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Storm floats in the air above the island nation Santo Marco, musing that as a girl she called herself a goddess and lived in the sky. Sometimes she wonders why she ever left. She’s a mutant with the power to control the weather. Here’s where she belongs, every nerve connected with the winds, the clouds, the vapor.
Henry McCoy tells her via comm the army hasn’t arrived in time. The village isn’t evacuated. Just a moment, she tells him. She can’t stop a tsunami! he protests. Actually, she can, she corrects him.
She muses that as a girl she would have. It would feel good to seize this wave and break it in two but that would just divert the water and drown a thousand people a hundred miles north. This needs a little finesse. With a lightning bolt, she changes into her uniform.
While the people below her run, she creates several cyclones to buffer the giant wave. While Ororo strains, the people in the houses behind her watch admiringly and she hears a young girl laugh in delight. Hi! Ororo greets her and the girl greets her back.
Soon after the wave is dispersed, the village saved. An exhausted Ororo kneels on the ground. The girl Silvia ignores her parents and runs to her and hugs her. The people thank her and take pictures. Ororo figures to hell with the sky. This is where she belongs.
Armed soldier arrive. One addresses Storm as Ms. Munroe, and tells her to back away from the children. He can call her Storm, she points out. Not in Santo Marco, he replies. Mutant names aren’t allowed and neither are mutants. Really? she states coolly. A small rain showers down on him.
Beast calls her and reminds her they don’t want an international incident. Who’s “we?” she retorts. He explains the situation in Santo Marco is delicate. They are working with the opposition party to defeat the president’s anti-mutant bill. They don’t want to agitate—
They don’t seem to need a bill to be anti-mutant around here, she snaps. Henry reminds her she was a queen. She understands politics. They are playing the long game here. These people need help now, she insists. He points out if she stays their lives will get even harder.
The militants carry meds and supplies. The soldier who argued with her tells Storm mockingly not to worry. Humans take care of their own.
Storm returns to the Jean Grey School, where Best welcomes her by announcing there is problem. She’s left Santo Marco, she snaps. What more do they want? He explains it is a problem at the school. It’s Marisol Guerra. She’s protesting. Protesting what? she asks. Beast is not quite sure. Has he asked her? She won’t talk to him. He thinks she’s waiting for Storm.
She enters the cafeteria where Marisol sits surrounded by creeping mold and mushrooms. She can call her Creep, Marisol announces. Storm thought her codename was Flourish. Kids picked another one for her. Which kids? Ororo asks and offers to speak with them. Marisol smirks. She likes the name. When she uses it, it makes them uncomfortable. And that’s what she wants? Storm asks. How they choose to react is up to them, Creep retorts.
Storm sits down. She knows it can be hard adjusting to the school. It wasn’t easy for her either. But the whole point is that this is a safe place where mutants are accepted and learn to use—
She doesn’t know what the hell she is talking about! Marisol interrupts her. What right do they have to pull kids out of their homes and communities and bring them here to indoctrinate them in mutant ideology?! They are just giving them the tools, Storm starts. Right, Creep scoffs. Giving. This whole thing is framed as people of tremendous privilege gifting things to the poor.
Bring the sentence to the end, Storm tells her. She said they are giving the tools, not the mission. She decides what to do with what she learns.
Is that what Professor Xavier told her? Creep mocks. And yet Storm is still here, years later. Doing whatever they tell her. She doesn’t belong here! Marisol shouts. She needs to go home. That’s where her community is. That’s who she should be helping. She’s not going to end up a sell-out like Storm!
Lightning flares and a downpour starts as Storm silently glares at Creep. C-crazy, the girl mutters frightened.
Beast and some students peer in wondering if everything is alright. Storm coolly announces Miss Guerra will clean up the cafeteria. They’ll have a disciplinary meeting tomorrow at noon.
Storm flies off in a rainstorm, Marisol’s accusations still eating her. She swears and lets the storm carry her all night. In the morning, she finds herself in Santo Marco.
The girl Silvia greets her happily. Storm lands, ignoring Beast’s questions over comm. She helps the people clean up and rebuild. Predictably, the soldiers return, this time with tanks. He thought they agreed she’d leave, one of them addresses her. She thought they’d take care of their own, she retorts. Oh they are, he replies and orders everybody out. This area is no longer habitable, he announces. For their own safety they are going to be relocated. These aren’t government vehicles, one woman shouts. They don’t have the authority. He replies Suncorps is providing them brand new homes in a safe—
Suncorp? The hotel! They told them before they can build their resort somewhere else. They own this land! He orders everyone to move. Silvia screams when one tank levels her home.
The soldier aims his gun at Storm and goads her to act. He’d love an excuse. Just what she was thinking, she replies and disarms him with a martial arts move. The soldiers fire at her and she uses winds to overthrow their vehicles and tanks.
The Jean Grey School:Yes, he is aware of the severity of the situation, Beast groans in contact with some politicians. But to the best of his knowledge there is no proof an X-Man was involved.
The students tell him to pay attention to the news where, after a platoon of armed militants affiliated with Suncorps was delivered to local authorities, President Duarte has sworn to investigate. The new images show Storm standing among the people triumphantly after chasing away the militants. The kids are all impressed, with the exception of Creep.
Storm joins her later startling the girl. Surprisingly, she tells her she’s sorry. The girl smiles and the growths in her hair turn to blossoms.
Later, Storm and Beast return Marisol to her home in Mexico, where her family happily welcomes her. As Marisol runs toward her mother, flowers grow in her wake.
That seems to have been the right decision, Beast admits. For now, Storm tells him. She’s young. She’ll lose and find where she belongs a hundred times. Just like the rest of them, huh? he asks. She laughs and flies upwards.
When she was a girl, the sky called her home. Should be interesting to see what calls her next.


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New York City, a bar in the meatpacking district, where Storm and Wolverine are enjoying some burgers:He hears she’s been making trouble for Hank, Wolverine remarks. They finally get an hour together and he wants to talk about Hank? she asks. Hank seems to think she tried to overthrow the Santo Marco government. She just rained on some clowns, Ororo scoffs. Kind of a big deal going solo in a foreign country, he points out. She spent half her life “going solo in a foreign country,” Ororo shoots back.
Logan chuckles. She’s getting a little wild. He likes it, but he worries. Ororo retorts he's the one who lost his healing factor. She should worry about him. He’s fine, Logan claims. Ororo takes his hand. Until he pops his claws and rips holes in the back of his hand. If anyone needs to slow down…
He accuses her of changing the subject. What’s going on with her? Ororo gets up. She doesn’t know, maybe she’s just tired of holding it in. She walks to the jukebox. Maybe he’s a bad influence on her, she suggests playfully. She offers her hand to drag him up. He chuckles he has a feeling she had a bad girl hiding inside her long before they said hi.
They start to dance. Ororo reminisces she started off picking pockets in Cairo. And then she became a queen. She tried to stay true to herself but she had to think about everything she did with a few million other people in mind. And those gowns are tight. She just doesn’t feel like getting pushed into anyone’s box again.
The barkeeper interrupts, telling them dancing is forbidden. They’re just a bar. No license, so— Thunder rumbles and outside a downpour starts. Bit much, Logan remarks. Like she said, tired of holding it in.
Logan gets ready to leave. Mysterious secret mission? Ororo asks. If he ever needs her help… He can still take care of himself. And as wild as she might think she is, he doesn’t wanna pull her too far into his kind of crazytown. They kiss, after which he puts on his Stetson and leaves. She forgot something, Storm decides and plants another kiss on him. He can go now, she tells him haughtily.
Later she walks the streets, not feeling like flying. She sees a note on a lantern about a missing young woman named Angie. She’s not a cop and there are hundreds of missing people in this city right now. But only this one is looking at her.
Flashback:Cairo, years ago:A small Ororo, trapped beneath the rubble of a house. She was found by some street urchins and joined them as a thief. She remembers what it was like to be trapped, lost, hungry and scared.
Present:The lower eastside:Ororo talks to Ms. Columbari, the woman who posted the fliers who works at a shelter. Angie lived here for three months but then started getting threats from her ex-boyfriend. She told the police but the man lives in New Jersey, making it a jurisdiction nightmare. She hasn’t seen Angie since June, second. She reported it but Angie had just turned nineteen. The police say adults disappear all the time on purpose. She thinks something happened to Angie. She left her phone. Why would she do that? Ororo promises to take care of this.
She calls Beast and explains she has the girl’s old cell phone. And she figured he’d break half a dozen state and federal laws, he sighs… To find a kid no one else seem to be willing to do a damn thing to find, she points out. He groans but complies. She called the right doormat. Her name is Angie Williams. Last call she made from the phone in Storm’s hand is to a new prepaid no-contract phone. She got a new phone, wanted to make sure it worked. Not the best plan if you want to disappear. So now he’s tracking the new phone. He uploads a map that’ll show her where Angie’s phone is. He also ran some cross-references. Those extra blips represent three more missing teenagers. They are here in Manhattan but three hundred feet underground.
Storm changes to her costume and soon stands in front of a subway entrance. A couple comes up and the man wonders if it’s Comicon already. Despite her dislike for enclosed spaces, Storm enters and runs on the tracks till she finds a way further down. She tries to control herself, fighting the claustrophobia.
She focuses by thinking of Angie and the other lost kids and she remembers the first time she came down into these tunnels hunting a kidnapper. So she makes a little more noise than she should, giving herself away.
