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Pride & Penance !
In a quiet hospital room in Massachusetts, Dr. Singh examines the comatose body of Everett Thomas, better known as Synch of Generation X. Some of his concerned teammates surround his bed, talking under their breath about recently made decisions. Husk tells Sean that they shouldn’t have left Synch in the other dimension, but he tells her that they had no choice. Dr. Singh analyzes Everett’s condition, telling the team through a series of medical terms that he hasn’t sustained much internal damage, but he is still in a coma. Sean asks the doctor what kind of a person would run down a child and leave them in the road, but the doctor quickly quells that theory. She tells them that his injuries are not consistent with a car accident, but with that of a beating. Everyone in the room gasps in shock. Just then, Emma enters the room with Jono and the twins. She asks if she had heard the situation correctly, and Sean tells her that it is so and perhaps she should take the twins outside.
Before she can react, Everett’s unconscious mind synchs up with Emma’s abilities. Sean and Emma become worried because Everett can now utilize Emma’s psi-powers in his coma state. Dr. Singh, while watching the brain monitor, notices a mysterious spike in Everett’s brain activity. The activity increases sharply, spiking off of the graph. Suddenly, the clock and plant located on Everett’s bedside table explode. A flower of energy blossoms on his forehead as everyone in the room is levitated off of the floor; everyone except one. Banshee asks Emma if she can stop what Everett is doing, but she tells him that it is too risky to muck around in someone’s mind when they are in such a delicate state as Everett; she could accidentally kill him.
The only unaffected person, the autistic twin Claudette, silently walks over to Everett. She places her hand on his forehead, neutralizing the psychic energy. As an immediate effect, everyone plummets from the ceiling, landing harshly on the floor. Dr. Singh gets up with amazement in her eyes; she has just witnessed a true telekinetic and it must be reported immediately. Emma, now on her feet, psychically influences the doctor. She orders the doctor to forget what she has just seen and to go into the doctor’s lounge to read the latest issue of Lancet.
Husk and Jubilee question Claudette on what she did to Everett and why she wasn’t affected by the telekinetic display. Her sister Nicole answers for her, reproaching the girls for the silliness. Don’t they remember that Claudette is autistic and can’t answer any questions? Before Nicole can finish her sentence, the comatose Everett strikes again with his synching power, this time copying the twins. Jubilee sarcastically says that this turn of events is fantastic, since they don’t even know what the twins’ abilities are yet. Everett answers her, saying that he knows not only what their powers are, but also a lot more to boot! The team marvels at his miraculous recovery. He tells them that he has a pounding headache, and that it must be the residual effects of using Emma’s psychic abilities after they were intensified and distorted by the twins’ mysterious powers; even though he isn’t concentrating, he is picking up everyone’s thoughts.
Sean and Emma are worried about what information he received from poking through their brains, Paige and Jubilee are concerned about the unknown powers that he received from the twins, and Jono and Skin are wondering who beat him up and what they are going to do about it. But through this flood of information Synch wants to know one thing; what happened to Gaia. Several of the team wonders of whom he is talking about, so he explains that Gaia was the girl chained to the Universal Amalgamator in the other dimension that they just returned from.
Chief Authier interrupts Everett’s monologue with his two suspected abusers, Dorian and Weasel. The chief says that he is glad that Everett is up and about and that he brought the boys down to “rub their noses in their dirty work.” The boys vehemently deny any involvement in the malicious assault, and surprisingly Everett backs up their claim. He tells the chief that he must have been disoriented and fallen down to receive his injuries. Dorian and Weasel storm off telling the chief that next time he should get his facts straight before he goes accusing innocent citizens.
Dr. Singh walks back into the room wondering why she had the sudden compulsion to read Lancet. She is flabbergasted at Everett, wondering when he came out of his coma and why he is out of bed. In a calm voice, Everett tells her that he is just looking for his clothes so that he can return home. Dr. Singh says that he is doing no such thing, since he has to stay at the hospital for at least three days for observations. In a very odd manner, the doctor stops mid-sentence and says with a smile that she doesn’t see any reason why he cannot go home today. It would probably ease his recovery to be in familiar surrounding with friends.
Outside of the room, Banshee tells Emma that she is getting carried away with the “mind-zappin’”, but Emma backs up her actions with the fact that they needed to get out of there. Besides, what would Sean have done, yell at her? Now in a wheelchair, Everett tells the twins that when they get back to the academy that they have something important to say to everyone. Nicole asks if Everett went in their heads and found out to which he affirmatively replies.
Later, back at the Massachusetts Academy, the team sits around in the living room, while Nicole prepares to tell her story. Everett coaxes her on, prodding her to tell about the real Monet. Jubilee is dumbfounded; isn’t the combined form of the twins the real Monet? Emma silences her so that Nicole can tell her story. The young girl tells the team that she didn’t even know most of the tale until she merged with her brother Emplate, and she was privy to his most secluded memories.
(flashback)In a beautiful house beside the coast in Monaco, Monet St. Croix is paid a visit by her older brother, Marius. He sits shrouded in darkness in a chair in the corner. Monet questions his brother on his proposition as she sits brushing her hair. He corrects her that it is not a proposition; it is a favor. He is going to do her a big favor. He states that he has been to the end of time itself and opened doorways to unimaginable worlds. Then, Marius tells his sister that he knows about her special gifts, and he wants her to join forces with him. First they would conquer his alternate reality and later return and rule over their home reality as well.
Monet throws him a look of pure incredulousness, telling him that he is pathetic. She points out what he had to sacrifice to attain power, namely his looks, and how he cannot even walk down the street without making people sick. How can he expect her to give up her luxurious lifestyle to reign over a realm of freaks, and then return looking like him just to have their friends laughing at them? Monet breaks out into a spasm of laughter, angering her brother’s delicate temperament. He rises from his chair in a fit of rage yelling that he has tolerated her arrogance and superiority all of his life and he is fed up. Does she even realize how caustic her remarks can be? How her very voice unleashes hurt inside of him? Now she will pay for her insolence and she will still be his. Monet retorts with a scathing remark about her brother’s appearance and his sanity.
That comment was the final straw for Marius as he lashes out at her with a sample of the power he has attained. Beams of energy swirl around Monet, transforming her beautiful body into the razor-sharp monstrosity of Penance. With an air of superiority, Marius taunts his sister that she could have ruled with him, but now she is only fit to frighten children, or better, to serve him. He asks her if she protests to this statement, but then tells her that she cannot since she has no voice. Cruelly, he orders her to sit down, knowing fully what is going to happen. The shocked girl sits on her vanity, only to tear into it with her razor-edged fingers. Marius laughs at his demented joke, telling her that now her tongue is truly sharp and she should consider this transmutation her penance.
Just then, Nicole and Claudette walk into the room carrying a piece of glowing chalk. Nicole questions her brother on his visit, since their father has forbidden him from ever coming back to their home. She also asks what he has done to Monet and who this new creature is. Marius taunts his sisters, saying that Monet is gone forever and they will never see her smirking face again. Penance silently watches the spectacle. In her own little world, Claudette kneels on the floor, quietly drawing a circle around her brother with her piece of chalk. Marius apprehensively asks what his autistic sister is doing and Nicole tells him that she is opening a doorway to send him to a bad place forever. Claudette finishes the circle, which then begins to glow a brilliant orange. It sucks Marius into its depths, but he screams out a final sentence as he faces his banishment. He bids Penance to come with him, for only he can return her to former body. Obediently, Penance plunges through the portal right before it closes forever.
Her task complete, Claudette returns to the world inside of her mind; leaving Nicole to bear the seriousness of the situation. The meaning of her brother’s words had just had an impact upon the girl, sending her into a panic. What will they do? Monet, the favorite of their father’s children, has disappeared! He will be heartbroken! But just then an idea pops into her head on how to replace their sister.
(present)Nicole finishes her story. That day she had decided to merge with her sister to impersonate the lost Monet, but they had no way of really knowing that their sister was by their side in the form of Penance. And since Emplate had placed some kind of mental inhibitors into her mind to keep her from talking, the secret remained. Just then, the no longer enigmatic girl walks into the room.
Nicole, in tears, talks to her older sister about the kind of pain that she must have endured. All that she suffered through, and yet she was not bitter; she even watched over the twins when they were in a coma. Nicole makes up her mind to repay her sister for all of her kindness and suffering. She grabs her twin sister’s hand, merging their young bodies into the form of Monet. Then, Monet walks across the room and grabs the hand of Penance, merging forms with her as well. For an instant, the two forms stay as one until they split apart. In the dissipating swirls of energy the real Monet stands along side Penance, marveling at her old body. The moment of joy does not last long though as Monet realizes that now her little sisters are now trapped in the form of Penance.
