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Disintegration
(Then)
'As far as anyone can tell, it appears as if you have some kind of Techno-Organic virus coursing through your body' Jean Grey tells her dear friend Ororo Munroe a.k.a. Storm. Jean explains that the virus is not one they have experienced before, similar in effect, but slower in methodology, and that it will spread, unbated, until it consumes the host. Jean tells Ororo that they have tried every blood replacement or purification method they could think of. Jean is wearing her new green and yellow costume as she sits next to Storm, while Emma Frost sits nearby. Flowers cover the benches they sit on, while a small pool of water with lilypads is in the ground in front of them. Jean continues, informing Storm that they have had Forge, Beast and basically every genius on the island take a crack at figuring this thing out. She tells her friend that she is sorry, but they don't know what to do – or how to stop it.
Hanging her head, Ororo tells Jean that she is sure she did her best, that she is sure everyone did. 'I suppose all there is to do now is wait and hope for a miracle' Ororo smiles as Jean puts her arms around her and they look into each other's eyes. 'The miracle will be one of you realizing what an overly dramatic bit of nonsense this all is' Emma Frost snaps. 'After all, we're just going to resurrect you, dear. If you're feeling bold, perhaps now's the time to make a few modifications' Emma suggests, adding that she has a few ideas. 'Emma. What the he-' Jean begins, turning to Emma, but Storm narrows her eyes at Emma as she tells Jean that it is fine, and to let her talk 'She's so very good at talking' Storm exclaims as she stands up. 'Thank you. I often feel an underappreci-' Emma starts to reply, before Monet St Croix appears. She apologizes for interrupting, before announcing that she looked at Storm's medical results – and she thinks she knows how to save her.
(Later)
'Okay... so how do we find this guy?' Doug Ramsey a.k.a. Cypher asks as he propels through the air thanks to his alien companion, Warlock, who has transformed himself into a jetpack. Monet flies alongside him as if she was walking through the air, as they lower themselves towards an apartment. Monet tells Doug that what they are looking for is temporal phenomena – anomalies, really, so that they can track a specific kind of person who does a specific kind of job. They land on a balcony and Doug approaches a glass sliding door. Monet stands with her arms folded as she tells him 'Once I figured out how we might save Storm, I asked all the smart mutants -' to which Doug interrupts her: 'Well, you didn't ask me... so not all the smart mutants, obviously'. Monet tells Doug that there was a threshold, and not to take it personally, before revealing that they got busy triangulating every atemporal incident they could find and eventually they narrows their needs down to three individuals.
Monet continues, revealing that from there, they simply did a deep dive on what kind of people they were dealing with and picked the most compromised – and so here they are. 'Make sense?' she asks. 'Hmmm, sure...' Doug replies as he looks at the door, then glances back at Monet, telling her that he thinks the door has some kind of alarm system or booby trap rigged to it, so he isn't sure how they are going to sneak in. Monet then grabs the door and tears it from the frame with ease. 'Or we could not sneak in at all... I guess that works' Doug remarks.
Monet and Doug enter the living room where they find a man in a yellow AIM costume and helmet lying on a sofa, blanket over his body, glass of wine on the table next to him. He looks over and tells them that he was wondering when they were going to show up. 'But there's no need to be so aggro with my door -' he begins, before realizing that his new arrivals are now who he was expecting. 'Who are you?' he asks.
'Here's a better question: Who were you expecting... and why?' Monet answers. 'Here's an even better question: Do you really just hang out all day wearing that getup? Doesn't seem practical' Doug adds.
The man in the AIM suit stands up and tells his new arrivals that he is a professional. 'I can't sit around in my pajamas all day, can I? Who does that?' He walks over to them as he reveals that as far as who he is waiting for, it is the person who is paying him to double-cross his super-evil science organization. 'You know, the man with all the money. Guy named... Fantomex'.
(Later still)
'Ok, so I know I agreed to help, but I feel guilty, and I need to come clean about something' Fantomex announces as he stands in front of Monet under a darkened sky. A large dome can be seen jutting out of a forest, surrounded by a fence. 'You feel guilty? Really? You?' Monet asks, unimpressed. Cypher stands near Monet while the AIM operative stands behind Fantomex, and Storm can be seen several feet away from the others. 'Guilty might not be the right word...i t's probably more along the lines of I promised this idiot a bunch of money to get us inside and I can't actually pay' Fantomex replies. He adds that most of these guys don't make it through these things anyway. 'But just in case, could you extend to me some petty cash... a lone of credit... something like that?' Fantomex asks. 'Wait, what?' the AIM operative utters.

'So... we're negotiating?' Monet asks. 'I don't know how much juice you've got, honestly' Fantomex tells her. Storm's eyes begin to glow white, while Fantomex tells Monet that she needs to get inside, and this guy needs to get paid. 'You've got the money... really, this is only going to end one way' he adds. 'Well, I'm going to get something out of you. So what's it going to be?' Monet asks, arms folded as she stares at Fantomex. There is a rumbling, and both Fantomex and Monet turn to Storm. 'Uh-oh' Fantomex utters. Lightning crackles in the sky above them, followed by loud thunder. 'So... you are paying. That's all I was asking for' Fantomex remarks.
'Speaking of...' the man in the AIM suit begins as the group walks towards the dome in the forest. Cypher touches the side of the dome while the AIM operative golds up a small round disc and reveals that he spent ten years on doctorate degrees and advanced studies only to get tricked into working at AIM by shiny toys and a mail-order bride – which would have been fine, had he not been drafted into a suicidal silence team built to hack the temporal bubble of an artificial world. 'So, uh, pay me to betray my organization – not die – and disappear with a ton of cash? Yes. Thank you, sir. Sign. Me. Up' he exclaims as he presses the disc into the side of the dome, which opens some sort of door, which everyone then passes through.
Once inside, the group stands on the edge of a cliff, while strange objects appear before them – several floating pyramids and large eyeballs with tentacles attached to them. Some serpent-like creatures with large teeth fly past, too. 'Okay... everyone take a good look. Welcome to the World' Fantomex announces. Cypher observes the eyeballs blasting energy at the pyramids and points out that it appears there is some kind of giant battle going on. He adds that he doesn't know what they are fighting about, or fighting over, but he thinks they are pretty lucky, as this seems like the perfect distraction. Cypher then asks which way they have to go. 'You're looking at it. The big weird-shaped place' Fantomex announces, pointing at the strange pyramids. 'All right... so not so lucky. Fantastic' Cypher mutters. 'It'll be fine, Douglas' Storm assures the younger mutant, while Monet switches to her Penance form, Storm tells everyone to follow her lead as she takes flight, blasting the strange creatures ahead with bolts of lightning.
Fantomex opens fire with is weapons as he leaps through the air, and Cypher lets Warlock take over much of his body, and is able to fire a blast of energy at one of the creatures with lots of teeth. 'Whoa! Nice call on the combat suit, Warlock! I could get used to this!' Cypher exclaims. 'Joy! Delight! Selffriend will be protected by -' Warlock exclaims, grinning as his head suddenly manifests from Cypher's arm – but he is interrupted by one of the eyeballs blasting him with energy, and knocking him backwards. 'See? That's what happens when you go after the mutant version of Bambi. So don't do that' Penance snaps at the eyeball as she shoves her deadly claws into it, causing a strange pink blood to spurt from it.
Fantomex and the AIM operative have landed on the ground, and Fantomex rushes towards the pyramid structure. 'Uh, hey! Hey! Where are you going? I'm in a bit of a spot here!' the AIM operative calls out as one of the serpent-like creatures wrap around him. 'I could use a... little... help... or maybe not'.
