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Thieves in the Night
In a cramped car on a rainyd day, Generation X and their teacher Emma Frost drive out for a night in the town. Emma believes that they need some time to relax because of how everyone is depressed from recent events. Everett is sick with guilt about Monet splitting apart, Jubilee blames herself for spilling secrets to Bastion and Paige and Jono are tense because of their unresolved feelings for each other. On top of it all, Angelo tries to cheer them up, but is getting on everybody’s nerves. In the car, Emma gives the kids several options where they want to go, and they are all for the Diner, instead of the Maison Nouvelle, which she would have preferred.
As they drive out the gate of the school, two shadowy figures sneak inside before the gate closes. They approach the building and jimmy one of the windows open.
At the neighborhood diner the kids all order burgers, fries and onion rings, only Emma settles for a salad with low-fat Roquefort. Right then, Weasel and Dorian, two local bullies, head over to their table to hassle them. They don’t like the kids that go to the “special school”.
At the school, the two intruders realize that they got lucky, as somebody forgot to turn on the alarm system. Walking around the mansion looking for things to steal, they don’t realize that they are being watched by the enigmatic Penance who stealthily sneaks into the medical lab to protect the M twins.
Dorian and Weasel pester the Generation X kids and Emma promptly tells her students to ignore the buffoons. Dorian becomes angry and starts yelling at Emma, unaware of Skin and Jubilee’s plan. Skin stretches his fingers and pulls out Dorian’s pants while Jubilee puts a pyrotechnic ball into them.
Meanwhile, the thieves collect their wanted goods and are about to leave when they see the med lab. They wonder if there are any drugs or valuable items in there that can completely get them off the hook. They wander into the lab only to be faced with a ferocious Penance.
At the diner, Dorian fumes with anger. He demands to know which one of the academy geeks dropped a firecracker in his pants. He rears back to punch one of them but his fist is caught by Chief Authier, who promptly disposes of the miscreants and apologizes to the kids. He doesn’t like people being harassed for being different; himself being a Huguenot and Ojibway and his wife being Armenian and Jewish, there is not a drop of blood between them that doesn’t have a racial memory of genocide and oppression.
Outside, Weasel and Dorian get into their car and wonder how Aemon and Tracy made out on their assignment.
Back inside, Chief Authier asks Jono to pull off his mask to make sure that he isn’t a wanted criminal. Chamber panics, but Emma telepathically reassures him and orders him to pull his mask off. Chamber reluctantly complies, and miraculously his face appears whole. Emma used her telepathic abilities to disguise Jono’s appearance to the officer, who, now satisfied, walks away, wishing the class a nice evening.
On Muir Island, Moira MacTaggert stands in the midst of a holographic simulation of human DNA, explaining her theories on the deadly Legacy Virus to Sean Cassidy. She proposes that the virus does not attack on a cellular level like most, but attaches itself to cellular proteins. The virus latches on to the protein that the mutant’s powers are on, changing its shape and destabilizing it until the host dies as a result of their own powers. Sean tells Moira that she is working to hard; there is always a tomorrow to finish her work. Moira answers him that if she doesn’t find the cure that there will not be a tomorrow. Sean says that there is always a new dawn, and that is God’s way of reminding them that there is always hope.
(several hours later)The Generation X kids return home to find that they have been robbed. Everyone lists off the things that have been stolen from them, and Chamber and Synch get angry at Jubilee, Skin and Husk for their apparent trivial losses compared to Everett’s life savings and Jono’s entire CD collection. Jubilee is missing the cowboy hat Logan gave her, Skin lost his cigar box, and Husk reports her advanced calculus book as stolen. Emma bursts into the hallway, exclaiming that her jewels have been taken also.
Chamber remarks that Emma must really be upset over the fight with Banshee, as she forgot to activate the security system. She dismisses the comment and asks if anyone has checked on Penance and the twins. The team looks in the med lab and finds it in disarray, the beds overturned. Synch finds Penance hiding in the medicine cabinet with the twins sleeping by her side. They all congratulate Penance on her quick thinking, and Jubilee asks for a clue as to who robbed them. Penance scratches around on the floor for a magazine. She picks up one and shows the cover to the team. They all stare in disbelief at the picture of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
In a pocket dimension belonging to Emplate, D.O.A. scurries to his master to tell him of recent developments. A mysterious door, labeled WC, has appeared in their dimension. Emplate orders D.O.A. to open it, much to his dismay since the origin of the door is unknown. Submissively, D.O.A. complies with his master’s orders.
(the next day)Jubilee, Husk, and Skin discuss their thefts while walking through town. They are determined to get their things back and wonder what Penance meant by showing the picture of the Clinton; surely it wasn’t them who broke into the school. As they pass a mask shop, Jubilee sees masks of the Clinton’s in the window and realizes that the thieves must have worn similar masks. The teens quickly question the shopkeeper, who says that he never sold one of them, but he suspects that a pair of them have recently been filched by a certain teenager.
Elsewhere, D.O.A. shakily opens the door and four shapes come tumbling out, a blonde female followed by two Plasma Wraiths and Dirtnap. The leader introduces herself as Chimera and proposes an alliance between her party and Emplate. Curious, Emplate asks her if the door she just came through is a dimensional gateway, and she tells him that it is a warp chamber, which is pretty much the same thing.
In Massachusetts, Skin, Jubilee, and Husk are hiding in the bushes outside a house. They wait until they see a figure with a Hillary mask come out the window. Jubilee wonders where “Bill“ is and Angelo makes a joke that he is probably at the motel with Paula. The kids secretly follow the thief and see him meet up with the bullies from the diner. The thief, Aemon, loads the stolen goods into Dorian’s car.
Dorian wonders where the other thief, Tracy, is and Aemon relays her message to them. She told them that they could kiss it because she doesn’t want to do their dirty work anymore. Dorian loses his temper and punches Aemon. He is about to punch him again when Husk jumps out from behind the fence to save the young boy. Paige stands in Dorian’s path, but she cannot use her powers for fear of endangering the school’s secret. Dorian punches Paige and her teammates jump to her rescue. Still hidden in some bushes, Skin entangles Dorian’s feet and trips him while Jubilee beats up Weasel.
The bullies jump into their car to drive away, but Skin is able to take the suitcase of stolen merchandise out of the trunk and Jubilee throws a “paf” up the tail pipe of the car. The engine of the car blows and it skids to a stop, right before the eyes of Chief Authier. He arrests the young hoodlums, who claim that it wasn’t their fault. But those of “them weirdo geeks“, but the Generation X teenagers have already left.
Later, Page, Angelo and Jubilee talk to Aemon about the things that he stole. Inside the suitcase they find Everett’s money. Emma‘s jewels and Jono’s CDs, but their own things are missing. They ask him where their belongings are and Aemon tells them that his partner Tracy has them. He then tells them who Tracy is.
On the other side of town, Chief Authier walks into his home and calls out to his daughter, Tracy. She sits on her bed wearing Jubilee’s cowboy hat, reading Paige’s journal which was hidden in her calculus book. With the other hand she is playing with a gun she found in Angelo’s box of cigars. She tells her dad that she heard him, but she is reading right now.


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Guilty Secrets
Returning from his trip to Muir Island, Banshee comes home to the mansion and is greeted by the fist of Emma Frost. She warns him never to strike at her again because she will always strike back harder.
Jubilee, Skin, and Husk run in the door with the briefcase of stolen property. Husk passes out all of the stolen items; Jono’s CD’s, Everett’s money, Emma’s jewels. Sean asks Jubilee about the break-in and she explains to him that it is all okay since they have managed to get all of the stolen things back. Sean asks her wether she, Paige and Angelo have their stuff back as well, but she quickly changes the subject. Sean turns his attention towards Emma, wondering how the thieves broke in if the alarm was on. Emma snaps back that they were lucky the thieves didn’t happen upon the school’s more delicate secrets and if Banshee weren’t in Scotland maybe it could have been avoided. Sean tells her that he learned a few valuable things from Moira MacTaggert about the twins.
In the Med-lab, Sean explains to the team what he learned from Moira. She says that the Monet that they knew was the combined form of the twins and that their natural state is the twins. When they combine they are twice as old, in all her years of research she never saw such a phenomenon. The joining into Monet was initiated by the twins, although maybe not voluntary, but a preservation instinct totally out of their control. Emma asks if the coma is their natural state, but Banshee tells her that no, something else went wrong.
The phone rings and Angelo picks up. It is Tracy Authier, the girl that has his and the girls’ belongings. She says to meet her behind the diner if they want to get their things back. Angelo pretends that the caller is for the telephone service so as not to notify the others. He grabs Husk and Jubilee and hurries them out the door. Quickly, he explains the situation to them, but Jubilee is confused by it. Why does Tracy think she can dictate their actions over such trivial items as a calculus book, a cigar box, and a cowboy hat?
