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Emma is still using her psychic powers to make police officers believe she’s a schoolgirl under attack by hideous monsters. The officers, not realizing that the “monsters” really are the X-Men, try to help Emma out and tell the monsters to back away from her.
Wolverine suggests to Emma that they shouldn’t make this any harder than it has to be. Emma, with an evil grin on her face, assures Logan-san that the situation is already more complicated than he knows. Storm calls out to the officers, trying to make them understand they’re actually the X-Men and not monsters. She explains they only want to question Frost, as she could be dangerous. She asks the officers to stand back and let the X-Men handle this.
But Emma uses her powers to make the officers believe they aren’t talking to Storm, but just one of the monsters. They can’t even understand what she’s saying. One of the officers points his gun at Wolverine, who angrily stares at him. The officer believes that he’s staring at one of the monster’s big, sharp teeth. The officer can’t handle it and faints in front of the X-Men, who wonder why everyone’s looking at them. Storm realizes something’s not right.
Emma uses her psychic powers to attack Wolverine, which brings him down. However, she makes the other people around her see that she has just defeated one of the monsters. Emma tries to escape, and more officers tell her to run away as fast as she can. Cyclops tries to follow her, telling the officers to stop her. The officers show Scott that their guns are loaded. He tries to calm them down and asks the officer to put their artillery away, defending he’s one of the good guys.
The officers once more believe they’re facing a monster and open fire on it. Scott gracefully dodges all of the blasts, and grins this is fine: he can shoot first and asks questions later as well. He fires one of his blasts at the cops, clearing an escape path for the X-Men. Storm helps Wolverine up, realizing they need to get out of there before someone else gets hurt. Scott agrees, as they can deal with Emma later. He helps Storm dragging Wolverine clear, but the regular folks still see two monsters dragging their fallen companion away.
Storm spots something devastating on a billboard, and tells Scott to read it. It says “...reports of monstrous mutants rampaging through the downtown streets of Hiro prefecture...” Scott panics, realizing that, by “monster,s” the people mean the X-Men! They quickly hide in an alley and Scott wonders if they should surrender themselves. Storm thinks that option was never on the table. More officers arrive and Scott thinks there’s only one thing left to do. He fires a blast on the ground, which creates a lot of dust. He suggests that Storm takes his brother out of there, while he’ll hold the cops back.
Cyclops walks through the dust, without his visor on and holding his hands in the air. The officers look scared. Scott jokingly asks them they wouldn’t shoot a guy with only one eye, would they? One of the officers demands that Scott keeps his hands where they can see them. Scott asks the cops if they know what happens when he opens his good eye. He promises to count to five before he gives them a look. The cops look even more scared then before when they notice Scott’s eye starts to spark...
Later, in the sewers...
Cyclops, alone, has located Storm and Wolverine. Storm asks Scott if he thinks the cops will follow them. Scott doubts it, but they need a place to regroup. Storm suggests they go to Master Toad’s place.
Meanwhile, at the X-Mansion...
Jean, standing outside the mansion behind a closed fence, stares in disbelief at the many reporters that have gathered around the compound. They ask her if it’s true that, even though it has been many hours, Jean still hasn’t heard from her teammates. They also want to know if the X-Men can’t change shape and what Jean can tell about the reports of eyewitnesses who saw rampaging monsters. Some of them even believe Jean is unaware of mutations.
Jean states she can’t answer any more questions. She tells the reporters they know as much as she does right now about what happened earlier today. She knows there’s a perfectly good explanation for all of this and promises that, when the X-Men return, they’ll release a statement. She begs the reporters not to jump to any conclusions or spread any more myths about the X-Men or mutants in general. She promises they aren’t monsters! The X-Men use their powers for good, and says that mutants don’t go on senseless rampages, nor do they destroy property or endanger innocent people’s lives.
A female reporter angrily asks if that’s true, what happened to the X-Mansion, which she can see is partly destroyed. Starting to sweat, Jean says she has no comment on that.
The next night, at the Hellfire Club...
Emma is at the office of the Club’s leader, who has Tessa and Cerebra sitting next to him on a desk. Emma angrily shouts that the man can’t do this to her. The bald leader reminds Emma that she cost the Shadowcat clan three of its ninjas. She and her lackeys nearly destroyed a bar owned and operated by a rival syndicate. And yesterday, a very public and destructive exchange with the X-Men while the Club is supposed to be infiltrating inconspicuously is unacceptable to him. Drinking from his coffee, the man concludes that Emma’s becoming quite a liability to their fledging organization.
Emma defends that the X-Men came after her, and asks Tessa to back her up on this. Tessa angrily says she had nothing to do with this. The leader asks the girls to lower their voices because they’re upsetting Cerebra. Cerebra angrily but quietly glares at the girls. The leader explains to Emma that she’s merely being admonished. This is a temporarily suspension, not an expulsion from the Hellfire Club. And, he realizes, although this might hurt Emma’s chances of being named White Queen, she is still and always will be... his daughter!
The leader steps out of the shadows, and is revealed to be... Charles Xavier?! Xavier gently places his hand on Emma’s shoulder, but she turns away from it and leaves, slamming the door shut. Xavier smiles that Emma’s impatient and brash... just like her mother. She has that nasty temper as well. Tessa corrects her father he’s actually describing her other now. She reminds him that Emma’s mother was the quiet one who liked to write haiku and fly kites.
The sewers, Master Toad’s place...
Storm thanks their master Toad for helping them out yet again. Toad tells the fair Ororo it’s nothing, seeing it as his privilege and pleasure to be of assistance. As Toad tends to an unconscious Wolverine, who lies in bed, Cyclops explains that the X-Men are still a masterless clan. He asks Toad if he wouldn’t consider them joining the team “above.” After all, times have changed.
Toad asks, if that’s true, why the X-Men are down there. Scott smiles and explains to his sensei that they’re just dealing with some classic misunderstanding scenario. They’ll get it cleared up as soon as he’s done patching up Wolverine. Toad mentions he’s done all he can, and thinks that, even with Logan’s accelerated healing abilities, they can only wait and see.
Storm asks that if, in that case, they can leave Wolverine in Toad’s case, because they have to figure out what happened up there, talk to the police and try to clear the air. Scott asks Storm what they should do first: go see Shiro Yoshida, their so-called chief or police, or should they try and track down Frost for some answers. Scott and Storm suddenly realize they forgot something: Jean!
Cyclops hopes Toad has devised some means of contacting the outside world since they last were here. But unfortunately, the old sensei hasn’t. The two X-Men leave, and Storm tells Scott to check up on Jean. She’s going to speak to someone who may be able to help them. Toad continues to tend to Wolverine, asking him to hurry up healing, as his “masterless clan” needs him.
The X-Mansion...
Jean watches an interview on TV, which has Shiro Yoshida declaring the X-Men must be stopped, since they operate outside the law, which makes them vigilantes. The interviewer asks Shiro how he feels about the reports that the police are preparing special measures in the event. Shiro repeats that the X-Men are outlaws who answer to no one, which makes them dangerous!
A newsflash interupts the show, which reads: “X-Men at large... mutant menaces wanted by authorities... threat to public...”
Jean gets furious reading this news. Flames emerge from the palm of her hand, which melt the remote. Jean panics when she saw what she just did, but suddenly hears a noise downstairs.
Outside, police officers have surrounded the mansion and have even guards stand on the roof.
Jean looks out the window and gets even angrier. Even her entire body bursts up in flames now!
Downtown...
Wearing a hood over her head so people don’t recognize her, Storm looks on at some television sets from a window of a shop, and hears how Yoshida declares that the X-Men are dangerous. Forge meets up with her. When Ororo asks Forge if he heard all this, Forge grabs Storm’s hand and runs with her to the river temple where they had their first date, and stop on a bridge.
Forge explains that Chief Yoshida only wants to protect them. It’s to keep the criminal mutant element in check and make the streets safer for everyone. Storm is afraid to even bring it up, but wants to discuss criminal mutants. Forge, a bit sweaty, confesses to Ororo that he knows who she is. Storm is surprised to hear that. Forge suggests that Storm just turns herself in, thinking that running away will only make matters worse. He knows the X-Men have done some good things, but by operating outside the law doesn’t help the fact they injured several police officers.
Storm defends the cops shot at them first. Forge reminds her that witnesses say the X-Men were threatening a little girl. Panicking, Storm denies that and explains they were after a woman named Frost, who’s a telepath that even send ninjas after them. Storm finally gets it: Frost is a telepath... she brainwashed those mutants who attacked their mansion and made people see them as monsters!
Forge asks Storm to come back with him to the station so she can explain it there. He claims that her friends are already being rounded up. Storm starts to cry, not believing what she just heard. She leaves Forge and quickly flies up to the skies, ready to go help her friends.
The X-Mansion...
