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Utopia, 7 AM:
Hope sits outside, a stack of files next to her, looking pensive. She’s up early, Scott Summers greets her. She usually is, Hope replies. It’s one of the only quiet times around here. Still reading Shaw’s file? he asks. It’s… pretty long, she admits, and pretty upsetting. Then he hopes she understands why he wasn’t thrilled to see him as Hope’s guest. But like he said, he is trusting her on this one. If Hope says he has become a new man, someone she wants on her team, he will accept that. Icily she asks if it’s true that Shaw tried to kill her dad, Cable. Yeah, a few times, Scott replies.
Transonic sits atop a tower, reading a book. Zero joins her, remarking he sees her read more often than eat. Maybe he is not the only one whose brain and innards mutated into being one and the same. She’s definitely changed, Laurie replies. She’ll let him know when she’s figured out what she’s become.
Hopefully the answer is someone who’s ready to topple their fiery slave master, Kenji replies. Laurie wants to fly away. Kenji holds her back and plugs into her mind, creating an idyllic setting where both have their non-mutated forms.
He explains he thought she might appreciate it. But he also wanted to make a point. Hope Summers can use the power of any mutant on Earth. But she’s never even attempted to return their appearance to normal. Imagine being able to move about freely without fear of immediately becoming a victim of prejudice! But Hope has no interest in making them happy. She only wants to make them soldiers.
Laurie asks to be changed back. She doesn’t want to pretend to be normal. Kenji complies. Laurie admits she doesn’t know anymore regarding Hope. Nothing has changed! he insists. Hope exploits them! She controls them! Whatever it was she did to activate their powers also gave her a leash for them. Laurie saw what Hope did to him. She ripped his body apart forced him to attack those other mutants. She robbed him of his will – himself… and that was all he had left!
Laurie claims to understand. She can hardly say who she is anymore. She feels Hope’s influence all the time, remaking her in her own image… and she hates it!
Kenji adds this isn’t even about them. If Hope continues to activate every new mutant that comes into existence and subjugates them to her will, she’ll hold the reins to a devastating amount of power. Only, he doesn’t trust her with it. Does Laurie?
Inside, Celeste and Irma Cuckoo hose a sleeping Primal, hoping that, even if this won’t cut down on his hormones, it might do something about the stench.
Primal is in his own Cuckoo-induced dream where several beautiful girls feed him.
Phoebe joins them, asking what they are doing. Trying to house-break Hope’s mutt, the others reply. They almost had him spayed or neutered. Whatever it is, you do to boys. Phoebe tells them that that isn’t funny. Her sisters criticize her for taking Hope’s side against them.
Phoebe demands to know since when they are at odds with Hope. The others remind her that Ms. Frost warned them of all the trouble Hope brings. Are they sure this isn’t just a case of new girl jealousy? Phoebe asks. Irma almost attacks her, asking what her damage is. Celeste holds her back. Phoebe isn’t the problem. Hope is, and they won’t let her tear them apart, so they’ll have to put an end to it, Celeste and Irma decide.
Hope approaches Shaw’s cell, asking how they’ve been treating him. He is relieved to see her and tells her, initial reactions aside, he guesses they treated him alright. He still had to beg for comfortable clothes though, he remarks, regarding his jeans and hoodie. Does everyone in this country wear bright skin tight jumpsuits? He doesn’t see the appeal.
Any progress on remembering who he is? Hope asks. If she lets him out, he hopes they can find out together. She stares at him wordlessly. If she knew something about his identity, she would tell him right? Shaw asks. Of course, she assures him. She opens the cell. In the meantime, his movement on the island is going to be restricted for a while. He will not be let near the ocean. She suggests he grab some food and she’ll catch him up on everything. Shaw thanks her.
Pixie knocks at Velocidad’s door. She is surprised the room is tidier than she thought. Gabriel admits he did a speed- clean while she was at the door. So don’t open the closet. She’d be crushed to death.
Amused, she asks if that means he slept off the angst and anger? No, he meant what he said before. He won’t keep using his powers burning through days of his life in minutes for things that aren’t important. He just used his powers to try and make a good impression, she points out. Something important, he repeats and kisses her.
Pixie pushes him back, still not sure he is a trustworthy guy. Gabriel points out he is one of the last guys her age left on the island. Maybe she likes old guys, she retorts. If she’s serious, he’ll run himself into old age right now, Gabriel offers. They kiss.
Elsewhere, Kenji leaves Emma’s office, both of them clearly agreeing on what they discussed. She asks if he is working on anything new these days. Kenji hints he might be coming up on his masterpiece.
Hope walks by. Does she even want to know what this was about? she asks Emma who icily tells her she should rather worry about Shaw. He’s supposed to be under her watch at all times. He’s taking a shower, Hope replies. Should she assume Emma will use this as an excuse to kill him or join him? Turning to her diamond form, Emma tells her she is an utterly rotten child and will deserve everything that’s going to come out of this.
Outside, Random, Dragoness, Bliss and Erg are sitting, discussing something. When they see Hope coming, they quickly grow quieter. Random, however, announces he isn’t scared of her and calls her over. Way he sees it, they still need to have a little confrontation, without her hiding behind her anime meat puppet.
Fine, Hope replies. Whose powers should she kick his ass with? Random angrily announces she is supposed to be the savior of mutantkind? As far as he is concerned he hasn’t seen her do…
Erg holds him back, reminding him they are still cleaning bits of Hope’s gooey friend out of their nooks and crannies. Kenji shows up that moment, as though called. He’d rather avoid a repeat of that himself. Glancing at Hope, he continues it is a deeply distressing experience to be used like a gross instrument. By one’s “friend,” no less.
Hope tells him he knows she didn’t… Yes, yes, he knows exactly what she meant by that, Kenji agrees. But he’s prepared to bury the hatchet. She isn’t aware that part of him attacks her from behind, dragging her into his mindscape.
In an office, Emma explains to Scott that, after a chat with Kenji, she is more convinced than ever that Hope’s activities should be suspended. Scott suggests not to get too carried away, just because a guy who made shrines to her in art galleries—
It’s not just Kenji! Emma shouts. She’s been warning him about that infernal girl! She accuses him of harboring a deliberate blind spot for Hope, even though the Phoenix could be lurking inside that wretched child, waiting to kill them all!
Scott tells her to stop. He won’t let her or anyone conspire against Hope. She knows, Emma replies and uses her telepathy to make him fall asleep. That’s why she has to keep him there. So he can’t interfere.
Kenji’s mindscape:
Hope and Kenji walks along a somewhat surreal hallway. Hope complains what is it today? Everyone is so hostile to her suddenly. This isn’t sudden, Kenji smirks. This has been a long time coming.
What is that supposed to mean? she asks. The way she treats people, the way she uses them, she’s been making enemies, he reveals.
The hallway blurs. Hope notices something wrong. Where’s Martha? she asks. She can’t survive without being tethered…  Kenji’s tentacles grab her as he assures her Martha is safe, just somewhere else. He might as well spoil the surprise now.
The piece of flesh he covered her mouth with takes on a life of its own. He’s been able to separate and still control his pieces for a while now. He just didn’t want anyone to now. It’s surprising that they all believed he couldn’t. After all, he got the idea from her. When they first met in Tokyo, Hope ripped off his powers and sent a little bit flying off to infiltrate Cyclops’ mind. Because she wanted to control him. Like she does everyone!
Hope tears off the flesh. This is just one of his stupid mindgames? she demands. He’s surprised she didn’t figure it out right away. He seems to have trouble achieving verisimilitude. His mind is simply all over the place.
As more tentacles entangle her, Hope orders him to stop. She finds herself surrounded by monsters as he tells her that her problem is she wants it both ways. She wants to be the messiah of mutantkind but doesn’t actually care about any of them.
Hope warns him to let her get back to the real world. It’s time for her to wake up anyway, he tells her. They are finally ready for her.
Hope wakes up, tied to a makeshift X crucifix, surrounded by several residents of Utopia, including Magneto, Emma, Laurie and Kenji, who tells her that, before she can be the messiah, she has to die for them…


