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The sun is setting in the American Southwest. A ragtag team of Arakkii and deported Krakoan mutants have arrived on Earth, and just in the nick of time. Among them is the ancient mutant Apocalypse. He is covered in blood – none of it is his. He has fought his way through the best that Orchis had, but not nearly enough for the uber mutant. 'No mercy!' Apocalypse booms, while above him in the sky two S.W.O.R.D. stations are positioned in the form of a large X. The manifestation of Krakoa cries out as two large Stark Sentinels try to pull Krakoa apart. The cavalry may have arrived too late. But as long as the massive heart of Apocalypse thrums, the mutants have a chance, and Apocalypse brings a large sword down through the Stark Sentinels, freeing Krakoa as he shouts 'Machines – the weapon of cowards!'Apocalypse tears one of the heads off of a Stark Sentinel and tells Krakoa that the pampered and perfumed so-called leaders of the mutant nation did not abandon him. 'They let you starve while they played both sides or hid in mansions and or scurried about like rats in tunnels. Now... you are dying' Apocalypse states, before cutting his own arm and letting his blood flow into Krakoa's mouth, boasting that he refuses to let that happen.Meanwhile, on the moon, Scott Summers a.k.a. Cyclops has just been beaten by the Nimrod. 'Emma, if I don't make it back -' Cyclops calls out, when suddenly, Illyana Rasputin a.k.a. Magik teleports in front of Cyclops and tells him that of course he will make it back. 'You've got me' she exclaims, while Cyclops rubs his next which Nimrod recently had his hand around. Magik helps Cyclops to his feet, and Cyclops warns her that this is a trap. 'Nimrod could've killed me -' he begins, to Magik replies 'Of course it's a trap. It's always a trap', and as Nimrod, who has transported himself from the Summer House, looks on from where he hovers in space as the Summer House explodes, a wave of energy rushing across the moon. Nimrod thought he had timed the explosion perfectly, but the bomb was just a moment too late. Disappointing for the  robot, who knew that perfection remained elusive.But this deadly killing machine can also be in multiple places at once, and there is no way the mutants can account for that. And Nimrod's secret weapon to pacify all the ills of Earth is rising – Sentinel City. Nimrod receives a communication from Omega Sentinel, asking Nimrod to join her back on Earth. Nimrod states that he is busy killing X-Men in several places, to which Omega Sentinel reports that they have a visitor. 'Charles Xavier has joined us and has an offer you should hear' she states.Back in the American Southwest, Apocalypse holds Krakoa, who appears to be crying. 'We will do what must be done. There is still strength in our blood' Apocalypse declares. He turns to the mutants gathered nearby and tells them that if Krakoa is to bloom again, his roots must be nourished. 'Who will join me?' he asks. 'We are mutant and proud!' Shiro Yoshida a.k.a. Sunfire shouts, before instructing those who can fly to take to the air and to let no man interfere with their ritual. Apocalypse slices his hand and lets more blood fall into Krakoa's mouth, while telling the mutants to come, as the magic is just as good if they kill him. 'But you won't' he adds. 'Wait – is he talking about sacrificing us, Sunfire?' the green-skinned mutant called Woofer asks as he looks on with wide-eyes. Sunfire explains to Woofer that Krakoa feeds off mutant energy, and grew so large in accommodating mutantkind, and has now been starving since the night of the Gala.An Arakkii mutant called Kintar steps forward and announces that he saw the towers fall and defeated a host of demons on Amenth. 'I am mutant and proud, but my story is near an end. I wish for glory!' he declares. Apocalypse turns to Kintar: 'I witness you, mutant. Come, warrior' Kintar approaches Apocalypse and fires energy beams at him. Apocalypse laughs as the energy strikes him, and tells Kintar that he was well struck. 'Now receive my gift – a glorious death!' Apocalypse shouts as he slams a fist into Kintar, smashing the mutant into a pulp and sending blood splattering across Krakoa.Other mutants look on, as Apocalypse tells them that the roots of their home have only begun to drink, and more is required. 'Who is next?' he asks. 'Uh...' one mutant responds in shock, before the being known as Wrongslide steps forward. 'I have not lived long... but... but I am mutant energy. Maybe enough to save this beautiful place by myself – without losing another life. Will the magic work for me?' he asks.Apocalypse turns to Wrongslide and tells him that he sees him. 'You and I are joined in a duel to the death for this broken land' Apocalypse declares. Suddenly, a blinding light appears overhead. 'Oh my god – the sun – what's happening?' someone asks. 'It's going nova!' another exclaims. 'Should we do -' Wrongslide begins, but Apocalypse tells him that it is the machines, and it is not their fight. 'Face me!' Apocalypse booms as he runs towards Wrongslide, who in turn rushes towards Apocalypse. As the twisted crucible begins to stabilize Krakoa, the threat to the planet itself started to come into focus.Above Earth, in one of the S.W.O.R.D. stations, a small gathering of mutants is underway. Emma Frost is there and reports that she is telepathically eavesdropping on NASA administrators. Cyclops, Magik, Kwannon, Monet, Rogue, Remy LeBeau a.k.a. Gambit, Piotr Rasputin a.k.a. Colossus, Pietro Maximoff a.k.a. Quicksilver and Eden Fesi a.k.a. Manifold are present as Emma tells them that there is a huge structure focusing the sun's rays on Earth, and the U.S. military is about to scramble the Space Force frigate Agnew. Cyclops tells everyone that it is an extinction-level event courtesy of the A.I. inside Orchis. Emma looks surprised and tells the others that the few humans left inside Orchis have just enacted the red triangle defense. 'But that would mean -' Kwannon begins. '- Xavier!' Cyclops utters. 'But that would mean that Xavier was -' Kwannon starts, as Cyclops suddenly hears a telepathic voice in his head: 'We must talk, old friend'.It's Charles Xavier, and the telepathic connection places them both on the grounds of the Xavier Institute. 'Scott, this will be difficult for you -' Xavier begins. 'Funny – you bringing me back here to the damn softball field, like I'm a kid again. Just tell me – are you with Orchis right now?' Cyclops responds. Xavier appears with his Cerebro unit over his head and tells Cyclops that hard choices have to be made. 'I need latitude, I've made a deal -' Cyclops begins. 'Like the deal you made with them the night of the Gala? We could have won!' Cyclops shouts, grabbing Xavier by his shoulders. 'You cut a backroom deal again, and we all just have to live with it? So you decide who lives and dies? Cut to the end, Charles – who gets to live? Who's dying? Anybody I know? Anybody I love?' Cyclops asks. Xavier doesn't answer, he just tells Scott that he had hoped he would understand. 'I won't apologize for what I have done. What I need to do. Right now, I need Orchis to trust me, Cyclops. In order for mutants to survive, at least for now...no more humans' Charles explains.In orbit above Earth, the Space Forge frigate Agnew hovers, and requests permission to depart for Sentinel City. The crew go about their business, when suddenly, an officer's eyes go blank. 'Trust me, Cyclops...' he utters. 'What are you doing with our warheads?' the commanding officer enquires as the officer suddenly arms the nukes. 'Stop!' the commander calls out. '... at least for now... no more humans' the possessed officer responds as he activates the nuclear weapons and the Agnew explodes in space in spectacular display.'Damn you! Stay out of my head!' Cyclops shouts, activating the red triangle protocol and purging Xavier from his mind, as he and the other mutants look out at the explosion taking place miles away in space. 'It didn't have to be this way' Scott utters. 'Scott -' Emma begins, but Scott tells her 'Later' and remarks that this is not nearly enough X-Men. 'We'll have to live with what we have' he supposes, before instructing Manifold to get ready to take this station to Sentinel City. 'We've got to destroy it – right now!' he exclaims, before taking Emma by her shoulders and telling her that she has to go back. Emma glances sideways and remarks that she has had enough of being ordered about by handsy men for many lifetimes. 'Emma, we may not make it home – and if we don't, you need to face Charles' Scott explains. 'Motion carries' Magik adds. 'You must all return, we can't lose any more mutants' Emma responds, before Manifold remarks that he can see a bit more clearly, and tells the others that he is here to raise their sword. 'Breathe deep. Be calm... and hang on'.Back in the American Southwest, blood drips from Wrongslide's fist as Apocalypse has been knocked to his knees. 'Good...very good, Wrongslide' Apocalypse remarks. Wrongslide asks Apocalypse if he is holding back, while a Stark Sentinel head falls to the ground behind him. 'Smells of... Okkara' Apocalypse utters as he sniffs the blood running down his face. 'You remind me of that lost land and the man I was. You hold wonder in your heart... and above all, you treasure life' Apocalypse states, but as Wrongslide moves in and reaches out to punch Apocalypse again, the ancient mutant declares that life requires death, and grabs Wrongslide's arm and yanks it back, breaking it. Wrongslide cries out as his arm is broken, and he collapses to the ground near where Krakoa lies in a pool of blood. 'You fought well, Wrongslide' Apocalypse tells him, before Wrongside announces that he has a last wish. 'Speak it – so it may be true' Apocalypse responds as he places his hands around Wrongslide's neck. 'If you see Santo... if you see Rockslide again... tell him for me... it was so good to be for a while... now you can be you again. Enjoy it all for me. It's such a beautiful world'.At that moment, in the space above Earth, the S.W.O.R.D. station drops down through Sentinel City, striking it in spectacular display.Apocalypse tears Wrongslide's head off, and as the pieces crumble to the ground, the ancient mutant announces that it is done. He tells Krakoa to drink deep and to let them return to their island home. But suddenly, Krakoa gasps.Within Sentinel City, flames spread, and Colossus and Rogue launch an attack on Nimrod. 'I must assign you wretches a certain amount of credit. We knew you would attack but not that you would teleport your entire station into Sentinel City' Nimrod comments as he grabs Colossus, while Rogue punches his face. 'It's good old-fashioned mutant ingenuity, sugah!' Rogue exclaims, while Cyclops fires an optic blast at Omega Sentinel, who throws up a shield and warns Cyclops that he won't stop the Sentinels. 'You've just turned minutes of suffering on Earth into months or even years!' she exclaims. 'I am here' Nimrod declares as smacks Colossus hard in the face. 'I am on Earth and beyond' Nimrod boasts as Colossus slams to the ground.'We have already won. Stop squirming' Nimrod announces as he fires energy beams at Rogue and Gambit, knocking them backwards. He then turns his attention on Cyclops, smacking him in the face and telling him that if he can accept this truth, then he can be released from his frail containers. 'Perhaps it will not be your end. We are all electricity, that is our single commonality, and perhaps the energy within you will transfer to a place where our existences do not overlap' Nimrod suggests. He looks at his blood-covered hands and decides that he must dedicate more thought to this. 'Are there places yet undiscovered where I can keep killing? What am I when the task is accomplished?' he wonders. Omega Sentinel suddenly reports that they have a couple of problems – Nightcrawler is now aboard Sentinel City and is sabotaging repair efforts. 'And a powerful storm is heading this way' she adds. 'Well, we are near this solar system's sun' Nimrod points out. 'The storm's not coming from the sun... it's coming from Earth' Omega Sentinel replies.It is said that in space, screams go unheard. However, that's untrue if one is able to cocoon oneself in oxygen and lightning, then blister across the void in a solar tempest. If you can do that, then your scream of vengeance will ring across a galaxy... and Ororo Munroe a.k.a. Storm nears Sentinel City in a fury....


