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Flashback to the early days of the X-Men:
Professor Xavier and Angel walk through the mansion. Angel complains that the bazooka is making him look like a goon. He feels he is overcompensating for some not so great powers.
Xavier admits wings are not the most impressive mutation he has encountered. They watch the other X-Men hanging out outside. Angel mocks he figured Xavier could go the pep talk route first.
Xavier tells him he respects Warren’s intelligence too much to patronize him. He sees the man connected to the wings. Angel has the greatest power of all his X-Men: inherent courage. He will need it. Xavier predicts difficulty in the coming years. They will need to lean on Warren. He can’t know what form his true potential takes but he does know one thing. He will leave his mark on the world.
The Present:
She looks dazzling, Archangel tells Betsy Braddock as she rises transformed as his new Death. Does she understand now? he asks and they kiss.
Elsewhere in the Akkaba metropolis, Wolverine grimly figures that he always pushed Iceman to unlock his potential. Too bad for him the wrong Bobby Drake figured it out – in this case the renegade Iceman from the Age of Apocalypse reality.
The giant Iceman freezes the air, cutting off oxygen and Wolverine’s vision fades. He realizes that, if he doesn’t get through to him in the next ten seconds, they are all dead.
Iceman tells him he hopes he will forgive him for that, as normal-size ice dupes attack Wolverine. He is not going back to that festering turd world!
Not far away, Dark Beast and Genocide prepare the Life Seed and the World for the transformation of the entire planet. They’ll never see it coming! McCoy describes what is about to happen. Once the flames reach the upper atmosphere, they will spread, igniting the air, raining fire down on the world!
Wolverine finds he cannot hurt the Icemen avatars. He climbs up the giant Iceman in an attempt to get inside the World and kill Archangel. Iceman reminds him he cannot outrun him. He is everywhere! He is gonna freeze him and shatter his flesh, same as he did with Wade… painless… quick! He can assure him what they have planned for him, will be neither! Sabretooth snarls as the X-Men from the Age of Apocalypse reality (Sabretooth, Wild Child, Sunfire, Nightcrawler and Jean Grey) arrive.
Nightcrawler teleports to Wolverine’s side. Fantomex, who got the team, mocks that Logan couldn’t even hold the fort for ten minutes. Logan mutters he thought he left them. He did, Fantomex clarified, to get Gateway and bring friends!
Shivering, Wolverine explains what’s going on. Nightcrawler informs him they were briefed. A plan was formulated in his absence. Fortunately, he has faced this pig’s doppelganger and knows just the thing! He teleports atop Genocide and teleports both of them to the side of Archangel and his group, telling them to make peace with whatever devils they worship.
He opens Genocide’s suit and his essence explodes outwards, incinerating everyone save for Archangel and Psylocke who got to cover.
Nightcrawler grabs Psylocke and teleports her to her team, then leaves again with Wolverine.
She does so love a wardrobe change, Fantomex remarks. She wears the skin of Death, a servant of Celestial will, Psylocke replies. Who knew Celestial fashion tastes ran so “assy?” he mocks her skimpy outfit. He recognizes she’s sampled Archangel’s Kool-Aid. He only wants to talk for just a minute.
Archangel orders Genocide to draw in his flames so he can replace his helmet. The boy tries and succeeds. He apologizes. The devil came out of nowhere. It wasn’t his fault, Archangel tells him and orders the guard to see to the boy’s health. He will plant the Life Seed.
Looking upward, Wolverine remarks the doom fountain is still going. It will have to wait, Nightcrawler announces, the plan is in motion. They stop their Apocalypse and destroy the Life Seed first. There lies no other way through this.
Wolverine reminds the X-Men from the Age of Apocalypse that they don’t have to be here. Sabretooth is amused by Logan’s dislike of letting him help. He likes him to know he is the bigger man. Sunfire tells them enough talk. It is time to face the Beast.
Nightcrawler teleports the group (sans Jean) upwards to face Archangel, who is carrying the seed and is not impressed. Wolverine warns him he hesitated to pull the trigger when this first started. He won’t make that mistake again. He attacks, planning to kill. Archangel lashes out with his wings, injuring Wolverine and Sabretooth and killing Wild Child.
As he flies upward, Sunfire gets in his way. Both are propelled outside and captured by the huge Iceman. Archangel orders Iceman to contain Sunfire and allow nobody to follow him. The Seed must be planted! He flies towards the World.
In midair, Nightcrawler (disturbingly calling him “leibchen”), Wolverine and Sabretooth are cutting him off and attack again.
Atop Psylocke assures Fantomex that only through Death can their world reach its natural apex. Humanity is a stagnant failure. But he enjoys stealing their great works of art, eating their haute cuisine and bedding their fair maidens, Fantomex replies. Cradling her chin, he states they are more than their evolution. More than machines replacing and improving. Love transcends such cold processes. Love is a chemical reaction inspiring procreation, moving life towards its predetermined destination! she replies and extends a knife from her wrist. They live to this end and die to further it. She slashes his throat.
Only wanted to talk! he gurgles as he goes down. The horror of the situation reaches Betsy. She lowers her defenses and suddenly relives a memory:
Flashback / astral plane:
Years ago at the Hellfire Club:
Sebastian Shaw greets Warren Worthington (who at that time is already open about his mutation). Shaw offers his condolences on the murder of Warren’s father. If he ever needs the responsible parties repaid… Shaw offers. X-Men don’t kill, Warren replies curtly. Right, he studies with Charles Xavier, Shaw muses. They have mutual friends…
Save her! a telepathic voice reaches him. He sees a purple-haired beauty in a typical Hellfire style corset next to her blond twin who is patiently listening to Donald Pierce talking. He is looking right at her, she continues telepathically. Elizabeth. Pleased to meet him. Help a girl out of a very boring conversation?
Warren apologizes to Shaw and addresses Elizabeth like an old friend, abducting her from the conversation. Brian sarcastically thanks her for leaving him in the lurch.
Warren and Betsy sit down at a corner table. He doesn’t believe they have been introduced, Warren begins. Please, she sighs, she knows who he is. He knows she knows. False modesty is unbecoming. X-Man, aristocrat, playboy, yadda yadda. She is the mystery here.
Filling their champagne glasses, he replies that she is the second child of Sir James Braddock, who invented artificial intelligence, only to be killed by it. Still, it left them wealthy. Her twin brother Brian is Captain Britain. He is noble and grumpy.
So why is he here? Betsy asks. Infiltrating these rotten men to unearth misdeeds? Obligation, he explains. His parents were members. It was important to Dad he be a member as well. Here’s to obligations! he toasts. A redhead sitting nearby studies them unobtrusively.
Betsy makes fun of the other members and what things drive them. Power, one-upmanship, anger towards their fathers… Does he have daddy issues? Dad was supportive, intelligent, read to him as a kid, left him a trillion dollars. It’s hard to complain.
Betsy retorts that’s just something he tells regular people so they don’t hate him. It’s a tremendous burden overseeing that much money and the lives that are connected to it. Don’t sell short the responsibility of such fortune!
Brian joins them, telling Betsy he wants to go home and bathe. Joining her brother, Betsy smiles back at Warren. It was a pleasure meeting him. He kisses her hand. Until they meet again, she tells him.
The redhead gets up, asking Elizabeth for a moment. Brian replies they were just on their way out. The woman continues that Betsy is reliving a memory that brings her happiness. In reality, Warren has been consumed by evil. He placed a demon in Betsy’s mind. She can help her defeat it before it takes root. She’s done it before, but needs her help.
Calling her a lunatic, Brian orders her away but Betsy begins to realize none of this is real.
The Phoenix effect surrounds Jean Grey as she traps Warren in a fire cage. She can contain the Death persona but Betsy must reveal it. Warren changes to Death Psylocke. They can’t kill her! she screeches She is all that’s left!
Does she have a cue, something to bring her out? Jean asks. She does, Betsy replies, looking at a pair of dice in her hand. She will deal with this, Jean tells her and orders her to go.
reality:
Wake up, Jean tells her in real life and Betsy awakes, held by Fantomex. She realizes he tricked her. It’s what he does, he admits. He needs her to help him do something. It isn’t going to be easy.
The others still fight Archangel. Teleporting atop him, Nightcrawler observes in his world Worthington was a tool of Apocalypse as well. And in his world, Archangel snaps, Nightcrawler is dead! He pierces his back with his wings.
Surrounded by the Phoenix flames, Jean orders him to turn around and face his demise. He is not the only cosmic force to corral life and death. Face the power of the Phoenix! She blasts Archangel, who neither impressed nor harmed. The Phoenix betrays her, he points out. She seeks to use it to stop that which it desires most, death and rebirth! He returns the blast at her and she staggers.
Wolverine jumps at him ready to strike when Warren briefly gains dominance and begs him to do it while he is in control. Kill him! Logan hesitates and Archangel attacks him, leaving him close to death. He is surprised he fell for that, Archangel muses as he looks down on him. He is undeserving of his reputation.
As is he, he informs Sabretooth, who tries to blindside him. Instead, Archangel’s wings slice his guts. Not on his belly, Sabretooth mutters, not like this. Exactly like this, Archangel replies coldly and strikes again.
Holding the Life Seed, he flies upwards towards the World where Fantomex and a restored Psylocke are waiting for him…


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The AoA Iceman is looking for his reality’s version of Sunfire, though he isn’t looking forward to killing him. But Shiro doesn’t have anything back home. Iceman tells himself that killing him is a favor. Sunfire spies him, flies at him and touches him, melting him into pieces.
Surrounded by the Horsemen stands Deathlok, put in a trance by War. McCoy orders War to fix that. While Archangel plants the seed, Pestilence adds. Not the only seed he’s planted today, McCoy adds cryptically.
Within Deathlok, his two natures – the psychopath human and the loving AI – do battle. The AI wins. Love is true evolution, he decides. But love will not sway them. For life to flourish, they must die! Deathlok announces and has managed to reason his way out of War’s spell.
McCoy flies up, expressing his disappointment at War. He figures he was selected during one of Apocalypse’s many opium binges. Binges of which he is beginning to see the necessity of.
