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The Day After
It is nighttime at the Starlite Casino in Atlantic City. When Fred J. Dukes, a.k.a. the Blob, went to bed, all was right with the world. However, much has changed since he has gone to bed. Blob wakes up in his hotel room, which is trashed with food and alcohol bottles. He stumbles through the room to the bathroom, commenting on what a night he had. He drank too much, but now he has to go. Blob, however, finds that he has trouble walking to the bathroom, as he feels the bed sheets tangled up all over him. He knocks over a few dishes in the dark, but finally reaches the bathroom, where he realizes that something isn’t quite right. He struggles to find the light switch, but then finds it and flicks on the lights. No, those were not bed sheets he was wrapped up in…it was his skin!
Fred looks in the mirror in horror and screams at the sight of him. Once where there was massive amounts of fat due to him mutation there is nothing… he is the size of a normal human. What the true horror, though, is that his skin, which has been stretched for so long due to his unique mutant powers, now hangs loosely from his body, making him look disgusting and like a freak.
Yesterday the world was normal. However, today is not yesterday. It is the day after. It is Mutant Day. It is M-Day.
Soon, hotel security and management are alerted to a commotion in Blob’s hotel room by the cleaner, Marisol. She tells her bosses that she heard a terrible scream and then sobbing, but now she hears nothing inside. The hotel manager asks if they really are talking about the Blob here. He turns to an employee named Phil and asks if he was mad to rent out a suite to a known mutant terrorist. Phil defends himself and reminds the manager that, if he turned Blob away, they’d be confronted by mutie-rights lawsuits. Plus, the Blob could do much damage if Phil had said no. Phil knocks on the door to the Blob’s suite, but there is no response.
Annoyed, the manager takes the room key from Phil, who complies, but tells the manager that he is going in first. The manager opens the door and steps into the dark room, calling out to Mr. Dukes and asks him if everything is all right.
Sitting on the bed is the man who once called himself the Blob. Now, he is a mess of massive skin with a knife to his throat in an attempt to kill himself. Pathetically, Blob tells the group of men before him that the skin won’t cut. There is too much of it… it just won’t cut. He beckons the security guard with a gun to show him some kindness. Will he please shoot him?
Elsewhere that morning, in the town known as Mutant Town, sometimes called District X, news reporter Trish Tilby reports live about the mutant epidemic, which has left most of the mutant population de-powered. Trish begins her report and speaks to her viewers about the mutant tenement around her, once filled with many mutants, but now is full of fear and confusion. No one is sure what happened, but reports have been coming in all morning of mutants who have lost their powers.
In the initial surge of panic there was looting and arson, but authorities have gotten the situation under control. Now they are working with FEMA and the Red Cross to determine how many people are affected by this worldwide de-powering and how they can help them. Right now many are in shock and no one knows why or how this happened. Most importantly, though, is the question of whether this is permanent or not.
As the Red Cross help the injured and sick in the background, the X-Man known as Bishop stands to the side with Police Chief Randolph Esposito, who tells Bishop that the truth is that he is the first mutant he has seen today that still has powers. Bishop replies that they will have to canvas the neighborhood then and try to determine how widespread all of this is. Concerned, Esposito asks Bishop if the X-Men cannot do that task themselves. Aren’t they all ok?
No, replies Bishop, we are not. They have suffered casualties as well, and they have no answers as of now. An officer with the men asks if this is some sort of terrorist attack. Is something worse going to happen to the humans? Bishop apologizes to the officer and walks away, stating that he just does not know. As he leaves, Bishop is called over by Trish, who desperately asks him how Hank McCoy is. Bishop tells Trish that Beast still has his powers. Concerned and worried, Trish tells Bishop to tell Hank to call her.
Soon, Trish returns back to her broadcast and this time she is outside Wannabee’s, the unofficial gateway to New York’s burgeoning mutant subculture. She then decides to speak to a few passerbies to get the local reaction as the story unfolds. The first person Trish speaks to dismisses her, as he is in a rush. Next, Trish interviews two boys that joke around about how one was a mutant… who had the power to kick the other boy’s butt. Next, Trish finds a saddened mother, whose little girl could turn music into light. Why would anyone steal that gift from her?
A cab driver tells Trish that he thinks terrorists have done this, or at least Martians. Another woman claims that they must rally behind the president for he will know what to do. A doctor is happy to see mutants lose their powers, though, as it is what they deserve. A religious fanatic tells Trish that the Lord has spoken. Lastly, Trish interviews a very pale man with a red diamond shaped mark on his forward. The most sinister man tells Trish that survival always goes to the fittest.
Trish and her camera man Toby finish up, and Trish finds that she is ready and in need of a drink. Suddenly, another employee runs up to Trish and informs her to come over, as something is happening in Paris.
In Paris, Michelle D’Arcy reports from outside the European headquarters of the X-Corporation, the non-governmental aid organization created by mutant rights campaigner Charles Xavier. From across the continent, word has come that mutants have lost their powers. Repeated calls to X-Corp have proved to be fruitless, though it is believed that the building serves as a haven not only for its staff but for their families as well. The building has always been a center of conflict between pro and anti-mutant advocated. Today is no different, though officers of the Gendarmerie have been working to keep the peace.
Suddenly, the protestors all hear a commotion and people begin to run. All are horrified, as a van crashes through the crowd and smashes into the lobby of the building. Dear Lord, mutters a female officer, as she realizes that death is on their doorstep.
The van then explodes in a mighty explosion, causing the X-Corporation tower to collapse, killing everyone in the area.
At the Xavier Institute, Emma Frost, Cyclops and Havok watch the news report from France and see the X-Corporation building crumble. The reporter informs all that many building in the area are buried under the rubble and the casualties will be numerous. Angry, Havok points at the television and asks Emma and Scott if they want to bet that the humans blame that on them too. This is only the beginning. The depressed Emma, who has already had a few drinks, tells Havok that the question is what this is a beginning of. Cyclops takes Emma’s hand and tells her that it will be all right. How, asks Emma. Every time she thinks that things are as bad as they can get, fate proves her wrong.
Cyclops turns Havok and gets his attention. Then, he pulls up a video monitor of the X-Corporation building, as well as direct live feeds to Sunspot and Sage. Given what just happened in France, he wants all X-Corp offices closed and evacuated immediately. The school will not offer refuge to any mutant looking for safe haven. They can come here. He hopes Sunspot can help with the logistics. Sunspot tells Cyclops that he has his full support. Sage speaks up and tells Cyclops that she is compiling all the data related to the phenomenon. Once her analysis determines the cause, the X-Men can formulate a proper response. Cyclops, who already knows the truth behind the House of M, simply tells Sage to do what she can. He does not say anything more to her.
At that moment, Karma walks into the room and asks Cyclops for some help. Cyclops asks her what she needs, and learns that phones are ringing off the hook and they need bodies to handle the load. Cyclops follows her to another room, where he sees Iceman and Husk answering phone calls. Karma explains that they have received some cranks and many media calls, but they are talking to mostly parents frantic to learn the fates of their children.
Nearby, Husk speaks to Mrs. Sabayon and introduces herself. She tells the woman that they are still trying to figure out things themselves too, but she is afraid her daughter, Aurelie, has lost her powers. She is fine, but she just can’t breathe water anymore. Next to her, Iceman speaks to the parents of Noriko, a.k.a. Surge, and tells them that Surge is one of those rare exceptions and still has her powers. Upon hearing this, Surge’s parents hang up. Angered, Bobby tells Scott that the parents hung up. They don’t even care! Apparently not, replies Scott. He then asks Iceman how he is holding up. Iceman replies that working and dealing with other people’s grief is the only thing that is keeping him sane considering he has also lost his powers!
Scott is then contacted by Emma telepathically, and learns that she has finished a psi-scan of the school. The number of active mutants on campus, excluding faculty, has dropped from 182 to perhaps 27.
Cyclops gathers all available X-Men in the War Room, whose monitors show all their allies and a few enemies, with labels stating if they are powered or no. Among the de-powered people that are known include Blob, Jubilee, Feral, Thornn, Iceman and Dani Moonstar a.k.a. Mirage! Gathered in the room are Cyclops, Emma, Havok, Shadowcat, Lockheed, Polaris, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Beast, Iceman, Marvel Girl, Psylocke, Wolverine, Rogue and Gambit.
Cyclops tells everyone to settle down, as they have their biggest challenge ahead of them. As co-heads of the school, Emma and he have decided to make a few fundamental changes to how things will be. For their own safety, they are recommending all non-powered students return home, for at least the duration of the emergency. By that same token, they are opening the school to any mutant looking for haven. To facilitate this process, they must open lines of communication worldwide, both official and back channel. The X-Men must understand that everyone is scared. They have to find a way to restore the peace and if they are lucky, hope too.
Rogue jokes that they haven’t heard boo from Mystique yet. Gambit comments that a bad penny like Mystique will find a way to survive. Gambit’s comment disturbs Nightcrawler, but he ignores it and walks over to Kitty, who is trembling. Kitty blames it on the world being turned upside down, but she is remembering her Old Testament. The two then embrace one another and recall a part of the Old Testament, where the Lord killed all the firstborn in Egypt and there was not one house without a dead person.
Nearby, Psylocke notices that Marvel Girl is thinking hard to herself. Rachel, who is clearly worried, tells Betsy that the details of history might change, but no matter how much of a difference they make the ultimate outcome is the same. Havok is right. This is just the beginning.
