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‘Til Death Do Us Part – part 3
Flashback:Genetech Laboratories, years ago:Piotr Rasputin aka Colossus believed dead by the world is held as a prisoner to be experimented upon. He is chained to a slab until a series of explosions free him. He prays that this is how it finally ends and he will be free. And then he sees her – Kitty Pryde – and allows himself to think it is true: He is finally DEAD and this is Heaven…
Now:A rocket flies upward from a fortress in the Savage Land. It is piloted by the nano-Sentinel Alpha and, once again, Colossus is a prisoner to be experimented upon. Alpha informs him that the procedure to extract the Legacy virus from his blood will not kill him, in case he is worried about that. He isn’t! Piotr hisses. He is filled with too much rage! Alpha continues that while the procedure will not kill him, the result of it surely will.
On the ground, Storm and Iceman quell an explosion by combining their powers.
Rachel informs Kitty that Peter is on that ship. Lydia Nance flanked by an army of Sentinels announces it is over. Kitty shouts at her, demanding to know what she wants with him. Seeing no reason to lie, Nance replies that his blood contains traces of the Legacy virus. Dr. Rao harvested those traces to create Hope, her cure for mutancy. They have devised a different sort of cure. A cure for the plague that is mutantkind. Self-replicating nanites will kill everyone with an X-gene. Alpha will spread those nanites across the globe from orbit.
Rachel snarls, that’s genocide! To their species yes, is the reply. To hers, it’s survival. She is not a monster. To prove it, she is sending Alpha’s drones away. She’s going to permit them to leave this place, get back on their mutie plane and return home. Hug their loved ones. Make their peace. Say their good-byes.
She is going to permit all this? Kitty asks sarcastically. Nance shrugs. Why not? They can’t stop what is about to happen. And allowing them the opportunity for some closure is the human thing to do. They should really try it some time.
Rachel asks if Kitty wants her to switch Nance off. Instead, Kitty does the job herself by decking Nance. He wanted to do that, Nightcrawler complains. Rachel suggests she dig into her brain for some behavior modification. Nightcrawler debates the ethics of that. Rachel reminds him they are facing genocide. Kitty agrees they have bigger worries than Nance and asks for the rest of the team to call in.
The others are fine and report the mini Sentinels have vanished. Kitty asks them to gather at the jet. She‘ll explain en route. En route to where? Rogue asks.
In the jet, their prisoner Lydia Nance asks if they want to torture he information out of her. She is fully prepared to withstand all torture. Does she really think them that inhuman? Storm asks. She doesn’t think of them as human at all, is her reply.
Rachel has had enough and intends to pull the information out of Nance’s mind telepathically. However, she finds the woman has psi-shields. Nance replies with a smirk. Rachel attacks her telepathically to wipe the grin off her face. Kitty wants to hold her back. Rachel asks if she doesn’t want the information. She digs deeper and finds out Peter has been taken to an abandoned Roxxon Oil space station.
Looks like they are going to outer space, Kitty announces and asks Iceman and Pyro to be back-up and watch Nance. Rogue asks how they will get into space? The answer lies in the Triskelion, from where they are teleported to the Alpha Flight space station. Up there, Puck welcomes them.
Puck asks if they want some muscle as well as a ship. Kitty asks him instead for Alpha’s pilots to shoot down anything that might come from the Roxxon station. Puck promises that they will do that and wishes them good luck.
Nightcrawler quickly manages to pilot the ship but warns Kitty the true test will come when they face Roxxon station’s offensive capabilities. Kitty scoffs it is a defunct station that was run by an oil conglomerate. What makes him think they even have weapons? No particular reason, is the wry response as the station fires dozens of missiles at them.
Kitty orders evasive action. Now why didn’t he think of that, is the sarcastic reply.
Gambit warns that there are more to come. Rachel tries to take out the missiles telekinetically but there are too many. Storm announces that she will handle them. When they ask how, she replies ‘Stormcaster’ and outside lightning destroys all of them, leaving Kitty to marvel what the hammer has made her friend capable of.
Rachel asks if that was Lydia Nance’s anti-mutant weapon. Kitty replies that was just the anti-them missiles. That moment, Rogue shouts one missile slipped though. It hits them and Nightcrawer loses control of the ship. Kitty asks for him to try and steer the ship toward the station. Gambit points out then they’ll crash right into it. No, is Kitty’s reply as she begins to phase the whole ship right into the station.
The others are shaken but all right. Kitty asks Prestige to scan for Peter. She senses him but something else as well. Moments later, the Alpha Sentinel clones attack. Rachel shouts she found Peter four levels below them. The others assure Kitty they’ve got it handled and she phases downward, praying Peter will hang on.


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‘Til Death Do Us Part – part 4
Flashback:The University of Chicago, years ago:At a college mixer, Kitty Pryde is trying to flirt with a boy when she is telepathically contacted by Professor X. He informs her that Colossus died when he sacrificed himself to cure the Legacy Virus. Kitty breaks down and cries.
Present:On the Roxxon Oil space platform:The nano-Sentinel Alpha is intrigued to notice that the X-gene of his prisoner Colossus has been altered. That would explain the aesthetic difference of his steel form back in Nevada. He’s taken the liberty to restore the genome back to its original state. Unfortunately, the procedure is harrowing.
Phasing through the station’s floors, Kitty prays for Peter to hang on. Telepathically, she asks for everyone’s status. The others are battling Alpha clones but assure her they are fine.
Kitty finds Colossus and Alpha. She tries to hit Alpha, who briefly dissolves his face around her fist and reminds her that she cannot disrupt his technology with her powers. She instead disrupts the station’s computers. He agrees but points out that the procedure completed 0.34 seconds before she arrived. The weapon is finished. Launch sequence has been initiated. She is too late.
Several small missiles drop from the station. Alpha continues that Earthfall is in 4.8 minutes. Complete extermination of all human beings with an X-gene 16.3 minutes after. He’s also taken the liberty of activating this facility’s auto-destruct sequence. He dissolves, wishing her farewell.
The other X-Men find that his doubles also dissolve. Kitty informs them of the situation. She then examines Peter and finds he is in a very bad way. When Gambit points out same goes for their ride, Kitty snaps that the priority is stopping the missiles carrying the bioweapon. If even one gets to Earth, all mutants die! Storm promises she won’t let that happen and uses her new enchanted mallet Stormcaster to fly into space after the missiles.
Rogue joins Kitty to carry Peter, while Kitty frantically wonders where Puck is.
Actually, right where she needs them. Alpha Flight join with Storm to destroy the weapons but Puck warns a few still got though.
Over the Atlantic Ocean, Pyro rides on an X-jet, expecting the weapon while Iceman is waiting for the contingency.
Moments later, an Alpha ship lands on the Roxxon platform, courtesy of Sasquatch who offers them a ride home. Unfortunately, the self-destruction begins and the ship becomes pinned. Any chance of getting another ship? Kitty asks. Puck impatiently retorts that they have three heavy lifters. Get one of them to free it! Unfortunately, Sasquatch, Rogue and Prestige are all down. Colossus, still supported by Gambit and Nightcrawler, offers to do it. He can’t even stand! Kitty points out as she helps and orders the other two to wake up Rogue and Sasquatch. There’s no time, he groans as the countdown announces three minutes to detonation. There’s three minutes, Kitty deadpans.
On Earth, Pyro awaits the coming missiles and burns them all. Puck warns about another bunch going down in South America, but those are all fried by Storm.
On the platform, Rogue and Sasquatch are still out. They are out of time, Colossus decides and concentrates. With a scream, he transforms into his steel form, displaying the form from before he was changed.
He gets the debris cleared while Kitty orders the others aboard. Exhausted, he falls down and shifts to his human form. Kitty calls for help and Nightcrawler teleports Peter aboard. Rachel transfers the skill to pilot the ship from the unconscious Sasquatch’s mind to Gambit’s and they take off at the last moment.
At the Triskelion, Lydia Nance is imprisoned in a transparent holding cell. Iceman gleefully informs her that the spheres were all destroyed. Nance insists they can’t hold her here, to which Bobby retorts she plotted to kill a species. Something tells him they will find a reason. Nance insists they can’t hold her. Alpha will help her.
That moment, Alpha manifests in the cell, but Kitty had counted on that contingency and figured correctly that Alpha can be frozen, as Iceman demonstrates. And Lydia Nance is speechless for once.
Although Iceman figures that is the last they have seen of Alpha, he remains unaware that that the nano-Sentinel only sent a part of himself.
In the infirmary, an agitated Kitty stands at Peter’s bedside, ordering him not to die. Colossus awakes and weakly recalls that, the last time he almost died, she proposed. Well, she’s doubling down, Kitty replies happily. They are getting married!


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‘Til Death Do Us Part – conclusion
Years ago:Outside Xavier’s school:Kitty Pryde and Peter Rasputin are sitting on a bluff, overseeing Breakstone Lake. Peter breaks the unpleasant news directly by informing Kitty that he fell in love with someone else. Anyone she knows? she asks hesitantly. She was a native of the planet the Beyonder created, he continues. She saved his life. Kitty doesn’t say that so did she. Was she pretty? she asks. As beautiful as the dawn, as gentle as the spring rain, he replies. Poetry, Kitty thinks, from a man who said he never had the words to express what was in his heart and soul.
He continues how she gave her life for his. She meant as much to him as Kitty once did. He apologizes for his changed feelings. She points out he doesn’t call her Katya anymore. Has she changed? He has, he replies. He cared for her deeply. But the love, the commitment is no longer there.
Present:Outside the former home of Xavier’s today, near Salem Center where the wedding is to take place:Kitty asks Peter what he is thinking about. Dreams, he replies. He is a simple farm boy. He would never have dared to dream about any of what’s happened to him. Going to space, other times and dimensions… Meeting gods, fighting gods. All of it far beyond his power to imagine… All dwarfed by the miracle of meeting her.
Poetry, she thinks. From a man who said he never had the words to express what was in his heart and soul… Kitty drags him onward, reminding him they are going to be late for their rehearsal dinner at Harry’s Hideaway.
