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Schism, part three
Utopia, home of the majority of the world’s mutant population. ‘Status report?’ Scott “Cyclops” Summers orders. In the communications room, the Three-in-One a.k.a. Celeste, Irma and Phoebe the Stepford Cuckoos stand ready, while Cyclops observes monitors depicting reports of current events he is interested in. One of the Cuckoos announces that there are fourteen separate global hotspots still showing Sentinel activity. Another adds that all X-Men are currently engaged, while the third assures Cyclops that they are maintaining worldwide telepathic links. Cyclops asks the girls to keep him informed, while on screen, a reporter announces that live coverage continues from the site of San Francisco’s recently unveiled Museum of Mutant History, where security is tight and tensions are high, yet many in the crowd remain hopeful that tonight’s festivities may hope to dampen the flames of anti-mutant hysteria.
The reporter reveals that Mayor Sadie Sinclair is due to speak momentarily, when Cyclops suddenly gets a telepathic call from his lover Emma Frost the White Queen. ‘Emma. Any trouble at the museum?’ Scott asks, while Emma glances around, holding a glass of wine. ‘Loads of it, deary. Can you believe there are barely four mentions of me in this entire wretched building, and in three of them I’m referred to as a villain? If I find whoever curated this mess I’m going to sink my nails into his frontal lobe!’ Emma declares. Scott tells her that the TV coverage is all over the news, and Emma sips her wine while telling him that there are reporters everywhere, all wanting an official statement from the X-Men regarding the current global cluster*&#%. ‘If I’m here much longer, I’m liable to give them one’ Emma adds.
Cyclops tells Emma that the only message she needs to send she can send by just being there. Scott adds that he wants all X-Men back on Utopia as soon as possible. ‘Right. We’ll give them one last bit of muscle-flexing and then be on our way’ Emma assures Scott, who asks if there is any sign of Wolverine. ‘No. Not since your last little bit of manly -’ Emma begins, but Scott can no longer hear her. ‘Emma? Emma, come in’ he calls out, before telling the Cuckoos that he lost the link to Emma. The girls reply that their seems to be some sort of localized telepathic interference. The reporter announces that there appears to be some sort of disturbance outside. ‘No. EMMA!’ Cyclops booms as he rushes out of the room.
At the Museum of Mutant History, Emma screams in agony. Bobby “Iceman” Drake approaches her and asks her if she is all right, to which Emma replies that she received some sort of psychic backlash. The rest of the X-Men at the museum - Piotr “Colossus” Rasputin, the Master of Magnetism, Magneto and Namor the Sub-Mariner gather with Emma, who has dropped her glass of wine. Emma announces that her telepathy is being jammed, and that they are cut off from Utopia. ‘Either they’re under attack…or we are’ she tells her teammates. Bobby remarks that it would not be much of a mutant history museum without someone trying to kill them, while Magneto tells everyone to be alert. ‘Thank the Gods. I would rather be shot in the face with a harpoon gun than pose for another ridiculous photograph’ Namor mutters.
Nearby, several of the younger mutants from Utopia have gathered. Anole tells Trance, Oya and Transonic that Emma’s nose is bleeding, so something must be wrong. ‘Maybe we shouldn’t have come here’ Transonic suggests, while Idie Okonkwo aka Oya finds herself fixated on a photograph of the original X-Men. ‘I don’t understand…why are they smiling?’ she asks, confused, when suddenly, someone screams.
At that moment, Wolverine a.k.a. Logan is still at the bar, slumped against the counter, he is speaking on the phone to Rogue, asking her where she is and if there is anything left for him. ‘Plenty’ comes Rogue’s reply, while behind her Archangel and Pixie take on a Sentinel. Rogue informs Wolverine that they have got haywire Sentinels all over the world, and they could use all the help they can get, before asking him what the situation is back home. Logan looks up at the television as something catches his attention - the reporter announces that there appears to be some sort of disturbance. An instant later, Logan has gone and dropped the phone on the bar. ‘Logan?’ Rogue calls out.
Flashback, months ago:Four youngsters are seated across from each other in a sparse room. In the blue chair, a young man in a school uniform introduces himself as Kade Kilgore, explaining that his father is CEO of Kilgore Arms, one of the wealthiest and most powerful men alive today. Kade boasts that his father has raised him to believe that he will someday inherit the world. ‘I don’t know anything about you, but I’m tired of waiting’ he announces, before turning to the young man dressed in a suit, seated in the red chair. Kade calls him Manuel Enduque, son of one of the richest families in the eastern hemisphere. Kade reveals that it is a wealth built on the backs of slaves, from the days of his great-great-grandfather, one of West Africa’s most notorious slave traders, to today, when his family sells humans by the bushel in a dozen different galaxies.
Manuel boasts that their latest shipment is bound as they speak for a planet of flesh-eating space trolls, and it happens to number amongst its cargo his seven older brothers. ‘Here’s to being the sole heir’ Manuel declares. Next up is Baron Maximilian von Katzenelnbogen, who sits in the green chair. Kade reveals that the Baron is the orphan prince of the Bavarian Alps, and the youngest student ever admitted to the University of Munich, as he is considered a true scientific prodigy, that was until the academics deemed his methods “most profoundly unsettling”, which Kade declares is not surprising, given his family history. ‘Von Katzenelnbogen isn’t your true name, is it? No, that would be von Franken-’ but the Baron interrupts Kade before he gets to finish his sentence, warning him that if Kade says his name in his presence he will walk.
Sitting in the yellow chair is the young girl, and Kade announces that upon the recent suicide of hotel entrepreneur Lenore Kensington, her entire estate was left to her 37 pet cats and her 11 year old daughter, Wilhelmina, a beauty pageant and martial arts enthusiast. ‘Mr Farnesworthe didn’t like to be tickled, so I made his head all squishy. Now he doesn’t mind’ the girl replies blankly. Kade tells his companions that they are here because he believes that if they pool their resources, they can surpass the accomplishments of their parents before they are even old enough to drive. He announces that before he goes any further, if there is anyone here who is uncomfortable with the thought of extortion, terrorism, or systematic mass murder, now would be the time to leave. No one gets up to go.
Present:There is a massive explosion and the Museum of Mutant History, as Kade, the Baron, Manuel and Wilhelmina, dressed their in their Hellfire Club costumes and supported by large armed guard, stride forward. ‘Temporary telepathic transmitters we swallowed should be kicking in about now. Hello? Hello, can you hear me?’ Kade telepathically calls out to his companions. Manuel replies that he is reading him loud and clear and announces that all weapons are primed and ready, while the girl tells everyone that she farted. ‘Splendid. Lets make a show of it’ Kade declares. ‘You know the drill, people! We hate mutants, blah, blah, blah! Now bring us your X-Men!’ Kade shouts.
Suddenly, the X-Men appear before the youngsters. ‘Ask and ye shall receive, little man’ Emma declares, while Colossus points out that the leaders of the mob appear to be children. ‘Children in Hellfire gear’ Iceman adds. ‘I’ve hit children before’ Namor mutters, as Magneto orders them to be taken down. Nearby though, the Hellfire guards have surrounded Anole and Trance. Dust looks on, while Transonic calls out to Oya, telling her to run.
At that moment, Cyclops is wearing a jet-pack as he flies from Utopia towards the mainland. He communicates with Dr Nemesis, asking him to come in. Dr Nemesis can be heard replying ‘I hate when you people invade my head like this. I’m in the blasted lab, still working to develop a Sentinel-specific EMP. What is it now?’ he asks. Cyclops tells Nemesis that he has command of Utopia. ‘What?’ Dr Nemesis asks. ‘What the hell sort of hornet’s nest have you stirred up now? Summers!?’, but Scott offers no response.
Outside the bar, a man is getting into his car - ‘Move it, pal’ Wolverine declares as he grabs the man and takes his car, speeding off down the road.
At the museum, the X-Men engage the Hellfire Club guards in combat, however Colossus finds himself with a Badoon Brain Slug strapped to his face. ‘If you think I’ll refrain from thrashing you senseless simply because of you age, you don’t know me very well’ Namor tells one of the kids. The Baron ducks as Namor throws one of the soldiers at him. ‘I know you well enough Herr Mariner. I dissected my first Atlantean when I was eight!’ he boasts as he begins firing his weapon, which drops several black discs at Namor’s feet. The Baron declares that he knows that if he were to shoot 5000 Kelvins worth of concentrated chemical heat at Namor’s feet, it would render him about as dangerous as a sardine in the sun. The discs explode and heat surges through Namor, who keels over, enabling the Club soldiers to go over and attack him. ‘Seriously, boys, you’re gonna have to do better than this!’ Iceman declares as he knocks several guards back, while Magneto drops a car on his opponents.