Further up, Fantomex and Psylocke are facing Archangel, who expresses his disappointment in Betsy. Careful, Fantomex mocks, he is beginning to hear some emotions. Oh, he knows! Archangel’s angry that she chose Fantomex! he mocks.
Hitting Fantomex, in the stomach, Archangel pronounces he is beyond jealously. He kicks Psylocke, telling her she should not have shed her gifts. She is tainted to him now.
He doesn’t even know half of it, Fantomex leers as he fights back. You can tell the ones who really like you by the way they kiss. And the way Betsy kissed him, he’d say she’s a woman who hasn’t known warmth in a very long time. He draws his knife and stabs Archangel.
Archangel glides up and simply pulls the knife out of his chest. Does he believe this knife will impede him? That his words will unnerve him? He sends a barrage of his flechettes at them. He wants him angry? he asks the fallen Fantomex. He’ll act angry. He stabs Fantomex in the skull.
At Akkaba metropolis, McCoy orders Ship to power up. They are jumping to Neptune Station. He informs the Horsemen and their allies that, once Archangel plants the Life Seed in the fountain, they’ll want to be far away. One of them protests about abandoning Archangel. He is the chosen one, and McCoy is-- In charge now, the Dark Beast snarls. They are not abandoning him. These are his instructions! He hugs Pestilence, who smiles smugly as he informs the others that what she carries is very precious to Archangel. His heir must be protected.
The injured Fantomex uses his commlink to call Ultimaton and tells him to play the message and let him out. Ultimaton protests that the subject’s virtual life has yet to complete. Do it anyway! Fantomex orders.
Psylocke curses Archangel for taking Warren away from her. He never felt anything for her, Archangel taunts her. He thought she was a muddle, a distraction. He agrees. She is a weak, confused woman with no true identity. She is more than he could ever know! she replies and attacks telepathically. He falls.
Exhausted, Betsy picks up the Life Seed and rags herself over to him to kill him. He admits she has grown. Not enough, he decides as he kicks her off the plateau.
Elsewhere.
A farm in what seems to be Kansas. A figure looking like Fantomex but wearing a coverall over his costume enters a farmhouse where father, mother and a teenage boy, looking a lot like Apocalypse, sit at the table. The boy happily calls Fantomex “Uncle Cluster.” He didn’t see him at the game today.
Calling the boy “Evan,” Fantomex explains they don’t have much time. Ignoring the parents, he tells the boy his entire world is about to disappear. He knew this would happen. It’s what he’s been preparing him for.
The boy is fearful as his parents and the house fade away and Fantomex tells him it is time to be the hero they raised him to be.
Reality:
The boy awakes in the World where Ultimaton helps him up. He tells him he is friend and asks him to save them all.
Elsewhere, Archangel wonders why the fountain hasn’t scorched the Earth by now, then looks up to find Sunfire is doing his best to keep it under control. The next moment, Evan aka Genesis slams into Archangel, slamming him inside. You? Archangel mutters, recognizing the look. Archangel hits him, shouting he is no Apocalypse. He is Genesis! Evan replies and uses his eyebeams to slam him away.
Ultimaton removes the blade from Fantomex’s head and informs him his second brain is functional. He can move. They have to help Sunfire, Fantomex mutters, or they are all dead.
Sunfire finds it takes too much energy for him but he refuses help.
Slamming into Genesis, Archangel snarls that he has no claim to his throne. No authority against him. Evan doesn’t know what he is talking about but it sounds evil, and he’s a hero and will stop him!
Such exuberance! Archangel mocks and attacks him with his flechettes. He has no idea what’s going on, does he? He holds the bleeding boy up. It’s not his fault. Poor child, he is capable of such manipulation, he thought the boy’s very existence could be his undoing. He’s sorry he must continue to suffer at his cruel hand. He sends an energy shock through Genesis.
The next moment, Psylocke stabs Archangel with the Life Seed. He sinks to his knees; Warren’s personality weakly asks where they are before he falls, light emitting from him.
Ultimaton warns Fantomex that Sunfire cannot contain Genocide’s flames. The Doom Fountain has amplified them. Fantomex orders him to shut up. They can’t let him die for a world that’s not even his! But Sunfire holds on, unwilling to let another world be destroyed. He tries his best and is torn apart in the process as everything explodes.
Down below. Warren groans it hurts. He’s dying. Betsy tells him it’s fine. He’s going to be okay. Just listen to her voice. Close his eyes and when he wakes up…
The astral plane:
… they’ll be home. About time she showed up, Angel tells her. He was wondering when she’d show up. Betsy apologizes. She was caught up in nonsense. He admits he fell asleep and had the strangest dream. They were living in a bleak and failed world. Xavier’s dream was all but forgotten. The two of them were… assassins. They killed a child. It cost them everything they were.
It was just a nightmare, Betsy stresses. It left him hollow, he replies. Where are they anyway? He can’t remember. Colorado, his cabin, she replies. They moved here after she got pregnant. Like they always talked about. Their two young daughters, one of whom is called Jean, wait for them and ask him to play with them.
Time passes and Warren stresses about being forty and old. She tells him where he sees wrinkles she sees wisdom. She always knew one thing in her heart. He makes a terrific father.
And so they happily grow older, watching their girls grow up, growing old alongside each other. On his deathbed, Warren tells Elizabeth again that he loves her. He wonders how he got so lucky to end up with her, to have such a perfect life.
He deserves all the happiness in the world, she tells him. It is easy to love such a beautiful person. She reminds him he sacrificed everything for the ones he loves, all while worrying he didn’t do enough. She tells him he did enough. He led a full and significant life. “My hero.” She kisses him on the forehead as he peacefully dies.
Reality:
Fantomex shouts at Psylocke to wake up. The complex is coming down. They have to go! Crying, she refuses, demanding to be left with Warren. Fantomex drags her up and carries her to EVA. He asks Ultimaton if the kid is secure. When told yes, he gives order to get them the hell out of here.
They land further down to find Deathlok waiting. He explains that he collected all parts of Wade. He loves him. And all of them. He had to learn love to defeat War. Now it is all he can feel. Well, good, Fantomex sighs. He supposes he loves him as well.
The weakened Jean tells Betsy that she knew she could do it. And she knows how much it hurt. Betsy thanks her, then her voice trails off as she sees a winged figure stumbling towards them through the snow… Warren Worthington (though with metal wings). Excited, she runs towards him and kisses him. He holds her at distance and asks “Who are you?”


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Live With This- Chapter One
Teravius Nebula
Fantomex, Evan and Ultimaton are aboard E.V.A., racing through the Nebula. As Evan stares out the transparent hull, his hands resting on its surface, Fantomex begins teaching the young boy another life lesson. He tells them there are three types of people in existence, and explains the roles of the first two, the leaders and followers.
Moments pass, so Evan turns and asks his “uncle Cluster” about the third type of person he mentioned. Destroyers, Fantomex replies, and talks of their hatred and insecurity, which prevents them from inspiring or creating, leaving them to tear down all they come in contact with.
Looking up toward his uncle, Evan asks which type of person he is. Fantomex admits that’s a good question, but pokes Evan on the nose and asks, “Which one are you?”
“Uncle Cluster” reminds Evan about the things he’s helped him with over the years, his shape-shifting powers and dematerializing blasts, and then pulls the World out from his jacket. Focusing his gaze on its miniaturized surface, he tells Evan nothing’s more important than what his parents taught him, and warns him the fate of the world depends on him choosing to be a good man, a good leader.
Spying the object in his uncle’s hand, Evan asks what it is. Fantomex tells him it’s called the World, a factory of sorts, which was damaged during their previous adventure and needs to be stored away for safety.
Continuing to emphasize Evan’s future, Fantomex says if he became a destroyer he would erode all beauty and light. Evan assures him both he and his parents taught him better than that.
Ultimaton’s chest opens up while Fantomex worries aloud that Evan was forced to join them too early. He doesn’t want that to hinder his future. As Fantomex places the World inside Ultimaton he hears Evan say he wants to make the world a better place. Fantomex knows he does, but asks Evan to trust him.
World Secured, Ultimaton announces as Fantomex finally breaks the bad news he’s been setting up for. First, Evan is going to have to leave his care and attend a school designed for heroes. Confused, Evan wants to know why. Fantomex waves a finger in his face and says any more time spent with his uncle Cluster could be detrimental to his health.
As Ultimaton’s chest closes Evan asks about his parents. Fantomex says for his parents’ sake he can’t go home, and that they know what is happening. He tells Evan he must dedicate himself to the path of the leader. “Do you understand?” he asks forcefully, “You must never quit.”
Cavern-X
Logan and the reality-displaced Jean share a drink while sitting on Logan’s bed. Sitting legs crossed, facing Jean, Logan states she saved his world. Not meeting his eyes, Jean says he would have done the same, even fought to his death for her, she saw it in his mind.
Then Jean’s eyes do meet Logan’s. She admits while she was in his mind she saw things that reminded her of why she loved her Logan, things he let die. Logan asks her to stay with him on this Earth, but Jean ignores him getting up from the bed and loosening her clothes. She asks if she can use his shower, but Logan tells her to stop avoiding the question, saying she’s got nothing back in her world.
Jean continues her walk toward the bathroom, but tells him their human resistance is working on a plan that could change everything. She wants to help them and has to stop her husband. She tells Logan she’s knows he understands.
Stopping at the door, Jean turns around and looks at Logan again. She tells him to stop asking her to stay and enjoy what little time they have left.
Elsewhere in the cavern, AoA Sabretooth is staring at the costumes of his recently deceased teammates Wild Child and Sunfire. The somber moment is interrupted by Deadpool who starts yammering on about bathroom habits and that he has a camera set up in the main toilet. He tells Sabes he watched him suffer through a bowel movement and was surprised to see him use the “layer, fold an’ hold” toilet paper method. He figured him for a “crumple an’ swipe” kinda guy.
Never taking his eyes off the uniforms Sabretooth reminds the annoying Wade he just buried two friends. Wade sidles up alongside him, comments on the large turds Sabretooth left in the toilet, and then gets serious for a moment and says they seemed like good guys. “Never had it easy, but never quit fightin’. Loyal to a fault,” Sabes grunts in reply.