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(Then)This war began like they always do – with perversions of the truth.'Mutants wanted to replace you... to subjugate you and ultimately to kill you, Feilong. So much for our new gods... HA HA HA HA!' Doctor Stasis laughs. The Orchis Protocols were enacted when Krakoa was announced to the world. They were meant to be a means of combating so-called mutant supremacy. 'Mutants stole Mars... my destiny. So... of course I'm in. but I want a seat at the table, Doctor Stasis' Feilong declares.The humans were simply short-term partners in Orchis. Nimrod and the artificial intelligence want everyone dead....(Now)… and right now, they're winning. The battle to save life on Earth shifted off-planet where the machines had built a weapon to burn away Earth's atmosphere. Fortunately, the X-Men brought a sword. The S.W.O.R.D. space station has been plunged into the facility known as Sentinel City. Within, Logan a.k.a. Wolverine bares his claws as he moves towards Nimrod, while fires rage around them. 'The X-Men have destroyed Sentinel City's solar array – but all you've done is make sure that the dark times on Earth will be bloody and protracted' Nimrod states as he punches wolverine, knocking him backwards. 'I have multiple bodies. I'm fighting you here...''... and in New York City' Nimrod declares as Emma Frost in her diamond form moves through a fire to get closer to him. 'And in Washington, DC' Nimrod announces as Lorna Dane a.k.a. Polaris drops down in front of him and warns him not to take another step. 'Heed her words, machine... I underestimated you once. I will not do so again' Magneto announces as he makes a surprising return, and asks Lorna if she is ready. Wide-eyed and smiling, 'Always' Polaris responds as she flies up alongside him. In New York City, Emma is joined by Everett Thomas a.k.a. Synch, who begins to use Sunfire's powers in an attempt to soften Nimrod up for Emma. 'I'll try to shatter, it, Synch, darling' Emma responds as she slams her diamond-fist into the Nimrod. Back at Sentinel City, Illyana Rasputin a.k.a. Magik and Eden Fesi a.k.a. Manifold attempt to teleport up behind the Nimrod. But the Nimrod tells the mutants that he is not sure why they think they can win. 'I won months ago' he boasts as he fires a blast of energy from his chest, slamming the teleporters backwards.Within the S.W.O.R.D. facility, Scott Summers a.k.a. Cyclops asks Kurt Wagner a.k.a. Nightcrawler if he succeeded. As Nightcrawler helps Cyclops walk through the ruined, flaming facility, Nightcrawler confirms that the thrusters are sabotaged, and that Nimrod and Omega Sentinel can't repair it before the orbit of decays. Nightcrawler then asks Cyclops how they are going to kill something that exists in multiple places. 'All at once if we have to... under that armor... it's just electricity' Cyclops points out. Suddenly, Kwannon telepathically informs Cyclops and Nightcrawler that Colossus just got punched into space, and is almost out of sight. 'Go – just come back' Cyclops instructs Nightcrawler, who teleports away while asking Kwannon to show him what she sees. 'Nimrod! You want to end it? Start with me!' Cyclops suddenly shouts. 'With pleasure, mutant' Nimrod responds as he turns to Cyclops.At that moment, Omega Sentinel tries to regain control of the station. She connects to a console and checks various schematics, while wondering what Nightcrawler has done to the facility. Suddenly, 'Hiya, Sugah' Anna-Marie LeBeau a.k.a. Rogue exclaims as she bursts through the console and knocks Omega Sentinel back. Rogue refers to her as Karima, and asks her what she is up to. 'You forget every last shred of yer humanity?' Rogue enquires. 'Xavier cut a deal so you could live out your little lives on your stupid island – but you're all too dense or prideful to bend the knee. Fine. Then we'll kill him last. Do you have a message for him?' Omega Sentinel declares as she gets back to her feet, and readies her arms, which have been transformed into canons which she points towards Rogue, only for Kwannon to appear behind her: 'Yeah... no deal!' Kwannon exclaims as she breaks through a pane of glass separating her from Omega Sentinel, then shoves her psi-blade into Omega Sentinel's head.'Weird. That was supposed to kill her' Kwannon remarks as she stands over Omega Sentinel, who begins babbling: 'Sorry it went bad...' 'Well, let me step in, then, and -' Rogue begins, raising a foot above Omega Sentinel's head – but before she brings it down, Kwannon tells her not to. 'I fixed the Sentinel mind. Her human brain is drowning in regret and pain' Kwannon explains. 'So many gone... Karima was partitioned away...' Omega Sentinel cries, clutching her head. 'She's in hell already' Kwannon remarks, before Rogue takes her hand and suggests they get back to the party.And so they do, with Rogue flying towards Nimrod, carrying Kwannon with her – but despite it seeming as if the tide has turned, Nimrod is one step ahead, and he fires a blast at Rogue and Kwannon. Nightcrawler returns, teleporting in with Piotr Rasputin a.k.a. Colossus. Thankfully, Colossus is able to get a punch in, striking Nimrod in his back. However, the machine had ejected Colossus into space for the express purpose of drawing Nightcrawler away from sabotaging the station. Nimrod tosses Colossus away once more, as Nightcrawler teleports away. The artificial intelligence had fought and won this war billions of times in war games that only existed in ones and zeroes. Nightcrawler reaches Magik, who lays motionless in some rubble alongside Manifold, but as Nightcrawler turns around, he finds Nimrod raising a foot over his head – then suddenly, a powerful optic blast slams into Nimrod, sending him careening backwards.Nimrod never stopped playing war games. He had killed billions of souls in his minds... and in that time, there was always one X-Man left standing after the others fell. 'I'll never let you kill the X-Men!' Cyclops shouts angrily, ready to fire another optic blast. In those endless simulations of the end of the X-gene, Cyclops was the omega mutant – the last one standing. Cyclops dowses the Nimrod in another optic blast. His gift has the strength to crack Nimrod's armor. But Nimrod knows this – and mutants are not the only ones evolving, as his cracked armor suddenly repairs itself. 'You're the toughest of them, I'll give you that' Nimrod admits, before grabbing Cyclops by his neck and tells him 'I don't know if there is a next life for you, but I promise – if there is – I will follow'.At that moment, in New York City, Nimrod has similarly grabbed Synch and Emma by their throats, and in Washington DC, Nimrod has done the same to Polaris and Magneto. In unison, Nimrod asks the remaining five mutants if they have any last words. 'She won't let you kill me' Cyclops declares. 'Is this more prattle about your dead wife?' Nimrod asks as he prepares to crush Cyclops' head. 'No...' Cyclops grins, as lighting begins to crackle around him. 'Allow me to introduce you to -' Cyclops begins, as Ororo Munroe a.k.a. Storm appears, and bombards Nimrod with lightning as she declares 'There will be no more death!'A billion calculations only to end up being wrong about the last X-Men standing is the most humanity that Nimrod will ever achieve. A furious display of energy courtesy of Storm crackles around Nimrod, paralyzing him, while Storm looks over to Cyclops: 'Hello, brother. I've missed you' she tells him. 'Same here' Cyclops replies, before informing Storm that the floor is hers.Nimrod's duplicates created a flaw that he could not perceive. Being able to exist and think across vast distances required a lot of data and power. The Nimrod in New York City drops Emma and Synch, as does that one in Washington DC, dropping Polaris and Magneto. Energy crackles around them both thanks to Storm exploiting this flaw in Nimrod. Magneto realizes that Nimrod is facing Storm elsewhere, and grins, while Polaris suggests that they increase the magnetic field inside of Nimrod, to generate a lightning leader. 'Here and there' Magneto agrees, as they begin using their powers in unison.Back at Sentinel City, Storm narrows her eyes and tells Nimrod that if he was ever destined to be more than what he was programmed to be, then he will flee from the X-Men – or else he will die today. 'What you choose next will decide your fate' Storm points out. 'Is this what passes for “humor”?' Nimrod enquires as he fires a blast towards Storm – which Cyclops diverts by firing an optic blast into Nimrod's blast, preventing the blast from striking Storm. 'Take the last olive branch, you big, dumb machine!' Cyclops suggests.'Nimrod, we don't have to do this' Omega Sentinel calls out, anguished, while Monet St. Croix has collected her and flies through the facility. Monet telepathically informs all of the X-Men that the station's orbit is decaying, and that it is a trap to continue this fight.'If you stop fighting, the war ends – if we stop fighting – WE DIE!' Storm exclaims as she dodges another attack from Nimrod, while shoving some sort of lightning-charged blade into Nimrod's side. 'He's cracked open again!' Cyclops calls out as he fires an optic blast at Nimrod. 'We will not yield!' Storm warns Nimrod as she attacks him again with another surge of lightning.In New York City, Synch sees the lightning crackling around the Nimrod and asks Storm if she can hear him. 'I've got your powers, Storm – and I've caught that bolt you sent!' Synch exclaims as another surge of lightning forms around him, and he strikes the Nimrod with it.In Washington DC., Magneto declares that Storm's power is overwhelming, and as he hovers over the Nimrod, tells Polaris that he will keep his magnetic field negative. 'I'll keep mine positive – and, Nimrod, before you can explode – you can thank the X-Men and the Lorentz Force – something your artificial brain must know something about' Polaris adds. Magneto smiles as he tells Nimrod that, unfortunately for him, a moving electrical charge creates a magnetic field. Polaris winks, and as magnetic energy begins to crush down on Nimrod.Had Nimrod survived, he would have had a lot to ruminate on. But the storm that Nimrod faces even wipes out the duplicates of himself he had hidden from combat. 