Jean hides in her room, but has seen the officers entering her home. The cops make it to the interrogation cells and open the doors. They inform Pyro, Drake and the other mutant that they’re now under arrest by proper authorities. He warns them not to dishonor themselves any further and just to surrender peacefully. One of the cops holds a collar ready and points his gun at Drake, who grins. He quickly freezes up and shouts at the cops they don’t have any authority there!
Pyro and the big mutant join their friend, and Pyro smiles that the first round is on her. More cops arrive and order Drake and his friends to freeze. Drake thinks that’s funny. The big mutant turns into stone again and stretches his arms, and his hard fists knock the poor officers out.
With all the cops out of the way, Drake and his friends are ready to leave. Jean suddenly stands behind him, and asks where they think they’re going. Pyro asks Jean who she is. Jean introduces herself as a member of the X-Men. Pyro, recognizing Jean’s name, angrily recalls she’s the reason what got them into trouble.
The pupils in Jean’s eyes disappear, and her eyes are now just plain white. Smoke circles around her, and Jean shouts at the murderers that their troubles are just beginning!
Outside, Cyclops has finally made it to the mansion, only to see a big bird f fire emerging from the roof! He can only think about one thing: “Jean!”


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Kakuage (Translated: Promotion)
The Hellfire Club...
Seeing Emma staring out of the window, Tessa asks her sister what’s wrong with her.
Elsewhere...
Storm speeds up to her home, ready to help her teammates out.
The X-Mansion...
Cyclops uses his optic beams to break the fence open, so he can fight the cops attacking the mansion.
Meanwhile, some cops surround a side of the window and find a broken window. The leader reports that units 2 and 4 are down. They need to go in there and find the others. Another cop disagrees, thinking they need to get backup instead.
The police station...
A sweaty Forge declares to his teacher that they can’t go, as they aren’t ready. The teacher asks Forge if he means that he’s not ready, or if he’s referring to the machines. Another troop begs for the teacher’s pardon, claiming Forge is just talking about the equipment. The trooper mentions he just installed some new software and they haven’t even field-tested it yet.
The teacher explains to his soldiers that the situation has escalated quickly, and Chief Yoshida wants them out there now. He reminds the troops he trained them almost a year now and trusts their abilities. He also believes they will pilot their magnificent machines the troops helped build with honor and valor like the modern-day samurai they are. The troops look doubtfully at the teacher, as he points their attention to... the Sentinels!
The Hellfire Club...
Tessa asks Emma if she felt that. Emma smiles she did. She realizes that her minions have failed her, but senses something happened to Jean Grey.
Nearby...
Storm, hanging still in mid-air, sees a red glow, not far away from the mansion.
The X-Mansion...
Cyclops calls out to Jean. He fires a blast at a wall, and the cops nearby it manage to duck just in time. Suddenly, the big firebird gets even larger and destroys the entire mansion!
The officers want to get out of there, but Cyclops blocks their way and demands to know what the they did to Jean. One of the cops takes out his gun and tells Scott to get out of his way, even calling him a freak. Without warning, a lightning bolt lands between the two fighting parties. Storm lands in front of Scott, who asks him if he’s okay and if Jean’s alright. The cops declare that the two X-Men better warn about themselves and open fire at them. Luckily, both Scott and Ororo can jump away from them.
Downtown...
The Sentinels have been activated and fly above the police station. Inside one of the big mechanic robots, a pilot mentions to his partner, Doug, that he’s picking up five mutant signatures. Doug reports to Sentinel One he copied that. He adds that ETA is 7.4 minutes and counting. Doug notices that Forge is very quiet inside his Sentinel, and suggests he try to stay in formation. A sweaty Forge apologizes.
Below, people panic when they see the Sentinels above them, not knowing what they are.
The Hellfire Club...
Emma smiles at Tessa that trouble is on its way.
The X-Mansion...
Storm tells Scott to look for Jean, while she handles these guys. One of the cops thinks they had better forget about the X-Men and get out of here while they can. Meanwhile, Scott searches through the rubble of his former home, desperately calling out to Jean.
After a while, Scott finds the dead bodies of Drake and his friends! He can’t believe the cops actually killed them. “No...”, a voice corrects, “I killed them.” Scott turns around, and it’s... Jean?! Ashamed, Jean falls on her knees and admits to Scott she killed Drake and the others. As Scott grabs Jean in his arms, the cops run outside and see the Sentinels arriving, but don’t know what they are. Another cop gets scared how huge the Sentinels are and thinks they may be dealing with more muties. P>
Toad and Wolverine appear behind the cops. Toad agrees with the cops that more muties have indeed arrived. Toad and Wolverine attack their adversaries together. While Toad just knocks his foes out, Wolverine sticks his claws through some cops, killing them. With all the cops down, the two powerful mutants meet up with the other X-Men. Storm is thrilled and thinks Toad has decided to join them after all. “For now,” Toad smiles. “For now.”
Scott and Jean regroup as well. Storm is relieved to find Jean okay. Jean has a bit of a headache and tells Storm she’s hanging in there. Wolverine thinks that means Jean’s unharmed. Scott thinks so to and asks his brother if that counts for him as well. “Sure,” Logan smiles, but he has seen better days.
The Sentinels land behind the X-Men and Scott wonders what they want. One of the pilots warns the X-Men that, by the order of the Sentinel Force, they have to surrender... or die! Jean tells Scott that answers his question. He agrees. The Sentinel repeats its question, but Toad just walks over the robot. He places one of his hands on it and, after hitting the machine with his stick, the Sentinel collapses!
Wolverine jokes that the old man’s still got it. He rips open the middle piece of a Sentinel and the scared pilot inside the robot begs for help. As Scott and Storm join the battle as well, Toad grabs Jean’s arm, telling her she has to come with him instead of her teammates.
Storm flies over to one of the robots, who recognizes her and says her name. Ororo recognizes the voice... Forge? Forge begs Storm to get away from her but, before he can finish his warning, Storm gets hit by a blast from behind! As Cyclops destroys another robot with his eyebeams, Wolverine helps the fallen Storm up and tries to bring her into safety.
Meanwhile, Toad has placed his hand on Jean’s belly. He explains that, just as he was able to sense the weakness in the first Sentinel, he can sense it in her as well... there’s a tremendous energy inside Jean. Staring at Jean’s glowing eyes, Toad realizes she’s afraid of this energy... and she should be, he adds. Toad thinks its because Jean doesn’t know what to do with this power.
At the same time, Forge’s Sentinel surrounds both Wolverine and Storm, and warns them he doesn’t wish to hurt them. Logan, holding his claws ready, can’t say he feels the same way.
While Jean’s fire power sparks around her body again, Toad teaches her she must expel this energy, and this time is as good as any to do that. She needs to focus on the energy... feel it inside her. Now, she has to bring it together can concentrate it in one place. She can let it gather... grow... take form within her. Then... she has to release it!
A fire-bird sprouts out of Jean’s mouth, which not only destroys the other Sentinels but also what little was left of the mansion! As the dust clears, Jean collapses. Toad grabs her, promising it’s okay. Scott meets up with his teammates again and just says, “wow,” at Jean’s power display. Storm jokes it looks like Jean has finally recovered... and then some!
Jean just feels guilty about destroying the X-Men’s home. Scott asks what they are going to do now. Sensei Toad, standing on a rock, thinks there’s only one thing his former students can do... move. As Toad points his stick right forward, Storm, Wolverine, Cyclops and Jean are ready for a new adventure!


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Shima (Translated: Zone of Death)
At the ruins of the former X-Mansion…
Several police officers and rescue workers try to search for surviving pilots of the Sentinel robots. One of the pilots finds Forge, but it’s too late... he’s dead.
Later, at the police station...
While staring out of his window, Chief Yoshida asks a captain if he’s certain about his discoveries. The captain confirms that none of their pilots survived the battle. When Shiro asks what about the Sentinels, a nervous captain admits they’re destroyed. Shiro stares quietly at the captain for a while. He concludes in that case, they’ll simply rebuild... and recruit again.
Elsewhere, at the X-Men’s new headquarters...
Deep underground a building that’s carved with an “X,” the X-Men and their sensei, Toad, are busy behind closed doors. Toad tells Jean to do it again, confident she can do it. Sitting on the floor and with the other X-Men observing, Toad explains to Jean that everyone possesses a chi, a life force. In mutants, that energy is powerful and manifests itself in uncanny ways. It shapes them, forms mutant’s beings, gives them superhuman powers. Some mutants, like Wolverine, have learned to focus their chi and concentrate it in a special manner. He asks Jean to concentrate and focus her chi into one area.
Jean gives up. She apologizes but she just can’t do it.
Meanwhile, Downtown...
Some kids are hanging around a redheaded girl’s house. The girl can’t believe what they’re saying about the X-Men... they’re heroes! But the media is reporting them as fugitives now. Another girl interrupts, adding that the media see the X-Men as cop killers now as well. Officers arrive and point a scanner at the redheaded girl. They tell the girl not to move. One of the kids explains to the cops that they weren’t doing anything wrong. Their scanner registers the redheaded girl “positive”. They tell her she’s to come with them for questioning.
