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Blindside
The Guardia Civil watch on a video screen as the five captured X-Men fall through the floor within their Maze. Maria Pilar Cortes is still not sure about their actions, yet Diego Sandoval states that the mutants are a possible danger to the country and so they need to know the extent of their powers. After having them examined in their labs, they now need to run them through the Maze to get the full picture. However Cortes points out that they failed to capture the whole team.
Rogue swims to a beach, she escaped the army that was chassing her by diving deep into the ocean and letting the current take her to swim back to the surface at a safer place. Now exhausted, hurting and hungry, she cries out in anger and pops her claws. It makes her remember a scene not so long ago :
(flashback)
Rogue is about to clear a road in the Rocky Mountains that has been blocked by an avalanche. Apparently she ran away from the team, as Storm, Beast and Betsy shows up to make her come back. Rogue and Storm get into an arguement and in the heat her anger takes over and she pops her claws. Storm reacts by casting a lighting bolt in between them. Rogue realizes that she almost injured her teammate and apologizes. Storm hugs her and promises that the team will help her handle the out-of-control powers. Still Rogue questions the purpose of the mission in itself, everyone who is connected to the diaries has received nothing but grief (Destiny is dead, Mystique not really sane), and it’s starting with the X-Men too as they already had to isolate from friends and family. Beast and Psylocke say that at least they have each other, that the X-Men as a family might succeed where Destiny and Mystique alone failed.
(present)
Shortly after Rogue left, Vargas and his crew come to the place and after killing an officer of the Guardia Civil, they discover her trail.
In the Maze, Storm, Bishop, Psylopcke, Thunderbird and Neal fall into a big body of water. Bishop and Beast take some breathers from their equipment, while Storm generates an electrolysis field that povides herself, Betsy and Neal with some oxygen. Suddenly torpedos are fired on them and few  attackers on aquasleds arrive. Quickly Psylocke telekinetically pushes one of them of his sled and claims it for herself, while Bishop keeps the others busy with some gunfire. Betsy realizes that the attackers must have come from somewhere and thinks that this might be a possible exit. She grabs the Beast, needing both back-up and a breather to share, and navigates the aquasled in the direction where the attackers came from. They find a locked hatch, but it’s no problem, Hank anchors Psylocke to the wall and she uses her telekinetic katana to cut the hatch out of the wall. Immediatly the water flushes out, and Hank and Betsy hug each other. Despite the danger of their situation, Betsy enjoys this kind of action.
Elsewhere in the Maze, Neal blasts a way out of the huge water tank, and it seems that everything is clear. Yet Storm senses movement in the air and right on cue an ambush team comes around the corner. She confuses them with big banks of fog while Bishop and Thunderbird shoot them with all they got. Yet after a while the troops cornered Storm, now having adapted to her weather effect, but Ororo surprises them once more by firing a gun that Bishop slipped her earlier.
Meanwhile Rogue does an arial scan of the city, backed up by Sage who down on the streets is in contact with her, while monitoring the police emergency channel. She picks up a great deal of activity near the “Los Torres de Serranos“, the ancient gateway to the city, and as Rogue checks, her sunglasses‘ sensors reveal that there is a huge complex below the towers. She simply crashes into them and reaches the labratories, but the scientists have all been killed. She wonders who could have done that and is attacked by Vargas from behind. He knocks her into a wall, and as she gets up again, he hits a certain nerve cluster that makes it hard for her to move. She still struggles, but Vergas slashes her with a sword and finally she does not get up.
Beast and Psylocke arrive and are amazed that somebody can so easily take out Rogue. Vargas welcomes them, stating that he has only come for one of the X-Men today and a second fight starts. Betsy telekinatically blasts Vargas, but he manages to evade the brunt of her attack. Beast then attacks the mysterious opponent, while Psylocke deals with Thais and Thaiis, yet Hank too is easily beaten by Vargas. The Beast takes blow after blow from Vargas, who claims that mutants are just an aberration of humanity, but now the true and pure homo sapiens superior start their era (obviously he is talking about himself). Bleeding and with several bones broken, Hank is helpless and only Betsy remains to fight. She pulls her telekinetic katana, and Vargas is handed his sword by his servants. They fight and Hank can only watch as Vargas runs his sword through Betsy’s gut. Vargas comments with : “You are the first, you will not be the last.“  When the rest of the team arrives they find Psylocke’s body arranged in Beast‘s arms (it looks like “pieta“ pictures of Maria holding the dead body of Jesus) . With Psylocke’s blood a word is written on the wall over them : “PRONTO“ (= soon / fast )


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Hell to Pay !
The X-Treme X-Men find Psylocke dead in the Beast’s arms. The Guardia Civil arrives trying to place them under arrest, needing someone to blame for the dozens of dead scientists. Storm’s anger reflect in the weather pattern outside, within second the perfect sky is filled with clouds and lightning. Bishop prevents Ororo from unleashing her anger against the spanish police. On the other side Maria Pilar Cortes, Deputy Minister of Justice, too provides a voice of reason and keeps the Guardia’s commander Diego Sandoval from any more actions against the mutant “terrorists“. With their differences put aside, medical crews are allowed onto the scene, they check on the Beast and diagnose him to be in deep shock with multiple injuries and many bone fractures. Psylocke on the other hand is gone. Rogue, who could barely stand after Vargas’s attack is coming around (thanks to Wolverine’s healing factor) and fills the others in on their attackers : Vargas, the unbeatable leader and the back-up twins Thais and Thaiis. Neal freaks out, when Psylocke is put in a body bag. He can’t believe that this is hapopening for real. He questions the whole purpose of the X-Men if this is what they will receive in the end; Bishop comforts him and says that the important thing is to make ones lifespan counts and also to prevent that this needless killing will not be repeated. Thunderbird, now calmer, holds Betsy’s hand one last time, and Bishop notices some scrapings under her fingernails. He takes some samples and runs an analysis on them. Tessa receives the transmission in a safe hotel room and sorts out the data, Vargas is neither mutant nor superbeing, genetically he registers as human though is yet much more. Tessa remembers her first meeting with Psylocke :
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By day, Betsy Braddock was a famous fashion model, though at night she secretly trained to become s special AGENT FOR S.T.R.I.K.E., the british version of S.H.I.E.L.D. One of her assignments involved the Hellfire Club in New York, where Tessa was currently undercover for Charles Xavier. Betsy was too young and arrogant and did not realize that she was getting entangled by the Club, and though it meant possibly exposing her cover, Tessa confronted her when they were alone. She ordered her to go home and when Betsy tried to use her psychic powers on the enigmatic Tessa, she found her psi-bolt redirected against herself. Frightened Betsy left. The flashback ends and Tessa feels sorry that she could not have prevented Phoenix getting seduced by the Club too.
(present)
The team searches Valencia for Vargas, they use a scanner keyed to his unique bio-signature, but even though they manage to capture some local gangsters, they find no trace on the murderer. The gangster‘s leader is called Gomez and since he might hold some clues, Rogue interrogates him by threatening to pop her claws through him. The man willingly starts to talk to the Guardia, but Rogue’s teammates are not so happy. They wonder what she would have done, if he would not cooperate, and her reply is that she would have kissed him. Finding Betsy’s killer would have been worth the price of having one more psyche inside her head. Again reminded about the slain teammate, Bishop states that he wished to have known her better, in the jhistory text that survived till his era, Psylocke was hardly mentioned. Neal is really annoyed by that remark, as if it was important, who would make it into the history books some generations down the line, yet he falls quiet when Bishop replies that Thunderbird himself did make it into the history charts. They remember training in the Danger Room, shortly before leaving the mansion :
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Rogue and Psylocke were training in the Danger Room, and Betsy easily defeated Rogue by enforcing her ninja material arts with telekinetic energy and later keeping Rogue stuck in a wall of bricks. She then trained with Neal, who easily falls for the old playing-possum trick. Being defeated Neal can only admire the beauty and elegance of Psylocke.
(present)
Gomez tolf the Guardia Civil everything he knew, but has no knowledge about Vargas‘ location. He had the X-Men fooled again, making them follow a false trail. Storm angrily blasts in the skies and Thunderbird pessimistically states that if they will find Vargas, it will only be because he wants to kill another one of them.
The Beast is being cared for in a nearby hospital. His condition is fatal, they have already called a priest, but Sage sends him away, claiming that her services are needed now. She takes of her glove and uses a never before seen power on Hank. She is able to perceive the full potential of mutant powers and also can temporarily boost / awaken them though it is very straining for her. The Beast glows in Tessa’s energy, a ghostly image of his final mutation (ressembling him in current issues of New X-Men) appears and also his healing factor is augmented to such a degree that his condition stabilizes and he starts to recover. During the process Tessa thinks about Xavier, who found both Hank and her at the same time, yet chose one to become an X-man and the other his spy, and wonder why he made that decision. Storm enters, she seems to have seen the whole event. After checking on Hank, Sage pulls Ororo aside to alert her to some findings in her database, or actually lack of findings. She has been unable to locate any information on Vargas, yet she thinks that there are certain parallels between the Xavier Protocols (information how to kill each and every X-Man, should they turn bad) and Vargas, as if he was the protocols made flesh.
