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‘I think we should talk about what happened’ Bobby’s psychiatrist tells him. ‘Let’s not’ Bobby replies. The psychiatrist insists, and adds that there can be no healing if all Bobby ever does is run from his problems, or worse, pretend they don’t exist. He reminds Bobby that he almost killed his father, so they have to talk about. He gets no response, so calls out to Bobby, ‘I want you to tell me… when you tried to take his life… did it feel good?’ he asks. ‘No. I didn’t feel anything at all’ Bobby responds.
At that moment, in the middle of Manhattan: ‘Mystique!’ someone calls out, as Wolverine a.k.a. Logan, Remy “Gambit” LeBeau, Karma a.k.a. Xi’an Coy Manh and the alien Warbird are battling more Iceman clones in the midst of the snow covered city. ‘Karma -’ Gambit begins as he knocks the head off one of the clones with his bo-staff. ‘I saw what she did. I - oh, God - her mind -’ Karma utters as she kicks one of the Iceman clones in half. They turn to Raven “Mystique” Darkholme, whose body is sprouting wings and tentacles,  as the villainess clutches herself after consuming the Death Seed. ‘I’ve almost got her, Gambit! But I can feel the Death Seed… what it’s doing to her… it’s terrible!’ Karma declares. ‘Not… terrible. I feel… glorious!’ Mystique boasts.
Gambit calls out to Warbird to help him, so Warbird turns from where she is trying to chip Wolverine free from the block of solid ice he is trapped in. Gambit tosses his kinetically-charged staff at Mystique, who shouts that nothing can help them. The staff strikes Mystique and explodes. But, ‘You thought… it would be so easy?’ Mystique asks, surviving the explosion. ‘Non. But I had to try’ Gambit replies, before asking Mystique if she knows what she has awakened. ‘You might as well have committed suicide, Mystique. Minute you swallowed that piece of Apocalypse, you stopped being you’ he explains, adding that it might not be too late, if she is still able to listen. Gambit moves closer to Mystique and reminds her that she is a strong woman, and tells her she doesn’t need this power, as all it does is corrupt. ‘I know that. I know it too well’. Mystique’s voice has changed, and her tentacles move towards Gambit and Warbird as she replies ‘I know you do, Gambit. And I always thought it was a waste… that you did not embrace your darkness. You wasted your gift of death. That won’t be me’.
‘You talk too much!’ Warbird declares as she slices through Mystique’s tentacles with her sword. ‘And you still bleed’ the alien warrior points out, before asking Mystique how much her power is worth. ‘How much is power worth, without honor?’
Mystique’s tentacles wrap around Warbird, while she extends a fist forward to punch Gambit. ‘Will honor keep you alive? You’re nothing’ Mystique tells Warbird, adding ‘Whatever I am… whatever this makes me… it is already beautiful. It is horrific and amazing. And I have never felt so alive’.
Mystique slams Warbird against some ice and tells her to squirm, and asks her if she can feel it - how weak her body is? ‘You’ll break like glass. All of you. It can’t be helped. Everything must break compared to what is inside of me’ Mystique declares. ‘In your dreams’ Karma tells her as she picks up Warbird’s sword and slices off one of Mystique’s hands. But Raven tells the X-Men to hack at all her all they want, as it doesn’t hurt - they can’t touch her and they can’t stop her. ‘I have the power of Apocalypse!’ she screams as she knocks Kamra, Gambit and Warbird backwards. ‘I AM APOCALYPSE!’ Mystique boasts.
Suddenly, a blast of lightning strikes Mystique, sending her careening backwards into the snow. ‘Enough. There will be no Apocalypse. No Ragnarok. There will be no more death. Except your own’ Thor tells Mystique as he stands over her. A furious Raven stares up at Thor and tells him that no god power can compare to mine. ‘You stupid piece of -’ she begins, before suddenly, she chokes, and looks worried.
‘That’s right, Mystique. Hold still’ Kitty Pryde suggests as she phases up through the snow behind Mystique and plunges her hand into the villainess’s body. Mystique screams, while Karma rushes forward and asks her friend what she is doing. ‘Digging’ Kitty replies. ‘You don’t know what will happen -’ Karma points out, but Kitty tells her to shut up, as she is concentrating very hard. Suddenly, ‘Oh God. Oh God…’ Kitty utters as she pulls the Apocalypse Seed out of Mystique. Kitty screams, while Mystique shouts ‘NO!’
Karma rushes towards Kitty, ‘We’re coming’ she tells her, while ice suddenly surrounds Mystique, ‘Please, no’ Raven declares, trapped in the ice. ‘Damn it’ Karma exclaims, while Gambit points out that only Iceman could have done that. ‘He dares not attempt to fell the God of Thunder with such feeble magic’ Thor boasts. ‘By Odin’s eye! What trickery is this?’ he asks as the ice starts to engulf his body, too. He casts a lighting bolt forth, but it’s no use, as he is completely submerged in the ice.
Karma announces that she is feeling a little overwhelmed right now. ‘Non, really?’ Gambit replies, while Warbird warns Iceman to show himself. ‘Show myself? Just look around, Warbird. I’m everywhere!’ Bobby “Iceman” Drake’s voice can be heard saying. As the ice starts to swallow Karma, Gambit and Warbird, Iceman tells them not to worry, as it feels just like going to sleep. ‘No! Bobby!’ Karma calls out. Standing at the entrance to the church, is Opal Tanaka, who looks out at the snow, as the X-Men vanish. ‘Oh, my God’ she utters.
An undetermined amount of time later, Karma, Gambit and Warbird emerge in an icy wasteland, with nothing as far as the eye can see but ice. They gasp for breath when they are thrown from the ice, and Warbird collapses. Gambit asks Karma what is wrong with her, and puts his jacket over Warbird, as Karma tells him that the Shi’ar are cold-blooded, and need heat to survive. ‘All this time, she’s been doing a good job of pretending she’s okay. But being turned to ice? It’s too much, Remy’. ‘S-sorry’ Warbird utters. Karma tells her to shush, and assures her that it is okay, while Gambit calls out to Bobby: ‘You out there? Bobby!’ he exclaims, but gets no response.
‘Bobby. Bobby, it’s time’ a voice calls out. Bobby is sitting on the floor of his psychiatrist’s office, but doesn’t respond. ‘You can’t sulk in that corner forever. You need to make a choice’ the psychiatrist tells him. ‘Shut up. I should never have started talking to you in the first place. You’re no help. All you do is sit there and ask me stupid questions’ Bobby mutters. ‘Now you sound like a child’ the psychiatrist points out. Only, it is not a psychiatrist that Bobby has been talking to - but himself! He glances up at his other self, sitting in the chair, as the talkative Bobby remarks ‘But I suppose that makes sense. You are a child, deep down. Just a little boy, still not sure who to be when you grow up’. He adds that it is time, that he has to grow up, he has the world at his feet, after all. ‘Though it’s not so easy having that world, is it?’ the other Bobby asks. ‘It wasn’t easy killing your friends, or you would have done it already. All it would take is a thought - just one thought - and you could have ended this days ago. Even now you could have disintegrated their bodies into the ice - and left them there’ the other Bobby points out.
Bobby stands up and walks over to the seated Bobby, who asks him ‘So why didn’t you? Why was it easier to hurt your father?’ Bobby tells him to shut up, but the “psychiatrist” Bobby replies that he won’t, not until Bobby answers his question. ‘Why do you hate your father? Bobby, tell me for once, be honest’ he asks. ‘My father…’ Bobby begins. ‘I’m frightened of him’ he explains. The “psychiatrist” Bobby explains that everywhere Bobby goes, he sees his father - In Xavier, in Wolverine, even in the entire team itself - authority becomes his father, a man who spent his whole life trying to please, though jokes, action - but nothing was ever good enough. Not even Bobby. ‘You couldn’t even take up room for yourself, for your power. You hid it from yourself, all these years… because it might offend the spirit of your father’. The other Bobby tells him that he has to let it go, because it is starting to look really pathetic.
‘Mommy?’ Robert Tanaka asks as Opal holds her son tight, telling him that it is okay, and that they are going to find a way home. Civilians sheltering in the church start to run from the entrance and the pews, as a wall of ice surrounds Opal and her son. Opal gasps, and tells her son to close his eyes. Iceman appears behind Opal and asks her to let Robert look at who could have been his father. ‘Don’t, Bobby. Don’t say that to him. Don’t be cruel’ Opal replies. ‘Why not? When you let me think he was mine… even for that brief time… you can’t imagine what that meant to me’ Bobby replies. ‘What? You’re going to tell me it changed you? Because it didn’t’ Opal replies, reminding Bobby that he only got more scared, and that he was relieved when she told him it was a lie. ‘I saw it in your face’ she declares. ‘I’m not scared anymore, Opal’ Bobby replies, but Opal tells him that she doesn’t believe him. ‘All this acting out… it’s why I broke up with you, in the end’ she explains. Opal turns to face Bobby and tells him that it doesn’t matter what the truth is. ‘You’re not good enough to be a father’ she declares.
‘You crazy @#$%’ Mystique exclaims as she is thrown up through the ice and snow covering the Great Wall of China. ‘I know you’re there ‘ Mystique tells Iceman, who suddenly appears before her. ‘You betrayed me’ Iceman tells her. ‘Not at all. I took advantage of a situation, one that happened quite by accident’ Raven points out, looking up at Bobby who stands over her. Mystique adds that, as Bobby has made quite clear, he is still himself - the Apocalypse power did not enhance his power, it just freed his mind to its full potential. Bobby grabs Mystique by her hair, ‘You always had a dark side, Bobby. I saw that in you from the beginning. I recommend holding onto it. Life is so much better when you don’t give a damn’.
Meanwhile, at the residence of Madeline and William Drake, Bobby’s parents, neighbors gather outside the house. ‘Are you sure we should leave them alone? I mean, God, the old man is in terrible shape’ one of them remarks. ‘I can’t handle it all night, can you?’ another asks. A third says that she wishes an ambulance could have gotten through all the snow, as it will be a couple of days, she thinks. ‘I just hope Mr Drake doesn’t have another heart attack before then’. While, inside, William lies motionless in bed, as Madeline sits at his side, and an Iceman clone keeps watch over them.
Back in the icy wasteland, Karma and Gambit have started to trek across the snow, with Gambit carrying Warbird. Karma tells him that he must be freezing, and offers her coat to him. Gambit tells her to hush, and points out that it would not even fit him, adding that it is not like he hasn’t done this before. ‘God, don’t remind me. Worst break-up ever. If I’d known Rogue had abandoned you in the Antarctic -’ Karma begins, but Gambit asks her to change the subject. ‘Right’ Karma agrees, before asking Gambit what he makes of all this crap with Bobby. ‘Same crap that happened to me’ Gambit replies, explaining that Apocalypse got to his soul, and he became someone else. ‘Part of me liked it, too. And it’s still there, waiting, deep inside, power like that, you can’t kill. You just make it sleep’ Gambit adds.
