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“Lights Out” starring Beast (First Story)
“Planting Seeds” starring Magik (Second Story)
“The Hole” starring Havok (Third Story)
“Idée Fixe” starring Forge (Fourth Story)
“The Sun Also Sets” starring Moonstar & Surge (Fifth Story)
First Story:
The Beast stands outside the ruins of the Xavier Institute with Wolverine. He thinks to himself “I loved you once. So I thought I’d come and say goodbye.” Logan has driven the Beast there and asks Hank if he’d like him to wait. Hank replies that this will take a while so Logan decides to be on his way. He tells Hank to stay in touch and the Beast assures him he will since Logan is the only person on the planet who can make his own hairstyle look like a popular trend. The two mutants shake hands and Logan leaves.
Hank makes his way inside, surveying the damage and considering how much this place has been through over the years. He is thankful that most of his own work was conducted in the sub-basements which were spared much of the destruction.
 He passes through the security measures designed to safeguard this area and looks about at the chaos, wondering where to begin. He eyes the file cabinets filled with student records and decides that the answer is obvious: Start with destruction because it’s the easiest thing to do. He fires up a laser-enhanced wastebasket and proceeds to incinerate student records amassed over the last decade. As he gathers them, he marvels at the minute details explained about each individual and how their powers worked and developed. He thinks that someday there may be another place like this and he may be a part of it, too. But for those who have passed – Doug, Illyana, Jay, Callie, Sarah – he believes that no one has a right to see their inner workings laid bare. He takes the ashes of these files above ground and says a prayer to “Newton’s god and Einstein’s and my own, for the soul of Charles Xavier.” He then scatters the ashes to the wind.
Having done this, McCoy turns to the undignified job of cleaning up the ruins. He sifts through it looking for Sentinel tech and other equipment that should not be left unattended. He finally makes his way to his own room, having built himself up to finding the shattered remains of his life at the Institute. He realizes that the items he finds may be trivial, but they are the remnants of his early life. He notes that his life was erased once and reset and these items from before that hold special value to him. Among them is a photo of him in a football uniform and another with his parents. He finds a battered guitar and it reminds him of aspirations he never quite achieved.
Dr. McCoy then makes his way to his lab. In addition to things that must be destroyed, there are also things that must be preserved at all costs. He forwards the anti-viral formula for the Legacy Virus to five academics and scientists whose ethics he trusts to insure that it is never lost, regardless of his own fate. This leaves only one task. He opens a specially designed case that houses the mutant brain of Martha Johansson. He asks how she’s doing and makes sure that she isn’t too lonely. He informs her that they are moving to new quarters and though he isn’t sure where exactly, he has heard the climate will be pleasant.
He closes up Martha’s case and the few items he has gathered. He then takes a final walk down the classroom block, imagining how it looked before. He realizes that every inch holds a memory and a piece of him. He comes to the Danger Room and sets down his things. He leaps into the air, bounding around the remains of the Danger Room with a joyous smile on his furred face. This was his way of saying farewell to this place that shaped him in so many ways.
His tasks complete, Beast thinks to himself “The last box ticked. The last door bolted behind me. The lights all turned off and the chairs neatly stacked on the tables. Let it go.” He places a sign that says “No Admittance” on the front gate. As he walks away, he thinks “Tomorrow’s another day” but realizes that he has it on pretty good authority that tomorrow never comes.
Second Story:
Illyana remembers that as a child, she was not very patient. She recalls running to her father in the fields, asking insistently when she would be able to drive the tractor and work in the fields like him. When her brother Piotr left to join the X-Men, she asked when they might join him and asked if she too would have powers. Her father would reply “Every seed knows its time, Little Snowflake.” He would then look at his pocket watch and stare at it, as if hoping that he could slow the passage of time or perhaps turn it back somehow.
The Darkchylde stares down at the amulet containing a single Bloodstone. It looks eerily like the pocket watch her father had and reminds her of the years she has lost in Limbo. She fingers the Bloodstone and says to herself that it would only take four more to get her soul—and her life—back. “But at what cost!?!” she shouts, as she places the medallion around her neck.  She realizes that she cannot think like that! Too many lives have already been ruined by the medallion and the dark magicks necessary to create it. She is determined to find another way that does not require others to suffer as she has. She refuses to become like the demon master who destroyed her youth… Belasco!
She gestures at a mirror entwined in the wall of her sanctum and a vision of Belasco appears. She shouts his name and tells him that he has failed in his attempts to mold her to his desires and steal her soul. With a wave of her hand, she dismisses the image. She says to her former master that she “remembers who I was. Who I am.” In the mirror, she sees an image of herself in her old New Mutants uniform. She adds “Who I love” and the image changes to show her brother Piotr and her best friend, Kitty Pryde. She reaches out to the images and apologizes to “her brother” that she sent him away like she did. She tells “him” that she couldn’t face the two of them like this. She begins to cry and tells “him” that this is what she is for now and she knows that he will be able to look past it because he loves her. She opens a stepping disc and says that she knows that they will help make her feel human again. She hesitates for a moment before deciding to step through. She says that this is the first step and “To reclaim my soul, I first have to reclaim my heart.”
Illyana arrives at the Xavier Institute, only to find it in ruins. She calls out for Piotr and Kitty only to find that no one is there. Amidst the ruins, she finds a smashed bed that may have once been hers. She recalls a happy moment before her time in Limbo.
 Kitty has just read her a story and she is snuggled in bed with a stuffed animal. She begs Kitty and Piotr not to leave and Piotr tells her not to worry “We will never leave you.”
The Darkchilde falls to her knees in anguish and chides herself for coming there. She apologizes to Kitty and Piotr, wherever they may be, and says that she just can’t be a part of their world yet. She rises and says “How could I have been so stupid?!” Tears stream down her face as she decides that she can’t get her soul back through love, only through suffering. She vows that those who have wronged her will pay with their souls no matter how long it takes her. She gazes upon the four empty spaces on the Bloodstone medallion and says “For as my father taught me… every seed knows its time.”
Third Story:
The planet Kr’kn lies on the very fringes of the Shi’ar empire. It is here that the newly installed Shi’ar emperor, Gabriel Summers AKA Vulcan has imprisoned his brother, Alex and his fellow Starjammers. Alex sits huddled into the corner of his cell in a prison at the bottom of Kr’kn’s ocean. He’s been told that he is twenty miles down. He is completely cut off from the sun with no light, very little food and almost total isolation. Havok thinks to himself that he shouldn’t be there, that he should be studying geology in the Arizona mountains not the leader of band of mutants and aliens.
Alex’s thoughts are interrupted by the screams of his fellow Starjammers. He can hear the loud cries of Ch’od and Raza and the stifled pain of his long-time paramour, Lorna Dane. He knows that Polaris is trying to contain her anguished cries because they want him to hear her pain. His captors know that hearing her being tortured will tear Alex up inside and it does, “Every time. Every day.” Alex covers his ears in a vain attempt to shut out their screams. He thinks that he’s a failure as a soldier and a leader and has nothing left. He covers his eyes and says over and over “Let them go”.  Alex calls out to Lorna, feeling helpless to save her without access to the cosmic source of his powers. He blames himself for dragging Polaris into this interstellar quest to stop his mad brother.
As he wallows in his despair, a holographic image of Vulcan appears in his room and declares that he brings “news from home.” Alex immediately launches into a plea to release the others. Vulcan smiles and says condescendingly, “Oh my. Tell me you’re not broken already?” He tells Alex that he’s embarrassed for him but feels he has the right to know what their brother, Scott has done in their absences.
He tells Alex of the birth of the first mutant child since M-Day. He shows him images of the Purifiers efforts to destroy the child to Alex’s shock and dismay. He explains that Cyclops sent the X-Men against all those who sought the child and how he formed a “death squad” to hunt down the Purifiers and their allies. Images of the X-Men in combat and Wolverine fighting Lady Deathstrike flood the room. The next images are of Cable with the child and Vulcan smugly explains how their nephew betrayed the X-Men and kidnapped the child. Next he shows Bishop in grips of the madness that overcame him when he learned of this child’s existence. Vulcan gloats that the X-Men fell and that he got his greatest wish: Charles Xavier’s death! His words are accompanied by images of the demolished Xavier Institute and Xavier’s corpse. Alex can’t believe this and tells his youngest to shut up. Vulcan then lies and tells Alex that the baby the X-Men had pinned their hopes to was killed as well.
Alex is overwhelmed by all that he has heard but then begins to laugh. Vulcan asks why he’s laughing and if he realizes that he now has nothing left. He angrily declares “I’ve won, damn you!” He says that Alex and his friends will die here. Alex sits coldly silent. Vulcan asks if he’s listening and Alex replies “I hear you.” Alex repeats what he’s been told: “Xavier’s dead. The X-Men disbanded” but explains to his younger sibling that it doesn’t matter. The point of the story is that a new mutant was born, life perseveres and all hope is not lost. If this child was born, then another mutant will be born eventually. Alex tells Vulcan that as long as he lives, he knows that he’ll someday find a way to freedom and to him. As he says this, he begins to power up and then punches the wall with incredible force. He tells his baby brother that their battle isn’t over until they stand face-to-face and he rips his heart out!
Fourth Story:
Forge is recovering from the major injuries he sustained when Bishop attacked him. He thinks to himself that when one is recuperating from an injury and fading in and out of reality, they sometimes fixate on a single thought or idea. He has been experiencing this since Bishop’s attack. Everywhere he looks he sees a particular electronic pattern.  He turns it over and over in his mind, trying to hold onto it. His head is bandaged and the damaged area now contains some cybernetic components.
He is obsessing over components that deal with time travel that Cable had brought back from the future. Forge was reverse engineering these just prior to Bishop’s unexpected assault. Bishop shot Forge and he sustained some brain damage from the resulting fall. This has left some gaps in his memory. He is tired of being confined to the hospital and starts to dress himself. He thinks that perhaps if he can reconstruct these devices he might be able to help change things, even correct the mistakes of the past.
Forge returns to his home at Eagle Plaza in Dallas. The place was a mess, the damage from Bishop’s “visit” still apparent. He recalls how he had left his defenses down and Bishop had taken full advantage of it. He remembers Bishop bursting into his lab, his right arm having just been gnawed off by Predator X during the X-Men’s final conflict to claim the newly born mutant child. Bishop blasted Forge, sending him slamming into one of his work stations. Forge grabbed a gun hidden under the desktop and asked Bishop not to do this. Bishop replied that he had no choice and fired a second blast of energy that nearly tears off Forge’s arm. He then charged the Maker and subdued him.
