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Doctor Doom:…And I’ll get the Land (1st story)
Emma Frost: How I survived Apocalyptic Fire (2nd story)
The Hood: Family Trust (3rd story)
Namor, the Sub-Mariner: The Judgment of Namor (4th story)
Loki: Dinner with Doom (5th story)
1st story:
Several weeks ago:
The aftermath of the first meeting of Norman Osborn’s Cabal.
Only Doctor Doom and Namor are left in the room. Are they alone? Namor asks. They are, Doom informs him. What’s the move here? Namor asks. It is as before, Doom decides. Let Osborn set them up. He will soon implode. Then, when all his is over, Namor gets the seas. He’ll get the land.
And if he doesn’t? Namor asks, referring to Osborn. It’s his nature, Doom assures him. He will. But if he doesn’t? Doom looks away, contemplating.
One year later:
Osborn’s ship over New York: Have things not gone exactly as he planned? Osborn asks. Powers, wealth, revenge. Has he not given them everything he said he would? Perhaps if he had fallen short on his promises, perhaps then he would not be aggrieved that the two of them are the only ones willing to show up when he calls a meeting. They lack a demon, a goddess and a witch… he’ll deal with them later…
Only Namor and Doom are there. Perhaps they’ve grown tired of certain company, Doom suggests. A sentiment he shares, Osborn replies as his Dark Avengers – Sentry, Daken, Venom, Bullseye, and Moonstone – join him. And in that spirit he’s decided to make some changes to their special little club, a small shift in the power structure.
Bullseye suddenly wonders why Doom is wearing a red cloak. This? Doom asks, it was a gift from the Hood.
Flashback:
Doom fought and killed the Hood.
Present:
As was this. He shows them the Cosmic Cube.
They are doing this now? Namor asks. He will wait no longer, Doom replies. Osborn orders his Avengers to deal with this. The next moment, they are gone. On the other side of the universe, Doom informs him.
Osborn tries to attack, using his Iron Patriot armor. With the cube, Doom quickly disarms him ands trips off his armor. Namor raises his trident. He gave him back his kingdom, Norman reminds him. Yes, he did, Namor agrees, and he thanks him for that, but his allegiance lies with Doom. He impales him.
Namor turns to Doom, remarking he’s wearing the demon’s cloak, so he assumes he handled the Hood. Yes, comes the reply. And what of the women? They are where they belong, Doom replies, meaning chained to Doom’s bed.
Doom, Namor asks and snaps him out of his reverie. Is he ignoring him? Namor asks in the present as they head to the roof where Namor’s flight is. Doom apologizes. Their meeting… his thoughts wandered. He’s sure, Namor replies. He and his great dreams. Sometimes he wonders what goes on in that mind of his. He takes off.
Doom stares after him, and takes a moment of dreaming of the moment when he will slay Namor as well.
Doom, he replies, always Doom.
2nd story:
Emma Frost remembers. It was Tuesday. Another stupid boring Tuesday. She was awake and wished to punish the world for it. Instead she started her daily slug through the morning’s telepathy period. She said something dumb and bitchy masquerading as clever and naughty and mean.
And that’s when that – it’s okay, Emma you didn’t like her and you can think it – she’s dead now and it can’t hurt her, that’s when that horrible little girl with the bad black clothes and the long dumb name that always smelled of soup said… Miss Frost…
She was teaching a class on the island of Genosha on the day that some nightmare of a woman unleashed remote controlled genocide. Sixteen million mutants died. Seven of them were her students.
It was not the first time she’d lost children she’d pledged to teach. This was Massachusetts then. Her sister Adrienne. Long-simmering family business blew up in Emma’s face. Adrienne infiltrated and attacked the academy where she was training the next generation. She killed a boy named Synch in the explosion. She didn’t want him though. She just wanted to take something of Emma’s she could never have. Well. Emma shot her. You can’t always get what you want, darling.
And Emma already knew it would take more than bombs to kill her. It feels like it was decades before Massachusetts, but it couldn’t have been. Emma was still involved with the Hellfire Club and they were under attack. She was trying to bait the X-Men into helping her. God, how ironic.
She was only involved, so… so she could teach the children. Xavier’s school was so uppity, so elite and closed. Where else, who else was trying to teach young mutants how to use their gifts and defend themselves?
Sometimes… They’re gone, Emma, you can think it… sometimes she forgets what they looked like. They were killed by Sentinels.
She looks back on her life and all she sees is the same horrible pattern repeating itself. The same catastrophe, endlessly resurrecting.
Which brings her to Jean Grey. The most gifted psychic Emma ever encountered. She’d never say it to the cow’s face, but it’s true. And one day Emma upset her so much that Jean killed her. The Phoenix killed her. The Phoenix was Jean. Jean wasn’t the Phoenix. There’s a difference. And she had made the Phoenix mad. So she was cleansed. It shattered her mind and left her gibbering and incontinent for … God, months! She rebuilt herself one neuron at a time. She survived all the tragedy and fire that followed because she’d already been incinerated by the bestAnd how did she survive the best?
Because she came from the very worst. Oh, the Frosts were rich and privileged and all of that. That’s not what she means. But her family was a blast furnace no one could survive. A factory made up of parts designed to destroy one another. A miracle of familiar thermodynamics. A perpetual misery machine. Her mother and brother narcotized and counter-narcotized into uselessness.
The Frost girls then were left to tear one another apart for him. Dearest daddy setting them up against one another, looking for an heir worthy of his cruel approval and limitless bank account. He chose Emma. She chose to leave home. She’d already gotten everything she’d ever need from him. Namely the Frost will.
Will to power. Will to thrive. Unbeatable, unbreakable. Pretty like a snowflake, strong like a demon. The will to live. The will to reach, to teach mutant children like her to find somewhere within themselves, the will to do whatever it takes to survive. To save and protect those who can’t save themselves from whatever apocalypse in which they might find themselves. Protection from whatever fires. From whatever flames. No matter how painful. And from whatever hells they find themselves burning in, no matter how they got there.
That’s how she survived. Time and time again. That’s her secret. She survived because she willed it to be. Time and time again she’s seen tyrants crush the powerless, been crushed by them herself – like the Cabal by Osborn.
How did she survive apocalyptic fire? She simply refused to feel the flames!
3rd story:
Hell’s Kitchen, NYC:
The Hood stands in front of a coffin. At a respectful distance stand his people, New York’s super criminals. One day their sun will consume the Earth, the Hood announces. As a boy he suffered from an unhealthy obsession with this concept. If everything is going to be erased, what in this world really matters? It makes life feels… insignificant.
But here today, as they mourn the loss of one of their own, they see the significance of even one life lost. It serves to pull back the veil they use to keep their inevitable mortality hidden. With this curtain drawn back, they see their own lives with a fleeting clarity. They are reminded that life is not a dress rehearsal and this is their one shot at getting it right
The Hood’s memories:
A young father, Parker Robbins is feeding his baby while his wife Sara asks what kind of concrete cutting happens at three a.m.? They are pulling jobs at night to avoid, traffic congestion, he defends himself. How is it with all these late night construction jobs she has never seen him with one tool? she needles.
Okay, he gets up angry. He’ll make the money that keeps the roof over her head, but he doesn’t have to sit here as she questions how he makes it!
Is this where she gets the speech about how he does it all for them? she asks, equally angry. If he wants to do something for them, how about spending more than a few hours a week at home? Does that not seem like the sort of thing a loving and devoted father might do?
Parker kisses their baby and walks out. See ya. His wife looks after him.
Present:
It’s important to take stock of what they have, the Hood continues his speech. Unfortunately, it often takes losing someone close to them to do so. As he stands there, looking at their coalition, he truly appreciates all that they’ve accomplished together. This union must not be taken for granted.
He stops in front of Madame Masque. There is one among them who would abuse their trust to fulfill personal agendas. The same traitor who murdered their brother. Who would dare betray him, the Hood, unquestioned Kingpin of crime? Madame Masque demands. The Hood tells her not to worry, he or she will be discovered and dealt with.
Memory:
Parker enters a waiting car some distance away. As he slams the door, the driver wakes up. Calling him boss, he  remarks that he is back early. Business went well, he takes it. Parker takes out the red Hood, telling Sam he’s a good guy, a real asset to the family… But he needs him to remember his place. He needs him to remember how important it is he never tell anyone where he takes him. No worries, Sam promises, his mug is sealed like a safe.
Present:
What is all of this, if not a family, the Hood asks. What are they? Scurrying rats climbing over each other, lost in  a primal need to compete, to establish dominance. They have evolved from this way of thinking. They work together, living life by their own standard, not those imposed on them. And the most vital of those standards, nothing comes before the family.
Memory:
Parker gets out his costume and orders Sam to get him back to the car. That moment, Sara, carrying their daughter, angrily bangs against the car’s side window, ordering Parker to get out of the car. What is this? she shouts. Where the hell did he get the money for this?
What does she want from him? he demands, The truth! she shouts back. No more lies, no more of this damn shadow he keeps her in! He needs to trust her! For once he needs to tell her the truth!
Parker is silent for a moment. Here’s the truth, he tells her as he gets back in the car. She ever asks him about his work, ever again, he’ll leave her.