Callisto appears behind her with a metal staff. Storm is ready for her and strikes with a lightning bolt, only to find Callisto’s new battlestaff absorbs lightning. She knew she’d come eventually, Callisto snaps. Just can’t quit her, can she?
Storm figures she could blow it apart with a thought but if she overdoes it she might short out the entire subway system. She has to hold back and it drives her crazy.
Callisto used to run an army of outlaw Morlocks down here. The first time they fought was when they wanted consorts, so she kidnapped Storm’s friends Kitty and Warren.
Storm snarls if Callisto’s hurt these children she’ll— Kill her? Cal mocks and shoves her back with her staff. She tried that last time, remember? Does Storm think she wouldn’t have prepared for a rematch? Storm’s got the whole damn sky! She can’t leave her a little cave? Who the hell does she think she is?
Storm goes for the staff, only to be hit on the head by one of several hooded individuals who show up behind her. Cal calls them idiots and orders them to run. Storm figures they are Morlocks. Callisto is building another army down here.
They run into room and Callisto throws the door shut. Storm blows it off its hinges. What she sees surprises her. Namely Angie and the other new “Morlocks,” just teenagers looking after the beaten Callisto. Who the hell is she? Angie shouts and tells her to leave them alone.
Doesn’t she recognize her? Callisto asks weakly. She’s Storm, the goddess. Here to save her. Follow her back to the surface and all her problems will magically vanish.
Storm looks around. The room her entrance messed up is a nice room with bunkbeds, some comfortable chairs, a TV and books. A banner reads happy birthday, John-John.
She thought Angie was kidnapped, Storm utters. What the hell is she talking about? Angie shouts. She was sleeping in the subway and John-John found her. He told her there was a safe place. Her cousin Ronnie told her about it and he was right.
Cal gets up. She'd been minding her own business. She’s not a mutant or a leader anymore. She just put together a little place for a little peace and quiet. And then these kids start showing up. They’re lost, hungry. She gives them food and a place to sleep. A door that locks, some books. They seem to be taking care of each other pretty well. Better than what they had going on upstairs. But she wants to take them off her hands? Feel free. She told her she’s not going back! Angie snaps. Pitiful, aren’t they? Cal groans. She never could turn away a stray.
Storm remembers the community she had with the other beggar and thief children. She apologizes and helps the kids clean up the room.
Afterwards, she tells Cal she charged up all their backup batteries. The next day, Kurt will drop off a new water purification unit. And then the cops arrive on Tuesday? Cal asks suspiciously. Come on, Storm sighs. Don’t give her that, Cal shoots back. They’ll never trust each other. What is she playing at here? She’s not trying to think about the two of them, Storm explains. She just thinks those kids look like they know where home is. She smiles and rises, telling Cal to be good now.
Up in the sky, she calls Beast, who monitored the whole thing. He tells her he’s searched records and what’s waiting for those kids at home is worse than… It’s terrible what people can do. Storm asks him to keep on monitoring them for her. Let her know the minute anything weird happens.
Beast reveals he took care of Angie’s ex-boyfriend. He poked through his computer and phone. He’s been selling weed, cheating taxes and last week he poisoned his upstairs neighbor’s dog. But for some crazy reason, he sent e-mails to his local precinct and the FBI and IRS, confessing everything with detailed evidence attached. Grinning, he watches the cops take him away.
Storm finds Wolverine and blows his hat off his head. What kind of trouble has she been up to? She’d tell him, but she doesn’t want to pull him too far into her kind of crazytown. She kisses him. He knew she was a bad girl. No, she replies. She’s good. Very good.


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The Jean Grey School:Storm creates a gentle rain in her greenhouse, inadvertently soaking a protesting cat. Storm laughs and shushes it. That’s them in a nutshell, Beast observes. They can save the world, but someone’s going to get rained on.
When she asks what’s troubling him, he admits helping her illegally hack files to track down the runaways is still bothering him, as well as leaving them in the sewer with an arch-villainess.
He knows it was the right thing to do, doesn’t he? she asks. Too much of that right thing can get pretty dangerous for everyone, he sighs. He knows she’s been through a lot recently and has so many communities asking so much of her… What is he talking about? Hank tells her she has an invitation, but it’s a little sketchy… might even be a trap. He offers her a tablet computer, but Ororo is still charged when she takes it and destroys it. Sheepishly, she asks him to just tell her. It’s the unveiling of a new technology that promises to bring rain to the desert in Kenya…
Storm’s mind wanders back to her youth when she was worshipped as a goddess in Kenya.
Soon, Storm is in Kenya, musing that she’s returned here a couple of times over the years. Got shot in the head. Saved a baby, watched an old man die. Rediscovered her whole purpose in life… for a while .But she never made it all the way back here, back home. She lands in front of the stone gate under which she appeared to her worshippers. Home? she asks herself. Is she kidding?
Scene of the crime, eh? a voice behind her chuckles. Storm turns around to see an elderly woman in a tribal dress. She doesn’t think they’ve met, Ororo begins. Not formally, the woman agrees. But how could she forget the goddess?
Ororo apologizes embarrassed. That was a long time ago. She wasn’t really-- She knows, the woman replies, and she is sorry, too. It was a strange time. Years of drought. Cattle were dying. They were just starting to farm. They all knew she was just a crazy girl. But they needed the rain.
She was kind of crazy, wasn’t she? Ororo admits sheepishly and introduces herself with her real name. Ester Shira, the woman replies, takes her hand and thanks her for coming back. More villagers arrive.
In the dried up fields, a young, frustrated man kicks against a non-working spigot. Esther introduces him as her son, Noah. He tells Storm they are honored. She asks if the plants are tomatoes. Sad, aren’t they? Noah sighs. But they have irrigation lines, she points out. Esther explains a relief organization put them in three years ago. They run to the town twenty miles down the road. But someone cut off the water line last year.
Why? Ororo asks. Someone slept with the wrong person? Noah ventures angrily. Someone stole a cow? Who knows. They just have to work out another plan.
Storm and the people follow him back to the village. Looking at a small, solar-based device, Ororo supposes this is part of the plan. Noah explains it takes energy from the sun and pulls water from the air. But it’s only enough for the garden here in the kraal, Esther adds. The crops on the fields are still dying.
So they called her to work with him?! Ororo bursts out as she sees a familiar face coming from the garden. Loaded with a device and building material, it’s her ex-lover, Forge. She knows him? Esther asks. A little, Ororo replies bemused. They’ll let them catch up then, Esther decides diplomatically.
Accompanying him to the fields Ororo, asks what Forge is doing here. It’s one of the most drought-stricken areas in the world, he begins to explain. Storm points out she told him that years ago. She told him what she did here when she was a girl. And he got them to send an invitation to Westchester, knowing she’d have to check it out. But not mentioning he was involved. Putting down the material, Forge admits it seems a little… Just a little, she agrees wryly. He chuckles, then admits he didn’t want his involvement stop her from coming. This thing is too important.
She wants to see what he’s got. His device creates a mini rain shower. Adorable, is the word she uses. That’s setting number one, Forge explains. The problem is it’s that or— He presses a button and a full blown localized thunderstorm appears out of nowhere. Stopping it, Forge explains he needs to calibrate the device. Which is where he could really use her help.
Ororo admits this is incredible but warns him. As she learned about her powers, she recognized her limits. Making it rain somewhere for a week could cause a drought a thousand miles away. Forge admits he didn’t know that, but that’s why he asked her for help.
Instead of replying right away, Storm spends some time with the village people, talking with the grown-ups, playing football with the kids. Noah is impatient. Forge assures him she will help. Help! Noah spits. His grandfathers didn’t need that. Esther gently reminds him that was a different time. The drought will only get worse.
Noah bristles at always being dependent on foreigners. Forge assures him that’s not his plan. He’s Cheyenne. His ancestors roamed the plains too. But all that got stolen away. So he thinks he gets it. But he’s not part of their village. He couldn’t tell them how to adapt. That’s for them to decide. He’s only trying to give them some tools to help them survive until they figure it out. When it’s ready, the controller will belong to them, not him. Storm interrupts, asking them what they need her to do.
Later in the evening, Storm and Forge are in the fields. They get ready to record her power manifestations. He tells her to start with a small rain and then continue up until a full-blown thunderstorm. The machine will analyze her EKG through the process and model its own process accordingly.
As she begins the rain, she addresses him and reminds him that, years ago, he took away her powers. By accident, Forge assures her. And then he did everything he could to— He lied about it, she interrupts. He apologizes. He was working for the government back then. But he’s solo now. Funded through foundations, NGOs, and his own patents. He promises her— Lightning strikes nearby.
Undeterred, Storm continues about the time she saw him at Wundagore, where he rambled on about rejection and humiliation and then he tried to save the world by opening a portal to a universe of monsters who wanted to kill them all. The logic never quite made sense to her. That wasn’t him, Forge assures her. There was something broken inside his brain. Cable helped him fix it. No! she cuts him off and rises into the air. He spat out her married name like it was poison. Maybe he was crazy but that emotion came from somewhere. She holds no grudge and she hopes the same can be said for him. But she warns him she’s going to destroy every piece of equipment if he gives her the slightest reason to suspect his motives. Lightning strikes around them.
