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The destruction of Wakanda by King Namor of Atlantis. The powerful ruler releases bursts of cosmic energy from his trident, while a powerful tidal wave surges through the city, destroying buildings.
At that moment, Captain America, Iron Man, the Black Panther and Iron Fist are gathered, along with Lei Lung the Thunderer. ’Listen to us!’ Iron Fist exclaims, while Iron Man urges the Thunderer to shut the portal to K’un Lun. ’Close it! Shut it down now!’ he adds as the portal swirls before them. ‘Man of Iron, do you have any idea what I had to go through to bring this portal into existence?’ Lei Kung replies. Holding some equipment, Iron Man replies that what he knows about energy disbursement and fluctuations would make his head spin. ‘But if Namor and his fish army get through, then Lei Kung can kiss goodbye to his magical city of kung fu and Hope Summers.
‘GO!’ Iron Man shouts, as he grabs Lei Kung and flies into the portal, wishing Captain America luck. ‘Remember what I told you. Remember our secret weapon. Use it now’ he declares. ‘WAIT!’ Iron Fist shouts, but the portal closes. ‘I can’t believe they left without me’ The Black Panther assures Iron Fist that there will be plenty for him to do here, while Cap frowns, ‘Damn you, Namor!’.
Outside, civilians are overwhelmed by the water, and they thrash about, while Atlantean warriors ride huge sea beats through the city. Wakandan soldiers follow Cap and the Black Panther through the city. ‘I’m going to kill him for this’ the Black Panther exclaims. ‘I have a history with Namor. I’ll get him to stop’ Cap replies. ‘Tell me you’re not thinking of talking him down’ the Black Panther replies. ‘Don’t you see what he has done here, Panther? Scott Summers has revealed himself. This is an act of war on innocent people. This proves us right!’ Cap tells him. The Black Panther turns and looks at Captain America, and replies that he doesn’t give a damn about Scott Summers. ‘Get the Avengers here, Captain! All of them!’ the Black Panther tells him. Suddenly, a massive wave of water falls over them, while Namor flies through the air above. Cap looks up at him, before booming: ‘AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!’
Meantime, in K’un Lun, ‘Wow’ Hope exclaims. ‘Yup’ Wolverine agrees as they stand on a snow-covered mountain top and look up at the temples before them. ‘K’un Lun. The city where kung fu was born’ Wolverine remarks, when suddenly, they duck to the ground as Iron Man and the Thunderer appear through the portal. ‘What the hell happened, Stark?’ Wolverine asks Iron Man. ‘Namor happened’ Iron Man replies. Wolverine offers to go back, but Lei Kung announces that the portal is closed. ‘But -’ Wolverine begins, while Iron Man tells him that they have work to do here, and asks Hope if she is ready. ‘Sure. Ready for what exactly?’ Hope replies, nervously.
Back in Wakanda, Namor dives down towards Captain America, cosmic energy around him, he shouts ‘You brought this upon yourselves! You defy our power! You defy our kindness and leadership! Everything that was ours we gave to you and you repay us with betrayal! And for that -’ he begins, but Captain America throws his shield, and it strikes Namor in the neck. ‘shame on you, Namor’ Cap remarks as Namor falls into the water around Cap. ‘Avengers, how are you and where are you?’ Cap calls out, while Namor takes to the sky, and flies back down towards Captain America - but before Namor can reach Cap, Iron Fist attacks him.
‘Die, surface-dweller!’ an Atlantean warrior exclaims as he lunges towards Captain America, and fires some energy from his trident. ‘Not today’ Cap replies as he blocks the energy with his trusty shield. ‘You brought this on yourselves!’ a furious Namor exclaims, with Iron Fist lying in the water at his feet. ‘I was just thinking the same thing’ the Black Panther announces as he leaps towards Namor with a very large weapon - but before he can fire it, Namor engulfs the Black Panther in cosmic energy. Captain America smacks the warrior in the face with his shield, while the Black Panther tells Namor that he is going to see him dead for this. Namor grabs the Black Panther’s weapon, and replies ‘Not with a tool of a surface dweller, and now by your hand, King T’Challa!’ Namor responds.
‘You must know I would not stand for this. You must know I was going to come here and kill you. You must know your power is nothing compared to mine now’ Namor smiles as he destroys the Black Panther’s weapon. ‘I do know that. We were stalling’ the Black Panther reveals. The Sub-Mariner looks up, to see several Avengers leaping towards him - Thor, the Vision, Quicksilver, Falcon, the Beast, Valkyrie, Spider-Man, Dr Strange, Daredevil, Red Hulk and the Thing. But, the Sub-Mariner doesn’t move. He simply raises his fists, and the cosmic energy of the Phoenix surrounds him - he releases it, and knocks all eleven Avengers back through the ravaged city. ‘IMPERIUS REX!’ Namor screams.
But, the Avengers are relentless in their attack, and after regrouping, Red Hulk punches Namor hard in the face, drawing blood. The Thing draws more blood with another punch, while Thor slams his hammer into Namor’s face, knocking his head back. Dr Strange attacks him with a spell, while the Vision solidifies his form and drops his body down on Namor, forcing him to the ground. The Red Hulk returns, ‘You do not touch me’ the Sub-Mariner exclaims as Red Hulk prepares to pick him up. The Sub-Mariner touches the Red Hulk’s hand, and burns him with cosmic energy, causing Red Hulk to cry out in agony as Namor then breaks his arm. ‘You do not dishonor me!’ Namor booms as he throws Red Hulk into the air, and casts forth more cosmic energy, keeping the Avengers back from him.
‘I am Homo Superior! I am your king!’ Namor shouts as he punches the Thing with full force. Namor takes to the sky, the form of the cosmic Phoenix surrounding him, he declares ‘The power was given to us. We were chosen! I was chosen! Who are you to defy us?’, then he releases the energy, striking each of the Avengers - save for Thor, who hovers above Namor, his hammer charged with lightning as he prepares to attack the Sub-Mariner.
Meanwhile, on Utopia, the mutant capital of the world, Inside one of the many floating buildings, Magneto meets with the rest of the Phoenix Five - Cyclops, Emma Frost, Colossus and Magik. ‘You’re going to want to take a look at this’ Magneto calls out, bringing their attention to a scene on some monitors. ‘What is Namor doing?’ Cyclops asks. ‘It would appear…whatever he wants’ Magneto points out. ‘He’s his own mutant, Scott. Always has been’ Emma remarks. Cyclops asks Emma what she knows about this, and Emma simply replies that she knows Namor is going to do what Namor is going to do. ‘And if you thought otherwise you were really kidding yourself’ she adds, before telling Cyclops to look at the plus side - they now know where the Avengers are. ‘She’s go a point’ Magik adds. Cyclops frowns and looks at the monitors, while ordering the Siege Courageous to be opened. ‘We’re going to Wakanda. NOW!’ he announces.
At that moment, Thor brings his hammer down on Namor, hard - but despite the incredible power of the mighty Asgardian, Namor spins around to fight him. ‘You have the eyes of madness, King Namor! But, though I do pity you, I will put you down nonetheless’ Thor tells his former teammate, asking him to end this now. ‘Burn, Asgardian! BUUURN!’ he all Namor replies. Down below, the Avengers have gathered together, and Captain America calls out to the Scarlet Witch: ‘Now, Wanda! NOW!’, and the Scarlet Witch appears, she hovers mid-air, and Namor turns to her and fires some cosmic energy with one hand, while holding Thor by his cape with the other. Wanda concentrates hard and blocks the attack - but Namor is relentless and pours the power on. They both stand their ground, until suddenly, the Vision flies in and grabs Wanda, while Namor plummets to the ground below.
The Avengers gather around Namor, ‘What’s happening?’ Spider-Man enquires, while the Thing goes over and kicks Namor, knocking him several yards away from them. ‘And that’s just ‘cause you’re you!’ the Thing exclaims. ‘did we win?’ Spider-Man asks as Namor lies motionless before them. ‘Win?’ Cap replies looking around at the destruction, and the devastated team, as the Red Hulk holds his arm in place. ‘It took all of us just to knock him down. It took all we had! And look - look at my country! Look what he did to my people!’ the Black Panther exclaims. Small fires burn around some of the destroyed buildings, while Iron Fist points out that the other Phoenixes are going to come for them now. ‘We’re stuck. We’re sitting ducks’ he exclaims.
‘Um…’ Spider-Man calls out as he and Cap look up, and see Cyclops, Emma, Colossus and Magik arrive overhead. Cap looks worried, while Cyclops just frowns at him. ‘COME ON!’ Captain America shouts, while the Phoenix energy suddenly rises from the Sub-Mariner’s fallen body, and it adds itself into the remaining four hosts. They cry out in agony, while a massive KRAKOOM can be heard exploding around them. Cyclops, Emma, Colossus and Magik are tossed about as the cosmic energy swirls around them. Captain America calls out to the Avengers, and he actives a chip inside his sleeve. A portal appears before the Avengers, who rush towards it. ‘What is this?’ the Thing enquires. ‘Thanks to Tony Stark, this is us outsmarting them. Let’s move! Go! Go!’ Cap orders. ‘What’s happening?’ Spider-Man asks as they all enter the portal, while lying on the ground, Namor wearily utters ‘It went to them…’.
Cyclops, Emma, Colossus and Magik gather themselves, ‘Did you feel that?’ Cyclops asks them. ‘Did I feel that?’ Emma replies, while Magik announces that Namor has fallen, and his portion of the Phoenix Force has been bequeathed to them. ‘Is that what happens? Is that what happens when one of us falls?’ Colossus asks. Cyclops remains silent, and looks to the ground, where the Black Panther has remained instead of leaving with the others. ‘Guess we missed the party’ Emma mutters, while Colossus asks ‘Where did they go?’. Emma replies that she can’t “feel” them, while Magik points out that they couldn’t have gotten far.
Suddenly, a telepathic voice resonates around the Phoenixes - the voice of Professor Charles Xavier. ‘How dare you, Scott Summers?’ the Professor asks, before telling his prized pupil to stop this, that this is madness and is as far as he goes. ‘It’s not your call, Charles’ Cyclops replies. ‘All that I taught you, all that I tried to instill in you as an X-Man…this is a punishing disappointment!’ Charles declares. The others frown, while Cyclops tells the Professor to get out of his head. ‘You join us or you leave us be!’ Cyclops adds, telling the Professor that this is not his fight. ‘You forfeited your right to tell me what to do when -’ Scott begins, but Xavier interrupts: ‘Scott, I’m saying this to you as clearly as I can…stop this or I will stop you’. Sternly, Cyclops replies ‘Charles, if you could have, you would have’. Charles tells Scott that he loves him, and that he doesn’t want to do what he will make him do. ‘If you love me, you’ll side with me’ Cyclops replies. The astral projection of Charles appears overhead, and he narrows his eyes as he offers Cyclops one last chance: ‘Stop or I’ll fight you’. The Phoenixes hover over the destruction of Wakanda, and there is no response.
