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(Kemet, The Ghiza Plateau, The other side of the multiverse)
A bunch of chained people are being escorted along a barren, desert-like landscape. One of the men, a priest, says that the prophecy will be overturned because there is a crack in the eye of God. One of the slavers tells him to shut up but he continues and says it is a window to the world before creation.
The slaver, a dog-like humanoid, hits him with a spear and the priest falls to the ground, coming face to face with the remains of another person. Cyclops helps him to his feet but is beaten down himself for his troubles. Also hidden amongst the slaves is the rest of the team. Hercules tells Dazzler that her plan of pretending to be captured to get into heart of the enemy territory is good but he doesn’t think Cyclops will stand it for much longer. She quietly tells him she won’t either but she’s pretty sure they have arrived at the place. They walk over the brow of a hill to see a Sphinx-like monument with the head of Xavier on it. It is still under construction with slaves and slavers working around it. The left eye of the Sphinx is flashing with a bright blue light.
Kurt asks Sage what she thinks the eye on the Sphinx is. She tells him every world has its own nexus of transdimensional potential but that is something different. It’s a rift; something is breaking through and the energy on the other side is terrifying. Howlett summarizes that the eye is what the evil Xavier’s are after and Dazzler asks where they are. Sage says they are near but she can’t pinpoint them without revealing their presence. Dazzler asks why they haven’t seized the power yet but Sage hushes her as something is happening.
One of the slavers yells for three more and, up high next to the eye, another slaver opens the door to a cabin and pulls three slaves out. He then throws them into the flashing eye and they scream as they are reduced to bones. Dazzler is shocked and Sage tries to calm her down before she blows their cover. Cyclops tells her there is nothing she could have done as Dazzler spots the evil Xaviers. They are standing next to the portal but Sage tells her not to attack them yet. Dazzler says it’s what they came there for but Sage replies they have gotten too strong. It looks like they are getting stronger too… the Witch King… the Nazi… and the floating head. They are working together, tapping into what’s on the other side of the portal. They watch as the Nazi Xavier uses his staff to draw power from the portal and empower himself. He then uses it to make it rain as tears run down the cheeks of the floating head Xavier. Sage admits the team is not ready for this.
Later that evening as it rains, the team sits around a campfire. Dazzler apologizes and says she screwed it up. Howlett asks what she’s talking about. She says they were sent on a mission to save the multiverse from ten evil Xaviers. Kurt points out that’s what they’re doing, they are figuring out the best plan. But Dazzler says they are in this mess because at every step she pulled her punches. She tells Cyclops he had her pegged the minute he got there. She’s not a killer. She may have talked big but she never wanted to kill any of the Xaviers; she just wanted to stop them. Now the Xaviers are going to do to everyone else, maybe even the universe, what they did to the slaves earlier.
So, she will make a plan and send them into battle. Anyone of them might be the one who has to kill without hesitation and any one of them might be killed. She puts her arm around Kurt and says that, if she survives and they don’t, then she will hate herself. But that’s not going to stop her. They are going to see her cut loose like never before because the stakes are too high. Too many people will die if they fail. They have to kill the evil Xaviers… nothing else matters. Hercules smiles and says the end of the world fight to the death is his favorite way to go. When he asks dazzler what she needs, she reminds him that she turns sound into light, so let’s start with a little noise.
As dawn breaks the next day, the Nazi Xavier wearily looks out from his cabin and says he is hungry. The slavers start yelling for three more slaves but they are suddenly distracted by the ground shaking and a rumbling sound. Hercules is using his immense strength to punch the ground. The slavers yell for him to stop but they are attacked by Kurt, Sage and Cyclops. Hercules continues to hit the ground and then yells to the other slaves and asks if they are slaves or men. He screams to let the monsters hear their roar.
The slaves rush forward, creating even more sound. Amongst them, Dazzler absorbs the sounds and then rises up into the air and unleashes her power. Standing at the top of the Sphinx, the Witch King Xavier yells down to her and says she killed them before and it didn’t do much good. Now they are a hundred times more powerful. Before he can finish, Dazzler tells him to shut up and fires a beam of light at him. It blows up their cabin and sends the Xaviers flying. The slaves cheer as the Nazi and Witch King Xavier collide with a pyramid and slide down to the ground.
The Witch King says they have barely tapped into a fraction of the power and now her greatest blow can’t scratch them. He starts to say there’s nothing they can do, but he is distracted by a shadow looming over him. Hercules ripped off the top of the pyramid and it lands on the two Xavier.
The floating Xavier is hurtling through the air but he is caught by Dazzler. He thanks her but she calls him a traitor. He said he had no choice as they were controlling him but he managed to keep them off the team’s trail. Still flying high in the air, she throws the head down to Howlett and tells him to kill him the second he smells funny. Xavier says that if he were still under their control, he would have exploded her head by now.  Dazzler asks Sage what she thinks. Sage tells her she’s not detecting any outside psionic presences on him and, if he were helping them, then it explains why the other Xaviers didn’t detect them.
Cyclops alerts them to the evil Xaviers who are struggling against Hercules. The demi-god is throwing rocks on top of the pile he already has on them but they are trying to break through. Dazzler asks their Xavier how to close the portal but he replies they don’t. He says the multiverse is broken and healing the rift is beyond their capability. When she asks what they do then, he tells her to kill whatever is on the other side. She asks what is on the other side but he tells her he has no idea. Whatever it is responds to sacrifices by offering up some of its power. So guesses that it’s evil but Xavier replies that he didn’t say that. For all they know, there are billions of innocents on the other side but the evil Xaviers are virtually unstoppable. They can’t let them feed one more time.
As he says that, the two Xaviers break free, sending Hercules flying backwards. Cyclops and Dazzler decide to fire their powers into the portal. As they do so they hear a screaming coming from it but Xavier tells them not to stop. The two Xaviers fly over to them saying they can’t do it. But dazzler stands triumphant and says they just did. The flashing light has no gone from the Sphinx. As she turns her attention to the two Xaviers, she doesn’t notice the portal sparkle again. It explodes, destroying the Sphinx’s head and sending the team flying backwards.
The two Xaviers float high in the air next to the portal, which is bigger than ever. The witch King says they just fed it and they will now accept its gift. The Nazi Xavier uses his staff to draw power from the portal but it unleashes a huge beam of energy and vaporizes both of them. Amongst the rubble down below, Hercules comments on how that was an ending. Xavier says it’s only just begun as the ground starts to shake.
The portal then starts sucking everything around it into it. All the rubble and slaves from around the Sphinx is lifted into the air and pulled towards it. A devastated Dazzler tries to grab onto a woman and her baby but Xavier tells the team to stay close as they are jumping. Dazzler screams for him to stop but it’s too late and they start to fade away, causing the woman to get sucked into the portal.
As the team fly through the multiverse, Dazzler asks Xavier what he did. He said he could only teleport their team but Dazzler says they should have stayed to fight. He tells Dazzler he heard what she said… any one of them might have to kill and any one of them might die. She did what she could but there was no way they could deal with what was coming out of that portal. That world is gone; no they better hope they can save the multiverse.
Elsewhere, the slave woman and her child have ended up somewhere dark. A light comes from behind them as a squad of sinister looking beings advance on her.


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(Chapter Six)
(San Francisco)
Howlett yells for Hercules and runs over to his lover’s body. As he touches the body, it crumbles to pieces. Wolverine comes up to him and tells him to mourn later, as they’ve still got monsters to kill. With tears running down his face, he says that he thought they would have more time. Kurt comes up to him and hugs him. Apologizing, Kurt says that Hercules took on the monster to save them but he couldn’t get to him in time.
Sage shouts to them to get their attention. They turn to see one of the giant monsters towering in the distance. She says that the Dreaming Celestial that just fell to pieces around them was ones of the most powerful entities in the universe. Prophet finishes her sentence by saying that the monster has now absorbed its strength. Wolverine unsheathes his claws and says he hasn’t met a monster yet that doesn’t have a weak spot; they just have to keep stickin’ them. Howlett tells him to stop; if anyone wants these things dead it’s him. But they have already tried that twice… now it’s time to see what their world’s wonders can do.
They look up to see Northstar flying at super-speed and laughing. Sage tells him to move faster as he flies round and round the monster. She yells that it’s working and Wolverine asks what’s working. She tells him the monster absorbs energy so Northstar is creating a vortex around the monster to stop any energy reaching it. Wolverine asks how they kill it and Prophet tells him they are accessing the Celestial’s memory box to figure it out. He and Kurt will just need a few more minutes.
Sage turns to Karma and says that Northstar can’t keep this up for much longer and asks if she’s ready. Karma replies that of course she isn’t, the monster is a psychic black hole, but this is what they pay the medium sized bucks for. Sage asks if they actually pay her but Karma replies that it was a joke. Karma tries to possess the monster but starts screaming in pain. Sage tells her to break off as it’s killing her but Karma holds on.
The ground starts to shake and the heroes stagger around. Rocks and debris start flying towards the monster. Howlett says it is just like the other world… it’s trying to eat the planet. Wolverine tells him to calm down, it’s just one monster. Their world is full of heroes and geniuses, they just have to contain it for long enough. Prophet interrupts and say it’s worse than he thought. There’s a whole army of the monsters… millions… billions even. Kurt says they are following this monster right to them. Just then, Prophet is struck on the head by a rock. He wearily says that nothing in the universe can contain them. But he has sent the other team to New Apocalypse so no matter what happens here they still have one more bullet in the chamber and her name is Jean Grey.
(Chapter Seven)
(New Apocalypse)
One of the monsters is rampaging through the city as Jean Grey flees from it with the unconscious body of Nightcrawler on her shoulder. She narrowly dodges a huge beam of light fired at the monster. She turns to see Dazzler, Iceman and Cyclops. She yells at Dazzler that the monster absorbs her power. Dazzler tells her to relax, as she got the memo. Dazzler and Cyclops then fire their powers at the ground in front of the monster, causing it to stagger backwards. Iceman then encases it in ice to slow it down. Dazzler grabs Jean by the scruff of her costume and says that they came there to get the Apocalypse Seed to destroy these things for good. But then Jean and Nightcrawler stole it. Jean says that it gets worse.