Forge awoke a good while later in a pool of his own blood. He had sustained a head injury when he fell. Despite this he immediately began to search his lab to find out what Bishop had taken. Two things were missing: a powerful robotic arm and every scrap of research and work he had done on Cable’s time travel devices. Seeing what was lost, Forge grabs a metal implement and frantically tried to recreate his notes on the temporal devices from memory by scrawling them into the floor. He was determined not to let his ideas slip away.
But they did. Days later, he had still been unable to recreate all the notes that he’d lost. He decides that perhaps there is something in the very nature of time travel that makes the ideas elusive. He decides that while he might not be able to change the past of the future, he could protect the present. He seals himself in his lab and sets about a new task: improving his home’s defensive systems. His new obsession is ensuring that he would be safe and undisturbed as he tries to process through the ideas that seem to overflow from his mind. As he gets to work on the detailed defense system plans, his eyes grow wide with an expression of crazed determination.
Fifth Story:
Danielle Moonstar sits on the porch of her cabin in Colorado drinking coffee and watching the sun set. She is pleased that the days are getting longer as she feels she’s had enough darkness in her life. She rises and heads to her computer where there is an article about the X-Men disbanding. She chuckles and says to herself “Yeah, like we’ve really heard the last from them…”
 Suddenly the door shatters amidst an electrified explosion. Surge stands in the doorway much to Dani’s surprise. Electricity surrounds Nori as she hurriedly apologizes to Dani. Speaking at an accelerated rate, she explains that she ran all the way there and didn’t know where else to go. She tells Dani that she needs her help before she collapses from overexertion.
The next morning, Dani tells Nori to wake up and asks what is going on. She tells Nori that things must be really bad for her to run all the way to Colorado and asks if Emma Frost had anything to do with this. Nori says that she’s to blame. She begins to cry and says that she just can’t take the pressure anymore. Dani tries to comfort Nori and asks how she could have had anything to do with the X-Men disbanding. Surge clarifies that she’s talking about the New X-Men and that she failed her friends. She tells Dani that they were wrong to make her the team leader and that she doesn’t have it in her. She adds that she doesn’t know how to live with herself anymore. Dani tells Nori that she’s starting to scare her and suggests that she get dressed and join her outside.
Nori joins Dani and the two walk along the bluffs near Dani’s cabin. Dani asks what happened and Nori replies glibly “We fought the bad guys and won.” She goes on to vent about how despite their victories or what incredible odds they overcome, they never truly win. Dani replies that this comes hand-in-hand with being an X-Man and that you have to learn to accept the sacrifices. Nori gets angry and says that this isn’t what she wants to hear from Dani. She then unleashes a burst of electrical power as she demands to know how Dani can be so calm after all she’s been through. Dani asks if she feels better and says that sometimes you need to just let it all out. She then asks Nori what’s really bothering her.
Nori thinks back on all that has occurred since she arrived at the Xavier Institute. She tells Dani that she feels empty inside, the way she felt before she came to the school. Back then, she used drugs to deal with the pain her powers caused her. Now she knows that you can’t really kill the pain you feel, only hide it. After seeing a bus full of her friends explode, her fear of pain began to rule her life. She drove away those close to her and isolated herself from anyone who might eventually hurt her. But her actions cost her and her team when she decided to hunt down the Purifiers. Her teammate Hellion was nearly killed by Lady Deathstrike as a result. Nori now knows that she can’t run or hide from her pain because it always finds a way to come back and haunt her.
Dani tells Nori that she’s not the only one who has suffered, as she thinks back on all the heartache and pain she has endured. She tells Nori that she chose to face her demons and fight them but that ultimately you can’t avoid the pain life throws at you. She tells her honestly that life can strip away all that you care about but that you can’t let the pain control you. Instead, she has used it to make her stronger and through that strength they learn how to deal with life’s pain.
 Nori doesn’t like what she’s hearing “Deal with it” and “Whatever doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger.” She tells Dani “Gee… thanks Wolverine.” Dani gets angry and tells her to let her finish. She tells Nori that having the inner strength to deal with the pain doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t inflict some of their own once in a while. She explains that she shouldn’t be afraid to channel her pain and use it for her own ends. She asks Nori to follow her as they reach the top of the bluff. She tells her to taker a look at what gets her through everyday no matter how painful. The two look out over the valley as the sun rises.
Dani explains that there are cyclical patterns to life and that from her point of view and that of her people, pain can lead to healing. Everything is intertwined: good and evil, life and death. No matter what happens on any given day, the sun will rise again the next morning and you will have another chance. Nori looks out at the sunrise and thanks Dani for trying to help. However, she tells her that there’s one thing she’s forgetting “The sun also sets.”


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The Eldest of a bug-like, alien race stares outside his window. Even after a millennium, he can still hear the screams. Outside, a gigantic battle is taking place, resulting in fiery explosions of death and destruction. Some other members of the race appear behind the Eldest, and warn him about a new development in the war: they have come… the Shi’ar. The Eldest realizes what that means: the time has come…
Shi’ar space, weeks later…The supply line to the fourth Shi’ar fleet…
Inside one of the several Shi’ar ships lined up nearby three moons, a trooper wishes to speak to his captain. He reports their long-range sensors make no sense, as there an anomaly has been detected. There’s a strong electromagnetic field, but the trooper cannot detect its source. It is everywhere. “Gods preserve,” the captain panics. It’s a trap! The captain orders all of his Warbirds to go to condition black, because… the Starjammers are here!
Outside, the Starjammer ship approaches the Warbirds. Ch’od appears on the Warbird’s computer screen, and advises them to surrender. The captain of course refuses. To this, Ch’od replies that he shall put him in the “not wise” category then.
A moment later, the Starjammers, led by Havok, teleport within the ship and lay siege. The captain opens fire on them and orders his Warbirds to kill them all. Havok fires a blast in defense, but reminds his team that they need the captain alive. Lorna, as she magnetically tackles some soldiers down, jokes that she thinks Alex is talking to Rachel, because she stopped being crazy months ago. Rachel fires a telepathic blast on another soldiers, and mentions she’ll do her best, but will make no promises. Korvus Rook’Shir slashes his huge and powerful Blade of the Phoenix through his opponents, and mopes that the X-Men talk far too much in battle.
The captain warns his Warbirds not to let the Starjammers take over his ship. He is half-way through ordering the activation the self-destruct mechanism when Raza sneaks up on the captain and points his sword in the captain’s face, indicating he should stop where he stands. The captain obeys.
With the bridge now secured, Havok orders to open the comm channel. The captain shouts that taking his ship won’t accomplish anything. He points out there are eleven more Warbirds guarding the supply line, and one ship alone can’t stand against them. To this, a voice via comm. replies that he is correct… but the Starjammer is not alone. Seeing the source of the voice, the captain sees a screen on which Lilandra and her Major-General, Ka’ardum, appear. The captain is surprised to see them both still alive. Havok wants to talk to the captain about him and his regiment to join the resistance. Alex wants to discuss Emperor Vulcan.
Meanwhile on Chandilar, throneworld of the Shi’ar Empire…Weapon in hand, an armed soldier yells “death to the false emperor. Death to Vul…” At that moment, Vulcan fires his power blast at the soldier and kills him in mid-sentence. Vulcan tells his council that they’ll have to start over because he couldn’t hear anything over the screaming.
Vulcan goes to sit back on his throne, with his wife Deathbird standing beside him. Accompanying his court is a host of soldiers, positioned as an honor guard. Among their number is the superguardian, Gladiator. Returning to the subject at hand, Vulcan asks Araki to confirm what he just told him – that he isn’t loved by the Shi’ar people. Clearly nervous, Araki promises that he wouldn’t attempt to dishonor his lord, even if it meant his life. But it’s true, the Shi’ar Empire is tearing itself apart. The resistance to Vulcan’s rule is strong. His… elimination of former Emperor D’Ken has divided the people. And with Lilandra and Major-General Ka’ardum working with the resistance, more and more of the military are defecting.
To this, Gladiator dourly proclaims that these people lack honor. As Deathbird quietly smiles, Vulcan is more concerned that he isn’t loved by the people and demands to hear the truth. Araki is hesitant for a moment and then, with a bow, explains that only the presence of a member of the Neramani bloodline as royal consort is holding the remaining supporters in place.
Turning to his wife, Vulcan asks her what she thinks of that. Deathbird walks forward to Araki, and slashes his face with her sharp nails. As Araki reels in pain, Deathbird thinks aloud that Araki is a politician who likes to play games. She advisess him to remember that Vulcan is the Emperor now, whether the Secret Order likes it or not.
Changing subjects, Vulcan wants to hear about his brother now. He wants to hear about Havok and the Starjammers. He wants to know why they aren’t dead already.
The Clench Worlds, near Shi’ar space…Havok stands in the center of a briefing room, next to a holo projector on which a planet and its three moons are show. Addressing the assembly, he explains to his fellow Starjammers and newly gained allies in the warbirds. He shows them a hologram of three supply lines they have now captured. He thinks that, without resources and supplies, the empire’s war effort will be weakened and harder to sustain. The gasp is closing.
Alex next shows an image of a station called Feather’s Edge. He explains it’s defended by a series of Armageddon-class killstations. He admits their battle won’t be pretty, but cutting off Feather’s Edge will weaken Vulcan’s forces to a breaking point. Lilandra and Ka’ardum are also among the assembly. Alex tells Ka’ardum they’ve avoided amassing his armada until now, but Vulcan’s forces still outnumber theirs. However, Alex believes taking this target will even the odds. And afterward, they’ll bring the fight to Chandilar.
In a section off from the main area, Ch’od tells Lorna he’s confused. If Alex is filled with this “self-doubt” she spoke off, he thinks they should all start doubting themselves immediately. They’ll win this war much quicker, he jokes. Lorna responds that Ch’od should just wait for it. Lorna also notices Korvus is not present in the hearing. She noticed Korvus seemed cranky on the supply mission, and asks Rachel if the two of them are still fighting. Rachel answers that she broke off their relationship. They’re just too different. It’s too weird and too complicated. She thinks she should be okay, if she can keep from making out with him.
Back in the main chamber, Ka’ardum compliments Havok on the briefing and that, in such a short time, he has become an expert on the Shi’ar military landscape. He mentions that Alex’ strategies are excellent, and that he’s surprised Earth can spare such a natural leader. Alex points out that he’s just there to stop Vulcan. His brother Cyclops was a great leader, and so was his father. But not him, Alex sighs. Ch’od and the others heard Alex say this, Ch’od now seeing the doubt, much to his dismay.
Later, at the planet “Standing Still”The resistance headquarters…Havok walks through the city streets, which are crowded by other aliens. He is approached by Korvus, who informs Alex that the people here are calling him “savior.” He gives them hope. Alex says they’re making a mistake. He’s just a man, and not much of one at that. Korvus grins that, luckily, their enemy is but a child. Alex agrees, but their opponent is the most powerful child in the galaxy.
