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Here Comes Yesterday, part 3
(Two billion years ago)
Earth, the Mid-Water Zone, where deep within an underwater kingdom, an armored man sits on a throne. 'News of my fellow breathers, Majordomo?' he asks one of the creatures known as the Unbreathing. The creature addresses the man as Commander Nightfount, and reveals that the sickness has spread to Sentrytown 87, and the germ warlords know no rest, just as he warned. 'Threshold made their smart bacteria to kill the Unbreathing, taught them death...right out of the petri dish. What can Arkea and Sublime do but express it?' Commander Nightfount asks, before stating that the viruses won't stop until ever Thresholder dies in their war to destroy each other. 'Every site they attack, they weaken...leaving its people vulnerable' Nightfount points out, before telling the Unbreathing that this is their chance to reclaim the surface Threshold stole from them, city by city. 'Ready an Eruption Team. Let's hit the mutants while they're down' Nightfount grins wickedly.
At Sentrytown 87, Threshold, Akihiro a.k.a. Fang has been infected with the Sublime virus, and looms over his Marauder teammates and their allies the Threshold Three. 'Mutant? Is that what you call yourselves? So much hidden in this mule's mind...like our names, Sublime and Arkea. Future conquerors, it's good to be known...even if I'd hoped to end my siblings offense here and now' Sublime declares. 'Call yourselves Enriched. Call yourselves mutants. You're all just small minds trapped in decaying cages. You made us to hate. Can you imagine such an existence?' Sublime asks. 'You're wearing our friend's corpse, Sublime. It's easier than you think!' Captain Kate Pryde exclaims as she stands gathered with Lucas Bishop, Cassandra Nova, Jeanne-Marie Beaubier a.k.a. Aurora, Heather Tucker a.k.a. Tempo, Carl Valentino a.k.a. Somnus, Kwannon a.k.a. Psylocke, and the Threshold Three – Theia, Amass and Crave.
Through Fang's body, Sublime grins and asks 'Care to join him? I'll soon grind each of your mule bodies into dust' and boasts that he is the superior killer, that he will murder Arkea, and on the way, Threshold. 'I cannot be stopped. Or bargained with. I want only what I was born for. Obliteration!' Sublime boasts. Suddenly, 'Order up, bastard!' Aurora screams as she flies towards Sublime and creates a flash of blinding light right in front of him. Theia swats away another Thresholder with a gravity field and warns Tempo that Arkea yet lurks. 'Hadn't noticed!' Tempo retorts, while Sublime tells Aurora that he feels this mule's love for him, and notes that despite that, she strikes to kill. 'Ruthless! But useless! This flesh heals fast – what of yours?' Sublime asks as he lunges towards Aurora, Fang's claws outstretched – but before he can strike, Kwannon hurls a psychic rope around him and yanks him backwards. Kwannon begins wrapping the psychic rope around Sublime's neck and warns Aurora and Somnus that Fang's livery is ruptured, and that he is contaminated, that he cannot be saved, not here. 'At best, we have seconds – and even fewer choices!' Kwannon utters.
Suddenly, Sublime finds himself in a dreamscape. 'What is this – some mutant trick?' he asks, turning to Somnus, who appears in civilian clothing, he tells him that whatever he thinks he has done, he can't hope to stop him. 'That's enough from you, Sublime' Somnus utters as he raises a hand, and purges Sublime from Fang's form within the dreamscape. 'Carl? This is – it's Sendal. Are we back in the dreamscape?' Akihiro asks, as he appears back to normal. Carl tells Akihiro that he is sorry, and explains that Sublime got into his body. 'Even if we could get him out, your livery's toast'. Carl wraps his arms around his one-time lover and tells him that it isn't safe for him to be in the past. 'And I couldn't – I didn't want you to...' Carl's voice trails off. 'What, Carl? I'm right here. Whatever it is, we can -' Akihiro begins, before he vanishes turned to dust, and Carl tells him that he is sorry, he didn't want him to feel it.
Back in the real world, Somnus looks away as Aurora and Crave use their powers to destroy Fang's body – he is gone. 'I wasn't sure that'd work. Don't know if I wanted it to' Aurora utters, while Somnus reminds her that Akihiro only stays ash if they fail, and when they get home, they resurrect him. 'We just nuked one of our own, Arkea. What do you think we'll do to you?' Kate shouts as she phases her hand into the Thresholder carrying the Arkea virus. 'Please, mutant. Go solid. Kill. This body. It's cynaide cells will kill you...while I have plenty of mules left to burn'. Bishop fires a weapon at an infected rat creature and, telepathically linked to the others, he points out that Fang has been lost, just to quarantine the past, and they've only been here minutes. 'We're already on the defensive. We need an exit now' he exclaims. Kate agrees, and tells Bishop to watch the telepathy, as there is no guarantees it is secure. 'Not at all, Captain. It takes but one psionic mule to listen in. and if that frightens you...there's worse on the way!' Arkea exclaims.
'An eruption team!' Theia screams as the ground around them explodes, and several of the Unbreathing emerge. 'We cannnot fight on two fronts, Tempo -' Theia begins, when suddenly, one of the Unbreathing attacks Crave, who seemingly withers and dies. 'Crave! Just like that, he's -' Tempo begins. 'Dead. A Choke Staff. Instant deoxygenation' Theia explains. Kate Pryde fights alongside Amass as she announces that Arkea hacked their telepathy – Sublime and the Unbreathing are now all over them. She reminds Amass that this is his world, and asks him to give her a way out. 'Got one – can you all sprint?' Amass asks, while Theia battles one of the infected, 'Arkea! You're so desperate to steal our gifts?' she shouts. 'Enjoy the touch of my own!' she exclaims as she uses her gravity powers, crushing the infected.
'Hold on, everyone!' Aurora calls out as she drops to her hands and knees, and using her super-speed begins to shake the ground. 'Holding, Aurora! Give us something good!' Kate Pryde exclaims as she and Amass continue to battle the infected. 'Aki's gone. Telepathy's out. Billions of years in the past. It's no win. But if you can't win the game...you flip over the table' Aurora utters as the ground continues to rumble. 'What is that -' one of the infected begins. 'That – that's someone you shouldn't piss off!' Bishop declares as brilliant surge of light then shunts all of the infected and the Unbreathing backwards. 'You blow up the street' Tempo exclaims. 'I agitated its molecules. Very technical Quebecois Science' Aurora explains. 'Think they're impressed?' Tempo asks. 'Probably more of a panicked vengeance type of thing' Aurora replies. 'Love that for them. Not so much for us' Tempo adds, while the infected and the Unbreathing begin to fall back to the ground.
'Get moving! Unbreathing Reserves won't be long!' Amass tells everyone as he leads the Marauders onwards, adding that Nightguns aren't known for accuracy. 'We run – we find Grove! They'll know what to do!' he exclaims. 'If it's that simple! Trust me, the sailing's never as clear as you think' Bishop begins, when, as if on cue, hands begin to reach up thrgouh the ground, and one of them latches onto Amass. 'Bishop!' Amass calls out. Bishop turns back to Amass, 'Grab my hand! You've got to -' Bishop begins, but Aurora tells him that it is time to go. 'No, Aurora! He's still down there. Amass is -' Bishop begins, but too late, as Aurora grabs him and pulls him along, while Theia remarks that Amass knew the risks – they all did. 'If he can be rescued...Grove will know'.
Hours later, inland, the Marauders are taking a moment's rest inside a cave, where there is a strange green glow. 'Theia said we'd be safe here, but I don't know. I trust that she thinks we'll be' Tempo remarks. Aurora agrees, and refers to the the hologram that is hiding them from Arkea and Sublime. 'A good hologram, sure. I checked it out myself. But this feels precarious' Aurora adds. Bishop declares that the mission is precarious, and notes that they barely survived the landing. Kwannon points out that they are secure for now, and suggests they don't waste it. She adds that Crave and Amass are gone. 'So is Pryde!' Tempo remarks, adding that if Cassandra is to be believed, their telepathy is gone, too. Tempo decides that Cassandra isn't to be believed, and notes that Kwannon can't track Kate, either. 'We're losing people fast. It's almost like I said this was a bad idea!' Tempo exclaims.
'Wait, now we're pointing fingers?' Somnus asks, adding that he might be new here, but that he is not new to losing friends. 'Friends who can't be resurrected. And none of them would've let me give up. I've lived with loss for a long time...and we just can't do this. Can't take our anger out on each other...I won't let us. We win. Then we mourn!' Somnus exclaims, upset, when suddenly, someone puts a hand on his shoulder and tells him that such wisdom honors not only his lost, but his hosts, as well. The person standing behind Somnus introduces themselves as Grove. They have long pink hair and wear a dark cloak. Grove welcomes the Marauders to Helix Home – life's last holdout. Their stands behind Grove, as Grove smiles at Somnus, who looks nervously at Grove and replies 'After the past few months, I expected a cute little “X” in the name'. 'What is a double helix but the original “X” in revelry?' Grove asks. 'You...make so much sense' Somnus utters.
Theia tells the Marauders that Grove's words aren't Threshold's only defense. 'We are not much. But we are here. And we are here fighting. Follow me, Marauders... and meet the insurgency'. The Marauders follow Grove and Theia down some stairs, as Grove explains that Helix Home is a port for Threhold's insurgents – Enriched and Enshrined alike, and that here they guard what few treasures they still have, and fight to retake the ones they have lost. 'Our world, most of all' Grove adds. The Marauders look around at some sort of command center, where several Thresholders go about their business at consoles and monitors. Suddenly, 'Wait, but that's -' Tempo begins when she sees a familiar box on display in the center of a table. 'Stand back! No one touches the Seed without Grove's blessing!' a bald man with yellow markings on his head exclaims.
But Grove tells the man to consider Tempo blessed, her and all the Marauders. Tempo declares that the box is Pryde's puzzle box, but it is younger, and yet still many millions of years old, a kid compared to what Emma Frost found back on Krakoa. Theia smiles as she puts a hand on Tempo's shoulder and tells her that the Seed was discovered deep in their birthing sea, a genetic aleph, whose opening first filled their waters with life. 'Think of it, Tempo...from this came all Thresholders, human and mutant'. The man with the yellow markings on his head states that the Seed is precious, but that it won't win back Threshold. 'This could...the Daymight' he remarks, motioning to a large weapon in the room. He explains that it is weaponized light which will counter the Unbreathing's darkforce, only they haven't distilled much yet, but with enough, they could neutralize or even destroy the nightguns. He adds that it is a weapon, but not a final weapon, as they can't risk another of those.