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The X-Treme X-Men came to Valencia to start their quest. Destiny, the author of the diaries, has a house in the town, and so they think it’s a good place to start. It’s the evening before the team get‘s ambushed (X-Treme X-Men #1) and while Storm and Rogue discuss a quote from the diary about a threat to the X-Men from within, Neal admires Betsy, who dressed herself in indian garments for him. She explains that her take on life is to live for the moment, because as a warrior she might not see tomorrow.
(present)
Brian and Meggan Braddock arrive in a private jet to pick up Psylocke‘s coffin. Neal puts a rose inside to bid his love farewell. Also the Beast will leave, he is still too weak and sitting in a wheelchair. Storm says that he will only be a liability to the team like this and sends him back to Xavier’s mansion in Westchester. From a tower at the airport Vargas watches them say goodbye.


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Dreamtime Serenade
Gambit invades Vargas’ home in Spain in search of loot. He disperses the twins with ease thanks to his agility and his mutant powers, but when Vargas shows up, Remy recognises he is out of his league.
At the same time, the X-Men are enjoying an evening by the beach, sitting around a campfire. Rogue plays a blues on her guitar. Neal thinks that cheering isn’t right with their teammate having being murdered, but the other tell him that they are celebrating her life and the times they shared with her. Bishop stands a little bit apart, taking in the landscape. In his future timeline he never knew such sights and smells, which reminds hi that in his future the X-Men were legends. Yet side by side with them, they don’t seem like these iconic heroes, instead they are real people with feelings and emotions like everybody else. Suddenly he is transported to “dreamtime”, another plane of existence, accesible by the mutant shaman Gateway.
He isn’t the only one. Psylocke’s ghost is present in dreamtime too, as guest of Gateway, to help explain things to Bishop. They find themselves on Ayers Rock, and Bishop recognizes the place from the tales that his mother told him when he was growing up. Images appear that revealed Bishop as Gateway’s grandson (or great-grandson as revealed by Chris Claremont in his online forum boards at X-Fan). Psylocke aks Bishop to look in the opposite direction, and they see the future all the way to the end of time. Looking to the left, Bishop sees many alternate versions of himself. Recognizing a pattern (behind - past, ahead - future, side - alternate possibilites) Bishop expects more alternate realities when he turns to the right, yet finds something deifferent : a huge tower reachinfg dor the stars, in not one, but all different worlds. Psylocke continues her tour, reminding Bishop of endless night where the X-Men wondered about their purpose she points to the ground, where the start of an answer might be found. They are standing on the page of huge open book. It shows a picture of Gambit, crucified to a globe. Six jewels hold him in place, four on the wrists and ankles, one at the throat and one plucked in his heart. A tree branches out from the chest wound and heads into space.
Bishop and Psylocke agree that this has to be one of Destiny‘s visions, and Betsy elaborates that the scope of Destiny’s prophecies is even broader than Storm and the X-Men suspect, yet there is a chance that the X-Treme team might shape the future. Bishop asks how, but Psylocke has no answer, it’s Bishop who is a policeman and detective, so it’s his job to figure out, and unfortunately her time is up anyway. She prepares to leave for the afterlife, but right as she wants to give Bishop one last message for Neal, a glowing portal opens behind her and a skulled figure pulls her through.
Bishop demands answers from Gateway, but he is as mute as ever. The rest of the X-Men show up with Rogue now manifesting Gateway’s powers, after having touched him in the Australian days (Uncanny X-Men #269). She now looks partially like the aborigine, having dark skin (coloring error, the issue shows her pale) and dreadlocks. Apparently being near Bishop when he was pulled into the dreamtime activated Rogue’s manifestation, and she took the rest of the team with her. Sage takes a look around and recognizes the tower as a “needle“, a giant elevator to move cargo from earth’s surface into the  geosynchronous orbit, which is about 22.000 miles. The team gets back to reality and they discuss what they saw. Bishop had no knowledge about being related to Gateway, and now wishes he had listened when his father wanted to teach him the “songlines“, the great mysteries and ancestral stories of his people, that were passed down from one generation to the next.
Back to the castle, where Gambit and Vargas face each other. Remy checks his options, and instead of fighting he decides to make a run for the door, but Vargas is faster and captures him. Held up against a wall, Gambit offers a game, high card wins. Vargas starts and pulls an ace. Remy then suggests two out of three, and alters the rules once more into three out of five, when Vargas pulls again an ace. After Vargas’s third ace he asks to expands the game to seven rounds and Vargas starts laughing. He likes Gambit’s style, despite the facts that he is losing game after game and against an unbeatable opponent, Gambit shows no fear.
The X-Treme X-Men head for Destiny’s house in spain, which was the reason for the whole trip there. Storm has troubles picking the locks and Bishop gives her a bit of preaching, that it is illegal and he, as a cop, shouldn’t allow this. While waiting, Bishop gives Neal a training session, he has Neal burn a hole through a puck made of steel and Thunderbird easily complies; yet when having to do the same with an adamantium puck he fails. This is meant to show how far he has progressed, but also that he has still a long way to go in the use of his ability. There is also a sublime moment between Tessa and Rogue. When Rogue flies them to the house, she tells Sage of her worries concerning her powers and asks her if she could help her control them, as she does with the rest of them. Finally Ororo has managed to open the door and they enter the house. Bishop immediately takes to the kitchen, and starts preparing a meal for all, while the others check out a crate addressed to them, containing all sorts of goodies: new clothes, fake identities, and destiny’s will, which leaves Rogue a the sole heiress, and gives the team the economic comfort to roam the world for the diaries.
Inside the Castle, Vargas and the twins have taken Gambit to another room. The cajun makes another smart remark, that alsthough being not as superior as Vargas, he could make the lady (Thaiis) smile. Vargas states that he should kill Gambit right here and now, but won’t, while he uncovers a statue (or is it the body ?) of Psylocke. Gambit states that she laughed to waltz, that she kissed even batter than she fought, which are all things that Vargas will now never experience since he killed her. Vargas says that he thought Gambit came to steal Destiny’s diary from his possession (it shows the same page from the dreamtime vision), but Remy explains that he is no longer with the X-Men, he is a thief and tehy are heroes. Vargas thenlets him go, while leaving Gambit thinks how lucky he was to have talked his way out of this situation. He heads to Destiny’s house, takes a look at the X-Treme team through the windoiws and leaves before being spotted. In his bag he carries the big diamond, that was earlier seen in vargas‘ castle.
Inside the house, Ororo has put on a revealing dress, that Destiny had prepared for her, she looks excellent in it, but is a little bit uncomfortable with the males staring. In the bottom of the crate, Rogue spots a wooden book-shaped package, sealed with destiny’s insignia. When the team opens it, instead of finding one of the diaries, they discover it’s empty, except for a single rose, that Thunderbird immediately recognises as the one he put in Psylocke’s casket and the team in unison agree that the book was snatched by Vargas.
Back at his castle, Vargas sits and reads the diary, he knows that Gambit stole the diamond, but also where it will lead him ...


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Deadline !
In Valencia, Spain, the X-Men meet in Rogue’s penthouse to interpret one of Destiny’s thirteen diaries. They already have one volume and they intend to track down each of the others. Believing the diaries contain the future history of the world, the X-Men want to find them so they can learn about and prevent impending disasters before they occur. Through a special network designed by Sage, the X-Men wear virtual reality glasses that place them inside of the images they see. Instead of merely viewing sophisticated environments, it seems to the X-Men as if the images surround them. The X-Men bear witness to graphic representations of riddles and passages, as well as current events. They see Professor Xavier publicly expose himself as a mutant and Trish Tilby’s newscast of the ethnic cleansing in Genosha. Once the team finishes viewing, Sage says that they need the other twelve books to fully understand the messages inside. Professor Xavier already has at least four of them. Rogue worries about how his recent behavior will affect the X-Men as a whole. She thinks that the X-Treme team should go back to the mansion to provide team support and keep things from falling apart. Sage and Storm disagree, thinking that Xavier can’t be trusted and that leaving the mansion was the right thing to do under the circumstances. In the middle of the argument, Sage’s virtual reality network informs the X-Men that Gambit is wanted for the murder of Australian crime boss Miles Warbeck, a.k.a. Viceroy.
Subsequently, Bishop enters an Australian police office, carrying a fake I.D. labeling him as a federal investigator. He also dresses the part, being noticed by the officers for his suave appearance. Bishops learns from Inspector Menzies that Gambit was videotaped at Viceroy’s home, the scene of the crime. Along with the tape, several witnesses and Gambit’s criminal background, make him look as guilty as sin. Inspector Menzies mentions that Gambit will be lucky if the police find him before Viceroy’s people do.
