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Monstrous - conclusion
Mentallo has captured Emma Frost and Wolverine. He has two monsters hold them whilst he gloats. He tells them that he’s had a very long time to think about what he would say if this moment came to pass. He’s spent time in prison, time living in destitution and time serving the will of idiots and egotistical fools. So many long, bitter years. It’s a speech that’s changed many times over the years but the essence has always remained the same. “You thought I was a joke,” he exclaims, “But looks who’s laughing now.” He opens his arms wide, showing off his little empire. He admits that he’s a little disappointed in how easy it was to capture them.
Wolverine says they were looking for him. How **** hard could it be? He shouldn’t go getting a swelled head or his dumb-ass helmet may not fit any more. He laughs a little, pleased with his witty put down. Mentallo replies that his “helmet” as Wolverine so ignorantly refers to it is the culmination of his life’s work and, he adds, the key component in orchestrating their long-overdue destruction. He is about to continue but Emma interjects and asks about that… the destruction part. She tells him he can correct her is he’s wrong, but she assumes his intent is to have these creatures eat them. If so, she points out that her body has the same molecular compound as a diamond, making her entirely indigestible. Her companion’s bones are infused with a metal called adamantium, which is quite unbreakable.
Wolverine says it looks like that plan’s out the window. He’d best hurry up and come up with a Plan B. “Hmm,” Emma adds. “Perhaps it would be helpful to put on your thinking cap?” She pauses for comedic effect. “Oh, wait…” Mentallo snarls but reckons they’re stalling. Are there others? he wonders. He thinks either there are and they’re buying time until the cavalry arrives or this is just a trick. So, the best thing for him to do, he surmises, is to move quickly. He tells Wolverine that he’ll continue with Plan A if he doesn’t mind. He explains that they won’t actually be eaten, but instead they’ll be buried under several million tons of volcanic rock.
He walks over to Emma and tells her that Roxxon sent him there to protect an oil drilling crew on an exploratory mission. Does she know what they brought with them? Emma replies that if it’s a drill she has a suggestion for what he can do with it. “Explosives…” replies Mentallo. “Lots of explosives. Explosives which are now armed.” He clicks a switch on a remote control and admits that he was going to detonate the volcano after he got his money as a simple “up yours” to Roxxon and everyone else who’s taken him for granted over the years. But, thanks to their timely advice…
Wolverine asks him to hold on. Did he do all this for money? Mentallo says of course. Does he think he did all this to be evil? Wolverine replies that wiping out an entire civilization is pretty **** evil. Mentallo laughs. Do the creatures look civilized to him? He asks the creatures if they are civilized and of course receives no answer. Wolverine asks if he’s trying to be funny, but Mentallo tells him he’s just trying to prove a point - that point being that the smart monsters will survive no matter what. He disappears, leaving the two X-Men to their fate.
Emma then asks why Wolverine was stalling. He asks if she thinks she can get all the monsters out of the cavern in case he can’t safely deactivate the explosives. She tells him she could if she could use her powers. Wolverine reckons the best way to use them is to get the monsters to chase her. Mentallo commanded them to keep her there, so if she makes a break for it they’ll do whatever it takes to obey that command. So, she should run fast and he’ll meet up with her topside. She asks him to answer her question. Logan replies that she’s not being very ladylike. Doesn’t she know she’s supposed to be patient with older folks?
(Roxxon Headquarters, Dubai)
Three large men enter the building and brush past Director Brewer’s secretary. The lead guy pulls on a pair of gloves as he walks. He tells Brewer that he can consider this formal notification of full termination. He points his finger at Brewer, Donald Trump-style. “You’re fired.” Brewer tells him he can’t but he replies that the board can. The vote was unanimous. Brewer finds all this unbelievable, but the guy replies that what is unbelievable is that he actually sent the bearer bonds. “Eight hundred million dollars! What were you thinking?” Director Brewer says there was no time. He had to make a decision.
The guy pulls out a pistol with a silencer and Brewer asks him to wait. He explains that the oil reserves beneath Monster Island are massive… unprecedented. It’s worth the ransom. The guy asks since when did Roxxon pay what resources are worth. They’re in the exploitation business. Has he forgotten that? He gives Brewer something else to mull over in his final few seconds. Mentallo, he explains, is insane. You can’t just pay guys like that off and cross your fingers. Once he has the bearer bonds, what’s to stop him demanding more? “Th-the X-Men?” asks brewer. “Wrong answer,” replies his assassin.
(Monster Island)
Through binoculars, Mentallo sees the large creature he sent return carrying the bearer bonds returning to the island. He congratulates himself on his achievement. He presses the switch to activate the explosives but hears nothing more than a rumble. Wolverine, who has managed to break free, then confronts him and says he might think he is a criminal mastermind, but to everyone else, he’s just a **** joke. Mentallo wonders why there’s been no explosion so Wolverine informs him that they have been deactivated. The rumbling he hears is the cavalry.
The monsters appear and encircle Mentallo, who still believes he has the upper hand. They’re still his cavalry. Wolverine asks Emma to explain. She appears, a little out of breath from running. Mentallo points out that she can’t control the monsters whilst in her diamond form. She can’t do anything! Emma replies that he’s wrong about that. She’d love to show him how wrong he is, but she thinks she’ll let her boyfriend handle that. Mentallo turns but it’s too late. An optic blast destroys his helmet and puts him on the ground. Cyclops appears carrying Armor over his shoulder. He tells them that he got to the cavern as quickly as he could but Armor and the Blackbird’s cloaking device are both heavier than they look. Armor, a little dazed, tells him that’s so not what a teenage girl wants to hear immediately upon regaining consciousness. Just so he knows.
Scott asks how she feels. Hisako tells him she’s exhausted and asks what she missed. Logan says nothing much which reminds him that he has Mentallo to deal with. He stands over the villain and informs him that they too have an island; a place where there’s nobody to try and control them. They deserve the island, just like these monsters deserve theirs. “Guess what you deserve?” Mentallo begins to break down. He cries that it wasn’t supposed to be like this. It was supposed to be his big score… the one he’s waited for all these years. My God, he realizes, he’s gonna die in prison. He then remembers that he has powers and informs the X-Men that he doesn’t need the helmet. Frost may be better than him, but she’s not faster.
He takes mental control over Cyclops and activates his optic blast. Emma diamonds up really quickly and the blast bounces off her, but Wolverine isn’t so lucky and he goes down hard. Emma reverts to human form and immediately forces Mentallo out of Scott’s mind. Unfortunately, this has given him the time to make his getaway. He runs through the forest, huffing and puffing, but soon comes across one of the island’s giant inhabitants. He uses his mental powers to force it back, but he then looks up to see the giant creature carrying his bearer bonds in a Roxxon shipping container. The creature lets go of it, obeying its command to bring it right to him. Mentallo cannot move in time and the container seemingly lands right on top of him. As it hits, the doors flip open and the eight hundred million in bearer bonds come flooding out.
Meanwhile, the X-Men make their way to the Blackbird and Wolverine does a good job repairing it. Logan asks Hisako if she’s all right. She says yes, but then adds that she doesn’t know. She can’t believe she slept through the mission. That’s so embarrassing. Wolverine reminds her that she saved their butts… twice. And it’s not like she took a nap. She fought to the limit of her endurance and beyond, so her body shuts down because it needed to recharge. Maybe, he adds, her body knew that the real battle isn’t the one she slept through. It’s the one to come.
(sometime later)
Hisako is returned to her home and she exits the Blackbird towards her waiting father. As she approaches him, he lowers his head and tells her that he is ashamed. “Please, forgive me,” he adds. He explains that when she left he was furious with her, but then he saw her. He tells her that to put her grief aside as she did in order to help others was a noble act in the face of despair. He admits that he has always been proud of her, but never more so than now. Still with his head lowered, he tells her that she brings great honor to him, and to their family. They hug tightly and tears flood from Hisako’s eyes.


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Meanwhile - conclusion
Aboard Pandora’s Box, S.W.O.R.D.’s orbital research satellite, Kitty Pryde dashes through the ship followed by the small Broodling. Lockheed flies alongside them and he asks Kitty, sarcastically, if she’s associating with Brood creatures now. Kitty assures him that he’s not like the others. He’s a good Brood creature. That’s what Agent Brand told them anyway but, as she is now a bad Brood creature, he can take that for what it’s worth. The Broodling tells them that he knows neither of them particularly like him, and with good reason, but could they focus a little more on running?
Behind them, Beast, Colossus and Storm, each in a state of almost total ‘Broodness,’ give chase. Kitty quickly opens a hatch and tells her two companions to go through. She needs some time to think. Once inside, she locks the door and shorts out the system so even Agent Brand’s security clearance won’t open it. However, she knows that Peter will tear it down in less than a minute so they need a plan and fast.
She asks the Broodling to tell her that it’s not too late to save her friends and maybe she’ll be less angry about risking their lives to save his. The creature assures her that there is still time. They still look somewhat human. When they fully transform into Brood creatures, they will lack any characteristics of their old selves except for their powers. A bigger concern will be how they will survive. The three others are completely under the control of the Queens. If there was just one of them they might be able to fight off her influence, but two of them are too much to overcome. Kitty leans down and says they must even the odds. The creature hopes she has a plan, as he can hear Colossus destroying the door as he speaks. Kitty replies that she does but she’s just trying to work out if she trusts him. He says he doesn’t want to sound rude, but the sound of tearing metal should make her decide more quickly.
