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Schism - part 1: The X-Treme Files
In the kitchen of Rouge’s mansion, Sage and Bishop discuss moving back to Xavier's Mansion.  Bishop expresses his desire to move back into the mansion, while Sage explains why she has her doubts.  Bishop, turning to Sage, questions why she doubts Xavier.  Sage explains that her code-named defines who she is.  She explains that she has to analyze and come up with conclusions before she can trust anyone, or any situation.  Bishop asks Sage to sit down so they can discuss the matter further.
Sage opens her laptop and a picture of Xavier's head appears.  She explains the Xavier started his school on a mission to help mutants everywhere but now questions Xavier and his motives.  Xavier’s psychic twin, Cassandra Nova, Sage continues, succeeded in annihilating Genosha and almost destroyed the X-Men, though she was reportedly defeated.  Bishop, putting a wineglass to his mouth, asks Sage if she has her doubts about the report.  Sage, standing to her feet, tells Bishop that, ever since Cassandra Nova almost defeated the X-Men, Charles Xavier has changed!
Bishop, defending his mentor, tells Sage that the world has changed and so has the global situation.  Going on to explain, Bishop tells her that Xavier is just adapting to the world he is in now.  Sage, sipping on her wine, tells Bishop that in California the mutants there did not want to learn, they wanted to dominate!  Sage explains that what she sees from Charles is a different attitude.  His attitude is one of wanting to empower mutants and advancing the causes’ of mutants everywhere.  Questioning Bishop, she asks him what about everybody else?  Looking down at his arm, Bishop listens on. Sage asks Bishop how he would feel if it was his children that were becoming extinct?  Startled by a sudden sound, Sage and Bishop look back, regarding the clump that have just heard.  Bishop, asking Sage what the noise was, hears that it was Storm and she has just fallen.
Running up the stairs, Bishop calls out to Storm and asks if she is okay.  Sitting below her weight bench, Storm answers Bishop, telling him that she is just fine.  Looking at her more closely, Bishop notices she is bleeding.  Still asserting that she is fine, Sage explains that she can see that, if she continues at her pace, she is putting herself at a very significant risk.  Logan, helping Storm to her feet, tells Storm to slow down before she causes herself some real harm. Bishop asks Logan how Storm is doing.  He explains that her pace is better than expected.  Storm still agonizingly exclaims that her rehabilitation is taking far to long.  Logan, laying her on a nearby table, tells her that she is just paying the price for nearly dying.
Logan questions Bishop about his and Sage’s serious conversation that he was able to hear all the way up the stairs.  He tells Logan that he would like to accept Jean’s recent invitation to the mansion, but Sage is extremely paranoid about it. Logan, taking up for Sage, explains that she is just acting within her nature.  Bishop questions Logan if he thinks Sage has the right to be paranoid.  Logan, massaging Storms back, tells Bishop that she should be concerned, because things seem to be moving too fast.  So, they either ride the wave or drown beneath it, Wolverine goes on to say.  Bishop, looking back toward Sage, asks Logan what they should do.  Apologizing to Bishop, Logan exclaims that the call is not up to him, but it is up to them!  Bishop wonders aloud towards Sage why she seems so distant?  She explains that she has been watching a police report about a murder… and the killer is a mutant!
On the McKenna Glacier, a half-day drive up the coastal highway from Anchorage, Alaska, seven people are huddled together, dead, naked and frozen.  A police officer tells his sheriff that the victims are frozen together and they may need blowtorches to cut them out.  The Sheriff commands his deputies to set up a shelter and check the weather to see if they can work through the night.  Also, he commands them to call the state police to have them send their best forensic team out.  One of the deputies looks up to see a helicopter flying towards them.  He explains that he thinks the forensic team is in that helicopter.  The sheriff tells the others that it is not the forensic team, but it is the federal agents.
Bishop and Sage step off the helicopter and, immediately, Bishop greets Sheriff Mulder and introduces him to Sage.  The sheriff explains that the crime is local and they can handle it on their own.  Bishop, flashing his badge, explains that, since he heard the perp was a mutant, it pretty much mandates his involvement.  Sage, questioning the Sheriff, asks him how he plans on dealing with this murdering mutant after he or she is found.  Quietly, Bishop asks Sage to ease down on her tension.  After, Sheriff Mulder asks the two of them if they can do better, Bishop explains that capturing mutants is their job, so no disrespect is meant to him and his associates.
Sage explains to the Sheriff that his recent reports are sparse on the details about the crime.  Sheriff Mulder, talking to Bishop, exclaims that Sage seems low on her tact.  Mulder explains that the situation is very delicate and involves a very prominent local resident.  He also explains that the resident was not home when his guests and employees of the house were killed.  As the sheriff walks away from the two X-Men, he tells them to stay away from that resident for their own sakes!  Sage, calling to the sheriff, asks him to give them more details about the murder.  Not looking back, he tells Sage and Bishop to talk to his deputies.
Turning towards the victims, Bishop asks Sage to give him a rundown about the victims.  She explains that there are seven victims; four men, three women. One of them a host, three of them guests and the others are locals.  She explains that their approximate cause of death appears to be extreme hypothermia.  Bishop and Sage, wearing their red-tech glasses, look over the situation.  Bishop, looking over the bodies, wonders aloud if the crime was premeditated or an act of passion.  Sage explains that she has insufficient data.  Bishop asks her if he should blast them out with his mutant power but  Sage tells him that they should keep a low-profile and not freak out the local police.  Bishop, taking off his glasses, exclaims that he wishes there was another way to help the victims, because the housemaids look barely seventeen, while another guy seems to be positively ancient.
Miles away, at the scene of the crime, a couple of police officers explain to Bishop that the only bodies found were at the scene where they had just come from.  He goes on to say that there are no bodies in the mansion where the people were from.  Looking at the house, it seems to be destroyed within and without.  One officer explains that the perp did a thorough job.  He explains that the perp soaked the interior with gasoline and somehow found a way to torch the main oil tank and the propane tank as well.  Apologizing for the darkness, the officer explains that the lights were destroyed in the fire.  Finishing, or at least thinking he is finishing his tour, he tells Bishop and Sage that he will see them tomorrow when the sun comes back out.  Bishop and Sage continue towards the basement, telling the deputy that they can manage on their own.  The deputy turns to the other officer, complaining, telling him that he hopes they don’t take much longer.  The other officer wonders aloud how they can see in the dark with no light?
Looking through their glasses, the two X-Men use them to make their way through the pitch-black basement.  Bishop asks Sage to share the information she is gathering.  Sage, looking with her glasses, sees what used to be shackles and now is just a big pile of molten metal.  Sage tells Bishop that somebody went to a lot of trouble to hide the shackles.  Sage explains that there are multiple sets of shackles and each one of them contains multiple traces of fresh blood.  She goes on to say that the bodies they found frozen to death had no visible wounds.  She tells Bishop that people were imprisoned here and removed before the fire.  Looking at a pile of clothes, Bishop asks Sage what she thinks about them.
Outside the mansion, as the police officers get into their vehicle, Bishop notices two more sets of clothes; a tuxedo and an evening gown lying on the grounds of the estate.  Searching a nearby car, they notice more clothes.  After making their rounds through the mansion, they find more clothes in the mansion’s pool.  Sage mentions that, if they checked the victim’s lungs, they would probably find traces of water.  Bishop explains that the victims seem to have been dumped in the pool before deposited on the glacier.  Sage tells Bishop that the perp was extremely thorough, because who knows someone might have survived on the glacier but, being naked and soaking wet, their fate was sealed!
Later and a few miles north of the crime scene, Bishop and Sage look out and watch the Aurora Borealis, Bishop marvels at the beauty of it.  Bishop, changing the subject, asks Sage if her analysis of the crime has given her any more information about the subject, except the fact that he is a teleporter?  Sage explains that none of the DNA they found on the clothes matches any of the blood they found on the shackles.
The two X-Men draw closer to a cabin where Sage believes a teleporter has been.  She explains that she can see the unique signature that a teleporter gives off through her high tech glasses.  Bishop wonders aloud about the contrast between the lodge and mansion and how the people that lived here lived close to the poverty line.  Walking towards a family burial-lot, Sage exclaims that the ground is frozen solid, yet someone took the effort to dig fresh graves.  Asking for Bishop’s help, Sage tells him that they need to exhume the bodies.  Using his mutant power Bishop plasma blasts through one of the graves.  While Bishop blasts through the snow and the dirt, he tells Sage that, after he is finished, she owes him a good explanation.  Looking down into the grave Sage tells Bishop to consider what he sees as the first installment.  In shock, Bishop asks, “my God what happened to them?”  In the grave, the two X-Men see a skull, mummified.
Lowering Sage into the grave, Bishop asks if she's sure about what she is doing.  Sage explains to Bishop that she needs to analyze, to make sure that her suspect is the one truly responsible.  Bishop leans over the grave, watching as his teammate crouches over the coffin of the recently dead.  Sage’s eyes widen in shock and horror, as she is barely able to mumble out, my God!  Bishop pulls his colleague out of the grave and she tells him that she has what they need.  Bishop tries quieting Sage, as he can see that she is visibly shaken.  Trying to hide her shock, she tells Bishop that she is only trying to focus her attention on finding the true suspect and his/her reasoning behind the murders.
In the jeep, Bishop pulls out a thermos full of coffee and offers some to Sage.  She tells him that she has seen worse than that before.  Bishop tries to ease Sage’s ego, telling her that she is only a human reacting like one.  Sage tells Bishop that she cannot function as Sage if she isn’t in complete control.  Bishop, looking towards her, asks if being Sage is worth the price.  Sage, visibly shaking, tells Bishop that, at moments like now, absolutely, it’s worth the price. Bishop leaves the jeep to place the dirt back over the grave.  He places the tombstone back up as well.
