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Muertas part 2
(Jean Grey School)
It’s night time at the school and everyone is asleep. However, a small, flying, security drone races down a corridor, sounding an alarm and informing everyone that there is an intruder. The intruder is Typhoid Mary, who is trying to conceal herself amongst the shadows. Once she realizes she has been spotted, she makes a bid for escape.
Psylocke is woken by the alarm and immediately grabs her katana. As she leaves her room, Rachel makes telepathic contact with her to make sure she is aware of what is going on. Rachel asks who the intruder is and Psylocke tells her to give her thirty seconds.
In the security room, Rachel is operating the schools cameras and security defenses. She informs Psylocke that she has about fifteen seconds, as the intruder is headed for the creekside exit. Rachel tells her the security indicates she was in records and then the mainframe room. As Psylocke runs down the corridor in her nightwear, she tells Rachel to wake some of the kids like Primal, Oya and Surge who are near the creekside exit. Rachel tells her no, as they don’t know who they are up against and then says she has eight seconds before the intruder reaches the security exit and bugs out.
Rachel tells her she is on her own and Psylocke informs her she isn’t exactly dressed for the outdoor and asks Rachel to drop a cache for her. Rachel presses some buttons on a holographic display and smirks as she says everyone laughed at her for sleeping in her uniform. She tells Psylocke that a bot will resupply her thirty meters out of the exit. She asks Psylocke if there is anything else she can do but Psylocke replies that she can stay off the air, as she has work to do.
Psylocke finds Typhoid Mary at a security door and yells for her to stop. Mary spins around and swears at being caught. The security door opens and she runs out onto the lawn. Over the radio she tells Lady Deathstrike she has been busted. Deathstrike asks if she can escape and Mary informs her she already has but was pinged by a telepath on the way out. She says it may get traced back to her but Deathstrike says it was worth it and she wants Mary back ASAP.
Psylocke races after Mary but she gets away. A flying bot drops a uniform down to Psylocke and she puts it on quickly. Rachel asks for an update and Psylocke tells her she is getting dressed and she’s pretty sure Quentin Quire is taking pictures from a window. Rachel asks about the intruder and Psylocke says she is locked on and she won’t escape. Rachel tells her they need to know who she is as she has taken the box. Psylocke asks if she means the files and Rachel tells her she took all of it. Psylocke tells her to stop tracking Mary on her end. That means no Homeland Security taps, travel flags and no Sabra. She will track Mary all the way to her boss. She then tells Rachel she needs to call John Sublime. Rachel says she knows and Psylocke adds that if Rachel doesn’t call him then she will. She also needs to loop Storm in on everything.
As she says that, Storm walks into the security room. She points out they have had two attacks in three days and she doesn’t like the coincidence. She asks Rachel if she knows what they were after. Rachel corrects Storm and says it wasn’t “they” but rather “she.” And she took the box. All the files, evidence and medical data they have on Karima and Shogo. Rachel then says that she even took Arkea. She knew where to look. Storm suddenly realizes something and asks what Rachel means my all the files. Rachel cuts her off and confirms that she even took the living sample.
(Amtrak, the Northeast Corridor)
Typhoid Mary sits on board a train and looks inside the box she has stolen. She takes out a sealed bio-hazard plastic bag that contains a circuit board and smiles.
(Cortes Compound, Colombia)
Rachel phones Sublime and asks if she caught him at a bad time. He asks what he can do for her and she informs him that the Arkea sample has been stolen. She knows they promised it would be safe but it’s not. Psylocke is in pursuit but they are going to give the thief some space to see where she leads them. But right now it’s out there and they don’t know who has it. John tells her it’s bad and asks that she keeps him updated on the situation. Rachel asks if everything is okay, as he seems a bit pre-occupied. He says he is a bit and asks her to call him later.
He hangs up and turns back to Ana Cortes, who is sitting a in a chair opposite him holding a sheathed sword. John takes a swig of drink and asks her if she knows what she has done. He calls her Cortes but she corrects him and says she is Yuriko. He brushes it off and tells her Arkea is not a toy. She walks over to him and says that, if it amuses her then, it’s a toy. Based on what she knows, she will get a lot of pleasure out of the Arkea body modification. John tells her Arkea isn’t an upgrade. She is alive and has a consciousness. She can’t be injected like a drug.
Ana sternly tells John she does what she wants. She has done what she told him she would do. She has tempted him to come to Bogota to witness her steal the greatest biotech enhancement this planet has ever seen. John takes a sip of his drink and tells her it doesn’t matter, as the X-Men will stop her. Just then, Typhoid Mary walks in the room and scoffs at the concept. Carrying a rucksack, she says it was a cakewalk. Ana asks if she was followed and Mary tells her no. She kicked up a hornets nest but she knows how to lose a tail.
Unbeknownst to her, Psylocke is on the roof of the villa listening to everything they are saying.
Inside the villa, John is aware of Psylocke’s presence but decides not to say anything. Ana opens the bag and picks up the circuit board containing Arkea. John glances over and yells not to touch it. Ana holds the plastic bag holding the circuit board and shows John. A worried John says that every day he wakes up and wonders if today is the day all life on Earth is wiped out. He points to the bag and says that’s why. He asks Ana to put it down but she ignores him.
She tells him she checked him out before he arrived. He is a man with a complex public life. Up until recently, he was doing a lot of charities, benefits and appearances. She asks why he has been hiding. He replies that he has told her. Arkea is incredibly powerful; she’s a destroyer of worlds. She’s the human race’s worst enemy and she’s also his sister. He has no idea how the X-Men had a live sample. Mary asks if it’s like a contagion and he says she is in a way. She infects technology and spreads via energy. Once she is active, she is impossible to stop.
Mary seems impressed and Ana asks if it is the only sample on the Earth. John replies that it is the only one he knows of and so Ana rips the plastic bag open. John lunges forward and wrestles with Ana for the circuit board. He grabs it off her and dives onto the floor, grasping it tightly in his hands. Above them, Psylocke monitors what they are doing and preparing herself to act. Ana wipes blood from her nose and orders Mary to cut John’s head off. John yells for her to wait and says it’s inert. The sample was live but it’s dead now. John stands up and looks at the board. He says she’s dead and that he had no idea she could die. Everything has changed now. Behind him, Mary raises a sword, ready to cut his head off.
Ana stops her and asks John if this was the only sample he knew of. He says it is and she asks if there are others, ones he doesn’t know about for sure. She asks if he has a list with GPS coordinates. She guesses that it is what he has been up to recently. John places the circuit board on the table and tells her he never knew Arkea was mortal. But now she has a crack in her armor. He says Arkea arrived on the planet via a meteor and he has the time and date of the entry. He can probably cross reference it with meteor strikes and come up with possibilities. But he won’t give her that information, now that he has a chance of destroying her. And he knows Ana won’t kill him as long as he has the information.
Mary walks up to him and tells him that it’s tedious. She tells him it would have been more fun to chop his head off. With that, she grabs the back of his neck and energy pluses from her hands. After a few seconds, she announces she has four locations and says they should go.
She lets go and John collapses to the floor in a stunned state. Ana tells Mary to leave him to drool for a while and she will send someone to dispose of him later. However, Psylocke mentally contacts him and tells him to hold on. After the two women leave, Psylocke jumps down from the roof and enters the room. She muses that she can’t believe she is going to facilitate the utter wrongness that is him and Rachel, but she is going to take him back to the Jean Grey School. John groans on the floor and she says that Typhoid Mary scrambled his brain. She says she can fix it as Mary was a total amateur with no finesse, style or technique. Besides, she needs him functioning enough to order them a bizjet. It’s been a long day and she isn’t flying coach.
(Troms, Norway)
A figure walks across a snowy, mountainous landscape, collecting firewood. As they approach a small log cabin, a loud booming noise grabs their attention and they turn to see where it came from. The figure, a blonde-haired woman, is shocked to see a small aircraft flying incredibly close to the ground. The plane lands on a snow-covered, frozen lake and the woman runs up to it. She yells for whoever is on board to get out of the area. Typhoid Mary and Ana get off the plane. Even though they are dressed in thick clothing, Mary shivers at the cold. They see the woman and wonder who she is but the woman continues to yell for them to leave.
The woman uses one of her sticks as a weapon and advances on Mary, but Mary whips out her sword and slices the stick in two. However, the woman grabs Mary and throws her across the lake. She says they can’t be there and orders them to get back in their plane. Ana tells her they mean no harm and when the woman grabs her, she recognizes her as Lady Deathstrike. Yuriko recognizes the blonde woman as Amora the Enchantress and tells her it’s a lucky twist of fate. She says they have things to discuss and spots the cabin in the distance. The Enchantress invites them into the warmth.
