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Story Title:  Wish You Were Here (1st story)
 7 ½ (2nd story)
 LDR (3rd story)
 Cajun Justice!
First Story:
San Francisco, where Jubilation Lee - better known as “Jubilee” - sits under a lamp, lighting the boardwalk. The glow of the city’s lights behind her, as she writes a letter:
Hey! I’m in San Fran. Guess I just missed you. Sorry I haven’t been out to the island yet. You know how it is, always on the go, but, hey, it’s all good, right? Running around, soul-searching after all that went down. That’s me. Learned from the best.
Nearby, several unique teenagers run across the boardwalk. ‘C’mon, we’re gonna be late!’ one of them exclaims. ‘She’s here already!’ another declares.
But don’t worry, I’m making friends. I’m fine, really. But don’t worry, I’m making friends, I’m fine, really. Let me try this again….
‘Sorry! We’re here! The charter almost left without us!’ exclaims Trance, in her astral form as she, Anole, Dust, Loa and Rockslide appear behind Jubilee, who spins around in shock. ‘Geez, Trance! Welcome to my heart attack!’ Jubilee smiles. ‘You doing homework? Ugh. I thought that stuff ended when you graduate. That’s it. I’m totally flunking this year on purpose’ Rockslide mutters. Dust tells Jubilee that she is sorry they are late. ‘Yeah, Anole had to do his hair’ Rockslide remarks, to which Anole tells him to shut up.
Hey, just wanted to say hey. didn’t want to take too much time…I’m sure you have your hands full with all the new kids.
‘You’ve got a mad crush, we all know it’ Rockslide continues to annoy Anole. ‘Shut up!’ Anole exclaims. ‘Wait, can you even have crushes on girls?’ Rockslide asks. ‘Santo, I swear to -’ Anole begins, but Dust interrupts: ‘Boys, enough’ she tells her teammates.
Don’t worry about me. I’m great. Seriously. You know me, I can handle myself. I think I may have a job & I’m finding a place. It’ll be great!
Jubilee asks the youngsters who is going first. Trance’s astral form smiles and exclaims that she hit Ms Marvel in the face. ‘I mean, not the real one, but the bad one -’. ‘She was hot, though!’ Rockslide declares. ‘Norman Osborn tried to blow us up!’ Anole reveals. ‘It was crazy, everyone was there. Oh and Dagger is really pretty in person’ Loa smiles.
Seriously, you know me, I can handle myself. I think I may have a job & I’m finding a place. It’ll be great!
Hey, “Bub” -
Jubilee, wearing a new pair of shades, smiles and tells the kids that she saw some of that on TV. ‘It looked nuts. How was it? Were you scared?’ she asks. ‘A little’ Loa admits. ‘Yes’ Trance exclaims. ‘Who wouldn’t be?’ Anole asks. ‘Nope’ Rockslide boasts. ‘You should be’ Jubilee tells him, leaning back on a railing. ‘When I was with the X-Men, we got captured and put on an island. It wasn’t pretty. But I snuck away and helped save the day. Sometimes you have to run away to get back in the fight’ Jubilee explains.
Sorry this is so short. I really don’t know what to say in a letter, but I thought I should try. I don’t know if I’m even allowed on Utopia. “Mutants only?”
Jubilee tells Rockslide that he probably dropped a brick when he saw the Avengers attack. ‘Busted’ Dust tells him, before asking Jubilee ‘That was Genosha, wasn’t it? Where you were held captive?’
I really don’t know what to say in a letter, but I thought I should try. I don’t know if I’m even allowed on Utopia. “Mutants only?”. So, how’s island life?
‘Yeah. Looooong time ago. But then some mutants made it their home’ Jubilee answers Dust’s question. ‘Before it was destroyed’ Dust adds. Trance asks Jubilee if that is why she doesn’t come on Utopia anymore. ‘Are you afraid?’
Utopia looks awesome at night. But what kind of name is that anyway?
‘Of course not’ Jubilee replies. ‘You guys are totally safe out there. You’ve got Cyclops in charge, and he’s, like, really serious about that kinda stuff. ‘And Wolverine!’ Loa exclaims. Jubilee’s bottom lip drops: ‘Yeah…him too’ she replies, before smiling and asking if there are any new faces. ‘Seems there’s somebody new flying overhead out there every day’. ‘Oh, yeah! There’s soooo many mutants, it’s rad!’ one of them exclaims.
Anole tells Jubilee that she should come to the island. ‘You know you can come and go. All the X-Men do. Wolverine, Cyclops, Psylocke…’ he begins, while Rockslide tells Anole that Jubilee is “so slammin”.
I can see it from the pier. There’s even one designated now in the harbor to watch at night. All the powers gone off. It’s like the 4th of July every night with fireworks.
I can see it from the pier. There’s even one designated now in the harbor to watch at night. All the powers gone off. It’s like the 4th of July every night with fireworks.
‘Yeah, I don’t know if that’s really my thing anymore’ Jubilee replies, looking away, while a newcomer exclaims ‘Probably not. Since you’re not a mutant anymore!’. Everyone turns and sees Surge standing before them. ‘Are we in trouble?’ Trance asks. Jubilee asks Surge what she is doing here, telling her that she was not invited.
‘What are you doing? Training them? Giving tips?’ Surge asks. ‘Last time I checked, they had teachers with powers to do that. X-Men! Which you are not!’ Surge declares. Jubilee lifts her shades up and points out that Storm led the X-Men without powers back in the day. ‘She didn’t need them to be part of the team’. ‘Back in your day?’ Surge asks, before exclaiming ‘Anyone who’s a mutant…let’s go. Now’.
‘Who the hell are you to even think you know me?’ Jubilee declares, while Loa, Anole and Rockslide frown. ‘Looks to me like you’re a burnout who’s practically stalking the X-Men when you should be as far away from here as possible, living a normal life!’ Surge declares. ‘You mean the life you want?’ an exasperated Jubilee asks. Jubilee exclaims that Surge would love to be without powers, living in some square state in small town USA as far away from here as possible and call that “life”. ‘Better than looking over your shoulder every day wondering which of my friends are gonna die next!’ Surge retorts.
‘You do not want to play the body count game with me’ Jubilee warns Surge, telling her that people die, it’s a fact and it sucks. ‘Doesn’t matter if you’re a human or a mutant. At least as a mutant we -’ she begins, before realizing that Anole and the other kids are standing behind her. ‘We have the chance to make a difference and maybe save some lives’ Jubilee exclaims, adding that there is something different in all of them, and nothing - not a spell, or big gloves - nothing can change that or take it away.
‘We’re all still mutants’ Jubilee exclaims. Surge looks at her, and doesn’t say anything, before hanging her head and tells her teammates that it is time to go. The kids all turn and walk away, while Jubilee sits down on the bench. ‘You…you want a ride? There’s room’ Surge calls back. ‘Thanks, but I got some stuff to finish here’ Jubilee replies. ‘You want me to say hi or anything?’ Surge asks. ‘Nah. I got this’ Jubilee tells her. Jubilee sits and watches the night turn darker.
Dear Logan -
‘So, what…you want me ta just head out to that Utopia Island and hand the first person I see this letter? How’s anyone supposed ta know who it’s for?’ a ferry operator asks Jubilee as she stands on the dock near his boat. ‘Don’t worry…he’ll smell it coming a mile away!’ Jubilee exclaims as she spins around and walks away, dropping her shades back down over her eyes.
Wish you were here!
XOXOX,
Jubilee
Second Story:
‘I had a nightmare’ a voice exclaims. ‘I dreamed that all my people were gone because the X-Men were too stupid to save them. And - even worse - they stole my idea and created a mutant nation’. A green gas cloud appears - and from it, materializes Quentin Quire! Looking pleased with himself, Quentin exclaims that he then woke up and the nightmare was real. ‘You remember me. Nobody can forget Quentin Quire!’ he boasts. Quentin claims that he got over that “Stupid stupid psychic girl” and her “stupid psychic sisters”, and got bored existing on a higher plane and living in a jar in Dr McCoy’s room. Quentin boasts that he is back, and that in eight minutes he is going to destroy this island of “Utopia” and kill everyone on it.
‘Now…I can affect the actions of a few people a lot, or a lot of people a little, and I can think ten million brilliant thoughts a second!’ he claims, adding that he has arranged an accumulation of small, seemingly unrelated actions that will push the island - very literally - past the tipping point. ‘Nobody’s going to realize they’re doing anything, so nobody’s going to try to stop me. Well, except you. If I’m a super villain, I need an arch-nemesis!’ Quire remarks. Quentin begins to revert to the gaseous form as he tells his apparent arch-foe that they have eight - actually seven-and-a-half minutes to save the X-Men from their worst nightmare. ‘A vengeful mutant from a higher plane of existence!’ he exclaims as he vanishes.
Quire’s “arch foe” remains silent - for she is Martha Johansson. She cannot speak, cannot move, and nobody is going to come looking for her here in her bedroom - and she has just been given the greatest responsibility of her life. Martha is a brain, and remains in a bubble with needles sticking out of it, kept afloat by an anti-gravity device, while being tied to the ground by a chain. She is a telepath and can enter other people’s minds and control them - that is her fist move.
Martha reaches out to find someone - anyone - but she just keeps finding Quire. His mind is everywhere - a choir of Quire. Amongst it though, Martha finds Bobby “Iceman” Drake, using his powers to cool something down, he sings to himself: “When will the suffering reach it’s end? Can man and mutant meet as friends? Or do all hopes and -” he stops suddenly, his eyes flash pink, Martha is in his mind, and exclaims ‘We are in great danger!’.
At that moment, Nezhno Abidemi a.k.a. Gentle walks past and asks Iceman what is wrong. ‘You sound like you had a stroke’. ‘It is not Bobby Drake - I am Martha! Marth Johansson! Quentin Quire is back!’ Martha exclaims through Bobby. Gentle’s eyes flash green, and he smirks: ‘Martha, Martha, Martha’, asking her if she thought it would be that easy. ‘I’m Quentin Quire. I’m not a villain - I’m a super villain. And you’re three pounds of neuron sitting in some pink goo in a fishbowl!’ Quire booms as he uses Gentle’s power to increase his mass, towering over Martha/Iceman, he knocks her/him back. ‘Possessing people? Please, there’s nothing you can do that I can’t!’ he boasts.