The girl panics and transforms herself into a brown-furred werewolf, and runs away! The cops try to stop her but fail, and wonder what’s going on here.
Around the city...
More mutants are arrested. Cops even arrest them at a temple, and round up mutants inside the Dazzler’s disco. Some of them try to fight back, like two certain blue-furred individuals. Other cops burst into people’s home, and take two silver-haired twins out of their home.
At Master Toad’s lair...
While Wolverine is concentrating and Jean and Storm are chatting at a table at the back of the lair, Toad continues to explain that each mutant signature is distinct. The mutant chi is quite discernible from that of a Homo sapien. He knows the difference between the energy it radiates compared to that of someone who is not a mutant. And, he explains to Logan, this energy he is sensing within Jean, it’s neither Homo superior nor Homo sapien in origin.
Pouring some coffee for everyone, Toad gives Logan a cup. Logan asks Toad what the energy is, then. Toad admits he doesn’t know, but senses Jean isn’t controlling it. Cyclops interrupts his sensei, informing him that they’ve got a visitor. Wolverine quickly gets up and snikts his claws open, but Scott already tells his brother he can relax: it’s a friend.
Purple smoke appears in the room, and a woman steps out of it: it’s Psylocke! Toad is happy to see Betsy again, as it has been a long time. Betsy only wishes this reunion were occurring at a happier time. Toad takes it that means Betsy has learned of the plight of the X-Men. He explains to her they have yet to discuss a resolution, but if Betsy has come to help out they’ll be happy to have her on board. Betsy ashamedly reveals to the sensei that the police are rounding up every mutant they can find. They say it’s for questioning, but they’ve yet to release anyone arrested. And any who resist... there are reports of several deaths already.
Later, in the city...
Police officers have surrounded two other mutants, two blond siblings. The brother again explains to the cops it’s like they told them: they are mistaken because they aren’t mutants. The cops explain to the kids that their scanners are telling them differently. One of the cops grabs the sister’s arm, and her flesh starts to come off her body! She asks Sam for help, and Sam fears for Paige’s life.
Sam uses his powers and flies toward the cop, and attacks him. He slams the cop into some garbage cans, and Paige shouts at them to leave them alone. All of the X-Men arrive behind the two, and Wolverine smiles that it looks like these two don’t need their help anymore. Sam recognizes the X-Men and tells them this is all their fault. Wolverine asks Psylocke to take Sam and his sister back to Toad’s. Psylocke gently places her hand on Paige’s shoulder, promising the two kids she’ll explain everything. They can trust her when she says they’ve got to get out of there before more officers arrive.
Cyclops explains that he and Ororo will continue this way, round up whomever they can and meet back below in a couple of hours. Wolverine tells Jean to come with him, as there’s one person who might be able to fix this. Scott holds his brother back, asking what he’ll do if she won’t cooperate. Logan smiles in that case, the woman won’t make it through the night.
The Hellfire Club...
At the Club, a party is taking place. One of the guests compliments the lovely night Charles has chosen for this festivity. Xavier admits the good choice, explaining that Cerebra is... good at predicting the weather and all that.
Emma sees her father talking to someone she has never seen before, and asks Tessa who it is. Tessa introduces Emma to Jason Wyngarde, who’s another criminal “mastermind.” Emma doesn’t like the looks of him. Tessa smiles Jason’s from one of the local families. Emma wants to know if by “family” Tessa means blue-bloods or mutant syndicate. “Both,” Tessa smirks.
A new guest arrives at the Hellfire Club: the Honorable Shiro Yoshida! Emma panics a bit, not believing who has come to sleep with the enemy. Xavier and Shiro respectfully bow to one another, and Charles is glad to meet him. Shiro thanks the professor for the invitation. He just wishes this gathering could have coincided with less... stressed times.
Xavier says he’s certain Shiro has everything under control. He for one is not worried about this... mutant uprising. He smiles that Shiro’s reputation precedes him. Shiro says the same. He moves closer to Xavier’s ear and, with an evil grin, asks if they have things to discuss later. Xavier admits they have, but it will be away from all these prying eyes and pricked-up ears. As Xavier says that, he looks at Emma who overheard them.
Emma runs outside and takes her party clothes off, and gets back into uniform. Tessa follows her sister and asks where she’s going. Emma shouts it’s obvious their father doesn’t want to involve them into any of his business dealings. He even wants to keep them out of the Inner Circle! Tessa doesn’t see what makes Emma say that. Not realizing they’re being watched by Cerebra, who stares at the girl from inside the house out of a window, Emma continues to say that Xavier hasn’t even introduced either of them to his new... associates! She thinks, if they’re to “rule by his side,” they should at least be meeting with these people.
Tessa states that the night is still young. They haven’t even had dinner yet and she wants her to come back inside and have a drink. Emma shouts she won’t, and she’ll go for a walk instead. Tessa angrily watches Emma leave. As she wants to go back inside, she notices Cerebra staring at her, and asks the mysterious person what it is.
A little later...
Emma walks through the city, and is suddenly met up by Jean! Emma panics and does so, even more when Wolverine appears behind her. Emma reminds the two she already told them what she does to freaks who sneak up on her. Wolverine smiles he warned Emma of the same thing. Now, it’s time to see who’s right.
Jean asks Emma what she wants with her, and why she did all this. Emma reveals she only wanted to invite Jean into her little club. She wants to see Jean moving in the right circles. She thinks with Jean associating herself with “lesser-evolved beings” will only lead to her demise. She thinks it’s kind of like natural selection, actually. The humans are afraid of freaks. They will try to kill all the freaks. In the process, they’ll decimate their own ranks. Emma thinks that will leave people like Jean and her... the Homo sapiens supreme... to be the ruling class, as it were.
Wolverine smiles this figures: it always starts with some megalomaniac wanting to be king of the world. Emma corrects that, in her case, she wants to be queen! Emma attacks Logan with a full blast of psychic powers, but this time... it doesn’t even hurt him?! Wolverine explains that this time, he brought his shield. He asks Emma where hers is. He promises she can still stop everything she has set in motion by turning herself over to the cops.
Emma shouts that’ll happen over her dead body! Wolverine snikts out his claws, declaring that can be arranged.
The Hellfire Club, Xavier’s office...
Shiro wants to make sure that he understands the situation. Xavier wants to suggest a kind of “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours” type of arrangement. Xavier smiles and corrects Shiro that he’s more talking about something “you stay off my back and I’ll stay off yours.” Shiro thinks that’s more of a threat. Xavier denies that, calling it more good advice. It’s for mutants in their current positions.
Tessa wants to enter the room and calls out to her father, but Xavier tells his daughter now is not the time. Tessa thinks something is wrong with Emma, but has the hardest time admitting it. Xavier claims he knows, but doesn’t want to talk about it now. He apologizes to Shiro for the interruption and asks where they were. Shiro thinks they were about to discuss Xavier’s club helping fund his new robotics project.
Downtown...
Wolverine has killed Emma! A sweaty Jean thinks they had better suggest a deal with her, but Logan realizes Emma wouldn’t agree with it. Emma thinks they could have find a way to force her into it, but Logan disagrees again. He had to do it. Jean asks what they are going to do now. Logan explains that the Yakuza have a word for it: Shima. It’s the zone of the death. It’s different from Shaba, the normal world. And, he reminds Jean, they no longer live in a normal world.
At the former, now closed Salem Center Station. Underground...
Cyclops explains to all of the formerly captured mutants around him what the situation is. In the outside world, battle lines are being drawn. On one side, forces that would pit mutant against mutant. Clans formed to divide and conquer mutantkind. People who want mutants to destroy themselves. On the other side, you’ve got... the X-Men. He speeches that the X-Men have always been about helping the week, the powerless, the oppressed. Now it’s time they help themselves and people like them.
Wolverine continues to say that they offer sanctuary and safety there. And strength in numbers. At some point they must strike back at the forces trying to crush them, but for now they recruit and regroup. The X-Men never answered to anyone. They are a masterless clan. They are freedom fighters. They are rebels. They are Ronin! Everyone cheers at the speech, and are ready to join the X-Men.
Toad sees Storm is getting ready to leave and asks where she’s going. Storm says she’s going to invite a friend of hers. His name is Forge. She knows he’s on the other side, but would like to try and bring him back. Toad gets the point and suggests Storm takes someone with her, for her own safety. Storm puts on a hood over her head, smiling she would rather do this alone. She promises she’ll be alright. Toad says that’s fine, and asks her to hurry back. As Storm is gone, Wolverine, Jean and Scott appear behind Toad. He stares at them.
Later, in the city...
Storm sits on the bench where she had her first date with Forge. After looking at her watch, she takes off her hood and smiles. She touches her head and glides the hair of her face, and waits patiently.