Lots of X-Men present and past are already mingling and celebrating. In a rather absurd situation, present Jean Grey chides her younger teenage self she is too young to drink alcohol. Young Jean suggests that, if she is going to mom anyone, shouldn’t she be “momming” her time-displaced daughter Rachel, who wishes she were somewhere else.
Jubilee and Nightcrawler are discussing her new situation as a former vampire and Peter shows Storm the picture of a painting of him and Kitty he made on his cell phone.
Gambit, as usual, flirts with Rogue, suggesting this wedding excitement has him thinking romantic thoughts. Unimpressed, she reminds him she was in his head. Honeymoons are all he is thinking about.
Kitty is happy to see Lockheed the dragon made it and he brought his partner and their family.
The two Beasts and Icemen wonder if they should go out heroing together as the Fantastic Four, as the name hasn’t been used lately.
Illyana Rasputin suggest Kitty needs a drink and kidnaps her to the roof where they share a bottle of champagne. Kitty calls her a bad influence. She is getting her drunk and is making her neglect her guests. She notes that Illyana doesn’t seem really happy for her and Peter. Illyana denies it, after which Kitty calls her a bad actor. She threatens to bring up one of the tree telepaths downstairs or is she going to tell her what’s going on? Illyana looks away. It’s not her place…
Kitty reminds her she is her best friend, so it is. Illyana admits she wants this to be right for Kitty and her brother. And she doesn’t think it is? Kitty presses. Illyana begs her not to make her say it. She thinks it’s been years off and on between the two of them. Kitty wryly points out for some of those years he was dead and she was trapped in a bullet. Illyana looks down and continues that she just thinks, if they were meant to be together, it would have happened by now. She apologizes. She is a terrible friend and a worse person. And she’s had too much to drink, clearly. Can they just pretend this conversation never happened? Kitty agrees. They hug. Illyana tells her she loves her and is sorry. Kitty assures her it’s totally okay but looks aside worried.
The big day:Inside a room in the Clarebyrne hotel Nightcrawler helps Colossus with his bow tie. Kurt remarks that, with luck one day, Peter will do the same for him. Peter wasn’t aware things between Kurt and Rachel had progressed so far. Kurt reveals he loves her and, once they are finished with this wedding, he is going to propose to her.
In another room, Stevie Hunter is doing Kitty’s make-up, watched by Kitty’s mother Theresa and Storm. Kitty jokes, having a United States Congresswoman do her make-up feels like overkill. Theresa swears she and her father just brought her home from hospital yesterday. She was thinking the same about asking her for ice cream, Ororo remarks. She was just a child. Kitty tells them to cut it out. They’re gonna make her cry and ruin Stevie’s hard work!
She states it just dawned on her she is here with the tree women who raised her. Three strong wonderful women. They hug as Ororo assures her they couldn’t be more proud of the strong wonderful woman she has become. Kitty sniffs and asks Stevie to get the mascara back out.
Outside the hotel, Iceman tells Colossus his chariot awaits and jokes this is his last chance to make a run for it. Not a chance, he is told. Dead man walking! Bobby shouts.
From a rooftop, Wolverine watches the car leaving and silently wishes Kitty and Peter Godspeed, hoping they’ll be good to each other.
In Westchester, Storm makes sure the weather is beautiful for the occasion.
Rogue notices Illyana is pensive and asks her about it. Illyana admits she said something to Kitty last night she shouldn’t have said and now feels terrible. Rogue can’t believe whatever she said was so terrible She trusts Illyana and her friendship with Kitty. She believes it’s already water under the bridge. Unconvinced, Illyana hopes so.
The timed-displaced teenage Cyclops and Marvel Girl muse that apparently their adult selves got married right here. This will never stop being weird, they admit.
Gambit tells Rogue she looks breathtaking. She accuses him of being a silver-tongued devil. He admits it. Doesn’t make what he said wrong, though.
Colossus introduces Rabbi Yarkin to best man Nightcrawler and maid of honor Illyana. The rabbi ask if Kurt has the rings. She always asks because one time she had to marry a couple with cocktail napkins around their fingers. Kurt teleports away and returns with the rings.
The wedding starts.Kitty is led to the altar by her mother and Peter is speechless by her beauty. They look at each other as the rabbi begins her sermon, reminding everybody how their love has sustained them and returned them to each other’s arms, even when parted by circumstance (as when Kitty was stuck in the Bullet) or other people (when Peter fell for the alien healer Zsaji who sacrificed herself for him) or even death itself (When Peter injected himself with the cure to the Legacy virus that killed him). They are all humbled by such love.
The Rabbi asks Kitty to put the ring on Peter’s finger and say her vow, which she does. Peter is then supposed to do the same but, when he tries to place the ring on Kitty’s finger, she phases as a reflex. They all look shocked, including Kitty. She babbles an apology but she doesn’t think she can do this. Then she phases into the ground.
Peter picks up the bridal veil she left behind. He asks Kurt if he could not be here, please. Kurt teleports him away.
Did what he think happened just happen? a disturbed Gambit asks Rogue.
Later, the others are at the would-be reception. The cake remains uncut. Ink admits to Jubilee he feels a little bad eating the food and drinking the booze under these circumstances. Better than it go to waste Jubilee points out The two Jeans and Rachel sense the pain Kitty and Peter are in and wonder why they are doing this to each other. Rogue asks Illyana how she is holding up. Illyana darkly admits that this is her fault.
Later, Peter finds Kitty sitting on a bluff overlooking Breakstone Lake. She asks how he knew where she would be. He knows her, he replies simply. She apologizes. She couldn’t control her phasing. He understands. But, after that she said she couldn’t marry him. She knows, Kitty replies. He asks if she knows why. That’s what she’s been trying to figure out. She asked him to marry her. She wanted him to marry her. She wanted to marry him. But listening to Rabbi Yarkin, listening to all the things they’ve faced, everything that’s happened… Marriage is hard. Hard enough without all this… stuff. It’s just much history! A lot of it good, yeah. But some of it bad. And all of it messy. Not the foundation to build a marriage on.
Love is that foundation, he replies. Does she not love him? With all her soul, Kitty replies. Peter doesn’t understand. Neither does she. All she knows at the moment is she can’t do this. Not now. Maybe not ever. So where does that leave them? he asks.
Back at the reception, Remy is still flabbergasted. Kurt agrees it’s heartbreaking, but Ororo surprisingly points out it may be fortunate. She explains if things aren’t meant to work out between Kitty and Peter, better they realize it tonight than years from now. Marriage is hard. It requires more than love. It requires a need… a hunger. A feeling you’d not go on living than spend another day apart.
Her words make Remy think and he finds himself agreeing. He’d rather not go on living than spend another day apart. He gets up and walks toward Rogue, who is standing at the bar with Illyana. Is he okay? Rogue asks. That all depends, he replies and gets down on his knees in front of her. This is crazy! she stammers. Has she met him? he smirks. But what’s not crazy is they got all of their friends here, someone to marry them and a wedding canopy right outside.
Kitty and Peter join them and agree. They shouldn’t let this evening go to waste. Rogue smiles. She can’t believe he is doing this, but she couldn’t be happier for it. She says ‘yes’!
And so a little later, they stand in front of the rabbi who admits this is one of the more unconventional weddings she’s participated in. They said they’ve got vows they’d like to exchange. For him not so much a vow, Remy replies, his promises have never been worth much – as an affirmation. He tells Rogue he loves her with every piece of himself. He hasn’t always been a good man, but they’ve been through hell and it’s changed him. She’s changed him. She sees in him the man he hopes to be and that’s his vow to her: to always be worthy of that love and respect.
She replies they’ve been through so much. They’ve faced challenges a lot of other couples don’t have to face. But they always keep finding ways back to each other, so that’s what she promises to him. That she’ll always find her way back to him.
At these words, Kitty and Peter carefully look at each other.
With that, the rabbi marries Gambit and Rogue and the two kiss.


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Prestige Dark – part 2
Outside the ClareByrne Hotel, Iceman and Pyro try to talk down the brainwashed Rachel Grey, who has just taken out Kitty Pryde and Colossus. Iceman tries to tell her none of this is real.
20 minutes earlier:Bobby Drake wakes up in his hotel room, hungover, to find Simon Lasker, the new Pyro in the shower after a one night stand. They hear a thumping noise from the room above, from Kurt and Rachel’s room. Inside, they find Kurt Wagner, lying on the floor.
On the hotel’s patio, Ororo and Illyana are having breakfast and Ororo is trying to convince Illyana she is not to blame for Kitty and Peter’s break-up. Kitty is a grown woman who makes her own choices. Illyana insists she gave that choice a nudge. The evening before the wedding, she told Kitty she wasn’t sure they should get married. She planted a seed of doubt and that seed grew into a tree. Which Kitty used to hit Illyana’s brother over the head!
Ororo accuses her of being dramatic. Illyana retorts that Kitty called off her wedding. What’s more dramatic than that? Ororo asks what was her intention when she talked to Kitty? She answers her own question. Illyana was trying to be a good friend. That was her only intention. She shouldn’t feel guilty for wanting what’s best for Kitty.
Illyana raises her coffee cup then drops it as her head sinks down. She is unconscious. The culprit is a Mark I Sentinel. Storm gets ready to fight, while noting that type has been decommissioned for years.
She powers up by calling the Asgardian mallet Stormcaster to her and proceeds to attack, However, the Sentinel impales her with a spear… or so it seems. Storm falls down unconscious but there is neither wound, nor Sentinel to be seen.
Psylocke runs to her side and orders Armor to armor up. Psylocke examines Ororo and sees no traces of any physical attack. She scans her mind. Before she can name the culprit, she is taken out by Rachel, who believes herself to be a Hound in the future. She also takes out Armor. Her handler tells her there are more mutants ahead.
Iceman and Pyro support Nightcrawler as they walk outside, where they find the unconscious Kitty and soon face Rachel. Kurt tries to make her recognize him. In her warped recognition, Rachel believes him to say he is her husband. He asks her to fight this. They haven’t taken all of her from him. She apologizes and psi-blasts him.
Young Cyclops sees this, shouts ‘no’ and fires an optic blast at her. Rachel paralyzes him telekinetically and in her mind snaps his neck. Now she has to face Iceman and Pyro, who inform her none of this is real.