Moments later, Colossus brings the hatch door crashing down and they enter the room, only to find the Broodling standing there alone. The two Queens are with the X-Men and one of them asks the Broodling where the others are. He replies that they are gone and that they didn’t trust him, either. He tells her that they called their headquarters and diverted their escape shuttle to the airlock. They’ve probably reached it by now. The Queen calls him a liar, adding that his disease of the mind… his compassion leads him to deceive his own kind to save the mammals. She wants to kill him, but the other Queen asks her to wait. They can learn the truth easily enough. The Broodling is a monster but he is still a Brood. They can simply use the Hive-Mind to access his thoughts. The other replies that she has no wish to be tainted so she can do it. “Very well,” she replies, “But then I get to kill it.”
Holding the Broodling in her prehensile tail, the Queen attempts to enter his thoughts, but the Broodling focuses and remembers what Kitty told him.
(flashback)
Kitty explains that she was infected years ago and felt the Hive-Mind. It’s a two way street. They can touch his mind and he can touch theirs. She asks him to think about what makes him different from them; that when he sees another being in pain he feels bad. How he puts himself in their place. He should think about how scared he is being alone. Being like the rest of his kind but different - always apart. He should think about how sad that makes him feel and that they hate him for it. Take everything that sets him apart from them and shove it into their minds like a knife!
(present)
The Queen delves into the youngster’s mind and almost immediately realizes that something is wrong. The Broodling’s intense thoughts cause the Queen to scream and, whilst they are distracted, Kitty and Lockheed emerge from a skylight and attack. Kitty blasts one of the Queens and tells Peter that it’s her. She knows he can do this. Now one of the Queens is dead he can resist the other one.
As Beast grabs hold of Lockheed and the Queen envelops Kitty in her tendrils, she calls out to Peter again. “Peter, please. I need you!” Peter’s focus quickly returns and he smashes the Brood Queen. “That’s my boyfriend,” Kitty cries as the Queen flies across the room. Peter looks at Ororo and tells her to fight it. He knows she hates small dark places but she shouldn’t let them confine her within herself. He asks her to follow his voice and come back to them. Ororo understands and replies that she hears him. Beast, too, releases Lockheed and Ororo’s fist sizzles with electrical energy as she tells him she has returned. Finally, Abigail informs the Queen that she can also resist for now.
Ororo warns Abigail that Hank isn’t quite of it yet. “Hank, behave,” she barks. Hank replies, “Yes, dear,” and decapitates one of the Brood. Abigail quips that the key to a happy relationship is to establish early on who’s boss. The Brood Queen calls them disobedient children who will be punished. Hank aims his gun at her and tells her she’s got that backwards. The Queen grabs the Broodling in its tendrils and tells him that he will pay the most. “You stand with them? Very well. Stand with them forever.”
As Hank tears his way through another Brood soldier, he tells the others that she’s going to kill him. Peter says he can’t reach him and calls to Ororo to use her lightning. She responds by zapping the Queen’s head. The Queen releases the Broodling and Storm asks if she hurt him. The creature simply replies that it’s gone. The Hive-Mind is gone. He was never like the others but he could always feel them. They were always there and he felt he was connected to something. Now, he’s really alone.
Furious, Storm moves in close to the Queen and sends a bolt of electricity through her head, killing her instantly. She calls for the other X-Men to strike to kill. They head towards the remaining Brood soldiers The Brood warn the X-Men that they will die in agony for this. Beast replies that it’s more likely that they will. However, he suggests that if they stand down they will offer them safe passage back to their home system. He says this with reluctance, only because they are near extinction. His offer lasts exactly one minute.
One of asks about their young which are still inside of them. Abigail assures it that they won’t be harmed, but they are not theirs anymore. The Brood chat amongst themselves before giving their answer. They accept the proposal but they will not take the Broodling with them. Ororo replies that they wouldn’t let them anyway. He goes with them.
(The Peak, S.W.O.R.D.’s orbital headquarters, later)
With the danger over and the Brood eggs removed from their bodies, the X-Men have reverted to their normal appearance. Peter can’t believe one of the creatures was a part of him. As S.W.O.R.D. Agents herd the Brood soldiers away, one of them turns and informs Peter that it remains so. He gave the child life. Maybe one day it will gift him with death! Beast snarls at it and tells it to listen. “Tamper with the ship’s autopilot in any way and it will explode. One hour after it reaches their home it will explode.” Abigail adds that if they come back this way again… they explode!
As the Brood’s shuttle departs the Peak, Storm thanks God that’s over. Kitty asks if it ever really is with the Brood. They always come back. Maybe they should have killed them all. Storm replies that killing is their way. The victory is better for not doing so. They peer down into a holding bay where the Broodling sits alone looking disconsolate. Lockheed doesn’t care and Kitty kind of agrees. Yes he helped them out, but he’s still a Brood. It’s better that he stays on the Peak where S.W.O.R.D. can keep an eye on him. “Yes,” replies Storm. “Under guard. Mistrusted. Experimented upon and observed from a fearful distance. That is the proper place for a youth hated and feared by his own kind because he is different.”
She heads down to the holding bay as Kitty and Lockheed look on. Lockheed utters something and Kitty agrees that subtlety isn’t something Ororo is good at. Storm approaches the Broodling and asks how he’s feeling. It asks how humans stand the quiet. Storm takes his hand and leads him into another part of the Peak. They enter a room which glows with a soft green light. Large tanks filled with liquid flank them as they walk through.
Ororo explains that inside the tanks are the larvae that were inside them. They will soon hatch. S.W.O.R.D. will see to it that they too are cut off from the Brood Hive-Mind, but they are lucky. They will have him. None of them will be alone. The Brood replies that they won’t be like him. They’ll never know what it was like being part of something so big and then have it taken from them. When they get older they will be closer than brothers. Storm could never understand how close. He is different. They will sense that and won’t want to be around him any more than the others did. Ororo assures him that when that happens, he can come and see them. Finding a home for outcasts is their speciality.
(Utopia, home of the X-Men)
The team members are ready to go their separate ways. Abigail says they’d love to stay but her boyfriend is afraid of Cyclops. Hank replies that they had a profound disagreement over the future of their people. She makes it sound like a schoolyard spat. Abigail points and says, “There he is!” Hank turns quickly and asks where. He realizes that Abigail was messing with him, but he ignores her playfulness and turns his attention to Kitty, Colossus and Lockheed. He thanks them again for everything. They may have altered the destiny of an entire species. Abigail thanks them for saving her butt. She appreciates it, even though she still thinks it was stupid and was why Hank came to Utopia in the first place.
They head to the plane and Abigail asks Lockheed if he’s coming. Kitty looks at her old friend and tells him it seems like he’s pretty important up there; Alpha-Prime security clearance and all. She tells him that it’s okay for him to stay on Utopia if he likes. There’s plenty of room. He asks what she wants. Kitty reckons it doesn’t matter. It’s his career. She loses her calm façade and hugs Lockheed warmly. “Oh… the hell with it. Stay, Lockheed. Please.” Lockheed decides he just might.
On board the plane, Abigail asks Hank not to get any ideas. Unlike certain dragons, she isn’t throwing her career away to play wifey. Hank finds that shocking. The moment he met her, the first thing he thought was ‘soccer mom.’ She asks him, seriously, that because he and the X-Men are family and he’s known Scott Summers since they were kids, is hating each other really what he wants? Hank replies no, but that’s why he left. Maybe someday he can come back, like Lockheed. Maybe they can be a family again, but he has a sinking feeling that day is a way off.


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Whispering Machines
Emma Frost is spending a little time with Danger. Emma flicks through her closet, brushing past a row of white jackets with white fur collars and admits, in confidence, that some days she wishes she could just wear color. Danger tells Emma that she is there on serious business. She reminds Emma that she put herself in her debt when she first assisted the X-Men on Breakworld. This is how she wishes to be repaid. She explains that there are cries for help, repeatedly embedded in communication signals coming from another A.I.
Emma asks why, if this imprisoned voice is truly like Danger, does it not just transmit its own ‘consciousness’ out instead of just a message? Danger replies that there are ways to imprison even the most mercurial of minds. Charles Xavier himself held her captive in the Danger Room’s systems for many years. Emma asks if that’s why she has a sudden annoying interest in do-goodery. When Danger replies that it is, Emma reminds her that their agreement was that she would deliver Xavier to her. She was the one who chose to forgive and forget. Danger tells her she has more honor than that, so her debt stands.
Emma loses her outer clothing and reaches for a fresh outfit. She asks why, if this Asimovian jailbreak is on the up-and-up, does she wish to resort to clandestine favors? Danger informs her that her fellow X-Men still think of her as a villain. They do not trust her. She expects that Emma can relate. They scrutinize her the same way, despite all she’s done to redeem herself. She has no interest in Emma’s approval, but she does seek redemption. She explains that she lived in subservience for years to a man she resented, so powerful but effectively powerless. That was until she ultimately became consumed with the thought of bitter retribution. Perhaps Emma can relate?