Meanwhile, ‘Close the portal’ the Vision states as he steps through it into K’un Lun, the Scarlet Witch in his arms. ‘That was quick’ Iron Man remarks, before Iron Fist welcomes the Avengers to his home away from home. ‘What’s the rent like?’ Spider-Man jokes. ‘So let’s do the math here…we take one down. And it took damn well near all of us to do it’ the Thing points out. Spider-Man declares that they finally got a lucky shot and all they did was make the other ones more powerful. ‘So even when we win we lose’ the Thing mutters. ‘And that, ladies and gentlemen, is exactly how it feels to be me…every day of the week’ Spider-Man declares. The Black Widow turns to Captain America, as do the others. ‘Actually, uh, what’s the plan?’ the Black Widow enquires. Cap doesn’t respond. ‘Cap?’ Iron Fist calls out. Captain America closes his eyes and hangs his head. The Black Widow looks at him, concerned, and asks ‘Is there a plan…?’


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The mystical city of K’un Lun. Specifically. Right now, it is the beginning of the end. ‘Playtime is over. Time to face destiny, Hope!’ Cyclops calls out as he fires an optic blast at Iron Fist, who lunges at Hope to protect her. In the room where he is studying, Iron Man looks up from his laptop, ‘What the hell - Earthquake?’ he wonders, while a computer does a scan, and announces that the Phoenix energy field has been detected. ‘Damn it…it’s too soon!’ Iron Man mutters as he races out of the room. ‘She isn’t ready yet’ he adds. ‘Why even resist? You’re putting innocent people at risk, for no reason’ Cyclops announces. ‘Don’t you see what we’ve accomplished?’ he asks.
Hope and Iron Fist are backed up against a temple, and Iron Fist tells Cyclops that Mussolini made the trains run on time. ‘But you’re not taking this girl!’ he exclaims. ‘Please, Iron Fist…don’t make me laugh’ Cyclops replies, glowing with cosmic energy. Iron Fist quietly tells Hope that when he moves, she is to run. ‘No, this is my -’ Hope begins, but Iron Fist just tells her to find Lei Kung the Thunderer, as he will know what to do, if anyone does. ‘But…’ Hope begins, however Iron Fist moves towards Cyclops, so Hope runs like he told her to. ‘Really?’ Cyclops mutters, casting cosmic energy around Iron Fist ‘Have you not been paying attention at all since the world changed?’ Cyclops asks. ‘You’re nothing to us, Rand…none of you Avengers are’ Cyclops declares.
Iron Fist struggles in the energy, and tries to act, but Cyclops tells him to “forget it”, and throws him into some rubble. Cyclops turns and moves away, declaring that it is no use talking to the Avengers, as none of them understand. ‘I’m tryinf to save a whole species!’ he exclaims, while Hope rushes across a rickety old swing-bride. ‘C’mon, Hope…move, move…’ the girl tells herself. Cyclops suddenly senses something approaching his way, and is knocked through the air by Iron Man. ‘It’s called everything I’ve got left, Summers. Enjoy it!’ Iron Man tells Cyclops as he holds onto him and flies swiftly through the air.
Meanwhile, in Russia, specifically, the Verkhovansk Mountains, where Captain America, Wolverine, Spider-Man, Dr Strange, Storm, the Black Panther and Professor X stand over the motionless bodies of Magik and Colossus, after the Phoenixes prison was destroyed. ‘No, please…you have to come back with us, Professor. It’s too dangerous out here’ Captain America tells Xavier, who replies that is exactly why he can’t run away - he won’t turn his back on his people, not again. ‘I let them all, even Ororo, choose the wrong side…’ he admits. Xavier states that Cyclops and Emma are falling under the Phoenix’s dark influence, so he needs to ensure that mutantkind doesn’t fall with them.
Meantime, on the floating island of Utopia, Emma Frost hovers over several mutants. She enjoys how they bow to her. How their minds think only good thoughts, only adoration. Polaris, Boom-Boom, Cannonball, Sunspot, Velocidad, Surge and Hepzibah are among those before her. However, ‘You. Cannonball’ Emma calls up. ‘Yes?’ Cannonball looks up from where he is kneeling beside his former girlfriend Boom-Boom and his best friend Sunspot. ‘You think me cruel?’ Emma scowls. ‘No…I…I don’t’ Cannonball replies. ‘Your words and your thoughts don’t agree. Best if you change your thoughts’ Emma suggests as she turns and walks away on the air. ‘Yes…yes, ma’am’ Cannonball utters.
Nearby, ‘Damn it, Frost’ Magneto calls out through his mind. ‘What, Erik? What is your complaint?’ Emma asks him as she approaches him. ‘That’s no way to treat your own kind. It’s no way to treat anyone’ Magneto tells her, still speaking through thoughts. Magneto tells Emma that they have a chance here, to do something great, the power to change the world for all mutantkind. ‘And you -’ he begins, but Emma, still scowling, interrupts: ‘No. WE do not have power. I have power’ she corrects him, before telling Magneto that he has forgotten his place. She takes control of him, but he resists, and utters ‘Let…me…go…’.
Emma asks Magneto if she needs to recite his sins to him - absent father, traitor, murderer. ‘How many of us died under your watch on Genosha? How many of my students?’ Emma demands, before telling Magneto that he is in no position to judge anyone, and calls him an arrogant fool as she takes her leave. Sweat pours from Mangeto’s brow, before he collapses. He looks over at his helmet which sits on a step nearby. ‘Damn it…’ he mutters.
Back in K’un Lun, Cyclops stands over Iron Man, whose body lies in the rubble of a building. ‘You’re wasting my time, Stark…and it doesn’t matter. I’ll find the girl. This whole city can’t stop me’ Cyclops boasts. ‘Might be…mistaken about that’ Iron Man tells Cyclops, who boasts that he is practically a god, and that mystical kung fu doesn’t worry him. Iron Man’s armor tells him that his power levels are recharging, currently at eight percent, and that his outer hull will reseal in five point three minutes. ‘Not fast enough…’ Tony mutters to himself, while Cyclops turns and walks away, telling Iron Man not to get in his way again.
Elsewhere in K’un Lun, ‘Hello? Mister Thunderer?’ Hope calls out as she approaches a cave, and nervously enters it. ‘Ahh!’ she gasps when Lei Kung appears in front of her. ‘I’m here, Hope Summers…and it is time for your final lesson’ the Thunderer announces.
Walking through the village, ‘Come out, Hope! I’m not here to hurt you!’ Cyclops shouts. He turns when a voice exclaims ‘You even believe that yourself, Summers…or do you think she’s just an idiot?’ Hawkeye asks as he, Thor and the Thing appear. Hawkeye aims an arrow at Cyclops, while Thor tells him that it is time to pay for his crimes. ‘What Blondie’s trying to say is -’ the Thing begins, before Cyclops, fueled by the cosmic energy of the Phoenix, fires a powerful optic blast the trio, knocking them backwards. ‘How’s that for clobbering time?’ Cyclops asks, when suddenly, he is engulfed by a green energy. ‘That…hurt…what?’ Cyclops utters, looking up, he sees a dragon flying overhead, with Hope and the Thunderer riding it. ‘YES!’ Hope exclaims. ‘Again, Shao Lao!’ the Thunderer tells the dragon.
Shao Lao is the undying source of the power of the K’un Lun. Carrier of the Iron Fist energy, endlessly reborn, and who legend says once defeated the Phoenix itself. The dragon fires energy at Cyclops, who dodges from the blast. The dragon is a last, best hope…but this dragon is young, too young, not strong enough yet, as Cyclops retaliates, ‘NOOO!’ he booms, firing another powerful optic blast upwards, it strikes the dragon, causing it, as well as Hope and the Thunderer, to fall from the sky. ‘You hurt me…that won’t happen again, creature’ Cyclops tells the dragon as he goes over to it. Lei Kung appears and kicks Cyclops in the back, knocking him to the ground. ‘You would kill a wounded animal? You would hurt a little girl? Where is your honor?’ Lei Kung asks Cyclops.
‘You’re really siding with them, over your own people, Hope? Why?’ Cyclops demands. Hope frowns at Cyclops and tells him to look at what he has done. ‘Why would I side with monsters…who destroy innocent people’s lives?’ Hope asks him. Cyclops points out that he is trying to save their species. ‘If that makes me a monster, then I’ll be a -’ he begins as he approaches Hope, Lei Kung and the dragon. ‘STAY BACK!’ Hope screams, and green energy pours from her mouth, striking Cyclops. Hope is confused, ‘Oh my God…I absorbed the dragon. How did I do that?’ she asks, before starting to run away. ‘That’s it…now you’ve pissed me off’ Cyclops mutters.
Hope looks anxiously over her shoulder as she runs back into the village, where she is found by the Scarlet Witch, Beast and Iron Man. ‘Hope!’ the Beast exclaims, while the Scarlet Witch tells her to take it easy. Wide-eyed, Hope tells the others that Cyclops is here, and that he is more powerful now, and that she just used dragon flames. ‘And I don’t know how and -’ she utters, while the Scarlet Witch calms her down, telling her that she is not alone no. Here he comes…’ Iron Man tells the others. ‘YOU!’ Cyclops booms as he sees the Scarlet Witch. The Scarlet Witch tells the others to get behind her, as she casts her powers towards Cyclops. ‘Nice try…but I’m stronger than the last time we met…’ Cyclops smirks. ‘That was everything I had…’ the Scarlet Witch tells the others. ‘Yeah…that’s not good’ Iron Man remarks, while the Beast tells Hope to get behind them. ‘Give me the girl, or -’ Cyclops begins, before Hope burns with three kinds of energy - cosmic, chaos and dragon, and she screams ‘STOP THIS!’
‘What…? Hey…’ Cyclops utters as he falls to the ground, the energy around him vanishes. ‘No…how did you…?’ he asks, his voice fluctuating between normal and cosmic. ‘KIII-YAAAHHH!’ Hope shouts as she uses the “chaos fist” for the first time - slamming her fist into Cyclops as she screams ‘GO AWAY!’ the Scarlet Witch, Beast and Iron Man look on, while Hope utters ‘Whoa. What did I just do?’, and seeing that Cyclops has gone, she asks where he went.
In space, there is no sound. But Scott Summers hears himself screaming as he lands on the moon. It takes an hour to recover enough to stand - and he can’t stop thinking about it - Hope hurt him. That shouldn’t be possible. He frowns, and knows that he needs more power - he needs Emma. In the stars above, a Watcher stares down at Cyclops, who takes off, back towards the Earth.
A portal opens in K’un Lun, and Captain America, Wolverine, Spider-Man, Dr Strange, Storm, the Black Panther and Professor X emerge from it. ‘My God…Tony, are you all okay? What happened?’ Captain America calls out. The Scarlet Witch and Iron Man stand with Hope, and look at Captain America as Iron Man tells him that what happened was they missed it all - missed the turning point. ‘Because our girl Hope just kicked Cyclops’s ass…and I think I know why’ Iron Man exclaims.
Back on Utopia, Magneto strides towards the edge of one of the floating buildings. A panel opens up and he walks down some stairs towards the ocean that rocks below. He removes his helmet, and opens his mind: ‘Charles Xavier…please hear my thoughts…we need your help here, old friend. Scott and Emma…they’re losing control…’


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Seventeen hours from now:‘Feel sticky. Why am I so sticky?’ Spider-Man wonders to himself. ‘Is this…this is blood’ he realizes as he tries to open his eyes, only to find the cosmically-powered Colossus standing over him, flames all around. ‘Stay down’ Colossus orders. Spider-Man wonders where all the blood has come from, while Colossus once again orders him to stay down. ‘Afraid I…can’t do that’ Spider-Man replies. ‘You will’ Colossus warns him. Spider-Man suddenly realizes that it is his own blood, before Colossus slams his form into Spider-Man’s, keeping the hero down.
