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The Hate Machine – part 4: Small Problem
Jean and her team are being transported to Wakanda via the Sentinel Trinary controls. However, outside Wakanda, they are stopped by a bad weather front and hit by lightning, courtesy of Storm.
The Sentinel falls. Nightcrawler offers to teleport them to safety, but Jean tells him to let it fall and they end up in the ocean, protected by Jean’s telekinetic field. She senses that Storm is headed to Wakanda’s capital. Gentle is there, as well as other mutants. She’s going to wipe them out. Trinary announces the Sentinel is rebooting. She can use it to take Storm out. Jean forbids it and orders her to protect the Wakandan mutants on the ground. Jean flies ahead, vowing to take care of Storm.
In Wakanda, Gentle runs for his life, fleeing from Storm’s lightning. He is confronted by the Black Panther and asks him to stay away for his own safety. The Panther confronts his former wife, asking what this is. She uses her winds to push the Panther and his warriors aside, leaving only Gentle. At that moment, Jean reaches them. Storm calls her an abomination but Jean wryly replies that it’s good to see her, too.
The Sentinel lands in front of Gentle. Fearing the worst, he decides he is done running and gathers more strength, literally growing. Trinary peeks out of the Sentinel and assures him they are here to help!
In the sky, Jean telekinetically shields herself from Storm’s lightning. She cannot telepathically reach the thing causing her hatred, but she senses a suggestion. Someone told Storm to come to Wakanda. She can remove that suggestion. Jean strikes and Storm lands hard close to Nightcrawler and Wolverine.
Kurt is concerned and wants to reach her, though Laura holds him back. Mutation! Storm screams. It’s all around her. In her! She decides to destroy it all and causes lightning to strike them and herself.
The others dodge the attack and Gentle throws himself over Storm to protect her. Afterward, Laura hits her on the head to take her out. She’ll be fine, Laura assures a concerned Kurt. To this, Gabby adds that you don’t lose friends if they lose consciousness.
Meanwhile, Gentle still suffers from the attack and the Black Panther demands to know why Ororo attacked them. Jean quickly explains that wasn’t Ororo. They will explain but, for now, both Ororo and Nezhno need medical attention and they have to remove whatever’s in Storm’s mind.
The unconscious Storm lies on a high tech slab. The Panther stands by her side, clearly concerned. Jean asks if they are close. Hesitatingly, he replies they are again. They were married. Jean sighs; it’s amazing how much you miss when you are dead.
A holographic image of Storm’s brain shows a nanite sitting on her amygdala. Attempting to remove it surgically could be very dangerous, T’Challa warns. Trinary announces that she cannot control it, but she can turn it off permanently. Jean refuses. She wants to know what they are dealing with. She wants to examine it while it is functioning. She asks, how big T’Challa can make the brain scan.
The holo brain scan turns big enough to engulf them. Jean telepathically links with Trinary to sense the nanite in Storm and with T’Challa for his knowledge of the mind. She uses her telekinesis to pull out the nanite through the safe pathways of Storm’s brain.
A little later, Trinary has it as the X-Men, including a recovered Storm, have gathered. Trinary explains there is a there is a story that an analytics company worked out how to use people’s social media data against them. Playing to their biases and online habits. The accusation is the company was employed to swing world-changing votes in several countries, and they continue to do so. Essentially, they play on people’s fears. They implant distrust and hatred.
That’s what this is – she refers to the nanite – taken to the extreme. This isn’t remote persuasion. This is pure fear and hate directly wired into the brain. It’s called a Sentinite. Nanite Sentinels latched onto people’s amygdala, Jean continues. With the same mutant detection ability as previous Sentinel generations. Ordinary people turned into instant mutant haters and hunters, Laura muses.
Jean points out there is something more sinister. If those nanites enter a mutant brain, as they have seen with Ororo, they will attempt to take their own life. This could wipe out all of mutantkind. Jean announces there is a force out here. Someone who hates mutants. She sensed someone else in the ambassador’s mind before her brain was destroyed. She felt the same presence in a suggestion in Storm’s mind. It’s after Jean. She turns to T’Challa and warns him that if they stay here, Wakanda is threatened. They need to go somewhere else, somewhere where nothing can reach them. Frowning, T’Challa replies he can ensure nothing reaches them here. No, he can’t, Storm interjects. He can’t protect them from what’s in a person’s head. Jean thanks the Black Panther for all his help. But they need to go somewhere, where the can regroup and start fighting back.
Sometime later, Jean is walking an underwater complex, surrounded by ruins with King Namor, She asks him what those ruins are. Another civilization who thought they were fully in control of the world, until the waters rose and swallowed them whole, he replies dismissively. But their buildings were sound and the Atlanteans were able to supplement them with their own to keep them safe.
Laura and Gabby join them. Gabby enthuses she saw a mermaid. And Laura grins broadly as she admits it was pretty amazing. Seeing the girls’ enthusiasm, Jean smiles. Defensively, Laura points out being Wolverine doesn’t make her impervious to the wonder of a #(&% mermaid!
Jean thanks Namor and touches his arm. They can start here. He’s provided a sanctuary for his people. He corrects her that they are not his people. Jean laughs and points out he is a king and a mutant. She is not asking him to lead but they do need him beside them.
They need something else from him, Laura states. And what is that? he asks. They need him to put on some clothes! Gabby announces bluntly.
Namor is not happy about this, but the others point out living at the bottom of the ocean only protects them if the king of the ocean cannot be turned against them. Trinary adds that the nanites can’t get them down here, but still on the surface. She was able to work together with the Wakandans to create these suits, as everyone gets a new outfit. They will act as firewalls to the sentinites.
Gabby tells the glowering Namor not to worry. The sooner he helps them win this one, the sooner he can show off Abs-lantis again.
Gentle hesitatingly tells Jean he doesn’t belong here. His power is pretty useless. Jean assures him they can work on the psychic block against his powers. Nezhno just doesn’t want to hurt anyone. Nightcrawler chimes in that this is exactly why they want him on the team.
Jean turns to the team, telling them out there is someone who wants to wipe mutants out, but their foe has no idea what they are facing. They have a king and a goddess. Gabby coughs politely. They have a king and a goddess and a Gabby, Jean amends. Some people will try to tear them down, she tells Gentle, but they are the X-Men and they know there is a better way. They are going to change the world. Their new mutant nation starts here!
Meanwhile, Cassandra Nova is busy travelling around the world, meeting with world leaders, stoking the fears of mutant and, especially, of Jean Grey. They would not know if Grey and her zealots were standing right behind them, Cassandra threatens, but she would… with this. Forge walks in carrying a box. The chancellor begins to ask a question but Cassandra cuts him off. Yes, Forge is a mutant, but she has him under control. He is quite tame. He is livestock and she is only interested in what he can produce. He hands her the box, which she opens.
She continues that Forge has produced these sentinites. Her gift to the chancellor. This will allow him to detect mutants. The box is empty, causing one of the people to ask where they are. They are already installed, is Cassandra’s reply.
A moment later, the chancellor draws a gun at a guard. Mutant! he states. Abomination! He fires several times. Cassandra tells him it’s okay. They will get this cleaned up. Their children played together, the chancellor states in shock. She is sorry for the betrayal he must feel, she states. To have one of them infiltrate his life like this. But she ash given him his power back. And she has given the same gift to like-minded leaders. The mutants can never hide again, she announces.


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Jean Grey is standing somewhere near the Xavier Institute, wearing her new red and blue uniform. She recalls that she was the Phoenix. She burned so brightly. And then she was dead and everything was dark. And now she is alive again. She addresses someone, explaining that she needs that person to understand she is not content to return to the same life. She refuses to accept the world for how it is. She is going to change it.
Flashback:She sent the Phoenix away. Afterwards, she was surrounded by so many people she loved and she could feel they were afraid. Not of her. They were afraid if they touched her, she’d break or maybe just fade away. They were afraid for about ten seconds. Hank McCoy grins and engulfs Jean in a bear hug. And moments later, the others join in.
Jean learns what happened while she was away from her friends’ thoughts and words. Of battles with villains and against each other. They talk about destructive division that sounds like petty squabbling to Jean. She is amazes at the story how Kitty phased a bullet through the planet. And every time she learns about someone else being gone, she grieves. And then, she meets a familiar face with a totally foreign mind.
He is from… somewhere else, she decides about Old Man Logan. He’s not him. He agrees and adds she is not her. What do they do now? Jean suggests they start with introductions. They shake hands. He is Logan. Just not hers. She is Jean. She was never his, she adds with a wicked smile.
Nightcrawler gently suggests she could do with a break. Does she want to go? She agrees and he teleports her away. Moments later, they are outside the Xavier Institute in Central Park. Kurt tells her it was named after her for some time and, despite all she has been through, that still feels big to her.
Among the picnicking crowd of Central Park, one young man shouts a racial slur at Nightcrawler and throws his Hot Dog at him. Jean telekinetically stops it and Kurt jokes that that’s the first time a Hot Dog has been used as a projectile weapon. Maybe they should program Hot Dogs into the Danger Room. He grabs it from the air and bites into it. Taste like mustard and bigotry, he decides.
The young man tells Jean to keep her monster friend away from them. Her “monster friend?” she repeats and her eyes glow. She informs him his name is Kurt. Along others, he has saved this city and world countless times. Without him, he wouldn’t be standing here. And even if that weren’t true, he is still one of the most beautiful souls on this or any other plane she has visited. He, however, Chad Townsend… Kurt interrupts her. Jean looks down and doesn’t continue her tirade. She powers down instead.
