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2:38 PM on a Tuesday - the last moment before all hell breaks loose. The SHIELD Helicarrier, mobile super fortress and base of operations for the Avengers hovers over the island nation of Utopia, home of one faction of X-Men and affiliated mutants. Several jets are launched from the Helicarrier, while on the shore of Utopia, several mutants have gathered. ‘Scott…what have you done?’ Storm asks. ‘What have I done?’ Cyclops replies. ‘They came after us, Ororo. Just look at that. You think they didn’t come here looking for a fight?’ he points out. ‘These are the Avengers we’re talking about. Let me talk to them’ Storm suggests but Namor the Sub-Mariner, a former member of the Avengers himself, declares that the time for talk has passed. The White Queen and Colossus stand with them, while Magneto tells Cyclops that he must choose his next action carefully. ‘Are you sure this is the fight we want?’ he enquires.
Sunspot, Magma, Domino, Danger and Warpath are a little further back on the beach, while Cyclops declares that the X-Men have always been the Avengers’ ugly stepchildren. ‘As soon as we get a messiah of our own, they want to swoop in and take her away. That’s how it starts. It ends with our extinction’ he adds. ‘God help us’ Storm utters, while Cyclops orders everyone to protect Hope, at all costs.
Up on the Helicarrier, a large number of Avengers have gathered. ‘Wow. Avengers vs. X-Men. So this is really happening’ Spider-Man remarks. Iron Fist points out that there are children inside the buildings below, and wonders what in the world Cyclops is thinking. Iron Man states that Cyclops is playing them, that he wants the Avengers to look like the bullies here. ‘How come nobody told me Cyclops was this damn crazy?’ Luke Cage asks, while Wolverine, a member of both the Avengers and the Westchester-based X-Men, remarks that he has been telling anybody who would listen. ‘We need to get down there. Now!’ he points out. Dr Strange, the Thing, Daredevil, Hawkeye, Giant Man, Mockingbird, the Black Panther, the Black Widow and the original Spider-Woman are also present. ‘Oh, man…incoming!’ Spider-Woman exclaims as they see Magneto hovering in the air, and using his power to propel Colossus towards the deck of the Helicarrier - and an instant later, the organic-steel covered X-Man bursts through the deck, sending Avengers flying. All hell has officially broken loose.
‘He’s gonna crash the Helicarrier. I knew it. These things always crash’ someone remarks, while Iron Man, Dr Strange and Spider-Woman all fly down towards Utopia. ‘You should not have come here’ Colossus states as he confronts the Avengers, slamming his fists down onto the deck, he sends shards of metal and debris knocking back at them. ‘So you’re the strongest one there is on Utopia, huh?’ a voice calls out. ‘Well I’m the strongest one there is. Period!’ exclaims the Red Hulk as he grabs Colossus, and the two behemoths begin to battle. However, the part of the deck where Magneto threw Colossus through breaks away from the deck, and several Avengers plummet into the ocean below, including the Thing, Daredevil, Mockingbird and Spider-Man.
‘Avengers. Your actions here today are decidedly reckless and foolhardy. And this coming from someone who has been called such things his entire life!’ the Sub-Mariner announces as he confronts the Thing. ‘Know that as I render you unconscious, I do so with a heavy heart. Some of you, at least’ Namor adds, before he punches the Thing right out of the water - and the punch can be heard all the way in Oakland. The point is made - and countered, as Cage swims over to Namor and punches him hard in the face. ‘Heavy heart, huh? Wish I could say the same “Your Highness”!’ Cage mocks. The Lord of Atlantis begins to fight the man from Harlem with indestructible skin. They fall under the water. Either would sooner die than yield. Today both will bleed.
Iron Man, Doctor Strange and Spider-Woman approach the shore of Utopia, where more X-Men and their allies have gathered - Psylocke, Jubilee, Magik, Madison Jeffries, Doctor Nemesis and Hepzibah. Cyclops moves his head from side to side as he fires beam after beam of optic energy, although the three Avengers dodge each attack. His thoughts travel to the White Queen, instructing her to maintain telepathic links, before asking if Hope is safe. What the hell is happening?’ the White Queen replies. Cyclops tells the White Queen that this is something he always knew was inevitable, before telling Storm to take down the jets. Storm takes flight, but a shield suddenly slams into Cyclops’ head. The optic blasts stop, and Cyclops turns to face Captain America, who along with Wolverine, Hawkeye, Giant-Man, Daredevil, Black Panther and Spider-Man emerges from the water. ‘Take the beach’ Cap orders. ‘Drive them into the sea’ Cyclops calls out, as both groups rush towards each other.
Inside one of the buildings on Utopia, several of the young mutants have gathered. ‘Holy crap. I don’t believe it. We’re fighting the Avengers’ Pixie exclaims. ‘Look at ‘em. Is there anybody who’s not an Avenger these days?’ Velocidad wonders, while Transonic asks if this means class is canceled. ‘Does this mean we’re all under arrest?’ Loa asks, while Surge wants to know what the Avengers are even doing here. Suddenly, ‘No! Let me go!’ Hope Summers complains as she is dragged into the room by the White Queen. ‘This is all because of me! I should be out there!’ Hope exclaims, to which the White Queen tells her that if it is any consolation, she would feel exactly the same way if she was in her shoes. ’But I still can’t let you go’ the White Queen states, before pushing Hope towards the other young mutants: ’Keep her here. No matter what she stays’ the White Queen orders, adding that all of them are to stay inside, or else the Avengers will be the least of their concerns.
The White Queen rushes back outside, and telepathically informs Cyclops that the Avengers telepathic defenses should take her all of thirty seconds to demolish, and that is if she pauses in the middle for a nap. The White Queen asks Cyclops to pull back, and announces that she is going to reach into their minds and end this - but as the White Queen appears outside, she is struck by a beam of energy, courtesy of Iron Man. ’I bet you thought you were just about to end this’ Iron Man tells the White Queen, informing her that she has just breathed in roughly 17,000 microscopic telepathic tasers, and explains that the harder she thinks, the more they will shock her. ’So sorry, Emma, my sweet. I do hope you’ll let me make this up to you over dinner some time’ Iron Man tells her.
But, suddenly, ’Not for all the caviar in the world, Tony, dear’ Emma replies as she uses her secondary mutation of transforming herself into organic diamond - she then punches Tony’s multi-billion dollar armor - the most expensive punch in history. ‘Then I’ll settle for you telling your boyfriend to stop being such a dangerous lunatic. We’re not here to arrest the girl or anyone else. We’re here to help’ Iron Man explains as he fires a repulser ray at the White Queen. Emma suggests Tony learn the girl’s name, and informs him that it is Hope, and adds that she doesn’t remember the X-Men asking for the Avengers’ help. Iron Man’s computer warns him of an extreme magnetic field, and states that the armor is implementing anti-magnetic safeguards.
‘Oh for the love of…what now?’ Iron Man mutters, before realizing that Magneto is hovering behind him. A man in a metal suit versus the mutant Master of Magnetism. If you think this is no contest, you’ve never met Tony Stark, who fires a full assault at Magneto.
Elsewhere, in a room cloaked in darkness, Quicksilver sits and watches a television which has a report featuring live footage from a traffic copter in San Francisco, where there appears to be an epic battle taking place. ‘We should be there. This is our fight. We have to go. I am going’ he announces, turning to his unseen companion, he asks ‘Please…come with me’.
347 miles and 3.7 seconds later, Quicksilver arrives on the shore of Utopia, literally running on water. Punching his father hard in the face, this is a family reunion at mach-5. ‘Hello, Father. Up to your old tricks, I see’ Quicksilver tells Magneto, who falls to the sand. Emma and Iron Man both try to gather themselves, while Magneto calls out ‘Pietro. Once a foolish boy, always a foolish boy. At least tell me you haven’t dragged your sister into this?’ he asks.
Elsewhere, the unseen figure has taken a seat. She has rich auburn hair and wears a pink and crimson costume. She watches the report, which announces that the Avenger called Quicksilver, son of Magneto, has joined the fight, and that this is getting uglier by the minute. ‘We can only speculate as to the cause of this terrible -’ the announcer states, before the television is turned off. A book lies open on a table, “Wanda’s Dream Journal” is written at the top of a page, and below it, “This is how it all ends”, while an illustration of a phoenix is on the opposite page - and the Scarlet Witch gets up and walks away.
Even in a war where hero battles hero, some fights prove far more personal than others. Warpath battles Spider-Man, while Jubilee takes on the Black Widow, and Domino counters Iron Fist, while remarking that she never thought she would see the day where Wolverine would stand against his own people. ‘Maybe if y’all pulled your heads outta Cyclops’ ass once in a while you’d see, all I’m doing is trying to save the damn world’ Wolverine states, before asking where Hope is, while one hand is wrapped around Sunspot‘s neck, and he punches Magma with the other. ‘Go to hell, traitor!’ Sunspot shouts. The fiercest X-Man who has ever lived versus an island of people he once called family. Yet another dark day for a man who has known too many.
Thunder rumbles, but there is no cloud in the sky, and guts tighten in the belly of the King of Wakanda - the Black Panther - as his wife, Storm, appears behind him. ’You should’ve told me this was happening’ Storm tells him. ’You should’ve told me you were harbouring a sixteen-year-old girl with the power to blow up planets’ the Black Panther replies. Storm tells her husband that they have to end this, but the Black Panther tells her that there is only one way to end this, knowing that his wife is still worshipped as a god along the Serengeti. ‘You stubborn, pigheaded man. This is exactly why we have a marriage counselor!’ Storm exclaims: marital discord, with hail and lightning and hurricane-force winds.
Back up inside the building, Hope is pressed to the window, ‘I have to get out there. I have to stop this’ she exclaims. Pixie and Transonic stand behind her. ‘Sorry, Hope. You heard Ms Frost’ Pixie tells her, while Transonic points out that the Avengers are out there, so it is best to let the big guns handle this one. ‘You’re right’ Hope tells her friend, before apologizing about her nose. ‘Say wha-’ Transonic replies, before Hope slams her elbow into Transonic’s nose. Fourth nose broken in the last eight minutes. ‘Don’t you get it? The Avengers are going to war with the X-Men, all because of me. That tells me one thing…I must be thebiggest damn gun there is’ the girl remarks.
On the beach, ‘I’ve known you a long time, Scott…I’ve never seen you be this foolish before’ Captain America calls out as he blocks a close-range optic blast with his shield. ‘And I’ve never known Captain America to fight on the side of fascism’ Scott replies. ‘You chose the fight, kid. Not me’ Cap points out as he drops to the ground. ‘Right. You just showed up on my doorstep with a floating aircraft carrier and two dozen Avengers’ Cyclops declares. Optic blast ricochets from Cap’s shield, and Cap points out that he wouldn’t be here if the situation wasn’t grave, adding that Scott should be able to put his pride aside long enough to see that. ‘Mutant or not, we’re all in danger here. This is the Phoenix we’re talking about, Scott. Think about Jean. Remember what that thing did to her’ Cap tells him.