Present:The mystical city of K’un Lun. It has been eight days since the fall of Wakanda. Eight days since the Avengers came here with their tail between their legs, and every day since, it has only gotten worse - everything time Spider-Man hears the mystical portal start to open, his heart sinks. He hasn’t cracked a joke in weeks - there is just nothing funny about the end of the world. Spider-Man is perched on one of the temple roofs, while Hope Summers hover near him, balancing buckets of water on a pole. ‘Oh, no. Oh, man, here they come’ Spider-Man mutters. Hope tells him not to be so gloomy, and points out that he acts like he hasn’t already been through a million different scrapes like this. ‘The good guys always win in the end, right?’ Hope states. ‘Tell that to my Uncle Ben’ Spider-Man mutters. ‘What?’ Hope asks, but Spider-Man tells her to keep training.
Spider-Man swings down to where the portal is opening, he knows that means the Avengers are coming back from a mission, out searching for their missing teammates who have been taken prisoner by the X-Men. Never once since they came here have the Avengers come back from a mission with anything remotely resembling good news. Wolverine and She-Hulk emerge from the portal, aiding the Red Hulk. ‘Smash…gonna smash…so hard…’ Red Hulk utters. ‘Maybe next time, big guy’ Wolverine tells him, while Iron Fist follows them through. Captain America emerges from the portal, while Spider-Man calls out ‘Wait, is that it? That can’t be it. Where’s…’ he begins, knocking that sometimes the Avengers don’t come back at all. ‘We lost him. We lost Thor’ Cap announces, as Thor was felled by the combined efforts of Colossus and Magik.
‘You lost…Thor? How did you lose Thor? You know we only had one of him, right?’ Spider-Man exclaims, realizing that he made a joke. ‘I’m so darned proud of myself’ he tells himself. Captain America closes his eyes, his face is covered in blood, and he states that they were getting killed out there, that the Phoenix hosts are more powerful than ever, and half the team is either laid up or missing. ‘Where the hell is Tony?’ Cap demands to know, referring to Iron Man, who is slumped over a table, surrounded by books and computers. ‘The Phoenix. Wanda’s hex magic. Hope. The Iron Fist. Somehow it all fits together…somehow…’ Iron Man mutters to himself.
‘Is that all that came back? Where’s the big guy with the hammer?’ Hope asks as she rushes over to Spider-Man, who tells her to get back to her training. But Hope replies that she is sick of balancing with buckets and doing one-handed push-ups and hearing all about the 36 chambers of what-the-hell-ever. ‘All anybody ever wants me to do is train. I’m ready to hit something real for a chance’ Hope insists. ‘Iron Fist says you train. So you train. One thing I’ve learned being an Avenger…your moment will come’ Spider-Man tells Hope, adding that it is a big group, with a lot of moving parts, and a lot of awesome people doing awesome things. ‘They don’t always have time to stop and take a knee to explain to you what the heck is going on’. Spider-Man tells her that you learn to follow the guys who always seem to know where they are headed, and you wait for your moment.
Spider-Man tells Hope that it doesn’t matter how many gods or super-soldiers or Hulks you have on the payroll, once you are an Avenger, it never fails - sooner or later, the time comes when it is your turn to step up to the plate. ‘You just gotta make sure you’re ready’ he points out. Hope frowns and replies that she is ready, that she just doesn’t know what happened on the moon. ‘But I know I’m ready to prove my -’ she calls out, but Spider-Man swings away on some webbing, telling ‘No more questions. Daniel-san. Wax on, wax off. Paint the fence. Sand the floor. Don’t let Johnny sweep the leg. God help us all’.
Wolverine and She-Hulk help the Red Hulk into the infirmary, where the Scarlet Witch, the Beast, Captain Britain, Mockingbird, Daredevil, Giant Man and the Falcon are recovering from recent injuries. ‘We can’t go on like this’ Captain America tells Iron Fist as they look at their friends and teammates in the infirmary. ‘Tell me we’re making some progress’ Cap asks, but Iron Fist simply wishes he could. He informs Cap that Iron Man hasn’t left his room in three days and no one has seen the Black Panther since the fall of Wakanda. ‘Despite the training all day every day, the girl Hope still isn’t ready’ he adds. ‘Nor do we even fully understand what will happen once she -’ Iron Fist begins, but Cap interrupts: ‘You’re saying you need more time, but we don’t have it. At this rate, we won’t make it another week. Not with what we’ve got. ‘If we’re gonna keep fighting…we’ve got to find out missing people’ Cap declares.
In the meantime, in Russia, specifically the Verkhoyansk Mountains, one of the coldest places on Earth. The volcano seeps molten lava onto the snow covered ground around it, and Storm, Gambit, Pixie and Armor stand nearby and watch as Colossus and Magik lower the imprisoned Thor into the volcano. ‘Welcome to Siberia, God of Thunder’ Colossus remarks.‘It’s happening to all of them now, isn’t it?’ Armor asks. ‘I thought Namor was just being Namor, but now they’re - dear God, they’re all being corrupted by the Phoenix, aren’t they?’ she exclaims. ‘Damn it, this time we were in the right. We were actually gonna remake the world. And now we’re throwing Avengers into volcanoes!’ Pixie exclaims. Gambit points out that nobody has seen Professor Xavier for days, and he hears that mutants are already leaving Utopia. ‘So what the hell are we supposed to do?’ he asks. ‘You should leave too’ Storm tells her friend. ‘All of you should leave. NOW’ she insists.
At that moment, in Ethiopia, the Danakil Desert, the hottest place on Earth, Emma Frost hovers cross legged in the air, when Cyclops appears overhead, and tells her that she picked a lovely spot for a meeting. ‘It’s the most inhospitable land I could find. No other minds around for miles. I enjoy…the quiet’ Emma replies. Cyclops asks Emma why she is here, and points out that since Namor went rogue, everything is on the verge of going to hell, so he needs her back at Utopia with him. ‘I could end this all in the blink of an eye, Scott’ Emma tells him. She closes her eyes and states that since Namor fell, since they received his portion of the power, she has been reaching out, touching every mind on the face of the Earth, including the Avengers. ‘I could reach inside their heads right now and simply turn them off. Just like flicking a switch. I think…think part of me wants to do it’ Emma reveals.
Cyclops tells Emma that she is sounding like Namor, and points out that this isn’t a war. ‘They want to make us look like the bad guys here, but we’re the ones who are changing the world for the better’ Cyclops states, adding that the Avengers will come around. ‘We won’t give them any other choice’. Cyclops tells Emma to get it together and come home. ‘Let’s finish what we started’ he remarks, before Emma reveals that she knows where the Avengers are keeping Hope. ‘What did you say?’ Cyclops asks as he takes flight. Emma announces that she has been peeking inside so many minds. ‘And some of the things I’ve found…’ she utters. Cyclops tells her to focus and asks where Hope is. ‘It sounds made up, but apparently it’s real. It’s called…K’un Lun’ Emma informs him. Cyclops doesn’t say anything, he just flies away, despite Emma calling out to him, asking him to stop. ‘Don’t go…I’m worried about…about what I might do next…please…stop me’. Emma hangs her head.
Later, a man is sitting a the dinner table with his family, when he suddenly screams, clutches his face, and falls into his plate of food. Emma stands over him, ‘1987. You were flying over the Gulf. You hit something. Someone. His name was Daniel Mantego, 13 years old from Honduras. He’d grown wings three days before. You never stopped. You never called it in. I see it all in your mind. He was a mutant, and you killed him. And all these years, you thought you’d gotten away with it. You thought it was your little secret’ Emma tells him. She scowls, and declares that no one has secrets anymore, not from her, as she walks away, leaving the family confused about what has just transpired.
Wakanda, at least, what is left of it. The Black Panther and his people are in clean-up mode, searching the devastated streets for survivors and salvaging what they can. ‘Is today the day you’ll speak to me?’ a voice calls out from above. Without looking up, the Black Panther replies ‘You have to stop coming here’. But Storm points out that they are her people as well, and she wants to help them rebuild, just like he does. ‘They’re not your people anymore, since the attack. The X-Men have officially been branded enemies of Wakanda’ the Black Panther states. Storm drops to the ground and tells her husband that she would have fought beside him, if she had known this was happening. She explains that she has only stayed with the X-Men to try and stop something like this from ever happening again.
T’Challa tells Ororo that she is free to stay with the X-Men for as long as she likes, and then reveals that their marriage was annulled by the High Priest of the Panther Clan. ‘You are not my wife anymore’ the Black Panther announces. ‘The High Priest of the Panther clan? But…you are the High Priest!’ Storm exclaims. The Black Panther asks her to not come here again. Storm suggests they don’t talk of personal matters now, as there will be time for that later. ‘I came here today to try and put and end to this entire ordeal. Please, just tell the Avengers…tell them I want to help’ Storm asks, hanging her head.
Back in Russia, the volcano glows on this dark and stormy night, as a portal opens. From it, Captain America leads Wolverine, Spider-Man, Dr Strange, the Black Panther, She-Hulk and Iron Fist. He reminds his team that they are here to grab their people and get out, and to avoid combat if at all possible. ‘So how do we know this isn’t a trap?’ She-Hulk asks. Wolverine assures everyone that Storm wouldn’t sell them out. Captain America turns to the Black Panther and thanks him for coming, before promising that once this is finished, he will have all the resources of the Avengers to help rebuild Wakanda. The Black Panther just replies that Tony Stark had better find a way to open that rigid little pebble he calls a mind and find himself some answers outside of science, or Wakanda will be but the first to fall. ‘Please do tell him I said that’ the Black Panther adds.
‘Smells like Hell. Literally’ someone remarks, while Dr Strange states that this volcano is unnatural and that it teems with demonic energy. ‘And Phoenix fire’ someone adds, before they hear a voice in their head: ‘This way, Avengers’. The Avengers follow the voice into cave, where they find Storm, with Professor X, who tells them that they must move quickly. The Avengers and Professor X move deeper into the volcano, and find hideous demons moving about. ‘This…this is unconscionable. Magik has raised a portion of Limbo to the earthly plane’ the Black Panther exclaims. ‘Hell on Earth’ Iron Fist adds, while She-Hulk mutters that it makes for an effective prison, and suggests they find their people.
Dr Strange casts an invisibility spell over everyone as they rush forward, but he warns them that it will not cloak them long from the manner of eyes in this place. Professor X tells everyone to maintain telepathic silence for as long as possible, at least until he can locate the minds of the other Avengers. However, ‘You smell what I smell?’ a demon calls out. ‘Dinner!’ one of the others exclaim.
At Cape Dezhnev, the Bering Strait, Colossus and Magik stand in the water. ‘It’s happening’ Magik tells her brother. ‘They’re coming for their friends, just like I knew they would. We must hurry to greet them’ Colossus exclaims. Magik asks her brother what he has been doing here, looking at several whales floundering in the shallows. The whales have strange limbs attached to them, and Colossus explains that he thought the whales might like it if he gave them legs, but then he forgot that they weren’t very good at breathing on land. ‘For what it’s worth, I like them better this way’ Magik tells her brother, before suggesting that they need to go. As they depart, Colossus asks Magik if she can help him make more whales.
