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Chicago:A College library:The young X-Men are battling the Ghosts of Cyclops. Wakey wakey,eggs and bakey! Iceman sings as he shakes Cyclops awake. Some silly thing his mother used to say before she yanked the cover off him. Don’t get his hopes up, though. He doesn’t have any actual eggs and bacon. Neither had his mother, he mutters.
Confused, Scott asks what happened and where are they. Believe it or not, they are at the library. About to throw down with those misguided cosplayers of his. The Ghosts of Cyclops, Scott sighs, Long story. Can’t wait to hear it, Bobby replies sarcastically. Cyclops tells him this isn’t their problem. They shouldn’t even be here.
Is Thirst ready? the monstrous Ghost asks the water-spouting one. He’s all over it, comes the reply. Thirst spouts a water wave at the X-Men, which Iceman easily freezes, mocking that his name starts with ice. What did Thirst think would happen?
Angel flies up with Wolverine, who announces this is a diversion. The Ghosts are running. The Ghosts break through wall outside. The tall one cries for Thirst to come. He’s right behind them! Thirst shouts. Cyclops tackles him and announces, he is staying put! Angel and Wolverine fly after the others.
Scott begins to hit Thirst, even grabbing a baseball bat, but Beast shouts at him to stop. Scott replies he isn’t interested in his smart kid sage advice. This is between them. Again Hank orders him to stop. Why? Scott demands. Because the police are here, Hank points out.
One Cop orders Scott to drop the weapon. He complies. While Scott is being handcuffed, Beast tries to explain that their friend was jumped by a gang of six people. They beat him unconscious. A gang of six mutants? the cop asks. Hank continues that Scott went a bit overboard with the violence but do they intend to arrest a man for helping to apprehend his attackers?
Scott orders him to leave it alone. He assaulted Thirst. She’s doing her job. It’s none of his business anyway. Hank asks the cop to be reasonable. Angrily, she points out his buddy blasted a big hole into the roof. The way things are going, she could haul every mutant in here to the station. There’s not a judge who would bat an eye. Hank sighs. Calmer, she explains that, when there is a fight, they take both parties in to cool off. If his buddy is as innocent as he says, that’s all it will be. Either way, they’ll be able to pick him up in the morning. They leave.
What now? Iceman asks. Short of a jailbreak, there isn’t much they can do about Scott, Hank decides, not until tomorrow.
Hank decides they’ll take Pickles, who is currently yawning for some Pizza. How is that a priority? Evan asks. Hank reminds him teleportation takes fuel. After that cross-country jump, the little guy is running on empty. And judging by the frantic thumb typing going on – Hank refers to the students and their cell phones – he’s guessing the internet has heard all about teenage Cyclops. By tomorrow morning, when Scott gets out of jail, the place will be a zoo. They need this Bamf fed, rested and ready to roll.
He likes any plan that starts with deep dish, Bobby decides. Idie asks what about the nerd wagon that stands in the middle of the library. Hank orders Idie and Evan to take care of that. They’ll save them a few slices, Bobby promises. Cool? Not cool! Idie and Evan chorus.
Chicago Police department station #7:Currently behind bars are Scott and Austin Deprez aka Thirst. Thirst rants about the cops’ stupidity. There is no special anti-mutant tech here. He could probably take down these walls with one big mouth wave. ‘Course, there’d be nowhere for the water to drain and they’d probably both drown. Him, though, with those big bad eye cannons, he could blast them out of here in a hurry. Not gonna happen though, huh? What’s his deal anyway? Is he Cyclops’ kid? Some kind of baby-faced clone…?
Scott doesn’t reply. None of his business then… cool. It doesn’t make much sense him coming after the Ghosts. This isn’t about disrespecting his dad. The total opposite. They’re all about Cyclops. Dude stood up and told it like it is. Mutants have been beaten down and screwed over long enough. This Cyclops mask—
Makes him look like a self-righteous mass-murdering psychopath? Scott finally shouts. He hates to break it to him, but his hero was a &%$# super villain!
It ain’t like that, Thirst replies. It’s exactly like that! Scott insists. He and his friends aren’t cool freedom fighting outlaws. They’re a gang of stupid kids who dress up like a monster to scare people and steal toys. Nobody’s impressed.
Where does he get off judging them? Thirst demands. Did famous Cyclops daddy not hug him enough, so now—
Scott calls him an idiot. Cyclops wasn’t his dad. He is Cyclops!
Elsewhere, Hank has bought some clothes for Bobby, who assures him he could have paid himself. Hank asks him to show him some dollars, a debit card, anything. Prove to him he has American currency on his person. He has money, Bobby repeats. He just forgot to put some in his costume, same as always.
They enter a pizza place and Hank sighs who cares. What are they doing? This is ridiculous. He keeps trying to have a real conversation with his motormouth best friend who usually tells him everything. Instead, he gets nonsense jokes. That’s what they do, Bobby replies not understanding. That’s how they talk.
Hank would like to know what’s going on with him. Bobby assures him he’s fine. Pickles sits in Hank’s backpack and spies the pizza slice on a man’s plate nearby.
Hank continues he’d love to hear how it’s going with the whole— Bobby orders him to stop it. Can they please order some friggin’ pizza already! He’s just trying to— Hank begins. Yeah, and he’s trying not to, Bobby shoots back. Should be obvious to the genius. That moment, Pickles teleports out of the back pack, teleports to the table and stuffs his face with pizza.
A car park:Angel and Wolverine are outside eavesdropping on the other Ghosts of Cyclops, who talk about Thirst getting himself arrested. They don’t have to take this from a bunch of human cops, one of them rants.
No wonder Scott went after these guys, Angel whispers.
The black girl orders the speaker to relax and reminds him that the X-Men were also involved. The others believe those were just X-students. One of them adds there was a Cyclops among them. The others insist Cyclops is dead. The African-American girl points out that according to X-fan theories teenage doppelgangers of the original X-Men have been running around since last year. The bald girl asks for pics and the blond guys asks if she Snopes it. Jeremy tells them screw them. He intends to get his hands dirty.
Laura attacks, despite Angel’s protests, sure of herself. She unsheathes her claws and rips apart their car. Jeremy hulks into his superstrong form and threatens to kill her. No he won’t, Angel replies and joins the fight.
Planning to use these firebugs? an amused Wolverine asks the big guy with the glowing hand, or does that just happen when he gets real nervous? He fires at her and she just laughs it off, much to the Ghosts’ distress. He still looks nervous to her!
Angel drags the burning Laura out and douses her in a river. What the hell?! she snaps. He points out she was on fire. She smells like meat right now! Flaming Wolverine is even scarier than normal Wolverine! she shoots back. She had that fight won. She didn’t need help. She doesn’t ever need help!
In the meantime, the Ghosts get away in a car.
Outside the library, Idie announces she doesn’t see the problem. Hank wanted the nerd wagon out of the library, and now it is. Looking after the truck towing away the nerd wagon, Evan is not so sure. Idie remarks, if Hank McCoy wanted that crap job done differently, maybe he should have done it himself. A notion he’s sure Hank will ponder while trying to get his car from the impound, Evan sighs. She guesses, Idie grins.
They join the others at the pizza place and see Pickles stuffing himself with pizza and downing a mug of beer. Hank tries to grab him but he teleports out of his reach. In hindsight, perhaps they should have brought the pizza to Pickles…
In jail, Scott tells Thirst his story. He and his teammates were yanked through time to this godawful nightmare future, hoping they could convince his older self to turn things around. But there was no convincing that guy of anything. He grows up to be a real close-minded piece of work. A teeth-grinding control freak obsessive. Nobody understands his plan but him. Nobody can fix the world but him. He’s got it all figured out and will burn Xavier’s dream to the ground to prove it. So, instead of saving future, Cyclops they watched him ruin everything. His obsession grew and grew while things just kept getting worse. Then the Terrigen cloud happened and Cyclops just completely lost his mind.
And now here he is, trapped in this sad broken world. Knowing full well that he’s the one who broke it. Even though he’s not that guy… yet. And what can he do? What can he change about any of it? Nothing! Can he change his future? What future? His future already happened here! Cyclops already grew up and went crazy. He already broke everything they tried to build. This world hates mutants more than ever. Because of Cyclops. Because of him! Every time he users his powers people see him, so he doesn’t use them. When his friends look at him they see him. So he stays away. He’s doing everything he can think of to be somebody else. Anybody else. But no matter what he does he gets to be him when he grows up. Even if he can dodge the psycho bullet and change his destiny, he’s still stuck with that creep’s legacy. Because, unlike Thirst and his dumbass friends, his Cyclops mask doesn’t come off!
The cell wall is blasted and the other Ghosts of Cyclops enter. Cyclops might be dead and gone, but his Ghosts linger on!


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The young X-Men, Beast, Iceman, Oya and Genesis leave the pizza parlor with the sated Bamf Pickles, who caused a commotion. Idie reminisces that Logan used to say there are two ways to capture a Bamf… chocolate or whiskey. “And the filthy little gremlins aren’t getting any whiskey,” Evan continues the quote. Potato chips always worked before, Hank remarks regretfully. Before he took him into a building full of pizza and beer? Idie laughs. Hank gives up. At least Pickles is good and fed now. Should make for a swift exit, as soon as they get Scott out of jail. Can he assume Idie and Evan got the nerd wagon squared away? He asks. He can assume anything he likes, Idie replies evasively and smirks. Suddenly, police cars drive past them at top speed, sirens howling.
Not surprising, since the Ghosts of Cyclops just broke into jail into the cell of their teammate and, unfortunately, also young Scott Summers who asks if they are &%$§ brain-dead. The thieving Cyclops fan club was stupid enough.
Some of the Ghosts agree as other teammates attacked cops. Pillar, one of the strong guys, has no problem with that and Scott gets into his face. Pillar is about to get into a fight with him but Thirst tells him to let it go. That’s not the Cyclops they are looking for. Let’s go!