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Schism, part one
Utopia, the sun shines down on the island nation, where Bobby “Iceman” Drake is currently relaxing on the beach. Ice surrounds where he sits, and Bobby looks up from behind his shades as Logan a.k.a. Wolverine approaches him. ‘Wow. Must’ve been one helluva fight’ Bobby remarks. ‘No. Just the usual’ Logan replies casually, various arrows and other spikes stuck into his body, his costume ripped and shredded. Logan then turns and walks away from Iceman.
Inside, Hope Summers and the Five Lights have gathered. ‘This is ridiculous. How long are we supposed to wait here?’ Velocidad asks. ‘You wanna be the guy who walked out on Wolverine, be my guest’ Hope tells him, while Primal makes a “woof” noise. As Wolverine approaches the young mutants, he asks ‘What’s this?’ Hope tells him that they are all accounted for, and ready whenever he is. ‘Ready for what?’ Logan enquires. ‘Combat training class’ Hope tells him. Staring at Hope, Wolverine supposes that he is going to be teaching this class. ‘That’s what it says on the schedule, Sir’ Hope replies. ‘What schedule is that?’ Logan asks, so Hope explains that Cyclops gave it to them. ‘I see’ Logan remarks.
Logan turns to one of the young mutants and asks her what her name is. ‘Idie’ replies the mutant codenamed “Oya”. Logan asks her how old she is, and she replies that she is fourteen. ‘Fourteen. Shouldn’t you be off playing with dolls or something instead of worrying about combat training?’ Logan tells her. Oya replies that she had a doll once, made from pretty beads, but she lost it when they tried to burn her for being a witch. ‘Did you have many toys when you were fourteen?’ Oya asks Wolverine. Logan just frowns at her, and yanks out an arrow stuck in his shoulder. ‘Class dismissed’ Wolverine calls out as he walks away from the young mutants. ‘Well that was definitely worth the wait’ Velocidad mutters as he, Hope, Transonic, Oya, Zero and Primal watch Wolverine walk away.
A sign has been taped to Wolverine’s door that reads: Logan’s quarters. Warning: trespassers will be stabbed repeatedly. And inside, Logan mutters ‘Avengers, X-Force, everybody can kiss my ass’ as, wearing only his briefs, he lies down on his bed after pulling out the remaining arrows stuck in his body, and remarks that he is going to sleep for three days. His arm drapes off the bed and his hand touches the ground. Suddenly, there is a knock at his door and a voice calls out ‘Logan?’, to which Wolverine unsheathes his claws, and they go through the floor. ‘Unless we’re about to be eaten by Galactus, just close the door and walk away, Slim’ Wolverine calls out. But Scott “Cyclops” Summers opens the door and tells Wolverine to suit up, as he needs him.
Logan sits up and mutters that this better be damn important. ‘As opposed to the sort of trivial nonsense I usually waste your time with?’ Scott asks, before informing Wolverine that he is scheduled to speak at an international arms control conference in Switzerland. ‘You can sleep on the plane’. Logan puts his uniform back on and replies ‘All right. But don’t expect me to be my usual jovial self’. Scott motions to the door and asks Wolverine if he wasn’t supposed to be teaching a combat training class right now. ‘Remind me to kill you when I have the energy’ Wolverine replies.
Sometime later, dozens of world representatives are gathered in Switzerland, all seated in a large theatre. At the security doors, Cyclops walks through the scanner and introduces himself. ‘And you are a representative of which country, Sir?’ a female security officer asks. Utopia’ Scott replies. The woman replies that she is not familiar with that country, to which Scott tells her it is the place where the people with wings and blue fur live. ‘Ah, yes, I see. And how many in your security detail?’ she asks. ‘Just one’ Scott replies as Wolverine appears and announces that the place is clear. ‘But…how did he get in without…’ someone asks as Wolverine stands on the inside of the security barrier. Scott asks the security personnel to tell everyone the X-Men are here and that they are ready to be heard.
As Logan and Scott walk through the theatre, the world leaders glance at them, and Logan tells Scott that they make the leaders of the free world nervous. Scott replies that he doesn’t need superhuman senses to see that, to which Wolverine asks him why he is here. ‘You’re my one-man security team’ Scott tells him. ‘You mean I’m your token Avenger’ Logan replies. ‘That too’ Scott admits. Logan asks Scott what kind of speech they are looking at here - something that is going to win them some hearts and minds, or just give everybody who hates and fears them another reason to fear a little more than they hate. Scott replies that he is better at shooting things with his eyes than he is at being a diplomat, but explains he does still remind himself on occasion to hope.
‘We been fighting to change the world a long time now and ain’t managed it yet. Why should today be any different?’ Logan asks. Cyclops replies that it is not the world they have to change, it is the people. ‘People can always change’ Scott tells him. ‘Yeah?’ Wolverine replies as he remembers an early argument he and Cyclops had many years ago in which he told Cyclops he is not taking orders from him. ‘So I’ve heard’ Logan adds as the two of them walk towards the stage. Logan sees the American delegation seats empty, to which Scott explains that the President sends his regrets, adding that, apparently, the country that created the Sentinel isn’t much interested in hearing his speech. ‘Don’t look at me. I been telling you for years we oughtta move to Canada’ Logan reminds Scott, who asks ‘Any last words of encouragement?’ ‘Don’t #@$& this up’ Logan tells him. Scott thanks Logan. ‘For what?’ Logan asks. ‘For being here’ Scott replies, to which Logan points out that Scott mace him come. ‘For always being here’ Scott adds.
Climbing the few steps to the stage and podium, Logan replies that when there is somebody around worth following, he will follow. ‘That’s probably the nicest thing you’ve ever said to me’ Scott tells him. ‘I’m the best there is at stabbing things, not pleasantries. Go make your stupid speech’ Logan replies. Scott smiles as he glances at Wolverine, before standing at the podium, he speaks into the microphones and begins his speech: ‘Ladies and gentlemen…years ago, an American military scientist named Bolivar Trask looked upon a burgeoning mutantkind with nothing but fear in his heart and was compelled to build a robotic weapon designed solely for the extermination of every mutant man, woman and child. That one foul deed sparked an international arms race. A race that as never ended‘.
Scott continues, announcing that as mutants spread to every corner of the globe, so too did Trask’s fear and the machines it spawned. ‘We all know this to be true, whether we’re willing to admit it publicly or not’ he remarks, adding that it is his belief that most every country represented here in this room today have at one time had and may likely still maintain their own variation of Sentinel. ‘So many, in fact, that with mutant kind’s numbers having recently been reduced to a scan 200, I sometimes wonder if there are now more Sentinels in the world than there are mutants’ Scott explains, before announcing that he has not come here today to point fingers, or to cast blame for the millions of mutant lives already claimed over the years by Sentinels. Cyclops tells the world leaders that he has not come to harp on the mistakes of yesterday, but instead to talk about the prospects of tomorrow. ‘My concern, ladies and gentlemen, is with the future. And insuring that there is one…for all of us’ he declares.
At the security entrance, some of the guards are listening to Cyclops’ speech via a monitor, as Cyclops explains, to that end, he would like to officially petition the nations of the world to decommission their Sentinels to once and for all demolish the machinery of mutant genocide. ‘Damn muties are all the same. Oughtta just round ‘em up all up and put ‘em on an island somewhere’ one of the guards mutters. ‘Uh…I think they already did that…’ another guard replies. Suddenly, a man in a trench coat appears. ‘Whoa. Where you going, pal? Let’s see some credentials. You can’t just’ one of the guards calls out. ‘Oh, but I can’ the new arrival replies as he walks up to the guards. The first guard suddenly growls and turns on his colleague. ‘What’s the matter? What’re you -’ the second guard calls out, before he is pushed to the ground by his much larger colleague. The pink-haired man in the trench coat then passes through security with ease.
Back in the theatre, Cyclops offers to the world representatives the full resources of the X-Men to assist in the dismantling and disposal of these Sentinels, and to insure that - but Scott is interrupted, by one of the representatives who stands up and points at him, apologizing for interrupting, he exclaims ‘You come here making these wild accusations yet you offer not a single shred of evidence’, and adds that his country, for one, does not even acknowledge the existence of these so-called Sentinels. Scott frowns at the man and replies that, with all due respect, he did not come here to debate the existence of something that has been trying to kill him since he was sixteen years old.
‘If you have no interest in debate, Sir, then it would appear you have come only to threaten this gathering with ominous talk of the future’ the representative points out, adding that it is this arrogance of Cyclops’ that has caused him problems over the years, as opposed to some sort of nefarious giant robot. ‘I’m sorry, but if anyone has any actual points to make, I’d be happy to hear them after I’ve -’ Scott calls out, when suddenly, the pink-haired man in the trench coat appears. ‘I got one or two’ he calls out. ‘Attention all humans and human sympathizers!’ he shouts. ‘#@*&%’ mutters Wolverine, who frowns. ‘You are now about to witness the dawning of the mutant revolution!’ the new arrival calls out. ‘Oh no’ Cyclops gasps. ‘Courtesy of Kid Omega!’ the villainous mutant shouts.