Getting back into the jeep, Sage explains that the bodies showed markings of being tortured.  Sage tells Bishop that whomever killed them at the end was doing it out of mercy, not in anger.  Bishop, thinking aloud, wonders if the other deaths were out of revenge or self-defense?  Sage explains to Bishop all that she was able to gather from family photographs and the victims DNA.  She tells Bishop that the suspect is a sibling of the tortured victims and the tortured victims were also latent mutants.  She tells Bishop that they seemed to have been used by someone who wanted to catalyze their abilities.  Bishop tells her that the information she gathered gives their suspect a plausible cause for what he has done.
Sage tells him that what is sad for the suspect is that he couldn’t have picked a tougher person to make angry than Elias Bogan, who owns the lodge the suspect attacked.  Sage tells Bishop, as she looks down in deep thought, that the guests that were killed were intimate friends and associates of his and he will take it very personal.  Bishop leans over Sage, as he sits in the driver’s seat, preparing to leave, and tells her that it seems she knows Mr. Bogan far to well!  Sage tells Bishop that she knew him a long time ago but, right now, the two of them really need to find their suspect.  Bishop asks her if she has any ideas of where to look for him.  Answering his question, she asks him where would he run to if he was a mutant on the run?
The next day, on the other side of the continent, the two X-Men pull up outside of Xavier’s Institute for Higher Learning.  The two X-Men approach the mansion’s gates and call out to the mansion’s security their identity and ask it for entrance.  Bishop, after not getting a reply, yells at the security box that they are X-Men, so they need to have the damn gate open now!  Sage, teasing Bishop, asks if yelling at the gate makes him feel better.  Bishop tells Sage that he thinks Emma is playing games with them.  If she is the one in control, answers Sage.  Bishop blasts the gates open, as the two X-Men discuss if their suspect even knew what he/she was doing when his/her family was killed.
The two X-Men walk up to the front door steps and Bishop comments that he thought they would have engaged more resistance by now.  Sage, teasingly, suggests that Bishop may have scared the children away with his power.  Bishop opens the door to the mansion… Surprised, Bishop and Sage’s eyes are opened and they both realize that they are still in front of the mansions gates.  Bishop begins to laugh at how easily they were tricked, but Sage does not see the humor in it.  Preparing to reenter the gates, Bishop tells Sage that he will have some rough things to do to the person that just duped them when he finds them!
Opening their eyes again, they realize they did not move.  Sage, commenting on their predicament, says the two of them seem to be running in a maze, thanks to whoever their attacker is.  Behind the two X-Men, a black, fog-like mist begins to surround them and Bishop warns Sage of the oncoming attack.  The two X-Men go into a crouching position near their car and Bishop cries out that he can’t see!
In the shadows, camouflaged by the estate bushes, the students of the school congratulate each other on their attack on the two X-Men.  Five students watch as Bishop and Sage cower in fear around their car.  One of the children, congratulating Gloom on his scaring tactics, tells an elephant-headed student, named Tantra, to attack them next and make Ms. Frost proud.  The mutant seems to send sparklers out of his hands towards the X-Men.  Entranced, Bishop begins to “make-out” with a nearby tree, per Tantra’s bidding.
A young boy named Zach begins to pet a rodent of his and he tells the others that it is his turn to torture the intruders.  Twin girls watch as Zach releases his rodent, commanding, “SQUEAL,” as he releases his pet.  He talks about how Ms. Frost told them that, whatever they did, to save something special for the lady. The rodent begins to grow in size and glow a light-green color.  The rodent attaches itself to the back of Sage, with Zach explaining about his powers to the others. He says that he will use his powers to overlay his pet's characteristics onto his target.  Sage crawls over to Bishop, squealing like a rodent, seeming trapped by Zach’s mutant powers.
Coming out of the bushes, the students, over ten of them, laugh at how easily they were able to defeat the two intruders.  The children all say in unison, “We ROCK! We RULE! We own XAVIER’S SCHOOL!” Bishop, while kissing the tree, mutters to Sage that he is bored of playing the victim and he seriously wants to start kicking tail.  Sage, continuing to squeal and act mouse-like, tells Bishop that they only need to act like victims till they know Emma is bored, to give them a perfect opportunity to strike.  She tells Bishop that another good thing is that they are able to gauge the students of Xavier’s abilities for further information.
Inside the mansion, Emma telepathically watches as Sage and Bishop humiliate themselves.  She seems to be unaware of their ruse and orders the students to deposit the two intruders on the other side of the gates, away from the mansion. A young girl with the ability to stretch her body wraps herself around Bishop, preparing to deposit him over the mansion’s gates.  Bishop, stopping his ruse, tells the young girl that she isn’t going to hurt him, as he begins to tie her around a nearby tree.  Sage grabs a hold of Zach and another mutant, telling them that their attack is now over.  One of the mutants named Silicon attacks Sage, telling her that they cannot hold him.  Bishop, stopping the battle, wraps his large jacket over the mutant.
After the battle, Bishop tells the other kids that the two of them played nice with them, but if they get out of hand again the two of them will not go so easy on them another time.  Sage, trying to get Bishop’s attention, tells him that if he is done scaring the children, she has found their suspect. Bishop and Sage converge on the young boy.  Bishop asks the child his name and he answers that it is Jeffrey Garrett!  Sage, looking towards Bishop, tells him that his mutant signature matches that of the teleporting trail they have been following.
Garret tells them that he does not know what they are talking about and is surprised when Bishop tells him that they were just at the McKenna Glacier in Alaska.  Waving his hand in front of him and his eyes glowing, Garret causes Bishop and Sage to disappear, leaving their clothes behind.  He screams out that Ms. Frost said he’d be safe here at the school and he will not let them take him!  Standing above the two X-Men’s clothes,Jeffrey watches as the smoke from their departure hisses.


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Schism - part 2: Broken Faith
A news report states that the top news story is the recent homicide that happened in Alaska. The victims are seven associates of a man named Elias Bogan, the chief of them is a man named Oliver Ryland. He was the chief council to Bogan and was among the victims taken from Bogan’s hunting lodge. The news reporter states that the Bogan Group has released a statement to the media of their desire that the perp is found and brought to justice, swiftly. Going to another live feed, the reporter shows a man by the name of Sheriff Gideon Troy, who is the Sheriff of Laramie County. The Sheriff states to the media questioning him that muties think they can get away with anything these days and he is there to make sure that does not happen. Switching to another picture, the reporter shows an actual picture of the believed suspect, along with his family. They show Jeffrey Garret surrounded by his father and younger sister on his right and his mother and brother to his left. Trying to lighten the subject, the reporter changes feed to two mutants who have just appeared in Times Square, New York… stark naked!
At Times Square, Bishop and Sage stand naked. Police officers wrap them in blankets to put them in their police vehicles and take them to a nearby police station. On television, the same reporter states that the two people are mutants, who are affiliated with the X-Men, and their names are Bishop and Sage. She informs her audience that the two X-Men were recently in Madripoor, when they helped stave off an alien invasion. Switching feeds once again, the reporter shows a lawyer named Evangeline Whedon, who is not only a mutant rights activist but also a mutant herself. Finishing her report, the reporter signs off by saying more will be reported as more information is gathered.
In the Midtown South Precinct House, 357 West 35th Street, Sage and Bishop dress in the clothes that the officers were able to scrounge up for them. For Bishop, it is a Spice Girls shirt, several sizes too small. The two talk about how they made a mistake in underestimating Garret, but at least he didn’t teleport them somewhere dangerous, just somewhere that their pride would be injured. Interrupting their conversation, Detective Cardones walks in, introducing himself and his partner, Detective Moran. Cardones tells Bishop that he knows who the two of them are, because after their war in Madripoor and their TIMES expose, the two of them are pretty famous. Bishop, trying to lighten the mood asks if there is any chance of cashing in on their fame for a new wardrobe?  Detective Moran, who seems to shrink next to Bishop, tells him that most clothes don’t come in his size. She finishes by saying that most people do not come in his size either.
Cardones, getting serious, asks Bishop and Sage to answer why a Sheriff from the McKenna Glacier would be calling him, asking why two mutants were just there claiming to be feds. The Detective tells the two X-Men that it doesn’t look good for them, because their recent stunt makes them prime suspects in the Bogan’s estate murders. Bishop and Sage stand apart from the detectives, as they sit and lean on a nearby table. Bishop tells the Detectives that the Sheriff is wrong, because they want to see the killer brought to justice just as much as he does. Questioning Bishop, Cardones asks Bishop if he is a COP or not?  Bishop replies that he and Sage are just as committed to the law as they are. Cardones, apologizing for sounding offensive, asks the two X-Men why he should believe them?  Sage answers him that it would be in their best interest to believe them, because the two of them can get into places no normal human can.
Cardones asks them if they believe the kid may be hiding at the Xavier Institute?  Bishop tells Cardones that he isn’t sure, but he’d really like to find out the answers to those questions himself. Not looking at either Sage or Bishop, Moran tells the two of them that they are there to figure those things out, not vigilantes like them. Sage asks Moran how she plans on dealing with the powers she would have to face there?  Sage continues on to say that she and Bishop could enter the mansion with little resistance and cause less of a scene, so the police need her and Bishop’s help. Moran tells Sage that she seems full of herself…
Interrupting them, another detective busts in.  He tells Moran and Cardones that their help is needed outside of the precinct. Moran and Cardones run out the door. On the way, Moran wonders what they should do with their two detainees? Cardones tells her that, if the two of them are legit, they will stay where they are and, if they were going to leave, they could have forced their way out before now. After the two detectives departure, Bishop wonders aloud what is happening outside. Sage tells Bishop that, if they have patience, they’ll probably find out shortly.
In front of the Precinct, a large crowd has gathered, protesting against mutants. In the middle of the crowd is a tiny group of Mutant Rights activists, who are becoming more and more surrounded by an extremely aggressive anti-mutant group. Some of the anti-mutant people cry out that Earth is for humans and the only good genome is a pure genome. Several in the crowd carry signs reading anti-mutant slurs. The pro-mutant group cries out that they are there peaceably and do not wish to fight. The lady in charge of the pro-mutant group is the lawyer Evangeline Whedon. She seems not able to control some of her group members yelling back threatening remarks. These remarks spark more anger from the anti-mutant crowd, who begin to discuss ways to hurt the pro-mutant crowd. Throwing up a brick another rioter hits it into the crowd of peaceful picketers.