A little bit later, behind the diner, Jubilee talks to her teammates. She tries to get them to tell her about what they got to hide and what is so important about a calculus book and a cigar box. The team won’t think any different of them for whatever the items truly are. Tracy pulls up on a scooter carrying the stolen items. Jubilee approaches her that they know that she and Aemon were coerced into stealing by Dorian and Weasel, so they just want their stuff back. Tracy answers that she can figure out why Angelo wanted his gun with half of a clip back and why Paige wanted her diary, but why does Jubilee want the greasy old hat? The others are startled to find out about the gun and the diary, that were hidden in the box and the calculus book.
Meanwhile in Emplate’s reality, he discusses the topic of interdimensional travel with his new allies, Chimera and the Plasma Wraiths. She shows him the object with which she will travel, a lepton imploder. Emplate wonders why she doesn’t use the warp chamber doorway that she came in with, but she tells him that it is too risky to overuse it. One never knows when one will end up in the same reality as the Expediter or Logan. She blows the lepton imploder and offers to lead the way.
Back at the diner, Tracy wants to make a deal with the kids for their possessions back. Jubilee tells her that they don’t make deals with thieves. Tracy waves Paige’s diary in her face and says that according to it, some of their teachers are ex-criminals and fugitives from international justice.
(partially memory / flashbacks)Jubilee has no other option than to accept the deal, and starts to explain why she wants the hat back that bad. She carefully chooses her words, trying not to spill any of the school’s secrets. Jubilee tells Tracy of her friend Logan, who is one of the bravest, most righteous dudes in the world, and that the hat used to belong to him. Not too long ago, she was in a really bad place and some creep tried to convince her that Logan was also his captive and begging for mercy, though she knew that he would never do that, so she laughed the creep in the face. When she got out of that mess and was lost in the desert, Logan ran ten miles through the dark to save her. He is one to never give up. Not even when one of the worst guys of all time hurt him so horribly that she thought he would never be the same again. Logan lost everything he ever had more times than she can count, but he keeps picking himself up, however that one time he thought he had become a liability to the others and decided to leave, though he left her his hat. Jubilee tells Tracy that she doesn’t need the hat to remember him by, but she sure would want it back. Tracy seems convinced and gives the hat back to her.
Tracy wants to hear Angelo’s story next, does he have enemies so bad that he needs a hide-out, or is he just outfitting himself for a life of crime. He explains to her that he got the gun when he was back in Los Angeles. One night he was cruising with his friends Tores, Gordo and Lupo when they ventured into the rival gang territory of the Figueroa street boys. Angelo was unsure of this, but the others claimed that Tores was there to strike a deal with the Figueroas. His friend gave him a gun to protect himself and there ended up being a shoot out after one of the Figueroa boys saw Angelo’s gun. Three people died that night, including Angelo. He faked his own death and had to leave town and everyone that he cared about. He wrecked the gun so that it could never be used again, but he still keeps it to remind him of what he lost that day and where he comes from. Tracy says that she understands and gives the gun back to him.
Making fun of Paige, Tracy says that she knows why she wants her diary back; it is filled with lots of juicy material. There are such things about spiky-haired men from other dimensions who eat mutants and giant robots that shoot lasers out of their eyes. The teens fear that the institute is going to be exposed because of what Paige wrote about the Sentinels and Emplate, but Tracy goes on to say that Paige must be bored stiff at the institute to make up such lurid tales. The real important stuff, Tracy says, are the things that Paige wrote about Jono. She goes on to read one of Paige’s entries but is interrupted by Paige ripping the diary out of her hands. Jubilee and Skin snicker. Tracy doesn’t care about the diary, she had every page photocopied and she is sure that Jono would want to read them. Skin and Jubilee whisper that Tracy thinks almost everything in that diary is fiction except for the things about Jono. Paige cuts to the chase and asks Tracy what she wants, and she replies that she wants in on the gangs “elite circle” and wants their help solving a little problem of hers.
Inside of the Med-lab, Chamber and Synch sweep up the mess from the previous nights skirmish. They complain that even though Skin, Husk, and Jubilee got their things back, they didn’t stay long enough to help with the clean up. Still sitting besides the twins in their beds, penance observes the two of them. Suddenly a green portal rips through space-time in front of them and shadowy figures emerge. Chimera and the Plasma Wraiths appear and head straight towards the twins, saying that they are what Emplate desires. Chamber blasts one Plasma Wraith with a psionic burst and Penance rips into one of the others to try to protect the twins. Chimera gets them to stop by having one of the Plasma Wraiths place Synch in a headlock and threatening to break his neck. Also coming through the portal, Emplate tells Chimera that she can do with the children whatever she pleases as long as their genetic material is still intact.
At the sound of their brother’s voice, the twins, Claudette and Nicole St. Croix, awake from their coma. Claudette tells her sister that their brother Marius looks so sad and angry and that there is only one way to deal with him. They link hands and in a flash of brilliant light, they join into their previously known form, M. Monet flies over to her terrified brother and joins with him, forming the entity known as M-Plate. The only question that lingers in the air is; who is in control of the body, Monet or Marius?


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Pool of Tears
Angelo, Paige and Jubilee return to the school with Tracy Authier. While Paige explains to their new “friend“ that their curriculum is a very diverse, gifted program, which Tracy finds strange as her trombone teacher says she is gifted but was never invited, Jubilee secretly says to Angelo that bringing Tracy along is a bad idea – what if something weird happens? Skin tells her not to worry, it’s not like they have Sentinels attacking or Australian Aborigine shamans sitting on their roof every day. Paige turns to Tracy and demands that, as they have now brought her to the school, she hand over the copy she made of her diary. Tracy, however, thinks otherwise. The diary is her insurance. Besides, she doesn’t feel like she belongs yet. Hearing this, Jubilee flips. Does Tracy actually think they’ll like her after she stole their stuff and blackmailed them? Angelo tells her to calm down and heads for the front door.
He opens it but the scene in front of him is definitely not what he expected. Up on the landing of the entrance hall stand two black leather clad figure. One of them, her head totally covered with wrappings is a so-called plasma wraith and, with her clawed fingers, she is about to strangle Synch. The other, a blonde female, listening to the moniker Chimera, releases fiery energy from her hand that takes on the shape of a demonic face, the jaw wide open, scaring the mutants that stand in the hall down below. Banshee and Emma, having just arrived from another room, wonder what is going on. Chamber explains that Emplate and these women came through a dimensional warpgate, whereupon the twins merged back into M only to join bodies with Emplate, forming the strange and somewhat confused entity that is now standing on the stairway. Skin quickly steps inside and closes the door behind him in Jubilee’s face. Both she and Paige are annoyed by his apparently rude behavior and hammer on the door, demanding to be let in.
Inside, Banshee prepares to release his sonic scream at the spiked figure that is now running up the stairway but Chamber urges him not to, after all the twins are somewhere inside that entity. On the landing, the Plasma Wraith argues with Chimera whether their alliance with Emplate is still working, as that form is no longer Emplate but something different. Hearing this, Synch asks how they could be so stupid to make a deal with Emplate, who is a known psychopath and can only survive by sucking genetic material of mutants. Chimera orders him to shut up as she is trying to think but Everett tells her not to strain herself.
Seeing Skin down below, Synch calls out to him to give him some skin. Angelo understands and, shouting “Tag Team,“ he stretches his fingers and reaches out along the stairway, through the legs of the newly formed entity and slaps Synch’s hand. Everett now uses his aura to copy his teammate’s’ powers and, stretching his own skin, attempts to uncover the wrappings covering the Plasma Wraith‘s head.
Seeing her servant in peril, Chimera redirects her energy creature at Synch and it breathes fire at his back. Sean takes to the air and uses his sonic powers on her, knocking her backwards. Outside, Tracy covers her ears. She asks Paige and Jubilee is that is their alarm system. The two mutant girls exchange glances; they know that Banshee would only be wailing if they were under attack. Jubilee suggests that Paige shows Tracy the rest of the campus, while she will check out what’s causing the “alarm.“ Meanwhile, inside, Chimera has already gotten up again and she raises up her first, declaring that she is the Scourge of the Nether-dimensions and a conduit for the cosmic wind that blows between realities. She conjures up several more of her energy demons and one throws Banshee backwards through the window, just as Jubilee is walking in through the door. Paige tells the confused Tracy to join her for a look at the biosphere.
In the hall, Emma has had enough of Chimera and attacks her with psionic blasts. Chimera, now on her knees, calls out to Emplate to help her, as the telepath is too strong for her. The androgynous entity turns it’s head towards Chimera and declares that Emplate is no more. All that exists now is a bio-genetic amalgam of Monet St. Croix and her brother Marius, known as Emplate. From now on they are M-Plate. The merged being looks at both groupings, Emplate had a deal with Chimera but M had a relationship with Generation X – which takes precedence?
Walking across the campus, Paige promises Tracy that she’ll love it in the Biosphere but the girl is still thinking about the man she just saw thrown out of the window and asks if he is one of the teachers. Paige confirms it but, at the same time, explains that it was a physics demonstration. Pretty cool, no? Before Tracy can fully answer, Paige has already shoved her into the Biosphere and, closing the door behind her, says she’ll be right back. Angrily, Tracy calls out to not leave her in there all by herself. Then, hearing something behind her, she gets a little bit nervous. Carefully, she calls out “Hello? Uh... Is there somebody else in here with me?“
Up on the landing, a hole is torn in reality and D.O.A. steps through, happily telling his boss that their warp emulator is working again. However, he then notes the change in his employer and asks what happened. M-Plate states that they have their own agenda now. Just like M was more than the sum of the twins, they are now more than M and Emplate combined and they have needs.