Quentin/Gentle reaches down to grab Martha/Iceman, and exclaims that he is going to beat Bobby Drake to a pulp with Martha’ psyche still inside. ‘If you fight back, you’ll be hurting Nezhno here and -’
Martha realizes that round one goes to Quentin Quire, so she decides to try her other mutant ability - that of being able to shut down any mutant’s power, provided they are nearby. So Martha takes control of the first strong body she locates - James “Warpath” Proudstar, who grabs Martha’s chain and takes her to where Quentin said he was located - a jar in the Beast’s lab. If no one emptied the Beast’s quarters after he left, then it should still be there. Lucky for Martha, it is, and through Warpath she picks it up - but she is forced from Warpath and returns to her own “body” as Quire takes over Warpath’s.
‘Martha…you haven’t even got a body. You made three mistakes. First, I’m stronger than you - note the one-billionth of a second it took me to clear you out of this head. Second - I’m not in that jar, anymore. And here’s the third…’ Quire begins as he/Warpath grabs the chain - and smashes it against the wall, leaving Martha - the brain - to fall to the floor. ‘Round two to Quentin Quire. You’ve less than ninety seconds, Martha!’ Quire warns her as he leaves the lab.
But Martha now has all the information she needs. Quentin may not be in the lab anymore, but he is somewhere. She recalls how he said “the stupid psychic sisters”, and how he claimed he was over them. But if there is one thing Martha knows, it is now a brain works - Quentin wouldn’t say he was over them if it were true.
Elsewhere, the “stupid psychic sisters” - Mindee, Celeste and Phoebe - collectively known as the Stepford Cuckoos - are inside Cerebra. ‘Girls - I’m getting a strange reading from Dr McCoy’s room…’ one of them remarks. ‘The possibility of something happening here is as likely as something happening between Celeste and Julian’ one of the others replies. ‘I’ll have you know I’m meeting him at three’ Celeste boasts, smiling.
Martha realizes that Quentin would have waited until the Cuckoos were monitoring Cerebra, the telepathic mutant detection system - and he would have entered the system itself and used it to trap their minds in a psychic loop. That is exactly what happens, as the girls repeat themselves, unaware that a green gas pours into the room, and Quentin materializes. To replay the moments before he made his move, so the sisters would have no clue anything is wrong.
‘Nicely pieced together, Martha’ Quentin remarks as he moves up behind Celeste. ‘Unfortunately, the Cuckoos have very powerful psychic defenses - well out of your league. I’m afraid you’ll haven o luck controlling any of them’ Quire tells Martha. But Quentin doesn’t understand that Martha is done playing his game - his game isn’t control. ‘I’ll have you know I’m meeting him at three - …past three, now…’ Celeste exclaims, her eyes glowing pink, she sees the time is 3:08 pm and stands up, ‘Who’s in my head…Martha?’ she calls out. Martha tells her everything in an instant, and Celeste sees Quire as he vanishes into green gas. ‘Cuckoos - Quentin Quire is loose!’ Celeste tells her sisters, announcing that he is in Cerebra.
‘And there’s nothing you can do about it, girls! You all die in eight seconds!’ Quentin boasts as his image appears on a monitor. ‘Quire - you’ve been away too long - and you have no idea - what we have become capable of!’ the Stepford Cuckoos exclaim. Quentin vanishes from the monitor, screaming, and gas appears in the room. ‘We’ll take it from here, Martha. Help is on the way and…thank you’ one of the Cuckoos tells Martha.
Lying on the lab of the Beast’s laboratory, Martha dismisses the Cuckoos kindness, as she has done what anyone would do. But it feels nice to be someone’s archenemy. Maybe it’s time for Martha to get a costume….
Third Story:
Utopia, where Northstar finds himself falling to the ground, under attack by a pack of Warwolves. Storm calls out to him, while Cyclops tells Storm to get up and help him. ‘So tasty!’ one of the Warwolves exclaims, lunging at Northstar. ‘Get off me!’ the speedster exclaims, pushing the Warwolve away, while Storm conjures up a strong breeze to push the Warwolves from her, and Northstar falls to the ground with a THUD. Cyclops rushes over to him, asking him if he is okay. ’So what happened up there?’ Cyclops asks, helping Northstar up.  Northstar explains that he was flying back from Canada, and the Warwolves found him. ‘I could not shake them and then I was here, above Utopia!’ Northstar declares. Cyclops frowns and tells Northstar to clean himself up and meet him in his office.
Soon, Cyclops tells Northstar that he is very disappointed. ‘You let us down again’ he declares. Northstar tells Cyclops that he is sorry, explaining that he misses his home and his boyfriend, so he has been traveling a lot. ‘Being an X-Man and maintaining a long distance relationship is exhausting!’ Northstar declares, to which Cyclops reminds Northstar that he made a commitment to this team, and tells him that if he cannot help them make Utopia work, they may all be doomed. ‘Deal with your personal issues without endangering us all, understood?’ he orders. ‘I’ll try…’ Northstar mutters.
Soon, Northstar is in a basement with Pixie, who is trying to fix a broken pipe, which gushes water everywhere. ‘Kyle’s so sweet. Cute. Very funny’ he brags, as he hands Pixie a spanner. ‘And organized! He keeps me focused. I’d be lost without him!’ Northstar exclaims as he follows Warpath around. Later, Northstar sighs as he looks at a photo of Kyle on his mobile phone, while flying backwards - straight into Dazzler who is roller skating nearby and singing. Dazzler falls over, and Northstar quickly apologizes, telling Dazzler that he has not heard from Kyle in a while. ‘Just call him, then!’ Dazzler exclaims.
And later, night has fallen over Utopia. Northstar sits on the edge of a building, the moon shines down on him as he speaks into his phone: ‘Please? I can’t keep up this pace anymore. I know you’ll have to use some vacation time. But your boss will understand! Please? I miss you!’ Northstar exclaims. I’ll see what I can do’ Kyle replies from his bed.
The next day, in Toronto, Kyle walks into his manager’s office, and exclaims ‘Get this - Jean-Paul has asked me to visit him in Utopia’. ‘A request? Are we talking about my brother Jean-Paul?’ Jeanne-Marie a.k.a. Aurora asks as she points at a photo of Jean-Paul. Kyle replies that Jean-Paul sounded awful - tired, lonely and humble. ‘Barely the man I love!’ he adds, asking Aurora if she would like him to go. ‘Of course!’ Aurora exclaims. ‘You have been a trusted friend for ages. When I hired you as his event manager, I’d hoped to keep track of him and keep him out of trouble…but I never expected you two to fall in love! Since you have, I want you to go. As his boyfriend. He needs you’ Aurora exclaims, pushing Kyle out of her office.
Soon, Kyle throws some clothes into a suitcase. Later, he frowns as the person in the seat next to his snores on the plane. After arriving in San Francisco, he finds a cab and asks the driver to take him to the docks. There, Kyle points out to Utopia and asks some construction workers on the dock if that is the mutant “Utopia”. ‘Freak Island? Yeah’ one of them replies. ‘Glad the muties are away from us on that ugly island’ the other declares. The construction workers laugh and point, while Kyle phones Northstar: ‘Hey, babe. Guess who’s on the docks looking in your direction?’
Northstar drops his phone on the floor, and flies to the dock at super-speed - collecting Kyle and flying straight to his bedroom. He puts Kyle down and lights some candles, before sitting on his bed, and patting the space next to him, beckoning Kyle to sit down.
An undermined amount of time later, Northstar is sitting on the bed in a pair of shorts, while Kyle has returned from the bathroom, a towel wrapped around his waist. ‘Sorry I don’t have my own working bathroom yet’ Northstar remarks. ‘Me too’ Kyle replies, before looking around the sparse room, their clothes strewn on the floor, and asking ‘So…this is your quarters, huh? Maybe we could check into a hotel? San Francisco is pretty’ Northstar puts on a t-shirt and after Kyle has almost finished dressing, Northstar grabs him by the hand: ‘Let me show you around!’
‘This is the dining hall’ Northstar points out as they walk past the Stepford Cuckoos to where Cannonball, Mirage, Sunspot and Magik of the New Mutants are sitting. ‘Could I get some coffee?’ Kyle asks. ‘Self-serve’ Cannonball tells him. ‘And it’s not any good’ Mirage adds. ‘How about the hotel?’ Kyle asks.
But Northstar takes Kyle into the gym, where Angel is flying through hoops, and Blindfold is lifting a ball. ‘Hotel?’ Kyle asks. But they next enter the lounge, where Hellion, Surge, Loa and Onyxx are relaxing. ‘We can hang out here’ Northstar remarks, before exclaiming ‘Everyone, this is my BF, Kyle’. ‘…hey’ Kyle remarks, waving. ‘So, you’re Northstar’s “normal”’ Hellion remarks. ‘Seriously. Hotel. Please’ Kyle whispers.
Not much later, Northstar and Kyle are on the edge of Utopia, Kyle with his suitcase, telling Northstar that they can go to the Moma and get a good meal, when suddenly, ‘I knew my tasty would come back to me!’ a Warwolve exclaims, lunging at Northstar. ‘Get down!’ Jean-Paul exclaims, throwing Kyle to the ground. ‘You won’t take me today! Not when I’m about to have a romantic evening with my special boy!’ Jean-Paul exclaims, slamming into the Warwolve, while Kyle screams. ‘Take over, will you?’ Northstar calls out to Colossus and Psylocke, who begin battling the Warwolve. ‘I have to get my guy to safety!’ Northstar exclaims, picking up Kyle, who is still screaming. ‘You made dinner reservations, right? I’m hungry!’ Northstar exclaims.
‘Jean-Paul! Put me down!’ Kyle exclaims as they fly toward San Francisco. ‘What’s wrong?’ Northstar asks, ‘You’re kidding, right?’ Kyle replies as Northstar descends over San Francisco. ‘Are you overreacting to a little fight?’ Jean-Paul asks. ‘No, Jean-Paul…I’m not. It’s more than that. Much more!’ Kyle exclaims, telling Northstar that their relationship is so one-sided. ‘You can be a part of my world in the blink of an eye…but I can never be part of yours. And don’t think I want to be’ Kyle declares, hanging his head and motioning to Utopia.
Northstar turns away from Kyle, ‘I like the face that you’re not part of this world…but I guess I understand why you’re breaking up with me’ he declares. ‘NO!’ Kyle exclaims, eyes-wide. ‘I don’t want to lose you. I just think we need to be meeting on common ground. Safe ground. The ground’ Kyle exclaims. Northstar frowns, before remarking that it sounds like he will be visiting Kyle in Toronto soon. ‘But maybe you can try visiting Utopia again? When my bathroom is working?’ he suggests. ‘I promise’ Kyle tells him, as they clasp hands and look out to Utopia.
