavier guesses that that’s the female psychic that betrayed them. Hercules laughs that if that’s kidnapping, then sign him up. Dazzler looks on distraught as Emmaline embraces Johnny.
Suddenly, Emmaline’s attention is caught and Storm and the bodiless Xavier enter the image. Xavier tells Emmaline he sees them too and with that the native Xavier doubles over screaming as Emmaline mentally attacks him.
Magnus cradles Xavier on the floor as he recovers. Xavier tells the team their mission is simple… kill the psychics. Dazzler tells him to hold on as X-Men don’t kill. Then she muses to herself at how many times she has to explain this. Xavier points out that they came there to kill him but Dazzler says that was the floating head’s plan. He turns to her and says if the gods have psychics then it’s only a matter of time before they find their place… he can already feel the other Xavier jabbing around in the corners of his consciousness. Xavier tells her that he’s dangerous and ruthless and much more powerful than he expected. Unless they deal with Xavier, he will kill him and then the gods will kill everyone in the city.
Later that evening, Dazzler and Kurt are standing on a balcony overlooking the city. She tells him that she doesn’t want him going with them the next day. He asks what she’s talking about and she tells him it’s getting serious and he’s twelve. He corrects her that he’s fourteen but she continues and says she doesn’t want him to have to do something that might… but he cuts her off before she can finish. He tells her to forget it as he’s going. When she tries to object, he tells her that, back on his world, he didn’t go and he won’t make that mistake again. With that, he takes his wallet out and shows her a picture of him and his parents. She asks if he wants to talk about it but he declines and says that he is going.
Hercules walks in and says that he heard Dazzler can sing. He says the people of Utopia are worried. They are brilliant, beautiful dreamers but Xavier has protected them for years and they haven’t fought in this kind of fight… they need courage. Dazzler starts to prepare herself and Kurt asks if she is just going to make up a song but she tells him she went to improv class. She stands on the balcony wall and starts to sing. All the Utopians look up at her, mesmerized as she sings and creates light around them.
(Dawn)
The bodiless Xavier tells his queen, Storm, that the other Xavier’s army approaches and they must prepare. Lounging on a seat in her temple and eating from a bowl of fruit, she asks him why he serves her. He tells her that he’s an Xavier, so he knows what they are capable of. Every one of them has something cold and hard at his core. The question is whether he has harnessed that ruthlessness for good or…
Suddenly, Xavier finds himself distracted by something. He stares at Storm and says he is sensing something. He asks her to permit him something and he gets up close to her and enters her mind. He says that someone is inside her head. Thor, who was nearby, is alarmed at this and pushes Xavier away.
Just at that moment, Dazzler and her team teleports into the middle of them. The native Xavier screams for them to get the head. When Howlett grabs it, Xavier tells him to kill it. Dazzler tells him to wait, as he pops his claws and gets ready to stab the head. Xavier tells him that the native Xavier has been mind controlling the gods.
As Storm squares off against Dazzler, she turns around to them, surprised. Nearby Magnus also hears this and is angry. The native Xavier drops his ruse and uses his psychic powers to ask for the goddess to serve him one more time. Storm flies towards Howlett, Kurt and the Xavier head, readying a bolt of lightning. Dazzler yells for Kurt to teleport but he says Xavier is in his head. Dazzler uses a lance made of light and stabs the native Xavier through the shoulder. He kneels down on the floor and tells Dazzler he didn’t think she killed. Standing over him, she tells him that, when she kills him, he’ll know it. But for now she just wanted to stop him.
Storm has now stopped her attack and looks bewildered. She can’t quite believe she was about to kill a child. The bodiless Xavier tells her that it wasn’t her… it was Xavier. He drove all the gods to madness and made them monsters, but they’re free now.
Magnus goes to Xavier, who is leaning against a stone pillar and holding his shoulder. He asks him why he did it. Xavier tells him that he doesn’t remember but, back when the gods were perfect and beneficent, the humans were nothing but sheep. Magnus glares at him and says he remembers his father, mother and sister slaughtered with millions of others by a laughing god.
