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Collision, part one
The Corridor, now. Inside the strange facility some people are floating in a wave of purple and blue energies. ‘Luz, you disappoint me’ a woman remarks. ‘Haven’t we given you every indulgence? Forgiven your absurd rebellions again and again?’ the dark-haired woman asks. ‘Yeah, I suppose’ the blonde Luz replies casually. A muscular man stands over her and remarks ‘And yet, you do this. Paint light-sculptures of our leaders. Caricatures!’ he exclaims. ‘At three intersections in the city and at the fates of the Universidad’ the muscular man points out, holding one of the light figures up. Child, what were you thinking?’ the other woman asks.
‘I was thinking it’s funny. But maybe it’s only funny if you’re me’ Luz replies casually. ‘And I was thinking maybe this time they’ll choke on my so hard they’ll spit me out’ Luz adds. The other woman frowns and folds her arms, announcing that she has considered, and now passes sentence: ‘Three nights in the punishment hall, with water but no food’. ‘Verdad? Cooooool!’ Luz exclaims, smiling.
Soon, Luz is led down a corridor, while the stern woman announces that Angelfire is almost ready to go online. ‘You know the city needs energy - and you’ll have a place in the Thirty, aren’t you proud of that?’ she asks. ‘Yeah, I’m the happiest cog on the whole wheel’ Luz mutters before she steps into the punishment hall. As the door begins to close, the stern woman tells Luz to use this time to reflect. ‘You’re too old, now, for these child-games’ she remarks. ‘It’s not a game!’ Luz replies, addressing the other woman as Corregidora. ‘It’s art!’ she tells her. ‘In that case, I apologize. Your sentence is extended to seven nights’ Corregidora retorts.
Corregidora tells the muscular man to notify Luz’ teachers. ‘If this happens again, they’ll be punished too’ she announces. ‘Yes, beloved sister’ the man replies, before Corregidora asks him to send Luz’s psyche profile to her focal space. ‘At once’ the man replies. Inside the punishment hall, Luz fiddles with some wires attached to a bracelet: ‘Okay. Let’s see what we can do here’ she remarks. ‘Hello door-lock override sensor. My name is Luz. Let’s be friends’.
At that moment, a passenger airplane descends over Mumbai, India. Someone announces that they will be shortly arriving at Shivaji International Airport, and tells the passengers to stay in their seats with their seatbelts fastened, as they are experiencing unusual turbulence. ‘Man, they’re not kidding. This thing is rattling like a bucket full of quarters!’ Victor Borkowski a.k.a. Anole exclaims as she looks out the window. ‘I’m not small change, Victor. I’m a hundred dollar bill’ Alani Ryan a.k.a. Loa exclaims, while Paras Gavascar a.k.a. Indra looks up from his book and remarks that this cannot be normal, as it came out of nowhere.
Across the aisle, Rogue turns to Erik Lehnsherr a.k.a. Magneto and asks him if it is normal. ‘Not in the slightest. The local EM field is fluctuating wildly, cuasing the plane’s instruments to over-correct’ Magneto explains. ‘You think you might do something about that?’ Rogue asks. Magneto replies that he was studying the phenomenon. ‘But yes, by all means’ he remarks. ‘There. Will this do?’ he asks as the plane evens out in the air.
A short time later, the five mutants have passed through customs and have collected their luggage, making their wait through the airport foyer. ‘This is where your family lives, Paras?’ Anole asks. ‘No, they live outside the city. A long way out, to be honest’ Indra explains, telling everyone it was good of them to come with him. ‘Are you kidding? All we needed was the excuse!’ Alani declares, before quickly telling Paras that she is sorry for her comment. ‘That was a horrible thing to say. You must be worried about your brother’ Alani declares. Paras replies that he doesn’t even know what is wrong with him, and that it might be nothing. ‘My parents have been known to make a big fuss about quite small things’ he explains.
A couple of locals exchange words in their native tongue as the five mutants walk past them, before a voice exclaims ‘Mr Gavascar and party?’ Indra walks over to the man standing beside a car, who introduces himself as Marut, their chauffeur. ‘I do not encourage smoking or singing, but I’ll tolerate just about anything else’ he remarks, adding that he understands they are heading directly out to Panchajana, he asks them to step into the car. Once everyone is seated, Alani looks at a figurine dangling from the rear-vision mirror and asks ‘Who’s the god?’ Marut tells her that it is Ganesh, the Remover of Obstacles. ‘In my line of business, he’s the go-to deity’ Marut adds, before asking the quintet what brings them to Mumbai.
36 hours earlier, on Utopia, home of the Uncanny X-Men and their allies. ‘Okay. But tell me why?’ Rogue asks Scott “Cyclops” Summers. Holding a letter in his hand, Scott tells Rogue that the Gavascars are very clear in their letter. ‘Indra’s brother is ill, and they need him home right now’. ‘Ah read the letter, Scott. What Ah meant was why me?’ Rogue tells him. Scott announces that he is sending some of the other students as well, as they all need a furlough after what they have just been through. Scott tells Rogue that she will be there to ride herd on them and to watch out for them if anything unforseen happens. ‘It’s part of your general brief’ he declares.
Rogue tells Cyclops that she thinks she should remain here with Hope and Hellion. ‘Hope will live without you for a few days. It will even be healthy for her. She needs to have a wider circle of friends’ Cyclops replies. Rogue frowns and tells Cyclops that she is not going to beg his forgiveness. ‘Ah made mah choice, and Ah’ll live with it’. Rogue adds that if that means there is no place for her here any more, she will have to live with that, too. ‘That’s a little melo-dramatic for a week in Mumbai, Rogue’ Cyclops tells her, before announcing that Magneto will be joining them, as he says he has business out that way. ‘Check in when you get there. And every twelve hours after that’.
Rogue makes her way to the med-ward, where Julian “Hellion” Keller lies in a bed. Rogue greets the handsome young mutant and asks him how he is feeling. ‘Oh, I’m just fine, Rogue. I was about to pick out a few tunes on the guitar. Star and sing along’ Hellion mutters. Rogue stands beside the bed and tells Julian that she is going to India with Paras and some of the others, and asks him to come with them, to get out of this place for a few days. ‘Hah! That’s really thoughtful of you Julian tells Rogue, turning away from her.
‘Sure, I’d love to come. To wave these things in people’s faces and watch them look away. That would be a real tonic for me’ Julian declares, looking at his bandaged arms. Rogue puts a hand on Julian’s shoulder and tells him that the world is not going to go away. ‘Ah’d like to help you face it. Get past this terrible thing’ she tells him. ‘I know you would. But today’s worthy cause is going to have to be someone else’ Julian declares.
Now, ‘Wow! Nice house!’ Alani exclaims as she and Rogue look out the window and up at the sprawling estate before them. Indra reveals that his father is a lawyer. ‘Somehow he’s able to reconcile this with the religious injunction to absolute non-violence’ Indra explains. After the car is parked, Paras walks up the stairs to the front door, where his parents and their servant are waiting. ‘Paras! My son! And these are your friends!’ Mrs Gavascar exclaims. Paras’ father remarks something in his native tongue, to which his wife exclaims ‘Not now, Rav. Please’.
‘We’ve missed you so much!’ Paras’ mother exclaims as she hugs her son. ‘I’ve missed you too, Mama-Ji’ Paras replies, adding that it is good to be home. ‘Pita’ Paras remarks, shaking his father’s hand. Rav Gavascar welcomes his son home, and remarks ‘You’ll want to see Tejpal at once, I’m sure. Go with your mother. I’ll speak with you shortly’ Mr Gavascar declares. Mrs Gavascar leads Indra inside, while Mr Gavascar turns his attention to Rogue and the others. ‘And you are my son’s teachers’ he remarks. Rogue explains that she is sort of a school counselor and introduces herself as Anna-Marie. ‘Mr Lehnsherr here is -’ Rogue begins, but Rav interrupts her: ‘A terrorist, and an advocate of violent revolution. Who has not heard of Magneto? If I had known my son would mix with such people, I would never have allowed him to go to your academy!’ Mr Gavascar exclaims.
‘”The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order”’ Magneto quotes. ‘You quote Nehru to me? I am no admirer of Nehru’ Mr Gavascar responds. ‘Mr Gavascar, if there’s any problem with our staying here -’ Rogue begins, but Rav tells her that they are his guests. ‘I invited you and I will make you welcome’. He turns to his servant, Suvrat, and asks him to show “these people” to their rooms. ‘Yes, sir’ Suvrat replies. Rav tells the mutants to understand they are here to allow his son an easy transition back to his former life. ‘From no on, that is his only life. And when you leave, your contact with him will cease. Forthwith’. As Alani follows Mr Gavascar into his home, she turns to Victor and informs him that he has gone into camouflage mode. ‘Sorry. Reflex action’ Anole replies.
Elsewhere in the sprawling mansion, ‘I - I don’t understand’ Paras exclaims as he and his mother stand over the bed where his brother lies, hooked up to monitors. ‘He’s in a coma, Paras’ Mrs Gavascar explains. ‘Why? How? When did this happen?’ Paras asks. Mrs Gavascar looks down as she explains that Tejpal was in Mumbai when one of the storms hit. ‘Many people fell down, like this, and haven’t woken up since’ she explains. ‘But that doesn’t make any sense! How could a storm do this? What do the doctors say?’ Indra asks his mother. She replies that the doctors don’t say anything. ‘They shrug their shoulders, then present an invoice. Nobody knows’.
Paras kneels down beside his brother and exclaims ‘Tejpal, my brother. If you can hear me - I love you. And I’ve come to stay with you until you’re well again’. ‘Until -?’ Mrs Gavascar begins. ‘Ah but Paras, there is something else you need to know. I wanted to tell you in the letter, but your father said -’ she begins. ‘To tell me what?’ Indra asks, looking up at his mother. ‘It’s a good thing, Paras. A lovely thing for you’ Mrs Gavascar remarks. ‘Please, Mama-Ji. The truth!’ Paras pleads. ‘Tejpal was engaged. To a very beautiful girl. This is why we needed you to come home. To be married in his place!’ Mrs Gavascar reveals.
Elsewhere, Rogue steps out onto a balcony where Magneto is standing. ‘Well, the welcome wagon may be missing a few wheels, but the rooms are palatial’ Rogue remarks. ‘Of course. This is a palace. 15th century Mughal’ Magneto replies. ‘Ah would have said 14th century’ Rogue replies. ‘Oh? Why would you -’ Magneto begins, but Rogue interrupts, explaining that she wanted to stay in conversation. Rogue remarks that Magneto never said why he came here with them. ‘Ah’m pretty sure it’s got nothing to do with Indra’ Rogue remarks.
Magneto tells Rogue that she is correct. ‘Those anomalies in the EM field - I was already aware of them, from a distance’ he explains, adding that he knew they centered on this area and wanted to take a closer look. Rogue informs Magneto that she is taking Victor and Alani into the city for some sightseeing, as Marut says he will drive them. ‘If you want to come along -’ Rogue begins, to which Magneto tells her that he would be delighted. ‘But you might want to take some warmer clothes with you. I think the weather is about to turn’ Magneto warns her.
Back inside the mysterious Corridor, ‘Corregidora -’ the muscular man remarks as he enters the room where the stern woman sits in a chair, viewing several monitors. ‘Come in’ she replies, addressing him as Martillo. ‘It’s my turn to monitor the anchor tonight’ Corregidora announces, asking Martillo if it amuses him that a city as magnificent as theirs should be tethered like a balloon to the side of its parent universe. ‘Beloved sister - I hate to disturb your labours. Luz has disappeared from her cell’ Martillo announces.