In the meantime, Detective Cardones has made his way to Whedon. He asks her to please leave before the riot turns worse then it already has. Before she has a chance to answer, Cardones is struck by the flying brick, knocking him into Whedon’s arms. Whedon cries out for a doctor, but she is shocked and scared to see the detective’s blood seep over her hand. She cries out the change is starti…. Instantly, she turns into a giant red dragon, throwing civilians everywhere. A police officer cries out that Whedon has Cardones and the others should open fire on the monster to save Cardones’ life!
In the precinct, Bishop and Sage wonder what all the noise and commotion is going on outside.  Running to a nearby window, Bishop asks Sage if she thinks the police will get mad at them for getting involved?  As Sage hurdles an office desk, she tells Bishop that, while they save their butts, they will not but, afterwards, absolutely. The two X-Men jump out the office window, around ten stories from the ground below.
As the two X-Men fall, Bishop wonders if the dragon he is fixing to land on breathes fire. Bishop lands on the dragon and orders Sage to take care of the civilians, while he takes care of the dragon. Sage saves Moran and Cardones first and the detective informs Sage that the dragon is not a monster, but a person that changed when his blood touched her. Bishop wonders, as he is being thrown against a building, how he can best fight the dragon when it seems to not be fighting logically but franticly. Below the dragon, Sage continues to pull victims out of the way. Sage thinks to herself that, even if the dragon is not intentionally hurting people, it still must be stopped. Sage stands near the tail of the dragon and begins to analyze the best nerve punch to place on the beast. She finds the spot and strikes.
Turning to Moran she asks for her weapon so she can put an end to the dragon’s rampage. Holding the gun inside the dragon’s ear, Sage prepares to shoot. Bishop, shouting at Sage to stop, tells her that Whedon did not start the riot and does not deserve death for the sins of others. Sage tells Bishop that her nerve strike will only last for a little while longer, then afterwards they may not get another chance to stop her. Bishop climbs on-top of the beast and tells Sage that they are not about executing the victim of a crime. Bishop talks to the dragon and tries to calm her down.
The dragon wakes up and promptly heads to the top of a skyscraper. Bishop continues to talk to Whedon inside the beast and tells her that she is better than the savageness of the beast and she can overcome it. A nearby helicopter reports to its headquarters that it has neared the target and soon they will be able to fire on the mutant. Bishop, still trying to calm Whedon, tells her that she isn’t a beast, but a human being. With that said, Whedon turns back into human form and the two combatants begin to fall towards the ground. Bishop, grabbing the lawyer, tells her to not be scared and the two of them crash into a car, with Bishop shielding Whedon’s body.
Minutes later, Bishop stands above Whedon on the steps of the Precinct’s doors. Surrounding Whedon is Bishop, Cardones, Moran, and Sage. Bishop explains that Whedon is what the mutant world calls a “trancer.” He explains that they are mutants whose power is stimulated by an outside source, in Whedon’s case the contact with blood triggers her metamorphous. Cardones, holding his head, states that he is shocked that the world is so complicated that it would cause mutants to not even be able to control themselves. Moran tells Whedon that someone in the crowd threw the brick and she is sure, with the amount of cameras around, they will be able to find the culprit.
Sitting on the steps, covered by a blue blanket, Whedon mutters her apologies. She tells the others that the world won’t see a brick-thrower, but they will see a huge red dragon that terrorized both police and rioters. Whedon tells Cardones that she must answer for her actions. Whedon stands to her feet, holding out her hands to be cuffed and tells Cardones that if they want humans to embrace mutants, mutants need to start paying for their crimes. Cardones tells Whedon that cuffs are not necessary and commands a few officers standing near them to take her upstairs for booking. After Whedon leaves, Bishop asks what the officers are going to do with them. Cardones, still holding the blood back on his head, tells them that they were misplaced in the riot. Moran tells the two free X-Men that they only have about twenty-four hours to solve the Garret situation and then they’ll have to step in. Shaking each other’s hands, Bishop tells Cardones that they will not let the detectives down.
An hour later, at the Xavier Institute in Salem Center, Emma Frost and Storm discuss Jeffrey Garret. Emma tells Storm that she appreciates her concern but no one asked Sage or Bishop to get involved. Storm and Emma are talking via their red-tech glasses and Emma, looking at a hologram of Storm, tells her that the two X-Men, judging from the news reports from Times Square seem to be causing their own trouble. Storm tells Emma that the boy, Garret, has been accused of murder and she wonders how Xavier’s school could be offering him refuge?
In New Orleans, Storm watches a hologram of Emma talking about the mutant, Jeffrey Garret. Emma tells Storm that they may involve lawyers to solve the problem, but it will be on their own terms. She also reminds Storm that she does not have official status with the X-Men anymore at Xavier’s school.
In Xavier’s school, Emma begins to paint her nails. She tells Storm that if her or any of her team tries to interfere with X-Men business, they will be dealt with accordingly. Storm asks Emma, what if the boy is guilty? Behind Emma, a little girl cries out that Storm is lying; Jeffrey would never hurt anyone. Emma, gazing behind her, tells Storm that she will have to finish their conversation another time, because the houses children are restless and she must attend to them. Standing up to leave the room, Emma looks to Storm and tells her to remember how it was to make Auntie Emma cross. Storm, beginning to walk towards Emma, tells her that she was thinking the same thing, just in reverse!  Emma takes off her glasses and Storm’s hologram fades away. Finishing the conversation, Emma tells Storm that Garret is under her protection and anyone foolish enough to cross that line will deal with her.
Back in New Orleans, at Rogue’s mansion, Storm turns to Wolverine and tells him that Emma hung up on her!  Storm also calls Emma a “slag,” which Logan agrees with. Storm leans against a nearby wall, asking Wolverine if Xavier is insane to trust her.  Wolverine tells Storm that Charles has trusted many people that some would say were evil. He tells her that he trusted Magneto, Rogue and even himself. Storm looks towards Logan and tells him that Emma stole her body and tore her way into the core of her mind. Logan tells Storm that he knows all that and he also knows Emma will use all of Storm’s fears against her. Storm, looking up at Wolverine, tells him that he does not understand how she feels. Logan tells Storm that she knows exactly what is wrong with her; he knows she is scared of Emma. He tells her that Emma knows that and she is laughing at Storm. Storm cries out to Logan, “ NEVER!” He looks at her and tells her to prove it!
Calling up a tremendous gale, Storm tells Logan that she can command the wind and the rain. Her name is Storm!  Sending a gale force wind towards Logan, she sends him crashing into a nearby wall. Gathering her senses, Storm cries out to Logan. He tells her that he is fine, because he has got a healing factor and adamantium bones. He tells her that Emma is the kind of person that will keep pushing. He tells her that she has to enforce the line between good judgment and bad. Logan tells Storm that there is no law against being afraid; she just needs to not let it run her life. Storm, stopping Wolverine’s speech, tells him that she is going to do what she should have done in the first place and that is to call Charles Xavier before the events turn into a disaster.
The Xavier Institute, later in the day around 4:20 P.M., Emma stands in front of Jeffrey Garret and asks if he is rested up. Garret tells Emma that it has been a long time since he has truly been able to rest. He tells her that he is scared the two X-Men will come back and bring police with them. Emma tells Garret about how she is a teacher and she hopes that her being a mentor will help the students under her. Emma states that she never had a mentor and, if she would have had one, things might have been different. Emma tells Jeffrey the she can see that he is in pain. Jeffrey, with his head bowed, asks Emma if she believes the two X-Men?  Emma tells Jeffrey the she can help him if only he'll trust her. Jeffrey, looking at her in confusion, tells Emma that he does not know what to do. Emma explains to Jeffrey that, at one time, she was known as the White Queen, a warrior queen. She explains to Jeffrey the she is going to take him on a journey through his memories. Speaking telepathically now, Emma tells Jeffrey to stand by her side. Floating from the physical realm to psychic realm, Emma promises Jeffrey that no harm will come to him.
in Jeffrey's mind
The two mutants find themselves in a surreal version of the Alaskan glacier, surrounded by ice. Jeffrey asks Emma where she has taken him. She explains that they're going down his memory lane. In shock, Jeffrey exclaims, their floating! Emma explains that he needs to consider their journey like a virtual reality game. She draws the images from his mind and makes them three-dimensional. She goes on to explain that the two of them can see objects and even an interactive with them, but only if she provides a buffer. Emma explains that the objects have no power to hurt Jeffrey.
With Jeffrey holding onto Emma tightly, the two approach a large door and Jeffrey begs Emma to allow them to leave. Emma tells Jeffrey that his request is not even an option. Jeffrey stands in front of the door, trying to bar Emma's way of passage. Emma tells Jeffrey to move aside, because he is not proving his innocence this way. Jeffrey tells Emma that if she goes inside, the same thing will happen to her. Emma, swinging open the double door, tells Jeffrey that she can handle herself. On the other side of the door, Emma sees a weeping woman. The woman begs not to die, because the only thing she is guilty of is working there. Behind her, two glowing red eyes stare back at Emma. Leaning towards the woman, Emma looks into her eyes and asks her why her eyes are bleeding.  Emma begins to wonder aloud why the bleeding eyes seem so familiar when she's interrupted by Jeffrey teleporting her out of the astral plane.
Emma materializes above an iced-over river. With a splash, Emma breaks through the ice-top and sinks below. Underwater, she removes her jacket trying to find a way out. Emma thinks quickly that, if she transforms, she might have enough strength to break free before she drowns. Before given the chance, Emma notices a hole in the ice. A young boy’s hand reaches down and pulls her up. Begging her forgiveness, Jeffrey tells Emma he could not help it. Emma tells Jeffrey that she is freezing; all she wants him to do now is take her home, which Jeffrey does.
