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First Story: Red Shift: Prime Third Story: Red Shift: Siren Fourth Story: Red Shift: Mantra Sixth Story: Red Shift: Rune Epilogue: Red Shift: Generation X
(first story)
The sun shines down over white-clouds covering the blue sky. Civilians point upwards.‘Look! It’s Prime!’ someone shouts as an extremely muscular hero clad in red, blue and gold with a long cape flies over them. He is Prime - an Ultra without peer, basking in public adoration, preening his vanity, feeding his ego… and he loves it. ‘Get a load of this, folks!’ Prime calls out as he hovers above them and flexes his massive biceps. ‘Yeah, lap it up, you saps’ he thinks to himself, before looking at the babes below. He decides that if he plays this right, maybe he can get lucky - but which one. ‘Or… which ones?’ he wonders.
‘Hi, Prime!’ a woman waves out to the hero. Glancing among the crowd, Prime suddenly sees an elderly Aboriginal man looking up at him. ‘Hey, is that shrimpy guy snickering at me?’ he wonders. The old man is the enigmatic Gateway. Indeed he is snickering, and Prime wonders what he is finding so funny. The massive hero then flies downwards, boasting that he is going to have to wipe that smirk off his munchkin face.
Prime doesn’t strike Gateway, he just comes to a halt several feet in front of him. ‘Okay, Yoda - you wanna share the joke with the rest of us? Come on… spit it out before I kick your butt into… orbit… uhh…’ Prime groans, while one of the women in the crowd exclaims ‘Why’s Prime picking on that cute little man?’ Prime goes wide-eyed, and suddenly is knocked over by a cab and there is a flare of brilliant light. The front of the cab is wrecked, and the driver gets out, while Prime gets to his feet. ‘Oh, man! I don’t believe this! I moved outta New York to get away from meatheads like you!’ the driver shouts. He waves his cigar at Prime’s face, and declares ‘Twelve cabs in twenty years, trashed from under me cause o’ bums like you! If it wasn’t the Hulk or the Thing it was Spider-Man or some other spandex schmuck!’ he mutters. ‘Who? Where am - what’s happened to me?’ Prime asks, rubbing his head.
‘Great! So now you’re Dorothy and this ain’t Kansas no more! But before you click your heels home, pal, you owe me a cab!’ the driver snaps as he looks up at Prime, who towers over him. Prime doesn’t respond to the driver, instead he turns to Gateway who is floating in front of a tree. ‘You! You’re behind this, aren’t you? What’s going on here? Tell me!’ Prime shouts, before flying towards Gateway, who remains as silent as ever. ‘Hey! Come back here!’ the cab driver calls out. ‘I’ll make you talk!’ Prime threatens Gateway, but as he attempts to grab him, he appears to falter mid-air, and falls to the ground. ‘Not again!’ Prime mutters. ‘It’s Prime! He’s back!’ one of the crowd exclaims. ‘Yeah…back to square one after my detour to the Twilight Zone. That pipsqueak’s gone…and so are all the answers…except…this paining in the dirt?’ Prime tells himself, looking at the ground in front of him. He sees that it is a painting of a Phoenix and gets a bad feeling about this. ‘Is this a sign? A threat? Or a warning? And does this mean I’m part of it?’ Prime wonders. One of the women asks him if he is okay, to which he assures her that he is fine. ‘But for how long?’ he wonders.

(third story)
Project Pegasus, headquarters of the reality-displaced Squadron Supreme, where the super swift Whizzer stares up at a console and tries to make order out of chaos. ‘This sucks’ he thinks to himself, deciding that he is lousy at math and is trying to calculate the dimensional multiplicity mechanics mentally. The Whizzer realizes that the bottom line is an energy wave with readings off the scale surges through the Multiverse, alerting their computers to the existence of a previously unknown universe. And, since then, dimensional breach anomalies have been appearing all over the place. ‘So the new kids on the block must be paying us visits… can’t say I like this too much!’ he thinks to himself. The Whizzer knows that the rest of the Squadron thinks he is jumping at shadows, but he thinks they are wrong and that this is a disaster waiting to happen. Speeding across the room to another console, he decides that he should run this past some of the others, maybe they can shed some light on the source.
He sits at a console and tries to contact the Avengers, but the video-screen just has their “A” symbol and some static, while a recorded message states that the Avengers are unavailable at the moment. The message asks ‘Would you care to leave a video message’ to which the Whizzer replies ‘Uh… no, thanks’. The message bids him a nice day. ‘Yeah, whatever. All right - who’s up next?’ he wonders, before another static image with the Fantastic Four’s logo appears on screen, and a video mail service invites him to leave a message. The Whizzer frowns and decides ‘Okay. Third time lucky’ as he presses another button. ‘Good morning, sir! How might I be of assistance?’ Dr Henry McCoy a.k.a. the Beast asks as he appears on the monitor. ‘GAAAH! I…I… er…’ the Whizzer begins. The Beast identifies the Whizzer and deduces that he wishes to discuss the most recent dimensional anomalies occurring in the greater New York metropolitan area.
Later, the Whizzer finishes his explanation: ‘…and that’s about it, Beast. Since we picked up that energy wave, there’s been too much trans-dimensional activity’. He adds that from what he can track, smaller Time-Space anomalies originate in this new universe as well - there is no telling where they open over there, or what falls through. Whizzer remarks that the Multiverse is turning into Swiss cheese, and he is not sure if their fabric of reality can take the strain. The Beast informs Whizzer that he and his fellow X-Men recently journeyed to this new venue themselves, and remarks that in many ways, it is like their own world - perhaps in too may ways. The Beast instructs the Whizzer to transmit to him what data he has and then he shall put his mind to the problem forthwith. The Whizzer asks if they can’t do anything about it now, ‘All in good time my friend’ the Beast replies as the Whizzer presses a button on the console. The Beast informs him that he will be in touch when he knows more. The video montior goes blank, and the Whizzer turns from the screen, frowning. ‘Time. Yeah, sure. Hate to tell you, pal…I gotta hunch the clock’s been running on this one…and you, me and the whole creation’s in for one heck of a wake-up call’.

(fourth story)
A young blonde woman with round glasses sits in a booth at a burger restaurant. ‘Oh, marvelous. Here they come - the shiny, happy people from school. They always look cool and spotless and they never have a bad hair day’ she thinks to herself as she glances over at two guys and girls who walk past, laughing as they carry their trays. ‘I hate them’ the blonde girl tells herself. She wonders if they would think she is a dweeb and how they would react, if they knew that she was Mantra. ‘I’d never be home alone on a Friday night, I’ll bet’ she frowns. Suddenly, she looks worried as the kids from her school turn to her. ‘Who’s your friend, Lauren? He’s cute’ the girl with red hair smirks. ‘I’m alone, thank you. I have no idea what you’re - oh!’ Lauren gasp as she glances sideways and sees an elderly Aboriginal man sitting next to her. ‘The Munchkin and the dweeb! What a pair!’ laughs one of the young men.
‘Oh, that’s just great. What little credibility I had just took a nosedive’ Lauren thinks to herself as she looks at the man beside her, unaware that his name is Gateway. Lauren runs her hands through her hair and wonders where he came from. ‘Is the circus in town?’ she asks herself, before telling him she is sorry about that “Munchkin” crack, and claims that they are not bad people, just dumb ones from the shallow end of the gene pool. She asks him if he has a name, but when she gets no response she introduces herself, and supposes that he must be the strong, silent type. Lauren tells her new companion that just once she would like her life to go smoothly. ‘Sometimes I feel so frustrated and inadequate I could scream’ she reveals, and as Gateway sucks a soda through a straw she asks him if he is okay with her telling him this. ‘I mean, no one’s ever really cared about what I think or feel before, but somehow - I can talk to you’.
She takes off her glasses and declares that she has always been “good ol Lauren”, who does what she is told and never complains ‘Friday night - you need a baby sitter? Call Lauren - she won’t have a date’ Lauren then announces that she is sick of it, and declares that she is special, and more than anyone knows. ‘I’ll show them! I’ll make them all sorry because I’m Ma-’ Lauren starts to say, before looking at Gateway and mutters ‘I’m rambling. Sorry’, while telling herself that she nearly let the cat out of the bag there. Lauren and Gateway look at each other as Lauren tells him that people only see one side of her - but there is this whole other part no one knows about. She smiles and supposes that it might be a matter of confidence? ‘I know I’m not that bad looking. Perhaps if I stopped hiding behind these glasses and gave myself a chance…’ she ponders, looking away, but when she looks back at Gateway, she finds that he has gone.