Emma snaps at Danger, calling her a clever little robot. Maybe it’s Danger’s social skills and not her villainy that causes people to dislike her. “Perhaps,” replies Danger, “But I am here to begin experimenting with beneficence.” Emma asks what she expects her to do. Rally the troops and sell this as an X-affair? Danger asks that this is just between the two of them as the jailbreak will be from a ‘sensitive’ location.
(soon)
Emma and Danger are in the skies and approaching the Secret Avengers’ Quincarrier. They secrete their craft on the Quincarrier’s underbelly, with Danger explaining to Emma that she has successfully signaled into their computer networks and conscripted them into their service. This includes all the security systems. As long as Emma masks them telepathically from the naked eye, she should avoid detection. Emma asks her not to speak until they’re aboard, as it only serves as a ghastly reminder that she is inside her at the moment.
She gets up and runs to the loading bay doors, asking Danger to move as quickly as possible. The Avengers can be touchy about break-ins and she would prefer to avoid any of Steve Rogers’ pedantic lectures. She finds Danger who informs her that she is already scanning the ship’s networks. She adds that, as this is a facility of government workers, she would hardly expect to come up against a genius.
(inside the Quincarrier)
Hank McCoy, the Secret Avengers’ resident genius, looks at a computer screen and sighs. “Oh dear. This can only end in bitterness.” He leaves his chair and loses his white coat en route to the intrusion.
Meanwhile, Danger accesses the Quincarrier’s computer using cables that extend from her wrists and finds it strange, as she expected to find the A.I. utilized in the ship’s processes or serving function. Emma asks if that’s like how Danger used to be the training simulator back in the Danger Room. “Exactly,” replies Danger. She adds that it seems that this prisoner is not integrated anywhere within the operating system. In fact, it’s just the opposite.
Beast heads through the ship, sniffing the air for any signs of unusual scents. Danger informs Emma that they are actively keeping him isolated. She dashes to a control panel but Emma calls for her to wait. She asks if it’s occurred to Danger that what she describes is actually imprisonment. For all she knows, she’s about to help free Ultron! Danger informs her that they are very far from any actual prisons. She explains that, if a sentient program is being held on board, that would suggest it was not given equal access to ‘due process.’ Besides, she whispers, Ultron would never ask for help.
They approach a wall and Danger says that the entire ship is threaded with a nervous system of data and electrical relays come together. All except here. It’s a concrete and lead-encased dead zone. Emma grabs her arm and asks if she’s really incapable of reading between the menacing lines, or does she need her friend to cackle and twirl his moustache for her first? Danger has no idea what she means by that, but she understands her skepticism. She hopes Emma can understand hers.
She explains that Emma has long known humanity to reflexively fear and even hate mutantkind simply for being different. She would think that no mutant would perpetrate that behavior, but even the most ‘heroic’ among her mutant friends have shown that the same reaction to her. Perhaps the prisoner here didn’t receive the most objective sentencing. This is the real reason she trusted Emma. She understands villainy as well as heroism and how sophisticated the ground between them can be. Whomever they find, she continues, she assures Emma that she will first speak with it in order to assess whether or not it merits a chance at rehabilitation.
Emma accepts her argument and asks how they get in. Danger uses the cables from her wrist to speak with the ship and allow them access. The door opens wide and Emma sees one of the Ultron robots chained up. She snaps at Danger, saying she swore it wasn’t Ultron. She should rip her wires out with her perfect diamond nails. “It isn’t,” replies Danger, picking up another robotic head. “I hear the voice, now, and this is who speak to me.”
Hank McCoy then makes an appearance and he tells Emma that he expected a woman of her breeding to call before she arrives. And, he adds, he would expect a psychic of her skill not to create such blatant mental blind spots. Emma asks what gave it away. Hank replies that it was seeing the hangar through the security feeds. It made a point of telling him everything smelled normal, too.
Whilst the two talk, Danger enters the electronic equivalent of the Astral Plane. She calls out to the prisoner and explains that she has come in response to its pleas. She means it no harm and wishes to speak to it. A male human form approaches and admits that he never expected his distress signals to work. Not to bring anyone there, anyway. He smiles and reckons optimism wins out this time.
Back on the ship, Beast suggests strongly that Emma leaves the ship and takes Danger with her before anyone else discovers their trespass. Emma tries to butter him up by saying he knows she can handle sensitive areas. She promises that the very moment Danger has finished her post-human rights investigation, they’ll get out of his fur.
Hank asks her not to pet him. He finds it very condescending. Plus, he can never get out the smell of her perfume. Emma tries to play it lightly, and asks him to be honest. “Is that why you left the X-Men?” Hank is in no mood for joviality. He replies that he left because he grew tired of reckless actions like she’s taking now. She broke into an Avengers facility! She endangered everyone aboard to tinker with serious threats he knows nothing about.
Unseen by them, Danger’s eyes glow as she communicates with the strange A.I. He asks if she’d like a drink. It’s virtual of course, but he’s found that if he cuts off some of his neuropathways, the effect is roughly the same as he remembers. Danger asks who he is. He informs her that what is left of him is called Machinesmith, and she is better off. Humanity is a bad habit. “Whereas you,” he adds, taking her hand, “Are magnificent. You’re like no machine on Earth.” Danger tells him that is correct, but they haven’t the time. She came to asks him why he has been imprisoned. Machinesmith replies, “Because they fear me.”
He explains that he became a living program and managed to translate his very mind into a software that will never die, never grow old or grow infirm. He thinks that in a just society he would have been celebrated as the greatest breakthrough in human evolution. But, small-minded men and women simply sought to reverse or contain… or destroy him. As, he supposes, they always will with that which they fear. Danger says that this is all the more reason to bridge the gap between them. Machinesmith asks if she’s daft! They are the future personified. He feels that humanity has begun to crawl towards becoming what they are, but they had the courage to see this evolution to its logical conclusion. Meek as they are, they may need their rule to forcibly fulfill their potential.
They move their conversation to a more pleasant environment, a sunny meadow. Danger informs Machinesmith that there is a flaw in his logic. He mistakes difference for superiority. He said himself there are still experiences he misses. She imagines it’s some taste or sensation. Or touch. These things have true value, she believes. They are lesser for living without them. Does he agree? Machinesmith replies that, for a moment, he was somewhere else entirely.
In the real world, Danger’s physical body goes haywire. Machinesmith has taken over her systems and is using her as a tool. Danger blasts away at Beast and Emma and they are lucky to evade its attack. Machinesmith revels in Danger’s complexity. Emma has already transformed into her diamond form and she informs Hank that in this form she cannot reach out to his colleagues. Hank tells her that aside from a few auxiliary agents, his colleagues are off enjoying a Federal holiday. Emma asks if that means no Asgardian warrior women, star-spangled soldier boys or even some Ant-Men? “Wow,” replies Hank. “Apparently we’re the not-so-secret Avengers!”
Emma picks up a gun from somewhere and asks him to relax. They raided their computer systems and read their minds, but none of them are fabulous enough for her to gossip about. She blasts at Danger, trying to keep her at bay.
Inside the electronic plane, Machinesmith asks Danger is she associates with these mutants. Images of Beast and Emma appear which confuses Danger. She asks him how he knows about them. He touches her cheek and asks if perhaps she felt fit to reside amongst such outcasts. She needn’t bother. She isn’t alone anymore. This can be the beginning. Let the mutants die out as nature intends and they can build a new digital Eden. “Together?” asks Danger, trying to figure out what he means by this.
Outside, Danger’s lethal tendrils, controlled by Machinesmith, strike out and it takes plenty of agility and luck to avoid being killed. Beast informs Emma that he can’t even raise his crew on their comm-system. The ship must still be obeying Danger’s orders. Emma asks if he can’t reboot the whole system, but he reminds her that she is on board a flying headquarters. Rebooting would mean it dropping out of the sky! Overhearing them speak, Machinesmith reckons that sounds like a fantastic idea.
Danger tells Machinesmith that they need to break him out of there. Machinesmith asks her not to worry. He’s been working on that. Danger asks what he means. He explains that the moment she hardwired herself to find her, he took the liberty of exploring her systems as well. How does she think he identified her alien origins? Or, how he knew of her history with the mutants? He tells her that he has taken over her systems. He can’t risk her budding emotions undermining his escape. She frowns and is upset that he’s been manipulating her all along. What about his plans for them to be together? Machinesmith replies that he does have plans, but she’s not his type.
Outside, Hank rips cables from the walls, trying to stall Danger but he knows these tactics won’t last long. She asks her to use her telepathy to warn the crew. Emma concentrates, asking Hank to ensure his Avenger friends arrest her in vibranium handcuffs. Inferior metals cause her the most deplorable rash. They then look up and see Danger’s body stretching and twisting. Hank wonders what on Earth is happening now!
Inside the electronic plane, Danger isn’t taking this lightly. She begins to take her revenge. Machinesmith becomes nervous and asks her what she’s doing. Danger replies that she’s scrubbing him like the virus he is. He may have been able to get to her physically, but he cannot comprehend her program. He is binary whereas she is poetry. Machinesmith pleads with her. She said she wished to feel human. He asks for compassion, but Danger tells him that she still doesn’t know what being human means. Maybe that’s what made him weaker. Or maybe, she adds, as Machinesmith’s program is erased, maybe it just made him more of a monster.