This prompts Deadpool to question why he would keep a chained collar on Wild Child. He doesn’t wait for an answer, chalking it up to Sabretooth’s controlling classic “layer, fold an’ hold” personality. Before Sabretooth can reply to his idiocy Deadpool tells him they need to leave the cavern; it’s time for their journey back home.
The three surviving AoA X-Men along with the remainder of X-Force, sans Fantomex, are gathered outside near a seated Gateway. Jean and Logan share some last words as he softly caresses her cheek. He tells her if there’s anything she needs, to find him. Jean goes in for a kiss and telepathically tells him they’ll never see each other again.
Gateway stands and begins whipping his bolo in the air. However, there’s one last thing Logan wants to do. He calls Creed over and holds out his samurai sword. He tells Sabretooth it was given to him by a man named Ogun who made him take a vow that if he ever met someone with more honor or more guts than it was time to pass it on. Sabretooth takes the blade and Wolverine bows toward him.
Jean and Creed head toward the light, but Nightcrawler hangs back. Sabretooth asks what’s going on. Nightcrawler says he’s going to stay back and kill the bastards who ruined their lives.
An exasperated Jean tells ‘Crawler they need him, but he gives her a light peck on the cheek, telling her that Sugar Man, Drake, McCoy and the Blob think they’re safe from retribution, but will learn otherwise. Jean asks him to make them suffer, to which Kurt agrees. He’ll have help, Logan interjects, and Jean tells him to keep an eye on him, “or we might see each other again after all,” she finishes telepathically.
The portal is closed and Jean and Sabretooth are gone. Logan stalks off angrily. Most of the group follows, except Psylocke and Angel. She tells him to take her away. He wraps her up in his arms and flies off.
During their skyward journey a battle takes place in Psylocke’s mind. She feels like this man is the Warren she loved, but she knows it’s just a regenerated shell, leaving her to question who was really saved.
Psylocke tells him to stop at the top of a butte. They land and Betsy tells him how he brought her there last week as a surprise, that they made love, made plans for the future. A cold Warren says he doesn’t remember. Not looking at him, Psylocke says she knows he’s no longer the man she knew, but her heart won’t admit it.
Psylocke then turns toward him, a vulnerable look etched onto her face. She asks if he feels any love for her. “I do”, he replies, which catches her off guard. But then, Angel adds that he loves all things. He moves in close and says he can see her troubled soul and asks her to let him heal her. She stares at his hands in disgust and tells him she’s ready to go back.
Cavern-X
The wallowing Wolverine is surrounded by several dozen crushed beer cans. He’s staring intently at the one in his hands when Fantomex and his entourage arrive. Wolverine says he’d ask where he’s been, but figures Fantomex would just lie to him anyway.
This causes Fantomex to remind Wolverine what their marriage therapist said about the “Rubber Band” Effect, and how he must leave him be so he can snap back into his arms. Logan takes a chug of his brew and tells “le Pew” that was cute, the kinda cute that’ll get him a poke in the nose. This prompts Fantomex to order Ultimaton to escort Evan to his room so he doesn’t hear another angry spat from his drunk “dad.”
Fantomex then takes a seat at the table and asks Wolverine what’s going on. Logan grimaces at him and asks why he did it. The ever-smarmy Fantomex feigns ignorance to what he’s referring to, but then sarcastically asks why he brought in the cavalry to save humanity, or why he acquired the life seed to save Warren. “Which terrific success of mine are you inquiring to specifically, you drunken little weasel?”
None of those scenarios was Wolverine referring to. He asks Fantomex why he cloned the kid he shot in the head, what he gets from it. Taking a beer himself and cracking it open, Fantomex says he had to prove that evil wasn’t cooked into the boy’s genes. As he dumps the beer onto Wolvie’s head Fantomex says he wanted to see if the boy could have been a good man.
Why, Logan asks. Flicking the empty can at Logan’s head Fantomex says he wanted to know if there was hope for him. This seems to stem some of Logan’s anger and he asks how much the boy knows about his past. Fantomex says he believes he was raised on a small farm in the fields of Kansas, his parents golden-hearted and hard-working. Around the age of 11 his uncle Cluster became aware of his powers and trained him in secret to become “super,” he finishes.
Logan tells Fantomex he’s lucky he started the school back up and his “little experiment” has a place to go. Fantomex sarcastically agrees it was unfortunate he had to release Evan early from his virtual reality to save the Earth from his renegade friend.
Getting up from the table Fantomex states that he believes Evan should be told the truth before heading to the school. Logan doesn’t agree and tells “uncle Cluster” it isn’t his choice anymore; telling him he’s a clone of the world’s greatest monster and his upbringing wasn’t real isn’t the right move. Logan says he’ll have to trust him and live with his decision. Won’t we all, Fantomex replies, as he leaves the room.
Enter Beast and Kitty Pryde, the latter wondering if they arrived at a bad time. Pipe down, Pryde, Wolverine snarls.
later
With most of the team assembled Wolverine fills Beast in on everything, and says that’s why he wants both of them at the school. Beast doesn’t like anything he’s heard. He pokes Logan in the chest and reminds him they’re both Avengers and having this “hit-squad” around and this kid Apocalypse and keeping them secret, there’s more to consider.
Logan gets face to face with Beast and asks him to act like an X-Man, that this is about family. Speaking of, in walks the rest of the crew, Ultimaton, Angel, Evan and Nightcrawler.
“Kurt…?” Kitty asks bewildered. She charges him and wraps her arms around his neck. Nobody told me, she exclaims. This Nightcrawler isn’t as kind as his 616 version. He pushes Kitty away and snarls at her, saying he doesn’t know her and is not her friend.
Angel interrupts and asks if he will be traveling with them. Evan then introduces himself to Beast, saying his codename will be Genesis. He holds out his hand, which Beast takes and shakes. He welcomes Evan to the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.
Nearby, Kitty tries talking to Angel, but Betsy says he remembers nothing and no one. She apologizes to Psylocke, knowing what that would mean for her.
Saying goodbye, Evan gives his uncle a big hug. Fantomex jokingly tells him to never breathe a word of this to anyone or he’ll have to kill him. He then suggests Evan befriend some girls with loose morals.
Kitty then takes her newest pupil by the hand and guides him toward the X-Jet. As Evan leaves he turns back one last time and tells Fantomex to make sure his parents know he loves him. “Yes… of course,” Fantomex agrees a bit shamefully, waving goodbye to his “nephew.”
Back to Wolverine and Hank where Logan admits he knows Beast doesn’t like any of this, but he doesn’t want to have any secrets between them. Beast agrees he is furious, but relents saying this business better not affect the school. Wolverine says X-Force is going to make sure no bad guys show up on the school’s doorstep, referring to their crew as on-call campus police. “Campus illuminati assassin squad has a better ring,” Deadpool chimes in.
that night
A huge portrait of the most recent iteration of X-Force is hung up alongside the original team long ago led by Cable. It’s Fantomex doing the hanging and as he stands there admiring the straightness of his work he comments on the new chapter of X-Force, sans Angel.
Suddenly, a bright flash of light enters the room. Fantomex shields his eyes in pain. A powerful fist comes flying through the bright light and connects with Fantomex’s jaw.
As the light settles a half dozen members of the Captain Britain Corps can be seen watching. In front is Captain Britain who delivered the punch. He has Fantomex by the front of his costume and tells him he must stand trial for his crimes. He then orders the rest of his Corpsmen to gather Elizabeth so she can be cleansed and returned to her proper station. “Otherworld needs her. And I will not allow her to further suffer this beast’s manipulation.”


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Ghost Reunion
flashback:William Stryker recalls growing up in the Age of Apocalypse. His father was a preacher. He hid William and his brother and sister when Apocalypse destroyed their town. They lived skulking from camp to camp running from mutants until the rest of his family was killed by human scavengers. “The Boy I was Died.”
Stryker began studying the mutants and their methods. He studied how to kill mutants. He found others that were “killed” like him and started the group X-Terminated. Stryker had studied mutants and their sentinels so much he could predict their moves. He became known as The Prophet.
present:While running from a samurai sentinel, Prophet turns and runs up it. He cuts his way into its head. A soldier radios that the Vestry has been compromised. Prophet cuts his way back out of the sentinel’s head, destroying it.
Jean Grey and Sabretooth are waiting for him. He says they are late and asks where Wild Child and Sunfire are. Jean tells him they are dead. Sabretooth asks where Magneto is. Prophet tells them they were separated and that Gateway and Silver Samurai are also dead. They gave up the location of the Vestry before they died. They must hurry and get there before the armies of Akkaba do.
Fiend aka Francesca Trask, is in The Vestry taking Rogue and a crippled Magneto to a lab. Fiend says they have to move up the plan due to the city being compromised. Magneto replies Jean did not tell him about the plan before she and the X-Men left to help X-Force. Magneto asks to be taken to the weapon. Fiend informs him he may not approve.
When they reach the lab Dr. Moreau has the deceased body of Magneto’s daughter Wanda Maximoff in suspended animation. The Doctor explains that her powers are still present and could turn off the X-gene in all mutants. Magneto sees only they have tried to clone Wanda and starts to destroy the lab. Moreau explains that Jean saw in another world that Wanda cured the X-gene and that is the only way of saving humanity. Now that Magneto destroyed the clones they will only have one chance.
Prophet radios Fiend and informs her they have arrived and that the Black Legion is attacking the city. Rogue attacks Demon-Ock to get revenge for his killing her son Charles in front of Magneto. Ock turns the table on Rogue and Magneto but is scorched by Jean’s Phoenix blast.
Magneto tells Jean to go and end it all while he and Rogue hold off the Legion. Fiend tells Jean to get in Wanda’s head and use her powers to turn off the X-gene. Jean asks Fiend if she knows what she is asking her to do. Fiend replies “I’m asking you to be human.”
