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New York City. 20 years from now. Onboard a speeding train, several passengers mill about, while two Police Officers stand around. Suddenly, a voice exclaims ‘Everyone listen up! This is a high jacking! Anyone moves and you lose a leg!’ the man who speaks is none other than Wolverine, a.k.a. Logan, who holds his deadly adamantium claws outstretched. Flanked by Rogue who has bone claws sticking through her hand and large feathered wings, Shadowcat, a young blond man, and a muscular man wearing a uniform that half resembles the X-Men costume and half Captain America, who orders everyone to get off the train, therefore no one will get hurt. ‘You don’t want to get off at our stop!’ he remarks.
‘FREEZE!’ one of the Police Officers exclaims, pointing their guns at Wolverine and the others. ‘No one’s going anywhere! Radio for Sentinels, now!’ he orders. ‘Kitty?’ rhe muscular man calls out. ‘On it, Cap!’ Kitty exclaims as she shoots webbing from her wrists at one of the Police Officers, causing him to drop his gun as she ties him up, while Cap throws his shield at the other cop. Cap turns to Wolverine, who announces that the cops tripped the alarm, and the Sentinels are fast approaching. Cap declares that they are running out of time, and orders Kitty to get to the control room, and turning to the young blond guy, he addresses him as Phoenix and tells him to get the civilians out of here.
‘You heard the man, move it!’ Phoenix orders. ‘Move it’ the civilians all mumble in time as they file out of the train under the mental influence of Phoenix. Rogue asks Phoenix if he can’t get them going any faster, to which Phoenix replies ‘Not without turning their brains into goop!’, before shortly announcing that everyone is off. Rogue turns to Logan and asks him if he is sure this is going to work. Logan asks what choice do they have. ‘We stop this now or we get dead like the rest of them!’ he exclaims. ‘I know, it’s just…’ Rogue’s voice trails off, before Wolverine takes her in his arms and kisses her. ‘If we go out, we go out fists-first’ Logan tells Rogue. Kitty announces that the train engine is chugging as fast as it can. ‘This is it!’ she declares. ‘…forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil…’ Cap utters.
New York City, specifically, the Baxter Building, headquarters of the Fantastic Four. The present day. ‘Reed Nathaniel Richards!’ shouts Susan Storm, a.k.a. the Invisible Woman, standing in a slinky black dress, she tells Reed a.k.a. Mister Fantastic, who is sitting at a console, various technical objects before him, that the only reason she agreed to this “date” was because she stupidly believed that he had changed. ’Sue’ Reed replies, trying to interrupt, but Susan continues: ’I thought you were going to be caring and considerate and…’ ’Sue’ Reed tries once more to interject, ’…I blame myself, really. I’m a smart girl. I’m smarter than you!’ ’SUE!’ Reed shouts now. ’What?’ Susan asks.
Reed stands up and hands Sue a bunch of red roses. ’Are those for me?’ Susan asks, smiling. ’Yes. Drinks at Madeline’s. Dinner at Nobu. Dessert at Le Cirque. I just need to get changed!’ Reed exclaims. ‘You cheated, didn’t you?’ Sue asks, telling Reed that she knows him and that she suspects that when she was mad, he used his time platform to go into the past, to buy the roses and set up the reservations. ‘Besides the unimaginable consequences those actions could have on the time stream - how could you think that I would ever do something so callous?’ Reed asks innocently. ‘Give me some credit, you didn’t turn the stupid thing off’ Susan snaps back, turning away from Reed, who turns to his time platform, and exclaims that he didn’t even turn it on, when, suddenly, a certain train from the future appears, driving straight through the time platform and into the Baxter Building.
Reed pushes Susan to safety, asking her if she is okay. ‘Are you okay? You’re okay?’ he asks over and over. Susan replies that she is fine, and asks Reed to let her go as he is squeezing her spleen. Susan’s brother, Johnny a.k.a. the Human Torch, and their teammate Ben “Thing” Grimm, rush into the lab, with Johnny asking if everything is all right, ‘It sounded like a train crashed into our building!’ Johnny exclaims, before laying eyes upon the train. ‘What the? A train crashed into our building!’ he shouts, while the Thing mutters that he thinks Reed did this. ‘I didn’t do anything, Ben. Why does everyone always assume I’m the one to blame!?’ Reed mutters. ‘Because’ Ben simply replies.
Suddenly, a large burst of energy, materializing as a Phoenix Raptor appears, shoving two train doors from their rungs, and the X-Men step out. ‘We made it. We did it. Thank God we found the Fantastic Four!’ Cap exclaims. ‘Since when is Captain America an X-Man?’ Johnny asks Susan, motioning to Cap, who is shaking Reed’s hand. Cap responds to Johnny’s question by exclaiming ‘Since America turned against every mutant on the planet. They’ve been hunted - imprisoned - executed. We didn’t know what else to do. We had to find you!’ Cap declares. ‘How can we help?’ Reed asks, smiling. ‘You can die!’ Cap exclaims as he tosses Reed into the air with ease, and calls out to Logan, who responds by lunging up at Reed and shoving his claws through Reed’s stomach, causing Reed to scream.
Rogue lifts Shadowcat into the air, while Phoenix unleashes his power upon the Invisible Woman, who blocks it with a shield. Cap blocks the Human Torch’s fire with his own trusty shield, and Wolverine holds Mister Fantastic to the ground, as Reed tells him that he cannot slice someone who doesn’t have internal organs. ‘This is gonna be harder than we thought!’ Logan mutters, while the Thing rushes over, assuring Reed that he is coming. But Rogue drops Kitty down in front of the Thing, telling him that she cannot let him do that. Ben looks at Kitty and remarks that he knows her. ‘You’re Spider-Man’s ex-girlfriend, right? What’re you gonna do? Phase through me?’ he asks. Kitty smirks as she reveals that she has learned a lot in the past twenty years. ‘I can make my molecules super-light…or super-dense. Kinda like you!’ she exclaims as she smacks the Thing hard enough so that he topples over.
The Invisible woman holds her shield up still, asking her young attacker why he is fighting them. ‘What did we do to you?’ she asks. ‘This has nothing to do with you. It’s his fault!’ Phoenix exclaims. ‘We’re a family. You go after one of us, you go after all of us!’ Susan exclaims, before she encases Phoenix in an invisible bubble. ‘Family? You don’t know the meaning of the word. You don’t understand. You never understood what it was like!’ Phoenix exclaims cryptically, while banging on the bubble with his fists. ‘Who…? Who are you?’ Susan asks, before Phoenix breaks down the invisible bubble, and uses a Phoenix Raptor to attack Susan. Cap shields himself from Johnny’s blasts still, and one of them ricochets off his shield, and hits Susan in the side. Cap exclaims that this isn’t working and declaring that the need some distance, he tells Phoenix to get the X-Men and the target out of here.
Phoenix grabs Reed in a raptor claw, while Reed extends his arm, reaching out to Susan, who holds onto him, telling him not to let go. But Phoenix’s thrust is more powerful and he flies away with Reed in his grasp. Phoenix flies overhead, with his power holding up Cap and Reed. Shadowcat makes herself intangible and flies alongside, while Rogue, thanks to her wings, flies on her own, holding onto Wolverine. ‘REED!’ screams Susan from the gaping hole in the side of the Baxter Building. Susan runs her hands through her hair, while Johnny and the Thing just frown.
Westchester County, Xavier’s School for Gifted Children. The Present Day. ‘Wolverine? Logan?’ asks Rogue as she finds Logan lying under a large tree. ‘I feel like you’re avoiding me’ Rogue tells Logan, who replies ‘That’s probably because I’m avoiding you’. Rogue tells Logan that she needs to apologize to him, needs him to understand. ‘The drug, Banshee, it gave me control taking powers and I could touch people - I could touch -’ she exclaims as she releases Logan-like claws from her hand. Logan gets up and tells Rogue that judging by those claws, it looks like she has some residual junk left in her system. ‘Go out and enjoy it. Find yourself a boy-toy’ he tells her. ‘Logan!’ Rogue exclaims, shocked.
‘You want me to tell you it’s okay?: I can’t. It’s not!’ Wolverine exclaims, reminding Rogue that he was used, his DNA was used to make that drug, just like Magneto used him, and just like he was used by Weapon X. ‘Weapon X used me too. That’s why I thought you might…I thought you’d…forgive me!’ Rogue exclaims, grabbing Wolverine by his shirt. Suddenly, a telepathic voice can be heard inside both of their minds. ‘Wolverine. Rogue. I need you back at the mansion, now!’. Wolverine walks away from Rogue, who calls out after him. ‘You heard the lady, time to get back to work!’ Wolverine mumbles.
Shortly, inside the mansion, ‘Well, if it isn’t the Fantastic…Three? Where’s the nerd?’ Wolverine asks, while Jean Grey a.k.a. Phoenix, Liz “Firestar” Allen and Bobby “Iceman” Drake stand nearby. ‘That’s the problem. There’s something you two have to see!’ Jean tells Logan and Rogue, before announcing that she is patching everyone in to a telepathic “file share”, and displays an image of people who appear to be Wolverine and Rogue kidnapping Mister Fantastic. ‘Is that supposed to be me? Why would I want to kill Reed?’ Rogue asks, confused. Susan glances at Rogue, unimpressed, ‘Don’t know. Don’t care, either. But you’re gonna help us get him back!’ she snaps.
Wolverine asks Susan why they are going to help her, to which Susan points out that the other X-Men aren’t going to hurt themselves. Unsheathing his claws, Logan declares that if he had a mad-on for Reed, he probably had a damned good reason. ‘What’re you saying? ‘Susan asks, angrily, bringing up her own invisible “claws”. Jean smirks, while Wolverine declares that he is saying Reed Richards used his best friends as guinea pigs.
Suddenly, Jean telepathically shouts at Logan, and draws him into the Astral Plane, where she appears as a giantess and holds him in the palm of her hands. Jean tells Logan that she doesn’t know what is going on with him, but that he is benched until he can calm himself down. Jean tells Logan to get his head together, as she needs him.
Returning Wolverine and herself to reality, Jean announces that so long as those people who took Reed are wearing X-Men uniforms, this is the X-Men’s problem. ‘We’ll find Reed and we’re going to save him!’ Jean announces. A doubtful Susan asks ‘How?’ to which Jean replies ‘Piece of cake!’. Power surrounds Jean as she declares ‘I am Phoenix. I can find any mind, anywhere on Earth!’. Jean points out that if there are two versions of the X-Men, then the one that is not standing here next to her is the one they want to find.
‘She can find anyone? Anywhere? Doesn’t that scare you, Liz?’ Johnny asks Firestar. ‘Everyone here scares me, Johnny’ Liz replies. Johnny jokes that he and Liz can cook s’mores on their thumbs, but that Jean is just freak. ‘S’mores? Really? That works?’ Liz asks, smiling at Johnny. Johnny grins as he replies ‘Don’t know. If you take me up on that date we never went on, maybe we can find out’ he suggests. Liz doesn’t get to answer, as Jean remarks that it is weird she only gets on reading for Wolverine, but has two for Rogue - here and New York, 37th and Fifth. Susan exclaims that is impossible, as that is the Baxter Building. ‘Their telepath made us think they fled. Those freaks never left!’ she exclaims, before telling Jean to get the rest of the X-Men, as they have to leave now.
