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What Charlie Did – part 2
Sally Floyd is in the office of her boss, Ben Urich, trying to convince him of her theory. She tells him to look at the names on the Agnew’s crew list. Urich sighs that she is reaching. So Xavier had a thing for Arthurian romances. Some of the Agnew crew had similar names to some of those authors. It’s weird, sure, but he is not seeing the Watergate Tapes.She begs him to look again. Every one of the bridge crew has one of those fancy “ren faire” names. And the names aren’t similar; they are exactly the same!Urich orders her to stop. That wasn’t the assignment. Saly snaps back, you don’t hire someone like her for a hack job. He does if she is a drunk! he shouts and slams his fist on the desk. He adds that Worthington called him this morning, revealing she came to their meeting an hour late, reeking of mouthwash and quote: “sweating like a senator who’s just seen the polaroids.” He’s worried about her; they are all. Sure, Sally mutters. He knows she wants to forget Hydra, Minnie’s death, all of it. As he continues talking, she begins to sob. He warns if she is not careful, she will forget herself.Leaving the building, Sally now knows Ben gave her the job out of pity. Word gets around fast. She is unhireable. She is not mad. Ben is a good friend and boss, but he has forgotten who she really works for.She gets a message by an anonymous source, telling her she was right about the Agnew, and to meet them by the 69th street transfer bridge at 2 pm.She works for the truth!Finally, at the meeting point, she is expected by a shorthaired blonde with glasses, who remarks skeptically that Sally looks different than her picture. Sally sighs, she gave her stylist a day off and demands who she is. Captain Alice Bakker, the woman reveals. She is a medic for air force space command in DC, then announces she and Sally have been emailing for two weeks.More blackouts, Sally realizes horrified, as if half her life were lived by another person.Trying to save face, Sally pretends to know what the woman is talking about and asks her to tell her what she has.Alice repeats what she has told Sally before: her team was responsible for assessing the Agnew’s crew’s fitness to fly. But, when she tried to pull the physical and psychic assessments for Sally… poof… all gone - erased. Amateurishly, she might add. When Alice recovered the data, she assumed it had been corrupted, because the assessments weren’t as she remembered them. Not even close. Not even… human. She’s seen more gray matter in chihuahuas! But if the brains were impossible, the bloods were unthinkable. Identical mitochondrial DNA in every sample! As if every crew member was related down the matrilineal line. She kept asking herself: how could they have forgotten all this? Then she found out who erased the files.She did it herself, Sally guesses. Something’s wrong here, Alice pleads. She can’t eat. She can’t sleep. She begs Sally to find out what happened.Staten Island:One ferry trip and a taxi ride later, Sally is outside the home of Agnew’s security officer, Gail Dryden. She looks at the derelict house but sees no sign of life.She is about to ring the doorbell, when from nearby a woman addresses her and shouts that a real astronaut used to live there. Sally asks if she knew Gail Dryden. She’d like to ask her a few questions. The woman repeats what she said before. She starts to grin creepily and her nose begins to bleed.A moment later, two feral dogs appear and seem to attack Sally out of nowhere. But Sally has had enough psychic training to realize those dogs aren’t real, though her body can’t help reacting with terror. She turns away and the dogs are gone.Later at home, Sally calls Alice Bakker to tell her that the address she gave her was a derelict home. The other woman is surprised and asks who she is. Sally reminds her and gets told off before the other woman ends the call.While drinking, Sally tries to figure this out. She can explain her own memory gaps, but those of other people? She notices something on the ground and looks under her couch, finding several bloody tissues. She recalls Urich had a whole wastepaper basket of those. Warren had a nosebleed, as did the creepy neighbor.That moment, Charles Xavier stands behind her and suggests it is about time they had a talk.


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What Charlie Did – part 3
Sally Floyd’s apartment:Sally offers coffee to the man sitting opposite her. He’d love to, Charles Xavier demurs, but alas… He’s not really here, she realizes.Not physically, he amends. He is currently being held in a maximum security holding facility for dangerous mutants. A lifetime ago, it was a school… his school. He anticipated his captivity and took steps; he could still influence events on the outside. That’s why they kept having to move him. He describes one of his jailers, Scurvy – an emaciated bald man – apparently also a mutant who is quite a formidable telepath and excels at outmaneuvering him. In consequence, it has become more difficult to project his consciousness outside his cell.Sally asks about the nosebleeds. Unavoidable, he is afraid. As his influence in the outside world wanes, he finds he is having to nudge them all more forcefully.“Nudge,” Sally repeats, clearly disgusted. He tells her to look outside. Those people sleep soundly because they know the butcher of Krakoa is rotting in a dungeon. As long as that fiction holds, his people, his children, stand a chance. She must understand, that island was their last chance in so many ways. When it fell, he admits, that he entertained dark thoughts, shameful thoughts.But they weren’t all his, he describes, referring to his partial possession by Mr. Sinister. That ghost tried to manipulate him. Instead, Xavier gained access to a mind even more ruthless and calculating than his own. So, when those fools tried to put Cyclops on trial for the crimes of their species, he knew what had to be done. Human herd behavior is astoundingly predictable. The punishment for the unforgivable sin of Krakoa would either have to be borne by all or by one…Sally realizes he made himself a supervillain to save Scott. Xavier replies that Scott Summers is his son in every way that counts. But there’s more…Xavier’s narration:After he learned of Sentinel City’s true purpose, the Agnew mission and its destruction were both his idea. Like every con artist worth their salt, he approached Orchis with the problem and its solution.He had only hours to execute the plan, using only the tools at hand, which were meager and unsuited for the task. But, as chance would have it, when mercenaries tried to take Krakoa… Mr. Sinister objected vehemently, using Xavier’s body to kill them.Grisly business, but their bodies left him with the genetic raw material he needed to use Sinister’s cloning vats to grow a crew for the Agnew from borrowed flesh. Living effigies, born only to burn…Present:Sally interrupts, disgusted at the violation of their bodies. He shoots back that he has written several textbooks on bio-ethics. He waded into this moral quagmire with his eyes open, and he would do so again, if it meant saving lives.Xavier’s Narration:Sinister’s red diamond transport bubble got them inside in the blink of an eye. From there, it was a matter of influencing the authorities to switch their crew for his. Now creating people is tricky, even under ideal circumstances, but it was enough to buy his way into Orchis’ confidence to get close to their leader Moira MacTaggert.He knew the world would hate and fear him for it. That is nothing new. But now his children would too, and that is where he faltered. He should have been unselfish. He should have let them hate him forever.Impatient, Sally interrupts, asking him to cut to the end. Who gets to live, who is dying. He continues, in his vanity he left a clue. An indulgence only the members of his first class would recognize. The names of Arthurian authors. They alone would realize he wasn’t the butcher of Krakoa after all.Present:Except they didn’t – she did, Sally replies. She needs to ask him something and him to be straight with her. Four, he states to her confusion, then clarifies, they have had this conversation four times. He’s sorry he couldn’t let her remember. Not just her. Warren, Alice Bakker, Ben Urich. So, what happens now? she asks shocked. He is open to suggestions. If he keeps doing this, he will hurt her. Permanently.Sally bursts out that she has so many things she wants to forget and begs him to take all her memories. He replies that she doesn’t know what she asks of him. He can’t just erase her. Replace then, she suggests. A cover personality. Not impossible, he muses. Obscene, but not impossible. She’d like to be a Megan, Sally continues. A Megan who hates puzzles. With a smile, he retorts even his abilities have their limits. He warns her that this will all unravel again. She is simply too curious. He can’t change her nature. More to the point, he won’t. Sally knows, but it will buy them more time.Fairbank, Alaska:A young woman has just moved into a house and neighboring couple, Jason and Laurie, knock at her door to welcome her to the neighborhood and bring her a lasagna and some wine. Megan thanks them but declines the wine. She doesn’t touch the stuff.Laurie notes she doesn’t seem to have a lot of personal things. Just some games and jigsaws. With a smile, Megan replies that she likes puzzles.


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The Fact Channel:An interview with Lydia Nance, director of the Heritage Initiative.Nance, a well-groomed, middle-aged woman rhetorically asks why the world fears and hates mutants and then points out people’s different reactions to Inhumans, Asgardians and other enhanced individuals. What threat do mutants pose? She answers that it’s the X-genome. Mutants are the only phylum that spontaneously enhances. The X-genome is a ticking evolutionary time bomb.
Her interview partner asks her if she isn’t splitting hairs to justify racial prejudice. With a smile, she clarifies that racism is based on aesthetic differences. What she is talking about is a condition that creates human weapons of mass destruction. He can call this bigoted but she can weather such accusations. Her organization is willing to protect the world – whatever the cost.
Elsewhere, in the streets of Manhattan, new X-Men leader Kitty Pryde orders her team (consisting of Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Old Man Logan and Rachel Grey (now called Prestige)): “To me, my X-Men!” Always wanted to say that, hasn’t she? Old Man Logan chuckles. Like he has no idea, she replies.
Their foe is Terrax, causing Rachel to ask if “Terry” isn’t dead. So was he, Colossus points out. And him, Nightcrawler pipes up. He hears there’s a version of him that still is, Logan mutters.
Kitty decides they need to put the ball in the air, as Terrax’s powers are ground-related. She orders Storm and Prestige to take Terrax for a little ride and the rest to keep a building from falling on them
Storm raises Terrax in a whirlwind. Rachel takes over holding him, while Storm hits him with a lightning bolt.
Kitty asks Colossus to hold the base of a building and Kurt to teleport her and Logan onto the roof. She orders Logan to jump upward and help Storm and Prestige, while she will phase the whole building, so it doesn’t destroy the whole block when it falls.
Logan attacks Terrax. While Kitty concentrates, she asks Kurt teleport away any stragglers. He is skeptical about her phasing an entire skyscraper.
Prestige takes out Terrax with the ground he has moved upward.
Colossus groans he cannot hold the building any longer. Kitty replies she’s got this and she phases the skyscraper as it falls through the other buildings.
The battle over, the other X-Men gather, still marveling that Kitty phased a skyscraper and rode it down. Storm asks where Kitty is and Logan warns them their adoring public is coming. The people are silent. Rachel remarks if the Avenger or Champions were here, they’d be cheering.
Kitty phases out of the rubble, sighing she could really use a beer. Does she have any idea how old her saying this makes him feel? Logan asks. Yes, she deadpans and turns to the people. She introduces herself as the X-Men’s leader (still without a codename after all these years) and asks if everyone’s okay.