Fourth Story:
Utopia, Tuesday, 11:47 pm.
Gambit brushes his teeth, and stares into the mirror, telling himself that he will be the first to admit that he has made some bad decisions in his life. Even with his eyes open, the scenes repeat themselves in front of him, over and over. His eyes flash red. He continues brushing his teeth, and thinks to himself ‘As if reliving my memories is enough to change the past. But the further I run from it, the faster it catches up with me. It’s disgusting’. Gambit spits the toothpaste into the sink.
11:53 pm.
Gambit leaves his quarters, and in the hallway, Pixie is talking to Wolverine: ‘Do you know what happened to today’s shipment? We’re totally out of toilet paper -’ Pixie tells Wolverine, who sees Gambit, and asks ‘Bailing already, Cajun?’ Gambit replies that he is just going for a walk, explaining that he has been having trouble sleeping lately. ‘I wouldn’t be able to sleep either if I were a Marauder’ Wolverine declares. ‘That’s all in the past’ Gambit tells him. ‘Best hope it stays there’ Wolverine declares, telling Gambit to enjoy his walk, for if nothing else, it is a beautiful night. Gambit’s eyes flash red as he leaves the hallway.
Outside, Gambit stands on the edge of Utopia, and thinks to himself that Wolverine means well. ‘Pity the same can’t be said about me’ he adds. Gambit walks along the rocks, thinking that some people blame choice they make on the way they were raised, while others, say they can’t do good because they’re bad by nature. ‘But me…what’s my excuse? How can I expect people to count on me when I can’t even on myself. Do the right thing for once in your life’ he tells himself as he finds a small boat tied up at the edge of the rocks.
11:59 pm.
Back inside, Pixie bangs on the door to Cyclops’ office. ‘Are you awake? She calls out, before entering. ‘What is it, Pixie? I was just wrapping up in here’ Cyclops tells her. ‘Somebody’s take one of our boats! I…I think it was Gambit!’ Pixie announces. Cyclops asks her if she is sure, to which Pixie replies that she is pretty sure, explaining that she and Wolverine bumped into Gambit as he was heading outside. ‘Also, we’re totally out of toilet paper’ Pixie informs Cyclops, who gets on the radio transmitter: ‘Gambit? Can you hear me? I need to you to turn that boat around right now’ Cyclops orders.
‘You know we have limited resources, and that includes boasts. Turn the boat around. If you want to go to San Fran, somebody can take you in the mor-’ Cyclops continues, but Gambit turns off the radio in the boat. Soon, he pulls up at the dock in San Francisco, thinking to himself that Cyclops knows better than anybody that things are better off this way. ‘Taking a chance on me is a gamble none of us can afford right now’ he adds, before thinking that he can’t believe Cyclops let him back on the team in the first place. ‘After everything I’ve done…what was he thinking?’ Gambit wonders.
Suddenly, he hears a struggle: ‘Who’s there?’ Gambit calls out. ‘Just some concerned citizens, friend. We caught this man conspiring with the enemy - running supplies out to that island of freaks’ a thug declares, while his fellow holds their prisoner around the neck. ‘You sure you’re not terrorizing this man? ‘Cause that’s sure what it looks like’ Gambit exclaims. ‘Just get the hell out of here! What are you, some kina mutie lover?’ one of the thugs asks. ‘I reckon you could say that’ Gambit tells him, pulling out a playing card and kinetically charging it.
‘He’s one of -’ the other thug exclaims, letting their prisoner go. ‘Move it! You just made a big mistake, freak!’ the first thug declares, revealing a gun, he opens fire at Gambit, who dodges the bullets, and replies ‘I’ve made plenty of mistakes in my life - but this ain’t one of them!’, and with that, Gambit throws his kinetically charged playing card at the armed thug, knocking him and his companion backwards, but the card lands against a small plane, damaging it.
Gambit begins to walk along the dock, when suddenly the man he rescued exclaims ‘Wh- what about -?’, but Gambit tells him that the thugs are unconscious. ‘You might think about calling the cops before they wake up’. ‘No, it’s -’ the other man begins. ‘I’m sorry’ Gambit tells him, but the man gets up and tells Gambit to wait a minute. ‘My plane! Who’s going to pay for this?’ he asks. ‘Oh…uh…’ Gambit utters, while the man exclaims ‘Now what am I gonna do?’
Gambit tells him he is sorry and that he will find a way to pay for the damage. ‘It’s not just that!’ the man declares, before remarking ‘I’m sorry. You’re from the island - Utopia, that’s what they call it. That means you’re a mutant? Well, so was my daughter’. ‘Was?’ Gambit asks. ‘She died when she lost her powers on M-Day’ the man remarks, hanging his head. He tells Gambit that he never fully accepted his daughter, not really, and said some terrible things - things that he regrets. ‘Now that she’s gone, it’s - I’ve just been doing what I can to try and get her trust back’.
The man apologizes, but Gambit tells him not to, and remarks that he has got some trust to earn back too. ‘This is all on me’ he tells him, before they open the plane and see that the cargo is safe. The man tells Gambit that he is welcome to take whatever he can carry back to Utopia, as he will not be delivering anytime soon. ‘Thank you, Mr…’ Gambit begins. ‘Cho. Really, I’m the one who should be thanking -’ Mr Cho remarks, but Gambit tells him that he will make sure they get the plane of his backing the air. ‘You can count on me’ Gambit assures him, and soon, travels back to Utopia, the jet boat loaded up with supplies.


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Unresolved Issues (First Story)
 Big Boy Pants (Second Story)
 Boxes(Third Story)
 Cannon Ball (Fourth Story)
First Story:
Utopia, inside the X-Brig, where Armor approaches Danger, asking her if everything is running smoothly. ‘Yes, Hisako -’ Danger begins. ‘Armor’ Hisako declares. Danger pauses, before she declares that, as a sentient program, it is simple for her to monitor all of the X-Brig’s functions, simultaneously, including food service and climate control. ‘Yes or no will do, Danger. And if the facility were under attack…’ Armor declares. ‘They would have to get through three-foot thick walls of reinforced vibranium and concrete. Plus, the holding cells are securely hidden six floors below us’ Danger replies. ‘So there’s nothing important on this level? Say, the wall behind you?’ Hisako asks as she surrounds herself in her large armor. ‘That’s just empty storage’ Danger replies. ‘Good. I’d hate for you to ruin something important’ Hisako declares.
Danger looks at Armor and asks her who told her to come here for the inspection. ‘Wing did’ Armor exclaims as she punches Danger - hard - knocking her through several walls. Danger slams against a wall which blocks her from going any further. ‘My bad’ Hisako remarks, standing in the hole in the wall. ‘I meant to tell you nicely, first. You’re not welcome on Utopia. So get out’. Danger launches a projectile from her mouth, and remarks that she can see Armor still has issues. ‘But I’m needed here, Frost says so. I’m going to reform the prisoners’ she explains. The projectile slams into Hiskao’s armor, but doesn’t penetrate it. ‘Really? You? Reform them? How are you going to reform anyone?’ Armor asks, her mind flashing back some months ago. ‘You talked my best friend into killing himself. Made the students see him as a bloodthirsty ghoul out to kill us all. That’s how they remember Wing. Thanks to you’ Armor exclaims.
Danger stands up and admits that she has certain regrets. ‘I don’t care. Get out!’ Armor declares. ‘You know everything’s changed since then’ Danger tells her, pointing out that they fought to save the Earth - side by side on Breakworld. ‘It would be impossible for you not to understand -’ Danger begins, but Hisako shifts her armor, creating three claws on each fist. ‘”Understand” these. Bub’ she declares, making reference to what she has learned from Wolverine, she lunges at Danger, who has also shifted her form, to combat Armor, telling her that this will not bring her friend back. ‘Shut up!’ Armor screams while Danger tries to break through the armor.
‘I’m simply pointing out that this assault won’t actually help anyone -’ Danger begins, before Armor exclaims ‘I said - SHUT UP!’ and shoves her armor-claws toward Danger - stopping inches from her face, as Danger’s hand presses against Armor’s fist, the her claws reaching through Danger’s fingers. Danger tells Armor that she still has all of her Danger Room sessions recorded in her memory, so she knows all her moves, strengths and weaknesses. ‘You can’t beat me’ she tells her. ‘You know what I have to say to that?’ Danger asks. ‘Snikt’ she declares as she extends her armor-claws, shoving them into Danger’s face.
Armor screams and begins to rip through Danger savagely. Suddenly, ‘If you’re quite done with your “salute to Wolverine” Danger declares, appearing behind Armor, with a weapon pointed at her. ‘You sanctimonious bitch!’ Armor declares. ‘And channeling Emma Frost…I’d like for us to talk’ Danger declares. ‘But if you insist on continuing, I will begin utilizing lasers. Which we both know go right through your armor’ Danger declares. ‘Fine’ Hisako mutters, dropping her armor, they stand face to face. ‘You want to talk? Then tell me. Why are you here? Weren’t you trapped in the Danger Room computer for years?’ she asks. ‘And now you want to live with us? The people who “oppressed you”? That’s so sick!’ Hisako declares, comparing Danger’s situation to “Battered computer program syndrome”.
‘I’m here to understand humanity’ Danger explains. ‘Fine. So join a reality show. Or move to New York City. But you can’t be here. This is a haven for mutants. And you being here spits on Wing’s memory!’ Armor shouts. ‘But…Wing is the reason I’m here’ Danger exclaims. ‘Ever since Breakworld, whether I’m working on new programs…or accessing files. Or even in shutdown mode. I see him. Wing. Everywhere. I’ve dumped his file. Purged my memory banks of his records. But nothing works. He just keeps coming back. Just standing. Smiling at me. Waving’ Danger reveals. She adds that she hoped understanding the nature of mutants could help her find a way to fix this error. ‘To finally erase him from my operating system’.
Wide-eyed, Hisako exclaims ‘Oh my God. That’s no error. That’s guilt. You feel…guilty’. Danger tells her not to be ridiculous. ‘Programs don’t feel guilt’ she remarks. ‘You felt anger and resentment against Xavier for years. And you’re definitely condescending. So why not guilt?’ Armor asks. ‘Since the Shi’ar technicians said your hybrid programming doesn’t explain your having emotions…you probably do belong here. Because you’re a - a mutant. A mutant program, but a mutant all the same’ Armor declares.