Elsewhere, Kurt teleports Howlett and Prophet through the portal and back to New Apocalypse. Howlett asks if Kurt’s alright and he wearily tells him he’s fine, though Prophet says that he has been getting weaker and weaker. The portal they take between dimensions is reacting with his teleportation power and it’s draining his strength. Kurt tells them he’s fine and holds out some tech from the Dreaming Celestial. The device is reacting and Kurt says the Apocalypse Seed must be close. Prophet says it must have been removed from its chamber and that Jean must have it. Kurt turns and says he hates to break it to him but it doesn’t look like Jean has it. They see Dark Beast in the distance trying to harness the power of the seed.
Jean and her team enter and yell for Dark Beast to stop. She informs Prophet that he stole the seed off them but he can’t control it. Dark Beast throws a fireball at them, but Iceman puts up a shield. Suddenly, they hear Dark Beast scream and realize he can’t control the power. Prophet puts his hand on Jean’s shoulder and tells her she was born for this and then asks if she’s ready. She hesitates but Nightcrawler, who has now regained consciousness, joins her. She asks if he trusts her and he replies that he has a hard time trusting anyone these days, not even himself. But, if he has to choose between a four hundred pound megalomaniac mad scientist or her, then the lady wins every time.
With that, he teleports himself and Jean up to Dark Beast. As he does so, the monster also bursts through the rocks and tries to grab the seed. It gets hold of it and Dark Beast screams that it’s his. The monster drops the seed, though, and screams in pain. Dark Beast picks the seed up again and starts to run off, with Jean and Nightcrawler chasing after him. Dazzler makes sure the two are clear and then orders everyone but her and Cyclops away. They aim their powers above the monster and hit the roof of the cavern. The roof starts to collapse as they turn to run. Dazzler says that bought them a minute and then asks if anyone has a plan. Prophet noted that the monster seemed to be repelled by the seed.
Kurt says they need to find Jean and the pod and then bring them back to Dazzler’s world. Dazzler asks what’s going on, on her world. Kurt tells her it’s even closer to destruction than New Apocalypse is. A Celestial powered monster is about to usher in a billion more just like him to eat the universe. He says it killed Hercules; he tried to help but he was too late. He looks sad as he says it but Howlett comforts him. Dazzler tells Howlett she is sorry and he says he is too but then again he always wanted to visit Hades. He figures he can do better than Orpheus did. But first they need to save the world Hercules died for.
Prophet says that he hates it as much as the rest of them but, if they run to save Dazzler’s world, then the monster here will grow just as strong and bring the same doom as the monster over there. They have to choose… seal off the portal and then save one world or the other. Dazzler points a finger at him and says they are X-Men… they choose both. Prophet says it isn’t a matter of will, there simply isn’t the time. She asks him how much faith he has in the Apocalypse Seed and he replies all the faith there is. She tells him to take Iceman, Kurt and Howlett and save Jean and then meet them at the portal. She will take care of the rest.
(Chapter Eight)
(The trans-dimensional portal to Golden Gate Park)
In New Apocalypse, Dazzler and Cyclops look through the portal and see the other team in her universe fighting the monster. Dazzler mutters that she has a bad feeling about it. Cyclops tells her it’s a good plan: they tempt the monster with their energy and it follows them through the portal. They will then have all the monsters in the same place and then Jean will hit them with the seed and save both worlds. She points out the last time they fired energy into a portal, it ended up destroying the world. Cyclops says it might happen again but she’s making the best call she can. She says she asked for this. She wanted to lead, to prove herself and be a hero. Now she just wants everyone to be okay. Cyclops holds her hand and says now she’s a hero.
On the other side of the portal, Sage shouts to her. They fire their powers at the portal and, on the other side, the energy beams come out and hit the monster. Sage yells to her to give it all she’s got as the other members try to coax it towards the portal. Northstar yells that the monster isn’t responding. Karma, surrounded by civilians, yells for everyone to get back. She yells for them to run but it’s too late and the monster grows even more powerful and starts sucking the people around it towards him.
Meanwhile, back through the portal, an exhausted Kurt teleports to Dazzler. He informs her that the others are on their way and the monsters chasing them. They will be there in about five minutes. Sage comes through the portal and says that the monster on the other side isn’t taking the bait and they can’t get him through the portal. Kurt says that he can but Dazzler tells him he isn’t strong enough. He says that Prophet is right; if they have any hope of saving both worlds, then they need all three monsters in front of Jean and the seed. Dazzler hugs him and says there has to be another way. Kurt says this is the only way and Dazzler says that he’s her hero. Kurt says to tell Howlett he kinda loves them all. With that, he teleports away and reappears on the other side of the portal. He grabs onto the monster and screams as he touches it. Around him, Northstar is catching the people being sucked into the air. When one of them yells for God, Kurt pleads a prayer of his own. He then uses his remaining strength to teleport the monster through the portal to New Apocalypse.
Kurt falls unconscious as he falls through the air. Dazzler creates a light-slide to catch him. She catches his body, only to realize that he’s dead.
Cyclops yells that the monster is opening up another portal and then asks where Jean and Prophet are. Nightcrawler, Prophet, Howlett and Dark Beast suddenly teleport in. Howlett yells for dark Beast to give up the seed as it’s killing him. Dark Beast says that it’s his, so Prophet stabs him through the back. He yells for Nightcrawler to get the seed but Dark Beast grabs it and erupts with energy, sending the heroes flying. Having had enough, Dazzler gets up and confronts Dark Beast herself. She fires multiple laser beams at him and then powers up her fists with light. She punches him until she knocks him down and then takes the seed off him. She picks it up and tells Jean that a lot of people died to get it and a lot more will die if she screws it up. So no pressure, but it’s show time. She gives the seed to Jean as a monster rampages behind her.


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Savage Genesis
Rogue is terrified and running. She is chased by a group of dinosaurs who resemble her teammates. Finally they catch up with her and knock her down. The five creatures feast on her.
Rogue wakes up in the Blackbird, she has had the latest in a series of seizures. Because of Rogue’s condition the team has contacted scientist and former member Hank McCoy, aka the Beast, who since they last saw him has undergone another mutation of his appearance. Rogue tells the others everything she remembers of her dream / hallucination and newbie Thunderbird questions the dinousaurs, yet the others tell him that some really survived till the present day in the Savage Land in Antarctica. Sage evaluates every detail of Rogue’s description and pinpoints the landscape to be that of the southernmost tip of South America, near the Straits of Magellan, so the team heads there.
During the flight Beast, Storm and Bishop discuss the situation. They can’t ignore the possibility that Rogue is receiving some sort of psychic message and that they are needed, however Bishop points out that they can’t be sure of Rogue anymore. Before she only temporarily absorbed other’s powers and personalities, but now she randomly manifests all those that she has ever absorbed in her life. Some of these are serious characters, and strongwilled villains – there is a chance that one of these identities might take over. Unnoticed Rogue heard everything he said and a tear rtuns down her cheek.
Inside Rogue’s head, there is a war going on. She has to fight against the psyches of villains like Magneto, Sabretooth and Mr. Sinister and as she is about to lose, she discovers that she doesn’t have to fight alone. The residue of Captain America, Destiny and some X-Men are there to help her and make Rogue realize that she  has more strength and ressources than she suspects.
As the Blackbird reaches it’s destination, the team finds some local army chasing someone. Rogue is immediatly reminded of her dreams and decides that the hunted need help. She hits the controls and the Blackbird dives down in a curve. Rogue gets out and causes some destruction among the army, and Storm causes some bad weather so that pursuit through all the mud is near impossible. Rogue then picks up where the army left off and follows the hunted people, and the team in the Blackbird goes after her. Finally they reach them and are quite surprised.
The hunted people are a tribe of Saurids. For centuries they lived in secrecy in the badlands in the south-west deset of the United States, but when they learned about the existence of the Savage Land, they decided to resettle to it, as there they could hope to live in peace. Along the way they were discovered and perceived as monsters. Thunderbird has soubts about their intentions, but Rogue reminds him that they are no different than mutants – hated and feared for being different. The team decides to help the Saurids get to their destination.
Somewhat later, the group has made it to the Cavern below the Drake Passage that links South America to the Savage Land. The problems is that the Blackbird can’t stay aloft with all of them inside, and bon foot, the journey would take weeks, so the X-Treme X-Men have come up with another alternative. Rogue is carrying the Blackbird through the narrow cavern, with Sage at the controls monitoring the surroundings. Bishop and those Saurids that did not fit into the plane are standing on top of it, with Bishop using his guns on stalagtites that might get in the way. Beast, Storm and Thunderbird are scouting ahead. They pass a waterfall and the team investigates as it wasn’t there when they last crossed the passage, yet there are no fresh fractures in the surrounding rock, and so they proceed. While Neal and Ororo take a closer look to find that the waterfall is saltwater, so derived from the ocean above them, they are being watched. The creature transmits data to Brainchild of the Savage Land Mutates, who is joyful to see Storm among the invading team.
Suddenly a little Saurid and his mother fall off the Blackbird. Beast jumps after them, clinging on a rope, and manages to catch them in time. He lifts the pair up to safety again, but instead of being thankful, the Saurid mother gnarls at Hank. Bishop and Beast wonder why, as two other Saurid come over to explain. The rest of the family of that particular female was killed by humans, and therefore she holds a grudge. C’rel is the leader of the tribe, and the daughter of former leader Arachty’r (who appeared in Ms. Marvel #20-21). She has so far managed to hold her people at bay, but more and more of the Saurids hate the outside world. Having heard the about the inner struggles of the Saurids, Thunderbird realizes that it is no different for mutants like X-Men. They are outcasts and feared and hated by the rest of the world, still they fight in their name. He wonders if theirs is a lost cause.