Later that night in Sydney, Storm, Rogue, Sage, and Thunderbird fly towards Viceroy’s home to investigate the scene of the crime. During the flight they notice buildings damaged from sentinel attacks, which remind them of the carnage in Genosha. Rogue wants a shot at the person ordering the sentinels. Storm tells her that’s why the team needs the diaries, to learn of other catastrophes so they can stop them before they happen. Storm wonders if Gambit would even want the X-Men to help him, but Rogue’s instincts tell her that the X-Men are right to help whether Gambit approves or not.
Soon the X-Men arrive at Viceroy’s home where Bishop is waiting for them. Bishop says he acquired the complete case file so the team can reenact the crime. He tells Storm he likes having a badge and being a cop again, even if he’s only pretending. The X-Men get down to business and Rogue and Bishop find ample time to argue and antagonize each other, mainly over whether or not they believe Gambit’s guilty. Bishop openly entertains the idea that Gambit may indeed have committed the crime. This doesn’t sit well with Rogue, and she and Bishop snipe at each while Storm plays the devil’s advocate. Unlike Bishop, Storm’s not any more leery of Gambit than the next X-Man, but she admits that he has killed in the past, and it’s possible he may have done so this time. That’s still not enough for Rogue, who believes wholeheartedly in Gambit’s innocence. During the investigation, Thunderbird gets a crash course in Storm’s past as a thief, courtesy of his teammates. Once the X-Men examine the place, they learn that Gambit fought someone and forced him through a window. Whoever he was, he fell to the swimming pool below, but the X-Men still have no idea why Gambit came to the house and who killed Viceroy.
The X-Men make their way into Viceroy’s private vault, where police think Gambit tripped the alarm, broke the safe, and killed Viceroy. When the police arrived they found Gambit standing over Viceroy’s dead body. Bishop notices the bullet impressions in one of the walls. Storm uses her powers to see her environment in terms of energy and discovers a mysterious cable. She follows it and finds a secret compartment containing pictures of Viceroy’s two children, a boy and a girl. The X-Men figure he must have kept his heirs a secret to protect them from his dangerous lifestyle. After further probing, the X-Men deduce that Viceroy fired at someone other than Gambit, putting three people in the room before the police arrived after the crime occurred: Gambit, Viceroy, and Viceroy’s killer. This leads to more bickering and Gambit-trashing. Bishop angers Rogue and she flies off, leaving everyone else behind. Bishops tries to apologize to the team for upsetting Rogue. Storm says that Rogue just needs to cool off and orders the team to continue investigating in spite of her absence. Storm sends Bishop to conduct more police work while she and Thunderbird track down Viceroy’s children. Sage will monitor everyone’s status.
In Sydney’s Chinatown, Gambit eavesdrops on a meeting between an old man called the Examiner and Julius Gow, a shady businessman. The two of them plot the death of Viceroy’s children. With the children out of the way, the door is wide open for Gow to replace Viceroy as leader of the Triad criminal organization and the dominant underworld force in Australia.
Meanwhile, Rogue starts her own investigation and infiltrates the Golden Harbor restaurant, owned by Julius Gow. The place is frequented by many local movers and shakers who travel in the same circles Viceroy did. Among them, Rogue finds Gambit by the bar being his usual charming and nonchalant self. They have a hasty reunion before being attacked by a gang of Gow’s thugs, with his orders to kill. Lucky for the bad guys, they have a device that shuts down mutant powers and use it to render Rogue and Gambit powerless. The two heroes soon find themselves under fire and out of options and they shut themselves in Gow’s office for temporary safety, mindful of the horde of gun-wielding hoodlums right behind them. That’s when they find Gow slumped over his desk, dead, when he was very much alive moments before. He has Gambit’s trademark card, the joker, stuck in his back, which would make it seem like Gambit was his killer. Since he had to have been killed while Gambit and Rogue fought outside of the office, this confirms that someone is trying to frame Gambit. Then Gow’s grandson, the Red Lotus, enters the office and attacks. He mistakes Rogue and Gambit for his grandfather’s killers. Even though the two of them put up their best defense, the Red Lotus incapacitates Rogue and Gambit in punishing martial arts fashion, knocking them both out cold. The Examiner emerges behind Red Lotus and promises to make Rogue and Gambit suffer.


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Paradise Lost !
In the Royal Sydney Hospital, Bishops masquerades as a federal agent while Viceroy’s corpse is examined. According to pathologist Dr. Peter Lambert, Viceroy died of asphyxiation, but no evidence suggests foul play or external trauma. Apparently he suffocated for no reason in a room of fresh air. Since Bishops is wearing Sage’s special glasses, he’s connected via her computerized network to any other X-Man wearing pairs of special glasses. In a suite miles away, Sage wears her pair and lounges in a chair, seeing everything through Bishop’s eyes. She monitors his findings and provides feedback, agreeing with Dr. Lambert’s analysis. Sage tells Bishop that the nature of Viceroy’s death doesn’t seem like Gambit’s style. Thunderbird, Storm, and Rogue, in their respective positions, are also connected and listening through their own glasses. Rogue, from her location, mentions that she’s almost located Gambit in Chinatown. Sage warns her to be cautious and mentions that Viceroy, an expert marksman, fired repeatedly at a stationery target and missed every time. This suggests that someone with illusion casting powers was involved. Afterward Sage removes her glasses and mistakes the water she’s drinking for wine.
Storm and Thunderbird fly through the air, searching for Viceroy’s children. Thunderbird asks Storm how they can fight someone with illusion powers and she replies that it’s possible. Sage informs them that they’ll find the Viceroy heirs in the beach community of Surfer’s Paradise. The children have no idea that Viceroy is their real father. Inspector Menzies tells Bishop that the head of the Russian mafia was shot dead in an area known as Little Odessa, fueling a mob war. In her suite, Sage mentions to herself that something feels wrong, and fails to notice that her X-Men uniform has been replaced with the outfit she wore as a member of the Hellfire Club.
Later, on the beach of Surfer’s Paradise, Storm and Thunderbird continue their search wearing revealing, sexy swimsuits to blend in with the massive crowd. Thunderbird finds Heather Cameron, one of Viceroy’s lost children, working as a lifeguard. He introduces himself to gain Heather’s attention. Carrying a surfboard, Storm heads into the water where she sees Davis Cameron, Viceroy’s son, surfing with a friend. The two surfers marvel at her beauty. Suddenly, a great white shark emerges from the water and knocks Davis and the other surfers from their boards. He falls into the water, unconscious and bleeding. Heather leaps from her lifeguard tower, intending to save her brother. Storm swims after Davis and grabs him, with the shark closing in on her fast. From shore, Thunderbird fires a focused beam of nuclear plasma through the water and blasts the shark into oblivion. The impact creates waves in the water, and although the shark is gone, Storm and Davis are still endangered when they’re caught in the current. Heather makes her way near them and, miraculously, she seems to be pushing them and the other surfers onto shore. Then Storm and Heather use CPR to resuscitate Davis. Once he’s risen, Davis wastes no time flirting with Storm.
Back in Sydney, Sage types away on her laptop, oblivious as her environment reverts from a plush suite to a Victorian room and back again. Soon she notices when her room changes into her old Hellfire Club apartment. Sage gets up and walks to a mirror. To her surprise, she sees herself wearing her Hellfire Club uniform instead of her usual one.
Elsewhere, Rogue and Gambit lie at the mercy of the Examiner, chained to a wall with needles stuck all over their half-naked bodies. Nearby, the Red Lotus watches while the Examiner goes to work. The Examiner accuses Rogue and Gambit of murdering Julius Gow and remains confident that he’ll torture the truth from them with his needles. After Rogue defiantly spits in his face, the Examiner asks why the X-Men have interfered with the Australian crime world. Gambit claims innocence and pleads with his torturer to release Rogue, but the Examiner ignores him. Using the expert placement of his needles, the Examiner continues to play with his captive’s bodies. The Red Lotus starts to believe Rogue and Gambit may be telling the truth and orders the Examiner to stop, but the Examiner renders Red Lotus unconscious by throwing a volley of expertly aimed needles at him. While Gambit distracts the Examiner, Rogue manages to remove a needle from her body, accessing her power. With her reclaimed superstrength, Rogue spits a needle into the Examiner and knocks him across the room before she frees herself and Gambit. After they get back into their uniforms, Rogue and Gambit notice that the Examiner’s gone, having escaped while their attention was diverted. Red Lotus awakens, but Rogue knocks him back out when he gets out of hand. Rogue and Gambit decide to leave and take the unconscious Red Lotus with them since he might prove useful later. Rogue tries to contact Sage, but gets no answer through the network.
In Sydney, Sage continues to reside inside of the Hellfire Club illusion, but she concentrates enough to locate the person responsible, Lady Mastermind. Sage knocks her unconscious and heads for the door, but when she opens it she finds a brick wall blocking her way. Lady Mastermind’s illusions are so powerful that they persist even when she’s lost consciousness. Sage reaches another door and opens it, but Sebastian Shaw waits on the other side. Shaw punches Sage and grabs her by the throat, vowing revenge for how she betrayed him and joined his enemies the X-Men.
