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Under the mental thrall of Johnny Dee, Cyclops continues to unleash his optic blast against Bishop. Archangel shouts to Scott that Bishop will merely absorb the energy and “Scott” coldly replies “Not this time.” The Beast sees that this attack is actually hurting Bishop and urges Scott to ease off on the attack. To everyone’s surprise, “Cyclops” turns his beam on the Beast! He then turns to resume his attack on Bishop whose entire nervous system is aglow with energy making it visible through his tissue, skin and even his costume. He warns those around him to take cover as he has to release the energy he’s absorbed. He directs the massive energy discharge up, slicing through the arm of the nearest Sentinel.
The Sentinel pilot is dumbfounded at the damage as their data on the Sentinel’s armor capabilities indicated that it could sustain up to seven seconds of assault by Cyclops at full power. Hearing this, Colonel Reyes directs the officer in charge of the O*N*E, Sergeant Foley to subdue Cyclops but not to kill him as the last thing they need is a martyr.
 Foley relays the order and Sabra moves in to help Bishop and asks Micromax to take out Cyclops. As he prepares to move out, Micromax triggers something in his palm. Sabra asks about this and he tells her he has an internal sound system that provides music; in this case Primal Scream’s album “Exterminator”. As he charges in, he adds that action scenes should always have a soundtrack.
As the battle gets started, Beast tells Iceman that Cyclops must be under some kind of psychic attack. He adds that they need to cool things down before things get out of control.
 Micromax punches Cyclops as Sabra confronts Archangel in the air. She tells him she has no desire to fight them and they have no chance at winning. He retorts that she is “just following orders”. Micromax turns his attack on the Beast just as Cyclops begins to come around. Beast is surprised by Micromax’s strength and recalls that he can increase his density as well as his size. Iceman is holding off a handful of soldiers with an ice shield and calls on the Beast for help.
 Meanwhile, Micromax carries Bishop from the field of battle. Bishop is appalled that Cyclops was actually trying to kill him. Beast checks on Cyclops and asks if he is with them or still a threat. Still groggy, Cyclops reveals that someone has been inside his head.
Inside the bunker, Domino and the rest of the 198 watch as Cyclops’ ragtag team of X-Men are being overpowered by the O*N*E forces. She tells them they have to go out to help. Scalphunter tells her they don’t and suggests they fly out of there while they have the chance. He adds that they should split up as they are too vulnerable as a group. Mammomax tells him to go ahead then. Domino steps in and tells them that they are not leaving the X-Men in the lurch since they are only there in the first place because they wanted to help the 198. Scalphunter points out that Cyclops started the fight and has clearly flipped out. She simplifies it and says that the people who came to their aid are getting slaughtered and asks who is with her.
Lorelei stops and asks that they zoom in on Cyclops. She sees how disoriented he is and tells the others that she knows what’s happened to him. She tells them that he’s being controlled by Johnny Dee. She recounts how Johnny mysteriously appeared in the camp and seemed okay at first. She tells them how Magma killed Absolon Mercator but had no recollection of it afterwards and how several other residents of the camps had similar experiences. But on the night they escaped the camp, she saw Johnny Dee drop his suitcase and saw the strange capsules inside it and the “voodoo pawn” of Magma. She tells them that he knew she had seen this and touched her hair. She believes that he can control anyone he’s touched.
Arclight chides Lorelei for not mentioning this earlier and Lorelei responds that she didn’t want to sow any unnecessary suspicion among the 198 since she could be wrong. At that moment, Outlaw steps forward and points her pistol at Domino. She tells Lorelei that she’s dead right but that “she” prefers that they not aid the X-Men. Realizing that this isn’t Outlaw she’s dealing with, Domino tells Johnny Dee that Outlaw’s weapon is pretty primitive and sooner or later will misfire. She tells him that she feels the odds are in her favor given her luck powers and urges him to pull the trigger since she’s feeling lucky. Johnny does so and nothing happens. Toad moves in and takes Outlaw down. When Outlaw gains her senses, she tells Toad he better have a real good reason to be squatting on her.
Domino begins to warn the others that Johnny Dee may assume control of someone else. Before she can finish the sentence, Lorelei attacks her with her hair, taunting her with the catchphrase “He-e-e-e-ere’s Johnny!” Shatterstar jumps in and slices through Lorelei’s hair with his sword. She gathers her wits as she is released from his control. Domino confirms that Lorelei is once again in control of her body and she tells Domino that Johnny is really, really sick.
 Domino announces to the others that only she and Shatterstar will go to help the X-Men since anyone among the 198 could have been duped by Johnny Dee. She tells them to lock themselves in and to watch each other closely. She guesses that Johnny Dee can only control one target at a time but it could be any one of them. Shatterstar notes that Caliban could be among those controlled just as he returns and shares the news that he found weapons of mass destruction within the bunker. This is overheard by Erg, the mutant Johnny Dee is currently controlling. Dee relays this new info to General Lazer.
At O*N*E’s mobile HQ, Val Cooper tells Colonel Reyes that the President is well on his way to amending the current laws to eliminate the call for mutant internment and to provide amnesty to any criminal acts that occurred during the exodus from the Xavier Institute.  Coupled with the Superhuman Registration Act, Dr. Cooper sees this as a perfect opportunity for mutants to find official legitimization as they will have equal opportunities as any superhuman to become a sanctioned government agent through registration. She just needs to convince the X-Men to stand down until these changes can take effect. Col. Reyes tells her this may be too late and shows her the footage of Shatterstar and Domino joining the fray.
 At that moment, General Lazer contacts them to convey his intent to report the battle in Nevada to the President and release a statement to the press. Valerie tells him that this will kill the plans to offer amnesty and Lazer smirks and replies “You thinks so?” before ending his transmission.
Valerie is fuming with hatred for the general when her phone rings. It’s her contact inside the Pentagon’s O*N*E, Martin who reports what is going on with Lazer. After hanging up the phone, Valerie turns to Colonel Reyes and asks him how important his career is to him. She tells him what she’s learned from Martin: Lazer has been locked up all day with a mutant named John Dee who he had transferred there from the Xavier Institute. He’s also requested DNA samples the government acquired from the Xavier Institute during Operation Zero Tolerance, among them DNA from Cyclops. She tells Reyes that she knows Cyclops would never attack Bishop the way he did and suspects that Lazer is somehow behind all this.
 She reminds Reyes that their original charge was to protect mutants and she asks him if that has changed. He says “Not to my knowledge.” She tells him she’s going to go with her instincts on this and wants his support. Again she asks how much he cares about his career. He replies that he cares about two things in life; the army and… he begins to say his sister. Val interrupts and notes that he still has no idea where she is or if she’s still a mutant after M-Day. He replies that he doesn’t even know if she’s alive…but he does know he’d be a sad person if all he cared for was his career.
Valerie and Col. Reyes make their way to the Pentagon where they are met by Val’s inside contact, Martin. He gives them an update and escorts them to Lazer’s private office.  Val thanks him and once he’s gone, explains to Reyes that he’s a former boyfriend.
The O*N*E guard at the door tries to prevent Cooper and Reyes from entering and Val boldly asks him if he’s prepared to shoot her in order to stop her. Reyes coldly tells him that “no” would be the right answer. He says good-bye to his career as he kicks in the door.
 Lazer demands to know what he’s doing and Reyes sees Johnny Dee holding his miniature of Cyclops, along with “voodoo pawns” of Lorelei, Leech, Erg, Magma and Outlaw. Reyes tells Lazer that he’s there to ruin his day and how happy he is to see Johnny doing just what they suspected. Johnny smiles at Lazer and tells them they’ve been caught red-handed. He asks the general if he plans on telling the about the WMDs. Lazer tells him to shut up but Johnny simply smiles and tells the general that he doesn’t think he gets to tell him what to do anymore. Val places a call directly to the Secretary of Defense.
In Nevada, the battle rages as Domino and Shatterstar join Cyclops’ embattled team. Micromax grabs Archangel’s ankle and pounds him into the ground.  Sabra notes her surprise that Micromax could get that large and he makes a flirtatious remark about everything being in proportion. Shatterstar approaches and tells Micromax that size doesn’t impress him. Micromax makes a move to squash Shatterstar who drives his double-bladed sword into Micromax’s stomach. Micromax falls, hard and immediately begins to shrink down to normal size. Sabra cries out and calls Shatterstar a “murdering animal”. He simply replies that he is sorry but the concept of murder does not apply here because this is a war.
From the bluff above, Bishop watches as the X-Men and their allies fight valiantly despite being outnumbered. A soldier runs up to him as he realizes that this could become far worse than the future that he comes from if it continues to escalate. He takes aim at Cyclops and apologizes for what he is about to do.  He is intent on ending things here. The O*N*E soldier insists that Bishop take the call from Dr. Cooper before he acts. After hearing Val’s update, Bishop shouts out for a cease fire, which is echoed by one of the Sentinels. He tells the assembled forces that they have a new situation. General Lazer has been arrested and Val Cooper is now in charge of O*N*E. He reveals that Lazer had his own agenda and was using a mutant to control various players in this battle including Cyclops.
 Iceman and Beast note that they had Lazer and the mind control thing pegged from the start. Iceman asks what’s really changed and if this means they’re letting the 198 go. Bishop tells him that what has changed is their priorities. Sabra says that they have a wounded man here and he should be the priority as medics scrambled to staunch his wound.
