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Land of the Rising Sons: part 1
Paladin explains what happened to him on his most recent mission. The Rising Sons had him running for cover along the shipyards. He jokes that he has been in Madripoor a few times before in the past, and that it as good a place to die as any. But Paladin wouldn’t just surrender, as he’s got a world reputation to keep up. So, he took out his gun and fires it, hitting one of the Sons.
Another sees an opening, and uses his power over lightning to strike him! With Paladin not moving after the strike, the Rising Sons stood over him, doubting about what to do with his body, uncertain if he was alive or dead. So, Paladin chose to play dead, even though he thinks he could have handled those kids. But realizing what might happen if he would lose, he chose to gather all his Intel and brief Adrienne about the situation.
Paladin mentions he came as far as the school grounds and feels lucky that Jubilee found him before anyone else saw him, as he would hate to have the school’s secret that it trains mutants to be made public, thanks to him. Jubilee asks Paladin to stop, as she is awed by the fact that he survived the attack of super-powered people. She wonders if Paladin might not have any kind of super-powers he isn’t telling them about, and also wants to know his real name, since he seems to know all of theirs. Paladin smiles, mentioning that his real name is his own business and, as for super-powers, he just adds that he has stayed rather… fit. Adrienne smiles as well, and agrees.
Jubilee still doesn’t understand why Paladin would want to see Adrienne, thinking that she is just their headmistress. Adrienne explains that Paladin is something like a soldier of fortune, and that she sometimes employs his… services. And in this particular case, she had sent him to Madripoor to retrieve a samurai sword that belongs to her. Jubilee recalls her time with Wolverine in Madripoor, and remembers that it’s crawled with villains and the likes. She wants to know how Adrienne fits in the picture.
Adrienne reveals that, like her sister, Emma, she too has a rather colorful past. She has done business in Madripoor before, and tells Jubilee that’s all she needs to know. And as for Adrienne’s sword, she thinks it’s enough when she says it has a sentimental value to her. And she also adds that there exist people who don’t want her to have the sword. Jubilee doesn’t think that’s good enough, and wants to know what’s going on. Adrienne doesn’t want to continue the conversation, as she thinks that Paladin needs to have a little rest, and pushes Jubilee out of the room. Paladin asks Jubilee not to tell anyone that he’s here, because as soon he’s recovered, Paladin plans to go back to Madripoor and try again to get Adrienne’s sword back.
As the day passes, Jubilee can’t focus in any of her classes, and keeps thinking about Paladin. When she finds the time, she goes back to his room. She explains to Paladin that she doesn’t want to see him hurt when he goes back to Madripoor, and thinks she knows a way to help him out.
Later, most of the Generation X team is together on a plane with Paladin! Skin doesn’t like the idea, as now they are skipping class, and he remembers the hard time he had convincing Jubilee to go to Boston a while back, and now she just wants to go to Madripoor?! Jubilee corrects that they won’t get into any trouble, as they are helping Paladin out and were given Adrienne’s permission, who is now one of their headmistresses. Paige also corrects that it’s weekend, so they won’t get into any trouble for skipping any class. Plus, the circumstances are now different since they won’t be attacked by Gene Nation. Synch also isn’t sure if he likes the idea and is also disappointed in Monet, who isn’t with them right now. Everett presumed that she was part of the team.
Meanwhile, Monet is sitting in Penance’s room, and doesn’t want to give her the “part of the team” speech. Monet has promised to spend time with Penance and help her get settled in into her new room in the basement and, with the fact that her twin sisters are now trapped into that razor-sharp body, the least she can do, Monet thinks, is bring her all the new magazines and such. Monet mentions that it isn’t her fault that the twins got trapped in there. Penance sarcastically looks at Monet.
She realizes the mistake, and changes the subject. She thinks that whatever little joyride Jubilee and the other “X-babies” have went on, they can handle things perfectly without her. Monet thinks that they just agreed on this mission to kiss up on the new headmistress, and Monet thinks that isn’t like her at all. Penance again looks at Monet sarcastically. Monet realizes what she said, and admits she might have kissed up once or twice in the past, but claims those were for good reasons.
At the plane, Jubilee mocks that Monet doesn’t have a good reason for anything. Paladin wants to skip discussing Monet, and brief the team into what they are about to face. The kids agree and are all ears. Paladin asks them to listen carefully, as he is about to reveal what the Rising Sons are all about. Their leader calls himself Dragonwing. He is a quasi-shapeshifter, able to substitute his own body parts for dragon body parts, including things like wings and claws. He can even breath fire!
Spoilsport is Dragonwing’s younger sister. She has special inline skates and, when she wears them, she can defy gravity. Paladin doesn’t know if the skates do that all by themselves, or if there’s a power inside Spoilsport or something, or a combination of the two possibilities. Though Spoilsport may look cute, she is full-on trouble. The Sign is some sort of magician, from what Paladin has heard, and his body is covered with tattoos. Each tattoo represents a different spell, which the Sign can cast.
Jet-Black is a cyborg whose legs and waist can be reconfigured into a motorcycle. And once Jet-Black has done that, he is literally a living hell. Nightwind is a ninja with a little something extra. She can shape Darkforce material into the form of a sword. That sword is potentially lethal, but it can also attack a person’s nervous system. Lastly, they’ve got Tough Love. He can bench-press a small country! But, the guy would rather read, and is a true intellectual. The person who has Adrienne’s sword is called Noy, and Paladin has spent some time studying Noy’s habits. He eats three times a week at a Posh restaurant in High Town, and will be there tonight. Paladin surprisingly asks Jubilee what her dress size is.
Later, Jubilee and Paige find themselves on one of Madripoor’s many shop districts. Jubilee has already spent quite some time picking the right dress. Paige reminds Jubilee that she isn’t going on a date with Paladin, and that the guy is old enough to be her father. Jubilee smirks, but is finally ready: she looks astonishing in her new, black and shiny dress!
Some minutes later at the restaurant, Jubilee is amazed about how cool the restaurant looks. Paladin calms her down, and reminds her that they are on a mission, and that they can’t be drawing attention to themselves. He suggests that she just follows his lead, and act like they have done this hundreds of times before. Jubilee quietly says she would follow him anywhere. Not having heard her clearly, Paladin asks Jubilee to repeat herself, but she says it was nothing.
Paladin asks Jubilee to look over his shoulder. Jubilee sees a man and Paladin mentions that the man is Noy, the man who’s got Adrienne’s sword. Jubilee notices all the bodyguard standing around Noy, and Paladin mentions that this won’t be easy. He opens his shirt a bit, and talks into his communicator and tries to contact Husk. Paige, while standing on a skyscraper, responds. Paladin informs her that Noy is just starting his dinner, and that they are good to go.
Paige understands, and informs Paladin that they are ready to commence operation. Skin laughs at that sentence, but Paige tells him to be quiet. She explains the plan: Skin, Synch and she will go down below and search Noy’s place for the sword, and wants Chamber to stay behind for the lookout. Jono gets offended by this, and mentions he doesn’t like being bossed around. Everett calms Jono down by explaining that his telepathy will make it able for them to keep in touch in case of trouble. Chamber sarcastically says he understands.
Skin opens the skylight, just like Paladin told them. Once they are down, Chamber continues his sulking. But, as he does, he doesn’t notice Nightwind sneaking up on him! She strikes her sword, but Jono can just in time dodge it! He warns his teammates that they have been set up, and they rush to Jono’s rescue. Nightwinds knocks Jono off the craper, and he falls down! Skin dives after him, and stretches his arms to grab Jono, and shapes his toe so that he can grab himself on a billboard! Paige attacks Nightwind but, before she can, Nightwind jumps off the roof! What was that all about?
Jono and Skin return back to the roof. Paige thinks she best reports the situation to Paladin, and does so. Paladin tells Paige not to worry, as he’s got some developments on his part of the mission. Standing outside the restaurant, Jubilee notices Noy standing towards a nearby train and gets aboard, and it looks like he’s got the sword with him. Paladin reports the change of events back to Paige, and that they are taking the 7:00 train, which is headed towards the other end of the island. He wants Paige and her team there ASAP! Jubilee notices that the doors of the train are closing. Paladin grabs her hand and runs towards it, and reports to Paige to be ready. She wonders how they are supposed to stop a moving train.
Back at the school, an angry Emma enters Adrienne’s office, and wants to know where “they” are. Adrienne mocks that it’s nice to see her sister again, and wants to know who the “they” are Emma is speaking of. Emma doesn’t have time for these games. She mentions that with Sean now being in San Francisco, she’s got more work than normal, and that’s when it hit her: it’s too quiet at the campus for the fact that it’s a weekend, and she doesn’t spot any of the Generation X kids are. And she suspects that Adrienne has got something to do with it. Adrienne smiles, and asks Emma if she just doesn’t hate the fact that her telepathy doesn’t work on her.
At the train, Paladin tells Jubilee that Noy boarded near the rear of the train, so they’ll search in those wagons. They do, but after a while run out of cars, and with the fact of not having found Noy yet, they must be getting close. They reach the final wagon, but it’s private and the door is locked. Paladin mentions that, on a good day, he can lift a Volkswagen, and so has no problem breaching the door.
They go through the door, but are ambushed: Noy sarcastically welcomes Paladin, and tells him he’s in big trouble, as the Rising Sons have been waiting for him!


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Land of the Rising Sons: part 2
At the school, Emma is furious at Adrienne, as she refuses to tell her where her students are. Adrienne mocks that, with the fact that she is a headmistress now, she can get to send the kids on field trips as she pleases.
