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Sentinels: part 1
Wolverine is sitting in a bar, halfway through his fourth bottle of whiskey. He is interrupted by the bar’s owner, who has realized that Logan is a mutant. He has seen regular guys twice Logan’s size die from drinking that much alcohol. He warns that they don’t serve Logan’s kind in there, to which Logan jokingly asks if he’s got a problem with Canadians. Not amused, the guy points his rifle towards Logan’s head, stating that he saw the Sentinels on the news, working on mutants. But he won’t give them the chance to come after Logan. Seeminly unworried about the firearm pointed at him, Logan smiles to himself, repeating “Mutie scum?”
Suddenly, the guy fires his rifle at Logan, who not only survives the blast, but is not even knocked off his barstool. With tips of adamantium revealing itself on the side of his shredded face, Logan remarks that he’s sure that this isn’t what they were all expecting – is it? Logan snikts out his claws thinking it’s time for some “self-defense.” However, before he deliver on his threat, Logan is interrupted by Storm and Bishop, who enter the bar.
Dressed in civilian clothes, Storm suggests Logan just drops it. Still holding the man by the cuff of his shirt, Logan asks Storm why they are here, to which Storm explains that they are putting the team back together… well, some of them, at least. They want Logan back on the X-Men. However, she warns him that, if a drop of blood falls on the floor, the offer is off the table. Logan thinks about it, eying the frightened man. Finally, he slices off the fingers of one of the shooter’s hands, blood spraying from the wounds. Placing his hat back on his head, Logan agrees to rejoin the team, if only because he has nothing better to do and it will keep him honest. Still in shock, Storm remarks that she hears someone calling an ambulance and thinks it’s best for them to leave now. Heading for the door, Logan replies that, lucky for him all the blood landed on the bar.
The Bronx…
A man with long grey hair stands in an abandoned building, where he is giving a speech to many gathered mutants. He is proud to present the Mutant Liberation Front their newest member, a proud warrior who will join their fight for equality. Just a short week ago, this woman was still an example of what humanity sees in mutants. She was an attraction to see and ridicule and judge because of her wolf-like appearance. He hates the fact that the humans shun their powers, which he believes make the mutants even greater than humans. He doesn’t want to see mutants as inferiors any more!
The entire crowd cheers for the man by name. Stryfe! Stryfe! Stryfe! However, Stryfe quiets them, replying that this isn’t about him. This is about them, and what they are all willing to do to help their cause. Stryfe declares that they are at war, which was instigated by the killing of Charles Xavier, whom he calls a champion of mutant rights. He believes the humans took one of their own, and brought this on themselves. He wants to take it to the streets to show that mutants will not accept this. They won’t remain silent any longer. No longer will they be oppressed, exploited and executed!
Suddenly, without warning, the roof of the building is torn open by… Sentinels?! The Sentinels open fire on the frightened mutants, who try to escape with their lives. Stryfe instead shouts that they need to fight instead… they have to fight for their future! While the battle rages, Stryfe remains on his stage and asks a small boy with a white face and blond hair called Zero to teleport him out of here, and Zero obeys.
Xavier’s…
Psylocke reveals that she and Syndicate have been working undercover for Xavier for quite some time now. After her consciousness was transferred to her current body, the Professor felt guilty because his son was responsible for it. She could no longer work for STRIKE because she’s officially a minor. Her father tried to pull some strings but that didn’t work out. She was no longer of any use to STRIKE. She had been using her contacts there to look into the Muir Island situation with Mojo. She was about to crack that wide open until the X-Men made a mess of things. Since then, she has been focusing on the Fenris twins, looking for ways to expose their illegal dealings.
When Scott asks that she’s been doing all this for the Professor, Psylocke confirms, further explaining that Syndicate has been working against the Hellfire Club by securing Xavier’s control of their financial holdings. Once he was done with that, the Professor sent him to her, to help work against Fenris. Iceman thinks it’s cool that they are both something like shadow X-Men and thinks he wants to defect. Psylocke doesn’t think the offer would have been accepted, but adds that they’ve been shut down. Xavier said if he lost contact with them for more than two weeks to come to the school. She suspected Xavier might have faked his death, to take a more active role in their operations, so she waited until enough time had passed before they came over. She asks if Xavier is really dead, which Scott confirms.
Changing tact, Scott asks what it is Psylocke was directed to do there. Unsure herself, Psylocke supposes she was meant to join the X-Men. However, to this, Scott invites her to stay at the school if she has nowhere else to go, as they could sure use her help around here. But there is no more X-Men, because he disbanded them. Incredulous, Psylocke becomes furious pointing her finger to Scott, accusing him of giving up, just because the Professor died. How dare he?!
The heated exchange startles Syndicate, upon which the lights suddenly go out. Clutching a part of his chest which glows blue, he apologizes, explaining that his heart naturally sends out an EMP pulse with each beat. He’s been learning to control and suppress it with Xavier’s help – but he was startled.
Sydney, Australia…
At their headquarters near the docks, Bishop explains to his gathered team inside that they are there because Charles Xavier is dead. This is bound to affect the future he came from. Cable believed it would help their future, that Xavier was somehow the cause of everything they had lived through. Bishop disagreed, instead thinking that Xavier’s death could easily make things worse. But Cable succeeded and Xavier was killed. His death is already having its effects. Bishop has no memory of this current uprising of rogue Sentinels, and writes it off as a direct result of Xavier’s death.
Wolverine asks if they’re supposed to sit around until something isn’t how Bishop remembers it and then go out and stop things from happening. Is that even possible? Dazzler calls this stupid. Responding to Logan rather than Dazzler, Bishop corrects it won’t be in their power to affect most things, and he doesn’t trust his memory of this time period completely. But things like these Sentinels clearly need to be taken down regardless. His other goal is to teach everyone there to better use their powers, to bring them up to the next level. He knows Xavier did this during his time with them. He’ll be trying to fill Xavier’s role in history. That is why most of them were hand-picked. So nothing is really changed, he continues. They’re still X-Men, they are still sworn to protect those who fear and hate them while trying to set an example for mutantkind.
Dazzler doesn’t care, mocking she just needed a place to crash and was sick of being alone. Warren jokingly calls her to be so pleasant. Storm tells Bishop not to worry as they know why they’re signed on, and that Xavier’s dream didn’t die with him. They’ll make sure of it. As Storm walks away, Wolverine asks Bishop for a moment. He tells Bishop he can preach all he wants. He isn’t buying a bit of it, but he indicates that he’s just there because Storm is. If Bishop steps out of line, he’ll gut him where he stands. Bishop asks Logan if he gave Xavier the same threat, but he just replies he never had to do that with Chuck.
Later…
Bishop has taken Dazzler aside in the gym for a private conversation. When he thanks her for meeting him there, Dazzler warns Bishop not to get any idea, because she and Angel kind of got a thing going on. Bishop promises she doesn’t have to worry about anything; they’ll just be studying her powers a bit. After he asks her to use her powers, Dazzler fires a burst of pink light. When Bishop rhetorically asks Dazzler what she just did, she answers she just used her powers like he asked. Sensing another meaning, she thinks Bishop is going to scold her now, that this is some kind of head-game military bull. She won’t go for that and she’ll quit the team before that happens.
Bishop asks her to calm down and just answer him. When she says he doesn’t understand, Bishop explains it’s like this: she wasn’t born with the ability to make flashes of light. She was born with the ability to manipulate her surroundings in a way that she currently expresses by generating light. Emphasis on currently, Bishop adds. Dazzler asks what he’s talking about, to which Bishop replies that she isn’t waving her hand and using magic. He asks how someone goes from just generating light. She’s not hiding it up her sleeve, so how is it done? Dazzler doesn’t know… it just happens.
Bishop tells Dazzler to hold her arms out, and she does. Now, she has to think about what she would do, what she would feel if she were to use her powers right now. He’s sure she took at least one science class before she started spending all her time getting tattoos… so she knows her arm isn’t floating around in nothing. He explains her arms are surrounded by air, oxygen, carbon dioxide, bits of pollution… When they generate light from nothing, it’s not really nothing. He wants Dazzler to think about what her bursts of light are. She’s forcing air molecules to split, causing little explosions.
Dazzler fires a tiny explosion, which has red and blue colors. She kind of feels that when she’s doing it. Bishop wants her to think about why they should stay tiny. If she can cause air molecules to explode, can she do the same with other molecules? He’s certain that with a little practice and some help from him, Dazzler will be surprised at what she can do. When Dazzler asks what he’s trying to say, Bishop smiles that she’s much more capable of doing than simply dazzling people.
Sitting together on a balcony, Angel mentions to Wolverine that he’s happy she brought him in and doesn’t think it would be the X-Men if Logan wasn’t there. When Logan replies noncommittally, Warren then asks if he ever thanked Logan for all that fight training he gave him when he first joined up. It used to scare the hell out of him at the time, but it really helped. Changing the subject, Logan asks Warren what the deal with Pyro is, who is sweeping the floor below them. Warren mentions that Bishop brought him in, but noticed that Pyro pretty much keeps to himself and is kinda quiet.
As the two walk down to join Pyro, Storm meets up with Pyro and compliments him on doing a nice job. At this rate, she says, they’ll have the place livable in no time. Pyro says he’s just trying to do his part. Storm wants to know where all the extra chairs went, remembering there were a ton lying around. Pyro answers he put them all in the south corridor to get them out of the way and also saw some extra mattresses down there, too. This place has all kinds of stuff they can use. Storm feels lucky Bishop pulled this place out for them, and again thanks Pyro for all the help.
