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House of M – part five
The young teenage girl named Layla Miller looks up at the beautiful, blonde woman dressed in a white outfit and white cape, asking her who she is. The woman introduces herself as Emma Frost, Headmistress of the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning. Surprised, Layla asks Emma if she is an X-Man. Emma confirms this. Layla then looks around at the giant brain above her and the amazing bright colors all around her as she stands in midair with Emma Frost. Layla cannot help but ask where she is. Welcome to your head, replies Emma.
Layla is confused as she looks around, but Emma explains that this is just a visual projection of her psychic self. Layla is confused, but goes along anyway. Emma continues and explains that she is using her mental powers to try and figure out how Layla does what she does. Confused once again, Layla asks what she does. Emma tells Layla that she is a special girl and Emma is curious as to how she has the ability to unlock someone else’s deep unconscious with her… suddenly Emma discovers something that confuses even her. Scared, Layla asks what is going on.
Emma begins to speak of Layla’s psychic powers, but trails off. Layla once again asks Emma what is going on. Emma stares off at the projection of Layla’s brain and tells her that her powers are psychic, but they are not psychic at the same time. They are not psychic like Emma’s and they are not like anything she has ever seen. Nervous, Layla asks what that means. It means you’re a conundrum, replies Emma. Is that good, asks Layla. Rarely, replies Emma bluntly, but, hey, you never know. As Emma flies over Layla’s brain, the young girl tells the headmistress that she is a burst of sunshine.
Emma informs Layla that she needs her to trust her and to grow up a bit faster that she might have wanted to. The world has been screwed over worse than it has ever been and it is all because of a mutant. It is all because of a selfish, deluded mutant. In Layla is a power to band together the heroes of an entire world so they can at least try to put it back. Layla stops in her tracks, shocked, and just stares at Emma. Emma tells the girl that there is good news. She will be with Layla the whole time. She will not be alone in this.
Layla asks why her. Emma retorts with her own question, asking why is the sky blue. Layla asks Emma if she can do it. Can she and her friends put the world back? Emma gives Layla a worried look, which is all Layla needs to be scared. Emma tells Layla that they should join the others again. She is needed. Emma then touches Layla on her forehead, sending them back to their bodies on the corporeal world.
Layla opens her eyes and sees Emma, wearing her normal business suit, before her. She hears Wolverine tell Emma that he is there. I know, replies Emma. As Layla slumps on her chair, still dizzy from her astral plane journey, she hears the door open and a pair of keys fall the ground. Scott Summers, returning from work, stands in the doorway to see his wife, Emma Frost Summers, alone with head of the S.H.I.E.L.D. Red Guard Unit, Wolverine, and Human Resistance members Luke Cage, Marc Spector, Danny Rand, Felicia Hardy, Hawkeye, Cloak, Lin Sun, and Bob Diamond.
“Uh…” says Emma, “Hi ‘honey.’”
“Hey, bub,” says Wolverine.
Confused, Scott asks his wife what is going on here. Emma ignores her “husband” and tells Layla to do what they were talking about. This man is Scott Summers. Layla needs to relax to Emma can help her. All Layla must do is focus on Scott. Focus, repeats Layla. Emma telepathically speaks to Layla again, repeating that she should focus.
Suddenly, Layla’s eyes bust with green energy, which scares her. Simultaneously, Scott’s eyes also glow green. Shocked, he falls against the wall. Emma, worried, tells Scott to hold it together. Everything is ok. Scott suddenly makes a disgusting throat sound and covers his mouth with his hand. He then throws up in front of Luke Cage and Wolverine.
Scott sits against the wall as Emma leans by him. Scott repeats “oh no” over and over. Emma, trying to make light of the situation, pretends that Scott is disgusted with his marriage to Emma in this reality and jokingly asks why they of all people married. Scott ignores her joke and asks if this is truly done to the whole world. How could Magneto have done this to the whole world? He then asks Emma and Wolverine where the Professor is. Wolverine tells Scott that they haven’t found him yet. He has been to the school, but it isn’t a school anymore. Everyone else is scattered and they can only find a few of them. Scott, taking on the role as the powerful leader, stands and loosens his tie. With the most serious of looks on his face, he asks whom of their allies they can find.
Downtown, New York, world famous actor and scientist Peter Parker walks down the streets with his son, Ritchie. Suddenly, he hears someone call his name. He turns to see his wife, Gwen Stacy-Parker, and his Uncle Ben and Aunt May. Seeing how Peter was going the wrong way, Gwen asks if he forgot his wallet. Maybe, replies Peter.
Gwen takes Ritchie from Peter and tells him that they will wait for him. Ben hears this and tells Gwen that he has money on him, but Gwen smiles and reminds him that Peter likes to have his own. A bicyclist comes by and tells Spider-Man that he is the man as Ritchie tells his father that he is funny. Peter smiles and tells his loving family that he will be back in two seconds.
However, when Peter turns, he finds himself in front of a group of people, including a man dressed in a purple outfit with a bow, a black man in a blue cloak, and a blonde woman with a young girl among many others. Confused, Peter asks them if he can help them. Sorry, says Layla, as he eyes burst with green energy, simultaneously with Peter’s.
Suddenly, Peter Parker has a wave of suppressed memories flood him, as he remembers everything from his past life. He is confronted with images of Flash Thompson, the first time he saw his body after being bitten by that radioactive spider, the Kingpin, the Green Goblin, the Lizard, J. Jonah Jameson telling him that Spider-Man is public enemy, Venom, Doctor Octopus, his marriage to Mary Jane Watson, his Aunt May… and worst of all… the death of his “wife,” Gwen Stacy.
Peter falls back onto a car screaming for Layla to stop it. Reeling in emotional pain, he falls onto the hood of the car. Gwen, seeing this, rushes over with Ritchie to her husband, asking Peter what is wrong. Peter looks up at Gwen with horror and fear, as he suddenly has a flashback to the moment she died and the sound as her neck snapped as he caught her with his webbing after she fell off the bridge. Wolverine comes over to Peter and tells him to take a deep breath, but Peter screams no and pushes away. Uncle Ben arrives, and Peter becomes teary eyed to see his dead Uncle. Screaming no once more, he leaps over the car and up a skyscraper away from everyone.
Gwen passes Ritchie onto Uncle Ben and screams at Wolverine, demanding to know what he just said to her husband to make him act like that. Emma Frost, however, intercepts Gwen and telepathically orders her to play in the park. She adds that Gwen should have a nice day. Telepathically controlled, Gwen, Ben, and May head off to the park.
Luke Cage, his memories restored permanently thanks to Layla sometime at the Summers residence, along with everyone else but Hawkeye’s, tells the others that that was awful. Cloak looks out at Gwen and asks who she is. Cage replies that she is Gwen Stacy. She died years ago. Saddened, Layla apologizes. Emma consoles Layla, telling her that it wasn’t her fault. Scott looks up at the skyscraper and asks who wants to speak with Peter. Wolverine looks up and volunteers.
Atop a building, Peter Parker collapses and screams in unimaginable anguish, while Wolverine watches. With tears streaming from his eyes, Peter asks Wolverine to tell him that this is all a trick. Please tell him that this is a trick by Mysterio, or perhaps that he has snapped. Just tell him that it is him. He can deal with that. Please tell him that this really isn’t happening. Sorry, says Wolverine.
Confused, Peter asks Wolverine if he has this too. Does he also have memories atop of memories? He has memories of things he did atop memories of things he didn’t do. He can’t even think straight, and he can’t… Suddenly, he stops and utters the name of his real wife, Mary Jane. Peter then rubs his head as he remembers that he has a son.
Wolverine tells Peter to get up as they have things to do. Peter, however, doesn’t and tells Wolverine that this wasn’t in the brochure. He was supposed to get super powers and fight bad guys. This, however, wasn’t in the brochure. How much crap is he supposed to take in his life? Not having time to deal with this, Wolverine tells Peter that they have a lot to do so can he get his act together?