She’s okay, a little girl pipes up. Her mother admonishes her not to talk to “it.” It? Kitty repeats. Really? Sorry, the woman snaps. “Mutant,” “Homo Superior,” “Enhanced individual”… whatever the politically correct term for people like her is these days. She thinks the word she is looking for is person, Kitty retorts. Human being even, if she is feeling charitable. But she sees that they are not. And surprisingly… she understands. She knows, it’s a long way back. They’ve never exactly trusted mutants and she knows things are different after their war with the Inhumans. And she knows to the extent that people have ever trusted them, they have a long way to go to rebuild that trust. But they are starting today.
Later, at the Xavier Institute for Mutant Education and Outreach. Kitty and Logan are sitting on the bleachers, watching a baseball game. Helluva speech, he concedes. Very Xavier. Thanks, she replies. Logan points out that wasn’t necessarily a compliment. Kitty observes he hasn’t changed. He replies, he’s gotten grumpier.
Colossus hits the ball and Nightcrawler teleports to catch it. What happened to not using powers? Piotr mutters. What happened to many things? Ororo points out, she often has to ask. “Chem Bol’she vse Menyatseya,” Piotr begins.“… the more they stay the same,” she continues. They continue their game.
Logan muses he always thought these games were a waste of time. But he was wrong. “Is that you, Mystique?” Kitty deadpans. “‘Cause there’s no way…” Cute, he snorts, but he’s serious. Softball’s normal and normal’s always been in short supply for this outfit. It’s like gold. Is he getting sentimental in his old age? Kitty grins. Tell anybody and he’ll gut her, he warns.
That moment, they are interrupted by a gentleman in a suit, Alex Sandstrom. He is with the mayor’s office. The city’s register, specifically. He hands her some paperwork. Kitty protests she had to sign a phonebook’s worth when the mayor agreed to let them relocate here. Didn’t give him much of a choice, Logan mutters.
The papers are an invoice for the first six months lease payments, as well as property taxes for the parcel they are occupying. This is for eighteen million dollars, Kitty points out. This is Central Park, he smiles. Arguably the most valuable residential real estate in the entire world. Kitty just stares at the number. Want him to claw him? Logan asks.
Later in the evening, Nightcrawler and Storm are watching a TV interview with Lydia Nance, who explains mutants are the only phylum that spontaneously enhances. That X-genome is a ticking evolutionary timebomb.
The more things change, the more they stay the same, Kurt sighs. Ororo remarks, Peter said the same thing to her this afternoon. But there’s another epigram she’s recalling, one favored by Magneto: “The past is prologue.” He’d appreciate her not quoting Magneto, he replies and points out it’s actually by Shakespeare, but what does she mean by it? That perhaps they are returning to their roots, their history. Perhaps after all the trials and tragedies they are returning to what they were. Outcasts? he asks. Heroes, she replies. That actually sounded hopeful, Kurt teases. Has she really been that bad? Kitty told him Storm wanted to leave the team, he replies. She led the X-Men into a losing war, she states. The X-Men didn’t lose, he reminds her.
On TV, Nance continues that they still don’t know the long term consequences of the mutant community’s aggression against the Inhumans.
Didn’t they? Storms ask.
Rachel is in a Danger Room sequence with students Rockslide and Armor. While the kids are struggling, Rachel easily dispatches their foes with her telekinesis. Impressed, the kids nevertheless accuse her of showing off. When Hisako calls her Ms. Grey, Rachel asks her to call her Rachel or Prestige. They ask about her new codename. Kitty’s idea, Rachel explains. She thought Marvel Girl and Phoenix were too rooted in the past. She wants her to look forward. Hisako agrees that Kitty seems to want that for all of them. Rockslide remarks he’s glad she is in charge.
Kitty, in the meantime, is sitting in her office, large stacks of paper in front of her. She wonders if it’s not too late to return to the Guardians of the Galaxy or return to being trapped in a bullet traveling through space. That was fun. She’d even settle for being an immortal demon ninja’s psychic puppet right about now. This used to be Professor Xavier’s desk. She thinks about him almost every day. She survived the experience, she smiles, then curses herself for jinxing it as Colossus enters, asking if she has a minute.
She tries to stay causal, asking what’s up. Peter replies he’s ordered some dinner, pizza Chicago style. Her favorite, Kitty admits. He asks, if she’d care to join him. No, Kitty replies decisively. As a friend, no problem. But he doesn’t mean as a friend, does he? Is it ever this simple with them? he asks. No, she agrees, but she has moved on. She’s sorry.
Silently, she prays, if there is any kind of God, someone will attack the city right now. Rachel bursts in, shouting someone is attacking the city. Kitty feels like the worst person ever.
As they are getting changed into uniform, Rachel asks what she interrupted between Kitty and Peter. Kitty doesn’t really want to talk about it. Rachel reminds her she’s telepathic. Kitty reminds her in turn she could phase her pinky into Rachel’s eye socket and solidify.
They join the others and Storm explains someone is attacking the United Nations building. A five person unit according to SHIELD intel. The X-Jet takes off. When they are above the damaged building, Kitty orders Storm and Rachel to fly into the center of the building. Take Colossus along and see if he stabilize it. Kurt is to teleport her and Logan down, so they can assess the situation. What’s to assess? Logan asks. Someone tore a hole into the building. Kitty explains she wants to meet this team.
Kurt complies and immediately her wish is granted, as they face a team consisting of Pyro and Avalanche-lookalikes, Magma, Masque and a reptile-like being who announce they are the new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants!


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Sans Point, New York:The middle of the night.Lydia Nance answers her phone and is told to turn on her TV. She catches the breaking news of the United Nations being under attack and a group calling themselves the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants claiming responsibility. Lydia Nance begins to smile.
At the UN building in New York:Kitty Pryde, Nightcrawler and Old Man Logan are facing the new Brotherhood (made up of Masque, Pyro and Avalanche lookalikes, a reptile-like monstrous stranger and former New Mutant Magma).
Seriously? Kitty asks, regarding the name. They don’t think that’s a bit on the nose? Humans act like mutants are evil already. Why should they not act the part? Magma asks. What the flaming ‘&%$ is she doing here? Kitty demands. Flaming… funny she should put it that way, Magma replies and fires a lava blast at Logan.
Kitty orders Nightcrawler to teleport the injured Logan away, leaving her alone with the Brotherhood. She informs the other half of the team, who are looking for survivors, of the situation. She needs a T.F.S. stat. What’s a TFS? Masque asks. Telekinetic fastball special, Colossus replies as he comes flying and hits him.
Kitty faces the new member, while Magma and Pyro try to get at Colossus. Rachel tries to read their minds from the distance but finds their shields are too good. They must be working with some sort of telepath.
Nightcrawler and Old Man Logan accidentally learn the answer to that question as the rooftop Nightcrawler to which he teleports them is already occupied. Can he help them? Mutant hypnotist Mesmero asks sarcastically. Kurt shouts out his name. Nice to be remembered. Now “bamf” away, will he? Mesmero orders. Under his control, Kurt obeys. Mesmero steps closer to the still smoldering Logan and asks how he is this fine evening.
Down below, the others are still fighting the Brotherhood. Avalanche destabilizes them with an earthquake. Kitty orders Storm to buy them some time. There is a flash of lightning and the Brotherhood are gone, but Storm didn’t do it. Apparently they teleported away. Colossus points out that doesn’t make sense, as the Brotherhood were winning. The reason becomes clearer when they look up to see several SHIELD helicopters above them.
Later aboard the Heli-carrier, Captain America, current head of SHIELD, congratulates Kitty on her new role. Kitty isn’t so enthusiastic now. She has two men missing. That’s not her only problem, Cap points out. He shows her an interview with Lydia Nance, who is currently decrying the mutant attack on the United Nations. Has Kitty heard of her? Cap asks. She’s head of the Heritage Initiative. They call themselves a think tank but, if she were to ask him… They are a bunch of anti-mutant racists, she finishes his sentence. He points out that Nance is making a lot of hay of tonight’s attack.
He shows her pictures of the new Avalanche and Pyro. She replies the originals are dead and they have different voices, so they are new. Masque is a former Morlock and permanent dipwad. She has no idea who the reptilian one is. He asks about Magma, who according to his sources used to be an X-Man. Kitty has no idea how she ended up with the Brotherhood.
Prestige enters, announcing they found Kurt - wounded and exhausted, lying in the garbage of Lowtown Madripoor. No sign of Logan though.
Old Man Logan finds himself tied to a chair in a dark room. He knows he is there, he addresses someone in the dark. He smells a million miles away. Mesmero steps in front of him. Isn’t he supposed to be dead or depowered? Logan asks before deciding he doesn’t care. He thinks he’s going to, Mesmero retorts. He’s going to discover those chains he’s been trying to break are made of Adamantium.
It’s been a long night, Logan snarls, so how about they are going to get to the part where Mesmero tries to mess with his mind. He will only get one shot, then Logan will take his.
Elsewhere, a mutant runs in panic, then stops when there is an abyss in front of him. Can’t fly, mutie? the armored and masked, armed man behind him asks before he shoots him. Too bad.
The X-Men have flown to Madripoor to fetch Nightcrawler. He explains that Mesmero made him teleport again and again until he collapsed out from exhaustion.
Kitty figures Mesmero’s involvement explains Amara being part of this. They hope, Storm stresses and reminds Kitty people have a way of being corrupted and changing sides.
That moment, Rachel telepathically contacts Kitty. They have a new problem.
Soon, Kitty joins Rachel in front of Gracie Mansion, New York City, home of the mayor. The Brotherhood’s attack took less than three minutes. They killed three security personnel and a former NYPD detective and kidnapped the mayor. Two attacks in 24 hours, Kitty muses. Those guys move uncomfortably fast.
They are joined by Detective Elizabeth Kim, who informs them they shouldn’t be here. She cuts Kitty off when she tries to introduce them. Rachel points out they want to help. Like they did at the UN? Detective Kim scoffs. Kitty asks her not to make this a race thing. She isn’t the one doing that, Kim replies, then realizes they haven’t watched it. She shows them a video of the Brotherhood declaring they have captured the mayor as a prisoner of the war Homo sapiens and superior have waged for decades. They will execute him in 24 hours unless…
The footage is interrupted by Lydia Nance explaining this is a tragic example of what she’s been talking about. They need to start thinking about taking steps. Mutant deportation.