‘Great, he wasn’t my type, but it about sums up my luck with the opposite sex!’ Lauren thinks to herself, when she notices something that Gateway has drawn with the salt, poured from the shaker. ‘A burning bird? No, wait. It’s a Phoenix, the mythical bird said to rise from the ashes of it’s own destruction. English lit strikes again!’ Lauren tells herself, putting her hand on the drawing of salt, she knows that it is only a picture, but wonders why it feels so wrong. Curious, Lauren thinks that this might be what being Mantra means. ‘Am I able to sense these… these warnings? That little guy coming here was no coincidence. He came to show me this’ Lauren realizes, telling herself that he came to forewarn her of something terrible that is going to happen - something Mantra will have to face. ‘But… when?’

(sixth story)
The ladies love Paulie Doyle. In a city crawling with creeps and scuzzbags, Paulie’s manners and good looks make him a dream come true - right up until he opens their faces with his bowie knife, earning him the nick-name of “The Skinner”. That was, until tonight, when he met Erik - and the hunter became the hunted. Paulie looks up and sees a grey, winged humanoid demonic-like creature The creature is called Rune, and it drops down over Paulie, grabbing him, the creature is about to bite his neck, when suddenly, the world slips sideways, and they fall through a portal. Rune wavers, unsteady, unsure, dropping the hot dead meat like a sack of offal. Hackles rise as he tastes the air of this alien place. There is no acrid city stench, no blowfly hum of traffic. Just stillness and the call of the wild - and a forest where there was a city, a lone house at its heart.
Rune looks over at the house - actually a mansion, and peers through a window - where he sees two people - unbeknownst to him, they are Storm and the Beast of the X-Men. Rune realizes that this is another’s world, of beings only part human and creatures of immeasurable power and potential. Suddenly, he is aware of another’s presence and of being silently stalked. Primal instincts fire, accompanied by the uneasy sensation that he is no longer predator - but prey. Rune drags Paulie’s body behind him as he moves through this other person’s territory, their stalking ground. He came to feast, not to fight - especially not in this alien place against this unknown foe. Suddenly, reality warps again, and Rune and his prey vanish, beckoned back to the familiar scent of the city. He has violated the lair of a great beast, an ageless hunter, like himself, perhaps even greater. Now is not the time to face it on its own turf, but he will remember its scent for when that time does come, as surely as it must. And, perched in a tree, a very angry, naked Wolverine pops his claws.

(Epilogue)
The Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters, where Jubilee sits in the leafy calmness of the terrarium. She has been on quite a ride these last few days, along with her oldest friends, the X-Men - to another universe and back. The saved the place while they were there. Now, back where it all began, she kicks back and gets her head together. She likes to hang here when things have been wild - and the unexpected crusade into the Ultraverse was certainty that. Jubilee runs a stick through sketch images in the dirt before her as she recalls how Gateway, the enigmatic Australian mystic who lives among them, had started it all - sketching these images in the sand of the terrarium floor that sent Banshee calling to the X-Men for aid. It appears that Gateway was sketching the Phoenix, one of the most devastating threats th team had ever encountered.

The X-Men gathered - Wolverine, Storm, the Beast, Rogue, Bishop, Banshee and Jubilee herself - everyone who had been represented in the little mystic’s sketches. Then, without warning, he transported them across time and space into another reality known as the Ultraverse, where they allied themselves with two teams of the Ultraverse’s home-grown champions - the Exiles and Ultraforce, and did battle with the Phoenix which was threatening Ultraverse Earth. Things didn’t end there, as it turned out the Phoenix had already been dragged into the Ultraverse by an ancient and alien force that intended to use the Phoenix as a power source for its mother ship. Wild stuff - just crazy - threats and schemes and dangers so mind-bendingly big, it makes Jubilee’s head spin just thinking about them. Bottom line though, is that the won.
Jubilee draws a line through the Ultraverse world in the dirt before her, recalling that the X-Men, Ultraforce and the Exiles defeated the alien menace and sent the Phoenix out of harm’s way and saved the world. And that was it - end of story with no word as to how or why Gateway recruited the X-Men for the job. She wonders why Gateway recruited the X-Men for the job - was it because they knew the Phoenix of old, or was it a deeper, more subtle reason? She wishes she could have stayed a little longer to find out how different that alternative earth was - as it seemed like a good place. But, as soon as the threat was over, Gateway reappeared to take them home, snatching them up from the center of the Bermuda Triangle. Jubilee decides that it is almost like Gateway knew all along what was going to happen before it actually did.
‘Maybe that was it - wild and crazy and big through the whole adventure was, maybe it was just the start of something else - the prelude to something bigger‘, Jubilee wonders. ‘Something that Gateway was determined to see happen…’ Jubilee’s thoughts trail off as a small chunk of what appears to be gold, or some golden object, falls to the dirt before her. She picks it up and doesn’t know what she has found. She wonders if it is something they brought back with them through the vortex by mistake? Something from the Ultraverse? Something that is part of that bigger something? Jubilee turns and doesn’t see Gateway, sitting on a rock, nestled amongst the trees. ‘Who knows?’ Jubilee decides as she walks away. Gateway appears to be meditating, he doesn’t move, before suddenly, he cocks his head sideways and his eyes open slightly as he utters, perhaps laughs, ‘Heh!’


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Frustrate the Sun
Annandale-on-Hudson:Two kids, a boy and a girl are riding their bikes and arguing about the Vulture. They stop when they see a dark-haired girl their age, lying in the middle of the street, blood pooling around her head. Agitated, they run towards her, wondering if she is dead. Then the blood disappears and the girl opens her eyes, which are completely black. Is she okay? the boy asks hesitatingly. The girl grins mechanically and replies: “daed ffo retteb erew ew.”
They are distracted by another girl with red hair, coming up behind them. She asks them if they want to play Frisbee. The boy asks what’s going on and his friend points out the other girl has disappeared.
Ready? the redhead asks. Instead of a Frisbee, she is holding a dead bird in her hands. She throws it into the air. The boy grabs his friend’s hand and they run. Watch out! the redhead shouts.
Some hours later, Kitty Pryde’s X-Men team arrives at the scene. The police are already there. Rachel is disturbed. When Nightcrawler asks why, she replies evasively she used to have family who lived around here. She admits to feeling off.
The cop nervously asks what brought them here. Probably the same thing as them, Kitty replies. The cops announce that they have it under control. Kitty explains that Cerebro sensed mutant-related phenomena here.
Standing to the side, Rachel mutters “daed ffo retteb erew ew.” Kurt sees that her nose is bleeding and suggests he take her back to the plane.
Storm addresses an officer. They were led to believe there were children hurt. They would like to talk with them, if possible. The cops explain they haven’t taken the children to the hospital. Because of the weirdness. He takes them to the kids and even Logan has to admit, “Barney Fife” is right. This does qualify as weirdness. The two youngsters hover a few inches above the ground, catatonic, bleeding from the head despite a lack of any wound.
Later at the Xavier Institute:Kitty has summoned all the X-Men they could reach. Kitty explains the situation and then turns over to Beast.
Hank McCoy explains they use Cerebro to locate brainwave energy unique to people with the X-gene. This morning, Cerebro picked up something else. A new type of reading. He describes how Kitty’s team found the two catatonic children and how neither of them has X-gene. Both children are now recovering at their local hospital with no memory of the incident.
That’s all? Sabretooth scoffs. They are here for a couple of fainting kids? Kitty points out that, whatever did this, put Rachel in the infirmary just by being in its proximity.
Can they continue? Beast asks. Using the data from Cerebro they pulled from this morning’s incident, he has managed to create an energy profile they could search for. Combining some solar radiation mapping with Cerebro’s latent psycho-thermal tracking… Cut to the chase! Old Man Logan interrupts. Kitty breaks it down. They found unusual energy phenomena in three places. The heart of midtown, 6th Street and 5th Avenue, Manhattan. Mont Saint Francis Monastery, the South of France. And the top of the world: The North Pole.
