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Welcome to a Perfect World
This is the age of perfection. For the first time ever, the world is marvelous – and everybody knows it. Mutantkind is no longer an endangered species, and people believe this is Xavier's dream realized. 'But the reality is, it's mine. It's all of ours'. Nate Grey a.k.a. X-Man thinks to himself, while a busy gas station is manned by several mutants, and children watch as a firefighter demonstrastes his power to create water, and in a diner, a waitress uses telekinesis to carry patrons' food to their table. Mutants with unusual appearances move about with others and no one has an issue. Another mutant hovers in the air while walking their dog ona leash. Nate recalls that Xavier told him a lot about dreams – that he said “The thing about dreams is that most people think you can't control them. But you can. Dreams are built first and then shared. Dreams are a matter of will. Of action”. A hot dog vendor goes about his business, while an elderly woman creates small hurricanes that blow leaves away from her porch. At the Museum of Mutant History, a maintenance man is clearing leaves out the front of the building, while someone inside screams. Nate knows that, in that much, Xavier was right – dreams are desires so strong they can bend the world. 'So why is this only happening now?' Nate wonders. 'Because mutants were so used to being denied everything that they didn't think they deserved to realize their dreams'.
A jet descends over the city, inside it, Jean Grey remarks that she hasn't felt this much pain in a very long time. 'We're right above it' she reports, while Bishop tells the others that they should hope he remembers how to land this thing. 'I've never seen anything like zis...' Kurt Wagner a.k.a. Nightcrawler utters with his thick accent as he follows the others out of the jet. Looking around, Bishop asks 'Why aren't we stuck like the rest of 'em?' before Nate Grey explains that hr has a psychic shield up around them. 'How can we help them?' Piotr Rasputin a.k.a. Colossus asks as he strokes the head of a frozen dog, while Magneto looks at the man walking the dog and decides that this does not look like pain. 'They're not in pain...someone else is' Jean Grey explains. 'Someone with a lot on their mind' Nate adds. Li Lin a.k.a. Nature Girl crouches on the grass and puts a hand above the blades, she points out that even the grass is frozen, that it has stopped talking – and grass never stops talking. 'The air is too still' Ororo Munroe points out. 'Everything is too still' Bishop declares, looking at the staff at the gas station.
Magneto begins to ask Jean and Nate what their psychic reading is picking up, but he is interrupted by a rumbling. 'Whoever it is. They're hurting and they don't understand what's happening to them' Jean calls out. Nightcrawler asks where this is coming from to which Nate reports that he doesn't know, but he can find them, only he needs time. Colossus tells Nate to go, that they will keep this under control. Nate rushes off, while telepathically telling Jean that he needs her help, as he is being shut out. 'She's not trying to. It's not her fault. She's having a seizure' Jean informs Nate, who remarks that this is going to get worse. Jean adds that she can feel her, but she is having trouble pinpointing her exact location. Colossus lifts up a runaway ice cream truck, while Storm levitates some rubble with a gust of wind as Nate discovers that she iis in the northwest corner, but he can't tell which building. Bishop absorbs the energy from an electricity pole that falls towards him, while Jean tells Nate that it is a mess out here, and the girl they are looking for might be in the diner. 'No, it's the museum. It's radiating psychic energy' Nate responds, as Nightcrawler climbs onto a billboard advertising a film that he is starring in “Planet of the Sapiens” while Nature Girl uses her powers to calm a tree. 'She's inside the children's memorial' Jean Grey reports as Nate runs towards the Museum of Mutant History. 'I'm on it' he reports, while telling Jean that her empathy never fails.

X-Man arrives in the children's memorial, and finds a young girl on the floor, hands covering her head. X-Man calls out to her telepathically, tells her to focus on his thoughts, to open her eyes and her mind, and that they will get through this. The little girl looks up at X-Man and tells him that there are colors all over her brain. 'Like a kalibo...scope. I don't know where my mind stops and the world begins'. Nate assures her that it is okay, that it's not her fault and that she is having a seizure. Luna asks him how it stops, and he tells her to let him in. She starts to calm down, and tells Nate that she doesn't know what is happening. Nate explains to the girl that she is still getting used to her wonderful powers, and that with her strength, she could be part of their team one day. 'Me?' Luna asks. 'Yes, you' Nate tells her. Luna gets to her feet and asks X-Man how she can, as she made a mistake – a big one. Nate reveals that all mutants make mistakes, even him, even the other X-Men. 'You're just one powerful individual among many. That's all. Over time you'll realize, you stand apart from the world and your own emotions'. He adds that what she does with her gift is up to her, and to remember, the whole world is her tribe.
X-Man leads Luna out of the Museum of Mutant History and remarks that being a good shaman means always thinking for yourself, because thinking for yourself means acting for the world. 'It's not as bad as I thought' Luna replies as she looks around at the world outside the Museum. 'It never is' X-Man tells her. 'This is the little one who caused all this trouble? She's okay now?' Magneto asks as X-Man and Luna walk past him. 'Sure is' X-Man calls back. Nearby, some civilians are swooning over Colossus. 'That car nearly crushed us!' a woman exclaims. 'Thanks, Colossus!' a man declares. Colossus poses with them for a photo and tells them that he did only what was expected of him. 'This is one for the ages!' a green-skinned mutant with the camera declares. Nightcrawler and Jean Grey walk alongside X-Man, and Nightcrawler asks him what he is going to do with the girl. 'She can't go back to Cerebro' Jean points out. 'Then we'll give her a new home'  Nate suggests.
Soon, the X-Men's jet descends over the Summers Institute. 'The nurses said I couldn't come here until my ninth hatchday' Luna remarks, to which X-Man tells her that there will always be exceptions for the exceptional. Nate walks Luna towards the Summers Institute, where they see Warren Worthington III a.k.a. Angel, who tells Nate that he keeps seeing his face on the tube, adding that it has been too long since they have shared the same air. 'You never shoulda left the team' Nate replies. Angel points out that someone needs to cultivate the minds of tomorrow, and Nate remarks that there are a lot more of them now. 'Gone are the days when there were only five of us' Angel agrees. 'Sure are' Nate replies, and tells Angel that, lucky for him, he has one more to add to the tanks. Angel looks at Luna and points out that she must be an early enrollment. 'The nurses said it was big, but I didn't think it was this big!' Luna gasps as she looks around her new surroundings. Angel introduces himself to the young girl and asks her what her name is. Luna smiles back at him, and Angel asks her if she was named after the moon, telling her that here at the Summers Institute, they can help her reach the moon, if that is the kind of mutant she wants to be. Luna just looks back at him, before Angel tells her that if she thinks the outside is impressive, then he can show her the wonders inside. Luna looks at Nate asks if he can come too. 'If it pleases him' Angel tells her.
Passing through a foyer, where a large statue of Cyclops is on display, Angel tells Luna that he knows the nurses told her about what they do here when she came out of the hatchery, but that seeing it is a different story. He adds that what started out as a humble private school has evolved into a collective community of individual learning and progressive thinking. They pass a library, where Rockslide and other mutants can be seen looking through books, as Angel tells Luna that in the history department she will learn about everything from the first mutants to Xavier's dream all the way up to when Hope and her X-Men sacrificed themselves and “The Resolution” beyond that. They enter the medical department, and pass a lab where Anole and a blonde student are experimenting with chemicals. Angel tells Luna that the medical department is dedicated to using mutant powers to benefit society, that they research ways to improve mental health, medical science, progressive natal solutions and the benefits of secondary mutants. 'What's a natal sol-tution?' Luna asks. 'Solution, it's how you were born' Angel smiles.
They pass a room where Shiro Yoshida a.k.a. Sunfire is teaching a class, 'This is, uh... our civil management department. Here we teach eager students how to keep and, well, manage the peace' Angel explains, adding that things are a little slow. '...that's why we always come back to identity, autonomy and harmony' Sunfire remarks at the front of the class. They go outside, to where Robert “Glob” Herman can be seen inside a chicken coop, checking off a list, as Angel tells Luna that this is the thriving agricultural department, modeled after the old Kibbutzim in Israel, now their farms account for seven percent of the world's total agricultural output, and their sister schools contribute another 30 percent. 'If you couldn't tell, this is our biggest department. Most students want to be part of our little revolution' Angel tells Luna, kneeling down in front of her, he asks her how this all sounds to her. 'Good. Will this be my new home?' Luna smiles, looking up at X-Man. 'For the next ten years' Angel tellls her. 'Wow. Just like the nurses said! This is the coolest!' Luna exclaims. Glob looks over to Angel, X-Man and Luna and watches them intently, as Angel informs Luna that this school is dedicated to finding her place in the world, and tells her that eventually she will come into her own, that she will flourish, and might even get to fly to that moon. He gaurantees to Luna that these will be the best years of her life – and that she will remember everything.
The X-Sanctuary, the X-Men are gathered in a kitchen, where a team photo looks down on them. Bishop remarks that he hasn't had that much energy surging through him in a long time, and that his muscles feel like they are on fire. 'Stop being such a slabovol'nyy chelovek' Colossus replies. 'A what?' Bishop asks. 'A weak man' Colossus explains. Bishop points out that they are not all made of steel, and announces that he needs to get home, fix himself a bourbon and sit in silence to give his body some R&R. Jean tells Bishop that he is free to go, before Nature Girl smiles and asks the others what it was like on that day everyone became a mutant. 'Was it as crazy as today?' she asks. Magneto tells Nature Girl that she can't even imagine, and that they found an entire city under the Atlantic Ocean. 'That many people drowning... Nature Girl utters, as Magneto explains that they were transported there by an 8-year-old boy who had lost his mother. Colossus informs her that he was called home, that there were riots in St Petersburg, and people thought it was a chemical weapon, thought that Americans were attacking. 'Germany was no different' Nightcrawler adds. 'No. You don't understand. I saw an infant with the power of a black hole in the palm of his hands' Colossus reveals. 'The sounds of stretching bones will -' Colossus begins, before Storm interrupts him, declaring that Nature Girl does not need the details, and that there is no sense in harping on about the past.