A little later when the storm has died down, Noah approaches Forge, who tells him the system works now. He’s just locking off the upper range now. Why? Noah demands. Forge explains the machine’s a little too powerful right now. They don’t need anything more than a gentle rain. He said he’d give them the tools, Noah reminds him angrily, and they’d decide how to use them. He raises his hoe threateningly. Forge has done what he came to do. He can go now. Esther tries to calm him. Noah tries to wrestle the machine from Forge.
The wind rises and Storm’s lightning destroys the whole machine.
Esther berates Noah for his foolishness. Storm points out that he isn’t foolish. He just doesn’t trust them, just like they don’t trust him. And why should they? They don’t really know each other. Let’s say it all went according to plan. What happens when Forge leaves – and the machine breaks down? What happens if the climate changed even faster than expected and that trickle of rain he promised isn’t enough? What happens if a warlord crosses the border to steal the tech?
On the other hand, what happens if Noah Shirah has the power of a god? What would he do to this village or the town down the road that cut off his water? She’s no goddess. She doesn’t know the answers. But maybe by the time Noah and Forge have rebuilt the machine they’ll have figured it out together.
Esther hits Noah on the head, calling him stupid. Then she hugs him and tells him he’s lucky.
That was pretty stunning, Forge tells Ororo Does she still… he means… he stammers. With a smile, she tells him she’s seeing someone. That’s great… he was just hoping that maybe they could be friends. Storm considers it. How long does he think it will take him to fix all this? Maybe a month, he figures. A year, she corrects him. He’s not just fixing machines. She’ll come back in a year. And if he’s still here, still working with these folks, maybe they’ll be friends. A year’s not too long, he figures. She agrees and helps the people with their work.


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Strapped in a seat within an X-jet, a strained Storm asks the piloting Beast if they are clear. Almost, he replies. She swears, trying to keep control. Energy builds up around her and she groans. Few more seconds, he encourages her, as she creates cold around her, trying to lock down her emotions. Are they clear? she screams. He replies yes, as they’ve passed the atmosphere.
With a scream, Storm lets go of the pent-up energy and all over Earth a spectacular aurora borealis can be seen: in Mexico where Marisol Guerra is working on her parents’ farm, in New York where Callisto is trying hard not to be impressed and in Kenya where Forge realizes something is wrong with Ororo.
Four hours later, the spectacle is over. Henry asks her how she is. Exhausted. She asks about the planet. Everything fine, Beast assures her. No electro-magnetic disruptions or damage. In fact, most people seem to be having a wonderful time. “Aurora” is trending in thirty countries and over three million people have uploaded photos and videos.
Storm thanks him. Hank assures her it was beautiful. Logan would have loved it. Maybe, she muses, but it won’t bring him back, will it?
Back at the Jean Grey School, they wish each other a good night and retire. Ororo realizes he is still worried, but she’s all cried out for now. She enters Logan’s office and cuddles up to his jacket, missing him. She’s disturbed by a sound. Someone sent a text message to Logan’s cell phone, someone being their mutual friend Yukio: You’re late! I’m dead! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU?
Eight hours later, Storm meets Yukio on the roof terrace of a Las Vegas hotel. Yukio shouts she loves it, referring to the Mohawk. And she’s back in a wheelchair, Ororo admonishes her. Happens to ninjas from time to time, Yukio shrugs.
She pours them both champagne and recalls the last time Ororo wore a Mohawk she went a little crazy. She was going through a lot, Ororo replies. And she’d just met her. Blame it on the bad girl, Yukio laughs. Does this mean she’s ready for a little fun? “Fun?” Ororo asks, silently recalling the last time she met Yukio throwing herself off a rooftop was what she did for fun.
Did Logan tell her— He didn’t tell her anything, Storm replies, observing she still has that wild look in her eyes. But there’s something else, making her voice crack a bit.
Yukio tells her to forget it and asks where Logan is. He’s not coming Storm replies. Impatiently, Yukio tells her she isn’t trying to steal her boyfriend. She means she could if she wanted. But this is just business. It’s serious though. Were the hell is he? Ororo tells her he’s dead.
Yukio looks at her in shock then dismisses the news. When Storm repeats it, Yukio shouts he’s been burned to a skeleton! Chopped into little pieces! He went to hell and survived that! Tell him she’s not putting up with this bull—
Ororo gently explains he lost his healing factor. He’s really dead. Okay, Yukio replies silently and wheels herself to the edge of the balcony. She lifts herself over it then throws herself downward laughing. Storm catches her with her winds. She can’t let her go, can she? Yukio asks. Never, Storm replies and hugs her.
Yukio swears she’s late. Storm wants to know more and presses the subject, despite Yukio’s warning. Yukio retorts Storm likes running with her because it makes her feel naughty. But she’s never really going to understand what Yukio does. Not the way Logan did. Storm tells her she knows she is in trouble and she wants to do what Logan would have done.
The elevator goes underground and Yukio warns her to stand behind her and look tough.
They are greeted with the announcement they are late. Yukio retorts she is the boss. She’s always on time. Roll call, she demands. A large alien female fighter begins: Kuva of Breakworld, Oakland clan. A cyborg: Davis Harmon. CEO, Eaglestar LLC. Aqiria Clan. Next is Super-villain Moses Magnum. President, DRC Weapons. Kigali Clan. And Boss Yukio, Kyoto clan, Yukio finishes the roll call. They’ve all got things to do. Let’s get this over with. New business?
Harmon asks where Wolverine is. On his way, Yukio claims. Storm is filling in until then. The Queen of Wakanda? Moses Magnum scoffs. He doesn’t think a royal highness is ready for their kind of business.
Storm corrects him that she is no longer a queen and she goes wherever her friends need her. She drops the temperature around Magnum to icy cold and he finds his drink has frozen. So as she was saying, new business? Yukio repeats.
They gather around a table. Magnum start with concession rights to the new AIM base in the Red Sea. Harmon points out it’s ten miles into his territory. But it’s mobile, Magnum retorts. It’ll end up on his side soon enough. They have no way of knowing that, Harmon scoffs. He wants to run it solo? Magnum offers. Thirty percent rental fee. Five, Harmon haggles. Twenty-five is his last offer, Magnum warns. Sorry, gonna have to fight him on that, Harmon decides.
Is that a formal challenge? Yukio interjects. Absolutely, Harmon tells her. Yukio asks Magnum. Let’s do it, he announces.
Yukio leads the way to a huge fighting pit, announces the item on the agenda and orders the two clans to send out their champions. The pit below is entered by an armored woman and a man dressed in black with many weapons.
Ororo turns to Yukio questioningly. She tells her to stay frosty and enjoy the show. What the hell is going on? Ororo demands as the battle begins. She reminds Yukio they were in the Arena together. Drugged slaves forced to fight! She can’t seriously—
This is different, Yukio interrupts her. Everyone here’s a professional killer. If they weren’t settling things down here like, this they’d be killing each other in the streets above. Wolverine understood. None of these gangs have killed a civilian in the last three years.
In the pit, the armored woman gains the upper hand, slamming her foe’s head against the ground.
Storm has had enough and intercepts. Enough! she orders and flies into the pit. Angrily, the woman shouts she can’t do that. More goons jump in and Ororo takes on them all.
Wolverine’s not coming, Harmon remarks, is he? And Yukio’s new girl isn’t exactly with the program.
Kuva shoves Yukio aside and grabs the microphone. She announces the rules of the clans have been broken by Boss Yukio’s own champion. She challenges Boss Yukio for leadership of the Clans! Who will fight for her?
Yukio shouts Storm’s name. To hell with that, Storm shoots back. Grinning, Kuva announces to the warriors of the four clans that a new age begins today when Kuva of Breakworld leads them out of darkness to crush this world’s weak rulers and seize their great thrones and riches!
Storm feels Yukio’s terrified eyes bore into her but all she feels is anger. Yukio allied herself with murderers and monsters. There’s nothing she can say— What would Wolverine do? a panicked Yukio wonders aloud. Dammit Logan! Storm swears.


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One mile beneath Las Vegas:Kuva of Breakworld repeats her challenge to Yukio for the leadership of the four clans, so that instead of fighting for scraps they can crawl out of their caves and seize the world’s greatest thrones. She turns threateningly toward Yukio. If she has no champion to fight for her… Yukio calls Storm’s name.
Storm curses inwardly, then positions herself between Yukio and Kuva. She asks her to give up the challenge. Because, if she decides to fight, Kuva’s warriors will fall to the ground before they can draw their swords.
So Yukio does have a champion, Kuva smiles. Fine. They’ll meet in the desert at sunset. Storm corrects her. She asked her to withdraw the challenge. Kuva’s warriors can’t beat her. If Storm knew how to use her powers, she might believe her, Kuva scoffs. But if she knew how to use her power, Kuva would already be dead, wouldn’t she? She turns away. They’ll see her in the desert. The other bosses walk out.
Yukio thanks Storm, who tells her to shut the hell up. She’s getting her out of there. Yukio refuses and reminds Storm she said she’d do for her what Wolverine did. Well, this is it and it works. When the champions fight, it keeps the clans’ business underground and prevents civilians from getting hurt. If Storm wants to finish Wolverine’s business…
Storm reminds her she is not a killer. And she doesn’t like being tricked into other people’s fights. Then fly away, Yukio tells her. And they’ll just let Kuva seize the four clans and take over the world. Storm tells her not to be ridiculous; this is just a ring of criminals. Ten minutes ago, they were fighting over who gets concession rights on an AIM base! If Kuva’s stupid enough to try for something bigger, she’s going to learn you don’t start revolutions with a bunch of thugs and monsters. That doesn’t mean she won’t kill thousands while trying, Yukio points out and Storm realizes she’s right.
