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(1st story) Bloodline (part 3)  (2nd story) Bromo-superior (part 3)
(1st story)The Jean Grey School is on lockdown and Jubilee is sneaking through the halls with Shogo on her back. A voice suddenly catches her attention and she turns to see the man known as the Future leaning against a wall. He tells her he will take his son now but Jubilee, with tears streaming from her eyes, tells him Shogo is her son, not his. The Future calls “Shogo” an absurd name and tells her he will be given a proper one once he has taken care of her. With that, he pulls a knife out from behind his back and tells her Shogo will never know she existed in time.
Jubilee leaps forward as Shogo activates his force field bubble. With her vampiric teeth showing, she pins the Future against a wall by his throat and hisses at him. He simply grins at her and swipes her away, sending the young girl across the hallway. He tells her he has lived a long time and the truth is that she isn’t scary. He goes to kick her but she grabs his foot, momentarily stopping him. A little way off, Shogo’s bubble bounces along the floor as the Future continues to assault Jubilee. He tells her that Shogo is his, he is his property which she stole off him. As he walks away from an unconscious and bleeding Jubilee, he picks Shogo up and tells her that she and her friends are utterly inferior. He wishes her a nice life as he walks away.
(present)However, it was all a story being told by the future daughter of Storm, Kymera. She explains that it is their future as she knows it but she cannot let it happen. An annoyed Rachel asks when it is supposed to happen and Kymera tells her it’s due to take place in four hours time. Storm briefly recaps Kymera’s story and asks her why she was hiding the information. The young girl points out that not telling them isn’t the same as hiding it. She killed a man so she is taking steps herself. Shogo, in her timeline, is her best friend and what happens here tonight takes him and Jubilee nearly fifteen years to recover from.
Psylocke asks her if it is why she chose not to return to her timeline, to which Kymera tells her absolutely. It is worth it not to properly see her Shogo again, as she will do anything to spare him and his mother that pain. M tells her it is not permissible to execute prisoner on school grounds but Storm disagrees. She continues and says that they all lived through a timeline crisis recently and so are all complicit with tampering with the past or the future. She believes what Kymera is saying and so agrees that any steps are justifiable to stop it from happening. She does not condone murder but, when they are in this grey area, she will trust their intel and protect their own. Kymera tells her that’s all she wants to do. M tells her it is a bold statement and points out the others won’t agree.
Storm tells her she dares them to disagree. The Jubilee they saw in the future is barely recognizable from the girl they all know and love so much. She challenges anyone in the mutant community to stand back and not do anything about it. She then thanks Psylocke for what she said the other day in the hanger; it was what she needed to hear. Psylocke replies that she did it out of love. Rachel tells Storm that if she gets her through this crisis then she will have her back forever; she has been waiting to follow this Storm into battle. Storm asks about the team leader vote but Rachel tells her to screw it, as she would rather just punch something.
In Beast’s lab, Primal and Sprite are still unconscious and being monitored. Beast asks Jubilee, who is watching the two students, if Shogo should be in bed. She replies that he sleeps pretty solidly in her backpack as he listens to her breathing or something. She isn’t letting him out of her sight and she is too wired to sleep. She asks Beast, who is tinkering with some machinery, if he is working on a cure for the students and he replies that he is, of sorts anyway.
He turns around and asks Jubilee if she can share her thoughts on Arkea, which she saw firsthand. Jubilee tells him Arkea is bad news and there is nothing else to say. Beast disagrees as he has been doing some poking around. Seeing that he is sat in front of a petri-dish, Jubilee becomes very alarmed that Arkea is inside it. He tells her to relax, as the sample is brain dead and he is merely doing some gene manipulation. Experimenting with turning things on and off. What’s truly fascinating is that Arkea can self-repair and adapt on the fly, regenerating from nearly nothing. He tells Jubilee his mind turns to his two patients. Primal has suffered terrible damage to his heart and lungs and Sprite has been ravaged by a custom toxin.
Jubilee asks him if he is going to inject them with Arkea and he tells her he is designing a treatment using some of Arkea’s genetic material. It’s going to save their lives and he apologizes for burdening her with the information but he had to tell someone. He asks who she will tell but Jubilee asks if it saves their lives who cares how he did it. He tells her he is not used to feeling helpless and skirting on the edge of his ethics. She tells him to joint he club but being down here with him is making her feel better. He tells her it is the hardened bunker at work but she replies that it is him. He is like a rock or stable force that only wants to protect them. As he injects the students with the Arkea strain, he thanks Jubilee as he needed to hear that.
Afterwards, Kymera and Storm are sat alone in her office. Kymera thanks her and says she didn’t have to sign on to her mission there. She understands it will make things more complicated for Storm. Kymera says she has no ties there and can expend herself with no worries. Storm points out that she does have ties and her presence here may have already altered the timeline. What she knows as history may be different and the Future may have already altered his plans. So maybe they have already won and she won’t have to expend herself. Maybe they will all come out of the crisis in one piece and will have her to thank for it. If not, then it would be an honor to fight alongside her to save the lives of her friends. She will go down with her if that’s what it takes.
As the sun rises, Rachel asks the team to report in. On the roof, Kymera and Storm report that everything is clear, as does M who is walking through the halls. As Psylocke heads into the southern gardens, she will reply in five minutes once she has checked it out. She suddenly spots a figure hunched over doing some gardening. She walks over and tells them they are not authorized to be there. She demands they identify themselves and the man quickly stands up to reveal he is the Future. He throws a dagger towards Psylocke but she easily deflects it with her telekinesis. He tells her he is there for his son and recognizes her as one of the telepathic mutants. He tells her to call for backup but if she wants to take him on alone she can. He is a mere human and should be easy to take down. Even for a fake ninja such as herself. He asks what kind of twisted identity issues make a white girl want to live in a Japanese body.
Psylocke loses her temper and telepathically blasts him, causing him to clutch his head and kneel on the ground. He tells her a human mind can develop a resistance to nearly anything if the body and soul are willing to put the work in. He gets back up and tells her she wasn’t good enough. She lunges at him with her psychic dagger but he swiftly ducks and punches her in the stomach. As Psylocke collapses to the floor, he tells her human or not they all have guts. That punch should have killed her outright, so he is impressed. It’s safe to assume she has a ruptured liver, though, possibly kidneys too. She goes to call for backup but the Future punches her, knocking her out.
He has done his homework and completed his training. He has already taken out more X-Men than many of the flamboyant super villains, but the fact they killed his inside man gives him pause. The X-Men should not have killed in that manner. He was human and a prisoner. An execution is completely out of character. He must adjust his approach as there is at least one mutant in the building he cannot predict. With that, he takes off his gardeners clothes and walks into the school.
Jubilee is walking down the corridor, teaching Shogo how to walk. The Future catches up with her and tells her he is grateful for her, as Shogo looks clean and healthy. Jubilee holds her child close to her chest as the man tells her good help is so hard to find. Pointing a gun at her, he tells her not to move. She may survive but the child won’t. Jubilee tells him he would go to all this trouble and then walk away empty handed. She says the X-Men would hunt him down and he has just signed up for a lifetime of watching over his shoulder.
The Future pauses for a minute, thinking about what Jubilee has just said. He had counted on the mutants cutting their losses with the kidnapping, as Shogo was not one of their own. He felt confident he could evade whatever search they put into motion. But they murdered when he expected a rule of law. Jubilee is also defiant when he expected submission. He decides he has made a fatal error and needs to adjust again.
The Future tells her to put the child down but she asks why. He fires the gun, striking her head and causing her to drop Shogo. As the baby bounces along in his bubble, the Future walks over to Jubilee. He picks her up and tells Shogo he will see him soon, he is sure of it.
(2nd story)As Hellion lays waste to the holographic army Anole yells for him to dial it back and asks what he is trying to prove. Broo turns to Psylocke and asks her the same question. She tells him to hold that thought as she readies a telekinetic bow and arrow. She fires it, hitting a soldier creeping up on Hellion from behind. After “killing” the soldier, Psylocke ends the Danger Room program, much to the relief of Broo. Rockslide seems disappointed but Hellion is angry. He charges over to Psylocke and tells her he understands he broke her stupid program but then asks if she can see how frustrating it is. Some madman is out there targeting the students of the school. All of them are capable of being on an X-team but how can they prove it when they are not given the chance? Psylocke tells him she just killed her boyfriend, which causes all the boys to stare at her in confused silence.