Down below, Generation X starts an argument how to deal with this new situation. Jubilee says that they can’t allow M-Plate to escape with the twins inside, though Emma and Sean understand that as a new entity, M-Plate, has the same rights as any other living being. Just as Husk returns, Skin takes Jubilee’s side; that thing has someone they love inside, no matter how they see it.
On the landing, M-Plate wrests Synch from the Plasma Wraith’s grip, stating that he will fulfill their need. Now, all of Generation X agrees that the creature needs to be detained and Banshee rushes forward. Referring to her/himself as “I,“ instead of “we,“ for the first time, M-Plate explains itself to be far more powerful than Chimera as he/she commands the flux of interdimensional reality itself and can also distort it at will. M-Plate raises a hand and the staircase transforms into some sort of vortex, transporting the approaching mutants back into the hall.
Sean gets angry and vows to stop the creature but Emma thinks of the winds inside and tries a more subtle approach with her telepathy. However, M-Plate is as powerful a psi as she and the attack deflects back on Emma. Shifting his/her attention to Everett, M-Plate states that the portals of space and time are at their disposal. Drawing a circle into the air, a ring of fire appears, forming a dimensional portal. M-Plate tells the others to process, as the universe is expanding without them. Chimera, the Plasma Wraith and D.O.A. all walk towards the glowing doorway.
Skin refuses to let them get away with their teammate and stretches his fingers once more, grabbing M-Plate’s foot. Husk runs up the stairs and rips her skin off, revealing stainless steel underneath. She threatens M-Plate but he/she is not intimidated in the least, as Husk needs to reach him/her before she can even think of harming him/her. Jubilee takes this as her cue, as her powers works from afar and she releases a wave of her fireworks at the foe. With M-Plate momentarily stunned and Skin holding him/her in place, Paige tries to knock her/him out, though M-Plate belittles her for her ineffectual effort and easily knocks Husk over the landing. Shaking of Skin’s extended limbs, M-Plate now turns to Jubilee and, already halfway through the dimensional warpgate, M-Plate releases some real fireworks at the girl. Jubilee is hit by an energy explosion, sending her flying backwards through the door and out in the yard, where she bounces off the ground several times, and ...
(Jubilee’s dream / hallucination)... falls down a rabbit hole. Still falling, Jubilee passes a crucified Wolverine and a table with a glass on it with a note attached “Drink me.” Jubilee’s falls through some vegetation and, suddenly, the sky clears and she is dumped into an ocean. Next, Jubilee is pulled out of the water onto a raft by the twin girls, Claudette and Nicole St. Croix, both wearing oversized shoes and gloves and having obese bodies. The twins are giggling and overly happy, prompting Jubilee to ask what the two of them are doing here, as they are supposed to be mixed up with Emplate and, besides, isn’t one of the girls autistic? Getting no sufficient answer, Jubilee asks which of the girls is which and the twins pointing at each other both say “She’s Tweedle-Monet and I’m not!”
The raft is washed ashore, where a man wearing a walrus costume (Banshee’s face is looking out of the Walrus’ mouth) is wheeling a barrow full of oysters, trying to sell them. Jubilee asks Mr. Walrus for help in figuring out which of the twins is which as, until recently, they used to merge into her friend Monet and she has to figure out how to help them. The Walrus says that this is beyond his capabilities but he knows some folks down the lane who might be able to help. He tells Jubilee and the Tweedle-Monets to hop on his barrow so that he can wheel them to the tea party his friends are having. There is always an extra seat. The three girls comply, though the twins, still grinning and giggling, know better – contrariwise, there are never enough places for them.
At the tea party, the twins immediately join the characters sitting on the table: the Hatter (Skin), the Caterpillar (Gateway), the White Rabbit (Husk wearing a set of bunny ears), and the Queen of Hearts (Emma). Jubilee repeats her question of which is which girl but the Hatter says they can’t answer, as it isn’t her birthday. The White Rabbit is too busy repairing its watch. “Not enough time”. The Dormouse (Synch) emerges from a tea can and tells them not to look now but the Red Queen has the answer. Of course she does, the Queen responds, the answer to their predicament is:”Off with their heads!”
The Tweedle-Monets agree with the Queen and one of them rips off her head, only to grow a new one – Emplate’s. She asks, “How’s this?” and her twin says, “better,” before she rips it off once more. This time, the head of the girl appears again. Endlessly stating “and better,” the twin girls rip off head after head, alternating between the girls’ and Emplate’s image. Soon, they stand on a pile of their own ripped-off heads. Jubilee finds this all curioser and curioser and wonders what it all means. One Tweedle-Monet answers it means she ain’t seen nothing yet. Next, the twin rips off Jubilee’s head, revealing an Emplate head underneath. Jubilee shouts at her to put her head back on.
(present)Jubilee comes around, with her teachers and teammates standing all around her with concern. They ask her if everything is all right and, when Jubilee sees the extent of damage done to the building and the entrance hall, she asks what happened to Everett and the twins. Banshee explains that M-Plate took Synch through the gate and it slammed shut behind them. Emma notes that Jubilee was struck by a psi-blast and asks if she has seen anything strange. Jubilee says that possibly M was trying to send a message and that they need to get M and Everett back.
Before she can elaborate any further, a scream is heard. Banshee says it sounded like it came from the Biosphere and Husk says that she stashed Tracy in there but totally forgot about her. The teachers give her an angry glance, asking who Tracy is and, along the way, Paige says “a friend.” Several minutes later, an excessive search has revealed the Biosphere to be empty. Emma demands to know how Paige dares to bring a stranger into the school but she dismisses it by stating that it is a long story. Paige calls up to the treehouse for Artie and leech but the boys don’t answer. Paige wonders what happened to all of them. “It’s back,” Emma states. Chamber asks what she is referring to and she answers, “the Pooka.”


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Harvest of Evil!
The Generation X kids arrive in Mexico and are all excited about it. Husk and M are surprised that Emma and Sean let them go to Mexico by themselves, but figure that they did so well in Los Angeles on their own, as well as because they did so well on their exams. Synch comments that they all did do well-except Jubilee’s C-average, which almost brought them all down, to which she replies “Hey, I am what I am.”
When they’re all done fantasizing of what to do in Mexico, they go to hire a taxi to where they were invited: La Casa Del Sol. Jubilee tries to ask a taxi driver for a ride, but ends up asking him via bad Spanish for a polar bear. Skin steps in to hire the taxi, but when he informs the driver of their destination, the taxi driver drives away. Skin is certain he asked for directions correctly, but after another taxi driver runs away, an old local woman warns them that Casa Del Sol is a place of the devils. The old woman eventually agrees to sell them her old car for them to get there, and M reluctantly agrees to the one-hundred American dollar price.
After driving in the rain for what seems like a few hours according to Synch, they arrive at night at a giant castle at the end of the road. Via a brief lightening strike, lighting up the night sky, Husk thinks she sees a man climbing a tower, but M passes it off as a trick of the lightning. Though the kids are uneasy about going to the castle, they think they should at least get out of the storm and ask for directions to their destination.
When they reach the top of the castle, the owner is relieved that one of the schools he’s been expecting has finally arrived. Husk is confused, as this was not the castle they expected, and asks him just to be sure if it is the Casa Del Sol. The owner confirms that it is the castle in all its magnificence, and introduces himself as Mr. Pretorious. Husk tell Mr. Pretorious that this wasn’t what she was expecting, and he states that the brochure may have printed the wrong picture of another hotel, to which she replies, “Accidents happen, I guess.”
Mr. Pretorious calls two hunchbacked servants, Nook and Cranny, to help the guests to their rooms in the East Wing. He then tells the Generation X kids that they can meet the other school that arrived earlier tomorrow. Jubilee questions school being singular, as Mr. Pretorious did say schools plural from all over were coming to visit. Mr. Pretorious replies that there were problems with the other schools, namely transportation from the village. When Skin asks why they didn’t phone ahead, Mr. Pretorious replies that Casa Del Sol has no phone. Jubilee begins to retort that all normal hotels have a phone, but is interrupted when Pretorious tells her that this place isn’t normal and that they can talk more in the morning. Later, Synch wonders who the other school is.
(Four Hours Earlier)The Gen 13 kids have all just arrived to Casa Del Sol. They all comment on how it stinks, except for Grunge, who is excited and compares the castle to one right out of “those old Hammer films with Ray Milland or Vincent Price.” Fairchild corrects Grunge by telling him that those were American International films, and they all stank-just like the castle. She goes on to say she wishes for a stimulating game of chess with a lifeguard but, by the looks of the castle, all that they’ll get is the hunchback Igor assistant types. Almost immediately, Mr. Pretorious arrives with Nook and Cranny and welcomes them, to which Fairchild sarcastically comments that she must be psychic.
