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Suite No. 6: Sico Me Nihil Scire; “Second Movement”
'You gonna get that?' Rachel Summers a.k.a. Prestige asks Lorna Dane a.k.a. Polaris as Lorna's cellphone rings repeatedly. Lorna rests her head against the kitchen table within the Boneyard, home and headquarters of X-Factor, Lorna barely opens her eyes as she replies 'I'm still deciding... may have gotten lonely and left an ill-advised voice mail to Alex last night...' her voice trails off, while the phone continues to ring. 'Lorna...' Rachel begins. 'Okay, you don't have to sound that disappointed in me' Lorna mumbles, before sitting up and holding her phone, she reports that it is an unknown number, before answering it: 'Hello?' she asks.
While Daken pours himself some tea at the kitchen sink, Jean-Paul Beaubier a.k.a. Northstar and his husband, Kyle Jinadu-Beaubier, lean against a counter in the middle of the kitchen. Jeanne-Marie Beaubier a.k.a. Aurora sits on a stool as David Alleyne a.k.a. Prodigy turns to Trevor Hawkins a.k.a. Eye-Boy and exclaims 'Why do you always ask me that?' to which Trevor smiles and tells David that he has a soothing voice and that it is relaxing. Trevor remarks that David's voice is deep and calm. 'So whenever you read anything out loud you sound like an early-morning public radio host softly delivering the news'. But David tells Trevor that this is not the news, it is a nineteenth-century beekeeper almanac. 'So? Can't you just read that aloud to me too? Please?' Trevor asks. David just snorts, before he reads: “As with other branches of business, and so with beekeeping culture – it has its proficients, amateurs, novices and pretenders. It is with this latter class that 'bee humbugs' generally originate” David concludes. 'Hell yeah...' Trevor utters.
'You don't ever think about trying it? Never even been tempted?' Jean-Paul smiles at Kyle, who tells him 'No! It's unnatural!' Jean-Paul laughs, while Kyle tells him 'Let's not'. Jean-Paul smiles and asks Kyle to try it once – for him. 'Ugh. You're relentless. But fine – I will try a bush bagel. For you' Kyle announces. 'Just pluck it right off, huh?' he asks, as he pulls a bagel from the tree growing in the kitchen. 'It's for you' Lorna tells Jean-Paul as she hands him her phone. Jean-Paul speaks French as he talks into the phone, while David continues reading: “Fine weather in Texas was reported by Mrs Atchley on January 12. They had no frost, and everything was green”. 'Aw, good for Texas' Trevor remarks, while Jean-Paul begins waving his hands about, while holding the phone between his ear and neck. 'Pen. Pen? You need a pen?' Jeanne-Marie asks as she looks up from her laptop to her brother. 'I swear I just had a pen...' Jeanne-Marie begins, looking for the pen, which Daken then pulls from her hair. 'Oh, ah, right – thanks' Aurora looks up at Daken, while her hair falls down around her face. Jean-Paul darts about the kitchen, grabbing the pen and asking 'What were those coordinates again?' before announcing that they are on their way.
Soon, Northstar lifts up a black blanket covering a body, as his teammates gather around. 'Oh, for $#%&'s sake. Again?' Polaris mutters, looking away from the body under the blanket. 'Apparently' Northstar points out. 'What's it been – a week?' 'Just about' Daken confirms as the team continues to look at the lifeless body of Theresa Rourke Cassidy a.k.a. Siryn. Police officers stand nearby, around a police line which has been set up, preventing anyone from getting closer to the body, which currently lies on the beach. Water laps at the shore, and large cliffs hang overhead, under a dark sky. Prestige telepathically connects the team, telling them that it has been five days since Siryn's resurrection, and a week since the night she fell to her death on Krakoa – and five days since she lied to them about that being an accident.
'Lot looks a might gobsmacked for a retrieval crew' one of the police officers standing nearby remarks, while forensic technicians wearing white overalls step beyond the police line and walk towards X-Factor. 'Leave them be' a police officer in plain clothes tells her colleague, before turning back to a young woman sitting in the back of an ambulance, 'Sorry, love, where were we? Ah – right – around what time did you first notice the victim?' the detective asks, before enquiring as to whether she had already washed up, or if she spied her out in the water, and whether she phoned the police straight away, or if she tried to get a closer look in first. 'I...I...' the woman begins to reply, as the detective tells her to take her time, and asks if she had been drinking this morning or using any other substances that would potentially affect her perception of events.
As one of the forensic technicians crouches over Siryn's body, Daken asks them what they are doing. 'Taking samples' is the response. 'We don't authorise “samples”!' Daken retorts as he pops his claws, frightening the technician, who falls backwards. 'Please don't stab my forensics technican. We've been quite hospitable to your investigation' the detective calls out. Northstar turns to her, while the technician announces that early examination suggests foul play, that this was not a natural death. 'No! You think?' Daken snarls. The technician explains that either the victim fell into the water or was already dead and dumped in the water, but either way, if she fought her assailant just prior, there could still be DNA particulates under her fingernails. 'We were only gathering trace evidence samples for you!' they explain. 'Oh! Tiny secrets!' Eye-Boy smiles, before crouching next to Siryn's body and offering to help the technician.
'I can find all the tiny, tiny secrets. What're we looking for?' Eye-Boy asks. The technician explains that they need skin cells, soft traces, any microscopic particles on the body not from this environment. 'Right, right! But I mean, um, what do any of those actually look like?' Eye-Boy asks, informing the technician that he has microscopic vision, but has to know what he is looking for, or looking at, first. 'Haha, did that even make sense?' Eye-Boy laughs. 'Microscopic vision?' the technician asks. 'There! You see? She is quite lovely and only trying to help. As am I' the detective tells Northstar, who asks her if she means “lovely” or “helping”. The detective holds up the fresh witness statement from the jogger who first spotted their compatriot's body out in the water, and tells Northstar that she will let him figure that one out.
Prodigy holds up his tablet and offers to look for some trace evidence references for Eye-Boy, who asks Prodigy if he is going to read it out loud from an old-timey embalming almanac this time, and tells him to give him his best spooky mortician's voice. Prodigy laughs and replies 'You wish. Yeah, sure, I'll just narrate these image search results to you', to which Eye-Boy replies 'That's a real thing'. 'So, this lad 'ere? Krakoa's best and brightest is 'e?' the police officer from earlier asks. '“Hospitable” indeed' Northstar frowns, snatching the witness statement from the detective, who asks the officer, whom she calls Theo, to leave them be. 'That ridiculous looking thing? All them eyes? Disgusting!' Theo exclaims. Prestige frowns but telepathically tells Trevor not to listen to him, that he is just afraid of them. 'Yeah, I could see that on him, too. It's fine. Thanks, Rachel' Trevor responds.
Trevor concentrates as he holds his hand over Siryn's body, his eyes examining her, he calls out 'Okay! I see it!' to which the technician asks 'You – you see it?' Eye-Boy laughs and explains he can see all kinds of things – dust mites, gamma waves, x-rays, microwaves or other kinds of waves and rays, but he doesn't know what it all is yet. 'I can even read micro-expressions and nonverbal body language!' Eye-Boy smiles. 'Ummm...like, for example, I can tell you're very uncomfortable right now! And I am really, very sorry about that. Please ignore my friend Eye-Boy tells the technician, as Daken leans in and starts sniffing Siryn's body. 'You. With the notepad. Discount Doctor Who' Daken calls out, snapping his fingers. 'The victim smells like cold medicine and cheap American chocolates. Write that down' Daken tells her. 'No -' the detective begins to reply, when Amazing Baby the warwolf pup suddenly walks over to the technician and vomits in front of her what appears to be a whole fish. 'Aw, he barfed you a present! That must mean he likes you' Eye-Boy explains.
'Did the widdle wady refwuse Amazing Baby's sweet offewing? Yes she did! Oh, yes she did!' Rachel remarks as she walks towards Amazing Baby, who leaps up into her arms. 'Prodigy, since the CSI tech is unconscious can you – now that I already now, I mean – do you know?' Eye-Boy asks.  'Like, you can see what I'm seeing right? The tiny secrets?' Eye-Boy enquires. Prodigy can, and tells Eye-Boy that he's got him, and suggests that they probably should have just done it this way to begin with, as it is a hundred times faster than having the technician interpret, anyway. 'I know... I just didn't want to hurt her feelings' Eye-Boy explains.
'You're brooding. Alone. Hello' Northstar calls out to Polaris as he walks closer to the shore where she is standing. 'She swore to us that it was an accident when she fell' Polaris reminds Northstar, who tells Polaris that she knows his feelings about that, and holds up the witness statement. Polaris doesn't take the statement, instead she lets it fall into the water. 'But she's not supposed to lie to me! I'm her friend! Or...I thought I was, anyway' Polaris utters. Northstar confirms that he didn't bother reading the statement, either, before telling Lorna that he is sure Siryn is still her friend, otherwise she wouldn't have tried lying to them about the nature of her last death in the first place. 'She was just trying to spare you from having to choose between loyalty to your job or to her' Jean-Paul explains.
'She may be lying to cover something up, but she's doing it to protect you. Because she' still yout friend' Northstar tells Polaris. Polaris smiles and thanks Northstar, telling him that makes her feel better. Daken watches them, and once Polaris walks away, he asks Northstar 'How much of all that do you actually believe?' 'Bleakly little' Northstar admits, before instructing Daken that he is to start tailling Siryn the moment she is resurrected. He is to track her movements, report back, and not let Siryn catch him. 'She won't. But if it looks like she might pull a stunt like this again, then I will...?' Daken replies. 'Watch her die' Northstar informs him. 'Observe and learn; don't intervene. Just find out what Siryn's hiding and lying about' he asks. 'All right' Daken responds, before Northstar addresses him by his real name, Akihiro, and puts a hand on his shoulder. They look each other in the eye as Northstar remarks 'I wanted to believe. And I would truly love to have my cynicism be misplaced, so please – by all means... prove me wrong' to which Daken replies 'With pleasure'.