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The End of Hope
Primal’s mindscape:
Teon is surrounded by beautiful girls on his throne, though the women now all have babies. Teon has begun thinking differently about his life. He corrects himself. He began thinking differently when his mutant powers activated months ago. Whereas now he is beginning to question his line of thinking.
He was so frightened when everything changed. In his fear, he reacted to everything around him with only the most basic instincts. A desperate bid for survival. Eat. Mate. Fight.
He pushes the women trying to touch him away. He is not fighting to survive anymore. Once all his needs were fulfilled, he began to feel wants. But even things like love and recognition seemed to come true as soon as he discovered them. But is that all there is to life? Or is there something more?
The statue of him falls down and an image of Hope catches it. She tells him he cannot stay here anymore. He can be more than this. She needs him to be more.
Most people hate Hope Summers, Kenji Uedo aka Zero thinks to himself. In general, it is hard to like someone who tells you they are “important,” Doubly so, when they use the word messiah. Nonetheless, there are people who persist in standing by their ginger demigod. So step one was to remove them from the equation. Either by force – like Cyclops who was put to sleep by Emma Frost. Or by suggesting they could be otherwise occupied – like Velocidad and Pixie, who are busy making out.
Kenji can do that sort of thing now. Everything he strived for as an artist, he can do now easily. And with this new art, his thoughts can enter minds, affect the audience in purer ways than he ever dreamed possible, by splitting off small parts of himself and having them enter the others e.g. through the ear. He is finally ready to unveil this new experimental period of his work. And its greatest piece will be the end of Hope!
He turns to Hope Summers, who hangs tied to an X-shaped part of Kenji. He reminds her hat this is the reward of a savior. The ire of those who never asked to be saved. The other possessed X-Men cry for her blood.
Hope wishes this was an illusion, but realizes it’s real. Because every face she sees stares into her. Like they want something from her so bad that they’ll tear inside her to get it. And that’s been her reality since her very first breath. When she first met Kenji, she thought she could help him. But she can’t help anyone. All she does is destroy everything around her and everyone she touches.
In one of the buildings, the amnesiac Sebastian Shaw has taken a shower and wonders what to do now. Is he going to be what others make of him? What they tell him to be? Or will he choose what to make of himself? The first lesson he learned in this new life was betrayal. And here he is met with hostility and secrets. Does he trust Hope? Suddenly, Teon kicks in the door. Hope, he simply says.
In his quarter, Kenji paints Martha, enthusing how good it feels to create. When he is finished, it will be quite a statement. This isn’t what she imagined his dreams would be like, Martha observes. He tells her this is real. Is he joking? she asks. She is a telepath and lived for years as a brain. She knows the difference between dream and reality.
She wakes up in Kenji’s bed. He never showed her his painting. So where is he? Kenji assures her he is with her. His mind exists in every bit of his body including that which he uses to protect her. So they are never apart. Martha gets up. Yet he chooses to be more present somewhere else. Does she even want to know where he’d rather be?
Outside, Kenji accuses Hope of betraying all mutants just by claiming to be their messiah. Her name itself is a lie. She cannot offer them salvation! The truth is they were all born damned!
He dangles her downward. His father was born into a culture that would destroy him simply for what he was. And so it is with all of them. They were born as mutants into a world that would applaud their death!
The others grab at Hope. Emma Frost mockingly informs her she is suppressing her powers and brain just enough for her to witness her own crucifixion.
Kenji announces they must extinguish the lie of any messiah here to right the world for them. Only then can they be steeled for the bloody task of fighting a corrupts world themselves!
Laurie cannot stand it anymore. She shouts stop. She doesn’t want to kill Hope! They have to end her lies! Kenji replies. But now he can finally stop her. He can finally change minds.
Laurie angrily asks if he is controlling these people somehow. Then he is no better than Hope! She tells him to let everyone go. His tentacles grab her. He’d hoped she’d have the stomach for this but he won’t let her weakness interfere--
That moment, the other four - Velocidad, Pixie, Primal and Shaw – confront them. “Dude, what the hell is wrong with you?” Gabriel shouts. They immediately attack the drones and Gabriel frees Laurie. Seriously, Gabriel addresses Kenji, tell them he is not going cliché super villain on them! Because that is really the vibe he is giving off.
He is trying to free them! Kenji shouts. Running towards him and Hope, Velocidad replies he gets the moody artist thing, but they aren’t gonna let Hope or anyone else get hurt.
He expected as much! Kenji rants. He put pieces of himself into each of their minds months ago, when he connected them all to enter that hospital in Germany. He tried to influence their thoughts since then but he could never completely override Hope’s mark on them.
Gabriel is disgusted as he tries to free Hope. Kenji shakes him off. The others fight as well. Magneto levitates Primal, announcing that Hope’s power didn’t activate but corrupt them. Pixie teleports him away. She suggests they grab Hope and let everyone’s temper—she cannot finish as Celeste and Irma Cuckoo attack her.
Hope is brought before Emma Frost, who suggests her spoiled little mind needs scrubbing, just like her friend. Said friend, Shaw, hits Emma unconscious.
While Erg and Dragoness hold onto Hope, a piece of Kenji burrows into her neck and she finds herself once again in his apocalyptic mindscape. Ironically, he asks her to excuse the kidnapping within the kidnapping but he wanted to make sure she understands what is happening here.
Hope asks if he is controlling the mutants. He doesn’t control people, he replies. He can slip his little parasites into someone’s head, but he merely whispers among their thoughts. It took a great deal of work to turn some of these mutants against Hope, but some took nothing at all. These are the people she is trying to save, her fellow mutants, and several of them hate or fear her almost as much as he does!
He is right, Hope admits. She made mistakes in leading this team. She hasn’t been the best person, a good enough friend, to help them all through this. She’s sorry.
Angrily, Kenji traps her and accuses her of manipulating them and stripping them of their self. Hope retorts that he’s a hypocrite. And she doesn’t just mean because of the people he turned into an angry mob. She’s talking about Martha.
He admits Hope’s smarter than he thought for figuring that out. He knew Hope had been influencing them. Hope could make her will contagious. Then he saw Martha Johansson. What better opportunity to observe how Hope affects their minds than on a girl who was nothing but? He let her container be destroyed by the bomb blast and made her new body, giving him unfettered access to Martha’s mind. He never expected their relationship to work out so perfectly.
She’s sure Martha’s happy to hear that, Hope replies wryly as Martha appears next to her. Kenji believes this to be an illusion. Telepaths like Martha can’t enter his thoughts without his permission. After all, how does she think he managed to plan all this while chained to this thing?
Martha didn’t have to enter his mind, Hope replies. She invited Martha into hers.
Nervously, Kenji tries to explain to Martha, who destroys him, announcing she never had a heart for him to break.
Kenji falls apart and dissipates in reality. Hope grabs Martha’s brain while the others expulse the parasite bits of Kenji.
Later in the medical bay, Cyclops announces he wouldn’t call this a success. Nemesis, insulted, claims he built an optimal living space for a severed brain. After Martha jammed the anime kid’s powers, he couldn’t hold her custom made bits together, so unless they’ve got a spare body somewhere… Danger adds she’s begun altering the design of Martha’s unit. It may take some time getting used to Shi’ar technology and the new features.
Hope takes Shaw aside, thanking him. She’s decided to trust him which is why she hands him the fact file about himself. Shaw is unsure if he wants it but now the choice is his.
Later, Hope meets with what is left of her group. Laurie explains she never intended things to go the way they did and she is glad none of them were hurt. But whether she was under Kenji’s influence or not, she betrayed Hope too. Kenji is gone and she still feels the way Hope treated them was wrong.
Hope admits she’s right. She’s been treating them all as weapons. It was easier filling her thoughts with tactics and making their time together about drills. Especially when it seem every time she cares about someone she loses them. Everyone she grew up with. Her father. Idie had to be taken away. But the way she was running things never made it any better. So once she realized what her powers could do, she just let herself think about what she wanted from them all and it was easy to edge them towards doing it. Because otherwise she didn’t think they’d stay with her. She apologizes.
Gabriel is glad to hear that but assures Hope they didn’t just follow her because of some mutant persuasion powers. She saved their lives! Each of them, the first time they met. Not her, Pixie begins to protest but shuts up when Primal growls at her.
She took a risk for them, for the future… it was inspiring! Laurie explains that’s how she needs to lead! Inspire respect because she can’t really demand it.
Hope asks if they are willing to give her another chance to try. If she is willing to listen and perhaps read some books on conflict resolution, Laurie replies.
Shaw reminds her that after all she is giving him a chance. Fight! Teon shouts.
Gabriel remarks if they want to light up some mutants and get this party going he doesn’t see any other choice. She’s a good chip, Pixie assures her, and she doubts anything could change that.
In their festive mood, none of them see the picture of Dark Phoenix that slipped out of Shaw’s file…


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Third Genesis
The first day of term at Xavier’s School For Gifted Youngsters in Snow Valley, Massachusetts sees Husk, Jubilee, M, Synch and Skin adjust to life together and their tutors, Banshee and Emma Frost. Husk is itching to become leader of this group and graduate to the X-Men, M is arrogant and does not see why she should hide the fact she’s a mutant. Jubilee is Jubilee, Skin is unsure of himself and his abilities and Synch is confident and powerful.
Banshee and Emma have their first disagreement over how the children should be trained. Emma had Skin and Synch use their abilities against each other, but Sean does not approve. Jubilee thinks she spots Gateway in the interactive ecological biosphere they use for training.
Meanwhile, Emplate and his driver, D.O.A. are waiting at the Logan International Airport for Jonothan Starsmore, who is arriving in the States from England to attend the School, under personal invitation by Professor Xavier.
M explores the grounds climbing trees, when she encounters Gateway, whom she recognises and calls her mentor.She suddenly realises the reason Gateway has appeared to her is because ‘he’ has returned.
As Banshee, Jubilee & Synch go to the airport to greet Jonothan, Emplate passes unnoticed through the crowds, half phased in another dimension, until he reaches Jon and attacks him and begins to feed on his mutant genetic material which keeps Emplate alive. The group attack him and Chamber uses his own power against Emplate to free himself. Gateway teleports Emma, Skin, Husk, and M into the airport. M attacks Emplate and she actually harms him, much to Emplate’s confusion. Husk also attacks, but Emplate guts her. Fearing the death of another friend, like Clarice Ferguson, Jubilee rushes to Husk and rips off her skin, saving her life. Emplate realises he is outnumbered and vows he will return, before phasing away. M wants to go after him, but is telepathically stpopped by Emma, much to M’s anger.
Returning to his Lighthouse, Emplate is angry, and heads to his captive mutant, whom he has fed off for years - but she has disappeared.
Later, the kids are getting to know each other when Gateway appears again on the front lawn. Banshee goes to tell him to leave them alone when Gateway whispers the word ‘Penance’, and to his side lies the mutant captive girl of Emplate’s.


