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Banshee’s Angels in: Mother Knows Best (1st story)
Covenant with the Devil (2nd story)
Wild and Free (3rd story)
Seeds of War (4th story)
1st story:
"Y'know what I really hate about space?" Husk asks her Generation X teammates during their interstellar voyage. "The dress code." Jubilee concurs; she compares the static cling from their uniforms to being electrocuted. M begs to differ. She finds the endless, tedious, relentless monotony to be the worst aspect of space travel. In a daze, she stares out the window of their spacecraft at the passing void. Paige notices her emotional distance and asks if she incurred a dose of space sickness. M, wide-eyed, drones on about how space goes on and on forever. Jubilee renames her condition “sick spaceness”.
Suddenly, the ship's motherboard alerts its three occupants about a security breach. Husk tells it to shut up and furiously pecks away at the keyboard. M asks what the emergency is this time. "Nothing, you know Mother, everything's a crisis," Jubilee says. She presumes someone did something trivial like leave the toilet seat up. Unexpectedly, the lights go out, and Jubilee admits this might qualify as an actual emergency.
Fortunately, the emergency lights immediately kick on, allowing the three girls to see, at least. Jubilee notes the ship has stopped moving. Paige begins running a systems analysis. Why bother, Monet asks? They all know the problem: the engine's ignition blew out again. Someone needs to go repair it. Jubilee and Paige both groan; they know exactly what this operation entails. Paige, however, has a bright idea: why not send the fixer-bot? Monet likes the plan, but admits she hasn't seen the robot as of late. Reluctantly, Jubilee admits she used the parts from the fixer-bot to make the cabin's groovy lamp — a lamp everyone adores, she reminds them. Monet, folding her arms, sternly tells her to suit up and fix the problem.
Jubilee throws on her spacesuit and proceeds to the airlock. "Mother says: always take a ray gun," Mother reminds her. Jubilee tells it to stop nagging! She snaps on her helmet and opens the outer door.
"Space-walking without a ray gun is a code violation, y'know?" M tells Jubilee when she passes in front of the cabin's windshield. Jubilee speaks, but her teammates hear nothing. What did she say, Husk asks? "I put her on mute," M replies. "It's a code violation to use that kind of language.
Paige suddenly spots a flyer tucked under the windshield-wiper. She asks where it came from. M supposes it was pasted on their windshield last week at the drive-thru Chinese restaurant. The flyer, which boasts a sketch of a jubilant disco-dancing man in an afro, advertises the universe's biggest disco party in a sector of space called the Donut Ring. M immediately recognizes the location; it's in their sector! After Paige realizes the party started just ten minutes ago, the two girls jump for joy. They get to party! M immediately gets on the microphone and tells Jubilee to get her butt in gear; they now have somewhere to be!
Meanwhile, Jubilee diligently works at repairing the ship's ignition. She sees what appear to be teeth marks on the ship's intricate ignition parts. Unbeknownst to her, something watches her from behind, creeping closer and closer. Jubilee senses the shadow it casts. She turns around just in time to come face-to-face with the menace.
Her screams, however, go unheard. Inside the ship, Paige and Monet have the music cranked up high as they try on party outfits in the dressing room.
Outside, Jubilee stares her attacker – a green-skinned, winged gremlin – in the face. She begs for her teammates to come save her, but angrily assumes they put her on mute. The gremlin takes a swipe at her. She sails backward and crashes into the ship's hull. The monster approaches again, but this time, Jubilee kicks it in the face.
Inside, Paige has a funny feeling something might be very wrong. What is it, Monet asks? "I think I've lost my lip gloss!" Paige says. Monet tells her to just borrow Jubilee's.
Jubilee, meanwhile, continues fighting for her life in the vacuum of space. After the gremlin pins her against the ship's hull, she pounds on the metal frame, desperately hoping to get someone's attention. Although her rattling goes unheard, she succeeds in shaking the ship's interior enough to knock loose her fixer-bot lamp, which topples over onto the control panel's keyboard. It activates the alarm.
Husk and M hear the ship's alarm for an alien attack. "Jubes!!" they shout in unison.
Before they can even help, Jubilee decks the gremlin, sending it floating into the path of the ship's after-burner. At that very moment, Mother restarts the ship's ignition, and the after-burn incinerates the monster. Jubilee grabs hold of the ship's fin mere moments before it continues its speedy voyage. M and Husk finally open the airlock and emerge to save their frightened teammate. Hold on! they shout. Jubilee, clinging to the fin for dear life, doesn't need to be told that.
She informs her teammates the alien attacker is toast. Dang, Paige says. She hasn't had the chance to vaporize anything on this entire trip! To everyone's collective surprise, the gremlin suddenly emerges right behind them, charred to a blackened state. It growls. Without hesitating, Husk and M incinerate it with their ray guns. "Happy now? You got to shoot something," Jubilee says to Paige. Paige smiles and tells her it feels good. The three girls sit down on the ship's hull and take a breather. Jubilee interrupts and asks who is flying the ship if they're all outside. As if in response, the ship suddenly takes a nosedive, and the three girls grab on for dear life.
Coincidentally, the ship veers into the Donut Ring and collides with the Greatest Disco Event in the Universe. The girls of Generation X don their best party clothes and hit the dance floor, schmoozing with a motley assembly of extra-terrestrials. Mother, protruding through the arena's ceiling, continues to dole out smothering advice. The music will damage their ears, and they're missing out on valuable sleep, Mother tells them. Paige asks Jubilee if she heard what Mother said. No, Jubilee answers; she can’t hear a thing over the music that’s damaging her ears!
2nd story:
Russia. In the middle of a mellow field of waving wheat, two figures exchange gifts. It is Piotr Rasputin and his little sister, Illyana. She hands him a bouquet of hand-picked flowers. He smiles and lifts her in his arms amidst a flurry of butterflies. "No. Why him?" a voice asks. "Not Peter!!!!"
"PETER!!" Kurt Wagner shouts as he snaps out of his dream. He lifts his head out of the puddle of drool on his desk and looks around. His teammate Storm enters his study and asks what is the matter; she heard a loud scream. Nightcrawler apologizes; he did not mean to startle anyone. He just has trouble accepting the fact that his friend Peter Rasputin is truly gone, and his dreams only reinforce his disbelief.
Storm, handing her morose friend a cup of freshly brewed coffee, tells him she understands. Peter was not just a friend or a family member; he was a teammate. Even though she mourns his passing, however, she claims to have found peace. After all, Colossus willingly surrendered his life so others could live. She cannot imagine a nobler death.
Kurt slaps the coffee mug out of her hand. Why does it matter how their teammate died, he asks? Either way, the fact remains he's gone! Kurt clenches his teeth and disappears in a puff of sulfuric smoke. Gambit enters the room after hearing the commotion and figures Nightcrawler is just having a tough time. It would appear so, Ororo tells him, but still, she has never in her life seen Kurt act this way. She hopes he doesn't do anything foolish.
Salem Center...
For years, the Salem Center has been the X-Men's connection to the outside world, their oasis of normalcy in a life devoid of such a thing. Today is an exception. Nightcrawler perches on one of the shop's rooftops and peers down at the civilians in the streets. Their very existence enrages him. They go about their lives without a care in the world. Why shouldn't they? What could possibly worry them? They weren't born as freaks of nature, like Nightcrawler and his fellow mutants. He wonders, though, why they shouldn't be made to suffer like he has. Why should mutants continue to die for mankind while it blissfully feigns innocence?
The sight of a street artist fills Kurt with particular disdain. He overhears the artist telling an attractive woman how, as a painter, he doesn't just capture an image, but a moment in time. "Oh, that's so deep," the captivated onlooker says.
Kurt teleports down to the street and interrupts their precious moment. What do they know about art, he asks? His friend Peter was the most talented artist he had ever met, but because of the very nature of his existence, he never had the chance to nurture his passion! "You see, like myself, he was a mutant," Kurt shouts in the woman's face, "…and because of that he died." He notices the unmistakable, yet painfully familiar, expression of terror written across the crying woman's face. "Do I...do I frighten you, Leibchen?" he snarls. He does, the woman admits. Her painter friend calls Kurt a freak and tells him to leave her alone. Kurt asks if they have even been listening; why should he continue to die to save the likes of them? He grabs the man by the throat and pins him to the ground.
It is only when the frightened woman pleads with him to stop that Kurt realizes the monstrousness of his actions. He begs their forgiveness; he has not been himself lately. He asks if there is anything he can do to help. "Leave us alone," the woman says. "Haven't you done enough?" In the moments before he teleports away, Kurt overhears the murmurs of the crowd. They call him a demon, a mutant, and monster. Kurt has heard it all before. He asks for forgiveness one last time, and disappears, leaving only traces of rotten smoke in his wake.
The crowd disperses, but one man remains still. He smiles, revealing a row of jagged teeth beneath his ruby-red eyes and the diamond-shaped marking on his forehead.
Kurt, wracked with guilt, reappears in a nearby alleyway. "Why, God?" he asks. "Have you not already taken enough from this family?! Are you not a compassionate God? Was it out of love that you finally delivered him from the agony of this earthly plane as well?" He kneels in the alleyway and hangs his head. "I would have gone in his place," he says. "I would have given anything."
