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From the Ashes
Somewhere in a jungle, Cyclops gives chase to Angel. He fires an optic blast at him and shouts at him to keep his hands off Jean. Elegantly, dodging the blast, Angel points out it didn’t look like she minded. “Jerk!” he calls Scott as he decks him.
“That’s it!” Jean Grey aka Marvel Girl, the object of their affections, shouts and separates the two telekinetically, then orders the Danger Room to stop the program. Warren blames Scott, who points out he was only trying to help. She’s so sick of this, Jean shouts. She tells Warren she is not his girlfriend and, if he keeps acting like this, she won’t even be his friend friend. She informs Scott she isn’t his property and doesn’t need him defending her. She can handle herself just fine.
In the background, Iceman asks Beast to remind him never to date Jean. Or look funny at her. He knows she can hear him, right? Hank asks. Jean glares at them and lashes out with her telekinesis a moment later.
Sometime later in his office, Xavier strictly informs her that this is unacceptable. She is one of the strongest beings on the planet. No other mutant has powers even close to her. And while she should be the master of them, too often her power controls her. She could have seriously injured her teammates! She knows Jean admits. Does she really? he asks. Her emotions must be controlled. It’s not healthy and it’s going to get someone hurt!
Jean promises it won’t happen again. Yes, it will, he tells her, again and again, until she can find the root of this anger and move past it. Her safety and that of her teammates is his responsibility and he must make hard decisions to protect each of them. She needs to take a break from the X-Men. Get her powers in check and then come back. What?! she protests and jumps up. No way! She’s not leaving the team! Calmly, Xavier points out she is out of control. Fine, she’s going home, Jean replies coldly.
On his own, Xavier muses that there is so much weight on her shoulders. He’s tried so hard to unburden that weight, perhaps it’s time she faced the truth head on. This is one battle she must face alone.
Jean returns to her parents’ home. Both of them happily greet her and assure her how much they worry about her and miss her. Jean makes an excuse and leaves, claiming she forgot something, thinking to herself she thought Scott was needy.
So she goes to the Hudson Valley Mall, where she hasn’t been since she was a kid. She recalls the first time she was here with her mother and her best friend, Annie Richardson. Elaine Grey told both girls not to talk to strangers. Jean scoffs that they weren’t babies and Annie’s 11! Annie adds that her mom lets her go to the mall alone all the time.
Laughing, the two girls run and look at costume jewelry. Annie offers to buy a bracelet for Jean which Jean can’t afford. Now the girls run to an arcade and watch a boy named Tony playing. Annie swoons that someday he’ll own the place and then they can get married and she can do all the math he hates. Barely listening, Tony tells her she’s a spaz. Besides, he’s going to be mayor or governor or something. Crying, Annie runs away.
In the present, Jean is surprised to find the real Tony still playing there. She’s surprised he is still here. Didn’t he want to be a governor? And give up his awesome job working here? he scoffs. He makes minimum wage and can set his own hours. That’s way better than being governor or whatever…
Jean figures this place is strange. All the people act like they are trapped here, stuck doing what they did when they were kids. Every single person. Like they are just going through the motions without goals or passion or dreaming. She decides that someone must be doing this to them. She should call the professor. They need to help these people.
Suddenly, she believes she hears Annie crying. Telepathically, she calls for the professor while trying to find Annie. When she calls out for Annie the other girl asks her to leave her alone. Instead, Jean focuses and reaches out, finally finding the little girl, the memory of Annie or whatever it is.
So she came, the crying Annie remarks. She figured Jean forgot about her. How could she? Jean protests. She was her best friend! She left her alone! Annie replies. Thought she could just go off with her fancy new friends and start a whole new life!
Jean sits down beside her. When she went away, she tells Annie, it hurt her more than she can know. Angrily, Annie retorts it hurt her a heck of a lot more. She didn’t “go” away. She was hit by a car! The ghost image of that memory appears. And Jean left! She found new friends and forgot about her! Thanks, really helpful! Here’s an idea: How about instead of using her powers to fight Magneto she’d have used them to save her life!
She transforms into a monster. Jean stammers an apology. Well, that’s just great, Annie mocks. She is gone and Jean is sorry. Who is doing this? Jean cries out confused. Mysterio? Taskmaster? No one is doing this, comes the impatient reply. This just is!
The monster grows huge, trying to capture Jean. She deserves to suffer like they did. Jean refuses to believe it is Annie. She was wonderful and sweet and her friend. And if that monster were Annie’s ghost or soul, it wouldn’t be such a Grade A jerk! And it’s not Jean’s fault she died!
She lashes out with energy, then stops, for Annie appears again in her little girl form. Annie thinks she’s going to walk home now. Young Jean tells her she shouldn’t. It’s dark. Jean’s mom said she’d give them a ride home. Annie turns away, admitting she’s embarrassed. Running out of the arcade, crying like a baby. She’s just going to… Annie walks away, despite Jean’s pleading.
Alone with her younger self, Jean tells her “hi.” ’S up? the younger version asks. She knows it’s not her fault, right? grown Jean asks. Does she? her younger self retorts.
Jean flies away over the streets till she lands on the street where the fatal car accident happened. She sees her younger self cradling Annie. She wishes she could have done something, she tells them. She misses Annie so much! She wishes she could see her now, all the things she’s seen and done. She wishes she could share them with Annie.
Xavier mentally appears, apologizing for not coming when she called. He felt it was important for her to experience this alone. That’s okay, Jean replies. She doesn’t think there was really a monster here. And all of that stuff was just her being out of control again. Xavier agrees. And now he’s here to play psychoanalyst for her? If she wishes. She accedes.
Xavier explains she was expressing the fear that she was trapped in her past, just like so many people in the world truly are. But they are very much the sum of their parts, at the same time some of them can be so much more. When she lost Annie, it opened a door for her and she stepped into a whole new world. Whether Annie had lived or not, very likely their paths would have diverged. Jean’s power would have come and soon she would have taken her place at his side as his best pupil. Annie will always be with her, just as he will.
Jean sobs. Xavier tells her he’s also lost many people on his journey and while the pain never fully subsides one learns to live with it and cope and not let it define one so.
Jean looks at Annie’s headstone. She sniffles, then begins to chuckle. She gets it now. It feels like a weight’s been lifted off her shoulders. She means… the things she’s done! She’s had a chance to do the most amazing things a person could ever imagine and all she’s done is going through the motions. Not anymore though! She’s going to live now! Not just for herself, but for Annie too! She’s going to have an amazing life for both of them!


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The Bicycle Thief or: How Cyclops Got His Groove Back
Coffee A-Go GoScott Summers, in his civvies, walks into the X-Men’s favorite coffee shop and waves at the blonde behind the counter. “Hey, Zelda,” Scott says with a smile. She turns, asking “Shades” if he wants his usual. He does, and adds a “please” for emphasis.
Scott takes a seat at the counter and Zelda, noting he’s by himself and took longer than normal to say “please”, asks if he’s having a rough day. Scott doesn’t hide the fact so Zelda asks if he wants to talk about. She guesses he’s having a case of the Charlie Browns with that red-headed girl. As he slings his backpack onto the floor Scott is quick to say it isn’t Jean, and then asks Zelda if she thinks he’s uptight.
A look of how should I respond? comes across Zelda’s face. She tries to turn it into a joke when she tells Scott, “You… have really, really good posture.” His head droops forward, disconcerted. “…That’s what I thought.”
Scott admits he just heard it from Jean, though he hears it from the guys all the time. That usually doesn’t bother him, but it did coming from Jean. As Zelda hands him his steaming cup of Joe she tells Scott he seems more like Jean’s big brother than a boyfriend, and acts like everyone’s big brother whether they want one or not.
“I know. It’s just that- -,” is all Scott has time to say before the picturesque window adorning the side of the shop shatters inward, shards of glass flying like darts in all directions. The cause of the explosion of shrapnel is a car full of circus folk who plow right into the shop. People dive for cover including Scott, who’s almost creamed as the side of the car rubs along the counter straight at him.
The car exits just as quickly as it entered and Boy Scout Summers finds himself on the ground face to face with Zelda, straddled between her legs. He asks if she’s all right and she replies that she is, though she’s disappointed he’ll never see the latte art smiley face she made in his drink.Scott gets up quickly and pulls out a wad of cash from his pocket, throwing it down on the counter. He tells Zelda to keep an eye on everyone until the paramedics arrive. She asks where he’s going and Scott tells her he’s going to see if he can figure out where they’re going so he can tell the police. Zelda can’t believe Scott would put himself on the line like that, but doesn’t voice her concerns, only telling him to be careful. With his orange backpack in tow Scott takes off running, telling her he always is.
flashbackAs Summers takes off on their trail his thoughts meander back to his problems with the rest of the X-Men. He thinks maybe he’s too careful and that’s why they always seem to gripe with him. His first memory is of a recent Sentinel Danger Room session. Skipping past whatever Scott did or said the comical Angel and Iceman are telling him the wedgie in his boxers is going to kill him. His back turned to the pair Scott tells them to take this stuff seriously or it’s going to kill them someday.
Scott’s next recollection is of the time he came across Hank eating his lunch near some lab experiments he was running. Scott asks him if he thinks it’s a good idea to mix lunch with whatever it is he’s working on. Hank seems perturbed and replies, “leave the material safety concerns to the fellow who doesn’t call Fehling’s solution things like ‘that stuff’ or ‘crazy science goo’.”
His last thought, the one that sent him into his little depression, was of an argument he and Jean had over her hanging out with Wanda. He tells Jean to keep in mind what Wanda’s capable of. Jean tells him she’s not going to catch “bad guy cooties” and thinks she can hang out with Wanda without losing her mind.
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Scott realizes he can be a real jerklord, but only wishes the rest of his teammates knew what he knew, that in life you have to be prepared for everything.
Ducking down an alley Scott reaches into his bag, past Sun Tzu’s Art of War and a copy of the Daily Bugle, and pulls out his battle visor. He removes his clothes and puts them away, his X-Man uniform already on underneath. It isn’t long before he comes upon the circus folk and their parked car further down the alley.
The driver, Batroc the Leaper, is on a walkie-talkie talking to someone about acquiring the first package. His thick, French accent makes him hard to understand, as well as annoying, so the Clown grabs the talkie from him.
Cyclops comes over and casually leans up against the car and asks Batroc if he needs directions to the Lincoln Center. Batroc tells Cyke he’s real cute and asks if his mother knows he’s out on the town in a Halloween costume. On a more serious note Cyclops reprimands Batroc for almost killing someone back at the coffee shop.