Cyclops gets up and addresses her. Rachel can’t believe it. She just killed him! He admits she packed a wallop but she just believed she broke his neck. He doesn’t know what she thinks she is seeing, but one of this is real. He knows she is from the future. Where she had to hunt her own. Only to come to a time where the people she thought were her parents weren’t even her parents. Where her entire family was slaughtered by the Shi’ar.
Rachel begins to listen.
He knows what it means to be out of time. To see things unfolds so very different from what you expected or hoped. But all they can do is push forward. To forget the past. Or in her case, the future. To live her life, not as it was, but as it is. Right now.
Mesmero’s voice whispers in her ears not to listen.
Cyclops continues that he doesn’t know what’s going on inside of her or even why. All he knows is Rachel has to fight it. Her mother, Jean Grey, gave in to her demons. A part of her surrendered. A part of her was defeated. But that doesn’t have to be Rachel. She isn’t Jean. She isn’t her mother’s daughter. She can be better!
Again, Mesmero tries to influence her. Too late, she tells him. She took the name Prestige to leave the past behind her. No more Phoenix. No more Marvel Girl. No more past. No more future. Just her. Moving forward. She sees reality as it is once more. She damns the fragment of Mesmero inside her for trying to pull her back.
Is she okay? Iceman asks as he, Pyro and Cyclops look at her concerned. Staring at the friends she took out, she admits she doesn’t know…


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Godwar – part 1
Kenya, Africa, one month ago:In one of the villages that once worshipped Storm as a goddess, the woman Ainet is running for her life, until she falls and one of her hunters informs her it is over. Life drains from her. He offers her a hand. He tells her to swear to Uovu and she will receive medical attention. Never! she vows. Ororo the windrider is their one true god!
The old man spits that she is no god and adds she left these plains long ago. He orders her to swear or die. And so, Ainet swears. But not to Uovu or even her beloved Ororo. But to forces even more ancient and primordial. She swears to the old gods of the old ways. To give her Ororo the power of divinity. To make her a true god.
Ironically, her prayer is answered by another pantheon altogether ,as in the ruins of Asgard a hammer is awakened and feels the anguish of its mistress currently entrapped in a small cell. And it flies to her aid.
Ainet senses something happening and dies with a smile on her lips.
Now:At the Xavier Institute, Jean Grey telepathically scans Rachel Grey’s mind. Calling her ‘mom,’ Rachel asks about results. Jean shushes her and tells her she is not her mother.
Afterwards, she announces that she detects no psychic abnormalities. There is no trace of Mesmero. With a smile, she tells Rachel she has a clean bill of health. Kitty Pryde thanks her for helping. Jean leaves.
Rachel asks Dr. Cecilia Reyes about fieldwork. Cecilia replies that physically there is no issue but Kitty decides. They’ll talk about it, is Kitty’s evasive reply. Rachel wants to know what there is to talk about. Nightcrawler reminds her she just went through a trauma. A polite way of saying she tried to kill her teammates, Rachel spells out, but they heard Jean and Dr Reyes. She is fine. The only question seems to be… is she still an X-Man?
Storm, in the meantime, has been asked to the Wakandan consulate, where the ambassador Mr. Wanjku addresses her as queen. She reminds him that she is queen no longer. He tells her, to some, she will always remain queen of Wakanda, which is why he called her. She asks if everything is well. In Wakanda, yes, she is told, but not in Uzuri, the village where Storm lived before coming to America.
He tells her conditions there have grown severe. Communication there is limited - hence the circuitous route this news has taken to get to her. He then informs her that her mother, Ainet, has passed away.
Storm turns around shocked, babbling that Ainet wasn’t her birth mother, but she sheltered her, raised her, protected her. She asks about the condition of the village. He tells her they have heard a Death Cult has arisen in the village. The villagers have turned away from the god they formerly worshipped to a far more malign one. Details are sketchy. They don’t even know which god they were worshipping before. It was her, Storm replies calmly.
Later, she packs, intending to return to Uzuri to pay her respects to Ainet. Kitty Pryde remarks that they don’t think Ainet’s death and this cult are unrelated, do they? Storm tells her this is personal. Kitty retorts there is no law saying she has to do this alone. Storm reminds her that, with Colossus gone, Gambit and Rogue on their honeymoon and Rachel’s condition, the team is shorthanded enough as it is. She promises to contact the X-Men at the first sign of trouble.
In downtown New York, lovers Kurt Wagner and Rachel Grey sit in a coffee bar. Kurt wants to know how she really is. She assures him she is really fine, but there is something she wants to talk to him about. She needs to end their relationship. She explains she nearly killed everyone. She learned she is capable of that. Like mother, like daughter.
When he protests, she states she needs some space. She loves him and these past months have made her happier than she could have imagined, but they’ve also shown her there is something she clearly needs to work through.
Kurt reminds her that Mesmero is behind what she went through. Rachel isn’t so sure about that and she doesn’t know how to sort it all out when she is one half of a relationship. It wouldn’t be fair to him.
In the meantime, Ororo has arrived in Uzuri, on the outskirts of Kenya. She asks an old woman about the specifics of Ainet’s death and is assured she died peacefully in her sleep of old age.
Ororo continues about the Wakandan consulate mentioning a death cult. The elder tells her that religion stirs deep feelings. The term “death cult” smacks of bigotry. Those who follow Uovu simply keep to themselves. Ororo asks who Uouvu is. The elder replies that it is a relatively new religion but a valid one Storm points out that ‘Uovu’ means ‘evil’ in Swahili. Annoyed, the elder replies they wouldn’t appreciate them speaking about their religion in that way. She offers to take Ororo to Ainet, so she can pay her respects. Then she can return home.
In a nearby hut, some men gathered around a shady giant remark, she is suspicious. They should eliminate her. The being in the center replies that would only draw more scrutiny. Better to draw her to their cause…
The elder leads Ororo to a small cemetery and in front of Ainet’s grave. Ororo greets Ainet and apologizes for not seeing her sooner. She did not even invite her to the weeding. She does not have a good explanation. Except life. It overtakes and sweeps her away sometimes. Making her leave behind her old life. But Ainet always held a place in her heart… the woman who raised her after her parents died. Her second mother. Who turned her from a street urchin into a goddess. She’s left them behind as well. And now it seems a darkness has taken root in her place. She promises Ainet she will find the truth and maybe that will atone for abandoning Ainet and the village.
At night, the Elder Hiari against her will takes Ororo to the meeting place of the new religion. Hiari tells her this is not her village any longer. Another voice considers that harsh. A large stone-like being greets Ororo, introducing himself as Uovu.
At the sight of the dark god, she reacts on instinct, calling Stormcaster and transforming into her Asgardian garb. Unimpressed, he promises he wants no aggression. She calls him a pretender. He finds that amusing and shows her two familiar shapes, those of her parents. Very much alive, David and N’dare Munroe greet their daughter.


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Godwar – part 2
Flashback:Storm recalls how, as a six year-old, she lost her parents and was buried in the rubble due to bombs falling on Cairo.
Present:Now, thanks to the self-styled god Uovu, her parents are alive once more, standing before her. He informs her that he is a god. Ororo muses that his name is the Swahili word for evil. And yet… She happily hugs her parents.
Meanwhile, back in New York, Kitty Pryde is fighting some robbers with Mandroid suits. She is joined by Magik, who asks if she needs a hand. Does it look like she does? Kitty replies curtly and then points out she thought Illyana was busy with the New Mutants.
Joining the battle, Magik replies they need to talk and Kitty has been avoiding her since her wedding. She ended up not getting married actually, Kitty reminds her waspishly. Illyana worries that Kitty made her choice because of the doubts Illyana expressed about her and her brother.
Is this really the right time for them to talk about their feelings? one of the Mandroids protests weakly. The two hit him at the same time and order him to shut up.
With the fight over, Kitty turns to Illyana and stresses she has nothing to feel guilty about. Illyana wants to know why Kitty has been avoiding her then. She has been avoiding everyone, is the reply. She needs some space to get perspective. And to grieve a little, too. She’s lost something precious. It was her decision, but it still aches. But lllyana does not own that pain. It is not on her. Not even a little bit. But what she said, Illyana begins. Kitty cuts her off. Was right and true, and said because Illyana is her friend. She hugs her and promises she is her friend as well and that is never going to change. She may not have become Kitty’s sister-in-law, but they will always be sisters.
In Uzuri, Ororo walks with her resurrected parents, who marvel at her superhero career. To see how remarkable she has grown up is a blessing beyond description. Ororo tells them this must be disorienting. It is, her father admits, but they are just grateful to be with her. N’dare adds they will acclimatize in time, then notices Ororo is staring at an old man exiting a building. She apologizes but there is something she must see.
Storm walks into the hut. The man who left wears the garbs of the clergy of Uovu. Possibly a coincidence. She examines the computer to find it is only a prop and wonders what it is supposed to hide.
With her weather power, she notices a slight shift in the wind and a trapdoor beneath a carpet revealing a stairways going down.
In the meantime, the priest Zuberi kneels before Uovu and complains that Storm is dangerous. He asks for permission to eliminate her as he did Ainet. Uovu replies he does not understand that a god’s power is derived from belief. The windrider may have abandoned the village but many still revere her. Were something to befall her, it might cause some to question their faith in him. And that would sap his power when they are so close to their aim. Through her parents the windrider will take her place among the most devout of his followers. What if she doesn’t? Zuberi asks. Then he will render unto her a death from which there is no return, Uovu promises.
Storm has followed the stairway and arrives in a big cavern filled with the dead bodies of many people. Shocked, she realizes they must have been collecting dead villagers for years. But village custom is to bury the dead. She knelt at Ainet’s grave just yesterday. Then Ororo sees Ainet’s dead body and becomes very angry, certain this is not the only lie she has been told.
She flies upward and outside, ready for a fight but is stopped when her parents call out to her. They marvel at her power. She tells them to get out of the village. Something is very wrong with this place.
She flies into Uovu’s hut, calls him a monster and hits him with a lightning bolt, which has no effect on him. She tells him she has seen the catacombs!