Meanwhile, at the Pentagon, specifically the Office of National Emergency, Valerie Cooper is stopped from entering a room, on the grounds that it is a restricted area. Cooper shows her authorization, showing that she is Deputy Presidential National Security Advisor for Para-Human Affairs. One of the soldiers verifies her clearance and then tells her that access has been approved. Welcome to the O*N*E.
Valerie enters a large room filled with many officers, technicians, and agents. She finds General Lazer at his desk and asks the shady man under whose authorization did the O*N*E go active. General Lazer tells Cooper that the president phoned his boss, the secretary of defense and authorized it. Didn’t she get the memo?
Angry, Valerie tells Lazer that this is her project and she shouldn’t have been kept out of the loop. Tauntingly, Lazer tells her that the president is a man of action. When he is concerned about the face of the nation, he tends to forget the bureaucratic niceties. Valerie asks Lazer if he will drop the hammer. Lazer tells her that shock and awe may be forbidden in liberal circles, but it still has its use. Valerie warns Lazer that if he challenges the X-Men, then he should be prepared to deal with the consequences.
What X-Men, asks the director. Hasn’t she seen the latest Intel? For all intents and purposes, mutants are no more. They do not know who is responsible or why, or if it will get worse or how the survivors will react, but the one thing the O*N*E can do is keep the peace.
The president declared a national emergency. That means the O*N*E is in business. Valerie can either be a part of the solution… or she can quit.
In Mutant Town, Bishop and Sergeant Charlotte Jones walk up a grimy staircase in an apartment complex. Charlotte tells Bishop that the call to 9-1-1 reported gunshots. Bishop asks Sergeant Jones how long she has been on duty. She replies that she has been on since the epidemic began, and adds that he can call her Charlotte. As the two hear more gunshots outside an apartment, they get ready to bust in. Before they do, Charlotte tells Bishop that, if he speaks to Forge or Archangel, tell them that they are in her prayers. She then asks who lives in the apartment. A woman named Hannah Levy, replies Bishop.
Bishop kicks open the door to Levy’s apartment and tells her that the police are there. Charlotte is immediately chocked at what she sees. In the dark, dirty one room apartment is Hannah Levy, sitting in the corner with a gun, babbling hysterically while hundreds of insects crawl all over her and the room. Hannah babbles that the buggies are tasty and she loves to eat them, but she can’t anymore. So now all her buggies want to eat her!
Bishop walks forward, reminding Hannah that it is he, but he steps on many bugs. Charlotte covers her nose and mouth and tells Bishop that the whole floor is moving. Bishop explains to Charlotte that part of what made Hannah a mutant was her ability to only metabolize bugs. Charlotte should call in the Alphabets, since they will have to condemn the building. He then adds for Charlotte to keep it together. They are only bugs.
Hannah continues to babble that she keeps shooting at the bugs, but there are always more. She then picks up a cockroach, thinking it is a bullet, and tells the silly bullet to stop wriggling. It has work to do. Bishop takes the gun from Hannah and tells her that help has arrived. She is safe now and with friends. They will take care of her. Bishop picks up Hannah, who tells him that when she went to bed her world was normal. She woke up in Hell. Why did this happen? What did she do that was so wrong? Not a thing replies Bishop, as he carries her out. He doesn’t know if he can make things right for her, but she has his word that he will make things better.
Charlotte radios Central-K and reports another casualty.
Back at the school, Cyclops calls Jamie Madrox, the Multiple Man, and tells him that the yare pretty shorthanded. They could use his multiples around the mansion.
At his X-Factor Investigations office in Mutant Town, Jamie tells Cyclops not to take offense, but this disaster is way bigger than the X-Men. Besides, he has never been a team player, especially when he can form his own with his own powers. He is used to calling his shots now and frankly he thinks Strong Guy and Wolfsbane are better off here in Mutant Town. This crisis isn’t just about the small handful of them still with powers, but it is about those who lost them as well. A lot of them feel as if they lost everything.
Around the office, many dupes of Madrox clean the office, while Rahne perches on his desk. Strong Guy uses his mighty muscles to lift the desk and this causes Rahne to fall off. He tells her to move her butt, as some of them have furniture to move. Angry, Rahne morphs into her wolf form and asks if his misbegotten parents ever taught him manners. Jokingly, Strong Guy asks if it was not her who was sitting on a table.
Cyclops questions the noise in the background and Jamie tells him that it is Guido and Rahne. They are still powered. He then tells Scott that they will keep in touch and wishes him the best of luck.
Back at the mansion, Cyclops rejoins the other X-Men in the War Room. Nightcrawler approaches him and tells him that Rachel mentioned something about a dream about a powerful “Chaos Wave.” He then asks Scott what they are dealing with. He feels as if this is way bigger than the standard X-Men mission. Frustrated and tired, Scott rubs his face and mumbles about Wanda and asks what else she has done to them. Nightcrawler, who did not hear Scott clearly, asks the leader to repeat his words. Cyclops covers it up by telling Kurt that he was just thinking out loud. He then goes on and surmises that this Chaos Wave has something to do with the power spike seen in London. Nightcrawler then informs Cyclops that Nocturne has had the similar dreams and it seems to be all connected.
Cyclops then tells Nightcrawler to put together a squad to investigate London. He should get in touch with Captain Britain. Nightcrawler decides to take Betsy with him too, as with all that has been happening lately she still hasn’t told her brother that she is alive. Before he leaves, Nightcrawler asks Cyclops if there is any word on Xavier. No, replies Cyclops. They just cannot find him. Emma is scanning for him with Cerebra, though.
In the Cerebra chamber, Emma Frost screams at the top of her lungs with anguish. She then storms out to her office and begins to drink alcohol. Angry, she throws her glass against the wall, damaging a few pictures. Scott walks in on her and seeing her pain, asks if it is that bad. Emma informs him that their initial estimates of 90% de-powering were conservative. Before the Scarlet Witch, they numbered in millions. They were the rightful inheritors of the planet. Now, they barely number hundreds. They don’t qualify as an endangered species. They are hovering on the brink of extinction. Scott tells Emma that they are not dead yet, with a slight smile on his face. Annoyed, Emma asks him if he is laughing at her. For that, asks Scott, wouldn’t he need a sense of humor?
Scott holds Emma and tells her that life is about change and evolution. Look how far she has come since her days as the White Queen of the Hellfire Club. Emma walks away to a window, but Scott tells her that they are a lot alike. They are too private for their own good. The hardest thing is to trust. Moments like this, their first impulse is to deal with the loss alone. They forget the X-Men are plural. They are part of a team. Emma looks out the window and stares sorrowfully at the Phoenix Memorial. She finally opens up and tells Scott that she will always be an outsider among the X-Men.
Scott turns Emma to face him and he tells her that she will never be an outsider with him. Emma turns into her diamond form and tells Scott that, if they hit them hard enough, even diamonds shatter. Queens conquer, adds Scott. “Emma Grace Frost…” says Scott as he leans in for a kiss, “you gonna let a Scarlet Witch beat you?”
“Never,” replies Emma, as she reverts to flesh and kisses Scott.
Back at the call center, Bobby pulls up the holographic of another student, this one still powered with his wings. An angry parent yells at Bobby and asks him what is going on there. The radio says every mutie is back to normal. How can Maxwell still be a freak?! Tired and annoyed, Bobby yells at the man and tells him that Maxwell is not a freak. None of them are! Does he even have the slightest clue what Maxwell and his best friends are going through? He should try to spare his son some empathy instead of complaining about how much trouble this causes him.
The father of Maxwell is offended and demands to know Bobby’s name and to speak with his supervisor. Bobby tells the man that his name is Robert Drake and if he could wait a minute while he gets Miss Frost for him. She will be more than happy to hear his complaints. Bobby then rips off his headpiece and throws it down.
Polaris stands in the doorway and tells him that he was pretty rough on that parent… even though he had it coming. Surprised, Bobby tells Lorna that he didn’t see her at the doorway. Lorna then asks how Popsicle is doing… but then realizes her error and apologizes for being mean. I’m cool, replies Bobby. Lorna smiles and tells Bobby that he is always with the jokes. Bobby replies that, if he keeps on trying, they might be funny one day. Polaris puts her hand on Bobby’s shoulder and asks him if it’s hard not having his powers. Bobby jokes that it is a pain to get cold drinks from the fridge. As the two hug, he tells her that on the other hand he gets to enjoy hot pizza… among other things.
In London, at the secret headquarters of MI-13, the mutant known as Peter Wisdom practices training against a few dummies of Wolverine, Elektra and Nick Fury. He destroys all three as his assistant Constance walks in, who tells him that she loves his targets. Peter tells her that it is wish fulfillment. He then asks about her evaluation. Constance tells him that he will be pleased that his “hot knives” remain as formidable as ever. That makes him one of the few enhanced agents left.
Another woman, Farisa, enters the room and tells Peter that he is very much in demand since he still has his powers. Peter asks Farisa what she means, and she presents him with orders to brief the director, the prime minister, and finally Buckingham Palace. Thank goodness he wore a clean tie, jokes Peter. Farisa then pulls out a device, which shows a hologram of Captain Britain. Peter is to contact him. Captain Britain’s country needs him.
Elsewhere in London, at the master house of the Hellfire Club, the current White Queen, Courtney Ross, answers her phone in her office. The man calling her is Roger MacEwan and he needs to see her right away! Courtney tells Roger that he is the first appointment tomorrow and they are to meet at Fraser’s Bank. At the moment, she has more pressing matters. MacEwan tells Courtney to please listen.
