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The Oracle
Then:'I wish you could see this, Irene' Raven Darkholme a.k.a. Mystique utters as she sits on a cliff overlooking an ocean as the sun begins to set. Irene Adler a.k.a. Destiny tells Raven that she has seen more sunsets than she can imagine – the collapse of all things, and the end of days. 'I have seen enough' Irene adds. 'Then why are we -' Raven begins, to which Irene interrupts her, telling Raven that she wants her to listen carefully, and that what she is about to tell here isn't going to sound believable, but it is all true – every word of it.
Now:Aboard an Orchis facility, a woman with short hair fold her arms and looks up at a screen as she declares 'Let's go all the way around, Mister Sand. I want to hear the choir sing'. 'Yes, ma'am' a man standing behind her with a remote control pad responds. He reports that they have a good ping from the entire network of defense platforms arrayed along Mercury's orbit, and they also have a strong signal from the watchtower on Venus. He informs the woman that Sentinel City continues to grow, and that the mining of heavy metals is unabated, and construction has begun on a subterranean habitat – an Orchis bunker, of sorts. Mister Sands concludes by stating that all the military uplifts to this station have been completed, and their weapons systems are online. 'Good. And repairs to the station itself?' the woman asks. 'The Forge is lit, Captain Craine' Mister Sands responds. 'We are healthy and whole – as fit as any motherless orphan can be'.
Later:'They say that perfection comes from repetition and repetition only. That perfection is all craft and no passion... well, I for one have no interest in being perfect, my dear Omega. For I am an artist' Director Devo remarks to Karima Shapandar, known as Omega Sentinel. He tinkers away in a lab, sitting at a station with various pieces of equipment around him, and announces  that with this last stroke, his work is complete. 'What do you think?' Director Devo asks, turning to Omega Sentinel, who stares back at him and claims that she thinks it looks perfect. 'Excuse me, Director' an Orchis staff member calls out as he enters the lab. 'You called for a courier?' Director Devo turns to the man and tells him that he did, before asking the man if he knows where Alia Gregor's lab is located. The man confirms that  he does, and Omega Sentinel hands him a piece of equipment, instructing him to take it to Doctor Gregor immediately, as she is waiting on it. 'Special project' Omega Sentinel claims. Director Devo asks Omega Sentinel if she is developing a devilish sense of humor. 'The time will come, Director Devo, when it might become necessary to engage others on a truly emotional level. This isn't it' Omega Sentinel replies. 'My goodness, look at you... self-aware, evolving... a work of art' Director Devo utters.
Later:'Doctor Gregor?' the Orchis staff member calls out as he enters Dr Alia Gregor's laboratory. 'Yes? What is it? I'm busy' Dr Gregor snaps, not looking up from her work station. The Orchis staff member places the piece of equipment down on a table and informs Dr Gregor that Director Devo asked him to deliver it to her. 'And so you have. Just set it on the table and leave. Thank you' Dr Gregor replies. The Orchis staff member leaves Dr Gregor's lab, as Dr Gregor places the piece of equipment up into some other pieces that are strung up nearby. 'A little closer, my love... a little closer' Dr Gregor utters.
Then. Plans:'I have demands' Mystique announces. 'Do you?' Charles Xavier asks, his face obscured by the helmet that he wears. 'Is helping your fellow mutant not reward enough for Raven Darkholme?' Charles enquires. 'No. it isn't' Mystique responds, adding that she needs more. Charles taps his helmet and tells Mystique that he sees that, and that is fair, he supposes. 'But we have further demands as well' he informs Mystique. 'Really?' Mystique replies. 'I'm afraid so' Charles tell her. 'Is helping your fellow mutant not reward enough for the great Charles Xavier?' Mystique mocks. Charles frowns as he reminds Mystique that they are building a better mutant world. 'And everyone who would live in it owes something' Charles adds as he holds up a USB stick, while Magneto stands near Mystique and tells her 'Including you'. He then informs her that they are going to be sending a team to the Mother Mold orbiting the sun, and that she is to go with them, run the mission – and do something else for them. 'What's that?' Mystique asks. 'Plant a seed... for a winter harvest' Charles explains to her, holding up a Krakoan flower.
Then. The Mission:Mystique is teleported by Nightcrawler to another part of the Orchis Mother Mold space station. Mystique uses her shapeshifting powers to disguise herself as an Orchis soldier in a red armor. Mystique proceeds to plant the Krakoan flower, then drops her disguise as she heads back out of the garden-like area of the space station, as she hears Cyclops speaking to her via a telepathic link-up, asking her if she is there. 'Stop screaming in my head, Summers. I hear you...' Mystique replies, before announcing that she got turned around, but that she is here now. 'Hold on something's...' Raven begins, '... not right' she utters as Dr Gregor and Omega Sentinel appear before her. 'Hey there. Got some bad news for you' Dr Gregor tells Mystique, who goes wide-eyed as she sees Dr  Gregor put her hand towards a large red button – and press it, which opens an airlock behind Mystique – who looks shocked as she is sucked out of the space station.
The sun shines down across Mystique as her body floats outside the space station, as she remembers Charles telling her that she is to plant the seed on the Orchis station, 'We get what we want – and then you get what you want' Charles told her. She remembers him telling her that they both know what that is. 'Yes – Irene' Mystique thinks to herself as she dies.
Then. Resurrection:Mystique looks in agony as she is reborn, emerging from the strange pod, her body covered in gunk as she wriggles free. 'There you are...' Charles smiles. 'Even knowing I could bring you back... a part of me dies when any of you do... so let's not do that again, shall we?' he suggests. Cyclops is reborn nearby and asks if it worked. The Professor confirms that it did, that they succeeded, and their sacrifice was not in vain – it was a gift, and in the giving, they saved everyone.
Later:'You saved us all... and for that we are grateful' Charles tells Mystique, who sits nearby with Magneto standing behind her. 'But you need more' Mystique remarks, adjusting one of her gloves. Magneto informs her that they all died beyond the reach of Cerebro, meaning they were restored to their last backup before they left. 'The Mother Mold is gone, yes, but as to the other... we believe you  succeeded. But we need to know that you did' Magneto explains. 'And how would you  know if I planted the flower or not?' Mystique asks, adjusting her other glove. 'We wouldn't' Charles replies. Magneto tells her that they believe she did – but they need to know she did.
Mystique stands before one of the Krakoan teleportation gates and asks what happens if she walks through the gate and she didn't grow a gate on the other side. Magneto tells her that she won't walk anywhere – she'd just walk straight through, as the gateway flowers are grown in tandem, and the other side has to be active for it to work. 'The problem is if they've found it and you're walking into a trap...  or worse' Magneto remarks, adding that they have to know – so off Mystique has to go. Mystique then steps through the portal, and when she emerges on the other side, disguises herself as an Orchis space station worker.
Now:Mystique moves through the space station with ease, passing two Orchis workers at their posts. She walks down a corridor and into another lab – where she takes a strange object from Director Devo and Omega Sentinel, and delivers it to Dr Alia Gregor.
Shortly, Mystique looks at the strange humanoid figure being created in Alia Gregor's lab. She then stands over the sleeping Dr Gregor, while holding a glowing blade. Still disguised, Mystique then leaves.
Back on Krakoa: 'We took our shot... and we missed' Mystique reports. Xavier asks her what happened, to which Mystique admits that most of it is beyond her understanding, but that it looks to her that their belief that Nimrod comes from the Mother Mold might be wrong. A hologram of the Nimrod sentinel appears, as Mystique informs Xavier and Magneto that there is a scientist aboard the station, Alia Gregor, who is building something that looks just like a Nimrod. Magneto asks Mystique why she didn't just take care of it, to which Mystique replies 'Haven't you heard? We have laws'. 'Not for that. Not for them. And let's be honest, not for you... if you thought it needed doing. So why didn't you?' Magneto exclaims.
'Because you needed to know. And now you know' Mystique replies. Charles taps his helmet and tells Mystique that it is more than that. 'Out with it, Raven' he demands. Mystique narrows her eyes as she tells Charles and Magneto that she has been helpful, cooperative, and as much as it is not in her nature, she has done her part. 'But I'm not doing one more thing until you give her to me' Raven snaps. 'That wasn't the deal' Magneto replies, looking up at the hologram of the Nimrod. 'I don't care. Bring her back' Mystique snarls through gritted teeth. 'Raven... after all this time – after all the years of you stabbing your own kind in the back just to get what you want – after all that, do you really think we can trust you?' Charles asks.
'I WANT MY WIFE BACK!' Mystique screams. 'And she will return... when you have earned it' Xavier assures Mystique. Magneto glances over his shoulder at Mystique and tells her that they need her to do this – that it must be done. Mystique clenches her fists, before she runs a hand through her hair and reports that they have some time, that Alia Gregor is not that far along. Mystique then offers to go back tomorrow. 'Good. Thank you' Charles replies. Mystique hangs her head, before looking up at Charles and telling him that she hates him – that she has always hated him. 'Hated and feared. I fear I'm growing numb to it' Charles responds. 'Not because it doesn't bother me, but because all of this is... bigger than how we feel... it's bigger than me' Charles tells Mystique, who turns and walks away as Charles tells her that it is certainly bigger than her.
Mystique enters the area of Krakoa known as the Oracle, makes her way down a long set of stairs and enters a room where she pours herself a drink.
Then:'What I'm about to tell you isn't going to sound believable, but I promise it's all true. I want you to listen carefully. Every word of it' Destiny utters as she and Mystique continue to look out to the setting sun. 'I don't know why you're talking to me like this, Irene. Yes, I'm a skeptic, but I always believed everything you have told me' Raven remarks. Irene suggests they put that to the test, and informs Raven that years from now, long  after she is done, long after she has left her broken and this broken world behind – something is going to happen that will sound too good to be true to Raven's cynical ears. 'Gone? If you can see your death, then -' Mystique begins, putting a hand on Irene's hand, to which Irene interrupts her, and tells her that she is focusing on the wrong part. 'Listen. Hear the words of an oracle: There will be an island – not the first, but the last. This place will seem to be hope for our kind. They will invite you in, lift you up and then deny you the one thing you want' Irene tells Raven.
Irene continues, informing Raven that they will promise it to her, but they will do everything they can not to honor their word because they are afraid. 'They want us blind for some reason. But you and I, my dear, were born to see'. Raven admits that she doesn't understand any of this, to which Raven tells her that she knows, and that when it is time, she will. 'And when those days come,  remember these words: BRING ME BACK'.
Now:Raven sits in a shadowy room and stares ahead at Destiny's golden mask that hovers above a rock formation, glowing. Raven raises her glass as she remembers more of what Irene said to her: 'And if you cannot... if they will not... then burn that place to the ground'.