At the Xavier Institute, several students are watching the interview. There are twenty times as many mutants, Inhumans and other enhanced beings in the US than anywhere else, Nance continues. That is a disproportionate burden their country shouldn’t be forced to bear. There was Genosha, there was Utopia. Let’s get back to the idea of mutants living among their own kind.
Kid Gladiator asks Anole how long until they kick them out. Anole doesn’t know. Storm watches them silently.
Elsewhere, Logan is giving Mesmero a hard time. Wanna try again? Logan snarls. If not, he’d really like to get to the part where he feeds Mesmero his spleen. Charming, Mesmero replies, but Logan is still chained up. Not even he can cut through Adamantium.
Logan calls him a special kind of stupid. The chain may be adamantium but the chair is just wood! He tears himself free and wraps the chain around Mesmero’s throat. Masque and Pyro come attacking but Logan easily takes them out.
Back at the Xavier Institute, Rachel is using Cerebro. Kurt asks her how it’s going. Not good, she finds. Whoever put the Brotherhood’s psi-shields into place, also did a very good job of shielding them from Cerebro.
He asks if she is all right. Rachel admits she is having trouble getting adjusted to the new Cerebro. And the hysteria pervading the school really isn’t helping this migraine. Lydia Nance, Kurt realizes. She has all the students afraid. Rachel agrees. She is talking about mutant deportation. State-sponsored racism. It’s not just the students who are afraid.
Kitty, in the meantime, is trying to get intel from hacking the web. There is something about the Brotherhood that doesn’t sit right with her. Colossus informs her, the students are nervous. There is a rather unlikeable woman on TV talking about deporting mutants. She tells him it’s okay. They are gonna find the Brotherhood, save the mayor and be heroes. Is she sure about that? He asks. She is sure about the first two.
That moment, the phone rings. Got some paper and a pen handy? Old Man Logan asks. He’s got an address she’s gonna want to write down…


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After all these years, why can’t anything be flaming easy? Old Man Logan thinks to himself as he battles the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants’ new Pyro and Avalanche. To make matters worse, Magma hits him with a lava blast, which takes him out. Mesmero praises her and orders them to inform their benefactor they are proceeding to phase three.
At the Xavier Institute, Kitty, Storm and Prestige are about to join Colossus and Nightcrawler in the X-jet. Kitty summarizes that Logan said he and the mayor were being held in an underground complex in Long Island. He makes six hostiles. She likes those odds, Rachel announces. How about making them better? Anole asks. A group of students stand in their way.
Kitty replies they’ve been keeping students out of combat situations. Rockslide points out lots of them have been in combat situations. They’ve got the mayor of New York held hostage. Where is it written they have to go in shorthanded? Kitty considers this for a moment, then decides on Armor and Rockslide. What about the rest? Anole asks. It’s not a school fieldtrip, she replies coldly.
Aboard the X-Jet, Santo remarks that was stone cold. Kitty asks if he is complaining. No. Ma’am he replies wisely. They know why she picked them, right? Kitty asks. Aesthetic beauty and sheer awesomeness? Santo hopes. Their power sets, Armor points out. Blunt strength with defensive capabilities, so the X-Men don’t have to look after them.
Kitty announces they don’t know where the mayor is, so they’ll have to split up…
They land outside an abandoned condemned Worthington Industries site. Kitty explains that their foes have a high-level telepath on their side, so Rachel will reinforce their psi-shields. Still, they have to be ready for anything.
Immediately, the team consisting of Kitty, Colossus and Armor are attacked by what she calls the “weird new guy.” She informs the others.
Elsewhere, Storm and Rockslide find a man tied to a chair, a hood covering his head and figure it’s the mayor. It’s a supercreepy room, like a site for filming an ISIS stage video, Santo describes it.
Kitty tells them extracting the mayor is their top priority. But Storm and Rockslide find themselves attacked by a brainwashed Logan.
Kitty orders Nightcrawler, who stayed back on the jet, to get the mayor. He teleports in, grabs the man and teleports out, causing Santo to complain he is left to fight the old guy.
Kitty asks Prestige where the psychic is. Rachel is flying outside and explains she has trouble getting a read on him. His psi-defenses are tight. She finds herself under attack and loses her concentration. She falls and looks up. Belay that, she informs Kitty. She’s found the jerk.
Inside, Colossus hits the weird new guy straight in the face, taking him out. He couldn’t have done that five minutes ago? Armor asks. Kitty asks about Storm and Rockslide’s status. Lousy, Santo complains, as Logan keeps slicing at him. Storm hits him with lightning and he loses consciousness. Santo warns her Logan is gonna be so ticked off at her when he wakes up.
Kitty, Colossus and Armor find the unconscious Pyro and Avalanche. Looks like Mr. Logan’s been here, Armor ventures. They still need to find Amara though, Kitty reminds them and contacts Rachel, who is in silent telepathic battle with Mesmero. A moment later, Mesmero keels over, beaten. Rachel announces she pulled an interesting tidbit from his mind. This entire place is rigged with explosives.
It’s a trap, Kitty realizes. She contacts Nightcrawer shouting they need a violent extraction at her position. Armor is just about to ask what a violent extraction is when the X-jet breaks though the wall.
Kitty orders the team to the jet but runs into the opposite direction. Nightcrawler warns her: readings say the place will explode in two minutes. She asks him to give her one thirty, then evac. She has to find Amara.
Kitty phases through the ground. She finds Amara huddling in a corner. Amara warns her to stay back. She doesn’t know what’s real anymore. Kitty reaches out and tries to calm her. Stay back!  Amara shouts and fires magma at her, hitting her side. Kitty contacts Kurt and tells them to evac. Go to minimum safe distance, Kurt intends to teleport back for her but Storm warns him there is no time. Kitty agrees with Storm. She takes Amara’s hands and hugs her close.
As the building explodes, Colossus shouts Kitty’s name.
The jet hovers nearby and the X-Men get out. Rachel announces she doesn’t pick up anything but she had reinforced Kitty’s psi-shield. Storm orders Kurt to conduct a search.
Kitty comes up phasing through the rubble with Amara. She thought she was the one who gave the orders, she jokes.
So that’s it? Logan asks a little later back in Central Park as SHIELD take the Brotherhood members away. Kitty replies she arranged for them to get custody of the creepy new guy who doesn’t talk. She’s got more than a few questions for him when he regains consciousness.
They saved the flaming mayor, Logan remarks wistfully. You’d think that would earn them a tickertape parade. Storm points out he knows it doesn’t work like that. A man can dream, can’t he? Kitty sighs she’d settle for a break on their property taxes.
Rachel calls her inside telepathically. There’s something she should know. She explains this is more complicated than they thought. It wasn’t just Amara under Mesmero’s control. All of them were influenced to one extent or another. She also found another piece of troubling information in Mesmero’s mind. He was paid to do this. Form a group and commit acts of terror. Kidnapping the mayor was to lead the X-Men into a trap but there was a larger agenda at work here. Whose agenda? Kitty asks.
Damn! Lydia Nance swears in her apartment. She knows, right? a sarcastic voice comes from behind her. Nance turns around to see the X-Men. She just hates it when her evil plans are foiled, Kitty continues sarcastically. Nance reaches for a button. If that’s for her security personnel, she shouldn’t bother, Kitty tells her. They are taking a little nappy time (thanks to Logan).
Kitty accuses her of creating a mutant terrorist group, so she could justify her anti-mutant politics. Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. She wasn’t even subtle!
They are trespassing, Nance replies coldly. And she just kidnapped a mayor, Kitty retorts. Nance demands proof. This conspiracy theory is preposterous. It won’t be to SHIELD, Colossus points out. They have her Brotherhood in custody. She thinks that they’ll find they won’t have much memory of events, Nance smirks. And even if they did, what’s the word of a mutant worth against that of a human? Do the math. She has. How ridiculous would it sound to claim an anti-mutant advocate aligned herself with them? Particularly after another mutant group has broken into her home, taken out her security staff and threatened her…
She hasn’t gotten around to threatening her, Kitty replies. She has Prestige telekinetically paralyze Nance and lift her into the air. Now she is threatening her, Kitty clarifies. She thinks she is clever. She is not. She thinks she is holding all the cards. She doesn’t. There’s gonna come a moment when she screws up. When she is revealed for the bigot she is. And the X-Men are going to be there. And they are going to take her down hard. Rachel drops Nance.
Nance calls them pathetically naive. Who do they think they are? They are the X-Men, Kitty replies calmly.


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Techno Superior– part 1
Nanostorm Incorporate:A lone figure sneaks through the corridor, stopped by a security laser net. The man grins and ricochets the lasers with a shining coin. A moment later, though, Gambit is surprised by armored, armed goons, who order him to freeze. They order him on the ground. Unimpressed, Gambit replies he can’t do that. He’s got business here. One of the goons calls him a cocky #*$%. There’s a reason for that, Gambit replies, holding up a card as his eyes begin to glow. He kinda holds all the cards. He charges it up and throws it in front of the men where it blows up, taking them out. Whistling, he enters the lab, only to finally get a well-secured small phial.
Elsewhere, Nightcrawler, Prestige and Kitty Pryde don’t find themselves very impressed by the villains they are facing and who just robbed a bank. Gotcha! Kitty announces. The other two point out the villains are still standing. Yeah, but c’mon, Kitty smirks. They are talking about the Serpent Society here. D-listers who bonded over a snake fetish. They are not D-listers! Anaconda shouts, charging at Kitty. She phases and he passes through her, knocking himself out. She was being generous, Kitty points out.
The three X-Men take out the villains with ridiculous ease. Rachel announces she is calling 911 to pick them up. Making friends with the police? Nightcrawler asks. Just showing them how they can be helpful, she points out.
In a forensic lab, Detective Mahoney asks Storm and Logan what they are doing here. Looking at the white, furred body, Storm points out the victim is a mutant. And they are the mutant police now? he asks. She shows him an XSE Marshal badge and asks if this will suffice. He didn’t think those XSE badges carry weight anymore.
What is the cause of death here? Logan changes the subject. Inability to fly after falling off a building, the detective deadpans. But it was this that drove him off. He shows them a bullet. 9mm sixty grain blended metal slug. That’s military grade ammo. Logan corrects him it actually ain’t. Not even the military is cleared to use these. Storm asks that surely the police tried to trace the buyer of such exotic ammunition. They got nowhere, Mahoney replies. The purchase was made off the dark net. But the M.O. fits three other victims in Jackson Heights, Brooklyn and the Bronx. All of them mutants.