In the not-so-far reaches of outer space on the dark side of the moon, an alien craft is receiving fire. A crewman states that it must be from plasma weapons, but the captain quickly corrects him saying that the energy signature is indicative of an ion flux. The crewman states that such an energy signature would signify a reality warp anomaly. Sure enough, right as the words leave his mouth an ivory skinned woman materializes on board, complementing their ship. The aliens decide to shoot the strange being, but to no avail. The woman, identifying herself as Bianca Laneige, retaliates using her mutant abilities to transmute their alien bodies into those of her faithful dwarves: Warpy, Stinky, Windy, Spikey, Greasy, Brainy, and Blurry. Bianca removes the hood off of her cape, saying that now the aliens are much more useful to her. She orders them to turn the ship around. Sitting in the captain’s chair, she reminisces about her recent escape from the rogue dimension that she was imprisoned in. Brainy interrupts her mad soliloquy to ask for a heading. She replies that they are heading to Snow Valley, Massachusetts so that she can settle an old score with the woman who imprisoned her in the other dimension; her former compatriot of the Hellfire Club, Emma Frost.
In Massachusetts, Jubilee and Husk try to console Monet on the twins’ decision. They took the form of Penance because they loved their sister. Plus, now that they know how Penance came into being they can look for a way to help. Monet tells the girls that the only way to help Penance is to force Emplate to reverse his spell. Paige wonders out loud what it is like for two minds to merge into a single consciousness and whether or not they take turns being in control. Penance silently stares out the window, a trait reminiscent of the autistic Claudette.
In another part of the living room, Chamber and Skin talk to Everett about his recent lie to Chief Authier. They warn him that he better not be thinking about getting even by himself because that is a decision that the boys cannot back up. Synch reassures them that revenge is the last thing on his mind, in fact, now he is only worried about Gaia. He decides that he is going to go and ask Monet, who was in the form of Penance at the time, what became of the girl.
Sean and Emma watch the contemplative Penance as she looks at the stars. Sean wonders what is going on in the girl’s head, and Emma politely offers to find out for him. Sean tells her that they have no right to invade her privacy like that, and more than likely her thoughts are no more harmless than the falling star that has caught her attention. Little do they know that that falling star is actually the ship of Bianca Laneige.


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Massachusetts Chainsaw Massacre
At the Massachusetts Academy, the students find themselves the sole inhabitants of the mansion. Sean and Emma had to go to New York on business, leaving the teenagers all alone. The girls have taken over the living room, painting their nails while waiting for the boys to return. Angelo walks in the room with an armful of movies. Paige asks him if they rented any movies that the girls would want to watch, but Monet tells her that she is expecting too much of him. Angelo yells as he trips, letting movies fly everywhere. Husk says that they probably should have flattened the rug out after they swept the dirt under it, while Jubilee gets mad at Skin for throwing the movies all over the living room.
As the girls help Angelo pick up the movies they are horrified to find out that they are all “slasher” films; all except Jubilee of course. Monet screams at him that they wanted to watch girl movies, but Skin defends himself by saying that there are plenty of girls in his movies. Monet gives him that fact, but states that all of them are eviscerated though. She gets up from the couch and heads into the kitchen to check on how the concessions are coming along, which are being handled by the least capable.
Synch and Jono are in the kitchen struggling with each of their snacks. Everett tells Monet to lighten up because he has the situation under control. Jono, on the other hand, is fuming at the microwave in a string of British derogatory terms because it is broken. He asks Monet if she will rip open the bag of popcorn so that he can cook it in a frying pan, but Monet just holds up her hands and refuses to do anything until her nails are dry. Jono decides to ignore her snobbishness and handle the situation by himself by popping the popcorn with a small blast from his power. The effect is disastrous as popcorn goes flying in all directions, landing on and ruining Monet’s nails. Jono apologizes for his mistake. Everett finishes the “sugar bomb treats” just as the argument erupts between his two friends.
Shortly later, the teens sit in the living room about to start their movie marathon. Paige is still in disbelief that they are going to watch all of those slasher movies; it would take days! Angelo says that it won’t if they fast forward through all the boring junk, like the plot, and skip to the gore. A scene flashes on the TV of a murderous man with an axe upraised. A scream follows, followed shortly thereafter by a disgusted groan from Jubilee. Skin remembers that all of the movies are rated R or NC-17 and quickly covers Jubilee’s face with his extended skin, saying that she is too young to be watching such things. Jubilee tears Angelo’s hand off of her face, saying that all of them have seen worse things in real life. Jono agrees, but says that it is still bad to subject young impressionable minds to such hyped up violence because it can warp them irreversibly.
Synch adds that movies like this have been known to cause seizures or even “terminal dream syndrome.” Jubilee’s confusion shows as she asks if he means nightmares about airports. Monet scientifically clears up the mishap by explaining that Everett is referring to the theory that if one dies in their dream then they die in real life as well. Husk shows her skepticism towards the idea, but Skin immediately backs up his claims. A TV show, “Strange Universe” did an entire segment on it, and it is completely true! Jubilee starts to become uneasy, and Husk tells Angelo to stop “messing with the kid’s head.” Jubilee becomes offended by this comment, and decides to prove herself by telling Angelo to skip all of the tame stuff and fast forward straight to the blood and gore.
(nightmare)Much later that night, Jubilee wakes up from a deep slumber on the couch. She gets up and begins to search for the rest of her friends, walking out into the main hallway. She asks herself who the person is on the stairs that is carrying a large butcher knife because they are dressed like an old woman. She bumps into Angelo at that point and asks him if he saw the same thing. He asks if there is any chance that it could be Ev, Jono, or Monet in disguise, but Jubilee reminds him that none of them have a sense of humor.
Upstairs, Husk sings to herself in the shower as a menacing shadow appears outside of the curtain. Skin screams a warning to her that there is a psycho with a knife outside, but she just thinks that it is a lame excuse for Angelo to barge in on her in while she is in the shower. The maniac tears the curtain back with the knife raised high. Paige acts instinctually, husking into a partial brick form as the knife collides with her chest, leaving her unharmed. Jubilee shoots a plasma blast at the villain’s head, knocking off a wig. The criminal turns around to reveal that he is none other than the villainous Bastion. Skin rips off the rest of Bastion’s costume revealing his unique apparel. To his chest he has strapped a bomb with the detonator in his hand. He tells the teens that he will do anything to rid the world of gene trash like them as he depresses his finger on the button, causing an explosion that knocks Angelo and Jubilee out of the bathroom. Inside of the chard ruins of the bathroom, Paige desperately clutches at the remnants of the shower curtain with her remaining strength. The curtain rips down, leaving Paige collapsed on the bottom of the tub, dead.
Skin says that this cannot be happening, and Jubilee says that it isn’t. She says that this is all a bad dream that she is having from eating too many sweets and watching too many scary movies. She comes to the conclusion that all she has to do is wake up and everything will be normal again. She re-enters the bathroom and splashes water on her face from the sink, but dream water doesn’t have much of an effect. Skin suggests that she try pinching herself when someone burst through the floor. It is Sabretooth, dressed like Freddy Kruger and he tells the kids that no one is going to wake up from this dream as long as they have him to claw them to sleep.
Skin yells at Jubilee to wake up, but she tells him not to worry. She says that Sabretooth is just a figment of her imagination that way fueled on by too much sugar. Sabretooth starts to advance towards Skin. Angelo tells Jubilee that it may be her dream, but he is the one about to be killed. Sabretooth agrees with him as he lifts his claws about to swipe. Skin futilely tries to save himself by wrapping his arms around Creed’s, but to no avail. He is soon cut into ribbons. Jubilee sprints out of the bathroom with Creed fast on her trail.
She screams to herself to wake up as she comes to the bottom of the stairs where Monet waits blowing on her nails. Jubilee tells her to “head for the hills”, but Monet replies that the hills are rather dusty and she just put a fresh coat of lacquer on. Jubilee tells her to suit herself as Sabretooth makes it to the bottom of the stairs, stopping to bite Monet’s face off.
In desperation, Jubilee cries out to Penance for help. The young girl comes to her aid, using her razor-sharp claws to tear Victor Creed to pieces. Jubes thanks her friend while talking out loud to herself. She says that it is too bad that Penance can’t yell or slap her so that she could wake up. While she is talking, the form of Omega Red with a plain mask and an axe stands behind her ready to strike. He soon does, crashing his axe into the skull of Penance. Jubilee once more tells herself that it is just a dream, but she remembers that if she dies in her dream…the ominous figure looks down at her before he starts to chase after her.
Jubilee continues her run down the hall, bumping into Chamber as he comes out of the kitchen with a platter full of sandwiches. He tells her to watch where she is running and she yells at him to blast the guy coming down the hall because he just axed Penance. “Asked her what?” he replies, but Jubilee clears up the mishap. Jono decides to take care of the masked menace and scorches him with a blast from his mouth. He places his bandages back over his face and turns his back on the blaze as he marvels at his abilities. Bad mistake as the form of Omega Red bursts from the flames, decapitating Jono with one blow.