Bishop says they’ll take care of Micromax but there’s a bigger problem. He shares with those present that the bunker contains experimental weapons. Domino reports that Caliban found them and that they have no idea how to use them if that’s his new concern. Bishop continues and says that these weapons were unstable and the bunker was modified to contain their uncontrollable forces as a failsafe. Lazer has locked down the bunker and initiated these failsafe protocols, effectively trapping the 198 within the facility. He reports that Dr. Cooper is in contact with Stark Industries who built the facility. Stark Industries reports that with the firepower at their disposal it would take eight hours minimum to breach the bunker’s defenses and free the 198. However, the weapons are on auto-destruct and will detonate in less than an hour. He announces that they are about to lose half of the remaining mutants on the planet.


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The sun beats down on the Nevada desert as Sabra leans over Micromax who has been fatally injured. She calls out to him and he weakly asks what’s happening. She tells him that the 198 are trapped inside the bunker they took refuge in and the place is about to blow up.
Nearby, the Sentinels are trying desperately to breach the blast doors separating them from the 198. Sabra notes that Micromax is now sporting a potbelly and much shorter than before. She chides him for not telling her he was a shape-changer as well as a size-changer. He says he wishes she hadn’t seen him this way and she jokes that he must have been relieved that he wasn’t depowered on M-Day. He winces and asks her not to make him laugh, it hurts when he laughs.
 A stone’s throw away, Shatterstar explains to Domino that he didn’t mean to kill Micromax, merely disable him. Domino tries to tell him that no one is blaming him but the angered glare that Bishop is giving Shatterstar says otherwise.
Inside the bunker, the 198 try to blast the doors open from the inside. The bunker’s automated communications system announces that it will self-destruct in fifty-five minutes and politely apologizes for any loss of life on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security.  Communication with the outside world is also cut off as Toad and Outlaw try desperately to figure out how to open the doors. Scalphunter smugly tells the Toad that they should have listened to him and left when they had a chance. He’s not nearly as worried as the others since he knows that he will simply be reborn again via Sinister’s cloning. Meanwhile, Arclight tells those trying to break through the door to stop for a moment. She places her hand on the door and notes that it’s vibrating, which means someone outside is trying to break through as well.
Outside, Iceman, Cyclops and Bishop have joined the Sentinel in its attempt to destroy the bunker doors. Bishop calls for them to cease fire so he can assess the effectiveness of their attack. He quickly surmises that they didn’t even scratch it. Iceman cockily replies that he can definitely see a scratch somewhere. Cyclops realizes that there’s no way they can get the doors open in time. Bishop calls Val Cooper and informs her that they don’t have sufficient firepower to break through and it’s now up to her. Their only chance is for her to persuade General Lazer to shut down the self-destruct sequence that he initiated. If she fails, everyone inside the bunker will die.
Deep inside the Pentagon, General Lazer has been restrained inside an interrogation room. Despite his situation, he has a smug smile on his face. Val Cooper enters the room with a duffel bag and tells him he shouldn’t be smiling given his current situation. Lazer says that despite the end of his career, he can still take comfort in the fact that the mutant population is about to be significantly diminished and he’s the man with his hands around their collective throat.
 Val decides to cut to the chase and asks for the shutdown codes. Lazer goads her, asking why she doesn’t try to get inside his head and discover the source of his hatred of mutantkind. Dr. Cooper tells him that experience has taught her that bigots aren’t worth getting to know. Lazer begins to tell her that there’s no threat she could make that would make him reveal the codes. She turns and opens the duffel bag telling him that she hasn’t the time for idle threats, truth serums or psychological torture. Instead, she pulls out a crowbar and tells him that she’s going to smash his kneecaps on at a time and then kill him. He tells her that sounds like a threat to him and she replies that it’s a statement of fact as she approaches him.
 He laughs at her and begins to tell her that he’s almost a bit scared. He never has the chance to finish his sentence as she swings the crowbar and shatters his left kneecap. Lazer cries out in pain. Val tells him she is now going for the other kneecap before proceeding to kill him. He reminds her that if he’s dead he can’t give her the codes she needs. She tells him that at least he won’t be alive to gloat, before breaking his other kneecap. She tells him that no one cares if he lives or dies and unless he gives her what she wants, her next blow will crush his skull.
He tells her weakly that he needs his laptop and she signals for Colonel Reyes to retrieve it. As they wait, Lazer taunts Val by commenting on how he’s seen her drooling over Bishop and longing to breed with a mutant. Suddenly, Lazer begins to choke. He begs for help. Val asks if this is a trick and he says between gasps that Dee touched him.
 In a room nearby, Johnny Dee looks down at his “voodoo pawn” of Lazer and voices his disappointment that all it took was a pair of broken kneecaps to make him talk. Johnny’s mutant “brother” hisses and Johnny snaps that if he’d had his way they’d have cut his citation out of him before he could walk! Dee reaches out to the tiny simulacrum of General Lazer and with a single twist of his wrist, snaps its neck. He notes that if all the mutants in the world had a single neck, they could be dealt with just as easily.
In Nevada, medics try to save Micromax’s life. Archangel offers his blood which has healing properties for those who with a compatible blood type. Sabra stays with Micromax as he hangs on by a thread and hopes this transfusion of Warren’s blood helps. Bishop receives a call from Val Cooper informing him that Lazer is dead from a snapped neck and that she doesn’t have the codes they need. Micromax is airlifted away and his prognosis is good if he makes it through surgery.  Bishop tells Cyclops what’s happened and blames himself for driving the 198 into this desperation situation. He adds that the bunker may not contain the explosion and they should pull away. Cyclops asks if he’s given up already of if he’s open to trying something. Bishop asks what he had in mind and Cyclops replies that it’s something insanely dangerous that requires they trust each other and will probably kill them both.
Bishop orders the rest of the O*N*E crew to pull back and be ready to swoop back in to collect the 198 should they succeed in breaching the blast doors. He and Cyclops plan to duplicate the powerful discharge they jointly created earlier that managed to damage the Sentinel. The Beast notes that now may not be the best time to put Cyclops’s unfettered power to the test but Scott simply replies that now is the only time. He orders the rest of the X-Men to leave as they’ll be of no use. They flat-out refuse in what Scott refers to as a “Three Musketeers” moment. Cyclops begins to unleash his power upon Bishop who in turn, channels it into an immense blast of energy. It doesn’t seem to be working.
At that moment, help arrives in the form of Iron Man and Ms. Marvel. Iron Man tells them they’re here to help and notes the high energy output from Cyclops and Bishop and its potentially fatal effect on both of them. He tells the other to help him insure that they’re sacrifice isn’t in vain. He orders Carol to hit the doors in a specific spot with her photon blasts in three second intervals. He then orders the Sentinels into position as well and uploads attack patterns directly into their data-streams. He tells everyone present that the government paid him almost a billion dollars to make this place impenetrable and this is their chance to make him look like an idiot. They all unleash their power blasts in tandem. Inside, Outlaw yells to the others to fall back into the tunnels. Linked by their power exchange, both Cyclops and Bishop glow with energy that makes their nervous systems radiate through their skin and tissue.
The door final gives, exploding open in an impressive blast. Bishop nearly collapses and is aided by Iron Man, but Cyclops cannot seem to shut his power off and yells for everyone to stay away.
The 198 emerge from the bunker and hurry out. They are quickly moved to transports  Cyclops continues to struggle to contain his power, his entire body aglow with wild energies. Iceman tries in vain to contain it in an ice sheathe.  Bishop cries out that they can’t leave Scott behind as he is loaded into a O*N*E copter. Leech breaks free of Lorelei and runs towards the swirling crimson energy surrounding Cyclops.
 Despite warnings from the X-Men, Leech charges in convinced that he’s the only one who can save Cyclops.  He draws closer and turns off Cyclops’ mutant power. Ms. Marvel swoops in and grabs Leech as the X-Men try to put some distance between themselves and the bunker.  They get clear of the area just in time as a massive explosion rips through the base, destroying it and the immense butte it was hidden in. The assembled mutants, heroes and troops watch the explosion from a safe distance, united for one brief moment by the close brush with death they all survived together.
The next day, Bishop debriefs the situation with Val Cooper. He notes that when it really counted, they were able to stand together and avert the potential genocide of the mutant race. Val asks how things are between him and the X-Men and he acknowledges the tension that’s still there following his decision to side with O*N*E in hunting down the 198.
She offers him a position with O*N*E and notes that their discretionary powers have now been reconsidered and limited. She is now in charge of an oversight committee to evaluate the impact of their decisions on mutant civil rights. Xavier’s will now going to be an open community for mutants designed in a way that’s similar to Native American reservations. O*N*E’s Sentinel team will stay to help protect the residents but they will no longer monitor or restrict the movement of community members.
Bishop asks for some time to think about Val’s offer to join her efforts to build this mutant community. As he gets up to leave, Val asks Bishop if he believes in monsters. She tells him that Emma Frost had accused her of joining “the monsters” who oppress and abuse mutantkind. Bishop replies that Emma just likes to mess with people and Val should ignore her. Val confesses that she did some bad things in the last few days, things she didn’t realize she was capable of. Bishop says that she did what she had to and that he believes there are good people and bad but doesn’t believe in monsters.