Later on inside the cabin, Amora confirms a meteorite landed a few months back. Ana asks why she has been out here for so long. Amora tells her that Thor stripped her of her powers and exiled her here. That boom they heard when they came meant they punctured the Odinforce dome. She didn’t think anyone could do that, as she spent a solid week hammering it when she was first dumped here. Mary angrily says it killed their electronic and they could have died. Amora asks Mary if she knows of the Norns. She says they are miserable hags who spin people’s fates and at any minute they can snip the threads with their shears. Ana asks Amora what she would think if she had a way to cheat fate. Amora says it is impossible but Ana tells her to show her the meteorite and she will make her more powerful than Odin himself.
(Jean Grey School)
Sitting in the dining room Jubilee tells Bling! she has her attention but she isn’t sure she can give her what she wants. Bling! replies that she doesn’t have to talk about it like that. Bling! points across the room and says she’s over there right now, probably laughing about her with her friends. Alls she did was ask Mercury out; it wasn’t a big deal. It’s a yes or no question. She thought the X-Men were all about inclusion and acceptance and appreciating people that are different. Jubilee tells Bling! she knows they are and that she also knows Mercury isn’t a bad person. Bling! glares towards Mercury and says that, just because she likes girls, she gets attacked in the hallway. Jubilee tells Bling! she needs to talk to Storm or Rachel about it and then asks why Mercury was so bothered about it.
Before she can do anything else Bling! leans across the table and kisses a surprised Jubilee on the lips. Mercury looks on stunned. After the kiss Jubilee is a little lost for words and doesn’t know what to say. Bling! sits back down and says she has wanted to do that ever since Jubilee got back.
Just then, Monet strides past and, without looking at her, tells Jubilee to suit up for a mission if she isn’t too busy. Jubilee stands up and starts to speak to Bling! but the young girl interrupts her and starts to says she knows Jubilee doesn’t feel the same way. Jubilee says they will talk about it later and they will get through it. After Jubilee leave Bling! leans back on her chair, puts her arms behind her head and smiles.
(Norway)
The three women find the small meteorite crater in the snowy mountains. However, as they get to it, Typhoid Mary yells for Yuriko to wait. She read the files that she stole and she wants to renegotiate. She says she is done being a hired muscle and she wants to be a partner in this. Whatever Arkea is going to do for Ana and Amora, it can also do for her. Yukrio asks what that is and Mary says it should integrate her split personalities and make her whole. Yuriko accepts the deal and says that Reiko is building a new Body Shoppe as they speak. She proposes a partnership. Help her gather the Arkea meteorites and she will promise her whatever she needs or desires.
Yuriko tells Amora that Mary has read the file and she knows what is possible with the alien tech. Mary says they will need help if the X-Men are planning on stopping them. Yuriko jumps into the crater and says it won’t be a partnership then, more like a Sisterhood. With that, she picks up the meteorite and smiles.


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Muertas part 3
(Jean Grey School)
Karima and Jubilee are in one of the school offices going over paperwork. Karima, sat at a desk, is looking over Ana Cortes’s finances but she cannot get far, because they are in the Cayman Islands. Looking at a board on the wall, Jubilee says that Ana/Lady Deathstrike is travelling, so she must be using plastic. They might be able to trace the activity, rather than the money itself. That’s assuming Monet can’t annoy the information out of someone her end. At the same time, Monet is walking through an airport in Budapest on a mission.
(undisclosed location)
As Psylocke and Storm stand on an airfield a voice calls to them. It’s Sabra and she is accompanied by a tall man dressed in a black and white superhero costume. Sabra introduces Gabriel Shepherd, a man whom Storm has met before. She says that, with all that the X-Men have been dealing, she thought they might need the extra help. Gabriel asks what their current situation is.
Back at the school, Rachel sits in a darkened room with John Sublime. A low hanging light creates a spotlight over John as Rachel interrogates him. She asks for him to go over it again but he pleads with her, as he is exhausted. She tells him she has people in the field and she needs to know everything he knows about Lady Deathstrike. He tells her she does, as he has told her twice. She asks him to explain that comment but before he can answer she interrupts him. She tells him she is looking out for her team and then asks how that puts her at fault.
John tells her that he is cooperating and she doesn’t have to bite his head off at every step. He tells her that since he met her he’s been trying to redeem himself. She scoffs at the thought of him white-knighting for her sake. She grabs the hanging light and shines it in his face. She tells him that this mess is his responsibility and that is why he is there. She asks him if this is the first time in his life he felt guilt. He ignores her and asks what it means for him and her. She tells him she doesn’t have time for it and that she doesn’t know what she was thinking.
John starts to say something else but a look of panic suddenly crosses his face and he tells Rachel that she’s back and she just became aware. Rachel asks who he means and John tells her it’s Arkea. The war is back on. Jubilee suddenly radios though and tells Rachel they have a location. She says a defunct Cortes subsidiary company licensed a jet that landed four hours ago in Dubai and Karima has confirmed Ana has cleared UAE costumes. Rachel thanks Jubilee and tells her she is relaying the information to Monet. Jubilee tells her to warn Monet that Ana had two other people with her.
In Budapest, M stands on a deserted street. She uses her telepathy to contact Rachel and says the hospital where they fought Arkea has been razed to the ground. Rachel asks her how quickly she can get to Dubai and M replies she can be there in five. Rachel assumes she means five hours and tells her that it’s no good. M corrects her and says she means five minutes and with that launches into the air and flies off.
Back at the airfield, Sabra asks what Arkea is. Psylocke says that, if you believe John Sublime, then it is a malevolent alien infection that could take over and save the world. Sabra asks if they believe him and Psylocke says they have seen Arkea up close and they do. Storm adds that Arkea can be in multiple places at once and they believe there are numerous caches of infectious material scattered around the globe, thanks to the Arkea meteor.
Sabra says they will need some serious inter-governmental finessing. Storm says they have to destroy Arkea no matter where she is and what countries they have to enter. Sabra tells them she can stop them from causing World War Three but probably just barely. Psylocke suddenly gets a telepathic message and tells Sabra and Gabriel that they are going to have their work cut out for them. Monet just engaged Lady Deathstrike in Dubai.
(Thirty Minutes Earlier)
In a skyscraper in Dubai, Reiko welcomes Lady Deathstrike, the Enchantress and Typhoid Mary. As they get into a lift, Yuriko asks if everything is ready and Reiko tells her everything is operational as of this morning. Mary asks what is operational and Reiko replies that she means the Body Shoppe. As the lift goes up, the women see a vast laboratory filled with numerous computers, as well as liquid filled chambers containing body parts. Reiko tells them the Cortes family owns seven vacant floors in the building, thanks to a shell company. They step out the lift and look around. The Enchantress comments that it’s sorcery of a different kind and Mary is amazed at it all. Reiko asks Yuriko if she has the sample she mentioned.
Yuriko hands over a briefcase to Reiko and tells her a very tedious man went to great lengths to tell her it was dangerous. It’s infectious and probably a computer virus. She doesn’t want to make a habit of taking warnings from enemies but in the name of caution she will. Reiko takes the case and tells Yuriko that she has assembled the facility herself. She has installed all the security and bioware safeguards and they are not connected to the city grid. The firewall encryption is unique on the planet and she assures them they are safe. Reiko opens the case and the Enchantress looks on and says it is a rock, yet they think it has the power of the gods. Yuriko smiles and tells her she thinks it has more. She asks Reiko if she would do the honors and so Reiko picks up the meteorite.
She starts to speak but the meteorite suddenly springs to life and pulses with green energy. A zapping sound is heard as the energy sparks from Reiko’s eyes. She drops the rock and Mary says she doesn’t think that was supposed to happen. Reiko turns to them and smiles. She says the body is a suitable host for the moment and she is Arkea. Circuitry can be seen within her now-green eyes.
Yuriko smiles back and says what Sublime said was true. Arkea reaches out her hand towards Yuriko’s face and asks her to tell her about Sublime. Yuriko backs away slightly and says she killed him. Yuriko collapses to her knees and Arkea says she doubts it very much. She holds her arms outstretched to her sides and her hands start to glow. She says Sublime lives and so do the treacherous X-Men. When Yuriko asks how she knows about the X-Men, Arkea replies they killed her once but she has returned.
All the machines in the room start whirring and Arkea says she has completed her scans. She announces they are all enhanced examples of their species and she can use them. Typhoid Mary takes objection to being used but Yuriko tells Arkea they are hers to commands. But she asks if she can make a suggestion. They may be enhanced but they can be so much more. She then asks Arkea to upgrade them and make them better and they will help her defeat the X-Men. Arkea says she believe her and tells the women to step closer.
(Mere Seconds Away)
M is flying through the sky and she uses her telepathy to ask Rachel for a location. Rachel tells her it’s an office building in the south west corner of the city. M says she is coming in at a little less than Mach 3 and she doesn’t have time to look around. She asks her to Google map it for her. Back at the school, Rachel gets Jubilee to map it for her and after a few seconds asks M if she can see it now. M tells them they should have told her it was the ugly one. She then asks for them to confirm it’s just the top seven floors. Rachel says it is but they don’t know which one Arkea is on. As M closes in on the city, she tells them not to worry, as she will take them all out.