Nate remarks that what he thinks Colossus is trying to say is that the world changed quickly, but that they are here now, and that is all that matters. Bishop tells the others that he has lived in enough broken timelines that he never thought they would get here, before excusing himself, he announces that he is going to go enjoy this world. 'Hope knows I earned that drink' he adds as he walks past Jean Grey. Nightcrawler yawns and stretches as he reports that he needs to get going as the Cuckoos are calling. Jean Grey and Bishop's fingers briefly touch as Bishop passes her – and this does not go unseen by X-Man. The entire team starts to leave the kitchen, 'You're all going?' X-Man asks them. 'I guess that leaves me to clean up your mess again' he mutters, looking at the plates and glasses left on the table.
Soon, Storm sits in a rocking chair in her living room, knitting, while Nate meditates upside down in his room. 'Do you need more water, my friends?' Nature Girl asks a small shrub as she sits outside. Colossus gazes out his window as he gets into bed, while Magneto sits at his bar, a drink in one hand, he levitates two metal balls. Nightcrawler practices his lines as he stands in his living room: “...now hear this, Scarside. Your life's about to change. I doubt very much that Department X would take kindly to what you're doing...”. Another room is empty – as Jean Grey and bishop sit on a sofa, watching a movie, a bowl of popcorn resting on the sofa between them. 'Jean?' Bishop asks, turning to Jean, who asks him what is on his mind. 'I think you know' Bishop replies. Jean leans into Bishop, 'I need to tell you something' she utters, before she places her lips on his. Bishop appears slightly surprised, before he kisses back, and the bowl of popcorn falls to the floor with a thud.
Shortly, 'So. Is this what you meant when you said you wanted some “R&R”?' Jean asks. Bishop sits up in bed and tells Jean that something is not right. 'I really need to -' he begins as Jean sits up and tells him that they don't have to stop, that the others won't find out. 'I can't help but feel like this was a mistake' Bishop utters. 'I mistake...I've made before' he adds as he gets out of bed and start to get dressed. Jean tells Bishop that she can sense his worry, but assures him that this is natural. 'No... no. Haven't we evolved beyond this? Beyond romance? Beyond coupling? We can't go backwards. We know that individuals -' Bishop begins, before Jean interrupts him, declaring that they stronger together, and she knows he feels that too. Bishop tells Jean that he doesn't know what he feels, but that all he knows is that he has done this before. 'Obviously' Jean jokes. 'I don't mean it like that. I...need to be alone. Clear my head' Bishop remarks as he leaves the room. 'Lucas...' Jean calls out, but Bishop just bids Jean good night.
'Zis world isn't yours to destroy. I'm not going to tell you again. Let. Her. Go' Nightcrawler, wearing a spacesuit, warns a purple-skinned opponent on a moon-surface type studio set, while the wide-eyed Meggan finds herself held captive by the purple-skinned Scarside. 'The world you know has already ended. It ruined itself' Scarside declares, before asking Nightcrawler why he is still fighting for it. Scarside fires his weapon, but Nightcrawler teleports away, and then re-appears next to Scarside, where he grabs his arm, causing Scarside to fire upwards. Meggan frees herself from Scarside's grasp and slams her hand into Scarside's neck. Nightcrawler and Meggan both move away from Scarside, as tentacles extend from his arms. 'When will you see beyond the illusion?' Scarside asks. Meggan tells him that he is lost in a fantasy, before Scarside lashes out at Nightcrawler, knocking himm backwards. Nightcrawler responds by kicking Scarside in the face, 'Now hear this, Scarside. Your life's about to change. I doubt very much that Division X is going to -' he begins, before someone shouts 'CUT!'
'Verdammt! Department. Department X, not Division X' Kurt mutters, apologizing to everyone, he tells them it has been a long day. As Meggan helps Scarside to his feet, the actor remarks that he hated everything about his performance, so he is glad they get another role. A green-skinned mutant tuns to the film crew and tells them to reset, and that they need fifteen minutes to reset the camera. Two of the blonde Stepford Cuckoos approach Kurt, one of them announces that she has hundreds of headshots that need signing. 'MUTV is asking for an exclusive on-camera interview tomorrow night' the other Cuckoo reports, informing Nightcrawler that if they take that, they will need to push his bookstore appearance. Kurt turns to someone and asks if they need to run through the scene again, but he's told that they are good and he can do his thing.
Nightcrawler exits the studio with the two Cuckoos, one of them asks him if he can make it work, as MUTV needed an answer ten minutes ago. Kurt tells her to make sure it is not like the last time he was on MUTV – he only wants to talk about the movie, nothing X-Men related and nothing about his personal life – nothing about Mastermind, either. The other Cuckoo tells him that they are pushing his appearance to next week, and tells him not to forget it, before handing him some photos and a pen and telling him that the kids at Cerebro East are waiting for these. 'They can't get enough of you out there' she adds, as Kurt begins to sign the photos.
As he checks some weapons, Bishop thinks to himself that there isn't much to worry about these days, as Stryfe is dead, Magneto is one of  them and all the other villains are gone – there is only peace – but his mind can't handle being still – it never could. He locks the weapons away, then pulls the jackets hanging in his closet in front of the weapons compartment. His mind has always been on the verge of defense, there is always energy running through him, it creates a kind of anxiety that won't go away – just part of him that can't be shut off. But for everyone else, everything is still, and that stilness allows them to think about that future. That is why they have all these new holidays that look ahead, not to the past – even Xavier Day – it's not about honoring the man that once was, instead, they write their hopes and dreams onto sheets of paper and send them up into the atmosphere. He pours himself a drink in his kitchen, remembering how the hopes and dreams are set on fire in a big display of wishful thinking, it is a beautiful gesture meant to stoke the flames of the future – as history makes people uncomfortable, so nobody does it anymore – nobody but him.
Suddenly, the door bursts open, 'Lucas Bishop, you've engaged in a forbidden relationship!' Betsy Braddock a.k.a. Psylocke declares, leaping towards Bishop with her psi-knife ready. 'This is your third breach of the guiding principles' Bobby Drake a.k.a. Iceman points out, a frozen ball of ice ready to throw at Bishop, while a woman with brown hair tells Bishop to put his hands where they can see them. Bishop leaps backwards over his sofa and remarks that he thought someone would come – he just didn't think it would be Bobby. 'Don't do it, man. You're caught. Give up' Bobby responds as he increases the size of his ball of ice. Bishop ducks down a hallway as the ball of ice slams into the sofa. Betsy appears in front of Bishop and slams her fist into his face. Bishop retaliates by firing a blast of energy at her, knocking Betsy to the floor. He then rushes into his bedroom, 'Where you trying to go?' Bobby calls out as he pursues Bishop, catching up to him, he knocks Bishop over and reminds him that he told him not to run.
Bishop reaches for his closet, but Bobby leans over him and starts punching him with large blocks of ice. He tries to melt the ice with an energy beam, but Betsy grabs his head and shoves her psi-knife into him. The other woman approaches them, and small tentacles appear at the ends of her fingers, 'Let's see what's hiding in that dome. Memories never lie' she remarks as she leans over Bishop and places her mouth over his head. 'They confirm what we already know' Betsy remarks, calling the other woman Moneta. 'Can't believe I'm about to do this to one of the X-Men' Moneta utters. 'Get the #$%& away from me!' Bishop protests. 'They're in my head! AAAAHHH!' Bishop calls out as Moneta's tentacle fingers enter his brain through his mouth and nose. Memories of Bishop and Jean Grey on a beach appear. Followed by Bishop and Gambit arguing, and Cyclops standing between them, and finally, Bishop sitting on a sofa.
'I've seen more than enough. You're disgusting. A disgrace. Both of you' Bobby exclaims. 'It wasn't her! I was the one who wanted this. I'm begging -' Bishop begins, Betsy's psi-blade at his neck. 'Not based on what I just saw' Moneta remarks, before asking Betsy what her read is. Betsy declares that Bishop is lying, just like the last time. 'What about Jean?' Bobby enquires. Betsy tells him that Jean is set for reconditioning, and they need to deal with Bishop first. 'Thanks to this little device, youy're about to lose everything that makes you, you' Betsy tells Bishop as she prepares to place a collar on him. Bishop's foot moves backwards towards the closet, but too late, 'Lucas Bishop...you've been excommunicated' Psylocke announces as the collar is placed on Bishop, who then vanishes in a haze.
The next day, a different set of clothes hangs in Bishop's closet. The hallway and living room are no longer disturbed as if there had been a fight.
Outside: 'Lost in reverie again, Jean?' Storm asks as she approaches Jean Grey who is looking at a statue of the First X-Men. Jean turns to Storm and tells her that she is thinking about how much Scott would have loved to have been here with them – and Logan, Xavier, all of them. 'They died so we could live' Storm reminds Jean, suggesting that they go on, as they will be late for the briefing, and they need to see what today's dawn brings. They walk side by side, and Jean notes that Storm is in high spirits, so asks her if she had a good night. Storm tells her that she did – that it was uneventful, solitary and beautiful. 'The most uneventful nights are often the best ones' Jean replies. Storm reveals that she got lost in her knitting, that she is making a new pashmina for Nature Girl. 'That one she's been wearing is...' Storm's voice trails off. 'It stinks. So bad. I lvoe her to pieces. But she's like a walking barn' Jean adds. 'I didn't have the heart to tell her' Storm adds.