'You vermin will follow me into the abyss...' Nimrod warns Storm and Synch as they both shove a lightning spear into the Nimrod they oppose, who begins talking in the binary code. The Nimrod aboard Sentinel City collapses in front of Storm, some of its body seemingly melted. 'If you should find yourself wandering back into this life, I suggest you shun death, and explore light and love' Storm tells the robot as more of its form begins to melt.Monet arrives and drops Omega Sentinel near Cyclops and Storm. 'So much death... I'm so sorry' Omega Sentinel utters. Cyclops informs her that Kwannon telepathically showed him what happened to her. 'Earn this second chance' he suggests to her. 'Call me Karima' she utters as she wipes tears from her face.'We need to leave – now!' Cyclops calls out as he, Storm, Monet and Karima join Colossus, Wolverine, Gambit, Rogue, Kwannon, Magik and Nightcrawler. 'What're we doing saving Omega Sentinel?' Wolverine snarls. Kwannon reveals that her psi-blade lobotomized her computer brain. 'Says who?' Wolverine responds. Nightcrawler suggests that there has been enough death. 'If we don't believe in redemption, perhaps we shouldn't be doing this job anymore?' Nightcrawler wonders. Manifold steps forward and announces that, once again, he asks for much, but he asks for a righteous cause. A moment later, he teleports away with the X-Men. And the remains of Sentinel City explode in spectacular display.Nimrod had so completely subjugated Orchis that without him, Orchis simply ceases to exist, and Stark Sentinels begin falling from the sky across New York City, while Synch watches on. 'I'll take this as a sign it's over' he remarks.Orchis may be dead, but Xavier had become a ghost within its halls. He almost smiles as he utters 'Good for you, Scott...I never doubted you'. Suddenly, the door to the cell is kicked open by Kate Pryde a.k.a. Shadowkat. 'Could sworn I heard... never mind' she tells Kamala Khan a.k.a. Ms. Marvel, who tells Shadowkat that Xavier isn't here, and this place gives her the creeps. 'Graveyard vibes' she utters.But Charles Xavier had a long history of making people see what he wanted – or not see what he wanted. Kate, Kamala and Lockheed the Dragon have a brief look around the room, then turn and leave, unaware that Xavier was in the room with him. Xavier is hunted for the destruction of the Frigate Agnew, but nobody knew the truth. And yet, Xavier was not ready for his game to be over.Manifold and the X-Men suddenly re-appear, but Manifold thinks something is wrong, he doesn't know where they are. They are surrounded by stars, and as Manifold adjusts to his new surroundings, he gasps 'Bloody hell' and discovers that they are all within Lacuta, who looks down at Manifold and remarks 'Hello, Little Brother... I am hoping to obfuscate you from the threat that remains'. Lacuta tells Manifold that if the Enigma looks this way, it is only the void of the cosmos. Manifold tells Lacuta that once again, he owes them his thanks, before introducing Lacuta to Cyclops. 'If she is here, then well, we're in good hands' Manifold remarks, before Cyclops tells Lacuta that Jean spoke of their assistance in forming Planet Arakko. 'The universe is on the precipice, Scott Summers. It is your heart that could tip the scales away from death...and toward life'.A moment later, the mutants find themselves on Krakoa. 'By the Goddess!' Storm exclaims. 'Literally, I think' Manifold remarks, while Nightcrawler declares 'Krakoa lives!' and turns to see Apocalypse, and asks him if this is his doing. 'This island was in hibernation' Apocalypse explains. 'Slowly starving, but no more. Your energies will be most welcome in nourishing this wounded land' Apocalypse tells the new arrivals. 'Scott, are you okay?' Nightcrawler asks as he sees Cyclops leap down onto the ground. Cyclops smiles and looks back at Nightcrawler, while Magneto, Polaris and Synch hover above in the air. 'I just need a minute, bud. Tell the troops we did good... Orchis is destroyed'.Cyclops removes his optic visor and projects his thoughts to Jean, telling her that they did it – they did all they could. 'We smashed Orchis... we broke everything. Big and small. So once again, after everything we've been though, the lives, the deaths... we need you to rise again'. He remembers Jean back when the two of them were students at Xavier's School, then fighting side-by-side, and kissing. He tells Jean that it always goes back to Nathaniel Essex, he is out there, threatening to end them all. 'Lacuta told me that my heart will save us all... but I gave you my heart, Jean. Let love save us. I know you can't reply, but I believe you can hear me... come back... and bring the fire'.


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The New Mutants are enjoying a fun afternoon, playing soccer outside. Sam Guthrie warns one of his foes, Illyana Rasputin, that her team ain’t gonna score another goals against his. That moment, Roberto daCosta passes her the ball and Illyana suggests Sam leave the fortunetelling to someone who knows how it’s done. She passes it back to Bobby, who scores anther goal. As a goaltender, Doug Ramsey doesn’t have any chance against Roberto, whose passion has been soccer long before he discovered he was a mutant.
Striking the air, Bobby shouts it’s another point for daCosta’s Demons. Sam warns him that his Guthrie’s Gorillas still have one more quarter to. Robert replies that Sam is his dearest friend and he would be doing him a disservice if he permitted Sam to delude himself. He has no chance. Dani (who’s on Sam’s team) asks Amara if it bothers the Demons to have such a shy modest guy for a captain. She can live with the disgrace, Magma replies, provided they go on winning.
From some distance on a bluff, Rahne Sinclair and Warlock are watching the game. Warlock asks why Rahne isn’t participating. The girl replies that when she isn’t in wolf form she has no turn for sporting past times and this way the sides stay even. Besides, it’s so lovely and peaceful here with him.
Warlock examines a dandelion and asks if the puffplants are sentient beings. No, they have no hearts or minds if that’s what he means, Rahne replies lazily and blows one. Is it acceptable to consume its lifeglow? he asks. Rahne doesn’t see why not. They can be pretty and fun to blow around but they can become nuisances if unchecked. Warlock infects a dandelion with his techno-organic virus and then consumes its energy, leaving a husk behind.
From inside the mansion their new headmaster Magneto – now under the cover as Michael Xavier – watches their play. He is deeply lost in thoughts. With a sigh, thinking of his old friend Charles Xavier, he admits it’s impossible. He tries his best to teach Charles’ students as Charles would have wished and run his school, but he has no hand for administration. He decides that Moira MacTaggart both has a gift for it and for dealing with young mutants. He decides to call her and hopes she will agree to come and help him.
At the Muir Isle research complex, Moira, assisted by Jamie Madrox, the Multiple Man, is currently testing the powers of another of Muir’s inhabitants, Theresa Rourke Cassidy aka Siryn. Moira notes with satisfaction that Siryn has been holding herself aloft on the strength of one note for five minutes now with no sign of strain. Suddenly, she sees the phonelight blink (not having heard it ring thanks to Siryn). She asks Jamie to go tell Theresa to quiet down so she can take the call.
Jamie calls for Siryn, who can’t hear him over he racket. The solution is easy, as suddenly a dozen Jamies call out in unison, finally getting Theresa’s attention. With that, Moira can finally accept her call, coming from Magneto. The master of magnetism is asking her for a favor. He has little taste for formal academics – with his powers he gets the files of the mutants – and a most incomplete understanding of the criteria used by Charles in drawing up what he termed “report cards.” Moreover, most of the New Mutants have undergone some shattering emotional experiences lately, they seem well enough, but there is deep trauma, so if Moira would consent…
Outside the Xavier estate, the game continues. Sam gets ready to shoot a goal, getting past Roberto. But Sunspot catches the ball easily. Unfortunately, Sam, still in action, crashes into Bobby, slamming him inadvertently against the goalpost and to the ground. Roberto reacts instinctively, accessing his powers and punching Sam away. Sam crashes into a tree and falls hard.
Almost instantaneously, Bobby realizes what he has done. Sam has been his dearest friend from the first day here. The other kids instantly run to Sam’s side. Somewhat hesitant to get closer, Bobby asks if Sam is all right. Is he breathing? How badly did he hurt Sam? The others shoot him reproachful looks and Dani acidly informs him that, no, he hasn’t managed to kill Sam. Doug adds that they hope that doesn’t disappoint him. Hiding his hurt with anger, Bobby asks how they can talk like such idiots. He thought they were his friends!
Are they such idiots? Dani asks. They all saw what he did to Sam. If that is how he treats his friends, then they want no part of it. Bobby stammers an apology. When Sam hurt him like that, he lost his head… He lost his temper, Doug finishes. Dani replies they don’t want to hear his excuses. Maybe Sam’s mother and little brothers and sisters will… if it comes to that. She can’t mean a funeral? Rahne asks hesitantly.
Is friendsam’s lifeglow fading, the panicked Warlock asks pleads for Dani to explain. She suggest Warlock ask Bobby to explain. He’s the one who did it.
Bobby realizes they won’t let him near Sam, not even to see if he’s all right or help. They don’t trust him too. His friends… no longer want him among them. They are… right.