Later in the Mojave Desert:Yukio explains the four clans meet here for the big fights. They pass several weapons. Yukio tells her to help herself. Seeing claw marks in the rock, Storm realizes Logan was really here. Bought Yukio’s arguments and played by her rules. And died without telling Storm a damn thing about it… Kneeling down in front of the marks, she tells Yukio she doesn’t need anything here.
Then let’s get on with it, Kuva announces and presents her champion, Gah-ran of Breakworld. With a roar, Gah-ran smashes his axe into the ground.
Storm overhears Moses Magnum and Davis Harmon betting on how fast her opponent will beat her.
Formal challenge by the book, Yukio announces. These are the rules: The two champions head in opposite directions until the sun sets. And then? Storm asks. And then there are no rules, Yukio replies.
Storm wonders if Logan was in the same situation. If he was aching for the fight. That’s what Yukio wants her to think. That’s how she wants her to remember him. But she remembers things differently.
Storm stretches out a hand to Gah-ran, not saying ‘good luck’, but Gah-ran grumbles. Someone in the crowd chuckles. Gah-ran turns away, almost embarrassed for Storm. They think it’s already over, Storm realizes. Kuva tells Yukio her champion is weak, just like her. Magnum and Harmon go down in their estimates on how long Storm will survive.
Fine, Storm announces and walks away. Sunset’s coming, let’s go Yukio tells her chauffeur, who protests he wanted to watch this. What part of ‘there are no rules’ doesn’t he understand? she asks.
Some distance away, Storm muses they should be terrified of her. She could wipe Gah-ran off the map in a heartbeat. But they know she is looking for another way. And if Logan is the man she knows he was, so was he. She’s sure he knew he had to stop this someday. What was he waiting for? He was hurt, sick, growing weaker every day… but she’s not.
She flies toward Gah-ran, who tells her the sun hasn’t set. Would she break their one rule? Storm lands. Actually, she would hope to break them all - they don’t have to fight. The system is insane. How many of his friends died like this? How long until his time runs out?
Gah-ran point to the choppers and a bunker atop a butte. They are watching them. Who cares? Storm replies. The two of them are the strongest warriors here. If they say ‘no’, who could make them? Gah-ran replies he understands what she is trying to do. But if he refused to fight, Kuva (watching from the bunker) would break all bonds with his family… his sisters, children would die in the street.
That doesn’t sound particularly fair, Storm admits. That’s what Wolverine said, he agrees. He came to him? Storm asks. Yes, but as he told Wolverine, it’s the way his world works. Gah-ran takes her hand. And they can’t change that in a heartbeat. He takes up a spear as the sun sets.
Storm screams and hurls herself forward, manifesting lightning. Gah-ran grabs her foot and smashes her to the ground.
Watching with her binoculars, Kuva laughs triumphantly.
With a roar, Gah-ran raises his spear. Suddenly, Storm uses her winds to stir up sand into his eyes. Her turn! she shouts and hits him with a small sand cyclone.
Davis Harmon and Moses Magnum realize they’ve both lost as Storm flies upward. When Magnum finds she didn’t kill Gah-ran, he claims he’s won.
Storm puts a stop to their bickering with a bolt of lightning and tells them to pay attention to the next bit. Yes, she let him live. Does anyone want to fight her? When no one reacts, she announces that she makes the rules now. She asks Gah-ran if he can stand. Why is he alive? he demands. Wolverine was right, she replies. They can change things. Just watch!
She opens the bunker door with a lightning bolt and is shocked to find Kuva lying in a pool of blood. Yukio grins and thanks her. She couldn’t have done it without Storm.
Yukio tells Gah-ran Kuva challenged her, so she killed her. A perfectly legitimate move. Now Yukio rules Oakland. Kneel and pay his respects to his new boss.
Well done, Gah-ran tells Storm, who protests this wasn’t what she— Yukio orders her to shut up. Kuva was crazy. Everyone knew it. Ran her clan like some warrior priestess trying to get everyone killed. Yukio is just trying to make a few dimes. She promises Gah-ran his family will be safe with her. He kneels. She orders him to announce her to the warriors.
She tells Storm not to be so sad. The system worked. They culled a monster, everyone’s safer and Yukio is completely in charge now. Which is exactly what Wolverine wanted all along and, if Storm can’t see that, she never really knew him.
She knew him, Storm replies. Did Yukio? He didn’t want to put her in charge of this madness, just free her from it. Yukio refuses that idea. She belongs here. She promised she’d do his job here, Storm replies. Call her when she’s really ready. She leaves while Gah-ran announces the winner. All hail boss Yukio! he cheers while Storm flies off.


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At the airport the Senator who was aboard the same plane as Storm is giving an interview and explains he thinks they are all equal. So he fought to let Ororo Munroe aboard that plane like any other citizen. And then he watched in shock as she attacked his guards, destroyed the plane and nearly killed them all.
Beast, Nightcrawler and Rachel Grey are watching the TV interview. Beast wryly comments that he is going to go out on a limb and believe that isn’t the whole story. Let’s find out then, Rachel suggests. She looks to the place on the sofa next to her where Storm is curled up. Rachel tells her it’s time to wake up. Ororo mumbles that she thought she’d been arrested. She has been, Rachel agrees. They are just visiting her telepathically at the moment. Right now, Storm’s body is in FBI custody in a specially reinforced federal containment unit in Brooklyn.
Storm looks at her shackled real body. She doesn’t looks so good. She’s got a broken ankle, Rachel points out. The Senator’s guard stomped on it, Storm recalls. And she’s been tranquilized. And the manacles appear to be power dampeners designed to absorb any energy she generates.
Storm explains she knows who is behind the attack on the plane. She allows Rachel to get the face from her memories. An arms company called Eaglestar. This is its CEO Davis Harmon. He is based in Aquaria but she just saw him with Yukio in Vegas. She needs them to find him. He is part of the Four Clans syndicate. She didn’t fight him directly and doesn’t know why he would go after her. Beast suggests that, as an arms dealer, maybe he is after the Senator. Just find him, Storm repeats.
Rachel agrees, but first they are getting Storm out. She’s going to neutralize the sedative in her bloodstream and then Kurt can teleport in and— Storm tells them to think this through for a moment. If the feds have the technology to dampen her power, they could have shielded this place from telepaths. The whole thing feels like a set-up. Maybe they want them to be talking… maybe they want the X-Men to attack.
Kurt gently replies they listened to the Senator’s lies and they drugged her. At this point, he is fine with obliging them. She loves him too, Storm smiles, but they can’t give them any more reasons to attack the school. Kids may get hurt. They are not letting that happen. She tells them to get her Harmon’s location and keep an eye on the Senator. If anyone asks, she’s gone rogue. That’s not inaccurate, Beast points out. She apologizes. He tells her not to be sorry. Be careful.
Rachel takes her mind outside the building to show her their kids aren’t the only ones who could get hurt. Outside are a lot of people protesting for Storm’s release. How did they find out? she wonders. One of the ambulance drivers told some friends where he took her, Rachel replies. Someone posted something on Twitter and within a few hours… So no extra pressure or anything but whatever she’s going to do next will affect a lot more than the X-Men.
Santo Marco:A family hears about Storm’s arrest on the radio. They are shocked as Storm saved them from the militants.
Mexico:Marisol and her father hear the news on the TV. Her father scoffs Storm is showing her true colors. Marisol made the right choice coming home. She is a good girl, not like them. Marisol is deeply conflicted.
In Kenya, a worried Forge hears the news.
The feds notice Storm is waking up. The agent in charge calms everyone. She introduces herself to Storm as Agent Frankie Robertson. They spoke briefly before Storm passed out. Before they drugged her, Storm corrects Robertson, who informs her she is under arrest for assault and battery of members of the Secret Service, threatening a US Senator, destruction of about a hundred million dollars of airplane and kidnapping the passengers on priority exec flight 536. That could add up to a few decades in prison. Would she mind answering a few questions?
Weakly, Storm suggests that they work together. She tells her to talk to her forensic people. The plane was attacked from the outside. By munitions, not lightning. Roberson suggests she wait for the first question. Storm continues she saved that plane. Talk to the passengers. Talk to the pilot! The real criminal is still out there right now. And his name is Davis Harmon, CEO of Eaglestar International.
Is she calling a US Senator and his entire Secret Service staff liars? Robertson asks with raised eyebrows. She’s not really thinking about them right now, Storm replies. She is thinking about her. She took this job to help people, didn’t she? That’s why Storm does what she does too. And right now she’s worried about everyone Harmon might have his eyes on. The Senator. Agent Robertson and her people. The protesters outside. She doesn’t know where he is or what he has planned. But she wonders if Robertson could find out with the full intelligence gathering capabilities of the FBI at her fingertips.
Keep an eye on her, Roberson orders and goes to check some facts. Storm tells her guard the manacles are really tight. Could they loosen them a bit? They don’t fall for it.
Sometime later, Robertson returns to announce Davis Harmon is dead. He was murdered two years ago in Aquiria and Eaglestar went into receivership immediately afterwards. And yes, she did take the job to help people. So until she understands what tricks Storm is playing, they are putting her back under. She tells the doctor to go ahead.
Storm secretly freed herself from the manacles five minutes ago. She takes out the guards with some blows and kicks. As she puts weight on her ankle, she groans in pain but still manages to run. She breaks through a glass window on the second floor and jumps on the street opposite the protesters, who recognize her.
