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Mojo Worldwide – part 3
The Mutant Genesis simulation:Great, this guy, young Cyclops, dressed as adult Cyclops in civies sighs, as he and the rest of the first team (Kitty, Prestige and, surprisingly, Longshot) face Magneto. Nothing will stop him from dominating the world for the safety of mutantkind! Magneto or more to the point the simulation booms.
Rachel, dressed in her Hound outfit, criticizes that she doesn’t remember Magneto sounding so arch. Kitty Pryde, dressed in the prison outfit of the future, reminds her that those simulations killed Bloodstorm.
Rachel becomes frightened. She points to a crackling machine and warns it is about to fire. Kitty turns to Longshot and asks what this is. He shrugs and points out those simulations are taken from X-Men history. Why does she ask him?
The problem is Kitty and Rachel were both off the team at that time. Tell that to their uniforms, Rachel remarks dryly as their looks change. She now wears the orange and blue outfit her mother Jean Grey wore at the time. Scott wears the outfit of the adult Cyclops from the same era and Kitty is back in her blue Shadowcat outfit.
As Cyclops blasts Magneto, Kitty reminds Rachel tht they have to defeat Magneto. And not get killed, both agree.
Magneto lashes out at Longshot and turns against Rachel next. No! Cyclops cries and unleashes a full strength optic blast. Get away from her! he shouts as he destroys the simulation What was he thinking? he pants. What was she thinking? Kitty asks what he is talking about. They shouldn’t be working with him, he babbles as he looks away. He knows people can change. But no one can change that much. Is he saying his team is working with Magneto? Rachel demands. Yes, he admits.
Team Two (Logan, Storm, Iceman and Angel) are facing Frost Giants in an Asgardian Wars simulation and complain that Mojo is throwing them against their history for ratings. They agree he is crazy.
The setting changes as do their Asgardian outfits. They now seem to be in Genosha. Storm is dressed like a mutate prisoner, Logan like his younger self in the brown and tan Wolverine outfit, Angel like Archangel, and they are facing Magistrates.
Young Iceman asks what this place is during the battle. Genosha before it got nuked, is Logan’s curt reply. And these guys are magicians? Angel asks. Magistrates, Storm corrects as she fights some of them. And their buddies, the Press Gang, Logan warns as he sees the superpowered allies of the Magistrates. Too bad print is a dying medium, Angel jokes as he flies toward an unassuming-seeming portly man. Storm warns him not to come close to Wipeout. To his detriment, Warren learns the reason why a moment later, as Wipeout neutralizes his power and he falls. “Sorry suckers,” Punchout laughs and breaks Warren’s neck.
Iceman flips and shouts that he’s gonna kill her. He ices up but is immediately fired at by Magistrates. Logan finds himself skewered from behind by Hawkshaw’s weapon. Storm electrocutes him. She lands at Logan’s side and promises she will get him out of here. He groans she needs to look out. Too late as she is shot by the Magistrates.
Plot twist! Mojo exclaims. He knows what they are thinking. They’d never kill their golden geese. These guys are big sellers. They’d never take them off the table. Wrong! Just look at all these examples! He points at computer screens showing X-Men (Colossus, Xavier, Nightcrawler) dying in the past.
Majordomo whispers something to him. Briefly, Mojos stops smiling, then regains his grin and suggests they look at how the other teams are faring.
Team 3, led by Jean Grey, is trapped in the Inferno simulation. Battling demons, Colossus wonders aloud how they beat this demonic invasion the first time. One of the demons hisses: “you are one of us, brother!” Slicing him, Jimmy Hudson opines he was referring to Hank.
Jean orders them to keep their focus. The whole point of this is to mess with their heads. Her voice trails off as she sees a woman who looks like an adult version of her, dressed in the same skimpy outfit. It’s like looking into a mirror, Madelyne Pryor the Goblyn Queen smirks. A cracked funhouse mirror, but isn’t that what Mojoworld is? Nothing fun about this, Jean replies stoically. She has seen enough Goblin Queens to last a lifetime.
Madelyne goes for her throat, while assuring her that lifetime is going to be shorter than she thinks. She lifts Jean up easily, mocking Jean wishes she could be her. All the Jean without the baggage. Is it any wonder Scott loved Madelyne more? No! Jean groans.
Team 1 on the Asteroid X simulation:Kitty remarks of course Magneto is alive. No one ever stays dead.Tell him about it, the watching Mojo mutters.
But for Scott and the others to actually throw in with him… Kitty continues. Her mom’s judgment was never state of the art, Rachel points out. It’s complicated, Scott tries to explain. No, it really isn’t, Kitty insists. It’s Magneto. Scott retorts that he heard Charles Xavier made Magneto headmaster one time. It’s nowhere close to being the same thing, Kitty snaps.
She notices Longshot has been silent and his flying cameras are pointed at them. What is he doing? Kitty demands. He suggests they pretend he isn’t here. He explains that audience share is the coin of the realm in Mojoworld.
Rachel asks if everyone else is feeling that? They experience another shift to a time closer to the present. Rachel and Kitty are now wearing their recent costumes and Scott is dressed as Phoenix-Cyclops. Kitty states this feels familiar. Not pleasantly so.
Plot twist! Mojo announces. They’d never kill their golden geese. These guys are the big sellers. They’d never take them off the table…
At the Xavier Institute, Nature Girl, Eye Boy and Anole are watching the broadcast. And he’d never have thought he’d be hoping Mojo tells the truth, Anole comments. They should be out there, a frustrated Nature Girl remarks. Anole points out the others have crowd control well in hand. Eye Boy chimes in that nobody can get though the forcefields. They are stuck here waiting. Not easy when your friends are dying. Trevor refuses to believe that.
Elsewhere:Team 1 find themselves in an Avengers versus X-Men simulation.
Things have actually gotten worse, Kitty sighs. Longshot points out the Avengers are on their side but one of Hawkeye’s arrows convinces him they are not. Kitty gets blindsided when Captain America’s shield hits her head. Stand down, miss! Captain America orders Rachel. She was totally going to but then he called her miss. Her eyes flare as she telekinetically lashes out at him.
Team 3:What did she just say? Marvel Girl asks the Goblyn Queen. It’s no wonder Scott loved her more, Madelyne replies. Jean hits her, her blow empowered by her telekinesis and the Goblyn Queen goes down.
Beast asks her if she feels that. The corporeal sensation that prefaced their preternatural alteration of surroundings and garments. Only half understanding, Jean replies she thought so. It feels like something is happening.
A moment later, they are all wearing their current outfits and seem to be in a wilderness that looks like the Savage Land. Colossus explains to Jimmy Hudson what the Savage Land is. They discuss whether that will mean battling dinosaurs, until Hank points at a worse problem. They see what appears to be a mash-up of their worst foes: Brood, Stryfe and a Sentinel empowered by the Phoenix. When did they fight these guys? Jean asks. Never is the reply.


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The Negative Zone War – part 1
Flashback:Months ago in the home of Lydia Nance:After identifying her as the mastermind behind the new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Kitty Pryde as leader of the X-Men warned her that eventually she would be revealed for the bigot she is.
Present:A TV studio:The show Crosstime:Studio guests are Kitty Pryde and Lydia, Nance who announces she is not a bigot and resents any implications to the contrary. Kitty calmly retorts that, when you single out a specific portion of the population for special treatment, that’s bigotry. Nance suggests she tell that to the Congressmen and – women who voted in favor of the mutant deportation bill. She’d love to, Kitty retorts, but the show is over.
Nance assure Kitty it was a genuine pleasure to see her again, while making fun of her name. Not rising to the provocation, Kitty asks if she can ask her a question. There’s something she’s always been curious about and she figures Nance is the person to ask. She gets up in the morning, gets dressed, does her job, is trying to figure out what is going on with her and that guy she has a history with. Occasionally, she helps save the world. She lives her life. And she does it all without the need to demonize another group of people. She just doesn’t care that people are different, because, well, people are different. So she’s genuinely curious, what’s so broken in people like Nance that they have to target anyone who’s different? Lydia Nance seems lost in thought and does not reply.
Later, Kitty walks the streets of Manhattan with Piotr Rasputin, She admits she wanted to kill her. But she didn’t, he points out. She hasn’t completely ruled out the possibility. He assures her she was quite articulate. And this guy she mentioned, the one she said she liked… Kitty is flabbergasted and explains she was still wearing her microphone. She hates her life sometimes, Kitty groans.
Piotr apologizes and unexpectedly she draws him down for a kiss. He points out that, for someone who says she is confused about, she seems to kiss him a lot. That’s why he is confused. She suggests they figure it out and then hands him the room key to a hotel room of the building she has led them to.
Central Park, outside the Xavier Institute:This ain’t bad, Old Man Logan comments to his teammates Storm, Nightcrawler and Prestige. He refers to a pro-mutant right protest march outside the Institute. They discuss if one of them ought to go talk with the protesters. Nightcrawler suggests Kitty ought to see this. Storm reveals she is not sure if Kitty made it back to the mansion after the show last night.
That moment, a portal opens in the sky. It’s Kologth’s people, scanning for the place of his last transmission.
Unnecessarily, Anole comes running to alert them to a call from NASA that there is extraterrestrial activity. Anole points out they don’t know if they are hostile. Yeah, because they almost never are, Logan snarks. Storm tells him to get Peter and Rachel to contact Kitty who is still sleeping in the hotel room. She debriefs Kitty and tells her she will send Kurt to get her. They are still trying to find Peter. Kitty informs her he is with her.
Storm and Logan, in the meantime, try to disperse the panicking protesters. Anole informs the others there is a squad of fliers responding. The ship takes out the fliers and hails Kologoth, while they start returning fire.
Nightcrawler teleports in Kitty and Colossus, and Storm informs them the space invaders just wiped out the Alpha Flight leftovers. Kitty orders Storm and Rachel to get their attention. They fly upwards and hear their alien language. They figure they are trying to contact someone.
Said someone, Kologoth, had been hiding in Central Park. Satisfied, he realizes his patience has been rewarded.
Nightcrawler teleports the rest of the team to the top of one of the ships, where Logan makes short work of their blasters.