‘Escaped, you mean? Then track her and put her back!’ Corregidora declares, standing up. Martillo informs Corregidora that they have read Luz in the vents, but she is too close to the membrane to be pursued. ‘Probably she’ll return when she realizes that there’s no escape that way’ Martillo remarks. ‘Except that there is’ Corregidora reveals. She touches a screen, while Martillo exclaims ‘Well, only if - you’re not suggesting that she would -’. Corregidora tells Martillo that he forgets that Luz is an artist. ‘Practicalities don’t concern her overmuch.
Suddenly, Corregidora finds Luz on one of the monitors. ‘There! She intends to jump and take her chances. She knows we can’t follow. She believes she’ll have time to go to ground, on the other side of the membrane’ Corregidora declares. ‘Luz, you try my patience!’ Corregidora calls out through an inter-comm system. ‘You have patience, Corregidora? Where do you keep it?’ Luz shouts back. Corregidora informs Luz that the corridor where she walks is dangerous, that the energy discharges that flow through it are inimical to life. ‘There’s also a filter ahead of you, that stops anything, larger than a fingertip passing through’ she adds.
‘Yeah, I know. But we’re in down cycle, so I can stand the energy wahs for a few minutes’ Luz replies, before standing in front of the filter. ‘And as for the filter - it’s a light-net, isn’t it?’ she asks, remarking that she is probably good. ‘She’s right!’ Corregidora gasps as she watches a monitor. ‘This is good light. If I had the time, I could make something really nice out of it. Pity I’m in such a rush’ Luz remarks, pushing her hand though the energy net, she turns the light into balloon-like animals, and walks through the remainder of the tunnel. ‘So long, beloved sister. I’ll see you, like, never’ Luz declares.
‘Wake the Servidores. I’ll show her where rebellion leads!’ Gorregidora announces to Martillo, while several large humanoid begins loom before them in the darkness.
‘Any place in particular you’d like to be dropped off?’ Marut asks, remarking that the Gateway is a must-see, and that Chowpatty Beach is really nice when it is not too warm. ‘Let us out here. And then leave us’ Magneto tells him. ‘Here? But this is the middle of nowhere!’ Marut exclaims. ‘Excellent. I’ve always wanted to see it’ Magneto remarks. A moment later, Magneto, Rogue, Anole and Loa are standing in the street, and Marut hands Loa his Gaesh statue. ‘Take this, little one’ he tells her. ‘Your god? But -’ Loa begins, to which Marut tells her that it is a loan, just in case. ‘Why here, Magneto?’ Rogue asks.
Looking skyward, Magneto replies that there is a gradient in the local EM field, so he would like to see where it leads. ‘Ah promised Alani we’d go shopping’ Rogue remarks. ‘This will only take a moment’ Magneto replies, to which Rogue replies that she is not happy just following along blindly. ‘No. That’s an instinct one has be born with’ Magneto replies.
Back at the Gavascar mansion, ‘Father. We need to talk!’ Indra exclaims as he bursts into the greenhouse where his father is sitting at a table, pruning some plants. ‘Yes, Paras, we do. But is that the correct tone in which to address me?’ Mr Gavascar asks his son. ‘I’m sorry, but Mama-Ji said -’ Paras begins, walking towards his father, who interrupts him: ‘Begin again, please. As you have been taught. Paras scowls, before hanging his head, and muttering ‘Peace be upon my father, and this house. May I speak?’
Rav Gavascar does not answer his son, he continues to prune a plant, while Paras scowls. Shortly, Rav turns to his son: ‘Yes. You may speak’ he tells Paras, while Suvrat looks on in silence. ‘Mama-Ji said you want me to marry a girl named Vaipala Rani. A girl who was promised to Tejpal. Is this true?’ Paras exclaims. ‘Yes’ Rav replies, without looking at his son. ‘But what will Tej think when he wakes? How can I do that to him?’ Indra exclaims. Rav tells him that Tejpal will think this was decided by older and wiser heads than his, and thus it is for the best.
Rav tells Paras that Tejpal may not wake at all. ‘The doctors are not hopeful’ he announces, adding that, naturally, he consulted the doctors before he came to this decision. ‘Do you think your father a fool?’ Rav asks. ‘No. No, sir. But -’ Paras begins, but Rav interrupts once more. Placing a towel on a tray which Suvrat holds, he declares that Panchajana Estate needs a great deal of care and attention. ‘It’s time, now, for you to take a wife and to help me in that task’. Rav informs Indra that Vaipala’s family is well connected, and the girl herself is very quiet and responsible. ‘A perfect wife. A modicum of gratitude might be expected in such circumstances’. Paras hangs his head further, closes his eyes, and thanks his father. ‘Thank you very much’.
Back in town, Magneto still keeps his attention on the sky above them, and Rogue informs him that they are walking in circles. ‘Yes, we are. The gradient is actually changing, from moment to moment’ Magneto ‘Then what do we get by trailing along behind it?’ Rogue asks. ‘A sense of its contours. Something - some colossal power source - is very close to us. And yet we can’t see it’ Magneto remarks. Alani folds her arms and asks if they can see the spice market instead. ‘Wait. A moment - yes’ Magneto exclaims, telling everyone that they should all stay close to him. ‘It will be easier to shield you if you’re not spread out too widely’ Magneto tells them. ‘Shield us? Shield us from what?’ Victor asks.
‘From the storm’ Magneto exclaims as the sky suddenly turns dark and lightning crackles through the air, striking the ground. ‘Oh no. Do your stuff, Ganesh’ Alani exclaims, holding the statue up. There is a massive THRAKOOM as the bolts of lightning strike the ground, shattering the road, and sending cars and people tumbling over. Some of the energy strikes a building over Alani, who screams - but Magneto shields everyone, while the locals look at him strangely.
‘Ow! Ow! Ow!’ Luz exclaims as she falls to the ground. ‘Wh - what was that?’ Anole asks, standing in the rubble. Magneto explains that it was a massive discharge of energy, or rather energies, plural. ‘The EM pulse was just the carrier wave’. Alani alerts the others to some people who are hurt nearby, Magneto kneels beside one of them, and Rogue announces that he is still alive. ‘No burns or crush injuries. Nothing hit him, and yet he fell’ Magneto remarks, adding that there seems to be others in the same state, and remarks that this is interesting.
Anole stands over Luz and tells the others that it looks like this girl got a knock on the head, before asking them if anyone saw where she came from. Luz moans, before standing up, and telling Anole and the others to leave her alone. ‘I live two streets over. I was here all along’ she claims. ‘Okay. That’s fine. Nobody wants to hurt you, sugah. Just let me take a look at that head wound’ Rogue declares, but Magneto warns Rogue not to touch her. ‘Magnus, Ah just want to make sure she’s okay’ Rogue replies.
‘I’m aware of that, Rogue. But let’s be sure we know what we’re dealing with’ Magneto tells Rogue. ‘What do you mean?’ Luz asks, telling them to get away from her. Magneto announces that Luz is saturated with the same energies he sensed before the storm. ‘The identical signature. The same fluctuations. She’s connected with this in some way. I’d like to know how’. ‘You don’t have any right to question me. I’m Lu - Luisa. Daughter of - of a local magistrate guy. And he’ll arrest you if you hurt me!’ Luz claims.
Rogue tells her that nobody is hurting anyone. ‘But please tell us what you know’ Rogue asks her. ‘I don’t know anything. I just told you, I’m just -’ Luz begins, before he bracelet starts beeping. ‘Oh, no! They couldn’t!’ she exclaims. ‘They couldn’t lock onto me so fast, unless -’ she begins, before tall dark shadows loom over the four mutants, and Luz. ‘The Servidores! They sent the Servidores!’ Luz exclaims. ‘Who are -?’ Rogue begins, before a robotic voice declares ‘Initial mission objective achieved. Additional targets acquired!’ - the Servidores are the Sentinels, and one of the deadly behemoths reaches down for Luz and the heroes….


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Collision, part three
Mumbai, where Rogue, Magneto, Anole and Loa suddenly find themselves confronted by several Sentinels. Rogue tells Anole and Loa to get clear, as she and Magneto will handle this. ‘But Rogue, you don’t even have any powers of your own’ Anole points out. ‘Multiple mutant targets. Range - ten meters’ one of the Sentinels states. ‘Ah said RUN!’ Rogue shouts, so Anole, Loa and the mysterious blonde girl do as they are told, while one of the Sentinels states ‘Four mutant targets. Two matches to existing files. Anna-Marie: Rogue. Eric Magnus Lensherr: Magneto. Threat level high. Termination authorized’.
Magneto flies towards one of the Sentinels, exclaiming ‘For sentient beings, robot, the correct term is murder. Trust me. I have some degree of experience in such matters’ he exclaims, before using his power to rip apart the Sentinel’s chest, remarking that “termination” will do well enough for the likes of it. ‘Come on, come on, come on’ Rogue mutters as she tries to start a vehicle, while, nearby, one of the Sentinels has backed Anole into a corner, where the young mutant has used his power to camouflage himself against the brick wall. ‘This unit does not require a visual lock on your co-ordinates, mutant. You cannot hide’ it declares. ‘I wasn’t really trying to’ Anole replies.
‘I just needed you to be looking at me’ Anole exclaims as Rogue drives a bus into the Sentinel’s leg. ‘Way to go!’ Anole congratulates Rogue, before exclaiming ‘My turn!’ as he leaps up to the Sentinel’s face, and rips out some parts, while the Sentinel slams hard into the ground below. Loa, meanwhile, is rushing up a flight of stairs, where one of the Sentinels is standing nearby. ‘Target acquired. Engaging -’ the Sentinel begins, while Loa whispers to herself ‘I can do this. I can do this’ as she leaps towards the massive Sentinel, using her power to “swim” through the solid matter, ripping the Sentinel’s head apart.
Loa grabs hold of a nearby clothes line, and uses it to drop herself down to the ground, asking if there are an more of them. ‘Nope. We’re good. You took out a Sentinel. Ah’m proud of you’ Rogue exclaims, before Magneto declares ‘That was too easy’. ‘Ah’d say it was just easy enough’ Rogue replies, before Magneto turns to the blonde girl and asks her what she knows about these machines. ‘N-nothing’ the girl replies, to which Magneto reminds her that she identified them by a name, and that they were chasing her when she first arrived. Rogue tells Magneto that this can wait, pointing out that they need to get out of here before the authorities arrive.
‘We also need to find out what we’re dealing with’ Magneto points out. Rogue tells him that she knows that, ‘But think about what just happened’ she exclaims, before remarking that when Hope came back, Cerebra spiked five times. ‘There are new mutants out there - for the first time since forever!’ Rogue declares. ‘If this girl is one of them, she comes with us. No questions’ Rogue exclaims, before turning to the blonde girl, asking her if she figured out recently that she can do things other people can’t. The blonde girl - Luz, although she introduced herself to Rogue and the others as Luisa - replies ‘Yeah. I did. That’s right. That’s exactly right’. She demonstrates her ability, explaining that she can paint with light - make it bend and refract into colors. ‘Those Servidores saw me doing it and chased me’ she explains. Rogue picks up her mobile phone and calls Marut: ‘Ah hope you didn’t park too far away. Five to beam up’ she jokes.