Looking at her screens, Rachel says that she will take the top of the building off. At Mach 3, she will hit it with an incredible amount of telekinetic force. She goes to tell M to slow down but John tells her to stop, as it’s the best way of taking Arkea out. M tells Rachel she has confirmed all the floors are vacant. With that, she shields her eyes and ploughs into the building.
Arkea immediately feels someone is there as M starts to rip through the structure. She comes out the other side of the building as huge cracks tear up the skyscraper. Back at the school, the rest of the team can only look on at the force of M’s attack.
In the tower, Yuriko asks Amora if she is online. She says that the curse has been lifted and wonders what sorcery Arkea has that can defy even Odin’s power. As Mary slices at falling debris, she tells the Enchantress to go; she will get Arkea to safety. The Enchantress flies off to confront M, all the while musing on how Arkea hacked into Odin’s magic. She looks out to see M flying through the air and looping back around for another attack.
As she and Mary escape, Arkea comments that the body she is in is ill-suited for combat and she chose poorly. Mary says not to beat herself up, as it’s the X-Men. Arkea asks her to explain that comment and Mary says they are badass. Most people who go up against them lose and lose badly. Even those who might win a battle here and there eventually run out of luck. Arkea tells her that luck is the refuge of the weak and stupid.
Arkea tells her they need help and Mary says they just have to get lower into the building and they will lose them in the crowds. Arkea says she fails to understand as they do not fight to win a battle but rather a war. She says they need help but Mary tells her she already has help. She has them and she literally overrode the will of the granddaddy of all gods or whatever mythical crap he is. Arkea points out she is running from a single X-Man. Arkea opens up a computer panel on a wall and says that in her previous incarnation she accessed the internal database of the X-Men and she still retains that knowledge. She then links with the computers and says there are those that will not run from the X-Men. Specifically two of them she is interesting in locating.
Back at the school, John says it has gone on long enough. Rachel points out that M is on site and Storm and Psylocke are en-route. John says he means that Arkea has been active long enough that she has had ample time to propagate out of the building and across Dubai and possibly the world. As Karima operates the holographic computers, she says there is no sign of that yet.
Jubilee chips in and says it’s no coincidence that Arkea has sought out Lady Deathstrike and the others. In the first instance, she infiltrated their own ranks but they defeated her. John sees where she is going and adds that now Arkea is aligning herself with their enemies. Rachel asks if that means she’s worried they will defeat her again. John replies that perhaps it is but it also means that she is now painting a target on the X-Men.
In Dubai, M and the Enchantress are engaged in a physical brawl. As they smash into the building, M comments that Amora is a bit out of her element. Lady Deathstrike swipes at her with a sword and says calls her pathetic for showing up to fight alone. Amora grabs M from behind and holds her steady, whilst telling Yuriko to go and find the others. M asks if she means Arkea and then tells her she doesn’t know what trouble she’s getting into. Amora smiles and says that alls she knows is that all of Asgard will bow to her thanks to Arkea.
Amora starts to crush M and asks if she can feel that. She asks when the last time was that someone stronger than her was able to hold her in place. M telepathically tells Amora not to do it, as she is here for Arkea and Lady Deathstrike and she can walk away from it. Amora asks why she would need to, when Arkea is bonded to all of them. The Sisterhood will crush them all.
The Blackbird streaks through the night sky but it is still fifty minutes out. Psylocke tells Storm that they have multiple Arkea possessions and then telepathically asks Rachel if she is getting it. She confirms she is, as M has looped her in, but now Amora is blocking all psychic signals. M is in trouble and Amora could drop her off in any number of undesirable alternate dimensions and that would be it. She’s open to any ideas. In Dubai, M is being strangled and she says she is also open to any ideas. Amora tells her to stop her bleating and accept her time is done.
At the school, Jubilee is looking at some computer monitors. She suddenly yells that they have six more Arkea alerts in addition to the one in Dubai. Karima’s nose starts to bleed and she stutters that something is happening to her. Sublime points to a monitor and tells them he has found her. Rachel yells to track them and to find out who they have closest to each of the locations. She contacts Psylocke and says that she needs her and Storm on site in Dubai now, as she is losing M.
John asks Rachel how many X-Men there are spread out across the globe and how will she manage to protect them all. As he says that, a number of damaged and forgotten Sentinels at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean suddenly come to life and begin walking along the seabed.


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Muertas part 4
As she applies her Day-of-the-Dead makeup, she says that she is Ana Cortes and she says she is Yuriko Oyama. A mobbed-up rich girl from Colombia and a deadly assassin from Osaka. Together they are Lady Deathstrike.
Hidden within the X-Men’s Jean Grey Academy is the secret behind the Arkea virus, a sentient, alien bacterium that could be the key to global domination and the end of the X-Men. Early attempts at acquiring the sample were a failure. A new Sisterhood was born and with Typhoid Mary and Amora the Enchantress’s help another sample was located. Arkea was reanimated in the augmented body of Reiko. The villain John Sublime, Arkea’s brother, had warned her of the power but she had no idea.
They all made pacts to serve Arkea in return for enhanced bio-cybernetics. Typhoid Mary had her personalities merged, Amora had her powers restored and Lady Deathstrike had a host of body modifications. Every day she gets closer and closer to her desired ideal. Their one obstacle is the X-Men and it will be a war. They need recruits and powerhouses. They need to resurrect the dead.
(Dubai)
A number of helicopters circle the skyscraper that housed the Sisterhood’s Body Shoppe. They shine spotlights on the top seven floors that M ripped open in her quest to take down the villains. M’s lifeless body lies amongst the debris as police comb the area. One policeman looks at his phone and says they have word from their security services that this is no longer a police matter. The mutant is to be taken to their facility for treatment and debriefing, dead or alive. A police woman looks at M and says she looks dead to her. But when it comes to mutants who really knows?
Gabriel Shepherd suddenly appears and goes to M. He bends down and asks her to wake up. She opens her eyes and asks who he is. He tells her and says that he works with Sabra and that her friends sent him to help her. M says she has heard of him and, as he helps her up, he asks if they are good things. She tells him he would blush if he knew and then asks what he has done there. He says he created a temporal pocket about five hundred meters square. She asks if he stopped time and he replies it is more like a stasis condition. The entire area is an infection zone and he has to move quickly. He tells her he has scanned her and she is clear.
He asks if she can fly and she says Amora took her down hard. Apparently she is not used to going toe-to-toe with magic users. She says she’s good though and asks where the others are. He tells her the X-jet is holding position just outside UAE airspace. As M takes to the air and asks what he is going to do, he tells her he will clean the site. With that, he holds his hands out and they start to glow. He would like to see Arkea survive a sustained electromagnetic shockwave. He will follow it with a complete molecular disassembly. Maybe he will convert her atoms to some fresh mountain air.
M thanks him and flies off. As she leaves she makes a note to herself to stop dying and coming back as it’s getting embarrassing. She looks back to the skyscraper and is glows with an electric blue as Gabriel cleanses it.
On board the Blackbird, Storm is piloting the jet as Psylocke and M look at a holographic display of the Earth. Storm says that the display is courtesy of the Cerebro spikes that Psylocke stole from the freak show Xavier descendent. What they are seeing are Arkea activations. M looks at it and says the Dubai one just winked out. She asks if Gabriel is that powerful. Storm says he is something of a mystery and no-one knows his upper limits. He will help out when he can but he and Sabra are stretched thin. Plus this is the X-Men’s mess to clean up.
M says that fighting world-ending sentient bacteria and Norse goddesses isn’t what she had in mind on her time off. Storm starts to say something but M cuts her off. She tells her she is in as this is a pure class-1, save-the-world act of super heroics. She could use the good karma.
(somewhere)
As the Sisterhood walk through a scorching desert, Ana Cortes says that this wasn’t the plan. This is too dangerous and it was supposed to be fun. Amora enquires after Yuriko but she says that it was Ana Cortes talking. Yuriko tells Ana that she knew the process was a journey they would take together and it wouldn’t be like flipping a switch. But with Arkea they will get there faster as she is a valuable asset. Amora says that only a fool would say that when it’s obvious they are all in thrall to her. Arkea tells Yuriko to listen to her sorcerer and to silence the other voice in her head. She needs perfect coordination and obedience. Yuriko tells her to get them out of the desert and she will have it.
Just then, a helicopter appears in the distance. Yuriko starts to ask how she did it but Arkea interrupts her. She says that five miles back they passed a terrain waypoint marker that belonged to a petroleum corporation. They followed its low frequency signal to a small airfield and activated the transport remotely. The crewless helicopter lands and Arkea tells them to get on. As the helicopter takes off, Arkea says they have wasted valuable time and taken out on of the X-Men. In her experience, that will not go unanswered.