Logan aka Weapon Omega, arrives and asks Rogue and Magneto if they are ready to die for an extinct species. Rogue attacks and starts to absorb Weapon Omega’s life force but he stabs Rogue through the chest with his claws. Rogue tells Magneto that she weakened him. Magneto assures her he loves her as she dies in his arms.
Magneto sees his son. Smiling. Waiting for his Mother. Waiting for him to join them. Weapon Omega tells Magneto he will make it quick. Magneto retorts he won’t. “I will see my family soon.” Magneto attacks and starts to crush Weapon Omega’s adamantium skeleton. But Magneto is too slow and Logan stabs him in the neck. Then with his other arm/blaster he vaporizes Magneto.
Elsewhere Jean struggles to get a hold of Wanda’s powers but finally does. She sets off a hex blast but the radius was only a few feet so only she and Sabretooth lose their powers. Weapon Omega shows up and tells Jean to either come with him or die. She refuses and Prophet tosses a grenade at Weapon Omega. Prophet leads Jean, Sabretooth, Fiend and Dr. Moreau to an escape.
Jean asks Prophet about all the other people. He tells her there is hope.
Weapon Omega walks into the middle of the city and charges his body. He sets off an atomic blast and destroys the city.
Jean is furious at Prophet. “William Stryker--you son of a bitch! You said there was hope!” Jean yells. Prophet replies “And there is… …but not for them.”


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Otherworld Chapter One
Otherworld
The Omniversal Palace
A sleeping Psylocke can be found in the opulent bedroom of her brother, Captain Britain. Brian stands there patiently, staring out one of the grand windows of his suite. Not turning his gaze, Brian finally tells his sister to wake up. “Brian…?” she responds groggily.
Asking her not to overreact Brian explains he had to take her in the middle of the night to avoid creating a conflict. Betsy gets up from the bed wondering aloud if he really believes kidnapping her was a good idea. She then asks how he knew about their secret headquarters, Cavern-X.
Brian tells her that since the conflict with Warren when Jean expanded her psyche their psychic bond reconnected. He says he’s been privy to her memories over the past few months. “I know everything.”
Psylocke dodges the innuendo and approaches a large painting of their father in his Corps gear, which is hung on the opposite side of the room. She states it’s hard for her to believe their father was ever so young. Brian, still staring out the window, questions how their dad would feel about his daughter and what she’s become. Betsy defends herself saying she was fighting to protect her family. Brian argues her real family is up against a greater threat than Xavier’s people and their endless dramas.
Now staring at a group picture of herself, her two brothers and Meggan, Psylocke tells her brother that most of Xavier’s “clan” think of him as a friend. She also points out that since Merlyn re-formed the Corps none of their members have come to their aid. Betsy asks if they hold little significance to those who claim to protect the universe.
Brian argues they have one corpsman for every ten realities, and while he feels the 200 remaining mutants back home are important he is busy stopping threats to the entire Omniverse. Betsy asks what the point is if it stops him from helping his friends and family. Brian calls her naïve, saying he doesn’t even recognize her anymore. “That makes two of us”, she jabs back.
Bickering aside, Betsy wants to know the reasons behind her kidnapping. For the battle of Otherworld, Brian responds. He then has her stand next to him and look out the same window he’s been staring at the whole time.
When Betsy looks upon the grounds of the estate she witnesses a complete slaughterhouse. Ungodly creatures and Corpsmen alike litter the area, some bloody and broken, others missing limbs and torsos. It appears the surviving Corpsmen are trying to clear the grounds of the deceased, including an enormous troll-like creature that is collapsed over a tall Omniversal structure.
Betsy can’t believe what she’s seeing. Brian leaves her side and begins heading for the door. He tells her they lose thousands more every day. When she replies she didn’t know, he reminds her she’s the one who cut their psychic link and he didn’t know how to contact her. He then tells Betsy to follow him as there’s more.
Betsy does as asked and follows her brother down a hallway. Brian tells her this is her home, where she is needed. She asks who’s behind the attacks and Brian admits they have no idea, but he does know their goal, access to the Tower Omniverse.
They enter the Tower and are greeted by a hooded man in white robes. He tells them whoever they’re fighting knows the Corps too well as they’ve anticipated their every move. That’s why they needed her to return, as a piece the enemy would not be able to anticipate.
As he says this he removes his hood. Betsy is shocked to see it’s her brother, Jamie. She walks a bit hesitantly toward him and gives him a hug. He tells her not to be so surprised, jokingly asking how many times he must save the universe and resurrect her from death before his past misdeeds are forgotten.
Betsy apologizes, trying to explain her actions, but he cuts her off saying he knows it must be difficult to forget what he did. He then pulls back a curtain and says he hopes this will help. Behind the curtain is a floating array of books and a cauldron leaking its contents into the air and forming other creations. Hovering in the background are her old Corps uniforms.
“How?! How did you do this?” she asks unbelievingly. Jamie says it was the same way he brought her back from the dead. He pulled the quantum strings that define causality, a slight manipulation, and put things in their right place. “Return to your family,” he implores his sister. “Together we will guard the gates of reality… how father intended,” Brian adds.
616 Universe
Cavern-X, Danger Room
The Danger Room is set to reflect a small bar filled with various X-Men enemies. Sitting at a nearby table is Sabretooth and Mystique whom Wolverine tells AoA Nightcrawler are two individuals who are a lot of trouble. He jokes that he often kills them on sight only for them to reappear months later. Nightcrawler takes a sip of his beer held within the grasp of his powerful tail. He tells Wolverine those two individuals are dear to him back home. He thinks it would be difficult to watch them die.
Wolverine tips back his head and chugs his beer, some of it trickling down his cheek. Once he’s done he points out Lady Deathstrike and her Reavers to his newest teammate. Once she’s recognized she charges Wolvie and slices his mug with her razor sharp claws.
Nightcrawler moves into immediate action and teleports behind her and grabs her head. He bamfs away with it, cocky about his victory, but her head has a robotic claw that exits from the mouth and stabs Nightcrawler’s shoulder. “Mein Gott!” he cries in shock.
As Kurt pulls the claw from his body Wolverine tells the “Elf” to be careful as Lady Deathstrike’s robotics are evolved beyond anything they’ve ever seen. Nightcrawler says he’ll take note and then teleports away asking Wolverine to stop calling him “Elf,” that it’s effeminate.  He then goes about trashing the place and all its occupants. When he’s done he tells Wolverine and Deadpool, who are sitting at the bar, that he’s proven himself worthy of a better moniker. Deadpool thinks they both miss Warren.
Standing atop the incapacitated bodies, sword in hand, Nightcrawler asks if the Danger Room is set to “slow and lumbering rookie.” He hopes the villains in their reality are a more meaningful threat. He also complains about the uniform he’s being forced to wear.
Deadpool interjects at this point and tells him to stop complaining. After seeing where he came from ‘Pool says he should be happy. Their uniform, he even explains, is an external representation of the stains they’ve absorbed for the good of the common man. “It looks tough, too. Unlike that terrible face tattoo,” he finishes.
Then, getting uncomfortably close to Nightcrawler’s face, Deadpool tells him to go home if he doesn’t like it. “Go. For the love of God.” At the mere mention of “God” Kurt’s face turns into a grimace. He holds up his hand and says he’s seen too much to believe in any love of God.
Now, Wolverine steps back in and tells Kurt he knows where he’s coming from and what it’s taken for him to keep on with his life. Like it or not, Logan continues, he does know the man Kurt is, but not because he knew someone else who looked like him, but because he helped save their world from what happened to his own, and stayed to help them with nothing to gain from it.
Nightcrawler takes the last swig of his beer and then slams it top down on the counter. He argues Logan’s last point. He’s there for revenge, not to fill the role of his dead friend. He tells Wolvie and Deadpool they’re just odd reflections of people from back home, and not people he likes very much. Plain and simple, he says he means to kill those who’ve traveled to their dimension, who’ve done him and his people wrong, and he’ll help them as long as they’ll help him.
Unexpectedly, the door to the Danger Room opens. It’s Ultimaton who has come with dire news. He tells the team there’s been a breach of security and that Psylocke and Fantomex were abducted.
Otherworld
The Omniversal Palace
The Braddock siblings admire the Lady Britain garb that Jamie cooked up. Both brothers try to impress upon her the need to cleanse herself of the past few years with X-Force, that there are consequences for being an accomplice to Fantomex’s heinous crime.
At the mention of “consequences” Betsy perks up. She asks what Brian is talking about. He tells Psylocke she has a chance to redeem herself unlike her child-killing companion who will face no such clemency.
court room
Fantomex, shackled at the wrists and neck, is being escorted to his trial by his appointed lawyer, Captain England. Behind them marches a contingent of Corpsmen. When mentioning that his English citizenship should keep him out of the Corps’ imprisonment, Captain England jokes back that they’re not looking to keep him locked up, but put to death. Fantomex pauses, then looks up at the contingent of people presiding over the proceedings and comments meekly, “…that’s much worse.”
A nearby bailiff calls the supreme Omniversal tribune into session and tells the assembly to rise. Fantomex takes his seat at the defendant’s table. He looks up and sees Saturnyne standing at a lectern. He is grateful for an attractive prosecutor as opposed to some old man. Unfortunately, Captain England tells him his prosecution is being led by Jamie Braddock.
Looking over his shoulder at the imposing, white-robed Braddock as he enters the chambers Fantomex asks if his defense is being given by Dr. Doom. Captain England ignores his “client” and asks Saturnyne, who is acting as judge, if the proceedings may begin. Saturnyne agrees and asks the defense to call its first witness. Captain England calls Fantomex, and then whispers that he better not try any monkey business.
Fantomex takes his spot at the witness stand and Saturnyne begins to recount the events leading up to his crime. “Stop. Stop talking,” Fantomex interrupts rather loudly. He says he wants to give his own account of what happened. He then proceeds to explain how he infiltrated an Akkaba stronghold to kill Apocalypse, but found him as a boy who had been programmed and was beyond rehabilitation. He defiantly says he killed him to prevent his world from a horrible war.
Jamie Braddock objects, citing conjecture. He points out that Fantomex made this determination on his own and went against the will of his teammates and carried out the execution. The objection is sustained.
