[User]
<image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image>
Provide a full summary of the comic book.

[Assistant]
Wear the grudge like a crown (part 3)
Luca Aldine is Blindfold’s brother and he is one unbearable bodiless bastard. He’s a racist %#*& who killed his mother and was executed by the state. He also stole the majority of his sister’s power whilst in a ghostly form. Now, he exists as a telekinetic pair of eyeballs with whatever garbage body he can find. He was last seen flying away after an ass-kicking of a lifetime. He’s not been idle though. You don’t have to be psychic to feel the bitter months on him like a fart stink. He’s licked his wounds for sure, but all good supervillains know that a heroic drubbing is like an equestrian accident… sooner or later you have to get back on the horse.
Luca hates mutants on religious grounds. But he’s got a particular obsession above and beyond murdering x-types and savaging activists. Luca can peer through time and he can see chance and eventuality. Luca knows that David is destined to swallow his own species. He’s been waiting for David to go critical and he’s been keeping himself busy with gruesome assurances of a mutant-free future.
(flashbacks)
Luca, in various constructed forms, hunts down and murders mutant-rights activists and leaves his signature “the X-beast will eat itself” graffiti at each scene. He has been watching David from afar, such as when he went to visit the Church of the Happy Host and the Darwin’s Martyrs. Luca has never been able to properly predict David, so he has been reduced to simply eyeballing him and waiting for his chance to strike. The other part of the horrible prophecy is that the only one who can stop David from causing the terrible future is Luca’s own sister.
(Now)
David is caught along with dozens of other people in the new mutant girl’s powers. They have all merged forms so that only their faces protrude out of the homogenous mass of organic tissue. Blindfold holds Magik’s soulsword high in the air, about to strike the mass. But Luca, in a metallic form, has stopped her from swinging the blade.
Whilst trying to subdue Blindfold, Luca turns to the news crews and addresses them. He tells them the monstrosity will grow until it fills up the sky. But they don’t need to worry, though, as it will eat up every mutant they ever knew. It will then fall apart under its own weight, just like he saw. No genedevils, protesters or X-loving lobbyists will be able to stop it. This is where mutant-kind ends; right here, right now. The beauty of it is that they did it to themselves. He asks the TV crews if it’s worth the life of a broke-brained chick in a blindfold. Before he can finish though, he makes a strange sound and promptly explodes.
David, now out of the mass, stands behind him. As Luca explodes with energy, David tells him he doesn’t think it is. Everyone who was caught in the young girl’s powers is now free. Tempus immediately uses her time manipulation powers to put the unconscious girl in a stasis bubble. David smiles and tells her that isn’t a stasis field. He turns to the fragments of Luca Aldine’s body and captures them in a huge bubble in the air. Blindfold tells Tempus the girl isn’t a danger to them, not really anyway. As the young Angel flies down, he asks if he is the only one completely lost. One of the news reporters turns to Emma and tells her he can’t help but notice half the crowd is fading away.
Emma looks around her to see all the animals and out-of-towners who were caught up in the girl’s powers are now disappearing. David tells her they were never real and apologizes. David waves his hands and Tempus’s stasis field bursts. As Goldballs watches a strange apparition leave the girl’s body, he says he knew there was something strange about the people there. The apparition, enveloped in mist, is dressed in dungarees and has a chimney instead of hair. David introduces everyone to the Delusionist and tells them he has been on vacation from his brain.
When Magik says she doesn’t understand, David tells her he planted him there earlier in the morning. They saw and felt what David wanted them to see and feel. As Magik comes to terms with the fact she wasn’t just absorbed into a Cthulu-blob, David tells her it is very convincing. As the Delusionist reappears in David’s mindscape, it remarks on the fact it seems darker in his head. In the real world David winces at a pain in his head causing Blindfold to become worried about him. He dismisses the pain as Tempus asks who the girl is. He tells her that she’s nothing to worry at as she’s brain dead. He explains there was a thing with the Red Skull a while back and one of the nastier personalities tried to jump ship into the Skull’s brain. The Red Skull had stolen a bunch of flat liners from hospitals, so there was a bunch of bodies left over at the end. He needed a way to make everyone think a new mutant had appeared and he had an idea.
He stops speaking when he notices everyone staring at him in shock. As he asks why people are looking at him, Cyclops comes up and punches him square in the jaw and calls him sick. David replies that he prefers the term “pragmatic” and explains that Luca was killing their people. He needed to draw him out and make him think his prediction had come to pass. He also needed the world’s attention as today he stopped a serial killer with nothing but the empty shell of a poor girl and Cyclops’ egocentric limelight. David asks whom he’s hurt, to which Cyclops replies that he hurt himself. He says that he thought David came to kill him and he thought he hated him. David tells him to grow up as it’s not a popularity contest.
Suddenly, inside David’s mindscape, everything starts to shake and the various personalities run for cover. In the real world, David drops to his knees and clenches his head in pain. As Blindfold rushes over he angrily tells her it’s fine. He continues on and tells Cyclops he has also been lost in power and broken things. He even killed Xavier himself too. He doesn’t hate Cyclops as he doesn’t need to. They both know nobody can hate Cyclops more than he does himself.
Cyclops thinks for a minute and tells him that it is a popularity contest. People won’t fight with him if they don’t respect him and they won’t respect him if he doesn’t trust them. David rolls his eyes when Cyclops tells him that sooner or later he will have to pick a side. David starts mocking Cyclops and tells him there has only ever been one side. Cyclops replies that they don’t have to fight but David tells him it was never a fight. Magik points out that he cheated and David spins around to her. He angrily yells that their species is at stake and they need to stop playing Queensbury rules and get their hands dirty. When it comes to war, cheating is winning.
One again, a huge “earthquake” rips through his mindscape, and David’s nose starts bleeding as he yells in pain. Cyclops apologizes and tells him that they cheated too. David collapses to the floor, screaming, as red energy bursts from his mouth.
Inside his mindscape, the floors start ripping apart as all the personalities run around in terror. He muses that it comes storming from the walls, like something that’s been forgotten or restrained for eons. It shreds out of the cells and strips away the armor and control he has been building up for months. It shreds his mind like a piece of paper.
Cyclops kneels down next to him and asks Emma if they can help him, but she coldly replies that even if they wanted to they can’t. As David’s mindscape tears itself apart, he continues to think out loud at the devastation going on around him. Blindfold yells at Cyclops and asks him what he did. She cannot get inside his head, as it’s chaos. Cyclops tells her it’s called a pyrrhic, it takes too long to mature to be any good in combat. But if someone came along they couldn’t beat then it’s better to take them down after they are done, rather than not at all.
As David struggles, he says that he was weak and flawed and Xavier knew it. Emma and the Stepford Cuckoos explain that the pyrrhic is a psychic poison. It burrows in and it’s secret and sly. When it comes to the core and it has found the weakness inside, it drags it to the surface. Inside his mind, David sees numerous heads of Xavier floating around him. The Xaviers say things like “he’s too dangerous” and “out of sight, out of mind.”
Cyclops yells at David and asks why he didn’t trust him enough to tell him the plan. Blindfold screams for Emma to help David, but she tells her that it was designed too well and it plays on his fears. It makes them feel real and dredges up insecurities, disguising them as memories. Blindfold kneels next to David and mutters she doesn’t understand why nobody is helping him. Magneto tells her it’s not a matter of power or righteousness. When one is called upon to face themselves, then it’s a simple matter of self-belief.
Inside his mind, the Xaviers continue to insult David and prey on all his feelings of inadequacy. As the prison continues to collapse, he sees the Charles Xavier personality standing before him. Now free of his confinement he smirks at David and then disappears. The personalities start to attack David and drag him down to the depths of the now ruined landscape. All that David can wonder, though, is where Xavier will go. He needs an unconscious shell to inhabit and pilot. He wonders if he will take the child’s body as he did. Only now can David see how sick that was. David closes his eyes as he hears Blindfold scream. He guesses that he must have been correct and that Xavier has taken over the girl’s body, as there aren’t any others out there.
But he is wrong. In the real world, the golden skinned Xavier personality bursts through the stasis field containing Luca Aldine’s broken form.
Inside his mind, David’s personalities crowd around him. With his hands over his eyes, he can hear the screaming and shouts of violence in the real world. But it’s hard to know what is going on and it’s difficult to care about. He’s useless… weak… and a disappointment….


[User]
<image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image>
Provide a full summary of the comic book.

[Assistant]
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
David convulses as yellow energy swirls all around him and shoots up into the sky. He muses that they all knew it was coming but, instead of a thing of matter, it is of mind instead… the world worm that is his soul.
All the heroes gathered around him collapse to the floor and hold their heads in pain. Blindfold’s astral projection is unaffected and she can only watch as the heroes suddenly look to David. In a trance-like state, they say that David only wants to unite mutantkind, whilst Blindfold urges them to fight the feeling. It’s useless, though, as their souls leave their bodies and drift upwards towards David’s ever-growing yellow energy. The energy itself is now taking shape and has limbs and a head, and it starts to destroy any building its tendrils touch.
David wonders if it was loneliness that caused him to draw them in or whether it was a subconscious obligation to his father. As the souls are absorbed into the growing mass, he can only think that he was a bit too literal for his own good. Deep down, he really thought he would find a way to avoid all this and this shouldn’t be how the story ends. Around the world, other mutants also collapse as their souls are torn from their bodies and make their way to David.
As nearby civilians run from the destruction, David realizes he has become some kind of mind cancer that won’t stop lashing out in a blind rage at the world. The world has its own defenses and it mostly comprises of men shouting, shooting and driving the stakes up at each step. David thinks to himself that his mother was right and the world really is difficult to believe in. The Avengers are called in but David subdues them without much effort. Before he is taken down, Captain America orders a missile strike but the resulting explosion barely touches David, whose energy form now reaches high into space.
Around the world, more mutants fall but, on the battlefield, Blindfold hears a voice she can’t quite understand. She looks around to see where it is coming from but she still can’t hear what it is saying. She informs it that it’s too late, as her body has now arrived. Using her upgraded powers, Blindfold’s body flies to the center of the destruction and she glides up to David, saying that it’s time they talk. David laments to himself that he wants more time and that there is still enough of him left to wish he had done things differently.
As his mindscape melts around him, his gestalt form can only clutch his head and struggle to keep control. He regrets all the trickery and manipulation he subjected her to but he meant it when he said that he would shatter any future that would keep them apart. He thought he could find a way but his enemies and obligations were too many and heavy to bear. Every story has an end but he thought he could beat his and nobody would dictate his future except for himself. The surprise twist is the world isn’t that cute. He can already feel the numerous mutant minds buckling under their own weight and his gestalt form fracturing. The super organism will collapse and die, with mutantkind along with it. David complains that the other heroes seem find a way to escape their dark destiny as there is always a loophole for beautiful people. But not for him.
As he realizes the story is stronger than him, he wonders if there is a god behind it all and if they are listening. If they are, then he wants them to know he hates them for building a world he can’t escape from. He hates them for cursing him with his birth and the impossible truth that he cannot possibly overcome… his destiny.
As David continues to suffer, Ruth’s new form uses a sword to slash at the swirling mass of energy. Numerous faces appear in the mass and she can hear David beg for her to kill him. The energy attacks her and she hacks away at it in vain but it has little effect. She then splits her astral form from her body once more and willingly tries to merge with the energy. David pleads with her to stop but she is adamant that this is what she wants. David relents and Ruth enters his collapsing mindscape to see her boyfriend one last time.
Ruth can feel the battle waging on outside and asks if she has a chance to beat him. David replies that he hopes so but he doesn’t sound very positive about it. She tells him she came inside because she wanted to see him at peace, just once. David tells her that, for the first time in his life, he is almost whole again and all his personalities are part of him now except the Weaver and a few like it.
David suddenly remembers he absorbed the time manipulator, the Chronidon, and he quickly summons the powers of it.
The effects already begin to slip away from David but, for a short while, the universe gives him a consolation prize and time stops in its tracks. For Ruth and David, it is all they need and they begin to kiss. As they let passion take hold, they strip down until they are nothing but shining forms of energy. At the end of the world, before time restarts again, the two merge forms and make love.