(orbit)
Pixie and Rockslide float in the vastness of space around the Earth. Pixie wears a space suit whilst Rockslide wears nothing but his trousers. Pixie thanks him for doing it with her and he says he is happy to help. He then asks where the thing is and Pixie looks at her computer in her sleeve and says it should be easy to track. Kitty riffed the whole school last year, she even bar-coded the bathroom supplies. She then sarcastically says like anyone would want to steal her tampons. They find the thing they are looking for and Rockslide tells Pixie to stand back. He gets out a gun and she asks what it is. As he squirts a yellow liquid out of it, he says that it is amber and it will lock in the contagion. Pixie asks what he will do then and he replies he will throw it into the sun.
In his lab at the school, Beast is checking over John Sublime as Rachel looks on. Rachel asks if that’s all it takes and Beast replies no. He says that John is unable to articulate how his bacterial makeup is different from his sister’s. John adds that they split a long time ago. Beast continues and says a range of tests will have to be done. With her arms crossed, Rachel tells John that he could be more cooperative. Getting a little annoyed, John asks if he could. He tells Rachel he has complied with them in every way he could. He is perfectly willing to help them kill his sister, even though she is the only family he will ever have. Rachel tells him her people keep getting hurt and then wonders what she ever saw in him. Beast walks away and mutters that he will be going now.
John asks what she did see in him. He asks if it was a mass murderer, a monster or a reformed man? He says they had that moment on the X-jet and then asks if she wanted more. She goes to use her telepathy but he grabs her arms and asks her not to. He wants to hear her say it. Rachel looks away and tells him it’s too complex. She can make a decision to be with him but her friends will always hate him. They will always see him as a villain and, to be honest, so will she. They are a very bad idea.
He tells her he understands. He is an immortal consciousness who has lived a million lifetimes of both happiness and regret. He is continuously afforded the luxury of starting over. He forgets others are not like him. He picks up his jacket and walks towards the door. He tells her he will await further instructions in the holding cell. Rachel calls after him and then uses her telepathy. John replies that he is sorry too.
On the plane, M asks Psylocke if she is ready to go. Standing in the open plane door, Psylocke replies she is. M tells Storm not to risk the X-jet and to keep her distance. In the pilot’s seat, Storm tells her she is there as back-up if they need it. As they leap out of the plane and dive bomb towards the ground, Psylocke tells M they have to do this analogue and that means no radars, drones or sensors of any kind. M tells her it sounds like she has done this before and Psylocke replies a few times but never this high or fast though. M says she will keep up and asks who the superhuman around there is anyway. Psylocke points out they are jumping into immediate action and asks M is she is fully recovered. M tells Psylocke she is a super something alright. She then counts down until they have contact.
They make a flawless dive into the ocean next to a luxury yacht. As they swim under the surface, M simply holds her breath whilst Psylocke creates a telepathic bubble of air around her. They swim to the back of the boat and board it. M says she isn’t picking anything up like heartbeats. Psylocke adds that there are no consciousnesses on the boat and comments that their intel was solid. They telepathically ask Storm to confirm it is Cortes’s yacht and the intel placed Lady Deathstrike there. Storm tells Karima that the boat is deserted and she replies that it doesn’t make sense. She says the data trail is clear. Not suspiciously clear but appropriately difficult enough to track. They should be on board. On the boat, M asks where they are.
Elsewhere, the Sisterhood is gathered together in a darkened room. Arkea holds a tablet and tells the rest of the group it contains the help they mentioned. Straight from the database Typhoid Mary hacked are two women who are perfect counterpoints for the X-men. Lady Deathstrike looks at the tablet and after a few stunned second asks Arkea if she is serious. The Enchantress asks Yuriko to tell her now who is the master and who is the thrall.
Deathstrike says that when she brought the Sisterhood together this is not what she had in mind. It is overkill. They have to be careful who they bring in. Arkea gets right up close to Deathstrike’s face and tells her she is an inferior specimen and inadequate to the task. She can tag along as allowed and she may continue to contribute Cortes’s assets. In short, she will obey and perform and she will locate the two women on the list. Madelyne Pryor and Selene Gallo, the Black Queen.
(Catalina Island)
Hellion decides to recap what he knows. The Arkea meteorite broke up in orbit and sent hunks of infectious material across the planet. And some old Sentinels sunk years ago are under her control and headed for the mainland. Jubilee tells him it’s a perfect recap. They are on a beach along with Pixie and Bling!. Hellion is in his swimwear whilst the rest are in their combat uniforms.
Hellion says that when he thought they were going to the beach he actually thought they meant the beach. Pixie says she knows he did. And his shorts are the reason no one told him earlier. Bling! sarcastically applauds Hellion on his shorts. Dressed in a hoodie and covered up as much as possible, Jubilee tells Hellion she will be sure to tell Storm he was going undercover. She radios to Karima for an update on the Sentinels. She replies that they are a mile out but moving fast. They should see something soon.
Pixie asks to go out there as she always wanted to go toe-to-toe with an old Mark 1. Karima tells her not to, as they are the eyes in the sky and she is the protection on the beach. On the jet, Quentin Quire tells Karima that he can sense Arkea and she is piloting the Sentinels. She is pissed and she will be doubly once she realizes Karima is there. Karima says to tell her as she is looking forward to killing her again. Oya, piloting the plane, mocks her and says how hardcore. Quentin leans down to Karima and tells her he likes her, as she isn’t afraid to push the envelope. Through the radio Bling! teases him and tells him to stop quoting his own Wikipedia page.
Jubilee suddenly spots the Sentinels and tells Hellion to let them know they are there and to keep their distance. As the Sentinels breach the surface of the water, Hellion unleashes a telekinetic attack against them. The old, degraded Sentinels don’t seem to notice his attack. Instead they continue forward and one of them says they are Arkea and they cannot stop them.
Quentin looks out the window and tells everyone that Arkea is repairing the Sentinels on the fly and it will take more than that to knock them down. Jubilee says they are going to have to take them apart and Quentin agrees and adds up close and personal. Jubilee radios for Karima to send Mercury down to the beach, as they will need her. Bling! is a little taken aback when she hears the order. Jubilee then asks Quentin to take Arkea’s consciousness apart. Do the stuff he dreams about in the dark corner of his brain that scares the crap out of the rest of them. Quentin says he is doing his best, as Pixie notices the Sentinels are gearing up for an attack.
Still in the water, one of the Sentinels points its arm at the beach and unleashes a huge energy blast. Luckily everyone survives and Jubilee announces the mission just changed. She tells Bling! and Pixie they are up and with that the two girls teleport away. They reappear next to one of the Sentinels, ready for a fight.


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(New York City)Ana/Yuriko and Amora the Enchantress walk into a building and are escorted to a vault. As they walk into the vault, which has been sealed by a huge metal door, they put gas masks on. Yuriko tells Amora that it’s insane and asks if she is really able to do it. Amora replies that, if Arkea’s information is correct, then she has the power required. As Yuriko opens a door within the vault, Amora asks her if she believes the information to be correct. They walk through the door and Yuriko replies that for twenty million of her father’s money it had better be.
They enter an empty, sterile room with strange white paneling on the walls. Amora says she can smell the air but Yuriko tells her not to think about it. Amora replies that she has to think about it and then wonders how technology could capture a soul in nothing but air. Staying close to the door and looking nervous, Yuriko tells Amora that she has heard stories about Necrosha. When Yuriko tells her it’s a bad idea, Amora asks if there is any part of the partnership that strikes her as wise. She says they obey, for even a goddess can be vain despite herself.
Amora starts moving her arms around her as the air begins to swirl and something starts to coalesce from it. Amora says that the air is alive and the stasis room has preserved the body as airborne particles. As a figure starts to emerge from the vapors, Amora tells Yuriko they will both pay a steep price and she doesn’t mean the twenty million dollars. There is so much anger present. Yuriko goes to speak but Amora cuts her off. She says that she is wielding the blackest of magic and she must be precise. Amora has her eyes closed and Yuriko calls out her name to get her attention. Amora looks up to see a naked, dark haired woman standing before her. She falls to her knees and bows before Selene, the Black Queen.
(The Cortes Yacht)The X-Men’s jet has landed in the ocean and is floating next to the luxury yacht. Soon, the team is on the back deck of the yacht and Storm gets them to go over the information again and asks what they know. When Rachel replies nothing, M makes a jibe directed at her trench coat and corrects her by saying they know very little, which isn’t the same as nothing. Rachel mutters that she got rid of the trench coat and M thanks her from the bottom of her heart. Psylocke emerges from the empty yacht and informs them that it has been searched and it must be a red herring.
M says that they don’t know that but Karima tells her the yacht sailed from a point of origin along a very logical escape route from Dubai. Storm adds that it wasn’t just logical but obvious too. Karima replies that they had to work hard to find it, though, and reminds everyone she was a cop. Rachel interrupts her and sarcastically acts surprised that she was a cop, as she hadn’t mentioned it before. Karima ignores her and tells the group she knows a red herring when she sees one. She then addresses Rachel and tells her she is the only one there with experience with organized crimes. Storm adds that they are the ones with experience of Lady Deathstrike and that’s who they are talking about. The Ana Cortes persona is probably just a cover.