‘How did you do it?’ Karma enquires. Gambit tells her that he remembered everyone he loved - and that was suddenly more important. He then adds ‘Might not be so different for you, Bobby’. Karma is confused, but as she turns around, she sees Iceman, or at least one of his clones, on an ice ledge above them. Gambit tells Iceman that he can’t fight him any more, that he can try, but they both know he is stronger. ‘I will fight you’ Warbird declares as she wakes. ‘Even if you weren’t dying, you can’t touch me. I’m a god’ Iceman boasts. Warbird gets to her feet, and tells him that he is a man, a man who still feels unimportant and small. ‘I could kill you with a thought. I could kill this whole world right this second’ Iceman points out, but Warbird tells him that would prove nothing but that he is a fool. Warbird states up at Iceman, remarking that his power was always great, but that it was even greater restraint that made him, in her eyes, a magnificent warrior. ‘But you corrupted everything with ego. You sullied your power’ she declares.
‘So I will fight you, Bobby. I will fight you to honor the man you were, and to honor myself’ Warbird informs Iceman, standing defiantly before him. ‘So will I’ Kitty Pryde calls out as she appears nearby. Iceman turns to her and tells her not to pretend that she ever cared for him anyway. ‘Go to Hell, Bobby. That’s your Dad talking. You were the unwanted son and you’ve spent your whole life reliving your childhood, projecting it on everyone who cares about you’ Kitty declares angrily. Kitty tells Bobby that life sucks, and she is sorry that they were not there for him when he needed them, and she is sorry that he didn’t think he could come to her, to anyone, with his problems. ‘I’m sorry, Bobby. I am’. Kitty continues, and tells Bobby that if he thinks he is the only one who has had a bad life, then he should take a look around. All of us, right here, right now - have been tortured, orphaned, abandoned. We’ve lost loved ones. We’ve lost ourselves’. And, she adds that they all still suffer for it, but that they are also all survivors. ‘You were never alone. You still aren’t’.
‘Do you believe her?’ Bobby’s “psychiatrist” self asks, referring to Kitty. ‘Do you believe her?’ he enquires, referring to Opal, and then to Mystique. ‘You should. You should believe them all’. But he gets no response, and tells Bobby that it is time for him to open his eyes. Open your eyes or just end it all. Because you can’t go on like this. You have to make a choice. Grow as big a you want. Swallow up this whole world. But you still won’t be able to run from yourself’. He adds that it is just up to him - and what matters to him. ‘What are you going to choose? Life or death? Fear or courage? Will you face your monsters? It won’t be easy’. He tells him that it will hurt, but that he should try, try, for just once, to be himself. To take off the real mask and see what happens.
At the same time, Iceman has created another large monstrous version of himself, and he smashes the landscape around Kitty and the others. He challenges the Iceman clone, punching it, and sending shards of ice flying towards the X-Men. The Iceman clone starts to push Bobby’s fist away, and when there is enough room, escapes on an ice-sled. Before the large, evil, Iceman attacks him, smashing him down to the ice. The smaller Iceman looks up, then increases his own mass to match that of the larger Iceman, they prepare to battle again, there is a mighty explosion, and a bright light engulfs the area, as Bobby’s naked body lies motionless in the snow. ‘Oh, Bobby’ Kitty utters as she starts to run towards him.
Bobby’s “psychiatrist” self tells Bobby to remember that there is a price for that, too. ‘You won’t ever be the same. Thank God. Cry. Feel the pain. Let it out. No more hiding. Besides…everyone knows what you are now’. And as the room around him starts to break apart, Bobby starts to cry.
Later, Storm a.k.a. Ororo Munroe flies across the now sunny skies over New York, while Lorna “Polaris” Dane and Annie Ghazikhanian are being examined by the X-Men’s Dr Cecilia Reyes and another doctor. An ambulance has arrived at the Drake residence and Madeline stands nearby as her husband William is loaded into the ambulance. Mystique stands alone on the Great Wall of China and looks around, hugging herself in the snow, while Thor sits in the snow that is slowly thawing around him.
‘I’m sorry. Really, I can’t say it enough. This sucks. And you deserve better’ Kitty tells Opal at the Jean Grey School, as Opal and her son sit in the back of a car which Karma is getting ready to drive. ‘Not your fault’. He’s not ready to see me. I’m not even sure I’m ready’ Opal replies, before Kitty wishes her a safe trip home. Opal thanks Kitty for everything, and wishes that she could be some help with Bobby. ‘No one can do that, Opal. It’ll just take time’ Kitty replies.
Bobby stares out of the window as the car pulls away, and Wolverine enters Bobby’s room, telling him that it would not have killed him to say goodbye, as he owed Opal that much - all of them - Polaris and Annie - they need an explanation. ‘I know’ Bobby replies, before turning to Logan and asking ‘What now? You can’t put me in jail. And I don’t think you’re stupid enough to try and kill me’. ‘Suppose not. I guess that just leaves one option’ Logan replies. Bobby tells him that he is crazy, and asks if he really wants him on the team again. ‘You going to be a problem again?’ Logan enquires. Bobby turns back to the window and admits that he doesn’t know. ‘I was a better villain than I was a hero. More powerful, more confident. Certain of everything, in ways I’ve never been before’ he points out. ‘That was the Death Seed talking’ Logan tells Bobby, replies ’So it takes the power of Apocalypse to make me feel like a real man? Great, thanks Wolverine’.
‘That’s not what I meant’ Logan declares. ‘What you were back there…you weren’t acting like a real man, Bobby. You were being a fool’. But Bobby tells him that none of that makes him feel better. ‘Think I’m gonna spare your feelings? Get real’ Logan tells him as Kitty enters the room. ‘Seriously, Bobby. Tell me what you’re feeling. And be honest’ Logan asks. Bobby turns back to Logan and Kitty and announces that he doesn’t know what he is feeling, as too much happened. ‘But I don’t…I don’t want to be a killer. I know that much’ he admits. ‘Someone needs to keep an eye on you, Bobby. Someone needs to be your friend. Even after everything you’ve done’ Logan points out, to which Bobby replies ‘That could be dangerous’. He assures Logan that he could not have stopped him, and that if he turned again tomorrow, it would be the same fight - the same ending, with Bobby freezing them all. ‘Want to rub it in? Or is this a warning?’ Kitty asks. ‘Maybe both’ Bobby replies.
Wolverine announces that he has to go, and asks Kitty if she is going to be okay here. Kitty holds herself anxiously, and replies ‘Yes?’, before Logan asks her if she took care of that little thing. ‘It’s hidden where no one will ever find it’ Kitty assures him. Logan takes his leave, and Bobby tells Kitty that she can’t destroy the Death Seed. ‘I don’t want to talk about that. I can’t. not with you. You understand why, I hope’ Kitty replies, before asking Bobby how he is, really. ‘I’m flesh and blood through and through. It’s harder than I thought it would be’ Bobby tells her, adding that he wants to be ice again, as that is what feels natural. ‘Who am I, Kitty? I sure don’t know anymore. I only know who I need to be’ Bobby remarks. He hangs his head, and adds ‘But that’s not real. That’s just a mask I’ll put on so no one gets hurt, and everyone and pretend I’m back to normal. Lies. That’s my life now’.
Kitty tells Bobby that it doesn’t have to be that way, but Bobby doesn’t look at her, he just tells her that maybe it does, and admits that he liked being a monster. ‘I’ll never forget. I was better when I was free’ he declares. Kitty looks at him, concerned, before turning to leave his room, and Bobby starts to cry….


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Civilians go about their lives following the devastating ice-age that temporarily befell the world. Cleanup continues across the United States, but in New York, the freak winter storm has shut down trains and roads and left thousands without power. Residents who are in danger from the cold are urged to seek out one of the many emergency shelters established throughout the city. A reporter states that, if you can, enjoy the rare sight of New York with empty streets - but warns everyone to stay away from the subways, as the tunnels are completely submerged.
Indeed, inside one subway tunnel, litter and rates float through the filthy water. There is a green glowing energy in the water, too, and it reaches forward, grabbing one of the rats, sucking it within its green form.
In Chinatown, at Dr Sun Yat Sen MS 191, part-time X-Man Dr Cecilia Reyes is making her rounds. Beds are set up in the auditorium, and Reyes sits on one of the beds, asking her young patient how he is doing. ‘Good, Dr Reyes. Better. I think I could go home’ the boy replies. ‘Well, soon’ Reyes replies, before handing the boy a stuffed rabbit. ‘Oh. Thank you’ the boy replies. ‘Right. I know, it’s just a rabbit, but see, he’s soft and his name is… is Fred... and he’s good for holding on to -’ Reyes explains, when suddenly, Remy “Gambit” LeBeau touches Reyes on the shoulder, ‘Maybe instead you should tell him about that time you fought an alien barehanded and won’ Gambit suggests. ‘Or how you saved the lives of your friends after being buried alive.
‘What are you doing here, Gambit?’ Cecilia asks. ‘Taking a load off your shoulders, chere. The boy would prefer a magic trick, oui?’ Gambit explains, ‘Yes please’ the boy smiles as Gambit brings out his playing cards. Xi’an Coy Manh a.k.a. Karma is also present and she brings Reyes a hot drink, telling her that she looks like she needs it. ‘Wow. Yes’ Reyes replies, before Karma tells her that she has been out of contact since New York froze, that Gambit was worried - they all were. Cecilia tells Karma that she appreciates that, but thought she was needed elsewhere. ‘Of course’ Karma agrees. She looks over at the boy and asks what is wrong with him. Reyes explains that he was trapped in a car for almost a week, and that frostbite got him - he is going to lose both of his feet. ‘He just doesn’t know it yet’ Reyes explains.
Meanwhile: Northstar” Beaubier flies him across the snow-covered city. ‘Taking care of our families and helping out the Canadian territories? Not really. Do you?’ Northstar replies. ‘Rock and a hard place. We did what was right for us’ Kyle points out. ‘So much for coming home’ he adds as they drop down onto their apartment. Examining their home, Northstar notes all the ice still inside, and remarks that he doesn’t think his fabulous powers of super-speed are going to fix this one. ‘God. Our first home together’ Kyle utters. Jean-Paul smile at Kyle and tells him that they will make it right - that they will make another home, the two of them, here or wherever. ‘Screw the snowpocalypse. Screw US immigration laws’. Kyle smiles back: ‘Whatever. You’re so butch right now. I love it’.