Only a short moment later, they are on their own again after Mr. Pretorious introduces them to the west wing, where they will be staying. On their way there, Freefall is glad that they aren’t followed by “that guy and his two troll-boy helper dudes.” Rainmaker agrees and is glad that no one is watching them. Unfortunately for her, she misses a pair of eyes following their movements from an old picture.
Out of nowhere, all the lights are turned off, and the kids panic in the darkness before Burnout finally lights up a flame on his finger for them to see. Burnout is then unexpectedly knocked out by an unknown foe, and the kids are again left in the darkness. Thankfully, the lightning gives them enough light every few seconds. The rest of Gen 13 finds Burnout’s seemingly unconscious body, but an ape monster appears out of nowhere and tries to pull away his body.
The kids scramble in the darkness trying to fight the monster, but are interrupted when Mr. Pretorious turns the lights back on. Fairchild informs him of the monster that just tried to attack them and tells him to call the cops. Mr. Pretorious, however, is already aware of the problem, but assures them it was just an ape that escaped from his lab and that it has been taken care of. Freefall notices a car pulling up, to which Mr. Pretorious assumes it is the other school, and tells them that he will greet them and that they can meet each other tomorrow at breakfast.
The next morning at breakfast, all the students get along well together, surprising Mr. Pretorious, who didn’t know that they knew each other. Hesitantly, Husk confirms that they had met once before. Later, when all of the students are at the beach, Jubilee makes sure she isn’t the only one who thinks that the setup is weird, to which everyone else agrees it is a little creepy. Burnout tells them at least they have the beach, but Jubilee is upset that there are no “sexy Cabana boys,” and Skin and Rainmaker simultaneously add “or girls.”
Farichild wants to go into town, and Rainmaker, Husk and Chamber join her. Meanwhile, Synch and Freefall explore the castle, both agreeing that the stuff in it is old and cool. Suddenly, they are attacked by a knight’s suit of armor, knocking them both out. Meanwhile, as Farichild, Rainmaker, Husk and Chamber arrive in town, they discover that it is the Mexican holiday, the Day of the Dead, and are excited for some entertainment tonight.
Back on the beach, Grunge keeps pulling at Jubilee’s swim trunks, and she threatens to rip his off if he doesn’t stop. Watching from the beach, M asks Burnout if Grunge always acts that way, to which he replies that, since Grunge doesn’t know them too well, he’s actually on his best behavior. Back in the water, Grunge thinks Jubilee is creeping up behind him, but everyone is surprised to see a giant, humanoid sea monster there instead. Grunge, Burnout, Jubilee, M and Skin all fight the creature, but it knocks them on the beach and escapes.
Speaking first, Grunge wonders aloud about the ape-man they fought last night, and now the man-fish they just fought, calling them both hybrids. Skin ponders if Pretorious is behind them after all and everyone soon agrees that they should check out Mr. Pretorious’s lab.
In his lab, Mr. Pretorious scorns Nook and Cranny for allowing the man-fish to escape, even if it was just for a while. Mr. Pretorious credits solely the control collars that he makes his hybrids wear for their return. When Cranny questions his methods, Pretorious explains to them again how he harvests these hybrids to grow human organs to sell to wealthy patrons. He further explains how he bribed a U.S. government official to tell him where he could find those with super-powers. They told him of Mr. John Lynch, who had a school of super-powered children, so he invited them and other schools to not raise suspicion.
Watching from above via a window, the students realize that Pretorious is unaware of Generation X having powers, and that they have to react fast. The students regroup and then attack Pretorious’s lab. Pretorious, however, is prepared with knockout gas and drugged darts to force the students to sleep. When they wake, Pretorious realizes Burnout is not with them and uses truth serum on his teammate to figure out where he is. After Pretorious discovers Burnout was sent into town to call Mr. Lynch, Pretorious decides he will go into town himself with his hybrids, an act which will cause little suspicion from locals as it is the Day of the Dead. Accompanying him are eight hybrids, spliced from various mammals, reptiles, fish, bird and insect.
With only Nook and Cranny to look after them, Freefall uses her powers to surprise the two, lifting her cage and swinging it into the two like a weapon. Now free, the gang run to town to Burnout and stop Pretorious.
Meanwhile, Burnout is talking on a payphone to Mr. Lynch, explaining his situation and how the local sheriff won’t help, since Pretorious is involved. Unfortunately, Lynch can’t help in time, so Burnout realizes he has to take matters into his own hands. He attempts to make the sheriff help but the sheriff only runs away in terror. Confused, Burnout turns around to see what scared him, only to face one of Pretorious’s hybrids, a giant man-bird. Though he manages to face the bird hybrid in the sky, a dog hybrid tackles him from below, dragging him to the ground.
When all hope seems lost, however, the rest of Gen13 and Generation X join the fight. All of the students fight the hybrids, targeting their collars so Pretorious cannot control them anymore. They succeed and manage to stop Pretorious as he attempts to slip away as well. No longer under control, the hybrids run off into the Mexican desert.
(later)After the crazy two days they had down at La Casa Del Sol, the two teams decide to vacation in La Jolla, California. The Generation X kids are particularly happy that Sean and Emma didn’t get mad at them for getting into trouble, and more so that they felt Mr. Lynch could keep them out of trouble for the rest of their vacation. When Freefall wonders what will happen to Pretorious, Husk notes that Lynch handed him over to some government group. He’s going to jail, but in a special place where he could divulge and develop his research into gene splicing. The hybrids they fought, however, Fairchild notes, have evaded capture and Lynch figures they’ll simply become more of the Mexican villagers’ myth and legend.
Nearby, Rainmaker thinks she sees a man far out in the ocean, but brushes it off as a trick of the sun. Unseen by her and the others, however, the man-fish hybrid has slipped beneath the waves and swims off into the deep.


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In the Biosphere, the members of Generation X search in vain for the lost Tracy Authier. Emma says that she had suspected the Token had returned and speculates that it may have taken Tracy and hidden her. Skin thinks it will be easy to find her, but Jono tells him that it isn’t easy to find something that a Token hid. Banshee teases Emma on her knowledge of the supernatural, since she was skeptical when Logan told them about the Token in the first place. Emma says that she has done her research and is prepared to be open-minded, unlike a certain obstinate Irishman. Husk interrupts the quarrel to focus attention on the task at hand; the sooner they find Tracy, the sooner they can try to rescue Monet and Everett from the other dimension.
Behind the group, the Token, an almost transparent creature with elements from dragon and bird alike, is soaring through the Biosphere with the kidnapped Tracy in one of his pranks. Jubilee has a strange feeling that something is behind them, but isn’t quick enough to fully it what it was, only that it was big and moving. The rest of the team turns and sees nothing but the entrance door they came through, and since Emma can’t pick up any telepathic resonance they quickly dismiss it. Banshee decides that the team needs to split up if they hope to find Tracy; Emma and Skin to the left, Jubilee and Chamber go up the middle, and Penance, Husk come with Banshee on the right.
Searching through the woods, Chamber questions Jubilee on how she got to be so chummy with the policeman’s daughter. She tells him that it is too long of a story and they don’t have time for it now. In another part of the Biosphere, Emma scolds Skin for letting a local into the Biosphere. She asks him how much Tracy really knows about the school and its true purpose. Skin tells her that she doesn’t know anything and that they would be crazy to let her in on the big secret. In yet another area, Banshee asks Paige the same; why she left a stranger in the Biosphere. Paige says that she wasn’t a stranger since they knew her, and they were going to take her to the main building when they realized that something interdimensional was going on. Where else were they going to put her?
Jono and Jubilee stumble upon a topiary maze. They wonder if it was there before since they don’t remember seeing it. Jubilee runs headfirst into the maze with Jono in tow. He tells her to slow down because they need to plan what they are going to do when they find the Token. They emerge from the maze to see a six-foot tall weasel leaning up against a lamppost with a martini in his hand. He tells them that it would be beneficial if they had a Pooka on their side.
Meanwhile, at the local diner, Dorian and Weasel track down Aemon. The boy tries to run, but the bullies catch him. Aemon tells them that he isn’t going to steal any more for them, but the bullies tell him that they aren’t taking any resignations. Dorian gives the boy a noogie and shoves him through a window in the wall of the diner. He tells Aemon that there is suppose to be a secret room with a large supply of cash in the back. If he brings the cash out to them, they might not give him an Indian burn. Dorian yells through the window at Aemon that he better not pocket any of the cash for himself. A voice behind the bully asks him whose cash that might be? Dorian turns around to see Chief Authier holding Weasel by the shoulder. He asks Dorian if he is in the midst of committing a felony, because he certainly hopes not.
In the back of the restaurant, Aemon stumbles upon a door with a big, red private sign on it. However before he can reach it, the owner, Mr. Timmons, flicks on the light and tells Aemon that he shouldn’t open that door. He might get more than he bargained for.