One man shouts that they need to protect her and they gather around her. A cop threatens them. Agent Roberson shouts from above for him to stand down. There are children! Undeterred, he warns them he is counting to three.
Enough! Storm decides. She focuses icy winds on the cops to the point that their guns freeze. She then asks everybody to go home but thanks them for their support. While the cops don’t pay attention, she uses a lightning bolt to change the unstable molecules of her costume into street clothes. From the window, Agent Robertson notices but says nothing. The people marvel about the localized snow phenomenon.
Storm heads to the bar she visited with Logan and contacts Rachel. Rachel and Beast join her in astral form and ask how she is feeling. She tells them she is fine. What did they get on Harmon? Beast tells her he was reported dead but there is no report on where the body was buried. The post receivership Eaglestar continued to operate out of Aquiria, but the base was abandoned the last week.
He’s gone underground, Storm realizes. But he’s part of Yukio’s Four Clans. She needs them to hack into Yukio’s network. Crosscheck everything about Eaglestar with what she dealt with the last months.
Rachel points out that they go way back with Yukio. Can’t they just ask her? She wishes, Ororo sighs. She made some new friends these last weeks but also lost a few. She’s still got them, Hank and Ray assure her, and they’ve got this.
Louisiana, 9 hours later, outside a big mansion:Nightcrawler teleports in to join Storm. Where’s the target? she asks. Second floor, third window from the left. He should probably get out of here, she suggests. She gets to have all the fun, when she goes rogue, he grins. He’s got to give it a try it someday. Taking off, Storm doesn’t recommend it. You lose too much but it has its perks.
Controlled winds tear off the mansion’s roof bricks. Below are the senator and one of his armed Secret Service guards. Storm tells them to stay calm but the guard immediately fires. She uses her winds as shields and realizes this is the guard who stomped on her ankle when she was trying to save his life. She levitates him. He cries she was trying to kill them and calls her a dirty mutant. Disgusted, she tosses him outside.
She tells the Senator tht she’s done a little cross-checking. He received six hundred thousand dollars in campaign funds from a nonprofit called “Concerned Citizens.” Who’s behind Concerned Citizens? He stammers he doesn’t know. She responds to his lie with a lightning bolt close to him. Say his name, she coaxes. Davis Harmon, Eaglestar International, he admits.
Storm continues Harmon ordered the attack on the plane. The Senator agrees, but he told the world Storm did it. He didn’t have a choice! He cries. She tries to calm him. Just tell her where Harmon is. He can’t! Thunder and lightning crackle. He cut a deal with a psychopath! she snarls. And she will not let him squirm away while people die as a result! Panicked, he shouts that Harmon will kill him. He was dead and came back! He can’t stop him and neither can she! Well, then she guesses they’ll die trying, she announces while behind her FBI helicopters close in.


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Outside the FBI field office, Brooklyn:Protesters still demand Storm’s freedom and believe she is being set up. Inside the building, Agent Robertson and her team are working clues. Robertson tells her superiors she found something. A non-profit called “Concerned Citizens” illegally reimbursed hundreds of people for contributing to the Senator’s reelection campaign. She is reminded that they are hunting Storm, not investigating the Senator. Undeterred, Robertson continues that they’ve traced “Concerned Citizens” back to Eaglestar, Davis Harmon’s arms company. The one, Storm said, attacked the plane. But the Senator claimed Storm attacked the plane.
She is asked what her point is. Robertson replies she thinks Storm was telling the truth. Eaglestar set her up and the Senator helped. They need to pull back the team. She is told Storm’s gone a little far for that now.
Louisiana:With a hurricane, Storm has attacked the Senator’s mansion, abducted him and is now facing FBI helicopters. She is ordered to release the Senator and surrender.
The frightened Senator pleads that he won’t press charges. She orders him to take a deep breath. She whirls him up after her in the hurricane, avoiding the tear gas they are using.
She and the Senator fly away at top speed. When he begs her not to kill him, she retorts that she is trying to keep him alive. He offers to tell her where Davis Harmon is. Just put him down! She is surprised but whatever works.
Soon, she has reached San Francisco, where people on the Golden Gate Bridge recognize her. Storm muses she loved this place. It was the last place it seemed everything was possible. The X-Men used to live in the bay, a shining place they called Utopia. And then they killed it, fighting among themselves.
Stor creates an air bubble around her as she dives into the ocean. The Senator said Harmon built his Eaglestar’s weapon division by combing through battlefields year after year, stealing data and tech from the dead. He must have been so happy when he heard about their war. She supposes it’s partly their fault, letting all those scraps of Shi’ar tech and X-Club gadgets fall into the sea, but still he makes her sick. Hiding in their shadow like a giant cockroach.
She finds an undersea transport and Harmon Davis in it. She reminds him he saw her fighting Gah-ran. He knows how strong she is. So let’s not make this a big production. Excellent points, he agrees with a grin, but he has to try, doesn’t he? A torpedo is fired at her.
Storm uses her winds as an airlift to lift his vessel out of the water into the sight of the people on the bridge. A cop tries to evacuate the bridge.
Storm tells Harmon it’s over. Not quite! he snaps, firing at her from his cyborg body. Storm hits him with a lightning bolt and asks why he endangered hundreds of people to frame her. He snarls in rage. She brings him down with wind blasts and repeats her question. With a cry of rage, he attacks and is again stopped by lightning. It’s just business, he admits and presses a button on his ship. The screen show images from San Marco and Storm and Gah-ran’s fight.
When Storm overthrew the paramilitaries in San Marco, she destroyed a seventy-three million dollar annual revenue stream. And then she blew into Vegas, completely restructuring the Four Clans. But Kuva and he had arrangements. When Yukio took over, everything shifted. He’s going to lose fourteen percent net by the end of the quarter. All this over fourteen percent? she asks disgusted.
She’s been running, trying to change the world. That’s cool. He’s sure it makes her feel good, particularly when she’s applauded by the losers she keeps saving, but she doesn’t understand how the rest of them feel. Most people he knows like the world just the way it is. You tamper with it and destroy everything they’ve built. Consequences, Ms. Munroe. She brought it on herself.
Is he done? she asks calmly. He thinks that should do it, he replies and quickly initiates a self-destruct sequence. The vessel explodes but Storm takes him away. Trying to kill himself? she asks. He is almost as hard to kill as she, Harmon points out. It’s them he’s aiming for. The shockwave created by the detonation is about to hit the bridge and the innocent bystanders on it.
She is too late, he gloats. This isn’t like Santo Marcos. She can’t get ahead of the wave. They’re all going to die and the headline will read “Storm kills thousands.” And he can get back to work in peace.
She orders him to shut up. She is working. She creates a funnel, parting the ozone layer and magnetic fields. A rainbow shines as the water is dispersed and the people laugh in relief.
Davis Harmon is brought to the federal contentment center in Brooklyn. Agent Robertson informs Storm they got a warrant to take his cybernetic memories. Lots of good stuff there. His criminal associates are being rounded up across the country. The Senator lawyered up and flew to Aruba, but they’ll get him. And Storm is free to go. When Storm expresses her surprise, the agent tells her no one in the agency can find any video of anything illegal Storm did.
She smiles. Storm was right about her the other day. She trained twenty years so she could get this job and make a difference. She guesses today is one of the days differences get made.
Storm agrees, but notes it’s a dangerous way to live. She’s learned a little something about what can result. However, outside, she faces some positive consequences as the protesters greet and hug her.
In San Francisco Bay, the remnants of Harmon’s vessel are cleaned up. In the ruins of Utopia, a shadowy figure hides and waits…


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The bowels of the Jean Grey School:Storm has to join Beast to check what’s wrong with the plumbing. She illuminates the way with a small ball lightning and they find the leak. Ridiculous! Hank protests. They overhauled the entire infrastructure when they built the new school. And so close to the electrical and data centers. They are going to have a mold problem.
Storm thinks about the excitement of the last few weeks and wonders how to settle back into a normal life. Hank notices her spacing out. She knows this is an important part of the job but is happy when a big shiny distraction shows up, namely Gambit.
He asks her if she is up for a mission that is a little more exciting than mucking about down here. Ororo grins.
A little later, the two board the X-jet. Hank asks how long this is going to take. They’ll be back before he knows it, Gambit promises, unless they get killed. Hank is not amused. He reminds Storm she has two hours of unanswered voicemail and one thousand two hundred and twenty eight unread emails. Generously, she gives him full permission to handle it all. When he sulks, she asks him not to be like that. It’s a life and death situation.
Alone with Gambit, she asks whether it is a life or death situation. He likes this new version of her, he laughs. But yeah, it probably is. He informs her he is now master of the Thieves Guild. Carver of smoke, she snorts, herder of cats. He agrees, and times are changing, so it’s become an extra pain in the derrière.
Why the long face? she asks. He’s got to be the best person on the planet for the job. He admits he is a rogue, not a leader like her. That part’s not exactly easy for her either, Ororo points out. There are always consequences you cannot predict. Decisions you have no business making.
That’s exactly the kind of stuff he is trying to avoid. But it won’t let him. The Guild’s credo has always been to steal from the rich and powerful. But that’s more a goal than a rule. So some of the local guilds have started to branch out into more serious crime. Kidnapping, drugs, assassination. And they are being led by this jerk called Nil. He’s a technomancer. Thinks he knows everything. Snotty little hotshot!