As they stand before a grand view, a planet and two other moons rising above a desert landscape, Alex does his best to change subjects. When he asks Korvus if he and Rachel are still fighting, Korvus replies that Rachel vexes him. He finds it weird: war spreads across the galaxy, and he cannot stop thinking about her. He asks Alex for advice, seeing he is Rachel’s uncle. The only thing Alex can come up with, is saying that Rachel likes cheeseburgers.
At a bar…Nursing a drink at a bar, Rachel mopes that she could use a cheeseburger right now. And sweatpants. She misses her sweatpants. It feels like they’ve been out here forever. With her at the bar, whose patrons include numerous species of aliens, Lorna mentions that Alex told her he believes he can’t beat Vulcan. Alex knows he tried, but also that he failed. And that his father died for that. That’s what he thinks. Lorna jokes she thinks she’ll have to beat Alex up.
Changing subjects, she asks Rachel if she’s okay. Korvus distracted her, Rachel replies. He clouded everything. But she finally talked to Lilandra. Lorna is surprised to hear that, because they asked Rachel not to do so. Continuing, Rachel says she learned there is a Secret Order within the Shi’ar Empire. They’re the ones who ordered to murder her family. When Lorna begins to show sympathy, Rachel becomes angry, a blue Phoenix sign appears over her eye. She vows that after they’ve taken Vulcan down, she’ll find this Secret Order and will make them pay.
Chandilar, the Shi’ar throneworld…As he walks incognito among his citizens, a hooded Vulcan overhears two soldiers talking to each other. One of them heard that Vulcan was a slave, and that D’Ken took him in but that Vulcan in turned betrayed D’Ken and murdered him. The other soldier heard the same, but also that Vulcan is another mutant from Earth. Just like Lilandra’s shame… Xavier, whom they see as the Mummudrai destroyer. This soldier also believes someone should shoot Vulcan in the head before he destroys the Empire. Both soldiers want a true Shi’ar on the throne.
Though Vulcan grows angry, he doesn’t interfere. Instead, he is distracted by an image of himself on a large screen, and Shi’ar letters are marked over it. A female voice explains to Vulcan that the words mean: “kill the false Emperor.”
Turning to the voice, Vuclan is surprised to find Cal’syee, who’s also hooded. Deathbird jokes that the Emperor should not travel without an Imperial Guard escort. Gabriel points out that the Guard are as likely to try and kill him as anyone else, to which Deathbird confirms that’s true. The Guard does hate him. Vulcan isn’t exactly glad to hear that, but Deathbird asks her husband to let her finish. She thinks people hate their Emperor because they do not know him. Because they do not know that Gabriel is a Shi’ar.
Vulcan can’t believe his ears. Deathbird gently touches Gabriel’s face, and confirms the truth in her words. She can see it inside him, and is certain that the time will come when Gabriel shows the Empire that he was born to rule them. He will show them greatness that D’Ken never possessed. He will show them strength that Lilandra never had. And she’s certain that people will love him for that. As she does. They kiss. Deathbird asks Gabriel to come with her, as his spies have brought much news. She wants them to plan the death of the resistance.
Later, at Feather’s Edge…Polaris magnetically charges the Starjammers ship so their enemies can’t detect them. Havok compliments her on that, but Lorna asks them to hurry though. When Alex asks him if they’re ready, Ch’od replies that Corsair used to sing a song to lead them into battle. Alex asks if that’s true. “No,” Ch’od answers. His visage growing serious, Alex announces he is ready to do this.
Both the Starjammer ship and the Warbird ships start firing at Feather’s Edge, which does its best to defend itself. Still, Shi’ar stations explode under the attack. When an alarm suddenly fills the bridge, Alex quickly asks Ch’od for a status report. Incoming, he reports. By the energy signature… the Shi’ar are there… and lots of them. When Havok then turns to her, Rachel telepathically scans and confirms… Vulcan is there.
Standing confidently in his royal flagship together with Gladiator, Vulcan grins that his empire’s spies are good. He orders to kill the X-Men, Lilandra and Ka’ardum. He’s sure the others will fall in line afterward.
As the Shi’ar armada opens fire, Havok orders evasive maneuvers. However, Ch’od had already anticipated the order and has done so. Nearby, Raza notes that Vulcan brought the entire Shi’ar fleet with him, so that must mean he knew they were coming.
Meanwhile, at the wing of K’ythri, Ka’ardum’s battlecruiser…Lilandra and Ka’ardum see how their enemies concentrate fire on the Starjammers. She fears they’ll be killed. Ka’ardum thinks his ship will surely be next. Vulcan’s forces still outnumber theirs, even if by a little, and Vulcan also still has the Imperial Guard behind him. He fears that, if they fight now, they’ll all be killed. Lilandra doesn’t respond.
In his ship, Vulcan asks Gladiator if they should kill all of their opponents. He remembers that Gladiator said before that the Shi’ar who deflected lack honor. He wants to know if Gladiator would kill them all. Hesitant, Gladiator says that he only serves. It’s not his place to decide. Gabriel asks Gladiator that when he took his eye, if that was service as well. Or simply a decision?
They are interrupted by a powerful explosion, which tears Vulcan’s ship in half! The cause is a host of newly arrived fleet of immense, bug-like ships that fill the sky and outnumbering both fleets.
As Ka’ardum reels at the sight of the Hammer having been destroyed, Lilandra asks her uncle what’s going on. Whose ships are those? Interrupting, one of the bridge crew announces that the newcomers are broadcasting something.
Meanwhile, in their own ship, the Starjammers don’t understand what’s going on either. Raza smiles that it really happened… the ship that just blew up was the Emperor’s. Nearby, Ch’od learns via the broadcast that their new allies are calling themselves the Scy’ar Tal. He finds that a bold choice. Likewise, Korvus recognizes the meaning of the name, as does Rachel. “Scy’ar Tal” means… “death to the Shi’ar.” The name of their race means “Death to the Shi’ar.”


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1000 years ago, the Shi’ar Scout Ship “Blinding Vision”…
Two Scout ships fly through space. In the main ship, a soldier informs his captain that they’ve found something. Their sensors are picking up a massive energy reading, but they haven’t been able to make visual confirmation. And… there are no stars to be found.
The captain quotes: “The Gods in marriage expelled their children from the Aerie, and hid it…” Sharra and K’ythri be praised, the captain fears. He orders the soldier to report back to Emperor Vyr’tal: the Shi’ar Empire has reclaimed its birthright. The captain looks outside and sees a huge spark coming from a red planet.
The alarm goes off in the ship. The soldier warns they’re picking up life in orbit around the planet. The captain informs his Helmsman that those people are in sacred Shi’ar space. He’s certain they will leave… or they will die.
Feather’s Edge. Now…
The Shi’ar ships are all under attack by the armada of the Scy’ar Tal. The Starjammers are no exception. At the helm of the ship, Ch’od is warned by Havok to watch his side, but Ch’od mocks back that he’d try evasive maneuvers with his eyes closed this time, for variety. Ignoring this, Havok proclaims they need to get to the Scy’ar Tal command ship, the one that fired at Vulcan. They have to try to communicate with them. Raza wants to offer the Scy’ar Tal their thanks. Korvus replies that they shall see.
Alex orders Korvus to contact Lilandra and Ka’ardum, and tell them to withdraw the resistance fleet now. He then asks Rachel to reach the Scy’ar Tal telepathically. She tries to do so and a blue telepathic wave surrounds her body. Alex wants to see if she can figure out what the Scy’ar Tal want. Ch’od reminds Alex what the name of the Scy’ar Tal means, but Alex shouts at him to just drive.
Nearby, charged up magnetically, Lorna panics, her eyes growing wide. She announces to Alex that she can still feel Vulcan’s energy. He’s still alive!
Outside, Gladiator and Vulcan soar at full rage towards the Scy’ar Tal “Shard” command ship. The Scy’ar Tal, on their side, continue to fire blasts on the remaining Shi’ar ships. Vulcan and Gabriel fly through the walls of the command ship and instantly kill some of the crew. Gabriel demands to be brought to the Scy’ar Tal leader, because… he is going to kill him.
As the Scy’ar Tal leader, a giant bug-like creature, enters the room, his soldiers bow for their master. The leader calls Vulcan a Shi’ar pretender, and not a Shi’ar. But, he does want to grant Gabriel a gift: if he runs away now, he’ll live. Vulcan can’t believe his ears. They destroy his command ship, kill his men, and expect him to walk away?! He defends that he is no pretender: he is Vulcan, Emperor of the Shi’ar Empire. The leader wants to know if that means Gabriel stands with the Shi’ar.
To answer the question, Vulcan fires a blast from his hand at the leader, but quickly proclaims what he sees afterward as impossible… the leader still lives! Vulcan continues firing, but the Scy’ar Tal remains alive. Gabriel shouts at Gladiator to do something, and kill his enemy already. Gladiator does as commanded, and flies into action.
Gladiator tries to punch the leader in his face, but the Scy’ar blocks it with one hand, and then he snaps Gladiator’s wrist. As Gladiator screams in pain, the leader notices aloud that Gladiator is also not a Shi’ar. He throws Gladiator out of his way, and sighs at the waste. Gladiator falls through a wall and is thrown outside in space.
The leader picks Vulcan up by his throat, and swears that he will die now. And claims that it will be for nothing. His allegiance to the Shi’ar has sealed his fate. Now, the Scy’ar Tal will take back what is theirs. And they will have vengeance. Vulcan screams that the leader will die, and shoots blasts from his eyes. A few moments later, as the smoke clears, Vulcan is… gone?
As two soldiers help their Eldest up to his feet, they inform him that the coward ran away. But, the Elder corrects, calling the man his brother, their foe is not a coward, and not weak. This one is dangerous. But, that doesn’t matter to him. All that matters is the end of the Shi’ar. The end of all things.
A telepathic voice interrupts the Eldest and hopes it doesn’t come to that. When the Eldest asks who just said that, the soldier is confused, having not heard anything. The Eldest looks behind himself, to find they are no longer alone. He thinks he can see two people in his mind now, but actually, he can see an astral projection sent out by Marvel Girl. With her stands Havok. They apologize for the intrusion. The two introduce themselves, and that they’re with the Starjammers. Alex and Rachel want to talk for a moment, and add that they represent the resistance to the Shi’ar Empire.
The Eldest becomes angry seeing more not-Shi’ar. He realizes that Alex and Rachel are like the pretend Emperor and wonders if they will choose death as well. Havok tells the Eldest that, whatever problem he has with the Shi’ar, he’s certain they can come to a peaceful solution. He sees no need for this, because the true Shi’ar leader is Lilandra Neramani. She’s ready to take back control of the Empire from the man they just faced… Vulcan… Alex’ brother.