In the Savage Land, Brainchild thinks that he has let them procceed far enough to give them at least a chance. He then triggers an explosion and the rift to the ocean opens, with lots of water flooding in.


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Deluge
The X-Treme X-Men are transporting a group of Saurids towards the Savage Land through the cavern below the Drake Passage, as suddenly the roof collapses and the ocean water floods in. Storm takes immediatly charge of the situation and shouts around commands. Beast and Bishop are to cram everyone inside the Blackbird who can possibly fit, and she Thunderbird and Rogue qwill carry the rest with ropes. Before departing Neal feeds Bishop with his solar flare so that the Blackbird, piloted by Sage is not without defenses. Storm carries two Saurids, Thunderbird three and Rogue has Beast, C’rel and three more Saurids. Sage uses the telemetry from Neal’s glasses to navigate the Balckbird through the cavern , an near to impossible task at full speed. Bishop, tied to the Craft’s hull, helps by blasting away rock formations that might get in the way. They speed through the narrow caves, trying to outrun the flood wave, but not before long it becomes clear, that they do not only have to fear the war, but also the pressure ram building in front of the wave. The air is front of it is even compressed more by the narrow tunnel walls and would hit like a solid object.
The geological event of the large cavern giving in to the ocean is noticed around the world. The water flows down in a giant whirpool, and various ships do not survive. Tsunami alerts are made all over the southern hemisphere, and the effect on the tectonic plates of americaand antarctica are still unkown. However the X-Men can not worry about such global things, their current problem is simple survival. The Blackbird is hit by debris and the radio contact to the rest of the team breaks down. The fliers have no idea if the Saurids and their teammembers aboard are dead or not, but turning back would mean certain death, so they move on. As the wave gets closer, Neal realizes that they won’t make it on their oen; they have only one chance left : To ride the leading edge of the air pressure wave as if they were surfing. Although he has never done a similar thing before Neal acts by sheer instinct alone and it works. The others follow his example, and within minutes the team and they are blasted out of the cavern high into the sky of the Savage Lkand, followed by a large boom and a water fountain. Even the Blackbird is blown out and the Saurid aboard pull the exhausted Bishop inside. Sage tries to get a handle of the plane, but it’s useless; the Blackibird crashlands in some snowy mountains.
Rogue and the people she carried are all fine. They search for the others, and Beast spots Thunderbird and his passengers in the water below. He leaps down and pulls them out, and not before long they also find the two Saurids that rescued by Storm, but they are alone. The two Saurids state that after they emerged from the cavern they fell into the ice cold water. Storm used her powers to both calm the water and shield them against the temperature and tthen helped them to climb on a piece of wood. Yet before Ororo could rescue herself, she was caught in a current and they were separated. Elsewhere Brainchild finds the unconscious Storm and is quite happy.
An unknown amount of time later, Beast wakes up in the care of a woman named Lupa. He has no memory how he got there and panics when he sees a pack of wolves, but there’s nothing to fear as they are under Lupa’s control. Beast wonders what happened, and his host gives him a tour of the primitive city they are in. Surprisingly it’s filled with members of various, usually rivaling tribes of the Savage Land and the Saurid do blend in too. They are greeted by Neal, who is happy to see the Beast allright. He tells that Rogue has been seriously injured, but is taken care of, and Beast wonders what has happened to them in the amount of time he does not remember. They then meet Delage, who introduces himself as the elected leader of the community. He explains that they saw the waterspout and rescued the X-Men and Saurids, but that others were also attracted. These others apparently abducted Storm and used some psychic power on the Beast, therefore his amnesia.
In the great Council Chamber Beast and Neat find C’rel, who is happy to be in that city, as it is an example of humans and saurians living with each other peacefully. However Delage has some bad news. Though C’rel and her tribe are more than welcome, there are other saurians in the Savage Land that are not as developed, in fact nothing more than animals. These often attack the city and have to be dealt with, as they will never stop unless they have killed all humans. Thunderbird is reminded of his native india, where muslim are always battlking hindu, and also the members of different castes oppose each other. Beast suddenly announces to help Delage’s city, depite the fact that half of the X-Men are missing. Before Neal can speak with his comrade, the Beast has walked obver to Lupa and they start to kiss, much to Neal’s concern. The only reasonable ally left might be C’rel who secretly speaks with Neal that she is woriied about these events too.
From his secret base, Brainchild spies on them. He sees Lupa and Beast kiss and is satisfied with this turn of events. Behind him, Ororo is chained to a wall.


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False Haven !
Brainchild and his fellow Savage Land Mutates watch how Leash, a new member tries to keep Rogue under control. Usually she has no problems to bind the psyches and souls of her victims to herself, however while she works on Rogue‘s astral form she faces problems. The X-woman‘s unique situation of having multiple residue personalities in her head, popping up at random, makes it impossible for Leash to get a real grip on Rogue. Brainchild thanks Leash for at least trying, and orders the tied up Rogue to be brought back to her quarters. He then asks Lupa to report on her progress. She states that she has complete control over the Beast; her own bodily pheromones, paired with the scent of the blood lotus put him under her spell. Lupa demands to know why Brainchild doesn’t kill the X-Men, as already four of them are within the city, but the Savage Land Mutates‘ leader replies that there are many more X-Men and he doesn’t want them investigating. So when the X-Men will die, it must look like an accident and not draw unwanted attention. Lupa says that this won’t provide a problem, and Brainchild is satisfied, if there will be any problems he will hold Lupa responsible.
Brainchild then checks on Storm, who has been strapped into a machine. Her powers have been negated and Brainchild gloats that she will become his queen. Ororo refuses, but Brainchild says that she won’t have a choice, and that when he is finished with his manipulations she will love blood and murder.
Later, Thunderbird observes a developing confluct between a group of Saurids and some humans. They eye each other suspiciously and Neal thinks that it’s another case of unresolved hatred and bigotry, but it turns out to be nothing else than a game of soccer. Neal thinks to himself that maybe there is reason to hope, and suddenly Rogue and Beast join the game. He is happy to see his teammate in good shape, as she was reported to have been injured earlier on, and then she is filled in on what happened. Apparently they are the sole survivors, they haven’t heard from Storm or the Blackbird carrying Bishop, Sage and many Saurids. When last seen, the plane was on a trajectory straight into the arctic wasteland. Rogue’s reaction is that they should depart immediatly and start searching, however Hank made a commitment in the X-Men’s name, he promised that they’d help this Savage Land community against some attacks. Rogue gets angry, as “family“ should have priority, when Delage and C’rel arrive.
Delage, as the community’s leader, makes a formal speech to the troops. C’Rel, the leader of the Saurid race, is at his side. Delage reminds everyone to be cautious, but they have no choice but to fight. Their city is a haven for everybody regardless of origin or species, but the old saurian races within the Savage Land fail to acknoledge their ways and try to kill them, as their recent attacks proove. Without the aid of the X-Men they will surely get defeated. During the speech Rogue understands that they have to stay and help protect the city, though she knows that something doesn’t add up. The Beast wonders off during the ceremony and he is again enthralled by Lupa behind the stage. Rogue asks C‘Rel if she is sure of her decisions, but apparently the saurians have taken some of her Saurid’s hostage, so she has no other choice than to oppose them.
In his base, Brainchild watches events unfold and is happy. Whatever the outcome of the upcoming battle, he will win.
The Blackbird has crashed in the snowy wastelands. It’s passengers, mostly Saurid children, are cowering together to keep themselves warm. Bishop has been injured and lies unconscious. With no power to the ship’s systems, there is no way to tell how serious his wounds are. Sage is making repairs to the Blackbird, with the help of some of the older Saurids. Having finished rerouting some power lines, she asks Jimi to enable main power, but it doesn’t work. Sage calls up the Blackbird’s blueprint, which is no problem for someone with perfect memory, and compares the layouts, till the error is found. Meanwhile the children start to panic, it‘s cold and dark, but M’kai tries to reassure them. Right as a fight is about to start among the kids, Bishop wakes up and tells them to stop. Tessa and Jimi try their luck once more, and this time the plane’s main power returns.
In the Savage Land, the troops are now preparing for the battle. Lupa and Beast are the scouts, taking the lead, but when Hank spots some pterasaurs ready to attack, Lupa convinces him not to alert the others. While they kiss each other, the reptils attack Neal and Rogue, leaving the army of soldiers open to get attacked by a herd of velociraptors. In the skies, Rogue gets nailed by one of the attacking beasts and is knocked into a mountain. Neal tries to help her, but suddenly the Pterasaurs are flying in formation, leaving him no room to maneuver and he goes down the hard way, crashing into some trees. The combined army of humans and Saurid are panicing and running away. C’Rel shouts orders, but nobody listens, yet she at least stays to help Delage, who has been caught by a raptor. Beast leaps in, now too helping in the fight, with Lupa coming in right after him. But they all pause in awe as a few T-Rex’s arrive, one rode by Khadar, C’Rel’s second in command and apparently allied with the saurians.
Beast and Khadar start to fight, and Lupa’s wolves help to keep any other saurians off their backs. Meanwhile Rogue emerges from the crashsite, and flies back to the battle, angrily smashing some of the bigger dinosaurs. Delage‘s militia follows her example, they regroup and join the battle, as they suddenly see more saurians running towards them. Yet they are not running towards them, but running away from Thunderbird, who radiates solar plasma, looking like the sun recast in human form. C’Rel stops the battle between Beast and Khadar, asking why her friend is on the other side. He says that he was told that C’Rel and the other Saurids were made slaves inside the community, but Beast and C’Rel can convince him that it’s not true. They shake hands, and Khadar is welcomed into Delage’s community as well.
Again they are watched from afar by Brainchild, who laughs at them all for their wasted effort. He knows that there will be murder and war thanks to his new emissary – Storm. Ororo has been transformed by his machine into something savage. She now has claws, fangs and pointed ears, while one of Brainchild’s servants is wearing her costume.