This annoys Scott, who shouts ‘I don’t need you or anyone else to remind me of my dead wife!’ and he continues to pour the optic blast on, adding ‘Or of the power of the Phoenix! Which you apparently know even less about than you do about me and my people!’, and suggests to Cap that if he really wanted to talk this out, he would have come to him first, instead of consulting with the lunatic fringe. At that moment, one of Scott’s optic beam ricochets strike Wolverine. There is a brief respite from the optic blast, enabling Cap to get to his feet and move closer to Cyclops, telling him that what he is doing here today is endangering the whole world, mutant kind included. ‘That’s all I need to know’ Captain America declares, suggesting that Cyclops ends this before someone gets hurt. ‘Too late for that’ Cyclops replies as both men push towards the other, optic blast against indestructible shield. Even at close-range, Cyclops continues to release his power, before he falls to the ground when Cap whacks him in the head with the shield. ‘I suppose you’re right’ Cap states, while nearby, other battles continue - Warpath against Daredevil, Psylocke against Spider-Woman.
From a distance, it all sounds like a roar. The bones grinding, knuckles cracking, as Red Hulk and Colossus are locked in combat on the deck of the Helicarrier. Fists churn the sea and bloody waves pound the shore as the Thing and Luke both attack Namor. The howls and curses and battle cries as bonds are forever broken, for on the shore, Dr Strange attacks Magneto and the White Queen, Sunspot confronts Giant Man, and Iron Man stands over the fallen body of Quicksilver, while Dr Nemesis fires a weapon at him. Then there are the final, fruitless pleas for peace. Cyclops gets to his feet, while Captain America tells him that he never wanted this, and that neither should he. ‘Tell your people to stand down. Think of Hope. Don’t make us take her by force’ Cap suggests.
Cyclops doesn’t reply, instead he calls out to Magik, shouting ‘Backdoor!’, and the young mutant replies that she understands, her Soulsword glowing with power. But, Captain America realizes what is going on, and looks up to Dr Strange, who begins to fade away, ‘I have her’ the Sorcerer Supreme remarks. Suddenly, there is sulfur and bile and putrid rotting meat, as Dr Strange follows Magik into Limbo, where she appears as the Darkchylde. ‘You’re a talented girl, Illyana, but did you really think you could sneak your friends out though Limbo without me noticing?’ Strange asks her. Magik tells Strange that she was hoping he would notice. The smell of burning souls rises, while Magik tells Strange that she wasn’t sure he was actually dumb enough to come here.
Back on the beach, Danger reports that the island defenses are failing, and suggests to Cyclops that Iron Man appears to have hacked the system. ‘Utopia will fall. It is only a matter of -’ Danger begins, but Cyclops tells her ‘No! We have to hold them back! Just long enough to get Hope out of here! We have to…’ his voice trails off, as he looks around. ‘Cyclops?’ Danger calls out. ‘Dammit, where’d he go?’ Scott wonders. ‘Where’s Wolverine?’
At that moment, ‘Hey. I’ve got a great idea. Why don’t we sneak around in a stinky old drain pipe? I haven’t done something like that since, oh, I don’t know, last Tuesday’ Spider-Man mutters to Wolverine as he climbs along the side of a large drain pipe which leads off Utopia and into the ocean. ‘Didn’t ask you to come with me, did I?’ Wolverine points out. ‘No, must’ve slipped your mind’ Spider-Man tells him, explaining that he figured somebody better come along who is a bit less “stabby”.
Inside the room where she was told to stay, Hope, surrounded by fiery energy, stands over her friends, ‘I’m sorry, I don’t want to hurt anyone’ she tells them. ‘Ughhh…but late for that’ Surge mutters. ‘You don’t understand’ Hope explains, revealing that the closer it gets, the more she feels it, the more the power grows inside her. Wolverine and Spider-Man enter the room, and Spider-Man asks ‘Is she supposed to be on fire like that?’, while trying to hold Wolverine back. ‘Outta the way’ Logan tells him, but Spider-Man asks him what he is doing, as Wolverine unsheathes his claws and lunges at Hope, ‘What has to be done’ he explains. ‘Yes…’ Hope replies, casting a hand forward, Wolverine is suddenly engulfed in flames. Everything is burning inside and out - taste the kiss of the Phoenix. ‘As am I!’ Hope announces.
There is a loud CRASH as Giant Man slams his way into the room, along with Captain America and Iron Fist. ‘Where is she?’ Cap calls out. ‘HOPE?’ Cyclops shouts as he enters the room with Emma and Warpath. They turn to see the motionless young mutants, Spider-Man and Wolverine, whose body is still smouldering from the flames, lying on the floor.
Everything is quiet now, except for the sizzle of fiery footsteps running across seawater, of the sound of a young girl running away, and of a Phoenix rising, as Hope runs across the ocean, flaming energy all around her, determination in her face.
Meantime, in deep space, ‘Here it comes, Avengers’ the Beast calls out from inside a Quinjet, while Thor, Ms Marvel, Vision, Valkyrie, War Machine and the Protector fly outside the jet, in space itself. The Beast reports that his sensors are shorting out, that it’s power defies measurement. ‘It’s headed right for us’ Ms Marvel exclaims. ‘Mother of God, just look at it…’ War Machine utters, while the Protector states that there is no way they can stop that. Thor points out that if they fall, then worlds will perish, beginning with their own. At 3:45 PM on a Tuesday, the moment all hope was officially lost, as the small group of Avengers hovers before the massive cosmic entity known as the Phoenix, Thor tells his friends to stand fast, for today is as good a day to die as any.


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‘AAHHH!’ Wolverine shouts as he sits up inside a room on Utopia, island home to one faction of X-Men. His Avengers teammate, Spider-Man, is sitting in a web nearby and tells Wolverine to relax. Looking at his naked, fleshy body, Wolverine asks what happened, to which Spider-Man explains that Wolverine just spent the last few hours regrowing his flesh. ‘Which, by the way is yuck’ Spider-Man adds, before handing Wolverine some clothes. As his body continues to heal, Wolverine puts the clothes on and asks where Hope is. ‘She’s gone…don’t you remember?’ Spider-Man replies.
Looking at the large hole in the wall, Wolverine remarks that it is all coming back to him. ‘She’s already more powerful than any of us and it ain’t even here yet’ Wolverine remarks, before asking Spider-Man what happened after he got taken out. Spider-Man announces that Cyclops and his people surrendered to Cap, and that they are all outside trying to figure out what happens now. Wolverine is surprised, ‘Scott gave himself up?’ he asks, before stating that he doesn’t like the scent of that, and rushes outside.
Outside, several members of the Avengers - Captain America, Iron Man, the Black Widow, the original Spider-Woman, the Red Hulk, Iron Fist, Luke Cage, Mockingbird, Hawkeye, the Thing, Black Panther, Daredevil and Giant-Man - have gathered. Captain America tells Iron Man that he doesn’t care what Cyclops told the United Nations, and that they can’t just decide they’re above international law. Iron Man agrees, and asks Captain America what he is planning on charging the X-Men with, and where he proposes to lock them up. He adds that Cyclops may have even given up to just prove his point.
Standing several feet away are several members of the X-Men and residents of Utopia - Cyclops, the White Queen, Magneto, Colossus, Storm, Namor the Sub-Mariner, Domino, Warpath, Magma, Danger, Loa, Pixie, Surge, Velocidad, Sunspot and Madison Jeffries. Glancing at the mutants, Iron Man points out that having to deal with them does not get the Avengers any closer to this potential Phoenix girl, and Cap agrees, but states that it does keep the X-Men out of their way. ‘Again, where? Are you going to empty the entire Raft to put the X-Men in there?’ Iron Man enquires, telling Captain America that doesn’t sound like his style at all. ‘I’m trying to save that girl…I’m trying to save our whole world’ Captain America replies. Referring to the Civil War, Iron Man tells Cap that it wasn’t too long ago he was saying things like that. ‘And you were on the other side, then’ he reminds Cap.
At that moment, Dr Strange materializes above the X-Men, holding the motionless body of Magik. ‘Is she hurt?’ Cyclops asks. Strange replies that it is just a temporary holding spell, and that there is nothing to worry about. ‘Good. We don’t need any more -’ Cyclops begins, before Wolverine arrives, and shouts HEY! Are you people blind?’ as he and Spider-Man approach the others. Wolverine unsheathes his deadly claws, while Dr Strange’s thoughts tell Cyclops (via Emma’s mind-link) that Wolverine knows. ’Of course he does’ Cyclops replies.
Captain America grabs Wolverine by the arm as he tries to rush past, ’Those people are our prisoners!’ he declares. ’No they’re not! Because that ain’t Doc Strange!’ Wolverine announces. ‘Do it’ Cyclops declares, and “Doctor Strange” casts a spell - in fact, Wolverine was correct - that’s not Doctor Strange, but Magik, while Dr Strange was the wounded party.
Magik teleports away with Cyclops, the White Queen, Magneto, Colossus, Storm, Namor and Danger. ‘NO!’ Wolverine shouts as they vanish. Captain America goes over to the real Dr Strange and asks him if he is okay. ‘I will be…Magik took me out of my element…that’s all. Made us look like one another’ Dr Strange explains as he is helped up. Spider-Man asks what just happened. Wolverine tells the Avengers that they got played, and now Cyclops has a head-start on finding Hope.
Long Beach, Cyclops, the White Queen and the others materialize, and Scott tells his lover to make sure no one sees them. ‘We don’t need the Avengers getting reports on X-Men sightings’ he tells her. ‘Already done, love’ the White Queen replies, while various workers go about their business, unaware that the X-Men are in the same building as them. Magneto asks what the plan is now. Cyclops admits that he is not sure, that he is making this up as they go along. ‘Clearly we need your mutant tracking device to find Hope…Cereberus’ Namor declares. ‘He means Cerebra’ Danger corrects him. Cyclops agrees, but remarks that the only functioning Cerebra is at Logan’s school. The White Queen suggests that they need to find some sympathizers among Wolverine’s turncoats. Cyclops announces that he has one candidate already, and tells his X-Men to move on, for Hope needs them, even if she thinks she doesn’t.
San Francisco, Hope Summers is inside a store called the Tech Shack, tinkering with a device that she has created and attached to her wrist. ‘Okay, Hope…let’s see if you were paying attention when Cable was teaching’ she remarks. She pauses, and looks at herself in a mirror, frowning. She sees an image of the Phoenix entity, and runs from the building, telling herself to keep it together. Walking down a street, she decides that she simply needs something that flies, and to pray that this thing works so she cannot be found.
Meantime, at Avengers Tower in Manhattan, Wolverine and Captain America speak with Rachel Summers via computer monitor. ‘What do you mean she’s in five places at once?’ Wolverine asks Rachel. She confirms that is true, but she doesn’t know how Hope did it, only Cerebra is showing Hope’s energy readings in fiver different locations. Wolverine tells Rachel that she must have done something wrong, and asks her to try again. Rachel confirms that she already did try again, and got the same results. ‘Believe it or not, I know how to use Cerebra’ Rachel declares, telling Logan that if he wants to help the Avengers track Hope down, those coordinates she sent are all she can do. Wolverine frowns and asks Rachel what the means. Rachel rubs her head and replies ‘nothing…it’s just early…and using Cerebra always gives me a headache’.