The Eldest thinks Alex is lying, as it makes no sense what he says. He would see his own brother fail? He would fight against his own blood? Havok points out that his relationship with his brother is… complicated. The Eldest agrees that nothing is more complicated that brotherhood. For, he announces, if one cannot stand with his brothers, then he will die alone. The Eldest is also aware that Rachel is in his mind, using her power. He wants her to see the truth. The Eldest moves his finger through the astral projection, towards Rachel’s eye. She screams.
Rachel is startled when a new world opens before her very eyes, and is speechless. She sees how the Shi’ar attacked the red planet of the Scy’ar Tal and slaughtering its people. She also sees how the Shi’ar blew up the planet.
Havok and Rachel awake in their chairs at the Starjammer, with Rachel still reeling in pain from the experience. Ch’od says it’s good they’re awake again. Vulcan is counterattacking, and he thinks they’re most likely going to die now.
Outside, Vulcan’s ships fire upon other ships, belonging to the allies of the Starjammers. Rachel informs everyone that the Shi’ar did this. Korvus tries to calm her down and wants her to rest. She explains she saw everything in the Eldest’s mind. The Scy’ar Tal don’t have names, and simply call their leader the Eldest. The Shi’ar nearly wiped out their entire civilization and drove them away from their home. Now, they want to take it back.
Raza doesn’t think this is much news, as it is what the Shi’ar do. Lorna suggests that maybe they can help, and talk to Lilandra. Alex agrees with her, thinking this is not a problem. If the Scy’ar Tal help them kill Vulcan, Lilandra will give them their land back. It’s a win-win. Rachel corrects Alex he doesn’t understand. Scy’ar Tal isn’t their original name. They’ve spent the last thousand years changing their culture, changing themselves to fight the Shi’ar. Their race’s real name is M’Kraan! The planet they want, the thing they worshipped… they’ve come back to take back the M’Kraan Crystal. Havok considers this in silence.
Suddenly, an alarm goes off, and Raza warns the Scy’ar Tal has fired a… He stops talking, as something weird just happened. What was just fired has the look of a missile, but his scanners aren’t registering a weapon. The thing is headed towards a planet below them. The thing is transmitting a signal… Raza realizes the Scy’ar Tal have just fired a homing beacon.
Rachel thinks about something else she heard in the Eldest’ name: “Will finally take you too.” She freaks out, and orders Raza to shoot the thing down.
Standing in a new ship, Vulcan’s pilot has also discovered that a homing beacon has just been fired. Vulcan doesn’t much care, as he wants these aliens dead and the resistance destroyed. Gladiator, holding his broken arm, sees how a blue glow surrounds all the Scy’ar Tal ships… they’re warping away. They’re running. Vulcan thinks about why the Scy’ar Tal would first send out a homing beacon to a planet and they run away. He suddenly realizes something, and freaks out. He shouts to get out of here, now!
Aboard the Starjammer, Lorna tries to use her powers to magnetically destroy the object, but it doesn’t work. It must not be made of magnetic material. She asks Rachel what’s going on. As the object grows closer to the planet, Rachel announces that thinks she can stop the thing if she goes outside. Korvus tries to stop her, thinking she has gone mad. Rachel shouts at him to let go. She can feel the people on the planet down there, and how they fear of dying.
Suddenly, the projectile fires various blasts on the planet. Ch’od thinks he’s having a bad feeling now, just like humans tend to get. Havok shouts at Ch’od to initiate a warp jump right now.
A yellow energy ray appears, and shapes in the form of a gate, through which blinding energy flows. It is followed by an immense explosion, during which the planet explodes!
The soldiers in Vulcan’s ship are dumbstruck. When Vulcan demands to know what just happened, the captain explains they just saw Shi’ar technology in action, but on a level that simply isn’t possible. A star emerged from the gate… the Scy’ar Tal have dropped a star on Feather’s Edge. Araki wonders who could have conceived such a weapon. While one of the soldiers puts some bandages around his arm, Gladiator wonders what the trajectory of the Scy’ar Tal ships was before they left. He wonders where they were going. Araki answers they are going to the world. The Scy’ar Tal are heading towards the M’Kraan Crystal. Vulcan reels at the news.
Inside the Starjammers ship, Ch’od explains that Feather’s Edge had a civilian population of 2.4 billion. They’re all dead now. Havok has opened a communications screen on which Lilandra and Ka’ardum are shown. Alex asks Lilandra if the Shi’ar really did what the Scy’ar Tal said, and if the Crystal is their home.
Lilandra strongly denies it. She reveals that the Crystal planet is the birthplace of the Shi’ar. It’s where Sharra and K’ythri released the Shi’ar into the universe, and then hid the Aerie into darkness. D’Ken found it, and used the scriptures and rumors of a lost Shi’ar scouting expedition. Lilandra claims that the planet is the Shi’ars rightful home, and that the Crystal was given to them by the gods.
In that case, Rachel wants to know, why do the Shi’ar fear the Crystal? She thinks Lilandra took it from the Scy’ar Tal. Raza proclaims that’s a lie. Havok takes a seat, while Raza continues his explanations. He says the Crystal is the end of all that is. That it is a nexus of all realities, but that it can destroy theirs in a blink of an eye. Even after what they just witnessed, he thinks perhaps the Scy’ar Tal are the lesser of two evils. He wonders if it could be any worse than the Crystal being in Vulcan’s hands.
Suddenly, a bright light appears. Vulcan has teleported aboard the ship, along with Deathbird… and the entire Imperial Guard! “Hello, Alex,” Vulcan grins. “Time out.”


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1,000 years ago, the M’Kraan Exodus…
The Eldest recalls how the Shi’ar massacred his people, right in front of his eyes. He ponders that the Scy’ar Tal were a peaceful race, and not prepared for the Avian’s savagery. Those of the Scy’ar Tal who survived the brutalities traveled the spaceways, looking for refuge. The Shi’ar destroyed the Scy’ar Tal’s homeland, their way of life and made claim of the Godstone. And they killed the Eldest’ predecessor.
The previous Eldest tried his best to reclaim the god in the Crystal, but to no avail. At his old age, the Eldest named his successor while others of their race bowed before him. He told the youngling to take his people’s strength, as he would become the next Eldest.
However, the current Eldest continues to say, the Shi’ar did not know the nature of his brothers. They have strength together. He thinks that, if the Shi’ar had known the Scy’ar Tal’s resolve, they would have killed them all. The Eldest remembers how he, as a skinny young boy, absorbed the strength of his people and grew into the strong leader he is today. He gathered them around him, proclaiming they had much to do.
Now, aboard the Starjammer…
Havok furiously lashes out at his brother Vulcan, unleashing his powers at full strength at him. However, Vulcan waves his hand forward, hereby creating a protective forcefield around him and the Imperial Guard. Though a difficult feat for Vulcan, he still manages. He compliments Alex on the effort, but mocks the result is the same as always. Powering down for a moment, Havok swears he’ll see his brother dead. Vulcan, on the other hand, asks Alex if he’s sure he wants to see that right there and now. He wants Alex to think carefully before answering if he really wants to rip apart his own ship in a fight he can’t win. Or, Gabriel laughs, does Xavier let any moron lead an X-Men team now?
Lorna points out to Alex that Vulcan hasn’t attacked, and that the Imperial Guard hasn’t moved a muscle. Gabriel tells Alex to listen to Lorna, and promises he’s only here to talk. Still not convinced yet, Havok asks Rachel what she’s getting. Rachel explains she’s only getting interference, from as well in Vulcan’s mind as in all of the Guard’s. She can get Alex an answer, but in order to do that, she’ll have to kill the telepath known as Oracle.
Gabriel mocks at how willing Rachel and Havok are to kill. He jokes that Cyclops would be proud of them. But, Gabriel points out, it appears they have a common enemy now: the Scy’ar Tal. He has learned these creatures are after the M’Kraan Crystal, which now belongs to him. Rachel can’t believe Vulcan wants them to help him. She thinks they’d be better off helping the Scy’ar Tal! She remembers how Vulcan killed Banshee, and even tried to kill the Professor! Vulcan even killed Corsair, her grandfather!
Vulcan admits that, but notes that the Scy’ar Tal have just killed a billion people… his people. Vulcan continues to say there are a lot of things he wants to do right now: kill Havok, find Xavier and kill him… but destroying the universe is not on his list. He asks Rachel if she can say the same thing about the Scy’ar Tal. He asks if she knows what the Scy’ar Tal will do if they get their hands on the Crystal. When Rachel doesn’t answer, Vulcan already thought his “niece” wouldn’t know. These Scy’ar Tal are killing Vulcan’s people and are threatening all of reality. And, Gabriel jokes, the X-Men are the idiots who fight people like that. And he knows the X-Men have dealt with the Crystal before. So, he wants to work together to work on this. He gives Havok 24 hours to decide, and then teleports himself and the Guard away, leaving the Starjammers to ponder their answer.
Ch’od approaches Havok and places his hand over Alex’ shoulder, assuming aloud that Alex is just lulling Vulcan into a false sense of security. Havok, realizing Ch’od is making fun of him, tells him to shut up.
Later, at the Clench worlds…
The Starjammers have gathered inside a huge headquarters, which is based in a mountainous area, and are joined by Lilandra and Ka’ardum. Presiding over the assembly, Havok discusses what happened with Vulcan and the Guard. Havok thinks Vulcan is desperate. The bottom line, according to Alex, is that he thinks Vulcan must have gotten thrashed by the Scy’ar Tal’s Eldest. Vulcan was hurt. And he also noticed how Gladiator looked; he even had a broken arm. Alex remembers that all of the X-Men combined couldn’t put a scratch on Gladiator.
Ka’ardum agrees that appealing to your enemies for aid is a weakness in any culture. He explains that the Shi’ar people are ill at ease with Vulcan’s rule and, if they were to learn of this situation, their loyalty would further deteriorate. Raza agrees with that. He noticed the Imperial Guard looked upon Vulcan with murder in their hearts. Rumor has it that Vulcan killed some members of the Guard when he first met them. Havok realizes Vulcan wants to use the Starjammer as a weapon against the Scy’ar Tal and, once they’re dealt with, Vulcan will betray them. “It’s not if,” Alex announces, “it’s when.”
Lorna becomes angry at this. She knows this is Alex’s brother they are talking about, and that he killed Alex’ father, but she can’t believe that’s it. Their options are to help a murderer, someone who has killed their family and friends, or they can allow an unknown race that could very well be intending genocide to take possession of the M’Kraan Crystal. Havok begins to consider negotiation with the Scy’ar Tal, noting that, if they have a legitimate claim to the Crystal…
Interrupting, Lilandra angrily shouts out the Scy’ar Tal certainly have no claim to it. She warns Alex he can’t negotiate with these blasphemers. The Crystal must remain in Shi’ar hands, as it is their sacred right. Rachel finds that hard to believe. She knows the Shi’ar are conquerors. She wonders how many other cultures’ holy lands the Shi’ar occupy right now. How many religions has Lilandra crushed? Rachel asks her. What if the Scy’ar Tal’s gods told them that it was their sacred right? Lilandra reminds Rachel she saw what the Scy’ar Tal did. She can’t believe they are considering this. As Lilandra becomes more agitated, her uncle tells her niece to calm herself. He knows Havok was just making a point.