Jean puts an arm around Logan, ‘This is the X-Men’ she declares, explaining that everyone is injured, recuperating or incapacitated. ‘This’ll have to do!’ she tells the Fantastic Four. ‘Fine, fine - we just have to get there. And fast. Who knows what they’re doing to him?’ Susan replies.
The Baxter Building, ‘AAARRRGGHH!’ screams Reed as Phoenix uses his powers on him, but tells Cap and Logan that he can’t kill him, as Reed’s molecular structure cannot be destroyed. Logan points out that Reed, body all twisted, seems like he is in agony. ‘Pain. Yes. I can make him wish he were dead. Just, you know - not actual death’ Phoenix replies. Cap orders Phoenix to keep trying. ‘We’ll figure something out he exclaims, before he and Wolverine take their leave. Reed, lying on the floor, looks up at Phoenix, ‘Do they know? Have you told them?’ he asks. ‘What’re you talking about?’ Phoenix snaps back.
Reed tells Phoenix that he would recognize him anywhere. ‘I know you’re my son, Franklin!’ Reed announces. Phoenix uses his powers to distort Reed’s body even further, ‘The hell you say - you’re not my father!’ Phoenix shouts. But Reed reveals that he has seen the various permutations of himself and his family across the Time Space Continuum. ‘It’s the same every time. I have a son. Franklin. I’d recognize you anywhere!’ Reed exclaims.
Phoenix releases Reed, who collapses, asking Phoenix why he didn’t tell them. ‘Unless…you didn’t know’ Reed remarks. ‘You’re lying’ Phoenix exclaims. Mister Fantastic tells Phoenix to read his mind. ‘You’ll see the truth. I’m your father. Sue’s your mother. I don’t know what happens in your future, but let me try to help…let me try to fix it…’ Reed exclaims. ‘I -’ Phoenix begins to reply, when, suddenly, three adamantium claws are shoved through Phoenix’s chest. ‘FRANKLIN!’ screams Reed.
Nearby, ‘Did you hear that?’ Cap asks Rogue and Kitty. ‘What?’ Rogue replies. ‘Something’s wrong!’ Cap exclaims as he and the girls rush to the sound of the commotion - and find Phoenix lying on the floor. Cap asks where Wolverine is, to which Rogue replies that she thought he was with him. ‘I’m right here…’ Wolverine announces, claws outstretched as he walks out of the shadows. ‘…we’re all here!’ Wolverine exclaims as several more Wolverine’s appear behind him, all looking menacing and holding their claws out. ‘You can’t escape the future, X-Men. Sentinels. ATTACK!’ one of the Wolverine Sentinels orders, and a frenzy follows, with the savage Wolverine Sentinels attacking the three X-Men.
‘Hold your ground! Hold your ground!’ Cap tells the girls while he holds up his shield to protect him from one of the Wolverine Sentinel’s attacks. Rogue screams as three of the Wolverine Sentinels pin her to the ground, while Kitty phases, just in time, as three Wolverine Sentinel’s shove their claws into her.
Meanwhile, Jean, Wolverine, Bobby, Rogue, Firestar, Susan, Johnny and the Thing are en route to the Baxter Building inside the X-Men’s jet. The Thing remarks that it is a nice roomy ride, and declares that it is the Cadillac of super hero team transport. ‘I’m sorry, are you talking to me?’ Firestar asks, uninterested. The Thing smiles and remarks that it is not like they can fly commercial. ‘And you…you can fly on your own, right? That’s gotta be fun, flying’ he remarks. Johnny frowns and tells Firestar that she doesn’t have to talk to him. ‘He’s just trying to flirt. Badly’. The Thing replies that he isn’t flirting, and claims that he is making small talk. ‘Talking. You know’. Firestar suggests that they should focus on the mission, to which the Thing replies ‘Yeah. Sure. Of course. Focus’, before Jean, piloting the jet, announces that they have arrived.
Soon, Jean, Wolverine, Bobby, Rogue, Firestar, Susan, Johnny and the Thing find the future X-Men inside a room of gore. ‘What happened here? Is that me? Am I…?’ Rogue asks as she sees her future self, lying unmoving. ‘Dead. Yeah. Sorry, darling’ Logan tells her. ‘Are they all…?’ Rogue begins, before Wolverine announces that someone is alive. ‘Cap?’ Logan asks as he pulls some rubble off Cap. ‘Not Captain America’ Jean exclaims as she crouches down beside him. ‘Well, at least not Steve Rogers. Isn’t that right, Scott?’ she exclaims, pulling Caps’ mask off.
‘Hey, Jean’ Scott whispers. ‘Hey yourself. What’re you doing wearing this costume?’ Jean asks, before realizing that Scott is not a mutant anymore. ‘No. I’m not’ Scott replies. ‘Me. Cap. You. We tried to stop them. And they took our powers away. I watched Cap age a hundred years in a minute. And you…oh, Jean - the things they did to you. I had to do something. So I took up his mantle!’ Scott reveals. Scott explains that they did not want to do this, but that they didn’t have a choice. ‘What happened here? Who did this?’ Jean demands to know, her power increasing around her as she holds onto Scott. ‘He betrayed us. We trusted him and he betrayed us’ Scott exclaims. ‘Who?’ Jean asks. ‘Who do you think?’ Wolverine!’ the future Shadowcat exclaims, holding up the head of a Wolverine Sentinel, while the injured male Phoenix stands next to her.
‘It wasn’t me. I loved Rogue’ the Wolverine Sentinel exclaims. ‘Ummm, Wolverine’s decapitated head is speaking!’ someone exclaims. Logan goes over to it and grabs it from the future Shadowcat, declaring that this is not him, as it reeks of metal, oil and hate. ‘Pure Sentinel! What the hell are you?’ Logan asks the head. The Wolverine Sentinel explains that Wolverine was used as the template for Sentinels. ‘The perfect killing machine. Hunting in packs. But I didn’t alert them. I’m you. Inside. I swear. I would never…’ its voice trails off as Jean shouts ‘Shut up Just hut the hell up!’, as she sits by Scott, everyone gathers around. ‘He’s dead. Scott’s…dead’ Jean whispers.
‘Enough!’ a frustrated Susan exclaims, asking where Reed is. ‘What’d you do to him?’ she asks. The Wolverine Sentinel replies that he doesn’t know, to which Susan accuses him of lying. ‘Where is he?’ she shouts again. ‘They…took him’ the male Phoenix reveals. ‘They took Reed into the future. I tried to stop them…I tried…I’m so sorry’ he tells Susan, who asks him who he is. ‘He’s…Phoenix. He’s part of me!’ Jean exclaims as she steps between Susan and the male Phoenix. ‘My future and my past. And we must make this right. All of us. Reed Richards must be returned to his rightful time and place!’ Jean exclaims.
‘They tried to kill Reed. And what? I’m just supposed to trust them?’ Susan asks. The future Shadowcat holds up Cap’s shield, ‘You have no idea of why we did this - of what we were trying to stop…but you will. You’ll understand exactly what your future holds!’ she tells everyone.
New York City. 20 Years from now. The train still hangs half in half out of the Baxter Building, and nearby, Robert Drake a.k.a. Iceman speeds through the air on an ice-sled. ‘Come on. Come on, faster!’ he tells himself as he is pursued by several Wolverine Sentinels. ‘Robert Drake. Designate Iceman. You will surrender!’ one of the Wolverine Sentinels orders as it lunges at Iceman, who shouts back that he is not going down without a fight, and blasts one of the Sentinels with a powerful wave of ice. ‘Come on. I’ll take you all down!’ Iceman boasts, only to be clawed right through the chest by one of the Wolverine Sentinels. Iceman screams, but the Wolverine Sentinel declares that its files indicate Iceman can survive this attack. ‘Subject Robert Drake is under arrest!’ the Wolverine Sentinel announces, resorting to its second option of taking Iceman down.
Shortly, in the Baxter Building holding cells, the Wolverine Sentinel informs Iceman that he will be moved to the N-Zone Facility at the next portal opening. They walk past Reed, trapped in one of the cells, who asks what he is doing here, but the Wolverine Sentinel ignores him. Reed stretches his fingers into various crevices in the walls, and exclaims ‘As the old saying goes - if you can’t bear them…pull every wire you can until you can break out of jail, so you can go and kick their butts!’. Eventually, Reed pulls enough wires so that the door to the cell opens, and he peeks out of it.
Reed tells himself not to be scared, as he has faced much worse. ‘We can do this. Let’s get the hell out of here!’ he tells himself before realizing that this is indeed the Baxter Building, as he recognizes the ceiling panels. ‘So…I go to the time platform and go home. Simple. Right?’ he exclaims, when suddenly, a streak of flame flies past him. ‘What? Johnny?’ Reed calls out as he sees the flame, and begins to follow it. ‘Johnny! It’s Reed!’ he calls out, when suddenly, the person at the end of the flame turns to him: ‘Not Johnny. My name’s Firestar!’ Firestar exclaims. A voice suddenly calls out ‘I know it’s confusing, Reed. But the world’s always been a confusing place!’. It’s the Invisible Woman! Although she now wears glasses, Reed turns and looks at her as she stands with Firestar, someone in large bulky armor, and Namor…the Fantastic Four?


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Ultimatum, part 1
Manhattan, the Stryker Household, minutes before the Ultimatum wave. A young woman sits with her son, while her husband stands at a window, looking outside. ‘It’s going to be perfect. Just perfect!’ he exclaims, asking his wife if she doesn’t want to glimpse the Rock Dove. ‘Honestly, William - how long have you been waiting to see that bird?’ the mans’ wife replies. ‘Today is the day’ William Stryker replies. ‘William…’ his wife complains, before he tells her that she could use some fresh air. But Williams’ wife tells him that it is too cold, and that she doesn’t want John to get sick on his wild goose chase. ‘Dove chase’ William tells her, before his wife tells him not to spend all day up on the roof. ‘I’ll be back soon. I love you. I love you. I love you’ William replies, kissing his son on the cheek.
Later, Stryker is waiting on the rooftop of their apartment block. ‘Come on, come on - where are you...there!’ William exclaims as he finally sees the Rock Dove. ‘Aren’t you beautiful?’ he remarks as he looks at the bird through binoculars. ‘A messenger from God. You’re…No!’ Stryker gasps, pulling his binoculars away from his face, he sees the city below suddenly overcome by a massive wave, with water so high that it already covers some buildings, and is sweeping quickly towards his building, while the rain beats down from the sky above. ‘Kate! John! John!’ Stryker calls out to his family as he rushes across the rooftop and down the access stairs.
Stryker reaches the level 16 landing bay, and discovers that the water has risen to that floor already. Stryker dives into the water and swims down to his apartment, which is also completely submerged. Opening the door, his baby’s rattle floats by, along with a photograph of Stryker in his Reverend outfit with his wife and child, and a horror-stricken Stryker sees the fate of his family.
Meanwhile, at the Xavier School for Gifted Children, minutes after the Ultimatum wave, several of the young mutant heroes and their allies are watching a news report on the current goings-ons. ‘Survivors are clinging onto anything they can hold…desperately struggling to stay afloat, waiting for rescue helicopters…’. A horrified Rogue exclaims that Angel, Beast, Dazzler and Nightcrawler were down town, to which Firestar tells her to shut up. ‘Psylocke…are you picking up anything?’ Rogue asks the telepath, who remains silent. ‘Syndicate?’ Rogue asks. ‘No’ one of the two heads replies. ‘I was talking to Matthew, not you, Luke’ Rogue replies. ‘No, Rogue. Now shut up!’ Syndicate replies.