Eventually, Anole asks her to explain and she tells them that the warrior about to kill Hellion was her boyfriend. She assumed her Danger Room boyfriend was the talk of the school, to which Rockslide tells her he assumed it was an urban legend. Hellion thanks her and points out he is just a program and she can just bring him back. She could but is anyone the same when they come back? Broo tells her he believes he has deciphered the point as being a teaching moment. Psylocke explains that in the field there are no Danger Room safeties and no Hank with his billion-dollar lab as backup. If they are lucky, they have friends on their side, as they will do anything to save your life.
She tells Hellion that she will overlook the intrusion because in his own cocky way he was willing to prove he has what it takes to take down the Future. Hellion tells her he was, Primal, Sprite, Jubilee and Shogo are their friends. Psylocke tells all of them they are on mission standby and then orders them to get out of her program space. As the boys quickly leave, Psylocke gets the Danger Room to select the last file. It asks if it should restore and restart but, after a small pause, she tells it to delete all copies and backups.


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Bloodline (part 4)
(Jean Grey School Medical Bay)As the two injured students lie on their beds, Sprite suddenly wakes up with a start, sits upright and realizes she is naked. As Primal begins to stir too, Hellion walks in and throws them some clothes. He tells them he has come to get them out of there and then remarks that they look amazing. He asks how they feel, to which both reply they seem fine. As they put their clothes on, Primal asks what happened to them and Hellion explains their injuries. They seem confused but Hellion tells them there is a briefing in five minutes. As they walk down the hall, Sprite asks who would hurt them, so Hellion tells her it was a guy called the Future. He doesn’t want to get into it now, as they have briefing but all that they need to know it that they are on alert.
A few minutes later, Hellion has explained what went on whilst they were unconscious. Sprite can’t believe Jubilee was kidnapped but Primal just wants to fight. Hellion tells him that is the idea, as Sprite flies behind them in disbelief that Kymera murdered a man. Hellion replies that she knows things they don’t, plus he was the guy that shot Primal. Primal simply utters something about death, to which Hellion agrees.
In the war room, Storm is sat amongst a series of holographic screens. She tells Sabra, who is on the radio, that they have a good physical description but it’s not much good if the man isn’t on any government database. Sabra chips in that he isn’t on any database that Storm has access to anyway. Storm adds that’s why she needs her and Gabriel to trade in every favor they have to find the Future and Jubilee.
Elsewhere, Hellion brings the two students to the rest of their friends. As everyone excitedly crowds around them Psylocke asks him if Beast thinks they have recovered. Hellion replies that they have and it was some miracle cure.
In Storm’s study, Rachel is talking to Kymera. The young girl asks why her mother isn’t doing it and Rachel replies it’s because it would be complicated and emotional. It isn’t hostile but it is serious. She demands Kymera tell her everything she knows right now.
Back in the war room, Sabra, Gabriel and Pixie appear on a monitor and Sabra tells Storm to call in the cavalry, as the Future’s files have some serious levels of redactions on them. Storm assumes that she means the Avengers and points out they should think to call the X-Men sometimes. The X-Men are some of the most powerful beings to ever exist and now one of their own has been held and threatened. They are going to go off like she has never seen before; Storm just needs to know where to aim. Sabra replies that she is sending through what she knows.
Rachel tells Kymera that she understands the timeline but she assures the girl she didn’t alter it by killing the man.
Psylocke gathers the students and tells them there is no B team. The student body was hit so the student body will be the response. Storm is taking the fight to the future but they will be the school’s last line of defense.
Beast is looking after Shogo in his lab and he tells the baby that his mom will be back soon as they X-Men don’t give up on their own.
As Kymera finishes up telling Rachel everything she knows, Storm looks over the files Sabra sent. She notes that there are over one-hundred pages and the Future has built up a criminal empire that spans the globe. Pixie tells Storm that she has been working with Gabriel and that the data indicates there are eleven places where the Future might be. But the closest one is around two-hundred miles north in some mountain compound in the Adirondacks. It also just fired up on the generator grid.
As Psylocke addresses the students, she tells them that Jubilee was just some random kid that fell on hard times. But if they asked her, she would say the X-Men saved her life. That is the defining characteristic of the mutant community. There is no limit to what they will do to support each other. Storm suddenly radios through to everyone and tells them to mobilize.
(the Adirondacks)In a dilapidated wooden building in the middle of a forest Jubilee wakes up and shouts out to see if anyone else is there. A voice comes over some speakers and tells her the repeated demands to see her son are noted. But there is only one demand that is relevant to her situation and it is implied by her presence there. The voice belongs to the Future and Jubilee asks why he sounds like such a tool.
After a few moments of silence, he ignores her and continues by saying Shogo will be exchanged for her life and the promise of no interference in the future. He asks what she thinks but Jubilee tells them the X-Men won’t do it. They would know she would never want to lose Shogo, especially to him. He tells her she misunderstands her friends. The child is not hers biologically and to her people he is expendable. With tears in her eyes, Jubilee mutters that Shogo is her son. The Future tells her it is a simple business agreement and the X-Men do not want a war with him. Jubilee lashes out and shouts that a war is exactly what he is going to get. They will find him and crush him. They will never cut a deal with him about anything. He wonders if they would if it meant her death. She replies that they are her friends and she trusts them to make the right decision.
In his office, the Future sits at his desk and contemplates what Jubilee said. He asks one of his soldiers if the grid is powered up and the man replies it is but the system remains untested. The soldier continues to talk about the defense mesh but the Future corrects him and calls it the Bloodline. The soldier continues and tells him it has only been deployed in the lab in controlled environments. Never in practical applications. The Future stands up and tells him it is pointless to discuss it, as the X-Men are coming. He orders the man to fire it up and then screams in his face, asking if there is any confusion. The man tells him there is none but they require something. The Future realizes what he needs and takes out his knife. He cuts his finger covering the blade in blood. He hands the man the bloody knife and tells him to deploy the Bloodline. The man obediently takes the blade and goes to carry out his orders.
In the X-jet, Storm asks Rachel what the future holds for them. Rachel explains that Kymera took her through her knowledge of events and the outcome. The Future will die but they lose seven and twelve more are wounded. Storms asks how he did it and Rachel replies that he picked the better battlefield. In that timeline, he had Shogo and he retreated to his safehouse in the Crimea, where he defended it well. This timeline is different because of Kymera and the fact she murdered that soldier. Sitting behind Storm, Kymera leans round and tells them that she would do it again. Storm replies that she hopes the girl did the right thing and then gets Rachel do deploy M to do some recon.
As M launches herself into the air, Rachel informs her it is just a fly-by. Storm says that they can use a Cerebro spike application to build a 3D schematic off her telepathic feedback. Up in the air, M tells the team on the jet that something is wrong down there. Kymera looks at the map that is being drawn on a computer and gets worried as she has seen this before. She tells the rest of them that in her timeline they found some technology in a lab and it was small scale and barely functional. She tells them to get M out of there quickly. Rachel telepathically tells M to get out of there as there is some sort of defense tech in place. M replies that it is organic, with awareness, and it is everywhere. As M hovers above the forest, some vines whip out towards her and start to wrap themselves around her legs. She struggles but more vines attach themselves to her and begin to pull her to the ground. The vines are too strong for her to break and she is powerless as she gets pulled into the forest canopy.
Kymera is astonished, as the Future has wired the forests into something called Bloodline. It is a living ecosystem that they tried to reverse engineer but had to destroy when they deemed it too dangerous. Kymera then informs them they need to bring Shogo there. Storm tells her that the baby is with Beast back at the school and asks what possible reason there would be to have him there. Kymera simply asks Storm to trust her but her mother replies that she does up to a point. She decides to let Shogo come with Beast but they are to stay out of the way.
Staring at the map, Rachel says they need more intel and they need to know the weapon’s range before they make a general assault. She telepathically tells Psylocke to take a team in.
On the ground, Rockslide, Anole, Hellion and Psylocke work their way through the thick vegetation. Psylocke tells them she deemed them mission ready based upon their performances in the Danger Room and so they shouldn’t prove her wrong. Gunfire suddenly rains down on them and the team immediately darts for cover. She contacts Rachel, who tells her that they have the defense perimeter defined and the team is good to engage. On the ground, Psylocke summons a telekinetic mace and gives the order to attack.