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LifeDeath
Krakoa, the sun rises over the island nation, where in the Akademos Habitat, within the Sextant, Melody Guthrie, once known as the mutant called Aero, wakes. She sighs and rubs her eyes, 'Rise and shine, kiddo. It's another day in paradise' Melody remarks to herself. Walking down a corridor, Melody tells herself that she doesn't know what the problem is, but that she cannot get a good night's rest here. 'Do we have any of that coffee the green kid is famo-' Melody calls out as she enters a dining room, but stops herself mid-sentence as she sees her siblings Sam, Paige and Joshua – also known as Cannonball, Husk and Icarus, respectively, looking up at her, as is Angelo Espinosa a.k.a. Skin who walks nearby. 'What's wrong?' Melody asks. 'Melody, we... we've got some -' Sam begins, before Paige tells her that word has come down from the Council – it's time. 'Cruicible?' Melody asks, wide-eyed. 'If you want it' Paige tells her younger sister. 'When?' Melody asks. 'Today' Paige reveals.
Meanwhile, at the Summer House, Scott Summers a.k.a. Cyclops enters a room where Logan a.k.a. Wolverine is sitting in a chair. 'Couldn't sleep?' Cyclops asks. 'Never do' Logan replies. Scott sits down in a chair next to Logan and tells him that it is all that hair – too hot for covers and too cool without them. 'Can we just sit here like men, drink our coffee and enjoy a quiet moment? For once?' Logan responds. 'I guess' Scott replies. 'But here's a thing that -' Scott begins, to which Logan asks 'What did I just say?' Scott ignores him and reports that he and Jean are taking the kids to Chandilar in a few days, and were wondering if he wanted to come along. 'I know that's not normally your idea of fun, but it might be nice' Scott suggests.
Logan stares out of a large viewing screen, down at the planet Earth below. 'The scenery at that place is something else' Logan remarks, and Scott agrees. 'Jeannie in a bikini' Logan adds. 'Scott in a Speedo' Scott replies. Logan laughs, 'Well, who could say no to that?' he exclaims. 'Great' Scott tells him, before sipping his coffee, and pointing out that Crucible is today. Logan glances over at Scott, 'Yes. It is' he agrees. Scott asks Logan if he is going, to which Logan reports that he is not. 'You think it's wrong?' Scott enquires. 'Didn't say that. Even if I felt that way...nit ain't our choice to make, is it?' Logan  states, to which Scott tells him that response sounds like a cop out. 'Call it whatever you want, but I don't sit on the Council, and neither do you. They had a choice to make – and they did. Now we all have to live with it. Whether we like it or not' Logan declares, adding, if the kid wants it, then who are they to say no?
'You and I've never had a problem making judgment calls in the past – or deciding what's right and what's wrong' Scott reminds Logan, who tells Scott that he isn't sure that is something they should hang their hat on. Logan admits that there is no getting around the fact that they have to have a way to deal with this particular problem – there is no avoiding it. 'But do I love the choice? No' Logan states, before telling Scott that if he is looking for absolution or some kinda answer from on high, then he is talking to the wrong person. 'Go find a priest' Logan suggests. 'That's a great idea' Scott replies.
A short time later, Cyclops steps through a portal to Krakoa, and makes his way through a forest. 'Hello, Douglas' he calls out to Doug Ramsey a.k.a. Cypher, who is sitting in the forest. Warlock appears to be sitting opposite Cypher, while a large face can be seen looking out of the forest. 'Did I...did I just...I guess not' Cyclops remarks, before asking Cypher if he has seen Nightcrawler around. The large face looking out of the forest utters something in Krakoan, while Cypher, who now appears to be sitting opposite an empty chair, and whose arm now appears to be merged with Warlock, informs Cyclops that Nightcrawler is usually up in his perch this time of day. 'Just follow the path up. Keep turning left' he tells Cyclops.
Soon, Cyclops continues to follow the path, which takes him to a series of ridges on cliffsides that overlook Krakoa. 'That's some view' Cyclops calls out to Kurt Wagner a.k.a. Nightcrawler. 'It is, isn't it?' Nightcrawler replies, without turning to look at Cyclops. Cyclops walks over and joins Nightcrawler and the edge of the ridge and as Nightcrawler points out over Krakoa and asks Cyclops if he sees that building in the distance – the tall one, the forked towers. 'Hard to miss' Cyclops replies, before telling Nightcrawler that what is interesting about that building is that even though they know it is hollow, there is no way inside. He starts to say that Logan told him someone tried to cut their way in. 'It was him' Nightcrawler declares. 'It was him' Cyclops agrees. 'Yeah. Of course. Anyway, he couldn't get in... it just immediately sealed back up. So no one's been in there' Cyclops states. 'I have' Nightcrawler claims, turning to Cyclops.
'Is that so?' Cyclops asks. Nightcrawler explains that curiosity got the best of him, so he went in – leap of faith and all that. Cyclops asks Nightcrawler what he found, to which Nightcrawler tells him that he isn't sure. Nightcrawler remarks that when he was younger, if he was designing a place to live that was everything he wanted, then this building would have been it, and he thinks he would have called it home. Kurt declares that it is perfect, like everything here, like the island made it just for him. 'Doesn't that make the hair on your arms stand up?' Kurt asks. Scott tells Kurt that he learned years ago not to look for cracks in the firmament, and suggests to Kurt that he enjoy what little joy they find, for soon the world will be the world, and they have lived in it long enough to know better. 'Ah. In the land of blind faith, the one-eyed man is king' Kurt utters. 'Fair enough' Scott replies, before asking Kurt why he is up here instead of in that perfect building.
Nightcrawler explains that up here he can breathe, he can think – which is good, because Krakoa asks hard questions of him. He tells Cyclops that every day there is some new, amazing something to believe in – and all it costs is the suspension of everything he used to believe. 'Speaking of... Crucible is today' Nightcrawler reminds Cyclops, who tells his longtime teammate that is exactly why he came to see him. 'You're struggling with it?' Kurt asks. 'Yes. Aren't you?' Scott replies. 'How could I not?' Nightcrawler replies, asking if they are really going to sit around and just watch a mutant die.
Later, darkness has fallen across Krakoa, save a fire that glows in a dense forest. Several young mutants are gathered around the fire, as the powerful, anient mutant called Exodus stands before them. He tells them that great things are happening all around them, great and wonderful things that lift mutants up. 'And you might wonder... how high, Exodus? How high? Well, now we know: higher than ever believed possible' Exodus tells the young mutants. He continues: 'I look at all your beautiful faces, and they fill me with hope. For today and tomorrow and in the ages to come'. Exodus then asks which of the glorious children can tell him what is happening tonight. 'Crucible' a young mutant with glasses utters. 'Our first Crucible' Exodus remarks, adding that is what they named this glorious thing. 'But can you tell me what Crucible actually is?' Exodus asks. The young mutant with glasses explains that he thinks it is where a broken mutant has to die so they can be an unbroken mutant. 'Is that right?' he asks.
Exodus tells the young mutant that his answer has the ring of truth, but not the whole truth. 'Would you like to hear the whole truth?' Exodus asks. 'I think so, yes' the young mutant replies. Exodus tells the children to listen closely, for this is the truth. 'It is the story of a woman. Her name was the Scarlet Witch' Exodus tells them, using his powers to create a projection of the Scarlet Witch in the flames before the children. 'Pretender! Pretender!' the young mutant with glasses exclaims, covering his ears. 'Stop! Stop! We don't say her name!' another mutant utters. 'Pretender! Pretender!' a girl calls out. Exodus tells the children that they know her, they all know her, and her great sin – that she erased the powers of one million mutants, made mutant into man. 'She made so many of us less. She spoke the words...' Exodus' voice trails off. 'No more mutants!' the boy with the glasses exclaims, putting a hand to his head. 'No more mutants' the girl with the hat adds, lowering her eyes. 'No more mutants' another young mutant calls out.
'And sentenced one million of us to hell on Earth. Trapped in a body that was a prison' Exodus exclaims, asking the mutants if they can imagine being able to do such wonders and then having your gift stolen from you. 'And why? Because she thought it was the right thing to do? Because she knew what was best?' Exodus asks. He tells the mutants 'That's why they do – the worst of them – they decide what's right for all of us. How to talk, how to think, what to believe... but what do we say to them? What do we say to her?' Exodus asks. 'No more' the boy with the glasses responds. 'No more' the girl in the hat calls back. 'No more' another mutant adds. As Cyclops and Nightcrawler appears on the other side of the fire, Exodus tells the young mutants that the great gift of the Five means that any of them can be reborn, that they can be made whole. 'All that's required is one thing. And what is that, children?' Exodus asks. 'You have to die' one of the children calls out. 'That's right... but not just any death' Exodus replies as he looks over to Cyclops and Nightcrawler, who are walking away from the group.
'So... how did you come up with the rules for mutants who have lost their powers?' Cyclops asks. 'Jean didn't tell you?' Nightcrawler responds. Cyclops explains that they have both been so busy, and he keeps forgetting to ask. 'And Emma?' Nightcrawler enquires. Cyclops admits that he is afraid to ask Emma because of what the answer might be. 'You're a wiser man that most, my friend' Nightcrawler smiles. Scott and Kurt approach a series of portals, where Forge, Daken and Selene are gathered nearby. Nightcrawler tells Cyclops that, as he might imagine, many of them are finding the world of late a place of increasing complication, that Krakoa is causing them to confront difficulties, problems and questions they may have never faced before. They step into the portal, as Kurt tells Scott that it is more difficult for him because many of these questions lie at the heart of his religion, and perhaps, but perhaps not, he believes they are all finding them difficult in their own way. Kurt adds that his perspective comes more from a place of the soul than the considerations others on the Council might have.
'Like today, for example?' Scott asks as they emerge at some sort of arena, and follow some steps down to gather with other mutants who are standing around the arena. They pass Colossus, and other mutants gathered in the stand – among them are Havok, Magneto, Strong Guy, Domino, Professor Xavier, Vulcan, Storm, Emma Frost, Angel and Gasmbit. 'Yes, today... and the not-so-small matter of Crucible' Kurt replies as he and Scott walk over to where Melody Guthie is standing with Cannonball and Husk. Melody has a floral wreath around her head and wears one of the standard X-Men costumes. Kurt remarks that he remembers when Xorn taught him the Zen Koan: “When I do violence to others, I do violence to the world, and when I do violence to the world, I do violence to myself”. Kurt adds that the inverse of that is also true – violence to yourself is violence to the world, and therefore, violence to those around you.