In the Biosphere, Husk questions the logic of splitting up. It would be better if they stayed with Emma and her telepathy, wouldn’t it? Banshee takes offense, asking what his power is worth. He can take care of a Token, especially since it is a Celtic beast. Husk asks him what they should be looking for then, but her sentence is interrupted as she trips and falls. She landed in a giant three-toed footprint, which Banshee says is exactly what they are looking for.
Jubilee asks their furry friend if he is the Token. He tells them again that he is a Pooka, Elwood is his name and prestidigitation is his game. Elwood reaches behind his back and pulls out a spring-loaded bumper car. Chamber remembers that a Pooka is suppose to be a big, invisible rabbit and asks Elwood why he isn’t the right species. Elwood screams and reaches above his head; someone must have stole his ears! Jubilee and Chamber loose patience with him and he explains that that old movie got it all wrong and Pookas come in many different varieties. He asks the kids if they want to find Everett or not.
Jubilee thought that he was going to help them retrieve Tracy from the Token, but Elwood says he can’t interfere with Token business, union rules. He belongs to the United Brotherhood of Elves, Fairies, Sprites, Gnomes, Trolls, Tokens and Pookas, or the UBEFSGTTP for short. He already bent the rules by placing the footprints that will lead the others to the Token. In the meantime, they are free to go and find Everett. All three of them cram into the vehicle, and Jubilee asks how far they can travel in a bumper car with a spring on the bottom. Chamber finds it hard to believe that they are even going through with it. Elwood tells them that they are going to New York City. Jubilee asks if they are going to bounce all the way to New York City, but Elwood says that they are only bouncing as far as the nearest space-time warp. The bumper car bounces over the hedges and disappears in a portal.
Outside of Timmons’s diner, Chief Authier holds Dorian and Weasel to be identified by the owner. He asks Mr. Timmons if Aemon is the accomplice of the miscreants, but surprisingly Timmons says that he is his hired help. Aemon started work today for minimum wage and all he can eat. Aemon stares wide-eyed in shock. The chief kneels down and asks Aemon if he knows where Tracy is, being that they are friends. Tracy didn’t show up for her trombone lesson today, and he would appreciate it if Aemon would tell her to call home to let him know where she is. Aemon tells the chief that Tracy said something about meeting the kids from the academy. The chief wonders to himself why the Xavier school keeps popping up into conversation whenever there is an odd event around. He suggests that they all go up to the school to talk to the pretty lady that runs it.
The crowded travelers, minus Elwood, plop down in a parking space in midtown Manhattan. Jubilee wonders where the Pooka went, and Chamber tells her that maybe the group of people coming out of the building next to them would know. They approach the four strangers and ask them if they have seen a seven-foot ferret with a martini. It doesn’t ring a bell with any of them, but one of the four, Bunche, tells the kids that they need to go to Landau, Luckman & Lake on the 13th floor. They should find everything that they need to know up there.
Skin and Emma have walk full circle around the Biosphere and are back at the treehouse where they started, but have found no trace of the Token or the missing girl. Emma can’t pick up any psi-trace either. Both of them are standing in a giant footprint, but do not notice. Sean, Husk, and Penance meet up with them, saying that the Token has taken them full circle too. This confuses Emma and Sean scoffs in disbelief at her negligence of the footprints. Emma haughtily defends her pride, how else could they have gotten back there? The teachers start to bicker, but their argument is broken up by a gunshot in the distance.
Chief Authier steps through the door with a smoking gun in one hand and a dead Dirtnap in the other. He apologizes for the noise, and hopes that the big rat wasn’t a beloved family pet. Husk introduces the officer to Banshee who promptly grabs Dirtnap from him. The chief tosses a small mechanical device to Banshee, saying that the rat was carrying it in his mouth when he was shot. Sean cries out in amazement at the lepton imploder that was delivered to him. Authier asks what that is, and Sean quickly covers his tracks by saying that it is a new type of electronic doo-dad. Sean briskly walks out the door ushering Paige and Penance along with him, saying that the rat needs to be disposed of in the dumpster.
Chief Authier’s attention is completely distracted by the lovely Miss Frost. He asks her if she knows where his daughter Tracy is. Emma looks shocked at this statement, asking if she is missing. Skin whistles to himself in the background.
In Manhattan, the elevator reaches the 13th floor and the two teens get out. Jubilee says that it is pretty hard to lose someone like Elwood, but Jono interrupts her because he is right behind her.Just a little warp lag, he explains as they open the door to Landau, Luckman & Lake. He tells them that they are the only ones who can see him; after all he is a Pooka. The interior of the office is in ruins. Elwood tells them that it is the result of an altercation between Wolverine and Venom.
Banshee holds Dirtnap over a trashcan in the back of the school. Paige wants him to just get rid of it, but Sean has an odd feeling about it. Dirtnap speaks up, asking if the hick with the head-cannon is gone. The chief missed him by a hair, so he decided it would be safe if he played possum. Paige and Banshee are flabbergasted by Dirtnap’s talking. He asks Banshee if they want to get their pal Everett back and if they still have the lepton imploder. He proceeds to explain to them how to use it. In the police car, Dorian and Weasel wonder what Generation X are doing talking to a dead rat.
The chief notices the gigantic footprints in front of him and asks Emma about them. Skin sarcastically comments on the chief’s detective skills, and then says that the footprints belong to some raccoons that they have been having trouble with. Authier asks if he can take a look into the tree house (coincidentally where the footprints converge), and Emma tries to persuade him not to since his uniform will get dirty. That doesn’t sway his mind and he takes a look, missing the captured forms of Artie, Leech, and Tracy and their captor, the Token. The chief says that he senses something in the tree house even though he can’t see it.
In the Landau, Luckman & Lake office, there is a strangely familiar door. It is one of the WC’s that had appeared in Emplate’s dimension before Chimera’s arrival. Jubilee and Chamber inspect the damaged room. Jubilee runs her fingers over a pair of claw marks on the wall, while Chamber looks at the interdimensional financer certificate, commenting that he didn’t think it would be such a dangerous profession. Elwood opens the Warp Chamber door and instructs the kids to walk through. Jubilee goes willingly, but Chamber needs a bit of convincing. He doesn’t want to follow a gin soaked cartoon into a bathroom that glows. Jubilee grabs him by the collar and yanks him inside, saying that Everett wouldn’t hesitate to go if their situations were reversed. With all persons in, the door slams shut.
Dirtnap pulls the pin on the lepton imploder and throws it to the wall. The imploder blasts a glowing hole in the fabric of space-time. Dirtnap explains that the portal leads to where Everett is being held and that they better hurry because they have a head start on them. As Paige and Penance head through the portal, Banshee grabs Dirtnap, saying he is coming with them.
Dorian and Weasel look from the bushes in disbelief. Weasel is having trouble coping with the Generation X’s disappearance, while Dorian’s mind is on the chief. He wonders what Authier is doing in the Biosphere.
In a parallel reality parallel, an armored vehicle drives beside a herd of strange saurid beasts. Chimera, at the wheel, senses a rift in space-time; they are being pursued. M-plate is not concerned because they can’t expect to do much if they catch up to them. D.O.A. tells his new boss that their prisoner is acting up in the back. Synch, inside a force field, pleads with Monet to reassert herself as the dominant personality, but M-plate tells him that he doesn’t understand that she/he is a separate entity from her two parts, just as everyone is a combination of their conscious and subconscious mind. He/She is her own person with his/her own objectives. Everett asks what those are, and the merged entity points to an odd building in the distance. M-Plate wants the Universal Amalgamator who lives at the edge of reality. It is the unifying force that can meld her/him to any and all other consciousnesses, giving her the power to join all sentient beings into a single all-encompassing awareness.


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In Dark Woods, The Right Road Lost
In a reality adjacent to ours, a menacing T-Rex is chasing Jubilee, Chamber, and Elwood the Pooka. Chambers says to Jubilee that they never should have trusted Elwood because he transported them in the path of the huge beast. Elwood explains to the kids that it isn’t a dinosaur; it is actually a Boojum Snark, the difference is in the tendril-like eyes. Elwood pours a martini as he runs, asking the kids if they want to rescue Synch or not. Surely they couldn’t have thought this would be a Sunday picnic. Chamber tells him that they didn’t expect to be the sandwiches on the picnic. Elwood stops running to drink his martini and complain about today’s youth. A giant foot smashes down on top of him.
Chamber turns around and shoots the Snark in the face with a bio-blast, scorching his eyes away. The Snark screams in pain, but the scream turns into a snicker as four new eyes grow in place of the two that he lost. The Snark grabs Jubilee and lifts her to its mouth to eat her. Jono tells Jubilee to hang on as he turns up the power on his bio-blast and lets loose on the Snark. Jubilee falls to the ground, still with the claws of the Snark around her. She tells Jono that she is envious of the power level of his bio-blasts compared to her pyrotechnics. He replies that it isn’t worth loosing your face over, and marvels at how the Snark is still standing, even with its torso and head missing. Jubilee wonders out loud if the Snark has a healing factor, and receives an answer from Elwood.