Magik sarcastically thanks them for all the maps and scientific facts. But they still haven’t told them. What’s happening? Kitty and Beast are silent for a moment. Kitty finally admits, they don’t know but are going to find out. She will pick three teams. If they are not picked, she trusts in their discretion with the information. They don’t want to cause any concern yet.
Soon, team one (Kitty, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Magik and Jubilee) stands in front of the first destination: the former Hellfire Club. Colossus is apprehensive.
Team two, the time-displaced original X-Men (sans Marvel Girl who has been absent all along) and Rogue are outside the monastery in France.
And what is more or less the Weapon X group with some additions (Old Man Logan, Sabretooth, Domino, Warpath, Psylocke and the current Wolverine Laura Kinney) are at the North Pole, much to Logan’s chagrin.
Manhattan:Kitty’s team enter the deserted Hellfire Club building. Magik reminds them the Inner Circle members are all dead or in hiding. Then what are they doing here? Jubilee wonders. Illyana replies she senses someone is here. Moments later, they are facing a troop of Hellfire Club mercs.
France:The X-Men have walked up the stairs to the monastery, leaving Iceman out of breath. Beast reminds him they train for stuff like this. Bobby turns to Angel telling him it’s really weird when he walks up stairs. Like a pigeon trying to cross the street. Rogue orders him to shut up when she is tackled by somebody monstrous.
In the Arctic:Sabretooth complains that she sent them here ‘cause he talked during Pryde’s presentation and now she hates him right? Old Man Logan informs him that she’s always hated him.
Warpath spots something in the snow before them but Laura can’t smell it yet and Psylocke senses nothing. Logan realizes who it is. “It’s me,” he state referring to the younger – deadish – Wolverine of the present.
At the Hellfire Club, the X-Men fight the mercs that have appeared out of nowhere. The vampire Jubilee bites one of them then spits disgustedly that they are not human. Good enough for her, Kitty decides and orders them to attack.
France:While Rogue tackles their attacker, she orders the others to stay back. Is there any reasons she doesn’t want help fighting the angry lizard man? Iceman asks. Rogue chokes that he steals life force. It’s never an ordinary lizard-man, anymore, Bobby sighs. However, the attacker throws Rogue against a wall stunning her. So the original X-Men attack while trying to stay out of his reach.
The Arctic:“Young Man” Logan, looks pissed, Sabretooth quips as Wolverine strides towards them, claws unsheathed. Laura wonders if he is a threat. That moment, Domino shoots Wolverine in the head, shrugging that he is obviously not real. She thinks, she adds lamely as Wolverine gets up. He’s got this, Sabretooth announces. He loves killing this g… Before he finishes his sentence, Wolverine slashes his throat.
Back at the Hellfire Club, the crowd of Hellfire guards has grown impossibly. Kitty orders the team to fall back to the door. But they find it is gone. She orders Colossus to smash a hole into the wall. He complies and the other X-Men follow him outside.
In France, the kids try to help Rogue but end up getting hit by their foe. Rogue shouts she told them to stay back, and takes him out with a hard blow. She explains this was one of Magneto’s old Acolytes, Seamus something. He is immune to most of her powers. Not to getting punched though.
In the Arctic, the Wolverine is giving the heroes a hard time, taking out one after the other until the only one left to face him is Old Man Logan.
In Manhattan, the X-Men find that suddenly all the Hellfire guards are gone.
In France, the X-Men wonder why this Seamus was here and Rogue informs them he has been dead for years.
In the Arctic, Logan finds that his foe has suddenly disappeared.
All of the heroes look at something in the sky and decide this is not good.
Elsewhere, a waitress outside a diner looks up as well to see a fiery bird shape high above. A redheaded young waitress with the nametag “Jean” joins her. Has she ever seen anything like that? her colleague asks her. Can’t say she has, Jean replies.
The effect disappears. Jean and Gladys return into the diner. Gladys asks their boss, Annie, if she saw that. She describes a big bird inside the sun. Annie is skeptical. Gladys asks Jean to back up her story. Jean replies she didn’t really see what it was. Maybe some clouds. Well, that settles it, Annie jokes. Either the sun has a giant bird or it is cloudy. Now, can somebody take Mr. Cassidy’s order today?
Jean asks their patron, Mr. Cassidy, what he wants to order. Sean is unsure what he is in the mood for.
With her shift over, Jean walks home and greets her pet bird. Her parents ask her how work was. She begins to tell them it was weird but then claims she is just tired. She might be too tired for dinner.
The doorbell rings. John Grey remarks she can tell their guest dinner is cancelled. She didn’t forget, did she?
Jean opens the door to see Scott Summers with a bouquet of flowers. Did she miss him? he asks.


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All Lesser Birds
256 miles above the Earth:An astronaut, Dave, floats outside a space station for some repairs and complains to Earth about his fellow astronaut who apparently kicks in his sleep. Suddenly, he sees something, looking down, looking like an energy conflagration. He asks if they are seeing that as well…
Elsewhere:Jean Grey is asleep in her bed in the throes of a nightmare. “It’s better that way,” she murmurs. “Quick. Clean. Final.” Her telekinesis lifts objects around her, then she drops them again. The noise of things crashing wakes her up and she sits there, lost in thought.
It’s 7:36 and she runs outside, clearly too late, coffee in hand. The gardener Jamie greets her. Jean wonders how he gets it done. She can’t even get to her job in time and he seems to be in ten places at once! She hesitates and asks if he felt something weird last night. Like everything shook, then she decides it was just a dream and drives off. She orders herself to keep things together.
At the Xavier Institute, the X-Men have gathered. Jubilee summarizes they have no frigging clue what’s going on. Beast chides her for not being constructive. Kitty announces, they are still trying to get a handle on these coordinated attacks on their people around the planet. Iceman points out that he agrees with Jubes. He gets that they don’t know what happened, but shouldn’t they—
They do know, Old man Logan interrupts curtly. It’s the Phoenix. If Jean is truly back, Storm begins. Nobody said Jean was back, Logan corrects her. They can argue about it all day while they wait for Hank to give them a printout that shows what they already know. The locations, the people materializing out of thin air, the bird in the sky. It ain’t Jean Grey but it sure as #%&$ is the planet-eating monster that lived inside her!
Beast agrees. Cerebro’s signals didn’t show them a mutant per se. But it’s what Cerebro does! young Cyclops states surprised. Not this time, Hank replies.
Storm suggests they should be out chasing more of those signals then. Hank and Kitty exchange a look, then Kitty admits there haven’t been any new signals, since they don’t have anyone to use Cerebro. Psylocke is still recovering from her injuries. Nobody knows where Monet and Legion are. And Hope, Quentin Teen Jean and the Cuckoos… are missing. They assume it’s related to the Phoenix phenomena. They are looking for them. But for now all of their psychics are down or missing. Not all of them, Cable reminds them with a tiny smile.
Elsewhere:Jean is standing at the counter in Annie’s Diner when a customer calls her. It’s a middle-aged man with white hair, wearing a Star of David necklace. Jean apologizes for not noticing him. She is still waiting for her morning coffee to kick in. Addressing her as Jean, the man asks if she had a rough night. Jean babbles about her nights, then is taken aback that the stranger knows her name. The man points to the nametag she is wearing on her waitress uniform.
Embarrassed, Jean remarks he seems familiar and he replies his name is Erik. He was friends with her old teacher. Mr. Claremont? Jean asks. Not him, is Erik’s reply. What would she want, if she could have anything? The Lumberjack is favorite of hers, is Jean’s reply. He agrees to go with that.
The Xavier Institute:Several X-Men have gathered around Cable in the Cerebro chamber. Iceman wonders if Cable knows what he is doing. Cable marvels at the sight Cerebro gives him. Beast wonders how to guide him to find what they are looking for. Rachel described it as a feeling or emotion rather than an actual living being. Like a memory or trauma. Cable doesn’t find that very helpful. First, he senses nothing, then pain. A moment later, he screams. Cerebro short-circuits and Cable is unconscious. Iceman helpfully points out, now they are out of psychics.
Elsewhere:In the diner’s kitchen, Jean orders the Lumberjack Breakfast from the cook, John Proudstar. Annie asks what was going on out there. Jean avoids her questions. The guest looked familiar, she claims, then admits she has been feeling off for weeks. She can’t sleep. She’s lost her appetite and keeps having nightmares. When Annie tries to calm her, she states she dreamed last night that she died on the moon! And she’s seeing things out of the corner of her eye, like things are happening below the surface and she can never get a good look at them. She feels like someone is poking around in her brain.