Peter turns to Wolverine and asks how Magneto did this. How did he and Wanda get into his head and do this to him? Wolverine looks away and tells Peter that it isn’t just him affected. Peter asks Wolverine what he woke up from. Looks like I always wanted to be Nick Fury, replies Wolverine. “Sorry,” says Parker.
Peter looks at Wolverine angrily and bitterly and swears that he thinks he is going to kill them. He is going to kill Magneto and his stupid daughter. He is going to kill them with his bare hands. He isn’t going to be able to stop himself. Don’t worry, replies Wolverine. Peter won’t get the chance, because Wolverine will have already done it.
Soon, in Cincinnati, Ohio, schoolteacher Kitty Pryde packs up and leaves her school for the day when she hears a voice in her head call her name. She turns and with a flash of green energy in her eyes she remembers everything.
In Greenwich Village, New York, psychiatrist Dr. Steven Strange closes his office and checks the time outside. A voice calls him and, before he can even see the little girl near him, he is overcome by a green energy in his eyes.
The next stop is Washington, D.C., where Captain Marvel, a.k.a. Carol Danvers, signs autographs for her fans. In the middle of this, however, she hears someone call her name, and in seconds she is hit with a green flash of energy in her eyes, and she remembers her days as Warbird and Ms. Marvel.
In Chicago, wealthy businessman Tony Stark is surrounded by the paparazzi as they snap pictures and question him on his ties to the Iron Man and the Human Resistance Movement. What does he think of recent allegations towards his company? Does he know who Iron Man is? Before Tony can defend himself, he too hears a voice and is overcome by the green energy in his eyes.
Back at Hell’s Kitchen, New York, lawyers Jennifer Walters and Matt Murdock leave court. Jen jokes with Matt and tells him that he said he would buy drinks if she won the case. Matt smiles and jokes that she needs to prove that in a court of law. Suddenly, a telepathic voice calls their names and, in a flash, they remember.
The next stop is the Bronx, where an old retired Steven Rogers leaves his apartment. Emma Frost doesn’t bother calling out to the man and instead orders Layla to power down. They are not waking him up. Scott is shocked at the sight of Captain America. Emma tells him that he is a hundred years old and was never frozen in a block of ice during World War II. It’s in all the textbooks, says Cloak to Emma, reminding her that this shouldn’t be a surprise. Emma tells him that she had to see it for herself. He is of no use to them like this. Wolverine agrees. They should go. It is sad, though. They could have used him.
In an unknown location, the heroes gather in what seems to be a dark apartment or office. Emma Frost leads the briefing and informs them that Magneto has convinced or forced his mentally ill daughter to turn the world over in his image. He has also been able to betray his friend, Charles Xavier, by drugging him or somehow coercing the most powerful mutant mind in the world to dig into their heads and give them their greatest desires. She then asks if there is anyone in this room who has denied what she has said. As Bob Diamond peers out the window for any trouble, the room remains silent. No one digresses. However, there is one dissenter.
Emma Frost turns to Hawkeye, the only people whose memories have not been restored, and tells him that the only way he will believe is if they let Layla do to him what she did to them and unlock his memories of the life before this one. Cage turns to Hawkeye and tells him that he doesn’t have to do anything that he doesn’t want to do. Warbird turns to Hawkeye and asks him what wants. Angrily, Hawkeye points to Emma and says that what he wants is for the mutant to get out of his head. Emma remains silent. However, before more can be done, Matt Murdock and Wolverine realize that trouble is heading their way.
At that moment, a powerful first smashes through one of the walls. As the debris falls and the smoke settles, the newly awakened heroes find themselves confronted by Toad, Mystique, Spider-Woman, Nightcrawler and Rogue of the S.H.I.E.L.D. Red Guard unit. Rogue smugly tells the group to put their arms and claws in the air. They are under arrest. Mystique looks at Wolverine specifically and pleads for him to surrender. Spider-Man sarcastically states that this is the best day ever, as the two groups engage each other.
Toad leaps upon Luke Cage and wraps his tongue around his head. Layla ducks for cover, screaming, while Nightcrawler goes straight for She-Hulk. Cyclops attacks Rogue with his optic blast, telling the heroes to take the enemies down, but don’t hurt them. Rogue warns Scott to put his glasses back on before he gets hurt. She then grabs Layla by the hair and tells them that and tells them that they have them “every way till Sunday.”
Seeing Layla captured, the heroes stop attacking. Rogue continues to talk and tells them that they are agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., so they better surrender before someone gets hurt. Before she can finish, however, Rogue’s skin, exposed from a hole in her glove, touches Layla on the face. She then absorbs the girl’s powers.
Rogue is unable to control the powers as she is overcome and remembers everything. She then inadvertently “wakes up” Toad, Spider-Woman, Nightcrawler and Mystique. Toad releases Cage, who smacks him in the back of the head. Emma comes to Layla’s side, who is having trouble seeing straight. Emma tells Layla to empty her mind, but the girl is too scared to continue any further.
Spider-Woman is horrified at what has happened, but Spider-Man comes to her side. Rogue repeats no over and over again in disbelief, but Cyclops tries to calm her down, as they need her. Kitty comes to Nightcrawler’s side and asks if he knows where Piotr is. Nightcrawler admits that he doesn’t even know where he is.
Wolverine towers over the downed Mystique, who looks at Wolverine with embarrassment over all the things they did in private. She then slaps him in the face. Wolverine asks her if she feels better, but Mystique thinks she broke her hand. Wolverine tells her that she should save it for the guy who did this to them. Suddenly, Warbird calls everyone’s attention to the fact that Hawkeye is gone.
Emma tells the group to let Hawkeye go, as they do not need the weight of what he is going through to be added onto what they have to do. Rogue comes up to Layla and confused, asks her what she is. Emma tells Rogue to leave Layla alone, as she only absorbed a bit of her power. Fearful, Rogue tells Emma that Layla isn’t even human. Don’t blame the messenger, says Emma.
Rogue tells Emma and Cyclops that she never felt anything like that before, to which Emma replies that none of them have. Cyclops tells the former S.H.I.E.L.D. agents that they need to get a hold of themselves. They can have nervous breakdowns later. Fine, says Spider-Man, but when they do he gets to go first.
What’s the plan, asks Warbird. Wolverine steps up and announces that they are going to Magneto. Wolverine guarantees that he will know where Xavier is.
Simultaneously, in Genosha, Magnus walks through his palace, not seeing to hear his daughter call out his name. Lorna catches up to Magneto and asks her father if he is okay, as she has been calling for him. Magnus turns, confused, and Lorna once again asks if he is ok. Stuttering her name, Magnus tells Lorna that he is fine. Lorna hugs her father and tells him that she came to tell him the guests will arrive soon for the gala. Doom will arrive in half an hour. Okay, replies Magnus stoically. He stares behind Lorna at a memorial not too far away. Lorna smiles once more and tells her father to enjoy his day. Magnus walks away from Lorna, asking her to give him a moment.
Magnus then walks off to another part of the palace into the Royal Gardens, where he sadly looks upon the large memorial and reads the plaque for the Xavier Memorial Garden.
“He died so Genosha could live.”


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House of M – part six
Special Agent Jessica Drew, aboard her Quinjet Red-5, calls the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier requesting secured approach and landing. In seconds, Drew receives permission to land, and is welcomed back by S.H.I.E.L.D. command. The Quinjet descends on the runway of the massive flying fortress, flanked by two abnormally large Sentinels and numerous other fighter jets.
Special Agent Jessica Drew is not alone, however, for along with her are Emma Frost, Wolverine, Cyclops, Shadowcat, Rogue and Nightcrawler of the X-Men; Tony Stark, Spider-Man, Luke Cage, She-Hulk and Warbird of the Avengers; in addition to several other heroes among them Dr. Strange, Matt Murdock, Felicia Hardy, Cloak, Marc Spector, Danny Rand, and the two villains Mystique and Toad. Also with them is the mysterious young girl known as Layla Miller, who is one of the reasons why the heroes are here today. These heroes represent the last resistance against Magneto, ruler of the world, and apparent shaper of reality.