The frightened girl runs into the kitchen, telling Synch to hide. Everett brushes her off; telling her that maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to let her watch all of those horror movies. Jubilee frantically looks for a place to hide; Ev thinks that she is overreacting. Jubilee asks how she can be overreacting? There is a bunch of homicidal people running around! Her ranting is interrupted by a mysterious sound, which shakes her to the core. She sheepishly asks Ev what that noise was, and he calmly replies that it was a chainsaw.
At the door stands Emplate in a bloody butcher’s robe with a revved chainsaw and D.O.A. at his side. Jubilee slams the door shut, but Emplate just saws through it, making a lame crack about how he wants his meat prepared. Everett synchs with Jubilee to try and stave off the attack, but he complains about how it would be easier if he didn’t have to use such a lame power. They continue their assault, but Emplate tells them that they are only delaying the inevitable as he saws through the stove. Omega Red agrees with him as he slams his axe into Synch’s head. From the floor and the walls, the other two murderers appear with fits of maniacal laughter. Jubilee backs into a corner where she assumes the fetal position. The killers surround her, their laughter continuing. She tries valiantly to wake herself up, finally screaming it at the top of her lungs.
(present)Back on the couch, Jubilee wakes from her dream to see that the concerned faces of her friends surround her. They ask her if she is all right, and she replies that she is, but a little shaken up. She tells them about her dream and how she was afraid that she wasn’t going to wake up. Then, she confides in them that she even suspected that all of the slashers were the rest of the team wearing masks to play a trick on her. She detects a subtle change in their expressions and asks them why they are looking guilty. Then, she notices that they are all hiding things behind their backs and asks them what they are. She takes a peek behind their backs and sees that they are all holding Scream masks. Infuriated that her friends would play a trick on her, she releases a score of “pafs” around them as they run away with smiles on their faces.


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She came from the Stars
The students of the Massachusetts Academy, Snow Valley, are no ordinary students, but mutants. Teenagers gifted with abilities that set them apart from “normal” humans. Today though, these students are doing the most normal thing possible… playing mini putt golf. Emma Frost stands with her hands on her hips and tells her co-teacher, Sean Cassidy to “Get on with it." Sean Cassidy, the former X-Man known as Banshee, and mentor to these mutants is lying on the mini putt green lining up his shot. Everett tells Sean to take his shot and get over with it, adding that they are not playing in the Masters, and he is not Tiger Woods. Chamber projects his thoughts into his friends as if he was speaking, and agrees with Everett, saying that Sean is too old. Sitting down on the concrete, wearing a hoodie to cover his obvious mutation, his gray skin, Angelo Espinosa adds that Sean is too Anglo. Bored, Monet lies down on a bench and stretches out catching the rays of the sun, as Sean readies his shot, and in answer to Skin’s comment, says that Sean Cassidy being too Anglo would have caused some commotion in the republic.
Sternly as always, Emma reiterates her earlier request and tells Cassidy to get on with it. He swings and yells ‘Fore!’ as the golf ball speeds along the green, but despite Sean’s measuring up earlier, it does not go up the tongue of the monster leading to the hole. Emma smirks and claps her hands before mocking Sean, telling him it was a nice shot, but the point is to get it in the hole.
Two scantily clad girls on roller-skates standing nearby spot Chamber among the group of students. Ronee tells her friend Betsy to check out the guy in the mask, and suggests he might be a celebrity. Betsy proclaims that whether he is a celebrity or not, he is still cute. Always ready to jibe her teammates, Monet grins and tells Paige that it looks like the local talent are trying to move in on her turf. Husk defensively tells Monet that she never knew her brand was on his rump, but nevertheless looks crossly at the situation. Jubilee tells M and Husk to keep their claws sheathed as they are supposed to be friends.
Ronee lets her golf ball ‘slip‘ from her hand, throwing it right at Jono’s head. Jono sends out a telepathic “ow” before the two local girls skate over and flirtatiously apologize, asking Jono if there is anything they can do for him. Bending over in front of him, and showing a lot of flesh the girls play with him, and Ronee asks him if he is from around here. Hand on her hip and leaning on her putter, Monet says “How utterly shameless“ before Jubilee asks Paige if she is going to do anything. Though Paige says that if that is what Jono likes then he can have them.
Meanwhile, Sean marks Emma’s latest score, her sixteenth hole-in-one and asks her if she is cheating. Emma just acts all innocent. Skin swings his club and tells his teachers it looks like he is going to get his ball in, and when it lands in the cup, he leaps up with joy. Sean marks the score card and tells Angelo he got twenty-three, which is only nineteen over par.
Betsy looks at Jono’s head and tells him that the ball caused a bump, and Ronee asks him if he would like them to rub it for him, before turning and looking at him face to face and tugging at his mask, she asks Jono what he is trying to hide. Jono’s eyes go wide and he telepathically asks her not to tug at his mask. The ditsy girl proclaims to Jono that his voice is so mellow as if she is hearing it inside her head. Paige turns her hands into a fist and announcing to M and Jubilee that the other girls are jeopardizing the security of Generation X, she rushes up, and punches Ronee, telling her to leave Jono alone.
As the rest of the students walk to the next hole, Monet looks up to the rental office and noticing the odd looking spacecraft up there, tells the others that the ugly thing was not there when they got here. Jubilee smiles and tells Monet that she of all people would know; “the way you’re always looking up past your nose“ the prankster adds. Emma places her ball at the last hole, and announces that if she sinks it in one shot she gets a free game and a special prize. Referring to Paige’s quarrel with the local girls, Monet tells everyone that the “altercation has escalated to physical violence“ and Jubilee yells to Paige that she got a good shot in.
Meanwhile, inside the odd looking craft above the rental shack, a white skinned woman dressed scantily in green looks out the odd craft’s view screen and says “That’s her! The cheap blond, teeing up!“ Within the craft, someone calls the woman Bianca, and asks her if that is her greatest enemy, the powerful Emma Frost. Bianca says it certainly is, and proclaims that after all the years she spent cooped up in a nether dimension because of Emma, she is finally back, and adds that the payback is going to be sweet, now that she has acquired psi powers to rival her own. The dwarfs in Bianca’s craft turn to her and remind her that they have a deal; that if they help her get revenge, she will transform them back into their original forms, giant cockroaches, as opposed to the “silly, stunted, bipedal, uncarapaced, disgusting things that don’t even have egg sacks!“
Meanwhile, billions of miles away on the astral plane, the Trickster known as Ananasi, actually the Shadow King in disguise, taunts Betsy Braddock, telling her she claims to be a warrior, and asking her to prove it! Covered in psychic armor, and leaping towards him, Betsy says that she will. But as Betsy strikes the Trickster with her psychic katana she realizes too late that she has unleashed a psionic blast into a carefully engineered trap, which triggers a chain reaction that releases a psionic pulse through the very fabric of the astral plane, that could potentially overload and disable every psi-talent in the universe!
The EMP wave is invisible to all, and it travels like a psionic tsunami at the speed of thought, seizing every psi-talent in its path. Powerful one - Emma strikes that last ball, and is flung back from the onslaught of the wave… low-level telepaths who utilize their power as a form of communication - Chamber lunges back, scaring the local girls…and even those who acquired their powers by alien means - like Bianca, who cries out under the strain. Emma lands on her knees with a thud and Skin and Synch can’t believe she aced the course with eighteen holes-in-one. Chamber falls into the arms of Ronee, who thinks he is just coming on strong, as Paige calls out to him, asking him what got into him and telling him to stop. Bianca stumbles back in the craft, landing on two of the dwarves, Stinky and Windy.
Sean bends his putter in half over loosing to Emma, as Synch and Skin rush over to her. She sits up, and as Sean joins them, she tells them she is okay, that it was just like something exploded in her head. Sean smiles and tells Emma to admit that she was using her powers to influence the balls, but her powers backfired on her in the end. Not realizing what has transpired, Paige pulls Jono off Ronee, as Betsy is grossed out, telling the others something is wrong with him, drawing attention to his rolled back eyes, she calls him a “spazz”
In the spacecraft, one of the dwarfs suggests that with Bianca out cold they kill her, until one of them steps in and reminds the others that if they kill Bianca, they will not be able to return to their cockroach bodies.
Shoving Paige out of the way, Betsy, who must have picked up on Paige’s slight southern accent, calls her “Daisy-Mae” and tells her that she took a course in CPR, and as she says she is going to give him “mouth-to-mouth” she tugs at Chambers mask, revealing a psionic residual flare. Betsy tells Ronee that that is “Waaay gross“ and asks her if she is going to plant her lips on “that”. Aghast, Ronee says “He is some kinda freak“ and the two ditsy local girls skate off on their blades. Out of earshot, Jubilee asks them if they have never seen a nuclear furnace before.