Back in Surfer’s Paradise, Storm and Thunderbird spend time with Davis and Heather Cameron, having something akin to a double date. Thunderbird sits at a table and talks with Heather. When Heather asks him why he seems distant, Thunderbird replies that he’s dealing with the death of a female friend. Heather doesn’t know he’s referring to Psylocke. While they chat, Storm and Davis dance together. Meanwhile, a band of lethal mystery men head toward them, beating up police officers on the way. Once Storm and Davis finish dancing, they join their comrades and Storm tells Thunderbird that she’s lost contact with Rogue and Sage. She decides to go investigate while he watches over Heather and Davis. Thunderbird tells Storm that she worries over nothing. When a bunch of men crash through the ceiling looking for a fight, Thunderbird thinks he spoke too soon.


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Getting Even !
In Surfer’s Paradise, criminal assassins called Boxers ambush Storm, Thunderbird, and the Cameron siblings. Under orders from the Chinese Triad, the Boxers intend to kill the Camerons, heirs to the Australian underworld. Storm and Thunderbird defend themselves while protecting innocent bystanders and the Camerons, who are stunned when they find out their guardians have been mutants all along. Yet one of the siblings makes a revelation of her own. During the fight, Heather is forced to protect herself and her skin transforms from flesh and blood to golden metal. Davis also gets in a few licks of his own. Together, the four of them beat the Boxers and the police take the thugs into custody. Heather doesn’t like having her mutancy made public. Previously, she only used her powers to save lives on the beach.
Later, Storm and Thunderbird tell the Camerons about their true parentage and how their biological father had them raised elsewhere to protect them from his dangerous lifestyle. Heather feels nothing for her father Viceroy since she never knew him. She and Davis find things about the X-Men odd, like their special sunglasses. Storm informs them that the glasses are a communications device. Through them, she learns that chaos ensues in Sydney. Davis wonders if being heirs to the criminal underworld gives him and his sister power to end the madness or if it just makes them targets.
In a Sydney nightclub, Bishop communicates with Storm through his glasses while he investigates the death of a Russian mafia boss. While Bishop is only posing as an official investigator, his real counterparts, Inspectors Menzies and Teri Baltimore, do their work. Menzies thinks Teri is too inexperienced for the case and tells her to leave, but Bishop thinks her help could be useful. Menzies passes Teri over to Bishop, wanting nothing to do with her. Menzies leaves the two of them to their work while he conducts his own. Bishops fills Teri in on what he knows: Viceroy’s death leaves an opening at the top of the Australian criminal empire. Other, less powerful mob bosses are eager to take his place, but now they’re ending up dead as well. The murders instigate a war, which no one wants, not even the higher tier crimelords. Bishop thinks the crimelords will have a meeting to settle this business, which will put them all in the same place at the same time, easy targets for mysterious mob killer. Teri thinks the crimelords might deserve their fate, but Bishop argues that everyone deserves protection under the law, good or bad. The two of them proceed with their investigation and take off on Teri’s motorbike.
Elsewhere, Sage is trapped in Lady Mastermind’s sophisticated illusion. While Lady Mastermind talks with Sebastian Shaw and plays with Sage’s specially designed glasses, she tears Sage’s world to pieces. In her mind, Sage “opens a never-ending series of doors, each admitting her to one crucial stage of her life after another.” Whenever Sage reaches a point in her life that involves Professor Xavier, her world becomes more menacing, but whenever she encounters the Hellfire Club, things become brighter. After one door, Sage relives being a terrified little girl being found by Professor Xavier on the street. After another, she relives being trained by him to become a spy. Sage only finds relief when she opens a door leading to the Hellfire and her old life. Through this illusion, Shaw plans to brainwash Sage back into his thrall.
In Surfer’s Paradise, Davis wonders if he’s a mutant like his sister, but Heather finds that idea foolish since Davis had never displayed any superpowers before. Davis feels useless compared to his sister and the X-Men. Storm and Thunderbird arrive and the Camerons see them wearing their X-Men uniforms for the first time. Heather tells the X-Men that she still cares nothing for her father, but she wants to stop the gang war and save lives. Heather also gives herself a codename, saying “I’m Lifeguard.” Storm and Thunderbird fly into the air, carrying Lifeguard and Davis. Thunderbird asks Lifeguard about her powers and she replies that she seems “able to do whatever’s necessary, depending on the situation.”
Meanwhile, Rogue flies toward X-Men’s hotel room, carrying Gambit and Red Lotus. Rogue tries to contact Sage through her glasses, informing that she plans to convince Red Lotus of the X-Men’s innocence. Once they reach their destination, Sebastian Shaw and Lady Mastermind are waiting for them. Shaw surprises Rogue and punches her so hard, the impact sends her rocketing through several rooms until she bursts from the other side of the building. Rogue quickly recoils from the punch and counterattacks, but her efforts are useless. Shaw’s power to absorb kinetic energy makes him stronger every time he’s hit, and he overpowers Rogue. Gambit and Red Lotus join the fight, but Shaw and Lady Mastermind force them to retreat. Red Lotus grabs Gambit and leaps from an open window, seemingly killing them both as they plunge several stories to the ground. Inside the hotel suite, Rogue becomes another victim of Lady Mastermind’s illusions. Rogue finds herself in a bed with Gambit and the two of them kiss. Just then Thunderbird stumbles in on them and collapses, bleeding severely. Then Vargas emerges with a pile of dead X-Men at his feet. He rubs Rogue’s face in how he killed Psylocke and severely injured the Beast. Vargas promises to kill Gambit and deems Rogue unworthy to hunt before he leaves her with the lifeless bodies of her teammates. Outside of the illusion, Lady Mastermind and Shaw gloat over how easy Rogue is to fool. They intend to use Rogue’s deepest fears to brainwash her into killing the remaining crimelords so Shaw can assume power over the Australian underworld. Lady Mastermind assures Shaw that she can control Rogue with her incredible illusions.
Outside, Gambit and Red Lotus continue falling to the ground. Gambit panics, but Red Lotus has no fear as he uses his considerable physical prowess to bounce and leap from surface to surface as they descend, saving them from certain doom. Once they (almost) safely reach the ground, Gambit tells Red Lotus that Sebastian Shaw and Lady Mastermind are probably the culprits behind the deaths of Gow Yang and the other crimelords. Gambit looks up and sees a small plane fly away from the X-Men’s hotel suite. Shaw and Lady Mastermind have plans and now they have both Rogue and Sage as pawns in their deadly game. To stop his enemies and save his friends, Gambit asks Red Lotus for help and Red Lotus agrees with a handshake.


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Boomerang ! (What Goes Around, Comes Around)
In a hurry, Gambit emerges from a dark alley and finds himself amidst the crowded hustle and bustle of the Sydney nightlife. He calms down a bit and casually walks down the street as people go about their business. A young woman stumbles into him and Gambit strokes her face, seeing a red welt on her cheek. Then a burly man, probably her abusive boyfriend, emerges from the crowd, glowering angrily at Gambit. The man tries to punch him, but Gambit evades and trips him with his staff. Then Gambit uses his staff to pin the man to the ground where he fell. A bus full of Boxers approaches, prompting Gambit to toss a small deck of charged playing cards in their direction. The cards strike the bus and detonate with incredible explosive energy. While he continues to pin the burly man with his staff, Gambit kisses the young woman, who’s grateful he came along when he did. Gambit races off into the night as police arrive to pick up the pieces.
Elsewhere, Bishop and Teri Baltimore conduct police business inside a downtown Victorian gentlemen’s club. With stone cold professionalism, the two of them flash their badges, much to the chagrin of the crowd of gangsters surrounding them.
Meanwhile, a teary-eyed Rogue soars through the night sky carrying Lady Mastermind, whom she thinks is Gambit. Lady Mastermind has taken hold of Rogue’s mind, causing her to suffer from a sophisticated illusion. Rogue thinks she’s wearing her X-Men uniform and her X-Treme sunglasses. In reality, Rogue is still dressed as a geisha girl (she obtained the dress in #5) and Lady Mastermind is the one wearing the X-Treme sunglasses. Due to her illusions, Rogue still thinks that Vargas slaughtered her teammates.
In the X-Men’s hotel suite, Red Lotus tries to rescue Sage from Sebastian Shaw’s clutches. Shaw has stolen Sage’s X-Treme sunglasses, which he wears while he holds her. Sage stares blankly into nothingness. After last issue, Sage is lost in a sea of confusion trapped in Lady Mastermind’s illusory world of psychological deception. Red Lotus uses his blinding speed and martial arts skill to attack Shaw, knocking the X-Treme sunglasses from his face and forcing Shaw to release Sage. Sage falls to the floor and Shaw fights Red Lotus.