Prestige uses her powers to levitate Siryn and the blanket covering her into the air and tells the others that she will get Siryn back to the Healing Gardens for an official autopsy. Prodigy asks her if he can go with her, to which Prestige tells him to ask Northstar. 'Can I go with her?' Prodigy asks, to which Northstar asks him if he is sure he wants to. Prodigy explains that he thinks he could benefit from being near Dr Reyes and learning medicine – then, not only would the team have a field medic, but it would expedite their process if he could determine official causes of death. 'In the future, I also want to learn forensic pathology, toxicology, odontology -' Prodigy begins, to which Northstar replies, 'Oui, oui, bien, je comprends' he mutters, before asking Prodigy if determining cause of death is a responsibility that he is actually comfortable with doing. 'Yes' Prodigy responds quickly, to which Northstar asks him if he is certain. 'Yes' Prodigy states again. 'Then you'd better catch up' Northstar smiles, motioning to where Prestige is walking into a Krakoan portal nearby. 'Rachel, wait up!' Prodigy calls out as he rushes off after her.
'Bloody – hell!' Theo the police man calls out as Polaris levitates him into the air. 'I believe we're done here' Northstar remarks to the detective. 'Put me down!' Theo shouts, so Polaris obliges, and he drops down onto the sand. 'We'll be on our way' Northstar announces. Polaris walks past Theo, who calls out 'You're – you're' “disgusting”? Polaris suggests. 'Arse-end crazy!' Theo tells her. 'Oh, that was nothing, honey'. Northstar turns to the detective and thanks her for calling them in. 'Didn't have much of a say in that, now did I? Krakoan treaty accords and all...' the detective smiles. 'Le'ts hope there won't be a next time' Northstar tells her. 'Aye – and keep your filthy scum from washing up on our shores!' Theo calls out. Northstar narrows his eyes, while the detective tells Theo to leave the mutants be. But Daken spins around and faces Theo, popping his claws as a warning.
Daken carries on, walking near Eye-Boy, who grabs one of the police line tapes and wraps it around his head. Northstar and Polaris fly above the others, as Northstar tells them that he has never cared for police, and suggests that they need some kind of official X-Factor  Investigations identification. 'We should just have complete authority over mutant crime scenes the moment we arrive and not have to waste our time placating these cops struggling with relevancy' Northstar explains. Polaris offers to request the topic for review at the next Quiet Council meeting. 'Wait – identification, like – like badges?' Eye-Boy asks. 'Ugh' Daken moans. 'We're gonna have cool badges' Eye-Boy exclaims, poking his tongue out as he holds the police line tape around his head.
On Krakoa, in the hospital morgue within the Healing Gardens, Dr Cecilia Reyes examines the lifeless body of Siryn. Rachel and Prodigy stand nearby, as Rachel quietly asks Prodigy if he should get in closer. 'No. I'm good' Prodigy whispers in response. 'Why are you whispering?' Dr Reyes as them. 'She's not sleeping, she's dead' Dr Reyes points out. Prodigy apologizes and explains that they didn't want to be rude, they just didn't want to interrupt her work. 'What was that Rachel asked about getting “closer” to my work?' Cecilia remarks. Prodigy explains that Rachel was wondering if his psychomimetry's proximity range was okay from back where he is standing, and confirms that it is. 'I know everything you know now just be standing near you' Prodigy informs Cecilia, who looks at a chart she is holding and replies 'How near? And why are you still here?'
Prodigy informs Dr Reyes that he is about ten feet from here, give or take, and that he and Rachel are waiting for her to find out cause of Death. 'Again – why? I can just email you the full report once I finish, like I always do. You don't have to stand around and watch me do this' Cecilia remarks, without turning to look at Prodigy. 'It takes five hours to break down a cadaver' Cecilia remarks. 'Haha, yeah...I know' Prodigy replies. 'Know that now, I mean – thanks to you!' Prodigy quickly adds as Cecilia turns to him and asks him to tell her something she doesn't know. They move closer to each other, as Cecilia asks David why he is still here, and what it is he clearly wants to ask her. David sighs, before beginning 'Okay, so -' before falling silent, as Rachel declares 'He wants to ask you about what happens to Krakoans after this part'. Rachel continues, 'Like, post-autopsy or whatever, once we've already initiated their resurrection protocol. He's wondering what happens to them after that. He's just really nervous about asking for some reason, and I'm going to respect his privacy on that'. Cecilia puts her clipboard down and asks David if he is wanting to know how they dispose of mutant remains. '… Yessss?' David replies. Cecilia tells him that it depends, to which David asks 'On what?' Cecilia turns back to him and remarks 'Depends on why you're asking'.
Later: 'You did what?' Northstar shouts as he paces around David at a furious pace. 'I asked Dr Reyes if I could start a body farm at the Boneyard' David explains. 'SO YOU BROUGHT HOME CADAVERS AND STUCK THEM IN THE HANGING GARDENS WITHOUT CONSULTING US?' Northstar booms. 'Should we...' Rachel smirks from the sits on the staircase nearby, watching along with the rest of the team, Kyle and Aurora, who asks 'Intervene?' Kyle smiles, 'Nahhhh', while Polaris, Daken and Eye-Boy look on. 'The cadavers are my homework!' Prodigy tells Northstar. He reports that Dr Reyes told him if he can use the knowledge he gained from her to accurately determine Siryn's cause of death, then she will approve his request for starting up a forensic body farm program. 'I am who needs to approve this request first!' Northstar snaps. 'Then...can I?' David asks. 'Non!' Northstar responds, speeding around David some more, while David asks why. 'Because. You. Want. To. Study. Rotting. Corpses. On. Our. Lawn!' Northstar exclaims.
David tells Northstar that it is for science, to which Northstar remarks 'Prodigy, learning the equivelant of a medical license in under a day is one thing, but this?' and he sighs, before Prodigy tells Northstar that he really, truly thinks it would benefit their work if he could study the varying rates of mutant decomposition. The others all run up the stairs as Northstar suddenly comes to a stop and frowns, while Prodigy extends his arms and calls out 'Since, you know, no one actually has yet!' He points out that Dr Reyes' medical experience, prolific as it is, still only gets them so far, and because there is no field of study about the differences between human and mutant decomposition, but he can fix that – X-Factor can fix that.
Prodigy continues, and asks Northstar 'What if dying in Krakoa affects decomp rate? What if living in Krakoa does? What if this environment is something we can see signs of on an autopsy report? We don't know any of this stuff yet!' He remarks that the more he can learn from the dead, the closer they will all get to understanding these things. 'Enough case studies... and then I won't just be able to determine both cause and time of death at a glance, I'll be able to pioneer this entire academic field!' Prodigy declares. 'This is important to you' Northstar states. 'Yes' Prodigy tells him. 'This – the body farm. This is really what you want?' Northstar asks. 'Yes' Prodigy confirms. 'To study decomposition. To study this in our home' Northstar remarks. 'Yes!' Prodigy exclaims, while Kyle smiles as he watches from further up the staircase and asks 'Does he have any idea how much he sounds like a dad right now?'
Later still, 'I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you're implying' Siryn scowls as she sits with her legs crossed on a chair while the members of X-Factor sit or stand nearby. 'Well – you can fly, Miss Cassidy. So how does someone like you fall to their death?' Northstar enquires. 'You told us it was an accident. Even though the whole island heard you scream that night, so it's not as if you'd been unable to use sonic flight' Polaris points out. 'So you assume I was murdered?' Siryn asks. Towards the back of the room, the Warwolf pup, Amazing Baby, tries to jump up at Aurora, who is wearing her own X-Factor costume, as Aurora tells Siryn 'That is one of the working theories, yes' before informing Siryn that she and Northstar arrived first to find her body there that night. Siryn sighs and stands up, she starts walking around the room as she informs X-Factor that it was dark and that she had been drinking. 'Krakoa needs more lampposts' she mutters.

“Drinking?” Polaris quotes, surprised. Siryn starts to say something, while Rachel telepathically warns her teammates that Siryn is likely to see the corpse garden outside if she keeps walking towards the window. 'Worth noting' Northstar tells Siryn as he flies over, and points out that she fell from Krakoa's highest elevation, remarking that that is an interestingly specific location, and very difficult to access, especially in darkness. 'I flew' Siryn claims, looking up at Northstar as he tries to distract her by flying above her. Northstar tells Siryn that such a small, secluded, specific lookout point would still be hard to find in the dark while intoxicated. 'Maybe I got drunk up there. While I was admiring the view' Siryn suggests, her back turned to the window which looks down over the corpse garden. Siryn adds that since her last Cerebro backup was a few days before the drowning incident, she supposes they will have no real way of knowing what happened.
Siryn walks back into the center of the room, away from the window, while Northstar drops down to the ground and tells Siryn that they do know she didn't drown. 'Well, the last I checked, dying isn't a crime, so why the hell am I being harassed for not drowning?' Siryn asks, shrugging. 'Well, why the hell are you getting so defensive about us just asking questions?' Polaris snaps. 'Because I really don't see how it's X-Factor's business!' Siryn retorts. 'Death is our business' Rachel points out, glaring at Siryn. 'Right – and you found the body, I got resurrected, so now your work here is done!' Siryn exclaims. Polaris tells her friend that it is still X-Factor's job to find out what happened. 'You of all people would know this  already, Terry' Polaris adds. Siryn folds her arms and mumbles 'Funny, I don't remember interrogating folks about the nature of their deaths back when I was a member of X-Factor'. Rachel telepathically alerts everyone to Siryn's pacing towards the window again, to which Eye-Boy suddenly calls out 'Probably because they were, you know... dead?' Daken laughs, but Siryn is not amused, and she narrows her eyes, scowling, she screams 'BOTH DEATHS WERE ACCIDENTS AND I'M FINE!'