Annie is starting to get worried. Even when Jean demurs, Annie asks her to speak to Dr. MacTaggert. Wickedly, Annie adds she is not surprised at her lack of sleep. Scott is back in town, isn’t he? Not enthusiastic, Jean admits when he came for a date she’d forgot—
John interrupts their talk with the finished order. Jean plasters a smile on her face and brings the breakfast out, but Erik is gone.
Outside the Xavier Institute, Kitty Pryde informs the X-Men that some of their psychic teammates are missing and they are looking for them. They are operating under the assumption that their disappearance and the current psychic phenomena are related. Based on the evidence, all seems to be pointing to one explanation: the Phoenix is coming back. They managed to salvage some coordinates before Cerebro overloaded and took Cable with it. It’s a handful of locations, so they are splitting into squads again. She stresses the Phoenix can end all life on the planet, if it chooses. They must prepare for the worst. Beast and Jubilee’s teams are going to look for their missing teammates. Everyone else is on Phoenix duty. She wishes them good luck.
Sometime later:Team 1 (Kitty, Colossus, Storm and Nightcrawler) are at Jamaica Bay, where everything is calm. Kitty asks the other teams to check in.
Silver team (Old Man Logan, Sabretooth, Domino) are in the ruins of Genosha where nothing is going one either.
Black Team (Dazzler, Strong Guy, Shatterstar and Pixie) are in the Manhattan Sewers. Nothing.
The original time-displaced X-Men and Rogue are in the Savage Land. Apart from all things that want to eat them, nothing, Rogue reports.
Iceman, Boom Boom, Chamber, Hellion, Wolverine (Laura) and Longshot (aka Team Yellow) are at the abandoned Hellfire Club building. Iceman suggests, if he were looking for the Phoenix, he’d know where to go - Arizona! Nobody laughs at the joke, even when he explains it. Suddenly, they see Magneto hovering in front of them.
Hellion nervously asks they are still cool with Magneto, right? Depends on his definition of “cool,” Boom Boom opines. Longshot wonders why Magneto is wearing his original costume. Iceman orders them to spread out. Wolverine unsheathes her claws.
Not all born with mutant powers are fit to rule the Earth, Magneto announces. They must be destroyed!
Iceman orders an attack. Longshot throws his knives at him, which Magneto, of course, deflects with his powers. Creating an iceshield, Iceman suggests Longshot not throw metal at him.
Chamber blasts him. As Magneto fights back, he also politely asks for a fresh cup of coffee. He grabs Wolverine and wonders what she is. So familiar. Let her remind him, Laura retorts and with a kick buries her footclaw in his skull. A moment later, he and the whole metal mess he created have disappeared.
Elsewhere:In the diner, Erik suddenly sits at his place again and orders a fresh cup of coffee. He apologizes for leaving. He though he saw some people he knew. And? Jean asks. He didn’t know all of them, he replies, his nose beginning to bleed. When Jean points it out, he explains it’s an old war injury. He was in the war? she asks. He was the war, he corrects her.
As he drinks his coffee, he notes she seems to feel better. She agrees and looks outside where everything is burning, the flames forming a vague bird shape.


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A Constellation of them All
Jean’s dream:Jean Grey in her waitress uniform is desperately steering a jet toward the water. Her screens are starting to give way! she shouts. The radiation is starting to get through! The jet crashes in the water. She is trapped as the cockpit fills with water and she shouts for Scott or anyone else to help. Faintly, she hears a voice calling her back to them.
RealityElsewhere:She finds herself lying on the floor in the supermarket in a large puddle of water from several water bottles that fell on her. Other customers are concerned and stand around her. An elderly native Australian assures her she had a bad spill. Dr. Reyes is coming, and so is her boyfriend. She feels she can’t breathe, ignores them and heads outside.
Jamaica Bay, New York:An enthusiastic father and less enthusiastic son are fishing. The son notices several dead fish floating in the water around them. Moments later, fire rises from the bottom of the bay. The father orders the son to jump and from the water they watch how their boat is destroyed. The son announces he doesn’t like fishing and the father agrees.
Elsewhere:An agitated Jean runs out of the Hammer Bay supermarket. She ignores the worried neighbor and gets almost hysterical trying to start her car, which won’t work.
Cockrum Hill cemetery:Upstate, New York:Kitty, Beast, Logan, Dani Moonstar and teen Cyclops are looking for a certain grave. Kitty explains the incidents are increasing in frequency and severity. But they don’t last long enough for them to react in force. And now with Cerebro down, they have no idea of what’s going on out there.
Cyclops suggests, if they sit tight, it may make its presence felt soon enough. Inadvisable, Beast opines. Most of their encounters with it have been rather benign, all things considered. He always prefers cutting those planet-eating entities off at the pass before they figure out why they are really here.
Dani asks why he says it instead of her. They all know who this is. Do they? Beast retorts. He doesn’t feel they have the evidence for that. Moreover, if it were one of his closest friends, wouldn’t—
Kitty cuts him off. They are here to get some answers. And there they are, Logan states. Jean Grey’s grave. Open and empty.
Kitty announces that to find it… find her, they need Cerebro. Hank promises to get it up and running, but they still lack a psychic. Kitty grimly vows she will find someone.
Elsewhere:Patch’s Garage:Jean fretfully asks Patch if it’s bad. It’s not good, he replies examining her car. It’s an old car. Things break down, he tells her. She sighs; it’s been one of those days. Weeks. Months - she doesn’t know. She asks if he ever had that moment where things keep going wrong and you realize this is going to be it from now on. Can’t say that he has, he shrugs as he grabs himself a beer. Jean babbles on, the weird thing is she felt her life was perfect until now.
He tells her to wind down. It’s just a car. He suggests a stiff drink or a stiff man will solve her problem and offers himself for that. Angrily, Jean lashes out and Patch is thrown back and other things are thrown around.
What did she just do? Jean wonders agitated. Patch wryly replies she doesn’t get credit for an earthquake. Jean points out they don’t get earthquakes. Of course they do, Patch replies. Just been a while. She believes he is hurt but when she looks he is fine again.
Kitty has taken a team of X-Men (Warpath, Logan, Colossus and Wolverine) to the Beaumont Hotel in London to visit one Emma Frost, who immediately mocks the assortment of X-Men she brought. Is this who Kitty brings to a war? This is who she brings when she doesn’t know what she’s walking into, Kitty retorts. They didn't come looking for fight. Emma mockingly recalls Kitty as a prepubescent girl. So polite and delicate. Now she’s blossomed into a #*&/%. She rather likes it.
Kitty doesn’t care and informs Emma Jean Grey is back. Of course she is, Emma replies. She already had a run-in with her fiery alter ego. She assumed it was only a matter of time. She’s seen the Phoenix? Kitty clarifies. Yes, Emma replies, and no, she doesn’t know where it is now. But she’s sure little Hope or the ever pleasant Quentin could help. Or even – ugh – Rachel. Kitty replies they are currently unavailable. They’d been hoping Emma could help them with Cerebro.
Emma cuts her off. That isn’t necessary. She knows exactly where she is. Precious Jean is in New Mexico. Sometimes, when they were intimate, Scott’s mind would drift. He’d think about her. On that plateau. Just a moment. Kitty doesn’t understand. If that place meant half as much to her as to him, Emma clarifies that is where she will be.
Elsewhere:Jean walks through an empty dusky street. Someone is giving chase and everything becomes unreal as a voice tells her she can’t run anymore. Panicked, she runs into her home and locks the door. She becomes more frightened when something rings and knocks wildly. Leave her alone! she shouts, then begs.
Suddenly, the whole room is engulfed by fire and she faces herself in a Phoenix costume. She thought it was time they talked, the Phoenix greets her.
Two X-jets land on a mesa in New Mexico but they find nothing. Kitty wants to look around but most of them are quickly convinced there is nothing here and that Emma played them for fools. Kitty announces they are leaving but Magik replies there is something that makes them all want to leave. She slashes around with her Soulsword and reveals a giant dome. A moment later, a door inside opens and they get ready to head into the great unknown.