A stranger approaches. He asks if Mr. Wagner if he might be praying to the wrong deity. Kurt looks up and beholds the vile face of Mr. Sinister. Sinister asks who else but he could offer Kurt the thing he so desperately seeks — the resurrection of his dearly departed friend, Colossus? Kurt looks on with caution. This man, Mr. Sinister, views mutants only as a vessel for his experiments in genetics. He cares only for his research, and pays no heed to its consequences.
Kurt asks exactly what Sinister means about reviving Colossus. Such a thing, after all, is not humanly possible. It is exactly for that reason why only Sinister can perform such a thing, Mr. Sinister says. He is not bound by the normal constraints of humanity. He tells Nightcrawler he can bring Colossus back from the dead, just as he brings back his Marauders over and over again, and how he brought back the X-Men's own ally, Jean Grey. He produces from his pocket a vial of Colossus's blood. This, coupled with Sinister's own scientific brilliance, is all that is needed to bring Piotr Rasputin back from the dead. Kurt knows enough to know that when it comes to Sinister, there is always a price. Sinister tells him not to worry; he will reveal everything in due time. For now, the choice is Kurt's.
Kurt stares at him for an extended moment before offering his answer. "Nein," he says, snatching the vial out of Mr. Sinister's hand. He will not allow his friend's memory and noble death to be corrupted by Sinister's proposed mockery of life! Perhaps now, in death, Piotr can finally have the peace he so desperately deserved! He smashes the vial against the concrete. Sinister rebukes his audacity. He's offering Colossus a second chance at life! "What you offered is a shadow of a life," Nightcrawler says. "Maybe you could have replaced his body, but you could never have replaced his spirit." As Mr. Sinister departs, he tells Kurt to think about his actions this day whenever he mourns his dead teammate. It is Kurt and Kurt alone who condemned Colossus to oblivion. He tells him to sleep with that knowledge... if he can.
That night, Kurt sits at his window and composes a letter by moonlight. He tells his close friend Storm that although he cannot fathom Sinister's motives that afternoon, the encounter did make him think about his own situation, and led him to make a tough decision. He tells Storm he is no good to the X-Men in his current condition. He needs to leave so he can straighten out his head... and his heart. I will be back, he writes. I'm just not sure when, exactly. He tells Storm to give his love to the others, and to keep him in her prayers, just as she is always in his own.
3rd story:
Jimmy Bodine figures everyone has special powers. At least, that's what his friend Billy Landsdale believes. According to Billy, these powers are all mostly useless. Billy says Jimmy's power is to get his heart broken. A woman named Barbara broke Jimmy's heart most recently, so Jimmy's sister Sue Ann and Billy decided to cheer him up by taking out for a night of drinking and dancing at Shane's.
Jimmy, sitting at the bar and swilling a beer, spots a striking woman on the dance floor and figures his special power has struck again. He can't take his eyes off of her, and obviously, the woman – who boasts a notable white streak in her hair – realizes it. She makes eyes at him before returning to the dance floor.
Sue Ann Bodine approaches her brother and tells him to quit staring and get dancing. Jimmy slumps down in his stool and refuses. It's so soon after Barbara, he says. Sue Ann tells him that is no excuse; Barbara is the seventh ex-girlfriend of Jimmy's who was never good enough in the first place.
Realizing this might be a lost cause, Sue Ann grabs her brother by the arm and asks him to come outside with her to witness a different spectacle. It seems their mutual acquaintance, W.C. Taylor, joined up with the "Friends of Humanity", and their other friend Billy is pretending he wants to join too in order to give W.C. a hard time. "Here we go again," Jimmy sighs. Sue Ann asks what he means. "Billy's my best friend and your boyfriend, Sue, but he never did learn when to shut his mouth. W.C.'s gonna catch on Billy's pulling his leg and there's gonna be a fight and I'll have to get him out of it. Again." They head outside. Their mention of the Friends of Humanity, however, catches the attention of the woman on the dance floor.
Outside the bar, a group of country boys stands in a threatening circle around the pugnacious Billy Lansdale. Billy insists he isn't making fun; he's only trying to understand. They say muties are a menace, but how do they define who is a mutie? "Thor. He's a mutie, right?" Billy asks. Nope; he's a god or something, W.C. says. "Dr. Doom! Got to be a mutie!" Billy says. W.C. once again tells him he is wrong. "The Thing! He's a mutie for sure!" Billy says. W.C. tells him he has it all wrong! "Well, then all I gotta say is muties must be the dumbest folks on Earth!" Billy says. "If I was a mutie, I wouldn't say so! I'd just say aliens gave me my powers! Had me a cosmic virus! A radioactive poodle sneezed on me! Why make myself a target for folks like you, W.C.? No offense."
The woman from the dance floor suddenly steps outside and interrupts their argument. She tells Billy that maybe some mutants can't hide what they are, and maybe other mutants don't feel like they should have to. W.C. turns to the defiant woman and asks if she's some kind of mutie-lover. Billy interrupts and tells W.C. he has it all wrong; can't he see the woman is a mutant herself? W.C. asks Billy if he is trying to make him look stupid. "I never try to take credit for another's work, W.C. — and so far as I'm concerned, you are a self-made man!"
Sue Ann senses the situation quickly escalating. She turns to her brother and asks him to intervene, but finds he has disappeared. Where could he have gone? she asks.
Jimmy, it turns out, left to chase after the outspoken woman. She walked off and started down the night highway after Billy took the heat of the argument off of her. Touched by her passion, Jimmy now chases after her, even though he guarantees she can only break his heart. He catches up with her a little way down the road. She asks what he wants. For starters, he apologizes for his cousin Billy's behavior. He means well, but he shoots his mouth off a bit too often.
As for W.C., Jimmy has no defense, In fact, he considers W.C. a bit of a problem. He recently joined up with the Friends of Humanity and now just parrots everything they believe. The woman asks Jimmy how he feels about mutants. Jimmy cannot honestly say; he has never met a mutant. However, where he comes from, most folks judge others as they come. He figures there are both good mutants and bad mutants. He figures mutants have both good days and bad days, like regular humans. He asks the woman not to judge him and his people by the actions of W.C. "Ah won't," the woman says. "Maybe ah should judge 'em by you, shugah. Got a name?" Jimmy Bodine finally introduces himself. He asks the woman for her name in return. "Just call me Rogue, shugah," she says.
Their introductions are interrupted by Sue Ann, who approaches with urgency. She explains that some of W.C.'s buddies from the Friends of Humanity showed up, and Billy mouthed off to them, and now, they're beating him to a pulp! Jimmy tells the two women to stay put while he takes care of it. He runs back over to the bar and finds a group of thugs standing around his fallen friend, taking turns exchanging taunts and kicking him. Jimmy sneaks up from behind and socks the ring-leader in the back of the head. "You want a fight? You got one," Jimmy says. "One on one. You and me." The Friends of Humanity think otherwise; they always stick together, and those who are not with them, are against them. They tell Jimmy he just bought himself a world of hurt.
"Y'all may want to rethink that, shugah," Rogue tells them. They turn and the seemingly delicate woman effortlessly hoisting W.C.'s truck over her head with one arm. She advises they take a step back before they find a piston up their butts. Rogue tosses the car aside; its frame crumples and its glass shatters when it hits the ground. W.C. gasps at the damage to his vehicle.
The Friends of Humanity correctly identify Rogue as a mutant. The leader gives the order to kill her. The crowd quickly divides into two groups: mutant-haters, and everyone else. They start to fight, as has happened so many times before in the parking lot of Shane's. This fight, however, feels different. The locals don't like being bossed around by strangers, especially strangers as vitriolic as the Friends of Humanity. Tonight, they fight with Rogue for the soul of humanity. Tonight, the good guys win.
After the dust from the fight settles, the police arrive and arrest the instigators. The sheriff tells the Friends of Humanity ring-leader, Hanratty, that he's had enough of his crew causing trouble. He intends to lock him up for a long time. Nearby, another officer asks Sue Ann about her brother. Is he okay? Where did he go? Sue Ann tells him Jimmy is fine; he busted a few ribs, but other than that, he's okay. As for his whereabouts, he had to leave to see off a friend.
Elsewhere, Rogue and Jimmy Bodine watch the full moon through a breach in the clouds. Jimmy asks outright if Rogue is a mutant. Yes, she says. "I can deal with that," Jimmy says. Rogue tells him he can't, actually. He couldn't live her life. What happened tonight was nothing compared to the things she usually faces. He asks her to give him a chance; he's plenty tough and plenty loyal. Sure, Rogue says, but there is more to it than that. She fills him in on her true mutant ability — her body's uncontrollable tendency to absorb the totality of anyone she touches. She and Jimmy could never touch, never kiss, and never even fool around. Could he really deal with that? she asks.
Jimmy looks her in the eyes for a moment before answering. To be honest, no, he couldn't deal with that. For him, loving someone includes getting physical with them. It's just the way he is. He apologizes. Rogue tells him not to worry. She appreciates his honesty. She leans in, putting her mouth mere inches from Jimmy’s, and presses her gloved fingers to his lips. As she prepares to fly away, she tells Jimmy she came out tonight to get away from her problems, but as usual, her problems followed her. Jimmy and his friends, however, renewed her faith in humanity. She and her fellow mutants dream of a day when humans and mutants could live in peace. Tonight, Jimmy and his friends made that dream a reality.