Present:
Standing in front of the coffin, the Hood continues that the bond of their family is deep. But in order to maintain that integrity there has to be an unwavering focus on solidarity. When of them dies, they all die. They all lose that part of themselves. Once in their family, they become another’s sister, mother and father… they are blood for life.
Memory:
Once he is in the car, the driver Sam, comments that his old lady is wicked pissed, huh? All three months he’s been driving him around and he didn’t even know he had a family. Is that his kid?
His daughter, Parker replies. It’s a grind, Sam replies. He’s got three little ones himself. Seems like there is a new catastrophe every day. But it’s worth it, yeah? He means what else is life about, if not family?
The Hood orders him to drive him to the river; he has some thinking to do. Sam drives him to a lonely spot. The Hood suggests a little alcohol. As they sit at the river, Sam philosophies. Fighting over whatever, it don’t matter. Just one of the difficulties that come with family. Hard as it is you’d still do anything for them. Die for them even. You’d do anything you have to but you keep them safe. Yeah, Parker agrees and draws a gun.
Present:
It all comes to sacrifice, the Hood continues. Nothing is free in this life… nothing worth having. He looks at dead Sam within the coffin. My friend Sam was murdered in cold blood, he announces. Shot in the back of his head by a craven coward who lacked the honor to look his victim in the eye. Sam didn’t deserve to fie. Maybe he learned the wrong secret or trusted the wrong person. A mistake they should all of them be careful not to repeat.
4h story:
A bored Prince Namor sits in Atlantean court. The court now recluses, he announces and warns the others present that even this strains his patience. Why does this now require their monarch to untie it?
One of the two plaintiffs, the woman, begins, but Namor cuts her off. She can wait. He, the male, first.
The man explains it’s a simple matter of custody between Proctidae and he. He’s ashamed this has disturbed Namor.
Flashback:
Their matrimony dissolved in hellish acrimony six years past. In the court’s wisdom, she was awarded custody for their son, Crosta.
Present:
This he regretfully accepted. While he tried to explain her immoral nature, the court thought an Atlantean military camp would not suit such a young child. Killers!, Proctidae mutters. Had he known the true extent of her irresponsibility he continues, he would have fought all the harder.
Melodramatic rhetoric is a royal prerogative, Namor points out and orders him to hurry along. The husband continues his tale.
Husband’s story:
He recently discovered that after Atlantis’ destruction, rather than join sleeper cells in human society, his ex-wife continued to live beneath the seas. In direct disobedience to Namor’s wishes.
Present:
His son is no longer a child. And she has proven herself unsuitable as a mother. He demands custody.
That seems logical enough, Namor agrees. But what he doesn’t understand is… he addresses the woman, how that she requested royal fiat. Does she think her king is fond of rebellion? Perhaps she thought she could win his favor by spitting in his face? Tweaking the regal earlobe? Mocking his choice of investments?
She had no choice, she replies, head bowed. This is her son. The boy is shown now, his head not Atlantean looking but rather a monstrous almost featureless bald head with red eyes. Even those apes would have noticed something was different about him, he explains.
Namor agrees, this point is plain. The boy continues to speak and Namor orders him to be silent. He addresses the mother again. Her son’s nature explains her disobedience, but does not excuse their secrecy. Why not, say, live in Latveria, with the military?
Her son’s appearance is only part of the change, she admits.
the wife’s story:
He awoke to find himself like this. She screamed. She wishes she hadn’t but she didn’t know that and… she wishes she hadn’t. He ran to a mirror and then… in his distress he created direct shockwaves and they are explosive.
Present:
He can control it, the boy claims. He can control it mostly, the mother explains. So they moved away. When Namor ordered everyone to hide amongst the humans, they stayed where they were. Because if Ophisto discovered what Crosta could do, he and the military would have tried to turn him inot a killing machine. And she was right.
And it is only right that such power should be tempered for Atlantis’ greater service as soon as possible, Ophisto replies hotheadedly. She thinks all warriors are killing machines! Crosta needs to be trained! That power needs to be harnessed!
Trained into a killer like him! she shouts. He is a boy! He’s lost so much! They can’t take the rest away from him.
He believes it is traditional to settle cases like this by threatening to cut the child in two and then watching their reaction. He doesn’t feel like that. He feels like cutting the pair of them in two. She in her fear, only endangered the boy! Alone in the seas? Away from all help, all security, with a power he neither understands nor fully controls? She’s lucky to be here to receive his wrath.
He whose fervor has slid into fanaticism. An Atlantean child is not an animal to be trained or harnessed. He’s a citizen. His citizen. They do not turn children into warriors. Until the boy comes of age, he will be Namor’s ward. He has spoken.
No! the boy shouts. Namor does not speak twice. No! Crosta repeats and directs shockwaves at Namor. Powerful… yet a child, he observes and takes the boy out from behind.
He proves both his parents correct. Namor overwhelms him. While he understands rage, they have failed to teach the boy proper respect. He is going to a school in San Francisco. There he will be taught what it means to be a mutant and how to live with his gifts. He will grow and become the man he should be.
He releases the boy… But he wants his… the boy begins to protest. “Cease!” comes the order. His wants matter not. As his subject, obedience is his duty to Namor. As his king, Namor’s duty to him is to give him what’s best. To give him what’s best, whether he likes it or not. And in that matter the court never rests.
5th story:
Weeks ago, Latveria:
Loki lifts a chicken leg to her mouth. Her food has been poisoned, she remarks. Excellent. It shows Doom takes her visit to Latveria seriously. The toxins are nothing that should trouble a god from Asgard, Doom replies. It is well Loki forewarned him of the change in her appearance. Yet surely a sorceress of Loki’s stature could appear in any guise he so wished. But that would be trickery, pretense, comes the reply. And there should be no pretense among partners. Doom is no man’s partner, Doom corrects her. He considers Osborn’s Cabal more of an… association. Strictly speaking she s no man, Loki points out. Nor is she referring to that august body, the Cabal. She’s suggesting a new partnership between them.
Doom interrupts her. There is a klunking noise. It means this room has now been sealed. The walls and doors are now nine inches of hardened steel.
Very secure, Loki remarks unimpressed and continues eating. By the way the local cuisine is delicious. A picture from the wall suddenly emits a stream of fire, setting the room ablaze. Still uncaring, Loki continues, the devilled fish is outstanding. The spices remind her of what one might find in Nidavellir. Those dwarves are fiendish in matters of gastronomy, as they are in most things they put their twisted little minds to.
Flames engulf the entire room and the two waiters beg Loki for help. They have wives, children! Undeterred, Loki continues musing that most of all those dwarves are renowned for their love of curry. Blistering hot curry. They are slaves to the stuff. Probably helps remove the bitter taste they always seem to have in their mouths.  The waiters die burning as if from the inside.
Doom seems to melt. Hmm, Loki muses. Don’t mind her, she’s used to talking to herself.
Doom, the real one, watches the proceedings on a screen. Loki’s face turns to the camera. She presumes he’s watching this. Is he convinced yet?
An immunity to poison and pain, comes the verdict. A callous disregard for human life. He is willing to concede that she is Loki. Make your way through the locked door.
Loki tears apart the molten wall. Welcome to Latveria, Loki, Doom greets her. Doom, she takes it this is actually him this time.
He walks ahead of her down a hallway. She might consider his precautions excessive. A little heavy handed perhaps, but quite understandable, comes the reply. He is a busy man. She said she wished to see him on a matter of some importance. A proposal, she replies with a smile. One that will be mutually beneficial.
Long has she sough to assume her rightful position as ruler of Asgard. If her ambitions do not interfere with his own plans, he will not impede her, comes the reply. Loki reminds Doom that even proud Latveria has been prey to attack. Might not an alliance with a powerful friend be a useful bulwark against future molestation?
Perhaps, Doom concedes, under certain circumstances… Oh the circumstance can be whatever he wants them to be, Loki shrugs, if he would assist her in her ambitions.
Doom warns her to get one thing clear: Doom does not assist others. Others assist Doom! If that is all she has travelled to Latveria to say, she has wasted the journey. And he has wasted one of his Doombots.
Loki begins to explain the Asgardians are not wanted in Oklahoma. They tire of the desert. They dream of more temperate climes… like Asgard of old. She is quite sure they could be persuaded to abandon their present home. With Doom’s agreement, the Asgardians might emigrate to Latveria.
Doom stops and turns around. It will take more than his agreement.
He means Odin? Old One-eye is yesterday’s god. A relic. Balder would need convincing, of course. But though brave and good, Balder is weak. And sadly not quite as intelligent as he believes himself to be.
The purpose of this migration? Dom asks curtly. She’s coming to that. By emptying or dividing Asgard, she will finally be in a position… to become absolute ruler? Doom asks. It has a pleasant ring to it, does it not? Loki asks smiling.
Doom remarks she hasn’t mentioned Thor. Or is she suggesting he throw open his door and invite his old enemy into his house? Oh, she has plans for Thor, Loki assures him. He will be removed, he will be… neutered.
Doom sees what Loki has to gain by this. But what of Doom? He is supreme ruler of his own state, Loki replies. He is feared, he is the mighty Victor von Doom. But there is one thing he lacks. She thinks she can help him get it.