Soon, in Panchajana, inside the Gavascar Estate, where Indra watches as his father declares ‘No. I will not support this. It is an abuse of my hospitality’. Rogue, Loa, Anole and Luz stand before Rav and Bhakti Gavascar, as Rogue exclaims ‘You saw the storm, Mr Gavascar. We didn’t feel we could just leave her out in the middle of it’. ‘Rav, if the child has nowhere to stay -’ Mrs Gavascar begins, but Rav exclaims ‘No, Bhakti. It’s not for you or for me to pick up such strays’. Luz exclaims that none of this was her idea, and that if they don’t want her, she will go. She adds that she is not a stray, and can look after herself.
Rogue looks up at Indra, and tells him that she is sorry, and that it may be better if they just leave. ‘No, please, Rogue. Just give me a moment’ Indra replies, before telling his father that these are his friends and that he wants them to stay. ‘Do you defy me?’ Mr Gavascar asks. Indra replies that he doesn’t, but that he wants some familiar faces at his wedding. ‘Your wedding?’ Loa gasps, asking her teammate if that is a joke. Indra hangs his head as he asks Loa to be happy for him. ‘Is that what we’re here for? Seriously?’ Anole asks. Mr Gavascar turns around and walks away as he exclaims ‘Until Sunday, then. No longer’. He tells his son that his bridge and her chaperone arrive this afternoon, ahead of the rest of the wedding party. ‘You will come to the Saffron Room at three o’clock to meet her. Be prompt’ Mr Gavascar orders. ‘Yes’ his son replies.
Rogue asks Indra why he didn’t tell them about the wedding, to which Indra replies that he didn’t know about it until he arrived here. ‘But you’re happy? This is what you want?’ she asks, while Luz begins eating something from a bowl on a stand. Indra explains that his brother’s engagement has to be fulfilled. ‘What sort of person would I be if I shrank from that?’ he asks. ‘Do you love her?’ Loa asks. Indra hangs his head and replies that he has never seen her, and is meeting her for the first time this afternoon. ‘That’s crazy talk, man. If I know anything, it’s that you can’t force something like love into a shape that someone else says is right!’ Anole declares, before Luz exclaims ‘Hey! You got any more of these gulabjaman things? There’s no way I’m gonna make it all the way to dinnertime’.
Soon, ‘Come in, Rogue. The door is open’ Magneto declares as he crouches on the floor, using his powers to hold up various metallic nuts and bolts. ‘Ah was just about to knock’ Rogue replies. ‘Why? There needs to be no ceremony or polite pretence between us’ Magneto replies, to which Rogue reminds Magnus that she keeps telling him there is nothing else between them. Magneto ignores Rogue’s comment, instead remarking that those Sentinels fell to a single assault, because they had been structurally weakened by extreme and corrosive energies. ‘The same energies now washing over the city of Mumbai’ Magneto explains.
‘The storms?’ Rogue asks as she walks towards the balcony. ‘A storm is a natural phenomenon. These are not’ Magneto replies, adding that some of the energies impede the frequencies of human thought, inducing coma. ‘That’s what happened to Indra’s brother’ Rogue remarks. ‘And to those others we saw, who fell when the storm hit’ Magneto adds, before informing Rogue that he spoke to Emma Frost, who will, as soon as she can spare time from the reconstruction of Utopia, carry out a full Cerebra scan of the sub-continent. ‘If your new friend is a mutant, we’ll know soon enough’ Magneto exclaims.
In a hallway, Loa and Anole stand with Luz, who demonstrates her power, explaining that it is all about refraction. ‘You split the light to make the colors you want’ she remarks. ‘An eagle! That’s amazing!’ Anole declares. Luz thanks him, before remarking that she saw before that they have powers too, and asks them what they use them for. ‘Fighting for our lives, mostly’ Anole replies. ‘So you’re soldiers? Is that what you always wanted to be?’ Luz asks. ‘What we wanted didn’t seem to come into it much’ Anole replies. ‘Wow. But - power is choice, right? I mean, that’s how it works. If you don’t want to fight, maybe you should think about what you do want’ Luz exclaims.
‘We’re still learning to use our powers’ Loa explains. ‘Or not to use them, maybe. I saw how you reacted after you trashed that Servidor’ Luz remarks. ‘I was scared’ Loa replies. ‘Fine. But don’t be scared of yourself’ Luz tells her as they watch two women approach Mr and Mrs Gavascar in the foyer down below, talking in their native tongue. Indra joins them, and Mr Gavascar introduces his son to Vaipala Rani and her aunt, Veer. ‘It’s good to meet you’ Indra tells the young woman, who thanks Indra, and tells him that he looks like his brother. Mr Gavascar informs his son that Vaipala studied in Delhi, at the University. ‘Only for a year. I passed my entrance certificate. But then I had to come home. To be married’ Vaipala exclaims, before remarking that she understands Indra has been to America
‘To travel so far - to see such things - that must have been amazing’ Vaipala exclaims, adding that Mumbai must seem very small and silly to him now. ‘Is that how it seems to you?’ Indra asks. ‘I was talking about you’ Vaipala replies. ‘No, I - I don’t see things in such -’ Indra begins, before Mr Gavascar asks everybody to please be seated, and he will ring for tea. Vaipala asks Indra to tell her about the X-Men. ‘They live on an island now, isn’t it? An island that used to be out in space?’ she asks, while Luz smirks, and gives a “thumbs-up” signal.
Meanwhile, in the Corridor, ‘She made it through a live!’ Martello declares. ‘She also destroyed an entire work team of Servidores. She must be found and returned. She’s needed for Angelfire!’ Corregidora exclaims. But Martello tells his beloved sister that he must correct her, as Luz did not do these things by herself, and he turns on a monitor, revealing Rogue and the others defeating the Sentinels. ‘Despite the energetic interface, it was possible to process some of the sensory downloads from the Servidores to the Master Mold’ Martello explains, adding that he found these images particularly interesting.
‘The X-Men!’ Corregidora exclaims. ‘One of them, anyway. One was have reason to remember. Her presence is unlikely to be a -’ Martello begins, before seeing Corregidora pull a knife from behind her, he asks her what she is doing. ‘A wound in my heart has reopened, brother. The wound in my flesh is to keep me from forgetting’ she exclaims, before ordering Martello to call the council, and to tell them that Luz is in the hands of their enemies.
The next morning, at Panchajana, two maids are going about their cleaning duties, with one of them telling the other to change the towels while she sweeps the hallway. The other maid complains that she hates this bathroom: ‘There’s an iguana who lives at the top of the wall’ she exclaims. ‘Don’t be a baby. A lizard can’t -’ the other maid begins, before screaming as she turns a corner and sees Indra and Luz standing in the hallway - naked and embracing.
‘Is the house on fire?’ Loa asks as she, Anole and Rogue leave their rooms. ‘Sounds like it might be more serious than that’ Anole points out, while Rogue announces that she will check it out. ‘Who has done this? Who has done this obscene thing?’ Mr Gavascar demands as arrives. ‘What is it?’ Rogue asks. ‘Can Ah help in any -? Oh’ she exclaims, while Aunt Veer tells Vaipala not to look, as it is immodest. ‘It is a likeness of my son, in a lewd embrace! I demands to know who made this!’ Rav Gavascar exclaims when he realizes that it is not really his son. ‘Luisa? Font and center, girl’ Rogue exclaims as she touches the light image.
‘What’s the problem? I thought he looked cute’ Luz mutters as she steps towards the ground, arms folded, scowling. Luz adds that, for her, this counts as subtle, and the image will fade by itself in a few days. ‘My son is engaged to be married!’ Mr Gavascar declares. ‘What’s “married”?’ Luz asks. ‘Do not speak back to me. Remove this thing. Remove it!’ Rav orders. ‘Okay, it’s removed!’ Luz mutters as she causes the image to vanish. ‘Happy now?’ she asks. Mr Gavascar tells her that she is not welcome in his house. ‘Is anyone?’ Luz asks. ‘What? What are you saying for me?’ Rav demands, while Rogue tells Luisa to go back to her room. Luz does as Rogue tells her, and as she walks past Vaipala, she declares ‘I was better off at home. At least there they wanted me to help run a city. Not dress like a doll and talk like an idiot!’ she exclaims, which spikes Vaipala’s attention.
Soon, Luz leans on a railing on a balcony, writing something with her light power, she wonders why they can’t just let her do her own thing and leave her alone. Suddenly, Magneto descends near Luz and tells her that if she ever decided to give up art, she could probably have a profitable career conquering small countries. ‘I don’t know what you mean’ Luz replies. Magneto tells her that sculpting light waves into finite, coherent patterns requires the levels of energy normally found in supernovas. ‘Wherever you come from, I’d imagine that your absence has been noted. ‘I told you. I come from the city back there. Were you found me’ Luz replies.
‘No. You come from somewhere else entirely. Somewhere that uses Sentinels as a labor force, and Mumbai as a testing ground for dangerous energies’ Magneto remarks. ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about’ Luz claims. Magneto tells her not to presume to lie to him. ‘Show it to me - your home. I’d like to see it’ Magneto exclaims. ‘I told you, I don’t - okay. Fine. If you want’ Luz replies, before creating a light image of her home, announcing that it is called Quitado. ‘And how does one reach Quitado?’ Magneto asks. ‘I wouldn’t know’ Luz replies. ‘On the face of it, that seems unlikely’ Magneto replies, but Luz tells him that she just jumped through the waste interface, and came out here. ‘I can’t tell you anything’ she declares. ‘Oh, I think you can’ Magneto tells her.
Soon, ‘Magnus, is this - is this a joke? You want me to -’ Rogue exclaims, while Luz sits in the hallway outside, listening. ‘I want you to use your powers on the girl. Absorb her memories and tell me where she came from’ Magneto declares. ‘Without her permission? Just break and enter, because you’re asking me to?’ Rogue asks. ‘Not asking, Rogue. Telling. It’s a difference in nuance‘. Magneto replies, before remarking that Quitado represents a threat that has to be dealt with it, so there is no time for subtlety or scruple.
‘Ah don’t take orders from you’ Rogue reminds Magneto, who asks Rogue if she is identifying with the girl. ‘A child runaway, pursued and persecuted?’ he asks. ‘As said, Ah don’t -’ Rogue begins, while Magneto tells her that breaking and entering is one of the most strategically useful aspects of her power. ‘And you’ve been far less scrupulous about using it in the past’ he reminds her. That comment causes Rogue to uppercut Magneto, smacking him hard the face. ‘If you ever - ever - bring that stuff up against me again -’ Rogue begins, while Magneto rubs his chin and tells Rogue that she misunderstands him.
‘That wasn’t an accusation. Merely a reminder of where your true strengths lie. I fear you’re inclined to be sentimental about this helpless fledgling, and it’s a luxury we can’t afford’. Rogue tells Magnus that nobody is doing a telepathic ram-raid, and that she will talk to Luisa. ‘Very well. That will be a start, at least’ Magneto remarks. ‘And don’t try to tell me what mah strengths are. Ah already know’ Rogue adds.
Luz stands outside the door to Indra’s room, and she hears strange noises coming from inside. She opens the door and enters: ‘Hey’ she exclaims. ‘Hey yourself’ Indra replies. ‘What are you doing?’ Luz asks. Indra replies that he is playing Carom, which is a little like shooting pool. ‘Yeah? Well what’s the table ever done to you? Must’ve been something real bad’ Luz remarks. Indra stands up and replies that he has things on his mind. ‘Like your what-do-you-call-it. Marriage’ Luz remarks. ‘Yes. Like that’ Indra replies.