A luxurious penthouse on the Upper East Side. Flanked by two bodyguards, a no-nonsense brunette greets Remy and introduces herself as Olivia Trask. Bolivar Trask’s granddaughter she adds, when Remy asks. Does he have the vial? Right here, Gambit replies and asks why she hired him to steal what looks like an empty vial. Olivia reveals it’s not empty. It contains hundreds of thousands nanites. Tiny robots. Self-replicating and smart swarm capable.
They can think? Remy asks skeptically. She said capable, Trask corrects him. They need an external AI to become artificially intelligent. Something tells him the granddaughter of the guy who invented Sentinels has a way or two of getting that AI, Remy supposes grimly.
She believes his fee was one hundred thousand, Trask replies matter-of-factly. Gambit replies she can keep the money. He took the job to see what that stuff was and who wanted it stolen. He figures she’s planning on making some new kind of Sentinels.
Nothing of the kind, Olivia replies surprisingly. There is no profit in killing muties. But military applications – if you can’t make money there, you’re an idiot.
He ain’t ever gonna get a better set-up line than that, Remy decides and fires kinetically charged objects at Trask and her men, who unfortunately open fire in return with laser guns. He grabs the vial but is then hit by a gun. The vial drops and shatters. Trask calls him an idiot. Lady messes with experimental nanotechnology and he’s the idiot, he mutters.
The nanite cloud moves towards a laptop. They can interact with computer systems, Trask reveals. Remy destroys the computer but it’s too late.
At the Xavier Institute, Colossus and Dr. Cecilia Reyes discuss their mysterious prisoner, the weird stranger from the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. He speaks in a language not even their translator technology can decipher.
Colossus explains that, since some of the Brotherhood members were under Mesmero’s control, the X-Men took him into custody as they weren’t sure in his case. Cecilia points out that, according to her readings, he is not a mutant.
During a Danger Room session, Magma asks Kitty what does she mean he’s not a mutant. Kitty explains that, according to Dr. Reyes, he is an extraterrestrial. She changes the subject: Anything Amara could tell them about the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (and Extraterrestrials) would help.
Blasting her robot foe, Magma replies she doesn’t remember anything… only Mesmero’s voice inside her head. Kitty sympathizes, but they are interrupted by Rachel, who tells Kitty it’s Gambit and it’s urgent.
Rachel takes both Remy and Kitty to the astral plane, shaping their surroundings to look like the Belle Epoque. Remy announces he is in a spot of trouble. He is in Manhattan and heard they are too these days. What trouble? Kitty asks. Remy supposes she’ll hear about it in a moment or two, while in the real world he is falling out of the building.
Rachel downloads the facts into Kitty’s mind. She asks how many people are in the building. Over 300, she is told. Rachel briefs the rest of the team and tells Remy to hang on, which he is doing literally.
The team quickly gets into the X-jet, while Logan and Storm are en route separately from their location. Rachel explains they are dealing with some kind of rogue nanotechnology here. Colossus asks how Nanotech goes rogue. Even the most advanced nanorootics do not have AI. Kitty is surprised he paid attention on those dates. Da, she was talking, he replies simply.
Rachel continues that the nanites got loose and hacked some Sentinel tech. KItty repeats they are dealing with nanobots merged with Sentinel tech.
Looking through Gambit’s eyes, Rachel announces it’s much worse: It seems the nanites have mutated.
Before Gambit stands a new kind of Sentinel.


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Techno Superior– part 2
Manhattan:Gambit dangles from the ledge of a skyscraper, while a new form of Sentinel merged with stolen nanobots hovers above him. This is why he’s got to insist on getting paid up front, Gambit figures.
The Sentinel says something in binary and kicks Gambit off the ledge (said Binary statement meant, Die mutant, as Kitty tells Gambit later).
Gambit is caught by a flying Storm. He praises her timing and hopes the rest of her friends are here as well. Storm gently chides him. They are his friends too.
Nightcrawler teleports Kitty, Rachel and himself to the epicenter of the explosion, the room inside the skyscraper. They find an unconscious Olivia Trask on the ground. While they are not happy about another Trask, Kitty tells Kurt to get her to the X-jet and help her. She can give them intel on what they are dealing with here. She tells him to get her secured then help Logan. He is dealing with search and rescue.
Logan joins the firefighters in another part of the building, who tell him to leave. One of them calls him grandpa. They find civilians trapped on the northeast corridor but the way is blocked by debris. Logan hack it apart with his claws, then orders them not to call him grandpa. “You guys all right?” he asks the family he’s freed. Thank God, the woman mutters. He’s a bit busy, so he sent him, Logan quips.
He informs Kitty the civilians are clear. What’s next? Kitty replies to let them get back on that. They are a bit occupied. They stare at the Sentinel hovering in the air above them.
The Sentinel says something in binary and Kitty mutters that’s not good. Sentinel programming is in effect, she translates for the others. Protocol: eliminate genetic mutations.
Kitty asks Colossus for a fastball special. Really? he asks. C’mon, he knows how much he loves to do it with her, Kitty retorts. As he throws her, she realizes how wrong that sounded.
She flies toward the Sentinel. According to Gambit, this thing is just a cloud of molecular tech, so she manages to disrupt it with her phasing power. That moment, Rachel screams and falls unconscious. Kitty tells Colossus this isn’t a Sentinel in the traditional sense. They are dealing with something new here.
Later, back on the X-jet, Storm asks if they can track it. Nightcrawler replies the computers are trying. Gambit reminds them they have the unconscious Trask with them. He suggests they wake her up and ask questions.
Rachel has woken up again and admits she is feeling awful, like she got hit by a truck inside her head. When Kitty phased through the Sentinel, she experienced a major psychic backlash. It’s more than a Sentinel. It’s conscious… self-aware. Kitty ask if it’s vulnerable to a psychic attack, because a self-aware Sentinel swarm could be their worst nightmare.
Interviewed on the Fact Channel, Lydia Nance proclaims this a nightmare as well. Five stories of a Manhattan skyscraper have been decimated. This is on the scale of a terrorist attack and those terrorists are the X-Men!
Magma, Armor, Rockslide and Anole are watching the news. Nance blames the X-Men, hanging out with Remy LaBeau, a known criminal. Whatever happens next, the X-Men will be held responsible!
On the X-jet, the team orders Olivia Trask to talk. And say what? she plays dumb. How to find it, how to defeat it, Logan clarifies. Gambit adds that this is her baby. A combo of the tech she wanted and the tech she had. The combo only exists because of his ineptitude! she snaps. If it’s anyone’s fault, it’s his.
Nightcrawler announces he has found their target (by looking out the window). Kitty phases downward out of the jet.
Olivia explains the Sentinel AI is sub-luminal. It learns from previous encounters. Outside, Kitty figures the same thing. Phasing through it won’t work a second time. She wonders why the Sentinels attack a baldness clinic and is almost hit. Gambit and Storm take up the attack, while Logan asks if she is all right. Kitty notices something wrong, though. The nanite swarm has become smaller. She informs the others on the jet at the same time as Rachel rejoins them. She agrees with Kitty. She can sense the swarm’s presence. It’s not just down there. It’s all over the city. That’s why it’s smaller. The swarm has dispersed.
Kitty informs Rachel that they could really use her right now. Colossus is hesitant but Rachel agrees. The only thing that can take this down is a psychic attack. She focuses and the Sentinel creatures explode.
Outside, Kitty helps Storm up and praises Rachel. Colossus informs her that Rachel is unconscious. Nightcrawler adds that their adversary is at work all over the city. 911 calls are coming in from everywhere. A cabbie in Hell’s Kitchen. Reality TV star Alexis Denison killed at a nightclub in Harlem. A cancer treatment clinic in Bedford, Stuyvesant. And on and on and on.
It doesn’t make sense, Colossus muses. Olivia Trask opines it makes perfect sense. She suspects, the cab driver suffered from some medical condition. And Alexis Denison is reputed to be colorblind. Nightcrawler realizes that color blindess, baldness, cancer are all genetic mutations. The Sentinel swarm is targeting everyone.


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Techno Superior– part 3
Prestige’s dreamscape:Rachel is wearing a long dress. She is greeted by her former boyfriend, the adult Franklin Richards from her future. It’s okay to be confused, he assures her. This isn’t real. His hand passes through her. She calls herself Prestige these days. Why not? Just another name in a long line. As if a new name and costume is a substitute for actual growth. Because she’s scared!
Reality:Rachel is lying unconscious in the infirmary of the X-Jet. Dr. Cecilia Reyes is afraid there is nothing she can do for Rachel. Nightcrawler sits at Rachel’s side, assuring her it will be alright. He turns back to Ceclila, telling her this is not an acceptable answer. She replies it is the only one she has. Medically speaking, there is nothing wrong with Rachel. What’s wrong with her is entirely in her mind. Rachel’s eyes begin to glow.
Nightcrawler calls Kitty and informs her of Rachel’s situation. How are things on the ground?
Manhattan:In a word? Kitty asks. “Lousy.” The X-Men and other heroes are busy fighting the nanobot swarm. It is adapting to their attacks faster than they can cope. And it’s targeting anyone with a genetic anomaly or mutation. Which is basically everyone. SHIELD is considering evacuating Manhattan.
She phases downwards to the ground and fires the weapon she cobbled together at the nanobots. For a moment, they seem to be done then they reform.
What’s the plan? Logan asks. Same as before, Kitty snaps. They fight like hell. They heard the lady, Logan announces as other heroes, X-Men and non, like Deadpool and Ms. Marvel follow her into battle.
A mysterious, masked armed man in body armor watches the events from a rooftop.
Prestige’s dreamscape:They’re in trouble, aren’t they? an adult Jean Grey dressed in her green Marvel Girl outfit demands of Rachel. Her friends. This nanoswarm infected with Sentinel A.I. It’s hurting them Maybe even killing them. Rachel can help them. The AI is vulnerable to psychic attacks. But she’s afraid of what she will have to do. Of reaching her full psychic potential.
What is she afraid of? Rachel asks her mother. Isn’t it obvious? Jean retorts and turns into Phoenix. Rachel begins to protest. She isn’t talking about the Phoenix, Jean cuts her off. She is talking about Rachel. She is afraid of her potential, so she doesn’t reach it. But she might have to, if she wants to save her friends not to mention New York city.
Reality:7th Avenue and West 50th street:The battle is continuing but suddenly the swarm explodes courtesy of the Stepford Cuckoos’ psychic attack. However, this wears them down and they fall unconscious. The Hulk and Captain Marvel transport the Cuckoos to the mobile ambulance the Avengers have set up nearby.