Unfortunate, is his reply and he grabs her by the throat. Her ignorance was the only thing keeping her alive. She demands to know what he is keeping the dead for. He tells her she is mistaken. They are not dead. And empty-eye the bodies begin to move…
The undead file out into the village. The power of belief, Uovu boasts. More potent than any deity. He has bided his time. Waited years and now the reaping has come.
Outside, the villagers flee. Among them are Ororo’s parents but then they too enter a zombie-like state.
Storm calls for her mallet Stormcaster but it does not answer her. So she uses her own lightning but Uovu swats her away through the roof. She lands in front of a horde of zombies who close in on her. Storm is shocked to see her parents among them. Storm is helpless and wonders why Stormcaster has abandoned her as the mallet flies into space...


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Into the Woods
Xavier’s School, years ago:It’s the start of summer and 14 year old Kitty Pryde decides she deserves a summer vacation, so she is packing her stuff. Storm joins her in her room and Kitty asks, she isn’t mad, is she? She signed up for summer camp without asking first. Storm assures her it’s all right. Kitty fears there might be an emergency but Ororo assures her they can handle things without her for a few weeks. Kitty asks her if she ever had doubts about being who she is. Ororo replies she never had the opportunity for doubt. She tells Kitty she is fortunate to question and doubt and decide. It is an incredible gift. Kitty should take her time opening it.
On the bus to coach to camp, Kitty has her doubts about Storm’s advice. She doesn’t want doubt. She wants to know if she can still be normal. What if she goes there and the others will immediately notice she is different?
Nervously, she leaves the coach when they have arrived. A moment later, a blonde girl -  Madison - tackles Kitty to the ground, enthusiastic to see her again as is Kitty’s other camp friend Sarah. The two drag her to their cabin.
They ask Kitty if she wants the top or bottom bunk. When Kitty replies top, Sarah recalls she used to be afraid of heights. She got over it, Kitty replies. Sarah tattles that Madison is still afraid of ghosts and bugs and the dark. The two begin to argue and Kitty tells them she missed them. Of course, she did, they reply. Best summer friends forever!
So, the days pass with Kitty having fun like ordinary kids, canoeing, doing archery, roasting marshmallows at the campfire.
In the evening, they return to their cabin. The other two girls are exhausted, while Kitty announces she is going get up early for the two mile hike the next day. The girls are surprised. Who died and made her a jock? Kitty fibs she think she lost her phone on the hiking trail, then explains that private school she transferred to have a real focus on physical fitness. Yay, endorphins? Weird, the other two agree.
Later, Kitty wonders how they can sleep. She is still wide awake, missing the Danger Room, missing training. Plus, she really needs to find her phone. It’s locked but, if someone cracked it, they could find out she is an X-Man.
She decides she needs that hike and sneaks out. She takes the hike in the nighttime, not seeing the bright colored lights in the woods. She figures she can be normal all day and train at night. She easily climbs a tree and decides she can have it all. And once she has run off some of that nervous energy, she can go look for her phone.
Suddenly, she hears voice below her. It’s some of the older kids, the junior counselors. They talk about doing cabin six tonight, as some in there got cookies today. One of them warns the others to be quiet. They are almost back to camp. He doesn’t want to get caught in his last year.
Caught doing what? Kitty thinks and then recalls how, six years ago, Sarah lost her stuffed toy. Four years ago, Madison lost her grandmother’s necklace and they thought it was the camp ghost and, three days ago, Kitty lost her phone. Kitty realizes they’ve been stealing from the kids for years. She would have been happier with a ghost. At least that doesn’t destroy one’s faith in humanity.
She carefully follows them and sees how they break in and out of a cabin with practiced ease before returning to their own cabin with the loot. After they leave, Kitty phases inside and, the first things she sees are the stuffed toy, the necklace, her phone and even more. She begins to smile as she has a nasty idea…
The next morning, she is awakened by the morning call. She pretends to be happily surprised when she sees her phone, just as her friends are happy to find their stolen goods returned. So do others around the camp and the thieves sulk at dinner.
Later, they meet at their HQ and discuss how this could have happened. Did someone follow them? That moment the light goes out. Kitty, decked out all in white and wearing sheets, hisses she is the ghost of the Maplebrook Camp. They have transgressed against her and they will pay the ultimate price. Horrified, the teens run away. And Kitty laughs her ass off.
However, she is less happy the next morning when the junior counselors tattle that they were threatened by a bloodthirsty mutant. The woods aren’t safe for normal people anymore! Horrified, Kitty runs out of the cafeteria. Madison follows her to the lake. She knows it’s scary to think there could be mutants here. It’s normal to be scared of mutants. It’s just a way of saying ‘monster’. Kitty asks her to tell her she doesn’t really think that. Of course, she does, Madison insists. Mutants are freaks! They don’t belong around normal people like them. That’s not true! Kitty snaps. Madison asks if she is a mutant rights sympathizer. Being Jewish is one thing. But this…
Kitty gets up and orders her to grow up then runs into the wood blaming herself. She isn’t normal, she tells herself and runs into a boy with chin-long ref hair. “What are you doing here?” they both shout. The boy angrily adds why she is speaking to him? They’ve been at camp for years, she hasn’t said ‘boo’ to him. Kitty begins to apologize. He shuts her off, it’s fine. It’s only because apparently Santa came to camp and forgot the Jewish kid again.
He explains everyone got their stuff back, save for him. Kitty suggests maybe whoever did it is still sorting through stuff. He concedes her point and asks why she is here. She explains the other kids were talking about mutants. Of course! he scoffs. He knew she was just another of the vapid cliquish jerks who swarm around here, but he didn’t realize she was a bigot!
What did he just call her? Kitty bristles. Was that too big a word? he mocks. Kitty snaps he doesn’t know her. And she doesn’t know him! he retorts. What’s his name? Kitty draws a blank. He knows she ran out here to get away from the scary m-word. He knows she and her friends think they are above it all! They don’t… Kitty begins. But they are not! he continues. They are no better than anyone else!
Kitty orders him to shut up. He doesn’t know what he is talking about. The real world’s going to be a big wake-up call, he mocks, calling her “princess.” Maybe she is a princess, but he is a jerk, Kitty snaps. Better a jerk than a prissy stuck-up arrogant—
Kitty notices the flying colorful lights flying in the trees above and points at them. One of them flies away. She follows it with her eyes. When she looks away again, the boy has hidden behind a tree.
Later that week, Kitty is still not talking to her roomies. She starts being ostracized by others too, as the rumor she is a mutant sympathizer makes the rounds.
At lunch, she sees the boy and tries to walk toward him but another boy makes her stumble. She automatically phases when she falls and only goes solid at the last second. The others laugh and mock her. Kitty realizes they just want someone to hate. She shouts if they were always like this and she just didn’t notice. Were they always bullies? Have they just been waiting for someone to paint a target on themselves? Well, target her! Pick on someone their own… Unfortunately, she is being taken literally, as someone throws food at her. She runs into the forest.
Hidden, she hears two kids talking about hunting the mutant weirdo. When they find him, he better hope he is one of those badass mutants from the news. Kitty realizes they are not looking for her. She goes look for the red-haired boy and tell him to hide. When he doesn’t react and she hears the others, she drags him into the bushes by quickly phasing both of them.
She asks for his name. He introduces himself as Asher and belatedly realizes she is a mutant. In response, he shows her his power by creating the lights. He calls them will o’ the wisps. They appear when he is upset. He thought camp would be okay. He thought it would be different this year, but it wasn’t. The cool kids have a great time; the rest of them get pushed in the lake. And then someone stole back all that stuff and it got so much worse.
Kitty admits that was her. She can walk through walls. When Asher asks if she can control it, Kitty explains that she had some training. She can show him. She tells him to close his eyes and focus on his breathing. His power is like a muscle. Find it and hold it in. Asher can feel it. Kitty promises it takes time but he can learn it. The two of them kiss. Then Asher draws back panicked and shouts they can’t do this. Kitty is bemused. They are both mutants! He explains they both carry the X-gene. They are young, yes, but they can’t risk it! Passing on the X-gene should be… no, it is a crime! He’s sorry.
He turns away and tells her she is lucky. He’d give anything to be able to forget what he is. He lifts his longish hair to show his pointed ears. She can hide forever. He hopes he gets that chance. He runs away through the bushes, ignoring her plea that he should wait.
The next morning in their cabin, Madison and Sarah apologize to Kitty for acting like jerks. They just got scared with all that talk of mutants. Really? Kitty asks. Did mutants steal that kid’s inhaler? Or was it mutants who pushed Angie into the lake? She uses a wheelchair. She can’t swim. She sort of feels they should be more afraid of each other than some imaginary mutants. Chastened, the other girls agree. Camp ends tomorrow. Can’t they part as friends? Kitty hesitatingly agrees and hugs them while looking out of the window for someone else.
In the evening, the others are at the campfire. Kitty sits some small distance away. A small colored light flies toward her. Kitty tells it she is sorry too and it flies up toward the sky.
The next day, Kitty leaves on the coach and thinks to herself she got her answer. Maybe she’ll never have a normal life but, as long as people are afraid of mutants, as long as people like Asher are afraid of themselves, she knows where she belongs. She’s an X-Man because she doesn’t want the world to be like this. She wants it to be better. So, she’s going to make it better. Just watch her!


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Godwar – conclusion
In the small African village, Uzuri Storm finds herself surrounded by the evil god Uovu’s zombies – including her resurrected parents. She begs them to fight his influence, but they cannot. In fact, her father takes her into a headlock and Uovo observes she cannot act without harming her parents, natural and adopted. Storm sees her foster mother Ainet among the zombies.
One village elder states that he offered Ainet a choice and she chose poorly. Uovu warns Storm not to make Ainet’s mistake. Any resistance would only hurt her and her parents. As well as the friends and villagers who once called her goddess. Whom she abandoned. Much like her hammer seems to have abandoned her. Could they talk, they would probably ask her how it feels to be abandoned by divinity.