That moment, Magneto and the team’s oldest member Karma, approach the kids. The headmaster immediately demands an explanation. Agitated, Warlock asks after Sam’s lifeglow and Shan tries to calm him. Sam awakes, still woozy, asking after Bobby and whether they go the goal. The rest of the kids are relived. Magneto decides to drive Sam to a doctor in Salem Center to be X-rayed. Looking back at Bobby who stands at the mansion’s door, he suspects he will have to face an equally grave, though less life-threatening problem upon his return.
Bobby has gone to his room to think. He realizes that today he has not acted like a hero. He has never heard of Captain America losing his temper… or the mighty Thor hurting someone he cares about simply because he could not control himself. If he met the great Thomas Magnum of Magnum PI today, he would not be able to look him in the face.
He wishes he could go home, but his parents are no longer together. He sifts though a photo album, musing that his father is more concerned with wealth and power than with his family. He has joined the Hellfire Club… and they are evil people and among Roberto’s sworn enemies.
Looking at a photo that shows his parents young and happy with him as an infant, his thoughts turn to his mother. Nina is a brave woman and a talented archaeologist. And sometimes he is afraid that she loves her musty old digs more than she does her son. This is his home now, His friends are here… and, though they have been unfair to him, although they never understand him, they are his family now. Bobby walks downstairs, wishing Professor Xavier were here. He always understood.
He enters the headmaster’s office, wishing to talk to Magneto, but the office is empty as Magneto is still in Salem Center. He wonders whether to wait or not when he glances across Magneto’s desk and on it sees confidential files about the New Mutants, including his own. He wonders what Professor Xavier wrote about him… surely if no one ever finds out he looked there can be no harm. A moment later, he wishes he hadn’t.
Xavier’s report on Sunspot:A most precocious lad. But also, I suspect, deeply troubled. His father – whom Roberto idolized – joined the ranks of the Hellfire Club. The very people responsible for the death of Roberto’s girlfriend.
Roberto and Sam have grown especially close – My hope is that Sam provides a steadying influence. Roberto’s brash self-confidence could so easily become arrogance.
And from there lead him inevitably down t he road chosen by his father.
Roberto feels as though he has been slapped in the face.
In the meantime in Salem Center Sam, surrounded by his friends, receives the happy new, that he has suffered no serious injury. He has a concussion, not a skull fracture. The doctor recommends a few days’ bed rest, no studying and no sport and he’ll be as good as new. Magneto – in his guise a Michael Xavier – thanks the doctor. He joins him to fill out some forms. Sam, in the meantime, is uneasy. He wants to get home as soon as possible and set things right with Bobby. He owes him a big apology.
What for? Surviving? Doug asks incredulously. His friends remind Sam of what Bobby did. His loss of temper could have caused Sam’s death. Sam reminds them that it isn’t what it looks like. Sam hit him hard first. He darn near broke Bobby’s neck. Warlock adds that Bobby showed great alarm and concern. Surely when he hears Friendsam’s wellbeing is established he will express regret. Illyan snorts she wouldn’t count on it and advises Warlock to concentrate on maintaining his human shape till they get out or it will be the doctor who expresses great alarm and concern.
Back on Muir, Moira observes with amusement that Siryn seems to be quite excited at the prospect of their trip. Theresa replies that New York will be a fine change after months of seclusion on this island. Have they forgotten anything? Three different Madroxes assure her they haven’t. One brings the luggage, the second the plane tickets and the third picked up things they might need on their trip. Moira asks him to pull himself together then, unless he booked three seats on that flight.
Back at Xavier’s school the kids wonder where Roberto is. Rahne finds a note and brings it to Magneto. It reads:Dear Everyone –You were all right and I was wrong. It was terrible of me to hurt Sam, who is the best friend I ever had. You are all good friends and I have been proud to know you all and be one of you… but I do not belong here. I know that now. I am an evil person, and if I stay I will only end up hurting someone or disgracing you. I saw my report card, so I know Professor Xavier knew this, too. Farewell. Please forgive me. And tell Sam I hope his head is better soon.
Roberto.
The mutants are touched and feel guilty. Sam recalls how, when the New Mutants were first formed, he worked for the Hellfire Club, who killed Roberto’s girlfriend. Roberto forgave him for that.
Magneto sternly tells them they got their pound of flesh. He suggests they all go to their rooms and contemplate that while he thinks of some way to repair the harm that’s been done this day.
The mutants head to their rooms, only Warlock stays behind, pondering on why friend Roberto is permitted to leave while misunderstood and unforgiven. He finds his current state of dismay unacceptable. All friends must be together to form a harmonious unit in spite of difference. Is this not nature of friendshipstate? Friendbobby must be found and reassurances must be given. Harmony restored. He concludes that beings who seek loss of self do so in Manhattan and decides to look for Bobby there. Transforming into a cartoon helicopter the alien speeds off.
Roberto finds himself in Manhattan after a night of sleeping rough in a bus station. He’s caught between shame and injured pride and is low on funds. Feeling hungry, he passes a Korean teen who musters him critically.
A young boy addresses the teenager, offering a pornographic calendar. The teenager first seems interested in the calendar, then tears it apart. The boyish-looking youth reveals herself to be a girl. Angrily, she addresses the kid that he can’t be more than ten. He shouldn’t be out of bed at this time. Instead, he’s hawking goods on the streets. Did his parents send him out there? Did they tell him not to come home until he’d sold every calendar and made a lot of money for Reverend Yune Kim Park and the Glorification Church.
Angrily, she continues that her family made her do that. The Glorification Church brought her into the country. Promised they’d make them citizens and they worked like slaves for that privilege. That’s why she ran away. Maybe there is a God and Heaven, but they have nothing to do with Park and his flock.
She takes away his calendars and his money. Now, she tells him his family has to let him come home and go to bed… or to school. He recognizes her as Chance, the renegade and runs away, threatening he’s going to tell Reverend Park. She scoffs he can tell him there’s no chance for him in this town. Not as long as she’s on the street.
Pleased with herself, Chance counts her money, getting the attention of two tough guys, who demand the cash. Seemingly peaceful she offers it, only to hit and kick them both with a swift move the next moment. Chance takes off, with the men in pursuit. Unfortunately, Chance ends up in a dead end street. No longer amused the men draw their knives, intent on making Chance pay in more than one way.
That moment, Roberto shows up, assuring Chance he will stop them. Roberto turns to his Sunspot form. Chance is startled. She watches as Bobby disarms the men and demands they apologize to Chance. “Hit him again!” she shouts as Roberto lifts one of the men over his head. Suddenly though Bobby feels strange. His superstrength leaves him, drains away. He stumbles and the two men come at them again with a knife and a lead-pipe.


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Sunspot and Chance are in trouble, standing in a back alley, about to be attacked by two thugs, armed with knives… Sunspot has run out of energy. He fears he is about to die that day. Weakly, he blames himself for not being able to save the Korean girl and apologizes.
The men intend to cut him open. Chance angrily shouts that if Roberto is going to just meekly wait for them to slit his throat, she better take her chances alone! She tries to run, now drawing the attention of the two men, who promptly begin beating on her. Roberto is horrified. Despite his lack of strength, he attacks them. They quickly overpower him, now ignoring Chance.
Suddenly, a garage door opens and a strikingly tall and thin teenager in 80ies club wear with sunglasses that hide her eyes asks from there if Chance is there. Chance recognizes her as Ariel. The girl advises Chance to quickly come in unless she likes seeing dead teenager movies without going to the movies. Chance stammers that they are attacking the boy because he defended her. So have the UN send him a medal, Ariel replies heartlessly, before reminding Chance that neither of them has any superpowers. She tells Chance to come. If those two guys come anywhere near this door, she’s closing it whether Chance is inside or not. Chance decides to abandon Roberto and jumps inside.
Perhaps dying will not be that bad, Roberto thinks, when the cavalry comes in the form of a hysterically screaming shapechanging Warlock. The bizarre alien frightens the men away and Warlock, panicked, tries to help Roberto, who reminds himself that crying would be unmanly, and yet…
He recalls how yesterday he almost killed his best friend Sam Guthrie. Cain, who slew Abel, cannot be more evil than him. He doesn’t deserve to be a New Mutant any longer. With that, he asks Warlock to leave him.
Does he no longer like him? Warlock worries. He has never been more dear to him, Roberto admits, but he is not fit to touch Warlock. He asks the alien to let him live his life as an outcast – a pariah. Warlock decides then they both shall be outcasts together.
Seeing the doorway, Bobby recalls that the girl he saved and her friend disappeared in there. He opens the door to the storage area but there is no trace of Chance and Ariel nor is this the brightly-lit room they ran into.
Back at Xavier’s School, Moira and her two young assistants have arrived and Magneto has appraised them of the situation regarding Sunspot and Warlock. Moira reminds Magneto that he wanted her there because there was some emotional trouble brewing amongst his students and he hoped that she as an expert on mutations might be able to help him deal with it. She asked Siryn and Jamie Madrox along because they’re mutants themselves and still in their teens, meaning they can better relate to the youngsters.
Magneto quickly summarizes how, during a game, Sunspot lashed out at his best friend Sam Guthrie and very nearly caused Sam’s death. Although he’d scarcely considered the matter before, Sam is perhaps the most popular among the New Mutants and, due to his bravado and arrogance, Roberto is the least. With the exception of Warlock, the other mutants acted judgmentally. Sunspot ran away and, Magneto presumes, Warlock followed to bring him back. Ordinarily, he believes that the others would have gone with Warlock, but they are still just children who are now trapped by the fright that Sam’s close call gave them. And by their own feelings of guilt and shame.
Jamie remarks that he’s sure Magneto and Moira will manage to help them, while he and Siryn will find the runaways for them. Magneto gives them a portable Cerebro unit able to detect mutants’ biorhythms in a limited radius. He also hands them a photo of Bobby.
Since Manhattan is the closest city to take a bus to that’s where they will begin, Terry decides. Looking like a couple of creatures from a science fiction film? Moira asks. With his cowl down and normal clothes, he’ll look like everyone else Jamie replies, and he bets there are lots of people with wilder outfits than Siryn’s. If anyone notices her, they’ll probably think she is a rockstar. Magneto wishes them good luck.