When Karima tells her it’s still leaving a data trail, Storm says they will continue to follow it. But they need to see that the trail is infallible and they need to take another angle on it. She continues and points out the entire team, bar one member, has been collected together in a remote location. Rachel says that they aren’t under attack, to which Storm replies that wasn’t what she meant. Whilst they are here, what is happening where they aren’t?
M starts listing off the known Sisterhood members on her fingers and suggests they are not done recruiting. Psylocke says they should be worried about it as they have zero intel on who it could be. When Rachel mentions Arkea, Karima tells them she though she killed them. It was a desperate move and she thought she wouldn’t survive it but she might not have known it. Karima says that when Arkea comes for them, she will crush them once and for all and then poses the question as to who would benefit from it. She asks whom the Sisterhood can recruit that would threaten the X-Men in a serious way. When Storm replies that it’s a big list, M asks if it really is big and tells everyone to put some thought into it. She then poses the questions as to who brought Lady Deathstrike back and how they did it. She asks who would buy up dead mutants and then suggests that would narrow the list of possible enemies considerably.
Back in the vault, Selene has gotten dressed and is applying make-up. Arkea enters and tells her she must understand who set her free and for what purpose. She asks Selene to probe her mind, as the more she knows the more she will understand. Selene stares at her for a few seconds and a look of horror flashes across her face. Selene drops to the floor and bows down at Arkea’s feet. Arkea tells her that she is of limitless power but the X-Men remain an annoyance. Selene tells her to swat them like vermin but Arkea informs her they are formidable and they have her twin sibling whispering in their ear. Lady Deathstrike counters that Sublime is dead but Arkea replies that she failed. Selene asks if her task is to help erase the X-Men and Arkea confirms it is, adding that they will need one more member to help do it. When Selene questions it, Arkea tells her they require overwhelming superiority in the form of Madelyne Pryor.
On the X-jet, the team is speaking to Sabra via the onboard computer. Sabra tells them that she has identified Madelyne Pryor as a likely target for the Sisterhood and that her source also tells her the remains of Selene Galio have been purchased. She tells the team that a market exists for things like this. Fanboys, collectors and enthusiasts will trade in pieces of mutant memorabilia. Karima tells her it’s not just some eccentric collector; it’s Lady Deathstrike and Arkea. She thanks the gods the X-Men kept her body in stasis at the Jean Grey School.
Storm asks Sabra if there is any more information besides the purchase and Sabra replies that the chamber that housed Selene is now vacant. She doesn’t have any information regarding Madelyne but Arkea being what she is and what happened to Karima… Storm cuts her off and tells her to keep digging. Musing over the two prospective villains, M jokingly asks if this is some kind of initiation ritual.
(Jean Grey School)John Sublime asks if he is to be watched over by a child. He is walking down a corridor with Quentin Quire, who tells him he respects him and the least he could do would be to respect him back. Quentin tells Sublime that he has been doing a lot of research on famous serial killers but his horrific past has all of them beat. Plus, nobody knows anything about him. Sublime tells him the world is rife with super-villains, so it makes it easy to hide in plain sight. He spots baby Shogo in the distance and asks about him. Quentin says it is but tells Sublime not to get any ideas, as Jubilee and Rachel would murder him if he let him within ten feet of the baby. Sublime replies it’s ancient history but adds that Quentin should check his books for a nasty example of a serial killer called “the future.” Something just reminded him of it.
(Japan)Typhoid Mary and Ana Cortes are sparring in a traditional style Japanese building. Mary jokes that at least she is seeing the world, to which Ana seems a little put out by the comment. Assuming that Yuriko is in control of the body, Mary tells her that it’s how she coping with a very terrifying gig. She was hired to steal some data and now she is helping a cosmic super-virus dig up corpses and take over humanity. Ana informs her she is in control of the body and now Yuriko. In a moment of desperation, Ana asks Mary to kill her. Mary is taken aback by the request and Ana tells her she can suppress Yuriko for brief moments. She asks Mary to kill her again but the reply is no.
Ana lunges at Mary with a katana and says she will have to do it the hard way. As Mary defends herself, she asks Ana if this is what she wanted. Ana replies she wanted to be popular and powerful and she thought she might get to meet Cyclops and the X-Men. She’s still in her teens and this was supposed to be fun. She won’t survive this, as all she is to Yuriko and Arkea is a means to an end. She needs to stop them before they run out of reasons to keep her around. As Mary ducks from a swing of Ana’s sword, she tells her that she won’t kill her.
Arkea walks in and tells Ana that she has much to offer them beyond her finances. She asks the two women to follow her, as they have the Madelyne consciousness primed and they can begin the procedure. Ana asks what she is going to do with her but Arkea simply asks her to come with her. Ana screams no and then impales herself through the gut with it.
(Catalina Island)Meanwhile, Jubilee and the X-Men students are fighting a group of Sentinels that Arkea is controlling. Pixie and Bling! rip apart one Sentinel and it starts to collapse into the ocean. Unfortunately, Bling! gets caught in some wires and pulled down with it. She yells to Pixie to help her and the young girl goes to dive in after her. However, Mercury suddenly appears and tells her she will help Bling! out as Karima is making her.
Closer to the beach, two more Sentinels advance on Hellion. He blasts them with his telekinesis but they keep moving forward. He shouts to Jubilee and asks how they are supposed to stop them. Jubilee tells him off for calling her “Jubes,” especially as he is in his underwear. He yells back that it’s a swimsuit but she replies that he isn’t fooling anyone, as she jumps on to one of the Sentinels. Using her enhanced vampire strength, she claws her way up the giant robot and rips out wiring and metal panels as she goes. She asks Quentin who is on the X-jet, how he is doing. He replies that he is about fifty levels deep into psychic warfare and it’s all scorched earth and Armageddon. He tells Jubilee that Arkea has just realized where she is.
Jubilee looks up to see a Sentinel hand about to grab her. She says she hates to do the mist thing as she fells she won’t come back. As the Sentinel closes its grip, Jubilee disintegrates into a fine mist and evades capture. Karima asks if anyone can see how Mercury is doing but Quentin tells her he can’t spend the spare telepathy. In the ocean, Mercury swims down towards both the sinking Sentinel and Bling!
Cipher, who is flying the X-jet, tells Karima she is wasted up there. Karima says that she is stopping the jet from crashing into the water and that is no mean feat. Plus, once she and Pixie leave the jet, she is in charge. Cipher is happy to hear this and Karima tells her she and Pixie are joining Storm’s team.
Mercury rescues Bling! and the two make it to the surface of the water. Mercury asks if Bling!’s diamond form can protect her underwater but the girl replies she has her limits. Cipher radios through and asks if anyone has seen Jubilee. She did the vampire mist thing but she hasn’t rematerialized yet. As Hellion faces off against the Sentinels alone, Cipher asks where Jubilee is.


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Ghosts (Part 3), Muertas (Part 6)
(Japan)The Sisterhood, who are on the run from the X-Men, had a curveball thrown at them when Ana Cortes terminated her own life. Since she was a host for Lady Deathstrike’s consciousness, this required a reshuffling of the roster and host bodies. The team is well selected and they have a variety of options. The muscle of Typhoid Mary, the sorcery of Amora the Enchantress, the raw materials of the civilian Ana Cortes and the impossibly advanced Arkea. Plus there is Lady Deathstrike, Selene the Black Queen and one more addition to come.
After Ana has killed herself, the other members of the Sisterhood gather around her body as Arkea, in Reiko’s body, tries to keep it preserved. Arkea tells Amora her sorcery is required as she has the resurrection of Madelyne Pryor to perform. As Ana’s body lies on a table, Amora conducts her spell and Ana wakes up in a stunned daze. Arkea greets her, as she is no longer Ana Cortes but rather Madelyne Pryor.
Later on, Ana’s body has been modified to resemble Madelyne’s former body. Having gotten dressed, she talks to Arkea in her room. She approves of her new body and thanks Arkea, but she makes a point of asking whom she should thank as Lady Deathstrike, Arkea and Reiko all inhabit the same body now. Arkea replies that they are all one for now and, after they are finished and the X-Men are gone, then the whole world will lie down for them.
(X-Jet)As the X-Men’s jet speeds towards its destination, Storm asks for a sound off. Rachel groans and so Storm tells her she is to go first. Rachel sarcastically says her name and points out she is second in command. The rest list of their names and Storm tells them that Gabriel and Sabra has reconned the site and initiated some containment protocols. Rachel says John Sublime analyzed the inert sample of Arkea and has identified a command structure within her cellular makeup. She may be a hive mind but there is a queen bee and she is nine thousand feet directly below them. Karima takes out a gun and summarizes that if they kill Arkea Prime they kill all of her.
As the team jumps out of the jet, Psylocke asks where the intel came from. Karima tells her it was from Ana Cortes, who claimed she got in over her head playing a dangerous game. Storm says they cannot confirm Ana is on site, as Arkea has infected all of them and it muddles with the telepathic signals. Karima says there are five heat signatures and Rachel tells her the number don’t add up. Monet must have been right and they were recruiting. M gets Storm to slow the others’ decent, as she is going in first to take out the Viking. Rachel asks if smashing through buildings is her new move now, to which M tells her that they wanted a brawler and they got one.