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Searching
Jubilee tries to get some information about Penance out of Gateway, but with no luck. Emma treatrs Banshee’s hands, apparently they were wounded when he touched the new arrival. M astounds Emma and Banshee by using the school’s sophisticated computers to illustrate the link she has found between Penance and Emplate. She believes that the longer Emplate feeds off of a victim, the more he begins to assume their physical attributes, that is why he and Penance look fairly similar, and the fact that Penance is exhausted and starving would suggest that he has been feeding off her for some time. In the medlab, Emma tries to psi scan Penance, but finds her completely devoid of any thought patterns. After they leave the lab, Penance awakens.
Meanwhile, the kids are relaxing. Skin and Husk are playing scrabble, while Husk at the same time tries to study quantum physics. Skin thinks she should not try to be somone she isn’t and the discussion turns to county mouse agaisnt city mouse. Chamber is mooching around outside in the rain, the others join the Paige and Angelo when the alarms in the med lab go off. They rush down there to find the room totally obliterated by Penance and a gaping hole in the wall. They split into teams to track her down.
Husk and Banshee head to the north side of the estate, where they find razor sharp claw marks oon the trees. Apparently they are on the right trail, and after Banshee cleared the path with his sonic scream, they see the girl’s footprints.
Emma and M had been sent to the south side, but after hearing of the other’s findings through their commlink, they change direction to back them up. On the way they also make clear that they won’t become friends easily. M states that she doesn’t know emma enough to have an opinion on her yet, and Emma feels challenged by the perfect student.
A brief interlude shows Cartier St Croix relaxing at his home in Monaco when the Orphan Maker attempts to kill him, but his armour begins to fall apart, preventing him from doing so.
Back at the School Husk and Banshee find Penance, or actually she finds them and ambushes them from a hole in the ground. Husk is knocked unconscious and Banshee is attacked from behind, to prevent his from using his scream, Penance holds one of her sharp claws in his open mouth.


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Dead Silence
Banshee manages to free himself from Penance by kicking her into the gut, whilst Husk regains consciousness and sheds her skin to reveal a hard rocky form. She attacks Penance ,but Penance slashes her and escapes, leaving Husk wondering what will happen when she reverts to her true form with large pieces of her shoulder and back damaged.
An interlude shows Mondo sunbathing on a beach on Samoa when Cordelia Frost races to him asking about how he saved the children form the burning house. Mondo is very laid back about the events and Cordelia tells him he should go to America and be a superhero. Mondo says his place is on the Island. Cordelia reasons that if they are going to be partners, she will have to limit her horizons - or broaden his.
Back at the School, Jubilee and Synch run into Penance, but Synch synch’s his aura into Penance’s diamond hard skin and makes his aura act like a force field. Knowing she can‘t harm them, Penance flees. Banshee comes by with Husk who is in shock. He orders the two students to bring her back to the mansion and flies after Penance. Jubileeasks Synch to bring her back alone, as she wants to follow Banshee and Penance.
Another interlude shows the Orphan Maker returning to a cottage and apologising to Nanny for failing in his mission, explaining that his armour just fell apart. Nanny tells him he did nothing wrong, it just means he is growing up.
Meanwhile, M finds Penance and knocks her unconscious. She complains to Emma for having to ambush Penance, because she can only imagine what it must be like to be a prisoner of Emplate. Emma again tries to psi scan Penance, but this time Emma suffers a major psionic backlash from the experience, but she does learn that Penance’s mind has nothing recognisable on it. Suddenly Penance awakens, and right as M is about to touch her, Penance runs away again because of Banshee’s scream. He explains that he could not allow M to touch her, because apparently every part of the girl is razor sharp. The only option they have would be to keep her running till she tires.
Chamber finds Penance in the woods and psionicly reaches her. He tells her they are both monsters trapped in their bodies, but they dont have to be alone. She has a home if she wants one. Penance yields and Chamber gains her trust. Jubilee observed the whole scene and is impressed, that Jono got through to the tormented girl..
A few days later, Skin pays a visit to the convalescing Husk and the two continue to bond. She managed to revert to her human form without too much damage.


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Between the Cracks
Banshee is taking M,Skin, Synch, and Jubilee to Maine for a field trip when they are stopped by armed police and diverted. In Faybrook, Maine, armed police have surrounded the local school where a mutant boy, Elliot, has taken a Mr L, a teacher, and 5 kids hostage because Mr. L promised he would help Elliot get into the school, but the board rejected all his pleas.
At Xavier’s, Penance is exploring the Biosphere when Chamber offers her some apples and she accepts. Husk is watching from the computer room and is miffed that he is making such an effort to reach Penance.
Back at Faybrook, The Orphan Maker is hidden amongst the crowd outside the school in an ice cream van. He is telling Nanny he will make her proud. Banshee and the kids arrive in Faybrook after becoming suspicious over all the armed police.
They soon learn that the mutant boy has hostages and he, M and Skin take out the swat team covering the school. Synch tries to synch in with Elliot, but instead synch’s in with another mutant signature. Before they can find out who it is, the Orphan Maker bursts out of the van and starts firing at Elliot’s parents, who have arrived on the scene to try to talk Elliot out of the school. Banshee releases a sonic wave at the bullets, diverting their course and saving Elliot’s parents. M and Skin attack The Orphan Maker.
Meanwhile, Jubilee has sneaked into the school through the basement and jumps into the room expecting a battle with an evil mutant, but instead finds that the children have been released, and Elliot, a terribly deformed mutant, cradling the body of Mr L, who had has a heart attack and died due to the stress of the situation.
Outside, Skin’s attack has made Orphan Maker’s armour begin to fuse together and lose power, so he flees telling Elliot’s parents that he has no need to orphan Elliot because they did that themselves years ago.
Sadly, Synch finds out that Elliott is not even a mutant, as he has no aura to synch up with. He is just a disfigured ugly kid.


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Don’t Touch That Dial
Chamber is pissed off because his TV is broken so he skulks round his basement until Gateway appears and tells him psionicly that he should go and see Husk because she isn’t taking the news about the Legacy Virus well.
Meanwhile, in New York City, Jubilee, M, Skin and Synch are on a field trip when they spot the Thing of the Fantastic Four. Synch is hyped because he loves seeing real life superheroes, but Jubilee is less than impressed. As they prepare to leave to meet Emma Frost at her office, M suddenly zones out and freezes in position, almost catatonic, like she was when the Phalanx first captured them. As they are trying to move her, someone recognises Skin, and he can’t believe Skin is alive - he thought he was killed in L.A. Skin pushes his ‘friend’ out of sight from the others and strangles him with his skin, telling him that as far as he is concerned, Angelo Espinosa is dead, and that is what he is to tell people, especially Torres.
Back at the School, Banshee is trying to communicate with Penance in different languages, while worrying about his long term girlfriend, Moira Mactaggart, who Trish Tilby revealed to the world is the first human to contract the Legacy Virus. Leaving Penance he returns to his cottage to find Penance there eating his apples.
The kids are being driven to meet Emma and Synch is worrying about leaving M catatonic in the middle of Rockefeller Plaza when the car is hit by something and crashes. The driver is killed and the kids climb out of the car to find 3 more bodies pegged to a wall. They get an elevator up to Emma’s offices, but are attacked by Hemmingway, a huge member of Gene Nation, as they arrive.
Chamber finds Husk in the games room drunk and rambling about the Legacy Virus. She dosent see the point of studying and fighting and working hard if one day you’re just going to wake up with a virus thats going to kill you, and there’s nothing you can do to prevent it.
Jubilee attacks Hemmingway, but is thrown out of a window and Skin saves her. Hemmingway rants about how Gene Nation can do what they want, especially now they have the Leech, but Synch lashes out and knocks Hemmingway down the 30 floor lift shaft. Jubilee wonders what Emma would have been picking up here, and then Skin finds young Artie Maddicks hiding behind a pile of rubble, and they figure out that she was picking up him and Leech, but someone beat her to it. Artie shows them images of Marrow and Hemingway.


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Notes from the Underground
Gene Nation members Marrow and Hemmingway torture and humiliate Emma, who is powerless to stop them due to Leech dampening Emma’s powers. She is tied up and has some red pain in her face.
Skin, Jubilee, Synch and Artie try to find Emma, and Synch uses his aura to home in on the mutant signatures, which gives them a direct route to where Emma is being held.
Back at the School, Husk is throwing up and Chamber is helping her get over her drunken state. He takes her back to her room and she makes a pass at him.
Emma is trying to figure out what makes Marrow tick, by asking her why she slaughtered all the humans in the disco and why she turned out so twisted. Marrow tells her, that Gene Nation’s ancestors, the Morlocks, lived in muck and dirt like animals, and she and her generation would not live like that. Watching from above, the kids are powerless due to Leech, who is afecting their abilities. Marrow continues, telling Emma how Leech is the last of her ancestors, and how she views him as an embarrasment. Her generation will do better, will be stronger. Emma waits for the perfect moment when Leech is in place and kicks him hard into the wall, knocking him out and cancelling his power. With her psi abilities back, Emma psionically ‘fries’ Marrow and Hemmingway’s brains, but notices that they are shielded from her full powers due to their cerebral make-up. Emma is about to kill them when the kids pop down from their look out and give her a taste of their conscience.
Observing all from a secret laboratory, Dark Beast aka The First One, realises that Marrow has meddled with his plans too much and blows up the chamber they are all in. He feels remorse for having to involve Emma though, and hints that the two share a past.
Skin saves Emma from the full blast, and Jubilee races to save Leech, who is still unconcious. A wall begins to collapse on her, but she is saved by M, who had apparantly snapped out of her ‘moment’ in Rockerfeller Centre. Later as the group leave the sewers, M is gloating that she saved Jubilee’s life, while Jubilee is more concerned about M spacing out again. Emma telepathically tries to contact the X-Men, but Leech dampens her. He asks Emma not to kick him again, while Emma searches for a phone.
Later still, the kids and Emma are recovering at the Xavier institute in Westchester. Emma and Charles Xavier are discussing the threat and intentions of Gene Nation, and Emma tells him she feels there is somebody behind their actions. Charles tells her that Bishop and Psylocke have scoured the tunnels, but found nothing. M, Synch and Skin (reluctantly), get to know Leech and Artie and tell them about the Massachusetts Academy where they are being transferred to. Jubilee heads out to the woods to find Wolverine, whom she has not seen since he started to turn feral after the loss of his Adamantium. Jubilee tells him she’ll stay and take care of him, but he tells her to go back to School, and make him proud. After a sad goodbye, the two part.
Back at the School, Banshee is still trying to communicate with Penance when Gateway appears and covers his ears. Before Banshee can ask whats going on, the girls dormatry suddenly explodes with an unmistakable power signature - Chamber’s.