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What Price, Freedom ? What Price, Humanity ?
Brainchild has used a device on Storm to devolve her into a version of herself a thousand generations ago. Additionally he has increased her lust for battle and blood. The savage Ororo tries to resist, but finally she gives in to Brainchild‘s orders and howls that she will kill her former teammates.
The Blackbird lands at the community in the Savage Land. Bishop and Sage have transported the Saurid children safely to their tribe. The other X-Men are happy to see their teammates alive, and C’rel thanks Bishop for the safe return of her people. Neal interrupts, telling Sage that Storm is still missing, but Sage says he must be wrong. Her sensors tell her that the Beast is the farthest away (Lupa is again enthralling him), but Storm registers nearby. Suddenly Ororo leaps down on them, gutting Sage with her claws. Before anybody can react, she kicks Rogue in the face, and then Brainchild’s Savage Land Mutates strike. Whiteout uses her intense snow glare to blind all present. Rogue hears her attacker moving and knocks Whiteout out with one punch. She then grabs Sage to get her to safety and takes to the air, but Vertigo disorients them and they fall into the river.
Bishop and Thunderbird are standing back to back, and Neal is afraid to use his power as he can’t see where he is firing and could injure somebody. He is attacked by Gaza, the blind giant, who makes fun of them as he was blind since birth and has other senses to compensate. Bishop pinpoints Gaza’s direction and shoots at him, but Barbarus attacks him from behind, taking him out. Thunderbird is then taken to Leash who uses her power on him. She enslaves his spirit, and then commands him to slay his teammate. Neal blasts at Bishop full force, and Bishop falls down, not moving.
Outside the city gates, Amphibius sits by the river. He commands some sharks and crocodiles to go after Sage and Rogue, and uses his long tongue to rip an X-emblem from their costumes, to have proof of their deaths. However the two females don’t die, but dive down and find a pipe of the community’s sewer system. For the moment they are safe, but Rogue wonders what to do.
A little bit later, the Mutates have taken Beast and C‘rel to Brainchild’s inner sanctum, and he is pleased about his team’s performance. Right then Rogue bursts through the floor, ready to attack, but Brainchild attacks her with a mindblast. He increases her mental struggle against the residue of absorbed personae, and Rogue finds her mind taken over by Colossus, Waolverine, Sabretooth, Magneto and many more. Lupa doesn’t think it fair that Brainchild has all the fun, so she allows her enthralled Beast to join the fight. Yet her command doesn’t tell whom he should fight, and so Hank knocks out Lupa herself, before finding himself under attack by the savage Ororo.
Outside, Bishop was left for dead on the boneyard, evidently the Mutates have no idea how his energy power works. Waking up, Bishop wants to fight Gaza and Barbarus, but they send the brainwashed Thunderbird against him, and Bishop charges up even more. Bishop then knocks the rookie X-Man out, hoping that he will be himself again when he comes around, but before he can use the heat against the Savage Land Mutates, he gets disoriented by Vertigo. As if he wasn’t having a hard time already, more opponents arrive in the form of many savages riding dinosaurs.
In Brainchild’s sanctum, Rogue is still struggeling with the phantoms, and Beast is having trouble against Storm. He does not want to hurt her, but the X-Men leader is not held back by such concerns. Finally she gets the upper hand and throws Hank through the room. Beast crashes into Rogue, who absorbs him.
Elsewhere in the palace, Leash is running towards the slave pens. She wants to manipulate more people and ensure the Mutates‘ victory, but suddenly she is intercepted by Sage. Leash attempts to use her power on Tessa, but her will is stronger, and Sage reflects the attack back on Leash, now herself an enthralled victim of her own power and forced to do Tessa’s bidding. Instantly her former victims all regain their free will.
Outside, the many dinosaurs and Saurids gets angry about having been mindcontrolled. They need someone to blame and Khadar, the Saurid’s second in command, takes control of the situation. He knows his people need someone to blame and is about to order the Mutates killed. Bishop gets in between, and says that he can’t allow murder.
In the main chamber, Brainchild orders the savage Ororo to kill the still disoriented Rogue and the weakened Beast, but Sage enters with Leash and has her enslave the Savage Land Mutates‘ leader. With her master defeated, Storm too is soon taken out of the game, and Lupa’s wolfpack runs away after receiving a threatening look from the Beast.
The fight is over, the X-Men are talking with C’rel and Delage, the leaders of the two species. Delage thinks like Khadar that the Savage Land Mutates should be terminated, but C’rel knows that they all have to try and coexist. As long as they all live together, without one species attacking the other, they can be at peace. The X-Men back her up, they won’t allow murder. For now Delage agrees, but he says that he won’t tolerate further interference by the Savage Land Mutates or the X-Men.
Some hours later, Sage has learned how to operate Brainchild’s machine and used it to reverse it’s effect on Storm. While slowly transforming back, Ororo has run away into the snowy mountains, where the Beast finds her. She fears that what Brainchild did to her can’t be fully reversed. He could so easily awake the savage parts of her, and the way back to humanity is so hard. She apologizes to Hank for truly having wanted to kill him, but he ensures her that the team will always be there for her.


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Last Stand
Gwen Stacy stands in what is left of the great land of Wakanda with a duffel bag full of medical supplies thrown over her shoulder.  Gwen would cry if she had any tears left for the destruction and famine that lie all around her. Since Wakanda’s warrior king, T’Challa, was killed in battle, the city has been slowly slipping into death.  A little boy named N’Kim runs to Gwen with nothing clothing his body besides an old blue baseball cap.  As others approach, Gwen can only offer encouragement and pity, but for N’Kim she takes an extra moment. Bending down and straightening his cap, she picks him up and listens to him tell her of his mother and how close she is to death.  Gwen tells N’Kim that his place is by her side and as she places him down on the ground. She tells him to run to his mother and be by her side when death comes to take her.  Gwen watches N’Kim run off, till he is almost out of sight, when a blast that is all too familiar to her explodes in the distance, killing N’Kim and leaving only his charred baseball cap to mourn the passing of the little boy.  Stacy does not mourn for long though, because her sadness is turned to anger as she sees four members of the Marauders, a human terrorist group that has been given free run in Wakanda by Apocalypse.
The names of the Marauders are Dirigible, formerly known as Fisk, Red formerly known as Osborne, the Euro-Assassin known as Arcade, and the mysterious Owl.  Each one of them uses “wrist-armories and air-steppers, individual power sources of some sort, to strike fear into the hearts of their victims.  Dirigible orders the other three to attack the citizens of Wakanda while he begins what he calls the “barbecue”.  Below Dirigible, Gwen lies on the ground and hears the cries of the babies and the parents’ cries for mercy. She prepares her gun to fire at the Marauder closest to her, Dirigible.  Her aim is true enough. As she fires, she is thrown backwards from the force of her gun. Dirigible only has time to utter one last word before he is turned into nothing but ashes, and it is “no”.  Gwen mourns in her heart, not for the Marauder’s death, but for the wasted technology that she was forced to destroy.
Arcade gives Gwen no time to think as he flies down to her and teases her about how he knows that her gun is powerful, but the draw back is it takes so long to load.  As he nears to kill her, Arcade and Gwen both are shocked to see a giant metal spider hovering above them.  Arcade has no time to react though, as his body is splattered across the landscape by a load of medical supplies dropped from the hatch of the spider-ship.  Stacy wonders why, when she sees this massive metal spider, she has a bittersweet taste on her lips of a future long lost to her?
The two people aboard the spider-ship are Tony Stark, or at least what is left of the man, and Clint Barton, the pilot of the ship.  Owl cries out “who?” as Red explains to him that the ship should not be able to hit them from that far distance. They are wrong, however, as Clint fires two explosive packs from the ship, exploding the two terrorists.  After the death of the Marauders, Stark orders Clint to drop the rest of the supplies and to help in the dispersal of them as best as he can, while he collects the person they have come after.  As the ship drops the supplies and the citizens of Wakanda sort through them, Tony steps off the ship only to be greeted by a gun toting Gwen Stacy.  She holds a gun to his head as he bends down to pick up her scarf she recently had lost.  She tells him that he seems more like a snake to her and his charms will not work. She also asks him where Ben Grimm is, who normally delivers the much needed aid?
In the distance, a shadowy figure emerges from the crowd of Wakandans and reprimands her for not treating their guests with respect, even if they were not expected.  His name is Donald Blake and as some people stare at him, they do not see a ragged man with broken glasses, they see a god, a healer who soothes their wounds and helps them with their pain.  As Blake approaches, Tony and Gwen, who still has not removed her gun from Tony’s face, Tony comments on Blake looking terrible. Jokingly, Blake tells Tony he has not changed.  As Donald moves closer, Gwen warns him to not get too close to Tony, because she has not checked him yet.  Donald is in no mood to wait though and he brushes past her to hug his old friend.  After they embrace, Donald asks why the council had sent a man of his importance on a simple medical aid run?  Tony tells Blake that his expertise is needed back in England tonight and he must take him away from the Wakanda nation.  Gwen immediately tells Blake that he cannot go because of his health, but Blake shows her no mind as he asks Tony how his heart is doing?  Tony replies that his heart is fine and smirks as he tells Donald he is expanding his horizons every day.
High above London, a mutant convoy led by Mikhail Rasputin has arrived to discuss peace talks with the Human High Council. In one of the Eurasian copters flying close to the lead ship of Mikhail’s, Ben Grimm and Susan Storm discuss their distrust of the man named Mikhail and also in anything Apocalypse says about peace.
Mikhail stands on the bridge of his ship, listening to his lead meta-human, named the Keeper, report that the airships that are preparing to leave London are filled with Nuclear Warheads.  Mikhail stops the Keepers report and tells him that he knew of the bombs even before they left America, so he should not waste so much of his time if he values his life.  The Keeper’s name is Matthew Murdock and he owes his allegiance to Rasputin because of his “second site” he believes Rasputin has blessed him with, after he was blinded in an accident.  Mikhail explains that if it was not for their Navigational System’s being destroyed, the Council would have probably already bombed Apocalypse’s citadel.  The Keeper reports, as he is asked on the health of one of Mikhail’s latest experiments, that the boy is almost red-lining and could die if not given a chance to rest.  Mikhail angrily tells the Keeper that the death of the boy would be unacceptable.