Sounds like a good time for sneaking around and butt-kicking, she smiles. What’s the problem? Well, he admits sheepishly, things get a bit more complicated, when the gods get involved.
Soon they are on a small island in the Mediterranean:Welcome to the temple of Hermes, god of thieves, Gambit informs her. Just looks like some old ruins but, according to the forbidden files he gets access to as guildmaster, somewhere underneath the temple is the greatest treasure a thief could claim. Storm asks what it is and Gambit admits he doesn’t know. The language of the ancient texts isn’t precise but, whoever steals, it will become the greatest thief in the world. Magic? she asks. He sure hopes so. She warns him he can’t trust magic. He doesn’t trust anything, but he needs an edge and a nice hero type like her sure doesn’t want something like that falling into the hands of those jerks, right?
She doesn’t reply but through her binoculars sees Nil’s people working at the temple site. They don’t look so tough. What does he need her for? He needs someone old school. She’s not that old, she smiles. He meant mature, sophisticated, seasoned… Hole’s getting bigger, she warns. Okay, here’s the point; he tries a different tack. Besides, whatever Nil brought with him, there’s nothing electronic or high tech in the temple. Nothing you can hack into. But there are a million things that can kill you. Young thieves rely too much on their tech. This job needs someone with real talents. The two of them were raised as thieves and learned all the old skills and tricks.
The two of them attack the guards stationed around the dig site. Afterwards, they dive into the hole in the ground.
Westchester:Beast calls former student Marisol Guerra, who had tried to reach Ororo before. Marisol asks if Storm is all right. She saw the news reports about her being captured by the FBI. Beast assures her Storm’s fine. She took a big risk to stand up for people and in the end some of those people stood up for her. Marisol understands he can’t get into specifics. Hesitatingly, she wonders if she should return to the school. That’s something they can definitely consider, Hank begins but a blackout cuts off the phone.
On the island, Gambit and Storm attack Nil and his people. Gambit suggests he don’t steal form his boss. Okay, he got him, Nil admits, but technically Gambit isn’t his boss, more like a union president. Not amused, Gambit hits him and states that makes it even worse.
Looks like they got the first door open, Storm informs him. Not bad for a punk, Remy admits. Nil warns him he doesn’t want to go in there. Whatever he says, Brer Rabbit, Remy mocks. They look through the door to see several of Nil’s people dead, hit by arrows.
The Jean Grey School:Beast reconnects the wires and calls back Marisol. They’ve had some electrical issues, he explains. He knows the last time she was at the school she felt restricted, pushed into a role. She reminds him they didn’t even let her pick her own code name. That’s his fault, he admits. He has a certain idea of what the X-Men do in his head, but the world’s changing. The school should be here for its students, not the other way around. If she wants to give them another shot, they’ll find out what she wants to do and help her develop her talents to do it.
That sounds awesome she admits. Good, he smiles, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy… No matter what she ends up wanting to do, she is still a mutant…
Back on the island, Storm figures Nil’s men fell victim to poison darts. Pressure sensitive tiles in the floor. Anything inside could be a trigger. Gambit wonders what to do. Storm uses her wind power to set them all off, meaning afterwards she and Gambit can enter the room without any danger.
Suddenly, she groans. She is trying to fly but there is something about the atmosphere down here… Magic, Remy figures. The gods don’t want them cheating. Storm isn’t so sure. She has a sensitivity to magic and this is not what she’s feeling. But she’s not going to be able to affect the weather from here on out. Old school, they both agree.
At the end of the room is an opening, leading to a large chasm. There are high stalagmite-like stepping stones, but bats attack them as they make their way to the other side. Gambit loses his balance and is about to fall until Storm pulls him up, causing her to lose her balance herself but Remy pulls her up as well.
The next room is a hallway and a large globe rolls through it threatening to flatten them. The two have to press against the walls. Finally, they reach a temple-like doorway.
A moment later, an explosion coming from behind them flattens them. It’s Nil and his people, who used them to get rid of the traps. His companion threatens Storm with his weapon, while Nil walks to the doorway. Storm is ready to fight.
Gambit tells her maybe this is a good thing… like Raiders. Let the Nazis open the vault and get their faces melted off. When did that movie come out again, grandpa? Nil scoffs as he finds a panel to open the door. Suddenly, the temple begins to rumble and caves in.
Storm and Gambit use the distraction to overpower the guards and run past Nil, who is trapped beneath some of the rubble. Gambit rubs it in, remarking it is one of those movies that totally lives up to the hype. Nil should check it out.
They find one last lock in what remains. Storm takes a lockpick from her glove. Gambit points out she is only here because of him. If anyone gets his face melted off, it’s him. With a smile, she offers him the lockpick. He gets busy, while Storm ties up Nil.
He opens the lock and finds what he figures is a magic chalice or disc… or plate or…With a smile, Storm tells him it’s a mirror. Fantastic! he enthuses. A magic mirror. How’s it work? She laughs and reminds him of her sensitivity to magic, and there is no magic here. It’s a kind of a joke. A lesson from the gods. Because there are no shortcuts. Anyone who got here so far got here because of their skills. That’s what the mirror means. The prize… is you.
Nil laughs, while Gambit sulks this is not a good joke. He’s not ready for this. He’ll do fine, Storm assures him. Nil interjects Gambit is weak and stupid. And when they get back into the real world, they will find the Guild has left him behind. Gambit wonders whether he could tie him up and dump him in the ocean. He could but probably shouldn’t, Storm offers. So he’s got to take him back to the Guild, Remy sighs. Do his damn job. What about her?
She was looking for a shortcut too. That’s why she came here with him. Find something to fight and punch. She realizes he is right. So she has to return home and do her job too. Plumbing? He grins, she groans. They both look into the mirror and he tells her they can both do it.
In Mexico, Marisol thanks Beast for the offer. She will think about it.
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A normal day outside the Jean Grey School, until Shark Girl shouts, “She’s back!” All students and teachers look up expectantly, as Storm returns after her recent adventures.
Soon, she is back in normal life, teaching classes, doing administration and checking with Beast on the mold problem, which doesn’t get better. She dries it out with a gust of hot air. Beast jokes she’s just signed up for biannual maintenance work. Does she get a raise? she asks. He’ll ask the head mistress.
She’s a true hero, someone figures silently. But that’s all just a bit too easy, isn’t it? An eye forms on the pipes where the mold used to be. He’s really talking about art. And art… needs something more.
Outside, Storm looks up in shock as huge tentacles come from the cellar, seemingly chasing after the students. She fires lightning bolts at the tentacles.
The being in the cellar screams and begs her to stop. Can’t she see it’s him? He just wanted to come home! He withdraws the tentacles and Storm looks down to see the slender shape of a young Japanese man. K-Kenji? she asks.
Kenji is taken to the infirmary. He still has cyber parts but looks a lot more harmless and vulnerable than in the past. Beast’s genetic tests confirm he is their former student Kenji Uedo. Former? he asks. He died on Utopia, Beast reminds him. Well that explains some of it, Kenji admits.
Kenji’s narration:A little while ago, he woke up in a bottle in an underwater lab run by a man named Harmon. He said Kenji’s cells were special so he used parts of him to fix his own body. It… hurt.
Present:And then he woke up again… here.
Storm apologizes. She fought Harmon and knew he had stolen tech from their old headquarters but she had no idea Kenji was there. He tells her it’s all right. But why is everyone so nervous around him? Storm replies diplomatically that his time with them was… difficult.
Kenji claims he doesn’t remember much. He knows they found him in Japan. He was an… artist. But he was supposed to become a hero. He almost became one, Storm replies. Kenji looks down. He thinks he did some bad things but he can’t remember. He doesn’t know what he deserves. He just knows the X-Men were the only ones who ever treated him like a person.
Storm smiles. All he needs to know is he’s a mutant and an X-Man. And a student at this school. And he’s home now. She touches his head and tells him to get some sleep. They’ll figure it out in the morning.
She leaves the infirmary. Outside, Rachel Grey is waiting. She’s been telepathically scanning Kenji since Storm called her. He seems to be telling the truth. But he’s got a… tricky mind. Storm explains the last time they saw him he was a sociopath and a murderer. She’d like a little more detail. Rachel continues his organics are constantly forming and reforming themselves. That might mean he’s got an entirely different mind from the boy who tried to kill them all or it might mean he’s just hiding his true self from them.
Storm wants a telepath and two more guards to watch him constantly until they figure that out. She looked into his eyes. Whoever he was, right now he’s just a frightened child. She believes him, but they have to be careful.
The Morlock tunnels:Callisto and her charge Angie are checking the mold problem, which keeps getting worse. Angie asks if they should be worried. This is new. Callisto shrugs. Back in the day, they had a few Morlocks with fire powers. She just had them torch everything. Angie chuckles. That must have been pretty cool, having powers. Cal reminds her one of her powers was tentacles. But, yeah, it was pretty cool. But being a mutant always set you up for bigger fights. It’s better living the way they-- Suddenly Angie is grabbed and dragged away.
Storm is asleep when she is awakened by Callisto’s phone call. Cal tells her they are under attack. She ascertains they are in the tunnels when she hears Callisto scream. She runs outside to Beast’s room. She tells him to mobilize any X-Men in the five boroughs to meet. That moment, both Storm’s phone and Beast’s tablet beep.