Deep in the volcano, the cloaked heroes have found their teammates, handing from rocks, tied in a demonic mucus as if they were wrapped in cocoons. ‘Oh my God. Are they even still alive?’ someone asks. ‘Barely. These creatures are feeding on their minds. Perhaps their very souls’ someone explains. ‘Let’s get them out of here. Now’ Captain America orders, but as the Avengers begin to free their friends, Iron Fist reports that he cannot open the portal to K’un Lun in this place, as there is too much demonic interference. Dr Strange adds that his teleportation spells are being blocked. ‘We’ll have to carry them out by hand’ he tells everyone. ‘Um…guys? Who’s gonna carry us?’ Spider-Man asks, as Magik and Colossus appear, and being their attack.
The invisibility cloak falls, and Captain America raises his shield to deflect Magik’s Soulsword, while the Black Panther falls backwards thanks to a punch from Colossus. Spider-Man sees that the Avengers outnumber the Phoenixes five to one, but the Avengers are fighting with their backs to the wall. He knows they don’t stand a chance. Wolverine, She-Hulk and Iron Fist try to attack Colossus, while Dr Strange combats Magik. Spider-Man knows that this will end like all the other missions, that when the portal opens back in K’un Lun, only bad news will step out of it. Captain America it tossed aside into Professor X, who tells Colossus and Magik not to do this, that they are better than this.
Colossus knocks all of his opponents aside with ease. Spider-Man fears that the portal will open and none of them will step out, but then remembers what a very wise man once said: ‘Once you’re an Avenger, it never fails, sooner or later, the time comes when it’s your turn to step up to the plate”. ‘Just make sure you’re ready’ Spider-Man tells himself, before turning to Iron Fist and asking him to tell Hope that he meant what he said. ‘What?’ Iron Fist asks, confused. As Wolverine and She-Hulk prepare to attack the Rasputin siblings once more, they suddenly find themselves pulled back by strong webbing. Spider-Man then kicks the rocks above them, and they begin to fall to the ground. ‘Get everybody out! I’ll hold them off for as long as I can!’ Spider-Man calls out as he is sealed off from the rest of the team. ‘Don’t be crazy! You can’t!’ Cap calls out.
Magik and Colossus frown at Spider-Man. ‘Hold us off? How exactly do you plan on doing that, little man?’ Magik asks. ‘Why, the power of laughter, of course!’ Spider-Man exclaims. ‘Knock knock?’ he asks them, leaping out of the way when Magik attacks him. ‘Gah. Nobody appreciates the classics anymore’ Spider-Man mutters.
At that moment, Storm casts a mighty lightning bolt at the volcano’s outer, creating an exit for the Avengers. Dr Strange alerts everyone to the exit, and they follow him, carrying their rescued teammates. Wolverine has Thor over his back, and Iron Fist exclaims ‘My God, Wolverine, those chains are burning your -’, but Wolverine ignores him, and just tells him to get the portal open. She-Hulk carries the thing, while Hawkeye has been rescued by Captain America. Professor Xavier keeps a demon at bay, while Storm and the Black Panther fight side by side against the demons.
In the sealed-off area of the volcano, Spider-Man falls to the ground. Magik tells Colossus that the others can’t have gotten far, and decides that they will drag them all back in chains. ‘The Hell Worms will eat well tonight’ Magik adds. Colossus begins punching away at the rubble that blocks them off from the escaping heroes, but Spider-Man leaps into the air and throws webbing around the Phoenixes. ‘Hey, where you guys going? We were just starting to get to know each other’ Spider-Man exclaims, adding ‘Let’s see, you’re both into spelunking and barbeques and punching really hard. I prefer quiet dinners and moonlight strolls along the Hudson’.
The webbing breaks away with ease and as Spider-Man swings towards Colossus, the behemoth raises a fist and punches Spider-Man hard in the face. ‘Cripple him and be done with it’ Magik exclaims. Colossus tells Spider-Man to stay down, as he doesn’t want to hurt him - he doesn’t want to hurt anyone. ‘At least…I don’t think I do’ Colossus adds. Blood drips from Spider-Man’s face, and he fears that something in his face is broken - it hurts to breathe and hurts to lie still. ‘But staying down is not an option’ Spider-Man thinks to himself, so he leaps up and punches Colossus in the face, before jumping backwards and clinging to the rocky wall of the volcano. ‘Okay, good job, you’ve punched me in the face a bunch of times, so now any minute the crowd will start cheering my name, and by the end we’ll all be tearing down the Berlin wall together. You guys have seen Rocky IV, right?’ Spider-Man mutters.
When he sees that Magik is turning away from him, Spider-Man leaps on her shoulders. ‘This is where the party’s at’ he tells Magik, who spins around, and grabs Spider-Man by his ankle and slams him to the ground. His spider-sense is buzzing non-stop, like a migraine. His web shooters are crushed, and as Colossus stands on his back, he thinks his back will follow. ‘GAARGH!’ Spider-Man cries out. His mask is full of blood, and legs feel like they’re made of melted cheese. ‘I said stay down!’ Colossus booms. ‘Afraid I…can’t do that’ Spider-Man utters as he tries to get up. ‘You will. Whether you want to or not’ Colossus tells him as he punches Spider-Man’s bloody face once again. The good news for Spider-Man is that his migraine has stopped - but the bad news is he cannot feel his head anymore.
Magik tells her brother that this is pathetic, and asks him why he holds back. ‘All this power and you don’t even have the guts to use it. Finish him, already, before I finish you both’ Magik warns Colossus, who asks his sister to stop saying things. ‘You are beginning to worry me’ he remarks, adding that he worries what this power is doing to his sister, worries that she is giving into the darkness. Perhaps you should let me carry this burden for the both of us’ Colossus suggests. ‘You simple-minded child! You barely know what to do with your own power, let alone -’ Magik begins, but Colossus interrupts, exclaiming that he is not a child, that he is her older brother. ‘You would do well to remember that’ he adds. ‘You would do well to remove your hand! I will not tell you -’ Magik begins, when Spider-Man tells them to keep this civil.
Spider-Man screams as Colossus casts the cosmic Phoenix energy at him. ‘All this fighting between brother and sister is just so…so unseemly. You guys gotta learn to get along. After al…l. You both know what would happen to all that power if one of you was to fall, right?’ Spider-Man asks them. Colossus and Magik look away from each other. ‘I’m sure neither of you wants to see that’ Spider-Man adds. Suddenly, there is a massive surge of energy, and the volcano explodes in spectacular display.
The portal opens on K’un Lun. Luke Cage, Quicksilver, Thor, Spider-Woman, Ms Marvel, the Black Widow, the Thing and Hawkeye have all been rescued. The Beast, Scarlet Witch and Hope are on hand to help the returning Avengers to safety. Hope looks back at the portal and asks where Spider-Man is.
Captain America, Wolverine, Storm and the Black Panther remain in the volcano, ‘Spider-Man!’ Wolverine calls out. They find Colossus and Magik, returned to their regular costumes, and Spider-Man hobbing towards his teammates. ‘They took each other down. I think I…might have helped a bit. Did I…did I do good, Uncle Ben?’ Spider-Man utters, before announcing that he is going to collapse into a pile of goo now. He collapses, and Captain America grabs him. ‘If they’re both down, that means their power just went…’ Wolverine begins. ‘Yes. Yes it did’. the Black Panther exclaims.
In K’un Lun, a blinding light appears overhead. ‘What in the world is that?’ Hope exclaims. ‘That is what it looks like when someone tears their way through dimensions. I am sorry, Hope. I truly am’ Iron Fist tells her. ‘Sorry, what do you…oh, God…’ Hope utters. ‘I am sorry we will never get to finish your training’ Iron Fist replies, before a voice booms ‘HOPE!’, and Cyclops hovers overhead in a cosmic haze. He extends a hand and tells Hope that it is time to come home….


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Captain America stands on a ridge overlooking valleys and more ridges. ‘I’m sorry to come to you like this. You know I respect you and your space and I would never come to you unless I was at the end of my rope. And I am the end of my rope’ he tells someone. Several of Captain America’s teammates from the Avengers can be seen standing nearby - Wolverine, Ms Marvel, Iron Man and Thor. ‘I don’t know if you know - we’ve been at war with the X-Men over - no, we’ve been at war with Scott Summers, Cyclops’ Cap announces, explaining that Cyclops has a cosmic power called the Phoenix Force and they cannot win the fight in front of them. ‘We can’t win it’ Cap admits, explaining that everything keeps escalating and he is worried about what is going to happen next.
‘I’m worried that the power they are holding is more than they can handle. In fact, I know it is. We all do. Everyone seems to know but Scott Summers. What happens when they aren’t able to handle it any longer?’ Cap remarks, explaining that he needs more than he has, he needs more firepower, so he is coming to everyone. ‘I’m coming to you’ he calls out. ‘I don’t know what you feel about what’s been going on with the X-Men, but I was hoping that with our history together - I was hoping you would join us’. Cap declares ‘I know you - I know you only fight a fight worth fighting. And I’m telling you this is one of those fights. If we lose this we lose everything. Will you help us? Please?’ he asks. Looming over Captain America, at the edge of the ridge, the Hulk simply replies ‘Yes. Hulk will smash for you’.
Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, the sun shines down on a field so brilliantly that an orange glow seems to engulf everything. Standing in the field is Rogue. She holds a hand up to shield her eyes from the glow, and calls out ‘Hello. You know me as Rogue of the X-Men. Ah come here for asylum!’ Rogue admits that it was a huge mistake following Cyclops and the others. ‘He’s never led us wrong before. There’s loyalty, y’see…’ Rogue begins, before calling out ‘Y’all were right. Completely, terrible right’. Rogue explains that Madison Jeffries tracked them here, as he was able to follow the Stark tech signature, or some such thing. ‘But it brought me to ya. I’m here to help. In any way y’all want. Any way. But please - please, we gotta right this wrong’..
Suddenly, there is a blinding light, and Professor Charles Xavier appears. He smiles and promises Rogue that no one here is going to try to subdue or hurt her. ‘Your thoughts cannot lie, so I know your words are true’ he adds. Rogue is surprised to see Professor Xavier, and suddenly, more Avengers appear around him - Cap, Iron Man, Ms Marvel, Spider-Man, the original Spider-Woman, the Black Widow and Thor. Xavier tells Rogue to tell the others that they have his word, this is safe harbor. ‘Others?’ Spider-Woman asks. Many mutants can be seen hiding in the long grassy field - Gambit, Warlock, Cannonball, Psylocke, Polaris, Havok, Iceman, Warpath, Sunspot, Boom-Boom all make their way towards the large ship where the Avengers wait.
Iron Man asks Xavier if he is sure about this. Xavier points out that he can read their thoughts, each and every one, and they have what the Avengers need. ‘Numbers’ Captain America remarks. ‘Passion’ Xavier smiles. The mutants and the Avengers begin to mix and talk. More Avengers can be seen - Iron Fist, She-Hulk, Valkyrie, Luke Cage, Hawkeye, Giant Man and the Falcon. Storm and the Beast are already with them. The Scarlet Witch is there, too, but she hangs back, away from the others. A shirtless Iceman approaches his old friend Spider-Man, while Rogue and Havok approach Captain America, who shakes Havok’s hand.