Siryn then turns and storms away from X-Factor, her costume's wings billowing behind her. 'Siryn!' Polaris calls out, while Daken asks 'So... veracity report?' Prodigy agrees, and once Siryn is gone, Eye-Boy, who has nearly limitless varieties of spectral visions, including a powerful natural ability to  “read” people via micro-expressions, body language and nonverbal cues, no matter how subtle, making him a living lie detector, with profound psychological intuition and expert profiler as a result, announces that Siryn was lying – and afraid – very, very afraid. Rachel, who possesses an emotional tint to her psychic ability, meaning  she can read thoughts, but also sense all dark, unnamed feelings one keeps buried deep, states that Siryn is lying and afraid of them finding out the truth. 'She lied for...pretty much the entire time' Daken comments. Daken has animallike, superstrong senses of sight, hearing and smell. One of these enhanced senses alone would be enough for lie detection, but coupled with a sensitive pheromone-detection ability, it is impossible to lie successfully to him. Prodigy sighs, and tells his teammates that the one truth was that Siryn's last backup was taken before her second death, so she genuinely doesn't remember anything leading up to it.
'Siryn – wait! Please!' Polaris calls out as she follows Siryn who leaves the Boneyard. Polaris remarks that Siryn might have been struggling alone, and tells her if there is something else going on, then she wants to know. 'And then what? You're out of bounds with this, Lorna' Siryn replies, without turning to look at her. Siryn then tells Polaris to just worry about resurrection protocols and leave the hero stuff up to the big guns. She continues to walk away, only to be blocked by several large beams of magnetic energy that Polaris surrounds her with. 'I am a big gun!' Polaris declares as she flies towards Siryn. 'Or have you forgotten?' she asks. Energy whirls around Polaris as she reminds Siryn that she came so close to cracking this world apart like an egg, that Siryn had to make a deal to host an ancient death goddess just to save her “fractured” mind.
Polaris drop down and looks Siryn in her eyes as she declares 'But, sweetie... since you appear to be fully mortal again, I'd say that whatever is going on with you is especially my business'. The magnetic beams vanish, while Siryn tells Polaris that it is funny. 'What is?' Polaris asks. 'Funny how the world still seems to be holding up just fine now, does it not?' Siryn responds, her voice sounding strange as she gives Polaris a half-smile. Polaris slips into some sort of mesmerized trance, as Siryn declares 'Aye, love... been a while. You must've forgotten about my sonic hypnosis... why else would ye be dumb enough to confront me by yer lonesome?' Siryn moves seductively around Polaris, who follows her every move. Siryn leans into Polaris and tells her to leave her alone now. 'Okay...' Lorna utters. 'And if X-Factor tries to investigate my death again... you're going to sabotage their every attempt. Aggressively' Siryn commands. 'Okay...' the stil-mesmerized Polaris utters. 'Good girl' Siryn responds as she walks away from Polaris, her eyes glowing green, as she smirks, while a murder of crows begin to fly across the darkening sky above.


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Suite No. 7: Scientia Vincere Tenebras
David Alleyne a.k.a. Prodigy is in his room within X-Factor's headquarters, the Boneyard. His tablet keeps ringing repeatedly – 94 missed calls from Tommy. '$%^& speedsters...' Prodigy mutters, before he finally answers the phone: 'Yes! Hello! $%^&! Hi!' He then looks into his tablet as he declares 'Yes, it's true! I got ganked during the same O.N.E. attack on Xavier's Institute that wiped out a bunch of other kids! Okay? Happy now, Tommy? You know how I died – now stop calling me a hundred times a minute!' David exclaims. 'Okay, but see, this is why I'm calling you a hundred times a minute' Tommy a.k.a. Speed can be heard responding over the tablet. Suddenly: 'Because, no, actually – you didn't!' Tommy declares as he races into David's room, knocking David over onto his bed, while his voice can be heard echoing through the tablet. 'What?' David asks, sitting up on his bed. 'You couldn't have died in tht mess. You were with me that night' Tommy reminds David. 'Look' he tells him as he holds up his phone, which displays a photo of them kissing.
'Who took that?' David asks. Tommy tells him that he doesn't know, and remarks that it is the only thing posted on that account, before revealing that there are other pictures from that night, and that David tagged him in it. 'I did?' David asks. 'Yeah' Tommy replies, before sitting down next to David. 'So...' Tommy begins. 'Oh' Davis utters. 'Sorry' Tommy tells him. 'No, no... it's okay' David replies. Tommy grins and asks David if he wants to make out. 'Yup' David replies, turning to Tommy, they quickly embrace and lock lips.
Elsewhere within the Boneyard, 'You're afraid of me, Aurora' Daken calls out to Jeanne-Marie Beaubier a.k.a. Aurora as she walks down the sprawling staircase that tuns through the center of the building. 'Non, non – I -' Jeanne-Marie begins, looking up at Daken, who points at himself and reminds her that he can smell it. 'Fear is a thing I can smell' Daken tells Jeanne-Marie. Jeanne-Marie sighs and asks Daken if he can blame her. 'You are a being who can smell things like fear. Who can manipulate things like fear. Or... lust' Jeanne-Marie adds. 'My pheromone powers don't even -' Daken begins, before looking away and telling Jeanne-Marie to forget it. He turns and starts to walk away. 'Daken, wait -' Jeanne-Marie calls out, but Daken tells her not to worry, and that he will stop bothering her now.
'I said wait' Jeanne-Marie exclaims as she speeds up the stairs and places herself in front of Daken. 'Your pheromone powers don't even...what?' she asks. 'Work that way' Daken tells her as they look into each other's eyes. Jeanne-Marie puts her hands on Daken's chest as he tells her that he is not a telepath, that he can't just make people feel whatever he wants them to feel or think. 'I can only adjust what already exists' Daken claims. He moves away from Jeanne-Marie and leans on the bannister next to the staircase. 'I can't... I mean, I can interact with brain chemicals. Nudge them up or down to a limited extent. But I can't manipulate anything that doesn't exist. And I can't manufacture something out of thin air' Daken explains. Jeanne-Marie asks him if he just goes around feeling and sensing and smelling every emotion around him, but can't see why people feel that way. 'Yes' Daken confirms. Jeanne-Marie falls silent, and Daken tells her that she hates this.
'Well, yes! That sounds wretched. You're like a blindfold empath set out to wander alone in darkness' Jeanne-Marie tells him. 'You walk through a crowd feeling and smelling how many of the people around you lust for you. But you can't see why. Or what their intentions are. Or if they even like you at all. There's no context. Only a barrage of their desire via noise and scent and sensations?' Jeanne-Marie asks. 'This is a harrowing experience, out?' she enquires. 'Sometimes' Daken admits. He then turns to Jeanne-Marie and smiles, explaining that other times, it is sensing a shift from fear back to, “lust”, to use what Jeanne-Marie described. 'What would you call it?' Jeanne-Marie asks, as Daken puts a hand near her shoulder. 'A cocktail' Daken responds. 'Or... a series of green lights. I don't know. I -' Daken begins, as Jeanne-Marie interrupts him: 'Can't see it' she tells him. 'Right' Daken agrees. 'You can only feel it' Jeanne-Marie points out. '... Right' Daken agrees, before a voice shouts 'DAKEN!'
'Kiss me' Jeanne-Marie tells Daken, ignoring the shouting. 'No' Daken tells her, before Jeanne-Marie asks him why he is dressed like a frat boy today, noting he is wearing a cap backwards. 'You're one to talk. Why do you dress like a Sunday school teacher every day?' Daken replies. Jeanne-Marie laughs, while Daken runs his hand across her ear and explains that he is wearing “normie” clothes to pass for a flatscan while he follows Siryn. 'DAKEN!' the voice shouts, even louder this time, coming from the ground level floor, it's Jean-Paul Beaubier a.k.a. Northstar, Aurora's brother and leader of X-Factor. 'Kiss me, you coward' Jeanne-Marie tells Daken. 'No' Daken replies, kissing Jeanne-Marie's forehead. 'You'll have me begging for it soon, Jeanne-Marie...' Daken remarks as he walks away. 'As it should be' Jeanne-Marie calls back.
Daken arrives downstaris, and Northstar tells him that he doesn't have his number. 'I don't have a phone, Northstar' Daken repies. 'Then take fleet seeds. Plenty' Northstar instructs him. 'No phone, but plenty of fleet seeds – water? Take water' Northstar adds. 'You're terrible at this' Daken mumbles. 'Don't die?' Northstar suggests. 'Better. Needs work' Daken remarks. 'Right. Well. We don't need to have the talk, correct?' Northstar asks as they walk towards the front dooor. 'I mean...I think I have a pretty good handle on the birds and the bees by now?' Daken responds. 'No, the talk where I remind you that I'll kill you if you break my sister's heart' Northstar responds. 'Oh -' Daken utters. 'Et-cetera' Northstar adds. 'Actually – I know you're good for it' Daken remarks as he walks out the door. 'Don't forget the fleet seeds!' Northstar calls out.
Soon, 'He forgot the fleet seeds' Lorna Dane a.k.a. Polaris remarks as she holds them up while sitting around a table. Northstar utters several expletives, while Aurora and Trevor Hawkins a.k.a. Eye-Boy sit nearby, everyone has small holo-monitors displayed in front of them as they keep track of Daken's mission.
'Thanks, snitch' Daken remarks through a payphone, while watching as Theresa Rourke Cassidy a.k.a. Siryn towards him. 'Listen – do me a favor and tell JP we're not in Barcelona anymore' Daken remarks. He turns away from the sidewalk as Siryn moves closer, while he reports that Siryn backtracked through the Barcelona gate and then left Krakoa again through the southern Alberta one. He adds that he thinks she is headed south toward the States now. As Siryn walks towards a bus, Daken announces that he has to go, as she is taking a bus, and he is following behind in a car he stole. 'Don't tell JP that part. I just felt like bragging' Daken adds. He falls silent as Siryn passes him and gets onto the bus. 'Polaris? You still there? Hello?' Daken calls out down the payphone, but gets no response.
