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The Primer (Part 1)
Before there was anything else, there were two bacterium siblings. Perfect twins, in thrall to their biological imperatives: replication, dominance and survival. One was forced out, to evolve on her own and find her own place in the infant cosmos. The other, the victor, would come to inherit the primordial Earth. As life came and went, lesser species gave rise to superior lines. Some thousands of billions of life cycles and she was forgotten. Even to the most ancient of life forms, a billion years is not insignificant. But against almost impossible odds both siblings thrived: the female, and the male who cast her out. She never forgot. Encoded into her DNA was a fourth imperative… revenge.
A meteor enters Earth’s atmosphere and burns as it crashes towards the ground. Smaller rock fragments break up and hit the ocean as the main body gets closer. A car hastily speeds along a road. It stops on the side of a mountain overlooking a city and John Sublime gets out. He watches as the meteor slams into the center of the city, causing a huge explosion. A worried look crosses his face.
(Sofia International Airport, Bulgaria. Three weeks later)
Jubilation Lee, an orphan barely out of childhood herself, made homeless in California is rescued by the X-Men. Her life that once seemed so tragic and limited was opened up to limitless possibilities and she was part of a family again.
Jubilee, carrying a baby, walks through the airport. She looks over her shoulder for a second and then heads to the check-in desk. As she checks-in, Sublime is also checking in a little way away. The man behind the desk calls him Mr. Caselli and tells him it’s an honor. The man says he typically travels out of the private hanger and asks if anything is wrong. Sublime says that it’s very last minute and he would rather fly commercial than wait for a Bizjet. He must be on the next plane to JFK. The man complies and tells him to enjoy his flight. All the while, Sublime watches Jubilee checking-in and then heading to her gate.
Mutants are synonymous with fear and hatred, prejudice and bigotry, violence and decimation, war and schism, alienation, shame and seclusion. But Jubilee has one word to describe the X-Men. Home.
As the plane travels to America, a forlorn Jubilee cradles the baby. Not too many seats away, Sublime calmly sits with a drink in his hand. As the baby starts crying, Jubilee holds him close and a tear rolls down her face.
(Jean Grey School for Higher Learning)
As numerous kids walk through the corridor, someone shouts Bling!’s name. She turns to see who it is and Mercury punches her in the face. Bling! falls to the floor and someone yells at Mercury, asking her what that was for. Mercury simply says Bling! knows. Rachel Grey yells both girls’ names and tells them to stay put. She orders the rest of the kids to class and asks the two girls what’s going on. Mercury glares at a guilty looking Bling! and says nothing is going on. Storm tells Mercury she can go but they will talk later. Rachel starts to tell Storm that Mercury was the one who caused the trouble, but Storm says she knows but she wants to talk to Bling! first. Storm asks Bling! what happened but the young girl turns away and says she doesn’t want to talk about it. Rogue and Shadowcat walk up to the two women and tell them that they have trouble.
(Grand Central Station, New York)
Jubilee is on a payphone, talking to one of the X-Men. They ask what she means when she says she is being followed. Jubilee tells them she doesn’t have time to explain and that she’s coming in. They tell her to stay in public where it is safe and they will come and get her, but Jubilee replies she has no idea who the guy is or what he is capable of. She’ll be on the next train, as the sooner she is with the X-Men the safer they’ll be. The X-Men question what she means by “they” but she hangs up. She walks off and Sublime goes to the payphone she was using. He hits redial and hears someone welcoming him to the Jean Grey School.
(Metro North Railway, Harlem Line)
Storm and Rogue fly through the air. Rogue is carrying Kitty and they are catching up with the train. Storm asks Kitty if she is sure she wants to do this. Boarding a moving train full of civilians is no small thing. Kitty says they all heard Jubilee on the phone. Something is wrong and she would rather get to her sooner rather than later. Storm tells her to do it quick and fast. Get down there and do a recon. Rogue flies off with Kitty and tells her that, thanks to Northstar, she can match the speed of the train. Rogue lowers her down and Kitty tells her to be careful. Rogue tells her to relax. It’s so rare she gets to fly on missions she wants some fun with it. She tells Kitty she has to let go of her hand though. Kitty dangles above the train and then drops, calling Rogue a show-off as she phases through the train roof.
As she lands at the back of the carriage, she tells the other X-Men that she will move towards the back half of the train whilst they cover the front half. The other radio through and tell Kitty they are in and they have found nothing so far. As Kitty walks down one of the carriages, Jubilee spots her and calls her name. She asks what Kitty is doing there but Kitty is more surprised by the fact Jubilee has a baby with her.
At the school, a helicopter hovers over the front lawn. People gather round it and Rachel yells up that it’s private property and a school for children. She shouts that she doesn’t know who they are but she insists they get the… Psylocke suddenly telepathically interrupts her. She tells Rachel that she is on overwatch and asks if she recognizes the man now getting out of the helicopter. It’s John Sublime.
Psylocke says she recommends Rachel and the kids fall back immediately and they can get a couple more omega-level telepaths and wipe him out before he gets any closer. Rachel tells her to wait, as Sublime kneels on the floor with his hands on the back of his head. He asks if this is the school of the X-Men and then says he surrenders utterly and completely. He asks if they can talk, as time is of the essence. Psylocke stands on the school roof with a telekinetic bow and arrow aimed at Sublime. Rachel telepathically tells her to prep a room in the school away from the kids. She wants it so secure it’s like an airtight box.
On the train, Jubilee says she is being followed. Rogue asks if she means on the train and Jubilee says she thinks so but she doesn’t know. She was definitely being followed when she left Europe and again at the airport. She was pretty sure he was on the plane too. She tells them it’s really scaring her and wonders who the guy is and if he knows her. Storm asks if he is connected to the infant and if the baby belongs to someone. Jubilee says he is her… sorta. She didn’t kidnap him; he’s an orphan and she rescued him. There was a terrorist bombing, which some people said was a meteorite. She’s not sure and it’s a long story. She wanted to bring him to the X-Men like they all did with her. She just wants to be home and she wants him to have a hot meal and a real bed to sleep in. She thinks he was living in some orphanage. She wants Dr. Reyes to check him out to see if he’s okay.
The baby suddenly starts crying loudly, causing everyone to turn around and look at it. Jubilee tries to comfort him and says that he hardly ever cries. As everyone fusses over him, Jubilee picks him up and says he just wants him mommy. He reaches out to the speaker, which is attached to the carriage wall. She tells him not to touch it as it’s dirty. As his finger tips get close to it, an electric spark leaps from him into the speaker. Someone comments on how weird it sounds that Jubilee is a mommy. She replies that it’s been a few weeks now and she’s not as under slept and grossed out by poop as she was.
As they continue to marvel at him, they don’t realize that the electrical spark has made its way up the circuits of the train to the front of it. There are some loud bangs and the train suddenly lurches, causing everything to smash around in the carriages. Jubilee yells that it must be the man who was following her and so Storm orders Kitty to check out the front of the train. Unbeknownst to them, the tracks ahead suddenly alter, sending the train on a different course. Storm asks if Rogue can slow them down but she points out the tracks changed and they are now going north on the southbound.
As the train speeds along, Storm says they have to get everyone off the train, but Jubilee says they will never do it in time. Storm goes to open one of the doors but, when she puts her hand on the handle, it suddenly locks. The other one locks on the other side of the train, arousing her suspicions. Jubilee says they are trapped but Rogue calmly says it’s the metro north, not a tank; they made these things in the 70’s. She kicks the door off its hinges and flies outside. She lands on the top of the train and tells Storm to move everyone to the back of the train. And to keep Jubilee safe.
At the front of the train, Kitty peers into the driver’s carriage to see both of them dead by some electrical malfunction. She radios through what she has seen and then peers out of the window. She asks Rogue if she is seeing what she sees and Rogue tells her she is… an oncoming train. Rogue radios to Storm and asks her if she has the first three carriages clear. Storm says she has and Rogue tells Kitty to get clear. With that, Rogue flies down to the open door and holds on to the handles either side of it. She then drops one foot to the ground to act as a brake. As she does so, she leans backwards, causing the first carriage to tilt with her. The first three carriages start to buckle until the links break between the third and fourth one. As Kitty jumps out, the first three carriages derail and crash down the embankment in an explosion. Kitty commends Rogue on her save and adds that she wants to be there when Wolverine cuts a check to the MTA to pay for it.
In the interview room, Sublime looks at Psylocke, perched on the side of the table, and says she must be the muscle. Rachel, sitting across the table from Sublime, says she is the gun pointed at his head. If he so much as twitches, she will short-circuit his brain. He reminds them that he did surrender. They know he is unarmed and has no hint of malice in his thoughts. He needs their help and his surrender is proof of his good faith. Three weeks ago, his sister returned to Earth, piggybacking on a series of small meteor. She’s an incredibly powerful strain of bacteria that is different from him. And now she’s back.
Elsewhere, Kitty shows Jubilee and the baby to a room at the school. Kitty hands her a mobile phone and says to call if she needs anything and they are all in the contacts, even Hank. She knows he will want to see the baby once he emerges from his lab.
Sublime explains that his sister is here to fulfill her biological imperative. Unless she is stopped, she will come to infect and dominate the world. She is Arkea and she will be relentless. Sublime says he is inadequate to the task of stopping her. And the X-Men were the most formidable adversaries he has ever encountered.
In their room, Jubilee puts the baby on the bed. She holds out the phone and the baby grabs it. A small electric zap occurs and the phone starts calling Beast in his lab.
Sublime says he will repeat himself. It is literally a life and death situation for everyone. Psylocke says he isn’t lying. It’s amazingly absurd but he is telling the truth. Sublime says that they have one more incentive to help them. Psylocke asks what it is and he says that one of their kind is en-route to them. Rachel asks how he knows that and Psylocke replies that she can see Jubilee in his thoughts and that he has been following her. Rachel adds that Storm just texted her and Jubilee is already here. Sublime asks if she is in custody and if they have secured the infant. Rachel asks what he means by “custody” and “the infant.” Sublime shouts at them for secure the infant or it will kill them all.