‘I hope I die before I get as old as you’ Wilhelmina tells Emma, who has put her diamond-hard hand around her throat. ‘That can be arranged, little girl’ Emma replies, before turning to the Baron and remarking that she sees times are so tough they are affecting even the Hellfire Club. ‘So much so that they’re forced to send children to do their fighting for them’ Emma adds. The Baron informs Emma that he just took down Namor, and managed to jam her telepathy with just his little finger. ‘Literally me little finger. The jamming device is the size of a pinhead, located under my pinky-nail in a -’ he stops his sentence as Emma drops her diamond-form and grabs the boy’s pinky finger, snapping it. The Baron cries out in pain, while Emma telepathically informs Cyclops that she is back online, and asks him to respond, as she explains that the museum is under attack by a pint-sized version of the Hellfire Club. Emma tells Scott that she will thrash them thoroughly and report back ASAP, but suddenly, Wilhelmina fires a Badoon Brain Slug which latches on to Emma’s face. ‘Get her, kitty’ Wilhelmina exclaims.
‘If only my brothers could see me now!’ Manuel declares as he attacks Colossus, who is knocked backwards. ‘Okay…that’s definitely better…’ Iceman mutters, before crying out in agony as the guards attack him with laser-like swords. Kade declares that it is fitting the mutant race should suffer its most humbling defeat in the halls of a museum, since that is ultimately where they belong, with all the rest of the dusty old relics. ‘Speaking of dusty old relics…’ Kade remarks as Magneto approaches him, using his power to lift several guards up and throw them backwards. ‘Valiant showing, boy. But this ends now’ Magneto announces. ‘You’re right about that, grandpa’ Kade replies as he holds up a small gun and points it at Magneto. ‘That’s your plan? To shoot me with bullets? Did you forget I am a giant walking magnet?’ Magneto asks.
Kade remarks that Magneto is a cocky old bastard and suggests that might be why when he was a the bag guy he never won a single damn fight in his life. ‘This gun doesn’t shoot bullets’ Kade announces as he fires the weapon, and energy surrounds Magneto. Kade explains that the weapon shoots miniaturized neutron stars, marble-sized magnetars, to be precise, the most powerful magnets known to man. ’How’s that feel, all jammed up inside your magnetic field, Mr Giant Walking Magnet?’ Kade asks, before Magneto falls to the floor. ’Who’s cocky now, you withered old fart?’ Kade declares, while telepathically informing his comrades that he needs a brain slug for Magneto. ’The X-Men are going down!’ he boasts. Anole, Dust, Trace and Transonic have all been taken down, and the guards stand over them.
‘This is Cyclops. Can any X-Men read me?’ Scott asks, telepathically. He calls out to Emma and Magneto, asking them to come in. On Utopia, the Stepford Cuckoos announces that Ms Frost is offline, that her attackers have sophisticated psi-shielding. ‘When I try to peek inside their heads, all I get is a blaring loop of earworms. Someone shoot me before I start humming pop songs’ one of the girls remarks, while the third announces that she is scanning for other X-Men on site. ‘X-Men emergency distress call, can anyone read me?’ she calls out.
‘Um…hello? Is there someone inside my head? Please…I don’t know what to do’ Idie thinks to herself. Cyclops picks up on her distress and asks her what is happening and where Emma and the others are. Wolverine gets in Idie’s head next, and asks what she is doing at the museum. ‘Get out of the building, now!’ he orders her as he rushes across the tops of cars who are in a traffic jam. Logan tells Cyclops that he is almost there and can handle it. Cyclops asks Idie to tell him where the others are, and peering around a corner at the Hellfire Club soldiers, Idie’s response is that she thinks they just lost.
Emma, Bobby, Colossus, Magneto and Namor all lay on the floor, Badoon Brain Slugs over their faces. The Hellfire Club soldiers stand over them, while Kade approaches them and removes his mask. ‘I haven’t had sex yet so maybe I’m wrong…but I can’t imagine it feeling better than this!’ he smiles. Manuel removes his mask and takes photos of the X-Men with a camera, asking ‘Are we officially super villains now? My dad would be so proud. If I hadn’t already strangled him in his sleep’ Manuel remarks. ‘No more kitties?’ Wilhelmina asks. ‘Who wants to be a super villain? Super villains always lose in the end. Of did I miss the news that Dr Doom now rules the world?’ Kade replies, and as Namor begins to rise, Kade shoots him in the back, declaring that he did not come here to lose. ‘Bring out the suitcase’ he orders.
‘Primed and ready’ the Baron calls out as he brings the suitcase towards Kade, who asks if there is any sign of reinforcements. ‘Not yet’ the Baron replies.3Kade declares that they will be here soon enough, and suggests they get the X-Men outside while they still have time. ‘And them?’ the Baron asks, motioning to the museum patrons and staff, cowering against a wall as Hellfire soldiers keep guard over them. ‘If they’re not X-Men…consider them expendable’ Kade replies. Idie watches from behind a cabinet as the soldiers pick up the X-Men and begin to take them away. Idie informs Cyclops and Wolverine of this, and adds that a suitcase has been brought out. ‘A bomb? Is it a bomb?’ Cyclops asks. Idie replies that she doesn’t known, and asks what a bomb looks like. ‘Scott, get her outta there!’ Wolverine exclaims.
At that moment, Wolverine rushes across a park, towards the museum, telling Idie to get out as fast as she can. ‘Scott, tell her!’ Wolverine shouts, but gets no response, while Cyclops continues to make his way to the museum, and Idie tells him that she doesn’t know what to do. ‘Should I…should I try to stop them?’ she asks. ‘No! Run! Scott!’ Wolverine calls out. Idie reports that there are some sort of numbers on the suitcase, counting down. ‘I think…I think it is a bomb’ she exclaims, adding that there are people still trapped inside. ‘Damn it, Summers!’ Wolverine snaps. ‘She’s just a kid! Get her out ! I can make it! I got this!’ wolverine declares, while Cyclops tells Idie to listen very carefully, before revealing that they are not going to make it in time. ‘You do what you feel you have to’ Cyclops tells her.
‘NO!’ Wolverine calls out, but Oya gets to her feet and announces that she can do this. She moves towards the Hellfire soldiers, one of whom asks ‘What the hell…?’ while another shouts ‘Mutant!’. They begin to fire at her, but Oya raises her arms, releasing fire from one and ice from the other, which stop the bullets.
Outside the museum, Anole and the others have helped as many civilians escape as possible, while Wolverine and Cyclops both arrive at the same time. ‘It’s okay, I did it’ Idie announces. ‘I saved the day. I think…’ she remarks as she collapses in Cyclops’s arms. Scott picks her up and shouts ‘Everyone, get back! There’s a bomb inside!’ as they all run for safety. The fire caused by Idie’s power begins to rage inside the museum, where several Hellfire guards are still on the floor. The bomb suddenly goes off, and the resulting explosion is massive. Police officers have gathered nearby, while people run from the danger. Kade, Wilhelmina, the Baron and Manuel have ditched their Hellfire Club gear and run from the explosion, smiling, pleased with themselves.
Cyclops finds the other X-Men, still with the Badoon Brain Slugs on their faces, and he contacts Dr Nemesis, telling him prepare the infirmary, as they have multiple casualties coming in. ‘You son of a bitch’ Wolverine declares as he stands over Cyclops. ‘She killed a dozen men in there. That’s on you’ Logan tells Scott, who asks if there was any civilian casualties. ‘Lucky for you, no’ Logan replies. Scott points out that Oya saved a hundred lives, to which Wolverine remarks that she should never have been in that position. ‘You’re right. You should’ve been there yourself instead of off in some bar’ Cyclops tells Logan, who pops his claws and raises them to Wolverine’s face. ‘You’re gonna pop your claws on me now, is that it?’ Cyclops asks.
‘I didn’t do that’ Wolverine replies, turning to the remains of the museum, where a blue light shines. ‘That was more than just a bomb’ Logan remarks, and sees that it is pulling anything that is metal towards itself. Cyclops announces that they have to cordon off the area and get the wounded to safety. He contacts Dr Nemesis, asking him to belay the last order. ‘I need you here, immediately’ Scott tells him. ‘Damn it, man, make up your mind’ Dr Nemesis replies, annoyed. Suddenly, Wolverine frowns. ‘Scott…’ he begins. ‘I see it’ Scott replies as a massive Sentinel begins to form from all the nearby metal….