'He says Siryn's dong a guided Gaudi tour around Barcelona' Lorna reports as  she hangs up her mobile phone. 'It's a wlaking tour, so Daken says it'll take a day' Lorna adds. 'So she's just... sightseeing?' Northstar asks. 'Apparently' Lorna tells him. Eye-Boy looks at Polaris and picks up various pieces of information from her, noting her heartrate, the way she narrows her eyes and so on. 'Lucky Akihiro. Barcelona is a beautiful city' Northstar comments, before clapping his hands and reporting that the rest of them have work to get to. With Aurora wearing her X-Factor costume, Northstar suggests that they split into three teams, of two people, one interrogator and one lie detector on each time. Polaris tells him that that makes sense and offers to go grab Rachel, who is over at the Braddock Lighthouse right now, checking on how everything is going with Betsy. 'Why is she lying?' Eye-Boy wonders. 'Partner up' Aurora smiles art Eye-Boy. 'Oh! Sure, haha. Okay!' Eye-Boy replies sheepishly. 'Then Prodigy, you and I will... where is he?' Northstar asks, realizing that Prodigy is not at the meeting.
An instant later, Northstar is speeding through the Boneyard in an attempt to find Prodigy – but comes to a stop when Tommy speedds towards him. '...Hello...young person...?' Northstar remarks. 'Hi? Fellow speedster!' Speed responds. 'Who are you, and why are you here? Do you need help?' Northstar asks. Pulling his shirt down over his head, Prodigy emerges from his quarters and remarks 'He's on his way out. His name is Tommy – he's my guest'. 'Guest with benefits' Tommy adds. 'Guest with benefits, who is leaving' Prodigy remarks as he goes over and starts to pull Tommy away from Northstar. Tommy smiles and asks 'Hey, what's your top velocity? Mines 761 miles per hour'. '189,299 miles per second' Northstar responds. 'Bull! There's no way! That's impossible!' Tommy declares, pointing a finger at Northstar. 'No, Tommy, that's Northstar' David utters. Tommy goes wide-eyed and quickly turns his head from Tommy to Northstar, smiling, he exclaims 'Wait, you can fly?'
'That's not fair! A speedster and you can fly? That would make you -' Tommy begins, to which Northstar boasts 'The fastest mutant alive, oui. This is true'. As David drags Tommy down some stairs, Tommy tells Northstar that is cheating, and that he is taking shortcuts if he flies everywhere. 'I suppose that make sense, were I trying to soothe my wounded ego by lying to myself about an arbitrary speedster rule system I had just made up. Sure'. Northstar replies. 'Race me!' Speed calls out. 'Non' Northstar tells him. 'Fastest runner to Australia and back buys the loser a smoothie' Speed suggests. 'Non' Northstar replies again as he follows David and Tommy down the stairs. Tommy smiles as he asks how 189,299 miles per second is even possible, as that is faster than the speed of light. 'That would -' Tommy begins. 'Destroy everything in my path, yes. That's correct. I could garrote the world in half with one lap if I wished it' Northstar boasts. 'Badass' Tommy smiles. Northstar admits that it would just destroy him – physically, he means, not emotionally. 'I can't breathe at that point because I've created a vacuum and my organs are getting crushed, my bones pulverized into dust'. 'Bad. Ass' Speed exclaims.
Prodigy continues to try and drag Tommy towards the front door, while Tommy asks Northsstar if he used to be an Olympic skier too, and won gold a few times. 'God, I bet you were fast' Tommy gushes. 'Olympic speedster skier? Olympic speedster skier going downhill on snow!' he calls out. 'I'm also rich and gay, since you seem to be keeping score' Northstar adds. 'Downhill on some %$&^ snow!' Tommy exclaims. 'Okay, okay! Time to go, Tommy. Northstar and I have X-Factor work to do' David declares as he pushes Tommy out the front door. ''But I'm feeling really emasculated right now, babe. Kiss it better?' Tommy replies. Northstar stands in the doorway and Tommy turns back to him, asking him if gravity even registers to someone like him. 'Can you feel it? It's different, isn't it? Tell me! I have to know!' Northstar explains that it only feels different in movement, but at rest, it is the same, while in flight and at top speeds, it doesn't quite feel the same to him as it does to others. 'That was an astute observation' Northstar tells Tommy. 'MWAH! Bye, Tommy!' Prodigy declares as he kisses Tommy. Northstar then tells Tommy that he is welcome to come back and visit the Boneyard anytime.
Later: 'Acting strange how?' Banshee asks as he talks to Northstar and Prodigy. 'Well – you know she's died a lot recently, right?' Prodigy replies. 'WHAT?' Banshee, the father of Siryn, shouts. 'Guess not' Northstar remarks.
Elsewhere, Polaris' phone begins to ring. She answers it, and Daken's voice can be heard: 'Polaris, I need y-' he begins, before she scowls and hangs up on him.
Aurora and Eye-Boy, meanwhile, are meeting with Dazzler, who tells them that since they mention it, Siryn has been missing a lot of band practices lately. 'Dazzler's telling the truth' Eye-Boy whispers to Aurora, who asks Dazzler to tell them more.
Northstar and Prodigy have found Multiple Man, who tells them that it was a one-time thing, and that he doesn't know why they are asking her about Siryn like he is her keeper or something. 'I wasn't. I thought you were friends' Northstar responds. 'You know, when I ran X-Factor, we did things differently' Multiple Man declares. 'Must by why I run things now' Northstar replies calmly.
Polaris' phone rings again, an unknown number located in Montana – but she hangs up on it.
'What the $%^&, Lorna!' Daken calls out, looking at the payphone he holds in his hands.
'Mr Summers, have you noticed Theresa acting strangely lately?' Aurora asks as she and Prodigy enter the Green Lagoon bar. 'Please, call me Alex. Mr Summers is my brother' Havok smiles, before he reports that he hasn't seen much of Siryn around. Their conversation does not go unnoticed by another patron in the bar – Feral – who cocks her head to listen and watch.
'You're too late. They're on their way' Daken remarks as he hangs the payphone up under a night sky. 'You're bluffing' someone unseen calls back.
Back at the Boneyard, X-Factor are regrouping. 'Welp! That was a total bust' Polaris remarks. 'At least we confirmed she has been unlike herself lately' Aurora tells the others. Northstar notices his husband, Kyle Jinadu-Beaubier, walking down the staircase and asks him where he is headed. Backpack over one shoulder, Kyle reports that he is headed to Braddock Lighthouse, as Excalibur is doing some fieldwork in Avalon and Jubilee asked him to babysit Shogo tonight. 'She said that he needs more “positive human influences” in his life' Kyle explains, before asking 'What was a bust?' Northstar tells him that questioning Siryn's friends and family was, as none of them were particularly helpful. Kyle asks Northstar if he wants him to give it a go, suggesting that his public relations experience might help. 'The only difference between what I do and what an investigative reporter does is that only one of these professions actually publishes its findings' Kyle adds. 'The other endeavors to hide it'. Kyle then asks if Siryn has been seeing someone lately, but Northstar reports that they couldn't determine, as Siryn has been keeping her distance from her friends and family, for whatever reason. Kyle suggests that these things might be connected.
'How do you mean?' Northstar asks. Kyule explains that deliberately isolating someone from their friends and family is an abuser tactic – it's how they get away with the abuse, by making sure no one is around to intervene on their loved one's behalf, because it doesn't look like abuse at first, of course. Kyle remarks that it looks like they are helping because no one cares about this person they've isolated anyway, and an abuser convinces their victim it is their fault, and they will often methodically attack weaknesses in someone's emotional armor before things escalate to physical violence.
'They won't even take your call!' an unseen Siryn calls out as she flies through the dark sky, above Daken, who rushes through waist-high snow in a remote, desolate location. 'Do you know how eas it was to lure you all the way out here? How dumb you are?' Siryn asks, before she suddenly swoops down and flies past Daken, knocking him in the face in a frantic blur. She hits him again, drawing blood and hurling him towards some broken timber lying nearby, telling him to face it, that no one cares about him – not his father and not his co-workers, either. She then drops him down towards the jagged planks of timber that poke upwards and tells Daken that they sent him off like a sacrificial lamb because no one gives a $#%& what happens to him. 'You...won't get away with this...' a badly injured Daken utters, his bruised and bloodied body skewered on one of the boken planks. 'You sure? No one knows where you are. They'll never find you' Siryn tells Daken, pointing out that they have to have a body to resurrect him. 'When do you think someone will even think of coming to look for you? They'll just assume you've flaked like always'. 'No...' Daken whispers, while Siryn declares that she is doing them a favor, really, getting him out of their hair.
'Something to keep in mind, anyhow' Kyle concludes. 'I see. Thank you – I love you' Northstar tells his husband. Aurora tells the others that she really, truly hopes that is not what Siryn is experiencing right now, as it is awful. Rachel Summers a.k.a. Prestige approaches the others and asks them why they have long faces, and whether or not they are working today. Polaris utters a forced laugh and asks Rachel what she means. 'We already worked today! Remember!' she exclaims. 'Lorna! You're lying! And you were lying earlier!' Eye-Boy shouts, pointing at Polaris. Northstar snaps his fingers at Rachel and tells her to fix it, to get it out of Lorna, whatever it is. 'I'll be quick' Rachel smirks. 'Bet you say that to all the girls' Lorna retorts, too which Rachel snorts, as she telepathically enters Lorna's mind, and sees a replay of what happened between Siryn and Polaris. She sees Polaris frozen and a flock of birds hovering in the air around her. 'It's the Morrigan. It's the $#%& Morrigan! She's been passing as Siryn all along!' Rachel reports.
Rachel announces that she has removed the blocks, and explains that the Morrigan used Siryn's sonic hypnosis to brainwash Lorna into forgetting her encounter with her and to get her to sabotage their investigation at every step, which is why Polaris has been acting so weird, she had no choice. 'I'm going to kill her! Again!' Lorna exclaims, before telling everyone that Daken called the first day he left because he was trying to tell her they had changed locations, they came back, then left through the Alberta gate. Northstar speeds out of the Boneyard an instant later, despite Polaris telling him to wait.