Kurt and Scott take their place around the arena with the other mutants, and Cannonball and Husk join them, leaving Melody alone in the arena. Kurt remarks that for him, these acts have both an external and eternal cost, and to leave the Buddhism behind and return to the bosom of Christ's church, why they are sins. Kurt admits that his perspective, impassioned as it was, lacked the pragmatic strength of some other arguments. 'After all, if one million depowered mutants decided to kill themselves tomorrow so they could be reborn in mutant glory, well...that represents a very real and practical problem for the Five. Scott asks if this is how the Council landed on Crucible, and if he is telling him that in paradise the pragmatists have won. 'No...' Kurt replies. '... there was another argument made'.
Soon, Apocalypse stands in the arena, a large sword sticking into the ground between he and Melody Guthrie. Other mutants can be seen watching from the sidelines – Emplate and Sinister. Apocalypse then speaks: 'Humans. What can we say about humans that they have not already said about themselves?' he asks. 'They cover the truth with lies, but their actions – their godforsaken actions – always reveal who they really are. Oh, how they hate us. Oh, how they fear us. Oh, how they envy us'. Apocalypse tells Melody to look around her and asks if she is filled with envy. Melody remains silent, before replying 'Yes'. Apocalypse asks her what her name is, and Melody tells him it is “Aero”. Apocalypse frowns, and declares that “Aero” is a mutant name, and that he sees no mutant standing before him. 'Perhaps you were born a mutant, but the humans stole that from you. And now – in all the ways that matter – you are as they are... aren't you?' Apocalypse asks.
Melody holds her ground and looks up at Apocalypse, pausing before she replies 'Yes'. Apocalypse asks her again to tell him her name, and so she informs him it is Melody Guthrie. Apocalypse states that Guthrie is a powerful mutant family, a great name. 'What a disappointment you must be' he tells Melody.
From the sidelines, Cannonball exclaims 'This is too much. I'm gonna knock his -' as he starts to get up, but Husk holds her brother back, 'No. Wait. Give it a minute. This is what she wants' Husk reminds Cannonball, as Skin looks over to them.
Apocalypse asks Melody if she can stand the disappointment, if she can abide what they did to her. 'No' Melody calls back. Apocalypse tells Melody to look around her, to look closely – that these people are willing to fight to the very last one to preserve their way of life. 'To fight and die for one another. And this is why we do not accept those like you simply killing yourself to be reborn as something better. It's a surrender. And those days are beyond our people. Do you understand?' Apocalypse asks. 'Yes' Melody confirms.
Apocalypse holds up the large sword and asks Melody what she wants, why she is here. 'To fight and die for my people. Like a mutant' Melody replies. Apocalypse holds his sword overhead and tells Melody to pick up her sword. Melody does, and they stand several feet from each other, ready to do battle.
Nightcrawler tells Cyclops that the problem with all of this is that it feels a little reckless. 'It's true, we have laws and the foundation of some kind of government. But what was it built on? Hope? Anger? Inevitability? Arrogance? What's at the real center of it?' Nightcrawler asks. 'I take it you have some opinions' Cyclops responds. 'That's the thing, my friend. I really don't. All I have are more questions...' Nightcrawler admits. 'Consider my faith. I can't help but wonder what happens to souls when we die?' he asks. 'Do they linger waiting for eternity, or do they return to their mortal vessel when that vessel is reborn, as you and I recently were?' Nightcrawler enquires.
At that moment, Melody leaps through the air, up towards Apocalypse, her small sword clashing against Apocalypse's large one. Apocalypse knocks Melody back to the ground.
Nightcrawler asks 'Am I really me? Are you really you?' to which Cyclops assures Kurt that this is the first time he has felt like himself in years. 'If this is wrong. I don't wanna be right' Scott adds. Kurt tells him that he understands that. 'Still...' his voice trails off. 'Questions?' Scott asks. 'Yes' Kurt confirms.
As Melody raises her sword towards Apocalypse, Kurt tells Scott to think about it – mortality – if one cannot die, if one is immortal – then what lure is eternity?
Apocalypse slams his sword down, knocking Melody backwards, while Kurt asks Scott why they would seek heaven if they can, for all time, do God's work here in the living world? He asks if their true cross now is the burden of creating a heaven on Earth. 'Such questions... I could continue for days, but consider the small cracks already spidering through the foundation of this society we're building...' Kurt's voice trails off before he asks Scott of he has heard about the wills. 'Yes' Scott confirms. 'And?' Kurt replies. 'It's going to be a problem' Scott admits. As Apocalypse slams his fist into Melody, drawing blood, Kurt tells Scott that he agrees, but that some might say it isn't – especially after witnessing Crucible.
'You can live like this. Like a human. It's an existence of a sort. There's nothing wrong with it' Apocalypse tells Melody as he stands over her. 'We can make the pain stop. You wounds can be healed. We have mutants that can make you whole... all you have to do is quit' Apocalypse suggests to Melody, who wipes the blood from her face. 'Just lie there. And don't get up' Apocalypse shouts. 'Go to hell' Melody calls back as she uses her sword to help herself stand up, and raises her sword again as she looks up at Apocalypse. 'Good' Apocalypse replies, before Melody leaps towards him once more.
Nightcrawler tells Cyclops that if one is changed, made whole, in being reborn, then why shouldn't other mutants have the same opportunity in death? 'Why shouldn't they be able to be the very best version of themselves – or perhaps even a better version?' Kurt asks. Scott tells them that he thinks they should, but the problem is that some are arguing that the best version of themselves would be being reborn in a copy of Magneto's body with his powers. 'I've already seen that written into someone's will' Kurt remarks. 'By why stop there? Why not combine two? Why not add a third into the mix?' Kurt asks. 'Yeah. Like I said... it's going to be a problem' Scott remarks as Apocalypse grabs Melody's sword.
Apocalypse then punches Melody over and over, blood sprays everywhere, before Melody collapses to the ground. 'I... I... I...' she utters, hanging her head. 'You're... what?' Apocalypse asks. 'Going to die like that? On your knees?' he enquires. Melody braces herself as she stands up, blood matted across her face, she clenches her fists, 'Never' she snaps back at the ancient mutant. Cannonball and Husk look shocked, and Skin has to hold Cannonball back, while someone else grabs Husk as she tears part of her face off, revealing a stronger form underneath.
Apocalypse holds his sword and tells Melody 'I see you, sister. We all do. Accept this gift. You have earned it'. He then raises his sword and brings it down towards Melody.
There is darkness, before Melody Guthrie, crying, emerges from the hatchery, covered in the gunk that all newly resurrected mutants are covered in. 'Welcome back' Charles Xavier tells the reborn mutant, while Apocalypse and Storm stand next to him. Melody looks up at them, and Storm tells her to get to her feet, as Krakoa is waiting for her. Melody joins Apocalypse, Storm and Xavier as they stand before dozens of other mutants on Krakoa, light shines down on Melody, while Cyclops and Nightcrawler stand among the gathered mutants.
'How do you explain something like this? How do you accurately describe it? Miraculous? Glorious? Wrong?' Kurt asks. 'All I know is you've convinced me. You're right... you do have questions' Scott replies, while the mutants known as the Five – Hope, Elixir, Proteus, Egg and Tempus – stand nearby. 'Yes. And the thing I'm sure of is this: Any answers I find... I do not think they are for me alone' Kurt frowns. 'They're for all of us' he adds, as Apocalypse looks down at Melody.
'I... I'm back. I'm whole. Thank you' Melody utters, looking up at Apocalypse, who tells her that he deserves no credit for revealing what was always there. 'What victory there is is yours and yours alone. All that's left for you to do is claim it' Apocalypse explains. 'Still... thank you' Melody utters. Apocalypse puts a hand on Melody's shoulder and tells her that she is welcome. 'Now... what are you waiting for? Show them who you really are' he suggests.
Husk, Cannonball, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Nightcrawler and Wolverine are all standing together and look up as Melody rises into the air, using her powers for the first time since she lost them.
'Right or wrong. It sure is something, isn't it?' Cyclops remarks. 'Yes. Yes, it is' Nightcrawler replies, before telling Cyclops that he needs to start a mutant religion, as the light shines down on Aero, who hovers above Krakoa, smiling.


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Swarm
Krakoa, the Akademos Habitat, the Sextant, as sun rises over the mutant nation, Amara Aquilla a.k.a. Magma stretches her arms as she walks into a communal area, where Dani Moonstar is also entering. 'Morning' Magma calls out. 'Good morning. How'd you sleep?' Dani asks. 'Like a baby. How about you?' Magma replies. Holding two cups of coffee, Dani remarks that she got a solid seven, so someone is doing something right. She hands Magma a cup of the coffee, as Magma asks 'What's that?' Dani turns to see that Magma is looking at a strange egg sitting on a table nearby and explains to her that it is something that Rahne brought back from space. 'Space stuff, space junk... whatever. Who knows?' Dani remarks.
Elsewhere, in deep space, where there are a million broken civilizations. A Shi'ar graveyard. At the edge of the empire is a bleed. The decaying energy of a dead universe. A river of dark matter flows from the collapsed then into the collapsing now – a spawning ground, where the carcasses of the large alien beings called the Acanti float in the space graveyard. Predators swarm over them – they are parasites – they are Brood, countless of which can be seen scrambling over the mouth and eyes of one of the dead Acanti. The horrid Brood are always expanding, all-consuming, and their number are unimaginable. Ten thousand worlds, six trillion drones, one thousand queens. As are the stars are their numbrts, and they have gathered here for one thing – to hunt the King Egg.
Somewhere, Gabriel Summers seems to float through waves of color. 'Gabriel' a voice calls out to him. 'Gabriel, wake up!' the voice exclaims, and Vulcan suddenly opens his eyes, which glow with energy. 'There he is' Scott Summers a.k.a. Cyclops remarks as he stares down at Vulcan. 'Brother, you look terrible. Late night?' Alex Summers a.k.a. Havok asks. Vulcan looks up at his brothers and tells them that he fears the fire within him has been extinguished. Vulcan is sprawled out on the floor, his legs raised up on the sofa, bottles of alcohol and packets of potato chips scattered across the floor. 'That... that was the beer. You drowned it' a woman with blonde hair wearing a green costume called Petra remarks as she lays sprawled on a nearby sofa. 'Shhh. I don't want any breakfast' his other original teammate, known as Sway, groans from another sofa.
Havok helps Vulcan sit up and tells him that he has to get his fire back. 'Not judging, but you guys are a little outta control' Havok remarks, adding that they never clean up, which makes it worse. 'C'mon, Gabe... this isn't a house, it's our home' Havok declares.