Kid Omega introduces himself as Quentin Quire, mutant freedom fighter and future leader of the X-Men. He announces that he has come here today not to bury humankind, but merely to make them wish that hey were dead. ‘Logan…’ Cyclops calls out. ‘I’m on it!’ wolverine shouts as he makes his way towards Quire, while some of the representatives have begin to make a run for it. ‘Move outta the way’ Logan orders, while Kid Omega declares that no more will mutants, humankind’s superiors, in every conceivable way, allow humans and their pathetic politicians to wallow in lies like pigs in excrement. ‘This time around, the revolution will not be televised. The revolution will be telepathic. I won’t lie to you, ladies and gentlemen, this is going to hurt. The truth always does’ Kid Omega declares as he uses his powers on them.
The world leaders stop trying to run, and gather themselves, while Cyclops helps Wolverine up off the floor. ‘You all right?’ Scott asks. Logan replies that his psychic defenses held, and Scott adds that his did, too, before pointing out that he doesn’t think they were the targets. Suddenly the representative who challenged Cyclops earlier calls out that, in the wake of these shocking events, he feels compelled not to say to everyone watching that he beats his children. ‘I do it quite often, in fact, I…I do it because…well, because I enjoy it’. Another leader stands up and announces that he would like to say he is currently cheating on his wife of 35 years while she slowly dies from leukaemia. He adds that in the interest of verification, he will now be emailing various sexually explicit videos to all major new organizations. A woman stands up and announces that she would like to take this opportunity to list the various ethnic minorities she despises. ‘I for one, am currently under the influence of the following illegal substances’ another man calls out, while another begins to list the deaths of which he is personally responsible for.
Scott and Logan look around, and Scott points out that it appears Quire has given the leaders of the world an uncontrollable telepathic compulsion to spout their deepest, darkest secrets. ‘I can’t decide if we should kill the boy or give him a medal’ Scott remarks. One of the leaders calls out that their fortune was pillaged from the poor, while another reveals that their election was fixed. ‘I married a Doombot!’ another announces, while someone reveals that they once shot a man just to watch him die. Another announces that they never believed in God, while one shouts that they actually love America. ‘We could always do both’ Wolverine suggests to Scott, while the security guards enter the theatre and one of them shouts ‘Stop the cameras! Stop the cameras!’
On Utopia, several X-Men are fathered, and Emma Frost a.k.a. the White Queen frowns, as she speaks to someone on her cellphone, while Piotr “Colossus” Rasputin and others continue to watch a media report. ‘Yes, this is Miss Frost. I’m afraid I’m going to have to cancel my 3:00 pedicure. On account of what? How about the supreme stupidity of everyone else in the world but me?’ she declares.
In Switzerland, Logan looks around and informs Scott that Quire is gone, but that his scent is so thick with energy drinks and body spray that he will be able to track him down in about two seconds. ‘I wouldn’t go rushing off just yet’ Scott replies. Wolverine looks out at the world leaders, who are all angrily waving their fists at them. ‘Don’t look now, but I think they might be blaming us’ Logan remarks. Scott tells him to be ready for anything, before he addresses the world leaders, assuring him that the X-Men were not responsible for this, but that they will apprehend the culprit and see that he faces justice. Scott asks the officials to let them do their jobs, adding that there is no reason for this situation to deteriorate further.
Nearby, a security officer touches his ear-piece and orders ’Attention all units, emergency protocols X are go! Code word: Pop the trunk!’ he calls out. ‘Repeat: Pop the trunk!’ he orders once again. ‘Copy that’ an officer outside replies as a large truck pulls up. The officer inside continues to talking to them via their ear-pieces and he informs the officers outside that the suspect’s description is as follows: ‘Male. Mutant’, and orders them to subdue anyone who matches that description. The back door of the truck opens, and a large hand extends.
Shortly, a door to the building is blown open. ’Oh, you gotta be kidding me!’ Cyclops calls out as he looks up and sees several Sentinels. ’They brought arms…to an arms control conference’ Scott mutters. ’Yeah? Well, so did we’ Logan replies as he unsheathes his claws, and the two powerful mutants engage the Sentinels in swift combat, with Scott blasting the robots apart with his optic power, and Logan slicing the heads off the Sentinels with his adamantium claws.
With the Sentinels destroyed, Quentin appears on the monitor overhead. ‘Attention, mutants of the world!’ he announces, before revealing that he takes credit for today’s action in the name of all mutant kind. ‘Today, the world has seen its leaders exposed as the lying, conniving human filthy they are. Today, one lone 16-year-old mutant patriot yanked the strings of the Earth’s mightiest puppet masters!’ he boasts. He suggests his “friends” sit back and watch them dance, to watch them scramble and fumble and fume, and watch them slather on more lies, to try and cover over the scars and sweeping wounds they exposed here today. ‘Watch them rage. Watch them lust. For blood. My blood. Our blood!’ Quire shouts.
He smirks as he tells his mutant brothers and sisters to stay tuned to their screens, for those of them out there who dare still doubt the hate and fear the humans harbor for them, it is time they turn on, tune in and pull their heads out of their asses, and just watch what happens next. The recording then ends. Wolverine begins to leap across the Sentinel rubble, informing Scott that he will pick up his trail and have him bleeding and crying by sundown. ‘No!’ Scott calls out, telling Logan to forget Quire, as he is irrelevant now. ‘The damage is done. We’re gonna need everyone back at Utopia’ Scott remarks. ‘You just wanna see what happens next, don’t you?’ Logan calls back. ‘Don’t you?’ Scott asks as he begins to walk away.
Elsewhere, a media frenzy has gathered, when suddenly, ‘Mr Kilgore! Mr Kilgore!’ several of the media shout out as a man in a suit strides towards his limo. ‘Carlton Kilgore, as one of the world’s pre-eminent arms manufacturers, what is your reaction to today’s events?’ one reporter calls out. Carlton replies that he is outraged and appalled by such a cowardly terrorist attack. ‘Hopefully we as a planet can come together and heal the wounds that were made here today. Until then, all Kilgore Brand small arms are officially half priced’ he announces as he gets into the limo - not any ordinary limo, one that flies.
The vehicle then takes off into the sky and Kilgore reaches for a drink, informing his driver that their website is processing a thousand orders a minute and that Kilgore stock has already gone up three points. ‘Now that’s what I call an arms control conference!’ he remarks. ‘Here’s to the power of irrational fear! May the X-Men live forever!’ he declares as he holds his drink up. ‘I’ll drink to that’ a voice calls out. Carlton looks across and sees his young son sitting opposite him. ‘Kade? What in the devil are you doing here? Why aren’t you in school?’ Carlton asks his son, who replies that he is in school, or, at least, his Life Model Decoy is. ‘He’s been taking my classes for three months now’ Kade reveals, before holding up a gun and aiming it at his father. ‘You didn’t even notice when my grades slipped to A-minuses, did you?’ Kade asks, adding that his father was never particularly attentive.
Carlton calls out to his driver, addressing her as Bessy, he remarks that it appears his son has pulled a gun on him. ‘If you could be so kind as to wring his neck for me, I would greatly appreciate it’ Carlton calls out, but Bessy looks up through the rear-vision mirror and replies that she cannot do that. ‘What?’ Carlton asks. Kade continues to hold the weapon up to his father and informs him that Bessy is with him now. ‘She’s never much appreciated your tendency to slap her behind or ogle her bosom. She’ll get none of that from me’ Kade declares. ‘That’s because you haven’t even hit puberty yet! My God, boy, you’re only twelve!’ Carlton exclaims.
Kade announces that he has been wanting to do this since he was ten, but that it has taken him this long to blackmail the board of directors into installing him as the new Kilgore CEO - which happened thirty minutes ago. ‘You traitorous little devil! I’m glad your mother didn’t live to see this, you -’ Carlton begins, before the door suddenly opens, and he falls from the flying car. Kade then begins shooting at his father, striking him several times, as his father falls to the snow-covered alps below. Kade puts the gun down on the seat and remarks that he has just shot his father in mid-air, after wresting away the company he worked his entire life to build, and yet, he feels not even an ounce of shame or remorse. ‘Tell me, Bessy…is this what it means to be a man?’
‘Near as I can tell, Sir, yes’ Bessy replies, before addressing Kade as “Mr Kilgore” and asking ‘Where to now?’ Kade replies that he needs to go to the clubhouse, as the others will be waiting. ‘But take the long way. Show me as much of the world as you can. I’d like a good look t what I’ve just inherited’ Kade calls out, while his father’s body lands in the snow below.