Luz tells Indra that if he doesn’t like the girl, he should just spit on her shoes three times and say “We’re done here”. ‘It’s not that easy’ Indra replies. ‘Sure it is’ Luz tells him. ‘Doesn’t anyone understand that I owe a duty of obedience to my parents?’ Indra asks. ‘I show them respect by doing this’ he explains. ‘’“Duty?”, “Obedience?”, “Respect?”. Are you serious?’ Luz asks. ‘Of course, ‘Indra replies, turning his head. ‘Then listen to me, beloved brother, and I will make you wise’ Luz declares, telling Indra that duty, obedience and respect are the nets they catch you in. ‘Your job is to rip the nets apart before they get tight enough to give you problems’ Luz declares.
‘If - if I could do that - I’d be a different person’ Indra replies, not looking at Luz while she puts a hand on his chest. ‘Everything worth having comes with a price tag, boy’ Luz tells him. ‘Well, almost everything’ she adds, before kissing the surprised Indra on the lips. Indra pushes Luz away from him, while Luz tells him that he has to make an effort here. ‘Please! Please don’t do this! You’re beautiful. But - I’m not free. I’m not free!’ Indra exclaims. ‘Yeah. I get that’ Luz mutters, hanging her head.
Suddenly, ‘Are we interrupting anything?’ Rogue asks as she and Magneto appear in the doorway. Luz replies that there is nothing to interrupt, while Indra looks away. ‘In that case, we’d like a word, Luisa’ Rogue announces, before Luz announces that her name is Luz. ‘The storms in the city. Do you know what’s causing them?’ Rogue asks. ‘I can guess. But they’re not storms. Not really’ Luz replies. ‘Then what are they? Ah need you to be honest’ Rogue declares. ‘They’re what happens when the city -’ Luz begins, before Magneto tells Rogue that she needs to get her students outside, and now.
Magneto announces that the electromagnetic fluctuations he sensed before the storm are right here in this room - suddenly, there is a cracking noise and a blinding light - and six beings appear in the room - Martello is amongst them, as are others who are known to the X-Men. ‘Bow down and live X-Men - or stand and die!’ a bald woman with a strange blue globe over her head declares, while the woman called Serafina exclaims ‘We are the Children of the Vault. And we have come for our sister!’


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Collision, part three
‘Beloved brothers. Honored sisters. Choose your targets!’ Serafina of the Children of the Vault tells her companions as they confront Rogue, Magneto, Indra and their own Luz. A red-haired member of the Children of the Vault lunges at Indra as he raises his armor. ‘Stop, girl. I - I don’t want to hurt you’ Indra begins, but the woman tells him that his armor is no good, that he has a hole in it, as she literally dives into his body, she begins twisting inside him - her fingers poking out of his mouth. Rogue takes on Martillo, while Magneto falls to the ground as he attempts to take on the member of the Children of the Vault wrapped in bandages. ‘Magneto fields. You make me laugh, mutant. When you touch Olvido - even with the energy - you touch the void’ he exclaims, adding ‘And the void touches back!’ as he uses his powers on Magneto.
Luz quickly leaves the battle by sneaking into a nearby room inside Indra’s father’s mansion, while Rogue is attacked by the Children of the Vault called Cadena, a woman wearing a strange capsule around her head. Inside the other room, Vaipala Rani sits up in bed and asks what is happening. ‘Shut up, doll girl. Just…hide under the bed or something. And you might actually survive this’ Luz tells the young woman. ‘Tell me what’s happening’ Vaipala exclaims, to which Luz peers out the door and replies that her people have come for her. ‘They’re going to take me back. And they’ll kill anyone who tries to stop them!’ she exclaims. Vaipala peers out into the corridor and replies ‘But…you have powers, yes? You must use them, then. You have to do what you can to stop them’. Luz just frowns.
Back in the hallway, the Children of the Vault are disposing of Rogue, Magneto and Indra with ease. ‘Trying to pick my pocket, Rogue? I doubt that our post-human abilities are even compatible with your powers’ Cadena declares, adding that she sees no reason to take the chance, she knees Rogue in the face. Cadena asks Martillo for his hammer. ‘Sister, you’ve already won’ Martillo replies. But Cadena declares that while Rogue lives, the ghost of her beloved Perro cries out in anguish. ‘The hammer’ she orders. Martillo passes the massive weapon to her, and Cadena holds it above Rogue, while saying something in her native tongue, she prepares to bring the hammer down, when suddenly: ‘Don’t kill her!’ Luz exclaims as she steps out of the room. ‘I’ll come back with you. Now. Without a fight. So long as nobody dies!
Cadena steps towards Luz and remarks ‘You brought this. You made this happen’. Luz hangs her head and replies that she knows, and is sorry. ‘Please, let them live, and I’ll come home’ she declares. Serafina stands on Magneto and informs Cadena that he might be useful to them. ‘Useful? How?’ Cadena asks. Serafina explains that his power levels are incredible, and could take a place in the angel fire. ‘There is no time for this’ Cadena replies, announcing that Corregidora will decide, she tells her companions to take Rogue and Magneto both to the city.
There is a blinding light, and in an instant, the Children of the Vault - along with Rogue and Magneto - are gone. ‘No! No!’ Indra exclaims, before his father Mr Rav Gavascar, accompanied by Indra’s teammates Anole and Loa, enter the hallway. ‘What is the meaning of this?’ Rav asks his son. Indra tells his father that they were attacked and his friends were taken. ‘I have to go after them. Try to find them’ he declares. ‘Rogue? Rogue and Magneto?’ Anole asks, while Loa asks Indra where they have been taken to. Indra replies that he doesn’t know, while his father exclaims ‘Nonsense! This is nonsense!’ and reminds his son that he is to marry tomorrow - that is all that matters.
‘Your friends have brought nothing but trouble here. They won’t be missed at all!’ Rav declares. Indra looks at his father and tells him that, with respect, he will do this thing. ‘And the wedding? What of your promise to this girl?’ Rav asks. Indra announces that he will honor it, and turns to Vaipala, telling her that he is hers if she still wants him, but that it has to be today. ‘Today?’ Vaipala asks. ‘Right now. And then I’m going to find my friends’ Indra exclaims. Vaipala replies that if that is how it has to be, they should do it.
In the Corridor, ‘And so - all things come around, in time, to where they were meant to be. All wounds are returned on those that dealt them’a voice exclaims. It’s Corregidora, who stands before Rogue, while Serafina, Cadena, Perro and Martillo surround her, Martillo holding on to Luz. Rogue’s hands are clamped behind her back and tells Corregidora that there is so much wrong with that sentence that there is no point in going there. Corregidora asks Rogue if she understands where she is, how far she is from home and how completely she is in their power. ‘And how bitterly every citizen of Quitado hates you?’ she adds.
Corregidora exclaims that the Children of the Vault did not ask to be born - human scientists made them, to repopulate the Earth after some hypothetical disaster. ‘We lived secluded from the world for endless centuries of compressed time. And when we emerged to claim our birthright, you stopped us. Took it from us. And presided over the murder of our brothers and sisters’. Rogue replies that she did not mean for anyone to die, and reminds Corregidora that the Children of the Vault were trying to wipe them all out so that they could get vacant possession of the entire planet. ‘Yes. We were. But we’ve thought better since’ Corregidora remarks.
Cadena declares that Rogue’s world is beyond repair - too badly damaged to be worth taking. ‘We’ll make our own world, here in the void between dimensions. But still, what you did will not be forgiven’ she exclaims. ‘So it’s a crime to kill your people’ Rogue mutters. ‘Yes’ Cadena replies. ‘But not to kill mutants or humans’ Rogue states. ‘That’s just pest control’ Cadena adds, before asking Corregidora to give them a verdict. Corregidora places her fist-formed right hand into her open left hand and exclaims ‘Let her be executed in sense forum, so all can see and feel her death’.
Corregidora points out that Perro was one of those hurt, and tells him that he will carry out the sentence. Perro grabs Rogue, while Luz exclaims ‘Wait! You promised! You said nobody would be killed!’ Martillo tells Luz to be grateful, for if she was not needed in Angelfire, this might be her fate. ‘Only the fact that you’re one of the thirty protects you’ he reminds her, while Cadena exclaims that, in that regard, she should see to their other guest.
Shortly, Magneto kneels before Cadena, his arms locked behind his back, he remarks that the manacles drain his power in some way, and adds that he is clearly outnumbered, surrounded by Cadena’s people, her weapons, her systems of defense and control. ‘I welcome these things’ Magneto exclaims, adding ‘They virtually guarantee that you’ll under-estimate me’. Cadena tells Magneto that it is an honor that they do, and that he should thank them. ‘For making me a prisoner?’ Magneto asks.
‘For making you a legend. Your name will be a part of our history’. Cadena places a hand on Magneto’s head and tells him that he will never be forgotten, even when the race that spawned him is lost to time. ‘This day makes you immportal. This day, and this machine - the Angelfire. It is the most perfect mechanism ever created. Except that it requires two small components in order to complete it. Our sister, Luz…and you’ Cadena declares. Several beings who look identical float up to the large device, where others are enclosed in pod-like capsules, and two other beings stand over Magneto.
Back at the Gavascar home, a ceremonial tent is set up in the garden. Several chairs with guests sit in front of it, while Indra and Vaipala stand before the priest, who exclaims ‘We are gathered to witness and solemnize the union between Paras Gavascar and Vaipala Rani. We will begin with the sevenfold prayer’. Indra interrupts, addressing the priest as Saadhu, he tells him that they do not have much time and adds that they would like to say their vows and have him pronounce them married. ‘What? My son, this is a weighty thing you do. It cannot be rushed’ Saadhu replies. Indra tells him that this time, it must be, for there are lives at stake. Saadhu asks Mr Gavascar if he wishes for him to proceed, to which Rav replies that he does, as the wedding must got forward. Dressed in a suit, Anole tells Loa that he cannot believe they are just sitting here wasting time. Loa reminds Anole that this is Indra’s wedding day, adding that they don’t even know where Rogue is. ‘Let the bride and groom step forward. In the eyes of their family, and of the enlightened’ Saadhu announces.
Meanwhile, Cadena stands over her servants as they load Magneto and Luz into the capsules, and she explains that Quitado has always faced an energy crisis, pointing out that there is no sun in the void, no natural source of heat or light for them to draw on. Cadena declares that the decay of transdimensional particles fuels their generators, but the processing is dangerous and the waste is highly toxic, and explains that they bleed it off into Magneto’s world, which is why they need to stay anchored to it. ‘The storms in Mumbai. You’re destroying the city, sending thousands into coma - just to throw out your garbage. That’s ruthless even by my high standards’ Magneto exclaims, while Luz begins to cry and announces that she has changed her mind, that she doesn’t want to do this. ‘Please’ she exclaims. ‘We wanted - needed - to be self-sufficient. Angelfire was the answer’ Cadena declares.
Elsewhere, Perro stands in a large chamber with Rogue kneeled before him, and he calls out to the darkness around them: ‘Beloved brothers. Honored sisters. Sense Forum is convened’ he begins, telling his brother and sisters that they may link in either through remote terminals or via direct sensorium feed, before declaring that today’s business begins with a live execution. He introduces his brothers and sisters to Rogue, and exclaims ‘You know what she did. Now you get to see her punishment’, adding that they can tune into his sensorium and be with him as he kills Rogue. ‘Any last words?’ he asks rogue as he grabs her by the chin. ‘Not if Ah’m on live TV. Ah wouldn’t want to hurt your ratings’ Rogue replies.