'Bad dreams again?' Cyclops asks. Vulcan rubs his face and replies that it was a bad dream – the same one every single time – every single night. 'It's all I remember from – huh?' Vulcan begins, interrupting himself when he looks up through the dome surrounding the Summer House on the moon. 'What in the world?' Vulcan utters as Cyclops and Havok look up too – and they see several large Acanti fly past, headed towards planet Earth.
Back on Krakoa, Idie Okonkwo a.k.a. Oya and the alien Broo walk side by side past several houses as Broo remarks that it is fascinating how much this place has changed already. 'It feels like I was just here for the independence party, and it's... it's...' Broo's voice trails off, as Oya tells him that he had it right – changed. She adds that the island keeps growing new structures as more and more mutants show up. 'It seems like every day you wake up and the world outside the window has changed completely' Oya adds. 'Too fast' Broo remarks. 'Not to criticize, but I have noticed  the need for the adoption of building standards' Broo adds, informing Oya that the last place she showed him was unacceptable. 'Oh, that's just the Gen X kids. It's how they are. Living like animals...this'll be better' Oya replies. 'Hello, visitors! Anyone home?' Oya calls out as she and Broo enter one of the houses. 'Sure! Come on in!' a voice calls back.
'Hey, Idie! Hello there, Broo' Dani Moonstar smiles as she turns to the new arrivals as she sits around a table with Magma, Rahne Sinclair a.k.a. Wolfsbane and Illyana Rasputin a.k.a. Magik. Rahne points out that they are just having breakfast and asks if anyone is hungry. 'Look at those teeth, Rahne. Of course he's hungry' Illyana jokes. 'Actually, I'm juicing. I'm trying to drop a few – what are you doing with that?' Broo exclaims, interrupting himself as he points across the room. 'With what?' one of the New Mutants asks. 'With... THAT!' Broo declares, pointing at the egg on the table nearby. 'Ah, that's me space booty' Wolfsbane grins, boasting that with great cunning and guile, she won it in battle. 'Tis mine, ahn ye can't have it' Rahne declares. Broo adjusts his glasses and says that he isn't quite sure exactly how to put this – but he will do his best effort before shouting 'Listen here, you insane, befurred woman! That's a King Egg!' 'So?' Illyana asks. 'So? So? A King Egg disrupts the breeding cycle. A King Egg makes the queens go to war. More importantly... unless special precautions are taken... a Brood hive can smell a King Egg from a galaxy away!' Broo explains to the New Mutants, when suddenly, there is a mighty THOOM crashing noise outside.
The New Mutants, Broo and Oya rush outside, where they find one of the Acanti carcasses has landed nearby – and countless savage Brood are starting to emerge from the dead alien. 'Oh boy' Dani utters. 'Well...it looks like it's going to be one of those days' Dani tells her friends. Magik raises her Soulsword, and calls out to Magma. 'Yes?' Magma replies. 'Say hello' Magik instructs her, before Magma fires a massive blast of fire at the approaching aliens, burning as many of them as she can. The Brood move closer to the New Mutants,  so Magik and Moonstar engage them in battle. 'We have to hold them back until reinforcements get her' Magik calls out as her sword cuts through her alien foes. Moonstar readies a psychic arrow as she instructs Wolfsbane and Idie to get the younger kids to safety. Several young mutants can be seen nearby, as Wolfsbane tells them to head into the woods, towards the Arena. 'Yeah, I see your teeth. I know hungry when I see it' Magik calls out as she continues her battle against the Brood – when suddenly, a powerful optic blast streams past Magik, destroying several Brood at once, courtesy of Cyclops, who emerges through a portal with Jean Grey.
'What's the word, Jean?' Cyclops asks as he fires another blast. Jean runs alongside Cyclops and reports that the Council knows, and she is coordinating with about 30 telepaths, while two strike teams are incoming. Jean adds that she is doing what she can to keep everyone calm and orderly, but they are still going to lose people. 'Let me see what I can do about that' Cyclops replies. 'Captain' he calls out to Magik.' Commander' Magik replies as she slices her sword through one of the Brood. Cyclops fires an optic blast at close-range into one of the Brood and tells Magik that, if she doesn't mind too much, to make a hole for him. 'In fact, make a few' he asks. Magik creates several Stepping Disc portals in the air nearby, and Cyclops informs her that he won't be holding back here. 'So careful where you aim' he warns her as he starts firing optic blasts into the portals – the optic blasts then emerge from several other portals, striking the Brood in a furiously fast display. 'Always careful, Commander' Magik replies.
Broo approaches Jean Grey, 'Uh, excuse me' he calls out. 'I'm a little busy, Broo. Can this possibly wait?' Jean replies as she telekinetically tosses one of the Brood away. Holding the King Egg, Broo replies that it can't, and tells Jean that he knows why the Brood are here, and how to stop them. 'Well, now you have my full attention. Let's hear it' Jean remarks, turning to Broo.
'Scott!' Jean calls out telepathically a moment later, as Cyclops fights alongside Magik and Moonstar, his thoughts tell Jean that he is a little busy and asks if this can possibly wait. 'Uh, not really. I know why the Brood are here' Jean announces. Jean reports that the Brood are after an egg that Broo has, but the real problem is, even if they push these Brood back, this is just the first wave – they will keep coming and coming until  they get it. Jean then tells Scott that she thinks they have to get the egg off planet. 'Understood' Scott responds. 'We can work with that. Tell Alex to get the ship ready to launch' he adds, before announcing that he is on his way. Cyclops turns to Magik and tells her that Jean said they have get the egg off-world, and that they are going to gateway to the moon then lead the Brood away from Earth. He asks Magik if she can hold things down here. 'RRRRRR!' Magik replies, holding her sword up. 'Good girl' Cyclops tells her as he moves away, leaving Magik to continue fighting the Brood.
'Go ahead! Go through! They can't follow us!' Cyclops calls out to Jean and Broo who are waiting near a portal. He joins them as they step through the portal into a hangar bay where a space ship is waiting. 'Okay. We've got a head start. But that won't last long' someone remarks. Cyclops announces that they are here and asks if everyone is ready. Havok motions to the spaceship and informs his brother that Vulcan is already on board. As Cyclops and Habok board the space ship, Cyclops asks about Petra and Sway, but Havok informs him that he sent them down to Krakoa to fight with the others. 'We're good... we can go' Havok adds, before he, Cyclops, Jean and Broo join Vulcan inside the space ship. Cyclops buckles himself in and Vulcan remarks that this vessel is more than capable, that it wants to run, there is a great fire waiting to ignite inside it. 'Yeah, Gabriel. We know. Everything burns' Scott replies, before telling his brother to just punch it. 'I need to hear you say it, brother' Gabriel responds. Scott sighs, and mutters 'I want the fire to be the fire'. This causes Vulcan to laugh, before he sets the space ship off out into space.
Meanwhile, in Shi'ar space, aboard a strange vessel, an Accuser announces that he cannot say he is susprised by this failure, and that over the years, he has been failed by so many. 'One becomes used to it – the failure of the inferior' he remarks, adding that, usually, he just deals with it in his normal fashion – judgment and following judgment, penance. 'And do you know what follows that?' he asks, looking out a view screen into space, he explains that he takes a deep breath, a deep cleansing breath and a great peace comes over him, knowing that he has saved this universe from the further incompetence of the incompetent. The Accuser looks over at the captive Starjammers – Corsair, Hepzibah, Ch'od and Raza Longknife and states that here, today, he cannot abide the simple realities of failure – judgment is not enough. 'I was promised the King Egg. And these prisoners have told me you took it' The Accuser declares as he turns to a holographic connection that displays Roberto DaCosta a.k.a. Sunspot, with Josiah Guthrie hovering behind him.
'Wow. You really beat the hell out of those guys' Sunspot remarks, adding that he isn't surprised, as the Starjammers usually have it coming. 'And, you know, now that I think about it, I kinda dig you, man. Good work. Way to put your back into it' Sunspot smiles, before assuring Ronan that he doesn't have his egg. 'But you do know where it is?' the Accuser asks. 'Let's just say I have a pretty good idea of where to find it. Maybe I make a call, things could be set in motion, you could end this whole thing a happy man. But I gotta ask, what's in it for me?' Sunspot replies. 'What do you want?' the Accuser enquires. 'Well, me, I'd like to see you work over Mister Mustache over there a little more, but he's family of a friend and I'm pretty big on paying it forward. So... let them go and I'll give the egg to them to give to you. Then you get what you want, they provide what they promised and then you can lose my number' Sunspot suggests, adding that that is it, because he just doesn't care enough to negotiate further.
The Accuser pauses, before announcing that he accepts. 'Of course you do' Sunspot replies, before ending the communication.
Sunspot turns his attention back to Cannonball's child, as the Imperial Guard member, Smasher a.k.a. Izzy Kane, enters the room and asks Roberto why he was talking to a Kree Accuser in their living room. Sunspot explains that he was just doing a favor to someone who doesn't deserve it. 'You know me, I'm a giver' Sunspot adds. 'I do know. Still...' Izzy's voice trails off, before stating that she is showing that the call originated from subsection 43, and sure, it is on the edge, but it still in Shi'ar space. 'Why is a Kree Accuser calling from inside the empire?' Izzy enquires.
In subsector 43 of Shi'ar space, a Brood spawning ground, the alien known as Kid Gladiator blasts his way through one of the Brood aliens and turns to his father, Gladiator, 'Did you see that? That – Dad – is how you keep the peace on the frontier!' Kid Gladiator boasts. Gladiator smiles at his son, and calling him Kubark, tells him he did well. As Manta and Oracle fly nearby, Oracle tells Gladiator that she knows this hunting trip with his son has been quite some time coming, and she is loath to interrupt. 'What's happened?' Gladiator asks. Oracle reports that she just received word from a Superguardian about a potential problem in this subsector. 'What is it?' Gladiator asks. Oracle informs him that Smasher believes a Kree Accuser is here – now. 'An Accuser?' Gladiator replies, before informing Kubark to reload his rifle, as they have a new target. 'What are we hunting now, Dad?' Kid Gladiator calls out. 'Better game' Gladiator frowns.


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The King Egg
8,000 years ago:
Hala, the Kree Empire, where an Accuser with long white hair and white beard holds a hammer-like weapon as he stands between two blue-skinned members of the Kree Army, the trio standing before a cell with a display screen, they look into the cell and the Accuser asks 'Where did you find them?' The male Kree warrior reports that they were found in the dark matter flow of a collapsed universe, by a remote team of imperial xenotomologists and that they observed that the hive began to mimic and then adapt to their behavior. He suggests that the behavior wasn't abnormal, but that it deserved a closer look. The female Kree warrior states that it was only after they realized the creatures were luring, trapping and parasitically consuming members of the team that they understood they were dealing with an ancient, highly adaptive, aggressive species. 'And so it was brought to our attention, and from us, the information flowed to you' the woman adds. 'Adaptive how?' the Accuser asks, looking into the cell, where an alien Brood scuttles past the display screen.