At a phone booth somewhere in London, MacEwan listens to Courtney tells him that she remembers that something is seriously wrong with her account. They will make sure it won’t happen. He shouldn’t worry. Frustrated, MacEwan tells her to listen. Concerned, Courtney asks him what is wrong. MacEwan tells her that they have made threats to his family and his life. They don’t want him to make it to Fraser’s. They are not human. He doesn’t want to die. Suddenly, MacEwan begins to run for his life, leaving the phone hanging and Courtney Ross calling out to him.
At a secret and secure O*N*E* location, General Lazer speaks to his troops, telling them that they have orders straight from the president, who is watching right now. Effective immediately the military component of the Office of National Emergency is active. They all will be deployed accordingly. This is a moment of truth in U.S. history. As Valerie Cooper watches on, Lazer explains that they must deal with genetic devastation worldwide. People are scared; many feel like they lost everything. They don’t know if this is an attack of nature or an attack of war and they don’t know what the future holds. They fear that this is a prelude to something worse.
They are the last defense in the United States and probably the world. The yare trained and equipped to deal with such an emergency. He knows what they heard about mutants, but they should know that they are a match for them and more. The fate of the nation and their very species hangs in the balance. Their actions will make a difference. They will make America proud.
The O*N*E* troopers then run off to uncover their vehicles… their very familiar… humanoid shaped… mutant hunting… vehicles…
At the Xavier Institute, Sage contacts Beast in his lab and tells him that she is correlating every medical record accessible in her data-net. She is also cross-referencing files from the general populace with those of known mutants. Thus far, her samplings confirm Emma’s initial analysis. Powers haven’t simply been inhibited. The critical genes themselves have been erased. Even the potential to become a mutant has been excised from the human genome. As of yet, she still has no definitive indications to the cause. Beast tells Sage that it is a mystery to them as well. They will just have to keep on looking.
Suddenly, the phone rings, but Hank lets the answering machine go off. It is Trish. She tells him that she knows it is a hard time… but she hopes that they are still friends. She would like to talk and help. If he is there can he please pick up? If not, he has her cell number. Hank does not pick up, prompting Sage to ask why he did not. Beast walks away from the phone and tells Sage that he has work to do.
In his office, Cyclops speaks to a hologram of Storm, who is in Africa. He asks her how soon she can come back. Storm tells Scott that she was actually going to request that her team joins her in Africa. Scott is confused, and reminds Storm that she is an X-Man and her place is there in the mansion. Since when have their concerns been so parochial, asks Storm. This event is global and the need is just as great in her native country and the proper resources are almost non-existent.
Storm apologizes, but she may come off as selfish. Her own life has been in turmoil lately and she needs time to gain perspective. Also, wouldn’t it be wise to divide their assets? Isn’t collecting all the active X-Men in one place inviting disaster? A calculated risk, replies Cyclops. Storm disagrees, for if there truly are a handful of X-Men left then they cannot hunker down in Westchester and wait for the crises to come to them. They have to be proactive. Cyclops emphasizes that it is his call to make.
Storm tells Scott that this is the reason she thinks it is best for her to stay away. The team needs confidence in its leaders. Right now, about many things she, he and Emma disagree. Cyclops hangs his head and tells Storm that they will miss her. Storm, with sadness in her eyes, tells Scott that he knows how to reach her if he needs to. She then tells her friend to take care.
In Manhattan near the Delancey Streets, many New Yorkers go about their daily lives. However, on one corner appears to be a homeless man who sits near a cup and mumbles that he only wanted the best. A sympathetic passerby gives him some change, but another man steals his dollars and runs away. The man keeps on mumbling that he wanted the best. A child tells his mother that the man smells bad, but she shushes him and they rush away. Suddenly, she notices something worse nearby.
Walking down the streets are two young women wearing skintight clothing and clinging to another. The uniforms they wear are X-Men uniforms and the women are Maria and Lucia Callasantos, better known as Feral and Thornn of X-Corporation Mumbai. However, the two normally furry feline like women are no longer that… they are de-powered and human!
Thornn, who helps her sister, Maria, walk, asks some strangers what they are staring at. Are the gene jokes enjoying the show? They think it’s funny? They are all looking at the freaks who used to be mutants. They used to be something. They used to be X-Corporation. Isn’t it just great how those high and mighty heroes look after their own, says Thornn sarcastically. Feral asks Lucia where they are going and Lucia tells her that they are going far from here. Mutant Town isn’t safe anymore even though it used to be their turf.
Thornn then slashes at a pedestrian, but finds that she does no damage to him, as even her claws are gone. Annoyed, the man tells her that he doesn’t know what her problem is. The child from earlier hugs his mom as he is scared of Feral and Thornn, but Thornn tells all that this was no accident. Someone is responsible for what happened. When they find out what happened, there will be blood!
Nearby, the police spot Feral and Thornn and report back to Central-K. As the bum who mutters that he wanted what was best for all walks away, a pedestrian tells the cops that the two women attacked a man and ran down Irvington.
The bum then reaches the hotel he was renting, still muttering how he only wanted the best. He walks into his bathroom and talks off his hat. Quicksilver looks in the mirror and mutters one last time that he only wanted what was best.
In Los Angeles is the Galleria Mall. It is not condemned and bankrupt. However, there is somebody inside. She is the only, the only, the unbelievably larger-than-life Jubilation Lee, oft known as Jubilee! She used to ride her board like it was a part of her. Rent-a-cops fell flat on their faces trying to catch her. The crowds cheered her as he put on firework displays that put the fourth of July to shame. Yes… those were the days.
Now it is the present and the distraught Jubilee sits in the dirty dank mall and mutters that those were the days she thought would never end. Then poof… it was the end of the story. Jubilee pulls out her cell phone and pulls up Wolverine’s name. She knows she should call, but what would she say. Jubilee then begins to cry and tells herself to grow up. She then pulls her legs up to her chest as she lies on her side and cries herself to sleep.
Back at the mansion, the human students all say their goodbyes as their parents come home to pick them up. Some hate Emma Frost, others are happy to go home. Some have had no time to pack all their stuff, while others don’t want to leave. One student asks if they heard the rumor that Emma fired Moonstar. As one student sits in a pick up truck with his mom while his father packs, he bitterly tells his mother that the X-Men couldn’t wait to get rid of them. His mother reasons that they are doing what they think best, but he doesn’t believe it. Teachers are supposed to care. Now that they don’t have powers they don’t matter.
On a nearby hill watches Wolverine, who says that this may be the right decision, but it’s a mistake. He is joined by Colossus, who carries his art supplies, and asks Logan how many students are left. Thirty, maybe, replies Wolverine. He then tells Peter that Magneto, Apocalypse, Sinister, Sublime and even Cassandra Nova never hurt the X-Men as much as they are hurt now.
Colossus asks Wolverine what is wrong, but Logan tells him that he is just feeling his age. It used to be that his life was a mystery. He wanted to know what he missed. Be careful what u wish for, jokes Colossus. Yep, says Wolverine as he pops his claws back in. Colossus tells Logan that it has been ages since he sketched him. Wolverine is not in the mood to be drawn, but Colossus says he brought beer. Wolverine is sold.
Colossus begins to sketch him and tells him that so much has changed since he has been gone. He feels like he has been standing still. Wolverine notices that Colossus and Psylocke came back from the dead almost at the same time. Have they traded notes? Colossus tells Wolverine that for Psylocke the transition was instantaneous. For him, it was day after day of torture. You look like your coping, points out Wolverine. Colossus then asks why he is alive, but not his sister Illyana. Why does he have powers, but others do not. How should I know, asks Wolverine.
Colossus stands and powers up. He tells Wolverine that their cause seemed so simple when Xavier explained it. It felt so just. Who can argue when the reasoning is good guys and bad guys? He remembers fighting Proteus, who could warp the world around him and he found a way to destroy him. What’s your point, asks Wolverine. Colossus tells Wolverine that he wants to hit something. He wants to fight. How can he fight something like this? Wolverine tells Colossus that some things must be taken in faith. When faith is lost, questions Colossus. Still working on that, replies Wolverine.
Suddenly, there is the sound of a gunshot. Colossus looks off in the distance and spots smoke from the woods. Wolverine tells him that he just got his wish.
In the woods, the mutants known as Mammomax, Erg and Peeper run for their lives, clearly terrified. Mammomax spots Xavier’s school up ahead and Peepers tells his friends to run quick. Elsewhere, Colossus spots the unfamiliar figures and asks if they are friend or foe. Wolverine is not sure, but charges anyway. The three mutants reach the home stretch, but Peepers points out that the X-Men hate them don’t they? Mammomax reminds Peepers that the X-Men opened their school to all mutants. They are heroes. The three mutants are then separated by a laser blast.
Mammomax tries to get up, but is blasted down again. A group of five humans rush out, one a woman wearing a hockey mask. Grady tells the boss, the Leper Lady, that the taser took out the mutants. The Leper Lady orders the death of the mutants and they quickly mount three x-shaped wooden structures, tying the mutants to them. Grady asks if this is a good idea doing this on the doorstep of Xavier’s school. The Leper Lady tells him that the Sapien League is serving notices that humanity has had it with these abominations. They are not sharing this world.