As Magneto and Luz are loaded into Angelfire, Cadena declares that many of their number have powers that involve energy - that they produce heat, electricity, radiation, or like Luz - light. ‘What, we wondered, if a device could be built that drew on all these powers? Combining and converting. Turning all these unique beings into capacitors in a single wondrous engine’ she exclaims, while one of her minions informs her that they are ready. Cadena announces that they needed thirty to balance the load and meet all the city’s power needs. She explains that simultaneous bio-feedback would repair the body cells of their volunteers, prevent all damage - like aging. ‘They’d live forever, barring accidents. But we only had twenty-nine - until we found you’.
Rogue now lies on the ground in front of Perro, who announces that for the means of death he chooses gravity - meaning Rogue’s mass will increase until her heart bursts. ‘Needless to say, this will not be quick. Rogue is young, and strong’ Perro points out, while Rogue begins to grimace with the pain. ‘She my oblige us by holding out for whole minutes yet’ Perro declares.
In Mumbai, ‘This rice, for plenty’ the priest remarks as he drops rice into Indra’s hand, before turning to Vaipala and dropping coin into her hand, for wealth. ‘Your garments bound, as your souls are bound’ the priest remarks as a young woman wraps cloth around and between Indra and Vaipala. ‘Walk four times around the phere fire. And become as you are meat to be’ Saadhu exclaims. The young couple do so, while Rav and Bhakti Gavascar watch them.
Inside Quitado, ‘Slave all city systems to this station. The switch to Angefire must be instantaneous’ Cadena exclaims. ‘You have control, sister’ someone remarks, while Luz exclaims ‘I mean it! I shouldn’t be here! Don’t do this!’ But Cadena pulls back the controls and announces that Angelifire is live.
‘Vaipala Rani, I pledge my body and soul to you. In the darkness of this world, you will be my light. In the silence, my voice. In sorrow -’ suddenly, Vaipala puts her fingers to Indra’s lips and tells him to wait. ‘No offense. But this really isn’t working for me’ she announces.
A burst of energy rips through Angelfire, jolting Magneto and Luz. Energy whiplashes around the chamber, knocking Cadena and her servants around. ‘What happened?’ Cadena demands. ‘Only 29 links established. The system is out of balance. It’s not feeding to the grid!’ one of them replies. ‘MAGNETO!’ Cadena shrieks. Magneto tells Cadena that he is not guilty, and that if she wants to see her weakest link, she should look to his left. ‘Luz!’ Cadena gasps as Luz hangs in her pod.
Indra asks Vaipala what it is she is saying. ‘You don’t want to marry me?’ he asks. ‘No. I never did’ Vaipala replies, before exclaiming ‘Verdad, I just thought you were cute. But this was a stupid idea. And it wasn’t mine. Your - what’s the world, fiancée? - wanted to see the world’. With that, Luz uses her powers to remove her disguise. ‘No!’ Anole gasps. ‘That - that’s just -’ Loa begins, while Rav looks horrified. Luz shrugs her shoulders and remarks that Vaipala didn’t seem to care particularly which world she got.
‘Why? Why have you done this? Why have you ruined our son’s wedding?’ Bhakti asks. ‘Hey, I kept your son from getting killed!’ Luz exlcimas, while Indra asks his mother to let Luz talk, before asking Luz where Vaipala is now. ‘Never mind Vaipala. Where’s Rogue? What did you do to Rogue and Magneto?’ Loa demands as she approaches Luz. ‘You answer me, girl, or I’m going to walk right through you!’ Loa exclaims. Luz hangs her head and tells everyone that she is really sorry, but she could face going back to that place, as she hates it.
Suddenly, everyone is knocked to the ground and there is a massive rumble. ‘What was that?’ Anole asks as he looks around. ‘I don’t know - but if you’re serious about looking for your friends…then probably that’s where you should start!’ Luz exclaims, motioning to the massive complex, Quitado, which has crashed into the city beyond….


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Collision, part four, conclusion
Mumbai, specifically the Gavascar estate, where young X-Men Anole, Loa and Indra, as well as their companion Luz of the Children of the Vault, look down at the massive citadel that has crash landed on the city below. ‘What - what is that?’ Anole asks. ‘This is just a guess, but I’d say it’s my city crashing into your city. In slow motion. No telling how long they’ll survive’ Luz declares. ‘You sent Vaipala into that?’ Indra asks. Luz assures him that Vaipala asked to go. ‘The chica just wasn’t that into you’ she adds, while Loa motions to the citadel an exclaims that Rogue and Magneto are in there. ‘So that’s where we have to go’ Indra announces. ‘Finally, let’s move!’ Anole declares, throwing his arms into the air.
Shortly, Indra, Loa and Anole have changed into their x-uniforms and run down a staircase, while Luz watches them. ‘Paras, I forbid you to go’ Rav Gavascar tells his son. Indra replies that he is not asking for permission. ‘In this, I follow my own conscience!’ he declares. Loa looks back up the stairs and sees Luz standing there. ‘You’re not coming with us?’ she asks. ‘You don’t get it. If I go back there, they’ll never let me leave’ Luz replies, telling the young mutants that she wishes them luck. ‘And caring about other people is just falling into a trap’ Indra exclaims. ‘Right. Exactly. Thanks for proving my point’ Luz tells him, to which Indra replies that he does not see it that way.
‘My father thinks you only owe a duty to family. You think it’s just to yourself. It’s a pity we didn’t go ahead with the wedding. I bet the two of you would get along really well’ Indra scowls, before he leads his friends out of the foyer, past his father, mother and the priest. ‘Mierz’ Luz whispers as she watches Indra leave.
At that moment, a monitor inside Quitado switches on with Cadena’s image telling the citizens of Quitado - her honored sisters and beloved brothers - not to panic, assuring them that the power is being repaired as she speaks. Cadena declares that it is imperative they remain calm as this crisis is dealt with. ‘And I know I can depend on you’ she adds, while perplexed citizens of Mumbai look at the monitors.
Inside Quitado, Perro groans after being shaken to the ground. ‘Brother, you fell. Let me help you up’ a voice exclaims. ‘Gracias, sister’ Perro replies as he reaches for the outstretched hand. But as he looks up, he sees Rogue standing before him. ‘De nada’ Rogue exclaims, before using her incredible strength to propel Perro up into the air. Rogue turns to the cameras that were filming her death for other Children of the Vault to watch and exclaims ‘For those of you watching at home, the execution’s run into a few technical problems. But why don’t y’all stay tuned for some alternative entertainment?’
Elsewhere in Quitado, one of the Children of the Vault tells Cadena to forget Angelfire, that they need to switch back to normal power, as the trans-dimensional stresses are tearing the city apart. Cadena replies that she is trying, but that the power will not flow. She declares that each time she opens a channel, it shuts down again. ‘It’s as though the current is being diverted in some -’ she adds, when suddenly, Magneto, carrying the motionless Vaipala Rani, appears. ‘YOU!’ Cadena shrieks. ‘A current is just electrons flowing freely in a circuit. Your circuits are now under magnetic embargo’ Magneto declares, before remarking that Vaipala is dying. ‘Let us leave, along with Rogue, and I’ll give you your power back. Or else fight me, while your wonderful Emerald City falls down around your ears’.
‘You’ll doom Mumbai as well as Quitado, mutant!’ one of the Children of the Vault declares. Magneto replies that Mumbai is a city full of humans. ‘If it falls, so be it. My concern is for my own kind’ he remarks. Martillo frowns and holds his massive hammer out towards Magneto, asking him why then does he hold an injured human in his arms. ‘He’s lying. Bring him down, brothers. Our power will be restored as soon as he -’ Martillo begins, only for his hammer to swing backwards - and crack open the head of one of his brothers. ‘NO!!!’ Martillo exclaims. ‘I commend your choice of weapon, at any rate. I forgot to bring one myself’ Magneto remarks as he places Vaipala on the ground.
Elsewhere, Rogue walks into another part of Quitado, ‘It’s Rogue, the murderess!’ someone shouts. ‘She’s stolen our brother’s gravity powers!’ another exclaims. ‘Stop her!’ someone shouts. Suddenly, everything slips forwards - ‘Go right ahead and try, Sugah’ Rogue exclaims, before grabbing one of the Children of the Vault: ‘Hi there. Ah’m looking for a guy with silver hair and kind of a surly disposition. You seen anyone of that description?’ she asks.
Meanwhile, the Gavascar’s chauffeur, Marut, pulls up near Mumbai and tells Indra, Anole and Loa that this is as far as he comes to Mumbai, adding that Mumbai is hard driving on a good day, but this is just too much for him. Indra thanks Marut, ‘You’ve done more than we had any right to ask’ he adds. Loa asks Marut if he minds if she keeps hold of Ganesh for a while longer, to which Marut tells her to keep him, as he think her need is going to be greater than his. Running towards Quitado, Anole remarks to Indra that he thought his religion did not allow him to fight. ‘It doesn’t’ Indra replies. ‘But you’re all armoured up’ Anole points out. ‘Armor is as for defense as well as for -’ Indra begins, when suddenly, there is a burst of light in front of him, and he tells his teammates to get ready. ‘They’re onto us!’
But Luz materializes, and tells Indra to relax. ‘It’s only me’ she exclaims. ‘I thought your powers were to make pretty pictures’ Anole points out. Luz replies that with light, she does things with light. ‘As in light speed. Light second. Light on your feet’ Luz adds, before asking the X-kids if they realize they are about to die. ‘We’re going to find our friends’ Loa exclaims. ‘And nothing you can say is going to stop us’ she adds. ‘Fine, but that city is full of people like the ones who just wiped the floor with your friends. Plus it’s falling apart’ Luz declares. ‘So?’ Anole asks. ‘So you can’t just walk in there and expect to walk out again’ Luz exclaims.
Luz tells Indra that they are going to need some help. ‘Specifically, you’re gonna need me’ she informs him. ‘Why? What can you do for us?’ Indra asks. ‘I can paint some pretty pictures. Hold your breath. Close your eyes’ Luz exclaims. ‘Get ready for a big surprise’.
Inside Quitado, Magneto continues to battle the Children of the Vault, tossing the ones he has defeated aside with ease - before a gray-skinned female approaches him. ‘Brothers, sisters, let me though. He controls iron. Even the iron in your blood. But Piedra Dura has no blood!’ the woman declares as she wraps her hands around Magneto’s neck. Suddenly, ‘Ah can see that, sweetheart. But what you do have…is a real weight problem!’ Rogue exclaims, before Piedra Dupra is thrown from Magneto.
Rogue lands beside Magneto, who tells her that it is a pleasure to see her, as always. ‘Be a pleasure if we survive, Magnus. Until then, best keep your mind on business’ Rogue replies. ‘Enough! Surrender mutants!’ Cadena shouts, before creating an energy chain which she wraps around Vaipala’ neck, warning Rogue and Magneto that she will tighten the chain around the child’s throat, and her death will be on their conscience. ‘Magneto -’ Rogue exclaims, grabbing his hand as he raises it. ‘She means to kill the girl anyway’ Magneto points out, but Rogue tells him that they do not know that, so they don’t have a choice. ‘You’ve got it. You won. Do whatever you need to do’ Rogue tells Cadena.
Cadena orders her strange minions to take Rogue and Magneto and to bind them with null-gauntlets. ‘They’ll die when we have time to deal with them’ Cadena declares, before announcing that they must restore power. She orders the technicians to slave the main array - but she is interrupted by Martillo, who informs her that Rogue and Magneto are phasing our. ‘Find them!’ Cadena shouts. ‘Bring me telepaths and sensitives. Find them now!’