It’s okay, she tells Chad but nevertheless gets in his face. She’s having a pretty big day. He could not have picked a worse time to come at her and her friends with a bun full of processed meat and intolerance. She informs him she could humiliate him. She could tell all those people what he does with his time. She could let them know about the bile he writes to strangers from the anonymity and safety of his room. But she can feel he is scared. He doesn’t understand half the things he professes to hate. He’s worried that he is what he hates and it disgusts him and he ends up disgusted with himself. That’s an all too common vicious circle. She tells him his parents are idiots and suggests he stop listening to them. Ignorance is never an excuse for hatred. Go home. Learn something! She tells the audience telepathically to go back to their lives.
Kurt points out that she is in the building. Is he a mind reader now? Jean teases. Just intuitive, Kurt replies and offers to come with her, but Jean wants to do it alone.
She steps into the mansion to find her adult daughter from anther timeline, Rachel, sitting there. Rachel felt her coming. She doesn’t know what to say. There is too much. Jean suggests she doesn’t talk. She telepathically reminds her they don’t need to. She suggests Rachel lower her defenses.
So the two fly together, enjoying for once being alive together being in the same timeline together and their minds drift together and all the complicated thing that would have been hard to say sort themselves out.
Jean tells Rachel there is someone else she needs to see, a child she hasn’t met. Will Rachel take her? Rachel wonders why Jean wants to meet her. Because she’s Logan’s, is Jean’s reply.
Laura Kinney, sometimes X-23 but currently going by Wolverine, doesn’t seem overjoyed to see them and asks if it would have killed Rachel to call ahead. Jean asks if she can come in and Laura tells her she is welcome in her home but not her head.
Laura asks Jean why she is here. Jean explains she hasn’t much family left. Laura and Rachel are connections to people important to her. They are interrupted by Laura’s younger, clone sister Gabby, who is utterly star-struck at meeting Jean. She asks her what number she is thinking of. Laura chides her for demanding party tricks. Seven and a half, Jean answers smiling.
Jean gets up to leave. She just felt someone in New York. Someone unexpected. Actually, she doesn’t know what she’s going to do when she sees them, but she is going to see them. Is it going to be a friendly visit? Rachel asks and is told no. Laura dons her cowl and announces she will accompany them.
Jean asks Gabby to stay behind with her pet wolverine Jonathan. As she heads to the door, Jean pauses and tells Gabby 437,603 and 2/5ths.
Soon the three women float to New Attilan near the Statue of Liberty to confront the man responsible for Cyclops’ death. Jean finds out that the Inhumans’ psychic defenses aren’t strong enough. They can’t see the three of them. He isn’t in the throne room, she muses. Almost like he isn’t welcome…
Jean and Rachel senses someone else sensing them. Moments later, the giant dog Lockjaw teleports his master Black Bolt in. Black Bolt stomps and the three women lose their footing.
Wolverine immediately extends her claws, ready to attack Lockjaw. Rachel intends to assault Black Bolt. Jean orders her to wait, then gets between her and Black Bolt. She turns to the Inhuman king and warns him that she is not connected to the Phoenix anymore, which means she can use everything without fear of the Phoenix taking hold. She doesn’t know what that means, yet, but one thing she does know now is the all-powerful cosmic being was holding her back!
She powers down and asks who sensed them. Who speaks for Black Bolt? A small, blue Inhuman with lots of eyes speaks up. Jean explains she didn’t want any violence. She is not here for revenge against Black Bolt for his part in the death of Scott Summers? the child asks. No Jean assures them. She is here for something else, but this was careless. They are working to change perceptions. They don’t want a world that hates and fears them. That would be easier if they didn’t get into a superpowered fight in an ominous castle in front of the Statue of Liberty. She states the youngster is a telepath. So they should be able to sense she doesn’t want to hurt Black Bolt. Part of her wants to hurt him, the child points out. Is she going to? Jean asks. No, is the reply.
Jean turns to Black Bolt and asks him to come with her. She takes him with her onto the Astral Plane, where he can communicate. He asks where he is. Her mind, she explains. He calls it fractured. Just busy, Jean replies. She’s also in the mind of a small mutant child in the Institute. She’s borrowing her mind passively to watch over her friends. She’s in the mind of Laura and Gabby’s pet wolverine watching over Gabby, to make sure she doesn’t follow them. She’s in the mind of a young man called Chad. He is arguing with his parents. She’s making sure he isn’t hurting himself or someone else. She thinks he will be fine though.
Black Bolt asks why she is watching them. Because she wants to protect them and more. He is a ruler, so she knows he understands. She has some understanding of the fight between his people and hers. She knows of the Mists he unleashed that killed Scott… they were a terrible accident. She thought about sharing her pain and her loss with him, letting him feel it all. But that doesn’t help either of them. They are going to have to be able to rely on each other. That starts here.
He asks what she needs. Jean replies she needs him to speak. He points out he cannot. She tells him to speak with her voice. Say it! And using Jean’s voice, Black Bolt announces that he is sorry.
Present:Jean narrates it was all she could ask for. It was a beginning. But she needs him to understand she is not content to return to the same life. She looks at Scott Summers’ headstone. She refuses to accept this world for how it is. She is going to change it. She touches the grave to say goodbye, then leaves. She wishes he were here to change it with her.
Back at the Xavier Institute after Jean has left:Big day? Kitty Pryde asks Rachel, who admits it feels like everything could get better. That’s Jean, Kitty agrees, wishes her a good night and leaves.
Alone Rachel senses something. Is someone there? she calls.
No, there’s no one here, Cassandra Nova replies to an entranced Rachel. She gloats that Rachel is strong but she is not her mother yet. She is no threat to Cassandra. However, when the time is right, Rachel will be an impressive weapon to wield against Jean…


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The Hate Machine – part 5: The Truth
Warsaw, Poland, inside the Presidential Palace:Cassandra Nova assures the president that he is doing the right thing, for his citizens and for his country. She urges him to sign the orders, and he does.
Nearby, a policeman visits a friend, Antonij, a visibly green-skinned mutant. He informs him the law goes into effect at midnight. He has to flee. Antonij refuses. He has a life here. His friend begs him to call whomever he can, warn them, take his son and go.
Outside the Louisiana hospital, where the shooter from the rally is under observation, anti-mutant protesters are picketing.
The news anchorwoman reports that opinions are divided, with some claiming that the shooter David Bushnell acted in self-defense. The videos clearly show Bushnell, father of two, shooting the mutant woman in cold blood.
Her male colleague interrupts that the surveillance shows him defending himself against a dangerous mutant, who attacked a peaceful rally. The mutant Gambit had just caused several explosions. Bushnell had no idea what the mutant he was facing could do. Was he supposed to wait until he got a face full of acid?
In the meantime, there are reports of attacks on mutants in Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland as well as several African countries. Poland has signed a law for the detainment of all mutants.
In the hospital, David Bushnell is cuffed to the bed, ranting that there are mutants everywhere. Two cops are standing guard outside.
Gambit, disguised as a male nurse, gets inside. When one cop insists on accompanying him, Gambit takes him out inside the room. Bushnell continues ranting. Why did he kill her? Gambit asks. Suddenly, he hears a voice telling him he is not alone here.
It’s Jean Grey, who has been telepathically shielding herself, Nightcrawler and Trinary. Gambit asks what’s going on and Jean explains they are here for the same reason he is, to work out why a young girl was killed. But it’s not what it seems. She turns to Trinary and explains she and Trinary have linked minds to find a way to safely disable a Sentinel inside this man’s head.
Trinary announces she has found the Sentinite and can turn it off. She does, and suddenly David Bushnell stops spewing hatred and asks instead what’s going on. Jean apologizes and tells him he has been used. He recalls killing someone and begins to cry. Jean assures him he was not in control, then tells Nightcrawler that David’s father is in the parking lot. They won’t let him see his son.
Kurt teleports outside and returns with the older man. David tells him what he remembers. Kurt urges that they have to go now. Jean tells Mr. Bushnell that he has to leave. It would be bad to find him in here and an unconscious cop. He promises to return for his son. Jean vows they will find out who is behind this and return to defend him, then Nightcrawler teleports them away.
Outside, Gambit sees the Sentinel (now adorned with rainbows and flowers) and intends to use his power then is surprised to see Honey Badger. Jean is astonished they know each other. Gambit once exploded her to pieces in Madripoor, Gabby explains. For strategic reasons, Gambit quickly adds. Laura interject this is the Sentinel-X. It belongs to Trinary and they just got done repainting her, so please don’t blow her up. Gambit is curious how they know the Sentinel is a ‘her.’ Gabby replies they can explain sexing Sentinels on the way. The way to where? Remy asks.
Storm and Gentle are atop the Sentinel and explain that a large group of Polish mutants are on the run and headed for the Baltic Sea. They are going to have their back, Jean adds and transports the others to the trop. They enter the inside of the Sentinel and Trinary orders it to fly.
Hours later, Poland, the coast of the Baltic Sea:The mutant refugees have reached the edge. They are about to enter the waiting boats when the Polish army arrives ordering them to detention.
Antonij orders his son Fillip behind him. They are joined by the Sentinel X, hovering in the air and ordering the army to stand down. Gentle nervously tells Jean he doesn’t want to hurt people and she promises him he won’t have to.
Gambit asks if her perfect vision always included taking on armies and invading sovereign nations. Jean hopes she has a way around that.
They leave the Sentinel and Jean orders her team to protect the mutants. No one gets hurt on either side. They do this right and peacefully. She tells Storm, who is standing by her side, that the soldiers are nervous. Storm points out that they are children with guns and orders they don’t understand. Of course they are nervous.
Jean realizes they are going to fire and warns her team to protect the refugees. Trinary commands the Sentinel to shield them. Next Jean orders Nightcrawler, Honey Badger and Wolverine to take out their big guns. Gentle protects some kids while the Kinney sisters make short work of the tanks.