The media report continues: ‘Red Cross tends are being set up in Central Park Manhattan and New Jersey for survivors and their families…but people should prepare for the worst. Mass casualties are expected’. Rogue sees the three senior X-Men walk by - Wolverine, Cyclops and Jean Grey - and she calls out to Jean, while the reporter remarks ‘…we can’t just help but feel utterly and completely powerless. Completely powerless’. Jean a.k.a. Marvel Girl - or Phoenix - looks annoyed as Rogue rushes after her, and tells Wolverine and Cyclops to go on ahead, that she can handle this.
‘Jean…’ Rogue exclaims. ‘Rogue…’ Jean replies, before Rogue asks Jean what the plan is. Jean frowns as she tells Rogue that they think Magneto is behind this, and that they are going after him. ‘Okay? We’re going after him. You get me? You understand what I’m saying here?’ Jean asks. A gape-jawed Rogue replies ‘I’m coming too!’, but Jean replies ‘No. Actually. You’re not. At all’. ‘What?’ Rogue retorts, before Jean tells her again that she is not coming, as they need people they can trust. ‘You can’t trust me?’ Rogue shouts. ‘Lately’ Jean tells her. ‘What?’ Rogue snaps. ‘Lately…with the drugs and the -’ Jean begin, before Rogue interrupts.
‘This is because I did drugs? I did the Banshee so I could get control of my power! And you know what - it worked! Xavier said he could help me. You said you could help me. You both failed!’ Rogue screams. Jean creates a small Phoenix bird in the palm of her hand, ‘You’re right. We failed’ she tells Rogue. ‘We constantly fail. And Alison and Kurt are dead because of our failure’ Jean announces. ‘Dead?’ Rogue gasps. ‘Dead. Dead and - and I could only hear their last thoughts’ Jean remarks.
(Shown with illustrations depicting Angel, Beast, Dazzler and Nightcrawler)
‘You want to know what they were thinking when that wave came crashing down?’ Jean asks Rogue, telling her that their friends were not thinking about fighting back, or even about regret - or revenge - they were thinking about what made them human….
‘Ow. Ow. Ow. That. Ow. That hurts like a… Damn!’ Dazzler was shouting as she got a tattoo on her upper arm. The tattoo artist asked her if she was okay, to which she replied ‘Yeah. No. I’m great. Perfect. Just perfect’. Jean explains to Rogue that the rebellion and pain made for an exquisite empowerment, and for Dazzler, nothing ever felt the same again. Jean displays Nightcrawler, in an empty cinema, ‘I was with Stiles this afternoon’. ‘I know’. ‘You saw?’. ‘Yeah. I saw’. the characters on the picture screen are saying to each other, while Kurt smiles and eats popcorn. ‘Unless that was another werewolf doing a headstand on top of Stiles’ Wolfmobile’.
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Jean points out that Kurt loved the movies because of the dark of the theater, and he could be the normal one. ‘And now - they’re gone’ Jean declares. ‘I didn’t know’ Rogue replies as she wipes her eyes. A furious Jean declares that they must stop Magneto and the Brotherhood. ‘We have to finish this. Finally. Finish. End it. Brutally. He deserves it!’ she declares. ‘And I can help!’ Rogue exclaims, but Jean begins to walk away from her, telling her that it is handled. ‘We’re handling it. The first class. The original X-Men. This is our job!’ Jean exclaims.
Rogue presses her fingers to her forehead, when suddenly, the Toad drops down beside her. ‘They don’t trust you’ he tells her. ‘And they ain’t never - never ever - gonna’. Toad tells Rogue that they all look at her the same way everyone looks oat him. ‘Corner of their eye - like I’m gonna steal something!’ he exclaims, to which Rogue replies that she doesn’t know what he is talking about. ‘We were both Brotherhood. Worse - you were in Weapon X!’ Toad reminds Rogue, who replies ‘That was a lifetime ago’.
But Toad tells Rogue that it isn’t a lifetime ago to the X-Men. ‘I get it. I know’ he tells her. ‘They think you’re little - selfish - grasping. Always going after who you thought could solve your problems’. Suddenly, Rogue grabs Toad by the neck, and absorbs his power, turning her complexion green, and her teeth jagged. ‘They think I’m the enemy? They think I’m the monster? I’ll show them. Ugly in. Ugly out. I’ll show them!’ she exclaims angrily.
Meanwhile, in Central Park, Manhattan, hours after the Ultimatum wave. Several men and women have gathered in a tent, where a dishevelled William Stryker is preaching to them: ‘And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever and ever. Amen’ Stryker remarks. ‘Amen!’ the men and woman call out. Stryker continues: ‘Dear Lord, please forgive us. Our hearts are filled with anger and grief and violence. We have been - tormented - by grief. We honor you. We love you. We…we…I…Oh Lord…I…’ Stryker drops to his knees, shaking his fists as he asks ‘Why would you create such abominations, Lord? Mutants?! Why do we suffer? Why did you put us in harm’s way? Your children. It’s your fault! It’s your fault!’ he cries.
At the end of his service, Stryker collects some Bibles up, when four men and one woman approach him. ‘Nice sermon, Reverend’ one of them remarks. Stryker asks them if there is anything he can help them with, to which a large man with a moustache replies ‘Actually, we’re here to help you. We heard you lost your wife and boy’. Stryker turns away, so the man asks him what he intends to do about it. ‘Pray’ Stryker replies. ‘So you said. You also said these mutants are an abomination’ the large man reminds him. ‘I didn’t mean - I was overcome. Words said in grief and anger aren’t words at all’ Stryker tells him. The large man reveals to William that he knew his father, that he served with Admiral Stryker. ‘I knew what type of man he was. What type of man are you?’ he asks.
The large man with the moustache asks Stryker if he believes they should turn the other cheek, or if it is their right to take an eye for an eye. ‘I know what your father would answer’ he tells him. Stryker replies that he is only his father’s son in name. ‘You may be a preacher, but there’s a hate lurking inside those prayers. Just…come for a walk…’ the large man asks. Stryker follows the large man away from the tent and over to a vehicle, where the large man remarks that some interesting stuff washed ashore from that wave. ‘A gift from God. And SHIELD’ he remarks. ‘Sentinels!’ Stryker gasps as the other man pulls a cloth off the back of the vehicle, revealing various Sentinel parts. ‘So…Reverend? What’s it gonna be? What kind of man are you?’ the large man with the moustache asks.
Meanwhile, in Canada, at Department H, hours after the Ultimatum wave. There is a mighty THOOM, and a dozen Department H soldiers rush past Vindicator, one of them informing him that they are under attack. ‘I’m not going anywhere’ Vindicator replies as there is another THOOM. Vindicator tells the soldiers to get the hell out of here. ‘She’s coming for me!’ he exclaims as another THOOM sounds. Suddenly, the wall is torn apart, and Jubilee is tossed at Vindicator, apparently by a very angry looking Sasquatch. ‘Your new army is weak. Useless. Done!’ Sasquatch exclaims, while a weary Jubilee tells Vindicator that she is sorry, but she tried. Vindicator tells Jubilee that it is not her fault, and supposes that he had this coming.
‘There are better ways to get my attention, Rogue!’ Vindicator exclaims to Sasquatch as he gets to his feet. ‘Wanted to make sure you listened!’ Rogue, in Sasquatchs’ form still, replies. Vindicator tells Rogue that he is not going to talk to her like this. ‘Lemme see that beautiful face of yours’ he tells her. Rogue switches back down into her true form. ‘That’s better. Like an angel’ Vindicator exclaims. ‘I’m a monster. Just like you made me!’ Rogue retorts. ‘Me? I didn’t make you, darlin’. I made you better!’ Vindicator replies, removing his mask, and revealing his face, three claw-like scars across it.
‘You made me into a weapon, Wraith. Or Vindicator. Or whatever you’re calling yourself now. You ruined my life!’ Rogue shouts, angrily. Rogue declares that the X-Men don’t trust her, that they think she is going to betray them. ‘Don’t blame them. You flip sides faster than a coin’ Wraith tells her. ‘This is your fault!’ Rogue retorts, reminding Wraith that he said he would help her, and that she believed him. ‘I believed in you…and you…’ Rogue begins, cutting herself short. ‘What? You gonna cry? Please. It’d be so typical. You were such a disappointment!’ Wraith jibes Rogue, who tells him to shut up.
Rogue lashes out at Wraith with a punch, while Wraith tells her that she was supposed to be the best, the strongest his prize recruit. ‘But look at you - a waste of money and training and craft and care…totally useless!’ he declares. Wraith lets out a blast of power, smacking Rogue in the back as he tells her that she cannot control her power, ‘A total failure. On every level’. ‘Shut up! Shut the hell up!’ Rogue shouts, telling Wraith that the only reason she has kept his identity a secret, and why she didn’t tell Wolverine, was because she loved him like a father. ‘I believed you - and you’re gonna make it all up to me!’ she tells him.
‘Oh yeah? How’m I gonna do that?’ Wraith asks. ‘You’re gonna help me kill Magneto!’ Rogue announces. ‘You had plans on plans on plans’ Rogue reminds Wraith. ‘You knew exactly how to take him down. He killed Kurt! And Alison! I want my revenge!’ Rogue declares. Wraith asks what Rogue will do if he says no. ‘Pout?’. Rogue grabs Wraith by the collar, ‘You’re gonna tell me. You’re gonna help me!’ she shouts, warning Wraith that she will touch him, kill him, and take all his memories and plans all for herself. ‘Your choice’ she declares. Wraith looks at Rogue and says nothing, before declaring ‘Now that’s more like it. Showing some tooth. You wanna kill Magneto? I’ve got just the thing!’
Rogue lets Wraith go, and he walks over to a compartment, explaining to Rogue that the Canadians saved his life by injecting him with Banshee, restarting his system, and giving him powers. ‘Made me realize all the mistakes I made’ Wraith admits, before explaining that he tried to make Alpha Flight into his new Weapon X, but that they were never as good as the original. ‘We’ve gotta get the old team back together’ he tells her. ‘Weapon X?’ Rogue asks, pointing out that most of them work for Magneto now. ‘How’re we gonna do that?’. Wraith opens the compartment, revealing a red and white armor. ‘They say clothes make the man’ Wraith remarks, motioning to the armor, and telling Rogue that this is their chance to get it right. ‘I started Weapon X to protect the world. Everyone needs a guardian looking out for them!’
Meanwhile, in Montreal, at the best strip club in the world, hours after the Ultimatum wave. ‘If this is the end of the world, Juggie, we’re gonna go out in style!’ Sabretooth exclaims to the Juggernaut while admiring the women in the strip club. The Juggernaut stares into his large glass of beer, and drinks it down as Sabretooth asks him what his problem is. ‘I bring you the finest babes in the world - and you look like you wanna kill yourself’ Sabretooth tells him. ‘Magneto buried New York. Buried it, Sabretooth. I…I’m a jerk, but I never signed on for genocide. Are we doing the right thing here?’ Juggernaut remarks.