Gambit berates himself for all this. Storm tries to console him. He didn’t know the consequences. Gambit points out he was careless. Storm tells him he was trying to assess the nature of the threat. That’s not carelessness. It’s selflessness. She kisses him gently. He asks her what that was for. Either she wanted to remind him that people see him as a good man or she wanted to remind herself of something…
Prestige’s mindscape:Dressed in a summer dress, Rachel stands in front of Jean’s headstone. She said Rachel is holding back because she is afraid of becoming her? Cyclops asks. Rachel points out the idea of becoming him doesn’t thrill her either. He admits that’s fair, but retorts none of them are their parents. He thinks that’s the point Kitty was trying to make when she convinced Rachel to take on a new costume and codename.
Rachel changes into her Prestige uniform. Kitty wanted her to move on from the past, Rachel agrees. And the future, another Rachel in her Hound outfit tells her.
Reality:1st Avenue and East 59th street:Pixie’s on the ground, threatened by drones. Ne t’inqiete pas! Gambit tells her as he blows them up. He got her back. Pixie thanks him. He tells her to thank Storm, who is in the sky above them. Helped him get his mojo back.
At that moment, Storm is hit, as is Kitty, causing Colossus to go ballistic, shouting o may bog. He screams in pain as the swarm turns against him.
Prestige’s mindscape:They are dying out there, Hound Rachel tells the real one. She can feel it, can’t she? Through the psychic rapport with her teammates. Without Rachel’s help, they are all going to die. In agony. So, the question is simple.
Reality:“What are you going to do?” a Sentinel announces. “I’ve grown stronger. I’ve evolved,” it continues. Logan points out that mutations drive evolution and suggests it try not choke on the irony.
Prestige’s mindscape:The hound asks Rachel to be honest with her. She is not afraid of becoming Mom or Dad… it’s her. The purest expression of her power, but one that requires her to sacrifice herself to access it. The question is what is she willing to do… to risk… to save her friends?
Reality:The Sentinel brutally hits the still-standing heroes.
Rachel awakes. Nightcrawler tells her she shouldn’t get up. She complains about her migraine but, unless she does something, everyone is going to die. What can she do? he asks pointing out she has already tried. That was then, this is now, Rachel replies and concentrates.
The Sentinel shouts at her to get out of its mind and begins speaking in binary. Rachel presses on and the swarm gets destroyed all over the city.
The other X-Men are still alive but Kitty finds Colossus bleeding profusely.
Kurt asks Rachel if she is OK. Connected to the whole city, she admits she doesn’t know.
While the city is being cleared up, everyone is unaware that a small part of the nanoswarm has survived underground…


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Secret Empire – part 1
Flashback:Central Park, then:Magneto (or more to the point, Kuan-Yin Xorn in his guise) uses his power to terrorize and kill humans. Helpless, a man has to watch as his wife and son are killed by the metal spikes “Magneto” is controlling.
Today:Central Park is now home to the Xavier Institute. Today, senior X-Men and students both are playing a game of softball. On the sidelines sit Kitty Pryde and Colossus, the latter of whom is still recovering from the injuries he received fighting against the nano Sentinel swarm. Kitty asks Piotr how he is feeling. Like Ororo shouldn’t have shifted her infield, he jokes, referring to the game. He tells her that Dr. Reyes said the wounds will heal in time. His mutant genome has not been altered. He is still in possession of his powers. And yet he cannot turn to steel anymore. Kitty assures him it’s temporary and reminds him of the time when he couldn’t turn from steel to human. That is what concerns him, he continues, but then they are both distracted by a strange sight in the sky.
Inside the school, Rachel kisses a confused Kurt Wagner. She admits that was a bit forward. When she was unconscious, she could feel his concern psychically. And it wasn’t platonic concern for a teammate or friend. And then, to take out the nanoswarm, she had to reach for a power level she had never accessed before. Because she’d been afraid to. And in that moment, she became attuned to everyone in Manhattan. And she knows he is attracted to her.
Is she still attuned? Kurt asks. She accuses him of changing the subject. Is it working? he asks. She’s not still reading everyone’s mind 24/7. But she hasn’t felt her psychic power so acutely since… she hesitates and he presses on. Rachel silently recalls her days as a Hound but replies since never.
Anole bursts in to inform them something really strange is going on outside. They look at the swirling darkness in the sky. Kitty orders lockdown.
The X-Men meet in the briefing room, where a hologram of Dr. Strange informs them it’s called the Darkforce Dimension. A plane of reality wrapped in darkness and populated by demons. He continues that there is no leaving Manhattan, not even via teleportation.
Kitty gives orders to put small teams together and hit the streets to help out, however they can. Rachel warns there is a lot of panic, especially from the younger students. Suddenly, an agitated Anole informs them he has found the new girl – dead!
Soon, Kitty kneels next to her dead body, an X carved on her face. Her name was Belen, she announces. Jean Grey brought her here. She asks Anole if anyone else has seen this. He doesn’t think so; he came down to do a load of laundry and found her. She asks him to keep this quiet for the moment. Colossus and Rachel are with her.
Colossus asks what they are dealing with here. Kitty reminds him, Ororo and Logan have been investigating a series of mutant killings. The X is new, but the gunshot fits the killer’s MO. They realize they have an anti-mutant serial killer lose in the school.
On a rooftop, Logan informs Storm that Nightcrawler broke up a group of looters. He muses that things like this reveal people’s true natures and is reminded of his own, as he remembers killing his timeline’s X-Men.
She asks if he is all right. He is never not all right, but he is tired, he admits. He looks at Kitty doing so well running this outfit and wonders maybe he won’t have to do this for much longer. She tells him he has no choice. The X-Men wouldn’t be the same without him. He notices a demon attacking an old woman on the street below and leaps into the fray. The woman is shocked and Logan suggests she get out. He admits that he feels good. Been a while since he gutted a demon.
Another, bigger demon says something to them in a strange language. So, on a scale of 1 to 10 how dangerous does she figure that guy is? Logan asks Storm. The next moment, the creature claws at him. He just hadda ask, Logan mutters. Storm takes the monster out with lightning but it soon recovers.
Elsewhere, Nightcrawler finds himself chased by a mob, who believe him to be another demon despite his assurances. They trap him and get ready to kill him.
The Xavier Institute:Laboratory level:The X-cutioner stands in front of the cage holding the alien Brotherhood of Evil Mutants member. C.N.G., he reads. That’s what they call him. Creepy new guy. He hacked their files, leaned the truth. He is not a mutant. The X-cutioner presses a button and the cage opens. He doesn’t even understand a word he is saying, does he? The alien answers in his own, alien language.
On another level, Kitty, Rachel and Piotr find the body of another dead mutant kid, Oscar, strung up. Kitty asks how the killer can be running around free, with all the psychics they have. Psi-shield? Rachel suggests. She thought her power had found a new gear? Kitty reminds Rachel. Intermittently and without control, Rachel points out. But she can feel him here. Rage. Pure rage.
In yet another part of the building:Unaware of the X-cutioner’s presence, Trevor Hawkins aka Eye-Boy walks past. The killer grabs him and slams him against the wall, then draws his machete. Because of his kind, his boy is dead, he hisses. Wasn’t even ten years old. Never got a chance. He begins cutting and Trevor screams.
Elsewhere, Rockslide and Dust search the hallways and are shocked to find explosives with a tamper-proof timer set at twenty-nine minutes.
Trevor begs him not to hurt him, as he has already cut out one of his eyes. That’s what his boy said, the X-cutioner replies. Or what he would have said. Wasn’t even given the chance. He raises his gun at Trevor’s head. Please! Trevor begs.
Suddenly, Kitty attacks the X-cutioner. Didn’t he hear? she quips. He said please. She kicks him in the face and orders Colossus to get Trevor to safety. She tells Rachel to take this loser out. However, his facemask protects him against telepathy. Working on it, Kitty states as she tries to get rid of the facemask. Could use a little help, though. He swats her away. Rachel hits him in the face. Colossus strikes at him from behind, momentarily stunning him.
The next moment, the X-cutioner fires his gun at him.


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Secret Empire – part 2
The X-cutioner fires his weapon at Colossus, who currently cannot use his power to transmute into living steel. Luckily, Prestige’s telekinesis stops the bullet and returns it at the X-cutioner. However, he is saved by his armor’s adamantium-laced Kevlar. He fires at the three X-Men, distracting Colossus and Prestige. Kitty phases and runs towards him.
That moment, she receives a call from Rockslide, who informs her of a problem. He and Dust have found explosives with a timer.
Kitty tackles the X-cutioner, who has identified Rachel as the biggest threat and takes her out with some sleeping gas.
Santo keeps insisting that Kitty do something. Dust adds there are enough explosives here to destroy the mansion and kill everyone inside. She cannot disarm them but they are on an electronic trigger, meaning Kitty could disarm them with her phasing power.
No problem, she isn’t really doing anything at the moment, Kitty replies sarcastically. She orders Colossus to get Rachel and then phases the three of them through the ground. She quickly explains that she has to defuse the bomb. Multiple bombs, Santo corrects her and adds they are in the Danger Room.
Kitty joins Rockslide and Dust. After a look at the bombs, she remarks that Santo might have undersold the situation with “a big problem.” They have a massive problem.
In the city, the mob is about to kill Nightcrawler when an enraged Logan threatens them. Storm’s lightning show probably helps as well. As the mob disperses, Storm and Logan are horrified by Nightcrawler’s swollen face. He jokingly assures them it feels much worse than it looks. Logan admits he doesn’t know how it is they didn’t kill him. But they did kill him, Kurt corrects him calmly. However, because he escaped from Heaven, Heaven wouldn’t let him back in.
At the Institute, Santo asks why Kitty’s power cannot disrupt the bombs’ electronics. Because they don’t have electronics, she explains. The housing is all metal and plastic but the innards are cellular. Literal bio-tech. She read a paper on it. Apparently, Stark and DARPA brought it to prototype a year ago. She orders the two of them to help Colossus evacuate the mansion. She’s gonna go find a katana and hope to hell their attacker has a disarming trigger on him.
And if he doesn’t? Dust asks. If she had a nickel for every time the mansion got blown up… Kitty jokes. All she asks is they make sure nobody is inside when it happens.
Soon, the three of them have evacuated the rest. Colossus asks Santo and Dust where Kitty is. Still inside facing their attacker, he is told. Colossus walks to the door. Santo tries to stop him. He has no powers, he reminds Piotr. To go in there he has to be crazy. Colossus corrects him. He’s not crazy. He’s Russian!