Suddenly, they turn and see someone in their apartment. ‘What the…?’ Northstar calls out to his alien teammate, Warbird. ‘Ah. You have returned’ Warbird remarks. She and Northstar greet each other, and noticing Warbird is carrying some of his belongings, he asks her if she is looting their apartment. ‘I do not know what this means’ Warbird replies. ‘It means it looks like you’re stealing our stuff’ Kyle explains. Warbird announces that, knowing they were gone, she came to collect their belongings on the off-chance there had been damage to their home. ‘Oh’ Northstar utters. ‘That was… incredibly kind of you’ Kyle remarks. ‘Kindness had nothing to do with it’ Warbird replies, shoving the box of belongings into Kyle’s arms. ‘I thought you hated us’ Northstar points out as Warbird walks out of their apartment. ‘We have fought together all these months. Did I ever give any indication that I despised you?’ she shoots back.
Northstar and Kyle follow Warbird, ‘Well… no, but at the wedding - ‘ Northstar begins. ‘I never hated you or Kyle. I simply believed your union went against the will of the gods’ Warbird explains. ‘Oh. Just that’ Northstar frowns. Kyle asks Warbird if she still feels the same way, but she turns from them and replies that she does not know - that life is not always as it seems.
Later, Karma drives a jeep, with Gambit in the front passenger seat, and they pull up on the sidewalk to collect Warbird. The alien climbs in the backseat and sees Cecilia, slumped against the other door, sleeping. ‘She is exhausted. Are you certain this is wise?’ Warbird asks. ‘Ask me that tomorrow’ Gambit smiles, adding that right now isn’t the time for “wisdom”.
Outside, a woman walks her dog across the ice and snow. ‘Yes, I know, it’s terrible’ she remarks to someone on her mobile phone. ‘I haven’t had coffee in three days. If Starbucks doesn’t open tomorrow, I may kill someone’ she adds. Her dog starts to growl at some green tentacles which slurp up from a manhole in the middle of the street. One of the tentacles wraps itself around the dog’s neck, while the woman tells the person she is speaking to that she blames mutants. ‘Like, hello? City buried in tons of ice? That’s supposed to be natural?’ She adds that she totally just saw a couple of them flying into her apartment building. ‘I hate it’ she mutters, not noticing that her dog’s teeth have increased in size and that it looks rather angry. Suddenly though, the dog turns on her. ‘Fitz?’ she remarks, before the dog leaps onto her, pushing the woman back onto the ice. ‘Ack! Gross! What are you - why are you licking -’ the woman calls out to her dog who is licking her face, when suddenly, she appears in pain, her skin starts to shrivel, her eyes go wide, ‘Oh… someone… please…I feel… so lonely…’ she calls out, but none of the passers-by stop. They are too busy shoveling snow or going about their business. ‘Please… help me…’ she pleads.
Meanwhile: ‘You’re kidding, right? There’s no way… you’re getting me up there’ Cecilia exclaims as she, Gambit, Karma and Warbird enter a private karaoke booth with a lounge area, and some food set out on a table. Wolverine a.k.a. Logan, Ororo “Storm” Munroe and Jubilation Lee, better known as Jubilee, are waiting for them. Cecilia sits on one sofa, arms folded and frowning, watching Karma sing, while lights flash above her. Gambit sits next to Cecilia, and Jubilee next to him. ‘Seriously, dude? Mystique left you kittens? Are they genetically enhanced killing machines, or what?’ Jubilee smiles. Gambit replies that the crazy thing is they are normal - and adorable. ‘Oh, see, she totally got you. Adorable is the new Nuke’.
‘I would stand inside my hell…’ Karma sings, while Warbird watches her from another sofa, where Wolverine tells Storm that she looks beautiful tonight. ‘Oh, Logan…’ Ororo replies. ‘…just to reach you…’ Karma sings to Cecilia, beckoning her to come and take a turn. ‘Um. Hey’ Cecilia mutters when she takes the microphone. ‘You like to think that you’re immune to the stuff…’ Gambit sings out as he takes the phone from her. ‘You come out at night…when the vampires roam…’ Jubilee sings as Wolverine stands with her, knocking back his beer. ‘I’ve got the stuff…that you want…’ Cecilia sings, slightly nervously. ‘Cause when we kiss…ooooh, fire…’ Storm sings as she takes her turn. Cecilia starts to loosen up as Jubilee and Karma join her for a song: ‘I’ve got more than enough to make you drop to your knees… FIIIIRE!’ the sing, while Gambit and Storm dance, and Warbird watches on.
Suddenly, Warbird takes a microphone, stands up, and sings in her native Shi’ar. ‘Oh, my God. She sounds…’ Jubilee exclaims as everyone stops what they are doing and watches her. Warbird continues to sing, and Karma smiles, ‘Glorious’ she utters. ‘Um…help?’ a man, possibly the one who runs the karaoke bar, enters the room, ‘You guys are super heroes, right? Because there are some crazy people out in the hall and they’re coming this way and I think they’re zombies. For real’ he announces. ‘Oh, please. Zombies?’ Jubilee declares. As if on cue, the “zombies” burst through the doorway and grab the man. ‘Oh God don’t let them eat me!’ he calls out. ‘Aw, hell’ Wolverine mutters. ‘Holy crap’ Jubilee declares as more of the “zombies” enter the room. ‘What happened to the man?’ Storm asks, while Wolverine explains that he think he just became one of them. ‘I knew it. All karaoke leads straight to Hell’ Cecilia tells her teammates.
‘Can you help me? I feel so alone’ a female “zombie” calls out. ‘Let me hold you’ another exclaims. ‘I’m so alone’ the woman utters. ‘You’re so soft and pretty. Just one touch’ she begs. Jubilee frowns and asks her teammates if anyone else feels dirty right now. ‘Cause I think I just got herpes listening to that’ she adds. ‘Will you be my friend?’ one of the strangely transformed humans asks. ‘Please?’ another screams. ‘I need you!’ a third shouts. But as they move closer to the X-Men, they find themselves suddenly unable to move any further - as Cecilia extends her force field around the X-Men. ‘You’ve been practicing’ Gambit comments. ‘Damn right’ Cecilia boasts, while Wolverine instructs Karma to see what she can do. Karma reaches though the force field and puts her hand to the head of one of the “zombies”. Karma reports that she is inside, and that they are not zombies, they have just been possessed.
Karma informs her teammates that the touch is alien, and very alone, very scared. ‘I don’t know if I can displace it’ she adds. Reyes tells Karma to hurry, because suddenly, she doesn’t feel so good. ‘I think whatever made these things…is trying to infect me through contact with my shield…’ she tells everyone, sweat pouring down her face as she concentrates on keeping the shield up. ‘Chere?’ Gambit asks, before throwing some kinetically-charged playing cards towards the infected civilians at the same time Reyes drops her force field. Storm asks Gambit what he is doing, to which Gambit announces that he is listening to his instincts - doesn’t know what these things are, but they are getting too close for comfort. The possessed civilians fall back, while Wolverine tells Jubilee to keep her distance and not to let them touch her. ‘As if’ Jubilee replies, while Gambit puts an arm around Cecilia, who reports that she doesn’t feel so well, that she thinks something is trying to crawl into her head.
‘Take that, you needy freak’ Jubilee declares as she leaps into the melee, kicking one of them in the back of the head, as Wolverine slices his way through them. Karma tells her teammates not to kill them, as she is close to gaining control. ‘Storm! Let’s see if a jolt of electricity breaks the connection to whoever’s controlling them!’ Karma suggests. Storm obliges, and instructs the rest of the X-Men to stay back, as she casts a lightning bolt into the group of possessed civilians. ’Urk!’ Cecilia utters, while Warbird asks: ‘Healer? Are you well?’, while Karma calls out to the others. ‘Where am I?’ one of the civilians utter. ‘Who are you people?’ the woman enquires. Jubilee tells Storm that she thinks she overdid it, as they smell like roasted chicken. Suddenly, Cecilia falls to the ground: ‘Oh my God’ she and Karma exclaim in unison. ‘Do you feel that? Please tell me I’m not the only one who feels that’ Cecilia calls out.
‘We need to hurry’ Karma announces, before rushing out of the door, while the civilians clutch their heads. ‘Wait for me. I know where it is!’ Cecilia exclaims as she follows Karma. ‘Are the zombies gone?’ the karaoke bar worker asks. ‘…where?’ Karma asks as she and Cecilia step outside. ‘…to the left, I can still feel it in my mind…’ Cecilia reports. The other X-Men step outside and watch their teammates rush down the icy sidewalk. ‘What the Hell?’ Wolverine asks. ‘Here!’ Cecilia announces as she halts beside a car. She and Karma drop to the ground, and see a green tentacle sticking out from under the car. ‘Oh…wow’ Cecilia utters. ‘That is… not what I expected’ Karma remarks.
Wolverine crouches down beside the women and asks ‘What the hell is that thing?’ Karma tells him to shush, as he will scare it. ‘Scare it? You sure you’re not possessed, Shan?’ Wolverine asks. ‘She’s sure. Now shut up. I’m trying to listen’ Cecilia snaps. ‘Listen to what? Whatever you’re looking at, I can’t even hear it breathing’ Jubilee calls out, adding that it smells. Cecilia explains that she can hear it, in her mind, that she can feel it. ‘Gambit stopped me from getting sucked into that crazy human knot, but a connection was still made’ she reveals. Karma explains that the same thing happened to her when she tried to possess those people - they connected. ‘I can hear its thoughts. This thing… it’s just a baby. Lonely and scared. It just woke up, and doesn’t know where its family is’ Karma announces. Cecilia adds that it didn’t mean to hurt anyone, that it just wanted a voice, some connection, a friend.
‘Chere. If you’re saying this thing caused what we just encountered…I don’t think you should be trying to touch it’ Gambit tells Cecilia. Reyes just suggests to Gambit that he back up. ‘and if anything bad does happen…get Storm to electrocute me. That seemed to break the connection for the others’. Reyes reaches out further to the alien, ‘Come on…it’s okay…’ she urges it. Two tentacles just about touch Cecilia’s hand. That’s right. You don’t have to hurt people. You know better now’ Cecilia smiles. ‘Let the others go. Anyone you’re connected to. You don’t need them’ Karma assures it. Storm assures Wolverine that she is prepared to release more lightning to subdue the creature if necessary. But suddenly, there is a loud SKREEEE and the creature retracts back down the sewer grate under the car. ‘No!’ Cecilia exclaims. ‘Ow’ Karma utters, announcing that the alien broke off its last connection to them, so she can’t track it.