A man then dumps gas on all the mutants and lights a match. Suddenly, Wolverine and Colossus arrive, telling the terrorists that there is a not trespassing sign. The Sapien League opens fire, but the bullets don’t hurt Colossus. The terrorist with the match tells the X-Men that they might not be able to stop them, but they can’t stop them from doing their jobs. He then sets the wooden structures on fire, causing the conscious Erg to scream in pain.
Wolverine tells the humans that one of those mutants is his friend and he doesn’t take kindly to their actions. He is then hit by a taser, which hurts more than it should. It must be enhanced. Wolverine then cuts loose and knocks the man away. Colossus attacks the Leper Lady and breaks her guns, stating that he hates guns. He then frees Peepers and Mammomax, while Wolverine saves Erg. The Sapien League runs back into the forest.
As Wolverine chases after the humans, Colossus calls to him, as they should take the victims to the infirmary. Wolverine, however, wants to learn more about the Sapien League. Suddenly, an ominous voice tells the X-Men to stand down. Wolverine tells Colossus to get clear as a large purple mechanical foot smashes the burning wooden structures.
The rest of the X-Men rush out of the mansion. Cyclops, Wolverine, Colossus, Iceman, Havok, Dani Moonstar, Gambit, Emma, Beast and Rogue look up see the school, surrounded by a new breed of sleeker-looking Sentinels who look like they mean business. The O*N*E* initiative has begun!


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Maysville mutant relocation center, California:
The mutant prisoners are guarded by Sentinels. Several are forced to do heavy work, watched by human guards. One of the mutants in the trenches, Fred Dukes, moans and drops his hammer. He is exhausted. His friend, Angelo Unuscione, exclaims his name concerned.
Two human guards laugh. One of them orders Dukes to get up. No slacking! Worn out already? the other mocks. He thought this blob was supposed to be indestructible!
Take off the inhibitor collar and find out! Unus threatens. Nah, don’t think so, comes the reply. How about instead they put Dukes in the hole, see if a few hours in the sun can melt off some of that blubber…
Suddenly Dukes’ and Unuscione’s inhibitor collars make a strange noise, then something whooshes past them, and the next moment the collars are gone and their powers work. Suddenly, he feels much better, Dukes remarks with a grin.
He hits one guard, while the other calls the Sentinels for help. Code red! One Sentinel begins to attack, then stops and stutters in mid-command, then is taken apart by the power of Magneto (joined by Quicksilver and Polaris).
Fellow mutants, he is Magneto, he announces. And they are free! While Polaris takes care of a batch of Sentinels closing in, Magneto turns to Dukes. Did he hear correctly? He is invulnerable? Pretty close, Dukes replies. May he place him in a magnetic force bubble? He guesses so, Dukes replies unsure, as he begins to levitate. Magneto thanks him and drops the bubble on another Sentinel that is terrorizing the inmates, thus taking it out spectacularly.
The mutant prisoners do the rest, destroying the Sentinel in their rage. Magneto, Polaris and Quicksilver watch. Should he help them? Quicksilver offers. No, Magneto replies. By doing it themselves, they transform themselves from prisoners into an army. Are the guards all captured? he asks Polaris. The lucky ones, she replies. Magneto allows Quicksilver to return to his sister.
Fred Dukes exclaims this was awesome! Did Magneto see him smash through those hunks of junk? He did indeed, Magneto replies and addresses the freed mutants. Today they have struck a blow not only for their own freedom but for the liberation of all mutantkind! Their destiny is now in their hand. He asks them to join him. To fight beside their brothers and sisters against the oppressors who put them here.
Dukes climbs on the car Magneto is standing on, assuring him he is with him. They are never locking him up again. Well said, Magneto commends him. What’s his name? Fred J. Dukes. No, he is no longer bound by human rules… human names. He can choose for himself. Dukes thinks for a moment, then smiles and whispers something in Magneto’s ear. Magneto takes his arm and holds it high. My friends, it is his honor to present them the Blob.
A soldier with a sharpshooter rifle watches this, ready to fire. Then he lowers the weapon and walks towards Magneto, his will no longer his own. He is followed by Charles Xavier, who is dressed in a basic black and gold X uniform. He introduces himself and states he and Magneto should talk.
Meanwhile in Washington DC, Trask tells a crowd that they heard the president. This brazen attack on American soil will not go unpunished. To that end, he has empowered him to form a special task force whose goal is to find the terrorist Magneto, wherever he may hide… and bring him to justice!
A journalist asks how he answers charges that there were human right violations occurring at Marysville?
Impossible, comes the reply. There were no humans at Maryville, only mutants.
Magneto, his guest Xavier, Polaris, Quicksilver and his sister Wanda watch the interview on Asteroid M. Just as he predicted, Xavier remarks. They are coming after Magneto. Let them, comes the reply. Even if they weren’t cloaked by technology and mutant talents, they’d have a hard time finding Asteroid M. They only travel here by means of their teleporters, Wanda informs Xavier. There’s no trail to follow. They are safer here than on Earth.
Polaris and Quicksilver examine the sniper’s gun. All ceramic and plastic. No metal whatsoever, even the bullets. They were expecting them.
If what he hears is true, they’ll soon have Sentinels from the same materials, Xavier points out. Magneto may want to scale back his plans.
Magneto orders Pietro and Lorna to send a file report to Apocalypse in Egypt and asks Wanda to fetch Sofia.
Once the three are out of the room, Xavier remarks that, if Magneto doesn’t want them to know he is their father, he shouldn’t dote on them so. Furious, Magneto asks if he read his mind. Never without reason, comes the reply. But Quicksilver looks just like Magneto. Polaris has his powers and – he refers to a picture of Magda and Anya – this woman who he presumes is his wife resembles Wanda. The way Magneto behaves toward them. It’s hard not to see.
Magneto admits Xavier is perceptive. Xavier asks him to call him Charles. And he is Magnus, comes the reply. Magneto extends his hands as he expresses his hope that Charles will also call him friend… ally. Charles keeps his arms crossed on his back. He admits he believes in Magneto’s cause, but his methods concern him. They are on the verge of all-out war between humans and mutants. Surely there are other options.
He wishes there were, Magnus replies. His daughter Wanda is a human. She’s inspired him to prosecute the conflict with more restraint than he might have otherwise. But it must be fought.
Wanda returns with a thin pale woman with a bald head, a number tattooed on her forehead. Magnus introduces her as Sofia and explains Wanda has helped her adjust since she left her homeland.
Xavier looks shocked. Magneto explains that President Nixon and Vice president Ford have done terrible things to mutants, but they are far from the worst. Sofia is from the nation of Genosha. A place where mutants are enslaved, both physically and mentally.
Wanda adds that Sofia’s “master” brought her along with him on a business trip to Australia. Wanda helped her escape. They did horrible things to her. Magnus suggests he not take their words but read her mind. Xavier asks Sofia if she is willing and she agrees.
He enters her psyche and sees the horrors and humiliations she’s been subjected to. Horrified, he breaks off the contact, sinking to his knees. He knew they practiced Apartheid, but he had no idea… if the rest of the world knew!
He’s not that naïve, Magnus scoffs. The Soviet Union provides military aid to Genosha… a non-Communist country. Why? Because they not only know what’s going on there… they want it for themselves! They see forced mutant labor as the way to save their economy from collapsing. And Xavier’s own country seems bent on treating mutants the way it once did the Africans, the Indians and the Japanese! So, does he truly believe they have non-violent options? Xavier looks back at Sofia, then takes Magneto’s hand. They have one option, he announces. The liberation of Genosha!
An ordinary day in Hammer Bay, Genosha, until Magneto and his army are teleported in and attack the Citadel, Genoshan state security headquarters.
The Chief Magistrate gives orders to sound the alarms. No more alarms, this is it. Either Magneto dies today, or they do! This is why they are here, she addresses a group. Get out there! They do not take orders from her, the group’s leader replies, but have no fear. The Soviet Supersoldiers know their duty, the Black Widow announces with a smirk. And soon they join the battle.
Not part of the battle are Quicksilver (who longs to be there), Xavier and Polaris. Instead, they are in a prison where mutates are kept. Xavier reminds Pietro this is the frontline. Lorna agrees. Even they don’t have the numbers to take the entire island without help. She releases the mutates and Pietro with superspeed frees them from their shackles.
They can liberate their bodies, he tells Xavier but, unless he can do the same for their minds, they’re no better than cattle. Xavier strictly orders Pietro not to ever speak about those people that way again. One after the other, he mentally frees them, telling them he is just giving them back their faculties. They’ll set themselves free.
The mutates join the fight and the Magistrates are forced to divide their forces.
Xavier reminds the others that they still have to seek out the other prisons. That, moment they are surprised by the Crimson Dynamo. Natasha was right, he announces. They planned this well. But not well enough… He fires upward and brings down the ceiling on them.
“No!” Magneto shouts and flies there. He finds Quicksilver, who carries out an injured Polaris, but Xavier is still inside. Magneto looks at the rubble, then rises into the air and addresses the Genoshan magistrates.
He announces he will make this offer once and once only. Surrender now and they will be treated according to the Geneva Convention.
Big talk, considering the battle is far from won! the Chief Magistrate shouts back. Give her one reason why she should accept! Because he researched her country, he replies. Their main export is iron ore.
The ground begins to rumble as he uses his power to lift off a mountain top and levitates it over Hammer Bay. Clearly strained, he orders the Chief Magistrate to listen to him very carefully. He will plunge this land into the ocean. He will kill every mutant in this country rather than see them continue to suffer. Death or surrender, human He’ll leave the choice to hers.