Jean addresses the army, telling them that she needs them to see. She telepathically connects the soldiers and the refugees. Most soldiers drop their weapons as a result. One general shouts at them to pick them up again. He screams at the X-Men that they have invaded Polish soil and have no right!
Actually, they do, comes the voice of a newcomer, King Namor, who arises from the sea a glob-like ship behind him. Their little army stands at the edge of the Baltic Sea. If their president would like to continue safely trading and flying over Namor’s waters, he suggests they pull back from his borders.
Jean announces the mutant nation is offering asylum to these people. The mutants begin entering the ship. The general stammers he can’t allow this. Those people are a traitors to their nation! Storm lectures him that no true leader sees his own people as threat. Jean adds he has been lied to. That doubt he is feeling, that shame, those are his true feelings. Addressing him as Jakub, she chides that his parents raised him better than this.
When they are all aboard, Nightcrawler tensely asks if Jean changed the soldiers’ minds. Jean explains she simply merged the minds of the soldiers and refugees for a moment.
Gabby remarks she likes how Jean says this like it’s no big deal. Jean explains they saw the real people and so the soldiers no longer believed their country’s narrative and chose to do the right thing. Jean continues that she’s been in enough heads to know most people aren’t evil - they are protective, misinformed and scared. Whoever is trying to breed hate, that’s how they stand against them. That’s how they fight this. They are going to crush the lies and weaponize the truth!


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The Hate Machine – part 6: Learn to Hate
Recalling her earliest memories, Cassandra Nova muses that Nelson Mandela once said: “No one was born hating.”
But she was, her brother Charles Xavier tried to kill her in the womb. That kind of thing can really stay with you. She was born hating his kind, she informs the mutant inventor Forge, whom she has under her control, forcing him to work for her. And she will never be safe, until all mutants are eradicated. She could try to destroy them all herself, but more would be born. Does he know which animal kills the most humans? she asks, a seeming non sequitur. Mosquitos, he replies, not interrupting his work.
Cassandra calls him a clever little mistake. When humans see a mosquito, they squash it without thought. It’s instinct. She wants to extend that to mutants. Every time a new mutant is born, she wants humanity to instinctively squash it. She claps her hand like squashing a mosquito.
She admits Jean Grey and her grasp for legitimacy are concerning, but she will have nowhere left to hide soon.
She turns to a teenage boy with long brown hair sitting on a crate. He will help her. Obediently, he repeats her words. Cassandra muses she shouldn’t distract Forge. They have a timeframe after all. She orders him to keep building the instruments of his own destruction. She continues that Mandela said people must learn to hate. She is paraphrasing here, leaving out a lot of lovey-dovey inclusion stuff, but he was right. People must learn to hate. She’s going to be their teacher.
Flashback:A younger Nezhno Abidemi, standing in a spacious Wakandan apartment, asks his mother why they hate him. Mercilessly, she replies that he does not belong here. His father wasn’t Wakandan. He isn’t Wakandan. He is an outsider and will never be welcome in their land. Nezhno asks her if she likes him. His mother does not reply. She looks away and announces her husband will be home soon. Nezhno should not be in sight when he returns.
He shouldn’t hit her, Nezhno insists. His mother orders him to leave. Nezhno claims he can stop him and begins to glow as he accesses his strength. Angrily, she hits him. She told him never to do that! She tells him he is not Wakandan! He is not human! He is a mistake!
Reality:X-lantis :Jean cradles Nezhno’s chin and tells him how sorry she is. She explains to him that is it not his powers harming him. His seizures and pain aren’t physical. The doctors looked for what they thought they’d find and no deeper. And they weren’t Jean, Storm adds. Jean explains that any time he used his power, someone hurt him. And, instead of wishing violence on those who hurt him, he wishes for no violence at all. She can undo the trigger for the pain and then they can work together on the reasons behind it.
Nezhno doesn’t dare to hope as he asks if that means she can help him? She already has, Jean promises. It won’t hurt next time. She tells him they are going to fight for a world where everybody belongs.
Jean and Storm leave, while Trinary joins Nezhno and asks if he is alright. She takes his hand and he is taken aback, because for the first time in a long time he can feel physical sensation.
Jean joins Gambit, who is impressed at all she has done, at saving so many mutants. Jean replies that they shouldn’t have needed saving. Until they are welcomed back by their countries, all they’ve done is create another city for refugees. They need to find the chief architect if this hate and change their mind. That’s where this comes in, she refers to the cupola being erected by Atlanteans. Gambit asks what it is. Jean replies that, when it is finished, she will use it to find their attacker.
Honey Badger joins them and announces, it’s called Searebro. They haven’t decided on a name Jean answers diplomatically. Gabby claims she will get inside her head and chants Searebro Searebro. Jean continues she is very glad they ran into him, because they need to steal something.
A little later, with the whole team gathered, Jean explains they can only win this with the truth. Before the British ambassador died, someone else in her mind spoke to Jean. Taunted her. No cameras caught their interaction, but Trinary believes she can pull that conversation from a cell phone to clear Jean’s name.
Trinary adds the British ambassador certainly had a phone and they are always recording. She’s been reading recent British diplomatic conversations.
She’s spying on the British government? Gabby asks. Trinary clarifies she is talking to a Russian server spying on the British government. They’ve learned ambassador Marbury’s possessions are to be transported back to England aboard the new ambassador’s private jet. Marbury’s phone will be there. They’ll be over the Atlantic in a few hours. Apologetically, Jean tells Gambit, she realizes this sounds bad. Gambit summarizes she wants him to break into a diplomat’s plane over international waters to steal from a dead woman. She didn’t realize how bad, Jean admits. While he leads the retrieval Jean will use Searebro to find out who is working against them.
A little later, Trinary’s Sentinel is flying high over the Atlantic. The ambassador’s plane is in sight and Trinary has taken their radar offline. Also aboard are Gambit, the Kinney sisters and Nightcrawler. Gambit names the cargo hold as their best point of entry. Laura lectures Gabby to listen to Gambit. He’s one of the best thieves in the world. Gabby appreciates her sister for wanting her to be better at breaking and entering.
Gambit and Kurt discuss how to best teleport them inside, as Kurt can’t see into the cargo hold. Trinary suggests she could open the door, so Nightcrawler can see inside. A moment later, it is done and they have teleported into the plane’s cargo hold.
In the meantime, Jean is donning the Cerebro helmet, carefully watched by Gentle and Storm, who asks if she is up to this. Jean explains that, in the past, she has never been able to use a Cerebro machine without worrying about going too deep and have the Phoenix take over. With the Phoenix gone, she finally gets to learn what she is capable of. She is more than ready. And the seas should amplify her reach.
She starts scanning and Cassandra Nova greets her moments later, mocking she was wondering why it took Jean so long. As Jen recognizes her, Cassandra assures Jean she is ending that little dream of hers. More poised, Jean retorts she won’t. Her X-Men are close to the truth. She will share it with the world.
Cassandra scoffs. Jean has been gone a long time. Nobody cares about the truth anymore. Humanity will be turned against mutants. It’s not so hard. They are quick to fear anyone who is different. There will be nowhere safe for her in the world. She wanted to play on a global stage? Let’s play, Cassandra challenges Jean. She’s already driven Jean form one nation. Now she is going to take away the support she enjoys from another.
Cassandra is physically in a helicopter over the ocean with the boy. She tells him they are going to focus the hate and anger in him on a goal worth it.
Horrified, Jean warns Namor.
Her work done, Cassandra kicks the teenager out of the chopper. Mutants! he shouts in the air and begins to transform into his abomination form. Abomination!
She is hitting Atlantis! Jean warns.
Smash! Teen Abominations cries as the waves gather above him.


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The Hate Machine – part 7: Atlantis Smashed
Searebro:Jean senses Teen Abomination’s attack. She takes Storm and Gentle with her outside the protective dome in a TK force bubble and alerts King Namor to the danger. Namor sees Teen Abomination felling one of Atlantis’ towers and swims outside to confront him.
High above the Atlantic, the rest of the team are infiltrating the cargo hold of the British ambassador’s plane to steal the late ambassador’s Maybury’s cell phone, while their cloaked Sentinel flies above them
Honey Badger suggests they start with the safe. Gambit asks if she wants to learn how to break into a safe? Who doesn’t? she replies enthusiastically.
In the passenger space, the ambassador suddenly snarls “mutants!” The guard asks what is going on. Ignoring him, the ambassador grabs the guard’s gun and fires down to the cargo hold, where Wolverine covers the others with her body. However, Trinary gets hit in the hip and loses her concentration, just as Nightcrawler teleports in. A moment later, they see that, without Trinary’s control, the Sentinel falls down on the plane.
Atlantis:Namor holds up the falling tower and orders his people to evacuate. Teen Abomination attacks him and Namor panics, fearing for his fleeing people as he drops the spire. Luckily, Jean catches it with her telekinesis.
Jean tells Gentle to handle Teen Abomination and asks Namor to evacuate his people. When Gentle asks whom he is facing, Jean telepathically explains his name is Jamie Carlson. He calls himself Teen Abomination. She tells Gentle he needn’t be afraid of hurting him - he can take what he throws at him. Gentle stops Teen Abomination’s attack. Jean reminds him he has a Sentinel in his head. Gentle needs to get him away from Atlantis and out of the ocean or he will keep fighting until he drowns. Gentle lets loose with one mighty blow, hitting his foe out of the water and into the air. Where Storm is waiting. With a lightning bolt, she short-circuits the sentinites in Teen Abomination.
In the dropping plane, Trinary is still out of it. Gabby tries to stem her bleeding, while Nightcrawler and Wolverine teleport to the cabin, where Laura takes out the ambassador.