They carry on towards the X-Sanctuary, as Storm asks Jean if she had a good evening. 'Yeah... I – hmm. I don't really remember' Jean responds. Storm turns to Jean and points out that she always remembers everything. 'I can't for the life of me...this doesn't...' Jean utters, before Storm asks her if she is all right. Jean tells Storm that she just feels off, that something is wrong. They enter the meeting room, where Magneto, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Nature Girl and X-Man are seated at the conference table. 'Are we missing someone?' Jean asks. The others look around the table to X-Man, who replies 'Of course we are. It's amazing she makes it to these morning briefings at all' 'Never was a morning person. Ya'll should be used to that by now' a young woman standing in a doorway while eating an apple remarks. Nature Girl looks at Magneto and tells him that she still doesn't understand why they have these meetings so early. 'I believe it was Shakespeare who said “Better three hours too soon than a minute too late”' Magneto responds, while Nightcrawler points out that it also allows him to make his call time.
The other young woman straddles a chair as she joins the others and tells Nightcrawler that she is okay with that because she loves Meggan – so if he keeps making movies with her, she will keep getting up early for him. 'What's on the docket for today?' Laura Kinney a.k.a. X-23 asks, while X-Man looks up at a team photograph – the same photograph that was in the kitchen – only with X-23 in Bishop's place. 'Now that we're all here... something a little strange was brought to my attention last night' X-Man reports, reaching into his pocket, he tells the other X-Men that he is not sure what to make of this yet, or if it is even worth their time, but he wanted them all to see it. He places a piece of paper on the table and reports that last night while Department X were dropping off cookies, they gave him this, they told him they found it near Union Square in New York.
'Whoever that is, they need a better headshot' Nightcrawler remarks. 'Those lips...' Nature Girl utters, while Magneto looks at the flyer and tells the others that this is no laughing matter – this is the language of a revolutionary. Jean suggests that they don't jump to conclusions, but agrees that this is a bit concerning. 'Are you serious? I don't see a problem with it...seems peaceful enough' X-23 tells the others as she looks at the flyer which depicts the head of Apocalypse and the words “It's okay to love. Come see what you've been missing”. And X-Man remembers that Xavier also told him that “dreams are no different than stories”. He thinks that this is a story, a dream, both familiar and unlike any other – one spun out of desperation and good intentions.
“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make
the revolution. You can only be the revolution.
It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere”
- Ursula K Le Guin, 'The Dispossessed'


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Nate Grey, the mutant sometimes known as X-Man floats seemingly in nothingness, a Life Seed glowing at his side. He thinks of how the Life Seed wouldn't let him die – it wouldn't let any of them die. The Life Seed could feel it – they were mingling, becoming something new, and as the world faded, their combined energies flowed through nothing and everything at once. The Life Seed was the spark, Nate Grey the kindling, and together they created life. Not just life, millions of years passed in an instant. It all happened so fast – they created an entire world. Nate's energy flowed simultaneously creating and becoming part of mountains, rivers, mutants and the minds of every creature. Everyone was here with him, and part of him was with them all. And, if that was the case, Nate Grey was going to make this place special. Deserved. Earned. He was going to rescue them from their destiny. So, this is not an alternate universe. This is a whole new plane of existence.
The mutants here in this plane of existence, the ones created in this world, they don't know a life outside of this – and they never will, it is impossible. Such is the fate for these children playing games in a park. The playing field needed to be leveled – everyone needed the same tale. The same explanation for a perfect world populated entirely by mutants. They needed to remember things – just not necessarily the way they actually happened. It became known as the Resolution. Other mutants go about their business, some sit around in a bar, while others play at a swimming pool. And some are in a cafe, listening to a live band, as Nate Grey thinks to himself that, like all stories, all dreams, there wasn't a clear answer for everything. But the mutants couldn't be content with that. They needed more – they always need more.
Nate admits that perhaps he made mistakes, that this world wasn't perfect – but it could have been. Because he is aware of everyone, at all times – as if they were part of him. When they take a step, he feels it as though they are walking on his chest. And with everything that has happened, they are what makes him the saddest – as some of them have worked so hard to regain memories of their past selves – and it has caused them to break.
At that moment, within the cafe a waitress with several squid-like arms is frightened and drops the tray she is carrying when a brick is thrown through a window. Other mutants in the cafe get up from their seats and begin to run away. 'When will they wake up?' Jean-Pau Beaubier a.k.a. Northstar asks as he stands on the other side of the broken window with his teammates Bobby Drake a.k.a. Iceman and Jubilee, and their friend Julio Richter a.k.a. Rictor. 'Let's get outta here!' Jubilee exclaims. She tells Bobby to come on, but Bobby is looking through the window, and sees a boy huddled up against the cafe counter. 'What the %$&# are you waiting for?' Jubilee asks. 'I... I just wanted a burger' the boy utters as Bobby climbs through the window and approaches him, assuring him that he isn't going to hurt him.
Bobby introduces himself as a Department X clerk, and tells the boy that he wants to help, as that is his job. Bobby asks the boy what his name is, and the boy tells him that it is Solis. 'You must have pretty cool powers with a name like that' Bobby tells Solis, who reveals that he can make stars, sort of, and sometimes. 'Don't sweat it. You'll figure it out. You know how long it took me to keep from icing everything I touched?' Bobby asks Solis, who asks 'How long?' Bobby tells Solis that it took years, 'But you'll be creating galaxies in no time' Bobby assures Solis, before suggesting they get him back to the Summers Institute. He informs Solis that he went to a school like that, and they taught him to love himself, to be the best version of himself that he can be. Bobby hugs Solis, before turning to those patrons still in the cafe and apologizing for this, he offers a round of milkshakes on him. 'Can I get one?' Solis asks.
Shortly: 'Wooooo!' Solis calls out excitedly as he rides on Bobby's ice-sled, which moves swiftly towards the Summers Institute. Bobby drops down in front of a large statue of Cyclops, and Solis runs off, exclaiming that his friends are going to be so jealous. 'Thanks, Iceman!' he calls back. Warren Worthington a.k.a. Angel, the Dean of the Summers Institute approaches Iceman and remarks that he sees he is lost in the glory days, before suggesting that Bobby should be out there dealing with those fissures. 'I've been here all of 30 seconds and you're already on my case, Angel?' Bobby replies, turning to the winged mutant, adding that he tried to ice a fissure up, but no dice. 'Still don't even know what the hell they are' he remarks. Angel adds that it has been a while since they have seen burning holes in the sky. 'Makes you wonder if the world's coming to an end' he suggests. 'Thought the same thing when I saw a Sentinel for the first time. We're still standing here' Bobby replies. Angel decides that Bobby looks rather unhealthy, and asks if everything is okay on the civil management front. Bobby admits that he isn't really sure what they do anymore, and that it feels like he has lost part of himself. 'Bobby, your responsibility is to yourself, first and foremost' Angel replies, while several students rush past.
Nate Grey thinks that identity, autonomy and harmony are above all else. A responsibility that merely guided their choices, for who they are today was of their own accord. Those are just words, the foundation by which they live. At first, he thought that this was about creating something that lasts, that can flourish and blossom – but for a seed to grow, it requires the right conditions, and sometimes, they have to make personal sacrifices for the good of the tribe.
At the outdoor agricultural division within the Summers Institute, several students go about tending to their plants and gardens, while Hope, Scott and Logan the chickens strut about freely. 'Okay, kids. We're ready when you are' a reporter calls out to several students as she stands in front of her camera crew, and the chickens run around her feet. Several students stand next to the reporter, who introduces herself as Irene Schank from MUTV News. She tells viewers that she is here with some special guests from the Summers Institute agricultural division. 'Can you tell us how a school this big creates zero waste?' she asks.
'We lost that wisdom long ago' Glob Herman thinks to himself as he sits within the common room of the Danger Room prison complex, while other prisoners around him fight with the guards. Glob looks up at the television, which shows the students at his old school answering the reporter's question: 'It's simple. We're always looking to make the world a better place. Nothing should ever just be wasted or thrown away. We think everything has value'. Glo looks over to where a prisoner is standing over a guard, before another guard slams their batton down onto Glob's head. 'Let's go, you #$%&*%#* walking candle!' the guard exlaims, but Glob does not respond, and continues to sit on his chair.
Nearby, Anole has fallen to the ground, and several guards are stomping on him. 'Make it stop!' Anole calls out, while one of the guards warns him that he and his friends are going to die. 'You seriously tried to take on the X-Men?' another guard asks. Rockslide is in the line to get some food in the cafeteria as a guard rushes up behind him. 'I don't wanna hurt you' Rockslide declares, while in another area, Armor smashes a television over the head of one of the other guards.
There is chaos throughout the Danger Room prison complex, more guards and more prisoners engage each other, while two guards help the injured Warden Forge, and as a large fight plays out on the basketball court, Dani Moonstar, Lorna Dane a.k.a. Polaris, Lucas Bishop, Gabby Kinney and Hank McCoy the Beast escape through open doors.
'All I asked was that you focused on the here and now. It should have been simple. Self-control techniques go hand in hand with the gift of mutation. I believed you could police yourselves. Most of you did just fine, but I was naive... some of you couldn't abide. It's in your nature to rebel and I couldn't account for that' Nate Grey comments.