Kitty phases inside the ship and Nightcrawler teleports after her. They soon face a troop of armed aliens.
In the meantime, the aliens have made visual contact with Kologoth and bring the ship down fast, shaking Colossus and Logan off. Rachel dives after Logan but is hit by a blast from another ship. She falls and lands hard. The ship lowers itself, destroying part of the Institute.
Augor exits the ship and warmly welcomes his leader and lover Kologoth back. He insists they leave. The portal cannot be sustained long. Kologoth is happy to leave. He has been a prisoner on this mudball too long. He isn’t yet aware that they have made two prisoners themselves – Kitty and Kurt. He gives the order to take the ships home. There are many that need to suffer…
Back on Earth, Armor awakes Logan and nearly gets her head cut off for the effort. He apologizes. Armor tells him that Storm and Colossus are okay but they don’t know about Miss Grey. They fear that Kitty and Kurt are still on the ship and the ship is gone! What are they going to do? she asks. They’re gonna #+*%$§’ get them back! he snarls.


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The Negative Zone War – part 2
The Triskelion:Wearing a blackish suit with an red X symbol like the other X-Men, Logan mutters he swore he’d never wear another #*//% costume. Armor helpfully points out that it’s a Forge-designed tactical field outfit for the Negative Zone. Costume, he corrects her. Storm chimes in that the suits have universal translators, which might be helpful. Ink, however, points out that the aliens spoke a dialect the translator can’t process. One problem at a time, Logan replies.
They are joined by Dr. Adam Brashear aka the Blue Marvel, who shows them their ship – a Negative Zone exploratory module he based off on Reed Richards’ designs. He begins to warn them about the Negative Zone but Logan interrupts; the brains said that’s where the attack came from. That’s where they are going. Brashear continues the module is programmed with the telemetry that Forge traced their targets back to. This should put them down right outside the source. After thanking him, the X-Men enter the module and soon it energizes.
In the infirmary of the Xavier Institute, Amara Aquila remarks she cannot believe this is happening again. It wasn’t even a month ago that Rachel was lying in this same bed. She expresses hope that Dr. Cecilia Reyes can nurse her back to health again, as she did before. Cecilia corrects her. Before, it was Rachel’s mind that was hurt and she pulled herself back. This time Rachel’s body is broken. Perhaps beyond Cecila’s capability to heal…
The planet Dartayus in the Negative Zone:Kitty Pryde finds herself a prisoner on her knees, her arms shackled behind her back, her power neutralized. She lives, a voice remarks. Creepy new guy, she greets Kologoth. He picked up some English, she remarks. He observed much, is his reply, including her name, which leaves Kitty speechless for once. He grabs her face in his clawed hand as he continues, the masked one deployed technology like this against her to keep her from phantasming. Phasing, she corrects.
Kologoth continues. It was not his intention to take prisoners. She and her friend –referring to Nightcrawler – were victims of circumstance. Swell, then let them go, Kitty suggests.
How long did they intend to keep him prisoner? Kologoth shoots back. They tried communicating with him, Kitty begins. He cuts her off: They would have left him to rot in that glass cage. He owes her and her friend the same hospitality. She demands to know where Kurt is, but receives no answer.
Twenty meters below:Kurt Wagner is sitting in a cell, meditating. A simple but effective prison, he figures. No openings, no windows, no doors. No glimpse of the outside world. If he teleported, he’d do so blind. And risk rematerializing in solid matter. Doctor Doom held him captive in this manner once. Attempting to escape nearly killed him. Dare he defy fate again?
Meanwhile, the others are experiencing a rough ride. Ink complains somewhat, only to be informed how little Logan cares. They land with a bang. Logan orders them to open the hatch. Colossus observes that Brashear planned to have them land outside the source. He thinks his math was a bit off. They landed in the middle of a building. The frightened natives watch them then make a run for it.
Armor points out they weren’t afraid of the X-Men but of the flying warriors in in the sky. Armed guards appear on the ground and soon the two groups trade blows and shots. Logan begins to order Ink and Storm to get them out but is shot first.
Storm immediately throws lightning bolts at his attackers. Colossus orders Ink to fly him upwards, while Armor pretty much just stands around being armored.
Ink flies him upward above the small fliers and asks if they are taking sides. They are defending themselves, Colossus replies, lands on a flier and proceeds to destroy it. The pilot asks him to cease. They have no quarrel with them. Colossus is taken aback - the alien speaks English! He speaks 862 tongues, the pilot snaps, and they are in the middle of a combat zone! They hadn’t noticed, Ink states sarcastically. The pilot announces they’ll rout this rabble and then they will talk.
A little later, the X-Men are gathered in the parliament, the seat of power on Dartayus. One of the aliens, a general, explains that their foe’s name is Kologoth, a base criminal grown to would-be dictator. They resisted and cast him out. To Earth! Ink snarls. Thanks a helluva lot!
The general continues that Kologoth’s forces waged war in his absence and in his name. Their world teeters on the brink. Logan guesses it’s their lucky day then. Kologoth has their friends and they aim to get them back. And probably take care of their little Kologoth problem in the process, Armor adds.
The general points out that Kologoth has gone to ground. He strikes from secret. They know not where. Storm asks Logan for a second in private. They throw the general out and Logan asks Ink to psilink them. Storm points out they are in the middle of a civil war. They can’t take sides based on whom they met first. Logan stubbornly replies he ain’t looking to take sides. He just wants to get their people back.
Armor suggests psi-scanning the general to see if he is telling the truth. However, Ink admits that his psi-powers are too low-level for this. Colossus agrees with Logan, they are here to get their friends, not get involved in politics. Which leaves them with the question where Kologoth is hiding, Logan states.
In the temple of Scythian, one of his men informs Kologoth that their soldiers failed and have already taken their lives in penance. He adds that the Earthers were there. They have come for their friends. Inconvenient, Kologoth admits. They cannot risk anything at this stage. He gives the order to contact the Earthers and tell them they will return their comrades. They are an unstable element in the equation. And nothing must stop his rise...
In his cell, Nightcrawler has decided not to wait for whatever his captors have in store. If he is to die, it will be from a method of his choosing, and so he teleports blindly into the air and materializes right in part of the statue of Scythian atop the temple…


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The Negative Zone War – part 3
The ground of the Xavier Institute, parts of which were devastated when Kologoth’s people came for him:Amara Aquila is discussing the repair costs with Mr. Baringer of Damage Control. She considers the number he offers too high. He reminds her of what happened. Damage Control is actually cutting them a break, Ms. Attila. Aquila, she corrects him. She checked their record and their bid came in at ten times what other contractors charged them for similar rebuilds. He asks if this place used to be in Westchester. She concurs. And Limbo, she adds. Long story. Point being, Ms. Acrylic, they weren’t paying New York City prices before. Nothing personal. They are even giving them a cut on the going rate.
Amara interrupts. She is getting a telepathic phone call. She assures Dr. Reyes she is on her way. She apologizes and asks if he would mind rescheduling, calling him “Mr. Ballantine,” just so he can see how it feels.
On the medical floor, Cecilia tells Amara that Rachel Grey is still comatose. But this morning she started developing a skin condition that has her concerned. She shows Amara the return of Rachel’s facial Hound marks.
Dartayus in the Negative Zone:Kologoth is surprised to hear that the Earthers have agreed to his offer – the return of the hostages and being allowed to leave. He considers them a petty lot. However, they find this is going to be problematic, for Nightcrawler’s cell is empty…
Nightcrawler has teleported blindly outside, on top and unfortunately partially within the giant statue of the temple. He screams in agony, then teleports himself free, close above the ground. He realizes he’d be dead now, if Heaven didn’t refuse to take him back. Lucky idiot.
The other X-Men who have come to rescue Kurt and Kitty are currently at the parliament and are informed that Kologoth has offered to return the prisoners in exchange for the X-Men leaving this planet. Colossus believes it’s a trap. Armor disagrees, as does Logan. Kologoth is being smart. The X-Men can do a whole lot more damage here, if they stick around to free their friends.
Ink asks if they just take their friends and turn their backs on everything going on here? What’s going on is not their concern, the politician tells them. Ink points out they also need a ship, and they are promised one. The politician also promises they’ll do what they can to find their other missing comrade. If they don’t find him or if they do and he ain’t in mint condition, there will be hell to pay, Logan warns.
Kologoth and a group of his people take Kitty away on a skysled. She asks what is going on and he explains that he is returning her to her friends. He has plans for this world and they don’t factor into them. Kitty asks for Kurt and is told he is dead. She accuses him of lying. But they have arrived at the meeting place.
On the other side, the politician explains their meeting place - the Kalangian Plateau - is a place sacred to the followers of Scythian, a long dead religion.
Kitty runs toward Colossus and admits she is peeved. Armor asks about Nightcrawler and Kitty explains Kologoth claims he is dead. Logan reminds them that Kurt believes he is immortal now. Kitty again accuses Kologoth of lying. Only Scythian is immortal, is his reply.
Kitty and Logan quickly figure that Kurt escaped and Kologoth doesn’t want them to stick around to look for him. Armor directly confronts Kologoth, asking if he has some business he doesn’t want them to know about. Kologoth agrees. Armor turns to the politician to find him pointing a gun at her, announcing he knows of Lord Kologoth’s plans. He’s been embedded with governmental forces since the start of the conflict.
Kologoth informs the X-Men that the vessel they’ve been provided with is equipped with interdimensional travel. Leave with it and their lives. He won’t make that offer again.
Logan and Armor discuss the situation in Japanese. Her call, Logan tells Kitty, who points out she is wearing a power dampener, but then kicks Kologoth in the face.
Kologoth orders to kill all the X-Men. Logan warns Kitty to get down, moments before Storm, whom Logan held back, makes her entrance in the sky, throwing lightning at their foes. Unfortunately, the other side brought weapons as well and the battle is on,
During the battle, Ink is shot and Storm flies to his side. He assures her it’s all right. He got some new tattoos. One of them includes a healing factor and a couple other things. He fires eyeblasts at his foes, Cyclops-style.