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Schism, part four
Utopia. ‘I smell like…burned skin’ the young mutant called Oya remarks to Cyclops as they approach one of the main buildings. Cyclops tells Oya that she should take a shower and get some rest. Oya looks up at Cyclops and reminds him that the men at the museum are dead. ‘Are you sure you want to talk about this right now?’ Cyclops asks her. She replies that she did not mean to kill them. ‘Look at me’ Scott orders as he tells Oya that nothing that happened back there was her fault. ‘You understand? It was mine’ he declares. ‘It’s my fault people died, not yours. All you did was save lives’ Cyclops tells her. Almost nervously, Oya tells Cyclops that she is not sorry she did it. ‘I just wish I could stop hearing the screams in my head’.
Up ahead, Oya’s teammates Hope, Transonic and Velocidad turn to Oya and tells her that they can get her cleaned up. Oya continues on down the corridor with her friends, while Cyclops turns to a photograph on the wall - it is of him in his early days as a member of the original X-Men. He is smiling. They all are - Marvel Girl. Angel. Iceman. Beast. Professor Xavier. Cyclops just frowns as he stares at the past. He touches the frame of the photo, and carries on down another corridor, while contacting Doctor Nemesis, asking him what the situation is.
Elsewhere, Doctor Nemesis is joined by Madison Jeffries, as they stand near where Wolverine is slashing his way through a bizarre Sentinel. Nemesis responds to Cyclops by saying ‘As my dearly departed mother used to say…it’s bloody well %*$#@!’ Cyclops asks Nemesis if he could be a bit more specific, to which Nemesis explains that it is a “Hell of a damned machine” that someone built here. He adds that it is a hyper conductive electromagnetic core that pops out of a suitcase, grabs all the nearest available metal and builds itself into the mother of all killing machines. ‘If it was looking to stomp out the last lingering dregs of mutantdom, it’s exactly the sort of hulking mechanical bastard I would build’ Nemesis adds.
‘My God, it’s so simple inside. So austere, it’s terrifying!’ Madison gasps, while the Sentinel moves upwards, with Wolverine slicing at the Sentinel’s neck. Doctor Nemesis informs Cyclops that Jeffries is attempting to communicate technopathically with the Sentinel, but Jeffries announces that there is no point, as he may as well be talking to a caveman. ‘A quantum powered caveman with an artificial sun for a heart’ Jeffries adds, before explaining that the Sentinel is all muscle and no mind, that it has got the brain of a toaster inside the body of an aircraft carrier. ‘Sounds like my ex-wife’ Nemesis thinks to himself, while Cyclops asks them if they can shut it down.
Doctor Nemesis tells Cyclops that they cannot even slow it down, and that at the rate the Sentinel is building, they have only got a matter of seconds until it is fully operational. ‘Where’s a Magneto when you need one?’ Doctor Nemesis mutters, to which Cyclops explains that Magneto is in the infirmary with a space slug stuck to his face, and tells Nemesis that he has to hold the Sentinel off. ‘Uh oh’ Nemesis utters, as both he and Jeffries are knocked backwards by a blast fired down from the Sentinel. Legs and arms begin to form on the Sentinel, who soon blasts Wolverine across a nearby bay, where he lands in the rough water. Jeffries looks up from the ground, horrified. ‘So simple…no mutant sensors…just one single, solitary target’ he utters. The Sentinel begins to walk into the water, tearing through a boat, as Jeffries informs Cyclops that it is coming to Utopia.
‘Damn it, where are my X-Men?’ Cyclops shouts, entering another room, he shouts out ‘We need everyone back at Utopia’. From one of the control rooms, the Stepford Cuckoos are monitoring the situation and report that all teleporters are down. One of the Cuckoos explains that Pixie was incapacitated by Sentinels, while Mirage’s team is stuck in Iran. The second Cuckoo announces that Storm, at last contact, was negotiating Sentinel shutdown terms with the Chinese government, and is not responding to telepathic distress calls. The third Cuckoo reveals that there are two other teams currently en route via Blackbird. ‘ETA?’ Cyclops asks, to which the Cuckoo reports ‘Thirty-seven minutes’.
Cyclops continues to contact the Cuckoos, asking them about the White Queen and the others. At that moment, Dr Kavita Rao is examining the White Queen. Colossus and the Sub-Mariner are next to her, all with the Badoon Brain Slugs clamped to their faces. The Cuckoos reply that Dr Rao has identified the alien parasite and is working with SWORD on how to safely remove them. When they get no response, the Cuckoos call out to Cyclops, who declares ‘Someone did this. All of this. Someone set us up. And I walked right the hell into it’.
Cyclops makes his way back outside and stands on the ground, releasing a massive optic blast across the water - where it strikes against the Sentinel. Cyclops is under immense strain, sweat pours down his face, and eventually, he stops, and hunches over. Smoke from the optic blast is all that can be seen across the water, hovering over a freighter boat. Soon though, the smoke begins to fade - and the horrific Sentinel continues to walk towards Utopia. Cyclops tells the Cuckoos to alert Atlantis and everyone that remains on Utopia. ‘We have incoming. Brace for impact’ he orders.
Suddenly, ‘I hope you don’t think you’re fighting that thing alone’ a voice calls out. Cyclops turns to see several of the X-Men students, and the Five Lights standing behind him. ‘You want X-Men? You got X-Men’ Hope declares, flanked by Anole, Dust, Rockslide, Transonic, Oya, Velocidad, Zero and Primal. Oya stares at Cyclops, who looks back at her. ‘All right. We can do this’ Cyclops announces.
‘No you can’t! a voice calls out. It’s Wolverine, emerging from the water after swimming to Utopia. ‘Get these kids the hell outta here’ Wolverine orders. As the Sentinel rips its way through the freighter, Cyclops remarks that it is not stopping, to which Wolverine agrees, and points out that is why they have to evacuate Utopia. ‘We can fight’ Cyclops remarks. ‘Not with children we can’t’ Wolverine replies, pointing a finger at Cyclops, who responds ‘You see children. I see X-Men.
Wolverine tells Cyclops not to play games with him, as they are just kids and are going to get themselves killed. ‘You’re scaring them’ Cyclops declares, to which Wolverine replies that they ought to be scared, and tells Cyclops that he doesn’t give a rat’s ass how many Sentinels are coming, that he will stand here with him until the last damn breath. ‘You know that. But not with them. Send those kids outta here’ Wolverine adds. As the Sentinel approaches the island, Cyclops asks Wolverine where he would have them run to, but Wolverine retorts that they don’t have time for this.
‘Look at the state of the world. Every country on the globe is now openly armed against us. We run now, we’ll always be running. At least here we’ve still got a fighting chance’ Cyclops declares. But Wolverine frowns as he replies that he can live with running, so long as he an see those kids tomorrow. ‘If we run, how many tomorrow’s do you think they’ll have left? We drew a line in the sane, remember? This is it!’ Cyclops exclaims. Wolverine replies that this is a chunk of rock, and that they are not supposed to be fighting for a chunk of rock. ‘I’ve done everything you’ve ever asked me to do. I’ve kept your secrets. I’ve lied to my friends. I’ve killed you who you said to kill. I did all that so they wouldn’t have to!’ Wolverine declares.
‘You think that thing cares how old they are? You think it’ll stop to ask before it wipes us off the map?’ Cyclops asks Wolverine. Cyclops points at Wolverine and tells him that when you stand on the brink of extinction you can no longer afford the luxury of non-combatants. ‘You sonuva bitch…’ Wolverine remarks, but Cyclops tells him that if he is concerned about their fighting skills, he should teach them. Lead them. Cyclops reminds Wolverine that, instead, he blows off every training class that he assigns him. ‘We wouldn’t even be in this situation if you hadn’t put us in it, with your arrogant little games!’ Wolverine shouts.
‘Can we say something?’ Hope asks, but Wolverine quickly turns to her and shouts ‘NO!’ Cyclops declares that he has heard enough and announces that if anyone wants to leave, they should go, and anyone who wants to fight, needs to stand with him. Wolverine just stares at Cyclops, before turning and walking away, much to the bewilderment of the younger mutants. Cyclops turns to them and asks ‘You know how many Sentinels I’ve blown up over the years? More than I can count. We can beat this. So long as we stand together’.
Shortly, in his quarters, Wolverine is opening a safe, when Kid Omega a.k.a. Quentin Quire appears at his door. ‘Never thought I’d see the day…when the big bad Wolverine would run from a fight’ Quire smirks. Wolverine doesn’t turn around, instead he reaches into the safe and tells Quire that he didn’t notice him falling out for Sentinel duty. Quire replies that he figured somebody should keep an eye on Wolverine, and adds that he has no idea why Cyclops tolerates him the way he does. ‘I want you to know, when I’m leading the X-Men, you can expect things to be different’ Quire boasts.
