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Second Coming: Chapter 3
A secret headquarters of the RIGHT: a commanding officer calls his team, still only partially in armor, to get their faces on. They are moving out!
One young blond man announces with a grin that he’s gonna bag a big one… a ten-point mutie! The young man next to him looks out of it. Something’s happening… They are gearing up, he whispers. Is he all right? the blond man asks. What? the second mans asks, then claims he was just saying a prayer for the other’s dumb ass. The first one states, does he know how many mutants are left on the planet? Save his prayers. They’ve got them outnumbered.
They join the hundreds of others as they stand in lines, to be addressed by the leader - Cameron Hodge - who announces the extinction of the mutant race lies before them. Seize it!
My God, the second man mutters. Misunderstanding, the first one states, he knows.
Not too far away, in another room of the facility, Karma tells the other New Mutants what she has learned from the man she possessed. There’s hundreds of them. Cameron Hodge has an army! And they are supposed to attack  ? Dani Moonstar asks in disbelief. Is he sure this is such a good idea? Sunspot asks their teamleader Cannonball. Cyclops didn’t ask him, Sam stresses. He gave him an order. He’ll let them know when he gets another one.
Elsewhere. A team of X-Men are fighting the Purifiers to get to Hope and Cable. Wolverine orders Magik to get the kid out of here.
Seeing the two teleporters, Magik and Nightcrawler, present, Reverend William Stryker orders his men to run contingency-23. Several men bring a strange cannon and are told target “White Devil” is their primary. Fire when ready.
Stepping out of a teleportation circle, Magik has reached Hope and Cable, who have sought cover behind a car. Illyana reaches for the girl, asking her to come with her. That moment, the cannon is fired at her. “Direct hit”, a Purifier announces. Now they’ll see if the weaponized ritual is worth what they paid.
Illyana looks at her hands in shock. Strange symbols are lit on her skin. “Blood of Elzebus… parchment of souls”, she mutters, before she can say or do anything else, tentacles emit from the stepping disk and drag her into it. Colossus lunges for the teleportation disk but it disappears.
Wolverine orders Nightcrawler to act as teleporter. White Devil is down, Stryker states. Blue Devil is their primary now. Perception concussors, fire when ready, the commander states.
Nightcrawler teleports several times in a series toward Cable and Hope but suddenly cannot concentrate. He sinks down weakly in a corner, crying out for Cable, who enters a car with Hope.
The rest of the X-Men still do battle. The Purifiers came prepared for them, Wolverine announces darkly. They’ve got to cut off their head! Stryker, X-23 states.
Stryker announces to his people that Blue Devil is grounded. Move up to the girl! However, that moment, an enraged Colossus breaks the line and runs toward Stryker, demanding what they did to his sister. Stryker radios for reinforcements.
Cannonball radios Cyclops to inform him of an incoming transmission Doug has picked up. The RIGHT has just been ordered to join the Purifiers at Alpha Team’s position.
Is Hope secured? Cyclops asks Wolverine of the alpha team. Looking at a heap of beaten Purifiers, Logan replies negative. Their location is hot and Cable is running.
Nein, Nightcrawler moans weakly as he sees Cable and Hope drive away. Are they just leaving them? Hope protests. They’re not safe, Cable replies. Something is wrong.
Cyclops tells Cannonball that they are going to lose the girl if Stryker gets reinforcements. The New Mutants are to engage their targets. He’s not confident he can engage without causalities, Sam points out. If it’s his decision… It’s not, Cyclops cuts him off. He has an order. That’s all he needed to hear, Sam replies. Beta team engaging.
They are moving in, he informs the rest. Is he crazy? Sunspot demands. Not now, Sam warns him. He orders Cypher and Warlock to gather as much information as they can and make sure it gets back to Utopia. Do not join the hostilities unless necessary! He reminds the rest that their orders are to hold the enemy here. It’s going to be the New Mutants or them. “Do what you have to do!”
Karma is to make the first move. Copy, Karma replies and possesses the RIGHT member again. Copy, he says and fires away his comrade’s head, then begins to fire wildly at the other Smileyfaces. She forces one of them to get out of his armor, so Dani can wear it after punching him out.
Further above, seeing what is happening, Hodge announces that Bastion will not accept a defeat. He was hoping this would happen. Now he can justify this. Before his disbelieving people a technological tentacle-like spine appears and lifts Hodge’s head off his human body to bond wit the spine as part of a giant spiderlike body. Come now, soldier, he chides his panicking technician, grow a pair!
Elsewhere, Wolverine tells Angel they need to end this fast. Tell the others to stay low, Warren replies as he shifts to his deadly Archangel form and fires his lethal wing-knives at the Purifiers.
An injured Stryker shouts to Bastion for help. In front of the horrified Nightcrawer, Archangel cuts off Stryker’s head with his wings. With that, the battle is over. Warren? Psylocke asks hesitating. No reply.
Wolverine contacts Cyclops to inform him the Purifiers are down. Cable is close but they’ve lost their prime teleporter. Cyclops is already aware of that. Through the door of the building behind Wolverine steps their new prime teleporter, the alien mutant Ariel. Might be hard to sell Peter on that, Logan remarks. Emma will do that from here, is Scott’s reply. He is close and Cannonball’s team is fighting for every second they have to look for her.
Not far ahead, Cable and Hope are back on the road. They weren’t in that room thirty seconds, Cable remarks about their motel room. Whatever trail they left should have been hard enough for Cyclops to find… there’s no way Bastion picked it up that fast. They are tracking him and Hope.
Hope doesn’t quite get why they are running. They were looking for the X-Men. The X-Men found them… Bastion found them first, Cable reminds her. That is unacceptable. He could have a man on the inside. Thirty minutes… he is not seeing something. They’ve got to go completely dark. They don’t even come up for air. No more hotels!
Back in Utopia in Danger’s cyberprison where Danger checks the prisoners, she announces that the electro neuron flow of Donald Pierce seems to be excited. Rogue who sits next to her dreamily announces that hotels are nice… soft, warm and new. What did she say? Danger wonders aloud. She doesn’t know, Rogue replies surprised and announces she has to talk to Cyclops. That is fine, Danger assures her, she has this under control. Donald Pierce smiles…
Back at the RIGHT HQ, Cannonball, Magma and Sunspot are fighting the monstrous Hodge, who swats Magma away wit his tail and almost impales Sunspot. Sam shouts to Karma who is hiding a room away that they are in trouble. Can she get a lock on this thing? Karma tries and momentarily has Hodge possessed. However, his systems manage to detect the source of the mind control and attack Karma. With his stings, he pierces her left leg several times…


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Second Coming: Chapter 7
Nighttime, in an apartment in San Francisco, Domino is cleaning a large rifle. From a computer screen, Cyclops informs her that Cable is back. He’s bringing them in. Domino asks how Cable is. He’s fine, comes the curt reply. He brought the girl. He adds that there have been losses. Stryker trapped Illyana in Limbo somehow, Pixie’s taken Cannonball and a small team to bring her home… Who did they lose lose? Dom asks impatiently. Ariel and Nightcrawler were K.I.A. comes the reply. The enemy is targeting their teleporters.
From outside the room, Vanisher is eavesdropping. Cyclops continues that Bastion wants to keep Hope in one spot long enough to find her. That’s why Scott needs her to bring the Vanisher to Utopia. If they have to relocate Hope, he is their only option.
At that, Dom hears a crashing noise. She tells Cyclops to hold on.
In the kitchen, Vanisher rifles though things. What is he looking for? Domino asks. His wallet, he replies, grabbing it. Dom holds a gun to his head and informs him he is not running off to this Portuguese brothel, is he? Let her answer that. He is not. He’s going to Utopia to sack up and protect the mutant messiah!
Messiah? he repeats incredulous and flips her the bird. Does he look like he goes to church? He teleports away. Domino manages to him with the gun but too late.
He reappears in Monsato, Portugal, in said brothel. He calls out to his girls to being him some gauze for his bleeding nose. He finds them all slaughtered.
Look at me! comes the order. He wants Vanisher to know who killed him. He’s Steven Lang. Goodbye. Lang’s troops fire at the Vanisher and he is hit several times. Nevertheless he manages to teleport outside. Lying on the ground, dying he just wonders how Bastion knew about his girls.
Unknown to the X-Men, one of their prisoners, Donald Pierce, walks the halls of Utopia free. He contacts Bastion, asking if his intelligence was correct. Bastion affirms that they’ve taken the X-Men’s final teleporter off the board. Then there is no reason for delay, Pierce decides. He must reveal himself. He must clip their wings.
Does he sense hesitation in his voice? Bastion asks. No, comes the calm reply. Though there will be no escape for him, he senses anticipation. If this is to be his final assault on the mutant race, let it end in fire! Pierce smiles.