Theia calls him Zved and assures him that the Daymight won't be like the bacterial conquerors, for his wisdom ensures that. 'My, my. The armory of mutant rebellion...left to a human weaponeer?' Cassandra asks, glancing at Zved. 'Even to a stomach as strong as mine, that's upsetting. But easily remedied' Cassandra adds. Grove announces that Zved is a valued member of the insurgence and warns Cassandra that he is not to be harmed. 'All of Threshold's humans will be respected in my home' Grove adds. Cassandra looks wickedly at Grove and asks 'Oh? Or what, shrub?' 'If you lower yourself to asking, you're beneath an answer' Grove responds. Kwannon informs Grove that she is also suspicious, but senses Grove's trust in humans is earned. 'And your own psychic aura is oddly familiar...I trust your trust' Kwannon adds. Grove tells her that they will be all the stronger for it.
A hologram is emitted from the table in the center of the room as Grove informs the Marauders that when Theia, Amass and Crave leaped into the future for aid, they could not bet on their return, so the Thresholders kept fighting Arkea and Sublime, as the Marauders call them, as the viruses warred for supremacy, using the Thresholders' own bodies in combat. While that war at first a stalemate, that is no longer true, as Arkea has infected the birthing sea. Grove explains that every twenty years their last-born generation gathers in the sea to spawn the next, with each generation being raised by all those above it. 'Our whole society is our family unit'. Theia explains that unless the sea can be freed, then Threshold's end is assured – one way or another. 'Wait. Slow down... you get together for a spawning? Like fish?' Tempo asks, smiling. 'More like they do it like us. But while procreation happens once a generation... intimacy is quite a bit more common' Theia replies. 'You're coming on strong and I do not mind a bit' Tempo smiles.
Grove continues, revealing that the Thresholders' insurgency began with those who could repel bacteria. 'We held the sea... until Arkea infected a mutant with spatial displacement gifts'. Kwannon realizes this means that Arkea is in the birthing sea and holding the Thresholders' children hostage. 'Tell me what you need to stop her, Grove Tell me. And you will have it' Kwannon exclaims, agitated. 'Your War Captain is impressive. Not moments ago, she doubted. Now... she's fit for a forever conflict' Theia remarks. 'Sometimes all we need's a reminder' Tempo smiles. 'I'm not even close to done with Arkea and Sublime. Any plan that's bad for them is good for me' Kwannon declares, while Somnus watches her. Grove explains that if the sea could be freed and sealed as with Helix Home, then they would be back in the fight. 'Then it will be done' Kwannon responds.
Bishop declares that he might know how. He admits that it is a stretch, but they are already way off the map of known. He explains that Arkea and Sublime are microscopic, but alive, clouds of cells – cells with charwge. 'Normally, I can't touch that type of energy. But what's normal when you've got one last Boost Fruit?' Bishop asks. He holds the fruit up and notes that Arkea is no fool, that she will guard the sea with her most powerful infected mutants. 'But if they were drawn away, I could get in. Then, if we're lucky...the fruit will help me absorb the cellular energy in the water'. He remarks that every bit of Arkea in the area would die instantly. 'One fruit. One shot'. Grove kneels before Bishop and tells him that his bravery is moving, and that if he would risk himself for Threshold he wouldn't be alone. 'Pryde and Amass are MIA. Fang and Crave are dead. It's the least I could offer. But we won't know if it's brave or stupid...until after we see if I explode' Bishop declares.

Meanwhile, in the Mid-Water Zone, Unbreathing Territory, 'So...this is a great place' Amass utters as he finds himself trapped inside some sort of bubble. 'Hey, hey, stop talking to yourself. Someone might think it's – strange' Amass tells himself, when suddenly, 'Tresspasser. Remain docile...' a voice calls out as someone else enters the Zone – it's Commander Nightfount! The armored being is flanked by two of the Unbreathing, and grins as he apologizes to Amass for the nightrifles, explaining that the Unbreathing insisted on them, as they are not a fan of trespassers down here in the dark. 'I thought you might respond better to one of your own' Nightfount adds. 'I don't see one  of my own, Nightfount. You defected!' Amass exclaims. 'Mutants have never been my side. As for your side, let's check in on...you've been telepathically shielded. Who's this “Aunt Cassandra”?' Nightfount asks as he fails to enter Amass' mind. 'Like I'll tell you, you -' Amass snaps, before Nightfount realizes that Amass is not telekinetically protected, and warns him that he will peel him like an onion. 'Trust me, after the first few layers...you'll wish I'd read you mind' Nightfount boasts.
'YOU THINK I'M AFRAID, TRAITOR? DO YOUR WORST!' Amass shouts, to which Nightfount just grins from beneath his extravagant headpiece. 'What about your worst? Threshold acts civilized but doesn't respect its enemy. You say the Unbreathing are primitive, but their culture is incredibly complex. Their language alone encompasses senses you don't even have. The were here... long before you first crawled from the sea. You're all trespassing' Nightfount declares, adding that the Oxygen Wars aren't about turf – as the Thresholders' air poisons them all. 'They're fighting to survive' he adds as he telekinetically slams Amass into the side of the bubble. 'Were all fighting Arkea and Sublime. Don't you get it? They won't stop. They'll kill us out of spite, then destroy the Unbreathing for fun!' Amass exclaims.
Nightfount remarks that the germs are doing the Unbreathing's work for them, thinning the herd and weakening Threshold's cities. 'And if they come for us, our own final weapon will set fire to Earth's oxygen itself' Nightfount reveals. 'That wouldn't just kill then. It'd kill everyone. Everything...it's beyond genocide' Amass utters. 'Honestly, what else did you expect?' Nightfount asks as he begins to remove his headpiece. 'No. Not you, not here. It – it can't be...' a wide-eyed Amass gasps as he looks upon the face of... STRYFE!


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Pre-Genesis, part 1
Dead Mutant Cove, Krakoa, where Captain Kate Pryde sits on the shore of the mutant nation, looking at a map. “It seems the first blood spilled between us...is yours” she quotes. 'The first blood spilled” she quotes again. 'Damn it, Cassandra. Dry and withered. Two billion years away. And still a pain in my -' Kate mutters, when suddenly, there isa BAMF and Kate turns at the arrival of her dear friend Kurt Wagner a.k.a. Nightcrawler. 'You hoped to talk?' Kurt asks, dropping down beside Kate, who notices his horns and tells him that he is looking sharp. 'And I did want to talk. I do, I...don't know what to do' Kate utters. 'Nor do most of us, absent a golden faceplate and a council seat' Kurt replies. 'It's like – I thought I did. Do what's right but not allowed' Kate points out. Get Krakoan medicine to those who need it, in spite of their governments, rescueb mutants wherever they are, in spite of human limitations
'Then Threshold. Mutants from so long ago, it might as well be myth. But, hey, they needed help, right? So I gave it. We beat Sublime and Arkea. The Threshold Three are here, but we left Threshold to fight on alone. It's what they wanted...so why don't I feel like we won?' Kate declares. She adds that studying the past is one thing, but seeing it so alive, knowing it would end, it was so much more real. 'And I wanted to save them all. Wanted to do more. But if I had...' her voice trails off as Kurt smiles and asks 'What would become of today, jah? Death ferries all to history...all but us, of late. You mourn a people's passing, Kate. Were made to feel it. It's natural you'd want to save them. But against history, few weapons exist'. He then tells Kate that a new friend recently told him “There is no weapon mightier than an idea.”
Kurt points out that the Spark calls them to move forward, to try new things. 'We have beaten death...but is resurrection the only victory over loss? Have you truly tried every weapon? In other words, are you truly out of ideas? If you can't save them all... what can you do?' Kate suddenly goes wide-eyed, then smiles: 'Something new' she declares.
Meanwhile, in Boston, Massachusetts, the Theater of Pain is in session, as Scratch stands on the altat of the church and proclaims 'It's happening every day! Where once we broke bread at the table of unity, now... the Krakoans toss us crumbs! They divide human and mutant!' He continues, exclaiming that mutants use their exclusive island as the wedge. 'But our eyes are open!' he claims. 'Wide open, Scratch! We've known!' one of the followers of the Theater of Pain calls out. Scratch boasts that Love empowers them, assures them the word is as they see it. 'Civilization divides! Society is a tool built by the elite – to define what is other!' As Scratch tells those listening that they alone remember the dream, and that humans and mutants were united long ago, that they can be again – in savagery. At that moment, the strange creature called Dirtnap can be seen scurrying around the church, towards an old hamburger which was on the floor. Dirtnap takes part of the hamburger, while Lockheed watches from above – and then something is hurled at Dirtnap, piercing the rat and seemingly killing it.
'Witness two hearts – one human and one mutant. United by my hand!' Scratch exclaims as he continues talking to the congregation. He claims that he tore out both indiscriminately, an uncivilized act without judgment – an ode to a time when only survival mattered. 'Before society, before law poisoned us...with prejudice! A Theater of Pain is a Theater of the Primal! Of the equitable...and fair! Here, we do not love our neighbors! Here, your life will always be in danger...but you will never be judged! Through brutality, we perform equality!' Scratch continues, while flicking blood from the hearts in front of him out across to the followers of the Theater of Pain standing below him, who revel in his speech and as the blood splatters across their faces. Suddenly, 'Then get ready for one hell of a performance!' a voice calls out. Scratch turns: 'You!' he exclaims. 'So...the canvas returns! But you cannot hurt me – no mutant gift can!' Scratch baosts. 'Sure. My claws might break against your skin. My pheromones can't nudge you... but us mutants? We love baseball' Akihiro a.k.a. Fang smirks as he bashes a baseball bat into the side of Scratch's face with powerful fury. Lockheed drops down onto Fang's shoulder abd breathes some fire, while Fang looks pleased with himself.
Meantime, in the South Pacific, Captain Pryde stands on the edge of an oil rig, while the Threaholder called Theia crouches beside her. Kate thanks Their for joining her, and informs her that the rest of the Marauders are listening in. She remarks that there is something she wants to run past her, and reports that Bishop and Psylocke are running point in Santo Marco. 'My pleasure, Captain. And I see you've come dressed in solidarity?' Theia, who wears the old X-Men training uniform asks. Indeed, Kate is wearing her old training uniform and explains that she thought it would help get her in the right headspace. 'You're no student. You sit high in Krakoa's government' Theia points out. Kate remarks that school is never really over for any of them, but that the teachers change.
Kate reminds Theia that the Marauders found Threshold, saved her and her friends and all because of a box and a map that pointed to a monster who killed millions – her father included. Kate becomes intangible and drops down onto the surface of the water surrounding the rig, and Theia follows her. 'The vessel, yes. Not unlike our seed. But lost to the void, you've said' Theia responds. Kate tells her that the seed was the same and that she saw her name was already etched in Krakoan on the side. “A genetic aleph” that first seeded their waters with life – and her name was already etched on it. 'I keep thinking – where'd that life come from? We all believed you were first... but what if we were the first generation all along? What if, Theia -' Kate begins, before she is interrupted by the voice of Jeanne-Marie Beaubier a.k.a. Aurora, who reports that she has a sitrep from Santo Marco. 'Hit me' Kate responds.