'They consume not just the host but also the knowledge that host contained' the male Kree informs the Accuser, while inside the cell, the Brood can be seen confronting another alien. 'Watch' the Kree remarks, as the Brood shoves the end of its forked tail into the other alien, pinning it to the floor, before suddenly, that alien begins to transform into a Brood also. 'Fascinating' the Accuser remarks, before asking what the structure of the Brood is, as he reaches for the display screen hatch. The male Kree reports that the Brood are matriarchal, like many rapidily reproductive hive societies. The Accuser opens the cell and steps inside it, raising his large hammer weapon above the Brood, he asks the other Kree what they propose. The female Kree explains that they want to genetically seed the hive with a biological control mechanism and tells the Accuser that left to its own volition, the hive will evolve along a predictable – and seasonal – path of factional queens and dueling hives. The Accuser slams his hammer down on one of the Brood, causing green blood to spray up around him and splatter the cell display screen. The male Kree adds that they want to produce a patriarchal element that – when introduced to the hive – will seize control of the entire society and turn them into a weapon to disrupt rival advanced civilizations.
The Accuser slams his hammer into the second Brood, more green blood sprays about, before he turns to the Kree and asks them what they call this plan. 'A King Egg' the male Kree responds, holding up an example of the egg. The Accuser steps through the hatch back out into the chamber and asks the Kree if they have any other data to divulge, or if this completes their presentation. The male Kree informs the Accuser that is everything, to which the Accuser asks if they are ready to hear judgment. 'Yes' the Kree responds. The Accuser looks further down the chamber, to a large stasis tank, where the head-like form of the Supreme Intelligence floats. The Accuser tells the Supreme Intelligence that it falls to him, 'What say you? Is this a weapon worth building?' the Accuser asks. 'The usefulness of any weapon requires a target against which to be judged' the Supreme Intelligence responds, before continuing, stating 'Considering the viral nature the hive society – and also the limiting nature of its singular replication model – we project a timeline of no less than eight millennia for a hive society possessing sufficient volume and intelligence to topple a rival empire'.
The Supreme Intelligence announces that potential rivals existing within that scale include the Skrulls, the Badoon, the Galdor, the Shi'ar and the Cotati. The Supreme Intelligence adds that the highest probable effectiveness are spiral galaxies with an abnormal number of dwarf systems, and that the most favorable target is the Shi'ar, before the Supreme Intelligence approves the weapon. 'Though we will long have passed, our legacy is a work that will deliver a great victory millennia from now' the male Kree utters, while the female Kree thanks the Supremor.
Today:
Shi'ar space, where a small space craft containing several powerful mutants moves swiftly through the darkness of space – followed by two Acanti, large aliens that are controlled by the Brood to act as transport for the deadly aliens. 'They're gaining on us' Scott Summers a.k.a. Cyclops announces as he pilots the space craft, adding that he doesn't think they can stay ahead of the Brood for much longer. Sitting at his side is his brother Gabriel a.k.a. Vulcan, and standing behind them is their brother, Alex a.k.a. Havok. Jean Grey, sometimes called Marvel Girl, stands behind Havok, while the alien Broo – a Brood himself – sits nearby, holding the Brood King Egg. Suddenly, Alex points at the viewscreen and tells his brother that he doesn't think they have to worry about who is behind them, 'Look!' he shouts, as dozens of Acanti can be seen floating ahead of the X-Men's space craft, with Brood scuttling out of some of them.
Elsewhere, aboard a space station, 'You've kept me waiting, child...there's a cost associated with that. For either you pay... or your confidants do' an Accuser demand as he speaks with Roberto Da Costa a.k.a. Sunspot via a holographic projection, asking him where the King Egg is. Inside a cell, the Starjammers – Corsair, Hepzibah, Raza Longknife and Ch'od – are shackled, while the holographic projection of Sunspot remarks 'Okay, so...you're gonna be mad – maybe not as mad as your captives there – but mad nonetheless. Anyway, here it goes...I totally forgot about the  egg thing. Completely slipped my mind. What happened was Sam and I started watching the Shi'ar version of “Jeopardy” and, gotta tell you, we did not know any of the answers. It was very frustrating'. Corsair is not impressed by Sunspot's babbling, and grits his teeth as he mutters 'Da Costa...when I get my hands on you...' to which Sunspot tells Corsair to relax, and that he is joking. Sunspot announces that he made some calls and the good news is that he found the egg thing – and it's actually headed in their direction.
'Hala's great halls of mercy! We're being boarded!' the Accuser exclaims as he turns to a door when he hears some loud thudding noises. 'The bad news is Sam's wife tracked you and you've got something else coming your way' Suspot adds. 'Bang. Bang. Dummies' Sam Guthrie a.k.a. Cannonball smiles when he appears on the holographic projection. A door is suddenly blown open, and Gladiator steps through along with his son, Kid Gladiator, and teammates Oracle and Manta, dragging several unconscious Kree soldiers with them. 'It seems you are lost, Accuser. This is Shi'ar space, and we are a people free of Kree judgment' Gladiator announces. The Accuser tells Gladiator that all will be judged, and that this is a righteous, millennial work that he is engaged in – and that one such as Gladiator should fall in its doing only makes it more so.
'Hey, Dad?' Kid Gladiator calls out. 'Yes?' Gladiator asks, turning to his son. 'You know how you're always busy running the empire, and you promised this would be some uninterrupted me-and-you time? Without any imperial nonsense?' Kid Gladiator reminds his father. 'I do' Gladiator responds, to which Kid Gladiator tells his father that he will forgive him if he %#^&! this guy up for him. Gladiator smiles – almost – before he flies towards the Accuser, who raises his weapon – but it's no use, as the Accuser is smashed by Gladiator through the side of the space station, sending him careening backwards through space, past the X-Men's space craft which is under attack by several Brood, and towards the large gaping mouth of one of the Acanti. The Acanti closes its mouth, chomping down on the Accuser, and narrowly missing the X-Men's space craft.
Inside the space craft, Vulcan reports that he can't keep the ship steady, and that they are going down. Jean suggests that they have two options – the space station up ahead or the planetoid that it is orbiting. Cyclops announces that they will head to the planet, as there is a bigger canvas to work with, and points out that the space station is going to get chewed up by the Brood in their wake. Havok sends a holographic message to the space station, warning them that they need to evacuate immediately, as there is a Brood swarm on the way. He interrupts his message when he sees his father, Corsair, being freed from his shackles by Gladiator. 'What the -' Alex begins. Corsair turns to the projection of his son and tells him that he knows this is not the reunion he was hoping for, but that they can catch up later. 'Right now I need to know if you happen to have a Brood King Egg on you' Corsair declares. Havok confirms that they do, and Gladiator remarks that he now understands what this is about – a King Egg. Gladiator asks the X-Men if they are landing on the planet below, to which Cyclops responds 'Landing? Not likely'.
The X-Men's space craft careens towards the planet below, narrowly missing the space station, which suddenly explodes when one of the massive Acanti crashes into it, which causes space station rubble to begin falling towards the planet as well. Several Acanti continue to fly towards  the planet, while some of the rubble begins to strike the planet's surface. Among the rubble, the Starjammers and the Shi'ar emerge. 'This way!' Jean Grey calls out to them as she, Havok, Cyclops, Vulcan and Broo appear, Jean lifting the space craft rubble telekinetically. Everyone rushes towards a cave system, with Cyclops asking Jean if she can get through to the Brood, but Jean reports that she can't, as their thoughts are manic, madness, driven by the fear of their queens. 'Scott, you need to imagine the control each of these queens must have. It must be absolute. Total' Jean utters.
In the darkness, several Brood scurry about, while Jean tells Scott 'Imagine living your entire life as a predator – hunting whatever you felt needed to be hunted. Consuming whatever you desired to consume. Just consider what it would be like having millions of your species – millions of your race – willing to die just so you could have more than what you already had. Consider the appetite of it...the power of it. Try to imagine what it must feel like'. Countless Brood can be seen scuttling into a cave system, while Jean continues: 'Now, imagine something unexpected – unforeseen – that could take all of it away from you. And worse than that...it would turn you into that which you have lorded over for thousands of years: a drone. How badly would you overreact to this threat? How badly would you want that threat to die?' Jean asks.
Inside the cavern system, the X-Men, Starjammers and Shi'ar find themselves inside the same set of caves, which enter some sort of strange palace-like facility, that the Brood are in. Havok blasts a first wave of Brood with his solar energy, while Cyclops unleashes a beam of optic fury against several more, and Gladiator smashes a Brood open with his bare fist. Jean states that these queens would sacrifice everything to hold on to their power, as the others join the battle, smashing, ripping and blasting their way through the Brood. Jean announces that such is the threat the King Egg is – that they will kill everything that stands in between them and the King Egg – everything. A large Brood closes in on Vulcan, wrapping its pincer-like legs around his body, while Jean slams another Brood with a telekinetic blast, she calls out to Scott, warning him to look out, she screams his name – and suddenly, Jean, Cyclops, Havok and Vulcan are surrounded by a huge swarm of the Brood – who suddenly stop in their tracks.
'They've just stopped' Havok remarks. 'They've lost their fire' Vulcan suggests, covered in the green Brood blood. Cyclops tells the others that he will take a win any way they can get it, before Oracle announces that this isn't a win, and explains that the Brood are a hive mind with a singular goal – meaning this is something larger. 'This shouldn't be happening' she adds. 'No. It shouldn't. Where the hell's that egg?' Corsair asks, trying to fling some of the Brood blood off of his hands. Suddenly, everyone turns to look at Broo, who looks up at the others, the broken King Egg in his hands. 'Sorry. I ate it' he tells them, sitting on some sort of podium or throne.
In the adjacent space of a million broken civilizations, there is a Shi'ar graveyard. A spawning ground for parasites – for Brood. Ten thousand worlds, six trillion drones, one thousand queens – and now...one king.


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Then:Floating through a rift known as the Fault, Gabriel Summers a.k.a. Vulcan appears lifeless, his body unmoving, when suddenly, his eyes flash with golden energy, when suddenly, a large green tentacle grabs Vulcan by his wrist, then begins to cover Vulcan completely, capturing him and uttering 'Gently... the celestial avatar escaped – that King is lost to us. So let's take a bit more care with this one'. Vulcan struggles to breathe when the alien covers his face with the tentacle, before Vulcan is dragged into the large mouth of the huge green tentacled alien.