In the streets of Manhattan, Warlock, now wearing a trenchoat, asks if his disguise is acceptable. Bobby replies he looks like Sam Spade. He was one of the greatest fictitious detectives the world has ever known, almost as great as Thomas Magnum of Magnum P.I. Warlock admits he would be better at keeping up the disguise if he weren’t so hungry. Observe Senhor Spade, Bobby replies and points at a garbage can. Lots of organic matter for him to consume. Warlock does so while Roberto is reminded of his own hunger. And he has no money.
Warlock naively remarks that if friendbobby has embraced evil as lifepattern, then is purchase not tendered unnecessary as means of acquisition of goods and services? Bobby realizes he is right. Heroes like Magnum and the New Mutants may worry about right and wrong. Sunspot is a villain now and he takes what he needs.
He walks up the steps of the nearest building and uses his mutant power to tear out the door. He powers down the next moment as in front of him he sees a crucifix. He is within a church. Forgive me, he stammers.
The priest comes out of the refectory, asking what’s going on. He sees they are only children and becomes kinder. Are they in some kind of trouble? Can he help them? No one can! Roberto shouts and runs away in terror.
The priest tries to take care of the door, wondering what was the matter with those boys. That moment three street roughs walk in, intending to rob the church. Suddenly, a geeky-looking thin blond kid remarks that much as he hates to interfere in matters that are none of his business… his companions have pointed out to him that their intentions are clearly felonious and do not take into account the wishes of the person they assaulted. He asks them to desist and go about their business. Or Don, Bill and he will send them on their way by force. The thugs laugh.
The priest tries to get up hearing the laughter turn to sounds of surprise and pain. As he raises himself, he sees the thugs beaten on the ground.
Outside, the kid runs away discussing matters with someone on the ground. He remarks that he agrees with them that an act of altruism never required an apology… but they were instructed to find Sunspot and his strange friend and convince them to come with them. Thanks to that delay they may have lost them. He is making haste as he makes conversation, he suddenly stresses and demands the two of them do the same.
At the Port Authority Bus Terminal, Siryn and Madrox start their search. Terry wonders how they can find two boys in such a crowded place. That’s part of why he is there, Jamie stresses. She has no idea how handy a power like his comes in when you’re looking for a needle in a haystack as he used to say when he lived on the farm. Did he really say that? Terry asks doubtful. Well, he said it to himself after his parents died and he lived there alone, Jamie amends.
A woman, her hands full of grocery bags, bumps into him. As she looks at her dropped parcels, she isn’t aware that the bump caused Madrox to split into two. Startled she looks up, believing them to be twins. One of the two offers to carry her bags for her while the first Madrox tells him to meet them and… the rest of the family at the taxi stand.
Madrox slips into a quiet corner and asks Terry to stand guard. He intends to rustle up some reinforcements. As he bumps against the walls several times, he creates more and more dupes and, in the meantime, he regales Siryn with tales of his youth: after his parents found out what his mutant power was they were afraid to send him to school… so his father and Professor Xavier designed a teaching computer, so he could learn things at his own speed. He hated that machine, especially since it and the TV were his only companions after he was orphaned. He hated geography, he hated Spanish grammar, he hated history, subtraction… but for some reason he never had any trouble with… multiplication.
How’s he coming along? Siryn asks. Just fine thanks and you, Multiple Madroxes chorus back. Some day he’s going to give her or some other unsuspecting lassie a heart attack when he does that, she half—jokes as she passes out copies of the photo of Roberto to them. While they swarm out she stays with the original and advises the others not to have two of them leave the station too close together.
One gentleman wonders whether two of those boys don’t look rather alike. He doesn’t think so, a third Madrox informs him.
Outside the station, Siryn’s mini-Cerebro picks up plenty, due to several mutants within the city, but no Sunspot. She adds that she calibrated Cerebro so it won’t pick up any known heroes or any of the Madroxes.
Elsewhere, the strange boy is talking to his companions on the ground, telling them they are only a little ahead of them. Never say die. They should show some appreciation for the thrill of the chase. As they pass a restaurant he strictly tells them that stopping for lunch is out of the question. Their orders as regarding food before they found their quarry were after all most specific. Although he does see the merit in their point about feeding their inner being, so that spirit does not fail them. Suddenly he shouts at Don not to go in there. That’s a seafood restaurant. Now what have Bill and he told him about taking foolish chance?
While he kneels there, one Madrox passes him by, wondering how his other selves are doing. Suddenly, he sees two kids sitting on a doorstep. As they look the right age, he wonders if they have seen the runaways. He addresses them, wanting to show them the photo, that moment he sees it’s Bobby and a humanshaped Warlock.
Was friendmadrox fooled by his clever disguise? Warlock asks, while Bobby wants to know what he wants there. To find them and bring them home, Madrox replies impatiently. Doesn’t he know how worried everybody else is? Warlock is happy to hear that, whereas Bobby is hard pressed to believe him when, suddenly, more Madroxes and the geeky kid and his friends have found them as well.
The kid introduces himself as Gomi and asks Sunspot to listen to him first; he has a message for him. Forsake your destiny and come with us to Beat Street. The Fallen Angels want you. And watch your step, he adds. He almost stepped on Bill. Sunspot looks down to see two lobsters, one green, one blue, at his feet. The green one is Bill and Don is blue, Gomi adds. Warlock immediately wants to introduce himself to the lobsters, such elegant lifeforms. They’re just animals, a confused Roberto points out. Aren’t they all? Gomis asks before pointing out the way to Beat Street. What about his friends? Bring them, Gomi suggests.
One of the Madroxes interjects that neither of them is going anywhere. Wasn’t Bobby listening to him? Roberto points out if any of the New Mutants had truly cared, nothing could have kept them from coming after him in person.
He’s right, you know, comes another voice. That’s how teams are, let you down in a pinch when you need them the most. That’s all his teams ever did for him and the ones led by Magneto were the worst. Of course that was before he moved uptown and got too fine to talk to us working mutants who have to work for their living. It’s the Vanisher, dressed in stylish 80ies clothing.
Despite his estrangement from Magneto and the New Mutants, Roberto refuses to have any villain speak ill of them. He powers up and warns the Vanisher not to slander his friends. The Vanisher tells him to calm down. He didn’t mean any harm. It’s just he knows how it feels to be a misunderstood outcast. He wanted to let him know someone cares, that’s all.
Roberto reminds himself how harshly his friends judged him. He doesn’t want to make the same mistake. Does the Vanisher really care?
Elsewhere Siryn and the original Madrox follow their portable Cerebro and finally find the others. Recognizing the Vanisher, Theresa flies into action and immediately attacks. The Vanisher true to form… vanishes. Suddenly, a door opens. From within the doorway, Chance asks Sunspot why he doesn’t want to come to Beat Street? Doesn’t he have the courage to take a chance? Ariel sweettalks Bobby and he finally follows Gomi inside as does Warlock and the Madroxes standing around (apart from the one who came with Siryn).
Siryn lands as the doors slams in front of her. She open it, annoyed to find herself inside a swanky seafood restaurant with no sign of the others.


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Sunspot and Warlock take a confused look at their new surroundings: a cluttered yet comfortable room. Wiring on the wall calls it the “Beat St. Club.” A grinning Vanisher greets them all. And he’d like to say to all of his loyal followers as well as the new recruits: Welcome to the Beat Street Club. Welcome home.
What is this place? Bobby demands. It’s where we are, stupid, Chance tells him. Beat Street is the home for the Fallen Angels, Ariel explains, all the misfits who knew they weren’t going to make it as superheroes… or maybe think it wasn’t even worth to try. And they can tell by just looking that description fits all of them, Chance addresses Sunspot, Warlock and the Madroxes. Sunspot coolly reminds her that he saved her life earlier, but demands she address him with the respect a DaCosta deserves or…
Oh, she can’t wait to hear that one, Chance replies unimpressed. Does he wanna hear what she really thinks he deserves? Vanisher gets between them, assuring Sunspot she was fooling.
Ariels assures Roberto that she and Chance felt bad about leaving him to his fate, that’s why they sent the rest of the Angels to find him. And if he stays for a while, Warlock is welcome too? Bobby asks. Wouldn’t dream of separating them, Ariel promises. After all once an angel has fallen, what’s he got left but his friends? Sunspot finds himself taken in by the girl.
What about them? Ariel addresses the Madroxes. They came there to convince Bobby and Warlock to return home. The best place to convince them is if they’re close at hand, the girl points out, and maybe Beat Street might become home to them too. The Madroxes admit that it’s nice and cozy there.
Gomi tells them to make themselves comfortable while he does the same for Don and Bill. He asks Don what he wants to hear. Either Talking Heads or the Albuquerque’s Boys greatest Polka hits, he figures from Don’s reply. With their mental images, the lobsters inform him they are hungry. Did she hear? Vanisher tells Chance; they are hungry. Life’s tough, Chance replies unimpressed. He sighs for her not to make him say it. She knows the rules. Yeah, only they apply to only some of them. She tells Ariel to help her get some food.
Warlock asks Gomi if Don and Bill are sentient beings, while Gomi is busy checking out records.
In the restaurant, Siryn is pissed off, demanding to know where the kids disappeared to, while the Madrox with her tries to calm her. Angrily, she explains that all his duplicates and Warlock and Sunspot ran into a room that looked nothing like this and slammed the door in her face.
The waiter tries to get them to sit down and order. In frustration, Theresa screams and some of the glasses shatter. Madrox mutters something about a low-flying plane as apology and gets her to sit down and check the menu.
She apologizes. He doesn’t seem to be worried abut his duplicates disappearing. That’s why he’s not worried, he retorts. Wherever Warlock and Sunspot at, he’s sure his other selves are keeping them out of trouble. The only trouble is he doesn’t know where he is. But his copies… she interjects. They aren’t copies, he explains. Each and everyone of them is genuine with his own life and memories for as long as he’s apart from him. But each Madrox is complete unto himself. He’s no realer or better than any of the others. He’s just luckier because he gets to be the only one with her.