As she flies away, Jimmy waves goodbye and smiles. Rogue showed him something too, he says. Folks really are just folks, whatever else they may be, he says. She can come back anytime.
4th story:
A speeding figure approaches the Xavier Institute and rushes down to the docks. The runner attracts the attention of Wolverine, who recognizes his scent and tracks him down to the pier by the lake. He arrives and greets his old acquaintance, Quicksilver. “Runnin’ an errand for yer daddy, Quicksilver, or you just slummin’?” Logan asks.
Quicksilver reminds him he no longer serves his father. He effectively resigned his position in Magneto’s cabinet when he, alongside his fellow Avengers, openly defied his destructive enterprises. Magneto, however, continues to follow the same path, one Quicksilver is certain will lead to conflict and ruin. It’s sad; with Genosha, Magneto has the opportunity to create a haven for mutants, where they will never face intolerance or persecution, yet he intends to squander it on petty plans for domination.
“Yer breakin’ my heart,” Logan tells him. Quicksilver turns around and tells Logan he came not to apologize for any of his past misdeeds, but to deliver the X-Men two messages. First, he heard of Peter Rasputin’s sacrifice, and is truly sorry. Second, he wants to warn the X-Men about an impending threat.
“When the United Nations, in all their impetuous wisdom, conceded the sovereignty of the nation of Genosha to Magneto,” Pietro begins, “it was with the assumption that Magneto would be so preoccupied with trying to solve Genosha’s own problems that he would be unable to shift his attention toward the rest of the world. With the Legacy Virus cured and the civil war at last apparently over, how long will Magneto remain content with only his little island nation?” He reiterates his admiration for Colossus’s sacrifice, but with the threat of the Legacy Virus ended, Magneto’s last obstacle has disappeared.
Wolverine puffs on his cigar while he considers what this means. Quicksilver turns to leave. He apologizes for burdening Logan with such tidings at a time like this, but reminds him that war doesn’t pause to mourn the dead. “And make no mistake about it,” he adds, “—the war is coming.”
Wolverine gives him a message before he leaves. “If you see your daddy, tell ‘im I’ll be waitin’ for him.”


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Monsters(1st story)
 Hindsight! (2nd story)
 Gold (3rd story)
First story :
Jean Grey and Rogue are making their way through a New York crowd. Jean addresses Rogue on how uncomfortable she feels and assures her that there aren’t any supervillains nearby. They can relax and their missions it to shop ‘til they drop. Rogue thanks her for taking her out but thinks this is a mistake. She can’t forget that to these people she is a freak… a monster.
Jean urges her to stop thinking like that. Their powers might set them apart, but they are still human. If people fear them, that is their failing, not the X-Men’s. Rogue has to constantly cover herself from head to toe to protect herself and Jean isn’t much better. She has to constantly maintain a telepathic cocoon to shield herself from their mental chaos. Even the slightest lapse of concentration - Jean never finishes her sentence, as suddenly she starts to scream in pain. Trying to pull herself together, she tells Rogue that she sensed something evil in the crowd.
The people close in on the two young women, some out of curiosity, others because they are trying to help. Rogue is inadvertently touched by somebody and that moment the evil is upon her. She pushes the people away with her super strength. She scans the crowd, seeing their fear and loathing, their conviction that she is a monster. And, in a way she can’t explain, Rogue knows they are right.
Rogue flies upward and reels, as reality is replaced by images of horror: images of mocking children, a crucified Jesus, tortured animals, blood on framed snapshots, a corpse and Rogue feels herself overpowered by rage, seeing fear and loathing in a new light… something to be used …exploited. If she is a monster, then humanity will pay for the privilege of her existence. Yet part of her hesitates, repulsed by what possessed her.
She shoves away a police car, hearing the screams around her, answered by voices of depravity inside her. Sounds that excite and horrify her. It is now a part of her. She can hear, taste and smell it. Looking up at an apartment block, she ignores the cops’ threats and flies upwards crashing into one apartment, where she finds an obese naked man holding a knife and a camera. Next to him is an assortment of knives and, before him, tied to the bed, is a frightened naked child.
Furiously she attacks and beats the man, until finding she can’t move. Jean holds her back telling her it’s over. Later an ambulance has been called and the madness has passed. Jean telepathically mindwiped everyone nearby to their presence. Fortunately, Rogue only had the slightest contact with the evil Jean sensed. But, despite the overwhelming nature of what she absorbed, it was Rogue, the good decent person inside, that ultimately directed her actions. She rescued the child and the madman will never harm anyone else. No, Rogue disagrees, it isn’t over. Jean must know this wasn’t the same person that touched both of them on the street. That kind of evil has many forms and faces. The monsters are still out there.
Second story :
Cyclops walks the streets of New York, recalling how Storm once won the leadership of the X-Men from him in a fight. She wont quite easily by turning his greatest strength into his greatest weakness. What bothered him most about that day was not losing control of the X-Men, but control over himself. He couldn’t even function, until she returned his “pacifier,” his visor.
He passes a street gang, who discuss shoplifting and then a woman that passed them by. One of them is unimpressed by her looks and one of the others calls him blind. A third says, if they want to see blind, they should look at the dude coming up. They mean Scott walking the streets with a gift-wrapped old-fashioned stylish cane, meant as a gift to Nightcrawler, as well as other Christmas gifts. Noticing his odd, red glasses, the second man announces that he couldn’t see out of those shades even if he had eyeballs. Blind people do have eyes, the third guy protests. They are just all white and stuff. No, yet another one says. Their eyeballs are all black, save for the color part. They look like eightballs.
Still musing about mutant traits, Scott passes them by, as yet another claims that their eyes are normal but go off into crazy direction. He sees he has to school the others, one of them sighs and tosses a huge snowball at Scott’s head. It hits him in the back and not only does he drop his gifts but also loses his glasses.
The gangster comes up to him, telling him he has him to open his eyes for a second. Scott scrambles around with closed eyes, until his fingers touch his glasses. That moment, the gangster pulls his head back and threatens him with a knife. They just want to see what he has. Don’t, Scott warns him and opens his eyes a tiny fraction. Enough for the man to be pushed violently away. Now the men are angry and get ready to teach him a lesson. Scott knows he could finish this fight with a glance, but he would probably kill them. This fight requires subtlety and his raw power is not a thing of subtlety.
He concentrates on his surroundings. After Storm’s challenge, he stopped being the teacher and became the student. Kurt taught him ways to be as intangible as smoke. He scoops up some snow and throws it in the men’s faces. One of Bobby’s tricks. Half-step left and two steps forward, he tells himself. Warren taught him to relax and be light as a feather. One of the gangsters lunges at him from behind and Scott tosses him away with a judo move. Peter showed him that, at times, you need to come down like an iron curtain. Jump, roll four steps left and three steps right, he reminds himself. He lashes out at his attackers with hands and feet, something Hank taught him. He grabs two men, who end up entangling each other. Turn 160 degrees, three steps forward.
Logan helped Scott to use his other senses to perceive his environment. So he’s aware of the large man running towards him. Every cell in Scott’s body begs him to open up with an optic blast. He resists. He steps back into his danger zone and makes it his own. His strength becomes his weakness. He doesn’t have to become a mutant weapon to resolve every threat, he thinks, as he uses a judo move to throw the man to the ground.
Scott takes all the steps he took before backwards, as the still-awake gang members look on in disbelief, gets back to the place where he dropped his glasses and presents, picks them and uses the cane to dial 911 on one the of the gangsters’ cell phones. With a smile, he walks away.
Third story :
150 miles east of Japan, a small island juts from the Pacific. Legend calls it the birthplace of the sun, the easternmost place on Earth. Once a sanctuary for Shinto monks, it now houses the nation’s wealthiest financier. In interviews, he calls the blessed island the true source of his wealth. He doesn’t lie.
The financier, Lord Yaru, lands with his helicopter accompanied by heavily armed guards.
Over an intercom screen, he addresses a young woman named Kiza, who sits in a sparsely decorated room… a cell rather. She sits at a desk, a book in front of her. She does not touch it, instead its pages are turned by an automatic device.
He asks if he may interrupt, but it isn’t truly a question so much as an order. Whatever he wishes, the girl replies without enthusiasm and Yaru points out that after all these years she still cannot disguise insolence. Does her existence make her unhappy? Should he send her away? No, she replies. A machine rolls into the room, carrying a metal slab. Kiza touches it and the slab turns to gold. With that accomplished, the machine rolls out again and Kiza gets back to her book.
Above the island floats Nate Grey, self-styled mutant shaman. This can’t be allowed to continue, he decides and telekinetically opens a hole in the ceiling to let himself into Kiza’s room. He tells her he has come to free her. Instead of being relieved, the girl panics and tells him not to let the world in. Her skin seems to catch fire. Nate apologizes and closes the hole. He didn’t know why she was in here. He’ll make it better now. He disperses the flames.
Is he death, she asks. For some, he replies. When he has no choice, but not for her. Then what good is he, she scoffs. He helps other mutants when he can, Nate explains. When she was five, she accidentally killed her brother, Kiza reveals. She turned him into gold. Then her skin began to burn in contact with oxygen. Her parents didn’t know what to do. Lord Yaru was able to help her. The air in this room is pure nitrogen.