Scott pointedly returns to the cell. He tells the two female Ghosts this doesn’t have to go any further. They can stay in here with him, where it’s safe. The one girl is about to agree. The other tells her they can’t and orders her to come.
The Ghosts run down the stairs and toward the emergency exit. They head out to see hordes of heavily armed cops, who order them to put their hands where they can see them. Quickly, they head inside again.
The swat teams discuss what to do, agreeing on this going to get ugly.
Hidden nearby, the X-Men watch these events, concerned. Angel takes the blame. Laura had the creeps pinned down in a parking garage, but he screwed up and let them get away. Laura observes that they call themselves the Ghosts of Cyclops. They must have come here straight from the garage. By the time she and Angel caught up, this was happening. She offers to go in there to handle this solo.
Hank whispers something to Pickles, who teleports way. He is confident she could do this, he assures Laura. But he asks her to hold off. The thing is a powder keg. Let’s not light any fuses unless they absolutely must.
Inside the police station, the Ghosts are panicking and turning on each other, as one of the girls blames Thirst for this mess. He defends himself that nobody could expect the cops to move that fast. He knew, Cyclops points out from the corner and is told to shut up. The kids are about to freak out. Tarpit suggests they flee by Juice flying them. She points out she can’t carry five people. And the police have helicopters.
Thirst figures they can use the cops as hostages, managing to get Uppercut mad again. They know nothing about hostages or leverage that didn’t come from a movie. The two girls decide to turn themselves in.
Scott explains it doesn’t work like that. When those people see them, they don’t see kids or college students. They see mutant terrorists.
Thirst unlashes a wave of water that knocks Scott off his feet. He calls him a cowardly, know-it-all, pile of crap. Undeterred, Scott continues the cops will see dangerous criminals. If they go outside, they’ll put them down on live TV.
Angrily, Thirst tries violence to get Scott to shut up but Scott continues undeterred, noting that, if they want to survive this, they need to lie face down on the floor with their hands behind their backs. Cool plan, Thirst mocks. He do that. But they are the Ghosts of Cyclops. And Cyclops wouldn’t do face down on the floor. Cyclops would go out here and fight every time. He and the other Ghosts seem agreed on that. Yeah, Scott points out bitterly. That’s why Cyclops is dead! He hears a bamfing noise and discovers it is Pickles, who hands Scott his visor.
Outside, the SWAT team is getting ready to storm the station when, suddenly, the X-Men literally jump over them. Iceman assures them they are trying to help, while begging them not to shoot.
Why didn’t anybody shoot him? someone asks after he has created an icewall to separate them from the station.
The Ghosts get ready to head outside, itching for a fight. Instead, the X-Men come in and attack. The huge Ghost shouts for help, as he is being chased by Iceman and melts his iceslide. Oya turns his flames into ice, getting Iceman’s attention. He becomes jealous when he hears she has both heat and colds powers, by temperature reversal. Angrily, he shouts he is not even the teenage ice guy any longer while icing up Thirst’s water attack. Oya assures him he can still be the ice guy and suggests teamwork. She turns the frozen water into fire causing Thirst to run away in a panic.
The smaller girl gives up to Evan, figuring her team has no chance against the X-Men and she doesn’t feel like getting her butt kicked by a tiny Apocalypse.
When the cops come in, the X-Men immediately follow their orders. The other Ghosts look to Thirst for what to do. He announces they don’t surrender. Beast tells him not to be stupid. The big guy hits Hank and the girls ask the cops to not shoot. He didn’t mean it.
The cops repeat their orders for them to get on the ground. Who are they to give them orders? Thirst rages. He could drown everyone here with a thought!
Hearing this, a cop gives the order to take them down, but an optic blast hits his gun. Young Cyclops has fired at it while remaining inside, standing in the darkened entrance. He knows what this looks like. And he knows the last thing everyone wants to do after everything is listen to Cyclops give another speech. He steps out. Himself included. Public speaking makes his palms sweat. He’s not that other Cyclops. He didn’t do what he did. And neither did these Ghosts of Cyclops. They are just dumb kids. He points to his team. They are just dumb kids. Trying to figure out how to be mutants in a post-Cyclops world. They’ve made mistakes obviously and they should be held accountable, but making mistakes while mutant shouldn’t earn someone a bullet. It doesn’t have to start a war. He doesn’t know what these kids will learn from this or what will change. Maybe nothing but he knows he wants to give them the chance. As for him, he’s done hiding out. No more pretending. Cyclops has been a dirty word far too long. Time to win it back.
Later:Bobby, Hank and Scott are watching the end of the speech on Bobby’s cell phone. 600 000 views already, he remarks. Impressive. He hates the internet! Scott groans. The future is now, Hank reminds him. He guesses so, Scott chuckles as their impounded car is brought to them. While Hank takes care of the very high bill, Scott thanks them for coming back for him, for the visor and everything.
That was pretty much all Hank, Bobby assures him. The rest of them would have left him for dead. Scott thanks Hank, who claims in embarrassment that Bobby was just joking. That’s what Bobby does when he’s honest, Scott replies. He jokes. They decide to get the others. They have six hours to get out of Illinois before legal charges will be filed.
Meanwhile in a bar:A TV shows the news about the young X-Men and Cyclops. A drunk patron destroys the TV set with his prehensile tongue. Scott Summers must die! the Toad vows.


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Tokyo, a hostage situation in a high rise, as the people are threatened by gangsters in demon masks. Outside, Angel flies himself and Wolverine close. She tries to find out what is wrong with him but he refuses to answer, assuring her he is fine. She figures he doesn’t want to work on this case. He’s worried. Why would he be worried? Angel asks sarcastically. His girlfriend is the best there is at what she does. He’s about to watch her prove it. Again. Damn right, Laura chuckles. Now tell her he loves her and let’s do this thing! He tosses her against the window, reminding her she knows he loves her.
Did they hear that? Wolverine asks as she crashes through the window. They are in love! The men fire their guns at her and Warren is horrified, even though he knows that Laura heals quickly. She unsheathes her claws and attacks. That really hurt, she grins.
Later, the crisis over, cops are arresting the criminals and paramedics take care of the hostages. Beast explains to an audience (in fluent Japanese) that he has written an algorithm that reads and processes probable threats by scanning international news and weather patterns. Then it’s just a matter of scanning the data and determining where the X-Men are needed most.
Standing a bit aside with Oya, Genesis figures Hank is talking about his danger tracker again. Idie asks if he speaks Japanese. No, but he is holding that scanner thing and everyone looks confused. She agrees and suggests they talk to him about Twitter. Seeing some schoolgirls go crazy about Cyclops, Idie marvels that people seem to be crazy about X-Men here. Just them, Evan explains. Scott’s police station video went viral. People love them. “Road tripping throwback X-Men lead by example!” Front page of yesterday’s Washington Post, he clarifies. Idie is amazed they still print newspapers.
The girls ask Cyclops to sign some autographs and argue whether or not he is the real Cyclops. One girl clarifies he is not the evil Cyclops who died in the Terrigen but the hero from the internet. Being asked to sign autographs is a new situation for Scott and he doesn’t know what to do, much to Iceman’s amusement.
Wolverine tweezes out the bullet in front of a fascinated and repulsed crowd, not to mention a sullen Angel. Is he enjoying the circus as much as he is? Cyclops asks. Not loving it, Warren admits. Will Laura mind him stealing Warren away for some hole-in-the-wall Ramen? Warren bitterly doubts she’d even notice. Hank calls after them not to go too far. They’ll leave as soon as Pickles is fed.
European Union’s exceptionally rare and exotic zoological park, Outside Paris, France:
The Blob walks into the cage of a strange monster, goading it to attack him. He kills it grinning:  sometimes you eat, sometimes you get eaten…
Sequoia National Forest, California:Pickles teleports the X-Men to the burning forest. Hank is disappointed they arrived so late. The incident tracker should have alerted them hours ago. Iceman asks Oya if she can snuff a fire that big. She figures so, but is afraid there might still be someone in there.
Two coughing firemen come from the flames, groaning she is still trapped. On it, Wolverine volunteers over Angels’ protest. “BRB,” she announces and heads into the flames. Why does she always do that? he exclaims. Because she can, Hank replies. They should count themselves lucky to have a Wolverine on the team. Yeah, lucky, Angel echoes half-hearted.
Moments later, Laura returns carrying the missing firefighter in a protection suit. She orders Oya to snuff it. Idie absorbs the flames, in effect freezing the fire.
The Firefighters marvel at what Laura did. And he was worried, Cyclops tells Angel. His girlfriend sets herself on fire, he replies somberly. Like, on the regular!
Later:Hurricane Roxy:Koh Phi Phi Islands, Thailand:The X-Men help evacuate people caught in the storm but they are running out of high ground and shelter. Iceman protects them all with a huge ice bubble. He is getting icier all the time, he observes. An anxious Angel asks where Laura is. At that moment, claws dig an entrance into the ice bubble. Wolverine stayed behind to save a dog. What’s the matter with him? she asks Warren. He… just… He just what? she presses. He sighs and replies he’s good. The dog begins to lick Warren’s face and Laura jokes that puppy love melts the grumps away.
Later, they celebrate at the beach bar and Eva asks Hank what the next destination is. Paris? Hank hesitates then agrees. Evan shows him the news on his cell. Looks like some creep is poaching exotic animals. It’s trending on Twitter.
At the bar, a young man tries to flirt with Bobby and asks him to show him how that icestuff works. In response, Bobby freezes his tray of drinks before realizing this was not the best way.
Paris, France, that night:Laura and Warren are in the streets. 45 minutes in line for hors d’oeuvres, she complains. Is that what he meant when he said they’d go on patrol? He explains those minutes were an investment in their future. An evening which begins with croquette de jambon never ends badly. She laughs and calls him ridiculous.