Danger’s mouth drops, and pauses, before asking Hisako how she resolves this guilt. ‘Depends. In some cases, it’s incurable’ Armor tells her. ‘Incurable?’ Danger asks. ‘Hello? Have you met Scott Summers?’ Armor jokes, before putting a hand on Danger’s shoulder and leading her back to the control booth, telling her that she will help her learn about mutants. ‘Let me tell you about a fine one. His name was Wing…’.
Second Story:
‘Looking good, y’all!’ Cannonball calls out to Magik, Anole, Mercury and Rockslide, who are all helping him work on getting the garden ready. The three younger mutants are carrying some rocks out of the dirt-covered field, and Anole mutters to his teammates ‘This sucks. We’re supposed to be in the field, not a field’. Rockslide and Mercury drop their rocks, and Anole tells them that they should be more concerned with the seeds of hate than the seeds of wheat. ‘Ain’t that supposed to rhyme, ya dope?’ Rockslide asks. ‘Meh, close enough. How about this one? I signed on to be an X-Man, not an X-farmer!’ Anole declares.
‘Is that right?’ Cannonball asks as he stands over Anole. ‘Care to enlighten me on the difference?’ he asks, frowning. ‘With all due respect, Sam, anyone can farm. As mutants, this is a waste of our time’ Anole declares. ‘Last time I checked, mutants need to eat’ Cannonball replies. ‘Then we should send someone to the store! I mean, hello? Does the army have a “farming unit”? I don’t think so!’ Anole declares. Cannonball tells him that Cyclops doesn’t seem to think they are wasting their time, considering he approved this project. ‘But if you think you know better, fine. We got enough -’ Cannonball begins, but Anole exclaims ‘Thank you!’ and begins to leave the field. Walking past Magik, he remarks ‘You get what I’m saying - right, Magik?’. But Magik glances sideways at Anole as he walks past her, sheepishly - before he suddenly vanishes - teleported away by Magik!
‘What the -?’ Anole asks as he lands in a desert. ‘Crap’ he mutters, looking around at the never-ending landscape.
Day one.
‘What, you think this lizard can’t survive in the big, scary desert? Well I got news for you, Magik!’ Anole shouts out, confidently.
Day two.
Anole is playing on the side of a cliff. ‘Bam! Fa-kow! Cyclops, get down! I got this!’ he exclaims.
Day three.
‘Soooooooo boooooored!’ Anole mutters, lying against a mound.
Day four.
‘No water…so I guess this isn’t a cactus. Great’ he mutters as a small plant crumbles in his hands.
Day five.
Anole is sitting under a ledge to escape the heat of the sun, when suddenly, a canister of water is dropped nearby. He quickly grabs the canister and begins drinking the water, while Magik stands over him. ‘What is your problem? Are you insane?’ Anole asks, wiping his mouth. ‘Any longer without water and you’d be dead’ Magik tells him. ‘What? Are you serious? What if you couldn’t find me!’ Anole exclaims. ‘There is always the store -’ Magik tells him as she begins to teleport away. But Anole grabs her by the shoulder, telling her not to go, and that he gets it.
‘I’ve had a lot of time to think and I realized that without making our own food, we - well - we could all die’ he admits, nervously. ‘HAMMER, of God knows who could come along. They could cut us off from our supplies and stuff at any moment!’ Anole points out. ‘And that’s something I wouldn’t have thought of back on Earth if I’d taken a second to use my brain’ Anole admits. He tells Magik that she was right and he was wrong. ‘I’ve learned my lesson’ he assures her.
Raising her arm, Magik replies ‘Lesson? This was no lesson. I sent you here because it made me sick to look at you’ she reveals. Anole closes his eyes, before screaming ‘WHAT?’ Stepping Disks surround Magik and Anole as they teleport back to Earth. ‘But that lesson sounds like a good one to have learned. You better be careful or you may need to learn some other lessons’ Magik warns Anole.
‘Victor!’ Mercury exclaims as Anole and Magik return to the field. ‘Holy crap!’ Rockslide shouts. ‘Thank the Lord! Illyana, you don’t do that you your teammates’ Cannonball tells Magik. Mercury turns her arm into a weapon sharp weapon and asks ‘Did you she send you to Limbo? AGAIN?’ as she points her arm at Illyana’s throat. ‘Everything’s okay! I’m totally fine!’ Anole assures everyone. Cannonball asks him if he is sure and suggests that Doctor Nemesis should check it out. ‘No, really, I’m fine. And you were right, Sam. I was being a real jerk’ Anole admits.
‘In fact, I’m in the mood for some - farming’ Anole declares as he struggles to pick up a large rock. ‘Well, I’ll be…’ Cannonball smiles ,before telling everyone that the show is over and to get back to work. ‘What the heck happened?’ Rockslide asks as Anole carries the rock off the field, and looks at Magik, who frowns as she knees down to dig another hole in the field.
Third Story:
Day 45.
On the edge of Utopia, a glass coffin is dropped into the ocean - the body of Lillian Crawley-Jeffries a.k.a. Diamond Lil inside it. At the waters edge, Lillian’s estranged husband Madison Jeffries looks down, while their fellow former Alpha Flight members Wolverine a.k.a. Logan and Jean-Paul “Northstar” Beaubier stand nearby. Jeffries’ X-Club teammate Doctor Nemesis stands behind them, while Scott “Cyclops” Summers stands further up the bank. ‘I met Lillian Crawley’ what feels like a hundred lifetimes ago’ Jeffries thinks to himself. ‘The first time I saw her was through glass. Part of me preferred it that way. That separation between us’. But Jeffries reminds himself that the separation didn’t last, as Lil wouldn’t let it. ‘That’s not who she is. Lil is visceral. Raw. Alive. I can’t believe this is happening. Oh, God, how did this happen?’
Day 1.
‘Jeffries! Jeffries! Good Lord, man. What’s gotten in to you?’ Doctor Nemesis asks his teammate, walking over to him as he awaits on the landing pad. Jeffries stands and looks out to the Blackbird. He knows Diamond Lil is coming - and that he would not be able to avoid her any longer. That’s what Utopia is - a home for all mutants, and Lil needed that right now. ‘After what I did to her. I just didn’t think…I didn’t think it would be so soon’. Lil arrives, exiting the Blackbird wearing her classic green and yellow costume. She smiles, she looks happy, beautiful. Jeffries tells himself that Lil deserves to be happy after everything she has been through in her life, everything she has survived. Jeffries watches as Lillian follows the Beast across the landing pad and thinks to himself ‘She deserves to be here without me’.
Day 4.
Jeffries is in one of the labs, tinkering with a machine. A version of his old Box armor stands against a wall. ‘This is what I’m good at. Glass. Metal. Machines. Robots. Well, as long as they don’t think too much’. Jeffries tells himself that tinkering just gets in the way, while feeling just hurts. ‘It’s better that I just stay in here, away from the others. Away from her’. Suddenly, ‘Did you think I wouldn’t find you?’ Diamond Lil asks as she stands in the doorway of Jeffries’ lab. ‘Dammit’ Madison thinks to himself. Lil looks annoyed, and folds her arms across her front. ‘What kind of man are you? Are you even a man? Look at you in here, with all your garbage…hiding’ she declares.
‘Don’t you have anything to say to me, Madison? Anything to say to your wife?’ Madison approaches Lil, and tells her that she is sorry. ‘You’re sorry. That’s great. You hurt me like I’ve never bee hurt before. And then you left me to die’ Lil exclaims. ‘You know I couldn’t stop it…Lil…I’m so sorry!’ Madison declares. Lil frowns and spins around, leaving his workshop, she tells him that she knows this island is not that big. ‘But if I see you again, I’ll kill you’ she warns him.
Madison hangs his head. He knows Lillian is passionate. And he knows she is right. ‘I hurt her. I can say it wasn’t my fault all I want, but it doesn’t change what happened’ he tells himself. So Jeffries pulls back and puts up the glass between them, deciding that it is better this way.
Day 9.
Jeffries buries himself in his work. There is enough of it here. The entire installation is a disaster, and given his abilities, he is best suited for much of the work. He, Beast and Nemesis meet with the senior X-Men including Angel, Wolverine and the White Queen. The others help brainstorm, but Jeffries is left to do the work - he doesn’t mind that, in fact he prefers it. It keeps him away from people - it keeps him away from his estranged wife.
Day 17.
Wearing a special suit, Jeffries uses his powers to transmute various mechanical pieces in a large chamber. ‘Air, water, power, flotation, communications, defenses, structural integrity. Honestly…it’d have been easier to start from scratch’. But he knows that some things simply cannot be repaired. ‘Sometimes, it’s smarter to not even try’.
Day 26.
‘Madison’ Lil calls out, while Madison is fixing something under his desk. ‘Uh. Hey, Lil…do you have to kill me now? Because that seems a little unfair’ he tells Lillian who is sitting down, leaning against the wall. ‘Marrina’s dead’ Lillian announces. ‘I…I know’ Madison replies. ‘She was one of us, and now she’s gone’ Diamond Lil declares. ‘The Marrina I knew died a long time ago’ Madison replies. ‘Everyone I care about. One by one. They’re dying’ Diamond Lil remarks, hanging her head, before telling Madison ‘You left me, you made a vow to me, but you left’. Madison tells Lil that he never wanted to hurt her, and that he thought she would be happier without him. ‘Do I look happy, Madison?’ Lil asks, before getting up and leaving.
Day 31.
Madison Jeffries stands in the door of Diamond Lil’s quarters. ‘I can create. That’s my gift. I can make anything I can imagine out of metal, glass, you name it. She’s so beautiful. With people, I can’t create. I just destroy. I betray. I want to be with her. But I know I can never be. I know that if I’m with her, she’ll just be hurt again’ Madison thinks to himself as he stares at Lilllian. He turns and leaves, but Lil stirs: ‘nnn…Madison?’ she calls out.
Day 38.
Madison is in his workshop again, tinkering away, he thinks to himself that it is so much easier to be alone. ‘To be a machine’ he tells himself as he looks at his Box armor. Suddenly, ‘HEY! JERK!’ Diamond Lil shouts. ‘Lil?’ Jeffries asks as Lil storms over, wearing a pink dress, she grabs him by his jacket and asks Madison why he is doing this to her. ‘You keep finding me! I’m trying to leave you alone!’ Madison tells her. ‘You’re trying to run! Surrounding yourself with your machines, hiding…this is what happens! When it gets too hard, you leave!’ Lillian exclaims, tears streaming from her eyes.