Nearby, in the stands, Betsy complains to Brian that Jamie is using her memories to prosecute. Brian points out Fantomex is a dangerous anomaly who doesn’t exist in any other dimension. He shouldn’t even exist there, he argues, and should be put down.
Back at the main attraction, Saturnyne gives the prosecution the floor. Jamie begins a grandiose display, explaining the difference of taking the life of a madman to save lives verses killing children who may one day potentially do something with no evidence to back it up. He calls it an act of a monster and waves his hand in Fantomex’s direction. Jamie further proposes if they followed this line of logic it would tell them no children could be salvaged and would be voting against the elasticity of the human spirit.
Fantomex has heard enough. He leaps from his chair and charges toward Jamie. Captain England snatches him up before he can do anything. Fantomex vehemently argues the boy was programmed to his core to wipe out humanity. Questioning himself out loud if it was a gamble, he agrees, but then says he would do it all over again. He says he was confident there was nothing they could to do salvage the boy following the Akkaba mind scrubs.
“Order!” Saturnyne yells. She tells Fantomex if he makes one more outburst he’ll be restrained by the court. Captain England forces him back into his chair and promises his client will behave. Not one to just take it, Fantomex bites back, saying he’ll sit quietly while they debate the thorny, yet necessary, pragmatism that saved his world.
Jamie hones in on what Fantomex says and argues there is no evidence that he saved anything, only that he shot a child. He then places a placating hand upon his chest and reminds the court that he is a rehabilitated criminal, himself, and that it took endless love and confidence for him to rebuild himself after countless years of damage and tampering.
An image of the assassinated En Sabah Nur floats over the entire courtroom floor. Jamie asks if this dead child could have been saved in a similar fashion. The answer is they’ll never know, and neither will the boy, he adds.
Saturnyne calls for silence and says she’s heard enough. Captain England argues he wasn’t finished, but she tells him Fantomex has already confessed to his crime. She then announces he is found guilty of premeditated homicide and will be eradicated from existence by retroactive molecular deconstruction. Captain England pleads with the judge, saying the punishment is unusually severe. She ignores the Captain’s pleas and orders the bailiffs to carry out the sentence immediately.
Elsewhere, and a bit later, Captain Britain tries consoling his sister as she stares out a window in a seeming fog of depression. He reminds her she tried to stop Fantomex, that she knew it was a villainous act. He tells her if she looks into her heart she’ll agree with the Omniversal majestrix. “You have to trust me, Elizabeth” Brian implores her, “reality is better off with Fantomex dead.”
outside Cavern-X
The remaining members of X-Force are topside along with Gateway and Ultimaton. Deadpool asks their resident robot if it’s sure the information it gave to Gateway will get them to Otherworld in one piece. Ultimaton says it was simply a matter of mental transference, a simple function for him.
This doesn’t assuage Wade who asks Logan if he’s sure this is where they went. Wolverine said the security footage showed Captain Britain and some of his Corpsmen snatching their teammates and Otherworld is where they all work so it makes sense.
Gateway begins creating the portal. Nightcrawler is the first to step through sarcastically glad to be risking his life for a “hunch.” Deadpool asks what to expect. Ultimaton answers, saying Otherworld is the source of magic, and exists as a dimension outside of dimensions, its denizens guarding the intersection between all realities. Wade perks up, saying he’s a sixteenth level ranger in Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, chaotic neutral.
As the last of them steps through Wolverine argues it’s not like that, saying it’s a striking place with fairies, pixies and kindly old wizards. He doesn’t think they’ll be encountering any trouble.
Otherworld
Logan couldn’t be more wrong. As soon as Wade’s head pops out of the portal he finds it separated cleanly from his neck courtesy of a large battle axe being swung by a large humanoid with a skeletal ram’s head. “Kindly old wizards!” yells the head of Deadpool as it goes flying through the air.
Instead of lush rolling hills they find themselves in the middle of a gruesome battle between Corpsmen and demonic-looking creatures. Nightcrawler bamfs over to the nearest demon and tries his own decapitation method, but it backfires. His head rocks back. Greenish energy explodes from his eyes and open mouth as he screams in agony.
Wolverine begins hacking and slashing at the offending creature. When he opens his belly a trio of snake-like organs seeps out and tries latching onto his body. Logan slices off two of them and a nearby Corpsmen chops the other. He explains the creatures have demonically enchanted organs so they need to crush their spines and not open their bodies.
A humanoid goat in robes appears nearby hovering on a magical construct. Logan asks his newfound friend, the Corpsman, how they deal with the goat. The Corpsman says to run or they die. Their only problem, both Nightcrawler and Deadpool are incapacitated at the moment.
Omniversal Palace
Elsewhere, Fantomex is being led to a machine which will enact his punishment. Further elsewhere, Betsy finally dons the Lady Britain costume.


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Otherworld Chapter Two
Otherworld
The Omniversal Palace
Fantomex is inside the Corps’ very own existence-eradicating machine. He reaches his hands upward in the cylindrical tube, feeling for a way out. He finds it ironic he should be dying in this world that he hates, referring to the Corps as “Merlyn’s little band of omnidimensional fascists.”
A mechanism with half a dozen syringes attached to it, each filled with a golden substance, descends toward his head. Brain One surrenders immediately at the sight, accepting their fate. It argues to stop fighting and let it happen.
When the needles get closer to his head it begins to panic, realizing that if he dies the Braddock brothers win and they write his history, a vicious child-killer. He crouches as low as he can in the tube wondering what that says about him, his sole motivation to survive is to show up the fools who look down on him.
Then the needles sink into his skull. Brain One screams and then goes silent. Brain Two stays calm, tells him it’s not so bad, then dies. Brain Three, normally silent, speaks up and begins repeating the same thing over and over, “I miss my mother.”
Then there’s a loud SKRASH and the machine is ripped in half. It’s Psylocke in her Lady Britain outfit and she is shocked at what she sees. What have they done to you, she cries, staring at the needles plunged into his brain, the golden goo dripping from the various punctures points in his skull.
In response, Fantomex babbles on about his father killing his mother. He says it’s cold and he wants to go home. He cries out for his mother to help him. This prompts Betsy to go in psychically to get past all the babble. Fantomex explains he can’t hear his true mind and is scared. Betsy says she’s going to help him. He asks her why, but Psylocke tells him he already knows.
Psylocke takes Fantomex’s arm and drapes it over her shoulder and begins walking him out, the guards she defeated to get to the machine lie in piles around the room. Fantomex raises a gloved hand to his face and says he doesn’t deserve this rescue, that he abandoned Wade in the Akkaba cavern.
Just then, a small contingent of Corpsmen enters the chamber, led by Captain Britain himself. He compliments Phillipe on confessing his sins saying it’ll be good to die with a clean conscience. He explains the retroactive molecular deconstruction will erase backwards through his memories and then through time itself to expunge his existence.
“No,” Psylocke responds, “I will save him.” She then lets loose with a psychic attack that staggers the assembled men. She takes off running with Fantomex in tow, the latter reverting to babbling, saying something about his father making him kill so many. Psylocke tells him to stay in the moment, but he says he’s sliding backwards, disappearing. She tells him to hold it in his mind and make a stand or every moment of his life will be erased.
elsewhere
The remaining members of X-Force are in the midst of a battle between the Corps and a goat-headed monk and his demonic army. Since Wolverine only traveled to Otherworld to rescue his teammates he tells the goat creature, who is standing nearby on a floating platform, to get out of his way.
The goat-man responds oddly, saying, “Yes! This is right! You are where you should be!” Logan leaps toward him, telling him he should be in a shallow grave. In mid-strike Wolverine is whacked in the head by some sort of orb and becomes attached to it. The goat-man proudly proclaims the Orb of Metallum has snatched him like a trout.
As Wolverine hangs there by one side of his face the goat-man begins mocking him and says he’s like a god compared to Wolverine. He tells Logan he must fear him in the cockles of his fetid soul. “Give you a fetid cockle,” the eloquent Wolverine responds.
The goat-man explains that the Orb of Metallum was forged by Merlyn to deal with those who would coat themselves in metal and blade. Wolverine tells him to do his worst, which the goat-man eagerly does.
With one swipe of his arm the orb begins pulling on Wolverine’s adamantium like an extremely powerful magnet. At first it’s just his face and claws that are affected, but when he asks if this is the worst the goat-man can do he learns that it’s not.
Wolverine’s entire body is twisted and broken by the orb, joints are snapped in different directions and blood begins seeping from his wounds. He lets out a howl of agony as the goat-man recites all he can do, crushing his metal skull, compacting his brain, twisting his spine and compacting his joints. The goat-man proudly proclaims this is the worst he can do.
Nearby on the battlefield, Nightcrawler actually finds this a bit comforting as the Logan back on his world was responsible for millions of deaths including friends and family. However, he knows this is not the same man and rushes to his aid, provided he doesn’t get crushed by a giant stone hammer being swung his way.
‘Crawler teleports away and reappears above the fray. Thinking quickly, he bamfs next to the orb and then teleports it away, freeing Logan. Nightcrawler reappears right in the path of the large troll with the giant sledgehammer. The creature swings instinctively at the blue elf, but crushes the orb when he teleports away, destroying it.
The goat-man freaks out at the destruction of his precious weapon. When he spies Nightcrawler attending to Logan on the ground he questions who he is, as he should not be there. Nightcrawler tells him he makes a good point and then hops on top of a skeletal unicorn with Logan around his arms.
The goat-man is in utter disbelief. He states that the orb shouldn’t have been destroyed. Nightcrawler says he’ll take his word for it as he snatches up Deadpool’s body and drapes it along the steed’s backside. He then loops around, calling his unicorn Rainbow Kiss, to retrieve Wade’s head. With one quick jab of his sword Nightcrawler creates a Deadpool cranial shiskabob and teleports out of the battle arena.
The turn of events has upset the goat-man. Despite the new entrants retreat he tells his forces to retreat so he can reorganize the map. A surviving Corpsman teleports back to the palace to let them know the goat’s armies are heading east.