Storm ask her goddess to forgive her and uses lightning to break free. Uovu is pleased at her fighting spirit but doesn’t think it will be enough to defeat him, as he hits her hard. Storm attacks him with lightning, which he shrugs off. He reminds her he is a god. She may have been once. Twice. When she was worshipped or when she wielded that hammer. But those days are over. He grabs her chin. She is now flesh and bone. Soon to be dead, then resurrected. And in his full control.
In Manhattan, an X-Men team has just attacked the X-cutioner. Iceman has frozen him in ice and marvels at his big gun - bigger than Cable would carry. Nightcrawler warns them that it is an atomizer as the X-cutioner breaks out. Kitty asks Prestige to hit him telepathically, but his psi-shields prevent that.
Plan B. Kitty orders Nightcrawler to take them for an elevator ride. Kurt teleports above the villain and Kitty phases through him. Then Kurt teleports the three of them high above the city, then leaves.
Kitty warns the X-cutioner that as long as she is phasing both of them they walk on air, but once she lets go… He spits that her kind shouldn’t exist. And his kind should be in jail, she replies unimpressed, but here they are.
She gets distracted when she sees Stormcaster flying past her. And they realize Storm is in trouble.
As Uovu prepares the killing stroke, Stormcaster reaches Ororo. She powers up and blocks his strike, as she transforms. For the first time, one of her strikes has an effect, as he bleeds from the nose.
The X-Men arrive and Storm gives order to evacuate the living while restricting the dead. She will take care of Uovu.
She flies after him and tells him here she was called a goddess. Today she will earn the name! She will try! he corrects her, as he tries to strike her.
Elsewhere in the village, Rachel marvels that Uovu brought hundreds of people back from the dead. She is trying to calm them, but he is all in their minds.
Pyro drives them back with fire. Iceman creates icewalls to corral them and Nightcrawler teleports inside.
Storm’s lightning attacks have more effect, as the faith of Uovu’s followers is waning. Not all of them! Uovu booms as he grabs her hammer. There is one whose faith is unshakeable.
But soon enough, Rachel finds and takes out Zuberi, Uovu’s right hand man.
Storm and Uovu still trade blows. He tells her that the power of godhood is more than just faith, it is eternal! She attacks with all her power but, even as she does so, she feels Stormcaster waning and prays its dying power is enough. Uovu falls and Stormcaster crumbles to ashes. Storm loses her supercharged status.
Uovu is gone and a horrified Storm realizes what the consequences will be. She flies to the others, who see Uovu’s zombie followers disintegrating. N’dare and David Munroe are just able to tell Ororo goodbye and assure her it was a blessing to see how she has grown, then they too crumble to ashes.
Ororo cries silently, to face Ainet. Storm admits she feels guilty about abandoning Uzuri and her. Ainet assures her she abandoned nothing. She followed her dreams. And gave herself to the world. Ainet couldn’t be prouder, she tells her, before she too passes away.
The next day, she is in the graveyard. Kitty marvels at the many graves. Ororo replies that they worked the night through to put them to their proper rest. Ainet’s final gift to her was forgiveness for abandoning her home. She promises she will return on a regular basis. Not as a goddess or the wind-rider but as a friend…


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Feared and Hated
An X-jet is en route to Long Island. Aboard are Kitty Pryde, Prestige, Nightcrawer and Storm. The mood is somber. Kitty thinks of her phone call to Peter Rasputin a few minutes ago.
Flashback:At least she was trying to reach Peter, not his voicemail. She admitted that she didn’t know why she was calling, maybe it was just to hear his voice. She knows how strange this is, considering she called off their wedding. Unfair would probably be the word he’d choose. And he’d be right. It is unfair to him. But it is unfair to her too. This is happening to her, too. And it hurts her too, maybe not as bad as him, but it does.
Peter sits next to the phone, listening to the message. Oh Katya, he sighs.
At the same time, Prestige is in a Danger Room session with Armor, Pyro and Iceman. Bobby asks her why she returned to her previous uniform. Armor scoffs it is obvious. She changed her costume to the spiked one because Mesmero was in her head. Is it any wonder she’d want to burn the thing? Did she really burn it? Pyro asks as he dispatches his foe. He could have helped.
Rachel replies it’s not that simple. She near killed the three of them, and Ororo, Kitty and Scott. Because Memsero was messing with her, Pyro points out. Because she let him, Rachel insists. She’s sorry doesn’t scratch the surface of what she’s feeling.
Pyro thinks she’s being too hard on herself. Grimly, she replies that, if he knew her family history, he’d say she wasn’t hard enough.
They are joined by Nightcrawler, who announces he needs to talk to Rachel about work. After the others leave, he explains that Cerebro’s detected the emergence of a new omega level mutant. Off-scale cosmic ray discharge. Uncontrollable. Kitty wants them both in the hangar in two minutes.
He continues that they haven’t had a chance to talk since their last conversation. She apologizes and asks if he is okay. For a man who’s heartbroken, she means? He jokes. She takes his hand and corrects him: For someone she still considers a friend.
Is she okay? Kitty asks Storm while they are both getting changed in a dressing room. Storm admits she is managing the sudden loss of the primal power of Stormcaster. Missing that power is unpleasantly reminiscent of the time she lost her mutant power. And what of her? Storm asks Kitty. She lost something far more precious than a hammer.
Her own doing, Kitty demurs. She then muses that sometimes she thinks loss is as much part of being an X-Man as the Danger Room and saving the world thing. Does she think they are cursed? Storm asks. Kitty thinks the loss is to remind them what they are fighting for.
Present:They arrive in Washington where a glowing omega level mutant is terrorizing the civilians. Kitty orders Nightcrawler and Storm to evacuate civilians and Prestige to telepathically stun the mutant who shouts at everyone in a panic to get away from him. Rachel announces he doesn’t have any PSI-shields, but she can’t get past the energy he’s throwing off. She is hit by an energy blast.
The mutant shouts he can’t control it. Kitty assures him that he can. She walks toward him and addresses him as Brian Morrison. She knows he’s scared. He calls himself a monster. She tells him he isn’t a monster – he’s frightened. And why wouldn’t he be? He woke up this morning to find he has the power of a god. But he’s just a kid and he didn’t ask for any of this. He doesn’t want to hurt anybody but he will if he doesn’t get himself under control. He repeats he can’t. Calmly, she tells him that his life has changed forever but that he absolutely can handle it. What’s happening now doesn’t have to be terrible. It can be wonderful. But he’s going to have to choose for it to be wonderful. And he’s going to have to make that choice for the rest of his life. He gets to decide if he’s a monster. What’s it going to be?
Brian concentrates and powers down, returning to his human form. Kitty praises him as she reaches out her hand. She tells him she knows a place that can teach him. That moment, Brian is shot down by a civilian, who himself seems to be shocked. Kitty shouts at him that he wasn’t hurting anybody. She had it under control. Didn’t hurt anybody? he repeats in disbelief and tells her to look around. Parts of the neighborhood are levelled.
Kitty contacts Nightcrawler and he teleports them to nearby North Shore Medical Center.
A medical team immediately examines him and diagnose a head injury. When Kitty asks questions, a nurse tells her off and draws the curtains around the patient and doctor. Storm and Prestige join Kitty and Kurt and ask what happened. Still shocked, Kitty babbles that they shot him. She talked him down and they shot him…
A little later, the doctor joins them and informs them that Brian has a probable intracranial hemorrhage that needs to be evacuated. Kitty asks him to do it. He can’t, he simply replies then explains that, from what he saw on the news, the boy cannot control his powers. They could manifest even while under anesthesia, and it would be like a bomb going off. He could destroy he entire hospital and kill every doctor, nurse and patient here.
Kitty asks what they can do, before realizing that they intend to do nothing and let Brian die. One lives against all the lives in the building, the doctor replies helplessly. One mutant life he means, Kitty snaps. He looks away, then apologizes.
Kitty orders Nightcrawler to get Dr. Cecilia Reyes. He replies it is too far. He’d never make it in time. She turns to Prestige and asks her to telepathically make the doctor perform surgery. Is that really a line she wants to cross? Rachel asks. Yes! she decides. Whatever it takes.
Suddenly, a blonde, female doctor announces she will do it. Her colleague warns her what will happen if the boy goes off and blows up the entire hospital. Frostily, she asks what will happen when she goes to the hospital board and has him thrown out for malpractice and discrimination.
She turns to the X-Men and tells them she will try. Kitty asks if she knows her. She looks familiar. She replies, they met a few months ago.
Flashback:Kitty was addressing a crowd and the woman had called her ‘it.’
Present:She continues, Kitty had said something that stayed with her. Kitty had promised the X-Men were going to win back people’s trust. Over the past few months, she’s watched them do it. They became real to her. Not something to be feared and hated. Not “mutants.” Not even “heroes.” Just people. They’re just people.
Later, the four X-Men sit in the waiting area, just waiting and wondering whether the boy will make it or not.


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Prestige Dark – part 1
Westchester, the Clarebyrne Hotel. The morning after Kitty and Colossus’ ill-fated wedding:Rachel Grey awakes in the hotel room she shares with Kurt Wagner to find she is alone in bed. She walks to the bathroom, figuring Kurt is there and wonders how he managed to be up so early. She’s got the mother of all hangovers. Feels like her brain is trying to punch out of…
She breaks off when she sees her nemesis, Mesmero, standing over Kurt’s unconscious body. Rachel angrily attacks, only to find he isn’t where she thought. He turns up again behind her, revealing he has been in her mind for months, making adjustments, improvements really. She’ll thank him…
In the meantime, Peter Rasputin is leaving the hotel. Kitty Pryde calls out to him. She asks if he was going to leave without saying goodbye. He replies that it seemed easier that way. For him? she asks. For them both, Peter clarifies. She realizes he is not just returning to Manhattan. He admits he doesn’t know. Russia, perhaps. He craves home. She urges he doesn’t have to run away. Doesn’t he? Peter asks. They face death every day. It requires focus to stay alive. He cannot focus with things as they are between them.
Kitty simply states she loves him. He asks her not to say that. But it’s true, she insists. He calls it a cruel truth, if they cannot be together. She explained… He interrupts that he knows but it doesn’t make his heart break any less. Does it hers? No. She looks down. He touches her cheek and tells her to be well. Then he walks away.