Beast’s mobile rings in his lab. He doesn’t answer it though. Instead, it is plugged into his laptop, which spontaneously starts operating itself. With his back to it, he doesn’t realize it has sent a signal to the stasis chamber of Karima Shapandar, the Omega Sentinel. The stasis chamber opens and a green mist swirls out. Beast asks who’s there as Karima walks forward. She says she is Arkea Prime, she has returned and that this body will do.


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The Primer (Part 2)
(Jean Grey School)
In Beast’s lab, Arkea, possessing Omega Sentinel, lies on the floor. She has numerous life support tubes coming out of her and some of them have come loose, spraying green gas everywhere. Beast is stunned that Karima is conscious and asks how it’s possible. She stands up and walks forward, ripping the other tubes out. She walks over to one of the computer terminals and starts operating it. When Beast goes to her and puts his hands on her shoulder, she glances at him and then punches him across the room whilst declaring she is Arkea. As Beast lies in a heap on the other side of the room, Arkea views the monitors and brings up the CCTV feed. She spots Rachel and Psylocke interviewing John Sublime and seems a little surprised he is there so soon.
Beast weakly asks who she is but she ignores his question and tells him his kind harbors Sublime. Beast says he has no idea what she is talking about but she calls him a liar. She says he is there and they will destroy him. She presses something on the consol, much to Beast’s shock. An alarm rings through the school and a voice tells everyone to proceed to the designated safe zones as lockdown is now in effect. In one of the hallways, Pixie and Hellion hear the noise and say they had better get moving.
In the interview room, Sublime asks Rachel if she heard him. He goes to speak again but Rachel gets Psylocke to mentally shut him up. Rachel uses her telepathy to see that someone tripped the danger room’s triple dark security protocol. She tries to override the computer but she has no luck. She tells Psylocke that the computer simply laughed at her. Rachel puts her fingers to her head and says she is looping in Storm and Kitty. She says there is a massive security hack originating in the labs but Beast isn’t responding. Rogue is headed down there now. Psylocke reminds her that Sublime was talking about Jubilee. All she’s getting from him now is “the infant” over and over again in his mind. When Rachel asks if she can get a read on Jubilee, Psylocke says she is upstairs but she isn’t picking up any trace of an infant with her or anywhere else. Rachel confirms the same thing. Meanwhile, Jubilee is asleep on a bed with the baby lying right next to her.
In the lab, Beast slowly picks himself up. He tells “Karima” that she has been in a coma for months. He feared she had been brain damaged so he placed her in stasis. He then asks who “Arkea” is. She asks him if he is responsible for the body she inhabits. Before he can answer, she tells him it’s archaic but a rather magnificent specimen. Beast tells her she is no specimen and that Karima was… is their friend. Arkea tells him she suspects Karima is no longer present in there. As she operates the computer, she says that he has just operated a local point-to-point data burst device. She then asks him what end and he replies to hers. He clicks a button and tells Rogue to target ten meters to the left of the signal.
Rogue suddenly bursts through the big metal doors and flies towards Arkea. She grabs her around the waist and slams her to the ground. As Rogue holds her up, Arkea says that she is as strong as the blue one, yet her outward physiology presents as inferior. Rogue is shocked to see she is holding Karima but Beast screams that it isn’t her. He yells that she is gotten full control of the school and orders Rogue to hit her hard. Rogue apologizes and then slams Arkea as hard as she can into the floor. Arkea lies on the floor as Rogue stands over her.
Rogue begins to ask Beast if she’s dead but, before he can answer, Arkea licks her lips and tastes the blood on them. Arkea holds out her hand to Rogue, causing her to ask if it’s Karima. Instead, however, the arm turns into a weapon that blasts Rogue across the room. Arkea spins and points the gun at Beast, who holds up his hands. She tells him attacking her is unadvisable, as she has increased her power output. She says Karima’s body is very capable. Beast tells her that he built it himself and then asks if the technology inside her is what allows her to possess Karima. She tells him she is Arkea and then she orders him to stand down as his systems contain valuable data.
Rogue yells at Beast as Arkea fires another blast at her. She dodges and asks him if he can regain control over the security. He tells her the question will be moot in a moment. He then grabs Arkea, points her gun away and injects her in the neck. She shoves him across the room again and asks him what that was. He tells her a morphine cocktail that was enough to take down a herd of elephants. Arkea starts telling him the chemical properties of morphine and then asks if that’s meant to render her inoperable. Rogue suddenly punches her from behind and tells her to stop talking like a freak.
Elsewhere, Storm asks Rachel for an update. Rachel says that Beast was feeding them updates until the security dampeners kicked in and, since that, they have been blind. The two of them get to Kitty, who is analyzing the metal door that has locked them out of the lab. Storm says that it’s unacceptable, as they have no access and no way to contact Beast or Rogue. Kitty says there are fifty fail-safes in place to make sure the danger room protocols never get used against them. However, even she is locked out and the intruder rewrote the code… all tens of thousands of lines of it.
Psylocke and Sublime come up to them. She tells them that she let him go and he promised to use his indoor voice. He explains his sister Arkea is in control of the school and he’s a little surprised she hasn’t killed them all yet. Storm asks him if Arkea moves through technology and confirms. She will learn what she can, destroy all in her way and then move on to a new target. Her intentions are primal, whereas he has learned a level of humanity from his hosts. Storm sarcastically says he must be proud of himself but adds that Arkea must not have expected to find the X-Men when she arrived there. Storm tells Kitty to target every electrical system in the school but to prioritize targets, as they will have to justify it to Wolverine later on.
As Kitty heads off, Rachel says that they have to protect Jubilee. She then telepathically adds that Jubilee’s at risk. Storm says she’s upstairs and then tells her to send someone to watch her and make sure she stays there. She says that, since Rogue managed to get in the lab whilst it was under lockdown, she has to assume she and Kitty can handle things here. Sublime tells her not to be a fool, as it’s their own security that is their undoing. They are prisoners in their own house and his sister knows he is there. Psylocke says they have defeated worse but he turns around and angrily says they haven’t. Rachel says that he wanted to work with them, so stop telling them what they are doing wrong and tell them how to win instead. Sublime says not to have Kitty waste her time killing the infected systems and have her kill the host body instead.
 As Karima continues to operate the computer consoles, Rogue shouts at her and says she knows Karima is still in there. Arkea tells her she’s wasting her time as she cut oxygen to the area twelve minutes ago. She says she’s accessed the X-Men’s personal data packets and is impressed by the number of random mutations within such a limited sampling. She asks if they have trouble mating. She then tells Rogue to disregard that and says that they are formidable in an unexpected way. Perhaps she was hasty to think her brother was weak for seeking refuge with them. In fact, there is one called Kitty Pryde who exposes a vulnerability to this body’s systems. As she says this, Kitty phases her head through the wall of the room and sees the carnage inside. Arkea continues talking to Rogue and asks her what she knows about Kitty. Rogue spots Kitty and tells Arkea that she runs her mouth off too much for someone with superior intellect. She then tells Kitty to hit the arm cannon, which Kitty does, diving at Arkea and phasing through her arm.
Rachel contacts Kitty and tells her that Sublime suggests taking out the host body. Kitty tells her it’s Karima but Rachel says there’s no knowing how much of Karima is still in there. She then asks if she can take her down non-lethally. As she fights with Arkea, Kitty tells Rachel she’s trying. Rachel tells her that Sublime is claiming it won’t be enough but Kitty replies that Karima is one of them.
Every time Arkea tries to hit Kitty, her hand goes through her. Arkea says she is difficult like she expected. Kitty phases her hand into her shoulder and shouts to Karima that she needs a sign. Arkea angrily screams that she is Arkea and grabs Kitty by the throat. Kitty says they both know she can take two steps forward and pass through her body. That will kill the core functionality of the cybernetics within the body. She gives Karima one last chance to indicate she’s there.
Arkea thinks for a moment and then lets Kitty go. She says they are indeed formidable. Her brother has grown smarter in the last several millennia and he has chosen his allies well. She says she has downloaded the database and they have a planet to conquer, as well as new enemies to defeat. But not today. She tells Kitty she has used the spare moments to regenerate her damaged circuitry. With that, she sends a huge blast upwards and flies out of the building.
Rogue emerges from the rubble and asks Kitty if she would have phased through Karima to destroy whatever that thing was. Kitty pauses for a few seconds and then tells Rogue she doesn’t know. The radio suddenly starts working and Rachel asks if everyone is okay. She tells her everyone is okay but a little banged up. She says Arkea bugged out, though, and Rachel tells her they are tracking her. Rogue picks up an unconscious Beast and they make their way up to the others. As they marvel at how heavy Beast is, they fail to notice a metal box with a timer on it.
In the hanger bay, they prep the Blackbird for flight. Storm asks where Arkea is and Rachel says she’s gone over the Atlantic. If they go supersonic, they can catch up with her over Africa or the Med, depending on her trajectory. Sublime says that Arkea doesn’t give up or retreat and anything she does is tactical. Psylocke asks who will babysit Sublime whilst she flies the jet. Rachel volunteers and tells Psylocke to strap him in and shut him up, because they need to be in the air five minutes ago.
A voice comes from behind them and they see Jubilee running towards them with the baby. She is surprised that they aren’t taking her with them, to which Storm replies that they aren’t taking a baby into combat. Jubilee says the baby will be safer with them than at the school as the computers are still acting crazy. Storm puts a hand on her shoulder and bends down to her. She says that it isn’t about her right now, to which Jubilee angrily shouts back at her. She tells Storm not to talk down to her and to have some faith. She was one of the X-Men that found her and taught her after all. She’s involved, plus the little guy is practically an X-Man as well. Storm asks if he has a name yet and Jubilee tells him it’s Shogo. Storm tells her to get on the plane and Jubilee hurriedly gets on.