Elsewhere at the hanger of the Eurasian forces, Ben and Susan prepare to land their airplane on the runway. Before they do so, they are surprised to hear a voice over their radio crying for them to abort their landing and to pull up.  As they sit in shock over what they hear, Ben pulls back, narrowly saving the two from the destruction that laid waste to everyone below them.  Ben and Susan land their plane after the explosion subsides and Susan tells Ben that they must find the person or thing that caused all this destruction.  Ben tries to reason with her, saying that they should wait on backup, but she informs him that the minutes they wait might allow the saboteur the chance to escape.  “Invisible grade Infiltration” is her forte she tells Ben as the two enter the hangar that had once held the command center for the entire army of Eurasia.  Ben comments on how in one blast, someone was able to wipe out everyone capable of flying the planes in the attack against Apocalypse.  The two friends see all the dead bodies as they rifle through, looking for the lead scientist that was working at the base at the time of the explosion.
As they walk and talk, Ben is knocked back by a large gray monster.  Ben asks the monster what kind of “thing” is he?  Ben believes him to be a mutant but the monster talks and he tells them that he is not a mutant, but a human who has now been given the power to survive like any mutant could.  Ben, who is lying on his back, is held by the throat by the monster. After he pulls his gun from his side, he blasts the entire magazine into its stomach.  The monster stands, with the bullets still stuck in him, like nothing happened to him.  Susan jumps from the shadows and onto the monster’s back She listens to him ramble on about how far superior he is to humans, but Susan tells him that he still cannot watch his back as she blasts off the monster’s right ear.  The monster, which now prefers to be called the Thing, throws Susan into the wall closest to him and he walks away bleeding from his open wound.
Ben scrams for Susan and orders her not to move, thinking that the Thing hurling her into the wall hurt her.  Susan sits up and tells Ben that it probably would have, if the dead bodies of the hangar’s occupants had not softened her impact.  Ben orders her to her feet because they still have to find the lead scientist before the monster does. That is, if the scientist is still alive.  Against one of the walls of the compound, they find the scientist and call out to him, “Doctor Banner.”  The scientist turns to the two and, as he bleeds profusely from an open wound to his ear, he begs them not to hurt him.  Ben notices the wound and he tells Susan that the doctor is in shock.  Susan agrees and tells the doctor that they need to get him medical attention, but he tells her no, he just wants them to escort him to the meeting at Buckingham Raze. He is already late.
On the platform of Mikhail’s ship, Victor Von Doom walks to shake Mikhail’s hand and apologize that he, the senior officer of the Eurasian Security, is the only one from the council able to greet him.  As Mikhail walks to the head of the platform to talk to the people of Eurasia gathered below his ship, he tells Doom to not be so apologetic.  Mikhail tells them all that he has not come as a dictator but as a helper, to help humans and mutants learn to live together in peace.  The crowd chants Mikhail’s name and they cry “UNITY”.
While on the ship, members of Mikhail’s meta-human army inform the Keeper that the boy, who lies on a crucifix, with hundreds of wires coming from his body, might not make it if he does not rest.
After Mikhail finishes his speech he turns around to see that Doom has been joined by Donald Blake, Tony Stark, Gwen Stacy, Ben Grimm, Susan Storm, Dr. Bruce Banner, and Dr. Donald Blake and invites them all to take a tour of his ship.  He tells the citizens of Eurasia that he will allow their leaders to tour the ship, to prove that he has nothing to hide.
After the group enters the ship with Mikhail, Ben takes a look out a window only to see a few humans killing themselves to try and get on the ship with them.  Ben wonders aloud why everyone is acting so crazy and Mikhail answers him.  Mikhail tells Ben that crazy is asking them to trust the Human Council, because the Council will only lead to a more painful destruction for the human race.  Gwen pulls her gun out on Mikhail and tells him that she does not like where Mikhail is going with his speech to them.  Doom, being the reasonable one, asks Gwen to put her weapon down. She would do them no good since people guard the entire ship with more powerful weapons then her gun.  Mikhail tells Doom that young Stacy is right to be worried, because by weeks end the humans will have torn their own selves apart thanks to, as a door opens behind Mikhail, his pet mutant “Empath”.  Mikhail points towards his mutant experiment hanging like on a cross completely naked and guarded by the Keeper.  Mikhail laughs at the humans infront of him and tells them that out of the entire human race, they few might have had the chance to stand up against him. How “ironic” it is that they have just now been delivered into his grasp.
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Dying Breath
In London, below the hovering ship of Mikhail Rasputin, thousand of volunteers head towards the transport ships. These ships have been sent to take them to a facility on Mikhail’s ship to begin their augmentation process and become the next wave of enhanced humans in Mikhail’s army. A man named Rafe stands near a statue of a World War I soldier. Rafe talks to his wife, Marta, of how he hopes that he is not wrong and that Mikhail’s promises lead them and their son to a better life are true. Both kiss and Marta climbs down the statue to head to the transport ship with her son. On Mikhail’s ship the leaders who had greeted Mikhail are trapped in stasis chambers, awaiting their turn on the operating table and begin their augmentation process. Tony Stark is already lying on the operating table. Thanks to an accident when he was younger, Tony Stark almost died, but his genius with mechanics was able to save him. Tony wears a mechanical heart, so Mikhail believes him to be the best of the lot for accepting the augmentations. As the others watch from their glass chambers, they are able to see a mechanical syringe getting closer to Tony’s heart and slowly puncturing his skin until the syringe is in his chest.
Elsewhere on Mikhail’s ship, the Keeper watches over Empath, who is being kept alive by the wires that come from his body to the machines above. The Keeper tells him that being sensitive in today’s world does not pay. A doctor, in the shadows behind the Keeper, tells him that he must keep Empath alive so he can continue to fan the flames of insurrection in the humans below them.
Below the ship, the humans chant the name of Mikhail and also cry Unity. Not so far away in an abandoned building, the last remaining members of the Human High Council meet to discuss the growing instability of the civilians around them. The three members of the Council are Bolivar Trask, his wife Moira Mactaggert-Trask, and Thunderbolt Ross, a five star general of an American Army that no longer exists. While the three talk, in the shadows, Mikhail lurks and listens to their conversation. As Ross talks, Mikhail steps out and interrupts him, telling them that their choices are out of their hands now. As the three members stare in shock in Mikhail’s presence, Mikhail angrily tells them that if the humans cannot stand together, the mutants will destroy them, because at least mutants are committed to a common cause.
Tony contorts in pain as the syringe bursts through his mechanical heart. The resistance leaders knew that Mikhail had been experimenting on humans and that whomever they sent aboard the ship would become part of the experiment as well. So, they rewired Tony’s heart to cause a feedback throughout the ship when the syringe entered Stark’s heart. As the feedback occurs, and a temporary short-circuiting of the power supply happens, it comes at a cost of giving Stark a cardiac arrest. “We’re free,” cries one of the captured civilians as he also begins to take charge of the other civilians. He orders them to find anyone else who cannot walk and to help them escape. Von Doom escapes from his cell, as does everyone else does, and they all run to Donald Blake’s side to help him free himself. After being pulled free by Doom, Blake only takes a second to collect his thoughts before he runs to the operation table to see if he can do anything to save Stark’s life. Gwen is already there and is applying CPR, which is not working. Blake orders her to back off of him while he pulls a syringe from his pocket that is full of adrenaline. He plunges it into Stark’s heart, thankfully saving his life. As Stark raises himself off the bed the entire team is surprised to see that their plan is going just the way they had wanted it. Ben watches from the background and says out loud that “Operation: Trojan Horse” has only just begun. Tony tells Grimm that the tracking devices they had placed earlier on Grimm’s weapons is still signaling to his internal sensors, leading them straight to the Ammo Dump.
In front of the ammo dump, a few of Mikhail’s soldiers are guarding the front door when ropes, falling from the ceiling, surprise them. As Donald helps Tony to the ammo dump a few feet in front of them, four of the team members are traveling down the ropes, easily taking out the guards. Donald comments on how that the other members of the team are extremely good at fighting and Tony tells him that he needs to get used to seeing fighting. Tony walks down the stairs of the Ammo Dump and comments on the great luck of being able to find the armor and weapons that may help them win the battle. As the team finds weapons and armament that suits them, Gwen tells Blake of her regrets for not being able to go with him to warn the High Council. Blake interrupts her, saying that none of them ever had a choice in the matter once the war had begun. Stacy tells Blake of her distrust in Doom, who has agreed to escort Blake back to the High Council’s hideout. Doom tells Stacy that the Council would not recognize her in his stead, so he must go to help Blake. Ben hops on one of the two hover-bikes that have been stored in the ammo dump and tells Gwen of his distrust in Doom. However, they have no choice because at the moment all they have left is each other. As Ben and Susan ride one bike, Gwen and Tony fly the other to the bridge of Mikhail’s ship.
A man whose name has been lost to his talent, who know calls himself Bullseye, leads hundreds of humans from the cell blocks below, each one fighting for their very freedom. Bullseye commands the others to keep moving forward to the airstrip on Mikhail’s ship. The enemy of Bullseye’s crew maintains the high ground though, as they begin to kill thirty humans to their two from their position of power. Luckily for the humans, Ben Grimm has the higher ground than even the traitorous humans. Using the laser cannon on his hover bike to destroy the tower and all the enemies on it, he ensures Bullseye’s team’s victory. Emerging victorious, the transport arks are now under the control of the humans. As Ben and Susan fly away, the humans below cheer their victory.