Doom considers for a moment. Latveria is not so very different from Asgard, he finally replies. They should feel quite at home here.


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Inside an under-water lair of Norman Osborn. The tyrant sits behind a desk, several files in front of him, he tells his executive assistant, Victoria Hand, that he started keeping these Catastrophe Files when certain dark flashes of genius struck. ‘Endgame maneuvers, if you will, that I’ve devised to remove a unique array of power players from the board’. Picking one up and handing it to Victoria, Osborn reveals that it is Namor’s file. Somewhat nervously, Victoria looks up and asks ‘What, ahh…what exactly am I looking at, Sir?’ as she stares at something swimming in a tank behind Osborn. A large green sea monster is behind Osborn, its red eyes staring at Victoria, its mouthful of teeth bared.
Osborn glances back and replies ‘Once upon a time her name was Marrina’. Osborn reveals that Marrina is part human and part Plodex - ‘The Plodex are some kind of alien’ - and that when human and Plodex are mixed up you get what she is now. ‘We’ve modified her to keep her perpetually in estrus which explains her rotten attitude’. Osborn adds that, as a result, Marrina is a genetic weapon of mass destruction that HAMMER keeps in its back pocket in the event of global aquatic warfare - ‘Which, by cracking Namor’s file, I’ve just declared’ Osborn adds, before revealing that they spliced some shark stuff into her as well, and that her gonadotropic hormones make her so hungry that she has been driven insane.
Osborn reveals that the only thing Marrina can digest is Atlantean blood, which she can smell a single drop of in 500 million parts of seawater.  Osborn explains that the more Marrina eats, the more she grows and the hungrier she gets, adding that when she consumes Atlantean blood, it perpetuates the growth cycle. Osborn moves over to a globe of Earth and tells Victoria that 72% of the world is underwater. ‘And God only knows how many people Namor rules down there’ he adds, before remarking ‘How could we not come up with a doomsday eventuality to deal with them?’ Victoria begins to ask Osborn why, pointing out that there is no strategic, political or military virtue - but Osborn interrupts and shouts ‘Because Namor screwed me over! So now he gets a message: Nobody does what he does and gets away clean!’ while waving a fist in Victoria’s face.
Norman declares that revenge doesn’t need strategic or political or military virtue, and reveals to Victoria that Namor used to be married to this thing, ‘Believe it or not’, back when it was human - or rather, humanoid. ‘And now it’s going to attack his kingdom and eat his people because it’s the only thing it knows how to do. Revenge is its own virtue, Hand…’
Sometime later, deep within the South China Sea, a number of Atlanteans are farming the sea weed and catching fish - when suddenly Marrina attacks them. Beams of energy blast from her eyes, toppling the Atlanteans’ homes, destroying those within them, before her jagged teeth chomp through several Atlanteans, and she swims away, leaving bodies floating in the ocean…bodies which soon rise to the surface, and wash up on a beach.
Lifeguards caution beach-goers back, when, suddenly, Namor the Sub-Mariner rises from the surf, holding the body of an Atlantean woman in his arms. He declares that she was an Atlantean Citizen and is entitled by birthright to full funerary rights and honors. ‘Any of you surface dwellers touch her and I’ll consider it an act of war!’ Namor declares, before ordering everyone out of his way.
Later, on Utopia, the island home of the Uncanny X-Men and their myriad associates, floating off the coastline of San Francisco, California. Construction workers go about repairing recent damage, while at a market, various mutants go about their business, including Anole and Graymalkin, as well as Erg, and the alien Hepzibah.
Inside a meeting room, Namor has laid the body of the Atlantean woman on the meeting room table, while Cyclops, the White Queen, Psylocke and Dr Nemesis listen to him. ‘Five attacks in nine days’ he begins, declaring that five civilian outposts and farming communities have been decimated, each one more profoundly destructive than the last - the attacks just get bigger. Namor reveals that hundreds, if not thousands, of Atlanteans are dead, but it is hard to tell since the evacuations, and escalations, the Atlantean people are adrift. He explains that his military forces are garrisoned outside of Latveria, largely so they can’t protect the populace, even if they knew where the populace was hiding. ‘But there’s something out there. Something I can’t sense’.
‘Something is slaughtering my people wholesale. And I don’t know how to stop it’ Namor declares, adding that it is seeking out his people and only his people, as no marine life is being affected whatsoever. Examining a map, Dr Nemesis remarks ‘Someone made something that eats your kind and set it loose in the ocean? What’s the virtue of -’, but Cyclops interrupts and remarks that it is heading east. ‘Wow, you really are a master strategist, aren’t you?’ Dr Nemesis remarks, before Cyclops explains that it is heading their way, and they can take advantage of that. Cyclops tells Namor to bring his people here, all of them, to get the scent in the water and get this thing coming at them at full speed. He explains that Magik and Pixie can teleport them all half a globe away. ‘We’ll get our people - our civilians - out of here too’ Cyclops adds.
The White Queen points out that the island is already on a war footing, so they lead the killer to them and destroy it. ‘We help you as you helped us’ she adds. Namor pauses and looks at her, before replying ‘No’ and storming away.
Soon, the White Queen finds Namor on a balcony overlooking Utopia. ‘This city of yours came from the heavens, did it not?’ Namor asks. ‘Then it fell into my domain and rotted there. And now, not fit for the stars above or the depths below, you’ve colonized it somewhere in between. Ironic, yes?’ Namor remarks. ‘I don’t care’ the White Queen replies as she approaches him. ‘Imperi -’ Namor begins, spinning around, he is interrupted by the White Queen who raises her hand and tells him to shut up. ‘We just offered you a solution to the nightmare that’s sent you fleeing to the surface world and you go stomping off like a child -’ she begins, before Namor grabs her by the wrists and moves his face in towards her, ‘I don’t want your help. You have technology, you have intelligence - you have reconnaissance techniques and resources and - and - and I don’t ask for help. I’m a King, dammit’. Namor turns away from the White Queen once more, who tells him that he is about to be the King of an empire of corpses. ‘You’re with us now. Help rather comes with the territory, darling…’.
Later, night has fallen over Utopia, and countless Atlanteans are swimming towards two glowing lights at the base of the island - one pink, one yellow - teleportation signatures, courtesy of Pixie and Magik. ‘Step right up, folks!’ Pixie exclaims as the Atlanteans march in two groups towards the young women. ‘Race you’ Pixie exclaims to Magik, who just tells her to shut up. An undetermined time later, the two teleport signatures appear over the Norwegian Sea, and the Atlanteans dive into their temporary refuge. Magik tells them to make themselves as comfortable as they can, and Pixie assures them they will come back for them when it is safe.
The next morning, Namor stands at the base of Utopia along with Wolverine, Cyclops, the White Queen, Iceman, Colossus, Angel, Psylocke, Nightcrawler, Surge and the Stepford Cuckoos. Iceman stands on a platform of ice and remarks that Namor is the only Atlantean in the entire Pacific Ocean. ‘You sure that thing can find you?’ he asks. The telepathic Psylocke announces that she senses nothing, but Namor declares that it is coming. ‘I see it. There’ he declares, motioning to the distance, where something green rises out of the ocean. ‘Of course. It’s her’ Namor declares calmly. ‘Her? You know that thing?’ Cyclops asks, confused. ‘Girls’ the White Queen remarks, turning to the Stepford Cuckoos, who concentrate, before exclaiming ‘There’s nothing to her but hunger and rage and - and hate. There’s nothing there but hate’ the girls declare as Marrina rises from the ocean, mouth open wife, eyes glowing, she screams. ‘Ex-wives. What can you do?’ Namor mutters.
‘You. Frozen one. See if you can stop her. Or at least slow her down’ Namor declares, pointing at Iceman. ‘”Frozen one” Great’ Bobby mutters, before helping Psylocke onto his ice platform and telling her to watch her step. Standing behind Iceman, Psylocke places her hands at either side of his head, and her telepathic butterfly signature appears over Iceman’s face. Psylocke remarks that this may not work, as she is still not used to this power set, but she believes if Iceman opens himself up to her, she should be able to amplify his abilities. ‘Just relax me into your thoughts and feelings’ she tells him. ‘Believe me, emotional transparency has never been one of my issues’ Iceman replies, when, suddenly, an enormous sheet of ice spreads from Iceman, across the water, and smacks into Marrina. ‘It’s working!’ Psylocke exclaims as the ice surrounds Marrina, trapping her in the water.
Iceman announces that he can’t hold it, as it is too big, just as Marrina bursts through the ice, screaming, and energy bursting from her eyes, she begins to plow through the ice, knocking Iceman and Psylocke backwards. Cyclops turns to Colossus, who knows what to do - he performs the Fastball Special with Wolverine, throwing Wolverine towards Marrina, where he lands on her head, just between her eye-beams, shoving one set of claws into her head so he can hold on - before he begins to slash away at her. ‘Good luck!’ Angel exclaims as he drops Surge down on Marrina’s back. ‘Go!’ Wolverine tells the young mutant. ‘Going!’ Surge replies as she charges Marrina with electricity, causing the monster to convulse. Angel flies Wolverine to safety, while Nightcrawler teleports in and collects Surge, teleporting out instantly, while dropping some sort of bomb on Marrina, who is tossed about on the icy water once again.