At that moment, Storm floats through the air, the sky around her turning dark as she announces that the environment in the World is exceedingly malleable – volatile and subject to change. Storm remarks that all of the micro-components and small swarming machines are especially vulnerable to such manipulation, transforming them from building blocks into weapons. 'And so, I give the World... wind' Storm utters, while Penance digs her claws into the ground, and the AIM operative uses a small device he has been carrying to create a force field around himself and Cypher.
'WIND TO WREAK HAVOK! WIND TO...' Storm shouts as she flies up above the pyramids, the eyeballs and serpents suddenly blown away by the powerful wind – but Storm is cut-off mid-sentence as the Techno-Organic virus rages through her body and she falls to the ground. Minutes later, Penance and Cypher are at Storm's side. 'She's coming around' Penance points out, while Cypher encourages Storm to wake up. 'Did it work?' Storm asks, the Techno-Organic virus covering her face. 'Of course. But now it's time to get you fixed up' Penance replies. Penance then addresses the AIM operative as Ned and reveals that she picked him not just because he could get them access to the World, but also because of his specific area of expertise. 'You figure out what we're looking for yet?' Penance asks Ned.
Ned announces that he thinks so, and tells his companions that there is a particular side effect that radical evolutionary experiments in a closed environment have – systems that are normally competitive, like organic and technological ones – have a tendency to become accidentally and terminally intertwined. He explains that they built a machine to pull them apart, that it is in there, in the same direction Fantomex ran off to. 'Who knows...we might even run into...Him' Ned utters as the group make their way into the pyramid building, and find Fantomex with Ultimaton, standing over the motionless bodies of several other AIM operatives. 'Uh, this isn’t as bad as it looks' Fantomex calls out. 'I promise' he adds, raising his hands while Ultimaton stands at his side. Ned motions to a glowing triangle-shaped object nearby and reports that it is the machine they need. He tells Storm that she needs to climb inside the unity field while he mans the controls. Storm touches the object and begins to enter the glowing triangle while Ned explains that when he activates the machine, it will begin to decouple Storm from the virus. 'Hopefully you're not past its ability to separate them' Ned adds when Storm is inside the triangle. Cypher keeps watch over Storm while Penance watches Ned at the monitor station. 'Powering on' Ned calls out. Storm appears calm, but she has a lingering question – why is she doing this when she can let go and be resurrected?
Suddenly, 'Hey! Looks like backup has arrived!' Ned calls out as a dozen or so large eyeballs enter the chamber. Storm wonders why she struggles, why she fights, while the eyeballs use their tentacles to knock Fantomex backwards. Storm asks herself why she doesn't surrender to the inevitable and wash her hands of it and start anew. 'After all, what's one life when you have an endless number of them?' Storm wonders. A tentacle wraps around Cypher's neck and energy crackles. The same happens to Ned, while Penance receives a strong blast of energy at close range. 'Where's the value? How can you even define what a “good life” is?' Storm asks herself, before deciding that the true meaning of life is in the living – it isn't a series of do-overs and restarts – it is fighting for what you have, what you believe in – it's fighting for who you are.
Ultimaton stands and does nothing once Fantomex, Cypher, Ned and Penance are all taken down. The mass of eyeballs moves closer to the triangle, which continues to glow as energy washes over Storm. 'I am a mutant. I am a goddess. And I want to live' Storm tells herself, as she casts forth a powerful surge of lightning, which blasts through the triangle and strikes the mass  of eyeballs down. 'NO!' Storm shouts. She emerges from the triangle, her skin has returned to normal. 'I'm better, see? Today I've had my fill of machines. I'm done now' Storm utters. She smiles as she looks at her fingers, which crackle with lightning. 'That's better. I'm back to full strength'.
Storm goes over to Cypher and helps him to his feet, telling him that she hopes they didn't put him out too much, and if he is all right. 'Oh, you know me... amazing at fieldwork' Cypher replies, joking that he is shocked he isn't sent on more of these things, as he is a natural. Storm turns to Monet, who switches back to her human form, and thanks her for figuring all this out. 'I am in your debt' Storm utters. 'Don't be ridiculous...it was...huh?' Monet starts to reply, before she notices something strange in the chamber – the triangle that Storm was in has morphed into some sort of star, and is covered in the Techno-Organic virus. 'That doesn't look right. What's happening with the containment field?' Monet asks. Ned tells her that it is all right, and that he was expecting this. 'I came prepared!' Ned exclaims as he raises the device he has been carrying around with him and aims it at the containment device, covering it in a strange substance.
Ned explains that the problem with how this machine works is, in this case, that you are leaving behind a pure technological construct that has been exposed to the same temporal forces that Storm was, and there is no telling what it could become if it expanded at will. The Techno-Organic virus appears to subside as Ned reports that it is a containment system, that it should prevent any potential intelligence from reaching evolutionary critical mass. 'Uh-huh' Cypher frowns while he and Storm look at the containment field. Fantomex looks over at Ultimaton and remarks 'Dare I ask if you're finally ready to leave?' But Ultimaton tells Fantomex that he should know by now that he is never going to leave. Fantomex pauses, before announcing that he is going to stay, too. 'What does that mean, I have no idea...but I guess we'll figure out together. Stay put. I'll be right back after I show these guys the way back out...to the real world' Fantomex tells Ultimaton as he starts to lead his companions out of the pyramid. Storm and Monet turn to Ned, and Storm asks him if he is ready to leave. 'If I remember correctly, there's a whole lot of money waiting for you' Storm adds.
Ned surprisingly announces that he doesn't need it. He tells Storm to keep the money, to spend it – but just not to give it to charity. 'So you're staying too?' Storm asks. 'Are you kidding? Look at this place. It's amazing!' Ned replies as he stands next to Ultimaton. Ned exclaims that it is like an  evil scientist's dream lab, that it is an entire world, so what is not to love? 'With talk like that, I should take you with us – whether you like it or not. But you helped save me...' Storm remarks, before thanking Ned and telling him to try not to get into too much trouble.
Cypher looks at the containment system and tells it 'I'm leaving now, but so you know...you're not fooling anyone'. Cypher tells the containment system that the energy pattern it is throwing off really gives the game away to someone like him. He can make it our clearly – it is language, which means the containment system is conscious, sentient. 'You got something you want to say about that?' Cypher asks. The containment unit then speaks in its own strange language, which of course Cypher can understand. Cypher smiles, and replies 'Yeah... I'll be seeing you too'.