Emma angrily grabs Adrienne’s throat, and shouts at her that she would die for those kids, and if needed she’ll kill Adrienne to learn the truth. Adrienne calms her sister down, by telling her that she send out the kids to Madripoor to retrieve something special for her. Emma is upset that Adrienne sent the kids to that wretched island, which is full of villains and mischief. Adrienne asks her sister to relax, as they’ve got a chaperone. Emma wants to know who it is.
In Madripoor on a speeding train, Jubilee stands on Paladin’s shoulders and looks through an open window on the roof, and warns him that they’ve got trouble! Paladin asks her what kind of trouble she’s talking about but, before Jubilee can respond, she is pulled up by Tough Love! He thinks that Jubilee looks rather lovely, and mocks that it’s on days like this that he hates his job. He grabs Jubilee by her throat and tells her that, without this in their lives, he would take her out on a four-star meal, then perhaps a show and end the day by reading her poetry. But alas, life gets in the way, and Tough Love mentions that he’ll have to kill Jubilee.
Paladin climbs up the window, and tries to fight Tough Love, but his punches don’t harm him. Tough Love calmly asks Paladin to wait his turn, but Paladin has had enough of this nonsense and takes out his gun. Tough Love laughs, as he mentions that he’s completely bulletproof. Luckily, Paladin’s gun disrupts nervous systems! Tough Love faints, and Jubilee is set free.
Meanwhile, Jono, Paige, Everett and Angelo have found some bikes and rush through the night city. Jono and Paige sit together on their bike and drive at full speed, which Everett is unable to catch up on as he’s only driven a motorcycle one in his life before, unlike Jono who seems to be an expert. Paige sighs, as she recalls that she and Jono used to talk about getting a bike together and driving together. She dislikes the fact that they end up in this situation and barely speak to one another. She feels weird, but in a good way. They notice the train Jubilee and Paladin are on, and hope they’ll make it aboard.
Unfortunately, the kids are followed by Jet-Black. He reports to his boss, Noy, that he’s on the kids’ tail. He transforms his bike, and throws a fire beam out of it! And it hits Angelo and Everett’s bike! Chamber stops driving, and with all the smoke from the explosion can’t see if their friends are alive. Chamber suggests that he attacks Jet-Black and that Paige goes to check on their teammates. Paige does so, and Jono fires his powers. Jet-Black easily dodges the attack, and while laughing heads towards Jono.
Jet-Black lands in front of Chamber, and transforms back into his human form. Everett, having survived the blasts, goes to stand close to them and synches Jono’s powers. They combine their skills and attack Jet-Black together, and defeat him! Angelo has luckily survived the blast as well, but they all wonder how they’ll possibly catch up with their other friends on only one bike.
Paladin warns Jubilee that Noy is probably very well protected by now, so he hopes that the others will arrive soon. Jubilee promises they will. They get attacked by Spoilsport, who wants to finish the battle fast, as she’s got a date later tonight. Jubilee fights her, but Spoilsport dodges her attack. Suddenly, she gets grabbed by elastic… toes?! Jubilee looks up, and finds out that Synch and Skin have arrived! Everett congratulates Angelo on his good idea of having Everett synch Chamber’s powers, so that they could fly to the battlefield.
Jubilee thanks the guys for the help, and notices that Spoilsport’s confused. She takes advantage of the situation, and knocks her enemy out. As the train goes, Angelo notices Jono and Paige arriving on their bike. Everett and Jubilee hold Angelo tight, while Paige grabs Jono’s torso, and Jono grabs Angelo’s stretched arms so that they can make it on the train as well. They turn around, and notice that Paladin is gone! Jubilee fears that he might have gone after Noy alone, but fears that he won’t be strong enough and get killed. She informs her friends that Noy was in a private car when they found him earlier, but she realizes that the crime boss could be anywhere by now.
At the same time, a guard has got the Generation X members on his viewing screens, and informs his boss about it. She steps out of the shadows and thanks the guard for warning her. She wonders why Jubilee and her friends are in Madripoor, and why they haven’t paid her a visit. But, perhaps she will turn the favor to the kids, and hopefully they’ll perish at the hands of… Viper!
Meanwhile, the kids have split up, and one team searches the front of the train and the other the back. Everett and Angelo think they’ll have find the sword in no time thanks to this decision. But, Everett asks Angelo to be quiet, realizing that someone’s coming after them. It’s Nightwind! She is impressed that the kids have heard her approach. Everett corrects Nightwind that he felt her arrival thanks to the fact that she’s a mutant: that’s one of the benefits of Everett’s synchronatic aura. Everett mentions that another benefit of his powers is that one’s he is synched up with another person, he can copy their powers. Like Nightwind’s sword, for example. Everett warns Skin to stay out of this, as this battle is his.
Nightwind has had enough talk, and suggests that they start their battle. They fight for a while, but Nightwind finds it disgraceful: Synch may have copied her powers, but not her skills. She kicks Everett in his stomach, and slices through his arm! Skin has seen enough, and goes to help his friend out. He stretches his hand around Nightwind’s face, and keeps it that way until she faints.
Inside his wagon, Noy enjoys holding his new sword, as simply by doing this he knows how much pain it causes Adrienne. Suddenly, a steel arm slams through the door! It’s Paige, Jubilee and Chamber! Jubilee demands to know where Paladin is, but Noy claims as the kids can see, he isn’t with him. Jubilee notices his gun lying on the floor, so Paladin must have been there recently. They hear a noise on the roof above them and Jubilee thinks Paladin must be there, but also in big trouble!
The Sign steps forward and throws lighting on Paige but, luckily thanks to her steel skin, she remains unharmed. Chamber uses his powers on the Sign and they go way through the roof, where Paladin is busy fighting Dragonwing. Unfortunately, with the kids looking at Jono’s power play, they become distracted, this giving the Sign the chance to quickly use his magic powers to take Husk down. Jubilee kicks down Noy and grabs the sword, but… it’s just a piece of junk!
While standing above Noy, Jubilee demands to know from him what’s so special about this sword. He doesn’t answer. Jubilee holds the sword against Noy’s throat, and asks the question again. He admits that he doesn’t know what’s special about it, and just knows that Adrienne wants it.
Meanwhile, Chamber has climbed up the roof, having decided to go help Paladin out. However, Dragonwing holds him by the throat, and shouts at Jono to stay back or else he’ll drop Paladin. Jubilee arrives on the roof, and informs her friends that she’s got what they came for. She threatens Dragonwing to release Paladin, or else she’ll drop the sword and the train will certainly completely smash it with its speed.
Dragonwing sees through Jubilee’s threats, and knows that the swords is as much of value to her teacher than it is to his boss. Jubilee doesn’t think so, as the sword is just a piece of junk. She knows that someone is getting scammed here, but just can’t figure out who it is. Dragonwing doesn’t listen, and still holds Paladin by his throat. Jubilee drops the sword. Dragonwing freaks out and goes after it and releases Paladin, but he falls of the trail. Luckily, he can hold himself up on the roof ends.
Dragonwing tries to grab the sword, but Jubilee quickly jumps over him. She tells Chamber to focus on the enemy, while she’ll help Paladin up. He begs for her help, as he can’t help himself thanks to Spoilsport’s earlier attack, since his head is still spinning. Jubilee does her best to help him up, but Paladin is heavier than she thought he would be. Paladin encourages her, and eventually she manages to do the trick. They arrive in front of a tunnel, and Jubilee warns Paladin to duck. He does so.
Meanwhile, Dragonwing slashes Chamber through his face. He’s confident that he’ll win again, as the Rising Sons have never lost a battle before, and doesn’t think this battle will be any different. Chamber gets up, and mocks that he isn’t sure about that. He stays ducked, and Dragonwing doesn’t notice the tunnel and bumps his head!
Paladin thanks Jubilee for the rescue, and asks how he can show his appreciation. Jubilee smiles, and she silently says she can figure out a few things. Chamber tells Jubilee to enjoy the victory while she can, thinking that Adrienne won’t be pleased to see her sword ruined and lost. Skin arrives, and shows that he caught the sword when it fell! He congratulates Jubilee on the fine idea of having him hide between the two wagons where they fought, so he could help out when needed.
Later, the kids arrive back home at the Snow Valley airport. Both Emma and Adrienne are waiting for them. Adrienne smiles, but Emma isn’t. She informs the kids that she and her sister have been talking, and guarantees that there won’t be any more such trips in the future. Jubilee hands over the sword to her and apologizes for its bad condition, and asks if its worth something. Adrienne, with a big smile on her face, walks away, and tells Jubilee that the sword is worth more than she’ll ever know.

Jubilee wants to know what’s up with Adrienne. Emma explains that the sword is the thing that killed Adrienne’s husband. She knows it sounds gruesome, but Adrienne wants to use her psychometric powers on the sword to be with Steven for the last moments of his life. Emma thinks it’s actually kind of sad.
While Adrienne continues to walk away, she wonders if Steven ever knew if… it was her sticking the blade through his heart! She wonders if he knew that she arranged his death that certain night. Nonetheless, Adrienne hopes that it hurt him, because that’s what happens when you cross her.


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Sins of the Past part 1: In Another Man’s Shoes
Sunday morning at the Massachusetts Academy, the one day of the week where mutant student Jubilation Lee, better known as “Jubilee” can sleep as late as she wants. But not this Sunday, for she is woken by a telepathic shout from her headmistress announcing that she wants to speak with her students in the combat room immediately. Jubilee gets out of bed and rubs the sleep from her eyes, grumbling that a telepathic shout is not her kind of wake up call. Jubilee suspects something may be wrong judging by the tone of Emma’s “voice” she sounds rather wound up. Jubilee thinks that it probably has something to do with the pressure of having “normal” students along with the mutants of Generation X is finally getting to her.