The grubby looking owner of the mini-putt course comes out from his shack and with a stuffed alien under his sweaty arm tells Emma she has won a prize and the free game. He notices Everett helping Emma up and asks her if she is hurt, and whether or not she is going to sue him. He sees Sean bending another club and asks him what he is doing to that. Paige tells Jono that he has some nerve flirting with the townie girls and asks him what he has to say for himself. Chamber offers no reply and just looks at Husk awkwardly. The golf course owner walks over to Jono and tells him not to look now, but that his mouth is on fire. He calls for somebody to get a fire extinguisher, and tells Jono not to worry, as they will save him. The White Queen walks over to the sloppy man and says “I guess it’s time to do a partial mind-wipe on you and make you forget what you have just seen“.
The owner of the course turns to her and Emma realizes that her telepathy is not working. The mini putt course owner looks at Emma strangely and tells her something is not right in her ‘cabeza’, and adding that Jono has a fire where his mouth should be, he thinks something is not right. Synch and Skin walk over to him and Angelo asks the man if he has had his eyes checked recently and motions up to the top of his rental shack at the spaceship. Everett says “Could be astigmatism or glaucoma!“ and the golf course owner rushes into his shack, calling to someone called Biff and asking him what the thing on the roof is. Emma tells the students they are leaving, as she thinks they have upset the status quo of the locals enough for one afternoon.
In the spacecraft, Bianca has come around and stands before her servants, telling them that if they ever try to “do her in” they will never get returned to their cockroach forms, that their only hope is to help her get revenge on Emma. One of the dwarves tells Bianca they get the message, and asks that they get out of here, which they do, and the spacecraft leaves the mini putt course. Just then, the owner is dragging someone out of the shack, it is Biff and calling the owner “Lumpy”, he asks him what he is talking about, as he didn’t order a new roof. Pointing to the roof, Lumpy asks Biff what he calls the monstrosity? Biff looks at the roof with Lumpy, and asks him what he is supposed to see. Lumpy swears that there was something there, and Biff just asks him if he has been cracking open the balls again.
Driving back to the Academy in the car, Sean tells Emma that the little excursion they just had might bring prying eyes of the authority down on them, and asks her why she didn’t do a mind-wipe on the two girls and the fat guy. The car turns a corner and approaches an accident scene, while Emma tells Sean that she did try, but something wasn’t right. Someone in the back of the car tells the others to check out the accident, and Skin adds that the car involved looks like a Ferrari from the future. Looking out of his window, Synch sees Chief Authier attending to the driver, whom he recognizes despite her now pink hair – Gaia! Crouching beside her car door, Chief Authier asks Gaia if she is all right, and stepping out, Gaia tells him she doesn’t know what happened, it’s as if she blacked out all of a sudden. Banshee and Emma step out of their car and Sean reminds everyone that Gaia is from the Universal Amalgamator, and she has psi powers. Emma starts to put two and two together that Gaia had a blackout about the same time she did.
Synch walks over to Gaia and the Chief and tells him that he can explain what is going on. Gaia tells Everett she can take care of herself, and looking at Authier, Gaia tells him that he will walk away and not remember any of this. Authier looks somewhat suspiciously at the pink-haired girl and tells her he is not quite senile yet. He adds that he is not likely to forget anything about her, and admits he has been keeping an eye on her since her weird pre-fab house appeared last week. Generation X all turn towards where Chief Authier was motioning and someone says it looks like Pablo Picasso designed it after too much sangria. Skin tells them all that the house just screams alien dimension. Jubilee doesn’t believe that it couldn’t have gone up in a week, and Monet says unless it was conjured up.
Emma whispers to Sean that Gaia could be a powerful telekinetic, powerful enough to materialize matter out of thin air. Banshee reminds Emma that Gaia’s power doesn’t seem to be working, and suggests she talk to Chief Authier. Moments later, Emma has spoken something to Authier, and the Chief tells her that it wouldn’t do any good, as he has the “sight” too, or at least he did until a few moments ago. He says it was lucky his cruiser was parked, or he would have slammed into something like Gaia did. He thinks that something happened which turned off the “sight” in everyone. He tells Emma he knew from the moment they met in the diner that she had the “sight” too.
All of a sudden Emma is very uncomfortable and looks somewhat sheepishly around, until she tells the Chief she has no idea what he is talking about, and asks him if he is saying he is psychic. Authier smiles and tells Emma to play if her way, before telling everyone that he should really file a report on this accident, but as the “car” doesn’t have a VIN number, and Gaia doesn’t exist on any data base…he suggests they all go back to their nice academy and get things sorted out amongst themselves, while he deals with removing the car discreetly. He asks if they have a deal, and in unison, Emma, Sean and Synch all says ‘Deal’. Driving off in his car, Authier tells them all to go home and stay out of trouble. Generation X turn their attention to Gaia and she smiles, telling them she was only trying to have fun!
Back in their car, in the front passenger seat of the car, Sean turns to Emma and asks her what Authier was going on about all the “sight” being turned off. Emma doesn’t look up from the road and tells Sean that Authier is right – her power has gone. Crammed in the car, next to Jubilee, Gaia tells Sean that she tried to make Authier to forget, but it didn’t work, nothing seems to anymore. Husk adds that Jono cant “talk” like he used to either. Sean raises his eyebrows as if he has figured it out, and realizes that something has wiped out all the psi-powers. He wonders what the repercussions of this is going to be…
At twenty thousand feet above, Bianca asks the dwarves if they think they can get away with trying to “eighty-six” her while she is out, and whacks them across the back of the head. One of the dwarves tells the others when Bianca is out of earshot that she is really hard to take, and suggests being stuck as a dwarf for all eternity might not be so bad after all. He powers up and thinks of shunting her to another dimension where food is bad and taxes are high. Another dwarf grabs him and tells him not to do it, as he doesn’t want to have to smell like this forever. Suddenly, everyone in the craft is jolted and thrown around as the craft is hit by something else in the air. The dwarves and Bianca are thrown around inside their craft. Someone tells everyone they have been hit, and as the craft, on fire, plummets to the ground, says that something sheared off the port power pod. Bianca asks what hit them…
An elegant craft speeds off in another direction, one of its wings burning where it hit the port of Bianca’s craft, and inside, Elsie-Dee turns to her protector, Wolverine’s doppelganger Albert, and tells him she thinks they hit something, and suggests they go back and see if they need help. Albert tells Elsie-Dee not to worry her pretty little head, as they only clipped a Blattarian Hyper Space cruiser, and to him, it is only one less nest of roaches!


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An Eye  for an Eye
In the Biosphere of the Massachusetts Academy, Sean is giving the class a lecture. He uses the recent tragedy of the loss of Emma’s powers and Chamber’s communication to illustrate that one must always be prepared. You never know when your powers will be nullified, so you must have the advantage in hand-to-hand combat.
Lesson number one is to fight on grounds only of your choosing so that you may have the advantage. Sean then tells the team that they will benefit from this exercise, and Skin is quick to point out that Gaia lost her powers too, why isn’t she participating? Synch snaps back that she isn’t officially one of the team, at least not yet. Husk says that the exercise is practical, and Monet snidely remarks that it wouldn’t matter if Paige lost her husking ability anyway. Gaia disagrees, saying that no matter how useless a power may seem to be, it is still disastrous when you loose it; just like loosing one of your five senses. Jubilee says she has a good point, but urges Sean to hurry up with the training since the pizza that they ordered would soon arrive.
Sean sets up the scene while holding a basketball in his hand. He says that perhaps there was a threat that was only apparent to Jono, represented by the basketball. How would he warn the rest of the team? Sean tells Jono to think fast as he hurls the ball towards his charge. Chamber unleashes a furious blast at the ball, ripping it to shreds in an instant. Banshee seems shocked, as it wasn’t quite what he expected, but congratulates Jono on his controlled blast anyway. Jubilee giggles that that was a warning and a solution all in one!
As Chamber secures his mask over his face once more Sean sets up another scenario. How would the esteemed Emma Frost respond to an unforeseen foe? Without taking his eyes off of the children, Sean throws a backhand punch right at Emma’s face. With a warrior’s ease Emma blocks the punch, and throws one of her own followed by a knee to the stomach and finally a flip that lands Sean dazed on his back. The team stares in shock as Sean says that Emma has been practicing.
Somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, Bianca LaNeige and her dwarves are struggling to regain control of their spaceship. Their wing is on fire and they are skidding above the waves. Bianca bellows at her “dwarves” to not let the ship crash and to get her back to Snow Valley. If they fail to do so then they will be stuck inside of these dwarf bodies forever and will never regain their true forms. At the front of the cockpit, Greasy tells Stinky that if they ever do get their forms back Bianca better watch her back.