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And Then There Was One
Not long ago, the Scarlet Witch created the Waiting Room, enabling mutants who had died before the alteration of Cerebro to be resurrected as well. One of the first ones to return to life was John Proudstar aka Thunderbird.Sometime later, John is walking down a road in Arizona, on his way home. He muses about being the first X-Man to die. To many people, he turned into some kind of myth. He isn’t sure he ever was the man they believe him to be. For him, the point is not what could have been but what will be.He muses about the nature of Krakoa. While he was dead, two white men built themselves a reservation and called it freedom. Far as answers go, his won’t be on Krakoa, John figures. Those people don’t know him, but he hopes a few here still do. He tried talking to his brother, but James was a kid when John died. Most Proudstars are dead, thanks to him not being around to protect them. Thanks to people hating Apaches. Or mutants. Or both. But there’s one relative James doesn’t know. He was too young to remember the divorce. Their grandmother Lozen Proudstar. She kept the name. She taught John all he knew about life. He figured she’d survive them all.John reaches Camp Gozhoo and hopes he was right.The neighborhood is empty except for some teenagers sitting listlessly in front of a house. Where the hell is everyone? John asks rudely as he drops his bag. Who’s asking? one of the kids retorts belligerently. John introduces himself and adds Lozen Proudstar is his grandmother. He came for a reunion. Fees like a funeral.Ain’t he dead? of the kids asks. Not anymore, he replies. The kids vaguely explain that someone cut a deal with the government. Sold the rights of any Native’s X-genes. As if those were theirs to sell! The cops came to collect. The Elders went out to meet them and refused to give up their mutants. Wouldn’t identify them. So, the cops arrested them all.John asks if Lozen was with them. They don’t know him! one of the boys spits. Says he’s back from the dead? Bet the muties didn’t even bury him right! Is he even human now? Does he think they owe him answers? Something smells like apple…He’s red outside and in, John replies, but go ahead and sulk! Seems useful. He’ll be back with their people. All of them. He opens his bag containing his new costume.A little later, dressed in his new outfit, Thunderbird walks up to the police station. The cops tell him to stop. If he has a problem with what went down at Gozhoo, take it up with the BIA, not them. John grins and ignores their orders.He enters the station. Horse parking in the rear, the sheriff tells him. Thunderbird orders him to let the people of Camp Gozhoo go. He’s got orders, the sheriff replies. Holding them for collection. They are coming with him, Jogn replies. So he can pick them up the next day again, the sheriff scoffs, for public intoxication.Anyone not looking to pay for those words, find the door, John suggests, and several people obey. Is that some kind of threat? the sheriff asks from behind a plexiglass wall.John’s hands smash the glass and he reaches for him and drags him out.In the meantime, the other cops phone for back-up. Where the hell’s the Heritage Initiative?Said Heritage Initiative is already enroute, as one of them, John’s old enemy Martynec assures Judas Traveller via online call. Martynec promises the mutants will be weeded out and the processing of their genetic material will be swift and brutal. Remember the Heritage Initiative was worth every penny. Traveller replies Orchis is satisfied with the acquisition but, besides delivery, their ventures are far beyond Martynec’s paygrade. Martynec is getting another call; it’s the panicked cops demanding where they are. They are getting torn to pieces.Actually, so far Thunderbird has only been destroying objects but, when bullets bounce off his skin, he gets really annoyed and kicks in the wall.He steps through into another room, where a cop is trying to shoot him with an automatic and manages to hit a colleague instead. Thunderbird grabs his gun and destroys it. He is doing his work, he tells the frightened cop and orders him to stop. He likes his work. He throws what’s left of the gun after the fleeing cop.A car from the Heritage Initiative tries to hit him and he hits back.Outside, he finds several confused people and a clapping Martynec, who congratulates him on the show. He didn’t know John was back. What a specimen, and so considerate. He went and hand-delivered his X-gene.John realizes this is Martynec’s deal and scoffs that Martynec is no mutant, just a freak who likes experimenting on himself. Killing Camp Verde, killing John’s family wasn’t enough. He’s got to sell their bodies! Now he owes him some blood!In the meantime, the prisoners free themselves from the car and run. The freed people wonder who he is but take the opportunity to flee.Thunderbird wrestles Martynec, who mocks that people get avenged, not property. All they are owed is a spot on the slab! John is surprised at Martynec’s strength and it gets worse, as Martynec transforms into a beast-man. Doesn’t he want to defend his people? he mocks John. And who are they exactly? Those that remember him as a martyr or those who don’t remember him at all?While Martynec get the upper hand, the other members of the Heritage Initiative stop the escapees and demand they surrender their mutants. Martynec asks how he thought to save them. He couldn’t even save himself!Flashback:The new X-Men’s second mission. Count Nefaria was escaping with his plane. Thunderbird jumped onto it and held on, while trying to destroy the plane. Professor X telepathically ordered him to get off. John told him to butt out. He’s been dumped on by everybody he met, but he is a man! A warrior of the Apache – and today he is gonna prove it!Xavier screamed in horror as the plane detonated and John died.Present:John calmly tells Martynec he’s got a lot of ideas about dying and coming back for a guy who’s never gonna make it back! He runs at Martynec and breaks his arm. He deliberately hurts him threatening to kill him, until a voice asks if it is really him. Who? John asks dumbly. A tough-looking, elderly native woman asks if he is real. Grandma Lozen! John exclaims.Lozen tells him she doesn’t care how this happened. She trusts her eyes. And she knows his rage… they all do. But he doesn’t need to follow it.Holding open Martynec’s jaw, John demands how many of their people he killed. He is treating them as products! This is justice! Something they’ve always had to take for themselves! Unimpressed, his grandmother asks whether he thinks she needs a lesson on what they’ve been through.“No killing?” John scoffs. Who is she – Xavier? She orders him to watch his mouth and slows down. He is an Apache and a mutant. She never bothered with the distinction. But right now, there is a difference. His mutant gifts might protect him from the consequences of his actions, but they are not bullet-proof. Kill Martynec. He will be fine. But they will be targets! A good choice for the selfish and shortsighted. Is that who he is?John ponders her words, then throws Martynec against a wall. He guesses not. Let’s go, they are done here. Lozen tells him to look at all those guns, all that gear, and all the cops can do is watch them go free.Martynec mocks, is that all there is from the great Thunderbird, Krakoa’s sainted dead? Proud warriors bending to the word of a dusted antique. This is why they lose - they let t do it! Grandma Lozen kicks him in the face and tells him not to confuse mercy with weakness. Thunderbird grabs him and tells him, that woman just saved his life! Everyone saw it! The whole world saw what he did to them! Maybe it will matter. If he ever sets foot in their world again, there won’t be a power on Earth to save him.The prisoners leave led by John and Lozen. As John kisses her on the cheek, she tells him that she doesn’t know what that terrible man with the island told him, but this right now, this is when he is really home.John plants a Krakoan flower outside Lozen’s home to create a Krakoan gateway. They both sit on the roof, sharing some beers. So that flower will grow into a magic door? Lozen asks skeptically. That’s what the terrible man with the island said, John retorts. First useful thing he did for John, she snorts. John reminds her that he brought him back, but that has to be kept secret between them. Small price to pay for having him back, she replies, and walloping werewolves. John teases the word “walloping” died before he did. Like hell! she snorts, and she should know. Did he forgot who taught him walloping? He thought he was self-taught, is John’s wry reply. She playfully hits him and orders him not get wise. She wiped his ass. She can still kick it.The doorway grows.He bets she could, John laughs. He turns more somber and admits it’s been a strange ride. He thought coming here would help. But the kids when he showed up… Martynec… they all said the same thing. He was dead. No ceremony, no rites. He didn’t rise from the grave, he popped out of an egg. Didn’t die right. Didn’t come back right. He’s here… but who or what is he?Lozen thoughtfully replies she doesn’t know what goes on on that island, but they all got their own ideas about dying. Where the spirit goes… how it is reborn. Ask her? His weird old egg is just a way of describing the same thing. She told him she doesn’t care what’s Apache and what’s mutant. When she sees him, she sees a man of two worlds who doesn’t need to choose. A man who is as brave as he is stubborn. A man who may not always be kind, but who’s fair to the bone. She sees her Johnny. She sees Thunderbird. She sees her grandson. And she’s proud.That’s good, he smiles, because she is about to see one more. That moment, his brother James steps through the Krakoan gate, asking why John wanted… He sees Lozen and asks if she is his grandmother. Little Jimmy? she grins. Hasn’t seen him since he was nursing. She tells him come up, unless his brother has all the jumps. He could dream, James scoffs and jumps to the roof. Lozen looks at him: he has his grandfather’s height and her attitude, she decides, then hugs him.He stammers he should have visited her. He shows his phone. He thought this picture of him and John was all he had. Lozen points out she wasn’t exactly beating down the door in Westchester. Their grandfather pissed her off. She wasted a fair amount of time being angry about it, but they are all here now thanks to John, and that picture is due for an update. They replace it with a picture of the three of them.So, when does she get a snappy name and costume like them? Lozen jokes. Like Titania or Screaming Mimi from UCWF? James points out those are wrestlers; they have mutant names. She still wants a costume, she insists and passes him a beer. Until then, she’ll take having both of them.John muses that coming back is always a strange ride. You get there and it’s never what you thought it would be. He figured he had a decision to make. Turns out he was wrong. A smart woman told him that and he knows better than to argue. He’s Apache. He’s a mutant. Two people preyed on by thrash like Martynec. Fools who think they are above consequence. But they are not. And maybe he won’t win all the fights ahead, but he’ll damn sure pick every one of them!