A short time later: 'I told you... bring the stupid $#%& fleet seeds! What is wrong with you!' Northstar asks Daken as he arrives in Alberta, snow falling around him as he finds Daken, impaled on the planks. 'Ha... funny you should ask...' Daken utters. Northstar tells him to hold still, as he starts to break all the wood trapping Northstar. Daken wearily asks Northstar how he found him, to which Northstar asks what he means “how” and boasts that he is the fastest damn mutant alive. 'Polaris said you were in this general area, so I searched this part of the continent. The whole endeavor took about seven minutes' Northstar explains. 'Been stuck here... days...' Daken reveals. Northstar tells Daken that he knows, and apologizes, assuring him that he came as soon as he heard. 'You look like $#%&, by the way' Northstar adds as he helps Daken to walk. 'Quit flirting. I'm flattered, but -' Daken begins, to which Northstar tells him to stop talking.
'I already know this punch line won't even be worth it'. 'Flattered, but...my heart belongs to...' Daken begins, but Northstar tells him to shut up, as he can hear the blood gurgling in his lungs. 'Aurora' Daken concludes. Northstar looks at Daken and tells him that he knows, and that they've talked about this. 'Ugh. I told you the punchline wasn't worth it' Northstar suggests Daken save his breath, or he will spare them both the hassle of getting his nearly dead ass back to the Boneyard and just make him fully dead and flagged for resurrection, instead. Daken says nothing, as Northstar continues to help him trudge through the snow. Northstar sighs and thanks Daken.
Later, in the Boneyard, within the Alveolar Caves, Daken is alone, relaxing in the warm waters of the hot pools, as steam rises around him. 'I thought you'd left us' Aurora utters as she drops down into the water, fully clothed. 'I thought you'd all left me to die' Daken replies. Aurora moves closer to him, 'Boy, she really did a number on you...' Aurora begins as she reaches out to touch Daken, but he brushes her off. 'Akihiro...' Aurora utters. 'I don't want to talk about it' Daken tells her as he hangs his head. 'What happened to you out there?' Aurora asks. 'Don't worry about it' Daken replies. 'Akihiro, it's me' Aurora exclaims. But Dkaen remains silent, closing his eyes, he finally looks up at Aurora and reveals that he pulled his punches, thinking it was Siryn. 'This stupid team, trying to play nice on Krakoa – it's all made me so soft. I got killed by a death goddess who didn't know I have a healing ability. I was stuck, impaled alive on a broken crossbeam while too injured to pull myself off it, and with it stuck in me, I couldn't even heal enough to try!'
Daken continues, informing Aurora that before the Morrigan left him for dead, she got in his head, too, using Siryn's hypnosis, like she did on Lorna, and made him believe all these awful things – like he was trying to swim for shore while a furious tide kept pulling him farther and farther out. 'I wish I had just $%^& died out there' Daken admits. 'Can I kiss you?' Aurora asks, leaning against Daken's bare chest. 'Yes. Please' Daken replies. Their lips move closer together and Aurora puts her hands on Daken's face, then hugs him close, before Daken winches, and Aurora pulls away, 'Oh – I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I didn't mean -' she begins, but Daken tells her that it's fine, that he is okay, but still healing. He wraps his arms around her, and Aurora tells him that is understandable, as a goddess of death gored straight through him. Aurora leans into Daken and puts her head against him, 'Akihiro. While you were gone. I missed you' she admits. Daken sighs as he admits to Aurora that he missed her the entire time he was gone, too. 'Please... don't go away like that. Again' Aurora asks him. 'Okay. Okay, I won't' Daken responds.
'AURORA!' Northstar shouts from the living room where he reclines on a sofa. 'AURORA!' Northstar shouts again when he gets no answer. Daken laughs, before asking why Northstar is like that, why he is shouting instead of zooming. 'There's nothing he's more terrified of than losing people he cares about' Aurora replies as she stands up and starts to move away from Daken. 'How so?' Daken enquires. Aurora tells Daken that when he gets the chance, he should ask Northstar about his time in Nate Grey's false utopia. 'Both my little sisters were trapped inside there' Daken informs Aurora. 'Then you know. You know what it was like, and how they all came back acting a bit different' Aurora remarks. She stands out of the water and tells Daken that it is the trauma, it's what trauma does to a person, it rewires their brain. 'For his part, Northstar's still terrified and needs to keep checking that we're all still here' Aurora explains.
Later on the same night: 'They're dead. Aurora and Jean-Paul' a voice utters. The Boneyard has been plunged into darkness, save for the glow of the television screen in the living room. 'We need to turn the TV off – because if she sees the light from the hall, she'll know we're hiding in here' Prodigy utters as he hides in a corner with Eye-Boy, while Daken crouches opposite them. 'Rachel's dead. Polaris, too' Eye-Boy announces, seeing their bodies with his special sight powers. 'We're thev last ones' Eye-Boy remarks as Daken crawls behind the couch and reaches the television, switching it off, as he discovers a glowing symbol etched in the carpet, the bodies of Northstar and Aurora leaning against each other, blood stains around them, and flowers in their hair. 'Everybody else is dead!'


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Suite No. 8: Scio Me Nihil Scire (Tritone Substitution - - Jazz Arrangement)
Earlier:
The Boneyard, where Jean-Paul Beaubier a.k.a. Northstar is sitting on a sofa in the living room, shouting out to his sister. 'AUROR-' he begins, before Jeanne-Marie Beaubier a.k.a. Aurora appears. 'Tch. I'm here, I'm here' she mutters at her brother. Taking a seat on the sofa next to him, Aurora tells Northstar that she knows he is all sad and lonely because Kyle is off watching Shogo this weekend, but that there is no need to get noisy about it. Jeanne-Marie tells her brother that she wants to watch a terrible B-movie tonight – something so terrible that it feels like a fever dream. She pushes a button on the remote control and the TV depicts the film “The Birds”. Jean-Paul turns to his sister and tells her that when she left the living room to pee she was not soaking wet, and points out that now she is. 'Without explanation, one might assume you... fell... in?' Jean-Paul asks, his voice trailing off. Jeanne-Marie responds by kicking her feet up onto the couch and pressing them against her brother. 'My feet are cold!' Jeanne-Marie exclaims. 'Arretez, imp! Augh!' the horrified Jean-Paul cries out as he tries to pull himself away from his sister, who bursts into laughter.
In her basement quarters, Rachel Summers a.k.a. Prestige sits up in her bed as she tells her Warwolf pup, Amazing Baby, to give it a rest, as the pup barks loudly and repeatedly at a corner of her room. 'There's nothing there! I would sense it if there were' Rachel remarks, but the pup doesn't stop barking. Rachel sighs and gets out of bed, picking the pup up, she leaves her quarters, climbing the winding staircase within the Boneyard. 'C'mon, Baby. Let's go out. Out-out. Outside!' Rachel exclaims. But as she reaches another level of the Boneyard, she goes wide-eyed when she sees Trevor Hawkins a.k.a. Eye-Boy standing in the center of the large open area which looks upwards through the center of the Boneyard. 'Uh... hey, kiddo... what are you doing?' Rachel asks. 'What are you doing, Rachel?' Eye-Boy responds. 'Uh... Amazing Baby won't stop barking at an empty corner' Rachel remarks,
Amazing Baby struggles to break free of Rachel who holds the pup in her arms while informing Eye-Boy that Amazing Baby has been fed, watered and already went potty so she was going to see if he maybe just wants to sleep outside. 'N-no!' Eye-Boy exclaims, before asking if Amazing Baby can sleep in his room tonight. Amazing Baby barks at Eye-Boy, and Rachel decides 'He certainly seems to want that'. 'So you were just tired of hanging out with mom, huh, Baby?' Eye-Boy asks as Amazing Baby rushes over and leaps into his arms. He promises Rachel that he will take good care of Baby, and Rachel replies 'He'll take really good care of you, too'. Eye-Boy looks up through the opening of the center of the Boneyard, his mutant abilities enable him to see all sorts of things hidden throughout – and he looks scared, as he tells Baby not to worry, as he can see something, too.
In his quarters, David Alleyne a.k.a. Prodigy is examining a  holographic projection of a photograph taken of he and Tommy, where he discovers that there is an encrypted data stream under the jpeg. He looks at it closer, and the holographic projection appears to take the image of a face, which leans in to kiss David. 'AA-AH!' David screams, pulling his glasses off his face and moving backwards on his bed, away from the image, which fades away. 'Lord... that's why this VR hardware was so cheap...' the wide-eyed David reaches for his glasses, 'Stupid-ass, cheap $%#&, human-designed junky, hump scare trolling  into feed... ha, ha! So funny! Not!' David mutters.
David investigates the image – the first hidden layer reveals edits made to the photo of he and Tommy kissing. The second hidden layer reveals GPS coordinates and a date/time stamp embedded in the JPEG metadata. The third hidden layer reveals device information, the photo was taken and posted from David's old phone. David's hypothesis is that he both edited and posted this photo for him to find later, and tagging Tommy in it would make him aware of it, and thus able to provide an alibi to David's previous assumptions about how he died – although he isn't sure why he would bury probative data like this. David's assessment is that the metadata supports Tommy's claim that the chronology the Five and he pieced together and the cause of his death were incorrect. The photo was also not taken at Club Pepper in West Hollywood, but was posted from there. The photo was posted from David's old phone, but that phone hasn't been seen since before his demise, and he has no recollection as to what happened to it upon his death. David ascertains that the photo was taken and subsequently posted during a Cerebro backup blind spot – meaning the week between one backup and the next – but why? He wonders at what point he involves X-Factor.
Daken is in the hot pools still, and Auroa appears before him. 'Swim with me' she tells him.'Where?' Daken asks. 'Anywhere. Away from here' Aurora suggests. 'I'll go wherever you want, baby' Daken replies. He reminds Aurora that she saved him. 'Waited so long...' he utters while Aurora puts her hands on his face. 'In the snow...but I...didn't think you'd come' Daken, standing naked before Aurora, remarks. 'I didn't' Aurora tells him. 'Wh-what?' Daken asks, surprised. 'I...didn't' Aurora tells him once again, her eyes wide, hair suddenly blowing around her, Dkane screams as Aurora seemingly shoves her hands through his chest and forces him down under the water. 'N-no, no stop – let me go – n-no, stop, please stop. Please stop, stop. Please stop – I'll be good!' Daken cries out as Aurora's body appears to not be her after all – some mysterious force instead. Suddenly, Daken gasps for air as he bursts up through the surface of the hot pools. Water drips from his naked body as he exits the pools and puts some trousers on, before climbing a staircase to leave the hot pools.