But Marrina just seems to be mad still, and she rises out of the water, towering over Utopia, she screams. Cyclops tells everyone to scramble, so the mutants make their way up the base of the island, while Namor remarks ‘She’s within range’ - just as Marrina appears to clamp down on him - but Namor uses his incredible strength to hold her up at the base of her mouth. ‘There…there we go’ Namor declares. ‘Namor…my lord!’ Cyclops gasps while he and the others look on. ‘I’m not…your King…Summers’ Namor replies, smirking, before telling everyone to get back, explaining that he just needed her out of the water. With that, Namor takes flight, all the while carrying the monstrous form of his ex-wife.
Shortly, above the Mariana Trench, Namor dives into the water, forcing Marrina downwards, he tells her not to fight him, and not to think. His mind - or her mind? - recalls their time together, happier times, swimming through the ocean side-by-side when Marrina was normal. ‘This will all be over soon’ Namor tells her as the swim deeper and deeper.
Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, inside Oscorp, Norman sits at a desk, while the Sentry stands nearby and asks ‘Get you anything, Mr Osborn? Corn dog? Glass of water’. Osborn replies that he is fine, when suddenly, a HAMMER agent enters his office, ‘Director Osborn, Sir? You’ve asked us to monitor sudden object appearances and trajectories. We’ve just had one and the models suggest that if nothing alters its path it could impact -’ the agent is interrupted, as Sentry notices something moving towards the office - too late though, as it slams into the office, sending glass everywhere - it’s Marrina’s withered body, her head lands at Norman’s feet.
‘My weapon!’ Osborn exclaims. A dozen HAMMER soldiers rush into the office, while Sentry exclaims ‘I see him!’ ‘Secure the perimeter!’ one of the officers declares. ‘Get the Director to safety, get him -’ someone else remarks, but Osborn shouts ‘NO!’ and orders everyone to stand down, assuring them that he is fine. ‘We’re about to have a visitor’ Osborn adds, and on cue, Namor appears hovering outside the gaping hole in Osborn’s office. ‘Ahh. Here he is now’ Osborn declares. ‘That thing…that was my wife once. And if I was willing to do that to her…just imagine what I’m going to do to you’ Namor warns Osborn. ‘Be seeing you, your highness’ Osborn smiles at Namor.
At Utopia, Magik and Pixie have commenced teleporting the Atlanteans back into the Pacific Ocean, ‘Welcome home’ Cyclops declares as Namor stands beside him and the White Queen.


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All We Want Is The World And Everything In It (First Story)
A Good Man (Second story)
First Story:
Norman Osborn is standing before several large screens showing some images of members of the Weapon Plus program. Captain America (Weapon I), Ultimaton (Weapon XV) and Wolverine (Weapon X) are shown alongside Fantomex ((Weapon XIII). Also on screen is an image of a secret laboratory called the World, where the weapons were created. Osborn points to the picture and shouts to his subordinate, “Why don’t I own this?”
Elsewhere, in a sushi bar, Wolverine is quite happily eating by himself when Noh-Varr appears and starts asking him questions. He asks if he knows of the World. After Logan replies that he does, Noh-Varr states that Norman Osborn covets the place. He suspects that Osborn is sending his H.A.M.M.E.R. agents to seize it as they speak. When Logan asks why he’s come to see him about this, Noh-Varr explains that, from his time in the Avengers, he knows that Osborn has Logan pegged as one of the first line of resistance to his taking the facility. He already has a plan in place to deal with him. Logan asks what that might be, exactly. “Me,” replies Noh-Varr, standing defiantly with his hands on his hips.
Logan grumbles to himself that he doesn’t think it sounds like too much of a plan, but Noh-Varr points out that his body is infused with insect DNA, meaning his skin is coated with tympanic membranes. He can hear him quite clearly when he mumbles like that. Logan stands and replies that it’s lucky that he’s on the side of the angels, then. Noh-Varr feels that Logan is mocking him, and Logan quips that he makes a helluva detective too. He asks how he found him. Noh-Varr informs him that he was led to believe the restaurant has the finest selection of Japanese ales and rice wines in the city. He merely staked it out for half an hour before Logan showed.
Logan reaches for his hat and says they should go. Noh-Varr is surprised, and tells Logan that he isn’t going with him. He just came to warn him of Osborn’s plan. His responsibility in the matter ends now. Logan asks if he’s ever heard of a team-up before. He decides to break him in by explaining that usually, they start by fighting one another, but they’ll skip that part this time. “C’mon,” he adds, “I’m driving.” Noh-Varr doesn’t respond, but he clearly doesn’t think too much of Logan.
After a flight in one of the X-Men’s Blackbird’s, they arrive at the world. It’s dark and the place is quiet. They touch the ground and Wolverine immediately realizes that something’s not quite right. He snikts his claws which attracts the attention of some creatures within. A gas labeled Weapon XVI is released into the local atmosphere and Wolverine is instantly transformed into a savage, dribbling animal, roaring loudly which causes even Noh-Varr to curse.
Moments later, Noh-Varr is hot-footing it through the World with Wolverine and several of the creatures in pursuit. He jokes as he runs that if this is Wolverine’s idea of a team-up then he can blow them out his ass.
Noh-Varr reaches a dead end and climbs the wall. He warns the creatures, including Wolverine, that he knows mind-control when he sees it. He won’t hurt them unless they make him. He then delivers a solid kick to Wolverine’s face. “Or maybe just this once,” he adds. He clings to an overhang as the creatures start chanting things like, “He is all,” and, “Know peace, no worries, know Allgod.” Noh-Varr clambers into an access tunnel as another says, “Let him love you.”
Unfortunately, there are more creatures inside the dark recesses of the tunnel, a mixture of mutants and soldiers, and they order the Kree soldier to stand down. Noh-Varr attacks, leaping into them and dashing through a door which he closes behind him. He wonders what’s next after mind-controlled mutant freaks and brain-eating zombie shock troops. A voice behind him says, “Ahem,” and a gun is aimed at his head. Noh-Varr turns with great speed and kicks his assailant in the stomach. Fantomex fires off a few rounds before continuing shooting as the creatures break in through the now open door. He rolls with the fall and then leaps high to avoid the flailing arms of the mindless creatures. “Halt,” cries one. “We claim your flesh in the name of H.A.M.M.E.R.” Fantomex jokes that it’s the worst pickup line ever. He turns to see Noh-Varr upside down, walking on the ceiling and asks who the hell he is!
Meanwhile, Osborn looks at several screens showing white noise and asks what’s happening. He can’t see a thing. He leans over to his hapless employee and tells him he gave him all the money and corpses he asked for, and this is what he gets in return? The poor guy replies that their forces have infiltrated the facility, but it appears that the peculiarities of the site are hampering their communications. Osborn grabs him by the collar and says he was told the undead soldiers of his would be ready. The guy tries to reply, but Osborn warns him that the next words coming out of his mouth should be, “Mission accomplished Mr. Osborn,” or else he’ll take a @#%$ on him so giant he’ll never forget there was such a thing as the sun. “Bring me the world, or else!” The guy sweats and gulps, hoping his creations do their job.
Back in the World, Fantomex leads Noh-Varr into what looks like a former control booth high above the creatures. Noh-Varr says that Wolverine told him he might show, and introduces himself. Fantomex has never heard of him. Noh-Varr points out that he once burned a block-wide curse into the streets of New York and declared cosmic Jihad on the people of Earth. Fantomex replies that he must have missed it, and asks how long he’s been with the X-Men. Noh-Varr responds angrily, explaining that he is not a mutant. He is a Kree, a member of the most advanced race this universe has ever seen. Fantomex congratulates him, and asks how he walks up walls like that. Noh-Varr informs him that he has been genome-boosted with insect DNA. “Part cockroach, huh,” replies Fantomex. “I’m French. Pleased to meet you. Let’s go.”
He kicks open a panel which leads into a quiet part of the World. They climb through and relax a little. Noh-Varr doesn’t understand why the scientists who ran this place are all dead. Why is the World still active, and why are there hordes of genetic freaks running around? Who’s in charge? Fantomex tells him that nobody is, or more accurately, he suspects that the World itself has gone sentient. He likens it to a giant living organism, still churning out super weapons to serve as its immune system. The ‘genetic freaks,’ as Noh-Varr calls them, are his cousins. They were artificially evolved in vats to serve as super human breed stock. They know nothing of life beyond these walls.
Noh-Varr asks if he’s got this straight. There’s a giant factory churning out super-sentinels built for genocide, and no-one is actually bothered to keep an eye on it? Fantomex admits that maybe he should have done that, but he’s been busy. Busy doing what, asks Noh-Varr. “Stealing things mostly,” replies Fantomex. “Though here.” They go through a hole in the wall and emerge on a walkway high above the creatures that mill around below. Noh-Varr surmises that the creatures are under some form of mind-control. Fantomex informs him that it is called Weapon XVI. The World released it when it sensed it was under attack.