In the meantime, Honey Badger has stilled Trinary’s blood loss. Gambit awakes her and orders her to concentrate. They are in free fall! Trinary regains control of the flying Sentinel that grabs the falling plane.
Finally, they land at Heathrow. The recovered ambassador asks what happened to him in there. Nightcrawler shortly explains and adds that the woman controlling those devices is still active and he needs the former ambassador’s phone to beat her. The ambassador is skeptical. The still hurting Trinary explains that phones collect data and she thinks she can get it. He asks who is behind this.
Later at Atlantis X.Jean holds a speech. Trinary records it and the data from ambassador Marbury’s phone is broadcast worldwide, showing how the ambassador really died. Afterwards, Jean explains how Cassanda Nova is now trying to destroy mutantkind by stoking hatred. She pleads for people to consider that they are being manipulated if they feel their hatred growing. She knows some of them will not believe that truth. But the X-Men will fight for them anyway.


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The Hate Machine – part 8: Global Hatred
Somewhere underground, Cassandra Nova’s hidden facility:Forge, under her control, stares upward at a glowing cloud – the sentinites that cause people to hate mutants. Cassandra Nova joins him and asks if they are ready. He replies in the affirmative. Finally, she can stop poisoning the edges and deliver a fatal dose, she enthuses. She gives the order to release them. Forge is about to press a button but tries not to. Amused, she notes his attempt to resist and warns him that, while he has a useful brain, she will destroy it if he pisses her off. She repeats her order.
A news broadcast:While the newsreel below shows several pro-mutant news items, the two anchorpeople are discussing the state of affairs. The anchorwoman narrates that there are calls from the international community to halt all acts of anti-mutant aggression, all in light of the audio evidence released by Jean Grey, implicating one “Cassandra Nova” in the death of the British ambassador.
Her male colleague, Mason, is not impressed. Scratchy audio conveniently appearing a month after the incident, is hardly evidence, he opines. This could all be a mutant plot to… His colleague interrupts to point out that suggestion is irresponsible. Ms. Grey clearly stated the same person behind Ambassador Marbury’s death was manipulating public opinion. The media has an obligation to report the news and not suggest a conspiracy that could further incite… Mason interrupts, demanding if she thinks he is being manipulated. With a smile, she replies that it’s hard to tell. He’s always been an ignorant hateful +%&$§. The show is suddenly replaced by a standby signal.
Atlantis X:Honey Badger has been watching the show on her tablet and remarks to Jean and Storm they just broke a TV network.
Trinary and Gentle join them and Trinary announces that she brought the Sentinite they pulled from Storm’s head back online. She has it in a small vial. Gabby asks the obvious question why they want Storm’s brain parasite online and Storm agrees. Gentle points out, so Trinary can study it and see if she can program it.
Trinary reports it revealed a command, a location. She thinks they are on the move. Can she sense the other Sentinites? Jean asks. Not all at once, is the reply. These things are spread through the entire planet.
They enter the Searebro chamber. Jean wants her to put on the Cerebro helmet. If she tunes her mind to the sentinites, she should be able to reach out to the others. It can be overwhelming but Jean will stay with her to limit her exposure.
Trinary sees golden sentinite swarms that are heading to every major city on every continent. There are millions. She can’t stop them! She shouts. Jean agrees: her mind would be torn apart. They need— She looks at Gabby.
Soon they have her sitting in the Cerebro unit. Jean explains they need a mind that can take the strain. Gabby’s brain can continually repair itself. Laura joins them and protests. Jean retorts they need Gabby because, unlike Laura, she doesn’t feel pain and this would be agony! Her point made, Jean links minds with Gabby and Trinary.
Elsewhere:A surprised Forge tells Cassandra Nova that the Sentinite swarm heading for Istanbul has somehow received another signal. Cassandra realizes it must be Jean. But, she figures, if Jean is working against the sentinites, her defenses will be down. As good a time as any to take her on directly. She scans and manages to contact Jean directly. Cassandra smirks: Jean has extended herself beyond her capacity. She has left herself wide open.
Jean warns Gabby and Trinary to brace themselves. Gabby runs to the other dome and alerts Gambit, Storm and Nightcrawler of the attack. Storm orders Kurt to get Trinary. He teleports in, grabs her and gets out.
Trinary protests she needs to get back there. The Sentinites… The others reply she cannot fight Nova and the Sentinites at the same time. Could she sense where Cassandra’s signal is coming from? They want to help but Jean can’t know or otherwise Cassandra will know. Trinary sends the location to Gambit’s phone. Cassandra Nova is in Genosha.
Storm turns to Nightcrawler and tells him to get her into the sky. He teleports both of them high up into the air over the ocean. Nightcrawler reminds her that Cassandra has been in her head once already, so don’t get too close to her. Storm points out she doesn’t need to get close to hit her.
Inside Searebro, Gabby falls unconscious. Laura offers to take her place. Jean warns her it will tear her mind apart. And the world will be torn apart otherwise, Laura retorts. She assures Jean she can handle it. Gentle suggest he join Laura to help. Gambit and Nightcrawler offer their help as well. Jean replies that, even with all of them, she cannot hold off Cassandra Nova and keep this together. She may not have to, Kurt replies.
Genosha:Cassandra Nova gloats to Forge that his race will be done soon, and it’s largely thanks to his warped mind. She thinks she will keep his brain in a jar when this is all done.
Suddenly, an explosion outside shakes them. Cassandra swears as she sees the storm flood coming for the island, courtesy of Storm.
Searebro:Nova is gone, Jean realizes. The others have formed a circle, lending her strength. Trinary announces that it is not enough to turn the sentinites off. They have to be destroyed! Jean tells her to do it now. Trinary apologizes to the suffering Laura whom they are using as a conduit. She explains her mutation activated when she was twelve. She was instantly connected to the entire online world. And while she found good there, she also found fear and ignorance wrapped in anger. She tried to protect the world from the worst that she encountered. She removed as much ugliness as she could. She absorbed it. The trolling, the intolerance, the bile. She is now uploading all that hate. All the hateful angry comments overwhelming the sentinites.
Gabby wakes up. Why are they all holding hands? she asks. Did they win? Gambit and Jean tell her they did and she sulks at missing out. She asks Jean for a psychic video replay of it.
In Genosha, Forge has to tell Cassandra Nova all the Sentinties are gone. She orders him to instantly build more. He will not eat or sleep. He will simply function and build! She’ll set up some kind of feeding tube. She admits to underestimating Jean. It’s time to get personal…
At the Xavier Institute, Rachel Summers takes out a student then flies into the sky following the voice of her master – Cassandra Nova…


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The Hate Machine – part 9: Grey vs. Grey
The Xavier Institute:Headmistress Kitty Pryde is calling Atlantis X to inform Jean Grey’s team that Rachel Summer has disappeared after taking out Rockslide. Jean fears that Cassandra Nova has taken over Rachel. Kitty offers to get her team ready. Jean thanks her but declines. Cassandra will also be able to take over them. She promises to ger Rachel back.
Trinary offers to get the Sentinel ready. Jean declines again. Trinary already has two missions, she explains.
Nightcrawler offers to accompany Jean. She tells him she knows how he feels about Rachel, but she really needs to do this alone. Kur is taken aback by Jean’s revelation that she is aware of his and Rachel’s past relationship. She replies he was practically screaming it every time she was in his head. He admits he should have told her, but he thought it was weird. Jean scoffs. They are X-Men. They have seen much weirder.
Jean walks past Gabby, who asks if she is really going to do this alone. She compares Jean to her sister Laura and points out she doesn’t have to do everything alone. Jean replies she was once bonded to the Phoenix Force. It tore a planet apart. This won’t happen again on her watch. This isn’t something Gabby can understand. Gabby retorts she was once turned into an alien telepathic queen who could communicate with other aliens across the galaxy. And the same day she blew up an entire moon full of her alien hive. It’s Jean’s turn to be flabbergasted, as Gabby continues that she might not exactly know what Jean went through, but there are degrees of experience.
Jean reaches the Serebro chamber where Storm is waiting. Did Jean always know she was going to bear the weight of the world on her shoulders? Because she was really questioning the decision. Now she knows why Jean is wearing the shoulder pads. She asks her what she needs. Jean replies by rote she is ok. Storm points out Jean need not protect her and repeats her question. Jean asks her to head part of the way to Genosha. If she can free Rachel, she will send her Storm’s way. Storm promises to catch her. They hug and Storm tells her to go be a hero.
Genosha:Cassandra Nova is keeping the brain-washed Rachel like a dog on a leash. Sensing Jean’s approach, she lets Rachel off the leash and orders her to kill her mother.
Rachel flies towards Jean, who is floating above the ground. Jean fends off her attack and telepathically urges Rachel to fight against Nova’s control. Rachel fires a psi-blast at her that smashes her to the ground.
Atlantis X:Gentle joins Trinary, Honey Badger and X-23 and asks what Trinary is working on. She replies there are so many demonstrably false stories online demonizing mutants. They’ve been posted, shared and believed, despite being complete fabrications. She’s trying to address the false narratives, dog whistle politics and hate speech. She is trying to replace the lies and move the truth where people will see it.
Gentle asks if he can help. She tells him to help Laura and Gabby find more positive stories to share. Gabby announces she is in charge of finding videos where mutants are playing with kittens and puppies. She honestly believes this is what she was born to do.
Looking at two test tubes, Gentle asks why the Sentinites are here. Trinary can’t tell him. He reminds her they are teammates. They should be able to trust one another. Laura points out this isn’t a trust issue. They are up against a powerful telepath. The fewer heads she can pull secrets from, the better. Gentle admits that makes sense.