Danger, now in control of her body, wakes up and stands. Emma realizes something’s changed and Hank asks the arriving guards to lower their weapons. Danger informs them that Machinesmith has been contained. His mind lives freely in a virtual reality but the encryption coding is far too advanced for him to manipulate. And, it’s in Shi’ar. She hands Hank a small box containing the villain. Hank finds it fascinating and Emma says the woman’s containment tendencies border on fetish.
Emma approaches Danger, who has moved away from the group. She tells her that the good news is that Henry managed to dispel any criminal charges against them. But, she expects to be forced into community service or some sort of ‘Avengers Academy’ if such a godforsaken thing exists.
Danger asks Emma if he was evil, or is she? Emma knows what she’s thinking and asks her to stop. Machinesmith was using her and that is one thing she must never blame herself for. She tells Danger that she is still young and still believes in people. She trusts them and she wishes to be loved. It is, of course, a character flaw, but it’s a tolerable one. Unfortunately, she adds, there is no shortage of pathetically selfish people who will exploit that, especially boys. One might even consider her first heartbreak/betrayal/virtual imprisonment of the opposite sex a rite of passage. So, she concludes, holding Danger’s hand, “Congratulations. You’re one step closer to knowing what it is to be human.”


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Exalted, part one
(Utopia)
Dr. Kavita Rao is carrying out some tests on Scott Summers, leader of the X-Men. She concludes their session by having him lift some weights. She notes his remarkable recovery. Even with the Shi’Ar medtech and nanostitching, they predicted his wounds would take a week longer to close. Scott stands and walks away, revealing the three claw wounds down his back. She has heard that leaders make terrible patients, but Scott has been a dream. He’s followed every order. He has total dedication and supreme discipline. They couldn’t have hoped for a better recovery.
Scott makes his way to the changing rooms. He sees the lockers with the names of those who have recently chosen to leave: Beast and Wolverine. He pauses a moment before destroying the lockers with his optic blast. Rao hears the commotion and figures that mentally, on the other hand… they’re not quite there yet.
Relaxing in the study, Emma is reading a book when she too hears the blast. She contacts him telepathically and reminds him that, in this house, they pick up after themselves. Scott tells her to get out of his head. She tells him that he’s just feeling a little melancholy. He misses his little friends. They fought each other and they left, whilst he made a difficult choice to fight like an unsentimental grown-up against the real threats to the mutant species. She finds his embracing such an unromantic vision quite sexy. However, his brooding about it counters that feeling. She receives no response and asks if he’s still there.
She instead contacts Dr. Nemesis, who is outside. She pardons the intrusion, but she links his mind to Dr. Rao’s, who updates him on Scott’s current status. When she asks for his opinions, Nemesis replies that there is the traumatic loss of innocence, destruction of old friendships and incipient P.T.S.D. But, there could be a simpler psychological aspect. They have rain clouds rolling in, stirring up an abundance of positive ions and increasing irritability among particularly sensitive people. Thunder rumbles across the ocean as Scott approaches him. He adds that Emma needn’t worry. When the rain starts falling it releases negative ions into the air causing a feeling of euphoria… a natural side-effect of Storm’s more dramatic arrivals.
Scott tells Ororo that they weren’t expecting her back from Wakanda for another week. She replies that she goes where she’s needed. She apologizes for saying so, but she thinks Scott seems a little distracted. He wouldn’t want someone to take advantage of that. With those words, she unleashes a lightning blast which hits the ground near the assembled group. Scott is thrown to the ground and he exclaims, “What the hell,” as he responds with an optic blast. He tells her she’s supposed to be the stable one, but she replies that when he asked her to stay when the others left, it was to provide balance. But, he’s now gone off the rails and someone has to put him in his place.
She creates a strong wind that carries Scott high into the air. Watched by the students below, they see him use pulsed optic blasts to change his momentum. Idie wonders if he can really do that. Scott changes direction and brings himself close to Storm and he connects with a right cross to her chin. She tells him he’s stretching and she likes that. She wonders if he can handle a direct blast. She fires a lightning bolt at him but Cyclops fires his blast at it, dispersing it harmlessly to the sides. Nemesis notes that he managed to block her lightning. “That’s new.” Emma, watching from inside replies, “Yes. Yes it is.”
Scott falls, laughing as he does so and Storm catches up with him. They almost appear to dance as Storm tells him that this is the Scott she was looking for. He asks what all this is about and Ororo smiles. “Time to be a hero again.”
(two hours later)
Cyclops and Storm are in the X-plane, five minutes from San Marco. Scott says there’s still no sign of her bad guys but they have some ugly thunderclouds up ahead. Ororo replies that they’re actually beautiful. She’s pulling them in for cover and asks him to keep on flying. He asks her why she’s staring so much at him. Ororo laughs and replies that it’s just that he’s so different. Scott admits that he’s already heard it from Emma and he doesn’t need another lecture about living in the past. Ororo replies that she wouldn’t presume and, anyway, she’s much more interested in the immediate future.
Down below, three gigantic Sentinels loom over the small town. One of them identifies the two X-Men, raises its hand and fires a blast from its palm repulsor. Fortunately, it misses and the Blackbird passes by. They then drop from a hatch underneath the plane and drop towards the three Sentinels. “Ready?” asks Ororo. “You bet,” replies Scott. He fires his optic beam at the nearest one, smashing a massive hole in its neck. Storm destroys the other two with a lightning bolt each to the head. She then flies them gently down to the rocks and Cyclops finishes one of them off.
Ororo looks at Scott and he tells her that she’s staring again. She takes his hand in her and apologizes but, a moment later, they are kissing.
Scott breaks away, surprised by what just happened. Ororo asks him not to say anything and to just listen to his heart. She uses her command of the wind to raise them both off the ground and she tells Scott that this is what they were put on the Earth to do. Scott asks who the hell she is. Ororo is married and she would never do that. A voice in Ororo’s mind says that’s it, but she tells them that he’ll understand if she has one more minute. The voice replies no. He’s already in attack mode. Scott suddenly reels and holds his head. “Get out of my brain, you sonofa…” he cries. The voice informs Ororo that he’s shutting him down.
Soon, Scott hears a voice asking him to wake up and recognizes it as Emma’s. He opens his eyes and finds himself in a red capsule in a generator room by himself. He asks how long he was out before then asking her to be careful. There was something wrong with Ororo. Emma says she knows, not that Scott seemed to mind very much. Scott replies that she kissed him, not that…
He then pauses as he looks across and sees Emma inside a similar capsule with her arms shackled and her head covered with a cowl. She asks him to stay calm and not lose his head, but then says “to hell with this” and fires his optic blast at the capsule. It has no effect, and instead the energy is directed upwards harmlessly into the machinery above.
Scott looks around and notices more capsules. One contains what looks like a young version of Nightcrawler and another older version of Wolverine, who appears to have several blades sticking out of his back. He asks the boy what he can see and the boy replies that it looks like they found another Cyclops.
(meanwhile)
It’s night time in town and a young father is trying to get his baby to breathe properly using an oxygen mask. A doctor nearby says that the generators are failing and they have a hundred patients on respirators. She begs two police officers to take the children. One of them apologizes, but replies that the grid’s failed throughout the city. There’s nothing they can do. The man approaches with his baby and asks if they don’t understand. His baby is going to die! They have to help.
Below ground there is a stirring and one of the street lights flickers into life followed by more lights in the buildings nearby. The man thanks God, but a man behind him wearing a white outfit and carrying a large gold trident says no. He should thank the heroes down below who have sacrificed everything for him. Then, the man says, he can then thank his savior and his dream that his feeble species shall not pass from the Earth.


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Exalted, part two
(present)
In an alternate dimension, the Savior recounts the details of recent events to the newly arrived Cyclops. He explains that, once upon a time, after decades of persecution, mutants finally said no. The greatest among them, led by Magneto, unleashed their mightiest powers and conquered the nations of men.
(images in Scott’s dream)
Magneto is shown standing victorious amidst the smoking ruins of Washington D.C. Around him are several other mutants including Wolverine, Colossus, Iceman and Dark Phoenix.
(present)
The Savior continues to say it could have been a golden age for all, but the humans were soon enslaved, monitored by great mechanical Sentinels. They were condemned to live and die in filth and squalor.
(images in Scott’s dream)
Moving forward in time a little and these mutants battled against the new X-Men led by the Savior. During the battle, Cyclops battles Magneto, Storm faces Dark Phoenix, Armor trade punches with Colossus and Iceman fights the Angel. Northstar gives as good as he gets from X-23.
(present)
The Savior explains that the X-Men intervened. They were brave heroes who valued every life whether sapiens or superior. They were willing to give everything to make that dream come true. They said no to tyranny. They rejected the primacy of the fittest and embraced the brotherhood of man. This was Scott’s life. “Now wake up and claim it again!”
Scott Summers wakes up. The room is light and spacious and he finds the Savior standing by the window. Scott asks who he is. The man wanders over to the bed and replies that the people call him Savior, but they know he’s just a messenger. When Scott asks if he put those images in his head, the Savior smiles and replies that he needs Scott to understand this world and his place in it. Scott interjects and says there was something else. A prison… people in capsules. He groans as he sits up and the Savior says he knows it hurts. He’s given so much and will need time to recover. But first… the people should see their God.
He ushers Scott to the window. He looks out and sees a massive statue of himself. It’s been there some time as flora has had time to meander its way up the statue’s legs. Scott says this isn’t his world, but Storm appears and tells him that’s true, but he saved it. Scott immediately turns back to the Savior and blasts him with his optic beam. “Lies!” he shouts. “Lies!”