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Nights and Bolts
Banshee is having a nightmare set in his past around the time he had resigned from Interpol because nobody believed him about the mutant serial killer stalking Europe. In the dream he is holding on to a woman on the battlements of a Cassidy Keep, but he loses his grip and she falls to her death. The serial killer, a Russian mutant, appears behind him taunting him telling him to try and kill him again, and Sean shoots the Russian. Then, Emma appears in Sean’s dream telling him to wake up, as he is dragging her into his dreams, due to her telepathy and their close proximity, as Sean gave up his bed to Emma because she gave up her quarters to the girls whose dormatry was destroyed. Sean awakens and goes to Emma to tell her to stop going in to his dreams, but she is just as angry as he is, because she has no control over it. The two apologise, and Emma asks if he wants to talk about the dream, but he declines and she returns to bed leaving Sean fully awake after seeing Emma half naked.
Chamber is brooding around the grounds, fretting over what happened in the girls dormatry when Husk tried to kiss him. If she hadnt have husked at the last minute, he would have killed her. He thinks back to the first time his mutant powers manifested themselves and feels even more sorry for himself. Then Husk approaches him and apologises for her actions and thanks him for taking the heat over the accident and not telling the others how it happened. Jono gets even more upset because he thinks Paige would be too embarrassed if the others thought she had come on to an ugly freak like him.
Jubilee is spying on Husk and Chamber and can’t believe they are having a ‘thing’, when M tells her it is rude to snoop on other peoples business. Jubilee then wants to know what M is reading and pulls at her book until it rips in two. Jubilee is shocked to see it is infantile drawings and M snatches them back defensively and flies off out of the window.
Meanwhile, Skin is sneaking into the Biosphere to help Synch finish off the treehouse they are building for Leech and Artie, with Penance’s help. Synch is happy to help the young mutants, while Skin pretends he is put out by it, but is secretly enjoying giving them something he never had as a kid.
In an Interlude in County Mayo, Ireland, Mrs O’Brian rushes to the local pub, grabs the phone and demands she be connected with Sean Cassidy - as a matter of urgency.
Back at Xavier’s, M confronts Gateway asking how much longer she has to stay at the school, and why he can’t be her mentor like before. Gateway psionicaly calms her and the two meditate over the lake. Watching from the shore, Banshee wonders what he’s gotten himself into with M, when Emma comes out and apologises for being rude to him earlier. Emma tells Sean about kicking Leech unconscious during the fight with Gene Nation, and begins to feel remorse for some of her life’s actions when Jubilee interrupts them by telling Sean he has a phone call. Taking the call, Sean recognises Mrs O’Brian’s voice, but is shocked when she tells him he must return to Ireland - as Cassidy Keep has vanished off the face of the Earth!


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Of Leather and Lace (1st story); The Very Personal and Very Private Journal of Monet St Croix (2nd story)
First story :Cordelia Frost is demanding that she be given her sister Emma Frost’s vacant seat on the Hellfire Club’s Inner Circle as White Queen. Shinobi Shaw explains to her that there are rules of hierarchy and traditions and he cannot simply give her the title like that. She explains that she has a captured a very powerful mutant who could defeat any of the Hellfire Club’s enemies - she will give him to the Club as a gift - if she can have the position of White Queen. Shinobi views Mondo, the mutant Cordelia had befriended and captured for the sole purpose of gaining her entry to the club, and wonders if he is as powerful as Cordelia says. As Cordelia is telling Shinobi Mondo’s powers, a cadre of shock troopers attack Shinobi’s lair and deliver a message form a mysterious man known only as Barrington. Barrington informs Shinobi that his troops are taking the mutant, and as they do Cordelia panics - how is she going to get Mondo back?
At Xavier‘s, Jubilee is enjoying playing in the pool with Penance, when Penance suddenly has a seizure. Emma rushes to her side and attempts to calm her strange mind. Jubilee is very distraught over Penance as the two have grown quite close.
A knock comes at the door. Skin answers it and sees a pretty young girl - Cordelia stands there looking upset and asking to see her sister, Emma. Husk races to the door after hearing its Emma’s sister (who the kids knew nothing about) and begins firing questions at her. Cordelia asks them just to get Emma as its a matter of life and death.
Meanwhile, along the Boston Harbour, the shock troopers who abducted Mondo are preparing to transport him to Barrington when Mondo suddenly dissapears in the stasis tank he is being held in. Worrying they have lost him, the troopers begin arguing over who is going to tell Barrington, when Mondo reforms behind them - he had turned his form into water and leaked out of the bottom. Mondo escapes and heads onland.
At the school, Cordelia finally catches up with Emma, but the reunion is less that civil. Cordelia spins Emma the story that she was travelling the world on the trust fund set up by her, and she encountered a mutant named Mondo, whom she befriended and the two were on the way to the school to enrol, but were attacked and Mondo was kidnapped. Annoyed that her powers dont work on Cordelia, Emma has no choice but to believe Cordelia’s story.
In Boston, Mondo reluctantly steals a shirt (he has nothing to wear), but is seen and chased - by the shock troopers he escaped from. As they start to fire upon him, Mondo, in typical laid back style stops and asks them if they can talk about it. As civilians begin to flee the area, Emma and Generation X arrive and Emma alters a policemans mind to let them enter.
At the school, Chamber is watching over Penance who is comatose after her seizure at the pool. Chamber is telling her she has to get better as they are two of a kind - mutants one step from being monsters. Then Banshee appears and tells Chamber that Penance’s condition is deteriorating, probably due to Emplate. Then Moira MacTaggert calls via a video screen to discuss Penance. Sensing they want to be alone, Chamber leaves them to it. After asking how she’s doing, Moira tells Sean that from what she can tell, Penance has contracted her skin around herself to protect herself from Emplate - and she’s literally withdrawing into herself. Moira tells him he should bring her to Muir Island so she can look at her properly, but Sean starts making excuses about how busy they both are. Moira knows what he’s problem is, and asks him to be honest with her - then he loses his temper and says its because of the Legacy Virus. Sean then apologises and tells her he feels so guilty that she’s contracted the virus when it was only meant to kill mutants. Moira tells him she is dying, and there’s no changing that - but she hopes they still have each other. Sean tells her that he’ll always be there for her, then Moira snaps back into professional mode, shocking Sean. As she signs off, she tells him she still loves him, and he tells her he will always love her.
Back in Boston, the troopers have Mondo surrounded but he is rescued by Husk, Jubilee, Synch, Emma and Cordelia who attack the troops. Gunfire almost kills Cordelia, but Husk sheds into an impenetrable rock form and defends her. Husk is then thrown by a bomb, and Mondo catches her, then absorbs the concerete and attacks the guards for trying to hurt Cordelia. Emma grabs control of all the guards, but as she begins to probe them, Barrington, who is watching from a secret lab, teleports them all away.
They all return to the School, and later that day, Cordelia is plotting how she can get into the Hellfire Club now. Emma comes up behind her, suspecting she is up to something, and tells her to leave the school and never come back. Mondo comes to see her after Emma leaves and acts like everything is normal, he tells her he dosen’t blame her for him getting kidnapped or leaving his home. He still trusts her and tells her he would do anything for her, and she tells him she’s got to go or she’ll miss her train - for she’s got plans - big plans.
Second story :Skin is helping M move her things from Emma’s apartment into the science block, following the destruction of the Girl’s dormatry. He is struggling with the heavy things, while M is making it all look so easy. After M drops some things, the two have a laugh about it and while M flies off with some more boxes, Skin is left thinking she isn’t that bad. He then finds a diary of M’s on the floor and contemplates peeking in it. He reasons that he’ll get to understand her better if he has a little read. Inside he finds infantile drawings about her father sitting sad next to two small beds, with split images and pictures of the Phalanx kidnapping her. He then reads on to her impressions of Generation X, of how M thinks she can help them all, and how it would be rude of her to improve the Biosphere just yet. She thinks Skin and Synch are immature, and Emma dosen’t like her. She lists her surprise at seeing her mentor Gateway arrive, but understood when Emplate arrived at the airport. She is scared of Chamber and surprised at Penance’s appearance. She looked worse than M expected.
M suddenly returns and Skin drops the book and makes his excuses and leaves. M wonders why he left so quickly then sees her diary. It dosen’t worry her though, she reasons that even if he did read it, he wouldn’t be clever enough to figure out the St Croix family secret.