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That a Great Princess Falls, but Doeth not Die
Elsewhere:Jean Grey lies on the ground in the ruins of a house. She wakes up and swears that she has overslept again. She leaves the house for work. To her, everything looks normal. She grumbles as she can’t find her car keys. Whatever us in front of her, everything looks normal, while everything outside of her field of vision is a blazing inferno.
While inside her line of site, Mailman Joshua Guthrie greets her and asks if she doesn’t work today. Just late, she replies. Joshua promises to be by at the diner later for some of John’s pot roast. Jean’s neighbor Maria calls her lying in her chair. She asks if that Gleason boy has been sniffing around here again. Her little Tier is simply terrified, referring to her small dog.
When Jean looks at them, everything seems normal. Jean repeats she is late for work. As she walks to works, she stares at her phone. Before her, behind her and some distance away, everything is broken and burning. Around her everything is fine. She has a short chat with the paperboy.
New Mexico:The X-Men have found an invisible dome and a door in it has opened. Kitty Pryde summarizes they only know the Phoenix made this and what it wants is probably bad for them and life in general.
Hellion shouts they should go in there and kill the Phoenix. Beast reminds them it is a galactic being of unknown origin and unimaginable power. It’s death and birth incarnate. They can’t just “kill it.” So what do they do? Hellion demands. Let’s go say ‘hello,’ Beast suggests.
Who’s crazy enough to go in first? Glob Herman asks and is unsurprised when the answer is Old Man Logan, claws unsheathed.
They step inside to see the burning town. Are they in hell? Hellion wonders, to be told ‘no’ by Magik, who is something of an expert on the subject.
As the Icemen iceblast the flames, the younger one remarks he thought they’d find Jean in Arizona. Adult Iceman is the only one who laughs, as he made the same joke the other day (and nobody else laughed either).
As they make their way through the conflagration, Colossus wonders if poor Jean has been trapped here all the time. Kitty sees something in front of them and warns that they found the people who live here. The first person they see is Josh Guthrie aka Icarus. When the smoke clears, they see Feral, Esme Cuckoo, John Proudstar, adult Cyclops and more – all of them dead X-Men or students.
Thunderbird attacks his brother Warpath. Colossus shouts it is not his brother. The way they move… their silence… they are Phoenix creatures like they fought before! Storm agrees, they are an abomination and tells her teammates to fight, which they do.
Colossus battles lots of Madrox dupes, Logan fights Vulcan. Wolverine manages to stab Vulcan, saving several teammates whom he had trapped telekinetically and is hit in the back by Wolf Cub.
Kitty tells them the Phoenix is trying to slow them down. Warpath is more worried about it killing them.
Kitty orders a group led by Beast to keep them busy, while she orders Polaris, Iceman, Logan and Magik to accompany her. Another Madrox tries to attack and Logan stabs him, announcing he has wanted to stab a Madrox since the first time he met him. Feels even better than… He shuts up when they seem to have found their destination. An untouched, whole, glowing diner, set amongst all the ruin and conflagration.
To their surprise, they see Jean coming out. She ignores them, carries out the trash and returns inside. They realize she couldn’t see them.
Inside the diner, Jean remarks to Annie that it is a slow morning. She wonders where everyone is. Maybe they learned to make their own pancakes? Annie suggests. Jean sits down beside her and Annie notes her good mood. Did the dinner with Scott go well? Jean demurs. She had to call it off. Her car was…
Annie claims that she sees what this is. Car breaks down. Take it to Mr Howlett’s garage. Spend some time at the garage. With Mr. Howlett. Get your car fixed. By Mr. Howlett. Go home and dream about… Mr. Howlett.
Jean stops, protesting and muses she did have a very intense dream last night. She dreamed a powerful goddess followed her home and wanted to talk to her. But when she saw her, the goddess was Jean!
She was a goddess? Annie asks. Must be nice. Jean continues, she doesn’t think she was her exactly. She was so powerful and confident. So at rest. And it was like she was trying to prepare her for something. That sounds lovely, Annie remarks.
Outside, Kitty’s group is joined by Hank’s group. Beast describes that their dead friends just vanished. Seemed like an omen but he doesn’t know whether good or bad. What did he miss? They saw Jean. She was taking the trash out, Logan summarizes. He is having trouble paring that metaphor, Beast replies. She put garbage in a trashcan, Logan explains.
Interesting, Beast decides. Maybe they still have time. He has a theory. He believes the Phoenix built this whole place for Jean. It brought her back to life so it can merge with her again. It needs a host.
Why go to all this trouble? Kitty asks. Beast points out that Jean has rejected the Phoenix in the past. It’s had other hosts that didn’t work out. This time it intends to get it right. So it’s preparing her. Incubating her. They are in its egg. The good news is, she’s alive. She’s here and, if she is playing a role in this world, she is still Jean.
Young Cyclops interjects that they have to get her away from it. Beast replies there is no getting her away from it. It can be anywhere. And if they merge… They are all dead, Logan finishes the thought. He didn’t want to say that, Beast states, but yes, they are all dead.
Inside the diner:Annie keeps on about the dream. What does she think “Goddess Jean” wanted to prepare her for? Jean still wonders whether it was or wasn’t her or could be her. Annie takes Jean’s hand, pressing whether it could be an aspirational dream. Jean dismisses it as just a dream. Annie urges her not to do that. Dreams are the mind’s way of telling her things she needs to hear. Her mind wants her to be prepared for something. A big change. Does she feel prepared? Jean doesn’t know.
Outside, Beast continues, he doesn’t understand why the Phoenix let them in. Maybe it thinks they will do less damage in here than trying to smash it apart from the outside. Or maybe it has no power out in the real world, so it lured them in to stop them. Younger Beast chimes in: the Phoenix does have power in the real world. What about all the Phoenix-related phenomena they have chased? His older self wonders if those were Jean-related phenomena. Young Beast continues the theory. So Jean may be pushing back from inside the egg. These manifestations were her cries for help? Storm announces, then they will help her.
That moment, something big lands on the roof of the diner and they realize the Phoenix knows they are here. The giant raptor has landed perches on the roof of the diner and glares at them threateningly.
Kurt muses it’s more impressive than he remembers. Gods always are, Kitty states darkly. Rogue wonders what they do now, to which Logan simply states they kill a god. Kitty tells him to wait and asks Hank if the Phoenix is in a weakened state, since it hasn’t bonded with Jean yet. He agrees in theory. Kitty continues, noting that if it is bonded with Jean, it could wipe them all out. Again, he agrees, in theory. Kitty states, it let them in for a reason and now it wants to fight them to death in front of Jean. Why? He points out he doesn’t know the reasoning of cosmic beings. Kitty continues, Hank described this dome as an egg. And it let them in so they wouldn’t destroy what’s inside. She wonders if it wants a fight because the sight would really push Jean over the edge. What if they are there to help Jean hatch? She suggests they don’t give it what it wants. If it wants a fight, they instead send a person to talk.
Young Cyclops pipes up that he will do it. Logan tells him he has stones but he will go instead. This isn’t his Jean in there. The woman Scott loves will turn up fine. But the woman inside isn’t her. Scott doesn’t know her. He doesn’t love her. Logan did.
Kitty agrees then whisper to Logan if the Phoenix manages to bond with Jean… He walks toward the diner and replies he knows what to do…


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Be Thou Those Ends
Annie’s Diner:Old Man Logan enters and Jean Grey, the waitress, announces she will be with him in a moment. She smiles and asks if she can get him a cup of coffee. Logan is flabbergasted, then states she reminds him of someone he knew. Coffee would be great. She admits he looks kinda familiar himself. Does he live here? He states he is just passing through.
Jean makes some small talk, asking what brings him to town, Mr…? He’s meeting someone he hasn’t seen for a while, Logan replies drinking his coffee. An old friend? Jean coaxes. He’s not sure yet.
The owner, Annie, suggests he drink that coffee on the way. Logan takes Jean’s hand and urges her to think about how she knows him. Annie shouts at him not to touch her. Undeterred, Logan continues that Jean knows somewhere inside, none of this is real. Jean asks what he means. He tells her to think about it. Has nothing about this life, this world ever felt wrong to her? This isn’t her? Annie joins them and orders him to leave. He doesn’t get to scare her staff. In response, he slashes her throat. Jean screams in terror. Calmly, Logan asks for a refill if she has the time.