He sits down and asks if she ever takes a break. Studying the Sentinites Trinary replies, sure. She reads a bit. Goes for a walk. Sometimes she reboots. Of course, Nezhno replies. Does she… uh…
Gabby groans at the awkwardness and tells Laura to do something. Laura bluntly tells Trinary she isn’t very good at listening to people, then reminds Nezhno he fought a Hulk. He should have the courage to asks a girl out! Trinary is embarrassed, only now getting it.
Genosha:Cassandra is pleased to see Rachel attacking Jean. However, Jean has had enough and stops her easily. Disappointed, Cassandra remarks that she thought Rachel could do her more damage. Jean replies she could, but she is fighting Cassandra in her own way. Figuring Rachel is no use, Cassandra begins to kill her. Jean shouts at her to stop. She tells her to free Rachel and she will lower her defenses and surrender. Cassandra cannot believe someone would be that pathetically altruistic. Jean tells her to read her mind. She won’t fight back and she won’t move.
Cassandra releases Rachel. Waking up, she asks if she hurt Jean, who assures her that she is alright, but she needs Rachel to leave. Rachel pleads; together they could take her. Calling her “dog girl,” Cassandra tells her to listen to mommy. Furious, Rachel hits her in the face, her blow supported by her TK. Cassandra gets up, recovers her lower jaw and threatens to show her real hurt. Jean warns her if she does that their deal is off. She tells Rachel that Ororo is waiting for her three miles away and tells her to go. When Rachel hesitates, Jean telepathically asks her to trust Jean.
Rachel leaves. Jean tells Cassandra, there is something missing in her. Has she never cared for anyone but herself? She hasn’t, has she? She is painfully alone. She doesn’t have to do this. Despite everything. They could talk. Really? Cassandra asks and blasts Jean apart the next moment. She begins to walk away, calling her an idiot.
Suddenly, a mental voice chides her; that wasn’t very nice. Cassandra is flabbergasted. She didn’t fight back, she didn’t move, an unharmed Jean points out. She just isn’t where Cassandra thought she was. She has been sending via Searebro all along. Cassandra confronted a psychic projection. She’s pretty selfless, but she’s not an idiot.
Cassandra admits that Jean has grown stronger. Jean agrees and adds that she is coming for her. They are all coming for her. People like Cassandra, with so much fear and hate in their heads, they are always quick to confuse weakness and empathy. Empathy isn’t weakness, it just means they have something bigger than themselves to fight for. And that makes them dangerous.
Jean’s psychic form grows dwarfing Cassandra. She has made her dangerous, Jean warns her.
Cassandra spits back that she isn’t afraid of Jean or her X-Men. Jean calls her on her lie. She is afraid of their compassion and what it says about her that she has none. She is afraid that she is wrong, that she is less, that she is lacking!
Cassandra promises that she will raise an army and crush Jean’s dream. And she will kill her. Unimpressed, Jean retorts that she isn’t afraid to die for others. In fact, she’d argue she’s pretty good at it. She’s done it a few times. She’s not afraid to die for what she believes in. Is Cassandra?
Jean breaks off contact. She tells the others that Rachel’s safe but they need to contact Atlantis immediately. They are going to war…


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The Hate Machine – part 10: Mutant Nation War
#&%$ you, humanity! Jean Grey screams into what seems to be a camera. Their time is over, now is the time of Homo superior, she rants. Humans have poisoned the planet, she continues. They squabble over race and religion and land and fail to realize they are all the same. They are all completely equal in their utter insignificance. Their petty rivalries have divided the world. Soon their bones will be displayed in museums, along with all the other creatures destroyed by their greed. A race too self-destructive, too selfish and too stupid to survive. Their time has come!
The South Korean national intelligence service helicarrier:A high official nods to an invisible voice giving him orders. When a soldier questions him, he shoots him. On the bridge, he announces they have new orders. All communications are to cease. All personal coms are to be seized. Closed channel radio communications only. What’s their mission? his assistant asks. They are to protect civilians from a mutant threat. Where? she asks. Genosha.
Several commercial jets are flying towards the island. What appears to be Jean Grey continues speaking. She announces she has taken Genosha for the mutant nation and she has hijacked the minds of the pilot of several commercial planes. Their passengers are now her hostages. And they are guarded by helicarrier and the army aboard. Mutants are done hiding! They attempted peace and humans spat in their faces. She invited them to evolve. She withdraws that invitation. Now it’s time for their extinction!
In X-lantis, Jean’s team watches “Jean’s” announcement to humanity, causing Honey Badger to ask if Jean has an evil twin. Storm wonders if Cassandra Nova has a shapeshifter. Trinary interrupts that this is technology. It’s a digital fake generated by a deep learning artificial neural network. It’s very good but not perfect. They can disprove this. Storm fears there will still be people who want this to be reality so much that they will reject any proof to the contrary. This supports their narrative. No amount of truth will sway them. Casandra wants them to come.
Jean agrees. Laura points out that, with the planes, Casandra has innocent hostages from several nations: they go in and if even one of them is harmed, the international fallout will be… Is she suggesting they don’t rescue them? Jean asks. Of course not, Laura demurs.
King Namor suggests another option. The X-Men saved many Atlantean lives. Let Atlantis fight this war! Jean fears Cassandra could turn the Atlantean soldiers against them, and she wanted to show the world they can change minds without violence.
What would stop her? Gabby asks. Jean is as powerful a telepath as Cassandra is, right? So, if Jean were crazy, evil and had a whole lot of minds in her thrall, what would stop her? Jean thinks hard, then announces she has to make a call.
A news report summarizes that one week has passed since the planes have been abducted and brought to Genosha. Opinion is split on who is responsible. While a video seemed to show Jean Grey take responsibility and declare war on the human race, there are now convincing claims that video is a fake. But already tense human and mutant relations have been further strained over this. And it is unclear how the situation can be resolved without putting lives in danger.
X-Atlantis:The X-Men receive a visit by the person Jean called – Tony Stark. Jean thanks him for doing this. He assures her that it’s nothing. He was able to do the whole job for a few million. Small price to pay for world peace. Seriously, he’s got spreadsheets. He’s run the numbers. He knows when the price of world peace gets on the high end. Of course, it was a lot easier with someone who can manipulate code with her mind. Seeing Trinary, he offers her a job, telling her they could change the world. Jean suggests that, before they change the world, they need to save it.
Soon, the team sit in the cockpit of the Sentinel. Jean asks Trinary how sure she is this is going to work. When it turns out Trinary isn’t, Jean gives her a pep talk. She turns to the team – Kurt, Laura and Gabby – and asks if they have practiced enough. Kurt wryly agrees: when the time comes, he will fight every sensible instinct he has and do this incredibly stupid thing. Laura adds they just have to piss off Cassandra Nova enough to get her out in the open. But that shouldn’t be a problem.
The Sentinel lands on Genosha. Trinary warns the team that she can sense cameras everywhere. This is being streamed. Gambit asks if she can cut the feed. Jean tells her not to. They want the world to see this. They have nothing to hide.
Cassandra senses their arrival and is eager for the confrontation.
Several soldiers have their weapons trained on the X-sentinel. Cassandra gloats that those people believe their planes were targeted by mutant terrorists led by Jean, and that Cassandra is saving them. They believe Jean is here to kill them. It’s a little rude to show up late to a war, she opines, as the soldiers open fire. This isn’t a war, Jean replies as she telekinetically stops the bullet.
Cassandra gives the order to fire and the Korean helicarrier sends a missile at the X-Sentinel.
Jean hurls Gentle at the missile and he smashes it. She telepathically sends: this is a rescue. She doesn’t want to hurt anyone. Cassandra retorts it doesn’t matter what she wants. She is in her victims’ heads. They want to fight Jean.
They think they can change their minds, Jean replies and telekinetically grabs something she brought, a helmet based on Magneto’s design. She’s never been a fan of Magneto’s notions, she tells Cassandra, but it turns out he had one good idea. A helmet impenetrable to a telepath.
In fact, all the other X-Men are equipped with helmets as well. As are the Atlantean army and the Avengers.
Jean shakes Captain America’s hand and thanks him for being here. He replies that they should have been with them right from the start.
Jean sends to Cassandra that she is glad she has cameras rolling. Because now everyone can see they are not the enemy and they are not alone. They are changing the rules. Cassandra wanted war. That’s not going to happen. They are going to force her out of everyone’s heads. They are going to stomp peace into her black heart!


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The Hate Machine – part 11: Waging Peace
Genosha:Equipped with telepathy-proof helmets, Jean Grey’s X-Men, the Avengers and Namor’s Atlantean army mean to take down Cassandra Nova and free her hostages. Cassandra has sent the brainwashed prisoners to fight for her. Jean protects her side telekinetically from their bullets. The heroes put ant-telepathy helmets on their foes, freeing them one by one.
Jean shouts they need to get control of the heli-carrier in the air and they need to lure Cassandra Nova out in the open. Honey Badger tells her she’s out. As Cassandra hovers above her army, Jean reminds her people not to hurt the other side, just get the helmet on them.
Cassandra flies away upward. Is she running? Captain America asks. Instead, Cassandra creates a hole in the heli-carrier’s hull and enters. When the soldiers aboard protest, she simply murders them, then strides toward the nuclear reactor.
From outside, the heroes see an explosion. Trinary tells them one of the carrier’s six nuclear reactors was just compromised. The carrier is in catastrophic failure. Cassandra is bringing it down on Genosha. They realize this will destroy the island and kill them all. Iron Man points out that the problem is the amount of radiation coming from the breached reactor. They can’t get near. Ignoring him, Gentle asks Nightcrawler to teleport him up there.
Nightcrawler teleports himself and Gentle high up in the air above the carrier, so Gentle can drop on it. He hits the breached part of the hull and begins closing the hole.