As he leaps from the walkway, he adds that it’s called Allgod, and it’s a living religion that attacks the faith reserves. You have to believe in some sort of God for it to work, so he’s immune. He has nanites in his brain to moderate his neocortex. This makes it physically impossible for him to believe in anything greater than himself. Noh-Varr replies that the Kree have a mathematical equation that proves the non-existence of any deities. They learn about it around the same time they learn not to soil themselves with excrement. Fantomex gets out his pistol and replies, “Cool. I always knew atheists would someday save the world.”
They continues through the complex until they arrive at their destination. In a large room, a massive brain hangs from the ceiling, plugged into machines to keep it alive. Fantomex calls it the World’s brain. As they prepare for an assault, Fantomex explains that Weapon XVI is capable of spreading exponentially if it escapes the confines of the dome. In a few hours they could have an entire planet of brain-dead religious freaks. Before Noh-Varr responds, Fantomex tells him to stop it. He knows what he’s gonna say. They have to somehow convince the World to shut the brain down.
Noh-Varr tells him that he has traversed countless different dimensions and parallel realities, and he’s yet to encounter a single problem that can’t be solved with a series of well-placed bullets. This makes him a man after Fantomex’s own heart. They sprint into action, blasting away as they run. Elsewhere, Wolverine and the creatures are praying to Allgod when they see an explosion. Wolverine snikts his claws and runs in their direction with a roar. He and the others reach Fantomex and Noh-Varr quickly and attack.
Fantomex holds them off, shooting Wolverine several times as he does so, and he asks for Noh-Varr to get to the brain. When Noh-Varr gets there he asks what to do next. “Kiss it,” replies Fantomex. This perplexes Noh-Varr, but Fantomex explains that as it’s a newly-formed sentient being, it’s frightened. It’s like a 13 year-old girl going through puberty. It just wants to know that they’re not a threat. “Kiss it,” he reiterates, “and hurry up.”
Noh-Varr takes another look at the brain and reckons someone’s gonna pay for this. He lands a smacker on the brain and it begins to work its magic. The creatures and Wolverine seem distracted as the brain calms down and their mind-control dissipates. Noh-Varr wipes his mouth and warns Fantomex never to tell anyone about this. Fantomex asks Logan if he’s all right. How does he feel? Logan comes slowly out of his mind-control and replies that it feels like he’s been shot in the face thirty times… and he wants to stab something!
Several guards appear before them and say that the World is theirs. They order them to stand down or they will forfeit their flesh. “Stab worthy?” asks Fantomex. “You betcha,” replies Wolverine as he leaps towards them. The three intrepid heroes slice, dice and shoot their way through the small army, decapitating heads and smashing in faces.
Osborn watches everything on his monitors which are now working again. He screams as he sees what’s going on. However, a remaining employee, Agent D-18, reaches inside the large body of the brain and pulls out a small piece of it housing the important stuff. He then radios in to Osborn and informs him that he has it and is returning to base. As soon as he finishes speaking, his arm is split into four as Wolverine’s blades slice through it. The brain hits the floor as he dies. Fantomex reckons that’s the last of them. Wolverine then turns to a camera and shouts, “Osborn, I hope you’re getting this! Sooner or later, this is gonna be you.” As he turns to walk away, the arms with the brain moves on its own volition.
Soon, Fantomex holds the world in the palm of his hand. Noh-Varr reckons it won’t be too hard to keep an eye on it now. He asks where he got a shrink ray. Logan says that what he means is, where did he steal it from? Fantomex believes his name Doom, a doctor of some sort. Noh-Varr stares at the World and reckons that if Fantomex could figure out a way to repurpose it and teach it to make something other than weapons, he could cure every Earthborn disease in a matter of days. Fantomex closes his fingers. “Yes,” he replies with a hint of sarcasm, “Yes, I’m sure that’s what I’ll do with it.”
He climbs into Eva and takes off. Wolverine tosses Noh-Varr the keys to the blackbird and tells him to take it. He’ll find his own way back. He then puts his hat and jacket back on and hitchhikes. Meanwhile, Norman Osborn punishes his employee, ripping a folder from his hands and calling him an idiot. The guy replies that there’s still a chance that Agent 18 is still active. As a truck arrives to pick up Logan, it runs over the agent’s animated forearm, squashing it. Osborn’s screen lights up ‘Agent 18 terminated.’ Osborn tells his subordinate that he’s made him look a fool! Nothing good will ever come from this. Nothing at all.
Papers on the floor spill out of the folder. They are for Project Deathlok, and contain blueprints for a new unit. Elsewhere, Logan climbs into the truck and gets a ride to a church where he is let out. He has something he needs to do.
Second Story:
(Alabama)
In Alabama there are still plenty of nameless dirt roads cutting through the trees, going nowhere in particular. Winding quietly over defiled burial grounds, past lynching tree, and into the haunted hills littered with union metal and confederate bones.
A middle-aged, black woman stands beside her expensive white car, bible in hand praying. Her prayers are answered when Logan, shirtless and shoeless, appears from the tree line. He’s been through these parts a time or two over the years, as local legends will no doubt attest. Like most every place he never seems to leave on good terms. Right now, he just wants to get the hell outta there before he kills someone else.
She thanks the lord for sending someone, and seems completely unfazed by Logan’s appearance. Logan doesn’t need this. He has more pressing things on his mind. In the distance, two attack dogs are sprinting through the forest after his scent, purred on by their owners who don’t want that ‘scroungy little puke’ getting away. He says that he hates to rush her, but she needs to be moving along. This spot ain’t safe. She explains that she’s trying to get to the old church where they buried her momma. She’s gone and got a flat tire and doesn’t know what she would have done if he hadn’t come along. He is an angel of God, sent straight from heaven. That’s what he is. It’s the first time he’s heard that, that’s for sure.
She tells him that her Paul could have changed the tire lickety-split, but it’s been years since he passed away. These days she’s got nobody else but Jesus. She sure is glad to see him, though, what with the lightning storm coming and all. She knows it’s gonna be a bad one as her knee’s been aching. Whenever there’s a storm coming she can feel it in her bones. “Yeah… me too ma’am,” he replies. She’s talkative for sure, but Logan doesn’t really have time to chat.
As he uses the tire iron to remove her wheel, she notices the scratch marks all along his back. She is clearly quite shocked, and asks what kinda trouble he’s running from. Logan asks her not to concern herself with his problems. They should worry about getting her going again. She tells him that she can see he is a good man. She doesn’t care what kinda trouble he’s in, she knows it isn’t his fault. She can tell he is a good man at heart. Logan stands and corrects her. No, I ain’t,” he insists. She looks in to his eyes and sees that he’s had more trials than she can scarcely imagine. How he must suffer.
Logan is thinking that this little chat has gone on long enough, but she continues to move her lips. She tells him that the past don’t matter to Jesus, and he’s the only one who can ease his suffering. All you have to do is let him. All he has to do is ask. She asks if he’s every prayed. Logan thinks she’s talking to him like a child. Has he ever prayed?
(flashbacks)
He remembers a night of cold metal, back when he was part of the Weapon X Project, screaming curses at the sky until his throat was raw. He recalls looking at the heavens, looking out for the moon the day an X-Man died. His memories remind him clearly of the smell of freshly dug earth atop Mariko’s grave, or the days he spent kneeling before it. Has he ever prayed, she asks. He slams the trunk shut and tells her they need to get moving. They don’t have much time.
Unfortunately, it’s too late. The dogs are yards away from them and the woman cowers away as she sees the viciousness in their eyes. Logan stands tall, knowing that this is his fault. He turns to the woman and warns her to get outta there. He snikts his claws and kills the two dogs, knowing their owners aren’t far behind. They emerge from the forest, shotguns cocked and spot Logan. “Shoot it!” orders one. Bullets fly quickly, too quick for the woman to get to safety. Logan can’t get between them fast enough and the woman falls. Logan drops too after taking shots to the chest.
He stretches his hand out to her, calling for her to hold on, wishing for her not to die because of him. She struggles to speak, but she tells Logan not to die without knowing God. She then passes away, leaving Logan alone. The rednecks stand above them. They don’t really care who the woman is. One of them is upset because Logan killed his dogs, but his friends ask him not to shoot him in the face. He might want to mount the guy’s head in his living room. Logan is hit somewhere but he isn’t sure where. It doesn’t much matter. He can feel the dirt beneath him, smell the wind heavy with rain, hear thunder, rumbling somewhere. The lady was right about one thing. There’s definitely a storm on the way.
(soon)
Logan leaves a bouquet of flowers where the woman fell and buries the two dogs. It takes him a while to take care of the burials, and the whole time he’s thinking about her. He reckons that wherever she is now, there’s a whole bunch more innocent folks who could say the same. Of course, Logan’s seen plenty of innocent folks on their way who won’t be overly missed, but he takes no joy from that because he knows that one day soon, he’ll be joining them. And I wont’ be in heaven, that’s for damn sure.
He gets into the white car as the rain starts to fall and drives away, leaving three dead bodies in the road.