At that moment in a holding cell Johnny Dee smiles maniacally, a vicious gleam in his eye.


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Utter chaos. Spider-Man is besieged by several of his worst enemies, seemingly finished, when suddenly rescue comes by way of two costumed teenaged redheads. The boy tells Spidey to sit this out. The Crimson Crusader and Imp have it covered.
Quickly, the twins demolish the villains and Spider-Man thanks them for saving him. Just doing my job, the Crimson Crusader states modestly. And he does it so well, Spidey admits.
The last time they came to the Big Apple, he made them go back to their folks… he said they were too young… but he was wrong. The tide of evil is rising and the world needs heroes like them more than ever. He’d be honoured to fight alongside them. Maybe they can team up. He’d love to, Crimson Crusader agrees… now that he doesn’t need to be in close proximity to Imp for his powers to work, Spider-man continues.
But he still needs to be pretty close to Imp, Crimson Crusader protests and looks around. Suddenly his sister is gone and with her so is his power of control over gravity. He falls and screams…
And wakes up on the ground, having fallen from his chair in the classroom. Dozy Destine dropped off again. A fellow classmate makes fun of Rory, much to the amusement of the others.
Rory’s twin, Pandora, orders him to back off. Ooh! O’Neil exclaims in mock fear, Pansy Pandora to the rescue of her dopey bother. He’s the one who’ll need rescuing, Pandora threatens.
The teacher intervenes, threatening all of them with detention. That moment, they are saved by the bell. The others head out but she asks Rory if he ill. It’s not right for a young boy to fall asleep during class so often. She really should notify their parents. She apologizes, as she recalls that the twins live with their uncle, their guardian, right?
“Uncle, brother, bully,” Rory replies… but she doesn’t need to be all sympathetic. Their dad is back, so they’re not orphans anymore. Their dad? she replies in surprise. Pandora gives her a polite smile and asks her not to worry. She’ll get Rory home.
Outside the classroom, Pandora reminds him that Walter asked them not to tell about Dad… it will complicate things. How can things get any worse? he asks.
Suddenly, he drags her up the stairs to the roof. He wants to fly home. Pandora reminds him they gave their word to Walter they wouldn’t. He didn’t give them a choice, Rory points out. He’s not their guardian, he’s their jailer! He wants them to be normal, Pandora stresses.
But they’re not, Rory replies, as he drags out their costumes. They’ve got the weirdest family in the world. How many other kids have super powers? He asks her to come on. They’re a team. But they’ll be seen, she protests, her especially, she states as she looks at her costume, a pink mini-dress critically. This thing has to go.
Rory tells her he has an idea he wants to try. If they combine his gravity power and her light power and create a cocoon of warped light… They’ll make themselves invisible, Pandora finishes his sentence. Brilliant! And the best bit is that Walter can’t complain that their crimefighting activities will expose their family secret if nobody can see them, he finishes.
Elsewhere. A mysterious group of robed, hooded gentlemen is holding a meeting.
Video footage:
They call themselves the Crimson Crusader and Imp. This was the sixth time they compromised one of their operations. On this occasion, they were accompanied by a blue monstrosity they referred to as Wallop or something like that. The sound quality of the surveillance tape is very limited but except for cards carrying the legend “compliments of CC and Imp” that were found pinned to a number of bound and gagged villains these few snippets  are the only tangible evidence the mysterious group has of their existence. Other snippets show the twins with Vex, Argent and Cuckoo…
Reality:
A group of beings dressed in hooded robes with Roman numerals are gathered and watch the footage. Addressing the one speaking as “Twelfth Red,” the Guild Primus asks who they are. Some minor league mutant pests affiliated with some vigilante group or other?
The first question is easier answered than the second. It was a simple though time consuming matter to analyze all CCTV at the centre of their reported activity with biometric recognition filters. Their distinctive red hair is unmistakable. They are twins. Rory and Pandora Destine.
Shown with video footage:
Twelfth Red shows another picture of the twins with their legal guardian, their uncle Walter Destine, in Ravenscroft, a small village in the heart of England. Another picture of Walter’s cottage.
There have been descendents of the Destine lineage in residence since the twelfth century… not unusual in itself for that region of England… except that there is no record of any Destine ever being born in the area.
Why on Earth is he investigating so far back, another inquires. Because the little documentation their researchers have been able to uncover is all forged. The family is hiding from something, Guild Primus, realizes.
This is not a recent phenomenon, Twelfth Red explains and points to a picture of birth and death records. A statistically improbable number of births and deaths have occurred in remote regions of the world, regions conveniently lacking bureaucratic controls and there is a curious correlation between deaths and births.
Walter Destine and his father, also Walter Destine who served in the British army in WW. The men in the two pictures look perfectly alike. The son did not appear until after the father was listed as dead.
More pictures. Samantha Destine getting a degree in 1972 and perfect lookalike Samantha Hassard of Perpignan, France today.
Looking at the current picture of Samantha in front of Walter’s cottage, a man wonders about a man in the background of the picture. Is his skin really green? Yes, comes the reply. They suspect he may be Dominic Fate, last seen two decades ago working as an escapologist in New York.
Please also note the women behind him. She is Pepa Perez, a street girl from Barcelona, who was reported missing on the same night that famed fashion designer Kay Cera was murdered. The killer was never found. Perez resurfaced in New York with Samantha Hassard a few weeks later, now claiming to be Kay Cera, daughter of the late designer. She inherited the not unsubstantial estate of her namesake.
Who are these people? Guild Primus, wonders. Meddling do-gooders or criminals? Unknown, Twelfth Red replies. He limited his investigations to official records and long range surveillance. Good, the Guild Primus decides. The Guild’s interest must not be revealed. They must proceed cautiously until they know what those people want.
In the kitchen of Walter Destine’s cottage, Walter and Kay are once again arguing while Samantha, keeping out of it, prepares a salad. He was only asking her to help out by peeling a few spuds, Walter tells Kay. Sipping her champagne, she informs him that she doesn’t do menial work. He should have a cook… and a maid.
Walter insists he wants the kids to b grounded… able to live in the real world. If it’s a question of money… Kay hints amused. He doesn’t need her money, he retorts. Of course, not, she replies. He writes romance novels. They are very successful, he insists. So why does he hide behind the pen name Sabrina Bentley? It’s a marketing thing, Walter replies and the publisher prints his poetry under his own name. So he’ll be a bit of a celeb with the ladies in lavender, Kay mocks.
Sam gathers the salad and some more groceries in a basket and leaves, with the others still arguing, Walters stating pointedly he wouldn’t expect her to understand. Kay points out that she knew Byron and Shelley… intimately. No doubt, but these potatoes have more soul than she ever had, comes the reply.
Outside, Kay runs into her father, who’s reading on the porch. She complains that they are at it again. Do they really hate each other or do they get some perverse joy out of tearing at old wounds? They are very different, yet very much alike, comes the cryptic response. Maybe he could act like a responsible father and crack their heads together, Sam suggests. Adam explains that he discovered long ago that the fact that he looks so much younger than most of his children is counter to the patriarchal paradigm and diminishes his authority. Sounds more like an excuse so that he can avoid family interaction and spend more time reading, Sam suggests.
Not at all, he defends himself. He has merely been attempting to catch up with some of the amazing developments that occurred during the yeas he was lost in space. He shows her the title “Evolving DNA.” Why is he interested in genetics? Sam wonders. Everything interests him, comes the reply. At the time of his birth, many believed the world was flat and stars were pinpricks in the veil of heaven.
She thought he was maybe looking for a way to explain his insane children, Sam retorts. She’s going to the ruin… Dominic hasn’t been out of his anechoic chamber today. Does she think he’s unwell? Adam inquires. Sam doesn’t know… he still treats her like a little sister. He barely tolerates her presence. Because of Vincent, Adam states. They have reached the ruin of the old Destine mansion. He to grieves, he calls after her as she enters the ruin. Vincent was his son. Yet Adam killed him, are Sam’s parting words.
Stepping gingerly, Sam gets closer to Dom’s anechoic chamber and calls out that she thinks living in the basement of this crumbling ruin is pushing the whole hermit thing a bit far. He was hoping to deter visitors, comes the reply from within the chamber.
She steps inside, asking why he is in his costume. He explains it is his turn to take the twins on “crimepatrol” tonight. It was thoughtful of her to bring a chicken salad, but he just wants the water, he adds. How did he know? Sam asks surprised. He can smell it, Dom explains. Cos lettuce, extra tomato and radish – no dressing. Just the way he likes it.
But it’s an airtight container, Sam remarks. She prepared it with her own fair hands, comes the reply. She smells of food? Sam asks. Less so than of soap… contact traces of Walter and Kay… the leather chair in the study, Conté crayon and paper… she was sketching.
She thanks him sarcastically for making her feel really stinky. Not at all, Dom tells her. Her own natural scent is uniquely pure. Silver… And she has the most spectacular aura. Shimmering and pulsating. Like a mist of magical potential awaiting her instruction to solidify into – he screams in pain. He opened his sense a little too far to see her aura, he explains. So many frequencies being broadcast nowadays…
And he sees them all, she muses, His power is more a gift than a curse. Slowly leading him outside the chamber Sam offers she can take the kids out tonight. They’re looking forward to going out with him, he tells her. They always have fun.