Inside the building below, Arkea knows the X-Men are there, including the one Amora claims to have killed. Amora looks surprised and begins to say that it is impossible, but M cannonballs through the ceiling and slams into her at incredible speed. As they slam through the various floors, M tells Amora that it wasn’t a lucky shot; she aimed for the brightest and most arrogant heat signature. They finally slam into concrete, creating a small crater.
M pins Amora down and tells her that she has eight fractured and two broken bones and that was with her holding back. But she won’t again if Amora so much as twitches her nose. With M’s hand around her throat, Amora tells her that Arkea gave her freedom back but M tells her Arkea will die today. She stands over Amora and tells her that she has been dead before and there is nothing on the other side. Amora still has a choice and, if she is smart, she will take it. M walks away as the defeated Enchantress tells her she is a goddess and asks why she aligns herself with the X-Men. M simply replies that it’s because they are her team.
Typhoid Mary looks down through the hole M created and yells for the rest of her team to spread out. As the rest of the X-Men land on the roof, Psylocke says that Mary is her target. Rachel tells her not to let her get away this time and, as Psylocke jumps through the hole, she smiles and asks if everyone thought Mary was getting away from her. As Mary flees through the building, she starts to hear Psylocke telepathically calling out to her. She taunts Mary and uses her powers to confuse her.
Elsewhere, Arkea is leading Madelyne and Selene away from the fight. Madelyne tells her she doesn’t run from a fight but Arkea says that she has identified a threat. The structure has been exposed and it is not on the municipal grid anymore. Madelyne doesn’t understand why what is so important but Selene tells her Arkea piggybacks on electrical systems. Madelyne asks why she is so worried about an escape plan and wonders if they were brought back for something other than a diversion. As they walk into the courtyard, Arkea tells her she will use them as she sees fit. Madelyne angrily tells her she serves no one but herself.
Storm and Rachel appear out of the shadows and seem a little alarmed to see Madelyne and Selene standing before them. Storm starts summoning lightning around her as she tells the women they have a long history with each other but that won’t stop them as long as they are aligned with Arkea. Rachel telepathically tells her to stop, as Arkea can travel through her lightning. Unfortunately, it is too late and Rachel receives an attack to her head. She collapses to the floor as Arkea tells her she created a telepathic explosion in her mind. Rachel’s nose starts to bleed as she tries to regain herself but Madelyne walks over to her and tells her that it will be over soon.
Psylocke gets the jump on Mary and the two begin fighting with their swords. Mary tells her she cannot believe how easy it was to get past her school’s defenses. As Psylocke slashes at Mary with her psychic katana, she says she cannot believe she was forced to run around the school in her underwear. It is full of teenage boys and she should kill Mary for that alone. Mary tells her she won’t kill her but Psylocke replies that she won’t have to, if Arkea is taken out. All their upgrades will disappear and Mary’s split personalities will come back again. Psylocke then kicks Mary around the head and bemoans the fact Mary wears fishnet stockings.
Madelyne stands over a slumped-over Rachel and tells Storm that she just came back. If Arkea is her ticket to this new life, then she isn’t turning her back on her. Storm offers to make a deal and tells her that she and Selene can walk away right now and they can settle things up later. Selene asks why she would let them escape, to which Storm tells her they came for Arkea but she can be collateral damage if she wishes. The two villainesses think it over for a few seconds and then begin to walk away, with Madelyne declaring she intends to maintain a new Sisterhood. Arkea screams at them and calls them traitors. As the two women leave, Arkea lunges towards Storm in a fit of rage. She says that Storm can command electricity so she will be useful. But M, using her super speed, jumps in between them and grabs Arkea by the neck. She says that Amora and Mary are having some quiet time and the two ringers have literally just left the building.
Arkea begins to struggle but M gets her in a head lock and tells her she is damaging her host body by resisting. Storm informs her that they know she is the center of the hive conscious and M tells her that they have isolated the entire area around the building. Karima walks into the courtyard with Psylocke and asks Arkea if she remembers her. Arkea continues to scream angrily at them all and says that she has populated the entire planet. Storm says that they have neutralized 90% of the Arkea impact points thanks to her brother, who has been very useful. He also sent them a gift, which Karima explains is a self-guided psychic microbial smart bomb. Arkea will die but the host body will live. Karima takes out her gun and says it’s pretty fancy stuff but all she knows is she can shoot her in the head as planned and Reiko will remain unharmed.
M positions Arkea’s head and Karima points a gun at it. Arkea tells Karima that she is a law enforcement officer as well as an X-Man, so she won’t kill her. Karima replies that one day she will be both again but right now she is neither. Plus, Arkea is a psychotic mass murderer so she is okay with it. With that, Karima pulls the trigger and a loud bang rings out.
The body slumps to the floor and Karima kneels down over it. She says that the plan worked and the body is alive, although she isn’t sure who it belongs to now, as Lady Deathstrike’s consciousness is also in there. Rachel confirms that Deathstrike is in control but she is out cold. Arkea is gone and, at the time of termination, there was a psychic ripple transmission. The hive is gone now that Arkea is.
Storm walks forward and puts a hand on Karima’s shoulder and asks if she is alright. Karima replies she isn’t at the moment but she will be soon. She then lets the team know that she won’t be going back with them. Sabra and Gabriel have offered her a job with them and she believes she’ll be a better fit there. She has been looking into Ana Cortes and her family and she wants to finish the job. They barely knew her but so much of what had happened was thanks to her.
Pixie’s voice comes over the radio and asks if they forgot about her. She reminds them the jet is in Japanese airspace and the fact she isn’t answering any of their calls probably puts them on the “hostile” list. Storm tells her they are standing by for pick-up, much to the relief of the young girl sat in the plane. Down below, Gabriel suddenly descends from the sky. He asks Karima if she is ready and then picks her up and flies away as the rest of the X-Men look proudly on.
(Meanwhile)As the three Arkea-controlled Sentinels advance on the shore of Catalina Island, Cipher, who is in the X-jet, asks where Jubilee is. Jubilee suddenly reappears again after she has gone missing when she turned into her mist form. She swings off one of the Sentinel’s head and starts ripping panels off it. She says the mist thing really did a number on her and then calls out to Quentin to use his power whilst she is distracting the machine. On the jet, Quentin concentrates hard but Cipher tries to get him to hurry up. He yells at her and tells her to take on some ancient evil f’ed-up intergalactic bacterial sociopath herself. She turns to him and asks who is better to take on Arkea than their very own f-ed-up sociopath. As he strains under the pressure of fighting against Arkea, he says he will take it as a personal challenge.
Down below, one of the Sentinels suddenly raises its arms at both sides and charges up its weapons. It fires two huge blasts that destroy the other two Sentinels. It then turns its weapons around and destroys itself.
In the water, Bling! and Mercury watch the huge explosion rip out. Mercury turns to Bling!, splashes her and asks if she really filed a complaint about her. Bling! replies that Mercury punched her in the face and embarrassed her in front of everyone. She asks Mercury to look at her, as she is ugly, her skin is potentially dangerous and she is the only lesbian at the school. She is lonely and she thought Mercury might understand. Mercury replies that she should have just talked to her instead of being creepy by leaving notes under the door. The school is already full of gossip, drama and weirdoes so they should just be cool with each other. She then tells Bling! she isn’t ugly.
The jet lowers down to the two girls as Hellion and Jubilee swim to meet them. Jubilee tells everyone to get on board as they have some serious clean-up to do. She then wonders if the school has a budget for stuff like this. As they climb on board, Jubilee can’t help but notice Hellion is only wearing a pair of short shorts. He says he will trash them the second he gets back home but Jubilee smiles and wonders how she could get the X-logo on them, much to Quentin’s disgust. Cipher says that Karima has reported in and they have made contact with something called Arkea Prime. She asks if they should go help but Jubilee tells her that the other X-Men have it.


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(1st story) Bloodline (part 1) (2nd story) Bromo-superior (part 1)
(1st story)(Undisclosed Location)A man in handcuffs and orange prison overalls is being escorted down a dark hallway by a number of armed soldiers. The man thinks to himself about how it is moving day, but only for him. He is probably being taken to an offshore facility for safety reasons. Not his, though; everyone else’s. One of the soldiers injects him in the arm and the man guesses it’s probably propofol or etomidate, both a general anesthetic. Then it will be halothane to keep him under for the duration as it’s the only safe way to move him.
The man is placed on a hospital bed and strapped down to it. The soldiers escort him outside, where a helicopter is waiting for him on a snowy helipad. All the drugs he has been given are the standard stuff and the human body can develop a resistance to nearly anything if the mind and soul are willing to put the work in. He’s had a lifetime. He opens his eyes and grabs the nearest soldier’s gun. It sprays bullets as the two men struggle. The man gets a brief look around him and estimates he is somewhere in Kazakhstan, Mongolia or Northeast China, given the arid climate and lack of vegetation.