Later, Wolverine, Storm, Gambit, Karma, Jubilee, Warbird and Cecilia have gathered on a rooftop. Storm stands on the edge, arms extended, while Karma reports that she asked Rachel to put out some feelers, and that she and Kitty are down there now, trying to get a bead on it. ‘Still think I shoulda gone with ‘em’ Wolverine remarks. ‘Why, so you could be bored and get in the way?’ Jubilee asks. ‘Besides, you promised we were all hanging out tonight. No aliens or super villains or anything’ she reminds him. ‘Yes. Tonight was meant to help us all feel less alone. To bring the family back together. The way it was always meant to be’ Storm declares. ‘Dude, I know I miss that’ Jubilee remarks, adding that it used to be different around here, even when things got bad, it didn’t get serious - not between them, they could always talk.
Storm turns back to the ground, and tells them that they believe their hearts are so invulnerable that if they smile, their lives must be well - and maybe for some that is true. ‘But the things we do, the things we see…it can be too much’ she adds, reminding everyone that she lost her marriage this year. ‘And have I spoken of it to my friends? No. Because I thought I had to be strong’. Logan reminds everyone that they let Bobby fall through the cracks, and that there is too much fighting, too many responsibilities - and that is what they do, it can’t be changed. ‘But there wasn’t enough of this, either’ he admits. ‘Just being together’. Logan stands up and, arms folded, explains that Iceman didn’t think he could come to them to talk about his problems. ‘That can’t happen again, for any of us’ he declares. ‘We’re not alone. We’re together. Not just a team, but family’ he announces.
‘That’s funny, considering you’re the least talkative and touchy-feel type we know’ Gambit points out. ‘Word’ Jubilee agrees, as she leans against Gambit. ‘Hmph’ Wolverine mutters, while Storm wraps her arms around him. ‘What?’ Cecilia asks. ‘I like seeing you smile. Doesn’t happen often’ Gambit tells her. ‘I smile’ Cecilia replies. ‘Oui. When you don’t think people are watching. Maybe you think it’s a crack in your armor’ he suggests to her, assuring her that is okay - smiles or not, she is safe with him. ‘I don’t think I’ve felt safe with anyone in years, Remy. I…I feel just like that baby alien. So alone. Like an orphan’ Reyes reveals. ‘Who would understand that’ she asks, while everyone turns to the sky.
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The snow and ice slowly melts in a suburban neighborhood where a young woman sits in her room, tapping away at her laptop, she writes: “- the ship rocketed high above the Earth, higher and higher, pressing the kidnapped girl against thr seat the aliens had strapped her to. She struggled against her bonds, fighting with all her strength, desperately trying to regain control over her ability to turn into fire. The aliens had injected Wendy with a serum to block her powers, but she could feel the fire still burning inside her. If she could only fight through the haze, push beyond the wall - she might have a chance to free herself. She couldn’t let the aliens take her. The secrets she had been given by Wolverine had to stay safe. But suddenly, an explosion! The ship rocked sideways, making Wendy’s head spin. Aliens began screaming. A familiar snarl filled the air and through the smoke, a burly silhouette appeared. “Wolverine!” Wendy shouted. “Watch your back!” But it was too late. An alien warrior managed to slip the nuclear noose over his head, cinching it into place. In seconds, if she couldn’t help him, his entire body would melt into a ball of adamantium goo. Seeing her friend in need - watching the horror in his eyes - was finally enough to push Wendy over the edge. With a scream, she reached inside herself - and found the fire”.
The young woman is sitting at her desk, photos of super heroes on a board next to her, she reads “Get away from him” she shouted at the aliens, unleashing a… a maelstrom… upon them, incinerating their flesh, burning them back from Wolverine. When she reached his side, he pushed her away. “It’s too late for me” he growled. “Never” she told him, and -” Suddenly, ‘Wendy?’ a voice calls out. Wendy turns around and sees her mother standing over her. ‘I didn’t expect you home for another hour’ Wendy tells her mother, who explains that she traded with another nurse so her night shift ended a little early. ‘What are you working on?’ Wendy’s mother asks. ‘Um… something for English class. I’m writing a paper about the X-Men. Um… the impact of mutants in our contemporary society’ Wendy reveals. ‘It’s all craziness, that’s what the impact is. I don’t have anything against mutants, but I’m glad you’re not one of them’ Wendy’s mother tells her.
‘Mom, think of all the good that mutants can do with their powers. They can be heroes’ Wendy points out. ‘Sweetheart, I know you’re fascinated by all this… stuff. But it wasn’t a hero who turned the weather upside down. Mutants are the reason your father won’t be able to work the farm this year and had to take a job as a janitor at the hospital’ Wendy’s mother points out, before telling her daughter that her father is waiting for her. Wendy goes into the kitchen and bids her father good morning. Barely looking up from his electronic device, Wendy’s father tells her that he thought she wasn’t going to send him off to work today. ‘I’d never forget to do that’ Wendy assures her father. ‘Hmmmm. Have you finished filling our college applications?’ Wendy’s father asks. ‘She hasn’t even started them’ Wendy’s mother declares. ‘That’s not true. I’ve got all the applications in my backpack! I’m going to visit Diana at the restaurant and work on them over breakfast!’ Wendy explains. Her father tells her that he will give her a ride. Wendy protests that she can walk, but her father tells her that she can’t on these roads.
Shortly, in the car: ‘Wendy… about those applications’ Wendy’s father begins. ‘Dad’ Wendy complains. But her father asks her not to put it off - no matter what their situation is now, she has to apply to college. They drive past a man in a cart being pulled by a horse, and Wendy’s father tells her that she can’t stay here, that this place isn’t good for her. ‘It’s too isolated for you, especially’.
Soon, Wendy sits in a booth at a diner, reading the “Lord of the Rings”, when a waitress brings her food over, ‘Still reading those fantasy novels of yours, Li’l sis? You need to check in with the real world’. Wendy looks up at her sister and tells her, Diana, that this is the real world, just a different way of explaining it. ‘Anyway, you used to read this stuff, too, and then you got old’. Diana replies that she got practical - which is what Wendy needs to get. ‘You got practical and never left town’ Wendy remarks. ‘That’s not fair. I got engaged’ Diana replies. ‘Right. To a guy whose biggest dream is owning a monster truck. That’s not you. If you marry Josh, you’ll never leave. He’ll stay here until he dies, and you’ll be stuck with him’ Wendy tells her sister. ‘His grandpa was in the Ku Klux Klan. You want to be that stuck?’ Wendy asks. Diana points out that Wendy has never even had a boyfriend. ‘Talk to me after you’ve fallen in love’ she snaps. Turning away from her sister, Diana tells her to get her head out of those fantasy worlds, as magic doesn’t exist. ‘And you’re not special’.
Outside the diner, Remy “Gambit” LeBeau tells Wolverine a.k.a. Logan that they are in a small town, and are going to stand out. ‘Sure you want to stop here?’ he asks. ‘I’m an old man, Gambit. I need coffee and meat, or there’s going to be a problem’ Wolverine replies, adding that the alien creature they have been tracking has to be close, hiding in trucks and cars for the last thousand miles - it can’t do that forever. Wendy looks out the diner window and is shocked at seeing the two X-Men. She watches them as they enter and Logan tells Gambit hat even if Rachel hadn’t lost the psychic trail back in Columbus, the alien hasn’t been that good at hiding, physically, so they should find plenty of bread crumbs - people talking about seeing those tentacles. ‘It’s a baby, Logan. That’s what Karma and Cecilia said, right? Just a lonely alien…baby. Not much experience, and a lot of fear. We have to remember that’ Gambit points out. They sit at the counter and Wolverine tells Gambit that just makes it more dangerous. ‘Non. Makes it more in need of a friend’ Gambit suggests.
‘Sap. Those kittens of yours have made your soft’ Logan remarks. ‘I have a photo of your plating with them. I make one call and Jubilee will post it on the Avengers Facebook Page’ Gambit replies, sipping his coffee. ‘Damn, you play dirty’ Logan mutters. Wendy sneaks past Logan and Gambit and leans over the other end of the counter, ‘The X-Men are here’ she whispers to Diana. ‘What?’ Diana replies. ‘The X-Men! They’re here! At the counter!’ Wendy declares quietly. ‘Stop whispering’ Diana tells her sister as she looks down the counter. ‘I have to! Super-powered hearing! Ohmygod. They are so hot!’ Wendy exclaims. ‘Huh. I guess’ Diana replies, taking a look. ‘You guess?’ Wendy exclaims. An older waitress comes between the sisters, and Diana tells Wendy that she has to get back to work. ‘Stop making things up’ she adds. ‘I’m not! Diana -’ Wendy starts to reply, but Diana declares that the X-Men don’t visit little towns in the middle of Indiana. ‘Now go back to your breakfast and stop bothering me. It’s embarrassing’.
Wendy walks past Wolverine and Gambit as she heads back to her booth, while Logan asks Gambit if he thinks he did the right thing by letting Bobby back on the team. ‘Course I do. But you knew that, or else you wouldn’t have asked’ Gambit replies. ‘Think I can’t handle a different opinion?’ Logan enquires. ‘Non. But it’s no secret my history makes me… sympathetic’ Gambit points out, adding that he has done bad things, been a bad man, and he still has all of that inside him, paying for it, and always fighting not to slip back into that old skin. ‘Same as you’ he tells Logan, adding that forgiving Bobby is the easy part. ‘I need to hear that’ Wolverine replies, eating his food. ‘I know’ Gambit tells him. Wendy keeps look up at the X-Men, ‘Oh’ she gasps when Wolverine looks back: ‘Hey’ he says to her, before he and Gambit go over to her.
‘Don’t suppose you’ve seen anything strange around here, have you? And by strange… you’d know it if you saw it’. Wolverine asks ‘N-n-no’ Wendy mumbles. ‘Right. Thanks, kid. And… good book’ Wolverine tells her, pointing at the “Lord of the Rings” book.
Logan and Gambit head out the diner door, ‘I’m so stupid’ Wendy mutters to herself, before she races out the door. ‘Um, excuse me!’ she calls out. Standing in front of Gambit’s car, they turn back to her: ‘Yeah?’ Wolverine asks. ‘I… well… I’d like to tell you…’ Wendy begins, before she shouts ‘Holy cow. What is that?’ as she sees a green, tentacled creature on top of Gambit’s car. ‘What? It’s been in my car? For how long?’ Gambit asks. ‘We’ve got another problem, gumbo’ Wolverine remarks, as overhead, a spaceship appears. ‘Oh, wow. I’m dreaming, right? That’s can’t be real’ Wendy utters. ‘It’s real’ Wolverine tells her.