In the sick bay, the anxious New Mutants are waiting for word about their injured friend Karma. Warlock is dejected, telling his friend Doug, who tries to comfort him, that he cannot stop running shamescript. Sunspot asks what’s wrong with him. Amara explains that he’s in shock. Years ago, he promised that he’d never absorb sentient life. Yesterday, Doug asked him to break that promise. Dani reminds her it was war. Hodge and his men would have killed them all if he hadn’t. Doug read the situation correctly. That’s what he does. Still, she reminds them they got hit hard. Shan lost her leg. Illyana is in Limbo and they’ve lost Sam to the rescue mission. She knows Cable has a reason for retuning now… she just hopes he’s considered the cost!
Roberto snorts. Take it from someone who has worked “with” Cable in the past, whatever his reason for coming back now, how it affects his fellow X-Men is the furthest thing from his mind…
Elsewhere in a lab, Henry McCoy is working. Cyclops tells his old estranged friend he wants him to know he appreciates what Hank is doing. Staying on, helping out. His absence would do harm, Hank replies curtly. He’s afraid the Hippocratic Oath forbids him to leave. Though he admits the scientist in him hopes Scott has though through the cost of his recent crusade.
Putting his hand on Hank’s shoulder, Scott assured him that none of his decisions have been made lightly. There’s too much at stake… He believes that Hope is the key to preserving the mutant race. He knows that this is what Scott believes, Hank replies. And that’s the problem with faith. The stronger it gets, the more people tend to die.
20 miles off the coast of San Francisco, an X-plane lands with the scientists of the X-Club, coming to this oil rig because of some intel Cypher gathered. However the place looks perfectly ordinary. Kavita Rao points out it’s quite unguarded for something so important. Unless its function has no defense, Dr. Nemesis muses. Jeffries informs the others that there is definitely something up here. The machines are hiding something from him.
He coaxes them into “talking.” The machinery withdraws and inside there is something red. A moment later, a red field emerges from it and surrounds the rig. Appropriately, Nemesis swears.
Back at Utopia, Cable and Hope enter the mess hall and draw the stares of most present, mostly students. She’s not hungry, Hope insists. Cable strictly reminds her she hasn’t slept in 24 hours, she doesn’t know if she’s hungry or not. She eats, then sleeps.
And then maybe she could have a moment of his time, Dani Moonstar calls over, once he’s put the girl to bed. Not missing her angry tone, Hope steps in front of Cable and asks her what she just said. Cable addresses Dani directly, asking what is on her mind. She replies that her team took it rough, covering for him out there. And they both know it’s not for the first time. Cable thanks her. But that’s not what Dani is looking for. She just wants to know if his new hobby is worth the trouble.
Is she trying to say something to her? Hope demands. Dani ignores her and points into Cable’s face over Hope’s head. She wants him to tell her he knows what he is doing! Hope grabs her hand and orders her to get her finger out of his face. Dani grabs her by the cloak. Didn’t Cable teach her not to touch someone unless she’s ready to… Hope hits her in the face. In response, Dani kicks her in the stomach and Hope falls backwards on a table.
The catfight’s on, until Cyclops comes running in, ordering them to break it up. The two young women ignore Scott and Cable tells him to let them go. While Dani shoves Hope into the wall, Cyclops orders Nathan to get out of his way. Cable does anything but, reminding Scott he isn’t Hope’s father. Neither is Cable. She makes her own way now (which currently consists of biting Dani in the arm)! Angrily, Cyclops reminds Cable Hope could get hurt. Cable agrees, but she’s not going to find her place with him keeping her in a bubble. If he can’t handle that, Cable can make it really easy for him. He has one jump left. Push him on this and he will take Hope so far into the future no one will find them. Cyclops shoots back Cable forgets who put him in charge of Hope in the first…
Both arguments are broken up when a booming nose shakes the cafeteria. Fuel explosion! Cabel announces. The Blackbirds, Cyclops realizes.
The X-Men – Namor, Magma, and X- 23 first, race into the hangar to find all their planes destroyed. My oh my oh my, Donald Pierce announces as he steps out of the conflagration. He didn’t miss the funeral, did he?
Take him apart, Namor orders. X-23 lunges at Pierce with her claws, next Namor tears off his left cybernetic arm. Cyclops and Wolverine have joined them. So this is how it ends, Pierce mutters. Surrounded by smoke and genetic filth. He can admit without shame that he is disappointed he won’t be here to witness their extinction. He becomes louder. But they should not think that he regrets what he sacrificed here today. Bastion comes for them and when he does, when they see the light of his future fire raining down on their benighted “race,” know that his cleansing light burns with but a fraction of Pierce’s profound hatred for… Thankfully, Cyclops’ optic blast takes him down.
Their enemies have trapped them here, Scott realizes and orders the others to get the fires out and prepare for an attack.
Elsewhere, on the oil rig, Dr. Rao tries to reach Cyclops, while Jeffies wonders why the values in the device keep changing. Nemesis has accessed some manner of root menu and runs a translation cycle. In a few moments… Oh, he says. They see a timer only seconds away from the end of the countdown. They should probably run, Nemesis suggests, and they do.
Meanwhile, as the others are still working on saving the hangar, Cable asks the pensive Hope if she is hurt. No, she replies. He tells her she handled herself well. She shouldn’t be here, Hope interrupts him. Coming here was a mistake. What is she talking about? he asks. She told him she was ready. She said she knew. She was sick of running, Hope admits. She was tired of fighting. She was tired of eating rats. When she said she was ready, she lied.


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Second Coming: Chapter 11
David Haller’s mindscape:David Haller aka Legion sits in a comfortable, if somewhat askew, living room, in a comfy chair reading a book. “David?” Charles Xavier asks carefully and asks his estranged son to join him outside. David is hesitant. He doesn’t think he is supposed to leave his room. He is not a prisoner, Xavier assures him. That was never their intention. In fact, they’ve been working on a way to make his illness more manageable. Caesarea Umm Quais, he announces. “Password accepted,” a voice replies. “Persona brig access granted.”
A shining doorway appears in the room. Persona brig, that’s where the bad ones are, David states nervously, isn’t that dangerous? Xavier leads him through, explaining they are much less dangerous than what’s going on outside David’s mind. They need his help? David asks. They need more than him, Xavier replies. They need a Legion. They arrive in the brig, where all of David’s personas – each with their own superpower, are held, each in their separate cell.
Outside, Utopia:Cyclops addresses the mutants present, telling them this concerns everyone. Every five minutes, another wave of Nimrods comes through the portal at the Golden Gate Bridge. This is what it takes to stop one of them, he points at the damage. The fact is they are coming through faster than the X-Men can handle them. And it’s not going to end. Since he was a boy, he fought for the day when mutants would have the choice to live however they wanted. This is not that day. Today, each of them will face a future of mutant extinction. There is no hiding from this. Neither they nor he have a choice in the matter. Today, they are all combatants. Today, they are all X-Men! Fight or die!
Inside one of the buildings, Rogue finds the dejected Hope. The young girl apologizes for crying. He wouldn’t like it that she’s crying. Is that what Cable told her? Rogue asks hesitantly. That she shouldn’t cry? No, Hope explains. They saw a lot of war while they were away. Sometimes she got hurt. Cable never cared if she cried. But he did have a rule: She grabs a big gun from the armory. Win first. Cry later.
Rogue reminds Hope she is supposed to take her into hiding. If she has to be a “messiah,” the girl replies, she won’t be the type who lets people die for her. Not while she does nothing! She promised Scott she wouldn’t let her get hurt, Rogue explains. Then come with her, Hope replies. Rogue smile and follows her.
In the tunnels in San Francisco, Husk, Sunspot, Boom Boom and Avalanche are fighting one Nimrod. Boom Boom fires a timebomb at it and Avalanche uses his earthmoving powers to separate it from them. Surprised, Boom Boom notices Roberto is bleeding. He is strong but not invuln… honestly, how many times does he have to say this? More Nimrods are about to manifest. Hold the tunnel! Sunspot orders the team.
At the Golden Gate Bridge, Colossus, Magma, Namor and Rockslide are fighting several Nimrods. One, fighting Namor, reduces ambient humidity to weaken him. Another, fighting Magma, creates a heat sink. Rockslide calls for backup and Colossus calls Cyclops to tell him wave seven is not contained. They need help! Cyclops promises help and asks them to hold the bridge. At that moment, wave eight materializes, all of them piling on Colossus with two of them breaking his arm.
In the future where these Nimrods come from, an internment camp:
Several guards have brought out a hound. One of them explains that they got a mutant blip from an exonim unit a couple of hours ago. Probably just interference but you know how they are. At least they didn’t give them another gene test, the other jokes.
The Hound groans, then is shot in the forehead courtesy of Domino. X-Force has arrived. Cable orders Archangel to attack and Cypher to stay back.
Doing just that, Cypher observes that violence is a primitive ugly language. Yet he must admit their fluency allows for poetry. A guard in a robot unit has found him. “hello,” Cypher greets. <101010101> He doesn’t have to do this. <10101110001101>. He is only a slave to them. Cypher can set him free, show him to think for himself. Set him free. <01110101010> He can’t talk him out of killing him, the soldier snarls,. Cypher smirks. He wasn’t talking to him. That moment, the vessel ejects the solider and replies to Cypher who thanks it.