Aboard the auto-bridge B-2, a handful of traitorous humans react to the spreading alarms, but seconds too late. Tony and Gwen bust into the room, killing the humans as they are busy trying to find what has set the alarms off. Tony tells Stacy that she needs to buy him some time as he … just then Tony turns around to see the Thing holding an unconscious Gwen. Menacingly, the Thing tells Tony that his time is up.
Meanwhile, Mikhail stands above what is left of the Human High Council. He talks to them about giving them one more chance to bow to his leadership, or they will be broken. As Mikhail talks, Donald Blake steps in. As Mikhail stands shocked about Donald’s appearance, Blake tells Mikhail that the council does not have to fear him anymore. The resistance has taken Mikhail’s ship over. As Mikhail looks to the sky towards his ship, he sees a large explosion coming off of the starboard side and he knows that Blake is speaking the truth.
Seconds later, four members of Mikhail’s Stryfe-Force bursts through the window, ready to follow Mikhail’s commands. One of the members is Marta, Rafe’s wife who had joined Mikhail’s augmentation program earlier. Like her, each member of the Stryfe-Force seems to be newly techno-gifted humans that have been programmed to follow Mikhail’s orders. Mikhail commands his Stryfe-Force to kill the council members, but they try to fight his order, telling him that they cannot kill the Human High Council. Mikhail angrily tells his Stryfe-Force that he is not asking, he is commanding. Mikhail uses his powers of cyber-organics to manipulate them into holding their guns up to the council’s heads. “God help me!” one of the members says as a bullet is heard. Luckily for the council members, Blake was not the only one to arrive, Doom came also. As the prayer is answered and the Stryfe-Force members fall to their feet dead, Doom thanks Mikhail for the use of his ship, as he pilots Mikhail’s own personal flagship just outside the window of the council’s hideout.
Below the Council, a man named Rafe holds his son in his arms as he sees the growing storm of Stryfe-Force members verging on him. Along with the hundreds of others, he can only seek shelter and hope for the best.
The Keeper stands above Empath, watching the boy writhe in agony as he most likely empathically feels every sorrow and every pain of the entire populace below him. The Keeper tells Empath that he should calm down because he is just making more work for everyone else. Just then, whether by accident or choice, the Keeper’s hand and Empath’s hand brush up against one another. In that moment of contact, Empath tries to show the Keeper just a sliver of the pain that he has had to endure these past few months under Mikhail’s torture. Only one of them has he ability to act though and as Empath screams “NOOO!” The Keeper grasps his billy club high in the air and brings it down swiftly, killing the boy. As Empath dies, Matthew Murdock kneels to the ground and rips his visor from around his eyes. As a final torment, Murdock realizes that the visor did not give him his second sight, he had it all along thanks to the accident when he was young that caused his blindness. Murdock cries as he realizes all this, for now Murdock has truly become a man without fear.
On the ground below, humans are frozen in terror, as they no longer have Empath controlling their emotions. They realize that people are dying from the Stryfe-Force’s ruthless attacks. The man named Rafe runs to save himself and his child, but as he is shot down by one of the many robots patrolling the streets, the last thing he hears is the cry of his child, who has now become an orphan. Luckily for the child, a man named Benjamin Grimm is close by and, as he drops down a ladder to pick the child up, he tells him that “Unca Benjy’s Got Ya! Calvary’s come to town…” The cavalry also arrives for the others, as hundreds of ships hover over the city dropping ladders for thousands of refugees to climb.
As the thousands reach for the sky, one man tries to ensure their survival. His name is Tony Stark and right now he has a large gray monster named the Thing coming closer to him, threatening to kill him. Behind the Thing, Gwen stands to her feet, taking up a gun and shoots a blast directly into the back of the Thing. The Thing turns and smiles at Gwen, telling her that she is as good as dead. As Gwen jumps through the door behind her, to get away from the Thing’s punch, the Thing comments that Ben and Susan must have told them about their recent encounter with him at the field base. Even the knowledge of that, he tells her, will not save her now. The Thing stomps his massive foot on the ground, causing an Earthquake that knocks Gwen off her feet. Behind the Thing, Tony tells him that she has done her job by giving him enough time to breach the ship’s security shields. “Good Lord!?” Tony whispers, as he sees the monitor in front of him and he is shocked to see, as he says a loud, that the sea wall has been launched.
At the heart of the storm, Mikhail calmly masterminds the destruction of the surrounding area, using his powers to control his entire Stryfe-Forces to pull their strings to follow his bidding. In the hideout of the Human High Council, the members stand back to back for the first time in ages, fighting with all their might against the hundreds of robots sent after them by Mikhail. Amidst the fighting and the chaos, Dr. Blake massages the hair of a fallen Stryfe-Force member as he says aloud that they are all humans and how insane it is that they are fighting one another.
Doom’s cold stare never leaves the presence of Mikhail, as Doom kills the last of Mikhail’s Stryfe-Force. Mikhail laughs about how easily Doom kills his own and how Doom is just a tin soldier that would not dare challenge Mikhail himself. “NO!” Donald Blake cries as he strikes Mikhail from the back. As he does this, Blake commands Doom to escort the Councilors to safety, because the fight is between he and Mikhail now. “Dream on gene-joke”, Rasputin tells Blake as he prepares to strike back. Donald admits to Rasputin that, in his dreams, he soars the skies and drinks amongst gods and goddesses, but in reality he is only human in a role he never wanted. As Blake summons the strength from out of nowhere, he shoves his staff through the body of Mikhail, knocking both combatants from the top of Big Ben all the way to the ground below. As the two fall, the last thing they see is the coming of Apocalypse’s sea wall, the doom of all of Europe.
Ben Grimm runs through the streets of London, being shot at by one of the many robots patrolling the city. Ben talks to Susan over their comm-link as he holds tightly to the little child in his arms. He hears Susan tell him about the sea wall and how if he cannot make it to their ship in enough time, they will have to leave him. Ben makes it to the ladder of the lead ship just as Stryfe-Forces blow up a nearby transport ship, one of the last casualties caused by Mikhail’s forces.
Above the lead ship, the Thing stands behind Tony, shocked to see that Apocalypse has betrayed him. Tony turns to the Thing and tells him that the betrayer has now been betrayed. Addressing the Thing as Dr. Banner, Tony tells him that they need the man now, not the monster. As the Thing turns back into Dr. Banner, Gwen is shocked to see the scientist who ran the field center was actually the monster responsible for so many people’s death. As Tony holds back Gwen’s gun, Banner asks how Tony knew it was he. Tony replies that his allies are not stupid and the same injuries inflicted on the monster was the same that appeared on him as well. After Banner walks to the consoles, he quickly patches through to Susan, who is piloting the lead ship and programs the ship to be able to control all the other ships around them to better evacuate the civilians. Susan’s face appears on the console before them, informing them that Banner’s efforts were successful. At the same time, Doom walks onto the ship, followed by the members of the council and commands Tony to turn the ships around and head towards Apocalypse’s citadel to take the last fight to him. “NO”, Tony tells Doom, he says that their first priority is to the civilian’s relocation because none of them set out to be “Avengers!”
Gwen sees Doom has broken his promise about coming back with Blake and takes her anger out on him by striking Doom to the ground. Susan, piloting the ships to safety, turns to look at Ben who had just recently arrived and she tells him that they have finally done it and they may just make it yet. Susan is shocked and heartbroken to see a bullet wound through Ben’s chest and her friend dead. The young child is alive though, and is still embraced in Ben’s arms. The child cries and lifts his arms towards Susan, as if to ask her to hold him.
As the convoy races to escape destruction and head towards space, Gwen asks where they are going? Banner replies to her that they won’t know until they get there. Doom coldly tells them that the sea wall is approaching their flanks and they all may still die. Ignoring him, the friends and members of the High Council watch towards the skies.
Susan reaches towards the child and, as she grasps the boy, looks down to see the child’s nametag. On it, the letters read “Frankie”. As tears come to Susan’s eyes, a blinding white light covers them all and reality passes.


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X-Women
A highly guarded fortress on the island of Madripoor, where the guards suddenly find themselves attacked by a tempest courtesy of Storm whose lightning also plays hell with their electronics. She is joined by Psylocke and Rogue, who take care of the rest.
While they monopolize the bad guys’ attention, Shadowcat sneaks inside the underground heart of their complex to find their kidnapped teammate Rachel Grey. “Rescue’s here,” Kitty greets her happily, only to comment on Rachel’s outfit a moment later, a tight, extremely short red leather number with thigh high stiletto boots. Comes with the job, Rachel replies as she hugs her. She apologizes but she can’t go yet. She has a lot to tell Kitty, and no time to be gentle. So, she telepathically dumps days of memories into Kitty’s skull. Under the pressure, Kitty’s nose begins to bleed. A moment later, she is hit by an energy blast. The guards have found them.
Angrily, Kitty takes two of them down with martial arts moves. As Psylocke joins them, Kitty asks her to nail the shooter. Betsy tries to but is also hit by the weapon’s blast and Rachel protects the shooter. She deflects Psylocke’s telekinetic blast and Rachel and the shooter are separated from the others because of ceiling caves in.
Kitty phases herself and Psylocke outside and up into the air, telling Betsy to trust Rachel who told her everything telepathically. She still needs time to process the information though, her brain hurts!
Rogue expects them in the air but is also shot as is Storm. From within the citadel, a blonde woman presses a button and all of the X-Men are hit. The next moment, they lose their powers and fall.
Kitty is the first one to hit the ground. Her fall is braked by the trees and shrubbery of a slope. She falls downward and grabs Rogue’s hand. Both of them fall into a river. Shortly before them is waterfall. With Rogue hanging on to her, Kitty grabs a vine, swings to a rock where she deposits Rogue The next moment, Storm is carried over the waterfall and Kitty barely manages to grab her and leave her with Rogue. Kitty herself loses her grip bus is saved in turn by Psylocke, who has caught a higher vine. Safe in Storm’s arms, Kitty passes out.