Colossus urges Kitty to find Kurt. He will keep their foes busy. Only belatedly, he notices she called him ‘sweetie.’ Kitty runs, orders Ink to establish a psilink and tells Storm to take Kologoth for a ride. She flies him upward and threatens him. He calls her bluff. He doesn’t believe she will drop him. Besides, he prefers this vantage. They are close to the giant statue of Scythian, his lord and master. The time of his rising is near, Kologoth announces. Religion doesn’t win wars, Storm retorts. This is a mere statue!
As if on cue, the statue begins to move and Kologoth points out, Scythian is a god.


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Laughing, Kologoth recalls how his life was minted by hardship. How his mentor and lover Auror taught him about their fallen god Scythian, how Kologoth harnessed belief to resurrect him. And now that Scythian is here Kologoth orders him to slay.
Watching the giant god being shot at and shrugging it off, Old Man Logan remarks he doesn’t seem so tough for a god. Ink disagrees and asks Kitty if she has a plan. Kitty orders him to go find Nightcrawler, while she needs Armor, Storm and Colossus. She specifically tells Logan to take care of Kologoth. Storm and Ink fly upward with Armor, Colossus and Kitty.
Auror is unsure. This isn’t the Scythian of the holy texts. That thing is unconscionable, without mercy. Kologoth corrects him: it is the Scythian of the ancient texts and he finds him glorious! Is he saying he knew what they were raising? Auror asks. Kologoth reveals he knew the god was a force of absolute destruction. He has brought forth the instrument of his vengeance. On the planet that marked him from birth as other! That condemned him as a criminal!
As Logan attacks, he suggests he keep on monologuing. “Old Man,” isn’t that what they call him? Kologoth snarls. Yeah, Logan agrees, but let him show him what he used to be called…
While the others are keeping Sycthian busy, Ink has spotted Kurt lying unconscious on the ground. Kitty orders him to get him. Scythian hits Kitty and swats her away. Next, he hits Storm.
On the ground, Ink tries to treat Nightcrawler while psi-linking the others. He informs the that Kitty landed in the city and phased through the ground. She’s gonna be a while before she’s back. He fears they are out of their league. Angrily, Colossus gives the order to fall back.
Logan, in the meantime, walks up to Kologoth, who mocks him for looking tired. Unsheathing his claws, Logan agrees that he is exhausted, which is more than Kologoth will be able to say of himself soon. He attacks but Kologoth hits him hard and vows he will wear Logan’s hide for distracting him while he was savoring his vengeance.
His vengeance? Logan snaps while kicking Kologoth in the face. He’s turned the whole planet upside down, killed a bunch of people, hurt even more… including friends of Logan, all because he was born hated and feared? He stabs him in the back and tells him to get over it.
Soon, the X-Men gather back at the parliament. Colossus summarizes that Kitty is heading back but they need to find a way to beat a god. The alien who betrayed them before warns them they can’t. Scythian is the all-being. He regrets the part he played in his return. He was deceived. He thought they were working to free Dartayus, not destroy it. Armor suggests he can make up for it now. How did his leader turn Scythian from stone? And how do they get Scythian back that way? Logan adds.
The traitor admits, he does not know. The story of Scythian’s entombment is confined to the ancient texts of which he was unaware until today. Logan unsheathes his claws. The alien gulps and quickly adds he stole them from Kologoth’s quarters and he is a quick study. Be a quick talker! Logan orders him. How was Scythian turned to stone? Ancient and extinct magic, is the reply. Magic has not been used on Dartayus in generations. Logan sighs they should have brought Illyana along.
It’s too late for second-guessing, comes a new voice. Kitty stands in the doorway and informs them it’s a nightmare out there. People are running for their lives. Kologoth has unleashed doomsday out there, with Scythian happily attacking anything. The military is decimated and the X-Men are the only game in town. She asks about Kurt and is told he is recuperating. From what she heard, she figures they cannot hurt Scythian but he can be imprisoned. Ink points out they were told there is nothing on the planet that can do the job. Kitty replies going off-planet is what she has in mind, so the Dartayans have to give them a ship.
Soon, most of them are aboard the ship, with only Storm flying along outside. Still weakened, Nightcrawler still pilots it. Kitty asks Storm to keep the jetstream on their side.
Logan outfits Kitty with a harness whipped up by the Dartayans. Piotr asks her to come back to him. Damn, she jokes, he always says the sweetest things when she is about to die.
Kitty jumps out of the ship, a cable from the harness attaching her to the ship. She jumps toward Scythian, detaches the cable, which she then attaches to Scythian by phasing through him. She calls for Ink to get her. Storm clears an atmospheric pathway and then the ship gets busy towing Scythian off-planet.
Kitty phases back inside the ship and reminds everyone they need to get him to the vortex at the heart of the Negative Zone. However, Colossus struggles with the mounting coming loose, and Nightcrawler with the somewhat reluctant engines. Kitty joins Peter and announces that, when they get close enough, she will phase them both so they don’t get thrown into the vortex. Kurt gives the signal. They manage to hurl Scythian into the vortex but, moments later, the engines fail and they crash land.


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The Negative Zone War – part 5
An alien planet in the Negative Zone:A sandstorm-covered desert:Storm fights her way through the sandstorm, figuring this is how she will die. On an alien world, with weather she cannot control. It seems she is to be murdered b irony. Or that, she figures a moment later, when a huge sand monster springs from the ground.
Miles away, Ink awakes in the wreckage of their spaceship, still strapped to his seat. He frees himself and calls for the others. He’s got a few notes on Wagner’s piloting skills! A weak voice replies: any landing you can walk away from is a good one. It’s Nightcrawler, impaled by debris jutting out of the wall. Ink frees him from the shrapnel.
In another piece of wreckage, Logan slaps Armor to get her awake. He announces they will find the others. Hisako is doubtful they survived the crash. Logan simply states they have. They are X-Men.
Elsewhere in the desert, Kitty is cradling an injured Colossus. She urges him to stay awake. She is phasing them both through the sandstorm but she cannot keep it up. She needs him to steel up, he replies drowsily.
Some distance away, Storm dodges the monster, wishing for just one lightning bolt. She then uses her handcrafted spear to attack the monster. She climbs on its back and stabs it in the head.
How did she do? she wonders to her dead lover Wolverine and decides to rest for a little while...
In the wreckage, the weakened Nightcrawler asks how this works. Ink explains that one of his tattoos gives him a healing touch, which Kurt could really use in his medical opinion. He didn’t know he had medical training, Kurt jokes. Eric replies that he’s watched every episode of Grey’s Anatomy. His touch really reinvigorates Kurt.
As they decide to go look for the others, they are found by Logan and Armor. Logan demands what they know about the others. Ink replies he’s been trying to reach them with his limited telepathy but got nothing. They may have to consider they are dead. Logan stubbornly refuses to believe that.
In the desert, Kitty tells Colossus she is exhausted from phasing both of them through the storm. He urges her to leave him and save herself. He loves her and always will.
In the ship, Logan orders the others to split up and find what they can still use. Ink is to psi-link them. How do they know what’s useful on an alien ship? Hisako wonders. If it looks like something that could save their lives, is the reply.
Nightcrawler has an idea and steers Ink where to go. Kurt has faith, while Ink skeptically believes some of them might not make it back this time.
In the desert, Kitty shouts at Peter that he doesn’t get to die and leave her alone, and starts hitting his chest. Does he hear her? She hears her, Storm who has finally reached them replies.
Together, they help Peter up and Storm narrates what happened. She explains she cannot control the weather here but she does have a sense of where she was thrown from the wreckage, meaning she knows where they have to go.
Nightcrawler has led the others to the engine room. Ink points out they will never get the ship to fly. They don’t have to, is Nightcrawler’s reply. He shows the others a device. He remembers one like these from when was a prisoner on the other ship. The Dartayan ships don’t just navigate space, they travel through dimensions. He believes this is a portal generator. But they need a great deal of power to jumpstart it.
That moment, Ink’s telepathy picks something up and he heads outside, where he helps the others take Peter back to the wreckage.
By the time the others arrive, Kurt has fixed the generator but it needs Storm’s electricity. Storm points out her powers don’t work here. Get them to, Logan simply tells her. Dig deep! It’s a matter of will. Ororo believes it’s more complicated. No, it ain’t, is his reply. She doesn’t do this, they all die here. Does that uncomplicate things for her? Kurt adds they believe in her. Storm hesitates, then lightning emerges from her fingertips into the generator.
Two days later:Outside the Xavier Institute, Kitty and the mostly recovered Peter are taking a walk. He admits the last days are a blur. The last thing he remembers is her breaking his ribs. It’s called CPR, wise guy, she retorts. Kitty admits the whole thing gave her a bit of clarity. She realizes she is never going to leave him. So, is the offer still good? Will he marry her?


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Brotherhood – part 1
Months ago:The ruins of Rooks Community College:In the conflagration sits a horrified young man.It’s all right, a voice tells him. He wants to help him. His name is Charles… Xavier! the young man finishes. He recognizes him from the news. He’s supposed to be dead! With a gentle smile, Xavier replies that he is an X-Man. They never die.
The confused boy, Simon Lasker, doesn’t understand what happened. Suddenly, everything was on fire. Xavier explains that was the manifestation of Simon’s special ability. He is a mutant.
Xavier rises from his wheelchair. It is his life’s work help mutants like him. There was a mutant with his ability he used to know. His name was Pyro. Does he want Xavier to help him, as he helped Pyro? Relieved, Simon thanks him. Hugging him Xavier – or really Mesmero – promises him that everything is going to be wonderful…
The present:The Box (Homo superior prison):In the main hall, Lydia Nance’s debate with Kitty Pryde is broadcast on TV. Nance distances herself from being a bigot. Lying ‘%&$§!, the new Avalanche mutters and Simon agrees. Mesmero joins them, asking if they would care to get some payback. On him? Simon deliberately misunderstands. Name the time and place. Why so angry? Mesmero smirks. All he did was unlock Simon’s true potential.
Avalanche grabs him and accuses him of manipulating them. Mesmero tells him to calm himself and claims Lydia Nance manipulated him as well. And he is not accustomed to being the one manipulated, he snarls.