Back in the present, Colossus is still set upon by Nimrod units when suddenly Xavier and Legion join the scene in a helicopter. Is he equipped for this? Xavier asks his son. He doesn’t think so, Legion replies nervously, she probably is though.
Legion’s mindscape:Legion selects personality 115 and frees a punk girl from her cage. She is told she is expected to follow the Nemesis protocol at all times. She agrees sulking.
Reality:The number 115 appears on Legion’s helmet and he blasts the Nimrod apart with energy. Another Nimrod identifies him/her as an acoustic-aggressive mutation and they react with white noise to cancel those powers out. 115 is replaced by 762, a nervous pirate. Legion vomits green acid at the Nimrods.
“Cyclops, come in,” the weakened Colossus calls and the X-Men Cyclops, Psylocke, Iceman, Storm, Gentle, Surge and Armor come as reinforcements. “Hold the bridge!” Cyclops orders.
In the future, with the help of the Exonim, Cypher befriended X-Force sneak and then fight their way into the Master Mold perimeter 6a. Looking up at the two Master Mold units, Wolverine asks Cable which one they are taking out first. The one on the left is producing Nimrods, Cable points out… the other one looks like it’s out of service.
Another group of Nimrods emerges from the first Master Mold unit, as if on cue. They ignore X-Force and head for the time sphere. Cable tells the team to target the Master Mold on the left and not to worry about the other one. The inactive, right Master Mold’s eyes begin to glow… He’s gotta be honest, Wolverine tells Cable. He’s starting to worry about the other one.
Back in the present on Utopia, Scalphunter, Random and other formerly neutral mutants are heading toward the battle. Toad rushes after them, shouting if they didn’t hear what Cyclops said. The X-Men are leading the Nimrods away from the island. They need to stay here. They are going to fight, Random informs him. Those things want to exterminate their entire race! Yes, Sack adds and tells Toad to have some %$&& respect for himself. The two begin to argue. A moment later Sack is shot by a Nimrod unit. Another group of Nimrods has arrived.
In the Infirmary, the battling can be heard. They are here, one of the injured, Hellion, announces. Beast agrees, informing the patients he will hold the Nimrods for as long as he can. Those who can still walk, help the others evacuate the infirmary. It’s been good to know them… good-bye.
Fatalism doesn’t suit him, a weak Magneto remarks as he frees himself from the sensors. He should leave that to the professionals. McCoy orders him to lie down. He is no use to anyone in his condition. Possibly, Magneto admits. But there are promises one makes to oneself, having lived through a holocaust. He’s afraid these promises preclude him from watching the extermination of his people in a reclining position. Slowly he gets up, weak but willing to fight. “See to you patients, Dr McCoy. I will see to our enemies.”


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2.8. miles below sea level. Location undisclosed. A strange bunker with a symbol depicting a circle within a triangle on the doors. The men inside, soldiers all (except for one rather odd scientist), are arguing. They are not ready to close the door on this one! one of them, General Combest, insists. On the table lie pictures showing young mutant children, infants even. The children represent a sizable investment! Washington wants a full report before they forget this ever happened. Like it or not, that’s their priority!
Doctor Noc, the scientist of the military team that had been trapped in Limbo for twenty years, throws another file onto the table, the picture showing Magik. Their priority is taking Illyana Rasputin into US custody, he insists. The children are a distant memory!
Another officer insists that the fate of the children is an open wound that needs redressing. Noc warns them they have no idea what the girl is capable of. He has no idea what Norman Osborn’s attack on the X-Men cost this government! the officer retorts.
Another officers suggests, if they could give them intel on the children’s whereabouts, maybe they could--
General Ulysses – leader of the team lost in Limbo – who’s been staring at some maps informs them without even turning around that the children are dead. They know that. That’s how his team got trapped there in the first place.
General Combest snarls that Ulysses’ orders were to keep the base secure. He doesn’t care if they were at the gates of hell—
Limbo, Ulysse corrects him. The natives call it “Limbo.” He and his men did twenty years there on six months of supplies. They know more about this place than they could ever tell them. So when he says that Illyana Rasputin needs to be brought into custody, he expects them to listen!
Combest shoots back, it must have been hard country indeed for the general to forget the chain of command. Ulysses replies that the other man outranked him when he left but he had twenty years of hard combat in the two years Combest’s been fiddling his thumbs, waiting for them to come home.
Doctor Noc warns them that his transplant is sensitive to aggression. He’s going after Rasputin! Ulysses snarls. Combest warns him he’ll have his butt kicked down to private!
Noc tries to draw back his demonic right arm with the chain attached to it but against his will it reaches out, clawing at Combest’s face. Cekej. Pust’ Lehni! he shouts and manages to draw it back. Ulysses fixes it to the table by stabbing a knife through it. Noc thanks him. What the hell happened to them out there? General Combest shouts. Others hold him back, telling him he is bleeding. Before he steps out, he warns them if they make one move against Rasputin, he’ll code black their entire squad. He leaves. Withdrawing his knife, Ulysses silently stares after him as does Noc.
Utopia, island home of the X-Men where all mutants are busy with construction work after their recent war with Bastion. Standing in what remains of Cyclops’ office, Cannonball watches the proceedings through a hole in the wall. Nice view, huh? Cyclops jokes as he joins him. He’s thinking of turning it into a window. Utopia could use more sunlight.
He looks at the sheet Sam put on his desk. His mission reports for the last few weeks, Sam explains. Scott suggests they go over this when they have the time. Sam interrupts that the report calls his ability to lead into question. The assault on Hodge was a disaster. Shan lost a leg! Warlock was forced to kill! Limbo didn’t pan out much better! He broke his team. For lack of a better term. He understands if Cyclops has to consider a new leader…. Cyclops shoves back the sheets at him. Utopia is under reconstruction, he has plenty of things to consider. This isn’t one of them. If Sam broke his team, fix it! That’s an order!
In the med bay, Karma tries out her new leg prosthesis. In a game of “who lost more,” Hellion, who lost both his hand to Nimrods, complains that a leg’s a bigger deal from a body mass perspective but he lost his hands! Unless her foot had an opposable toe, he has her beat! Eh, maybe, she replies, clearly not interested.
Roberto and Amara join her. Looking good, Roberto flirts. Which one’s the prosthetic? She’s got to go, Shan tells Hellion. Oh, no problem, he complains. He’ll just sit there and twiddle his thumbs. Oh wait!
As they leave, Bobby asks what Hellion is up to. Reminding her why she likes girls, Shan retorts. What’s up? Amara explains that Sam wants them ready to move at 0600 tomorrow. Drills? Shan asks. Nope…
They are going on vacation, Dani informs Cypher outside. Sam’s orders. Looking at the beach, Doug replies that’s fine. He’ll be done soon. “He” refers to Warlock who seems to be vomiting energy. When did this happen? Dani asks. After he was sure the war with Bastion was over and his friends safe, Doug replies. He’s purging the lifeglow he harvested from Hodge’s men. Should they leave him alone? Dani asks. Doug thinks that his suffering should be observed so that its meaning is not diminished.
In her room, Pixie is packing some belongings. She can feel her watching, she tells Illyana Rasputin, who is standing in the doorway. She doesn’t want to hurt her feelings but she still doesn’t consider Magik one of her “pop-in” friends. She’s leaving? Illyana ask. She’s grabbing some R& R just like Illyana’s group. Didn’t she hear? The war’s over. They won! Her war hasn’t even begun yet, Illyana replies ominously, but it will soon. And she may have use for Megan’s aid.
She’s asking her for help? Pixie asks incredulous. The first time this happened, Illyana warped a piece of her soul into a bloodstone! Pixie walks past her. Add that to the fact she just saved Illyana’s &%$ in Limbo and the way she figures that’s two Magik owes her. She’s getting away for a while to someplace where she won’t have to think about Magik or Limbo. Try to return the favor!
Elsewhere, General Ulysses addresses his ragtag team of soldiers who survived the years in Limbo with him. They are on their own on this one, he informs them. What else is new? one soldier scoffs. In their absence, the US government has allowed the muties to commandeer an island fortress, Ulysses continues. Their target is on that fortress, surrounded by well over 100 combatants. If and when she leaves that fortress they will be waiting for her. Ooo-Rah? he asks. Ooo-rah! the men cheer.
The Texas badlands:Two helicopters bring the New Mutants there to a cabin. He figured they could relax here with no one else bothering them, Sam explains. Are those horses alive? Shan wonders. What are they supposed to do out here for a week? Roberto asks. He thought they could hang out, Sam suggests, looking for something in the chopper. Talk about their feelings and stuff. Silently, the others exchange doubtful looks. While they drink beer, Sam adds, getting out the freezer box. “Let’s give him a chance,” Dani suggests.
7:15 PM.:A bunker. Two frightened guard asks Ulysses and his men for authorization. Ulysses shows them a black card with triangle circle symbol. Delta-black. Stand aside, he orders. And the men leave to get to the choppers.