‘You’re not what you seem’ Magneto remarks as Luz drops her disguise. ‘Who is?’ Luz asks, before explaining that Cadena cannot see them right now, but that it will not take long to figure out that they are still here. ‘So you’ve got to make this time count’ she explains.
‘Sister, this is a trick. Someone is bending light around the rear wall of the room’ a telepath informs Cadena, who shouts ‘Then aim your weapons and fire at will!’ But, Luz appears, telling Cadena that there is no need, as she is all out of fight. ‘Where are the mutants?’ Luz asks if it even matters. ‘You’ve got me. You can plug in the Angelfire again. Who cares about the details?’ Energy crackles around Cadena, who demands to know where the mutants are. ‘If you really wanna know - let me show you’ Luz replies as she conjures up a light image of Magneto carrying Vaipala.
Running across part of the city, Rogue declares that this cannot last, as they have got to try and pry the two cities apart. ‘Otherwise there won’t be anything left of either one of the’. Still carrying Vaipala, Magneto reminds Rogue that the girl told them how to achieve that, while Indra, Lo and Anole follow them. Magneto motions up ahead and exclaims that the device they need is in that hall. ‘All we have to do is get inside and disable it’ he exclaims. ‘Come no further. This space is prohibited’ one of four armored beings exclaims. Indra dons his own armor and asks Magneto if those things are alive. Magneto replies that they are not, as living things have bio-magnetic fields, whereas these behemoths are inorganic, some kind of machine.
‘Then what are we waiting for?’ Indra asks as he clasps his hands together, and he, Rogue, Anole and Loa each take down one of the four beings in their own unique way. Moments later, they enter the chamber, where Cadena’s image is depicted on monitors, telling her brothers and sisters to converge on the Anchor House, as that is where their enemies are awaiting, just inside. Olvido approaches Magneto and reminds him that they have faced each other before. ‘You you know that the void of non-being is stronger than any energies you wield’ he remarks. Suddenly, Anole drops his camouflage and punches Olvido in the back, ‘Yaddya yadda. And rock breaks scissors’ Anole mutters.
A dozen or so Children of the Vault race towards the mutants, and Rogue tells Magneto to go on, that she will hold the Children of the Vault here. ‘I’m not prepared to abandon you’ Magneto exclaims, to which Rogue tells him she is not asking him to, as she plans to buy them a little time. ‘Actually, maybe a very little time’ she adds, before her attackers converge. ‘Kill her! Whoever kills her is blessed!’ one of them shouts. ‘Ah’m happy to hand the blessings out myself, boys’ Rogue remarks, telling them to stick their chins out and she will work her way along the line.
Suddenly, one of the Children of the Vault grabs Rogue from behind, ‘No finish her!’ someone yells. Before the attacker can make their next move, a Indra grabs her wrist: ‘This is a sin. And it shames me’ he declares as he breaks the woman’s arm. Rogue looks up: ‘Indra! You -’ she begins, but Indra tells her not to talk about it. ‘Please. Just don’t’.
Rogue and Indra meet up with Magneto and the others at a large device, and Magneto remarks that it must be the anchor that holds this city in contact with reality. He explains that it is shielded from direct attack, and tells Loa that he needs her to weaken the shields. ‘Okay. Will this do?’ Loa asks as she swims through the device. ‘Admirably’ Magneto replies as he uses his own power to tear the anchor apart. Magneto motions ahead to a piece of mosaic floor and remarks that it looks like a piece of Mumbai. ‘We need to be in the right place when the cities separate’ he exclaims, to which Rogue points out that Quitado’s engines still do not have any power. ‘Then let’s give them some!’ Magneto exclaims as he unleashes some magnetic energy - which surges through Quitado - pushing the city upwards - then it vanishes.
‘We did it! Quitado is gone!’ Indra exclaims. ‘But - gone where?’ Loa asks. ‘Cast adrift between dimensions without compass or rudder’ Magneto tells her. ‘To find their way back will be like finding a needle in the sands of the Sahara’. ‘Which is something you could do inside of a New York minute’ Rogue points out, suggesting they go home and keep their fingers crossed.
Eight hours later, at Panchajana, Rav Gavascar stands with his wife, and Vaipala as he tells his son that he has a clear choice between good and evil. ‘Please, you must see that’ he declares. ‘Forgive me for saying this, father, but I don’t think you know what evil is’ Indra replies. ‘And you do? At your age?’ Rav asks. ‘Yes. I do’ Indra tells him. ‘I’ve met men who think nothing of killing hundreds - thousands, even - to satisfy some abstract goal’ he informs his father. ‘yes, there are such people in the world. It’s our duty to take the other path. The path of peace and non-violence’ Rav tells his son.
Indra hangs his head and replies that he tried the other path. ‘I could still hear the screams’. Indra turns to Vaipala and bids her farewell, to which Vaipala tells him that she is sorry she did not get to know him better. ‘Perhaps we can meet up the next time I come here’ Indra replies, before turning to Marut and the car. ‘On the other hand…who knows when that will be?’ Indra asks as Magnus, Rogue, Anole and Loa follow him to the vehicle.
Meanwhile, Quitado, somewhere, sometime. Inside one of the three towers, Luz sits in darkness, and create a light paining of Indra, telling him that she will see him soon.


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Fables of the Reconstruction, part one
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Utopia, where Dr Kavita Rao sits with Scott “Cyclops” Summers. ‘I know, I was a catalyst for some of this. I’d been thinking about the hands Madison designed for Hellion’ Kavita remarks. Scott tells her to go on, to which Kavita explains that she had wanted to improve the neural interface…
Earlier:
In a lab, Kavita holds up one of the mechanical hands and tells Julian “Hellion” Keller that the contacts have to touch exposed skin at every point, and asks him to hold still as she prepares to make the connection….
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Kavita informs Cyclops that Hellion had bee quiet since the second day - very quiet. ‘I thought he’d started to come to terms with his condition. I thought he was helping’ she remarks….
Earlier:
Kavita tells Julian to flex from the elbow and from the wrist. ‘Let the arm tell the hand what to do’ she tells him, before asking him to try it again….
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Dr Rao admits to Cyclops that, in retrospect, she laid the groundwork for what happened later. ‘But right then, I didn’t know he’d had…’
Earlier:
‘ENOUGH!’, Hellion booms, using his telekinesis to send shockwaves through the lab, shattering all sorts of equipment and knocking Kavita over. ‘My - my lab!’ Kavita exclaimed. ‘And my work! All that work!’ She gets up and goes over to Hellion: ‘You juvenile - selfish - I was trying to help you!’ she declares, but Hellion covers his ears, telling Kavita that he did not ask for her help. ‘And I don’t want to wear robot claws on the end of my arms!’ he adds. ‘Seriously, we bring people back from the dead. From the dead! So how hard can a pair of hands be?’ Hellion asks.
Rogue enters, and asks if she is interrupting anything, explaining that she came to collect Julian. ‘Take him. Take him far, far away, please!’ Kavita declares, holding a hand out. ‘What is it, Rogue? Do you want to “help” me, too?’ Julian asks. ‘No. Ah want to put you to work. Come on’ Rogue replies.
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‘Hey, it’s not like anyone saw this coming, right?’ Bling asks Cyclops. ‘We…obviously tried to talk to Julian. But he didn’t want to talk. He just kept walking away. And that was the day of the game, so we were thinking about -’ she begins.
Earlier:
Outside, on one of the building rooftops, several of the X-Men students - Anole, Loa, Surge, Mercury, Rockslide, Bling and Prodigy - are playing baseball. ’Come one on, Victor! Give her the demon fastball!’ Surge encourages Anole, who readies his serve. Prodigy announces that he actually recommends a curve, to which Rockslide tells Anole to just put it over the plate. Anole smiles as he throws the baseball - which catches fire! ’Oh dear’ Loa mutters as she prepares to swing the bat - but she misses, and the ball lands in Rockslide’s mitt. ’Damn it, Victor. They get a single from that!’ Rockslide tells Anole, while Mercury adds that they are down to the last ball. ‘Alani, why d’you phase every time you swing?’ Mercury asks Loa.
Suddenly, Bling grins as Hope walks past. ‘Oh. Hey, Hope. You - uh - you wanna play?’ Bling asks, pointing out that the teams are even, ‘But we could…we could probably…’ she mutters, but Hope tells her that she is fine. ‘I’m better at dead man’s razor, anyway’ Hope explains. ‘Riiiight. That sounds like a fun game’ Bling replies. ‘It is if you play the touch-it-lose-it rule’ Hope tells her, before announcing that she will just take a stroll.
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Rogue tells Cyclops that she thought that the reconstruction project of his was a really good idea. ‘And a real good fit for Hellion. Something to take him out of himself for a little while. Ah just wish - well, wishing isn’t gonna do any good now, is it?’ Rogue remarks.
Earlier:
Cyclops and Emma Frost a.k.a. the White Queen stand before a group of X-Men and other residents of Utopia - Magneto, Psylocke, Colossus, Random, Omega Sentinel, Danger, as well as Rogue, and Hellion, who lingers at the back of the room. Cyclops informs the group that San Francisco took a titanic hit during Bastion’s attack, and while they have done a lot to restore essential services, the satellite images on the monitor behind him should show everyone the scale of the task. Arms folded, Magneto points out that Utopia is also extensively damaged. ‘And we’ll deal with that. We are dealing with it. That isn’t my point’ Cyclops replies.
Cyclops declares that San Francisco got caught up in their war, and that rebuilding will run into hundreds of millions of dollars, so he wants the X-Men to help with that, to play their part and be seen to play it. Hands on hips, Psylocke points out that the ones who want to blame them will still blame them. Scott tells Betsy Braddock that he knows that, but that it is others they are speaking to - the ones who just want to get their lives back. ‘Sounds good. I’m in!’ Hope exclaims. Scott turns to Hope and tells her that her did not have her in mind for this, to which Hope replies that she can see that, so she’s volunteering.
Arms folded, Scott tells Hope that her powers are still largely undefined and unpredictable, so he doesn’t want to put her at risk. Hope claims that she can still push a wheelbarrow or swing a hammer. ‘Do I need to pass an audition or something? What is this?’ she asks. Colossus tells Cyclops to take a look around at the people in this room. ‘You can’t doubt that Hope will be safe with us’ Piotr Rasputin tells his friend, adding that if Hope wants to come, he sees no harm in it. Scott asks Piotr if he will watch over Hope. ‘Vouch for her safety?’ he asks. ‘I’ll look after myself’ Hope boasts. Scott tells her that this will not be a picnic, to which Hope tells him that it will, and she is going to pack a basket.
Scott informs everyone that there is a police launch waiting at the dock, and that they will report at the construction site on Market and Fremont. ‘They’ll tell you what they need’ he adds.
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Colossus reminds Cyclops that Hope grew up in a war zone - in many war zones. ‘I thought about my sister, and how her childhood was stolen from her’ Colossus explains, adding that he believes Hope wanted to see something of a world that was healing itself, rather than tearing itself to pieces. ‘I would give a lot to relive that moment. And tell her to stay away’.
Earlier:
On the police launch, Danger and Hope stand at the rear of the small vessel, while Betsy stands with Omega Sentinel, Rogue and Magnus stand together, and Hellion, Colossus and Random all stand by themselves. Betsy asks Karima Shapandar if she is okay, to which Omega Sentinel replies that she is experiencing some system glitches, small, but troublesome, so it will be useful to test her sub-assemblies in field conditions. ‘Yeah, I know what you mean’ Betsy replies.