She leaves and bumps into Wolverine, who grabs her by the arms to prevent her from running into him. Logan asks if she needs any help with moving the furniture. She’s glad with the help and she and Logan walk away together. Logan mentions he heard something about new costumes. Storm figured it was time, and reminds Logan he knows how much she likes making that stuff. She’s sure he’ll like his costume because it’s pretty familiar. Storm notices the doubtful look on Logan’s face and smiles that he just has to give it a chance. She had the most fun with Dazzler’s costume, though, because she had to make something Alison would actually wear. But Ororo didn’t want the suit to be just a blank tank top and cargo pants, and thinks she pulled it off.
Bishop joins the two and informs Storm she needs her to come with him. There’s still someone left who he needs for this team. Ororo asks where they’ll go this time. “A very familiar mansion”, replies Bishop. Storm is a bit surprised, and a smiling Bishop confirms they’ll be going back to Xavier’s school to ask them a favor.
The Bronx, the old “Fabric Man” building…
As mutants outside try to enter the building without being spotted by humans, Stryfe continues his speech with dozens of mutants already gathered around him. He shares that it fills him with both immense joy and rage to see so many brothers and sisters. He finds it hard to believe that the Sentinels spotted them simply by their mutant energy signatures. He rather thinks they’ve got a traitor in their midst, and wants to take a moment to warn that person. He promises he shall be found and dealt with, and the punishment will be severe.
Stryfe noticed there are still members arriving, so he wants to reiterate that this will be the last general meeting for the time being. He wants them all to meet with local groups, but not to share information with any other cells. They’ll narrow the leak down to an individual cell and they’ll find them there. But despite all this, Stryfe says with a determined look in his eyes, tonight’s mission will proceed as planned.
Xavier’s…
Bishop and Jean walk through the halls of the school together. Bishop appreciates that Jean helped him with this. Jean admits that just because she isn’t out there with him and Storm gathering the troops doesn’t mean she doesn’t want to pitch in. She wants Bishop to consider this as a “thank you” for helping the team rescue her from Cable. It also gives her more practice with Cerebro. She has been trying it out here and there. She already discovered Cerebro is not an easy device to work with and, with Xavier gone, it’d be a shame for such a useful tool to go to waste. So, she doesn’t mind helping out at all, but just doesn’t want Scott to know.
On that moment, Scott walks out of the game room next to them, having just overheard Jean. Jean tells him to calm down, joking it was done for his benefit. She telepathically asks Scott to be nice but he replies out loud that he wants Jean to tell him about it. Jean smiles that Bishop is looking for a mutant for his team of X-Men and asked her to help with Cerebro. She asks if that’s okay, and if they’re still a school if she does that. They walk into the living room, where Rogue is talking to Storm. Bishop notices Psylocke sitting on the coach reading a book, and Bishop tells Jean not to bother, he just found his mutant.
Jean explains to Bishop that Psylocke arrived just last night and calls it luck. She also adds that, apparently, Psylcoke had been working for Xavier covertly. Bishop says he knows that, and approaches her. Psylocke asks Bishop if she knows him. He denies it but also says she will. A distrusting Psylocke calls Bishop “gramps” and hopes that he isn’t making a pass on her. This might not be her body, but even her mind is about sixty years too young for him, so she wants him to back off. Bishop laughs at that. He remarks how young and different Psylocke is, but is convinced it’s her. Pyslocke is creeped out by Bishop, and hears the TV mentioning mutants.
They all listen intently to what the news reporter has to say in a breaking story. CNN has been getting reports in now that City Hall is being attacked by a small army of mutants. They’ve got cameras en route to the scene, but have already discovered that this is about the murder of Xavier and escalated into violence. They’ve got reporter Bill Stewart arriving on the scene, and transfer to location. Standing outside the attack lines of the mutant killing Sentinels, Stewart calls it all a pandemonium. The Sentinels arrived just moments ago and are already killing numerous mutants. It’s an all-out war on the streets of New York City!
Moved to action, Bishop announces that they’ve got to do something. He’ll gather his people if they… Interrupting, Scott refuses. He explains that they don’t do this anymore. This place is a school now, and have more important things to focus on. Jean tries to change his mind but he refuses to listen to it. If they’re going to do this, they need to do this. He points out that what kind of example does it set if they protect mutants who are breaking the law. Jean telepathically asks Scott not to do this now.
Resolute, Bishop unknowingly interrupts, saying that people are dying. He knows that these mutants may be misguided, that they may be setting a bad example, but they don’t deserve to die. Jean, again telepathically, tells Scott that this isn’t right. Scott says out loud that Jean has to trust him on this. He’s certain they can do so much more good for mutantkind by showing them that they’re peaceful, law-abiding citizens. He switches over to telepathy, reminding Jean that Bishop’s got a whole team and that Storm’s with him. He wants them to handle it. “Whatever,” Jean says, distraught.
Bishop can’t waste any more time. He tells Storm they need to get the others and suit up. He opens a portal behind them to step through. Before he does so, Psylocke asks Bishop to wait. She explains she didn’t come here to sit around. If they’re going to fight this, she wants to fight with them. With an angry voice, she tells Scott that he didn’t disband the X-Men, but just turned his back on them. Before she can say more, Bishop pushes her through the portal.
Later, New York…
The entire suit-up team arrives in the city, ready to face the Sentinels. Bishop declares it’s time that the world meets the New X-Men!
Elsewhere…
Sitting in a high tower watching the horrors outside on television, Trask cries that this is too big. That this isn’t how things were supposed to happen! There’s too much attention and all over the news. It’s getting out of control. He doesn’t know what his partners are going to do now. Both the government and the X-Men are in on this now, and he says it’s all happening too fast. He fears they’ll be shut down, be found and tossed in jail. Two people behind Trask are drinking a glass of red wine and tell him calm down, and claim he’s got no reason to be so agitated.
Everything is going exactly as Fenris has planned…


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Sentinels: part 2
The Triskelion…
Two armed soldiers are running through the halls of the Ultimates’ former headquarters. Somebody has escaped from their cells, and it’s their job to lock him up again. One of the soldiers wants to wait for backup first, but his companion responds they’re on their own. They have to engage before he escapes.
Suddenly, somebody jumps across their heads… none other than… Henry McCoy! The startled soldiers remember their orders to only use non-lethal ammunition on Hank. Hank on the other hand doesn’t really want to make it easy for the soldiers, and jumps through a hatch. The soldiers attempt to follow him through it, but Hank uses a device he created to close the hatch upon his escape. He has done his research. One of the soldiers gets his leg stuck between the door, but Hank promises the poor guy he’ll have a broken ankle at worst. Give Fury his regards!
Manhattan…
The New X-Men are in full battle against the Sentinels. Angel has rescued a beautiful girl from danger, and Psylocke helps bring the innocent bystanders into safety. In the meantime, Storm, Bishop, Pyro and Wolverine fight the Sentinels. Wolverine jokes that these new Sentinels are much easier for him to destroy: he doesn’t need to get on top of them anymore to do some damage.
Bishop reminds Wolverine that these new Sentinels are much deadlier than the old ones, and also carry more guns. Bishop absorbs some energy, and uses that energy to telekinetically lift up one of the robots. He tosses the machine against another Sentinel, which destroy both.
Meanwhile, Pyro is having a little difficulty with his adversary. He melted half of a Sentinel’s body but it still keeps firing at him. Storm is having the same problem. Her lightning only stuns them for a short time. It’s taking a lot to bring these monsters down, and she notices they’re definitely sporting upgrades! Wolverine doesn’t mind, and jokes that cutting the Sentinels’ heads off still works fine for him.
Storm gets the picture: they need to use brute force to bring the Sentinels down. She uses her winds to blow one of the robots against a building to destroy it. They’re finally winning now but, without warning, something odd happens to Ororo. In her mind, Storm is attacked by inhuman, dark brown creatures with sharp fangs and yellow eyes. The creatures warn Storm that the Shadow King is coming for her. Soon… very soon… she will belong to him! Storm screams and falls to the ground, however Wolverine catches her and safely puts her down. An exhausted Storm has to remind herself that the creatures are just dreams, and that they never happened when she was awake. Wolverine tries to tell Storm to put it together.
Elsewhere on the battlefield, a brown-furred wolf-like mutant encourages her fellow mutants that they need to fight for themselves and that they don’t need the X-Men to protect them. They’re the Mutant Liberation Front! They fight injustice because the X-Men refuse to! “Xavier must be avenged,” the girl wolf screams. Psylocke attacks a Sentinel and mocks the MLF that they’re high-strung, to which Bishop compliments that at least they’re passionate about something.
Dazzler panics when a Sentinel closes in on her, and grabs her in its strong arms. She calls out to Bishop for help, but he can’t. Still, Dazzler knows what to do, and hopes Bishop was right about her powers. She uses her powers and creates a huge blast of light, which brings down that Sentinel and two others. As the one holding her collapses, Angel picks Dazzler up and flies away with her. An astonished Alison admits to Warren she really has no idea how she just did that. Psylocke and Bishop also saw it, and Bishop calmly responds that was step one.
Stryfe and Zero appear behind the X-Men, while his other followers try to escape. Stryfe wants Bishop to know that their hasty retreat doesn’t mean his people are ungrateful. Though they’re not exactly in love with law enforcement these days, he thinks the feeling is mutual. He and his group have been haunted by these new Sentinels since their formation. They appreciate the opportunity to fight back, so he wants to thank the X-Men for that. Bishop corrects they’ll step in to stop any senseless murder of innocent mutants, but warns Stryfe he doesn’t approve of his organization. Bishop is certain that, if Stryfe doesn’t cease these violent demonstrations, they will have to fight each other. Bishop says the MLF isn’t helping the mutant cause, and that they’re nothing more than little terrorists.