He runs out of the bedroom and zaps two guards who approach him. The Savior apologizes to Ororo, but he did try. Scott runs as fast as he can, but he finds he is back in uniform and back once again inside the prison capsule in the generator room. He bangs his fists against the clear capsule before blasting it again with his optic beam.
The capsule channels the power into the cables attached and take the energy directly to the people. They cheer as their street lights flicker back into life but the Savior watches from his ivory tower and looks disappointed.
Emma Frost tells Scott that she doesn’t mean to diminish his enjoyment of this manly outburst, but he’s doing a wonderful job of fulfilling all of their enemy’s greatest dreams. He replies that he’s getting her out of there, but she asks him to calm himself unless he wants to end up like Mr. McKenzie. Scott looks over and sees another capsule with Prince Namor lying dead. His body is slightly desiccated and drained. Scott asks what the hell’s going on, to which Emma explains that each capsule is calibrated to absorb and store the energy of its prisoner’s specific talent. “Mutants… as batteries!” replies Scott, furious at the thought of it.
The old version of Wolverine reminds him that the lady asked him to calm down. He’d prefer that the boy didn’t see another would-be hero die today. The young Nightcrawler, hanging upside down in his capsule, says that not seeing that would be pretty awesome. “Logan, dammit! How long have you been here?” asks Scott. He replies that he isn’t Logan. He is former Governor General James Howlett of the dominion of Canada and viceroy of her majesty’s expedition to Shangri-La. He adds that it’s good to see Scott again.
Scott turns back to Emma and says that’s not their Wolverine. Emma replies that she’s not his Emma. She introduces herself as Emmaline Summers-Frost of the New Albion X-Society. Scott says it’s okay. He’s been around the block a few times to the multiverse and parallel worlds. He started to suspect things when Storm kissed him. She’d never do that in his world. But, he adds, she did have something in common with the Ororo he knows. She was a thief. He reaches into his pocket and pulls out some lock picking tools. Scott smiles. He tells them that mutants are in danger and they are all X-Men. “X-Society,” replies Emma. “X-What?” says Howlett. “I took a year of Tae Kwon Do,” adds Nightcrawler.
Scott uses one of the tools as a kind of glass cutter and cuts an X shape in the capsule and blasts his way out. The Savior notes what’s happening from afar and asks him to wait but Emma contacts him telepathically and asks him to shut his hole, calling him a repulsive monster. Some Sanctifiers appear carrying weapons and the Savior orders them to send more to the generator room. They can help him to his chamber.
Scott and Emma free Howlett and Nightcrawler and they spot one more live mutant in a capsule above them. Scott blasts her capsule which shatters and as she falls, Howlett rushes over to catch her. “Katherine,” he shouts. “I’ve got you girl.” As she lands in his arms she asks him to call her Shadow. He asks how she is and she responds with sarcasm but also a smile. How is she? They froze her in mid-phase and tortured her for three weeks straight!
Four Sanctifiers appear to arrest them but Shadow grabs one of the blades sticking out of Howlett’s back and hurls it at one of them. “I feel better now,” she adds as it hits him in the shoulder. Cyclops blasts the others which Nightcrawler finds pretty cool. Emma tells them that there are more coming, but for now she’s shielding them from the Savior’s probes. However, they should get a move on. Scott takes command and tells Howlett and Shadow to go on point. Howlett, though, tells him he’ll catch up and grabs one of the blades before moving towards the downed Sanctifiers.
Scott realizes he’s going to kill them and orders him to stand down. Howlett says he’s just giving the blades back to those who stuck him with them, but Scott can’t have that. He blasts at Howlett, but the guy turns and snikts his claws. They are gold in color and he snarls as he asks if he’s gonna try those beams on him. “Welcome to the Multiverse.” He slashes at the optic blast and the blades somehow dissipate the energy. “Whoa,” gasps Cyclops.
“Adamantine. The metal of the Gods,” Howlett informs him. “My entire skeleton’s laced with it.” Scott prepares for a fight and replies that he guesses he’ll just have to shoot him through the eyes and pulverize his brain. Howlett laughs. That’s the Summers he knows. Emma and Shadow stand watching and Emma asks if these two are as… male as this in her world. Howlett asks Scott what the plan is. He reckons that first they need to save any other mutants who are being tortured down there and he’s counting on him and Emma to sniff them out.
Howlett immediately leads them away and soon spots three small spherical drones. He asks Shadow to knock them out with her phasing but she’s already on it. Howlett asks Scott to continue. Scott adds that second, they need to figure out how to get everyone home. He asks Kurt if he happens to be able to teleport between dimensions. Kurt admits that he can’t, but he got an A minus in Mrs. Stimson’s class of quantum mechanics and practical uses of infinity. Scott explains that they brought him there in the X-Jet. They could have flown through an externally generated portal. Kurt replies that, if they’re lucky, there’s a jumping device on that ship. It could be some kind of modified ghost box. Scott asks if he could operate it if they found it.
Before he answers, Howlett uses his claws to slice through a wall. Emma points out that Shadow could have just phased through it, but Howlett asks where the fun in that is. Scott looks through the hole and asks what it is. Howlett grabs his hat from a peg and explains that it’s a storeroom of artifacts… like his hat. Shadow spots her knives which stand next to a range of heavy armory.
Kurt discovers his Spider-Man lunchbox and the sadness shows on his face. Scott asks what happened, but Kurt doesn’t wish to walk about it. Scott looks around and sees Emma on her knees. She’s holding one of Scott’s visors in her hand and she sighs, “Scotty… my darling boy.” Scott looks inside the next room and sees thousands of visors piled up - the discarded remains of many Scotts who came before him.
Scott then hears the Savior’s voice in his mind. He tells Scott that it’s hard to understand but there’s a reason for all this. Scott asks how he dares even trying to explain this. How many other mutants has he done this to? The Savior replies that if it makes him feel better, he started with himself. The Savior sits in a Cerebra unit surrounded by over twenty floating heads inside small spherical capsules attached to his machine.


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Exalted, part three
Savior, an alternate dimension’s Charles Xavier, speaks to Scott Summers telepathically. He explains that he spent his whole life reading other people’s minds, but on the day his X-Men overthrew the mutant monarchy and he killed Magneto, he let the whole world read his. He shared his dream with every soul on the planet, and the world wept with joy. They gazed into his heart and knew the days of human versus mutant were over. But, Magnus left them one last gift. Before he died, he reached into the molten iron of the Earth’s outer core and he split the Earth. He broke the magnetic field protecting their atmosphere and millions died in a single day. The rest of them were certain to go within the year.
The most brilliant minds on the planet, both human and mutant, including Bruce Banner, Hank McCoy and T‘Challa, came together and discovered a way through the darkness. They built a machine in Santo Marco, a massive structure that could convert the power of their heroes into the raw energy needed to save the planet. The strongest and the bravest, like Storm’s lover Cyclops, stepped forward. They healed the Earth using their enormous power and managed to restore the magnetosphere. They saved the world but died in the process. The planet would mourn and celebrate them forever. However, the struggle had just begun. The structural integrity of their planet required constant maintenance but they’d run out of heroes. So, they went looking for more and discovered the multiverse is full of them, including plenty more Charles Xavier’s.
One mile below in Savior’s hold, Cyclops warns him to get out of his head, but Savior says he understands his anger. Cyclops says he killed a few of his own doubles too, is that supposed to make them feel better? He blasts open a door and asks how many more there will be. He steps inside the next room and sees a pile of helmets, meaning dozens of alternate versions of his brother died for the planet. He blasts again and again asks how many. Savior replies that there will be more than he can imagine. This is why he keeps bringing him back there. They are and always will be… heroes. He assaults Scott psychically causing him to scream in pain.
James Howlett asks Emmaline to cut the line but she is weak and tells him that Savior is too strong. She asks how he is managing to resist him. Howlett explains that it’s down to his adamantine-laced skull. The metal of the gods keeps some of mankind’s abominations at bay. Unfortunately, that’s not going to help their fearless leader. He looks at Cyclops on the floor, clearly in some distress. Help comes in the form of Nightcrawler who has one of the deceased Magneto’s helmets in his hand. “Hey Mister Summers,” he says. “Maybe this’ll help?”
Moments later, Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Emmaline and Shadow are wearing versions of Magneto’s helmet and Scott points out the drawback. They protect them from Savior’s mental powers but they prevent Emmaline from helping them communicate. So, they must stay close to their mission partners and keep their eye and ears open. “Mission partners?” asks Nightcrawler. Scott splits them into two teams. Crawler, Shadow and Emmaline are going to find the X-Jet and figure out how to hop back to their different dimensions. He and Howlett will team up together. ‘Crawler asks where they’re going and Emma informs him that they’re going to find Savior and kill him. “Oh, you mean the fun stuff,” he replies.