8:35 PM:Inside the cabin, Karma shows off her lower cybernetic leg and Roberto wants to know how high the cybernetics go. Shan asks Doug who comes inside where Warlock ahs gone. Doug explains that he has gone for a walk. He found it uncomfortable to watch the consumption of food, the meaning of which for him as drastically changed. Amara pities him, musing the fight with Hodge really messed him up.
That’s why they are here, Sam reminds them. The last couple of weeks were rough. He wants to talk through what happened, what he did wrong. Dani tells him it was a bad fight. Everyone knows he was in a tough spot. They are all adults. Do they really have to dwell on it? Yes, they do, he insists. They had casualties. A post-operation brief is important. This is serious…
The army choppers are in the air.
9:20 PM:The mutants sit around the table sharing snacks and beer, as Dani tells them how her part of the fight against Hodge and the RIGHT went. She thinks Shan’s been shot, but then she sees this Smiley in front of her calmly taking off his armor. And he’s like “Dani it’s me, put this on!” Then Shan must have jumped ‘cause he just sits there staring at her. So she just levels him in the face with a roundhouse. He never even saw it coming. Dani battering someone’s face? Sunspot exclaims in mock surprise. He thinks he didn’t hear right. At least it wasn’t him this time, Sam sighs.
The choppers land stealthily and the soldiers fan out.
10:26 PM:Sam tells Dani how he embarrassed himself in front of Cyclops, walking in and announcing: “I broke the team. You should fire me.” He’s such a dork, Dani sighs.
Shan, Doug and Illyana sit in another corner, Shan explains she has no idea how long she spent inside Legion’s mind. Has he ever been inside Legion’s brain? But she looks up and there’s Illyana with this huge sword and she’s like “we’re getting out of here…”
Elsewhere, Sunspot tries to flirt with Amara, reminding her of the palm tree in the Amazonas. Oh, where he tried to kiss her, she recalls.
The soldiers have the cabin in sight.
11:36 PM:Roberto finally gets Shan to show him just how high the prosthesis goes up. Sam and Dani for some reason kiss. And Illyana begins to feel bad. She manifests her Soulsword. What’s wrong? Amara asks. Something… she replies vaguely.
The soldiers are next to the cabin right outside the window, then they storm in and fire at the people inside. Their quarry, Pixie, tries to begin her teleportation spell. “Shh,” a small demon the soldiers brought tells her, just before using some sort of power. Suddenly, she cannot speak anymore. “Take her!” Ulysses orders.
“Sharabus Noetum,” one soldier says and opens a sack full of small demons who attack Pixie. To defend herself, she manifests her Souldagger, as expected. She stabs one soldier with it, but is then brought down. It’s not the Soulsword, Ulysses remarks as he takes the magical weapon. But it will do….


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Location undisclosed, the roof of a military complex:An agitated General Combest strides ahead followed by some soldiers. Why are there no helicopters in his &/§@ helicopter field? he demands from the guards. One of them explains that General Ulysses took them for a Black Diamond mission. Get him a radio, Combest orders.
General Ulysses and his men are in the copter still in New Mexico with their prisoner, Pixie. Ulysses examines her soul dagger. One of the soldiers tells Ulysses that Combest is calling them. Put him through, he orders. A furious Combest shouts Ulysses was ordered to leave the mutants alone. He will have Ulysses’ butt! He will be court-martialed!
Cargo is secure, Ulysses tells his men and gives the order to move out. Combest orders him to return directly to base. Does he understand? Yes, sir, Ulysses replies, sill more interested in the soul dagger, his thoughts in the past…
Four years ago:A younger Ulysses, still two ranks lower, tells General Combest that he understands that his assignment has something to do with the mutant problem. Amused, Combest remarks a month ago he’d have been censured for not calling it the mutant “presence.” Things change when one of you opens a portal to hell in New York City. Combest agrees, it’s all over the news that Ulysses is getting a third star for keeping the peace in New Jersey.
Combest takes out a black card with a circle in a triangle and uses it to open a steel door. What’s not all over the news, he continues, is that, during that business in New York, they came into possession of a cache of mutant weapons. They step into a room full of babies and scientists. This is the best chance they have at a contingency for… as he said, the mutant problem. What are they? Ulysses asks. The weapons, Combest replies with a dark smile. Babies? Ulysses asks. No, a scientist, Dr. Noc, replies, mutants.
He takes up a baby and uses a device to take a small triangle-shaped piece of flesh from the child, who cries in pain. Combest explains that the genetic payload is priceless. Dr. Noc is doing work that could weaponize them in a few short years. Ulysses points out that the X-gene is dormant until puberty. Have they isolated the genetic trigger? No, Noc explains. These mutants are special. He leaves the crying baby in another’s hands as he looks at the sample he took, a triangle-shaped piece of flesh. Their flesh is the key, he states. They had only to reverse-engineer the door. It did not take long. He shows them to a hermetically sealed doorway. He puts the flesh triangle into a tube leading to it. He’d like to offer General Ulysses a new job, Combest announces.
Mission day 1,553.Elapsed Earth time: 263 days.Ulysses, in his quarters, now with four stars… He is told that the recruits have arrived. He joins the new soldiers outside under a red sky. One of the soldiers swears at something biting his neck. They stand to attention and salute as Ulysses arrives. Welcome to the hatchery, he tells them, referring to the military complex they have built within the demonic world of Limbo. They will be spending six months in hell. To the outside world, they will only be gone a matter of weeks. They will see &%$$ that will make their /&%/ cry, but listen to him and he’ll have them home, before their girl can &%$& their best friend.
They may be wondering why they were asked to turn in any religious iconography before they rolled out. That is because there is no religion allowed in the Hatchery. He doesn’t give a /&% what their race or creed is, they say grace before they eat and they’ll agitate the natives! He is unaware that one of the soldiers is holding a rosary behind his back.
Pointing to a building behind him, Ulysses explains that is the Hatchery. Even if he asks them to die protecting it, they will not ask him a &%&/ thing about it! If they hear someone mention it, they will cut off their ear before…
He is interrupted as a screeching demon flies toward them and grab the soldier with the rosary. Soldiers from the guard tower begin to shoot at the flying demon. Yep. Ulysses remarks, that will happen.
He calls Dr. Noc in his lab, announcing that one recruit had a close encounter with a native. He was collected but is minus an arm. Examining the corpse of a demon, Noc replies that they will see if the native’s symbio-aggressive cell structure makes its limbs suitable for transplantation. Place him in pre-surgery, he orders his men while he finishes running stress triggers on weapon three. He’s started stress triggers? Ulysses asks. The weapons aren’t mature. Yes, Noc admits, the chance of triggering their powers early is slim, but he wanted to get a head start. He looks a crying little girl in a cage, beset by demons from all sides.
Mission day 1,673.Elapsed Earth time: 287 days.Soldiers take out a nest of demons that have taken their supplies. One of them discovers the desiccated corpse of a blonde girl lying on an altar. In her skeletal hand hangs a golden medallion. They wonder where the demons got her from, as they take the medallion.
Later, Dr. Noc examines the opened medallion which displays a pentagram. At three of the five ends are red stones. His Geiger counter clicks. He explains to Ulysses that the medallion is giving off energy but the waves operate at an unknown frequency. It shouldn’t be in his base, Ulysses worries. Noc agrees, it should not have been brought here by Ulysses’ men. They broke protocol. Further, Noc should have destroyed it as soon as he got it. Yet, here they are, drinking in its beauty, unable to look away. They are in trouble, he thinks.
General Ulysses is informed there is a native at the gate. He gives orders to follow protocols but is told that this one is different. It’s a woman. A red-haired woman with glowing eyes and fangs announces that she is Ananym, though she has taken the name Witchfire for the pain it suggests. They, however, must only concern themselves with the fact that she is the daughter of Belasco, heir to all that was is. The amulet. She will take it now! Dalcke Carribitt! she orders the demon horde behind her.
Pandemonium is unleashed as the demon horde attacks the settlement including the Hatchery where Doctor Noc is still holding the amulet. “Hello,” he says non-plussed.
Ulysses is informed the natives are attacking the Alpha portal. They are trying to strand them here, Ulysses realizes. What the hell is going on? Combest is demanding via comm-link. Are his weapons secure? They are not after the children, Ulysses begins to explain but is interrupted as Combest swears, demanding the security of his weapons.
Ulysses calls Noc, asking if the mutant payload is secure. Shocked and covered in blood, Noc stares at his devastated lab. There was an incident, he almost whispers… the amulet… Check the hatchery, Ulysses orders. There was an incident, he repeats as he opens the door to the Hatchery. Did the natives compromise the Hatchery? Ulysses demands. Oh my, Noc sighs. Yes the demons have been here… Are the weapons secure? Ulysses asks. They’re dead, they’re all dead, Noc breathes.
Having heard this, Ulysses requests permission to retreat through portal Epsilon. Combest replies he knows the contamination protocols. He’s ordering portal Epsilon sealed. How will he get his men out? Ulysses demands. The observation portal will remain on for their return is the reply. That portal is location-transient! Ulysses snarls. How the &%$& are they supposed to find it without Earthside vectoring? Saluting Combest replies that the weapons were their priority. The base is now secondary concern. Everything else is secondary.