And her powers make him rich, Nate points out. When was the last time she left this room? Eleven years ago, she replies, as she starts to cry. She can never leave. He can’t save her. But he can hep her for a little while, he tells her.
The guard sees them on the screen and notifies Yaru that somebody, impossibly, is in Kiza’s cell. Yaru orders him to rouse everyone and identify the intruder.
Within the cell, Nate tells Kiza that his powers can protect her from the air, if she’d like to leave. Is there anything she’d like to do? She’d like to see another sunrise, Kiza replies.
On the screen, the face of Lord Yaru appears and he addresses Nate with his name. He has heard of him, Yaru reveals and knows Nate is a telepath. His estate is laced with psionic inhibitors; he’s switched them on. Nate’s powers no longer function. He looks forward to studying him.
Black energy begins to swirl about Nate, as he announces that he is something more than a telepath and he has dismantled those inhibitors. The energy emanating from him destroys the entire building complex while leaving the people unharmed. With Kiza protected in a tekekinetic coccon floating behind him, Nate tells Yaru never to approach another mutant. They are leaving now.
Over the ocean, Nate and Kiza are watching the sunrise. Kiza tells him this is the first place the sun rises. Beyond here in both directions everything is west. Why isn’t she burning? Nate explains that he is filtering the air around her. He can’t do this long, though. His powers weren’t meant to be used that way. He knows people that can help her. Resigned, Kiza replies that there is no place that won’t be a prison. She wasn’t made for this world. No, she wasn’t, he agrees.
Kiza asks him if they can land somewhere, where she will never have to worry. Nate takes her to another island in front of a temple. He offers to take her to another world, where she can live safely. But she’d be alone, Kiza replies. She can’t bear that anymore. The sunrise really is more beautiful that she remembered. Crying and smiling, she remarks this is such a beautiful world. She thanks Nate and crosses her arms touching herself. A moment later, she turns to gold.
Two monks approach, startled by Nate. He tells them the statue is a gift to their temple and they should keep it forever facing the rising sun. And they are to guard it always. It is sacred.


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Dazzler : Beyond the Music (1st story)
 The Gift (2nd story)
 All’s Swell that ends Swell (3rd story)
First story :
Bruce Banner sits in a bar in Boston. He asks the bartender to switch the TC channel, because he wants to wants VMI’s "Beyond the Music" feature on the Dazzler. The other customers make fun of him, but getting angy he transforms into the Hulk, and he quickly has the bar for himself. The bartender quickly turns on the desired TV programm and fearing for the safety of his pub he offers the Hulk something to drink to calm his mood.
The show just started. Dazzler is introduced through old press photos, and then Alison’s father Judge Carter Blaire is shown. He would have prefered a career in law for his daughter, but against his will she started prancing around in a skimpy outfit, both as singer and superhero. The feature flashes back, to the day when Alison manifested her powers. Alison was singing during a school dance and when she started to glow, anybody thought it was a light show. Both one of Alison’s classmates and a member of a gang called Blazing Lords testify what happened next. The gang crashed the party, but before they could seriously injure anyone, Alison used her light powers to blind them. Unexperienced as she was she used too much power and all the people in the room are still very light sensitive. Frightened by her own power, Alison withdrew into her studies and graduated summa cum laude, but she couldn’t deny her desire to be on stage for long. During one of her first gigs, the X-Men’s Cerebro registered her signature and Cyclops and Phoenix arrived to recruit her, just in time to help her fight an attack.
In Westchester Wolverine and Nightcrawler watch TV, Kurt wonders why he wasn’t mentioned as he was there that night too.
The Beast is quoted next. He was responsible for the Dazzler gaining an audtition in the hottest club in New York, namely Disco Numero Uno, though admittingly he did it to have an excuse to meet her in person. Dazzler got the assignment, but during the show the Enchantress appeared and trashed the club. She had auditioned too but was rejected and now out to get revenge.
At the Avengers mansion Hawkeye and the Beast to watch the special, which is interrupted by a commercial spot for a new diet. It shows the Blob who apparently lost much weight.
The feature continues with Alison’s manager Harry Osgood. He remembers how Dazzler even kicked Dr. Doom’s butt. Doom refuses to comment, which has the Fantastic Four laughing as they watch the show too. Quasar mentions another important media event. Dazzler had been invited to Project Pegasus to have her powers studies, but it was there that she met Klaw. He lied to her about having been taken to these labs against his will and Dazzler helped to free him, but after he showed his true colours she fought him. Being composed of pure sound, Klaw was totally absorbed by Alison, who them saw herself put on trial for murder ! Fortunately her lawyer came up with a brilliant strategy, Klaw, being composed of sound, was not alive and so could not have been killed.
Meanwhile the Hulk returns from the bar‘s bathroom hoping to not have missed much.
Now former rock star Bruce Harris is on the screen. Alison was supposed to be his warm-up act, but Harris fired her, when she apparently was performing better than he himself. Even Odin confirms that Dazzler was the fairest songstress in Asgard and Midgard (= earth). Osgood mentions that despite the many set-back thank to various fights with supervillains, Dazzler too had success. She landed a gig at the Carnegie Hall and on the same night was reunited with her long lost mother.
The Hulk is seen crying.
Being popular, Dazzler was invited to star in the newest video clip Chiller of Teddy Lingard (inspired by Michael Jackson‘s Thriller) She played a zombie and should have raised from a grave, but the mad director arranged an "accident". Her grave was prepared to not open to gain more scandal news. Yet thanks to her laser blasts Alison cut herself free, and moved on to shoot a movie with Roman Nekobah. The famous actor discovered pretty soon that his co-star was a mutant and although they were romantically involved he revealed the secret to the public, thinking this would boost the sales. Yet his PR stunt misfired and another anti-mutant hysteria was started. The feature closes with telling that Dazzler had many more adventures as a superhero, though she has not been seen perforing on stage since then. Yet many have inspired by her. Teenager bands wear similar make-up and there is even the broadway production called “Dazzled“.
This is too much for the Watcher, it does not happen often, but in rare events that are too much to take he is force to take his eyes off earth. The Hulk enjoys some food that the bar tender offers him as the next special on Rick Jones is announced. Far away in the Mojoverse Longshot and Dazzler too followed the show. Her husband is amazed by her crazy life and is sure that dazzler must be happy to have settled down. Alison, busy with changing the X-Babies‘ diapers, responds with “Grrr!“
Second story :
Nightcrawler thinks about his place in society. He is in New York, one of the world’s biggest cities, but sometimes the biggest crowd can be the loneliest place – for a mutant for example, who has to hide his true appearance. He seeks direction by entering a church and confessing. The sins he names to have comitted are violence and deception, but actually his birth is considered thhe biggest sin of all to some people. The priest is not sure what to make of this, but when Kurt continues to state that he questions his purpose, he says that god created humanity as unique beings, each with their own gifts and talents, not knowing that this actually is the core of Nightcrawler’s problem.
Outside a car with three gang members passes two youth and one recognizes them as those who stole a columbian shipment (= drugs) from them. They pull their guns and fire, and quickly one of the pair is shot. The other one’s arm is injured too, and so he runs into the church to seek cover. Having heard the gunfire the priest asks the boy to leave as a church is no place for guns, but the boy knocks him down. Finally the priest recognizes him as a former altear boy and wonder how he could have developed so worse. As the doors are shot at from the outside, the boy runs deeper into the church.
Nightcrawler has teleported outside and watches the gangsters, who split up to search their opponent. He quickly deals with one of them. At the same time the leader of the pack runs into the boy and both point their guns at each other. The priest tries to get to them and right as they both fire he jumps in between them, catching the bullets with his body.
Kurt comes in and seeing the situation, he teleports with the leader to the church’s roof. Seeing such a person, makes Kurt actually feel good for once, that he is not a normal human. He tries to knock some sense into the criminal by showing him the beatuy of the city and the diversity of it‘s inhabitants and then lets him drop. Before he hits ground Kurt catches him again as he teleported the distance, and gives him a lecture about mercy, forgiveness and second chances.
Then Nightcrawler goes back inside to check on the priest, who has been making a deal with the boy. If the boy forgives himself, then the priest will do so too. Finally face to face with Kurt, the priest now understands what he was talking about while confessing. He reassures Kurt‘s faith by saying that he is indeed blessed with a special gift and that the lord works in mysterious ways.
Third story :
Corsair is negotiating with a Chancellor Panumdrum from the planet Whurl. He wants to hire the Starjammers for rescuing Princess Tallibone, who is held prisoner by the king of a neighboring planet. The reward is not that high, but Corsair accepts anyway as the mission sounds like fun.
The next day, Corsair already has the princess over his shoulder and the Starjammers are battling some forces. Hepzibah is annoyed by Corsair’s simple plan (run in – grab the princess – run out) and even more as she can’t really understand his references to pirate movies with Erol Flyn. The team easily defeats the robots that fight them, and although the princess constantly demands to be put down, the Starjammers are transported to their ship by the sentient computer Waldo.
Once aboard, Tallibone really is a pain, as she complains about her royal body having been touched against her will and so Hepzibah knocks her out, while Sikorsky is ordered to keep the princess sedated for the flight.