From the backseat Princess Python pops her head out the window and says they’re not exactly the type of people who would care. Cyclops calls her a Dollar Store Cirque Du Soleil and then makes fun of the fact they’re using walkie-talkies to communicate. He asks if they’re super villains or mall cops.
Tired of the banter Batroc asks what it is he wants. Cyclops says he’s stalling them while his friends call the police. He adds that if they turn themselves in it’ll look better for them at the trial. Unfortunately Batroc’s not one to give up and bops Cyclops in the head with the walkie talkie. His feet go out from under him and Cyke hits the ground. Batroc gets back on the walkie and tells the boss they’re on their way to the next pickup and promises no more problems. No sooner does he say that then the car is hit by something so hard that it rocks up into the air.
The Art of War says that if your enemy is irritable, you should try to provoke him. The front, driver’s side tire is busted, the rim rolling along the side of the car. The entirety of the Circus of Crime exit the vehicle. They’re angry, and with Batroc in the lead they attack Cyclops. Using his optic blasts he tries keeping them at bay, but there are just too many. He dodges an attack by the Human Cannonball and blasts away at the giant python coming at him, but Batroc manages to sneak in there and deliver a powerful leaping kick to his midsection.
The Clown and the Gambonno brothers leap on top of Cyclops and begin grappling with and punching him. He lets loose with another powerful optic blast and sends the trio flying, the Clown’s red nose and one oversized shoe are knocked free by the force of the blast.
Batroc, the only guy who seems to know how to fight, leaps onto Cyclops’ back. He receives an elbow for his troubles, but returns the favor with a nice left handed kick to the jaw. Cyclops drops to his knees and the Clown uses this little break in the action to remind Batroc they don’t have time to mess around. Batroc agrees and drops a smoke pellet that quickly fills the air around Cyclops blocking his view of their vehicular escape.When the smoke clears Scott chastises himself for pushing things too far. Then he notices the hubcap on the ground and realizes they won’t be getting too far with that busted wheel.
And a few blocks away he’s proven correct. He trails the crew to a nearby auto repair place where the car is up on a lift. The Circus members are busy worrying over whether or not the boss is going to take the repair bill out of their cut. The Clown says they should have some fun on the Boss’ dime after they pull off the last job and one of the Gambonno brothers suggests seeing a Nam June Paik retrospective at the Met. So engrossed in their conversations they fail to notice Cyclops skulk over to a nearby bike rack and free a teal bike from its lock with a finely tuned optic beam.
The Art of War says you have to seize advantages when you can. Cyclops feels guilty about taking the bike, but feels he must do what he can to follow these yahoos. However, he does tape up an apology note with a phone number.
The car is soon fixed and the Circus of Crime are on their way. Cyclops isn’t fast enough to keep up, but luckily their horrendous driving continues and he can easily follow their trail of destruction. It leads him to a warehouse. The door is busted through and smoke is emanating from inside.
Cyclops dismounts and heads into the warehouse. He finds a bunch of unconscious Hydra agents scattered all over lying in awkward positions. His lungs fill with smoke and he starts coughing. He asks if anyone is conscious and one of the agents struggles to get up. Cyke rushes over and helps him to his feet.
Scott asks if he’s all right and the Hydra agent says he is. He then starts talking about how they stole stuff not even worth taking. Cyclops wants to know what they took and is told it was a bunch of crummy communications technology they were planning on throwing out. He looks down at his fancy watch and tells Cyclops the stuff was in bugged crates too.
As the Hydra peon slips back into unconsciousness Cyclops takes the watch from his wrist and puts it on. He hops back onto his bike and using his fancy new tracker finds the Circus’ next heist, a pet shop. This time, however, S.H.I.E.L.D. agents are already on scene. Scott decides to go covert and grabs a nearby work smock and throws on a painter’s cap.
Scott begins gathering the loose animals while listening to the shop owner being interrogated by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. It turns out the shop owner was being paid monthly by A.I.M. to allow them to store files at his place. The pet store operator is unapologetic for his actions claiming he has a kid who wants a Ph.D. in Latverian Sociolinguistics and a ton of bills from birdseed wholesalers.
The female agent asks if he was ever curious what was in those files. The man admits he took a look one time and saw plans for some Doomsday Space Lasers or something, but they didn’t look like anything special to him. The male agent asks the shopkeeper if they can question his assistant (referring to Cyclops), but not noticing Cyclops tells them she has the day off.
Cyclops must have ditched the store right at this point
Empire State Museum of Modern ArtStaring at a painting of a hellish landscape the Clown remarks his kid could do better. Princess Python says she thought his son was 36 and a claims adjuster.
a theaterAfter exiting from a showing of Kraven the movie the Gambonno brothers argue over whether it was better than Cats. The Human Cannonball and the Clown are also having an argument, though unrelated. They’re arguing over what was Foreigner’s last good album. Cannonball claims that it was Double Vision.
cafeteriaNext, Cyclops tracks them to a cafeteria where the colorfully garbed group elicits a lot of stares. Now wearing an orange hoodie to cover his uniform Cyke sits at the next table over. He has his cell phone out after receiving a worried text. Scott texts back that he’ll be back soon.Meanwhile, the Circus of Crime continues cavorting. The Human Cannonball insists Batroc try his Goober Dog, but the mixture of peanut butter and mayo has him saying no. The Clown then pulls ‘Roc aside and asks if he believes in any of the “glorious new world” stuff the boss likes yapping about. Batroc thinks his answer over before diplomatically answering that he has his doubts.
Princess Python, who’s feeding her snake a chicken leg, appears to agree with Mr. the Leaper. She says if he hired them he’s not exactly an A-list villain. The Gambonno brothers also concur saying the boss’ plan went out with giant robots and death rays.
Cyclops listens and takes it all in. He figures their boss is rich, old-fashioned and for some reason wants a lot of outdated tech. It doesn’t sound like anyone he’s ever heard of and he questions whether or not to bring in the rest of the team, but he’s having fun and has already gotten this far. He figures he’ll follow them to their headquarters and then report in to the X-Men.
When the baddies leave a tender knee keeps Cyclops from riding the bike again. Instead, he hails a cab and takes the bike with him. The tracking watch leads him to a housing community called Black Forest Hills. With the crates no longer moving on his watch Cyclops stop the cab and bikes it the rest of the way.
Cyke pulls the bike up to a brown picket fence in front of a yellow house. The watch tells him this is the place, and he follows a beaten path to a shed in the back. Judging the size of the thing he realizes there’s no way they would have fit everything inside. He goes in anyway and finds an entrance to an underground bomb shelter. As Cyclops lifts open the door and starts down the steps he wonders how deep it goes.
And there starts a long trek through passageway after passageway. It appears the underground lair takes up the whole neighborhood and Scott wonders who would build such a thing. Then he finds the stolen shipment of Hydra crates and at a very inopportune time his tracking watch starts beeping.
In the adjacent room the Circus of Crime members are unloading the stolen property until they hear the beeping. They react quickly and charge the lone X-Man.
The Art of War says gathering your strength is like drawing a crossbow, so that the right action at the right moment will be like pulling the trigger. And at just the right moment Cyclops unleashes an optic fury and takes out the entire crime group in one fell swoop. Pretty proud of himself, Cyclops begins to boast, but the bossman shows up to ruin the moment.
It’s Baron Zemo and he asks Cyclops what he expects to happen. They introduce each other and Zemo tells him just because he beat the Frenchman and his trained apes not to be so cocky. Zemo draws his pistol from his belt telling Cyclops he, too, has been proud, clinging to the old ways, old technologies, despising the world as it is.
Pointing his gun at the crates of stolen merchandise Zemo says he will use them and make them better. He claims to turn the technology against its masters so that all will march under his banner… or die. “…together we shall make real the dream of the world that could be.”Then Zemo points his pistol at Scott and in German says, “So it must be.” Kzak! goes his gun and a diving Cyclops gets nailed in the side. It stings, but doesn’t put him out of the fight.
Cyclops heads behind a crate for some cover. When he reappears he uses his geometrical skills, firing a finely aimed optic blast at an overhanging light just above Zemo’s head. The blast ricochets down at an angle and hits Zemo square in the back.
The would-be world beater proves just as resilient, standing his ground and firing his gun again at Cyclops. He laughs, complimenting “the American mutant” and offers that the so-called homo superior may indeed be so.
Scott takes a leap toward another set of boxes, but while he’s out in the open he tries nailing Zemo with another optic blast. Zemo leaps over the wide, red beam and comes down on a box next to Scott. Cyclops says he’s only as good as he is because he worked at it, not because he’s a mutant. Zemo backs off on his statement and says they’re too evenly matched. However, he believes age and cunning will always win when youth and enthusiasm tire.
Cyclops readies to fire again, but notes the look of worry in Zemo’s cowled face. He guesses Zemo doesn’t like him blasting near all his new toys. “Are you crazy,” he spouts in German telling Cyclops some of the components are highly unstable and that he could bring the entire structure down on both their heads. Cyke says the loss of Zemo would be worth the risk.
The Art of War says he will win who prepared himself and waits to take the enemy unprepared. Zemo is unprepared, Scott’s words throwing his confidence. That’s all Scott Summers needs. With one powerful Zakt! to the head Zemo is knocked out cold.
A little bit later Cyclops receives a psychic summons from Professor Xavier. He asks the Prof if everything’s all right. Xavier thinks it should be him asking that question. There have been news reports of a super-villain crime wave and he’s had S.H.I.E.L.D. agents inquiring whether one of his students has gone rogue. Not only that, but a Mr. Herman has been calling the mansion asking what’s been done with his bike.“What on Earth have you been up to today?” the Professor asks forcefully. Scott, leaning back on a crate, his legs propped up on the hog-tied Zemo, looks over his copy of the Daily Bugle and tells Xavier, “Oh, you know me sir. Same ol’ same ol’.”


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Behold GOOM, the thing from Planet X
Bobby “Iceman” Drake and Warren Worthington the Third a.k.a. Angel stand on the corner of a bustling street. ‘Wooo. Spring Break. Bleh’ Bobby mutters. ‘You sound less than enthused’ Warren tells his friend. Bobby replies that hanging out in the city wasn’t exactly his plan A. ‘Yeah, me either’ Warren remarks. ‘Funny how that works out, Mr Forgot to Buy the Plane Tickets’ he mutters. ‘You’re Warren “Stupid Rich” Worthington’ Bobby adds. ‘Yeah, that’s why I booked our rooms at an incredibly expensive resort!’ Warren declares, so Bobby accuses him of it being his fault for not reminding him to make the travel arrangements. ‘I really should’ve remembered what a complete flake you are, you’re right. “My bad”’ Warren replies. ‘Dude, no one says that anymore’ Bobby points out.