‘Definitely’ Sabretooth replies as he looks at a scantily-clad woman approaching him. Suddenly, Sabretooth looks worried, and declares that something doesn’t smell right. ‘You can smell anything through this perfume?’ Juggernaut asks him. ‘It’s…’ Sabretooth begins, before the scantily-clad woman brings her face into view - it’s Rogue! Before Sabretooth can react, Rogue touches him on the forehead. ‘Surprise, sugah!’ she exclaims. ‘Rogue? What’re you doing?’ a surprised Juggernaut asks, before being struck down by Wraith, wearing his armor. ‘Making amends!’ Rogue declares, standing alongside Wraith, over the unconscious Sabretooth and Juggernaut.
Back at the X-Men’s Mansion, Psylocke, Firestar and Syndicate are still watching the news report. ‘The casualties are soaring as more bodies wash ashore’ a reporter announces. One of Syndicate’s two heads declares that he cannot watch this anymore, that he needs to get some air. ‘So go’ the other replies. ‘You kinda have to come with me’ the first points out. ‘I don’t wanna miss anything!’ the second retorts. ‘Come on, idiot!’ the first snaps.
Shortly, Syndicate are walking across the grounds, the first head declares that he cannot believe this is happening. ‘This is going to change everything. Everything’s gonna change!’ the second agrees. ‘I know…I know’ the first mumbles, before suddenly he hears something. ‘Did you hear that?’ he asks. ‘Yeah, it’s…’ the second replies, before the first head is suddenly blown off Syndicate’s body! ‘Matthew!’ shouts a horrified Luke. Suddenly, Stryker and his five followers, all clad in Sentinel hardware. ‘”Show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot”!’ Stryker shouts as smoke emanates from his gun.


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Ultimatum, part 2
Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, Salem Center, Westchester, New York. ‘I can’t feel my legs…I…I can’t feel - damn - who are you?’ gasps Syndicate, tears streaming from his eyes, his face covered in blood as he lies on the grass on the grounds of the school. A couple dozen armored men and women stand over him, armed with various weapons, their armor resembles that of Sentinels! One of them stares down at Luke, whose brother, Matt, was blown to pieces. ‘You killed him - I can’t believe you killed Matt and he’s - I’m dying. I’m gonna die…why’re you doing this?’ Luke asks.
The humans stare back at him, ‘You’re not a Sentinel!’ Syndicate exclaims. ‘What? What are…what the hell are you?’ he shouts. ‘Angels’ one of the attackers replies quietly, as everyone aims their weapons at Luke. Reverend William Stryker looks at Syndicate and asks ‘What do you do?’. ‘What?’ Luke asks. ‘What do you do?’ Stryker asks again, before Luke nervously replies ‘Telepathy’. ‘Telepathy? Like mind reading?’ Stryker asks. ‘Yeah’ Luke confirms. ‘Can you read my thoughts?’ Stryker asks, before he shoves his gun against Luke’s face.
‘My son was killed in the tidal wave. My wife. Drowned. Murdered. All of us here, we all lost our loved ones in the flood. Can you? Can any of you…you mutants - bring them back? Save them?’. ‘No’ Luke replies, eyes fixed on the gun against his face. ‘Someone has to pay!’ Stryker exclaims, to which Syndicate tells him that there are just kids here. ‘Are you going to kill children? Are you so changed?’ Luke asks him after delving into his mind. ‘You…? You don’t know me!’ Stryker snaps back. ‘You’re a man of God, William Stryker Jr. Aren’t we all God’s children? Aren’t we - uhhh…’ with that Syndicate says no more. ‘Is he…?’ Stryker asks. ‘Dead. Yeah. The mutie was trying to get into your head, William. Don’t let him. You know - this is God’s work. They have to suffer. They have to die. You know that!’ an elderly member of Stryker’s contingent exclaims. ‘Yes. I know’ Stryker replies.
Meanwhile, inside a holding cell at Department H, 50 miles outside of Montreal, Canada. Victor Creed, better known as Sabretooth, likes slumped in a corner, while the X-Woman known as Rogue stands nearby, her appearance changed to resemble his after absorbing his power. ‘Again, Creed. What’s Magneto planning?’ Rogue demands to know. When she gets no answer though, she lashes out, using her newfound claws to gut Creed, who screams as the claws Rogue stole from him pierce his stomach, and blood flies everywhere, as he falls onto his side. ‘…like I’d ever tell!’ Creed snarls. ‘Like you have a choice!’ Rogue retorts.
‘I just want you thinking about it. Get that plan right in the front of your tiny lil’ brain - so when I touch you…’ Rogue begins, before touching Creed again, and images flash into her mind:
(flashback images, transferred from Sabretooth to Rogue)
A younger looking Creed sits at a table, a dinner party had been going on around him - now all of the guests have been slaughtered, except one, who stares at Creed, in amongst the blood and carnage. ‘Now that is a beautiful necklace - where’d you get something like that?’ Creed asked the woman as he munches on a drumstick. ‘Is that what you want? Money? I have money’ the woman told him. ‘Honestly, no, I was just - you know - it’s Sunday and I was hungry and bored and…that is a damn fine necklace’ Creed remarked. ‘Take it - just take it…it’s gold. Just take it!’ the woman exclaimed urgently. ‘Actually, I have something else in mind. I’m not into gold!’ Creed snarled as he lunged across the table, claws ready, eyeing the woman up.
(present)
Creed smiles, telling Rogue that he is better trained, and that if she digs any deeper all she will get is nightmare after nightmare. ‘You want my memories - take ‘em. Take ‘em all!’ Creed exclaims. Rogue puts her hand over Creed’s face, telling him that she is not afraid of him and that she will find it. ‘You can’t hide it from me!’ Rogue shouts.
(flashback images, transferred from Sabretooth to Rogue)
A teenage Creed holds a sharp knife up to a frightened pig. A slightly older Creed battles the man who will become Wolverine. An even younger Creed sits across an older man’s knee and is spanked with a paddle, while a teenage Creed hides behind a tree and aims a rifle at a bunch of protesters.
(present)
Rogue looks horrified, ‘Care to go again? The more you touch - the more of me there is in you. You gonna risk that? You gonna become me, darling?’ a grinning Creed asks Rogue. Rogue ignores Creed and enters an adjoining room, informing Wraith a.k.a. Vindicator that she couldn’t get anything from Creed, assuring him that she dug as deep as she could, but she was beginning to lose herself. ‘Looks like you already have’ Wraith replies, referring to Rogue’s Creed-like appearance. ‘Yeah, well - yeah’, Rogue replies, before asking Wraith how he is doing.
Wraith, wearing his new armor, holds up a blood-covered fist as he stands in front of Juggernaut, chained to a wall and with blood across his face. Wraith replies that he is just getting started. ‘Rogue? Z’at you? You have to help me. Please. Please!’ Juggernaut exclaims, peering out at Rogue through bruised eyes. Juggernaut swears that he knows nothing about Magneto’s plans, exclaiming that no one tells him anything. ‘Big dumb, remember? If I did, I’d tell you…but if I don’t…tell him…Rogue. Come on. It’s me. I know we got stuff between us, but he’s gonna kill me. Please!’ Juggernaut exclaims.
Suddenly, ‘Where -?’, gasps Rogue. ‘Who -?’ exclaims Juggernaut, as a psychic image appears before them: ‘HELP!’ cries Psylocke as her image is projected. Psylocke is using Cerebro to amplify her powers, while Stryker and his follows march closer to the school buildings, marching past a blond man whom they have gunned down, while two children hide behind a tree. ‘Anyone - anyone who can hear this - any mutant with a…please…we need your help! Xavier’s school is under attack. It’s a massacre!’ Betsy exclaims, tears running down her face.
‘Psylocke?’ Rogue exclaims, before asking Juggernaut if he heard that also. ‘Yeah…yeah’ Cain replies, before Rogue announces that they need to go to Xavier’s. ‘They’re being slaughtered…they’re being…we have to go!’ she exclaims. Wraith asks Rogue if she is going to do that now, telling her that they can get to Magneto and break them. ‘We can’t’ Rogue replies, to which Wraith asks her if that is it, if she wants to give up. ‘No. It’s not. They need us. Now. They need help!’ Rogue exclaims, to which Wraith frowns and tells Rogue that someone always needs some help, somewhere, and that she is the one always giving up, changing sides, getting distracted. ‘Weak’ he exclaims.
‘They’re killing children’ Rogue exclaims, remarking that the X-Men are off doing who knows what or who knows where. ‘And it’s us - it’s Weapon X - this is what you trained us to do - you!’ she tells Wraith. Wraith adjusts his helmet and tells Rogue that he trained her for the big leagues. ‘Magneto killed millions. One man. Millions. Your friends included. You gonna let him get away with that? Are ya?’ Wraith asks. Rogue looks at him out of the corner of her eye and replies ‘I don’t know’ as she puts her head in her hands.
Meanwhile, at Xavier’s Firestar and Toad are in a darkened room while fire burns in the corridor nearby. Firestar tells Toad to stop moving as she uses a small flame on his upper arm. ‘I want you to cauterize the wound, Liz - not burn my arm off!’ Toad tells Firestar, who asks ‘Why? We’re all gonna die anyway. They killed everyone. They’re gonna kill us. They are!’. Another blast can be seen through the cracks in the door, ‘They’re here!’ toad exclaims. Firestar exclaims that this isn’t her, that she didn’t want to come here, that she doesn’t want any of this. ‘I don’t want to be a mutant!’ she exclaims, before Toad tells her that she is a mutant, and cannot change that. ‘I’m not pretty like you or powerful like you, but we gotta fight…’ Toad tells her. ‘No!’ Liz replies. ‘Yes!’ Toad exclaims. ‘No!’ Liz declares once more, before Toad tells her to give it everything. ‘Every last bit of thing’.
The door opens, and Stryker and his followers are confronted by a very angry Firestar, who unleashes blasts of powerful energy, ‘Okay. Okay. You wanna fight? I can fight. I can burn off your skin. You’re afraid of us. I’ll give you a reason. I’ll give you a damn good reason to have nightmares!’ Firestar exclaims as she casts her energy around Stryker and his followers - until suddenly, a single, but powerful, blast strikes down both Firestar and Toad in one blow. Stryker and his followers stand over the motionless bodies of Firestar and Toad as one of them asks ‘That the last of them?’
‘That’s all. Good work -’ Stryker begins, until he and his followers are knocked over by a powerful blast - courtesy of Wraith, who stands in a doorway with Rogue, Juggernaut and Sabretooth. ‘Don’t hang your mission accomplished banner yet’ Rogue remarks, before Firestar and Rogue sit up, and Toad asks her what she is doing. ‘It’s okay. Psylocke put out the 911. I came’ Rogue replies. ‘With them? What the hell’s going on here? Where’re the X-Men?’ Toad asks. ‘I guess…I guess we’re what passes for the X-Men now’ Rogue remarks, before Sabretooth announces that reinforcements are coming. ‘I know that smell. Smells like hate. A whole army of hate!’ he declares.
Moments later, more of Stryker’s followers burst into the school, only to be knocked back by a burst of energy from Wraith’s Vindicator armor. ‘Lay down cover. Take ‘em hard and fast. This is what you were trained for. No one gets out alive!’ he tells Weapon X, before Rogue touches Firestar’s bare shoulder and tells her that she and Toad have to get out of here. Moments later, a burst of flaming energy flares up in the room, courtesy of Rogue, and seconds later, Toad bounds out of the building, carrying Firestar.