Havok grows silent for a minute in thought. Finally, he notes aloud that the point is that the Scy’ar Tal took the option off the table when they destroyed Feather’s Edge. As the others listen intently to Alex, Lorna smiles proudly at him. He continues that they have no reason to believe the Scy’ar Tal are going to stop, but they can’t fight them alone. So they take the deal. They help Vulcan destroy the Scy’ar Tal, and then… it’s only a matter of which side kills the other first. And Havok wants to take those odds.
Later that night, at the planet “Standing Still”…
Havok, with only his pants on, stands on the balcony outside his bedroom and gazes upon the landscape below him in thought. Lorna wakes up in the bed behind him, clad only in the sheets of their bed. She asks why Alex can’t sleep, and what he’s thinking about. “The usual,” Alex replies as he turns his attention to her. He’s doubting himself and thinking about what Scott would do, and wonders if his dad is proud of him. Unsure what to say to that, Lorna jokes Alex sure has a bit of self-awareness there.
Alex jokes back that Lorna isn’t the only one who sees a therapist. He wonders what it is about the two of them. It seems like, no matter where they go or what they do, the two of them always end up in impossible situations. Alex calls himself a simple guy, and yet here he is, forced to help the man who killed his father. As Lorna pulls some sheets around her body and walks over her lover, Alex jokingly remembers when they were just fighting the Sentinels.
Lorna asks Alex if he figured out what Scott would do, but he doesn’t think that matters anymore. It doesn’t matter what Scott would do, what his father would do, or what the Professor would do. He can’t think like that anymore. He won’t. He knows what to do. Now matter how complicated things get, this can only end one way. Havok powers up one of his arms to make a point. Gabriel is too far gone. Alex realizes the X-Men believe in redemption, but it’s too late for his younger brother. They would have given Gabriel every chance they could, but not after what he has done. Vulcan… has to die. And Alex is pretty sure that’s something Scott couldn’t do. He powers down, and Lorna quietly gives him a hug.
Elsewhere at the dorms…
Rachel is having a nightmare. She remembers when her grandfather John told her it would be a pleasure to teach her how to dance. And only a few moments later, how the Shi’ar Death Commando’s massacred her entire family. The sweat of fear drips all over Rachel’s face, and with a staggering voice apologizes as she never meant for this to happen. Rachel also hears how the Death Commando’s leader, Blackcloak, told her that her family wears Rachel’s genome.
As Korvus enters Rachel’s bedroom and calls out her name, Rachel wakes up screaming. Korvus knows she was having that dream again. Rachel warns Korvus to stay out of her head, to which Korvus reminds Rachel that she gave him her dream. When he then asks why she is doing this, Rachel turns away and explains she can’t do this right now. She believes what they have is not real. However, that’s not what Korvus meant. He thinks Rachel is becoming consumed with thoughts of revenge. He says that Rachel’s name may as well be Scy’ar Tal. But, he wants Rachel to tell him… if every Shi’ar died today, would that bring her family back? He calls the connection he and Rachel have real. He knows because he feels it not just in his mind, but also in his heart. And he will, until the day that his heart stops beating. He leaves, leaving Rachel very much alone.
The following day…
Aboard Vulcan’s ship, the Starjammers find themselves at the gunpoint of Vulcan’s guards. With his wife and the Imerial Guard standing behind him, Vulcan welcomes the Starjammers to his empire. Leaning downward, Ch’od quietly jokes to Raza that they’re still alive, to which Raza confirms. “Double or nothing?” Ch’od asks his teammate.
Flanking her husband and emperor, Deathbird believes they are making a mistake. She calls the Starjammers too dangerous and wants to kill them now. However, Vulcan is certain that their new allies will keep their word. Besides, the Chancellor’s Guard will be joining them as well, just in case. Rachel wonders who that Guard could be. On that moment arrives Araki… and the Shi’ar Death Commandos! Rachel and Araki are both as surprised to see one another.
Marvel Girl becomes incensed, generating a large, blue Phoenix force around her body. She yells “murderers” to the Death Commando’s and Araki, who panics. Immediately, Vulcan’s soldiers are ordered to protect their Chancellor, but they have no time, as Rachel lashes out a blue fireblast against Krait and Offset, shouting that they killed her cousins, aunts and uncles! She gives Blackcloak a powerful punch in the face for killing her grandparents. She then moves over to Araki, with the Phoenix force glaring angry at him in the face. Rachel can see the guilt in Araki’s thoughts. She discovers he runs the Secret Order. It was he who signed her family’s death warrant. She wants to hear Araki say it.
Suddenly, Lorna attacks Rachel with her telekinetic powers, demanding that she stops immediately. Not waiting, she magnetically rips open the floor and traps Rachel in makeshift bonds. Rachel demands that Lorna lets her go, as these people killed her family. Rachel knows Lorna wasn’t there at the time, so she has no idea what happened. She wants to make them pay.
Araki begs his Emperor to do something, however Vulcan simply remains in his chair. With a sadistic smile, he apologizes to the Chancellor, claiming he didn’t see this one coming. But frankly, Gabriel admits he is enjoying the show. Alex tells Rachel her revenge will have to wait. Rachel’s eyes glow as she refuses to wait. Alex tries to make Rachel understand they have to deal with the M’Kraan Crystal first. He knows how hard this must be for her, but this situation is bigger than all of them. He reminds Rachel that she is his family now, and he swears to her that once they’re done there, they’ll make them all pay. Together.
“Soon,” Rachel asks as she hesitantly calms down. “Soon,” Havok promises.
Later…
As they stand in a corner together, Lorna notices to Ch’od how Deathbird is staring at her with a vengeful look in her eyes. When Ch’od jokingly muses that Deathbird might be envying Lorna’s hair, Lorna replies she rather thinks Deathbird is thinking of ways of how to kill her.
Vulcan and Havok stand on a platform together, overlooking their combined troops: the Starjammers, the Imperial Guard and the Death Commandos. As Major-General Ka’ardum has also joined the party, Gabriel welcomes him and wants to start killing some Scy’ar Tal now. Havok corrects Gabriel that is the wrong way to play this game. He thinks they need to take out the Scy’ar Tal’s weapon first: the weapon called Finality. He opens a projection of the weapon to everyone, and begins the briefing.
He explains that Ch’od was able to track the energy readings from the first attack and found the source location of the star. Alex thinks that if they want to stop the Scy’ar Tal, this will be the way to do that. They need to send their armada to defend the Crystal and send in a strike team to take out Finality. Gabriel has nothing to add to that plan, and even calls it Havok’s call. Havok wants the Imperial Guard and the Starjammers to go after the weapon. Ka’ardum will lead the fleet to the Crystal. With all this said, Havok concludes that they’ll launch within the hour.
The next hour, outside Shi’ar space.
The Imperial Guard ship “Praetorium” and the Starjammer.
Both ships arrive at the same time. Vulcan, with Gladiator standing next to him, asks Raza and Ch’od to report. Raza explains that the Praetorim made the jump with them, and they’ve already made several contacts: they’ve found the Scy’ar Tal. Ch’odd adds the proximity to the gravity field is playing havoc with their sensors.
Havok looks outside and is surprised as he only expected one opponent. But apparently the Scy’ar Tal aren’t doing this halfway. The troops look outside and find lots of Scy’ar Tal ships gathered around several big stars. Havok thinks it must be a solar nursery. There must be dozens of stars out there, all in one place. And the Scy’ar Tal ships are using them as an ammo depot.
Lorna panics, but Havok remains calm. However, he does realizes this means the Scy’ar Tal have the means to destroy every planet in the core systems. They could destroy all of… “The Shi’ar Empire,” Gladiator fills in. “My Empire,” Vulcan fears. He then orders Gladiator to prepare the Guard as every Scy’ar Tal there dies. “And that’s just for starters.”


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“The World,” home of the M’Kraan Crystal.
Now…
As a fleet of Scy’ar Tal ships approach the planet, their command – the Eldest – observes everything. He recalls he has longed for the darkness, all these centuries, so he could gaze upon the Godstone. And now, finally to return… it is righteous. “My brothers,” the Eldest proclaims proudly, “we are home,”
Flanking their leader, one of the soldiers informs the Eldest that the Shi’ar are coming. They intend to fight. “Good,” the Eldest coldly, his teeth bared for combat.
The wing of K’ythri,
Major-General Ka’ardum’s battlecruiser…
Araki declares to Lilandra and Ka’ardum that their enemies have to die. Lilandra warns the traitor to be quiet. It is foul enough that his presence there is a concession to a madman and, if Araki had any honor, he would end his own life for acting against his empress. Araki realizes Lilandra still doesn’t understand. These heretics, he says, these Scy’ar Tal… they threaten the entire fabric of the Shi’ar civilization. Lilandra points out that nobody hates the Scy’ar Tal more than she does, but they are there to prevent them from taking the Crystal while the Starjammers destroy the Scy’ar Tal’s star weapon. She will show the Scy’ar Tal the error of their ways and make them admit the truth… but she will not exterminate a species.
Araki mocks this was the reason why Lilandra was a weak ruler. Because she isn’t willing to do what must be done, even though she knows it is right. He wants the Scy’ar Tal to die. That is what the Shi’ar people want. But he thinks Lilandra is so removed from her people that she doesn’t see it.
“Enough,” Ka’ardum shouts. The end is beginning. He suggests they pray that Havok makes sure it won’t be their end. Now addressing all Shi’ar ships, he orders all ships to open fire.
As the attack rages, one soldier calls to the Eldest. Misinterpreting the interruption, the Eldest calls for silence, reminding his soldier that their brothers die to make the Shi’ar pay, and they must honor that. However, the soldier clarifies, explaining that he has received a distress call from the Finality. Surprised, the Eldest orders to be shown and, a moment later a hologram of a panicked soldier appears. The soldier warns the Eldest that they are under attack and that Finality has been discovered. The Eldest asks the soldier by whom they are under attack, believing it’s the Shi’ar. “No,” the soldier corrects. It’s… the Starjammers!
Protected by an immense, green, magnetic force field created by Polaris, the Starjammers’ ship flies through the Scy’ar Tal’s fleet, destroying all in its path. “Perhaps not the most subtle strategy,” Ch’od jokes while standing next to a concentrating Lorna. He also mocks it’s lucky they are incredibly outnumbered.