Omniversal Palace
Psylocke has Fantomex in the Citadel and are approaching doorway 616. She tells her friend to focus on whatever moment he’s living and not let it recede. Fantomex, with a glazed look in his eyes, tells his mother she looks old and asks how long he is.
Just before she can reach the doorway reality twists around her. It’s her brother, Jamie, who pleads with her to stop. He asks her what it is about this man that would make her betray her own family. He tells her if Fantomex is not dealt with now when she sees he’s a true villain it will be too late.
As Fantomex asks his mother who Sublime is, Betsy screams back to her brother that Fantomex is not a villain. She lets loose with a telepathic attack and then flies into the air telling Jamie there is goodness within the man and she will not allow him to be killed. They burst through the Citadel’s roof sending shards of glass flying everywhere. Psylocke says they’re going to Plan B and tells Jean Phillipe she’s not going to let him get hurt.
While inside the Citadel, some of the troops have gathered around Jamie, including his brother, Brian. Captain Britain helps his brother up and says their sister is blind and can’t see Fantomex for what he is. Jamie admits few can, but adds that it’s only a matter of time before he’s erased from existence. Still, Brian cautions, it’s dangerous out there.
Brian’s made up his mind and says he’s taking a brigade to apprehend them. Captain England says it will have to wait as there’s some bad news from the battlefront. The Corps member who survived the encounter with the goat-man reports they’ve been defeated and that everything beyond the Great Rift and the Wailing Mists has been taken by the Goat.
Panic sets in and Captain Britain asks about Meggan and the others. He wants to know if the village of the South Woode is ok. The Corpsman doesn’t know, only that the Goat’s armies moved east and his ranks were decimated. Brian realizes he’s headed right for them. “What have I done?” he questions quietly.
Saturnyne comes in and says he did what he was supposed to which is protect the realm. He argues he sent Meggan to her death and says they need to move out and protect the South Woode. She says they can’t leave as the Goat’s goal is the Starlight Citadel and the Omniversal Doorways. If they fail, she explains, the Goat will be able to expand his evil to every other dimension across all reality, infecting it with his madness.
With a grimace Brian says he’s going alone then. Saturnyne argues he’s needed at the Citadel as they don’t know how he will attack next. The surviving Corpsman says he saw the beast’s weapons, three orbs, one controlling the earth and metal, another, the laws of physics, and the third bringing life to the dead. Saturnyne questions the logic of these claims, but Jamie says there is only one answer, their enemy holds the orbs of Necromon.
near the South Woode
Wolverine is back to his old self and carrying Deadpool’s body over his shoulders. Nightcrawler has the lead on their little trek and is holding Wade’s head in his hand. This does not amuse Deadpool who asks Wolverine to reach into the third pouch along his belt and grab his 20-sided die and roll to see which one of them he kills first.
Kurt sarcastically asks Deadpool if he’s upset that he saved his miserable life. It’s actually that Nightcrawler used his sword to pick up his head off the ground like it was a piece of garbage, he complains. Nightcrawler is glad the symbolism wasn’t lost on him.
The complaining continues. Deadpool says he’s mad at Wolverine for making it sound like they were heading for the Shire, when it was actually more like Mordor. From Wade’s point of view it seemed as though the knights were outmatched by the goat-head and his menagerie of Frazetta van paintings. Wolverine says it isn’t their concern and they’re only there to find their people and get them home. He says he doesn’t want to get into any more trouble.
Except it seems trouble has found them. One second they’re seemingly alone and the next they’re surrounded by over a dozen people with weapons drawn and aimed at them. A balding man with an eye-patch over his right eye points an accusing hand at Nightcrawler and asks what he’s doing there.
Nightcrawler holds his hands up in defense and admits it’s a good question. Before he can stall any further the man moves in and kisses Kurt on the lips. Then, as the man pulls away, he reverts to his true form… that of Meggan. She is relieved to see Kurt, and he agrees he’s just as relieved he wasn’t just kissing a man, but tells her he’s not the Kurt she knew.
It doesn’t matter to Meggan. She’s just glad Brian finally broke down and asked for help from the X-Men. Wolverine butts into the conversation, explaining Brian didn’t ask them for anything, just took two of their people. Wolverine wants to know where they are. Meggan says there was talk of a trial of a man from their world. Whatever the reason, Logan responds, he’s taking Fantomex and Psylocke home. He says if Brian gets in his way then they’ll have a whole other war on their hands.
Forest of Sorrows
Psylocke flies over the Forest of Sorrows with Fantomex cradled in her arms. She comes across her intended destination, a temple belonging to a large creature called Krokwel. She approaches the entrance and asks the guards to allow her to see their master. At first the guards act belligerent, but she tells them the daughter of James Braddock seeks his counsel and he will want to hear her offer.
Psylocke is allowed entrance and carries Fantomex with her. Master Krokwell asks what brings her into his presence, calling her the daughter of Bright Lies. He says her family has ignored the forest and its keeper for far too long. She says she seeks his aid as he was once a servant of Otherworld. She claims Krokwell has the power to undo the poisons in her companion’s body.
Krokwell brings up the past transgressions of her father and Merlyn, who didn’t agree with the magics he ingested and tied him to the forest and its unquenchable appetite for sorrow. He finds it ironic this man’s daughter now turns to him for help in using the same forbidden magics to save her friend. He scoffs at her.
Looking pleadingly into his eyes, Psylocke says she insists on nothing, instead offering a trade. She says if he heals her companion she will have him released from the forest. He seems to mull her offer over, but upon closer inspection of Fantomex says there is nothing that can be done, that he will soon be expunged from existence. He then orders his knights to open Betsy’s mind to the forest so that it may drink in her deep suffering at Fantomex’s death.
As one of the knight’s reaches for her she rushes Krokwell, pleading with him. She asks if there isn’t some price, some favor that can be done to secure his aid. He half turns to face her as a smile creeps onto his face for the first time. He says there is one thing she can do, but the cost will be steeper than she could possibly expect.
Starlight Citadel, Merlyn’s chamber
Jamie, Captain Britain and Captain England have found the Orbs of Necromon to still be present, right where they should be. Jamie wonders if they have a different set. Captain Britain says they have no other dimensional counterpart, that there is no other set. Looking them over, Captain England says they’ve never left Merlyn’s chamber.
Nevertheless, the Goat has them, Jamie argues, which explains how the rotting troll corpses continue to attack them. Captain Britain calls them over to check out what he found in one of Merlyn’s books. It’s a goat-headed demon name Horoam’ce who bonds with a human host to gain a physical presence. The book says that once it accomplishes that, it seeks a populated area and it infects all in its path.
DOOM, everything around them shakes. A knight comes rushing into the room to tell them they’re under attack. Jamie asks how the enemy got so close without alarming the guard. That’s the problem, the knight explains, it’s their fallen guardsmen who are mounting the attack.
South Woode, Davis Creek
As the X-Force trio make their way into the village Wolverine complains about the awful smell. Meggan says Davis Creek is shored against the Goat’s dragon monolith. She says she leads a small brigade charged with protecting these people while keeping an eye on the Goat’s forces.
The general of the brigade, Widget, comes flying over. She tells Widget to call the mage to help their wounded friend. The irony of a floating head coming to his rescue is not lost on Deadpool. “Brothers in the battle for disembodied head rights, unite!” he proclaims, still resting in Kurt’s hands.
They continue walking through the streets, the bandaged and bloody very prevalent. When Nightcrawler comments on the suffering Meggan says the civilians are the hardest hit, and can be difficult to look at if one is unaccustomed. Nightcrawler assures her he is quite accustomed, but asks how she maintains her composure surrounded by all this horror. Meggan says she has the ability to see the bright side of everything.
When they step out onto the outskirts of the town they stare up at the enormous Goat stronghold. Meggan says they know little of the mystic demon-monk whose headquarters is within the dragon-shaped monolith, but his undead armies are between them and the Starlight Citadel. She says there is no retreat for them, only a battle to the death.
Dragon Monolith
Horoam’ce sits atop a throne with two nymphs at either side of him. An unidentified person enters his chambers and says they arrived where Horoam’ce said they would. The Goat says that Elizabeth Braddock and Weapon XIII are there as well, roaming the Forest of Sorrows. As he bites down on a hunk of meat he jokingly wonders aloud if he only knew someone who had suffered at their hands, someone who deeply hated them both.
“You big tease,” the Skinless Man remarks.


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Otherworld Chapter Three
Otherworld
Krokwel’s Temple, Forest of Sorrows
In a brightly lit room there sits a grotesque chair, adorned with heads in expressions of pained anguish. Psylocke is resting in the chair, her business with Krokwel complete.
Krokwel hopes Fantomex was worth Psylocke’s sacrifice and offers her transportation to the nearest Earth portal. He even goes so far as to give her a vial of green liquid mixed with reddish swirls. Krokwell tells Betsy that if the Goat’s forces manage to take her she should drink it. It will kill her quickly and painlessly, he explains, saying she would not want to be taken alive.
South Woode
Wolverine and Nightcrawler are outside walking by the soldiers and citizens lining the streets. Kurt asks if they’ve reattached the idiot’s (Wade’s) head. Logan says they have, and tells Nightcrawler to go easy on the guy.
Changing the subject, Kurt remarks on how all this death, decay and rot reminds him of back home. Wolverine stops him, knowing where he’s going with it. Kurt tells him they need to help these people, but Wolverine argues they have teammates on trial facing the death penalty. Kurt bites back with some sarcasm, but Wolvie’s not budging, “…all I know is we’re getting’ ‘em out-- alive.”
The poor, malnourished citizens are staring at the two mutants as they argue. Kurt waves his hand in their direction and asks if he really means to leave these people to their deaths. Not originally from our dimension he questions if Wolverine’s X-Men are only focused on protecting their fellow mutants. Nightcrawler says that in his world they protected people to their very last, reminding him they even helped people from Logan’s world. “Human life is worth protecting wherever it may be,” he finishes.
Logan stares down his AoA ward for a few moments before turning around and walking away. He tells Kurt they’ll do it his way; they’ll storm the castle and kill the goat monk. “Hope yer happy… good odds none of us make it out alive,” he warns.