Stryfe becomes furious at this. He calls the X-Men cowards, because they allow the figurehead of their cause to die at the hands of humans and they refuse to fight back? He thinks they sully the memory of Xavier’s dream while the MLF fights to keep it alive, and he thinks they’re not the terrorists here. Bishop tells Stryfe that what he and his group do hurts mutants. Storm adds that Xavier wasn’t killed by humans, but by a mutant. Stryfe doubts that a mutant pulled the trigger. He wonders who pulled the mutant’s strings. He’s sure their current administration had a hand in it, and that it’s not a coincidence that the Sentinels are back just a few weeks after Xavier’s death. He thinks this is an attempt of the humans to get rid of the mutants once and for all. He believes the Mutant Liberation Front is their last line of defense and that the X-Men should join them.
Pyro thinks that maybe Stryfe is right and that they’re going the wrong way about this. Seeing Bishop clearly stunned, Pyro presses. Cyclops is turning the mansion into a school. Bishop started a new team, but Pyro isn’t sure what they’ve done so far. They’ve done minor rescue missions, and not really accomplishing anything. He thinks Stryfe has the right idea and that the MLF can make a difference. Stryfe is pleased to hear dissension in the X-Men’s ranks and that there may be hope for them yet. Stryfe is pleased to have Pyro on their side and he and  the MLF welcome him with open arms. The authorities arrive in their police cars, which is Zero’s clue to teleport him, Zero and Pyro away.
Sydney, Australia…
Thanks to a teleportation portal, the X-Men are now back at their base, but Bishop isn’t pleased at how things have turned out. Psylocke explains she’s responsible for what happened to Pyro. Bishop asks Betsy if she told Pyro to do that. She did. She explains that, before Stryfe shut her out of his mind, she felt he had absolutely no conviction about what he said. Stryfe doesn’t believe in his own hype. She thinks something is going on there. So she sent Pyro into the belly of the beast. Psylocke admits it was a bit forced, but she sensed enough arrogance in Stryfe that she knew he’d fell for it. And, she jokes, Stryfe doesn’t think very much of the X-Men.
Bishop admits it’s a good idea to have someone on the inside, but now is not a good time to be down a man. That’s why Psylocke chose their most ineffective member with the least amount of experience. She saw Pyro didn’t pull his weight into that fight. Of course, until she saw what Dazzler did, Psylocke would have chosen her first. Bishop compliments Dazzler on being a fast learner. Dazzler on the other hand has no idea how she did that. And now… her hands hurt. That has never happened before. Angel wonders if that’s normal and if they should be concerned about it. Bishop thinks she’ll get used to it, and again compliments her on doing a good job. Dazzler thanks him for saying that.
Wolverine wants to know what they’re going to do next… wait for another Sentinel attack? Not even close. It’s time they start taking steps to end this Sentinel threat once and for all!
Xavier’s, later that night…
Scott tells Jean it’s okay if she goes to bed now, because he knows she’s handling a lot of things with the school. Jean thanks Scott for that, and says she loves him. He says the same and she closes the door. The little green goblin creatures start crawling around Jean again, and she wonders if Scott would still love her if he knew how crazy she is. She also wonders if these creatures would talk to her instead of just sitting there and looking at her, and crawling all over her. She wonders if that would make her more or less crazy.
She supposes talking to the goblins is enough. She combs her hair and the goblins help her with it. Jean knows the goblins are just something her mind came up with when she was conjured as a child to help her understand her telekinesis, a way to explain how she moves things with her mind. They’re invisible goblins, and Jean knows they’re not really there. Just like the Phoenix visions are just illusions, brought on by her fear of her powers, and fed by the things she overheard her parents say when they were members of the church of the Shi’ar Enlightenment.
So, Jean asks, if she can explain it all, why does she still see them? One of the goblins suddenly freaks out and points Jean at something. The Phoenix force crawls out of her closet, and Jean is shocked by the sight of it. “It’s time,” the female Phoenix entity begins. She flies towards Jean, mentioning she has all the answers Jean needs. The force crawls onto Jean, who tries to struggle it off. But the Phoenix wants Jean to let her in, and embrace her.
The goblins do their best to keep the Phoenix away from Jean, but have little luck. Phoenix  tells Jean that once she realizes the power she possesses, the power she can give Jean, she’ll beg her to take over. The gathered goblins are now strong enough to overthrow Phoenix and lock her up again in the closet. They both disappear, leaving an exhausted Jean alone on her bed. Jean goes to sleep, not noticing that on a tree outside her window, Hank has been watching.
The next day, Newark, New Jersey…
Wolverine and Bishop are fighting another Sentinel. Wolverine rescues a small mutant boy with a blue skin from harm, while Bishop places a bomb on the Sentinel’s back, causing it to explode. The Sentinel isn’t completely destroyed, though, and returns back to its base, which is exactly what Bishop wanted it to do. Bishop now wants to get the rest of the team and take down whoever’s driving these things.
Twenty minutes later…
The X-Men arrive in a base where lots of deactivated Sentinels are resting. Wolverine is a bit surprised they’re not being attacked, and Dazzler just calls them lucky. Bishop thinks they’ve still got the element of surprise on their side, and that this should be easy. But on that moment, he gets taken down by a powerful blast, coming from… Fenris!
Holding hands with Andrea, Andreas mocks that Bishop was the X-Men’s ticket out of there. They’ve got nowhere to run now. He warns the mutants that they’re trespassing on Fenris International property, and that’s something they usually frown upon. He asks his sister if she thinks they should kill all of the X-Men, and Andrea would be happy to.


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Sentinels: part 3
Bishop has been blasted by the Fenris twins and lies immobile on the floor. As the other X-Men stand startled at this turn of events, Wolverine grits he should have gutted Andrea and Andreas when he had the chance. Andreas smiles that Logan shouldn’t flatter himself because, as he recalls it, the feral mutant never even got close enough. Psylocke tries to telepathically enter Bishop’s head, but doesn’t pick up any brain activity. She fears the worst.
At this, Wolverine becomes furious and attacks Fenris. However, they quickly grasp hands with each other and fire a powerful blast from their other hands which brings Logan down, shredding his uniform. Two down, four more to go, Andrea muses. Tot this, Andreas smiles to Wolverine that he’s lucky that he and his sisters aren’t interested in breaking a sweat to defeat their enemies. Wolverine admits he wasn’t expecting Fenris to pack such a punch and needs some time to recover. Storm thinks Logan should just stay down, because Fenris just activated an army of Sentinel robots!
Meanwhile in a secret base in Brooklyn…
Stryfe gives Pyro a tour around his home, which is filled with other mutants. Stryfe knows Pyro wasn’t expecting the Rtiz and says this place is still a bit less presentable than he’d like it to be. That’s okay with Pyro, since he has been at worse places than this. Still, Stryfe informs, this house isn’t their headquarters. This was merely a temporarily staging ground for their last protest. Pyro wants to know the reason why they are there then. Stryfe smiles that he’s not a fool. And, when you’re in his business, trust isn’t something you give freely. He knows Pyro is here to spy on the Mutant Liberation Front.
With all the attention suddenly pointed to him, Pyro feels a bit awkward. He warns the other mutants that he isn’t without defense. And he will if they don’t back away from him now! Stryfe asks everyone to do as he asks. He then asks Pyro to calm down and promises they won’t hurt him. When Pyro excuses him for not fully trusting him on that, Stryfe reveals he asked Pyro here for a reason. He offered membership to the MLF to the entire X-Men. He thinks having the X-Men participate in their cause would help them a great boon. They want the X-Men with them, and have nothing to hide. So, Stryfe wants Pyro to spy on them, and hopes he’s pleased at what he sees.
Outside Xavier’s, night…
Beast still sits in a tree outside the school, observing the mansion. Nick Fury contacts him over a radio headset, asking Hank what his plan is. Is he going to crash through a window screaming “I’m alive” and expect the X-Men to welcome him back with open arms? Fury doesn’t even understand why Hank is there, as this place would surely be the first place SHIELD would look for him after his escape.
Hank explains he’s looking for Storm. He’s certain she’d at least hear him out, even if she won’t believe him at first. There are things he could say to her to convince her of the truth, things only he would know. He asks Fury what he wants.
Fury asks Hank if he’s going to abandon the project now, all of a sudden, leaving hundreds of other mutants at risk. Fury knows Hank’s got a reputation for screwing up things in a big way, but he hoped Hank would have gotten over that. Hank tells Fury to stop it because he won’t be coming back. He’s done. He doesn’t even think the Legacy Virus is even real, and that Fury could have been tricking him into making it, for all he knows. Hank didn’t like the security and the seclusion. That he was being kept hidden to work on the virus. He didn’t like that Fury was tricking people into believing he was dead just so he could focus. Hank’s sure there is something else going on. It has to be and, if Fury won’t tell him about it, he’s gone. Fury’s current story simply doesn’t add up.
Fury, at the Triskelion base, promises the story adds up. Only one mutant is currently aware of the Legacy Virus and that’s Hank himself. And having him out in the world is a liability, and can’t happen. He has to come back.
Not far away from the tree in which Hank sits, SHIELD soldiers are sneaking by.  The group leader reports over radio to their commander that they’re ready to move in and are ordered to do so.