Under the glow of the moon, the escaped mutants make their way through a desert and Dani asks Bishop where they are, as she has never seen anything like this. 'What's the plan now?' Polaris enquires. Bishop tells them that he doesn't know where they are, but that they have to get to X-Sanctuary, as that is where Nate is and where they will get their answers. 'Isn't it an island?' Gabby asks, while Polaris points out that they need a ride. They see a gas station in the distance, and Bishop remarks that they cannot take someone's car. Beast agrees and suggests that it would be most unwise for escaped prisoners to reveal themselves. 'Then we stay low and keep moving' Bishop tells the others. 'We're in a desert!' Lorna exclaims, while Dani points out that there is nothing around them. 'We can't be what they want us to be. I refuse to -' Bishop begins, before his speech is interrupted by the honking of a car horn. 'We're just borrowing it. Get in!' Gabby calls out from the driver's seat of the stolen car.
As the sun slowly rises, the stolen car drives down an empty road. Gabby drives while Bishop sits in the front passenger seat, and declares that they gotta move faster. He asks Lorna if she can do anything to get this thing airborne. 'I don't know how to drive a flying car!' Gabby exclaims. Crammed in the backseat with the Beast and Dani, Polaris remarks that Gabby shouldn't be driving at all, before she uses her control over metals to levitate the car into the air. As the car moves through the air, strange energies begin to dart around it. 'What the hell is that?' someone asks. 'They're everywhere!' Bishop exclaims. 'Watch out!' Gabby calls out as the landscape below them begins to break up.
'Trying to hold this world together is taking an immense toll on my body and mind. Those fissures...they are the sores I bear on my flesh. They are the cracks in my world. They are also windows of perception into our shared history...into the past that you know to be true' Nate Grey tells the X-Men – Jean Grey, Magneto, Kurt Wagner a.k.a. Nightcrawler, Lin Li a.k.a. Nature Girl, Ooro Munroe a.k.a. Storm and Laura Kinney a.k.a. X-23 – who gather around him. 'So the X-Tracts have nothing to do with these?' X-23 asks, shielding her eyes from the energy that appears above them. 'Are they still a threat? Were they ever?' Nature Girl enquires. Nate hangs his head and tells the others that they don't seem to understand – they needed En Sabah Nur, needed them to feel important, like they were fighting for something, that their movement was an experiment, to see if they would shut it down or let it continue. 'Do you really think so little of us?' Magneto asks, while Jean declares that they don't fight for the sake of it – they fight for their rights as a race.
Nate tells Jean that maybe they used to, but that it is not a coincidence that a revolution is both a movement and return to a point of origin – somewhere within the circle, they lost track. Nightcrawler clenches a fist and tells Nate to stop dodging the question, and Storm asks him to speak plainly. 'I was never trying to hurt anyone. Nothing was supposed to be a threat unless I ewanted it to be' Nate responds, when suddenly there is a surge of energy, and the X-Tracts – Murshid En Sabah Nur, Kitty Pryde a.k.a. Shadowcat, Colossus a.k.a. Piotr Rasputin, Alison Blaire a.k.a. Dazzler, Trevor Hawkins a.k.a. Eye-Boy and Sharesse a.k.a. Unveil – appear. Jean walks over to them and asks Piotr where he has been. 'And why the #$%& are you with them?' X-23 snarls.
Colossus announces that it doesn't matter anymore, that he is tired – tired of fighting, tired of struggling, tired of heartbreak – tired of all of it. He states that over the past 24 hours, he has lived ten years and the only thing he has come out with on the other side is knowledge and suffering. 'X-Man is right' Colossus announces, and Kitty tells everyone that this place is what's best for them. 'Hear the truth of the X-Tracts! Embrace the -' Murshid begins, but X-Man addresses him as Apocalypse and tells him that his voice is no longer needed, while Jean tells Piotr that he has no idea what he is talking about, and informs him that they don't belong here. 'What if our world needs us?' Storm asks. 'What if they dont, Ororo? Consider what we'd be giving up' Nightcrawler points out. Kitty approaches Jean and tells her that this place isn't without problems, but that they have earned this. 'Who the #$%& do you think you are?' Jean responds. 'Someone who knows you better than you know yourself right now. You're not thinking -' Kitty begins, before the discussion is interrupted by a flying car that crashes down to the ground nearby.
Polaris, Moonstar and Gabby appear to have been knocked out, while Bishop rubs his head and Beast leaves the car, asking if the collar is going to work. The Beast explains that he has made the adjustments to it, so X-Man will be even more powerless than they were. 'Lucas...' Jean utters as she sees Bishop, while the Beast bounds towards the other gathered mutants, followed by Bishop who tells him that he has his back. The Beast leaps at X-Man and snaps the collar on around his neck. 'Right on time' Nate Grey remarks. 'How's it feel to be powerless?' Bishop asks as the Beast shoves Nate to the ground, 'Time to answer for years of locking me in a prison!' the Beast tells Nate, while Jean rushes to them and tells them to stop, that they will kill them all. Jean telekinetically moves the Beast away from Nate, while Nightcrawler teleports in, grabs Bishop, and teleports away.
'The war never ends. Come, Unveil. There's still work to be done' Murshid tells Unveil as they run off. Colossus looks at them, but Kitty tells him to let them go. Colossus disagrees, and remarks that it is their responsibility to keep this world safe – for old times' sake. Eye-Boy and Dazzler run over to Nate Grey, with Eye-Boy admitting that he has no idea what is going on, but that it looks like they are about to fight the X-Men. Dazzler  tells Eye-Boy to come on, that this is the day they have been waiting for.
The Beast lands near the car, where Lorna, Dani and Gabby have come to, and are starting to get out of the vehicle. 'Pretty sure that's my spine poking through my neck...' Gabby remarks, adding that it is a good thing she can't feel it, before she pops her bones back into place. Colossus confronts Murshid, while Kitty kicks Unveil. Eye-Boy and Dazzler are knocked back by a blast that Bishop fires at them, and Gabby decides that Bishop really needs to work on his aim. She pops her claws, when suddenly, X-23 confronts her. 'I know what you think you're doing' Laura tells her. 'No one wants to kill him more than me. But take it from your big sister. You can't' Laura tells Gabby, hugging her. 'Why didn't you come for me?' Gabby asks. Laura tells her that Nate $%&#^$ them up so much that she didn't even know if Gabby was alive. 'I missed you' she adds. 'Missed you too, but we can catch up after I have his head' Gabby tells Laura, pushing her back.
Gabby and Bishop close in on Nate, but Jean, Magneto, Storm, nightcrawler, Nature Girl, Dazzler and Eye-Boy stand in their way. Bishop tells them to stand down, and points out that they are protecting a man who owes them a lot of answers. 'You can't kill him' Nature Girl exclaims, and Magneto warns them that if they do, they will destroy this world and everyone in in. Jean levitates Bishop and suspends him mid-air as he asks 'Are you that brainwashed? Put me down. He had me imprisoned...for something we both did' he tells Jean, who announces that she doesn't condone anything that Nate has done, but that this is more complicated than revenge. The Beast leaps at Jean, knocking her over and causing her to release bishop, who falls to the ground.
As Gabby lunges towards Magneto from one direction, Polaris approaches him from the other. 'Dad?' Lorna calls out. 'Dad... I... I...' Lorna begins, as Magneto turns to face her. '... Dad?' he asks. 'My children are dead... I've never seen you before' Magneto replies, while casually tossing Gabby aside. An enraged Polaris flies towards Nate: 'You've taken everything from us! Mt own father doesn't even recognize me!' she exlaims – but before she can reach Nate, the Beast pulls Nate away, and tells Lorna that Nate Grey must answer for his crimes. 'How far you've fallen, old friend. Perhaps it's time you stopped playing god and give us our lives back' the Beast suggests. 'I'm no god' Nate replies, before motioning to a large crack that forms in the ground, and Cyclops, Havok, Dani Moonstar, Madrox and Warlox appear in the true world.
Several of the mutants stop fighting, and look down into the crack as they see Dani Moonstar back in the real world tell Cyclops that when this is over they are going to have some words. 'If we're both still alive when this is over, you can say anything you want. But they're coming, so for now... hold the line, X-Men' Cyclops replies. 'Is this the miserable life you want to go back to?' Nate asks, while a wide-eyed Jean utters '... they're... alive?' Nearby, Nature Girl is riding the back of a large bear, and has trapped Eye-Boy in some vines as he tells her that he loves her, and not in a weird, culty way. 'You don't. You're misinterpreting your hormones' Nature Girl replies, while Dani rushes past Colossus and Murshid, 'That was...me. The real me' she utters as she runs towards Nate Grey, who goes wide-eyed when he sees her. Nate levitates the mutants around him out of the way as he looks up at Dani, who is glowing with a strange energy as she switches between her original New Mutants costume, then her Mutant Liberation Front costume, and the costume she currently wears, as Nate asks her how she is here, as she was never part of this world.
'I'm part of you. Irrevocably. Forever' Dani replies. 'No. You were never brought here! X-Man remarks, to which Dani tells him that isolating himself doesn't break the bonds that he has to others. 'It's not possible... I left you behind' Nate adds. 'And yet I stand before you' Dani points out, reminding Nate that they shared so much, so when you have what they had, you let another person live inside you. 'We're a tribe, Nate' Dani remarks, adding that relationships are part of them. Nate suddenly drops the other mutants from the air, and stands up, 'No. Relationships are what ruin us. You've all just proben that point' he exclaims, adding that the pattern is so obvious, but they still can't see it. 'If it's what you really weant...perhaps your mempories will help' he decides, as the mutants around him suddenly begin to revert to their true appearances and costumes. 'You want to know what you're missing out on? What you're pining for?' Nate asks them.