Raza rather enjoys all the damage they are causing. He jokes that Ch’od is getting soft. Raza also thinks Hepzibah is probably sorry she is missing all this. He only wishes they were killing the Shi’ar. Present company excluded, of course, as Raza refers to Korvus. As he sits behind the control panels of the ship, Korvus thanks Raza for the kind compliment.
Meanwhile, Rachel is using her telepathic powers, a blue Phoenix symbol dancing across her right eye while he does. She reads that two ships are approaching starboard… one more under them. She explains that the M’Kraan have been guarding the Fatality station for over a hundred years. Behind them, three more ships are coming in. The Imperial Guard are engaging them, but they can’t keep this up for long. Nearby, Lorna replies that they’ll hold up for as long as they have to. People are depending on them. Namely Alex and… Emperor Vulcan.
Outside, near the Finality station…
Outside, in the vacuum of space, Vulcan flies past all the ships and explosions and makes his way to the Finality station. There, he fires a blast through a wall of the station to get inside. Havok, wearing a protective air helmet and sitting in a small spaceship, follows his brother inside. Once the station has repaired the full breach with emergency force fields and has restored the atmosphere, Alex gets out of his ship, reminding Gabriel that they’ll only disable the weapon and then get back to the fleet, because they can’t hold out for long.
As he fires a blast at approaching Scy’ar Tal soldiers, killing them all, Vulcan mocks Alex for being boring. He doesn’t think it’s enough to destroy the weapon… the Scy’ar Tal have to know. They have to see the bodies. They have to be afraid. As he also fights some soldiers, Alex replies that they are there to save lives, not play games. Gabriel looks at his brother and quips that they are actually working together, like X-Men. “The professor would be so proud,” he mocks. But he agrees with Alex: no games. That’s for later. The games are for when he will kill Havok.
With their opponents subdued, Vulcan grabs one by its throat and demands to be informed about Finality. Barely paying attention, Havok instead remarks at the heat. Even with the force fields, it’s like they’re standing on the surface of the sun. He asks Rachel if she’s reading him and explains they’re on the main deck and are proceeding to the core. Meanwhile, the alien finally begins to talk and calls Vulcan a pretender, promising that his end is near. “He” is near, the alien continues… the Eldest is coming for Vulcan. “Oh, hell,” a panicking Alex utters, realizing what’s about to happen.
A moment later, a teleportation portal opens, crackling with electrical energy. The Eldest and two of his guards have arrived. “The not-Shi’ar brothers,” the Eldest says upon noticing Alex and Gabriel. He is pleased that they have come together, as this way they will not die alone. The Eldest swears they won’t stop from taking the Shi’ar like they took the M’Kraan Crystal from them. He then indicates the brothers to prepare themselves.
Outside…
The battle has finally taken its toll on Rachel, who worries that there are too many to keep track of. Polaris, however, replies that Rachel’s doing a good job. Unfortunately, Rachel disagrees, announcing that they’re coming around again. She can’t…
On that moment, Gladiator flies through the approaching enemy ship and destroys it. Inside the Guardman’s ship, Oracle grins and thinks the Starjammers should thank them. Nightshade, however, believes the “Earther mutants” should die in fire. Ignoring the statement, Oracle “translates” to Marvel Girl that Nightshade wants her to tell her that the Imperial Guard would hate to see them come to any harm, as they are their newest valued allies.
Rachel reports to Lorna that Oracle is still blocking her, disabling her to read the minds of both Vulcan and the Imperial Guard. She’s sure they’ve got something planned but can’t figure out what. Lorna agrees, suggesting that they’ll just have to be ready for that. She then instructs Rachel stay in contact with Alex, then tell the guard to…  Rachel interrupts, suddenly detecting something troubling. The Eldest has there, she replies. “Okay, plan “A” is over,” Lorna sighs. She orders Ch’od to get them out of there… now!
Havok and Vulcan combine their blasts on the Eldest, who screams. A moment later, however, the Eldest defends himself and fires a blast against Vulcan himself. Alex screams via his com at Rachel, wants her to tell Lorna not to come here. He then tells Vulcan to contact the Imperial Guard so they can blow up this station. As the Eldest grabs Alex by his throat, Vulcan, having recovered from the earlier blast, refuses to let the Guard do that while he’s still in the station. However, he does contact the Guard so they can come to his aid.
Knowing what’s coming, the Eldest then throws Alex against his brother, just a moment before the arrival of the Imperial Guard, ready to protect their Emperor. “More alien puppets,” the Eldest laughs. He wonders if the M’Kraan are the only free people left in this universe. He informs the Guard that, though the end of the Shi’ar is near, they don’t have to be with them. Gladiator punches the Eldest and proudly answers the members of the Guard are Shi’ar by their actions. And the Empire will not fall while the Imperial Guard stands!
In response, the Eldest releases a fire blast against Gladiator, calling him foolish for defending the ones who enslave them. To this, he adds that the end has come for the Shi’ar and all who stand with them! Annoyed by the Eldest’s constant ranting, Vulcan wishes someone would cut out his tongue. Alex tells Vulcan to shut up, as he just noticed something. The other Scy’ar Tal aren’t fighting anymore, while their Eldest battles the Imperial Guard. They aren’t even watching?!
After the Eldest punches through the armor of Warstar, screaming in his victory, Alex thinks he knows what’s going on. But before he can warn his brother, Vulcan and Gladiator have already started shooting at the Eldest. Havok warns that they need to work together. They need to attack as one at the same points. They have to try to overload the Eldest.
Elsewhere…
Jahf is standing in front of the M’Kraan Crystal, somewhere on an isolated rock in space. He watches the battle around him, while the Shi’ar do their best to prevent the Crystal from coming to any harm.
Meanwhile, Ka’ardum is sitting in one of the Sh’iar ships and asks for a status report. A pilot reports that their fleet has a seventeen percent of casualties, while the Scy’ar Tal only have four. On that moment, the Scy’ar Tal fire a huge blast through one Shi’ar ship. The pilot panics and informs Ka’ardum that the Eternal Raptor is gone. Nevertheless, Ka’ardum refuses to give up and orders the fleet to continue engaging their enemies. When Lilandra then asks her uncle what’s happening, he replies that he fears that the Shi’ar are being defeated.
Finality…
The Eldest grabs the throat of Gladiator, who screams. Alex warns Vulcan not to let up. After awhile, the Eldest finally gives up and falls on the ground. They’ve done it, Gladiator states, returning to his feet. The Eldest is finished. “That’s what he gets for touching me,” Vulcan coldly replies. “That’s what they all get.” Alex, however, corrects that it isn’t over yet.
The other Scy’ar Tal all gather around their leader, and repeatedly say his name. The Eldest rises, absorbing energy emanating from his people, until he is restored. “You seek to break our brotherhood, puppets?” the Eldest mocks. The M’Kraan cannot be broken. The end cannot be stopped. They will have what is theirs.
Incredulous, Vulcan can’t believe this is happening. “And the Shi’ar will pay,” the Eldest screams as he launches another attack. He scratches Vulcan across his back and fires powerful blasts against Gladiator. Turning the Eldest on the defensive, Havok fires his powers and shouts at Gladiator and Vulcan to get up. Meanwhile, as before, the other Scy’ar Tal again don’t interfere while their leader fights.
Nearly out of breath, Vulcan tells Havok to kill this thing. Havok, however, still firing at the Eldest, tells Gabriel to stop – and look at their opponent. He tells Gabriel to use his power to observe the other Scy’ar. Alex believes they are helping the Eldest somehow. Can Gabriel feel any energy. If he can feel… Gabriel interrupts Alex because he’s doing so. As the Eldest overpowers Alex, Vulcan now sees what’s going on. He sees the Scy’ar Tal extending their arms while the Eldest fights, energy flowing from them to him.
Grinning from the realization, Vulcan quips that the Eldest takes his power from his people. Maybe his entire species. “Let’s see what we can do about that,” Vulcan smiles. He attacks the Eldest again, this time with different energy. The Eldest in turn screams, followed by the other Scy’ar Tal. Falling to his knees, the Eldest asks what Vulcan has done to him. He cannot feel his brothers! One of the Scy’ar Tal is confused and asks the Eldest what is happening. What should they do? Is… is he the Eldest? “Not anymore,” Vulcan smiles, flames dancing from his clenched fist.
Back on his comm. Alex contacts Rachel again for a status report. Rachel asks Alex what he just did because it seems like the Scy’ar Tal have lost communications. They’re still fighting, but it’s like they don’t know what they’re doing anymore. Lorna informs Ka’ardum about the situation through their communicators. Ka’ardum explains they’re having the same situation. Whatever Vulcan and Havok just did, it turned the tide of the battle.
Rachel begins to wonder if they just won, but then trails… until she begins to scream Alex’s name. She has lost contact with Alex! Lorna orders Ch’od to teleport Alex out of there. Ch’od tries but something is jamming their sensors and he can’t get a lock. Lorna believes that means Vulcan is making his move. They have to go down there right away. Ch’od informs Lorna they’ve got a new situation: Flashfire, Mantis, Plutonia and Electron are underway to attack them. Perhaps Alex needs to be rescuing them?
On the station, Havok suggests to the Eldest a peace offer. He wants the Eldest to call off all of his people. If the Shi’ar truly took the M’Kraan Crystal from him, perhaps they can work something out. To this, Vulcan mocks that the Crystal was never theirs, and that the Scy’ar Tal homes were actually destroyed by artificial moons. He read the file. The M’Kraan did find the Crystal, but so did the Shi’ar. They just weren’t strong enough to keep it. But he is.
In demonstration, Vulcan fires a blast against the Scy’ar Tal soldier and the Eldest, redcing them to bones and ash. Incensed, Havok pushes his brother against a wall to stop him. “I took care of that myself,” Gabriel smiles pleased with himself. “See you in hell, Alex”. Havok fires a blast at Havok, pushing him through a window of the station, plummeting to the planet below them.
Titan, Starbolt, Warstar and Gladiator gather around their Emperor, and Vulcan watches his brother falls. Now, Vulcan states, he wants to show the Scy’ar Tal with whom they messed. It’s time they are shown what “finality” really means.


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The Starjammer, outside the Ka’leb Molecular Cloud…
Polaris is in shock. “This can’t be happening again,” she utters in panic. The other Starjammers try to snap her out of it and give her updates on their current status. Korvus reports that three Shi’ar warbirds have just jumped in, and that their lead ship is firing. Raza adds that the Imperial Guard is approaching, and that Electron is leading them. On a sidenote, Raza reminisces he has felt Electron’s sting before…
Rachel can’t concentrate due to Oracle’s ongoing interferences, but she can confirm that there are more of the Guard coming for them. Ch’od asks for Lorna’s command, hoping she won’t plan to decide posthumously. Rachel starts to worry as well because she can’t sense Havok. She fears that Vulcan has kill...