On the ground, Trinary informs the others that the radiation levels are falling. Captain Marvel asks in disbelief if their guy is holding together a reactor with his bare hands. He probably is, Jean agrees. She gives the order to evacuate the carrier and then get it away.
That moment, the Magneto helmet lifts from her head and floats upward, where Cassandra Nova is hovering. Jean thinks she can keep her out of her head? She snarls. She won’t be ignored, she threatens. Jean tells Storm to evacuate the carrier and the Avengers to keep freeing the civilians along with the Atlanteans. She warns them not to engage Nova. She will tear them apart with a thought!
What’s to stop her from doing that to Jean? Captain America asks. Jean retorts that she is trying right now and she is still here. Jean flies toward her and both of them lash out at each other with their psychic powers.
In the meantime, Storm leads several X-Men and Avengers in steering the carrier away from the island. Iron Man suggests dropping it into the water and letting the explosion go off into the sea. King of the sea flying right here, Namor reminds him unamused.
Gambit figures he can use his power to charge things to paradoxically prevent an explosion. He orders everyone off deck.
In the meantime, Cassandra has Jean lying on the ground. She tells her that’s where her kind belongs - in the ground. Laura Kinney attacks her from behind, slashing at her.
Gabby tells Nightcrawler they are up. Kurt is not happy but Gabby promises she won’t feel anything. Does she have it? he asks. Be super awkward if she forgot their secret weapon, she shoots back. He tells her to hold her fist like they practiced. She complies and he mutters this is stupid. Only if they fail, Gabby insists.
Cassandra lashes out at Wolverine with an energy blast. She pieced herself together from almost nothing! Cassandra boasts. And she thinks she can be stopped by being stabbed? Laura retorts that she thinks Cassandra can be mildly distracted by being stabbed.
Before Cassandra understands, Kurt teleports Gabby onto her back. Gabby stabs into her head and reaches into the back of her skull.
In the meantime, Storm, Namor, Captain Marvel and the X-Sentinel evacuate the humans from the heli-carrier.
Gambit begins to charge up the walls. He turns to Thor whom he asked to stay behind and asks he assumes Thor can stand a bit of radiation. The thunder god replies he has ventured to the dreaded realms of Sprague and withstood the skin-flaying gasses of the Balyeg Beast. Confused Gambit asks if that is appliable to the situation. Thor remarks it is actually an aptly comparable experience. Gambit tells him to get Gentle who stayed behind and then come back for him.
Thor soon finds Gentle literally straining to hold the core together. Addressing Gentle as “mighty warrior,” he tells him it is time to go. Gentle groans he can hold it. Thor puts a hand on his shoulder and assures him he does not doubt that. He believes he could hold the jaws of the World Serpent open and stand between it and Armageddon. But it’s alright. He can release his grip. He can let go.
On the ground, Cassandra lashes out, pushing back Gabby. She cannot be killed so easily, she announces darkly. Jean replies, they weren’t trying to kill her. Gabby left a surprise behind in her skull. One of her nanites is now in her skull, reprogramed by Trinary. Every time their minds touched, Jean felt there was an integral part of Nova missing. Nova is horrified as Jean informs her that they have given her what she was lacking. Now, every time she feels a mind, she will feel something else. Something she has never felt before. Empathy.
Aboard the carrier, Gambit tells Gentle and Thor that, if he has done this right, all the energy will blow up harmlessly into the sky. And if he got it wrong? Gentle asks. They’ll be torn apart before he feels any embarrassment.
He got it right and Thor flies away with the two of them.
On the ground, Casandra stammers. Jean tells her she put herself together and she was put together wrong. For all her power, she was a pawn to the hatred she was born with. She is far from the first to grow up with a prejudice she didn’t understand.
“What have I done?” Cassandra asks horrified. She caused a lot of pain, Jean replies, but she doesn’t want Casandra dead, she wants her healed. And then she wants to help her atone. She knows what it is like to be driven by a destructive force. To be consumed by vengeance. She offers Cassandra her hand. She wants to show her her vision.
Later, Jean, Kurt Gabby and Laura stand outside the United Nations building in New York. Kurt asks Jean if she is ready. She is, Jean replies. Gabby tells her to go in there and blow their minds! The others look at her quietly. Seriously? Laura asks. Gabby makes it worse by explaining her joke, then amends that Jean should go in there and be inspirational without any diplomat heads exploding.
Soon Jean holds her speech inside the UN, flanked by X-Men and Avengers. She assures them mutants are nothing to be afraid of. They are not the enemy. The only enemies are those who seek to divide them. The ugly bullies who decry their differences rather than celebrate their similarities. Who set them against each other for their own political gain. “We are not the enemy. We are you.” She died. She returned to a world divided. A world where intolerance is celebrated and ignorance is cheered. Where rumor is fact and fact is dismissed. She doesn’t believe in this world. She believes in a greater one. They are all stronger than this, better than this, kinder than this. She believes they can evolve past this point in history. She believes they can build a finer world together. She’d like to show them a world where no one is left behind…


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The Broken Land
Flashback to just before the first Hellfire Gala – when Arakko was still an island:In the Circle Perilous, Storm is fighting what looks like a younger version of herself. Said younger version sits atop Storm, who is trying to stop her. Nameless, the shapeshifter queen of Arakko hisses I amm yuu as she defends her title against her challenger. Storm shakes her off and replies that, if she were, she would have killed Storm already.
The other woman calls her a liar. Storm is not quick to kill. She is shapeshifter omega. She knows her. She has become her in her prime. When she was her best self. When she was clean. She throws lightning at Storm who dodges the attack.
Nameless accuses Storm of being tainted by the world. Seduced by power - by crowns and thrones. But Arakko does not belong to her. She did not suffer in the prisons! She did not shed blood on the battlefields. She was not there.
Storm replies she was fighting battles Nameless knows nothing of. Living a past, she stole the wrong face from. For if Nameless has youth, Storm has experience! She hits her with a snowstorm, freezing Nameless’ fluid flesh. Storm lands in front of her. She has no desire to kill Nameless but the other woman cannot defeat Storm. She asks her to yield and hand over her seat.
Nameless hisses she was not there. She wants to be of Arakko. Know the cost! She kills herself with a lightning bolt and Storm looks on in horror. A voice calls her.
Three days ago:Ororo sits in the Great Ring, the ruling body of Arakko, now one of the Ring and regent, as she has the one seat with two votes. Storm apologizes. She was deep in thought. No doubt weighing the decision they are all about to take, Isca the Unbeaten remarks. The future: It will be war or peace. So, return to Amenth to destroy the ancient enemies as the law of Genesis demands, or a new beginning here on this new planet. She suspects the final decision will be in Storm’s hands. She mockingly addresses her as queen of Arakko. Regent, Storm corrects her. They are a council. The decision should not be hers alone. Would that not please her, Isca needles, after she went through such trouble? Isn’t her throne comfortable, oh voice of Sol? Isn’t this what she wants? Storm does not reply:
Now, a small island on Arakko:A pudgy middle-aged man walks carrying some fish. A voice from above asks if that land is his. It is Magneto, floating in the air. The man scoffs at him to talk sense. It’s everybody’s. That’s how land works. But if he wants it just for himself, then they have a problem, “silverhair.” Do they have a problem?
Clearly angry, Magneto states his codename, and bristles he is unused to being threatened by… He stops, apologizes and announces his name is Max. He lands and explains that this island seems peaceful. He was hoping to build a home here. This can be that if he keeps an open door, the fisher tells him. And if he is not one for crowds, well, there is him and not much else. If alone is what he needs, here he can find it.
Good, that’s good, Magneto replies, clearly saddened. The fisher asks if he wants to talk about it. Magneto replies that he thought Arakkii frowned on weakness. The fisher laughs. The Krakoans think a lot about them. And know a little. Speaking pain is weak? How is that sense? How can you be strong if you won’t heal what’s broken? How do you heal without saying where it hurts? Speak the pain aloud, he urges Magneto.
What is there to say? he murmurs as he begins shaping the metal globe he brought with him into a building. He tried to build something. A great work. The great work. A dream of something perfect. Something to balance all he’d lived through… all he’d lost. But when he tried to make his dream real, it broke apart, shattered to pieces. And they cut him to the heart. There are those who see him as a monster. And he can pretend they never knew him. That they were not there. But if they see him as a fool – a failure – what can he say to that? What can he say to the truth? There is nothing to say. Nothing in him. Nothing left. What he sees here? This latest great work he has embarked on?
He points to the Autumn Palace he has created. A comfortable grave for him to die in. No more than that.
Port Prometheus, spaceport:The Red Lagoon, a new club and bar:Its owner, Roberto da Costa aka Sunspot, sits at the bar talking to Kobak Never-held. He explains it is a nice little investment but, at the end of the day, it’s a spaceport bar. He needs somewhere with acoustics… this planet needs a party palace. He wants to be the David Mancuso of Mars. Arakko, Kobak Never-held corrects him, and he has no idea who that is. Roberto lectures him, he made the dancefloor what it is today. Has he ever danced to disco? Kobak tells him he hasn’t. He was born as the final siege raged, over a century past. His first love died in the prisons. His name was Tarlo. They fought against the Vile and, when they came for them, he took it on himself. Kobak wept for a year. He has not shed a tear since.
Roberto tells him, his first love was named Juliana. She loved him against the odds. Saw something in him he hadn’t seen himself yet. Then she died to save his life. So, he lives. He raises his glass. Here’s to the business of living, he tells Kobak who returns the gesture. He sees Roberto –and he has a place in the broken land. Roberto jokes that is great but he needs to know if Nile Rodgers has…
He breaks off when he notices Vulcan berating a Shi’ar envoy. Doesn’t he know who he is? Vulcan shouts. The Shi’ar nervously points out he has diplomatic immunity. He is immune to challenge. Vulcan scoffs at this. Does he think him Arakkii? Has he already been forgotten? The Shi’ar tries to hint that there are certain vagaries at to what may officially be recalled. His face is familiar, he admits.