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In the Bleak Midwinter
New York City is a lot more demonic than usual, having become a Limbo Annex. Remember the last time they were on Broadway for Christmas? Ben Reilly aka Chasm asks wistfully. His girlfriend Janine aka Hallow’s Eve retorts with the question if they ever had a Christmas in New York, and he admits he doesn’t know. It might have been a dream.Time is getting weirder around them, he muses and she suggests they are carrying a little piece of Limbo around with them. He agrees but thinks even then they never had any reason for presents. But this year they are really spoiling themselves, she agrees.Holding the Scythe of Sorrows he stole from the Goblin Queen, he continues that they got each other New York. Calling him “King Chasm,” she simpers he really shouldn’t have. What’s next?He knows, this is usually after the war is over, but what the heck – let’s give them a parade. He turns to their cheering demon servants.In Limbo, Madelyne Pryor, the Goblin Queen, angrily shouts that Chasm stole her Scythe of Sorrows, and with it her throne to Limbo. He is hers! Spider-Man snarks, didn’t she help get them in this mess? Ben wants him and he is going to give him just what he wants.Watching their argument are among others the X-Men. Is he going to get into this? Jean Grey asks her husband, Cyclops, who wisely chooses to refrain.Madelyne steps closer to Spider-Man and warns him not to get on her bad side. Aren’t they currently on her bad side? he shouts back, because from where he is standing it looks pretty bad! Madelyne snaps that Limbo is a wilderness of pain and she won’t apologize because their world saw a small fraction of it. But she is trying to help now. His clone is ten times stronger than the last time he beat Spider-Man, so what makes him think he can win now? Spidey retorts. Ben hates him so much, it makes him stupid, or did she think his plan to take Spider-Man to Limbo and feed him fruit was evil genius stuff?Taken aback, Madelyne admits he has a point. Spider-Man presses his point that he can accept them being on the same side. But they have to let him do this. With him! Rek-Rap, the other Spider guy! Rek-Rap shouts. Spider-Man agrees with a sigh.And them? J. Jonah Jameson asks fearfully, referring to himself and ‘Robbie’ Roberson. Are going home, Spidey replies. Thank God, Jonah mutters.Standing with the X-Men, Madelyne announces that Chasm’s demon army is traitorous. She can busy herself showing them her displeasure. She hopes everyone is ready for a fight. A fight he can do, her ex-husband Cyclops promises.In Manhattan, Chasm and Hallow’s Eve are parading through the streets accompanied, by their demons. Suddenly, an especially destructive demon gets hit by an optic blast. Hi, they are their neighbors, Cyclops, flanked by his team, announces. Can they keep it down?Chasm orders his Insidious Six to kill the X-Men.A little distance away, a Mysterio demon recognizes Madelyne. The fallen queen, another demon leers. Hallow’s Eve mocks that she wants her scythe back. Poor baby, Chasm replies before giving the order to kill her.Seemingly disinterested, Madelyne addresses the red creature behind her. She is glad he accepted her invitation to join her. She made many mistakes during the course of this misadventure, but she has to say he is her favorite. The creature tears apart the Mysterio demon and a smirking Madelyne introduces him as Eddie Brock. Bedlam, he corrects her. She explains she took his memories away, and to her surprise he liked it. Unfortunately for them, it’s not the only thing he likes. She tells him to have fun, as the Spider-villain demons look rather frightened before he tears into them.Chasm, in the meantime, is busy addressing the Limbo troops, giving orders for them to attack Madelyne. Spider-Man joins them and observes Ben got big and weird. He is not the only one, Hallow’s Eve shoots back, referring to Rep-Rak. Spidey shrugs, musing that he was a good influence on one of the demons.Hallow’s Eve decides to weird up too. She takes a wolfmask from her costume and puts it on her face, turning into a werewolf. Spidey suggests Rep-Rak take her and the demon agrees enthusiasticallyOne demon traps Magik’s Soulsword in his tentacles. Forge offers Synch, who is beating up demons a vine gun, but he isn’t interested. Iceman and Firestar work together against two demons, as do Jean and Cyclops. Jean states that this is taking too long. Cyclops calls Magik, who is still busy trying to get back he sword. She can take him, she insists. Finally, she gives in to Cyclops’ urging and teleports all the demons away. Cyclops notices Havok isn’t with them.Elsewhere, Madelyne is pleased at how Bedlam has beaten all her foes. She trusts his hunger is sated. More, he demands. Havok appears and asks if that guy is bothering her. Bedlam breaks into laughter. Madelyne shushes him, pointing out, he tries. That’s not what he is laughing at, Bedlam replies and points behind Alex, where there seems to be every demon in Limbo ready to attack them. Madelyne figures he has a strange sense of humor.They are joined by the X-Men, who situate themselves between Madelyne and the demon army. They’ve got her, Jean calls out. Madelyne stutters a thank you and Jean tells her she is family. Madelyne smiles half-heartedly, still trying to get used to that thought.Elsewhere, Rek-Rap is still fighting Hallow’s Eve, who figures she needs more brute strength and takes out a Frankenstein’s monster mask.Spider-Man evades Chasm’s blows, while trying to reach him. He attempts to web up the scythe and gets whirled around with it as Chasm shouts that he is not calling the shots anymore!As Rek-Rap watches helplessly, Chasm beats Spider-Man up, shouting Peter wouldn’t share his life with him, but now he has the Scythe and his life has no use to him anymore!He grabs him by the throat, when suddenly a new voice shouts that there are some things he cannot steal from a man - like his friends! It’s the Golden Goblin and Ms. Marvel.Thank God! Chasm mocks. He heard the dramatic entrance and was positive it was going to be the Avengers, but instead it’s two losers he has already beaten!Elsewhere, Madelyne is overwhelmed by rebellious demons and Havok gets ready to help, but Madelyne commands him back.A moment and an explosion later, she stands free, clad in her original Goblin Queen outfit. No more of that! she commands and all the demons are suitably impressed. Anyone who believes it is the scythe that makes her dangerous, step forward! she orders. So she can eat their face. Smartly, the demons bow. And Madelyne smiles.In the meantime, the Golden Goblin keeps Chasm busy while Ms Marvell attacks Hallow’s Eve (who is now a vampire).Chasm scoffs that all the demons of Limbo are at his command. Were! comes Cyclops’s voice. All the demons of Limbo were at his command.Forge fires his vine gun at Chasm to bind him and Cyclops, Jean and Synch attack Chasm together. A horrified Hallow’s Eve runs to his side, this time no longer looking like a monster but just like Janine. They threw everything at him, he mutters weakly. Then they throw it back! she decides and orders him to get up. He tells her he was supposed to protect her… they are not gonna win this… Janine doesn’t care. She’ll never leave him. He knows and apologizes, then uses the Scythe to teleport her to safety. He then attacks the demon army while shouting wildly, do they think he doesn’t know pain?Madelyne stops the fight and grabs the Scythe of Sorrows. She sees him, she tells Ben. She sees his pain and she sees he has to be stopped.She is joined by Magik, who takes him out with her soulsword. The scythe is back in Madelyne’s hands and, with it, rulership of Limbo. Spider-Man tells Chasm he is sorry. Cyclops wants to take Chasm into custody. Madelyne forbids it. She explains the man carries a wound in his soul. The wound of being forgotten, replaced. It marks him as one of hers. He is a citizen of Limbo. Cyclops protests he has to pay for what he has done She replies that he will, in a manner of her choosing. She asks him to respect her wishes. She asks him to see her as she sees herself: Queen of Limbo… not a nothing person ruling a nowhere place. Spider-Man chimes in that he wants Ben where he can keep an eye on him. Anything can be solved with a little diplomacy, Madelyne replies and Cyclops asks what she has in mind. Madelyne smiles. She thought he‘d never ask…Months later in springtime:Chasm sits in what appears to be peaceful jungle on the branch of a tree, refusing to look at an agitated Spider-Man, who complains he’s spent ages trying to clean up Ben’s mess. He still hasn’t found Janine or his demonic superfan, but he still wants to know Ben’s okay. And he had to come so far to do it, Ben mocks, finally looking at him. Bravo, real Spider-Man, bravo!Spidey insists he wants to help Ben, but he has to give him something. Let him know there is still some Ben Reilly in there. In silent reply, Ben puts on his Chasm mask.A demonic guard shouts time’s up and orders Spider-Man out of what is a magical cell. Outside, Madelyne is expecting Spider-Man, who is surprised at her kindness towards Chasm. She explains that Ben fully confessed to leading the attack on New York City. His repentance should be rewarded. She is through holding grudges, Madelyne smiles.Addressing her as Maddie, Havok announces Jean and Scott are here. She gently reprimands him to call her Madelyne when she is working and ushers Spider-Man out.Madelyne and Alex join Jean and Cyclops, who is surprised that, even though the Krakoan delegate helped to smooth things over, the US government went for it. Madelyne points out she made it clear if they didn’t develop normal relations, things might become even more abnormal next time.Jean hesitatingly asks if she knows what she is doing. Madelyne explains that, for too long, Limbo held the spirits no one wanted to face, the parts of themselves people meant to condemn to darkness. Nothing heals in darkness. She will open her arms to the rejected ones, the ones who have fallen so far, they’ve been starved of light.On her order, Alex opens the curtains. She will offer them a home, she announces and looks outside her Limbo Embassy to the streets of Manhattan. 