Shortly, Vulcan finds himself floating before three aliens wearing strange headresses. 'These two kings and their empires waged a war that tore a hole – that opened a door – between this place and that' one of them states, before raising a hand, and remarking 'I wonder what's a king worth there? Let's see shall we?' the blue-skinned alien asks, before Vulcan screams in agony, as his body is torn apart by the aliens. 'Ah...look at that. He has fire within him. True power inside a broken and twisted host' the alien with reddish skin remarks, as a glowing flame can be seen inside Vulcan. 'Yes. But how broken. And how twisted?' the green-skinned alien with two mouths and four eyes asks, both mouths grinning wickedly.
Now:'Ahh!' Vulcan exclaims as he opens his eyes, rubs the back of his head and sits up from where he was sleeping. 'Damn it' he mutters to himself, before putting his yellow boots on and making his way down a corridor, to where he finds his old teammates Suzanne Chen a.k.a. Sway and Petra in a kitchen. Sway is sitting on a bench, several bottles of alcohol and other ingredients for making cocktails next to her, while Petra stands nearby. 'Hey! Look who's up!' Sway calls out as she sees Vulcan approaching. 'Just in time, Emperor' Petra remarks, to which Sway tells her not to call him that, as he doesn't like it. 'But I like it... and I'm the one making margaritas' Petra replies. 'Here we go again, huh?' Vulcan asks. 'You know what I like to say. There's always time for margaritas... and if there's not... well, I'm me...' Sway responds. 'So there's always time for margaritas' Petra smiles as she places some ingredients in a blender. 'Ugh, too loud' Vulcan complains at the noise, covering his ears, before he asks where Scott and everyone else are.
Petra tells him that they are gone, that they took the kids somewhere, but they let him a note. 'Regardless, you know what that means, don't you?' she asks. 'No adult supervision. Say goodbye to the boring mutants, say hello to the trash bags' Sway exclaims. Petra hands Vulcan a margarita and tells him that they are going to wreck this place. 'So... drink up, Emperor' she smiles.
Vulcan takes the drink and tells Petra that he really wishes she wouldn't call him that, when suddenly, Petra and Sway clutch their heads and complain about brain freeze. 'I hate that...' Petra mumbles, before turning to Vulcan, who is drinking his margarita, 'What about you? Not so much?' she asks. Vulcan tells her that he doesn't get brain freeze, that he never has. 'Why not? Oh, I know..' Petra begins, before she and Sway smile as they sing “He has a fire burning within him”.
Vulcan puts the margarita on the bench, 'I don't know if today is -' he begins, before Sway tells him to hold that thought. She leans against the bench where Petra is now sitting, and asks 'Are we drinking? Or are we drinking?' Sway asks, adding that she wouldn't mind turning things up to ten. 'I say eleven!' Petra exclaims, throwing her arms into the air, she declares that there are a lot of very hot medium-powered mutants on the island that would love to get down at the Summer House. 'I have some ideas I'm noodling on, but I don't want you judging me right now' Sway remarks. 'Either way, what do you say, Emperor? Party? Or party?' she asks. Vulcan pauses, before turning and walking away from his friends, informing them that he is going for a walk.
Vulcan steps out of the Summer House and onto the surface of the Moon. Some mutants live on the Moon, in what is called the Summer House. Vulcan's footprints can be seen as he walks across the grayish landscape, the Moon is far from the Sea of Tranquility, nestled in the shadows of the meridian fissure. It is just one lunar mile from the Blue Area of the Moon, and the ruins of an ancient civilization. Once, it was a place of nightmares for mutants – but that past has been put to rest – the pain of that memory erased forever. Vulcan looks down as two small green vines rise up around his ankle. He continues on across the Moon, before coming to a large crater, where, in this Blue Area of the Moon, something new has taken root. A lush landscape filled with strange plant life.
Some sort of carnivorous plant can be seen near Vulcan as he makes his way through the bizarre plants, a noise, Ska-THOOMP can be heard over and over, before Vulcan comes to a stop: 'Of course...' he utters, as he sees several Cotati aliens carrying large glowing spheres from a strange seed pod. Vulcan approaches the aliens and tells them 'That's some feat of engineering...I would know. My mutant eyes are capable of seeing great things'. Vulcan stands among the Cotati and tells them that he is no gifted with telescopic vision, nor is he known for accurately judging the trajectory of things, so he will assume that Earth is their general target, and that they are doing their best not to hit the island his people call home. 'Because that would be a mistake. You're going to want to steer clear of Krakoa' he warns the Cotati.
'Saying that, I feel the need to tell you... All this... violence you're doing... it never ends well. Believe me' Vulcan adds, before a large Cotati walks up behind him and says something in his native language. 'Oh, I know. I understand where it comes from. You look at humanity and find them wanting. You look at what they're capable of – and there's so little good to balance out all that evil... I can see why you want to destroy them. I really can'. Vulcan turns around the Cotati towering over him, 'But once you start down that road... have you considered what that makes you?' Vulcan asks.
Back inside the Summer House, Petra and Sway are lounging on chairs as they look out a large window that shows them the landscape beyond the Summer House, with the Earth seen in the space beyond. 'Here you go. Round three' Sway remarks, before asking Petra 'Any sign of him?' 'He went in that general direction... and nope. Not a peep' Petra replies. Sway looks over at Petra and asks her if she wants to go after Vulcan. 'My head says yes, but this drink says no. so maybe in a minute' Petra  replies. An instant later, an explosion can be seen in the direction Vulcan ventured into. Ah, Hello, Emperor' Petra remarks. 'What about now?' Sway asks, sipping her margarita. 'Now my head says hell no and my drink says I'm delicious, please finish me' Petra replies, before asking Sway what she thinks. 'We'll give it a minute' Sway responds.
Back outside, Vulcan is now surrounded by a dozen Cotati, two of who hold him down. One of them announces that they have subdued him, but at great cost, and adds that he fights like a wounded beast. 'Let them fight all they want. Let them build their buildings and mine the earth – the jungle always returns. And the flesh is always weak' the large Cotati declares. Vulcan warns the Cotati that he is holding back, speaking to the Cotati in their language. 'The meat speaks our tongue...but it also speaks lies. What meat has ever offered truth freely?' the large Cotati states, adding that they have ways of getting past that. The Cotati hold Vulcan's head in place, as the large Cotati holds out his hand, where a strange pink blob grows. 'What are you doing? Don't...' Vulcan begins, as the pink blob reaches out to Vulcan's face, and the Cotati states that it will take seed and burrow deep. 'If you have anything to hide – we will know it' the Cotati warns Vulcan.
Then:Vulcan screams, as his body is still torn apart, while the alien with reddish skin and one large eye uses some sort of green energy against Vulcan and states 'There! It's done!' Vulcan then utters 'My mind... my mind, it... what have you done to me?' he asks, while the blue skinned alien tells Vulcan that there was a flaw in him, an error in his existence, a crack in his firmament. The alien with reddish skin tells remarks that he cannot be fixed, so they have made him into something else. 'A flaw? What flaw?' Vulcan asks, tears streaming down his face. The blue skinned alien tells Vulcan that he has good in him, some small microscopic measure that, given fertile soil, which could grow into something more – that it is a cancer, and that is unacceptable for the work they have set in front of him.
The green skinned alien with two mouths and four eyes explains that they have separated the two, that inside, hidden under a thin layer of that good, is the beautiful broken creature that he is. The reddish skinned alien informs Vulcan that they are going to release him back into the universe and tells him 'They will see you as changed – reborn, healthy and whole but that is just a shell. Underneath it – buried alive in a shallow grave – is the real you. You can lie to yourself, pretend to be better – to be unbroken – but we know what's waiting there inside you...waiting to get out'.
Now:Vulcan stares at the pink blob which has taken the form of a flower, with vines reaching out and touching his face – then there is a massive explosion, tearing through the Cotati and the lush landscape they created. Vulcan lashes out and blasts the large seed-pod which the Cotati were carrying the golden spheres from, destroying it. The large Cotati survived the blast and shelters behind some rock, 'He's mad! He's lost his mind! He's going to kill us all!' the Cotati tells another survivor. Vulcan walks towards them, 'You wanted truth? Well, this is a hard truth. You're going to die here today' Vulcan warns them. 'This is but a season. A pass from one to the next' the tall Cotati utters, raising some sort of weapon and aims it Vulcan, telling him that they will take seed, and return one day. Vulcan roars at the Cotati and releases some sort of energy, destroying the Cotati. 'Hey there, Emperor' a voice calls out.
Rage in his eyes, Vulcan turns to see Petra and Sway sitting on a large vine nearby. 'You about done here?' Sway asks, as Vulcan drops to the ground. 'I... I...' his voice trails off. The women walk over to him and Petra calls him Gabriel and tells him that it is okay, and that it is over. Vulcan suddenly sees the three aliens in his mind, before he powers down, the rage disappears and he tells Petra and Sway that he could break the moon in half if he wanted – but he doesn't want to be this way. 'We know. So why don't we get out of here' Sway tells Vulcan, putting a hand on his shoulder. Petra calls him Gabriel again and offers to make them a drink. Vulcan smiles and tells his friends that they can go home. He leads the way back across the moon, with Sway and Petra following him.
A note lies somewhere at the Summer House that reads:
Gabriel,
You were asleep and I didn't want to wake you...
Jean and I are taking the kids to Chandilore for the day. I know we've talked about you getting out and not just staying at the house, and I really think you should reconsider it.
I know coming back here to Shi'ar space was out of the question – maybe it shouldn't be – but doing the same thing over and over, each and every day, makes it hard to become someone new. I know that deep down that's what you want.
And, hey, I promise I'll be with you the whole way. Come fire, come war, come anything that would stand in the way. You're safe, because you're with family.
We'll probably be home after dinner.
Love, Scott.
And on the shore of a beach on Chandilore, Wolverine relaxes in a beach chair, while Cyclops and Jean Grey walk through the shallows of the water, young Cable stands on the beach, while Rachel Summers stands nearby, glancing off into space.


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One War, One Mutant
The mutant island nation of Krakoa, specifically the Arrako point, where three young mutants are making their way through the dense jungle. 'I'm telling you, he was this way. Through here. He was just sitting there – waiting...like a total weirdo' Victor Borkowski a.k.a. Anole remarks. 'I thought we weren't supposed to talk to him?' Alani Ryan a.k.a. Loa replies. 'Nobody said that. It was more like “be careful”...yes, he's a mutant, but he's not from here' Santo Vaccarro a.k.a. Rockslide explains. 'He's not like us' Rockslide adds. 'This way, I think' Anole tells his friends. Loa asks him if he is sure, but Anole tells her that he doesn't know, but he did see him, that he smiled like he knew he was there, even though he was hiding. 'He was surrounded by his creepy little – okay, see?' Anole declares as they come to a clearing and find the mysterious Summoner sitting next to a tree stump in the middle of the clearing. 'Just like I said. Total weirdo' Anole utters.