A loud grunt is heard echoing from the Biosphere that is emanating from the damaged Sean Cassidy. Rubbing his head he tells Emma that he has had enough and he gives up, and to stop stomping on his head. With her foot raised Emma tells Sean that she wouldn’t think of it! She then asks him if he was really going to punch her in the face. Grabbing her foot and tossing her to the ground, Sean answers “of course”, since they have to keep the exercises realistic.
Sean gets up off the ground, addressing the children. Lesson number two: never assume that your opponent is helpless. His sentence is interrupted by a punch to the back from Emma whereupon she takes over the lecture. Lesson number three: never turn your back to an opponent unless you are absolutely sure that the threat has been neutralized. Sean grabs his back and complains about his kidneys. Gaia asks Monet if training is always this rough to which she coolly replies, only when they have adult supervision.
Around Cape Cod, Bianca’s spaceship flies a sporadic zigzagging course, nearly missing a lighthouse. Bianca complains to Brainy, the pilot, if they cannot fly a straighter course? Brainy replies that he is flying as straight as he can with only half of the control surfaces functional. He then asks his boss why she is so intent on revenge of Emma Frost. Why, she indignantly asks and then begins to tell her story.
(flashback)Emma Frost is the head of Frost International, a vastly powerful company of which Bianca’s is the rival. One day Emma walks into her office with a stack of papers in her hands, saying that Frost International has acquired LaNeige Industrial in a hostile takeover. Bianca is in disbelief because she thought that her lawyers had succeeded in defending the takeover. Emma says that that was true until her lawyers bought off Bianca’s lawyers; they are all bottom feeders in the end. Maliciously Emma tells Bianca to pack up her desk and be gone in five minutes.
Bianca leaves and rushes to her most secret project at its hidden location to seek revenge. It was a device that had been built to break down the barriers between dimensions, and Bianca was going to use it to acquire some alien technology that would give her the edge in business. Instead of its intended use, the device trapped her in that dimension where she undergoes extreme torture. On the bright side though, she gains marvelous powers.
(present)Those powers having been taken away from her, Bianca vows that she will still find a way to have revenge against the woman who took away everything she had ever worked for; Emma Frost.
A doorbell interrupts Generation X‘s brutal training session. Synch says that the pizza must be here, and offers to get it. At the door stand Dorian and Weasel, the miscreants who beat Everett and left him for dead. Dorian cleverly comments to his dim friend that Synch was the guy who had been beat up by the “mysterious strangers”. He then threatens Everett that he had better not rat them out to Chief Authier or else they will return and finish the job. Then they demand thirty dollars for the pizzas and a good tip.
Everett slyly changes the topic, asking the two if they had used their own car to make the deliveries? Confused, they ask why. Everett smiles widely and says that he hopes their insurance is paid up because it is just about to get trashed by an unknown type of spaceship. Sure enough, Bianca’s spaceship crashes down on the hood of their car and bounces toward the house. Dorian and Weasel run for their lives screaming. Inside the ship, Brainy orders Greasy to power up the deflectors and close the blast doors. Impatiently Greasy says that he is working on it.
In the Biosphere, Skin asks Jubilee what that loud noise was? She says who cares, all she is worried about is whether their food is here or not, since they promised speedy delivery. Just then the ship crashes through the walls of the Biosphere. Skin says that the pizza delivery is really quick, but someone recognizes the ship as the spaceship that they saw at the golf course. Bianca and her dwarves charge out of the ship. She gives them orders that they can do whatever they want to the other mutants, but Emma is hers. Sean orders everybody to fall back behind him. Emma is in surprised as she recognizes the woman as Bianca LaNeige.
Outside, Dorian complains about his totaled car. He only had minimum liability coverage! Weasel says that he doesn’t think “close encounters” would be covered by collision anyway. He then wonders out loud what the aliens are going to do when they finish with the mutants. The boys look at each other and then run as fast as they can, agreeing not to say anything to anyone. Besides, who would believe them? Watching them leave, Synch realizes that Gaia is inside the building and rushes in to help her.
Banshee tells his pupils to cover their ears as he unleashes a devastating sonic blast. The dwarves are knocked backward, giving Emma the opportunity to escape. Bianca urges the dwarves to keep up the attack as she rushes off after her nemesis. Banshee devises an attack plan against the dwarves: Chamber, Jubilee, M, and Penance will flank to the right while the rest go with him to the left. Monet asks about Emma, but Jubilee says that she can take care of herself.
Emma rushes off into the dormitories with Bianca fast on her heels screaming at her that she has to pay for what she did. Emma, in the kitchen, grabs a frying pan while telling Bianca that she was driving her own company into bankruptcy and her own shareholders begged her to take over the company. Bianca yells that she is lying, and that she is going to teach Emma a lesson. Swinging the frying pan at Bianca’s head and connecting, Emma tells her that she is wrong; she is going to teach her a lesson. Lesson number one: always bring the fight to familiar territory. Emma winds up for another swing, but Bianca tackles her to the ground, asking, “why is that, so you can get trashed in homey surroundings?” The two tumble into the refrigerator, knocking items onto the floor.
Emma grabs a jar of mayonnaise and smashes it over Bianca’s head, saying that it is so you know what makeshift weapons are close by. Unfazed by the attack, Bianca picks Emma up over her head, body slamming her into the cupboard. Dazed on the floor Emma concedes defeat, pleading with Bianca not to stomp on her head. Bianca seems to like the idea and raises her foot high. Emma grabs the leg and flips Bianca onto the floor. Lesson number two: never assume your opponent is down for the count and helpless. Bianca points to a phone on the wall, saying in a weak voice that she thinks she needs a trauma team, and to call 911. Emma scoffs at her rival saying that she won’t be deceived into turning her back. She grabs a watermelon that sits on the counter and raises it above her head, saying that that brings them to lesson number three.
Back in the Biosphere, the dwarves fight valiantly. Stinky, Spikey, and Windy are busy assailing the team while Warpy hurriedly assembles the plasma cannon. The noxious fumes of Stinky repel the girls of the team, but Jubilee decides that the dwarves can’t aim at what they can’t see. She releases a series of “pafs” that temporarily blind the dwarves. While they are distracted, Everett synchs with Banshee so that they can hit the dwarves with double the sonic blast. Synch then asks Jono if he can take care of the plasma cannon, which he promptly does with a blast. Windy looks at the smoldering remains of the cannon, noticing the Chamber used controlled fusion to destroy it. Warpy says that that beats any device that they have, so the dwarves decide to surrender. They say that they would rather be stuck in the miserable bipedal bodies then be molecularly discorporated; besides Bianca bullied them into it.
That raises the question though, where are Bianca and Emma? Skin says he saw them run out the back door. Moments later the team finds Emma in the kitchen, nonchalantly sitting on the counter with a piece of watermelon in her hand next to an unconscious Bianca. She tells the kids that she is afraid their guest had “a little watermelon on the brain”. The team says that that joke was even beneath her, but the conversation is cut short by the telephone ringing. Emma answers the phone, and tells the caller to hold for just a minute. She hands the phone to Banshee, telling him that it is his daughter Theresa.


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Comings & Goings
On the grounds of the Massachusetts Academy, outside the ruined Biosphere, Bianca LaNeige and her dwarves slave to repair the damage that they caused. Bianca, as usual, is complaining to one of her dwarves about the work that they are doing, specifically Spikey. She tells him that he is mixing the mortar too thin, but he just tells her to shove it. The other dwarves back him up by reminding their leader that they would not have even been dwarves if not for her meddling. Bianca starts to lash back, but her attention is drawn to Artie and Leech, who are standing watch. Artie snaps a picture of Bianca, much to her horror. She asks them who gave them the right to take a picture of her? She is all sweaty, her hair is a mess, and her make-up is running!
Banshee exits the Biosphere telling Bianca that this isn’t a shoot for Vanity Fair. It is only fair that she and her "height challenged friends" repair the Biosphere, since they were the ones who wrecked it. He gives her a little incentive by saying if they do a good job, then he may see about getting their spaceship repaired.
Sean tells Artie and Leech that they are in charge over construction while Jono and himself are gone. They are going to the airport to see off Husk and to pick up Sean’s daughter, Theresa. He tells the boys not to let Bianca and the dwarves slack off on their work, to which the boys give an enthusiastic okay.