More seriously, he wants to talk with her about her badass, head-first-never-needs-saving thing. He knows she can survive a lot. Healing factor is one thing, but lately it’s like how hardcore can Laura hurt herself. This is who she is, she retorts. This is what she does. Says who? he asks. This is a team sport. And it’s her role on the team to take the risks, she retorts. To swallow the bullets and burns so nobody else has to. She’s the one who won’t get hurt.
Stop saying that! he shouts. She has everybody else convinced she is invincible. But that’s crap! Just because he face grows back, doesn’t mean—
She orders him to stop talking. Taking this the wrong way, he asks if she cares so little about what he thinks… Interrupting again, Laura tells him she is happy to listen - later. But right now, can they deal with that? She points at a restaurant behind him, out of which a panicking group is running.
Inside is the Blob and the chef, who is supposed to prepare the animal the Blob has killed. The Blob informs him he is willing to pay handsomely for a delightful meal. But he has high expectations and a refined palate. Disappointing him would be a bad idea.
Angel and Wolverine peek inside the restaurant and Angel wonders how much it cost to have that Dolce and Gabbana suit made for his size. Dude used to run around in a strongman singlet. Not a good look. Laura asks if he actually cares about these things or is just trying to annoy her.
Warren suggests they call the team. Not necessary, she replies and unsheathes he claws. She’s got this. Warren sighs. This is exactly what he’s talking about. They are a team! She doesn’t have to take on everything by herself. Not everything, she agrees before jumping inside, but this is a fat bully in overprized clothes and she is the #*&% Wolverine!
The Blob catches her head in mid-jump with amazing speed and smashes her into the ground head-first. Body-shaming and a sloppy, off-balance attack? He mocks Wolverine was better than that.
Angel flies in, ordering him to leave her alone. Blob hits him with the body of the dead animal and points out she was attacking him.
Laura has gotten her second wind. Trapped beneath the animal corpse, Angel shouts at her to get the others. Angrily, she attacks instead. Blob kicks her head into the ground and remarks at least she got something in common with the real Wolverine, as he keeps on hitting her. That guy didn’t know to stay down either.
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A restaurant in Paris, France:With a grin, the Blob wipes Laura Kinney’s blood off his hands. Wolverine? he mocks. Not even close, sweetheart. Here’s hoping they threw in a side of healing factor with those claws. Now about that dinner… He looks at the dead animal, to find Angel is still trapped underneath.
He frees him and goads Angel to show him what he’s got. Angel’s firewings flare. Unimpressed, the Blob describes them as ‘real pretty’ and mocks him when he runs to Lara’s unmoving body. Screw it, the Blob decides. He’ll eat somewhere else.
Angel sinks down horrified as he looks at Laura’s injuries. Anyone else would be dead. This is what dead looks like. He takes her hand.
Not far away, Beast follows a trail from newsfeeds on his tablet, fascinated and jealous of technology that seems to have passed him by. Unfortunately, he runs straight into the Blob’s fists. Slugging the animal carcass around, the Blob shouts will those teenybopper X-Men just let him #*+%& eat?!
Notre Dame:Clearly resentful, Idie walks inside the cathedral, addressing God. She didn’t expect to be back so soon either. She freezes the devotional candles as she walks past them. But she just saw him up here now and decided, to hell with it. They need to talk! She looks at the Pieta in front of her.
At a kiosk, Cyclops wants to buy a soccer ball, noticing too late that it is ridiculously overpriced. He doesn’t see the figure in the shadows stalking him. Nevertheless, he buys the ball, figuring the two vendors are laughing at him.
He loses the ball that rolls into a dark alleyway. Smooth, he sighs.
A moment later, someone says ‘catch’ and the ball is thrown back at him from the dark. The words ‘let’s play’ are written on the ball. Scott asks who’s there. Come and see, the other person goads him.
That moment, an enraged Blob breaks through the wall with Beast trying to stop him. The stranger forgotten, Cyclops runs after them.
In the café, Angel watches nauseated how Laura’s bones reset themselves and she heals violently.
In a shoe store, Bobby is awkwardly flirting with the clerk, or rather being flirted at. Bobby excuses himself, claiming he has work that night. Evan intervenes, promising he can cover Bobby’s shift. The clerk gives him his number. Clearly uncomfortable, Bobby excuses himself that he’d like to get some streets crepes.
When Evan follows after purchasing some sneakers, he is surprised that Bobby actually got crepes. So he guesses they are pretending his weird freakout back there didn’t happen. He offers they can talk about it but Bobby doesn’t want to. Evan points out he was cloned from a more or less immortal fascist god king, whose genocide obsession runs so deep he renamed himself Apocalypse. And that fact never ever comes up. The X-Men accepted him from the start. Does Bobby really think Evan is judging him for flirting with some guy? He doesn’t know, Bobby shrugs. Until this conversation he’d have described Evan as “that smiley guy standing in the corner.”
Eating crepes and walking, they talk. What about Hank? Evan asks. He’s seen Bobby push him away lately. Is Hank the type of guy who--? No! Bobby replies forcefully. He’s not stupid. He knows Hank’s not a homophobe. Of course, he knows that.
Evan wants to know the problem. Bobby explains Hank is like his big brother. And he’s this mess right now. He doesn’t want to put this on him. He just wants to be Hank and Bobby like always. He thinks people are telling him it’s not a big deal. Whatever. But it is a big deal for him. It’s a huge frikkin’ deal -- Look at old Iceman. There’s a grown-up version of him who kept that secret for years! He never told anyone! That’s scary. That’s sad! He doesn’t want that.
Evan apologizes for interrupting but, at that moment, the Arc de Triomphe falls victim to the Blob, Cyclops, Beast and several policemen. The two join the action.
Inside Notre Dame:Idie rants this is what it always comes down to: God is good. God is love. God is righteous. Unless you happen to be different. In which case, God is vengeful. Because different is somehow evil to him. Mutants are demons made flesh, right? That’s what she was taught and believed. That’s why she hated herself for so long. Because of him. But she isn’t evil. Her friends aren’t either. They are good people.
That moment, Iceman is hit into the church through one of its window. Weird people, Idie amends. But whose fault is that? She doesn’t hate herself anymore. Not most days. But she doesn’t know how much of God she keeps. Can she hold on to the loving God who taught her how to be good and pretend the vengeful jerk doesn’t exist? Or does it really have to be all or nothing? Grimly, she suggests he think on it then get back to her. They have to go deal with whatever nonsense it is he has put outside.
As they leave on Iceman’s iceslide, he asks if she talks to God a lot. She used to. Now she mostly yells. Outside, their friends try to stop a raging Blob.
In the café, Wolverine awakes and asks what happened. The Blob happened. Angel reminds her. Right, she remembers and admits she played that all wrong. Where did he go? Refusing to meet her eyes, Warren explains he left right after he killed her. No one killed her, she smiles. Obviously, he replies. He can’t do this anymore. He wants to break up…


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Paris:Idie Okonkwo aka Oya stands outside the famous cathedral Notre Dame telling herself this is dumb. Why does she still care so much? It’s just a building! They cleared it out. There’s no one even in there. Addressing God, she announces he probably thinks that is hilarious, doesn’t he? She berates herself that she should be helping her friends win the fight. Instead, she’s worrying over some gaudy French church.
She turns around. Cyclops, Beast, Iceman and Genesis are battling an enraged Blob. Idie shouts at Iceman that they need to stop the Blob right now. Sarcastically, he replies he thought they’d just toy with him for a while. Seeing how smoothly the fight’s gone up until now.
Why can’t everything be simple? he wonders to himself. Cracking wise. Roughing up Brotherhood trash with the guys.
The Blob shatters his iceslide. Bobby freezes him. Just as he thinks he’s good at this stuff a blow by the Blob gets him. However, he falls on the icy ground and slides towards the cathedral, much to Idie’s displeasure.
She begins to manipulate temperature and the Blob warns her that she does not want to burn him. Instead, she adds to the iceslide, making sure he misses the church as he slides upward. Addressing God, she announces she hopes he appreciates that.
Cyclops silently admires Idie’s chops but decides they are going about this all wrong by fighting as individuals. Nobody is winning on their own. This is a different Blob than back then. He’s a real threat now. Scott tries to think of a strategy when he is run down from behind by a car.
Genesis sees what happened and hurries to Scott’s side. He hesitates when the driver gets out and he recognizes him as Toad. The Toad apologizes, grabs Evan with his tongue and tosses him as far away as possible. Wrong place, wrong time he announces. This is bigger than both of them.
Not far away, Blob beats Beast and mocks him. Beast feels this fight has significance. More evidence the world has truly passed him by. Blob mocks that there isn’t much about him that’s beastly. Just a babyface who’s no match at all for a full grown Blob. He hits him and they land in an electronics store.
He tackles Beast, who wonders if the Blob is right. He compares himself to the older Hank McCoy and the experience he is missing. As he is being pummeled, he wonders if he is doomed to live a life of wasted potential, his supposedly brilliant mind routinely outpaced by cell phone applications and handheld gadgetry designed for children.
Across town, Wolverine berates herself for her actions leading to Angel breaking up with her. She orders herself to focus. The Blob beat her because she came at him straight on, expecting a slow brute. This man is as quick as he is strong. Deceptively agile. She has to take that away if she wants to beat him. Shatter a knee or sever an Achilles tendon. But that weird skin is so thick. Could always just stab him through the eye, but that might kill him.
She sighs. Warren talks to her for weeks about her getting hurt. And now he dumps her? Give her a bullet to the face next time. At least she knows how to heal from that.
She dodges Angel’s firewings as he flies past her at high speed.
In the ruins Oya, faces an angry Blob and tries to appeal to his sense of fairness. Her powers don’t work like people think. She needs fire to make ice and vice versa. Right now, he is looking at a fistfight with a hundred pound girl. He was looking at a gourmet dinner, he replies. Five or six courses. Exotic meats prepared by one of the best!
Idie silently prays, reminding God she just saved his cathedral.
The Blob tells her they insisted on throwing down. Now getting so late, no place will be open. He’ll be lucky to find half decent take-out! he shouts.