So not only is she stinky, but a bore too? she asks. No, being with the twins has helped him and… Suddenly, he whispers to her to play along. They have company. Loudly Dom says, but the twins are too young to be shown the alien artefact.
The alien artefact? Sam repeats. Yes, it is hidden here in the rubble, Dom informs her. He can show her, but she must swear never to tell. Oh right, yes, she replies unenthusiastically. He warns her, it can be dangerous as he tears at some old curtains and tells her to generate a sword in case the dark forces are unleashed. Quickly, he captures something behind them with the curtain and orders Sam to strike and slice it up.
Fearful protests come from beneath the curtain as the twins reveal themselves. What a relief, Dom mocks. He thought the alien darkness was free. He knew it was them Pandora replies. There is no alien artefact, is there? Rory asks doubtfully. Nope, Sam replies.
He warned them about being overconfident, Dom reminds the twins. They were invisible, Rory protest. They still created a pressure displacement and air currents, Dom explains and he heard… he hesitates and grimaces as though in pain… heard their heartbeats… their synapses pulsing. Hovering over him, Sam asks if he is okay. Fine, but the air down here is stale. He suggests they go outside.
But he’s missing the point, Rory remarks. They made themselves invisible. He wishes Newton was there. He’d tell them how impressive that is. They flew all the way from school without anyone seeing them. Dom advises them to keep quiet about that if they don’t want Walter to ground them for life.
Walter already knows Cuckoo informs them telepathically. Surprised? she asks Dom playfully. Her astral image doesn’t displace air. What does Walter know, he asks. The headmaster was concerned about Rory sleeping in class, Kay explains, then someone said that they’d seen the wins taking the stairs to the roof. When they couldn’t’ find them, the panic button was hit.
As if on cue, a furious Walter comes at them, tearing through the trees in his way. Rory starts apologizing, but Walter doesn’t want to hear it. The twins knew the deal. They could play at being superheroes at night, under supervision. But only if they act like normal people during the day.
Dom interjects that they are great kids and Walter did a wonderful job raising them, but…
But nothing! Walter shouts. Dom ran off to his island retreat while he raised the twins. So he doesn’t get to give him advice.
Sam addresses him. Walter cuts her off. She wasn’t much better. She only visited when it suited her. Okay, okay, she replies, but she meant he has to calm down. He’s starting to transform.
In disbelief, he stares at his hands as he grows to his hulkish, blue, feral, superstrong form. He shouts this can’t be happening. He hasn’t lost control!
Some distance away in the forest, Adam bowls over in pain. In eight hundred years, he has suffered but one pain… upon the death of each of his children. He sees his children through the trees. He has endured that loss enough to know its sting well. This new sensation that inflames his nerves is unfamiliar. Something else breaches his invulnerability… something evil.
Pandora gently touches Walter’s arm, asking if he is okay. He curtly orders the kids back to the cottage and to eat their dinner. Then straight to bed. No TV and no flying. As the others head back, he tells himself that he is in control. He’s not… not… like Vincent! In rage, he tears apart a tree. He’s not like Vincent, he repeats in a small voice. Concerned, Adam watches him.
Meanwhile, at the Guild’s headquarters, Twelfth Red talks with Guild Primus under four eyes regarding something he kept from the rest of the council. This man, referring to Adam, appears to be in his twenties, but there is no official record of his existence. A facial recognition search found photographs and paintings of the man from archives spanning almost seven hundred years.
Is he suggesting the man is immortal? Guild Primus asks. That he cannot say, but one of the archival discoveries he made was in the records of their own guild. This photograph from 1849 – showing Adam and two other men and two women -  and a report that “this old one and others possessed of supernatural prowess slew four Guild brothers.”
Guild Primus tells him he was right to withhold this. If this is the same man and he has knowledge of their guild’s existence, the danger is incalculable. Has he a strategy in mind? Already enacted, Twelfth Red informs him. Another party under Guild review was injured by this group’s interference. He anonymously disclosed the Destines’ location to them…
Back at the Destines’ cottage, Walter is checking the kids’ bedrooms. Rory protests that great power does bring great responsibility. If he says that one more time, he’ll send him to boarding school, Walter threatens, so far from Pandora that their powers won’t work. He tells him to go to sleep.
He wishes Pandora a good night. When she doesn’t reply he enters her room. Pandora is sulking because Walter’s always miserable since Sam and Dom and the new Kay came – always arguing but no one will tell them anything because they’re too young. It was easy when they thought they were normal mutants, now they don’t know what they are. Why can’t anyone tell them about their mum? He tells her they’ll talk tomorrow and wishes her a goodnight.
Outside in the Destine family cemetery, Adam sits contemplating at the feet of the statue on Vincent’s grave. Still living in the past, Kay asks, as she joins him. Vincent was a bad seed. Adam did what had to be done. Spending night after night sitting here achieves nothing.
Has she truly lost all compassion? Adam asks her. Kay reminds him that his idealism has gotten her killed more than once. She must care about something, Adam insists.
Nothing he’d consider noble or virtuous, for that he should talk to Rory. With a smile, she informs him that even asleep Rory dreams of saving the world. She is spying on Rory’s dream? Adam asks agitated. Yes, comes the cool reply. It’s really dramatic.
She tries to forge a mindlink and let him see as well. Calling her by her given name “Jasmine,” he shouts that she should not have violated Rory’s mind and she is foolish to attempt such a transgression with him.
Instead Kay’s mind is overwhelmed by images flowing into her - splintered memories of events past and yet to come:
Kay in her previous body dying… Captain Britain… A feral face… the Inhumans… Walter fighting Cuckoo and Sam… the Omegans… Nightcrawler, Lockheed and Phoenix… the Silver Surfer… a blonde exotic woman blasting Dominic… a reptile eye.
She is awakened by her own agonized scream. She rubs her head, admitting she’d forgotten about that freaky clairvoyant insight, his weird temporal perspective gives him. She’d never realized it was so intense.
Adam remarks hat the severity of the vision increases as a crisis becomes more imminent. It has rarely been this extreme… only once before in fact. Uncomfortably, he looks at the Vincent statue.
Kay orders her hair, stating that she’s glad she remained in the backwater dump if something interesting is finally going to happen. Interesting… Adam repeats. She must know that the events he foresees always involve the suffering or death of one of his children. She can live with that, Kay shrugs, as long as she is not the one who suffers and dies, unaware of the fact that someone is watching them…


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Adam’s story:
Denique Caelum! Thaddeus Destine shouts with a broad grin as he battles the hordes of the undead. Thaddeus was a warrior born, with the ability to adopt the aspect of any beast, his strength, speed and fighting skill had never met their match until that winter of 1374 on the Tibetan plateau near the head of the Yangtze River when the Geong Si attacked.
Thaddeus and Adam had been escorting Thaddeus’s younger brother, Albert, to the Shalu Monastery in Shigatse. Still a very young man then, Albert had suffered terribly when he attempted to use his healing power to stem the plague of the Black Death that had swept through Europe. Adam cautioned Thaddeus to be careful. The warrior replied that Albert’s protection made him as invulnerable as Adam.
Adam had known of the Geong Si myth from previous visits to China, which he so foolishly ignored as superstition warning from the mountainfolk who had offered them hospitality on their journey. Though not the creatures of legend, the abominations were real. Mindless soulless shells, animated by the will of another.
Albert told Adam that in the mists lay the cause of this vile travesty. Even now, the monster is trying to control them. Thaddeus decided to tackle the creature, asking his little brother to assist him in whatever manner his pacifist nature permit and he will dispatch this insult to God’s fair Earth.
The mists lift to show their foe, a being with a voluminous purple head, red eyes and a ray gun. The creature remarked that they were more than human but not sons of Attilan.
Thaddeus snarled that he was no relative of that hellspawn. Whatever its origins, the creature continued they defy the will of Tral, so they must die. It fired at Thaddeus, who fell down the precipice into the yawning abyss.
At that moment, Albert who had never before lost someone he loved snapped and corrupted his gift to heal, using it as a weapon. The evil puppet master reeled and the zombies fell, but Albert did not stop, not until a final agonized scream choked in the monster’s throat. Then the berserker rage passed. And seeing what he had done, Albert kneeled and wept.
With a roar like nothing they had ever heard, a flying craft appeared from the mountain mist. Colourful characters of a peculiar kind emerged, assuring Adam and Albert they meant no harm. They explained that Tral had fled from a hidden city and was considered a criminal by their people, the Inhumans.
Present:
At the breakfast table. Rory exclaims that Adam met the Inhumans!  Walter, still in his monster form, admonishes him not to speak with his mouth full. Undeterred, Rory continues: Which Inhuman? It couldn’t be Medusa and Gorgon and Karnak or do they live a long time too? Walter points out he missed the point. Thaddeus was killed. And Albert committed an act that haunts him to this day.
Pandora remarks Adam is not very good at this. Walter put him up to telling the twins a story to scare them off using their powers. What she really wants to know about is her mother. It’s complicated, Adam fights for words while helplessly looking at Walter. He says that every time or goes on to another story, Pandora sulks. Just because he thinks they are too young to know the truth. It’s just not fair!