Out on the front steps of the academy, two students sit and talk. Gaia quietly munches a box of Sugar Bomb cereal, much to her elation. Jubilee strikes up a conversation, asking Gaia if she knows that Everett likes her? Yes, she replies. Apprehensively, Jubilee asks Gaia how she feels about him? The pink-haired teen passes Jubilee the box of cereal and then answers. She thinks that he is nice; he saved her from an eternity bonded to a doomsday machine after all. She asks Jubilee if she likes Everett too. Jubilee hesitantly says yes, and that she is worried about the way that he has been behaving ever since those creeps Dorian and Weasel beat him up. Just then their conversation is cut short as Synch and Skin walk out the front door, Skin carrying a familiar cigar box. As Synch walks off Angelo tells him to "watch his butt" and not to do anything that he would not do. Jubilee stares at the cigar box, trying to remember why it is so familiar. Gaia wonders why Jubilee is so worried, since Everett does not seem bothered anymore; he just walked into town and didn’t invite either of them along. She remembers that that is the cigar box that Tracy Authier stole from the mansion that contained Angelo’s gun. Jubilee’s brain suddenly makes the connection as she remembers the events of the last couple weeks. Dorian and Weasel beat up Everett, but he denied that it was them when Chief Authier brought them in. Possibly it was because he was waiting to extract his revenge personally. Jubilee frantically dashes into town after her vigilante friend, leaving Gaia with nothing but unanswered questions.
At the local airport the three Gen Xers meet up with Sean’s daughter Theresa, also known as Siryn from X-force. Sean asks her if she has grown since he last saw her, but she jokingly replies that it is just him who has been shrinking from old age. He then asks her if she has been to kiss the Blarney Stone. Banshee introduces his daughter to his two students, explaining that Chamber would normally be more talkative if not for the recent blast that took out all psi-powers. Politely, a stewardess interrupts the introduction to tell them that there will be a delay of two hours before the plane is ready to leave. Sean suggests that they go to the park to wait, but Husk politely declines, saying that she would rather spend time in the snack bar with Jono. Besides, doesn’t Sean want some time alone with Theresa? Banshee starts to protest, but Theresa pressures him to leave.
On the road into town, Jubilee stealthily sneaks behind Everett. She ducks behind a tree, wishing that there were some way that she could beat him into town. Just then, a voice calls out behind her, asking her if practicing stalking was some part of her weird curriculum. Jubilee turns around to see that it is Tracy Authier, and she is on a bicycle. Sheepishly Jubilee asks if Tracy will give her a ride into town, explaining that she thinks Everett is going to do something foolish.
Sean and Theresa sit quietly in the serene environment of the park, Theresa silently sips her coffee. Sean tells his daughter that he has been hearing a lot of good things about her as leader of X-force, and that he is proud of her. Taking another sip of coffee, Theresa ruminates on what her father had just said. In the silence, Dorian and Weasel ride past; carrying pizza on their bicycles. Theresa turns to look at her father, a big smile on her face, pointing out that that is the first time her father has ever said that to her in person. Every time before she had heard it in a card or a letter. Jokingly she adds that she didn’t know if those were her father’s sentiments or someone over at Hallmark.
Silence also reigns in the snack bar of the airport. Husk sits looking down at the table as she talks to her boyfriend. She begins to talk about her mother’s condition, and how she does not know how serious it is—Sam didn’t say on the phone. Chamber gently touches the back of her hand to comfort her. Paige tells Jono that she knows how hard it has been for him at the academy, but not to give up. Emma and Sean are the best people to help them; not only with their powers, but also with their problems. With a look that intermingled unexpected hope and love Paige asks Jono to promise her that he will stick with his training until she returns. Jono takes a napkin that is sitting in front of him and writes, "I promise" on it.
Now in town, Everett spots Dorian and Weasel on their bicycles. He gets their attention and then says that he would like to have a word with them. Dorian asks Ev if he is still holding a grudge or something, while Weasel tells Everett that they do not have time because they have pizzas to deliver. Behind a picket fence, Tracy and Jubilee watch the scenario unfold. Both of them wonder what is going on, and Jubilee says that she doesn’t have a good feeling about it. Everett reaches deep inside of his jacket pocket, saying that he has something for the both of them. Jubilee pops her head up over the fence, yelling at Everett not to shoot.
Sean offers up an apology to Theresa for never being there for her while she was growing up. He could tell her that things had not worked out between him and her mother, or that his job demanded his time, but Sean knows that these are just convenient excuses. He was just a young guy that was full of himself, and he was selfish not to have been a part of her life. Sean says that he knows that he does not have a right to ask Theresa for forgiveness or even for understanding of his situation, but he has something to say: if he had been there when she was born "not St. Patrick and all of his snakes could have dragged me away." The two sit once more in silence on the park bench.
Alone in the café, Husk asks Jono if there is anything that Jono has to say to her before she leaves. Jono sets down the pencil and picks up the paper. Barely pulling down his mask, Jon starts to sear the middle of the paper with laser-like precision. When he sets the paper back down on the table, a smoldering heart is burnt out of the center.
Frantically Jubilee runs up to Everett, trying to stop him from making the worst decision of his life. Everett pulls his hand out of his pocket, revealing a stack of money. Synch is even more perplexed than Jubilee is, wondering what she is babbling about. He turns to Dorian, handing him the money with the explanation that it is enough for a down payment on a car. He is giving them the money because their car had been wrecked at the academy. Dorian suspiciously looks at Synch, saying that this is some sort of set-up. He is convinced that after he takes the money, Everett will tell Chief Authier that they have stolen his money. Knowing full well that they need the money, Everett even offers to fill out a receipt for them. Swiping the money out of his hand, Dorian tells Everett not to think that him and Weasel have any different opinion of him now. They still think that he is a punk and a freak.
Finishing up from their work at the Biosphere, the dwarves feel a hot gust of wind. Immediately they blame Stinky, but they are sorely mistaken. A gigantic, blue, crackling portal opens up inside of the Biosphere, something unknown to the intergalactic travelers. However, they recognize that it is something that can generate its own space-time flux. The dwarves shield their eyes from the intense light as they finally recognize the source of the portal.
Theresa responds to her father’s sincerity in a rather peculiar manner. She calls him an unrepentant rogue, saying that he may have stayed around for a little while, but another adventure would soon have called him away—and he would have gone. Hurt Sean denies that fact. He often lingers on what he could have done or all that he could have given her. Theresa doesn’t even let her father finish his sorrowful rant, saying that it is the truth. Even though, the greatest gift that she ever received was from her father. Besides his wit, humor, and leadership abilities he gave her something few parents can give; the sky to soar in and a voice to crack the heavens. With that, Theresa takes off from the bench into the clear blue sky.
Back in the airport café, Paige picks up the paper. She affectionately hugs it to her chest, marveling at the level of control that Jono learned. She scoots her chair over to his, exclaiming how great it is! She begins to talk of how she feels like she is about to have a major breakthrough with her own powers. Jono lovingly places his finger over her mouth, stopping her from talking, and the couple embraces each other.
On the way back to the academy, Synch explains to the girls that he persuaded Skin to loan him the money, which he had stashed in his cigar box. Tracy asks if it was the same box that Angelo had the gun in? Synch explains that Angelo got rid of the gun after the little adventure he had with Paige and Jubilee in East L.A., and now uses it to store money in. He took Skin’s money and his own, put it together, and it was enough for a down payment on a jalopy for the bullies. Jubilee asks the obvious question, why did he do it? Hatred is a cycle, he replies, and it has to stop somewhere. Jubilee stops and gives her friend a hug.
Theresa, Sean, and Jono watch as Paige takes off in the airplane home to Kentucky. As they get in the car, Sean says that maybe the trip will do her some good since she has been a bit more disrespectful as of late. Theresa says that that may be a good thing, since she has heard that Paige is a bit of a suck-up. Her father is shocked at the harsh language; just because she shows an ounce of respect doesn’t mean anything bad. The jeep turns the corner, coming upon the wayward Gen Xer’s on the road also.
At the kitchen table, Gaia and Emma talk over a cup of tea about the unfairness of the psychic blackout. Gaia says that she had been chained to an altar for seventeen millennia, knowing that when she was free that she could create anything she wanted. Now that she is free, her powers are on hold; how unfair is that? Emma tells her young charge that what did she do when she finally was free? She conjured up some fancy toys and clothes. Maybe the universe is telling her that she should be more responsible and make a difference with her powers. Gaia asks Emma if she is joking. Emma admits that maybe she was laying it on a bit thick, but she does have a point. She further says that if she had her powers back she would go into Gaia’s head and…Gaia lets out a yelp of protest as she throws her head back. She tells Emma that she could feel her intruding into her head. Emma takes this news with great delight, gleefully shouting that her powers are coming back.