When Blob is about to hit her, Idie finds her prayers answered by an Angel with flaming wings no less. Warren hits the Blob and Idie figures as religious signs go that one’s pretty solid.
Warren attacks the Blob while thinking about his relationship to Laura. Angrily, he figures this time he can play the one man band. Laura isn’t fooling him - he knows she can be hurt. When they first met, she slept sitting up in the corner with the lights on. Is he just supposed to forget that?
His train of thought is interrupted when the Blob just slaps him aside. He grabs Angel and squeezes, then throws him against the wall. He gets ready to stomp him. Warren grabs a bit of rubble with a piece of wire protruding and rams it into the Blob’s eye.
He figures he does understand the darkness. There’s darkness in him too. More and more every day. But, unlike her, he chooses to keep that $%&§ in check.
Mindless with rage, the Blob runs at him. Warren’s firewings flare as he rises up into the air. He swoops downward at the Blob and with his flames takes him out, much to everyone’s astonishment.
Laura is shocked to see him cut loose. That was -- she begins. He sharply cuts her off. That was what? Stupid? Reckless? Embarrassing? He makes it clear he is not interested in her thoughts as he announces he’s gonna go lie down somewhere.
Iceman creates an ice cage around the Blob and suggests if he wakes up before the cops come Oya can barbecue his ugly butt. Changing the subject, he asks what it feels like to go from being super duper gonzo Catholic to being not. She laughs, then admits she’s still very Catholic. Uncomfortably Catholic sometimes. He admits he overheard her screaming at God in the cathedral before. Idie explains she’s angry and confused and conflicted. But she still believes in God. If she didn’t, how could she be so mad at him? Her faith doesn’t completely define her. Not like it used to. Everything about it is harder now, more complicated. And she has no idea how she’ll ever reconcile all the contradictions. But she’s working on it. Maybe that’s good enough.
Genesis climbs up from the river and Bobby tells him what he missed. Evan asks where Scott is. They admit they got split up. Evan shouts he ran him over with a cab. Toad! He was super drunk but he looked like he wanted to. What the hell is he talking about? Idie demands. Scott is in trouble! Evan replies. In bad, serious trouble!
And in the catacombs of Paris (closed for the next nine hours), Scott Summers is tied up. All those skulls used to be somebody, the Toad drunkenly mumbles. Used to matter. Now they are just bricks in a wall. He glares at Scott. One life, one death. Don’t matter so much in the end...


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Paris, France:After the battle with the Blob, the X-Men present – Beast, Genesis, Iceman and Oya – sit in their mobile home and try to figure out what happened to their missing teammate, Cyclops. Toad is still the little guy with the tongue, right? Iceman asks. That guy kidnapped Scott by himself? He suggests Wolverine track him. Beast grimly replies she isn’t answering her phone. Sitting at the computer, Oya suggests he try Angel. They looked like they were heading for a loud talk after the battle. Beast already tried. Angel’s phone goes straight to voicemail.
Don’t they think Scott can handle Toad alone? Bobby asks. Two days ago, he’d have said the same about the Blob, Beast replies glumly. But that guy always was a hardcase, Bobby points out. Wasn’t Toad school janitor last year? Genesis explains he is different how. They should have seen the look in his eyes.
Idie announces Toad has a Youvideo channel.
On the first video, Toad from a happier time announces he has a pretty okay job, cool place to live. Nice folks to live around for the most part. And Paige… Paige is great. Seems like a jinx to say it but he’s got a good thing going for once.
A later scene. A shocked Toad begins to say something about Cyclops but cannot pronounce it. Cyclops is supposed to be… and then he goes and…. He has no words.
A later scene shows him packing. School isn’t safe anymore. He’s trying to keep his head up. Gotta land on his feet.
Later: A disheveled Toad siting at his table, a bottle of whiskey in his hand. He’s clearly injured. It’s weird. He’s taken a lot of beatings. Bad ones sometimes. But mostly he deserved them. Been a long time since it felt… unfair. He was walking, just minding his own business, then a bunch of them jumped out and…
The last vid: an angry Toad, now wearing his old villain costume: He holds a newspaper into the camera and is clearly drunk. He was sitting at the bar, having a drink and look who pops up on TV: Skinny Scotty Summers. Babyfresh back from the dead. Maybe that kid’s not him. Not really. Not yet. Probably hasn’t done anything wrong. But he has seen all the movies. He gets how it works. If a guy wants to change the future, he’s gotta change something from the past. He turns away from a candle on a skull. He doesn’t want to be the monster who kills a baby in its crib. Who would? It’s no kind of fun down here in the dark. But if that’s what it takes to turn everything back… “I’m your monster, man.”
The Catacombs of Paris, now:Scott Summers is tied to a slab, still pretending to be unconscious. He realizes the Toad is hammered. Toad downs more alcohol muttering about the Terminator. “No fate but what you make.” He glares at Scott. All his fault anyway. He’s gotta do it.
Scott figures Toad is usually no big threat, but he has him at a disadvantage. Hit him with a car; now they are underground somewhere. One stray optic blast and the ceiling will come down. He starts to carefully work on the ropes and figures he will get an opening eventually.
That’s when Toad smashes him in the face with the whiskey bottle again and again as he slurs that he’s gotta fix it all.
Meanwhile, the X-Men try to figure this out. Apparently, Toad waited to attack Scott when everybody was focusing on the others’ battle with the Blob. Iceman wonder how they found Scott last time. Doesn’t Hank have a Cerebro unit? Hank reminds him he has no telepath, so the tracker unit can only track Scott when he uses his power. Bobby suggests Pickles get them a telepath. Hank explains that, even if Pickles jumps to Metro University to get Jean, that is a transatlantic jump and he will not be juiced enough to return until the next day. Why hasn’t Scott used his power yet? Bobby asks and Hank admits he doesn’t know.
The catacombs:Scott tries to groan something. Toad babbles, it was horrible. Down here, what did he think it would look like? Doesn’t matter, he tells himself. No excuses. Came down here to be the monster. Change the world!
Cyclops tries to understand his ranting. He begins to realize Toad brought him down here where he can’t use his blasts, to murder him.
Toad continues all he has to do is push this through and everything will go back to the way it was. This is what it takes. Scott Summers broke the world…
Scott shouts at him to wait. That isn’t him. Toad is convinced if he does this, it will change the timeline and Scott Summers will never doom mutantkind. It doesn’t work like that! Scott shouts. He doesn’t get to kill him. He has to, Toad replies. In despair, Scott unleashes his optic blast upwards.
Cerebro chimes and gives the X-Men a location. Immediately, they head out.
In the catacombs, Cyclops has freed himself from the ropes. However, he has to keep his eyes closed as his visor got lost when Toad hit him. He gropes blindly in the rubble, not daring to open his eyes. Toad is unconscious. Mortar drops from the ceiling, almost hitting Scott. He reaches for something and believes for a moment he has found it... but it’s the jaw of a skull. More stones tumble on Cyclops, who screams in pain. He finds his leg sticking out at a weird angle, probably broken. And Toad begins to regain consciousness.
Cyclops crawls away blindly leaving a trail of blood. Toad follows the trail.
The X-Men have been led to the neighborhood where Toad’s ruined car stands. No Scott, though. Beast wonders how everyone in the neighborhood could sleep through the noise of Scott’s optic blast. Something is wrong here. Why does it feel like they are running out of time? What is he missing?
Scott blindly drags himself through a tunnel, only to reach a dead end. He’s about to panic then calms himself and crawls backward then tries another path.
Toad has almost caught up. He finds the entry and pours the kerosene he’s been carrying. He pours it down, ready to burn it all away.
Scott is trapped. He realizes he is dead either way. He blasts upwards and his friends see the blast close by. Everything caves in. Toad saves himself and figures that Scott died, but nothing has changed. What did he do? he asks himself.
Recalling Toad’s video, Beast realizes Scott is in the catacombs. Why didn’t he see it?


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Beast sits in the waiting room of Mercy West Hospital in White Plains NY, listening to news about some bizarre climate events outside Teetering Rocks, Idaho. The town has enlisted the help of Dr. Strange, who is interviewed. Hank is not impressed.
That moment, Bobby Drake leaves Scott Summers’ hospital room and tells Hank it is his turn. When asked how Scott is, he is told, “the same.”
Hank informs the sleeping Scott he looks dreadful, then apologizes. The doctors keep telling them he is lucky to be alive. The surgeon seemed legitimately astonished. No one should have survived that cave-in, he said. To which Bobby said: “you don’t know Scott Summers.” The awkward silence that followed was… lengthy.
What the hell are they still doing here? Hank wonders. This awful time where Scott’s name makes strangers cringe. He just so desperately wanted to believe they could make this work. Lead by example. Drag this sad people and their future back into the light. Such an optimistic notion… the arrogance! In the space of twelve hours, they’ve been handily defeated by the Blob. And the Toad! The Brotherhood of Evil Benchwarmers! And they left the best of them broken. Comatose.
He is beginning to wonder how he ever concocted so asinine a plan. Was he truly so naïve? Did he simply refuse to accept the truth? That this horrible place is beyond repair. That his supposedly brilliant but increasingly unimpressive mind hasn’t any clue how to get them home. He didn’t want to believe it, but Scott was right all along. They don’t belong here. And he is telling him right now, if he could wave a magic wand…
Hank’s eyes turn big as he realizes something. Without finishing his sentence, he runs outside.
Outside Teetering Rocks, Idaho, Dr. Strange casts a spell to seal the rift unsuccessfully. That moment, Hank pops up, asking for his help. Strange replies he’d be happy to but he is in the middle of something.
Hank bursts out he always considered magic a dirty cheat. Oh, blessed Vishanti! Strange mutters. Hocus pocus… band aids slapped on top of complicated problems, Hank continues, that impatient people have given up trying to solve. Effective maybe in the short term but also lazy and irresponsible. No offense. Of course not, Strange replies blandly. The point is, Hank insists, he doesn’t like magic, trusts it less. But science has failed him. Or perhaps he simply is not as smart as he once believed. Either way, he doesn’t know how to get the X-Men home.