Adam admits she is right. None of his other children ever developed their gifts before puberty, he explains so the twins’ situation is unique. Rory needlessly points out it’s because they’re twins and their powers feed of each other, to which Walter adds that they already have far too much to deal with for kids their age. No need to be coy, Wally, Rory insists. This is the 21st century. They know all about… everything. He’s not going to win that one, Adam points out. Perhaps it is time? Yes! Pandora shouts in excitement. Grimly, Walter agrees.
Rory recalls that Adam was born there in Ravenscroft in 1168 and went to Palestine in 1189 with the third crusade. And he said Mum was a genie, Pandora interjects. No, a Djinn, Adam corrects her, or at least that was the legend.
Adam’s tale:
A legend that caused greedy men to imprison her and others to scheme and make war to possess her power. So it was that, as a simple soldier in the service of Richard the Lionhearted, Adam was captured by the followers of Al Kadhaab. They had sought him out to fulfil the prophecy that a red-haired infidel would end the tyranny of Sujanna Min Raghbah, an evil sorcerer who enslaved a djinn in a valley hidden in the Zagross Mountains. There, Adam found a blasted landscape with the corpses of all those foolhardy enough to trespass in the wizard’s domain.
Present:
Excitedly swinging around his cutlery, Rory reminds Adam that he told them that part before. He killed the wizard, but Al Kadhaab double-crossed Adam and tried to kill him.
Pandora continues that Adam cut the rope suspending the crystal prison orb and Mom was freed. Yes, Adam recalls. In that moment, he thought he would die…
Adam’s tale:
But it was Al Kadhaab who was destroyed when the orb was shattered… while Adam was gently borne aloft… his injuries healed as new life flooded into him. And then she emerged from the light as she had in his dreams. Her thoughts were like music in his mind…
Present:
Adam’s tale is rudely interrupted as Dominic, clearly in pain stumbles into the room, moaning meaningless sounds. What ails him? Adam asks concerned as Dominic stumbles. Walter orders him to focus. In agony, Dom replies S’all aimd at maed. Noize… s’full o litezz. Lights… in his head? Walter asks. Dom tries to reply, but shouts in pain again.
From elsewhere, the Griffin’s people who bear a grudge against the Clan watch proceedings. As Alpha suspected, one of the almost identical Omegas remarks. The one called Dominic perceives their high frequency scan wave lengths. He doesn’t know that yet and they cannot allow him to alert the others to their surveillance. They aren’t ready to strike. The feeble scientist referred to as Alpha orders them to increase scan intensity and fry his brain. Another Omega alerts them to two new contacts entering the cottage. The females – Kay and Sam – are returning.
An insecure Sam complains that her new spiky hairdo isn’t her while Kay assures her she looks great. They hear the noise from the kitchen. Dom is dying, Pandora shouts. No dear, Dom is just melodramatic, Kay decides and installs a sensory synapse block, causing Dom to pass out.
Kay explains what she did and asks the suspicious Walter if he thinks she’s so heartless she’d kill him. She does look like a witch, Walter retorts, referring to her new Frankenstein’s bride-style hairdo. Sam uncomfortably touches her own spiky hair as she explains they are going to a Goth-themed wedding. Kay suggests they call Newton and Rory gets the signal watch from the tea caddy.
Not in the house, Walter warns him too late, as the watch makes a blaring noise. Rory apologizes and wonders how the signal reaches Newton in the parallel universe he resides in. They all cover their ears as Sam suggests he let Newton explain it himself. He’s the family genius. Walter complains that the whole infinite alternate / multiverse thing makes his head hurt almost as much as…
Newton’s arrival. With a flash of light and a crashing noise Newton, the diminutive family genius, arrives.
So what’s the crisis this time, he asks amused. Adam explains that they need him to examine Dominic. Rory uses his power to lift Dom on the table for Newton to examine and Newton commends him on his growing skill at gravitational manipulation. While Newton begins the examination, Rory tells him he and Pandora can make themselves invisible now. Via gravitonic excitation of quanta? Newton asks unsurprised. If he means by curving light, yeah. Remarkable, Newton states.
Kay notes Adam holding his head in discomfort and asks if he is having another insight. No, he replies almost surprised. He feels… pain. He’s indestructible, Kay corrects him. He doesn’t feel… anything. He has since yesterday, Adam informs her. It been around the same time Walter transformed. There’s his answer, Kay needles. Walter’s self-pitying whining would give the sphinx a headache.
Newton comes to the conclusion that Dom is totally exhausted due to sensory overload and sleep deprivation. He could have told him that, Walter grumbles. What’s the cause? Could be increased environmental E.M. pollution or alternatively Dom’s becoming more sensitive. He can do a more extensive examination and eliminate the environmental factor if he takes Dom back to Ethera with him.
Hold on, Kay interjects and points an accusing finger at Newton. He told her he couldn’t take anyone to his world. He said it was part of his gift to cross the dimensional divide. Caught fibbing, Newton states apologetically that’s true… to a degree. It’s all very technical. He’s hiding something, Kay accuses him. She knew there was a reason he wears a psi-shield. She demands he tell her.
Interrupting her rant, he presses a button on his bracelet and teleports himself and Dom away. She never trusted scientists, Kay sulks. Newton thinks he and Pandora are remarkable, Rory repeats to everyone. Walter grumbles and Adam still holds his head.
The Guild Chambers: The mysterious guild still watches the Destines cottage surprised by the energy spikes. People appearing and disappearing inside the cottage. Can it really be happening? The data is accurate, the Guild Primus is informed. They are leeching it directly from Griffin’s satellite feed. What was Griffin’s reaction? Guild Primus asks. Unknown, comes the reply. Their surveillance of Griffin was always extremely limited and he ordered a total cessation when he leaked him the Destines’ address.
Griffin is dangerous. A scientific genius with a god complex – literally. His entourage, the Omegans, are the product of his experiments to create a super race. From the little they know, Griffin’s master plan went awry when some other group attempted to steal a piece of Griffin technology as they can see from the security footage they recovered. While the thieves and Griffin’s security kept each other occupied, the Destine children flew in and grabbed the device. A few days later, Griffin’s complex was completely devastated by fire and Griffin went into hiding. They assumed the Destines were responsible and judging by the amount of resource he has employed to observe the Destine family, Griffin has a major grudge.
Or he knows something they don’t, Guild Primus replies. They need more information if they are to control this situation. He gives the order to hack into Griffin’s archives to get some answers.
Dominic awakes on Ethera, facing Newton in his skimpily dressed muscular warlord body. Newton reminds him that his original self is on ice, stuck in a tube. He goes on to explain that conveniently time moves much faster there than on their Earth. How much faster? Dom asks. How long has he been asleep? Three days by Ethera time… less than nine hours on Earth. So that’s how Newton always responds to his signal watch and builds stuff so quick, Dom realizes.
Newton explains that he’s been working on an anti- stimulation aura to insulate Dom’s senses… think portable anechoic chamber. Sounds good, Dom admits. And impressed as he is with his warehouse, he must let him see what’s outside. The air smells sweet and he can hear waves. Okay, because it will be beneficial for his recovery, Newton decides, but this is between them, He doesn’t want Kay finding out. He needs his space and recreation.
Wow, Dominic exclaims a moment later. Outside, he sees a paradisiacal landscape, pink sky, calm waters and skimpily dressed gorgeous women picking fruit. The colours are so clean, Dom marvels, and there isn’t any static. The people here prefer low-tech and a natural science, Newton explains. Yeah, they all look like very nice people, Dom remarks, looking at the skimpily dressed girls.
Flustered, Newton admits that his personal staff are all androids. This place requires a lot of maintenance and they double as security. Two gorgeous ladies offer the two of them refreshments. With a smirk, Dom recalls that Newton’s last robot drones looked like tin men with antenna coming out of their heads. He… er … made improvements. You dog, Dom laughs.
Back at Ravenscroft, it is evening and Sam and Kay leave, dressed up in their Goth costumes. Are they sure it isn’t a Halloween party? Roy asks. Who has a wedding at night? When the bridegroom is a billionaire and owns Blasco Castle, he can indulge his stylish whims, Sam retorts. Kay tells her to lighten up. She’s starting to sound like Walter. They get into the car and Pandora shouts after them to take lots of photographs.
Adam looks out of the window of Walter’s study and announces they have gone. Good, he might be able to get some work done and return to normal, Walter announces, typing on his old fashioned typewriter. As his fingers are too big, he uses pencils to do so.
Adam asks him if he believes Kay’s presence might have something to do with his uncontrolled transformation. Walter doesn’t know, but insists she is a bad influence on the twins. She thinks Walter should use the family wealth to give the twins a better life… but he thinks they need to know striving is part of the human experience. Being given everything – not having to work – turns a person into someone like Kay or…
…or Vincent? Adam asks. He doesn’t think…? Walter asks hesitatingly. Adam touches his shoulder calmingly and remarks Walter has taught the twins well. He should stay here, write and try to relax. He will take the twins out on their patrol. He has neglected them and Walter for far too long.
In Griffin’s lair, the scientist with a grudge against the Clan and his artificial humans, the Omegans, are watching the Destines. One Omega, Raee, informs him that three contacts have left the cottage flying (the twins doing so under their own power, Adam with one of Newton’s antigravity belts). Raee remarks that Adam is visible in the normal spectrum but does not register on higher scanning wavelengths. The fragile albino scientist is fascinated by this, but this isn’t the time to investigate this phenomenon. He orders the other Omegans, Giee and Phaa, to initiate all of the containment protocols for activation of the binary set. As they proceed to do so, Griffins grins evilly, contemplating whether they can produce the effect they achieved on Walter. Those brats have cost him dearly and he wants to see them suffer.