They are hiding behind Rockslide, who is complaining that he is being shot at with depleted uranium rounds and he can’t take any more of it. Psylocke tells the team to spread out, locate targets and to take them out. With that, she rushes forward and creates a bunch of telekinetic knives that she throws at some of the soldiers. Hellion takes the brute force approach and just creates a huge telekinetic blast. Anole tells him to take it easy but the cocky teen replies that he does it his way and Anole should do it his own. The lizard-like mutant takes him up on the suggestion and grabs a soldier with his strong arm and launches the man high into the air. Rockslide has had enough of the man with the gun and simply backhands him.
Anole scales a tree and jumps from branch to branch, musing on how the trees can be an asset. He hides above two men and waits for them to pass under him. He jumps down and floors them both. He then yells to Psylocke that the rest of the gang are falling back as the remaining soldiers flee from the raging X-Men. Psylocke yells for the boys to wait, as they are at the perimeter and she is picking up some kind of consciousness. Rachel informs her that Bloodline is an artificial nervous system that has been laid over that section of the forest. To put it simply, the forest is alive. Psylocke asks why it’s called Bloodline, to which Rachel quips why the man calls himself the Future. They are not dealing with a rational mind.
As the boys take a break, Anole asks Psylocke how they did. She tells them that there is a school of thought in the mutant community that the younger ones shouldn’t be put into combat. Hellion points out they have to graduate sometime and Psylocke agrees and tells them they were superb.
Elsewhere, the Future asks if Jubilee can hear him but, before she can reply, he tells her he knows she can. He informs her that her friends have been hurling themselves at his defenses but with little effect. They believe this is an assault-and-rescue mission but he is sending Jubilee’s leader Storm his demands now. Jubilee tells him it is a waste of time and he tells her they will see. Jubilee has known Storm for years and she knows she won’t negotiate. The Future calmly tells her that those who say that tend to change their minds once the bodies start piling up. The infant for Jubilee; it’s a balanced offer she would be stupid to turn down. Jubilee is adamant it won’t happen and the Future points out that, if Storm is the leader she says she is, she’ll be smart. Jubilee is an experienced X-Man, whilst the baby adds nothing to their organization.
On the X-jet, Storm picks up a tablet and tells Rachel she has an offer from someone who doesn’t know her very well. She taps away on the tablet and send the Future a message back. In his base, the Future looks at his own tablet and is infuriated at Storm’s reply. Seeing that she wants a war, he deems it irrational of her. Jubilee replies that she told him it would be like this and this is why he will lose. He is just some crazy old psychopath who thinks family is about owning possessions. The X-Men are a family in the best sense of the word. Storm’s “tactical error” is her choosing loyalty, love and honor over the threats of a terrorist. This is why the X-Men always win. The Future screams that they will not beat him here today and not over this. Jubilee tells him they already have.
Storm tells Kymera to hop out of the X-jet as Beast is inbound with Shogo. She is to stay back behind the line and she emphasizes Shogo is not a combatant. She tells Kymera not to do anything stupid to which the young girl simply agrees. Rachel tells her Cipher is standing by with the Dove. Storm tells her to have it orbit at 10,000 feet and supply them with sensor telemetry. The Future has more tricks up his sleeve like Bloodline and she wants to know all about them.
On the ground, Kymera and her panther walk along the grass and she muses that Storm won’t be the one saving the day today.


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Bloodline (part 5)
(the Adirondacks)One of the X-Men’s jets lands in the forest as Kymera watches from nearby. Beast, Primal and Sprite get out, along with Shogo. Beast greets Kymera and wonders why Storm would authorize an infant to be brought into the field and why the request came from Kymera. Kymera takes Shogo and tells Beast that she is putting the pieces together against the history she knows, but this battle never took place in her timeline.
Beast says he is up to date on the bio-weapon “Bloodline” and Kymera tells him Shogo is the key to stopping it. Right now, the rest of the team is two miles away, fighting against a conscious, weaponized forest and at the center of it all is Shogo’s biological father. Beast says that the parentage isn’t confirmed but Kymera tells him in her timeline it is a 99.98% probability.
Kymera says she is going to take Shogo into the forest and, when Beast objects, she replies there isn’t a way to explain the reason to him properly. Beast becomes angry and Kymera’s panther growls at him. Beast points out that Shogo is just a child but the young girl retorts that he is also her best friend and that they will have to trust her. Sprite says she and Primal could easily stop the girl and Beast agrees. He also adds that he knows she and Shogo are friends and that in her mind she is doing what is right and necessary. Beast relents and lets Kymera take the child, but he and the other students go with her.
(the Dove)At her computer, Cipher asks how the telemetry is looking, to which Storm replies it’s solid and that they are entering the hot zone now. Storm is flying the plane and Rachel tells her that she has lost contact with Monet on both the visual and psychic spectrum. Storm asks if Bloodline is blocking her and Rachel replies it is, but seems rather dismissive of the idea. As they fly over the forest, some of the trees dig up their own roots and launch themselves into the sky like rockets. The Dove is struck by one of the trees and Storm loses control, forcing the plane lower into the trees. Cipher yells that a tree hit them and that the whole area is glowing on the infra-red. Rachel yells in pain and says that the whole forest is screaming at her. Storm gains some altitude and Rachel explains the whole forest is processing information but it isn’t truly sentient. Rachel says that it cannot feel pain and so Storm flies out of the jet, telling Rachel to warn everyone she is attacking.
Down on the ground, Psylocke, Hellion, Anole and Rockslide suddenly feel the air around them get hotter. Rachel tells Psylocke to move everyone out of the way, as Storm is about to do something. A huge explosion rips through the forest and trees are scattered everywhere. A little way off, Kymera shrieks in horror and rushes off deeper into the forest, with Beast and his group hot on her heels. They run into Psylocke’s group and Kymera says that they have to stop Storm from attacking. Sprite says that Storm cleared the area but she’s freaking out now.
Psylocke contacts Rachel to find out what’s going on but the telepath replies that Storm isn’t responding to anything. Psylocke relays that Kymera is sure she is able to stop it but Storm needs to stop attacking. Rachel pulls the plane close to Storm and then grabs her from the open hanger door. Storm is worried about Monet and Psylocke but Rachel tells her they are down there and she needs to stop attacking.
Down below, Monet picks herself up off the floor and checks on the unconscious soldiers nearby to make sure they are still breathing. She radios up and says that, unless multiple homicide is her game plan, then she needs to stop the weather. Right now, there are some serious cases of heatstroke but the armed resistance threat has been neutralized. Storm asks if she is okay and then Rachel asks Storm the same question. Down below, Monet sarcastically says everyone is okay and that they need to get back to business.
She has a feeling Jubilee is still not okay but she can see a small house in the distance. She telepathically reaches out and finds Jubilee huddled up in one of the rooms. Jubilee doesn’t respond and so Monet jokes with her about saying once she never wanted to know what went through her head. Monet tells her she loves her and explains about the weaponized forest and the fact she will lose telepathy for a while. Jubilee doesn’t want Monet to break contact and asks about Shogo. Monet says that he is fine and that he’s miles away.
Back outside, the assembled group race towards the cabin and Sprite asks why Storm doesn’t just use the heat to kill the Bloodline. Psylocke replies that Jubilee is in the middle of the forest and that everything is tied into The Future somehow. If they kill him, they don’t know what might happen to Jubilee. Psylocke then has a realization that The Future is controlling the Bloodline with his own blood and that’s why Kymera bought Shogo. Kymera simply replies it will work.
From the Dove, Cipher reports that if Storm goes any further up the hill then she will be in active Bloodline territory. Based on how it stopped Monet, she doubts if any of them will make the climb. She says Jubilee is probably in the cabin, based on the readings from the plane. Storm, Monet and Rachel meet with the rest of the team and Storm isn’t happy to see Kymera and Shogo in the middle of the battle. Psylocke tells her to see it through and that she trusts Kymera.
With that, Kymera takes Shogo to a nearby bush and pricks his finger, causing it to bleed. Shogo starts to cry and Storm angrily yells at Kymera. Kymera wipes the blood on one of the bush’s leaves and then reassures Shogo that it’s all over. She hands Shogo to Storm and explains that the Bloodline is keyed to accept The Future’s DNA as its operating system and, as an offspring of The Future, it will also accept Shogo’s. As the young child sucks his thumb, tears stream down his face and Kymera says that the Bloodline should be offline now.