Jubilee opens her wardrobe and is shocked to find a pink and purple costume hanging in it – a Hellions costume! Jubilee thinks that whoever thought it would be funny to replace their regular uniforms with ones of Emma’s first students – who were murdered – needs to have an attitude adjustment. Glancing into her mirror, Jubilee’s confusion is doubled when she sees not her reflection, but the reflection of Sharon Smith, a.k.a. Catseye – one of the Hellions – one of the dead Hellions.
Minutes later, Jubilee is dressed in the Hellions costume and knocks on the door of her posh teammate Monet St. Croix, who wearing Tommy Hillfiger opens the door and upon seeing Jubilee declares that she is just the person she wanted to talk to. Monet tells Jubilee that she didn’t think even she would stoop so low as to replace her uniform – Monet sees that Jubilee is wearing one and mumbles that it rules her out as the prankster, as Jubilee tells Monet that she doesn’t know the half of it and asks her to use her telepathy to gather the others, as she has something to show them.
Soon, the four other members of Generation X, all dressed in the Hellion outfits, meet Jubilee and Monet in a bathroom as Angelo Espinosa a.k.a. Skin asks Jubilee what is going on, while Monet examines the costume and declares that they are hideous. Jubilee tells her teammates to shut up and look in the mirror – and they do. As they see their reflection replaced by the reflections of the Hellions – Marie-Ange Colbert a.k.a. Tarot replaces Monet, Beef stands where Chamber is, Catseye still takes Jubilee’s place, while Manual dela Rocha a.k.a. Empath is reflected instead of Synch, Husk stares at Jenny Stravos a.k.a. Roulette and Skin is replaced by Bevatron. See? Still think this is just some kind of prank? asks Jubilee.
Skin declares that they have to find out what is going on, as Jubilee tells everyone not to just stand there, Everett Thomas a.k.a. Synch thinks they should find Miss Frost, but Jonothan Starsmore a.k.a. Chamber believes they should check if Penance, Artie and Leech are all okay. However, a telepathic projection of Emma Frost appears before the teens and tells them that she wants them in the combat room and will not ask again.
In the underground combat room, Skin and Synch gawk at Emma, who looks younger and is dressed in on outfit she wore during her Hellfire Club days, as the Inner Circle’s White Queen. Jubilee mumbles that “dressed” is not the word for it. Hands on her hips, Emma tells the Gen Xers that she doesn’t know what kept them, but trusts that it will not happen again. Moving to the matter of why she summoned them, Emma tells them that they are aware of the fact that several days ago someone made an attempt on her life. Emma reveals that she believes the assassin acted in conjunction with attempts made on the lives of other members of the Inner Circle, and that in order to help determine who is behind the attacks she has managed to get assistance from the X-Men, who will be attending tonight’s party.
Jubilee’s mouth drops open and eyes go wide, for she knows that the events Emma just described occurred on a very unfortunate day – the day the Hellions died.
Later, on the campus grounds, the six mutants have met to discuss the situation. Paige “Husk” Guthrie wonders how Emma, with all her telepathic powers doesn’t realize that something is wrong, and Skin declares that if tonight is supposedly the night the Hellions – in this case though Generation X themselves – are supposed to die, he votes they should simply not go. From up in a tree, Jubilee shouts that she is appalled as they are X-Men – well, sort of – and that X-Men don’t back down from a fight. She tells Angelo not to think that if they do not show up that the fight will not happen. Angelo tells Jubes that they are not the X-Men and that he doesn’t recall suicide missions being on the curriculum.
Chamber telepathically declares that he knows it may seem “cowardly” but thinks that Skin is right. Jubilee proclaims that she cannot believe what she is hearing and states that when she was with the X-Men, Professor Xavier taught her that the only thing worse than failing is not even trying. Jubilee declares that the Hellions may have died, but Generation X has an advantage because they know they are supposed to die. Something else that Xavier told her was Forewarned is forearmed and she believes that they can use their knowledge today to change how things play out. She asks if anyone has a problem with that, but no one does.
Later, at the Manhattan Brownstone that serves as the headquarters for the Hellfire Club, all dressed up, the members of Generation X congregate at the top of a stair case and Jubilee declares that this place is gonna be crawling with Sentinels before too long, just you watch. Skin reminds Jubilee that she has already given them the run down and they now know what to expect. Husk is in awe when she sees Iceman and Colossus down at the party when their “teammate” Jetstream approaches them, apologizing for being late. Jetstream reveals that the visit with his family went longer than expected. He declares that this is some party and asks how they are all doing.
Husk, Synch and Jubilee all mumble that they are fine, and Jetstream smiles, asking them why they are acting so freaked out. Skin, whom Jetstream believes to be Bevatron pats Jetstream on the back and tells him that everyone is glad he made it so the party can really start! You know it dude smirks Jetstream before walking away and declaring that he is going to find some older women to flirt. Jubilee congratulates Angelo on a nice save as Husk walks down the stairs and approaches Bobby and Piotr, asking if they are Iceman and Colossus. Bobby replies that he knows she is Roulette and that it looks like she has been using her luck changing powers on herself. Paige jokes along before telling Bobby that she needs their help. Hoping to “get lucky” Bobby tells her that they know all about the attempt on the White Queen’s life and makes a pass at “Jenny” telling her that it doesn’t mean they cannot get to know each other better in the meantime.
Meanwhile, upstairs, Storm, Jean Grey and Archangel stand together as Jean, in telepathic contact with Bobby and Piotr, informs Ororo and Warren that some of the Hellions have approached them. Storm tells Jean to keep a close watch on the Hellions, but Warren declares that he doesn’t see a big deal with them, as they are just kids. Storm informs Warren that those “kids” have proven themselves to be dangerous. Jubilee alerts her teammates to the presence of the three senior X-Men and suggests that just because Emma’s telepathy didn’t register them, Jean’s might, and thinks they should go talk to her.
As the Gen Xer’s approach Jean and the others a Hellfire Club servant declares that Emma Frost will see them now, when suddenly Emma throws a mysterious woman through the doors, telling her that she is clumsy, as one should not bait the lioness in her den, nor the spider at the center of her web. Emma stands over the young woman as she announces that this is the second time in as many weeks that an attempt has been made on her life, though it would seem that the assassins are getting younger and younger.
Emma turns to the X-Men and greets them, adding that it is doubtless now as to why she invited them here before using her telepathy on the young assassin peeling her psyche like a ripe fruit. Generation X look shocked at how ruthless Emma actually was back in the day – for they have up until now only heard of her reputation.
Storm quickly comes between Emma and the young assailant, informing Emma that she would not deny her the right to defend herself but that she draws the line at torture. Emma tells Storm to unhand her as Jetstream turns to his “teammates” and asks if they are just going to stand around while Miss Frost gets attacked. He asks what they are waiting for and the mixed reply comes um, well…, it’s like, we don’t…. Fine, I’ll deal with this myself, cries the brash Hellion as he rips away his tuxedo revealing his costume underneath and flying towards Storm, knocking her away from Emma.
Archangel, Iceman and Colossus also rip away their tuxedos and Warren jokes that the truce is over before it even began. Colossus shifts to his armored form and tells Warren that they should have known it would have been the case as there is too much bad blood between the X-Men and Hellfire Club for any peace to be a lasting one. Iceman announces that the X-Men came in good faith, but if the Hellfire Club wants a fight then a fight they will get. Colossus picks Skin off the ground and informs him that he would do well to surrender now while he has the chance. Monet picks up Colossus, causing him to drop Skin and she tells him that it is he who should surrender while he has the chance. Skin thanks Monet, as Colossus just looks shocked.
Meanwhile, Storm throws Jetstream off her as Jubilee calls to both the “Hellions” and the X-Men trying to explain that they do not need to fight, when she finds herself stuck to the floor with ice. She narrows her eyes and declares that the kid gloves are off as she pafs her way free from the ice.
Archangel flies across the room and Skin extends his arms trying to grab him, but finds that his wings are too sharp. Colossus meanwhile has tracked Synch and clasping him, he informs him that his strength outclasses his. Synch smiles and tells Colossus not to be so sure as when he uses his aura he can “synch up” with Colossus’ mutant powers and Everett become steel like Colossus and breaks free from his grasp.
Iceman sleds down towards Chamber thinking that he will stop this fight cold and encases Chamber in a ice block. Chamber telepathically tries to calm everyone down and stop them fighting, and when he finds himself captured he uses his bio-blast to break free. Transformed into a rock-like body Husk apologizes to Storm for punching her but declares that the fight needs to end. Storm agrees and knocks Paige out with a burst of electricity.
In another part of the large room, Jean Grey stands on her own and quietly asks everyone to stop. When she receives no answer she telepathically screams STOP into everyone’s mind and all at once the X-Men and “Hellions” clutch their throbbing heads. With everyone no longer fighting, Jean reminds them all that the X-Men are present because Emma believes there is some force that is threatening all of them. She suggests that if they battle each other, it only leaves them open to attack from whatever the force may be.
Emma smirks and agrees with Jean before admitting she did not expect the call of reason to come from her, nor with such vigor. She declares that the time has come for them to get down to their cases, as the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club is under attack and the identity of the attackers unknown. However the purpose of the enemy is clear, and Emma asks again If the Hellfire Club falls…can the X-Men be far behind?