Magneto looks angry as Nate declares that it is a world where the greatest foes among them started out as best friends. 'Where your own identity is so intertwined with the man you were cloned from that everyone can't help but place you in his shadow' Nate adds, while X-23 frowns. Jean looks down as she reverts to her red and blue costume, and Nate states that it is a world where romantic relationships are the very thing that killed them. 'A world where you know you're a god and yet others can't appreciate the beauty of your power' he remarks, while Storm looks at herself, and Nightcrawler strokes his own beard as Nate states that it is a world where you can never be a star because people despise the way you look. 'A world with no shortage of heartbreak and regrets' X-Man declares as Colossus looks at his body, his missing arm now returned.
Nate hangs his head and tells the X-Men that when they give up the things they think they need, their concerns become less selfish. He adds that their ability to perceive color, for example, is more advanced than any other animal, and yet it is superfluous. 'Without it, standards of beauty would shift to something more all-encompassing. We can give up the things we think are part of us' Nate states, adding that most mutants in this world have no trouble with sacrifice, and in their world, mutants were misunderstood, feared, hated, while here they have found peace – they know nothing but themselves, and that doesn't scare them. The former prisoners of the Danger Room revert to their true appearances, and on a red carpet at a film premiere, Surge looks at herself, while contained within his mental restraints, Legion appears at peace, writing on some paper, and young mutants at the hatching center explore their powers.
Nate tells the X-Men that relationships define the X-Men, but ultimately pervert their cause. 'How many times have we gone back and tried to fix things when all along the thing that was broken was us?' he asks. Nate declares that he tried showing the X-Men a better world is possible, that they deserve to be better. 'By putting us in your personal snow globe?' Gabby asks. 'There are real lives at stake!' Jean exclaims, and Storm tells Nate that they can't just abandon what they had. 'There are mutants who need us' Jean adds, before Nightcrawler tells everyone that he thinks what Nate is saying is that it is time for them to stop defining themselves by the way people look at them. 'We have everything we have ever wanted here' Colossus tells everyone.
'Look at what you've become in a world where you're no longer feared' Nate tells the X-Men. '&$#& you' Bishop replies, while the Beast points out that they became what Nate wanted them to become. 'If your personality changed, that was your reaction to this world' Nate explains, but Beast tells him that their personalities changed because he separated them from what mattered most. 'We've had our problems but...we are who we are because of our bonds to others' Jean corrects Nate, adding that life doesn't make sense in isolation, and that they need to be free to make mistakes and to make those mistakes together. Nightcrawler tends to Nature Girl, who has fallen to the ground, and tells Jean that, with all due respect, he disagrees, and Colossus announces that he doesn't wwant to go back to that. Nature Girl explains that she doesn't feel like herself anymore and doesn't want to go, either.
As the X-Men gather around, Bishop asks them if they are out of their minds and reminds everyone that her has seen them all – every timeline, alternate reality and plane of existence – they all end the same way. 'Nate created a secret police force designed to enforce the rules that he decided for everyone. Even the resistance movement was a sham. That's one of the most sinister $#%&%' things I've ever seen' Bishop declares, announcing that Utopias can't exist, that they require everyone to exist in stasis. Apocalypse has returned to his true appearance now and stands alongside Dazzler, Kitty, Eye-Boy and Unveil, while Bishop declares that it is impossible for him to live this way, and that other people, by their very nature, must push for change, too.
'We've got no choice. We need to destroy this place' Bishop announces, while the Beast explains that leaving this type of spatial anomaly unchecked could lead to disastrous consequences. Jean hangs her head, while Storm points out that they are not considering the people who live here, and Magneto remarks that if he understands Nate correctly, the people who live here are just as real as all of them. 'If you destroy this world you destroy me with it' Nate explains, adding that the entire population of this world will perish. 'But the choice is yours' he remarks, before holding up the Life Seed and telling the X-Men to take it, that it is what started this, and is the key to ending it. The X-Men look at the Life Seed, while Nate tells them that if that's what they want, they should plunge it through his chest.
'Cowards' Magneto mutters when no one makes any movement. Magneto strides towards Nate and takes the Life Seed, boasting that he will clean up the X-Men's mess once again – that he will bear this burden. 'This is what's right to you? Armageddon?' Nightcrawler asks. The Beast reminds him that this is a land of make-believe, and Jean adds that it is time for them to go home. Jean points out that the mutants here, real as they may feel, are constructs, and their responsibility lies in the real world, with their friends and family. 'We all saw Scott and the others. They need us' Jean declares. Nate looks at his “mother” and remarks that she is always the voice of reason. 'If it's what you all desire...I think I can send you all home' he offers, adding that it is funny how Jean doesn't like it when he makes decisions for other people, but she is happy to make the decisions for others.
'Just do it, Nate' Gabby calls out, while Storm puts a comforting hand on Nature Girl's shoulder and tells everyone that she thinks it would be best if Apocalypse eas left here. Tears roll down Nature Girl's face as she utters 'You can't...please don't make me'. Nate looks at Nature Girl and tells her that he is sorry – it's all or none. Nate announces that Magneto will be the last to leave, and states that true leaders know the difference between the world and their dreams, so it seems only fitting to him to send them home – perhaps there, they will dare to dream. 'Walk through me' Nate calls out as he becomes an energy form.
The energy appears around the world, in front of Betsy Braddock and the Blob, who holds her hand and tells Betsy that it won't be the same once they go back. 'That's what makes it beautiful...' Betsy replies. The energy appears in the Danger Room prison, and Glob, Armor and Anole look at it, as Glob tells his friends that he thinks they are supposed to walk into it. 'The light? How original' Armor mutters, while the light appears before Meggan, too, and she walks across her apartment, into the light. 'I suppose the world has felt grounded for too long' Dean Angel remarks as he sits at his desk, the light flickering before him.
As the X-Men return home, Nate feels what they are feeling one last time. A knowledge that what is forbidden would always be the sweetest. A sense of dismay in learning that knowledge is not always power. A new appreciation for running toward the uncertain. And acceptance that most things can't last – that this isn't forever. Nate woners what happens if it isn't over – what if the story never ends? He thinks that it can't – as long as there are still mutants, there are stories to be told. Apocalypse enters the light, followed by Kitty, Beast and even Dani Moonstar. Bishop looks back as Storm and Nightcrawler walk alongside Nature Girl. Jean stands to the side, as Magneto stands behind them  all, holding the Life Seed. '...because the dream never ends' Nate tells himself.
Magneto tells Nate that the two of them are both outsiders. 'I imagine they would shudder knowing what we're about to do' he adds. They appear in a living room, sitting on sofas as Magneto holds the Life Seed and tells Nate that he is not here to chastise him like the others, as Nate already knows the errors he has made. 'I wanted... to thank you. As a boy, I tried to imagine the exact opposite of the world I was born into. You have me that gift. You have us all that gift' Magneto remarks. He stands up and tells Nate that it is his turn to give a gift back to him. 'Don't mistake this for pity. I want something in return' Magneto adds. 'I already know what you want' Nate replies. Magneto hands the Life Seed over to Nate and remarks that he knows he must go back, that his story must return to its original form – but another part of him knows that this is where he belongs. 'You can have both, but you must leave in order to stay' Nate responds, before Magneto walks into the light.
'Shall we?' Nate asks, holding up the Life Seed. A new version of Magneto appears, and tells Nate that he thinks it is timr they start anew – properly this time, with no secret police, no false prophets, no X-Men and no tyranny. It appears that Nate and this new version of Magneto are in a small house, floating within a dark nothingness. 'Let us begin with a simple question... what would you sacrifice for your dreams?' Nate asks.
This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.- Henry David Thoreau, Familiar Letters


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The Age of X-Man:Kazakhstan:Semipalatink testsite aka the Polygon:Two mutants, one green, the other horse-faced test the radiation levels of the site. The green man’s counter tells him levels are still safe. The woman remarks that something must be making the residents of the nearby villages ill. The green man shrugs. He doesn’t understand why the current leadership pretends it cares. The previous certainly did not. The woman nervously replies it is easy for him to say. The Resolution gave him an immunity to radiation. He jokes it is much harder to get a suntan now. He is about to ask his partner what power she got, then snorts at the obviousness.
He is not paying attention to where his foot falls. At the crunching sound of frail bones, they see he stepped onto the body of a bird, then they see birds falling from the sky. They too fall and die, as all living beings do in a certain ring around the bunker. The Resolution bestowed many gifts, but none are greater than the gift the Tongue of Czernobog lavishes upon them. None are greater than death.
New York CityGreenwich Village:In a club Alison Blaire is singing a song criticizing the current times in front of an audience, dressed in identical black like her. The song over, they snap their fingers in approval. Dazzler is about to introduce the next song when she receives a telepathic message by En Sabah Nur, telling her they need her. She excuses herself from the club.
Midtown Manhattan:Iceman iceslides past the Hope Monument and telepathically talks to his Department X teammates. He has Psylocke ascertain that there are no other minds present. They don’t see the two people hiding in the alley, hidden thanks to a little “Unveil.” One is Trevor Hawkins aka Eye-Boy, stylishly dressed in a black suit, who is joined by Kitty Pryde aka Shadowcat who stole a menorah out from the building, though she has no idea what it is.