Inside the cabin, The Future realizes what has just happened and screams in anger. Jubilee realizes that he is weakened and uses her enhanced strength to burst through the wall of her cell and run through the cabin to find him. However, when she makes it to his room, she finds The Future being strangled by the very forest he once controlled. Vines have ripped up through the floor and they lift him in their air, constricting him into he dies. The vines drop him on the floor and Jubilee telepathically tells Rachel that he is dead. Rachel replies that Jubilee needs to get to them now, as Shogo is in trouble.
As Kymera holds Shogo, he doesn’t appear to be conscious and Beast tells her it might be a poison off the plants. Kymera says it wasn’t a design element of the version of Bloodline from her timeline. Beast confesses to Storm that he has used altered Arkea DNA to heal both Primal and Sprite and that he believes it can help heal Shogo too. Storm is alarmed that he wants to inject the baby with Arkea, but Beast explains the boy’s nervous system is shutting down and it isn’t exactly Arkea anymore. Storm relents, as she doesn’t want to lose Shogo after everything they went through, and so Beast enlists Primal’s aid in helping him.
Jubilee arrives and Storm comforts her as Beast gets to work. She tells Jubilee Shogo was the key to it all and he helped take down an adversary wanted by most global authorities. Beast injects Shogo with the Arkea strain and it gets to work fast, as he sits upright and appears to be as happy as ever. The team celebrate their victory and Shogo’s recovery and then fly back to base.
Later on, Storm receives a letter from Kymera that tells her this was the reason she stayed behind in the past. She doesn’t see herself staying at the school and doesn’t see the two of them getting along, as they didn’t in her timeline. Shogo is her family and, if she comes back, it will be because he needs her. It’s not like Storm signed up to have a teenage daughter and so Kymera tells her that she will do many world-changing things but none of them is having a daughter yet. She bids her mum goodbye and leaves the school.


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Exogenus (part 1)
(a few years ago)Terry Maguire and Rachel Grey stand on the back porch of her grandparent’s house as they take a moment to escape the family reunion going on inside. Rachel’s alternate grandfather, John Grey, comes to ask her for a dance and she telepathically tells him off for embarrassing her. Terry leaves and John tells Rachel he wishes they knew how to cope with telepathy when Jean was with them. Rachel comforts him and says that Jean saved the universe. John notices something is up with her and she tells him she doesn’t know how to dance. He takes her hand and replies that it will be his pleasure to teach her.
Before he can take another step, though, he suddenly explodes in a ball of fire right before Rachel’s eyes. A little way off, the Shi’ar Death Commandos stand armed and ready for action. Their leader, Black Cloak, tells Rachel that, by order of the Majestrix Shi’ar, the Grey genome is to be eradicated and then gives the order to his team to kill them all.
(now)On board one of the X-jets, Rachel looks at her tablet device and declares they should kill them all. Jubilee turns around and asks how they should do that, as the X-jet flies towards a swarm of strange, green, spherical creatures flying in the sky. Flying outside the plane, M suggests that maybe she should hit as many as she can, as hard as she can. Storm points out there are A.I.M created viruses that have evolved and will continue to do so. They will simply adapt to blunt force easily and must be exterminated. Rachel psi-uploads all the data on the virus to the team and Storm asks Jubilee if she would fly the plane. Jubilee replies she would if she knew how and Rachel uses her powers to upload details on how to fly the jet directing into Jubilee’s brain.
Storm, Rachel and Psylocke fly out the plane to join M, and Rachel says she has to use her telekinesis to group the viruses together. That way, Storm can light them up all at once. As the team starts herding the viruses together, Psylocke declares it’s ironic, to which M asks if she means that three of the five team members are telepaths. Psylocke corrects her and says she meant that they are fighting unplanned evolution, or in other words… mutations. The X-jet swings by the viruses and Jubilee says she is just using it to fry some of them in the jet wash. Once the viruses are gathered closely enough, the rest of the team backs off, whilst Storm blasts the swarm with lightning. After successfully destroying the viruses, Psylocke congratulates Strom, to which she replies that she has never had a chance to destroy a rogue bioweapon before.
In the X-jet, Beast appears via a holographic display and Jubilee asks if she can make a Star Trek joke. He says she wouldn’t be the first but in this case it might be appropriate, as fifty-eight minutes ago something extremely interesting happened.
(fifty-eight minutes ago on The Peak)Agent Abigail Brand storms onto the bridge of her space station, proclaiming that she only gets sixteen minutes of free time on a good day. She’s been watching Game of Thrones on fifteen minute watches and she hasn’t even finished season one.
One of the SWORD agents sitting at his console tells her there has been a proximity alarm. She tells him off for calling her sir and points out that it’s not about the respect, it’s about the fact it makes her seem manly. He asks her why it can’t be about both and she replies that she likes him and not because his name, Manifold Tyger, is strange but it’s because he’s the one Axilogian who isn’t afraid to give her lip.
He explains the proximity alarm was triggered by a single Shi’ar humanoid bearing in their direction. As they put on space suits, Agent Brand asks tells him Shi’ar can’t live very long in the vacuum of space without a suit and he replies that the individual is already going into organ failure. They leave the station and float to the person, who they discover is Deathbird, the former ruler of the Shi’ar Empire. Brand says that she looks pretty good, given that the last anyone saw of her she was paralyzed and nearly dead. So, anyway he slices it, this condition is an improvement.
On the X-jet, the X-Men are surprised to hear Deathbird is alive, to which Beast replies that she was merely paralyzed and held captive on Chandilar. It makes her appearance on what is essentially Earth’s doorstep a little unexpected. Given the connection to the Shi’ar, the X-Men’s presence has been requested and Rachel was specifically asked for. Monet notices Beast refer to his girlfriend as Agent Brand, which causes her to sarcastically question why he called her that. Beast tries to ignore her and continues that Cecilia Reyes will also be joining them and she will meet them at the Peak. Psylocke wonders why Dr. Reyes is needed and Beast tells her that the Peak’s resident medic is elsewhere and Cecilia has the next best knowledge on Shi’ar biology.
Beast’s hologram disappears and Jubilee asks Rachel why she would have a connection to Deathbird. Rachel solemnly replies that it may be because the Shi’ar murdered her entire family or the fact that Deathbird is her aunt. Jubilee looks confused and states that she has missed a lot.
The X-Man arrive at the Peak and Agent Brand meets them. When one of them asks if Deathbird said anything, Brand sarcastically replies that she was very chatty before losing consciousness and her entire diatribe was “uhnnnf.” Psylocke ignores her and asks why Deathbird was headed to the Peak. Brand corrects her and says she was headed to Earth, and with three telepaths on the team she figures one of them will be able to get in her head. Storm points out that SWORD has telepaths but Brand replies she doesn’t have 1.6 telepaths per non-telepath like some do. Those she does have cannot get a read on a Shi’ar and so she hopes one of the X-Men will, specifically Rachel because Deathbird is her aunt. Rachel points out that it’s by marriage and Brand retorts that her mother is from Earth and her father is a green-furred alien, so she shouldn’t start about unconventional families. Cecilia Reyes, escorted by Manifold Tyger, joins the group and she and Storm greet each other and hug.
A short while later, Cecilia stands at a console that operates a piece of equipment that Deathbird is laying in. She remarks that the SWORD medics did a good job of stabilizing her, despite their lack of knowledge on Shi’ar physiology. Storm wonders how she made it all this way given she was paralyzed, but Cecilia tells her there is no evidence of paralysis. The injuries she does have are fresh, having only occurred in the past few days. Cecilia looks at a small holographic image of Deathbird and seems a little taken aback by something. She asks if SWORD has a lab she can borrow and Brand tells Manifold Tyger to escort her to one. As they leave, Jubilee is curious as to why Cecilia was so freaked out and Storm decides to use the opportunity to have the telepaths read Deathbird.