That evening, Emma covers Jeffrey in a blanket, while he lies on her couch. In her evening gown, Emma thinks to herself that Jeffrey should be out all night, thanks to the psychic sedative that she administered to him. Walking from her living room to her study, she thinks to herself that Jeffrey's psyche is no more complicated than any normal adolescent his age. Emma thinks of the girl that she had seen in Jeffrey's mind. She thinks that the girl must have been one of the victims. Her witness strongly suggests that Jeffrey was the killer! Emma, sitting down at her desk, picks up a picture. Staring at it, she thinks to herself that she can't believe Jeffrey is the killer. Emma thinks that Storm will just love to hear Emma's indecision. Damning Storms eyes, Emma catches what might have caused Jeffrey to teleport her out of his mind in fear.
Emma continues to look at the picture; it is of she, Sebastian Shaw and Sage. She thinks to herself about the blood running from the young girl eyes. She wishes that at moments like this she still had access to Sebastian Shaw's pet Sage. Xavier, suddenly appearing behind Emma and trying to telepathically communicate with her, is startled to realize he cannot read Emma's thoughts. Xavier tells Emma that he has been contacted by Storm and he shares each one of their concerns… Glancing behind her, yet not seeing the Professor, Emma thinks that her quiet evening is “complete.”
At Harry's Hideaway, a small country Inn just down Graymalkin Lane from Xavier's, on the outskirts of Salem Center, Bishop and Sage listen to Storm as she brings them up-to-date about her talk with Xavier. Bishop and Sage watch her through their link via their high-tech glasses. Bishop, cleaning his guns, tells Storm that he respects Xavier, but he knows that time is short and he would feel more comfortable being active. Storm tells Bishop's she understands, but the three of them need to give Xavier time to make things right. Disconnecting their link, Sage goes into her room, slamming the door. She yells from within that the only way Xavier can do something is if Emma holds the same opinion and the boy allows it. Bishop calls back to Sage, asking if she knows something they don’t?
In her room, Sage asks Bishop for a moment, because she is busy. Tech-linking to Emma's cyber glasses, Sage uses the glasses scanner array to watch Emma. She sees Emma looking at the picture of herself, Sage and Sebastian Shaw. Back at the Xavier Institute, specifically Emma's study, Xavier is still trying to get Emma to respond. Xavier explains that there is some kind of psionic mist enshrouding the mansion.
Back at Harry's Hideaway, Sage uses her powers to detect Xavier's presence at the mansion. In Emma's study, Xavier explains that he detected a very intense emotional burst from her a short while ago, but now he can't lock onto her position. In Sage's room once again, Sage wonders why if she can detect Xavier's psychic readings, why can't she detect Emma's?  In Emma’s study, two red eyes glow from behind her. Xavier, now in a panic, asks Emma why she is not responding? Back at Harry's Hideaway, Sage worries that something is happening to Emma. In the mansion of Xavier, Xavier is finishing his conversation. He tells Emma to keep Jeffrey away from the other students and to do nothing till he returns.
At Harry's Hideaway once again, Sage feels that Xavier has left from the mansion. She thinks of the ill temper that Xavier must have been in and jokes to herself about the effect Emma has on people. Using her powers once again Sage tries to find Jeffrey. In Emma’s study the two red eyes tell her that they meet again, is also calls her its pet!  From Emma’s eyes, streak blood!
In the living room of Emma's, Jeffrey Garret sleeps soundly.
In her room, Sage gasps in fear.
In Emma's study, she breaks her wineglass with her bare hands, sending glass everywhere.
In Emma's living room Jeffrey Cary screams out NO!
In her room, Sage takes off her glasses and a droplet of blood seeps from her own eyes. With horror, she exclaims, “It can't be—It’s HIM!  Bogan has Emma!


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Schism - part 3: The Judas Boy!
Outside Xavier's Institute, in the middle of the night, Sage unloads her pistol and checks for her knife. Bishop, standing behind her, asks who started a war and forgot to tell him? Sage, leaning against the mansions exterior wall, tells Bishop that she likes to be prepared. Bishop, grabbing his shotgun, tells Sage that the school is full of children, except Emma. Bishop hands the shotgun to Sage, who places it on her shoulder.
Sage tells Bishop that one of the children has already killed seven people and she asks Bishop if he's changed his mind about following her? Bishop explains to Sage that he knows how she analyzes things to come to her conclusions. He tells her that he is just worried about taking such a big leap of faith. Bishop, taking the glasses from Sage’s eyes, tells her that she needs to realize the two of them are going against Storms orders.  Sage tells Bishop that she knows what she is doing.
Bishop, requesting information, asks Sage what is wrong? Sage tells Bishop that she's afraid! She goes on to say that she knows Elias Bogan and she once stole something that was very valuable to him. He, in turn, gave her the tattoos she now wears. Touching her face, she tells Bishop that the tattoos are her punishment. Bishop asks Sage what she took. Putting back on her glasses, Sage tells Bishop that the prize was Emma Frost. She tells Bishop that now, through Jeffrey, he must plan on getting her back. Going over the wall to the mansion, Sage tells Bishop that Elias Bogan is capable of destroying everyone if that is what he wants. Interrupting Sage, Storm calls out to her on her cyber glasses. Sage disconnects the link with Storm, as Bishop pulls her up and over the wall.
In New Orleans, where Storm and Logan reside, a lightning bolt pierces the sky. Storm screams out SAGE, but she gets no answer. Storm, cursing Sage, tells Logan that she cut her off. Logan, trying to ease Storm’s fears, tells her not to assume the worst. Storm tells Logan that, considering Emma Frost is involved, there is every reason to worry. Logan tells storm to let Xavier handle it. As if hearing his name, Xavier appears telling Storm to be more careful with her lightning storms. He tells her that, when she creates such violent storms, it causes feedback, hurting him. Storm asks Xavier to forgive her. She tells him that she is worried because she cannot reach Bishop or Sage. Xavier, now worried, tells Storm that he cannot contact Emma as well. Questioning Logan, Storm seems to have disappeared. Logan, looking out the window, tells Xavier to haul tail and get back to the mansion.
At the Xavier Institute, Emma is employing one of the greatest tools made by man; the tool’s name is Cerebra. Down in one of the lower tunnels leading into the mansion, Sage and Bishop hide from a mental projection of Emma Frost. Sage whispers to Bishop that he needs to let the projection pass and he does. Bishop looks toward Sage, telling her that he thought they were busted for sure. Sage smirks at Bishop's remarks; she tells Bishop that she thought that he was trained by the best to be psi-blind to telepaths?
In the student sleeping quarters, Emma Frost looks toward Tantra, remarking on the mutant’s dreams being less than what she thought they should be. Standing in front of Rubbermaid, she sees her thoughts about her attraction to Jeffrey Garret. Emma Frost looks now towards Jeffrey Garret and notices that he is not dreaming. Emma's arm, now transforming into a gauntlet, comments that Jeffrey must be hiding something. Taking her now transformed arm, Emma sinks it deep into Jeffrey's mind. Saying that she must treat Jeffrey's mind like a toxic, she pulls an astral version of the boy out of Jeffrey’s mind. Placing the astral-version of the boy into a steel-like and spiked cocoon, Emma disappears, telling Jeffrey's physical body to sleep well.
Back in the room with Cerebra, Emma (in her physical body) telepathically thinks everything will be better in the morning, as drops of blood streak down her eyes. Above Emma, her astral-self looks down on her physical body. Emma’s astral form thinks that the capture of Jeffrey’s memories went easier then she had thought. Emma wonders aloud how she was so easily blindsided earlier by Jeffrey, when he teleported her out of his memories?  In her physical form now, Emma downloads Jeffries memories through Cerebra and into the Danger Room so she can use the room to amplify Jeffrey’s memories without his knowledge. Emma leaves the room, talking to herself about how she does not want to deal with any more unexpected surprises.
As Emma leaves, a feminine, shadowy figure enters Cerebra’s room. The stranger is scanned by Cerebra and is mysteriously granted as a User and allowed access. The figure places Cerebra over her head and she begins to disable and enable many different system securities, as if she knows exactly the right commands and passwords. She creates a maximum threat level in the Danger Room that will only take effect after Emma has enabled her scenario of Jeffrey Garret’s memories. Locking the system, the shadowy woman crawls out of the room, with her eyes glowing red.
Emma walks out of a door in the mansion; talking to herself. She begins to desire a glass of wine before… Interrupted, Emma quickly transforms into her diamond form and is greeted by Sage and Bishop’ s presence. Bishop asks Emma to not be alarmed; they do not want any trouble. Sage, pulling her gun out of her holster, blasts Emma. Sage tells a shocked Bishop that a world-class telepath like Emma could fry their brains in an instance if given the chance. Emma crashes into the wall, sending plaster everywhere. Bishop wonders aloud if Sage’s way is the better way. Sage, not moving the sights of her pistol from Emma, tells Bishop that her way works, at least for her. Getting closer to Emma’s face, Sage inches her fingers closer and closer to Emma’s bleeding face. She tells Bishop that the two of them may already be too late, because Emma’s eyes already look like Bogan has her!
Emma suddenly awakens, telling Sage that she would not worry about her eyes, as much as she should worry about her boot!  With that said, Emma kicks Sage up into the air. Driving her fist into Sage’s chest, Emma now standing throws Sage at Bishop. Bishop asks Emma to calm down so they can talk and Emma tells Bishop that she wouldn’t even talk to him, now, on a bet. Charging towards Bishop, Emma throws a punch, barely missing Bishop’s head. Emma tells Bishop that his splinter X-Men group no longer have official status among the X-Men, so they do not belong in the mansion. Bishop, ducking Emma’s attacks, thinks to himself of how foolish he was to forget Emma’s secondary mutation: her diamond form. Sage, helping out Bishop, knocks Emma’s knees out from behind her and the two women begin to fight one-another. Sage blocks Emma’s punches, as she tries to convince Emma that she is under someone else’s control. Emma, connecting with a kick, knocks Sage into a nearby wall. Emma tells Sage that she should have stayed as Tessa, because as Sage she is pathetic. From behind Emma, Bishop tells her that Sage isn’t pathetic; because she was only distracting her long enough for him to charge up enough energy to blast her!  With that said, Bishop blasts Emma through the mansion’s ceiling and into the unsuspecting-Storm’s arms.