‘I loved you, Madison, and I know you loved me. Why wasn’t it enough?’ Lil asks. ‘Why didn’t you fight for what we had? Why didn’t you fight for me?’. Madison thinks to himself that he should run, that he should get out, but he tells Lil that he would die for her if he could take it all back. ‘I would. But I can’t’. Madison tells himself that he will only hurt Lil again, before telling Lil that he loves her, that she has every right to hate him. ‘I understand. And I’ll leave this place tonight if it makes things easier for you’ he tells her.
‘I only ever wanted you to be happy. I just think you’re better off with…with some separation’ Madison explains. ‘I’m not happy. I’m Diamond Lil. Nothing can hurt me. But somehow, you keep doing it!’ Lil declares. Madison suddenly takes Lil’s right hand: ‘Lil…’ he begins. ‘Shut up. I don’t want to be alone anymore, Madison’ Lillian exclaims.
Day 41.
The Box armor stands against the wall, as if starring at Madison and Lillian, who are on the floor across the workshop. Lillian leaning into Jeffries, a blanket over their naked bodies. ‘Remember when we first me?’ Lillian asks. ‘I do’ Madison replies. ‘I saw you looking at me. Checking me out. You were cute. Spying on me through the window like that. You fell for me hard. First sight’ Lillian recalls. Diamond Lil tells Jeffries that she wants him to look at her like that forever. ‘Like you did through that glass. Promise’ Lil asks.
‘Promise’ Madison replies, and Lil smiles, before telling Madison that she doesn’t blame him for anything. ‘All the bad stuff…our marriage…I know who I am. I’d leave me, too’ she tells him. ‘Never again’ Madison smiles. ‘We’re going to make it this time, aren’t we’ Lillian declares.
A storm brews over Utopia - and an hour later, Lillian Crawley-Jeffries a.k.a. Diamond Lil is dead.
Four days later, Madison Jeffries puts her in a glass box and drops her to the bottom of the ocean, deciding that the separation is better for them.
Fourth Story:
Cannonball is lounging around outside on Utopia, while Magma and Surge are having a mock-battle nearby. Surge unleashes a blast of energy - it streaks skyward and almost collides with a jet which is flying nearby. ‘WHOA!’ the pilot exclaims, while an officer radios to him, asking ‘Tiger 01, what was that?’. ‘Some kind of energy blast almost hit me!’ the pilot replies. ‘Surge! Geez, you almost hit that fighter jet!’ Magma points out. Well, you jumped high - I dunno’ Surge replies, before telling Cannonball that they may need his help. ‘We may have just started a war!’ she exclaims.
‘An’ how am Ah s’posed to do that? I’m no telepath’ Cannonball replies. ‘I dunno, go up there and sky-write or something’ Surge suggests. ‘Yeah, just write “out bad” our something’ Magma suggests. ‘”Our bayd”? That what the kids say these days?’ Cannonball asks. ‘Yeah, like ten years ago’ Surge smirks. Cannonball tells the girls to stand back. ‘Mmmmkay!’ they exclaim, watching him and smiling, before Cannonball blasts into the air, and “writes” “Our bad” with his blast. ‘It’s all good, buddy!’ he calls out to the pilot, who radios to his commander, announcing ‘They’re sky-writing something. Looks like they wrote “Our bad”!’
‘They’re…”bad”?’ the commanding officer replies. ‘So. They think they’re tough, do they?’ he remarks, before telling the pilot that he is free to engage. ‘Ten-four’ the pilot replies, before remarking ‘See how bad you think this missile is!’. ‘Uh?’ Cannonball remarks as he sees the missile launched and follow him. ‘He’s attacking us!’ Magma exclaims as Cannonball blasts towards Utopia, with the missile and fighter jet hot on his tail. ‘What the -! I got this!’ Surge exclaims, but Magma tells her to wait. ‘Sam’s still up there! Let him handle it!’ she tells her. ‘Argh. You’re right. I’ve done enough already’ Surge mutters.
Cannonball swiftly dodges the missile, and ends up flying alongside it, wondering how he stops it, before supposing he will just punch it - and he does so, causing it to explode high above Utopia. ‘Whoa!’ Surge exclaims. ‘Sam!’ Magma calls out, concerned. ‘Phew’ both girls remark as Cannonball blasts free of the explosion. Sam lands on the island, and exclaims ‘Tarnation! What’s got this hombre all fired up!’ Magma tells Sam that what he wrote looks like “UR bad”. ‘Shoot! Well, sky-writing a perfect “o” is tough, y’know!’ Cannonball exclaims. Surge points to the approaching jet and tells Sam that she hopes he is better at deflecting jet bullets, because the pilot is taking another pass at them. ‘Aw heck. Ya’ll stay here!’ Sam calls out as he takes flight once more.
His blast-field making him invulnerable, Sam approaches the jet, the bullets bouncing off him, Sam decides he better use a full blast force, and energy explodes around him. The pilot calls out to his commander: ‘Damn! This mutie can punch rockets and deflect bullets!’. The commander gives the pilot clearance to use the blaze-gun, to which an officer seated nearby monitoring the pilot announces that the blaze-gun is experimental. ‘It’s not combat ready -’ she points out, but the pilot replies that it is okay, that he will use it. ‘These muties need to learn their place in the sky!’ he exclaims. ‘Good. Tiger-01, fire!’ the commander orders.
Several flaming bullets suddenly explode from the jet fighter, which speed towards Sam. ‘Whoa! Hot stuff!’ Cannonball calls out, while the pilot announces that he has a lock, and that the blaze gun is full charged. ‘Fire!’ the commander orders again - but the pilot shouts ‘Gah!’ as the blaze-gun blows up. ‘Losing control - bailing out fast!’ he announces. ‘Ugh’ the commander mutters. ‘I told you it was experimental’ the officer remarks, to which the commander tells her to shut up. ‘Tiger-01, eject immediately!’ the commander orders. As the jet plummets to the water surrounding Utopia, the pilot announces that he can get the jet back, while Cannonball blasts alongside the jet. ‘The mutant. He’s…’ the pilot begins. ‘Attacking?’ the commander screams.
‘Hang on! I’ma land you!’ Cannonball calls out as he holds onto the jet. ‘He’s trying to - help me land!’ the pilot announces. Cannonball takes hold of the jet, and pushes it downwards, towards Utopia. ‘Wow. Cannonball is pretty good’ Surge remarks. ‘Yep’ Magma agrees, as Cannonball gets ever closer - until finally, he lands the jet safely. ‘Tiger-01 has landed!’ the officer announces. ‘Thank God’ the commander declares, while Cannonball exclaims that this is too much excitement for his day off.
Suddenly, the pilot appears: ‘Hey, mutant! Why’d you fire on me, then decide to rescue me later?’ he asks. Cannonball informs the pilot that they were just training and tried to tell him it was an accident. ‘Yeah. And you were flying too low’ Surge mutters, while Magma shushes her. ‘Well, if the blaze-gun didn’t shut down my jet…’ the pilot remarks. ‘So you understand then…?’ Cannonball asks. ‘What?’ the pilot asks. ‘Human or mutant…we all combust sometimes!’ Sam exclaims. ‘Heh!’ the pilot smiles.
‘And now we have a sweet jet to play with!’ Cannonball points out. But the pilot replies that he has to take the jet in for repairs ASAP. ‘Eh. Don’t actually need a jet anyway’ Sam replies. ‘Hey. Don’t rub it in!’ the pilot exclaims. ‘That’ guy’s beard is crazy!’ Magma whispers to Surge. ‘Seriously!’


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First Story:
Maybe all Utopia’s have a snake. That’s just the way it is. In any event, the place will never be the same.
‘What kind of crime?’ Wolverine asks as he follows Cyclops down a corridor. ‘Murder? Robbery? Kidnap? Something really serious?’ Wolverine asks. ‘In hindsight this was inevitable. All these individuals thrown together…bound to be a crime sooner or later’ Cyclops replies. ‘What crime? I can’t help you if you don’t tell me what’s happened!’ Wolverine exclaims. Cyclops informs Wolverine that it isn’t he whom he will be helping. ‘I’d like you to assist our new head of criminal investigation. You might be surprised at who I’ve chosen’ Cyclops adds. ‘Damn it, Summers. You ain’t put Magneto in charge of policing Utopia?’ Wolverine exclaims. ‘No, Logan. Not Magneto’ Cyclops replies, and as they round a corner, they bump into the new head of criminal investigation - holding a magnifying glass and wearing a Sherlock Holmes style hat. ‘Aw, ya gotta be kidding!’ Wolverine exclaims as Doop stares back at him, and says something in his native tongue, “Doopspeak”.
Nope, Utopia will definitely never be the same again.
Outside, several X-Men and students - Colossus, Rogue, Magneto, Gambit, the Sub-Mariner, Bling! and Indra - have gathered. ‘Doop wasn’t even an X-Man, dawg. No way should he be investigating us!’ Bling! exclaims in a huff. ‘The lady is correct, oui? Solving le crime…it requires a cool and logical mind. Does that creature even have a mind?’ Gambit replies. Wolverine strides past everyone, with Doop hovering above him. ‘With my powers, surely I’d make a better detective’ Rogue exclaims, but Wolverine tells her that it is not his call.
For three days and nights, Doop questions the citizens of Asteroid M. At least, he calls it questioning.
After Doop shines a bright light on Cannonball and asks him something in “Doopspeak“. Iceman informs Wolverine that he spent three hours being grilled by Doop, who kept asking him about French new wave cinema. ‘I - I got off light, though. He saw Magneto earlier. He made the poor old guy tap dance for him!’ Iceman exclaims.
Wolverine meets with Doop: ‘Spit it out, Doop. How am I meant to help if I don’t know what the crime is?’ Wolverine asks. ‘But there has been no crime -’ Doop replies, in English. ‘No crime? Then why -?’ Wolverine asks. ‘- no crime yet. But there will be. You see, some crimes wait for their perpetrators to find them. Wait for a criminal to discover them’ Doop exclaims. ‘A latent crime, I call it’ Doop adds. Sounds like bull’ Wolverine replies.
On day four it happens. The first attempt on our bold detective’s life comes from Cannonball. The New Mutant called Cannonball lunges towards Doop with a large knife - before Wolverine smacks into Cannonball, knocking him to the ground. The second attempt on Doop’s life comes soon after, from Gambit, who throws kinetically charged playing cards at him. Doop is knocked off balance, and shouts something in “Doopspeak”.