They carry on down the street, as Warren asks why they need to travel to exotic locales when they live right next to the greatest city in the word. ‘Wolverine went to Japan. You just know he’s gonna fight ninjas. Sight-seeing like a couple of old ladies doesn’t quite compare’ Bobby replies. They meet a couple of girls, and talk to them. They travel to a bistro together, where Warren spends more time talking to the girls, and Bobby falls asleep. Later, when the girls leave, ‘That worked out pretty good. Got invited to one of their birthday parties this weekend’ Warren remarks. ‘Wish my mutant power was to be rich and handsome’ Bobby mutters. ‘Oh, hey, I forgot. Spider-Man called’ Warren announces. ‘Really?’ Bobby asks. ‘Yeah, he wants his personality back’ Warren jokes. ‘Oh, har, har’ Bobby snaps. ‘You like that one? I’ve got more’ Warren tells his friend. ‘I just bet you do’ Bobby mutters.
Suddenly, there is a mighty KATHOOOM!’, which startles Bobby and Warren. ‘Did you hear that?’ Warren asks. ‘I got ears, don’t I?’ Bobby snaps. They start to run down the sidewalk, while civilians run in the other direction. ‘What’s going on?’ Warren asks. Bobby replies that he can’t see. People start running into them. ‘Watch it’ someone tells them. ‘What’s going on? What’re you running from?’ Bobby asks. The man asks Bobby if he is fresh off the bus. ‘This here is New York City. Super heroes and laser beams. People run, you’d be wise to do the same’ he suggests.
‘It’s a sea monster, a sea monster!’ a child calls out. ‘You thinking what I’m thinking?’ Bobby ask. ‘I’m thinking we should at least look into it’ Warren replies. They continue running down the street, ‘I’m thinking that, but also that guy was kind of a jerk’ Bobby adds. ‘You bring out the best in people, Bobby’ Warren assures his friend.
Arriving at the waterfront, both young men look up in shock. ‘Warren’. ‘Bobby’. ‘I’m seeing things’ Bobby calls out. ‘Yeah, yeah. I see it to’ Warren replies, as a large orange-brown being with a huge head, two green eyes and a wide mouth starts to emerge from the water. ‘Y’know, this is not the strangest thing we’ve seen’ Bobby points out. ‘I know that’s true, but I’m having trouble believing it right now’ Warren replies. ‘Yeah’ Bobby agrees. They remove their civilian clothing, revealing their X-Men costumes underneath, and Warren extends his wings, taking flight as Angel, while Bobby ices up. ‘Do we have any kind of plan here?’ Angel asks. ‘Just keep it busy until the Fantastic Four or the Avengers show up’ Iceman suggests.
Iceman creates an ice-slide and moves out over the water, ‘I’ll hit ‘im high and you hit ‘im low!’ he tells Angel. ‘I’m the one with wings. Let’s reverse that’ Angel suggests. ‘Too late!’ Iceman calls out as he moves closer to their mysterious foe and blasts him with some ice. ‘Bobby!’ Warren calls out, as the behemoth knocks Bobby aside with ease, shattering the ice-slide in the process. ‘This ends now!’ Angel declares as he flies towards the large creature, before suddenly realizing that all he has are wings. The creature then swats Angel away with ease. Bobby is sitting on an ice-floe, while Warren splashes into the water. ‘Well’ he mutters. ‘Yup’ Bobby agrees. Warren asks if the Fantastic Four have shown up yet. ‘Nope’ Bobby tells him. ‘Avengers?’ Warren enquires. ‘Nada’ Bobby remarks. ‘H’okay’ Warren sighs.
The large creature has now emerged from the water and starts its way down one of the now-deserted New York streets. Warren and Bobby make their way back onto land, and Bobby supposes that he is doing this one solo. ‘How’s that?’ Warren asks. Bobby points out that Warren’s wings are all wet, so he can’t fly. ‘Says who?’ Warren replies. ‘Like, physics’ Bobby declares. ‘Birds can’t fly when their feathers are wet’ he explains. ‘I’m not a bird’ Warren states. ‘You’ve got bird wings’ Bobby tells him. ‘Proving, I should think, that physics have nothing to do with how I fly!’ Angel exclaims. ‘So how do you fly?’ Bobby asks. ‘Uh, well. The wings are involved. But different from birds. I mean, my pecs would have to be at least twice as killer’ Warren boasts. ‘Oh, right, I forgot. Your mutant power is to go topless at the drop of a hat’ Bobby smiles. ‘You’re one to talk’ Warren reminds his friend. Suddenly, they cannot see the creature. ‘Great. You lost the monster!’ Bobby declares. ‘ME?’ Warren shouts.
Shortly, Warren flies through the air, and Bobby rides a new ice-sled as they catch up to the monster further down a street. ‘There!’ Bobby calls out. Warren asks Bobby if he has any bright ideas, as they see the creature holding up a bus. ‘This time you go high and I’ll go low’ Bobby suggests. ‘Gosh, good thinking’ Warren mutters. ‘I know, right?’ Bobby replies. They both get into position, with Warren hovering near the creature’s face, and Bobby on an ice-sled down at the creature’s feet. ‘Uh, now what?’ Warren asks. ‘I dunno. Kick him?’ Bobby calls out. ‘I’m not sure that’ll do any good’ Warren replies as he moves up higher, above the creature’s head.
Bobby points out that Warren isn’t really built for this kind of thing, and suggests to him that what he needs are wings made out of knives. ‘That’s the single stupidest thing I ever heard. What bout my normal wings? Where do they go?’ Warren asks as he flies even higher once the creature looks up and reaches for him. ‘They’re still there too’ Bobby suggests as he starts to cover the ground in ice. ‘Bobby, I can’t have both. Wings don’t work like that’ Warren explains. ‘Where were they before they came out? That’s where they go’ Bobby tells Warren. Warren darts about the creature, and tells Bobby to not take this the wrong way, but that he thinks he has been hit in the head one too many times - or maybe not enough.
‘Your metal wings would be rad. They’d be like feathers only metal. And flexible! Like sci-fi jet. But also razor-sharp so you could slice up fools!’ Bobby calls out, as the large creature suddenly slips on the ice and falls backwards, landing with a crashing FOOOM! ‘Ha! The bigger that are, blah, blah, blah, Bobby Drake is the best’ Bobby calls out as he turns away from the monster - which starts to get back up. ‘Bobby!’ Warren calls out. Bobby turns around - as the monster starts to bring its foot down on top of him. Bobby looks shocked, but Warren swoops down, just in time to pull his friend to safety. ‘Like tackling an iceberg’ Warren remarks. ‘Where’s the Fantastic Four already? Or the Avengers? Or the military?’ Bobby asks as he and Warren take a minute’s rest down an alleyway.
At that moment, the Avengers - Captain America, Giant Man, Iron Man and Thor are being held captive by Kang on the moon, while the Fantastic Four - Mr Fantastic, the Invisible Girl, the Human Torch and Thing, are prisoners of Annihilus, and the military are dealing with Namor the Sub-Mariner, who declares that, for the last time, he cannot “surrender”, as this is not an invasion of the surface world. ‘I just wanted a bagel! We don’t have them down there. Imperius Rex!’ Namor shouts.
The monster turns its attention to another building, and as debris starts to fall to the street below, two children are trapped as rocks fall around them. ‘There -’ Bobby calls out. ‘I’m on it!’ Warren exclaims as he soars towards the children, and pulls them to safety, just in time. He sets them down near some other civilians, but more rubble continues to fall around them. Warren looks up and extends his wings over the children, as two large chunks of concrete fall towards them - but, an instant later, a large ice-shield surrounds Warren, the children and the other civilians, with Bobby freezing the concrete into the shield before it can harm anyone. Angel tells the civilians that this location has been compromised. ‘If you’ll follow me to -’ he begins, but one man declares ‘We ain’t following no mutie!’ ‘I, uh -’ Warren begins, while Bobby creates an opening the ice, and tells Warren that they have to get these people out of here. ‘Ah! Mutie! Filthy mutie!’ the man exclaims.
‘We just saved your lives!’ Iceman declares. ‘Leave us alone! We were safe until you mutants showed up fighting a giant!’ one of the other civilians calls out. ‘Yeah, take your monster and get outta our city!’ another shouts. Iceman and Angel leave the ice-shield, with Warren telling Bobby that they don’t mean it. ‘Yeah they do’ Bobby replies. ‘They’re just scared’ Warren points out. Bobby starts to create another ice-slide, ‘Of us? We’re not the ones ripping up the city and -’ he begins, before going wide-eyed and remembering the monster looking inside one of the buildings, and then the busy. ‘He’s looking for something!’ Iceman tells Angel, as he slides towards the creature, who is looking inside another building.
‘Hey! Monster face!’ Bobby calls out. ‘Where’re you -’ Angel begins as he flies after Bobby. The creature turns and looks at Iceman, confused. ‘Yeah, I’m talking to you!’ Bobby exclaims. The creature suddenly raises its hands, ‘Impertinent speck! How dare you speak in that manner!’ he it calls out. ‘It talks!’ Angel gasps. ‘Of course I speak!’ the monster remarks, before Iceman tells it to stop wrecking their city. ‘I am not wrecking it! Goom, the thing from Planet X, cares not for your pathetic Earth civilization! It is not worth the pitiful effort it would take to destroy!’ Goom boasts, casually knocking part of a building. ‘Who calls himself a Thing? Besides Ben Grimm I mean’ Angel remarks. ‘And who refers to their own home world as Planet X?’ Bobby asks.
‘Do not be as foolish as you are ugly! The incredibly advanced technology of my translation device can only do so much with a language as inelegant as your own’ Goom tells the young heroes. Angel tells Goom that he feels they are getting off track here, and asks him what it is he is doing. ‘Goom seeks his son Googam!’ Goom explains. ‘I’m sorry, I’m still stuck on the Planet X part. Where is it?’ Bobby remarks, before asking Goom how he got here and why his monster son is in an Earth college and how that didn’t make national news. Goom informs Angel and Iceman that he attempted to conquer their meager world many years ago, and it would have worked if not for the interference of other things from Planet X. ‘I left Googam to hatch in a cave and conquer your feeble world in my place. He went to college instead’.