The heroes exit the Quinjet, and immediately Spider-Man is creeped out by the fact that they are on the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier surrounded by a liege of Magneto’s men, but not a single one of them notices the heroes. Emma Frost explains that no one can see or hear them. She is using her psychic powers to project seventeen different mental commands to cover them. The S.H.I.E.L.D. officers can’t see them, because she won’t let them see. “Yeah,” says Spider-Man, “Like I said: creepy.”
Cyclops asks Emma what her plan is. Emma simply says “command deck.” Follow me, replies Nightcrawler.
In minutes the heroes arrive at the command deck of S.H.I.E.L.D., where Captain John Greycrow stands in charge, while Director Sebastian Shaw is at the Savage Land outpost. The S.H.IE.L.D. agents are busy doing their daily tasks. Natasha Romanov calls in to an agent, while another agent patches into Comannder Garrison Kane. While someone checks up on the status of Weapon XXXC, a corrosive weather pattern is found over Wakanda. One agent stresses over the Brood Signal going offline, while another reveals to his colleague that the man he is speaking to is a liar, as there is no ambassador for Latveria.
Emma Frost ignores all this busy action and uses her telepathy to take over the minds of Captain Greycrow and his crew. She asks him to set the Helicarrier’s course. Greycrow asks for a location. Genosha, replies Emma. “Yes, sir,” acknowledges Greycrow.
The S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier then changes course.
Some time later in Genosha, a royal aircraft swoops around the city and through the massive skyscrapers before it docks on a platform high in the air. Waiting on the platform is a plethora of House of M royal guards, as well as three members of the royal family: Lord Magnus, Pietro, and Lorna, all stone faced and serious. The door to the craft opens upon the red royal carpet and out steps a most sinister man.
Victor von Doom greets Magnus and approaches the ruler. Magnus tells Doom that he was surprised to have received his R.S.V.P. to the gala event. Doom asks if he thought he was more surprised than him to even receive an invitation. Magnus states that Doom will pose for a few photographs for the newspapers. It is why I am here, replies Doom. The two mortal enemies then put on fake smiles and shake each other’s hands for the cameras. In the back, however, Pietro does not seem pleased.
Meanwhile, on the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier, the heroes gather in the mess room, where the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. eat on, unaware of the danger to their monarchy all around them. The heroes, however, are not happy at all and most sit silently and stare off into the distance thinking. Cyclops speaks up and tells the troops that he knows its commissary food, but they need to eat, for they need their strength. While Wolverine gathers his food, Rogue tells Cyclops that she is not hungry. She is angry. Emma, who has Layla Miller resting her head on Frost’s lap, tells Rogue that they all are, but Rogue must hold it together. Rogue mocks Emma for saying that, but Emma tells her that they will be at Genosha soon enough.
Luke Cage swipes a cell phone from an agent and then calls 4-1-1 directory to pull up the listing of Jessica Jones, whom he assumes is in Manhattan. The operator cannot find a Jessica Jones in Manhattan, but locates one in Queens. She then gives Luke the number and he alls Jessica. At first, when Jessica picks up, he is relieved to hear her, but realizes in a second that it is the answering machine, but what is worse is when the voice of Scott Lang comes on as well, asking Luke to leave a message. Saddened at the turn of events, Luke hangs up the phone and stares down, but he is noticed by Spider-Man.
Spider-Man asks Luke if Jessica picked up, but Luke tells him that he doesn’t know why he just did that. Spider-Man apologizes. Cage then asks him if he tried getting hold of Mary Jane, but Spider-Man asks Cage what he would tell the woman. Cage puts his hand on the depressed Peter’s shoulder and tells him that it would not mean that Mary Jane would be more successful if she were not married to Peter. However, Spider-Man doesn’t accept this. The truth is in this world she isn’t married to him… and she is successful.
Cyclops speaks up once again and gathers all the heroes, telling them he wants to speak for a second. He has led the X-Men since he was a teenager and, during that time, he has always prided himself on his tactical restraint. He always took the moral high ground when violence was concerned. However, today there is no other way for him to say if. If they lose, they lose everything. Every fight and battle they took part in will mean nothing. What Cyclops is trying to say is, whatever restraint of personal boundaries they have on themselves, well…there is no place for that. They cannot lose this fight. They have to win, and to do that they must fight without any restraint. Does anyone disagree?
All in the room fall silent, but the silence is broken when Wolverine speaks as he eats. “So what’s the plan Sparky?”
Three teams, begins Cyclops, but suddenly he is interrupted by Spider-Man. Spider-Man asks the group if they are going to put the world back. Can they put the world back or is it too late? Emma, who sits beside Danny Rand, tells Spider-Man that they will know the situation when they reach Genosha. Ms. Marvel speaks up and asks what if they try and they fail. Do they just continue on in this world like this? Do they tell people the truth or just pretend they don’t know. Emma once again states that they will know when they get there.
Surprisingly, Shadowcat speaks up and asks if they are supposed to do this. Black Cat asks Shadowcat what she means, and Kitty replies that isn’t putting the world back after what has happened to it just as bad as what has been done? This isn’t a mission to stop a bomb from going off… the bomb has gone off. They might make things worse. Cloak reasons that they have to try, but Shadowcat asks him who says.
Spider-Woman then offers her opinion and asks who is being hurt here. Surprised, the depressed Nightcrawler snaps to attention upon hearing this. Spider-Woman takes center stage and tells the group that Magneto got what he wanted and so did they. Isn’t it a wash? Weren’t they happy in this world? She thinks she was. Weren’t they all? Magneto gave them what they wanted and isn’t there an argument that they deserve what they got? Shouldn’t they be happy for once? Maybe this was supposed to happen.
Wolverine, who doesn’t even look at Jessica, tells her that one day she is going to be really embarrassed that she said that out loud. Jessica turns to Wolverine and tells him to listen. When something of this magnitude happens they have to step back and ask if it was time for this to happen. Who are they to decide how the world is to be? When a meteor hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs it was natural selection right? Like Shadowcat said, a meteor hit the Earth. Perhaps this is how mutants are to become the next dominant species.
Again, not looking up, Wolverine tells her that that is two things she will be embarrassed about later on. Annoyed, Spider-Woman “translates” what Wolverine is saying, stating that he is confused about whether she is right and it scares the crap out of him. Well, it should. Everyone in the room stares at one another, seeing how everyone else reacts to this argument.
Emma finally breaks the silence and tells all that they have to try. They have to find Xavier. Spider-Man slowly walks out of the room and Cage spots him, but Peter excuses himself. Shadowcat gets up and tells everyone that she has never seen Spider-Man like this. Cage tells her to give him a minute. He will get it together. Ending the discussion, Cyclops takes charge once again and tells the group that they have three teams.
Back on Genosha, night falls as all the guests arrive to possibly the biggest party of the year. An announcer calls out to the hundreds of privileged guests who are roaming the palace grounds that the House of Magnus is honored to have them as guests. As everyone rushes to a majestic staircase, where all the action seems to be occurring, the announcer tells them that the House of M is privileged to introduce to them the special guests of honor for the evening.
As the photographers snap away, the Helicarrier finally reaches Genosha. Aboard the landing platform on the Helicarrier the heroes gather. Someone asks Cyclops why they need three teams. Cyclops tells that person that, even with Emma and Dr. Strange hiding them from view right now; the House of M probably knows that they are coming. Even if they don’t know, they have to know something is wrong. As Scott motions the heroes attention to the massive Helicarrier around them, he reminds them that it wasn’t a bicycle they stole.
Hundreds of feet below, one of the royal guards, Phantazia, senses something amiss, due to her mutant powers to sense electromagnetic fields and electricity. Her fellow guard, Blob, asks Phantazia what is wrong.