Meanwhile, Fury warns Hank about his men and doesn’t want Hank to resist them. The soldiers are authorized to hurt him, but that’s the last thing Nick wants. If Hank surrenders, the soldiers will bring him in without any harm. This doesn’t have to be any more difficult than it has to be. The soldiers move closer to the three, but… Hank is already gone. And he has left the equipment they were tracking.
Inside Scott Summer’s bedroom…
Scott wakes up, realizing he isn’t alone in his room. He picks up his glasses from his nightstand and puts them on, only to find Jean standing in front of him. She remains quiet and just goes to sit on his bed, and a confused Scott asks if everything’s okay. Jean asks Scott to hold her, and he does. Jean looks sad and her eyes glow yellow.
Back at the Sentinel base…
The new X-Men are in full battle with the just activated Sentinels. Psylocke gracefully dodges a blast and asks Angel if Bishop is still breathing. As he flies Bishop out of the firezone, Angel thinks their leader is still alive. Psylocke asks Dazzler to attack the Sentinels in the same way she did before, to which she says she was already trying to do that. She tries to activate the electricity from her hands, but something is wrong. She doesn’t know how she did it last time! It’s just not working now.
Angel picks a still unconscious Bishop up and wants to fly out, but doesn’t know where the exit is. He becomes distracted and doesn’t notice the Sentinel behind him, which punches Warren and Bishop down. Storm quickly makes some winds to soften their landing. Two Sentinels prepare to attack Psylocke, who panics. A recovered Wolverine notices this and helps Betsy out, slashing the Sentinels apart with his claws. Her composure restored, Psylocke thanks Logan for the help and activates her psychic knife, joining the battle. She uses her knife to slash off one of the Sentinel’s arms, and Warren catches it.
Warren notices the arm is still in its firing position. He thinks it needs some juice – and thinks he knows what that means: he’ll need a power source. In understanding, Storm generates some lightning and fires it onto the arm. The resulting blast destroys another Sentinel. Dazzler is amazed as she never thought that plan would ever work. Warren agrees, but again a Sentinel sneaks up on him and destroys the severed Sentinel arm with a blast. Warren drops the remains and flies back up, having a backup plan in mind. He waits until another Sentinel is close enough nearby him. When this Sentinel fires at him, Warren quickly flies up and the dodged blast destroys two Sentinels Wolverine was fighting.
Storm gets hit by a Sentinel and falls down. Luckily, Wolverine reacts fast enough and catches her, joking he wouldn’t know what she’d do without him. Storm in turn jokes she’d have to be a little less reckless. The two land down and are quickly surrounded by four newly arriving Sentinel units. Wolverine asks Storm to sit tight while he handles this. He jumps on the first Sentinel in the line, and slices its head off. He then tosses it against the second Sentinel, which bumps into the third and that one bumps into the one standing behind it. With the circuit complete, having been closed by the three now touching, Storm fires a lightning bolt on the final three remaining robots, which gives the team some time to breathe.
Psylocke congratulates her teammates, but reminds them that they’re there to stop the robots, which are being controlled by someone else. They now have to fight their way out of there, or wherever Fenris ran off to, as they have disappeared while they were fighting.
Meanwhile, at Central Park…
Stryfe is standing in the middle of the park on a stadium with his army of mutants behind him. He’s giving a loud speech to the humans at the park, who gather around. Stryfe proudly declares that they are mutants, and that they refuse to hide. He wants the humans to see them as their brothers, their sisters, friends and neighbors. He points out that mutants are no different than humans… and have no reason to fear them any more than themselves! The mutants won’t hide in the shadows any longer, won’t be forced to live their lives separately from society, and will no longer be ashamed of what they are!
The mutants now ask… demand to be treated as equals. They ask for the same rights as everyone else in America! Stryfe says that the governments wants humans to believe they have no ties to these “rogue” Sentinels. But he isn’t fooled. He remembers the government hunted mutants before, and now they’re simply doing it again! He’s here to say that mutants will not back down. They will not run and hide. They will stand shoulder to shoulder as one: unstoppable, invincible, and they will fight for their right to exist! They will make a stand!
The mutants behind Stryfe happily cheer out his name, but Pyro observes reluctantly at the side of the stadium. Suddenly, an angry man among the people throws a bottle at Stryfe and calls him a mutant freak. He promises that, if Stryfe wants a fight, they’ll give him one. Stryfe asks his fellow mutants to leave this man be, promising that the man’s time will come, and tells the man that he shouldn’t fear them. The man gets even angrier when he thinks mutants believe humans are scared of them. A wolf-like mutant shouts at the man to leave them alone, but he won’t let himself be intimidated by her.
Stryfe points his attention to Zero, telling his friend it’s time to go. Zero teleports them both away, which is only noticed by Pyro, who wonders where they are going. On that moment, three Sentinels appear above them in the sky! Pyro panics, thinking Stryfe somehow knew the Sentinels were coming and simply abandoned them. All of the mutants start running for their lives, and the angry man from before laughs at this. He shouts that the mutants can’t hide forever and that they’re getting what they deserve.
Back at the Sentinel base…
Angel wonders where the Fenris twins went but Psylocke, who jumps over a Sentinel blast, doesn’t care right now. It appears only half of the Sentinel robots are left, which event out the odds. Seeing Angel gets hit, Dazzler curses and yells for someone to catch him. Storm tries to create some winds to soften Warren’s fall, but he’s too far out of her reach. She tries to fly closer and keeps creating winds, but it doesn’t work. Warren lands rather harsh on the ground and is quickly attended to by Dazzler.
Meanwhile, Wolverine goes feral and slashes through all of the remaining Sentinels until they are all destroyed. Psylocke tries to calm him down but fails. Suddenly, a loud voice shouts out “STOP!” at Wolverine, and he does as ordered. It’s the Fenris twins again! And… they’ve taken Psylocke hostage! Andrea and Andreas stand behind Betsy, whom they have sit on her knees. The twins hold hands together, and threaten to kill Betsy with their powers. They ask Wolverine what he’s going to do.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a recovered Bishop stands up and points his gun to Fenris, angrily demanding to… get away from his wife?! Psylocke is left speechless.


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Sentinels: part 4
Central Park, night…
Pyro fears for his life, as he is being chased by wild Sentinels! He pleads for help, though nearby human bystanders simply watch. Luckily for him, however, Pyro receives the help he begged for… but in a most unexpected way. Hanging upside down from a lamppost, Beast grabs Pyro and jumps to nearby tree branch. Pyro immediately recognizes Hank, and is surprised to see him. Hank explains he saw what was happening on the news and just had to help.
As they move from tree to tree to safety, Hank asks Pyro who’s driving the Sentinels, but Pyro has no clue. He does have a suspicion that this “Stryfe” person who’s leading the Mutant Liberation Front is involved… He teleported away before the Sentinels attacked. Hank finds that a pretty obvious smoking gun, and asks where Stryfe went. Pyro answers Hank’s guess is as good as his.
Fenris Laboratories…
Bishop points his gun at the Fenris twins, who are threatening to kill Psylocke. Bishop shouts at them to release his wife… now. He won’t ask again. Andreas smiles, joking that Psylocke seems a bit young for him… but he won’t be the judge of that. Andrea agrees, wanting Bishop to take comfort knowing they’ll be together forever. They open fire on Bishop, who is tackled to safety by Wolverine. Nevertheless Fenris’ blast obliterated Bishop’s gun, his hand smoking where he once held it. He himself is unharmed, he having absorbed the energy. Wolverine, however, is not as fortunate, as the top half of his costume is now shredded. Not waiting for a counter attack, Andreas announces that he has had enough of this… they’ll kill Psylocke now.
(flashback)
Bishop remembers a period from his timeline. He found the dead body of his wife, Psylocke, who is an adult wearing a black X-Men uniform there. Seeing her dead, blood pouring from her body to the concrete on which she lies, he says “no” over and over again in disbelief.
(present)
Back to reality, where an incensed Bishop charges up the blast he just absorbed, and fires it at the Fenris twins… rendering both their heads to a fine, red mist! A distrought Psylocke gets up, reeling from the horrific sight of the twins. As Wolverine tries to calm her down, the others, including storm, reel in horror. Before she can speak, Bishop defends to Storm he didn’t want to do this, but he had to save Psylocke. Wolverine confounds his teammate that these things happen and that he doesn’t have to explain himself. However, Storm strongly disagrees with Logan. She reminds him that they’re the X-Men. They don’t kill! Nobody on this team kills… nobody!
Psylocke interrupts, saying that, given the circumstances, she doesn’t mind the killing part. She’s a bit more concerned about the “wife” part, though. Bishop points out this is neither the time nor the place for that.
Suddenly, Warren notices that someone is teleporting in behind them. The entire team turns around, and are confused when none other than… Stryfe and Zero arriving via teleportation circle! “Hmmm, awkward,” Stryfe mutters, unsure of the situation. He is further disturbed when Zero panics and immediately teleports away again, leaving his boss behind. Stryfe shouts after Zero, but it’s too late.
The X-Men begin to close in on Stryfe, but are stopped by a frightened Trask, who begs the X-Men to let he and Stryfe surrender. He claims that this whole plan was a huge mistake and wants the X-Men to take him and Stryfe in. He promises they won’t resist. They’ll shut everything down, but don’t want to get hurt.
Stryfe tells Trask to speak for himself, and promptly gives Bishop a kick in his face! Stryfe also confesses to Psyocke that he can feel her in his mind, trying to get in there. But that won’t work, he claims. He’s got defenses for “her kind.” Psylocke admits it looks that way, but she found a crack.