‘So, it isn’t worth your time to destroy our civilization, but conquering it is a-okay?’ Iceman asks. ‘Yes, why not? They are two different things’ Goom points out. ‘From cave monster to college student, I think there’s an inspirational after-school special in that’ Angel jokes, while Iceman asks how a giant attends college anyway. ‘We can be smaller! It’s how we fit inside our spacecraft! Super large size is for conquering worlds!’ Goom reveals, before announcing that if anything has happened to Googam, this miserable planet will be conquered. ‘What makes you think something has happened?’ Iceman enquires. Goom reveals that Googam did not make his Earth-weekly check-in call. ‘What do you call an alien monster’s helicopter parent?’ Iceman whispers to Angel. ‘Mothership parent?’ Angel asks. ‘Y’think Goom is a lady?’ Bobby asks. ‘I don’t know!’ Warren replies.
‘Wait a second. Googam missed his most recent check-in?’ Angel asks. ‘That is the thing I said!’ Goom exclaims. ‘And you’ll stop trashing New York or conquering Earth or whatever if you can find him’ Angel enquires. ‘That is correct’ Goom states. ‘You thinking what I’m thinking?’ Angel asks Iceman, who replies ‘Spaceship?’ ‘Spaceship’ Angel agrees.
Shortly, a spaceship descends over Empire State University. Goom has reduced to a smaller size and exit’s the spaceship with Bobby and Warren who have changed into civilian clothing. ‘I mean, someone here must know where Googam got off to, right?’ Bobby suggests, while some students start running away when they see Goom. ‘Monster!’ someone shouts. ‘This is turning out to be hard than I thought it’d be…’ Warren remarks, while the students continue to run away. They approach a frat house, where two frat boys are sitting out the front. ‘Bro, dude, check it out. It’s another Googam’ one of them remarks. ‘Dude’ the other replies. ‘Bro’ the first mutters. ‘Goom? We may need to use your translator’ Warren states. ‘Even the amazing technologies of Planet X have their limits’ Goom replies. ‘Oh, it’s not that bad. Gimme a second’ Bobby tells the others, before approach the frat boys. ‘Bro!’ he exclaims. ‘Dude!’ the frat boy replies. ‘You know where we can find Googam?’ Bobby asks.
Later, Cancun, Mexico, ‘Hey, who‘s blocking my light?’ Googam calls out from where he is relaxing on the beach. He looks up and sees the spaceship hovering overhead. ‘Aww, crap’ Googam mutters. ‘C’mon, Dad!’ he calls out when Goom appears before him. ‘Don’t you Earth slang me!’ Goom warns Googam. Googam mutters that this is so embarrassing - as the other guys don’t havev monster dads raiding their Spring Break. A beam catches Goom and his son and drags them up to the spaceship. ‘Well, the other guys won’t be conquering Earth’ Goom points out. ‘Not this again’ Googam mumbles. ‘No back talk!’ Goom orders, while Googam drops his shades.
‘And now they’ll beam us up and -’ Bobby begins down below, as he catches Googam’s glasses. But, Goom’s spaceship makes a quick take-off into the sky. ‘I…think we need to call the Professor’ Bobby tells Warren as he puts the shades on. ‘On the other hand…’ he remarks, looking around at the students on the beach. ‘It is Spring Break’ Warren points out. ‘And we did make it to Mexico’ Bobby remarks, before deciding that they should call the Professor. ‘Just maybe not immediately’ Warren suggests. ‘Definitely not immediately’ Bobby agrees, and the friends both smile.


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(1st story) Senioritis
 (2nd story)
Scott and Jean are on a Date!
1st story:
Jean Grey is sleeping.
Bobby Drake slides down a snowy mountain and passes Hank McCoy, who is busy in his lab. He shouts at Hank to check him out. Hey, where did his mountain go? he realizes a moment later. He does not keep mountains in his lab, comes the reply. Bobby asks him to come on out and have some fun. This is lame!
Scott will not find it lame if he succeeds. He’s trying to find a way to give his brain complete control of his optic energy. He stares through the microscope at a protein reaction that’s meant to make the mutant chromosomes assert themselves more, repairing discrepancies in the body as a whole. He believes this could give Scott and other mutants not as fortunate as them the consistency of people with a less random evolutionary path.
He’s feeling less complex all of a sudden, he realizes as he is mirrored in the fluid. He’s reducing everything to work, isn’t he?
Suddenly the lab is gone (and the mountain hasn’t come back, Drake sulks). They are in a mesa and everything is bathed in red. Bobby realizes he’s dreaming. Hank corrects him: He’s dreaming. He’s been in the lab for a while and Bobby just showed up. Bobby replies before he was snowsurfing he was in this pool with all the girls from… Wait, maybe he’s not dreaming!
Ha, missed me! Angel suddenly shouts as he’s flying and dodging optic blasts from Scott  Bobby shouts that he could hurt Third. Not as fast as he’s flying today, Warren laughs. Scott, not wearing a visor, hits Bobby in the chest with a optic blast the strength of a laser pointer. He has total control.
Hank announces he hasn’t gotten this far with his serum. Oh, of course, this is the dream. With lucid dreaming you have some control over its reality. Dream? Scott states chastened. He guesses he should have known. But usually once he realizes he’s dreaming, he wakes up. That’s cause it’s his dream, Warren claims.
Hank suddenly understands. Do they remember when they were pulled into the professor’s subconscious by Cerebro a couple of years ago? But Cerebro has been working fine, Warren points out. He’s gone through three upgrades since then. No, it’s not the professor, Scott realizes. It’s Jean. This past year her psychic abilities have begun manifesting by leaps and bounds.
Being able to talk telepathically through her on missions is great, Warren adds. But being pulled into her dreamscape could be problematic, Hank hints. How does he mean? Scott asks. Maybe embarrassing, Hank suggests. That’s what he means, Bobby replies and points somewhere. Scott’s getting beaten out by himself! They see Jean in a bathing suit, making out with a dream Scott.
This is kinda weird, Scott admits. He was wondering if she was feeling the same way back to Scott, Warren remarks. Answer? Yes! Scott tells Warren he’s sorry. He knows that for a while there, he was kind of… Dude, Warren tells him, he’s into every girl for two weeks, Don’t sweat it. He’s all about Candy Southern now. He suggest Scott merge with his dreamself and have some fun. Nothing here counts in real life. Scott thanks him and proceeds to do so.
The others walk on. So what mischief can they get into here in Jean Grey VR world? Suddenly, they are in front of Bobby’s house. He expects this is going to involve the babysitter Bobby always mentions when talking about his teen years, Hank sighs. Naw, he just wanted to see old Buddy again, Bobby replies and greets his dog.
Is that his dad inside? Warren asks, looking at a middle-aged man, sitting at a desk. Doing everyone’s taxes, Bobby states, just like he wants him to. That’s why after graduation he has to go take some classes at his dad’s alma mater. Is that what he wants to do next? Hank asks. That’s the deal he mad with him for coming to Chuck X’s school, Bobby replies sobered. Gotta do something, he guesses. No one’s going to pay him for making ice.
The landscape changes again. They are at the edge of a chasm. Some storm clouds are rising in the distance. They see what’s lurking at the edges of Jean’s sleeping mind, images of practically every hardcase they faced over the past couple of years. They’re being contained, Warren observes. Even a literalist like him gets the idea, Hank points out. Jean wants to be able to protect them from, well… everything. He wonders if she’s been forcing her ability to mature and grow stronger subconsciously. Or maybe that’s what happens when a mutant becomes a full grown woman, Warren suggests.
Guess they are all growing up, huh? Bobby ventures. Don’t worry, Drake. You’ll never grow up, Hank replies.
The images begin to swim into another. Hank thinks Jean’s waking up or she’s trying to shoo them out of her head because they are talking too much.
Some hours later, the four male X-Men are in the Danger Room fighting Sentinels. Mutant targeted, the Sentinel announces. Warren dodges its shot and it hits the other Sentinel instead. Anyone can target, deuce, Warren tells it. Hitting is another thing. Now why don’t they fly off and attack the sun, because that’s what causes mutations sometimes.
Cyclops beheads the second Sentinel with his optic blast. Aced it! he shouts. No, he deuced it, Iceman corrects him. Thanks to his deuce ice shooting platform (on which Scott stands with him). The trick is getting up on their level, Scott agrees while he high-fives Bobby. He admits the professor really got those demos upped a few levels. That felt like a real Sentinel battle.
Suddenly, the ice pillar they are standing on is toppled. This is gonna feel real too, the Living Diamond laughs. Get up and face the hardest threat in town! He never got to see what he could do… That’s because he got deuced in about twenty minutes of attacking them, Cyclops retorts.
Beast kicks the Living Diamond in the face and asks them to please get off this deuce kick. He never had a shot at this fellow. How was he stopped again?
The Living Diamond tosses the severed Sentinel head at Hank, which he manages to dodge. Their professor used a machine to shake him apart, he remarks, but now all they got is what they got. That will suffice, Beast replies.
Angel grabs the villain and flies him up. He knows Chuck wants to make them able to think even under stress or taunting, he remarks, but that is just not cool. Oh, the flyboy with just wings is gonna hurt him now? the villain mocks. He gonna sightsee him to death?
No, Living Deuce-mond, Angel replies, he’s gonna try something he always sees seagulls do with clamshells. They drop them. And he does so from a great height.
Iceman, in the meantime, follows Beast order and creates an ice-tunnel. Cyclops shoots his optic blast through it, focusing the beam to a fine point, onto the Diamond, fragmenting him like a jeweler would. Maybe that’s what he’ll go into after graduation, Scott jokes.
Don’t even talk about that, Warren tells him as he lands. His family wants him to come into Worthington Inc. without even a summer to camp around Europe.
Hank examines the fragments. The professor spared no expense on this, he observes. It’s synthetic diamond, of course, but a demo like this must have taken a lot of time and money. But he built it while laying low and preparing to repel the Z’nox invasion, Scott reminds them. You mean when he zapped the aliens with the power of Loooove, Bobby asks. How deuce was that?
Maybe the surface heroes would like to observe the power of hate, comes the voice of a new attacker who tears into them. For that is the only emotion known to Grotesk!
Iceman ices him up. He even made a demo-bot of this deuce, he marvels. Getting up, Hank pleads for enough deucing please.
It’s like a greatest hit medley, Warren suggests. Grotesk breaks free. Has Iceman already forgotten that ice cannot hold his sprit? No, Bobby replies, he’s just making sure Grotesk is standing still so Scott can give him that look. Give him that look, Summers!
Gladly, Scott replies but finds that Grotesk repels the optic blast. Chuck is serious with that session, Iceman observes.
Suddenly, the weapon in Grotesk’s hand turns on Grotesk himself, releasing the leftover energy into his robot face – thanks to Marvel Girl, who has just telekinetically entered the fray.