Elwood pulls himself out of the ground from the footprint, telling her that at least the Snark doesn’t have a regeneration factor. He tells the kids that time is wasting and Synch is about to disrupt the balance of the universe. Chamber questions his credibility, but Elwood shrugs it off with a quote by Bill Burroughs, “Paranoia is simply knowing the truth”. Elwood opens a secret box hidden in a tee and pulls another cocktail mixer and martini glass from it. He then reaches into his pocket and pulls out a telescope to give to Jono, telling him to look for himself. Chamber looks through the telescope and sees his friend Synch.
Synch is trapped inside of a containment bubble being rolled up by the many steps to the top of the Citadel of the Universal Amalgamator. He continues to talk to his captor, M-Plate, vocalizing his future lack of cooperation. M-Plate doubts that he will resist, but Chimera isn’t as hopeful. She half threatens M-Plate, saying that this endeavor had better not have been for naught. M-Plate tells her to be quite or else she will incinerate her vocal cords. The nefarious being directs its attention back to Everett; his will can be bent if one knows his weaknesses. He/she tells Everett that all of the ego flexing is irrelevant since all of the consciousnesses of the universe will soon be joined into one ruling consciousness forever. Synch futilely tries to talk to the individual beings inside M-Plate, but this only angers him/her. He/she once more tells him that he/she is a separate being from the parts inside of him/her. Synch says that there is a part of Monet that is shining through, but his attention is caught by a young girl lying on an alter and chained to it. He asks M-Plate who the blonde girl is, and he/she explains that the girl is a mutant who is the guardian of the Amalgamator, and also its prisoner. A devilish grin flashes across M-Plates face as she further explains. The girl is the only one who has the power to control the Amalgamator, unless Everett synchs up with her of course.
In a snowy part of the same reality, Husk, Penance, Banshee and Dirtnap step through the dimensional portal that the Lepton imploder opened up for them. Husk tells Sean that if they are going to be traipsing around in the snow they should go back to the academy and get their jackets. As she turns to leave, the portal snaps closed with the realization of everyone that they are trapped. Banshee turns on Dirtnap, asking him if he knew that the portal would close and intentionally lead them into a trap, which he suavely denies. Penance signals to everyone about some smoke that she sees over the trees around them. The group follows the smoke to its origin to find a train surrounded by giant topiary animals. Even though they are unnerved by the situation, they decide to get on the train since it has heat inside.
Inside the engine room, Banshee drops Dirtnap and picks up a shovel to pile coal on the fire. Dirtnap tells the rest that maybe coming after Synch wasn’t such a good idea. Maybe they should just cut their losses and head for the nearest warp chamber. Husk gives the rat a lecture on how team members stick together and if they don’t they are no better than animals. Penance pulls on the whistle to get everyone’s attention to show them what she found. It is some sort of schedule for the train, giving the destinations and times of all the stops, including: Elsewhen, Nonesuch, Laputa, Neverhow, Avalon, Moria, and one last mysterious entry, C.O.T.U.A. with a destination time of zero o’clock. Banshee asks Dirtnap what COTUA is, and he tells Sean that it is the Citadel of the Universal Amalgamator; somewhere that he doesn’t want to go.
Back in Massachusetts, Emma Frost asks Chief Authier if he saw anything suspicious in the Biosphere tree house, any sign of his missing daughter? The chief says that there is no sign of Tracy, but there is definitely something in the tree house. He tells them that they won’t like it when he tells them that there is a Token up there. The chief nonchalantly brushes dust off of his uniform as Skin and Emma stare in surprise. He asks them if they know what a Token is.
Dorian and Weasel eavesdrop on the conversation outside of the door, wondering what a Token is. They surmise that the chief means the Afro-American member, Everett, since he couldn’t have been smart enough to get into the private academy on his own. Skin plays dumb with the chief, but Emma confesses that they do know what a Token is. Now Angelo corrects his story, asking if Tokens are mythical. Chief Authier says just as mythical as China was to the west until Marco Polo. He then jumps into a brief explanation, saying they can hide things very well, but it is rumored that one can make a deal with them if they bring it a bowl of porridge and a pile of silver. The chief asks to be excused while he deals with some vermin. He walks out the door and comes back pinching the ears of Dorian and Weasel. The chief says that the eavesdroppers have just volunteered for six hours of community service cleaning out the “drunk tank” back at the station. Dorian says that he couldn’t have expected them to wait in the car for that long, could he?
On the back of the remaining Snark (sans head and upper extremities), Jubilee, Chamber, and Elwood race toward the citadel. It is uncomfortable, but it sure beats walking, and half a Snark is better than none. Chamber is just happy that they didn’t get the half with the teeth. Elwood pulls out his pocket watch and realizes that they don’t have much time left. Jubilee notices something peculiar and asks Elwood why there is a zero where a twelve should be on his watch. He explains that the zero represents the end of everything. That is what is going to happen if Synch helps M-Plate reverse reality. The Snark races up a steep mountain pass as one of his passengers prepares to forget his woes with another martini. Jubilee confronts Elwood about his drinking, telling him to stop abusing his kidneys and face reality. He needs a twelve-step program, not a drink. With that, she throws his martini shaker off of the cliff.
All of a sudden, all three passengers fly into the air as they come to a quick halt. The Snark has run “head first” into a stone doorway with the word Moria on it. Chamber struggles to recall where he recognizes that name from, while Elwood wishes that he had had a nice “bracer” for his fall. Jono starts to ram to door with his shoulder as the half Snark relentlessly charges the immovable door. Elwood says that neither of them will have much luck and should let Jubilee try instead. She hardly touches her hand to it when the door opens, much to the perplexity of Chamber. He asks Elwood if the door opened because she was pure of heart. No, he replies, it was because the door was built by dwarfs and has a low center of gravity.
They all board back onto the half Snark as Jubilee asks Jono if he really thinks she is pure of heart. He tells her not to push her luck since they are going to need all the luck they can muster. Elwood thinks that they would be better off with an elephant gun and a case of grenades. The travelers enter the door and are surrounded by the skeletal remains of monsters and walls with many spikes sticking from them. Jubilee says that if they were in Orlando they could sell tickets to this place. Jono retorts by saying if this was a ride the bridge that they are going over would collapse. Elwood screams at him not to say that, but it is too late and the bridge falls out from underneath them.
Somewhere between Elsewhen and Neverhow, the train carrying Banshee, Husk, Penance, and Dirtnap speeds on towards the citadel. Banshee has figured out that M-Plate must be holding Everett at the citadel, so he stocks the fire with more coal. Penance rummages through an old lunch box that she found, pulling out a piece of cheese. Dirtnap cannot understand why these people are going to go through so much trouble to rescue their friend when they won’t profit any from it. Banshee tells the rat that they do it for a feeling of honor and self-worth, but that doesn’t seem to be something that a nasty rodent would be familiar with. Paige tells Sean to back off of him; all the people that he has ever known have been low lives. Dirtnap asks them if they would go through all this trouble for someone like him. Paige struggles to find an answer, while Banshee blurts out not a chance. Penance crawls over to Dirtnap offering him the piece of cheese that she found. Dirtnap is touched; no one has offered him anything before. The train speeds into a tunnel marked Moria.
At the Massachusetts Academy, Emma fixes a pot of oatmeal while Skin breaks open a piggy bank for its contents. Emma grabs the pot and Skin grabs the money; they have the porridge and the silver, so to speak, to make the deal with the Token. Skin asks if it is going to work, and Emma says that there is only one way to find out and that is to try. Emma and Skin stealthily place their contents in the door of the tree house, wondering how long it will take to work. On their way down, Emma hears voices from inside of the tree house and climbing up again, she peeks in with Angelo. Tracy, sitting at a table with Artie, Leech, and the Token, beckon Emma and Skin inside. She introduces them to her and the boy’s new friend, the Token.
The chief’s police car pulls up to Mr. Timmons diner. Dorian and Weasel plead with the chief, telling him that they have already worked for three hours at the station and to give them a break. The chief says that they still have three hours of community service left, and Mr. Timmons is just as much community as anyone else. Chief Authier heads inside and hands the boys over to Mr. Timmons to do with them as he pleases. Mr. Timmons says that he has just the job for them and leads them back to the storeroom. They must clean up all the bottles, fix the shelves, and mop the floor. He tells them one more thing before he leaves. No matter what, don’t open that door! He points to the side of the storeroom to a familiar door with the letters WC on it.
In Moria, Elwood, Chamber, and Jubilee continue to fall. Giant, incandescent, mushrooms that they bounce off of slow their plunge to the bottom. Eventually, all of them, including the half Snark hit bottom. Jubilee wonders what they landed on; it feels like a row of timbers. Elwood takes some matches out of his pocket and lights one, telling Jubilee that they landed on railroad tracks. Chamber asks why the flame is flickering. The match blows out. Elwood suggests that it is from the pressure dam of an oncoming train. Just as he finishes his sentence, the light of a train comes into view, headed right towards them.