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Don't Wait Up ...
At the mansion in Northern Ontario, Canada, Emma’s chauffeurs are discussing how oddly Emma’s acting. They mention they have both been with her since her Hellfire Club days, before she lost the Hellions. They appreciate her being protective over Generation X, but think she’s taking abit too far. In fact it‘s only one of them talking, the other seems to agree, but remains silent. All around them, toads are hopping all over the grounds.
Inside, Emma is trying to make breakfast when the kids arrive. Still, (unknown to her or them) under Emma’s influence, they are all acting very differently. Jubilee is acting and dressed like a New York gangster, M, like a bubble head cheerleader, Husk like a clown, and Synch like a 60’s hippy. Emma begins to think something is rather odd with the kids, but can’t quite figure out whats happening. They start to have a food fight, and confused as to why she can’t understand whats happening, she telepathically makes them all go upstairs and get washed.
In the grounds a toad hops onto the Toad and tells him about Emma cooking for the kids. Toad realises she’s obviously not 100% at home at the moment and decides he can use this to his advantage.
Banshee arrives at Alpha Flight’s headquarters looking for help, but ends up angry when he finds out the team arn’t there. As he is arguing with a robot, Sasquatch comes crashing through a window asking why Sean has broken into Alpha Flight’s headquarters. Banshee fills Sasquatch in on the current events, why he needs help locating Emma and the kids, and he’s also worried because all phone lines to the U.S. are out of order. Sean notices that Sasquatch is looking a bit shabby and asks if everything is ok. Sasquatch reverts to Walter Langowski and is still acting odd. He seems to be having trouble remembering things, so Banshee thanks him and goes to leave, but Walter tells Sean he has a tracking device in the basement and if he can find it he will help. Sean decides to help Walter, if only to rescue the kids, but to also discover whats wrong with Walter.
At the Mansion, the kids are playing in a giant tree. They start to realise something isn‘t quite right, but cant figure out what it is. M tells them that Emma would never let anything happen to them, and Jubilee then knows something is wrong if M has started to trust Emma. Subconciously, M is scrawling ‘Help’ on a magazine. At the base of the tree, hundreds of toads begin to eat away at the tree and it collapses into the side of the mansion. Emma sees this from the kitchen and is glad the kids are having fun. Inside, Jubilee checks everyone is ok and then begins to realise something is seriously wrong. Why weren’t they scared when the tree fell? Why are they unable to feel anything other than happyness? Then Toad appears and tells them its because they aren’t in control. And thats what makes them perfect victims.
Back in the kitchen, Emma’s chauffeurs find her asleep, and several spice jars are floating around. They wake her up, and all the jars fall down, not that anybody notiuced them. The chaffeurs ask Emma why she hasn’t gone to see if the kids are ok after the tree fell through the house. She gets agitated and forces them to leave psionically. Then, a younger version of M (who is really Nicole St Croix, one of Monet’s younger twin sisters, but Emma doen’t know any of this) appears to Emma on the psychic plane and tells Emma that she’s decided Emma is mean. She tells Emma she’s come into Emma’s head to make her let them all go. Emma is shocked that M is this powerful, but M tells her all about Onslaught and how he has affected psionic powered people, including Chamber. She tells her that Onslaught is very bad and is taking over the world. That Emma dosn’t realise it, but she’s trying to protect Gen X the way she couldn’t protect the Hellions. She’s subconciously keeping them safe by keeping them away from the fight, exept now they are in big trouble with the Toad. They can‘t fight back until she lets them all go. Emma can’t believe this is happening and is suddenly jolted back to reality.What has she done?
Toad has tied up the kids and has introduced them to The Surgeon, his friend who alters mutants to make them something more. Thats how he aquired his army of sentient toads, and he wants to start by changing Husk. He tells them he is no longer the sidekick and he finally has somewhere to rule. Emma then appears and asks him what he’s doing. She tells him that she let him stay here after the Hellfire Club laughed at him when he asked to join, because he said he wanted to be alone. She wants to know whats happened - she lets mutants like him and the Surgeon live here so they can have a normal life. Toad tells her that he has a kingdom here - and he is king! Emma asks him to remember when Magneto used to abuse him and treat him like dirt - how different is that from what he’s doing now? Suddenly, all the toads begin to leave and the Surgeon runs off.
The kids begin to feel like themselves just as Sasquatch crashes through the roof to rescue them. Husk tells him he’s about two minutes too late and Emma tells him if she wanted Alpha Flight’s help, she’d have asked for it. Sasquatch tells her she did, kind of, as Banshee lands. He tells Emma he dosen’t blame her as he’s seen news reports from the states and guessed she must have been caught up in the psionic backlash. Eating a bit of humble pie, Emma apologises to the kids and Synch hugs her, telling her they dont blame her as its not her fault. Husk tells Sean she hopes she didn’t let him down, and Jubilee and M think all this lovey dovey stuff is sickening. They slowly look at each other and decide to call a truce.


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Bodies In Motion
Bastion and his aide, Daria, are watching CCTV footage of Generation X's first encounter with Emplate at Logan Airport. He seems most interested in Chamber, and despite Operation: Zero Tolerance's resources, knows nothing about Emplate. He orders Daria to find out as much as she can.
In Massachussetts, Sean and Emma are holding a barbecue party for the kids in the Biosphere, a way of letting the kids relax after the previous events regarding Onslaught. Leech, Artie, Jubilee and Synch are playing in the lake and Sean comments on how well the kids are coping. Emma tells him Paige isn't doing so well, and he should go and talk to her, as she probably doesn't trust her right now. Sean finds Paige sitting on her own fretting about how the Onslaught incident will make things even harder for mutants now.
As Emma is wishing she could reach out to people as well as Sean does, her salad starts moving and forms into Nightmare. He tells her that she should be quiet because this is between the two of them. She looks confused and he tells her he'll see her later - in her sleep. She falls off her chair and Mondo catches her, asking if she's ok. Emma asks Mondo if he saw the salad attack her, but he says no and Emma goes for a walk, feeling a bit confused. Sean's cellphone rings, and its Skin who tells Sean that he and Chamber are both fine and to not worry before he hangs up. Before Sean can worry about that little mystery, the others discover Penance, sitting in the barbecue and eating all the food. Her skin has become softer and she has scratches all over her face, but as she realises everone is watching her, she bolts and runs back into the undergrowth.
Back at Operation: Zero Tolerance HQ, Daria goes to tell Bastion that the infomation he required is ready. He attacks her though telling her never to sneak up on him and that people who work underneath him only ever get one chance. Daria apologizes and leaves the room.
At the school, M is levitating on the roof and Emma goes up to see her. M tells her to go away, but Emma stays and tells her that after the Canada/Onslaught incident, she doubts anyone will trust her again. M tells her she sort of knows how she feels - with everyone discovering that Emplate was her brother and all. Emma tells her that she never had a best friend, but by opening up to the kids, she could be very surprised with how much she likes them. M is not sure whether Emma is talking about her or about herself when M notices a bright flash in the Biosphere. Emma tells her not to worry as she was expecting visitors and offers M some ice cream. M accepts.
Nearby in Boston, Chevy is talking with his dad over how he took the job at Xavier's, but so far he's only met one person and he left. His dad, covered in shadows, tells him its his only chance to escape jail for murder, so he must go back.
In California, Chamber and Skin are hitchhiking and Chamber is feeling a lot better now that Onslaught has been defeated. They get picked up by none other that Howard the Duck. He tells them he's headed for L.A. and they jump aboard.
In the Biosphere, Nathaniel Richards, (whom M spotted teleporting in) is having a heated discussion with Banshee over his grandson, Franklin Richards. As Franklin's next of kin, Nathaniel has decided to leave Franklin at Xavier's to best monitor and deal with the boy‘s powers. It is unkown how Onslaught's tampering has affected Franklin and Sean tells him he won't be sorry. Nathaniel tells Sean that if anything happens to Franklin, he will kill him. Franklin instantly bonds with Leech and Artie and they run off into the Biosphere to show Franklin the treehouse. On their way, they encounter Tana Nile, an injured alien lying in the undergrowth.
At Operation : Zero Tolerance, Daria has discovered Chamber's true identity through his passport records. Bastion finds that Frost Enterprises paid for his ticket from London and orders Daria to get as much info on Frost Enterprises as possible.


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To Live and Die and Molt in L. A.
Hank McCoy, aka The Beast, is holding the Xenobiology Mid Term exam and has to tell Jubilee off for doodling on her paper. He then walks round wondering if he and the other original X-Men were ever this young. He watches Synch and wonders if he knows how powerful he could one day become, notes how eager Paige is and is astounded at how Monet finishes the exam in 4 minutes. She asks if she can leave, but Hank tells her that patience is a virtue. Penance watches from the window and jumps in and sits at a desk and tries to write like the others.
In L.A, Howard is having trouble getting served in a bar and he uses Quack-Fu to defeat some rowdy staff when the situation turns nasty. Chamber helps him out and he tells the man he wants to see Tores. The man attacks Chamber and tells him that Tores is a very private person and Chamber unleashes his power to save him and Howard. Watching from above, Skin regrets taking Jono and Howard to Tores' posse. He realises he must get help to save his friends and runs off. As Howard and Jono defeat the last of the crowd, Tores appears asking them what they want.
At the school, Hank is watching M with great intrest. She has zoned out again and nothing he says can get through to her. She starts to fold and rip up her midterm. Sean and Emma are in the kitchen discussing Hank's teaching methods. They fail to notice that Leech takes several bottles of milk from the fridge.
At a graveyard in L.A, a woman arrives at the cemetary to grive her son, Angelo Espinosa. She sits next to an old man who comforts her and then leaves.
Back in the class room, M suddenly snaps back and finds Beast observing her. She apologises and Hank asks her if this is a problem for her. She says no, but the other kids think otherwise.
In LA, Tores arrives and leaves something at the grave, cursing Angelo for going and dying. The old man watches her depart and Chamber and Howard watch as Skin takes his old man disguise off and goes to the grave. Chamber asks him if he wouldn't mind telling him whats going on, but Skin says he does mind.
After the test is over, Hank shows Sean and Emma Penance's effort and then hands them a miniature house made out of paper. This is what M did when she was 'spaced out'. Hank tells Sean and Emma he thinks that Monet is autistic.