With blood coming from his mouth, Xavier says to look at what he has become now… a mortal capable of taking on the gods himself. Only when they fought them could they become the best they could. He says not to let them take over again; it’s better to struggle and die. With tears forming in his eyes, Magnus agrees and then kills Xavier as the team looks on.
Storm and Thor rise high in the air and use their power to make it rain as the rest of the gods and peasants rejoice. Dazzler sits on the steps of the temple with Kurt and says “talk about your dues ex machina.” Kurt smiles and says he wasn’t going to say anything.
Later on, the gods and the team stand in the temple, surrounded by the Utopian army. Storm addresses the team and says they freed the gods and brought justice to the world. So she will offer them a gift to match their deeds. With her arms stretched in the air, she asks them to join her pantheon. With a touch, she can make them gods, immortal and all-powerful and freed from the pain, doubt and agony of mortal life. Xavier thanks her for the offer but says they must decline. Dazzler asks Xavier if they should think about it but Howlett tells her the head’s right. In his experience, miraculous offers are always distressingly literal. Accept the All-mother’s offer and they’re bound to the world and stripped of all the foibles that make them who they are. Emmaline steps forward and says that sounds wonderful to her, and with that she accepts the goddess’s offer.
Storm raises Emmaline into the air and light swirls around her, forcing her to turn into a diamond form. She looks down pleased at her new diamond body. Dazzler asks “what the hell?” to which Emmaline replies that, from the moment they met, she thought she was cold and rude… and she was. However, like the rest of them, she was hiding a broken mortal heart, of which she is now completely free. Dazzler turns away, annoyed as Emmaline walks up to Johnny. Johnny calls out to her and says it was an honor playing for her. But she tells him to shut up and enjoy perfection. She tells Xavier to hit it, as they have other universes to save.
Hercules shakes Howlett’s hand and says another time. Howlett corrects him that it’s another world, more likely. Hercules tells him to be well, but more importantly… be free. Xavier tells them to get ready but Dazzler says to hang on. She runs up to Johnny and kisses him on the lips, much to the surprise of Emmaline. Dazzler walks away from the annoyed Emmaline towards the group, and they teleport away to the next world.


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(Graymalkin, Arizona. One year ago)
A horse and cart rides through a wild-west town that is adorned with metal steam-punk style architecture. From the saloon, a voice asks if Mr. Creed is in or out, to which the answer is given with a growl. Inside the saloon, people are drinking and socializing, whilst in one corner two men are playing cards. Creed stands up angrily and slams down his cards and says he folds. He suddenly sits down and looks at the cards he threw down, confused as to why he would do that. His cards show he had four aces with a king kicker and would have most certainly won the hand. His opponent, Charles Xavier, is holding his card with all their faces pointed towards Creed. He smiles and points a finger to his head and tells him that he simply can’t imagine why but thanks.
Xavier is thrown through the window of the saloon and out into the street. Creed towers over the begging Xavier and holds an old stove high above his head, ready to slam it down. Before he can do anything, though, a red beam hits the stove and sends it flying out of Creed’s hands. Cyclops addresses his as Victor and tells him there is only one sheriff in town. Cyclops is wearing a cowboy hat and his visor is made of metal and leather and strapped to his head.
Cyclops looks down at Xavier and calls him “New York Charlie.” He says he thought he told him to hit the road. Xavier calls him sheriff, tells him he is much obliged and he is on his way. An angry Creed tells Cyclops that Xavier cheated. Cyclops says they will collect the cards to see where he marked them but Creed tells him it isn’t like that… he got up in his head. Cyclops seems confused by this, so Xavier says Creed is exaggerating; he was merely using parlor tricks. But Cyclops punches him in the face and says he can’t abide mentalists. Creed urges him to take him out but Cyclops tells him to hush as he ain’t hurting anyone now.
Lying on the floor and bleeding from his head, Xavier becomes enraged and says they’ll see about that. Cyclops suddenly starts bleeding from the nose and Creed grabs his head in pain. Xavier puts two fingers to his temple and all the residents of Graymalkin start clutching their heads and crying in pain. As blood gushes from their noses and eyes, Xavier stands up and replaces his bowler hat and smiles sinisterly whilst commenting that that was new.