Present:Ulysses’ reverie is interrupted as they have arrived and are expected by Combest and armed men. They are in trouble, the pilot observes. They are fine, Ulysses replies and hands him the Souldagger.
Surrounded by armed soldiers, Ulysses is forced to kneel, hands behind his head. He has lost his mind on his tour, Combest announces. As soon as he found his way home, Combest should have court-martialed him for losing the weapons.
About those mutants, Ulysses remarks, they really don’t like being called weapons. What did he say? Combest asks. Moments later, he is torn apart. Surprise, the leader of ten teenage, extremely monstrous mutants announces.


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Three hours ago:The cabin where the New Mutants are on vacation. Dani and Sam are having an argument. In disbelief, Dani blurts out: Lila Cheney? The rock goddess? Is he kidding her? He couldn’t keep his hands off her! He’s not saying he could, Sam replies defensively. He’s saying she wasn’t a great kisser. He was crazy about her, she laughs. Again, he agrees that’s true… still, like kissing your hand.
Is he sure she was the problem? Dani inquires skeptically. Whoa, whoa, what is she talking about? Sam demands. It could have been him, Dani points out. The bad ones never suspect themselves. She’s barking up the wrong tree, Sam blusters. He’s gotten rave reviews. Reviews from significant others don’t count, she informs him. It’s not like he told Lila how bad she was, right? He needs an impartial judge. He warns her that he has punched her in the face. Don’t think for one second he wouldn’t kiss her where she stands. Bring it, she goads. Hope she likes knees made of jelly, he threatens. And they both break up in laugher.
A little later, deciding they are ready, they decide to give it another go and the test kiss may become a bit more. How was that? he asks afterwards. Dani stammers.
The moment is interrupted by Amara. “Illyana,” she says simply. Magik is surrounded by energy as she manifests her Soulsword. A soul gem is taken, she announces, no from herself. Pixie. They’ve taken Pixie. She turns to her Darkchilde form. Her future births itself in the present. They strike now, or all is lost!
Who’s taken Pixie? Sam asks, trying to insert some reason. The men who bring Armageddon, is the cryptic reply. That walk with the Elder Gods. They need to tell Cyclops, Sam insists. The X-Men cannot help, Magik resolves and orders her teammates to prepare themselves. They leave in one minute.
Cypher informs Sam that Illyana’s syntactic rhythm suggests impending doom. Perhaps he should listen. Perhaps all the X-Men should listen, Sam points out sensibly. If Pixie’s in danger they need to know.
Warlock just enters, asking if friend of self/friend is in danger. Will he be asked to fight again? Will he be asked to kill? No, Illyana replies and teleports him away. She explains that she has made a concession and sent the Technarch to warn the X-Men. He infected her home once before. He is unwelcome. She armors up and teleports them all away. Sam protests she needs to stop this. He is in charge! Not where they are going, is the reply.
Moments later, they are in Limbo where a demon army is waiting. She’s gotta be kidding him! Sam exclaims. They just left Limbo! This is really blowing his buzz, Sunspot sighs. Hell will do that, Karma points out.
Cannonball still tries to talk reason into Magik and follows her until two demons bar his way. Speaking a different language, Magik addresses her demon army before returning to Sam. Nice friends, Sam remarks. Not friends, she corrects him. Subordinates. They have done well.
Is she going to tell them what is going on? Magma demands. Very soon her enemies will extract a soul gem from Pixie and use it to complete the bloodstone amulet, she explains. On Earth, they have one hour to stop them; here they have weeks!
Did she know this was going to happen? Sam wants to know. She admits that she assumed her presence would tempt their enemies into the open. She expected them to abduct her. There is still time to thwart their plan if she is listened to. Give him a reason to do that, Sam asks. Illyana loses her helmet and reveals that in the timeline she left, his entire team is dead. Sam led them all to their slaughter. Stand aside and she will keep that from happening again. Those who can fly... fly. The others ride. She equips them with demonic animals to ride. Does she know how to find Pixie then? No, but her horde has found one who does.
And so the New Mutants follow. He hopes this still feels like a good idea when they sober up, Roberto remarks.
Project Purgatory is at the military base where they had the Inferno children kill General Combest’s men. Wearing a demon mask, McDonald remarks that she knows they have the fairy girl. She ain’t close though. The kids will buy them the time they need to extract the gem, Ulysses decides. Is he sure they are safe here? another soldier asks. They obliterated an entire battalion of the USA army. No, one of the Inferno kids points out, they obliterated an entire battalion in less than thirty seconds. From where he is standing that means they have as much time as they need.
Back in Limbo after two weeks, Magik and her crew enter a castle. Cypher translates the dialogue between Illyana and a demon. “She did not want to be taken alive.” And Illyana’s reply: “You have done well. The burning witch fights to the death. Bring her to me.”
The burning witch? Karma wonders. No, Dani realizes as they bring the prisoner. Witchfire.
Illyana grabs the other woman roughly by the hair and demands where the bloodstone amulet is. Witchfire cackles. They have it. The humans that walk with demons. And surely she would know that Witchfire would not give it freely. Her weakness has upset the order of Limbo, Illyana points out. It was Illyana who gave them passage to their realm, Witchfire retorts. It was all her kind! Follow the blood-thumbed road and they will find their home! She tells her this for it will lead to her destruction! Illyana turns away and gives a command to her demons. “See that she suffers,” Cypher translates.
Back on Earth at Project Purgatory’s base: Noc tries to get the soul gem out of Pixie’s dagger. Noc explains that the bioradiation in the dagger is but a fraction of that which is stored in the girl. If they lay this energy bare, the smaller quantity will be pulled to the larger.
The soldier holding the tied up Pixie leers he can’t wait to see what her soul looks like. Pixie flaps her wings and releases pixie dust. The soldier begins to see scary bees whereas Ulysses asks Noc if he is holding a leprechaun. Noc explains it is a harmless hallucinogenic. The soldier, however, begins to fire at the “bees.”
Two weeks later in Limbo, the New Mutants are camping. Does he look good with a beard, Sunspot asks about his fuzz, only to be informed by Magma that’s no beard.
They have reached the hatchery. Inside, Cypher has made the computers work and explains this is a United States military installation. Their doorway home w as closed when their base was ransacked by demons. Their only other way out was an observational portal 600 miles bloodnorth. Through the shifting worlds of the Elsewhere Desert, Illyana remarks. It would take untrained travelers decades to pass. They ride!
On Earth, Ulysses beats up the hallucinating soldier, telling him to find his head. He is given the thumbs-up by his hallucinatory leprechaun. He is informed that they have ice. Something is coming through!
They walk to the portal where amidst smoke, Darkchilde appears, demanding to know where she is. She is followed by the rest of the team. Cannonball identifies the place as a military base. Illyana doesn’t care. Neither does Roberto (who by now has a beard and only wants a shower).
One of the soldiers utters in disbelief it’s White Devil. She came here? Noc exclaims. “You’re up, kids,” Ulysses orders. The soldiers and scientists move aside, shouting the babies are coming The babies? Sunspot asks.
A moment later, a blast from above pulverizes the ceiling and the Inferno kids come down. With her sword glowing Illyana announces they reek of Limbo. So does she, a dark haired young man remarks. A blonde orders Cannonface to go down. An African-American young man with black face tattoes remarks they have heard a lot about them. It’s good to know they are real. The brass wants her sword. Let’s not make it too easy though, ok?
Illyana promises they will all taste her sword, though none will leave with it. Fantastic! the young man exclaims and orders an Asian young woman with chinlong hair named Toko to bring him the sword. Illyana gets ready to strike Toko with the Soulsword. However, the blade just thuds against her and doesn’t move any further. Toko simply takes the blade and yanks it away.
Good girl, the young man praises her and puts on a helmet. Then he moves at superspeed to hit Illyana until she is down. He’s had his fun, he tells the others. The rest are theirs… and the others attack…


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Flashback:Project Purgatory: mission day 1674Elapsed Earth time: 287 daysShortly after the attack of Witchfire’s demon horde. With the demons withdrawn, Ulysses runs into the Hatchery. Noc holds a moaning child. In shock, he mutters: Killed them all, didn’t you? Killed them all. Ulysses shouts he needs Noc patching up his men ASAP!
When he come in, he sees the boy and states Noc said the children were dead. No, Noc corrects him, the demons are all dead. He’s sorry, he’s quite in shock… the mutants… The children killed the demons, They’ve started to hatch!
Apart from the injured boy, there are ten other mutant children who give Ulysses scared looks. Noc looks down upon gurgling boy in his arms. This one is hurt, he announces. He’ll need gauze, lots of gauze!
Mission time: 1704 daysElapsed Earth time: 292 daysIn the surgery, Noc and others are operating on the injured boy, attaching a shining oval to what is left of his face. Ulysses addresses the other ten kids. He’s gonna say this once, so listen up: As far as he’s concerned, they are soldiers now. Respect his authority and he’ll respect them!