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Retaliation
The island nation of Genosha has just been attacked by three American undercover agents: one of them is the Mimic, currently fighting Magneto with the powers he absorbed from him. The power! he exclaims. No wonder Magneto thinks he can rule the world!
Magneto hits him with a car in the back, remarking the Mimic had his powers for two minutes. He’s had them thirty years! Not just his abilities, Mimic then replies, and suddenly he hits Magneto’s forcefield with both an optic blast and ice. Those of every mutant on the island. But he doesn’t need all that, does he? Only Magneto’s! He’ll say this once: Surrender and be executed or he’ll rip Genosha off the face of the Earth!
Within Magneto’s citadel, Magneto’s guards find themselves actually held in check by Nuke, a mindless killing machine, as one of them shouts. He doesn’t think so, Nuke replies as he makes one mutant shoot another. An American soldiers is perfect! Both physically and mentally.
He dispatches of his foes and takes a red capsule. You mutants study SunTzu? he asks as he shoots another guard. Didn’t think so. In war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak, he quotes and opens the door to the chamber of the sleeping Wanda.
His gun’s barrel is aimed at her head when she jumps up angrily. Ungrateful wretch! she shouts, her eyes glowing red and his gun dissolving. She gave him his fondest desire, made him intelligent. But his true nature, it seems, can’t be changed. He has no place in this world. She erases him.
A moment later, Sofia enters, asking she heard a noise. She is fine, Wanda assures her; it was just a bad dream. A lone butterfly flutters away.
Outside, Mimic tells Magneto to fight him all he wants. Their opposing efforts will still tear the island to pieces. He’d kill innocents? Magneto asks. Magneto’s killing them, Mimic retorts. Surrender and they leave. They’ll even let them stay in Genosha… as a US protectorate, of course. They’ll be fine as long as they remember their place.
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Oh, they remember, Magneto replies and gestures. A collar attaches itself to Mimic’s neck. They remember the inhibitor collars his government used to remove their powers… before placing them in concentration camps. They keep several in their museum of mutant history. They seem to work on Mimic as well, he observes as Mimic falls, bereft of his powers.
Magneto glides down after him and lands. All they wanted was a home, a place to be safe. And they came here to murder! They are monsters! He breaks off a wooden beam. And monsters do not deserve to live! He beats him to death.
Suddenly, he hears Charles calling him telepathically.
He finds the stabbed Charles in his citadel. Panicked, Magneto promises he’ll call a healer. Too late, Xavier tells him and asks him to forgive them. No one should be judged by the worst of their kind. And you… are better than that… my friend. These are his dying words.
Magneto keeps his head bowed, then puts on his helmet. Charles was too good for this world but he is precisely what it deserves. That makes two of them! Barnes shouts as he throws a knife at him. Magneto tries to deflect it, but it goes straight through his shield as, of course it’s non-metallic, as is the gun that Barnes draws.
Magneto protects himself by raising up the Captain America shield. Barnes did bring some metal weapons, it seems, he remarks. He recognizes this and him…
Hysterically, Barnes shouts at him to put that down. As he wishes, Magneto replies and takes his head off with the shield.
Moments later, Lorna and Quicksilver join him, finding he is hurt. Magneto tells them it’s not serious but the bullets are ceramic. He’ll need help extracting them. He asks Polaris about casualties. Rough estimate three hundred, she tells him. Probably more once they’ve searched the rubble. If Professor Xavier can scan for trapped survivors, it’d help. Oh no, she exclaims a moment later when she sees Xavier’s body.
Another moment later, Wanda joins them, supporting an injured Sabretooth whom she found downstairs. Magneto orders her to get away from him. He’d never hurt her, she assures him. Nevertheless, he will take it from here, Quicksilver decides, noting Sabretooth has been cut nearly in half. But he’s healing quickly. Who could have done this to him? “This!” Magneto replies and levitates Captain America’s bloodstained shield back. Once in a nobler time it was the symbol of a proud idea… a dream of a better world. Now it merely bears the colors of an empire whose time has come to fall!
Around the White House, military personnel is gathered. They should have heard something now, the president nervously states in the Oval Office. Getting men out of Genosha is difficult, Vice-president Trask tries to calm him. They shouldn’t worry yet. Well, dammit, he is worried, the president exclaims. So far Magneto’s only attacked places where mutants were being held. But they’ve escalated matters. If he retaliates—
If he does, they are ready, Trask insists. Does he trust him? Of course, the president replies. Why does he think he chose him to replace Agnew? He was under pressure to nominate Ford! But Trask has always been a man who gets results. And he has, Trask agrees. He made that Watergate mess go away, didn’t he? He used the mutant mess to repeal the twenty-second amendment, so he could run for a third time. And he will take care of this!
A moment later, an object is propelled at high speed into the office and embedded in the wall. It’s Captain America’s bloodied shield. Secret Service men come running and lead the president away. While Trask still stares at the shield an agents draws him away, explaining they are under attack. Here? Trask asks incredulous, by whom? The worst case scenario, comes the reply as outside soldiers and helicopters try in vain to attack Magneto who is floating above them, taking out all metal weapons.
While Trask is brought to a helicopter, the agents figure Magneto got here via teleportation. Trask gives the order to deploy the Sentinels. Moments later, several units of the mutant-hunting robots are released, however Magneto isn’t alone either, but joined by fellow mutants, such as Banshee, Iceman, Quicksilver and Polaris and many more.
Magneto addresses his people, telling them they are sending non-metal Sentinels against them. They think because his power can’t affect them, they are all helpless. But their struggle is not about him, it never has been. It’s about them. About heroes like Charles Xavier who gave their lives for their freedom. They stand as one. As a nation! As a people! And today they will know liberation or death!
Aboard Airforce 2, Trask is told that the president is secure and they will be at Trask’s safehouse in—Trask refuses and orders to be taken to the SHIELD helicarrier. He is assuming direct command of the Sentinels. And get him NORAD! He’s been waiting for this. Magneto was accommodating enough to gather the most dangerous mutants in the world in one place – Genosha. By attacking the White House, he’s given them just cause to wipe it off the map!
And the missiles begin to fly…


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Rex
Washington DC:
Magneto’s mutant army fights the Sentinels. While Magneto throws a tank against one of the killer robots, another of them blast and kills several mutants, among them Dragoness.
Quicksilver comes running, shouting Magneto’s name. Agitated, he informs him that they’ve launched missiles at Genosha! He knew they would, Magneto replies and promises it will be dealt with. But time works against them and these non-metal Sentinels are slowing them down. They need to take the fight to their masters. Quicksilver replies that Forge’s instruments traced the command signal. It originates thirty thousand feet above New York. The SHIELD heli-carrier, Magneto replies. Then that’s where he should be.
Magneto next calls for Polaris and explains that he and Quicksilver must go. He needs her to lead in his place. Stammering, Polaris promises she won’t let him down. Magneto asks her to tell their people he goes to strike at their enemies’ heart. Then he begs her to be careful. Before she died, when she entrusted Lorna to his care, he swore to her mother to protect her. And he did, Lorna replies. She can take care of herself now. Magneto replies he is very proud of her.
Quicksilver wants to stay to fight. Only fools want to fight, Magneto admonishes him. He should want to win and for that he needs Quicksilver with him. He orders him to take him to the teleporter Gateway. Pietro complies. Magneto promises him there is no more important front in this war. Everything depends on them. Pietro promises he’ll give his life to see they succeed. He prays not, Magneto replies unexpectedly. For what profiteth a man if he gain the whole world… What? Pietro asks. Nothing. Pietro watches Polaris leading the others into battle, shouting Magneto is taking the fight to the enemy. When he’s back let’s give him a gift! The United States of America!
Gateway’s bullroar creates a portal and Magneto and Quicksilver disappear.
Aboard the SHIELD heli-carrier, Vice-President Trask is informed that the missiles are one minute away from Genosha. Trask asks if they have visual. He wants to see the mutant homeland go up in a mushroom. An agent accesses a satellite image. What they see is a figure hovering in the air – Black Bolt, king of the Inhumans, who opens his mouth and with his powerful voice destroys the missiles before they can detonate. The connection breaks off. The agent explains that their satellite was hit by the same massive sonic blast that destroyed the missiles.
That was Black Bolt, Dum-Dum Dugan announces. Since when are the Inhumans working with Magneto? Trask demands to know who this Black Bolt is. Another mutant? Dugan explains he is the ruler of a race of superhumans who live in the Himalayas. They’ve always kept to themselves. Magneto must have formed an alliance with them. Trask orders more missiles to be deployed. At the Inhumans too. They’ll see whose homeland he decides to defend then. Dugan points out that means launching ICBMs at Tibet. May he respectfully remind him China has nukes too?
Frustrated, Trask gives order to send them at Genosha. More than they can stop. He wants it raining bombs on that godforsaken place.
Magneto and Quicksilver appear that moment. God has not forsaken Genosha, Magneto announces: “he’s forsaken you”! SHIELD agents fire non metal guns at him. Clever, he remarks wryly as he uses a floor plate to shield himself and Pietro. Pity they are in a steel flying machine. Did he say “Flying?” He stands corrected. He gestures and the engines stop.
The helicarrier falls into the river. He reminds Quicksilver he knows what to do and Pietro runs off. Hovering above the people in the command center, Magneto reminds them that crash could have been fatal, had he wished. There’s a saying about people in glass houses. He’d extend it to steel. He’s giving them the chance to surrender without loss of life.