Psylocke, Rachel and Monet surround the unconscious Deathbird, who is being suspended in a medical device. Psylocke tells Rachel there is no need for her to do this and Monet dryly agrees, stating they are capable of tiptoeing through her aunt’s psyche by themselves. Rachel disagrees and says that she gets the feeling Brand isn’t giving them the full picture. Psylocke says she couldn’t read Brand, as her psy-shields were too powerful. Monet asks why that means Brand isn’t telling them everything and Psylocke replies that it’s because Beast told her she wouldn’t. The three women hold hands and join their minds together to probe into Deathbird’s.
Inside her mind, they see visions of Deathbird’s past, including the moment Lilandra impaled her with a javelin, fighting Ms. Marvel and ruling on the Shi’ar throne amongst others. Psylocke comments that it’s a mess in her head, to which Monet replies that Rachel’s aunt is a proper wackadoo. Rachel doesn’t like her using that word and, when Monet asks if she means wackadoo, Rachel replies she meant aunt. Psylocke asks if they should risk going deeper but Rachel is already there and has found evidence of psychic scaring, indicating she had been experimented on. A strange symbol appears to the women and Psylocke wonders if it is Shi’ar but Rachel feels something is wrong.
In the real world, Deathbird suddenly opens her eyes and states that they are here, and Rachel asks who she means.
On the Peak’s bridge, a soldier tells Brand they have multiple bogies coming from everywhere. Storm looks at the screens and says she hasn’t seen them in a while, which Brand asks who she means. Storm tells her they are Sidrian Hunters, as everyone looks out at the thousands of alien creatures swarming around the Peak. Brand says she has never heard of them and extraterrestrial creatures are her wheelhouse. Storm says the Sidri are hunters and they only exist to claim their quarry and must be here for Deathbird.
In the medical bay, Deathbird can barely say the word “Sidri” before she passes out again through exhaustion. Cecilia runs in and asks what’s going on, to which Psylocke replies that they are under attack. The lights suddenly go out as the Sidri cut the power and Manifold Tyger says that there will be hull breaches in ninety seconds. He corrects himself that it might be less when everyone looks up to see the six-legged crab-like creatures pouring in from somewhere. Everyone leaps into action and starts killing the Sidri but the sheer numbers of them are too big.
Down in the medical bay, the Sidri are in there too and the X-Men cluster together around Deathbird. Psylocke creates a telekinetic shield and mini-gun and starts blasting the aliens. Psylocke tells Cecilia to get behind her, but the former X-woman has other ideas and creates a shield to reflect the Sidri’s bio-blasts. Despite being creeped out by the creatures, Monet jumps into the swarm and starts punching left and right. The numbers are too much for them, though, and the X-Men find themselves surrounded on all sides. Monet wonders what they want with Deathbird but Cecilia replies that it’s not Deathbird they are after, it’s her baby. Rachel seems surprised and Monet asks the strange question… has anyone seen Deathbird’s baby?
On the bridge, the situation isn’t much better and Manifold Tyger says there are multiple hull breaches but the shields are holding for the moment. Whilst fighting the Sidri with her vampiric abilities, Jubilee says that “for the moment” isn’t exactly a good phrase. Manifold Tyger tells her their shields are defensive and they are not designed to stop explosive decompression. A SWORD agent, looking at his monitor, says that shields are failing on decks eight, sixteen and twenty-eight. Brand realizes they are on twenty-eight, just as a hole bursts open in the hull and sucks the SWORD agent out. Brand yells for everyone to grab onto something, as the explosive decompression sucks everything in the room out to space.
In the medical bay, Monet says that Deathbird doesn’t have a baby, but Cecilia replies that she is pregnant.


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Exogenus part 2
On the bridge of the Peak space station, Agent Brand, Storm, Jubilee and Manifold Tyger hold on for dear life, as everything in the room is being sucked out to space via the large hole in the hull. Brand calls for the shields to be activated but Jubilee guesses that they might be one of the many systems that are flatlining. Brand shouts that she needs maintenance down in ops to restore the power but Manifold Tyger says that there is also a hull breach and everyone there was sucked into space. As the group struggle to fight off the Sidri Hunters that have invaded the station, Jubilee says she will head down to ops. Brand asks if she knows anything about fusion-based power systems, to which the young girl replies that she will learn on the way. Making her way to a corridor, Jubilee telepathically contacts the others for a little help.
Down in the medical bay, Psylocke responds and tells her they are a little pre-occupied themselves, as they are also fighting off the Sidri. Jubilee persists and says she needs one of them to upload everything they know about fusion-based power systems. Monet sarcastically tells her that will be easy, because they know nothing about them. Psylocke remarks that the Sidri seem to be empathically weak, meaning that they are susceptible to psychic attacks.
At the Jean Grey School, Ink picks up the phone and Jubilee asks to speak to Beast. Ink tells her that he is holed up in his lab and has asked not to be disturbed unless it’s an emergency. To this, Jubilee replies that she is on a broken space station and needs to talk to Beast so he can tell her how to get the power back on before everyone is sucked into the vacuum of space. In the medical bay, the group’s psychic attacks work and the Sidri start to retreat. Rachel tells Cecilia Reyes to guard Deathbird, as the rest of them will need to use her shuttle to follow the Sidri back to their home.
On the bridge, Storm tells Brand that she is at her limits, as she can only use her powers to compensate the decompression for as long as there is wind to manipulate. Fighting off the Sidri with her own mutant power to burn those she touches, Brand says it’s not like the rest of them are having the time of their lives. When a lightning bolt suddenly fries a Sidri that was about to attack her from behind, Brand reluctantly thanks Storm. Manifold Tyger tells them the shields have been restored and they have sealed all the hull breaches. Storm radios down to Jubilee and thanks her for fixing the power. Jubilee says that she had to divert all the power to shielding systems, which means there is no power to keep them in orbit anymore.
Psylocke, Monet and Rachel are on Cecilia’s shuttle, following the Sidri back to where they came from. After some banter from Monet, Psylocke admits that she has lost their heat signature. Monet suggests turning back but Rachel disagrees because, unless Deathbird wakes up, they won’t be getting any answers back at the Peak. Monet agrees but adds that the station looks pretty messed up and they could help Storm and Jubilee deal with that. Rachel is surprised that Monet would be so considerate, to which she receives a threat of violence if she ever tells anyone. Flying the ship, Psylocke comments that the Sidri are hunters and someone obviously sent them. Monet asks who it could be but the enormous ship that has suddenly appeared next to their gives Psylocke a reasonably good idea.
On the Peak, Storm asks how long they have and Manifold Tyger replies that she has about two hours. His species is made of sterner stuff and he calculates he can survive for about two and a half minutes during reentry. Storm asks Jubilee if Beast had any good ideas but the young girl replies he spouted a bunch of technical gobbledygook which pretty much amounted to “abandon ship.” Brand tells them that isn’t an option, as they only just put it back together after the Black Order tore it apart not long ago. Manifold Tyger suggests giving the power systems a huge jolt of electricity to jump-start them. Jubilee asks where they would get that power from and all eyes turn to Storm.
As the shuttle carrying them enters the hanger deck of the giant spaceship, the other half of the team realizes they are dealing with the Shi’ar. They leave the shuttle and are met by a man being escorted by some guards. He introduces himself as D’Keth, son of D’Kath, and member of the weather council. Rachel is surprised to hear he knows who she is but he says that the Grey line is known throughout the Imperium. Rachel solemnly tells him that killing off her entire family must have made it easier to keep track of her. D’Keth says he meant that he was referring to the heroism she showed in helping to bring an end to the reign of Vulcan. Monet and Psylocke introduce themselves to him and he welcomes them on board the Lilandra.
Monet says it’s not like they had a choice, given the size of their ship and the fact their weapons were aimed at them. D’Keth replies that it was mere caution, as they are on a war footing at the moment. He explains that the renegade Deathbird has escaped her confinement on Chandilar and they are ascertaining her whereabouts. Given that she is Rachel’s aunt, it follows her presence here is no coincidence.
Psylocke telepathically tells Rachel the Shi’ar psy-shields are formidable but she gets the sense they are hiding something. Rachel replies she doesn’t need telepathy to sense that. Psylocke replies that she doesn’t think they should tell them where Deathbird is, but Rachel blurts out to D’Keth the exact opposite. Rachel lies, though, and says that Deathbird was taken captive by the Sidri and they were following the trail before it went cold. D’Keth says they have more sophisticated sensors on their ship and suggests their interests are aligned, to which Rachel agrees.