Forge is calling Storm from Kenya. While she is flying towards Manhattan, she cuts him off that Callisto is under attack. He suggests this may be related. In order to safeguard the rainmaker tech, they are building Noah and he’d deployed a fleet of drones in a hundred mile radius. Fifteen minutes ago, they started picking up encrypted communication signals. He is uploading them to Beast. Twelve minutes ago, he dug deep enough to find traces of modified Trask code.
Beast looks at the data and realize it’s a Sentinel commline. He tells Forge to evacuate the village. Forge assures him he did that eleven minutes ago. Noah tells Forge to look. Techno-organic monsters attack similar to those attacking Angie and Cal in the tunnels.
Storm calls Marisol Guerra in Mexico. She informs her Beast picked up readings in her surroundings. She may be in danger. That explains the zombies Marisol replies wryly, referring to the attack on her house. Storm tells her to run.
Storm screams in frustration. She tells Marisol and Callisto she wants to help them now but she has to return to where she thinks is the source of those attacks. She assures them they are not alone.
She sees the tentacles attacking the school. She flies inside the building and orders the students to the north exits, then runs through the hallways shouting for Beast and Rachel. She finds them and several students captured by the tentacled mass, while Kenji uselessly tries to fight it with a chair. It’s not his fault! he cries before he is grabbed himself. He becomes part of the mass and begins to remember.
Storm assures him whatever he is seeing isn’t him. He can be who he wants to be. He can stop this any time he— He interrupts. He remembers what he did. What they did. They killed him. Storm replies that other him was insane. He was going to kill everyone! But he is different! He—
And there she goes again. Telling those pretty stories, he interrupts. She flies around the world, reaching out to everyone. Fellowship, sacrifice, redemption. There is a place for everyone in her great heart, isn’t there? But when he showed her his truest heart, they just let him die. And they never thought of him again until he appeared to her in this sweet sad form. But he is much more than that. Just like every child she is saving. So many flaws, so many horrors.
In the mass, another face, that of the Kenji they remember, forms and claws tear through new Kenji’s head, letting him deflate like a doll. So now it’s his turn to tell the stories. The true stories. The tentacles grab her as well. Life is a horror show. And the monsters win!


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The Jean Grey School:Kenji’s tentacle mass breaks through the roof, even as he holds Storm and the other mutants prisoners.Good night, school.Good night, StormGood night, mutants everywhere.
Storm lets loose a barrage of lightning bolts freeing the others. She orders them to run and tells Beast to protect them.
Noble as always, Kenji mocks. Saving the innocent and then heroically sacrificing herself. She assures him it doesn’t have to be like this. He came here for help. They can still-- He refuses. He is tired of her story, because despite all her promises it never included him!
Tentacles grab her and cover her mouth. Others connect to her head. She spends all her time trying to make everyone see her beautiful world. Now it’s time for her to see his. Goddess! she moans as she sees the memories.
Zero’s memories:This is how he died. Ripped apart by one of her students.
She sees herself, Hope Summers and others of Hope’s team from the dying Kenji’s point of view.
And this was the last thing he saw: Her and all the pretty people staring at him in horror and disgust, because of who he is.
Present:No, because of what he did! Storm shouts. He infiltrated their minds… tried to kill Hope! Now her pretty talk fades away, he grins. He doesn’t belong. She can’t fix him. Her inclusive dream is a lie. But she won’t tell it to anyone ever again. He tells her to open her eyes and watch her friends die.
Images flood Storm’s mind and in turns they feel what she feels. Marisol on the run from monsters in Mexico, Callisto and Angie battling more monsters in the Morlock tunnels and Forge and Noah doing the same in Kenya. She’s looking through the eyes of Kenji’s flesh puppets as they hack into her dearest.
Forge, attacked by Kenji’s puppets, tells her they are all linked via Kenji as he is trying to assimilate them, but she can break free. He tells her to at least save the school.
Kenji leers that he hopes she does, that she cuts loose with her lightning and murders him again and then listens in horror as all the rest of them die anyway. That’s exactly the lesson he wants her to learn. Heartbreaking moral compromise, followed by senseless tragedy. That is the only truth that matters in this world.
As Kenji drags Storm down, Forge urges her not to give up. She has to fight. Kenji claims it’s impossible. Faced with an impossible situation that exposes her lies she couldn’t decide, so now everyone dies.
Now that’s an interesting story, Storm announces as her eyes begin to glow, but she likes hers better. Kenji let her in. That’s all she wanted. He wanted to pour his horrors into her head but now she is inside his.
Elsewhere, the techno zombies hesitate.
And it’s time to work, she announces. She glides upward, still trapped by the tentacles. Kenji created hundreds of tons of conductive mutant flesh. All she has to do is tap it and she nearly explodes with the power it gives her.
Seeing what she is about to do, Forge warns her to be careful. Storm digs deeper than ever to control the fundamental forces that control the weather… the Earth’s magnetic fields. She creates magnetic cyclones where the creatures are. The magnetic cyclone whirls the cyborg puppets past the stratosphere. And, as their mindless cells freeze, her new power fades. Exhaustion surges through her body. But then the nodes in her flesh crackle with static. An awestruck Marisol contacts her and asks if that was her. Storm replies she will never give up.
Kenji is still left with her, his tentacles still holding onto her as he promises neither does he. However, their final objectives are a little different. He attaches more nodes to her skull. She burned away so much of his flesh. She thought she won. But she has just weakened herself enough for him to take over.
Forge urges Storm to incinerate him with her lightning. She refuses. Kenji leers that she won’t kill him because that would prove his point. So he’s free to seize all her marvelous power and use it to visit their lies on the world. He begins to manipulate weather patterns. Forge again wants to convince Storm. She tells him now it’s up to them.
She explains they are still connected via Kenji’s nodes, with each other and Kenji. Realizing where this is going, Callisto announces they can’t-- They can! Storm insists.
The Mindscape:They all meet up in the mindscape. Kenji laughs at the idea of a mindscape intervention and vows he will kill them all. Storm replies she isn’t talking to him. She is talking to Kenji. He insists he is Kenji. Storm announces he is just the thing Kenji thinks he needs to become to make sense of the world. And that’s who he is, he repeats.
Storm continues that he said life is tragedy and that they lied to him and maybe that’s true. But they are writing their own story here. That’s what they do every day. Against all odds. Against all evidence.
Cal is unsure. Storm tells her to trust. They just show him what they know. He’s seen their pretty world before, Kenji mocks.
Storm’s eyes glow. They are not here to show him pretty. Because a lot of it’s a whole lot ugly, Callisto agrees. They’ve all been monsters once or twice, Forge adds. They show him memories.
Images of memories:Storm fighting Callisto for Morlock leadership. Storm hitting Forge over his betrayal of her. Marisol’s nasty behavior towards Storm at school.
And they’ll probably screw up a few more times before they are done, Marisol announces. But they are here, Storm explains. And they are writing a different story. Together. And if the boy inside Kenji didn’t hold up hope this might go for him, he would have cut off the nodes that connect them five minutes ago. Kenji’s shape falls apart.
Reality:At the Jean Grey School, everybody finds themselves free. Kenji’s shape withdraws. What’s left addresses Storm. Maybe he’ll see her around. He disappears.
Later, she sits exhausted on the school’s stone steps. Beast informs her they can’t find him but Rachel senses a new psionic presence in the area and it’s happy. He’ll come to them when he’s good and ready. She did good. “We did good,” she corrects him. He tells her she should rest. But she wants to fly, doesn’t she? He tells her to go. They’ll hold down the fort.
She steps into the air. When she was a girl, she used to live in the sky. And some days, she wonders why she ever left. But she’s not a goddess any longer, not even a queen. Instead, she’s part of something so much more and this is where she belongs.


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“The Torch Meets the Iceman!” (1st story)
(1st story)Johnny Storm is amazed at all the publicity the X-Men are receiving lately. He stares at a newspaper that has the banner headline “X-Men Battle Brotherhood of Evil Mutants!” The other three members of the Fantastic Four stand around him, holding various pieces of electronics equipment but are listening to him read out loud.
Johnny would like to meet the Iceman, who the papers are calling the frozen version of the Human Torch. Reed points out that it won’t be easy, as no one knows the X-Men’s real identities. Sue thinks the X-Men are fascinating and would like to meet all of them. Ben asks them all to clam up. How is he supposed to test Reed’s new equipment if they all keep acting like it is a get-acquainted club?
Johnny is still reading the newspaper and pondering the description of Iceman as a “frozen version of the Human Torch.” He doesn’t think that line is funny. Reed tells Johnny it was probably meant as a compliment, while Ben, lifting a piece of heavy equipment nearby, complains that he’s doing all the work while the rest yak, yak, yak. Johnny finally throws the paper at Reed and dashes off, as he has a date with his girlfriend Doris for a romantic boat ride around Manhattan Island. Sue comments that her little brother is growing up.
Meanwhile, at Professor Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters in Westchester County, New York, three uniformed members of the X-Men are dispersing. Warren tells Marvel Girl to put on her dressiest duds so they can step out. Iceman observes and complains to Professor X that whenever he gets the nerve to ask out Jean, Angel, Cyclops or somebody else beats him to it. In response, Professor X suggests that Iceman go to New York City for the day. Iceman eagerly accepts the suggestion and spots a brochure for Gotham Boat Line’s daily cruises, where he thinks there’ll be a lot of swingin’ teens. In his room, Iceman transforms back to Bobby Drake.