Storm tells Emma to relax her body and she will stop her forward movement. Screaming STORM, Emma transforms to her human form, psi-blasting Storm and causing both of them to fall towards the snowy field below. Emma moves Storm below her as they fall and Emma tells Storm that she wants her to be on the bottom, so she can be the one to get hurt.
Sage and Bishop look out the hole that was created by Emma’s departure and the two discuss Bogan’s affect on Emma. Bishop wonders if Storm or Xavier will be the first one to kill them for their attack on the mansion. Sage tells Bishop that the two of them need to survive long enough to let them, because if they do not stop Bogan, the school and everyone in it are finished!
Outside the mansion, a lightning bolt strikes the grounds and inside one of the students dormitories, specifically Jeffrey Garret’s room. The children are startled awake. The two twin girls cry out in unison about the incredible lightning and the two wonder if the lightning hit the mansion. The lightning does not stop, which worries the students. Rubbermaid, worried about Jeffrey, stretches over to check on him. She wonders aloud how Jeffrey can still be asleep after all the commotion that the lightning and the children have caused. Coming up the stairs to the student’s room, Bishop tells Sage that the children are awake. Cautioning Bishop, Sage tells him that Garret is the one they need to neutralize before the boy has a chance to teleport himself or them from the mansion.
Crashing into the dorm-room, Bishop tells Sage that, after this is over, she owes him a very large explanation. The children stand startled by the two X-Men’s appearance, while Jeffrey, now awake, tells the others that the two X-Men are the intruders from the day-before. The student named Zach tells the others that they need to attack the two X-Men, but Jeffrey stops them saying that it is he they want. Preparing to use his powers, Sage blasts Garret with her plasma pistol, sending the boy flying backwards. Rubbermaid, coming to Garret’s rescue, wraps the boy up, shielding him with her own body. Bishop informs the students that they only wish to contain Jeffrey until Xavier’s return and that they should not get in their way. Rubbermaid, lying on the ground, still shielding Garret’s body, tells the X-Men that the two of them have caused a lot of damage to capture Jeffrey. Looking down at Jeffrey, Rubbermaid tells him that she will help him. Jeffrey, now awake, tells Rubbermaid to run far away because he cannot stop him anymore!  Apologizing to Andrea (Rubbermaid), his eyes begin to glow with his powers and blood begins to streak down his cheeks, from his eyes!
Meanwhile, on the school grounds, Emma begins to stand. She comments aloud that she thought the grudge match between her and Storm was over. Emma's clothes begin to transform into her psychic weaponry and she sinks her talons into Storms head. She tells Storm that she can benefit from a behavioral modification. Storm, standing shocked, hears Emma explain that, after the modification, Storm will love her with all her heart! Storm sends lightning through Emma’s body. She tells Emma not before, not today, and not ever! As Storm talks, he punishes Emma by sending her flying into a brick wall. Luckily for Emma, her body transforms into diamond form, just in time to save her from a bloody crash.
Emma screams back at Storm to do her worst, because she cannot hurt a body of diamond. Storm, picking boulders with her wind gusts, tells Emma that they shall see. As a bolder bounces off of Emma's chest, she laughs at Storms failure. Standing next to a stack of hay, Storm commands her winds to carry a large number of strands of straw and attack Emma with it. She explains as she does all this about the old adage about how piece of straw is nothing but thrown by the winds and it has the ability to push through a brick!  Throwing the straw next to Emma it penetrates through the brick wall behind her. Storm, now standing with a steel spear in her hand, tells Emma that a diamond is not unbreakable and, if you can find the right stress point, the diamond can be shattered.
After her speech, Storm drops the spear onto the ground, commenting that those tactics are not her way. Emma, now unstuck from the wall, falls to the ground. Storm reminds Emma that, the first time they met, she sunk her psychic talons into her brain. The second time they met, Emma stole her very own body. Now that Xavier has accepted her as a colleague, Storm says, she feels betrayed. Storm goes on to say that Emma is not the first adversary to accept Xavier's dream and, if she respects Xavier and the dream he champions, she will accept her. Emma transforms back at her human form and asks Storm not to do her any favors. She tells Storm also the she will not surrender the boy because she does not believe he is guilty.
Storm, standing next to Emma, asks her if that's what she will tell the police when they come for the boy. Emma does not answer the question. Instead, she asks if Storm would give the boy up. Storm chooses not to answer Emma's question as well. Instead, she comments that Emma must not know how many innocents she is putting in danger. Emma tells Storm that, in America, you are innocent until proven guilty, but she wonders if a mutant can get a fair trial. Storm, walking closer to Emma, tells her that if they don’t try they'll never learn.
Interrupting the two’s conversation, a blast is heard coming from the mansion. Emma tells Storm that the children are screaming! Storm grabs Emma and the two of them fly to mansion. Storm asks Emma if she has picked up anything telepathically. Emma tells Storm that she's picked up precious little, because most of the children did not know what they were seeing and most of them were scared. She tells Storm that it is because her two damn X-Men and the two of them keep their thoughts guarded so well.
Floating into the students’ dorm room, Storm and Emma only see clothes on the ground. Emma tells Storm that it looks like Jeffrey's doing. Storm, choosing to argue, tells Emma that if she hadn’t of been so proprietary nothing would happen to the children. Emma finds Sage's scanner on the ground and, holding it up, Storm notices that Jeffrey did not take the children too far, because their signal is coming from the danger room. Emma begins to smile, which makes Storm exceedingly angry. Storm questions Emma about her emotions. Emma responds that the danger room is active with events playing from Jeffrey's memory. She tells Storm that someone has disengaged the safety locks to the room and now the children are trapped inside! She tells Storm that, if they can’t get everyone out, the same thing that happened in Alaska will happen in the room: everyone in there will DIE!


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Schism - part 4
In the women’s dressing room under the mansion at the Xavier Institute, Storm changes into a more standard-looking X-Men uniform. Emma explains that her X-Treme uniform wouldn’t have been recognized by the mansion’s security, but the X-Men uniform she is changing into does. Emma goes on to say that the uniform is coded on a molecular level to give whoever is wearing it immunity to the protocols and dangers of the Danger Rooms programs. Storm reluctantly agrees to the change. Storm and Emma go to the door leading into the Danger Room and Storm uses her old thievery skills to pick the lock to allow them access. Emma, while Storm tries to pick the lock, talks about how the mansion is locked down. Nobody is allowed to enter or leave the mansion and now their only way to stop the Danger Room’s scenario is to enter the room and turn it off from the inside.
After the door opens, Emma unceremoniously steps in, followed by Storm, who asks Emma if she can sense the children. Emma tells Storm that she can sense the children’s fear and can also sense Bishop. She explains that Bishop is just being himself; angry, in control and waiting for the time the two of them will need him. Storm tells Emma that the two of them shouldn’t keep Bishop waiting any longer…Thinking about Sage, Storm asks about her presence. Emma explains that she cannot sense Sage, because her psychic shields are at their ultimate. Shocked, Storm says that Sage would only do that if she were facing off against a formidable opponent as tough as Xavier himself. Emma states that there is no presence that she can sense in the Danger Room as powerful as that. Storm tells Emma that she may not be able to sense that presence, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t there. Emma and Storm, still continuing into the Danger Room, are both startled to see a lavishly decorated house, filled with stairways leading upwards to the sky.
In the house, a maid calls out to a couple of her fellow employees and asks them if they need help downstairs, since her duties upstairs are finished. They call back to the maid, named Mary, that they have everything under control and to continue working up stairs. Storm and Emma hide behind a nearby couch as they listen to the staff’s conversation. The two employees, Ms. Andres and Mr. Rosario, argue over sending Mary home, because Mr. Rosario says that he does not like a stranger in the house, especially with what is going on! Ms. Andres walks away carrying a tray of iced wine and tells Mr. Rosario that, as long as Mary stays upstairs, she will be find, but if she comes downstairs they will deal with her accordingly!
Passing by Emma and Storm Ms. Andres tells Rosario that they need to continue as Master Bogan commands. Emma looking after Ms. Andres is shocked to see that the lady walks as if the Hellfire Club trained her. Emma tells her findings to Storm, who teases back that she should know, since she was part of the club herself. The two women watch as Andres walks down a flight of stairs and Emma tells Storm that she was the White Queen a long time ago and she doesn’t even feel as if that woman even exists in her now. Emma explains her concerns about Jeffrey’s memories being that of a conversation he couldn’t have been a part of and she explains about how a couple of hours ago she had downloaded these memories from Jeffrey to the Danger Room. Storm, closing in on an open door, is shocked and horrified as she calls Emma’s attention to the scene. Emma nearly loses her lunch, as she is shocked to see bodies lying everywhere on the ground in tortured contortions. Emma mutters out that they at least know how Jeffrey’s siblings died now and Storm states, as she stands resolute, that they need to go find the killers.
In a casual meeting area of the castle, chains hang up Sage and Bishop as Ms. Andres serves wine to the guests of the house. An old man grasps onto Sage’s jaw as he taunts her about how her tattoos were a reminder of their ownership of her and how, when she escaped years ago, it was only for their amusement. She should have known they would one day claim her again. Sage is in an elegant evening gown and Bishop is wearing a tuxedo, just as the other guests are dressed with the same elegance. Bishop tells the old man to leave Sage alone, but the old man tells him to quieten down before his tongue is cut out for his dinner. Sage, calling the old man Oliver, tells him that whatever happens to her neither him, the Talents or even Xander (the other guests that accompany Oliver) will be there to see it, because Jeffrey killed them days ago.
Mrs. Talent sits in a chair, as she hugs Jeffrey to her body, and tells Sage that she is foolish, because the poor boy only killed their bodies. Mr. Talent explains that, once they are bound to Bogan, their essence can never die, so their bodies are nothing more than clothes to them. A glowing flash appears behind Oliver’s head, as he holds Sage’s head up and, in a different voice (that of Bogan’s), Oliver tells Sage that of all people she should know that where he is concerned the mind is all. He tells her that, not only did his little Judas Boy (Jeffrey) lead him to new students, but he also led him back to her. Popping into Mr. Talent’s head, Bogan speaks through him, as Mr. Talent holds onto the unconscious body of Rubbermaid. Bogan tells Sage that Jeffery has also led them to Xavier and, for that, he may pardon the boy for the deaths of his colleagues. Bishop screams out to Mr. Talent/Bogan that, if he harms the girl, he’ll take every piece of him apart! Bogan, popping into Xander’s body, touches Bishop’s nose and asks him how he expects to do that when shortly even he will be under Bogan’s control?