Eye-Boy explains it is a symbol of an extinct religion called Judaism. This used to be the site of a synagogue before the X-Men filled it in. He continues explaining, as Kitty suddenly has a painful flash and remembers lighting the menorah with her mother as a child.
He asks if she is okay and kisses her. Kitty brushes him off and tells him he is just a child. Trevor protests he thought they were breaking all the rules and that was the point of all they did. It is the point, she replies, but just because she believes they should have the right, doesn’t mean they have to do it all the time like desperate animals! She wants to touch, she wants to kiss, she wants it to be special!
He mutters excuses. She ignores him and telepathically calls the one they call Murshid. He replies that he has need of his Riders. Trevor takes her with him on his Vespa. She jokes he really takes that all-seeing Mod thing seriously.
Union Square West, inside the Gilded Tomb Gallery and Studio:A colorful crowd has gathered. One of them informs young Genesis that they worked together and passed out 25,000 copies. For the glory of his father! Evan looks at the leaflet’s spelling: EMBACE THE BONDS: Central Park this Saturday. He points out they spelled “embrace” wrong. Evan is furious. His father gave him the responsibility of spreading his word. And now he has failed him, because he made the mistake of letting the drugged-out sycophants and hangers-on be involved!
Genesis! comes the chiding voice of En Sabah Nur as he enters the room with Unveil. Murshid, everyone utters. Evan stammers, he was… His father continues, stating he was telling their wonderful guests that the Tomb is closed for tonight, but that he will gladly accept them with open arms in the morning. The guests file out.
Genesis gets down on his knees and apologizes. He wasn’t prepared to deal with files and this art world. He thought this crusade would involve great battles and campaigns. He thought he would be a Light Rider like Dazzler, Shadowcat and Eye-Boy. He thought he would be… a hero.
Unveil gently laughs. The concerns of boys. The same here as in Barbados or anywhere. She promises him that his name will be written in the account of the fall of the X-Men and the beginning of a new history. The exploits of En Sabah Nur are gonna become religion. They’ll all be saviors. As immortal as his father. Because they are the prophets of the X-tracts!
Dazzler, Kitty and Trevor enter. En Sabah Nur welcomes them and tells them to join hands in opposition of what they have been through in the true X. The three newcomers and En Sabah Nur form an X around Unveil. Touch, connect and speak the truth of the X-tracts. They quote: “We seek to find the divinity within and to express the revelation in an exchange with others. We believe community is not conflict. We believe love is not war. We believe mutant is not god.”
En Sabah Nur orders them to breathe as Unveil emits a colorful gas. He tells them to focus… share their minds. He informs them that plans have changed. Saturday’s rally will no longer be advertised with leaflets and whispers. Instead, he will broadcast it across the psychic spectrum.
Trevor protests, he will be detected by Jean Grey or X-Man. Kitty adds, Department X will come for him. En Sabah Nur agrees. That will prove the necessary distraction, so they can accomplish their true mission. There is a mutant in the former Soviet Union who was experimented upon, his power refined, making him the prefect weapon of war. He has been all but forgotten in the transition of realms. But now his prison crumbles, revealing his anguish to him. He has lived decades in isolation. En Sabah Nur feels his desire to rejoin the world. He represents an extinct form of governing… he is a communist. A system that de-emphasizes the individual and focuses on the interdependence of its citizens. His existence is an affront to the sick world the X-Men enforce. He must be rescued and brought here, before he can be made to join the X-Men’s cruel cause.
He decides that Shadowcat will remain with him, whereas Genesis may join the other Light Riders. Happily, the boy promises not to let him down. En Sabah Nur hugs him and tells him he will be a hero. He teleports them to their destination with his Celestial endowments.
Russia:On a TV screen runs an ad starring Colossus, emphasizing that pursuing relationships with others is bad. A tentacle smashes the TV screen. Omega Red addresses the corpse in the chair, thanking him. He decides that this is how they make themselves gods by sparing others. He will unite them again. They will become part of Omega Red and he will destroy the gods.


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Flashback:The Wyngarde Rehabilitation Institute:The Sentinel Guards (smiley-faced versions of the originals) are distracted by an explosion in the northern rehabilitation yard. Before leaving, the Sentinel tells prisoner Shadowcat to get on her knees. Any use of her powers will cause her cuffs to go into punishment mode.
When Kitty is left alone, colorful gas comes in through the air vents and speaks to her. It solidifies into a beautiful, black woman covered in rainbow colors. She knows Kitty believes the X-Men are wrong. She believes community is not conflict, love is not war. She believes mutant is not god.
That moment, the cell door opens and a gray-skinned man steps in. So say the X-tracts! he announces. So says En Sabah Nur! With a touch, he destroys Kitty’s cuffs.
The three of them step out of the cell, as Kitty marvels that he touched her. They reject isolation. They breathe as one, he lectures her. And they’d like her to join them.
Sentinels rush past them and ignore them. En Sabah Nur explains that Unveil’s gift allows her to hide those in her mists from prying eyes and minds. After he saved her from great horrors she chooses to use those gifts in his employ. He is hoping Kitty will do the same. There is a facility. He can get them there, but he needs her power to get them inside.
Soon they are in a Hatchery. Kitty phases the two of them inside. En Sabah Nur explains, within these walls is something he has never had in his many years of life. Its absence has left him incomplete.
Unveil comes to warn them that she cannot hold the guards off much longer. By then, En Sabah Nur has already taken what he came for, a young child… a SON.
Someone shouts at them to stop, as En Sabah Nur and Unveil step through a glowing doorway. He asks Kitty to come. There is so much to learn for them together. Kitty complies, even as a voice begs her not to go and asks her to come back to them.
Now:The Gilded Tomb Gallery and Studio:Kitty remembers. En Sabah Nur asks if she is ill. Just another flash, she replies. He expresses pity. It’s been years since they saved her and still her mind is plagued by the X-Men’s cruel rehabilitation. Kitty assures him it is getting better every day. Sometimes it is just hard to tell what’s a memory and what’s reprogramming.
She asks about the object she found. He explains it is called a Menorah and its very design was said to be delivered by God. Kitty figures, that’s why the X-Men buried it and everything like it. To make sure God doesn’t give any more instructions. En Sabah Nur agrees that faith provides belief in something beyond one self. Faith is community. And God is a fire to gather around. He mentally lights the candles. Kitty muses that she hasn’t seen this before but, when she touched it, it felt familiar. Comfortable. More scrambled reprogramming, she guesses. En Sabah Nur tells her that this familiarity stems from a common desire for enlightenment. Which the words of the X-tracts will provide her.
He takes her hand and asks her to pray with him before the gathering. For peace for them and those who will hear his words. But especially for their brothers and sisters alone in a harsh world.
Semipalatinsk, Kazhakstan:An elderly man waits in the wilderness, asking if they are there. The other Light Riders, Unveil, Dazzler and Eye-Boy, reveal themselves. The man turns to his true form, Genesis.
He informs them the locals were eager to chat, especially when he bought their beer. He adds that beer is gross. Anyway, the locals speak of rumors of old death near the old Polygon testing site. And believe that strangers will drag them back to the bad old days or kill them, if they resist. He adds that they are the strangers. They got that, Eye-Boy interjects sarcastically. That isn’t going to make rescuing this Omega-level mutant communist any easier, Dazzler sighs.
Unveil takes Trevor aside and asks about his hostility towards Evan. Trevor calls him a glory hound who tags along because he can guilt his dad into sending him along with the big kids. Unveil protests, he is just a boy and his heart is in the right place. Trevor doesn’t see how that matters. He is not here because he believes.
Dazzler and Evan interrupt them. Evan tells them a lady told him, she’d seen the special security called in to deal with the threats. The X-Men? Trevor ask hopefully. He’d love to wipe the self-satisfied smirk off Nightcrawler’s face. Genesis continues that it didn’t sound like the X-Men. They wore all black and came out of the shadows. Department X? Dazzler asks. Evan states that the woman mentioned one name – the Siberian.
That moment, Unveil seems to feel ill, freezes and falls down, courtesy of the Iceman type power of a man in a black uniform, surrounded by other superbeings in the same uniforms. He could not ask for a better set-up, he announces. His name is the Siberian. These are his friends. They all wear black and come out of the shadows, yes?
In Central Park, En Sabah Nur and Kitty (as well as strangely Genesis) float in the air, confronting the X-Men. He apologizes for the rioting and assures them he loves them all. Colossus orders the crowd to leave the area.
En Sabah Nur floats the three of them to a nearby rooftop, lauds Kitty for her part and switches off the Genesis illusion. He considers his son’s character and seems sad for a moment. Kitty asks if he is okay. Looking away, he admits it is painful to let Evan go on a mission, despite his knowing it is necessary to let him grow independent. Kitty hugs him, considering his warning. Love has great beauty. Love has great power, but love also has great consequences.
In a gallery, Colossus sits painting pictures connected to Kitty Pryde. Come back to him! He pleads.
In Kazakhstan, the rest of the team is surrounded and Unveil has been taken out by the Siberian. Dazzler orders Eye-Boy to run. Instead, he draws his guns and hits their foes with awesome accuracy. Until he finally takes out the Siberian himself. He turns to Unveil and reminds her how to excite her molecules to thaw herself.
It is about to work, when suddenly Eye-Boy’s hands are frozen to ice and break off. The Siberian is less than impressed with the rubber bullets Evan used on them which did not work properly on him.
Dazzler tells Genesis to think of how scared he is and then scream. She converts the sound to light and takes their foes out. She tells Evan they need to run now.