The future:Middle-aged Kate Pryde and her husband Colossus are dressed as mutant prisoners in the Sentinels’ prison camp. He asks her if she is well. She apologizes. Her mind wandered. She remembered something.
They turn to their friends, Storm and Nightcrawler. Storm announces they don’t have time for memories. Kurt adds that Forge says he just about got the jammer ready. Once the jammer is operational, they have a three minute window, Storm states.
Kate muses they will lose a lot of people if they go through with this. Not as many people as they will lose when the Sentinels go through with their annihilation plan, comes a new voice. A one-eyed Scott Summers – the older version of the time-displaced younger Cyclops – and Forge join them. The Sentinels are planning on wiping out everyone in the camp at midnight. It’s now or never. In that case, he will need this, Storm points out and hands Cyclops his visor. Scott exchanges his glasses with the visor and Forge gets ready to activate the jammer, again repeating they only have three minutes.
Forge activates it and Scott gives the signal by firing his optic blast up into the air. Others see it, among them Armor, Ink and Anole. Unfortunately, they are confronted by Sentinel guards. Ink orders the others to get the rest to Avalanche, then attacks the Sentinels… only to be killed. Storm order them out of here as she attacks the Sentinels with lightning and witnesses them slaying Anole.
The others find Avalanche, who leads them to a subway promising that Alpha Flight will be meeting them at the Canadian border. Armor’s group come running chased by a Sentinel. Cyclops orders the others into the tunnel and for Colossus and Kate to run interference.
Colossus throws Kate at the Sentinel and she phases through it, scrambling its technology. Cyclops asks Armor about Storm, and she explains Storm stopped the Sentinels and fears correctly she was killed.
Later, they emerge from the tunnels in New Jersey. Peter asks Kate how she is feeling. Tired, cold. Same as everyone, she replies. Not same as everyone he replies. Everyone isn’t pregnant. However, that moment, he is shot in the back by a human guard. Kate attacks him and is felled by a psi-blast. The others realize what that means. It is the Hound Rachel, Nightcrawler’s wife.
Kurt pleads with her trying to reach her and Rachel speaks his name. She apologizes but then strikes him down with a psi-blast. Scott screams and fires an optic blast at her. The human guard kills the others with his machine gun while Rachel strikes down Scott. On the ground, he tries to remind her she is his daughter. She knows, Rachel replies and telekinetically snaps his neck.
Her master praises her and orders her to finish off the rest. However, he is struck by a fire blast as they now face Iceman and Pyro.
In reality, in the present, Rachel has taken out Kitty, Colossus and young Cyclops and Iceman orders her to stand down. This is all in her head…


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Aswan, Egypt, where dozens of tourists stand around a pyramid which has four large idols on the front of it. A man is with his wife and daughter and asks another woman nearby if she would mind taking a few pictures of them. 'We left our selfie stick on the train!' he claims, before telling the woman it is the button at the right at the bottom. 'Just one good shot'll do!' the man calls out, but the woman holding the camera looks nervous and freezes. 'Look, if you didn't want to take the photo, you could have just -' the man begins as he moves towards the woman holding his camera, suddenly a shadow falls over them, and a rumbling can be heard. He looks up in shock, as the pyramid begins to break away, revealing a high-tech structure beneath it. The tourists begin to run in fear, while, inside, a mysterious figure taps at a control panel and declares that, centuries ago, he built this structure to test Earth's greatest warriors. He glances over to where several other figures are standing, and grins: 'How soft this planet has become without the hand of Apocalypse to guide it'.Shortly, 'Nice of Apocalypse to give no clue where he was teleporting us' Dani Moonstar a.k.a. Mirage remarks to her longtime teammate Julio Richter a.k.a. Rictor. As they leap over a pit of large spikes within what appears to be a pyramid, Dani reports that she doesn't sense anyone else close by, but notes that her psi-powers are more empathic than on demand. 'Do you think we're on Arakko?' Dani asks. As the duo races down a narrow tunnel, Rictor reports that this is definitely Earth, as he can feel the rock and soil beneath them. Calling Apocalypse by his Krakoan name, Rictor tells Dani that he knows him better than almost anyone. 'If he wants to judge our worthiness to shepherd Earth, he'll test us on -' Rictor begins, but as he steps on a particular brick, a trapdoor is activated, and the two begin to plummet into darkness. 'Ric!' Dani calls out, while Rictor tells Dani to try and grab on to something, but Dani tells him that the walls are too smooth, and she can't find a hold.Eventually, Dani and Rictor stop falling, and land in quicksand. They quickly find themselves up to their necks, as Dani declares that this is not normal quicksand, it is a hell of a lot stronger. 'Making the earth move and shake is your wheelhouse, Ric. Sand particles are just really tiny rocks, right? Any time you want to leap into action...' Dani calls out, while Rictor closes his eyes.(Earlier)Rictor sits on a floating piece of land, green energy glows around him, as a voice calls out 'Rictor. You've continued your studies'. Eyes closed, Rictor responds 'You came back for me. Even after we fought on Krakoa. Even though I wasn't on Arakko when you needed me'. Wearing a crop top which shows off his abs and a long green coat, Rictor suddenly opens his eyes, and declares 'I knew you would'. Rictor steps off the floating piece of earth, drops to his knees and bows before the shadowy figure who looms over him. 'You taught me so much. It couldn't have been without purpose'. Apocalypse places a hand on Rictor's shoulder and replies 'No, never without purpose'.(Now)'Had me worried for a second' Dani tells her friend as Rictor levitates them both out of the quicksand after he transforms the quicksand into solid matter. Dani and Rictor leap back onto the walkway and Dani tells Rictor that he seems different here. 'You really want this, don't you?' she asks him, before admitting that she had to be convinced. 'But you believe in his plan' she adds. Ric looks at Dani and tells her that he doesn't want her to take this the wrong way, because he loves her, but that this isn't her destiny. 'It's mine' he boasts. 'I guess we'll see about that' Dani responds as the two continue on down another tunnel, and Dani points out that there are a lot of trials standing between them and the trophy. 'Now come on – it can't just be the two of us fighting for our lives in here'.Indeed, as elsewhere in the structure, The Gorgon cuts his way through a series of spear-like weapons with his blade. Suddenly, a flaming arrow descends towards him but Monet St. Croix a.k.a. Penance comes between then. 'Watch out!' she tells him as she knocks the arrow away. 'Flames and arrows are a nuisance when you're invulnerable – but I recall you being a bit more delicate' Monet remarks. The Gorgon looks up at Monet, before he cuts through a boulder that drops towards him and announces that he needs no warning. Monet catches a flaming arrow and tells Gorgon 'No offense, butr the last I knew, dying in Otherworld had turned you into a snivelling coward scared senseless by a stiff breeze. What changed?' Monet asks. 'I died again' Gorgon reveals, explaining that this time he passed though the “Waiting Room”, a trick of magic by the Scarlet Witch, and a path back to his true self.(Earlier)In a bar, Gorgon stands in front of several men in suits, another man lies on the floor, pools of blood around him as a shadow looms over them all. 'You are ruthless, Gorgon. I have need of that' Apocalypse announces.(Now)Gorgon hangs his head as he tells Monet that he discovered the nation he had died to defend had been undermined by power-mad fools.In another part of the complex, the diabolical Mr. Sinister smacks what looks like some sort of strange weapon against his hand, as it appears to be not working. 'Oh, come on. This is what I get for buying bargain black-market genetic weapon' Sinister mutters, before the device suddenly activates. 'There we go! And not a second too soon' he decides, noting that cloning himself is once again somewhat arduous work rather than a matter of daily routine. He holds the weapon up and it emits a strange energy, which rips apart a ferocious creature that lunges at Sinister. The creature drops to the floor and Sinister carries on down the tunnel. He admits that he wasn't sure that would work on something without an X-Gene. 'Good to know he decides.Meanwhile, 'Watch your six, kid!' Nathan Summers a.k.a. Cable shouts as he fires his weapon through a reanimated mummy which was encroaching upon Lin Li a.k.a. Armageddon Girl. 'I don't need your help, old man' Lin snaps as she glances back at Cable. She boasts that she is connected to every living being, every element of nature on this planet. 'I stood up to Gaia herself for the right to guide its future' the former Nature Girl exclaims, before declaring that she is the only one suitable to hold Earth to account. 'You want to play it that way – fine by me. Consider the helping hand revoked' Cable responds as he carries on down the tunnel, leaving a trail of mummies behind him, he tells Armageddon Girl to keep an eye out for killer mummies all on her own next time. 'Hmph' Lin mutters.At that moment, Bennet du Paris a.k.a. Exodus calmly walks into another part of the complex. All appears calm, until several weapons are hurled towards him. 'This is beneath me. As I expected' Exodus notes as he easily catches all of the weapons in telekinetic fields and lets them drop to the ground. As flames rise up behind him, he carries on into another chamber.Elsewhere, Emma Frost, Doug Ramsey a.k.a. Cypher, Laura Kinney a.k.a. Wolverine and the man known only as Forge are together as they make their way through the labyrinthine structure. Wolverine reports that something in the stone is affecting her senses, and explains that she can smell the four of them, but nothing and no one else. 'At least we all found each other before entering this never-ending rat maze' Cypher points out. Forge agrees, and notes that they are additionally lucky that between he and Laura they have a good number of old-fashioned navigational skills. Forge looks at a brick on the ground which is probably booby-trapped, and Wolverine glances over at Emma and suggests that perhaps if she dropped her diamond form, she could test the group's telepathic range, too.Suddenly, Forge tells everyone to watch it, as he thinks he just triggered something. Indeed, a dart appears, flung towards Emma, who flicks it away with her diamond-hard fingers. 