As a fire rages in the background, black smoke billows up and fills the air. Aurora reports that the central grain storehouse was destroyed, and people are hungry. 'Their leaders don't have much to feed them. But we do' Aurora remarks as she uses her light powers to blast open a large container, while some hungry civilians look on. Kwannon a.k.a. Psylocke holds a psi-arrow towards a soldier and reports that food and water will go a long way toward health and spirit, but that as gthey feared, recon confirms a mutant explosion of some kind. She adds that they have enlisted Triage to assist. Carl Valentino a.k.a. Somnus appears while Kwannon remarks that Triage did well responding to Nature Girl's oil rig attack. Somnus uses his powers to wrap the injured in pleasant dreams. Christopher Muse a.k.a. Somnus tends to one of the wounded as Kwannon assures Kate that they are saving everyone. 'Even so, the dead are beyond us' Aurora points out as she hands out water bottles from the container she has opened. Kate instructs Aurora to tell the families of the victims that Hellfire Trading will cover all funeral expenses, and adds that she will notify Christian Frost, before asking Bishop for the status of the power plant.
Lucas Bishop walks through the fire blazing in Santo Marco's so-called power plant reactor, absorbing huge amounts of bioelectricity. He reports that it is worse than they feared, as this facility was not hit by a mutant, rather it blew up from within, where a mutant prisoner was being kept as a power source. Bishop finds the remains of said mutant and identifies him as Albert Louis a.k.a. Feedback. 'These were his death throes' Bishop utters. Aurora refers to Feedback as being part of Department H before her and notes that he had a plaque on the wall. 'Faking a death to sell us for parts would not be above them' Aurora suggests, inferring that Department H had involvement here.
While she supervises the distribution of food to the civilians, Aurora tells Captain Pryde that she heard her pitch to Theia. 'I know you hated leaving Threshold behind but this? Us being first would explain a pre-human society of mutants' Aurora adds, before suggesting that grief is powerful, that it bends your thinking. 'How can we know?' she asks, while Bishop closes Feedback's eyes. 'How can we be sure this isn't self-delusion or a self-fulfilling prophecy? How do we know you're not seeing the path you want in the evidence you have?' Aurora asks. 'Honestly? We don't...it's a leap of faith, same as what got the Threshold Three here' Kate replies, before instructing her team to finish up and get Feedback in for resurrection, then they can join her in her delusions.
Later, Hammer Bay, Genosha, where Captain Pryde, Bishop, Kwannon and Heather Tucker a.k.a. Tempo stand on the roof of a building and look out over the remains of the city. Kwannon wears a pink jacket over her costume and Captain Pryde suggests that no mutant alive will ever forget where they were when Cassandra's Nova almost got her genocide. 'She said I spilled the first blood between us. But she did swhen she killed my father...on this spot' Captain Pryde tells the others, while wondering why she scribbled what she did on that map, or rather, why she will someday. Kate continues, telling the others that she reads it as a map to Threshold. 'And maybe it was. But not how I thought. We couldn't save Genosha...couldn't save Threshold...' her voice trails off as Bishop remarks that Captain Pryde has that look on her face, and that he will roll up his sleeves. 'All the way up, Bishop. We trapped Nova in the past. Threshold is her cage. What if that cage was built here? Not of bars... but an idea'. Kate declares that Nova didn't get them all, but that she did kill millions – so what if that loss could give life to billions?
Back in the church, the followers of the Theater of Pain look on in shock as Fang informs Scratch that Lockheed has been keeping watch over him for weeks. 'Recruitment drive after recruitment drive and still no Love. I got impatient' Fang  remarks, while Lockheed breathes fire at Scratch, who claims that to wait is a mild suffering, which is the way of a canvas. 'A canvas doesn't act – it is acted upon – and above all a canvas does not speak!' Scratch shouts as he holds up a blade and uses it to cut off Fang's fingers. 'Not even with my hands?' Fang asks as he kicks the blade out of Scratch's hand. Scratch falls to the ground and struggles to pull the blade from where it has embedded into the floorboards. 'Get my meaning, Scratch? I know I'm missing a few letters' Fang adds, before he swings the baseball bat once again, smashing it hard into Scratch's face and sending Scratch falling backwards into the crowd of his followers. 'What do we do now? Do we help Scratch?' one of them asks. 'No, that's not our way! And Scratch, he – he knows that. We all know what Love says...run while you can! Save yourselves!' another of the congregation shouts as they all begin to run from the church.
'Some club you've got there...loyal to the core' Fang jokes as he stands over Scratch, blood-soaked baseball bat resting on his shoulder. 'Loyalty? Loyalty exists only until it's overcome by danger to oneself. When -' Scratch starts to respond, before Fang drops a knee down onto his chest, causing him to fall back to the ground ad cry out in pain. '- when numbers cannot protect, you abandon them!' Scratch gasps. Scratch looks up at Fang, he is now missing several teeth as blood streams from his mouth and nose, and tears fall from his eyes. 'If you think I'd defend Love, you haven't watched us at all!' Scratch exclaims, adding that since Love's Westchester community fell, he has acted through messengers such as himself, sent out to rebuild his Theater until it can support him. 'But we do know where to report' Scratch reveals. Fang turns to Lockheed and smirks. 'That's good, Scratch. Real good. Because as much as I love remixing your face... I'm saving my best work for your boss. Lockheed?'
'You're suggesting we create Threshold, Captain?' Kwannon asks, shocked as the Marauders remain on the rooftop of the building overlooking Hammer Bay. 'Suggesting we were always going to, Psylocke' Kate replies, adding that she does listen to Tempo's time talk. Kate becomes intangible and begins to walk across air as she tells her teammates that the Kin Crimson tried and failed to eradicate the Thresholders, so for them, that loss was “the First Blood Spilled”. 'But what about us? This was Nova's first blood spilled. Genosha. It's mutants are up for resurrection...but its humans aren't. And all the bodies are still here. So why are we settling for a graveyard?' Kate asks. The others join her mid-air, and Kwannon notes that Bishop is smiling, and asks him if she is going to like the plan she is about to hear. 'Hard to say. I showed up a long time ago. Lots of variables since then. Wasn't sure this moment would come, even if I read about it as a kid' Bishop replies.
They drop to the ground, while Kate tells the others that Krakoa means trying what's new. 'Our former enemy is now our island home. A nation died here. And here, a new nation could be born in its memory...wiyth one hell of a mutant circuit' Kate adds, announcing that she invited some friends. The Marauders look over and see Lorna Dane a.k.a. Polaris the Misstress of Magnetism wearing one of her classic green costumes standing nearby. 'Appreciate the call, Pryde. I love a caffeine desert' Polaris remarks sarcastically, obviously unable to satisfy her coffee-addition on Genosha, before adding that she gets it – it is good to have a physicist on hand when playing god. Lorna and Kate hug, while Tempo points out that physics is just the start of it, as they simply just don't know. 'We don't know this is where Threshold's seed is built' Tempo adds. 'We don't know it's not, Tempo' Kate replies, asking her to look ahead in time and tell her.
'Right. Just gaze into the abyss. Looking back's dangerous enough. The second you act on a future you see, you erase that future. No ripple is closer' Tempo declares. Kate holds up the Mysterium and asks 'Then why not take our future into our own hands? A genetic aleph, Tempo' Kate suggests, explaining that Polaris can shape it, Cerebra can scan the DNA in the ground, plus a bit more. 'We fill the box. You send it back. Then time, nature and evolution bring us Threshold'. Tempo supposes that that does follow Kate's chaotic brand of logic, before pointing over to a woman dressed in back and asks 'But what's she doing here?' Ghosts fly around the woman, who smirks and replies 'Oh, you know. Something Wicked'. 'Great. Who called for ghost recon?' Bishop asks. 'There is a smugness about her. And a kind of psychic stink' Kwannon frowns. 'Who, me?' Wicked asks. 'Psionic scent of death, Psylocke. Don't be scared – it's just necroplasm. Manifestations of the dead. The real spirits are passing notes in our waiting room' Wicked declares.
Wicked continues, explaining that her friends are here, just like the real thing – up to the moment they died. A ghost of a cat flitters over from Wicked towards Kate, who remarks that Wicked is key to this. 'Sure, Threshold believes it came from that box, and, sure...mutant technology could do that. But so many lives were lost here...do you really think we'd touch them without asking?' Kate enquires. The ghost cat perches on Kate's shoulder as Kate announces that Wicked is not their only missing piece, as Cerebra is past due, and she needs Psylocke in the Bay Area. 'You and -' Kate begins, as Aurora suddenly arrives on scene at light-speed. 'Sorry – I'm here!' Aurora exclaims, explaining that she stayed on Santo Marco until the last millisecond. 'So, San Francisco?' Kwannon asks. Kate explains that their aleph's not much good if they can't fill it. She adds that Cerebra's telepathy is biometric, and that Cerebra said Cable dropped her here for a reason, and she is uniquely suited for this job. 'Which is why I don't love that she is late. Her last gate transit logged was for the Bay'.
Kate instructs Psylocke to track Cerebra, and remarks that if there is trouble, Aurora can handle it. 'Without Cerebra, there's no moving forward. Bring her home' Kate declares, when suddenly, Wicked moves up beside her and tells her that she is impressed: 'Quite a play to make without the Council' she smirks. 'This isn't up to the Grove. It's up to them...and...and...and him' Kate gasps when she sees the ghost of her father, Carmen Pryde, floating before her. 'Hey, Dad. You said to make you proud. Let's see how I'm doing' Kate smiles.
Finally, in Hightown, Madripoor, a figure sits in a dark penthouse apartment, when there is a knock at the door. Another knock, when suddenly, the door is smashed down by Fang. 'Love!' Fang shouts. Brimstone Love is sitting in the dark penthouse, and looks up: 'Why, look at that. The dog comes home at last. I suppose you missed our unique brand of fun?' Brimstone Love asks, addressing Fang as “Daken.” Standing next to Fang is a man wearing his shirt open – and some tentacles sticking out of the center of his stomach. 'It's Fang' Fang snarls at Brimstone, while Lockheed flies around him. Fang introduces the man next to him as Mister Dee, and warns Brimstone Love that this time it is they who will be enjoying themselves. 'By all means – let's test that theory' Brimstone Love grins.


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Pre-Genesis, part 2
Hightown, Madripoor, where Brimstone Love lunges at Akihiro a.k.a. Fang, telling him that a canvas doesn't speak, but that it can burn. Fang responds by shoving his claws through Brimstone Love's chest. 'Join me – you self-righteous ass!' Daken calls out to a figure standing nearby – it's Johnny Dee, who turns to Lockheed and remarks that the big old squid in his chest might be team Love, but that he is stil all in for Fang.