Jetstream turns to his “teammates” and tells them that they will be able to get bonus points with Miss Frost if they interrogate the assassin themselves. Jubilee looks up at Jetstream almost saddened as she recalls that he is the first to die and doesn’t even know it. Jubilee – who Jetstream thinks is Catseye – reminds him that the assassin almost killed Emma and that it might be too dangerous. Jetstream declares that he doesn’t know what has gotten into his “teammates” to make them so gutless and storms over to the young woman demanding answers.
In another corner of the room, the X-Men stand and talk to Emma. Storm tells the White Queen that her logic is flawed, reminding her that they answered her cry for help as they would have for anyone in need – mutant or otherwise. However, Storm declares that the X-Men are not prepared to reinstate the truce until they are convinced of the truth of what she says. Ororo tells Emma that she must tell them everything, including who of the Hellfire Club has been attacked, when, where and their present condition. Emma declares that it is for her alone to know and proclaims that as for the severity of the threat it could be easily accomplished if the X-Men would allow her to complete the interrogation of the prisoner.
Just then, Jetstream standing over the assassin announces that she will talk – when suddenly someone walks through the door behind the Arabic mutant and grabs him by the neck before unleashing a power on him and rendering the young man dead. Wearing a protective suit, the green-haired man tells his female ally that she has been clumsy and should have chosen a target more within her reach, however it would seem a pity for their schemes to be unraveled because of her foolishness.
Generation X stand and watch as Jetstream is killed and those who didn’t believe Jubilee realize that the events are unfolding exactly as she said they would. Skin suggests they take Fitzroy and not let it end, while Emma tells the X-Men to watch and learn as her students make short work of the threat. Storm tells her teammates that they cannot let the Hellions face the danger alone and they agree. Jubilee reminds her friends that they have an advantage – that the Hellions didn’t know what they were up against, but they do. Synch uses his aura to copy Chambers’ power and they both unleash a psionic blast on Fitzroy.
Trevor Fitzroy smiles and informs everyone that his weapons system which is complete with a forcefield is more advanced than their mutant powers and even if they could injure him, they cannot attack what cannot be seen. Fitzroy disappears. Using teleportation he now appears across the other side of the room, near Monet – “Tarot”. Archangel flies over and shoots his deadly metallic feathers at the enemy. When the feathers bounce off Fitzroy, he asks why no one will take his word when he says that they cannot hurt him. However as the feathers bounce off of him one of the streaks past Monet and hits her in the shoulder. Monet cries out…
… and suddenly wakes up in the Danger Room at the Massachusetts Academy. Monet looks around realizing where she is, she thinks it must have been some weird dream and sees her teammates sprawled out across the floor. She calls to them and asks if anyone can hear her. No one replies and Monet starts shaking Jubilee, shouting that something weird is going on. Monet soon sees that her right arm has been cut from Archangel’s feather, and realizes that whatever happens in “there” happens in reality – and that the others could even die!


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Sins of the Past part 2: Heal Thyself
The Danger Room at the prestigious Massachusetts Academy, where the powerful young woman Monet St. Croix holds her teammate, Jubilation “Jubilee” Lee in her arms and tells her to wake up or else she will die. Monet looks around the floor of the Danger Room, where her teammates and teacher – Emma Frost – are all scattered in trapped in some sick dream. Desperately, the beautiful Algerian mutant closes her eyes and thinks to herself that she doesn’t even know how this nightmare started, except that she went to bed as a member of Generation X and awoke as a member of the Hellions. Monet and her five teammates all found themselves as members of Emma Frost’s first group of students, the Hellions, whom she taught when she was the White Queen of the Hellfire Club. The original Hellions were murdered by Fitzroy, a madman from the future, and the Generation Xer’s found themselves reliving the Hellion’s last day, right up till Fitzroy’s attack, however they thought they could beat him, thought that they could change history. They were wrong and Monet was injured – something that is very hard to do.
The pain from the cut shunted Monet back to reality, where she cannot wake the others. Monet thinks she should find some help, and with Sean Cassidy still out of town the next best option would be Emma’s sister, Adrienne Frost. Monet flies across the campus, thankful that it is dark so that none of the human students will see her using her powers. Arriving at Adrienne’s quarters, Monet kicks the door down, however Adrienne is not home. Monet thinks that their new headmistress must be keeping late hours and realizes that she has no other choice except to go back into the Hellions’ reality. Monet knows her telepathic powers are what enabled her to escape, and can use them to re-enter and save the others.
Back in the Hellions “reality”Everett Thomas, a.k.a. Synch holds up Monet in his arms while Jubilee, Husk, Chamber and Skin stand around them and the X-Men and the White Queen deal with Trevor Fitzroy. Synch looks at his friend and wonders how they let this happen, as Jubilee moves in closer and thinks to herself that she never liked Monet but didn’t want this to happen. Jubilee puts a hand on Synchs shoulder and tells him that it was no one’s fault. Angelo “Skin” Espinosa angrily shouts that they are just kids and never should have been here now. He declares that it is Emma and Sean’s fault – and Xavier’s – that they should never have put them in this position. He says that they try to make a difference in a world that makes them hide who they are, and all they get for it is death – first Blink and now Monet.
Jonothan Starsmore a.k.a. Chamber grabs Skin and tells him to cool down as he isn't helping the situation when suddenly Monet sits up. Synch smiles seeing the girl he has a crush on alive and tells Monet that he has never been so happy to see her. Jubilee frowns and tells herself to keep at cool, as this is not a time to get jealous, for she has a crush on Everett. Paige Guthrie, a.k.a. Husk asks Monet what happened to her, and the Gen Xer’s follow Monet as she walks around the room, admitting that she is not exactly sure, but she figures that somehow Archangel’s wings cut her and the shock “woke” her. She tells everyone that this is not real and that they are really asleep in the Danger Room, in some kind of trance.
Monet declares that she doesn’t know how any of this is happening but at least they know they can escape. She reveals that it was her telepathy that enabled her to break free and also return. Jubilee asks Monet why she came back instead of getting help or waking them up. Monet replies that she tried, but Sean is still gone and she couldn’t find Adrienne. Monet glances to the floor and says something that shocks everyone including herself I came back because, well…because you’re my friends. Generation X stare at Monet as if she is deluded, unable to believe their ears when their attention is drawn to the other side of the room, where Donald Pierce enters the building via teleportation.
The handsome Reaver sees that he has arrived at the Hellfire Club and calls to Emma, who is equally surprised to see him and realizes that he used his pet Aborigine – Gateway – to teleport himself here. Pierce is shot through the teleportation ring and Emma sees that he is under attack. Calling Pierce a fool she asks him what he has led to them.
Jubilee turns to her teammates and informs them that Donald Pierce is the White Bishop of the Hellfire Club and is being chased by Sentinels, who put Emma in a coma and kill the Hellions one by one. Synch asks what they should do, suggesting that even though this is some kind of mind-trap they cannot just stand around. Husk agrees, and reminds everyone that Monet said Emma was in a trance like the rest of them, and supposes that this young Miss Frost they see now is really their Miss Frost.
Jubilee declares that it is settled and tells her teammates to hit ‘em where it hurts. Pierce is subdued by a Sentinel and the giant robot moves in towards Emma, until Jubilee rushes to intervene, pushing Emma from harms way. Emma is astonished that she is saved by one of her students as Storm announces that the Sentinels appear disorientated and that it may take a fraction of a second for their circuitry to adjust to the teleportation. She orders the X-Men and “Hellions” to use their powers while they have a chance.
Trevor Fitzroy tells the Sentinels to obey the voice of their master and alters their programming to attack the Hellions and the X-Men. Husk has transformed to stone and Monet lifts her up, together they perform the “Fastball Special” and Paige jokes that if only her X-Man brother, Cannonball, could see her now before she is thrust into a Sentinel – only to get stuck in the middle of it, not quite making it all the way through. Paige thinks that Monet better work on her pitching arm while the Sentinel announces that it is still functional and prepares for a counter assault on Husk. Husk cries for help, and it comes in the form of her sort-of-boyfriend Chamber, who uses his bio-blast on the Sentinel, destroying it while Paige falls to the ground.
As another Sentinel commences attack on Jean Grey, who calls to the boys below for a little help, Synch uses his aura to copy Colossus’ powers and together the rip the arms off the Sentinel, freeing Jean. Another Sentinel is under attack from Archangel while another goes after Skin – whom it believes to be the Hellion Bevatron. Skin thinks to himself that he is so dead and cannot believe he is going to do this. He extends one of his fingers up into the palm of the Sentinel where one of its blasters is, and blocks it. The Sentinel declares that it has malfunctioned and Iceman slides over and encompasses it in ice while Jubilee uses her “fireworks” on another Sentinel.
Monet uses her incredible strength to rip the head off of another Sentinel and Synch jokes for her to remind him not to tick her off, when he suddenly sees something. Monet follows Everett and he asks her if she can see what he does, but she cannot. Synch uses his aura and informs Monet that he can see Emma, as if she is caught between two realities. Everett supposes he can see Emma because he has synched up with Monet’s telepathy. Monet asks why she is not able to see Emma, and Synch replies that it is a good question, but informs Monet that she may not have noticed but he has been using Chamber’s powers in ways even he cant. Everett tells Monet to concentrate with him so they can pull Emma out of where she is, and Monet agrees, but first plans to get the two of them some cover.
Telepathically, Monet contacts her teammates, informing them that she and Everett think they can rescue Emma, but that they need everyone else to keep the Sentinels away from them. Chamber replies that they will do what they can as Husk asks Monet what she means by bringing Emma to them. Monet replies that she cannot explain right now and warns Husk that she has more pressing things to worry about. Husk says I do? and is met with a powerful punch from Colossus. Chamber asks the others if he saw that and Synch tells Monet that whoever is doing all of this must not want them to get to Emma. Using telepathy, Everett announces that he can feel Emma getting closer and that the wall between the realities is weakening. Chamber declares that if this is all fake then the X-Men are not real and he can cut loose – and he does so, destroying Colossus. Synch cringes from using the telepathy so strongly – but it works.