Vulcan grabs him by the front of his shirt. Because he is him, he hisses, the one they fear and adore. He is Vulcan! Energy flares from his mouth and eyes as he rants that he led the Shi’ar empire to true greatness. He is fire – and he never died! He heard how Gladiator usurped the throne, how he gave it to Lilandra’s line. To Xandra Xavier. But it wasn’t his to give – because he never died!
The Shi’ar begs, which pleases Vulcan. Perhaps it was fate, he mumbles, He is a Summers, and every Summers must kill his Xavier in the…
Roberto interrupts his ramblings. He doesn’t like shenanigans in his bar. At least not shenanigans he didn’t start. So is this what they’d call a shenanigan, Mr. Summers?
Vulcan lets the Shi’ar go. He’s heard of him, Vulcan states. He owns the Red Lagoon. Turning to his solar-powered form, Roberto announces it is step one of his larger plan. He thinks Arakko is the place for a major disco resurgence. He’s not even joking. Anyway, that makes the nice young gentleman a customer, and round here the customer is king. He trails off as against his will he powers down.
King, yes, Vulcan grins as he has absorbed Sunspot’s solar power. He attacks with an energy construct fist, but Roberto dodges the attack. He has fought without powers before. Vulcan strikes him and asks how that worked out for him.
At the bar, Kobak is disgusted that Vulcan is a weapons thief. The Shi’ar delegate asks him to help his friend. Help him in a one-on-one fight? Kobak asks in disbelief. He won’t insult a man he has just met.
Vulcan sneers at Roberto: look at him. Who is he? With his human suit, his human money, his human bar - what is he doing on the mutant planet? Vulcan knows why he is here. He is a king, the fire of empires! And he is a Summers… Krakoan royalty!
Suddenly, a heavy hand lands on his shoulder. He turns around to stare up at John Proudstar, the original Thunderbird. He’s a Summers, huh? John asks. Does he know Cyclops? He’s his brother, Vulcan stammers at the taller man. Can he help him with something? Proudstar hits him in the face. He can tell his brother he can go &%$ himself.
Vulcan identifies him. One of the also-rans who left him on Krakoa to die… Thought he was Krakoan royalty, John points out as he grabs a table. Sorry for not catching him last time. He’d have snapped his pencil neck when he had the chance. He hits Vulcan with the table. The crowd boos and jeers for his interference in the fight, which goes against their sense of honor.
Cable and Brand enter and Cable orders Proudstar to stand down. He’s made his point. Brand announces that they got word of an Earth mutant threatening Shi’ar dignitaries. That makes it her business. Then he guesses he took care of her business, Thunderbird retorts.
He will become a sun before them, Vulcan rants. He will burn this world! Cable telekinetically blocks his uncle’s carotid artery for a moment to make him unconscious. He’s getting worse, he tells Brand. All the Shi’ar in town, that thing with Sway and Petra… What thing? Brand asks. It’ a long story, Cable sighs. He is not welcome at the Summer House, but even so maybe Cyclops can get through to him…
Brand decides to take him to SWORD Station two instead. She thinks what he needs is some useful work.
Roberto and John are not pleased to hear that. John angrily shouts if he hadn’t taken him out… Cable continues, they’d have resolved the situation peacefully. And with a lot less damage. He warns John to watch his temper. It’s gotten him killed once. That a threat, scarface? John snaps in his face. He wants to back that up? There he goes again, Cable replies stoically. Misplaced aggression. He could learn a lot from his brother… &%$§ you! Thunderbird shouts. Cable is momentarily taken aback. $§*% all of them! John continues. Him, Xavier, Frost, all those vultures! He’s proud of Jimmy, proud of what he made of himself. But does Cable really think John would have let him turn James into his soldier if he had been around?!
But he wasn’t around, was he? Cable asks. He had better things to do. He had a plane to catch…
John is about to explode. Brand steps between them. She orders Cable to put Vulcan in the brig. She has places to be. She orders Thunderbird to take the next gate back to Earth. She is rescinding his Martian privileges. Automatically, he replies he goes where he pleases. She suggests he try.
Roberto announces that he is happy to have John here. If he’s ever on Arakko again… He will be, John promises. One-eye junior just made it real personal. He warns Roberto to watch his back. It doesn’t take his senses to smell how this place is rotting from the head down. No, Roberto agrees. It does not.
After the vote in the Great Ring came down on the side of peace:Isca walks up to Storm and remarks, another day on the Table Day’s business. The dry dusty business of peacetime. Is this the paradise Storm wanted? A paradise of paperwork? Storm suggests, if it’s battle Isca craves, Redroot still languishes in Otherworld… Isca interrupts that Redroot made her bed. That was the law of Genesis. Any taken alive must free themselves to redeem themselves. Her sister understood strength, Isca muses. She should have gone with her when she went to face the demons of Amenth…
Storm points out it was Isca’s abstention that allowed Storm to decide the issue… by Arakko’s own law. Just as Isca abstained on Arakko moving to Mars. Had she chosen to vote on either of these…
Isca reminds her that her power is never to lose. Had she voted, the vote would have gone her way… and she prefers to keep that powder dry. No, the responsibility of this lies with Storm. She brought them to this new world. She brought them this era of peace… and all it may bring. She is the regent. This is Storm’s planet, is Isca’s parting shot, they are just the people who live here.
Storm’s mind flashes back to the accusations of Nameless that Storm is not of Arakko. She was not there!
She is brought out of her reverie by Commander Brand, who remarks she just came from the Red Lagoon and felt the need to speak to the Queen of Mars. Regent of Arakko, Storm corrects her. “If you say so, your majesty,” Brand mocks and suggests they walk and talk.
Brand begins, when Krakoa colonized Mars… Storm interrupts, they never “colonized” anything. This wasn’t someone’s land. This was a dead rock, until they gave it a chance to live and thrive! What Krakoa did here was resurrection.
When Krakoa appropriated Mars, Brand corrects, it was a solution to a problem. What to do with an island full of violent morons who live to cause trouble. Storm retorts, a few groups of roaming bandits don’t represent a whole society. Roaming bandits with high level mutant powers, Brand points out. She’s got the head of the Great Ring’s quotes on file, saying Krakoa should have conquered Earth.
Storm muses, she is a little tired of Isca’s big talk. She fought against Arakko all through the war – why is she treated as the voice of the people now? Why is Storm, voice of Sol? Brand reminds her. The point is Arakko needs a controlling influence and she thinks that’s a job for the X-Men. Cultural ambassadors setting a good example, she explains. Isn’t that what the X-Men have always been? She’s proposing an X-Men of Mars along those lines. Of course, Storm would be the leader.
Storm tells her to find someone else as she heads toward another Krakoan gate. Brand calls after her to think about it. After all, it’s what she is already doing. Taking a position of power… imposing her will, deciding what’s right and wrong for this culture. That’s what a queen does. That’s what a queen is. “That’s what you are, your majesty!”
Storm heads through the gate into what looks like a throne room. Is that what she sees? she asks as she takes off her earring / hair ornament. A throne… a crown. Was she this in the crowds of Cairo? On the rooftops of Tokyo? When she laughed in the skies and gave rain to the soil, did it only lead here? To this piece of gold?
She recalls Nameless accusing her of being seduced by power. By crowns and thrones. She throws the ornament to the ground and refuses this. She’ll be free of that cage and the planet with her! No thrones on Arakko, she says and uses her lightning to destroy the throne. She smiles. There are greater things to be than a queen…
The day passes. In the Autumn Castle the fisher remarks that Max has created not a bad castle but it’s a little austere. Magneto remarks he is the master of magnetism, not carpeting. He’ll work on the decorations in due course. Unless his new friend has the power to conjure scatter cushions from the air. They could make it a challenge. His guest laughs. He’ll be an Arakkii yet. That’s a nice open door. Magneto apologizes for being rude. He never asked his name. His guest explains his name is long gone. Most call him the Fisher King. Looking at his catch, he mutters they should roast that one before it gets much older.
When he hears his guest’s sobriquet, Magneto remarks he has to tell Elizabeth Braddock that one when he sees her. He asks about the Fisher King’s power, figuring it has something to do with the name. His guest replies he never had one, as he pours two drinks.
He's human? Magneto exclaims. Of course not, the Fisher King replies forcefully. Humans are from Earth. He was born in the prisons. But he lives among the Arakkii, Magneto tries to clarify. It’s not powers that make the Arakkii, the Fisher King explains. He was born in the prisons. He grew up tortured by the Vile. His own daughter took their bribes… but he fought. It was war and he fought. He was there. Btu he sees him, he tells Magneto. He has a place in the broken land. He was somewhere, too. He offers Magneto a cup. Magneto hesitates then agrees. But it’s not something he cares to –
He breaks off when he hears another voice who praises the castle’s acoustics. It’s Roberto DaCosta. Critically, he remarks the place could use a few scatter cushions.
Magneto asks how Roberto even knew he was here. “Ways and means, Erik,” Sunspot boasts. Eyes and ears on the comings and goings. Any objections to him turning this into a disco place? He promises they’ll play oldies… Magneto admonishes him to tuck his shirt in. Has he been fighting? he asks critically considering Sunspot’s disheveled appearance. Not very well, Sunspot replies, calling him ‘headmaster.’ In the Danger Room, he’d score a D- at best. On that note, he’s got a proposition…
The Fisher King asks how many names Magneto has: Max, Magneto, Erik and headmaster? Too many, is Magneto’s sober reply. He tells Roberto he doesn’t know what he needs, but he is no longer the man he needs. He is done building utopias. Is that so? Sunspot asks slyly. Then he is exactly the man he needs. Abigail Brand is up to something, he explains. She always was, but she is more open about to now. She’s got a plan for Arakko… a utopia to build…
… and Arakko has no say in it, the Fisher King continues grimly. He’s been there before, too. It won’t end well. So, Mars needs X-Men, Roberto continues. Are the two of them in?