In his quarters, Eye-Boy sits on his bed, hugging Amazing Baby. 'I...I know...I know you're there' he utters, while Amazing Baby whimpers. 'What do you want?' Trevor calls out. He quickly turns around, 'Why can't I see you?' he asks. 'I don't know how to help you if I can't look at you!' Trevor shouts. His special sight skills show him various images but he closes his eyes and screams 'PRODIGY! POLARIS! SOMEBODY! ANYBODY – PLEASE! HELP!' as he pulls his bed covers up around him to cover his face. He begins sobbing, then stops when he senses someone in his room. He pauses, before he starts to call out 'Hell-' before the covers are pulled back away from him – by Daken. 'Shut! Your fear! The $%#&! Up!' Daken snarls. He asks Trevor if he knows how loud he is right now. 'I was asleep! You woke me up! Your fear is so loud that it reeks, and it gave me a bad dream!' Daken exclaims.
Eye-Boy flings himself into Daken's arms and tells him that there is a thing that he can't see, but that it is in the Boneyard, and he almost keeps “kind of” seeing it but he can't look at it and, earlier, it won't let him look at it, either. 'I can't look at it – I can't see it!' Eye-Boy explains. 'What the – okay, okay, calm the $%#& down. Take a deep breath' Daken tells Trevor. 'Good. Take anoher deep breath. Good. Okay, and slow down and tell me what you know' Daken asks Trevor. Trevor looks up behind Daken, where he sees Siryn, possessed by the Morrigan, looming over them, uttering something in the Morrigan's language, dark energy whirls around her. Trevor screams as he, Daken and Amazing Baby begin to run, while the Morrigan attacks them with some sort of energy that crashes into Trevor's room. 'Yes. Run...RUN!' the Morrigan calls out, rising up above Daken and Eye-Boy, appearing as some strange dark figure with green energy flowing around her.
They don't get far though, as the Morrigan hurls several large spikes around them in an attempt to trap them. The Morrigan continues to mumble in her native tongue, while her eyes glow green and she grins, a mouthful of teeth on display as she slinks around the room. Before she can trap Daken and Eye-Boy completely, Prodigy rushes into the room and grabs Eye-Boy by his shirt, pulling him out into the corridor, while Daken escapes soon after. Prodigy tells his teammates that they need to turn off the TV, because if she sees the light from the hall it will draw her attention. 'Rachel's dead' Eye-Boy utters. 'Polaris, too...we're the last ones. Everybody else is dead' he announces. Prodigy tells Eye-Boy that he needs to examine Aurora and Northstar's bodies. 'Can you -' he begins, while Eye-Boy stands up, the various eyes on his body all seeing different parts of the Boneyard, as he reports that he is tracking the Morrigan, and that he will let Prodigy know if she starts moving in this direction again. His eyes depict Aurora and Northstar slumped together in some ritual killing, Polaris lying motionless on the floor and other parts of the Boneyard.
Prodigy examines the Beaubier twins and notes that they have been killed in a ritual killing, with no obvious signs of assault. He adds that there is no scent of blood or fear lingering in the air, and that it happened fast – but the weird thing is he can smell cold medicine and cheap chocolate – just like on Siryn. 'Oh...yeah, their tiny secrets are the same as Siryn's, too' Eye-Boy remarks. 'What? Like precisely the same particulates?' Prodigy asks as he kneels over the bodies of the Beaubier twins. 'Exactly the same trace evidence' Eye-Boy replies, as he moves closer to Prodigy so that Prodigy can see what he is seeing. 'What are they?' Daken asks. 'Chalk dust, honey and hollyhock pollen' Eye-Boy reports. 'Wait – those are hollyhock flowers!' Prodigy gasps as he looks at the flowers around Northstar and Aurora's heads. 'Hollyhock, honey, and chalk...$%^&! I know what happened!' Prodigy exclaims.
Eye-Boy informs his teammates that the Morrigan is coming back, as he can see her coming up the lightwell. Eye-Boy then tells Amazing Baby to go and hide. '%$^&! I can't die now! If I die, then I'm gonna have to figure out the connection between the trace evidence and the Morrigan's ritual sacrifices all over again!' Prodigy exclaims, muttering that the statistical probability of a Cerebro backup being taken at precisely the moment of death is one-in-604,800 – which is a 0.000165343% chance of full information retention! Daken appears sad as he looks at Aurora. 'Ugh, don't give me that look, Jeanne-Marie' he utters, before popping his claws, 'I know, I know...I'll distract her while you three escape' Daken tells Eye-Boy and Prodigy. 'Wh-' Prodigy begins, while Daken shouts 'WHAT'S UP, YOU NASTY HAG?' as he walks towards the Morrigan, who continues to appear as some strange spectre-like creature, dark and glowing with green energy. 'Remember me?' Daken asks, lunging towards their foe. 'Run. We should run' Prodigy suggests to Eye-Boy, as Daken begins shoving his claws into the Morrigan.
'See you – tomorrow!' Daken calls out to his teammates, as he slashes away at the Morrigan, 'You used Siryn's hypnosis on me! You made me believe I was worthless!' he exclaims, while the Morrigan laughs, and as Daken, covered in green gunk, goes wide-eyed, the Morrigan tells him that she did no such thing – he just actually believes those things of himself. Eye-Boy and Prodigy continue to run, with Amazing Baby at their feet, while the Morrigan decapitates Daken, dropping him to the ground in horrific display, while David and Trevor scream as they run from the Boneyard.
The next day, at the Hatchery, the sun glows down through the into the Hatchery, while Eye-Boy smiles and exclaims 'Welcome back! Boneyard's haunted!' as he and Prodigy stand nearby while Kyle Jinadu-Beaubier helps his husband, Northstar, emerge from the egg. Aurora, Polaris, Daken and Rachel rise from their eggs nearby. 'What?' Northstar asks. 'Er, yeah' Prodigy remarks, before announcing that he left a status report to catch them up. Polaris points out that Northstar is busy and asks for the report, while Kyle begins 'Jean-Paul, when I heard...' before he sighs. Northstar tells his husband that he is sorry for worrying him, and remarks that if it is any consolation, he has absolutely no recollection of what happened, or how he got here. 'It's all in the report!' Prodigy exclaims. Northstar thanks Kyle for being here for this. 'I know this -' he begins, while Kyle asks 'This is you? This is really you?' 'I was going  to say “I know this is not your comfort zone”' Northstar remarks. Kyle asks Jean-Paul how he can even tell if he's the real deal or not. 'It's me. Kiss me' Northstar replies, reaching out for Kyle, who pulls away: 'No, you're gooey and I have to get back to the Braddock Lighthouse after this' Kyle declares. 'Oui! So kiss your naked, gooey husband first!' Northstar exclaims. Kyle laughs and tells Jean-Paul that he gets it. 'I can see you now, you $%&#!'
'Baby boy! Miss me?' Rachel asks as Amazing Baby leaps up into her arms. Aurora looks over at Daken and asks him what the last thing he remembers is. 'Being uncomfortably impaled in the snow. You?' Daken replies. 'Ha! Oh, well...a bit more than that...' Aurora replies, as an annoyed Lorna Dane a.k.a. Polaris covers herself with a blanket and, after reading Prodigy's report, exclaims 'Killed in my sleep? That $%&#!' Charles Xavier and the Five – Hope, Tempus, Proteus, Egg and Elixir – are present, and move towards Polaris, as Xavier tells Lorna that a death goddess killed her in her sleep, so she shouldn't beat herself up over it. 'I'm not. I'm going to beat her up' Lorna retorts. 'Yes, well, seeing as the Morrigan did dispatch all of you relatively quickly last time, I would like to offer my -' Xavier begins, but Lorna interrupts him: 'Don't! You. Dare. X-Factor will handle it. But thank you' before asking Xavier not to tell her father that she died, as she is humiliated enough as it is. Xavier sighs, 'Very well' before telling X-Factor that in the event they should need any hypothetical assistance, even simply for the Boneyard's current zombie situation – 'The. WHAT?' Northstar asks. Xavier suggests that X-Factor's survivng colleagues should have debriefed them first. 'Hehe, sorry...did we bury the lede?' Eye-Boy asks. 'If you all make me have to say “It's all in the report” even one more time after this, I swear to god...' Prodigy begins.
Soon, at the Boneyard, whch is now black and glows with the same green energy as the Morrigan, who appears to have manifested beside the towering building. 'Ugh' Northstar mutters as he and Polaris hover in the air nearby. 'I'm so angry' Polaris tells Northstar. 'A mess' Northstar remarks. 'You hate mess' Polaris acknowledges. 'I do indeed' Northstar agrees. Aurora, Daken, Rachel, Prodigy and Eye-Boy all stand the ground underneath, and turn to Northstar as he drops down among them. 'D'accord, did a lap. Here is what is going to happen -' Northstar announces.
Soon, from outside the Boneyard, Rachel begins a psychic assault on ther Morrigan. She is instructed to keep slicing down through the Morrigan's consciousness until she finds and delivers Siryn within. With the entrance to the Boneyard obstructed, Polaris breaks inside via the Hanging Gardens, and once inside, she begins looking for the Morrigan. Northstar and Aurora enter through the flight deck to do a sweep of the interior, disinviting any unwanted guests and making sure none of them will provide distraction to Polaris. 'Daken wants to kill the big bug!' Daken calls out. 'I thought it looked like you'd have fun with that thing'. Northstar remarks. 'Um, Sir? Do we -' Eye-Boy asks, but Northstar tells he and Prodigy to wait outside. 'You've already done enough, and now the authority in this situation is taking the appropriate actions' Northstar adds.