Meanwhile, Hammer Bay, Genosha, where energy flows around Lorna Dane the Mistress of Magnetism – Polaris! 'Order up!' Lorna smirks as a a small mysterium box floats above her hand. 'Anyone else want a mysterium box?' Lorna asks, holding the box out to the Thresholder called Theia, who looks at it and utters 'It truly is the Seed. From this – all of Threshold will come. You have created a holy moment, Polaris' to which Lorna jokes that she never made one of those before, and that she will need new business cards.
Shortly, Theia walks down one of the battle-damaged strees of Hammer Bay, along with her fellow Thresholders, Crave and Amass, the three of them wearing versions of the X-Men training costume. With them is Heather Tucker a.k.a. Tempo, who remarks 'You're quiet'. Theia apologizes to Tempo and explains that she finds herself overwhelmed. She adds that the three Thresholders came here for aid, or failing that, to tell Threshold's story – but she never dreamed they would get to start it. 'Write the first word of our history as we tread the final chapters. And  why us? What gives us the right, over the millions lost to time?' Theia remarks. 'We're here, for one' Crave jokes. Tempo comments about how she has tiptoed plenty in the past, and that the people who have the right are never the ones screaming about it. 'And for all the times that we've been forced to watch what we love die... we deserve to give life to something new. To build for ourselves'.
Theia tells Tempo that time has brought divinity to her words. They hold hands, and the mysterium box floats between them, as Tempo declares that mutants have the right to liberation, to live, to love – beyond today's judgment. 'And how long did you practice that speech?' Theia smiles. 'A thousand times. You blinked' Tempo replies. 'Yes, well...I am glad you did' Theia responds before they kiss.
Somewhere else in Hammer Bay, Captain Kate Pryde sits on some rubble, the ghost of her father, Carmen Pryde, hovering before her, while other lost souls float around them. Kate tells her father that she doesn't know where to start. 'Start with the end, kiddo. After all, it's the last thing I remember' Carmen Pryde suggests. 'The end, right. Like it's just that east. You...you were here. And you...you knew it eas over. You looked right at the cameras. I could read your lips. You said...' Kate begins, as Carmen quotes what he said: “I love you, Kitty! Make me proud”. Carmen explains that he knew there was no escaping Magda Square, and that he knew Kitty would hear him. 'I couldn't save you, Dad. And so much has happened since then... but I never forgot'. Kate reveals that now she has the chance to not just make her father proud but turn the millions lost into billions reborn, to make Genosha into a place of joy, imperfect or not. 'The DNA in the ground, human and mutant...it could spark a golden age. But it's not my choice to make... it's yours. You and everyone who died here' Kate explains.
Carmen Pryde pauses and doesn't respond, before pointing to a map on the ground and asks Kate what she is dawing. 'Something big. This map is where it all started. We found it, impossibly old, with a message in my handwriting' Kate reveals. “The First Blood Spilled” she quotes, explaining that they thought this was the Shi'ar's failed genocide, but wonders if it means the blood they spill in creating Threshold. 'I think it means life' she adds. Carmen tells Kate that he thinks he likes the sound of that, but that she has one thing wrong. His ghostly hand takes hold of Kate's, who is holding a pen over the map, and Carmen tells Kate 'It's not your handwriting, it's ours'. Carmen adds that what happened here happened, but that it is only over when they say it is over. 'And knowing what we do about the people we were, we say the book's not closed. We want another chapter'. Kitty turns around and “hugs” the ghost of her father, who utters 'Kitty. The ghosts are watching'. 'Don't care' Kate smiles.
In San Francisco, 'Stop running, mutie! I'll make it quick!' the mercenary called Bushwacker shouts as he fires a weapon at the time-lost Shakti Haddad a.k.a. Cerebra who runs across the street, dragging a man behind her. 'Esera's never seen you before – why hunt him?' Cerebra calls out. 'Trust me. I know him plenty!' Bushwaker calls back. 'Psiramic plates in your skull. Maybe I can't breach your mind – but I can shut you down the classical way!' Cerebra calls back as she turns to face her foe, Bushwacker. 'With tiny fists like that? Come on, lady! Your friend's an albatross – give him up! Flaunting himself in public – what'd he think would happen? When I saw him out there on the news, you can bet I took – action!' Bushwacker exclaims, before suddenly tripping on something – a psionic dart seems to wrap a psi-net rope around him, trapping him as a telepathic voice calls out 'His name is Bushwacker. A mutant who kills mutants. Artists especially. Truly a sad man'.
'That's not your voice, Shakti. Is – is someone else in my head?' Esera asks. 'A friend – one who seems to have come to rescue the rescuer. Cerebra looks over to her rescuers – Kwannon a.k.a. Psylocke and Jeanne-Marie Beaubier a.k.a. Aurora. 'You cracked Bushwacker's psiramics, impressive' Cerebra remarks. 'Psychic trip wire. If most telepathy is wi-fi, consider my constructs the hardline' Kwannon responds, adding that she performed a light edit, and Mister Wacker will wake with his urge to lill replaced with a need to paint – becoming both harmless and what he hates the most. Kwannon is wearing her new short bright pink jacket over her costume, and Aurora Aurora smirks at Cerebra, telling her that Captain Pryde sends her regards, and reminding her that she has somewhere to be. 'And so I will be, Aurora – but I heard somewhere that we work for mutants first' Cerebra replies. 'Smart answer' Aurora tells her, before asking Cerebra who her friend is.
'Friend for like seven minutes of panic' the rescued man responds, before introducing himself as Esera Seanoa and confirming that he is a mutant. He reveals that he never thought much about it before, and that it was just easier to pass as a human, but with thew drought, he couldn't do nothing, so started helping – and suddenly he has a cannon hand after him. Cerebra explains that Esera has the mutant gift to find water, a living dousing rod, recently quite useful. Kwannon offers to conjure a psychic wafer, something to calm his amygdala, turn distress into eustress. But Esera remarks that he is good, and that there is a dispensary up the street. He tells the others that he appreciates the help, that lunch is on him for the three of them. 'But all this? Brain crackers? Guun arms? If I wanted to be Krakoan... I would be'. Cerebra tells him that she understands, and that pushing their ways on him was not their intent, they just wanted to keep him safe. 'And that's a hell of an intro, Shakti' Esera responds, before offering to show her the Castro, but that first he needs to sleep for a week, in his own bed.
As they watch Esera walk away, Aurora points out that he only just made the news, and asks Cerebra how she even knew to look out for him. Cerebra explains that Esera's gift is limited but that it will grow with his bloodline, and that in time his great-grandson will become Northstar, decades from now, he will be an Omega-class navigator, able to plot a course to anywhere and anything, and that together they will lead the X-Men of 2099 to paradise. 'Northstar, you say? My brother's cease and desist has already begun' Aurora remarks. Cerebra explains that where she is from is a different time, a new heroic age – one she will never see again, and there, her X-Men fight on, while she can no longer protect them, she can protect their lines to ensure they are there to protect her home.
'Well played' Aurora replies, adding that she would do the same for anyone her own home has tried to hurt, like Stitch. 'I'm sure my face graces many a dartboard at Department H' Aurora remarks. 'How lucky' Cerebra tells her, before pointing out that great work awaits, and asks Kwannon for that psychic wafer. 'If this is the task Cable brought me here for... it is nothing less than history in the making' Cerebra declares.
Back in Madripoor, Brimstone Love crashes through a wall and, calling Fang “Daken” tells him that he shouldn't have come. 'Last time, I boiled your guts to great applause. This time...I'll flay you, cook you and – once you're starving – feed you to yourself' Brimstone Love threatens, before looking over at Johnny Dee and Lockheed and remarking that they make for a poor audience. 'You got it all wrong' Fang replies as he shoves a claw into Brimstone Love's eye, causing him to scream and pull backwards: 'My eye – the horn wasn't enough? Your stupid little bast – bast....' Brimstone Love calls out as he begins to fumble, and Johnny Dee steps forward, remarking that Fang is not the show, this time, Love is the show. Love falls to the floor, and Johnny points out that Fang left him a little uneven up top. 'Think he just kept that as a trophy? Fang's no fool...he fed your little horn nub to my sucking chest friend' Johnny reveals, asking Love if he knows what they got in return.
From the strange tentacles protrouding from Johnny's chest, a small figurine of Brimstone Love is revealed. Johnny holds it in front of the real Brimstone Love's face. 'This beauty. That's my gift, Love. Not the sexiest, but it's got its perks. Like the fun toys my chest spits out when I feed him even just a little but of someone' Johnny smiles. 'You...' Brimstone Love utters. 'Toys that control the original' Johnny Dee reveals. 'Oops – the look on your face, Love. Lockheed tracked you. Dee made you my puppet. Now...this canvas is going to play!' Fang grins as he throws the figurine up into the air, and Lockheed unleashes a powerful flame which engulfs the figurine – and the real Brimstone Love suddenly erupts in flames. Fang smiles and asks Johnny if they are square. 'More than' Johnny tells him, adding that the Squidster got a meal, and he got to see something he's never seen before. 'Wouldn't mind like a Marauder merit badge, though' Johnny jokes. Lockheed makes a noise, and Johnny points out that the dragon is right, and asks Fang if he has somewhere to be. 'In a minute. I've got some death to enjoy... before I get on with life' Fang replies.
Hammer Bay, where Kate Pryde's plan is about to be put in motion. 'Okay, Polaris. Hit it' Kate calls out. 'Hitting' Polaris responds as a rumbling within the ground beneath them begins to occur. 'Watch your heads, people' Polaris adds. Kate remarks that electromagnetism is a go, and asks for the rest of the circuit. Cerebra reports that she is networked and ready to read and input local genetics. The mysterious Wicked is present and states that the ectoplasmic medium is prepped and ready to receive DNA. Tempo announces that she is ready to temper the ectoplasmic medium for travel. Theia adds that she is ready to hyper compress their enriched ectoplasm, when, on cue, a Krakoan gateway opens and Fang arrives. 'Did you get my dragon into trouble?' Kate asks, after remarking how late Fang is. 'Nothing Lockheed can't handle, Pryde' Fang replies, before asking if this is even going to work. 'You open that can and my DNA kick-starts the soup?' Fang enquires. 'There's only one way to find out' Kate declares as Bishop, Aurora, Kwannon, Somnus, Amass and Crave stand nearby with the “mutant circuit” Kate devised, and several ghosts watch on as Kate then places the mysterium on the ground.