Meanwhile, the announcer calls out King T’Challa of the African Commonwealth of Wakanda. The audience claps as King T’Challa, also known as the Black Panther comes out in a royal Wakanda garb.
On the Helicarrier, Scott tells the group that their primary objective is to find Charles Xavier if he is still with them for Emma to get Layla and her powers in front of him. They need to wake Xavier up. Cyclops turns to Cloak and tells him that it is up to him to teleport Emma where she needs to go. Cloak agrees, and Scott asks Emma if she needs anyone else on her team. No, replies Emma, Cyclops needs his men. Cyclops then asks Layla if she is okay, but the girl does show pressure despite what she says.
Below, the next special guest called is Victor von Doom, king of Latveria, and sometimes known as Dr. Doom, whose face is covered in the shadow of his hood.
Next is Genis-Vell, formerly known as Captain Marvel and now known as Photon in the proper reality, who is a visiting delegate from the Kree Empire.
Back up at the Helicarrier, Cyclops turns to Dr. Strange and tells him that he had luck in the past getting through to Wanda. Strange, who levitates in the air, tells Cyclops that the Astral Plane is a place where he can communicate with Wanda on a level playing field, or at least for a short time. Hopefully he will be able to cut at the heart of the problem and find out what is happening. Of course, that depends on Wanda’s present state of mind.
Below, Princess Ororo of Kenya, otherwise known as Storm, is called out.
At the Helicarrier, Cyclops asks Strange if he needs anyone else for back up. No, replies Strange. Wolverine then asks Cyclops what the rest of them are doing.
Below, King Namor from the kingdom of Atlantis is called out.
On the Helicarrier the heroes look down at Genosha. “We keep the House of Magnus occupied,” replies Cyclops to Wolverine.
Below, the last few moments culminate as the guests all begin to clap louder and the guards bow. A spotlight is put on a large red curtain at the top of the stairway, as the announcer introduced the House of Magnus!
The curtains are then pulled away to reveal the royal family. Lord Magnus sits upon his throne with Wanda, whose stoic face is covered with jewelry, stands to his right side, while Lorna is on his left. Quicksilver stands in front of Wanda, while one of Wanda’s twins sits in Magnus’ lap and the other stands close by.
Suddenly, however, Phantazia senses something and looks up as a large shadow comes crashing down to the royal palace. At first, the unknown object is nothing but a fast coming dot in the sky, but as it comes closer the horror is revealed to be one of the massive royal Sentinels, which is on a head first collision course with the palace.
As the Sentinel is about to crash and kill the royal family, however, Magneto and Lorna both use their magnetic powers to abruptly stop the Sentinel, ripping its head to pieces. Lorna calls out to her father, confused as to what is going on. The guests to the party stand in silence and awe at what is going on as they realize there is a massive Sentinel hovering above them, threatening to crash at any moment. However, the Sentinel attack was not an attempt to kill Magneto, but instead it was a ride for the heroes, consisting of Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, Wolverine, Rogue, Spider-Man, Moon Knight, Black Cat, She-Hulk, Toad, Mystique, Ms. Marvel, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Daredevil, Tony Stark, and Spider-Woman, with Moon Knight, Black Cat and Tony Stark, armed with nothing but guns.
The royal guards waste no time in engaging the enemy. A giant Sasquatch-like creature attacks Cage, as a mutant with the ability to generate fire attacks Ms. Marvel. Cyclops does not waste time either, as he quickly locates Magneto, still holding up the domineering Sentinel. He calls out Magneto’s name and then looks over in time to be blasted by a powerful optic blast. When the dust clears, Wanda is lying motionless in the arms of Pietro and where Magneto once was there is nothing but a crater.
Lorna, terrified, calls out for her father and is horrified to think that he may be dead. However, Pietro realizes the worse horror, as with Magneto missing and Lorna distraught, there is no one holding up the Sentinel. The Sentinel then crashes down onto the plaza, destroying the entire area and sending the guests and heroes flying in different directions.
Nearby, Rogue recalls how Cyclops said that they should not hold back. She then charges at Storm and Namor and tackles them. She narrowly misses skin-to-skin contact with Storm, but is all over Namor. However, when she tries using the powers she absorbed from Layla, she finds that she cannot.
Elsewhere, in the royal gardens, Emma Frost, Layla Miller and Cloak emerge from the shadows. Layla asks what that noise is and Emma tells her that it is fighting. Layla then thinks that she hears a scream. The three heroes march through the area and Emma tells them that no one is here. Wherever here is, adds Layla. As the three pass a large rock monument, Emma tells Layla to concentrate as they have to find Xavier. She then looks to the side and reads the inscription of the on the plague, introducing them to the Xavier Memorial Garden. He died so Genosha could live.
Oh my God, says the destroyed Emma, as she falls to her knees. Layla, scared, asks Emma over and over what this means. She turns to Emma and asks if this is it. Emma buries her head in her hand, as she realizes that it is over, but Cloak tells them to wait. He then begins to descend in to the ground, creeping Layla out as she realizes Cloak has phased into the ground. Worried, she hopes he doesn’t drag up any bones. Emma looks up with hope at the ground, but Cloak emerges from behind them, scaring Layla. Cloak tells Emma that there is nothing down there, which confuses Emma. Cloak repeats that there is no coffin, no body. There is only dirt.
“Xavier’s not here,” state Cloak with his eyes wide open, “It’s not over yet.”


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House of M – part seven
On the grounds of the royal palace of King Magnus in Genosha an epic battle for the fate of all of reality is underway. However, majority of the players on the field do not even know it. A handful of X-Men, Avengers and various allies and would-be enemies fight against the massive royal army of Magnus.
As a mutant with the ability to generate flames attempts to incinerate Luke Cage, Iron Fist goes one-on-one with a female guard with a psychic dagger. She-Hulk pummels another guard while Cyclops blasts away one, all the while screaming to the others that they cannot lose this battle.
Spider-Woman chases after Sauron in the air, while Matt Murdock gets knocked over by the Blob. Ms. Marvel puts Doom in a choker, while the ruler of Latveria tells her that she is mad. As Moon Knight and Tony Stark defend themselves with guns, Princess Ororo, recently escaped from the clutches of Rogue, flies over the battle field and asks the heroes who they are and what they want from them. Wolverine slashes his way through a few guards and tells Ororo that, whether she believes it or not, she should know that they are her family and friends, so she might want to take it easy on them.
Nearby, King Namor looks up at Rogue and tells her to unhand him, as well as delegate Genis-Marvell. Rogue tells the men that normally she would not use her powers to suck so much power from them, but they are playing to win this match. She then tackles both men and makes skin-to-skin contact. Due to the nature of Genis’ genetics and powers, half of Rogue’s body transforms into a seemingly window to a cosmic landscape of black void dotted with stars. Not saying a word, Rogue uses her cosmic speed to fly back to the battle.
Nearby, as the landscape continues to fall apart and become hellish, thanks to the damage of the crashing Sentinel, Lorna calls up a magnetic field to protect her and her siblings, as well as her two nephews. Not noticing the two nephews motionless and lying on the ground like dolls, Lorna tells Pietro to get Wanda to safety and to find their father. She cannot keep up her magnetic field for long.
Pietro, however, does not move and just stares down at the motionless Wanda, in his arms, telling Lorna that something is wrong with their sister. Amazingly, Wanda’ body suddenly breaks up into hundreds of tiny orthogonal pieces, almost as if she were made out of building blocks. Horrified and with tears streaming from his eyes, Pietro turns back to the battle and the heroes and angrily asks what they have done to his sister.
Pietro charges out of Lorna’s magnetic bubble and starts screaming for answers as to why these people are attacking his family. He spots someone atop the wreckage of the Sentinel and goes to attack, but finds the cosmically powered Rogue waiting up top. Pietro slams into Rogue and is sent flying back.