A few days later, tallibone is back on her planet and rules it again. In her official speech she thanks both Panumdrum and the Starjammers and promises the cheering citizens that next they will invade the other planet for having kidnapped her. She wants to finish her father off, once and for all, Hearing this the Team is surprised to hear that the King who held her prisoner is Tallibone’s father and so they approach  Cvhancellor Panundrum. He explains that Tallibone is somewhat indulgent, and when she would not want to wait for her father to die and become rightful queen, she was sent to Whurl to rule this planet. Power hungry she since then has built an army, and tried to conquer her father’s empire and so she was kidnapped and locked into her room. Panumdrum really is a failsafe robot, programmed to hire help in just that case and apparently the plan worked.
That not being enough, Tallibone proceeds to announce her wedding with Corsair, while she orders Hepzibah, who struck her person, to be incarcerated and killed. Corsair at first plays along, but then commands Ch’od to free his lover, while Raza is assigned to deal with the robot. Panumdrum is aware that his deeds were immoral, but he can’t against his programming; he is actually happy as Raza pushes an electro-spike into his positronic brain. Corsair and Sikorsky enter the palace and sedate the princess. Angrily hepzibah storms in and is boiling mad as she could have been killed because of Corsair accepting this stupid assignment. As there is no way to reason with the cat-lady, Corsair has Sikorsky sedate her too.
Somewhat later, the Starjammers have made their way back to the other planet and have an audience with the King. He has no idea how to deal with Tallibone, he mentions that she even killed her mother, but at least apologized, though not really meaning it. Yet Corsair says that he will no longer have to worry, during the flight back he had Hepzibah and Tallibone share the same quarters and right on cue, the princess runs in and is frightened. She promises to behave herself and never rise against the King again, as long as she will be protected from Hepzibah. Quickly the Starjammers leave, hoping to forget the whole incident.


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The Blob (1st story)
Special Attraction (2nd story)
The Sport of Queens (3rd story)
The Grand Illusion (4th story)
Survival of the Fittest (5th story)
Lucky Day (6th story)
First story :
Lonnie Ranger sells food to the audience of a rodeo in Red Earth, New Mexico. A few guys make fun of him and make him topple, so that Lonnie spills all the food and drinks on his tray. It all rains down on a fat guy in the row before them, who turns out to be the Blob. He’s quite angry that his new shirt is all wet and starts to insult the men who made fun of Lonnie. They start a fight, but Blob is not impressed at all; he focused his weight and the tribune crashes down. The cowboy of the rodeo then join the battle and try to drag the Blob away with lassos, but he is stronger and pulls them of their horses. Blob then gets rid of his boots to make direct contact with the floor. The cowboysrelease a bull and it attacks the Blob, but his head gets stuck in the Blob’s belly. He then stretches and the animal is pushed away. The cowboy then try to shoot him, but the bullets bounce back, and the Blob is now really mad and starts a rampage.
All the locals runs away, besides Lonnie, eho won’t allow the destruction of his town. Blob is impressed by the boy, who has no super powers and does not sem afraid. Lonnie dares the Blob to a bet, he thinks he can do something, that the Blob can’t, and if he is right the Blob will harm nobody of the twon. The Blob makes sure that it is something physical, and believing himself tougher and stronger he accepts. Lonnie then reveals what he had in mind : touching the Blob’s toes. The Blob gets angry as he himself can’t reach them, but then laughes, as the kid is really smart. He offers to buy Lonnie a drink. As the pass the guys who earlier made fun of Lonnie, the Blob asks if he shoould beat them up, and they run away.
Second story :
Mr. Denham works at a carnival. He hires a Mr. Browing to sweep up and take tickets from the audience that will want to watch hius special attraction. Denham then shows Browning what that special attraction is : a giant robot, that he named Metallak (actually a damaged Sentinel). Browing is impressed, as Denham explains that he found it lying on the beach one day, and he meneged to get it to follow some simple commands like walk, stand, sit and lift things. Browning says that he was always good a fixing things and offers to repair the robot some more.
A few days later, Denhma present Metallak to the audience and Browning wonders why there are so many people. Granted there is the robot, but it shouldn’t gather such a crowd, but Denham says that he was always good at gaining people’s attention. After the show, Browning sneaks back to Metallak’s chamber and makes some more repairs intending to steal the robot and use it to make some serious money. Suddenly the core programming is activated again. The Sentinel does a genetic scan of the area and detects a mutation within Browning that is responsible for his affinity to technology. It blasts Browning to ashes. Denham shows up, checking on the noise and the Sentinel registers another mutant with persuasive abilities, so it kills him too. The Sentinel diagnoses no more mutants in immediate area and marches towards Manhattan, where a high concentration of anomalies can be registered.
Third story :
Selene, the Hellfire Club’s Black Queen is bored watching the monitors that allow her to view important places all over the world. Emma Frost, the White Queen tries to cheer her up by suggesting to start a border conflict somewhere in europe or manipulating the stock exchanges, but Selene’s is not intrested. Suddenly they become aware of a good looking Hellfire soldier on one of the screen. Selene thinks that back in ancient Rome, where she was worshipped a godess, she wopuld have made him a centurion, and he would have proclaimed his undying devotion. Emma laughs that today he would proclaim nothing to her. The two women make a bet out of it, Selene is convinced that she can make him love her, before Emma can. Ground rules are than no powers are used, neither mutant nor magic, and that they don’t order him to say „I love you“ as he is their employee. They agree on an certain amount and the game starts.
The following weeks both Queens spend much time with Chet. They take him to luxurious restaurants, travel with him around the world, show him the Hellfire Club’s secret rooms, including the monitor room and scientific labs, they reveal to have knowledge about who killed Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy and Chet is mightily impressed. Chet uses it to his advantage and thinks that he can make the Queens outbid each other till he has access to all the Hellfire Club’s assets. Finally the two women accuse each other of going to far, they can’t endanger the Club with exposing it’s secrets to a mere soldier, and they broaden the game to use whatever is  takes to win, including their powers. In her own quarters Selene uses here magic to influence Chet’s behaviour and Emma does the same telepathically from her place, both commanding him to confess his love. Chet then invites both women to dinner the next day.
Selene and Emma are quite surprised to see their rival at the appointment. As Chet shows up up, he tries to confess his love to both but can’t, he burns up in a feaver and suddenly his head explodes, as Chet was torn apart between the two conflicting commands. Emma smiles and demands payment from Selene. The original bet was that she would make Chet declare his love first, but obviously he will now never do that. Selene laughs and accepts to have lost. Neither woman is concerned about’s Chet’s fate – in fact it’s a basic rule of chess that you can’t worry about what happens to the pawns.
Fourth story :
Phoenix takes her revenge on Mastermind, for having influenced her to become the Hellfire Club’s Black Queen. As he was after power, she gives him much more than he can handle, and leaves while Mastermind lies apathic on the floor. A short while later he gets up and is met by Cyclops. He opens Cyclops’s visor and Scott then blasts his fellow X-Men, while Mastermind uses the distraction to escape from them. Outside on the streets he runs into Captain America, but Mastermind fools him, by stating that a baby needs to get rescued. As Cap turns his head, Mastermind knocks him out and continues to run away, with the original Avengers line-up (including the Hulk) hot on his trail. Wyngarde creates multiple images of himself, and while the Avengers are confused, he hides in the nearest entrance. Mastermind can’t believe his eyes, as he is welcomed by dozens of other villains. Without warning they attack and Mastermind is completely outnumbered. He moves backwards only to crash through a window and finds himself on the street again. A car stops, it’s Shaw and Pierce who take him back to the Hellfire Club, now as a full member. Both are proud of Wyngarde and ask how he singlehandedly defeated the Avengers and almost every known supervillain.
All this was only illusion. Without realizing it, Wyngarde’s power has turned on himself, thanks to Phoenix. Actually he slipped out of the Hellfire Club without the X-Men recognizing him, he then knocked out a drunken man, passed some people and entered a bar, where a waitress offered to get him a drink. He backed away, falling through the window and was picked up by the police, who now take him to a mental asylum.
Fifth story :
A ship drown. One of the poeple aboard survived and swims through the stormy sea. He manages to avoid the sharks and washes ashore. Waking up he enters the jungle and faces many wild animals like snakes and a panthere, yet he survives. Finally he reaches a civilized area, but there is Magneto helping some construction workers by magnetically lifting dozens of metal girders. Frightened the por guy turns back into the jungle.
Sixth story :
A man wins in the lottery. He quits work, but not after insulting his boss (for his toupee). He enters a bar, and busy teh customers a free round. He calls his wife to tell her of the good news, only to learn that she is pregnant. He then tries to get home and enters a cab. After he closed the door he recognizes a girl gagged and tied up. The driver is Sabretooth , who enjoys to have one more at his party, and hits the gas pedal. Seems like the man’s lucky day is over.