Wolverine grabs Doop and remarks that it is funny, for until he came there was little or no crime on Utopia. ‘Even Norman Osborn never made them this angry’ Wolverine adds, before they make their way around a corner. ‘What’s your point, feral one?’ Doop asks in English. ‘My point? My point is, that since you’ve been here…just about everyone’s turned into a potential killer’ Wolverine replies. ‘Surely everyone’s a potential killer’ Doop remarks, in English.
Doop is right, and Wolverine only just manages to stop himself from killing Doop right then and there. On day five, the confessions begin.
‘…I’ve wanted to kill many times before. Human and brother mutant. I especially wanted to kill all those X-Static wannabes’ Cannonball exclaims, boasting that he is rotten to the core. Soon, Doop interrogates Gambit, who admits that he is a criminal at heart, and that it took Doop to show him that he is a danger to society. ‘Evil. I pretend to have changed, but in truth, I lie in wait. A cobra, poisonous, fangs bared…’ Magneto declares as he is interrogated.
A snake. Sure, there’s a snake in Utopia. But the snake ain’t Magneto. Wolverine tells himself as he rests his feet on a desk. ‘I think we’re through for the day, Logan’ Doop announces, before asking Wolverine if he fancies a walk around the island before cocoa. Suddenly, Wolverine pops his claws and thinks to himself that the snake isn’t even Doop. ‘It’s me!’ he tells himself before lunging at Doop, backing the green creature up against a wall.
‘Go ahead, Wolverine. Kill me. If you think it will save your Utopia’ Doop declares. ‘It’s all of us’ Wolverine tells himself. ‘It’s…all of us…all of us…save Utopia…must save…Utopia…Have to kill him. Can’t let him show us…the truth about ourselves…can’t let him ruin…’
Reality:
Wolverine looks at his hands, they are green and stringy - and as sunshine filters in his bedroom, Doop wakes up - and realizes they are his hands he is looking at, as he mutters something in “Doopspeak”. ‘Doop! Doop!’ a blonde woman in see-through dress exclaims as she approaches the bed, carrying a cup of coffee the girl tells Doop that he was laughing and giggling in his sleep again. ‘Come on, big boy. What were you dreaming about this time?’ the woman asks. ‘Oh, I’m not the one who’s doing the dreaming’ Doop replies as he takes the coffee and puts his other hand on the girls’ shoulder. The girl utters something in “Doopspeak”. ‘Exactly, my dear’ Doop replies.
Second Story:
‘The Kraken, Namor? Seriously?’ the White Queen asks as she finds herself dressed in exotic armor, carrying a massive sword and riding a winged-horse which flies her towards the Kraken, where Namor the sub-Mariner is attempting to spear the massive creature that has risen above Utopia. Suddenly, ‘Emma? Emma, where are you?’ a voice calls out. The White Queen snaps back to reality: ‘Hmmm? Sitting right here, Scott darling’ she tells her lover Scott “Cyclops” Summers. ‘Where I always am’ she adds, while Storm, Doctor Nemesis and the Sub-Mariner all stare at her.
Cyclops tells Emma that they need her focused, and explains that Namor was just reviewing his plans to buttress Utopia underwater. ‘My apologies if I was boring you, Frost’ Namor declares. ‘Not at all, King. I find all this discussion about underwater buttressing…riveting’ Emma replies.
Soon, after the meeting, Namor leaves the meeting room, and Cyclops turns to the White Queen, telling her that he knows their new surroundings aren’t as posh as she is used to, and that all these logistics and details can be - ‘Mind-numbing? Soul-crushing?’ Emma offers. ‘Overwhelming, I was going to say’ Scott tells her. ‘When I was a girl, Scott, I dreamt of living on the White Cliffs of Dover. Now, I’m living on Asteroid M, with the most marvellous view of…nothing, actually, that’s overwhelming’ Emma tells him. Scott tells Emma that she is going to have to start coping with this distraction, or impatience or whatever she is having. ‘Ennui, Scott. Malaise’ Emma tells him. ‘Because do you know what the Cuckoos have been up to?’ Scott asks. Emma looks at him, concerned.
Later, Emma makes her way down to the shore of Utopia and calls out to her favourite students: ‘Celeste. Irma. Phoebe…we need to talk!’ she announces. ‘Certainly, Miss Frost’ the girls reply all together. ‘Don’t try to charm my by speaking in unison, girls, I know what you’ve been doing behind my back’ Emma informs them. She reminds them that they banished Indra into an endless field of corn, while they tap-danced on Loa’s fingertips until she plunged into the churning waters of the cold Pacific, and finally trapped Match at the bottom of a well, with a stringy-haired Asian ghost-child.
‘Telepathically, of course, so that no one was really hurt. Physically, I mean’ Emma declares. ‘I suppose on some level, we’re to blame for calling you the Stepford Cuckoos. But tell me…why, in God’s name, are you re-creating scenarios from “evil child” horror movies and inflicting them upon your less formidable peers?’ Emma asks. ‘We were just playing, Miss Frost’ one of the girls replies. ‘The truth is…it’s boring here’ the others add. ‘Irma’s been sneaking to San Francisco, to the Haight, and buying DVDs at Amoeba’ one of them announces. ‘Of horror movies. I see’ Emma declares, narrowing her eyes.
‘It wasn’t so bad before, when we had the Phoenix within us…but now…we’re just like every other run-of-the-mill telepath’ the girls exclaim. ‘No offense’ they add in unison, as Emma looks slightly forlorn. ‘None taken’ Emma quickly replies, before telling the Cuckoos that in point of fact, she is a touch restless as well. Emma declares that they must rise above their circumstances and not resort to re-enactments of “the Bad Seed”. ‘No, for that matter, wallow in daydreams inspired by “Clash of the Titans” Emma adds. ‘”Clash of the Titans” Miss Frost? Starring Harry Hamlin? Back when he was super-cute?’ the girls ask.
Emma reveals that the film was a childhood favourite of hers. ‘Maggie Smith played Thetis. She was…magnificent’ Emma exclaims, before telling her students that there is to be no more bullying the younger students. ‘From now on, we’re channeling your talents and breeding for good, not insolence’.
The girls are allowed to increase their time on Cerebra, during which one of them uses the time to re-read “Remembrance of Things Past”. ‘Proust? Again?’ one of them exclaims, while the third yawns.
The Cuckoos help with the welcoming and processing of their brother and sister mutants on to these rocky shores. Excuse me, but you’re not a mutant!’ one of them exclaims to a boy with blue skin and red markings. ‘That’s body paint!’ another of the girls declares. ‘Poser’ one of them mutters.
The White Queen tells the girls that in addition to those mundane responsibilities, she has another idea. ‘Back when I was living on another, much larger island of mutants, there was one duty that fulfilled me above all others…’, and recalls a lesson where she proposed to her students that they spend their telepathy period hacking into the mind’s of some of their favourite screen idols. ‘”E” is for education, girls’ Emma announces.
And so, ‘How are the Cuckoos doing?’ Scott asks Emma later that night. ‘Quite marvelously, as a matter of fact’ Emma replies. ‘Taking to teaching like fish to water…’.
In a classroom on Utopia, ‘”A” is for Asteroid M, our new home’ one of the girls begins. ‘”B” is for Beast, recently departed’ another declares. ‘”C” is for Celeste, who thinks she’s better than us, but really she isn’t, really she’s just one of three’ the third exclaims.
While Emma taps away at a computer, Scott asks her how her inner life is. ‘Still fantasizing you’re else-where?’ Scott asks her. ‘I’m…adjusting, Scott. Tectonic plates shift…and what happens to the diamonds underneath? They get harder’ Emma declares. ‘I’m the rock beneath my rock, my Harry Hamlin-like darling…as solid as ever…’.
Third Story:
3AM, and although it is not cold, it is cold for California. On Utopia, the work-in-progress home court for mutants good and not so good. But societies are hard to build. There are lots of extra pieces in the box. Lots of lessons. Lesson four (or so): food is hard to supply to a whole nation, even a mini one. Without rules, there is no way to make sure kids have food to eat the next morning. Without a grocery store, those rules become important. So the X-Men guard the food.
While Cyclops watches Wolverine take a bucket of chicken from the refrigerator, Warpath has drawn the short straw for the guarding of the food, and this 3AM shift has gone to him. He is bored and angry, with a short straw he would like to use as a weapon. But to pass the time, Warpath imagines Utopia originally an asteroid, still in space. He makes a long list of possible ambushes from his position. When it gets too long, he removes the ones that aren’t lethal.
Rules don’t always go over so well. If you’re younger, sometimes the rules are liked even less. Loa, Rockslide and Match are young. And more importantly, at 3AM they are hungry. Crouched behind a corner of the kitchen, they peer down through the darkness to where Warpath is slumped against the door to the food storage. ‘There is no back door’ Match exclaims. ‘Well, we’ll have to improvise’ Loa tells him. ‘You’re obsessed’ Rockslide tells them. ’You’re obsessed with the world “obsessed”!’ Match tells Rockslide, while Loa tells Rockslide that he is afraid. ’What? I’m sensible’ Rockslide retorts. ’Yeah, you’ve got the sense to be standing here dressed like a bandit’ Loa remarks, referring to the balaclava that Rockslide wears over his face.
‘Well, you made good sense before. “If this land is our land, then why are all the snacks on the wrong side of a lock”?’ Rockslide quotes Loa. The x-kids begin walking down a corridor, following some cables, to which Loa asks Rockslide why then, if it makes such sense, is he still whining. ‘You’re a student, think of it as math. They want you to solve your way in’ Match remarks, before pointing at Rockslide and remarking that he is afraid. ‘I’m sensible’ Rockslide replies. Match exclaims that there is really no door at all, to which Loa replies ‘I told you’, before using her powers to create a back door to the food store. ‘We’re X-Men. We improvise!’ Loa exclaims.
Meanwhile, Warpath tips very slowly to one side - accompanied by a sound he would deny was a snore, but is so loud it wakes him up again. He rubs his face, and leans back against the door. Warpath sniffs - and then smiles.
Back behind him, Loa exclaims ‘Oh my God…why are you doing that?’. Rockslide smiles as he absorbs the debris from the wall into himself, exclaiming that it is evidence, and now no one will know they were here. ‘Yeah. You’ve really covered our tracks’ Loa mutters, while Match tells everyone to focus. To the hungry, the refrigerator seems to glow like a holy grail. Rockslide will insist he heard the sound of a choir - but there is nothing angelic about what he hears next: ‘You’re trespassing’ Warpath booms.