After firing the gun at the soldiers, the man figures out that the bullets are probably Soviet in design. From that, he begins to figure a few things out about his captors and their relative threat level. After shooting the men and freeing himself, he sees one of the soldiers has a bomb. The man quickly gets on the helicopter and takes off as the bomb explodes. The man has little doubt he probably has to worry about the people further up the food chain, but once he is out of local airspace he will have room to maneuver.
He is The Future and he has survived 65 years in some of the most violent places on Earth. He has committed crimes, abuses and atrocities and more than one act of genocide. He is living on borrowed time and his future is running out. But there is another, an infant son. An heir… the future… and he knows exactly where he is.
(the Jean Grey School)In the Danger Room, Rockslide tells a hot and sweaty M to take a break but she insists she is okay. He starts to protest and she immediately asks him if he is tired or injured. He replies that he isn’t but, when she asks if he is scared, he says that he is and out of his mind too. She points at him and tells him he should be, as there is a world of enemies out there and even people like them aren’t safe. She tells him she is going to attack him and this time he really needs to fight back. As they lunge at each other, Rockslide says that he doesn’t want to hurt her. M replies that the next time she is up against the Sisterhood, she doesn’t want to die again. They will come for them again; the Sisterhood or maybe someone worse, and they won’t be ready for them. M then yells at Rockslide to hit her back.
In the hanger bay, Storm flies down through the open doors to meet Psylocke, who is standing on the wing of the Blackbird jet. Psylocke tells her the team is drifting, to which Storm asks if she called her there before her morning coffee to tell her the obvious. She tells Psylocke that she doesn’t have to be a telepath to feel these things. As she was flying over, she was alerted to a massive power spike coming from the Danger Room. When Psylocke guesses that it was Monet, Storm says that she won’t stop punishing herself. Asked how she is faring, Storm muses on the fact Rachel mocks her by calling her the leader of the team, but all she could manage in Japan was an awkward retreat. Psylocke adds that they managed to kill Arkea but Storm replies that they let Madelyne Pryor and Selene go free. It was a tactical necessity but maybe Rachel is right.
After a few seconds of silence, Psylocke asks where is the Ororo Munroe that gave Cyclops the finger during the proto-mutant crisis. She was proud to follow that Storm. She asks how much it annoys her when Rachel speaks up. Why doesn’t she make it official and actually form the team? Storm turns to her and asks if she could do it just like that. She doesn’t have a mandate and they have gotten away with it so far by being ad-hoc about everything. Psylocke tells her she’s Storm; she should declare her own mandate and give them all the finger. Storm tells her she is having breakfast with her daughter Kymera. She asks Psylocke to look in on M and make sure she doesn’t take the grid down, otherwise they will have to cancel classes. As Storm flies off, Psylocke says that headmaster Ororo is her least favorite Ororo, to which Storm agrees.
In his lab, Beast is looking over Shogo as Jubilee watches. Jubilee asks if her son is too fat and Beast replies that, whilst he isn’t a pediatrician, he’s sure infants are supposed to be chubby. If he wants to eat, then let him. Jubilee picks Shogo up and grins as she says that she loves all his rolls and squishes. Beast asks Jubilee how she has been but she replies that it isn’t her checkup. He asks her to indulge him, as they never fully explore the side effects of her vampiric nature. It seems she went through a lot on Catalina Island. Jubilee tells him not to take it the wrong way but she commanded at Catalina and she crushed it. Then, just like that, she is back at the school in some not-quite-a-student and not-quite-an-X-Man holding pattern. Beast asks if she has spoken to Rachel and Jubilee replies that she hasn’t but then who has recently.
Rachel sits in the small security office staring at the numerous CCTV screens around her. She recalls her and John Sublime walking towards a helicopter. She asks if he is just leaving after they risked their lives to help take down Arkea and save him. He gets in the helicopter and tells her it’s complicated. All excuses aside, they still killed his sister. In the security room, Rachel mutters to herself that he killed her mother.
On the front lawn, the students are playing a baseball game. Surge comes up to bat, whilst Primal and Armor crouch behind her. Doop throws the ball and Surge strikes it high into the air. Primal reaches into the air, ready to catch the ball.
A loud crack suddenly sound echoes out across the field and everyone stops to see where it came from. Primal collapses to his knees as blood pours out of a wound in his chest. The others rush over to see that he’s been shot. Someone asks how he never saw it coming, as he has hyperinstinct. They scoop in him and rush off to the infirmary before anyone else gets shot. Quentin warns the teachers they are coming but then wonders why he can’t sense anyone. He looks out across the grassy field and realizes there is no-one out there. He can pick up animals and insects, so he isn’t being blocked. He just cannot find whoever fired the shot. Someone yells to him to get inside as Storm is initiating a lockdown.
As the students peer in through the med bay windows, they look at Beast operating on Primal as Storm, Rachel and M watch. Beast says that he can assure them that Primal won’t die and he can be certain of that because whoever shot him made sure he did not receive a fatal wound. M summarizes that it was a shot meant to wound and asks how it was possible. The shot must have been taken some distance away since they cannot find any trace of the shooter. Beast says he would describe the wound as near surgical, as it followed a path through the body to ensure tremendous damage but enough to just stay on this side of death. Provided of course that a facility such as this one was close by. Storm tells Beast he cannot be positive of it and he agrees in a legal sense but it is what he believes to be true regardless. He tells them to come back later once he has the ballistics run.
Later that evening, Sprite is flying through the hallways when she suddenly gets thirsty. She flutters over to a water fountain and takes a sip but as she flies off she starts to cough. The coughing gets worse until she collapses on the floor at the bottom of the stairs.
In Jubilee’s room, the young girl is dancing around to music whilst Shogo sleeps in his cot. A message suddenly pops up on her phone and she picks it up and reads it. She screams and rushes out of the room with Shogo. The message on the phone reads “You have my son. I am coming to reclaim him. You and everyone else in that school will die. This is the future.”
(2nd story)During the nighttime at the Jean Grey School, Anole, Broo, Hellion and Rockslide walk down a corridor. Broo exclaims that he is sure that vigilante force would be frowned upon by the office. Hellion tells him they are not vigilantes but they would all agree that what happened to Primal and Sprite deserves a response from their fellow students. Rockslide sums it up by saying they got hit so they have to hit back. As they enter the Danger Room, Hellion tells them they will petition to set up their own team through the proper channels but this is a way of proving they can step up.
As they enter the room, they see a large, open, flower-covered field with mountains in the distance. They are now wearing medieval clothes and Rockslide doesn’t seem impressed. Broo points them to a large stand that contains countless weapons and informs them that it must be a weapon training simulation. As they inspect the weapons, Hellion says it was supposed to be more than that. Anole asks what the program is about but, before he can answer, Rockslide alerts them to incoming fire. They look up to see hundreds of arrows about to rain down on them. Anole yells for everyone to grab a shield and they manage to block the arrows just in time. Once again Anole asks what the program is and Hellion just says he found it on the system. As the others duck behind their shields, Rockslide looks out and tells them that he sees a large medieval army on the horizon with men on foot and cavalry.
Rockslide notices the archers are falling back, which probably means they will send in the cavalry next. Which is foolish, because they should use their ranged assets for as long as possible before initiating close fighting. He looks at the rest of the team and says that he plays RPGs and asks if they have a problem with it. Broo informs them he has been wounded and it is quite painful, so it would appear the safeties have been disabled. Anole yells for the Danger Room exit but it doesn’t appear. Hellion tells him to save his breath and that the only thing to do is fight. In victory, they will have proven themselves worthy in her eyes. Anole is confused by Hellion’s words but he doesn’t have chance to think about it too long, as men on horseback head towards them.
Rockslide tells him that it’s still the Danger Room and it’s just polygons. With that, he runs forwards and knocks the horses down. As he smashes the men, he says that he was totally born in the wrong century. Unfortunately, he doesn’t notice the army lighting the fuse on a huge cannon. He turns around just in time to have the cannonball hit him and send him catapulting through the air. The others seem shocked and Broo informs them that the next volley will be aimed at them.
Suddenly, a voice calls out from behind them and tells Hellion that it was an impressive leadership display. But, if they take the brute force approach, then they will tire out long before the army runs out of soldiers. The boys turn to see Psylocke standing before them, also kitted out in medieval clothing. She tells them she doesn’t know why they are so surprised to see her, given it was her program they hacked in to.


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(1st story)(New York City)Following the attack on the students at the Jean Grey School, Rachel and M charge through a rainy, crowded street towards a subway entrance. M recommends that Rachel drop a psychic net over the entire area, as they are about to attract a lot of attention. Not the good kind either, as this is a snatch and grab. Rachel tells her it’s rush hour and there are hundreds of people but, when M insinuates she cannot do it, Rachel gives it a try. M suddenly spots the shooter and urgently asks Rachel if they are hidden. Rachel answers yes just in time for M to rugby-tackle the man to the ground. As M brings him down, she remarks that he is definitely the guy they are after, as she smells cordite on his clothes and she can even see the gun powder residue on him. Plus, he’s afraid, terrified in fact, of what she will do to him, given that he shot a child.