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My Name In Lights (1st story)
Twisted Sisters (2nd story)
Underground (3rd story)
First Story :
(Monday)
Angelo is driving jubilee to a Film Studio where she has a part. Jubilee tells Angelo that after following Xavier's dream for so long she wanted to follow her own and that becoming a film star was it. Angelo has his doubts and believes that she is being used because Asian girls are the current fad. She tells him that if it falls through, which it isn't she'll go back to college. Angelo is worried for her and tells her to watch her back. They arrive at the set where they are greeted by Kristoff, her agent. Angelo leaves and they arrange to watch a basketball match that night. As he leaves Angelo and Kristoff stare, judging each other. Jubilee asks Kristoff about diversifying her roles, because she doesn't want to be typecast, however he tells her it will happen in good time and at the moment she is giving people what they want. Jubilee arrives on the set in a sailor moon outfit and starts speaking to the camera, however she gets her lines wrong, saying “Sailor Jube“ instead of “Sailor June“, and the director gets mad at having to reshoot.
Later that night Jubilee arrives back at her and Angelo's pad late. Angelo is up late watching TV and wonders where she has been. She tells him that she went for something to eat with Kristoff afterwards because the shoot finished late. She apologizes for missing the basketball game, and Angelo asks her what they should do tomorrow but Jubilee is busy shooting a tampon advert dressed as a kung-fu chick.
(days later)
She arrives home late again on Wednesday, because she was being filmed chased by a giant monster. On Thursday she is late from filming a rap video on a beach dressed in a bikini (however she is in the background and can't be seen on the film). Jubilee asks Angelo what he wants to do over the weekend but he's fed up with not seeing her and has to get up early for his shift at the burger bar.
(Friday)
Early morning, Angelo is teasing her about the role she is going to be playing that day as a high priced hooker, when Jubilee gets upset with him. He tells her that he is worried that she is selling out. She gets angry and tells him she doesn't want to be friends and as soon as she has enough money she'll leave and get her own flat before slamming the door.
Later, Jubilee is on the set dressed in a revealing outfit and tells Kristoff that she would like to talk with him. He asks the makeup assistant to leave so that they can be alone. Jubilee tells him that she is uncomfortable with the role, but he dismisses it and tells her that it'll help her in the long run. She questions whether its displaying the right image and he tells her that all she is providing is what people want as he kisses her on the neck. Jubilee instantly yells at him to get away and unleashes with her mutant power She tells him that he is using her before blasting him over the set of a bar into hundreds of bottles. She runs away in tears until she eventually arrives back at the flat. The light isn't working and she can't find her key so knocks on the door hoping to find Angelo. He opens the door and she tells him what's happened and that he was right. He wishes he wasn't, but had to tell her she was being taken advantage of. They have been teammates for too long to not look out for each other, before hugging her.
Second Story :
Emma Frost has gone to Monte Carlo, to relax amongst the rich. Not long after arriving she hooks up with a rich businessman who can treat her in a style she is accustomed to. The gentleman, Bruce Gotham, takes her one evening out to the balcony where he gives her a large diamond necklace as a present for the last few days of joy that he has had. It is obvious she has used her powers to convince him that he is having a wonderful time when suddenly Emma sees her sister Adrienne sitting on the balcony laughing at her for having to use her powers to get a man.
Emma confronts her and suddenly he is in her old Generation X outfit. She attempts to use her power but Adrienne is immune to it. Adrienne tells her she has unfinished business with her as she pulls one of the Generation X students (unrecognizable, apparently Skin but miscolored) over the balcony and holds a gun to his head. Adrienne wonders why she didn't try a simpler method of getting at her sister by just shooting them instead of coming up with huge plots, before firing the gun.
Suddenly Emma is back on the balcony in her evening dress just with Bruce. It was all a dream. Bruce wonders who she was talking to, so she tries to blank his mind but it fails. She is shocked but tries again and this time it works. She convinces him that she can have his suite while he is gone. As she walks into the suite she goes up to a dresser and opens a box with a gun in it. It’s the same gun that Adrienne was holding, in fact it was the gun that Emma used to kill her. She never got rid of it. She is scared to touch it as it brings her nightmares. However she decides to change this, and after taking a swig of her drink, picks up the gun.
Suddenly she is back at the academy, the day of the riot, everyone is wearing their uniforms, however she questions this as no-one actually was on that day. She is punched in the face by Adrienne and then kicked to the floor. It feels as real as it did that day and she wonders why her own mind can't give her a break. She tries to run to save Everett by knocking Adrienne out of the way but its no use the bomb goes off again and she sees everyone around Synch‘s lifeless body. Adrienne laughs and Emma turns the gun on her, and suddenly she realizes that the reason she has been having these dreams and the reason the Generation X kids are in uniform is because Adrienne killed her first group of mutants the Hellions. She allowed it to happen by poor judgement, and she let Adrienne get close enough again to kill one of her second group of students. She isn't sorry she killed her sister, just sorry she didn't do it sooner. She fires the gun.
The shot brings her back to reality and she realizes that she has shot a hole in a pane of glass. She throws the gun out of the hole, puts on her makeup and decides to leave before the hotel security arrives. She realizes that she has relied on her psychic powers to long and made her soft, but now she will be as hard as diamonds.
Third story :
At the Docks in Hong Kong a group of men are beating up locals who work on the dock, telling them that Chung Sheng Ho is out and they are to be paid for protection. Behind them a figure stands and tells them that the men are protected and they should leave. It‘s Shiro Yoshida. The thugs turn around and pull guns out firing at him, knocking him to the floor. Shiro gets up as he shows them the bullets that have melted on him. He burns as bright as a star blinding them all, before walking away.
In a tower Shiro is talking to Chung Sheng Ho, who congratulates him for a job well done and he should work for him but Shiro tells him that he doesn't work for him. Chung replies that he does as he is repaying his cousin‘s debt, before he gets one of his guards to take him to see his cousin. They arrive in a shantytown and he finds his cousin, Yoshi, barely alive. Shiro hugs him and Yoshi asks for help, but not from Shiro, form the guard who throws him a packet of heroin. Shiro is disappointed and on the drive back the guard tells him that Chung has one last job for him to pay of the debt. He wants him to kill a rival.
Shiro tells him that he isn't an assassin but thinks of aunt who begged for his help in finding Yoshi, so he decides to do it. He flies to the rival, Ming Yam Li's place and on arrival is attacked by several guards, who get burned. He finds Ming and tells her to leave Hong Kong. As he talks a guard attempts to attack him from behind, but Shiro blasts him. He tells Li that if attacked he will defend himself and hopes that she will leave peacefully, he has a debt of honor and she is the price.
Sunfire returns to pick up his cousin and finds Chung there. He tells him he still owes him, Shiro tells him that Ming will leave, but it turns out that Yoshi has bought more Heroin and that debt has to be paid. He picks up his cousin and starts to fly into the sky. He tells Yoshi that he is going home as he flies higher and higher until eventually Yoshi dies.
Twelve hours later, the news report about Sheng Ho’s death as he was in one of the burned buildings. Shiro arrives at his aunt‘s house who is hoping to see her son, however Shiro gives her an urn with Yoshi‘s ashes in. As she weeps over her son‘s death, Shiro apologizes that this was the only way that he would allow him to return him.


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Triptych (1st story)
Unhappy Anniversary (2nd story)
X-Men : The Untold Story (3rd story)
First story :
Note: The Story is made up of three different points of view, each page is made up of three panels taking place at the same time. By the end the eventually merge into one page.
Jean Grey gets out of a cab outside the Westchester High School, Whilst inside in a corridor Joel Haines is being picked on by a school bully for acting / dressing like a mutant. A teacher walks past telling the bully to put him down, as he doesn't know where the boy has been. We also get to see inside Joel's bedroom, which is a typical teenager's room, however it is filled with many mutant related paraphernalia.
Suddenly the Cab explodes. The teacher tells Joel that because of the way he acts he is likely to be picked on. Jean Grey finds that it is Sabretooth that has destroyed the Taxi and killed the driver inside, whilst inside the school alarms are going off and as the kids panic the teacher tries to direct them to a shelter. Back at Joel's house we see that it is just an ordinary average american house.
Sabretooth threatens Jean. She telekinetically blasts Sabretooth over a fence and into a window.  Inside the school, Joel starts walking in the opposite direction to where he should go. A teacher tries to get him to turn around, but he doesn't listen and the first teacher tells the second that he is a waste of space anyway. Joel runs outside. Meanwhile Joel’s parents arrive home, wondering if he is in.
Sabretooth gets up and throws a metal fence at Jean but she tears it apart with her power. Joel climbs a wall and sees Sabretooth lunging at Jean. At home Joel's parents see the fight on the news and call the school. There is an automated message about the fight, and they decide to get in the car and go there. Jean picks up a van and hurls it into Sabretooth knocking him into the wall where Joel is. The wall collapses, and Sabretooth is knocked over but he tells her that she is at a disadvantage, as he reaches to pick up the unconscious Joel. At the same time Joel's parents are speeding through the city, and Joel's mom thinks something is seriously wrong. They arrive at the scene and are held back by police as Joel's mom spots him.
Sabretooth is holding Joel up by his head, and tells Jean to stop and surrender to him. She tells him that he is playing into her hands as she was there to see Joel. Telepathically she shouts now and Joel opens his eyes, which are a murky green color and then engulfs him like a flame. Sabretooth screams as his head is burning green as well. He falls to the floor, and is knocked out. Joel can't believe he did it. Jean congratulates Joel, as his level of control was impressive for a beginner. He tells her his powers are based on touch and he wasn't sure he'd manage it. Joel's mom is still struggling with the police, as they won't let her pass till the mutants have cleared up there own mess. Jean gives Joel a card for the Xavier Institute, and tells him he is welcome whenever he wants. She asks him his name, which he says adding that he always liked the name 'the Puppeteer'. Joel's mum rushes past the policeman yelling at the “mutie witch“ to stay away from her son. Mrs. Haines hugs her son repeating “I’ve always known what you are ...“ while Jean walks slowly away.