‘Cool’ Wendy shouts, while her sister and others inside the diner press their faces up to the window to watch. Logan turns to Wendy and tells her not to just stand that, but to run and get inside the restaurant. Logan calls out to Gambit and tells him to get away from the car, when suddenly, Wolverine, Gambit, Wendy and the car vanish in a burst of energy. Wendy screams, and then vomits as the trio - and the car -find themselves in a strange green landscape. ‘Here, kid. It’s mostly clean. Not sure it matters, though’ Wolverine remarks, handing Wendy a tissue as she wipes her mouth with her jacket sleeve. Wendy takes the tissue and asks where they are. ‘I have no idea. But I’m sorry you got caught up in it’ Wolverine replies, before suggesting she stand up, as whatever is beneath them smells like acid, and he is afraid it might burn her skin. Gambit holds his bo-staff ready as tentacles slowly reach around him. ‘Oh, God. Please tell me we’re not in Cthulhu’s stomach. I don’t want to be slowly digested by hell juices’ Wendy declares. ‘Ha’ Wolverine laughs. ‘No, really, I’m serious’ Wendy tells him.
Gambit tells Wendy that he doesn’t think they are inside a demon, but that it is definitely alien. ‘No kidding, Gumbo. And I think we both know why we’re here’ Wolverine announces. ‘That thing… is it still inside there?’ Wendy asks, standing by the car. Wolverine tells her that he can hear it moving, to which Gambit theorizes that it must have found them at one of their stops, perhaps in Columbus, which could be why Rachel lost its trail, as it masked its thoughts using them as the shield. Wolverine pops his claws, and Wendy goes wide-eyed: ‘The… claws. You just popped your claws…’ she exclaims. ’Whatever, Gambit. I don’t get any of that psychic mumbo-jumbo’ Logan calls out, before suggesting to Wendy that she stand back. ‘We don’t know how this thing will react’ Wolverine remarks as he slowly opens the trunk. ‘Mon dieu’ Gambit gasps. ‘Oh… hi there. That… um… isn’t a mutant, is it?’ Wendy asks. ‘Non’ Gambit replies. Wendy points out that it looks scared, to which Gambit asks her how she can tell. ‘It just looks it’ Wendy replies. The small tentacled alien creature with one large black eye stares up at them, and Wolverine tells Wendy not to get near the damn thing, as it is not safe.
‘You know, I could use a beer right now’ Wolverine remarks. ‘Oui. A beer that destroys alien ships and communicates with lonely, tentacled babies. That’s just what we need’ Gambit agrees. Suddenly, tentacles from behind Wendy reach out and grab her. She screams, and Logan and Gambit turn to her, ‘Get to the girl!’ Logan calls out. ‘I’m trying’ Gambit assures him as he kinetically-charges the tentacles. There is a loud noise, and Gambit tells Wolverine that he will blow himself up if he tries anything now. ‘Might be worth it, though’ he adds. ‘Not yet’ Wolverine calls out, tentacles wrapping around him, he asks Gambit if he sees the girl. Wendy is nearby, tentacles wrapped all around her body, she pleads to the alien, ‘If you…can understand me…I can’t…breathe…’ she gasps. Two tentacles touch Wendy’s forehead, ‘Oh! What are you -’ she begins, when suddenly, she sees herself in various scenarios. Fighting ninjas alongside Wolverine. Soaring through the air with Storm. Clinging to Spider-Man as he swings through the city. Riding on the Hulk’s back as he rampages.
‘…looking at?’ Wendy utters, before grinning. The tentacles retract and Wendy falls to the strange ground. Tentacles similarly touch Wolverine and Gambit, and they too fall to the ground. Wendy looks over and sees that the baby alien has crawled out of the car. ‘What…what happened?’ she asks, when suddenly, several tentacles merge together into a two-legged mass of tentacles. ‘Oh…hi’ Wendy says as she looks up at the strange alien, while the baby alien crawls to it. ‘My head…it’s still attached, non?’ Gambit calls out. ‘I don’t know. I can’t open my eyes or my skull will explode’ Wolverine replies. ‘You should open them anyway, Wolverine. You need to see this’ Gambit calls out as he looks at Wendy, who is kneeling close to the aliens, reaching out, she and the baby alien touch. Wendy turns to see Wolverine and Gambit watching her. ‘You’re awake!’ she exclaims, before telling them not to be scared, that it is okay, really, just a misunderstanding. ‘The alien brought us here because it wanted to make sure we hadn’t harmed its kid’ Wendy explains. ‘What… the…’ Wolverine begins. ‘It’s… a kid?’ Gambit asks.
The larger alien speaks in English so that everyone can understand it, although with lots of extra “s“. ‘Childssss… yessss… one of… oursssss’ it begins, adding that the child ran away long ago because it was afraid. ‘Afraidsss of becoming…sssship…’. ‘Ship? What the hell does that mean?’ Logan asks. ‘A ship, Mister Wolverine. Like this one we’re on. That’s what this little alien will become. It’s… puberty… for them. Part of growing up. This big alien is also the ship. But it used to look like that’ she explains, referring to the larger mass of tentacles holding the baby. ‘So what’s there to be afraid of?’ Gambit asks. The larger alien explains that the process is frightening, painful to become different, that growing up is hard. Wendy listens and holds the younger alien’s tentacle as the adult alien explains that it takes adults to trigger the growth, so this one ran away. The adult alien continues, explaining that being alone - loneliness is very terrible, that it hurts others, leaving the family and this one scared - that it is not any easier - worse than becoming the ship.
The little alien looks at its parent and admits that it is time to grow up, to become something new. ‘Cannot besss thissss foreverssss…. The little alien and its parent embrace, with many tentacles wrapped around each other. The adult alien tells the humans that they can go now, that it has seen they did not hurt the child. ‘But we just got here, non?’ Gambit remarks, while Wolverine tells the alien that he wants to know what happens next. ‘You have your kid. You gonna leave us now? Our planet?’ he enquires. The alien replies that if they had hurt the child, they would have killed them, or if they were mean or harmed the child, they would have killed them, too. Motioning to Wendy, the baby alien remarks that she trusts them, that her mind is filled with trust - trust and comfort. The alien tells Wolverine and Gambit that they know this, as they saw it for themselves in her mind.
Wendy goes wide-eyed and her jaw drops. ‘Wait…they saw what?’ she gasps. Wolverine and Gambit smile and help her up. ‘Oh, I’m so humiliated’ Wendy utters. Gambit tells her not to be, as it was amazing. ‘But you need to add more ninjas to your fantasy, kid. Way more’ Wolverine jokes. The adult alien remarks that little ones are all the same - with fears, longing and hopes. It adds that this one is not alone in this. An instant later, Wolverine, Gambit, Wendy and the car are dropped in the middle of a field and the ship has vanished. Wendy lies on her back. Tears fall from her eyes. ‘You okay, kid?’ Wolverine asks, while Gambit tells him to let her be. ‘No, it’s fine. I just…that was a lot’ Wendy points out. Wolverine tells Wendy that she saved the day and kept her cool. ‘Not that. It was what the alien said to me. About not being alone’ Wendy replies. Wendy sits up as Wolverine and Gambit sit next to her, ‘I’ve always felt alone. Except for my sister and Mom, I’m the only black kid in this entire county. I might as well be a mutant, the way people act sometimes’ Wendy points out.
She lifts her glasses and wipes her tears, ‘But this is what I know. And I’ve always thought… if I feel alone here… then how could it be any better where everything is unfamiliar?’ she remarks. ‘Who will ever want me? I’m not special. If I really was a mutant…if I had powers…’ her voice trails off. Wolverine puts an arm around her while Gambit tells her that she has it all wrong - powers don’t mean anything. ‘We’re still just as alone, with the same heartbreaks’ he explains. Wolverine tells Wendy that character is its own power, and she demonstrated plenty today. ‘You saved our lives. You communicated with an alien ship. What can’t you do? Where can’t you go?’ he remarks. ‘I want to belong Mister Wolverine. I don’t want to be an outsider anymore. That’s what the X-Men are to me, you know. A place to belong, and be accepted’.
‘Aw, hell. We’re all people, kid. We make mistakes’ Wolverine tells Wendy, but Wendy tells him that she doesn’t care, and that she is afraid to go back - what if she forgets? What if she just stays in one place forever? What if she never feels this alive again? Wolverine explains that there is a right and wrong way to do things. ‘Just remember what you did today, what you learned. You don’t have to be afraid’ he adds. Gambit tells Wendy to belong to herself, belong to a purpose, whatever it is - that she will find people who want to belong alongside her. ‘That’s it?’ Wendy asks. ‘No. But it’s a start’ Wolverine replies.
Later, Wendy is returned home to her parents and sister, awaiting with open arms. In her room, she looks at photos of Wolverine and Gambit, and begins to cry. ‘Thanks, you guys’ she whispers, wiping tears from her eyes, she then turns to her college applications which are lying on a table. With them, is a note from Wolverine that reads: ‘Once an X-Man, always an X-Man. You’re not alone, kid. Wolverine’. And Wendy starts to fill out her college applications.


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The alien called Warbird is painting. ‘My memories are in the stars’ she thinks to herself, recalling how Karma told her that she should write them down, as memories are important, and good for the soul. There was a time that Warbird would have disagreed - but she is not the person she used to be, she knows that, and realizes that there is much to remember. Another painting now, and another memory:
Earlier:Warbird, Wolverine a.k.a. Logan, Cecilia Reyes and Remy “Gambit” LeBeau are suddenly confronted by some sort of monster, cross between flesh and mechanical pieces, it pushes though some trees towards the X-Men. ‘Please… please tell me that isn’t what it seems to be’ Reyes calls out. ‘A monster made of human body parts? Sorry, Chere’ Gambit replies, while a ribbon on the monster has a note for the X-Men - “A gift. Unwrap with care - Hank”. As the monster lunges forward and strikes the ground around the heroes, they dart out of its way, with Gambit telling Wolverine that this is the price of dealing with the devil, and that they should have left Dark Beast in his cell. ‘Don’t remind me, Gumbo. I already know this is our fault’ Wolverine admits as Gambit throws some kinetically-charged playing cards towards the monster, who then turns to Reyes, ready to slam its fist down on her, but she quickly raises a force field around her to protect herself.
Warbird leaps towards the monster, and sees a human face amongst the flesh construct. ‘Help me…’ the person pleads. The monster is about to strike the distracted Warbird, but Wolverine leaps to his teammate, pushing her to safety. Warbird grits her teeth and raises her sword, but Wolverine tells her that the monster is the thing they need to save - all those people inside it - they are innocent. ‘I got this, I got this’ Cecilia tells herself as the monster turns its attention to her once more, and she puts another force field up around herself. ‘And I got your back, Cecilia!’ Gambit tells his teammate. ‘Kidnapped and taken from their families. Go help Karma track him’ Wolverine tells Warbird, but suddenly, Karma appears ‘No need’ she calls out, McCoy - the Dark Beast - with her. ‘You are a good hunter, Shan’ Warbird comments, to which Karma replies that her old Asgardian training kicked in and McCoy had not gotten very far.