“No,” Lorna interrupts Rachel. “That’s not going to happen.” Green magnetic sparks start flowing out of Lorna’s eyes. She hurls them around the Starjammer ship, and fires another magnetic attack against an attacking Shi’ar ship, destroying it. Lorna’s entire body now glows in a full magnetic wave, causing worrying among the other Starjammers. Lorna finally gives her order: they shall destroy Finality. They’ll destroy it even if they have to kill every single member of the Imperial Guard to do it. And, she declares, if Vulcan has even touched Alex... Vulcan belongs to her.
Meanwhile, at the Finality station...
Vulcan orders his Guard to get the station working. Complying, Mentor confirms the mechanism is based on Shi’ar technology, but the Scy’ar upgrades are far more advanced than anything they have. He has learned that the entire station is an engine, which powers the warpgates. However, he fears it would take him decades to reproduce Finality.
To this, Vulcan mocks it’s lucky for him he only needs one. He picks up a skull of a dead Scy’ar Tal, and examines it. He thinks he’ll put a star right in the middle of the Scy’ar fleet. Mentor informs his king that the Scy’ar Tal fleet is approaching the M’Kraan world. They don’t know the ramifications to... Vulcan interrupts Mentor with a simple wish: he wants every one of their enemies dead. “Fire the damn weapon.”
Back on the Starjammer ship
“We are being boarded!” Raza announces. Prepare for… As Korvus charges up his blade, Plutonia phases through the ship’s hulls and sticks her hand through the metal plate on Raza’s body, taking him out mid-sentence. Likewise, the other members of the Imperial Guard phrase through the hull and start fighting.
Electron fires an attack on Polaris, who blocks it with her powers. Lorna orders Rachel and Korvus to take the Guard out but, before she can do anything, Rachel is blinded by Manta, who opens up her cape right in front of her, revealing an intense bright light. Ch’od tries to take out Electron with a punch and warns Korvus, who is fighting next to him, to avoid any sudden explosions. Korvus simply keeps on fighting Flashfire and is more worried about Rachel than anything else.
Outside in space, Finality fires a missile. Ch’od sees it and recognizes the missile as a tracer, the same as Feather’s Edge. And the tracer is opening a warpgate, which he detects is heading to the M’Kraan world… which seems unfortunate to him. Locked in battle, Lorna orders the recovered Rachel and Korvus to go after the tracer and prevent it from reaching the world. Rachel refuses to leave Lorna and the others to the Guard like this, but Lorna is confidant. Ray and Korvus have to go. She reminds them they saw what Finality did to Feather’s Edge. They just can’t let that happen to the M’Kraan Crystal!
Inside Finality, Gladiator has used his powers to learn that Rachel and Korvus have broken off from the Starjammers and are entering the warpgate. Vulcan orders Gladiator to go after them, and to kill them both. He further orders the entire Imperial Guard sent after the Starjammer. Gladiator obeys, and he and the other troops leave.
Now left alone in the station, Vulcan stares outside a massive window and remains. Bitteryly, he thinks about if Xavier could see him now. Vulcan smiles that the Shi’ar made him a slave, and now he rules them. Xavier had sent Vulcan to die and, soon he promises, he’ll come to kill Xavier. He’ll show the entire universe what power is.
On that moment, Vulcan gets hit by a blast fired by none other than... Havok! Vulcan can’t believe his eyes. Havok, floating in mid-air surrounded by an intense aura of his powers, asks his brother if he really wants to know what true power is. In that case, Alex is more than happy to demonstrate it!
Elsewhere in space...
The ship of Lilandra and her uncle manages to destroy another Scy’ar ship. Lilandra notices the aliens are retreating, to which Ka’ardum explains the Scy’ar Tal are in chaos. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t dangerous. He thinks the Scy’ar are going to be at the edge of the system hoping to regroup.
Suddenly, one of the captains warns that a stargate has just opened and that something came through! The captain confirms it’s a tracer from Finality. Lilandra understands: it’s Vulcan’s scheme to exterminate them all. Ka’ardum isn’t certain. He asks where the tracer is going. The captain indicates that the tracer is headed towards the center of the Scy’ar fleet.
At the same time, Rachel and Korvus are in hot pursuit of the tracer. Rachel flies using her telekinesis powers and Korvus is sitting in a small aircraft. Rachel calls Vulcan insane for actually trying to destroy the crystal. Korvus reminds her Vulcan is filled with hate rather than insanity. Rachel tries to grab the tracer with her powers but, just as she almost has it, she is punched by Gladiator!
Rachel faces Gladiator and asks how he can do this: serve Vulcan while he knows the throne belongs to Lilandra. Gladiator defends himself by saying the throne belongs to the Shi’ar and not just any one person, and that the throne has ordered Rachel’s death. Rachel realizes it’s pointless arguing with Gladiator. She orders Korvus to take care of the tracer, while she’ll fight the leader of the Imperial Guard.
Back at Finality, his power locked against that of his brother in a fiery exchange, Vulcan tells his Havok that the Professor once told him that he may never know the upper limit of his power, and that Charles never thought of throwing him into a star. Vulcan is certain Alex can’t defeat him, because he is a god. “A god?” Havok replies. “You’re just… a man.” With that and a final strain, Havok pours on the power and knocks Vulcan off balance and reeling backwards.
As Vulcan reels in pain from his right arm, which glows bright blue, Havok rushes towards him, explaining he has absorbed enough energy to make Gabriel burn! Now resorting to fists, Havok delivers a right cross to Vulcan’s chin, calling him a pathetic, little child, with too much power. Incensed, Gabriel strikes back, firing a blast of flame, but Alex dodges. Clearly unable to concentrate, Vulcan vows to kills his brother, to which Havok ask if me means like their father? Or Banshee? “No,” Alex shouts out angrily at Gabriel. “You’ve done enough. Now you pay.”
Back to the Starjammer, where...
An explosion rocks the ship, after which Raza reports that they’ve lost the starboard engine. No sooner has he reported this than he is attacked by Plutonia, who phases her hand back through Raza’s metal plate on his chest, causing great pain. However, Lorna defends her teammate and strikes Plutonia with a magnetic blast before she can do any lasting harm.
Nearby, as Ch’od smacks Flashfire’s face on the control panels, reporting “correcting for engine loss,” Lorna orders the big guy to take them to the Finality station. They have to destroy it, no matter what. Ch’od sighs, because he feels there is a teleportation in progress. Lorna wants to know if it’s more Guard members. “No,” Ch’od corrects. It’s all of the Imperial Guard. When Lorna then asks, “Any thoughts?” Ch’od can only respond with an obscenity.
In space, Rachel’s rage manifests in the space of a telekinetic, fiery Phoenix raptor, whose wing knocks the might Gladiator backwards. Watching the battle, Lilandra is amazed that the girl is actually fighting Gladiator to a standstill. In addition to this good news, Araki reports that Korvus will reach the tracer in time. Lilandra thanks the gods Vulcan’s madness will be stopped. They can route the remaining Scy’ar Tal and then give backup to the Starjammers… Lilandra’s uncle forgives his interruption, but has to order his captain to fire. Without delay, the order is carried out and Korvus’ space-bike is destroyed, leaving him floating in space.
The explosion causes Rachel and Gladiator to pause their fight! “By Shaara...” Lilandra utters speechless. She demands to know what Ka’ardum has done. Now, Finality will reach its mark, and now he has not only condemned the Scy’ar Tal, but all of reality. She fears for the M’Kraan Crystal. Ka’ardum reminds Lilandra that the Crystal was a gift from the gods, and he has faith that it will weather this storm. The Scy’ar Tal will not.
Now ignoring Gladiator, Rachel takes after the tracer, propelled by a fiery, blue Phoenix raptor of telekinetic energy.
Inside Finality, the computer warns that the stargate coordinates have been locked. A badly injured Mentor calls out to his Emperor, who is being badly beaten by Havok. Lifting his brother by the neck, Alex says now this ends. Though scared from his brother’s energy, Vulcan smiles, laughing that Alex doesn’t have the stone... X-Men… don’t… kill. To thism Havok mockingly asks his brother if he didn’t hear: he quit the X-Men.
Just as Alex is about to fulfill his threat, a teleportation portal brings more to the station. It’s Deathbird and the rest of the Imperial Guard, at whose feet lay the unconscious or chained Starjammers. Deathbird shouts at Alex to release her husband, or else she will begin disemboweling his friends. As Alex cries out to Lorna, Vulcan takes advantage of his brother’s distraction and yells, “Mentor, now!” Immediately, Mentor obeys, pressing a button which opens the stargate.
In his ship, Ka’ardum orders the commencement of the jump. Lilandra’s pleadings go unheeded.
In space, Rachel has picked up Korvus’ unconscious body, fleeing the area to safety. She begs for forgiveness.
Behind her, the stargate opens, through which the energy of a sun explodes, annihilating the Scy’ar fleet. As a side effect, fiery energy is propelled, which impacts the planet below. Despite the onslaught, however, the M’Kraan Crystal survives.
In Finality, Alex is still holding Vulcan, who informs Alex that, if he kills him, he’ll watch his lover die. Or, Gabriel smiles, Alex can kneel before him and beg for mercy. Before Havok can decide, Ch’od tells Alex Lorna wanted him to give Alex a message: “This can only end one way.” Replying that he knows, Havok fires his powers through Finality, destroying most of it.
Mentor informs his emperor that the weapon has been destroyed. Further, he adds, the entire station is going to explode! Calling him an unbelievable bastard, Gabriel asks Havok if he knows what this cost him. He thinks he should kill Alex right there… Held fast by Warstar, Alex agrees. Gabriel should kill him, because if he doesn’t Alex promises he’ll never stop coming after him. He will never stop.
Almost ignoring his brother, Vulcan orders Deathbird to teleport them all out of the station. All of them.
Back among the Shi’ar fleet, Ka’ardum orders his niece to run. When Lilandra doesn’t understand, Ka’ardum explains that she must take an escape pod. Marvel Girl and Korvus are nearby and Lilandra should rendezvous with them. The Shi’ar civil war is over, and he’s taking Vulcan’s side. He thinks Vulcan’s actions have now revealed his true nature: that of a Shi’ar. He was willing to do whatever it took to protect the empire. Ka’ardum is certain that, under Vulcan’s rule, the empire shall flourish. But she must run. Moments later, Lilandra flies way in a small craft, in tears as she departs.
Chandilar, days later...