‘Keep your faith, William. Fight’ Stryker tells himself. ‘They’re the monsters. The killers!’ he exclaims while Rogue uses Firestar’s flame power to destroy their weapons. Wraith blasts through the enemy quickly. ‘Do not be afraid’ Stryker exclaims, while Juggernaut bashes two of the enemy together. ‘Do not be afraid’ Stryker exclaims once more. ‘Do not be -’ he cannot finish his sentence as Sabretooth gets in his face. ‘Afraid?’ Creed asks, only to be blasted backwards by an energy beam from Stryker’s weapon.
Wraith approaches Stryker, exclaiming ‘I know you. Admiral Stryker’s boy. The preacher. Didn’t you hate your dad? Didn’t you call him a racist and a bigot?’ Wraith asks. ‘I…’ a hesitant Stryker replies, before Wraith smacks him in the chest, remarking that the apple can never fall far enough away from the tree - no matter how bad it wants to. Wraith tells Stryker to get out of here. ‘This doesn’t have to be you’ he tells him. ‘I know the anger. I get it. Just go home’ Wraith exclaims. But Stryker tells Wraith that he doesn’t understand. ‘I have no home to go back to!’ Stryker declares as he blasts Wraith at close range.
Nearby, Juggernaut plows through Stryker’s followers, boasting that he can do this all day, and that his doctor said he needed to get out some aggression. ‘And I’m gonna take it all out on you…’ he exclaims. ‘Come on! Come on! Come on!’ he booms as he smashes more of the followers aside. Suddenly though, a dart filled with a serum is shot at Juggernaut - right in the eye, causing him to scream.
A huge chunk of Creed’s arm is missing thanks to the blast fired at him by Stryker. ‘Okay, okay - now I’m angry’ Creed exclaims, when suddenly, a voice tells him to shut up, and that Magneto wants him, so it’s time to go. Creed turns around, and is confronted by James Madrox - the Multiple Man - and some of his dupes. Creed asks Madrox what he is doing here, to which Madrox explains ‘Magneto’s orders. Kill all mutants not loyal to him, but here the humans are doing our job for us. Now come on - unless you want to throw your lot in with theirs…’. Creed looks over at a flame-covered Rogue facing off one of Stryker’s followers and replies ‘Naw. I know a losing battle when I see one’.
Rogue sees Juggernaut and leaves her opponent as she flies over to Juggernaut, lying on the floor. Juggernaut tells Rogue that they did something to him, injected a poison into his eye. ‘It’s gonna…you need to…you need to take my power. All of it. It’s the only way to -’ he exclaims, until Rogue tells him to shut up, repeatedly. ‘I touch you. You die. It’ll - let me at least try to -’ Rogue begins, until Juggernaut pulls his helmet off and asks Rogue to just hold his hand. ‘One time. Just once’. Rogue does so, and Juggernaut smiles. ‘Thank you’ he whispers.
Moments later, a powered-up Rogue blasts her way through half a dozen of Stryker’s followers, until she reaches Stryker himself. ‘I’ll kill you. I’ll kill all of you!’ she screams. Putting her hand on Stryker’s exposed neck, Rogue asks him why he is doing this. ‘What’d we ever do to you?’ she asks. Images suddenly flood into her mind - a happy Stryker with his wife and young child. Then a desperate Stryker swimming in his flooded apartment, trying to find his family. ‘I…all this pain…revenge. I’m a good Christian. A good girl. Was it worth it? Was it?’ Rogue suddenly asks. ‘Yes’ Stryker tells her, adding that he wasn’t sure at first, but that she has now proved it. ‘We’re martyrs, and you…you deserve to be hated and feared - you’re a killer forever and ever. Amen’….


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Ultimatum, part 3
London, House of Parliament in the dead of night. Jamie Madrox a.k.a. the Multiple Man marches towards the brightly lit sprawling building, accompanied by an army - of duplicates. ‘Everyone stay together!’ the lead Madrox calls out. ‘Shut up!’ one of the dupes snaps back. ‘I heard that’ the lead Madrox replies. ‘You suck!’ another exclaims, before the lead Madrox reminds the others that he was put in charge, so everyone else needs to get in line. ‘We’re only getting one shot at this!’ he exclaims. ‘Yeah, yeah - we’ve got it!’
Madrox thinks to himself that he likes Nirvana, the Pixies, Jane’s Addiction, Fugazi and Bad Religion, as well as Smashing Pumpkins back when Bill Corgan had hair. ‘I like my iPod. I love my Bose headphones. LOVE my headphones. Don’t think I could live without them. They cut me off from the rest of the world’. Madrox thinks to himself that he is not good at talking to people, he prefers to keep to himself. ‘I’ve tried the Facebook thing, but that just led to finding people I didn’t really want to find in the first place’. Madrox reminds himself that he likes a good mosh pit - a real mosh pit where you sweat and knock elbows and tussle. ‘You can lose yourself in a crowd - the music and the - it’s just - amazing. You’re probably thinking I’m just a testosterone goon - but if you do understand what I’m talking about, well then - you understand what I feel like - all the time. One of many. And then - I’m not sure - am I one? Am I many? I don’t know’.
The Madrox dupes march through the House of Commons, when suddenly a security guard stops them outside a door to the chambers, ‘Sorry, eh - Parliament’s closed. Emergency session on account of the tragedy in the States’ the elderly guard exclaims, before suddenly Madrox pulls out a gun and shoots the guard in the chest, before gunning down the other guards. ‘Come on, go go GO!’ Madrox shouts as the dupes rush into the main chamber, where Captain Britain, along with other Captain’s of European countries, is addressing the Parliament. ‘This action will not stand!’ Captain Britain exclaims. ‘We cannot - we will not - allow this terrorist to simply act as he pleases. His homicidal whims demand retribution. We must send Magneto a message!’. Suddenly, ‘Magneto has a message for you. Goodbye!’ Madrox exclaims as he and the other dupes pull open the trench coats, revealing numerous bombs strapped to their bodies - which they detonate - blowing up the House of Parliament, and everyone in it, including Captain Britain.
Meanwhile, at Xavier’s School for Gifted Children, in Westchester, New York. Rogue sits in a room, crying, while her teammates call out to her: ‘Rogue! Rogue!’ someone shouts. ‘What happened? Where is everyone? Rogue!’. Rogue calls out to her teammates, letting them know where she is, and they enter, carrying the bodies of their dead teammates - Beast, Dazzler and Nightcrawler. ‘Rogue? Are you okay?’ Cyclops asks. ‘No. I don’t think any of us are ever going to be okay again!’ Rogue exclaims, tears falling down her face as she cradles Xavier’s lifeless body.
Soon, in the med-lab, Wolverine, Marvel Girl, Cyclops, Iceman, Angel and Rogue stand beside the tables where four bodies lay. ‘How could you let this happen, Rogue?’ Iceman asks, accusingly. Rogue replies that they were being attacked by Sentinels, so she was a little distracted. ‘How do we know they won’t come back?’ Iceman asks, to which Rogue assures him that they won’t come back, as Stryker and the Sentinels skitter off with their tails firmly tucked between their legs. Cyclops asks how they can know if Magneto didn’t incite the Sentinels, to which Wolverine points out that they were human Sentinels, and reminds everyone Magneto doesn’t consort with humans.
‘So what do we do?’ a worried Rogue asks as Marvel Girl pulls a cover up over Xavier’s body. ‘We kill ‘em’ Wolverine exclaims. ‘That’s your answer to everything’ Cyclops tells him. Angel declares that it is the right answer, and that when push comes to shove, he will understand. ‘Shut up!’ someone exclaims, before someone else suggests Wolverine might be right. ‘Maybe killing is the only solution’. ‘Everyone just shut up. We’ve gotta just think - just gimme a second’ someone asks. ‘No time to think. Not now!’ someone declares. Wolverine tells everyone to look around. ‘We’ve already lost. The question is: who else is gonna wind up in a body bag?’. Cyclops replies that he knows this is bad, really bad, and so that’s why they have to stay together, more than ever before. ‘No. We need to split up!’ Marvel Girl announces as the Phoenix power envelops her.
‘Things are about to get worse. Much worse!’ Marvel Girl declares. ‘His anger. It’s…it’s all around us. It makes me wanna puke. The wave was just the beginning. The things he’s thinking…it’s…. He’s gonna kill us. All of us. Mutants. Magneto’s going to kill us all!’ Wolverine asks how Magneto plans to do that, to which Marvel Girl replies ‘Madrox. We have to stop Jamie Madrox!’. Wolverine replies that he thinks they can handle one guy, but Marvel Girl replies that Madrox isn’t just one guy - he’s one thousand, ten thousand, more. ‘Every minute. I didn’t know he could do this - I don’t know if he even has a limit. We have to stop them!’ she gasps.
Angel stands over the body of his dead girlfriend, Dazzler, and declares that this is just a distraction, a waste of their time. ‘There’s only one thing we have to do. And we all know it. Magneto. He’s the priority. He’s the murderer!’ Angel exclaims. Marvel Girl tells Angel that Magneto is going to kill a lot more people if they don’t do anything, but Angel shouts ‘NO!’ and tells her to back-off. ‘These mutants need you. They need an Angel…’ Marvel Girl tells him. ‘They don’t need me’ Angel scowls. ‘I’m the Angel of Death!’ he boasts, while Marvel Girl frowns at him.
Meanwhile, in Chicago, at Emma Frosts’ Academy of Tomorrow. Another Madrox dupe sits over the body of Emma Frost, pistol in hand. ‘My name is Jamie Madrox. I’m something of an artist. Now a good one. But, well - I like to draw. To just let my imagination take over. I draw monsters. And super heroes. I was into Dungeons and Dragons. A bit of a geek’. He solemnly recalls that it caused his parents some grief, as they wanted him to be an athlete, as he was actually quite good at soccer, left wing, and won a bunch of trophies. ‘But it wasn’t for me. Turns out I’m not such a team player’. Madrox admits that he has trust issues, in that he doesn’t really trust people. ‘Friends. Girlfriends. I get paranoid. I think they’re saying things behind my back. So I make duplicates to spy on my friends. I know, it’s sad’ he admits to himself, deciding that he is just selfish, self-centered and egotistical. ‘I barely know myself anymore’.
Suddenly, Cyclops, Iceman and Rogue appear, ‘MADROX!’ Cyclops calls out, startling Madrox, who looks up from Emma’s body. ‘If you killed Alex - I’m going to kill you!’ Cyclops shouts, referring to his brother, Havok. ‘You can’t kill me!’ Madrox replies. ‘I can try!’ Cyclops booms as he unleashes a powerful optic blast at Madrox, when suddenly, duplicates appear: ‘No. Nobody can kill me’. ‘No. Nobody can kill me’. ‘No. Nobody can kill me’. ‘No. Nobody can kill me’. ‘No. Nobody can kill me’. ‘No. Nobody can kill me’. Madrox and the dupes exclaim over and over, while Cyclops’ optic blast tears through them.
‘They’re like rats. How many of them are there?’ Rogue exclaims, while Iceman declares that they are going to need an army. ‘Then we’ll get an army!’ Rogue boasts as she plants a kiss on Madrox’s lips. Almost instantly, Rogue then uses Madrox’s own power against him, by duplicating herself a dozen times or more, and fighting the Madrox dupes. Rogue calls out to Cyclops and tells him to go and find any survivors. Cyclops looks at Rogue, before rushing towards the burning buildings, and calling out to his brother: ‘Alex! Where are you?!’ as he rushes past the motionless bodies of Polaris and Sunspot, both members of the Academy of Tomorrow, lying in the flaming ruins.