A large helix grows out of the Krakoan gateway, and Crave comments at the helix's size. 'And morbid, no? Why erect such a grand monument in a place of death?' Amass asks. Theia explains to Crave that this is a reminder, but not of an end – quite the reverse. 'That monsters took lives here but do not own them. That those lost decided to bring new life with this land – to choose their own code'. Amass remarks that the Captain did say she was unsatisified with a graveyard. 'Who are we to argue with a Katherine?' Crave asks. Captain Pryde announces that they try new things, they move on, but not without all of them. 'Ghosts of Genosha. Humans. Mutants...from yesterday, today and tomorrow. The blueprint's drawn. The guest list's full and all checked off'. Kate turns to Bishop and asks him if the crew is ready, to which Bishop confirms that they are. 'Then let's start something' Captain Pryde calls out.
The Ghosts of Genosha are suddenly sucked into the mysterium box, which then snaps closed. 'All set, Cap?' Tempo asks. 'Phased and crazed, ladies. Hold your breath' Kate tells Tempo and Theia as she hands them the box. 'Let's ride!' someone calls out as Captain Pryde, Tempo and Theia suddenly vanish. 'Time travel' Kwannon remarks to Bishop, asking if they shouldn't have returned by now. 'Either they're back soon or not at all' Bishop responds.
(The Proterozoic Era)
Captain Pryde literally walks on water in a cavern, as she places the mysterium on the surface of the water, she utters 'Respect this sacred land' and the mysterium begins to sink into the water, where it connects with some genetic coding. 'Murder no man' Kate adds as she turns abd walks back across the water. 'Make more mutants'. And, at some point, more mutants are made, bursting forth from the cavern.
(Present day)
Captain Pryde sits opposite Emma Frost, who raises a glass of champagne in Kate's name, as fireworks can be seen outside the window they sit next to. 'To Captain Pryde. Creator of life. Seems Magneto was right – we're gods after all' Emma remarks. But Kate tells Emma that it was Mystique who hunted down the vessel, not Magneto, before asking Emma why she started this. 'Why else? Inspiration. A nudge. An emotional presence' Emma responds, suggesting that, like Exodus' favorite, as she walked in the garden, she came upon an epiphany – not her first, this was a vision she could not shake. Kate points out that this whole island is a garden, and asks Emma where she was. 'Where else, Caotain? The Grove' Emma responds. 'The...Grove, Emma, that's -' Kate begins, to which Emma remarks 'Terribly mundane. But the council chambers do offer a singular calm. Absent the whiff of our friend Shaw's starched cravat, of course' Emma responds. Kate laughs and tells Emma that Shaw is now invited, not tonight – tonight is for everyone who has heard no and given it right back.
Kate and Emma walk out onto the deck of the New Marauder ship, where Iceman creatures an ice-sled above the vessel and creates a fireworks-like display with his powers, as Pyro does the same, riding on the ice-sled behind Iceman, and Wind Dancer hovers nearby. Magik, Warbird and Birdy can be seen on top of the ship's bridge. Polaris, Storm, Fang, Aurora and Christian Frost are gathered together, while Callisto can be seen talking to Lourdes Chantel. Cerebra walks past Emma and Kate as Bishop and Kwannon smiles. Tempo and Theia clink their champagne glasses together, while Alchemist gazes off the side of the ship and Triage sits near her. Amass appears to be scolding Crave, who sits opposite Brutha Nature. 'For the crew, for us. Tonight's for the Marauders, Miss Frost. And so is tomorrow!'


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(1st story) Anniversary
1st story:Daily Bugle reporter Ben Urich is writing an article:On the anniversary of this auspicious day, let’s all take the time to ask ourselves a question… one that is often posed of this or that event in the past, such as “Where were you, when you heard about Kennedy? When Armstrong took his giant leap or when the Twin Towers fell? Where were you when Charles Xavier died?”
Yes, where were you when? Where were you and what were you doing when the Fantastic Four first came to be?
Flashback:Reed Richards, Ben Grimm, Susan and Johnny Storm infiltrate an army base to reach a certain rocket.
Elsewhere in a Manhattan practice, Dr. Don Blake assures his assistant Jane Foster that he’s fine. She doesn’t believe it. He’s exhausted and needs to get away. She took the liberty of speaking to a travel agent. Apparently, Norwegian tourism is running a promotion…
Elsewhere in New York, Tony Stark is sitting at the roulette table, admired by a bevy of beautiful women. His disapproving assistant Pepper Potts informs him Ho Yinsen – that Nobel Prize winner he is always going on about – is staying at this hotel. Does he want her to set up a meeting? Another time, he decides, he’s busy. Besides, he’s sure fate will have them cross paths one day…
Near an army base in the Nevada Desert, Dr. Bruce Banner and Betty Ross are having a picnic. Betty is surprised at this romantic gesture. Bruce retorts he has a sensitive side. He just doesn’t get to show it often. Besides, this desert is beautiful and, after they test that gamma bomb here, who knows how long it’ll be off-limits.
In his Lab, Dr. Henry Pym decides he will call his invention Pym Particles. A bit vain, sure, but who cares?
Young Peter Parker shows his Uncle Ben pictures he took of his Aunt May and others. Ben Parker praises them and asks if Peter is sure he wants to go into science. Those are good! Peter isn’t sure. He loves all of it. He has time to make his mind up, Ben replies. He should just enjoy being a kid.
In a lonely gym, Matt Murdock secretly practices boxing during night time.
In a bar, Nick Fury tells his friend ‘Dum-Dum’ Dugan he may be leaving the Company after all these years. There’s talk of a new outfit being formed, very ambitious. May need his help getting off the ground.
And an Angel secretly flies in the skies.
The world changed for everyone that day. More so to my reckoning than by the murder of a president, the conquest of space or any other event I can think of.
Of course I realize the world had seen its share of marvels before then.
In the Arctic, Captain America is frozen in a block of ice.
Back during the Second World War, it must have seemed like a golden age of mystery men and super-champions.
In a Russian lab, the Black Widow lies in suspended animation.
But after the return to peace, those same heroes seemingly vanished back into the ether and the world went back to the way it was before.
In a soup kitchen, the amnesiac Sub-Mariner is standing in line for some food.
When Reed Richards, Sue Storm, her brother Johnny and Reed’s best friend Ben Grimm took it upon themselves to meet the stars…
In a fighter jet, Major Carol Danvers watches the rocket move past and asks the tower if there is a rocket launch nobody told her about.
In the meantime, young Sam Alexander sits in front of the TV waiting for his father to come home.
When the four of them had their bodies bombarded by cosmic rays and then upon their return to Earth were transformed into the amazing beings they are today, it somehow opened the door to the world’s transformation, too.
Outside a mansion, Professor Xavier informs his newest student Bobby Drake that here he can learn how to be who he is. He and the other gifted youngsters Xavier finds.
In Latveria, Dr. Doom leads a coup d’etat.
Some may argue that as rife as it is now with alien invaders, Earth-bred horrors and the destruction they bring to our lives, it’s a much worse place because of it. While others embrace the unique wonder and scientific advancements that have stemmed from it.
Carl Lucas lingers innocently in jail.
What cannot be denied is that the planet changed forever.
In the wilds of Canada, a feral man with claws runs though the wilderness.
In Kun Lun, Lei-Kung the Thunderer informs young Daniel Rand that his martial skills now match his and that he is ready to face Shou-Lao the Undying.
So, let me ask you the question again.
Millie the Model has her picture taken.
Where?
In Kenya, Ororo Munroe walks across a veldt.
In Greenwich Village, Stephen Strange decides on a house nobody else wants.
Where were you? And what were you doing when it happened?
Standing outside her home, young Kamala Khan is called to dinner.
When the world became fantastic?- Ben Urich Daily Bugle staff writer


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Northern Lights
Billionaire inventor, Tony Stark built a suit of armor that saved his life. He now fights against the forces of evil as the Invincible IRON MAN!
Tony Stark a.k.a. Iron Man soars across the northernmost Canadian territory of Nunavut, which he finds beautiful, but barren to his eyes. He supposes that is the point, at least from the view of his father, Howard Stark, who used to head Tony’s company, Stark International, but then disappeared some decades ago, saying he was going to “some remote part of the world”. ‘And you can’t get much remoter than this!’ Tony decides.
As he zooms close to the snow-covered ground, the snow blows up around him due to the force of his speed, but Iron Man doesn’t see two figures streak towards him from behind. Tony recalls how his private investigator discovered that the last anyone saw of his father was when he used his connections with a satellite company to ship out to a research station in the Arctic Circle. Tony boasts that if his father is still there, then he is going to find him. ‘If it’s the last thing I -’ he is interrupted as he is about to say “do”, by two attractive people, who swerve around him with ease, and speak in French to each other.
‘Aurora, don’t you think Guardian’s training robots keep getting stranger?’ the young man asks Aurora, who addresses him as Northstar and replies that she couldn’t agree more. ‘I can barely stand looking at it, so let’s - put it out of its misery? But of course?’ Aurora says, then Northstar finishes off her sentence as they clasp hands and unleash a blindingly powerful, stunning, light. ‘Wait, I -’ Iron Man protests, but it’s no use, as he flails backwards, and his sensors inform him that the luminescent intensity is exceeding ten million candles, and that his optic shields are failing.
Northstar and Aurora begin darting around Iron Man at super speed, creating a turbine around him as Northstar tells his sister that they shouldn’t be greedy to their teammates, to which Aurora agrees, remarking that the others need training too. Iron Man’s sensors announce that Iron Man’s gyro-stabilizers are unable to correct his torque. ‘So let us send the robot back to Alpha Flight - gift-wrapped!’ the siblings exclaim as they propel Iron Man from their turbine.
Iron Man orders a voice-override as he fumbles through the air, and exclaims ‘Deploy impact foam!’. A small amount of foam is ejected from the armor, but it’s too late, as Iron Man thuds to the snow-covered ground. Iron Man talks to his computer, asking it to identify his attackers based on video feed from armor eyepieces. They computer obliges and begins its face-recognition program, when, suddenly, a white wolverine sneaks up on Iron Man and begins growling at him. Iron Man talks calmly to the wolverine, remarking that he didn’t think they were this far north. ‘I think I’ll name you “Logan”’, he tells the wolverine, asking it to excuse him for not finding it much of a threat, when, suddenly, the wolverine leaps at Iron Man, and transforms into a polar bear at the same time.
But Iron Man acts quickly, and uses his enhanced strength to grab the polar bear, ‘No fair! You don’t see me changing shapes, do you?’ he tells it as he flips it over. The bear shows its teeth to Iron Man, who tells it to listen up as he remarks that he was a boy scout, and is a strong believer in leaving nature the way you found it. Tony’s sensors indicate that his uni-beam is only at 25% intensity. Iron Man finishes his sentence as the polar beam walks towards him again: ‘If I have to choose between me or you leaving here period - well, sorry - but that’s no choice at all!’