Surrender to a mutant? Trask replies. He never thought he’d see the day… and he won’t! He presses a button on a device and Sentinels rip the hull apart. The Sentinels warn that with humans in here they can use non-lethal options only. Trask overrides the programming and gives the order to kill the mutant target at all cost! They announce compliance and begin firing at Magneto.
Dugan shouts if Trask is insane. They will kill them all! Trask is fine with that. Whatever it takes to see Magneto dead! If that’s how he feels, so be it, Magneto agrees and lifts Trask between himself and the Sentinels. Predictably, Trask is killed by a Sentinel’s energy ray.
Magneto informs Dugan that he will draw the Sentinels away, so that Dugan can get his people to safety. That moment, Quicksilver returns carrying a blonde SHIELD agent with a file. However, Magneto cannot hear them anymore.
Pietro presses a SHIELD agent against the wall and demands to know where he’s gone. Dugan orders Wilson to tell him. The SHIELD agent replies it looks like they are headed for Manhattan Central Park.
At Central Park, there are few civilians. Magneto attacks the Sentinels with levitated vehicles. “Come on then!” he shouts. “To your death or mine. It ends here!”
Aboard Air Force One, the president has learned of the helicarrier’s and the vice president’s fate. He intends to order a nuclear strike on Manhattan to get Magneto.
Quicksilver tells agent Danvers, who is holding onto her files, that he will take her to the Daily Bugle so she can show them what she has. But she insists he take her along to Central Park; she can help! She knows this person? Dugan asks confused. Carol agrees and announces that she quits.
Pietro runs over to Central Park, where Magneto is up in the air under attack by Sentinels. He can’t reach him! He needs reinforcements! He tells Carol he needs to run to Washington and can’t have her slow him down. She is on her own. Try not to get in the way! That’s exactly what she plans to do, she shoots back and flies up, absorbing the Sentinel’s blast.
Magneto is surprised, then identifies his ally as Agent Danvers. Charles Xavier spoke highly of her. He didn’t realize she was a mutant… She’s not, Carol replies. Long story, but her alien powers would have driven her insane without Charles’ help. Quicksilver said they killed Xavier. “Let’s make them regret it!” She attacks one sentinel while Magneto takes the other.
Quicksilver arrives in Washington DC and asks Gateway to open a portal to Manhattan. He rallies his fellow fighters: Magneto is fighting for his life… for all their lives! Follow him! Let them show the world no mutant stands alone!
They follow him to Central Park and help fight the Sentinels. Magneto now finally has the time to properly concentrate and find what he’s been looking for: Airforce One suddenly is out of control, moving down… and decapitates the Sentinel holding Magneto.
Stop! he orders, preventing the plane from crashing. He magnetically opens the plane door and grabs the president.
Later in Washington, standing atop a Sentinel head with the president as his prisoner, Magneto addresses his people. He promises that the mutant blood lost here will be the last ever lost. He tells mutants everywhere it is time to come out of hiding, time to embrace their destiny. The world is theirs!
Genosha, several days later:
Magneto, now dressed in a ceremonial suit rather than costume, addresses his cheering people from a balcony. He announces that he speaks not only to them but humankind as well. By now they’ve seen the documents presented to the United Nations. Indisputable proof of a worldwide multi-governmental anti mutant conspiracy spearheaded by the president and vice-president of the United States. Those responsible will be tried in the world court. Some will say that is not enough. Some will want to punish all of humanity for the sins of its leaders but he says they are better than that. They are the next step in evolution. To truly embrace that destiny they must evolve spiritually as well.
He introduces the woman to his right as Carol Danvers, the human SHIELD agent who risked her life to provide him with the documents he spoke of. They owe her more than words can say. Following their tradition of choosing a new name, a mutant name, he has christened her Captain Marvel, the champion of humans and mutants alike.
Then he refers to the woman on his left, his daughter Wanda who is genetically human, but her heart is committed to the mutant cause. To persecute all humans for the crimes of a few would be to spit on the bravery and sacrifice of these women and that of Charles Xavier, who died so Genosha could live, who dreamed of coexistence between man and mutant. In his name, they show mercy. In his name, he declares an end to hostilities!
Pyro ignites up the flame for Xavier’s monument. This is a historic day, Magneto announces, arms stretched out. They stand witness to the beginning of a new world. A word of peace, of prosperity, the perfect world they all hoped and prayed for. Today at long last those prayers are answered.
The crowd cheers his name as he and his inner circle step inside. Captain Marvel congratulates him on the speech. She’d better go. There’s still a lot to do to make it official. The UN agreed to his demands, he replies. Some nations will need persuading, she points out. They are scared. They find it hard to believe he won’t want revenge. Why would he?  Within a few generations there will no longer be any humans. What better revenge is there than that? Uh, right, Carol replies, taken aback. She’ll be in touch.
Magnus asks Wanda, Pietro and Lorna to come with him. There is something he’d like to discuss with them He leads them to a room with a sumptuous feast. He doesn’t have to do things like that for them, Lorna exclaims. He wants to, he replies. It’s the least he can do for his children.
Lorna agrees that he has always been like a father to them. Pietro interrupts that’s not the way he meant it. He didn’t mean “like” a father, did he?
He wanted to tell them so many times, Magnus states. But the danger if anyone found out…
He is their father? Lorna asks in disbelief. All these years, she thought her dad abandoned her and her mother! Magnus assures her they were very much in love. But had his enemies known, they would have killed her. Cancer killed her, Lorna shouts. She wasted away for months and he… He visited when he could, he replies. When he could? When he could? she shouts. She lashes out with her power to toss the table away, then walks off in a huff.
Magneto tells Pietro to unleash his famous temper at him. He deserves it. Pietro looks at him sullenly, then races off without a word.
Only left is Wanda, who assures him she understands. And so will they… in time. Think of all they have achieved. All the wonderful things that have happened. All over the world, mutants are coming out of hiding. For the first time in their lives, they are not afraid.
In New York, mutants rob a hardware store and terrorize the clerk.
They can stand tall and proud, knowing they are free to go as far as their talents take them.
At SHIELD headquarters, old personnel like Dum Dum Dugan leave as the new mutant SHIELD agents take over.
Confident that their days of fear and oppression are gone forever.
In Egypt, Apocalypse lords it over his human slaves.
Isn’t that what he spent his life fighting for? Wanda asks. She’s right. It’s everything he ever wanted. All of his dreams have come true, he states with the demeanor of a man who believes anything but what he just said…


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The House that Xavier Built
“Humans of the planet Earth. While you slept, the world changed.”- Professor X
Charles Xavier, dressed in a form-fitting dark bodysuit and wearing an X-shaped Cerebro helmet, stands at the foot of a strange tree. At its roots lie several glowing cocoons. They open and people crawl out at his feet. One is a red-haired woman. He takes another by the chin, a man whose eyes both glow red. Professor X smiles, pleased. “To me, my X-Men,” he announces.
Five months ago, Krakoa:Colossus picks a pinkish glowing flower.
Four months ago, Westchester:Storm carries another of those flowers into the house inside a pot.
Three months ago, the Blue Area of the moon:Nightcrawler plants a flower in the ground.
One month ago:Armor does the same thing on Mars.
One month ago:Beast watches the flowers flourishing in the Savage Land.
Three weeks ago: Kitty Pryde and Lockheed do the same outside Washington DC.
Two weeks ago: Four Stepford Cuckoos plant some plants in what is to become the Jerusalem Habitat.
Now, exactly there:The plants have overtaken the building. Several ambassadorial cars stop outside it and ambassadors from several superpowers meet outside, discussing matters. Charles Xavier sends a message to the world, making an offer they cannot refuse and here they are at a habitat they never knew existed, about to recognize the sovereignty of a nation state they’d never heard of four days ago, one of them summarizes.
A sour-faced Russian ambassador joins them, announcing she’d settle for a bit of predictability and a good night’s sleep. She doubts she will get either. She admits to being apprehensive about the designer drugs. The Chinese envoy smiles mildly, as he summarizes Xavier’s offer: a drug that extends human life for five years, another that prevents diseases of the mind and a third that is the most effective antibiotic the world has ever seen. She says it’s a problem. He would call it a gift. It’s not a gift if you have to pay, a young ambassador reminds them. Xavier is only offering those miracle drugs to nations who recognize this. An older ambassador gently mocks none of them would ever dare using leverage.
The Chinese ambassador muses that treaties and trade deals are things they are all familiar with. What should concern them is the amnesty. He seems to remember something someone said once, something about appearing to be one thing while actually being another. The older ambassador asks, he is not actually quoting Sun Zu, is he? It’s not a war, if they’ve already won, comes the reply. The older ambassador frowns and asks about the position of the Chinese government. The Chinese ambassador replies that they will accept the deal.
They are interrupted by two Stepford Cuckoos, dressed in white ponchos and who stand at the building’s organic entrance that has now opened. They apologize for the delay and welcome them to this Krakoan Habitat.
Inside is a hall consisting of a mix of plants and high tech. The Cuckoos introduce themselves as Esme and Sophie (though Sophie mutters, it’s her human name and she’s been thinking of taking another). Esme continues that they and their sisters are acting as the staff of this habitat until it is fully up and running.