Elsewhere, Storm, Brand, Jubilee and Manifold Tyger stand in the engine room in front of a huge, cylindrical machine. Tyger explains that the system coverts all forms of raw energy, such as solar flares, cosmic radiation and quantum fluctuations, into useable energy. He is theorizing that the same can be done for the electricity her mutant power generates. Storm tells him that she merely manipulates the weather and the space station doesn’t exactly have much of it. Plus, she is exhausted after using her powers whilst fighting the Sidri. Brand sarcastically asks if her mutation can protect her from frying in a 3,034° heat, because she may want to at least try Tyger’s plan otherwise.
Storm commands the others to leave and Jubilee asks if she is sure about the plan. Storm replies that there are a number of injured personnel on board who cannot evacuate, so she must go through with it. Jubilee kisses her on the cheek and leaves as Storm starts to command the atmosphere around her. After using as much energy as she could, she generates enough lightning to power the machine and then collapses on the floor.
Meanwhile, on the Shi’ar ship, one of the crew informs D’Keth that the Sidri trail has ended. D’Keth orders them to establish station keeping and to prepare a boarding party. Rachel picks up on the fact one of the soldiers called D’Keth “counselor” and queries about the title. He informs her the weather council is just an advisory body that provides counsel to the entire aviary.
One of the Sh’ar soldiers tells D’Keth that the readings they are seeing indicate they are at the Sidri’s origination point and not the end of their trail. Psylocke concludes that if the Sidri originated from here then it must have been where Deathbird fled to after leaving Chandilar. Rachel points out it doesn’t explain how she fled, given that she was supposedly paralyzed. As the team ponders the mysteries, M asks another and wonders what they are looking at. Outside the ship, an enormous Acanti Skywhale looms over them with its mouth open, as if it were about to swallow them whole. The Acanti looks like no other before it, though, as it has numerous, strange growths up its side.
The team enters the Acanti and leaves their ship to discover many structures inside the beast that appear to be made up of other Acanti. As they look around, M telepathically tells Rachel it looks familiar and she agrees; it looks very similar to the place they saw in Deathbird’s mindscape. If Deathbird came from here, then it may be where her injuries were treated, which would explain the memories of medical procedures.
D’Keth says he in unfamiliar with Earth etiquette but the Shi’ar consider it rude to psi-talk. Rachel snaps back at him and replies she isn’t going to listen to a lecture on manners from the species who wiped out her family. D'Keth is a little dumbstruck and, after a few moments, informs them that the facility seems abandoned and that they should all go. Rachel walks off and tells him to leave their shuttle, as she is staying to find out what Deathbird was going there and who sent the Sidri. Psylocke telepathically asks if they should split up and Rachel confirms, saying they will cover more ground but they should maintain the psi-link.
As Rachel makes her way down one of the enormous and ornate corridors, D’Keth catches up with her. Escorted by a couple of soldiers, he tells Rachel that channeling her resentment towards him because of the action of a few of his species is racist. She tells him that’s not the reason. She can’t read his thoughts but, every time she brings up her family, she gets a hit off him. When he asks if that is why she brings it up so much, she replies that she figures a stray thought will leak out or that eventually he will just be straight with her. He asks what she means by straight and she says she meant why the massacre of her family seems to make him uncomfortable. After a few moments, he looks down and tells her it is because it was his idea.
Elsewhere, M tells Psylocke that one of them should have gone with her, as she is in a state. Psylocke says Rachel can take care of herself but they don’t need psychic powers to see she has a lot of unresolved issues where the Shi’ar are concerned. As they continue to walk through the ship, M says Psylocke seems to know herself around. Psylocke says that she saw it in Deathbird’s memories and, as they walk into a strange room, she also saw this in Deathbird’s mind. M said she assumed Deathbird had been receiving medical treatment but, after looking around at the room at the weird creatures in tubes, she realizes that Deathbird was being experimented on.
Back on the space station, Manifold Tyger approaches an unconscious Storm and checks her pulse. As he reaches down to her, he reveals a tattoo on his arm that matches the strange glyph seen in Deathbird’s memories.
On the Acanti, Rachel turns to D’Keth and telekinetically slams him across the room and into a wall. One of the other women asks if she is alright as they felt a psi-spike, but she simply dismisses them. Rachel tells D’Keth that she was just getting to know her family when he had them slaughtered. D’Keth points out he didn’t give the order but Rachel retorts and says he gave the advice, though. He says the universe was in danger and it was his responsibility to devise a way to protect it.
Rachel says that the Phoenix did return to Earth and that it was split into five pieces. It entered five people, none of whom carried the genome he had been worried about. She congratulates him for slaughtering innocent people, including women and children, for absolutely nothing. He says it is his burden to carry, and Rachel becomes noticeably angry and comments that it really seems to keep him up at night.
Before she can do anything else, though, Psylocke informs her that the station was doing genetic experiments and modifications to combine species. As a swarm of strange creatures descend from the ceiling towards Rachel and D’Keth, Psylocke continues and says she thinks the experiments are still here.


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On the Acanti Skywhale, when she and D’Keth are attacked by a swarm of strange, alien creatures, Rachel telepathically contacts Psylocke and M to let them know. M looks around the laboratories and tells Rachel that it’s empty where they are, to which Rachel retorts that it’s because all the creatures are with her. As they fight against the hordes of aliens, Rachel tells Psylocke that they are the same creatures they saw in Deathbird’s memories. They look like a mixtape of the universe’s biggest and baddest.
Almost overcome by the sheer number of them, Rachel lets out a telekinetic burst, blasting them all away… temporarily. As they soon amass again, she comments that it must be every freakazoid on the station. D’Keth is overcome by the aliens and calls out to Rachel for help but she simply ignores his pleas. Help comes as M punches the creatures off him and Psylocke helps him to his feet. Psylocke asks Rachel if she is alright and wonders why she didn’t help D’Keth when he asked.
On another strange, alien ship far away, Sharada Darthri is summoned before a group of holograms. The woman, adorned in a long shawl and dress, is remarkably beautiful except for her eyes, which appear to be that of a Brood. One of the holographic people tells her she has some accounting to do but Sharada solemnly replies that she doesn’t by her reckoning. The holograms each speak in turn and tell her that a Shi’ar Warbird has found her laboratory and that discretion was supposed to be the key. The Providian Order’s existence is never allowed to rise to a whisper but now they have been found. Their agent on the Peak has informed them that Deathbird escaped and, worse still, she is with child. The information has come to them late and they should have been told Deathbird was at large.
When asked for her side, Sharada tells the others that she is an equal member of the collective and should not be called into account, as she is charged with a magnificent purpose. She lists off numerous alien races and declares the Order’s creed is to bring uniformity to the universe. Ability and potential will no longer be the province of a single race. To that end, she has created new species, the first since their gods flirted with the notion of creation.
One of the others tells Sharada not to preen but she replies she was simply reminding them of what they requested her to do. Another of the group angrily tells her they requested secrecy and discretion but now all her work is about to be undone. Sharada says that her objective was only to create. One of the others turns her words on her and says she knows better than most that, to create, she often has to destroy. He then commands that she clean up her mess by any means necessary.
Back on the Acanti, the fight is over and the alien creatures lie dead on the floor. As they inspect the creatures, Psylocke tells D’Keth he didn’t have to kill them but replies they did as it was their duty. Lifting up one of the creatures’ legs, M looks at a marking on it and comments that she thought tattoos were an Earth thing. Finding the same marking on another creature, Psylocke tells her that it is a branding creature by genetic engineering, as opposed to burning it on.
Rachel asks if the symbol looks familiar and D’Keth inspects one for himself and says it is disturbing. Before he can finish his sentence, Rachel cuts him off and tells him if she was talking to him then he would know because her fists would be pounding on his face. Psylocke is a little taken aback by that but Rachel tells her it is a long story. Rachel then goes back on what she said and says that it is actually quite simple: D’Keth was the one who came up with the idea of wiping out her family. Psylocke puts her hand on Rachel’s shoulder and tells her she is so sorry. Rachel changes the subject though and points out the symbol they see here was also seen when they looked in Deathbird’s memories. D’Keth tells them it is the symbol of the Providian Order but, when questioned, says he has no idea who they are. He says they are merely a rumor and he only knows of them by their sigil.