So they are talking about time travel? Strange asks. Hank concurs. This crazy broken world is killing his friends. Figuratively, literally and everything in between! Dramatically, Hank exclaims he gives up. So show him where to sign and let’s cheat!
Much as he would like to reward that passionate, if wildly disrespectful, soliloquy with his quickest time travel spell— no way, not happening, is Strange’s surprising reaction. Now, if Hank will excuse him, he’s still busy.
Pickles, in the meantime, has been quietly exploring the rift and gets dragged down by something.
The two heroes hear a rumbling noise. Dr. Strange explains that is the veil separating this and the 12th dimension being torn wide open. He has cast four sealing spells but something is wrong with his magic. He tells Hank he has wandered into a supernatural tire fire. He’s tried to put it out and now it’s time to fight. The 12th dimension is a shadow realm. Its inhabitants are invisible to the human eye. He throws a mask with an Egyptian ankh symbol on it to Hank and orders Hank to put it on. It’s the third eye of Horus. It should allow Hank to see the world as Strange does. He warns Hank that common side effects of peeking beneath this veil include abject eye-bulging horror, screaming horror movie insanity and the loss of-- Hank is caught in visions of tentacled monsters. He screams and falls down the rift and passes out.
He awakes in the ruin of a building and asks what happened. Floating in the air, Dr. Strange explains that Hank passed out and he spent several hours defending them from the 12th dimension shadow goblins with the magical equivalent of a pointed stick. He’s welcome.
He passed out? Hank asks. Strange explains he did so to save his mind from madness. One can learn to process the impalatable but that takes years of practice. He apologizes for involving him. It’s ok, Hank replies. Being horrifically overwhelmed seems to be the new normal, he deadpans.
Strange tells him about his past. He too was a man of science once, a gifted surgeon until he damaged his hands in an accident. Science couldn’t give him his hands back, so he went in search of something that could. He went looking for a cheat, as Beast put it. But what he found was something else entirely. Magic is not simple. Not in the slightest. The science of sorcery and there is a sort of science to it is a uniquely complicated field of study with intricate if bendable rules and often devastating consequences. He is Sorcerer Supreme of this realm. He makes the impossible look easy every day of the week. But these hands still tremble when they try to hold a scalpel. There are no cheats, he states as he opens his third eye. Not even for him. The formless Dark attacks him.
Beast grabs the Mask of Horus and tries again. A third eye appears on his forehead and he screams, but this time he manages to attack the creature with the dagger Strange dropped.
Strange thanks and praises him. No terror this time? Oh, there was terror, Hank replies. Plenty of it. But when he felt himself slipping, he recalled Strange told him there is a science to it. So he just forced himself to see it that way. Instead of nightmares, it’s all math and science. Just a series of odd little equations, he remarks as he looks at the creature.
Odd in what way? Strange presses. Hank studies the creature closer. The theorems all make sense up to a certain point. He understands the basic moves, but then it all falls apart. Like this bit here seems to be nonsense. What sort of nonsense? Strange asks. Hank doesn’t know. He’s never seen a magical theorem before. It just looks… broken. Strange asks him to show him. Hank does and Strange agrees. It’s worse than he thought. Breaking down, all of it.
He casts a spell, drawing the creatures all into him. Beast asks why he didn’t do that before. That was a hocus pocus band aid, is the reply. It won’t hold for long. And comes at great personal cost. But it will have to do for now. He clearly has bigger fish to fry. He frees Pickles and hands him over to Hank.
Later, he apologizes for being unable to send Hank back to his time period. If it’s any consolation, from what he’s seen today that old antiquated brain of Hank’s is still quite brilliant. If mastery over time and space is a thing he needs, then get to work. Figure it out for himself.
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The ruins of Utopia in San Francisco Bay:The young X-Men are having a party, along with their friends of the Jean Grey School, to celebrate Genesis’ birthday. Outside, Iceman has created iceslides, while down below Kid Gladiator is playing DJ.
Angel tries to have Cyclops take part in the dancing by moving his wheelchair rhythmically. Scott assures him his aversion to dancing has nothing to do with his cast and suggests Warren wiggle with his girlfriend. Warren looks at Laura and sighs, as does she.
Kid Gladiator interrupts the music to congratulate Evan on surviving yet another Earth year. The other kids congratulate Evan on his 16th. Evan smiles and thanks them for coming but then excuses himself.
In his lab, Hank McCoy has developed 13 functioning time machines and is now entering the testing phase. After having sent an apple to different points in time, he now wants to move on, to find a way for him and his friends to become unstuck. He grabs several weapons from different time periods.
That moment, Evan enters the lab and asks if he can borrow Pickles. Hank disinterestedly points him to a drawer where Pickles sits, munching on some cake. Ready for a birthday trip? Evan asks. They disappear as Hank belatedly wishes him a happy birthday.
Evan has Pickles teleport him to Tolmen’s Fields, a small town in Kansas. Birthdays are hard for him, he muses while he is being stared at by the townspeople. He didn’t want a big party. He wanted hard, flat dirt and a summer breeze that smells too much like cow. He wanted greasy onion rings on the tailgate of Pop’s pickup. He passes the high school musing. He wanted to sit on the bleachers, listening to Jim and Josh telling their favorite poop stories from freshman cross-country. He wanted an ugly cake from Kuhlman’s bakery, an uglier haircut from Mrs. Riggs and one of the impossibly dusty candy bars from the bottom shelf at Consumers.
He buys a candy bar and, when the clerk refuses to talk with him, tells her to keep the change.
His birthday wish was the same as every year. He wished he could go home.
From a passing truck, some boys throw an empty cup at him and shout at him to go home. Nobody wants him here. He walks outside town, where the fields begin. He used to think he was one of the lucky ones growing up here. A warm, old-fashioned place where nothing changes, because it’s perfect the way it is.
But that’s the problem. His mind is full of perfect memories. Perfect parents. Perfect neighbors. Perfect friends. All living in this tiny perfect Kansas town.
He waves at the memory of his home, before the ruin of what really stands there is revealed.
That’s why his birthday wish won’t come true. Perfect doesn’t exist. He grew up in a cloning tube. His memories of this perfect Rockwell existence were just a computer-generated fairy tale that pumped him full of happy memories from the day he was born on the off chance that love and integrity might stave off his destiny – megalomaniac, world-ending, steroid Hitler.
Why does he smile all the time? Why doesn’t he have any bad days? Because what happens if his friends see the clone of Apocalypse looking sad or depressed or angry? Do they start to wonder? Worry? Fear? Who could blame them? Worst case scenario with him has always been Armageddon. He’s not saying it’s all an act. He’s a pretty happy guy and he likes his life. He really does. Because he has to.
He sneaks into the kitchen to get more cake for Pickles, only to find Idie waiting. She chides him for missing half of everything. She was about to start the movies without him. He apologizes. She tells him to come watch and have some popcorn. He tells her he has to drop off Pickles first. She looks after him worried.
In his lab, Hank angrily stares at a burned-through device. Time trial 22-b: fail.
Evan brings in Pickles, who is in a happy, post-cake, sugar coma. Hank sighs about his failure but is still optimistic. He asks how Evan’s birthdays is going and Evan invites him to the movies. Hank thanks him but he has one more trial going for today. After that, he’s free.
Evan notices the Mask of Horus and asks Hank about it. He tells him it was a gift from Dr. Strange. Evan points out it glows. Hank realizes it is opening the third mystical eye. But unless you enjoy bedwetting nightmares, he should not put it on. Now he pretty much has to, Evan replies and does so while Hank pulls a lever to begin his last time trial. Unfortunately, the two actions interact and, in a blinding flash, the two of them disappear.
Outside Avaris, Lower Egypt:Long long ago:Outside the city, a group of masked raiders – the Sandstormers - dressed in red massacre a group of merchants. One of them, a woman, mocks a veiled young man, who is keeping back from the slaughter. Getting an eyeful, pretty prince? Looking down, he replies he’s seen it all before. Sounds like his father was right then, she decides and drags him off his horse. He told her he is too old for watching… time to start doing! She orders another Sandstormer to keep his victim alive. He is going to be the prince’s first blood! The Sandstormer scoffs the little freak doesn’t have it in him.
She orders the boy to draw his blade and cut the prisoner’s throat. When he hesitates, she continues that, if he doesn’t, they will let the other man kill him and tell his father a made up story about how he was attacked before they could do anything.
The boy raises his blade and the prisoner begs him not to do it.
Then, a dazzling white light flashes in the sky and Beast and Genesis come falling down. The Mask of Horus falls some distance away.
A confused Genesis asks Beast what’s going on, while the masked prince goes wide-eyed at their sight. Beast deadpans he can say with certainty they are not in early 60ies New York. Why would they be? Evan asks confused. They wouldn’t, never mind, is the reply. Even as they are beset by attacking Sandstormers, Beast figures Lower Egypt Nile Delta, 18th century BC.
The young man runs toward them.
Evan asks why those guys are swearing at them in English if they aren’t in ancient Egypt. Unlike Beast, he understands them.
The young prince steals a horse and grabs Genesis, who protests about his friend but the young man points out he only stole one horse. The leader orders the Sandstormers after them and to kill the newcomer. Beast manages to hold them up, to be beset by the Sandstormers’ leader.
The boys are heading toward the city. The prince is sure they will outrace their pursuers, though Evan nervously asks if they had archers in ancient Egypt. There answer to the question becomes clear when a well-aimed arrow hits the horse and the two boys fall.
Grimly, the kidnapper apologizes to Evan for dooming them both. At least Evan will get the release of a swift death. Nevertheless, he tries to cover Evan from the next arrow. Evan suggests they fight and uses his extendable limbs to hit the archer. Evan grabs the other boy and uses his stretchy limbs to climb the city wall.