(mindscape)
Psylocke enters Stryfe’s mind, which is really painful for him. She sees parts of his past. He sees how Stryfe got involved with Fenris. They offered him a lot of money. Andrea explained to Stryfe their plan. They knew all about him; they read his file. They knew how his power work, Stryfe’s ability to instigate unrest in people. Fenris could use that. Andreas added that they had a business endeavor that could use Stryfe’s participated, and asked if he was interested. The money Stryfe saw in front of him was just an advance. Andreas said they’d be able to double this amount after the U.S. government grants Fenris International the exclusive rights to manufacture the army of Sentinels he thought they’d need after Stryfe would instigate unrest in the mutant community.
Fenris introduced Stryfe to Trask, the original designer of the Sentinels. Trask had come up with a new design: compact, more mobile and, most importantly, cheaper to build. So Andreas and his sister fund Trask. They need Stryfe to give the world a reason to think they need the Sentinels. Andrea loved the name Stryfe came up for his group: the Mutant Liberation Front. It’s very revolutionary sounding. Trask explained that production would start in the coming ten days. He just has a few more kinks to work out before they begin. Stryfe would have six months to organize his little terrorist organization before the Sentinels are ready.
Stryfe claimed that would be more time he would need. He just wanted his new allies to make sure that when all this is done, the other half of his money is on its way to his account. Because after this, he’ll be a ghost.
Later, Stryfe went to a carnival where he talked to some mutants performing there. He told them they aren’t betraying their kind by performing. He knew they’re merely using the human’s fear and prejudice against them for profit, and he found that admirable. Still, no matter how these mutants would justify what they did, Stryfe told them they live on the fringe of society, confined to the shadows. That they were being kept from the others… hidden. He offered them a better way. A wolf-like girl was interested to listen to more.
Some time later, after Xavier’s death, Fenris invited Stryfe again. They saw what happened on the news and thought their timetable had now moved up considerably. Andreas said there was a substantial paranoia among the human communities and that mutants are already accusing the government of the murder. He was certain things were going to get ugly, and couldn’t think of a better time to activate the M.L.F. and introduce the world to the all-new, all-different Sentinels.
(reality)
Stryfe slaps Psylocke across her face, and shouts at her to get out of his head. Though wiping blood from her mouth, Psylocke reveals to the team that Stryfe was working with Fenris, and sent the Sentinels after his own kind, selling out for a buck. Bishop wants to attack Stryfe, but Wolverine wants first slice. Wolverine warns Bishop not to get in his way, as he’ll do as he pleases.
Nearby, Warren and Alison are in a different discussion. He doesn’t understand why she has to keep her feelings all bottled up and, in turn, Alison defends that she’s acting like the man in this relationship and has to do everything. Psylocke accuses Storm for having a perfect adult body and shows it off by flying in front of her all the time. She doesn’t think it’s fair. Storm realizes what’s going on: Stryfe is using his powers on them, but she is still in control. Stryfe tries to run away, and Trask asks him to surrender again.
Stryfe presses a red button on a control panel. Storm wants to attack Stryfe, but is grabbed by Psylocke, who plans to attack Ororo with a psychic knife. Storm gets the upper hand and pushes Betsy away, and fires a powerful lightning bolt on Stryfe, which knocks him out. As Trask panics, Storm lands in front of him, admitting that she doesn’t know who he is, but promises that Stryfe will live.
Still panicking, Trask replies that she doesn’t understand. Stryfe just activated the fail-safe. Trask himself didn’t want to do it, but Fenris made him. They threatened to kill him if he refused. He explains that, in case they got caught, in case the government refused to pay for the Sentinels, Fenris had Trask create a fail-safe. Now, a program has been sent to the Sentinels. They are completely automated now. Trask can’t stop them. He was still working on programming the override, but the timetable moved up. He wasn’t finished. He doesn’t think the Sentinels can be stopped. In resigned disbelief, Storm turns around and looks at all the Sentinels getting activated. They all fly outside and into the sky.
Unsheathing a single claw, Wolverine points it at Trask’s face, demanding to know where the Sentinels are going. Trask reveals the Sentinels are programmed to rendezvous at the last dispatch location. They’ll kill all the mutants at that location, and spread out to continue the rest. Wolverine wants Trask to find a way to stop them. He won’t ask again.
Trask tells Logan he doesn’t have to threaten him. He knows what he has done, and that there’s nothing he can do to atone for that. He reveals that mutants were an abomination for him. Something to be feared, exterminated. He was going to be a hero. He wasn’t supposed to be a murderer, but Trask realizes that’s what he is now. When the program was shut down, he tried to forget it. He didn’t want to do this, but the Fenris twins, and the money they offered… Trask cries, because this wasn’t how his life was supposed to be. He promises to find a way to fix this.
Taking charge, Bishop states that they have to act now. He orders Angel to stay behind and make sure Trask keeps his word. In the meantime, he wants the rest of the team to find out where these Sentinels are going and do whatever it takes to keep casualties at a minimum. Wolverine picks up the still unconscious Stryfe, and Bishop wants to stop along the way and drop the villain off at S.H.I.E.L.D. custody. Bishop gives Trask one last warning that if he doesn’t pull this off, he’ll send Wolverine after him… alone.
Central Park…
The Sentinels have landed in the park and start firing at mutants there, not caring about the scared human bystanders. Pyro is in the middle of the battle. One of the Sentinels fires a blast through Pyro’s arm, but he doesn’t feel any pain, because he doesn’t have any nerve endings left.
Suddenly, Bishop’s teleportation portal opens, and he and the X-Men step through it. “Let’s shut these machines down,” Bishop declares, “It’s time to make a difference, X-Men!” He uses his powers to lift up a Sentinel, so that some humans can run into safety. Pyro fires his flames at another, whole Wolverine climbs on a third, using his claws and slicing it to pieces. Meanwhile, Storm flies towards another robot in order to attack it. Psylocke jumps on her back so she can make it to another Sentinel’s head, and poke her psychic knife through it to destroy it.
Amidst the battle, Pyro talks to Bishop, saying that he trusts that Psylocke told him that she had asked him to infiltrate the MLF. When Bishop confirms it, Pyro wants to inform Bishop what he learned about Stryfe’s connection to the Sentinels, but Bishop quickly adds that Stryfe is taken care off. Pyro is impressed.
A wolf-like mutant jumps on a Sentinel’s head, intending to scratch it off with her claws. However, Dazzler notices that the Sentinels is ready to fire and shouts at the wolf-girl to jump off, but the warning comes too late. The Sentinels fires its shot and kills that mutant, reducing her to bones and fur. Dazzler is distraught by it and falls to her knees in dismay. “No,” she cries, “if only I was fast enough…” Suddenly, her eyes start to spark and her emotions manifest as an incredible bolt which destroys the Sentinel. Having witnessed the feat, Storm quips that, if Dazzler does that another twenty times, they’ll be clear. Unfortunately, Alison is too exhausted by one blast and can’t do another one.
Back at the Sentinel base…
Trask is at work at his computers. When Angel notices some lights flickering, he asks what Trask just did. In response, Trask says he did the only thing he thinks will stop the Sentinels: he overloaded the generators. This base will be a crater in a few seconds. He warns Warren that he’d better leaves now. Warren quickly picks Trask up and intends to fly them both out, but Trask feels so bad for taking so many lives he wants to die! Warren thinks Trask has gone crazy, but Trask is determined and punches Warren into his face, causesing Warren to drop him. As Trask falls to the floor far below, he asks Warren to forgive him.
Warren flies outside the base. A second later, an explosion takes place which destroys the entire base.
Central Park…
As he directs a mutant with grey skin to safety, Bishop asks someone to cover him, as he wants to go check on Angel. He thinks Trask was lying, because the Sentinels are still active and it should be over by now. Storm flies an unconscious Dazzler to Bishop, and tells him to take her with him.
However, a Sentinel sneaks up behind Storm, ready to kill her and Dazzler. But then, before a shot can be fired… the Sentinel falls down! Storm thinks Bishop spoke too soon and that Trask did keep his word. Still, Storm’s glee turns to panic, as the now-deactivated Sentinel is falling down too fast for her to move out of the way. A moment before impact, however, Storm adnd Dazzler are picked up and leapt to safety by the strong arms of… Beast!
Regarding their savior, Storm can’t believe her eyes. Noting her disbelief, Beast sheepishly says “hi” to her. Silence is his ownly reply, not only from Storm but from the rest of the X-Men, all of whom are as surprised as Ororo is. Wolverine looks totally unhappy, and Psylocke and Pyro are speechless. Bishop appears to hold back a slight grin. Storm, however, continues staring in abject disbelief at Hank, who smiles widely and asks if she missed him.
While the other X-Men keep looking at Beast, who finally helps Storm from the ground, Bishop separates himself from the group. He takes a communicator out of his utility belt and goes to talk behind a tree. He tells the person whom he contacts that he’ll have to be quick. He doesn’t know how much longer the others will be distracted and doesn’t know when he’ll get another chance to call without being noticed.
Everything is working out, Bishop continues to say. Beast just returned, which is ahead of schedule. Dazzler has gone supernova twice now. The main thing is that the X-Men are really working as a team now, and help each other out in battle. Everything is progressing nicely. “Excellent”, Cable responds…


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Sentinels: Epilogue
The future…
Cable is sitting in his communications rooms, where he talks to Bishop over a computer screen. After thanking Bishop for the update and finishing the transmission, Cable asks his helper robot, Joe, to mark this point in the time stream so they can stay concurrent with Bishop’s timeline. Joe obediently replies that it has already done that.