Outside the diner, the rest of the X-Men are waiting, nervously wondering where the Phoenix has disappeared to. Suddenly, the earth rumbles and Nightcrawler fears this does not bode well at all.
Inside, Jean is nearly hysterical, while Logan calmly sits at the counter, informing her she has been asleep. This is her wake-up call. She won’t look at what’s really going on; it’s his job to make her see it.
Annie suddenly gets up, despite her lethal injury. She knows this is a lot to take in, she begins. Jean reminds her she just died. Things aren’t always what they seem, is Annie’s reply. Told her so, Logan adds, offering a dollar. Coffee tastes like $%#§, by the way.
It’s all starting to come back now, isn’t it? he asks. She remembers who she is. Jean says nothing. He gets up. He’s gonna need an answer, sweetheart. Jean’s eyes begin to glow as she replies she remembers… Logan. She pronounces his name with the Phoenix‘s voice.
Outside, the X-Men see the Phoenix Raptor burst from the diner and Logan is thrown outside. Nightcrawler asks if he is okay. What happened? She remembers, is the concise reply.
Jean steps out from the conflagration, her eyes aglow, wearing a black and red Phoenix costume. She lands in front of them. The X-Men fear the worst. But Jean just says hello to them. She is surprised when she sees young Cyclops, who bursts out he is not who she thinks he is. She states he is afraid of her and he admits it.
Is this it? Beast asks her. Is this, who she is? It’s who she’s always been, Jean replies. No, it isn’t, is his retort.
Suddenly, she screams in pain, battling with the Phoenix in her, which finally bursts forth. Kitty holds back the others, telling them that is Jean’s fight.
Jean angrily rages, why can’t it just leave her… From the Phoenix raptor steps Annie, who asks her to calm down. Jean shouts at her to stay back. Annie assures her the X-Men are tricking her. Talk to her! Jean retorts, Annie is tricking her. The real Annie Richardson died when they were twelve years old. A car accident. The frisbee. She remembers it all!
“Annie” still smiles as she explains that, together, they can change that. Make the world whatever Jean wants it to be. She doesn’t want anything! Jean claims. Yes, she does, comes another voice and her parents appear. Is this real? Jean asks. Anything she wants can be real, they reply. If she embraces the Phoenix. She tells them to leave her alone. She can’t take this…
Many more people have gathered, among them Scott Summers. Her parents continue that the Phoenix is the spirit of death and rebirth. What could be more beautiful than getting to save all the people she lost? Jean is shocked to learn that they all died. Then she lashes out with her power and swats them away.
Finally, she tells the Phoenix she has had enough of this illusion. It has nothing more to offer her. Jean? a familiar voice asks from the smoke. It is her husband Scott Summer – Cyclops – now in the costume he wore when he died. He asks her what is going on. Angrily, Jean lashes out at him with her TK and shouts, she said ‘enough!’
Not how he imagined this going after all this time, Cyclops jokes weakly. A shocked Jean runs to his side as she realizes he is no construct. She learns from his memories how he fell sick and died. She helps him up. She wasn’t there to protect him, she babbles. Scott reminds her she was dead.
Both standing, they look at each other. And now, here they both are. Alive. He didn’t think he’d ever see her again. She asks him to take off his visor and open his eyes. She holds back his optic blast with her telekinesis. They both admit how much they missed each other then kiss.
Scott apologizes. For everything that happened to them, to her. She puts a finger on his lips and tells him she knows.
They turn and look at the Phoenix raptor. Jean apologizes. It’s not supposed to be like this. She can’t let… He hugs her and tells her he knows. They were better off dead, she whispers in his ear. He promises her he will always love her and she reciprocates. Then Scott groans and dies again.
Jean carefully lays down his body and calmly turns around to face the Phoenix. Is that it? she asks. It screeches angrily. She reaches out to touch its beak and continues she knows that was meant to hurt her, but she got to see her husband one last time and that was all she wanted. She’s done now. With all of this. She won’t play God with it anymore. And she won’t let the Phoenix hurt her or the people she loves ever again. All of this, using people, playing with their lives, building fake worlds, it’s not right! It’s not fair to do that to her or to anyone!
She admits she once asked for its help. She doesn’t know why the Phoenix gave it and why it keeps on coming back. Of all the beings in the universe it chose her. That used to make her feel special. Now she doesn’t feel anything at all. She was supposed to die on that shuttle all those years ago. She knows that now. But the Phoenix keeps on bringing her back. It wants her to be something she isn’t. She will never be. And she wanted things from it. Things no person should have. She doesn’t know what it is, what its role in the universe is, but it’s not here. It’s not with Jean.
The Phoenix turns her costume to the Dark Phoenix one as it asks her to understand: together they can be gods! It turns her into the White Phoenix. Then they can transcend this place!
It changes Jean’s outfit to her X-Factor costume. Or they can hide together, it suggests.
Her clothes change to her time when the school went public. Or they can become her best self.
Then to Marvel Girl. Or they can simply go back to how things were before any of this. They can forget any of this happened.
Jean takes off her mask and tells the Phoenix it doesn’t understand. This isn’t how things are supposed to work. It’s trying to protect her from these things, but it can’t! She’s supposed to feel pain. She’s supposed to know loss. And she needs to be able to do it on her own!
The Phoenix warns her that she will die without it. The people she loves will die. With a sad smile, she replies she will regret not being able to save them, but that’s her journey. That’s life. It is trying to save her from being alive. She doesn’t want to die but she needs to be allowed to live.
The Phoenix shrinks. Jean urges it to leave without her. She can’t be but what it wanted her to be, perhaps she never could. It needs to forget she ever existed.
The Phoenix is tiny now and she takes it in her hands. It tells her goodbye and fades. She tells it goodbye then breaks down and cries.
Beast kneels down next to her and welcomes her home.


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Fireworks
Space. Specifically, an asteroid belt near Mars. 'It's a bold plan, I admit. The question is, how exactly do we do it? What would it entail?' someone asks. 'Well... first, if it could be done, and that's a big if... you would need a lot of iron'.
Magneto, the Master of Magnetism can be seen on one of the asteroids, using his powers, he hurls countless asteroids towards the red planet – Mars.
'Iron will not present a problem'.
The asteroids crash into Mars in spectacular display.
'Ha! Fair enough! The issue is the atmosphere. You need a hot and heavy core to enable everything that dusty rock needs to support life'.
Two mutants can be seen on Mars, wearing life-support helmets as fire and smoke rises around them.
'You'd have to crack the chest... and perform open-heart surgery'.
The fires intensify. '
Then, assuming all went smoothly with Hope and Vulcan... you'd need to keep stirring the sauce'.
Magneto stands on the asteroid still, hovering over Hope, who uses her powers to intensify Vulcan's own abilities.
'The molten iron core would need to be compressed for a long time by... a tremendous power'.
Two more figures can be seen on Mars, amongst the red haze and between two large rock formations.
'Then you would need the X-factor to kick in. The oven would be at the right temperature, but success is not guaranteed. Luck and time would need to be on your side, but you'll have Proteus and Hope... and that's even better'.
The rock formations begin to change under the control of Proteus, whose powers are enhanced by Hope.
'It's a fascinating question: Can a circuit of our most powerful mutants resuscitate a dead world?' 'I think that can only be answered after the attempt, and we both know you will attempt it. I want to believe... that the answer is yes'. 'I always look forward to your visits, Forge. The next one will be up there'.