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Mystery Train
Banshee furiously shovels coal into the train’s engine. Husk interrupts the monotony with short horn blasts as she sees a shadowy figure ahead on the tracks. They can’t stop the train at the speed that they are going, Banshee says, they will derail if they do. In front of the train, Jubilee, Chamber and Elwood ride hard on their half-Snark, a dinosaur like creature native to this dimension. Jono tells Elwood to make it go faster, but he says it would be a lot easier if Jono had not vaporized the half with the ears. Jubilee, clinging to the front of the half-Snark, wishes out loud that Sean was there with them. Elwood warns her that wishes have a remarkable way of coming true in unpleasant ways in this dimension.
Paige looks out the window of the train, trying to recall the familiar figures in front of her. She recognizes that it is Jubilee and Chamber and Sean tries to slow down the train. It is too late for breaks, however, as the train runs over the half-Snark. Banshee asks Paige if they ran over the kids, but she is having trouble seeing things because the headlamp went out. Jono clings to the front of the train with Elwood and Jubilee clutching his legs. Jubilee asks if she can open her eyes, and Elwood says that he wouldn’t advise it. They are slowing down and that is not a good thing. Chamber wants to know what he means by that.
In another part of the strange dimension, Chimera lazily sits on a slab of stone with her head in her hands. She inquires as to what M-Plate’s master plan is once more. M-Plate walks over to the young girl that is chained to an alter and rambles over his/her plan to join all sentient beings in the universe into a single “omni-personality”, with the help of Gaia. It will be the dawning of a new godhead. Gaia tells M-Plate that she will never cooperate with a plan like that since it will be the end of all things, not the beginning. M-Plate smiles wickedly as he/she reveals to Gaia that her cooperation is not needed since Synch is there. Everett, inside of his force field bubble, says that there is no way he will collaborate with M-Plate either. Chimera joins the fray when she puts her two cents in. She doesn’t want to be part of a universal amalgamation, why should she want to be absorbed into a pooled consciousness. D.O.A. tries to silence his master’s ally, warning her not to get the boss angry. A beam of energy leaves M-Plate’s eyes as he/she tells D.O.A. that that kind of negativism will be obliterated when they establish the universal order. The beam directly hits Chimera, reducing her to a bloody splattered mass. M-Plate then turns his/her wrath towards Synch, threatening to incinerate everyone that he even acknowledged if he doesn’t cooperate.
Jubilee, Jono and Elwood manage to shimmy along the side of the train to an open window where Sean waits to help them inside. Sean asks Jono who the furry guy is and Jono replies that it is a long story. Jubilee questions Elwood as to what he meant earlier about it being to bad that they were slowing down. Dirtnap, who had climbed to the roof of the train, answers the question with a shriek, saying that he probably was referring to a giant spider the size of an elephant that is gaining on them. Jubilee shouts at Sean to get off of the brakes and speed out of the tunnel. Paige takes the brakes off and pushes the train ahead to its full speed. On the roof, Dirtnap bounces as the train accelerates, falling off of the back of the locomotive with a nonchalant comment on the group leaving him. He turns around to see the giant spider gaining ground and takes off at a frantic sprint, screaming for the train to stop.
Jubilee tells Sean that he cannot leave Dirtnap on the train tracks, but Sean says that it is either their lives or his and he isn’t going to risk his charges for the likes of Dirtnap. Jubilee, Chamber, and Penance resolve to save Dirtnap by themselves, and go to the back of the train. Jono hangs onto the back and extends his hand to Dirtnap. Dirtnap almost has hold when something wraps around his neck, pulling him backwards. It is a strand of webbing that is as strong as steel cable. The situation seems hopeless, but then Penance reaches down and slices the webbing with her razor-sharp skin. The spider still is gaining on Dirtnap and would have eaten him if not for a bio-blast from Chamber that knocks the spider away. Dirtnap is able to make it to the train and Jubilee pulls him onto the roof. He is struck with disbelief at the act of kindness that was done to him; nobody had ever went out of their way for him ever before.
Back at the Massachusetts Academy, Emma and Skin are surprised that Chief Authier’s advice of leaving silver and porridge to reveal the Token worked. Tracy, Artie, Leech, and the Token are all sitting around the table in the Biosphere tree house drinking tea. Angelo doesn’t like the situation, but Tracy reassures him that the Token is nice once you get to know him. He only kidnapped her and the two young mutants because he was upset about them trespassing on his property. Emma blows up when she hears this fact; the Biosphere is not his property but theirs. The Token gets up from his chair and begins to head for Emma. Skin warns her to watch her tone of voice so as not to upset the mythological beast. Leech intervenes on behalf of Emma, telling the Token not to take her attitude personally because she is like that to everybody and she doesn’t understand that everything inside of the Biosphere belongs to Tokenkind. Tracy tells Emma that she has to calm down because the Token says that he can help Emma and Angelo to get their friends back from that other dimension. The two stare in disbelief at the news.
In town, Mr. Timmons gets ready to close up his diner and leave, but first talks to his special workers Dorian and Weasel. Mr. Timmons congratulates them on their good work, considering that it is community service imposed on them, and says that they can take a break after they finish stacking the bottles. As he leaves, he once more warns them never to touch the door marked “W.C.”. The boys agree, but as soon as Timmons is out of sight they turn around to look at the glowing door.
On the train, the group speeds ahead to an uncertain ending of the tunnel. An intense glowing vortex pulsates at the end of the tracks. Sean tells the kids to lean on the brakes since they have no idea where that vortex will take them. They obey his command, but the brakes have begun to fail them. The train skids into the vortex.
Above the citadel a glowing vortex crackles opens. D.O.A. asks M-Plate what it is and he/she answers as a train launches out of the vortex above their heads. Jubilee leans out of the train window and spots Everett in the containment bubble. Everyone leaps out of the train wielding their powers. Jono tells Everett that he will get him out of the bubble right away, but Sean tells him that they have to be careful since Monet is still trapped within the body of M-Plate. Elwood and Dirtnap sit on the roof of the train watching the ensuing battle. Dirtnap shows genuine concern for the Generation X members.
With their kidnappers busy, Gaia desperately pleads with Everett not to submit to the will of M-Plate. Many other people had tried to force her to trigger the universal effect, but she withstood them. Her entire galaxy was wiped out, but she still refused. Surely Everett could do no less. M-Plate scoffs at the show of concern and weakness as he/she turns around and constructs a containment bubble around Everett’s teammates. They are shocked and astonished by this; neither Monet nor Emplate could construct force fields. Sean explains the M-Plate is more than just Monet and Emplate, but a combined force with his/her powers changed and magnified. M-Plate lets Synch witness this spectacle, asking him if he really cares for his friends and doesn’t want to see them hurt. He/she then starts to contract his/her force field on the team, crushing them against each other. Jubilee asks if Jono could blast them out of the force field, but he says that being in such confined space would fry all of them in the blast. Gaia again pleads with Everett not to go through with M-Plate’s plan, but his will seems to be cracking as he sees his friends‘ lives in peril.
Above, Dirtnap goes into a fit as he sees his friends in danger. They are the only people who ever were nice to him and now they are going to die. Elwood tells him that that is not true because he doesn’t have to let it happen. Dirtnap seems startled by the idea of him being a hero, but soon falls into his role as he builds himself up. Dirtnap leaps off of the train with his jaws extended to full size heading towards M-Plate. He/she stares in disbelief as the gigantic jaws plunge towards him/her. They make contact and Dirtnap swallows the evil mutant whole. The force fields that contained Generation X simultaneously pop, freeing their captives. The team deduces that the force fields need M-Plate’s constant attention to function correctly.
Dirtnap, like a bloated tick, lies tottering on the floor. D.O.A. unceasingly pounds on the rat, trying to free his master. Dirtnap tells him to lay off or else he will eat him next. With his containment gone, Synch tries to free Gaia from her chains on the altar. She looks at him incredulously as he does so for she is in utter astonishment. She could tell that Everett was beginning to synch with her powers to save his friends. Gaia asks him why he could do it with an entire universe at stake, and he replies that he isn’t as strong as she is. He couldn’t deal with the thought of his friends suffering, even if it meant the universe. The universe and all sentient beings living in it is just to abstract of an idea for him to contemplate while the immediate consequences of his friends suffering was at hand. He once more tries to loosen Gaia’s chains, but she doesn’t want him to free her. Her chains are her responsibility and she isn’t meant to be free.
The rest of the team stands around Dirtnap in his portly state. Banshee wonders how they are supposed to extract Monet from Dirtnap’s stomach, but his contemplation is interrupted by the moans of the rodent. M-Plate isn’t digesting well, he says, and now he feels like he is about to explode. Dirtnap warns his friends to step back away from him as his body begins to swell.
In the treehouse, Tracy tells Emma and Skin that the Token said all they have to do is wait for their friends at the station. A trap door opens in the floor of the tree house with stairs leading downward. Emma and Skin inquire about the station, and Tracy tells them that she guesses that it is a subway station.
At Timmons’ diner, Dorian and Weasel open the radiant door. Weasel asks his friend what he sees, and Dorian tells him that there is a giant stone slab where the ceiling should be, and the rest of the closet is made out of light.