In the air, Jubilee notices that Sublime is looking at Shogo and tells him that Shogo sleeps a lot. Sublime guesses that he’s been sleeping since the train. Jubilee asks how he knew that and he replies that he tried to tell the others that Arkea hitched a ride in the child’s body. That’s why he was following her. Jubilee nervously asks if she is still in there but he says no. When they take over a host body and then leave it, they leave a new person behind. It is kind of like hitting a reset button. Jubilee asks if Shogo will be okay and Sublime says he will be. She should be thankful he is so young but, when he does wake, her son will need her. He will need to see her and touch her. He then apologizes for frightening her before.
Sublime goes and sits down next to Rachel and she says that was almost not unkind of him. He says that he has heard it said that the X-Men consider themselves a family. For the child’s sake, he hopes that it true. Jubilee holds Shogo and he slowly opens his eyes and sees Jubilee staring back at him. She holds him close and whispers that Sublime called him her son.
Back at the school, standing on a huge pile of rubble, Kitty addresses the few students who didn’t get into the safe zones. The school is on lockdown and their friends and peers are locked in their rooms. The lucky few are helping her debug and clean up. Their system was hacked by an alien intruder and, whilst the diagnostics are mostly coming back clear, she isn’t taking any chances. Pixie groans and Bling! asks how Jubilee is. She tells her that she is fine and she hasn’t heard anything else from the away team yet. She tells them to get on with their assignments.
Bling! walks to the debris and spots something unusual in it. It’s a metal box, which she flips over. She gets Kitty’s attention and tells her she’s found a thing. Kitty asks her to be specific and Bling! says it’s a sort of scary thing with a  time that’s about to hit zero. The timer on the box sits at 00:00:03.


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The Primer (Part 2)
(Ferenc Liszt International Airport, Budapest )
The Blackbird, piloted by Psylocke, has landed at the airport. She tells says that they are being waved through to a private hanger. She turns and asks Storm if there is any international border crossing that Sabra cannot finesse for her. Storm addresses the rest of the team on the plane. She says they have ground transport but, other than that, they are on their own. She has tracked Arkea to a neighborhood in the southeast part of Budapest, about 12km away. The same area was struck by a meteor about two weeks ago as well. Jubilee seems a little surprised at hearing they are back in Budapest, as well as news of the meteor strike.
Rachel turns to Sublime and says he is sitting awfully close to her. She asks if he is afraid of flying or if there is something else. He stands up and asks her if she really needs him to answer that.
Back at the school, Bling! screams for everyone to watch out and dives out of the way, expecting the bomb she found to go off. But, after a few seconds of nothing happening, she looks at it in surprise. She tells everyone it didn’t go off but Kitty corrects her and says they can’t assume it was a conventional explosive. They have to act as if whatever was supposed to happen when the trigger reached zero happened. She tells them to get it out of there, though, as all the flashing zeroes creep her out. She asks Pixie to teleport it somewhere else, like into orbit. As Pixie teleports away with it, Kitty addresses the rest of the students. However, before she can tell them what to do, she stops and asks them if they felt that. The armored doors in the school suddenly slam shut and the fans shut off. The computer announces the environmental seals have been engaged.
Hellion grabs his head and says his ears feel like they are on a plane. Kitty finds a working computer and discovers that atmospheres are being added. They have twenty seconds of breathable air if the pressure doesn’t crush them first. She says Arkea told her she hacked the personnel files, so she must know how to kill a human. From by the metal doors, Bling! tells her she obviously doesn’t know how to kill her. She tells Kitty she can knock the door off its hinges but she needs her say it’s okay to do it, as the school handbook is pretty strict of vandalism. Kitty yells for her to hurry up and do it.
After a few punches, Bling! bursts through the door, allowing fresh air into the room. She looks down the corridor and asks if the others saw that. She spins around and tells the others there are creepy danger room clones at twelve o’clock. Further down the corridor, numerous holographic duplicates of Karima Shapandar stare menacingly back at them. One of them points an arm cannon at the group and says it is so tedious that they have to keep repeating themselves. They are Arkea.
They fire at the group, causing Hellion to put up a force field quickly. Bling! is too far ahead of him, though, and she is caught in the crossfire. Kitty yells for her to stay down but she can’t see her through the explosions and Hellion’s shield. Hellion has trouble maintaining the shield and Primal mutters that they are going to die. Kitty tells him they’ll be okay and notices the firing has stopped. Hellion drops the shield and they see Bling! walking towards them. She says she punched the robots and they turned to pixels. She adds that later on that Kitty might hear about her and Mercury fighting in the halls and if she does she can tell Storm and Ms. Grey what she did here.
Kitty tells her she has no idea what she’s on about but adds that it’s two they owe her. She says they have to get to the server room so they can reinforce the firewall to stop this thing from escaping into the outside world. If they help her do that, then she has their back forever. As they continue on, Hellion mutters that the missiles Arkea fired didn’t feel like pixels.
(Szent Margit Institute, Budapest)
In their vans, the team arrives at a building. Storm says the tracking software indicates the signal termination is right inside the building. Rogue asks what they’re waiting for. to which Storm replies she isn’t exactly about to go charging into a hospital. She then asks Psylocke to update them. Sublime leans forward and says it’s just like how he remembers. The meteor impact was a hundred meters from there but he was some distance away. Even so, the energy signature was unmistakable. Why Arkea has returned there, he doesn’t know. He adds this is also where Jubilee found her baby.
In the other van, Psylocke leans back and asks a worried looking Jubilee what’s wrong.
Storm asks Sublime if Arkea landed on Earth as part of a meteor. He corrects her and says on a meteor. She tells him to let her finish and continues by saying she uses the baby as a host, which Jubilee carries half way around the world to their doorstep. Sublime follows her: Arkea gets loose, destroys her school and is now using Karima as a new host. They then follow her back around the world to the very site of her arrival. Sublime tells her it’s correct to which Rachel adds that as incredibly stupid as it sound it is correct.
Everyone goes silent for a few seconds and then Storm simply asks why. Sublime tells her it’s the hospital. If his memory serves him correct, his current host does a lot of philanthropy in the area and the institute is at the forefront of the neuro-prosthetics field. Humans with medical cybernetic implants. It’s likely the infant was a patient here and was implanted in some manner. Karima is pretty much a scaled up militarized version of it. Storm adds that the hospital is full of people Arkea can control. An irritated Rogue asks if they can invade the hospital now. Sublime tells them they are both correct. This is a crucial time, as she is gathering the pieces of herself that broke up on re-entry. When she makes herself whole, even he won’t be able to stop her.
The team, sans Jubilee, enters the hospital and discovers it empty. Psylocke tells them not to be fooled, as the building is teeming with psychic signatures, mostly on the upper levels. Storm tells her they do it tactically. They clear each floor and move up, no casualties. Their target is Arkea. Rogue corrects her and says she means Karima is their target. She then asks how Storm intends to separate the two. Storm tells her they will deal with that when the time comes and then contacts Jubilee, who is in the van with Shogo. She asks her if she has located the floor plans. Jubilee says she’s got them and the ground floor is all open spaces. But floors two and three are all admin and storage, so lots of angles and blind spots.
As Jubilee sits in the back of the van messing with a tablet device, Shogo sits next to her making gurgling noises and playing with his feet. Jubilee notes the word “administrative” and tells Shogo that she knows this is his old hood but he needn’t worry, as no one is taking him away from her. She says that if she doesn’t do it, then Storm or Logan will. She tells him she is Googling the records of when he lived at the hospital. She jokes that she will also reserve a Twitter handle too. She says that for all she knows he might have relatives two blocks away, then how could she keep him. They look at each other for a few seconds and then she starts crying. She tells him mommies cry too sometimes and then wills herself to stop crying. Storm suddenly radios through and tells her they have contact.
Back at the school, Armor attacks a Karima hologram but, when she hits her, she turns to pixels. Hellion unleashes a bunch of telekinetic balls and tells Kitty that they are being generated too fast. Kitty, Surge and Bling! are ducking for cover behind a wall to avoid the explosions. Kitty says she can’t get past but Bling! asks her why she doesn’t just phase past. Kitty says she can’t leave them but Bling! says the danger room has been hacked and the only way to stop it is by getting to the server room. Surge adds that this is what they train them for all day every day. She points to Oya, who is in the battle with the holograms, creating fireballs. Kitty runs into the chaos and tells the others not to wait up. Elsewhere, Pixie teleports way up high, throws the bomb away and then teleports back to Earth.
In Budapest, the team comes across a number of cybernetically altered patients. They shuffle towards the team and tell them they do not belong there as they are Arkea, the superior species. Rogue gives them an Earth history lesson and says that people who often says that find themselves obsolete and fast. Storm tells them they can’t possibly hope to win but they tell them they call themselves mutants yet they are accidents. For every one of them that is granted flight or augmented strength, millions of their kind die from hunger every day. Arkea says that they are mutation, a living example of what billions of years of specialized development can produce. This was their planet once and it will be again.
Storm says she won’t allow it but Arkea tells her they’ve already lost. Sublime tells her not to make him laugh, as he seems to recall kicking her off the planet once. She may have grown up but so has he and he has friends. He tells her to get out of Karima’s body so they can… but Arkea doesn’t listen and fires an energy blast at him. Psylocke fires one back and the two sides begin fighting. Storm says to ignore the patients and to focus on Arkea.
In the server room at the school, Kitty can’t believe how fast the virus is moving. As she kneels down next to an open panel, on one of the servers she says she must protect the firewall to stop the virus leaving the building. The circuit board she has out suddenly explodes and she loses her temper and says she’s trashing the whole grid. A group of students guard the door to the server room from and hoards of Karima holograms. As Kitty runs through the exploding servers, she comments on how expensive it will be.