She apologizes to Cyclops for not getting back in time to send the whole blast back at Grotesk. Scott remarks that most of their enemies don’t tolerate bathroom breaks in the middle of battle. Jean telekinetically lifts up Grotesk and states she had lady issues. And this training session has gone on way longer than they used to. And since when do they get authentic models of recent threats?
Put him down or die! Grotesk threatens.  Angel hits him in the face with a Sentinel part. He thinks that’s the point, he tells Jean. The professor must be trying to make the threats as real as possible and fights don’t end conveniently in twenty minute blocks.
Jean drops Grotesk. See, Warren tells Jean. He already did the clam drop, he tells her. She missed it. “No care she,” she replies bored. Grotesk attacks her. Jean is more than ready as she missed the original fight with him, while she was helping the professor. “Toro, toro,” she goads him and then telekinetically shoves him so hard he breaks through the outside wall.
The professor is not going to like having to repair the south wall, Cyclops admonishes as they follow Grotesk. Good thing they don’t have much traffic out there, Beast observes. The demo is still active even out of the Danger Room. Taking up Cyclops, Warren reminds them there’s still Farmer Gus and his tractor who always makes Scott nuts when he takes up the whole highway. He could drive it halfway off the road so people can pass, Scott retorts and orders Warren to get him in front of Grotesk.
Grotesk almost kicks Jean’s head off, because she can’t pay attention as her mask has slid down and she can’t see. Bobby creates an iceshield between her and Grotesk. Cyclops slices off Grotesk’s arm with his optic blast and remarks if Jean had stuck with the black and yellow uniform…
That wouldn’t have happened. They heard, Warren and Jean finish in unison. Mr. short hair has just never gotten that some people find the headmask too hot, Warren adds. It’s also about uniformity, Scott points out. That’s why they are called uniforms.
Hoho! Scott Summers’ semantic schooling, Hank remarks and attacks Grotesk. Scott continues that now it looks like Hank and he are on a team and everyone else is random. They ought to project a unified front. So she’s random? Jean asks annoyed.
They argue while Hank and Bobby battle Grotesk. Maybe he’s forgetting why they started individualizing. The media was talking about mutants as some kind of military organization because of the uniforms. The Fantastic Four have always worn matching uniforms, Cyclops points out. Yeah, blue uniforms, Warren points out, displaying his blue costume. Everyone likes blue. Then what was that wacky pizza-colored get up with the suspender straps Angel tried out before this outfit? Scott asks. Jean designed that, Warren defends himself. He said that’s the kind of uniform he wanted, Jean reminds him.
He always wanted to join the military, didn’t he? Warren asks Scott. Yep, comes the reply. OW! Hank cries in the background and Jean tells him to break it. But he couldn’t because… Angel begins. Cyclops taps against his visor. Right, Warren states.
Got it! Hank announces as he thrashes Grotesk, then corrects himself he means he has done it. Such a setback will never stop the righteous rage of Grotesk, the remains stubbornly announce. Bobby suggests he chew up some of those weeds in front of him.
Warren asks Hank if he can turn him off. There’s usually no off switch, Hank remarks as he examines Grotesk. The demos end when they destroy them. But the Chuckster built these models better than usual, Bobby points out. And specific. Scott muses. It’s like a fight down memory lane. He wonders why?
Jean suggests they ask when Xavier returns in a few days when he’s back from yet another trip to Scotland. She’s thinking he’s got a sweetie over there. Well, he deserves it, Warren decides, just like he deserves all his ladies.
Scott suddenly turns around. Did someone call his name? None of the others heard anything. Warren flies off to check the mail. Again someone calls Scott and the others hear it too. Could it be the professor? Scotland is not in the woods, Jean points out. But there are woods in Scotland, Hank retorts. Who else would know Scott?
Scott runs towards the trees, figuring maybe his brother Alex is back and in trouble. Again someone calls. Suddenly, Scott screams in pain, dangling from the arm of a giant monstrosity. He missed Scott, he  states. Frederick! Scott moans.
2nd story:
Scott takes Jean out on a date. He leads her to a fancy French restaurant and she’s excited. She figured that they were going to hang at the Coffee-a Go Go again and they pull up at Chez Voulet instead. Only the best for his Marvel Girl, Scott preens.
A minute later, they walk off again and Jean explains to Scott you have to make reservations for places like this, especially on a Friday night. Maybe they can find another restaurant, Scott suggests but everywhere they are asked for reservations.
Predictably, they end up at the Coffee-a-Go Go, asking if there’s any other food besides muffins.
Suddenly, Jean asks Scott to check out the news. They see the Avengers arriving to deal with a menace.


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1st storyBeginning of the End
2nd story X-Date part 2
1st story:
Cyclops is surprised at the return of the murderous Frederick. Holding Cyke by the arm (and thus burning him), Frederick gloats it took him so long to find Scott again. And here are all the friends he saw in Scott’s head. Scott screams.
Beast kicks Frederick in the head, ordering him to let Cyclops go. Frederick swats him away, remarking he’s the strong one Scott talked about, the smart one too. How nice. Jean holds him telekinetically and orders Bobby to ice him up. He complies.
Frederick continues he almost thought Scott dreamed them up. Iceman can really pull out vapor out of the air to form ice? It must be fun. No fun for him, Bobby announces strictly. Who is he?
Scott should have remembered, comes the reply. He met him a few years ago. He guesses he drops so many mutants down mineshafts, it all runs together after a while. He’s Frederick.
He lived through all that? Scott asks astonished. Yes, thanks, comes the reply. He didn’t know he could live off pure radiation. But he guesses he can. He thought he’d gotten knocked out for a few hours in the fall. Does he know how long he was out? Later when he finally reached the surface again and saw a date on a motel sign he figured out he’d been in a coma for a year and a half. The radiation that changed him… kept him going. It made up for everything he didn’t have. He doesn’t even need air anymore. He thinks he was breathing gases from the earth itself.
Couldn’t dig up. The mine system caved in on him. He thinks Scott’s friends in the FBI sealed off the tunnels with TNT. He had to go where he could and just went deeper. He found a whole other system of tunnels underground. There’s a whole other world there, did they know that? He though of just staying down there forever, but he wanted to see all of his friends again. He even found some native creatures and was able to eat again. Build up his strength.
Jean realizes horrified that he means the Moloids. Frederick wasn’t a killer when he met him, Scott recalls as Hank helps him up. He’s not a killer Frederick corrects him. He’s a survivor. When he finally got back to the surface, it was weeks before he could stand sunlight again. He heard about how the government chased them down with robots. He read the reports and moved in closer to their battles. He got close enough that he could start hearing Scott’s mind. Congratulations on finally dating Jean. He hopes they are happy.
Shut up! Scott orders agitated. Hank warns him that Frederick is trying to goad him into freeing him. Good, Frederick commends him. He can’t even read minds like him. But he doesn’t need to trick them. His hands burn everything, even himself. It ain’t just chemicals or whatever Hank is imagining in his head.
The ice around his hand cracks as it too melts. And Jean is hit on the head by one of the ice shards. Cyclops fires an optic blast at Frederick and misses. He’s always gonna miss, Frederick announces. He can see when and where he’s going to shoot, remember?
Hank tries to get Jean to get up. Anxious, Bobby and Scott pay more attention to them than to Frederick who swats them with a tree. How did those robots not kill them all? he goads. They can’t pay attention for a whole minute.
Hank grabs Jean and runs with Frederick following. Frederick tosses a stone at Hank’s head and he stops. There is no need to run. Why would he do that? Frederick asks. He just wants to touch her. He’s just trying to be like Scott, a good X-Man.
Hank orders him away. Frederick shoves him aside. Cyclops and Iceman catch up to them while Frederick kneels down, intent on touching Jean’s face with his radioactive hands.
That moment, there is a rumbling noise and the Juggernaut is running toward them. Surprised, Frederick muses that he can’t read his mind.
Juggernaut slugs Frederick who lands hard. Juggernaut disappears, leaving the others to wonder what that was. The groggy Jean slowly gets up. Having no idea what just happened, Angel joins them with the mail. He thinks he just saw Juggernaut, he tells them.
Soon, FBI agents take away Frederick. Cyclops thanks Agent Duncan for bringing his team so fast. Duncan thanks him in return for turning in Frederick. That re-opens and closes the case that Agent Baker was working on with Cyclops way back when. He’ll be interested to hear it. Cyclops warns him to be careful with Frederick, even in confinement. He has some mind-reading ability. Duncan remarks he doesn’t think that will be a concern. Attempts to revive Frederick have failed. One of the medics suspects the radiation is finally consuming him. Tell Xavier to give him a call when he’s back in the States. He’ll let him know what he finds.
When the X-Men are alone ,again Bobby marvels that Scott managed to take the guy out alone in the past. Jean, holding an icepack to her aching head apologizes for being out of commission. She can’t believe the Juggernaut showed up to help. They’re not sure it was him, Hank remarks, but it certainly looked like him on one of his charges. Yeah, that’s Cain Marko, Angel remarks, always checking in, making sure they’re okay, seeing if they need anything…
Dude, who else could have flattened out that creep like that? Didn’t Warren see him when he was flying back? He replies no. Scott muses he wishes the professor told them where he went. If Juggernaut is back out, he needs to know. He could even be looking for Xavier, Jean points out. Maybe that’s why he didn’t stop. Don’t they have any way to get in touch with him? Bobby asks. Cerebro they all realize at the same time.
A little later in the Cerebro chamber, Jean doesn’t manage to get anything. Hank, in the meantime, curiously reads the letter Angel gave him. It’s a headhunter from the Brand Corporation. They have a position for a research scientist… and it’s quite an offer. At least he thinks it is. He has no idea what to expect in a salary. He asks Angel who tells him no one would make fun of him for making that much in a year. Health insurance… it’s a good package.
Hank wonders if they would mind him using the labs for non-company work after hours.  Wow, he already has a job lined up, Bobby marvels. Not that he’s surprised. He hasn’t accepted yet, Hank replies, and it won’t take Drake long to become certified and be out in the work world. If, of course, he sill feels he has to go that route. He promised his dad, Bobby sighs.
What is Warren going to do? Gotta start figuring out how Worthington Enterprises works. His father is going to be mad he didn’t take any business classes here. But he does know they use like whole teams of accountants. After Bobby gets certified, he can come work for him. Sweet, Bobby replies. Maybe they can set up a schedule that will still let them go crack thug heads. Cyclops agrees it would be great if the two of them could still work together.