Not far away the Sandstormers’ leader plays with Hank who is suffering from a gut wound.
Evan and the other boy watch the pursuers arguing and finally giving up, having to return to the boy’s father. The prince wants to ask Evan a few questions. Is one of them how he speaks fluent Egyptian? Evan asks, because he can’t help him there. No, the other boy replies and takes off his veil to reveal a face that is the mirror image of Evan’s. He wants to know where he comes from, young En Sabah Nur asks, and if he will take him there with him.


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Lower Egypt, far in the past:Hank McCoy finds himself surrounded by masked warriors dressed in red. On his chest sits a female warrior, the lower half of whose face is veiled. She holds a knife to his throat and speaks to him in what he figures is an ancient Egyptian dialect.
An old blind man, also dressed in red, asks if they have really decided to kill the mystery man who fell from the sky. Far be it from him to question the murdering tactics of the famous Sandstormers, but knowing their master, Baal, might it not make more sense to question the gentleman before they bleed him dry? The warriors answer rudely they don’t take orders from him and point out the stranger got himself cut, trying to escape. He is already dead.
A shame, the mystic tuts. Now they have to tell Baal they not only lost his son but also a valuable resource who might have helped get him back. If only they knew a mystic with the skills to tend to a deadly wound, he smirks. Perhaps they will be taking orders from him, after all.
Quickly, he has them tie Hank on a horse to transport him away. One of the warriors mutters why someone doesn’t slip a cobra into the mystic’s tent. Another informs him they did. He made the thing his pet!
The city of Perunefer:Walking through the throngs of people are a disguised Evan and a teenage En Sabah Nur, who informs Evan the city gates open at dawn. His father’s Sandstormers could be back any moment. If they want to escape, now is the time. Evan refuses to go without Hank and notes En Sabah Nur keeps changing the subject. The other boy retorts that Evan is dodging his original question. He points at the ships in the harbor: he has enough gold to book them passage. He repeats his question: why do they look alike? He asks how he can get them home.
Evan grimly thinks how the other boy will grow up to become Apocalypse and, 3000 years in the future, after he is finally dead, mad cultists will create a new one. They aren’t cousins from faraway lands. He is just En Sabah’s clone and En Sabah is the monster that stares at him from the mirror.
In the market, a young woman, Erika of Aminsos, draws everyone’s stares and soon starts a fight when a merchant believes she wants to steal from him. En Sabah Nur is surprised. He clearly knows her. He orders Evan to stay out of sight. He will handle this.
He joins the melee, his cowl down. The men recognize him as the son of Baal. They know his father - good. He offers this blade as payment for his friend’s mistake. He apologizes and the frightened vendor accepts.
Erika fumes while Evan is astonished. He just watched En Sabah Nur defuse a conflict with kindness.
En Sabah worries that his father or his enemies will now know where they are. Erika suggest they go swimming like they used to, then sneak aboard her father’s ship. En Sabah accepts.
The Sandstormers’ encampment:Their mystic examines Hank and remarks that he spent ten years in Rama Tut’s employ listening to his wild tales. Stories of a far-flung future, where machines think and men kiss the sky wearing a suit of iron. Alien life. World wars. Armies of teenagers dressed in yellow. The man loves to talk. But one thing was clear. There are men who travel through time. The pharaoh is such a man and he suspects Hank is another. Apart from his strange clothes and language, there is the Eye of Horus, which is in the ownership of Rama Tut and guarded. Yet he found it lying in the sand. So this is a great forgery. Hank is quite a thief or – he puts on the Eye and laughs – the future has come for a visit.
Hank awakes as the mystic continues that one story always stood out from the rest. He told of Clan Akkaba and their blue-skinned king. An immortal Egyptian boy grows up to cleanse the Earth of all mankind… to replace them with something better. He’d very much like to hear more about that. He sprays some green dust on Hank and expects him to speak his language now.
Outside the city:En Sabah, Erika and her friends are swimming. Evan sits watching them, trying to make sense of what he knows and sees. The gentle boy and the monster he will eventually become.
Erika joins him. The day they met, En Sabah told her a tall tale about his father, the benevolent blue-skinned pharaoh of some other Egypt. And his warrior queen mother who commanded all twelve of their armies. He said they’d come for him one day and take him back there. They were six or seven and his father, Baal, was already trying to turn him into s something he was not. She always said that was the only lie she’d ever heard him tell… but here Evan sits, blue as the day is long.
What does she mean, turn him into something he’s not? Evan asks. Erika explains that the Sandstormers are the most ruthless raider in Egypt. En Sabah’s father Baal is the hardest of them all, their leader. Until today, they hadn’t seen En Sabah for a year. Baal decided his son spent too much time on childish things. Or things that weren’t murder. They watch him having fun with the boys as she continues he loves to cliff dive and spearfish. He’ll get up and dance when there isn’t any music playing. Kind, thoughtful. Generous to a fault. Does that sound like a future killer to him? She returns to the water. Evan doesn’t know.
In the Sandstormers’ camp, the mystic tries to converse with Beast, explaining he is different from the other Sandstormers. He continues that the others saw him falling from the sky with a boy who looked like their En Sabah Nur. He can only assume he is one of his servants. Clan Akkaba or one of the four. Happy to die and further his cause. But from when does he come and why? Is it knowledge he seeks? He can help. Baal think he is on his side. But it is all a ruse. He only serves one master… Apocalypse.
That moment, he is hit, courtesy of Baal whose patience has run out. The mystic explains he has cured the outlander and believes he can help them find En Sabah. If he can talk to him some more. Baal grabs him by the throat. He has a better idea...
In the city, Erika urges the boys to hurry. They will be leaving in five minutes. En Sabah tells Evan that Erika’s father can take them to the next port, but from there they will need a destination. What must he do to earn Evan’s trust? Evan replies it’s very hard to trust him. Though he sees he is obviously a good person. He can’t leave without his friend. En Sabah apologizes but his father’s men don’t take prisoners. His friend is dead. If they return for him, they will kill Evan too!
That moment, they are threatened by another group, the Golden Raiders, who intend to take En Sabah hostage. Erika and her friends want to join the battle. En Sabah tells Evan to protect them and get them to the ship; he will meet them there. After some hesitation, Evan obeys and grabs Erika and the boys.
When he has reached the ship, Evan looks back at En Sabah fighting the men. He realizes that all his life he’s been trying to stave off this dark destiny by being good, convinced that he could keep Apocalypse at bay with kindness, friendship and heroism. Hoping he could be better. But here he is, face to face with the original article and he is everything Evan is trying to be. Maybe there is no saving them from their shared fate. Maybe Apocalypse is coming for them, no matter what they do.
En Sabah is about to be overwhelmed and Evan joins the battle to save him. They run for it and see the ship has taken off. Evan stretches his arm and manages to hurl them both aboard.
Barely a moment later, they receive a magical message from Baal, who tells them he knows his son and how much it upsets him to see his father torture secrets out of innocent men. They are shown an image of a tortured Beast hanging from a cross. See them soon, Baal laughs.


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En Sabah Nur and Genesis are riding through the night to return to the Sandstormers’ camp, as En Sabah’s father Baal taunted them with a magical message that he was holding and torturing Beast.
Genesis silently muses that he almost held En Sabah back, wishing to change his own fate. He still intends to get him back on that ship eventually and prevent his rise to Apocalypse. He is a good person and deserves better. Assuming of course that they manage to survive his father’s obvious trap.
En Sabah makes them stop near a rock. He explains it’s just over that ridge. Here is where his father usually arranges meetings with rivals. Anyone he doesn’t trust. It’s a narrow valley surrounded by mountains. The pass bottlenecks the way in. He’s seen entire armies fall without reaching the valley. When the Sandstormers hold the mountain, they are all but unbeatable.
Genesis asks if he has another plan to get them in unnoticed. En Sabah figures they could leave the horses behind and climb down the other side of the mountain. But once they are in that valley they are instantly outnumbered. If the archers don’t get them first. No, he is afraid there is no trick to this. Then what are they doing here? Evan asks. Saving his friend, En Sabah Nur replies simply. He amends that his father’s weakness has always been hubris and they are nothing but silly children to him. It’s possible he won’t take them seriously. If they are quick and cunning and the gods smile on them today… They are still probably screwed, Evan finishes the sentence. Probably, En Sabah agrees, but maybe not. He rides ahead and they find Hank hung to a cross.
Evan asks Hank if he is okay. En Sabah is confused. This is supposed to be a trap. What reason could his father have to draw them here and then just… Evan points out maybe Baal rally underestimated them. Maybe they got here faster than he thought. He tears apart Hank’s ties. En Sabah replies he expected an army, a battle to the death. Hank points out his father doesn’t want him dead. He wants him home.
Right he is! another voice pipes up. It is the Mystic who has appeared in a cloud of green smoke. Before En Sabah can asks him a question, the Mystic stuns him. The means to an ends he remarks. He will understand when he is older.
Genesis and Beast angrily attack him. The Mystic creates a limited sandstorm that keeps them busy. When it is over, both the Mystic and En Sabah have disappeared.
However, the two mutants are soon joined by a group of armed Sandstormers, intent on killing them. Genesis attacks them in a berserker rage and quickly takes them all out, to Beast’s surprise.
As they ride away, Beast surmises that the Eye of Horus somehow brought them here. Unfortunately, now the Mystic has it. So long as the Sandstormers don’t already know they survived their assassins. He notices that Evan is thinking of something else. Evan is still thinking about En Sabah’s fate. All he wanted was to run away and Evan didn’t listen. He couldn’t understand. He was already on the ship. He was escaping all the violence and pain. Evan could have come for Hank alone, but the moment En Sabah learned Evan’s friend was in trouble he dove off that ship. Set aside everything he wanted to save a stranger’s life. They have to save him! he implores Hank. Help him get out of Egypt. That can’t happen, Hank replies. Evan insists En Sabah Nur is not a monster. He’s a hero. He’s him. Apocalypse doesn’t exist yet, he further suggests. They can wipe it all away.