Minutes later, Bobby is in the back of a cab stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic. The driver tells Bobby that, with the heavy traffic, they will never make it to the dock before sailing time. Bobby gets out to run for it but he sees the boat already pulling away. He decides that only Iceman can catch it. Since the street’s deserted, he transforms back to his ice form. He makes an ice path and slides down the dock. As he approaches the end of the dock, he fashions a frozen vaulting pole and leaps onto the deck of the ship. Now he just needs to change back into his civilian clothes before the moon comes up.
And so, having changed into a jacket and tie, Bobby is unnoticed in the crowd of teenagers. There are a zillion chicks, but they all have dates. Suddenly, he notices a woman standing alone by the railing. He walks over and introduces himself but the woman interrupts him mid-sentence to say the answer is no. She explains she’s on the boat with a date and no one is his match, pun intended. Bobby asks her forgiveness but wants to know what makes her date so special.
Johnny Storm arrives to answer Bobby’s question, tracing a flaming number 4 in the air. Doris takes a soda and tells Johnny to not be mad, that Bobby thought she was alone. Johnny isn’t mad, but quite happy about the good things Doris said about him. Bobby tells the couple he’ll leave now, but he mentally grumbles about Doris’ boasts that Johnny is the greatest. Unnoticed, Iceman uses his powers to freeze the soda in Johnny’s hand. When Johnny finds his drink frozen solid, Doris tells Johnny can just use his powers to unfreeze them. Johnny warms up both sodas with his hands, but still wonders what happened.
Bobby is stomping away, dejected but wishing he could introduce himself to Johnny because that would have opened up Doris’ eyes. Johnny’s head is down and he walks into two heavies dressed in suits. He apologizes for not seeing them but they respond by calling him shrimp and squirt. Iceman is already walking away, telling himself Professor X wouldn’t want him getting into a fight on his day off, so he doesn’t see the two men pull out weapons. They break into the ship’s communication room, cutting off all means of ship-to-shore communication. One of the thugs announces it is time to signal the Barracuda to attack.
On a small boat near the larger cruise ship, half a dozen men wait armed with revolvers and machine guns and dressed like modern dockworkers. On the lower deck of the cruise ship, a man flashes a light. One pirate points out the signal to Captain Barracuda. The Captain orders his men to begin their attack.
The Barracuda, dressed all in blue with an ammo belt, machine gun and eye-patch, is the first over the rails onto the cruise ship. He announces himself to the crew and then he and his armed men herd the terrified passengers to the rail. Barracuda demands the men’s wallets and women’s purses and jewelry. If no one resists, he says, no one will get hurt. The passengers cannot believe there is piracy on the Hudson River.
A pirate grabs Johnny by his lapels, pointing a revolver into his chest. When Johnny warns the pirate to stop pawing his clothes, the pirate say he’ll teach the helpless teenager a lesson he’ll never forgot. Johnny had the same idea about him and melts his gun with a fireball. Johnny hurls a few more fireballs at the fleeing pirate and proclaims that the pirates are going to face the Human Torch in a couple of seconds.
Johnny pushes Doris into a side room. He tells her to stay in there where she’ll be safe while he sees what’s going on. Doris warns him to be careful because, despite his power, there are many pirates. Johnny crouches in a darkened corner of the ship, taking off his jack and flaming up. Start being careful? That’ll be the day!
Not far from the Torch, Iceman has frosted up. He observes that this trip isn’t going to be as dull as he feared. He dashes off, talking to himself that if Doris was impressed by the Torch, wait till she sees Iceman in action.
Meanwhile, the pirate whose gun Johnny melted is warning Captain Barracuda about the Human Torch’s presence. The Captain boasts they’ll take care of the over-rated nuisance.
Just then, both Iceman and the Human Torch appear. A pirate aims his machine gun in their direction but Iceman’s shoots out a bolt of cold that freezes the gun and half the pirate’s arm. The Torch then flies close by, accidentally thawing out the gun so the pirate can open fire on both Torch and Iceman. Iceman whips up an ice shield to deflect the bullets. Torch says the bullets will melt before the hit him anyhow, but is still impressed by Iceman’s powers.
Captain Barracuda orders two of his men to train a fire hose on the two heroes. The pirate underlings are skeptical but release a jet of water as their captain commanded. The result is Iceman frozen inside a solid block of ice as the water freezes around him. Seeing Iceman unmoving, the pirates declare Barracuda a genius. Torch tells Iceman not to worry, as he uses a low intensity flame to start to thaw him out. Torch says that, by the time Iceman’s free in a couple of minutes, Torch will have everything under control.
Barracuda yells for his men to fan out, since the Torch and the Iceman can’t be everywhere at once. He fires wildly and promises they’ll stop the Torch before Iceman thaws out and then they’ll polish off Iceman too. As the Torch flies past a line of gun totting pirates, one complains that the Torch can melt their bullets. But Barracuda says the Torch’s flame will burn itself out if they keep firing. The Torch assures Barracuda that he has plenty of tracks up his sleeves. The Torch spins around, creating a fiery pinwheel that melts all of the bullets being fired from the guns around him. The pirates retreat at the unbearable hot flame.
Barracuda has another idea. He barks at his men to bring over a canvas. He commands them to toss the canvas over the Torch. He’s happy when his men blanket the Torch, but one of his men complains that the Torch will burn right through it. After all, it’s not asbestos. But another pirate insists the Barracuda knows what he’s doing it.
The Torch does burn through the canvas, but Barracuda’s plan starts to work. Torch notices the burning canvas fall to the deck, lighting the ship on fire. He turns away from the pirates to gather up the flaming debris. The Torch knows that the Barracuda wants to distract him from attacking, but he can’t let a fire start aboard a ship. The Torch carries the canvas towards the rail. He leans over to drop it into the water when the pirates push him over the rest of the way. Johnny’s flame goes out as he sinks into the ocean, worrying that he’s left the ship unprotected. Johnny pulls himself out by a rope attached to the ship but he’s drenched. He wonders how can Iceman battle all of the Barracuda’s men on his own?
Back on the ship, Captain Barracuda is ordering his men to put out the flames before they spread. One pirate is battling the flames with his jacket. He wishes they had not pushed the Torch overboard, since he could have stopped the fire.
As the panic spreads throughout the ship, the hostages pled to be let go. One of the pirates guarding the passengers thinks the pirates should all save themselves, but the other says the Barracuda will have their hides if they desert him.
The Iceman is finally fee. He also knows the Torch is helpless until he can flame up again, so Iceman focuses on dosing the flames. He creates several giant snowballs that he rolls towards the fire. The snowballs melt over the deck, extinguishing the flames. The giant snowballs also smack into two of the pirates. Iceman uses a smaller snowball to knock the gun out of the hand of another pirate. The pirate bends over to pick up his gun, but Iceman freezes his hand to the ground. When the Barracuda sees yet another pirate get his foot frozen, he comes up with another idea to fight the superhero.
Barracuda grabs a tank of gasoline and pours out a stream towards Iceman. Iceman smells the fuel and tries to move out the way, but the gas burns the ice off his foot. He jumps up in pain and clings to the side of a lifeboat. He decides to stay up there until he can think of his next move.
Barracuda orders his men to get the Iceman while he’s off balance. Suddenly, fireballs quickly smash their weapons. The Human Torch is firing down from a smoke stack. He used the hot chimney to dry off faster than anyone expected he would. The Torch whips up a flaming lasso and uses it to encircle half a dozen pirates, trapping them in between the flames. At this moment, with the odds shifted, the formerly cowed teenage passengers surge forward and overcome the last two pirates who were guarding them.
The only one left is the Barracuda, who has taken Doris as a hostage. The Torch watches as the Barracuda backs towards the railing with Doris as a shield. The villain is escaping in his small boat, firing at the retreating Human Torch, who warns the Barracuda that if any harm comes to Doris, there won’t be a place on Earth far enough for Barracuda to hide.
Captain Barracuda smiles widely as he steers the boat. He laughs at the Torch’s dramatic speech, but gloats that he is the only man ever to beat both the Torch and the Iceman. However, a few seconds later, Barracuda’s laugh is interrupted by his boat crashing into an ice jam. He doesn’t understand how that can be happening, since the temperature is way above freezing.
Captain Barracuda thinks he’s going mad, as a tall mound of ice rises from the water, trapping his escape craft atop its peak. Torch sees his chance and flies in to rescue Doris. As Torch flies off with Doris, they leave the Barracuda begging not to be left alone up on the ice mound. Doris asks Johnny what happened. In answer, Johnny asks Doris if she forgot about their frozen friend, Iceman. He also promises Barracuda he’ll send back a police ship.
Iceman is alone on the water, walking on a path of ice floats he has created. He says there’s no more reason for him to stick around, since the fire’s out and the pirates are all caught. The lone figure walks back to shore, telling himself that those guys and their dates will have something to talk about for months… and Iceman will just return to the X-Men.
Back on the boat, Johnny has changed into his civilian clothes. He’s searched the ship but the Iceman has vanished. Johnny tells Doris it’s too bad the X-Men guard their secret identities so zealously. Johnny would like to get to know Iceman better. Doris wonders if they had seen him on the boat without even realizing who he was. Doris also asks Johnny if he thinks Iceman has a girlfriend. Johnny assures her that someone like Iceman must have a dozen of them. That thought reminds Johnny that the night is still young. He put his arm around Doris’ shoulder, as the two gaze at the New York skyline and the river bathed in golden moonlight.