Up in the air, the three Destines are flying toward London. Rory points out that they could be more effective crimefighters if they lived in the city – like Spider-Man. Living in the country means they have too much empty territory to cover before they can begin their patrol. Adam replies that he believes in fate. They are all where they are meant to be and wishing otherwise is a waste.
Pandora suggests they could use the journey time to talk… Adam could continue the story. Adam agrees and wants to begin. Suddenly, Adam screams as he is covered by a lightning effect. First, they believe Adam’s belt is shorting out but suddenly Pandora falls and, a moment later, so does Rory. Their powers aren’t working.
Adam, now covered in the painful energy effect, nevertheless flies after the two of them (his artificial flight not being affected) and grabs the twins, ordering them to hold tight to the belt despite the effect hurting them as well. He snaps open the buckle so the twins are left with the belt while he falls.
The lightning effect becomes stronger and stronger, like burning him up. Rory tries to calm Pandora that Adam is indestructible, but suddenly he is gone and the effect with him. Pandora fears he’s exploded. Vanished, not dead, Rory replies. He’s immortal. He can’t be dead. He can’t, he repeats, as if to convince himself.
On Ethera, Dom still admires the world’s beauty. He’d happily live there. No need, Newton assures him and shows him a device in the shape of a bracelet. He explains that the sensory isolation shell generator is finished. But there is only one way to test its effectiveness. Dom has to go back to Earth and open his senses. Dom hesitates, anticipating pain. He’d rather stay there where it’s so peaceful. At the moment, Newton replies while opening a dimensional portal, there are times when it can get rather nasty.
As if on cue, vines spring from the ground and tie Newton. Oh no! he mutters at the sight of a newcomer, a gorgeous, scantily-clad blonde on a flying machine. He calls her Satyr-nun and asks her not to while she tells him she warned him not to make any more synthetic men.
She fires at Dom, who falls through the dimensional gate… to rudely land elsewhere. He gets up, surrounded by odd trinkets and feels that he is still in motion. The floor beneath him is riveted steel… no ground vibration… gravity is fluctuating. He looks outside the windows. No sound from outside; he is in some sort of spacecraft. A cross-time-train in actual fact, comes a voice. And it belongs to Excalibur, Kurt Wagner aka Nightcrawler finishes, surrounded by the rest of the team.


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Somewhere between dimensions, Excalibur in their train are caught crosstime. And Dominic Destine has just fallen through a teleportational gate to land in said train. The team stares suspiciously at the newcomer. He looks like one of the Jester King’s Laughter Assassins from three stops ago, Kitty Pryde aka Shadowcat ventures. This is a railway train travelling through outer space, Dominic realizes out loud.
Impatient, Captain Britain intends to take out the “pasty-faced psycho.” Phoenix gets between them, planning to act herself. A train with goblins, ghosts and baby dragons, Dom mutters. He’s gotta wake up. When Rachel telepathically reaches out to him Dom moans at her to stop. Her telepathic feathers are a full-beam migraine. Rachel shouts out, in pain herself. Not having witnessed any source of her pain, Nightcrawler figures Dom must be using sonic powers.
Cap attacks, grabbing Dom by the throat. He won’t be able to use his giggle gags, if he crushes his larynx. Then just in case this is real, Dom mutters, he’d better defend himself. Using some martial art tricks, he tosses Cap at Nightcrawler, who teleports out of the way and tries to grab Dom. But he easily evades him, alerted by the stench.
He notices that, a moment later, Kitty tries to attack him. Tight teamwork, he remarks and good form on the “tobi geri,” but very easy to block. When he tries to do so, Kitty’s leg phases through his arm. Strangely, Dom reacts with a cry of agony.
Meggan shouts at Kitty to stop, she’s killing him! She tries to help Dom up, while her empathic powers act automatically and make her assume his hair and skin colour. She explains that the shock of Kitty partially phased foot slicing through his arm gave him a heart palpitation. Kitty corrects her: she was completely intangible. Nothing is completely intangible a powered-down Rachel remarks and admits that Meggan’s right. She wasn’t attacked. Just stunned by what he had in his head. So much sensory awareness. She’s surprised he isn’t insane, she addresses Dom directly. There are those who think he is, Dom replies.
Their companion Professor Alistaire Stuart (holding Widget) enters the compartment, asking if it’s safe to enter. They’re heading for… Kurt interrupts him. They’re still not sure about this stowaway. Meggan still reaches out to Dom telling him he needn’t be scared. She introduces them. Cap curtly adds that they are the good guys. So what is he and how did he get aboard?
Dom begins to introduce himself but suddenly panics. The floor is falling. What now? Cap asks impatiently. He senses something, Meggan replies, like everything is melting. Perhaps because they’re going into final approach, Alistaire remarks, standing in front of a screen showing only static. That’s what he came to warn them to brace themselves. And with that the train lands in some kind of old west ghost town.
Kitty figures they are in for another trek to find out where in creation they are. Not before they decide what to do with the stowaway, Brian insists grimly. Pointing his finger at Dom accusingly, he asks again what he is and where he came from. He’s human, Dom replies… from Earth… originally. He was visiting an alternate world called Ethera actually. They are from an Earth too, Brian replies. From which Earth did he originate… which number?
They have numbers? Dom asks confused. Numbers and omniversal bureaucracy to maintain order, Phoenix sighs, although they’ve been absolutely no help to them. They are lost too? Dom asks. Kitty explains that they accidentally left their Earth and have been hopping between dimensional planes ever since, trying to find their way home. They’ve been to Etheras, Erthas, Theras, Aerths and all other anagrams. Cosmic order has a sense of humour… or enjoys a crossword.
So how did he get there? Cap asks. Slowly turning normal again, Meggan admonishes him not to be so loud. Dom recalls that he was with his brother in his garden on Etherea, when a crazy woman appeared, made roots burst from he ground to grab his brother and blasted him into a portal…
On Ethera, Satyr-Nun triumphantly informs the captured Newton that he is her prisoner now. Newton orders her to let him go. This isn’t a game. But it’s Treasday 15.70 rouhs, she reminds him. He’s employed the evil mastermind to create synthetic men that threaten her empire. So she captures him and … He forgot their date, he realizes.
Sulking, she turns away. He got distracted with one of his inventions again. He promises to make it up to her, but she has to le him out quickly, this is bad. Satyr-nun releases him as she asks what’s wrong. All she did was push the funny synthetic freak he created into the zobblenik. The funny freak was his brother, Newton explains.
Oopiddy, Saty-nun exclaims embarrassed. Worse than “oopiddy,” Newton realizes as he checks the portal’s setting. This isn’t a commonplace zoppledik. It’s his gateway into he multiverse… and Dominic went in without a directional vector…
Back on Earth. Rory and Pandora look at a smouldering spot on the ground. This is precisely under where Adam vanished, but there’s no sign of… anything. Does he think Dad was vaporized? Pandora asks. He’s indestructible, Rory points out. Right, she agrees hopefully. And they don’t know what other powers he has. He’ll be fine, they both agree (somewhat doubtful).
But… Rory begins, But? Pan repeats. Rory points out that first Walter’s power went wrong, then Dom’s and now Adam and them. Does he think some villain might be attacking the family? They immediately take on a position back to back, peering out to see if they can find anyone. Nah, Rory decides. Maybe it’s some kind of power interference… from sunspots or something. They don’t know how their powers work, right? So he thinks they’re alone out here, she asks. Sure, yeah definitely.
Pan is frightened and cold. They have to go home, she presses. No, Rory states. Walter will say he was right. That using their powers creates problems. They could go to Sam and Kay. Blasco castle isn’t that far away.
How will they get there? Pandora asks. Their powers aren’t working. It’s got to be temporary, Rory replies. He already feels better, stronger. Not that much, Pandora points out as she lights up her finger a little. Their powers are connected and she can’t generate more than a few watts of light. He can’t risk flying them. They won’t have Adam to rescue them if they fall again. They are in the middle of nowhere. They have no mobile phone, no money for a public phone, if there is one nearby, nothing.
They’ll make sure they are better prepared next time, Rory suggests. Add some pouches to their belts for basic utilities. Next time? Pan asks doubtful. He calms her. They’re going to get through this, he has a plan. He puts on Adam’s flight belt. With that, they’ll get to Kay. She’ll find out what happened to Adam. Pandora can piggyback. Pandora agrees but asks him to stay close to the ground. As they leave, she wonders where Adam went.
The seventh moon monastery, Nepal:
A young apprentice, Lobsang, enters his master’s chambers, alerted by an unearthly light. Albert asks him to forgive him for disturbing his slumber, but he is old and his magic has grown clumsy and extreme circumstances necessitated that he bring someone here in haste. Looking at the young man at Albert’s feet, Lobsang asks if he may attend his “guest.” The injury is to his attire alone, Albert calms him. His father is as impervious to physical harm as he is to the burden of time. His father? Lobsang asks unbelieving as he looks at the seemingly young Adam. He was old before the foundations of this monastery were laid Albert replies with a smile. Another of life’s many illusions.