Scott enters another part of the building, ‘Hang on, little bro. Everything’s gonna be okay!’ he calls out, but, stepping out of the shadows, a figure replies ‘No. Not Alex. Definitely not Alex’. ‘Why? Why’d you do this?’ Cyclops asks as he grabs the Madrox dupe, who replies that he didn’t, he was only supposed to do this. ‘I wanted to. I think. I wanted to, but my bomb - it didn’t go boom. A malfunction. Just like me. So many voices. Telling me what to do. So many voices…’ the Madrox dupe babbles, to which Cyclops shouts ‘This oughta shut up those voices’ as he unleashes an optic blast at close range, shredding the dupe’s head off, when, suddenly, another dupe appears behind Cyclops, exclaiming ‘You’d think that. But it doesn’t. It just makes more. It’s just going to make more and more and more’, as he slices Scott with a knife.
Beneath Manhattan, in the Morlock Tunnels…’My name is Jamie Madrox. I love my mom and I’m not afraid to admit it. And it’s not just the amazing chocolate chip cookies. Or the way she decorated our house at Christmas in Madison. Or her tomato soup. It’s not any of that. It’s the love. The unconditional love. She will always forgive me. No matter what I do. No matter what I’ve done’. Madrox thinks to himself as countless dupes, all with bombs strapped to their bodies, line up. ‘When I punched Steven Sesar and broke his nose. When I got DWI. When I stole those diamonds. I hope she’ll forgive me now. I hope she can’.
Storm turns to Marvel Girl and asks her how she is holding up. Surrounded by the Phoenix Force, Jean replies ‘Not well’, explaining that she is basically putting her finger in a live grenade, controlling fifty minds at once. ‘I’m the only thing keeping us all alive!’ she adds, referring not only to she and Storm, but Callisto and the other Morlocks behind Storm. ‘Think hard’ Storm tells Jean, who replies that Storm has to get the Morlocks out of here. Storm replies that she has tried, but the Madrox has blocked off the exit. Jean asks if there is no other way out, to which Storm explains that the flood sealed off the tunnels, and tells Jean they are lucky they got here when they did. ’Yeah. Lucky’ Jean mutters.
Storm steps forward and charges a lightening bolt, ’Maybe I can short them out -’ she begins to say, but Jean knocks Storm aside telling her not to touch the Madrox dupes, if she does, they will explode. ‘Then what?’ Storm asks, exasperated. ‘I don’t know’ Marvel Girl replies, exclaiming that Madrox’s mind is not like anything she has ever touched. ‘It’s so fractured. Parts of a personality. Nothing to really hold onto. Some are loyal to Magneto. Others are suicidal. Others just want to go home to Wisconsin’ Jean explains, adding that she cannot contain them.
Suddenly, one of the dupes steps forward: ‘HEY!’ he shouts, before Storm quickly alerts Jean to the situation: ‘You let one go!’ she exclaims. ‘Get him back!’. Jean replies that she is trying. ‘Quickly!’ Storm snaps. ‘I’m trying!’ Jean replies once more, when suddenly, Storm pulls a knife from Callisto’s belt. ‘Hey!’ Callisto exclaims, before Storm throws it at the Madrox dupe - it lands square in his head, and he falls backwards. Another dupe steps forward, but Jean quickly announces that she has got him under control, before congratulating Storm on taking down Madrox. But Storm looks at her hands. ‘I - I just killed a man’ she whispers. ‘You didn’t kill anyone. He’s not a man. He’s part of a man’ Jean tells her teammate. But Storm replies that he has thoughts, feelings, that he is a person, and they are X-Men. ‘And the X-Men don’t kill. It’s what makes us different from Magneto. Isn’t it?’ Storm asks. ‘Ororo…’ Jean begins, but Storm tells her not to lose another one. ‘And let’s pray Wolverine’s more successful than we are’ she adds.
In the Savage Land, Wolverine shoves aside an oversized multi-fanged prehistoric snake, muttering ‘Every @&#$ing time. I hate this place’. Suddenly, a voice calls out to him: ‘You need a hand there?’, and Wolverine looks up, seeing Ka-Zar and Shanna standing nearby. You got my message’ Wolverine remarks. Ka-Zar replies that he did and is happy to help after the whole robot-duplicate mess that Wolverine helped clean up. ‘Speaking of which…’ Ka-Zar begins, but Wolverine replies that he has the snake right where he wants him, before blood splatters everywhere as Wolverine shoves his three claws into the snake.
‘Let’s go’ Wolverine announces, pointing out that they have a long walk ahead of them. ‘And this place is hotter than the devil’s…’ Wolverine stops in his tracks as snowflakes suddenly fall. Ka-Zar explains that Magneto’s actions have caused odd weather throughout the Savage Land. ‘Throughout the world’ Wolverine replies, adding that it has messed up his senses, like a killer case of the allergies. ‘That’s why you asked for out help. To help you hunt down Jamie Madrox’ Shanna reminds Wolverine. ‘Yeah, but I wasn’t expecting a blizzard. And you in your loincloths, Shanna. Don’t expect you’ve got an REI around here?’ Logan asks. ‘We can handle it’ Shanna snaps back. ‘Gotta love that woman’ Wolverine utters. ‘Claws off’ Ka-Zar tells him.
Wolverine leads Ka-Zar, Shanna and their tiger, Zabu, north, and Ka-Zar tells Wolverine that Zabu agrees this is the right direction. ‘Can’t argue with the cat’ Wolverine replies, before pushing some bushes aside, and announcing that Madrox should be right through here. ‘Well. Can’t say I was expecting that!’ Wolverine remarks as he motions to the house, covered in snow, and adorned with Christmas lights. As they approach the front door, Ka-Zar asks Wolverine ‘Is he in there?’ to which Wolverine replies that he can smell him. Ka-Zar asks what they will do. ‘Ring the doorbell?’
Wolverine replies that is exactly what they will do, before he kicks the door down. Entering the house, Wolverine says “sorry”, to which Ka-Zar asks ‘What for?’. ‘No. The game. “Sorry”. “Parcheesi”. “Twister”. I haven’t seen these in years’ Logan remarks as he looks at the stack of games, wondering why Magneto would go through this much trouble for Madrox. ‘What’s going on here?’ he asks, when suddenly, an enchanting voice exclaims ‘Sorry boys’ as Lorelei steps into view, dressed as a housewife and carrying a tray of cookies fresh from the oven. ‘Jamie’s sick. He can’t come out an play’ Lorelei remarks, while using her manipulative powers on Ka-Zar, ordering him to kill Wolverine. Ka-Zar, under Lorelei’s spell, complies by raising his knife to Wolverine.
Back in the Morlock Tunnels, Jean announces that she cannot hold the Madrox dupes back any longer, and tells Storm, Callisto and the Morlocks to get close. ‘Get close and pray!’
At the ruins of the Academy of Tomorrow, Rogue and Iceman find a motionless Cyclops. ‘Is he okay?’ Iceman asks as he blasts the Madrox dupes, while Rogue’s dupes continue to fight them also. Rogue replies that she doesn’t know, and declares that they have to get out of here.
In the Savage Land, Shanna leaps into action, kicking Ka-Zar aside, asking him what he is doing as she prevents him from stabbing Wolverine. Lorelei just smirks as she utters that Ka-Zar isn’t thinking - at all. ‘I’m thinking for him now. It’s my power. I can convince men to do and think whatever I want. And what I want is you - dead!’ Lorelei exclaims.
Back in the Morlock Tunnels, Jean concentrates hard as Storm and the Morlocks stand behind her - then the Madrox dupes blow up. ‘It’s okay. It’s okay. You did it. You saved them. You saved us all’ Storm tells her, when suddenly, from the ashes, more Madrox dupes appear. ‘She hasn’t done anything yet!’ one of them exclaims as they close in on Jean.
At the Academy of Tomorrow, Iceman suddenly looks around, ‘What the…?’ he gasps. ‘Where the hell did all the Rogues go?’ he asks, worried as the Madrox dupes close in on him - one of them however is carrying Rogue’s unmoving body, and, in answer to Iceman’s question, exclaims ‘They disappear when you knock out the prime. All I had to do was find the original. Too bad for you - my original isn’t even here!’ the dupe smirks.
In the Savage Land, Wolverine, Ka-Zar and Zabu all turn on Shanna, who tells them to snap out of it. ‘You have a mission. Don’t forget yourself. Don’t forget who you are…please…’ she whispers as Wolverine’s claws stop less than an inch from her face - before Wolverine spins around, and shoves his claws through Lorelei’s stomach, wiping the smirk from her face as he does it. ‘It’s me - just had to let my healing factor kick in. It’s time to finish this!’ Logan exclaims.
Moments later, Wolverine walks down a corridor and comes to a door with posters and stickers all over it, and a “keep out” banner stuck to the top. Wolverine pushes the door open and inside finds a teenage boy, listening to music and drawing in a book. Wolverine turns the stereo down, causing the boy to remove his headphones and look at Logan anxiously: ‘Who…? Who the hell are you? Where’s my mom? What’s going on?’ he asks. Wolverine tells the boy that he is a friend, and needs to ask him some questions. ‘What’s your name?’ he asks.
The boy replies that his name is Jamie Madrox, and when Wolverine asks him how old he is, Jamie reveals that he is thirteen. When Logan asks him what year it is, Jamie replies that it is 1994. ‘Where do you think you are?’ Logan asks. ‘Madison, Wisconsin’ Jamie replies before declaring that he wants to talk to his mother. ‘Where is she?’ he asks. Wolverine crouches beside Jamie and informs him that the woman out there is not his mother. ‘What?’ Jamie asks, confused, before telling Logan to get the hell out, before shouting ‘MOM!’. Wolverine tells Jamie to think about it, remember who he is. ‘Lorelei’s dead. She can’t hold sway over you’ Logan tells him. ‘You killed my mom!’ Jamie exclaims. Wolverine tells Jamie that she was not his mother and that it is not 1994. ‘This guy - Magneto - he’s using you to do bad - awful - things’.
Wolverine picks up Jamie’s drawings and holding the pictures up, tells Jamie that this is happening. ‘You blew up Parliament. And a lot worse. You killed a lotta people today’ he tells him. ‘No. I don’t believe you!’ Jamie exclaims, while Wolverine urges him to remember. ‘You have to stop yourself!’ he exclaims. ‘Stop myself from what? I’m not doing anything wrong!’ Jamie exclaims. Wolverine unsheathes his claws: ‘Don’t make me do this. I will stop you, Jamie. I will kill you’ Wolverine tells him. ‘I’m just a kid!’ Jamie replies. ‘You’re not’ Wolverine tells him. But Jamie defiantly replies that he is just a kid and is not who Wolverine says he is.
Logan tells Jamie to pull himself together. ‘I know it’s hard. Yo have you mind so - split - you want to believe this is real, but it’s not’. ‘It is real!’ Jamie snaps back. Logan tells him to concentrate, to stop himself. ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about. I can’t do this!’ Jamie replies. ‘Try’ Wolverine urges him once more. ‘I can’t’ Jamie exclaims again. ‘You have to. You just - you have to’ Wolverine declares.