‘Look, kid, if you got a problem with this then -’ Wolverine begins, but Captain America interrupts him, thanking Rachel for her help. ‘Sure…no problem’ Rachel replies, hanging her head. Wolverine is annoyed, and asks Captain America what that was about. ‘I can deal with my own people’ he snarls. Captain America replies that they have already lost enough time, and that they already know what Logan’s solution to this problem is. ‘What were you going to say that would make her feel better?’ Cap asks.
But at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning, Rachel telepathically contacts Cyclops as she walks down a corridor, past several students. ‘I’ve got some information on Hope, and you’d better hurry…the Avengers are already on the trail’ Rachel reports.
On the roof of Avengers Tower, several Quinjets are prepared, while Captain America reads from the coordinates, announcing to the assembled Avengers that Iron Man will remain at the Tower to work on a countermeasure against the Phoenix Force, while Hawkeye, Red Hulk and Doctor Strange head Wundagore Mountain. He states that Luke Cage and his people will go to Tabula Rasa, while Black Panther and Iron Fist head to Wakanda, and Spider-Man and Spider-Woman go to Latveria, while his own squad will recon the Savage Land.
None of the Avengers seem to be in particularly good moods, and Captain America tells them that he wants reports every hour, and orders them to stay out of the spotlight and out of trouble, before telling Wolverine that he is with him. ‘Fine by me’ Wolverine mutters as everyone heads to their assigned Quinjet.
Sharon Carter has joined Captain America’s group and sits at the controls, alongside Giant Man, while Wolverine asks Cap what the deal is. ‘What do you mean?’ Cap asks. ‘You think I didn’t catch that look between you and Sharon when we boarded the ship?’ Wolverine asks. Cap frowns, and suggests that Wolverine walk with him.
They leave the cockpit of the ship and enter a room dowsed in a red light. ‘You went off on your own in Utopia and you scared Hope into jack-rabbiting’ Captain America points out, but Wolverine just asks Cap if he didn’t think that kid wasn’t scared out of her mind already. ‘The point I, you didn’t follow orders’ Captain America declares, adding that he is not sure he can trust Wolverine to follow orders on this mission, either.
Wolverine replies that he is willing to do whatever it takes, because he has seen what the Phoenix does. ‘I’ve seen it destroy people I love!’ Logan adds, referring to Jean Grey. ‘You think you can lock Hope up somewhere it can’t get to her, but you’re wrong, Cap!’ Wolverine declares, but Cap tells Wolverine that he will not let him kill that girl. ‘Then we’ll all die!’ Logan retorts. ‘Damn it…I didn’t want it to come to this…but you’re not listening!’ Cap exclaims before punching Wolverine in the face, then telling Wolverine that he is sitting this one out. Wolverine unsheathes his claws and shouts ‘The hell I am!’ as he lunges at Cap, his claws clanging against Cap’s trusty shield.
Cap punches Wolverine in the face, knocking him backwards. ‘You seriously think you can take me?’ Wolverine asks. ‘I have no doubt’ Cap replies, reading to lunge forward with his shield. ‘No - you have no clue!’ Wolverine exclaims as he ducks, and uses his claws to slice the straps that are attached to the shield, which Cap uses to hold on to. Logan then kicks Cap in the stomach, causing Cap to fall backwards, he leans against a wall, and leaps out of the way just in time as Wolverine surges forward, claws outstretched, they locks into the wall of the jet. Captain America dives down and picks his shield up, throwing it at Wolverine, he strikes him in the back of his neck. ‘That all you got…super-soldier?’ Wolverine asks.
‘Not even close’ Cap replies, both men dripping blood from various cuts and scrapes on their bodies. Suddenly, ‘I’ve got the Avengers…too…’ Cap declares as Giant Man comes up behind Wolverine and whacks him on the back, knocking him to the ground. ‘Sorry, Logan’ Giant Man says, but as Wolverine tries to get up once again, Captain America slams his shield into Logan’s face. ‘Now, Sharon!’ Captain America calls out, and a hatch suddenly falls away on the outer of the Quinjet. Wolverine is sucked backwards by this, ‘What?’ he utters, before Giant Man kicks Wolverine out of the jet, and Logan begins to plummet to the icy landscape below.
Giant Man helps Captain America into the cockpit and Sharon gets up, telling Cap that he needs to get to the medical bay. Cap tells his trusted friend that he is fine, just winded. ‘Now take us to the Savage Land…we’ve got a universe to save’ he asks her.
Down below, Wolverine emerges from where he landed in the snow, and looks up as the Quinjet fades from view. ‘Stupid frigging…blind old fashioned fool…all right then. Guess it’s up to me’ Wolverine decides, as he trudges forward, through the snow.


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Antarctica, where the snow falls hard. A can of beer can be seen sticking out of the snow-covered ground, and a polar beer lumbers towards it. However, the polar bear is covered in blood - presumably dead, it is strapped to the back of X-Man and Avenger Wolverine, who picks up the can of beer, ‘Thank you, Lord’ he utters, before seeing several more cans laid out ahead of him. ‘Eh?’ Wolverine wonders as he sees a jet up ahead. He drags the polar bear towards the jet, where a figure in a hooded jacket stands. ‘And here I thought it was just a beer trap. I’ve been looking for you’ she announces. Wolverine drops the beer cans when he realizes who is standing before him. She pulls down a scarf that is covering her face and greets Wolverine, who unsheathes his blood-stained claws and replies ‘Hello, Hope’.
Meanwhile, in deep space, specifically the inner rim of the Eridannian System, several powerful members of the Avengers float in space - Ms Marvel, Captain Britain, the Vision, War Machine, Valkyrie, Protector and the Beast, who is also a member of the X-Men. Only the mighty Thor remains conscious, blood trickling down his face as the cosmic energy of the Phoenix Force looms over him. He spins his mighty hammer, then hurls it towards the cosmic force. The hammer strikes the Phoenix, only to return to Thor’s hand quickly, as the Phoenix Force streaks across the cosmos, towards a planet nearby, which it quickly engulfs, leaving a wide-eyed Thor unable to stop it.
Back in Antarctica, ‘Logan - WAIT!’ Hope calls out, her hands surging with cosmic energy. But Wolverine tells Hope that there is no way she is talking herself out of this one. ‘It is what it is, kid’ he adds. Hope promises Wolverine that she can change his mind, and asks for one minute, while offering him more beer - not frozen. Logan pauses, before replying ‘One minute’.Still with the polar bear dragged over his back, Wolverine follows Hope into the jet, asking ‘And aren’t you a little young to be buying…’ to which Hope explains that Kid Omega is making some pretty convincing fake IDs, and sells them from his dorm room. ‘You know. At your school’ Hope adds. ‘Kid’s gonna be the death of me’ Wolverine mutters, before telling Hope that the clock is ticking. As Hope tosses Wolverine a can of beer, she starts with a recap - that the Phoenix Force is headed to Earth, to her, and that she believes that if she embraces it, she will be able to use its power to reignite mutantdom. ‘And you think that it’ll possess me and I’ll lose control and destroy everything and everyone on this planet’ Hope points out.
‘Don’t “think” - I know it’ Wolverine replies, reminding Hope that he has seen what the bird does with his own two eyes. ‘Yeah…but what if I’m right?’ Hope asks. Wolverine tells her that he doesn’t believe that. Hope suggests that he should, as that is what his school is all about - kids making a better world. ‘I believe the Phoenix is a thing of destiny - it’s coming and it can’t be stopped. I believe I’m meant to have it so I can do all the wonderful things that rebirth implies. But just in case you’re right and I’m wrong - in case I can’t control it…you’re the only person I trust to stop me’ Hope states. Wolverine knocks back the beer, and replies ‘Let’s pretend for a moment I’m, on board. You certain this is a dance you’re down for, little girl?’
‘Yes. So. Please’ Hope replies. Wolverine pauses and crushes his beer can, asking Hope if she has a plan in mind. ‘Yeah. Starts with us getting out of here’ Hope replies. They take their seats in the plane, with Hope asking Wolverine if he can fly it. ‘Sure’ Logan tells her. Hope tells Wolverine that is great, because she was so exhausted from being on the run that she almost crashed this earlier. ‘Okay, and then? After that?’ Wolverine inquires. As the jet takes off, Hope remarks that they are gonna need a bigger ship.
At an abandoned Hellfire Club safe house, the White Queen reclines in a chair and informs Cyclops that more of Wolverine’s staff and students have joined them, and even now, more are heading over to their side. Staring out a window, Cyclops replies that is good, as they need to get everyone they can. ‘Hope’s somewhere out there, running for her life, Emma - the spark to reignite all of mutantkind’ . ‘We have to help her’ he adds. ‘Yes, yes…five flickering flames, lighting up the world’ Emma mutters, reminding her partner that they have sent X-Men to all of the locations in the hope of finding her, or, at the very least, to prevent the Avengers from catching Hope. The White Queen announces that if they are going to truly stay one step ahead of them, then they will need something more. ‘Concentration from me. Control of the weakest of minds…and a little help from Cerebra’ Emma states as she takes control of the mind of the janitor for the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning - the mind of Toad.
Toad puts down his bucket and mop as he enters Cerebra, walking towards the controls, he sits down and puts the headpiece on his head - despite it being too big for him. ‘Ah! Hello, world’ the White Queen smiles, as she begins tracking down Hope.
In Wakanda, she sees Storm, Danger, Magma, Rachel Grey and Doctor Nemesis going up against the Black Panther, Quicksilver, the Black Widow and Iron Fist. ‘Now…where oh where could you be? Not in Wakanda. I see Avengers and X-Men fighting. I see a husband battling his wife…but no Hope - and no sign of what I’m looking for’ the White Queen informs Cyclops, referring to Storm and the Black Panther who are currently on opposing sides. Danger attacks the Black Widow, who retaliates with her “widow’s bite”, while Magma fires a blast of lava at Iron Fist, and Rachel takes down Quicksilver.
Emma states that in Tabula Rasa there is more of the same, as the Thing goes up against the Sub-Mariner, while Luke Cage is contented by Sunspot and Hepzibah. ‘You know what, fish boy? I don’t even care what’s going on…I just like punching you in your stupid face!’ the Thing declares as he smacks Namor backwards. As a giant creature bursts from the ground and traps the heroes in its tendrils, Emma states that the rivalries are just on new terrain, and over new causes. ‘Scars on top of older scars’ she remarks.