At what cost? Hank retorts. Their very presence here could have serious consequences to the timestream. Imagine the butterfly effect extrapolated over thousands of years! Every step they take puts the future at risk. And Evan is talking about snuffing out one of the most influential villains in human history. That’s the biggest butterfly of them all! No, they have to get that mask as quietly and quickly as possible and return home before more damage is done.
Evan is stubborn, though. He tells Hank to leave but he won’t leave En Sabah behind with Baal and those Sandstormers, just because that is the way it happened before.
Hank asks him to think it through for five seconds. He has! Evan shouts, and it doesn’t matter! They can make it so he never becomes… Hank points out Evan is the clone of Apocalypse. If En Sabah never becomes Apocalypse then… He doesn’t care! Evan replies sullenly. It’s not right, it’s not fair and it’s not happening! He rides off.
The Sandstormers’ camp:En Sabah is levitated by the Mystic’s magic and is clearly in his thrall. Baal announces to the assembled Sandstormers that it is a man’s responsibility to make a man out of his son. And, while he did not set out to raise a squeamish coward, this is where they are. He has failed the boy and, because of that the boy, failed Baal, but no longer! If he wants his son to act like a Sandstormer, he needs to treat him like one. And he needs them to do the same. He must be tested. Bruised and bloodied. With their fists and swords. They must be relentless. And En Sabah Nur will be remade.
That or he will die whimpering in a pool of his own blood, a Sandstormer predicts whispering. A comrade agrees, giving him two weeks tops.
That moment, Genesis rides into the camp. Baal sighs and asks what‘s so difficult about killing this person? Evan jumps at him but Baal easily throws him to the ground. He orders his people to stay back. He gave them every opportunity to kill this imposter. Their failure makes fools of them all. He will handle this himself.
The Sandstomers’ attention is focused on Baal as he beats up Evan. This allows Beast to sneak into the camp and into the Mystic’s tent, although the Mystic notices.
As Hank raffles through the Mystic’s belongings, the Mystic enters and announces the Eye of Horus is safe and locked up tight. Surely his sophisticated, future folk don’t leave valuables lying around, do they? He taunts.
Hank demands that mask, now. Yes, now, the old man mocks. Now the stranger will talk to him, now that Baal is crushing his young master’s skull underfoot. Hank reminds him that En Sabah Nur is back under Baal’s foot, thanks to him. The Mystic chuckles. He serves Apocalypse. But Apocalypse must be nurtured and grown. Baal is a means to an end. The boy needs conflict, sorrow and pain. All things his father will gladly provide.
Again, Hank demands the Eye of Horus and is mocked. Finally, the Mystic suggests a trade. Hank tells him one story of his far-flung future and he will grant him the means to return.
Outside, Genesis is struggling against Baal, not caring about the timeline or whether he can win this fight, but he refuses to leave without En Sabah. Apocalypse ends here, he vows, or he will!
That moment, Hank, carrying the Eye of Horus, intervenes and drags Evan away from Baal. Evan begs him they have to save En Sabah. As he dons the Mask, Hank tells him there is no saving him. What’s done is done.
They disappear and reappear back in their own time. Hank tells Evan that, when he wore the mask, the Third Eye of Horus showed him… Evan grabs the mask and interrupts, then he throws it away. Nobody cares what it showed Hank! he announces. Just like Hank didn’t care what it showed Evan!


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Genesis and Oya drag young Iceman out to go out and get used to talking to boys. Laura, in the meantime, muses that being alone has never bothered her before. She spent much of her life in solitary confinement. A bullet in the chamber waiting to be fired. Alone meant peace of mind. That nobody had to die. But now, when she is alone with nothing to do, her mind races. Obsessing about things.
Stupid things, she thinks, as her estranged ex-boyfriend Warren Worthington enters dressed in a sharp suit. Milano fashion week, he announces. Who’s interested? Predictably, Scott Summers is not, while Laura just silently glares. Warren flies off.
It’s taking every ounce of self-control not to knock his pretty head off, huh? Scott observes. He notices things. She’s clearly going stir crazy on Hank’s forced X-cation. And Warren is just making things worse with his blonding. Laura doesn’t know what that means but agrees. Well, as luck would have it, Scott informs her, she lives with an OCD listmaker in a wheelchair. He made a list that might be just the thing… unless she’d rather stay and play video games with him. There’s a new one called Applebutter Murder Squad. Should be loads of fun.
Laura doesn’t know what to say until he assures her it was a joke. He’s been messing around with the settings on Hank’s threat trackers. It’s fun. You can set the probability filters and filter out stuff you don’t want to mess with. Anyway, he made this list of fun solo mission. They are all time-sensitive and he is in no shape to go on any himself but she might want to give it a whirl. Laura looks at the list and smiles. Maps, dossiers, threat assessment analytics. Scott even marked down all of the potential blindspots. Just when she was beginning to think nobody spoke her language. Scott Summers to the rescue.
And there is his secret weapon, he continues looking at a backpack to Laura’s surprise. She smiles when she sees Pickles and lot of junk food to keep him fueled up. Scott just asks her to bring him some detailed stories. He is stuck in this wheelchair for another six weeks. He touches her arm and she has to force herself not to draw away. She teleports off.
Next she is in the Amazonas, Brazil.
First mission: The Green Thumb. Scott’s info tells her this weird environmentalist offshoot of the Hand recently set up training facilities in the Amazonas. Aerial photos imply the group is planning something. Something big. With ninjas. And possibly sentient plants. She decides she has the element of surprise and because Hand ninjas are already dead, a reprieve from the no killing policy. She could slip in from the south and surgical strike the place in three minutes the X-23 way. But she is not X-23 anymore. She looks at the munching Pickles, whom she is carrying on her back. She is the %&/ Wolverine, she decides and swings on lines to the main entrance, claws unsheathed. And this is how Logan would do it.
Something, something bub! she announces as she lands inside. To find lots of dead Hand Ninjas on the ground. Someone beat her to it, she realizes.
Next stop: Downtown Toronto, Canada:Toronto commuters have been reporting what sounds like Moloid sightings in the city subways. Yesterday, a transit worker was nearly beaten to death by a huge subterranean monster. Sounds to Scott like Mole Man and his people have gone north of the border.
Pickles teleports Laura into the subway, where she finds the Mole Man tied up and the subterranean monster taken out. Beaten again. Laura seethes.
Next problem: Cameron Hodge and the Right have been chasing the Terrigen Cloud around with a tanker truck vacuuming up samples. Scott figures they are planning to weaponize the M-Pox in their ongoing quest to exterminate mutants. Satellites tracked down the truck.
Pickles teleports her into the air and she floats down with a parachute, sure no one is going to beat her to this.
Come on, throw her a #+&%/ bone here! she swears moments later when she finds the truck destroyed and the drivers tied up. Pickles gives her a puzzled stare then shares a Twinkie with her.
U-Store-It:New Port Ritchie, FloridaA voice proclaims to her goblin horde that they have hunkered in the dark long enough. It’s time to stretch their legs, leave their hidey-hole and scorch some Earth. The goblins obediently agree to the words of their queen.
The first one is immediately killed by Wolverine. She proceeds to battle the rest while musing about her violent urges. Mostly she tries to hold them back, but these are demons, meaning they are unkillable. Like her, they will heal. Only they are evil, so for her this is cathartic and extremely satisfying.
That moment, the goblins around her explode in a burst of flame, courtesy of Angel’s firewings. When she addresses him, his eyes glow and his face is full of rage until, he finally returns to normal and asks her name. What is she doing here? he asks confused. She returns the question. This does not look like Fashion Week. The perfect alibi, Warren grins. She always says nobody cares about his rich boy foolishness, right?
Laura is not amused. He is doing what he said she shouldn’t. What he made her feel bad doing. She was just trying to be Wolverine for him. Trying to be a normal person like everyone else.
Warren points out that Wolverine wasn’t a normal person and, even if he were, she is terrible at normal. Bad English dub terrible! Nobody expects her to be normal. Why would she even…
Why? she snaps. So she doesn’t have to spend the rest of her life as X-23 – socially awkward teenage assassin! Normal is hard for her and she knows she sucks at it. Contractions still feel weird on her tongue. But Logan said ‘fake it till you make it’. So, she was faking the hell out of it. Faking it for him. Her overprotective judgmental boyfriend who chases her around all day, whispering ‘reckless’ under his breath. The goblins regroup.
Angel defends himself: she told him she used to cut herself. All the time. He burns some goblins with his wings. She said it was the only thing that made her feel better.
This is not fair! Laura shouts. Angel mocks she doesn’t need any help. She is the invincible Wolverine, after all. He’ll just chalk up all the jumping through wire and eating bullets as ordinary superheroics.
As ordinary as his going deathwish on the Blob? Laura retorts as she rejoins the battle. Did she freak out about that? Did she say one word to make him feel bad? Or was he screaming at her? Shaming her in front of their friends? His broken cutter girlfriend who pushed him over the edge. She swallowed that. Took his cold shoulder for weeks. Mad as hell, but secretly hoping he would come apologize. Or forgive her or whatever.
She kicks a goblin in the head. But instead she finds him out here. All loose teeth and broken ribs. Dressed up like some kind of berserker fire angel. Doing all the things she was.
He knows! Angel shouts, his eyes glowing. And he hates himself for it! His wings flare as he shouts it’s that stupid Black Vortex thing. The wings are burning him up.
The fight is over and he turns away. He knows how it sounds but the wings, they are so hot. She reminds him he chose to keep them. Warren admits he was wrong. He screwed up big time and he’s sorry all the time. But these flames are messing with his head. It’s too much. And if he doesn’t find ways to let it out…
She touches his face and assures him it’s okay. She understands. They kiss.