Back in Budapest, Psylocke has her telekinetic katana pointed right at Arkea’s head. Rachel yells for her not to do it but Storm says she must take Arkea out. Rachel angrily asks if Storm’s insane and tells her it will kill Karima. Storm says maybe it will but maybe it won’t either. Maybe there is a bit of Karima that will survive; something they can bring back. But they will not survive Arkea. Psylocke shouts that she needs a consensus and asks if Rachel can find a glimmer of Karima in there at all. Arkea calmly asks Sublime if he associates with these weaklings. Sublime tells Arkea that she has come back to Earth to settle accounts with him, he understands. He then asks if the host consciousness still lives inside her. He asks her to answer it honestly, sister to brother. Arkea says that their silence ensures the X-Men’s weakness. Their weakness means that Psylocke won’t act. She’s analyzed the weapon and it can harm her.
At the school, Kitty finishes destroying the servers as more and more holograms advance on the students. Suddenly, the entire power grid goes out and the school is plunged into darkness.
In Budapest, a weak voice comes from Karima. It asks if she should sacrifice herself. Rogue picks up on it and says that’s the first thing she said that didn’t sound like it was coming from the Borg Collective. Karima yells that she isn’t Arkea and grabs Psylocke’s katana. She says she can do it and end Arkea. Someone yells no but she thrusts her head into the katana and her world goes dark.
After a short while, the team goes outside. Jubilee asks what happened as the comms died after the attack started. Rogue tells her to shove over and then places the limp, yet conscious, body of Karima inside. Jubilee is shocked but Rogue tells her to relax, as Arkea is dead and this is Karima. Rogue says they have to get her back to Hank quickly, as she’s in bad shape. She doesn’t even want to know what happened in there. Karima looks at Shogo and weakly asks who it is. Jubilee says he’s hers one hundred percent and his name is Shogo Lee.
Storm asks Rogue if she thinks Arkea’s dead. Rogue says she doesn’t know, as they have never had to deal with someone like her before. But they dealt with it and they can’t lose sight of that. Rogue asks if she thinks Rachel would agree, as it got a little dicey back there. Storm tells her she’s right and they dealt with it. Not a bad first outing for a team that’s not even a team. Even Rachel can see that. Rogue asks if she thinks it’s all over with Sublime and Arkea. Storm says it’s safer to assume not and that they had better stick together until they are sure. With that, she asks Rogue to take them home.


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(Santa Monica Beach, California)
Wolverine, Jubilee and Shogo are at the beach. Shogo happily prods at the sand with a small plastic spade as Jubilee sits under a beach umbrella. Jubilee tells Logan, who is standing a little way off, that she was Shogo’s age when she first came here. Logan tells her it’s a nice spot to grow up in. She says that she’d come here for seven hours a day then catch the bus back to Beverly Hills for supper. That was her summer. She didn’t have to stress about UV rays back then. Even with her lightbenders, she’ll never be able to enjoy the sun like she used to. She feels sorry for Shogo, as it’s going to limit his fun in the sun. Logan tells her Shogo will have a different childhood, an unconventional one. It happens and kids thrive. He did and so did she. As Jubilee applies sunscreen to Shogo’s head, she tells Logan she knows and thanks him for making the trip with her.
Logan asks her what the point of being in charge is if you can’t bail out on training to hang out with an old pal. Jubilee tells him she means it; she’s a California girl and always will be. She says Shogo is so little but he’ll remember it and it will become part of him too.
(Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, Northern California)
A plane flies through the sky, with fire and smoke pouring from one of its engines. The pilot contacts one of the ground towers and asks for emergency landing. After no response, the pilot radios through to the tower again and announces it is a mayday. Storm’s voice comes over the radio and tells the pilot that the tower is offline due to forest fires in the area. She tells them that she is with the X-Men and they have them.
The Blackbird jet, with Psylocke and Rachel piloting, flies above the plane. Psylocke tells Rachel this is why they keep the Blackbird’s radio tuned to the emergency bands. She confirms that all the nearby towers are reporting outages or delays due to the forest fire and that the plane has nowhere to land. Rachel tells her no worries as “Storm and the X-Men” are there. Then telepathically she says “right boss?” to Storm. Storm tells Psylocke to go to Kitty and Rogue and to come up with ideas. She then tells Rachel to come talk to her.
As Rachel heads off down the plane, Rogue quietly tells everyone there isn’t anything to see, it’s just mom and dad fighting. Storm tells Rachel she doesn’t have to be a telepath to know something is bothering her. They should talk now because she isn’t leading anyone into a mission with bad blood. Rachel tells her that’s just it and asks who made her leader of the X-Men. Then telepathically Rachel says it’s not Karima Shapandar, because she didn’t die as she stopped Storm.
Storm tells Rachel to stay out of her head and, if she wants to accuse her, then do it openly so the others who are eavesdropping can hear. Storm says that, with the Karima thing, she considered making a call. A tactical decision and if she felt it was the way to go she would have done it. She thanks the goddesses that she didn’t have to. She then tells Rachel not to flatter herself as she could have stopped her if she tried. Rachel yells and asks if it’s because she’s leader of the X-Men. Storm calmly replies that someone has to be.
Logan, driving a car, pulls up to a house in Beverly Hills. Jubilee yells that that’s it and Logan says it’s a nice house. Jubilee says her bedroom was upstairs and points to a set of windows. She tells him it fells weird now thinking that strangers live there. She loved that house. Some of her friends had much bigger places with pools, nannies and caretakers. Her parents were pretty rich but they didn’t show off like that. Logan says they must have spent it on something. She replies that it was gymnastic lessons. She did it every morning at 6 am before school. She was a classic over achieving tiger-baby. She stayed pretty grounded but she knew how to goof off when need be. Then her parents lost a big chunk of money in the stock market and then they died. Jubilee looks forlorn as she tells Logan. He says it never gets easier and she replies that it was a long time ago.
Logan then points to a sign on the lawn and asks if she knew the house was for sale. He asks her if she wants it. Jubilee sarcastically scoffs at the prospect but Logan tells her he’s serious. The Jean Grey School always invests when he can and something tells him upscale Southern Californian real estate is a good bet. Jubilee tells him to save his money as she won’t be moving back into her old bedroom. She suggests they grab lunch as she knows a great spot. As they drive off, Logan notes the phone number on the sales sign of the house.
In the Blackbird, Kitty tells Storm and Rachel that the plane is starting to lose altitude and asks if they want the suggestions they came up with. Rogue says they pulled the passenger manifest of the plane and it is full up. Plus its cargo limit is maxed out so it definitely needs that engine. She explains that commercial jets often take on freight shipments separate from the passengers and their gear. It’s not normally a big deal to max out, provided that everything is in good maintenance. Rachel telepathically contacts Psylocke and says that she and Storm will take over the controls. Psylocke asks if they are cool and Rachel replies that it depends on Storm. Storm asks what the plan is and Kitty tells her it’s crazy. It involves grappling hooks and a ridiculous amount of brute force. So she thought she would show them instead of trying to explain.
Psylocke climbs out onto the top of the Blackbird and attaches a metal hook onto it. Both she and Kitty are wearing breathing masks due to the altitude. Kitty asks if she’s sure she can handle it to which Psylocke replies “completely.” She explains she has been spending a lot of time in the danger room in a medieval warfare simulation. There’s a virtual quartermaster, a sort of janissary type, who is hot to death and he has been teaching her a few things. Kitty awkwardly acknowledges Psylocke’s comment. Psylocke creates a telekinetic crossbow and fires it at the plane, creating a purple TK grappling line.
Rogue comes up top and tells Psylocke to hook her up. Psylocke tells her just this once but to leave the telepathy to the natives. She then touches Rogue’s hand to give her some power. As Rogue adjusts to the power, she tells Psylocke she is a sweetheart. Kitty informs Rogue that the only action Psylocke is getting is from a danger room simulation, so it’s no wonder she is wound so tight. Psylocke sighs and reminds them both she is standing right there. Rogue smiles and says, if this is what a ninja-telepathic-assassin feels like, then she could get used to it. Kitty asks if they are ready and Rogue replies she was born ready.
Inside the jet, Storm tells Rachel to tell the others to take it easy on the Blackbird. They are the rescue here and it won’t do any good to compromise the structural integrity. Rachel tells her to trust the team. Rogue says that she hopes the two in the cockpit can stop fighting long enough to keep the line stable. With that, she grapples onto the TK line and begins to make her way along it to the endangered plane. She yells to Psylocke that she will add gymnast to her list of skills as this feels amazing. Psylocke telepathically tells her not to overdo it but Rogue asks what the point of borrowing powers is if she can’t go all out.
In a fast food court in a mall, Logan looks around him and tells Jubilee she can call him a snob but this isn’t what he had in mind. As they sit at a table, Jubilee tells him to be quiet, as this place had actually improved since she used to go there. He looks around again and comments on the fact this is the place with the M-squad and the girls went on the infamous night out. Logan says that Storm told him they went to a strip club. Jubilee scoffs then smiles and says this place really had it all. She tells Logan she thinks the “Hotbods” joint is now an Apple store. She says when the M-Squad had her pinned down and then she saw Storm, Psylocke, Rogue and Dazzler she thought they were total rock stars. So of course she followed them to Australia.
Logan tells her that now she’s here with Shogo. Jubilee says she knows she has dragged them all over town but these spots were important to her. They live inside her for sure but at the end of the day this isn’t home anymore. It’s with the X-Men, wherever that may be. Logan tells her the restless little girl he met at the base camp is kind of hard to reconcile with the young woman in front of him right now. She tells him she’s grown up but not too much; she still loves fast, food court noodles.
Jubilee then asks him if he thinks she’s making a mistake and if she’s too young to be a mom. Logan asks her since when has the expectation of society meant anything to them, as they are mutants. He tells her she’s one of the smartest people he knows. Despite all the stuff she’s been through, she is also one of the most caring. The best day of Shogo’s life will be the day she rescued him. She smiles and picks Shogo up and says just like the day the X-Men rescued her. Logan tells her it’s exactly like that.
In the Blackbird, Storm comments that Rachel does consider them a team. Rachel replies that she thinks they have potential. But not if they are all thinking, in the back of their heads, that their glorious leader will frag them if it came to it. Storm asks Rachel if she can see that the Arkea situation was unique. Karima was considered brain dead and Beast had her in stasis for months. She then asks Rachel what she would have done. Rachel replies that she would have done everything before she’d consider sacrificing her. As it turns out, she would have been right too.