What about him? Warren asks. Scott doesn’t know. He can’t imagine many employers are cool with him wearing sunglasses all the time. At least not at a job that pays enough to live on. Lifeguard, Bobby suggests. Yeah, he guesses there’s options. He just doesn’t think he’s really good at anything other than fighting supercreeps and going into battle.
But he’s very good at that, Hank points out, Scott is the best and if he’s saying he doesn’t want to leave this school, he must admit he shares this sentiment. This is the first place he truly ever felt at home.
Warren suggests Scott could stay and teach here. Isn’t that what the place is for? Won’t there be any more classes? Maybe if every new mutant they find wouldn’t go “darkside” so fast, Bobby points out. Well, they were the test run, and it turned out well for them, hasn’t it? Hank asks. He means, they are still alive…
Maybe the Professor meant for some of them to stay on and teach, Cyclops muses. It was hard on him taking the five of them through all those courses, even with his brain and Cerebro helping…
Speaking of Cerebro, Jean states, he’s found something. Not the professor, but a mutant signal coming from a few miles north of New York City. Should they investigate?
If X were here, he’d just send them up anyway, Warren points out. Right, Cyclops agrees. And like Bobby says, too many mutants are falling under a bad influence. Like he-who-cannot-be-named—neto, Bobby agrees dramatically.
Soon they are in the Blackbird and on the way. Using the Cerebro unit aboard, Jean informs them  the signal is coming from the west end of that rock quarry.
Okay, no new students, Iceman announces. Kids who live in rock quarries do not like living in sweet mansions. Fact!
Scott brings the plane down. The five exit, finding the place familiar somehow. Jean telepathically reaches out, but finds nothing. Maybe Cerebro is malfunctioning, she wonders. Maybe that’s where X went. To get more parts for Cerebro, Angel suggests.
Jean suddenly realizes why the place is familiar. This is where she came with Sue Storm, back when the Professor asked her to mentor Jean. Warren recalls they were afraid Jean would leave the X-Men to be in the chart-topping band. As if, Jean scoffs. She points at some shack. That was the Mad Thinker’s hideout where they fought some animated mud men. And then they came and saved the day. Fact! Bobby states. That was so sweet of them, Jean recalls.
Inside the ruins, Hank remarks this is a waste of a probably very well stocked lab. He imagines Dr. Richards stripped it of the useful technology before demolishing it. He had to, Jean explains. It was booby-trapped. Maybe the mutant has been living in the cave left by the lab hideout, Scott suggests. Then may he suggest forgetting that one, Bobby interjects. Going into caves almost never works out well for them. He’ll just wall it off with some nice thick ice.
He used to be a lot more fun when he was a freshman, Warren remarks, as he flies past him. They all said he annoyed them, Bobby retorts. He still does, Cyclops replies as they all walk ahead and Bobby reluctantly follows. They do not notice that the metal trash behind them begins to move.
Ahead, Cyclops uses his visor to light things up. Get ready, he warns them, he thinks they are coming to… the end. Nothing exciting there. Okay, he resc – re… takes back what he says about caves, Bobby admits. Rescind was the word he was going for, Hank remarks.
All of them agree this was a bust. Warren jokes most people think superheroes live exciting lives. They never see those times when they just walk into an empty cave. They turn back. What other secrets of superhero life can he share wit them? Jean jokes. Lots, Warren replies. He’s thinking of writing a book. With Hank’s help.
Having reached the entrance, Bobby notes that junk pile seemed bigger when they walked in. Oh it’s still big, Warren remarks, looking up. It just moved around… a lot. Facing them is an animated pile of rubble looking very much like… Magneto!
2nd story:
At the Coffee-a-Gogo Scott and Jean watch a report about the Avengers. The reporter especially mentions the Avengers second female member, the Scarlet Witch. The journalist asks her that she heard Wanda’s powers are completely natural. Another report starts about costumed mutants who terrorize the cities.
How come you’re a dirty mutant if you’re an X-Man and just have natural ability if you are an Avenger? Scott wonders. Wanda’s lost her accent, Jean muses, but admits she’s glad she’s doing well. She’s had a hard enough life without being stigmatized for her powers. Helping her into her jacket, Scott remarks that’s their job. They head outside.
Suddenly, Scott stops. Is something wrong? Jean asks. No! he decides. Scott Summers is going to stop being lame! Phone please! Jean hands him her cell. Scott calls Warren, asking if he may use his car to drive down to Manhattan. Jean thinks of him as a boy scout always asking permission.
So what’s the plan? Jean asks. It’s the city that never sleeps, right? Scott tells her. So they are going to find somewhere to eat and something fun to do if takes all night!
They drive, but suddenly Jean shouts to look out, as she sees something in front of them.


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1st story: Higher Learning
2nd story X-Date part 3
In the quarry, the five X-Men suddenly find themselves face to face with a mass of metallic debris, the shape of which vaguely resembles Magneto. A Magneto robot! Iceman shouts. Beast corrects him that robots require servos and hydraulics. This appears to be a collective of that metal scrap pile held by magnetic force. It’s the ghost of Magneto! Bobby corrects himself.
Does that mean he guessed right? Jean asks Cyclops. They don’t exactly know what became of Magneto, Scott admits. Perhaps his essence has become dispersed through space and he’s attempting to… rebuild himself… now a truly electromagnetic being. That explanation takes too long, don’t like it, Warren decides.
He’s got another idea, Cyclops announces, noting the creature reforming an appendage into a mace. “Move!” he shouts as the creature brings the mace down. Flying next to it, Angel tries to divert its attention: Follow the handsome bird-man… you are getting sleepy… Okay, he’s wide open, he announces, allowing Cyclops a clear shot at the thing.
Only scrap metal is left. The others congratulate Scott, only Beast points at a floating gadget and remarks that, unless Sir Isaac Newton’s law of gravitation does not apply to this quarry, which is possible since the Mad Thinker used to live here, he posits that their marionette menace has not been disposed of.
As the thing reforms before them, Bobby remarks that Hank hasn’t spouted out a stuffy sentence like that in a couple of years. Hank apologizes. He sometimes lapses into the old overly proper and formal verbiage. It wasn’t that proper, Jean remarks. He ended in a preposition. Okay, he correct himself, the menace hasn’t been disposed of, yet.
Winter’s coming early this year, Bobby quips at the junkheap that walks like a man and ices up. Cyclops orders him to freeze it. Iceman complies but predicts he knows where this is going. He puts the bad guy / monster / robot / alien in the biggest glacier he can make, then Warren and he high-five while the ice is already cracking and then boom, he /it/ whatever busts out, looking all tough at his expense while all the rest of them think dag, Bob’s ice sucks.
However, the ice doesn’t crack. And they don’t call him “Bob” in their heads, Jean adds. It’s still Bobby.
Iceman and Angel high-five. Looking good, Angel remarks while Hank forms a theory about Magneto and antimatter. Bobby begins that it’s just part of getting older. He’s really gotten the hang of his powers in the past few years… He taps his ice. It’s all about density. You can compact the ice more if you do it a lot of thin layers. Well, he means he can, not them.
As Hank suggests Magneto imprinted his electromagnetic force on timespace itself, Cyclops interrupts – it’s not over. The creature has rebuilt itself out of more junk.
Jean suddenly steps in front of the others, shouting she is going to take this walking pile down. The others cheer her on. She tries to make him fall, but nothing happens, except that it stops for a moment, then Hank smashes it with a giant electromagnetic crane.
Iceman admits he should have thought of driving that thing over sooner. But could he have hotwired the ignition? Beast asks. He guesses that’s why Hank has a job lined up already. The crane releases its magnetism and drops the remains of the scrap creature into a crevice, smashing apart.
The crisis averted, the Beast notes Jean’s odd demeanor and asks if she’s okay. Replying that she is, Jean also wonders what just happened with her. She feels drained by the battle.
That moment, Xavier telepathically contacts them. Why is there a large hole in the Danger Room wall and why are they at this quarry and who forgot to lock Cerebro’s hatch? They’ll explain it when they are at home, Cyclops promises. Adding to this, Angel tattles that Bobby was the last one out!
Back in the den, in normal clothes, Xavier gets filled in. And they believe Juggernaut intervened during Frederick’s attack? Xavier asks. He didn’t think that was as weird as Magneto somehow turning up like a ghost, Warren remarks. Jean adds she was still out of it when the Juggernaut showed up, but something about the way the metal giant stood just felt like Magneto.
Plus it was rusty, Bobby adds, and he’s not sure he’s up to date on his tetanus shots. They continue that, after they dropped the metal down the pit, it didn’t form a body anymore. Perhaps it can only manifest for a certain time.
Changing subjects, the Professor is reminded that he never said where he’s been for the past week when they couldn’t get in touch. He was visiting an old colleague in Scotland, comparing research, Xavier replies evasively. Does his old colleague wear perfume perhaps? Jean teases. He shoots her a withering glare.
As he was saying, Xavier continues, they no doubt noticed some surprises in the latest Danger Room session. They were kind of wondering why he was trying to kill them, sure, Bobby admits.
Now watch, this is where the agitation begins, a new voice interjects to none in the conversation, You started talking about the future. The source of the voice is a costumed Cyclops, who stands unseen next to his past self sitting on the couch in civilian clothes. Likewise, the rest of the team, except for Jean, stands costumed and unseen “outside” of their past selves. Xavier also stands next to his past self, who is relegated to the wheelchair.
The past, wheelchair-bound Xavier tells his contemporary students that he designed those latest threat modules in the pattern of past foes partially to remind them of how far they’ve come… and to push them beyond tactical coordination and reflexive fighting. He should have been doing more of that to prepare them, but those modules require much time to devise and they’ve had to compete their course work as well. He hardly needs to remind them that they are mere days away from their official graduation… they haven’t really discussed what lies beyond that.
It has weighed on their minds, past-Hank admits. Xavier muses he had hoped to take some time off this summer to better plan the next stage of the school. They’ve met some mutants with potential as future X-Men and, with recent improvements in Cerebro, he has become aware of others around the world he wishes to approach.
He has concluded that continuing Gifted Youngsters as an accredited school will be too tasking for the years to come. He’d close the school? Warren asks.
Does he really sound like that? outside-Angel asks disgusted.
Only as it relates to college matriculation, Xavier clarifies. The focus would be largely on honing skills for combat and rescue – for future X-Men to be  the best trained agent of change… Super heroes, Bobby bursts out. Fine, super heroes, Xavier amends.
Aw man, he wishes it had been that way when they started, both “inside” and “outside” Bobby say. Oh sorry to repeat, outside-Bobby the remarks.