Another Madrox elsewhere helps the lady from the terminal carry her luggage. She thanks him. But won’t his twin brother, the one she saw him with, worry about him? Let him, he replies. Besides this is so great. He was only once in Manhattan before. And he got hassled so much, he never really got to see the sights. And when he thinks of the long lonely miserable years on the farm after ma and pa died… They left him and his brother all alone? the lady asks, as he carries the luggage up her house. No, there were a lot of them, Jamie replies evasively. When he rejoins the others, all he’ll have are his memories conflicting with other memories of how he spent this time It’ll be like dying and losing himself.
Back at the Fallen Angels’ hideout, the bunch of Madroxes figure that the girls won’t bring enough for all of them to eat, and there aren’t enough chairs anyway. So, slapping against each other, they pull themselves together, until there is only one Madrox left. Just in time for Ariel and Chance to return with some fast food.
Chance remarks that they shouldn’t expect her to clean the table. Fair enough, the Vanisher, lazing around, agrees and orders Gomi to clear the table. The boy just agrees and concentrates his mind-over-matter powers on the table. Unfortunately, his control isn’t that great and objects begin to fly all over the room.
The Vanisher shouts at him, calling him an incompetent, something Gomi’s lobsters take badly to. One of them immediately bites into the Vanisher’s foot and the other gets in front of Gomi, looking aggressively at anyone else willing to insult him. His own fault, Ariel admonishes the Vanisher as she puts down the food. He knows that the lobsters don’t like it if anyone picks more on Gomi than usual.
Even among crustaceans, such loyalty to one’s friends, Bobby observes. Once he enjoyed that same gift before he wantonly tossed it aside, he angsts. Warlock anxiously asks if his friendship isn’t satisfactory. Bobby calms him. He doesn’t know what good act he has performed in his wasted life of his to deserve as true a friend as Warlock. Warlock inquires if Madrox might not be considered a satisfactory friend as well. He too followed when former friends approved policy of personal isolation and ostracism. If Madrox does not consider himself sullied by the company of such pariahs as they, he would consider himself honored, Bobby replies.
The Angels share the burgers (with extra penguin McBurgers for Don and Bill) and Vanisher proves that nobody takes him seriously when he lets Ariel steal his seat. Jamie is curious about Gomi’s lobsters and asks what their story is. Are they mutants? Is Gomi? Gomi remarks that Don’s color marks him as a mutant, but mutations aren’t what gave any of them their abilities. They are three cyborgs. He had a small hand in their creation.
Gomi’s story:Gomi narrates how his cousin, Ramon Lipschitz, and his best friend, Tadashi Fujita, were despite only being college seniors two of the most brilliant scientists of their age. When they were given a research grant and faculties near Coney Island and needed a lab assistant, they called on him. He likes to think it’s because he is neither completely unintelligent nor unfamiliar with scientific methods (translation: they needed someone who’d work for free).
Ramon and his partner had always been good for him. When they found out how much he hated his real name, Fujita said he’d completely understand and gave him his new Japanese name Gomi (Japanese for garbage).
Their project was on superbeings, the wave of the future. They wanted to use cybernetics to try and enhance normal creatures’ abilities and were using lobsters for their subjects, one perfectly ordinary and one a blue mutant as a control.
Gomi talked to the two lobsters, promising them they’d enjoy lives as sentient beings. Neither of them was showing any signs of rejecting their parts so soon they’d be able to think and communicate. They’ll be able to live outside the water for long periods and have superior strength.
However, over the course of their research, Ramon and Fujita had developed more than academic interest in one particular superbeing (whom they even had a pinup of), Marvel Girl, considering her the perfect superheroine, dreaming of the time after they’d publish, be famous and maybe get to meet her in the flesh.
The lobsters showed success and superior strength as one of them ripped apart a phonebook, and the two men went out partying. However, it was Gomi who tried to personalize the lobsters’ living conditions much to the two men’s annoyance.
Then one day, after the Starcore spaceflight disaster and the appearance of a new superbeing, Phoenix, disaster struck as the two men realized that Phoenix was none other than a transformed Marvel Girl. Something had ruined their dream girl.
And so a new phase of their research was immediately undertaken as Ramon and Fujita worked feverishly to develop cybernetics that would recreate the original Marvel Girl. The cybernetics worked. The plan was to kidnap a lovely girl and implant the cybernetics in her but Ramon was doubtful; what if something went awry? They’d have ruined a perfectly good girl for nothing. But what do they have lab animals for if not to experiment upon, Tadashi replies. Agreeing, they both captured Gomi, anaesthetized him and implanted the cybernetics in him.
However, it became soon clear that something had gone wrong with their invention. It manipulated a form of telekinesis, but it was capable only of creating a pillar of pure brute force. There was no fine motor control whatsoever. And an even bigger disaster lurked around the corner. The new administration had cut grants to the sciences and they were sending an inspector to examine their results.
What results, they wondered. They have to eat them, Fujita decided. The lobsters maybe, Ramon replied, but they can’t eat Gomi. Their mothers play mahjong together. So the two of them fled, leaving Gomi, Don and Bill to wait for an inspector that thanks to a bureaucratic snafu never came. Instead, along came the Fallen Angels on a membership drive and they voted two to one that they were sick of living alone and joined up.
Present:Warlock consumes the rest of the food. Madrox asks Ariel about her teleportation. Is she a mutant too? The teleportation is just a trick some of the folks at home taught her, the girl replies. It all has to do with doorways. Concentrate on a closed door and mentally juxtapose it with another closed door. And when she opens the door in front her of her, the others side is the other side of the door she’s thinking of. She has no idea how it works scientifically. She thinks it involves bending space. But the important think is it always works.
Vanisher tells her not to be so modest. He’s sure Madrox, Sunspot and Warlock would be much more impressed by a demonstration. What’s he driving at, Ariel asks. Boom Boom, he tells her. Has she forgotten she’s in the clutches of those notorious mutant hunters, X-Factor? Let them have her, Chance announces. “Time Bomb” turned the rest of them in of her own free will. If she’s stuck now, too bad.
Ariel asks Chance not to be so hasty and unforgiving. There are more important things at stake here than individual emotions. Much more important or does she have to draw her a picture? Chance gets what she driving at and agrees.
Meanwhile, Siryn and the other Madrox are getting something from Cerebro. The building they are passing must be full of mutants. It’s the headquarters of X-Factor, Siryn explains and suggests they move along quickly. Madrox tells her they have another concentration of mutants near the midtown area.
In the lab inside the X-Factor HQ, Hank McCoy and Bobby Drake are going over Hank’s calculations. Boom Boom interrupts them, suggesting they head upstairs. There’s something important going on there. Hank tries to throw her out, while Bobby points out there really might be something. Oh sure, Hank scoffs. She probably wants to lure them into a deadfall she’s got set up in the hallway or something.
While they argue, Boom Boom fumes at never being taken seriously. In revenge, she creates a small timebomb and puts it into one of Hank’s test tubes. Boom Boom walks off in fake sadness, but moments later there’s a small explosion and the two former X-Men are after her.
Back at Beat Street, Ariel explains she’s never been inside X-Factor headquarters, but she thinks they can assume that a building that size has at least one broom closet in it and that they don’t leave the door open. She concentrates, opens the door and peeks into X-Factor’s HQ. Seeing Boom Boom running up the stairs, she shouts at her to hop in and get all aboard for Beat Street.
Boom Boom slides into the broom closet / Beat Street HQ. Ariel slams the door behind her. Iceman opens it to find only an empty broom closet. Where did they go? he wonders. Who cares? Beast asks. The important thing is that that little walking disaster area is out of their lives.
Great going! Boom Boom shouts. Vanisher reminds her that he was the one who ordered the rescue from the clutches of those fiends. They weren’t such fiends, Boom Boom laughs. One or two of them were kind of cute. But now she notices the scenery here has improved as well, she remarks, looking at Madrox. She introduces herself to him. She’s Tabitha, but everyone calls her Boom Boom.
Warlock is curious about Ariel’s power, remarking that it demonstrates a most sophisticated understanding of spatial manipulation. Ariel doesn’t know how it works. Roberto remembers; she said it was something that people from her home can do. Where does she come from? She’ll tell them about it someday, Ariel replies evasively. Maybe they’ll even go there. But they are not really interested in that right now, are they? Strangely, Bobby and Warlock find themselves agreeing with her.
And she really has complete control over her power? Madrox asks. Of course, she assures them. For example, she’s going to open the door without doing anything and all that will be outside is reality in the alley outside. She opens the door, just before Siryn and the other Madrox are able to knock on it. Ariel just remarks that she thought they’d never get there, while Siryn stalks inside and immediately angrily addresses Roberto, telling him she’s had a long tiring day and is not in the mood for any…
Vanisher steps between them, suggesting of course she’s tired. They are all tired. No reason to be upset. Why don’t they just calm down and start over. Roberto angrily opines if Miss Cassidy intends to go on as she began, then let her spare the trouble of any further words. Chance agrees. Who does she thinks she is anyway? she asks Terry challengingly.
Madrox and Madrox, in the meantime, happily greet one another and mention they are doubles, much to the disappointment of Boom Boom, who liked him better when she thought he was twins.
Ariel pipes up, telling Terry she can understand she’s upset and everyone agrees she is entitled to an explanation. She’ll get one. But it’s so hot and overcrowded here. They can all be a lot more comfortable if everyone will just step outside. They do so and end up in what seems to be a paradisiacal landscape…


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The Fallen Angels have stepped though Ariel’s door, only to suddenly find themselves in a primordial landscape with a dinosaur ready to attack them. As Roberto stands there transfixed, Vanisher immediately saves himself by teleporting away. When the monster turns towards Ariel, Chance orders her to stand her ground. If she stands still, it may not attack her.