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Moritat (1st story)
Head Space (6th story)
1st story:
An old-fashioned club with a small stage. “Guten Abend, dear friends,” the emcee greets the audience, among them Kurt Wagner dressed in civilian clothes. Good to see so many familiar faces. Tonight, they turn to the old standards. Songs that have served them for decades like ex-lovers who keep coming back for more.
A platinum blonde in a fur coat enters the stage. She is announced as Ms. Clair de La Lune. In German, she thanks him. This is for all the beasts in silk suits and for the silk suits between them and the beasts.
There are angels in the shadows, she begins singing, and in brightness devils walk free.
Kurt hears a strangled noise coming from behind the stage.
Though they stroll through the sunlight, it’s the devils you don’t see.
Kurt teleports behind the stage, where the emcee is about to stab one of the showgirls.
Behind their flattering face that monsters wait to play.
“Ahem,” Kurt states and blocks the knife.
And though the angels have their defenses where they kept them we can’t say.
Kurt lunges at the man and disarms him.
For the shadows hide their secrets from those of us who’ve gone astray so we don’t see them, we with our regrets in the shallow light of day.
The man gets his second wind but the girl hits him on the head with her shoe.
No, we don’t see them in the shallow light of day. Which is why when danger beckons under the world’s false glittering spell the angels pass us in the darkness and we’re left to save ourselves.
Kurt thanks her politely.
Claire de la Lune finishes her song under applause. May they all be better strangers, she announces and, backstage, the girl smiles gratefully at Kurt as he offers his arm for support so she can put on her shoe.
6th story:
Jean Grey sits in a room telekinetically levitating and cleaning up. Scott Summers watches her. Suddenly, Wolverine, battling two armored goons comes crashing through the window. Scott immediately joins the battle while Jean seems somewhat exasperated until she too levitates a goon out of the room.
The room is a mess. Is she okay? Scott asks. She’s fine, but what in the world was that? While Scott guesses, Wolverine comes crashing in through the door. Pierced with arrows, he sinks into Jean’s arms, muttering he can’t remember why they are after him.
A bunch of ninjas follows. Cyclops, suddenly wearing his uniform, tries to stop them while announcing he could use a bit of help. Jean tries to support Logan. Fighting, Scott sees that and angrily shouts her name.
“Enough!” Jean decides and takes out the ninja. She tells Scott to listen. There is nothing to worry about. Logan and she are just—
She cannot finish her sentence. Wolverine comes driving in on a motorbike, chased by a Sentinel. Jean tries to get Scott’s attention and shouts his name.
Reality:
Jean holds Scott and tells him it’s beautiful. Their psychic link. The room in his head. His mind is so clean and orderly. She feels so at peace there. And it’s important to her that he feels good there too, so please stop worrying about Logan! He should know she only has eyes for Scott.
So he guesses it’s all in his head, he jokes. Exactly, she assures him, then throws a look at Logan swilling a beer before repeating “exactly.”


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“Do You Ever?” (4th story)
4th story:
Elsa Bloodstone lovingly prepares herself a sandwich and plops down on the couch to enjoy it. She drops it the next moment when Tabitha Smith suddenly pops up and shouts she needs to ask her something. Elsa shoots her a death glare and Tabby apologizes. Usually, Elsa’s impossible to sneak up on. What does she want? Elsa asks coolly.
Tabby begins rambling. She went out on a couple of errands today.
Tabby’s story:
She spots these kids, maybe twelve, thirteen years old, and they are reading comics and one of them says that, if he had superpowers, like x-ray vision, he’d look into the girl’s locker room at school.
Reality:
Charming, Elsa comments. She knows! Tabby agrees. She spent so many years on X-Force, X-Terminators, X-whatever, trying to do some good. Does Elsa ever think about using her superpowers for evil? Elsa can stab to death anything that can be stabbed to death. And Tabby has got mad explosion-making skills… they’d be amazing supervillains. Screw the whole “oh noes, we have to protect the world that hates and fears us” crap! They could use their powers to get what they want all the time!
Really getting into it, Tabby muses what her super-villain name would be. Girl Evil or Lady Evil or Eviliciousness or something with evil anyway. She means, that stupid kid she saw today. He doesn’t want superpowers to make the world a better place. He wants them, so he can go see girls in their underwear.
Unfortunately, some people aren’t as noble as others, Elsa remarks. Has she ever thought about it? Tabby asks her. Using her awesome butt-kicking skills to rule the world, rather than save it?
Elsa pictures herself on a mountain with an evil laugh, people prostrates at her feet. She’d have a cape made from the Mona Lisa, she admits, and Johnny Depp would be her concubine.
So did Tabby tell off the grotty little brats? Not exactly, Tabby replies. She put little timebombs in their underwear. So much for doing good, huh?


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Things that never change (1st story)
 The Job (2nd story)
 A Moving Experience (3rd story)
 Mixology at Terato Gena’s (6th story)
1st story:
In the streets of a city, Jubilee and Wolverine are walking. Jubilee points out some men in a back alley. She saunters in there alone, asking if someone called for entertainment. They stare at her and let her pass.
Later, Wolverine criticizes that her trying to act sexy seems so wrong. Not thirteen anymore, she reminds him. He sort of wishes she were, he sighs, then realizes that sounded bad. Awful, she agrees.
They enter the building which turns out to be a prison of sorts. Quickly, the two of them take out the guards, after which the police are called. The jailers had kidnapped former mutants and planned on using them as an example. However, they don’t know who freed them.
Jubilee watches from a rooftop. Wolverine joins her and she asks if he got it. He got it and a lecture from the checkout girl, he informs her. A lecture and not her phone number? Jubilee teases. He is getting old. He hands her the ice cream while he has his beer.
Been a while, he tells her. Yes, she agrees. Remember when they first met? he reminisces. He was crucified. Hard to forget. That wasn’t the first time, he corrects her. He was unconscious, delirious. Doesn’t count. The first time they met was in that cave she’d made her home. He tried to kill her and all she did was knock him on his butt and then keep taking care of him. She never showed fear. She made every place they went feel like home.
Why is he saying this? Jubilee asks after some silence. Because he’s worried about her. She tells him not to. Right, he’ll just pretend they are not family. He urges her to talk. They were always good at that. She laughs. More like she talked and he listened. Exactly, he agrees.