Meanwhile, Storm, Thunderbird, and their companions fly toward their hotel suite. Storm carries Davis Cameron and Thunderbird carries Heather Cameron, a.k.a. Lifeguard. Rogue soars by and spots the group. Because of Lady Mastermind’s illusion, instead of her friends, Rogue thinks she sees Vargas and his henchmen. Rogue drops Lady Mastermind, whom she still thinks is Gambit, off on a building rooftop. Then she rockets toward her teammates, ready to bring down the Wrath of God upon them. She slams into her targets and the impact forces the X-Men to release the Camerons, who fall to the ground. Thunderbird swoops down and catches Davis while Heather’s mutant powers activate: her skin transforms into gold and wings sprout from her back, allowing her to fly on her own. Storm fires a lightning bolt at Rogue in defense. Unfazed by the energy, Rogue heads toward her like a human bullet. Lifeguard flies between them to save Storm and takes the brunt of the impact when Rogue hits them. Storm and Lifeguard crash into a building.
Rogue flies back to the rooftop where she thinks she left Gambit, unknown that she still perceives the world through an illusion. She lands and sees Gambit lying in a pool of blood. Rogue takes him into her arms and spots Vargas standing in a balcony in a nearby building. Rogue instantly believes that Vargas was behind the attack on Gambit and leaps toward him. Everything Rogue has just seen and experienced has been completely false, an illusion. Bishop stands on a balcony of the Victorian gentlemen’s club. He’s startled to see Rogue heading toward him like an airborne torpedo. Rogue thinks Bishop is Vargas, and she intends to punish him. Downstairs, Teri Baltimore escorts a group of mobsters through a hallway, conducting her police business. A deadly squadron of Boxers awaits Teri and the criminals she’s arrested. She hears gunshots as Bishop fires repeatedly at Rogue, who zooms toward him with deadly intent.
Red Lotus continues to fight Sebastian Shaw in the X-Men’s hotel suite. He tries to go for Shaw’s pressure points and weak spots.
In the gentlemen’s club, the real Gambit crashes through a window just as the Boxers engage in a fire fight with the mobsters they intended to kill. Upstairs, Rogue rams into Bishop and the two of them crash into a wall. Teri fires her gun at Rogue, which does no good. Rogue looks around and, instead of Boxers and mobsters, she sees several incarnations of Vargas.
On the rooftop of the nearby building, Lady Mastermind watches the whole scene, still masquerading as Gambit. Davis Cameron tries to sneak up behind her, but Lady Mastermind traps him in her illusion. Soon Davis thinks he’s been shackled. Thunderbird arrives to save the day, firing a beam of solar plasma at Lady Mastermind, which hits the rooftop floor in front of her and detonates.
Rogue continues her rampage through the Victorian gentlemen’s club, punishing all who stand before her. She holds Teri by the throat, believing the woman is Vargas. Gambit taps Rogue on the shoulder, shifting her attention to him. She releases Teri and attacks Gambit. As Rogue hammers away, Lady Mastermind’s illusion fades and loses power. Soon Rogue realizes that Gambit is the person she’s trying to kill, not Vargas. Rogue ceases her attack and hugs Gambit while Bishop tends to Teri.
From the balcony of the X-Men’s hotel suite, Red Lotus gazes through a pair of X-Treme sunglasses. Near him is a giant hole in the wall and Shaw is nowhere to be found, so apparenty Red Lotus has defeated him and thrown him through the wall. Inside the suite, Sage stands like a lobotomized mental patient, staring into space, still trapped in Lady Mastermind’s illusion.


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Face The Music !
It’s raining in Sydney, Australia. A lightning bolt strikes across the sky. Storm is standing on the balcony of the X-Men’s hotel suite, as suddenly the astral image of Jean Grey appears in front of her. Jean says they need to talk.
In another room of the appartment, Heather, Neal and Davis are concerned over Sage’s status. She is still catatonic and they fear she is dying. Rogue comes in telling that the bad weather is screwing the electric power. Davis saysthat Sage should be brought to a hospital, but Rogue answers that normal doctors won’t be able to help her. Through the communication device built into the team’s sunglasses, Rogue contacts Bishop and fills him in on the situation. Lady Mastermind, aka Regan Wyngarde seems to have crashed their human computer, they already learned how dangerous she is when she nearly made Rogue kill Bishop (last issue). Rogue comes into Storm’s room and is blinded by a flash of lightning.
In Sydney’s chinatown, Gambit and Red Lotus are about to deal with the Triad, who are still after Gambit, believing he murdered an australian crimlord. Red Lotus asks if Gambit is sure, and he confirms; whatever happens to Sage, he can’t help.
In Sage’s room, Heather wishes that she understood her powers better. Then she might be able to help. Neal asks how her powers work, and Heather sums up as much as she knows. She is a Lifeguard, when somebody gets in trouble, she all of a sudden can do whatever is necessary to make a rescue. But it never has been a conscious decision and she doesn’t know how to activate her power. Suddenly Heather starts glowing, as she feels Sage calling out to her to save her life.
At the Xavier Inbstitute, Jean is sitting inside the new Cerebra device, that amplifies her powers so that she can communicate with Storm who is on the other side of the globe. She and Ororo are talking while walking into Sydney and into a shopping mall, or actually the astral plane modeled after these locations. Jean tells her friend about recent events in New York : she is the school’s headministress now, and ever since Xavier outed himself as a mutant, there have been acts of violence. Even her parents have been attacked, but the university where Dr. Grey lectures supported him and he did not lose his job. In a few hours, Jean will have to give her first press conference. Hearing how much she has weighing on her mind, Ororo offers to talk with her later, but Jean says they may not have a “later“. They tell each other how much they miss themselves, while Jean rearranges her clothes to wear the outfit she sees on one of the mannequins in a shop window. Ororo asks how the Beast is, and Jean says that he is better than could be expected, though he is still kind of repressed and won’t talk about the events in Spain regarding Psylocke’s death or what happened to Ororo in the Savage Land. Suddenly Jean senses that Ororo has a new love interest, Storm tries to deny it, but Jean is sure as she otherwise would spend so much time with her trolling boutiques; Jean is already wearing another outfit. Ororo tries to change topic, getting back to business, but Jean wants to hear everything.
In Chinatown, Red Lotus and Gambit have interrupted a meeting of the Triad’s ruling council. Gambit finds dozens of guns pointed to his head, and the Examiner thanks Red Lotus for delivering the murderer. Yet when Red Lotus announces that it wasn’t Gambit, but the Examiner himself who killed his grandfather, the Examiner shouts that he must be mindcontrolled by Gambit. Red Lotus and Gambit present evidence, they found documents in Sebastian Shaw’s files that prove that Shaw and the Examiner wanted to not only take over the Triad, but every major crime syndicate of Australia. The Examiner throws his needles towards Red Lotus, but he uses the briefcase as a shield, and Gambit stops the opponents escape with his explosive trademark cards. While the Examiner is taken into custody, the other Triad members thank Gambit and Red Lotus for pointing them to the truth.
Jean and Ororo are now in the astral simulacrum of a swing club, and again wearing other outfits. While dancing, Ororo says that Davis is the perfect gentleman so far and she doesn’t know if she should take the initiative in their relationship. She is holding back as she doesn’t want to draw him into the line of fire that comes along with the X-Men’s profession, on the other hand his sister Heather is a mutant too. Jean is curious and wants to know more, and Ororo fills her in on Lifeguard, a name that describes both her occupation and her mutant abilities.
Heather finds herself in strange landscape, wearing a costume in the style of the X-Treme team. Last she remembers she was sitting at Sage’s bedside, so this must have to do with her. As the only structure in sight is a huge fortress, Heather wants to start looking there, but it would take her days to walk the long stairway she is on. As she takes the first step, the stairs transform into a slide, and Heather’s body reacts to the danger by transforming into golden armor. Using the slide’s momentum, she heads for the fortress like a supersonic rocket and smashes through a wall. On the other side is a balkan village and a girl is hunted by a mob. Heather recognizes the child as Sage, but would have sided with the kid over the mob anytime. While she deals with the hunters, Tessa runds into a house, and when Heather follows her through the door, the scene changes once more. Recognizing him from TV, Lifeguard sees Charles Xavier and Tessa as a teenager, wearing the basic X-costume. Xavier singles out Tessa to be his spy, while the X-Men’s lifes will be defined by honor. Heather follws Tessa through another door, thinking that this cold man can’t be the same guy that Storm and the others put their faith in.
Ororo is enjoying an icecream and offers Jean to pick up it’s taste from her mind, yet the redhead says that her weather powers create to much static in Storm’s brain to pry into her pleasure center. Ororo shows some relief that she has some privacy ensured. Jean now gets to the point of the meeting, she wants to warn Storm’s group of Cassandra Nova. The powerful foe came out of nowhere and she switched identities with Xavier, the supreme telepath, right under the X-Men’s noses without anybody realizing it. Xavier now suffers from some form of psychicAlzheimer that is slowly killing him and she might also have infected the other inhabitants of the mansion with some strange illness. That is why Jean wants Ororo’s team to consider the manion quarantined and to avoid all contact with them. During the conversation, Jean telekinetically braids Ororo’s hair.