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Everyday People
A few days after the Onslaught incident claimed the lives of so many of the World's finest heroes and civilians, people's lives are begining to restart. Banshee is taking Mondo, M, Jubes, Skin, Synch and Husk into the city when they become stuck in a terrible traffic jam. The kids are getting aggitated and begin squabbling and Jubilee starts teasing Husk about her feelings for Jono when she says she'd rather be back at the school sitting in on Emma's lecture about quantum applications to psionic manifestations than stuck in the mini bus.
Meanwhile, a man is watching a tv special about the mutant threat and how Onslaught has changed the world forever, but all can think about is how his girlfriend has dumped him. He contemplates suicide as life without her will be so hard. Meanwhile, a woman is watching the same show fretting that she's gonna be late for work because she went out again last night.
In the traffic jam, everyone is quitley thinking to themselves. Behind them, a car is tracking a car further up in the jam.
Across town, a man is exitedly finishing work because once he has, he is leaving his old life forever and jetting off with his mistress. The suicidal man leaves his apartment and the late woman misses the subway train, so she's gonna be even later now. Sick of the traffic, Sean tells them all to get out and gets Skin to park up and meet them in the cafe in the plaza. The tracker has now lost its target in the chaos of the traffic jam. Synch stays with Skin and as they dissapear, Sean begins to regret leaving the vehicle with Angelo.
The suicidal man reaches the subway station, fully intending to throw himself in front of a train when it is announced that the trains have been cancelled and passengers must find alternative routes. In front of him, the late woman screams in frustration - she is going to be so late now.
Jubilee starts bitching to M about how she never joins in with the others and how she thinks she's so above everyone else, when M tells Jubilee she would join in sometimes if she could ever get a word in edgeways. Jubilee loses it and really starts slagging M off. Paige wonders whether she should step in.
The adulterer smugly calls his wife one last time, acting like everything is normal - but he is shocked when she tells him that she's filing for divorce and she knows about his little affair with the secretary. She tells him she's changed the locks and he's not to see the kids agin unless its through their lawyers. After she hangs up, he puts his feet up on the table thinking how easy that was. He goes out to tell his secretary and she looks uncertain. A collegue then tells him she's found a discrepancy in the files, but he makes his excuses and tells his secretary to meet him downstairs.
A few blocks away, Synch is trying to get Skin to slow down as he is screeching through the city, but to no avail. The tracking car finds its target again and begins to trail them. They head into an underground car park and the tracking car runs over a man getting a suitcase out of his car. Sean hears the impact and tells Mondo and Paige to calm M and Jubilee down while he goes to see if he can help. Andreas Strucker jumps out of the tracking car with a cadre of troops. They grab the suitcase from the car but are stopped by Synch and Skin. Synch begins to synch into Andreas's mutant aura and Andreas uses this diversion to smash Ev in the face.
At the subway, late woman and suicidal man get talking.
M tells Jubilee they should try to act like adults and stop arguing and Mondo asks Paige if anything is wrong - she looks as though she has something, or someone on her mind. As Sean runs to the carpark he hears gunfire and is spotted by Andrea Strucker in another car. She recognises Banshee and alerts all soldiers. Back in the car park, the troops arn't interested in a fight and just want to blow Skin away as quickly as possible, but Banshee arrives and uses his sonic scream to divert the hail of bullets. Monet hears Banshee's scream and gets the others. In the carpark, Andrea arrives and releases metallic coils which attack and capture Sean and Skin. Meanwhile, the adulterer arrives in the carpark and gets in his car. Unable to leave because of the troops he has a go at them, telling them move.
Andrea admits to Banshee that she is shocked to see him here, but as she has himself and Skin and Synch captured, she demands he tell her what his involvement in the organisation is. Sean dosen't know what she's talking about. Andreas dosen't believe him and shows him whats in the case - a Mutagen Wave Generator. The Generator is capable of curing things like cancer and AIDS, but it is also capable of altering cells and creating genetic mutations, which is why they want it. As they are explaining this to Sean, Jubes, M, Husk and Mondo sneak into the carpark. Jubilee gets angry because M starts taking charge, but Husk tells her to shut up. Mondo phases through the wall to help Banshee. Inside, Andreas explains their full plans. After Onslaught, everyone is so scared, what if everyone started turning into mutant monsters? How much would they pay to be cured?
Meanwhile, the suicidal man is not so suicidal now as he and the late woman have got talking and have struck up a friendship. He's agreed to come to her office to tell her boss its not her fault she's late, but her boss is the adulterer who is now in carpark getting more and more agitated.
As Banshee tries to get free of the coils, Andrea starts to activate the generator, causing extreme pain to Sean, Skin and Synch. The generator somehow amplifies Banshee's scream though and as he screams, the guard's armour begin to crack, across the city, windows shatter on buildings and cars. Andrea realises they have made a fatal mistake and orders Banshee dead immediatly. However, Mondo suddenly rises up out of the floor, distracting them and Synch manages to tap into their mutant auras - with their powers he touches his hands and triggers their powerful explosive power, destroying part of the car park. The adulterer is thrown from his car seconds before it is crushed, and the late woman and not so suicidal guy are thrown together in the lift. They manage to reach her floor, but the office is full of police. Apparently, the secretary has shopped her boss (the adulterer) to the police and they've come to arrest him for embezlement.
Jubilee runs into the wreakage of the carpark and finds Husk and M shocked, but alive. Banshee stumbles around and finds Synch and Skin alive and well. As they try to aprehend Andrea and Andreas, the twins attack them and are only saved by M. As they escape, Jubilee attacks them with her pyrokinetics, which unfortunately ignite some of the petrol from the damaged cars and explodes. With the twins and Skin and Synch trapped behind the flames, Husk rips into a crystalised carbon form and heads with M into the flames to rescue them. Husk rescues Skin, Mondo rescues Synch and M cannot find the twins - they must have escaped. The adulterer manages to get backto his office only to be arrested by the police. The late woman and the suicidal guy agree to go out on a date.
As Generation X regroup outside, Banshee tells the kids how proud he is of them.


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All Hallows Eve
It is Halloween and Banshee and Husk have taken Franklin, Leech and Artie to a Halloween Festival in Rutland, Vermont to give them some time to enjoy themselves.
Meanwhile, a bunch of local kids from Snow Valley are planning to terrorise the school with tricks throughout the night as they are jealous of the clever kids they think reside at Xavier’s. As they drive into the grounds though, they see a spirit with a flaming skull and a melting man hanging from a tree. They are petrified, and then their car starts to levitate and they are thrown clear of the school. Laughing, Jubilee, Chamber, Skin and M reveal themselves. Observing from her private suite, Emma is thinking how good it is to have all the kids back on campus together again. She worries how they will cope outside of the school’s walls, without Sean and herself’s protectection. Then Nightmare appears to her again, and tells her that he needs her help. She begins to wonder what would be in it for her.
Back in Rutland, the kids are having the time of their lives, but Paige is worrying about them running round. Sean tells her that this is the one time of the year when Artie and Leech can walk around without having to hide their true selves, and he is happy Franklin is enjoying himself, considering he has just been orphaned. Paige tells Sean he is very good with them - with all the kids, but does he ever feel bad about not being there to watch his daughter grow up.
Sean looks shocked at first, but then admits to Paige that he misses her every day of his life. Then an old man in an Omega Red costume scares them both, and as they laugh about it, Franklin comes up to Sean crying because he misses his mummy and daddy. Sean doesn’t quite know what to say, so Paige tells Franklin she knows just how he feels because her own daddy left her for a place amoungst the stars not so long ago. He asks her what she does when she wants to see him, so Paige tells him she just feels her heart and he is there. As Franklin and Paige hug, Sean feels sad and thinks about Theresa.
In Emma’s quarters, Nightmare is explaining how he has been banished from his own realm by a woman who wants to rule the dream world. Nightmare explains that if she does then there will be serious damage. Emma tells him that she has enough to deal with, but will let him know and gets into bed. She tries to sleep but Nightmare doea not leave so she gets annoyed. She tells him she knows there isn’t some woman trying to rule his dimension, he’s just trying to find a way back into his realm. He tells her that she is real, he just needed to make sure that she couldn’t use Emma to sneak in. Emma tells him that she couldn’t anyway because transporting corporeal forms into the nightmare realm is way beyond her abilities. Satisfied, Nightmare agrees to leave.
At the festival, Paige and Sean are getting the very tired boys into the car for the journey back when Artie uses his powers to create an image of what Theresa would have looked like if she were about six years old. Paige tells Sean that it’s Artie’s way of saying thank you.
Back in Emma’s suite she suddenly has the most vivid nightmare - Nightmare is showing her multiple future images of gunfire, dead bodies, crashes, Bastion, the whole time telling her that it’s her dream, not Xavier’s dream and its coming apart at the seams. With a shot, the crush, the scream, the unkindest cut, the crash, the burn and the fall. He asks her if she can taste it - the taste of hope as it dies. Suddenly Emma awakens to find Nightmare standing over her - she demands to know what that was all about? She thought their business was done. Nightmare tells her it is - it was his way of saying thank you - by showing her a glimpse of the imminent future.