[User]
<image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image>
Provide a full summary of the comic book.

[Assistant]
For We Are Many
As David and Ruth finish psychically making love, their astral forms start to separate, as David cannot keep time frozen anymore. They say they love each other and David apologizes as Blindfold’s form drifts away. David muses that the things that mean the most are only realized with perspective and distance. The things that stay with you forever are the ones that come to an end.
Blindfold’s astral form rejoins her physical body and she can only watch helplessly as David’s remaining control over his giant energy form breaks. As it grows larger, David once again apologizes, this time for murdering all of mutantkind. He looks down on Blindfold, who has hacking at the energy with her sword, and realizes she hasn’t the strength to stop him. He tries to stop fighting against her but he doesn’t have the power to do it anymore and he isn’t in control.
He morbidly realizes he is going to kill her and, inside his mind, he turns away as he doesn’t want to watch. He looks around his mindscape to see the Weaver, the only one of his personalities that resisted being absorbed into David. He looks at the giant, spider-like creature and wonders why it resisted him all this time. Surprisingly, the personality replies “I rule me” and a shocked David states that it’s his line. It doesn’t matter anyway because it was a lie; he never really had any control over himself. He starts to wonder what life would have been like if it had taken a different course. Not that it matters, as he is the slave of fate and whipping boy of destiny.
As Ruth starts to succumb to the powers of David’s energy form, he tells her he can’t help the sickness, so there’s no point raging against it. He begins to wonder again what it would have been like if he had better opportunities, healthcare or even better parents. Inside his mind, David inspects the tree-like display of timelines and looks at the fatal point on which they all converge. He wonders what the thing was that caused him to be the one to become tangled and tied to this future. He realizes that it was his father. His father’s shadow: duty and legacy. David could never match or impress him… and he could certainly never be him.
Speaking to Ruth, David tells her that “legacy” is just another word for burden. You don’t get to cry that it’s unfair though, and you don’t get to blame other people. You have to play the hand you’re dealt and if it was a *$%* hand that was stacked from the start then at least you still got to play.
Outside, Blindfold is being consumed by the swirling energy but, as she struggles, she hears a faint voice call out to her. She has been hearing the voice over the past day but she was unable to make it out. This time, though, she can hear it clearly and assumes that it’s because she is dying. As David stares at the converging point of the timelines, Ruth speaks to him and says that someone has been trying to pass a message on. She asks if he is listening closely and then reveals that David father, Charles Xavier, has been trying to tell his son he is proud of him.
David is stunned to hear this and the Weaver, now displaying David’s head on its body, comes forward. It says that self-belief, despite being so simple, is very important to everyone and he marvels that his father is proud of him. As the Weaver cranes its long neck down to him, David is dumbstruck to see that the enormous personality has his head. The Weaver pities David, calling him a split personality, and tells him he has been through so much. David tries to tell the Weaver that it is the split personality but, before he can finish, the two forms start to merge together. As their bodies mix together, David realizes the personality is the maker of dreams and shaper of realities. After the transformation, David is back to looking like his normal, human self and he discovers he is now whole at last.
With newfound confidence and abilities, David goes back to the timeline map and inspects it carefully. In the outside world, his massive energy form starts to explode, as the various psyches he absorbed rush out of him and back to their bodies. As David tries to find a timeline that isn’t doomed, he can’t help but muse on the fact his father is proud of him. It’s no effort for David to resurrect Agent Brand, Chamber and Karuso Tengo, who all died in the recent fight. Where does he stop though? Which kinks does he iron out and whom does he save? Does he save his mother? Should he save Soboto Tengo and should he let Luca Aldine still die?
In a lifetime of rage and chaos, he has killed gods, torn holes in creation and seeded new dimensions. For every moment of horror, happiness is also created as well. He could burn it all away and create a new world where they would say “Legion was right” but they would just end up as buggered as this one. Speaking to his father, David says he is not a god, as he isn’t that arrogant. He isn’t a judge, or even some acolyte trailing after him. He is just problematic, never-quite-fit, little him. People think that growing up is accepting responsibility, but it’s more than that. It’s knowing when to step off.
David continues to inspect the timelines and sees that it is knotted and mutantkind is always doomed. In the end, there is only one responsible thing to do and that’s to let history sort itself out. He decides to let the dimensions spiral and swirl, as he is sure they will continue to survive on their own. David smiles and says that it isn’t an unhappy ending, or even defeat. He refuses to submit to a universe where he cannot rule himself. With that, he raises his arms high above his head and smashes the knotted web of timelines. This isn’t death; this is never being born. As the timelines burst with energy, the darkness of the void cracks under the strain. Just as reality tears itself apart, David tells it he was too good for the place anyway.
Outside, Ruth watches helplessly as the world around her shatters and turns white. After a few moments, she finds herself sitting in her room at the Jean Grey School. Pixie tells her that Charles Xavier has just been killed and the school is going crazy.
Ruth is disorientated and she asks where David is, but Pixie asks who she is talking about. Ruth yells at her and clarifies she means Xavier’s son, David Haller. Pixie tells her that Xavier doesn’t have a son, to which Ruth falls to the floor in despair. A voice suddenly calls out to her and she realizes that it’s David, much to her relief.
Pixie watches on as Blindfold seemingly talks to herself again. David tells Ruth he is inside her head, and that is where he will always be. Pixie tells her that, if she is about to have some kind of meltdown and lose control, then she needs to tell them. Ruth smiles back at her and says that she is in perfect control. In fact you could say “I rule me.”
The things that stay with you forever are the things that come to an end.


[User]
<image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image>
Provide a full summary of the comic book.