Artie and Leech burst through the kitchen door, saying that there is an emergency. They drag Emma outside, much to her bewilderment. She asks them if someone is hurt, and Leech tells her that it is gone. Emma still does not understand what he means; asking if something had been stolen. Sean pulls up, asking what is the commotion, but Emma cannot answer since she doesn’t know herself. Knowing Artie and Leech it could be a bird’s nest that fell out of tree, she replies. The boys pull Emma around the corner with everyone following. Everyone stops in their tracks in amazement at what is missing; the Biosphere. Only the trees that once surrounded it are left. Sean states the obvious, and Jubilee adds that Bianca and the dwarves are missing as well. A mechanical noise catches their attention, and Artie points to his camera on the ground. A picture just emerged from it and everyone crowds around waiting for it to develop. In the picture is the Biosphere, but alien looking buildings and flying vehicles surrounds it. It also is run down and decrepit. The group notices the changes in the picture and Jubilee wonders where it went? Emma points out that it may not be where that is the question, but when?


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Lost and Found
Emma Frost, the co-head mistress of her Massachusetts school, is seen marching through the building ignoring all the greetings her students give to her upon passing. She stops once inside her office and closes the door while staring blankly through her black sunglasses for a few moments. Suddenly she lashes out at her desk in a burst of anger making papers, a lamp, and various other office supplies fly everywhere.As she comments to herself “that’s better,” Sean Cassidy knocks on the door and enters wanting to discuss with Emma the changes that will happen to the school. Completely ignoring Sean, she storms out of her office. Sean is left looking at the mess in her office wondering what is going on with Emma.
Meanwhile in the dormitory, Jubilee and Skin are outside their friend, Jonathan Starsmore’s, dorm discussing their plan to cheer him up because of the recent events of a psi-wave immobilizing any person’s psychic abilities. This is especially disheartening for Jono considering telepathy is his only means of communication.
They enter to find Jono moping on his bed. Jubilee starts to encourage Jono to join her and skin for a game of basketball outside further stating that skin doesn’t believe that Jono is any good at the game. Skin taunts Jono further by stating that everyone knows limeys can’t jump. Despite Jubilee pressing further, Jono is unresponsive and Skin tells Jubilee to just to leave him alone for now.
Outside Jono’s room, Jubilee doesn’t understand why Jono and Emma are acting so strange today. Skin retorts that possibly if Husk wasn’t away visiting family, she could get through to him considering the feelings they have for each other. He further comments that perhaps this is tougher for Jono than everyone thinks considering he has always considered himself a freak, but now he is a mute one as well. Skin concludes that either way he misses something, Jono sadly sits looking at a picture of Husk.
Elsewhere on campus, Gaia catches Synch in the hallway drinking from a water fountain and starts up a conversation thanking him for saving her from the universal amalgamator. She continues stating that while she is adjusting to her new life she thanks him for making her feel more comfortable and that he is nice to be around. Everett smiles lightheartedly replying that it was nothing really. As she begins to leave Gaia responds, “If that was ‘nothing’, you’ll have to show me ‘something’ sometime” as Everett sighs, feeling a little love struck.
In the school gym Emma is shown furiously training on a punching bag seemly taking out all her frustration at it while grunting loudly. She is interrupted by clapping as she sees Sean in the room. He compliments her on the show, reassuring her she does not need the practice considering how badly she defeated him the other day. Emma angrily tells Sean to leave, further lamenting that she does not want to be consoled and she is not one to cry. Sean retorts that he is not one to scare so they seem to be at a stalemate. Emma gives the punching bag a hard left kick as she counters, “Do you think I’m kidding, Sean?”
On the campus grounds M is holding a Polaroid picture of the Bio-Sphere as she bombards Artie and Leech with questions on where exactly it went. Synch enters assuring the two youngsters not to worry too much because he figures that Bianca stole the Bio-Sphere due to her advance alien technology. As Artie uses his mutant abilities to mentally bring up a picture of Bianca, M immediately voices her distaste on such an absurd theory. She explains that if she truly had that level of technology, Generation X wouldn’t have defeated her so easily. Leech interrupts concluding that since the Bio-Sphere appears to have been eaten that Galactus must have been behind it. He explains further that Franklin Richard told them about Galactus and his history as Artie projects an image of Galactus’s face. Both Everett and Monet disregard their speculation.
As Artie and Leech leave, Monet turns to Everett asking him how all his little friends are. Everett informs her of Jubilee’s and Skin’s attempt to cheer up Jono and further presses why Monet asked in such a wise-cracking manner. Monet folds her arms and explains that she finds it interesting that while Jono gets all the sympathy for his loss of telepathy, nobody has shown any condolences towards her, to which the same thing has occurred. She comments that while she will regret saying this next thing later on, her feelings are a little hurt due to this. Everett stands there silently for a moment almost in disbelief as he then asks Monet if she wanted a hug or something. Monet snobbishly dismisses the attempt and walks off.
Back in the training room, Sean examines the damage of Emma’s last punch as sand pours out from the newly created whole in the punching bag. Sean concludes that this behavior has something to do with her powers to which Emma barks back “Of course it’s about my powers, you simpleton.” She continues ranting that unlike him she did not grow up having the luxury of her powers being trained for good purposes. She had to use them for survival, for herself. She affirms that without her powers she feels deaf, dumb, and blind. Sean tries to console her by mentioning that he too lost his powers for a long period and understands the anger that comes with it. Emma angrily raises her punching glove at him yelling at him to shut up, that she wants to hear nothing about his loss, this is about her.
It is at this point that Everett nervously walks in, apologizing for interruption but that he and Monet were wondering where everyone was going to train now that the Bio-Sphere has disappeared. Emma coldly replies not to worry about it. As Everett tries to persist, she irritably reminds him to not make her repeat herself. Everett leaves sarcastically muttering to himself that the reason he likes this school is because of its nice, tender, nurturing environment.
Emma turns her attention back to Sean with her hands on her hips lecturing Sean that unlike him she is defined by her powers. She tells him of her frustration the other day with Gaia in the kitchen where for brief moments she believed her power had returned. Sean defiantly stands still declaring that he has had enough of her nonsense. He wraps up by making the offer that she should hit him.
Outside the training room doors we see Monet, Gaia, Penance, Jubilee, Skin, and Synch all putting their ears to it trying to make out words through the large amount of noise that is filtering through into the hall. Monet claims that with her super hearing she heard Mr. Cassidy say “don’t you realize you love me.” To which Jubilee counters that she does not have super hearing. As they begin to bicker the rest of the students give a big “ssssshhhh!” as they intently try and listen in.
Sean blocks a roundhouse kick from Emma as they spar in a ring. Sean taunts Emma by commenting that she must be mad for he has seen her do much better. Emma tells Sean to keep talking for soon she will gag him with his own spleen. While dodging her every move Sean points out that once she gets all this frustration out of her system they can finally talk. Ducking from a high kick he asks if she is tired yet. Emma stops commenting that he is getting tired of him.
Sean confronts Emma telling her she has played many roles throughout her life. Pointing his glove at her he lists she’s been a corporate raider, a villain, a hero, and a mentor. He goes on saying that the one thing she has always been is a survivor and he never thought losing her powers would change that. With his glove he taps her face with condescension as he mockingly adds “Guess I was wrong.”Emma explodes with an attack blasting at Sean how dare he and lets out an all out scream of aggravation as psychic energy seems to expel out of her.
As she lies silent for a second on the floor as Sean comes to see if she is okay and notices she is crying. As he holds her up, Emma’s face is full of joy and tears as she tells Sean her powers are back. Caught up in the moment they embrace for a moment before realizing what they were actually doing and break apart awkwardly.
Sean helps pull Emma up while telling her that her powers came back as soon as realized she didn’t need them. Emma returns to her usually self, queries whether she is suppose to owe him something for this little “gem” of information. Before Banshee can agree, Emma interrupts telling him she does and proceeds to try and punch him as Sean blocks the sneak attack. Sean slowly pulls her fist down commenting that while he has let Emma get away with a lot of things these past few days to not push it. Emma walks off nonchalantly replying that now that her powers have returned he better remember to shield his thoughts again.
Back outside the room, everyone is pressing their ears against the door struggling to hear anything from inside. They hear a familiar telepathic voice ask them what they are doing as Chamber stands behind them confused. They instinctively “sshh” him and continue listening in taking them a few seconds to realize Jono can talk again. They ask him when he got his powers back to which Jono replies a couple days ago. Skin is shocked and asks why he hasn’t said anything before now? Chamber responds that he simply didn’t feel like talking.
The rest of kids can’t believe Jono’s morose explanation but hug him anyway glad to have him back. Sean enters pleased to see Jono up and moving again and tells everyone to move outside because Emma has some news. As they sit outside Emma informs them that while the Bio-Sphere is missing the most important fact is that Bianca is gone with it as well. She goes on announcing that Gaia is officially enrolled in the school and everyone will be receiving uniforms. She stands in front of them confirming “that’s right, kids, starting tomorrow, everything changes.”


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The Quality of Mercy
Emma and Sean have gathered the kids for a meeting. Emma is afraid that she and Sean have becoming very lax of late, and now it’s time to pay the piper. She explains that the State Educational Standards Board is sending an investigator called Ms. Pickwick over this afternoon. Therefore, Emma thinks it’s best that they look like a real educational institution, or else they’ll have to face the risk of being shut down!