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For All This ... We Give Thanks
It is the day before Thanksgiving, and Sean is brooding about his daughter Theresa. He is feeling very sad, as he feels so guilty for not being there for her when she was growing up. He should call her - but what would he say? He would like to invite her to the school to celebrate Thanksgiving - but how would she feel? He never raised her, and now he’s raising a bunch of kids that aren’t even his. He decides he will call her - later. He goes outside and meets Synch who is going along with Sean to take M to the doctor over her suspected autism. Ev thanks Sean for asking him to come, but Sean tells him it was M’s idea, not his. They arrive at the garage to find all three vehicles crushed and M levitating outside, telling them that she’s thought it over and she’s not going. Period.
Meanwhile, Paige and Jono have traveled to Paige’s home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Kentucky to spend Thanksgiving. They are sitting high up in the mountains, watching the breathtaking scenary when Jono tells Paige how insignificant he sometimes feels. Paige tells him she feels that everyone is important, and every action has an effect. If you want something, you can have it as long as you reach far enough. As she reaches out to hold his hand he pulls it away, telling her he can never have what he wants - a normal life. Just look what happened to the science block and girls dormatries last time he tried to be normal and kiss Paige. Paige apologizes, but Jono tells her he is sorry too. He shouldn’t have come. Thanksgiving is for families. Paige asks Jono why he never talks about his family, and he tells her he never will. Paige is getting tired of getting blocked by Jono at every turn, and tells him they are not at school now and should just enjoy some down time. Jono thanks her and begins to head back to the house, leaving Paige wondering why she ever asked him home with her in the first place.
At the school, M suddenly bolts and flies off. Sean takes flight after her, but she tells him she just wants to be left alone. Sean tells her he dosen’t believe her. If she wanted to be alone she wouldn’t have waited outside the garage to be found. Sean wants to know whats wrong with her - why she’s so afraid of the doctors. M tells him with tears in her eyes that when her powers first manifested, her father took her to all manner of doctors who poked and prodded her and she dosen’t want to go through all that again.
Paige and Jono arrive back at the Guthrie Farm, to find it surprisingly empty. Her Mom and siblings are down the local church, and she has left a note asking Paige and her friend to prepare the corn for tomorrow. Jono starts bitching because he thinks that they are all out because they don’t want to see afreak like him. Paige looses it telling him that in case he hadn’t noticed both her and her brother are ‘freaks’. Her family dosent care who or what you are, everybody is the same to them.
At the Operation: Zero Tolerance base, Bastion is asking Daria why they only have one piece of photographic evidence of Emma Frost’s formative years. Daria explains how Ms Frost would fleetingly appear at society parties then dissapear. Now she is one of the world’s richest money brokers. Suggesting she may be a mutant, Bastion enquires about the school she runs....
In the Biosphere, Franklin, Leech and Artie are playing with Howard the Duck who has stopped by with his girlfriend Beverly Switzler to catch up with Chamber and Skin. The boys are trying to get Bev and Howard to help their sick friend. Bev persuades Howard to help and they are taken to meet Tana Nile, whom the boys have been hiding at their treehouse.
At the Farm, Paige and Jono are in the attic. Paige is telling Jono how they were never allowed up here as kids. Jono finds an old picture of Paige’s parents and begins to feel sad. Paige is blabbing on in the background and finds a childhood toy when Jono announces that he can never be him. Paige asks him what he’s talking about and Jono tells her he can never be her father. They could never be happy - he can never give her what she wants. He tells her that he tryed to figure out why she tryed to kiss him, and he thinks its because she was trying to treat him normally, but he can never be normal. Paige looks stunned and calls him a jerk. She kissed him because she likes him, and it dosen’t matter what he looks like. As she storms off, she tells him in the future she’d like her feelings respected for what they are, not what he needs them to mean.
In Sean’s cottage, M is asleep on the couch. He covers M up and begins to regret taking on this job. How can he raise kids? Just then Emma appears in his kitchen telling him that Monet has manipulated him and she is a threat. She’s been lying since day one and its putting them all at risk. Sean responds by telling Emma that she too could be a threat. Emma tells him of course she is a threat - did he actually think that she wasn’t. As Sean and Emma begin to question what they are doing, they are spied on by an unseen figure, operating an organic screen with a wooden hand.
Back in Kentucky, Paige is sitting on the porch when Jono tell sher he’s leaving and he hopes he hasn’t ruined her holiday. Paige quietly sits and calls him a jerk as he leaves.


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Home For Holidays
It is Christmas Eve and Emma, Jubilee, Paige and Monet are in Monet’s chalet home in Monaco. Emma is telling the girls how she loves Christmas Eve because its when everyone, no matter what they are, holds their breaths in anticipation of the dissapointments that will follow. Jubilee pitches in by telling Emma that not everyone celebrates Christmas to receive things, and she never asks anyone for anything, that way she never gets let down.
M, looking bored is not surprised that Jubilee is so cynical. Paige dosen’t believe either of them and says that Christmas should be a time for families and love. Jubilee asks her why she’s in Monaco then and not on the Guthrie farm, like every other year. Paige looks a bit shocked, not wanting to tell the others the disaster she had with Chamber at Thanksgiving last time she went home. M saves her by telling Jubilee to back off, and Paige asks M if she read her mind or talked to Jono. M says she dosen’t usually read minds, and Jubilee tells Paige its blatently obvious that she’s got the hots for Jono. Paige psionically begs Emma to help and Emma suggests a change of subject.
As they all sit down with hot cocoa, Jubilee is saying how they are a team, they are all comrades, they should be able to tell each other anything, even things they have never told anyone else. Emma thinks this is a good idea, and tells Jubilee to start.
(flashback to Jubilee’s past)Jubilee reminisces about the time her powers first manifested. Her mom and dad were very busy, so Jubilee and her friend, Cynthia Jennifer, would go round the malls on their skateboards causing trouble. One day they were being chased by cops when they were separated. Jubilee ended up cornered and panicked - her powers errupted from her hands, and she made her escape. Cynthia found her washing her hands, as they felt like they were on fire, and Jubilee knew nothing would ever be the same again.
(present)Jubilee finishes and challenges M. M walks to the window silently. Jubilee tells her she’s not gonna use her autism to get out of this one and M tells her just because Dr. McCoy suspects her to be autistic, it dosen’t mean she is. M then tells them the first time she used her powers - she realised she could be anything she wanted.
(M’s story)A childlike flashback occurs, where M recounts how her nanny was shocked to discover her levitating one morning and how the masses of Monaco turned out to cheer her as she flew through the streets. She recalls being hesitant towards her father, but how he loved her and was proud of her once he saw what she could do.
(present)As M concludes the tale, Emplate phases in by the window and tells her that her friends asked for the truth, but how honesty was never her forte. Emplate tells her that he has only returned to their home to talk - to beg. He has somehow frozen time so the others know nothing of their encounter. M looks shocked to see them frozen with auras round them, and Emplate tells her that she is using the portion of her mind that allows her to perceive mutants by their mutagenic auras. He asks her to set him free of his prison, so they may sup together as they did in their youth.
M denies this and Emplate tells her he is only teasing, but she can’t deny the hunger isn’t there. She asks him what he wants- apart from ruining her Christmas. He tells her he wants accountability - for her to at least acknowledge the reason he’s trapped in the dimension while she wanders round untethered by the burden of guilt over what happened to their mother. M loses it and tells him that their mother made her own choice, she did what she did so her children could live.
Emplate then loses it telling her she knows nothing of sacrifice, if it wasn’t for him then she would be the one who was suffering. M tells him she knows how he feels, but he tells her she can never know what its like to know your soul is no longer your own. As he does, the arms return pulling and grabbing. M looks shocked and Emplate tells her they are the souls of a hundred thousand beings, all tugging and tearing at his corporeal form. This is his life - this is what she claims to understand. As he is pulled back into the other dimension, M asks what she can do to help? Emplate tells her to find someone to take his place, but she tells him she cant. As he is pulled away, he tells her he is damned forever then.
Suddenly, M is back and the others know nothing of her encounter with her brother. Jubilee says she dosen’t believe M’s version of events, and the four women walk out onto the beach, lit by moonlight. Jubilee tells M that even for a mutant, M is ‘different’. As the two continue talking, Paige asks who’s next and Emma tells her its her go.
(flashback to Husk’s past)Paige flashes back to her thirteenth birthday. Sam’s first away from home. She used to read his letters home about life in the New Mutants, training to be an X-Man. She would try for hours on end to trigger her mutant powers, but they would never come. Her mother would tell her that you can’t rush these things, but she didnt listen. She would practice for telekinisis, telepathy all sorts, but never with any sucess. One night, sick of waiting she went out to the fields and told God that if he didn’t make her a mutant soon, she would tear right out of her skin, which is exactly what happened. Falling to her knees in complte happiness, she thanked the lord.
(present)Jubilee tells her that life must have been awful boring on the farm if thats all she had to get exited about. M tells Jubilee that life on the farm sounds better than life out here. Humans are hating mutants even more - soon there will be no place to hide. Jubilee asks who wants to hide? and Emma tells them Jubilee is right. Generation X, by extension of the X-Men’s point is to provide a means for all mutants to be free to live their lives in peace.
(flashback to Emma Frost’s past)Emma then flashes back to when she was in her early teens. Her parents had had her locked away in a ‘clinic’, which was actually a lunatic asylum. An exclusive place where the rich and famous sent their problem kids to sit for years on end zoned out on various drugs. In her case she was there because of the voices she heard in her head. 24-7. Inside the asylum, she was fair game for the doctors and the guards. One day she realized that if she could hear their thoughts, then maybe she could make them hear hers, and as one of the guards tried to force himself on her, she seized his mind and told him to take her away from the place. She left the place ablaze and never looked back, having learnt that she would never have to ask for anything twice again in her life.
(present)As Emma finishes her story, M tells the others she thinks its great that they have all shared these things. Paige asks why they jut couldn’t have sung Christmas Carols like the rest of the world, and Emma tells them its because they arn’t like the rest of the world.
At that moment, back at the School, Mondo trudges through the snow to a shadowy figure in the trees. Asking if its time, Black Tom tells him to be patient, the time will come - sooner than he thinks.