Evan grows his body huge to carry them all. After a few miles, Unveil tells them they need to stop. Trevor is going into shock.
Dazzer has to dazzle Genesis to get him to stop running. They hide in the trees and Dazzler orders Unveil to hide them. Evan nervously babbles that they are coming. Trevor groans that he can see though the trees. They are not coming. Because something came for them. They are all dead!
And there’s a note. It’s in Russian. It says. “These men and women attempted to hunt me. They wanted to make me subservient to their regime. I will not allow the X-Men to separate us. For the enemy of my enemy is my friend. And I will bring death to all who support this regime, everyone in this country. In this world. I am your friend Omega Red. When I kill, I kill for you.”


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Russia. The Light Riders have sought refuge in an abandoned house. Eye-Boy is badly hurt and they are aware that Omega Red, the mutant they sought to rescue, is out there killing as he killed an X-Squad for them.
While outside, Omega Red kills a shepherd, Dazzler stresses that she cannot accept the deaths of innocents. They join in Unveil’s mists and decide. Evan is to stay with Eye Boy, while Unveil and Dazzler will confront Omega Red.
In the meantime, an X-Men jet lands on Times Square. The pilot X-23 asks Colossus if he is alright. He’s been kinda spacey since the rally by En Sabah Nur. He explains that she knows how artists can be when they are inspired. And he’s been inspired enough to produce much new work for his gallery.
Inspired by that touchy-feely nutcase? she asks. Quickly, he replies he has been inspired by his revulsion to what he said. X-23 doesn’t think much of art. But it’s a good excuse for being alone.
He agrees and muses about being alone as he enters his gallery. He tells himself that this ideology is like a wildfire that must be contained to this room, where he keeps certain pictures. To his surprise, inside he sees Kitty Pryde looking at abstract images that still are about her, as she quickly realizes.
In an abandoned home in Kazakhstan, Genesis explains to Eye Boy that his father gave him a part of his energy. With it, he can even regenerate lost limbs. He tells him to close his eyes and hits him with a blast, but Eye Boy cries out in pain and orders him to stop. Evan apologizes that he lacks experience. Trevor tells him he tried. He always tries. Evan agrees but the fact is he came to his father’s favor by birth and that is why Trevor doesn’t like him.
Trevor asks him to no make this more uncomfortable. It’s not that he doesn’t like him, it’s… He breaks off. Look, he’s got all these eyes and they help him see better than anyone else. He sees dust mites and microwaves and the twitch on someone’s face before the punch. But the X-Men had the wool tied around his eyes. He was so wrapped up in their world that he didn’t notice that something was fundamentally wrong. When he finally saw the truth, it hurt like looking at the sun after spending time in the dark. It hurt so much he almost died. But Evan didn’t suffer to be free. Not like Kitty or Alison or Sharesse. And especially not like Murshid. He admits to being jealous of him. He was born free and faithful.
After some silence, Evan replies that is not true. The Celestial power he shares with his father flows between them like in a circuit. It connects them. Sometimes deeply. And sometimes he sees things. Maybe of his past or dreams. Glimpses into the universes. Recently, he has seen frightening things. Things that could not be true but seemed too real to be false. And he is overcome by terrible guilt. Because if he can doubt someone as beloved as En Sabah Nur, maybe he is not worthy of his father’s faith in him.
Trevor has sunk down.
Elsewhere, Dazzler and Unveil tag-team Omega Red. Unveil tries to distract him with her mists, while Dazzler attacks. Unfortunately, Omega Red doesn’t breathe in the mists.
Unveil realize he is some sort of vampire, using his tendrils to suck up life energy. Dazzler creates a mallet out of solid light and strikes.
In Colossus’ gallery, an agitated Piotr warns Kitty to leave. The X-Men monitor his interactions. Jean or Nathan will find her. Self-assured, Kitty replies in the negative and shows him a small object. As long as she carries Unveil, she is a ghost to them. A ghost, he agrees, meaning something else.
Kitty asks him if they knew each other. He admits he doesn’t know. But, when he saw her at the rally, it felt like a piece he didn’t know was missing, was returned to its proper place. It frightens him, he admits calling her Katherine. She admits it’s the same for her. But him using her full name sounds weird. Friends call her… Katya he finishes her sentence. No, but she likes it.
A moment later, a furious En Sabah Nur steps through a teleportation gate. He orders Colossus to stay where he is and Shadowcat to his side. Colossus gets up and seriously asks if he can help with their feelings. Instead, En Sabah Nur hits him with a large mallet he forms out of his arm. Furiously, he keeps on hitting while Colossus stays in his human form and tries to reason. He rants finally hat he won’t let the X-Men take his prophets away from him. Colossus finally turns metal.
Kitty tries to hold En Sabah Nur back, telling him she came here. He asks if she believes she did this out of her free will. She is still plagued by the aftereffects of the X-Men’s cruel programming. She had an episode earlier today. She can’t know what she truly wants because she can’t be sure what’s truly her. And she certainly can’t be sure of her feelings about the X-Men… the very beings who tries to strip her of her.
He stresses she can trust only him. She turns away and agrees. En Sabah Nur warns Colossus never to come close to her again and teleports the two of them away, while Colossus pleads he just wanted to hold her…
In Kazhakstan, Unveil keeps Omega Red dazzled, while Dazzler hits him with solid light weapons. He calls them idiots and claims they don’t realize that they are prisoners.
He is on the ground but Dazzler hesitates. Unveil asks if she should help her, dull her inhibition. Dazzler replies she can do it. Suddenly, they realize there is something strange in the air and being to cough.
In the house Genesis senses their distress.
Omega Red speaks that his masters did not give him those tongues to help him kill his enemies. They gave them to him in hope of focusing the death factor that spreads from his veins. They tried to contain him. But nothing can hold him. His tentacles grab the two women.
Evan covers Trevor with a blanket, then races outside. He attacks, having transformed into a bulked-up Captain America style version of himself.


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Still lying in the house in Kazakstan, Eye-Boy sees. Maybe it’s due to Genesis’ attempt to cure him, maybe it’s due to being close to death, but right now he sees everything. He sees what’s happening thousands of miles away.
He sees Shadowcat phasing through Colossus in the midst of a Xavier Day Celebration. And he sees something too bright to look at. Something that looks back at him.
The sudden shock contracts his vision and suddenly he only sees his terrible mistake. Genesis! he shouts.
Not far away, Evan Sabahnur has taken the shape of Captain America as he battles Omega Red.
Unveil and Dazzler shout at him to fall back and let them handle it.
Genesis refuses - no more running, he decides as he hits his foe. He tells them to evacuate the place while he does this. He is a Light Rider of the X-tracts. He begins quoting the X-tracts, as he battles.
Manhattan:In his gallery, En Sabah Nur welcomes his new disciples and preaches to them, watched by Kitty Pryde. Suddenly, someone addresses her as Katya. He needs her. Panicked, she asks Colossus what he is doing here. Didn’t he hear Murshid at his gallery?
She tries to drag him outside. He tells her he had no choice. He left the X-Men. He must join her. He wishes to become a follower of En Sabah Nur.
She phases them into her room and points out that that sounds suspicious. She admits there is something between them but Murshid is right. Department X took her memories, her life. He is part of the regime. How could she ever trust him?
He looks at the menorah and asks what it is. She explains. He wonders why she gave it a place of honor. When she first touched it, she saw stuff… a smiling mother, a family celebration. A life she could never have had.
He tells her that when she phased through him on Xavier Day, for a fraction of a second, they shared the same space. That moment, he saw forbidden things too. Them fighting together, becoming friends, even falling in love. He admits those images were more real than anything in his life. He believes he can show her but asks for her trust.
She realizes she knows his name is Peter. She doesn’t need him to prove it. Despite what Murshid said, she knows it’s real. She kisses him and asks him to come back to her.
In Kakzhakstan, Dazzler and Unveil try to explain in bad Russian to the villagers that they need to flee but their message does not seem to get through. Unveil realizes those are proud people. They think they can stay and fight, ‘cause it’s what they’ve always done. She shares her mists with them and lets the people share their belief that Omega Red is dangerous. Convinced, they leave.
In the meantime, Eye-Boy drags himself to the battle. Evan (in his Captain America form) shouts at Omega Red that they were supposed to rescue him, but he is evil! No, is Omega Red’s reply. He returned the favor by killing the men who came for him and his friends. But Evan misunderstood their function, just as he did. They weren’t sent here to rescue him. They aren’t kindred spirits.
With his tentacles, he grabs Evan and throws him into a wall, then offers to show him the truth. Evan lands inside the house and sees the corpses of the inhabitants.
Omega Red continues that they are all but players in a game. Because, in this world, mutant is god. Omega jumps after him telling him of the holes that opened in the air and shortened out the power in his prison. He took advantage, killing his captors and then he looked into these glowing funhouse mirrors. He saw warped reflections of himself fighting the X-Men and knew that was his eternal destiny. He saw wars for survival, great revolutions and her saw this man. He shows an image of En Sabah Nur – a distorted version – the monster known as Apocalypse, a manipulator of history, and Omega Red realized he had manipulated his history too. He had tasted his Celestial energies in the air. Energies that flow through Evan. The man is something to him, isn’t he?
He is his father! a shocked Evan replies. Omega Red tells him his father didn’t send Genesis to rescue Omega Red. He wanted them to recapture his rebellious weapon before he could fall into enemy hands. It was truly good to meet him, little brother, but he can’t let that occur. Perhaps in another world he lives long enough to matter.