Jubilee admits it’s hard to explain. She feels like she’s whining or something, even just thinking about it. She hates whiners! You’re part of the club and then you’re not. And you think it’s a small thing. Not having powers. Because you’re still the same person. You’re still a mutant in your head, in the way you look at the world. That never changes. You never become one of them… human. But for everyone else who has their powers, you are suddenly the outsider. Not quite up to snuff. And all those dreams of belonging to something bigger than yourself suddenly don’t matter. All the friends you thought you had don’t matter.
He begins that he’s lived longer than he deserves and there’s a mountain of lives behind him. Some he called friends and the rest he killed. But she--
She tells him not to. She can see it in his eyes. He apologizes for not being there for her. Not his fault. She didn’t tell him. They’re gonna stop being such strangers. But not tonight.
He tells her he has to go soon. She could come with him. Jubilee refuses. She’s more than just some fireworks. She always was. But when she’s around the others, she forgets that. Present company excluded, of course.
Glad to hear it, he replies, drinking his beer. Now pass him some of that ice cream. He’s going to eat strawberry vanilla after drinking that? she mocks. Gross. She warns him he’ll puke. He’ll let her know beforehand, unless she wants to be surprised. The coat is new, she warns. Surprise it is then. And she knows he loves her, right? She knows and tells him she loves him too.
2nd story:
The Power kids are cleaning the house and doing laundry, planning to buy a present for their mother’s birthday afterwards. The problem being that apart from Julie they are broke. A solution presents itself when they get an offer to babysit.
Soon they fly towards the newest biggest skyscraper in the sky, wondering how X-Factor got their phone number. Jack suggests Franklin Richard’s mom probably told them. He stays with the Powers after all, when the Fantastic Four are on a mission.
They are unaware that their nemeses, the alien evil Snarks, are watching them.
The Powers land on Ship’s deck and are welcomed by X-Factor. Cyclops tells them Ship can reach X-Factor in case of emergency and mentions his son Chris has a cold and can project a forcefield. Katie suggests they take Chris to the park.
Later in Central Park, the kids remark they sure worry a lot. They probably never left Chris alone before. Julie hands Chris to Alex while trying to grab a tissue. Chris’ nose is running. However before she can reach his nose, Chris projects his forcefield. Julie worries what will happen if he doesn’t want his diaper changed.
Jack tries to reason with the baby, pointing out snot is gross. “Da,” Chris replies and points upward where a group of Snarks come down to attack them.
The Powers quickly put on their costumes. Julie warns the others the Snarks have mummy wrap guns. Katie disintegrates a gun. The Snarks decide to get her first. Julie tries to fly Katie away and the gun hits another Snark but she protests she has to power up.
Alex flies upward with Chris in his bubble and suggests Jack could mist around the Snarks so they can’t see them. He’d rather use the old Jackhammer, Jack replies, becomes smaller and denser and lands on a Snark head.
Up in the air, Alex hits something invisible, figuring it’s the Snark ship. Julie suggests Katie power up from that and she and Alex switch kids. Alex tells Julie to get Chris out of it.
The Snarks fire at Julie and Chris while Katie powers up. When Julie is hit by a mummy wrap gun, Jack angrily attacks another Snark. Julie reminds him he was supposed to be shielding them and throws the baby at him.
Katie fires her energy blast at the Snarks attacking Jack and takes them all out. Afterwards, she uses their mummy wrap gun on them.
Julie weakly asks about the baby. Katie informs her Jack is holding him because he feels guilty because he let Julie get hit and Katie had to save him. Jack protests and shudders that little snot face is grosser than ever. He hands him to Julie and asks her to wipe his nose.
An hour later, they return Chris to X-Factor. Alex tells Scott they had too much fun to accept payment. Scott doesn’t want to hear it. They earned their pay, with a nose-wiping bonus thrown in.
Can’t accept payment? Jack asks later. What was that all about? Alex reminds them Chris was in danger. Julie asks what they should get their mom for her birthday.
3rd story:
Magneto challenges Wolverine, telling him this is the end. Is he strong enough to continue? Logan announces: “let’s finish this.” He’s getting old, he tells Magneto.
As they trade insults, Magneto levitates a metal box at Logan, who hits it aside. Logan tells him every five times he does that he loses as much as in a house fire. Such a dismal fact, Magneto replies, levitating a paperbox at him. Much like Wolverine’s legion of failures. He’s not the guy who lost three space stations, Logan begins before Magneto hits him with another box.
He opens it to find baby clothes (baby Magneto clothes, to be exact). He might have need of those again, Magneto remarks as he shoves a throne at Logan. Yeah, ‘cause he can rule the world when he needs a nap and a nappie, Logan scoffs.
Enjoying himself? he asks. Immensely, Magneto replies, rarely does he have him where he wants him. Logan carries the throne, asking are they done yet. Alas, they are “done yet,” he replies. He trusts there are no hard feelings over his using his power to commandeer Wolverine’s vehicle?
Is he kidding? Wolverine looks at the truck. He told him he wasn’t gonna help him empty his space, then he told him no dinosaurs, no asteroids, no antiques not on a weekend, and here they are. So he’s telling him now, this is the first, last and only time he helps him move!
As he follows the truck on a toy car, he mutters he’s gonna get rid of that truck and get a car made of plastic.
6th story:
Kitty Pryde sighs as Wolverine puts a party hat on her head, signifying her 21st birthday. It’s not sleazy at all, he points out regarding the celebration at the bar which apparently was his idea. As of two hours ago, she isn’t a kid anymore and he wants to buy her a drink. Kitty is less enthused by the idea, announcing drinking is nasty. Standing some distance away, Tony Stark sighs.
What has she tried? Logan points out and puts a fruity decorated cocktail in front of her. She looks at it doubtfully and reminisces that she won a glass this size at a county fair once. It came with a live goldfish. He tells her to try it or pick something else. She drinks half of it in one go, then her head falls to the counter. Brainfreeze.
Half again, Logan orders at the bar. Kitty pouts she doesn’t feel any different. It takes a minute, he tells her. No, she meant, now that she’s-- She expects one drink to make her all grown up, huh? He mocks it’s a magic drink, it only works when you are grown up already.
She giggles as he complains her standards are high. She musta been hell on Christmas morning. She wasn’t, Kitty protests, though she did bounce a dreidel off her cousin Neil’s head that one time he ate all “the gelt.”
Where’s his half? Logan asks the barkeeper to be asked if he can’t handle a whole pint by the Thing and Gorgon. He’s got his super duper quickie heal thing, right? The two of them challenge him to a drinking contest. Logan protests half-heartedly he is with the kid. They are buying, Gorgon announces.
Logan asks Kitty, who has finished her drink, if she wants another one. Well, she loves or hates it. She will tell him in a minute, she announces, then runs off to the bathroom.
Logan, in the meantime, doubtfully faces the barrage of shots prepared for him.
In the ladies’ restroom Dani Moonstar fixes Kitty’s hair and warns her to stay away from the sticky girl drinks. All that fruit juice tears up her stomach. Kitty admits she feels pretty good again. Rolling her eyes, Dead Girl muses that that’s exactly the kind of thing Wolverine would buy a girl for her first drink. Wouldn’t care what he bought her, Dani sighs, she’d drink it. Songbird suggests a songbird as a drink while the Wasp remarks Wolverine shouldn’t be anybody’s type. Dead Girl suggests a zombie while She-Hulk remarks Kitty’s perfect drink is a Coffee Highball - because they go right through you. Dani and Dead Girl keep on discussing drinks.
Someone offers to buy Rogue a drink. What is she drinking? Whatever they are having, she replies.