At the Academy of Tomorrow, Cyclops urges Iceman to keep fighting, not to ever stop, but as he is surrounded by more Madrox dupes, Iceman replies that he is trying. ‘But they just keep on coming. They keep on - coming?’ he exclaims, wide-eyed, as the Madrox dupes suddenly vanish.
In the Morlock Tunnels, Jean smiles and exclaims ‘He did it! Wolverine did it. He stopped Madrox!’ as the dupes there vanish also. Storm smiles, while the Morlocks rejoice.
In the Savage Land, Wolverine leaves Jamie’s room in the illusion house, and Ka-Zar and Shanna frown as he walks towards them. ‘What’d you do to Madrox?’ Ka-Zar asks. ‘The same thing I’m gonna do to Magneto!’ Wolverine snarls….


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Ultimate X-Men/Fantastic Four: part 1
Professor Xavier’s School For Gifted Youngsters, Westchester, New York. Nighttime…
Professor X lies comfortably in his bed, until a loud zooming noise is heard. He wakes up, and a voice happily greets him as “teacher-savant,” requesting that Xavier immediately wakes up his students. A holo-projection reveals itself, in the form of a woman, claiming that the world is in need of their help, if it is to survive for the next few hours. There is an unspeakable danger upon the world. Xavier stares at the woman, unsure what to do. The woman obviously doesn’t know how to deal with this, wondering if the projection is showing itself correctly.
On that very moment, the X-Men arrive, in full battle costume. Cyclops asks Xavier if he’s alright, but stops talking when he notices the woman. Xavier assures the woman that he’s hearing her perfectly clear, on psychic as well as audible frequencies. He wants to know who she is and what the problem is. The woman introduces herself as General Lal-Qil-Atrox of the fifth arm of the Supreme Consistory. Kitty doesn’t believe the “General” part in her statement, wondering where the woman’s pips are. Bobby jokes that there is no room for that on the woman’s uniform. Jean asks Bobby to keep the thoughts he’s thinking to turn the volume down, as thanks to that she’s having a hard time concentrating.
The general explains that one of her ships, one with bio-weapon capability, has been badly hit and shall land on Earth in about three hours. Xavier understands. He wants to know what kind of toxins are on board and how dangerous they exactly are. The general claims that the things on her ship are no toxins. By bio-weapons she means mutants. Mutants whose combat capabilities have been classed at sun-eater level. Cyclops believes that the mutants will understand they are in the wrong place. The general further explains that the orders of these mutants are hard-wired into their brain context and have no choice but to obey.
Scott wants to know what these orders are. The general explains that the mutants have to “slash and burn.” Scott can’t say he’s surprised. The general that she’s underway to Earth to take care of the problem but not sure if she can make it in time to stop the mutants. She fades away, wishing the X-Men good luck to contain the dangerous mutants.
Xavier believes they have to head to the Malay Archipelago and has Cyclops prepare the plane and informs that he’ll accompany the team for this mission. Scott asks if they are taking this situation at face value. Xavier believes that they have to act; explaining that the general’s thoughts had harmonics, which weren’t entirely human. Xavier orders Iceman and Shadowcat to remain at the mansion until Wolverine returns and once he does to inform him about the mission. Bobby doesn’t want to stay behind and Kitty asks the Professor to take him, or else he’ll keep whining about it whole night. Xavier explains to Bobby that, should the team fail, somebody has to be there to warn the rest of the world about the threat. Bobby understands, and a few moments later, the X-Wing leaves for action.
Later, at 2:43:22 PM, outside the school…
A female ninja lands on the school grounds. She reports back to her partner that she right on schedule and happy that she had the right telephone number of the school. She orders her partner to keep the motor running and that should anyone besides her come out of the school, he can kick their heads until they die. The ninja breaks into the school, but the security system immediately warns the residents about the danger. The ninja doesn’t care about that though, claiming to have everything covered.
At the control rooms, Bobby doesn’t see any danger on the monitors, but Kitty is certain that the alarm sound doesn’t mean that the toast is ready. She suggests that Bobby takes the front of the house and that she’ll take the dorms. Not much later, Bobby finds the ninja lurking around in the darkness, trying to steal some of the X-Men’s equipment. He attacks the ninja, joking that the ski mask was a good choice as she is about to have an off-piste experience dealing with him. Bobby tries to throw some ice at the ninja, but nothing happens!
The ninja happily explains that there is no moisture in the air, because she took it all using her power. She demonstrates what she means, and reveals that fire can come from the tip of her fingers! She jokes that it’s time to have some marshmallows for dinner, and attacks Bobby with her flames! Kitty hears the noise of the battle and panics about Bobby’s safety. She phases to the basement and warns the ninja that if Bobby if hurt, she’ll kill her. The ninja is surprised to hear that, because she thought Kitty and Bobby weren’t an item anymore. She is angry with the intel and after this battle promises she’ll have a word with someone.
She throws some shuriken at Kitty, but she phases right through them, remaining unharmed. The shuriken ricochet but Kitty phases again, warning the ninja she can’t get hurt. The ninja explains that the shuriken are shielded against the EM disruption she generates when she phases and if she turns solid they’ll rip her apart. Kitty doesn’t go solid, however, but the ninja has a back-up plan: she releases gas from her gloves and, since Kitty still metabolizes oxygen in her phasing state, the gas knocks her out. The ninja thinks she has won and wants to move over to her plan, but on that very moment an angry Wolverine returns and immediately attacks her!
Wolverine grabs the ninja tight and takes off her mask, revealing that she’s just a young girl. The ninja tries to explain that, if Logan kills her, he would be killing just a kid, but that doesn’t bother Logan at all. He jokes that the ninja should have done her homework. Logan notices his friends on the floor, and tells the ninja she sure did all right for a kid. He wants to know who sent her and what she’s after, or else he’ll put her over his knee and spank her. The ninja suddenly smiles, touching Logan’s hand with her fingers and causing him somehow to get confused. Logan panics, and the ninja quickly pushes him down. The ninja, Kicking Bird, reports that her mission was a success and will return to the headquarters, with gifts for all.
A few minutes later, everyone has recovered a bit. Kitty heads back to the control panels in an attempt to find some evidence they can use to prove the ninja attacked them. But the house security systems didn’t pick up anything, making it seem they were attacked by the Invisible Man or something. Logan, still in pain, mentions he’s got a six degrees of fever and the mansion has a short fuse. He believes they got attacked by a professional who sent the rest of the team away on a wild goose chase. And, Logan now realizes, the ninja perfectly knew what she was looking for: Cerebro. Bobby recalls the flamethrowers on her fingers, and feels lucky he didn’t evaporate.
Kitty finally finds something. She has discovered that the ninja placed a call before she attacked, but the number is unlisted in their records and classified as well. She can only hope the Professor’s SHIELD clearances haven’t been revoked yet, so she can trace the number down. Eventually, Kitty manages to do the trick, but panics… this situation is no good at all!
Elsewhere…
Kicking Bird and her partner Robbie arrive at a warehouse at the docks. She orders Robbie to park the car and then put a techno-trance on it. She contacts her contractor, Caliban, asking if he can hear her. Caliban responds that he can, but is surprised, as Ms. Burchill shouldn’t even be able to come through this. Burchill explains she succeeded in her job and got the things her boss wanted, so he can send his men to pick it up. But, she demands double payment. Caliban is upset hearing that because they had made an agreement.
Burchill remembers that, but that was the price before she realized she had to deal with Wolverine, and before she could see how beautiful the device she stole actually is. Caliban panics a bit hearing Wolverine’s name, wanting to know if Burchill didn’t leave any trail he could follow. The ninja tells her boss he can relax, as she nailed Wolverine with a sneaky little retro-virus which mutates every twelve seconds. That’s too fast for his healing factor to cope up with. But about the trail, she smiles, she left a trail a mile wide.
The Xavier Institute…
Kitty has put up a picture of the Baxter Building on the computer screen. She explains the building is fifty-four stories packed full of top secret government items. Bobby wonders if that means the building is some sort of post office. Kitty corrects it’s actually a research unit of some kind. The building is wrapped up so tight you need to be either God or Nick Fury to be able to even fly towards it. Logan thinks the timing couldn’t be worse. Xavier falls out with SHIELD thanks to that situation with Polaris, and the next thing they know, someone from a government bug farm walks in and steals Cerebro’s insides.
Unless, Logan thinks could be possible, someone is playing a serious game with them here. He believes there’s something suspicious about this entire event. Kitty tells Logan that, if he’s looking for a smoking pistol, she’s got one for him. The newsfeeds are linking the Baxter Building to the newest super-hero team, the Fantastic Four. They’ve got a fire-starter, someone who can turn invisible, a muscle man and their very own resident genius. Kitty tried calling the X-Wing but didn’t get an answer so far. She notices Logan still shaking and asks if he’s feeling alright. Hesitant, Logan changes the subject by saying that the ninja kid must have spiked their communication systems.
Kitty is certain the team will return once they realize they have been played, thinking that won’t take any longer than six hours. Logan fears they can’t wait that long, because whoever has Cerebro now could use that time to retro-engineer it to their wishes. If it is the government they are dealing with, they could have data to all known mutants at the moment and Logan doesn’t think they can risk that. Bobby is happy that they have just become the front line of the action.
Kitty thinks this is crazy as Logan can hardly walk in his current condition, but Logan doesn’t care about that. He finds the keys to the limo and tells Kitty and Bobby it’s their decision if they want to join him or not, but he’s heading towards the Baxter Building, thinking the Fantastic Four will be easy enough to deal with now that they are sitting all relaxed at their very own home.
The Baxter Building…
Johnny and Ben are in a heavy argument with each other, as Ben has just walked into the room and smashed Johnny’s sound system while he was listening to Fifty Cent music. Ben defends he dislikes the music, but Johnny had already told Ben not to touch any of his stuff and wants to fight. Sue walks in and puts an invisible force field between the two youngsters, reminding them she is watching the finale season of Lost and doesn’t want to be disturbed any further.
Outside, Wolverine, Kitty and Bobby arrive. Kitty suggests she phase them through the building. Bobby doesn’t like the idea of holding hands with Kitty, but she tells him to get over it, as he already ditched her. Logan tells them to shut up as they are in stealth mode. Kitty successfully phases them through the building but, just as they go solid again, Reed arrives and panics a bit. He asks if he can be of help. Logan quickly snikts out his claws and points them at Reed’s head, demanding to know if he was anywhere near Westchester. But Reed doesn’t even know where that place is.
Logan’s senses are still a bit shot and can’t even tell if Reed is lying or not. Kitty and Bobby think they might have made a mistake, but Logan still wants to search the place to be sure. Logan still points his claws at Reed’s head, upsetting him. Reed stretches his body and slams the X-Men out of his way and sets the alarm!
The docks…
AIM agents have arrived at Burchill's hideout and hand over her money. The ninja has Robbie hand over the case in which the Cerebro units are in she stole. AIM promises that now the transaction is complete, Burchill won’t hear from them again. But Kicking Bird has a better idea. She is impressed by how much the CPU’s of Cerebro look like an exact replica of the human brain, and thinks about the possibilities one could have with it, using it besides to track mutants down. The AIM agents warn the ninja that it’s not of her concern what they are going to do with the unit. Burchill has Robbie kill the agents, and corrects that Cerebro isn’t for sale anymore. She puts the helmet on and wants to see what it can do.