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“The Summers are their own worst enemies. I’ll see to it that’s it’s true.”Mr. SinisterA dream:Madelyne Pryor sits at the beach, watching her infant son Nathan play, but then the sand swallows Nathan. Panicked and horrified, she tries to find him, to no avail.Reality:Madelyne, the Goblin Queen awakes and cries at her loss. It is no wonder she carries a grudge against Scott. Against Jean. Against the world. She was born to breed, and then be cast aside.Meanwhile, near the X-Men’s Treehouse, Forge pulls a hot dog vendor out of his demonized stall that is trying to eat him. Forge fires Krakoacide at the stall and it vomits out several hot dogs. While he grabs himself a hotdog, he orders all bystander to move to the Treehouse, which is safe.Synch welcomes the people inside. He warns them to stay in the common areas and informs them Krakoan healers will be by soon. A woman complains she hasn’t any insurance. Synch tells her they don’t charge. While grateful, she still calls them “hippie weirdoes.”Limbo:Madelyne tries to magically crack the Cerebro drive Venom stole for her and access Jean Grey’s back-up. However, the unit just spits out data, none of Jean’s feelings when she was living Madelyne’s life. She’ll need to unlock it all from inside her mind.She enters a room where Jean and Illyana stand paralyzed.The spell:Jean and Illyana awake, both of them in nightclothes and younger. Jean is 12-13, Illyana is a little girl. They wake up on the ground in front of the mansion. Illyana kicks Jean. She demands who she is and how did Illyana get here. Jean doesn’t know and asks her not to kick her. Illyana apologizes. Does Jean promise she is not a gross kidnapper. Jean promises and the two girls introduce themselves.Illyana asks if Jean knows Piotr. She doesn’t and asks if Illyana knows whose mansion this is. It’s not hers, Illyana replies and takes a stick.They carefully enter the empty building. Illyana muses it seems familiar. She thinks her brother lived here. Jean has a sense of déjà vu too and she thinks they aren’t alone.They don’t realize the house is a doll’s house and a giant Mr. Sinister is staring through a window.Jean confides to Illyana that sometimes she can hear things without her ears. Maybe be she kinda accidentally did something she shouldn’t have done. Maybe she is visiting Illyana in her dream.Sinister switches something on.Suddenly, they see a staircase going downstairs, with an arrow pointing downwards. They decide to go into the basement and Illyana criticizes Jean for not bringing a stick as well.It’s a long, winding staircase. Illyana shouts out if someone is down there. Jean shushes her. Illyana complains she doesn’t want to go down. She wants ice cream. Maybe later, Jean promises and tells her they need to stick together. Who made her boss? Illyana pouts. Jean suggests, if Illyana goes back up and Jean awakes, she will be left all alone. That’s enough to convince the younger girl to follow Jean.Meanwhile, in a Limbo dungeon which holds the Summers brothers:Cyclops’ visor is gone and he dares not open his eyes, as his head is surrounded by puppies hanging from a mobile. With his eyes closed, he asks Madelyne to return his visor. He promises not to try and escape again. Havok tells him he is magically paralyzed. Madelyne accuses Scott of thinking her stupid and goads him to open his eyes and kill the puppies. Scott assures her, he never thought her stupid. He doesn’t know what she wants, but this doesn’t seem like the best way to get it.Alex tells her it is clear she is in pain, lashing out by throwing him in his old “goblin gown,” and angry, probably rightfully so, at them. His therapist has wondered how anyone puts up with a Summers, especially their significant others.Surprised, Madelyne asks, he is in therapy? Maybe save that for another time, Scott suggests. What is happening in New York right now?Alex humbly asks if she would allow him to help her. She drops the visor and snaps she doesn’t need his help to get what she wants. Plus, it’s some X-Men trick! Alex replies he is quitting the X-Men. It’s not where he should be. Forge put him on the team, so he’d be a headache for Scott. That’s all he ever wanted, Madelyne remarks unimpressed. Maybe, he agrees, but getting what you wish for can suck. He thinks maybe he is supposed to be on the X-Men… just not this team of X-Men!Before she leaves, Madelyne tells him she will consider his offer. Now her spell is ready. And time is of the essence…The spell:Young Jean and younger Illyana walk through a hallway, flanked by Egyptian statues. Illyana pouts, this house sucks! Suddenly, Apocalypse smashes through the wall, about to attack them. Jean pleads with him to stay back. Illyana screams that he will pay for kidnapping them and attacks with her stick. However, when her stick hits him, he turns into a swarm of scarabs.Jean muses it’s like being in a nightmare but not her nightmare. Not hers either, Illyana agrees. Jean commends her for bringing the stick and Illyana preens. That moment, they hear a cry for help and Illyana runs towards its source. They find a door with a glass window, through which they see Madelyne in a place looking like the Danger Room being attacked by several Bamfs.Illyana swats them away with her stick. Jean helps Madelyne up and asks if she is okay. Madelyne thanks them and claims she just woke up here and was attacked. She’s not sure how long she has been here. She shows them a small Cerebro unit and claims the answers they need are in there, but she doesn’t know how to open it.Illyana wants to give it a try, but Madelyne suggests they let her friend try first. Jean takes the unit and senses it is familiar. Does she need a key? Maddie smirks and suggests she imagine it opening.Limbo:In the prison, one puppy has broken free from the mobile. Cyclops urges it to bring him the visor. It smells like him. Is he close? he asks hopefully. Alex sees the puppy falling asleep next to the visor and says nothing. Scott sighs that he hates magic. He commends Alex for surprising her by claiming he wanted off the team. Maddie seemed unbalanced. Alex shoots back he wasn’t lying. He deserves to be somewhere he is needed. The public X-Men team has Scott. It doesn’t need Alex. Maybe he can serve in a different way. And if he can’t, he’ll keep looking.Scott replies that he sympathizes with her, but can they discuss it when they are not chained like chumps in her sky dungeon? He apologizes for his sarcasm, then explains that Forge didn’t nominate Alex to embarrass Scott. He wanted to see Scott fix something. Fix them. Maybe he failed. Nah, Alex decides. He’s been an X-Man, he’s been an Avenger. He’s done good and bad. He’s ready to use all that for good. They need to get out. Anything from Jean?Scott tries to reach Jean via their rapport. He’s been waiting for a rescue. But Havok made him see that maybe she needs help.The spell:Madelyne has led Jean and Illyana to a Cerebro chamber. She urges Jean to put on the helmet, then she can get the information out of the orb. Once Madelyne has that, everything will be okay.Limbo:Scott continues sending that Maddie mentioned a spell. If she can hear him, in case she is confused about the world right now: they are in Limbo!The spell:Jean holds up the helmet and hesitates. Madelyne senses something going on as Scott tells Jean she is the most powerful X-Man. She looks at the helmet and her mirror image is that of her adult self. Jean remembers and turns into her adult self, her memory restored.Making them think they were knocked back to before they had their powers. Very unsporting, Jean states coolly. How rich to be lectured on what is fair by Jean Grey! Madelyne snaps back.Illyana asks Jean how did she got so big and why do they look the same? She turns to the important question whether there is any ice cream in this place.Jean tells her to hold that thought, then orders Madelyne to end this. Not until she gets what she wants! Madelyne retorts. Jean snaps that people are getting hurt at home because of some problem Madelyne has with her! Then let’s deal with this! She slaps Madelyne in the face.