At that moment: 'I know everyone back at the Hellfire Gala can hear me' Iceman calls out as he steps onto the rocky red terrain. 'Hello from Mars!' Iceman shouts, raising his arms, he tells those listening that they were promised fireworks, so they should enjoy the show. A moment later, water gushes out onto the land.
four days ago:'I'm not sure what the problem is' the Arakkii mutant called Isca the Unbeaten tells Magneto as he meets with her on the island Arakko. 'Problems, Isca. Problems – plural' Magneto responds. He informs her that, yesterday, a group of Arakkii mutants declared sovereignty over Chichibu in Saitama, Japan, because Rii the Destroyer attempted to enslave his new favorite master whiskey distiller. 'Oh. You speak of the humans... as if they should concern me' Isca replies, while running her fingers along her blade. 'Rest assured that it concerns me. And therefore, it concerns you' Magneto tells Isca, before suggesting 'What if, instead of war... we made something else?' Isca looks up at Magneto and tells him that if they are of this world, they will leave their mark on it. 'This is what it means to be a mutant of Arakko. Take from that what you will'.
three days ago:Hellfire Bay, Krakoa, where Emma Frost and Kate Pryde stand on the edge of the White Palace that hangs out over the ocean. Sebastian Shaw is with them, in his wheelchair. 'Hellfire has a problem, Erik. It's the humans, of course' Emma Frost calls out as Magneto drops down onto the platform they stand on. 'What have they done now?' Magneto asks. 'There's a kink in the medicine supply line' Kate reports, folding her arms. 'As we predicted, humanity's thirst for our medicines is greater than we could initially provide. However, what we couldn't predict is that the medicines are being requested in higher concentrations'. Emma explains. Sebastian Shaw tells Magneto that a double constraint on their main export means they need more land, but unfortunately, they have lost their farms in the Savage Land at the worst moment. 'Something about human laws or some claptrap' Shaw mutters, adding that X-Corp is making the matter a priority, but their factories are only days away from grinding to a halt.
Magneto tells the Hellfire Trading Company members that they are not the only ones feeling the pinch, and asks them for a few days, in which he will be able to solve several problems at once. He asks to borrow the Mercury for a short time, to which Emma smirks and tells Magneto that he surprises her, and asks him if he is keeping something from the Council – Magneto offers no response, however.
two days ago:Westchester, New York, at the old Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters, which is now overgrown with trees and shrubbery. 'Hello, Scott' Captain America calls out as he leans against his motorcycle on the lawn of the school grounds. 'I could've met you anywhere, Steve' Scott Summers a.k.a. Cyclops replies as he walks over to the Avenger. 'I wanted to take the drive and see the old place' Captain America explains. The men shake hands as Cyclops replies 'Well, this can't be good. Hit me'. Captain America points out that the landmass of Krakoa ballooned by 500 percent, with a second island and satellite heat signatures indicating there are millions more mutants living in the South Pacific. He tells Scott that there is more than just panic and alarm bells in the air – there are incidents everywhere, and the entire planet went to DEFCON one. Scott frowns and tells Cap that he knows what it must look like. 'I won't ask how it happened' Cap remarks, stating that he needs to know if it is permanent. 'Ask me again in a few days' Scott calls out to Cap as he starts to walk away. 'You're coming to the gala, right?' Scott adds. 'I wasn't before... but I am now' Cap responds as he gets on his motorcycle and speeds away.
Yesterday:The Grove, Krakoa, where a meeting of the Quiet Council is underway. Magneto stands in the center of the meeting area, and addresses Charles Xavier, Emma, Kate and Shaw, Storm, Nightcrawler, Mr Sinister, Mystique and Exodus. Cypher is also there, sitting on a representation of Krakoa. 'Earth is our home... but it is also our past' Magneto states. 'The future of mutantdom was always up there, but after our inheritance from the tournament in Otherworld – we must make tomorrow happen today'. Everyone listens, as Magneto tells his colleagues that if they are to have dominion here, they must speak for Sol as well. 'I trust I have made it plain?' he asks. The rest of the Council all raise their hands, as Magneto remarks 'Very well. I'll begin immediately' as he puts his helmet on and walks away.
this morning:Above Earth, inside the Peak, the space station where SWORD operates from. Several Omega mutants are gathered in a room. Iceman, Hope Summers, Proteus, Jean Grey, Quentin Quire, Storm, Elixir, Exodus and Vulcan all look over to Magneto, who stands before them. 'Hate to say it, but if we fall on our face, the whole world will be watching at the gala' Iceman points out. 'If we fail, the human emotion of embarrassment will be the least of our concerns. So, we will not fail' Magneto replies. Exodus suggests bringing Legion into this, but Magneto tells him that he does not trust David, yet. 'Look, I'm absolutely horny for this flex, but I'm with Exodus. Are we shorthanded? Do we need Powerhouse?' Quentin Quire asks as he reclines in a chair, feet on a table while referring to Franklin Richards. Magneto frowns at the mention of Franklin's name, and creates a small image of him from a metal spanner. 'No. We have no need of more pretenders. The boy is no family of ours' Magneto responds, as he destroys the image he created. Magneto then reports that he has other calls to make, and that Otherworld contains more possibilities for their team.
'Well, hellooooo' Jamie Braddock – now known as Monarch – remarks as he sits on his throne in Avalon, several guards nearby. 'I must confess I'm not surprised Mercator passed, but you may consider me thoroughly intrigued' Monarch states. He adds that he isn't even sure what he wants to ask for, but feels like he should ask for something in return. 'I do like your -' Monarch begins, but Magneto interrupts him: 'This cape stays on my shoulders'. Magneto then turns to the Krakoan gateway and tells Monarch to stay or follow, but not to waste his time. 'Fine. I'll go' Jamie mutters, turning to one of the guards and instructing them to fetch his cape. 'Right here, your majesty' the guard responds as they place the plush cape on the King's shoulders.
hours ago:Magneto has returned to Arakko, where the Great Ring of Arakko is in session. 'Isca' Magneto remarks as he approaches the Great Ring. Isca welcomes Magneto, and introduces him to other members of the Great Ring of Arakko – Lactuca the Knower, Sobunar of the Depths and Xilo, first defender of this Broken Land. Lactuca is a short being in a cloak that appears to look like the night sky, while Sobunar is a large being with a blue lower half and purple upper body. Strange fins protrude from its amphibious face, while Xilo appears to be some sort of beetle-like creature in a large armor. 'I'm not surprised the gifts I need are all here within your Great Ring' Magneto responds.
Now:Arabia Terra, on Mars, where Monarch, Hope and Sobunar walk across the red land, all wearing life-support helmets. 'What. An. Absolute. Unit' Monarch utters. 'It's no wonder Dryador fell, mate' he adds as he looks up at Sobunar, before asking Hope what their part in this is. Hope explains to Monarch that their Arakkii friend here has a body that contains an entire oceanic ecosystem. 'He's here to donate blood. You and I are here to amplify' Hope tells Monarch. 'Is that right, Sobunar?' Monarch asks, looking up at the strange mutant. Sobunar doesn't address Monarch, instead they cut the palm of their hand with one of their clawed fingers. 'I make this mark upon this body... and upon  this land' Sobunar utters, and water suddenly gushes from cut – that fills an entire crater ahead of them.
The Explorer is the most advanced human scientific laboratory operating off-Earth. The finest minds at Feilong Industries planned for the rover to be able to survive numerous disasters, but there were no protocols for biblical floods – like the one which rushes across the red planet now, washing away the Explorer. On Earth, Storm creates weather... on Mars, the entire climate is hers to mold. The planet’s new heart thrums below her as her thunder reigns from on high. Clouds swirl about and lightning crackles as the goddess marries the land and sea, with winds that will nourish this mutant garden-world forevermore.
Olympus Mons is the largest active volcano in the solar system as of fifteen minutes ago. 'At your own pace, Xilo' Magneto remarks to the Arakkii mutant, who scuttles alongside him. Magneto turns to Elixir and tells him that, millions of years ago, this planet held life, and now, they would like him to help heal this planet as best he can, while their cousin Xilo consumes and passes the very soil for Arakko. Xilo suddenly convulses, moves upwards on his hind legs, then his body seems to refuce itself into bacteria and molecules, strands that spread out across the land of Mars. 'What takes the universe millennia to create, mutantdom accomplishes in mere hours' Magneto points out. Elixir then tells Magneto that his helmet is getting a bit fogged up, so he doesn't think they need them anymore. 'No, my young friend. We won't need them here ever again' Magneto replies as he removes his helmet. Some flowers begin to grow in the ground, and Magneto walks towards a Krakoan gateway as he states 'Now... for the dangerous part'.
Magneto re-appears on Krakoa, at the External Gate, where Exodus and Jean Grey are waiting with the Arakki mutant Lactuca. Magneto apologizes for his delay, and suggests that they must have met Lacuta. 'We have' Jean replies, before asking Magneto if he is sure that inverting the External Gate and then teleporting it is the way to accomplish this. 'The one island is now two forever more' Magneto remarks as he looks at Lactuca. Jean explains that the Arakkii mutant earn their spoils, or they will not be content. 'If we're just a tiny bit off, we'll blow right through the planet or worse...' Exodus frowns. Magneto tells his companions that Lactuca's gift is to know where everything is, including where and when to land – so they are in good hands.