At that moment, a long-haired man floats above Iron Man and reaches into a pouch attached to his belt, where he pulls some crystals from it, and tosses them all around Iron Man. As they land, the small crystals join together, and form a large dome around Iron Man, trapping him, while the polar bear shifts its form into an artic owl, and darts away. ‘Now what?!’ Iron Man exclaims, while his sensors announce that Iron Man’s attackers have been identified and a line-up appears no Tony‘ internal sensors: Members of Canadian Government Super Hero Team: ALPHA FLIGHT: Leader: Guardian:
electromagnetic power suit
Northstar: speed, flight
Aurora: speed, flight
Shaman: First Nations magic user
Snowbird: shape shifter
Sasquatch: super strength
‘They’re on my side, huh?’ Iron Man tells himself, exclaiming that alpha Flight’s attack on him must have been a mistake - a big mistake! With that, he uses his armor-strength to break through his crystal prison, only for a big furry fist to smash him in the face. ‘Not so fast, robo-jerk!’ exclaims Sasquatch as he causes Iron Man to fall to the snow. ‘We don’t usually finish playing with our toys until we’ve good and smashed them!’ Sasquatch boasts, as Northstar, Aurora, Shaman and Snowbird, returning to her regular form, gather around.
Iron Man protests, asking the Canadian heroes to listen to him. ‘I’m not a robot!’ he shouts. ‘I’m Iron Man, a hero from the States!’. Sasquatch ponders this, and remarks that Guardian must have installed a sophisticated artificial intelligence into this battle droid for it be trying such a weird stalling tactic. Suddenly though, a small robot with pincer-like arms stumbles towards Alpha Flight, shouting ‘Beware - Alpha Flight! I will destroy you! Resistance is futile!’.
‘Er, yeah…like I was saying…’ Sasquatch mumbles, before picking Iron Man up by the leg and shaking him up and down, ‘Iron Man! Buddy! Pal! Welcome to Canada, eh?’. ‘Gee, thanks’ Iron Man replies sarcastically, when, suddenly, Alpha Flight’s leader, Guardian flies onto the scene, calling out to Iron Man and asking him if he is all right, before apologizing for the mix up, pointing out that they are not used to seeing him in that armor he is wearing.
Iron Man assures Guardian that no permanent harm has been done and adds that he supposes their confusion was understandable, explaining that this is his new Artic Armor, designed for maximum solar absorption and enhanced temperature control. The beautiful Snowbird asserts her authority, suggesting that, perhaps if Aurora looked at her targets before striking, then this pointless fracas could have been avoided. ‘No one talks to my sister like that!’ Northstar snaps at Snowbird as he strides over to her, shaking a finger at her. ‘Ooh, fight!’ grins Sasquatch, causing Aurora to shout ‘Butt out, you furry fool!’.
Alpha Flight squabble as Guardian and Iron Man shake hands, and Guardian asks Iron Man not to mind his team, explaining that they chose the remotest part of Canada for their training exercises so no one can hear them bicker. Guardian asks Iron Man that, since he is here, if he wouldn’t mind taking part in the training session. ‘Show my team how the famous super-types do it?’ Iron Man replies that if that incident proved anything, it was that there is nothing Alpha Flight needs to learn from him, and takes flight as he explains that he has traveled to Nunavut on a private mission, one he should get back to. ‘Thanks for the offer though!’ he exclaims, while Northstar tries to pull Sasquatch’s hand off from around his neck.
Soon, Iron Man blasts towards GeoSat’s auroral research station, with his fingers crossed inside his armor. But, as he sets down and meets with the staff inside the facility, he shows them a computerized image of what an older Howard Stark might look like today, and his hopes are dashed, as one of the members of the research team tell him that Howard Stark could have worked here in the past, but that nobody who works here now would have any way of knowing, as GeoSat rotates its staff every six months to keep them from going crazy out here. One of the staff members offers to search their personnel records, but Iron Man explains that Howard Stark would have used a phony identity. ‘I’m afraid…this is just another road to nowhere’.
Motioning to a large photograph on the wall, Tony asks one of the scientists if they study the “aurora borealis” here - the so-called “Northern Lights”. The female scientists replies that she wouldn’t want to bore him with the technical details, but that they are trying to understand the upper-most reaches of Earth’s atmosphere, the ionosphere - Iron Man interrupts, and concludes the surprised woman’s sentence: ‘to enhance performance of radio and other communications systems that need to be reflected off of or passed through it’. ‘Exactly…’ the woman mumbles.
Motioning to a piece of equipment, Iron Man exclaims ‘That would explain why you have this nice induction magnometer. I love this model, Japanese right?’ he remarks. ‘Yes…’ the woman replies. Motioning to the screen, Iron Man tells the scientists that they are getting some unusual readings. The scientists agree, and one of them remarks that they have never captured a frequency like this before. Another explains that there was an unusually violent “solar storm” a few days ago, and the ejection of charged plasma from the sun interacting with Earth’s magnetic field is what causes the Northern Lights, so they are concerned that it threw off the calibration of their instruments.
Iron Man tells the scientists that he should let them get back to work then, and thanks them for their help, waving goodbye, as one of the scientists exclaims ‘And here I thought super heroes just ran around and beat up bank robbers!’. As the scientists get back to work, there is a strange loud noise. ‘Did I just hear what I thought I heard?’ one of them asks. ‘I - I think it almost sound like -’ the female scientist remarks, until she is interrupted by jolts of energy that suddenly flow into the facility.
Standing on a nearby rise, Tony thinks to himself ‘Well, this will be twenty-four hours of my life I’ll never get back’, before noticing a nearby town. ‘It’s a long shot…but since I’m here’ he decides, and flies down to the town, where he projects the computer generated image of Howard Stark once more, showing it to the townspeople and explaining that he is trying to find this man and his family. ‘Has anyone seen hi? His given name is Howard Stark, he may have worked at the research station at some point’. But the townspeople are frightened, and hurry away from him. ‘Hello? Anyone? Bueller?!’
Suddenly, there is a massive explosion back at the research station, and a glowing-green figure fills the sky, shouting ‘IIIRRRROOOOONNNN MMMAAAAAAANNN!!’ Iron Man focuses and realizes that is his old enemy - the Living Laser! Iron Man recalls their last battle, during which the Living Laser plunged into the heart of the sun. ‘Not even a being made of pure light, like him could escape that gravitational pull!’ Iron Man exclaims, before recalling the solar storm that the researchers mentioned - that could have shot him back to Earth, where he then got caught up in the Earth’s ionosphere.
Tony supposes that the scientists could have then captured the Living Laser by accident, along with the other “Northern Lights”. As the Living Laser continues to scream for Iron Man, Tony flies towards him, deciding that, after the Laser’s ideal, it doesn’t seem like there is much left of his mind, other than his “love” for Tony of course.
Iron Man blasts the Living Laser with repulsor rays, until he realizes that his repulsor rays are magnetic-based, and therefore don’t do a thing Iron Man dodges the Living Laser’s attack, realizing though that the superheated ionized air that the Living Laser is firing could burn the whole town to the ground. Iron Man darts about, attempting to draw the Living Laser away from the town, until the Living Laser uses his magnetic force to draw the armored Iron Man towards him.
Iron Man’s sensors warn him that the electromagnetic pulse insulators are nearing maximum capacity, and Iron Man urgently tries to pull himself free from the Living Lasers grasp, when, suddenly, he is aided by the arrival of Guardian. ‘My sentiments exactly!’ Guardian exclaims as he collides with the Living Laser, disrupting his hold over Iron Man. Northstar and Aurora swoop in to aid Iron Man to safety, exclaiming ‘Tell us, Yank, when you travel abroad - do you always bring such interesting friends with you?’. Iron Man just laughs.
Guardian calls out to his team and remarks that they are lucky his power suit is based on electromagnetism, so he was able to sense this as it happened. Guardian tells Alpha Flight that, for a “baddie” this size, they need to fall into formation Delta Phalanx. Guardian is about to explain something else, when he is struck by powerful beams of energy from the Living Lasers eyes. Guardian screams, and plummets to the ground, luckily Sasquatch is able to catch him. Sasquatch announces that Guardian is unconscious, and now they are without a leader.
‘He said we should fall into Delta Phalanx!’ Northstar exclaims. ‘Dealt Phalanx! Right!’ Snowbird agrees. But, the five Alphans just stare at the Living Laser, ‘Which one is Delta Phalanx again?’ Shaman asks. ‘I don’t remember!’ Aurora exclaims. ‘Don’t look at me!’ Sasquatch tells his teammates. Iron Man just hangs his head in shame. ‘Oh for…’ he begins, until Snowbird turns to Aurora and tells her that if she didn’t run her mouth during their training, then some of them might be able to remember what Guardian tells them. ‘Do you ever mind your own business, Ice Queen?’ Aurora snaps back.
Meanwhile, as Alpha Flight continue to squabble, the Living Laser makes a dash for the nearby town, and begins blasting at various objects. ‘”Snowbird!” My codename is “Snowbird”!’ shouts Snowbird at Aurora. ‘Incoming!’ shouts Iron Man, as he sees a lot of debris fly their way, courtesy of the Living Laser. ‘On it!’ declares Sasquatch as he begins to punch away the debris, as Iron Man blasts them with energy rays.
The Living Laser continues to scream out Iron Man’s name, while he begins to melt the ground - rapidly. Iron Man turns to Alpha Flight and tells them that he doesn’t wish to interrupt their arguing, save for the fact that they have a situation. Alpha Flight leap into action, as Aurora and Northstar begin to pull civilians from the rising-waters, and Shaman casts some illusions of Iron Man, which he conjures to distract the Living Laser and buy them some more time.
Snowbird exclaims that it is working, before diving into the ice-cold water, and shifts her form into that of a giant white whale to keep the innocents from drowning. Northstar and Aurora begin depositing the civilians onto Snowbird-whale, ‘Excellent!’ Shaman exclaims, before telling Sasquatch that he needs him to use his strength to build a makeshift seawall - but Sasquatch interrupts, asking Shaman who elected him the leader. ‘What does that mean? I have more years on this team than you -’ Shaman replies, until Iron Man comes between them just as Sasquatch declares that he can squash Shaman like a grape.
‘Enough! Enough, already! I’ve never seen such a dysfunctional bunch!’ Iron Man declares, telling them that they have to set their differences aside, as the Living Laser isn’t just going to destroy itself. Suddenly though, Iron Man gets and idea, and calls out to Guardian, asking him if he can hear him. ‘Do you think you have enough juice to surround me in an electromagnetic force bubble?’ Getting to his feet, Guardian wearily replies that he can try, and does so, ‘Like that?’ he asks. ‘Yes! Perfect!’ Iron Man replies, as he takes flight, surrounded by the electromagnetic bubble, he shouts at Living Laser: ‘You want me so bad, ugly? Well - here I am!’ he exclaims as he forces himself towards the Living Laser’s gaping mouth.