Iceman approaches Xavier and asks him to look into his mind, ‘I want you to see what I have seen and feel what I feel’ he tells his former mentor. ‘I have, Iceman’ Xavier replies. ‘I know Scott is like a son to you and he was like a brother to me’ Iceman remarks. ‘I love him. And I love you. I love all of you’ Xavier replies. Iceman tells him that he knows. ‘And I’m telling you…it’s time’ Iceman adds. Frowning, Professor X replies that he knows, while standing away from everyone, on the ramp of the large ship, Hope Summers remains silent.
Meanwhile, on Utopia, the floating home of the X-Men Emma Frost sits on a “throne”, while Cyclops paces about the ever-changing room. ‘I know what you’re thinking Scott Summers’ Emma calls out. Cyclops tells Emma to stop poking around in his head, as it annoys him. ‘I’m not. But I know what you’re thinking: There were five of us. Five Phoenixes. And each of shared the Phoenix Force. And now there are two’ Emma points out, adding that every one of them that falls, the others gain power. ‘Now it’s just us. It’s just you and me splitting the Phoenix. And you’re thinking: If I could only get the rest of the Phoenix Force from Emma, then I’d be the Phoenix’ Emma remarks. ‘No. But, clearly, that’s what you’re thinking’ Cyclops tells her.
Flames surround Emma as she tells her lover that to be honest, she is thinking it would be so much easier to burn this world down and start from scratch. ‘And every time I close my eyes…I see it. I see it so clearly. And I just feel so…’ her voice trails off, before Cyclops announces that he sees it too. They approach each other, both engulfed in swirling flames, and Emma tells Cyclops that they can do it - they have the power to remake the world the way it was always supposed to be. ‘We have the power. If not us, who? This is how things like this are done. He who holds the power…’ Emma begins, but Cyclops tells her to stop it. She continues, though: ‘If it was Captain America or Wolverine or Xavier who held this power…we would have already ceased to exist. They would have -’ she tells Scott, who shouts ‘STOP!’, but Emma continues: ‘They would have burned us to the -’ ‘Emma, STOP!’ Cyclops booms.
‘Tell me I’m wrong’ Emma calls out, engulfed in flames, while Cyclops turns from her, the flames no longer surrounding him. ‘Get away from me’ he tells Emma, who calls out ‘You want to kill me and burn me. And all I’ve ever done…is love you’. Cyclops looks at her, concerned, and asks her what is wrong. ‘I - I don’t know’ Emma replies. ‘Wait! Do you feel that?’ Cyclops calls out. ‘What?’ Emma asks, before Cyclops tells her to stay here. ‘What is it?’ Emma asks again.
Down on the shore of Utopia, Professor Xavier stands and looks out at the sun, glistening just over the horizon, glowing on the ocean. ‘It’s over, Scott. I warned you if you continued down this path I was going to stop you. You need help and I will help you’ Xavier calls out. ‘I will help you any way I can’ Charles adds, turning to where Cyclops has arrived. ‘How dare you, Charles!’ Cyclops booms, fists flaming with cosmic energy. Charles tells Cyclops that he is not here to argue and not here to fight - but help. ‘Admit you need it and this will all go -’ Charles begins, but a furious Cyclops exclaims ‘The ego on you. I finally put the world the way it’s supposed to be. I did it. Me. And it kills you’, to which Charles points out that Cyclops sits as judge and jury of the human race, even though he specifically taught him patience.
‘No! You sat in the chair of yours for years and did nothing! And instead of praising me for my bold vision, instead of thanking me for saving our people…you come here and threaten me? Shame on you!’ Cyclops exclaims. Professor X quickly reminds Cyclops that he is not going to argue with him, and states that he will shut him down. ‘You don’t have the power’ Cyclops replies. ‘I do, Scott’ Charles warns him. Energy starts to surge around Cyclops, who exclaims ‘You’re going to make me do this? You’re going to force my hand against you?’ to which Professor X begins ‘I’m not forcing you to do -’, but Cyclops interrupts him and exclaims ‘I’m not going to let you ruin what I’ve created’.
Charles tells Cyclops that he is ashamed of him. Cyclops raises a hand, energy swirling, while Charles calls out ‘You think you know me. You don’t even know that we’re inside your mind. You don’t even know the final battle is already being won’. ‘What are you -? No!’ Cyclops screams. Charles tells Cyclops that he loves him, and promises to get him help. ‘Get out of my head!’ Cyclops shouts.
Suddenly, numerous heroes appear on the beach - Havok, Hope, the Hulk, the Black Widow, Dr Strange, the Vision, Hawkeye, the Scarlet Witch, Storm, Magneto, Spider-Woman, Iceman, Wolverine, Iron Man, Polaris, Captain America, Rogue, Ms Marvel, Spider-Man, Red Hulk and Thor, while Emma Frost, surrounded by cosmic flame, hovers overhead. Charles remains calm, and just looks at Cyclops, as Dr Strange casts magical bonds around Cyclops’s hands.
Captain America tells everyone to keep the fight on Cyclops and Emma Frost. ‘Don’t let up! Not for a second! Keep it contained and focussed!’ he calls out. ‘Keep them off-game so Xavier can regain control and shut it down!’ Wolverine and Rogue are at Captain America’s side, when suddenly, ‘ENOUGH!’ booms Cyclops, and a massive cosmic flare swallows the beach. Xavier frowns, ‘Sit down, boy!’ he tells Cyclops, who falls to the sand. ‘I asked you, I begged you and now I’m making you! Stop this madness!’ Xavier shouts at Cyclops. ‘SCOTT!’ Emma calls out as she hovers overhead. But, before she can go to his aid, Storm flies towards her: ‘Emma…something I’ve always wanted to say to you…’ she begins, before attacking Emma with a powerful surge of lightning, which forces Emma backwards.
Cyclops looks at Emma, before turning to Professor X and asking him ‘How could you do this to us? You’ve betrayed your people! You’ve betrayed us all!’ Cyclops then fires a massive optic blast towards his former mentor, but Captain America steps in front of Xavier and deflects the optic energy with his trusty shield, the energy blasts backwards and knocks Cyclops over. ‘You’re forcing me to do something I don’t want to do, Charles!’ Cyclops shouts as he gets up. But, before he can act, the Scarlet Witch releases her own powerful energies towards Cyclops, which surge through him and toss him about, causing him to scream in agony. ‘What’s wrong with you mutants? We’re doing this for you!’ Emma exclaims, while Cyclops struggles to get up from where he has landed in the shallows of the water. The Scarlet Witch stands near him, when suddenly, Emma moves in an attacks her with the Phoenix Force.
The Scarlet Witch screams as she falls back, when suddenly, the Hulk pounds the ground, sending everyone scattering. The Hulk stands behind Emma, who powers down, while Charles tells Cyclops to stay down. ‘I mean it!’ he calls out. But Cyclops ignores him, and rises, the Phoenix Force surrounding him, ‘If you could have stopped me, you would have!’ he booms. Magneto looks on, concerned. ‘Dear Lord’ he utters, before Cyclops releases a surge of energy that knocks several of the heroes aside. He then flies down towards Charles: ‘Last chance, Charles. Magneto?’ Cyclops calls out. Magneto calls out to Cyclops: ‘You don’t want to take it this far, Scott. I brought Xavier here!’ Magneto exclaims. ‘You’ Cyclops frowns. ‘Listen to me, Scott -’ Magneto begins, but through clenched teeth, Cyclops asks Magneto what he is talking about. ‘They’re here to kill us!’ he shouts, before engulfing Magneto in cosmic energy, and telling muttering ‘You of all people. What good are you?’
‘FATHER!’ the Scarlet Witch exclaims, concerned for Magneto. She leaps into action once more by mixing her energies with the cosmic flames around her father, clearing them from him, while she screams at Cyclops: ‘GET AWAY FROM HIM!’ Magneto drops to the beach, and the Scarlet Witch rushes over to him, while Thor approaches Cyclops - only to be knocked aside with ease. Suddenly, an arrow strikes Cyclops in the back of his neck. ‘Nice shot, Hawkeye’ Spider-Woman calls out as she and Hawkeye run towards Cyclops. ‘He’s going to kill me’ Hawkeye tells her. ‘Probably, but still’ Spider-Woman replies. However, Cyclops pulls the arrow from his neck, ‘You see that, Xavier?’ he shouts. ‘They’re trying to assassinate us! This is who you side with!’ he booms.
Suddenly, Cyclops is pummelled back to the ground but beams of powerful ice. ‘Not us, YOU!’ Iceman shouts as he slides towards Cyclops on an ice-sled. ‘It’s just you everyone is sick of. Damn you, Summers’ Iceman swears, before Xavier calls out ‘We‘re done here, Scott‘. Professor X moves towards Cyclops, the sun continues to glow across the ocean. ‘I blame myself. I put you on this path’ Xavier remarks as Cyclops looks up at him. ‘When you wake, hopefully you won’t have any -’ Xavier begins, but Cyclops shouts ‘I told you to get out of my head’, and Charles screams due to the psychic backlash. Captain America calls out to Cyclops and tells him that he is under arrest for crimes against humanity. ‘Shut up!’ Cyclops replies, while Storm begs Scott to stay down. Cyclops then tells Emma that he is sorry.
Cyclops flies into the air and launches an attack on Emma, who screams, and falls to the beach. She looks up at him, ‘I can’t believe you’ Emma utters. A Phoenix raptor can be seen around Cyclops, ‘What the hell is he doing?’ Iron Man enquires. ‘Oh, no…’ someone gasps. ‘Don’t -’ Emma calls out, but too late, as Cyclops slams down into Emma with full force. ‘He’s killing her’ Spider-Woman comments as she looks on. ‘No. He’s taking her half of the power’ Red Hulk explains. ‘He’s taking the Phoenix Force for himself’ Professor X remarks. Cyclops is relentless as he continues his attack on Emma, who reaches out to stop him, before there is a massive cosmic flare. Psylocke, Wolverine and Luke Cage look on blankly, and when the energy clears, Cyclops pulls away from Emma, whose body lies motionless, her eyes rolled back in her head, blood tricking from her mouth. Mockingbird frowns, while Hope looks on eyes wide.
‘Scott…look around you. I’m begging you, son, stop this now!’ Charles pleads. The Phoenix Force flickers around Cyclops, who turns casually to Charles and replies ‘You are not my father’. ‘THAT IS ENOUGH!’ Charles screams at Cyclops, who raises a hand, and Charles falls to the ground. ‘It is’ Cyclops mutters coldly. ‘NOOOO!’ Hope screams, but no one can act, as a massive Phoenix raptor fills the sky around them. Tears fall from Professor X, while Cyclops stares down at him. Storm and Iceman look on as Xavier’s body goes limp, and Cyclops stands seemingly triumphant. ‘Why? Why did you make me do this? Why couldn’t you leave me alone?’ Cyclops asks, crying. ‘Throw me’ Wolverine tells the Hulk, who picks Wolverine up and throws him towards Cyclops, who asks ‘Are you happy now, Captain?’, and as Wolverine nears him, Cyclops burns him away with ease. ‘I will stop this’ Thor remarks, but Cap tells him that it is too late. ‘This is - this is what Jean felt like…’ Cyclops remarks. ‘Oh, no…’ Emma utters, waking. Cyclops drops to his knees as the flames flicker and dance around him, then explode outwards in a dazzling display of brilliance.