Simon sensibly points out this is all just talk, as long as they are stuck here. Stuck here because of Mesmero! Avalanche adds. Well, then, how would they like to get out of here because of him? Mesmero grins. He has managed to hack into the collars that suppress their powers. Avalanche doesn’t buy it. Mesmero tells him to believe what he wants, but his choice is to walk out the front door.
Avalanche and Pyro holds a whispered conversation. Simon doesn’t trust him either, but he wants to get out of here more than anything. And so they follow.
Mesmero creates an illusion, making the guards believe they are guards as well and influences them to forego retina scans. “These are not the droids you are looking for,” Simon jokes. As they walk out, they ask how Mesmero hacked into the collar. They are supposed to be unbreakable. They are, he agrees, if you don’t bribe a guard to help you. Who’s ready to start the next chapter of their lives?
Central Park, New York City:Carrying a duffel bag on his shoulder, Logan leaves the Institute, then is suddenly swept up in the air. Storm asks what he is doing. Because it looks like he was going to leave without telling anyone. That is only because he was planning to leave without telling anyone, he deadpans. He gets serious and states he is old. Nothing works as it is supposed to. Especially his healing factor. Everything that went down in the Negative Zone took its toll. He doesn’t want to become a liability. They are only as strong as their weakest link. And he is bone-tired. He is an old man.
Storm asks where he is going. Canada for a bit, then Japan. She hugs him and tells him they will miss him. He promises he is only a call away.
Inside the Institute, Nightcrawler informs Kitty that Prestige has left the infirmary on her own, surprising the doctor as before she was comatose. They track her to the Danger Room, where a scenario is running showing the ruined New York of Rachel’s future. Kitty is worried because she knows Rachel has been having flashes to her past as a Hound. They finally find her, wearing a new costume, skin-tight black and red with spikes. What do they think of the new look? Rachel asks insouciantly.
In a warehouse, Pyro and Avalanche are back in costume. Simon wonders about the point. They used to belong to a couple of dead guys. These suits are new, Avalanche points out. He knows what he means, Simon replies. What are they doing here? Avalanche replies he wants payback for Nance screwing with their lives. But Mesmero screwed with their heads, Simon points out. Avalanche replies it was Nance’s idea and they saw on TV the #%&§ hates mutants. And he said it himself: Mesmero could be manipulating them right now and they’d never know. Mesmero joins them and smiles, agreeing that is very true.
The Danger Room:So what’s going on here? Kitty demands. Rachel explains her Hound markings have returned. She decided she needed a new look to go with them. Impatiently, Kitty states she meant what’s going on with her? Kurt gently interrupts and Kitty realizes this is couples stuff and discretely gives them some space.
Rachel assures Kurt that she is better than before. Kurt is not convinced. Kitty told him about the memory flashes Rachel had of her past as a Hound. He stresses he is worried not upset. She’s experienced twin traumas in a short amount of time. She overstrained herself fighting that Sentinel AI, and the Dartayan attack put her in a coma.
She smiles and tells him it’s all connected. She sees and feels so much more, and not just psychically. It’s like the dial’s been cranked on all her senses. She’s never felt more alive!
The Hudson River:The Heritage Initiative’s fundraising gala is taking place on a yacht. Pyro, Mesmero and Avalanche crash the party (which consists of mostly Pyro scaring guests with his fire powers). They see Lydia Nance and Pyro corners her with his flames. Mesmero smiles evilly.
The Xavier Institute:Nightcrawler informs Kitty of the attack on the Heritage Initiative. Considering her opinion of Lydia Nance, Kitty jokes she’s going back to bed. They walk to the X-jet, where Magma is waiting with the rest of the team. She insists on coming along because of what Mesmero did to her and threatens to go on her own, should Kitty forbid it. Kitty orders Nightcawer to keep an eye on her and ’port her away on the first sign of trouble.
She turns to Rachel and reminds her that, a few hours ago, she was comatose. It’s a good thing she’s not anymore, Rachel deadpans, because they are going up against an industrial grade telepath. Kitty is silently doubtful. Logan is gone and now they are going into the field with two X-factors. She decides to say nothing and gives the order to leave.
On the yacht:Impatiently, Avalanche tells Pyor to fry Nance, but Simon hesitates, finally admitting he is no killer. He lets her go. Avalanche grabs her by the arm and is hit by a bolt of lightning the next moment, courtesy of Storm. The X-Men have arrived.
Kitty orders Prestige to take Mesmero, Storm to fly Nance to safety and for Magma to face the Pyro copycat. Instead, Magma ignores orders and goes for Mesmero, grabbing him and vowing to make him pay for what he did to her. Kitty calls Kurt’s name, meaning for him to teleport Magma away. Mesmero head-butts Magma. Nance, in the meantime, tells the crowd how those mutants fight among themselves.
Rachel psi-blasts Mesmero, who observes she has gone through some changes. Her synapses are beautifully rearranged. He manages to telepathically stun her.
Kitty finds all her teammates have been incapacitated. Avalanche and Pyro grab her and she finds she cannot phase, since Mesmero is in her mind. She blames herself. She knew they went into the field compromised…


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Brotherhood – part 2
The past:A broken down home in Long Island, years ago:A man with reptile-like skin threatens and chases a little girl, promising her that she is in for a world of hurt. He grabs his daughter, little Lydia Nance, roughly and tells her that she has been a bad little girl…
The present:Hudson River, New York:Held in a headlock by Pyro, her team lying unconscious, Kitty Pryde realizes she should have trusted her instincts and kept her team out of whatever beef Mesmero has with Lydia Nance.
Angrily, she mentally projects to Rachel, asking if she is finished napping, yet. Funny, is the reply, though Rachel still pretends to be out of it. Kitty mentally asks for a sitrep. Amara’s down, the others are playing possum, is the reply. Kitty orders Nightcrawler to teleport Magma to safety. To everyone else: Mesmero is the number one priority. What is the signal? Storm asks. She’ll figure it out, Kitty replies loudly, kicks Pyro and hits Avalanche at the same time.
The other X-Men spring into action. Mesmero is impressed that Rachel managed to shield their thoughts from him. She responds with a telekinetic blast.
Kitty warns Avalanche to stay down. He tells her that he isn’t like his predecessor. His power doesn’t just work on the ground. He can make anything in nature quake… like her insides. He proceeds to do so, earning himself a blow from Colossus.
Mesmero admits Rachel has got stronger. But he reminds her she is still in flux and therefore vulnerable. He presses the attack.
Pyro asks him what is going on here. They are here for Nance, not to fight the X-Men. Mesmero tells him all will be revealed. Now it is time for him to take his leave. He has a chopper coming in a few minutes. Pyro asks if he thinks the X-Men will let him leave. Mesmero replies they won’t even see him fly. He will simply disappear. Which is what happens to Avalanche mid-fight.
Mesmero, Kitty figures. Kurt teleports to Rachel’s side, asking if she is all right. Mesmero, she replies. Kurt tells her Kitty has him well in hand.
Kitty has phased her finger through Mesmero’s head and threatens to go solid. She asks where Nance and his friends are. Unimpressed, he points out she isn’t a killer… and as for his friends: here they are!
Suddenly, Sebastian Shaw, the X-cutioner, Omega Red and the Sentinel AI appear. Did she really think his new Brotherhood is limited to two? Mesmero gloats. She is painfully naïve. And her friends are simply going to be… in pain. He disappears. Kitty figures this can’t be right. She shouts at her team to stand down, but gets hit by Omega Red’s tentacles a moment later.
Enraged, Colossus hits his foe, the Sentinel AI. Nightcrawler teleports away with the X-cutioner. He teleports high up in the air with him and lets him go, so he will land in the Hudson. Storm keeps Shaw off-balance with her winds and expresses disappointment at his doing Mesmero’s bidding.
Rachel senses something wrong. It’s Mesmero! Kitty shouts, and suddenly the X-Men see they haven’t been fighting their enemies but members of the NYPD.
Kitty tries to explain but an armed cop orders her on the ground. As they are arrested, Kitty orders her team to stand down.
A little later, Mesmero, Pyro and Avalanche meet in a warehouse. Mesmero congratulates them on a job well done. Pyro is furious. This wasn’t about getting revenge from Nance! Mesmero smirks. It was about getting paid by Nance. He hands them sheets with info of bank accounts in their names. Filled with a tidy sum, courtesy of Ms. Nance. He sold out! Pyro accuses him. He made them sell out to a mutant-hating bigot! Mesmero chides him not to be naive. Her money is as green as everyone’s. And she got them out of the Box. She paid to have their collars be damaged.
Pyro stubbornly insists Nance got them into jail. And she is trying to get mutants out of the country. Mesmero scoffs the Mutant Deportation Act will never be signed. And if so, what does Pyro care? He is already a criminal. Not anymore, Pyro announces, drops the bank information and leaves. Avalanche gathers his sheets and asks if he can keep this.
Midtown North Precinct:Wearing a power dampening collar, Kitty sits in an interrogation room and blames herself. She is joined by Jennifer Walters, her attorney. Kitty asks about the rest of the team and is told they are being processed. How soon can Jen get them out? Kitty asks. Jen admits she can’t. They are being transferred to the Box. Mesmero manipulated the memories of the hostages, but she is subpoenaing their cell phones. She has to believe someone caught him on video, but it’s going to take some time, and during that time they are going to be incarcerated.
Kitty demands who is going to protect their students. Who is going to protect the city in the meantime? The Avengers and Champions, she imagines, is the wry reply. Why? What is she afraid is going to happen?
In the Negative Zone, Annihilus’ scientists get some unusual readings. Something emerges. It is the god Scythian, who is burning with the desire for revenge against the X-Men…


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Cross-Atlantic Caper (1st story)   Why I love the X-Men (2nd story)
1st story:New D’Bari, Heroes Courts:The great Starhammer monument:Years ago, Dark Phoenix destroyed the original D’Bari. Only stragglers who were far from home on distant outposts survived. A hero known as Starhammer helped rebuild what was left of D’Bari society. And he avenged D’Bari when he destroyed Dark Phoenix’s descendant, Rachel Grey, who was also once a host to the powerfully destructive Phoenix Force. But this tale of vengeance turned out to be a lie. Rachel had used her telepathy to make Starhammer believe he’d killed her.