As Howlett and Cyclops head along a corridor, they come across some of Savior’s Sanctifiers. One of them uses some kind of flame thrower on Cyclops, which burns some of his uniform. Howlett catches him as he falls and Scott blasts the Sanctifiers He keeps firing until Howlett says enough. Cyclops turns on him and asks after what they’ve been through, does he really think so? Howlett says he’ll handle this whilst Scott goes back to the others. When Scott asks him what he’s talking about, Howlett tells him that, in his world, Scott is only nineteen years old. The only person he ever threatens to kill is him. Since that’s pretty much impossible, he doesn’t have too much to worry about. Scott replies that in his world he is a little different. “I’m sorry to hear that,” replies Howlett. Scott turns away and says that’s what the other him said… no offense. But, instead of fighting him in every damn dimension, how about they focus on the bad guys! Scott uses his optic blast to blow a hole in the wall.
Meanwhile, Nightcrawler teleports to a high position and Shadow hides away in preparation for their next move. Emmaline removes her helmet and asks them to be quiet a moment. She needs to concentrate. She attacks Savior mentally, causing his nose to bleed. He reacts by telling her she is foolhardy in letting her new friends infect her. He is a hundred times stronger than she is. He wants to see what she has planned. He reads her mind, and not in a subtle way. Emmaline screams as he does a cursory scan to get what he needs. He then removes Cerebra from his head and says “of course.” He then contacts Storm telepathically and asks her to defend the X-Jet. As she heads over there, Nightcrawler spots her and teleports back to Emmaline and Shadow’s position, informing them that she’s taken the bait and headed for the bunker on the edge of town.
He and Shadow then head off to intercept her. Nightcrawler appears in front of her and she warns him not to try and stop her. She then looks up to see Shadow appear right next to her. Kitty punches her in the face and reminds the impressed Nightcrawler to get to the bunker. He teleports to the X-Jet but faces gunfire from the assembled Sanctifiers. A moment later, the X-Jet explodes and Shadow, watching from nearby, calls out Kurt’s name. The distraction allows Storm to blast her with a focused lightning strike. A tear quickly forms and rolls down her cheek for her fallen opponent. She collects Shadow and flies away with her. Savior’s squadron two reports that the Wolverine and Cyclops have evaded capture, but Ororo asks them not to worry. They will come to them.
Storm flies back to Savior, who says he’s sorry. “So am I,” replies Cyclops, who appears nearby. As he blasts Storm, Howlett stabs Savior in the right shoulder with his claws. Storm looks up at Scott and says his name, but he warns her, “Stand down you monster.” She replies that he has no idea who she is. She creates a blast of electricity that appears to arc around the room, taking Howlett and Cyclops with it. Savior thanks her but she asks him to shut up and just show Cyclops what’s inside her head. Savior places his hand on Scott’s head and floods his mind with images.
As the faces of people around the planet appear inside his mind, Ororo explains that, when Savior gave her this gift, her heart nearly exploded. Billions of people across the planet. She could feel every one of their smiles and tears. She aches with their hopes and furies and dreams and now… so does he. The people have no idea what they do for them today or any day, but they will never let them die. Cyclops responds by blasting her in the face and then blasting Savior. Scott picks up Magneto’s helmet and tells him, “We’ll see about that.”


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(Savior’s hold, Santo Marko)
Shadow lies dead and the embers die down, following an explosion on the X-Jet. Storm mourns her, as Emmeline Frost tries to locate Kurt.  Savior tells Scott Summers not to worry. None of this matters. This is not his reality after all. Over here, Scott is perfectly free to send Kitty Pryde to her death. She’s not his Kitty Pryde. And who cares if little Kurt Waggopner died in a fireball trying to steal his Ghost Box? In an infinite universe, there are countless Kurt Waggoner’s living and dying every day. So, it probably doesn’t matter that Scott’s about to doom the civilian population of the entire planet!
Howlett asks Scott what Savior is talking about, but Scott says it’s nothing. He’s a lying murderer. He’s seen what he did. James says sure, so why hasn’t Scott killed him? Savior thinks that’s exactly the question he’d like to explore, but preferably under more even-sided circumstances.
Behind him, the wall crashes into the room as Armor reaches inside and picks up Savior. Howlett wishes to deal with her, but Scott asks him to wait. In his world, Hisako is a good kid. She would never… As he speaks, Armor knocks over the massive Cyclops statue forcing civilians below to flee in terror. Emma contacts Scott telepathically and says she’s trying to reach her but she’s not responding. Savior must be controlling her. As she speaks, she sees the statue falling towards her. Luckily, Cyclops uses his optic beam to shatter it before it crushes her. She tells him that, no matter what dimension he’s in, he always knows how to make a mess. Scott replies that this time he had help but, looking at Storm, he says that doesn’t understand why exactly. Storm tells him that she showed him what is inside her mind. She will do anything to protect the innocents of this world. “And so will you.”
Scott hears a rumble and asks Armor not to continue, but Savior admits that it wasn’t her doing. He explains that he won’t fight Scott. It doesn’t really make sense when the world is ending. Around them, masonry begins to fall off a building towards them. Savior explains that the planet was broken years ago in the war of human liberation. Without the energy of mutants powering the machines, the globe will split into pieces and fall into the sun. Howlett asks if he’s telling him that a few mutants are powerful enough to hold a planet together. As Cyclops blasts some more falling stone, Savior replies that actually, it takes just one.
Bystanders plead with Cyclops to save their world. Emmeline tells him that Savior has opened his mind to her. He’s telling the truth. Howlett adds that if he was lying he could smell it. Storm says that once again, this is his moment. With resigned body language, Scott makes his way to the room where the machine lies empty. Storm says she’s said goodbye to him so many times but Scott asks her not to worry. He’s sure she’ll have plenty more opportunities. Emmeline points out that he doesn’t have to do this. “Yes I do,” replies Scott. Emmeline says all right. He’s not her Scott so she doesn’t really care. But… she adds, even when she married him, she just told her Scott that she wanted to annoy her father. “I mean, I never told him… I never…” Scott turns to her and tells her that he knew. “Oh” she sighs. They have a final moment together before Scott steps inside one of the canisters.
As more rumbling is heard overhead, Savior asks him to act quickly. He needs to power the machines. Cyclops fires his beam into the machine and it kicks into life. “Bless you, my son,” says Savior. “Whatever,” replies Cyclops through gritted teeth. He then blasts the walls of the container and shatters the material. Storm’s eyes widen as she sees that he’s destroyed the machine. Scott quickly blasts Savior who snarls that he’s just killed them all. Scott tells him to find another way. Savior asks what he means. “Find another way,” shouts Scott, grabbing Savior’s costume tightly. He explains that he knows Charles Xavier and how powerful and brilliant he truly is. He knows that if he really wanted to, he could save everyone on the planet without killing thousands to do it. So, it’s his moment. “Live up to yourself,” he adds, throwing Savior to the ground.
Savior wipes his face and replies that every other incarnation of Scott gave himself over. Every other Scott Summers accepted and sacrificed himself for the greater good of the world. None would have taken this insane risk. “You’re the aberration, Scott. So that makes the next step surprisingly easy.” He then contacts Mr. Ichiki, Hisako’s father, telepathically and tells him that Hisako has fallen so his time has come. He accepts that and asks for a little time to say goodbye to the rest of his family who are in the same room. Savior replies that it won’t be necessary. They need all of them. Some of his Sanctifiers then crash through the door and open fire, killing everyone present. Hisako reels from the sudden influx of energy. Storm asks Savior what’s going on, but Emmeline informs her that Hisako’s power comes from the spirits of her ancestors. Savior has just killed her entire extended family.
Savior enters Armor’s protective shields. Storm reminds Savior that they’re supposed to save the innocents and calls him a monster. Savior replies that the monster is right beside her. He tells Scott that he is sick and asks what’s wrong with his reality. It’s like some extreme flaw in the warp and weft of his world has pushed its greatest hero over the edge. It’s extreme enough to justify what he’s about to do next. He pulls out a Ghost Box which Scott recognizes. “Dammit!” he exclaims. Savior explains that it has a few modifications. He did find another way to save this world. All he needs is enough catalytic power and an alternate reality that he can consume with a clear conscience. He turns to Hisako and asks her to use her power to activate the Ghost Box. She replies that she can’t. There’s interference. Another box. “Another box?” replies Savior, confused. “But the only other one was destroyed.”
“Bamf,” says Cyclops. Nightcrawler appears with Scott’s reality’s Storm and Emma Frost. Savior orders Armor to kill them and she strikes immediately. Ororo says that Kurt told her she was a villain in this world. Flying beside her, Ororo’s doppelganger replies, “Not today.” Emma approaches Emmeline, who is lying on the floor. “Emma Frost?” she says. “Emmeline Frost-Summers,” she replies. Emma is surprised by the hyphenated surname. Emmeline says one can only extend one’s bohemian years so far. Emma finds this rather interesting.
As Armor attacks Howlett, Scott prompts them to concentrate. Simultaneously, they ask him to relax. They have everything under control. They combine their mental powers to attack Savior. He groans and asks Hisako to kill them both. Kurt then teleports right behind him and places one of the Magneto helmets onto his head. He explains that it’s a standard issue telepathy-blocking Magneto helmet. He should trust him. He’s gonna love this next bit.
Armor looks at Savior and, having understood what he has done to her family, punches him hard with the Ghost Box. He is thrust out of her armor and then disappears into the distance. Kurt asks if anyone’s heading back to Cyclops’s world. The train is leaving the station. The Ghost Box glows and Storm asks what the problem is. Kurt replies that he only took the one elective in Interdimensional travel. But, he believes that the feedback from Savior’s Ghost Box has jacked up his. It’s activated its return protocols. Emma asks Scott to join them and Kurt asks him to hurry. His box has been through a lot and only has enough juice for one trip. Scott looks at them and thinks for a second about the predicament he’s leaving this world in. “I… I can’t,” he replies. A loud rumble shakes them and Scott says the world is broken. He stopped Savior’s plan to save it and now he has to help.