As the heroes continue battling, the astral form of Dr. Strange hovers over them, searching. The recent ongoing with Pietro, Wanda, Lorna and Rogue had not gone unnoticed. Below him, Cyclops orders Nightcrawler to do a better job at watching their backs. As he teleports around to defend his teammates, Nightcrawler desperately tells his leader that he is trying to but there are a lot of backs to watch.
Suddenly, Strange senses something and looks over to a tower on the edge of the battlefield, yet unscathed from any of the massive powers being wielded. He looks up to the top off the tower, which is virtually closed from the outside, except for one small glassless window, where Strange notices an eerie, scarlet glow. Knowing that this may be what he is looking for, Strange flies towards the tower and his astral self easily passes through the wall into the room inside.
Inside, Strange finds himself in a lovely room, where the colors are all scarlet or some shade of red and pink. Many pillows lie about, as well as candles that light up the room made for a princess. Sitting in the middle of the room is Wanda Maximoff, dressed in an elegant red gown and playing with building blocks with her twin boys. Without looking at Strange, Wanda addresses him.
Strange looks at Wanda and tells her that she looks well. Wanda, still not looking at Strange, tells him that he looks vibrant. Is he in the Astral Plane? Strange comes close to Wanda and tells her that he is. How is she? He was scared that they lost her for good. Wanda, confused, asks Strange why he would think that. Strange replies that it seemed as if her body fell apart outside. Wanda, now understanding, tells Strange that it wasn’t her real body, as she does not like to leave the kids alone. That body is something for her father to show off during such occasions. One of Wanda’ boys tells Strange that their mommy always stays to play with them. Wanda, worried, asks if she upset anyone outside and if she should make a new body.
Strange sits next to Wanda and asks if he can play too. Wanda allows him and tells him that it is good to see him again. She misses their talks. Confused, Strange asks if she remembers him. Finding Strange’s question weird, Wanda tells him that he was there at the birth of her children. How did he find himself in Genosha? Strange tells Wanda that she brought them there, but Wanda asks him if she really did. Strange then reveals that he thinks she created Layla Miller to bring the heroes there. Looking at Strange for the first time since he entered, Wanda tells him that she has no idea who Layla Miller is.
Strange accepts Wanda’s word and figures that it might be true, as she has created so much lately. One of the boys tells Strange that building things is what mommies do, as Wanda pinches the boy’s cheek tenderly, repeating her child’s words. Continuing with his interrogation, Strange asks Wanda if she created her father as well. He heard rumors of his death last year and his puzzling rebirth before all or reality was shifted. Strange wonders if that was Wanda’s doing as well. How long has she been playing with the world? Wanda snaps two pieces together and tells Strange that he is full of questions and she cannot say if she understands them.
One of the twins shows impatience with Strange and tells him that play time is no time for talk. Strange apologizes to the prince, telling him that he has many questions but there is little time for that now. Why, asks Wanda; they have all the time in the world. Strange tells her that he is concerned for the safety of their friends, which catches Wanda’s undivided attention. Strange motions to the wall and tells her that their friends are fighting over her and over her father outside. Wanda turns to the wall and uses her powers to pull the wall apart, puzzle piece by piece, much like how her body outside fell apart. She then sees all the chaos occurring outside her tower.
Deeply saddened, Wanda tells Strange that no one should be fighting. She then closes up the wall. One of the twins asks his mother if she is sad. Wanda tells him that he purpose of this all was so that there would be no more fighting. However, no matter what she does there will always be fighting. She doesn’t understand people really. The boy then reminds his mother that he said they could be happy. Strange then asks Wanda how her father did this. Where is Charles Xavier? Wanda stares at her child and tells Strange that he just wanted her to be happy. He wanted all of them to be happy. Is that what Magneto said, asks Strange.
Wanda begins to pull apart various objects in the room back into building blocks and starts to use the pieces to form one giant block. She tells Strange that it is more complicated than that. He has to understand, though, that he was trying to save her. Strange looks up to the block and sees what appears to be a memory of Wanda’s, showing Pietro arguing with his father, claiming that the Avengers and X-Men will come to kill Wanda.
In the memory, prior to the reshaping of the world, Pietro tells his father that all the heroes are meeting in New York right now to decide Wanda’s fate. They must be agreeing to kill her; why else would they meet? They will decide that there is no other way and they will come to kill his sister and Magneto’s daughter. Magnus looks at his son with sorrow in his face and tells Pietro that the heroes may be right. Pietro flips out and reminds his father he swore a duty to sister to protect her, first from Magneto and now from… her family?! They will kill her and Magnus agrees? What you would have me do, asks Magnus.
Pietro, not knowing, simply shouts that the Avengers will kill Wanda. Magnus shouts back at Pietro and asks him what he would have him do. Overcome with grief and pain, Pietro collapses at his father’s feet. Magneto takes great strides to hide his own tears and then simply leaves the dark room, with Pietro crying on the ground. Suddenly, a soft voice tells Pietro that he shouldn’t yell at Magnus like that.
Pietro turns to see Wanda awake in bed, scared and vulnerable. She tells her brother that their father doesn’t react well to yelling. Pietro holds his sister and asks if she heard them. Wanda admits she did and tells him that she knows her friends are coming. She hopes Pietro won’t be mad at her but, when they arrive, she is not going to fight them. Pietro promises to take Wanda from Genosha, but Wanda reasons that the heroes will follow. She will not go. Pietro then tells Wanda that he will fight the heroes for her. He will not let them take her away from him again. Wanda interrupts Pietro and tells him that it is over. He denies it, but Wanda reveals her true feelings to him. It should have ended months ago.
Wanda pulls back from Pietro and asks him if she is a coward for not wanting to kill herself, even though she knows she should? The siblings then embrace one more time, as both find tears falling from their eyes. Wanda tells Pietro that it will be over soon. She can feel Xavier in her head, checking up on her. She then adds to herself that she wishes she knew if any of this was real or not.
Pietro then tells Wanda that they never had a chance. Magnus chose his mutant race over them. They were just little kids and he abandoned them. Even so, they fought so hard to get out from under it all. Wanda asks her brother how it was to be, and Pietro tells her that they would have been a family. Wanda likes the idea of that and Pietro goes on to say that they were to be great heroes. Wanda adds that they were for a bit. Pietro admits that he liked being an Avenger more than he ever said. Wanda agrees that she feels the same way, but look what she did to them. She would do anything to take it back.
Pietro falls silent and clenches his eyes for a moment. He then tells Wanda that she could take it all back. Wanda pulls away once more and asks him what he means. Acting as if he has had a sudden revelation, Pietro begins to get excited and tells her that she could take it back. She could make everyone happy. Not taking Pietro seriously, Wanda tells him that she could not control her powers. Not listening to Wanda, Pietro tells her that he could help her. They could do it together. Xavier’s mind is inside hers and with her powers as they are now she could use his powers and hers together. There is nothing she could not do. In an instant they could have what they always desired. She could give it to their friends too. Magnus could have everything he dreamed of. They can finally be a family and be happy. They wouldn’t bother them anymore.
Scared, Wanda’s eyes become wide open at what her brother suggests, and she argues that she cannot do it. Pietro leans over Wanda and tells her that they became Avengers to make things for the better. She can change things permanently without the fighting right now. She could make anyone she ever loved happy. Wanda looks at her brother fearful, and Pietro, with almost a desperate, insane look in his eyes, asks her why she would be granted all this power if not for this reason. This may be what she was supposed to do. He grabs Wanda by her shoulders and desperately tells her that, if she does not do this, they will kill her and they will never be together again.
Back in the tower, the block falls back into its pieces, as Dr. Strange sits there, soaking in the revelation. It wasn’t Magneto, says Strange. It was Pietro.
One of the twins tells Strange that he is making his mother sad, but Strange ignores him and contacts Emma telepathically and asks her if she is listening.
In the Xavier memorial garden, Emma hears Strange and, knowing that he is with Wanda, asks him to ask her where Xavier is. They need to find Xavier. Layla asks Emma who she is speaking to, but Emma shushes her for the moment and asks Strange to ask Wanda.