Second story :
Rogue is riding a motor bike through the mountains near the Xavier Institute, thinking about her past and the fact that it is the anniversary of the day her power manifested putting her boyfriend Cody into a Coma. She thinks about what happened since, with being taken in by Mystique, permanently absorbing Ms. Marvel and later joining the X-Men and what it felt like to be alone. Suddenly whilst lost in her thoughts she is hit in the head by a french fry. A truck has drawn level with her and some drunken guys hit on her. She first ignores them but they persist so she shows them the finger. One of the men, Frank, tells the driver to turn right quickly, knocking into Rogue and her bike. She loses control and as the guys speed off, she ploughs the bike into a tree destroying it. As she starts to get her senses back she realizes that Wolverine is going to be mad at her as it was his bike. She decides to fly after the guys and make them pay for the damage.
After a short while she arrives at a Strip club called Bare Woods and she spots the truck parked outside. Going in through the back stage, she asks the strippers if they have seen the men, and it turns out they are at the foot of the main stage. Frank is laughing his head off when suddenly he is sent flying through a door. Rogue tells them she wants the money for the bike otherwise she is going to hurt them bad. They aren't buying it so she grabs one of the men, only to be grabbed from behind by a bouncer. Not wanting to make skin contact with him she digs her heel into his foot. The three men lunge at her but she uses the pole on the stage to swing on and kick them.
One of the men knocks over a man at the bar's drink. It's Wolverine, and he is not happy to be disturbed so throws the man back across the room. The man's girlfriend then pushes Wolverine into a mud pit, where he is attacked by a group of female mud wrestlers. Meanwhile Rogue is hitting the men with a pool queue, and deciding its getting out of hand, she grabs a lighter and sets of the sprinkler system. As the water sprays down, Wolverine and Rogue make eye contact and he tells her to go out side.
She curses her bad luck and waits outside for ages wondering what he is up to. After a while Wolverine comes out carrying the bikini's of the wrestlers, smirking to himself. She tells him what happened,  to which he replies that she should get the anger out of her system, so she picks up the car and throws it into the floor, causing it to explode. Later Wolverine is giving Rogue a lift back to the mansion in his truck and asks her how she got out so far, considering that the professor had said no flying close to the school. As she is about to explain they drive past the wreck of his motorbike.
Third story :
Blake, Ashleigh, Bert are all talking at once with the director who is not listening to any of them. Ashleigh is complaining about her outfit being to tight and Bert is talking about problems with the props. Blake starts wittering on about having to wear a codpiece once, whilst the director wonders where the hell Slab is. Lockheed tells Ashleigh that her butt looks great in the outfit and Wolverine arrives with two women at his side. The director, happy that he has finally arrived, asks everyone to get into there places ready for the poster. All the actors stand in their 'poses' as the director shouts 'X-Men Assemble' only to realize that Danny who is playing the Beast has his head on backwards, and calls for makeup. Thad complains to Bert that the makeup is making his face look splotchy, whilst Danny complains that he can't see plus had a hit show once. Bert tells Thad to quit fast food to make his face better as he pokes Danny in the eye with a brush. The director tries to make Danny feel better by telling him that he is the glue holding the picture together ( and that he should Grrr more).
The director calls for everyone to be ready for the battle scene, only for Ashleigh to complain that they are fighting a giant sentinel foot. The director explains that they are over budget, so the rest will be added later. Danny meanwhile grrrr's some more. Ashleigh tells her self to rise above it, whilst Thad wonders if the sentinel wouldn‘t look strange with one foot. The director tells him that if he jumps around a lot, no-one will notice. They start filming again, Lockheed talks like Jar Jar Binks whilst Slab tells them to aim for it‘s only weakness, the foot. Blake starts preaching about Mutants and over acting, as if in a Shakespearean play, as the director shouts cut. The director tells him that his line was only telling Shadowcat to get to safety, but Blake thought his sounded better.
Meanwhile outside the studios a van has pulled up with six men inside. One of them is referred to as the General and he is barking orders as the rest of the men put balaclavas on. Back inside Blake is fighting the foot's mental powers, and Slab is about to join the fray. The director is in awe at the work he is producing. Suddenly there is gunfire and the men from the van have burst in. The General reads a statement saying that the film is promoting mutant loving and the film has been taken as a prisoner of war. Danny grrr's, and Lockheed wets himself. Slab thinks that there is a mistake as he hates mutants as well, but the General pushes him aside as a traitor. Ashleigh is scared, and Danny still can't see what's going on behind his mask. Blake thinks they should make a stand, but Slab doesn't want to get involved. The General reports that the media want evidence of their commitment, so decides that they should shoot the girl. Blake tells them to take him as he is old and disabled. The General thinks he is very noble as Blake wheels up to him, and then kicks him in the groin and runs away. Danny and Thad jump one of the gunmen. Danny recalls that it is just like the time he got into a fight with a transvestite. Ashleigh hits another over the head with Lockheed. Lockheed's puppeteer suddenly feels naked. As the men regroup the X-Jet suddenly falls on them. Slab had cut the lines.
The director comes around from having 'low blood sugar' as some of the film crew start beating up the gunmen, who are unconscious. Lockheed's puppeteer tells Ashleigh that he is really in love with her. The director wonders whether they should change the script and use what actually happened, but its dismissed by one of the crew. Blake checks the camera's are rolling and starts a speech about being a team, but forgets his lines.
On a film screen The X-Men knock over the sentinel, well at least the foot, and save the day. Blake finishes his speech about them being a family, and the team laughs at Lockheed's reply. The Real X-Men are in shock at what they are seeing at the cinema. Beast wants it to stop and Cyclops can't believe they can't sue. As they leave Wolverine chops the head off the cardboard cut-out of Slab, only for him to come out and challenge him. Wolverine gives a grin. Cut !


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This One's For You! (1st story)
 The End of the Line (2nd story)
 Stray (3rd story)
First story :
Having given up life as an X-Man, Kitty Pryde has enrolled at the Robert A. Heinlein School of Engineering and Astrophysics in Chicago, which marks an odd transition for her. Only five years earlier, life was completely different when she lived as a kid prodigy in the Chicago suburb, Deerfield, with her parents. But, eventually, the X-Men recruited her for their team of mutants. Admiring the X-Men, Kitty chose to embrace her genetic status and stayed with several incarnations of the team. Nevertheless, normal people never accepted them. At one point, not able to take it anymore, Kitty left.
 She muses about the difference of life at College: having to study harder than in ages (although she actually enjoys it) and the challenges of ordinary life, like laundry or bills. In addition, she had to find a place of her own, as living in a dorm was too reminiscent of living at Xavier's School.
Nevertheless, her old life still haunts her in the form of nightmares about all her dead loved ones: among them her closest friends Doug Ramsey, Illyana Rasputin and Rachel Summers, Magneto (a man she admired during his time with the X-Men) Larry Bodine, a mutant kid she befriended, who committed suicide, and her two boyfriends, Pete Wisdom and Colossus. She keeps pictures of all those people as mementoes on a wall. It was Colossus' suicide (in the attempt to cure the world of the Legacy virus that had killed his sister Illyana) that drove Kitty away from the X-teams. She wanted to be done with death. Unfortunately, she finds out, she cannot escape being a mutant.
As she walks over the school's main quad, she witnesses an argument between several advocacy groups: one of them being extremely anti-mutant and arguing that the destruction of the mutant state Genosha was a good thing. As violence between the groups escalates and Campus security separates the students, Kitty wonders about people's reaction to the death of the 16 million mutants in Genosha. Publicly, everyone was just horrified enough to be politically correct, but privately? Do normal humans really hate them, she wonders. For example, the website of the anti-mutant group, Purity, trumpets the body count in Genosha.
But Kitty has other priorities. Last she heard, her father was in Genosha and she hopes to find some sign that somehow, against all odds, he survived. Genosha was pretty much the most technologically advanced nation on Earth and had security cameras everywhere. Kitty had hacked into their databases a long time ago and kept on downloading their files, as well as those of news networks' satellite feeds. Now, she spends her free time at home at her computer station sifting through her files of the horror that was the last day on Genosha, hoping to find her father.
Ignoring several phone calls by fellow students and her teacher, she eventually reacts to the second phone call of her landlord and boss, Dylan Maguire, who asks her to come to work at the bar. Having seen enough horror for one evening, she decides she owes him and goes to work, tending bar at the "Belles of Hell," a hangout mostly frequented by firemen and cops. Working at the saloon and listening to the people is a job Kitty finds she enjoys. She finds herself remembering Dylan mentioning that a saloon is a place where lost souls go to find their way and a good one helps them. She eventually figured out that that's part of the reason why Dylan keeps on helping her as well. He'd recognized that she'd be in some kind of war she couldn't talk about. As she leaves the bar to go home, Kitty's thoughts drift to her father and how similar he had been. He was a Vietnam vet, had medals and citations, but never talked to his family about it.