Noc explains that the boy’s mutation weaponized his brainstem. The blast that vaporized the demons took his eyes, eardrums, tongue and nose with it.
Ulysses continues that their mutant powers are going to be much more dangerous to themselves than the bad guys. He and his men are trained in keeping things like this from happening and fixing it when they do. They may have seen them as their captors but they have all been betrayed and stranded here. No matter what their relationship was in the past, they need each other. They are here to help. They are not the bad guys! The operation over, the boy who is later nicknamed Cannonface struggles wildly, not knowing what is happening. Noc hits him over the head. Who are the bad guys exactly? one of the other kids asks. He’s glad he asked, Ulysses begins…
The present: The New Mutants now face the adult mutant children. The African-American boy, Russell, who seems to be a leader of sorts, remarks the soldiers told them about them (the New Mutants). All of them. They are mutants too, but they didn’t let them stay, did they? They turned them over to the bad guys. They met the bad guys a few minutes ago. He’s still cleaning them off his uniform. They should ask themselves which team they want to be on…
Doug translates that his conviction is clunky and simple, but hard like diamond. He’s been indoctrinated. Oh God, Dani realizes, the babies. The Inferno babies! The others are horrified. They gave them to the government! Amara cries. Looks like they did a bang up job with them too, Roberto observes cynically.
While an African-American girl, Shauna, takes Illyana, Toko explains they are taking her from them now. She’ll be killed when they are done with her. No! Dani screams. The blonde, Trista, remarks they said the mutants would try to stop them. What are they waiting for? another of the Inferno kid asks Try to stop them!
Sam leads the attack, pointing out to his friends that they are outnumbered. So? Magma asks. So, once you pick a mark hit them until they stop moving!
A black-haired woman with tattooed half-demon limbs, Loca, shouts they have a viral telepath. Alex! Alex turns out to be a mass of opaque purple goo that engulfs Karma’s head.
Shauna’s holding onto Illyana’s head, her hands seem to merge with her head. Her skin tastes like a demon’s but a little softer, she announces. Sam flies toward her, Toko and a blue-skinned boy, Bob, planning to get to Illyana. Toko repels him and he lands hard.
Bob suggests they go. They want her. And Shauna takes Illyana away through a doorway. They’re getting away! Sunspot shouts while fighting a blond muscular man parts of whom are covered in red scabs. He his him, then threatens him with a sword to stay down. He is called Scab, the boy begins. He grabs Roberto’s blade and laughs when cuts himself with it. Where he bleeds more scabs cover him, making him more powerful. Well, learning to use this, Sunspot states, referring to the sword, was a colossal waste of time.
Dani fights Loca but the other woman easily evades her, smelling her emotions. Is that anger? she asks, then hits Dani in the face. She doesn’t have powers, does she? That’s not anger, it’s fear. Dani stares up at her defiantly.
Magma tries to free Karma from Alex’ hold. She’s hot! Maw leers, a boy who is covered by mouths. Want him to blow on her? Gross! she replies and opens a small volcano beneath him. Hot! he screams.
A black-haired young man, Timothy, stands above Sam. Not hurt at all? He has invulnerability and can fly straight too? Timothy has a harder time. He can barely control where he goes and his jets aren’t quite as nice. They form on his arms. He fires them at Sam who dodges and suggests he keep practicing.
He sees Karma in Alex’ bubble and flies against it. Unfortunately, he is swallowed by Alex as well.
The blonde, Trista, sits some distance away, holding Facecannon on a leash. The firegirl will be trouble, she muses. Cypher addresses her, asking her to surrender. He has a sexy voce, Trista remarks Watch my friends hurt your friends with me she orders the wrong way round and Doug finds he has to obey. Her orders form neurological connections as they inactivate the frontal lobe. Her wish becomes his thoughts. It’s almost as if-- Hush now Trista orders.
He’s still bleeding, isn’t he? Sunspot asks Scab who is almost completely covered in red now.
Dani tries to wildly hit Loca, but instead the other woman hits her with one of her demonic limbs. She grabs Dani’s right arm, announcing she is going to hurt her now and taste her pain. Look at her! she orders. Dani does and manages not to scream when Loca breaks her arm. Good girl, Loca praises her, then knocks he out.
Roberto is momentarily distracted by this, allowing Scab to hit him until he stays down.
Surrounded by enemies, Magna threatens to burn this place to the ground before she will let them take her. She knew she’d be trouble, Trista tells Russell. She just doesn’t like there being another blonde, he points out and orders her to do it. She taps a command on Facecannon’s head. Doug remarks that even Morse code carries the personality of its author …her tapping is very cruel. So what? Trista asks. Facecannon shoots Magma.
Only the Inferno kids (and the enslaved Cypher) are left standing. What do they do with them now? One of them asks. Whatever we want, Russell replies…


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Blackness: a young boy crouches in it when he suddenly hears a noise through the darkness. Words begin to become clearer as does the person who speaks them: Xi’an Coy Manh aka Karma. Does he understand what she’s saying? The words become clearer. It’s been a while since he’s heard words, hasn’t it? But he’s starting to understand, she thinks. Quizzically, the boy looks at her. He wasn’t always like this, was he?
In reality, Cannonface just stands there while his teammates, Shauna and Trista as well as the controlled Cypher, are standing around the seemingly unconscious Karma. She’s awake! Trista shouts. Shauna touches Karma’s head, announcing she’s got her. She’s too doped up to make a possession.
Cannonface goes wild. Trista pulls on his leash ordering him to get away. Cypher points out that her raised voice has no point as he can’t hear her. Trista hits Face and Cypher admits he probably understands that. Shauna sighs, how did they pull these two losers? She bets everyone else is having fun right now.
Cannonball is in a cell, put in a straitjacket and surrounded by dynamite as Loca informs him. If he blasts he’s gonna cause an explosion that will kill them all, including his friends. What does she want? he asks. Sniffing at him, she tells him she is a tracker. She can smell emotions… taste them. He and his friends. They love each other. The notes are pleasant. But if something were to happen to them… the love would turn to anguish. And anguish… is delicious.
From the cell next door, Sam can hear Dani scream in pain. Timothy and a few of the soldiers are torturing her for their amusement. Timothy holds Dani by the throat, informing her that her arm is broken and she is in shock. When she tries to tough it out, he asks for the soul leeches. Sam shouts at them to leave her alone and Loca enjoys his suffering.
In another cell are the paralyzed Sunspot and unconscious Magma. The blue being, Bob, informs them that they won’t be paralyzed for long Shauna’s powers aren’t permanent. He assures Bobby he isn‘t mean like the others. He cuts off a small part of his own finger. He is an explorer, he likes to see things. The small bit turns into a miniature version of Bob that enters Bobby though his nostril.
Dr. Noc accompanies General Ulysses to the bound Darkchilde. Noc explains that her sword will agitate Pixie’s soul dagger gem much more efficiently. She should not have been brought here. She’ll do anything to get her amulet back, Ulysses points out. Does he think it will be wise to keep her here? Safer than letting her go, Noc replies.
Illyana Rasputin, Ulysses addresses her. A little, she replies coolly. He points to the purple mass on her shoulder, explaining that the anchor slug keeps her from teleporting. If it starts hurting, that means it’s infected and she needs to let him know. He wants her to know that, before Limbo, he’d never hurt a woman. Much less a girl! She is much less than a girl, Magik points out. Fair enough, he admits.
He turns to the tied up and gagged Pixie, explaining they are going to steal a piece of her soul and use it to complete the demonic W.M.D. they call the bloodstone amulet. It’s going to hurt her a lot, and he’s going to do it anyway.
Toko hands him the Soulsword. Ulysses continues that they spent twenty years in Limbo, hounded by every evil imaginable. Twenty years living as prey! They managed to kill a few demons in their day but nothing they did made them afraid of the soldiers. First couple of years, all they wanted to do was come home. Now that’s not enough for them. Now they want to see them run! Show them what happens when you mess with a United States soldier.
He has no idea what forces he seeks to unleash, Magik replies calmly. He states that every demon in Limbo is afraid of them activating that amulet. She has no idea how much that means to them.
Noc warns them the soulgem in Pixie’s dagger is vibrating. Never would have hurt a girl in his life, Ulysses mutters. His wife wouldn’t recognize him… Magik orders Megan to be brave. The girl screams as the soulgem is freed and Noc catches it.
Later, Scab carries Magik to the other two prisoners, Sunspot and Magma. He asks Russell how when he and Trista are… you know… How does he know she’s not using her voice to make him do things? What the $%! does he care? Russell asks and orders him not to pick himself in front of him - it’s disgusting! He informs Bob they have the gem and need to get moving. Bob tells him he hasn’t retrieved his other self yet but is told to shut up. Scab throws Illyana down and Russel draws Bob away with them.