Rachel asks Storm what she imagines the others are thinking when they see Karima around the school. Storm evades the question and asks her how John Sublime is doing. Rachel is stunned and then angrily tells Storm that was a low blow. Storm says that they live in a world of grey areas and imperfections. She agrees they have the potential to be a team but not if they hold each other to fundamentalist extremes.
Suddenly, Rogue comes through over the radio and asks if they are seeing this. She is on the wing of the jet plane, holding a reel of TK line. Psylocke is on the top of the Blackbird taking the strain of the line. Rogue radios Kitty and asks if the wings hold the fuel. She replies they usually do but the pilots would have pumped the fuel into the fuselage to control the fire. After hearing that, Rogue stabs the wing with a TK hook, securing the TK line to it. Trailing more line behind her, she makes her way across the wing to the fuselage of the plane.
Up on the Blackbird, Psylocke asks Rogue if she knows she is carrying the psychic load of what she is doing down there. She tells Rogue that she has the power but not the training, so be a little judicious with the TK she generates. Rogue apologizes and tells her it’s too much fun sometimes. With that, she fist bumps with a girl on the other side of a plane window.
Rachel tells Storm she can’t and won’t let the Karima thing go, so she doesn’t know what it means for the future. Storm says she doesn’t either because, in the exact same situation, knowing what she knew then, she’d do it all the same. On the plane down below, Rogue informs Storm and Rachel she will be shooting the Blackbird. Kitty asks Psylocke if that was the plan and Psylocke tells Rachel that, if Rogue throws any more TK out, she will need help. Storm tells Rachel to help her. They are not Storm and the X-Men. They are the X-Men so let’s get this done and they can talk later.
Rogue is now standing on the other wing of the wing, which is pouring smoke and flames from one of its engines. She stabs it with a TK hook and then creates a TK crossbow. She fires it at the undercarriage of the Blackbird, causing it to lurch around. In the cockpit, Storm shouts they have a hull breach and they are losing pressure. She tells everyone to hold on as they are going to have to get below 10,000 feet. Rachel links with Psylocke to help take the stress of the TK being generated.
Storm radios through to the plane and informs them that they have them secure but she needs them to dump their fuel, luggage and whatever else they can as they need them as light as possible. The pilot radios back and tells them they will comply. Rogue tells the others she is headed back now and Psylocke tells her not to use any more TK. However, before Rogue can do anything, an explosion on the engine blows her off the wing. Storm yells for Rachel to open the Blackbird’s bay door. Rogue is blown upwards and Kitty tries to reach for her but she can’t grab her.
(the Four Seasons, Los Angeles)
As Jubilee and Shogo sleep under an umbrella next to the outdoor pool, Logan makes a phone call. He is speaking to the realtor and he asks about the property they saw earlier. He then offers them 10% over asking price to ensure a quick sale. He will pay by cash and someone from JGS holdings will contact them in the morning. Logan sits down near Jubilee and Shogo crawls towards him. Logan picks him up and says that one day she might feel differently and it’ll be there for her. And if not at least they are keeping it in the family.
Back at the planes, Rogue plummets to the ground as the Blackbird carefully handles the passenger jet. As the Blackbird bay door open, Storm flies out and hurtles down to Rogue. She grabs Rogue, who was sure she was going to die. Rachel radios through and asks if Storm got her. Storm says she has and then tells her to keep supporting Psylocke. The Blackbird’s automated systems will set them down somewhere just west of Lake McClure. She congratulates her team on a job well done.
Back in LA, Jubilee and Shogo pose for a picture on the beachfront.


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(The Jean Grey School)
As the X-Men of the past, present and future stand in the Blackbird hanger deck, future Jean Grey asks them to forgive her. She doesn’t mean to be rude but she has lived a long time and her powers have grown and she can’t keep her helmet off for more than a few minutes at a time. With that, she replaces the Xorn mask over her face. Future Kitty Pryde goes up to her and tells her she is doing great and soon they will get her past self and her friends back where they belong.  Xavier, Charles Xavier’s grandson, tells her that Kitty is right and they should get to it.
From the back of the crowd, Jubilee puts her hand up and gets Xavier’s attention. Remarking on how weird it is to use his name, she tells him he is cute but how does he suppose they catch them? She points out that the Blackbird is gone, as Jean and Scott took it. Xavier says that the Blackbird is hardly one of a kind and the future Beast looks to his present day counterpart. Beast comments on how future Beast would remember that. His younger self and he had decided to test out some jet ideas. The young Beast says that it is more or less complete and it could do with a shake-out flight, so this whole situation is fortunate. He presses a button on a device he is holding and the floor beneath everyone starts to split apart. Xavier smiles and says there is something comforting about future knowledge. Wolverine says maybe they can use some of that next time he loses his keys.
Everyone looks on in amazement as a silver plane is brought up on a platform through the floor. Young Beast raises his arms and introduces everyone to the Dove. Modern Beast says she is quite lovely and future Beast says that she was his masterpiece.
Xavier says that original Jean is trying to mask herself from him but she is still so young, as is her experience at using her powers. She is leaving a psychic trail and Xavier can track her using the Cerebro spike. He takes out a pill and pops it in his mouth. The sooner they are aboard the plane, the sooner they can ensure everyone’s future. As people start to board the plane, Storm turns to Rachel, Kitty and Jubilee and tells them she needs them to stay there. Kitty is surprised by this but Storm tells her younger Iceman and Beast will stay too. She needs Kitty to stay there in case Jean and Cyclops come back.
As the future Molly Hayes carries a large package over her shoulder, Beast is pleasantly surprised at how strong she has gotten. When modern Iceman boards the plane, he sees his future counterpart. The giant beast-like Iceman simply lets out a low growl and Iceman says he likes him. He doesn’t have to worry about him pre-empting and of his killer one-liners. Wolverine scoffs at Iceman supposedly being the funny one and tells him to sit down and strap in as some of them have work to do.
(Near Big Sur, California)
In a residential area, original Cyclops and Jean are changing out of their X-Men training uniforms. They are stealing washing off someone’s line, much to Jean chagrin. As Cyclops struggles with the trousers, he says he doesn’t either but they don’t have a choice. The X-Men will be looking for them and who knows if there is a tracking device in their uniforms. If she wants, they can come back later. Before he can finish, he loses his balance and falls down, grabbing the sheet on the washing line that is separating the two half-clothed teenagers.
Jean quickly closes her shirt and smiles, asking Cyclops if that’s his idea of making a move. He quickly stands up and pulls up his trousers, apologizing as he does so. Jean telepathically says he isn’t sorry and then tells him to shake a leg, as they have to go. As Cyclops takes off his top, he asks where they should go. Jean isn’t listening though, as she is momentarily distracted by Cyclops’s naked torso. She apologizes and says that she has too much on her mind. Just let her focus on keeping them hidden. They ditch their uniforms in a bin and Jean gets Cyclops to find them some wheels. He says he has that covered as he spots a gorgeous motorbike at a nearby house.
Elsewhere, the X-Men are flying the Dove. They find the Blackbird parked out on an open beach. Psylocke, who is flying the plane, sarcastically says that that’s not obvious or anything. She thought Jean and Scott were trying to stay hidden. Storm says they need to retrieve the plane and secure it. Xavier says they should do it quickly as he is amazed it’s not attracted law enforcement by now. The older Kitty Pryde says Jean and Scott are scared and they bugged out in a hurry. It’s the only explanation for them leaving the jet like that. Xavier says that they will be easier to track if they are frightened. Wolverine sniffs the air and air they left the beach and went into the rundown neighborhood a little way off. The elder Jean says there is no sign of them telepathically but Xavier begs to differ.
He says the Cerebro spike is kicking in and he has intermittent signals. Shadows of a trail gone cold. He opens up a holographic globe in a device. He and Jean look at it and wonder where the younger Jean is. They focus in on the California region and Jean asks if a fifty-mile radius is big enough. There are major roads and no public transport. She tells Xavier to drop markers and make Cerebro work for him. As Jean starts making points on the holographic globe, Xavier realizes she is setting up a psychic dragnet and commends her.
(the Jean Grey School)
The younger Iceman and Beast are sat watching TV. Rachel and Kitty are in the kitchen, trying to figure out what to eat. Rachel opens the fridge and spots leftover Chinese, of which Kitty enthusiastically approves. As they unpack the many cartons, Kitty brings up the concept of a Jean Grey School of the future. Rachel points out it is just about as weird as a Jean Grey from the past. She tells Kitty to watch how hard she stress eats the noodles.
As Kitty digs into some noodles herself, she asks Rachel if they are right about Jean and the other kids. Rachel says that she isn’t one to talk, given how she is from the future and also crashed the party permanently. But she isn’t into the idea of sending someone somewhere they don’t want to go. Kitty says she knows she is being irrational but she was there when young Scott was dying and the older Scott was seemingly wiped out of existence. It’s really dangerous having them there, she knows that, but she doesn’t want them to go. Ever since they got there, she feels things have been better. She feels everyone is closer than they used to be.
Kitty asks Rachel if she knows what sending them back means. Rachel says she knows. She says they should probably go back but it should be there call. She is worried about taking them by force and she doesn’t trust the future Xavier a whole lot either. Plus Storm and she haven’t been seeing eye to eye recently. She smiles at Kitty and asks if she has any interest in being irrational. They can bring the take outs with them.
(Pacific Coast Highway)
An irritated Jean snaps at Cyclops for asking her a question. It is all she can do to keep the telepaths out. They are so damn powerful and she can feel them pushing in the edges and always waiting for her to let her guard down. As they speed along the highway on the motorbike, Cyclops apologizes to her. He is afraid they are going to catch up with them soon and, when that happens, that are going to be sent home. Jean asks if anyone like the Avengers can help them. She wonders if they will agree with the others. Cyclops tells her that everyone will agree with the others. He doesn’t want to go home any more than she does but he feels it is wrong. They are putting reality in danger. Jean agrees that it’s dangerous but says that life is dangerous. There has to be someone who understands that and can help them. Cyclops asks who and Jean tells him she can think of someone to contact but he won’t like it. She says she will have to drop her psychic shields for a moment.