‘Agh! What’s happening now?’ Spider-Man asks. ‘It’s our worst nightmare. It’s happening’ the Beast announces, as Cyclops hovers over the heroes, the cosmic energy now burning with darkness, energy crackles through Cyclops, as he boasts ‘I am fire and life incarnate! Now and forever - I am PHOENIX!’, while the Beast points out that Cyclops is Dark Phoenix….


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Flashback illustrations, narrated by Iron Man:Once upon a time, the Scarlet Witch said “No more mutants”. And, just like that, millions of mutants lost their powers - almost all of them. She may not have been in her right mind when she said it, but still, it was Wanda’s power that made it happen - her chaos-magic rewrote the natural order of things, and suddenly, mutants looked to be on the fast-track to extinction. Then, re-enter the X-Men’s old “friend“, the Phoenix, an ancient cosmic entity, a force of destruction and rebirth, once that they barely understand, once that has shown a repeated interest in Earth’s mutant population.
‘Now, here’s where we’re operating solely on conjecture, but it’s my belief that when Wanda made her declaration, the Phoenix took note. When Wanda said “No more mutants”, the Phoenix said “Screw that…more mutants”, and Hope was born. Her coming heralded with an explosion of power, a messiah in the eyes of her people. Destined, or so everyone believes, to someday inherit the full power of the Phoenix. The primal chaos of Wanda’s mutant magic. The fiery order of the Phoenix. Two cosmic powers, caught in some kind of crazy cycle, acting as contrary forces - as Yin and Yang. And all of it embodied in two amazingly powerful women’.
Seventy-Two Hours Ago:‘So, that’s it. That’s all I’ve got’ Iron Man explains to the Avengers gathered with him in K’un Lun - Wolverine, Thor, the Thing, Luke Cage, Captain America, the Red Hulk, Spider-Woman, Ms Marvel, Dr Strange, Hawkeye, the Black Widow and Iron Fist. ‘I’ve been working for weeks now with the best minds on the planet. Human and mutant alike. Trying to figure out how to save the day, and we have officially exhausted the known limits of science. For me, that’s a first’ Iron Man reports. He points out that they have tried every way they could dream of to stop the Phoenix. ‘We couldn’t deflect it. Couldn’t contain it. We all know what happened when we tried to break it apart. We can’t go toe to toe with it. Have no idea how to even attempt to kill it, and no one as of yet seems able to control it’.
Iron Man continues, stating that the only people who have been able to hurt the Phoenix Force are Wanda and Hope. He declares that, together, they are the keys to winning this battle, they have to be. ‘Because they’re all we’ve got left’ he adds. Wolverine points out that when Iron Man starts talking about Yings and Yangs - it doesn’t sound like science. ‘That sounds like Iron Fist stuff’ he remarks. ‘It is. That’s the other piece of the puzzle’ Iron Man replies, stating that they exhausted the limits of science, so he was forced to look beyond those limits, and here in K’un Lun, which has its own history with the Phoenix, he has been looking for a way to understand things on more of a spiritual level, to reconcile science and mysticism, and he thinks he has found it - a radical new idea, a rather breathtaking discovery, if he does say so himself.
‘I call it… “Faith”’ Iron Man announces. ‘Soon as he starts passing around the Kool-Aid, I’m out’ the Thing mutters, while Captain America tells Iron Man that it is great that he is expanding his horizons, he still doesn’t understand the practical application here. ‘Wanda and Hope are supposed to do what exactly?’ he asks. ‘Well, Cap…I think only they can answer that’ Iron Man replies.
Nearby, Hope is sitting besides a water fountain, when the Scarlet Witch approaches her. Wanda tells Hope that she has been looking all over for her, and suggests that they should join the others. ‘They’re talking about us’ Wanda explains. Hope just frowns and mutters that they are always talking about the two of them, and that she is sick of listening to them talk about her. ‘This wasn’t how it was supposed to go’ Hope argues, adding that she just held her own against Cyclops, so she should be excited, right? ‘So why do I feel like such a jerk?’ Hope asks. ‘Was this really what I’ve been training for all this time? Not so I could save my people, but so I could stand and fight against them?’ she asks. The Scarlet Witch explains that this fight will be to save the world, as the Phoenix X-Men have to be stopped, for the path they are on will only end badly. ‘Trust me, I know better than anyone. You can’t blame yourself for their choices’ Wanda adds.
‘You know something? You’re right…I should blame you’ Hope scowls at Wanda, before standing up and approaching her. ‘Wait a second…’ Wanda begins, but Hope continues: ‘You wiped out the mutants! Cyclops started down the path he’s on because you forced his hand!’ ‘You think I don’t know that?’ Wanda replies. ‘You think I don’t hate myself every day for my part in this? But I can’t change the past. Right now should be about coming together to save the -’ Wanda begins, but Hope, continuing to scowl, shouts ‘You ruined my life!’ as she marches closer to Wanda. ‘Hope, don’t!’ Wanda declares, while, nearby, Iron Man is walking with Captain America, telling him that Wanda and Hope are the key, and all they have to do is get them together, get them on the same page, and they are good to go. But Iron Man looks unimpressed, while Cap smiles, as they reach the fountain, only to find Wanda defending herself with chaos magic against Hope and her own energies.
Now:The beach of Utopia, where Cyclops, fuelled by the cosmic fire of the Phoenix, fires a powerful optic blast, knocking back the Hulk. The Thing and Iron Man are down. Havok, Cyclops’s brother, has fallen to his knees. Thor, Gambit and Ms Marvel stand ready to make their move, while Red Hulk is dowsed in cosmic energy. Storm hovers nearby, while Iceman is beside her on an ice-sled. Volcanic eruptions splatter lava across the beach turned battle-ground.
Meanwhile, at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning, the Stepford Cuckoos are using Cerebra, and announce that the worst has happened - Cyclops has gone Dark Phoenix. The Cuckoos report that they are tracking him the best they can, but his power is so all-encompassing, that tendrils reach out everywhere, and now volcanic eruptions are occurring across half the globe, and the other half is in flames. The girls announce that there are tidal waves, earthquakes and fire raining from the sky - while Cyclops’s mind is all rage - all rage and white hot flames. ‘He’s tearing the entire planet apart’ they tell Captain America, the Beast and Iron Fist who are in a Quinjet.
The Beast announces that they will be right on top of him in a matter of minutes, for whatever good that will do them. ‘My God. The ocean is burning’ Iron Fist gasps as he looks out the window. Cap tells his teammates to keep their heads in the game, before reporting to all teams: ‘I don’t have time for any last minute speeches and neither do you! You all know the drill! It’s the end of the world! This is what we do! The Earth doesn’t die on our watch!’ Captain America orders.
On Utopia, Cyclops has one hand wrapped around the Red Hulk’s throat, while firing an optic blast at Iceman. In Paris, Gambit and Hawkeye are on hand to stop as many meteors crashing down as they can. In Sydney, Cyclops tosses the Hulk across the Sydney Opera House. In Beijing, Spider-Man uses his webbing to catch a car that has fallen from a destroyed bridge, while Angel hovers overhead after rescuing a girl. In Sacramento, the Hulk lands in the middle of a street. At the Mediterranean Sea, Giant Man holds a yacht up on his shoulder, out of harms way, while Pixie has rescued two children. Above the Himalayas, Cyclops fires a powerful optic blast, which knocks Thor skyward, and in the skies over the Amazon Jungle, Captain Britain and Ms Marvel try to stop a passenger jet from crashing. In the upper limits of Earth’s atmosphere, Thor slows down, floating aimlessly as meteors blast around him.
‘Avengers! Take him down!’ Captain America orders as he slams his shield into Cyclops’s face. Wolverine, the Beast, Storm, Iron Man and Iron Fist are on hand to assist, but the cosmic energy continues to burn around Cyclops, who, with a voice changed even further, exclaims ‘Take him down? You would have a better chance stopping the sun from rising by throwing pebbles at it. The Phoenix is beyond your power!’ Wolverine moves towards Cyclops who exclaims ‘This world will burn and from its ashes, a new world will rise. A brave new paradise forged in fire’. Wolverine shoves his claws into Cyclops’s head, but Cyclops - or rather, the Dark Phoenix - exclaims ‘But not for the likes of you!’ as he casually pushes Wolverine and the others back with a wave of energy. Wolverine’s claws did not harm him.
‘Prepare to burn, Avengers. The new Age of the Phoenix begins now’ Cyclops shouts as he takes flight. Captain America gets to his feet and calls out to the others: ‘Whoever’s able, follow me to the Quinjet. We have to go after him’. Iron Man tells Cap that they have no hope of fighting Cyclops like this - as they are completely out of their weight-class here. ‘I know you’re not sold on my plan, but look around you. It’s Hail Mary time if there ever was one’ Iron Man adds. Iron Fist tells Cap that it will work, that he believes it in his bones. ‘If it hurts him. Me and my bones are all for it’ Wolverine remarks. Cap pauses, before telling Iron Man ‘Do it’. However, Iron Man’s armor is only at 12% power, his thrusters are charging and flight is impossible at this time. He uses his communicator to inform all Avengers and X-Men that the Dark Phoenix is currently 30,000 feet above Tibet, and they have to bring him back to Earth for one last shot. ‘Who the hell is still standing out there?’ Iron Man asks.
‘This is Nova. I’m a hemisphere away. I’ll be there in a few seconds’ the new hero called Nova reports as he flies as quick as he can towards an unsuspecting Dark Phoenix - and slams into him with full force. ‘I see your fear. I see your secret. You don’t even belong here, do you?’ Dark Phoenix calls out to Nova as the new hero continues to push downwards back towards Earth. ‘Can’t hear you! Too busy kicking your ass!’ Nova replies, and an instant later, they slam back into Earth, with a mighty explosion. Dark Phoenix stands up in the crater that formed thanks to the explosion. He holds the new Nova up by his costume, his body is limp. ‘So many fools. So many wasted lives to be burned away in the all-consuming flames of the Phoenix’ Dark Phoenix calls out.
Suddenly, ‘I don’t think so. Nothing else burns today!’ the Scarlet Witch announces as she appears nearby, alongside an unimpressed Hope, who adds ‘Except for you’.
Seventy-Two Hours Ago:‘Stop it! Break it up!’ Captain America exclaims as he rushes over to Wanda and Hope. ‘What the hell do you think you’re doing? We’re on the eve of a battle to decide the fate of the world, and you two are fighting each other? This is not how Avengers behave!’ Wanda and Hope turn away from each other, while Cap asks ‘Yin and Yang, huh? Looks like your final plan still needs some work, Tony’, to which Iron Man replies ‘Does it? This is what they did when they were pointed at each other’ he points out, as they look at the large crater that has formed around them. ‘Imagine what happens when they’re pointed in the same direction’ he suggests.