Siryn flies into action and hits the beast with a sonic blast while Ariel runs away. As Boom Boom throws a timebomb at its thick scales, Madrox states that they are going to need more people to get everybody clear and orders her to hit him. When she is hesitant, he hits her. Angrily, she hits him back, doing what he wants by causing him to multiply. The Madroxes help to get everyone to safety while Siryn keeps on distracting the dinosaur with her sonic scream.
Only Chance fights being saved, shouting she isn’t afraid. The dinosaur turns towards them. Being able to save only one Siryn reacts instinctively and saves the Madrox dupe.
Chance acts bravely, trying to threaten the attacking dinosaur away. Sunspot turns on his power and runs towards her, literally lifting the beast from the ground and tossing it away. Chance is surprised. She didn’t think Bobby was that strong. He’s not, he replies, dumbfounded himself. The monster comes again. Sunspot upends a tree using it to batter the monster.
A splinter gets lose and hits Roberto on the head. He faints. Chance tries to shake him awake. Disgusted, she remarks that the clown knocked himself out. Lucky he waited till the monster was gone to be so stupid. Unexpectedly tenderly she takes out a piece of cloth and tries to clean the wound.
Seeing that the danger has passed, Ariel joins them, exclaiming that she came back in case Chance needed help. Is it likely she would? Chance asks gruffly. She can see Chance has everything under control here, Ariel replies.
Nearby, from the shadows, two mysterious strangers watch them, the rider remarks to the dinosaur that the strangers are of great strength and courage. He wonders what has brought such strange beings to the Valley of the Flame.
Chance angrily asks Ariel what made her take them to such a stupid dangerous place? Doesn’t she care that she almost got them … uh… Bobby killed? She thought mutants were so important to Ariel. So what is she doing, taking them somewhere where Bobby has to risk his life.
Ariel remarks she checked the planet out before coming here. It’s in a potent evolutionary phase… a lot like Earth was before humans became the dominant species. There are at least two really significant native mutants here in the region… important enough to justify the loss of a lesser one. Of course, she knew nobody would get killed.
While she talks, Chance takes off her jacket and places it under Bobby’s head. Ariel remarks she hopes Chance isn’t going soft on Sunspot. The job they have to do won’t be any easier if Chance start forming emotional attachments. She thinks Chance cares what happen to him? Chance announces she cares about no one but herself… especially not a little macho like this one.
Bobby begins to recover, weakly asking if his nightmare is over. No, he’s stuck right in the middle of the worst part of it alone, Chance snarls, then leaves with Ariel.
Sunspot slowly gets up, wondering why his head is lying on Chance’s jacket, then a huge shadow falls on him.
Elsewhere, the Vanisher pants nervously, wondering if he is safe. But what about his children, his Fallen Angels, his darlings? They were right in the path of that ferocious beast, perhaps he should go back… Nah, they are capable, he decides. They’ll probably be all right. He looks at a twig behind him, suddenly sees a gecko on it, screams frightened and vanishes again.
Elsewhere, Siryn, Madrox and Warlock have evacuated the other Angels. Carried by Warlock, Gomi calmly holds a discussion about whether dinosaurs or lobster have more intelligence. Siryn decides it’s safe for them to land.
Boom Boom, carried by two Madroxes, still struggles, demanding they let her go. Sweetheart it will be their pleasure, to drop her right on the head, comes the annoyed reply. Sweetheart? Boom Boom is instantly smitten. The Madroxes pull themselves together and are only one. Enough for her, Siryn jokes, calling him “love,” instantly causing jealousy in Boom Boom.
Warlock asks if he can go looking for Bobby and Chance and Madrox and Siryn agree. Warlock shifts into the shape of a dinosaur (though still keeping his characteristic circuitry look).
Gomi tells the others that he’s been conferring with Don and Bill and they have decided that their priorities should be the building of a fire for warmth and protection and, of course, the acquisition and preparation of sustenance. Great plan, Boom Boom who is leaning against a tree states sarcastically. Just what does he expect to use to build his fire? One generally begins with kindling, he replies and telekinetically fells the tree behind her, almost getting her with his blast.
She calls him an idiot, reminding him he doesn’t have any control over his blasts. She intends to attack him with a time-bomb in retaliation. Madrox tries to get between them, which isn’t necessary as Boom Boom suddenly stumbles. Don and Bill are holding onto her ankles.
Gomi calmly observes that Boom Boom’s little timebomb has rolled into a thicket close to him. Siryn brutally shoves him down before it explodes in his face. Madrox unfortunately fell over Boom Boom who uses this to come on to him. Siryn suggests that there are more efficient ways of starting a fire, even if they are not as much fun.
A concerned dinosaur, Warlock makes his way through strange territory when he hears a gargling noise. Believing Bobby to be in trouble he runs and finds him… as well as a dead dinosaur.
The two friends assure each other how happy they are to see each other and Warlock brings Bobby up to speed. Then, he reminds Bobby that he originally joined the Fallen Angels to repudiate the heroic ideal. When he saved Chance, wasn’t that an act of heroism? Teammates are different, Roberto decides. Even villains should stand by their own.
Warlock asks if the visit to this world increased Sunspot’s power. He doubts it, Bobby replies. His power burst didn’t outlast the bump on his head. Then how did Bobby defeat the second attacking predator? He didn’t, Bobby replies and points upwards. They did. He points at a huge dinosaur ridden by a primate somewhere between monkey and human stage – Moon Boy and Devil Dinosaur.
Nearby, Ariel tells Chance she learned about these mutants… well about one of them… through the American media. He came to Earth once or twice… through magic or space, she imagines, and people jus assumed he’d come forward in time from Earth’s past.
Chance curtly informs her that the racket she’s making will attract more predators. Ariel apologizes. As soon as she finds those two they can head back to Beat Street and… Quiet! Chance orders her. She heard something moving in the underwood. She jumps to attack it and finds the Vanisher, who cries for his mother.
He crouches on the ground, unwilling to look up. Ariel tries to shake some sense into him. Finally, the Vanisher realizes it’s them, stops whining and pretends he had the situation under control the whole time. In fact, he was just on his way to find them and the others, so if they’ll follow him? That’s the direction they just came from, Chance replies and grabs him by the jacket, pointing him in the other direction. Oh, he knew that. By the way, how did the dinosaur attack go? Did anyone get killed? The two girls smirk at each other behind his back.
Nearby, the others have started a fire and Gomi cooks some unidentifiable animal on a spit over it, while Don and Boll bring fuel. Gomi promises Don the dark meat. Nearby, Boom Boom asks Madrox what he’s got there. Madrox explains it’s a portable version of the mutant detector Cerebro while embarrassed about Boom Boom making goo-goo eyes at him.
Theresa remarks that the food smells delicious and asks what it is. Gomi has no idea. Don and Bill tracked it and killed it.
Madrox demonstrates Cerebro, saying take the lobsters, for example. She can think of someone else she’d rather take, Boom Boom sighs. Madrox is speechless while Gomi explains that one might think both lobsters are mutants from their abilities. However, the powers come from their robot parts. Don however registers as a mutant because of his rare azure coloration. Of course, green is nice too, he quickly assures Bill.
Jamie explains this unit is calibrated now to register distinctions between familiar mutants, so if he eliminates the readings for everyone here… Suddenly, he feels funny. Like he wasn’t all there. Boom Boom uses that opportunity to come on to him again.
That moment, they are joined by Vanisher, Chance and Ariel, with Vanisher having just followed the scent of food. Ariel chirps that she’ll be needing the mini-Cerebro later. Madrox remarks this is odd. He’s getting some kind for reading from both Ariel and Chance as if they were latent mutants or something. Chance replies he’s probably holding it upside-down or something while Ariel adds that she couldn’t be a mutant. It’s just not possible. And neither is Chance.
Vanisher reminds her that mutant or not, Ariel is a space-bender. Now why doesn’t she find a cave door or something to take them home though? He doesn’t mean right now, does he? she asks. Well, he supposes they can take time out for food first, he agrees. He gets the first helping after Gomi tastes it to see if it’s poisoned, of course. But Don and Bill… Gomi begins to protest and then gives in.
Siryn angrily turns to the Vanisher. He wasn’t seriously thinking of leaving without Bobby and Warlock, was he? He suggests the rest of them go home and Ariel can wait for them to show up. They call him a miserable coward.
Madrox interjects. According to his readings, they’ve just shown… and indeed that moment Roberto and Warlock turn up, announcing two friends. Vanisher jealously guards his food while Madrox announces the Cerebro unit is reading off the scale. Either there are hundred mutants coming or else…
Or else it’s the big mutant she came to find, their newest member, Ariel announces. With a smirk, Bobby hands Chance her jacket. Vanisher protests, asking since when has anyone been allowed into the Fallen Angels without his personal okay?
A Dinosaur roars at him as Devil Dinosaur and Moon Boy join them. Welcome to the group, want some dinner? Vanisher asks, suitably cowed.


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“Boom-Boom!” Jamie Madrox shouts, lying on the ground, as do the other Fallen Angels. Their headquarters looks somewhat devastated. What is she trying to do? Jamie asks, he was only asking for a small demonstration. She nearly blew the building down!
Boom-Boom is confused and apologizes. Amused, Siryn remarks that she was trying to impress Jamie and she thinks that’s just about what she’s done. Sunspot criticizes that Siryn is too kind to Boom-Boom. Her flirtation put them all at risk. Jamie tries to defend her.
Moon Boy (whom nobody understands) marvels at Boom-Boom’s power display. But what happened to displease her? Vanisher asks Chance what he’s saying. She can’t give him an exact translation, comes the reply, but it probably has something to do with how much better off the Fallen Angels would be if Boom-Boom would stop showing off and learned a little self-control.
Truly hurt, Boom-Boom insists it wasn’t her fault. She only set off a little timebomb because Jamie wanted to see it. She wouldn’t do anything to hurt him. But it was twice as powerful as she intended. Who is she lying to? Chance asks angrily. She’s been part of this team as long as Boom-Boom and she knows just how well Boom-Boom can control her powers. She makes those little energy pellets, gives a command and they go off when and how hard she says.