Exiled and shunned, Starhammer watches as the monument honoring him is torn down. Disgraced and embarrassed, he wants revenge.
The grounds of the Xavier Institute, Central Park:Several X-Men and students look cluelessly at a stork that has just arrived carrying a message. Nature Girl informs them the stork has a special delivery for Ms. Pryde, causing Old Man Logan to crack now they know why Kitty and Peter finally got engaged.
A mortified Kitty reads the message, which turns out to be from Meggan Braddock and informs Kitty that she and Captain Britain had a baby. Kitty, Kurt and Rachel are invited to meet her. Kitty informs the other X-Men they get to work out who is in charge and runs into the kitchen to tell Kurt and Rachel the happy news and that they are invited to London.
Kurt wants to prepare the X-jet but Kitty forbids it. Jet fuel is expensive and is only for hero stuff, which is tax deductible. And so, a little later, the three of them fly coach.
12 hours later, they have made their way to the Braddocks’ lighthouse on the west coast of Britain that used to serve as their headquarters. Kurt notices Rachel is very quiet. She claims it’s the memories.
They are welcomed by Meggan Braddock, who greets them effusively, yet becomes evasive when her daughter is mentioned. She leads them inside and explains why they restored the lighthouse. They thought it would be a unique place to bring up a child.
Inside, Brian is standing next to a crib. When Nightcrawler hugs him, a voice from the crib demands that she wants to see. The three X-Men look into the crib and see a tiny blonde baby with pointed ears, who looks at them and already speaks. She introduces herself as Maggie and demands to be picked up. Brian complies and introduces the three of them.
Maggie curiously looks at Kurt, then asks her father to hand her over. She asks Kurt why she is so small. He tries to explain she is a baby, which is what they call their new people. Where do baby come from? Maggie asks, causing Kitty to quip kids grow up so fast these days. Meggan bursts into tears and runs outside.
Kitty and Rachel follow. Meggan sobs that her baby is literally growing up too fast. She said her first word days ago but she’s only three months old. They didn’t even know until just after they’d sent the stork to Kitty and the others. She sinks to the ground as she continues that mentally Maggie is already smarter than her. Half of what she says goes over her head. She only needs a mother because she doesn’t have any fine motor skills.
Meggan admits she feels cheated. She’ll never get those moments where she will watch her child take in the world with wonder. She didn’t even learn how to read until she was an adult! She still struggles with it. How can she read her baby bedtime stories knowing Maggie will know when she skips words which are too hard for her?
Rachel tries to show her another side. Some parents die not knowing if their children will be all right without them. Kitty adds Meggan and Brian will get something most parents don’t: a whole lifetime of knowing the person they gave birth to. Meggan sniffs but admits they are right and thanks them. She figures life is too short to go crying in the closet.
In the meantime, Maggie is still staring at Kurt and finally asks why he looks so different. A good question, he begins. His skin is blue. What’s blue? she asks. Also a good question. What is a Maggie? he retorts A human, she replies. Who is a Maggie? he continues. A baby, a daughter, she reasons. Why is a Maggie? She admits now she understands. Brian interrupts asking if she is hungry. No, she’s Maggie, she jokingly corrects him. Very soon, Maggie and Kurt discuss free will and good and evil.
One round of dress-up later, the two men are in their hero outfits and show Maggie the Wizard of Oz movie when the women join them. Maggie greets Meggan and tells her she is learning what ‘good’ means. Meggan hugs her.
Suddenly, a blast destroys the wall, thanks to metal tentacles from Starhammer’s ship. Changing the molecules of her outfit to her costume, Rachel asks if Meggan was expecting any other guests. Kurt and Brian take care of Maggie while the women attack.
Starhammer asks Rachel if she doesn’t remember him and she admits she doesn’t. He reminds her how she rewrote his memories.
Kitty tries to dodge the tentacles but has problems moving freely in her skirt. She is joined by Cap carrying Maggie and he suggests she get her old Shadowcat outfit they still have somewhere around. She declines. Her costume is in her luggage and she last wore the Shadowcat costume when she was 14!
Maggie asks why this is happening. Starhammer shouts that Dark Phoenix is responsible for the genocide of his people and never suffered the consequences. Rachel realizes he means D’bari. She points out that this is not her fault. She wasn’t even born yet. She wasn’t in this timeline yet.
Lots of baggage, yes? Nightcrawler comments to Kitty, who has changed into her outfit. She doesn’t know which of them he means but agrees.
Starhammer announces his masterplan starts now and presses a button on his device. First nothing seems to happen, then Starhammer and the heroes are teleported to several different dimensions. Starhammer reveals he seeks revenge against all of humanity and plans to annihilate them like his people were. He simply has to strand Earth’s heroes in alternate dimensions.
Without superheroes around, humanity will go extinct. He laughs madly.
A different time and a different life threaten to overtake Rachel’s mind. Presque vu. Tip of the tongue. When one can almost remember, but the memory itself remains just out of reach.
Several local creatures attack the heroes. Maggie asks her father to get her Starhammer’s remote.
Trying to recall Starhammer’s face made Rachel remember the years spent in subjugation. Rachel remembers and telepathically orders him to drop the remote. Meggan grabs it and throws it to Kurt, who teleports it to Cap and Maggie, who begins working on it. Maggie somehow grasps a single strand of another dimension and yanks it into a thriving D’bari metropolis.
How is that possible? Starhammer asks. Nightcrawler tells him there is only possibility, nothing else. Starhammer is now able to bring his D’bari colony here. Revenge never tasted a sweet as rebirth.
Soon, the heroes return to the damaged lighthouse. The X-Men apologize. Brian and Meggan reveal they invited them because they want them to be Maggie’s godparents. The three X-Men happily agree.

2nd story:A preteen girl, Rosie and her aunt Ellie are visiting Manhattan. Ellie asks Rosie what she wants to do on their last day in New York. Meet Storm, is the reply. She’s a goddess. She’s an X-Man! the girl gushes. But aren’t X-Men yucky? the aunt asks. Not to her, the girl replies and shows her her Storm scrapbook. She’s loved Storms since she was five. She shows Ellie a picture she drew of Storm and explains that Storm fights for what’s right. She gives her hope! They all do.
Rosie gets a news alert on her cell phone and learns the X-Men are battling at Grand Central. Can they go? She begs. It’s only five stations from here. On the screen, they watch a team of X-Men – Kitty Pryde, Storm, Colossus, Armor and Ink battle Fing Fan Foom.
Ellie agrees but tells her to stay back. Rosie promises that she just wants to meet Storm. She’s better than Harry Styles. Better than s’mores! Better than Harry Styles covered in s’mores!
He aunt agrees but, when they get there, the battle is already over and the heroes have moved on. They’ve missed them, Rosie complains. Lucky, a bystander remarks. Damn muties are a menace! Rosie protests; they saved everybody. He calls them freaks and wishes one could get rid of them. Rosie decides he is grouchy. Maybe his back is hurting, maybe it’s because he is going bald. But when he’s had time to think, he’ll realize he’s witnessed a miracle! A flying woman controlling the elements. A man of steel fighting a dragon. It’s literally amazing! That’s why they are called the amazing… Clowns! the man interrupts.
Ellie asks where they went and Rosie realizes the X-Mansion is only twenty minutes from here.
Soon they are at the Xavier Institute, but Anole informs them the team is at the Natural History Museum. Something about the Mole Man. Rosie is disappointed. She wants to meet Storm. She wants to meet the X-Men. Anole points out he is an X-Man. Rosie is not having it. Classic characters only. So they leave for the museum.
They arrive at the American Museum of Natural History where the fight again is already over and the X-Men have left, leaving some beaten Moloids behind. An employee calls control, complaining that first there was the Mole Man ransacking the place for some mythical bone and then that mutie scum! Enough with the hate speech! Rosie protests. He calls her a mutie-lover, enraging Ellie. Rosie asks him what’s wrong with him. Can’t he see the magic in superheroes?
A news report announces an attack by Gigantus on the USS Intrepid at Pier 86. Rosie sees Storm battling him and the two leave.
The battle is already over, of course, when they arrive but the X-Men are still nearby. People in the crowd mutter negative things about mutants. Rosie calls out to Storm who is flying away that she has something for her but she is too far away. Dejected, Rosie decides they should get their suitcases.
Later at Grand Central Station, they wait for their train as Ellie tells Rosie she gets now why she loves and admires those heroes. To battle evil while being hated and feared.
That moment, Storm lands nearby and the both of them screech excited. Rosie asks Storm what she is doing here. Storm explains that they made quite a mess in the city today, so it’s only right she help clean up. Rosie tells her she is her biggest fan. She gives Storm her letters and the drawing and Storm is touched. After that, they take a selfie in the with her in the air.
Later in the mansion, Storm smiles and hangs up the picture. Peter asks what that is and she explains it’s a reminder that they are getting there. One person at a time.


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Cruel and Unusual – part 1
Between Jupiter and Saturn:Something rends the fabric between our universe and the Negative Zone. It is Scythian, an old god of the planet Dartayus who is full of rage.
Meanwhile, in the Robert Kelly Correctional Facility aka the Box, a Homo superior prison, Kitty Pryde, dressed in orange prison garb and outfitted with a disinhibitor collar, is welcomed to the Box by two guards as she is led to her cell. Hope she survives the experience, one of them jokes. They warn her to not even think of escaping. The prison is designed to hold mutants. Did a hell of a job holding Mesmero and his friends! she snarks.
They open the cell door. Kitty sees who is inside and asks if she can get another cell. More specifically, a different cellmate. Pryde, the sometimes Morlock leader Callisto greets her coldly. Kitty turns to the guards. Seriously, that woman tried to kill her at least a million times. Have fun with that, the guard replies unimpressed and closes the cell door.
Calisto pretends to be insulted. She only tried to kill Kitty once – two times tops – and that was ages ago. Kitty snaps back that she’s got a long memory – particularly when it comes to the leaders of outlaw mutant gangs. Callisto schools her; the Morlocks are a community, not a gang. Try to have a little empathy! Her first! Kitty shoots back.