He wishes he could give all mutants the education they had, but it’s a changing world, Xavier continues. Cerebro predicts larger waves of mutants manifesting in the next few years – just what the public fears. He had hoped the world at large would embrace them, but events have not gone that way.
As X-Men, Jean stresses. Meaning? Xavier asks. Ever since the Maximoffs left Magneto and were accepted into the Avengers, the public loves them, she explains. Because Captain America, Bobby points out.
She means, does it matter what they are called? Shouldn’t they try to do whatever works to show people that mutants can be a force for good? Xavier admits that this is a topic he and his colleague discussed much this past week. Long into the night, Bobby adds, jokingly.
Chiding Bobby, Xavier then admits he agrees with Jean’s opinion. If they have to spread themselves around to gain the world’s trust, then that is what they do. Obviously it’s their … They may not want to continue with this lifestyle at all.
Oh, they are still fighting evil, at least he is, Angel assures him.
Outside Angel groans. He thought he sounded cool!
Hank agrees as do the others. Xavier continues it would help him if one or two were to stay on here to help him with new members. Dude! Warren whispers at Scott.
Suddenly, there is a rumbling noise outside. Xavier, however, detects nothing. Outside Cyclops asks if this could affect them. It could, outside Xavier tells them and orders them to move back.
The Juggernaut returns, covered in flames and smashing through the wall.
The outside X-Men remark this part will end in seconds. Did they see enough? outside Cyclops asks. They have to go deeper, outside Xavier remarks.
Cyclops fires an optic blast at Juggernaut who disappears. As Bobby puts the fire out. They notice Jean was knocked out and hit her head. Xavier orders Angel to bring the portable med-unit.
Later in the medlab, Hank announces she only has a concussion. Not really lucky for Jean, Warren remarks. That’s twice she’s been knocked for a loop in thirty-six hours. Bobby notes this is weird and since when does Juggernaut keep doing drive-bys?
That was not Cain Marko, Xavier informs them. He knows when he is around and that thing was not him. It seemed alive, but not.
Warren notices Scott is pensive. What does he know? he asks. Uh Third, Scott does not have the answers, Bobby informs him. He’s sitting on something, Warren insists. What’s bugging him? Scott finally admits he thinks he knows what’s attacking them. It’s not Juggernaut or Magneto… it’s Jean!
2nd story:
Scott, look out! Jean cries and Scott Summers hits the brakes. In front of them on the lonely street stands the Man-Thing. As they get out of the car, Scott notes that they saw him in the Florida Everglades. What’s he doing here?
Suddenly, Jean sees two shadows disappearing in the night. He left some people behind. That’s how he got here, Scott surmises, looking at a swirling opening in space. He came through one of the portals they went through. Remember how the professor said the swamp was some space / time gateway?
Let’s go have a look, Jean suggests. Is she sure? Scott hesitates. They didn’t see a lot of good things last time. The Man-Thing looks around and doesn’t seem too happy. Jean assures him they just want another peek at things, the future maybe.
Scott warns her that his touch burns. At fear, she corrects him and high-fives the Man-Thing. No burning (at which she feels somewhat relieved). He guesses she passed the swamp monster test, Scott remarks as the Man-Thing points inside the opening of the swirling portal. He wonders what he wants to show them.
They come closer and see themselves with a new team of X-Men. Is this the X-Men of the future? Scott wonders, recognizing only Banshee, while Jean marvels at her Phoenix-self. She can fly! And there’s another girl on the team! She states excited.
Who’s that short guy, Scott remarks, immediately taking a dislike to Wolverine. Jean remarks she’s not too far off from that now. She can hover pretty well. He can see his uniform hasn’t changed much, Scott observes. He kind of likes hers. Though there’s no chance for an accidental skirt-flash with that one. Jean playfully elbows him.
The Man-Thing points them to another vision, so they don’t see the X-Men vision changing to one where Dark Phoenix attacks Cyclops.
Scott wonders what becomes of the rest of the team. He hopes they are not replaced because… they…
What they get to see instead, though, is that Angel and Iceman are part of another superhero team, the Champions. Scott is relieved, but he doesn’t see Hank. Maybe he’s just retiring from heroing. Jean hopes so, but what if…?
The Man Thing thinks for a moment then has an idea. He shows them a vision of he Avengers, led by Captain America. Cap is giving an interview, talking about the new additions to the team like Ms Marvel, Falcon and the Beast.
The two are pleased that their friend is okay (not realizing that the blue furry creature at the far behind of the Avengers group is Beast) and that the rest of them are spreading the wealth around like Wanda did. And it works.
Show’s over, Scott guesses as the portal collapses. What a great gift though, Jean remarks. Knowing they’ll all go on to do what they love. And be with the ones they love…
Gulp, well, yeah Scott admits. He means, yes! The Man-Thing lets them out on a bluff way above their car. Jean gives him a kiss and thanks him for letting them see all that. It waves at them and leaves, apparently wanting them to keep watching. They get comfortable and watch a last vision of their old team.


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The Mind of Jean Grey
The X-Men stare at Jean Grey, slumbering on the couch. What does Scott mean that Juggernaut was Jean? they ask confused. Did he take a shot to the head, too?
He should have realized it sooner, Scott Summers explains. When they fought the Magneto-shaped junkpile, it felt familiar. Then, when “Juggernaut” smashed through, he realized what it was. It felt the same as when… well, lately Jean has pulled them into her dreams. Not on purpose. What? Xavier asks agitated. Jean has been ambient dreaming and they didn’t think to tell him? Ambient what? Warren asks. It seemed a natural progression of her powers which has been asserting itself lately, Hank points out.
Except, Jean is potentially the most powerful psychic in the world, Xavier argues. He thought that was Xavier? Scott replies. He’s nothing compared to what Jean may become. If she doesn’t kill herself first.
Guess he’d better get in there and see what’s what, Warren suggests. Indeed, Xavier agrees, but then decides differently. They should all do this. He’s not always going to be  around for things like this… and it sounds like they’ve all navigated her mind as much as he. Who knows when they will all be together again? Let’s handle this as a team.
They agree. Bobby whispers something into Xavier’s ears and he agrees that would be appropriate. A moment later, they stand in a wide area with floating islands. They are all wearing their X 2.0-uniforms. He has a feeling his mind isn’t this big, Bobby announces.
Scott is surprised Bobby thought of the uniforms, considering that Scott is the one who misses them. He takes off his visor. He guesses he won’t need this here. They can do whatever they want, Bobby points out.
Xavier, who is able to walk in their shared memory, warns them not to think of this place as real. This isn’t like the other times they’ve looked inside someone’s mind. In Jean’s mind, thoughts are as substantial as anything in the physical word.
They visit her last memory, of the group talk before the Juggernaut force hit. Now this is trippy, Angel remarks.
After the conversation, the X-Men walk through Jean’s mindscape. What do they make of the situation so far? Xavier asks them. Hank replies that Jean’s subconscious clearly summoned a strong defense to deal with Frederick when she couldn’t. Why Juggernaut? Angel wonders. He’s unstoppable, Cyclops points out. She went for results. Bobby points out that when Juggernaut showed up again earlier they weren’t in trouble. And that junkpile Magneto was actively attacking them, Angel muses, if she caused that too, of course. He thinks so, Scott replies. When Hank took the metal a bigger distance away from her, it couldn’t rebuild itself anymore.
Bobby still wonders why Jean would let herself get hit when she’s doing it. Cyclops suddenly shouts a warning at Angel, for something green in the air is jumping towards him – the Hulk! Thanks to Scott’s warning, he manages to dodge him. The Hulk lands, tearing a crater into the ground. Hulk will smash army kids, he threatens.
Cyclops fires an optic blast at the Hulk that goes right through him. Jean, stop thinking about the Hulk! Angel shouts.
The Hulk lifts a boulder, threatening to smash them. Now it’s her turn, Jean suddenly announces, appearing out of nowhere. She telekinetically lifts him and pinwheels the Hulk.
He doesn’t remember her doing that, Angel remarks. Xavier explains that it’s human nature to embellish their memories, for better or worse. This is something Jean should strive to correct. As a mentally enhanced mutant, it’s important that her mind be disciplined, objective. Telekinetically, Jean propels the Hulk away.
Dr. Strange shows up, ordering them to stay behind. He must go and restore their friends or they could be lost forever!
The scenery shifts to the landscape where… as Bobby recalls, Warren and Hank got turned into weasels. He was a bird, Warren corrects him.
Scott asks Xavier why these memories are mixed up together. He can’t answer these things for them, Xavier replies. It’s the new unhelpful professor, Bobby exclaims.
That moment, Cyttorak emerges from the ground. Who? Bobby mutters, after Cyclops shouts his name. Aw man, he’s tired of explaining who Cyttorak is to him, Angel laments.
Jean rises up, telekinetically battling Cyttorak while Angel does his spiel: Cyttorak is this demon thingie – Juggernaut got his power switched on by it but now the Jugg is trapped in his dimension. Yeah, he’s never going to remember that, Bobby admits.
Having beaten Cyttorak, Jean is on the way to another emergency. Hank recalls that they went back to Dr. Strange’s house after that and had that tea that made Warren break out into a rash. It was good though, except for the rash, Warren admits.
Warren flies after Jean and Iceman slides. Cyclops observes to Xavier and Beast that they have the same mobility issues here as in the real world. Do they? Charles asks. No, Beast realizes and flies up. Xavier follows, assuring Scott his limits are purely his own.
Okay he can do this, Cyclops tells himself and begins to rise with closed eyes to only a few inches above the ground. Hank tells him to rise up.
All of them are slowly getting there, along with their there changing again, this time to Monster Island, complete with monsters which Beast is having trouble dodging.
They find Jean again, locked in psychic battle with Mastermind who tricked them onto the island. Okay, Bobby protests, now she is taking credit for the Professor’s fight. That isn’t right! He doesn’t think she means to, Xavier suggests.
With Mastermind beaten, Jean flies off again, shouting help is on the way. She is flying, something she always wanted to do, Scott observes. They follow her into the jungle.
In the jungle, they find Jean rescuing Beast and Angel from the Lizard. Beast recalls it didn’t happen this way. Jean wasn’t even with them.
Jean slams the Lizard against a tree, warning him not to hurt her friends again. Bobby tries to reach her, telling her they are all okay.
She ignores him and levitates the hippos out of the way. Bobby shouts that the hippo attack happened in Africa, the Lizard in Florida! But she doesn’t respond. Xavier decides to intervene.