Nearby, ‘You’re not enjoying this, are you, Magnus?’ Rogue asks. Magneto replies that he thinks they have higher priorities, that is all. ‘But I agreed to follow Cyclops’ orders, and I’ll do so’ he declares. ‘Under protest’ Rogue points out. ‘Did you hear me protest?’ Magneto asks. Colossus goes over to Julian and puts a hand on his shoulder, remarking that it is not so often they get to use their powers to build, rather than to break. ‘I suppose’ Hellion mutters as he leans on the banister and stares out over the water. ‘Trust me. This will be a day to remember’ Colossus tells Julian. Danger informs Hope that this city is strongly associated with rebellions against social repression. ‘Uh - really?’ Hope asks. ‘Yes. I have audio-visual files, if you wish to access them’ Danger informs her. ‘Maybe later’ Hope replies.
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A constriction worker informs Cyclops that, to be honest, the first thing he was thinking when he saw the mutants was “what I was supposed to do with them”. He explains that they have a schedule to keep to, so finding stuff for volunteers to do is not really his hob. ‘You see what I’m saying?’
Earlier:
The odd assemblage arrives at a construction site, where various cranes and other machinery are in operation. ‘I mean, no offense, but we’ve just got eight months to get this done. And the budget can’t stretch past that, y’know’ the construction worker tells Magneto, who replies that he understands, and asks if he can see the plans. Magneto examines the blueprints, and informs Psylocke and Hellion that they should be responsible for clearing the ground, while Omega Sentinel and Danger can begin excavation in the cleared areas, while he, Colossus and Random will bring in the steel and timber. Magnus hands the blueprints back to the construction worker, who exclaims ‘You don’t get it. We’re not gonna need the steel and timber until the foundations are dug’. ‘Exactly’ Magneto replies. ‘Which is weeks four through -’ the construction worker begins, but Magneto informs him that they should get to it a little after 11:00 am. ‘Son of a…’ the construction worker utters.
The mutants, Karima and Danger begin their assigned tasks with ease, while Hope approaches the construction worker and asks if she can borrow a shovel. ‘Huh?’ the constriction worker asks without looking at her. ‘I said -’ Hope begins, to which the construction worker tells her to take what she needs, his eyes fixated on the work being carried out on the construction site. Hope picks up a shovel and some wooden poles, ‘Well okay, then. Thank you kindly’ Hope smiles as she walks away.
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Magneto tells Cyclops that he believes the idea of Hope Summers’ existence is easier to deal with if you have a religious frame of mind to begin with. ‘She embodies a miracle. For some, that needs no explanation and no context. Others, however, will always cry, like Thomas the Apostle… “show me the wounds”’.
Earlier:
‘Tuh’ Hellion mutters, standing with his arms folded. ‘Something bother you, Hellion?’ Hope asks as she walks past. ‘Why don’t you just use your powers? Our powers, I mean. Breathe it in, spit it out. That’s what you do, right?’ Julian asks. Holding the shovel, Hope tells Hellion that, the truth is, she doesn’t exactly know what it is she does. ‘That’s why I’m sticking with a shovel today. A shovel is nice and predictable’ she remarks. ‘You think I’m joking? You think we’re sharing a joke here?’ Julian asks. Hope replies that she doesn’t think that, to which Hellion tells her that is good, ‘Because you don’t see me smiling’.
Holding his handless arms up, Hellion tells Hope that people talk about her like she is Jesus. ‘But you’re not. You only pull out the miracles to save yourself’ he exclaims, telling Hope that kind of makes her the opposite of Jesus. ‘Julian, if I could give you back what you’ve lost, don’t you think I’d do it?’ Hope asks. Julian tells her that he doesn’t know, ‘I don’t know anything about you’ he points out, before exclaiming ‘So I guess it is a joke after all’. Julian turns and walks away from Hope, adding ‘And it’s on me’.
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Danger tells Cyclops that he already has her analysis. ‘I was focused mainly on completing my assigned tasks, but I was aware of the boy’s anger’ she explains. ‘And of the machine. The other machine, I should say: The Omega Sentinel. She was suffering from some sort of interference. And it seemed to get worse as the day went on’.
Earlier:
Holding up a large steel beam while Omega Sentinel uses her laser on it, Colossus tells her that the laser is having no effect at all. Karima replies that it is only functioning at scanning intensity, and tells Colossus that she is sorry, that she doesn’t understand what is happening. Piotr asks her if she needs a pit stop, to which Karima replies that she doesn’t know what she needs. ‘Sentinel tech is self-repairing. It shouldn’t require any -’ she begins, holding an arm up - she suddenly, unleashes a blast of energy, which throws Colossus backwards, knocking him through several beams.
His chest smouldering, Colossus exclaims that he thinks that was one up from the scanning intensity. Karima goes over and helps Piotr up. Telling him that she is so sorry. ‘The emitter was offline. That should have been impossible!’ she declares. Colossus tells her that it is nothing, really. ‘But perhaps -’ he begins, but Omega Sentinel interrupts him: ‘Not perhaps. I’m putting myself on the bench until I’ve fixed this. I can’t risk hurting someone with a lower melting point than you’ Karima points out. Karima walks past the construction worker, who asks her if she is clocking off already. ’For the moment, yes. Some of my systems are malfunctioning’ Karima tells him. ’Okay. I’ve got some machine tools in the shed, if you need - uh - spare parts or anything’ the construction worker offers, while nearby, a little girl in a blue dress approaches Hope, who is a couple of feet into the ground from digging her hole.
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The little girl holds up a piece of paper - a drawing of her standing over Hope. ‘I drawed a picture. Look. This is the pretty woman, digging with the shovel. And this is me, watching. And she said -’.
Earlier:
Hope looks up at the girl and tells her that whatever it is she wants to ask, she has had it on the tip of her tongue for the last five minutes. ‘Want to spit it out?’ Hope asks her. Referring to some of the others, the little girl exclaims ‘He can float. And she can shoot fire. And he’s all made out of tin’. ‘So?’ Hope asks. ‘So how come all you do is dig with a shovel?’ the little girl asks, pointing out that a shovel isn’t super. Grabbing one of the wooden poles, Hope tells the girl that she is right. ‘It’s the fence post that’s super’ Hope tells her, asking the little girl if she wants to hold it steady while she knocks it in.
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Betsy remarks that the truth is, her psi-powers come and go, especially if she is pushing all-out with her telekinesis. ‘For some people, jut watching us at work was scary. So there was a lot of strong emotion washing around. That made it hard to focus in on any one point’ Betsy adds.
Earlier:
Hellion approaches a half-demolished wall - and raises an arm, using his telekinesis to knock the wall to the ground. Some of it falls towards him, however - so Julian raises his hands, and a telekinetic field washes over him, to protect him from the rubble.
‘Well, one of them is super’ Hope remarks while she continues to dig. ‘I think it’s this one!’ the little girl exclaims, holding the wooden pole. ‘Okay, let’s try it’ Hope suggests. ‘Nope. Not that one, either. Ask the floaty man!’ the little girl exclaims, to which Hope tells her that the floaty man does not know anything.
Julian goes over to another half-demolished wall - and knocks it down with his telekinesis - causing the rubble to land near Hope and the girl. Dust flies all around them, and Hope frowns at Julian.
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Random declares that he is not big on the thinking, mainly good for punching and ripping things apart. ‘Maybe I should have seen it coming. I could see Karima standing way over the on the edge of the site. Trying to sort out those bugs in her system, I guess…’.
Earlier:
‘Test nerve pathways A45E to X17F and relevant memory locations’ Karima tells her armor, which replies that pathways non-viable, and memory locations are locked. ‘Diagnose error’ Karima orders. ‘Unauthorized code in neural hub 16’ the armor replies. ‘Reroute to hub 20’ Karima orders, but the armor states ‘Unauthorized code in neural hub 20’. ‘Reroute to -’ Karima begins, while her armor declares ‘Mutants detected in immediate vicinity’. Karima’s armor locks in on Magneto, Colossus and Psylocke, ‘Threat level: High’ her armor informs her. ‘What?’ Karima gasps.
Nearby, Hope asks the girl if this isn’t meant to be a school day or something, to which the girl explains that they have a vacation as the school fell down. ‘Oh. Okay’ Hope replies. ‘Where do you go to school?’ the girl asks. Hope replies that she learned all she needed to learn. ‘That’s what my teacher said, anyway. Before he - before I graduated’.
Another wall falls down near Hope and the girl. ‘Hey, Hellion! Julian! Getting a little close there!’ Hope exclaims, getting out of the hole. Hope asks the little girl if she thinks they should go and chew him out, to which the girl exclaims ‘Yes!’, to which Hope exclaims that nobody messes with the fence post girls.
But Karima’s sensors are watching Hope and Hellion, while Hope calls out to Julian: ‘I said you’re - you’re getting too - HEY!’ she shouts, interrupted by more and more walls falling down. ‘Did you want something?’ Julian asks, dust and debris around him. ‘Yeah, I did. We’re working right there. I wanted to not have a wall fall on me, if that’s not too -’ Hope begins, when suddenly, ‘Please -!’ Karima exclaims as she punches Hellion in the face, knocking him over. ‘Karima!’ Hope gasps, while the little girl hides behind her.
Karima extends an arm to Hope’s face: ‘Please, just run. Run away’ Hope exclaims. ‘Come on, you’re scaring the -’ Hope begins. ‘Too late’ Omega Sentinel exclaims as close range energy pours from her fists - engulfing Hope and the girl….


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Fables of the Reconstruction, part two
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‘Seriously? I don’t have the slightest idea how it happened. I don’t do control. Not normally. I do sledgehammer’ Julian “Hellion” Keller tells Scott “Cyclops” Summers, who informs Julian that, this time, he seems to have done both. ‘I’d like to know how far you meant to. How much of what you did was intentional’ Scott demands. Julian replies that it all happened too quickly to even think about. ‘The machine - the Omega Sentinel - she went crazy. They told you that, right?’ Scott replies that he was told a lot of things, and that he wants to hear Julian tell it. Julian closes his eyes and explains that he asked Hope to show him a miracle. ‘How sick would it be if she - if my power - if the reason why it was different was because she was there?’
Earlier:
Omega Sentinel a.k.a. Karima Shapandar held her hand close to Hope and the little girl - Hellion saw this and realized that Karima was firing some kind of energy beam at them. Seeing Hope and the little girl in danger, Hellion didn’t even think - he just cut loose - the telekinetic force ripped out of his body like a punch from God - and he knew even as he was doing it that it was crazy - that the power would have to go through Hope and the girl to hit Omega Sentinel - and it would tear them apart!
Hellion knew that he had been in a weird place - the painkillers and all the other stuff Doctor Nemesis had been giving him.  He thought it could have been that - and not the other thing - but he went out of himself, and rode the force - he was there with it, as it came rushing down on Hope and the girl. It was like Hellion could feel every single vibrating molecule of air that carried the pressure - the pulse - the telekinetic wave.
Hellion knows that solid things - people and objects - are all mostly empty space. Every atom is like a planet, floating in a billion miles of nothing. He just went way on down to the right level - all he had to do then was steer the telekinetic force around between the molecules of their bodies - he did not let his piledriver punch touch Hope and the girl - he took it through the empty spaces. Along the way, he saw the heat and the light from Omega Sentinel’s wrist cannon - that was just the vibrations, too - crazy, agitated particles, playing Chinese Whispers, passing the hurt on down the line. Hellion picked it right up and turned it around.
Hellion decided that, all in all, whoever he has got to thank for it, he thought it went pretty well, as his power slammed into Omega Sentinel, knocking her back, and leaving Hope and the little girl unharmed.