Heather has followed Tessa into the Hellfire Club, and now sees her dancing with Sebastian Shaw. She decides that she has finally seen enough and wants to act, but can’t move. A presence reveals herself right next to her, and the form of Lady Mastermind appears. The illusionist inspects the person who invaded the illusion world she created for Tessa, she recognizes the uniform, but not the face, so Heather apparently is a new recruit of the X-Men. Heather is rendered mute and immovable by Mastermind and can’t prevent her from shredding apart the golden armor to reveal plain Heather in her bathing suit underneath. Regan Wyngarde laughs that the X-Men sent only a lifeguard after her. Telepathically sensing that Heather is the Viceroy’s daughter, she wants to see if she fares any better than him. It was her who killed the Viceroy, by trapping him in the illusion of being at the bottom of the ocean until he drowned, and now Heather too finds herself under water. Her power kicks in and she transforms into a golden mermaid. Mastermind enjoys the challenge and creates a giant Squid squeezing Heather, who transforms into a whale. Yet now she has to face whalehunters and is hit in the back by a harpoon. While Heather wonders how to defeat Mastermind, when her powers allows her to only react to what’s thrown at her, Shaw leads Tessa through another door. In the real world, Heather is still glowing and Davis and Neal recognize that she is bleeding at her back.
Back in the illusion, Lady Mastermind states that Heather is untrained and has no psi-shields against her telepathy, but Heather switches back to human, leaps out of the water and kicks the illusionist in the face, saying that when thought and action are one, her telepathy is useless. The scene changes to a dessert. Shaw gives Tessa a gun and says that she will soon have the chance to prove her loyalty. Mastermind stands over the exhautsed Lifeguard and explains that Tessa used to work for Shaw, but actually was a double agent placed there by Xavier. As Mastermind torments Heather by draining her body of water, she says that Shaw wants Tessa back and therefore she created this illusion world for her. In the final door appears a figure, looking like Sage in her X-Treme X-Men costume. Once Tessa kills this version of herself, she will be loyal to Shaw once and for all. Mastermind smashes Lifeguard in the face and the withered body cracks, only to reveal golden armored Tessa underneath. While Mastermind was bickering, Tessa pulled a switch, she placed Heather inside the Sage figure in the doorway, while she herself took control of Lifeguard’s body – and Masterming never noticed, as Tessa was trained by the best. While she knocks Regan out, Shaw has made his way to the Tessa he has handed the gun to, he helps her aim and pulls the trigger, hoping that when the bullet strikes Sage/Heather in the doorway, his aide will be his once more. Tessa, in Lifeguard’s body leaps in between and the bullet bounces off her armor.
The illusion ends, Heather is back in the real world and yells at Sage who is coming around. She was used by her the whole time and could have been killed. Sage apologizes, but says that she had no other choice. Heather held the power to defeat Mastermind, but lacks the skill to wield it properly. Next time she might ask. Davis inspects his sister’s back, despite her shirt being soaked with blood, there is no harm to her body. They ask what happened to Mastermind, and Sage says that the force of the bullet meant for her, hit the illusionist instead. The catatonic form of Regan Wyngarde is seen in a wheelchair, as it seems inside one of Sydney’s hospitals.
Bishop and Inspector Terri Baltimore are at Shaw’s office, showing their police badges and ready to arrest him. Yet Shaw and his lawyer state that they have no evidence to prove his involvement, despite what they believe to know. Bishop says that it doesn’t matter, the crime syndicates know what Shaw and the Examiner were planning and they will want to take revenge. Terri leaves with Bishop on her motorbike and accepts his invitation for having dinner later on.
Jean senses that Ororo is worried. She wonders how Jean can maintain their contact and braid her hair from half a world away. Ororo can’t help but be reminded of Dark Phoenix. Jean says that sheis just doing what comes naturally, and that’s also why she is holding on to normal interaction with her friends – to remind herself what it’s like to be human. Unfortunately she can’t stay much longer, Cassandra has departed to the Shi’Ar, masquerading as Xavier and they don’t know what will happen when she returns, probably with the alien empire under her control. The X-Men will have to fight her, and Jean wants Ororo’s squad to be secret trump card. Storm thinks that there might be a connection between Vargas and Cassandra Nova, one being the epitome of physical powers the other psychic. Also she asks Jean for the volumes of Destiny’s Diary that were left in the mansion, but Jean says they are missing – possibly Cassandra has stolen them. Jean then lights up a phoenix effect and departs.
Rogue has just come into Storm’s room. There is no light as the power is still out. Rogue shouts Ororo’s name and she answers that her mind was wandering. A lightning lights up the sky and Rogue sees Storm leaning in the door to the balcony, her hair is braided and she is wearing a new costume. When they join the others in Sage’s room, they are happy to see their teammate alive and well. Also Gambit, Bishop and Red Lotus are there, and the cajun X-Man has been cleared off all charges.


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Keys Of The Kingdom
The X-Men travel through a teleportation process that Sage calls the Warp Wave. This Wave is generated from Davis Cameron who marvels at his new power. This new power of teleportation allow him to transport, nearly instantaneously, by generating a wave that he is able to ride to his desired destination. Luckily for the X-Men, Davis is also able to take others along. The X-Men arrive at their destination, emerging from their dimensional portal. Unfortunately, only Davis, still atop his wave-riding mini surfboard, is able to have a soft landing. Davis continues to reel from this new power and the extra-sensory abilities that come with it. However, as the power subsides, so does Davis' strength and he falls to the ground. Luckily, Storm manages to catch him. Still reveling in his euphoria and looking into the beautiful eyes of the woman whose name truly means beauty, Davis recalls the events that led up to this moment.
(a few hours before)
The X-Men are relaxing in their apartment in Sydney, dressed in their civilian clothes. Thunderbird and Lifeguard flirt, Bishop and Rogue converse, Davis gives Storm a backrub and Sage, still the outcast, sits alone on the couch. At first glance it seems that Sage is brooding, but in truth, even at this moment of calm, she studies. Through her red-tinted glasses Sage replays text from one of Destiny's Diaries. The section she reads foretells of the price of Xavier's dream being the Ancient Aerie’s fall.
Gambit enters the room and makes a request of Storm. He asks for the ruby that she wears as a choker on her costume. To everyone's surprise Sage asks Gambit why he is attempting to reconstitute the Madripoor Set. Storm, never having heard of this collection, asks Sage about it. Sage explains that collection is a keystone. She further explains that a temple on Madripoor, the only known reference of the stone, says that they possess terrible power and that the last time they were an active set, Atlantis fell.
Gambit explains that the collection is a part of his history as well. The Thieves Guild have watched the owners of the gems and stole them from whomever collected more than one. In recent months, Gambit explains, someone has acquired three. The Viceroy had possessed one gem of the set, and Gambit had come to Australia to steal it. Now, he says, he needs Storm's ruby. Rogue asks Storm if she had any idea of the gem's history or significance. Storm replies that she knew of it only as a keepsake from her mother, who had been given it by hers, and so on. If her mother had known about the gem's history she had never had the time to tell Storm, as she died when Storm was four. Gambit attempts to use his charm to get on Storm's good side, but Storm rebuffs him. Beginning to leave, Storm imparts another bit of information: She HAD known about her gem's power. A friend had shown her how to use the ruby to open a portal between dimensions even though the power was limited. As she opens the door, Storm theorizes that if all gems have some special ability, that linked together they might hold unlimited power. The X-Men cannot allow them to be collected.
Storm's thought is interrupted, not by her departure, but by a hulking form. A gigantic alien being clad in black armor and a red cape grasps Storm and Gambit with his pincer hands. From his skull-like face the monstrosity calls Storm a thief and mocks her ambition as doomed. Under the orders of his Monarch, he has scoured the continent looking the keys to his Monarch's triumph. Captured, but not helpless, Storm calls down a lightening bolt onto her captor. Her blow is followed by solar plasma blasts from Thunderbird and force blasts from Bishop's guns. Rogue follows next with a right cross so powerful that Storm and Gambit are released.
Now freed, Storm instructs Gambit to take the ruby, the monster's prize, and hide it well. Ororo tells Lifeguard to get Gambit clear, and Lifeguard transforms into her metal form as she runs to the window. Wings grow as she grabs Gambit, and they leap into the air. The armored monster looks in horror as his prey prize escapes. In a swift move he crashes through the wall and jumps onto the airborne Lifeguard and Gambit. Upon contact the trio are teleported away in a green light.
The X-Men stand defeated. Davis asks what the team's next move is but Storm points out that they don't even know where their friends have been taken. Sage next speaks and suggests to Storm that the time has come for what they had previously discussed. After Storm's agreement, Sage tells Davis that he, like his sister, is a mutant albeit a latent one. She further states that her mutant power, under the proper circumstances, can trigger latent powers into an active state. Thunderbird immediately and emphatically objects. He states that the acceleration of the natural evolutionary process, creating super powered beings for convenience, is not only wrong, but against everything that they X-Men have stood for. Davis quiets Thunderbird, pointing out that it is his life and his choice. Davis says that he has the choice that the rest of them did not, and he will make this decision and choice freely, to save his sister.