Cal warns her that of all the women here she is the last of Kitty’s problems. There are a lot of angry mutants here. And they all want a piece of her and her friends…
Storm and Prestige are in the female general population and notice they have a lot of eyes on them. Rachel groans suddenly and, when Storm presses, she admits that every time she throws down with Mesmero there are… side effects. She doesn’t mention the flashbacks she has to her Hound days. When Ororo asks about the side effects, Rachel sidesteps the issue and suggests they go look for Kitty.
The Xavier Institute:Iceman figures Kitty got her way: He didn’t move to Los Angeles and he now has a team to lead – hers. He rings the bell and is welcomed by Rogue. Both of them joke about never really getting out of the X-Men.
Rogue explains it could be a while until their lawyer Jen Walters gets the main team out. Hence the need for a replacement team. A whole school of mutants and they have to call in a has-been, Bobby jokes. Rogue tells him to speak for himself. She was busy leading the Avengers Unity Squad. Bobby clarifies he was speaking for himself. So who have they got to fill out the B-squad, he asks as they enter the office. Before him stand Armor, Ink, Magma and Magik. Who is he calling B-squad? Ink asks smirking. He can work with this, Bobby decides and orders them to meet him in the Danger Room in 10 minutes.
The Box:In the male general population, Colossus and Nightcrawler have been attacked by other prisoners. However, even without powers, they hold their own and are finally the last men standing. Colossus points out that they have been challenged four times today. What about tomorrow? How are they – or Kitty, Rachel and Ororo - supposed to fend off an entire prison?
The Danger Room:Iceman and Rogue aren’t overly impressed with their new team, as they are fighting a simulated Magneto, who has already taken out Magma and Ink and, Iceman fears, is about to do the same to Amor and Magik in a moment. He proves to be right and Magneto tosses him after them. Bobby curses that this guy has been beating him up since he was twelve! He lands on the ground. Rogue closes in on Magneto. Iceman warns her not to get too close and she reminds him this is the only way she can get her power to work.
Iceman orders the program to freeze. They got some kinks to work out, Ink admits. Iceman calls that an understatement. Good thing they are not responsible for keeping New York City safe or anything. Ink mutters there’s the Avengers and the Champions…
Anole interrupts to inform them there is someone asking for the X-Men. But they should be careful. He looks like trouble.
Rogue answers the door to see Simon Lasker standing there in a hoodie. She asks who he is.
Soon, Simon is in the office with Bobby and Rogue. Bobby summarizes that he is the one running around in the Pyro costume. Simon explains Mesmero came to him posing as Professor Xavier. By the time he learned the truth, it was too late. Even now, he isn’t sure Mesmero wasn’t messing with his brain the whole time. Convenient, Bobby figures and states, right now his friends are rotting in the same prison Pyro should be in. Simon admits he screwed up but he wants to help make it right. Bobby refuses and Rogue agrees at the same time. Rogue points out that trying to make amends is kind of an X-Men tradition. Bobby lamely points out that she is different. Actually, she deadpans, she was taking about Logan. Bobby offers his hand and agrees to Simon joining them on a provisional basis. Simon shakes his hand.
Meanwhile, a man named Ivan Guerrero aka the Shredded Man somewhere in the Manhattan tunnels bends the subway rails to his will.
The Box:The exercise yard for the female population:Kitty, Ororo and Rachel are taking a walk and Kitty tells them about sharing a cell with Calisto. She feels like she’s been recast in The Odd Couple. Storm warns her about Callisto’s agendas. They’ll have to watch her carefully. Rachel points out Callisto is sitting in the bleachers nearby. Kitty asks why she is grinning and Cal tells her things are going to get very interesting.
She points to several women walking towards them. The large one in front is the alpha here. Not Callisto? Storm asks. Cal explains that woman put her in the infirmary for a month. And she’s dying to take a piece or two out of some actual X-Men. Damn right! the woman called Crazy Maisie agrees. Her idea? Kitty asks Cal. Callisto demurs but she’s going to enjoy the show…


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Cruel and Unusual – part 2
The Box:In the Yard, the three female captive X-Men (Kitty Pryde, Rachel Grey and Ororo Munroe) have just been challenged by Crazy Masie – a huge, green-haired mutant and her crew. She spent five packs of cigarettes to get five minutes alone with them, she states darkly.
Storm identifies her cronies as Bliss, Electric Eve and Animax. Masie figures that beating the three of them will cement her status. Kitty fairly warns that they have had lots of combat training. Crazy Masie doesn’t care and the fight begins. Callisto stays neutral and watches.
Storm is hit by Bliss. Dodging her attacker’s blows, Rachel jokes that she can cross a prison yard fight off her bucket list, right after adding it to her bucket list. She and Storm quickly take care of the three cronies. Kitty, in the meantime, points out to Maisie that she is also a ninja and kicks her ass.
Of course, that moment, armored and armed guards come and order them to the ground. When the warden comes, Kitty explains the situation. The warden asks Callisto what she saw. She claims she was just here for the fresh air and saw nothing. The warden orders three days of solitary confinement for all combatants. That moment, a guard comes shouting there is a problem in Manhattan.
In Manhattan, steel tentacles emerge from the ground, throwing cars and other objects around and terrorizing the people. In the midst of that storm is the Shredded Man, musing how strange and beautiful this is. And how different from Boston. Out of his control. Still, he should dress for the occasion. He dons a mask.
That moment, the substitute X-Men team arrives. Rogue recognizes their foe as the Inhuman Ivan Guerrero, whom she recently fought with the Avengers Unity team. Inhuman and environmental nut job. Magik adds that, according to his file, he can generate spores he can control. Iceman announces that’s why they brought along Cable’s anti-toxin. Rogue recalls it worked spiffy last time.
Iceman orders Armor to light him up and Magik to back her up, while Magma is to protect Pyro. Armor raises her weapon and orders Guerrero to stand down. Unsurprisingly, he does not comply and Armor fires the toxin at him. Unfortunately, he shakes it off. He remembers that sensation. But things are different now, he is afraid. They should be afraid too. As he takes out Armor and Magik with his tentacles, the others realize that Cable’s cure doesn’t work.
Guerrero grows himself a cocoon. New plan! Iceman announces. He orders Pyro and Magma to burn up the vines that come from underground. In the meantime, he freezes the vines, so Ink and Rogue can smash them. But the vines still hold persist. What’s plan C? Rogue asks. Magma and Pyro, is the reply. They’re gonna burn this thing at the source.
Below, Pyro wonders where all these vines come from. Magma figures they are as old as the city, older even. He notices her giving him the cold shoulder and reminds her if it’s got anything to do with the Brotherhood; she was in it too. She snaps back that she was mind-controlled. And when she went back for revenge, she was taken out and her friends taken to jail. Pyro apologizes for his role in this. Mesmero sure likes his fire buddies, doesn’t he? Amara agrees and shifts to her lava form as she begins burning the vines and suggests they be fire buddies.
They try to burn the vines, but the Shredded Man thinks to himself that they are something more now… they have mutated. The X-Men’s attempt doesn’t work properly and Magma figures she has never seen anything like this before. Simon has. In the MRI images the doctors showed him of his mother’s lungs. Is there a doctor they can speak to?
Magma calls Dr. Cecilia Reyes at the Institute and shows her the scene. Cecilia agrees with Simon. The growth pattern is consistent with what she has seen in tumors. This is like cancer. Amara tells Dr. Reyes there is a mutant at the institute called Hijack. He needs to access the medical files on Ivan Guerrero. She thinks what’s really going on here is different than they think.
Further above, the others are still battling the vines. Iceman orders Ink to get Armor and Magik to safety. Rogue hits Guerrero.
Cecila announces she is sending them the medical records and adds this is very serious.
Magma contacts Rogue who is busy battling the Shredded Man. Amara explains that this isn’t like Boston. This isn’t under his control. Rogue listens carefully and Magma begins to explain…
Rogue stops fighting. She addresses Igor, asking what’s happening to his vines. That’s his cancer isn’t it? It’s not, he replies but then amends they mirror what the cancer is doing in his body though. Humanity is a cancer on the world. His dying wish is to see as much of humanity destroyed as he can before he expires. Rogue pleads it doesn’t have to be this way. He reminds her this is out of his control. Not out of hers, Rogue bets. She explains she can take his power temporarily and revert all this. He can try to take another city down with him. Or make a different choice. He can choose life. Life for the humanity he hates so much, yes. But life for himself as well. She touches him and he shouts in pain that he will never stop trying to save the planet from the humans that infest it. Rogue focuses and gets the vines under control.
The Box:The guards put Storm into a tiny solitary cell. Frightened, she pleads that she is a claustrophobic but is ignored and finds herself all alone in the tiny space…


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Cruel and Unusual – part 3
Paris, France:Currently, the city is terrorized by the giant evil God Scythian, who has freed himself from the Negative Zone.
In the meantime, two of the substitute X-Men, Armor and Magik, are currently facing the Rhino on Times Square. However, it is not the Rhino who causes Armor to cry out. She points to the jumbotron, where images of Scythian’s attack on Paris are shown. She recognizes Scythian. Magik makes short work of Rhino by teleporting him to Limbo.
The Box:In the male general population, Colossus and Nightcrawler also learn of Scythian’s return from the news. Colossus fears the world will not be able to stop him, while they are there in this concrete cage. Sullenly, he adds he should be planning his wedding. Kurt points out Kitty would be the one to do the planning. But he agrees things could not be more dire.
They are more dire for Storm. She, like Rachel and Kitty, has been put into solitary. However, unlike the others, she is a claustrophobe and being alone in a small room is hellish for her. She lies on the ground almost catatonic, reliving the trauma of losing her parents and being buried alive by rubble when she was six.
However, she chooses rage over fear. She stands up and reminds herself who she is. She will not lose her mind to a cage! And that rage is so great that it overwhelms the technology of her inhibitor collar, literally shorting it out as lightning hits the cell.
Armed guards come running and order her to lie down on the floor.
In the ruins of old Asgard, former home of the Norse gods, something stirs on the ground. Storm’s pain and strength are felt by Stormcaster, the enchanted hammer forged by the dwarven weaponsmith Eitri at the behest of Loki. It feels its mistress pain and anger and is compelled to answer.