Emma Frost sees a crack in reality and presses her finger up to it, widening it she then rips t apart and steps through it, into the fake Hellfire Club. Generation X applaud when they see their teacher now free, and Emma walks up to her younger self. So. “This is your life, Emma Frost”, eh? She continues staring at the younger version of herself before telling her that it is not her fault and that she did everything she could. Emma narrows her eyes and suddenly the younger Emma disappears. Jubilee tells Emma that this is some kind of crazy mind-trap and that both the X-Men and Sentinels are trying to kill them.
Emma looks calmly at the “X-Men” and Sentinels as they rush towards her and she simply declares That’s enough, this is all ends now! Emma kicks the reality itself and shatters it, and everyone wakes up in the Danger Room of the Academy. Husk congratulates Emma for taking control of the entire reality, and Emma mumbles that she is going to feel it tomorrow. Jubilee admits that Monet was right, that the whole thing was a scam. Skin asks Jubes who cares as they looked Death into the eye and Death blinked. Emma tells the Gen Xer’s to calm down, telling them that this just didn’t happen that someone must be responsible.
Emma’s eyes just about pop from her head when she turns and sees her sister standing on the other side of the room. Adrienne is dressed up in a new outfit and tells everyone that she will give them three guesses as to who is responsible, but that the first two don’t count. Say hello to the new White Queen, everyone’, she adds. Emma asks Adrienne how she can dare call herself that before informing her that they could have all been killed.
Adrienne frowns at Emma and tells her that she wouldn't have been killed, but just her kids as she needed her alive to witness her students die – again. Emma realizes that this has been a set-up since Adrienne first came to the school, and tells Adrienne to remember that when she gets pushed, she will push back. Adrienne smiles when she tells Emma that she cannot seem to remember her powers do not work on her. Jubilee tells Adrienne that their powers work fine on her.
Adrienne boasts that she would love to stay and play but that she has business to attend to elsewhere. She mockingly tells everyone not to worry as Auntie Adrienne will visit again soon, after all, this is just the beginning. Adrienne pushes her brooch and teleports out, just as Jubilee throws some “fireworks” at her. Jubilee doesn’t care that Adrienne can teleport and suggests that they go after her. Emma crosses her arms and tells Jubilee that it is not that simple, as Adrienne is immune to her psi-scan, and Monet is not strong enough yet to conduct a search that powerful. Emma declares that despite a temporary lapse in her own judgment she does know her own sister and she would be calculating, which is what makes her such a good business woman, and doesn’t think that they will see Adrienne until she is ready for them to see her.
Skin asks Emma how she can be so calm about this as her nut-job sister just tried to kill them. Emma smiles and declares that they have time to think about Adrienne tomorrow, but tonight she would just like to appreciate what she has got… Jubilee, Monet, Everett, Paige, Jono and Angelo, and Emma remembers her Hellions, gone but not forgotten.


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A Night to Remember
No…stop! It hurts! cries Jubilation “Jubilee” Lee jokingly to her friend and teammate Paige “Husk” Guthrie as the latter tries on a dress to wear to the upcoming school dance. Jubes tells Paige that the dress is so hideous that she may “ralf” all over it and if fashion never made its way to Kansas. I'm from Kentucky Husk, wearing a strapless yellow with black polka-dots dress reminds Jubes, who says same thing. Paige tells Jubes that this is more work than she thought, but wants to look just right, reminding her that Tristan asked her out weeks ago, but with all the adventures Generation X has been on lately they never even had time for a first date – which means that the school dance will be it, and she wants everything to be perfect.
Jubilee tells Paige that she is thinking Emma needs a date for the dance, and personally she thinks Sean is the right man for the job. You think? asks Husk, to which Jubilee replies she should know and that there is chemistry between them. If you say so says Husk before telling Jubilee that Monet still hasn’t got a date yet. Jubilee crosses her arms and says Well I hope she doesn’t think she’s going with Everett…because I am! Husk asks Jubilee if she doesn’t feel a little bit sorry for Monet, I mean, what if she can’t get a date? Jubilee scoffs at this, declaring she has no sympathy for Monet, as she is gorgeous and could have the pick of any guy on campus! While the girls have their conversation, someone is watching them. An old enemy – Emplate!
Meanwhile, on the grounds of the prestigious Massachusetts Academy where the Generation X kids attend along with “normal” humans, the beautiful young woman in question strides gracefully through the crowds of students, the eyes of all the male students following her as she goes. Head held high, the uber-powerful Monet approaches a group of boys who are gawking at her. One of the boys tells the others to check out the hottie while another proclaims that Monet is so fine and that he was thinking of asking her to the dance. Another boy boasts that Monet sits behind him in chemistry and he thinks she is trying to work up the nerve to ask him out. No way says one of the boys who declares that Monet has been given him “the eye” in trigonometry and he was going to ask her. Shaddup! Here she comes! says one of the boys. Monet walks past the boys and doesn’t even acknowledge them. Once she has gone past them one of the boys says well, um, maybe I’ll ask her later. Yeah, me too says another.
Meanwhile, in the office of Sean “Banshee” Cassidy and Emma “White Queen” Frost, the headmasters of the Academy Sean tells Emma to let him see if he understands. He takes a couple of weeks off to spend time with his injured daughter, and in that time, Emma’s sister, their new headmistress, tries to kill the kids, and that she did it in secret so none of the human students know about it. Emma tells Sean he is correct and adds that the general student population are still unaware that there are mutants in their midst. Emma looks at Sean and tells him that Adrienne was playing them from the start, her entire plan was to get close to her sister, and used psionic powers Emma didn’t even know she had to place everyone in an artificial environment.
Adrienne was hoping that they would die the same way her first students, the Hellions would, and wanted to torture Emma by making her watch. Emma admits that she is not sure how Adrienne was able to orchestrate all of this, as per usual she was not very forthcoming. However Emma is confident that Adrienne has a larger plan in mind, and that they haven't seen the last of her. I cant leave you people alone for a second, can I? mutters Banshee.
Off campus, Everett “Synch” Thomas and Jono “Chamber” Starsmore are trying on tuxedos for the dance. Everett declares that he doesn’t think his fits right. Chamber tells him that he looks fine and to quit his whining. Everett calms down and declares that it is too bad Skin isn't with them. He tells Jono that he wished Angelo could have got a date, and thinks that they should just fix him up with someone. Synch tells Jono that the girl he is taking must have a friend who would be interested. Chamber tells Synch that fixing Skin up would only get him angrier.
Everett reveals that he is lucky he didn’t have to worry about getting a real date, as going with Jubilee makes things a lot easier. Chamber asks him if Jubilee knows it is not a “real” date, to which Synch asks him what he means, as he doesn’t get it. That’s what I'm afraid of says Chamber before changing the subject to his ex-girlfriends date, Tristan, and tells Synch that he is not renting a tux because he is so rich that he owns one. He adds that if he had known Paige were that shallow when they were going out, he would have started throwing more money around. Synch exclaims that he has an idea for a fun game that they can play.  How about we try and make it through one day without mentioning the name “Tristan”? Okay, we’ll call him “Rat Boy” instead. Synch just frowns.
Meanwhile, in Angelo “Skin” Espinosa’s room, Angelo lies back on his bed and declares that back before his mutant powers kicked in, he was a good looking, not a Ricky Martin, but okay. Now, he says, he cannot even go out in public without being the center of attention and not in a good way. He declares that he knows it is wrong to objectify women, but just for once he would like to walk into a room with a hot little chica on my arm and have everyone looking at him for reasons other than his looks. Skin sighs and declares that he has been hanging around Jono too long and his bad attitude must be rubbing onto him. Skin frowns and declares that he doesn’t mean to paint such a bleak picture, and turning to Artie Maddicks and Leech he says that green and pink are nice colors, but nevertheless they will probably go through exactly what he does. Skin thanks the young boys for listening, to which Leech says Leech and Artie happy to listen to Skin whine, while nobody notices the villain Emplate watching them.
Meanwhile, in Generation X’s very own Danger Room, the kids are having a training session, the scenario – rescue the original X-Men from Krakoa the living island! Trapped in some vines, Husk declares that they are everywhere. Having a lot of fun, Jubilee tells her ‘that’s the idea, Husk, this is Krakoa, baby! The island that thinks like a man!’ Smiling, Jubilee declares that a couple of years ago it captured the original X-Men, which led Xavier to round up new members, like my bud Wolverine’ ‘Only this time – Chamber cuts her off and says We have to save the X-Men. We were all there for the briefing Jubilee.
Still trapped, Husk declares that she cannot change into a more powerful body. Chamber tells her to hang tight and that he is coming to shred the vines with his bio-blasts. Up in the sky, Synch drops Skin into the battle just before he gets caught by a vine too. Skin declares that they are everywhere as Jubes advises him to keep moving, for if you move fast enough they wont be able to catch you – until one catches her. Hanging upside down, Jubilee’s mood has turned sour and when Skin laughs and asks her if this ever happened when she was with the X-Men she tells him to shut up.
The only one free now is Monet, and she proclaims that this is unacceptable, that she refuses to be beaten by something you find in your garden! But despite her best efforts, Monet gets caught by a vine, and cant break free. Synch tells her to relax, as its over, and Emma and Sean enter the Danger Room, and tell the kids that if this had been real, they would have failed their mission to rescue the X-Men!