Flashback:It had started innocently. Rogue had invited them to the villa she had inherited on Kirinos in Greece. Only her female friends were invited for a week of fun. Kitty, Rachel and Betsy were jet skiing. When they were approaching a yacht, the other two women drew aside while Kitty drove onward and phased through the ship where (to her embarrassment) she surprised two men in bed. Due to her surprise, she fell off her jetski once she was outside.
Later in the evening and all dolled up they enjoy a party. One man addresses Kitty, recognizing her from the jetski. Kitty immediately denies it, but he and his partner recognize her. He tells her they never forget a beautiful face or a memorable moment. Shall they dance? Kitty is embarrassed but soon she and Betsy dance with the two men. All the ladies have fun in their own way. Ororo sings while Rachel flirts with a handsome dark-haired fellow.
Outside, the two of them kiss. Unfortunately, he fires a weapon at her a moment later. With her last strength, she calls out to Kitty, before she falls unconscious. The X-Men hear he telepathic cry.
The man presses the button of a device and the building explodes. As Rachel is transported away, a sphere rises from the conflagration and lands in the sea. Psylocke’s telekinesis, having saved the X-Men and the guests in time.
After making sure the civilians were safe, they followed Rachel’s trail which led them to Madripoor and their current predicament.
Present:Kitty awakes with a killer headache to find they are on a boat steered by a stranger. Captain Dave and the ship is the Glory, Storm explains. Betsy gives her some broth and informs her they bailed Dave out of a jam. In return, he is carrying them clear of the bad guys.
Noticing the lousy weather, Kitty asks Ororo why there is a storm. She explains that, before they lost their powers, she had amplified the weather over the island. It will take a while to wind down. Until then, it provides ideal cover so no one can follow them from air.
Betsy asks if Kitty managed to sort out what Rachel told her telepathically. She wishes! Kitty sighs. The harder she tries, the more her skull hurts.
Rogue has taken over steering as Dave takes a nap. Does she think this power loss is permanent? she asks Storm, who figures they will find out the hard way. Rogue touches Ororo’s face. No matter how many times this happens, each one is like a miracle. To touch someone without stealing their life… She loves being Rogue, but sometimes it’s nice to just be Anna.
As the night wears on, the women help themselves to Captain Dave’s alcohol reserves while discussing their plans. Kitty suddenly sees a vision overlaying reality. Noting her unusual behavior, Rogue giggles that she’s drunk. Kitty replies that she thinks she is seeing what Rachel sees and what she sees is Emma Frost, captured and sitting in a chair, wearing a Cerebra-style helmet. Kitty doesn’t know how his is possible but she and Rachel always had a rapport.
She asks Betsy what she is listening to on the radio. BBC World Service, comes the reply. Some sort of foolishness between India and China. Kitty wonders why that rings a bell, then summarizes what she’s learned from Rachel. Apparently, the bad guys also grabbed Emma Frost….
Can’t they just let them keep her? Rogue suggests. Kitty heartily agrees with her dislike of Frost, then continues that Emma’s caged unlike Rachel who they figure they can handle. Rachel knows they have something nasty planned and that they need both Emma and Rachel to make it work. So far, nobody suspects that Rachel is just playing along, or they just don’t care.
Couldn’t it be anybody but Emma needing rescue? Rogue sulks. Storm states that everyone among them agrees with her feeling but Emma is an X-Man now. She knows, Anna sighs, but she’s just a… well… a bitch. Tell her again why they are rescuing her? How about because it will just kill Emma that she needed to be rescued? Kitty suggests slyly.
She heads outside to grab some fresh air, then gasps. On a pole is a human skull, adorned with a pilot cap. She calls the others outside. Captain Dave swears. They are not supposed to be here, he mumbles. This stretch of river has always been clean! What is he talking about? Rogue asks. Panicked he replies they need to get out of here. Rogue reminds him the storm is breaking. If they go back they are sitting ducks! More poles with skulls appear and Dave warns them that this is worse. As if on cue the engines stop. Dave is not surprised.
A moment later, they are attacked by shots from a helicopter. Storm pushes Dave aside before he is hit. The ladies wonder if the shooters in the two helicopters have somehow zapped their engines like they did their powers. Does he have any weapons? Kitty asks Dave. He has nothing, Dave tells them and suggests they swim to the shore. But it’s too far. They would appear to be sitting ducks, but suddenly the helicopters lose power and one of them veers into the other, causing both to explode. That was certainly convenient, Storm mutters while Dave announces they are so dead. She thinks Dave may have a point, Kitty remarks as they find themselves surrounded by very strange armed people, a mix of savages and pirates who are partially wearing aviator uniforms.
Their captors lead them to their home, a clearing in the jungle with lots of plane wrecks which they use as their homes. As the resident nerd Kitty realizes who their captors are. Cargo cultists. A legendary south sea tribe who worship airplanes as gods. According to legend, they have the mystical power to bring down their gods to earth. After what they witnessed and the looks of the encampment, that is not a legend and they’ve been busy.
Bound and gagged, the ladies and Dave are led to the cultists’ leader, who is immediately smitten with Storm (much to the displeasure of his wife).
The tribe puts their prisoners to work. Psylocke feeds the pigs, Rogue takes care of children and washes their clothes, while Dave looks after Kitty who is suffering from fever.
In her delirium, she sees through Rachel’s eyes again and finally makes the connection between that situation and the reports from China and India. Stolen Cerebra technology is supposed to boost Emma and Rachel’s power, amplifying them enough to control the two largest populations on the planet to start a war and for the villains to make a profit.
Kitty witnesses Rachel trying to free Emma but being held back by a regal blonde, apparently the boss of the villains. That’s all Kitty gets as she sinks back into her fever.
Of all of them, Storm has drawn the worst lot. Dressed up in a harem girl outfit that leaves little to the imagination, she is supposed to serve the cargo cultists’ leader, who has taken a shine to her. When he makes a grab for her, Ororo reaches for a metal pitcher and slams it against his head, then tries to climb up a vine to get away from him. Could this get any worse? She mutters exasperated. Of course, immediately it does at on the balcony stands the leader’s wife who cuts the vine. Ororo falls to be caught by her would-be suitor.
“Hands off!” she orders. He grabs her ankle and they both land in the pool. Storm offers to stop struggling if he will release her friends. Can’t do that, he replies. The thrill is in the chase. And if she fights all the harder? she asks. Then they have a deal. To settle it, she dunks his head under water.
And so, a little later both of them sit peacefully at a feast of the cultists. The other X-ladies who have been freed if not invited watch the scene. Rogue remarks that this must be Storm’s true power, to make all the bad guys go nuts. They want nuts, they should keep an eye on the chief’s missus, Betsy warns them.
Kitty complains about the clothing the cultists gave them. Rogue got the luck of the draw with a pilot’s suit, but Betsy is dressed in a very short Chinese style mini and she is wearing a short bodysuit. She thinks her outfit is nice, Betsy remarks. She has no shame, Kitty laughs. No, she just always looks good, Betsy retorts.
Rogue looks up and warns the others. Armed men on paragliders are coming down to attack. Instead of raising the alarm, Betsy and Rogue lift Kitty up to grab one glider. She takes out the soldier and the other ladies join the fight.
Some of the mercs head for the nursery to take the children hostage. Rogue attacks them from behind, takes a baseball bat and takes them out to defend the kids.
Other mercs finally attack the chief’s party with machine guns. Ororo pushes down the chief’s wife, taking a hit for her. Seeing that, the chief’s eyes begin to glow red. With his powers, the technology of the attackers doesn’t work anymore. He strikes one of them, however the other soldiers brandish knives.
Luckily, Kitty and Betsy come to the rescue and take them out. With all the attackers imprisoned, the heroines and their “hosts” discuss the situation. The chief points out that the prince of Madripoor has always respected their independence. Maybe the stakes are so high, the old rules don’t matter, Kitty suggests. Or maybe the prince is out of the loop. Fact is, somebody is trying to start a way and they are using the X-Men’s friends. They are the only ones is any position to stop them, powers or not. The chief and his wife share a look, then he offers their help.
Later in a plane: Kitty and Rogue are pilots whereas in the back the chief expresses his surprise that Ororo saved his wife, considering that she saw Ororo as her rival. She is not her rival, Ororo insists. Why would she let her die? He adores her, he replies. Ororo sighs exasperated. Thanks to the plane’s wild movements she loses her footing and is caught by her would-be-suitor who insists on a kiss. She is not in the mood, she snarls.
Thankfully, they are interrupted when the other ladies announce they are close to the city. Kitty orders Rogue to take the helm as she again comes into telepathic contact with Rachel.
In her mind’s eye, she sees Emma and Rachel, both sitting in chairs, Cerebra helmets on their heads. Between them sits the woman whose name she now learns is Baroness Krieg. She learns that, when the hit on the chief failed, the Baroness advanced her timetable. Energy emerges from her eyes, engulfing Rachel and Emma. The Baroness orders her scientists to fire the weapon.
Kitty realizes that the Baroness just has to take psychic control of the target armies, start a few skirmish for which she can provide arms to India and China, and ultimately sweep in when the dust settles and become the dominant power in the region. Thankfully, they have a plan as well.
The Baroness learns that the machinery is down; nothing is happening. Emma tells her she will soon be shut down as well. The Baroness fires her gun at Emma, only to find it doesn’t work either, all thanks to the chief whose power is to inhibit machines. Of course, the moment he uses his power their plane’s engines also fail. But down on the ground Madripoor hightown loses all energy as well as he takes out the generators and with it the machinery sustaining the power nullifier.
With their powers restored, Storm uses her control over the winds to land their plane. Rogue and Psylocke confront the enemy directly finding Rachel who kayoed all the flunkies and is about to be stabbed by the Baroness as her powers don’t work on her.
Betsy tries to take the Baroness out telekinetically but also finds that mutant powers don’t work on her. When Rogue tries to tackle her she finds her powers are gone as are the ones of the others. The power nullifier and controller is the Baroness herself. That device simply expanded her range.