As she muses how much she misses and needs her father, she notices a fire in the thirtieth floor of a new apartment building. The firemen will be too late to save the people in the upper stories, she realizes, especially as the fire is so high up. Kitty decides she has to act and, using her powers, walks up on the air. She enters the burning building and finds a family with four kids, five stories above the fire. Seeing her phase through the wall, the eldest kid announces she's probably a mutie. She promises to get them out if they trust her. She grabs the mother and the two youngest kids, tells them to close her eyes and phases all of them, letting them fall straight through the fire to one of the unharmed apartments below. Being fast enough, the fire doesn't harm them. Kitty then races back up, again through the fire, which takes a lot longer and takes a lot out of her. She phases the rest of the family down, where they are already expected by firemen. While the children run to their mother, the husband worries about the coughing, exhausted Kitty and asks if she's all right As he thanks her, she answers that she only did what her dad taught her. He tells he that this night she must have made him proud.
The next morning, Kitty walks around the campus, listening to snippets of conversations. People are puzzling about the mystery mutant who saved the family, some commending her, others implying she probably started the fire. Fed up, Kitty asks the student who made the last comment - Jeff Holloway - if he really believes that crap. She's tired of hearing his racist garbage every week. He should be ashamed. For standing up for his people and defending their future? he shouts back. He's fighting for his beliefs and his blood is pure. Can she say the same? "Let's find out," Kitty replies and decks him.
Later, Kitty finds herself waiting outside the Dean of Students? office. Inside, Dylan Maguire is defending her actions. She was provoked. He'd agree, if she had only punched one guy, the dean, Thomas Maguire, agrees, but then she took on all of Holloway's friends as well. He understands her and Dylan's point of view. The Purity website may be dangerous but the point is the kids did nothing but express their opinions, which is their right under the first amendment and that's what a university is all about. He won't allow anyone, no matter how gifted or justified, to violate that. Finishing their conversation, he asks Dylan to leave and send Kitty in.
He seriously tells Kitty that he shares her feelings towards Purity but that does not mean he can excuse her actions. If she believes in violence as a means of resolving dispute, she doesn't belong at this school. She can stay, but only under probation. If she does anything similar in the future, she will be expelled and, in addition, she is to undergo mandatory psychological counselling. Maguire assures her that they are doing this to help her, if she lets them, if she trusts them.
Walking home, Kitty admits to herself that she doesn't know who to trust anymore or what her purpose in life is. Part of her rage that day becomes clear as she's home again. After she had saved the family the night before, she came home to find that the scanning program had found her father. He was on Genosha's Magda Square, taking care of some children seconds before the Sentinels struck. He knew what was coming, Kitty finds, as she lip-reads his final words towards the camera, apparently in the hope that his daughter would rifle through the files. He tells her he loves her and asks her to make him proud. She promises him that she will.
Second story :
Two exhausted young women, Ruth and Ell', apparently having been on the run for a long time, enter a bar with a rather weird clientele. They ask the bar keeper for directions; they want to go "underground." The barkeeper introduces himself as Poppa and kindly tells the relieved girls to breathe easy. They're among friends now. Ruth tells him they've been on the road for months, ever since their parents threw them out after they learned they were mutants. He's been there himself, Poppa replies. He asks them to accompany him to get them some food and orders one of his men, Julius, to make sure they won't be disturbed.
A man in a trench coat and a hat, which is drawn down hiding his face, is silently following them. Julius shoves him back as he intends to walk through the door labelled "private" and asks him where he thinks he is going. Anywhere he chooses, the mystery man replies to Julius, who suddenly feels his legs giving way under him as he gasps for air and finally passes out. Calmly, the stranger steps over his body and through the doorway.
Something extremely unpleasant waits on the other side: a mutant slave trade. The mutants are being kept in tubes, among them now the two girls, stripped down to their underwear. Both of them are displaying sadly useless mutations with Ell' displaying some pink spots on her upper arms and legs and Ruth having a little tail.
Poppa asks Louis, apparently an accountant of sorts, how they are doing. Louis replies that, with the last two, their quota is full, but the quality is rather poor, not one combat grade mutant among them. They'll make a loss on this shipment. Most are only fit for research and vivisection. Except for the newbies, Poppa leers. He's got a ready market for them - enough guys like their girls a little different. Ell' pleads with the men. Why are they dong this?
Because they are monsters, the mystery man who's caught up with them replies, before he orders the gangsters to release them. Poppa shouts at the others to attack him, but the stranger once more displays his Darth Vader trick, making the men gasp for air. He?s relocated the iron in their blood to their lungs, he explains cheerfully.
Poppa realizes who's standing before him - Magneto himself. Very astute, the stranger agrees and drops his disguise. He repeats his order to release the prisoners and demands to know the identity of their clients. Poppa tells him to screw himself and then displays his own mutation. He sheds his skin, revealing a monster, whom Magneto cannot manipulate the same way he did the men. What kind of creature is he, Magneto wonders. "The best Uncle Sam could buy," Poppa replies as he lunges at his foe's throat. Magneto commands all metal objects in the room towards him, slicing off one of Poppa's arms, which almost instantaneously regrows.
 He's not just a redneck barfly, the creature boasts. He used to be in mutant special forces, and went drinking with John Wraith himself. Now, he captures mutants and sells them to the military or labs and he won't let Magneto mess up his living. He lunges once more and tosses the Master of Magnetism around. Lying on the ground, Magneto tries another venue: vibrating every metallic element in the creature's body he liquefies him from the molecular level upwards. He doubts Poppa will grow back from that.
The grateful prisoners emerge from their tubes. Magneto tells them not to thank him. He was looking for soldiers and hasn't the time to minister to the weak. They are free, he can do no more for them. The mutants are frightened. They don't know where to go. However, Magneto has an idea on how to use them.
(Later, at the Xavier Institute)
While anti-mutant protestors are marching outside the walls, within the building, Charles Xaver is welcoming some new students sent to him along with a note. It reads: "Charles: More dead weight to add to your bleeding heart. M."
Third story :
Saturday night: instead of reading the latest scientific work by Stephen Hawking and sending him the long-promised feedback, the Beast pays a house call to the Strom family. Their fifteen year-old son, Dan, developed huge bat-like wings months ago. Instead of enrolling at Xavier's, Dan wanted to stay at public school with his friends. To appear normal, he conceals his wings with a corset. However, sometimes he cinches it to tightly, as he has done now, and damages them. Amy and Ken Strom are ardent supporters of the mutant cause, trying to help out as well as they can with their meagre income. When they called, Hank, of course, came to help and perform the necessary surgery on their son's wings.
Two weeks later, they call to let Hank know that Dan has fully recovered. Nevertheless, Hank is suffering from some deep-lying dissatisfaction. Finally, formulating his reply to Hawking on another Saturday night, he is interrupted by Cerebra. The mutant detection system has found a mutant lifeform in the vicinity, whose vital signs are deteriorating badly.
Hank drives to the barn, where the mutant is localized, and searches through it, eventually finding a mutant, looking like a giant human cat, crouching in a corner. Hank introduces himself but the creature lunges at him, tossing them both downstairs. Smelling that she is very sick, Hank shields her from the impact but, when she claws for his eyes, he tosses her through the barn's wall, hearing eleven of her bones break. That?s her least problem, though, he diagnoses. She will die in approximately 72 minutes unless he can stop her internal bleeding in time and, on those twisting back roads, it will take forever to drive her to Xavier's. He cradles the unconscious mutant in his arms and starts running and jumping, covering the distance on foot.
Twenty minutes later, they're in the med-lab and Hank performs the necessary surgery. While he scans her, he wonders if nature has now finally produced another mutant like himself. After all, there are so many telepaths and telekinetics, why not more with similar mutations to his? Like himself his patient possesses a complex combination of human and feline physiology. There are only two differences. She is dying for reasons yet to be determined and - obviously - she is a female, an important point to Hank.
During the next few days, Hank manages to stabilize her deterioration and boost her own recovery systems somewhat with a steroid. Nevertheless, she seems to be inexplicably plain worn out from living and there's barely a flicker of higher brain activity. Hank wonders what's going on in her mind. Nevertheless, he looks after her, talks to her and strokes her hair. One day, after three weeks, she wakes up, lunges for his throat, before falling unconscious again.
Frustrated, Hank asks Jean Grey for help to determine what psychic trauma his patient has been through. While Jean scans her, he wonders what happened to her to make her like this: a Sentinel attack? Experimentation on her by the U-Men? A lynch mob?
Having finished her scan, Jean doesn't quite know how to tell her friend the truth. She hesitates before telling him, she's not reading anything within her mind. The last time she saw anything like this was when she tried to scan her tabby cat as a teenager. His patient is not a mutant with feline features, she's a mutated cat, Hank realizes.
He used to have a friend as a kid who had a cat named Wendy. One day, when she was old, she disappeared and hid herself in a dark corner of the garage. Cats do things like this, when they know it is time to die, Hank realizes. They hide in dark corners where they cry and howl and wait for death. Alone and in peace. He frees his patient from her restraints and watches her run away, telling himself she is just a cat, not a patient. And he is a grown man, who shouldn't let his issues blind himself to the truth or another's suffering. The next day, he has some free time again. He tells himself he'll make the most of it, as he takes a shovel,and leaves to go find the cat and give her a proper burial.