Russia, Nemchinovka, outside Moscow:Two middle-aged men stand outside in the cold. They’re late, one of them, Anatolj, tells the other. To be corrected they are not. They’ve been here for a while, he refers to a group of ninjas.
Do they have the item? he asks the leader, who retorts if they have the merchandise. They do, he refers to a group of prisoners, men, women and children. He can’t imagine what use the Hand would have with them. That is their business, the ninja replies. He cannot imagine what use they would have for the remains of Arkady Rossovitch…
The X-Institute:Kitty sneaks through the hallways brandishing a katana. There were other weapons, but she doesn’t do guns. She’s a ninja. A Shadowcat, and she’s pissed, she thinks when she finds the X-cutioner manhandling Pixie. Run! she orders. When Pixie hesitates, Kitty snaps that she will have an easier time when she needn’t worry about her.
She attacks him as she shouts she’s got this. Of course that jinxed it, as the X-cutioner uses a power dampener on her. She figures now it’s a fair fight.
He fires his gun but she dodges the bullets and hits the gun out of his hands. He grabs his knife as he attacks. She gets rid of his facemask. For a moment, he seems to be running away but she finds he just got back his gun.
He orders her to shut up and drop the sword. She complies but points out the mansion will blow up in three minutes. Does she think he cares? he snarls. Most people generally do, Kitty retorts, plus the mansion is evacuated by now. Not her, their leader, he points out. Plus, this place is a symbol of the evil of mutanity.
They are not evil, Kitty states. Tell that his wife and son! he shouts. No, she can’t. Because they are dead! They died right here where they dropped their mutant house. Because of mutants. They fight like giants with the power of gods and they don’t care about the ants who get trampled underfoot. How many “evil mutants” have they fought? How many times have they saved the world but never bothered to ask about the people lost to collateral damage?
Too many times, Kitty admits. He’s right. They save the world and move on. They figure whatever they’ve done is enough. That someone else will handle the cleanup. It’s selfish. And it’s negligent. But what he is doing is premeditated. Deliberate. Which makes him more evil than she will ever be. If he’s good with that… if he thinks his wife and son would be good with that… pull the trigger.
Without hesitation, he does .The bullet hits Colossus in the shoulder, as he has thrown himself in front of Kitty.
Rockslide hits the X-cutioner and suggests next time they let the guys made of rock dive in front of the bullet!
Kitty orders Santo to look for the remote trigger. Colossus mumbles he was just trying to impress Katya. Santo finds it and Kitty deactivates it.
Some days later, after Manhattan has been freed from the Darkforce dimension, the police led by Detective Mahoney arrest the X-cutioner. Mahoney commends the X-Men for doing the heavy lifting in this case. As per usual.
That moment, a woman flanked by two men in black arrives and introduces herself as Zully Garcia, congressional staffer in Congresswoman Zelman’s office. She hands Kitty an invitation to testify before Zelman’s subcommittee concerning H.R. 372. Whe Kitty asks what that is, she is told it is a bill currently pending in the House of Representatives. It’s called the Mutant Deportation Act…


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Kitty Goes To Washington
Russia:The Church of St. Mitrophan:Nighttime:Several men stand around a shining casket adorned with the letter omega. One of the men, Anatoly, asks his leader how what he is planning is possible. The older man expresses his disappointment in Anatoly, especially after he pulled the curtain back on the black arts and showed them all wonders. But to conquer death! Anatoly replies doubtfully. Is to be as God, the other man continues calmly. And is that not what magik is? Now, it’s time to get to work.
A workshop somewhere in the USA:A man, Anton Vanko, is busy constructing a metal exoskeleton while scoffing at American politicians who extol peace but impose sanctions that wrap like fingers around the throat of his country. They sell their votes to the highest bidder while women and children starve. And yet, they think he is the criminal. On one of his screens appears the image of Congressman Zelman…
The Xavier Institute:In his room, Piotr Rasputin is painting. “Come in,” he calls when there is a knocks at the door. Kitty enters, commenting this still feels weird considering this used to be her room. And it is a lovely room, he agrees mildly. And it’s not the least bit stalkerish that he moved in here, Kitty presses her point. Piotr begins to stutter, taken aback. Kitty assures him she was joking. Almost 99%.
So… she is heading to Washington. He recalls she wants to tell Congress where to shove their mutant deportation law. He is surprised when she asks him to accompany her. Muscle. Security, she clarifies. It was Logan’s idea. He reminds her he is currently unable to steel up. Still got a lot of muscle, Kitty jokes and touches his shoulder, but instantly draws back her fingers and repeats it was Logan’s idea.
Elsewhere on the grounds, Nightcrawler asks Prestige what she thinks. She is confused why he wants to have dinner with her. Kurt reminds her she kissed him. She’s aware, Rachel bristles. She’s also aware it made him super-uncomfortable. They’ve been teammates for so long, he points out. Again, she is aware. So, what’s changed? He suggests she read his mind. Rachel counters she’d prefer to talk. He was thinking relationships between teammates are hardly unprecedented, Kurt explains. Kitty and Piotr. Scott and Jean. Scott and Emma. Rachel doesn’t consider either of those particularly great examples. So she doesn’t want to have dinner with him? he asks. No! she immediately replies, then adds Ororo and she have tickets for Dear Evan Hansen tonight. But tomorrow night’s free…
In the meantime, Kitty and Piotr have arrived at Ronald Reagan airport in Washington DC and are in for a pleasant surprise as welcoming them is their old friend and Kitty’s former dance teacher, Stevie Hunter – or “Congresswoman Hunter” as reminds tells them. She’s kidding! Kitty bursts out. Stevie figures you can’t exactly check the news when your trapped in a giant flying space-bullet, but she ran in the Connecticut 3rd at that time.
She can’t believe she didn’t know! Kitty babbles. She’s the worst friend ever! It takes two to fall out of touch, Stevie remarks and adds she sees Kitty has maintained some relationships. Oh. Piotr? They are not… Kitty babbles. Standing right here, Piotr points out humorously.
As Stevie drives them into town, she reveals she got Congress to get Kitty to testify. Apparently, it takes a sub-committee to get some time with her, Stevie jokes. Besides, she can’t think of anyone better to speak on the issue of mutant rights.
Sometime later, Kitty sits in front of the subcommittee. This isn’t a question of mutant rights, Kitty announces. It’s about human rights, American rights. To single out a minority for deportation is the most un-American thing she can imagine.
A congressman, Baker, interrupts that mutants aren’t human. He doesn’t care if that sounds politically incorrect. It’s the truth. Humans can’t level cities using their eyes or brains or what have you.
Kitty corrects him it’s scientifically incorrect. Mutants are the next stage in human evolution but they are still human. And before he goes painting mutants as “other,” she’ll remind him that two months ago Manhattan was targeted by a malevolent AI that targeted the city’s population for being mutants.
The congressman interrupts. This isn’t about labels. It’s about safety. She can’t deny the majority of mutants are walking weapons and the United States has borne a disproportionate responsibility for dealing with them. He’s saying it comes down to money? Kitty asks flippantly. And safety, he stresses.
Kitty chooses to tackle safety first and states she saved the Earth and universe a few times. She guesses since he’s so focused on money, she should send him a bill. She has no illusion that deporting mutants out of the country to ease the burden might strike some as sensible. But segregation was considered sensible once. Or interning Japanese Americans. “Sensible” tends to be the first step on the path to the wrong side of history. She is begging them not to take the second step.
Afterward, Kitty and Piotr leave. He tells her she was incredible. She jokes she has to come back and be incredible the next day. He suggests dinner. When she makes excuses he tells her it‘s just dinner. What harm can come from a simple dinner?
A question Kurt and Rachel are discussing at their dinner. Kurt offers one of them could get hurt which could cause the other to lose focus, which could lead to their teammates getting hurt.
Did he ask her on a date to explain why they shouldn’t date? Rachel asks, and points out when they were in Excalibur Brian and Meggan were together. It didn’t mess things up. And as for her parents, that was a special circumstance. Kurt points out that she might find herself consumed by her newly upgraded powers. Rachel doesn’t reply, then admits, this is nice.
Which is also what Kitty remarks at their dinner in Washington, but she stresses this leads nowhere. Piotr agrees. Kitty presses on that there is attraction there, but she feel this could be going backward.
New York:She wants to go forward with this, Rachel announces. Why now? Kurt asks. After all these years? Rachel point out that, despite the kiss during their Excalibur days, she only found out now he is attracted to her. But the real truth is her power surge scared her. She doesn’t want to end up like her mother, she won’t, but the possibility made her appreciate what she wanted out of life and give her the incentive to take it.
Washington:Piotr announces he wants to move forward and would like to do it with her. It’s not moving forward, Kitty muses, unless…
He agrees. Unless they get married, She is startled at wat appears to be a proposal. She finally wants time to think about this. Of course, he’s not going anywhere.
New York:Kurt takes Rachel’s hand and smiles.
The next day:Kitty is back before the sub-committee hearing where a congressman, Zelman, refers to the billions, yes, that’s with a B, in property damage and stratospheric insurance costs directly tied to mutant activity.
Kitty points out she referred to the money issue yesterday. Although she finds it disappointing that in calculating the costs of mutant activity, they didn’t factor in human life. Yes, that’s with an L, she snarks.
That moment, something tears through the wall. Or someone: Anton Vanko, now in his Whiplash identity, who announces that’s because the congressman doesn’t care about human life. Only his own.
The guards fire at him, to no avail. Kitty addresses Piotr who reacts and distracts Whiplash, long enough for Kitty to kick him in the face. Zelman shouts for evacuation and more security but Whiplash shouts justice is coming for him. And he’s coming for him, Colossus lamely quips as he hits him.
Kitty joins the attack. Colossus takes Whiplash in a headlock. Kitty phases a splinter into Whiplash’s kneecap and the pain leaves him unable to fight. This one sounds Russian, Colossus jokes. “Spokoynoy nochi, tovarich.” And they say nothing gets done in Congress, Kitty quips.
Later they take a stroll across the Washington Mall. Kitty muses she owes him a thank you for diner. She was a little distracted by his non-marriage proposal marriage proposal. He clarifies he wasn’t proposing exactly. Just saying if they were to get back together, he’d hope they get married one day. And she needs a little time, is that all right? Since the day they first met, was there ever anything she wanted that was not right with him? He asks.