Adam comes to and recognizes Adam. Does he feel better? Albert asks. Adam agrees and asks if Albert healed him. No, comes the reply. Whatever afflicted Adam, stopped of its own volition.
At the Griffin’s lair, Professor Griffin observes his Omegans taking care of the damage. He tells them this is a minor setback compared to the stellar advance he achieved today. He orders Noe to accompany him to hangar bay while the rest continue with their assigned tasks; it is almost time to strike.
With him gone, one of the Omegans, Raee, watches the attack on Adam on a computer screen. Phaa asks her what she is doing. Alpha instructed them that restoration of the surveillance system is their priority. Alpha’s obsession blinds him to the importance of the data they have already collected, comes the reply. It was fortuitous that their systems burned out before the energy destroyed them. Alpha has unleashed forces beyond their understanding.
Phaa admonishes her for wrong thinking. Alpha is their leader. Raee reminds him that they were an accident. A by-product of Alpha’s search to cure his own albinism but they are superior. Their logic in unencumbered by emotion or ego. Alpha no longer values their perfection. He thinks to make them obsolete.
Blasco Castle, the fancy dress ball is in full swing. Samantha though is not enjoy herself. Peering through her own mask, she wonders why she let Kay talk her into coming there. Because all the friends she ever made got old or died, comes the reply, and after years of doing “the right thing” she wants to feel alive again. What put her in the mood? Sam asks. Kay doesn’t reply, just stating she can’t isolate any thoughts. Sam admonishes her. She shouldn’t be trying to read minds. She’s not! comes the forceful reply. She’s attempting to locate friends somewhere behind all these masks… but all she’s getting is psychic static.
Sam suggests they head on home to the cottage then but Kay refuses. She has spent enough time being cautious while she acclimatizes to this new body. She wants to get back to a normal life. Normal? Sam scoffs. Kay is an eight-hundred-years old mind inhabiting a stolen body… Not stolen, Kay corrects her. The consciousness had departed before she moved in. Trying to make a point, she continues that she has homes in Geneva, New York, L.A., Tokyo and Rio. She has wealth, celebrity, status… people who want to be with her, to indulge her. That was the old her, Sam retorts and if anyone really cared… they attended her funeral.
Kay tells her not to be tedious. She’s done this often enough to disregard the details. What details? Sam asks. Like her using Walter’s cottage and the family as a safe haven while she recuperated? Or the vision she saw Adam had about impending doom. Adam’s crazy clairvoyance is unreliable, Kay stresses. What he saw could be twenty years from now, or William, Gracie, Rik or one of the others will have the adventure. Adventure? Sam asks angrily. One of their family could die. She has watched lots of their family die, Kay retorts.
What about the psychic static, Sam asks. There are always glitches as her consciousness settles into a new body, Kay replies, not to mention having to inhabit an alley cat, while she searched for another body. She makes it sound like shopping for clothes. That’s all it is, Kay remarks, and this body is young, fit and raring to go. She tells Sam to stand back; she has just spotted some very old friends she wants to reacquaint herself with. She leaves Sam and tells her to mingle.
On another Earth, Excalibur’s train has landed in the ruins of a Western town somewhere in the desert. Outside while searching the ruins with Meggan and Dom, Kitty pop quizzes him.
The Beatles?
John, Paul, George and Ringo, comes the reply.
Madonna?
A painting… by Raphael? is the hesitant answer.
John Wayne?
Yup, the Duke.
Winston Churchill?
He met him once, Dom recalls. He looked like a bulldog.
What year is it on Dom’s Earth?
2008
He definitely isn’t from the same Earth as they are, Kitty decides. That’s it, Dom asks incredulous. That’s how they find out if they are in the right dimension? A pop quiz? It helps to narrow down the field, Kitty explains. Look for some glaring anomaly first, then work down to the nitty-gritty.
This is how it always is, Meggan adds. Each time they wish they were home, but it’s always somewhere strange or horrible. Kitty adds that all alternate Earths follow a parallel development until some event caused a deviation from the history they know. Hitler dying in a childhood accident, Columbus being killed in a mutiny or the Confederacy winning the American Civil War. Nothing in these ruins is from later than the early nineteenth century. She hopes Ray, Kurt or Brian find something contemporary.
Above them Phoenix and Captain Britain – carrying Nightcrawler – do an aerial recon. Brian suggests they split up. Kurt is very much against it, reminding Brian that last time they did that, Brian was transformed into a duck.
Suddenly, Phoenix spots people running scared, fleeing from what seem to be hellhounds. Rachel scares off the beasts with a pyrotechnic flash (scaring the people as well) while Brian attacks the beasts. Kurt jumps down to the people who are huddled together and teleports the group to safety. The strain leaves him exhausted and the people instead of being grateful attack him.
They are joined by Meggan, Dom and Kitty. Kitty phases Kurt to safety and angrily asks them if they are mad. He may look a bit weird but he saved them. To make them slaves only, a man shouts. They will not fight in their arena! They will be free! With that, they run, leaving the heroes confused and certain that again this isn’t their world.
Phoenix and Captain Britain finish off the beasts. Kitty remarks she bets aliens invaded. They should get back to the train before the ET’s come looking for their lizard mutts. Too late! Dom tries to warn; they are there. An energy blast from the flying ship fells them and tentacles transport the unconscious heroes aboard.
At Ravenscroft, Walter, still stuck in his Wallop form, is still typing away at his latest bodiceripper novel when he gets a phone call from a female friend Gabriella who’s back in England for the week and invites him to her hotel. While he stares at the phone, there’s a power outage and Walter flips, furious at being a prisoner in this stupid little cottage, in his own body!
Angrily, he turns towards the window, seeing his own savage countenance mirrored. Suddenly, what he believes to be his reflection lashes out at him. From outside, a being who looks like a more savage version of him blasts inside and pounds him to the ground.
Back in Nepal, Adam finds the pain subsiding. He asks Albert what is happening to him. How is it he can feel? Albert doesn’t know, but if this is an attack, Adam appears to be the focus, not the target. He means whatever this is, afflicts the entire family? Adam asks. His gifts is to heal, Albert replies, the mystic arts are a skill he’s learned and he’s never been as adept as Nathaniel, Gracie or Kay… nor is he as healthy. He has attempted to telepathically contact some of the others, but he is unable to even sense Kay and her mind is so powerful it is usually a beacon in the dark.
He must send him back to Ravenscroft, Adam demands. What would that achieve? Albert asks and tells him he must do what’s right. He can sense that something violates Adam’s very soul. But what mother made him is beyond Albert’s abilities to affect or even comprehend. If he is to prevail, he must return to Yden.
Rory and Pandora have landed in the gardens outside Blasco Castle, where the party is in full swing both inside and out on the terrace. Rory has tried to reach Kay telepathically, to no avail. They wonder whether they can just sneak inside, since it seems to be a costume party.
Suddenly, a masked man appears from the shrubbery next to them. Are they guests or part of the entertainment, he asks with a smile. Pandora explains they are looking for their sis… Aunt Kay Cera. The man remarks this a coincidence, as he knows her well. He was conversing with her mere moments ago over by the cloister.
That is an amazing coincidence, Rory replies suspiciously. The man understands that they are distrustful. But perhaps if he informed them that Kay was accompanied by a striking Amazonian beauty named Samantha…. The kids become more trusting and allow the man to lead them away to the cloister.
He takes it that Kay is not expecting them to join her? No, why? Because it would distress him if Aunt Kay were to be disappointed when they do not arrive. His eyes turn red and he grows fangs, as do the others that join them and surround the kids and they realize that they’ve been trapped by vampires.


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Near Blasco Castle Rory and Pandora still find themselves surrounded by vampires, real vampires as their foes let them know. Bereft of their powers, the kids are nevertheless willing to fight. Rory grabs a stone vase, swings it around to fend the vampires off and then crashes it into a pillar. The derelict roof caves in above the vampires while Rory drags his sister to safety, ordering her to get near the people at the party.
Nearby, said party at is in full swing both inside and outside the castle. On the balcony, Samantha is trying to fend off an overenthusiastic admirer. Before she has to get rude, she hears Rory shouting. With a thought she manifests a sword and tears off the lower part of her long gown and jumps over the balcony to find her younger siblings. Magnifique her admirer sighs, keeping her shoe.
The twins find themselves at a dead end with a fence in front of them and the vampire having almost caught up to them. He orders Pan to get through while he hold off the vampires. Pandora tells him to stop playing the big brother. He’s not the only one who can make a little power go a long way. She manifests a light spark to the amusement of the vampires. They are less amused when she shoots it at the oil canister next to the vampires and it blows up.
That moment, they are joined by Samantha with blazing swords. She orders the twins to get behind her and not to look – this could get messy!
Suddenly, Kay joins them and agitated she shouts at Sam not to hurt the vampires. They are friends! Family, the leader corrects her, calling her Jazz. Addressing him as Sacha, Kay agrees. She introduces them as Sacha, Anna, Franz, Marie and Natasha. She told them to terrorize the twins? Sam asks. For a joke, Kay explains. It wasn’t funny! Sam shouts and belts her hard.
Holding her chin, Kay asks her to come on. The twins are always looking for adventure, so when she sensed them nearby, she decided to give them a thrill. Turning to the twins, she asks almost pleadingly that they were having fun, weren’t they? Instead, the twins splutter out that Adam vanished or exploded.