On that moment, two blue-colored robots with red eyes crash through the ceiling. Cable has been discovered! Quickly, he orders Joe to quickly release Xavier from his cell, to which Joe immediately replies it has done already as well. As the robots open fire on Cable, Joe jumps in front of Cable and takes the blasts, promptly destroyed in the process. Meanwhile, Cable runs to Xavier’s cell and opens it. In his cell, Xavier was wearing handcuffs and a color which dampens his powers. Cable informs Xavier there has been a change of plans: he needs Xavier’s help.
Xavier doesn’t see why he would help Cable. “Because it’s the only way you’ll stay alive,” Cable answers as he snikts out three claws from his wrist. He tells Xavier no to move, as he doesn’t want to slice off anything but the collar. Xavier is a bit surprised to see the claws, realizing who he is actually dealing with now. Cable explains he was going to tell Xavier about him sooner or later. This wasn’t part of his plan. He tells Xavier to stand up. If they’re going to survive this, Xavier will have to stay mobile.
“Stand?” Xavier asks once more, surprised. Cable repaired the Professor’s spine: he can walk again. Cable hears the robots getting closer and takes out a gun. It’s time for them to move.
Now…
Storm stands stunned before Hank McCoy, who has just rejoined with the group. Storm can’t believe it; she thought Beast had died. Smiling that he didn’t, the Beast adds that he knows it’s a lot for him to just come out and say, and that it comes with a larger explanation, but it’s just… he’s alive. He truly and really is alive right now. Doesn’t she believe him? Wolverine takes a whiff of Hank, after which he confirms that it could be him. But that could be faked… Not easily, but it can be faked. But it could also be Hank.
Hank says he knows things weren’t great between them before, that they had issues. But, he asks Storm, isn’t she at least a little happy to see him again? “I am,” a confused Storm says. She is, but… she just doesn’t know. Wolverine stands besides her and looks suspiciously at Hank.
Suddenly the group is interrupted by the arrival of several police cars. Dazzler wakes up with a headache, at first thinking she was drinking. She then sees a demolished Sentinel head next to her and remembers what happened. Regarding the approaching police, Bishop thinks it is their cue to leave. He opens a teleportation portal and, as the others jump through it, Bishop says they’ll swing by the Sentinel factory in Sydney and pick up Angel there. They’ll sort everything out there, in private. Seeing Storm lingering, still regarding the Beast, Bishop calls for her attention. She apologizes, flies up and jumps through the portal as well. Bishop asks Beast if he’s coming too. Though a bit hesitant to answer, Hank says he will.
Xavier’s…
A baseball game is taking place between the X-Men and Emma’s Academy for Tomorrow. With Colossus as catcher and Emma herself looking from the sidelines, Scott is at bat – and with a mighty swing sends the ball sailing.
As he rounds first base, Rogue compliments Scott on the nice hit. Bobby, standing behind his girlfriend, asks Rogue if she saw the news this morning. The Sentinels are all done for, and it looks like Bishop’s team took them out last night. It also turned out the Sentinels weren’t sponsored by the government at all, but that Fenris was behind it. Rogue hopes they’ll rot in jail. She also says she dislikes the fact that there they are, playing baseball against those Academy of Tomorrow losers. She hates agreeing with Scott but, she has to admit, how things are now… this is much better for her. But Rogue can’t help but think that maybe they should’ve been there.
Iceman took it the exact opposite. He means, there they are, teaching the next generation of mutants to be peacekeepers and to use their powers wisely. That’s important, too. And all the whack jobs and evil “dudes,” as Bobby calls them, are taken care of. Seems to Bobby that Scott was right about this the whole time. “Yeah… maybe,” Rogue hesitantly agrees.
Nearby, Scott slides into a base and the crowd goes wild. Jean proudly shouts out that Scott’s safe. “Cute,” a rather disappointed Emma sighs. While the others continue their game, Emma asks Jean if she has seen her boyfriend. Jean confirms she has and compliments Emma on him. But that’s not what Emma meant, she replies, calling her a twit. She is looking for him. After mocking Emma for being so pleasant, Jean replies that, the last time she saw Shinobi, he was with their supervisor, Gerald, who is the man who makes sure they don’t spend all of the Shi’ar’s money constructing a baseball diamond. Emma noticed Gerald and Shinobi seemed to hit it off as they’ve been inseparable since. Maybe she should be worried. “Don’t worry”, Jean jokes, eying Emma’s chest. “Gerald doesn’t have your assets.”
Meanwhile, Rogue is at bat and has hit the ball between 2nd and 3rd base. Urged by Jean, he darts for 3rd base, but Northstar has already grabbed the ball from the outfield and throws it to Colossus, who is at third. Scott dives for the base, but Colossus tags him out before he can make it. Jean can’t believe it. Iceman remarks that he can’t believe that Peter’s playing for the other team, but then trails when he realizes the unintentional double-entendre of his statement. Picking up on it or not, Toad remains silent.
That night, in Sydney, Australia
Hangar 3265, the current home of Bishop’s X-Men team…
Beast explains to the group what happened after his death. He tells them how he left his equipment at the mansion so SHIELD couldn’t track him anymore, and eventually saw the rally at Central Park on the news. By the time he showed up, the fight had already started. Hank did what he could to help out, and then the rest of the team showed up. Hank finds difficulty that he’s really going to have to prove it’s him.
Speaking up, Psylocke announces that Hank isn’t lying. Everything he just said, he at least believes to be true. That, coupled with Wolverine’s smell test, has her convinced. Bishop thanks her for the gesture. He reveals he couldn’t really mention it before now, since Bishop does have to treat lightly in this timeline, but Beast is very much alive and well in this time period. He thinks this is him.
Happily, Hank asks Storm’s opinion. Storm, who has a hard time dealing with the whole thing, takes off saying she needs some time. As the others watch Ororo leave, Bishop promises Hank that he can trust him when he says Ororo just needs some space. She’ll come around. Hank sure hopes so.
After he asks Bishop if he’s really from the future, Bishop takes Hank separately from the team and they take a walk throughout the base. Confirming with a “yea,” he promptly changes the subject, saying that he wants to talk about Nick Fury for a bit. He can’t really go into too many details but he believes that, in the back of Hank’s mind, he’s just a little worried he was right about this Legacy Virus and, by escaping, Hank is endangering the life of every mutant on Earth. Hank admits he might be, if he wasn’t convinced Fury is a liar. He does wonder how Bishop knows about this.
Bishop gives a friendly smile, revealing that rescuing Hank and halting the Legacy Virus program was going to be the X-Men’s next mission. But he supposes Xavier’s death got Hank out of there on his own. He claims that the Legacy Virus is another one of Fury’s attempts to duplicate Captain America’s super-soldier serum, so Fury can continue Cap’s legacy. It used mutant genes, Hank’s genes, to radically alter human physiology, to enhance it, much the same way Steve Rogers was enhanced to become Captain America. The only problem is that, while it works on humans, if it comes in contact with mutants, it kills them almost instantly. In the wrong hands, it could end mutantkind forever.
Beast panics for what he has done. They had him working on this thing, working on a cure. Bishop states they did, and Hank did nothing wrong to help them. Fury wanted a cure on hand before he even revealed its existence to his superiors. He claimed Admiral Stryker created it to keep anyone from discovering its benefits. Bishop confirms that Fury was… is a good man. Hank asks Bishop if he’s saying he shouldn’t have escaped.
No, Bishop continues. Hank did the right thing. There’s a conflict on the horizon, something big, something involving the entire mutant population. In Bishop’s timeline, it got out of hand. They were losing, Fury was forced to use the virus in the most unspeakable way and, in the end, it didn’t prevent anything. By escaping, Hank saved nearly every mutant life on the planet and he prevented a good man from being executed for genocide. So Hank can rest easy… he did the right thing. Nobody is in danger.
Xavier’s…
The baseball game is over and Scott’s team has won. A disappointed Alex shakes hands with his big brother, complimenting him on the nice job. Scott jokes that there’s always next time. “Next time then,” Alex promises. At this moment, Shinobi and Gerald finally show up. Emma is glad to see her boyfriend, telling them both they missed the end of the game. Her school lost, though, so she doesn’t mind them missing it. However, the two men are just in time to help with the cookout. Shinobi is glad that no harm is done.
Emma introduces Jean to Shinobi, to which Jean remarks it’s a nice name. Shinobi smiles to Jean that she has his father to thank for that name, and his father is dead. But he thinks Jean already knew that, because she’s a telepath. As the two shake hands, Jean confirms she is, but Shinobi seems to have a strong-willed mind. It would take work to see his thoughts and mocks she doesn’t think it’s worth the effort. Shinobi tells Emma he likes Jean already. To this, Emma takes Shinobi by her side, telling him “hand off the jailbait.” Taken aback, Jean begins to reply her actual age, but before she can, Emma tells her to zip it.
Sydney, Australia
The X-Men’s kitchen…
Entering the kitchen, Psylocke stands in the doorway and looks at Bishop, who’s having some coffee. He notices her and tells Psylocke she can come in. Immediately, she asks what the deal is. To this, Bishop asks her what she wants him to say. He’s said too much already. He is from the future. In this time, he is a young man and she is a young woman. He can’t believe it’s that hard to imagine that they might find each other at some point over the next twenty years.