[Assistant]
The Burning Blood – part one: Shattered Crystal, Scattered Dreams
Outside Providence Hospital, Anchorage, Alaska:The Shi’ar agent Davar (aka Erik the Red) orders his followers the Crystal Claws to rend them limb from limb, “them” referring to the police officers outside the hospital. “By the light of M’kraan,” the Crystal Claws chant, as they attack and jump through the glass window into the hospital.
Surrender the progenitors! they demand. One doctor protests and is brutally torn apart. Erik follows inside, disgusted at the humans. How can such a weak species be so important to the galactic firmament? He turns to the elderly couple huddling in the corner. Philip and Deborah Summers, he announces, progenitors of Shi’ar pain. The time has come to make amends…
Westchester, near the X-mansion:Their grandsons Scott and Alex (aka Cyclops and Havok) are currently facing the same foes. Having intended some practice outside the mansion, they were instead also attacked by Crystal Claws, whom Cyclops correctly identifies as Shi’ar. As he fires a blast, Havok wonders why they attacked them in broad daylight. Would it have mattered if they did it at night? Cyclops retorts. He counts 14 attackers left and suggest a full sweep. The brothers fire together and take them out.
What now? Alex asks. Scott suggests a talk with the man whose girlfriend is the empress of a star-spanning empire.
And so, soon inside Xavier’s school, they talk with Professor X. He tells them he has reached out to Lilandra through subspace transmission, but it may be hours before they hear back from there.
Alex jokes, since they can’t turn the Shi’ar over to the police, he guesses he should run over to the petstore for some birdseed? Cyclops observes their prisoners keep on chanting “by the light of M’kraan.” Invoking a crystal able to destroy all reality seems problematic.
Professor X finds he cannot break through their prisoners’ mental shields. Their minds have been programmed to repeat the chant, so they will not reveal any useful information.
That moment, Cyclops gets a phone call from the Anchorage Police.
Two hours later, Scott and Alex, dressed in civies, are in Anchorage. The police are somewhat suspicious that Deborah and Philipp Summers’ grandsons came in a Lockheed SR71. They are lucky they didn’t have time to round up their friends, Alex informs the cops. Scott adds diplomatically that an interest in aviation runs in their family and asks the sheriff to explain. He explains a big guy dressed in red with horns and his avian companions attacked them. They took the Summers but left a message the police can’t read. Scott announces the writing is Shi’ar. It says: “His time has come. The empire needs his burning blood to free the light of M’kraan. To save the galaxy. To spare the lives of the Summers’ progenitors, you must deliver to us the forsaken one.”
It’s a ransom note from outer space? the sheriff asks skeptically. Scott replies that, while he may have known Deborah and Philip for years, the lives of their son and grandsons are complicated. To save their lives, they have to find out who the “forsaken one” is.
Elsewhere:Adam X remembers, even though he should have been too young. He was an infant in a nutrition tank. The lab was burning. Strong hands saved him. He was given the name Adam and didn’t know why (in fact the name was written under his tank). He was never told the secrets of his past, instead he was raised in peace by Jonath, former Commander of the personal guard to the Shi’ar emperor. For their failure to protect the emperor from his son D’ken’s attack, Jonath and his people were exiled to Ch’reeshaara, where they became farmers.
Adam grew up there and Jonath taught him how to protect himself. When Adam came of age, he developed mutant powers with which he inadvertently hurt a friend during a sparring session. He could ignite the oxygenated blood of anyone in his vicinity, causing them excruciating pain… and he realized to find out who he was he would one day have to visit Earth.
The Present:A farm in Iowa. Adam sits in a field, meditating and at peace for the first time in many months. His heritage has been revealed to him. His fanatical Shi’ar pursuers have been eliminated. He has clarity now. And with that… finally hope.
He hears a crunching sound. Amused, he announces that, where he comes from, the plants would have told him he was coming. Earth plants don’t have much to say. After almost a year on this planet he still finds that disappointing.
The young farm boy trains his rifle at him. He has been sitting there for two days. His father says he has to get out! Standing on one hand, Adam introduces himself. The boy Jimmy Jenkins is surprised and asks how he does that. Adam jumps and throws several knives, which pin a rattlesnake that was about to bite the boy. He throws another spike when he realizes someone is trying to sneak up on him, but the spike hangs in midair frozen by Cable’s telekinesis.
Cable jokes he thought they’d both gotten over their extreme phase. He quickly explains that Cyclops and Havok contacted him. Their grandparents were kidnapped. They knew that X-Force had a few run-ins with a Shi’ar human hybrid with special abilities. Yes, he shares intel with the X-Men now. See, they can grow.
Cable shows Adam a hologram of Erik the Red… or “Davan Shakari,” as Adam X correctly identifies him, a devotee of former Shi’ar emperor D’ken. Adam adds that his religious cult is called the Crystal Claws. They believe that the Imperium should be bathed in the light of the M’kraan Crystal, because that will empower the Shi’ar to rule the galaxy. He thought he had destroyed their hidden base in Argentina weeks ago. His eyes flare with energy. He thought they were finally all dead. He thought he was done with this.
Cable understands. He knows how heavily the past can weigh on someone, but he’s time-traveling living proof that you can’t run fast enough or far enough to escape who you are. The Summers brothers want to meet him. They need his help. Cable vouches for them. They’ll be at the hotel Fort Des Moines. He asks Adam to talk to them, not fight. He’d go with them, but his team is currently MIA. Domino and he are trying to find them. He wishes him luck, then teleports away.
Adam wryly apologizes to Jimmy. Now he knows why he needs to mediate two days at a time. He wouldn’t have a taxi? Jimmy doesn’t, so Adam hitchhikes and recalls his past.
When his power manifested, he realized others would always look at him in fear. He wasn’t just a hybrid oddity. Ever since that day, he’s been running.
Suddenly, there is a light, followed by an attack of the two Starjammers Raza Longknife and Hepzibah. Adam dodges their attacks and realizes that means they were hired by the Imperium. Lilandra knows about his existence.
The two try to assault him from two sides. Calling him “forsaken one,” Raza shouts that he can choose whether they take him in dead or alive. He shouts his name is Adam, and his only choice is whether he leaves them dead or alive.
He manages to skillfully dodge their attacks and draws Hepzibah’s blood, allowing him to ignite it. Before that can happen, though, the two Starjammers are taken out by an optic blast and a cosmic energy blast respectively, courtesy of the Summers brothers. They found him, as Cable put a tracker on Adam. Havok mentions that they heard the Starjammers were after him. Adam bristles that he didn’t need any help, then demands who warned them. Erik the Red, Havok admits. Adam replies that Erik needs him to fulfil his mad dream of making him the emperor of the Shi’ar. Can they see why he wants no part of this?
Cyclops replies that that is not an option for his grandparents and asks him to come with them to their Blackbird. Adam recalls he saved Philip Summers’ life once and the old man gave him hope, so he says this with great regret, but their lives are inconsequential to the billions that would die in the civil war that the discovery of his existence would ignite.
They hear him but the X-Men deal with one problem at a time, Alex replies. Grandparents come first. Innocent kids and puppies, too.
Raza and Hepzibah take the chance and train their weapons on them. Bounty first, Corsair’s parents next! Cyclops implores them to just talk this out with Adam. That moment, they notice that he has run away.
Adam gained a burst of speed by igniting his own blood, but he didn’t expect the Summers brothers in front of him, teleported there by the Starjammer. He decides he has to end this now. As he fends off the Starjammers, he thinks that his entire life he has been nothing but a pawn in a game by others. When does he finally take control of the board? He decides right now. Having drawn the blood of Raza, Hepzibah, Cyclops and Havok, he ignites the blood of the two Starjammers. As the Starjammers fall, Havok admits to being confused. So is Adam. He asks how the Summers brothers are blocking his powers. In response, Cyclops and Havok blast him. Unimpressed, Adam asks if this was supposed to hurt.
They try to figure out how their powers don’t affect each other. He thought that would be obvious by now, a voice comes from the Starjammer that has dropped its cloak. On the stairs stands its Captain Christopher Summers aka Corsair, Cyclops and Havok’s father. Something Adam didn’t know. Alex and Scott ask if their father knows what is going on. They need Adam to rescue Chris’ parents. Corsair replies that he knows a lot more about this than the three of them do. He tells his sons to meet their brother, then he shoots Adam in the head.


[User]
<image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image>
Provide a full summary of the comic book.

[Assistant]
The Burning Blood – part two: This Fouled Birth, this Scorched Earth
Adam X lies on the ground, felled by Corsair’s shot. He’s dead! somebody shouts. Let’s hope so, Corsair replies coldly. Cyclops demands what he just did. Saved the lives of several trillion people, his father retorts. And as a bonus he is getting paid to do it. What did he say before he shot Adam? Corsair repeats “Say goodbye to your brother.” Technically he is their half-brother.
Havok shouts they needed Adam to save their grandparents. Corsair tells him to relax while helping up his partner Hepzibah. Imperium bounty on Adam says dead or alive. Erik the Red’s demands weren’t so specific.
Cyclops grabs him by the front of his outfit, shouting he killed him in cold blood. No, he didn’t, Adam groans. He is biogenetically engineered to handle a shot to the head. He has a healing factor? Scott asks as he helps him up. No, Adam replies, Corsair only shot a mass of arrector pili muscle fibers. He won’t be able to produce goosebumps for a few months, that’s all, he explains, as he takes a combative stance, ready to attack Corsair who asks if his organs are scrambled. Adam replies that they are exactly where they are meant to be. His brain is literally in one of his ass cheeks. Explains a lot, Corsair mutters. Adam challenges him to draw his gun again. Corsair refuses, since Adam would cut his hand off.
Cyclops gets between them and announces they have to talk this out like the incredibly dysfunctional family it seems they are.
A little later, they are on the Starjammer. Adam silently figures if a bounty has been put on his head by the Shi’ar Empire, it means that Lilandra and the Crystal Claws are trying to retrieve him. His existence has been confirmed to the ruling power and that very existence is a threat to them. So he has to prove to Lilandra that he is no threat while showing her that he could be.
Cyclops sighs that Professor X is going to kill them for leaving the Blackbird on the side of the road. Alex points out they locked the doors. They’ll be back before the state police can even write them a ticket.
Adam carefully ventures that he guesses they all have a lot of questions. He doesn’t, Corsair replies belligerently. Cyclops suggests they address the elephant in the room. Adam explains he only recently learned about the circumstances of his birth and much of that information was incomplete.
Corsair adds that Adam was part of Emperor D’ ken’s eugenics program - merging Shi’ar DNA with that of other species, in search of a way to advance the deteriorating evolution of the Shi’ar. Before D’ken killed their mother, he culled DNA samples from her.
Alex hugs Adam, announcing that makes him his little brother. Finally, he isn’t the youngest anymore. Corsair steps between them and reminds Alex he also has too much of D’ken for his liking…
Angrily, Adam grabs him by the front of his shirt and shouts he didn’t ask for any of this. Calming down, he insists he had nothing to do with any of this. He was told that, after D’ken’s reign fell into ruins, his followers destroyed all evidence of his immoral activities. The surviving remnants of D’ken’s elite guard, the J’atchhe, rescued Adam from the lab before his time of hatching. They lived in peace on an outback farming planet name Ch’reeshaara until the Crystal Claw sect found him.
Corsair adds that D’ken’s followers had gone into hiding, but over twenty years their number grew. Adam adds they said the Forsaken One would help them reclaim the throne. The man who raised him, Jonath, rejected their demands. Shakari responded by releasing toxin all over the world. They only had one skimmer that could withstand travel through a stargate. They sent Adam away while all the others died.
Adam addresses Corsair. He meant no offense to him but, though his mate meant so much to all of them, Adam has no emotional connection to her… or the father who means nothing to him.
Cyclops recalls Mr. Sinister taunted him about his brothers in the plural. Corsair fears there could be more, while Alex preens that he now has a little brother to boss around.
In the meantime, the Starjammer is in lunar orbit, about to reach the Blue Area. Cyclops explains that the air is breathable there, but he thinks Erik chose that area because of the X-Men history there, hoping to unnerve them. Here they fought the Imperial Guard for the life of Phoenix and lost.
Havok contacts the Inhumans to inform them about things going on in their backyard. They offer help but he asks them to stay out of Shi’ar politics.
Outside the ship, they find Shakari and his Crystal Claws waiting for them. Corsair remarks, if he hands over Adam X, he will lose his bounty. Shakari smirks that helping put Adam on the throne might mean great opportunities for those loyal to the cause. Corsair starts monologuing about the bad sides of civil war until Raza informs him the targets have been rescued. He was running out of material, Corsair replies.
Cyclops, Havok and a reluctant Adam attack the Crystal Claws, a plan Adam dislikes, as he would have to become everything he was born and bred for. The last sad hope for Shi’ar evolution. While he keeps the Crystal Claws busy, Cyclops and Havok tag team Erik the Red.
Int meantime, Adam easily ignites the electrolytes in the Claws’ exposed blood, aware that what he is doing to a few now, he could do from orbit to a billion. He does the same to Erik the Red, taking out all their foes, leaving his brothers suitably impressed. The Starjammers with the freed Summers grandparents join them. As the others are having their reunion, Adam feels he has no part in this.
Philip Summers recognizes him. He keeps getting him in sticky wickets. Adam tells him it is good to see him safe. Cyclops announces they can keep Shakari and the Claws in stasis and turn them over to the Shi’ar but what about Adam? Corsair replies that he set up a contingency plan in case this sent sideways. He sends out an alert and, a moment later, the Imperial Guard appears.
Cyclops gets in front of Adam, announcing he doesn’t want to fight them here again, but they will protect their brother. Adam tells him he appreciates that, but he is done running and fighting. What does he propose then? Gladiator asks.
Sometime later on Chandilar, Adam gives his idea to Empress Lilandra. She asks him if he is sure. He isn’t, but it is the only way he sees to spare the empire from a bloody civil war and to keep his head on his shoulders. Lilandra calls him problematic but admits he has done nothing to threaten her throne. He deserves a right to peace. She grants his request.
Later, aboard a Shi’ar dreadnought, Cyclops rages that it isn’t fair. Adam reminds him they discussed this on their way to Chandilar; it is the only way. Alex opines they could fight their way out. Ogling Gladiator, Adam disagrees. Gladiator announces they have reached Earth orbit.
The plan is for the Guardians’ telepath Oracle to make them all forget about Adam’s identity. She explains that she will leave fragments in their memories, enough to recall contact but not context.
Alex takes Adam’s hand, telling him it was pretty cool to have a little brother to boss around, even if only for a few hours. Even if it was only in his imagination, Adam grins. Scott awkwardly hugs Adam, telling him they should have been family. They are, Adam replies, even if they won’t remember.
Then Oracle reaches into all their minds, as she already did with Erik the Red and the Crystal Claws. Everyone has to forget who Adam X really is and, maybe by forgetting, he can find out who he should be.
Adam is returned to Earth, to the farm where his adventure started, not remembering, with a headache but feeling right.
He finds Jimmy again in the field and realizes his father never came because he can’t. Jimmy explains he hurt his back some time ago. Adam offers himself as a fieldhand and helps Jimmy fix the tractor. Jimmy asks for his last name. Neramani, Adam replies. Is that Italian? he asks Adam has no idea but, for the first time, he feels he can finally live without feeling someone is looking over his shoulder.
He is unaware that someone is looking over his shoulder, namely Mr. Sinister, who may or may not be watched by Erik the Red in return…