Roberto tells Illyana Amara hasn’t woken up but he can see her breathing. She’s still al… She knows, Illyana states. He knows she knows. They are not all getting out of this, are they? he asks. Amara’s not getting out of this? No, Illyana replies curtly. He wants to know how Amara dies. Without regret, she tells him. She dies as she’s supposed to. He still insists on the how. He hasn’t asked Illyana for anything. He followed her into Limbo and didn’t say a word. Amara told him llyana holds her as she dies. How does it happen? She doesn’t love him, Illyana states. Not as he loves her. Bobby looks away, then announces he doesn’t care. Listen carefully, Illyana begins…
Elsewhere, Dani screams in agony as the torture continues. From the cell next to her, Sam shouts helpless abuse at her torturers, swearing to kill them. Dani shouts at him to get it together. He’s giving them what they want. Stop it! Stop dancing for them! She’s going to be fine. It doesn’t even hurt! He was right about Lila Cheney. He’s an excellent kisser.
She screams again and Loca suddenly loses her smile as Sam no longer reacts to Dani’s suffering. Did she hear that? he asks. She actually liked it. Frustrated, Loca hits him.
Elsewhere in the complex, Ulysses fingers the soulgem they freed. He hears they went back to Iraq because they thought Saddam had a nuke. How the hell are they supposed to stay put knowing what they know? Maybe someday they will understand, Noc offers. Not today, Ulysses states. Not today, Noc agrees. Looking at screens, another soldier informs them they’ve got the entire stateside air force bearing down on their position. Should he have the children intercept? Noc inquires. Ulysses decides they will take the collider tunnel back to the Epsilon portal. They’ve waited long enough. They are going back.
The prisoners are being taken to underground trains. Maw informs Loca she gets cranky when she’s hungry. Ulysses who gets onto the first train with Noc, Toko, Russel and Scab orders his people to load up the prisoners and follow right behind. They’ll need to fortify the hatchery for the big show. Noc warns the kids that the New Mutants will be a sacrifice to the Elders and he knows how many there are supposed to be.
Maw and Trista make Cypher carry Dani. What’s his story? she asks. Trista speaks with a mutated language. He is under the control of her words. First Selene… Dani begins, now… Yes, he agrees. He has become a cliché.
The blob-like Alex is used to transport Sunspot and the unconscious Magma whom Toko keeps down. Bob wonders if on the ride he can spare an extremity to explore her. Sunspot tells him he has something for him and spits out the small version he sent to explore Sunspot, bitten to death. Bob angrily announces, he killed him in cold blood as Sunspot is loaded on the train. Bob’s gonna cry again! Timothy gloats. There’s more where that came from, Toko chimes in. Cliquish jerks! he mutters as he gets aboard the train. So does Trista who tells the last group to use Face to seal up the tunnel behind them. Timothy drags Facecannon to his side.
Left for the last train are the unconscious Karma, Magik and Pixie, Timothy, Maw, Face and a few soldiers. One of the feral soldiers announces he wants Karma’s artificial leg. They don’t have time for this, Timothy insists but Maw remarks he wants to see if they can get it off.
On the astral plane, Karma talks to Face, still a child, and tells him not to be afraid of her. She needs his help!
The remaining soldiers and Inferno babies have gathered around Karma.
On the astral plane, she groans, holding her leg. She tells him he doesn’t know why it’s dark in here. Why the lights went out.
In real life, the soldier begins to cut the leg off.
Karma wants the boy to use her eyes.
Outside, they have cut to the bone.
The boy begins to cry as he sees all this.
He tears at the leash, then fires at Timothy, killing him, then at Maw and the other soldiers. He sinks to his knees. Karma wakes up, mumbling it’s okay. Magik tears off the paralyzing slug while Shan hugs Facecannon and tries to calm him.
Illyana announces that when Pixie awakes they will travel with her to Utopia. Once there, Karma will follow her instructions. The others are going to be killed, Shan points out. They have to go after them! Illyana calmly states that Shan’s mission is the only one that matters. The others are expendable.
What is she talking about? Karma snarls. Dani’s with them! Illyana came back from the future for them. She said they were important! She lied, Illyana states. She came back for Karma.


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Utopia: Two hours have elapsed since Magik teleported Warlock back to Utopia and sent her team to Limbo. In the Cerebra chamber, Emma Frost is trying to find them, while Cyclops and an agitated Warlock watch. She’s lost them, Emma finally states. There was something… scattered traces of their genetic signals but, when her mind follows it, it falls into a well of psychic confusion. Some kind of jamming tech? Scott asks. No, a spell, Emma fears and wonders if they haven’t placed too much trust in Illyana Rasputin.
Warlock points out that Illyana 2.0 sent him to share locational data. Knowing full well that without Pixie they had no means of following her into Limbo, Emma retorts. She’ll have questions for their little demon when she gets her hands on her, not the least of which being how she misplaced an entire team of X-Men…
“Save your questions” comes an announcement. They’ve been taken back to Limbo, which means they are already out of time. It’s Darkchilde teleporting in, holding an injured Karma. Also with them is Pixie, who looks like she’s been through the wringer.
Meanwhile in Limbo, where 15 days and 16 hours have elapsed:In the base are the imprisoned Moonstar, Sunspot, Magma, and Cannonball, all paralyzed by the slugs, as well as the mentally controlled Cypher, who has to follow Trista’s orders.
Loca kneels over Dani gloating that three of her friends got away. Or so she thinks. She thinks they’ll get here before her arm heals? Wrong. Sorry if she’s a little loopy. The despair wafting from her friends’ cell is intoxicating. And the whelp they call Cypher is pungently aware that Russell will kill him out of jealousy as soon as Trista turns her back. His shame is quite a buzz.
Cypher sits at a kind of organ playing it at Trista’s orders. Russell tells Trista he shouldn’t be here. They don’t know what that thing does. Trista hushes him. She’s teaching her pet a trick!
But then she has to sober her up with her glimmer of hope! Loca tells Dani. Such a bummer! She’s a walking, talking hangover, that’s what she is! Loca can’t wait to put an end to her. What’s she waiting for? Dani challenges her.
Three soldiers wearing demon masks to see what is happening outside announce it won’t be long now. They are referring to the demons of Limbo, who know they are here. Everywhere, the demons are agitated, for they know the soldier have the bloodstones and the amulet. They know what they intend to do with them. They mass to kill them before they end the demons’ world.
Scab suggests the trigger the amulet and unleash holy hell. What are they waiting for? The demons, Ulysses replies. They wait for the demons.
Maw, Timothy and Face have not arrived, Noc informs him. They must assume the Darkchilde has escaped. They are in Limbo, they have the time, Ulysses replies and opens the box holding the bloodstone amulet. He puts it around Toko’s neck. He wants them to know he’s got them by the $§&%. He wants them to know they messed with the wrong $§%& marine. He hands her the final bloodstone.
Utopia:Elapsed time 2 hours, 5 minutes.Cyclops has gathered a team of X-Men, among them Angel, Emma Frost, Hope Summers, Iceman, Dust, Colossus, Namor, Magneto, Psylocke, Wolverine, Gambit, Rogue and Northstar.
Warlock tells Wolverine he has a system conflict. He has isolated aggressive personality scripts. Doubt: did action place selffriend Doug Ramsey in danger? Should he run aggressive binaries? He wants to know if it’s okay to get angry? Wolverine translates. He knows what he’s going to do when he finds who took their people. Run aggressive binaries? Warlock asks. Oh, yeah, comes the reply. Warlock decides to run the binaries and growls a moment later. Atta boy, Logan praises him.
Four minutes, Cyclops warns the team. Magik joins the injured Karma in another room. Shan blames her for not bringing Face along. There is no time for compassion Illyana cuts her off. They think she is taking them on a rescue mission, don’t they? Karma asks. Illyana manifests her Soulsword. There is no need to ask questions to which she knows the answers. When they were in Legion’s mind before, this is why Magik let her use the Soulsword, right? Karma asks. Why she kept it a secret. She could never hint at what she planned to do. What is she waiting for? Karma asks. Magik pushes the Soulsword into Karma’s body. Shan falls down. Magik rejoins the group.
Limbo:Elapsed time: 20 days,3 hours:In front of the Hatchery, demon armies have gathered and three leaders want to parley, claiming they do not fear the amulet and that it is only dangerous to humans. Ulysses scoffs, then tells them if they want the amulet he’ll make it easy on them. Just repeat after him: “You have won. With this weapon we cannot beat you.” Then they must beg for their lives. They have to make that part up.
The first demon protests, the second complies. Ulysses thanks them, then tells Russell to return their message Russell attacks the demons. Fighting breaks out. Ulysses orders Loca to sacrifice the prisoners and prepare for the endgame.
Dani’s cell is also attacked by a demon horde. Dani positions herself to make sure the demons cut her bindings, then draws her knife and fights.
Noc warns Ulysses that the outer buildings are compromised. The installation won’t hold them long. Time to send Toko out, Ulysses decides. Toko, wearing the medallion and holding the last bloodstone, jumps amidst the demon horde, holding the stone out triumphantly but no one can touch her.
Inside, Loca vows Dani will die next. She kicks in the door to her cell and finds dead demons. Look at her! Dani orders her. Loca turns around. Dani is using her bow, pulling the string with one of her feet. Good girl, she mocks and her arrow hits Loca straight in the chest.