‘And in Latveria…there’s always Doom’ Emma jokes, while Spider-Man, the original Spider-Woman, Mockingbird and Daredevil go up against Dazzler, Colossus and Domino, while a host of Doombots surround them. Dazzler and Spider-Woman attack each other, while Mockingbird knocks Domino’s weapon from her hand. Spider-Man wraps Colossus in a web, while Daredevil kicks him in the face. ‘I don’t know what we were expecting…come see the glorious Carpathian mountains. Home of hairy goats and Doombots and - we promise - every mutant except the one you’re looking for!’ Spider-Man jokes, while asking someone to call for help.
‘And still no Hope as the battle rages at the base of Wundagore Mountain. Still no evidence of what I’m looking for’ Emma reports to Cyclops, while the Red Hulk smashes his way through ice-creatures created by Iceman. Psylocke stabs Hawkeye with her psi-knife as the archer fires an arrow towards Angel, who hovers overhead. Psylocke tells her ex-boyfriend to look out, while Doctor Strange and Magneto confront each other, though they appear to be at a stale-mate.
Emma decides this leaves her with only one possible place, and begins to observe the scenario playing out in the Savage Land, as Captain America confronts Warpath, and X-Man uses his psychic power to control a dinosaur, forcing it to attack Giant Man. Magik teleports in behind Giant Man and strikes him with her Soulsword, while Captain America has taken down Warpath. ‘Stay down, son. No need for this to be worse than it already is’ he remarks unaware that Gambit is sneaking up behind him. The White Queen informs Cyclops that Hope is not at any of the locations. ‘Tricky girl has figured some way to scatter her signal. She can’t be found this way, but he’s there. Do you want me to -’ she remarks, referring to Captain America. ‘Do it. We only need Hope to stay hidden until the Phoenix arrives. Until then, I need to know what they know’ Cyclops order Emma. Emma concentrates, ‘I…I…I have him’ she announces, while Captain America spins around and blocks several of Gambit’s kinetically-charged playing cards with his trusty shield.
From the safety of Avengers Tower, Iron Man contacts Captain America, asking him if he has had any luck finding the girl. ‘Looks like a dead end. She’s fooled all of us’ Captain America replies, before asking Iron Man how much time they have left. Working away, Iron Man replies ‘Less’, adding that there is a decreasing delta in the away team’s telemetry, that they are headed this way and fast - ten hours, maybe less. He adds that the only good news is now they have a better understanding of these things since the last time mankind faced a fully realized Phoenix entity: ‘Particle accelerators simulate the big bang’ Iron Man declares, adding that at the beginning of space-time, cosmic death and rebirth were only microseconds apart, so clearly, the bird was born in that moment. Iron Man adds that he has talked to the Beast, Giant Man and Black Panther, and they all agree.
‘If I’m going to build a Phoenix-killer, I’ve got to figure out a way to crack universal expansion. You following me, Cap?’ Iron Man reports. ‘Not really’ Cap replies as he slams his shield into Gambit’s face. ‘Find the girl. Get the girl. That I understand’ Cap replies, before telling Iron Man to give him a second. ‘Have I ever told you how disappointing it is that you can’t do two things at once?’ Iron Man smiles. ‘Yeah. Hold that thought. I’m getting a -’ Cap begins, while Gambit drops to the ground. ‘Well, I’ll be…’ Cap mutters, before telling Iron Man to contact the other teams and have them pull back and rendezvous at the Tower. ‘New plan. We don’t have to chase Hope anymore’ Cap explains. ‘You found her?’ Iron Man asks. ‘No…but I did just learn where she’s headed’ Cap replies.‘Scott…they know!’ Emma exclaims urgently, concerned.
Meanwhile, at the AIM Worldworks, a staging area for Advanced Idea Mechanics, Wolverine growls as he pushes through several of the AIM operatives. ‘You’re pretty good at this death and dismemberment thing’ Hope tells him as she fires a weapon at more of the operatives. ‘What can I say…? I’m in a mood’ Wolverine replies, dropping in blood from his victims, he leers at Hope, before asking ‘I wonder who might be willing to help us find what we’re looking for?’ A nervous AIM operative who has backed themselves up against a control panel offers to do that. ‘I thought you might’ Wolverine tells them. The AIM operative taps into the computer, I’m sure you know where you’re going, but just in case, telemetry is all pre-programmed for any number of destinations and everything you need for excursions…are you going to kill me now?’ the operative asks. ‘I dunno…how fast can you run?’ Wolverine replies.
Soon, a massive door slides apart, and appearing before Wolverine and Hope is a large rocket. ‘Whoa. I did say bigger, didn’t I?’ Hope remarks. ‘Hey…a redheaded girl says she wants to go to the moon…I gotta take her’ Wolverine replies. Hope just looks at Wolverine, strangely. A short time later, the rocket takes off for space.
Nine hours later, on the Blue Area of the moon, an artificial environment created by the alien race known as the Skrulls. The spaceship lands, and Wolverine and Hope step onto the Blue Area’s surface. ‘It’s so close now. I can feel it’ Hope tells Wolverine. ‘All we have to do is wait’ she adds, when suddenly, a voice calls out ‘I’m sorry, young lady. We’re going to have to complicate your plans just a bit’. Hope turns around and sees Captain America and several other Avengers - Iron Man, Hawkeye, Giant Man, the Black Widow, the Red Hulk and the Thing. ‘No. How did you people find me?’ Hope asks. ‘As soon as he knew where you were headed, Logan let me know’ Captain America reports, telling Hope that they cannot let her do what she wants. ‘We can’t risk it’ Captain America tells her.
‘HOW COULD YOU?’ Hope screams at Wolverine, who tells her ‘A little closing of the eyes, a little fondling of the hands and wolves will come in and devour all that you have. You took a nap. I made a decision’. ‘You broke your deal’ Hope points out, to which Wolverine states that he got her off Earth. ‘You think you know what this thing is, Hope - but you don’t! I wo-’ Wolverine begins, before he is knocked aside by a blast of optic energy.Cyclops, the White Queen, the Sub-Mariner, Magik and Colossus arrive via teleportation, and Cyclops politely asks the Avengers to step away from the girl. ‘Not gonna happen, Summers. Take your X-Men back home!’ Captain America replies as the two teams prepare to face off. ‘Proximity alert’ a computer announces. ‘Sure. But not without Hope’ Cyclops tells Captain America, while the computer announces that an incoming projectile has imminent impact. ‘Enact evasive maneuvers’ the computer states.
‘EVERYONE LOOK OUT!’ Iron Man shouts, before something - or someone - strikes the moon. ‘Oh, no…’ Hawkeye utters as the dust begin to settle, and Thor is seen lying in a crater. The Thing goes over to help Thor up, while Hope turns around and announces ‘It’s here’. The Avengers and the X-Men turn in Hope’s direction, concern falls across most of their faces, as the cosmic entity known as the Phoenix hovers above them….


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The Blue Area of the Moon, where a small team of X-Men - Cyclops, the White Queen, the Sub-Mariner, Colossus and Magik - rush towards a team of Avengers - Captain America, Hawkeye, the Thing, Black Widow and the Red Hulk. Hope Summers burns with a powerful cosmic energy, and she thinks to herself that Colonel Thomas Ferebee was the name of the man on the plane who pushed the button that dropped the atomic bomb on human beings for the first time. She knows that a hundred and fifty thousand people - maybe more - died in a white-hot flash of fire, or in the silence that came after. ‘But no one ever says “Colonel Thomas Ferebee killed a hundred fifty thousand people”!’ Hope thinks to herself, understanding that they blame the bomb, not the bombardier who dropped it. ‘And yet without one…you don’t get the other. So…so am I the bomb? Or am I the bombardier?’ the young mutant asks herself as she falls to the ground, the powerful Phoenix Force hovering over the moon.
‘And if you could ask any of the dead…would it matter to them anymore? My name is Hope Summers…and this is all my fault’ Hope tells herself, while Magik blocks the Black Widow’s sting with her Soulsword, Colossus goes up against the Red Hulk, the Sub-Mariner tackles the Thing, Hawkeye fires an arrow at the White Queen, who is in her diamond form, and Captain America’s shield blocks Cyclops’s optic blast. Wolverine, meantime, rushes towards Hope. ‘Please stop…’ Hope calls out, but gets no response. ‘I said - STOP!’ she screams, sending a surge of cosmic energy towards the X-Men and the Avengers, knocking them all to the moon surface. The energy continues to pour from Hope’s eyes, and she tells Wolverine that she was wrong, that she thought she could, but she can’t, that it is too much.
Injured from the blast of cosmic fury, Wolverine slowly crawls towards Hope, growling, while Hope tells Wolverine that he has to kill her. ‘You think you can do that for me, Logan? You promised…’ Hope calls out. ‘Kid…I’ll try!’ Wolverine replies as he lunges towards her, claws bared - only for an optic blast from Cyclops to knock him away from Hope. ‘NO!’ Cyclops bellows.
Inside a nearby vessel, Giant Man and Iron Man are both busy working. ‘Looks like all hell is breaking loose out there’ Giant Man remarks. ‘Then let’s hurry it up in here’ Iron Man replies, adding that the closer the bird gets the more hellish things are going to get, before asking Giant Man if he has completed the diagnostic routines. ‘You’re ready’ Giant Man replies, ‘Or at least as ready as anyone can be to pilot a…whatever this is…without testing it first’ Giant Man replies. ‘Testing is for suckers. We’re men of science. Time top act like it. We’re pioneers. We’re pilots…right?’ Iron Man replies as he begins to interface with the ship, or, more specifically, a tank-like Iron Man armor. ‘So we’re the kamikaze’ Giant Man declares.
Back outside, ‘Kill you, Summers!’ Wolverine shouts as he lunges towards Cyclops, who releases another optic blast while replying ‘You can try’. Hope thinks to herself that at some point, they will stop treating her like a ball they are all trying to carry downfield, and just start trying to kill each other. ‘Little punk maggot -’ the Red Hulk exclaims as he tries to rip the juggernaut helmet from Colossus’ head. ‘Too many years of pain and fear and suffering. Too much death’ Hope tells herself, while Hawkeye fires another arrow at the White Queen, who replies ‘Please, darling, I’m made of diamond - do you think a little fire could -’, but Hawkeye quickly exclaims ‘Lady, shut the hell up!’
‘Watch where you point that thing!’ the Black Widow tells Magik as she forces the young mutant’s Soulsword up away from her. Hope knows there was a plan, but now there is just chaos. ‘I failed. And now, where there was hope. There’s just hate’. ‘Im-per-ius- the Sub-Mariner tries to exclaim as the Thing grabs him. ‘Close your smart mouth for good!’ the Thing threatens. Wolverine tells Cyclops that he has gone too far, and lashes out at him, striking just below his chest. Cyclops cries out in pain, but continues to fire optic blast towards Captain America, who asks him to stop this madness. ‘It’s all too late now anyhow’ Hope thinks to herself. She knows that a purifying fire from across the stars has come, and it is too late for them all. The Phoenix Force looms down over the Blue Area, and everyone looks up at it. ‘Come on, Stark…’ Captain America utters.