'Hello, friends' the Summoner calls out when he senses the young mutants at the edge of the clearing. 'Uh, hi' Loa calls back as the three young mutants walk iinto the circle that surrounds the Summoner. 'So what are you doing here? Meditating, or... heeey! Is that a game? It looks like a game' Rockslide utters as he looks at the tree stump, which has what appears to be a piece of rock on it. The Summoner smiles and tells the others that it is a game – a game of Arakko. He reveals that he learned to play it as a child, but that it certainly not just a game for children, and that he has played many, many times. 'How's it work?' Anole asks, rubbing his head. The Summoner tells him that it depends on the player, as each game is adaptive, that it changes, and you can play with one player, which is what he was getting ready to do, but it is better with two.
Loa asks what the game is called and the Summoner grins, uttering something in an unusual language, he explains that it is an Arakki word, and the name doesn't translate cleanly. He supposes that the closest thing is “trial” or perhaps “test” would be better. The Summoner reveals that it is a game about discovering the soft places inside both you and the person you're playing against – how to defend and how to attack – it is a game about weakness. 'What if you don't have any?' Rockslide asks. The Summoner looks up at him and tells him that is how it starts, before asking him if he would like to play. 'It's okay to refuse. Many do' the Summoner states, but Rockslide sits down on the other side of the tree stump and agrees to play. 'Excellent' the Summoner remarks, before offering one word of caution – once the game begins, they do not stop until it ends. 'I've missed many a meal this way' the Summoner adds.
'Sure. Okay. How do we start?' Rockslide asks. Rockslide picks up the small piece of rock, 'Whoa' Loa utters as the piece of rock takes the shape of Rockslide. 'That's... different' Rockslide mutters, before the Summoner tells him to place the piece anywhere on the board, and that as with life, where he begins has little to do with where he will end. 'All the moves are yours and they can take you wherever you choose – or more importantly – where fate demands' the Summoner explains as Rockslide places the figure on the tree stump. 'What the -' Rockslide begins as a brilliant flash of light appears overhead – several Cotati warships are speeding towards Krakoa. 'Well... that's ominous' the Summoner remarks.
The next day on Krakoa, 'Are you afraid?' Exodus asks as he sits around a bonfire in a forest clearing, with several young mutants seated around the fire. 'I ask because it's important that we never lie to one another. It takes courage to speak the truth – it takes courage to hear it' Exodus smiles, informing the young mutants that mutants died today. 'So I ask... are you afraid?' One of the young mutants with glasses declares that he doesn't know about everyone else, but he is not. 'And why is that?' Exodus asks. 'Because they're coming back' the young mutant points out. Another of the mutants states that the Five are hard at work, and that tomorrow they will see their family again – that for some, it will be as if it never happened. 'But it did happen. And that's what you need to remember about days like today. We can erase the effect, but not the cause' Exodus explains, asking the young mutants once more if they are afraid.
'We do not fear death. We fear man and those like him' the young mutants exclaims in unison. 'Just look at the world they have made' Exodus frowns. The mutant with the glasses asks Exodus why they don't stop the humans, to which Exodus explains that you can't stop someone from being what they are. 'We could destroy them – but then we would be as they are' Exodus points out. 'Then what can we do?' the boy with glasses asks. 'You – all of you – will grow and play and live and love as you should' Exodus tells them. 'Leave progress to us. You are in... good hands' Exodus assures them. Exodus reminds the children that most of them were evacuated to the Krakoan archipelago on the other side of the world after the attack began, so they did not see what happened today. 'You may have heard whispers, you may have heard some facts...but you have not heard the whole story. And that is why you are here now...to hear the story... to hear the truth... of why you do not have to be afraid. Today... it was because of Magneto'.
Yesterday:
The Cotati warships hover over Krakoa, with countless plant-like aliens emerging, and on the island below, mutants begin to run in fear.
In his chamber, the Master of Magnetism, Magneto, hovers cross-legged and naked, three costumes hang on a wall nearby – one purple and red, one white, one black. 'MAGNETO!' a voice calls out, interrupting Magneto's meditation. 'What's wrong?' Magneto asks, turning to Tomi Shishido a.k.a. Gorgon and Illyana Rasputin a.k.a. Magik, who rush into his chamber. Gorgon announces that they have incoming, some kind of large incursion, and that there are three ships on a beeline for Krakoa. Magik reports that Professor X is coordinating with all the other telepaths, and that they should have most of the noncombatants and children to the Atlantic bunker before they get here. Magik tells Magneto that they will have some casualties, but that most everyone should get to safety while they are preparing a response. 'Three attacks in less than three months... I don't like it, but we're getting pretty good at this' Magik smiles.
Magneto states that he is tired of this, before asking where Cyclops is. Gorgon informs Magneto that the attack originated from the Moon, that they are using it as a staging area of some sort, and Cyclops is there now. 'But it's  the front line where he should be' Gorgon mutters. 'So alien? Not human?' Magneto asks. 'Yeah, that's right' Magik tells him, before Magneto asks them if they and the other captains are headed to join Cyclops. Magik reports that she would like to, and adds that they have the Cuckoos spidering their defensive web, and she was hoping she could leave the island in capable hands. 'So, tell me, old man...feel like getting your hands dirty?' Magik smiles. Magneto's purple and red costume begins to clad itself around him as he announces that he may even dress for the occasion.
Shortly, Magneto has joined the battle, skewering dozens of Cotati with shards of metal that he hurls about with ease. Magneto notices one of the Stepford Cuckoos has fallen on the battlefield, and a Cotati looms over her, with a large blade aimed at her head. Magneto quickly recates several small metal balls and throws them towards the the Cotati, who is torn apart. The Cuckoo stands up and thanks Magneto. 'Of course, Mindee' Magneto replies. 'Actually, I'm Sophie, Sir' the Cuckoo replies. 'No time  for that nonsense today, child. Is one of you with command?' Magneto asks. Sophie confirms that they are, so Magneto asks her to have a chat. 'Whenever you're ready' Sophie replies as she puts her hands on Magneto's head. 'Command. Can you hear me?' Magneto asks.
'We can, sir. This is Sophie' a Cuckoo responds from where she stands behind Sage. 'Are you sure? I could have sworn it was Mindee' Magneto can be heard remarking. 'No time for that nonsense today, sir. I'm here with Sage' the Cuckoo replies. Sage addresses Magneto as Erik and asks him how he wants to do this. Magneto asks for an overall assessment and then instructs Sage to locate Magma and Iceman for him. Sage reports that she has seized temporary control of two totally aboveboard weather satellites, and quite a few military ones that are not – and requested them for observation. Sage states that she has learnt this is going on across the planet, but it looks like their counter-offense on the Moon is limiting the strike.
Sage informs Magento that Black Tom is holding his own with their island-wide defenses, and they have begun to push back, as Black Tom skewers several Cotati with large vines. Sage reveals that Iceman is helping Storm to the north, as the two of them combine their powers in an assault against the aliens. Sage then reports that Esme has located Magma about a mile southwest. At that moment, Esme links Magma to the conversation, as Esme states that Magma was getting ready to try to take out one of the ships with an eruption, and asks if they should hold, while Cyclops, Wolverine and Beast can be seen battling the Cotati nearby. Magneto tells amara Aquilla a.k.a. Magma that they know any Krakoan eruption is self-generated and reminds her that he asked her a month ago about finding a deep enough remote vein to tap into in case of an emergency. 'You wouldn't happen to have done that, would you?' Magneto enquires.
Magma confirms that she did, and informs Magneto that there is a dormant volcano about twelve miles from here which is deep enough. 'You want me to blow it?' she asks. Magneto tells her that he does, but that he doesn't want her to get too carried away, as he would like to avoid an ecological disaster if possible. Magma switches to her molten form and assures Magneto that she will do her best, but that she can't make any promises. 'I'm very excited about the possibilities here' Magma adds. 'As am I, child' Magneto responds. As Colossus smashes a Cotati to the ground, Esme steps backwards and Magma raises her arms into the air, causing a nearby volcano to erupt, sending lava blasting into the sky.

Magneto contacts Iceman, who asks 'Yeah, boss? Are we doing the thing?' while Egg breaks off some branches  from one of the Cotati nearby. Magneto informs Iceman that Magma is bringing about twenty tons of liquid iron to the surface. 'Be a good boy and cool it down for me' Magneto instructs Iceman, who replies 'Not a problem' as he casts a huge blast of cold energy upwards, 'It might be a little brittle though' Iceman adds as his power connects with the lava. 'Broken metal with sharp edges...whatever will I do with that?' Magneto asks as he puts his helmet on and flies upwards, using the frozen lava as blades which he hurls into Cotati with ease – and delight, gritting his teeth as he goes about his determined mission.
Somewhere on Krakoa, Toad is suddenly grabbed by his neck by a large Cotati, who utters 'Soft meaty creatures... and your cursed metal rain. Tell me who does this. Tell me or -' but he goes no response from Toad, apparently having broken his neck. 'I've broken another one. I think by the time I'm done here I will -' he begins, before he hears a strange THUNK THUNK THUNK sound and turns to see another Cotati with several of the lava shards skewered through their body. 'My sweet Hhurr... I trained you in the fields of Plonn. I bred you for war and let you eat of the limited enemies I allow myself to have. Who did this? Who dares?' the Cotati shouts while looking at the dead Hhurr.
'I dare' Magneto states as he drops down towards the Cotati, adding that this is a failing that has plagued him his entire life. 'You are clearly in command here, so I'm offering you a gift. Order your men to leave and never return. Do this, and you can save them and save yourself. Friend'. Magneto suggests to the Cotati. The Cotati asks Magneto if he has any idea on how many worlds he has stood facing someone like him – some proud meat, thinking their meat thoughts of war and valor. Standing amongst the skewered Cotati, the commanding officer declares 'I am the forest. I am the world. I do not lose. All it takes is one seed and a little time...a little time and a little meat in the ground. Don't you understand? You're our food'. The Cotati's eyes glow as he warns Magneto that he isn't going anywhere. 'But if you want to fight fate...if you want this to be about blood, I can always play the butcher. So if it's a fight you're looking for – then fight me!'