(Today)
The team materializes about 10 foot off the ground in the Arizona desert. After they fall to the ground below, a sore Dazzler asks the bodiless Xavier if he minds bringing them to a new dimension at ground level. Xavier says that he would argue that ten feet above ground is better than ten feet below. Kurt says he will give this one to the head and points out that he’s running sixteen million separate calculations within a span of seven seconds; he’s bound to have a certain margin of error. Dazzler rescinds her gripe and asks where they are. Howlett tells her he smells horses, cheap liquor and cheaper cologne… his kind of town. They look out to see Graymalkin in the distance.
As they approach the town, they take some clothes off of a clothesline. After they dress, Xavier tells them that they have to deal with this world’s evil Xavier, so no running off half-cocked until he’s located. They are suddenly distracted by a cry of distress. A woman and young boy are in the street and are being accosted by a group of men led by Creed. One of the men, Toad, tells the woman that their boss isn’t going to like hearing that she’s been back-talking to them.
The woman says she doesn’t have any money but Creed tells her she had enough for shopping. She says it was just flour and a little sugar. Toad tells her he’ll take some sugar but she lowers her head and tells them good day. As she goes to leave Toad trips her up. Her son Jamie helps her off the floor as she bleeds from the cheek. She tells him it’s alright but he turns around and says that it isn’t. With that, he pops two sets of bone claws from his knuckles and slashes Toad across the face.
An amazed Howlett stares at the boy as Xavier tries to remind what he just said. Creed smacks the boy across the head and says if the little boy wants to be a man, then it’s fine by him. He raises his clawed hands above his head, ready to attack the boy. Howlett unsheathes his claws and runs towards the group. As the rest of the team follows, Dazzler says she isn’t a psychic but even she saw that coming. Howlett lunges at Creed and asks how many worlds he is going to have to kill him on.
Some of Creed’s gang, who were also watching the scene, leap into action and start firing their guns at Howlett, but Dazzler shoots light-bullets from her fingers and knocks the guns out their hands. As she blows one of her fingers like a smoking gun, Kurt jokes that she’s the glammest gun in the west.
Suddenly, the whole street erupts into a gunfight with more men coming out and firing guns. Dazzler and Kurt take cover behind some barrels as shots ring out around them. Howlett, in the midst of the fight, yells for them to get the woman and boy out of there. The team grabs the woman and boy and Dazzler turns to Howlett and calls for him to come too. Xavier says that he can’t hear her but, if she listens to his thoughts, he seems to have a plan. As he brawls with the men, he says he has a feeling he knows who’s the boss around here. He will cover their escape and get captured so he can take a peek up close. Kurt asks if he is sure and Howlett tells him to get them out of there and not to worry… the idiots can’t hurt him… much. As Kurt teleports the gang away Howlett’s attention is suddenly caught by Colossus, who slams a huge hammer down on him.
Through multiple jumps, Kurt gets the team away from the fight and to the farm belonging to the woman. The woman is amazed and asks who they are. Dazzler says that’s a bigger question than she could possibly imagine. Looking at his own claws, Jamie comments that Howlett had claws just like him and then says that they have to go back and help him. Xavier tells him no, as Howlett is on reconnaissance and he is the only one who can succeed at that task. Jamie’s mother asks what they are going to do, as they don’t want any trouble. Jamie says that they do but his mother turns to him and says that, as long as the boss has him, then they have to do what he says. Dazzler asks who she is talking about and Jamie says his “pa.”
Lying half conscious on a stone floor, Howlett starts to remember things from his past. His remembers his father comforting him after he woke up from having a bad dream. When he says it feels so real his father hugs him and says he’s right here and he won’t leave him. Howlett suddenly regains his senses and tries to sit up. His arms are pulled behind his back and held in place with a metal bar twisted around them. He is locked behind bars in a jail cell.