[User]
<image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image>
Provide a full summary of the comic book.

[Assistant]
Transformations
Some time ago:Warren Worthington, now the horseman Death, is in battle with his former friend turned deadly enemy Cameron Hodge who is wearing a battlesuit. Hodge swears to kill him, claiming the demon has promised him eternal life and, for all Warren’s demon wings, he is still the perfect Angel. An Angel? Warren repeats. Old news. Now he is Death. He shatters Hodge’s suit and decapitates him with his razor wings.
What Warren doesn’t know as he leaves is that Hodge’s head is still alive, hoping for his RIGHT soldiers to find him. Instead, the head is found and picked up by Apocalypse.
Eternal life in this state? The ancient mutant asks mockingly. He should have worded his deal with N’astirh more carefully. Hodge wants to scream in horror, but Death destroyed his vocal chords. Apocalypse’s hound Caliban opines that, having heard Hodge’s anti mutant rants, he prefers his silence. Calling him his hellhound, Apocalypse warns him to beware of deals with demons before they leave with the head.
X-Factor’s Ship over the Atlantic Ocean:Jean Grey puts a struggling baby Christopher to bed. She joins Cyclops and asks where everybody else is. He informs her that Bobby and Hank took their teenage charges to the city to watch a movie. Normal teenage behavior. Jean approves. They’ve earned some fun. Scott continues that Wolverine will pick them up afterwards and take them to the X-mansion. Jean asks about Warren. Somewhere on the Ship brooding probably, Scott opines. And Scott is not? she teases. He grumbles but smiles slightly.
Jean muses that a lot has changed for Warren… for her… for all of them. She has the memories of Madelyne and Phoenix in her head now. And through her reemerging telepathy she can feel Warren’s pain. They all need some time to readjust to their new reality.
Scott points out it isn’t all bad. They saved Christopher. He is another part of their new reality, Jean muses. Scott’s son with Madelyne, but genetically Jean’s, linked with her empathically…
And asleep at last, he points out and suggests they take advantage of the quiet as he kisses her.
That moment, Ship alerts them to Bobby and Hank’s return. It warns that their vessel is flying too fast and erratically. Something is wrong! That moment, they are joined by Archangel.
In the small ship, Hank and Bobby realize the controls are frozen and they cannot communicate with Ship. The next moment, the walls collapse. Iceman blocks them with his ice but it can’t hold as the walls crack. Iceman creates an iceslide and slides out of the Ship along with Hank. The Ship dismantles itself and the fragments fly everywhere.
Cyclops fires an optic blast at the remnants of the Ship while the other two join them.
Cyclops asks Ship why the crate it made tried to kill them. Ship speculates it wasn’t trying to kill them but call an absent piece of itself home. It was autonomic, beyond Ship’s volition. Such things have happened before. There are records.
That moment, they hear baby Christopher scream. Jean hopes it doesn’t mean he is as attuned to her moods as she is to his. She wants to head inside to get the baby, but the automatic door slams shut in front of her.
Ship apologizes for locking her out and rambles there was a similar occurrence two thousand years ago while Jean tries to telekinetically pry open the doors.
As Cyclops tries and fails to blast through the doors Ship loses control and begins to rearrange itself. Warren fears Apocalypse is doing this. He built Ship, didn’t he. Ship replies that he claimed to, but it doesn’t know. It fears it no longer knows itself.
Far beneath Kanchenjung Peak in Nepal lies a secret complex, belonging to Apocalypse, where he has brought Caliban and Hodge’s head. Watching the events on the Ship, Apocalypse muses he feared that day would come but hoped it wouldn’t come so soon. Caliban asks if it isn’t him doing it. Apocalypse replies he never completely controlled the Ship. It has begun another transformation cycle and X-Factor must stop it or die. For, if they fail and the Ship answers its creators’ call, it must arrive without living specimen. Caliban still doesn’t understand and Apocalypse doesn’t enlighten him further. He grabs Hodge’s head and, with a flick of a switch, he gives him back the ability to speak.
What does he want most in the world? Apocalypse asks. What any right-thinking human wants, is the reply. Mutants eradicated. X-Factor in particular, Apocalypse muses, and Worthington, his monster, their monster. Death is as much Hodge’s creation as Apocalypse’s. Hodge stole his Angel wings and gave Apocalypse the opening he needed. His destruction is his own doing. He suggests another collaboration.
Hodge is willing to do anything, as long as it ensures Warren’s destruction and the death of mutantkind. He is immortal! Hodge boasts and his hatred will last forever!
Apocalypse puts Hodge’s head into a giant battlesuit and asks if this body will suffice to accomplish his mission. Hodge, who can speak now, admits it is not the body he would have chosen, but it has potential.
Over the mid-Atlantic, Ship keeps on shifting. It doesn’t know why but suspects Apocalypse had previously damaged it to prevent it reverting to its original form. It would be grateful if they could restore control to it, but the hubs are deep inside it.
Iceman tells Beast to come along, as he creates an iceslide. They travel downward. Jean tells the others Christopher is nearby and Ship announces that, if Iceman can block that opening, a tunnel to the baby will appear.
They find Christopher and, with Ship’s direction, Cyclops tries to blast through a wall hiding the first hub. When he isn’t successful, Jean, her Phoenix persona taking over, tears the wall apart.
When the floor starts to shift again, Archangel orders the others out and sends his flechettes to blow up the hub. The others run and Iceman creates an iceshield between them and the explosion.
In his lair, Apocalypse muses that the Ship has stabilized but the outflow of information continues and the fate of their world may depend on this. Caliban informs him that X-Factor have survived and are emerging on deck. Neither a complete failure nor success, Apocalypse decides. He wonders whether he was right to choose them. He decides he cannot chance an indeterminate outcome. They must die. He puts a helmet over Hodge’s head and informs him his carapace is invulnerable and has weapons to counter X-factor’s powers. They will respond to his mental command. If he triumphs, he may command the design of his next incarnation. If he fails…
He won’t fail! Hodge claims. He rambles that the next body will be a human one, yet with all the powers this one possesses. And then he will come for Apocalypse!
As he is teleported away Caliban calls him a mad monster. Of his own making, Apocalypse agrees.
On deck, X-Factor are relaxing and Iceman has powered down to catch some sun. He asks Warren how he knew what to do with the wing knives. Warren doesn’t know, but Ship said there had to be damage.
Playing with Christopher, Beast muses that Ship is still running what he thinks is a series of protocols. Ship agrees; it thinks they are diagnostic, but it doesn’t know where they are sent.
Archangel announces they have a problem, as Hodge teleports in.


[User]
<image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image>
Provide a full summary of the comic book.