Emma and Storm hide behind a nearby wall as all these events transpire and they watch Bogan go back into Oliver’s body. Oliver/Bogan tells Bishop that, soon, Bishop will gladly kill Xavier and the other X-Men. The only one he wants kept alive is Emma Frost, because he has unfinished business with her. Storm asks Emma what Bogan’s words mean. Emma replies that she doesn’t know and she has never met any of those people before. Storm looks up to see Emma’s eyes bleeding and she comments on it. Emma, shocked by Storm’s odd words, tells her that they are not. Storm puts her finger up to Emma’s face and draws some of the blood, asking Emma to look for herself. Emma looks, but doesn’t see anything. Emma tells Storm that she seems to have a problem, because they’re on a mission and she is acting foolishly. With a loud “Krakow,” Storm strikes Emma telling her that she is right about that one thing.
Storm walks into the meeting dragging Emma behind her. She tells Oliver that she has come to make a deal with them for the exchange of Emma for her companions. Oliver seems to begin to ponder her proposal as Emma/Bogan looks up and tells Storm that she is regretfully informing her that she has already taken back her property. Xander/Bogan grabs a hold of Storm telling her that he will take her in the bargain now too. Emma/Bogan grabs Storm by the hair and explains that Xander’s merest touch can cause pleasure or pain and it doesn’t take to much thought to figure out what he is causing now. Emma/Bogan tells Storm to continue to fight, because the harder she fights the sweeter their victory over her will be. Behind Storm, Jeffrey leaps out of Mrs. Talent’s arms and hides behind the chair she sits in, screaming NO! Bishop screams Jeffrey’s words too, but Xander/Bogan comes over to give the same pain to Bishop as he just seconds age administered to Storm. Mrs. Talent asks Oliver to stop Jeffrey’s whining, because she is starting to get a headache. Jeffrey tells them, as he cowers in the shadows, that they weren’t supposed to hurt his friends. He tells them that they promised him if he brought them to Bogan he wouldn’t harm them.
Oliver looks at Jeffrey and tells the boy that he feels sorry for him, because his innocence was so abruptly taken away. The Talents tell Jeffrey that he needs to realize that he is in the real world now and he should expect it when he sells himself for money. Jeffrey, in tears, tells them that his family was freezing and they were hungry! Oliver tells the boy that he knows that and he also knows that their paths didn’t cross by accident. Emma/Bogan kneels on the ground with her hands around Storm’s throat. Oliver looks down on Storm and contemplates aloud how the X-Men were led to their doom by an unwittingly succulent prey in their little Judas Boy. Laughing, Oliver says that Jeffrey thought his teleportation powers could save his family at any time, but he miscalculated. Jeffrey stands in front of the prison bars that hold captive his young friends and dorm-mates. Jeffrey mutters out that he didn’t know…he thought he could… Mr. Talent walks up, with Rubbermaid in his arms and tells Jeffrey to stop whining. Mr. Talent says that thanks to Xander the X-Men will love every minute of their torment and beg them for more.
Bishop, still hanging by his chains, tells Jeffrey that, what was in the past is in the past, but he has the opportunity to do what’s right now and save his friends. Jeffrey still weeps and tells Bishop that he cannot understand, because as he was trying to save his family they fought him. He tells Bishop that his family didn’t trust him anymore, so they didn’t think he was trying to help them. Emma/Bogan tells Jeffrey that his family’s lives were delicious. One of the students from inside the prison screams out to their enemies to let Ms. Frost go! Jeffrey, zipping up his jacket, says not again twice and, on the second time, his eyes glow red and, with a blast of energy, he teleports all the students and Emma Frost out of the Danger Room.
Oliver, smiling, says out loud that Jeffrey is so full of surprises and Bogan didn’t even think the boy would be powerful enough to teleport all the students, himself and Emma out of the Danger Room. Oliver boasts that they still have Storm, Bishop and Sage and the three of them will be enough to suffice.
Bogan appears in a red glow above Storm and he tells her that, through Emma, he knows all the trails into her mind and all the keys that will unlock her soul. Storm, lying on the ground, tells Bogan that she was counting on him going into her mind, because she knows his secret. She knows that he has had to use a telepath to sneak past the mansion’s security, that it couldn’t have been Jeffrey or Emma because the two of them were under constant scrutiny. She tells him that she doesn’t know who the telepath is, but she does know one thing: that when telepaths enter her mind they get hurt!
Storm sends lightning bolts through Bogan’s astral form and, as he writhes in pain, he tells Storm that he will destroy her for her actions. The pain seems to be so intense that Bogan’s presence leaves the Danger Room, giving Storm the opportunity to send lightning through Bishop giving him enough energy to free himself. The two take out the Talents, Oliver and Xander easily, after they are freed of Bogan’s influence. Bishop frees Sage and asks her if she is okay. She tells him yes, just as a rematerialized Mr. Talent knocks the two of them to the ground. He reminds them that the Danger Room’s protocols have been disabled, so the more the X-Men destroy them, the more they will come back stronger than before. Bishop tells Storm that he is right and asks her if she can generate a lightning bolt powerful enough to knock the Danger Rooms electronic systems out. She tells him that she cannot create one powerful enough from the inside to take out its systems. Sage reaching through a wall tells them that they will not have to, because the system was designed with a manual off switch. Sage opens the latch to the switch and presses it, causing the images to fade away to nothing.
An astral projection of Xavier appears above them as the X-Men stand in the empty Danger Room. Xavier tells Storm and the others that Emma’s and the students’ psyches seem so fragmented that he doesn’t wish to do a mind scan on any of them, so he is expecting her to debrief him on what’s been going on. Storm teases Bishop that he should offer the Professor some green tea, because it is his favorite. Xavier also requests them to turn off the mansions security and unlock the doors, because, after all, he still is the master of the house.
Inside the mansion, Storm, Sage and Bishop meet one another in one of Xavier’s offices. Sage tells the others that, when she was a child, she knew there was a war, she just tried to keep it out of her mind and sometimes she was even able to have fun. She tells the others that Xavier has said the children don’t remember any of what transpired in the Danger Room. She tells the others that Elias is so powerful that he can cover his own tracks and, if the children do not remember, how can they prepare for his next attack? Bishop asks if Sage believes Elias will come back for the children and she confirms his fears. Sage tells the others that, when Elias could not break her, he branded her to remind the both of them of their unfinished business. Bishop turns to Storm and asks her about the telepath that she zapped at the end and wonders a who she was. Storm tells Bishop that she is another mystery and perhaps another one of Bogan’s victims.
As the X-Treme team talks, Xavier, Jean and Emma walk in to discuss what transpired. Xavier greets Ororo and Bishop, who tells Xavier of his excitement to see his mentor walking and in good health. Xavier sits down at his chair, with Emma to the left of him and Jean to the right of him. Both women are standing. Xavier tells the others that he has scanned Emma’s mind and ran a diagnostic check on the Danger Room and he has found no evidence of Elias Bogan or any attacker, besides them, to be on the premises. He tells them that, given their statements, it is a great concern and they will have to find a way to deal with Elias Bogan appropriately.
Bishop asks Xavier what he plans on doing with Garret, since he is a wanted murderer anyways? Xavier tells Bishop that, given the circumstances, he cannot release the boy to the world at large. Xavier tells Bishop that the X-Men will deal with Garret, because, after all, he is innocent, because the murders were in self-defense. Storm asks for Xavier’s forgiveness for contradicting but Mary Holland, who was just working late that night, was not apart of the torture but Jeffrey killed her too. Storm asks Xavier, if Jeffrey is allowed to get away with murder, when will he ever learn right from wrong? Xavier tries to assure Storm that Jeffrey will one day learn right from wrong. Storm tells Xavier that, in open court, Jeffrey can learn and he can also show the world that mutants are not above the law. Storm reminds Xavier that even Magneto stood trial for his past mistakes.
Sage interjects and tells Xavier that the world is not his school and it isn’t an experiment for him to control. Bishop tells Xavier that they have to prove themselves masters of their own fate, even if that means accepting the consequences for their mistakes. Xavier interjects and asks Storm if she truly believes human society is ready for threats like Elias Bogan? Storm tells Xavier that, at one time, he taught them that they were all human. Xavier stands to his feet and asks Storm whose side she is on. Storm tells Xavier that the law is to make men and women everywhere equal and, if they subvert the law, they begin to create a world in which Elias Bogans all around the world can thrive. Xavier tells Storm that her words will not come true and Storm replies that she prays he is right.
Sage is the last to walk out the door and Xavier asks her why she still follows Storm and thinks so badly of him? She tells him that she has walked the road to hell that his “good intentions” have paved. She then leaves to catch up with the others. Outside the door, Bishop tells Sage that she was pretty hard on him and she tells Bishop that she hopes her words will make Xavier listen. Sage tells Bishop, as they walk behind Storm and Emma, that she values the school as a haven, but she wants to fight for a world in where that haven isn’t needed. Through another door, Storm tells Emma to take care of Jeffrey, because he will need her guidance. Emma, shocked, asks Storm if she can really trust her. Storm tells Emma that she can call her naïve if she wants to, but she also knows where she lives. Emma jokingly touches her chin, telling Storm that she hit her pretty hard. Emma continues to talk and tells Storm that she is worried about how Elias Bogan could so easily sink his claws into her. Storm, vowing to find out, tells Emma that she doesn’t know.
Jean walks in and tells Storm that she cannot leave, because it would be wrong and she wonders why none of them seem to trust Xavier. Storm tells Jean that the reason she leaves is because she believes, with all her heart, she cannot stay. She reminds Jean of the time that Xavier traveled to Africa and offered her the chance to join his X-Men. He told her that perhaps the time had finally come to leave her nest. Now those same words ring true and she believes it is time again. Storm, finishing their conversation, tells the others that, if mutants truly represent the hope of the future, then they must prove themselves worthy!