On Utopia, night has fallen over the island nation, but five of the senior X-Men have gathered. ‘That arrogant little twit! When I get my hands on Quentin Quire, I’m going to liquefy his brain and have him blow it out his nostrils like a snot-nosed toddler!’ the White Queen threatens. ‘How did he even get free? Last I knew he was trapped in a containment unit in the lab’ Cyclops remarks. Magneto points out that Quire is not the issue, and tells his colleagues that it is the world’s response that they should be worried about, and working to prepare themselves for. Namor the Sub-Mariner announces that Atlantis will not go to war over the impudent actions of one foolish pink-haired whelp. Wolverine stands away from the others and listens, before turning and walking down a flight of stairs.
Soon, Logan meets up with Kitty “Shadowcat” Pryde. ‘So, you got it?’ he asks his longtime friend. Holding a box, Kitty replies that she did the best she could, as it has been a while. Wolverine thanks her as he continues on, while Kitty calls out after him, asking him if he knows what he is doing. ‘I survived you being a teenager, didn’t I?’ Logan points out. ‘Yeah, but you also showed me how to use a sword before I was old enough to wear a bra. Who’s the new lucky girl?’ Kitty asks.
‘Idie?’ Wolverine calls out as he enters a kitchen, where Oya is seated at a table, several tubs of ice-cream laid out on the table in front of her. ‘This is for you’ Wolverine announces, holding the box up. Oya opens the box, and inside is a doll. She looks up at Wolverine and tells him that she doesn’t understand. ‘Is this part of my combat training?’ she asks. ‘No. It’s a doll. It’s just…you know, for playing with’ Logan explains. ‘Oh. I see. Thank you’ Idie replies, before turning back to her ice-cream. Logan picks up one of the tubs and asks her what she is doing. ‘Eating ice-cream. Have you ever had it before? It’s incredible. I can’t stop eating it!’ Oya exclaims as she shovels more into her mouth.
‘Yeah, I’ve had my share of ice-cream’ Wolverine replies. Idie smiles and looks up at Wolverine, asking him if he would like to eat ice-cream with her. Logan sits down on the bench next to Idie and replies ‘Yeah. Sure kid’, and Idie smiles as Logan begins to eat ice-cream with her.
Back in the other room, Scott, Emma, Magneto and Namor turn their attention to a media report, which announces that in North Korea, something appears to be happening in the skies above the Yellow Sea. Suddenly, Hope enters the room. Looking worried, she asks what is going on. ‘Nothing. Please, Hope, just return to your studies’ Emma orders. But Scott calls out ‘No. Let her in. She should see this’. Hope approaches Scott, while the media report continues, revealing that this live footage from the North Korean News Agency is of what appears to be military manuevers being conducted, which were previously unscheduled. Looking at the Sentinels on screen, Hope asks ‘Are those what I think they are?’ ‘Yes’ Scott tells her. ‘So…I’m guessing your speech didn’t go well’ Hope remarks.
Hope adds that it doesn’t even matter that there are so few of them left, as the feat just doesn’t go away. Scott informs her that they fear mutants more than ever - the ones in power do, more now when there were millions of them - because then mutant kind was scattered and broken. ‘We’re not so scattered and broken anymore’ Scott points out. Hope asks if it will still matter, as this is still the sort of thing that ends with mutants dying. ‘Not this time. Not unless they kill me first’ Cyclops replies. ‘Then how does it end?’ Hope asks. ‘With us still right here. Still standing together’ Scott declares. ‘No matter what’ he adds as Wolverine and Oya enter the room. The four stand and watch the news report, and Hope remarks ‘No matter what, huh. That looks like a pretty big what’ as she motions to the Sentinel. Oya announces that she doesn’t understand, and asks what it is. Logan tells her to go back to ice-cream, while Scott says she can stay if she wants to die. ‘Scott…’ Logan begins. ‘Hated and feared. We toss that phrase around so often its impact becomes hollow’ Cyclops declares, announcing that it is good to be reminded from time to time just what that means. ‘This is what it means. This is what it means to have the whole world hate and fear you’ he declares.
Emma, Namor and Magneto are still present as the group watches several Sentinels on screen, and a reporter announce ‘Our experts tell us these appear to be Soviet-made versions of early Mark I or Mark II grade Sentinel designs, a technology that the North Koreans had previously denied having’. The reporter adds that, at present, they have only seem them conducting flying maneuvers in the skies above the Yellow Sea, but now they are firing energy blasts down into the water. ‘This is quite the show of power’. The reporter states that there has been no official statement from the North Korean regime as to the motivations behind these maneuvers, but that considering the events at today’s arms control conference, one cannot help but assume - however, the reporter is interrupted, as another reporter switches to Beijing, where several Sentinels are standing guard. Sentinels begin to appear in other countries as well, including Egypt and France.
A reporter announces that some agencies are reporting that Pakistan is in the process of arming its borders with gene-sensitive land mines, and the outcry continues to rise among embattled European leaders to deny travel visas for all known mutants. The reporter adds that unconfirmed reports are coming in of a giant sword-wielding robot seen emerging from the waters of Tokyo Bay. Scott turns to Emma and tells her to get on Cerebra and to make sure everyone with a functioning X-gene saw this. ‘Tell them the mutant race is hereby on global high alert’ he orders.
But suddenly, Ororo “Storm” Munroe appears, and tells her friends that they should not overreact and make this worse. ‘These are maneuvers and tough talk, not open acts of aggression’ she points out. ‘How much more open do you need, Ororo?’ The world just stuck its gun in our face’ Cyclops exclaims. Storm asks Scott what he suggests they do. Adjusting his visor, Scott replies ‘For starters…not blink’.
Elsewhere, several people wearing hooded cloaks are gathered in a dark room, watching the same media report on the Sentinels. The reporter continues, revealing that the statement from the nation’s supreme leader, made while standing in the palm of a three-story Sentinel, decrying the unwanted influence of what he refers to as “genetic infidels”. ‘We like what we’re seeing here, young man. Indeed, we do’ one of the cloaked people remarks. ‘I told you it would work, didn’t I? Kade Kilgore always delivers!’ Kade boasts as he stands before the cloaked people who are sitting around a table. The monitor turns off, as one of the mysterious people asks ‘And what of this Quentin Quire person?’
Kade smirks and replies ‘Clueless. A psi-proof helmet, light-bending wetsuit and five minutes of my time were all it took to free him from Utopia’ Kade boasts. Kade explains that as far as Quire knows, his containment suddenly faile and he become corporeal again. ‘I figured he’d celebrate by either brain-frying the nearest bunch of school children, or disrupting today’s arms conference. Either way, I knew it’d get us what we wanted’ Kade explains. ‘Very impressive’ one of the hooded ones calls out. ‘Isn’t it, though?’ Kade replies, before the hooded person asks if phase two is ready to go. ‘Only if that means I’m in’ Kade replies. The hooded person replies that if the vote had been anything less than unanimous, he would have been murdered the second he stepped through that door. ‘Instead, your chair awaits’ he calls out, motioning to the chair at the top of the table. Kade sits down at the chair, a large “H” can be seen on the wall behind him, as the cloaked people raise their goblets and one of them exclaims ‘Welcome, Mr Kilgore, to the Hellfire Club! All hail the new Black King!’


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Schism, part two
‘NO MORE MUTANTS!’ ‘NO MORE MUTANTS!’ ‘NO MORE MUTANTS’ is the chant that echoes loudly in a country far away from the United States of America, and, more importantly, the island nation of Utopia. A leader stands on a rooftop and speaks to the aggressive crowd below, announcing that mutants want to steal their minds. ‘You saw it for yourselves! You saw how they attacked me! How they stole into my very brain and forced me to utter their lies!’ the leader exclaims. ‘NO MORE, we must say to these genetic infidels!’ he shouts, announcing that mutants are unholy abominations, deviations from the true right path. ‘Let them remain an American problem! We have never had them here…and now we never will!’ he boasts as he motions to the stoic Sentinel, standing behind him.
The leader declares that this holiest of machines, built by their greatest scientists, was designed to defend them against mutant crusaders. He boasts that it is the finest mutant-hunting machine the world has ever seen. But, covering his megaphone so no one on the street below hears him, he turns to a man standing nearby at a laptop and asks ‘Why isn’t it moving?’ he other man replies that they are trying, but points out the machine has been in storage for so long. ‘This is the first time in years anyone’s tried to -’ he begins, but his leader interrupts, declaring that he does not want to hear that. ‘Make it fly. Make it do something’ he orders. ‘Sir, we…we…’ the other man utters, before the leader notices that the computer has smoke pouring from it. ‘Is it supposed to be smoking like that?’ he asks.
Suddenly, the Sentinel’s eyes light up, and it begins unleashing beams of energy, setting buildings on fire and destroying vehicles, while the civilians run for their lives.
On Utopia, a news report is being listened to, in which the top story tonight, in light of the startling revelations stemming from yesterday’s international arms conference fiasco: ‘Which world leaders are being asked to step down? Could Sentinel robots pose a threat to humans as well as mutants? And just who and where is Quentin Quire, the young militant responsible for all this unrest? But first, Lindsay Lohan in the news again…’.