Geez, remind me never to call you guys when I need to be rescued! The Gen Xer’s are surprised to see Bobby “Iceman” Drake, one of the original X-Men, who was captured by Krakoa step into view and then ask jokingly What’re they teaching you kids at this school anyway? Bobby’s former teammate, Banshee tells Bobby sarcastically that he is very funny before deactivating the Krakoa scenario and setting the kids free. Jubilee smiles when she sees Bobby is real as she thought he was just part of the hologram scenario and asks him what he is doing here.
The handsome young X-Man tells the kids that Sean asked him to stop by and give a guest lecture, I hear it’s the thing to do these days he adds. Husk smiles and asks him if he will be teaching a class on cryogenics or weather manipulation. Bobby stutters a bit before revealing that he is a CPA and here to teach an accounting class.
Emma frowns and tells the kids that they have had enough for one day and should go and shower now. The kids stand grouped together, no one moving as Jubes walks over to Sean and declares that they were wondering if he has asked Emma to the dance yet. Sean looks stumped for a minute, but Emma breaks the silence by shouting That’s enough! I already have a date! The kids look surprised and ask whom. Emma smiles wickedly and narrows her eyes as she points across the room to Bobby. Him, Me? asks Bobby shocked, before grinning Awww yeah!
Later, Monet is dressed for the dance (and as per usual, it is something outstandingly stylish) and she walks down to the basement of the girls dormitory which is also the bedroom for one of the Academy’s special students…Penance. Monet peers around into the room, where she sees Penance tearing up everything in the room. Monet doesn’t think she has seen Penance this agitated ever, but knows it doesn’t take a brain surgeon to figure out what is wrong with her, for Monet spent too long trapped inside the razor sharp mute body, which is now prison to her little sisters. She supposes that it was only a matter of time before their frustration overwhelmed them. Monet wonders if she should say anything, but turning and going back up the stairs she thinks it best to say nothing, as it probably wouldn't do them much good to see her dressed up to go to the formal dance.
Later that evening at Proudstar Hall, all the kids of the Academy begin arriving for the dance. Paige enters with Tristan, who tells her that she looks divine. Paige smiles ands tells him that she is wearing the fanciest dress she ever owned (not the polka dot one) and that her momma would flip if she knew how much it cost. Jubilee smiles as she enters clinging onto Everett she tells him to check it out and that it is going to be great. Jono enters with his date and wonders to himself if the thing his date finds most attractive about him is the fact he cannot give her any lip, that is not without giving away that he is not really mute and can talk fine telepathically.
Suddenly, the entire hall of people all turn their attention to the latest couple arriving – all of Generation X equally surprised – to see Monet smirking as she enters with the smiling Angelo. Mutters spread through the crowd: man, what I wouldn't give… that’s that Espinosa dude! And he’s with Monet St. Croix!
Watching the kids, Sean says to Tom Corsi that Angelo sure knows how to make an entrance. Tom replies that he was busy watching Emma and Bobby, and asks Sean he can believe that Emma is actually laughing, for he doesn’t think he has ever seen her do that before. Sean tells Tom that Emma and Bobby have a bit of a history, but not to ask him to explain it. Tom asks Sean if it bothers him, after all he and Emma have a “thing” going. Sean frowns and unconvincingly says Me and Emma? Bah, don’t be ridiculous.
Emplate’s psionic form suddenly appears at the party and walks through the teens undetected. Tristan tells Paige that his grandfather said they can go horseback riding one day, adding that he knows she will love Vermont in the Fall. Sean tells tom that he thinks this is good for the kids, especially after the nonsense in Madripoor and the horror that Adrienne put them through. Tom tells Sean that it might be good for him too by helping him take his mind of Theresa. Synch asks Jono how his first date is going, and Jono replies If you love me Everett, you’ll kill me now! Jubilee tells Angelo that he must have seen The Mask of Zorro too many times and asks him what the story with his outfit is. Angelo tells her that anyone can wear a tux, but it takes a vato with brass ones to wear this.
Suddenly, Synch sees Emplate! He asks Emma if she can hear him and tells her Emplate is in the house. Emma hears him and links their minds up with the others. Synch informs everyone that he can see Emplate somehow, that it must have something to do with his synchronistic aura. Emma tells everyone that they need a diversion….
…and Skin charges into Jono ready to play along he tackles him to the ground. While the entire student body is watching the “fight” Emma tells Jubilee to activate the sprinklers with her fireworks, which she does. When the sprinklers start, the human students rush from Proudstar Hall, saying things like My dress will be ruined Back to my room, it’s quieter there. Tom goes out to control the teens and tell them that it was probably a false alarm but that they should still go over to the student center before mentally telling Emma that he has everyone secured outside.
Back inside, Emplate fully appears before them and asks everyone now that they have found him what they intend to do about it. On an ice sled, Iceman races up to him and declares that his is ‘going to get frosty’, but Emma calls to him, warning him about Emplate, but it is too late, as Emplate grabs Bobby and declares that he can feed on mutant’s genetic material. Bobby cries out as Emplate starts to feed on him, until Monet tells everyone to leave this to her.
Husk tells her it is only fair, as Emplate is her brother, as she morphs into something more appropriate. Monet flies towards her brother and calling him by his real name, Marius, she tells him to let Bobby go as she flies directly into him, knocking him back as he says Marius is dead. Only Emplate is left! Some of the students soon find themselves trapped in ice when Emplate uses the powers he absorbed from Iceman on them. Chamber starts to blast them free while Emma tends to Bobby, asking him if he is all right, Bobby replies Aw, see? I knew you cared!
Synch asks Banshee to let him synch-up with Emplate so he can use his own powers against him, but Banshee tells him that it is too dangerous, and that Everett might not be able to handle that much power. So, what’s next on the menu? asks Emplate.
Monet uses her telepathy to contact everyone and tells them that this is not like Marius, as he has never been this aggressive, for he normally tries to avoid physical confrontation, and he looks ill. Skin tells everyone that they shouldn’t forget he has attacked the school in the past, Chamber reminds them that it happened when he tried to kidnap Penance. Banshee realizes that it is a diversion and tells Emma, Iceman, Monet, Synch and Chamber to go to Penance’s room, as he thinks she might be in trouble.
In Penance’s room, she is holding off Emplate’s allies – D.O.A, Vincente, Wrap and a female associate. D.O.A tells everyone not to just stand there and get Penance, as Emplate will not be able to hold the kids off for very long. Wrap protests that her skin is razor sharp, to which the female calls him a ‘bug baby’. Just then, Monet and Synch bust into the room, followed by the others, declaring that they are just in time. Okay, ya goons, you know the drill- get ‘em! Orders D.O.A.
Wrap picks up Synch and declares that he doesn’t look tough, That’s why he’s got friends to back him up! cries Monet as she smashes Wrap to the ground. Er, thanks…I think says Synch when suddenly, the female villain uses a power to possess Monet, who declares You’re not the only ones who recognize the value of teamwork, precious. She tells Monet that she may be invulnerable, but even she cannot stand up to her ebon energy. Synch steps forward and tells the woman it is time to see if she can stand up to her own “ebon energy” courtesy of his synchronistic aura. The results is that she cannot, and when she is taken out of the battle, Monet is released form her possession. Well that sure took you long enough says Monet. Synch tells her a “thank you” wouldn't be out of line. No, just out of character Monet replies.
Chamber sees Vincente and remembers him as ‘the wanker who can turn himself into vapor!’ Vincente reminds him Jono that it is poisonous vapor. Chamber is rescued by Iceman, who traps Vincente in an ice block. Chamber tells Bobby that he is not half the twit Jubilee said you were! Bobby tells Jono to remind him to have a little talk with Miss Lee. Monet, Iceman, Chamber and Synch assemble with Emma and as D.O.A creeps away Bobby asks Small-Mean-and-Ugly where he is going.<>P
Monet and Synch fly back to Proudstar Hall while the others ride on Iceman’s ice sled. Bobby hopes that the others managed to keep Emplate in check while they were gone, and Synch tells him not to worry, as they have handled Emplate before and can do it again. However arriving at Proudstar Hall, they see that the others don’t look themselves, and their eyes are red. Bobby asks Synch if he is sure about that last comment he made before asking Emma what’s wrong with them. Emma informs Bobby that Emplate has used his powers to corrupt them, to bring them over to his side!
This should be worth the price of admission says Emplate as he orders Banshee, Jubilees, Husk and Skin to ‘sic ‘em’. The four rush towards the others and Banshee uses his sonic scream as Husk, in her stone form, grabs Monet and says You think you’re better than everyone else don’t you? Monet tells Paige to take it easy and that she can beat this, but Husk isn't listening and throws Monet across the hall.
Bobby asks Emma what she is waiting for and tells her to use her powers to undo the ‘whammy’ that Emplate did on the others. Emma scowls and tells him that she is trying. Skin stretches his fingers around Jono, who tries to calm Skin down, but Skin tells Jono that he knows he thinks he is a wimp, but is going to prove him wrong!
You mute freak! says Jubilee to Penance who does her best to dodge Jubes’ fireworks. Synch grabs Jubilee with an idea to synch up to her, but Emma tells him not to, as it is too dangerous. Everett replies that he knows what he is doing, but Jubilee flips herself behind him, telling him that while he may be able to synch up with her powers he cant synch up with her training. Synch is purposely trying to get Jubilee mad, and standing open before her he jibes her by saying you wanna hurt me, don’t you? You wanna kill me, don’t you!’