He impales Evan with one of his tentacles. But in this world his energies will be used for deicide as his father will fall along with the X-Men!
Genesis refuses. He touches the tentacles. He will be as immortal as his father! A savior who defeated death!
Trevor has made his way to the battlefield to witness what is occurring, how Evan overloads Omega Red with energy.
In New York, En Sabah Nur senses their distress and calls back his Light Riders. They appear with Evan lying still in Unveil’s arms. Trevor explains when he found Evan he wasn’t breathing. He used the last of his energy to kill Omega Red and reach out for En Sabah Nur.
Kitty and Colossus burst in to see the dead Evan and his grieving father. Colossus offers that the X-Men might have the means to reverse even this. He suggests En Sabah Nur use him as a hostage to barter.
En Sabah Nur refuses and tells his Light Riders to form the true X and asks Colossus to join them as well. As they are engulfed by the mists, En Sabah Nur announces they reject isolation, they breathe as one. He asks them to share with him and experience together the agony of love lost.
Later in Trevor’s room, the young man marvels as En Sabah Nur just healed his hands. En Sabah Nur replies somberly that he was simply born with the ability to share many of his mutant gifts. But not all of them. He gets up and Trevor offers they can hang, call in the girls… En Sabha Nur thanks him but for the first time in a long time he would like to be… alone. He tells him to get some sleep.
He instantly falls asleep, but nevertheless his eyes sense more. He focuses and finally sees what’s looking back at, and he sees En Sabah Nur arguing with X-Man, who tells him this mutant was not part of their deal and calls him a slave to his own nature. If he is to play the villain in X-Man’s perfect world, he expects to occasionally deal with unexpected surprises like Omega Red. Maybe he should see it as Apocalypse forcing him to evolve. He considers the loss of his son as punishment enough for his indiscretion.
En Sabah Nur states that Evan had to be removed. He had come too close and seen too much.
Trevor forces himself to wake up but doesn’t bother to believe it was a bad dream. Because no nightmare could be that cruel…


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Eye-Boy’s narration:X-Man informs En Sabah Nur that if he is to play the villain in X-Man’s perfect world. He will have to expect that he will occasionally have to deal with unexpected surprises, such as Omega Red. Maybe he should come to see it as Apocalypse is forcing him to evolve, Nate muses. He’ll consider the loss of En Sabah Nur’s son punishment enough for his indiscretion.
En Sabah Nur hesitatingly admits that Evan had to be removed. He was getting too close to him. And he had seen too much.
Present:That’s what he saw, Eye-Boy tells the other Light Riders – Dazzler, Shadowcat, Unveil - and Colossus and now, thanks to Unveil’s mists so have they. He’s working with X-Man. He betrayed his own teachings, and he betrayed them.
Kitty berates herself for not seeing it while Colossus tries to comfort her.
Dazzler thinks for a bit then turns to Unveil. She reminds the other woman how she used her power to make the villagers believe what was in her mind to get them to evacuate. Unveil defends herself. Dazzler continues and asks if she has ever used that power on them. Sharesse protests that she is their friend and loves them. Dazzler interrupts her and orders her to answer the damn question. Kitty joins, asking if En Sabah Nur ever told her to make them blind to certain things. Sharesse protests at first, then her eyes begin to glow and she remembers…
Flashback:When En Sabah Nur rescued her from the island, he told her she hadn’t even understood what her powers could do or how dangerous they were. She could be more than a “passion criminal.” Getting men and woman to share a viewpoint is how you build an army. How you get them to give themselves for a cause. He said with her mists she could be a horseman of the Apocalypse. If she wanted, she could be War itself!
Present:That moment, En Sabah Nur enters. Unaware of what has transpired, he informs his Light Riders they are needed. There are reports of breaks in space and time. Then he notices the colorful mists and asks if they have been communing. The creation of the true X and ensuing communion are intended as their most powerful and sacred ritual, he chides. It’s never to be done without the leadership of their Murshid. And it’s not to be abused like some lowly act of self-pleasure! He trails off as he notices they all silently glare at him.
Kitty finally accuses him of using them. Dazzler adds he manipulated them, turning them into his assassins, and Eye-Boy shouts that Genesis just wanted to be one of them. He hits En Sabah Nur in the face accusing him of letting his son die!
En Sabah Nur’s head is turned unnaturally before he turns back. He calls Eye-Boy a lowly mutant possessed of nothing but multiple eyes and bad taste in music. He struck him! Huitzilopchtli of the Aztecs, Kali Ma, black mother of India, the first light of the mutant dawn, Lord Apocalypse. He transforms into his taller, more muscular Apocalypse form, ready to strike Trevor. He will not tolerate such heresy! But before his fist finds its goal, Colossus holds it back. Apocalypse orders him back. Colossus replies, he threw away everything for love of Kitty. He has nothing to lose He strikes Apocalypse with his elbow.
As they fall through the floor into the cellar, Apocalypse tells him this is not his fight. The Light Riders join them, agreeing as they too attack Apocalypse, who calls them arrogant, ungrateful fools. In his first years, he unified Sandriders to battle Rama Tut and Ozymandias. Throughout history, he has gathered powerful, disparate mutant and made them ride for him. Each horseman would have gladly died for the needs of evolution and survival. His cause is just! His beliefs are law! His leadership is unquestioned! And of all of them they believe themselves unique? Believe that he would need psychic manipulation to control them?
He transforms his hand into a ventilator to blow away Unveil, while at the same time reminding her how she was an outcast and he gave her purpose. He fires her at Dazzler, accusing that she rebelled because she couldn’t be one of the popular X-Men. She refuses to believe that. He hits he and tells her it’s the hard light of truth.
Eye-Boy fires his guns at him. No more rubber bullets, Apocalypse observes unimpressed. He must mean it this time. Surprising. He’s always lacked true conviction. Always seeing enough to doubt, but doubting himself most of all. Ha easily disarms the young man. Trevor needed him to give him faith, to heal his wounds… and what he gave he can take away. He tears at his hands but leaves them, deciding they are no threat to him.
Colossus and Kitty are next to attack. Colossus accuses him of working with the X-Men and taking Kitty from him. He wrestles him and asks Kitty to end this with her phasing power.
Kitty accuses him of keeping her deluded and lost, to keep her from the man she loves. Apocalypse reminds her where he found her and prevents her from phasing her hand into his chest by matching his molecular structure to hers.
Kitty screams in pain. Apocalypse agrees; there is another world. Colossus hits him to make him shut up, but Apocalypse mercilessly continues that, in that other world, Colossus and Kitty were to be married. Apocalypse fires from his arm cannon at Colossus, while revealing that Kitty left him at the altar. No matter how much psychic manipulation X-Man used, whenever Kitty saw Piotr, it reminded her of her greatest failure.
He mocks Colossus’ unrequited love when an alert sounds regarding spatial aberrations. Panicked, he addresses his Light Riders. He built Oracle to monitor the metaphysical integrity of the world after he discovered tears in the walls of dimensions. Of late, these stigmata have been opening with much higher regularity and intensity. They must cease their conflict now or…
Kitty phases the menorah she found into him from behind, allowing it to solidify in his torso and orders him to shut up. No more damn lies! He cries out in pain, then asks Oracle why he cannot remove the object. The reply is it is out of phase with this plane. It hails from the prime plane.
He chuckles. The menorah fallen from the heavens, designed by God. Nathan planted it there to be found and used on him. Brilliant. He tells the others that he lied but not to them. He lied to Nathan Grey, the X-Man. He didn’t let Evan die.
He explains. Nathan Grey believed even a utopia needed a villain. In return for Apocalypse’s continued existence, he had to be that villain. And in Nathan’s version of the word made better by the omission of love and intimacy, it would be Apocalypse’s duty to fight for it.
His features change, becoming once more the calm Murshid. But he has long believed in the hard indifference of evolution. The heartlessness of survival. And even though he wrote the words of the X-tracts, he is not one to be moved or changed… but he saw in another life his genes had been cloned creating a child. And that being had been raised by another, eventually even becoming one of the X-Men, his adversaries.
He resolved that being would become part of an experiment. And with Shadowcat’s help, he took him from the X-Men. He gave him a portion of his Celestial powers and named him Evan Sabah Nur. The Genesis to his Apocalypse. He falls to his knees.
In the past few years, he watched Evan grow. He witnessed his unique wisdom and kind, sensitive heart. He watched his impetuousness and impatience stemming from his passion for life. He saw his desire to make him proud. And, despite its impracticality, he came to know love. Evan’s life showed him what thousands of years of existence had not.
He asks them to look into the portals showing parts of his life as Apocalypse. He tells them this is what he will become if this world dies.
Oracle alerts him to a spatial anomaly incoming. The end is coming, he mutters exhausted. He asks Dazzler to save this world and help save other worlds from him. He offers his hand, pleading that they need to show Nathan Grey that love is survival. Show X-Man that love wins.
Kitty pulls the menorah out of his body and takes his proffered hand. “We seek to find the divinity within,” she quotes the X-tracts. Unveil joins Dazzler and continues, “and to express this revelation in an exchange with others.” “We believe community is not conflict,” Trevor and Dazzler join. “We believe love is not war,” En Sabah Nur finishes. “We believe mutant is not god.”
And, moments later, they find themselves joined by X-Man and the X-Men. Nate announces it is no coincidence that a revolution is both a movement and return to a point of origin. Somewhere they lost track… he never meant to hurt anybody. Nothing was supposed to be a threat, unless he wanted it to be…