Jean tells Bobby to get out of the water and she will put the hippos back. Xavier telepathically tries to reach her, but she ignores them all. Warren wonders how she can tune them out. They are already in her mind, after all. She can’t seem to come awake in this dream state, Xavier observes. He’s had dreams like this, Hank muses where events and memories keep looping… racing to the next scene. Usually, he wakes up tired as if he never slept…
Good analysis, Xavier commends him. That’s exactly what is happening. But he would wake up after a few hours. Jean has the mental energy to go through this for far too long. Perhaps longer than her body can stand.
Scott looks at her, worried. He walks towards her and kisses her. Jean begins to react and utters his name, before hugging him. The power of luuv, Warren remarks wit a thumbs up.
Confused, Jean asks where the river is. Scott explains that they are all in her mind. He wants her to wake up. Xavier adds they are concerned about her safety. Scott adds she’s been fighting threats. At first it seems she did it to help them, but now they are hurting. Mostly they are hurting her.
They think she is causing…? Jean begins to ask. A car drives by in the background unnoticed.
That moment, Juggernaut races towards them and she shouts a warning. She tells Scott they have to move. He’s unstoppable! It isn’t Juggernaut, it’s her, Scott insists. She can make him stop. No! she cries panicked. He’s not alone. There’s so many more!
And suddenly, in front of them are all the threats they faced, Magneto, the Brotherhood, Sentinels, the Hulk, Frederick, all the villains and monsters they have fought. Bobby asks Jean to make it stop. She can’t. They keep coming. Xavier tells her she can and must. This can affect them here. To her, this is very real, so it will be real.
He knows she can do it, Scott tells her. This is what she’s been trying to do. She’s been hunting down everything that can hurt them in her memories. It’s fear and she has to face it.
Jean agrees. She does. She can. She closes her eyes, walking towards the villains who do nothing and disappear. But that moment, the car again comes from behind driving towards Jean. It crashes against her. Of course, Xavier realizes.
Yeah, he remembers the time they all went up against that car, Bobby remarks sarcastically. Boy, that was some adventure! No, Jean corrects him. This is just her memory. A fear of hers, she guesses, she never let go… She kneels down opposite a younger version of herself. When she was ten, a friend of hers was killed. It made her powers manifest early. That’s when the professor found her. He helped her lock it away for a while until she was ready to deal with it.
Younger, Jean fades away as present Jean realizes that she sees a lot of things in the light of that day. Danger coming… unstoppable… wanting to hurt everyone she loves. She didn’t know it was eating her so much. She hopes facing it here will make it stop in the real world.
Xavier offers to work on this with her. But he would need her to stay on at school for a while. And he would also like anther graduate to remain as well for when they are ready to take on a new class. Both Jean and Scott agree happily. Then he supposes he should say, congratulations!
And so, a little later, the X-Men celebrate their graduation. So when are they going to do the real ceremonies with their family? Jean asks. Next month, Scott replies. They had to schedule around Warren’s parents. As far as he is concerned, this is the real ceremony, Hank insists. They toast to the fact that they will always be X-Men, making Xavier very happy.
One hour later, Xavier calls them. Cerebro has discovered what may be the most powerful mutant on the planet. He’s sorry to bring this up on this day, but… The team however is enthusiastic and so they head out to the Pacific Ocean, to an island called… Krakoa.
All right, they are going to the beach! Bobby shouts.


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Eversong – part 1
An icy mountainside in Norway, nighttime:Nick, who is about to get married to Samira, spends the days before mountain climbing in Norway, but now it is nighttime and, barely dressed, he follows a voice up the mountain, ignoring the frostbite, certain that he has to find the important missing thing…Not far away Scott Summers and Jean Grey are on a vacation. They stand in their hotel room, looking outside and holding champagne glasses. Jean orders him to stop brooding. They’ll come when they come. Scott replies that the guy in Tromso said they’d see the Northern Lights this night for sure. Jean tells him he was hitting on Scott. He’d have promised him a Rainbow Bridge to see him smile!Pretending not to be disappointed, Scott states he has already seen it. Jean suggests they don’t have to stay here. With the Phoenix power, she can get them to Bali in eight minutes.Scott declines. He has had his fill of paradise islands for a while. In an adventurous mood, Jean suggests they think of something else: visit the wreck of the Titanic or the magma chamber of a volcano!Scott asks her to just stick to the plan. Annoyed, she tells him that this isn’t their last night together, he knows that, right? He agrees after some hesitation. She assures him she won’t be in space forever. Just until she and the Phoenix figure some stuff out. She kisses him and tells him to get out of his head and be with her.In the meantime, Nick climbs past a frozen waterfall. He is without any of the expensive equipment he has brought. The voice in his head tells him he doesn’t need it. At these temperatures, ice is adhesive, so he climbs upward tearing his skin and leaving behind prints of blood. He finally falls down when he has reached a plateau where there are already several frozen bodies.Inside the hotel, Jean and Scott are snuggling. She suggests they head down to the bar. He reminds her they have champagne in the room and doesn’t notice her annoyance. He believes he sees signs of the aurora. Annoyed, she tells him there is nothing there but, if it matters so much to him…She sues the Phoenix Force to pull a little solar plasma into Earth’s magnetic field. He shouts at her to stop, then adds, “it has to be real.”The Phoenix power flares up and she changes into her costume, as she angrily shouts “enough!” He asked her not to look into his mind and she agreed, but he has been trying to control everything since they got here and she deserves to know why!He stares, then announces that they are out of ice. He will get some. He leaves the room. While he grabs the ice, he hears a voice sending him outside. Something is missing. Scott forgets about Jean. Barefoot, he walks outside into the snow, as do many others to find the important missing thing…


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Eversong – part 2
There is a room in our mind and, in that room, there are bugs. Big, black ones that tell you all the things you already know but can’t bear to hear. Everybody has a room like this, but Scott Summers’ is special. The man who was once closer to him than his father taught him to make the bugs go away, so he could use the room for other things. He mostly uses it to hide secrets but, sometimes, to keep his mind safe from prying minds, he hides his whole self there.Right now, he finds himself locked inside, helplessly calling for Jean, while out in the cold his body is another’s to command. It climbs up the mountain, as do many others, all looking for some important missing thing.Inside the hotel, a frustrated Jean Grey sits at the bar. The barkeeper offers her a white wine. Is this a white wine face? she asks annoyed, causing the barkeeper to offer her some akvavit instead. Another guest wonders why the place is so dead tonight.While Jean downs her shot, a young man asks the barkeeper if she has seen his friend Nick, who is missing. He shows her a photo, but she last saw him with his friends.Jean tells the barkeeper she is actually looking for a guy too. Brown hair, red glasses, morbid case of eldest-child-syndrome. Now the akvavit makes sense, the barkeeper jokes but adds she hasn’t seen him. It’s unusually quiet this night. As she pours Jean another drink, she figures he will be in the sauna. Next time she sees him, he will be lobster-red and five pounds lighter. Jean replies that she can find him if she really needs to, but she wants to respect his privacy. The two women drink.In the meantime, Scott and many others are forced to walk up the mountain. He tries to reach Jean mentally, but he can’t, not while the voice that is driving him on has his mind in a vise.He tries something else: he deliberately doesn’t look where he is stepping and eventually stumbles, which causes him to drop his glasses and fire an optic blast at the sky, a blast that is seen from the hotel.Jean switches into her Phoenix outfit and follows the blast. She telepathically orders Scott to close his eyes. When he can’t, she telekinetically blocks the blast, then notices there is someone in his mind. Looking at the avalanche he caused, she sighs that they could have gone to Bali.From behind her, a corpse-like being glowing with green energy asks Phoenix for help to find her…


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Eversong – part 3
The Lyngen Alps, Norway:A green glowing corpse calls Phoenix a witch and boasts she will not keep him from her. Glowing with fire herself, she orders him to stop. She doesn’t want to hurt him. Angrily, she orders, enough. When he doesn’t comply, she notes she is trying to save them from an avalanche here!She flies upwards and vaporizes the avalanche, then turns back to the green glowing being. He is no ghost, she decides, but a psychic residue. An accretion of old pain reactivates by a powerful catalyst like… Like the Phoenix, she realizes.The being kneels and asks for forgiveness. She isn’t a witch, she is a goddess! She calls him a little echo and hushes him. She wants to see what is driving him on.Memories:She sees his memories: his wife Solveig, who was a mountaineer long before she met him. She wanted to lead an eighty-kilometer traverse of the Lyngen Alps but he, Axel, forbade it. So, she went away in the dead of night, burdened with unearned shame. And Axel followed, intent on disciplining Solveig for her small act of rebellion, but he got turned around in a blizzard, got lost, fell and died alone.Present:He knew Solveig would lose her way! Axel claims. He came for love! Is that what they used to call it in those days? Jean asks disgusted. He rants, it is no business of hers. Accusingly, she orders him to let his prisoners go. They are dying! He refuses. He cannot search for Solveig alone - he needs them! She sighs that she just wanted to give him a chance, before he hears the truth. She stops him in his tracks, telekinetically.She reveals that Solveig made it. She died peacefully, surrounded by her grandchildren 13 years ago. Axel accuses her of lying. She obliterates him with her powers, then shakes Scott trying to reach him.She mentally tears off the door to his Black Bug Room and tells him she will always find him. They hug and he asks what was that thing. An echo activated by her psychic aura, she explains. She has her own gravitas now. Everywhere she goes, she changes things.She looks around. So, this is where he keeps all his secrets and stuff, she muses. Better than giant bugs. He tells her that she needs to see something, then shows her a photo: an image of the two of them sitting in front of her parents’ home, both of them old.They enter the image. He tells her, when she came back, he thought if they could just get rid of the damn bird, everything would work out. Somehow, they would find a way to have grandchildren and yard sales and trips to the farmers’ market. They would be happy! That’s not going to happen though, is it? Carefully, Jean replies. There is no her without the bird. There is no bird without her. He knows.As she changes to her youthful Phoenix-self, he explains he will love her till he is dust. But, when that day comes, she will still be this. Ageless, eternal, aflame. One day, she will forget his name. Then Rachel’s, then Nathan’s, then Hope’s. It’s not her fault. She’s just part of something bigger than all of them.She realizes that’s why he brought her to this hotel. Why he’s been so jittery the whole time. He’s been trying to make one last indelible memory, before she left for space.They are back in their hotel room and she is patching him up. He explains that they haven’t made many good ones lately. She asks if that is really the thread that binds them - good memories. He can’t help thinking, if they were better, she would stay.She explains it is all precious: the blood, the loss, the anguish… the bird chose her, but Jean and Scott passed through the fire together. Even the bad memories turn to gold. As they kiss, she tells him to remember, she is always only a thought away…