A big red marker suddenly appears on the holographic globe on the Dove. The future Jean points to it and says her younger self is there. The two planes head north up the coast after the two teenagers. Jean says she is losing the signal again but she can augment. She takes of the Xorn mask and links with Cerebro. She finds her younger self three miles ahead and Xavier tells her they will have them in ten minutes.
Back at the school, the young Iceman and Beast are still watching TV. Iceman looks at Beast and asks what the matter is. Beast seems curious and says that it’s really quiet around there and then wonders where Kitty and Rachel are. Iceman says maybe they died of boredom like he is about to do. Jubilee appears behind them carrying Shogo, who is fidgeting like crazy. Hearing that they are bored, Jubilee hands the baby over to the two boys and tells them she is going to nap. Holding Shogo, Iceman says he doesn’t want to look after a baby. Jubilee points out that he is Homo superior, so he can figure it out and adapt like she did.
On the bike, Jean says she figures she should say thank you. Cyclops asks what for and she replies for trusting her. He didn’t have to and she hasn’t exactly been great to him since they got there. He tells her he doesn’t blame her and asks what the right way of reacting is after learning you will marry a guy who has clearly gone insane. Not to mention she is going to die twice. She tells him he has been great. There has been so much going on and so much to take in; she just wants to say she appreciates it. He tells her he would do anything for her. And then makes sure she knows what he is saying to her. Jean is a little speechless for a second but Cyclops cuts her off and points out there is no more traffic.
The Blackbird has landed on the road ahead of them and the X-Men have gotten out. Cyclops hits the brakes and skids the bike sideways. Jean says he can’t let this happen and so he goes back the way he came. Storm flies after him, yelling that she just wants to help. Cyclops tells Jean to hang on but she says it doesn’t matter, as they are surrounded. The Dove is flying ahead of them and so Cyclops stops the bike. Getting angry, he goes to use his powers and blast them but Jean stops him. He ignores her and points out that she tossed Wolverine at them yesterday. With that, he shoots at the Dove and drives the bike off the road onto the grassy cliffs. He tells her he is going to get them out of there and finish their conversation even if it kills him. Which isn’t a literal statement, he adds afterwards.
On the Dove, Jean is surprised and Kitty is angry. This isn’t how it was supposed to go down and so she yells for Beast to open the doors. She tells Deadpool to stop the motorcycle and so he shoots the back tire out. The two teenagers lose control but present day Beast is on the ground to grab them before they hurt themselves. He apologizes for things being this way but he promises no-one is trying to hurt them. Cyclops blasts him and says that he shouldn’t have brought them there in the first place. With Beast down, Cyclops and Jean start running, but they stop when they see they are surrounded by X-Men. Xavier tells them to calm down and Molly says to take it from her they have to stop running. Xavier adds there is no need for violence amongst friends. Storm adds it really is for the best.
A voice suddenly comes from behind and says it looks like the worst to them. With that, the future Iceman is struck on the back of the head by something moving incredibly fast. Everyone looks up to see Rachel and Kitty in the Hummingbird, a flying car. They land next to Cyclops and Jean and get out. Kitty asks what is going on and Rachel checks that Jean is okay. Addressing Storm, Kitty angrily points out that ten X-Men are taking on two kids. Storm tells her it’s not as it seems and says she was ordered to stay at home. Jean is sat on the floor, clutching her head. She tells Rachel that they crash through every wall she builds.
She speaks to Jean telepathically and tells her she has a few tricks she keeps in reserve. Kitty is still arguing with Storm but Rogue points out Cyclops fired first. Kitty says it was because two X-jets were pinning him down. Rachel walks towards the older Jean Grey and tells her off for using a full telepathic attack. Jean says it wasn’t an attack and Rachel doesn’t realize how dangerous she was at that age. Psylocke tells Rachel not to get all superior as she drove the Hummingbird into Iceman. Rachel says he can take it, while nearby Kitty starts to yell at Wolverine. Xavier, looking at his holographic globe, suddenly yells for Cerebro to reacquire. He then realizes they are gone and everyone looks see that Jean and Cyclops have taken the Hummingbird.
(Utopia)
As the Hummingbird speeds along the water towards the damaged island of Utopia, Cyclops asks where they are going. Seeing the island up ahead, Jean tells him that it was an asteroid that Magneto fought on and apparently the X-Men lived on it for a while. Cyclops is surprised and asks whose idea it was. Jean remains silent until they get to the beach. They park the car and Cyclops asks who they are meeting there. Jean tells him to see for himself and he looks up at the cliffs in shock. Above him are Cyclops, Magneto, Magik, Emma Frost and their students. Emma tells him not to be so dramatic, as they called her.


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(Jean Grey School for Higher Learning)
Shogo lets out a loud wail and Jubilee sits bolt upright in her bed. Still half asleep she mutters that she is up and then goes to tend to the baby boy. Picking up her sunglasses, she staggers to the next room whilst wondering why he is crying like this now as he normally just says “buh.” Looking around, she also wonders where the two babysitters are too. She puts on her glasses and sees Shogo on his playmate on the floor kicking and screaming. Broo, watching over Shogo, greets Jubilee and tells him they are playing. Confused as to what is going on, she starts to asks questions but then stops and says she doesn’t care.
Later on, she is sat in a common room holding Shogo. Armor hands her a round necklace-like device that has a series of buttons on it. Jubilee asks what it is and Armor says it’s for Shogo and was Roxy’s idea and is based off her power. Roxy, aka Bling!, who is sitting next to Jubilee says that she got the idea when she heard that Shogo had gone on a mission with the X-Men. He will need some defense if he is to run with the X-Men.
As Jubilee looks at the device, Bling! explains it’s like a panic button. Jubilee still doesn’t understand what it does but before anyone can say anything else an alarm rings out. Armor gets up and tells her it’s the proximity alarm. One of the X-jets must be coming back in. Bling! tells Jubilee the important thing is the device will keep Shogo safe. It is already keyed to Jubilee’s biometrics but she might want to program in someone else so they can work it too. She asks Jubilee if there is someone else she trusts like Storm or Wolverine. Jubilee smiles and says it should be Bling! since she designed it.
Bling! is taken aback and tells her it would be an honor. She then tells Jubilee that she could really do with talking to her about the thing between her and Mercury. But before she can continue, Armor comes back and gets their attention. Apparently, Rachel contacted her in her head and told her to secure the young Beast and Iceman. Armor says that they bugged out with Magik, though.
The Dove and the Blackbird are on approach to the school. On board the Blackbird, Wolverine gets Rachel’s attention but she tells him not to give her another lecture. Wolverine points to his head to indicate for her to use telepathy. Telepathically, Rachel tells him that they may talk privately like this but it is not invisible. If anyone wants to check, they will find a neat little black hole where her brain used to be. Before he can say anything, she adds that it wasn’t an opening for a joke either. Wolverine says he has to ask her a favor. Something is not right with these future X-Men. He can’t say what or why but something is not right. She asks if he wants her to spy on them. He tells her he does but to be careful as he might be wrong. She asks him if he’s wrong and he replies no way in Hell. As the jets land at the school, she tells him she’ll see what she can do.
As the groups of X-Men walk through the hanger deck modern, Beast tells young Jean that he appreciates it’s difficult but it’s the right thing to do. She snaps back and tells him to save the platitudes as it isn’t helping. Jubilee stands before them and happily greets them, not as X-Men but as potential babysitters. Xavier dryly tells her she’s amusing and says their time is in short supply. The future Jean says she will take the three original X-Men they have to the time cube.
Young Jean goes to speak to Kitty but she tells her to be quiet or she’ll start crying. Young Cyclops turns around and says he is proud of everyone for the first rate class heroics. They are a credit to Charles Xavier’s name. From the back, Xavier adds he is Charles Xavier and sarcasm doesn’t suit him as he’s too clean cut. He then brings up the matter of the remaining two of the original five.
Bling! enters the hanger at this moment and asks if he means Iceman and Beast, because they are gone. Xavier angrily turns to her and asks where they went. Bling! is a little surprised and asks why he is so mad at her. Xavier points out that was minor irritation, perhaps a bit of annoyance. He then shows her what mad feels like and she grabs her head in pain. He demands she tells him where the two X-Men went. As he looks into her mind, he sees they went into the future, his future. He cannot believe it and it shocked that they let them. As Bling! kneels on the floor in pain Wolverine goes up to Xavier and tells him that’s not how they do things there. Xavier angrily tells Wolverine his entire life is a manual on how not to do things.
Xavier tells the future Kitty that it is exactly what they feared and it’s not a matter of  if they are coming but when. They don’t have time to maintain the charade, so they should skip to the punch line. Wolverine goes up to Xavier and tells him he isn’t done with him yet. Xavier tells him to get his hands off him as he is so uninformed it’s pathetic. Jubilee tries to calm them down and asks what’s going on. Behind her, Rachel clutches her head and says it’s all wrong… they’re all wrong. Jubilee asks her what the matter is and Rachel screams Logan was right. Wolverine unsheathes his claws and damns himself for being right.
Xavier calmly looks towards the future Kitty and tells her to do it. Kitty leaps forward but, as she does, she begins to change. Her skin turns blue and her hair red. She unsheathes three metal claws out of her fist and then stabs Wolverine with them. The face staring into Wolverine’s now belongs to a man who bears a remarkable resemblance to Mystique. He tells Wolverine that the look on his face is totally worth it and then calls him “dad.”
(Beast’s lab)
As the other group of X-Men prepares to send young Jean, Cyclops and Angel back, the future Jean steadies herself for a moment. Storm asks if she is okay and Jean tells her it’s been a hard mission. Time travel affects telepaths more than others and she has been a telepath for a long time. She says the end is near but her younger self stares at her and tells her it’s a funny way of putting it considering what she is going back to.