In the tower, Wanda holds her children, as Strange asks her where Charles Xavier is. Before Wanda can answer, she convulses with pain, as there is a painful sound as if flesh was torn. Wanda’s eyes glow scarlet red and she emanates energy as she falls to the ground, motionless, with an arrow in her back, much to the horror of Strange. “Mommy?” asks one of the boys.
Back in the memorial garden, Emma sees all of this happening through Strange and is shocked herself. Layla notices something behind Emma and calls the woman’s attention to it. The girls and Cloak turn to see Magneto emerge from the foliage, charged up with magnetic energy, and asking the three who they are and why are they bothering his family. Layla freaks out, but Emma calls her attention. Lashing out in fear, Layla wakes up Magneto with her powers.
In the tower, Hawkeye steps out of the shadows with his bow and arrows, and also with a very angry look on his face. He pulls out another arrow out of his quiver. Wanda looks up from the floor, as her children try rolling her over and calls out Clint’s name. She asks why he did that. Enraged, Clint screams at Wanda, repeating her question as he cries. Is she really asking him why? Meanwhile, Wanda uses her powers to destroy the arrow, one building block at a time.
Wanda gathers her terrified children in her arms and asks Clint if he is angry with her. Strange tells Clint that now is not the time to fight, but Clint ignores him and rhetorically asks Wanda if he is mad for her killing him. Mad doesn’t seem to cover it. He was hoping that, if he couldn’t at least kill her for all the stuff she has done, he could at least snap her out of her crazy. More tears fall from his eyes and he tells her that they were teammates and friends. He truly loved her and would have killed for her. Touched, Wanda tells Clint that she loves him too. Angry, Clint asks again why she killed him. Why did she do this? Wanda reminds Clint that she brought him back. Clint puts his arrow in his boy and closes his eyes, telling Wanda that she doesn’t even know what she has done.
Angry, one of Wanda’s twins screams at Hawkeye and tells him to shut up. With that said, Hawkeye is blown away into hundreds of building block pieces, just like Wanda’s fake body earlier. As the candles are blown out, Wanda is left stuttering at what just happened. Strange turns to her, but the children clutch their mother, crying and telling Wanda not to be sad. Wanda tells Strange that Clint was mad at her and she was just protecting her children. Interrupting her babble, Strange tells Wanda to listen to him, but the woman begins to cry and tells him that she cannot control any of it.
Outside, someone calls out for everyone to watch out for Pietro, but it is too late as he runs around and punches Spider-Man, Wolverine, Cage, Shadowcat, Ms. Marvel, Cyclops, Moon Knight, Matt Murdock, Mystique, Black Cat, Nightcrawler, Tony Stark, Spider-Woman, Toad and Iron Fist. Before he can hit Rogue, however, a powerful voice booms for this to end, and suddenly all the heroes find themselves paralyzed.
Magneto walks down from the sky, glowing with magnetic energy and obviously very angry. He wraps everyone up in metal to keep them contained, including Pietro, who is the only who he does not levitate into the air. Screaming out to his son, he asks him what he did to the world in the name of Magneto. Crying, Pietro tells his father that he was going to let them kill her. Enraged beyond belief, Magneto tells Pietro that he used him and he used Wanda. He would never have allowed any of this.
Magneto then begins to throw chunks of metal at the incapacitated Pietro. Still screaming, Magneto tells his son that he destroyed everything and everyone… and he used his name to do it! What right did he have to do that? Magneto then finishes him off at to the horror of the heroes Magneto kills Quicksilver with the remains of the Sentinel by crushing him!
Seeing all this from the tower, the horrified and insane Scarlet Witch screams and obliterates the tower with her powers. She calls out to her brother and then descends from the sky, glowing with scarlet energy. Suddenly, Magneto finds himself incapacitated by Wanda, causing him to lose his powers temporarily. The heroes are free from the metal casings and all fall to the ground, though the Black Cat of course lands on her feet.
Calming down, Magneto tells Wanda to stop, but she simply erases his mouth. She then lands at the bloody and ravaged body of her dead brother, Pietro Maximoff, who lies in a pool of his own blood. Wanda sits at her brother’s side and puts her hand over his face. He glows with red energy and then miraculously his body is perfectly normal. Pietro is alive. The two hug.
Nearby, Cyclops asks the newly arrived Emma what they should do. Emma tells him that Wanda’s mind is a mess. One blink and she could erase the mall from existence and not even know that she is doing it. Wolverine steps forward, offering to end this, but Emma stops him and tells him to do nothing until Dr. Strange says so. Wanda is too wound up. Emma then calls out to Strange telepathically.
Wanda finally speaks up and tells Magneto, who is still held by her in the sky, that Pietro just wanted him to be happy. Magnus should look at what he did to them. Pietro was right. He did ruin them before they had a chance. Why would he treat his own children this way? They were just babies. Why?!
Wanda knows the answer, though. Magnus thinks that he is better than everyone else. He is arrogant. He thinks because they are mutants that they are better than the rest of them. He thinks because of this they deserve to rule. That is what he wanted and she gave it to him. Now look what it has become in the end. Nearby, Strange, Ms. Marvel and Kitty look on, with Kitty deeply saddened to hear Wanda’s speech.
Wanda shouts to her father that even when he gets what he wants he is still a horrible man. They are not the next step. They are not gods. They are freaks! He needs to look at them. They are freaks! They are mutants! He chose this and ruined her and Pietro.
Wanda then calms down, though still crying, and calls out to her daddy one last time. Suddenly, Emma picks up Wanda’s thoughts and immediately is scared.
“Daddy…” cries Wanda, “No more mutants.”
There is a massive white light and no time for the heroes to react at all, as Emma, Cyclops, Wolverine and the still reality-warped Storm try to stop Wanda. Strange immediately begins to cant a spell. Magneto, with his mouth back, screams at Wanda.
Wanda closes her eyes as a wind picks up that billows her elegant dress around. The ground around her and Pietro begins to rip apart, as a white light appears beneath Wanda and envelopes herself and her brother. All the debris in the area is blown away as a few of the heroes closest to Wanda try to charge her.
It is too late, though. The world burns away in a white light.


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House of M – part eight
It is morning in the glorious city of New York on the island of Manhattan. Everything is peaceful and serene. Birds fly around Stark Tower, known as Avengers Tower to the group known as the Avengers, who secretly use the upper levels as the base of their heroic operations. Elsewhere, in Westchester, the Xavier Institute is just as peacefully and quiet for now. Everything seems perfectly normal. It is just another typical day in the world.
In the Hell’s Kitchen area of New York City, the young girl known as Layla Miller sleeps in her bed with her mouth hanging open. Around her are pictures of her favorite super heroes, including Hawkeye, Moon Knight, Spider-Man, Scarlet Witch, Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk and the members of the X.S.E. Suddenly, Layla is awoken by the voice of her mother yelling at her to wake up, for she will be late to school. Layla slowly opens her eyes and sits up in bed, looking around her. She is tired and confused. Layla then goes over to her window and opens it. She sticks her head out of her bedroom in the apartment complex and then looks out at the slum that is Hell’s Kitchen. Everything seems… the way it should be?
At Avengers Tower, Peter Park is in bed in his boxers. He suddenly wakes up, and sluggishly sits up in bed. Next to the bed is his wife, Mary Jane, who sits with a cup of coffee and reads the morning newspaper. As Peter rubs his head, Mary Jane asks him if he is ok. Peter simply replies that he has a headache. Mary Jane jokes that he should not get hit on the head by big mechanical octopus arms that much anymore. Yeah, replies Peter, clearly disturbed. He then looks away from Mary Jane with sadness in his eyes. He then sulks out of the room, with Mary Jane not noticing anything amiss.