The ambassadors ask when they will be meeting Xavier. A new voice announces that Charles won’t be joining them today, as he is otherwise engaged. He admits he is a poor substitute but hopefully he will manage, Magneto announces (probably not quite without sarcasm). Next to him stands Irma Cuckoo dressed in a black poncho. Magneto! the Russian ambassador calls out. “Ambassador” is fine, he replies.
The Graymalkin Habitat (Xavier’s school, now overgrown with plants), Westchester, New York:Jean Grey, dressed in her old, green Marvel Girl dress, leads several youngsters to the Krakoa gateway, where Banshee is already waiting. She holds the youngest, a green boy, by the hand. Worried, he asks if anyone can travel through the gateway. Not anyone, Jean explains. Mutants can, of course. Krakoa recognizes its own, but non-mutants have to be accompanied by mutants and then they still have to ask. Jean and the boy are the last to step through.
On the Krakoan side, Cypher (with a techno-organic arm) and Sage are expecting them as they work with Krakoa’s interface. Sage marvels that last week Cypher built an entire system to manage the traffic of the Krakoan network from scratch, coded in a language only the island and Cypher can speak and bio-engineered to run on light. She can’t believe she doubted him, she says somewhat sarcastically. Grinning, he tells her it’s time to bury that cynicism and replace it with good, old-fashioned hope. The professor has changed all the old rules and they’ve entered a whole new world.
Jean, Banshee and the kids have arrived on the Krakoa main island. Jean tells the boy the plan is for most of the younger mutants to live in the habitat near the lagoon, but there really aren’t any rules regarding that. Excited, the boy shouts as he sees Professor Xavier over with that hairy guy. Jean suggests he introduce himself, and the hairy guy’s name is Logan. The boy runs over to where Xavier, wearing the Cerebro helmet, stands smiling and Wolverine is roughhousing with some kids.
Telepathically, Xavier welcomes Jean home and tells her she is safe here. They all are. Jean cries a happy tear.
A spaceship docks onto the space platform, the Forge, orbiting the sun. One of the people describe it as the last Hail Mary for humanity. Captain Erasmus Mendez tells Dr. Gregor that she is the first to board but reminds her the first ship of the Orchis convoy is approximately 22 hours away. He suggests they start with diagnostics to find out if the place can support human life, before they arrive. Dr. Gregor, a young woman in her 30ies, sharply retorts she is perfectly aware of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. But she’s already had breakfast and maybe she doesn’t want to spend her entire morning beholden to her baser instincts. Protocol is boring, be bold, she says.
Another crew member informs the Captain that she is engaging the safety override of her suit. Of course she is, he sighs. And this is why they don’t have kids.
Testing the air, Dr Gregor announces it’s colder than she’d like, but she supposes that’s the preprogrammed environment control for a whole crew. The air is fine.
She orders Dr. Smith to handle the diagnostics, so Captain Erasmus will be able to sleep tonight, and for Dr. Cain to control the power grid. She really doesn’t want to die of radiation poisoning.
She orders Karima Shapandar – Omega Sentinel – to come with her. They walk the station. She asks Karima what she thinks. She thinks mistakes of this scale should take longer than six months to build, Karima deadpans. Gregor informs her it would have been finished sooner, if the machines hadn’t gotten the nitrogen and matter levels wrong. It turns out doomsday plans need a bit more flexibility, the closer you get to the sun. Karima is not surprised. These are the kinds of mistakes men make when being overly aggressive. Gregor doesn’t accept the blame. As soon as the predictive model forecasted what Xavier was planning, the Orchis Protocols were enacted – they were activated – and the automated refit of this station began. Karima remarks she sees no machines. She sees no brothers. She sees no sisters. Gregor informs her that, when reconstruction was finished, all machines were re-tasked for mining duty. They are going to need the resources, so they’re on Mercury excavating heavy metals. But if they need more, they’ll have her build them. She looks outside at a giant Sentinel’s head.
A Damage Control storage facility:Mystique, Toad and Sabretooth are on a heist that went south quickly, Mystique realizes, as Sabretooth is decimating guards right and left. She asks Toad how much longer. Toad is hunched over a computer, copying the databases. He complains, asking if she thinks this is easy? He is interrupted mid-rant by a sound, telling him his work is finished.
As they begin fleeing, Mystique tells him he shouldn’t have wasted time leaving no traces. Others weren’t so careful. Toad nervously titters he thinks Sabretooth broke a few of them. Sabretooth retorts they were fragile. They jump outside a window and Mystique chides him for his recklessness. The plan called for them to quietly, get in and out, then lay low before transmitting the data. Now they are going to need a more direct exit strategy. Toad suggests Washington Square. That’s the closest, she begins. Sabretooth sniffs and orders them to shut up. Moments later, he is hit by a flameblast. The Thing and the Human Torch have arrived. Mystique orders her team to run. If they don’t get out of there with the data, it was all for nothing.
In the meantime, Irma and Magneto have led the ambassadors through the gateway into the Hub, a surreal landscape, though which other gateways and habitats can be reached. Each one a part of the interconnected Krakoan ecosystem.
One ambassador asks how they don’t get lost. Irma explains that it wasn’t easy at first, but then they asked Krakoa to grow some signs, so no one would get lost. She points to some symbol above a doorway. The ambassadors protest it’s just gibberish. Magneto calmly interjects, informing him that it is a language: theirs. It’s Krakoan, and every mutant who lives among them has it telepathically imprinted in their cerebral cortex the day they arrive.
So they made their own language, the Chinese ambassador states. Of course, they did, Magneto replies. One cannot create a distinct culture without it. And make no mistake, that is exactly what Charles Xavier is doing.
Irma beckons them to follow her though a gateway. They step into what seems to be the Australian Outback, where mutant kids ride kangaroos. The route takes them through the Himalaya, where the Xorn brothers are waving at them, under water and finally back. Irma states that, as they can see, Krakoa is not limited by distance or elevation or even environment.
The American envoy impatiently wants to talk about the military aspects of all this. Being able to move large groups of people everywhere throws out thousands of years of military strategy. People are going to have a problem with this.
Magneto coolly replies where the other man sees an instrument of war, he sees an unassailable refuge. The ambassadors aren’t buying it. Magneto states there has never been a mutant war. They’ve never conquered a people, stolen their land or made slaves of the vanquished.
The Chinese envoy asks when are they actually going to Krakoa? Irma replies they are not going to the island. Why not? the Russian ambassador asks. Magneto bluntly replies they have heard Xavier’s offer. Mutants are the evolutionary inheritors of the world but, instead of claiming it, they only take a small part for themselves. The island is theirs alone. Man is not welcome there.
In New York, Mystique’s group have reached the portal. Mystique and Toad jump through it but, when Creed tries to do the same, the Invisible Woman’s forcefield blocks then traps him.
A moment later, the portal becomes active again from the other side. Cyclops arrives through the Krakoa Gate and greets the Fantastic Four, then congratulates the Thing on his recent nuptials. After some small-talk, he asks if he should take Mr. Creed off their hands. Why would they do something like that? Reed Richards asks. He is a smart man, Cyclops replies. He knows that Reed knows what the word “amnesty” means. Richards calmly replies that Sabretooth broke any number of laws within the last hour, including possibly fatally injuring those guards. Are they really offering amnesty from that? Cyclops agrees it is upsetting. But they are. New beginnings demand a wide berth. Reed announces he has a problem with that. After a moment, Cyclops tells them fair enough. He can see they feel strongly about that. He suggests they keep Creed. They’ll deal with this some other time… some other way. Creed protests and is ignored.
Sue Richards asks Cyclops what the X-Men think about the amnesty and the other things Xavier is offering. Scott replies his family has spent their entire lives being hunted and hated. The world has told him he was less when he knew he was more. Did they think that they were going to sit around forever and take it? Of course not, Sue replies, but… It’s very simple, he interrupts, as he turns away. He believes in what Charles Xavier’s doing. As a parting shot, he asks her to greet her son for him and tell him when he is ready he has family on Krakoa waiting for him.
The Krakoan Habitat, Jerusalem:So, what have they learned? Magneto asks. One of the ambassadors replies that, in exchange for recognizing Krakoa, they will…
He wasn’t speaking to him, Magneto cuts him off. Irma Cuckoo replies their host ambassador from Israel decided to join her fellow representatives from the Security Council today. She is with them… but not with them. She’s also ex-military and doesn’t really care for them… or Magneto, but that’s no surprise.
Irma continues that the others have been trained to withstand telepaths, but not well enough. They are all plants. She begins introducing them. The Chinese envoy Ma Mingyu is actually the head of the State Science Office. Both he and influential members of parliament are eager to agree to the X-Men’s terms. Jean Pierre Kol actually is an ambassador, but he bought the position with his private sector pharmaceutical money. He’ll agree to their terms, if they allow him special access to Xavier’s drugs.
Natalie Vollock is a Red Sky senior operator who would have never agreed to their terms. It’s even more true now that she knows that the others would. The icy blonde announces that, if this is what they have to become, it might be better they were replaced.
Irma moves to the older British man, Walter Reppion. He’s an agent of STRIKE. But he actually doesn’t care about any of this. He’s just here because he’s been assigned to watch… Reilly Marshall, who is an ex-SWORD and SHIELD black-ops agent. There’s some other affiliation, but he’s fighting her.
Marshall orders her out of his head. Unimpressed, Irma adds he has a weapon of some sort on him. Would Magneto like her to do something about that? Magneto magnetically lifts Marshall and takes apart his gun. Marshall claims he wasn’t going to us it. It was for protection. Of course, Magneto agrees. That’s how it always starts. Should she show him out? Irma asks.