Looking at Bishop, it seems “bloody” impossible to her. But, no offense, she adds. Bishop doesn’t take any. He wouldn’t expect any less, but Psylocke is very much the woman he loved and married. It was very important to him that she didn’t learn of this as he understands how creepy it can be. As far as he’s concerned, it never happened. He never said anything. The more they ignore this, the better. So, Psylocke asks Bishop, he isn’t going to be trying anything. Bishop promises he won’t, not at his age. But if he gives her a warm smile or a meaningful glance from time to time, she just has to know that it’s nothing more than him reliving a memory. He expresses he loved Psylocke very much.
Back at Xavier’s…
Scott is cooking some burgers over a grill when he is joined by Bobby, who remarks that he is kind of tied to the grill, huh? When he asks Scott how many burgers he thinks he has already cooked tonight, Scott jokes back he lost track at fifty. Bobby thinks they should have gotten Sunspot to help. He then asks Scott if he has seen Jean, to which he replies that she went inside the school to the bathroom.
Jean is just finishing in the bathroom, washing her hands. She still laughs a bit at Emma’s earlier reaction towards her and Shinobi. When she opens the door, she is surprised to see Gerald. She apologizes, as she didn’t know he was waiting for her. For a moment, Gerald just glares quietly at Jean, a very serious look on his face. Gerald then quickly pushes Jean back inside the bathroom and against the sink, much to her surprise. As he apologizes for doing this, Shinobi enters as well and asks Gerald to restrain Jean, who wants to know what’s going on.
Shinobi reveals that it’s true… his last name is Shaw. Jean killed his father, but now he’s going to achieve for the Hellfire Club what Sebastian couldn’t. He calls Jean “Phoenix” and injects something in her neck.
Suddenly, yellow sparks appear from the syringe needle, which quickly consumes her body, covering it in fire. As her entire body burns brightly, Jean begins to speak with an unearthly voice. The Phoenix is back! “You are both fools,” Phoenix angrily says as Shinobi and Gerald scream. She’s informs them she has a message for the Hellfire Club she’d like to relay. Phoenix unleashes a powerful fire blast throughout the entire bathroom, causing the windows to shatter. This can be seen from outside. The party is over.
Sydney, Australia.
Beast is hanging upside down on the ceiling when Storm enters. She wants to talk, so Hank jumps down. Ororo apologizes for acting weird since Hank got back. She explains that his death really tore her up. She just wasn’t used to seeing him, so seeing him all of a sudden. She confesses that she missed him so much. Ororo knows they weren’t exactly on good terms when he left, but… she wants Hank to look at it this way: there is no way Xavier could be causing her feelings for him now. Hank asks if that means… “Yeah, I do,” Ororo answers. They kiss.
Xavier’s, night…
Ambulances and fire trucks have arrived outside the school. Inside, Scott is taking care of Jean in her bedroom. He tells her that everyone is leaving. Emma is taking things well, considering, he adds. She had no idea Shinobi was related to Sebastian Shaw or the Hellfire Club. He asks Jean if she’s okay, but she says she doesn’t know. Scott also mentions that Lilandra and the Church of Shi’ar Enlightenment have pull in places they never would have thought. The police were going to take Jean in for questioning until Lilandra called it off.
Jean admits she is worried, but he thinks there’s nothing to be concerned about. The cops got what was left of the syringe, and they photographed the puncture on Jean’s neck. The syringe was filled with a powerful sedative, he explains. Gerald and Shinobi were trying to abduct her. What she did was clearly self-defense. But that’s not what it was, according to Jean. She says Gerald did the testing on her for the Shi’ar. He’s the one who determined she wasn’t the Phoenix… that it was all just something she had imagined based on her parents’ involvement with the church when she was a child. But she thinks that, if Gerald was a mole for the Hellfire Club, and if they are still after her, she believes what’s inside of her is real.
New York City...
outside a mansion…
A limo stops and a gentleman opens the door. Emma Frost steps out of it, and the gentleman wishes Emma a good evening. She thanks him for it and enters the club. After passing through a grand hall, she enters through an event grander door, guarded by two men. One of the guards informs her that “they” are expecting Emma. She already thought that would have been the case. Emma enters the room, where a group of men waiting for her.
Once inside, with the doors closed again, she takes off her white jacket, revealing a white corset and underwear underneath. She reports to the men that it didn’t work, just like she predicted. And now she is angry that these old men still had to act at this moment. They’re no closer to freeing the Phoenix from her “pathetic” host, Emma angrily states and, with Gerald and Shaw in police custody, they’ve lost their mole inside Xavier’s. And she is in need of a new boyfriend as well. This is not the best day in the history of… the Hellfire Club!
The future…
It’s raining, from a sky tinted with yellow. Inside his hideout, Cable stands back-to-back with Xavier, who is holding a gun. Now that they have just finished destroying the invading army of robots, Xavier asks Wolverine what he’s going to do with him, and also wants to know why he is there. Cable finds it weird, as it’s been so long since someone called him “Wolverine.” But first, he says, they need to gather anything they can use here and then get the hell out. There will be a whole armada of these robots at their doorstep soon. Priority number one will be securing another location with the necessary equipment for Cable to train Xavier.
“Training?” Xavier asks surprised. “For what?” To this, Cable claims that something is coming, a conflict on the horizon in Xavier’s timeline. Xavier is the only thing capable of stopping it, but in this timeline Xavier wasn’t prepared. He lost, resulting in this living hell he can see around him. Cable will be training Xavier to fight.
When Xavier inquires as what the conflict is, and who Cable is training him to fight, Cable promises Xavier he doesn’t have to worry… he’ll find that out soon enough.
Outside, an immense statue of Apocalypse stands in the middle of the rubble of what was once a city.


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At a top secret genetics lab…
Already trashed by the battle, corners of the laboratory are in flames. Standing among the flaming ruins, Wolverine snikts out his claws and declares to his opponent that they has no idea of how sick he is of this. Fangs bared, the opponent, Sabretooth, raises his clawed hand and mocks that Logan shouldn’t treat his only child like this. Logan sighs, as he had thought Sabretooth would have given up on that excuse by now. He slices Sabretooth, but only shreds through the powerful mutant’s shirt.
Barely injured, Sabretooth continues, noticing aloud that Logan seems pretty confident about this. But, he reminds Logan, as messed up as Logan’s mind is… how sure can he be? Logan explains that his nose doesn’t lie. He would recognize his own scent, as he knows that much to be true. Sabretooth isn’t his boy! And frankly, Logan jokes, he would have raised Sabretooth better if it were true.
Nearby, the rest of the X-Men are involved in their own fights. Above in the air, Storm notices small, transformed, wolf-like creatures with Wolverine-like claws approaching Wolverine and Sabretooth, but doesn’t think these creatures can be too dangerous. They attack Beast, who is disgusted by them and wonders aloud what they are. In response, a large, misshapen Dr. Cornelius responds, announcing his presence.
Cornelius has been mutating on himself and has hairless, pink skin, with screaming mouths appearing to have been attached on his back. Cornelius reveals that he is fighting his rejects. Cornelius claims he is capable of a lot of things, but apparently, creating life from scratch is far beyond him. Improving life, though, he continues, was something he has been doing for a while now. Sabretooth, Wolverine and Deathstrike are all his handiwork. Sadly, he seems to have run out of test subjects. So, he started testing on himself. However, Cornelius finds it good to see Logan again. He was planning on looking Logan up himself once his project was complete, but now he thinks he’s prepared for some advanced testing. With that, Cornelius suddenly unsheathes several spikes from his wrists, ready for combat.
Seeing this, Storm charges at Cornelius, projecting several lightning bolts, hoping the doctor isn’t as hard to defeat as he is to look at. To this, Cornelius replies he is glad Storm came, because they have unfinished business. As Cornelius takes the brunt of the lightening, Storm mocks that she already guessed Cornelius would be a little slow, as getting his own hands dirty is new for him, as he always sat on the sidelines in the past. However, Cornelius is unhurt and grabs Storm by her throat, gloating that her spark didn’t slow him down one bit. Did she even think that one through at all?
Nearby, Wolverine pushes Sabretooth aside once he notices Storm in danger, and rushes towards Ororo to protect her. Beast sees it too, though he is occupied, smacking a huge piece of machinery on Cornelius’ rejects. Racing to the two, Wolverine tells Cornelius that Storm might have underestimated him, but that Cornelius only got lucky for getting the drop on her. It’s fine by Logan if Cornelius takes a piece of his skin and turns himself into a monster. But just because Cornelius is wearing the clothes… doesn’t mean he’s the man! Cornelius sticks his claws through Logan’s chest, even as Wolverine slashes his own hard across Cornelius’ face.
Though Wolverine manages to stay on his feet, Cornelius collapses unconscious. As Storm tends to him, Logan admits this wasn’t the easiest way to beat Cornelius, but it was the quickest. He’ll be fine in a few hours. As he props himself on Storm, he warns the group not to let Sabretooth to escape, but his warning comes too late: Sabretooth is already gone. “Typical,” Logan sighs.
Bishop is certain they’ll get to Sabretooth eventually. But for now, they have to make sure this equipment doesn’t fall into the wrong hands and get home before Dazzler gets to pick dinner again. With that, Bishop opens a teleportation portal and the team steps through it. Before he follows, Wolverine asks Bishop for a moment. He thanks Bishop for this, as he wouldn’t even have known this was going on if Bishop hadn’t told him about it. Who knows what could have happened if Cornelius had been able to come after him on his own terms.
Sydney, Australia.
The X-Men’s base, later that night…
Wolverine, covered with a bandage over half his torso, enters Storm’s bedroom to talk for a moment. However, he quickly apologizes for interrupting when he notices Hank massaging Ororo’s back on her bed. Ororo tells Logan it’s okay; that they were just resting. She jokes that Logan knows how spending time with him wears normal mortals out. When She asks him what he needs, a seemingly dejected Logan says it’s nothing and leaves.