Quire goes wide-eyed and asks ‘Whoa, is that what I…’, but his voice trails off as Wolverine interrupts, telling him that if he is anywhere near as smart as he thinks he is, he will get the hell out of his way. ‘Or what? You remember the last time we fought, don’t you?’ Quire replies. ‘Yeah…matter of fact, I do’ Wolverine replies as he unsheathes his claws.
An instant later, a loud scream can be heard from Wolverine’s quarters. ‘Was that…?’ Transonic begins, but the Sentinel looms ever closer to the shore of Utopia. ‘Never mind. Focus on the plan. Here it comes’ Cyclops declares. He tells the young mutants that he knows it is not fair to ask this much of them. ‘I wish we lived in a world where you could all afford to act your age. But such is not the hand we’ve been dealt’ Cyclops points out, adding that he wants them to know he is proud to stand beside them today - each and every one of them. ‘Now let’s send this thing to hell. On my mark…’ Cyclops orders.
But, suddenly, Wolverine appears behind them, holding a detonator in his hand. ‘I tried asking you nicely. I’m not asking anymore. I’m telling you’ Wolverine informs Cyclops. The young mutants look worried as the two senior X-Men stare each other down. Wolverine reveals that he has just armed 2000 pounds of plastic explosives, and that when the Sentinel gets close enough, he is blowing it all to hell. Wolverine tells the young mutants to go and tell Danger and Dr Rao to start evacuating, and that they do not have long. All of the young mutants turn and run, except for Oya, who hangs back, and starts to say ‘But…’, however Wolverine interrupts her, ‘GO!’ he shouts. Oya looks at Wolverine, who frowns and tells her to get out of here. An instant later, she rushes away after the others.
‘You can’t do this’ Cyclops declares. Wolverine replies that he can, actually, for all he has to do is push the little button. ‘You think this is noble, what you’re doing here? I assure you, it’s not’ Cyclops replies. He tells Wolverine that even if he manages to blow up this Sentinel, there are still thousands more out there. ‘And you’ll be casting us right into their midst. Tell me…how is that helping those children?’ Cyclops asks. Wolverine tells Cyclops that they went off track somewhere along the way. ‘Whenever we started expecting kids to be our combat troops’. Cyclops replies that he never imagined Wolverine of all people could be so naïve, to which Wolverine declares that he is pushing the button, and tells Cyclops to walk away.
Cyclops frowns, before declaring ‘She never loved you, you know. You always frightened her’. This angers Wolverine, who grits his teeth, and replies ‘And if she was here right now…who do you think she’d be more frightened of?’ This causes Cyclops to grit his teeth, and he releases an optic blast, knocking Wolverine backwards. Wolverine unsheathes his claws and cuts up a rock, sending it backwards, the shards hit Cyclops in the face. Wolverine uses this opportunity to lunge at Cyclops, and his claws slice across his shoulder, while Cyclops releases another optic blast. Wolverine dodges it, and kicks Cyclops in the head.
Cyclops releases an optic blast directly at the ground, causing it to rebound up and hit Wolverine, knocking him backwards. They continue to fight, optic blasts from Cyclops. Claws striking out from Wolverine, and water begins to pool around them The Sentinel slams its first foot down on Utopia, but Wolverine and Cyclops pay it no attention, instead they continue to fight each other. Cyclops struggles to pry the detonator from Wolverine’s hand, and releases an optic blast, but Wolverine’s other hand, claws ready, pushes on through the optic blast. They fall to the ground, just as the Sentinel looms over them, and prepares to release a beam of energy from its hand….


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Schism, part five
Utopia, home of the Uncanny X-Men and the majority of the world’s mutant population. Right now, two senior X-Men - Wolverine a.k.a. Logan and Scott “Cyclops” Summers are engaged in battle. With each other, while a massive Sentinel looms over the island. Cyclops releases a close-range optic blast at Wolverine, who shoves his adamantium claws through Cyclops’s arm. The Sentinel stands over them and fires a blast of energy, causing the battling men to separate. ‘You press that damn button, you’re killing me too!’ Cyclops tells Wolverine. ‘No…you’re killing yourself’ Wolverine replies as he holds his thumb over a bomb detonator.
The Sentinel brings a fist down, slamming it down on Wolverine, while Cyclops leaps out of the way. Scott lands on the shore of the island and fires an optic blast up at the Sentinel - who just brings his other fist down, and captures Cyclops in his hand. Scott continues to release an optic blast from inside the Sentinel’s fist, while Wolverine slashes his way through the Sentinel’s hand. The battle continues, with Scott lunging at Wolverine. They fight each other with no regard for the danger the Sentinel poses. Wolverine smiles as he holds the detonator in his fist, and punches Cyclops in the face. Scott forces Wolverine back, before the Sentinel dowses them both in a burst of energy.
Wolverine was on top of Cyclops, so Logan took the brunt of the blast, flesh flayed from, his body. Logan head-butts Cyclops, and then shoves his claws through Scott’s hand, causing Scott to cry out in agony, and release and optic blast and close range - right at Wolverine’s head. Practically just his skull remains as Wolverine continues to hold his own as Cyclops attempts to pry the detonator from Logan’s fist. The Sentinel prepares to stand on the mutants - when a blast of energy attacks it. Scott and Logan turn to the direction of the energy and find several young mutants have started attacking the Sentinel.
Hope, Dust, Velocidad, Rockslide, Gentle and Glob Herman are attacking the Sentinel at one of his knee joints. Transonic and Oya are near Wolverine and Cyclops, who watch the young mutants fighting the Sentinel. Cyclops rushes to join the battle, while Wolverine looks at the detonator in his hand, before throwing it to the ground and joining the battle also.Hope fires her weapon, while Cyclops unleashes an optic blast. Oya attacks the Sentinel with a beam of ice, while Wolverine lashes out with his claws. The Sentinel has Rockslide captured in one hand. Anole helps someone to safety, while the Stepford Cuckoos and Mercury join in the battle.
At that moment, across the harbor, four kids are watching the fiery display at Utopia from a hillside, and eating popcorn. ‘Senseless violence’ Kade Kilgore declares, while Baron Maximilian von Katzenelnbogen, Manuel Enduque and Wilhelmina Kengsington are with him. He loves being a kid.
Two X-jets streak towards Utopia. One has Rogue, Psylocke and Shadowcat inside it. The women quickly learn that telepathic lines are down and that nobody is answering the phone at Utopia. ‘Can’t this thing go any damn faster?’ Rogue mutters.
In the med-lab, ‘Thought you would never come off, you repulsive little creature’ the White Queen exclaims as she stands on the Badoon Brain Slug that was attached to her head. ‘My face and brain are my own again’ the White Queen tells herself, before telepathically announcing to all X-Men that Utopia is under attack. She steps out of a building, and finds that the Sentinel has fallen, and the young mutants, Wolverine and Cyclops are standing over it. Voices tart to calls out: ‘Oh my God…’ ‘Is it…’ ‘Did we really…’ ‘We did it’ ‘Yes!’ ‘Holy crap!’ ‘In your face, you giant robot piece of $#%!’ ‘We did it!’ ‘We won!’ ‘We won!’ ‘We saved the day’ the young mutants exclaim. Wolverine, his face now completely healed, and Cyclops just frown.
The next day, the sun rises over the smoldering Utopia. The Sentinel lies in the water, some of its body draped over the island, while Dr Nemesis examines it. Magneto, the Sub-Mariner and Rockslide start to remove pieces of debris, while in the med-lab, Colossus looks at two of the Badoon Brain Slugs, encased in jars. Rogue and Hope clasp hands, while Pixie and Rockslide hug. Sitting on a hill away from the others, Wolverine is with Oya, and tells the young mutant that she should get some sleep. Oya replies that she doesn’t feel much like sleeping, and tells Wolverine that she is glad it was her who killed them. ‘Those men at the museum. I’m glad it was me, because some of my friends, they wouldn’t have been able to live with themselves’ Oya declares. ‘And you can, huh?’ Logan asks. Oya replies that once you accept that you are a monster, being a murderer doesn’t bother you quite so much. ‘I know what I am…and now I know what it means to be an X-Man’ she adds.
Wolverine just looks at Oya, and gets up and walks away from her. He says nothing to her, and walks through a corridor, frowning. He suddenly pauses, and almost smiles, looking thoughtful, before carrying on. Why did he stop? To look at a photograph of five young mutants and the mentor taken many years ago. Cyclops. Marvel Girl. Beast. Iceman. Angel and Professor X. The original X-Men.