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Two Redheads Enter… One Leaves
While fighting off demons and goblins, Forge and Synch have been evacuating New Yorkers into the X-Men’s treehouse, but they are running out of room. Synch has the idea to make more room by sending people away via the Krakoan transit system. He goes to do that. He tells the people there is a gate to New Jersey in the basement. One man complains he doesn’t want to go to New Jersey. Synch suggests he wants to live more, right? The man remains unconvinced.Forge, in the meantime, uses tech to grow the Krakoan area around the treehouse, driving the demons back, as they are ordered not to harm Krakoa.Madelyne was created as a clone of Jean Grey by Mr. Sinister, so that Cyclops would fall for her and they might have an interesting child, which they did. But then the real Jean returned, and Madelyne was discarded. Jean and Cyclops lived a short while happily with baby Nathan, until he was sent to the future.Now, Madelyne sits on Limbo’s throne and wants the memories of the days Jean lived in her stead, especially those of the baby she lost to the future.And now she is in battle with an angry Jean, who demands what she wants with the Cerebro drive she stole. She wants what was stolen from her! Madelyne rages and lashes out with her power.Jean blocks the attack and assures Madelyne she feels her pain, even without her mutant gift. It is time for them to heal those wounds and for Madelyne to learn a few things, including who Jean is. No more tricks, no more spells, no more illusions. She tells Illyana she will free her in a moment, after she frees Madelyne.Madelyne sits on the ground cursing, as the Cerebro unit has been smashed. Jean took them from her again! she laments.Jean regrets not doing this before. She doesn’t know why Maddie thought she could take what she was looking for in an old back-up of Jean’s mind. What would she take from Jean? Madelyne hisses. How about what Jean took from her! She again lashes out with her powers.Jean tries to get through to her. When it doesn’t work, she turns Madelyne’s power back on her. Jean steps toward her. Jean begins, stating that she can have what she wants. Yes, she thinks she shall, Madelyne interrupts her. A stepping disk appears behind Jean, from which demons appear and grab her. The notion that she would negotiate or grovel for what is rightfully hers is insulting, Madelyne states. Jean s patience has run out. She telekinetically slams the demons away and shouts now she is pissed!Who cares, Madelyne shrugs. She’s been pissed off her entire life and… Jean hits her and the two are engaged in a knockdown drag out. When they use their powers, Madelyne is more aggressive but, in the end, Jean proves more powerful. She slams Madelyne against a wall, then telepathically awakes Magik and fills her in on what she missed. It’s a domestic, she adds dryly.Madelyne attacks with telekinesis, threatening to break the memories out of Jean’s head. Jean tells Illyana that the others could use her help, and this fight is over, because she is surrendering, much to the surprise of the other two women.Illyana obeys and teleports away. Jean turns to Madelyne. She told her she was trying to heal their wounds, but Maddie was too busy throwing rocks at her to hear her. Madelyne wasn’t looking to hurt Jean with the drive. Madelyne agrees, it was never about Jean. She never got over losing him… she gave birth alone… in a kitchen. He was such a good quiet baby, Jean muses. Unlike the rest of those fussy Summerses. Madelyne agrees, trying not to cry.Jean spells out that Madelyne was after Jean’s memories of the time before Nathan had to leave. Madelyne insists she wants everything - the good and the bad. Jean agrees and telepathically passes the memories to her. Jean muses she didn’t have him long either. Mutants grow up fast, especially those Summerses. But right now, the world needs the X-Men. She asks Madelyne to say the words. Her, really? Madelyne asks shyly. Jean grins and hands her a psychic megaphone: “To me, my X-men!” Madelyne orders in a normal voice. Is that the best she can do? Jean challenges her and Madelyne shouts her order.Cyclops and Havok come running, both with several puppies on a leash. Scott explains they are late because they had to save these guys. Alex tells Madelyne he meant everything he said before. The team doesn’t need him but that doesn’t mean he isn’t an X-Man. He’s gonna serve, and he figures that’s in her nature as well. Jean telepathically agrees and tells Maddie to do it her way. Madelyne touches Alex’s shoulder and asks if he would help her fix her mistake in New York. She thinks there is a way she can help make amends. And she owes him an apology. He accepts.She asks if he is sure he wants to leave his family. His family is stuck with him, Alex replies, and he’ll be an X-Man on his own terms. Now let’s go kick some demon ass!Jean remarks she knows as well as anyone that the X-Men are about second chances. That’s why she kept pushing the Council to resurrect her. While Maddie still marvels at that, Magik teleports in with the rest of the team and asks if they missed any fighting or kissing.They missed her learning what the X-Men really are about, Maddie replies, and what it means to be one. Magik put her faith in her and Madelyne let her down. But this is her mess and she is still queen of Limbo, so it is her job to clean up. This ends now!Plus, they gotta return those dogs to their owners, right, Illyana asks, or can they keep one or two?


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“The holidays are magic, and that’s bad news this year.”- J. Jonah JamesonManhattan:Magik tells her fellow X-Men Cyclops and Jean Grey the story of her childhood, how she was kidnapped by the dark magician Belasco as a child and taken to Limbo. Eventually, her mutant power kicked in and she learned magic. She ended up fighting Belasco and his goons and won – like she always does… and then… when you break it, you buy it. So, she ruled Limbo and it was cool for a while, but even ruling demons gets old, so she let Maddie Pryor take over Limbo. She made her promise never to attack Krakoa.What is she trying to tell them? Cyclops asks. That evil magical organ sound they heard…Illyana looks at her phone and groans. Whenever Limbo changes hands, it throws hands. Jean announces, she senses disturbances from all over the city. She guesses that means they are not making it to FAO Schwarz tonight? Magik ventures. She assures Scott that she really got to know Maddie. She has changed… there is no way this will be as bad as last time. Cyclops is not so sure about that and probably has a case of bad déjà vu, as they see objects like cars come to life and terrorize people.Jean telepathically calls the other X-Men. Magik points out the bright side: The Treehouse isn’t under attack, since the Goblin Queen is magically bound from attacking Krakoa in any way.Nearby, Forge engages the enemy in the streets of New York – in this case a demonic motorbike that ate its rider. Forge considers the Avengers should call him next time they fight Ultron. He fires Krakoan vines in a solution at the bike. The vines grow under oxygen. The foliage overwhelms the bike, which cries that it just wanted to eat people! Is that so wrong?Next, Forge shoots several animated mannequins who are terrorizing people. He then calls Synch at the Treehouse and is told there is no activity there. Apparently, the Limbo demons have been told they are off-limits. Forge suggests they use that.At the Rockefeller Center, their fellow X-Men are busy with demonic shenanigans. Are they just on defense here? Iceman cries.Jean turns toward Magik, who calls up a stepping disk to take her, Cyclops and Jean to Limbo. Jean suggests they grab Havok, who is busy fighting a row of angry shopping carts.Firestar destroys two power tools that are threatening construction workers. She wonders if she did the right thing when those two die with declarations of love for each other. Iceman figures if they plan to kill people, he gives them the business.He misses a flying demon, who defecates on the Christmas tree in front of Rockefeller Center, infecting it with dark magic. The tree laughs evilly and announces it serves the Goblin Queen, before attacking people. Iceman grabs some people and evacuates them on an iceslide. He tells Firestar to give the tree the business. It’s still a tree, right? she asks anxiously while burning the tree. Before it can fall, it is held up by a web. Spider-Man pulls it back up and jokes to celebrate immortality the mutants are starting a war on Christmas. No wonder Orchis doesn’t like them!The tree grabs a man and Spider-Man and his amazing friends fly (or swing or iceslide) into action to save him.Iceman uses his ice to support a damaged building from falling and thanks Spidey for clocking in. As he uses his web on the tree, Spider-Man replies he clocked in last time one of theirs did that to the city, too. Whose fault is it this time? Iceman dishes that they think it’s an old clone of Jean’s who’s sad. Say no more, Spider-Man interrupts. He’s got his own clone issues. Always makes the holidays more difficult.The tree lashes out at them and shouts it hates them. Spidey jokes that’s why every year he writes a letter to the mayor to get a Charlie Brown Christmas Tree, in case it ever steals frosty bits and comes to life. Firestar groans she hopes the others are having more fun in Limbo!Speaking of, Magik teleported the others into a desert-like place in Limbo (with the rubble of a broken Belasco statue in the background). She explains she wanted to get them away from Madelyne’s place, so they can sneak in. Havok announces if Maddie is in trouble, he’d like to speak with her first.Magik points out a small mountain hurtling towards them. She knows they are here.Havok doesn’t like people throwing rocks at him. Cyclops is no fan either. One gave him brain damage when he was a kid. Jean catches it telekinetically. She yawns and mutters that is just a diversion. She senses a strange presence. Illyana recognizes the danger - sleep demons. However, before she can act, a demon whispers in her ear and she falls asleep, as they all do.Back in New York, the tree is pulling decorations off buildings. While Spider-Man changes web cartridges, Firestar and Iceman save a dog from being eaten. Iceman suggests they take off the kid gloves. Spider-Man webs the tree up, while Firestar burns it.The tree holds a dying soliloquy about burning in the flames of mankind… it did not ask to be born… a demon emptied itself on it, and this is Christmas in the Anthropocene era…Firestar feels guilty and a firefighter shouts at them to stop helping. Iceman figures they can at least make it shut up and covers the tree with ice. Spider-Man groans this is all on camera. Jameson is gonna roast his chestnuts!The demon attack over for the moment, the heroes nevertheless are booed by the crowd to their surprise. Iceman protests people love when Tim Burton does this, but not them? A child announces that he saw the tree eat Santa. Spider-Man agrees and tells him not to worry. Santa is a mutant and the X-Men are gonna resurrect him in their Keebler treehouse.Spidey suggests they should never team up again and is interrupted by a call from Norman Osborn, stating he’s back. Osborn needs help! Spider-Man swings off after a parting shot not to get cloned.Limbo, the Goblin Queen’s seat of power:Jean and Magik are trapped in a powerful spell and the Summers brothers awake to find themselves prisoners in Madelyne’s sky dungeon. Every time he has sympathy for Maddie, she goes off and does something like this! her former husband Cyclops shouts. Havok grimly retorts, Scott doesn’t know what it’s like, not to be in charge, to be left behind, to be used up, chewed up and spit out. He thinks that‘s why he understands her. They are the same.Getting a good look at his brother, Scott bursts out, what is he wearing? Namely his costume reduced to a loincloth and a shirt only covering his upper torso. In other words, his former Goblin Prince look.He woke up looking like this, Alex defends himself and tells him not to change the subject. They were finally getting somewhere. Cyclops retorts that the only place he wants to get back to is Jean and New York and stop the invasion. Alex stubbornly insists this may be their chance to deal with the past.Cyclops tries to break the chain and tells him he can stay and wait for group therapy to start, but he is escaping. He can’t get ahold of anyone telepathically.That‘s because their telepath isn’t available right now, comes a new voice. It’s Madelyne. Scott orders her to release them. New York is a living hell right now! What else is new? she scoffs. The great Summers brothers. She hits Alex with a chain.Scott asks her to listen. She refuses and hits him too. As they lie unconscious on the ground, she announces they are going to have some fun! She is going to get everything she wanted, and they can watch…