She’s in, a new voice announces. She was coming here to suggest something similar, but not X-Men. This is not Mars. This is Arakko. To defend it they must be of Arakko. Brand is the one looking for X-Men and she will find them. So, they need to balance that. Then what is that balance? Magneto asks. Who defends the broken land? The Brotherhood does, Storm, dressed in leather, hair styled in a faux mohawk replies.


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Man on Fire
The Summer House on the moon, some time ago:Gabriel Summers aka Vulcan lies on his bed, his eyes empty as he recalls a particular memory:
Three beings stating he has fire in him. True power inside a twisted and broken host, but how broken? They are going to release him back into his universe… they are going to see him as changed, reborn healthy and whole. But that is just a shell. Underneath it is the real him.
Is this happening now? Vulcan whispers.
Hey, emperor, comes another voice. It is his friends Sway and Petra. Don’t call him that, Gabriel demands automatically. Petra tells him he has visitors and offers him a margarita. Said visitors are Professor X and Vulcan’s elder brother Cyclops, who criticizes that it isn’t even lunchtime. Gabriel takes the glass and states he has to keep the fire down somehow, especially when talking to him. He derogatively refers to Xavier. Why is Xavier here?
Scott explains it is about the Waiting Room. The mutant afterlife Wanda built for them (while Gabriel was drunk). They now have a way to resurrect mutants who died before Cerebro achieved full resurrection functionality, Xavier continues. Thunderbird, for instance. Or poor Changeling. Or… Petra and Sway. Petra and Sway are right here, Gabriel points out.
Xavier confronts him with the truth: That “Sway” and “Petra” are just energy constructs Gabriel created.
Gabriel takes it badly, refusing to believe. Xavier announces he will reach into his mind and help him. Vulcan refuses. Never again! He can decide his own truth - he is Emperor Vulcan! He orders Xavier out of his mind and finally blasts out of the house.
The present:SWORD station 2 - the KEEP orbiting Arakko:Vulcan walks down a corridor. Now? he mutters: is it happening now? Abigail Brand addresses him. Vulcan complains that they have already forgotten him. How does that happen? He left a scar across the stars themselves. She remembers and suggests that in the future they may have some shared interests. But right now: he is not welcome at the Summer House, and for personal reasons he does not wish to set foot on Krakoa. And here on Mars, one of the last places he is welcome he is trolling the Diplomatic Zone, stirring up trouble. He needs something to put his mind to… something worthy of a Summers brother. And this is it.
She leads him into a room where several other mutants are already waiting: Frenzy, Manifold, Mentallo, Random and field leader Cable. Brand introduces them as X-Men Red.
Vulcan scoffs that he is expected to take orders from his nephew? He led an empire and he leads from the front!
Wonderful, a team player, Frenzy snarks. It’s bad enough Brand is pulling her from her diplomatic work for this circus. Brand retorts that this is diplomatic work: Krakoan-Arakkii relations. The Arakkii need to knows there is a SWORD team watching over them.
Why is that then? Manifold asks surprisingly. He is with Frenzy. Why is that their remit? Arakko got its own culture, its own government. They want an X-Mean team, they can do it. It’s their planet, isn’t it? he challenges Brand. The parts they allowed them, Brand corrects. The rest is the Diplomatic Zone. Mars hasn’t left the Sol system. No matter what Arakko might think.
Manifold decides he is out. He’s quitting the squad? Brand asks. He clarifies he is quitting all of this. He’ll go be an Avenger again or something, he mutters. A little drastic, Brand smiles. He was practically her second in command. Was he? Manifold demands. What happened to Henry Gyrich?
Brand repeats that Gyrich jumped out of an airlock. She couldn’t save him. He could have, Manifold retorts. Brand remarks, he could barely move. Right, he’d caught a space station. An accident it fell on his home after one of her plans, right? A nice convenient accident. She knows what they say. Fool me once. He walks away through a teleportation gate.
Brand announces they will discuss this later. She asks Cable if he can bodyslide a team this size. If need be, is his curt reply. Then he is transport. And if he has a way to make miniature suns, he can do that too. And for the record, Brand addresses everybody: let’s say as a hypothetical that she did throw Gyrich out of an airlock – is there anyone left in the room who’d have a problem with that?
Vulcan clearly has no idea what she is talking about. Mentallo smirks. Frenzy and Random look away. Cable is busy with his weapons. Nobody speaks.
All right, she continues. Wiz Kid is manning Station One, so Arakko has her full attention today. She gets an alert that moment.
The Morrowlands:A colony of artists and poets on Arakko suddenly finding itself under attack from alien giants. While most of the Morrowlanders don’t have aggressive powers, they nevertheless refuse to back down from their attackers.
Cable bodyslides the team in and informs Brand that their enemies are the Progenitors. Those giant weirdoes have a name? Mentallo asks. What’s their deal?
Brand who has stayed behind informs them they are a Worldmind level civilization of unethical space scientists with computer brains. They build artificial solar systems in the gulfs between galaxies. They treat entire worlds like petri dishes. Last time they made an incursion into known space, it took the Guardians and the Kree/Skrull royal couple to turn them back. They have their work cut out.
He always does, Cable replies as he lands. He identifies the green giant as Harvester-Class – high level telekinetic. He takes him on. The green Harvester spits out a slimy green tentacle that grabs Cable’s T/O arm and begins to harvest it.
A shocked Vulcan shouts it just ate Cable’s arm. Cable corrects him: it ate his techno organic viral load. Without that blocking him, his telekinesis runs out of control… but that’s their problem. The Progenitors get an error in their data upload. Detecting Cable as a threat, one of them kills him with an energy blast.
A shocked Frenzy informs Brand. An Arakkii woman shouts at her people if they will let Krakoans give their lives for Arakkii land? Every drop of their blood shed is a challenge! A challenge by insult! And Orsi Lightshaper will not yield! She runs towards the Progenitors without any weapon and is also killed. A horrified Mentallo states she barely had any power. She made glowing cubes. These idiots don’t stand any chance…
Frenzy points out this is their home. You cannot expect them not to fight. Brand agrees with Mentallo. She orders Vulcan to initiate the Civilians Rescue Protocol. Round up the Arakkii and get them to a safe distance. And enforce that distance. Frenzy warns that is the wrong move. The Arakkii don’t see themselves as civilians. They need to work with them on their terms. Work with a pitiful powerless rabble? Vulcan scoffs as he flies upwards. Please.
From the air, he addresses the Arakkii as rabble and order them to run and hide. The X-Men are here to save them.
One of the crowd calls him a “soft Krakoan pup.” Who is he? The beasts threaten all they’ve built and he stands in the Arakki’s way? A few meagre shacks, Vulcan scoffs. Their homes, their work, the Arrakki protests. He sang their song at the final siege. Where was he? Who is he to look him in the eye? Their emperor! Vulcan retorts, and if he wants to lose his other eye, he can test that…
Suddenly, he is surrounded by snow. Challenge accepted, a voice says and a snowstorm is upon him.
Storm accompanied by Magneto, Sunspot and the Fisher King addresses the people of the Morrowlands and announces the Brotherhood of Arakko have heard the challenge and consider it a challenge to all. May they answer? The crowd are pleased to see her. One mutters reverently that the unnamed king is with her… who ruled at midnight. Unarmed king? Sunspot notes. Do they refer to him? he asks the Fisher King. A few old talesmiths spinning their tales, he replies smoothly. It’s nothing to do with here and now. Addressing Magneto as Max, he asks if that floating head gives him any thoughts. Magneto replies it’s a form of magnetic levitation but it’s fighting him. He knows asking for help is frowned on here, but if he could get a distraction… The Fisher King explains, help is not help when it’s all of them. Then it's tactics. He’ll pick up the nuances.
The Fisher King addresses the Morrowlanders. Their enemy comes for knowledge and it has many faces – but they have many talents. A fresh new sight for each eye. He tells them to pick an eye and tell it all they know. The artists and musicians act swamping the progenitor with information, distracting it and allowing Magneto to destroy it. The crowd cheers for Arakko and their Brotherhood.
Mentallo is satisfied. His favorite kind of mission: getting paid for doing nothing. How about him, “Emperor Snowcone?” he addresses the still-frozen Vulcan. Vulcan mumbles he never died, and his power finally melts the ice. He rages against the Arakkii. Who is any of them to challenge him? he rants. He is an emperor! An X-Man! A son of Summer! He is Vulcan, the son of Mars!
Before he can move further, Storm grabs him by the throat. And she is the mother! She warns him they are both energy manipulators and omega mutants. This is a battle of wills. Finally, her lightning fells him. As she drops him, she tells him, no thrones on Arakko. Pass it on.
Later in the medbay of the KEEP, Vulcan weakly asks if it is happening now. Misunderstanding, Brand explains he is being healed. She apologizes for what happened. She wasn’t using him to his full potential. Yes, the shell, Vulcan mutters. She only fought the shell. That’s one way to put it, Brand agrees. He only used his powers on the surface level, which is natural. Ororo was trained in the use of her power at the highest level. He was alone all those years. Stick with her and she can help with that. Besides there are other kinds of powers.
The healer leaves.
Brand explains she need someone inside the Great Ring. And if he wants the locals to speak his name like the way they do Ororo’s, there is a way to do that in one kill. By executing their bogeyman. She hands him a file of Tarn the Uncaring. No, Vulcan promises. Tarn the dead.