In the lunar orbit, the space-team of Avengers - Ms Marvel, the Beast, the Vision, Captain Britain, War Machine and Valkyrie - witness the Phoenix hover over the moon. While in Ibiza, Spain, Professor Charles Xavier and his son, Legion, are walking along a beach when they are both struck by surging mental pain. ‘Father - make it stop!’ Legion pleads. In the mystical city K’un Lun, Lei Kung stands near the temple, and tells himself ‘And so. It begins again…’. While, elsewhere, the Scarlet Witch’s hands glow with power, but she utters ‘No…no…’.
Back on the moon, ‘Ignition!’ Iron Man exclaims in his tank-like armor. ‘Here goes nothing’ Captain America remarks as he watches the large Iron Man armor fly towards the Phoenix. ‘Here goes nothing’ Iron Man says to himself as he approaches the cosmic force. Hope gets to her feet and Cyclops goes over to her, while Captain America tells him that they don’t have much time and that he has to stop this. The space-team of Avengers drops down to the moon, while Captain America tells Cyclops to step away from Hope, that they have to get her out of here. ‘Time to be a leader, son. Don’t fall sway to all this madness’ Cap tells him. ‘Madness? I’m trying to save my race. You’re trying to snuff us all out’ Cyclops replies, adding that none of them understands this thing like he does. ‘None of you knows this girl like me’ he exclaims.
With the X-Men standing behind him, Cyclops announces that this was all meant to happen - Hope and the Phoenix are meant to be together. ‘And you can’t stop it!’ he shouts, while, up above, the Phoenix Force engages Iron Man. ‘Oh, man. This better work’ Stark thinks to himself, announcing that the Phoenix is in range, he fires the disruptor, which releases powerful energy towards the Phoenix, striking it at close-range impact in spectacular display that lights up the cosmos, and a whiteness engulfs the moon. Hope thinks to herself that she spent her life waiting for this exact, singular moment, running from it, running towards it, fearing it, waiting for it. Every second, every hour, every day. The thing was, when it finally arrived, she just didn’t want it.
As the power of the Phoenix surrounds Hope, she learns that it doesn’t want her, either. An instant later, the white cosmic energy has vanished. ‘Ahhh. Avengers, sit rep. Are we alive? Who’s alive?’ Captain America calls out. The Hulk and the Thing appear to be sitting up, while Hawkeye and the Black Widow are motionless. ‘Wolverine. Wolverine? Are we - are you -’ Cap calls out as a reddish haze surrounds them. ‘The girl, Cap. Can’t see. Where’s the girl?’ Wolverine calls out. Up above, Iron Man radios Captain America, asking ‘Did I kill the Phoenix? Because it looked amazing, and -’, but Cap interrupts him, ‘One sec’ he replies, as he notices something behind him. Indeed, Cyclops, the White Queen, Colossus, Magik and the Sub-Mariner, wearing cosmic-variations of their costume, now with phoenix emblems, hover over the Avengers. They are surrounded by the cosmic power, and hope lies motionless in Cyclops’s arms. ‘The gift of the Phoenix was meant for her, not us. You people…did something…to it. And now she…now we are Phoenix’ Cyclops declares.
Cyclops states that Hope needs their help, that they will take her home, to heal her, to ready her. ‘We shall do its work while she is prepared for what comes next’ the Sub-Mariner declares, and the White Queen exclaims that this world can still be saved, be healed. ‘We have much work ahead of us’ Colossus points out. ‘Time to evolve tomorrow itself. Beyond everything you’ve ever imagined’ Magik remarks. Hawkeye and the Black Widow have since recovered and are standing with their teammates, while Captain America declares ‘You’re talking like lunatics. And the young lady made her decision known. She stays with us. Pyrotechnics and scary voices don’t chance that!’ he tells the X-Men.
‘Hah. “Captain America”. We are more than you now. More than human…more than mutant. Our task is more than you can even conceive. As you cannot stop tomorrow, you cannot stop us. Do not even try’ Cyclops announces, before casually knocking the Avengers back with a surge of energy. Carried in Cyclops’s arms, Hope is propelled along with the other X-Men back down towards Earth. She thinks to herself that it almost seems funny, that she used to wonder if she was destined to be the bomb or the bombardier in this war, when, all this time, she was just like everybody else. ‘My name is Hope Summers, and I was just like you. I was just another victim of what the Phoenix had in store…’.


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Utopia, ten days later. Magneto stands on the small island nation as a ship lands. ‘Hello, Erik’ Professor Charles Xavier calls out as he steps off the vessel. ‘Charles. It’s good to see you, old friend. We’ve been expecting you…’ Magneto replies. ‘Welcome to Utopia’ Magneto calls out, as Charles sees the spectacular display of buildings hovering in the air around them. Charles follows Magneto up some stairs, which just float in the air, and remarks that he had seen it on the television, ‘But in person - my God - the scale of this place…’ his voice drifts off. ‘Yes. What a magnificent thing they have built’ Magneto replies, adding ‘Great deeds of the greatest of men…’, before taking Charles to a door and remarking that it doesn’t seem so long ago that it was impossible not to think of them as just children, ‘And ours at that’ Magneto adds. ‘I still do’ Charles states. Magneto tells his old friend that he shouldn’t, as they have changed. ‘He’s changed…and he’s right through there’ Magneto announces as the door opens, and a brilliant light can be seen.
‘Hello, Professor’ a voice calls out, reaching into Xavier’s mind. I know why you’ve come. I can see it in your mind’ Cyclops states as he leans against a banister in the god-like space he stands, staring into open skies, clouds passing by, birds flying overhead. Calmly, Charles tells Cyclops that he is sure he understand his concerns perfectly. ‘The power you’re wielding…it unnerves the world. People are afraid’. Cyclops smiles as he turns back to the Professor, ‘You always told me we should never fear tomorrow, Professor. This is a new day’ he states. ‘You don’t need the visor anymore, do you, Scott?’ Charles asks. ‘No’ Cyclops replies. ‘Then why wear it?’ Charles asks. Cyclops explains that once, a great man taught him the value of having a singular vision, of seeing the world as it could be, adding that he would never want to lose that.
‘This is not what I meant’ Charles replies telepathically. Cyclops tells him that he knows - and that it is something better. All around the world, the rest of the “Phoenix Five” are supervising the improvement of the world. Cyclops tells the Professor that right now, they are remaking the world, transforming it into a better place for all living things. ‘Where it was once barren, it blooms’ he states, referring to the Horn of Africa, where Magik stands and raises her Soulsword high. ‘Where there was hunger, there will now be a feast’ Cyclops adds, while Colossus stands amongst new crop-houses in the Taymyr Peninsula. ‘There will be no more thirst, as any man can drink from our new spring’ Cyclops announces, while Namor swims across the Aleutian Trench. ‘And energy, there will be energy…boundless, limitless…and free’ Cyclops concludes, while Emma Frost is in the Gobi Desert, supervising the creation of this energy.
‘They will not fear us, Professor…they will thank us’ Cyclops declares. ‘There will still be fallout’ Professor X points out, to which Cyclops replies ‘Of course. Old ways oppose change. Most will bend. Remember what you taught us, Professor. They will change, mankind will accept the future. I believe that. I always have’. Charles tells Cyclops that he knows, but not like this, for it is cheating, it has cost nothing. ‘Cost nothing?’ Cyclops replies, raising his voice. ‘No, Professor…we have paid a high price for far too long…now, the real world is molded to our slightest whim. Reality itself…what we want it to be. Don’t you see? The day you longed for has arrived…’. Cyclops’s voice changes slightly as the energy within him comes to the front: ‘Here is your dream, Charles…I have given it to you’ he exclaims.
Unaware of the conversation taking place, several mutants from Utopia and Westchester are relaxing on Utopia, playing sports and having a good time. Psylocke and Cannonball play some golf, while Sunspot, Velocidad and Primal play soccer. Gambit and Glob Herman can also be seen on the field.
Avengers Tower, two days later, ‘It’s happened again’ Iron Fist reports to Captain America via a communications monitor. America’s greatest hero stands with his arms folded, frowning, he listens to Iron Fist’s report, asking if everyone is all right. ‘Much better than we should be…’ Iron Fist replies. Cap asks him to walk him through it, so Iron Fist explains that they were on the way back from dealing with that rogue Hydra nest in Helsinki when someone triggered a dormant NATO alert beacon in the Baltics. Iron Fist explains that those things are powered by a high-yield dynamo, which is just the kind of thing a Zzzax would use if it had recently nested. ‘We had no idea what we were walking into, Cap’ Iron Fist reveals, explaining that the Electric Legion overwhelmed them. ‘I thought we were done for…and then…then…’ his voice trails off.
‘Then the X-Men showed up’ Captain America states. ‘X-Man. Just one. Colossus’ Iron Fist corrects Cap. ‘He walked out of the Siege Courageous like a metal god…he walked out and saved us’ Iron Fist explains. ‘Well, good. I assume he was able to defeat the Legion, but were you able to get some idea of what the upper levels of his powers are?’ Cap enquires. ‘Was there any show of weakness when he was fighting…did he -’ Cap continues, before Iron Fist interrupts, ‘My hands started burning as soon as he showed up, Cap. But you don’t understand…there wasn’t a fight’ Iron Fist reveals. ‘Excuse me?’ Cap replies, surprised. ‘They just…talked it out’ Iron Fist explains, recalling how he, Luke Cage and Spider-Woman stood as Colossus spoke to a member of the Electric Legion.
Cap asks Iron Fist what was said, but Iron Fist replies ‘No idea. I don’t speak electric…but the end result was the Legion agreeing to function as the power grid for a large portion of Eastern Europe’ he reveals. ‘More free mutant energy, I guess…no mess. Everything worked out fine, Cap’. ‘Okay, okay…be careful and we’ll talk more when you get home’ Cap tells Iron Fist. The monitor goes blank and at Avengers Tower, Cap turns around and walks away ‘Everything worked out fine’ he mutters.
Cap walks into a laboratory, where Wolverine, the Beast, Iron Man and Black Panther are meeting. They observe a holographic display, and Iron Man points out that there is a slight variation in the Phoenix’s telemetry as it approached Earth. ‘Several microscopic corrections, I’m sure’ the Black Panther remarks. ‘Yes, yes…as I said. A non-stationary target would -’ the Beast begins, while Wolverine exclaims that it was hope. ‘We were on the move’ he points out. ‘Excuse me, everyone…we’ve had another Phoenix encounter’ Cap calls out, explaining that Luke Iron Fist and Spider-Woman had a run-in with Colossus is Estonia. ‘Oh my…’ the Beast utters. ‘They okay? Petey didn’t…?’ Wolverine begins, but Cap assures him that everyone is fine. ‘And the new, cheapest energy source on the planet is a super villain. Who knew?’ Cap adds.