‘I’d rather not do this right now’ Cyclops sighs, his body wrapped in bandages as Wolverine finds him in a meeting room. Scott tells Logan that they should wait until the wounds - both figurative and literal - are not quite so raw. ‘I don’t need to wait’ Logan replies. ‘Okay. Fine. Then whenever you’re ready…feel free to start apologizing’ Cyclops tells him. He adds that the kids saved the day. ‘I was right. You were wrong. I’d like to hear you say it’ Scott announces. Wolverine points out that the kids beat one Sentinel, and that doesn’t change a damn thing. ‘How can you say -’ Cyclops begins, but Wolverine interrupts him: ‘What about the next time? Or the time after that? We keep using ‘em as soldiers, it ain’t a matter of if the casualties will pile up, but only when and how damn many’.
Wolverine points out that Oya became a killer this week and doesn’t seem nearly as bothered by as he would like her to be. ‘She seems to think it’s all just part of being an X-Man’ Wolverine declares. ‘That tells me we failed her, Scott. We failed all these kids’. But Cyclops replies that they cannot protect them forever. ‘We ain’t protecting them at all’ Wolverine snarls back. Cyclops states that nobody ever said it would be easy, pulling themselves back from the brink of extinction. ‘We’ve had to make tough choices, you and I both. But if we’d done anything less, we would have failed our entire species’. Wolverine just tells Cyclops that he cannot do this anymore, that he can’t keep going down this road. ‘What do you want? You want elections? Let me and you both make our cases and let everyone vote for who they want. I’ll do it’ Cyclops tells him, so long as Wolverine will get off his damn high horse and be reasonable. ‘I don’t want your job, Scott. I don’t want any part of what you’re doing here. Not anymore. I’m leaving’ Wolverine announces.
Later, on the airstrip at Utopia, Iceman stands beside an X-jet and tells Wolverine that the jet is fueled and ready whenever he is. ‘Anybody else on board?’ Logan asks. ‘See for yourself’ Iceman replies. Logan gets into the jet, and sees several X-students seated, waiting for him. Anole is there. As is Rockslide, Blindfold, Glob Herman, Oya, Dust and a gagged and tied-up Quentin Quire. Wolverine remembers the rest of his conversation with Cyclops, recalls telling him that he is leaving and that whoever wants to come with him is welcome. Scott stands inside one of the buildings and looks out at the X-jet which is readying to take off. He remembers saying to Wolverine ‘I know it’s pointless for me to say this, Logan, but I’m going to say it anyway…you’re making a huge mistake’.
The White Queen comes up to Cyclops and puts a hand on his shoulder, telling him that he should rest. Cyclops ignores his lover and uses telepathic communication to ask Warpath what his status is. ‘I want answers’ Scott declares. Elsewhere, Warpath, Domino and Gambit enter a building, and Warpath tells Cyclops that he has got good news and bad news. ‘We found the Hellfire Club…but we won’t be getting any answers out of them’ he remarks as the old men are sprawled over a table, dead after apparently drinking poisoned wine. Cyclops remembers telling Wolverine that he is making them all weaker at a time when they can least afford it. ‘You break us apart now, the whole world will see it. And they’ll come for us…like never before’.
Meantime, Kade and his friends are at a beach resort, and raise their drinks. ‘Yesterday, while the governments of the world were learning firsthand just how weak and outdated their bulky old Sentinels are…we showed them something that came out of a suitcase and very nearly destroyed the most fiercely protected stronghold in all of mutantdom’. Kade informs his friends that the orders, as they might expect, are pouring in by the thousands. ‘Here’s to the future, my friends. The Hellfire Club is dead. Long live the Hellfire Club!’ Kade shouts.
‘You mind your store, Scott. I’ll mind mine’ Wolverine remembers telling Cyclops. Sitting at the helm of the X-jet, Iceman tells Wolverine that this is his last chance to back out. ‘Let’s get outta here’ Wolverine replies. ‘I won’t try and stop anything you’re doing here…just don’t ever try and stop me’ Wolverine recalls saying to Cyclops, while Cyclops, the White Queen, Magneto, the Sub-Mariner and Hope stand at a window and watch the jet as it prepares to take off. ‘You may think you know what you’re doing, Logan, but trust me, you don’t. Maybe you figure it’s easy being the one who makes all the decisions…if so, you’re in for a rude awakening. If you ever happen to come to your senses again…we’ll still be right here. Protecting a world that hates and fears us. Which I guess includes you now, too’ Scott recalls telling Logan.
Cyclops turns to his companions and uses the telepathic channel to announce that he needs after-action reports from all combat teams ASAP. ‘And has anyone seen Quentin Quire?’ Scott asks. He then remembers his and Wolverine’s final words. ‘I hope this isn’t just about what I said back when we were…’ his voice trails off, as Wolverine told him that he could use a Blackbird. ‘Take it. Just tell me…where do you plan on going?’ Scott asked. Logan told him that he has a few ideas, before bidding him goodbye. ‘Goodbye, Logan’ Scott replied.
Sometime later, the X-jet descends over a grassy field. Trees and blue sky all around. The jet opens, and Oya hangs her head as she leaves the jet, remarking ‘This was all my fault, wasn’t it? I’m the girl who broke up the X-Men’. Wolverine smiles and tells her ‘No darling. Not at all. You helped lead us home’ he explains, motioning to the ruins of the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters….


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Book Two: Hunted
Ancient Egypt
It’s one cycle past the Harvest, they call it a “Hunter’s Moon” and for good reason…
A young man is running through the night, panting, trying to escape the horde of men chasing after him. The men, pitchforks and scythes upraised, believe the boy a demon and tonight they are going to hunt him down and kill him.
The young man turns, back against the wall and stares fearfully at the throng slowly encroaching upon him. He turns and begins clawing at the brick wall, hoping for a miracle, some way to escape it all. He’s hit across the back and falls to the ground. He looks up at his attackers, throwing his hands up to ward off anything coming at him. The man heading the pack, carrying a torch, draws nearer. “No…” En Sabah Nur utters.
Libyan border
Scott’s attention is brought back to the real world as a flashlight is shone in his face. Lying in the front of a trailer, sidled up to Anais, Scott yells for the man to get away from him. Anais tries calming Scott down while the border agent orders his boss to come have a look at the truck’s unusual cargo.
The head honcho comes around to the back and eyes up the two “refugees.” He complains out loud how hard they have to work to keep Libya’s borders secure. He then speaks with the truck driver about his supposed shipment of “wiring.” The driver begs for no trouble, explaining he picked them up and for a fee offered to drive them east.
Still in the trailer, Anais begins whispering to Scott about the urges inside him. Scott pleads with her to make them stop. He tells her the visions are getting worse and reminds her she promised him answers. Scott asks Anais what they’re doing. Anais calls him a fool and tells him to shut up. She wishes he would give in to the urges so she can explain what is happening. For now, however, she tells Scott to stay there and be quiet.
Back outside, the truck driver is still giving his story, going over how he hears the man screaming in some ancient Egyptian dialect. The border patrol officer says the man is wanted, for a trail of destruction that follows wherever he goes. The driver claims ignorance on that and tells them to take him, waving his hand at the back of his truck.
Anais, meanwhile, makes her way to the guard watching over them. She tells the young man she doesn’t want any trouble, just wants to be away from here. She explains her friend is sick and in need of attention. Anais then steps down from the gate and butters up the guard a little before offering herself as a means of payment for passage into the country. The men standing around all smile, and poor Mamud is ordered to stay with the truck and watch Scott while the rest collect their toll.
Three of the men follow Anais as she strolls away from the truck. Mamud and another make references to Scott about Anais and her womanly stature, though they figure Scott’s not man enough to have any intimate knowledge.
Not far away, Anais tells the Libyan soldiers to go easy on her since she’s just a woman and they’re such strong men. They tell her not to worry. “I never do,” she replies as the dot on her forehead begins to grow and her eyes narrow.
Cable’s safehouse, NYC
Blaquesmith sits at the computer station looking at information on Cyclopalypse. He sighs and shuts off the computer just as Cable enters the room. Blaquesmith turns and tells his protégé he startled him. Cable can’t believe why. Blaquesmith throws his hands up in the air and snidely mentions Cable’s taking on of a chronicler and the team that’s joined his crusade. Cable asks if his time with the X-Men bothers him. Blaquesmith didn’t mean that. He knows that missions change and people evolve, and when they came to this time they had a mission. Cable cuts him off pointing out someone else did it for him. Blaquesmith, sensing the frustration in Cable’s voice, tells him his father gave his life for everyone to stop Apocalypse. It should have been him, Cable retorts.
Blaquesmith comments on Cable’s new position, fighting in his father’s place with the X-Men. He tells Cable how proud he is of how much he’s become, but sadly states he knows Cable won’t let it go. He then hands Cable his psimitar with a few new adjustments in the circuitry to go along with his evolving telepathic abilities. Cable looks moved at Blaquesmith’s words as he tells him he’s done well in life and to live what’s left of it.