Wolverine instructs Karma to let go of her mental command over McCoy, just for a minute. When she does, McCoy examines his surroundings, before Wolverine punches him in the face. ‘Oh, you. I suppose this is the first of your many love taps’ McCoy mutters. ‘Tell us how to save those people’ Wolverine commands. ‘God, really?’ McCoy grins, turning to where Reyes and Gambit are still facing off against it, he asks ‘You looked at that thing and honestly thought it was designed to be saved? It’s quite marvelous it survived as long as it did’ McCoy adds. ‘Oh, no’ Cecilia calls out, when suddenly, the creature collapses to the ground. ‘If we can move it… if there’s a hospital…’ Cecilia begins. Gambit tells her that he doesn’t think it is breathing anymore. ‘This is hilarious. Next time I really must -’ the Dark Beast begins, before Wolverine instructs Karma to lock him up again. She does, and the villain stops speaking, while Karma remarks that she really hates being inside his body.
‘He took all those people and just… tortured them. For what reason?’ Cecilia asks, upset. ‘Because he could’ Warbird declares, grimacing at their foe. She swings her sword back and is about to decapitate him - until Wolverine’s claws strike her sword, ‘Don’t. You can’t kill him’ Wolverine tells her. ‘We should. For those he has murdered… and those he will murder in the future’ Warbird points out. She and Wolverine face off, her with her swords ready and Logan with his claws. The others gather around and Warbird tells the X-Men that they all know the price of letting this man live, that it is insanity. ‘It’s in cold blood, Warbird’ Wolverine replies. But Warbird asks what the difference is between killing a murderer in the heat of battle, and then taking his life when he is helpless? ‘There is none’ she concludes, adding that the Dark Beast threw away his honor long ago.
‘We’re not executioners!’ Karma shouts. ‘Then you’re naïve’ Warbird declares, shoving Wolverine aside, she holds her sword ready to strike the Dark Beast but as she brings it down, it strikes a force field that Cecilia throws around the Dark Beast. ‘Healer. Even you?’ Warbird asks. Cecilia tells Warbird not to get her wrong, announcing that she wants her to kill him, she wants him dead - hacked apart, burned to pieces - she wants him to rot in Hell, because he deserves it. ‘But if he were bleeding on the ground in front of me, I would save his life. That’s what I do. Even for the people I hate most’ Cecilia announces. Gambit smiles at this, while Warbird frowns, then turns her back to her teammates and walks away. ‘I do not belong here’ she calls out.
Now:Warbird starts another painting and realizes that she asks that of herself often - she who was once so sure of the path, with her conviction and her pride. But she knows that was the heart of a child, to live without doubt. She hangs her head and closes her eyes while wiping some paint across a canvas with her fingers. ‘That was the heart of one who had never known, or wanted, choice’ Warbird realizes, and tells herself that she knows better now.
Earlier:In a clearing amongst a forest, Warbird moves about, one sword in hand, the other stuck into the ground. ‘You are late, Shane’ Warbird calls out as Karma enters the clearing. Warbird tells Karma that if she does not take these practices seriously, then perhaps they should cease having them. ‘I’m early, actually. You’re just in a bad mood because of what happened yesterday’ Karma replies. Karma points out that Warbird also cancelled her art class with the students. ‘Art does not save lives’ Warbird responds, while Karma picks up the other sword. Warbird announces that she cannot justify arts instruction, or her continued practice of it. ‘That’s reflex talking. You got unnerved, and so now you’re retreating to what feels safe’ Karma points out, adding that it is a natural response. She informs Warbird that she used to do the same thing after everything that happened to her, al that trauma, being strong seemed like the answer.
Karma moves forward, her sword clangs against Warbird’s. ‘This isn’t about retreat. It is… about being practical. Focusing on what is important instead of…the frivolous’ Warbird explains, before remarking that Karma is getting better with her sword. ‘Like I’ve said, Asgardians trained me. I can fight with any weapon. I just choose not to’ Karma replies. They dance about with their swords, and Karma confesses to making a lot of choices like that - and none of them make her less dangerous. Karma looks Warbird in the eye: ‘You’ve made so many changes in your life. Now you’re scared’ she points out, assuring her that it is okay. ‘You can be a warrior and an artist. You don’t have to give up who you are to become…something more’ Karma assures Warbird. They retreat slightly, as Karma promises Warbird that her art will save more lives than her sword ever will. ‘Art already saved you’ she reminds her. ‘Shan…’ Warbird begins, to which Karma points out that they can all fight, but none of them can do what she does. ‘You make the world more beautiful, Warbird’ Karma declares, before turning to walk away.
Bobby “Iceman” Drake sits on a rooftop at the Jean Grey School and watches Karma walking away from Warbird, when suddenly, a voice calls out ‘Hey, Gloomy Pants’, but Bobby doesn’t respond. ‘Hello? I’m talking to you, Bobby’ Jean-Paul “Northstar” Beaubier calls out once more. ‘Hey…Northstar’ Bobby mutters. ‘Right. Don’t throw a party or anything’ Jean-Paul replies, to which Bobby tells him that he doesn’t really feel all that cheerful right now, for obvious reasons. ‘Oh, please. Stop being such a drama queen’ Northstar tells Bobby as he sits down beside him and asks if he is really going to sit around the Mansion for the rest of his life, moping about that one time he almost destroyed the world and terrorized his friends? ‘Too much?’ Jean-Paul smiles. Bobby glances sideways and smiles back. Northstar moves off the edge of the rooftop and hovers before Bobby, ‘Come on, let’s fly’ he tells him. Bobby points out that he can’t fly.
‘Yes, you can’ Jean-Paul replies, telling Bobby that forgetting how to live, just stopping his life, won’t take back what he did, or make it better - it won’t help him move forward. ‘Jump back in, feet first. You won’t fall. I won’t let you’ Northstar assures Bobby, who looks up at Northstar. Bobby moves forward and starts to fall straight down off the rooftop - but then there is a blast of ice, and he rises on an ice-sled. ‘That’s more like it’ Northstar remarks, before taking flight, higher and higher, while Iceman follows on an ice-sled. ‘You can’t hide yourself again, Bobby. Embrace who you are. That’s how I live. Screwed up and fabulous’ Northstar calls back. He then tells Bobby that they are going into the city, but Bobby replies that he shouldn’t - not after what he did there. ‘You can’t hide from your crimes’ Northstar tells him, before announcing that there is something he needs Bobby to do for him. ‘What?’ Iceman asks. ‘Be my friend’ Northstar declares as he flies onwards.
Now:Warbird dips her paintbrush into some water and tells herself that once it would have been easier to touch a star than have a friend - she didn’t know the word, or what it meant. She holds up some canvas and admires it, before admitting that she is still learning. She puts the canvas aside, and puts a blank one on the easel, realizing that she is still learning how to fall, and how to begin with nothing in front of her - nothing except possibilities. She then raises her paintbrush and starts to paint.
Earlier:Northstar and Iceman descend onto the sidewalk, where Northstar’s husband, Kyle Jinadu is waiting for him, as are Cecilia Reyes and Jennifer Walters, the She-Hulk. ‘Kyle!’ Jean-Paul calls out, while Kyle tells Jean-Paul that he took long enough. ‘Cutting it close, don’t you think?’ he asks. ‘Come on grumpy, give me a smile’ Northstar replies, before they embrace. ‘This is a beautiful, crazy day’ Kyle remarks. ‘I didn’t think it was ever going to happen’ Jean-Paul replies. ‘Um, hi’ Iceman greets She-Hulk and Cecilia, both whom look unimpressed. ‘I should break you with my hands for what you did to this city’ She-Hulk declares. ‘So should I. I just treated a boy who lost both his feet to the ice storm you caused’ Reyes adds. ‘I’m…so sorry’ Iceman replies, wide-eyed, he drops his ice form and appears as Bobby before them. He hangs his head, but Cecilia puts a hand on his shoulder. She-Hulk turns to Northstar and Kyle and asks them if they are both ready to do this? ‘You bet your big green irradiated ass we’re ready’ Northstar smiles. The She-Hulk turns and strides away. ‘What?’ Northstar asks. ‘Sometimes I don’t know why I married you’ Kyle mutters. ‘I may have tried to take over the world, but you are so getting murdered before me’ Bobby jokes, while She-Hulk declares that her legal fees just doubled.
Shortly, at 26 Federal Plaza, Immigration Court. Jean-Paul, Kyle, Bobby, Cecilia and She-Hulk are waiting in a corridor, and She-Hulk tells Northstar, who is now wearing a suit, that he realizes his deportation hearing could still go badly. Cecilia adjusts Kyle’s tie, while She-Hulk explains that it doesn’t matter that the Defense of Marriage Act was finally declared unconstitutional, as the judge may decide to be an ass. ‘We’re legally married, Jennifer. Other bi-national couples - just like us - have been given United States residency’ Northstar points out. ‘What will you do if the Court says you have to leave the country?’ Bobby asks. ‘We’ll figure it out. We’re lucky, we’ve got money, options’ Kyle announces. She-Hulk remarks that sometimes it makes her glad she is still single, as she has enough problems without getting her heart broken - for any reason. ‘You’re such a romantic’ Northstar mumbles.
Kyle turns to Cecilia and tells her that she is late, that she should go, and he will call her when they find out - one way or the other. ‘You sure?’ Cecilia asks. ‘Totally’ Kyle replies. Cecilia leaves the court building, ‘Any news?’ Gambit asks, waiting out the front. Cecilia informs him that it won’t be for a while. ‘We don’t have to -’ Gambit begins, but Cecilia tells him that they should go, before she loses her nerve. ‘We’ve gone out before, Cecilia’ Gambit reminds her, but Cecilia tells him that this is different - everything is different. They then hold hands and walk down the street together.
Now:Warbird tells herself that she should not be afraid of change - for she is not alone. She paints another canvas, deciding that she is not alone in all the ways she sued to be, and never realized.
Earlier:Warbird sits alone at a table in a restaurant, when Gambit and Cecilia and Wolverine and Karma arrive. They all sit down around her, no one says anything, and Warbird just moves her food around on her plate with her fork. When the waitress passes them, everyone looks up: Wolverine announces that he would like a beer, and Karma asks for some water, while Gambit asks if there is any wine, and Cecilia declares that she needs cake. As food is eaten and drinks are drunk, Wolverine soon tells Warbird that she was right - that they should have killed Dark Beast. ‘If I weren’t an X-Man, I would have’ he admits. ‘You said you don’t belong? Well, I don’t belong with them, either. I’d say most of the people who wear the uniform don’t’ Wolverine declares, explaining that they stick together because there is something that speaks to them, because they are a family, and families have ways of doing things that don’t always suit the individual.