A drunk Kitty discusses drinks and turning 21 with Beast, Gambit and Lockheed respectively until ending up in Colossus’ arms dancing. He complains he can’t believe she let Logan take her to a bar. He supposes Gena (the barkeeper) is all right. She knows them all so well. He just doesn’t want her to become so like the others, so hard. So much has happened to her, to all of them. He begs her to tell him she can be brave and strong and still keep her sweetness, and he won’t worry. Drunk, she phases through him and slurs an apology. What did he say?
Wolverine, in the meantime, has finished the barrage of shots and his challengers are all out of money.
While Beast and Nightcrawler are singing German songs and Colossus looks after them, Wolverine and a floating Kitty are leaving. She loves him, she slurs. She’ll grow out of that too, he promises.


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The present:A moon of Spartax:The Guardians of the Galaxy and several X-Men stand gathered around an oblong black object. Well? Star-Lord breaks the silence. Who’s gonna be the first to try it?
Twelve billion years ago:Planet Viscardi:In the shadow of a giant silent Celestial, a rocket takes off, watched by a woman. Excited, the Viscardi watches as the rocket has almost passed the godhead, as they call the Celestial. However, the rocket smashes against the Celestial and explodes.
The woman swears. Nine rockets. Nine failures. They made it from the caves to the sky in four generations. Is this it? Have they reached the ceiling of the cosmos? Impossible, she decides. They know there is more to the universe than just the Viscardi. They know because of the godhead.
Angrily, she berates the Celestial for towering over them and never speaking. Never conceding their existence. Does their bravery not move him? Does their ambition not inspire him? She is Gara and she will live with the stars! she vows. They only wish to be closer to him, to know the cosmos, she pleads.
The Celestial moves and from its hand appears a strange black mirror in front of Gara. In it she sees a taller, more powerful reflection of herself. She wonders if this is the answer to their prayers. Their potential realized!
The Jean Grey School, a little while ago:He has gone too far, Storm accuses Beast, and he knows it. He broke it, now fix it! He refutes that accusation. She reminds him of bringing the original X-Men to this time. That is a problem. They don’t know enough about the situation to know what is happening, he retorts. That is the problem! she shouts. He admits to not knowing the full consequences to the time space continuum, he admits. If he could see it all at once.…
That moment, Magik teleports in with the original X-Men and X-23. Beast’s needed, she announces. Field trip to outer space for Professor K!
Iceman greets Storm and Beast happily. What did she tell him about his attitude? Magik reminds him strictly. “Be the terror you wish to see in the world,” he replies unhappily.
Storm immediately berates Magik for coming here, while Beast wants to know why Kitty is in space. True love, Illyana replies. It’s really gross. She teleports them all away.
Somewhere in space, on the Guardians of the Galaxy’s ship:The team is busy in a role playing game session with gamemaster Rocket Raccoon having some strange ideas on what Kree can do – in this case breathe fire.
For his move, he kills the gamemaster, Drax smirks. For her move she’ll take over as gamemaster, Gamora threatens. Flash Thompson aka Venom and Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel are equally impatient to get on.
Rocket describes the next stage when suddenly a transmission from Star-Lord comes in. Dude, he was on a roll! Rocket exclaims. For his next move he’ll kill Peter, Drax suggests. Pissed off, Gamora announces he interrupted game night. Prank call, Carol suggests. Hang up.
He respects the sanctity of game night, Peter assures them. Not enough to join, somebody points out. It’s an emergency, Peter continues. He’s in real trouble.
Flashback / Star-Lord’s narration:It started when Kitty and he snuck into Mr. Knife’s flying fortress (via the dirty laundry, which he doesn’t tell them). They’d planned the heist to annoy Peter’s father, who’d called Kitty mousy. Above Knife’s study, they phased and eavesdropped, to see Mr. Knife showing the Black Vortex to Thane, son of Thanos, who seemed unimpressed with it.
Mr. Knife introduced him to the last living Blood Brother. He shared a connection with his sibling. The power fed off each other. Since his twin brother died, he has been starved of that power, wasting away in spite of his warrior spirit… but there is a solution.
Standing in front of the Black Vortex, the Blood Brother announces he submits to the Black Vortex… and finds himself changed and improved as the newly christened monstrous Brother Blood, newest member of the rechristened Slaughter Lords.
Peter and Kitty recognize Peter’s former kidnappers and realize how much they’ve changed.
They gotta get the hell out! Peter insists and considers this not their problem. Kitty inquires what if his dad changes everyone else including himself?
Mr. Knife offers Thane power by transformation if he does one job for him. Mesmerized, Thane replies that he submits.
That moment, Kitty and Peter attack. How’s this for mousy? Kitty shouts and shoots Mr. Knife with a stunner. Then they phase away with the Black Vortex. He shouts at the Slaughter Lords to stop them. Misa explains there is no need. She knows where they keep their nest…
Present:On Spartax, outside Ma Savage’s orphanage:Peter concludes this is why they called them all.
Gamora, X-23 and Venom compare claws / knives. What is the deal with her and Peters? Storm asks Kitty. Oh who knows, Kitty shrugs. Her childhood hamster was called Peter, Illyana reveals. Kitty calls her a traitor. Carol Danvers tells Beast he is the best gamesmaster in the galaxy.
Star-Lord demands the pay attention.Beast asks to take a look. Hypothesis one: quantum interpolation via van Sloten particles. Hypothesis two:--
Ma Savage joins them and orders Peter to get these hooligans off her front yard. He asks her not to embarrass him in front of his friends. Kitty introduces everyone. One of the kids asks Peter when the bad guys are going to leave. Peter assures them they are good guys.
Kitty asks Hank about initial thoughts. From what she described, it could be a parlor trick. Or it could destroy galaxies. They need to keep it hidden until—
Blahblahblah, move aside, Lieutenant Blueberry, Rocket orders. He wants to see what he looks like with bulging muscles. Doesn’t he have a Road Runner to catch? Beast retorts. He did, fried him up and ate him with a side of waffles, Rocket boasts unimpressed. This isn’t a toy, Hank warns. It could transform entire civilizations, but in the wrong hands—
One of the orphans stares at the Vortex transfixed. Storm gently tries to draw him aside, then catches a glimpse of herself in the Vortex, goddess-like, destroying an entire planet.
In the past:The transformed Gara is begged by another Viscardi to destroy the Vortex. She refuses and he tells her it destroyed them. Stop before it destroys her. She kills him, then shouts at the Celestial. All Viscardi submitted to the Black Vortex. Is this what it sought? For their once noble race to be destroyed from within? She is Gara, last of the Viscardi! Answer her! In response, the Celestial takes off, leaving a deserted Gara behind.
Present:Who’s gonna be the first to try it? Star-Lord asks. Gamora volunteers. Storm forbids it. Captain Marvel points out that this is huge. Maybe it belongs to everyone in the galaxy. Angrily, Storm shouts they must destroy the Black Vortex before it is too late.
It is not hers to destroy, a new voice booms and the Slaughter Lords teleport in, demanding the Black Vortex. It doesn’t belong to them either, Kitty shouts, while Beast marvels at their changes.
Ma Savage grabs a gun, shouting that they must think this is Kymellia. This is Spartax! They don’t roll over for carpetbaggers like them! Peter tells her to get the kids and run.
One of the Slaughter Lords strikes with his sword which is stopped by Captain Marvel. Gamora grabs the Black Vortex and it becomes a free for all.
Where is the Vortex? Storm asks. Unsure, Peter asks his ship computer Lydia to emit an emergency broadcast.
One of the Slaughter Lords triumphantly holds up the Vortex, only to be impaled by a sword courtesy of Gamora, who has been changed by the Black Vortex.