Older Jean tells her that what’s happened has happened and it’s something she needs to accept. She tells her to enjoy her youth and maybe a live-fast-die-young ethos is the way she should go. Young Cyclops comes over and yells at her, telling her she should be more understanding. They agreed to go back, the least she can do is shut up and let them feel bad if they want to. The older Jean tells Scott to never change.
Xavier suddenly psychically contacts the older Jean. He says their cover is blown and the original Iceman and Beast are AWOL. He tells her to lock down the time cube and secure the three X-Men they have. Jean tells him she understands and then lets out a telepathic blast that knocks everyone in the room down. She apologizes to Beast’s future counterpart as she had to act quickly, because young Jean is too powerful. Holding his head, he tells her he understands but he wishes it didn’t hurt so much. She reminds him they are old and that, if they have been discovered in the future, then their contemporaries won’t be far behind. Beast says it doesn’t change their plan, only the time schedule. He will whip up some power dampeners and hack into the school’s defensive systems. He asks Jean if they will need any help upstairs and she points out they would ask if they did.
Upstairs, Rachel rushes over to a bleeding Wolverine. Behind them, the shapeshifter, Raze, looks at his hands and comments how he is still there, which means he didn’t kill his father. Rachel sends out a telepathic message to Storm to warn them they are under attack. Xavier mind blasts her though and tells her Storm is unable to hear her at the moment.
Jubilee hands Shogo to Psylocke and then lungs forward, baring her claws and teeth. She says she hates it when telepaths fight because she has no idea what’s going on. But she is blaming Xavier anyway because she doesn’t like him. She pounces on Xavier and he tells her it’s all unnecessary. Jubilee says they tried to kill Logan and they hurt Rachel. Xavier tells her he doesn’t want to kill any of them. As Jubilee fights with Xavier, the huge Iceman grabs her from behind and tosses her high into the air. Rogue rushes forward and attempts to borrow some of Iceman’s powers but, when she touches him, she finds there is no one inside it. He spins around and punches Rogue down but he in turn is knocked down by Psylocke and a telekinetic mace.
Standing over Iceman, she says that the ball weighs ninety pounds and she swung it one handed and she thinks the baby just pooped too. Being a mum is easy. Rachel and Xavier square off against each other in a telepathic battle. She tells him that he is not part of the X-Men and he replies that it’s all a matter of perspective. He has no interest in killing her but he will hurt her for helping Scott and Jean escape. He tells her to look at Logan, as he is now down one pint of blood more than he would recommend anyone being without. Plus, she has a building full of children so she should be smart and stand down. Alls he wants is the original five, so deliver them and be spared further trouble. Channeling her hound persona, Rachel says he will have to take them from her. With that, she lets out a huge blast and smashes Xavier’s astral form.
As a stunned Xavier kneels on the floor, with blood coming out of his nose, Rachel stands over him and tells him he can’t always get what he wants. She is suddenly hit on the back of the head by Molly Hayes, who tells her that is the worst cliché ever. She helps Xavier up and he tells her they need it to end before their contemporaries arrive. As Wolverine groans in pain on the floor, Raze says he forgot about his missing healing factor. It must suck for him. Like watching them work over his friends and he being able to barely take half a breath of air.
Deadpool apologizes to Psylocke as he draws his sword out. He means it too, as she is the scariest X-Man and he is basically half in love with her. He corrects himself and says that he is fully in love with her and mostly scared. Still holding Shogo and pointing a telekinetic katana at Deadpool and Raze, she reminds them what she just did to Iceman.
From above, Jubilee pokes her head through the hole in the roof she made when she was thrown through it. She yells at Shogo and tells him to push the beep-beep. Shogo pushes it and a small red force-field forms around him, much to Psylocke’s surprise. As Shogo gleefully spins in the force-field, Deadpool and Raze attack Psylocke. Shogo bounces away and Psylocke yells for Jubilee to get him out of there. Jubilee leaps down and grabs him. She says to Bling!, who has just recovered from Xavier’s telepathic attack, that she can’t believe she made him a hamster ball.
As Psylocke continues her fight, she yells for Jubilee to get going and she will be right behind her. Jubilee grabs Bling!’s hand and  leads her away, saying that she hates bailing on friends. Psylocke kicks Deadpool in the throat as Raze comes up behind her. He asks what the matter is, as he thought she said she would be right behind Jubilee. Psylocke turns around and the two square off against each other.
Down in Beast’s lab, the three captured original X-Men are in handcuffs and are stood on the time cube. Future Beast is operating a console as Jean talks to the other X-Men, who are handcuffed and sitting on the floor. She walks over to them and apologizes for how it has gone down. She looks at Storm and tells her they are all innocent bystanders. Storm says that she may have taken them down but they are in a school full of students and teachers ready to take any attacker down. Jean says she never had anything but respect for her and she is a superb leader with a priority of getting the job done. But she has been out-played here. Future Beast says he now has control of the school and it only took one try of the password.
All dormitories and classrooms have been locked down and blast doors are in place. Oxygen is also at minimal levels to discourage proactive movements. All teacher’s rooms and quarters are locked down with full security protocols. Cheyenne Mountain doesn’t have fail-safes like this school does. Beast says that Xavier has subdued Krakoa and he has all the defenses primed. Plus, he has a handful of tricks he just whipped up. He gets excited and says he feels like he is twenty years old again. Jean says she always enjoyed watching him work and he tells her it’s been a pleasure. He then gets her to tell the others they are now set for the arrival of their friends from the future.
Outside, a little way off from the school, present day Cyclops and his team stand alongside the real future X-Men. Future Jubilee asks if that is as close as Magik can get them. Cyclops says the school will have perimeter sensors, so this is exactly where they should be. They can assess the situation before making a move. Sentinel-X blasts up into the air and tells them that waiting around won’t get the job done. If they need recon, then he is heading in. As he flies away, Cyclops looks at Jubilee but she tells him Sentinel-X is right and he knows it.
Sentinel-X lands in the school yard and spots signs of a fight. He radios back and says that something big went down there but there aren’t any signs of students, casualties or combatants. Something gets his attention and he turns to a small tunnel in the earth. From inside the tunnel, Jubilee yells at the figure before her not to come closer. Sentinel-X is stunned to see Jubilee, Bling! and Shogo making their way out. Jubilee says that if he doesn’t identify himself now she is going to knock him and his cheesy battle suit into next week. She has had a real bad day so give her a reason. Sentinel-X takes off his face-mask and tells her he recognizes that tone. He then calls her mum, much to their shock.
Realizing that she is looking at a future version of Shogo, Jubilee leaps into his arms and thanks God that they didn’t take them away from her. He hugs her and notices that she is crying. He tells her it’s going to be okay but another voice tells him he is wrong. Psylocke, bleeding and holding her arm, emerges from the tunnel too. She tells him that okay is the last word she would use to describe it.


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Muertas part 1
(Bogota, Colombia)Three black jeeps drive through the sprawling city. Ana Cortes says that her father was born there and his brothers and sisters wanted for everything. Food, clean water, clothing, education and medical care. By ten years old, he was able to provide his family will all those things and more. By eighteen he was a millionaire and by thirty a billionaire, with diversifications in oil, shipping, real estate and weapons. And by thirty-two he was a father to her. His daughter and only child, Ana Cortes.
The black jeeps pull up outside a villa and all the workers on the estate gather in a line to greet the occupants. Ana Cortes steps out of the back of one of the jeeps. The young, beautiful girl has dark, shoulder-length hair and wears a tight t-shirt with a pair of small shorts. A few weeks ago, one day after his fiftieth birthday, she buried her father. Now she is back from boarding school, the heir to his kingdom. Another woman steps out of the car, dressed in a black suit and wears a pair of sunglasses.
One of the staff greets Ana and she asks how business is. They say they manage by the grace of God without her father. Ana strides past them and into the luxurious house. As armed guards stand at the door, she says God is not good enough and tells the woman she is to inform the council she will meet with them all eleven the next day. As the staff peer through the open door at Ana, one older woman exclaims that she brings the devil. A younger woman asks if she means Ms. Cortes but the woman tells her that she is referring to the Japanese woman with her. She calls her La Muerta, which means the devil.
In a bedroom, Ana sits in front of a mirror straddling a chair. She is leant forward and has moved her hair to expose the back of her neck. As Reiko removes something from her bag, she informs her that it will hurt. Ana asks if it means it will all be done but Reiko tells her it is an ongoing process but the hardest part is behind them. Ana exposes a small slot in the back of her neck. Reiko tells her to hold her breath as she sticks a device that looks like a USB stick into it. Referring to another person, Reiko tells Ana she will feel her and when she does exhale slowly and let her engage. Ana sits upright and looks in the mirror, exclaiming that she is there. Reiko informs her that their business is concluded for now as she packs away the device.
Ana turns around and tells her she has missed her. As Reiko packs to leave, she smiles slightly and calls her Yuriko. She tells her she has missed her too and will continue to do so until their mission is complete and Yuriko is whole again. As Reiko leaves and walks down the stairs, she tells Ana to make sure the final payment is transferred to her Grand Cayman account by midnight.
After Reiko has gone, Ana muses to herself and says she’s not a devil but rather an angel and now she is inside of her. Her name is Ana Cortes and her name is Yuriko Oyama. As Ana the billionaire heiress, she has the funds necessary to purchase the Yuriko consciousness. She can provide her with whatever she needs to resume her life as Lady Deathstrike. Reiko, an old friend of Yuriko’s, was the intermediary. Now they are one, Cortes and Oyama in a symbiotic relationship.