Wolverine announces that if he left now, it wouldn’t take him a day to go back to his old ways - for better or worse. ‘I think about it sometimes. Call it…early retirement’ he adds. Gambit admits that he thinks about it too, and tells the others that if he left he would go back to New Orleans, settle in a bit, but then he would get restless. ‘Born a thief, die a thief’ he adds. Cecilia explains to Warbird that she will always be a doctor, with or without the X-Men, but that it might be nice to have her own practice, something nice and quiet. ‘You’d get bored’ Gambit smiles. Karma smiles and tells Warbird that if she left the X-Men, she would be a librarian again, or even a corporate bigwig like her sister - that might be a nice change of pace. ‘What about you?’ she asks. ‘If I left the X-Men…if I left the X-Men and returned to my planet…’ Warbird begins.
She knows that if she did leave, she would have to pretend that she is only a warrior - a warrior who does not question, who does not hesitate. One who cares for nothing but battle and the empire. She would have to learn to hide who she had become, forget what she had learned and felt and experienced - and that terrifies her - and it is devastating. She thinks back to some of the things she has done - visiting galleries, sketching artwork, pottery classes and bungee jumping.
Now:‘I do not even know what I want to be. Just that now…I have the freedom to choose’ Warbird thinks to herself as she sits in a cave, one of Gambit’s cats beside her, a shrine in front of her. Warbird picks the cat up and recalls how Karma says “Life is short. Don’t waste time” and Karma also says “You have a home”. Warbird decides that she believes her, and gets up to leave the cave.
Warbird makes the decision not to give up her art. Not to hide from what she has become, or will become. Warbird is painting outside, and Karma stands near her, while Wolverine, Northstar, Gambit and Cecilia sit at a table nearby, and Kyle and Iceman stand together. Others are in the park as well. ‘I am a warrior I am Shi’ar’ Warbird thinks to herself, knowing that she is something else, as well - and that is the mystery she must explore. A cake is brought over to the table where Wolverine and the others are, and they all get to their feet, as Karma leads Warbird over to the table. Warbird tells herself that it will be all right, that she has already survived the worst. ‘I have a home’ she thinks to herself, as the other X-Men smile when they see her. Her latest painting is of the X-Men - Wolverine, Iceman, Gambit, Northstar, Cecilia, Karma and Warbird. ‘I have…a family’ Warbird realizes.


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Life of X – part 1
Two moments are common to the life of every psychic. First, the realization that the voices raging through their heads are other people’s thoughts. And the second when they understand that no one else can hear them. To psychics the world is open… for all the good it does them.
Somewhere in the countryside, a white-haired, young, telepathic woman is psychically attacked and killed.
There is a weight to the world’s thoughts. That’s why the world’s most feeble psychics isolate themselves. That’s why at first no one noticed they were dying. In their hermit caves. Their deserted islands. Dying one by one. But the lonely ones are weak. After enough failures, it becomes clear there will be no success absent stronger meat.
One extremely powerful telepath is Betsy Braddock – Psylocke – who is currently on the streets of London. She is psychically attacked and falls down, She uses her telepathy to call for help.
Elsewhere, in London in the British Museum sits her onetime teammate Lucas Bishop, researching news to use that knowledge to possibly influence the future.
In Scotland, Warren Worthington III, the Angel (and sometimes Archangel) enjoys his power of flight. Like Bishop, he is shaped by Apocalypse. He carries the end of the world inside of him. As long as he remains at peace, he can control it. But who is truly ever at peace?
In Paris, France, Gambit steals something from the Louvre. As he is chased, he kinetically powers up a small object and throws it against the wall, which explodes. He jumps outside where he is caught by Fantomex, who is hanging down from his ship EVA. Fantomex points out Gambit doesn’t seem to be carrying anything valuable on him. There were complications, is Remy’s reply. Very complicated. Fantomex suggests he could make both their lives less complicated by dropping him.
In a plane above the Atlantic Ocean are Rogue and Old Man Logan. They are three hours away from the US and Logan decides to take a nap.
In her desperation, Psylocke calls out to all of those X-Men. She is trapped in a giant psychic butterfly of her own psychic energy, which is busy damaging the Shard (one of London’s most famous skyscrapers). Something takes over her and the people on the streets below calling to be set free.
As the X-Jet closes in, they see helicopters trying to fire at Betsy. The cops warn the unidentified aircraft that they will be fired upon. He’d like to see them try, Logan retorts. Rogue chides him. So he should let them murder Psylocke? he asks. No, but a firefight over London won’t help, Rogue retorts. By the time he asks if she has a better idea, she has already left the plane.
She flies toward the energy figure. It seems to be some kind of defense mechanism and it looks like Psylocke’s blades, which are released. The energy cuts her skin, despite its toughness, but she does manage to get close to Psylocke and addresses her. She tells Betsy she will touch her, absorb her power and take over. Psylocke warns her they are coming back.
Before the energy blades can hit Rogue, Angel appears. He covers Rogue with his body and his feathered wings turn to Archangel’s metal, covering them both from the energy blades.
In the meantime, EVA has closed in as well. What is Betsy up to? Fantomex tuts. Gambit figure she is about to take the entire building down. Perhaps, Fantomex concedes, quite a spectacle. Gambit accuses him of being cold. She needs their help. Time was Betsy was his gaienne, non? She was much more than a consort to him, Fantomex replies coldly. And now she is much, much less. That moment, the energy blades attack them.
Logan has stepped outside the jet and tries to reach Rogue. He notes someone down in the street being chased by the psychic blades and decides to help.
Inside EVA, Gambit and Fantomex are also battling the psychic blades and find them impervious to their assaults. Gambit demands a bullet clip and hands it back to Fantomex charged up.
Logan, in the meantime, lands on the street and shouts at the people to run. He draws the psychic blades to him. But before they attack him, they are shot to pieces courtesy of Bishop, who identifies him as the Logan who killed all the X-Men in his home dimension. Does he plan to do the same here? Doesn’t want to, Logan snaps. Probably won’t. Bishop asks what is happening here. He go some sort of psychic call from Psylocke… Before he can continue talking, Angel carries him way and curtly informs him Rogue needs him.
Rogue explains that Betsy’s been infected with some sort of psychic energy. She could absorb it but then it would be in her. But if she gave it to Bishop, could he remove it? Though he is not sure, he figures he can turn it into something else. Rogue touches Psylocke to absorb her power…
Not far away, with the blades momentarily gone, Fantomex shouts they have won! The fight maybe, Gambit concedes. He’s still gonna lose though. He reminds Fantomex the bullet clips he is holding are charged,
Rogue kisses Bishop to get rid of the power. He changes it and sends it upward, almost hitting one of the helicopters.
Later, Rogue apologizes but he tells her he’s ok. He just usually doesn’t feel like someone kicked him in the head after a kiss. Yeah, she’s a real catch, Rogue deadpans.
Logan, Gambit and Fantomex join them. Fantomex announces the day has been most emphatically saved. Remind him what he did again, Logan mutters. Perhaps not as much as some, Fantomex admits, but probably more than most, he adds with a glare at Gambit, who tells him to keep it up. He always does, Fantomex boasts. Ask anyone.
Logan asks Rogue if she is ok. She tells him she’s grateful Bishop was here and adds it looks like he picked up a bad case of the Gambit. Is that any way to greet the love of her life? Remy complains. Still? she asks wryly. Always, he assures her.
Logan explains he found Gambit on the street. Fantomex too. Psylocke sent out a call to them as well and others. On cue, Beast steps out of EVA. He regrets being late but they seem to have handled things well. Rogue is surprised. She thought after the Inhumans war he had stepped away from them. Yes, he admits, but he received Psylocke’s distress call. What was he to do, ignore it? He’s a Beast, but he’s not a beast.
Psylocke, in Angel’s arms, moans and tells them to stop the banter. Behind all of this was the spider. Amahl Farouk. It’s the Shadow King and he wants them all!
They all look at her silently. Rogue finally asks if she is sure. She thought the Shadow King was dead. Betsy reminds her she used to keep him imprisoned in her mind. She knows what he feels like. He’s going after psychics. Building a web, he wants to use them to force his way out of the astral plane back into the real world. He had her and she couldn’t even fight him. She’s never felt him so strongly. He was like a wave of filth. She was drowning in sewage. He wants to take over the world and watch them rot from the inside out.
Warren tells her to have hope. They are here. But Betsy is having none of it. This would have been just the start if they hadn’t saved her and, if the Shadow King can take her, he can get the others. Jean, the Cuckoos, Quentin, Emma Frost. Any one of them is like a psychic nuke and he is going after them right now. She saw what he was planning! If he gets out…
Beast sensibly asks what she wants to do about it. She tells him they need to stop him. She can send them to the Astral Plane. They have to turn him back in, kill him if they can. If he takes another psychic on her power level, everyone on Earth will choke on their despair.
Logan, Rogue and Gambit immediately volunteer. Angel points out the helicopters circling the Shard and suggests they go somewhere private for this. They don’t have time! Betsy urges. They don’t even have time for this conversation! Warren announces he will stay here to watch over them then. The Astral plane is a fluid place and in order to keep the blue guy under control fluidity is not his friend.
Well, this blue guy knows exactly who he is, Beast announces and offers to join the team on the Astral Plane. As does Fantomex. Psylocke snarls at him, why is he even here? There is no way she called him for help. She did not, he replies, and after their checkered past it is doubtful he would have come. He is here because she called Gambit, his best friend in all the world. At least until Gambit pays him what he owes. Until then, he will protect him.
Gambit protests: why is he airing their personal stuff? Fantomex replies so they know this is business. He wouldn’t want people to think he is associating with a common thief. Fantomex is also a thief, Gambit points out. But an uncommon one, Fantomex retorts. For instance, what could be more useful on the astral plane than his illusion power?
Psylocke calls him a liar. She wouldn’t trust him to water her plants, much less save the world. Fantomex insists that, as long as Gambit hasn’t paid his debts, he will stay by his side. And if he is on the astral plane, Betsy won’t have to hear him talk. He can go, she relents.
Bishop decides to back up Angel on the outside. Angel doesn’t believe this will end in a shootout. Bishop points out the Shadow King might take over their friends. Two on the outside is better. Warren agrees and reveals he doesn’t allow Archangel out. He is semi-retired. Why? Bishop asks surprised. Because Archangel wants to eat the world and, each time he tastes blood, he gets closer. How the hell is he going to protect Psylocke or anyone then? Bishop demands. Angel suggests Bishop protect them his way and he will do it his.
Psylocke prepares the other five, all of whom have lain down. Sher warns them, anything they love, hate, fear he can use as weapons. The longer they stay, the more he knows about them, the worse it gets. Their will is their armor and blade. Anything they love and fear are their weapons. She is sending them now. Be ready. The moment, they arrive in the Shadow King’s realm, he will know.