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the Black Vortex – chapter 13
Kitty Pryde has seen some things in space, like these charming Brood infestoids trying to get to the brains of the frozen citizens of Spartax, as well as Kitty’s frozen friends. Gara, elder of the universe, she terrifies her. Her boyfriend Peter. He is terribly cute. And then there’s that damn mirror.
The others wonder where Kitty has gone. Gara informs them she has embraced the stars. She is lost to them forever.
In space, the transformed Guardians and X-Men, as well as Nova, try to fight the Slaughter Lords. They gave up their humanity in return for great power. She did that too, Kitty thinks.
She is a giant in space. She hates space. Yet she looked into the Black Vortex and allowed it to transform her into something cosmic. But all those terrible things she found in space… Suddenly, they all seemed very, very small. She could see the remains of Hala. Breakworld. Earth. She relaxes her atoms’ consciousness. She pushes through galaxies and transcends the multiverse. She touches the consciousness of an infinite number of Kitty Prydes. She knows what they know. Feels what they feel.
She pushes herself further, to the edges of the universe and leaves behind everything she knows. She feels nothing, forgets everything and then finally the universe shows her something that doesn’t terrify her, a silhouette of Peter and Kitty together. That’s when she knows.
In space close to Spartax, the cosmic heroes are fighting the Slaughter Lords when through a warp comes the empowered Ronan, who wants vengeance for the destruction of Hala. He attacks the Slaughter Lords first, who pile on him. He free himself and announces he judges them all guilty, Slaughter Lords, Guardians and X-Men!
Rocket contacts Star-Lord to inform him of Ronan’s attack. His girl better make her move or they are finished! They kinda lost track of her, Peter replies helplessly, but she’ll be back, he swears it.
Storm points out the infestoids have eaten their way through the amber and have reached the heads of the Spartoi. They are out of time!
Suddenly, though, the amber imprisoning Spartax the whole planet is phased free. The Guardians and X-Men in space look as well as two giant ghost hands lift the planetwide amber cover along with the Broodlings. The huge ghostlike Kitty then smashes both in her hands.
On the planet, the freed heroes cheer as do the orphans. Kitty smiles down at them from the sky.
Gara admits admiringly that Kitty alone resisted the lure of cosmic corruption. She came back to them. Of course she did! Peter grins. She’s Kitty Pryde. She’s his dream girl!
In space, the Slaughter Lords have shaken off Ronan and debate what to do. They decide to fight another day. They know the Black Vortex is back.
Spartax:All the heroes have gathered. It’s strange, isn’t it? Kitty, still in her misty form muses. It looks so harmless sitting there. A little kitschy, sure, but… Why does he feel like this is a funeral? Peter wonders. They ever wonder what it’s grinning at? Illyana asks. Nova tells her to stay weird. Iceman asks if he can just take one selfie with the thing. Beast forbids it.
Gara explains the Vortex cannot be destroyed. As long as it is unbound, no one in the cosmos is free of fear. But she is bound by honor to use it one last time. To those who submitted to the Vortex, she offers them a way out. She warns them, however, that the Celestials meant the Vortex as a gift. To reject it means to risk their ire. They may reject their comic mantle, however the Celestials may come to hunt them and they will not return to the way they once were. No one can use the Vortex and remain unchanged. It is unpredictable. Some are changed for the better. Others are more unfortunate. What say they? What will their place be in the cosmos?
Iceman announces he has given this a lot of thought but he hates this hairstyle. He is out. Groot agrees. Cyclops adds he likes being a pirate better than a god. Gamora calls them fools and Angel isn’t interested in giving up his ass-kicking powers either, despite Beast pointing out the potential damage to the timestream.
Adult Beast admits he has erred greatly. He has done horrible things and must face the consequences, but he cannot do it like this. He admits to being scared. They’ll do this with him, Scott promises, referring to himself, Iceman and Groot.
Gara lets them face the Vortex and they change back again. Beast and Cyclops are back to their old selves. Groot has a smoother form and Iceman is now made of ice rather than snow, like his older self.
Scott wonders why he is the same. Gara replies that, for him and Beast, the changes seem to be beneath the surface and are for them to discover.
Storm thinks at Jean not to read his mind. Too late, Jean admits. The worst part is, the change didn’t occur in his mind but in his heart.
Kitty, who has kept her cosmic power, tries to keep Gara from leaving. She asks her to join them but Gara replies she has chased the Black Vortex for twelve million years. The final step must be hers alone. They won’t meet again. Now go, live a life free of fear.
Later, while Kitty and Star-Lord are taking a stroll in space, Rocket tells the X-Men who are going back to Earth to get off his ship. Lydia (Starlord’s sentient ship) is flying them back. Inside, the heroes are happy, though some of them peek outside to see what Peter and Kitty are up to.
I knooow you, Peter sings to Kitty. She knows him too, dumbass, she laughs. He tells her to hush. He is serenading her. He was once the frontman for Northwest Denver’s foremost ska / punk band. I walked with you once upon a dream.
She threatens to cry if he keeps singing, then admits she is afraid they screwed up. What if she made the wrong decision? How can he have a cosmic girlfriend? They have no idea what this will do to her. What if it changes her and what if it’s bad?
What if she changes? he repeats. So what? He’ll love her mutant or cosmic or old or young or whatever. She just saved a whole planet. He thinks with her at his side he will never be afraid again. He loves her. Whatever the cosmos throws at them, they got this. She can change all she wants: But if I know youuuu I know what you’ll dooo… You’ll love me at, the way you did once…
Kitty orders him to kiss her. She just wants to stop him singing, he fears. She loves him too. He promises her they’ll figure this out. Speaking off—he gets down on his knee.
In the ship, Iceman calls the others to come. And they watch as Peter proposes to Kitty.
Space close to Spartax:The Collector has arrived and finds the amberized J’son, but no Black Vortex. He decides to take J’son for his collection instead.
On the remains of Hala, Ronan kneels down, takes up his hammer and vows they will rebuild. They will have their vengeance.
Elsewhere in space, Thane asks Ebony Maw if he is with him, Always, Ebony Maw promises. This is his time. Embrace his destiny as ruler of the universe. And now he knows how to do it, Thane smiles. With the Black Vortex…
Somewhere in an energy field, or maybe even a sun, Gara rests with the Black Vortex.
And Kitty realizes that space may be full of horrors and terrors but that is only part of it. Every star is in space. Earth is in space. So is every beautiful flower and selfless act. Every hope and prayer and dream. Everyone she’s ever known and loved - their home is in space.
Within the ship, the others watch what Kitty and Peter are doing. Suddenly, Peter happily lifts up Kitty in his arms and the others correctly interpret that as a ‘yes.’ Storm teases Rocket and asks if he wants to be her date for the wedding.
Kissing Peter, Kitty figures she found love in outer space and that’s when she knew. The most amazing discovery is each other. And if they can hold on to that, then maybe, just maybe, they can live their lives free of fear.


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Somewhere in the Milky Way Galaxy:Knowhere: a port of call near the end of the universe. It’s a real place.Peter Quill aka Star-Lord sits in a bar drinking and flirting with a beautiful alien with squid hair. She seems interested until she looks at someone behind Peter and turns away. Peter looks up to see his teammate, a very scantily clad Gamora. What is she doing here? he demands. What is he doing here? she retorts. He is a wanted man. So is she, he points out.
Gamora sits down. Why is he here, at a place he always goes to? Because it’s the first place anyone would look for him. So they probably already looked for him here and moved on. What is she doing here? Looking for him. It’s the first place she looked. He thought she needed some special time for herself.