[Assistant]
Tools
From his headquarters, Apocalypse and his hellhound Caliban watch how Cameron Hodge, in a battle suit, is attacking X-Factor. Caliban points out that, due to Hodge’s enforced silence, X-Factor will believe Apocalypse is behind the attack. Apocalypse boasts that they will know it is him. Hodge is only a tool. As is he, Caliban admits. As is the Ship. As once was Death. Apocalypse agrees he has a use for tools, even unwilling ones. He is counting on that fool and his hate to destroy X-Factor.
Fused into a battlesuit, masked and without vocal chords, Hodge silently curses Apocalypse, even as he attacks the mutants, vowing that when this is over, Apocalypse will pay.
As they dodge his attacks, Iceman asks if Ship can help. But Ship can barely do anything, thanks to the strange data outputs it is suffering.
Blasting Hodge, Cyclops orders Marvel Girl to protect baby Christopher.
Hodge figures he knows X-Factor well enough to exploit their weaknesses, their greatest weakness being Cyclops’ son. The tentacles try to grab the baby. Jean telekinetically keeps them back but barely as the tentacles have repulsor fields. Cyclops blasts him again but the blast is reflected onto Archangel and hits his wing. He falls and Hodge sneers as he ricochets Cyclops’ blasts at the others. Though he intends to kill them all, it is Warren he hates personally.
His tentacles grab Archangel. Jean shouts at him to drop him but finds her TK cannot free Archangel. He uses his wings to slice the tentacles and figures Apocalypse is behind all this.
Hodge silently bristles that Warren doesn’t acknowledge him as the true threat. He fires several flechettes at Cyclops, who manages to deflect them, but Jean cannot stop them and is hit on the head by one. As she falls, she still manages to surround the baby in a protective forcefield.
Cyclops tries to grab his son and is hit by a tentacle. Iceman on an iceslide manages to grab the baby.
Archangel insists their foe’s weapons are similar to his. It must be Apocalypse. Beast is not quite certain. Hank tries to get at their foe’s mask but is swatted away. He shouts at Iceman about his belt. Bobby realizes what he means. He wears the belt to keep his power down, but it also goes the other way. He begins to freeze their foe up and Hodge realizes he poses the biggest threat. He attacks Iceman, who throws the child towards the others.
Hodge sees what the mutants don’t, that Christopher protects himself with a forcefield, revealing his own power. As Hodge fires at Beast, Warren tries to save the blissfully unaware infant.
Watching the battle, Apocalypse opines that all have fallen, save for Death and the infant. It is all but over. Caliban observes he sounds almost sad. He can stop this. Apocalypse admits he believed X-Factor were worthy examples of what humanity may become. He had hoped… but no, because they failed Ship will answer the call and make its journey devoid of life. In time, there will be others.
Fighting tentacles, Warren shouts at Beast to wake up. Christopher is up there! Beast gathers himself and springs into action, while Hodge tries to tear out Warren’s wings once again.
Beast sees Christopher atop their foe’s head, his carapace somewhat opened. He believes that he and Iceman caused the damage, unaware that it was caused by the baby’s forcefield. He grabs the child and takes him away, while Archangel frees himself and rambles about Apocalypse, much to Hodge’s displeasure.
Archangel flies toward him and slices the top off the carapace. Before they can see who is under it, the armor is transported way and teleported to Apocalypse’s lair.
Caliban points out his Death succeeded. Apocalypse tells Hodge he failed, therefore he will not equip him with a new, superpowered body. But perhaps it was inevitable: by concentrating on Death and X-Factor his focus was too narrow. He ignored another target, one that his Right might have found profitable. Meaning what? Hodge demands. Apocalypse replies he has been watching Genosha closely. Humans there have made mutants their slaves. Are the many mutants not greater that those five specimen? Six counting the child, he adds.
All mutants must die, Hodge decides. And yet, as tools, mutates may have their uses. He promises to give the matter some thought and teleports away.
Apocalypse grins and hopes his hate of mutants may prove as useful to Apocalypse as it has in the past. Caliban asks why he let him escape. To return to the Right as his tool, Apocalypse replies. His attacks will in time force mutants to grow stronger. Caliban points out Hodge failed and X-Factor survives. Does that mean Apocalypse too has failed?
Elsewhere, Cyclops asks if Beast has learned any more about the data Ship is sending. He is working on it but getting nowhere. He mentions when he reached for Christopher before he saw him glowing. Could he have a forcefield? Scott doubts it and points out he is too young to manifest any powers. Jean suggests he was lit from the robot’s glow or whatever was driving that thing. Archangel insists Apocalypse is behind this. That thing knew his worst fear: that he’d never fly again. Bobby agrees. The robot certainly came armed against them, and it worked until it went too far. Warren muses those demon wings may not be all bad.
Suddenly, there are tremors throughout Ship and they lose balance.
Apocalypse and Caliban watch as Ship flies away. Apocalypse announces X-Factor were his finest creation and therefore he was loath to lose them. He is pleased they succeeded in defeating Hodge. He adds that he doesn’t know where Ship is going but its creators – the Celestials – are calling it home.
Caliban asks what Celestials are. Giant beings like gods who judge worlds and destroy the unworthy. He met them long ago and took the sampling device they left behind for his own. It became his Ship and taught him many things. When he gave it to X-Factor, he planned to send them to the Celestials as examples of the best Earth had to offer. He hoped this might buy Earth time, before they returned to judge the planet. Now it is out of his hands. If the Celestials find them of interest, it may buy Earth time it needs for more of the strong to emerge. If not, then he may well have condemned Earth…


[User]
<image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image>
Provide a full summary of the comic book.

[Assistant]
untitled
Washington DC, the Capitol:A hearing is taking place in the Senate.Dr. Valerie Cooper is called to testify. She announces she thinks that this is a waste of time. X-Factor has already submitted its report regarding the events at the Latverian embassy. The senator points out this is a hearing. Val interrupts that it’s a publicity stunt! It’s part of this government’s continued effort to vilify mutants. If the Avengers had handled this, they’d be given medals. But it was mutants, so naturally suspicion rules.
The senator slams down his gavel and orders her to contain herself to answering questions. Are she and her team ready for some tough questions? Bring it on! Val snaps back.
One of the senators states they are looking at events from last December 24th at the Latverian embassy.
Valerie Cooper’s narration / flashback:Val continues one would think that it would have been closed because of the holiday. But Latveria doesn’t celebrate Christmas, so it was open. It was late in the day and they weren’t expecting trouble, which is when four masked costumed beings with superpowers entered attacking the guards.
The leader kills the receptionist with an energy blast. One of his comrades asks if that was necessary. He retorts that a fatality up front ensures fewer further down.
They dare! an angry voice booms as Dr. Doom shouts they will regret that and fires an energy blast at them. A third member, a woman called Imbolc, identifies him as a Doombot and creates a shield of red energy. She orders their leader, Samhain, to take him. Samhain destroys it with his green energy. He orders the others to round everyone in the embassy up and tells the fourth member, Lughnasa to secure the door. He creates a shield to do so. Samhain orders the second woman, Beltane with him as they walk up.
Present:X-Factor leader Havok explains their names were Samhain, Beltane, Lughnasa and Imbolc. The names of the four witches’ sabbats. When asked if they were witches, Havok replies they were mutants. There are quite a few in Latveria. When X-Factor were alerted to the situation, they were ready to move in.
Flashback:Actually, Polaris and Havok berated Val Cooper for ruining their planned vacation in Martha’s Vineyard.
Val shows them the video of Samhain in which he explains that they are planning to change Latveria. They are calling upon the United States to join them, oust Victor von Doom from power, and change their country into a democracy. If the US refuses, they will take several steps, starting with killing everyone in the embassy. They have 24 hours to meet their demands, or people start dying.
Present:And that’s when X-Factor were brought in to handle it, the senator states. No, Havok replies. The senator asks he thought X-Factor was created as a first response team to situation that involved mutants. Havok explains the UN didn’t see it that way. Since the situation involved an embassy and demands to change a nation’s status, the UN got involved. And they went to the Avengers.
And they went to X-Factor? the senator asks the next member of X-Factor, Quicksilver, who explains since it involved Doom and Latveria, the Avengers fobbed the case off to the Fantastic Four. And they came to X-Factor claiming since mutants were involved, this made it their problem.
The senator points out, the FF told them a very different story. The Avengers said they were battling a Skrull invasion. The FF were battling… Impatiently Quicksilver interrupts, he is sure they had their reasons, but he doesn’t believe them. Why not? he is asked. Quicksilver believes they didn’t want the negative publicity. Don’t they watch TV or read newspapers? Said news shows J. Jonah Jameson calling the Latverian terrorists heroes for standing up to the premier villain in the world. With public reaction turning to favor the terrorists the FF fobbed the case off to the mutants. Who cares about their reputation?
The senator still doesn’t believe that interpretation. And where was Quicksilver, when this was going on? Elsewhere, Pietro replies curtly.
Flashback:Namely asleep in his quarters in Attilan on the moon, until his wife Crystal shakes him awake telling him it is a call from X-Factor. Displeased, Pietro complains he told them he was going away for a few days for a break. It seems they need him, Crystal replies.
In the townhouse, Havok impatiently wonders where the rest of the team is. Bringing a plate of donuts, Val tells him they will be along soon. The next moment, she drops the plate when Lockjaw teleports in with Quicksilver, who informs her she is very jumpy. He is aware of the case and asks what he is supposed to do. Havok tells him he has a special assignment for him. He has a special assignment while the others are attacking the embassy? Pietro asks. Havok clarifies they are not attacking the embassy. Then what’s happening there? Pietro asks munching on a donut. Havok belatedly realizes he is pointing to a TV screen, where they see Strong Guy and a horde of Multiple Man’s dupes trying to storm the embassy.
Strong Guy runs right into the shield Imbolc has created in front the embassy. Madrox sends a swarm of dupes to get over the wall. Imbolc is about to panic. Lughnasa tells her the door is secure. What about the window? Imbolc states. The windows are polycarbonate security glass. Unbreakable. A moment later, Strong Guy breaks through them.
Samhain swears then fires his green energy blasts at him. Guido shouts at Madrox to get out. Samhain marvels at how he is able to resist his attack. He gives it all and Guido is thrown out of the embassy.
When Madrox asks if Guido is ok, Guido shouts at him to get back then tries to get rid of the kinetic energy by pounding the ground.
Polaris flies herself and Havok to join them. Havok demands what they were doing here while Lorna is worried about Guido. He explains they hit him with some mystic flame. If he were human, he’d be dead. As it was, he absorbed it, but it hurt.
Alex points out he is still waiting for an answer. Jamie tells him they had a plan. They saw the situation and figured they’d handle it. Alex shouts they came off with some half-baked plan that didn’t work. It worked fine, Jamie counters. They weren’t an attack, they were the distraction:
The present:A distraction from her? a senator asks Wolfsbane, who explains she is the most stealthy. She was to scope out the area.
Flashback:While she did that, she heard some things by eavesdropping on the imprisoned embassy staff. One of them announces he hopes they’ll get rid of Doom. Another sarcastically suggests he say that bit loud. His internal monitor devices might miss it. Yet another voice claims things are fine under Doom. Country’s never been more secure. What is he sniffing and can he have some? another asks sarcastically.
A voice behind Wolfsbane calls her name. It is a vision of a corpse-like Reverend Craig, calling her “daughter” and blaming her for his death. He calls her a monster. Rahne turns human and curls up on herself.
Beltane announces they have a prisoner and Samhain crows they have been handed a new tool against X-Factor. If they attack again, one of their own will be the next fatality…


[User]
<image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image>
Provide a full summary of the comic book.