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Return From Forever
The members of Gen X stare in shock at the figure of Dirtnap. He has swallowed the form of M-Plate and the team just came to the realization that if M-Plate is destroyed, then so are Claudette and Nicole, and by consequence Monet who was the joined form of the two. D.O.A. frantically jumps on the swollen back of Dirtnap, ordering him to spit out his boss before his/her DNA is absorbed into his body. Dirtnap replies that it isn’t likely he can absorb someone that he can’t digest, especially since everyone is trying individually and in pairs to break free. The lingering question is who will be the dominant personality? Claudette, Monet, Nicole, Emplate or M-Plate? Dirtnap yells at his digestive captives to stop trying to escape because his molecular structure can’t take the strain. Dirtnap swells to an even greater size as energy courses around him. With a giant pop he explodes, spewing forth a green gelatinous substance and the forms of Claudette, Nicole, and Emplate.
Nicole speaks to her brother, Marius, and her sister, joyously exclaiming that they are separate once more. Emplate tells his sister that Marius doesn’t exist anymore, and that since he had been a combined being with the girls he now knows their innermost fears and secrets. Nicole snaps back that the unity worked both ways and now she knew what happened to the real Monet. Everyone ponders what the little girl said and try to work out the situation: if the combined form of the twins was not the real Monet, then who and where is she?
Emplate harshly grabs his little sister by the face, intending to siphon off her energy for sustenance. Jubilee quickly generates a display of pyrotechnics, forcing Marius to let go of Nicole. He shrugs off Jubilee’s attack, calling it pathetic, but Banshee jumps into the fray with a sonic scream to stun the horrid creature. Emplate once more rises from defeat, standing by the altar of Gaia taunting Banshee by saying he has been diverted long enough from his hunger.
Chamber powers up for a bio-blast saying that he will give Emplate something to chew on. Gaia frantically yells to Synch that Jono cannot discharge an energy blast near the Amalgamator since it is too dangerous. Synch concernedly asks where the structure is; Gaia replies that it is the entire citadel. There is no time for a warning as Chamber releases a devastating blast at his foe. Agilely, Emplate dodges the blast, sending it crashing into the altar behind him. The citadel spasms in response to the destructive energy, triggering a chain reaction that directs pieces of the structure down towards the team. Banshee yells at Everett to hurry up and collect himself, the team needs to get out of the reality quickly. Synch faithfully stands by Gaia’s side at the altar. She tells him that he needs to evacuate as soon as possible; the citadel has never taken this kind of damage before, but Synch refuses to leave the chained up girl.
On the other side of the citadel, Jubilee blasts one of the Plasma Wraiths advancing towards her, setting up the being for Penance to slash. Chamber decimates the other Wraith with a bio blast. He asks Husk if she has the twins to safety, and she positively replies carrying the unconscious Nicole in one arm while guiding the autistic Claudette with the other. Paige walks towards the floating train and, much to her surprise, Elwood throws a rope ladder down to her so that she can board the transport.
Banshee continues to bat Emplate and D.O.A. around with his sonic emissions. Snivelingly, D.O.A. cries to his boss to do something, but soon comes up with his own plan of attack. He pulls out a lepton imploder, rearing back to throw it at Banshee when Emplate stops him. He snatches the imploder out of the hands of his minion, telling him not to waste it on Banshee, but to use it for a good escape. With that Emplate hurls the piece at the ground forming an aperture in space that the two run through.
Jubilee sees this and tells Sean that that was a pretty good sign for them to leave as well, asking him if he is going to leave with the rest of Generation X or not? Banshee helps the others up the ladder, saying that he is responsible for the team’s lives, so he will be the last one out of there. He yells at Everett to get a move on. Synch stubbornly refuses, stating that he isn’t leaving without Gaia. Banshee sprints toward the center of the citadel, saying Gaia must be freed then.
Inside of the locomotive, Jubilee finds a piece of paper, and asks Husk what it is. She replies that it is a schedule, and that the last stop on there was C.O.T.U.A. Jubilee grabs the sheet and disagrees; the last stop on the schedule is the Biosphere and the arrival time is in one minute!
Below, Banshee valiantly tries to break Gaia’s fetters, but the struggle is useless since they are made of some unknown metal. Gaia tells them that what they are trying to do is wrong; she was never meant to be free! Sean yells up to Jono in the train, asking him if he could direct a blast at the chains. Gaia disparately screams for him not to do it since the residual energy would seriously damage the Amalgamator. Chamber wants to know what is going to happen; they need to decide soon since the train is beginning to pull out. Everett still tugs on the chains, ignoring Gaia’s pleas to stop. She says that he doesn’t know what he is doing, but he tells her that he isn’t going to leave without her.
Banshee cracks his knuckles and tells Everett to think again. With a shattering punch to the jaw Sean knocks Synch out cold. He tells the boy that a man has to make hard decisions and in this case there was no way that he could save the girl and Everett, so he chose Everett since he is the one that he is responsible for. Sean throws the boy over his shoulder and grabs the ladder as the train heads out. Once inside the train, Synch wakes up. He tells Sean that he should have hit him harder because it would have stopped him from synching with Banshee’s sonic abilities. With an ear-piercing wail Synch turns on Sean, knocking him aside and then leaping from the speeding train.
Chamber yells helplessly after his friend, telling him that there is no way he can cut the chains by himself. Penance thoughtfully listens to the conversation right before she throws herself out of the door. Jono yells after her, but it is too late to go back for her or Synch since the train is unstoppably plunging into the colorful vortex. Penance lands flawlessly on the crumbling foundation of the citadel, making her way towards the altar.
With a newfound appreciation, Gaia looks up at Synch. She tells him that his gesture was beautiful, but futile since there is no way to break her chains. Suddenly, the chains fall apart in a silent swish. Gaia sits up with a start, the realization hitting her that she is finally free. Penance stands smiling by her friends’ side. Synch now realizes their predicament; they need a way to escape. Gaia quickly tells them that there is, there is a warp chamber hidden underneath the stone slab of her altar.
In the Massachusetts Academy Biosphere, Skin finds something difficult to believe. Sticking his head out of the window of the tree house, he tries to find a logical answer to how there can be a trapdoor that leads to a subway station in a tree house. Tracy calmly explains to him that space is different to the Tokens. Emma agrees with the girl, saying that some people believe that Tokens and other beings live outside of our dimensional awareness. The group saunters down the stairs into a massive and intricate subway station. Skin asks in amazement how the Token made it, but his query is met with laughter. Tracy tells him that Tokens don’t make things they just open the doors.
At that moment, a train comes whizzing into the station, unloading a frantic lot of passengers. Banshee yells at Emma that they have to find a way to turn the train around since Everett and Penance are still trapped in the other reality. Elwood, now the conductor of the interdimensional train, shot down their hopes of rescue by telling them that only Tokens are allowed on that ride. The train starts to pull out of the station. Banshee yells after him, asking what to do about Synch and Penance. Elwood screams as the train enters another vortex to check the warp chamber in the back of the diner.
In a glowing closet in Mr. Timmons’ Diner, Dorian and Weasel pry at a strange stone slab on the ceiling. Dorian jams a crowbar at the stone, guessing that Mr. Timmons didn’t want them to go into the closet because he has a life savings stored in there. In a landslide of bodies, the three wayward travelers collapsed on the heads of the miscreants. Penance, Synch and Gaia fly into the storeroom, ruining the previously clean room. Gaia slowly lifts herself off of the floor, excitement boiling over in her. She utters a single word, free. Grasping her freedom she darts out of the diner, screaming “free” at the top of her lungs. Everett bellows at Penance to follow Gaia, which she does willingly.
Synch picks himself up from the floor, untangling himself from Dorian and Weasel. He tries to explain that he has to follow the girls, but Dorian firmly grasps him by the collar when he tries to leave. He is infuriated with Synch; Weasel and him spent all day straightening up the storeroom and now Everett is about to leave without even saying that he is sorry. Everett tells the guys that he will come back later to help, but Dorian interrupts his speech. He notices that Everett is “one of those geeks from that fancy school” calling him a boy and telling him that he has a lot of nerve. Everett asks if he heard correctly, Dorian snaps back with a witty reply. He asks if he has upset poor Everett, saying that they wouldn’t want him to have his feeling hurt. With that, Dorian punches Synch in the stomach, then the face. A brawl ensues as Weasel jumps in on the action.
A few minutes later, Weasel asks Dorian if maybe they went too far; it doesn’t even look like Everett is breathing. Dorian shrugs it off, telling Weasel to help him stuff the body in his trunk so that they can dump it off somewhere.
The rest of Gen X jumps in the car to head down to the diner. Banshee asks if someone would explain the fact that there is a warp chamber in the local diner. Emma says that he is the one who needs to be explaining why he came to be on an other-dimensional train. Jubilee hurriedly tells parts of the story, but she is stopped by Skin, who tells her that she isn’t making sense. Husk points out that their story about the subway station and the Token doesn’t make much sense either, but her question never gets answered. Emma screams at Sean to stop the car, there is something on the road ahead of them. She tells Sean to pull over because it is a body. In a flash of lightning in the night sky, the shadowy form is revealed to be the badly beaten body of Everett Thomas.