On the Peak, Cecilia reiterates her previous observation that Deathbird is pregnant, but Jubilee and Brand are having a hard time getting their heads around the idea. Jubilee asks who the father is and Brand guesses that it was Vulcan, Deathbird’s husband. Brand radios down to Manifold Tyger and asks what the status of the engine is. He replies that it is working but Storm is unconscious and he suggests Cecilia meet them in the medical bay.
Jubilee wonders how Deathbird is still pregnant, given that she must have been knocked up ages ago. Cecilia suggests that since Deathbird was placed in stasis after her accident, then the baby must have also been subject to the stasis. Brand asks if Cecilia thinks that whoever was after Deathbird was after the baby, but Celia replies that she is just a doctor, not a detective.
As Manifold Tyger carries Storm to med bay, he receives a call of Sharada, who enquires about his current status. He tells her he is on the Peak and she replies that she needs him to kill everyone on board.
On the Acanti, the group watches a holographic replay of when Deathbird escaped from her captivity. With tubes attached, Deathbird leaps at the scientists around her, vowing revenge and slashing at them with her talons. Rachel asks for the program to be frozen and they realize that she had escaped from the scientists before heading to the Peak. They rewind the hologram to before she escaped and spot Sharada observing Deathbird in her stasis tank. M wonders who she is and spots that Sharada has Brood eye, to which Rachel adds that she seems to be in charge. One of the scientists in the hologram tells Sharada that Deathbird’s vitals are spiked and, if they proceed, they risk permanent injury. Sharada informs him that Deathbird is merely a vessel and the life of the child is what’s important. Getting up close to Deathbird’s stasis tube, she says that a child with the combined power of Deathbird and Emperor Vulcan would be instrumental to their cause. Watching the scene, Psylocke wonders what cause they mean and asks for the video to be moved forward a few days.
D’Keth takes the opportunity to address the unfinished business between him and Rachel but she squarely tells him it isn’t the time or the place. He ignores her and says he acted with the best interests of the Shi’ar Empire and the entire universe. She says he killed her family because he thought the Phoenix could only symbiote with her geneline. Now that the Phoenix has bonded with five different people, none of whom carry a single strand of Grey DNA, she wonders if he cares to rethink his theory of familicide. Before she can get a response, the Shi’ar soldier operating the hologram says he has isolated the moment of Deathbird’s awakening.
The group watches as the scientists crowd around an unconscious Deathbird as she lies on a table, plugged in to numerous machines with wires and tubes. They prepare to splice Kree DNA into the baby and marvel at the possible outcome. As the process starts, the scientists note a cortex spike coming from Deathbird and are alarmed when she suddenly wakes up. They try to subdue her with drugs but they are too slow and she rips many of the tubes out before lunging at them in a feral rage. The video is stopped at the point they saw earlier as Deathbird attacks and kills the scientists. Despite knowing what they know, they are still left with the lingering question as to who the Providian Order are.
On the Peak, Cecilia meets with Manifold Tyger in the med bay and sees Storm unconscious on a table. Cecilia notices there are strangulation marks on her neck and asks Tyger what happened. Tyger tells her it was his doing and that he is going to have to kill her to now. With his teeth bared and claws out, he advances on Cecilia.


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As Manifold Tyger pins Cecilia Reyes against the wall, he vows to make her death quick and says that when the vertebrae are crushed they make a satisfying popping sound. When Cecilia mutters something, Tyger asks her to speak up, as he couldn’t hear with his hand crushing her windpipe. Cecilia tells him to go to Hell, as she unleashes a force field, pushing Tyger away. Elsewhere on the Peak, Brand wonders where Cecilia and Storm have gotten to, as she hasn’t heard from them for a while. One of the SWORD agents informs Brand that the life signs of Storm and Cecilia are both in med bay but they just flat lined. In med bay, despite Cecilia’s best efforts, Manifold Tyger managed to slash her across the torso with his claws. As she lies bleeding out on the floor, Storm lies on a nearby table, unconscious.
On board her ship, Sharada Darthri of the Providian Order announces she is an artist of genetics. Her work is that of deities, combining new species to create new ones. In front of an army of Broodskrulls, horrific creatures made from Skrulls and Brood, she tells them they are her most beautiful creations.
In the Acanti Skywhale, the Providian Order’s secret laboratory, the X-Men and D’Keth discuss the organization. D’Keth tells the women that the Order apparently counts a geneticist amongst its ranks, someone who is adept at splicing and combining alien genomes. One of the Shi’ar soldiers who was assessing the holographic recordings in the lab tells D’Keth that he has isolated another segment of recording. As they watch a hologram of Deathbird killing the scientists they notice someone with Sharada in the background. They instantly recognize him as Manifold Tyger, who is on board the Peak.
On the Peak, Tyger has killed more SWORD agents and has now armed himself with a number of guns. Jubilee tells Brand that she will go down to the med bay to check on her teammates, as they can’t be dead. She is the only one on the team who’s supposed to be dead, so she won’t allow the others to be too. As she reaches the door of the bridge, though, she comes face to face with Tyger, who blasts her across the room with one of his guns. Brand attacks him but he shrugs off her assault and tells her he was being deceptive as to where his true allegiance lay. Jubilee quickly recovers and attacks him from behind, biting into his neck and drawing blood.
On the Acanti, the X-Men watch the hologram as Deathbird attacks Tyger and vows to kill him ten times over. Sharada blasts her with a gun but it barely has an effect and Deathbird lunges at her, slashing her stomach. In a rage, Deathbird screams that she will kill the cat first, so she can bathe in his blood. Tyger grabs hold of Sharada and makes his escape through a tunnel that closes up behind him. Deathbird hits her fists on the wall before falling unconscious through exhaustion. As she passes out, she vows to hunt them both across the universe and to the edge of space. The recording ends and M says that it doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to figure out what happened next. Psylocke says that Deathbird would have had Tyger’s scent and obviously tracked him down. Rachel adds that she wasn’t fleeing to Earth, she was headed for the Peak for revenge.
On the Peak, Deathbird wakes up again and utters Manifold Tyger’s name. Cecilia, crawls across the floor towards Storm, holding her bleeding stomach. She checks Storm’s pulse and mutters that she has fifty-six micro-force fields holding herself together and she refuses to be the only one of them to make it through this.
As the Shi’ar ship races towards the Peak station at full speed, one of the soldiers on board tells Rachel they still cannot get any response from the space station. Psylocke tells her to remain calm but Rachel says that Tyger will kill everyone on board and, if he doesn’t, then Deathbird will. Psylocke telepathically tells her to calm down and notes that interacting with the Shi’ar has agitated her. Rachel tells her she’s fine but then threatens one of the soldiers to make the ship go faster.
Back on the Peak, Manifold Tyger throws Jubilee off him as Brand attacks him with her mutant power. He tells her that he is only following orders but, regardless of that, he will still take pleasure in snapping her neck. As he grabs Brand around the neck and lifts her up, she tells him to look behind him. He sneers at her and asks if she thinks he’s stupid enough to fall for that, but he is caught off guard when Deathbird lunges at him. As Deathbird and Tyger fight, Brand helps Jubilee up and the two women wonder whether to break the two up. Before they can act, Cecilia radios through and tells them that Storm is dying. Brand seems pleased as the monitors had them both listed as dead, so dying is a significant upgrade from that. As Cecilia continues to give Storm CPR, she tells Brand that she is internally bleeding and Storm has gone into cardiac arrest. Upon hearing this, Jubilee immediately rushes off towards the med bay and Brand turns her attention back to the fighting Tyger and Deathbird.
Jubilee makes it to the med bay and is shocked to see Storm’s state. Cecilia tells her what happened and that she is worried Storm may have already sustained brain damage. Jubilee wonders whether to turn her into a vampire, as un-dead is better than dead. Cecilia reminds her that Storm had been turned into one years before and did not care for the experience. Jubilee looks for a defibrillator but Cecilia tells her Storm shorted it out with her lightning when she restarted the ship’s engines. There is a defibrillator on the Dove, though, but when the Sidri attacked the ship was jettisoned into space and is now floated some distance away from the Peak.
Brand jumps into the fight and tells Tyger that, even though Deathbird wants to kill him, it will be her that will whoop his tuchus. With a swipe of his paw, he flings her across the room but doesn’t notice Deathbird behind him, who slashes him across the back, drawing blood. Deathbird wastes no time and pins him down, slashing at his chest and demanding to know where his master is. He asks what makes her think he is less afraid of her than he is of his master.