‘Actually, I came up with that idea years ago-’ the Beast begins, but Cap tells him that is not the point. ‘You’ve had a week. I need a plan of action. Give me the best you’ve got’ he tells them. ‘Our best? Given our current position, do we know doing something is better than doing nothing?’ the Black Panther enquires, before asking what the Phoenix Five have done wrong. ‘Who are we to judge? Have any of us argued Thor is too powerful to be trusted?’ the Black Panther points out. No one answers him, instead Iron Man just states that he has a few things - augmented battle suits, and a modified version of the Phoenix-killer weapon, however he explains that he concern with the latter remains splintering the force more, further multiplying the problem.
‘Too much dancing around what’s necessary. What we need is something lethal. That’s our only -’ Wolverine begins, but the Beast exclaims ‘Enough. What are we doing?’, to which Cap replies ‘Planning for the worst’, and Wolverine tells his friend to stop pretending that he doesn’t know how this ends. ‘Everything goes dark’ Wolverine tells him. The Beast adjusts his spectacles and replies ‘Do we know that?’, and points out that as the Black Panther said, they have seen no evidence of that. He states that right now, his friends, people he has known his entire life are remaking this planet into a place that is finally tolerable. ‘A world we can all live in. And I sit here in a room with Earth’s Mightiest Heroes trying to concoct a plan to stop and possible kill them’. The Beast puts the pieces of paper he was holding down on a table and announces ‘No more, gentlemen. No, thank you’ and he starts to leave the lab. ‘Where you think you’re going, Hank?’ Wolverine calls out. ‘Nowhere, my friend…more and more each day it looks like you and I have no place to call home’ the Beast adds as he departs.
Back on Utopia, Hope Summers stands on a floating platform and stares out over the spiralling mass of structures around her, when a voice suddenly calls out ‘This isn’t a prison, Hope…as I have told you many times since you woke up…if you’re unhappy, you can leave anytime you like’ Cyclops tells her as he walks over to her. Hope replies that she can’t - that she wants to, but it calls to her. Cyclops holds out a hand, and remarks that it is seductive, the power of life and death, the power to remake worlds, simply power, and infinite power, at that. Cosmic energy swirls in the palm of Cyclops’s hand, and Hope tells him that she he can hear it. ‘Yes. And if I offered it now…would you take it?’ Cyclops asks, frowning. Hope goes wide-eyed, and reaches out for the fiery power, ‘I…I…yes’ she replies, but Cyclops pulls his hand back, and reminds Hope that she turned it down - that I was hers, and she rejected it.
‘And now I know that you don’t deserve it’ Cyclops tells the young mutant, who is somewhat taken aback. ‘What would you do with the power, Hope? Would a child have accomplished all this? How could you truly understand what is needed when you have experienced nothing?’ Cyclops asks as he leaves her and walks away. ‘You know I can still hear it…it wants to burn brighter, hotter…do you think what you’ve done is enough?’ Hope calls out to Cyclops, who replies ‘Of course not. We can accomplish so much more’.
And so, Magik travels to war-stricken nations, sitting casually on a pile of junk as she destroys tanks, vehicles and weapons of war. Emma Frost goes on a crusade to destroy any remaining Sentinels. Colossus stands atop a missile as countless weapons are pulled skyward. The Sub-Mariner uses the Phoenix Force to tear battleships from the waters that they lurk in.
Later, in K’un Lun, the man called Lei Kung approaches a temple, which is being guarded by two men. ‘Anything?’ he asks. ‘Tears, Lei Kung…then laughter. When questioned, he would only mutter the same thing over and over: “something burns”!’ one of the men replies. Lei Kung pauses, before telling them to unlock it. He enters, ‘Old Man’ he calls out, and sitting at a desk, a very old man is surrounded by books and papers. Candles burn, while the old man has a red cloth around his eyes. The cloth has the picture of an eye in the middle, above his nose. ‘HA! I smell your fear- I smell you - storm’s son, thunder’s thunder…weeping boy’ the old man exclaims.
The old man reminds Lei Kung that it has been years since he beat him for sneaking into his study. ‘Did you come to pilfer more secrets…seeking again the hidden lore? Or has something tickled a memory…stealing your sleep like it has mine?’ the old man enquires. ‘Tell me. Do you smell cinder and ash, Lei Kung…or are you afraid of something you’ve seen before?’ the old man asks. Lei Kung reveals that there was a flaming bird in the sky, and announces that he needs the Book of the Fallen. The old man is very small, gets down from the desk, going over to another part of his temple, ‘Yes…yes…a fiery bird - the burning cycle…very, very old that. Very bad’ the old man remarks, adding ‘come to cleanse the field. Extinguish the old and make way for the new’. The old man remarks that Fongji the Silent had other ideas. ‘Do you remember?’ he asks, as they reach a book that sits on a odium, covered in cob-webs.
‘Two equally charged souls repelling one another…the Crimson Heart understood the cost and paid it’ the old man remarks, he flicks through some pages, the eye on the palm of his hand finds what he is looking for and he states that this has all happened before. A picture in the book shows two beings fighting - a woman with long red hair, and a strange being with a cosmic bird around him. A caption for the book states:
Fongji Wu (FY 1596)Fongji the Silent,The Crimson HeartThe Dragon’s Fist
RepelledThe Phoenix ofLife and Death
Preventing theCelestial RebirthOf Earth andThe Collapse ofThe SevenCapital Cities
‘You need the Iron Fist’ the old man tells Kei Lung.
The White House, three days later, Captain America, Iron Man and the Black Panther (in his civilian guise as King T’Challa) stand in a room with various officials. An old man frowns and, reading a report, remarks that it says a former SHIELD station in the Philippines was just occupied and converted into a school by the mutant karma. ‘We’re talking about a three hundred million dollar facility…’ he remarks, adding that the President has a seemingly endless stack of reports just like this. ‘I understand your frustration. These are trying times for all of us’ Captain America tells him. Iron Man adds ‘It’s gotten worse since the X-Men declared themselves the -’ but T’Challa interrupts him: ‘That isn’t accurate’ he states. ‘T’Challa, you -’ Iron Man begins, only for T’Challa to interrupt once more: ‘I was there, Anthony. I heard the words as they were being spoken. They didn’t declare themselves anything…they gave the Nations an ultimatum’ he explains, recalling the event from earlier.
Flashback:This is the world - and you are its people’s representatives…so hear my words’ Cyclops booms as he, Emma and the Sub-Mariner hovers over the assembled leaders at a meeting of the United Nations. T’Challa sits and listens intently, as Cyclops announces that from this day forward they give the world peace and freedom from the aggression that has marked the darkest days of mankind. ‘Go. Build great things, greater than have ever been seen before…but no more weapons…no more machines of death…from this day forward we will no longer tolerate violence towards mutant or man. From this day forward, we declare no more war. Pax Utopia’ Cyclops announces.
Present:The President of the United States stares out a window and asks ‘Do you think they’re capable of backing up their demands?’, to which T’Challa responds ‘Perhaps. I do know that for the first time in decades, instead of running from conflict and hunger, refugees are leaving Wakanda and returning North to Ethiopia and Sudan…certainly these merit consideration, Mr President’. ‘Of course they do, Your Majesty. Clearly it’s a wonderful thing…God knows we get too used to bloody hands’ the President replies. ‘But this…this is..’ his voice trails off, before remarking that in spite of all their flaws, he believes in mankind, that they have a history of forward progress. ‘But when the world works it is because there has always been some outlying culture of accountability. Right now, these X-Men do not have that…and something has to be done’ the President declares. Captain America almost smiles, while T’Challa frowns.
Elsewhere, the Phoenix Force can be seen, breaking the darkness, it roars towards six certain super heroes - Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, the Wasp, Ant-Man and the Hulk - and in spectacular display, destroys them - then suddenly, the Scarlet Witch a.k.a. Wanda Maximoff opens her eyes, drenched in sweat, she gasps ‘This is what comes next’.
Now, at Avengers Tower, Mockingbird and the Vision are in the communication room, as Mockingbird reports to “Liberation”, announcing that they have the go-ahead from the DOD and Uscentcom. She adds that the ATC reports no flights in their vicinity, and sky watch shows favourable conditions. Inside the “Liberation”, several Avengers who can’t fly are getting into flight-suits. Captain America, Wolverine, Iron Man, Thor, Spider-Woman, Hawkeye, the Black Widow and Iron Fist are present. ‘You’re all clear. Happy hunting’ Mockingbird reports.
Three Hours Earlier:Captain America, Iron Man, Wolverine, Hawkeye, Black Widow and Black Panther are gathered around a table, a holographic representation of the transformed Utopia. ‘We want the girl’ Iron Man states. ‘Exactly. In regards to this mission, Hope’s the only thing that matters’ Captain America agrees, adding that she is the key to figuring out the Phoenix Force. Hawkeye examines the structures and remarks that limited scope is good, that it isn’t like they could go toe-to-toe with any of the Phoenix Five anyway. ‘And win?’ Wolverine replies, stating that they have no chance. ‘But if we find ourselves in a pinch, the armor Tony cooked up sure will put more teeth in our bite’ Wolverine adds. ‘So…we jump in, grab the girl, get the hell out’ Hawkeye exclaims.
‘Yeah, but we can’t teleport in. Magik will have countermeasures for that…and if we roll up slow, they’re gonna smell us coming’ Wolverine explains. The Black Widow announces that is why they are going to be jumping a small team out of a converted 767, as there is a commercial route 50 miles north of Utopia. ‘We’ll halo it’ she adds. ‘The team will be everyone here and -’ the Black Widow begins, only to be interrupted by the Black Panther, who announces that he will not be going. ‘WHAT?’ the Black Widow shouts. The Black Panther points out that he is a head of state, and it cannot appear as if Wakanda supports this action. ‘As we do not’ he announces. ‘No matter how well-intentioned it might be’.
Iron Man tells T’Challa that this is understandable, and adds that if they do this right, hopefully it will be self-contained. Turning back to the plan, Iron Man brings up on the hologram the insertion point for the team. ‘We’ve got satellite imagery of multiple appearances of Hope on this outcropping - we need to be in Utopia and gone in under a minute’ he tells his teammates. Iron Man adds that he is tired of guesswork and faulty theories regarding the Phoenix - and the intended primary host, Hope, represents the key to full understanding what they are up against. ‘So I repeat…we want the girl’.
Present:Iron Man and Thor fly out of the converted 767 “Liberation”, while Cap, Wolverine, Spider-Woman, Hawkeye, the Black Widow and Iron Fist follow in their flight-gear, dropping down towards Utopia.
Inside a living area, Hope is combing Primal’s hair, while Velocidad plays a video game, and Transonic sits at a table. Suddenly, there is a loud WHOOOOSH as a the wall bursts open, and the Avengers appear. ‘What the -?’ Transonic exclaims, while Hawkeye fires some arrows and announces that the intel was good. ‘There she is!’ he exclaims.
In another room, Emma sits at a table with a glass of red wine in front of her. Cyclops reclines on the sofa, shirt undone, no visor on, and levitating several books in front of himself. ‘Ah!’ Emma exclaims, eyes glancing sideways. ‘Visitors. The Avengers are here, Scott - they’ve come again for Hope. I’ll summon the -’ Emma begins, but Scott tells her that there is no need, and he stands up, his Phoenix costume materializing around him as he tells Emma that they will deal with this themselves.