Some time later, Peter sits in the Avengers conference room in his shirt, robe, boxers and slippers, depressed and resting his head in the palm of his hand. Sitting with him are She-Hulk and Ms. Marvel, while Falcon, Luke Cage, Spider-Woman and Sentry stand around. She-Hulk asks the group what the hell that all was. One minute they were in Genosha, fighting everyone and everything… and the next thing she knows she is in her bed tucked in. Cleary confused, Falcon looks at She-Hulk and asks her where she thinks they were again. He admits his confusion and tells Jen that he was just here and then…
Cage cuts off Falcon and tells him to wait for everyone else to show up. He notices the sulking Peter and calls out the man’s name. Peter turns to Luke and asks him if he remembers. Cage replies that he does and then asks Peter if he is okay. Is Mary Jane fine? Peter looks away and tells Cage that Mary Jane doesn’t remember a thing. On the other end of the table, Sentry asks what they are all supposed to remember. Spider-Woman asks if anyone else feels like screaming, as she is confused as to what everyone is talking about as well.
Tony Stark walks into the room, wearing his armor and holding his helmet in his hand. He greets everyone and asks who called this meeting. Peter interrupts Iron Man and asks the others how they are here of all places. They were just over there and now they are here. Confused, Tony asks were “there” is. Cage asks Iron Man if he doesn’t remember either, but Tony asks Cage what he is supposed to remember. Frustrated, Peter screams in rage and smashes his fists on the table, cracking it. Tony steps forward to stop him, but Cage stops Tony and reminds him that he can always buy a new one. Peter continues to vent his anger and smashes the table one last time. He begins to cry.
Ms. Marvel gets up and stutters that everything is back to normal though… right? Isn’t everything ok now? A ragged voice replies that everything is not quite ok. All turn to see the weak and tired Dr. Strange enter, barely standing and his clothing covered in dirt.
At Xavier’s school, the serene external landscape also does well to cloak the confusion and horror that lies within the walls of the school, just like how it did for Avengers Tower. Lying in the grass of nearby the basketball court is headmistress Emma Frost, who sleeps peacefully. Suddenly, she begins to awaken and comes to. She lifts her head, covered in grass and with a nosebleed. Suddenly, she hears a horrible scream and quickly leaps to her feet. She races towards the doors of the school, as she hears a familiar voice call for help and more screams of horror. Emma swings open the doors to the school and what sight she sees before her makes her eyes open wide in fear. P>
The students of Xavier’s are all running around confused with many screaming, many crying. All are very confused as to what is going on. As a boy cries on the staircase and another boy consoles a crying girl, a girl with green skin and blonde hair looks at everyone with sadness and confusion. At the base of the staircase is Laurie Collins, also known as Wallflower among her school squad known as the New Mutants. Wind Dancer sits helpless as her best friend Sophia; a.k.a Wind Dancer lies motionless in the arms of their teacher, Kitty Pryde, a.k.a. Shadowcat. Shadowcat quickly spots Emma and screams about the students.
Cyclops and Colossus quickly rush into the room, as Shadowcat begins to babble about the last words of Wanda Maximoff. No more mutants, repeats Shadowcat over and over. Emma comes to Kitty and asks her if she is okay. Kitty replies that she is fine, but asks about Sophia. Emma informs Kitty that Wind Dancer merely fainted. Wallflower, who is crying, asks Emma if Sophia will be alright. Emma tells the young girl that of course Sophia will be fine. She only fainted. Everyone and everything is fine. Emma’s disillusion is swept away when Laurie tells Emma that Sophia lost her powers!
Nightcrawler enters the room and Cyclops asks him if he is ok. Nightcrawler is confused and asks how they are here when they were just over there? Confused, Colossus asks Nightcrawler where he was. No more mutants, repeats the crying Shadowcat. Cyclops informs the others that he still has his powers, but then suddenly remembers about Wolverine. Understanding, Nightcrawler continues the thought and realizes that if he lost his abilities like Wind Dancer, then the adamantium will kill him. Scott doesn’t even have to complete an order to Kurt to find Wolverine before Nightcrawler teleports away to find him.
Nightcrawler first teleports to Logan’s bedroom but finds the bed empty save a few empty beer cans. He then teleports to the Danger Room, but no one is there either. Next, he then teleports to the basketball court where he looks around and then finally spots Logan lying in the grass under the X-Jet. Worried, he teleports to Logan’s side and is about to lift him up. Logan suddenly darts up into a sitting position with his eyes open wide.
“I remember,” states Wolverine, “My whole life…I remember all of it.”
Back in the school, all the students turn to Emma and ask what is going on with them. What happened to their powers? Some students ask to call their parents. Others ask if they are being punished for being bad. As Shadowcat comforts the crying Tag, who has also lost his powers, Emma runs away towards the Cerebra chamber, with Cyclops and newly arrived Beast behind her.
Emma frantically reaches the chamber and Cerebra asks for voice identification. Emma states her name and then strides towards Cerebra, where she puts on the helmet. Emma then closes her eyes and concentrates, praying against what she thinks she will find. Tears escape Emma’s eyes and she realizes the horrible realization of what has happened.
Emma then pulls up a fiery red image of the globe. Confused, Cyclops begins to ask Emma if what she is showing them what he thinks it is, but Emma stops him. She explains that Cerebra was created to locate mutant activity all over the world. Annoyed, Cyclops reminds Emma that he has been in the mansion since he was fourteen. He knows what Cerebra does. Emma interrupts him again and tells him that Cerebra is on full power! This right now… the few tiny dots they see scattered around the globe… these are all the mutants on the planet!
Cyclops and Beast are left in awe as an image of Australia appears before them, with only five dots on the landscape. Beast speaks up, saying that there tens of thousands before. A million, maybe, continues Cyclops. Not anymore, replies the crying Emma. They are dead, Cyclops questions. No, replies Emma. Not as far as she can tell. They are just not… mutants anymore.
There is a moment of complete silence between the three, and then Emma mutters that she tried to stop Wanda. Cyclops then asks Emma where Wanda is, but Emma replies that she doesn’t see her. She doesn’t see anyone. Frantic, Beast screams at Emma to find Xavier. Emma continues to cry and hangs her head in shame.
“He’s not…” is all Emma is able to muster before she falls to silence.
Back in the halls, Nightcrawler consoles Tag, who asks if he has done something wrong as he cries. Nightcrawler tells the boy that of course he has done nothing wrong. Tag asks if his powers will come back. What happened to Sophia? Confused as well, Nightcrawler desperately turns to Shadowcat for answers, but she simply tells Nightcrawler to hold on as Tag finally asks Kurt if he is still a mutant.
Shadowcat walks over to her friend Dani Moonstar, who sits alone in the dark with her head hung low into her arms. Shadowcat bends down next to Dani and asks her normally courageous and vibrant friend if she remembers what happened yesterday. Dani does not respond, so Kitty begins to call her name. Dani finally looks up, with distress and sadness marked all over her face. When, asks Dani. With the House of M, replies Kitty. House of M, questions Dani. Kitty realizes that Dani doesn’t remember anything that has happened. Why doesn’t she remember?
Emma, Cyclops, and Beast return just in time for the frustrated Colossus to ask once more what they are all talking about. Remember what?! A boy asks Emma what they should do, while another once again asks to call his mother. Shadowcat turns to Emma with distress as well, as she realizes that more than half the school’s students no longer have powers. Emma telepathically speaks to Kitty and tells her that it is worse than that.
Colossus again asks what they are to remember, while a student asks if this is a test. The student who asked what they should do asks if the school is closing down. Not knowing what to do, Emma telepathically tells everyone to stop talking and silences them all with her powers. Emma supports herself against a wall and apologizes. She just needs to figure out what exactly is going on here. She just needs to think. Did Wanda just delete the mutant gene from everyone she could reach or… or did she merely just repress the mutation?
Sinking to desperation, Emma whispers to herself that Xavier would know. Xavier would know what all of this is. Suddenly, a voice states that he now knows that it isn’t just him. All turn to a doorway to see Bobby Drank, a.k.a Iceman, standing in his shorts, his flesh dripping wet with water as opposed to his normal recent transformation to permanent ice. Bobby jokes that he thought it was way too hot in here. So what… is that it for Iceman? Shocked, Cyclops is saddened to see that his old friend Iceman has been de-powered as well.