Jubilee screams as she has broken free from Emplate’s control. She declares that Synchs’ plan worked, for it made her angry enough to break Emplate’s hold on her. Pointing at Emplate she boasts that she is going to end this once and for all! Emma is about to say something to Bobby, but he understands and says he is On it! – when suddenly, Proudstar Hall explodes.
When the dust clears, all that remains apart from the debris is a ice dome – which suddenly shatters when the Gen Xer’s, Banshee, Emma and Iceman break out of it. Husk declares that it protected them from the brunt of the blast, as Skin asks what happened to Penance, as she wasn’t under the ice dome with them. Monet flies towards her brother, declaring that he wasn’t under the dome either, but is alive, yet hurt. Banshee kneels by Penance’s unmoving body, proclaiming that he wished he could say the same for Penance, but it is hard to be sure with her – though he thinks she is dead. Emma tells Sean that it might not be that ‘cut-and-dry’ and motion towards another part of the debris, where the St. Croix twins – Claudette and Nicole are standing hand-in-hand, free from the Penance body.
Later that night in the top-secret complex beneath the Academy, Banshee informs Emma and Tom Corsi that he thinks Emplate will make it, as while an explosion like that would not normally have phased him, in his weakened state he was more susceptible to the force of the explosion. He asks Tom if the kids have all been told the cover story, to which Tom replies that the phone lines are now flooded with kids calling their parents and telling them how an electrical fire blew up Proudstar Hall. Emma tells the men that there is only one question left – and pointing to the lifeless Penance form on the ground, she asks what they are going to do with it – for without the twins inside it, the body is just an empty shell...right?
Meanwhile, in the infirmary, Monet sits in between her sisters, Nicole and the autistic Claudette and tells them that Miss Frost just wants to keep them in the infirmary overnight as a precaution. Nicole replies that it is okay, she just feels weird, and doesn’t even remember the explosion or what happened. However, Nicole reminds Monet that an explosion is what caused her and Claudette to split back into themselves when they was masquerading as her, so it just makes sense that another explosion would free them from the Penance form. Monet tells the girls that she is just glad to have her sisters back. And your brother says Nicole. Monet frowns, Yeah…and him.
Just then, Skin walks into the infirmary Hey! If it isn't the St. Croix girls! Angelo walks over to Monet and tells her that he knows Artie and Leech asked her to invite him to the dance, and that he knows why they did it. He tells her that he admits it felt good walking in with a beautiful woman on his arm, but isn't one to take charity. Monet folds her arms and lifts her head into the air telling Angelo not to flatter himself and that the only reason she asked him to the dance was because no one asked her! Charity…hah! Skin walks out of the infirmary mumbling that he should have known and adds that Monet St. Croix would never do anything nice for anyone.
Elsewhere on campus, Paige and Tristan walk hand-in-hand and Tristan tells her that all he could think about was her when Mr. Corsi made them leave the building, as he didn’t knows what kind of danger she was in. He adds that he knew something big was going on inside but he couldn’t tell anyone about it, and all he could do was sit and worry in silence. Paige tells Tristan that he is so in touch with his feelings and that most other boys she knows are just that – boys. Boys who are too concerned with being tough that they don’t really admit what is going on inside them. Paige and Tristan then kiss…
Elsewhere still, Jubilee and Everett sit on a hillside overlooking campus, and Jubes tells Everett that it was really cool of him to help her shake off Emplate’s influence. Synch replies that it was no problem, and that he knows her and how to push her buttons. Jubilee smiles and declares that it is nice to have someone in her life that knows her so well. Synch agrees, telling Jubilee that he knows what she means and his glad that they can talk like this, that they’re so close. A slight pause occurs before Everett smiles and says Did you see Monet tonight? My God she looked beautiful! Jubilee averts her eyes and thinks to herself Oh yeah, Ev. You really know me well, don’t ya?
At the main driveway, Bobby leans against his glash car and looks at Emma, both of them somewhat unsure about what to say. Bobby then tells Emma that there is no more questioning it, and that she must like him. Emma grins and asks him what gives him that idea? You asked me to be your date. How big of a hint do I need? Bobby replies. Emma tells Bobby that he was the closest available body and would have asked the Blob if he had been there. Yeah right says Bobby before Emma tells him she would have even asked the Toad. The Toad? You’re comparing me to the Toad? asks Bobby before telling Emma that if he didn’t know any better he would say she were deliberately trying to hurt his feelings. A moment’s silence before Bobby puts a hand on Emma’s cheek. ‘So…’ they both say, before Bobby gets into his car and driving away he says Goodnight Emma.
Back in the secret complex beneath the campus, the lifeless shell of Penance suddenly opens its eyes! She gets off the ground and scratches her way through the wall of the complex then up through the earth, where reaching the Academy grounds she runs off into the night….


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The Massachusetts Academy, an exclusive boarding school in Snow Valley – the morning after. Outside, several students stand behind the barricades of the recently destroyed Proudstar Hall, while in the secret complex beneath the campus, one of the school headmasters, Sean Cassidy, a.k.a. the former X-Man Banshee and one of the special students of the school – Everett “Synch” Thomas are conversing about last night. Synch asks Sean how they managed to explain the explosion of Proudstar Hall in the middle of the dance to everyone. Sean informs Everett that Emma explained it as a gas leak and used her telepathy to convince the fire chief of it.
Everett asks Sean if that if cool with him that Emma used her telepathy on normal civilians. Sean tells Everett that he asked himself the same question, but thinks that in this case, it is the lesser of two evils, especially as they could not let people know the building blew up because they train mutants at the school, and one of their enemies attacked. Everett sees Sean’s point. As they enter the infirmary, Sean informs Everett that Emplate – the enemy – has been asleep for hours, but it is time to see if he feels like talking.
However, upon looking around the room, they see a gaping hole in the wall! Sean sees that Emplate is still there, but that Penance is gone. Synch asks the older man how it could be, as they freed Nicole and Claudette St. Croix from the Penance body, which would mean it was just an empty shell. Sean replies that he does not know, but Synch points to her obvious escape route, and Sean opens a telepathic channel to Emma so that he can let her know what is going on.
The “Emma” is of course Emma Frost, a.k.a. the White Queen, a powerful telepath and Sean’s co-headmaster, who is currently jogging through Academy grounds. She looks up when Sean says into her mind ‘We’ve got a situation here’ and informs her that Penance has escaped and by the looks of things she has run off into the woods. Emma sees something come out of the woods and asks Sean if he just said “into the woods”. Sean replies that he did and asks her why, to which Emma, startled by the wounded student, coughing, bleeding and ripped stumble out of the woods asking for help, and she tells Sean that the situation just got worse.
Elsewhere on the campus, sitting by a fountain is the beautiful Monet St. Croix, with her younger twin sisters, Claudette and Nicole. Nicole remarks that it feels so good to talk again, to which Monet tells her jokingly that she hasn’t stopped talking! Nicole reminds Monet that she knows what being trapped in the Penance body was like, ‘very uncool’ and adds that she cannot imagine what it was like for Claudette, since she is autistic. Monet tells the girls that the most important thing is that none of them are prisoner of the horrid body anymore.
Suddenly, someone says ‘Is there a St. Croix family reunion and no one told me?’ Nicole runs over to the voice when she sees that it is her father and leaps into his arms. Ambassador St. Croix smiles and tells Monet that her headmaster, Sean Cassidy called him late last night and told him Emplate was here and that his ‘little girls’ have come back to him. He is about to ask Monet how she is when his attention is drawn to Emma Frost who runs past them.
Monet wonders what is going on and, manages to stop Emma before she gets any further away. Monet excuses herself and asks Emma what the matter is. Emma tells Monet that she didn’t see her there before turning to Ambassador St. Croix, and mentioning that Sean told her he was coming, referring to her running outfit she regrets that she is not more presentable. Ambassador St. Croix tells her to think nothing of it, and Emma starts on her destination again, telling the Ambassador that they should have dinner later, but for now she must be going. Monet starts to say something, but Emma cuts her off, telling her to enjoy her visit with her family, as this is nothing that she needs to concern herself with. Monet narrows her eyes, as she has the feeling something big is going on, and regrets that Emma’s telepathy is more powerful than her own is, otherwise she would read her mind and find out!
In the communications room, Banshee and Emma have assembled Synch and the remaining members of Generation X, the mutant teens who they train at the Academy, Jubilee, Paige “Husk” Guthrie, Angelo Espinosa a.k.a. Skin and Jonothan Starsmore, also known as Chamber. Banshee has just finished informing everyone of what they know about the new Penance, ending with the fact she has gone into the woods. Jubilation asks what happened to the kid that Penance cut up, and Sean informs her that Tom Corsi, Sean’s friend and a teacher at the school, rang the kids’ parents and took him to the hospital.
Skin asks what about the other kids – are they safe while Penance is still out there? Banshee tells the Latino student that he asked a good question, and reveals that he wants to evacuate the school in case Penance comes back onto the campus. Emma disagrees, reason being that Proudstar Hall had just blown up the previous night and if they evacuate the school it would worry a lot of parents – and put the school under a microscope. Emma declares that they cannot risk the investigation uncovering the fact that they train mutants at the Academy.
Husk asks why they are all being so quick to assume that “Penny” would hurt anyone, and in defense of Penance tells her friends that she would never do that. Banshee tells Paige that this is not the “Penny” that they used to know and that they have absolutely no way of knowing what they are dealing with at the moment. Sternly, he declares that as far as they know, Penance is the enemy.
Later, in the woods surrounding the Massachusetts Academy, Emma leads the group through the woods, followed by Synch, Skin, Chamber, Paige, Jubilee and Sean brings up the rear. Everett asks why they have to guess whether or not Penance did this, and suggests that it could have been a bear. He then asks Emma why she didn’t just pull an image out of the head of the kid who was attacked. Emma replies that she tried, but that the kids head was too jumbled from the fear, shock and pain he was in, adding that this Penance is as immune to her psi-scans as the predecessor.