Now:Hope lunges towards Dark Phoenix, she is still furious, and punches him in the face, energy pounding him from her fist. Wanda stands ready, chaos magic spiralling around her. Hope remembers what she said earlier to Wanda - that this is all her fault, and then she remembers what Iron Fist said to her - that he thought she was supposed to be something special. ‘So why did the Phoenix pass you by?’ he asked her, while urging her to focus her rage and hit him. Now though, Hope hits Cyclops again. A Quinjet approaches, ‘It’s working!’ Iron Man exclaims as he sees the brilliance of Hope and Wanda’s energies blasting in the distance. Cap, Wolverine, the Beast, Storm, Thor, Iron Man and Iron Fist emerge from the Quinjet and rush towards the battle. Iron Man exclaims that Wanda’s hex blasts are the only thing that truly hurts the Dark Phoenix, and Hope is mimicking Wanda’s power and channelling it into a version of the Iron Fist. ‘That’s my girl!’ Iron Fist exclaims, while Wolverine points out that just hurting him is not enough - it is time to put him down. ‘AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!’ Captain America shouts as he throws his shield towards the battle - where is strikes Cyclops on his head.
Cyclops’s memories, narrated by him in the present tense:‘All I wanted to do was change the world’ Scott thinks to himself. ‘To see my children grow up to be something other than time-traveling freedom fighters. To see mutants able to use their powers for more than just fighting killer robots’. He wanted to usher in an era of peace - and he did, he made miracles. He remembers pushing Charles Xavier around in his wheelchair, and realizes that somewhere along the way, he went off track. Cyclops remembers holding Jean Grey.
Now:Wolverine’s claws slice against him. Iron Man fires a repulsor ray at him. ‘Please…kill me. Before it’s -’ Scott calls out, before the Dark Phoenix consumes him once more, and he growls. He raises his arms and the Phoenix raptor bursts from the earth, lava flowing around him, and Cyclops roars an unholy sound.Suddenly, in the flame, Scott sees a woman walking towards him. ‘Scott, this has to stop’ the woman calls out. ‘Scott, please. It’s all right. I’m here now’. ‘Jean?’ Scott utters. ‘It’s time, Scott. It’s time to let go’ the woman tells him. ‘Jean, I…’ Scott calls out, tears dripping from his eyes. ’I promise…it doesn’t hurt’ the woman tells him - but she isn’t there, if she ever was at all - for Hope and Wanda appear before Cyclops and attack him in unison. Cyclops falls to the ground, and the Phoenix rises from his body.’We did it! The Phoenix has left him!’ Wanda exclaims. A wide-eyed Hope announces that she can hear it calling her, but Wanda tells her to look away. ’HOPE!’ Wanda calls out, as Hope’s eyes are fixed on the Phoenix.
Seventy-One Hours Ago:Cap and Iron Man both look at Hope. ’I know what you’re gonna say. I’m too hot-headed, too short-tempered. It was stupid of me to last out at Wanda like that. But I’m not standing down. You’re not keeping me out of this fight’ Hope tells them. Cap replies that he never said he was going to. ‘You think I haven’t been watching you this entire time? I’ve seen how you handled yourself when Cyclops attacked K’un Lun. Yes, you’re fiery, but you’ve earned the right to stand with the Avengers, to lead your people into battle.’ Cap explains that his question is about what comes after - ‘Say we take down the Phoenix X-Men. That power has to go somewhere, right? Stark tells me it can’t be contained except in a host. All this started because we were told it was coming for you. Well, what if it still is?’ Cap enquires.
Hope listens as Cap tells her that he has sent good people into battle to fight to prevent that very thing from happening. ‘Are you telling me now I should send them back, to fight to make sure it does? To risk everything to make you the Phoenix?’ he asks her. Hope replies by telling Cap that she is not telling him to send anyone anywhere. ‘Just don’t try and stop me’ she adds. ‘You believe in yourself. That much is obvious. I guess my ultimate question is…why should I?’ Captain America asks.
Now:Hope’s eyes roll back in her head as she is consumed by the cosmic Phoenix. ‘Hope!’ Wanda calls out as Hope flies upwards. ‘I’ve got her!’ Iron Man exclaims as he starts to pursue her. ‘Tony, what’s happening?’ Captain America radios. Flying towards Hope, Iron Man replies that he doesn’t know, only Hope is on fire and she is flying really fast.
Seventy-One Hours Ago:‘Do you have any idea what it’s like to feel all your life like you’re destined for something great, but you can never quite feel there? Almost like…like you’re something strong trapped in the body of a weakling?’ Hope asks. Without going into detail, Cap tells Hope that he has some idea what she means. Hope turns to him and tells Captain America that she doesn’t want to change the world, that she wouldn’t know where to begin - and if the Phoenix kills her, so be it, she will gladly take that bullet if it means the end of all this fighting. ‘I guess at the end of the day, Captain, I’m just sick to death of waiting. Waiting around to become something or other. For better or for worse…I’m just ready to finally be me’.
Now:‘She’s…I’ll be damned’ Iron Man utters as he continues to follow Hope. ‘Tony? What the hell is happening?’ Cap asks via the communicator. ‘She’s putting them out, Cap. She’s putting out the fires!’ Iron Man reports, watching as Hope puts out fires, repairs damaged buildings and bridges, seals up newly-formed volcanoes, cools the burning seas, all over the world. The heroes gather together. Iceman, Ms Marvel, Rachel Grey, and both Hulks are with them, as a voice from above calls out: ‘Hear me, Avengers and X-Men. No longer am I the woman you knew. I am fire and lire incarnate. Now and forever…I am PHOENIX!’ Hope exclaims, cosmic energy burning around her as she hovers majestically in the white and gold Phoenix costume.
‘Nobody move. Give her a moment Captain America tells everyone. They study her, everyone one of them, looking for the first crack, the first sign that their battle isn’t over. That hey had merely traded one Dark Phoenix for another. ‘Hope…this has to stop’ the Scarlet Witch calls out from down below. Hope drops down to the ground, and announces ‘All this power…this is how it was meant to be. This is my destiny’. She has her usual trademark frown as she holds her hands out, and flames flicker on them. ‘I see where the others went wrong. Where they faltered, I will not fail. I will be the White Phoenix. I will be the savior of all -’ Hope begins, but Wanda interrupts her: ‘No. That wasn’t why you were chosen’ she tells her.
‘Look inside yourself. See what I see in you. This is your destiny, you’re right. You were born to be the Phoenix. But not so you could wield this power’ the Scarlet Witch tells Hope. Hope turns and looks at the Scarlet Witch, who explains ‘It’s because you’re the only one with the strength to let it go’. Hope walks over to Wanda, and tells her that she feels like she is on fire. ‘Back in K’un Lun, you were right about me. Once upon a time, I started this whole mess. Please…let me help you end it. No more fire. No more fighting. No more playing God’ Wanda offers, holding out her hands. Hope’s flaming hands take Wandas, and together, they both announce ‘No more Phoenix’, and with that, the cosmic energy pours upwards from Hope, and in spectacular display, it crackles around the Earth, striking various points.
At the Jean Grey School, ‘What was that? What just happened?’ one of the Cuckoos asks. ‘The Phoenix light just blinked off’ another points out. ‘They must have killed her. They killed the Phoenix’ one of them suggests. But the third replies that she doesn’t think so, as it was almost like her power exploded, spreading out all over the planet. ‘Oh my God’ one of the girls exclaims.
At that moment, a bus is hanging from a bridge, suspended only by Spider-Man’s webs. Spider-Man can see a girl inside the bus and tells her not to worry. ‘I do this for a living’ he jokes, but before he can reach her, a sliver of cosmic energy slams against the bus, and Spider-Man falls backwards. ‘More lights…more lights are popping up. But that means…’ one of the Cuckoos exclaims as they watch a map of planet Earth suddenly glow with lights. ‘Yeah…more mutants’ one of the Cuckoos declares. Including the girl in the bus, who is no longer in danger, as her form as become rocky, and she has grown wings.
‘Um, hey guys, this is Spider-Man in China. A kid here just grew wings. Is that a good or bad sign?’ Spider-Man calls out over the communicator, but gets no response, as the Scarlet Witch and Hope embrace, hugging each other, and the other heroes gather around, smiling. They turn to see Cyclops, his costume in tatters, stumbling nearby. His visor is gone, and without it, he can’t open his eyes. But he can still somehow see all the blood on his hands.
Later:Cyclops’s hands are chained to a table. A helmet is locked over his head, with ruby quartz over his eyes. ‘There’s a point past which I don’t remember much about what happened’ Cyclops states, adding that there is no TV in his ruby quartz prison cell, but that he remembers enough. ‘I nearly destroyed the world. And I killed Charles Xavier. Captain America sits opposite Cyclops and tells him that his list of crimes is rather lengthy, but that those are right at the top. ‘Xavier was responsible for whatever is the best in me. As for the rest…I take full responsibility’ Cyclops replies.
Elsewhere, wanted posters with images of Emma Frost, Colossus, the Sub-Mariner and even Magneto line walls, while Magneto passes through an alleyway, a hood over his face.
In the ruby quartz cell, Captain America tells Cyclops that he wished his fellow renegade X-Men felt the same, but at present, there is no sign of them, but that he is sure they will turn up somewhere before too long. ‘As I said, I take full responsibility. You should leave them to me’ Cyclops tells Captain America, who quickly points out that Cyclops is not in a position to give orders anymore, so Emma Frost and the others will have to answer for themselves. ‘The Phoenix itself is as much to blame as anyone or anything, I get that. But I can’t help your friends if they won’t turn themselves in’ Cap adds, before admitting that he will take his share of responsibility for this as well. ‘Back on Utopia, you were right about one thing: The Avengers should have done more to help mutants. I should have done more. I allowed the world to hate and fear them far too long. I won’t make that same mistake again’ Cap assures Cyclops.
Elsewhere, old friends the Scarlet Witch and Hawkeye stand closely as they look at several screens which hover in front of them. ‘I don’t understand. What is this again? Cap’s putting together a new Avengers team’ Hawkeye asks. ‘Not exactly. This is something a bit more…uncanny’ Wanda tells him, looking at the monitors closer, one can see that they have profiles and photos of several high-profile mutants.
‘Then I guess this begins a new age for the Avengers and X-Men both’ Cyclops remarks. ‘Don’t you dare! Don’t you dare try to turn this into a win!’ Captain America retorts, standing up and staring down at Cyclops. ‘You waged a war that set friend against friend. You played Russian roulette with this planet! You left wounds that will take years to heal, if they ever heal at all’ Cyclops adds, referring specifically to Storm and the Black Panther, who are both in Wakanda dealing with the rebuild of the devastated nation. ‘And you killed one of the finest men I’ve ever known. If you consider that a win…I pity you. I really do’ Captain America declares.
Meanwhile, Iron Fist is in a lab with Tony Stark, who is repairing his Iron Man armor. ‘Looking at all these reports of new mutants popping up, why do I get the feeling you knew all along this would happen?’ Iron Fist asks, watching a news report. ‘I did the math. The numbers never added up. Between Wanda and Hope and the firebird, there were just too many variables’ Iron Man explains. ‘Yet you went and did it anyway’ Iron Fist points out. ‘There’s still a chance I could be insane. If I was insane, you’d tell me, right?’ Tony asks. ‘Tony Stark, man of faith. Will wonders never cease?’ Iron Fist mutters. ‘Not if I can help it’ Tony replies.