It is not long before the news of the mutant population being de-powered hits the news fast. Live from one station, a reporter states that information is pouring in from all over the globe. They will try to get it out to the public as fast as possible. Suddenly, the reporter receives word that the White House is about to make a statement. They are going there now.
The video feed then switches to the White House, where the press secretary speaks about the mutant epidemic. He bids good morning to all and confirms that this morning hundreds, if not thousands of mutants, as they are called in the popular vernacular, seem to have spontaneously lost that gene and the powers that come as a result.
In Avengers Tower, the Avengers, who are now joined by Wonder Man and Captain America, watch many different reports. They learn that the White House has no clue how this has happened or how widespread it is. The press secretary then goes on and states that their best scientific aides are looking over information, as well as FEMA, SHIELD, Reed Richards, and the Center for Disease Control, as well as the newly formed office for National Emergency. They will try to get information out to the public as soon as possible.
The press secretary then adds that the rumors of this dilemma being a government attack on mutants are lies and absurd. There is no anti-mutant agenda in the government or this administration. He stresses once more that there was no involvement by the US government in enacting whatever epidemic is striking mutants. A reporter asks if a mutant virus has been ruled out. The press secretary answers that nothing has been ruled out yet. Another reporter asks if there are any ideas on who is responsible, but learns that no one has stepped up to take claim yet. Another reporter asks if the UN ruled out another country with any kind of anti-mutant agenda, but the secretary replies that all the information he has right now has been given out. Yet another reporter speaks up, this time asking about the X-Men.
“Oh my god…” says Ms. Marvel as remembers about her other comrades, “…the X-Men…”
Captain America then notices the face of William Stryker, an Evangelist, on one of the monitors and asks Tony to bring up the volume. Stryker begins to speak that this incident has been foretold in scriptures for years now and the cleansing has finally begun. The abomination that is mutant kind is now seen as what it always was…a disease of their own decadence and indulgence. God’s will has been done and now it is up to man to finish the work.
Never mind, replies Captain America, who asks Tony to turn off that monitor. Iron Man turns his teammates and tells them that he does not know what to say. He has no recollection of the House of M or any of this. Neither do I, replies Captain America. Iron Man states that they believe their teammates who do remember, but they must remember that the rest of them just woke up and found themselves here dealing with all of this.
Dr. Strange rubs his head and states that it seems that those who were there at the event and under the protection of either him or Emma Frost actually remember what happened. Ain’t we lucky, states Cage. Spider-Man, who is finally dressed in costume, throws his head back and says that he is going to be sick. Captain America asks Strange if he can locate Wanda. Ms. Marvel recalls what Strange was saying earlier about tracking Wanda with her magics.
Strange’s eyes go wide open as he recalls that Ms. Marvel is talking about the map left behind when Wanda used her powers. He tried a few times to find Wanda before coming to Avengers Tower, but he cannot find any sign of her. Seeing the distress in the doctor’s face, Tony asks Strange if he is ok. Bitter, Strange tells Tony that his duties as the master of the mystic arts were simple. He had to protect the world from a magical attack like this. He failed… completely.
Speaking up, Spider-Man asks Dr. Strange if he can use some of his magic whammy to make him forget everything that has happened. That isn’t how my magic works, replies Strange. Yeah, well, replies Spider-Man, clearly disturbed… Strange has full permission to go in his head and take out the memories. Strange apologizes to Spider-Man, but he cannot. Enraged, Spider-Man leaps on the table and screams at the top of his lungs to get the memories out of his head.
Captain America stops Spider-Man, who gets off the table and apologizes. Cage speaks up and asks if they go to the press with his. Do they tell them what really happened? Iron Man asks Cage what they tell the press. He sarcastically states that they will just end up telling them to round up the rest of mutant kind before this attack can happen again. Jarvis enters the room and looks at one of the monitors. He calls Iron Man’s attention, but Tony already sees it on his armor readings. Captain America asks what is going on. Iron Man announces that there is someone at the mansion.
Soon, at the desolate ruins of Avengers Mansion, destroyed during Wanda’s initial rampage, the Avengers walk through. Captain America asks where the disturbance is and the team follows Iron Man to a wall still standing. What is this, asks the confused She-Hulk. The heroes then all gaze upon the costume of their deceased teammate Hawkeye, pinned up on the walls by arrows, with his quiver and bow on the ground beside it. As the Avengers look around at the wreckage, Captain America spots a newspaper clipping pinned by an arrow on a wall, about the death of Hawkeye. What does this mean, asks Ms. Marvel as Captain America smiles.
Some time later, at the wreckage of the nation formerly known as Genosha, a lone man walks through. Magnus walks in his tattered dirty garbs through the dust, without shoes. He steps on a fork and weakly lifts his arm towards it. The fork does not move. He tries harder to lift it wit his magnetic powers, but again it does not move. He then collapses to his knees. Suddenly, a voice behind him demands to know the location of Wanda Maximoff.
To the side of Magnus are Cyclops, Wolverine, Emma Frost, Colossus, Beast and Shadowcat. Magnus does not respond to Cyclops, so the leader of the X-Men shoots the ground before Magnus with his optic blast and once more asks where Wanda is. Magnus again does not respond. Wolverine knocks the man to the ground and pops out his claws. Magnus finally responds, stating that he does not know where Wanda is. Wolverine taunts Magneto over losing his abilities to manipulate metal. He then pops his claws in and out and states that he didn’t lose his powers.
Magnus tells Wolverine to stop. Beast asks about Xavier’s location, but Magnus does not know. Cyclops asks about Pietro’s location, but again, Magnus does not know. Where is Wanda, asks Colossus. I don’t know replies the frustrated Magnus. Emma confirms with her telepathy that Magnus is not lying. Wolverine then states that they have run out of reasons to keep Magnus on this planet.
Shadowcat then steps forward and she reminds her teammates that Magnus didn’t do any of this. Wolverine grins sadistically, agreeing. The way he sees it, Magnus deserves every last second of this crap “sapien” life. He then lets Magnus go and tells him that when they find his kids… and they will find them… The X-Men will be sure to say hi for him.
The X-Men then leave Genosha in their jet, leaving Magnus behind to lie pathetically in the dirt.
Back at one news station, before the reporter signs out, he tells his audience that they now turn to renowned scientist and adventurer Dr. Henry Pym, who joins them from their London offices. Hank Pym states that it is shocking to say these words out loud… but they may be seeing the extinction of a species. As of right now they have no clue how it happened. He doesn’t think any person of science will rest until they figure out how it happened and what was responsible. Not only has the mutant population been devastated, and his heart does break for his mutant brothers and sisters, but people should think as well about the effect on their ecosystem.
As Hank Pym continues to speak, elsewhere in a remote eastern European village, a beautiful young woman with green eyes walks through a market wearing a red cloak and smiles at the villagers as she shops. A man greets her and she greets him back as she continues her way happily enjoying her life. Wanda Maximoff may have finally found peace and happiness.
Hank Pym continues his concerns about the ecosystem, explaining that the way their world reacts to their existence has now changed. Their planet may not be ready to handle the sudden changes that have been put upon us and it. People need to think about this. How many people are they talking about; tens of thousands of mutants or hundreds of thousands? Of all those people how many could actually control energy, or entire energy fields, or how many produced energy sources? How many mutants wielded any number of elements that affect their atmosphere or the magnetic fields that hold their planet’s weather systems in place? These questions are just off the top of his head.
All that energy, the energy of thousands of mutants, well… it can’t just have disappeared. What Pym is asking is… where did it all go? It is Sir Isaac Newton’s third law of physics, which everyone knows: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
“So I’m asking,” says Pym, “What will be the reaction?”
Meanwhile, in space, as a large shadow falls over one side of the Earth, a massive burst of energy appears just over the horizon…