 Several young mutants - Anole, Dust, Trance and Transonic - are walking down a corridor, as Trance announces that “Death to mutants” is trending on Twitter. ‘That can’t be good’ she points out. Anole points out that so is Quentin Quire, as lots of people are calling him a hero for what he did.
‘Who the hell is Quentin Quire?’ Transonic asks Dust explains that he was a student at the Xavier School, a gifted telepath, but a troubled man, who once stated a riot at the school and battled several of the teachers. ‘He even managed to take down -’ Dust begins, before stopping herself, as Wolverine a.k.a. Logan appears before them, with the young mutant Idie Okonkwo aka Oya behind him. Logan snarls at the mutants and orders them to get to class. Trance informs him that there is no school today, that classes were canceled. ‘On account of, you know, the whole world wanting to kill us and all’ she explains. ‘Then go to your rooms’ Logan orders. Logan turns to Oya and tells her to get to her room as well, that it is best to stay inside until this trouble dies down.
‘It’s because we’re monsters’ Idie calls out as Wolverine walks away from her. ‘What?’ Logan asks as he turns back to her. ‘That’s why they want to kill us. You can’t blame them really. They have every right to be afraid’ she points out. Wolverine assures her that she is not a monster, Oya replies that it is okay, that it doesn’t bother her. ‘I’ve made peace with who I am’ she explains as she turns and walks away. Wolverine just looks at her.
Elsewhere on Utopia, Scott “Cyclops” Summers and Emma Frost a.k.a. the White Queen are monitoring the various events around the world, while the Stepford Cuckoos - Mindee, Phoebe and Celeste - assist, keeping in contact with various X-Men and allies around the world. One of the Cuckoos announces telepathically that Gambit is online in Tokoyo, uploading the Samurai Sentinel schematics. Another of the Cuckoos contacts the twins Northstar and Aurora, informing them that their targets have just sunk a fishing boat in the Red Sea, as she sends them the coordinates. The third Cuckoo tells Fantomex that he does not have clearance to crash a flying Sentinel into an Italian football stadium.
‘Got another one. Iran this time. It’s running wild in the streets’ Emma announces. Examining the situation, Cyclops replies that the teleporter are taxed, and asks who they have in the area. ‘Slim’ Wolverine calls out as he enters the room. ‘Send me someplace where I can stab something’ Logan declares. ‘Something that bleeds would be best. But I’ll settle for a damn robot’ Logan adds. But Cyclops tells Logan that he needs him here on Utopia, just in case any of those things actually prove to be operational. ‘What are you talking about?’ Logan replies. ‘You haven’t seen the latest news reports? The Sentinels, they’re -’ Scott begins.
‘Defective’ young Kade Kilgore announces inside the Hellfire Club, New York City. ‘At least 75% of them. Old and outdated. Improperly maintained. Useless. Just as I promised’ the young billionaire tells two old men dressed in robes. One of the old men replies that the Hellfire Club remains impressed with its newest Black King. ‘As you may know, young master Kilgore, the Inner Circle of this very club was once infested with mutants. We have since eradicated that infestation and in these seats you will once again find only those of the most extravagant wealth, refined lineage and impeccable genetic purity’. The old man smiles and announces that which was the era of the mutant has passed, and thus begins the new Age of Hellfire.
The old man continues, explaining that their previous plan was to exterminate the mutant race and, perhaps throw an orgy every year on the anniversary of their demise. ‘But you, Mr Kilgore, have found a rather useful new purpose for them, have you not?’ Hands in his pockets, Kade replies ‘Yes. Assuming all goes according to plan. Which, it will of course, since it’s my plan’. He announces that his team is assembled and awaiting orders, and that he expects confirmation on their target any moment. The old man asks Kade what he needs from them. ‘Four billion dollars in cash. And a dozen of your best men. Of the particularly violent variety’ Kade replies. ‘Already done. Waiting for you outside’ the old man replies. Kade adds that he also needs someone to record the next 24 hours of news broadcasts, as he forgot to set his DVR before he left home this morning. ‘And I wouldn’t want to miss my TV debut’ he declares.
Outside, ‘This is four billion in cash?’ Bessy, Kade’s driver, asks as she holds a small case in her hand.3’It will be once we un-shrink it’ Kade replies, before talking to someone on his mobile phone: ‘I have the money. Make the deal’ he declares. ‘Will do’ a boy about the same age as Kade replies at another location. With him are another boy and a girl, and they stand before several dog-faced aliens known as the Badoon. ‘Money’s on the way, fellas. Let’s talk business’ the boy suggests.
Back on Utopia, ‘The Sentinels are defective? Logan asks. ‘Some of them. Some of them just fell apart when they tried to turn them on. But several have gone haywire and are running amok’. Logan listens to Scott and asks him who is dealing with those.
Rogue, for one, has arrived in Iran, and bursts through the head of the defected Sentinel. ‘Don’t mind us, folks. Go on with yer whole “no more mutants” party. We’re just here to save y’all’s asses is all’ she shouts. The leader crouches down on the rooftop and watches Rogue as he gasps ‘What is this? The X-Men have sent their women here, just to humiliate us’. The Sentinel begins to fall, as a voice calls out from behind the leader ‘Oh we’re not looking to humiliate anybody. We’re just here to help’. Shadowcat steps into view, announcing that the fact they are all women is just a coincidence. ‘Did I happen to mention I’m also Jewish?’ she asks, smiling.
Around the world, more of the X-Men and their allies are dealing with the active Sentinels. The snow falls down as Archangel and Psylocke take on their opponent, while elsewhere, a Spider-Sentinel races across the ground in pursuit of Domino. In a desert wasteland, Storm and Dazzler have easily defeated their opponents, while elsewhere, Northstar and his sister of Aurora of Alpha Flight speed past their Sentinel opponent in a haze of brilliant luminosity.
‘Get me out there, Scott’ Wolverine asks, back on Utopia. Scott replies that not every Sentinel is defective, and that he needs his A-team here in reserve, just in case any show up on their doorstep. Emma watches Scott and Logan, while the Cuckoos continue monitoring the situations. One of the girls announces that Spider Sentinels appear to be breeding in the Berlin subways, she dispatches Chamber and Warpath to deal to them. The next Cuckoo reveals that Sentinel Birds of Prey have collided with airliner over Mogadishu, but that Captain Britain and Thor are responding. The third Cuckoo exclaims that Moonstar’s team is in a standoff at the Pakistani border, being denied access, but Iron Man is attempting to intervene.
Logan tells Scott that if he doesn’t want him fighting robots, then he is going to go after Quire. ‘Logan…’ Scott begins. Motioning to the door, Logan declares that the kids out there oughtta be in school, not having to worry about no mess like this, which is Quire’s doing. ‘When I find him I’m gonna stick my claws so far up his -’ Logan begins, while Emma telepathically calls out ‘Scott’, while Scott interrupts Logan: ‘You wanna go after Quire, fine, go after Quire. But I can’t have you going out half-berserk, not at a time like this’ Cyclops declares, while his thoughts respond to Emma: ‘Not now’ he tells her. Cyclops tells Wolverine to talk to him, to tell him what is really bothering him. ‘Quire’s gotta answer for what he’s done, Scott’ Logan replies. ‘To hell with Quentin Quire! Just tell me -’ Cyclops shouts. ‘SCOTT!’ Emma calls out once more, urgently. ‘A-hem’ a voice announces. Scott and Logan turn around to the door where Emma is already looking. ‘Is this a bad time?’ Quentin Quire asks as stands in the doorway.
Meanwhile, the aliens stand near their ship, while the girl goes over to something that is covered by a blanket and lifts the blanket up. ‘Where is money? Four billion in untraceable intergalactic credits! That is what was agreed upon!’ one of the aliens calls out. ‘We told you, it’s on the way’ the boy with the longish hair replies. The alien warns the kids not to cross them, boasting that the moons of Jupiter are pockmarked with the graves of rotting Earthlings who tried to cross them. ‘Right. We get it’ the first boy replies, unimpressed. ‘Hi there, kitty. Hi there’ the girl calls out as she peers under the blanket, where some sort of creature is being held in a stasis tube. ‘Not kitty, stupid girl! Is Badoon brain slug! Very dangerous! Do not touch!’ one of the aliens calls out.
The girl ignores him, ‘Hi, pretty kitty’ she exclaims. ‘Children. And now I am thinking you children are wasting out time! I am thinking there is no money’ one of the aliens declares, before holding up a knife and suggesting they take the childrens’ organs instead. ‘Sell them to Dire Wraiths. At least make back our fuel costs’. One of the aliens grabs the girl by her hair and announces that they will carve them up here. ‘Get the cooler’ he orders. ‘Earth children. Always so frail and whiny’ the alien adds as he holds the girl up to him. ‘You give me back my kitty!’ the girl shouts, as she reaches into her purse - and pulls from it a laser-like sword - which she uses to slice off the alien’s hand.