[Assistant]
untitled
A Congressional hearing:A senator tells Havok the American people have a right to know… They have a right to know nothing! Havok replies sharply. They did their best under the circumstances, and no one could have done better! The senator sharply interjects they destroyed a police car. That was not his intention, Havok replies. It just happened. And the police provoked it, after Havok had attempted to calm the situation, once they’d learned of Wolfsbane’s situation.
Flashback:Wolfsbane has been captured by the four Latverian mutants and hoisted on an X-shaped cross on the roof of the Latverian embassy. On the ground, Havok asks Polaris if she can get Wolfsbane down but she can’t, as the cross is made of wood and she is tied by rope.
Havok steps forward toward the embassy and introduces himself. Samhain fires some energy at his feet. Very impressive, Alex comments and his own energy flares. He could return the favor and bring the building down. Kill them and everyone in there. He’d rather not as it would be a ton of paperwork.
Imbolc asks from inside: how do they know if they open the door, that the police won’t open fire? They’ll have to take his word for it, Alex replies. She lets down her energy shield for Havok to enter.
A cop behind the car has a clear shot and is ordered to take it. He fires at Imbolc but she raises her shield again. A furious Havok whirls around and fires a blast at the police car.
Present:He was pissed, Havok explains. That’s his explanation? an elderly senator asks. He melted a police car! Havok retorts he had promised she’d be safe if she opened the door. The police then undercut him. It was a miscommunication, the senator points out. It was a stupid decision Havok retorts. It angered him and he retaliated. They should thank him. Thank him? the senator echoes. He is welcome, Alex replies. Why should they thank him? the senator clarifies. Because his raw and angry reaction convinced the Latverians that he was legit. That if he gave his word, it could be trusted. And if his word was violated, there would be consequences. So she let him in.
Flashback:Inside the embassy, Havok now faces Samhain, Imbolc and Lughnasa. He asks for their group’s name. The Latverian Liberation Front? Mutants against Doom? Samhain replies they don’t have a name and how does he know they are mutants? Alex explains they have a swarm of nanobots permeating the air through DC. If a mutant enters, they get tipped off.
Present:How did he know they were mutants? a senator asks. Reed Richards told him.
Flashback:So they are from Latveria? he asks. Samhain replies he may have heard of one of the former members of his tribe, young Victor. He goes by Doctor Doom now. So this is personal? Havok asks. Oh yes, is the reply.
Outside the embassy are protesters. Val Cooper fights her way through the crowd shouting for Multiple Man. Madrox asks the officer to let her through. He brings Val up to speed. She is shocked when she sees Rahne tied up on the roof, guarded by Beltane.
Polaris flies up to attack her. Beltane creates a projection from Lorna’s subdued memories. It’s Lorna’s mother as a zombie blaming Lorna for killing her. Lorna is shocked and argues when her “mother” blames her for the airplane crash.
Rahne awakens, turns to her wolf form and tears free and attacks Beltane. When the projection disappears, Lorna shouts at Rahne to stop. Rahne shifts back and is horrified to see how she has savaged the other woman. Then she claims she had it coming.
Inside the building, Samhain has noticed the noise. Havok suggests that would be Polaris freeing Wolfsbane. When Samhain asks if that is a joke, Havok counts down correctly to the moment when Wolfsbane comes tearing through the wall. Furious, she dares the Latverians to fight her. Samhain fires an energy blast which she easily dodges. She is stopped from injuring him by Imbolc’s shield. Havok blasts her from another direction.
Samhain, Lughnasa and Imbolc run through a door, which they shut in Havok’s face. Lughnasa blocks the door from outside with a mystic shield but it will only hold a few minutes. As they run down the stairs, Samhain announces they’ll blow the place up. He wants to get back to the main foyer. Their people should have set up the explosives by now. He’s really going to do it? Imbolc asks. How are they better than Doom then? Samhain retorts they have to show the world they are serious. Imbolc protests, noting that they have to set an example! Killing them is what Victor would do! That’s how he will learn! Samhain insists. He asks if the explosives are prepared.
Instead, they find their flunkies in the foyer, unconscious. What the hell happened? he shouts. He happened, Victor von Doom announces. Genuflection might be appropriate now.
Samhain fires a blast at him. Another doombot, he figures. This is getting tiresome. Easily deflecting the blast, Doom agrees, it is. Samhain doubles down with his attacks, admitting this ‘bot is more powerful. Doom sighs, the obvious answer hasn’t occurred to him yet. He orders Maximoff to explain it to him. Quicksilver appears to explain that this is indeed the genuine article.
Present:Quicksilver explains to a disbelieving senator how he found Doom. The Fantastic Four told them he was probably still in New York. They had just defeated some plan of his about drug-addicted youths.
The senator points out there are ten million people in New York City. Pietro explains it wasn’t ‘that hard. Everyone has to stay somewhere and Doom’s tastes tend to run toward the luxurious. So he checked the fanciest hotels in Manhattan…
Flashback:…and finally found Doom in a luxurious suite playing the piano. “In the Hall of the Mountain King,” good choice, Pietro opines. Doom coolly identifies him as “Lehnsherr’s boy.” Correct, is Pietro’s curt reply. He’s needed. Indeed, where and for what? Doom asks.
Present:A senator asks how he couldn’t know. It was all over the papers and TV. Pietro shrugs that Doom doesn’t see it as his responsibility to stay abreast of current events. He is asked how Doom reacted. Not well, he begins to narrate…
Flashback:Doom orders Quicksilver to get him there immediately. Quicksilver warns him not to say that unless he means it. Of course, he means it. When Doom becomes insulting, Quicksilver takes him to Washington at full speed. When they’ve arrived, Quicksilver asks if he is ok. Does he need anything? Doom orders him to stand aside and regally vomits into the snow.
Later, Doom reflects Samhain’s power back at him and the young man falls. Imbolc warns him to stay back while trying to hold up a shield. She dares bark orders at him? he shouts. Do they still not understand the gravity of their situation?
Unexpectedly, Havok blasts him and orders Imbolc to get her friends and get out. Is he on their side now? she asks. He just wants this to be over!
Present:One senator asks Val what about the one on the roof, Beltane? Val replies she is still in the hospital under guard. He asks if she has no problem with X-Factor enlisting the help of Dr. Doom. Val points out they saved the people in the building. That was their job. And Doom? Val replies he is a supervillain. At some point he will be brought down. They always are.
The hospital:Wolfsbane sits at the bedside of the sedated Beltane, praying. Samhain enters and orders her out. So he is recovered? she asks. The three Latverians in civilian clothing repeat his order. Rahne points out this was a mistake but they clearly don’t believe her.
She steps outside the room and sees Dr. Doom. They are all his, she remarks. He enters the room and a green energy field rises. A nurse asks Rahne what is going on in there. The Doctor is in, she replies.


[User]
<image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image>
Provide a full summary of the comic book.

[Assistant]
Kidnapped
Nighttime in Osaka, a rainy dinghy street:Logan drags Jubilee into one of the buildings and announces that he heard there might be someone here interested in some fresh merchandise. The men at the table call him a gaijin and order him to get lost. Logan shoves Jubilee forward and explains that she is different. A genuine mutant.
One of the men orders Jubilee to show what she’s got. She creates some very weak firecrackers. The men laugh. Just last week, they brokered a girl who could burn through steel plates! they boast. One man gets closer to Logan and explains the clan that took over Dai Kumo’s old turf is looking for the special ones. No matter what level of powers they have.
Suddenly, he stabs a knife into Logan’s chest and asks why they should share their commission with some smelly gaijin?
Impaling him from behind with his claws, Logan retorts that he might have asked himself that before he was dead.
Another man attacks with a katana, while the other two threaten Jubilee with a knife. Logan hits the one man in the face and orders Jubilee to light them up where the sun don’t shine.
Jubilee lights up her fireworks next to the men’s groin area and very quickly they run outside, leaving behind the only female member of the gang. She has drawn her knife but, suddenly, two thrown blades nail her to the wall, courtesy of Logan’s old friend Yukio. She had a feeling he would be here. The police are already on their way. She suggests they make their exit before they are stuck answering awkward questions.
They go to a ramen stall. Jubilee praises Yukio for her slick moves with the knives. Is she a ninja? Not hardly, she is an adventurer. Logan asks Yukio what brings her to Osaka. Her usual haunt is Tokyo.
She takes out a photo of two girls. She was hired by an orphanage to find these two sisters, Yurei and Hino-chan. The parents died in a housefire when the girl were toddlers. The orphanage directors thought Hino-chan was a pyromaniac and left her locked up, but she melted the lock. They think she used a blowtorch, but Yukio knows better. She also suspects the girl has congenital analgesia and is probably impervious to psychic pain as well. Yukio continues how Yurei was mistaken as some child prodigy escape artist, because locked rooms could not contain her. The thing is, she can phase her molecules through solid matter. She teleports too and can phase and teleport anything she touches. Yurei is hypersensitive to pain both physical and psychic.
While Logan studies the photo, he explains Xavier heard about mutant kids being abducted and wanted him and Jubilee to check that out. These two seem to be likely candidates for his little academy in Westchester.
Yukio reminds him he mentioned something about the Yakuza, saying something about the gang that took over Dai Kumo’s. He was a bigtime oyabun around here. Ligan knows who he is and where his turf is. Shall they go there and rattle a few cages?
Jubilee asks if she can have a noodle refill first. Yukio orders for her.
Elsewhere, Journalist Reiko Sato reports from Shinsenkai, where a yakuza-owned nightclub has apparently been raided by another gang. She describes a popular aqua-themed eatery occupying a site that was once the HQ of the criminal clan run by Dai Kumo. She walks into the devastated building, explaining the yakuza who survived this raid fled and have taken their dead and wounded, so there are no witnesses. Passers-by noted flashes of what seemed to be fireworks from inside the building.
The police are baffled by the mysterious claw marks. Reiko wonders aloud if ninja were involved, noting the shuriken stuck in the table. She walks down to the cellar which includes a cellblock, raising the question who was locked up here. One of the cells is lined with asbestos and below it is a mysterious foil. A scorched schoolgirl uniform blazer was lying on the futon. The brass button is from the Kondo orphanage school in Tokyo.
While the report is shown in the news, Logan, Jubilee and Yukio surround a tied-up Yakuza member, who warns them they have no idea what they are meddling with. There are others involved who will chew them up and spit them out. Unimpressed, Yukio demands where the kids they had locked up in those cells are now. The man replies he was an underboss in Kumo’s clan, before he started his own. They have a system of honor. He will not betray Kumo, no matter how they torture him.
Wolverine unsheathes his claws. They traffic children and he has the gall to claim he has honor? Don’t worry, no one’s gonna work him over. He was smart enough to bail on Dai Kumo before he gave him and his crew his just dessert… He cuts through the ties. The man identifies him as Patch. He was the one who… The one and only, Wolverine interrupts him. Sliced and diced his pet tiger too. He holds his claws in front of the man’s face. Where did the kids go?
A little later, the three of them (now in working clothes) are in a cab on their way to the Aquarium. The cab driver, taking in their costumes, wonders that the aquarium seems a strange place for a manga and anime convention. What characters are they supposed to be? He becomes even more doubtful, as the venue seems closed. Pre-opening event for gold ticket holders, the heroes assure him. Very exclusive and low key.
However, when he has left, Wolverine admits this joint is locked up tighter than a clam with lockjaw. How are they getting in? She has her ways, Yukio replies evasively. Inside the aquarium are several people. Two men are leading a tied up and blindfolded Hino-Chan. Watching a fish tank are a middle-aged woman in widow’s garb and a smaller woman in a cloak.
Calling the other one “snow maiden,” the older woman praises her performance. She is almost inclined to forgive her for allowing the wraith child to escape. Their buyer is very disappointed but still anxious for the sale of this fire-child. So, she will oversee the sale and make sure the buyer is satisfied. The cloaked woman promises not to fail her and calls her nee-san. The older woman chides her for insulting her by rendering her name in her inferior language. Use Mandarin! Obediently, the cloaked woman calls her Jie Jie, most auspicious elder sister.
The two guards put Hino-chan into a tank. Angrily, she cries that Yurei will find her and then they will all be sorry. She is put under the fish tank’s false bottom.
The cloaked woman praises Jie Jie’s idea to transport the merchandise in fish tanks. The baby goblin sharks are the crowning touch. No custom inspector is going to stick their arm down there.
That moment, the three heroes arrive and attack. The cloaked woman drops her cloak and reveals herself as Lady Deathstrike, who promises to deal with the interlopers. She slashes at Wolverine. Jubilee distracts the guards with her fireworks, allowing Yukio to take them out.
Deathstrike stabs her finger-claws into Wolverine’s chest. He knocks her away. He sinks down but promises his healing factor can handle it.
Jie jie announces the amateurs have had their turn, now it is the turn of the professionals. Cue for several red-garbed Hand ninjas to drop from the ceiling and attack the heroes.
Wolverine is surprised the Hand is involved. While heroes and ninjas are fighting, Jie Jie orders Deathstrike to load the merchandise onto the ship and accompany it to its destination.
Wolverine shouts for someone to stop her. Yukio and Jubilee race after Deathstrike. Lady Deathstrike knocks Yukio down and grabs Jubilee. She warns her not to use her powers or Deathstrike will tear her throat out. She figures Jubilee may be of interest to the buyer.
Wolverine tries to break free of the ninjas. He stabs his claws into the aquarium, which then bursts allowing him to free himself. He calls for Yukio. She is in the water and shouts at him to get to the freighter at the end of the pier.
The ship has already left and he helplessly sees Jubilee aboard. A voice tells him she can take him to her. If he takes her hand. It is a young girl in a schoolgirl uniform – Yurei. He does and the two disappear.
Yukio wonder at this and gets stabbed in the back by Elder Sister, who announces she will have to get to Shanghai as well.