Everett declares that he is trying to use his synchronistic aura as a beacon like he has done before, as it lets him “sense” mutants nearby, but regrets that Penance is either out of range or immune to his aura. Angelo grumbles that he is not cut out for ‘this Davy Crockett crap’ and that he is too far away from cars and blacktop and buildings – ‘the forest doesn’t work for me!’ Suddenly he screams when a set of claws reach for his face – but it is not a set of claws, merely a branch held out by Chamber, joking to Skin that the big bad forest almost got him. Angelo snaps back that he liked it better when Chamber did not have a sense of humor.
Emma raises her voice and tells the boys that this is not a camping trip and they need to stop fooling around look sharp. Jubilee puts one hand on her hip and says ‘You tell ‘em Emma! When I was with the X-Men –’ Banshee puts a hand over Jubilee’s mouth as she launches into another one of her “When I was wit the X-Men” stories and tells her that now is not the time, before ushering everyone along the path.
Back on campus, Monet asks her father if he is going to see Marius. Ambassador St. Croix replies that he is and reveals that that is the other reason he came, as he finally needs to make peace with his son. Bluntly, Monet asks her father if she needs to remind him that his son killed her mother and imprisoned her ‘inside that horrible Penance body’, not to mention the countless other atrocities he has committed. ‘He’s not “Marius” anymore. He’s Emplate’. She adds.
The Ambassador closes his eyes and tells Monet that he is still his son and reminds her that he would not turn his back on her, or any of them, but that he has neglected Marius for too long. He reminds Monet that he belongs to Xavier’s Mutant Underground after all, and should know that not all mutants can control their powers. ‘I’m ashamed of myself’ he finally says before Monet folds her arms and informs her father that it is too late for him to be close to his children and that Marius isn't his son anymore, but a viscous creature who does not deserve human compassion.
Back in the woods, near a cliff, Sean tells everyone that he thinks it might be a good idea if they all split up as they can cover more ground that way whilst keeping in tough via Emma’s telepathy. Just then, rocks begin to fall down the cliff, a rockslide is occurring! Synch synchs up with Banshee’s sonic scream and together they use the power to shatter rocks, while Chamber does the same with his bio-blast, just in time to save Jubilee too. Husk changes into a stone form so she can shatter the rocks physically, while Skin grabs Emma and stretching a finger and latching it on to a nearby tree as if it were a rope he pulls himself and her away, asking if he can call her “Jane”. ‘I thought you didn’t like the forest!’ Emma exclaims while clinging to him. Jubilee uses her fireworks to shatter rocks and jokes that Sean and Synch have a ‘regular duet going on over there!’ When the dust clears, Sean congratulates everyone on a good job and remarks that it goes without saying: ‘that rockslide was no accident!’
In the infirmary, Monet St. Croix stands back from where her evil brother lies, while her father stands right next to him and wonders how his son would have turned out had he not pushed him away. Monet tells her father not to do this to himself, and the creepy voice belonging to Emplate says ‘Yeah, I’m liable to break into tears’. Monet and the Ambassador are taken aback when they hear him, and as he opens his red eyes, Emplate tells Monet that he is weak, and reminds her that she knows he feeds on the genetic material of other mutants.
Emplate suggests to Monet that she fetches him a snack – ‘perhaps one of those oddly colored boys…I believe their names are Artie and Leech, they’re nice bite-size portions’. Monet leans towards Emplate and yelling, she calls him a monster and tells him to shut his mouth, adding that he is lucky they are keeping him alive. The Ambassador puts a hand on Monet’s shoulder and asks her to calm down, and declaring that it is not Marius’ fault. Emplate narrows his eyes at Monet and sarcastically tells her to listen to their wise and gentle father. Emplate tells his father that he knows he has been carrying around a lot of baggage and declares that it might help him if he finally learned what exactly happened to the St. Croix children’s mother.
(Flashback, predating Uncanny X-Men #316 and other flashbacks featuring Monet and the Twins)Marius and his mother were the only ones home that after noon, as the Ambassador was out that day with the girls…his favorites. Marius started to feel weird, his palms itched and his stomach began to feel like it turning inside out, he thought he might vomit. His mother tried to help, and Marius could tell that she was very terrified by the time he started convulsing, but she still stayed with him.
They sat on the floor, and the convulsions within Marius eventually stopped – but he started to hunger. To this day he still does not know what happened – but for the first time in his life, he knew what would make him complete…and he killed his mother – Monet’s mother – by draining her energies.
(Present)Emplate still looks up at his family and snarls that he does not like to make a habit of agreeing with Monet, but he needs to confess that she is right about one thing. ‘I'm not your son. Marius…is dead’ he says to the Ambassador.
High above the Massachusetts Academy, Banshee streaks down, hoping that despite the tenseness of the forest that he may be able to spot Penance. However, he suddenly comes by a truck, overturned on a road nearby, and swooping down to investigate he finds no sign of a driver, and examining the trailer he concludes that something must have broken out of it, and judging by the claw marks, something wild. He telepathically contacts Emma and informs her that he has found something that makes him believe that “pegged” the whole situation wrong.
From her location in the woods, Emma calmly replies that she is listening, and asks Sean to go ahead – until a huge, furry wild beast lunges out at Emma and the kids. It grabs Husk and tosses her to one side, while the other kids ready themselves for battle. Chamber is about to release a bio blast on the creature, when suddenly another rustle in the bushes startles the kids – and they see Penance leap out and smash into the creature, attacking it and protecting Generation X.
None of the kids can get a clear shot in, when Synch realizes that the creature before them looks like Sasquatch! Skin asks ‘who?’ and Emma informs him that Sasquatch is Dr. Walter Langkowski, of Alpha Flight, whom they met while he and Jono were in Los Angeles. However she is not picking up anything resembling human thoughts from him.
Jubilee tends to Husk, and as she starts to come around, declares that she will be okay. ‘Momma?’ says Paige wearily. Penance is trapped in the Sasquatch’s hand, but scratches her way free and fights ferociously with him, eventually drawing a lot of blood from the creature and causing him to fall to the ground. Emma probes deeper into the mind of the creature, but still finds no human consciousness and declares that it is almost as if he is truly an animal.
Banshee, carrying an armed soldier suddenly drops into the scene and declares that the soldier he found is part of some top-secret military detachment. Sean informs everyone that they were taking the Sasquatch to Boston where they were going to examine him in a fancy new lab, but on the way their truck got wrecked and the beast escaped. ‘You mean this isn't Dr. Langkowski, it’s a real Sasquatch?’ asks Jubes before exclaiming that it was probably scared and wanted to go home.
Emma smiles at the soldier and asks him how many other soldiers are in the woods. The lieutenant replies that there is a detachment of six. Emma puts her hands on the soldiers’ face and telepathically implants into his mind that he never found the creature and is going to call off the mission because the beast is long gone. ‘Yes…Ma’am…’ the soldier replies. The soldier walks off into the woods, and Jubilee asks now that Emma put the ‘telepathic whammy on G.I.Joe over there…what do we do with fluffy here?’ Sean smirks and proclaims that he knows just the person to call!
Later, Banshee, Emma and the kids stand near an Omni-Jet into which Department H soldiers are leading the real Sasquatch into, while Banshee talks to four of Alpha Flight, Canada’s premiere super heroes – Guardian, Snowbird, Puck and the “other” Sasquatch – Dr. Walter Langkowski. Sean tells them that he appreciates them making the trip down here, as he figured they of all people would have the creatures’ best interests at heart. Sean informs them that they know the creature didn’t intentionally hurt the student, just that he was scared and needs to be taken back to his homeland.
Guardian tells Sean that it is their pleasure, ‘Alpha Flight is always glad to help!’ Banshee declares that he has a question for Dr. Langkowski: ‘I thought you were one of a kind, how are there two of you? Walt steps forward and tells Sean that it is actually kind of complicated, but basically the creature is a real Sasquatch, ‘the kind of thing you read about in the tabloids’, while “Sasquatch” is his own codename and he is really inhabiting the body of Tanaraq and ancient mystical beast. Banshee looks at Sasquatch blankly and says ‘Um, whatever you say’.
As Alpha Flight enter their aircraft, Banshee thanks Sasquatch and tells him that he owes him one. Walt shouts back to Sean that he can buy him a beer next time he is south of the border. Sean, Emma and the kids watch as Alpha Flight leaves and Skin says ‘So that’s Alpha Flight huh? I thought a fight always breaks out when they show up’.
Everybody turns their attention back to Penance and Jubilee asks what they are going to do with her. Emma tells her that it is a good question, and just like the other Penance, her mind is still blocked from Emma’s telepathic probes. Banshee wonders if they can even make Penance go with them, would she want to, adding that the Academy is a school, not a prison. Penance scratches something into a tree, and reading it, everybody smiles…for it says “Home” and they all walk back through the woods, to the Academy.
Outside Kirby Hall, Monet walks over to her sullen father and tells him that she is sorry about earlier, adding that she knows this must be hard for him and she shouldn’t have made it any worse. She declares that she was out of line when she said it was too late for him to be close to his children, that it is not true. The Ambassador doesn’t look at Monet when he says this, but tells her that he hopes she is right, because he has come up with a way to prove to her that he loves her, and reminding Monet of all the times she told him how many times she would rather attend a school somewhere else, he is finally listening. ‘I’m withdrawing you from the Massachusetts Academy’ he says, much to Monet’s horror.