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Adrift
Chamber awakens on the small floating mass of vegetation that is adrift in the middle of the ocean and begins to panic as Husk looks very ill. Her skin is peeling off to reveal a very unhealthy layer underneath. As he begins to think he might lose her, M suddenly regains conciousness and rips all of Paige’s skin off and then prises open the black dead form underneath to reveal a healthy, normal Husk beneath this layer. Jono looks stunned, but M tells him she learnt in class that metamorphs are prone to shock in mid-transitional states and she needed help with this particular transition. As Paige sits up, M orders Jono to give her his coat as she is in shock and needs to be kept warm. Jon begins to ask M if she has any idea how they got here, but she tells him she doesn’t and they have more important things to worry about - like the fact that they are in the middle of the ocean with no protection from the sun at all.
At the school, Sean has solemnly taken Emma’s body to the med lab. He blames himself. It was his cousin who attacked the school, abducted the students, and forced him to fight Emma - who is now dead. A distraught Sean promises that he will find the kids and bring them back. He leaves the lab and tells Penance that they have a job to do.
Meanwhile, Jubilee awakens in the secret base of Operation:Zero Tolerance and attacks a group of guards. Disorientated, she remembers being attacked by Mondo, then meeting Bastion then waking up here in a surgical gown and with her hair shaved off. As she tries to figure out what to do next, she realises that one of the guards she attacked is injured and against her better judgement, starts CPR on him. From another part of the base, Bastion watches intently.
In the ocean, Skin has lost control over the coherancy of his skin and it is spred out everywhere. M tries to hold it together before he suffers burns from the sun, but this causes him more pain. Jono blasts a piece of the raft off to cover Skin from the sun, but the raft begins to break apart. Panicking, M takes flight determined to get help, even though she could be thousands of miles from land. As M flies off, Paige asks Jon if they have any hope at all. He tells her they will be fine and to rest. She flips out and throws his coat back at him and tells him she doesn’t need his protection, she’s seen a lot of hardships in her life and if they are going to die it will be as equals.
At the O:ZT base, Jubilee manages to revive the guard who then insults her. More troops arrive and attempt to terminate her but she grabs a blaster and escapes through a ventilation shaft. Bastion, still watching, wonders why she would risk her life to save someone who would kill her.
Back at the school, Emma suddenly returns to life. Nightmare stands over her and tells her he told her so. She tells him that is true, but he only did it for his own gains. He tells her that she can do a service to the nightmare realm in exchange, but she tells him that as soon as she’s found the kids, she will be coming after him.
In the ocean, M suddenly falls from the sky, unconcious. She lands near the raft and Synch dives in to save her. As he pulls her on board, Paige asks if she found anything - M tells them that the truth is that they are all going to die.
At the school, Sean is in the War Room using the computors to scan the globe for Gen X, but it shows up nothing. He looses it and shatters the computor with his scream. Then Emma appears and explains that she controlled his scream not to kill, but stun her and that she purposly lowered her heart rate so Tom would think she was dead. Sean tells her Gen X are gone, but she tells him they are not dead - She knows that feeling - Gen X are alive somewhere.
At that moment, Jubilee falls out of the ventilation shaft and into the snow, knocking herself unconscious. Bastion appears and takes her back into the base.


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The Last X-Man (1st story); Cookin' with Jubilee (2nd story)
First story :Cyclops' broken visor lies on the floor in a dark room. Jubilee sits on the floor, covered from head to toe in mechanical restraints and monitoring equipment. Bastion gives a brief history of Cyclops to Jubilee. He tells her that he was the first X-Man and that he possessed a powerful optic blast that could only be contained by the visor that now lies on the floor. Jubilee comments on how Bastion has a serious problem with the past tense to which he replies that he doesn't. Jubilee sees through his plan though; he is trying to get her to be emotional so that she would reveal the important information about the X-Men. Bastion walks out of the room and closes the door behind him, leaving the young girl alone with the broken visor to think.
Jubilee sits alone in the room remembering a few nights before when she first met Bastion. She was being chased by a deranged Mondo, and she thought that Bastion was there to save her. Jubilee realizes that Bastion's intentions are anything but valiant and as she thinks of this, she starts to cry. She faces the exit that Bastion just took and tells him that she knows that Cyclops would never die at the hands of a loser like him.
Outside the chamber, that is really not an enclosed room but a holographic platform that gives the illusion of entrapment, Bastion stares at Jubilee as his assistant, Daria, questions him. She thinks that he is being too cruel. After all, she's just a kid. However, he states that it is a cruel world and she would do better to concentrate on the machinery to make sure that it doesn't malfunction. To her statement about her being a child, he says that it is the contrary; she is a mutant and her psionic defenses are truly underdeveloped. All that Bastion needs to do is trigger a harsh emotional reaction and her thoughts will show up on his monitor and give him the information that he needs. Bastion snaps at Daria to watch the monitors as they swirl with color, solidifying into the image of a young Jubilee sitting on a couch.
(flashback)Jubilee is contemplating death as she thinks about Illyana, after her funeral. Cyclops comes out to console Jubilee, much to her dismay. She is intimidated by him and doesn't think that he will be that good of a counselor. They start talking about the funeral and Jubilee mentions how surprising it was to see Wolverine cry. Cyclops confides in her that Wolverine is really a big softy and goes on to tell Jubilee about his adopted daughter, Amiko. They continue to talk and bond as the memory fades from the screen.
(present)Bastion sits in contemplation at the blank screen as Daria tries in vain to get his attention.
At the Massachusetts Academy, the White Queen's chauffeurs, Bumpkin and his friend, sit around picking moss out of their teeth from being buried by Black Tom Cassidy's vines. In a back room, the White Queen telepathically probes Banshee to see if there is any information stored in his subconscious that may help them find out where the children are being held prisoner. During the probing, Banshee gets a flash of the original X-Men entangled on Krakoa, the living island. He snaps to his senses with an idea of where the children are, and blasts off through the roof, heading to find the children.
Jubilee kicks her food dishes at Bastion, telling him that she would rather starve. The food splatters on his chest and he wipes it off. He says that that statement is ironic because that is exactly what Bishop said before he killed him.
Outside, Daria watches in disgust. She wants to do something to help the girl, but she can only sit and watch while Bastion pushes Jubilee's buttons. Daria turns to the screens as they come alive with the image of another memory, this time of Jubilee's introduction to Bishop. Storm introduces the two, and Bishop calls Jubilee the last X-Man. Jubilee thinks that it must be true since Bishop is from eighty years in the future. Daria watches intently as she ponders how Bastion will pick apart every scrap of information that he extracts from Jubilee's head so that Operation: Zero Tolerance could begins in earnest.
Back in the holding cell, Jubilee tells Bastion that there is no way that she will ever believe that he killed all of the X-Men while she slept. Bastion just smiles and says that he didn't say that they were all dead...yet. He instructs Daria to open the "window". Jubilee looks through it and tears start to well up in her eyes. Before her sits Wolverine, surrounded by electric generators and bound with metal wire. He is stubbornly refusing to reveal the location of the X-Men. Bastion flips a switch and Wolverine in shocked with several thousand volts of electricity. Bastion shuts the process down and Wolverine bows his head. In a barely audible voice, he pleads for Bastion to stop. Bastion turns to Jubilee and gives her the offer to end Wolverine's suffering, only for the small price of the information that he requires. Jubilee slowly lifts her tear-stained eyes to look at Bastion, then starts to chuckle. The chuckle slowly mutates into full blown laughter, echoing on the walls of the chamber.
Daria gazes in wonderment at the young girl, thinking to herself that Jubilee is on to their plan, since not a single image showed up on the screen. Daria watches Jubilee as she mocks Bastion.
Jubilee is still recovering from her laughing spell as she explains to him. She said that Bastion almost had her believing that that was actually Wolverine, but they over dramatized it. Jubilee knows that Wolverine would never beg. In fact, he would probably die before he did so. She then kicks the remainder of her food at him, taunting him and kicking him in the face several times. She gives him a speech about human and mutant equality, saying that if the only reason he is doing what he is doing is for humanity, then she would rather be a mutant and he can keep his "humanity". Bastion glares manacingly at Jubilee, clenching his fists.
Daria turns to the monitors with a perplexed look on her face. The monitors seem to be picking up Bastion's memories instead of Jubilee's. A robotic hand pierces the surface of a pink puddle, bonding the material to its metal skin. The figure continues to rise until a man emerges with green markings on his body. He utters two solitary words, "At. Last." Daria's bewilderment grows as she looks at the image. She turns around to see that Bastion is beating Jubilee. He walks over to her, cradling her face in his hands and tells her that his humanity is the only thing that is keeping her alive. He stands up and calmly walks out of the room. Jubilee screams after him that he can do whatever he wants to do to her, but she will not break no matter what.
Bastion stomps outside the room and is confronted by a concerned Daria. She tries to confront him about what she saw on the monitors, but Bastion quickly dismisses it and then tells her that he wants all of the information collected from Jubilee processed within the hour. She is then to alert the Operation: Zero Tolerance team and have them mobilize on the X-Men that have been identified in Hong Kong by tonight. Daria tries to protest, since it is too far ahead of schedule. Bastion just glares at her and struts out of the room.
On the floor in her containment cell, Jubilee lies staring up at the ceiling with a bloody nose, a smug look on her face. She grins and says to herself, "PIHH, I showed him."
Second story:Jubilee is in the kitchen with an apron on. She smiles and waves to us, saying that she is going to show us how to make her famous gargantuan pancakes. First, you have to clean yourself off a nice working space. She goes to the counter and shows us as Angelo walks in. He asks Jubilee who she is talking to and she tells him that his is just in time for breakfast.
Jubilee picks up a box of pancake mix, telling us which brand she prefers, then tells us to mix a healthy portion with water. She dumps the whole box into a bowl as Angelo asks her how much she is putting in there. She says that she usually just eyes it. Jubilee takes the bowl and dumps it into a pan, telling us to put the mixture in a skillet that has been heating on the stove. Angelo scratches his chin and says that he feels like he is on a cooking show. Jubilee points to the pan and says that the tricky part is not burning it and flipping it without it flying to pieces. She flips the pancake up in the air and catches it in the pan.
Most of the team is now gathered around the kitchen table as Jubilee tells us that just one of her gargantuan pancakes can feed at least four people and brings them happiness. Just look at their eyes light up! The team digs into their pancakes, happily.