With no pause, Sage approaches Davis. Energy tendrils arc from her eyes and enter his. Sage narrates her actions, explaining as she analyzes Davis' DNA and makes the proper modification to activate his powers. The rest of the X-Men watch in amazement and horror. Bishop regrets his silence at the issue before, regretting his deferment to Storm's judgment. Rogue wonders if Sage possesses the ability to un-create mutants as well, possibly to rid her of her powers. Finished, Sage asks how Davis feels. As his body continues to crackle with energy, Davis exclaims that he feels great and never better.
(present)
In the jungle of Madripoor the X-Men take stock of their situation. To their surprise they are welcomed to Madripoor by its ruling pricess, Viper. After giving her condolences for the recent death of Psylocke, Viper explains her presence as an investigation into recent activities at the nearby temple. Suddenly a blinding red light fills the air, taking the X-Men and Viper by surprise.
(a few minutes ago)
As the X-Men were in transit to Madripoor events were already transpiring in the temple. In the center of the temple lay a circular altar ordained by giant gems. Upon the center and largest gem, a ruby, lie a chained and nearly naked Gambit with the prized Ruby of Storm attached to his neck, and five other gemstones placed at his hands, feet and the left side of his chest. On the chamber wall Lifeguard, still in armored form, is chained and helpless. The monstrous kidnapper of Gambit and Lifeguard introduces himself as Shaitan. He explains that the stones of the chamber will amplify the ability of Gambit's body to generate energy to the point sufficient to open a portal between the current dimensional plane and the one beside it. Lifeguard, having used Shaitan's boasting to build up her strength unnoticed breaks free of her chains. She leaps to rescue Gambit, but is slammed against the chamber wall by Shaitan who supplements his blow with an energy blast.
Back at the altar the gem on Gambit's body erupts in energy. A beam of fire, as red as blood, launches into the sky. The beam takes the form of a monstrous tower, whose base is so huge it completely encloses the island of Madripoor, that measures over a hundred miles in length.
(present)
As Shaitan gloats to the still gripped Lifeguard Rogue bursts through the chamber walls. Carrying the surprise Shaitan aloft, Rogue exits the temple and slams him into the lagoon outside. Rogue tries to press the attack and hits Shaitan several times, but is kicked back by the recovered monster. Thunderbird, flying into action, fires his solar plasma and injures Shaitan. Rogue takes advantage of this injury and kicks Shaitan miles away.
Nearby Storm flies herself and Bishop into the temple's center chamber. There they find Gambit atop the energy filled center gem with the energy column erupting from his chest. As Storm tries to attend to Lifeguard, Bishop attempts to use his energy absorbing powers to drain the center gem. Bishop is forced back in pain as his attempt is unsuccessful. Realizing from Shaitan's claims that time is limited, Gambit instructs Storm to kill him.
Before Storm can respond, a flash of pain wracks Gambit and a portal opens. From the portal emerge purple skinned aliens in military style armor and wielding assault weapons. The troop leader begins ordering his men. He orders Alpha and Beta firing teams to fan out and secure the "landing stage". Charley team is told to follow him and establish a full cordon around the generator. Bishop, realizing combat troops, especially ones who sound like they know their business begins firing his guns. The troops are surprised and even more so when the floor beneath them begins to give way. The troop leader is able to order the "launch bay" alerted before he falls to the chamber floor below.
Storm orders Bishop to take the troop leader prisoner, intending to interrogate him later, using Rogue's absorption power if necessary. The troops, still above, begin to fire at the X-Men in order to protect their Lord below. Lifeguard uses her body as a shield while Bishop returns fire. Storm intends to wait for Rogue and Thunderbird to return, but Gambit, sensing another portal opening, yells for them to get clear. The team understands and departs, against their true wishes.
The new portal opens with a violent boom. More armored troops emerge with their weapons already firing. The team leader, apparently human, orders that the Pylon be notified that the landing stage is secure. Further, he informs his men that their report is true and that Khan has been captured. The leader informs his men to scan for Khan's transponder. As soon as a tight signal is located they will move. As the team waits the leader tells his men not to worry and promises that if Khan is hurt, or worse, then the whole world will pay the price.


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Beachhead !
Shaitan screams Khan’s name as he is being bandaged up by one of his militia’s doctors. The doctor tells him to rest but Shaitan says he can not rest till he has found Khan. As Shaitan looks over the hundreds of soldiers preparing for battle he comments on how he is not the only one on the planet that needs to worry about dying. Shaitan runs into a room where Gambit is still starpped to the altar that empowers the tower and it’s teleportation portals. Shaitan orders him to tell him about the rest of the X-Men, but Gambit says that if he takes on the X-Men Shaitan will lose. Shaitan informs Gambit that his race has defeated whole dimensions, and his race will never lose.
In Washington DC, in the White House the President is being escorted to the situation room where his National Security Staff is waiting for him. They explain to the President the situation of Madripoor being surrounded in a forcefield and a pulse beam  going up 22,600 miles into the atmosphere, where it takes on a distinct form. Just then Iron Man interrupts and the Avengers talk to the President over their video screens. Iron Man explains that the “needle” is some kind of transport beam acting like an elevator bringing the invaders down in Madripoor. The Vision explains that the tower will become completely tangible in fifty hours. The President tells the Avengers to act quickly and Iron Man tells him they will do their best but the tower is protected by a forcefield and may be impossible to destroy. Just then on a satellite link allowing the Avengers to see Madripoor they watch a helicopter and listen to its broadcast.
Shanna Cho, one of Madripoor’s news broadcasters, is flying in a helicopter reporting on the Madripoor’s Air Force attack on one of the Pylons that have been popping up along their shorelines since the invaders have arrived. Laser blasts destroy two Air Force Jets and causes Shanna’s helicopter to lose control sending her falling out the hatch door. One of the pilots, Tommy, reaches out to save her as the Helicopter crashes into the Pylon.
Bishop is standing on a rooftop of a building holding his sniper rifle aimed at the invaders aircrafts. Storm is on a radio transmission with Bishop and orders him to destroy the enemy’s aircrafts. Which he does along with Thunderbird and Rogue; the three of them take out the enemy aircraft. Despite her metal armor and her wings, Lifeguard manifests two extra sets of arms to catch the many people from the helicopter and the alien invaders as their falling to the ground.
Now as everyone is on the rooftop of a building in Madripoor, Shanna asks the X-Men if they are the super hero team the Avengers, but Rogue explains who they are and that they are there to help. Tessa witnesses one of the alien prisoners recognizing Khan, who tells him to be quiet, as they don’t want the X-Men to know of what importance their captive is. Thunderbird worries that on the rooftop they are open to more attacks, and Bishop comments that the problem is being taken care of as they speak. Shanna exclaims “a minute ago, the sky was crystal clear. Now the whole city’s covered in fog.” Khan watches Storm who is causing all the fog float to the rooftop with the rest of the X-Men. He is fascinated and exclaims that this world they are about to invade is full of surprises.
The X-Men hear shots and everyone prepares for another fight. Bishop sees that it is Viper shooting at the captured invaders, as Rogue flies to disarm Viper, Storm jumps on Khan, pushing him out of the line of fire although not being able to save the other aliens from dying. Viper tells the X-Men that in Madripoor she is the law and she judges that they should take no prisoners. Storm knocks Viper to the ground and Viper pulls her gun out as Storm disarms her. Shanna gets between Storm and Viper and begs Storm to use their powers to fight the real enemies and worry about their differences later. Slipstream and Rogue warn the team of an invaders craft looking for them and the X-Men decide to run and hide. Storm tells Khan that she is sorry and that Viper will be made to pay for her crimes. Khan grabs a pipe and threatens to hit Storm with it; he asks Storm why he should believe her and Storm says that Khan has seen her power and that he should know that she does not even have to ask for his cooperation. Sage watches all of this as she had picked up Viper’s pistol, yet as she sees Khan dropping his weapon and coming along peacefully, she places it in her belt behind her back.
Minutes later, the alien invaders have the secured the rooftop and examine the bodies that Viper just killed. Their men were tied up, apparently theyhave been executed. The captain of the crew is trying to make a scanner device work, but the bad weather is screwing up ist electonics. Suddenly his ship is destroyed and an army of Madripoor’s soldiers fires on the captain wounding him. The invaders think they are dead, but Shaitan comes in and deals with Madripoor’s soldiers. The alien invaders try to call a medic for their Captain, but he refuses saying that they must find Khan first.
Under a casino in one of Viper’s many hideouts Storm asks Sage to analyze their situation. Sage explains that “Thus far, we seem to be facing specialized assault units the equivalent of Rangers and Paratroops whose role is to secure the beachhead for the main force to follow.” Viper says that the Avengers or the Fantastic Four will find a way to break through the forcefield. They decide though that they can not just sit around and wait because eventually sheer numbers would do them in. Red Lotus tells Storm that the prisoner (Khan) would like a word with her. Khan thanks Storm for saving his life and she says that she wished she could have saved the rest of “his crew”. Khan, who has not revealed who he is or even his name up to this point is shocked that Storm recognizes him as the Alien Invader’s leader. Storm asks if he can stop the invasion and Khan says that Storm might persuade but not to compel him. Just then Shaitan crashes through the wall and Rogue attacks him sending him back through the wall, eager for a “rematch“. Shaitan tells Rogue that while she talks as if it were just a game he means this as war and he fights like it, hitting her, sending Rogue flying backwards. Bishop blasts Shaitan with his pistols and Red Lotus tries to attack Shaitan, but is surprised when his kick misses not hitting Shaitan. Shaitan though kicks Red Lotus taking him out. Thunderbird then comes in and tries to take Shaitan out, but Shaitan sends both Bishop and Thunderbird falling. Lifeguard catches both Bishop and Thunderbird while Storm decides ist better to split up.