‘You…you cut off my stabbing hand…you little…’ the alien utters as he holds his severed arm - before the girl lashes out once more and slices off both of his legs, at the knee. The alien falls the ground, and just stares at wounds, oozing green blood. ‘Your face is stupid and ugly and I hate it!’ the girl shrieks as she lunges at the alien with her laser sword and another weapon. Two of the other aliens ready their weapons, and growl as they move towards the girl - only to have their brains blown out as the two boys shoot them in the head. As the girl shoves the weapon into the other alien’s face, one of the boys remarks ‘She wasn’t kidding about hating his face, was she?’. ‘Sure not’ the other replies, before motioning to the approaching flying car. ‘Here he comes’ he remarks.
Bessy stands guard by the car as Kade approaches his young companions. ‘So…I suppose we’ll just keep the four billion for ourselves. They deliver everything we asked for?’ Kade asks. ‘See for yourself’ one of the boys remarks as he motions to the girl, who is holding the stasis tube that the Badoon brain slug resides in. ‘Kitty’ she exclaims. Kade looks at her, wide-eyed, before ordering the boys to shrink everything down and load it into the car, and to vaporize the bodies. ‘Time to get suited up!’ he announces.
On Utopia, ‘Well…don’t all thank me at once’ Quire remarks. ‘You’re going to make me say it, aren’t you? All right. My name is Quentin Quire, the most wanted mutant in the world, and I am officially requesting sanctuary on Utopia’ he smirks. ‘C’mere, you!’ Logan declares as grabs Quire by his pink hair. ‘AAAH!’ Quire gasps as he is pulled towards Wolverine, who then puts him in a head-lock and drags him towards the computer console. ‘Show me how to call Steve Rogers on this thing’ Logan asks. Scott tells him to hold on, but Logan declares that he is ending this right now. ‘We’re not turning him over’ Cyclops announces. ‘Are you insane?’ Wolverine asks. Scott assures Logan that Quentin will be tried - but here, on Utopia, by the X-Men. ‘You’re talking about harboring a global fugitive’ Logan points out. ‘I’m talking about a man being tried by a jury of his peers’ Scott explains.
‘This piece of $%#* don’t have no peers’ Wolverine replies, before asking someone to get him Rogers. ‘Belay that order’ Cyclops announces, asking Wolverine to think about this. ‘I am, Scott. You think about it!’ Wolverine replies. ‘Calling Rogers won’t be necessary’ Emma announces. ‘And why the hell is that?’ Logan asks as he and Scott stare each other down. ‘Because he’s already calling us’ Emma replies. Commander Steve Rogers appears on the monitor, and announces that it is a real mess out there. He assures Scott and Emma that the Avengers are doing all they can to keep these Sentinels under control, but they are stretched thin. ‘If we can just make it through the night, I’m hoping the morning may bring an ease in tensions’ Steve adds.
Commander Rogers continues, telling Scott and Emma that he appreciates their people’s help with everything. ‘I know this must be trying, but I thank you for keeping a level head’ Steve adds. Cyclops replies that it hasn’t been easy, but that at the end of the day, they are still committed to doing what they have always done. ‘Still no sign of this Quentin Quire fellow who started this whole nonsense?’ Steve asks. ‘No, Sir. Not yet’ Cyclops replies, while around the corner, out of the camera range, Wolverine listens to the conversation, while holding Quire down, and covering his mouth. ‘Just keep me informed then. Rogers out’ Steve replies, before the communication ends.
Logan throws Quire towards Cyclops. ‘Nice bit of acting, Slim. Here’ your prize’ he tells him. ‘I hope he was worth it’ Logan adds. Scott announces that they cannot afford a confrontation with the Avengers, before asking Logan where he is going. As he walks away, Logan replies that there are times he likes it when Scott shows some backbone and stands up to them - but this has not been one of them. ‘Bye now. See ya around, Professor!’ Quire calls out as he waves at Wolverine. ‘Quire!’ Cyclops mutters. Quire declares that Wolverine may be good for stabbing things, but that mouth-breathing knuckle-dragger of a troll doesn’t have the mental capacity to appreciate what he has done for mutant kind today. ‘But I knew you would, Summers’ Quire adds, but Scott tells him to shut up again.
Quentin blows something out of his nose, while Cyclops decides that Wolverine is right - Quire is not worth it. ‘You’re a child playing at revolution. You needlessly put lives in danger. You made the world less safe for all of us today and you will answer for what you’ve done, I assure you’ Scott warns him. ‘I exposed the truth! The truth you were all too afraid to even -’ Quire replies, before Scott grabs him by his collar, and shouts ‘If I have to tell you again to shut up, I’ll have you transferred to a cell in Atlantis where I assure you their definition of “cruel and unusual” is significantly more lax than ours!’ Scott leans in closer to Quire and warns him that if he ever hears him belittling Wolverine again, he will personally break him in half. ‘Pray, every day, Quentin, that you will someday be half the man he is. Because as it stands now, I wouldn’t take six of you on your best day for one of him on his worst! Now get the hell out of my sight!’ Scott orders.
Telepathically, Emma orders Quire to confine himself to his quarters and calls him a “wretched little cretin”. Quire frown as he leaves the room and mutters that genius is never appreciated. ‘I just poked your brain and made you soil yourself. Next time there’ll be blood involved. Begone!’ Emma commands. ‘GAH!’ Quire utters as he looks down. Cyclops turns to the Stepford Cuckoos and asks them for a sit-rep. One of the girls announces that Sentinels are now coming online in New Delhi, while the next reveals that a submarine Sentinel has been spotted in international waters off the coast of Hawaii, and the third reports that malfunctioning Sentinels are still at large in Islamabad. Scott orders the girls to have Pixie reroute Rogue and Kitty to India, and Fantomex make EVA submersible and go prowl the Pacific. ‘And where the hell is Moonstar’s team?’ Scott asks.
The White Queen informs Cyclops that the Mayor keeps calling for him, to which Scott replies ‘Tell her I’m busy’ as he continues to look at the various monitors before him. ‘Right. Let me do that. As I am of course your secretary’ Emma mutters, before reminding Scott that the grand opening of the new Mutant Rights Museum downtown was not scheduled for another week, but the Mayor is now considering holding it tonight, in the hopes the festivities will help calm the current tide of anti-mutant hysteria. ‘She was hoping you might send a few X-Men along’ Emma adds, before announcing that she, for one, would like to go, as the testosterone in this place is becoming a tad bit suffocating. ‘Are you watching this, Emma?’ Scott asks as he motions to the screens. ‘The whole world is sending us a message. And we need everyone we have just to…’ his voice trails off. ‘What?’ Emma asks. ‘I know that look. Why am I suddenly worried?’ Emma exclaims, to which Scott asks whether the opening tonight will be televised.
Later, a reporter stands in front of the San Francisco Museum of Mutant History, which is indeed being televised. In a bar, a haggard hold woman leans against the counter while Logan approaches the barman, who asks him what he will have, while looking up at the TV above the bar. ‘Beer’ Logan replies. ‘And keep ‘em coming’ he adds, The reporter announces that tonight’s guests of honor are arriving - a special peace delegation of X-Men. ‘Oh what the hell, Slim, Peace delegation my ass’ Logan mutters. ‘That’s a damn show of force’ he decides as he watches the White Queen, Colossus, Iceman, Magneto and the Sub-Mariner stride (or in Iceman’s case slide) down the red carpet, while photographers take as many pictures as they can. The reporter adds that tonight is a special night for human and mutants both, as tonight is about facing the fears of the present, and shepherding the prospects of the future. Cyclops watches the report intently, while further down the red carpet, Anole, Transonic, Dust and Trance smile for the cameras, while Oya walks a few feet behind them, frowning.
Elsewhere, ‘Just look at it…have you ever seen anything so pretty in all your life?’ the girl asks as she holds up the Badoon brain slug, still in its stasis tube. Kade and the two boys stand next to her, while several Hellfire Club foot soldiers stand nearby. Kade and his young friends are also wearing Hellfire Club soldier costumes, but of blue, green and yellow coloring instead of red. ‘Yes. My father’s brains, splattered across the Alps. But this is a close second’ Kade replies, before announcing that they have arrived. Kade, his friends and the soldiers are inside a large truck, which has just pulled up at the back of the museum, into the loading bay. ‘How’d you guess they’d move the date for the grand opening to tonight?’ one of the kids asks.  Kade replies that liberals are nothing if not predictable ‘Did we get a look inside? Who did the X-Men send?’ Kade asks. ‘All the heavy hitters. And some other guy made of ice. Just like you expected’ one of his friends informs him.
As they put their masks on, one of Kade’s friends asks him if he has any last words of wisdom for the troops. ‘Yes. Any of you morons #%$@ this up and I will hack your entire family tree into kindling and burn you atop the pile’ Kade warns them, before announcing that it is time to carve their names on the face of history. The truck doors swing open, and Kade, his friends and the foot soldiers burst forth, as Kade shouts ‘Thus begins the new Age of Hellfire!’