He yells in anger but a man tells him to calm down and he is a prisoner just like him. Howlett looks at the man and stutters an apology and says he looks just like his father. The man says he is a little young for that but Howlett says he died young. The man, chained to a wall, says that they may have something in common, and with that shows Howlett an infected wound on his stomach. Howlett asks what they did to him and the man doubles over in pain and says they are just a few untreated wounds left to fester for a couple of years. That’s what you get when you stand up to the boss.
The man looks at Howlett and tells him to look at himself. He thought he was dead when he came in here but now look at him. He suddenly pauses and then guesses that Howlett has a touch. Howlett questions what he meant and then says he has had a few. With that, he pops his claws to show the man his golden weapons. The man grabs Howlett by the scruff and says he has a son called Jamie and, if he gets out he wants him to tell him… but before he can finish Xavier walks in.
Dressed in a full black leather coat and a pistol strapped to his waist, he tells them that no one is going anywhere. Howlett growls and lurches forwards towards him but Xavier shoots him square in the forehead and says he is just as fierce as the boys said. Xavier bends down to the body of Howlett to see what’s keeping him from reading his mind. As he turns the body over, he sees Howlett’s skull is golden beneath the hole the bullet made. Howlett, points to the gold within the wound and tells Xavier that it adamantine, metal of the gods. It protects him from tampering devils like him. As Colossus and Danger come up behind him, Xavier smiles and says that they will have to do something about that then.
(Meanwhile, in the saloon)
Dazzler is sitting on stage, dressed in a revealing, black corset and tights. She is singing and playing a ukulele instrument that is plugged into a primitive version of a speaker. All the patrons of the saloon stare at her in awe. As she sings, Xavier telepathically tells Kurt she is locking him out of her mind. Kurt says she is and so is he. He tells Xavier he’s listening to Dazzler’s first ever ukulele performance, so shut up and enjoy it.
Xavier begs with him and says that he cannot probe for Howlett or Jamie’s father without revealing himself to the evil Xavier. But Kurt simply says “exactly.” When Xavier asks what he means, Kurt tells him to let the gentlewoman do her thing. As Dazzler continues to sing, Kurt says that she’s using echolocation. The mutant sound mistress knows what she is doing. As Dazzler sings, she uses the sound from the ukulele as a kind of radar to reveal what lies in the rooms around her. She “sees” the faint outline of a man lying on the floor of a room with bars on one wall. Kurt explains that the bosses headquarters are next door and his prison is probably somewhere in the lower levels.
Having found what they were looking for, Kurt teleports himself and Dazzler inside the prison cell, much to the surprise of Jamie’s father. Realizing that Howlett isn’t there, she asks Jamie’s father where he is. The man replies that he is Howlett so Dazzler specifies she meant the guy with the golden claws. As he tells her that the boss took him, Dazzler notices a large pool of blood on the floor. Kurt examines the ill-looking man and tells Dazzler he is hurt bad and they have to take him. However, before he can finish, both he and Dazzler suddenly cry out in pain and start bleeding from their noses. Dazzler realizes that it’s the evil Xavier’s doing.
Kurt quickly teleports them back to the farm, where they are greeted by Jamie, his mother and the bodiless Xavier. With blood still on his knuckles, Jamie apologizes to his father, who tells him it’s alright as he’s right there now. Wiping the blood from her nose, Dazzler says there’s no time; the boss of theirs is real strong. He’s going to come for them, she’ll cover for them but they have to run.
Jamie says to hell with that and Xavier agrees, if they move his father then he’ll die. Getting a little exasperated, Dazzler tells Kurt to take Jamie and his mom. But Jamie, his mother and Kurt all say no in unison. When Dazzler objects, Jamie pops his bone claws and says he ain’t moving and he ain’t dying. Jamie’s father, who is very weak, asks if those are claws. His wife says that they are and he solemnly accepts it. Dazzler summarizes their plight. Two kids, a dying man, a farmer’s wife and a head in a bottle and… they won’t know what hit them.
Elsewhere, Howlett, Cyclops, Danger, Sabretooth and Colossus are charging across the landscape on their steeds.