Vulcan gives a speech to his people, who now all proudly cheer out his name. Vulcan explains to them that the Scy’ar Tal have been defeated and that the Shi’ar armada has been reunited. He is proud that the Empire’s enemies lie at their feet, and he promises that this is only the beginning. Behind the proud emperor stand Araki, Ka’ardum and all the Imperial Guard. The Starjammer all sit below him in chains. Vulcan declares that the Shi’ar Empire’s destiny shall be fulfilled. They shall destroy those who will stand in their way, including the one the Shi’ar call Mummudrai, the man also known as Professor Charles Xavier. As a fleet of starships soar above him, Vulcan shouts that, together, they shall expand their universe, and they will conquer. The Shi’ar Empire shall rise again!
13,000 years ago...
A Scy’ar Tal pilot informs his Eldest he thinks they have found something. It’s a lone planet, lying in darkness. And according to their scriptures... The Eldest interrupts, saying that the god in the Crystal will cast them out and then hide the brothers’ home. Regarding the lone, orange colored planet, he informs his brothers that they are home.
However, the pilot reads that there are lifesigns on the planet, which means someone else is there. Baring his teeth, the Eldest angrily declares that those people are in M’Kraan holy lands. They will leave, or else they will die. The Scy’ar Tal fly towards the planet, ready to invade.


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X-Men 101
Bobby Drake’s letter to his mother:
Dear Mrs Drake,
Please send Bobby more money, so he can take part in the trip to Europe.
Chuck Xavier.
Just a joke, he apologizes and adds that he would have written sooner, but they have much to do at school. Today, they were at the botanic garden and it was more exciting than he thought.
Telepathically led by Xavier, the X-Men are looking for the source of trouble and are ordered to take care of the crowd before they attack.
Bobby’s letter:
Bobby complains about not being used to writing with his hand, but the Professor doesn’t want them to use emails. He’s funny that way.
Reality:
The X-Men see living, huge plants capturing humans with tendrils with tendrils. It’s only an Azalea, Beast tries to calm one man as he frees him. Cyclops fires at the bush and all the tatters come flying down. Scott apologizes that he’s never fought flowers before. Pretty, remarks Marvel Girl, but now she’s going to clean up, and she proceeds to do so with her telekinesis.
However, new thorned tentacles attack, getting Iceman and Beast. As Cyclops fires at the plant to free his friends, Iceman forms iceclaws from his hands. Though Iceman boasts of them, Jean remarks that she finds them ridiculous.
When Beast is attacked again, Angel whoops in and tries to tear the tentacles off them. Cyclops orders Iceman to freeze the whole plant including, Beast. Reluctantly, Bobby obeys. Cyclops fires at the plant which now breaks into hundreds of pieces. Though now fee, Beast just moans he is cold, to which Angel tries to comfort him that he will heal soon. It’s not his body, Beast complains, it’s in his mind. He was hearing voices, things worse than the thorns.
With the attack now over, the X-Men wonder what that was. However, Xavier suddenly contacts them again and admits that the creature has a strange consciousness. He could see through its eyes, nothing more. He commends them on their job.
Bobby’s letter:
Iceman remarks in his letter that they had fun. Apart from Hank. Actually, Hank has been his pal since he’s been here.
Reality:
Later, Hank remarks to Bobby that he will put his torn uniform into the x-box. They have an x-box? Bobby asks excited. Excitement gives way to disappointment as he sees Hank putting the uniform into a chest with an X-symbol on it. If his uniform needs mending, just put it in there, Beast informs him and jumps down bothering Angel.
Bobby’s letter:
Bobby explains in his letter that Hank isn’t like his friend, Jeremy (whom his mom hates). He is the best student and a great athlete. He never had a friend like that. At first, he thought Hank only wanted to brownnose but then he realized it must be hard for Hank to be that smart. None of them can talk with him about the books or movies he likes. That’s why he enjoys the lessons at Xavier’s.
She’ll be happy to hear that he isn’t the worst student at Xavier’s. That would be Warren.
Reality.
Lessons start as Hank and Xavier discuss Amazons. While Warren stares outside the window, Bobby wonders whether that’s because he’s rich and never had to listen to anybody. Nice guy but constantly has his mind elsewhere.
Xavier interrupts Warren’s reverie, sarcastically hoping he’s enjoying the view. Startled awake, Warren stutters that mutations usually show up during puberty. They talked about that 20 minutes ago, Xavier sighs. Now they are discussing extraordinary historical figures and their influence on today. Warren gets up, angrily. He understands that they have to learn strategy and self-defense but what’s some guy from the Middle Ages supposed to teach him?
Any moment now, he’ll be out of the window, Bobby whispers to Jean. Why does nobody shut that thing? she replies. And Warren proves Bobby right, flying outside with an ecstatic look on his face, while the others wonder whether he will get detention. Scott begins to defend Warren, but Hank tells him that’s not necessary, you don’t outfly Professor Xavier that fast.
Xavier telepathically contacts Warren, reminding him that they were in a history lesson. Warren apologizes. He didn’t want to be disrespectful, but sometime he needs to fly or he’d burst.
Xavier observes that Warren feels like a bird in a cage. He was born to fly but Xavier’s lessons fetter him to the ground. Nevertheless, he thinks their studies are essential. May he demonstrate something to Warren? Warren agrees.
The Professor suggests they assume that mutants existed 4000 years ago. Perhaps even one like Warren. What speculations would the sight of a flying man have caused? Such a man would have been the stuff of legends or religion. These impressions carry on for centuries. And religion and legends guide man’s thinking. They connect expectations and hopes with someone like him.
Warren lands on a mountain top. That’s not fair, he protests quietly. Fair or not, it is fact, Xavier continues. Not all mutants can be paragons. Some are just what they are. But the world looks on them and they are the standard all mutants are measured by. Xavier didn’t just choose them because of their powers, but because he thinks they can handle that responsibility. Thanks to them the world will accept mutants. Now he asks Warren to return and tell the others that Xavier was very, very strict with him.
Bobby’s letter:
Bobby writes that the professor may often seem strange. In other words: The school computer has more personality.
Reality:
Cerebro addresses Bobby, remarking that it’d asks Bobby to pay attention. There’s still a lot to learn.
Bobby’s letter:
Bobby writes that Cerebro is a powerful artificial intelligence and often teaches them.
Reality:
Bobby apologizes and Cerebro tells them the lesson is over. The professor is expecting them in the main chamber.
Bobby’s letter:
Bobby describes the chamber like an Imax cinema. The professor often works there because Cerebro enhances his mental powers. Like that’s necessary!
Reality:
The X-Men walk inside on the dais and Xavier informs them that this is a mystery. While they were fighting that being today Cerebro identified its signature. A mutant? Hank asks. Xavier doesn’t believe so, although there are similarities. But it’ hard to locate as it changes position all the time.
Hank reminds the professor that he was able to see through its eyes. Shouldn’t he focus on that? Xavier agrees and suddenly they see things from the creature’s view, namely they see the school from outside. The creature is watching them from the forest. No time for uniforms, Cyclops decides and orders them to come.
Bobby’s letter:
Bobby writes to his mother that Scott Summers is hard to judge. At first he didn’t like him. He thought Scott was just trying to be cool with his sunglasses: Then Bobby realized that Scott had to wear them to control his powers. The way he found out was rather embarrassing.
Flashback:
Bobby was tossing snowballs at a flying Warren in the hall, whose wings inadvertently hit Scott in the face, making his glasses slide down. Warren shouted a warning and Bobby was barely able to erect an iceshield to fend off the optic blast. Blind, a frightened Scott asked Bobby if he was all right, until Jean calmed him that everything was ok.
Later, Bobby cleaned up the mess and passed the professor’s study. Inside, he heard Scott berating himself, feeling he wasn’t capable of being leader. Each of the other controls their powers better. Xavier pointed only out that it seemed that way. Scott is aware of the destructive potential of his powers and of his limits. That’s what makes him special. He never stops thinking about it and also scrutinizes others. Only because of him the team works. Most great leaders didn’t ask for the job. They got it because they could do it.
Bobby mused that Xavier probably knew he was eavesdropping. That day he probably learned more than the rest of the school year.
Present:
The team runs into the forest to hear noise when suddenly a flock of birds attacks them. Bobby shouts at Warren to do something. Warren tries to create some wind with his wing. But the birds react as thought they are one mind. They change their formation, creating an X, before flying away. Warren squawks before coming to himself again.
Xavier contacts the X-Men, ordering them to get their uniforms and warm clothes. They’ll meet at the car.
A little later they drive to Xavier’s private jet. Inside, Xavier tells them that they can follow the creature’s signature. At the northern polar circle, they will charter a ship. Xavier stresses that they want to help the creature. He is convinced it didn’t want to attack. Very shortly, they are at the coast of Greenland (where it isn’t at all green).
While all the others are dressed in anoraks, Bobby is wearing only his uniform, he isn’t cold at all. Hank offers Jean some hot chocolate and she suggests next time he shouldn’t do it with his foot.
Bobby’s letter:
He’s saved the best for last. He thinks his mom would like Jean Grey as well. The way he sees it, Jean’s number one there. When she’s around everybody pays attention. Even the professor is normal when he talks to her. He thinks she’s most like him because her power is also based on her rain.
Reality:
Jean tells Bobby he’s finally at a place where he needn’t use his powers. The Skipper has bad news for them. The ship can’t go on. The route he wanted to take is blocked by ice.
Bobby’s letter:
Bobby writes that Jean helps him with the homework. She tells him lots of things. More than she tells the other boys, he’s sure. But she isn’t his girlfriend. It’s because he’s the youngest and nobody considers him serious competition. If only she had a younger sister…
Reality:
Cyclops suggests he break the ice. Good joke, Bobby remarks as Cyclops’ optic blast breaks the blocking ice. Joke? Scott asks confused. Jean now focuses and moves the ice shards aside to create a clear passage.
Bobby’s letter:
Bobby remarks that her codename Marvel Girl really fits. He guesses she’s their strongest member. He’d never start a fight with her, but then why should he?
Reality:
The last part of the way they walk. Flying ahead, Angel finds some scientists with technical devices. Suddenly, their drill is iced up because of Iceman and Angel tells hem to stop.
The scientist explains that his drill probes here to prove the rapid global warming. His studies are already proving that, Beast replies. Xavier tells the men that they can’t continue and telepathically contacts them. Through Xavier, the beings speak. They need a host body to communicate with them. It asks them to touch hands and shows them a tentacled being. It explains that their species is older than humanity. They are in their last lifecycle that only takes another 75,000 years. The drill threatens their lives.
The scientists agree to stop their work and Xavier tells them that the being thanked them and the scientists for understanding. He let it know that there is no dominating species and there is enough room on this world for everyone.
Bobby’s letter:
Bobby states that the Professor even manages to turn an adventure into a lesson.
He has decided he has written too much, freezes the letter up and throws it down to shatter before he starts a new letter.