Outside, the demons are unable to stop Toko as she slowly puts the fifth bloodstone inside the amulet.
Magik has teleported the X-Men inside the installation, right in front of portal epsilon – the doorway to Limbo. This is where it happens, she states. Where what happens? Cyclops demands. She said she would take them to their teammates! It’s too late! she replies. They’ve released them… can’t they feel it? They are coming here! Coming for their world! Coming for her! Who? Scott asks and shakes her. She points toward the portal and, a moment later, giant hands tear apart the portal from the other side. The Elder Gods tear through.
Back at Utopia, David Haller, locked in, suddenly begins to shout “no.” Karma has entered his mindscape. David begs her not to go in, referring to a door with the sign ‘do not enter.’ There’s bad stuff there! It’s his secret, please! Manifesting the soulsword, Karma orders him to stand back and smashes the door. Please, she can’t let him out! David pleads.
Karma walks in and heads towards a bunker-like building with several opened doors. Only one is locked. “Who’s there?” a voice sing-songs from the other side of the door. He knows her smell. She destroys the lock. The demon girl wasn’t lying. She told him she’d be back for the real him, the “real” incredibly powerful and unstable Legion announces from a cell he shares with the corpse of Bishop.


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Limbo, inside the Hatchery:Dani Moonstar shakes Cannonball out of his stupor and helps him up. Sunspot and the injured Magma are in the same cell, but they have no idea where Doug and Illyana are. They’ll have to find them later, Sam decides. The bloodstone amulet is their priority. They find Ulysses and his men, they can get it back!
It’s too late for that, Dani announces. They need to help their friends! Sam reminds her that, if the soldiers use that amulet to call the Elder Gods, it will mean the end of the world! He doesn’t get it, Dani tells him, it’s over, they’ve already lost!
They look outside to where the Elder Gods are decimating the denizen of Limbo. A starry sky with one moon seems to indicate that there is already a link to Earth. They did it, Sam stammers; the soulless bastards actually did it! Amara spells out that they have torn a hole to Earth. Everyone they’ve ever known… they are all going to…
They can’t walk away, Sam decides. Not after what they did to them. Dan tries to hold him back. They can’t look back. They killed the world! he tells her, they can’t walks away. He flies away.
Amara points up at the sky where she and Bobby see lllyana riding on a flying demon, trying to fight the enemy. Amara explains that isn’t their Illyana. It’s her before she travels back in time to warn them about Legion. She has to tell her what went wrong, to make her go back and fix this. She can barely walk, Sunspot tells her. Who knows how long before she can use her powers again? She agrees too easily to hiding. Don’t! he cuts her off. Illyana told him that she would trick him into leaving her and then she can go warn Illyana and die. She agrees. But it’s their only chance. It’s the end of the world! What does he want her to do? Sunspot stammers, then decides he wants her to let him come with her. He can’t let her die alone.
The men of Project Purgatory look after the leaving Elder Gods who have slain the demons. The attack on Earth was not what they expected, Noc stammers. Russell tells Ulysses he can’t find Trista. He thinks she’s back at base. Noc decides they still have the amulet and Ulysses has Toko hand it to him. Noc announces he must command the deities to halt their attack. Their world must not fall!
They don’t seem to be taking orders, do they? Ulysses points out. He can feel they want the amulet. The legends… the promise of power… just a lie to get what they want. He’ll give it to them. Maybe that will be enough, and if not…then the whole world will know the horrors they’ve seen.
Ulysses strides towards the horrors while Noc tells everyone else to run. “Come on then, you sons of whores!” Ulysses shouts. His name is General Charles Ulysses of the United States military. By the power vested in him through these bloodstones, he commands them to run back. Resolutely, the general holds the amulet aloft, a sight taken in by the multi-faceted eyes. To this challenge, the Elder Gods reply something in their own language and behead him.
Earthside:Cyclops asks Illyana how they can stop the Elder Gods. They don’t, is the curt reply. This is beyond them. Cyclops refuses to accept this. Even if they all lay down their lives this day, they won’t cede Earth to her evil deities. There are wheels in motion, she replies vaguely. Perhaps to save them, perhaps not, but some things can’t be changed, some things can’t be stopped.
In Limbo, the other Illyana from an earlier time demands to know who unleashed the Gods!
Hiding further down, Sunspot and Magma have hammered out their plan. He will fight the demons as long as he can, hopefully drawing enough of them to gain her a passage. This is more than he can handle, she fears. Roberto explains that Juliana, his first love, was killed in front of him. He prayed for years that God would let him take her place. He thanks her for letting him do this. He’s welcome, she replies, tears in her eyes. Let’s do this! he shouts and turn to his solar form to attack the demons.
Elsewhere, Noc and the rest of the group have taken a train to take them back to Portal Epsilon with Noc the only one apparently understanding what horror they have unleashed. That moment, Cannonball appears in front of them and smashes through the rain at full speed.
Dani searches the Hatchery for Sam, instead finding Doug in a console room standing next to a kneeling Trista. He explains that she liked the way it sounded so she made him learn to play it, even though none of them knew what it did. It plays magic, symphonies of spells. He picked it up quickly. Language is power, he always believed, but in Limbo the power of a well-turned phrase is almost terrifying. He lifts Trista’s head – she no longer has a mouth, hence can no longer command him. Dani is shocked while he asks what’s the story with everyone else.
Is that all you’ve got? Sunspot shouts bravely, tearing into the demons. Amara turns back… she can’t… About to be overwhelmed, he shouts at her to run and whispers he loves her.
“Hmm that’s odd,” Illyana muses. She is not usually this sentimental. She orders the X-Men to prepare themselves. Moments later, she teleports them to Sunspot’s side and they attack the demons. Colossus breaks him free.
Why isn’t he dead? Roberto asks Illyana. She said if he protected Amara, he would die. That she couldn’t help him. She agrees. She should not have jeopardized her plans. But she supposes this is as good a place to watch as any. Watch what? Sunspot asks and gets his reply a moment later as a fully-powered Legion appears in the sky, whiteness glowing around him.
Inside Legion’s personality matrix, all the personalities are fleeing, save for David and Marci. The two are holding on to Karma, who assures them everything is going to be okay. Illyana knows what she’s doing.
The fighting has stopped. The X-Men stare at Legion in shock. The last time he flared like this, he destroyed their reality! Cyclops exclaims. How did-- He is her message to the Gods, Illyana replies. ”Long have you tormented me, you ancient embodiments of evil. My soul was torn from me to purchase your freedom. I have prevented your release many times… but banishment will no longer sate me. You hunger for human fear… human suffering. Today you understand that we are not human. We are superior!”
The madly grinning Legion turns to white energy. “Today you cease to be!” And in the light, the Elder Gods are torn apart.
Legion hovers in whiteness, the Beatrice amulet floating nearby. Darkchilde teleports to his side. Legion points at the amulet and it dissolves, the five bloodstones floating to the hands of Magik, who cradles them with a gentle smile. Legion too smiles at her.
And suddenly things are normal again. There’s a huge crater where the Elder Gods were before. Mutant / Legion has hacked reality code, Warlock announces. Rewritten to uncorrupted back-up? The X-Men try to process what happened. It is over, Illyana announces, human again and cradling an unconscious Legion.
Utopia, three days later. In the infirmary, Roberto hams up his suffering so that Amara can nurse him all the better. As they watch, Warlock asks Cypher if their proxy/family has sustained structural damage as result of Illyana’s interference. They are either growing or dying, Doug replies. Which is it?
Roberto suggests Amara could rub his back a little. Of course, she agrees, and Sunspot winks at Doug and Warlock. They’ll see, won’t they, Doug comments.
Elsewhere, Dani asks Sam if he caught up to the Inferno kids and Doctor Noc. What did he do? Sam doesn’t reply or meet her eyes and walks away.
Also in bed, Pixie gets a surprising gift from Illyana, her souldagger and her two soul gems. Did she get them all back? Pixie asks confused. Her own too? Does this mean she is a, you know, real girl again? She hopes to act like it does, if nothing else, Illyana replies and tells her good-bye.
Outside the room Shan is waiting for her. How did Legion find his way to Earth? She demands. Illyana smirks. He has the power to end the universe, Karma announces grimly. Every X-Man on the planet risked their lives to banish him from existence itself. And she brought him back because he was the only one who could kill the Elder Gods. She never had any intention of stopping Ulysses, did she? She let all of this happen so she could have her revenge… Yes, Illyana admits.
Shan exclaims that she has to tell the others. She will do what she must, Illyana agrees, just as she. Illyana walks to a waiting room where her brother Colossus is waiting. Shan calls after her: Why did Legion help her? What did she give him in return? Everyone wants to come home, Illyana replies. Even the worst of them.
Illyana joins his brother and tells him she’s back. Happily he hugs her. His snowflake! Yes, his snowflake, she agrees. While hugging him, she stares out of the glass window, her face strangely expressionless. Only Karma sees it.