On the astral plane, sits the Shadow King, his upper body that of Amahl Farouk, his lower that of a spider. Oh my, he grins. The X-Men are coming. They will try to save the world. It’s what they’ve talked about. His plans will require a silent adjustment, but that’s worth it. These poor heroes think they are ready. What’s another apocalypse to them, more or less. But they’ve forgotten some simple things a psychic could tell them. On the astral plane, an apocalypse isn’t a war, here it is secrets.
He moves in his web to a spun cocoon. In it is safe which he opens. Inside sits a chained Charles Xavier. Yes, Amahl, he states. He couldn’t agree more.


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Life of X – part 2
Say what you will about the X-Men. They fight. They win, they lose, they die.
A closed theater curtain. Multiple Man stands in front of it. He welcomes everyone and announces the story they are about to see is not one but many. To stress this, he creates one of his dupes. A tale of heroes and villains, they both continue, of power, of sacrifice, of love and loss. It is not one story but many. It is the story of the X-Men. They point to the stage, which shows Professor X, the original X-Men and several of their enemies. The audience consists of Rogue, Gambit, Old Man Logan, Fantomex and Beast.
Raffling through a program, Fantomex wonders aloud if they haven’t already seen this play. Making something new is risky, Logan opines. Better go with something familiar. Comfort food. If something works, do it again until it doesn’t.
Gambit doesn’t care if it’s new. He just hopes it’s good. Four dollars a ticket! Rogue points out that’s cheap and bets they are barely breaking even. They paid full price? Beast scoffs and laughs at them, for he snuck in. But it does look a bit fake, he opines. Is that a vampire? He refers to Punk Storm facing Dracula on stage. Fantomex suggests they just try to enjoy themselves.
The Astral plane:A cozy room full of cobwebs. At a table, two men sit facing each other. One of them is Amahl Farouk the Shadow King, the other – chained to his wheelchair – is the late Professor Charles Xavier.
He thinks he’s got Fantomex at the very least, Farouk remarks. Xavier warns him not to count Fantomex out. He is very resourceful. They all are. Farouk agrees as he calls Xavier his old friend. That’s what makes this all so amusing. They struggle like the worm on the hook, twisting, twisting. Worms do not know that there are only two ends. Either it is swallowed by the fish or dies from the impalement. But he does hope he gets to swallow some of them. If not, what a waste! He supposes Xavier agrees but that’s the game. And a fine game it is, playing with living minds! Farouk laughs, but then Xavier knows that.
Xavier agrees that pushing against the surface tension of a person’s delusions is exhilarating. Always has been. Especially with this group.
They watch the show where currently the original five X-Men face Magneto. Xavier knows them, the Shadow King admits, but that doesn’t mean he will wake them. He’s sunk them deep. Of course, if he can, they’ll move on to the next round. But if he can’t… Then the big fish swallows them, Xavier agrees. He admits this is exciting. It’s been too long since their game had actual stakes. The stage is set and now it’s his move.
London:Atop the Shard, Psylocke is guarding the five X-Men whose minds she has sent to the Astral Plane. With her are Bishop and Angel, who asks if she can tell what is happening to their friends on the Astral Plane. Bishop tells him not to distract her. Betsy assures him it’s alright. She can neither move nor fight but she can talk while maintaining the link to the Astral Plane. As for Rogue and the others, they seem… engaged. Interested.
That’s good, right? Angel asks hopefully. Better than if they were terrified. Betsy is not so sure. The Shadow King usually begins by creating a realm for you the moment you arrive on the Astral Plane. Sometimes it’s horrifying, sometimes it’s your greatest fantasy. But it’s always real. If you don’t realize it’s an illusion, that’s it. You wake up here under his control.
Bishop decides this was a bad idea and orders her to pull them out. Psylocke refuses. Gambit, Logan and Rogue have all been on the astral plane before. If they get past this first stage, they’ll be okay. She can guide them to the Shadow King. They just need to give them time!
How long will that take? Bishop asks. As long as it takes, Angel replies simply. Betsy points out, as long as they are in there fighting, the Shadow King isn’t taking over any other psychic. They won’t be coming out before this is over.
Bishop reminds them they are atop London, like sitting ducks. And Psylocke tried to destroy the city not ten minutes ago! She was possessed by the Shadow King! Betsy snaps. He gets that, Bishop replies and then points at the black helicopters circling around the building. But they don’t.
The men in the choppers inform their superiors at the Ministry of Defense’s Superhuman Crisis command center that the subjects have gone quiet. Five of them lie atop the roof of the Shard, the others are standing around. They are also getting a strong energy signature. They are still trying to analyze it. They are told to keep trying and keep their positions as well as post them of any changes.
In the meantime, the police are busy keeping up the evacuation efforts around the Shard, regarding the X-Men present they are torn. Commander Keene is not happy with those X-Men’s presence after that attack and he has plans…
The astral plane:In the theater, a balcony scene is performed of Colossus wooing Kitty Pryde, telling her that they must be together. Laying it on a little thick, Rogue in the audience criticizes. Nothing wrong with a little romance, Gambit chides her.
On the stage, Kitty has become Rogue, who laments they can never be together for her power would take his life. Colossus assures her he does not care. His life is worthless without her.
In the audience, Rogue asks if that is supposed to be them. Remy criticizes Colossus trying to do his accent.
Colossus on stage has now changed to Gambit, insisting they must be together forever! Elsewhere on the Astral Plane, the Shadow King laughs that they didn’t even notice the changes Xavier made. Has his time here left him weak? Just getting started, Xavier replies. Probing his defenses…
In the audience, Rogue points out that eternal love isn’t their thing. They are past that. Gambit agrees. They always have that spark, but… this don’t feel right. Not anymore.
Farouk tells Xavier they were dead the moment they entered his realm. Why not let them go instead of prolonging the horror? They were once his students, Xavier replies. He will choose another path. More importantly, that’s not what they agreed to for this game…
On the stage, Cyclops shouts in pain as a formerly Phoenix-powered Emma Frost lies dead in his arms. That’s not how it went, Logan mutters in the audience. She knows. It just seems wrong, Jean Grey comments next to him.
He thinks he’s got him, Xavier tells Farouk.
Phoenix moves on Logan, telling him sometimes wrong can be right.
So confident, Farouk grins. He’s not done yet.
Jean kisses Logan. “He’s mine,” the Shadow King announces in triumph. Not yet, Xavier replies.
Jean changes into a corpse. Logan withdraws repulsed, then remembers that back where he comes from she is gone. Everywhere she is gone. He’s sorry. She’s dead. He strikes her with his claws.
They will not break free! Farouk shouts enraged. The actors attack the X-Men, who remember. Rogue warns the others that, if you die here, you are trapped forever
Beast muses they are fighting themselves or at least their closest colleagues. What do they think that means? Battling, Rogue orders him to stop analyzing and fight. Logan chimes in it ain’t no secret. Shadow King’s showing them the future. They don’t kill him, they’ll kill each other!
Soon the battle is over and only the five heroes are left standing. Rogue marvels at how real it all seemed. Even though they were braced for it, the Shadow King got them. Except Logan. How did he know? He’ll tell her in a second, he replies and starts sniffing out Beast. Can’t believe he didn’t notice before, he announces, but then he was distracted. But then he saw the way Beast fought, or didn’t fight. Lots of fake things around here, seems like. Beast shows his true form - Mystique. Hooray he got her, she announces miffed.
Fantomex points his guns at her and berates himself for not noticing. He uses illusions himself. He should have seen it. Mystique retorts, people who are sure they can’t be fooled are easiest to fool. Rogue tells Fantomex to shoot Mystique.
Unnoticed, Farouk and the bound Xavier watch the scene. Round one goes to Xavier, Farouk admits. Xavier told him, nostalgia as a tool has its limits.
Brilliant, Mystique mocks. Start a war with her, while the Shadow King is on the verge of stealing their souls. Nice way to treat her mother! Rogue spits Mystique isn’t her mother. She kept her alive when she was young to use her. Any debt Rogue owes her is paid.
Gambit asks Mystique came along instead of staying back with Angel and Bishop. She had to know she’d get caught by them. Mystique scoffs. Does he remember the night in Phoenix with the twins? Both of them? he asks confused. How could she?
Mystique spells out she is here because she knows the Shadow King. He is vile and she does not want his vileness to spread into the world. She knows they are not up to the task of stopping him so she had to get involved. And finally, she showed them Beast, because they wouldn’t have accepted her help. Calling them idiots, she suggests they now focus on the actual problem.
They study their surroundings. In the blackness stand three doors with images on them showing that one of them is intended for Rogue and Gambit, one for Logan and one for Fantomex and Mystique. “Ah oui, Le prochain cauchemar. Fantastique!” Fantomex exclaims ironically.
Mystique muses it wasn’t coincidence Farouk gave them that play. This is all a performance. Logan chimes in. It wasn’t a solo performance. There were two minds trying to dominate. That’s what made him realize at the end. The whole thing was full of red flags, like someone was screaming at him to wake up. Fantomex agrees, it was all rather clumsy. Like the battle at the end was an effort to drag them back into the scenario. And were not most of the actors dead? Even before the zombies arrived.
Lots of dead things end up on the astral plane, Rogue remarks bleakly. For all they know, that was Scott and Jean and Jamie. Gambit mutters he doesn’t like that at all.
Fantomex figures this is not a game at all, but a competition. And they aren’t the players, they are the pieces. A disturbing realization. They are but pawns. But there is something more. Who helped them? Who tried to wake them up? Against whom is the Shadow King playing? This person interests him very much. He thinks they must help him win. He accepts his lot. He is but a tool. As he cannot change this, he must accept the only way forward that presents itself. He walks towards his door and opens it. Pink patterns swirl behind it. Does she not agree? he asks Mystique. She does. He is a tool. Let’s go!
Fantomex turns around and warns Gambit not to use this as an opportunity to escape his obligations to Fantomex. He will find him in this life or the…
He’ll risk it, Gambit replies and kicks through his doorway. He turns around and asks the others what. Nothing, they agree. Good riddance.
Elsewhere on the Astral Plane, Xavier points out Farouk seems frustrated. If Xavier does win, will Farouk honor the terms of their agreements? So little trust? Farouk mocks. He thinks he is offended. He points out that if he cheats, Charles will never play with him again. He would never risk that. No one presents a challenge like him.
Elsewhere, Logan opens his door. He decides that Fantomex may be a bastard but he is right. Someone is fighting the Shadow King. They are not alone in this. Try to remember this, he tells Rogue and Gambit.
Elsewhere:Farouk repeats: When he wins, his souls are his prize and their bodies his vessel. But if Charles wins somehow… Xavier continues that Farouk will let him kill them. Grant them the mercy Farouk would not give them. He thanks him. After all, they are his X-Men.
They are all in this together, Xavier and Logan state at the same time.