As the assault against the Morrigan continues, Polaris stands in the Hanging Gardens, over several fallen zombies. 'Garden's done. Just standard zombies' Polaris reports, before announcing thaty she is heading inside. 'Not so standard, I'm afraid...' Aurora reports from her interior sweep, where she takes down a headless Daken zombie. Rachel telepathically reports that she might need some back up, as the Morrigan closes in on her. Polaris announces that she has eyes on the Morrigan herself, and Rachel tells Polaris to keep her locked in sight. 'Little mortal, little mortal...I smell your decay...' the Morrigan utters. Rachel uses her psychic powers to keep the Morrigan at bay, but struggles, until she is finally able to pierce the Morrigan's energies, while Daken shoves his claws into part of thew Morrigan's strange body, or essence. 'Lorna, now!' Rachel cries out urgently. 'With absolute pleasure' Polaris smirks.
The Morrigan laughs, her eyes glow as she lashes out at someone approaching her. 'Foolish girl!' she exclaims as she slashes the woman with her claw-like fingers. But she sees a zombie body drop to the ground. 'Who...' the confused Morrigan begins, turning around as another figure approaches her, she slashes her, too – only it's another zombie. 'What is the meaning of this?' the annoyed Morrigan screeches. 'I used your kills as bait' Rachel calls out. 'Look up' she adds, as Polaris flies towards the Morrigan, 'Hey, sweetie' she smiles. Rachel and Polaris unleash a combined assault on the Morrigan – and it works as they tear her form from that of Theresa Rourke a.k.a Siryn.
A pained Siryn sits on the ground, closing her eyes while Polaris and the rest of X-Factor gather around her. 'Please – please, you have to help me, Lorna, she's already trying to come back, I can feel her -' Siryn begins. 'We're not going to let her hurt you anymore, Terry' Lorna assures her friend, while Northstar asks her to tell them about the new bargain she has struck with the Morrigan.


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'Are we sure this is Siryn's memory?' someone asks. 'It's her' Rachel Summers a.k.a. Prestige responds as the members of X-Factor walk through Siryn's memories. Rachel reports that she is still psychically supressing the Morrigan, as Polaris' electromagnetic beatdown made her fairly compliant – for now. 'Is this how your chronoskimming normally appears?' Jean-Paul Beaubier a.k.a. Northstar asks, looking at the strange reality around him. 'No... normally I have total recall' Rachel explains as they walk through a strange redness. Daken pops his claws and points out that Rachel has total recall of their powers in her chronoskimming, at least. David Alleyne a.k.a. Prodigy tells Rachel that this is unbelievable and asks her if she has any idea what she has done. 'My... job?' Rachel asks. 'You made us into a mutant circuit' Prodigy explains, before Northstar declares that they have to move, and asks David if he has any thoughts on where they go from here. 'We should go back to before the resurrection protocols were established. Stuff was... a bit looser then' David suggests.
Rachel tells her teammates that that will take some time, as even though she is anchored to Siryn's mind, the lack of detail makes it hard to know exactly which direction to explore. 'It's that way' Trevor Hawkins a.k.a. Eye-Boy reports as he leads the team down another direction. Rachel, Northstar, Daken, Prodigy and Jeanne-Marie Beaubier a.k.a. Aurora follow, as Eye-Boy suddenly announces that he can see Siryn's memories of the Founders' Party. 'Why do you all look surprised?' Eye-Boy asks. The team looks out over the memory of the party, and they see a large eyeball hanging above the party. 'That...doesn't seem normal' Eye-Boy utters. Rachel asks him why she can see the Morrigan now, too, and as he looks out at Siryn, dancing happily, Trevor explains that it is because they are viewing it through Siryn's memory. Northstar then tells the others that he doesn't recall this obstruction being at the Founders' Party, either. Daken asks the others if they think it is the Morrigan's doing, and Eye-Boy tells him 'Without a doubt'. Rachel suddenly asks what a “geas” is.
In the real world, the members of X-Factor are in their headquarters, the Boneyard, standing in the kitchen, while Lorna Dane a.k.a. Polaris sits next to Theresa Rourke a.k.a. Siryn at the kitchen bench. 'What?' Lorna asks. 'There's...something like a psychic barrier keeping us from going any further back in Siryn's memories' Rachel explains, adding that anytime she tries to push through, she can't get anything except “geas” screeching in her head. 'So, what is that?' Rachel asks.
Back inside Siryn's memories, Daken and Prodigy look up at some large barrier. 'God-powered gag order' Daken remarks. Prodigy reports that it is an ancient form of magical contract from Irish folklore – a riddle or a set of conditions imposed by a super-powered being onto a mortal in order to achieve a goal. 'That's exactly what I said, except you made a choice to be annoying' Daken states, folding his arms. 'Mr Snikt, sir, I do believe I offered the context-rich version of what you said, but okay' Prodigy replies.
In the real world Lorna turns as Kyle Jinadu-Beaubier enters the kitchen. 'Oh, hey, Kyle' Lorna smiles. Kyle greets Lorna and asks her if she is working. 'Yeah...everyone is chronoskimming inside Siryn's mind right now' Lorna replies casually. 'Except you?' Kyle asks. In Siryn's memories, 'You guys stay here. Be right back' Rachel begins. Northstar starts to call out to her, but Rachel returns to her body, where Lorna asks her if everything is okay. 'What? Yeah' Rachel replies, before greeting Kyle. 'Hi, Rachel' Kyle responds, before Rachel announces that she has a terrible idea. 'I'm all ears' Northstar announces. 'Trevor, no -' Prodigy begins, while Eye-Boy grins as he jokes 'I'm all eyes!' 'Ugh' Daken mutters. Rachel explains that the geas is affecting Siryn, but technically they have access to the Morrigan's memories in here, too – they're just another level down. Lorna asks Rachel what she is suggesting.
Rachel reports that she wants to softball the geas into the Morrigan's memories, and that she has to stay behind in Siryn's memories to keep the Morrigan subdued, and Lorna has to continue keeping her electromagnetic goddess beatdown on standby out here in the physical world just in case. 'You'll be the tether' Rachel explains. 'Like a telepathic daisy chain. Two layers deep' Lorna remarks. 'Exactly. Okay the-' Rachel starts to say, before Kyle turns to her and asks her if she is headed back to Jean-Paul. 'Ask him what he wants for dinner. Tell him I don't feel like cooking' Kyle tells Rachel. 'I – we're working' Rachel replies. 'No, I know. Ask my husband what he wants to do about dinner tonight' Kyle tells her again. Frowning, Rachel's psychic form turns to Northstar and tells him that Kyle wants to know what he wants to do for dinner, as he doesn't feel like cooking. 'Oh... I have no preference. I'll cook, or we could order out. Ask him what he's in the mood for' Northstar tells Rachel.
Rachel glances at Kyle, 'He wants to know wh – wait a minute... no' Rachel declares as she suddenly pulls Kyle in Siryn's memories. 'Okay, talk' she tells him. 'What the $%#&!' Kyle exclaims. 'Really, Rachel?' Northstar asks as he goes over to his husband. 'What?' Rachel asks. 'Bonjour, Kyle!' Aurora calls out to her brother-in-law. 'Hello, Aurora' Kyle answers. Northstar flies up above Kyle and tells him that they have to finish up here, and that he can just use his card and order whatever he wants. 'Let's see what you can get delivered to Krakoa from anywhere in the world. Impress me!' Jean-Paul tells Kyle. 'Too easy. I already impress you. Let's see what I can get that makes you regret this offer' Kyle suggests. 'Deal. All this human wealth and yet I have nothing to spend it on save philanthropy and you. I love you' Northstar tells Kyle as he speeds down and kisses him on his face.
Rachel warns her teammates that it is going to be significantly weirder on that side, and she uses her powers to push Northstar, Aurora, Daken, Eye-Boy and Prodigy onwards through Sirny's memories. A moment later, they stand on a slope that looks out towards what can only be described as a large black heart. 'That... would be our geas, I take it?' Northstar asks. 'Yeah, that big weird thing's coated in enchantment' Eye-Boy remarks, to which Northstar asks him if he can see through sorcerery. Eye-Boy explains that he can't exactly see through sorcerery, not what is actually behind the enchantment, but he can always see if a spell has been cast, as magic leaves a very obvious visual residue. Northstar then tells Eye-Boy that the specifics of all his vast and various sight capabilities are to be X-Factor-only privileged information. Aurora calls out to Daken as he pops his claws, and raises them to the black heart, suggesting that it looks like it could use a blood sacrifice. 'Did you even once pause to wonder if feeding the enchantment was a good idea? What, exactly, is your goal?' Northstar asks. 'Waking it up' Daken explains. 'And why is that a wise course of action?' Northstar asks.
A mystical symbol suddenly glows on the surface around X-Factor, and a strange voice calls out: 'A FATHER TO HIS FATHER, A WARRIOR WHO IS NO KILLER, A TRAVELER WHO GOES NOWHERE, A SECRET KEEPER WHO SHARES EVERYTHING. BRING AN IMPOSSIBILITY TO BATTLE AND WIN, AND ONLY THEN WILL THE MORRIGAN ADMIT DEFEAT...'. Daken smiles, 'Oh, wow. I wonder who had the brilliant idea to learn how we finally defeat the Morrigan' he smirks. Northstar quotes part of the riddle: “A father to his father” and remarks 'That doesn't exist! Who -' before Prodigy quickly tells him that it is Shatterstar. Referring to “A secret keeper who divulges everything” Prodigy explains that Shatterstar livestreams every second of his life, but has a neural net implant that keeps him from speaking freely. Northstar asks Prodigy to explains the rest on the way back, and the heroes turn and make their way back to Rachel.