Nearby, the goblins wonder if they should put themselves back together and take them out while they are distracted. They are ordered to leave the kiddies to their fun. Now is not the time. They’ll catch them on the flip, Madelyne Pryor, the Goblin Queen announces.


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Miami, Florida:Outside a trendy club are Bobby Drake, Idie Okonwko and Evan Sabahnur. Bobby is nervous. What if there aren’t any gay guys here? Evan points out this is Miami. What, so Miami is full of gays? Bobby asks. Idie draws him closer and states the world is full of people, all kinds of people. Let’s just say Miami is particularly full. Many willing to talk to his pretty face.
Provided his mouth can shape words, he points out. Bobby reveals they don’t understand. He tried flirting with girls back in school, even went out on a few ill-advised dates before he came to Xavier’s. One girl called him a poop tornado. To his face!
Idie and Evan try to calm him. The difference here is that he will actually be attracted to the people. He can be himself. Idie adds they aren’t looking for the love of his life, just get him to talk to guys, so he gets better at it. Rejection is part of this. She assures him, he is in good hands, as they enter the club.
They immediately throw him at a guy. He loves turtles! Bobby bursts out, confusing the other guy. They quickly abort and Idie jokes, now they have super awkward out of the way, things will get easier. Just let her do the heavy lifting on the next one.
Idie flirts with some guys. She asks if has something stuck between her teeth, because she been in here twenty minutes and she can’t get a single guy to look at her. Wrong club, the guys tell her good-naturedly. Smoothly, she figures she has to buy her own Red Bulls tonight, but which of them is going to buy a drink for her friend Bob…? She turns around to introduce him, but he has left for another part of the club.
Idie joins him and asks what happened. Those guys were super nice. He admits Idie was hitting it off with them and he was standing in the back like a weirdo. He felt he was in the way. She interrupts: she has seen him talk nonstop for hours! This is different, he claims. Idie insists it isn’t Stop hitting on people and do Bobby!
Bobby considers her words for a bit, then joins two guys and just honestly explains his friends sent him over, because he is terrible at flirting and needs practice. They laugh kindly and agree don’t they all?
But practice at what, exactly? Bobby continues. Topless dancing? Interrupting strangers with non-existent pick-up lines? He keeps on babbling and the two men share a look.
Evan leads Bobby away and informs him that that went well at first, but he was oversharing. He suggests they dance. He explains he always does that when he is in a dark place and tries to forget about leaving Apocalypse to his fate. He dances so well, he is immediately surrounded by admirers while being completely oblivious, and Bobby is left at the side. Right, he sighs. Idie remarks she should have warned him about that: never compete on a dancefloor with Evan Sabahnur. She suggests they get to it again, then notices the cold he is projecting and suggests he gather his thoughts first.
Bobby plops down at the counter, where another young man laughs he knows that look. Someone’s well-meaning friends have tried to set him up. Bobby pipes up. The two fall into an easy conversation.
Evan is panicked he lost Bobby, but Idie points out that all they had to do was make him miserable enough to walk off on his own. They decide to pretend it was their plan all along. Idie joins Evan on the dance floor and wants to talk about Hank and what happened in Egypt with him. Nothing new to report, he replies. If Hank approached him, he would be, but Hank has been closed up in his lab all week. Evan continues he knows it’s not Hank’s fault. Apocalypse is Apocalypse, and Evan was the one being selfish there. Idie replies he wasn’t selfish. Yes, he was, he cuts her off. He’d have let all of this burn to save Apocalypse. To save himself…
At the counter, Bobby tells his new friend how they beat Unus the Untouchable. Beast had created a weapon that made his force field so strong he couldn’t even touch food anymore. The other guy laughs and touches his hand. Nervously, Bobby literally freezes up.
Ashamed, he runs outside and tumbles over a dark-haired young man. They both fall. The young man says ‘hi’ and asks what this was all about. Bobby babbles how he met this great cute guy then froze like a crazy person. Sounds about right, the other man says and helps him up.
He reveals that his first crush was on the high school wrestling team. Therefore, obviously, so was he. Spent three months flirting and play fighting with that kid before finally kissing him. After which that guy promptly punched him in the teeth. He literally dropped out of school the very next day. Bobby’s sorry. Don’t be, the other boy tells him. Wrestling guy came out a few years later, tracked him down online and apologized. Humiliation is a rite of passage; there’s a reason they call it a “crush,” right?
He changes the subject, telling Bobby he could stare into his eyes all day, but a friend of his is around here in a bad way. He asks for Bobby’s name and tells him he is Romeo.
A moment later, a giant fly being bursts forth from the dumpster. Romeo greets him.
Bobby tells him tell him to get down and blasts at the creature. Romeo shouts ‘no,’ even as the moth creature tries to flee.
Idie and Evan come running. Idie orders Genesis to handle the bystanders while she’ll help Bobby. Romeo shouts at them to stop. He hits Bobby in the back, then tries to calm the Moth being down, promising they can help him. The moth calms down and Romeo supports him.
She supposes this counts as a win, a voice comes from above. It’s the Inhuman Crystal, with her team from their ship. Though this doesn’t count as his best work. It isn’t like him to be so sloppy. Romeo leads the new Inhuman to the ship and explains the X-Men showed up. She supposes that explains it, Crystal remarks coolly while Gorgon scoffs about mutants.
Later:So he is an Inhuman? Bobby asks. Romeo replies he is a student, a runner, a gamer. And – believe it or not – a recovering pickpocket. But yes, he is also an Inhuman. It’s a lot like being a mutant. Except there’s a weird cocoon thing involved, and for some reason the world has chosen not to hate and fear them… yet.
Bobby guesses Romeo used his power on the moth man to calm him down. Seems like, Romeo smiles. Or maybe he just didn’t attack him with a bunch of ice and fireballs. Bobby stutters, embarrassed, but Romeo calms him. He knows they were trying to help. They were just sort of awful at it. Bobby agrees.
While typing something into a phone, Romeo explains he is an empath. He can sense and manipulate people’s emotions. It’s useful with new Inhumans like him. They tend to come out of the cocoon scared. So sometimes he patrols with Crystal’s team. He finds them first and they scoop them up.
So that’s why he felt so comfortable with him earlier, Bobby figures. Is it? Romeo asks. Bobby admits he crashed and burned with half a dozen guys earlier and everything was so easy with him. And could he please look up from his phone to let him down easy? It’s Bobby’s phone, Romeo corrects him and hands it back. He’s gotta go back to work now, but Bobby should definitely call him sometime. He enters the ship. Recovering pickpocket? Bobby asks.
So what happened here? Idie and Evan asks if they can join him and see his goofy grin. Digits, he replies and holds up his phone. The two congratulate themselves.


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Young Scott Summers, still wearing casts and bandages, sits in his wheelchair, musing that normally he tries to stay away from video games and board games. Logic puzzles. Most individual sports. He once played Horseshoes for 27 hours straight. Bobby had to come and yank out the stakes. Anything that involves problem-solving, strategy or obsessive repetition of a practiced skill can be sort of dangerous for him.
He looks at the closed lab door and muses that Hank has been in a weird funk since he and Evan returned from old Egypt. Locked up in that lab for almost a week now, leaving the X-Men on indefinite hiatus. Not that it makes much difference to Scott. Toad’s drunken Sarah Connor stunt shattered his leg. He won’t even start physical therapy for three more weeks. And everybody else went out tonight. So just this once, Scott Summers is throwing caution to the wind. Screw it! He begins playing a computer game.
Amazingly, Hank comes out of his lab and suggests Scott plug a battery pack into his controller. Hank wants to get him a pack. Scott tells him to forget it. He hasn’t been out of that lab in forever. Did he crack the time travel thing? Is he close? Hank demurs while not meeting his eyes. That’s on the backburner. The new project is something different. No time to explain.
While Scott wonders what that means, Hank goes on the search for energy drinks. He gets a whole bag of oranges, claiming it’s for Vitamin C and tosses Scott the battery before entering the lab and closing the door. Some green mist emerges before that.
Scott is suspicious. Usually Hank can’t shut up about his work. Now he’s being secretive. Scott uses the controller to make a camera drone enter Hank’s lab but it is immediately discovered and taken care of.
Next attempt:Scott crawls under their van and opens the escape hatch. Again, it doesn’t work and he just manages to scare the Bamf Pickles.
Attempt three:He creates a small fire in the dustbin and then wildly knocks at the lab door to tell Hank to come out.
A giant hologram of Hank’s face appears and he asks what he can help Scott with. He’s been watching Scott on the security cam and he seems bored… edgy. Scott claims he is just mucking around. Hank asks him to dial that down a notch.
Scott tells himself he’s lost. As he gets a beverage, he figures it’s probably a good thing their resident genius can outsmart him.
Then he hears a noise from the window. A huge tentacle comes crashing in and grabs him. Cyclops lets loose his optic blast. It lets go and he grabs his glasses and knocks on Hank’s door shouting. No reaction. Scott berates himself for crying wolf before. He decides to deal with the problem himself – he’s been itching for some action all month. He puts on his visor and the upper part of his uniform, kicks the door and wheels outside, to find a huge tentacle monster.
He figures the tentacles are a nonstarter. He has to go for the gross, toothy, meat trunk. He finally decides to shoot the giant eyeball, though he has to dodge some tentacles. Scott realizes he has to get in close to hit the eyeball and the monster isn’t standing still for him. He realizes that to hit it he needs to get up and the only way is letting the tentacles take him… which he does.
The monster lifts him and, when he is opposite the huge eye, Cyclops fires. Hurt, the creature dives down into the ground and disappears.
Scott stumbles back inside to see Hank is still in his lab. Much to his chagrin. He crashes onto the couch and thinks they should probably have a conversation later about what’s going on here, and he has to wonder if his calm is a sign of a larger psychological problem. But not now. He takes the controller. He’ll just be here on the couch enjoying the rest of his calm evening.
Behind him, even more monsters creep up but Cyclops doesn’t notice…