The next day in the office of Stevie Hunter:Stevie announces Zelman got the whip count on the bill this morning. Piotr remarks he doesn’t know politics. Kitty translates, she knows how the subcommittee are going to vote. Stevie corrects her: Zelman has the tally on his entire party. The deportation bill is going to pass the House. It will move to the Senate and, if it passes there and the president doesn’t veto it, it becomes law.
Piotr stutter that they saved their lives. Stevie agrees. But they are scared of the voters and the voters are scared of mutants. She’s terribly sorry.
Russia:Omega Red has risen but is informed the procedure is only temporary. Their magiks aren’t strong enough to keep him alive. But they will find a way to overcome this. And all of Russia will quake at the return of Omega Red…


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En’kane – part one
Belashika, Russia:A young woman runs for her life. She stumbles and falls to the ground, Nyet, nyet ,nyet! she pleads as she looks up. Da, another voice replies as metal tentacles pierce her throat. Omega Red stands tall as he takes her lifeforce.
In the background, another man asks how he feels. Better, for the moment, Omega Red admits. But not for long. His resurrection is only temporary. The other man promises wheels are in motion. When complete, Russia will tremble again for the name Omega Red.
At the Xavier Institute, some X-Men – Nightcrawler, Logan, Dani Moonstar, Rogue and Magik are gathered for a round of poker. Kurt threatens the others with a full house, though they are unimpressed. Logan has a higher one. Third win in a round, how does he do it? Rogue sighs. Predictably, Logan reminds them he is the best at what he does… but he ain’t too shabby at poker either.
Kitty and Piotr join them with snacks and beverages. Kitty points out it doesn’t hurt that he can smell when someone bluffs. She apologizes for her cooking. He loves her cooking, Piotr assures her and the two gaze at each other, till they notice the others are staring.
That moment, Blindfold interrupts them. There is a phone call for Colossus. Piotr picks it up and asks who it is, only to be told the other man is Anatoly Rasputin, his paternal uncle. Piotr accuses him of lying. His father never spoke of a brother. Because he was dead to him, Anatoly admits. He’s a criminal. When Piotr was just a little boy, he joined the Solntsevskavya bratva. His brother did not approve. They never spoke again. But he kept up with his nephew’s adventures in America. He has made his family very proud.
Suspicious, Piotr ask why he has reached out to him now after all this time. Because their home is in grave danger. His Pakhan is a man named Viktor Komolov and he has done something terrible. He has returned to life a dangerous man. His name is Arkady Rossovitch. But most know him as Omega Red.
He hates that guy! Logan announces after Piotr has informed the others and they are on an X-jet en route to Russia, along with the rest of the team and Colossus’s sister Magik.
Kitty reminds them she never had the pleasure. What can he tell her? That one of the best things he ever did in his life was kill him, is the reply. Rossovitch was a serial killer whom the government tried to execute for his crimes. Some Soviets had other ideas, so they put him in their super soldier program. Naturally, Rachel deadpans. Logan adds that he has a healing factor and a mutant power that lets him vampire out people’s life forces. Bottom line: He is a one man global terrorist / crime organization. With everything facing Russia these days, Rossovitch’s return might just push them over the brink.
That’s assuming they can believe what he said? Rachel points out, referring to Anatoly. Which part? Illyana asks coolly: the part about bringing Rossovitch back to life or the part about being their uncle? Piotr understands her skepticism but has faint memories of their father mentioning a brother. He asked him once and their father claimed he had no sibling but in a way that showed the question pained him. He never asked again. Illyana suggests maybe he should listen to him now. He retorts their father is dead. Along with their mother. Criminal or not, this Anatoly is the last of their family.
Nightcrawler announces they’ve entered Russian airspace and he has activated the plane’s cloak. They are en route to the location Mr. Rasputin specified.
A little later at an abandoned Soviet railyard:Piotr and a still wary Illyana enter it seemingly alone, but watched by Kitty and Logan who are hiding in the building. Storm is in the air and Rachel in another part of the building senses nothing psychically. Nightcrawler, who is with her, warns them of movement – one man.
Anatoly welcomes the siblings happily. He is surprised when he gets a good look at Illyana, though, as she should be a small girl. Long story, she replies tight-lipped. He remarks she has her mother’s skepticism. Good for her. She just questions the timing of this reunion, Piotr chimes in. Anatoly explains it was their father’s wish they remain apart. And he would honor it, were the danger to their home not so great. Illyana remarks he claimed Omega Red has been brought back to life. How?
Magiks, he explains. Komolov has proficiency in the black arts. He’s taught what he know to his bratva. And with their help, he brought Rossovitch back to life. With his help? Illyana asks pointedly. Anatoly replies Komolov is pakvan. To defy him means to die horribly. But he knew he had to do something. Which is why he called them.
Where can they find him? Colossus asks. Anatoly continues that Komolov’s command of magic is meager. That’s why the resurrection is only temporary. He’s kept himself alive with his power of sucking life energy from others, but even that will fail him eventually. Which makes Rossovitch vulnerable, Colossus continues the thought. Antoly agrees. If they strike now, they can end this. That moment, they find themselves surrounded by a group of bald men with glowing hands and eyes.
Who’s this now? Logan hisses. Komolov’s men, Anatoly warns them. Be careful. He’s taught them… She knows, Illyana continues while manifesting her Soulsword. Magik.
Logan swears. He knew this situation was rotten.
Anatoly apologizes to Piotr, as they are attacked by the men. They must have followed him here.
Nightcrawler teleports in and begins attacking the monsters. Storm joins him and is unimpressed. Magic or not, they are still only mobsters. Thugs and vulnerable to lightning. Which she instantly proves by taking them all out.
Kitty, however, immediately notices Illyana is missing. Logan instantly threatens Anatoly, who claims he doesn’t know where they have taken her.
The semi-conscious Illyana is taken to Komolov, who announces he has need of her. Her magiks, he then corrects himself. Not he has need of her power but his friend Arkady. Omega Red leers at Illyana…


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En’kane – part two
An abandoned railyard in Russia:Old Man Logan looms menacingly over Anatoly Rasputin. Last warning, he tells him. Tell him where Illyana is or he gets three extra nostrils. When Colossus asks him not to, Logan demands one good reason, then amends it to two. He is his uncle, Piotr states. What’s the second one? Logan demands. Because she said so, Kitty Pryde replies. “Uncle Bratva” set them up, Logan reminds them. So they’d bring Illyana here. Anatoly admits it, but claims he had no choice.
The rest of the team gather as Anatoly explains that Komolov, his Pakhan, was able to raise Omega Red from the dead, but only for a short time. He needs Illyana to make the resurrection permanent. He believes Omega Red will be beholden to him. That with his strength, he can seize control over all of Russia. He can take them there. They just have to trust him… Kitty tells Piotr it’s his call.
One hour later at the Church of St. Mitrophan:Anatoly brings in a tied-up Piotr, assuring the guard he no longer has his mutant powers. One of the guards, Sergej, asks what about the other X-Men. They left Anatoly with them at the railyard. Sharply, Anatoly asks if Sergej is accusing him of something. Sergej quickly shakes his head. Anatoly announces he wants to see Viktor and leads Piotr inside.
The other X-Men are secretly watching, with Nightcrawler already hiding inside the church. On the roof, Logan asks Kitty why they don’t just attack. They are just a bunch of Russian mobsters. Kitty reminds him they have magic. Plus, they don’t know where they are hiding Illyana or the threat level pf Omega Red. Looking up, Logan announces they kinda do, moments before Omega Red attacks.
Downstairs, Anatoly explains to Komolov that Piotr surrendered himself for his sister. Then it appears intelligence does not run in his family, is the reply. He does not haggle like some street merchant, he informs Piotr. As for his sister, Omega Red weakened her. He was able to force her to do his bidding. And now Omega Red is not only alive but more powerful than ever!
A fact the X-Men (Kitty, Logan, Storm and Prestige) are currently learning the hard way.
Piotr insist he wants to see his sister. Komolov replies she is in the catacombs but he has already seen her for the last time. He orders Anatoly to kill him. Anatoly raises his gun. He apologizes to Piotr, but he should not have trusted him. He fires but finds the gun empty. Don’t worry, Dyadya, Piotr smirks. He didn’t.
Flashback to right after Illyana was abducted:It’s his call, Kitty told Piotr while Rachel established a mindlink amongst the X-Men and telepathically informed them Anatoly was lying. Kitty suggested they use that to gain a tactical advantage and find out Illyana’s position.
Present:Piotr takes Anatoly out with a blow then turns to Komolov, who begins to cast a spell.
That moment, Nightcrawler teleports in. Nyet! Piotr tells him. This ubludok is his! He hits him and takes him out. He asks about the catacombs. Nightcawler agrees; Kitty’s plan worked. They usually do, Colossus finds.
On the rooftop, Kitty grimly wonders why none of her plans ever work. She orders Prestige to shut this “jerkwad” down. Rachel enters his mind but, on the astral plane, Omega Red confronts her and takes her out with one of his tentacles.
She thinks she has grown more powerful. But so has he! he boasts as in the real world one of his tentacles pierces Logan’s shoulder. Kitty somersaults and grabs one of the goons’ automatics. Firing at Omega Red, she quips she doesn’t speak Russian, but how do you say “Choke on this?” “Udar’te na eto!” Omega Red deadpans without hesitation as he grabs away her weapon and pierces her shoulder.
In the catacombs, Piotr and Kurt finally find a weakened Illyana chained to the wall. Piotr tells her to gather her strength as Kurt works on the locks. Really wishes she could, she retorts. Behind them, the magically powered Komolov has shown up. She manifests her Soulsword and strikes. Now where can she find Omega Red? she demands.
Outside, Omega Red is hovering over Logan. He reminds him that Logan he killed him. A real Russian would return the favor. He ain’t a proper Russian, Logan retorts, and he ain’t Wolverine anymore, but that doesn’t mean he can’t still kick his ass. He lets loose with his claws but Rossovitch easily traps him, mocking he is old.
In the catacombs, Komolov is gaining the upper hand with Magik, who is weakened by Omega Red. Nightcrawler teleports in behind him and hits him but is magically swatted away. Was he supposed to feel something? Komolov asks.
Piotr steps in his way. “Ya Sobirayus ubit tebya,”Colossus addresses him. He thinks not, Komolov replies and attacks both him and Illyana with his magic. His uncle told him what happened to him, he reveals. Nanites burrowed into his skin and now that skin can no longer turn to steel. Pity, he would have liked to see if he was stronger than his magic. It is all a question of will, is it not?