'I already have' Magneto replies. 'And I've already won' he adds, before the Cotati can respond, a satellite plummets to the island and squashes him. But a moment later, the Cotati rises, pushing the satellite off of himself – so Magneto drops an even larger one on him, squashing him again, and then another. Magneto calls out to Mindee, who walks over to him. 'Yes, sir?' she asks. 'Please apologize to Sage for stealing her satellites. Also, tell her to go ahead and forward payment for the weather satellites to their respective governments' Magneto instructs her. Mindee asks about thje military ones, to which Magneto asks 'You mean the ones we're not supposed to know about?' 'Yes. The same ones you dropped on this idiot and used to destroy his ships' Mindee confirms. Well, if asked, tell them we have no idea what they're talking about' Magneto responds. 'Understood, sir. Anything else?' Mindee asks. Magneto instructs Mindee to ask Sage to activate the closest gateway to the Moon. Magneto states that it is time to put an end to this whole episode.
Today:
'And that, children, is what  a hero is... it's what a hero does. Now, tell me... what's your hero's name?' Exodus asks the mutant children. 'Magneto!' they all exclaim. 'Yes, Magneto, and he is... mutant!' Exodus declares.
While, on the Moon, Wolverine, Jean Grey, Nightcrawler, Gambit, Iceman, Cyclops and Storm battle another contingent of Cotati, as Magneto stands behind them, holding one of the Cotati by their throat.


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Amenth
Krakoa, at the Arakko Point, where Victor Borkowski, Alani Ryan and Santo Vaccarro – a.k.a. Anole, Loa and Rockslide, respectively – are in a clearing with the mysterious Summoner, who sits in front of a tree stump, playing some sort of a game – with Rockslide, who has been turned into a gamepiece. Around Krakoa, a war is raging against the alien Cotati. The Summoner tells the young mutants that they have learned so much about one another – what they love, what they hate – the things they believe. 'All the fear in our hearts and doubt in our minds... but now we come to the sharp end of it'. The Summoner looks down at Rockslide and utters 'Real weakness. The chinks in our armor. The soft spots that could cost us everything. Your move, friend'. Rockslide frowns as he looks up at Summoner and mutters 'Yeah, yeah...I'm moving. Now, let me take a good look at you...Ah! I see you. You're invulnerable. That's your mutant power, that you cannot be hurt... except your eyes, Summoner. That's your weakness'.
'Yes. And what about you?' the Summoner responds, examining Rockslide. He tells him that he is fascinating – that his external form is simply a rocky shell, armor of stone that protects and hides the energy self that is the real him.
'So that's why when he blows up...' Anole begins. '... he just reforms. That's pretty cool' Loa adds. 'How's that a weakness?' Rockslide asks. 'Perhaps in this case, weakness is the wrong word' the Summoner responds, pointing out that it is a vulnerability – because if someone knew that, then they would know where – and how – to strike. 'But do not fear, we are all -' the Summoner begins, to which someone asks 'Allies?' and adds 'Mutants with nothing to hide?'
'If so, then good. For I have come seeking knowledge' Apocalypse declares as he steps from the forest into the clearing. The Summoner turns and greets his grandfather, explaining that he was showing his friends an Arakkii game. 'Would you care to join in?' the Summoner asks. 'Do I look like a player of games?' Apocalypse responds. 'Yes. Very much so' the Summoner smiles.
Apocalypse tells the young mutants to leave, and with Rockslide returned to his true size, he leaves  the clearing with Anole and Loa. 'See ya later' Rockslide calls back to the Summoner. 'Soon will not be soon enough' Summoner responds. As Apocalypse sits in front of the Summoner, his grandson asks him if it is time. Apocalypse confirms that he has built the External gate, constructed it on the bones of immortal mutants – just as planned and just as was required.
'So you've made a door home – and the way to Arrako is open. Now we simply have to walk through...' Summoner remarks, before telling his grandfather that he senses hesitation. 'When I saw you – and that you were of my lineage – I put my faith in that. But before I send the whole of Krakoa across Otherworld and into the unknown, there are things I have to know that you have not yet told me' Apocalypse responds. The Summoner asks Apocalypse if he really wants to know what happened, how they fought and how they fell. 'Yes' Apocalypse confirms. 'Very well...' Summoner replies as he begins his story.
flashback, narrated by Summoner in the present:
The Summoner tells Apocalypse that he will start with what he knows that Apocalypse knows – the story as was told to him – Okkara, the one land of mutants. Summoner adds that Okkaro was ancient before that word existed, but not yet old in the way they were old. It was there that the Twilight Sword of the enemy tore the world asunder, and what was one became two – and from the chasm between them – from that dark world – the enemy poured into this world.
The Summoner reveals that at great cost, the army of the enemy, along with Arakko itself, were pushed back through and the chasm was sealed shut. But, like all stories old enough to grow in the telling, it sometimes becomes difficult to separate fact from fiction – or truth from lies. The Summoner tells Apocalypse that some say be stayed behind to prevent that world from falling, to seal the breach and save what could be saved. 'After all, you were Apocalypse, the warrior-god in blue – the great reseeder – the first mutant of the second generation of mutantdom on Earth'. The Summoner explains that there are others who tell stories of betrayal, of sacrificing his family to preserve himself and what little could be saved.
The Summoner informs Apocalypse that there are whispers of something worse, judgment and slavery to fate, that he was a prisoner to the whims of others, but the only sure truth that survives all telling is this – 'What should never have been cleaved in two was separated forever. Husband from wife. Parent from child. Arakko from Krakoa. From one trauma, the mutans of Arakko plunged themselves into the hell of the next one'.
The Summoner informs Apocalypse that what waited for them was not an army – for some it meant madness, for the rest it was the wasteland of a world called Amenth – a black world, a fallen world. He reveals that what the mutants saw surprised them – a desolate nothing, littered with the bodies of defeated enemies. They all knew this handiwork, all recognized the black acts of the White Sword and his One Hundred Champions. But the White Sword was nowhere to be seen – no trace of him remained, but his bloody hand had bought Arakko time.
And with that time, the mutants of Arakko worked wonders. This was their age of legends, a miracle of mutantdom. Much of the work had been done by the brave mutant alchemists and engineers still stands to this day – not all, of course, now only a few remain, but then there were ten towers, and all the land between them was theirs. So, when the army of Amenth finally came, the mutants of Arakko showed them no mercy, and for thousands of years, the towers held and the horde died at their border. Generations of mutants lived and died never knowing defeat, and so, Summoner was born in glory three hundred years ago, toone of the Horsemen War, a female with a fiery head, and a male mutant with blue skin.
The Summoner reveals that, as a child, all he knew was the world inside their walls – it was all any  of them knew – a special ignorance, living in the only safe place in a world of violence and believing it must be this way for all – they knew nothing of what Amenth truly was. When the Summoner's crib mate, the high mutant prophet Idyll, went blind after seeing the fall of their great towers, people say that Genesis laughed at him and threatened to remove his weak head from his weak shoulders. Genesis being the authority of Arakko – the mother of the Horsemen and the wife of Apocalypse. Instead of striking Idyll down, Genesis raised an army, and they were gone for twenty years, fighting. Every few months, word would arrive of their conquests – and all of Arakko would celebrate. They feasted on victory, it was their birthright, and Genesis fed them well. But then, two centuries ago, their army fell silent.
The Summoner explains that later, they would learn the army had reached the Ivory Spire, which was the stronghold of the long-thought lost White Sword, Purity. He was their greatest healer, immortal and External. Each morning, the White Sword resurrected his one hundred champions and rode out to slaughter Amenthi daemons, warring until the last soldier in his army died – only to begin again the next day.
The Summoner states that Genesis told him the death and resurrection cycle the White Sword lived had become his religion, that she said he had become just as alien as the horde he raged against, and the mutants of Arakko were the same to him – and they tasted their first defeat at the hands of one of their own.
They heard nothing more for six years, and then, having escaped by untold and never spoken means, Genesis and the few mutants who survived returned home to Arakko – only to find more defeat waiting for them. Her name was Iscca, the traitor, or Iscca, the unbeaten. Her mutant power was that she could not lose – it was her power that forced her to join Amenth in the war against Okkara – she had to. They were going to win, and she cannot lose. Iscca had been sent to invite Genesis to parlay with Annihilation, the god of Amenth, at the seat of the golden helm's power in the capital city of Amenth, and no one knows what words passed between them – just that Genesis accepted.
It is accepted that the great hall of Annihilation was full that day – that the full might of Amenth was witnessed for the first time, as Amenthi daemons and worse were waiting when Genesis arrived.
The Summoner wonders if the Amenthi were as silent as Genesis was as she approved Annihilation's throne, or whether they screamed and raged, mocked and jeered? But what is known is that Genesis and Annihilation battled to the death with the fate of Arakko in the balance – they battled, and Genesis was found wanting – defeated, unfit and buried. And buried with her was all hope for Arakko.
Their god is called Annihilation for a reason – for one hundred years, the mad horde – the true might of Amenth – battered the walls of Arrako. Mutants died and towers fell. But, somehow, Arakko held. And because there was still hope, hope that somewhere out there Apocalypse had raised a new mutant society, a greater one, and with it, a mutant army that could save them all, they held out until they couldn't any longer, and the Summoner was sent into a void to find Apocalypse, while others sought out a different kind of salvation – but the Summoner knows nothing of their success or failure. The Summoner states that he only knows the last words of War – of farewell and an under siege Arakko.
Present:
The Summoner tells his grandfather – great Apocalypse – that they are out of time, that Amenth is on the march – and only he can save them.
Later, Apocalypse and the Summoner stand atop what appears to be some sort of crater, with large pink crystals leading down into the crater. 'Here it is...' Apocalypse remarks. 'As I said...the price was paid – I have done the work. I have built the External Gate' Apocalypse announces, before turning to where Sean Cassidy a.k.a. Banshee and Unus the Untouchable are standing nearby. Apocalypse informs the Summoner that Unus and Banshee will accompany and protect him across Otherworld to Arakko. Banshee remarks that he is a traveling man and is always happy to see the sights.
Apocalypse tells the Summoner that he wants him to find his path and herald his return, and while he does, he will be marshalling the might of Krakoa to rescue Arakko and heal that which was wounded so long ago. Apocalypse puts a hand on the Summoner's shoulder and tells him that if he finds that Arakko has fallen then he is to return quickly. 'So that you might save any survivors? Rescue any enslaved?' Summoner asks. 'That... and have my long-awaited revenge' Apocalypse responds.
The Summoner takes Apocalypse's hand and tells his grandfather that he can feel it, that this is the beginning of a new age. 'And when you see me again... I will greet you in the manner befitting not just a hero of Krakoa... but as the father – and true heir – of Arakko' the Summoner promises as he follows Banshee and Unus down a set of stairs into the crater, towards the External Gate. 'You have my word, Grandfather. This... I promise' Summoner calls back, while Apocalypse just frowns....