Considering this, Hank asks Storm if something happened between she and Logan when he was gone. Storm denies it. She admits she and Logan got very close; she won’t lie about that. But nothing happened. Logan helped her after Hank… “You know,” she says. But nothing ever got that far. Hank gently strokes over Ororo’s hair and touches her chin. She likes that very much, and even asks Hank to keep doing that as it’ll put her to sleep.
The night passes…
Ororo and Hank are both asleep, Ororo lying on his chest. Storm suddenly wakes up again, joking that she told Hank that would put her to sleep. However, when she opens her eyes, Ororo freaks out that Hank has turned into her former lover… Amahl Farouk?! Amahl asks Ororo not to be startled, and reveals he has been waiting a long time for this moment. Amahl claims it’s really him and that he really missed Ororo.
Storm however is freaked out and shouts at Amahl that he can’t be here. “Can’t I, aren’t I?” Amahl smiles as he steps out of bed. He tells Ororo she may have acted like he died, but he didn’t. He’s still very much alive. He always has been. He asks Ororo if she has forgotten him. He is aware on how much she has tried to, but hasn’t succeeded. He wonders if Ororo has forgotten how much they meant for each other. Has she forgotten how much she loved him?
Continuing, Amahl asks what about their time in El Paso together, where their relationship really kicked into overdrive? He thinks Ororo must remember that as fondly as he does. Amahl shows Ororo telepathic visions of younger forms of Ororo, Amahl himself and Yuriko Oyama running through the streets together. Ororo asks if this is real, which stuns Amahl. Was it real when were working with Yuri? Terrorizing El Paso, taking whatever they wanted? It seemed like a fairy tale. The three of them, living by their own rules.
Of course, Amahl remembers, Yuri never knew what he and Ororo were… what they shared. He recalls Ororo used to say he touched her spirit when they made love. He surely hasn’t forgotten the hours he has spent inside her mind… sharing… or that he has forgotten what Ororo did to him in return. He shows Ororo how she fried Amahl with her lightning bolts, when they were both floating through the air, naked. Amahl also hasn’t forgotten how, in the end, Ororo had left him for dead, wrote him off and moved on. He shows Ororo a memory of when Amahl was lying unconscious in a hospital bed with a respirator over his mouth, and how Yuriko pulled her away before someone spotted them. Amahl asks Ororo if what they had was disposable. She left him to die!
Storm suddenly sense Amahl trying to do something, and warns him to stay back. However, the angered Amahl continues that Ororo was happy to be rid of him. He enters Ororo’s head, which causes Ororo to scream in pain. Amahl grabs Storm by her throat, mocking that she used to like it when he entered her mind. He wonders what changed. Ororo tries to explain she didn’t hurt Amahl on purpose. She didn’t know how to completely control her powers at the time. She had never used lightning before. When Amahl was hurt, she didn’t know what to do. She didn’t want to, but left anyway. She panicked. She was young.
“Yes,” Amahl replies with a maniacal grin on his face. They were both young. But they’ve aged now. They’ve changed… advanced. And he looks at how Ororo has grown up. And he himself has grown up too. He too has changed, learned more about himself, what he is capable of. “Oh,” Amahl laughs, the things he has endured since Ororo tried to kill him!
The past…
Amahl reveals that when he entered his coma, he suddenly awoke in what he would come to learn is the mindscape. His consciousness had left his physical body and entered a new dimension. Amahl floated naked in the dimension and looked around. It was a place where dangers lurked around every corner, from purple beings in capes who “policed” the realm and were a constant threat, to the creatures Amahl would later come to know as the Brood.
He tells Ororo she has seen the Brood before. Those pitch-black bug-like creatures with red eyes who have been helping Amahl to find Ororo and get to her. And when Ororo wrote the Brood as a program in her Danger Room, she made them far too weak. The mindscape has changed Amahl. In demonstration, Amahl starts transforming, and begins speaking with a more evil tone.
The dimension taught him the limits of his power, he explains. Existing there tempered him, forced him to hone his skills. Still transforming, Amahl starts turning black and gains red eyes. The dimension changed him, twisted him into something he would once have feared. He learned to live in the darkness, strike from the blackness, and to thrive in its cold embrace. He became… the Shadow King! Amahl has now fully transformed in his Shadow King form, and several Brood creatures hang around his body. Storm recoils in fear and horror, screaming
Holding her hands at the Shadow King and the Brood to stay back, the frightened Ororo admits she once truly loved Amahl. He has to believe that what happened to him was an accident. Shadow King smiles that Ororo was always a good liar. But that time, and his name as Amahl Farouk, hold no more meaning to him now. That part of his life is over. This is a new chapter for the Shadow King! He has just one last loose end to tie up. He orders the Brood to kill Storm! The Brood fly towards, clearly intending to devour her. However, they are suddenly held back… telekinetically? Storm is visibly confused, but only for a moment, as she sees the truth. The X-Men have arrived!
Leading the team, Bishop is using his powers to hold the Brood back, and demands to know what’s going on. Not waiting for orders, Beast fights his way through the Brood, yelling to Storm that he’s coming for her. Unfortunately, Bishop’s energy fades, releasing the Brood, who immediately begin attacking the X-Men. Wolverine slashes his claws through several creatures, mocking he can’t leave Storm alone for thirty minutes. Shadow King is impressed by Wolverine. He likes him, as Logan is headstrong, bold… fearless. He wonders if Logan kept Ororo’s bed warm while he was away, and if Logan replaced him.
Meanwhile, Angel flies Dazzler into the air, where she releases a lot of light on the Brood. “Never a dull moment, eh Angel?” Alison jokes. Below, Pyro fires his flames on the Shadow King, who declares he’s had enough of this. It seemed exiting at first, but now finds it rather distracting. He opens black teleporation portals, which start sucking the X-Men through them. The X-Men all try to release themselves, but none have such luck.
Watching in horror as she and her teammates are captured, Storm panics even more and demands to know what the Shadow King is doing to them. A moment later, the entire room turns pitch black and Ororo stands naked in front of the Shadow King. The Shadow King reveals he just got rid of the X-Men. It’s just him and Ororo now, like it used to be, he tells her. Does she remember how things used to be before she ruined it, before she tried to kill him? They had something special!
Ororo has had enough of this nonsense. He doesn’t have to act like she was his life, that she meant everything to him, that the accident ended some great romance. She knows the truth. Amahl claims he doesn’t know what Ororo is talking about. “Who is the liar now?” Ororo points out. She wonders if he has really been hovering in his psychic realm so long that he has convinced himself she meant something to him. Amahl still doesn’t understand what she is saying.
Storm shouts out she knew about Amahl and Yuri! The Shadow King is shocked. As he transforms back into the body of Amahl, he begins to cry, asking in surprise that Ororo knew. However, his emotion once again turn to anger, now thinking that was the reason why Ororo tried to kill him. Because of Yuri. She meant nothing to him! As he approaches her menacingly, Storm holds a lightning bolt ready to fire. She again tries to make it clear she never tried to hurt Amahl. She knew, but tried to ignore it. She tried to bury her feelings and tell Amahl that he didn’t matter to him. But what she did to him really was an accident. But this isn’t!
With this, Storm unleashes her lightening through Amahl, who collapses, smoke rising from his astral body. As Ororo takes a moment to recover, Amahl tries to do the same. As he fades through the dark dimension, he whispers to Ororo that he never meant to hurt her. Ororo cries, and closes her eyes.
Reality
Ororo wakes up in a bed, at first not knowing where she is. Accompanied by the rest of the X-Men, Jean explains to Ororo that she’s back at the school in Westchester, and says it’s good to see Ororo again. When she asks what happened and why she is there, Beast explains that when they were in Ororo’s room, she fell into some sort of coma. She was out of it for a while. He kind of panicked when he couldn’t wake her up.
Chiming in, Psylocke explains she tried to scan Ororo’s mind, but couldn’t find anything. It was like she was gone. Bishop decided to bring her there. Jean doesn’t know what happened. Ororo’s mind was at war with something, something she couldn’t reach. Then about a few minutes ago, Ororo’s mind seemed to overpower it. She broke free on her own. Now, that danger is gone. Jean asks Ororo if she knows what happened and if she saw anything on her end. Ororo looks at Hank, and lies she has no idea.
Several hours later…
Ororo is still lying in bed when Wolverine enters, holding a briefcase. She asks Logan if he got “it,” which he confirms. She thanks him for it. Logan asks Ororo if she’s okay, and says that Jean is still trying to figure out what happened to her. Ororo smiles she’s totally fine. She also wanted to talk to Logan. Removing a laptop from the case and opening it, Ororo explains that she knows why she was attracted to Logan for so long, and that it was for all the wrong reasons. She thinks she reminded him of Amahl. She appreciates that Logan helped her through her recent problems. She calls Logan a good friend and hopes they’ll remain that way. But she doesn’t think they’ll work as anything more.
To this, Logan bluntly asks if she waited around until he was ready to be with her to inform him of this. Ororo equally bluntly that she finds it fascinating that Logan wanted to keep her at arm’s length until Hank got back. But that’s not it at all, she answers. She just needs someone good. Logan promises he can be good for her. “Not good for me,” Ororo sighs. She needs someone good. She’s doing going out with bad boys. She’s closing the book on that chapter of her life. In demonstration, Storm finds the play she was working on in the laptop, entitled “Shadow King,” and unceremoniously deletes the file.