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Prodigal
Sam Guthrie is in the tunnel where he has just finished off a hard fought battle to save not only himself but also others from an experiment gone wrong: Weapon XII. A day later, he is still there, trying to help the local authorities dig out from the rubble any survivors that may have lived past the horrors. Sam carries a young lady to local paramedics and tells them that the girl’s name is Simone and she keeps asking about he brother. The paramedics thank Sam for his efforts and tell him that they will try to help her the best they can.
Sam walks by a large number of wounded and he hears the doctors call out to one-another of their needs for medical supplies and how different ones are losing their patients. A lady doctor comes up to Sam and touches his shoulder. She tells him that he is doing his best and the girl is in good hands with the medics. Looking out on a sea of dead bodies, Sam tells the doctor that they were in good hands too and now look at them. Sam apologizes for his words and the doctor asks Sam if he is all right. Sam tells her that the blood on him is from the girl he just carried and to not worry about him. Sam walks away from Simone, thinking that he knows he did his best but his best probably wasn’t good enough and she will soon die as well. He also thinks of his father and how he must have felt after one of the mines collapsed and he had to see all the dead bodies of his colleagues rolled away.
Hearing a mental call, calling his name, Sam answers it, knowing it is Xavier. Xavier tells Sam that he realizes that this is hard for him but there are no more survivors, so he needs to stop the search and meet up with the rest of the team at the French end of the tunnel. Xavier tells Sam that he and Jean have telepathically scanned for any survivors and they have found none. He admits that the resonance from the corpse of Weapon XII is hindering their scans, but they are fairly certain there is no one else alive. Sam tells Xavier that he was a miner’s son before he joined the X-Men and he knows that a man should never leave anyone behind, alive or dead. Sam tells Xavier that he is staying behind and Xavier tells Sam that he can do as he wishes.
Sam walks away and thinks to himself that Xavier didn’t need to have telepathy to realize the underlining reason Sam wanted to help. Sam grew up with a code-of-honor and he knows that, whatever the circumstances, a mutant “done the wrong doing,” so a mutant should help clean up the mess. Sam continues to help other aid workers move dead bodies from the wreckage when he hears a crashing sound. Instinctively, Sam jumps to save the aid worker fixing to be crushed by the falling debris. Sam saves the worker and gains a number of friends for it.
At Coquelles, France, the French end of the Channel Tunnel, Sam is greeted by cheers for his heroic efforts in saving one of their workers, a guy named Ginger. Ginger’s crew teases Sam for saving such a clumsy person as him, but they offer him a chance to sit down and socialize with them a while. The Sappers, as they call themselves, sit around a fire and eat the lunches that are available to them. The Sarge tells Sam that he’s got no use for heroes on his crew and a lady named Alice asks Sam where he is from. Sam explains about growing up in Kentucky, while the others tease him about his hillbilly upbringing. The Sappers ask Sam what his interests are and he tells them about his love any movie by Baz Luhrman and any show by Joss Whedon.
Alice, trying to be heard, tells the others that the Sarge is a trekker and he has an original set of Captain Kirk’s pajamas. Dermott, another Sapper makes fun of Alice about her love for Lila Cheney music and Sam defends Alice by saying Lila’s music is good. Alice, seizing her chance to have fun, asks Sam to stand to his feet and the two of them begin to sing one of Lila’s songs. She asks Sam to sing the lyric that Lila wrote called “Sam” and Sam declines her offer, but says they can sing a different lyric.
One of the Sapper’s interrupts and asks the others to listen to one of his jokes. He asks them, how many X-Men does it take to change a light bulb? The entire crew busts out; X-Men don’t need light bulbs they glow in the dark. Ginger, laughing, starts another X-Men joke when Cannonball interjects and tries to explain that the X-Men were there to help not to hurt. Sarge stands to his feet and tells Sam that, if it wasn’t for mutants like the X-Men, they wouldn’t be there cleaning up dead bodies. Alice, coming to the defense of mutants, tells the Sarge that he could say the same thing about Arabs, woman, blacks or anybody. Sam asks the others if they ever met a mutant before? One Sapper asks how they would know even if they met one and Alice finishes by saying that mutants look like just regular humans anyway. Sam tells the others that, back in his daddy’s day, a black man and a white woman holding hands would be lynched. Nowadays, who notices, so why can’t it be the same with mutants? Sarge tells Sam that mutants are living weapons, but people are just people. Standing to his feet, Sarge tells them that their break is over and they need to get back to work.
Trying to move a section of the train, Sam asks Dermott why they’re starting the removal of debris when they haven’t accounted for all the missing yet? He tells Sam that their just following orders and they’ve been told to move the train. Suddenly, Sam hears a noise from a pile of rubble nearby. Sam runs towards the noise, hoping to find the cause of it. Sarge screams Sam’s name and tells him to stop. Sam, beginning to crawl through a hole in the rubble, feels his shoulder being touched by Sarge, who asks Sam, what is he playing at? Sam tells him that he knows there is someone in the rubble, but the Sarge tells him that he is wrong and that he didn’t hear anyone scream for help. Sam decides to crawl back anyways, telling the Sarge that he will not quit if he thinks there is even a remote chance of saving a life.
Sam crawls to the end of the tunnel, worried about the shifting wreckage all around him. He tries to call out to get an answer, but he doesn’t hear a thing. Using a small amount of kinetic force, Sam hits the wall in front of him knocking a larger path clear. Knocking himself into an opening, Sam finds survivors, very much alive. Sarge screams out to Sam about his safety and Sam cries back that he has found survivors.
Outside the wreckage, hundreds of people clap their approval of Sam’s rescue. The Sarge doesn’t seem too happy though, as he drags Sam to the side for a private discussion. He tells Sam that he saw him use his mutant powers, so he knows who he is. Sam asks the Sarge if it makes a difference? Looking at Sam the Sarge’s face begins to smile and he tells Sam that, of course it does, but now that he has provided one miracle he is eager for more. He tells Sam that the two of them need to get busy and look for more survivors.
Much time later, Sam nears the end of the tunnel with the Sappers following. They congratulate each other on a job well done. They have accounted for every passenger, so it is now time for them to leave to their next assignment. Ginger thanks Sam for saving his life, but Alice tells Ginger he will have to wait his turn and she jumps into his arms, kissing Sam. Sarge tells Sam that, since he has to leave, he needs to do it in style. Questioning the Sarge’s statement, Sam is told by the others that the Sarge told them about his powers and they want to see it for themselves. One of them exclaims to Sam, as he begins to rocket away, that he needs to shake his mutant butt. Sam tells them that they are crazy and as he flies off Alice asks him what he is called when he is saving the Earth? Rocketing away, he answers them… “They call me, Cannonball!”
In Para LaChaise Cemetery in Paris, numbers of people watch as they lay Darkstar into the grave. Xavier meets Sam at the gates of the cemetery and tells Sam that he knows that Sam wants to quit X-Corp. Sam tells Xavier that he is tired of burying friends, at least for a while. Xavier, shaking Sam’s hand, tells him that he is welcome with the X-Men anytime he decides to come back. As the rain pours down, Sam watches as Xavier walks away. Questioning a feeling in his hand, he looks down to see that Xavier left him a note. The note reads about a concert Lila Cheney is putting on in Paris.
At the concert, Lila plays a solo on her guitar. The song is “Sam” and it talks about how she loved him and lost him.
After the concert, Sam approaches Lila. She is startled to see him and runs to hug him. Sam tells Lila that Xavier is usually subtler with his messages, but he is glad to see her. Sam tells Lila that he’d figured, after all the time they’ve spent apart, that she had forgotten about him. She tells Sam that she could never forget him. Lila asks Sam to let her take him away for aw while where there is no violence threatening him, just her and him and their love. He asks her where they’re going and, as her powers flair and they embrace, she tells him that it is going to be out of this world.
Months later, still in Paris, the famed Jardins Du Luxembourg in the spring, the lovers come home. Sam and Lila materialize, still kissing. In an apartment suite, Sam brings in food for them with no shirt on and a rose in his mouth. He tells Lila that he cannot believe she wrote a song about his momma. She tells Sam that his momma is so sweet she couldn’t help herself. Sam tells Lila that his momma thinks she is wild. Lila tells Sam that his Momma said that a straight arrow like him needed someone like her.
Later, Sam reads online about the murders in Alaska and how Sage and Bishop were involved in solving the mystery. Later again, at a restaurant, Sam questions Lila about the food he is eating and promises that, when they go Stateside, he will take her to his house for a real good barbeque dinner. Later still, Sam sees on the Internet about the Riot at Xavier’s and how one of the students was killed. Lila is doing a concert and she introduces a new song called “Bandit Souls”.  Even later still, Sam sees on the Internet how Storm’s team split off from Xavier’s, but he is shocked to see how serious the split was.
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Sam sits outside a restaurant, waiting on Storm to arrive. He hopes that Storm will honor his request for a meeting and, as if in answer, Storm floats from the sky, wearing her X-men uniform from the Institute. She tells Sam that he called so she came and she wonders, what’s on his mind?
Lila and Sam sit on a park bench looking towards a palace. Sam tells Lila that he saw Ororo today and she tells him that she knows, because a flying girl in a miniskirt tends to make the news. Sam tells her about their conversation and how he realized from that talk how much the world is changing. He explains about how his daddy would tell them stories about the miners fighting amongst one another and how it seems the world is no different now, than those miners. Lila, leaning on Sam’s shoulder, asks him what he believes the solution is. He tells her that Storm’s ideals make sense. Lila, teasing Sam, tells him that she knows he just loves the idea of playing Marshall. Sam looks into Lila’s eyes and he tells her that the world used to be afraid of nuclear war, now it’s mutant terrorists it fears more. He tells her that someone has to make the world play nice. He tells her, as well, that Storm asked him to join her team… and he said YES!