Magneto walks towards the man on the ground and looms over him. No, he decides. Some would be offended by a wolf posing as sheep, but he has learned hard lessons from their kind, so he knows the truth: they are all wolves! He turns away and walks toward one of the Krakoan plants. Magneto continues that it’s good they are here as they really are. So, they can run home and tell their masters what they have learned. He wants them to tell them. He picks a flower.
Charles Xavier has made them an offer – one full of grace and brotherly love – but one that is also written in stone. This is not a negotiation. Things will be different now, and the sooner they realize the finality of their situation and the inevitability of mutantkind’s, the sooner they will learn to be grateful for the things they are so generously giving them.
Does he know what he sounds like? Reppion asks. He does, Magneto retorts. And it feels good to finally say it. So, he summoned them here to Jerusalem to threaten them? Volock asks.
Magneto looks over the balcony at the sun setting over Jerusalem. A promise is not a threat, he corrects her. And he summoned them to this place for wholly superficial reasons. He knows how humans love their symbolism almost as much as their religion. And he wanted them – he needed them – to understand: They have new gods now.
“I have a new word for the lexicon of man: KRAKOA.And in the future, when you speak it, make sure you do so softly and with proper deference.For we will be listening.”- Magneto


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The Uncanny Life of Moira X
If you can find it in you to survive – if you are worthy – then I will make you into something more than them. Something eternal- Apocalypse
Years ago, in Oxford, Moira Kinross narrates her story to Charles Xavier:She tells him how, when she was 13, Moira fell ill. She had an unnaturally high fever and the doctors weren’t hopeful, but the next day she was better than ever. Years later, she would marry, become a school teacher and have three children. Callum, Dean and Abigail. They would in turn have eight children of their own. Moira eventually died at the age of seventy-four, passing peacefully in her sleep. It was a good life. A human life. Not extraordinary at all.
Moira’s second life began in utero. It was the womb birth of a fully sentient being who had perfect recollection of her previous life.
Moira muses that you’d think being aware and trapped inside your mother would lead to madness, but the truth is she’s never been happier. Your mother is home. It’s the world out there that makes you lose your mind.
Shortly after she was born, Moira’s parents started to believe she was special – and she was, just not the way they thought. There was nothing special about Moira learning to walk, talk and read early. She knew how to do these things. No, she was special because she was something new and, at the time, something few in the world – including herself – had ever seen. Though she did not know it, Moira was a mutant.
In her early years, Moira had to hide what was going on in her mind that was older than those who had made her. But, try as she might, it was impossible to completely conceal how different she was. Her teachers thought her a prodigy, which began to direct her into a life of academia. A life of the mind. Moira didn’t fight those efforts. She herself wanted to know who and what she was and had exhausted all possibilities the perspective of her first life offered her.
Moira would later attend Oxford University and eventually concentrated her studies in the areas of psychology and biology. She ran controlled experiments to prove her condition was not a form of disorder or psychosis She marked the existence of personal markers form her previous life and noted two things: If she stayed passive, then events would proceed almost exactly as before. That proved her memories were real. But if she became an active participant, then she could change what had happened. And the path of her life would diverge.
Present:Moira muses, that sounds amazing. Who wouldn’t want to fix all mistakes? That was before she knew what the observer effect was. That she was already changing everything by existing and watching. And what seemed to be a gift – something of a blessing – wasn’t a blessing at all, but a curse.
Narration:Meeting your true love and already knowing all their flaws, as well as that they won’t change, destroyed any chance of rekindling the relationship with her husband of her previous life. Familiarity breeds contempt. There would be no family for Moira in this life. And she wondered if there were others like her in this life, ruining it as she was. Then she saw a man on TV. Someone she had a faint memory of meeting at university.
On live TV, Professor Charles Xavier outed himself as a mutant. Moira realized she might be a mutant, too, and that she had to talk to him. So, she took plane to America and died when her plane crashed in the ocean.
In Moira’s third life, she aggressively dove into a life of science, focusing on anthropology and genetics. She actively sought out Xavier when they were both at Oxford. Xavier was still hiding his true nature but she was using what she learned from him to determine that she was in fact a mutant. But the combination of her distaste for her natural abilities, along with the arrogance of Xavier’s ideas and what she felt was his thinly disguised god complex, prevented her from revealing herself to him.
She decided mutation was a cancer and devoted her life to curing the world of it. And after years of research and experimentation, Moira and her team found a cure to the mutant gene. At which point, the Brotherhood of Mutants attacked her lab, killed all her colleagues and took Moira prisoner.
The blind precognitive Destiny mused that she could see the world bend around Moira but couldn’t see her, at all. There is just an absence. A mutant who is invisible to other mutants, she told Mystique. A defense mechanism, but not a very good one, if you know what you are looking for.
Destiny introduced herself to Moira and explained that she can see the future. Which is a trick with someone like Moira, whose mutant power is reincarnation.
Moira angrily spat that they killed all her friends, and challenged them to get it over with and kill her. Mystique chillingly replied that they are going to do that, but it’s not much good if they are going to have to do it all over again. She ordered her to listen to Destiny.
The precog mused that knowledge is such a gift and Moira was using it to betray her own kind. Moira spat back that mutation is a disease, but she would only give the cure to people who want it. Destiny decried her naivete and described how the humans would take her cure and come for them all. She had seen the potential of Moira’s works and did not care for them.
Moira challenged her to stop her. Destiny pointed out she was much older than Moira. Her power would manifest full of the knowledge of what they had done, if Moira were to try this again. She would know and come for her. They are joined together now. And Moira has a choice. Change or die. Help her people or Destiny will eliminate her in all her lives to come.
Moira glared and Mystique mused she still needed a bit of encouragement.
Destiny offered some. Moira is an intelligent woman who is at the beginning of understanding her power. She believes she is trapped in an endless loop. That her power gives her some version of immortality. It does not, Destiny states emphatically. She sees ten lives. Maybe eleven, if Mora makes the right choice at the end, but that is all.
Shocked, Moira gasps, asking how that is possible. Destiny explains that should Moira die as a child before her mutant power manifests, then she would be dead for good. She would simply end like everyone else.
And what if she doesn’t believe her? Moira spits, or that she doesn’t believe Destiny is right? Destiny retorts, she is a scientist. How would one go about proving something like that? She tests it. Experiences it for herself. In her next life, Moira admits sullenly. The question is, will she? Destiny challenges her. Will she help her people instead of hurting them? Moira admits she doesn’t know. Let’s find out, Destiny decides.
Moira admits she doesn’t want to die like this. Dying like this is what a life poorly lived gives her, Destiny retorts and orders Pyro to burn Moira slowly, so she doesn’t forget what dying like this feels.
Moira’s fourth life began with urgency. She threw herself completely into fully understanding the human-mutant dilemma. When two aggressive species share the same environment, evolution demands adaptation or dominance. Moira began to look at the problem beyond her own limited experience and consider the benefits of homo superior.
At university, Moira gave Charles Xavier a second look. She saw beyond the arrogance, to what was hidden underneath. A mutant who was determined to make sure his people had a place in the world. He was a mutant with a dream. And over time, it made her love him. So much so that she stood by his side for the rest of their days, as they founded the X-Men. The team went through changes to the very end, when as Destiny had promised the humans and their extinction machines, the Sentinels, came for them and all their children.
In Moira’s fifth life, she decided aggression was the right response to man’s violent tendencies. She ran away at thirteen and sought out Xavier a full decade before they were supposed to meet. She opened her mind to him for the first time and he saw what she had experienced in her previous lives. He saw how his dream had failed and the experience radicalized him. Instead of a school for mutants, he gathered a legion and built a city for them. And the walls held back the outside world of man until Trask’s Sentinels came for them once again.
Moira spent the entirety of her seventh life eradicating the Trask bloodline: Bolivar, Donald, Gwyneth, Simon. Without mercy, without pity, she came for all their children.
Then she learned the darkest truth of all her lives. Artificial intelligence is like fire. It is a discovery not an invention. All she did was stop Trask from being the first human to discover it. Like mutants, the machines simply emerge at a certain point of societal and environmental evolution.
And with that discovery any hope Moira had of stopping them died as her seventh life ended at the hands of one of them… and the experience radicalized her.
In Moira’s eight’s life, she sought out Magneto and told him of the future awaiting mutantkind. Magneto raged, attacked humanity and fell to the combined might of Earth’s human heroes and the mutants. Betrayed by his own kind, fools who believe in a greater human good.
And with what she feared was little time left, Moira embraced the idea of evolutionary dominance in her ninth life. Survival of the fittest. Apocalypse was the one solution she had not tried. Moira awakened him and became his mate. Apocalypse and his troops fought the war against man and his machines.
And eventually, Moira died again. And realized all the old ways of thinking had led to nightmares. In her tenth life, Moira decided she and Charles Xavier would break all the rules…
Later in Oxford:And she wondered, why under the parting sky and the brilliant sun was this strong man smiling so. He was, wasn’t he? Charles smiles. Does she want to know why? he asks. Very much so, she assures him. He was smiling because recently he had the most wonderful dream of a better world and his place in it. Addressing him by his name, she replies it’s not a dream, if it’s real.
Taken aback, he asks if they know each other. With a slight smile, she replies they go back quite a ways. Who is she? She suggests he read her mind. And he does.
“I am here. I have always been here.”- Moira X