Rachel informs M that there is an express train coming with hundreds of people on and she cannot keep the psychic mask intact with so many coming and going. As M drags the man to his feet, she tells Rachel that if she is having trouble with her abilities then she can program a Danger Room scenario for her. As he is talking, the man suddenly elbows her in the face and pulls out two guns, pointing them at unsuspecting bystanders. He tells the two women that for all their powers they will never see them coming.
Rubbing her cheek, M glares at the man and tells him that it hurt and asks how he did it, given she was holding him. Continuing to point the guns, the man says that the future is there and he is just a distraction. As Rachel worries about the train about to arrive, M points out that Jubilee’s message also mentioned the future. The man then turns the guns on himself and tells the women there will be more bodies before they realize the future is unstoppable. Before he can pull the triggers, M uses her super speed and rushes up to him, putting her fingers over the barrels. She tells Rachel to drop the psychic cloak, as locking down the man’s mind is more important than caring who sees. Whatever tricks the man has up his sleeves will have to wait, as he will be finding it hard to remember how to breathe.
All the subway passengers can now see the women and the fact M is carrying a seemingly unconscious man. Rachel tells M that her highness Ororo Munroe will have something to say about all of this, given that they went after the man without clearing it with her first. M realizes that but, with two students down plus Jubilee and Shogo targeted, it makes the prisoner all the more important. It will be up to Storm to get on the right side of this thing.
In his lab, Beast updates his records to show that neither Primal nor Sprite show any signs of improvement. After exhausting all conventional medical remedies, he is now considering some alternatives. Looking at the two unconscious children Beast wonders how he can let them die when they have barely begun to live.
Elsewhere, Psylocke programs a security barrier across one of the doorways and comments that now the defenses are routed through a neural convert, if anyone should break through she will hear it in her brains. A voice calls from behind her and she turns to see a small student with red skin and a tail stood there. The boy, wearing a baseball helmet and clutching a stuffed toy, asks if more bad men are coming to hurt them. Psylocke kneels down in front of him and tells him that there are. In fact, there will probably be three times as more next time. If that scares him then good, because he should be terrified. That’s why there is a curfew too, so he should go to bed and she will make sure he is safe.
In the study, Storm leans forward and asks he future daughter Kymera what she isn’t telling her about the attacks. As her pet panther sits at her feet, Kymera answers enigmatically with everything and nothing. Storm asks her what kind of answer that is but Kymera just looks down and avoids the question. She tells Storm that, when she asked for them to have a mother daughter relationship, she didn’t imagine it would begin with parental scolding. Storm says she isn’t trying to scold her she just wants to…
Kymera cuts her off and adds she just wants to interrogate her. She says she is from the future and she knows things and she understands how that is interesting to someone like her. But she is still a person and her daughter in her time; she isn’t just an intelligence source.
In the gym, Jubilee is teaching Shogo how to operate the force field device Bling! made for him. As Shogo holds the device, Jubilee counts down and he presses the button, creating a pink bubble around him. She praises him and then tells him to do it again but faster.
The shooter that Rachel and M caught is now in a holding cell as his captors and Psylocke stare at him. Psylocke says that she is ready and Rachel turns to M, about to say something. M cuts her off and guesses that Rachel is about to say that two students are dying in the med bay, or maybe that the killer has constitutional rights that they aren’t observing. Rachel simply tells her to take a minute to chill out. M tells her that it’s easy for her to say, as the guy didn’t try and fight back and she hates it when they don’t do that. Rachel asks if she wants to beat on him, to which M replies she really, really does.
With a psychic crossbow pointed at the man, Psylocke says that she has been up all night, single-handedly securing a half-a-million square foot structure from an enemy she can’t even identify. She asks if they can imagine the psychic wear and tear she is experiencing from overhearing three dozen nightmares and panic attack. The whole school is terrorized. From what it looks like, though, the other two have been off doing their own thing. Rachel tells her that M picked up a psychic trail and they went after it. They were just about to tell Storm, for all the good it would do though. Maybe she can dither the information out of the man.
Just as Rachel says the last part, Storm walks in and gives her a cold look. She asks if the prisoner is secure and, after a pause, Rachel replies that he isn’t going anywhere. Storm demands a team meeting in the Danger Room and walks out again, leaving Rachel and M a little surprised. Psylocke adds that she didn’t even hear her coming; she must be getting good. As they leave, M turns to the prisoner, who is grinning at her, and she tells him to keep smiling as they will be coming back.
With the team gathered in the Danger Room, Storm tells them what she is about to do doesn’t come easy for her. She apologizes to them for letting them down and allowing things to get all confused and disjointed to the point where they are barely functioning as a team. Rachel adds that they aren’t an official team though, to which Storm replies that they are as of fifteen minutes ago. She texted Logan and informed him, not a requested but as a statement of fact. From this point on, no ad-hoc status, no confusion and no “dithering.” They came together out of friendship and that is the way it will stay and they will be much stronger for the unity and formality. Rachel assumes Storm will be leader but Storm declines and says that there will be a silent vote with no judgments.
Before they can do it, though, Psylocke tells them to wait, to which M says she can hear it too. She thinks it’s coming from the detention cell. However, before they can act, a huge explosion rips through part of the school. The women leap into action and Rachel yells that the explosion was in the east wing and the shooter is escaping. When Jubilee worries aloud that he is coming for Shogo, Storm assures her the school is a castle and no one will take him. She orders Jubilee to find Kymera, as she will keep them safe.
M and Rachel reached the ruined east wing to find smoke and flames everywhere. M asks about the fire suppression system and Rachel tells her it must have been disabled. Rachel telepathically links with Psylocke, who tells her that the shooter isn’t even making a psychic whisper and he is more than meets the eye, whoever he is. She finds his containments cell but informs them that Beast’s “unbreakable” polymer shielding is in about a hundred pieces on the floor. She informs Storm that the shooter is gone and he could be anywhere. Storm is programming something into a consol panel and she tells Jubilee to hang on, as she is having Kymera come and stay with her.
Back in the east wing, Rachel and M are suddenly floored by something moving at supersonic speeds. As it whizzes past them again, M grabs hold of it and realizes it is the shooter. She is catapulted across the room though and, as she regains her footing, Rachel joins her and declares that this time they take him apart. The shooter stops and sneers at the women, saying that they cannot stop the future. Before he can finish, he is mauled by Kymera’s panther, as the girl walks up to him holding a knife. He begs for her to wait but she stabs him in the chest.
As she draws the blade out, a digital display appears on the man’s forehead, which reads 004. The display counts down to 003 and Kymera suddenly looks alarmed. She jumps on to her panther and shouts for Shogo, who is being carried by an eagle. The other women run through the flames in disarray, just as the countdown reaches zero and the man explodes.
In the far off distance, the man who started it all stares through a pair of binoculars at the chaos at the school. He declares phase one is complete and phase two will begin at dawn, when they are most vulnerable.
(2nd story)In the carnage of the Danger Room battlefield, Anole yells at Hellion for breaking into Psylocke’s program. Psylocke leans over Hellion’s shoulders and tells them they are there and they are now committed. Plus, they have incoming fire and the Danger Room safeties are disabled. When she asks Hellion if he wants to prove he has what it takes and he that replies he does, Psylocke tells him to lead his people.
Hellion turns to Rockslide, who is recovering from having a giant cannonball launched at him. He gives him a heads up and Rockslide manages to catch the next cannonball, although he is propelled across the field again. As he rolls away, he tells them he would say it hurts more than being punched by Monet but he would be lying. Standing behind him, Psylocke tells Hellion he is a man down and asks who is next into the fray. Hellion replies that Anole can go, since he can regenerate. He says that they are repositioning the cannon and orders Anole to get in close. Anole seems a little put out, but reluctantly agrees and runs off towards the army. Broo covers his eyes and tells the others to inform him whether he lives or not.
As Anole tears through the hoards of soldiers, Psylocke says that it was a smart choice to use him. Anole may seem sarcastic and aloof but he is a born fighter. This is why the Danger Room sims are so effective; they remove the element of fear and the person’s true abilities can shine. Hellion tells her that she removed the safeties, to which she replies that it just makes Anole all the more impressive. She asks what he thinks but Hellion doesn’t reply. Psylocke then guesses that he thought it would be his moment to shine and that was the whole idea of this thing. As Hellion runs off towards the army as well, Broo tells Psylocke that it wasn’t too subtle. She says that he broke into her database and she doesn’t exactly love the betrayal.
As Hellion destroys the army with his telekinesis, the others look on in awe. Broo says that doing what he is doing now will most likely get them all killed. However, Psylocke says that at the school and in the real world, they run the risk of that every day. This is what she calls a teaching moment.