‘Get away from her, you -’ Velocidad begins, but Thor grabs him, and tosses to aside. Hope calls out to her friend, but Thor takes her by the wrist and announces that he has her. ‘That’s it! Full withdrawal! Everyone get -’ Captain America orders, but Wolverine sniffs the air, and announces that it is too late, as Cyclops is help. ‘Indeed I a, Logan. And your behavior is becoming embarrassing’ Cyclops states as he and Emma appear in a blazing fury of cosmic energy. Cyclops releases some optic energy, knocking Captain America and Hawkeye backwards. ‘Get back! We just want the girl and we’ll go!’ Spider-Woman exclaims, releasing her venom-blast, while the Black Widow fires her widow’s bite, but Emma blocks both limited power with ease. ‘Oh, you get nothing. And this time you stay gone!’ Emma declares. ‘Look out!’ Iron Fist exclaims, getting in front of the Black Widow and Spider-Woman as a cosmic flare is thrown towards them.
‘Why am I not…whoa’ Iron Fist utters when he looks up, he seems the peace symbol hovering before him. ‘And I thought my hands were burning before. What in the -’ Iron Fist remarks, before he is knocked over by an optic blast from Cyclops. Iron Man and Thor stand in front of Hope as Cyclops and Emma walk towards them. ‘Emma…got Hope’ Cyclops orders, adding that he will handle Thor and Iron Man. He destroys the Iron Man armor with ease, while Thor warns Cyclops to stand aside, ‘Or I will call the storm and tear open the sky’ he announces. ’You’re threatening me with weather?’ Cyclops asks, unimpressed. Thor spins his mighty hammer, and roars, preparing to strike Cyclops, who touches the hammer, holding it in place: ’I am life and I am death…you think I fear the thunder and lightning?’ he asks, before releasing an optic blast which knocks Thor backwards.
‘Scott! There’s something - CHAOS!’ Emma suddenly announces, before screaming ‘The SCARLET WITCH!’ as Wanda appears before them in a haze of crimson fury. Hope stands behind Wanda, who declares that this must stop. ‘Mercy, Scott…for all of man and mutant kind. I have seen where this leads’ she states. Cyclops points out that they were simply defending themselves, as the Avengers came into their home. ‘And now they are leaving - with me’ Wanda replies. Scott remains silent, until Hope announces that she wants to go, too. ‘No. Absolutely not’ Cyclops declares, to which Hope reminds him that he said she could leave whenever she wanted. ‘You said this wasn’t a prison’ she adds. But, Cyclops tells her this is different, that the Avengers want to use her against the X-Men and he will not let that happen.
‘I’m not leaving with them…I’m leaving with her’ Hope exclaims, referring to Wanda, who turns to Hope and tells her that it is a terrible thing to feel along among your own kind, to be misunderstood. ‘I will take you wherever you want to go’ Wanda offers. ‘No! I will not -’ Scott begins, until he grabs Wanda by her wrist, only for his hand to burn, and he screams in agony. ‘I - I felt that’ Scott utters. Crimson energies swirl around Wanda, Hope and the Avengers as Wanda makes them vanish, and she tells Scott that this is not for ill, but what needs to be. ‘Until tomorrow’ she adds before she too vanishes.
Emma looks at Cyclops, ‘What do you -’ she begins, to which Scott exclaims ‘Every time, Emma - every time we get pushed further into a corner…they’ll never stop coming’. He squats down and picks up a piece of Captain America’s costume, looking at it, he remarks that the X-Men have been feared and hunted, and now endangered. ‘We are so very few. And, still, they keel coming or us. Now, even at our most powerful, even when we do the favor of remaking the Earth into a more livable place, even then…mankind feels bold enough to send their heroes here to steal our innocent - to take away our tomorrow’.
Cyclops states that he has finally figured out why - ‘It’s them’ he declares. ‘Men know that regardless of their endless sings against mutants, their heroes will protect them. They will do what their leaders think needs to be done. I will tolerate it no longer, Emma. It changes now’ Cyclops remarks, before uttering ‘No more Avengers’.


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‘Avengers Tower is secure. No one in or out’ Cyclops orders as he and the rest of the Phoenix Five - Emma Frost, the Sub-Mariner, Colossus and Magik - communicate with each other in a blaze of cosmic fury. ‘So now then…where is Captain America? And, more importantly…where is the Scarlet Witch?’ Cyclops calls out, reminding everyone that she wiped out mutant kind with a sentence fragment, and that she shocked him on Utopia and he actually felt it. Cyclops declares that he wants the Scarlet Witch off the board - shut down and contained, she is their objective. ‘Closing down Avengers ops. Making Cap look like a fool. That’s all well and good. Wanda Maximoff is the real threat. They have her in the field right now’ Cyclops exclaims.
Emma Frost reports that Avengers Academy has been sealed off, and the Avengers’ “children” will have to hold their militarized youth rallies somewhere else now. Cyclops tells Emma not to worry, and to keep the pressure on the Avengers. ‘We’re a re-branding them as a global terrorist network. Just remember he’s not afraid to field her. And that means we are going to start getting hurt’ Cyclops warns. The Sub-Mariner announces that the Avengers’ hovel in Central Park is clear, while Magik announces that they have found them, and she, Gambit, Warpath and X-Man, along with X-Factor’s Havok and Polaris, materialize where several Avengers - Captain America, Hawkeye, the Vision, Iron First, the original Spider-Woman and of course the Scarlet Witch - are gathered.
‘We found them all!’ Magik boasts. Captain America tells his team to scramble, and throws his shield towards Polaris, who easily uses her mutant power to deflect the shield. ‘Cut off their exit’ Polaris exclaims, while Hawkeye fires several arrows, one of which explodes near Havok, knocking him backwards. ‘Lese le bon -’ Gambit begins as he throws several kinetically charged playing cards towards Iron Fist, who attempts to kick Gambit, while telling him to shut up. Spider-Woman drops down on top of Warpath and uses her venom-blasts to shock him, while telling Captain America that the mutants are moving fast. ‘Then move faster’ Cap replies as he prepares to throw his shield once more, while telling the Scarlet Witch to lay down some cover. ‘I’ll see what I can do’ Wanda replies as she stands near the Vision, who states ‘I cannot suggest any more highly how dismal a notion I find that’.‘This isn’t easy for me, Vision. I’d appreciate you pretending to have a heart for -’ Wanda tells her ex-husband, while from a control room, Tony Stark watches numerous monitors and tells Wanda that she needs to stay focused on the data skews. ‘Can you for that for me? We need pure -’ Tony begins, papers and crushed cans lying at his feet. Pizza boxes and bottles strewn all over the desk. ‘I can try. Now stop talking…’ the Scarlet Witch exclaims as crimson energy surges around her, and she releases it towards where Magik is standing by a portal. ‘you. On behalf of mutantkind - die!’ the young mutant shouts as she points her Soulsword at the Scarlet Witch, and fiery claws race towards Wanda, who fights back with more energy, ‘Don’t you know who I am? Don’t you know what I can do?’ the Scarlet Witch exclaims.
‘That’s it, that’s it, get into her head’ Iron Man tells Wanda, while nearby, the Vision is struck down by a combined attack from Polaris and Havok. ‘One down’ Polaris remarks. ‘Good start’ Havok agrees, while the Scarlet Witch sees the Vision in danger, and calls out to him, but distracted, she is knocked aside by the cosmic energy of the Phoenix. ‘Oh, hell - Wanda, you’ve got to focus right now!’ Iron Man exclaims. ‘I’m trying!’ Wanda replies as she fires several shards of crimson energy at Magik, knocking her back and causing her to scream. The young mutant lands at the portal, where Emma Frost steps from. ‘Wanda Maximoff. Murderer of the mutant race’ Emma declares as she shifts into a fiery form.
Warpath manages to grab hold of Spider-Woman, while Captain America contacts Doctor Strange, announcing that they need an emergency evacuation. ‘Two Phoenixes and Wada? That’s more than emergency…’ Hawkeye remarks, before rushing off towards the Scarlet Witch, one of his closest friends. Cap calls out after Hawkeye, while Dr Strange materializes. ‘Your egress has arrived…’ Strange declares. ‘Go!’ Hawkeye calls out ‘You!’ Emma Frost screeches as she moves towards Wanda, flaming fury surrounding her - but before she can strike Wanda, Hawkeye manages to fire an arrow, which knocks Emma to the ground. Hawkeye tells Wanda to get out of here, and kicks Emma Frost in the head. But she quickly gets to her feet, ‘How dare you?’ Emma snarls as she is once again engulfed in cosmic energy. ‘We’re trying to save the world!’ Emma declares as she casts flaming energy over Hawkeye, who screams.
Dr Strange’s teleport bubble surrounds the Avengers, and Cap holds on to the Scarlet Witch as she calls out to Hawkeye. ‘It’s too late, Wanda…it’s too late…’ Cap tells her. ‘No no no no no…’ Wanda utters, tears streaming down her face. An instant later, Dr Strange delivers Cap, Wanda, Iron Fist and the Vision to the Avengers’ safe house. ‘Too soon! You’re back too soon! I needed more data, more telemetry from the -’ Tony Stark exclaims as he goes over to them, while Wolverine, Quicksilver, the Black Widow and Black Panther stand nearby. ‘GO TO HELL!’ Wanda shouts at Tony, as she strides away. Tony looks at her, and Cap explains that they have a man down.
On Utopia, Cyclops, Emma, the Sub-Mariner, Colossus and a recovered Magik are gathered in a room. Sitting with his legs folded, as if he was meditating, Cyclops declares that they finally have the power to remake the world in their image. ‘We have to get along to do it…and not kill people that disagree with us!’ he exclaims, as Hawkeye’s charred body hovers before them, wrapped in cosmic energy. Emma replies that she didn’t kill him, and wasn’t trying to kill him, but that she just god mad. ‘And the power -’ she begins, before pointing out that Hawkeye is still alive, and they can heal him, ‘So tell me why must I be chastised so?’ she asks.
‘I say you should have killed them. You should have killed them all’ Namor the Sub-Mariner declares, to which Cyclops reminds him they are putting pressure on the Avengers on a global scale, shutting down their operations and capturing key members. ‘How does murder -’ he begins, but Namor interrupts. Shaking his fists, he exclaims ‘This is a war, Summers! Not some kind of gang brawl!’ Magik tells Cyclops that he didn’t hear the Scarlet Witch, didn’t see her. ‘She actually hurt me, and I think she enjoyed it. I don’t believe that fairy tale they’re trying to sell us - I looked at Wanda Maximoff and I saw…I saw evil, Scott. Evil than can hurt us all’ Magik claims, adding that she thinks the Phoenix came to them so they could purge that evil from Earth forever. Cyclops tells Magik that she is wrong, that Hawkeye will be allowed to heal, and then put in the X-Brig along with the rest of the prisoners. ‘This isn’t a war. It’s a rescue mission. Conduct yourselves accordingly’ he orders, while the rest of the Phoenix Five just frown.