The Baxter Building…
Security guards attack the X-Men. Bobby fears the entire situation has gone completely out of hand. The general of the soldiers notices that they are supers, and orders his troops to hit them with the flatliner gun. Kitty doesn’t know what the gun is exactly, but it has a sinister ring to it so she dislikes it. She tries to phase through the gun, but instead finds herself getting hit by a forcefield from Sue! Bobby panics. Logan suggests he’ll go rescue her if Bobby guards his back. Bobby agrees to do it and Logan jumps into action, but gets stopped by the Thing.
Wolverine snikts his claws open and starts the battle. Ben isn’t impressed much. He likes the way how fast Logan moves, as it reminds him of Tasmanian Devil. But Ben himself prefers live action, and quickly slams Logan against a wall. Bobby rushes towards his teammates and puts up a protective ice wall between them and the Fantastic Four. Bobby wants to get out of here and get Kitty into safety, but Logan doesn’t think so.
Johnny uses his flame powers to help his team get through the ice wall.
The docks…
Burchill has activated Cerebro and is overwhelmed by its capabilities. She feels like Robbie now, and can see everything at the same time, inside and outside. She can look through people’s minds and through their eyes. She wants to find someone who can help her find a person who can help her everything open up. She locates the Baxter Building and recognizes Reed. She enters her mind, and asks the lover boy if he remembers her. Reed’s nose starts to bleed and panics a bit.


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Hawkeye and the Black Widow, clothed in full leather, walk through the city streets. Hawkeye asks her partner if she wants the office block on the left, or the one on the right. Natasha prefers the office block on the left. She asks Clint what he thinks of her cool granite sunglasses. Doesn’t he agree that the shades compliment her eyes? Hawkeye and Natasha look around and check if their backup is ready.
A man reading a newspaper reports to the Black Widow that he’s ready when she is. Hawkeye asks about the security. A construction worker reports that they are closing all access routes as soon as Clint gives the word. And word it is.
Calmly, Hawkeye steps into his office building. The receptionist asks Clint if he can help him. Clint introduces himself, and explains that he’s got a 4 PM appointment with a Mister Jones in the Accounts Department. The receptionist apologizes and tells Clint that there must be some mistake, since Accounts don’t have any appointments scheduled for today. Hawkeye asks the man if he’s sure about that, since he didn’t even check his book or anything. The man replies that he doesn’t need to, because all the appointments are up in his head. Hawkeye asks the receptionist if he’s serious. “Oh, yeah”, the man says.
Not anymore, Clint says, as he takes out his bow and shoots an arrow right into the receptionist’s head! Security guards open fire upon Hawkeye, but he dodges the bullets and shoots arrows right through the guards’ bodies. The employees try to make a run for it, but Hawkeye kills them all.
S.H.I.E.L.D. agents enter the office building. Hawkeye reports that the lobby has been secured. He commands the Alpha team to take levels two through fifteen, and the Beta team must take levels sixteen through thirty-two as planned. The troops move forward and kill all employees as they go. Hawkeye fights his way through as well, until he makes it to the elevator, which he takes up.
Helicopters appear everywhere and command teams Gamma, Delta, Epsilon and Zeta that they are clear to go. All the agents jump through the windows and land into the office and shoot their way through, killing all the employees in their wake. Hawkeye asks the Black Widow over intercom if she’s in position yet. The elevator of her office block makes it to the thirty-third floor, and Natasha reports that she’s ready.
She begins commencing pest control levels thirty-three to forty-eight as planned, but Natasha doesn’t like this at all. Guards try to attack her, but Natasha is faster and kills them first. Hawkeye, hearing the remark, asks the Widow why. Because things are going smoothly? Clint tells Natasha not to wish any tougher than it already is. He thinks that smoothly is good. In fact, he feels like they don’t get smoothly nearly enough.
Of course, Natasha says, but she expected a little more resistance. She knows how S.H.I.E.L.D. Intel said that the guys they are fighting are just the worker-bees, meaning low caste organizers with an aptitude for killing, but…
Hawkeye stops the woman from talking, because he can’t do fighting and talking at the same time. He doesn’t have all the million dollar enhancements Natasha has. Hawkeye warns his troops to watch the computers and commands not to destroy them, since there might be some useful information on their hard drives.
One of the troops asks Hawkeye to hold up for a second. He has noticed that one of the creatures they are fighting has got something weird in its hand. Hawkeye asks what it is. The trooper isn’t sure, but it looks like a… right, a time bomb!
And it goes off! The explosion can be seen by everyone walking outside on the streets.
The Black Widow hears the explosion and panics and asks Hawkeye if he’s all right. The office building collapses. The ground control reports to Hawkeye and asks if he reads him.
Hawkeye is all right. He luckily also managed to get Agent McQuillan out of time, but the rest of the six-hundred troops didn’t make it. Air-cover reports to Hawkeye that he and his agent aren’t the only one who survived the blast. Some of the sleeper-agent creatures are heading towards them right now!
The agents in the helicopters can’t take them down because the creatures are too well shielded and can’t get a clear shot from the sky. Hawkeye asks the Black Widow for help. Natasha hears the call and asks Clint what floor he’s on. He says the thirty-ninth. That floor collapses, and Clint says he’s on the thirty-eight!
Natasha asks air cover what kind of altitude they are doing. They read a hundred and twenty-eight feet. Natasha runs as fast as she can and reports that she is out of ammunition so, on her mark, the pilots must take the rifle of their sniper was using and throw it out of the helicopter. The pilot calls her insane. Natasha, while shooting some remaining creatures, commands the pilot to do as she says.
The creatures prepare to kill Hawkeye. The Black Widow jumps out of the office, and the pilot throws the rifle out. Natasha grabs it, and spectacularly jumps to Hawkeye’s office across the street and lands safely! She even manages to kill the creatures as well! Ground control is stunned.
Hawkeye can’t see what’s happening and worried asks Natasha if she’s all right. Natasha, standing in triumph, tells her comrade not to worry. The mission is over, and they are as cool as cucumber!
(Later, at the Triskelion, the headquarters of the Ultimates…)
Nick Fury has gathered the Ultimates for a meeting, and presents them the leading lights of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s black ops division: Clint Barton and Natasha Romanova. Tony Stark and Thor are present. Fury informs them that Clint and Natasha are going to be upgraded to public status once they have finished falsifying their backgrounds. Fury also introduces the group to Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, who are standing at the back of the room. They are staying in the Shadow Team for obvious reasons.
Thor doesn’t know what surprises him more: The Brotherhood of Mutants working for S.H.I.E.L.D. or the fact that Fury is employing Magneto’s children. Fury informs Thor that it wouldn’t be the first time that the security service has done deals with terrorists. Likewise, he continues, the Brotherhood might be full of big talk on TV, but they aren’t above shaking hands with Homo sapiens when the price is right.
Wanda corrects Fury and says that what the general is trying to say is that she and her brother will take part in appropriate S.H.I.E.L.D. missions in exchange for the release of political prisoners.
Natasha doesn’t believe that and asks Wanda what happened to her and her brother this afternoon then. As far as Natasha recalls, Wanda and Pietro were just sitting in a coffee house and giggling away like schoolgirls together. Pietro corrects Natasha and tells her that, if she slows down the building’s security tapes, he thinks that she will find that he and his sister have saved Natasha and Clint’s lives on three separate occasions.
Natasha doesn’t believe it. Pietro tells her to check the tapes. Hawkeye stops the talking and wants to know what the story with Captain America is. Clint doesn’t want to offend any one there, but was kind of led to believe that they would be getting backup from someone with experience fighting their upcoming foes. Fury confirms, but doesn’t know where Cap is either. But he informs that they’ve got a trace on Cap the same way they’ve got on Hank Pym, but the satellite system hasn’t turned up squat so far.
Tony tells Fury to cut to the chase, because his company, Stark International, is losing a million dollars for every ten minutes he is sitting there. He wants to get the briefing started.
That’s fine by Fury, but he warns anyone who has just been promoted to Above Top Secret should probably take a seat because he is about to tell contradicts everything they ever drip-fed the common man through the media. Fury opens a video screen on which he will show his agents to clarify what he means. Fury begins.
He says that, basically, the Earth is currently home of eleven alien species at the moment, and that those just the ones S.H.I.E.L.D.’s clean-up crews are aware of. Fury explains that one of these species, the Chitauri, arrived on Earth in 1777 and has been responsible for several acts of genocide, the most notable of which being World War II.
Fury explains that the Chitauri are eight feet tall and reptilian in appearance and have the ability to assume human form, a power which they utilized to infiltrate the German political scene of the 1920’s and precipitate both the rise of National Socialism and one Adolf Hitler.
Fury says the Chitauri did that because the Nazis were closest they ever came to global domination, but by 1945 they had been driven out of Europe and the entire African continent, with Nagasaki and Hiroshima taking care of their little Japanese training camps.
Post-war, S.H.I.E.L.D. thought that the Chitauri had been completely annihilated. Until two years ago. S.H.I.E.L.D. troops found a fresh Chitauri corpse in a river near Calcutta. And last year, they had four sightings in Eastern Europe and another three in Singapore, but this New York find was S.H.I.E.L.D.’s biggest upset in decades.
Fury reveals that five hundred and twenty-eight Chitauri sleeper-agents are organizing everything from mind-control drugs in the water supply to infiltration of the national media. But even this just looks like the tip of the iceberg. From what Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. managed to glean, these things are plotting something on a planetary scale.
Thor asks what that is. Fury says that’s what they are trying to ascertain right now. He concludes that whatever is missing from the Chitauri’s hard drives, S.H.I.E.L.D. is hoping that their Psi-Division can pick up from the Chitauri’s brain tissue.
Tony can’t believe the story and the fact that no one but him is startled by it. Natasha welcomes Tony to the world between the cracks in the sidewalk. Fury takes his troops to the Psi-Division. Along the way, Tony asks Natasha if she has ever seen one of the Chitauri creatures in the flesh. Natasha hasn’t, but she has heard that Captain America killed some in Poland during the war. And back when Natasha was KGB, they said that they had three of the Chitauri pickled in their Black Museum.
They enter the Division and Fury asks the scientists if they can have a look at the creature they are operating on. They are allowed to, but the scientists say that the Chitauri lose control of their Chameleonic hold after ninety-eight minutes, so they better be prepared for a not so beautiful sight.
Fury and the rest take a closer look, and find a Chitauri out of control. Fury walks away and wonders how Captain America is going to take it when he finds out that the case that almost finished him has just reopened itself.
S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Satellite Division reports to Fury that they’ve traced Captain America. Cap is currently heading to downtown Chicago and he claims to be acting under his jurisdiction. Fury says that’s not true. The director of the division tells Fury that Cap told the troops he took that Fury authorized him to supervise Hank Pym’s arrest on the spousal abuse charges against the Wasp.
Meanwhile, Cap jumps out of a helicopter without a parachute, and lands safely in Chicago outside of the Red Lion bar.
Fury orders his Squadron Leader to tell Captain America that he is not to injure Pym under any circumstances. He informs the agents that they are on the brink of a massive extra-terrestrial assault and all post-human personnel is required!
Giant-Man sits in bar and asks for another drink.
The pilot of Cap’s helicopter apologizes to Fury and reports that they airdropped Cap four minutes ago.
Captain America walks into the bar and walks over to a drinking Hank Pym. Cap touches his shoulder, and asks Pym for a word in his ear.