'Yes, let me drop my only physical protection while in this surprise-death corridor' Emma mutters, before turning to Wolverine and telling her that, if she didn't know any better, she may get suspicious of her motives. Wolverine just snarls.(Earlier)Standing in the shadows, Apocalypse addresses Magik, Synch and Wolverine. He tells them that the three of them served Krakoa selflessly, proving that the generation before them does not hold a monopoly on what it means to be on of their “X-Men”. He announces that he comes to them today with an opportunity to serve again – on a much grander scale. 'No. And I don't think you're surprised that I'd turn you down' Synch responds, while Magik remarks that she just got rid of her thone in Limbo, and is not in the market for another one any time soon. Wolverine smirks, intrigued with the proposal.(Now)Cypher reports that he is starting to read a pattern to the turns in the path – the maze's language. 'If we just -' Cypher begins as he  steps on a raised brick – which sends a wall collapsing in on him 'Whoa!' Cypher calls out, before Wolverine lunges forward and pushes him to safety, as the wall crashes to the ground. 'Yeesh, thanks, Wolverine. I almost -' Cypher begins nervously, looking back at Wolverine who interrupts him: 'Why are you here, Ramsey? Isn't your mutant gift talking?' Wolverine snarls. 'That's – a little reductive' Cypher responds, before telling Wolverine that he is just as surprised that Apocalypse invited him as she is. 'It really feels like someone else should be here instead' he admits.(Earlier)Arakko, where Warren Worthington III a.k.a. Archangel swoops down to a cliffside next to Shiro Yoshida a.k.a. Sunfire. 'It's not easy to get to outer space without Krakoan gates, Shiro' the shirtless Archangel remarks, and suggests that they could have met somewhere more Earthbound if he had something he wanted to talk to him about. Sunfire tells Archangel that he misunderstands, because it wasn't he who requested this meeting. 'Then who -?' Warren asks, before a voice calls out 'My heralds!' and Archangel and Sunfire turn to see Apocalypse waiting for them. The uber-mutant tells two of his former Horsemen that he appreciates them traveling to hear him out. 'Of all my many Horsemen, I see in both of you the chance to be something greater than mere servants at my side. Just as I have always seen mutantkind's inherent potential' Apocalypse tells them.Apocalypse turns his back to Archangel and Sunfire as he tells them that  they both suffered for him, and emerged stronger – tempered by the flame of revelation. 'More than you once were – more than you ever could have become on your own. And now it falls to me to push you even further...to determine who might succeed me in my great work on Earth'. Warren looks unimpressed, and clenches his fists, before he transforms into his deadly razor-sharp winged version, stretching his wings in all their dangerous glory, he exclaims 'Further? Further? I went through hell at your hands, Apocalypse!' Archangel declares that, for the good of mutantkind, he put aside his pain, he watched as Apocalypse took a seat on the Quiet Council, trusted Professor X and Magneto when they said he earned it. 'But the idea of becoming you – of seeing someone else becoming you? Absolutely not. One Apocalypse is already more than enough for anyone to survive' Archangel remarks.Apocalypse tells Archangel that he could have met him anywhere on Earth, but that he chose to invite him here so that Archangel might see what compels him. Apocalypse motions to some structures on Arakko, and thinks back to when Earth was young, recalling how he watched his homeland cleaved in two. He states that, for centuries, Arakko endured. He did all he could to prepare the mutants left behind to one day rejoin his family, to make their kind strong enough to rise to the challenge set upon them by the nature of their birth. He thought he achieved that goal when Krakoa and Arakko were made whole once more, but then Krakoa fell – and Arakko endures. 'And so long as I watch over it, I will see that Arakko is prepared for the day when all of our people are united once more' Apocalypse concludes.Sunfire listens as Apocalypse continues, stating that as he guides Arakko, so too must someone hold Earth to its highest potential. 'I offered my steady hand. I was rejected. Will one of you answer that call, my favored Horsemen?' Apocalypse asks. Sunfire finally speaks, telling Apocalypse that, once, the mere sight of him would have repulsed him and driven shame and fear deep into his bones. 'But my journeys across Krakoa, Arakko and Otherworld have brought me a new sense of purpose. And I do not feel that I have found my limits yet' Sunfire reveals, deciding that this is not where his path leads. Apocalypse tells his beloved Horsemen that he will not force their fate to bend towards his. 'Don't lie! You've never hesitated to play god with our lives! But I'll be damned if you turn another innocent mutant into a monster made in your image!' Archangel warns Apocalypse, before he and Sunfire take flight across the skies of Arakko, leaving Apocalypse behind.(Now)'The finish, so soon?' Mr. Sinister remarks as he enters another chamber within the pyramid. 'Well, I appear to be the victor, then. No surprises there' Sinister boasts – only for a blade to be pressed to his neck. Sinister looks at the blade, then casually pushes it away with a dinger. 'Do you mind?' he asks, before Gorgon sheathes his blade and tells Sinister that the tournament is far from over. 'Looks like it's just getting started, actually – gang's all here... it's practically a party!' Monet remarks as she, Gorgon and Sinister look on to see Exodus appear from one tunnel, Rictor and Mirage from another, and Cable, Armageddon Girl, Cypher, Emma Frost, Forge and Wolverine all converge at another. Within the chamber is a black pyramid which protrudes from the ground. 'Monet! Doug! You're part of this too?' Dani calls out to her friends, while Emma turns to Cable and tells him that he is the last mutant she expected to see here. 'C'mon, Emma – after living through the future where he got his way, you think I'd let Apocalypse make a move this big without having a say in it?' Cable frowns.Cypher approaches Armageddon Girl and tells her that he is sorry to see her like this. 'Krakoa and I thought you had the potential to bring so much peace and growth to the planet with your gift. But you've caused so much harm, instead' he remarks. Lin hangs her head, before telling Cypher that he and the island were naive fools. 'I will always do whatever is necessary to protect the future of life on Earth. And no one will stand in my way!' she boasts. Exodus hovers above Sinister and tells him that this contest is about the destiny of mutantkind, and that a gene thief has no right to be here. Sinister smirks and replies 'Sticky fingers or not, here I am'. Forge comes between the two men and tells them that Big Blue promised no duels to the death. 'Then again, for Sinister...maybe we should make an exception...' he suggests. 'Please. You can't kill me in any way that matters. If you haven't gathered that by now, you're beyond -' Sinister starts, before the small pyramid begins to separate and energy crackles within it, as a voice booms 'Silence!'Apocalypse's image appears from the opened pyramid and all twelve of the mutants turn to look up at him. Apocalypse announces that, for millennia, he sought the path laid out before them on Krakoa, the promise of something more than fighting their lessers for the right to exist. 'My people – our people – feasted on a bounty of possibility while the island thrived. For a brief moment, it seemed that a new age had dawned. And then it was taken from us' Apocalypse declares. Apocalypse tells the mutants that they are in lean times again – a famine of hope and potential, but that one of them will lead the mutants of Earth to prosperity once more. 'You work together out of habit, but do not mistake the trial I've presented to you. Only one of you will be my heir'. The mutants listen intently, some suspiciously, as Apocalypse tells them that only one of them will follow in his  footsteps and ensure that the mutants of Earth are ready to meet the challenges they will face in the days ahead. 'Whether or not the rest of you survive... is up to you' Apocalypse warns them. 'Oh, don't everyone look at me when he says that part' Sinister snaps as he feels several pairs of eyes fall on him.Apocalypse informs the mutants that the obstacles they have faced to reach this chamber were merely prelude to what awaits them deeper in the temple. 'You will face trials of the mind, of the spirit all in service...' his voice trails off, and his image vanishes, as there is a rumbling noise. 'He's always had a flair for the dramatic' Emma remarks, to which Forge tells her that he doesn't think this is part of the show. Suddenly, there is an explosion, which destroys the small pyramid, and leaves a gaping hole in the side of the temple. Mirage rushes over to the hole in the temple and the others follow her. She tells Rictor that he was right – they are on Earth, and the blast came from across the river. 'And whoever is trying to crash this little pageant...just put a lot of innocent people in danger' Mirage exclaims as flames begin to spread in the nearby town. Mirage asks Rictor how fast he can get them down there, to which Rictor suggests that it might be quicker for Cable to bodyslide all of them, but he could build a rock bridge if “the old man” doesn't have it in him.'You'll have to repeat that, Ric – I got distracted by a snake slithering away when we weren't looking' Cable calls out as he holds a gun to the back of Sinister's head. Sinister looks annoyed that he wasn't able to escape without being noticed. 'Did you really think a few screaming locals would move me to rote heroism?' Sinister asks as he raises his hands above his head. 'There's a game afoot!' he points out. 'Screw the game, Sinister. Lives are at stake. Let's move!' Mirage suggests as Rictor starts to form a rock bridge. Gorgon raises a sword and suggests that Mirage is right – this could be part of the trial. 'I wouldn't put it past the Great Satan to extend his tribulations to the city beyond' Exodus frowns, deciding that Apocalypse has never cared who he crushes underfoot in pursuit of his machinations. Exodus then gathers all of the mutants in a telekinetic field and announces that they will move as one, to keep the sanctity of the contest, and carries them all down to the town below.Apocalypse is clearly able to watch the goings-on, as his flickering image sees the group depart, and he remarks to himself 'An unexpected visitor... a fighting test for my heir...'.And across from the temple, in the town, an armored being with a flaming skull contained in transparent helmet unleashes a powerful blaze as he shouts 'You set me loose on this world, Father! You made me what I am! The only rightful heir to Apocalypse...is Genocide!'