At a board meeting a group of men stare at Ana like she was a pendeja, destined to run the company into the ground. They can have the company as she has other challenges in mind. Afterward, Ana has changed into some different clothes and proceeds to inject herself in the hands with nanites. As she does so, Yuriko tells Ana she can feel her worrying but she doesn’t need to, as this is who they are now. She marvels at her body as she feels the nanites multiply inside her body from thousands to millions with each heartbeat. They are now Lady Deathstrike, back from the dead. Ana sits in a chair dressed in black outfit with gold aspects around the sleeves and legs. Her face is painted in the style of a skull and she extends her brand new fingernail claws.
(Jean Grey School, weeks later)Jubilee sits in Storm’s office, across a desk from her. Storm tells her she has good news and Jubilee jokingly asks if it’s a suite with an adjoining bathroom. The dorms are not designed for single mums. Storm tells her Shogo’s adoption paperwork is being processed. With Shogo sat on her lap, a surprised Jubilee asks if it’s all legal and Storm confirms it is. Jubilee says she was worried there would be criminal charges given how she took him out of the country. Storm informs her that the Hungarian rend rseg aren’t interested in pressing charges and the courts are following suit. She then congratulates Jubilee, as she will soon be his mother legally. As Jubilee excitedly thanks her, a voice comes from behind them, saying she hasn’t heard that shrilling in a while.
Jubilee turns to see M, aka Monet St Croix, standing in the doorway with a bag over her shoulder. M tells her she’s forever the student and then says that Shogo is cute. M then thanks Storm for the hospitality and says she will stay out of the way. As she walks off, she shouts back and tells Jubilee she has nice fangs. A shocked Jubilee asks Storm if princess perfect will be living with them. Storm says M needed some peace and quiet and a place to stay and recuperate. Jubilee exclaims that she really is back in high school.
In Beast’s lab, Karima Shapandar is running on a treadmill as numerous machines record her vital signs. A little way off, Beast monitors the readings and congratulates Karima on a 5km run under her own power. Her cybernetic Omega Sentinel implants seem to be inert, thanks to Arkea’s presence. Beast says he can remove them in time, but she is effectively one-hundred percent organic. He points out her accent is even returning. Karima looks at her hand and says that her coloring is coming back but she still feels like one of those people who has to relearn how to walk after a traumatic injury. Beast says she is one of those people but her progress has been remarkable.
As he examines his monitors, he asks if she has any thoughts on the future. Karima says she wants to retake the police trails and re-qualify for service. She held the course record at Barrackpore, so she wants to match it or do even better. If she can get back to what she was then, she can start thinking about her future and her place in the X-Men.
A voice distracts them and they turn to see M standing in the doorway. Dressed in her combat uniform, she says this doesn’t look like a gym but Beast replies that it still qualifies and invites her in. Beast introduces the two women but Karima apologizes as she is still running on the treadmill. M tells her not to stop on her account and asks if she can join her. As M stretches, she says she is supposed to be staying out of the way. When Karima then asks why as she’s an X-Man, M says she is but she’s keeping a low profile at the moment by choice as she needs to get her head straight.
M asks Karima if she would believe her if she said she just came back from the dead. Karima retorts by asking if M would believe her if she says she knows exactly what it feels like. M says she thinks she would and then asks Karima if she wants to get some air and do a proper run.
(New York State Route 121)Three black jeeps are driving along the road, which cuts through a forest. Ana Cortes sits in the back of one surrounded by bodyguards. One of them asks her for target details and she tells him it’s a school. He wants the lower level medical labs. He is after a stasis chamber holding a female body comatose. She says she needs the Omega Sentinel tech intact and functional. Another bodyguard asks about defense and she replies that it’s the X-Men. The place will be crawling with defenses and defenders. Let her worry about them; they need to get Karima Shapandar.
As she says Karima’s name, she trails off as she sees the woman in question running past her with M. She yells for the car to stop and the three jeeps skid to a halt in the middle of the road. Hearing the screeches, M and Karima stop and turn around and M comments that this isn’t good. Karima states that there are three vehicles so it’s a minimum of three targets and a maximum of twelve to fifteen. M uses her telepathy to identify twelve and she tells Karima she’s impressed and asks if she’s powered. Karima tells her she isn’t but she was a cop. With that, she pulls out a revolver she had strapped to her back and tells M it’s a Browning HP 9mm and it was her old service piece. M is a little surprised she works out with that strapped on.
From inside the jeep, Ana looks at Karima and is surprised that she is alive and asks when it happened. One of the bodyguards asks for orders and she tells them to take Karima down as the sentinel tech will still be functional post-mortem.
M uses her telepathy to update Storm and Karima yells for her to get down. The doors of the jeeps open and numerous men in black suits get out. Using machine guns, they open fire on the two women. Karima immediately returns fire, but is shot through the right shoulder and collapses on the floor. M says that she should get down as she can handle it.
Ana Cortes watches as M seemingly moves backwards and forwards several feet in a sort of flutter. Her enhanced optics pick it up but to a human eye she would appear to be standing still. The result is impressive. A burst of energy is unleashed and all the bodyguards and jeeps are blasted with a shockwave. Ana doesn’t know who she is. She paid good money on the black market for a current roster of the school and she wasn’t on it. Given the fact that Karima’s status is so radically changed, the information is compromised and possibly a misdirect. She has one thing in her favor, though. She doesn’t know who this mutant is but she will know who Ana Cortes is.
As the bodyguards lie unconscious on the ground, M runs up to the jeep Ana is in. She tells Ana she has just called her friends and in about three minutes she will be taken into custody and not by anyone who will read her rights and give her a lawyer. So she advises her to sit tight and not move. She then asks for the woman’s name and Ana tells it her. As Ana looks at her, she realizes that M is a telepath and she will soon know who she really is.
Ana kicks the door to the jeep, hitting M and catapulting her across the road. Ana steps out of the jeep and mutters that she hates telepaths. She starts to walk towards M but Karima opens fire on her. Ana narrowly dodges one and realizes she isn’t going to dodge the next. The Deathstrike abilities are still integrating and she shouldn’t have attempted the mission so soon. Not with these pathetic excuses for hired muscle and not without confirmed intel. Not at anything less than one-hundred percent body readiness. A bullet suddenly strikes her leg and she quickly gets into the driver’s side of one of the jeeps.
Ana speeds off before M can get to her. Karima wearily calls to M as she is bleeding profusely from the shoulder. M runs over and says the others will be there in thirty seconds. Karima apologizes and M says she thinks she knows who it was and she won’t get away next time.
(The Cortes Syndicate’s Lear 85)As Ana sits on her private plane, she says that the billions of nanites in her body are now trillions. Her leg will be repaired by the time they leave American airspace. This sort of body modification can leave a girl feeling invincible. As Ana sits in her seat with a glass of wine in her hand, she sends a text message to someone. Some upgraded muscle who is a solid operator and is up to God-knows-what in NYC. But if she can get herself to Bogota by the time she lands, then she is worth hiring. Ana asks Mary not to let her down. With one text down, she proceeds to make a call to Reiko. She asks her to go back to the Jean Grey School’s systems and get some proper, current intel. Everything they have on Omega Sentinel and Karima Shapandar. Anything bio-cybernetic; there has to be more than she gave her. Ana tells Reiko she will triple her rate as she needs the mods.
(Jean Grey School)Karima and M are in the medical bay with Storm, Psylocke and Rachel. Rachel doesn’t seem to believe what M is saying but the young woman says she can check her recall herself. It may not have looked like Yuriko but the consciousness was there. Psylocke asks what she looks like now and M tells her a teenaged Latina wearing Day-of-the-dead face paint. Psylocke sarcastically says it’s very hipster of her and comments that she didn’t think Yuriko could annoy her more. Karima chips in and mentions the jeeps and the bodyguards. She asks if a full frontal assault on the school with conventional weapons has happened before.
Storm says it hasn’t but it might not be so random. Lady Deathstrike would need a new body since her old one was destroyed. Storm says it doesn’t explain the assault and asks M to work with them. They need everything, the who, what and why. M says she is supposed to be taking some downtime and she isn’t sure how much use she would be to them. She isn’t looking to be the new team bruiser.
A voice comes from behind them and tells M no-one asked her to. They turn to see Jubilee carrying Shogo. As Jubilee sits down, M says she will do it but not because the queen of the Goths but because Karima took a bullet she should have stopped. Karima tells her she’s police and she can handle it. M says they will handle it together and then asks if the team has a name. Storm says it’s not really a team yet and doesn’t have a name. Rachel quietly mutters that she has a name for it. Storm continues and says they still have a few things to talk over. M says she doesn’t even have to read their minds to figure that out. She says they are just X-Men then and suggests they get to it.
Jubilee stomps out of the room and calls to her from behind. She reminds her that they were supposed to have lunch. Jubilee says she forgot and they were supposed to talk about her and Mercury. She apologizes and says something came up. Bling! tells her that she asked Mercury out on a date and she freaked out and punched her in front of everyone. She says she was so embarrassed, as no-one knew how much nerve it took to ask her out and Storm and Rachel think it’s all her fault. Bling! tells her that it’s okay but Jubilee replies that it isn’t. Mercury had no right to do that and it was completely unacceptable. Bling! says she doesn’t like Mercury like that anymore as she likes someone else now.
(Bogota)From her villa, Ana is speaking to Reiko over the phone. She tells her to upload the files whilst she is on the phone. Ana asks just how hidden the files were but Reiko says they weren’t. They were brand new and they weren’t there two weeks ago. She asks Ana what she thinks and Ana tells her she is in love. She can’t believe she was lusting after the Omega Sentinel tech when this exists.
Reiko tells her not to think of it as a thing. It’s not a mod or a simple software upgrade. She needs to look at the files and she will see what she means. Then Ana will pay her ten times her rate. Ana asks why she would do that but Reiko just tells her to read the files. Ana asks if it has a name and Reiko says she will text her, as she doesn’t want to say it over an open phone line. Ana calls her paranoid and tells her it had better be good. She hangs up the phone and walks towards a patio window.
Outside, someone calls out to Ana and asks if they have a target. Looking at her phone, Ana says they call it “Arkea” and they are going to steal it. She walks over to Typhoid Mary and asks if she is ready. Mary says she’s at her service and compliments her new look.