[User]
<image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image>
Provide a full summary of the comic book.

[Assistant]
untitled
When Jubilee was abducted by a group of criminals who specialize in trafficking mutant children, Wolverine trusted a young mutant girl in a school unform – Yurei – to teleport him to the kidnappers’ ship. Instead, they find themselves in a harbor surrounded by giant crates. As Wolverine takes out the gang members that attack him, he asks why she didn’t take him to the ship. Yurei explains they are in Shanghai, the ship’s destination. As he stabs two men, he asks annoyed if he is going to have to slice and dice thugs for two days until the ship arrives. Yurei explains she did a time skip into the future, the ship will arrive in twenty minutes!
Suck on this yang guizi! one man leers as he shoots Wolverine. The bullet hits him in the shoulder. Wolverine is decidedly unimpressed. Yurei grabs the gangster and teleports him into the tiger cage in a zoo. She wishes the tigers “bon appetit” in both Japanese and Mandarin before disappearing and leaving the gangster behind.
On the ship is the gangsters’ leader, a sour elderly woman addressed as Elder Sister (or Jie Jie), surrounded by several Hand ninjas. She tells Lady Deathstrike she is here because the agent for the purchaser is meeting them at the pier. Deathstrike will see to the unloading while Elder Sister finalizes arrangements with the agent. She asks Deathstrike if she has secured the secondary package. They don’t know if they have seen the full extent of her powers. Deathstrike replies that she is in an extremely confined space. Any explosive burst strong enough to affect an escape would kill her.
In the small box in a bigger container, the tied-up Jubilee tries in vain to use her explosives, although slowly they break her bonds while the container is unloaded into the harbor.
Deathstrike stands on the container. At the bottom, Elder Sister warns her ninjas they must be wary of the agent. He is as crafty and ruthless as his masters. She wonders where the local thugs she hired to secure the pier are.
The driver tells Elder Sister that the eyu ren in the back of his car is waiting to oversee loading. He says she will sign the waybill. Elder Sister replies she will only hand the merchandize over to the official agent. She does not deal with subordinates!
In the crate, Jubilee has freed her hands and now tries to use small explosives to open it from the inside.
The driver warns Elder Sister she’d rather not meet the Russian. She reacts haughtily.
From inside the truck, a voice reminds her she has been paid and not to bother him with trivialities. Hand the package over or she will face a wrath she cannot comprehend.
Elder Sister is at a loss for words, then announces that is the voice she heard on the telephone. She gives orders to open the container. Deathstrike immediately notices the second package has escaped.
One of the gangsters arrives shouting some crazy lo fan has just hacked apart his whole crew and he is coming this… Elder Sister shoots him for compounding his incompetence by speaking to her in Toisanese. Deathstrike asks her if she is alright.
Wolverine appears with Yurei and orders them to let the girls go and save him the trouble of making a bloody mess!
Jubilee uses the opportunity to blind Deathstrike momentarily with some fireworks and runs to his side. He commends her for getting the better off these mooks. Yurei identifies the container they put her sister Hino-Chan in.
Annoyed, Elder Sister demands someone kill the hairy mutant without damaging the merchandise. Deathstrike attacks and the fight is on. Jubilee keeps the Hand ninjas busy with her fireworks while Yurei kneels at the box, trying hear Hino-Chan.
Elder Sister orders a ninja to knock her out before she can teleport and another to bring the forklift here.
In the meantime, Deathstrike gets the better of Wolverine, and Yurei and Jubilee both beat their foes.
Jubilee and Wolverine face the ninjas back-to-back, while Yurei teleports her foe into a minefield.
Jubilee suggests a switch. They switch foes. Wolverine attacks the ninjas and Jubilee blinds Deathstrike, allowing Wolverine to strike at her.
Yurei returns and tries to open the crate holding her sister. Elder Sister gives orders to take her down but not to kill her.
A ninja takes Yurei out just as Wolverine is about to attack Elder Sister.
Suddenly, the back of the car opens revealing the client to be Omega Red, who shouts they are preventing the completion of his mission.
He attacks Wolverine with his tentacles and fists, shouting the yaytsegolovy at rhwtyuratem want the wraith girl and the fire girl, so who is Omega Red to deny them?
Elder Sister tells the ninja who carries the unconscious Yurei that the Russian demon will make short work of their foes but they need to get the packages off the pier. She will drive the truck herself, if she must!
Struggling against Omega Red’s life-sapping tentacles Wolverine warns Jubilee back. Of course, she doesn’t listen and tries to blind the Russian. He pushes her back with his tentacles, enraging Wolverine. He slashes Omega Red’s chest. As he frees himself, he warns the ninja guarding Yurei and the crate with Hina-Chan to let them go or this is gonna hurt more than he can imagine.
Cue for Omega Red to kick Wolverine in the face. He swears to make him pay. He is distracted by Elder Sister running the truck into something. The next moment, he is hit by a blaster fired by a blonde woman.
Jubilee tries to help Wolverine up. She thinks they have some new player. She is right. Sabretooth tells the blonde, Birdy, to get ready to zap the hairy Canuck and his girlie friend if they decide to become rambunctious, while he takes possession of the little darlings in the back of the truck…


[User]
<image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image>
Provide a full summary of the comic book.