And because of that, Emma has given everyone new… school uniforms! Literally. Jubilee doesn’t like them, and mocks that, after successfully defeating Emplate, Bastion, Black Tom Cassidy and even Bianca, now a woman called Pickwick will be able to shut them down. Synch jokes that they should make Pickwick an Avenger. Chamber doesn’t like the uniforms either and neither does M, who prefers less shoddy uniforms. Skin asks Emma how long they’ll have to wear these stupid uniforms.
Emma mentions that’s another thing. She knows that respect for the faculty has eroded to the extent that lately, even Paige has been calling her and Sean by their first names! Jubilee jokes that Paige was just lightening up on the kissing up. Chamber defends to Jubilee that remark was uncalled for. Sean explains that’s why he and Emma… ehrm, Ms. Frost and he have decided it’s best that the kids start addressing them in a more formal manner. Everyone stares at Sean.
Gaia thinks it’s a very good idea. M thinks Gaia doesn’t really know, because she has spent the last millennium chained to a rock at the end of the universe. M explains that, in all the best, most progressive schools on the continent, it’s not more than normal that students call their teachers by their given names. Synch defends that, considering all the time M spent trapped in the form of Penance, it would have made her a bit more humble. He wants to know how M feels that now her twin sisters are trapped inside Penance.
M feels terrible about it. But she has promised Nicole and Claudette, who sit behind M, that she’ll do whatever she can to help them, until they can find their brother, Emplate, and make him undo the spell. And the twins have agreed to be patient. Sean asks M if they have worked that out between themselves. M confirms, and so does Penance. She sticks her thumbs up but, in doing so, rips her entire uniform apart! M jokes that they’ll have to give Penance a uniform made of titanium Kevlar.
Emma thinks that now they are on the subject of Monet, Penance and the twins, they need to clear up some discrepancies in the records. Emma mentions to Monet that, while she was in Penance form, she was listed as being Yugoslavian, a country that no longer exists. M reveals that she was born in Sarajevo, and that her parents met on a skiing holiday. M corrects that, actually, she has three passports: she is Algerian, French and Yugoslavian. And her full name is Monet Yvette Clarisse Maria Therese St. Croix!
Skin jokes that M has got more names than he does. Emma thinks that all makes sense, but she wants to know how they can keep accurate records on Monet and the twins, who are sharing one body, which is almost as difficult as explaining where Gaia came from. Sean takes a look at his watch, and notices that the kids are getting a bit antsy, so he suggests that they get into battle uniform and train a little. Everyone cheers, and move over to action.
Soon afterwards in the gym, the team has split up in male and female teams. Emma talks to Gaia, Jubilee, M and Penance about responsibility their powers have. Emma knows it’s very easy to abuse their abilities and subvert them for personal gain. M cuts in, asking Emma if her personal fortune isn’t based on a business gained by abusing her telepathic powers, which paid for this school. Emma confirms that. She reveals that there was a time when she had other priorities, the amassing of personal wealth being a major one, and her involvement in the Hellfire Club altogether, but that was all in the past, and also an other Emma Frost, she defends. Emma asks M if she doesn’t think that people can change. M doesn’t. She doesn’t think that people can really change. She thinks that they just get better at hiding who they truly are. Emma doesn’t agree.
Meanwhile, Sean suggests to the boys that they review their basic fighting skills as a warm-up. Synch asks Sean if they can talk in private for a moment. Sean doesn’t mind, and tells Jono and Skin to spot each other on the bench. He and Everett leave. Everett was hoping that Sean could cast some insight on a personal problem, which is about Gaia.
Synch knows that Gaia is over a thousand years old, but in some ways still a kid. She’s from the other side of the universe and has powers that Everett knows they might never fully understand, but he knew from the moment he first saw Gaia that they were meant for one another. Everett wants to know if he isn’t in over his head. Sean doesn’t really have an answer.
Chamber helps Skin working out, and Skin notices Jono looking a little glum, and asks Jono why he’s so down in the mouth about. Jono becomes angry, and defends that Skin should really think before he says something which might hurt people’s feelings. Skin apologizes, noticing that Chamber is once again brooding about why he’s a mutant freak. This makes Jono even angrier.
Jubilee starts defending Emma, as she knows what a wicked witch Emma used to be, even stealing from old widows bank accounts, but Jubilee knows how much courage it takes to stand up and teach a bunch of kids like them about morality. Emma sighs, but thanks Jubilee for defending her.
Sean admits that he hasn’t been in a lot of successful relationships, but he can remember the pain when he was Everett’s age, and the confusion and self-doubt. Sean explains that there isn’t a man who can fully fathom what’s going on in a woman’s head. Sean jokes that there was once a wise man who said that the difference between men and women is that women don’t like the Three Stooges! Sean thinks that the only thing Everett can do is come out with it.
Everett thinks it’s never going to get any better. Sean hesitates before responding, but confirms that it truly won’t. He knows that you can’t go through life expecting everything to go better. Sean tells Everett that he’s at his peak right now and, from that moment on, everything will go down. Everett doesn’t know why, but that last statement made him feel better. Sean thinks that’s great for him, because he jokes that, right now, he wants to shoot himself!
Chamber asks Jono how he would feel if he kept calling him “elephant man.” Skin doesn’t know why Jono’s so upset, as he’s got someone who cares about him, namely Paige. Jono agrees and knows that, if Skin had someone to care about, at least he could kiss her. Skin remains silent for a while. Skin knows that everyone wants what they don’t have. Chamber knocks Skin playfully on the shoulder, knowing that everyone wants to be what they aren’t. Skin agrees, and they are cool again. Emma warns that the training is over, as Ms. Pickwick is about to arrive. But, in herself, Emma wonders how they are going to convince Pickwick that they are alright, if they can’t even keep peace between themselves!
Soon afterwards, Ms. Pickwick has arrived, and is outraged at the results! She doesn’t believe for one that M is from Yugoslavia, and shouts that she wants to know where the transcripts are and test score results, and why the students are allowed to wear such makeup and costume accessories. She wants to go report it all to the board, but then… she gets a heart attack!
Moments later, everyone has went into Sean’s truck and hurry to the hospital. Sean explains that they couldn’t just call the ambulance, because the volunteer ambulance is on the other side of town and they can drive Ms. Pickwick over there in half the time. At the back of the car, Emma uses her telepathic powers hoping to keep Ms. Pickwick together. They drive further on the freeway, and notice a truck that has fallen down. Chamber tells Sean to continue driving and he uses his powers to fire a hole through the middle of the truck so they can move on.
Sean loses control of the car, and are about to drive into some trees. Skin helps Sean steering, and Penance jumps out of the car! She slashes the threes apart, so Sean can drive on. However, all the leaves flying around don’t give Sean much visibility. M flies out of the car so she can warn Sean about any danger, but she is so high up in the sky that Sean can’t hear anything M is saying. Chamber has an idea, and keeps telepathic contact with M and tells him to keep going straight. Emma replies that, thanks to her psi-link with Ms. Pickwick, she can’t help it but make Pickwick see whatever they see! M shouts at Sean to stop, as he’s heading towards a cliff!
But Sean is already to far and can’t stop. Penance gets clear of them. Synch has an idea: he and Gaia touch hands, so he can synch her powers and telekinetically lands the car safely on the other side on the ground. Sean wants to know if they have a phone with them, as he wants to warn the hospital staff in advance of their arrival. Emma is way ahead of him, and uses her telepathic powers to warn the nurses. They find it odd, and don’t really understand what’s going on, but prepare a cardiac arrest case. And after finishing it up, the others arrive and the doctors help Ms. Pickwick out.
Emma is glad they made it in time, but still has fears. Ms. Pickwick was in a too fragile state, so she couldn’t risk a mindwipe about the facts of how they used their powers on the way to the hospital. All they can do now is wait for the fallout.
One week later, Emma receives a phone call from Dr. Bannerjee, who told her that Pickwick has been released from the hospital, and apparently didn’t mention anything about them to the doctors. Suddenly, the doorbell rings. It’s Ms. Pickwick! She sits in a wheelchair, and has a doctor with her, whom she tells to go wait by the car. He does as told. Pickwick explains that, at first, she thought that the pain and shock were causing her to hallucinate, but then a nice policeman came to ask her if she knew anything about a hole in a truck, and that’s when Pickwick knew that everything she saw was real.
Emma tries to mindwipe Pickwick, but she tells Emma not to. She is fully aware of Emma’s powers, but realizes that they risked everything to save her life and to apparently protect a great secret. But, Pickwick also knows that the student body seem to be fully aware of that, and therefore she has prepared some papers which will highly recommend the Massachusetts Academy! All the kids hug Ms. Pickwick, who cries of happiness.