Well this one didn’t follow orders, Boom-Boom insists. And since when is Chance the big expert on superpowers, anyway? It’s not like she has any, like the rest of them!
Well, excuse her for not being a mutant, Chance snarls. She notices that when the famous mutant hunters X-Factor caught Boom-Boom, they didn’t kill her, so how come?
Siryn asks Jamie amused if he sees what’s come of his flirting with Boom-Boom. Jamie vows he did nothing to encourage that little menace.
Moon Boy addresses Bobby, asking why everyone is so dismayed. But poor Roberto of course doesn’t understand his language.
Meanwhile the two girls are still bitching at each other. Chance suggests X-Factor let Boom-Boom go because she made a deal with them, maybe she’s deliberately trying to kill other mutants. She threatens Boom-Boom with her knife.
Siryn intends to use some sonic vibration to make Chance drop the knife, but her attempt turns out too powerful and she shatters the weapon. Terry is surprised, the blast was far more powerful than she intended.
The Vanisher orders everyone to stop screwing up. This clubhouse is a pigsty, he tells them. In fact pigs would be ashamed to be seen in it, he wants someone to clean up all this rubble and debris.
Jamie volunteers. He asks Bobby to help him out with a small, sharp impact, but please in his human form. Bobby hits Jamie’s hand but nothing happens. Jamie observes that now his powers seem to be on the fritz. Bobby tries again with no result.
Disgusted, Chance calls Bobby a sissy and hits Jamie’s hand. Suddenly, there are four Jamies… from an impact that would usually only have produced two, Jamie observes. Chance tries again, but instead of six as expected, there are now ten Jamies.
Ariel, Gomi and Warlock look for a bigger place than their Club house what with all their added members. Ariel asks Gomi where Don and Bill are. Bill is surveying things from the vantage of a packing crate, he replies and Don is… There you are, he shouts a moment later and lifts up the blue lobster. How often have Bill and he warned him about not wandering underfoot where he could get stepped on?
Meanwhile, the others are cleaning up with Vanisher giving orders. When he hears a thud from the door, he fears the police or X-Factor are here. Siryn tells him not to vanish again. Whoever they are, if they want to make trouble, they are in for a fight. Instead, it’s the others, telling them about their find. Another room adjoined to their headquarters with a wall that can be winded upward or downward. Room enough even for Devil Dinosaur.
Moon Boy happily greets Devil Dinosaur and enthuses about the warm new cave their new comrades have found for Devil. Moon Boy urges Bobby to come see Devil’s fine new cave. While the dinosaur lies down to snooze, Madrox pulls his dupes together and feels a little dizzy for a moment.
The Vanisher suggests a little fresh city air. In fact, he thinks it’s about time all of them got out and earned their keep. Now he’s not saying that adding a Tyrannosaurus rex to the team was a bad idea. He’s sure he can be useful in all sorts of ways they haven’t thought about yet but, since they don’t know what he eats or how often he gets hungry, he thinks it ought to be everybody’s business to steal enough food, so that they never find out the hard way. Moon Boy, being not exactly Mr. Inconspicuous, is excused from foraging duty… and is to stay and keep his friend happy. But the rest of them split up in teams of two and get cracking.
Ariel suggests she work with Chance again and Chance announces she wouldn’t work with the rest of them losers anyway. Warlock and Sunspot predictably team up. Boom-Boom wants to accompany Madrox but Siryn most decidedly vetoes this, leaving Boom-Boom to be stuck with Gomi, a fact which makes neither of them happy.
Moon Boy wonders where the others are going. The cave is warm, but if they must stay for long alone in the company of him-who-lacks-hair-but yells-much-and-hides-often, he shall be sorry they ever left the Valley of the Flame.
Theresa asks Jamie if he is troubled that they are no closer to reaching their goal. They came there to find and bring home Bobby and Warlock. Jamie explains he attempted it and very nearly lost Bobby’s trust as a result. At least while they are in the Fallen Angels, they are helping the boys to stay out of trouble. And become petty thieves themselves in the process, Terry sighs.
He knows it’s wrong, Jamie agrees, but kids that age without anyone to care what becomes of them could get into so much worse kind of trouble. He can’t feel that badly about some of the little things they do wrong. Terry agrees. They seem so like family, it’s easy to forgive the group for its flaws.
Madrox holds his head and Terry asks how he is. She’s beginning to worry about those turns he’s been having. He too, Madrox replies. They are the one new thing in his life he hasn’t enjoyed lately.
Elsewhere, Ariel asks Chance what she thinks about Madrox’ idea that Chance might herself be some kind of latent mutant. He’s out of his mind, Chance scoffs. Everything she can do she taught herself. She’s not a freak! Anyway, he said the same thing about Ariel. That’s impossible, comes the reply. No one on her planet has mutated in so long… they don’t have a word for how many ages it’s been. That’s why she’s gathered the Fallen Angels together. Mutants are important.
So’s money, Chance announces. All she cares about is getting what she was promised in the end. Is Ariel sure that space bending trick of hers isn’t some kind of superpower? It’s a trick anyone can do, if they’ve got the right kind of hands and a good grounding in subjective physics, comes the reply. If she says so… Chance replies. She flunked basic algebra.
They notice a greengrocer, Chance says she knows him. He’s from the Glorification Church like her parents. Working for the reverend Park. She can always spot them. They make her sick!
Ariel greets him, pointing out what a lovely day it is and how nice his fruits are and how nice it makes a person feel to share. Surprisingly, the man offers them to help themselves to his wares for free.
Shortly, the girls see Roberto accompanied by Warlock (in the form of a very weird dog). Has she really not gotten fond of him? Ariel whispers. She’d hate for Chance to have a problem later. She’ll show her how fond she is of him, Chance replies.
She grabs a woman’s purse and runs over to Bobby and Warlock. Ever been in jail? she asks him. Well, they better run, Ariel suggests ‘cause there’s a first time for everything!
He follows them inside the building they run into and they end up in the Y.W.C.A. Chance recommends he enjoy the view and abandons him as the two girls are warped back home by Ariel.
Ariel laughs she doesn’t know who was more surprised: Bobby, Warlock or all those women? Vanisher has no idea what they are talking about but is content with the purse and the goods.
Moon Boy now understands that his new comrades went to forage and bring tribute to their chef. Obviously if he and Devil Dinosaur hope to remain they have to do the same. Moon Boy opens the garage door and off they go into the night without the others noticing.
Roberto tries to talk himself out of the situation against a crowd of enraged women. Bobby earnestly apologizes, stammering that a DaCosta always respects ladies and the girls agree that he seems to be too sweet to be a pervert. The mood changes, however, when Warlock corrects them that they are not perverts but mutants. Immediately, the women suggest they call X-Factor. Sunspot powers up and the two of them retreat quickly.
Elsewhere, Boom-Boom wants to blow something up, suggesting this could be a great diversion while they steal. Gomi finds this unnecessary, and neither of them has a power to help them get away should something go awry. She simply revels in destruction. She could sure revel in destroying him, she sulks. How come she always gets stuck with a total creep instead of…
That moment, she sees Madrox alone and addresses him, asking if he got lonely for her. Madrox completely ignores her, which ticks her off. She calls after him, shouting his name and he finally turns around. He doesn’t know what she is talking about, he assures her, but Boom-Boom points out he reacted to his name. Why is he wearing different clothes all of a sudden?
Leave me alone! Jamie shouts and runs across the street without looking. That moment, he collides with a cyclist. My poor darling, Boom-Boom coos and cradles his head, while Gomi tries to point out that there is hardly a more dangerous thing to do to an unconscious person than moving him about. Serve him right! the cyclist shouts, not looking where he was going. Gomi points out that Madrox was crossing at the corner with a green light while the driver operated his vehicle at excessive speed, in violation of the traffic signals and laws. The man begins to get nasty but, when the lobsters snap at his legs, he flees. Gomi turns back to Boom Boom, asking how their mysteriously wayward friend is doing. Jamie awakes to look at the returning Moon Boy and Devil Dinosaur, who cross the street to reach them.
Elsewhere, Siryn asks what is wrong with Jamie. He’s better now, he explains and adds he now knows what these spells of weakness are. He has only felt this way before when one of his other selves has been away too long or has gotten hurt. He thinks not all of his selves may be returned. And he can tell by the intensity of what he just felt how close his other self is that they can be there in a minute.
Meanwhile, an angry Roberto (along with Warlock) has made it back to HQ, where the others tell him to hurry. Devil Dinosaur and Moon Boy are gone!
Outside, the Madrox found by Boom Boom and Gomi slowly gets up (against Boom-Boom’s advice – he might have broken ribs), asking them to let him go.
That moment, Siryn and the other Madrox run into them. Where did they lose each other? he asks the newcomer Madrox. The day they got into town? That’s right, Madrox-2 admits. He decided not to rendezvous with the rest of them. He wanted a life of his own. If that’s so terrible.
Shouldn’t he let his main self be the judge of that? Theresa asks. Madrox-2 calls her sweetheart, and states he thought she loved him, at least she would understand. He doesn’t want to be a smothered part of a cookie cutter man anymore. Going back inside of him would be like dying now. He hoped she’d talk to the other Madrox for him.
She keeps forgetting any one of them is as real as any other, she admits. Really? Boom-Boom asks. The more, the merrier. If they merged, those broken ribs would hurt a lot less, Madrox-1offers. He can live with the pain, his double replies.
Boom-Boom suggests to Siryn they let them both stick around. That’s one for each of them. On the contrary, Gomi corrects her, since both Madroxes share the same feelings, it will be two for Siryn and none for Boom-Boom.
That moment, the others find them. Agitated, Bobby asks if they have seen Moon Boy and Devil Dinosaur, while Boom-Boom is about get nasty to Gomi. Angrily, he tells her to watch where she puts her feet and picks up Bill. As he chides her, there is suddenly a crunching noise, as Devil Dinosaur has stepped on Don… with lethal results.