Meanwhile, in Wakanda, Tony Stark and the Black Panther are busy working on some equipment. ‘Where are we?’ Captain America enquires as he approaches his friends. He adds that they are losing people, losing ground and starting to lose faith. ‘We need some wins and we need ‘em now!’ The Black Panther stares at Captain America, while Tony looks up from where he is welding and replies ‘And if frogs had wings, Cap -’, to which Cap tells Tony to save the smart mouth for some other end of the world. ‘Answers. Solutions. Now’ Cap declares.
The Black Panther touches a screen and reports that they have more questions than answers, and states that Stark’s analysis of Wanda during their last scrimmage provided volumes of additional data. ‘But at this point…’ the Black Panther’s voice trails off, while Tony reports that they don’t even see the whole of the equation. ‘The scale of the Phoenix Force and the catastrophic effects me…meddling…had on it…we need more data. We need more time’ Tony announces.
Cap tells them that “stall” was not the answer he was looking for. ‘Find me a better one. Fast’ Cap orders as he walks away. The Black Panther turns back to the monitors and remarks ‘If I’m parsing these plans of yours correctly…you’re transforming this armor into a colossal suicide suit’. ‘Well. Assuming we can even get these five Phoenixed-out X-Men in the same physical space as the suit? There’s a 13% chance of it actually redirecting the energy where it came from and…yeah, pretty much 100% chance of it killing the suit’s pilot either way’ Tony replies. Hanging his head, he states that this is his fault, that he was the guy who ran off half-cocked and created this problem. ‘If fixing it means a one-way ticket then I’ve earned it -’ Tony begins, until the Black Panther punches him.
Tony looks up at the Black Panther, who states ‘Science is failing us and you’re concerned with writing your own ending. That is as unacceptable as your precious little 13%’. The Black Panther points out that since has failed, Tony has failed, but that doesn’t mean he gets to kill himself to escape finding a solution. ‘Any suggestions you got, Sucker Punch, I’d love to hear ‘em’ Tony replies. The Black Panther turns back to the monitors and points out that Wakanda is the most scientifically advanced society on Earth. ‘Yet, I chew roots to consult with my ancestry’. The Black Panther states that the paradox has never escaped him, and admits that he prowls the boundary between super science and magic. ‘We need to look for solutions within the realm of the spirit’ the Black Panther states. ‘Kill me now’ Tony mutters.
Shortly, Captain America has gathered with the Avengers - Dr Strange, Daredevil, Spider-Man, the Black Widow, Giant Man, the Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, the Beast, She-Hulk, Falcon, Mockingbird, Wolverine, Luke Cage, Valkyrie, Thor, as well as Sharon Carter, and Hope Summers. Cap tells them that there is bad news and worse. ‘The bad news is that the X-Man have started taking prisoners. The worse is Stark and T’Challa need more time’ he announces, explaining that they are going back out into the field and playing rope-a-dope with the X-Men a while longer. Looking down at the young mutant Hope, Cap states that she is their ace in the hole, who is as much an expert on the Phoenix, and the X-Men, as they are going to get.
Hope tells the powerful assemblage of heroes that she trained her entire life in anticipation of possessing the Phoenix, only when that time came, she flinched. ‘What I see when I look into the eyes of Scott Summers and the rest scares me - not because they’re, like, bad people, but because…they simply can’t be ready for what’s happening to them’. Hope tells the Avengers that some of them might wish to fight the X-Men, or stop the Phoenix, but that she just wants to save her friends. ‘So while you guys try to figure out how to do that, when you find the X-Men in the field…the Scarlet Witch is the only thing that will scare them. It’s the only thing they’ll respect’ Hope explains, adding that she knows the Avengers don’t want to hear it, but that it is true - the Avengers hate and blame her for so much, but that they are also afraid of her. Wanda stares straight ahead, while her brother Quicksilver frowns.
‘To that end…behold the Enchantments of Ikonn’ Dr Strange declares, as small stones appear before him. He explains that the illusions they create will make the bearer appear to be the Scarlet Witch. ‘If the X-Men continue to take prisoners, these charms should allow for safe egress when needed…’ Strange adds. He tells his teammates that they need to deploy the Enchantments of Ikonn selectively, and use them only in extreme circumstances, because once the X-Men know it is a ruse, the Avengers will be out of time. ‘It may buy us a few days. It may buy us hours’.
Soon, in New York, Cap, Sharon, Cage, Daredevil and Spider-Man are gathered. ‘Avengers! We’ve got company!’ Cap tells them all, as Colossus appears overhead, alongside Sunspot, Psylocke, Magma and Danger. ‘Comrades, shut them down!’ Colossus orders. Sunspot attacks Cage, who falls backwards through a portal, while Psylocke confronts Daredevil. ‘There’s your cue, Sharon’ Cap tells his dear friend. ‘On it…’ Sharon replies, as she uses the Enchantments of Ikonn. ‘AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!’ Captain America booms. ‘C’mon…come on…’ Sharon utters as she waits to appear as the Scarlet Witch, and it works, ‘Bozhe moi, she’s here - Maximoff is in New York’ Colossus reports, before ordering his squad to fall back.
But, in the Ukraine, Emma Frost, Boom-Boom, Warpath, Surge, Frenzy and Velocidad find themselves up against Thor, Quicksilver, Wolverine the Falcon and…the Scarlet Witch. ’How is that possible? She’s here’ Emma reports back. At the same time, in the Arctic Circle, Cyclops, Magneto, Armor and Doctor Nemesis are confronted by Giant Man, the She-Hulk, Valkyrie, the Beast and…the Scarlet Witch. ‘It’s a trick, a hologram or - magic or some Tony Stark crap. She can’t be everywhere at once’ Cyclops declares, and as he fires an optic blast at Valkyrie, knocking the warrior backwards, he orders the Phoenix Five to engage and contain.
On the Pacific Ocean, a Quinjet floats on the water, while the Sub-Mariner, Polaris and Transonic hover in the air, and Iceman slides down on an ice-sled. The Thing bobs up and down in the water, while Dr Strange, Mockingbird and…the Scarlet Witch stand on the roof of the jet ‘Then where is the real Scarlet Witch, Summers? We’ve still not lad hands on her’ the Sub-Mariner points out. ‘And you never will’ Wanda declares as she fires a blast of energy at the Sub-Mariner, knocking him backwards. ‘Forgive me’ Wanda utters. ‘Transonic’ the Sub-Mariner calls out. ‘Doing my best, Sir’ the young mutant replies as she flies down towards the Scarlet Witch. Wanda tells Dr Strange to evacuate them now, but as a cosmic claw reaches down, Namor pushes the Scarlet Witch backwards, and Transonic is caught up in Dr Strange’s teleport field, transporting himself, Mockingbird, the Thing and Transonic back to Wakanda, where the female Black Panther is waiting for them. ‘Seize the X-Man’ she orders.
‘WITCH!’ Namor booms as he releases more cosmic energy towards her. Wanda screams, but chaos energy bursts around her. ‘Namor. Go away’ Wanda declares as she touches Namor’s face, and he seemingly cracks apart before her. In reality, Namor lands on Utopia. ‘Imperius Rex’ the Sub-Mariner exclaims, furious. Magneto hovers over Utopia, while the Phoenix Five regather. A projection of the Earth floats before them, and Namor declares that this is unacceptable. ‘We’re crippling the Avengers, Namor, one broken bone at a time’ Cyclops replies, adding that they are taking prisoners, shutting down their facilities and have them on the run. ‘We’re beloved, they’re mistrusted. And not for anything?’
Cyclops adds that they are transforming this planet at a breathtaking rate, that they are winning. He tells Namor to lighten up, and that Captain America and the Scarlet Witch will come in time. ‘THIS! IS NOT! A GAME!’ the Sub-Mariner booms, before turning and walking away, telling Cyclops that he might be a fine leader, but that he is a failure as a ruler. ‘Mm. Taking it under advisement, Namor’ Cyclops replies casually.
Meanwhile, ‘I found it!’ Tony Stark declares, sitting in front of several monitors. He exclaims that when Wanda and Magik scrapped, then again with Namor, the data field splits in two, then spikes - Wanda’s field and the Phoenix Force, they both accelerate. ‘There’s a connection between them, their energies -’ Tony begins, when suddenly, a blinding light appears before he and the Black Panther, and Iron Fist calls out to Tony, as a man appears in the blinding light. Iron Fist introduces the man as Lei Kung the Thunderer, of K’un Lun, the mystical city of King Fu, where - ‘Know what? I can explain later’ Iron Fist decides, announcing that they know what to do with Hope, or rather, how to ready her.
Lei Kung states that the burning cycle falls across the plane of Earth again, unlike before. ‘The fire of the Phoenix will consume you all…and then the Celestial Cities of Gaven. The vessel must be prepared or the infinite array shall perish’. Iron Fist explains that they have to take Hope to K’un Lun, and declares that the X-Men will never find her there, and Lei Kung can train her before it is too late. Tony pauses, before asking if they can all go.
Back on Utopia, ‘You’re not wrong’ Emma tells the Sub-Mariner as she approaches him, on a balcony overlooking Utopia. ‘I am never wrong in affairs of state, Frost. What do you want?’ Namor replies. Emma points out that Cyclops used to literally be a boy scout, and suggests Namor let him chase his happy ending for a while. ‘This is not a game. He does not see. They have taken one of ours now, the girl Transonic. Caged like an animal. Makes me sick’ Namort tells Emma, who leans up next to him, and replies ‘Indeed they have. About that, Namor. I can sense her, you know. I can feel her. I know where she is’. Emma and Namor suddenly kiss, and Emma telepathically informs Namor that the Avengers are hiding Transonic in Wakanda, before whispering into his ear that she has not told Scott.
At that moment, Captain America, Black Panther, She-Hulk, Giant Man, the Beast. Spider-Man and the Black Widow father together with Iron Fist and Lei Kung, and Iron Fist reports that Hope and Wolverine are already through the portal and are in K’un Lun. Captain America announces that they will get the equipment for Stark through, and then fall back to K’un Lun to regroup and keep fighting. Cap then asks the Thunderer if hse is certain they will be able to traverse the worlds, as he is not keen on his people leaving Earth and not coming back. Lei Kung replies that he has bored a molten hole through celestial clockwork to come here, and that it will not heal quickly. ‘I’ll take that as a yes’ Cap mutters.
Suddenly, ‘T’Challa! My Lord!’ a voice calls out. ‘What news to you bring?’ the Black Panther asks a warrior who kneels beside him. ‘T’Challa - great one - the water’ the warrior begins quickly. ‘Slow down, son. What are -’ the Black Panther begins, while the warrior announces ‘The lake - twisted visions lake - it rises up and - a wall of water simply rose up -’. Cap glances upwards, and declares that Namor is here.
Indeed, Namor rides a massive, swirling wave of water, his trident raised high, he bring the water down to the Wakandan palace in spectacular display and booms ‘WAR!’