‘No. We’re X-Men’ Loa boasts as she and the boys turn to face Warpath, who examines his knife casually, as he tells Loa that X-Men don’t break and enter. ‘Oh, come on. We’re on the lam half the time, we so do!’ Loa complains. Warpath tells the kids that he is not here to argue with them, as he has got his orders and suggests they try running, because that would be more fun for him. Loa complains that she is so sick of this. ‘No matter what we do we’re perpetually treated like freshmen. We get ignored and pushed around even though we save the world, too!’ she exclaims.
‘We are not the mutant daycare. We are heroes. We have come for ice cream and if we have to embarrass a backup dancer for the Village People to do it, well…batter up!’ Loa exclaims. ‘Holy crap!’ Match smiles, while Warpath grins. ‘Heh’ he mutters, before rushing towards the children. Match releases a burst of flame, which Warpath dodges. ‘Don’t make me -’ Match begins to say, before Warpath covers the boys’ face, and pushes him to the ground, before lifting him into the air. ‘Wait! Wait!’ Match exclaims - but Warpath opens an oven door, and throws Match inside the oven.
‘Gas stove! Gas stove! Met me out!’ Match pleads, banging on the oven door. ‘Go ahead, kid: flame on!’ Warpath tells him, before Rockslide, using his massively increased arm, taps on Warpath: ‘That’s my friend, jerkwad!’ he exclaims. ‘You may want to rethink who you spend your time with’ Warpath suggests, cutting Rockslide’s arm. ‘AHH! Who does that?’ Rockslide asks, warning Warpath that by doing that, he is just going to beat on him with harder stuff. ‘I’d like to see you cut through this!’ he exclaims. ‘I’m not taking any requests tonight’ Warpath replies as he uses his sharp knife to slice of Rockslide’s head. ‘This is in such poor taste’ Rockslide mutters as his body and head fall to the ground - separately.
‘I can hear you, little hero’ Warpath calls out to Loa, swinging his knife around so that it meets her neck, while Loa puts a hand to Warpath’s chest. ‘You gonna pull the hair out of my chest before I can sever your -’ Warpath begins, before Loa tells him that she is going to dissolve his chest cavity. ‘You really would, wouldn’t you’ Warpath realizes. ‘I came here for ice cream. I’ll leave when I get it’ Loa declares. Warpath removes his knife and puts it away: ‘I’m sold, Loa. I expect no one I’ll have to answer to tomorrow is as crazy as you’ Warpath tells her. ‘Wait a minute!’ Rockslide’s head calls out. ‘Is he chewing? Are you chewing? You crazy maniac! You stole food, too! You’re were totally chewing food the whole time!’ Rockslide’s head exclaims. Warpath turns to him and frowns, food around his mouth….
Fourth Story:
Utopia, it is the new home of the X-Men, but one of the longest-serving X-Men has felt less valued here as Storm, weather manipulator, and more as Ororo, the Queen of Wakanda. Food rations always running low, the team wants Storm’s governing experience to better manage the place, and while Cyclops hasn’t said so himself, Storm can feel the leadership council’s eyes on her whenever the situation is brought up. But the truth is, Storm has very little advice to offer, for Wakanda is lush with natural resources and all their food is hunted or grown.
As the council meets, while dozens of other residents of Utopia gather around, Storm turns away. The only living this on this island are the mutants, and without food, their bonds are really being tested. She knows that if they are to stay united, they need a solution, and fast. But if Storm’s experience as a queen has taught her anything, it is that the solution to every problem always lies somewhere, sometime, with someone.
As Storm takes flight, a voice cries out to her: ‘Ororo!’. Storm turns and hovers off the edge of a building. ‘Namor! I’m sorry, I didn’t -’ she begins, but the Sub-Mariner asks Storm to join him. ‘After all, we’re both up here for the same reason, aren’t we?’ he asks. Storm drops down beside the Sub-Mariner, who informs her that he often comes here after the council meetings to get his mind off of the floating rock. ‘Actually, I -’ Storm begins, but Namor continues, remarking that he cannot help but feel the island nation experiment is destined for failure. ‘Not very worthy of people like you and me, Ororo, wouldn’t you say?’ Namor asks.
‘I wouldn’t say things are all that bad’ Storm replies. Namor “hmphs”, before remarking that even Cyclops is less optimistic than he cares to admit. ‘It’s going to take extraordinary leadership for this place to become the true utopia the X-Men hope for it to be’ he adds. ‘I agree’ Storm tells him. ‘Good. And that’s why I’ve decided…I’m going to leave!’ Namor announces. ‘Your solution is…to leave?’ Storm asks. ‘Not my solution, my response’ Namor tells her. ‘Why?’ Storm asks. ‘Is it not obvious? If anyone here could relate to my position, it is you’ Namor responds.
(Shown with illustrative images, narrated by Namor)
Namor tells Storm that all his life he has been Namor the First of Atlantis, so ordained by Father Neptune himself. ‘My power under the seas is unequalled and an entire civilization is under my command - its fate solely in my hands’. Namor tells Storm that he has fought alongside the world’s greats heroes in the world’s most famous battles, both underwater and on the surface world. ‘I’m of such import and influence that superhuman leaders on Earth have sought my council and alliance’.
(Present)
‘Yet here I’m  a subordinate on an island of sitting ducks, expected to take marching orders from an ineffective leader that I could crush with my bare hands’ Namor exclaims, adding that he doesn’t know what Emma Frost sees in Cyclops. ‘If Summers wants to be the captain..then he should go down with the -’ Namor begins, before Storm creates a swirl of wind around him, preventing him from leaving. ‘Wait a minute!’ Storm exclaims. ‘Do you really believe you’re the only one making sacrifices here?’ Storm asks him, frowning.
(Shown with illustrative images, narrated by Storm)
Storm declares that she has seen the pyramids of Egypt up close and have wandered the plains of the Serengeti, where her ancestors once lived. ‘The vastness of my homeland is my sanctuary. Its landscape is my mother’s milk’ Storm declares, admitting that Utopia is gray and lifeless and depressing, and that she doesn’t like it much either. ‘Especially when I can be home in Wakanda enjoying power, her privacy, and especially her husband, T’Challa. ‘I miss him terribly when I’m here’.
(Present)
Storm declares that she stays because her people need her to stay. ‘If I can help in any way, I have the responsibility to do what I can to ensure the survival of my species’. Storm lowers Namor onto the rooftop, pointing out that one would think the weight on Cyclops’ shoulders is something to which the King of Atlantis could relate. Namor closes his eyes, while Storm tell him that he is right, the two of them are so much alike, as they both come from royal bloodlines. ‘But the history books are filled with stories of murder and oppression carried out by kings and queens. Greatness isn’t a birthright…it’s earned by those who answer when history calls upon them to be great’ Storm declares. Ororo tells Namor that, right now, history is calling upon them to figure out how this place can sustain itself. ‘So what do you say? Will you answer the call with me?’ Storm asks.
Namor looks at Storm and says nothing - before taking to the air - flying up, he suddenly changes direction, and dives into the ocean, while the X-Men and others watch from Utopia. Namor swims deep, down into a trench, searching for something - he comes to a sudden stop. Moments later, he rises from the ocean, a massive beast-like fish above his head. He drops the fish onto Utopia, in front of Storm and the others. ‘Way to go, Pointy Ears!’ Wolverine grins, before unsheathing his claws. ‘Let’s eat!’ he exclaims, while Storm looks at Namor and smiles.


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Breakout! - part four
As she ascends to the top floor of Stark Tower in New York City, Jessica Drew is left in awe at the luxury and greatness before her. She arrives at the meeting room, and is welcomed by Edwin Jarvis, butler to the Avengers. Jarvis quietly directs Jessica to another part of Tony Stark’s apartment, where Iron Man, Captain America, Spider-Man and Luke Cage are already assembled and in meeting with an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. via video phone. Captain America spots Jessica and welcomes her to the new Avengers. She is right on time.
Tony introduces himself to Agent Hill, but is cut off by the unimpressed woman on the screen. She introduces herself as Special Agent Hill, deputy director of S.H.I.E.L.D., and announces that, whatever they want, the answer is no. They have the Sentry in custody and the other Raft prisoners are in lockdown. They can take care of this situation.
Stark continues on with his speech regardless of Hill’s dismissal and informs her that she is looking at the new team of Avengers put together. Annoyed, Hill tells Stark that she is going to hang up on him now, but it isn’t out of disrespect. She just doesn’t have the time to deal with this today. This garbage is what landed Nick Fury where he is today and she is telling Stark that this is not happening.
Spider-Man becomes more interested and asks where Nick Fury is. Captain America takes over and introduces himself to Special Agent Hill, before proceeding to ask her if she has his file. Hill responds that she does. Captain America tells her that she should be aware then that he has full champion license. Unable to argue after that bit of information, Hill admits that she did not know that.
Worried, Spider-Man tells Captain America that he is not joining the Champions. Cap smiles and tells Spider-Man that a champion license means that he has the right to assemble any team he sees fit to go on any mission. “Yeah?” replies Spider-Man, “I have clones.”
Tony looks at Agent Hill and reiterates to the heroes assembled that it means they do not need permission to put the Avengers back together. He does not mean to offend Agent Hill, but considering that there are about 40 criminals that, as of last night, were under S.H.I.E.L.D. custody and now running around New York City, one would think she would welcome their expertise. Agent Hill, stubborn, tells Tony that she is not interested in outside help.
Tony tells Agent Hill that she is missing the point of the conversation again. Jessica Drew is an active S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and now an active Avenger. She has full access to all the information on what happened on the Raft the night before. What the Avengers would like to do is work with S.H.I.E.L.D. and get this done quickly. Agent Hill gives Tony a dirty look and the man apologizes to her if it seemed that they were calling to ask for permission. Captain America asks Hill where she is on this investigation, as they would like to help. Agent Hill asks to speak to Captain America privately, to which he agrees.
Sometime later, Jessica changes into her old Spider-Woman outfit and comes down the stairs of Stark’s apartment, announcing that she is a superhero again. Tony looks at Drew and tells her that in the most p.c. and professional way he would like to say...”Damn girl,” interrupts Luke Cage. “Exactly,” responds Tony. Spider-Woman thanks the men and walks over to Spider-Man and asks Peter how his arm is. She takes his water bottle as Luke Cage remembers that they know each other and then asks if they are related.