The Baroness aims her gun at Rogue but Betsy kicks her legs out from under her and grabs her weapon. She hesitates long enough for the Baroness to enter a flight capsule that rises.
Kitty phases through the walls and lands on top of it. The pod slides through an escape tunnel. Kitty phases it and herself through tunnel and the pod lands outside and crashes on the ground.
The Baroness stumbles outside to be expected by Kitty, Betsy Rachel, Emma and Rogue. Any words before prison? Rogue asks mildly. The baroness mocks that their powers can’t harm her. Storm who is far enough away engulfs her in a tornado pulling don hypercold from the troposphere, leaving the Baroness flashfrozen. Emma then hits the statue with all her strength, then complainn about breaking a nail. As punishment she kicks the ice statue in the face.
They turn the baroness over to the local authorities. Storm returns to the plane where the chief seems to be depressed. When she asks what’s wrong he reveals that he doesn’t want to lose her. He wasn’t expecting her to stay with him, was he? she asks mildly. Well, he was hoping she’d come around, he replies. Sharing a look with his wife, she warns him he’s been neglecting her and should better tend to her before she finds something on the side. The other woman smirks at the idea.
Later, all aboard the plane, Emma still complains about her nail which cost her $300. She should have killed the cow. Kitty tells her to stop it already. Rogue is equally bloodthirsty. The Baroness blew up her home. Rachel simply suggests she rebuild. And they’ll help, Betsy offers. Rogue admits she’s grateful but this wasn’t quite the party she had in mind when she invited them all on vacation. So, to cheer her up, they hold an impromptu party in the jungle.


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Time Lost
(now)
Bishop and Shard are in the Danger Room at Xavier’s mansion. Using the Shi’Ar holotechnology, Bishop has been able to recreate the few images of the “Summers Rebellion“ that were available in his future. Shard is not impressed very much, so Bishop shows her another scenario, it is set during their childhood in the remains of a mutant relocation camp.
(future flashback)
Virago, one of the radical group Exhumes, is hunted by the Trace and Sureshot of the X.S.E. She grabs Shard as a hostage. Bishop jumps on the mutant from behind making her drop his sister and giving Sureshot a clean line of fire. The incident shows Bishop that the Exhumes are no heroes at all and that the despised, hated and ridiculed X.S.E are his saviors. On that day Bishop knows that one day he will belong to them.
(now)
Shard asks Bishop to stop the simulation. She wants to know why Bishop invited her to the school. Bishop replies that after finally accepting the hologramm turned photon-based lifeform as his sister (Uncanny X-Men Annual ’96) he wants to show her around the legendary mansion and also he thinks she should join the X-Men. Upon hearing this Shard gets upset, she says that the X-Men are Bishop’s turf, she wants her own. Activating the next simulation, Bishop replies that this would not be the way their grandmother would have wanted it.
(future flashbacks)
Living in the remains of a mutant relocation camp, their grandmother (an elderly black woman with white hair) raises Bishop and Shard together with Hancock, one of the legendary warriors of the Summers Rebellion. For some unknown reason the grandmother is forced to hide her true identity, since she is actually believed to be dead and no longer has her mutant powers. Hancock hints that she was part of an X-team. Some years later the grandmother dies of old age and Bishop has to promise at her deathbed that he will always look after Shard.
(now)
Seeing the images of their grandmother, the siblings are both touched. Bishop says, he didn’t do a good job of looking after Shard and that is why he wants her to be around so that he can protect her. Shard answers that Bishop has to get over her death, he did the best he could and was always there for her; without him she never would have been into the X.S.E.
(future flashbacks)
Suddenly Bishop, Hancock and Shard are under attack by Halftrak and Billiboy, who often beat up young Bishop. They are rescued by two X.S.E. officers called Recoil and Amazon, but Hancock gets killed in the fight. The two officers are impressed by Bishop’s bravery and offer him to join their ranks, but Bishop only accepts after his sister is allowed to come too. By then Bishop had already manifested his mutant powers. The siblings are put into an X.S.E. training class with other kids around their age, two of them are Trevor Fitzroy and a girl called Sherry. Hecate, the X.S.E’s commanding officer, becomes their teacher and gives a history lesson.
(history of Bishop’s timeline, narrated by Hecate)
Out of fear of mutants, humanity had built mutant hunting Sentinels and some of their captives were brainwashed into hounds, who had to hunt more mutants. Later on the Sentinels decided that the best way to protect humanity would be to rule it and conquered the country. Mutants were put in concentration camps and tattooed with the letter M over their right eye to easily identify them if they should ever escape. United by a Summers, humans and mutants worked together to overthrow the Sentinels rule. During this “Summers Rebellion“ many, including Summers him- or herself died, but finally the robots were defeated. Afterwards mutants tried to move out of the camps, but they were met with the same prejudices as before. A radical group called Exhumes developed a hatred for humanity and started to raid and destroy their settlements. The ruling council thought about a way to deal with the Exhumes. Having humans hunting mutants again was unacceptable as this could have been the beginning of another racial war, instead they came up with the idea of the Xavier’s Security Enforcers (X.S.E.). They were composed of mutant veterans and the difference was that now mutants were allowed to police themselves. Many X.S.E. officers had already fought in the Summers Rebellion and they decided to wear the M tattoo, formerly used to outcast them, as a badge of honor.
(future flashback)
Hecate points out to the class that Bishop and Shard are among the last people to have received their M tattoos in the camp brandings, while the rest of them will get theirs if they graduate. After class Hecate speaks to Shard and Bishop alone, she tells them that she was a very good friend of Hancock and that the two kids joining the X.S.E would better be worth his death. As Shard asks why Hecate never visited Hancock if they were such close friends she gets very angry and encases Shard into a field of darkness, yet Bishop stands up for his sister and impresses the X.S.E. leader with his courage, but Shard runs off.
(now)
Bishop asks why Shard always got angry so easy, like in the confrontation with Hecate. Shard says that Bishop doesn’t get it. She was impressed by Hecate and wanted to be just like her, but all Hecate saw in Shard was Bishop‘s little sister. In fact almost everybody perceives her that way and she wants to prevent it in this new time era by staying away from the X-Men. Bishop apologizes as that was nerver his intention, he only wanted to filfill his promise to alway protect Shard, but all he accomplishes is seeing the people he cares most for die. Shard thinks that Bishop‘s problem is that he focuses too much on the people he could not save instead of those he did.
(future flashback)
The class is out on their first training patrol with Sureshot and Trace, but suddenly the group is attacked by Emplates. The marrow sucking mutant vampires defeat and kill both the adult X.S.E. officers and then turn on the group of kids.


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(future flashback)
Continuing from last issue the X.S.E training class of which Shard and Bishop are partt of is attacked by Emplates. Under the stress of the situation Shard manifests her mutant ability to transform light into concussive force. Feeding her brother with her blasts Bishop is able to amplify the energy to shoot some of the Emplates. Instinctively Bishop takes command of the group, he takes the guns of his killed teachers and throws one to Shirley who did very good at practising. Together they can fight off the Emplates long enough till an X.S.E rescue (including Amazon) team arrives; only one kid is lost to the villains. One month later Bishop is promoted and becomes the youngest cadet ever to become an X.S.E. officer; although the promotion is mainly to honor his deeds, the X.S.E. lost too many of their number recently and new officers are desperatly needed.
(now)
After watching the holo simulation of their past, Shard comments that one year later she too graduated and by doing so, stole the title of youngest cadet ever to become an X.S.E. officer. Bishop points out that she always was so competitive back then, but Shard excuses that she had to be if she ever wanted to come out of her brother’s shadow. She activates the Danger Room and wants to train a little bit, sseeing who could achive better results, but Bishop continues to talk. Other people’s opinions should not matter so much to her, but the important thing is that they always made a good team. Shard points out that there was a better team and activates a simulation of the death of Malcom and Randall, upsetting Bishop very much as he still feels guilty about their deaths. Shard tries to apologise, but Bishop replies that she did not spend as much time with them as he did.
Shard asks how it was like when he first met them.
(future flashback)
One day Hecate summons Bishop to the nerve center and information core called Cerebro. Bishop has just been turned him into a squad commander and Hecate suggests Malcolm for a position within Bishop’s team. Checking his datafile Bishop is not much intrested; the mutant ability to detect humans is not that useful and being from a rich and powerful family Bishop assumes that Malcolm payed his way through the training. Upon hearing this Malcolm gets very angry, he really is in the X.S.E. because he believes in their cause and has worked very hard to become an officer. Seeing Malcolm’s potential Bishop agrees to take him into his squad, but only if he is given free reign in filling the final position of his squad. Bishop then leads Hecate to a training room where Randall is seen performing. Hecate points out that this officer is undisciplined, was never near the tops of his classes and his immunity to radiation would be even more useless than Malcolm’s power, but Bishop wanted him anyway. He likes the unpredictability and the free spirit of Randall.
(now)
Shard remembers that Malcolm and Randall constantly bickered, she always thought that they despised each other. Bishop explains that after having problems at first, everything changes as the squad was called for a mission at Harmony Base, Randall’s birthplace and the only known colony where mutants and humans really worked together.
(future flashback)
Harmony Base is under attack by a newly formed band of Exhumes under the leadership of Styglut. Bishop, Malcolm and Randall are the first to arrive at the base, but they come to late to save any of the people who lived there, all they can do is to hold the villains in check till more X.S.E. officers arrive. Among the dead citizens is Donalbain, the human brother of Malcolm, who had joined the community to show support for his mutant brother. Since Randall too lost many friends in the massaker the pair finally bonds.
(now)
Bishop says that after the Harmony Base incident Malvcolm and Randall became best, inseparable friends, and now they are dead because he couldn't save them - just like with his sister Shard. She replies that Bishop did anything he could for her, he even helped her to get that promotion she was after, but her words don’t change Bishop’s mood. The point is that if he hadn’t gotten Shard that promotion, she might still be alive.