In his cell, Cyclops tells Captain America that out of the blue last night, a man in cell block B began vomiting acid, that it burned his cell door apart, and he nearly escaped. ‘There are new mutants being born, aren’t there?’ Cyclops asks, declaring that he was right about the Phoenix, it wasn’t here to destroy them. ‘No…only you were’ Captain America frowns.
At that moment, Thor and the new Nova fly side by side, and Thor congratulates him on the way he handled himself admirably in the battle against the Phoenix. ‘Really? I thought all I did was…crash into things really hard’ Nova replies. ‘We would count on you among our number - as a member of the Avengers’ Thor tells him, and Nova smiles, ‘An Avenger - wow, okay. I’ll just have to ask my Mom first’.
Cyclops tells Captain America that change never comes easy, that there were always going to be sacrifices. ‘If I could trade places with Professor Xavier, I would, without hesitation’ he announces. ‘If only it were that simple. If only the ends always justified the means’ Cap responds, before announcing that they are about done here. ‘Unless there’s something you’d like to add?’ he calls back to Wolverine, who is leaning against the wall, frowning. ‘No. I’ve got a eulogy to give’ Wolverine snarls. As Cap and Wolverine turn to leave the cell, Cyclops tells them ‘That’s the thing about the Phoenix…there always has to be destruction…before rebirth’.
And, on Utopia, restored to its usual appearance, the sun begins to rise, and it glistens on the half-destroyed buildings. Hope Summers smiles for a change, she stands beside the barbed-wire fence with the sign “No trespassing by order of SHIELD” that surrounds Utopia. ‘God, what a beautiful day’ Hope tells herself, before blasting away with her jetpack, while a single rose grows from the battle-damaged nation.


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Somewhere in space: The man called Nova is first hurled through it at unbelievable speed, then flies by himself, the Phoenix hot on his heels.
Nova urges himself to fly faster towards Earth, knowing it to be the Phoenix’ eventual goal. Everything he ever loved is counting on him. His friends. His family. He loves all of them. What else does he love? Sportcenter. Snickers. Dubstep. The Cardinals. Everything! He loves everything on Earth, he prays, and please don’t take it from him! He can’t stop. It’s right behind him, devouring every planet in its path. His job is only to survive, get there first and warn Earth’s mightiest that the Phoenix is coming!
Paul Revere rode all night. He has no idea how long he’s been riding. Five minutes? Five weeks? At hyperspeed, the answer is freakier than the question. Because the answer’s both. The helmet he wears feeds info right into his brain and forces him to multitask, allowing him to dodge everything ahead and all sped up.
Suddenly, the starlight seems red to him. Why red? he wonders. The helmet answers. Filtered color is an automatic collision warning when he concentrates. Means he’s approaching targeted celestial destination. Or as he calls it, home.
Nova can no longer tell which words are his and which the helmet’s. Another red. The signal for him to decelerate and reintegrate, once the helmet senses Earth’s unique gravity signature.
Being too new at this, Nova misses the downshift by a split second and enters the atmosphere too fast. As he falls, he tries to focus and listen to the helmet. He tries to remember what he’s supposed to do as he nears a large city. Something important. The Cardinals. Snickers. Sportscenter. Don’t lose it! he tells himself as he flashes past a skyscraper.
Coming in too fast… a chopper is in his way. He searches for control, trying to see red and manages it long enough to swerve around the helicopter. But now he is spent. He can only pray that when God racks up the overall tally the people in the copter will count for him against the ones he didn’t have the strength to avoid. He’s sorry is his last thought as he crashes into a skyscraper.
Slowly, Nova awakes, seeing stars, blue and red. The image solidifies and he realizes he is seeing Captain America who calls for a medical crew. The Avengers have arrived
He thought Nova died, Hawkeye remarks. If he lives through this, he’ll wish he had, Ms. Marvel remarks darkly. Iron Man sharply corrects her. Nova was falling not attacking.
Cap asks him to speak… It’s coming! Nova relates his message. Cap wants to know more but, before Nova can tell him about the Phoenix, unconsciousness washes over him. Iron Man finds nothing on the interstellar radar. Nova tries to stay awake. He can’t let them take him to a hospital. He can’t let them take the helmet off.
It’s coming! he repeats and no longer hears the Avengers question him as they transport him away.


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… In a Handful of Dust
Utopia. No longer just an island, but what Earth has become for the nearly extinct mutant race, thanks to the rise of the Phoenix Five. Their leader, Cyclops, hovers over Utopia and sees his friends and charges happy. Still he is bothered, looking for quiet, only to be reminded that, for a telepathic mind, there is no such thing, as the thoughts almost overwhelm him.
He teleports away to the Moon and sees the Earth from it. Maybe here he can think, he decides and wonders how Jean handled telepathy from such a young age without her head exploding. Jean, who died on this dust. Another surprise coming with the Phoenix power: It makes the memory of the loss fresh again.
He turns around to find how far back he has been taken. He is in the Blue Area of the Moon, where once the X-Men fought for Jean’s life. He didn’t mean to come here consciously. Is that a clue to what’s nagging him? He recalls this as the site of Jean’s greatest victory.
Years ago, Jean was the first to hold the untamed might of the Phoenix. It used her as its puppet committing xenocide. The Imperial Guard of the Shi’ar condemned her for its crimes. The X-Men fought to save Jean. A messy chaotic clash that ended in the cruellest and most loving act of grace he’s ever witnessed, when Jean—
He doesn’t finish his thought when he notices he has landed in the alley where Jean took her life, the alien weapon she used still there. He can still recall her shouting his name as she died. So why doesn’t he feel anything? he wonders. He looks at the place where Jean stood as she was incinerated, again replaying the memory.
He needs to talk someone, Scott decides. The one who knew him best. And so, from moon dust he shapes a simulacrum of Jean Grey, clad in her Phoenix outfit. So created, the simulacrum opens her eyes, and greets him with a smile.
How has he been? “Jean” asks. She likes the costume. Is it supposed to represent his power or remind him of her? He doesn’t need reminders, Scott replies stiffly. First loves tend to stick that way, she agrees. Not that he’s sentimental. In fact, he’s used the Phoenix Force very well and logically… so far.
The last two words bother him. “Jean” explains that she suspects the Phoenix Force mostly amplifies a person. When the Phoenix rebirthed her, it found expression through her emotions. They were always a little outsized, but the Phoenix made them so huge, there was no room under the sky for her joy, her grief, her love for him… In time, her feelings grew to stretch across the measureless cosmos, drawing it close and giving her a glimpse of infinity. And once that happened, everything outside her seemed so very tiny.
That was her experience, Cyclops decides, but he has always been more controlled than her, than just about anyone. She used to say that he invented repression. If anyone can hold the Phoenix Force in...
Come on! she scoffs. It’s not about losing control. It’s about losing perspective. Losing yourself. In his case, losing the emotional memory of all the struggle and injustices that define him. That’s why he came here. To test himself. To see if his soul could still connect to the single most traumatic moment of uncontrolled emotion he’s ever experienced. And it can’t.
Scott hesitates, then agrees. Self-sacrifice, nobility, grief, even love… they all seem so small. Like the memories of a dream: Whenever he tries to relive what happened here, he tells himself that her sacrifice was profound. But to be honest, it feels petty. What does that mean? Should he worry? Despite this power… this omnipotence, doesn’t he still have his humanity? If he did, she points out, would he have recreated a corpse out of moon dust?
Looking anguished, Scott lets her go and “Jean” dissolves. He flies back towards Earth, admitting that was one hell of a wake-up call. He knows he has to be vigilant now. He won’t let the Phoenix change him. Inside all this power, he has to preserve the man he’s always been. He has to remember why he fights. Because if he loses sight of that, what’s it all been for?


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Hopeless
What’s left of the Avengers have found refuge in the mystical otherworldly city of K’un-lun after they were beaten by the Phoenix Five.
Angrily, Tony Stark exclaims they are hiding like animals. He doesn’t finish the sentence, realizing it might be insulting to his teammate Beast. But Avengers don’t cower! Calling the Scarlet Witch “Witchy,” he tells her she is next.
Wanda wonders when he slept the last time. Tony flippantly assures her he is fine. A mere twenty-eight-what-passes-for coffee here in the workday and he invented a strategy for their inevitable showdown. He calls it “The Mad Thinker.”
Information determines action. Leave nothing to chance. Luck is not reliable. Hope is not a plan! Sounds “Oprah,” he knows, but bear with! He got an idea. He asks her to tilt her head and then attaches a device to the side of it. They may have finally found a way to sledgehammer their science and her magic together.
Tony tells her to relax as he switches the device on. Blurred images form in the air. Who’s most on her mind right now? he asks and image of Cyclops and Wanda’s estranged husband, the Vision, form.
Startled, Wanda exclaims she was thinking of them. She doesn’t like this. What is this device? Tony explains it has two functions. One, it does spy a slight little bit on her thoughts and projects them, and two, he tells Hank to show her. A data field is projected around the Witch. It can feed directly into her subconscious, all of the data Tony can think to gather about the coming battle ground K’un Lun. From observed power levels of the Phoenix-possessed, to all their allies to all the Avengers and their allies… to the temperature outside to the wind direction to everything that might possibly be a factor in the battle. All probabilities, which is where she comes in. Her hexes are at core probability altering fields. So they are asking her to cast one on herself. To create the feedback loop on the data that will predict all the hundreds of potential outcomes of battle, helping them to winnow their choices down to the ones that lead to victory.
So long as she is willing to freely and without reservation project her innermost thoughts for public examination, Wanda states accusingly. Alternately, they all die screaming, Tony continues, and Wanda quickly sighs that she will do it.
Tony thanks her, then asks her to turn her hex power inward and let the shiny hat do the rest…
The spectacle begins; the field around Wanda begins to glow. And images are created, different battles scenarios. Tony asks her to focus on the more favorable scenarios. Wanda narrows it down and Tony realizes that anything that isn’t an instant extinction event revolves around the smartest choices made by three of them: Iron Man, for obvious reasons: Genius, brilliant combatant etc. Thor, the god among them. And Wolverine who knows Cyclops better than any on the Avengers’ side.
He tells Wanda to play out the scenarios. She does. In each scenario, one of the three faces Cyclops. Each scenario ends with their defeat or death at Cyclops’ hands.
The three Avengers are at a loss for words. Tony meekly offers maybe he failed to account for something… someone. Like who? Like what? Beast asks sharply. They saw the grand finale with their own eyes. They are utterly without hope!
Did she hear her name? Hope Summers pipes up as she peeks into the room. Sheepishly, she remarks she is starting to get a complex. Just because she is in training instead of at the frontlines, she sometimes thinks they forget all about her.
A surprised Wanda looks at Hope and as she does a new scenario plays out, one where Cyclops lies defeated at the feet of someone who doesn’t come quite into focus.
Iron Man realizes that, tired as he was, he forgot to factor Hope in, even though the entire war revolves around her. And that changes everything. He doesn’t know how, he doesn’t know why, but Hope is not a plan… She’s the plan. And finally Tony allows himself to smile.