In Paris, Captain Britain and his wife Meggan (who were on a romantic vacation) battle against Scythian. When Meggan complains this is not what she expected from a holiday in Paris, Brian retorts everything in Paris is romantic. He adds that the creature’s presence affects the weather.
Using her elemental control, Meggan blasts the angry god who swats her away. Cap flies after his wife and catches her. As they wonder what the thing is, they receive a reply courtesy of Ink’s telepathy, as the substitute X-Men’s jet nears Paris. He gives them all the knowledge they have of Scythian and Iceman asks them to keep the mad god busy until they arrive at their position.
Meanwhile, at the Box, Magik is in the Warden’s office making her case for the release of her teammates, due to the emergency in Paris. The Warden doesn’t much care. Besides, the world has enough superheroes to stop that creature. Magik shoots back that he has five heroes who have already stopped him within in his jail. And one of them just blasted a hole in his prison! he retorts.
Suddenly, a gust of wind rises and Storm enters, announcing she needs a word. The Warden calls for his guards. Storm points out that she already talked to them… they are having a little nap. She turns to the warden. They have been patient. Because it was the right thing to do. They agreed to let justice run its course, because it was the right thing to do. Her eyes aglow she hisses, and then he put her in a cage!
Illyana interrupts, pointing out they have a situation here. She points to the TV screen showing Scythian running amok in Paris. Storm informs the warden that the X-Men are leaving this place and threatens him a bit for good.
In the meantime in the jet, Iceman gives orders to his team. Their fliers – Ink and Rogue – will take Magma and Armor. Let’s fastball special this barfbag!
What about him? Pyro asks. Iceman replies that the X-jet can run on autopilot. He will stay in it. Pyro accuses him of benching him because he was in the Brotherhood. Bobby corrects him that he is keeping him safe. Pyro is the least trained, least battle-tested person here. He’ll only get into the game if things get really bad. And how does he know things are really bad? Pyro insists. That moment, the furious giant Scythian grabs the jet. He just had to ask! Magma shouts.
Rogue revs up the engines, leaving exhaust flames in Scythian’s face and allowing the jet to break free.
Iceman reminds everyone of his order. He joins the others on an iceslide. Ink points out they had to throw the guy into the equivalent of a black hole before. And even that didn’t stop him, Armor adds. Bobby replies they don’t have any black holes around, so they’ll beat the #%&$ out of him.
Captain Britain and Meggan join them, and Cap warns them brute force won’t get this done. Give them a chance, Iceman quips. He brought along some pretty good brutes. Cue for the others to attack Scythian. And they are just the warm-up act.
Rogue touches Scytian with her bare skin. She finds herself overcome by the power she absorbs and falls. Armor jumps after her, while Magma shouts that she cannot fly. Now she tells her, Armor mutters. She jokingly hopes for a secondary mutation as she uses her armor to cushion both herself and Rogue from the landing.
Meanwhile, Iceman, Captain Britain and Meggan try to evacuate people. Iceman orders Ink to help the wounded. He wonders where the cavalry is.
Speaking of: On the roof of the Box, Magik hands her freed teammates fresh uniforms. Nightcrawler complains that he cannot teleport them halfway across the world, apparently forgetting that Magik using a detour via Limbo can and does, ignoring any protest. Moments later, they arrive in Paris.
In the building through whose roof they crashed, Armor cradles the unconscious Rogue, pleading for her to wake up. Meggan joins them and siphons off the excess energy Rogue absorbed from Scythian. She is successful as Rogue wakes up with a start, some of Scythian’s power still within her. They join Magma, as do Kitty’s group. Kitty asks Storm to take care of the crazy weather and everyone else to soften up Scythian.
In the meantime, some distance away, Rachel is protecting Magik, who in turn is concentrating on creating the mother of all stepping discs. Kitty explains their plan: they hurt him, trap him and hope it’s enough for the KO. Colossus asks what the KO is but Kitty warns him he wouldn’t like it if she told him. She asks Kurt to ‘port her into the X-jet, where they are surprised to find the waiting Pyro.
Assuming a defensive stance, Pyro shouts he is on their side. Iceman and Rogue made him a part of the team! Kitty and Kurt exchange a look, then admit that sounds depressingly like them. Simon offers his help. Kitty suggests he help by not being here and has Nightcrawler teleport him away.
The others are still attacking Scythian. Storm concentrates and finds the enchanted Uru Hammer Stormcaster flying towards her. She touches it and is once again transformed. She recalls that, the last time she wielded it, it nearly took her mind. But she needs its power now.
Rachel transmits to Kitty that she and Magik are in position. The fliers evacuate the other X-Men, save for Colossus. While Magik traps Scythian’s leg with a Stepping Disc, he and Storm keep on attacking. She flies him away as Kitty steers the X-jet on collision course with Scythian.
A huge detonation follows, killing Scythian. Colossus runs toward the crater, shouting Kitty’s name. She phases upward from the ground, telling him she didn’t forget to phase. She asks Storm to do something about the smoke and fire, and Storm calls a downpour. The others gather. Magik informs them that most of Scythian is stuck in Limbo but she is covered in the rest.
That brings them to their next problem, Kitty jokes. What are they going to do with twelve X-Men?
Sands Point, New York, the home of Lydia Nance:Nance watches the news and is displeased to learn that, in the wake of the X-Men’s heroics, forward movement of the Mutant Deportation Act in the Senate has stalled. Spineless idiots! she mutters.
A new voice announces that it doesn’t matter. Human laws don’t matter. They must be stamped out; utterly destroyed. Mutants are a problem that cannot be legislated away. It is the Sentinel / nanoswarm Alpha. Nance reminds him he failed before. Alpha replies he has evolved since then, mutated, if she will. Nance frowns not caring for the term. He tells her to focus on the task at hand. He shows her an image of Colossus and promises that, using this mutant, they will kill every living thing on the planet that carries an X-gene.


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‘Til Death Do Us Part – part 1
Flashback:Deerfield, Illinois, years ago:Professor Charles Xavier and some of his students are visiting the Pryde family to make their case for young Kitty Pryde to attend their school. Kitty peeks downward from the staircase and immediately figures those people are weird. She also immediately notices Piotr Rasputin and considers him neat-looking.
Kitty’s father suggests she head to the Malt Shoppe with the other students while the Prydes talk with the Professor. Xavier introduces his students to Kitty. Piotr addresses her as ‘Katya’ as he greets her. Kitty likes the nickname. It’s Russian, he explains.
Present?“Katya?” Piotr asks Kitty. Where did she go? Both are sitting in an outdoor café in the South American republic of San Marco. She admits she was thinking of their first meeting. She thought he was neat looking. He chides her for having been too young to think of him that way. The way he looked, kinda didn’t have a choice, Kitty jokes. And now look at them. She looks at her engagement ring. Piotr muses it feels like a lifetime ago since he put that ring on her finger. She agrees that they’ve been dragging their feet a lot. Does he think said feet are getting cold? He thinks it’s because they were a little busy.
Hends up, cheres! Gambit calls everyone over comm. He thinks they still are, Colossus sighs.
From a rooftop, Gambit announces he thinks he has their boy, staring at an old lady. Still sulking, Piotr mutters it doesn’t look like their boy or even a boy. Impatiently, Gambit replies that that is Mesmero.
Rogue, who is up in the air, points out if he is wrong a dozen cell phones will have footage of the X-Men attacking an old lady in a foreign country. Glad he’s not wrong the, comes the cocky reply.
Rachel Grey, dressed in civilian clothes, suggests she get closer to the old lady and check for herself. Kitty warns her to be careful. Colossus wonders if that is a good idea. Rachel’s Hound flashforwards have been getting more frequent. Kitty believes Rachel can handle Mesmero.
Rachel accidentally bumps against the old lady, who grins evilly. So gushingly lovely to see her again, Mesmero showing his true face states. All those times he’s been in her head… He’s been craving another chance. Rachel groans as he attacks her psychically. Each time they fought, he’s been adding some improvements, he reveals. He hopes she doesn’t mind.
The others realize Rachel is in trouble and Kitty asks for Nightcrawler to teleport Mesmero away. He teleports him up into the air, where Rogue immediately hits him hard. She catches him then flies higher up. One twitch, she warns, and she will drop him. Then a lightning bolt hits him courtesy of Storm, dressed in her Asgardian goddess outfit that comes with the Asgardian mallet Stormcaster.
Kurt teleports back to Rachel’s side and asks if she is all right. Rachel hesitates. She is caught in a flashback of killing Nightcrawler as a Hound. She’s ok, she lies.
Later, they return Mesmero to the Box. Kitty suggests to the warden they not let him escape this time. He could say the same about the X-Men, he retorts. Kitty reminds him that the charges against them were dropped. Not the charge of being mutants, he replies. Their very existence is a risk. Kitty stares at him, then sarcastically thanks him for not being subtle. It is refreshing to meet an honest bigot. The warden insists it’s not bigotry but survival. They are the next step in human evolution, but the previous step isn’t going to go down without a fight.
A high tech facility in the Savage Land:Lydia Nance is giving the new Nano Sentinel, who now calls himself Alpha, a tour. Practically a steal at five billion dollars, she boasts. Alpha observes he didn’t believe her fortune was so prodigious. With a smile, she explains that the world is full of wealthy people who understand that humanity is fighting a war against its own extinction. When they learned she was working with a Sentinel nanotech, AI they couldn’t write the checks fast enough.
Back at the Xavier Institute, Kitty is talking to Bobby Drake in her office. She criticizes his decision to hire a member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants while she was in prison. He reminds her she wanted him to lead his own team. Stacking it with supervillains isn’t what she had in mind, she snaps. Pyro and the new Brotherhood attacked the United Nations, kidnapped Logan, nearly got them all killed twice, and that was before Mesmero – his friend Pyro’s friend – got them thrown in prison!
Bobby calmly points out that Mesmero was manipulating Pyro. Playing around in his head. He’s trying to make things right and he wouldn’t exactly be the first Brotherhood member they have on the team. He points at a photo of Rogue.