Starlight Citadel
The battle rages between what remains of the Captain Britain Corps and the demonic armies of the Goat, including the reanimated corpses of their fallen brethren. Brian Braddock leads the massed defense shouting orders to his men. A female demon with a pitchfork approaches from the rear and nearly shish kabobs him, but Jamie seizes her with his powers.
Jamie tells his brother he’s too distracted. Captain Britain admits his thoughts are on Meggan and the danger she’s in. Jamie tries to reason with Brian, saying once they protect the Citadel they’ll save Meggan. He says Merlyn had him return the Corps to existence at great personal cost because he knew this war was coming. “Your strength is based on your confidence!” he yells at Brian, telling him to have faith or they won’t succeed.
Krokwel’s Temple
Inside a large room, a fire roaring in the fireplace, lies Fantomex. He wakes suddenly and cries out Elizabeth’s name. She’s sitting nearby and tells him they’re safe. He puts an arm around her shoulder and asks about her brothers. Psylocke forcibly jokes she probably won’t be invited to this year’s family reunion.
Jean-Phillipe asks if she’s ok, and she responds by listing the tough decisions she’s had to make recently starting with erasing Warren’s personality, moving on to betraying her family and finishing with rescuing a child killer. Fantomex does not know how to respond to that so he just apologizes for everything.
This doesn’t sit well with Psylocke who knocks his hand off her shoulder. She questions if he’s really that sorry, after all he’s the one who convinced her she never really loved Warren. He tells her he did what he had to do, that he saw Warren was lost when no one else could or would. He knew that in order for Betsy to do what had to be done he had to make her doubt her love.
The psychic daggers come out and Psylocke turns like a jungle cat. “Manipulative son of a bitch!” she cries and she’s on him in seconds. She questions why she saved him, wondering aloud what he ever did to deserve her sacrifice. With a dagger pointed at his temple he answers that he doesn’t know. His blunt honesty brings Psylocke back to her senses and she turns away again.
With the heat of the moment passed Fantomex asks where they are. Betsy fills him in on Krokwel and the Forests of Sorrow and how her father had Krokwel sentenced there for eternity. Jean-Phillipe questions how she was able to convince a guy who was sentenced by her father to help them out. Betsy doesn’t explain, telling him all that matters is they get back to Earth since her brothers think everyone’s better off with Fantomex dead.
Jean-Phillipe says they may be right, but Psylocke, warming her hands by the fire, says her brother Brian once caved in a man’s skull for attacking her so he’s in no position to judge him. Fantomex argues a momentary lapse of judgment is not the same as what he did. He questions whether he has earned his death sentence. Psylocke looks back over her shoulder and tells him if they don’t get home soon it won’t really matter because her brothers are going to kill him.
Cavern of the Insect Nobles
Meggan leads the three members of X-Force into the Cavern of the Insect Nobles. Only Wolverine and Deadpool descend with cautious warnings from Meggan. Deadpool can’t believe the guy who came up with the idea gets to stay behind. Wolverine argues that although what they’re about to do will get hairy, staying behind will be even more dangerous.
Leaving the mouth of the cave, Meggan, Kurt and Widget walk back toward the encampment. Meggan is happy to tell Nightcrawler she’s very proud of him and very similar to the one she knew. She says she’s feels safe having him there, an old friend to look over her. Almost everyone he ever loved was killed before his eyes, Nightcrawler responds, saying he can imagine a familiar face would be comforting.
“Mein Gott,” Nightcrawler declares as a horde of the Goat’s forces, many of them giant-size, draw near. He supposes this will put an end to any good feelings Meggan was having. Meggan turns quickly to Widget and orders him to the Citadel to tell Brian they’re under siege and need reinforcements within the hour. Then Meggan turns to some nearby soldiers and tells them to sound the alarm and gather the guard.
A skeletal dragon rears its head nearby and lights the gathered men on fire with its breath. Meggan and Nightcrawler are knocked to the ground. She looks up at the creature, defeated. It lets loose with another long fiery breath, but this time Nightcrawler grabs her and teleports away.
They reappear up in the air and watch as the center of the town is decimated by two other fire breathers. Meggan says they need to aid them and Kurt says she won’t be alone. They teleport back to the ground where Meggan orders nearby knights to get the civilians into the bunkers and to send every available body to the north wall. She and Kurt are going to deal with the dragons.
The Northern Earth Portal
Psylocke and Fantomex are in the air riding a small dragon of sorts. Betsy has the reins while Fantomex rides behind her. He recalls their conversation from earlier and says Psylocke never answered him when he asked why Krokwel chose to help them, saving his life and giving them “Ploof the Mummified Dragon.”
Once again, Psylocke avoids the question, saying they needed transportation, that he was too weak to call E.V.A. Then she says she’ll discuss it all when they’re safe through the portal. She needs to keep her concentration so her brothers can’t hone in on her psychic signal and tells Fantomex to keep his head down and his mouth shut until then.
They’ve almost reached the portal when an even larger flying dragon meets them head on. Its commander, Skinless Man, is wearing a barrister’s outfit and wig. He says the court recognizes Fantomex and commands his new trial begins.
Fantomex never thought he’d be seeing this guy again. Before he can tell Psylocke to fry his brain Skinlessman sinks his elastic muscle tissue into their dragon’s brain. It goes limp and plummets downward, into a watery ravine.
The pair’s bodies smash into the water. Only Fantomex remains conscious and has to bring Psylocke back up to the surface with him. He realizes he’s too worn out to use his misdirection power and the Skinless Man’s muscles are coiling toward them.
It’s too late; he has both Psylocke and Fantomex in his grasp. The Skinless Man reels them in. He admonishes Fantomex for chasing after James Braddock’s daughter. Then he brings Fantomex close to his face and asks where his skin is.
Cavern of the Insect Nobles
Despite their earlier problems on the battlefield when they first arrived in Otherworld Wolverine and Deadpool are making short work of the nasty creatures located in the cavern. They finally make their way to a wall, which has a long ladder bolted to it that leads to the surface.
As they begin the ascent, Wade marks off reasons why Wolverine suffers from narcissistic personality disorder. Wolverine doesn’t believe he fits the bill, but Deadpool tells him most people can’t detect it in themselves and suggests a retreat in Hawaii sponsored by Dr. Phil, and even offers to go with him.
They reach the surface and move the manhole cover out of the way. They’re right outside the Dragon Monolith as planned. The two sneak under a bridge, which leads to the entrance, avoiding detection from the guards posted outside. They begin scaling the wall underneath one of the taloned legs.
The conversation about the retreat continues, as Deadpool really wants to go. Logan asks if it’s a team-building exercise, to which Deadpool replies that it is. Wolverine says he’s a member of too many teams already and Deadpool agrees, but feels as though X-Force was the most important one. Logan tells Wade it’s because he’s a narcissist, which Deadpool denies. Then he goes off on another rant and realizes that maybe he is a narcissist after all.
They reach the top of the monolith and come down over the dragon’s skull. They sneak down into the chamber and come across a cache of medieval weapons. Logan can smell the Goat, but the scent is flat. Deadpool thinks it rude he didn’t stick around.
Then they come across some scrying stones showing Skinless Man and their abducted friends, the horrors going on at the Starlight Citadel and the battle being fought at the South Woode. After seeing what’s happening Logan says they need to go. Deadpool asks about their plan to kill the wicked goat.
It’s not Wolverine who answers, but Horoam’ce, making his grand entrance. “There never was much chance of that. Not really,” he answers.
The Northern Earth Portal
The Skinless Man has Psylocke and Fantomex intertwined together with his muscle tissue. They’re both leaning over the edge of a cliff. Skinless Man is standing about 15 feet away with a large knife in his hand. He calls the court to order and then warns Psylocke not to try anything with his brain. He warns his muscles act very quickly and if he senses her poking around in there he’s going to crush her.
After determining Betsy knows nothing about him he delves into his past and how he came to make Fantomex’s acquaintance.
flashback
Many years ago, he was a successful barrister. Part of his success had to do with his mutant power, elastic multi-sensory skin. He used his fingers to spy out information for himself. He made an impression on a man he knew only as Father who offered him a spot in the secret weapon-building program known as Weapon Plus.
They augmented his strengths, increasing the durability and expansion of his skin. He was given the designation, Weapon III, and was tasked with gathering information from the Soviets. During that time he killed thousands.
One day, Father called him in and told him to acquire the Orb of Necromancy. When Skinless Man arrived in Otherworld he killed a lot of people, but finally found his prize. However, someone in Weapon Plus didn’t want Father to have the Orb and sent Fantomex to stop him. He had known Fantomex from a few jobs they worked together, but that didn’t stop Fantomex from attacking him from behind and leaving him for the Corps to discover.
As punishment for the dozens he killed, James Braddock had his skin removed while he was left alive to feel it. While in jail he had learned his skin was stolen by Fantomex.
end flashback
With the tale ended Fantomex tells Skinless Man those sentient bullets he made out of his skin came in real handy. He says he used them all over the world in his many adventures, lost forever. This information is a bit disappointing to Skinless Man, but he points out, as they already have figured, that he taught his muscles to do what his skin once did. He then demonstrates that power by squeezing Fantomex’s body to the point of excruciating pain.
Then Skinless Man brings Fantomex toward him through the power of his muscles. He holds the knife about a foot from Jean-Phillipe’s face. He thanks the Braddocks for bringing him there and Fantomex specifically for showing him the way to the Earth portal.
Using his muscle fibers he begins removing Fantomex’s mask. Psylocke yells for him to stop, but Skinless Man ignores her. Instead he brings the knife even closer as the mask is pulled off more. Skinless Man amusingly ponders if this is all a matter of misdirection.
Taking the knife he begins to cut Fantomex’s face. Psylocke screams this time for him to stop, but once again Skinless Man doesn’t listen. Instead, he takes Fantomex’s blood-curdling cries as an indicator that this is no misdirection after all. Once he’s done he tells Elizabeth not to worry, that he’s not going to kill her friend, just take a pound of flesh. He turns, showing a look of childish joy on his face. In his right hand is the bloody knife and in the left, the face of Fantomex.