Spider-Man replies no. Luke asks if he gave her his powers. Spider-Man replies that Spider-Woman is in no way related to him. So she ripped off the name, replies Cage. Exactly, responds Spider-Man. Offended, Spider-Woman recalls that Spider-Man gave her permission. Spider-Man reminds her that he didn’t say she could lend it out. There are like ten Spider-Women now. There are three, corrects Spider-Woman, and they are ripping off her name. He isn’t seeing a dime, replies Spider-Man. Of what, questions Spider-Woman, who cannot tell if Spider-Man is joking or not.
Luke Cage turns to Captain America and asks about the other man who was with them last night. Spider-Man recalls the man and admits he thought it was Thor for a moment. Spider-Woman informs the two that the man was the Sentry and that he saved her life twice last night. Captain America tells the group that the Sentry is a complicated story and that they will deal with him after their current problem.
Spider-Man asks if they know what happened last night. Captain America announces that there was a prison break. Sarcastically, Spider-Man pretends to be in disbelief. Cap continues and explains that they thought it was a security failure at first, that turned into a riot, but now they know for sure that it was a prison break, specifically for one person, whom they do not know yet. Iron Man announces that he has received all the files and folders on the case from S.H.I.E.L.D. and then asks if Agent Hill is okay with this. Cap tells him that they will see about her later on. Iron Man then displays a list of criminals who escaped last night.
The heroes look at a visual of forty-two super-powered criminals who escaped last night, one of them being the primary target. Iron Man announces that he has a bit of a video file. Cap informs the others that S.H.I.E.L.D. was able to salvage some digital recording. Iron Man plays the small clip, though it is too blurry to make out what is happening. Suddenly, Spider-Man sees something familiar in one of the images. Iron Man freezes the frame, and Spider-Man recognizes the costume and shoulder of the man responsible for the breakout. It is Max Dillon, also known as Electro.
Spider-Man feels embarrassed, as he knew somehow this would be his fault. Only in your warped brain, responds Luke Cage. Iron Man patches into his server and begins to run a search for Max or Maxwell Dillon. He explains that he is trying to see if anyone by that name has made any electronic money transfers. In seconds, Iron Man comes up with a location: Boston. Spider-Woman asks for his rap sheet, which Iron Man quickly pulls up.
Iron Man explains that an hour ago Electro transferred a lot of money from a Swiss account to an account in Boston and then took it out of a national bank. Spider-Man asks what a lot of money means. To me or to you, replies Iron Man. Spider-Man then asks what is in Boston. Iron Man announces that Electro has eaten at the same restaurant every night for the last three weeks.
Spider-Woman looks at the rap sheet and realizes that Electro is in Boston for a woman. During his last prison stay he would make one phone call each week to the same person, who is Mia Salem, a waitress for the Brown Derby. Spider-Man realizes that he has been an Avenger for ten minutes and needs to lie down, but the others ignore him as they get a location for the restaurant. Iron Man tells the group that they are going to Boston.
He then leads the group to the hangar of Stark Tower, where they are greeted by the sight of a remodeled Quinjet. Captain America is most surprised, and tells Tony that, for a person unsure of whether they should regroup the Avengers, he is prepared. Iron Man tells Captain America that he designed this Quinjet months ago and it was in beta testing when the team fell apart. Spider-Man is impressed, but Spider-Woman asks if Daredevil will join them. Cap tells her that he is working on it. Iron Man tells all the put on their seat belts. “Yes, mom,” replies Spider-Man. Iron Man tells the group that on a quiet day he will teach them all how to fly a Quinjet. Spider-Man is relieved to learn that they will have a quiet day, as he hasn’t had one since he was eleven.
In Boston, Max Dillon stands across the street from the Brown Derby and watches, as Mia Salem serves her customers in the outdoor section of the restaurant. Max waits for a while, but then decides to catch Mia’s attention with a small burst of electricity. Mia is shocked to see Max, who approaches her. She rudely asks him what he is doing here. Max tells her that they need to go, which confuses her. What is he talking about?
Max tells her that he has a private plane ready for both of them to get out of here. He promised her that he would get out of his super-villain crap and he did. They don’t have time to get into a conversation about this, though. They need to get on the plane right now. Mia is even more confused. She hasn’t seen him in two weeks. He never even called. Max tells her to shut up and listen. He has a load of dough now and they can soon be sitting on a beach in Wakanda sipping drinks. They need to go now.
Scared, Mia asks Max what he did. Max tells her that they can talk in the plane, but Mia suddenly realizes that he was behind the events in New York the night before. Max tells her to shut up again and asks if she is coming or not. Mia is horrified and can’t believe he did this, but her attention is called to a sight behind Max. Max, and everyone else on the street, turn to see the Avengers: Captain America, Luke Cage, Spider-Man, Spider-Woman and Iron Man.
Scared, Electro attacks the group with his electrical powers, but he finds that his powers are not affecting them. In fact, the Avengers aren’t even moving to evade his blasts. Electro realizes that he is trapped in some sort of bubble, courtesy of Iron Man’s technology. Electro is shocked, but Iron Man tells him that they did their homework before coming. Max is about to touch the bubble, but Iron Man tells him not to do that. He does anyway and is shocked by the field. Captain America approached Electro and simply asks him who hired him and who did he help breakout. Max turns to Mia and tells the Avengers that he wants his lawyer.
Luke Cage turns to Spider-Man and asks him how he fought Electro. Spider-Man tells him that he would web up his hands and then pound the crap out of Electro. Do me up, responds Cage. Spider-Man webs up Cage’s hands, much to Electro’s horror. Cage smiles and tells Iron Man to open the bubble. Electro, however, faints out of terror. Disappointed, Cage tells the group that Electro was supposed to blurt out a name, not faint like a wuss.
As Spider-Man checks up on Mia, Spider-Woman calls S.H.I.E.L.D. and informs them that they have Electro and a sweep up and containment crew is needed. Cage turns to Spider-Man and tells him to get the webs off his hands. Spider-Man tells him that they don’t come off and that he has to wait an hour. Cage is angered, but Spider-Man reminds him that he said to web up his hands.
The others, however, are more concerned about the fact that they still don’t know what they need to know. Iron Man wonders how they wake up Max without having a big fight. Someone else points out that Electro can escape via the city’s electric grid. Still on her phone, Spider-Woman tells the group that she has an idea to find out who was broken out of jail. They will have to stop at her house, though.
At Ryker’s Island, Spider-Woman walks in with a box of donuts and greets all the prisoners there. She tells them all that most of them are drugged beyond belief and have their power-draining doggie collars on until their cells are all fixed up, but she knows that they can all hear her. Does anyone want to tell her who Electro broke out of prison last night? All she needs is a name. The prisoners are all silent.
Spider-Woman tells them that tonight for dinner they are being served meatloaf-esque main course and a pureed potato substance, which they will be having everyday for the rest of their lives. In her hands is a fresh box of apple crumb cake Entenmann’s donuts. She brought them for herself, but now that she is back in the tights that is a big no-no. The first person to tell her who Electro took gets the donuts. Suddenly, a prisoner screams the name Karl Lykos and asks for the donuts. The other heroes join Spider-Woman, as all the prisoners scream, “Karl Lykos.” Luke Cage is confused, but Spider-Man is worried.
In the Quinjet, Spider-Woman tries to pull up the S.H.I.E.L.D. file on Lykos. However, the file is restricted, much to her surprise. Luke Cage asks if she can open it, but Spider-Woman cannot. Cage is confused, as he thought Spider-Woman has clearance. She does, replies the woman, but not that kind of clearance. Few people do. Cage asks Cap what he thinks. Cap thinks something is going on. Spider-Woman agrees. Cage tells Spider-Woman to call her boss, but Spider-Man does not think it’s a good idea. Captain America states that, if they start calling around about this locked file, it will alert those who locked it that they are on to them. Cage then asks who Karl Lykos is then.
Spider-Man answers that Lykos is a mutant and he has been smacked around by him before. Lykos can suck energy or powers out of a person. When he does so, he turns into this giant, green, dinosaur monster. He is like a vampire dinosaur. He forgets what Lykos calls himself though. Sagey? Saggy? Sauron, respond both Spider-Woman and Captain America. Cage comments that Sauron broke out of jail and now his files are locked. Locked from the inside, comments Spider-Woman to herself. She then notices something and asks the others if they saw this.
She shows them a map of the S.H.I.E.L.D. outpost in the Savage Land. Cap asks if it is locked too, but Spider-Woman tells him that it is off-line. Outposts never go off-line. Cage questions what the Savage Land is, to which Spider-Woman replies that it is where Sauron lives. Cap asks Iron Man if he is reading all this. As Cage asks if this place really exists, Iron Man switches the course of the Quinjet to the Savage Land. Spider-Man asks if he can call his wife and tell her that he is going to Antarctica to get killed in the land that time forgot. Iron Man tells him to say “phone” and then the number. Spider-Man is confused, but Iron Man just tells him to verbally use the phone. “That’s creepy,” responds the web-slinger. It’s the future, states Iron Man as they fly off to the Savage Land.
Sometime later the heroes fly over the Savage Land. Cage asks the others what they should expect in this place. Spider-Man tells him that there are mutates and dinosaurs, and big cheetahs and a surprising amount of acceptable nudity. Cage asks if Spider-Man is joking, but Spider-Man says no. It doesn’t matter, though. They won’t survive the crash. What crash, asks Spider-Woman. Spider-Man states that you don’t go to the Savage Land without crashing. Iron Man tells Spider-Man that he hasn’t been here then when he was driving. As Spider-Man’s spider-sense goes off, Iron Man tells them all to put their seat belts on. “Yeah, that’ll help,” says Spider-Man, sarcastically.
Iron Man pulls some evasive maneuvers, as he flies around some dinosaurs on his way towards landing. Despite a bumpy ride, the Quinjet lands safely. The heroes calmly leave the Quinjet and Iron Man looks at Spider-Man. “See?” asks Iron Man. I stand corrected, responds Spider-Man. Suddenly, a Tyrannosaurus rex jumps on the Quinjet, only moments earlier occupied by the Avengers, causing the jet to explode. The dinosaur then chases after the Avengers. Iron Man attacks it, but tells the other to run for the trees.
Luke Cage and Spider-Woman find themselves alone in the jungle. Spider-Woman sarcastically admits that she is glad she joined the team. As she stands by a tree, Luke Cage stops and just stares at Spider-Woman in shock. Spider-Woman is confused and asks what he is looking at. Behind Spider-Woman, in the bushes, is a familiar, feral man, with three metal claws protruding from his hand, ready to slice off her head.