‘What did -?’ Hope asked, while Hellion told her not to ask stupid questions, and to get out. He walked over to Omega Sentinel, rubbing her head as she recovered in a pile of rubble. ‘Subject designate Julian Keller. Please - get away from me before I - Update files and proceed with eradication’ Omega Sentinel declared. ‘Eradication? Wow! That’s scary!’ Hellion shouted back. Before unleashing more telekinesis at Omega Sentinel, he told her that when she was done talking to herself, they could see if she can live up to it.
Hellion knew that normally the telekinetic force just pushes outward from him, but right then, it seemed like he could make it do anything he wanted …
Suddenly, Betsy Braddock a.k.a. Psylocke called out his name as she rushed across the construction site to reach him, followed by Magneto and Piotr “Colossus” Rasputin. ‘Stand down. NOW!’ Psylocke ordered. ‘Are you out of your mind? You saw what she did!’ Hellion replied. ‘What Karima did? Ah saw you almost trash her…then hit her again while she was down’ Rogue snarled as she approached Karima, and Random and Danger rushed towards the others. ‘Explain yourself, boy. What happened here?’ Magneto demanded to know.
‘You idiots! She’s the enemy, not me. Ask Hope. Shapandar attacked first, and I just retaliated. And while we’re talking about this -’ Hellion began to reply, while Omega Sentinel got to her feet and knocked Rogue aside. ‘Five mutants identified. Probablity of success from direct attack: 0.0067%’ she announced, before initiating an indirect attack, but blasting the bottom of some tall building remains - causing the building to topple down towards everyone - with a massive BRAKOOM. Even as the rubble continued to fall, Psylocke surrounded the others in a telekinetic bubble, while Hellion shouted ‘Now will you listen to me?’
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Doctor Nemesis walks with Cyclops down a corridor, and remarks that to a very large extent, they brought this on themselves. ‘Given what she was, her crisis - her collapse - was almost inevitable’ he speculates. Cyclops replies that it was the virus, the one that Cypher created. ‘Exactly’ Doctor Nemesis tells him. Cyclops points out that it was a virus created to take out the time-travelling Nimrods, to which Doctor Nemesis replies that the core of Bastion’s Omega Sentinels was a Nimrod CPU. Doctor Nemesis explains that in Shapandar’s case, that CPU core was buried beneath many layers of learned human responses, which the virus attacked and broke down in attempting to reach its assigned target.
‘It cost her blood to get her humanity back. And it was all swept away in an instant’ Cyclops muses somberly. ‘No, over the course of several minutes’ Doctor Nemesis replies, holding up a small electronic device, adding that Omega Sentinel would have had ample time to reflect on the horror of what was happening to her. Cyclops tells Doctor Nemesis to carry on with his tests, and informs him that he will by over later. ‘We both will’ he adds, referring to Hellion.
‘Believe me now?’ Hellion asks as Cyclops returns to the meeting room. Scott assures Julian that as far as the facts go, he never doubted him, and tells him that is not what this is about, before asking him to finish his story. Hellion declares that Omega Sentinel knew exactly what she was facing and what each of them could do - and the best order to take them down. ‘She was a Sentinel. I guess you know what that means better than anyone’ Hellion tells Cyclops.
Earlier:
As Karima lashed out at Magneto and Danger, and cast a circle of energy around herself to keep the others back, sub-sonics dropped Hellion and Psylocke, sort of like being punched in the brain. Karima tried to take out Random next, but he walked through her attack, and actually punched her, knocking Karima down - but Karima got back up and tapped Random in the neck, all a tactical move apparently, as Random went into spasms after losing control of his malleable form. With Random down, Karima ignored him, scanning for her next target - who was still close enough to see. Hope carried the little girl across the construction site, her back turned to Karima, with no shield or armor - easy pickings - up to a point, that is, as Colossus approached Karima with a steel beam - and smacked her over the head.
‘You! Hey! Wait!’ Hope called out to the construction foreman as he and other construction workers began to run for their lives. ‘Wait? Are you kidding?’ the foreman replied, while Hope forced the little girl upon him, ordering him to get her to safety. ‘She’s your responsibility, got that? If she gets hurt, it’s on you. And I’ll be coming back to check’ Hope warned him. The little girl told Hope that she wants to stay with her, as they are the Fence Post Girls. Hope addresses her as Amy and told her that she will be back soon, but there is something she needed to do first. ‘Can I go now?’ the foreman asked. ‘Sure. Just give me your keys’ Hope asked him. ‘Keys? You mean my car keys? Then how am I gonna -?’ the foreman began to reply, before turning and seeing a very large bulldozer. ‘Oh. Those keys’ he muttered.
‘Karima! This is not you! Remember we’re your friends’ Colossus called out as he held the steel beam out. ‘Mutant entity designate Colossus: organic steel composite, approximating to 42CRM0s4 carbonized’ Karima declared. ‘Melting point: 2500 degrees Celsius’ she added as she unleashed deadly flame upon Colossus - who rushed forward and grabbed her, exclaiming ‘Let’s see who melts first!’ Suddenly, Karima called out to Colossus, desperately - before her Sentinel programming took over momentarily, enabling her to announce that she was synthesizing the liquid nitrogen. ‘Don’t know what’s happening to me! Don’t know where I -’ Karima exclaimed, before releasing the liquid nitrogen. ‘Inducing metallic stress by means of alternating temperature extremes’ Omega Sentinel added.
‘Tensile strength of metallic lattice estimated at 47%’ Karima stated before punching Colossus. ‘Torsinal strength: 42%. Integrity of outer dermal armor: 39%’ Karima declared as she knocked Colossus back into a steel beam, causing the beam to snap. Omega Sentinel then applied shear force at 10,000 pascal units - increasing it to 20,000 and then 25,000 - before she suddenly gets scooped up in the “mouth” of the bulldozer. ‘But hey - who’s counting?’ Hope called out, adding ‘I don’t think we were ever introduced. I’m Hope Summers. And you’re scrap iron if you don’t power down. Seriously’ the girl warned as she raised Karima higher and higher.
“You’re scrap iron”? Karima quoted Hope, before announcing ‘Compositional analysis - incorrect’ and unleashing a blast of energy at the bulldozer, causing Hope to leap to safety. Karima stood up on the top of the bulldozer and declared ‘Hope Summers. Powers: Undetermined. Threat level: Unquantifiable. Priority: Alpha one!’ Hope stood up against a small shed with a sign reading “Danger High Explosive” and exclaimed ‘Okay. You see this sign? You fire on me, we’re both at ground zero for something hot and nasty’. Karima replied ‘Acceptable’, but Hellion flew up alongside her and exclaimed ‘Not to me!’ as he punched Karima over, capturing her in a telekinetic force field.
Hellion asked Karima if she could feel that pressure all over her skin, explaining that it is his telekinetic force pushing in towards her from ever side. ‘Holding you, like a big, invisible fist’ he exclaimed, before frowning and declaring ‘Look, ma. No hands!’ Suddenly, Hellion came to a halt, and Karima dropped to the ground. Hellion raced towards Karima, declaring ‘Machines did this to me. Machines like you. Crippled me. Took. My. HAAAAANDS!’ he screamed as he slammed his telekinetic force into Karima over and over again.
‘Sub - sub - sub-routines initiated. Repair backup auxiliary’ Omega Sentinel stated, while Karima pleaded with Hellion ‘Do it! Just do it!’ as she lay slumped over on the ground. ‘You want this?’ Julian asked her as he stood over her. ‘Can’t - go back to - die! Want - die - human! Die -!’ Karima stuttered. ‘You want it?’ Hellion demanded. ‘It’s yours!’ he exclaimed as he slammed down upon Karima his most powerful telekinetic surge yet, forcing her down into the dirt. Rogue and the others had recovered and rushed over: ‘Oh may Lord, Julian! What did you do?’ Rogue gasped. ‘What did I do? Is that a trick question?’ Hellion spat back. ‘I won!’ he declared, standing over Karima’s broken and motionless body.
Now:
“Won”? Cyclops asks Hellion as they approach a laboratory. ‘Well, if anyone was keeping score. Yeah. I beat her’ Julian replies, before Cyclops asks him if this is the first time he has even been down here. Cyclops stops at the tank where Omega Sentinel is being kept in stasis, and announces that she is either brain-dead or else her self-awareness has shut down so far that they cannot find it. ‘How much of that was the virus, and how much the damage you did to her is impossible to quantify’ Cyclops states. Hellion replies that he didn’t notice anyone else pulling their punches, adding that her did save a whole lot of lives. ‘Including your messiah’ he points out.
‘Yes. You did’ Cyclops tells him, before informing Julian that the level of violence Julian used was appalling and unacceptable. ‘And I’m waiting for you to show a little remorse. Some trace of doubt or regret’ Scott adds. Annoyed, Hellion asks Cyclops when he is going to stop doing that. ‘Doing what, Julian?’ Cyclops asks. ‘Oh, you know. Trying to pass off whatever morality you happen to be peddling right now as timeless wisdom. Because people are onto you’ Julian replies. ‘The end justifies the means - but only for you. Murder is all in the game - but only for you. God may sleep, but Cyclops is always there to take up the slack’.
Cyclops asks Julian if he at least accepts that there was another way to handle this. Julian throws his arms into the air and declares that this way worked, and he will be damned if he is going to apologize for it. ‘Then I’m sorry. You don’t leave me any choice’ Cyclops replies, before announcing that Hellion is on probation and that if he cannot control himself he will have to leave Utopia - or else join the other intractable problems in the brig. ‘What gives you the right? What gives you the right to even say that to me?’ Hellion demands. Cyclops walks away, turning as he tells Hellion to think about it - ‘Most of us have stood there, looking down that road you’re thinking of travelling. Most of us didn’t take it’. Hellion turns and walks away as well, replying ‘No offense…but most of you didn’t have the stones’.
‘Hellion, Julian’ Rogue calls out as she stands in the hallway which Hellion enters. ‘Oh, and now I get the lecture from the nice cop. Can we just cut to the credits, Rogue? Please?’ Julian asks. Rogue replies that she is not here as the nice cop, or as his friend. ‘Ah’m here in a different capacity’ Rogue explains. ‘And what might -’ Hellion begins, but he is interrupted as Rogue puts a hand around his throat and slams him against the wall. ‘Ah’m the ultimate sanction, sugah. You know what Ah can do to you. And Ah hope you know, Ah’ll do it’.
Rogue frowns as she tells Hellion that, rather than lose another friend to him - another X-Man - she will shut him down at the source. ‘Pull out your powers by the root and burn ‘em on a big old bonfire’. Rogue walks away as she tells Julian that he used up his hail Mary out there so he better learn some other prayers. ‘Or find some other friends’.
Hellion makes his way out of the building, where he sees Anole, Loa and Rockslide up ahead talking. ‘It’s a dumb question! Why would Han Solo even get into a fight with Indiana Jones in the first place?’ Rockslide asks. ‘Especially since they’re both Harrison Ford’ Loa points out. ‘Well, suppose Indie got into a time machine, say -’ Anole begins, before all three stop and stare as Hellion walks past them, before Anole continues his sentence: ‘ - and went to the Mos Eisly Catina’. ‘It’s in a galaxy far, far away’ Loa tells her friend. ‘Okay, so it’s a time-and-space machine. And then he -’ Anole begins.
Standing on the edge of the platform, Hellion watches the sun set in the distance, and in answer to Rogue’s suggestion, he declares that he is pretty sure he can get by without either.