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God Loves, Man Kills II - part 1
Prisoner William Stryker is being led to a military jet, in preparation for a speech he will soon give about human rights. While that is happening, in Cumberland County, Kentucky, the X-Treme team watches, as Sage looks over classified documents on one of the X-Men’s most deadly of enemies, William Stryker! Sage reads the report about how Stryker was just recently on the coast, ministering to a death row inmate that is being held for mass murderer named Aaron Pankow. Sage tells the others that Pankow was executed last night and now Stryker is headed back East. Sage tells Wolverine and Bishop, who are sitting behind her on a couch, that she wishes confessionals weren’t private, so they could know what the two of them discussed. Logan tells Tessa that the two were just probably comparing body counts. Bishop asks Logan who the man called Stryker is. Logan answers that Stryker is old news and he came and went before Lucas’ time. Tessa tells Lucas that Stryker came probably the closest of any of their foes to making mutant-kind extinct. Logan, smiling, tells Sage that Stryker is old news and he wants her to shut down her “toys,” so they can go have fun.
At the SeaTac International Airport in Seattle, Washington, armed guards protect Stryker as he boards the military plane to head back East. In the plane, an officer apologizes for the inconvenience the shackles cause Stryker. Stryker tells the officer that he appreciates the thought. While the officer shackles Stryker’s ankles and wrists, in the cockpit, three officers discuss why Stryker was placed in jail in the first place. One of the officers tells the pilot that he thinks Stryker was doing a good thing in trying to kill mutants everywhere. The pilot, not caring either way, tells the other soldiers that it is not up to them to decide his punishment and they need to just do their job and fly him back East.
Two hours out on the plane ride, the pilot radios back their coordinates to Denver-Center. After the radio call, the pilot begins to talk to his co-pilot about his upcoming trip with his family to sk… he doesn’t finish his conversation, as he is gutting by his co-pilot’s claws. Behind the co-pilot/assailant, Artie turns to see what the commotion is. In response, the assailant uses her claws to chop off Arties’ head. Looking at her bloodstained nails, the assailant wipes off the blood and radios a distress call. In the call, she tells Bozeman-Center that their plane was just attacked by the X-Men and, screaming in supposed pain, she ends the transmission.
Walking back to where Stryker is kept, the assailant kills the two guards and slices through the chain-link fence, smiling as she walks towards Stryker. Stryker begins to pray Psalms 23 but, instead of the assailant killing him, she cuts his chains allowing him free movement. The assailant begins to take off her clothes and tells Stryker that he left out “goodness” and “mercy” from his prayer. The lady takes her uniform off, revealing that she is Lady Deathstrike.
Stryker tells Deathstrike that in war there must be made sacrifices. Yuriko (Deathstrike) tells Stryker that her faith walks a different road than his. The two embrace and Stryker tells her that their causes, however, are the same. He also asks her what happens to them now? Behind them, an officer holds up a gun and tells the two of them to get on their bellies or he’ll shoot! Yuriko speedily throws a throwing star, striking the officer in the head. The gun he was holding goes off, causing the cabin to decompress, and Yuriko commands Stryker to hold onto her. The plane begins to shake as the entire cabin is thrown out into the air. Stryker asks, as Yuriko holds onto him, keeping him in the plane, if this was part of her plan? Yuriko tells Stryker not to be an ass and the wind will not last long. Yuriko tells Stryker to keep his head down and her armored body will protect him from flying debris.
Bodies of the dead soldiers fly past Yuriko and Stryker, as an explosion from the side of the plane causes them to realize that an engine has been hit with debris and the plane is about to explode. Yuriko asks Stryker if he is afraid of death. He tells her that he isn’t, but his work must be finished first. He asks her if she has a plan? Letting go of the seat she was holding onto, sending them flying out the hatch, she tells him that she has never let him down before. The plane explodes leaving nothing but debris falling to the ground.
In Kentucky Bishop, Sage, and Wolverine look out over the mountains discussing their beauty, but the fact some of it is strip-mined hurts the beauty of it. Logan comments how the land was paid with the blood of its residents and those residents now resemble the land they helped form. Feeling a breeze, Wolverine says that the three of them are about to receive visitors. Sage points out where the breeze is coming from and, suddenly, Sam appears in the air, blasting over his countryside. Cannonball waves down to the others as he passes and Bishop tells the others that the boy is pushing himself to the max. Logan tells Bishop that he wouldn’t want to call Cannonball a boy to his face. After Sam passes, Storm is not far behind and Bishop has to catch Sage, who begins to fly backwards.
Try as Sam might, he cannot shake Storm off his tail. Sam knows more about this area and he uses it to his advantage. Thinking that if he could turn his blast field off for a moment and allow himself to free fall, when Storm goes over, he can turn his blast field back on and tackle her. Sam does just that, narrowly missing the water below. Storm tells Sam that he did a nice job. Turning his move against him, Storm winds up holding Sam, instead of the other way around.
On the ground, Wolverine laughs at the predicament Sam got himself into. Behind Logan, Bishop notices Sage’s distant look and wonders what she is seeing through her hi-tech glasses. She tells the others that their playtime is over, because the plane William Stryker was flying in just exploded and the X-Men are being blamed.
In Chicago, at the offices of Dr. Maureen Lyszinski, Kitty Pryde talks to her about traumatic events in her life. During this appointment Kitty is talking about William Stryker and the events that transpired when he tried to annihilate all of mutant-kind. Kitty tells the doctor that Stryker believed he was doing the will of God, in destroying mutants everywhere. Taking a sip of her coffee, the doctor tells Kitty that she should know that Stryker’s philosophy is wrong. Kitty tells the doctor that to many people believe that Stryker is a martyr and Charles Xavier set him up. Kitty tells the doctor that Stryker placed a gun to her head and, if it weren’t for a cop shooting him, Stryker would have killed her.
The doctor looks at Kitty and asks if Stryker is dead. Kitty’s eyes’ glaring, she tells the doctor that she wishes Stryker was never born. The doctor asks Kitty how her feelings help her, being a super-hero? Kitty tells the doctor that she has never considered herself a super-hero, but the X-Men always thought of themselves as a place to train mutants and, occasionally, save the world from evil. The doctor comments on Kitty’s age of thirteen when she joined the X-Men and Kitty tells her that she could walk through walls. She tells the doctor that at home everyone thought she was a freak, but with the X-Men she felt normal. Kitty tells the doctor about Peter being her first love and how him and his sister fought Stryker and now both of them are dead. Kitty, near to tears, tells the doctor that she wants to kill all the people in the world that would do mutants harm. The doctor asks if that is why she quit the X-Men? Kitty, holding to her sweater, tells the doctor that she killed once to save a friend and every day she tells herself that it was necessary and she had no choice. Tears running from her eyes, she tells the doctor that killing is easy and so is hate, but she wants to find another way.
In the Rockies, along the borders of Idaho and Montana, the X-Treme team searches for clues on the planes crash. Bishop tells Storm that there is too much snow and, since the plane crash caused an avalanche, it’s going to take them forever to find the answers they need. Sage appears to Storm through their hi-tech glasses. Sage tells Storm that she, Wolverine and Cannonball have found a body.
In Sage’s glasses, she watches a news report on Xavier’s mansion and Manoli Wetherell is there, covering the story. She tells the audience that the mansion is virtually under siege and sources say that Charles Xavier and the X-Men may be connected to William Stryker’s plane crash. Manoli switches the feed from Salem Center to Montana and tells the public that there is a strange weather pattern in the area and it is stopping the investigation of the crash. Manoli also states that the officers believe that a mutant may be to blame for the strange weather patterns as well. Sage looking at the dead body of an officer says aloud that in this case Manoli is right. Storm is controlling the weather.
Sam covers the eyes of the dead soldier and tells Wolverine that he will bury the body. Wolverine holds Sam back and tells him that he respects his honoring of the dead but right now they need answers. Logan uses his claw to point out the gash wounds on the officer’s chest, telling them that he recognizes the wound and he knows who inflicted it. Sage realizes at the same time the assailant and tells the others that she will radio Storm with their information. Sage looks up to see a projectile coming towards them. Logan warns Sam to blast Sage away from there, because they’re being attacked. The grenade explodes, sending shrapnel everywhere.
In the occurring run, the avalanche caused by the explosion covers Sam. He carries Sage away, protecting her body with his in hopes to outrun the shrapnel and snow. Sam rises to his feet, saying how the blast was too strong, he couldn’t get airborne in enough time and he lost Sage in the ruckus. Standing to his feet, Sam is shocked to be attacked by as net gun that wraps him up before he can jet away. Six soldiers converge on Sam and one is shocked to see that he is still alive. Another soldier tells the other that he is a Mutie so what did he expect? Behind the soldiers they hear a loud “snikt,” signaling the arrival of Wolverine, to help his friends. Wolverine is covered in shrapnel as he his blasted with some sort of black ooze that envelops him, makes it impossible for Logan to fight back.
Near the soldiers’ location, Sage watches them with her glasses, giving her a readout of their weapon systems and armor capacities. Sage wonders to herself about how they seemed to know that the X-Men would be there. Startling Sage, a soldier knocks her unconscious and drags her to his other comrades. The soldier asks his commander if they are taking prisoners and, with a slashing motion over his throat, the commander signals him to kill them!
At Belles of Hell in Chicago, the bar that Kitty Pryde works at, she is telling her boss to have a good night, as she is left alone to care for the bar. On the television screen, Counselor Whedon, the founding member of the Mutants Right League, tries to defend the X-Men, saying that people are to quick to point the finger when they don’t have the real evidence. Kitty tells the television that the latest craze is blaming muties. Picking up her cell phone Kitty calls one of her professors, but only gets Benes voicemail. Hearing a noise she turns around to tell the customer that they are closed for the night.
Blasted from her feet by a sonic explosion, Kitty is unconscious and phased half into the bar. Lady Deathstrike stands above her and she tells Kitty that she isn’t there for a drink. Yuriko picks Kitty off of the ground with her hair and asks the shadowed man entering the room if she is whom he wanted to find? Stryker steps from the shadows and tells Yuriko that she is the one. She’s perfect.