The Living Laser tries to pull back, but he can’t, and vanishes without putting up a fight. Northstar is shocked, and exclaims that the creature hated Iron Man so much, ‘It destroyed itself trying to get at him!’ Aurora finishes her brothers sentence. Snowbird returns to the group along with Iron Man, safe and sound, the armored hero declares that he hopes that this taught them all a little something about working together. ‘Snowbird, you needn’t criticise Aurora so much -’ Iron Man begins to say, until Aurora interrupts him, ‘Of all the nerve!’ she exclaims. ‘You have no right to tell my teammate what to do!’.
‘What? But I was just saying -’ Iron Man begins, taken aback. Aurora interrupts him again, pointing at Snowbird she tells Iron Man that they can criticize each other as much as they want. Snowbird agrees, and explains to Iron Man that, for all their differences, Alpha Flight, first and foremost, is a family. Shaman tells Iron Man that one of their family members - Guardian - needs medical attention immediately, and waves farewell, as Alpha Flight help Guardian away.
Iron Man watches Alpha Flight leave, ‘A family, yeah…I wouldn’t know much about that’ he thinks to himself, looking at the projection of his father once more. Suddenly, a woman approaches Iron Man, and announces that she knew the man he is looking for as Howard Lieber. ‘You did? You mean - he was here?’ Iron Man exclaims. The woman introduces herself as Dr. Kusugak, and explains that when Howard arrived, he found work at the Free Clinic, up the road, which was more rewarding than the research station.
The Dr. tells Iron Man that Howard helped them get, and maintain, all their medical equipment, before he joined the non-profit Doctors Beyond Nations. She reveals that not long ago, Howard was transferred to Ghudaza, which is in Africa. Iron Man asks the woman why she didn’t speak up earlier, to which the woman explains that they all knew Howard was running from something, as he helped so many people in this town, they didn’t want to betray his trust.
The woman tells Iron Man that he has proven himself as well, and cannot imagine that he would want to find Howard for any bad purpose, so she hands him a slip of paper, explaining that it has all the details he needs to get in touch with Howard. Iron Man assures the woman that he will put it to good use, and thanks her for her help. Taking flight, Tony thinks to himself ‘Well, what do you know? Maybe heroism is in my blood!’.


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Having a Wild Weekend, part 5: A Day at the Circus (First Story)
First Story: To sleep…perchance…to dream? ‘No! No!’ exclaims Kurt “Nightcrawler” Wagner of the British super group Excalibur when he wakes to find himself in a cage, with dozens of people watching him, pointing and laughing. Kurt tells himself that he cannot bear this, as it is the way things used to be before he became Nightcrawler - feared and mocked by those who are fortunate to appear normal. But taking a second look out of the cage, Kurt wonders why the people are laughing, and sees that they all have some sort of difference in their appearance. Taking a look at his hands and body, Kurt sees that he is different still, for he looks human.
Elsewhere, Kitty is still fiddling with various computers, and when she hears a noise she supposes that she has finally been caught - that is until Meggan enters the room. The two teammates express their relief at finding each other, before Meggan asks Shadowcat if she has found any of the others. Kitty smiles as she replies that she hasn’t yet, but is working on it, and that she has a good idea as to who is behind this all. ‘Let’s see how many “monkey wrenches” we can throw into that joker’s plans and programs!’ Kitty exclaims.
Back at the circus, Kurt realizes that he has to get out of here somehow, but he can’t teleport as it hasn’t been long enough since his last one, so he couldn’t take the strain. As Kurt tells himself to think, someone grabs him by the scruff of his costume and starts pulling him out of the cage.
‘Hey, Rambo, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!’ exclaims a moose that stands on two feet wearing human clothes. ‘Again? That trick never works!’ replies Rambo, who is some sort of squirrel leaping from the trapeze high in the circus tent. The moose, Van Winkle, gulps as he pulls Kurt, who has now returned to his blue form, from the hat. ‘Even worse than usual, Van Winkle!’ declares Rambo, as Van Winkle mutters that first there was ‘lions and tigers and bears’, and now this. Rambo tells his friend not to fear and leaps at Nightcrawler, sending Kurt careening across the big top, through several rings of fire.
Nearby in the big top, a white-skinned woman cracks her whip and tells a short white-skinned man called Karloff to stick his head in the lions mouth. ‘But Romanoff…’ protests Karloff, causing Romanoff to get mad, ‘STICK IT IN!’ she screams, asking Karloff is he is afraid of the big bad cat. Suddenly, Kurt lands on Karloff and knocks him into the lion’s mouth. ‘No! It can’t be!’ shrieks Romanoff realizing that the lion has swallows Karloff whole. Romanoff screams that Karloff may be a little small, but he is all she has, and calls for help.
Dozens of strange people, including an enormously fat woman and a pyjama wearing Grey Hulk, surge towards Nightcrawler, who wonders what he has gotten himself into, knowing that one thing is for sure - it is something he had better get out of! Kurt bounces off the fat woman, leaps onto an elephant with huge ears as someone cries out ‘Look out, Gumbo!’ while Kurt thinks it is a good thing the circus performers are resilient, and apologizing to Gumbo, grabbing a ring and declaring that he has places to go and people to see.
Spying a sword-eating man, Kurt swings down and grabs two of the swords, ‘That’s more like it!’ he exclaims as he drops to the ground ready to re-enter the battle, with several strong men rushing towards him, ‘In a pig’s eye, “my friend”’ one of them remarks.
Elsewhere, ‘Great balls of fire!’ remarks Excalibur’s missing leader, the handsome Captain Britain, as literal balls of fire fall from the sky. Walking along the yellow brick road, he wonders if this wont ever end and supposes he will have to take a more active role. As flying monkey’s swarm around them, he finds them easy to dispose of with his superior strength, when soon they all leave, returning to the sky alongside a mysterious being sitting on a broomstick, who exclaims ‘Don’t worry, my little pretty! We’ll be back for you…and your little dog too!’ ‘My little dog?!’ asks the confused Captain, thinking that this keeps getting weirder and weirder.
Back at the circus, the acrobatic Nightcrawler darts his way through his opponents, with one of them exclaiming ‘Nice try, demon, but it won’t do you any good!’ ‘Hey, let go of my tail!’ Kurt protests when someone grabs his tail, while the fat lady tells her ally to ‘hold onto the little worm’ while she leaps on a spring board, and up into the air. ‘Nice shot, big mama!’ someone remarks, while Kurt leaps higher. ‘Yeah, we’ve never had so much fun before!’ one of the performers remarks.
A lanky performer tells his colleagues not to worry, claiming that he has nightcrawler covered, but as Kurt slashes away at the man’s clothing, he exclaims that this is embarrassing, and Kurt suggests that he may prefer to cover something else. Kurt prepares to make another move, when suddenly, the entire big top collapses on him.
The circus performers debate amongst themselves, before deciding to finish Nightcrawler off once and for all. With the entire tent wrapped around him, Kurt is loaded into a canon thinking that he has gotten himself into another fine mess, while one of the performers wonders if Kurt will bounce. The canon is fired and Kurt is blasted towards a brick wall. He doesn’t bounce.
Later, ‘Wake up, spooky! This is going to be a lot of fun!’ Kurt slowly comes around, ‘you call this fun?’ he asks upon discovering he is strapped to a wall with balloons all around him, and knives being thrown. The performers laugh, exclaiming that it is fun - for them at least. ‘Say your prayers, monster!’ one of them boasts, and Kurt realizes that since he cannot teleport, it might be a good idea, before telling him to face it, that this could be the end…and one sharp dagger is hurled straight towards him….
But… ‘That’s it!’ Kitty exclaims, smiling as she informs Meggan that she knew that if she kept working on it she would figure out more about this crazy system - she has found someone! Meggan replies that it is wonderful, and asks who she found and where she found them. Kitty replies that she isn’t sure who, but she does know where, and phases her arms through a wall, reaching through and bringing back…Nightcrawler!
‘You saved my life!’ exclaims the thankful Nightcrawler. ‘What are friends for?’ Kitty replies. Meggan exclaims that she is so glad Nightcrawler is safe, and kisses him. Kitty suggests to her teammates that they go get the others, but when she gets no response she turns to Kurt and Meggan, and thinks to herself ‘Sheesh! You’d think she did all the work!’


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Weapon Omega, part 1 (Fourth Story)
Fourth Story:
‘Where are you taking me?…I demand to know where you’re taking me!…Oww! Let go of me!…What are you doing??…ANSWER ME!’ a panicked woman cries as, blindfolded, she is locked in a room. Suddenly, the steel door slams shut, and the red-headed woman rips off her blindfold, ‘You can’t just do this!’ she shouts, demanding to have a lawyer, she tries the door handle and begins slamming her fists on the door. Suddenly, she clutches her head, and feeling weary, she stumbles across the black-and-white tiled floor towards the basic bed, where she lands, and covers her face with one of her arms.
Meanwhile, somewhere North of the U.S./Canadian border, Johnny Walker a.k.a. USAgent, the leader of Canada’s new super team, Omega Flight, uses his shield to block the bullets fired at him by a strange foe, while calling out to Michael Pointer a.k.a. the new Guardian, ‘This guy’s not even a lightweight!’ Walker exclaims. Pointer blasts their strange foe with his mutant energies which are controlled by the Guardian battle suit and assures USAgent that he has their opponent, but that he needs to concentrate. ‘Would ya quit screwing around and fry this chump already?’ Walker snaps back.
Pointer replies that he is not going to “fry” anyone, as he can subdue their foe without harming him, but he just needs to focus. Walker holds his shield up to protect himself from the barrage of bullets the strange foe fires at him while he radios back to base, ‘I thought you morons said Pointer was ready!’ Walker shouts, annoyed.
Back at headquarters, several scientists, and Agent Brown, are monitoring the battle, and someone remarks that Pointer’s power levels are significantly down. Another scientist remarks that he is reading a 7% drop from last week and a 32% drop from when Pointer engaged the Wrecking Crew four weeks ago. Agent Brown remarks that it is clear Guardian’s powers are decreasing, to which another scientist replies that is not entirely true, and motions to a computer monitor, explaining that the overall trend has been downward since Pointer joined Omega Flight, there have been significant spikes here and there. The scientist believes that the “residual energy” that Pointer retained after his initial encounter withy the Collective has begun to gradually dissipate or fade.