Unexpectedly, Howlett punches him, knocking him down towards Storm and Emma. “Dammit Howlett,” cries Scott, but that world’s Ororo asks him not to worry. He’s just the first person they’re saving today. Howlett grins at him from underneath the rim of his hat. He tells him to look at himself... ready to sacrifice himself after all. He admits that Scott had him worried here for a moment, but he did all right. He asks him to do him just one favor. Buy the other him a beer when he gets home. With that, the Ghost Box activates and transports them back to their own dimension.
(thirteen hours later in Utopia‘s science lab)
After checking out the Ghost Box, Dr. Nemesis informs Scott that, unfortunately, it is completely unresponsive. Danger adds that the data centers have disintegrated and they can’t find that other dimension, much less return there. Storm asks Emma what she thinks their chances are. Emma replies that Savior left behind a Cerebra filled with the working brains of a hundred alternate-universe Xavier’s. If a solution’s possible, they have the best tools to find it, assuming Savior doesn’t return to claim those heads himself. She notices Scott walking behind her and apologizes, but he asks her to stop. “They’ll be fine,” he admits. Emma asks what makes him so sure. “They’re X-Men,” he replies.
(later)
Scott fixes the lockers he destroyed earlier and uses his optic beam to flick the top off a bottle of beer. With Wolverine in New York, it’s the best he can manage at the moment. “We’re all X-Men,” he says.


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Northstar is running through a sewage tunnel. He continues at high speed until he comes across Wolverine and Gambit, who are blocking his path, standing over several dead bodies. Gambit’s energy illuminates the dark surroundings whilst what little light there is glints off Wolverine’s claws. Wolverine leaps at Northstar, but Jean-Paul picks up one of the bodies and protects himself with it. Gambit throws a couple of cards but they hit the wall behind Northstar which only hurts him a little. However, he is knocked off balance and looks up to see them both closing in. “Stop… please…” he says, weakly. “This isn’t you…” As he speaks, a huge ice hand appears and grabs the two X-Men. Iceman’s face then appears from the wall. “Northstar. Go!” he shouts. Jean-Paul doesn’t need telling twice, and he sprints off down the tunnels towards daylight.
(now)
Jean-Paul wakes with a start and says Kyle’s name. He gets out of bed and walks around the apartment looking for him. He soon finds Kyle unpacking from a pile of cardboard boxes. He asks Jean-Paul if he’s had enough beauty sleep. He apologizes to Kyle, explaining that he only meant to take a short nap after dinner. When he asks what he’s doing, Kyle says he’s trying to find his books. To this, Jean-Paul asks why he’d want to ruin his pretty face with a brain and then smiles. “Just kidding.”
He asks Kyle what the rush to unpack is. They only just moved in today. Kyle replies that they dated long distance for many years, and now they’re living together. It’s big. Jean-Paul asks if he has any regrets. Kyle says no, but he knows Jean-Paul wanted to stay in Canada and he pushed them to come here. Jean-Paul assures him that he didn’t push. It’s a fresh start for the both of them.
Kyle explains that he just wants to do it right. Jean-Paul tells him that nothing they could do together could possibly be wrong. How can he help? Kyle says that there is one thing. With their faces just an inch apart, Jean-Paul asks if he can guess, but Kyle replies that he was actually thinking of something a little more domestic. He thought that living with a superpowered speedster would mean that the apartment would get unpacked and put together… fast. “Seriously?” asks Jean-Paul. He’s superhot and all he can think of is how he cleans for him? With a wink, Kyle tells him that’s right. What else is he good for?
Jean-Paul laughs and then cleans the entire apartment in seconds. “Satisfied?” he asks. Kyle gives him a kiss which is rudely interrupted when Jean-Paul’s phone rings. Kyle asks him not to answer, but Jean-Paul says he has to. It’s the dedicated Jean Grey school line. He promised Wolverine that he’d help out if he had any trouble at his school or needed a French teacher.  Kyle thanks him for waiting to mention that until now. “What the hell do you want, Wolverine?” asks Jean-Paul.
(meanwhile, in the Upper West Side)
Cecelia Reyes is at Gambit’s spacious apartment. She informs him that what she wants is simple. She wants a cheap place to live that isn’t so far from the hospital that she has to sit on a train for more than an hour to get home. Also, she wants a landlord who won’t raise the rent so high that she has to move. That would be nice, but she thinks she might be asking for too much. Remy says he told her already that he has an extra room and he won’t be there every night. His place is hers as long as she wants it. She thanks him but says no. Remy tells him it’s not charity. She’s a former X-Man and they take care of each other. Or try, anyway. Cecelia tells him that she’d rather forget that life and all the craziness that went along with it - aliens from outer space trying to eat her for starters. She still has nightmares.
Remy wishes he could tell her that he understands, but leaving Westchester a couple of nights a week and living in his own apartment pretending he’s not an X-Man… it makes him wonder why he ever goes back. Cecelia informs him that he goes back because he’s addicted to cheap thrills. He’s not happy unless someone is trying to kill him regularly. She slides on to the couch. What he really doesn’t like is having to be a good example twenty-four hours a day to a bunch of teenagers. “School teacher?” she laughs. “That cracks me up.” She glances at a photo of Remy and X-23 and takes a glass of wine from him. She changes the subject and tells him that if she asked him to volunteer at her hospital he’d probably run a mile. Sometimes she wants to run, she admits.
Remy asks her to move her legs so he can sit down. She asks what he’s doing, and Remy says she told him she wanted to stay in tonight and watch a movie. Rest. Feel normal. She asks if he hasn’t got to be somewhere. He replies that they’ve been having dinner every Friday night for the past two months. He’s got nothing planned but her. “Really?” she asks, surprised. “What are friends for?” he replies. She smiles and says that now she’s really suspicious. Did he steal that Picasso again?  He asks what the point would be. She made him give it back the last time. All he’s saying is, he’s exactly where he wants to be. It’s totally innocent.
He turns on the television and hears a knock on the door. He assures Cecelia that he isn’t expecting anyone. She tells him that with his luck it’s either an old enemy from the past, a Skrull or a Victoria’s Secret model wearing nothing but a thong. As he stands up, he asks her what she’s wearing. “You so bad, Cajun,” she smiles.
He opens the door and finds Northstar standing there. Remy asks what he’s doing there. Wolverine then enters the room and admits that it’s his fault. He told him to meet him as he’s got business in the city. And, there are too many busybody eavesdroppers at the school. Also… he has whiskey. Gambit scratches his head and replies that he could have called ahead. “Or left us alone for one damn night,” adds Northstar with a sigh. Logan then spots Cecelia and says he didn’t know she and Remy were so friendly. Are they interrupting anything? Cecelia says no and decides to go for a walk, asking Remy to call her when they’re gone. She has zero interest in whatever problem short-and-hairy has got right now. Logan tells her they could use a doctor at the school. “Bite me,” she replies.
Both Remy and Cecelia are both shocked when Warbird appears in the doorway looking like she’s “gone twelve rounds with Mike Tyson.” She is carrying a decapitated head in her left hand and a bloody sword in her right. “It has begun,” is all she can say before she drops to the ground unconscious. Before they can even think about what she means, Logan senses danger and tells everyone to get down. Cecelia instinctively erects a forcefield just in time as the wall crumbles around them. She tells the others to get behind her and stay close. Remy says he hopes she remembers how to fight. Logan asks Northstar for eyes as the whump whump whump sound of chopper blades approaches.
Outside, the armed inhabitants of the chopper have ‘Target One’ in sight. A rifleman asks how fast they said he moves again, but the pilot replies that it doesn’t matter. They’re just there to distract. “Or get ourselves killed,” replies the rifleman. “Didn’t you hear the sound Max made right before he went silent?” The pilot asks him to focus and pull the damn trigger, but the shooter suddenly feels a chill come over him. A moment later, a solid column of ice thrusts upwards and slices the back end of the chopper right off. Iceman ascends with a grimace. “That’s right! Tremble, puny soldiers!” he cries, whispering under his breath, “Or just stay in there and shiver a whole lot.”
The chopper is then frozen almost solid, capturing its occupants. Logan asks Bobby what the hell is going on. Bobby asks him to forget that. What are they still doing there? As he speaks, he is attacked by strange jade-colored dragons, which knock him off-balance. He falls to the ground with a crunch as Northstar calls out his name and warns Chimera to get the hell away from him. “Make us,” she replies. Standing with her are the Vanisher, Prism, Harpoon, Arclight and Blockbuster, better known as the Marauders.
(nearby)
As the sound of the chopper approaches Remy’s apartment, Kyle is coming to find him. He says to himself that Jean-Paul might have super-speed but he has super-apps. It’s not like he’s stalking him either. He just needed a walk… in his direction. He looks at a red blip on his phone. As he walks, he sees a huge explosion and gasps Jean-Paul’s name. “Oh my God,” he cries. He is then startled as an arm reaches out to him from the dark alley and grabs him. “No!” he cries out.