Shaitan apparently wants none other than Khan so she will take him away, and leaves Bishop in charge till they meet again. Suddenly Viper attacks Storm from the back with poisoned claws. None of the escaping X-Men notice, leaving Viper and Khan to face each other. Viper thinks she is attacking a weak soldier, but as Khan breaks the handcuffs he was in, and easily takes Viper out, she will surely change her mind on him (once she regains consciousness). Shaitan asks Khan if he is okay, and he says he is fine and that Shaitan needs to find Storm. Shaitan brings Storm to Khan saying that she is almost dead, her vital signs are very weak. Khan tells Shaitan to summon a medivac for Storm, and they better respond as if it were him in need of the medical attention. Shaitan asks Khan why he wants to save her, because she is the enemy and he should just let her die. Khan says “ Not now Shaitan not ever. She will live and she will be my QUEEN ! "


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Second Front!
On an Earth right next to this one, Khan returns to his ship through a dimensional transit portal. Immediately, one of his soldiers calls out "All Hail Khan". Not interested in ceremony, Khan tells them to "never mind that". Instead of receiving honor, Khan chooses to show it to his foe Storm, one of the X-Men, whom Khan now carries in his arms. Twenty-two thousand miles above Earth Khan walks down the deck of his space station. The soldiers on the ship watch him as he carries Storm. Everyone on the ship knows Khan is just a man but they all revere him as a God anyway. Some can remember a time when Khan was a boy. Other people even laughed at Khan for his childish ideas of conquering dimensions; they do not laugh now. They all though have seen the way he cares for the common soldier and they also have seen him unmoved by a whole world burning. The strange thing about today, for his soldiers, is to see the same reverence they carry for Khan in his eyes for the person he carries in his arms.
On the ship's deck Tigio one of Khan's personal physician's is waiting along with the rest of his medical team. Tigio informs Khan that Storm has slashing wounds to the spinal column, significant neural trauma, and blood loss. Appearing through the transport beam Shaitan asks Khan not to save Storm's life. On bended knee, he tells his lord and commander that she is dangerous. Khan says that he hopes by saving Storm the other X-Men will try to rescue her, and walk into a trap. Next, Khan calls for a Skinwalker. One of his crew, Largo, wearing a protective containment suit pulls a vial out of a radiation labeled canister.
With his crew protesting, Khan takes the vial from Largo in his bare hands, and pours the vial of black goo onto Storm. She convulses as it surrounds her body. Mirroring her body, the controlled environment of the space station nearly creates a hurricane, accompanied by thunder and lightening. The hurricane and Storm's convulsions subside; telling Khan that she is fully imprinted. Under the orders of Khan, Shaitan leans over Storm's body and allows the Skinwalker to be transferred to his body. When the Skinwalker disappears, Shaitan no longer possesses his hulking alien form, but the body of Storm, with all her powers and her physical appearance. Gloating, Khan says he will use Shaitan in the guise of Storm to infiltrate the X-Men. Next he orders the physicians to restore the true Storm to perfect health because she is to be his queen.
In Madripoor Bishop attacks a cadre of aliens, taking them out by himself. When a ship flies overhead, firing at him, Bishop calls for back up. Thunderbird responds, shooting down the plane with an energy beam of solar plasma. When the plane crashes too closely, Bishop tells Thunderbird to be more careful. Meanwhile, the airborne Rogue fights three planes. As she takes out the three, she tells Bishop and Thunderbird that they do not need to worry about her, she is fine on her own.
While the three combat members of the team do their best to act like an army, the other newer X-Men deal with the collateral damage. Lifeguard finds a group of people trapped behind a fire. She asks them to grab her hand and then she tells Slipstream to teleport them away, which he does.
In a tunnel beneath Madripoor, Sage uses computer-like mutant power to eavesdrop on a conversation a trooper is having with his commander. The trooper requests authorization for the use of enhanced weaponry. Denying the request, the commander explains that until the tower is fully solid, only conventional weaponry is authorized. However, he will send in more troops to help. Near Sage's location in another tunnel, Viper hands out weaponry to the civilian populace. Forming guerrilla teams, Viper believes that if Madripoor is going down, then it will go down fighting.
Rogue appears with the other X-Men and asks Viper where Storm is. Viper tells them that Khan and Shaitan got the better of them both and she believes Storm's wounds might be fatal. Sage listens and remembers to herself that she saw Viper attack Storm, but decides to say nothing to the X-Men about it. Bishop asks Sage if she has any ideas to stop the enemy, to which Sage replies that actually, she has a few.
Elsewhere in the labyrinth of tunnels, Davis Cameron sits crying. Thunderbird finds him and tries to comfort him. Davis says that he thought being a mutant would be fun, but since he has become one he has done nothing but fight. Davis then says "and I can not ever go back". Thunderbird hugs him and points out that none of them can and says he is sorry.
Elsewhere, in a makeshift hospital, Lifeguard visits Red Lotus who had apparently sustained life-threatening wounds from his fight with Shaitan. He lays on a cot unconscious. As Lifeguard walks away, she passes Sage who has been watching her. Lifeguard stops to pick up the girl that she had saved earlier. Sage asks Lifeguard if she wants her to accelerate her mutant abilities to help stabilize her powers. Bitterly, Lifeguard tells Sage that unless she can take her brothers powers back away from him she will not allow Sage to play God with her mutant powers. As Lifeguard walks away, Sage thinks out loud that if she had done nothing, then what is going on in Madripoor now, would be the fate of the entire world.
Back on Khan's station he sharpens his sword, talking to it. He tells it how it soon will feast again. Storm wakes up in a luxurious room filled with attendants. The attendants wait on her, giving her a bath, dressing her, and feeding her. Very quickly, Storm realizes that her attendants are not simply servants but guards who are not only there to pamper her, but also to watch and record all of her movements. Storm decides to pull "a Sage" around her attendants: watching them, listening to them, and learning from them, but saying nothing.
Sometime later, Khan appears behind Storm as she stands in a flower garden. Khan explains to her that the nerves in her back were almost severed. The shackles that she now wears not only facilitate healing; they also provide constant telemetry on her condition, and her powers. Storm thanks Khan for saving her but asks why he wants her there. He tells her it is because he is a monarch, who desires a Queen.
In Madripoor's Lowtown, a soldier radios for help saying that he is under attack by new, stronger adversaries and he is the only one left of his crew. Just then Sabretooth, Wolverine, and the Hulk run to attack the lone soldier, but before they make it to him, the soldier faints. The illusion of the three foes fades, revealing Bishop, Thunderbird and Rogue. Bishop comments on how he actually felt as strong as the Hulk, to which Rogue says, thanks to her mix of telepathy and telekinesis, he was.
Bishop then comments to Rogue on her powers, as they seem to be under control a whole lot better lately. Rogue replies that she is just getting more of a handle on her powers. Through one of his teleportation portals, Slipstream arrives, bringing Sage and his sister, Lifeguard. Under the suggestion by Sage, the X-Men, except for Rogue, remove the armor from the unconscious soldiers and begin putting it on themselves. As the team suits up, Thunderbird looks at Sage and wonders if she did not have a part in Rogue's new handle on her on powers.
When, Rogue asks Bishop why she can't go with them; he tells her that they need her as back up. With the power and psyche of every super-being she has ever imprinted, Rogue's powers make her a one-woman army. He tells her that if they do not come back, she may have to kill Gambit to save the world from Khan's army. Rogue tells Bishop that she knows Storm is alive and asks Bishop to bring her man Gambit back to her.
In Khan's palace Storm reels at Khan's offer of becoming his queen. When she asks Khan if he expects her to live there shackled with the rest of his treasures, he tells her that he has found nothing that compares to her. As they dance, Storm tells Khan that if she means so much to him, then call off the invasion. Khan tells her no that he will win her world and then her heart. When Storm asks Khan why he is so arrogant, Khan replies that the worlds that embrace him prosper beyond their wildest dreams. When she asks what happens to those who resist, he grabs her by the neck and tells her that resistance is futile.
Back in Madripoor a group of soldiers find the X-Men disguised in armor. Believing them to be their fallen comrades, they pick the X-Men and request, by radio, immediate clearance to the portal.
Back on Khan's ship, Storm grabs Khan's hair violently. With his hand still around her throat, she tells him that she will never be conquered. After a brief moment of glaring at him she says that she can instead, choose... to surrender. With this, she pulls his face to hers and they kiss passionately.