On another Earth, their brother Dominic and the dimension-swept members of Excalibur are imprisoned in a dark cell and outfitted with collars that disrupt their abilities. Captain Britain tries to remove his. Dominic warns him not to do this. Sadly, his “gift” isn’t negated. This place stinks. He adds that the collars are packed with circuitry, some attached to an explosive compound, so it’s most likely an anti-tamper device. Armed monsters order them into the arena or the collars will be detonated.
Looking at the inhuman audience, Nightcrawler remarks that this is the most frightening alternate Earth so far. Cap agrees. The last remnants of this world’s humanity herded like animals for alien sport. Which aliens? Shadowcat wonders. She doesn’t recognize their jailers as any alien species they have encountered before. That’s because they are not alien, Rachel realizes, as she looks outside… they’re Inhumans.
The heroes are led into an arena. The spectators are the Inhuman Royal Family without Black Bolt. Their leader instead is Maximus the Mad, who takes offense at their costumes which he assumes are meant to imitate Inhuman design. Medusa suggests that perhaps the humans are evolving to become more like them. Surely they are so secure now with so few humans left that they could investigate the possibility?
Maximus’ advisor suggests it could be another attempt to infiltrate their city. Maximus recalls the previous attempt by the rebel army led by Magneto. They were all slaughtered! Medusa points out. Suspicious, Maxiumus glares at her. Slaughtered is an emotive word. Does she sympathize with those degenerates? Calling him master, she denies this. Can he trust no one? he asks agitated. Are Karnak and Gorgon helping those infiltrators?
Phoenix finally tries to speak to him, trying to explain they are travellers from another—
Furious, Maximus orders her to be silent and uses his psychic abilities to force them all to their knees, all save Phoenix. While her powers are blocked, she grew up resisting—
An Inhuman guard hits her from behind and she too falls to her knees. No one can resist, Maximus states and suspiciously glances at his cousins before he orders the entertainment to begin. The heroes are given lance-like weapons and are told to fight or die. They are attacked by feral Alpha Primitives.
Back on Earth 616 at Blasco Castle, Kay tells the twins that Adam vanishes all the time. Nothing to worry about. In the meantime, she telepathically instructs Sam not to alarm the twins. Considerate after nearly scaring them to death, Sam scowls. No worse than a fairground ride, comes the retort, anyway she still cannot contact Walter or Adam.
What about their powers failing? Pandora asks. That has to be the work of a super-villain. More likely sunspots, Kay laughs. He said that, Rory adds. Sunspots? Sam mentally asks Kay. It’s what they need to hear, her elder sister explains.
Pandora tells them how scared they were when they fell and the lightning started. More scared than when the vampires chased them? Kay asks playfully. Oh, much, Pan assures her. That’s what she thinks Kay needs to her, Sam mentally needles her.
Kay tells her to contact Walter by phone. Does she think there’s room for a cell in what’s left of her dress? Sam asks angrily. One of the vampires graciously offers her his mobile. Kay telepathically tells her to phone outside while she keeps the twins occupied.
Sacha assures the kids they would not have harmed them. They are vampyr with souls… and Jazz is family!
Jazz? Rory asks. Short for “Jasmine” Kay explains, her original name. Kay Cera is just her latest alias.
Kay’s story:
In the 1860s, she inhabited the body of Natsume Masako and married the prince Sakai Masaaki. It was a good time. She loved the order and calm of Japan and she loved her husband.
Masaaki was a diplomat and when he was posted to Paris she was happy to accompany him to see how Europe had changed… it was a time of great change (the Eiffel Tower was just being constructed).
Masaaki knew she thought their garden in Japan was a piece of Heaven. So he had a small replica built at their house in Paris. She often went there to meditate. Had she not been so at peace, the fiend would not have gotten near her.
Suddenly, she was attacked and bitten by a red-haired woman. By the time she realized what was happening, her body had gone into shock and her death was inevitable. So she blasted the evil spirit out of the vampire Marietta Borgezia with her own consciousness. She stood there… disoriented, learning to balance the strange new body, hoping there would be time to save the body of Masako and the life she loved.
But Masaaki came into the garden, saw his princess lying at the feet of a bloodsoaked fiend and attacked with his sword. She wanted to explain but Masaaki had only known her as the woman he married, he would never have understood. And so she fled, Kay ends her tale, a look of pain still on her face.
Present:
Sacha happily continues that they found Jazz. All the vampire created by Marietta Borgezia were changed with her demise… they were free from the blood demon. They don’t drink blood anymore? The twins ask. The vampires explain they don’t drink human blood… unless it is offered. Like from donors? Rory asks. They are, one of the women explains… vampire groupies. Which they are definitely not, ok? Pandora stresses.
Outside Sam can’t reach Walter’s cottage. The line is dead. Suddenly, Newton arrives (in his normal body) in a strange vehicle. He steps out and instantly babbles he’s got a big, big problem. He continues about losing Dom and how he can’t calculate a trajectory with the necessary precision to find him, but Rory can. He doesn’t even let Sam tell him about their own emergency and Kay mentally asks her not to. If Adam and Walter are in trouble, it could be bad so if Newton takes the twins to sit in his lab, they can be sure they are safe at least while they can check on Walter and Adam. Kay gets the twins to leave with Dom, who is surprised she didn’t put up a fight.
Just be sure to keep them safe, Sam warns him. Rory tells Newton the sunspots drained their powers. Sunspots? Newton wonders, then plays along. He needs Rory’s brain, his instinct.
With them gone, Kay decides they need to leave for Ravenscroft. Sacha offers the vampire coven’s help. Kay thanks him, but declines since it’s near dawn. Besides there might be nothing amiss. If she’s not back by nightfall, she jokes, promise her to hunt down the bad guys and make them wish they are dead. With pleasure, Sacha promises her and they kiss.
Driving between realities, Newton tells the twins that he was Dom’s mentor just like Walter and Florence were theirs. Dom was always rather wild, he continues, that’s why he gave him a signal watch, but just in vase he put a 4-D tag on him. It’s out of temporal phase, so even Dom cannot sense its signal.
He puts a control crown on Rory’s head, explaining it will allow him to pilot the ship by translating his impulse intuition into control action just how he flies instinctively. He points to a glowing signal on a screen. That’s Dom. His signal will move around like a balloon on the wind. Rory must steer his flying to catch it and the ship will do its work. Look and fly. Rory obeys and starts.
In the Inhuman arena, Dom and Excalibur are still fighting. Dom remarks that the buzzing noise is getting louder but none of the others can hear it.
Somewhere else, Rory has his goal in his sights and, moments later, their vehicle manifests in said arena and Dom finally realizes it’s the source of the buzzing.
Rory crash lands them. A furious Maximus orders his troops to fire and kill them. As Newton opens the vehicle’s door, Dom runs towards them, shouting at the Inhumans that they are just children… nevertheless the order to fire is given and the vehicle is hit. Newton falls out and the twins fall into another direction and the car explodes seemingly obliterating the twins, much to Newton’s (and the others’ horror).
In Nepal, Adam wonders how he can return to Yden with Vincent’s blood on his hands. He killed for love, Albert reminds him. To protect his other children, perhaps the entire world. He doesn’t understand, Adam sighs. Albert reminds him that he killed once with hate in his heart. The evil taints him still. But Adam’s heart is still pure. How could it be otherwise…? Is he not still under Mother’s protection?
He is preserved so he may be tortured by guilt, is the stony reply. Albert fears it is Mother who is tortured by her bond to Adam and her children. He means the strange malady afflicts her also? Adam asks and orders him to send him to her.
Albert begins his spell as he warns Adam that no power can enter Yden unbidden, but he can deposit Adam near to the valley. He wishes him farewell and Adam disappears, to reappear in front of the mountain rift guarding the valley. Energy comes from it. Elalyth? he shouts.
On the way to Ravenscroft, Sam is driving while Kay manages the feat of changing into her costume en route. She orders Sam to cut through the hedge. Noticing that her elder sister is enjoying this, Sam sourly remarks that she really is cuckoo. Kay replies that if Sam has any sense, she should armour up. While complying, Sam retorts that if she had any sense she’d stop listening to her.
They notice the broken window and Sam asks if Kay can sense anything. Kay senses static mostly stronger than before but nothing dangerous. That moment, she is hit by a furious Walter in his blue form. Sam cries he could have killed her. Stunned, Kay shouts that she can’t sense him or anything.
As Sam tries to keep him back with her armour, she shouts at Kay to pull herself together and help. Kay tries a telekinetic blast but Walter just absorbs it, something he shouldn’t be able to do. That moment, she is attacked by from behind by what appear to be the horribly distorted twins.
At the Guild HQ, Omega Red informs the Primus that surveillance on the Destine cottage has been restored. There is some battle occurring. He has reviewed the record of the period prior to Griffin’s industrial complex being destroyed. The twins and the one called Wallop had broken in for some reason but they fell foul of a gas trap and were captured. It was over an hour before the other Destines rescued their kin. The gaps in their surveillance of Griffin they thought were technical glitches, he now believes Griffin suspected they were watching and limited their surveillance. He believes Griffin took cell samples from the Destines while they were unconscious. He had their DNA and cloned them!
And at the Ravenscroft cottage, the clones of the twins and Wallop triumphantly stand over the fallen Argent and Cuckoo while Griffin and his servants stand in the back.