Xavier’s Institute of Higher Learning
Hours later
Cable stands proudly in his uniform, his psimitar raised in the air. He takes in the surrounding walls of the Danger Room and then kneels, praying to the Askani to give him strength. When he looks up again Apocalypse is staring him down. Cable brings his psimitar up in a defensive posture and narrowly avoids a punishing blow from the Big Blue.
Cable returns the favor with a crushing hit to En Sabah Nur’s face. Apocalypse falls and Cable draws the psimitar to his throat. Cable recalls all the moments of training and hardship he’s faced preparing for this battle, knowing it would either end in Apocalypse’s death or his.
Apocalypse stares up at his would-be killer and, as if reading Cable’s thoughts, asks Cable if he feels he’s broken the rules and left his friends and family to fight his battle.
Cable is caught off guard by this, which Apocalypse uses to take the advantage. He extends his arm and grabs Cable by the throat. Cable wants to know who’s making him say that. Apocalypse doesn’t answer his question, only stokes the embers, telling Cable he left his father to die in his stead. Apocalypse then extends his arm further, smashing Cable’s body into the ceiling. Cable falls back to the floor after Apocalypse releases him.
Cable reaches for his psimitar and gets back into a fighting stance. He tells Apocalypse he’s only a Danger Room simulation and if he had the chance he’d show the real Apocalypse what he knows. Cable’s expression quickly turns to one of confusion as Apocalypse transforms into Cyclopalypse. Cyclopalypse smiles a toothy smile and tells Cable he’d love to know what he was going to show him.
Cable is confused and terminates the program. He angrily asks who’s in the booth, manipulating his simulation. Jean telepathically asks if he could still kill Apocalypse if the union with his father had survived.
Cable turns to find Jean standing behind him. He tells her his program is private and to never mess with it again. Jean asks if he really believes that he failed, that his father’s sacrifice accomplished so little. Cable sarcastically asks if she’s trying to show him the error of his ways. Jean replies that Scott sacrificed his life to stop Apocalypse and all their searching, through Cerebro and otherwise has turned up nothing. She hasn’t even received so much as a blip on the psychic rapport they once had. Jean also adds she’s aware how he’s been running this program late at night when he thinks everyone’s asleep. She doesn’t want him keeping his pain bottled up in such a way. Cable points out he modeled his program after the one he found designed by her.
Jean’s face slumps forward as she fights back the tears. Cable apologizes for being so harsh. Jean reminds him he’s not the only one to lose something important. Cable looks at her with a grim face and says, “I know.”
A bright flash of blue light explodes in the room. From out of the light steps forward Ozymandias. He tells Jean all men and women know loss. He then asks them both if they’d be willing to find something even if the quest took them where they never would think to go.
Jean and Cable immediately go on the offensive. Cable tells Jean to hit him high with a telepathic burst to the head, and then hold him in place. He was transformed from flesh and blood a long time ago, Cable comments, and he wants to see what’s left inside.
Cable moves in for the strike, but Ozymandias doesn’t move. He tells Cable if he strikes him down he will remain fatherless. Cable, psimitar inches from Ozymandias’ temple, asks what he’s talking about. Ozymandias merely turns about and steps back toward the blue light from which he came. He says if they follow him they will learn the true fate of the man they both thought lost to them. He turns his head slightly and asks if they’re coming.
Libyan border
The men who so willingly followed Anais to a more private area are deeply regretting their decision. One man falls back as his face is sliced open. Anais, a pupil of an order devoted to the preparation of the coming of Apocalypse, turns her attention to the remaining men and exclaims she thought they were fit enough to handle her. The cat-like mutant leaps into the air, her long, razor-like claws extended, which are then used to decapitate another soldier.
Sanctuary beneath the Moroccan sands
Ozymandias explains to his two new guests that he initially chose Anais to find his master… only she never came back. He further explains that a search for Scott Summers would be in vain, for he and Apocalypse are one, which is how their search should be directed.
Cable angrily points a finger at Ozymandias and proclaims that if Apocalypse lives then he will destroy him. Jean places a calming hand on his chest and then asks Ozymandias to give it to her straight, has he found her husband. Ozymandias tells her no, that her husband as she knew him is no more. He goes on to say Apocalypse gestates within the body that once belonged to Scott Summers, waiting to be reborn.
Ozymandias suspects Anais successfully located them, but since she hasn’t returned her purpose must have changed. Jean gets frantic and starts questioning Ozymandias, but he has no idea of Anais’ true intentions. His most pressing worry is the battle being waged between the two personalities. Ozymandias fears both may be lost to them if it keeps up.
Cable gets fired up and asks Ozymandias if he actually thought they’d sit idly by in this underground temple while others searched for Scott. Ozymandias seems amused, telling Cable he doesn’t understand. He wants them to find him.
Libyan border
The border agent guarding Scott stands outside, cigarette in mouth and rifle resting at the hips. He takes a long look at Scott and voices his doubts that he and the woman he travels with are as much trouble as they’re rumored.
Scott looks back at him, obvious anger in his eyes. The guard points his weapon at Scott, asking if he doesn’t like him. This threatening action causes Scott to “remember” they’ve always hunted him. His mind races back to an earlier time, when crowds of men were chasing him through the night.
The angry mob draws closer; the man with the torch tells him there’s no place to hide. In his memory he screams for them to get away from him, but Scott does this in real life as well (the guard is surprised the American speaks Arabic).
Scott’s memories of Apocalypse’s childhood continue as suddenly the crowd reels back in fear from what they once were chasing. The guard, still transfixed, isn’t prepared when Scott lunges at him. The guard screams for Allah as he fires off some rounds from his rifle.
Nearby, the last remaining man slowly backs away as Anais steps steadily closer toward him. He begs for her to let him be for he has a family. Anais tells him all men die, but some taste better than others. They both hear the gunshots and with Anais distracted the border patrolman takes off running wondering what he’s stumbled upon. Anais answers him, “Power… and a great evil about to be reborn.” And with that she leaps and decapitates him.
Back at the truck Scott has the guard pinned down in a choke hold. Still lost in the fury of his memories he tells the guard to stay away from him. He lets out a growl as the man stares back at him wide-eyed.
The truck driver gets out of his seat to see what the matter is. He sees Scott choking the Libyan border agent and takes off running. Barely able to breathe, the border agent weakly questions Scott as to what he is. This breaks Scott free of his delusions and he screams, emitting a powerful optic blast into the night sky.
Scott hunkers down, smoke emanating from his eyes. He feels the pain, the burning in his eyes. Anais stands over him as he questions what kind of monster he is. Anais eyes the border agent running off into the distance, but pays him no mind. She turns her attention back to Scott, telling him he’s only beginning to see what he truly is, and how the world reacts to those who are different than them, superior to them.
Scott doesn’t seem too assured, but knows they need to move on and tells Anais he will follow her, but trusting her is another matter. He tells Anais there’s something inside him, something making him do dark things and he needs her to guide him. She asks why. Scott fears he likes it.


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Book Three: Am I Evil?
The blazing desert sun beats down as yet another morning begins. A lone shadowed figure off in the far distance begins his march towards Scott. As the figure looms closer still Scott digs deep inside only to be horrified by what he finds. The individual finally makes his way to Scott and, stepping forward, reveals the infamous lines surrounding his lips and jaw line, the trademark look of Apocalypse.
Scott throws up his arm in defense, but Apocalypse merely smiles. En Sabah Nur tells Scott it’s time. Scott denies this, but Apocalypse assures him the moment is near for him to be reborn… in Scott.
Farafirah
Scott pleads for him to get away and then wakes up screaming those exact same words. He bolts upright in his motel bed, revealing a white bandage slung across his eyes, tied in a knot in the back. He yells to be left alone, denying Apocalypse’s claims they are one and the same.
Anais places her hands on Scott’s shoulders and begins rubbing them softly, telling him it was only a dream, that they’re still in Farafirah. Scott’s voice is ragged, telling Anais he can’t take it anymore. He can feel someone inside him, scraping at his skull and wanting to get out. He also knows if he allows it many people will suffer. Anais tells him not to fight the urge, to let it free. Scott coughs, and tells her he can’t.
Scott turns, sensing Anais getting out of bed. He wants answers, answers Anais promised him as to who, and for that matter what he is. Anais looks out the window, her finger opening a small gap in the blinds. She reminds Scott she already told him he was a mutant and a host to a power beyond comprehension. Anais tells him the pain it causes is a blessing. She then explains they’ll be heading to Akkaba at night where the remainder of his questions will be answered.
Anais, still looking out the window, tells Scott to stay in the room while she secures them safe passage. She remarks on how precious the cargo he holds inside him and she won’t let him ruin it for himself. “…or for me,” she whispers, her eyes turning cat-like.