Kitty thinks for a moment. Provisional basis, she finally decides, and Bobby won’t take his eyes off him. Done. Bobby shakes her hand.
In the Danger Room, Colossus beats up a Doombot. The battle over, Nightcrawler joins him and asks if he is working off some anger. No, frustration, is the reply. With Kitty? Kurt asks and admits Rachel may have sensed something and told him. Is everything ok with the two of them? Peter isn’t sure. In Santa Marco, Kitty suggested they may be getting cold feet. Are they? Kurt asks. Piotr replies they have set a wedding date. Kurt enthusiastically suggests a bachelor party. Las Vegas! Piotr protests that the wedding is a few weeks away but is ignored as Kurt teleports away to make the preparations. Piotr sighs.
Deerfield, Illinois:Kitty is visiting her mother, Theresa. She looks at a picture of her dead father and admits she misses him. Terri replies she is glad they set a wedding date. Kitty sighs the hard part is making sure the world doesn’t end before.
Kitty asks her mother to walk her down the aisle since she no longer has a father. Theresa hesitates, pointing out that is a man’s job. Kitty rejoins, it’s the 21st century. And she is the leader of the X-Men… they can jettison traditional gender roles. Terri hugs her daughter and agrees.
Las Vegas:In a club, Piotr’s bachelor party is under way. Simon Lasker (the new Pyro) thanks the X-Men for inviting him along. Piotr curtly asks if he is old enough? Kurt reminds him he was old enough for the casino. Do not remind him about the casino! Piotr groans. Kurt jokes, Piotr has never let his hair down before. It’s going to take him a little time. He turns to Gambit and teases they will be doing this for him one day. Remy retorts they couldn’t handle his bachelor party. Kurt considers that a challenge. Sobered, Remy admits he doesn’t see himself and Rogue tying the knot.
Bobby asks about Kurt and Rachel – they’ve been serious for some time now. Yes, when she hasn’t been comatose or fighting her inner demons it’s been a lovely relationship, Kurt deadpans. At least he is in one, Bobby points out. Piotr leaves for the bathroom and Remy observes he doesn’t seem happy.
Piotr looks at himself in the bathroom mirror: “Chto ty zdes’ delayesh’, moy drug?” he sighs.
Alpha appears behind him. He asks what he is doing here. He will give him the answer. Piotr turns to Colossus and punches Alpha but the nanites simply break apart to reform as he hits Colossus back.
Bobby worries about Piotr and decides to see if he is okay. He suggests they can do something he wants, if this is not up his speed. He finds the bathroom wall ruined and sees Alpha dragging out the unconscious Piotr. He tries to follow but is held back by a forcefield.
Alpha contacts Lydia Nance to inform her he has the target. They are ready to proceed to the next phase of the operation…


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‘Til Death Do Us Part – part 2
Flashback:Xavier’s school for Gifted Youngsters, years ago:Christmas Eve:A 13 ½ year old Kitty embarrasses Piotr Rasputin by holding a mistletoe over his head (she is standing on the stairs) and giving him a kiss on the cheek. Merry Christmas, sexy, she wishes him. Piotr predictably blushes and Kurt Wagner jokes if she had kissed him anywhere else, he would have dropped dead from shock. Piotr retorts he is regretting rescuing him just now.
More seriously, Kitty asks if that was okay. She was just trying to lighten the mood. He assures her it was. He was just –“Kak ty Skazhesh’? “Caught by surprise,” he translates. Pleasantly surprised? Kitty presses. Da, pleasantly.
Present:Las Vegas Nevada,Bobby Drake just followed Peter to the bathroom to make sure he was okay. He finds that side of the room in shambles with a large opening to the outside and no trace of his teammate. The others follow and Bobby explains he… it took Peter. They have a very big problem.
The Xavier Institute, Central Park:Storm stands outside, watching the Asgardian mallet Stormcaster fly in the sky. Rachel Grey joins her and asks if she is playing with her new hammer. Ororo corrects her. She is trying to return it. Didn’t it just find its way to her? Rachel asks as the hammer returns to Storm’s hands. For reasons she has yet to discern, Storm replies. Its power is palpable. Even just holding it is like touching lightning. But the last time she wielded it, it nearly took her mind. Thor had destroyed it, but now it’s back somehow.
Ororo points out the parallels between her and Rachel’s circumstances. Rachel plays dumb and deadpans that she hasn’t got a hammer. Storm presses on that Rachel’s powers have grown since she awoke from her coma. They can all sense her in their minds. The power radiates off of her. They are worried about her.
Kurt talks too much! Rachel snaps. Storm reaches out and repeats they are concerned. Rachel brushes her off and snaps she isn’t her mother. And she sure as hell doesn’t need another one.
Rogue comes between them, apologetically pointing out they have a problem.
Soon, the three of them (as well as Kitty Pryde) are on an X-jet bound for Las Vegas. Kitty is on the comm with Iceman, who informs her Colossus was abducted.
Rachel pipes up she can feel the psychic resonance he left behind. He is calling himself Alpha. She pulls the image from Bobby’s mind and uploads it to the others’. Rogue turns around. She can read Bobby’s mind from that distance? Ororo repeats that they have all noticed her growing power.
Kitty announces she recognizes their foe despite the makeover. He is the mutated Sentinel that Rachel took out a while back. She’s puzzled though as to why Alpha would kidnap Peter and where he took him.
The answer to the second question lies in the Savage Land. In the fortress that Lydia Nance bought.
Alpha muses that Mr. Rasputin has a marvel in his blood - both remnants of Legacy and the foundation for Hope.
Lydia Nance dumbs it down for Colossus: Dr. Rao used the traces of the Legacy Virus in Colossus’ blood to create a cure for mutancy called Hope.
Colossus asks if they intend to recreate this failed cure. Not at all, Nance replies. She has no interest in curing mutants. Only in killing them. His blood is the key. With it, Alpha can fashion a smart virus that targets everyone on the planet with an X-gene. Homo sapiens will no longer have need to fear the Homo superior. Young children will no longer have to cower in terror at the thought of monsters. She thinks back on her abusive mutant father.
Colossus shouts at her that she is the monster. And her hatred and bigotry are hardly original. She isn’t the first person like this he has met. But he is, Alpha stresses, for he is no person.
The other X-Men have arrived in Las Vegas. Kitty intends to hack the security cameras to get a trajectory to where Alpha might have taken Peter. Rachel tells her there is no need. She can track Peter from here. Seriously? Kitty bursts out. Rachel darkly reminds her that she used to hunt mutants and she was very good at it. Besides, like Ororo said, she’s leveled up.
Kitty tells her to do it fast and walks some distance away. Rogue follows her and asks if she is okay. Kitty replies when she was told they were taking Peter to a bachelor party in Las Vegas her mind ran a few scenarios. Peter getting kidnapped by a Sentinel nano robot was not one of them.
Rogue assures her they are going to get him back and suggests they start planning her bachelorette party. She can’t do that now. It’s called multitasking, Rogue points out. She knows what it’s called, is Kitty’s dejected reply. Just as she knows that Peter’s abduction is what’s called a sign. She thinks the universe is trying to tell her not to marry Peter? Rogue asks. Kitty thinks the universe is a little chatty at the moment. Rogue assures her that it’s just nerves. She is about to make a major commitment to a guy she’s been off-again on-again since she was a teenager. Some second-guessing is to be expected. Kitty fears she is beyond second guessing. Rogue grabs her by the shoulders. Does Kitty love Peter? So much it hurts, is the reply. Rogue orders her to tell the universe to shut the hell up.
Bobby joins them, announcing Rachel believes she has a lock on Peter. And they’re not gonna like where she tracked them to…
Soon they land in the Savage Land. Rachel protests Kitty landed them a mile away from Peter’s location. She didn’t want to announce their arrival, is Kitty’s deadpan reply. Call her crazy. She orders Rachel to psi-link everybody. They‘ll have to split up to take more ground. Fliers will take the non-fliers. Storm, Iceman and Pyro will take the west quadrant. Rogue and Gambit take the east while Prestige, Nightcrawler and Kitty will cover the rest.
Inside the citadel, Alpha informs his prisoner that his friends are here. Colossus asks why he is doing this. Alpha reminds him he already elucidated their “evil scheme” to him. Colossus understands Lydia Nance’s reasoning but not Alpha’s. Because he is an AI? Alpha asks. Colossus replies he is a Sentinel. Bigotry and prejudice are built into his programming. But Alpha seems to have evolved since the X-Men last encountered him. Alpha agrees. Self-sentience has given way to self-expression. He now contains multitudes.
Colossus gets to his point: If Alpha is no longer a slave to his original programming, why carry out his anti-mutant agenda? Alpha considers then praises him for trying to sow doubt. Alpha fancies himself a mutant. He has evolved. And so he knows the dangers of evolution, its untrammeled reckless power. Evolution must be eradicated along with all those evolved.
Colossus points out that would include Alpha. He agrees. Once this is over and all with an X-gene are dead, he will self-terminate. He is nothing if not consistent.
Storm, Pyro and Iceman haven entered the fortress though the sewers. Pyro wonders what this place is. Your standard bad guys hideout, Bobby jokes. Actually, Pyro means the conduits that surround them, Storm understands. This structure isn’t a part of the rest of the facility. Before they can hazard a guess, they are surrounded by Alpha style Sentinels.
Elsewhere, Kitty’s team has found nothing. Rachel is concerned about Kitty’s fear for Peter. They find a control room where Lydia Nance sarcastically greets them. Kitty slams into her. Rachel and Kurt try to hold her back but she just phases through them and demands Peter’s whereabouts. Nearby, is Nance’s closemouthed reply. Kitty wants to know where or threatens to give her a reason to hate and fear mutants. Nance replies that he is to play a key role in the coming purge. Her job is to buy time.
A moment later, Kitty is hit by another Alpha copy. Nightcrawler engages it while Prestige puts Nance to sleep.
Kitty contacts the rest of the team, who are all busy with Alpha Sentinels. Rachel announces Colossus is near Storm’s team. But there is another problem. That moment, the ground begins to rumble as a rocket with Colossus aboard is launched, and Kitty can only watch helplessly.