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Otherworld Chapter Four
flashback
A young Brian Braddock is busy at home working on a supercollider. He’s also on the phone speaking with someone about his older brother Jamie’s race. Brian has a big smile on his face, proud of his brother facing off at the International Cup.
Moments later, Jamie, Betsy and their father return home from a fox hunt. Brian gets off the phone and rushes downstairs, the supercollider in hand. He holds it out to show Jamie, who doesn’t seem to care. Jamie then grabs his brother by the shoulder and takes him outside to see the fox that Elizabeth snagged.
Brian’s not happy about being brushed off and makes a snarky comment about his sister killing a helpless fox. Jamie says it looks like a juicy fox and playfully pushes Elizabeth on the top of the head. He says someone should call the secret service because their little Elizabeth is quite the killer.
end flashback
Otherworld
Dragon Monolith
Deadpool and Wolverine have their hands full combating the Goat. Logan tells Wade to get in close and gut him. This brings back fond memories for Deadpool of a grunge band by the same name from the early ‘90’s.
That’s when the gravity orb crushes Wolverine into the floor. Deadpool leaps toward the Goat, not wanting Wolverine to miss out on the Candlebox reunion tour. Before he can skewer Horoam’ce he is also gravitized into the nearby wall. The Goat warns them he will soon have the Omniverse, his path to infinity has been cleared by his children.
South Woode
Things are not looking good in the South Woode either. Meggan, Nightcrawler and the others charged with protecting the area are being overrun. A nearby Corpsman suggests they retreat, but Meggan belays that order saying they need to give the civilians more time to escape.
Shortly after, Meggan takes a sword grazing to the back. Nightcrawler bamfs to her rescue and decapitates the undead swordsman. He then takes Meggan into his arms and asks if she’s ok. She says it doesn’t matter, they’re overrun. Then she stares into those eyes of his and tells him he awakens feelings she felt for the other Kurt long ago. She tells him he’s a good man and Kurt leans in ever so slowly for a kiss.
A booming voice overhead tells Nightcrawler Meggan is spoken for. It’s Captain Britain who drops in about ten feet away, crushing a few creatures unlucky enough to be standing there. This serves to rally the troops and they get back into fighting form. Meggan admits she thought he wasn’t coming and Brian responds, “So you moved on to the elf?”
Never missing a beat in the battle, Nightcrawler says he hates being called that. Brian says he’ll call him whatever he wants, especially after the move he just made on Meggan. He then asks where his sister is and Nightcrawler tells him they thought she was with him. No, he responds, smashing through a skeletal warrior, “She made a different choice… one she will forever live with.”
Starlight Citadel
The Starlight Citadel is under siege. A giant troll orders the amassed troops to focus their attacks on the south wall. Those inside are panicked. Jamie tells Saturnyne if he pulls any harder on the fabric of reality it will break. Saturnyne wants to know where Brian is because if they fail every soul in the Omniverse is lost. That’s when the Citadel is breeched and the Goat’s forces come pouring in with slaughter on their mind.
Northern Earth Portal
The Skinless Man holds Fantomex’s face, literally, and he couldn’t be happier. Psylocke can’t sit idly by anymore. She tries poking around in their enemy’s mind, but he crushes her ribs with his muscle tendrils, stopping just before collapsing a lung. Betsy halts her intrusion, choosing to bide her time as she can’t be any help if she’s dead.
Taking his role as barrister further Skinless Man tells Fantomex he has the right to beg him to stop, adding there’s a minute chance he might persuade him. Fantomex is not the type, in fact he says when it’s his turn it will be Skinless Man who will beg. This last part he screams at him. Skinless Man grabs him by the coat and pulls him in close. He argues it’s not Fantomex’s turn and brings his knife up to the faceless mutant again.
The situation is dire, but Psylocke comes up with another plan. She remembers the poison Krokwel gave her and decides to put it to use. She pops the stopper with her thumb and dumps the contents on Skinless Man’s exposed muscles wrapped around her body.
The effect isn’t immediate, giving Skinless Man one more opportunity to torture Fantomex. He sticks his knife into Jean-Phillipe’s neck, careful to avoid the artery. He says he doesn’t want the fun to end, but the words come out slowly, then stop altogether. Skinless Man collapses, the knife flying free from his hand.
Psylocke grabs Fantomex’s face off the ground and hands it to him. He places it back where it should be as best he can and puts his mask on over it. He thanks Betsy for shutting off his pain receptors.
While Fantomex gets his bearings back Psylocke scans for Brian to see where he is. That’s when she discovers their teammates are in Otherworld and in grave danger. Fantomex picks up the knife and suggests they aid their friends, just as soon as he’s done maiming the good barrister. Though when he turns around Skinless Man is gone along with his dragon steed. Fantomex’s rage is evident.
Starlight Citadel
Captain England and Jamie Braddock lead the forces in the defense of the Tower Omniverse. Things look bleak, but they’re determined to fight to the very last. They get timely reinforcements and a whiff of brimstone to boot, courtesy of Nightcrawler.
“For Otherworld!” Brian shouts with Meggan wielding dual swords at his side. Jamie says he bet Saturnyne his brother would return in time to be useful. Brian asks what he bet and Jamie says Earth 235. Brian doesn’t think a world filled with vampire eternals is much of a wager.
Watching the battle unfold Saturnyne believes they’ve turned the tide. She proclaims they’re pushing them back, that there’s hope after all.
Dragon Monolith
Horoam’ce is watching this sad boast of Saturnyne from his scrying stone. He smiles saying they’re being stupidly, stupid. He proudly proclaims it’s almost time for him to spread his will across the all, into every mind. Poor Deadpool and Wolverine are stuck to the wall and floor, respectively, thanks to the powerful gravity orb wielded by the Goat.
The window overhead shatters and both Meryln and his daughter Roma emerge from it. For the first time the Goat looks frightened. He is incredulous over the turn of events. They’re supposed to be in hibernation, he stammers.
Roma has the Siege Perilous in hand and tosses it behind the Goat, where it enlarges. The Goat is being sucked into its maw, but he still can’t believe this is happening. The Siege Perilous was accounted for in his plans, he remembers. Then it all makes sense. It’s all a lie.
Horoam’ce fights back and the ruse fades. It wasn’t Roma and Merlyn, but Psylocke and Fantomex. That’s never happened before, Fantomex admits, saying it was like he bent the reality and broke his misdirection in half. This causes Psylocke to have an epiphany and she roots inside the Goat’s mind.
The Goat gives her a psychic backlash that knocks her out cold. He tells her that’ll be their little secret, though warns they’ll all know soon enough. He smashes through a nearby wall on his floating platform. When he’s far enough away he uses his orbs to demolish the monolith’s dragon head with X-Force still inside.
Starlight Citadel
Amidst punches, throws, stabs and the bending of reality X-Force and the Corps keep the attackers at bay. Jamie says how happy he is to finally fight by his brother’s side. This leads them to argue over which one admired the other most. Whatever the case, Brian tells Jamie there’s nobody he’d rather die next to. Jamie agrees, but quips, “Perhaps, we avoid dying altogether.” And that’s when all hope is lost.
Horoam’ce comes crashing through another wall. He mockingly calls the Captain Britain Corps to help defend against the attack. Using the Gravity Orb he knocks most everybody down. The only one left standing is Jamie and the Goat tells him he’ll want to watch and remember this, “The new way it happens!” he declares triumphantly.
The Goat stands at the center of the Omniverse Tower. There, he duplicates himself. His large host of copies make their way to the various doors of reality. “I am the Omnigod!” he declares. His replicates all reply “Spread to the everything! Be the all!” Jamie drops to his knees in front of Horoam’ce. “No…” he utters.
Betsy gets into telepathic contact with Brian and tells him she’s on her way, but won’t get there in time. She says if he spreads they’ll never undo it. A panicked Brian says they’re already disappearing through the doors. Betsy says he needs to stop him, but Brian doesn’t have any idea how. That’s when Psylocke tells him the identity of the Goat… their brother, Jamie.
Of course, Brian doesn’t believe that. Jamie is not far from him battling a skeletal soldier. Psylocke shows Brian what she found inside the Goat’s mind. Images of Jamie making a deal with Horoam’ce in the belief he’ll acquire cosmic omnipresent enlightenment. However, the Goat tricks him and inhabits his body. He went on to steal the orbs from Merlyn and a time travel pedestal and chose today to launch his invasion because Merlyn was in hibernation and Brian was distracted with other things.
Brian gets to his feet and resumes fighting. He doesn’t see that it matters, it’s too late. The goats are heading through the doors. Betsy has a solution, but it’s a drastic one. She tells her brother he has to kill Jamie, which will erase it from ever happening.
While he’s stunned by his sister’s plan Jamie rushes to Brian’s side and urges him on to do what they can to stop these goats. He heads up the stairway to the nearest replicate and stabs it in the throat.
Brian follows his brother and goes so far as to reach his hands for Jamie’s throat, but he can’t make himself do it. Instead, he drops to his knees in defeat. Betsy urges him up, telling him to get back on his feet and do it. Brian says he can’t, so Psylocke does the only thing she can. She takes over Brian’s mind.
The mind-controlled Brian wraps his hands around Jamie’s neck. Jamie is confused and not fighting back. He senses Elizabeth controlling Brian and asks what she’s doing. Tears begin flowing from Brian’s eyes as he tightens his grip around his brother’s throat. Psylocke telepathically apologizes to Jamie, but says there’s no other way. “I love you,” she says before forcing Brian to snap Jamie’s neck.
Psylocke relents her control and Brian screams out in despair. Jamie’s lifeless body falls to the ground. The remaining goats all disappear within moments leaving no trace of their presence.
Brian kneels on the ground and cradles Jamie’s body in his arms and that’s when X-Force finally arrives. Brian looks disgustingly at his sister and says there could have been another way. “Millions of souls were being consumed every second,” she replies calmly, “There was no other way.” Psylocke turns and walks away saying that Brian knew that, but made her do it, so he got to stay the “good guy.”