[Assistant]
untitled
A small plane flies over the East China Sea, steered by the telepath Birdy. Jubilee warns Birdy they are both waking up, but the woman retorts she has her hands full. Jubilee has to deal with them, “them” referring to Sabretooth and Wolverine.Sabretooth angrily demands what he is doing in here and why is the hairy runt not dead. Wolverine orders Jubilee to get out of the way. She shouts at them both to chill out and behave.Without turning around, Birdy explains they got bushwacked at the Shanghai docks.Flashback:Birdy had just knocked out Omega Red with a blast from her plasma cannon. Wolverine lay injured on the ground and Jubilee was tending to him, and she and Sabretooth thought they were on top of the game. Sabretooth instructed her to shoot them if they got rambunctious, while he would take care of the little darlings in the truck.The mysterious Jie Jie announced that was not going to happen. Did they think she would show up in Shanghai without back-up? And she had them come equipped to deal with mutant powers! Several Hand ninjas train weapons at them.Wolverine by now is somewhat recovered, so he, Sabretooth and Birdy fight the ninjas. Wolverine gets zapped again. Lady Deathstrike wants to move in for the kill, but Jie Jie calls her back and orders the ninjas to use the smoke grenades. In the fog, Jubilee orders Birdy to fire but her charge is too low and she doesn’t want to risk hitting the kids.Deathstrike points out that the buyer is no longer in any condition to conclude the sale, but Jie Jie has an alternate buyer in Busan. She arranges for a ferry to take them there.They leave but Jubilee heard their destination.Birdy gives both Sabretooth and Wolverine the glow to speed along their healing.Present:Birdy explains they all agree on wanting to keep the kids away from the Russian and the Hand. She suggests a truce.On the ferry, Yurei is tied to a chair. The box with Hino-Chan stands some distance away. Jie Jie, flanked by Lady Deathstrike and Hand ninjas, warns her to mind her manners. If she teleports out or misbehaves otherwise, the consequences will be excruciating for her sister Hino-Chan.Lady Deathstrike criticizes the security. Jie Jie interrupts that Yurei knows not to take her threats lightly, and the silver lining of the box negates Hino-Chan’s pyrokinetic power, as well as Yurei’s teleportation.Inside the box, Hino-Chan has a small metal object and uses it to scratch the silver lining of the box. Yurei hears the noise but doesn’t react outwardly.In the helicopter, Jubilee wonders who the new Korean buyer is. Birdy warns that a Russian MI-17 is coming up behind them. Omega Red had his own air transport standing by. Sabretooth figures, tentacle boy isn’t too happy on the Hand reneging on the deal, while Wolverine seethes, he has more than few scores to settle with Arkady Gregorievitch.Inside the Russian MI-17, Omega Red orders the pilot to set them down on the ferry’s upper deck. When the pilot refuses, Omega Red throttles him with one of his tentacles.On the ferry, they notice that the Russians are following them.The chopper crashes into the upper deck. Omega Red demands his packages. Standing in front of a group of ninjas, Lady Deathstrike informs him his transaction was cancelled. Omega Red is decidedly unimpressed.The other group is lagging behind and Birdy refuses to try a landing on a speeding and burning ferry. Sabretooth gets rid of the chopper’s roof and announces he doesn’t need her to land - just get them as close as she can! Wolverine announces he is coming with him and Jubilee sensibly decides she is staying right here.Aboard the ferry, Omega Red is making mincemeat of the ninjas. Jie Jie shouts to Deathstrike that, if she kills the Russian, her lapses at Osaka and Shanghai will be forgiven. Deathstrike attacks him and he warns he is her death.Yurei asks Hino-chan if she has scratched away enough silver.In the meantime, Sabretooth and Wolverine join the fray, both attacking Omega Red.Khorosho! the Russian swears and hurls Sabretooth away. Deathstrike slices him – that’s for calling her an old witch! she shouts. Omega swears to make minced meat of all three of them.In the corner, Yurei tells her sister to knock twice if she has scraped away enough silver.The ferry is about to reach Busan. While Wolverine and Sabretooth keep Omega Red busy, Jurei teleports into the box, gets her sister and ‘ports out again.Sabretooth remarks that, if the pyro-talent gets her hands free, they are in for a world of hurt. Yurei does just that. Omega Red warns the others he is going to collect his property and they better not get in his way. Deathstrike protests that they still belong to the Hand. Yurei shouts that they don’t belong to anybody. She grabs Omega Red’s foot and tells her sister to deal with Deathstrike.While Hino-chan blasts Deathstrike, Yurei teleports him away to the Hindukush. Yurei announces the village was the scene of an atrocity by the spetznatz. Why doesn’t he explain to the armed men how he has no connection to the perpetrators?In the meantime, Lady Deathstrike and Jie Jie flee on a small ship from Hino-chan.The girls turn to Wolverine and Sabretooth. Yurei states they just want to be left alone, so she is going to take her sister to a place where no one can reach them… in the future!Later, Sabretooth and Birdy leave. Birdy waves at Jubilee. While he grumbles about business loss, she is glad the girls escaped.Wolverine calls a taxi. Jubilee asks what about Jie Jie and Deathstrike? Logan replies the Hand doesn’t forgive failure. They are facing worse than he is prepared to dish out.


[User]
<image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image><image>
Provide a full summary of the comic book.

[Assistant]
Monsters
Evening in Manhattan:The New Mutants and X-Terminators exit a movie theater. Cannonball chides the alien Warlock to disguise himself (ignoring the fact that they are all in uniform). Someone will see! Warlock rebuts that they are in a dark alley.What now? Sam asks. Boom Boom wants to go to the arcade she used to play. Rusty points out little Illyana is dead on her feet and they have a long flight ahead of them the next day. Skids and he will take her and grab a quiet dinner. But what about their costumes? He carries Illyana, who is about to fall asleep. Boom Boom rudely mocks their dinner plans, claiming he and Skids just want some alone time. The arcade is dark and, besides, everyone wears spandex. Skids tells them to meet her, Rusty and Illyana at Bryant Park at 8. They leave after moon rise.Still discussing the movie, Sunspot opines the robot monsters were a joke. They could have taken them easily. Mirage retorts that they have powers. He accuses her of being cranky. She apologizes. She’s got a headache. It’s probably just her worrying about getting Illyana back to Russia.Half a world away in Nepal, hidden under Kanchenjunga Peak, lies Apocalypse’s secret lair. His hound Caliban notices that his master seems unusually perturbed and asks if he can help. Apocalypse replies he is concerned that the Celestials may be disappointed with X-Factor, the sample he allowed to leave aboard Ship. Those monstrous giants’ displeasure could result in their return to Earth and a premature judgment. Humanity - mutantkind – may need to become much stronger if the need to confront the Celestials arises.Caliban has an idea as he leaves his master’s side. The Horseman War asks him where he is going. Caliban replies that their master will need to replace their missing horsemen. He is going to enter the Morlock tunnels and search for potential recruits. War is disgusted at the idea of Morlocks taking the place of Pestilence and Death, and Famine asks if most of the Morlocks aren’t dead. Caliban reminds her he is a mutant detector and he senses more Morlocks have survived. The two Horsemen scoff considering them weak, worthless freaks who aren’t any match for them.Caliban begins to teleport, taking them along. The strongest survived, he tells them, and their power may surprise them. Test them if you dare!Apocalypse watches wordlessly.They reappear in the “Alley,” the Morlocks’ main tunnel. Witnessing their arrival, a group of Morlocks believe them to be Marauders and flee. Famine wants to give chase, but Caliban tells her that those Morlocks are not equipped for battle. But there are others here who are, and he will find them.The Morlock group, led by Mole, search for a safe place with lots of people upworld. They end up in a certain arcade, where Rictor, annoyed at Boom Boom’s winning streak, shakes the gaming machine with his powers. Angrily, she is ready to throw a time bomb at him but then panic breaks out as other people see Mole and Chicken Wings. Boom Boom throws the timebomb to distract others allowing Warlock to trap the two Morlocks.Dani hears sirens. Chicken Wings suggests they leave through Mole’s tunnels. He fears the Marauders are back in the Alley. Last time, they took his arm. He fears now they want to finish them all. The New Mutants follow.Warlock announces they must help them. Rictor reminds him they promised X-Factor they wouldn’t do anything stupid. Surprisingly, Boom Boom forcefully retorts that helping people isn’t stupid!Dani warns the others that a death aura surrounds Mole and Chicken Wings. Unless they help, the two Morlocks will die. They agree to help and follow them to the Alley.There they see Famine and War torturing the Morlocks Tar Baby and Beautiful Dreamer, although they are bored, as the Morlocks don’t put up any fight. Famine wonders where Caliban is. Cannonball shouts at them to drop the Morlocks. War is unimpressed. He slams his hands together and the ensuing shockwave knocks them to the ground.Rictor realizes Wars power is similar to his. Another clap like this could make the tunnels cave in, perhaps even damage the buildings above!Several tunnels away, Caliban has found Feral, Masque, Erg and Healer. He hears the sonic boom from War’s power and curses.Cannonball flies at War, who manipulates his movement steering him toward Famine. War tells her to drain Sam. Wolfsbane attacks her and gets drained. Warlock wants to help and falls victim to another of War’s thunderclaps.Caliban comes, running fearing that War’s power will collapse the Alley.Rictor has a similar fear, which is why he doesn’t use his power. Boom Boom wants to throw a timebomb but Mirage warns her that, if she does that, they will all die!Caliban joins them and wonders aloud what Rictor and Boom Boom are doing here. Rictor warns Boom Boom that he isn’t their friend anymore. He works for Apocalypse! Boom Boom realizes those creeps aren’t Marauders but Apocalypse’s horsemen. She accuses Caliban of being a part of this. Four of them down, she mutters, and Dani is getting worse. Rictor wonders if Dani’s headaches are some kind of attack. They don’t know what to do.Caliban orders the Horsemen to leave the children alone, but they mock him and intend to bring the walls down on them. Warlock intervenes but gets taken out by War. However, Mirage gets her second wind and summons War’s greatest fear – of Apocalypse suddenly appearing. When War moves his hand through Apocalypse’s body, he realizes he is just an illusion.In the meantime, Famine has drained Caliban. She tells War to crush them all before their master arrives for real.By that time, a more powerful group of Morlocks, including Masque, Healer, Erg and Feral, arrive. The mutants warn them not to let War clap his hands or he can bring down the tunnels on them.Feral attacks Famine, who holds her own. Erg wrestles with War and Masque transforms War’s face, making it hard for him to breathe. Erg uses his energy on Famine, then he turns accusingly toward Caliban, who tells him it wasn’t supposed to happen like this. Mole and Chicken Wings defend the New Mutants, who helped them till the others arrived, and ask Healer to help them. Erg tells Healer to proceed and he starts with Sam, who thanks him politely. Erg turns to Caliban, demanding why he has brought enemies into their tunnels. Caliban explains he joined Apocalypse to gain power to get revenge on the Marauders, not to become Marauder-like himself. Feral asks why he is here then, to which Caliban announces that his master fears an invasion is coming. He needs the strong. In return, he offers power, if they agree to serve him.Feral, Masque and the other Morlocks let him know in no uncertain words what they think of him and his offer. They refuse to become monsters like those they just faced… and like Caliban has become!Caliban turns to the New Mutans with the same offer and gets the same reply.Masque wants to kill the Horsemen in revenge. Caliban intervenes and tells him their fates are up to Apocalypse and teleports the three of them back.Is he going to tell him? Famine asks weakly. But Caliban knows that Apocalypse is aware of what has transpired. He bows to Apocalypse, who asks him what he has learned. Caliban replies that at this time both the Morlocks and New Mutants are averse to joining them and it was not his place to initiate contact. Apocalypse muses that may change. Boom Boom, Sunspot and Rictor are possibilities, given their pasts and their hidden pain, but for now they aren’t ready. He orders him to carry War and Famine to the biolab and not let them join him again. For now, he hunts alone!In Central Park, the New Mutants apologize to Rusty and Skids for keeping them waiting. Skids replies, if they were in a fight, she hopes they won. The others give a rather rambling report of what happened, then Warlock turns into an aircraft and they travel towards Russia to take Illyana home.