Meanwhile, outside, two villagers drag the body of yet another dead victim of a mysterious plague that showed up just recently. Women nearby are praying to Allah to ease their suffering. A husband and wife approach the group and ask if anyone’s seen their daughter. One of the body draggers tells him to shut up and check beneath the freshly dead behind him.
While underneath the village grounds, Bibi and Abdul are busy cleaning out the sewers. Abdul stares at the mess all around him and questions Bibi as to how he can keep going at this job with the plague running rampant. Bibi tells him to quit whining for he chose to take this job. Abdul argues they have no idea where the sickness is coming from. Bibi counters it will only get worse if the sewers are not kept clean.
The sound of wet footfalls begins echoing through the tunnel. Adbul holds his lantern up, reaching it outward and asks who’s out there. Bibi suddenly reels back in pain, coughing and complaining of a burning sensation along his body.
Whoever is making his way through the tunnel appears, shadowed from view. Abdul asks for his help in treating his friend. Instead, the mystery man takes off running in the opposite direction. It’s at this point Abdul also keels over, coughing, ultimately succumbing to the pestilence.
Back above, Jean and Cable are standing in an alleyway watching the villagers, most covering their mouths, as they go about their day. Cable tells Jean the epidemic started a week ago and nobody has any idea what disease it is or how to treat it, which is why everyone is trapped under quarantine. Cable’s sarcasm isn’t lost as he remarks on the “fantastic” trail they’ve picked up. He’s not really surprised, though, not when it involves Apocalypse.
Cable tells Jean he doesn’t think they’re going to find Scott there. Jean tells him to stop being so negative and to focus his telekinesis on filtering the air from any pathogens while she performs another mental scan.
Unfortunately, Jean doesn’t get anything. She then wonders what Scott would be doing in a place like this. Cable reminds her Ozymandias was Apocalypse’s lackey and as far as he’s concerned he trusts nothing that guy has to say. Puzzled, Jean asks what he’s getting at. Cable talks about Apocalypse’s propensity to destroy his enemies through whatever means necessary and he just wants to make sure they make it back alive. After all, he continues, Ozymandias had already sent someone else after Cyclops before them.
The two X-Men depart from the alley joining the rest of the villagers milling about. Another figure standing just around the corner stands revealed as the cowl on his robe droops back exposing the face of Gauntlet.
Train station
The man sitting behind the ticket counter doesn’t bother to look away from his newspaper to tell Anais nobody is leaving or entering the area. Anais strongly emphasizes she will have two tickets, as she had already said, for a train that will leave that night. She begins to transform into her cat-form and asks the man behind the counter if he really means to refuse her. The startled look on his face says it all. He quickly asks where she wants to go, stuttering a bit. Anais pulls the metal bars apart and sticks her head inside the booth and tells him Akkaba.
Nearby, Cable and Jean are speaking with a man who rented a room out to Anais and Scott. The portly fellow explains they had money and he saw nothing wrong with it… at first. He further explains they must have gone out the window in the hopes of avoiding the final bill. Cable asks if he’s certain it was the man they’re looking for. The landlord assures him not many people come around with bandages over their eyes, hunched over like an opium fiend. He then comments on the awful noises he would hear at night coming from the room.
The landlord mentions the plague and guesses it has something to do with this fellow and the woman he traveled with. Jean looks disheveled and tries once again to telepathically reach her husband. “Scott… where are you?” she calls out. Scott, hunkered down in an alley, hears her voice. In a weak reply he asks who is invading his head. Before he can get a fix on the voice a little boy approaches him from behind and asks for some food. Scott doesn’t answer, merely pulls down his bandana revealing malformed glowing eyes. The boy takes off running from whence he came.
Just what they needed, Jean senses Scott’s mind for an instant. Cable asks if she’s certain. Jean tells him she momentarily felt the psychic rapport and then takes off like a bat out of hell. Cable tells her to wait up, doing his best to follow. Jean doesn’t care. She knows Scott’s nearby and nothing’s going to slow her down.
The landlord steps out from the open door and takes a long look at the two as they leave for parts unknown. Head sunken, he asks no one in particular who is going to pay for the room. While right above him, through the open window, Anais slinks out.
Nearby, Scott stumbles and then takes off after the boy, telling him to stop. The boy continues to run screaming for help. Scott asks him to come back because he doesn’t want to be with Anais. He realizes she brings out the worst in him.
A manhole cover is pushed aside, glowing yellow eyes peering out. Scott hears this, but his eyesight is still so bad that he has no idea what’s happening. Seconds later he’s snatched and dragged down into the murky depths.
Later, Scott is sitting up, arms folded over his knees. He calls out to whoever’s down there with him admitting he’s practically blind down in the darkness. Scott tells his mysterious kidnapper he can hear him. Pestilence steps forward from the shadows and asks if his master does not recognize his servant, his horseman.
Elsewhere in the sewage tunnels Cable asks Jean if she still feels it. Jean says she saw him, that Scott is there. Cable grabs her by the shoulder to stop her for one second. He tells Jean they’ll go as deep into the sewers as necessary, but they need to remain careful. Cable points out that if her psychic rapport with Scott isn’t active she needs to understand it may be Apocalypse they find waiting for them. Jean agrees and apologizes for being hasty.
Mere moments later Anais turns the corner and continues following Jean and Cable’s trail. Not long after, Gauntlet rounds the bend in close pursuit of Anais.
Meanwhile, Scott’s busy telling Pestilence he’s wrong, as he’s nobody’s master and definitely not responsible for the current plague. Then a flicker of brief understanding crosses his mind and Scott asks Pestilence if he knows him.
Pestilence looks worried and confused. He tells Scott he is Apocalypse, his lord. Pestilence says he knows his scent and has followed it for days. But now, he admits, there are two scents to him. Pestilence suddenly realizes who Scott really is, but before he can tell him Anais leaps from her hiding spot, claws unsheathed.
Anais wants to know what Pestilence stands to gain by coming for his master. Pestilence admits he has nowhere else to go. Anais calls him a liar and slashes his face. She accuses Pestilence of wanting what all of his lesser servants want, but she will stand in his way. Anais rushes over to Scott and grabs his face. She tells him he is Apocalypse and she will guard his rebirth and nothing will prevent her from completing that task.
That’s when Jean and Cable make their grand entrance. Jean warns Anais to step away from her husband. Scott can’t help but wonder who belongs to that voice, but Anais tells him to wait and turns quickly for a confrontation.
Cable, meanwhile, confronts Pestilence, calling him by his other name, Caliban. He asks Caliban if he remembers him. Caliban tries telling Cable he is Pestilence, horseman of Apocalypse, but the words can’t seem to make it out. Then his eyes go wide as he finally does recognize Cable, calling him Cable-Nathan.
Things all come to a head as Scott watches from the sidelines. The last player to the equation finally makes his entry almost sniping Cable in the head. Luckily, Caliban’s hyper-keen senses realizes what is about to happen and pushes Cable out of the way, the blast connecting with the wall mere inches from his head.
The tunnel starts to shake and debris begins falling all around. Jean tells Cable to try and keep it together with his telekinetics. Caliban spots the would-be assassin up in the shadows and reaches for him, grabbing him by the neck. Caliban starts to choke the life out of Gauntlet, but a timely dose of nerve gas hidden up Gauntlet’s sleeve takes the fight out of the big guy.
Unfortunately for Gauntlet he’s not out of the woodworks yet. He turns to find Cable and his psimitar poised to strike. Cable recognizes him as one of Apocalypse’s servants. He surmises this was all a plot to get them out in the open and take them all out. Jean yells at Cable to focus his efforts on keeping the tunnel intact while she continues trying to reach Scott.
Cable brings the psimitar to Gauntlet’s throat and tells him to pass a message to Ozymandias that Cable will be coming for him. Gauntlet smiles and tells Cable he’s got it all wrong, and to check his friends as well as his enemies for it wasn’t Ozymandias who sent him, but instead someone a lot closer to Cable.
Jean continues working her magic to make a connection with Scott, but still no dice. Scott gets up and approaches Caliban. With his eyes malformed and glowing once more he places his hand on Caliban, calling him Pestilence. He tells Pestilence that as a result of his loyalty he releases him from his duty. With that, a blinding flash of purplish lights fills the tunnel. Scott stumbles back, smoke emanating from his eyes and hands, Caliban no longer a horseman.
A worried look crosses over Jean’s face. She tells Scott not to run. Instead he picks up a train ticket from off the ground and then looks Jean in the face. He says he knows her, but before a better connection can be made the wall of the tunnel collapses separating Jean from her husband.
In the confusion Anais, Caliban and Gauntlet slink away. Scott leans against the rocks staring at the ticket in his hand. Anais told him there was a place where all would be revealed and he knows he must go there because time is short. He then takes off running.