Prodigy continues with the explanation, “A warrior who is no killer. A traveler who goes nowhere” is in relation to Shatterstar being an imprisoned gladiator who is forced to kill for spectacle – a dimension-jumping, time-traveling, teleporting gladiator who is stuck there. 'As for the father thing...not my business to tell. But I've stood near enough to Rictor to learn a whole lot of information I have no business knowing about Shatterstar. You just have to trust me' Prodigy assures Northstar as they return their minds to their bodies in the real world. Northstar, back in his body, sighs and points out that they were planning to rescue Shatterstar anyway. 'Hi, Polaris! We just learned Shatterstar's the key to defeating the Morrigan!' Eye-Boy calls out to Lorna, who reminds the rest of X-Factor that they are still banned from the Mojoverse, and suggests they will have to send help. Aurora offers to help, but remarks that known associates of X-Factor have already been warned that they will be shot on sight should they try to enter. “Known associates” Northstar quotes, before announcing that he has an idea. Kyle kisses Northstar as Northstar turns to him and asks him what the name is of that child he was telling him about – the one with an advanced form of acoustikinesis.
'Does this make me an X-Man now?' Mark Sheppard a.k.a. DJ grins as he appears on a television screen, where he is introduced as “the drummer”. The screen moves to Lila Cheney who is billed as “the guitarist” as she strums her guitar and tells DJ 'Sure thing, kid'. Sofia Mantega a.k.a. Wind Dancer is billed as “the band manager” and Noriko Ashika a.k.a. Surge as “the ringer” as they appear on the screen, standing just off of a stage. Wind Dancer announces that they are ready, and Surge calls out 'Cue us up, superstar!' 'One, two – one, two, three, four!' Alison Blaire a.k.a. Dazzler grins, billed as “the lead vocalist” as the camera moves to her – then suddenly, the television screen cuts out, as Surge blasts some equipment with her energy powers. Dazzler begins to sing, 'Give me a sign, baby... if I should make you mine! Been wasting time lately – pretending it's all fine! Living like, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine...'
Wind Dancer creates a small tornado that sweeps up several citizens of the Mojoverse, as hundreds more of them watch the stage, where Dazzler, Lila and DJ are performing. Warpath appears near the back of the crowd and announces that the band has got them distracted, while Wind Dancer has cycloned all of them in together. '... all right, team. Let's free some livestreamers and make Mojo a deal he can't refuse' Warpath suggests as Dust, Anole, Nature Girl, Rain Boy and another mutant appear behind him.
From his arena where he is forced to fight for the enjoyment of the Mojoverse citizens, Shatterstar stops and looks up as he hears Dazzler singing: 'Tell me what's real, baby – are ya feeling lost? Muted by your fears, maybe? Thinking you'll get caught? Afraid of who you'll cross, you'll cross, you'll cross...well, here's the good news, baby – you're not alone'. One of Wind Dancer's tornados sweep around Shatterstar, while in another part of Mojoworld, a cloning lab, Wolfsbane observes as other mutants begin to destroy the cloning tanks, and Magik announces that she will handle the clone mother. In his control room, Mojo begins screaming as his screens go blank. 'My content empire! It's offline!' he shrieks. 'That's his worst fear?' Karma asks as she and Dani Moonstar stand behind him 'He thinks it is...' Dani smiles, while in her studio, Spiral watches the concert on a screen, He-Lix and Ginny Guzman are with her.
Magik enters Mojo's control room and informs Dani and Karma that she handled the clone mother, before asking them how the negotiations are going. 'Good' Dani replies. 'Good' Magik tells her, before raising her Soulsword and slashing it across Mojo's spider-like legs, causing his gluttonous form to collapse to the ground. 'Saw that crock $#%& show you made about me' Magik declares as she then puts the tip of her sword on Mojo's blubber. Mojo looks nervous, but is unable to move. Magik informs him that her X-Corp friends told her that she is supposed to threaten him with a lawsuit for the unauthorized use of her likeness, but she thinks she is going to threaten him the old-fashioned way. Magik tells Mojo that her demands are simply – no more slavery, no more hostages, no more attempts at getting his hands on mutant DNA – and no more telling their stories without them. 'You wretched worm' she adds, warning him that, or else, she, Karma and Mirage will come back here, and then they will do it the hard way. 'You're partners with Krakoa now. Sign the $#%& dotted line' Magik smiles as she hands Mojo a pen.
The concert is still underway, and Warpath is on the stage, pushing someone back into the crowd when they try to climb up onto the stage. Dazzler continues singing, 'They lied and said you're crazy – so I'm taking you home. We're gonna take you home, you home, you home... we're gonna make it... home'. She finishes the song and looks up, 'You're all free now' she smiles.
Soon, a gateway on Krakoa opens and former Mojoworld prisoners step through onto Krakoa. Magik walks with Wind Dancer and tells her that they needed someone to keep tabs on Mojo, so she nelisted her as Krakoa's official envoy to the Mojoverse. 'What?' Wind Dancer exclaims. 'What? You're babysitting the Mojoverse now' Magik declares. 'Congrats on your new resume punch-up, ambassador'. Northstar arrives and approaches Dazzler, Lila and DJ, as he thanks Dazzler. 'Anytime, Jean-Paul. I'd stay and chat, but we've got to get ready for the Hellfire Gala' she explains. 'I'd heard – can't wait. We'll see you there' Northstar replies. Shatterstar suddenly calls out to Dazzler, asking her to wait. 'What's up?' Dazzler asks as she turns to him. '...nothing. Never mind. Uh, thank you. For the rescue' Shatterstar tells her. 'Of course. You're one of us!' Dazzler waves at Shatterstar. Northstar turns to Mirage and Karma and thanks them both. 'A pleasure. Let's catch up soon?' Dani replies. Northstar tells them that he missed them both so much, and that brunch is on him.
'Hello, Shatterstar' Northstar remarks as Shatterstar approaches him. 'Hello, Northstar' Shatterstar replies. Northstar welcomes him to Krakoa, and asks him if he knows why he is here. 'To kill' Shatterstar answers. 'To kill death, to be exact'.
Shatterstar soon arrives at the arena on Krakoa, where he calls out 'Siryn?' as he sees his former X-Force teammate sitting in the center of the arena. But Siryn spins around to face Shatterstar – she looks mad, and is clearly possessed, as her form shifts into a murder of crows that flock around Shatterstar – and the arena suddenly lifts out of the ground, rising up over the rest of the island.
At Braddock Lighthouse on the other side of the world, the lighthouse too suddenly rises up from the coast where it usually perches. 'Ric? You good, sugah?' Rogue calls out, assuming Rictor's powers are doing this. 'Something's happening. To the earth. To me. To Krakoa' Rictor responds.
Shatterstar grabs his double-edge swords and starts hacking away at the birds. Siryn can be heard calling out: 'Morrigan, no, please – you can't!' But the Morrigan snaps back: 'I can. I will' as they then plummet through the base of the arena, and into Siryn's memories of the Founder's Party as Shatterstar watches a dangerous encounter play out before him as the Morrigan fights him:
in Siryn's memories:
'No! You deny us access to a deathless race? When we're already disappearing?' the Morrigan asks. 'They're my friends! They're my people!' Siryn replies. 'Your people would understand' the Morrigan tells her. 'Understand why you're murdering them?' Siryn asks as she unleashes a powerful sonic scream in an attempt to keep the Morrigan at bay. The Morrigan appears behind Siryn, aiming her spear at her, she tells her that mutants already understand sacrifice. 'One mass sacrifice a year, and we get to live! They would do so willingly for us!' the Morrigan explains. 'For me, maybe – they have no need of you' Siryn retorts.
'As I have no need of you. I demand what's due. I will kill them all – again and again. I will grow our power – with or without your consent!' the Morrigan snarls as she shoves the blade of her spear into Siryn's neck. 'Please don't hurt them... you can have me instead... I will do anything' Siryn utters. 'Anything?' the Morrigan asks as she shoves her blade deeper. 'Yes!' Siryn exclaims. 'In return for sparing the mutants... you shall swear upon a geas to carry out my will?' the Morrigan asks. 'YES!' Siryn promises. The Morrigan hovers over Siryn's body, and tells her that she demands Siryn perform a traditional ritual sacrifice on herself in her name, one for each death she is owed. 'A thousand deaths a thousand times a thousand ways... as many times as demanded!' the Morrigan declares.
Present:
'NO!' Shatterstar shouts as he leaps towards the Morrigan. 'You fool. Our power is waning! Our time here, dwindling!' the Morrigan utters. 'The darkness sings our name, each to each, and you would cede to him so easily?'
flashback images, narrated in the present:
The void called to the Morrigan – if they did not serve the mortal realm, then they shall serve nothing. Mutants have no need of a  death goddess now – nor their healing, nor their prowess in battle. But instead of losing everything, they could grow in power and renown. The Morrigan could reign with the dignity and supremacy with which she was once accustomed. All she has to do is sacrifice the mutants endlessly in her name. She was the first Morrigan. Humanity was still in its infancy – so recently did the last human paw itself out of the muck and mire and stagger upright. She was among the first sentries summoned by humanity to stand guard upon the edge between worlds seen and unseen – she decommissioned kings. A vision plays out of the Morrigan battling a large bull.
Present:
As the Morrigan concludes her story, Shatterstar shoves his blade through Siryn's body. 'Once upon a time. I... I was everything...' the Morrigan gasps. 'There are no kings in Krakoa' Shatterstar remarks as he lowers Siryn's unmoving body to the ground. 'This is an honorable end' he adds as he kisses Siryn's forehead, and a tear falls from Siryn's eyes. The piece of land begins to drop back down into Krakoa, and Shatterstar hugs Siryn, telling her that it is good to see her again. He lets her body lie on the ground and stands over her, when suddenly, Siryn's hand reaches up and grabs Shatterstar's. Shatterstar gasps, as Siryn's eyes go wide-eyed and crows fly from her mouth, as she utters 'To the victors...go the spoils'. Shatterstar screams as a red energy cuts his chest, and flows from him, through his memories – he remembers his first kiss with Rictor, and Rictor holding his wounded body. In the lighthouse, Rictor shares those memories too, wide-eyed as the energy strikes his chest, too. Shatterstar puts a hand on his heart and utters 'Julio... my love?