She continues her assault, preparing to give him a reason but her hand is stopped telekinetically by Rachel. The rest of the X-Men, along with the Shi’ar, race into the room and Deathbird yells that she has a bloodright under Shi’ar law and she is owed vengeance. She says an attack on one’s family is an attack one one’s self, a sentiment that rings familiar with Rachel. Still holding Deathbird’s hand up, Rachel says that they still need answers out of Manifold Tyger and asks if she will behave. Deathbird looks at Rachel and says that if there was anyone who understands her plight then it would be her. Deathbird relents and gets up, allowing Tyger to be apprehended by M and a Shi’ar soldier.
As Tyger is escorted away to be interrogated, he tells Brand his master won’t give her time to do it, as there will already be a contingency plan in place. He tells her he isn’t the only minion she employs, causing Brand to wonder if there is another mole on the station. Tyger corrects her and says he said minions. Outside the Peak, thousands upon thousands of Broodskrulls swarm around the station, preparing to attack.


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Exogenus part 5
On the Peak space station, Rachel sends out a telepathic message in the hopes of contacting Beast, who is back on Earth. She tells him the comms are down and they are in a bit of trouble and could do with some help. As the three women put on space suits, M comments that Manifold Tyger said the word minions and that can’t be good. Psylocke tries to contact Cecilia and Storm but cannot get through. Rachel continues her distress message to Beast and tells him they are under attack from the Providian Order, who are the ones the pregnant Deathbird escaped from. Apparently the Order likes to experiment on aliens with gene splicing.
As they climb out of the airlock and into space, M wonders Tyger meant by minion, as she seriously doubts they will be getting attacked by the little yellow dudes from Despicable Me. Her question is answered when they spot and army of Broodskrulls descending upon them. As the women quickly go to work and attack the aliens, they note that they appear to be a strange mixture of Brood and Skrulls. As they hack and slash at the aliens, they suddenly notice Jubilee fly by in her own spacesuit. Surprised to see their teammate in space, Psylocke notes that she seems to be headed towards the Dove, the X-Men’s ship, and M promptly follows her.
On the space station, Manifold Tyger is placed in shackles and Brand tells the crew that every available body is needed to help the X-Men. The station cannot stand another hull breach. Brand turns her attention to Tyger and tells him she is going to be snowed under with paperwork, which will force her to explain why one of her crew was a mole for the Providian Order. Whilst she doesn’t know what the organization is, she thankfully has six X-Men on board, three of whom are telepaths. When all of the drama is over, she will let them take his brain out for a spin so that they can learn as much as possible about the Order.
Tyger taunts Brand by saying she will learn soon enough as “she’ll” be coming right here. Brand demands to know who the women is he is referring to but, before he can answer, Deathbird suddenly leaps into the middle of them and slashes Tyger’s throat. He drops down dead on the floor in a pool of blood as the nearby Shi’ar soldiers point their weapons at Deathbird. Brand gestures for the men to lower the weapons as Deathbird explains that Tyger would have been left to live as long as he had information. Brand replies that he would have because they don’t eviscerate people, to which Deathbird coldly retorts that she does. She continues and tells Brand that she knows everything that the X-Men would have learned from him anyway. Brand asks for Deathbird to tell everything quickly before Tyger’s master arrives, but one of the SWORD agents informs them both that it may be too late. Outside, the enormous Acanti Skywhale that acted as the Providian Order’s laboratory looms over the Peak.
On the Dove, M catches up with Jubilee and asks what she is doing. Jubilee starts to explain that Storm was attacked by Manifold Tyger but M reads her mind and finishes off the rest of the story. Outside, Rachel and Psylocke are in the thick of battle but they are alarmed by the appearance of the Skywhale. Thankfully, D’Keth’s ship turns around and starts blasting the monstrous creation with its weapons, diverting its attention from the Peak. The appearance of the Skywhale gives the Broodskrulls and burst of confidence and they fight harder, soon overpowering the two women.
Jubilee and M return to the Peak with a defibrillator just in time, as Cecilia had resorted to using micro-force fields to keep Storm’s lungs and heart functioning. They give Cecilia the device and stand back as she uses it to try and restart Storm’s heart.
Despite their valiant efforts, the crew aboard the Peak, as well as Rachel and Psylocke, are all overcome by the sheer number of Broodskrulls and they are captured. When D’Keth learns that his ship has also been disabled, he realizes their only option now is to surrender to the enemy. The various individuals are gathered together and escorted onto the Skywhale to meet with Sharada. The leader of the Providian Order tells Deathbird that she has been the cause of considerable inconvenience. Deathbird calls her a Brood wench and threatens to claw her eyes out. Unphased by the threat, Sharada says that even she has forgotten her genetic heritage now, as she is a glorious tangle of all the varieties in the universe. D’Keth tells Sharada that her actions here and those of the Providian Order’s are an act of war against the Shi’ar Empire. Sharada replies that his threats are meaningless, given that none of them will be leaving the ship alive.
Sharada addresses Deathbird and tells her that she, along with her Shi’ar brothers, will be the first to die. She has enough genetic samples to work with and afterwards she will return to the work she was doing before Deathbird escaped. The mutants will remain alive for as long as it serves her though. Deathbird is infuriated by Sharada’s words and she breaks free of her restraints and lunges at the woman. Before she can strike Sharada, though, one of the Broodskrulls hits her with a blast of energy and she falls to the floor. Rachel and Psylocke are powerless to help as there is a device somewhere on the ship that blocks their telekinesis. Sharada stands over Deathbird and tells the woman that if she insists on acting out then she will have to extract the baby from her sooner than scheduled.
Just then, Storm, M, Jubilee and Cecilia burst through the ceiling and dive towards the group. Rachel tells them there is a TK blocker somewhere, at which point M shows them the very device and crushes it with her fists. With their powers restored, Rachel and Psylocke break free and leap into action. The Broodskrulls start attacking and the women do as much as they can to fend them off. Rachel makes it to Deathbird, who is in bad shape and worrying about her baby. Psylocke tells Brand to help Rachel, which earns a surprised and annoyed response from the SWORD agent at being given an order. Brand says if there were reinforcements still on the Peak then they would have gotten over to them by now.
Jubilee notices that Sharada is making an escape and so she leaps out of the fight and chases after her. Before she can catch up, though, Sharada sets some Super-Broodskrulls on her and Jubilee is suddenly faced with a fist full of flames. D’Keth suddenly appears behind her and dices at the Super-Broodskrull, just as Jubilee is knocked away. The alien pins D’Keth down and is about to kill him when Rachel finds the group. For a few seconds, she remembers D’Keth admitting his role in the deaths of her family and wonders if she should save him. Her morality prevails and she blasts the alien off him, killing it and surprising D’Keth. Sharada slipped away in the chaos but, as she runs down the corridors, she is met by Storm and Cecilia and finally comes to a halt.
Afterwards, once SWORD have taken control of the Skywhale, Brand talks to Storm. She says there are a lot of Broodskrulls to take into custody, as well as the numerous of genetic creations that are being kept on there. Storm asks what will happen to them and Brand sarcastically replies she has no idea what her top-secret science agency would want with them. Brand then informs her that the Shi’ar have made a formal request to take Deathbird into custody. Storm replies that Cecilia has determined that she would need to stay on the Peak, given the nature of her pregnancy as well as the numerous injuries she recently sustained. Cecilia herself had to have surgery to deal with her own wounds and ended up walking Jubilee through it, as she could not operate on herself.
D'Keth finds Rachel and offers her the Order of K’thari, an amulet, because she saved the life of a weather council member. Angrily, Rachel slaps the amulet out of his hand and tells him that he is deluded if he thought she wanted anything off him. He tells her she spared his life rather than take it to fulfill her vengeance and, as such, he is in her debt. She comments that she finds it funny that he could care less about the slaughter of her family but her saving his life counts as honor. When he asks how he can repay her, Rachel grabs his head an implants the memories of the moment her whole family was murdered by the Death Commandos. Stunned by the emotions it evokes, he asks how she can go on with the memories of it all.
A few days later, Rachel stands before the graves of her family and tells them she doesn’t know if she did the right thing saving his life. She tried to be the person she thinks they wanted her to be and she hopes that is enough.