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Aswan, Egypt, where locals and tourists run in terror. William Rolfson a.k.a. Genocide, a very powerful and dangerous mutant is wrecking havoc. 'Face me, father! There is no need for games to decide you heir when the one true child of Apocalypse still treads across this planet... and is more than willing to cleanse it of livestock grown soft and sour!' Genocide boasts as he releases another blaze, near where a man collapses to the ground – but he finds himself unable to strike the fallen man. 'Never saw you around Krakoa...' a voice calls out. Realizing someone is responsible for preventing him using his powers, he utters 'Mind powers? Who dares?' 'Starting to see why Apocalypse didn't invite you to the family potlucks. Guess you're not the favored son' Dani Moonstar a.k.a. Mirage exclaims as she aims an arrow towards Genocide, while behind her, Bennet du Paris a.k.a. Exodus announces that the child is strong, but that his telekinetic powers are unrivaled on Earth, or in the heavens above.'I AM NOT A CHILD!' Genocide booms as fiery energy rages around the twelve mutants who have suddenly appeared before him. 'Your weakness seeped into my father's bones like a pestilence. I am the final cure!' Genocide exclaims. 'Deciding an “heir” can wait – no one dies here today!' Mirage calls out to her companions, most of whom stand ready for battle. Of the ones who don't ready themselves, Nathaniel Essex a.k.a. Mr. Sinister tells the mutants that he will let the rough-and-tumble types handle this little altercation. He turns his attention to Lin Li, a.k.a. Armageddon girl, and grabs one of her horns. 'Ow!' Lin utters. 'Good luck out there, you fervent little ecoterrorist, you' Sinister remarks. 'Do not touch me, defiler! Your genetic abuse is an affront to nature itself!' Lin snaps, gritting her teeth. She runs from Sinister, announcing that she can hear the Earth screaming, that every step Genocide takes leaks toxins into the biosphere. 'I will wipse this stain clean' she boasts.But suddenly, as she approaches Genocide, Lin can no longer feel her connection to the Earth. Her horns and mask begin to crumble as she utters 'I can't feel anything' then she is blasted backwards by a powerful surge of energy from Genocide, which slams her into the side of a nearby building.(Earlier)Armageddon Girl stands over the bodies of several poachers as Apocalypse, standing in the shadows, appears and tells her that she slaughtered the poachers without remorse. 'They spare no sympathy for my planet. I spare none for them' Armageddon Girl responds matter-of-factly. 'That, child... is a mercilessness I can respect' Apocalypse announces.(Now)Armageddon Girl lays motionless in the side of the building, while Sinister looks on and remarks 'Oh dear. The Meatless Monday satyr girl wasn't the only casualty of that blast. This housing blocks's about to tumble'. Civilians can be seen still inside the building, and so Emma Frost the White Queen, in her diamond form, races to the building and calls out to Laura Kinney a.k.a. Wolverine who is directing some civilians to safety. 'Laura, we need to -' Emma begins. '- evacuate the building. On it' Wolverine calls back. Emma then looks up to where Exodus is hovering above the building and tells him that a lot of people are about to die horribly without his assistance. 'You're an Omega-level telekinetic... act like one!' Emma snaps.'The harlot's right' Exodus scowls, as he suddenly lifts Genocide up with his telekinesis and hurls him into another nearby building. 'Begone' Exodus mutters as Genocide crashes out the other side of the building. Doug Ramsey a.k.a. Cypher sees some rubble falling towards a local girl and rushes over to her: 'Watch out!' he exclaims in the Egyptian Arabic dialect. The little girl then points upwards as some much larger rubble begins to fall towards her and Cypher. 'Another one!' the girl calls out, but Cypher realizes that the rubble is too big to escape from and holds the girl close as they await their fate. 'Close your eyes, okay? Don't worry. Everything will be -' Cypher begins, before he smiles as the rubble is smashed to smithereens courtesy of Monet St. Croix, the incredibly powerful mutant sometimes called Penance.(Earlier)Monet sits at a table on the sidwalk outside a cafe, as a shadow falls over her. Civilians look on in awe, as Monet looks up at Apocalypse and remarks 'I told Pietro I wanted tea instead of cafe au lait, so he sprinted to a mountaintop in Japan renowned for its matcha. That means you have about ten seconds to make your sales pitch before he's back'. Apocalypse tells Monet that she masks her regal bearing with an air of disaffection, that her snideness is a veneer on her commitment to mutantkind, and to holding her peers to a higher standard. 'Rather than succumb to the savagery within, you have tamed it. You have no penance to serve. A greater calling awaits' Apocalypse claims, intriguing Monet.(Now)'Get her out of here!' Monet calls out to Cypher. She tells Doug that he is a lovely translator, before pointing out that it pays to be invulnerable at moments like this. 'Don't have to tell me twice' Doug responds, before the ground around him suddenly lifts into the air, taking Doug and the girl with it. 'I've got you!' Julio Richter a.k.a. Rictor calls out as he begins doing the same to other pieces of the ground with civilians on them, levitating them to safety. Rictor reports that Genocide has destablizied half the buildings in this neighborhood. 'I'll swing you over the rooftops instead!' Rictor tells everyone he's rescued. He almost has everyone to safety, before Genocide appears before him. 'Nowhere on this Earth is safe from me, rock-wielder!' Genocide calls out. 'Then I'll bury you under it instead!' Roictor snaps as he releases a vibration which causes a building to collapse on Genocide.'C'mon, stay down, wastoid...' Ric mumbles through gritted teeth, before Genocide bursts through the rubble, burning it all in a furious display as he calls out 'You think stone can slow me down? I'm a living furnace...burning hotter than the sun itself!' he boasts as he releases waves of flame that burst across cars, building and everything around him – including Rictor – in a spectacular display. 'Did that son ofa %$^& just take out Rictor?' Nathan Summers a.k.a. Cable asks as he opens fire at Genocide. 'Mourn later, Nate. The files we had on this guy did not do him justice. We're on the back foot here' Forge remarks as he also opens fire, while Mirage shoots an arrow towards Genocide.Nearby, Exodus holds up the side of a collapsing building and decides that if this is meant to be a test, then it is clear he alone is worthy. 'Preserving stone edificies and saving humans one by one is a distraction...when I can simply remove all living creatures from the vinicity at once' Exodus boasts as he levitates all of the civilians up into the air next to him.(Earlier)Exodus is on his knees in a barren landscape. 'I led my people through the desert...and we came not upon salvation, but ruin. Look at what remains of the gateways that once took us to our homeland!' Exodus cries out as he holds some of the withered Krakoan gateway in his hands. Exodus turns and points an accusing finger: 'You made sure your people presevered, Great Satan. Arrako, up above us in the heavens... while the rest of us wait in purgatory!' Exodus rises up and hovers over Apocalypse who responds 'I know well how much you revile me. And I've no need of more sycophants'. Apocalypse narrows his eyes and asks Exodus if he will be his opposing force, and whether he will even hold him to task?(Now)There is a boom as Cable fires another blast at Genocide, and he tells Forge and Mirage that scans are telling him Exodus just relocated everyone within a one-mile radius, which means they can unleash on Apocalypse's afterbirth here without worrying about collateral damage. Genocide fires another blast towards a building behind Tomi Shishido the Gorgon and tells Cable 'You prove my point for me! Why worry for humans squashed underfoot? Like my father himself, you have growns weak – a blade's edge dulled, a fire dimmed!' Genocide exclaims.'For Rictor, girls. And poor Lin Li, too' Emma declares as she leaps from a balcony towards Genocide, with Wolverine at her side, and Monet flying behind them, the trio strike Genocide in unison, with Monet's super-strong fist and Emma's diamond-hard heel striking his helmet, as Wolverine's claws slice across his armor. Gorgon appears again and his sword slashes against Genocide's armor once more, telling him that his armor marks him slow and vulnerable. 'This shell isn't to protect me, you idiot! It's the only thing keeping you alive. And if I can't beat you head on...I'll unleash my bioplasma on the world'. Monet, Cable and Gorgon look on, concerned, while Genocide asks 'My father wants to test this Earth? Let's see if it can survive the blight of Genocide!'Black energy begins to bubble around Genocide, while Monet switches to her Penance form and lunges towards him: 'Keep your clothes on, pervert!' she snaps as she puts her hands over Genocide's cracking armor. 'Anyone wants to pitch in – now's the time!' Penance calls out, noting that she can't hold his suit shut herself. Genocide tries to shake Penance off of him, when Exodus flies down towards him and announces 'Enough. This trial ends...' to which Emma asks him what he is doing. '...now!' Exodus declares as he surrounds Genocide and Penance in psychic energy, containing them within a telekinetic bubble – and just in time, as the other mutants are shunted backwards by the explosion that occurs within the telekinetic dome. There is a brilliant burst of energy, and when the explosion subsides, the mutants stare at the crater that appears before them.'Oh god. Monet, she was caught in the -' Forge begins, while Emma shouts 'You bastard!' as she clenches her fists and looks up at Exodus. Exodus drops down to the ground and notes that Monet knew the risks of this tournament. 'You should feel at ease knowing she died a hero, buying me the precious seconds to collapse Genoside into a hyper-dense orb' Exodus tells the others. 'No... not Monet, too' Cypher utters. Mirage begins to cry and remarks that none of them should have agreed to Apocalypse's proposal, as this has gone way too far. 'You control matter at a cellular level and you couldn't have pushed her out of the way?' Emma snaps. 'Her blood is on your hands, you fanatical piece of -' Emma begins, before Exodus, holding the small orb that contains Genocide, tells everyone to keep their distance, and explains that he is still suppressing Genocide's bioplasma energy. 'None of you could withstand exposure' he notes.Suddenly, Sinister appears and waves his hand behind Exodus' back. 'Did I miss the coup de grace?' Sinister asks. 'Ah, what a shame' he mutters, when suddenly, Exodus looks unwell, and he collapses to the ground, dropping the orb. 'What did you -?' Exodus begins. 'Oh no, our beloved zealot has caught sick!' Sinister jokes, as Exodus' body crumbles to dust. 'It seems there was an upper limit to his power, after all' Sinister smirks. 'I'm gonna blow this backstabbing $#%&'s head off' Cable scowls, while Wolverine pops her claws: 'Not if I vivisect him first' she frowns.Meanwhile, on Arakko, within a pyramid, where the uber mutant Apocalypse is monitoring the events taking place on Earth. 'How disappointing. Twelve of the most promising, most uncompromising mutants on the planet... and my most despised child nearly obliterates them all' he declares, before deciding that he almost regrets luring Genocide to the testing grounds. Suddenly, there is a shattering sound and Apocalypse turns, eyes-wide at what he sees. 'You're going to regret much more than that, Apocalypse!' Warren Worthington III a.k.a. Archangel warns his former master as he perches on the windowsil of a now shattered window, glass clattering into the room around Apocalypse. 'I swore to you – I wouldn't let you ruin anyone else's life in pursuit of your "survival of the fittest"!' Archangel exclaims, pointing out that Apocalypse got his home back here on Arakko, and suggests that he leave Earth alone. Apocalypse grins and tells Archangel that if he wishes to be Earth's guardian, then he hopes he is prepared to die for it!