Jean stares at the rock pile in manic disbelief. She is extremely frustrated having seen Scott right in front of her and to have him taken away once again. Cable eyes something on the ground and picks it up. It’s the other train ticket to Akkaba. He tells Jean he knows where Scott’s going… Akkaba, Apocalypse’s birthplace.


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Book Four: Found!
Akkaba, Egypt
In Scott’s mind’s eye, he’s En Sabah Nur, crawling through the warm desert sand inching closer to the light, to his home, Akkaba. In reality, he’s sporting a blindfold and being guided by a young boy. They reach Scott’s intended destination and he asks if it’s as beautiful as he remembers. The boy uncomfortably rubs the back of his head, telling Scott if he wasn’t blind he would see that Akkaba is not beautiful (from what little can be seen there are toppled pillars and rubble scattered about).
Scott steps further into the city telling the boy to leave. The boy asks if he’s sure he wants to be left alone. Scott flips out, screaming at the boy to leave, spittle flying from his mouth. The boy takes off running and Scott continues his journey into the city. He knows people are searching for him and what they find is up to him, so he has a plan and only hopes he has enough time to carry it out.
Not far away, Cable and Jean, one of the aforementioned search parties, approaches Akkaba. Just as Jean takes off running Cable tells her to wait. She gets snippy with him, refusing to wait any longer. Cable tells her they need to be prepared in case they find Apocalypse waiting in Cyclops’ place. Jean says she can almost hear Scott in her mind, calling out in the worst kind of pain and she’s going to get her husband back. And with that she takes off running again. Cable pauses for a moment before following after. He questions if Jean might be wrong about Scott and wonders if she’s strong enough to do what must be done, or better yet, is he?
Meanwhile, Scott is hunched over on the ground, immeasurable pain coursing through his body. He fights to keep the beast within; knowing he only has to hold on just a bit longer. Anais appears, remarking on Scott’s struggling. Scott tells her to get away, that he doesn’t need her anymore.
Anais creeps out from the shadows in her feline form. She asks Scott how he can be so sure for it was her who led him this far. The only question she has for Scott is why he is fighting to keep Apocalypse inside him. She knows of his plight to control his optic blasts and points out if he would just give in he would never have to hold back again.
Anais makes her way toward Scott reverting back to human state. She is concerned that Scott still rejects Apocalypse. Scott grits his teeth and spits back that it’s not easy. He tells her it’s as if something is raking the inside of his guts and if he lets go it’s going to rip right through. Anais tells him it only hurts because he fights it. She senses the fear inside him and knows Scott thinks he’s the only one who can contain Apocalypse.
Anais tells Scott he’s wrong, though. She bows down in front of him and asks him to release Apocalypse into her and finally be free of his pain. Scott pauses a moment in reflection. The offer is tempting and he slowly reaches out his hand to place it on her head. Just before touching her, though, he pulls back. Anais looks back up at him, blind fury in her face. She leaps at him and tells him it’ll be the hard way then.
Scott backs off in defense, but blindfolded he doesn’t really stand a chance. Anais gets him to the ground straddles his waist. She gives him an ultimatum, to either give Apocalypse to her or she will slice it from him. Her claws are poised to strike, but a voice from above causes her to stop.
Cable introduces himself, standing atop a brick wall. He jumps down delivering a powerful kick to Anais’ face. Cable then takes the opportunity to introduce his psimitar, which channels his psychic power. He then takes a swing at her and tells her it can be used as an old-fashioned spear as well.
With the fight keeping Anais occupied Jean reaches out to Scott telepathically. He recognizes her voice from earlier. Jean asks if he feels their psychic rapport, their bond. Scott yells for her to get away from him. He then makes use of the psychic rapport calling her “Jean.” And with that, Jean is able to get a fix on him and starts working on getting him all the way back.
Meanwhile, Cable delivers blow after blow, taking out a lifetime’s worth of rage for Apocalypse on Anais. “No…” she cries out weakly.
Back with Scott and Jean, the former tells the latter she doesn’t understand, that he’s not completely in control. He lets out a yell of anguish and then releases an optic blast that takes Jean down. “Feel this, witch!” he yells in anger. Scott then takes off running. Jean looks up from the ground just in time to see her husband round the corner.
Not far away, Cable gives Anais a reprieve. She tries getting under his skin with insinuations about his friends and family being up to something. She asks about the assassin Gauntlet and hints that maybe he knows what she’s talking about. Anais asks Cable who would’ve have sent him in the first place. This distracts Cable for but a moment, but that’s all it takes for Anais to transform and take off like a jackrabbit.
Jean rushes over and tells Cable they have to hurry for Scott and Apocalypse are battling. Cable tells her Scott’s not the man he was, case in point the optic blast she just received as a going away present. He tells Jean in a “don’t question me” tone that he’s going after him.
Cable’s safehouse, NYC
Blaquesmith is at the computer system terminals. He’s purging Apocalypse’s file. He hopes Cable can forgive him and understand, for he only wanted to spare him. He presses the ‘Backspace’ key and deletes another file, that of the Dark Rider, Gauntlet, mercenary for hire. Blaquesmith knows it was horrible of him, but he couldn’t risk Apocalypse surviving even if it meant killing Cable’s father.
Akkaba
Scott’s running around has led him to a little hidey hole in the side of a building. With his jaw line blue and his eyes bright red he hears someone call “Apocalypse!” “Yessssss….,” he answers. It’s Cable who tells him to release Scott and let them end it once and for all, just the two of them. He doesn’t receive an answer. Cable tells him he’s ready. Apocalypse tells Cable to show him how ready he really is. Suddenly, the walls come crashing down, the form of Cyclopalypse stands revealed.
Nearby, Jean reaches out to Scott. She can still feel the bond and knows he’s still fighting Apocalypse. Scott calls out her name. Jean says she’s got him again and not to let go. Scott tells her “no”, that if she loves him she’ll let Cable do what must be done.
The battle isn’t going well for Cable. Apocalypse goads him with comments about his dad fighting in his place. Cable tells him to shut up and isn’t ready for Apocalypse as he reaches for his leg, grabs him and flips him over, slamming him into the ground. Cable composes himself quickly, tasting the blood as he coughs it out of his mouth. With a rallying cry he charges, ready with his psimitar.
Then, Cyclopalypse reverts to human form, to that of Scott Summers. Cable stops dead in his tracks. Scott, clutching his gut, tells Cable to hurry it up already… to end it. Cable realizes he can’t, he can’t kill his father. Scott yells at him to do it while he’s still got control.
Unfortunately, that’s all he’s got and Apocalypse is back in charge. Cable is sent flying into a nearby wall, chunks of it breaking off and raining onto the ground. Apocalypse doesn’t give him time to recover and reaches out for Cable’s half-conscious form… but then he stops.
Jean has managed to get her psychic fingers into his form. She shares the pain of her defunct psychic rapport with En Sabah Nur. He tells her to release her hold and he’ll show her real pain. Jean tells him to shut up and then asks Apocalypse what he knows about love. Jean explains how she was forced to question whether she could destroy the man she loves for the greater good. She asks him if he knows what that’s like.
Jean then explains she used her psychic rapport to shut down the mind he and Scott shared and to furrow deep inside and burn it out, taint and all. Then, clenching her fists in extreme concentration, she ejects Apocalypse’s essence from Scott’s body. Scott stumbles to the ground in extreme pain.
Apocalypse also lets out a yell of agony as Cable finally achieves his mission. Using his psimitar, Cable pierces Apocalypse’s spirit and drags it to the ground. It dissipates into nothingness. Cable proudly proclaims that’s the kind of man he is, just like his father.
Scott is back to his old self and tells Jean he only wishes he could look at her. Cable says he can take care of that problem. He removes Scott’s ruby quartz visor from around his neck and hands it over to him. Scott puts it on and thanks Cable for not listening to him. Cable says he’s welcome and walks away to leave the two of them alone.
Cable sense Anais nearby and turns. Sure enough there she is. She tells Cable she can sense he’s not happy for he knows that what Apocalypse touches, he changes. Cable tells her she’s wrong. Anais takes off and Cable stares after her, once more says she’s wrong.
While not far away, Scott is still kneeling on the ground, trying to understand all that has happened. “Jean… Oh, God, Jean…” he just keeps saying. Jean tells him to shush, that she’s got him and it’s finally over.
Sanctuary beneath the Moroccan sands
Later, along Ozymandias’ wall is a depiction of Apocalypse being separated from Cyclops. Ozymandias believes the world owes Scott Summers and his family a huge debt, but questions what kind of price he will pay, for how can one come so close to darkness and remain pure?