Jean Grey connects her mind to Lactuca's and utters 'There's so much information. My god. Okay... just breathe. When you're ready, Lactuca'. Jean Grey then calls out 'See you on Maaaaars....' as the portal opens, and the land and mutants of Arakko are transported through in spectacular display, landing with a BOOM on Mars.
Nil Fossae Beach, where Hope Summers sits on the sand, and a shirtless Quentin Quire reclines on a beach chair, an umbrella hanging over him. His life-support helmet connects to a coconut drink which sits on a crate. Strange plants and trees can be seen behind them, as they look out over the reddish water before them. 'We beat the Arakkii's asses in the tournament, and then they come to Earth and start wrecking the place. So now we're renovating a planet for them?' Quentin asks. Hope tells him that even though he is an omega-level telepath, he has a really small mind sometimes. 'If the Arakkii hadn't fallen and fought, there wouldn't be a Krakoa – or Earth. Mars is a debt paid' Hope declares. Hope suggests to Quentin that he give the Arakkii a break, as they were at constant war. 'If this doesn't work -' she begins, to which Quentin declares that it better work, or it wouldn't be the first time millions of mutants got murked on an island.
Suddenly, there is a massive BOOM – and Quentin and Hope are thrown from where they sit. 'Whoa' they gasp, wide-eyed, as the island of Arakko is now settled in the water before them. This is the second time in as many weeks that Arakko has been uprooted. While Krakoa and its lush greenery remain rooted on the third planet in this solar system, Arakko's red flora finds itself on the fourth planet. The External Gate was aimed exactly on target – slingshooting the island millions of miles into space. The Arakkii fought bravely for every inch of land they ever held – and now perhaps their constant warring is at an end.
'That was quite an experience' Exodus remarks as he stands on shore of the newly relocated Arakko. 'Let's... not do that again' he whispers. 'Well done' Jean tells Lactuca, while Magneto remarks that he suspects they have saved mutant lives on both sides of the family tree. Jean tells Magneto that Luctuca expresses that they “know what is in our hearts”, and remarks that she thinks that is a good thing. Sobunar walks up through the water and steps onto Arakko, removing the helmet over their face, Sobunar announces 'The ocean of my blood roars! It teems with the offspring of the Sobunar line. The young will grow, evolve and make war as all Arakkii do. Drive in and prove your worth, unless you are soft cowards!'
At that moment, Arakko exhales. It is another day of conquest for this living island, but for the first time, it is a bloodless victory. At dawn, Hellas basin was one of the largest impact craters in the solar system – by dusk, Lake Jellas is transformed into a place meant to challenge the Arakkii, casting them into a new role – that of host. Storm hovers over the lake, as a large structure begins to rise up out of the water. Eight large buildings can be seen on the edge of the lake, each with a bridge that connects to a structure in the center of the lake. This is the Lake Hellas Diplomatic Ring, and is where the Sol system hopes to end wars before they begin. Storm lands on the bridge and walks towards one of the buildings. Diplomats will receive the full protections of their station while at Lake Hellas – but travel beyond its borders will be subject to Arakkii law. Hundreds of Arakkii mutants can be seen circling around a large volcano which glows as if it is ready to erupt.
Thousands of years have fallen away since the two lands were one. In that time, millions of mutants lived, loved, fought and died in lands near and far. The only question uttered when the dead piled high was “why”. Perhaps it was so this dawn would come. Arakko defeated its enemies, and now it faces its great threat: peacetime. They will not face their struggle alone as the two islands become a single archipelago in a sea of stars. No war will be made in this valley. It is a sacred place to remember the ones that did not reach the promised land. Xilo suddenly appears, rising up through the ground, its strange powers moving forward and cutting two statues out of a rocky cliff ahead – one statue of Apocalypse, the other of his wife, Genesis.
'If I'm being honest, that's the most I've worked in forever' Monarch remarks to Jean, Quentin, Hope and Elixir. He then asks if they think they bar is still open at the gala, because if not, he is going to imagine a busty serving wench he once met while in New Orleans. 'Hold that thought, 'cause we're not done yet!' Quentin interrupts Monarch, as Jean explains that Quentin has been thinking about a little home defense. 'Yeah, and it's giving me a headache' Quentin mutters, before explaining that he is downloading all the schematics into his head. 'Ow' he complains, before  remarking that there are a lot of ideas. 'Here's what we're thinking' Jean telepathically tells the others as she joins her powers with Quentin. 'We've done some weird things, but never anything this weird' Elixir remarks, to which Hope suggests they just go with the flow on this one. 'Sorry, what exactly are we doing?' Monarch asks, before Jean touches his head and shows him telepathically. 'Well, Jamie, I have an idea... an infectious idea. One that seeds itself deep in your mind... and because you cannot help but to create – to warm and change reality... it's an idea that I think you'll have to give birth to'. As the idea is planted in Jamie's mind, the surprised reality-bender utters 'Oh'.
Hope and Elixir extend their powers around Monarch as he suddenly appears to be pregnant and to full-term. 'Ughn. Oh $#%&' Monarch complains. 'Uh, Jean – is this what you thought would happen?' Quentin asks, grinning. 'Oh, god... he took me literally' Jean utters, wide-eyed. Monarch clutches his belly, then suddenly screams in agony as  an enormous space station grows out of him. 'Holly hell!' Quentin exclaims. 'It's growing too fast!' Jean calls out. Jean uses her telekinesis to catch the space station, she holds it up off the ground, but warns everyone that soon, it will be too big for her to move. 'Up. You. Go!' Jean calls out as she hurls the space station into orbit above Mars, 'Magneto, catch!' she remarks as she contacts the Master of Magnetism. Standing on an asteroid, Magneto tells Jean to breathe easy, as he has the space station. The station looks like the Peak, and Magneto announces that SWORD Station Two is in orbit and ready to defend Arakko.
Jean, Quentin, Hope and Elixir gather around Monarch, who has collapsed to the ground. 'Hope that was fun for you. I'm pinching off your pain receptors while Elixir patches you up' Jean informs Monarch, who grins at her as he replies 'Now you lot really know how to show a fella a good time. Somebody owes me supper'. Monarch gets to his feet after Elixir heals him, and suggests that they can now show up to the party fashionably late. Elixir smiles as he reveals that he has one other idea. 'Oh my gosh, of course – that is so cool!' Jean smiles as she telepathically connects their minds. 'Oh, very well. I assume it will need a control tower?' Monarch asks as he adjusts his cape. 'Yes! And we gotta have a Red Lagoon, right?' Quentin smiles. 'Yes, it will have all those things' Monarch responds. '... and more' he adds as he uses his reality-warping powers to create another impressive structure, built into the side of mountain, he proclaims it Port Prometheus. 'I suppose it's only fair... we can't invite the galaxy and not provide parking'. Jean asks if they can return to the party now, to which Elixir suggests that the part is about to come to them.
At Lake Hellas, Storm finds Magneto at the end of one of the walkways across the lake. 'Am I the first to congratulate you, Erik?' Storm asks. 'Indeed, though I suspect few outside our kind will celebrate the achievement' Magneto responds. He states that humanity will be petulant, bleating performative complaints about  the loss of a planet that would have remained out of their grasp for generations. 'Perhaps the humans will come to value this barrier world that sits between them and the unknown' Storm suggests, before her thoughts extend to Xavier, informing him that it is time.
'We are ready on Mykines, Ororo' Charles Xavier responds as he plants a Krakoan gateway in the ground, Emma Frost at his side. 'Then... come and see' Storm tells Xavier, when suddenly, rain begins to fall across Mars. Magneto looks to the sky, but Storm tells him that it is not her doing – that the planet is alive again – and these are her tears of joy.
A Krakoan gateway opens from Krakoa itself, and many mutants walk through onto the newly created home for the Arakkii. Xavier and Emma are first. Rogue, Captain Britain, Monet, Angel, Warlock, Karma, Magik, Bishop, Synch, Pixie and Meggan can all be seen, and look up at the spectacular fireworks display over Lake Hellas, as Magneto welcomes them – to Planet Arakko!