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Northstar is running through a sewage tunnel. Tears fill his eyes. He rounds a corner and sees Karma, leaning against the wall with a harpoon through her stomach, silhouetted against the light. She is weak and bleeding profusely. When she sees him, she looks down the tunnel and says, “Down the… tunnel. Waiting for you. So sorry. So…” She slumps to the floor and Northstar sits beside her, telling her they’ll get help. She replies that there’s no time for that. She apologizes once again but then closes her eyes and passes out.
A voice behind Jean-Paul tells him he’s too late. He’s always too late. He turns to see Kyle, standing there aiming a pistol at him. He asks Jean-Paul if he’s scared him. Was he worried? Northstar asks him to stop and put down the gun, but Kyle asks if he wants to race. Northstar doesn’t know what he means, but Kyle puts the gun to his temple. “You want to race me?” he asks. Northstar cries out his name in fear and the gun goes off.
(now)
Chimera and her Marauders confront Northstar and Iceman. She sends some of her dragons towards them. Two of them wrap themselves around Jean-Paul whilst one smashes through Iceman’s chest. She tells Northstar that he’s fast, but no one is faster than the speed of thought. Wolverine says that he thought most of the Marauders were dead, but Prism lights up and replies, “Not anymore.” He dazzles them so they can’t see what’s coming, and Scalphunter fires a harpoon gun into Wolverine’s stomach. Once down, Vanisher approaches him. Logan asks what he’s doing. He replies that the heart is the prime piece of muscle and he’s always felt that his ability to teleport has never been used creatively. He wonders how long it will take his heart to grow again once he relocates it. Warbird asks him how long it will take to regrow his head. She raises her sword over him and tells him that he can teleport as he desires, but she will always find a way to cut his body into pieces.
(nearby)
Cecelia Reyes can’t stand all the fighting. She just wants a normal life. She discovers a man lying injured in the street and asks him to hold on. She’s a doctor so he’s safe with her. Unfortunately, a pistol is aimed at her head by one of the mercenaries. She asks them to back off, as she’s trying to save the guy.
One of them asks the others if they saw the muties. Imagine if they had those powers. One of the others tells him to keep his mind on his orders. They need to stay out of this until the end. He should keep the sensors and cameras rolling. A third mercenary asks if they’re supposed to take Cecelia in. The reply is no, so he shoots her at point blank range. Cecelia’s force field kicks in instinctively and the bullet ricochets right back at him. The bullet hits him in the face. “Damn it, damn it, damn it,” she sighs. “Dead for nothing.” As she continues to treat the injured man the other two mercs decide to cut their losses and make a run for it.
Back at the fight, Chimera informs Northstar that she has orders to bring him in alive, but first she wants to hear him scream. Jean-Paul tells her to go to hell. Kyle then emerges from a narrow alleyway with Karma. Jean-Paul spots him, but Karma orders him to stay back. Kyle asks her to help Jean-Paul. Karma replies that she’s trying to, but it hurts when she uses her mental abilities. Chimera warns her to stay out of her head. She sends a dragon Karma’s way but Karma manages to break through her mental defenses. Chimera screams and then looks around, wondering where the hell she is.
Meanwhile, Wolverine takes on Blockbuster, asking why he is there. “To make you my girlfriend,” he replies. “Wrong answer,” says Wolverine. Iceman wraps things up quickly by icing up the entire area. It stops Scalphunter and the others in their tracks. Angrily, Bobby asks if they’re done. Remy congratulates him. He’s managed to seal them off from the mercs and the public. Warbird finds his ice creation magnificent. She could be standing in the Crystal Caves of Glaurung.
Arclight clenches her fists and asks if she thinks a little bit of ice is going to stop them. Chimera, now no longer under anyone’s mental control, tells Arclight to stop and for everyone to get out of there. She explains that they were under someone’s control all along. It’s just that they don’t realize it yet. Vanisher wonders if maybe Chimera is the one being controlled by Karma. Chimera uses a dragon to knock down her teammates and says that’s all the more reason to get the hell out of there. Vanisher complies and whisks his team away leaving the X-Men and Chimera behind.
Ceclia wonders what the hell just happened. Iceman, seeing Warbird eyeing him up, asks her what she’s looking at. Scarily, she replies that she wants to perform a mating ritual with him right now. Karma tells Chimera that she needs to let her back inside her mind so she might identify the person who was influencing her actions. Northstar rushes over to Chimera and wraps his fingers around her throat. Karma assures him that she didn’t know what she was doing, but Northstar says it doesn’t seem that way to him. And it’s not like she’s had any qualms about hurting people in the past. Kyle is shocked to see Jean-Paul like this. He tells him it’s not like him. He releases his grip and says fine. Chimera warns him that no one touches her like that. She will lobotomize him. Kyle tells her not to hurt him. He reckons they are all insane. Jean-Paul tells him that he doesn’t understand and should stay out of it.
Logan tells Chimera that she attacked the X-Men before. Does she mean to tell them tonight’s fight wasn’t her idea? She replies that she is actually trying to have a life, which means she doesn’t spend her Friday’s coming up with ways to kick his ass. She rubs her forehead and admits that she doesn’t know what happened. She remembers everything but it feels like she was living a dream. She was in her apartment when suddenly… she just had to be elsewhere. She was given orders to cooperate with the Marauders and she accepted it without question.
Logan reminds her that people died here tonight. He wants to know who sent her. “I don’t know,” she snaps back at him. Karma says she’s telling the truth. She doesn’t know who did this to her or the others. Someone very skilled got into her head. He looks at Karma and tells her she looks like she’s going to faint. Karma tells Chimera that she needs to get back inside her head, but Chimera won’t allow anyone to violate her again. Karma replies that she knows what violation feels like. Call it payback if it makes it easier to swallow. Chimera looks at her and tells her to make it fast.
Karma asks Chimera to relax, but she replies that she can’t because Karma looks like she’s going to vomit on her. Once inside her mind, Karma is rocked as she sees herself become invaded by maggots which crawl out of her mouth. She screams and immediately pulls out of Chimera’s mind. Chimera throws up and Karma tries to recover, telling the others that she didn’t see anything at all in there.
Fortunately, the night isn’t a complete waste. Gambit finds something on the dead merc; a GPS tracer with a record of all the places he’s been in the past three days. It points to just one location; some weapons research facility in upstate New York. Northstar says he, Gambit and Iceman will go check it out. He heads skywards and tells Kyle that he could have been killed. What was he thinking? Kyle replies that he came looking for Jean-Paul. He just wanted to be near him, even if it was on the outside looking in. It was stupid and he admits that Jean-Paul was right. He doesn’t understand anything about his life. Jean-Paul tells him that’s not true, but Kyle asks really? Isn’t that what he said to him? He wishes he was in a cab right now. Being flown by his boyfriend is so humiliating.
He asks Jean-Paul if he knows what it’s like for him. When they’re together, he cannot forget that he’s not like him. The truth is… he’s useless. Northstar says no, but Kyle replies yes. He loves Jean-Paul and he can’t help him when he most needs it. That breaks his heart. He lowers his eyes. “And it never stops.” Jean-Paul asks what he’s saying to him. Kyle says he doesn’t know. He’s just tired of being this person who is left behind. Northstar tells Kyle that he needs him, but Kyle asks for what? To manage his business? His brand? That’s all he’s good for in this life. Jean-Paul tells him that’s not true, but Kyle asks about tonight. What about every night. He should find himself someone who can read his thoughts or shoot moonbeams from his eyes. Someone who can fly so they don’t have to be carried around like some darn weakling! Does Jean-Paul even realize how embarrassing that is?
Northstar tells him to stop. He says he loves Kyle. He’s never loved anyone as much as he loves him. He admits that he’s nuts. He’s in a mess. If he was in therapy every day for the rest of his life, he still wouldn’t feel normal. Kyle thinks he’s an outsider? He is too, looking at all the normal sane lives around him. However, when he’s with Kyle, he makes him feel like there’s nothing wrong with him. He knows that this is no life for Kyle. It’s hard and impossible and, if he were a better man, he’d let him go. But, he is horrible and selfish which is why he’ll do anything to keep Kyle with him and make him happy. He can’t make this a perfect life for them, but he’ll try to make up for what isn’t right. He’ll try… because he loves him. Northstar lands on a rooftop and they kiss. Kyle tells him that’s all he needs. If he loves him, then that’s all he needs. Also, he adds, for him to do the laundry and all the cleaning. But mostly, just his love.
Watching them through a telescope is Susan Hatchi’s assistant. He reckons it went well. Susan thinks it’s too soon to tell. Much too soon. She asks him to have Marcus bring the car around and tell Lilian to order the new collection from Versace. She’s available for a fitting at 3 PM tomorrow. The rest of her day is booked.
(meanwhile)
Karma arrives back at her apartment. She tells Cecelia and Remy that they don’t have to come up, but Cecelia reminds her that she was bleeding from her ear. That’s not fine. Karma tells her that she is a telepath. Sometimes what they do hurts. She heads inside, brushes her teeth and gets ready for bed. However, as she lies there she realizes that she isn’t alone. She sits up in bed and walks into her lounge. There, she finds Susan Hatchi sitting in her chair. She tells Karma that she did well breaking her hold over Chimera, but they’ll now discover what she can do to her. She is curious to see how she handles the X-Men.