Back at the battle, Pointer hasn’t been able to subdue their foe yet, and dodges a bullet which is fired at him, while USAgent ducks and holds his shield up to protect him from the strange tentacle-like appendages flowing from their enemy, ‘What the Hell’s wrong with you, Pointer?’ he shouts. Guardian replies that he doesn’t know. ‘Feel so…strange!’ he exclaims, before losing control and falling out of the air, he lands hard on the ground.
‘%$#&ing great! Maybe both you losers aren’t even lightweights!’ Johnny moans’, while his foe tries to lash him with the tentacles again and exclaims ‘I am Tentakill - and I am no lightweight!’ Johnny frowns, ‘”Tentakill”? You gotta be kidding me!’ he exclaims, blocking Tentakill’s attack with his shield. Johnny then adds ‘Anyway, that’s what I said - you’re not even a lightweight! Doesn’t anybody listen to me?’ he mumbles.
Johnny calls out to Guardian, asking him to take out this guy, but Michael replies that he feels so weak. ‘Show those Canadian panty-waists how the red, white and blue do it!’ Johnny declares, before asking Pointer what the matter with him is. Johnny begins pulling on Tentakill’s tentacles and reminds Pointer that he is supposed to be the Guardian. ‘Don’t make me bail you out here…I’m just supposed to be observing on this one!’ Walker reminds Pointer, telling him that he is supposed to be a hero.
‘I’m not a hero…’ Pointer replies, exhausted, while USAgent shouts ‘So be a freakin’ hero!’ and lunges at Tentakill, knocking the strange villain to the ground, while Guardian just lies there. Johnny begins bashing Tentakill with his baton, and radio to Agent Brown, asking him if he is getting any of this. ‘I told ya this kid ain’t ready, didn’t I!’ Walker exclaims. ’&*@# rookies!’ USAgent mutters as he punches Tentakill right in the face with his superior strength. Continuing to bash Tentakill, Walker doesn’t notice Pointer get up and radios to Agent Brown that if you send rookies in without the proper training then they are bound to get themselves killed - themselves or some other idiot.
At that moment, Guardian fires a blast of his energy into the fight, but it just knocks Walker and Tentakill apart and strikes a large tree, which then proceeds to fall in Walker’s direction and traps Walker under some of the branches. ‘*!**#@!’ Johnny shouts angrily. ‘Jerks!’ Tentakill shouts as he uses this opportunity to flee. ‘Did I get…’ Pointer begins to ask, while Johnny shouts ‘#@ing! #$@LS#!!!’ as he begins to crawl out from the tree. ‘…him?’ Pointer asks as he collapses. ‘Great’ Johnny mutters, before turning to his radio communicator and asking Agent Brown if he is still reading him.
One of the scientists remarks that Guardian is down by 65%, and another adds that he is reading a significant drop in heart rate. ‘Analysis of absorption inconclusive’ the third scientists adds. ‘Uh…yeah…so…could I get some, uh, help here?’ Walker asks. Agent Brown hangs his head as one of the scientists remarks that the readings are making no sense, as the suit should have compensated. ‘I think Sally fainted’ Walker snaps as he stands over Pointer’s unmoving body.
2 hours later at Omega Flight headquarters, Agent Brown remarks to Dr Benning that it doesn’t make any sense, as the suits internal monitors should be stabilizing these fluctuations, before asking Dr Benning if she has been making any progress with Pointer. Dr Benning replies that Michael is progressing, but that he is quite tortured by the guilt he feels for the deaths of all those people, and what he did to Alpha Flight.
USAgent stands, arms folded across his chest, while Pointer tells a scientist that he is actually feeling much better now. The scientist offers to run more tests, but Pointer replies that he feels fine, great actually.
Dr Benning reminds Agent Brown that, on top of everything else, Michael is forced to atone for what he did by becoming the new Guardian, so he is very confused. She remarks that there is no quick fix for what Pointer is feeling, so it is going to take some time, ‘You can’t just snap your fingers and turn him into your Weapon Omega’.
Pointer turns to Walker and tells him that he is sorry for what happened out there, but that he doesn’t know what happened. Walker tells him to forget about it. ‘It’s not your fault’ he assures him, glaring at Agent Brown, before Walker leaves the lab area while the scientist asks Pointer when he started feeling better. Pointer replies that he isn’t sure, that he doesn’t know when it hit him, maybe an hour ago, it was around the time they got back to base. ‘Yeah…as soon as we got back here, I just started feeling, you know, better. It was like the power…it felt like it was flowing back into me…through me…through my veins…yeah…right when we got back…I started feeling much better!’
Johnny takes out his cellphone: ‘Yeah, hey, it’s me. Just thought ya might be interested in what the weather’s been like up here. It’s real sunny now, all of a sudden…it’s weird, cause you know, for a while there it was looking pretty gloomy’ Walker assures who he is talking to that he will keep watching the skies and keep them posted. ‘Cause I got a feeling there might be a storm front moving back in soon…’.
Meanwhile…the unknown woman, locked in the cell with “Quarantined” on the door, lies on the bed still. ‘Can’t…uh…do this…to me…uhnnn’ she moans, her skin shucked back, and looking a whiter shade of pale….


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Weapon Omega, part 2 (Fourth Story)
Fourth Story:
‘I’m…I remember it now. What I…what he did to Alpha Flight…to my home…my family. I didn’t, you know? Didn’t remember. Not at first. But that thing - the Collective…it’s still in there. A little bit is still inside of me…and it remembers’ Michael Pointer a.k.a. the new Guardian of Omega Flight remarks to psychiatrist Dr. Benning in her office at Omega Flight headquarters, Canada.
Michael remarks that the Collective’s memories are becoming his memories now. ‘I see them when I dream!’ he exclaims. Dr. Benning assures Michael that they are not his memories, as he was being controlled by another entity. ‘None of what happened was your fault’ she remarks. ‘That’s what you all keep telling me! But where was I when they buried mom and dad? My brother? My girlfriend!?’ he asks, clearly upset. ‘You tell me it wasn’t my fault - but I couldn’t even go to the funeral!’ he exclaims, remembering being held behind bars, while soldier’s ignored his plight.
Dr. Benning tells Michael that she isn’t sure him attending the funerals would have been a good idea, under the circumstances. ‘Why? Because I’m the one who butchered the whole town?’ Michael asks. Looking at his hands, he replies that it wasn’t his fault, but here he is, in this suit, making “amends” for something he didn’t do. ‘For something that wasn’t my fault’. Dr. Benning reminds Michael that he knows the Guardian uniform is for his own good, to which Pointer replies he knows, and that is why he is wearing it.
Inside a small room, the session between Pointer and Benning is being watched by Agent Brown and some scientists, one of whom remarks that Pointer is becoming more comfortable with the suit. Another scientist suggests that it isn’t comfort, but fear, that he doesn’t want to wear it as he is afraid of it. ‘What did Agent Brown call it? A “power regulator” or something? I don’t know…as long as it helps me from…stops me from doing that again’ Pointer remarks, while Agent Brown watches him, ‘Fear. Yes…fear can be a great motivator’ he exclaims as he leaves the room. Entering the corridor and making his way along it, Agent Brown is unaware that he is being followed by Johnny Walker a.k.a. the USAgent.
Back in Benning’s office, Benning asks Michael to tell her what happened yesterday when he and USAgent tried to apprehend Tentakill. Pointer replies that he doesn’t know, ‘It’s different when you’re out there…it’s not the same as in the training room, y’know? People…someone could get hurt’. Pointer recalls how USAgent told him to quit screwing around and fry Tentakill. Pointer remarks that he could have easily “fried” Tentakill, as the power was raging inside of him.
Pointer tells Dr. Benning that she - that no one - can understand, as it is like being a live a thousand times over, every nerve in his body is charged, a live - it’s terrifying for him. ‘I could’ve fried him. I could do anything when that power’s running through me. But I don’t want to hurt anyone, anymore’ Michael remarks. ‘EVER’. Sympathetically, Dr. Benning asks Michael if that is what happened, why Tentakill got away, because he held back.
‘No’ Pointer replies, revealing that he doesn’t know what happened, as he was in control, wasn’t going to hurt Tentakill, but USAgent wouldn’t shut up. ‘#@*&!! *&%#*@!! $*#@!!!’ Pointer recalls USAgent shouting. ‘I was doing fine…it was difficult, focusing the power, but I was fine…I had him. And then…’. Pointer trails off and holds his arms up as he shrugs. ‘What? What happened Michael? Try and describe what happened’ Dr. Benning asks.
‘They left me’ Michael remarks, hanging his head. ‘”They”?’ Dr. Benning asks. ‘”They”, “It”, whatever. Whatever’s inside of me…’ Michael remarks, exclaiming that he never wanted them, never asked for them, but got them anyway. He declares that they are there, but when he needs them, gone. He exclaims that he could feel them too, leaving, he could feel the power flowing out of him, flowing out of every nerve ending, leaving him empty and weak.
Pointer remembers USAgent battling Tentakill, before using his powers to fire a blast of energy which strikes a tree, and separates Walker and Tentakill, while wearily, he whispers ‘Mom…Dad…Lindsey…I’m sorry’. Pointer remarks that he is told adjustments are being made to the suit, and Dr. Benning asks if Agent Brown is telling him this. ‘Yeah, Brown’ Pointer replies.
Speaking of Agent Brown, at that moment, he is reading some files while drinking some coffee and eating a donut in the staff room. USAgent walks past the door and looks in - Brown feels someone watching him and turns, but by then, Walker is gone.
Michael tells Dr. Benning that Agent Brown says the suit is still acclimating itself to the Collective’s power, and his body’s unique physiology or some crap like that. ‘But I don’t know. I don’t know what to believe anymore…or who’ Michael reveals. ‘Believe in yourself first, Michael’ Dr. Benning suggests, reminding him that so much has happened to him in a very short amount of time, so it is a lot to handle. ‘But you will handle it, Michael, and I’ll help you’ she assures him.
Dr. Benning places a hand on Michael’s knee as she tells him that they will get through this together. ‘Yeah…I’ll try’ Michael replies. ‘That’s great, Michael…that’s all you need to do. Try’ Dr. Benning exclaims, before telling him that they are at the end of their session today, and asking him if there is anything else he would like to say or add before he leaves. ‘Anything else on your mind?’
Michael replies that he won’t let what is inside of him…his voice trails off, before asking Dr. Benning if she thinks he is nuts, wearing the suit all the time. Dr. Benning gets to her feet and leads Michael to the door, telling him not to be ridiculous and that if he wants to wear the uniform because it makes him comfortable, then he should keep it on, as there is nothing wrong with using it as a sort of security blanket. ‘The suit…it makes me feel…safe…’ Michael replies. ‘That’s a good thing’ Dr. Benning replies. Suddenly, Michael reminds Dr. Benning that he told her the power terrifies him, before revealing that the power also makes him feel good….