Da, Piotr agrees and turn to his steel form. It is. Now he is going to try very hard not to kill him. He hits Komolov and kicks his ass. Outside, Logan gets his second wind and does the same to Omega Red.
Sometime later, Piotr visits Anatoly in Lefortovo prison:He informs him it’s over. SICKLE, their version of SHIELD, has taken Omega Red and Komolov into custody.
Anatoly mocks Piotr’s use of pronouns. Does he even remember being Russian? Piotr refuses to be goaded. He reminds Anatoly that he shot his own nephew after betraying his niece. Piotr came back here to find his family. Now he is going to his father’s grave, lay a rose on it and thank him for hiding them from Anatoly.
Outside, Kitty is waiting for him and asks if he is all right. Just sad, he admits and asks how everyone is. Fine except for headaches and bruises, it turns out. Illyana is a little miffed that she needed saving. She said he found a way to turn his power on to save her.
Piotr is embarrassed at recalling he couldn’t access them in Washington to save Kitty. She didn’t need saving, she corrects him and kisses him. She explains in Washington she said she needed time. She took it. He is looking forward to going home now. She thought he already was, she points out. Home is where she is, he replies.


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Kologoth
The plant Dartayus in the Negative Zone:From the Journal of Kologoth Antares, Lord ascendant of the Dartayus Union:Kologoth recalls he was born… apart. Whereas his parents were normal members of their species, blue-skinned humanoids, he was born looking reptile-like, like a horned demon. His world had no word for what he was. Only much later he leaned a word for it… mutant.
His horrified father took the newborn baby and his mother ordered him to get rid of it. The man laid the infant down in the wilderness and produced a dagger. But he couldn’t do it. He stuck the dagger into the ground next to the child and left.
The baby, already capable of surviving on his own, kept the dagger. The child grew and survived hunting.
Time passed. Eventually, the child observed a group of people entering his wilderness, a group of dissidents on walkabout from the city. He watched them and learned of their language and the culture that had cast him out. When there was nothing left to learn, he attacked and killed them all… save for one whose eyes were different. He was called Augor and would come to name him Kologoth. Augor was a radical with ties to those criminals. He taught Kologoth their ways. He taught him that, beneath fancy and gleam of Dartayus, there is a society where only the strong survive.
But that was a lesson he had already learned from his parents when they left him for dead. Eventually, he visited them. His mother came looking for her husband Selig and found his headless corpse. Appearing behind her, Kologoth announced his passage to the other side was quick. He died before Kologoth could ask him why he left him to die in the wilds. But they both know the answer, don’t they? He tosses the head aside and walks toward her, dagger in hand. She babbles that they were young, scared. So was he, Kologoth points out. He left this like a heirloom. She identifies it as the Colchis dagger. It’s been in her family for generations. He decides to return it to her by killing her.
Years passed. Kologoth was patient, served by Augor’s counsel and his strength. But these things are not enough to rise. There is one thing greater than wisdom or strength. Belief. And so Kologoth began to speak of Scythian. The fallen god had many followers. And speaking of him brought Kologoth many followers… an army powerful enough to challenge a government and change a world.
But the resistance was stronger than Kolgoth had expected. He fought but without success. He was put on trial for what they considered his crimes. They cast him out again. Only not into the wilds but to a different planet.
Unconscious, he was brought to Earth. There he was found and locked up, until a bribed prison guard brought Lydia Nance to his cell. She took the uncomprehending Kologoth from prison and took him somewhere stranger. She had her agent Mesmero brainwash him but, while Mesmero forced his way into Kologoth’ mind, Kologoth learned things from his. He learned much of the world and its heroes, bided his time and planned.
Finally, the new Brotherhood attacked the UN. Kologoth was forced to fight alongside them. Learning of the heroes’ powers, his plan took on a new shape. So on their next confrontation, he allowed himself to be taken captive by the X-Men and waited for his moment.
He did not have to wait long. To Kologoth’s surprise the X-cutioner freed him without him even having to ask. Kologoth’s suspicion proved correct, the X-Men had the kind of technology he needed to contact home.
Augor informs him he has been gone eight remnants. In that interval, there has been a turn of fate in their favor. Kologoth’ absence has rallied his troops, but there is currently a stalemate. His return would ensure their victory.
Kologoth asks for the status of the parliament fleet. Strong, he is told, but Augor promises they will seize a ship and come for him.
And so, Kologoth sneaks out of the X-mansion, waiting and certain that his patience will be rewarded.
On Mojoworld, Mojo’s staff draw straws to decide who has to deliver the quarterly ratings report to Mojo. Soon the unlucky loser Bob has to inform Mojo of the 26 percent decline on all key demos. They have some ideas about rating stunts they are excited about.
In response, Mojo decapitates him. They don’t need stunts - they need high drama! Something astonishing and uncanny (and blue and gold)! They need something the audience has never seen while still honoring their legacy! They need an epic crossover!


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Mojo Worldwide – part 1
The Mojoverse:Majordomo shows his master Mojo the script and asks what he thinks of it. Mojo enthuses it’s brilliant. Exactly what they need to reverse their reclining ratings. Audiences will kill to watch it and die of entertainment! Majordomo wryly asks why then he killed the writer. Everyone knows the script is just a suggestion, Mojo informs him. The real action is in the execution. Emphasis on execution.
Outside the Xavier Institute in Central Park, a friendly game of softball is going on. Kitty’s X-Men are against the time-displaced original X-Men, while some of their friends and allies watch. Cyclops misses the third strike and umpire Kitty calls him out.
On the bleachers, Old Man Logan and Jimmy Hudson silently sit next to each other. So, Jeannie tells him he’s his son, Logan remarks. Seems like, is the curt reply. From another universe. Seems like. No further words fall.
On the playing field, Jean tells Kitty this was a nice idea. Kitty figures it was overdue. They haven’t seen the original X-Men since they moved to Madripoor. This probably isn’t the right time but she is sorry about Belen. Jean doesn’t blame Kitty but Kitty still feels guilty. They brought her to the Institute under their protection and she let her get killed.
Jean looks up to see something obelisk-like falling from the sky. Three of them in fact. Jean orders Angel to fly surveillance and tells Iceman to create an ice-perimeter. Kitty interrupts: They have three objects. Reconnaissance teams: Bloodstorm, Rachel and Cyclops are with Kitty on object 1. Looks like landfall’s around Lexington Avenue. Storm, Logan and young Angel and Iceman are on number two. Around Times Square. Kurt, young Beast, Peter and Jimmy Hudson are on number three. Washington Square Park.
What are they - chopped liver? Rockslide protests in the name of the students. Nobody likes liver, Ink points out. Exactly, Santo agrees. He likes liver, Anole mutters.
Kitty explains there’s bound to be property damage at each ground zero. Everyone else break into response teams. Maintain order. Everyone follows her lead… Upstaged, Jean glares.
Kitty’s team flies around the first obelisk. They find it’s huge. Kitty orders Rachel to psi-scan it. Cyclops suggests it might not be hostile. Yeah, these things are always friendly, Kitty mocks. Scott announces, Ink and Blindfold are en route for crowd control. Rachel replies she’s got it handled. Everyone around three blocks just decided to go home. She then establishes psychic communication with the other teams.
Team two stand around the object in Washington Square Garden. Beast points out it’s cold to the touch. Suddenly, the objects begin to glow and Logan warns the others. Yeah, pop, they see it, Jimmy mutters. Logan tells him not to call him Pops.
Kitty shouts at everyone to get the civilians back. They do that just in time but the X-Men are now trapped inside a field emitted by the obelisks, Jean suggests this is a trap. Cyclops can’t blast it and Kitty can’t phase through it, nor can Nightcrawler teleport past it.
Colossus tries to hit the forcefield and announces that brute force doesn’t work either. Which he finds disturbing. Brute force almost always works. Jean figures that the energy field is keyed to their power sets so whatever is going on is deliberate. Nightcrawler alerts his team to something going on. Around them New York seems different… darker.
Young Iceman contacts them and remarks they are lucky, at least they are still in New York. His team on the other hand find themselves in the icy wastes. Angel figures they’ve been teleported. Nightcrawler disagrees and Beast suggests this is some kind of virtual environment. This is why softball is a bad idea, Kitty sighs, as she look down at herself. She suddenly finds herself dressed in the uniform of a mutant prisoner from the future. Beast has change into the bestial version of himself he was shortly after he dabbled too much with magic, while Jean is wearing a PG13 variant of the Goblyn Queen’s skimpy outfit.
Elsewhere, Storm is wearing the outfit she briefly wore as Goddess of Thunder, making her believe that their team is in Asgard. Logan agrees, only to add he hates Asgard.
Back with group one:Bloodstorm asks what this place is. Rachel dressed as a hound explains it’s where or more to the point when she is from. This is the future. This can’t be happening, she mutters.
Kitty worries about Rachel, who assures her she’s good. This isn’t the time. This is a combat zone. Kitty insists. It’s because they are on hostile territory she needs to know Rachel’s head’s on right. Rachel admits she can feel what it was like to be a mutant hunter. She thought she had left those days behind her.
Kitty protests this is just a wardrobe change. Not for her, Rachel replies. She reminds Kitty how she took out the Sentinel-powered nanoswarm. She had to push her powers farther than ever before. And in the process, she broke something. Ever since, she’s been getting those flashes of here. The future. She hasn’t even told Kurt.
With the other group, Jimmy, dressed in Wolverine’s brown and tan uniform, remarks that considering Rachel is psychically connected to them all he thinks she just did.
Kurt, wearing the loincloth of the Nightcrawler who was the evil servant of Belasco, looks puzzled.
They are going to talk about her and Kurt sometime soon, right? Kitty presses. Later, Rachel replies. As Sentinels loom threateningly, Bloodstorm wonders if there will be a later.
As her group faces demons, Jean remarks they don’t seem to be in the future. Colossus explains this is Inferno. The ultimate corruption of Madelyne Pryor.
Someone’s trying to kill them with nostalgia, Logan ventures, as his group faces Frost Giants.
Mojo happily watches the proceedings on his screens. Not nostalgia, he remarks. Legacy! The greatest hits, as it were. And the greatest thing about these hits? They hit back!
A demon hits Colossus.
But that’s not the best part, Mojo raves The best part is, it’s broadcast worldwide. Screens everywhere are taken over by the show. But even that’s not the best part. The best part is this isn’t just a show, it’s a game! And the audience is the winner! So pick your favorites! Place your bets. Because this is going to be uncanny!