As she touches his shoulder, Peter reminds her they talked about this. If she hangs out with him in places like this, it dramatically lowers his chances of meeting a fine female companion. Which because he is the only human in this port of the galaxy is already an uphill--
She takes his drink. Did he forget his father has the entire Spartax army looking for him? He did have the entire Spartax army looking for him / them, he corrects her. Past tense. Now he has the entire Spartax army looking for Thanos. He didn’t forget about Peter, Gamora insists. He is so hard to forget, Peter agrees and grabs another drink from a tray.
So what’s the plan? Gamora asks. What are they going to do next? Peter downs his drink. First, she is going to look at her bellybutton and she’s going to see that his one of a kind elemental gun is pointed right at it. Then she is going to tell him who she really is. Has she ever been hit by lightning? He hears you never really recover.
She glares. Peter swears. She is a Skrull, isn’t she? She-- His voice begins to slur as he mutters, it’s this sneaky shapeshifting. That’s why no one likes them. She grins and tells him he doesn’t have to be mean. He was right about his father. He does have the Spartax guard looking for Thanos. So he hired every bounty hunter on the planet to look for Star-Lord. Skrull bounty hunter, he slurs. And the drink the bartender served him. Well, she thinks he’s figuring it out. Peter’s head hits the table a he loses consciousness.
Elsewhere:So how is everybody doing? his father, King J-son of Spartax asks the other galactic bigwigs in their clandestine meeting. Everyone’s kingdom still in one piece? Everyone happy they now have a newly reformed Skrull Empire?
Young Annihilus asks him to tell them why he called them together. He did not, J-son replies. He was hoping he could go his whole life without ever speaking to any of them again.
Where is Thanos? Y-garr of the Brotherhood of the Badoon asks bluntly. If he knew he’d be dead, J-son replies. Kallark, aka Gladiator, Majestor of the Shi’ar announces he called this meeting. What’s on his mind? the Brood Queen demands. Kallark begins, this will be a sensitive subject based on the events of the past few weeks. But there is a problem on Earth and it needs to be taken care of immediately. He is speaking of the young mutant, the Kree Supreme Intelligence remarks. Kallark agrees. They have received similar intelligence, it continues. Why doesn’t he fill them in on his superior intelligence? J-son suggests.
The Supreme Intelligence shows two images of the same woman: one as innocent Marvel Girl, the other as the world-destroying Dark Phoenix. It explains her Earth name is Jean Grey. She is a mutant, one of the original X-Men. Most of them will know her as the primary host of the Phoenix. She embodied the Phoenix when it sent the Glarax star into supernova, obliterating 11 planets including the entirety of the Trikla population.
She died years ago, the Brood Queen points out. The Supreme Intelligence reveals the X-Men have gone into the past and pulled the original members to the present.
Why would they go and do a thing like that? J-son wonders. Nostalgia, the Supreme Intelligence suggests. Because they are mad selfish children who never learn from their mistakes, Gladiator opines. Is that the reason for the space-time continuum tremor he has been told about? J-son asks. No, but it didn’t help, the Supreme Intelligence replies.
Young Anihilus wants to know more. J-son explains, before Thanos tried in vain to invade Earth there was a space time continuum tremor. Just another example that Earth is a dangerous place full of dangerous creatures. But Gladiator didn’t bring them all here just to let him say: I told you so.
Gladiator states Jean Grey is alive and she needs to answer for her crimes. J-son remarks she has travelled here from the past. So she has not actually committed these crimes yet. It is the feeling of the Shi’ar Empire that it does not matter. Crimes against the galaxy were committed and the creature who committed them is alive and well. The Shi’ar Empire will have Jean Grey answer for those crimes.
What is he asking of them? the Brood Queen wonders. He is not asking them for anything. He is telling them that the Shi’ar Empire is about to embark on a secret operation to extract the young woman from her home planet. They plan on taking her to the galactic tribunal for judgment and punishment. They agreed to leave the Earth alone and the Shi’ar plan on doing that as soon as this matter which is of great importance to their empire is taken care of. He invites each of their empires to have delegations at the trial.
The Supreme Intelligence reiterates the creature did not commit the crimes just yet. They were committed, Gladiator replies with a cold smile. By her. And she will answer for them.
The Guardians’ ship, cloaked from interstellar radar:Rocket Raccoon, Groot and Drax sit at a table when they get a transmission from Tony Stark. He explains he stole their intergalactic smartphone transmitter thing last time he was on board. That’s how he’s broadcasting to them. With all things with Thanos and that he won’t be joining them on any more intergalactic vacation disasters. He wants to thank them for their incredible hospitality. He’s really glad he was able to spend this time with them. If they are interested in any more Earth stowaways he’s got a couple of candidates who… um. He’s going to retake this, Stark decides. Okay. This is Tony Stark broadcasting live from--
Rocket interrupts, pointing out he knows they are watching him, right? He thinks he is recording that? He might have? Tony admits sheepishly. Any chance he could give him back the tech he stole? Rocket asks. Any chance FedEx delvers to where they are? Tony retorts. He doesn’t know what that is, but assumes it means he is being a gronad, Rocket replies.
Tony thanks them again. Rocket ends the transmission while he is still talking. They continue eating
Knowhere: at a market are their last member Gamora and their guest Angela. Gamora tries out a huge sword, asking for Angela’s opinion. She doesn’t see it, Angela replies, it’s not her. Suddenly, she senses something, namely the fake Gamora carrying the unconscious Star-Lord.
The two women confront her, asking what she is doing. Fake Gamora fires a gun, which Gamora easily deflects the blast with her blade. Before fake Gamora can say anything, Angela decapitates her. She points out the corpse is changing shape. Gamora explains she is a Skrull. A species of shapeshifting scoundrels and religious zealots. And she just killed her. Gamora wanted to know who she worked for. Angela tells her she knows who she works for. She told her that Quill’s father has him marked for death. She works for his father. She promises the conversation she would have had with the bounty hunter would have been irritating. She sees she has perturbed Gamora. As her killer, this bounty is hers. She presents Gamora her ship.
Gamora is confused, then Peter awakes. Gamora tells him he is an idiot.
Sixteen Flonax (one week) later aboard the Guardians’ ship:Rocket Raccoon tells the others they’ll want to hear this. He explains last week, when the murder girls (Angela and Gamora) decided to go totally flarnak on the Badoon home planet, Rocket took the liberty of planting a signal tag into their intelligence system. The can hear any and all Badoon communications. A lot of it is nonsense, just run of the mill Badoon garbage. So he created a secondary program that alerts him if there was any mention of Earth in any of their communication systems. And he was just alerted.
He plays the transmission of a Badoon announcing the Shi’ar would have them believe that the Phoenix host is alive and well and living on Earth. The Gladiator of the Shi’ar told the king of Spartax they are going to find this young Jean Grey human and put her on a ridiculous trial. All the troubles of the galaxy and this is what the Shi’ar are busy with. Let them put on this show for the Spartax. It will only make it easier for the Brotherhood of Badoon to put its sword down this side of the galaxy once and for all.
Peter explains Jean Grey was an X-Man. A mutant Earth girl. She became host of this destructive cosmic force. It wasn’t pretty. At all. But she is dead. The Phoenix is gone, he guesses.
Maybe it’s someone else, Gamora suggests. No, they were talking about Jean Grey, Peter points out. But if she is alive, she was the harbinger of destruction, Gamora remarks. Peter insists something feels off. Drax decides it isn’t their concern.
Peter remarks he doesn’t like the sound of this. He doesn’t like his father’s name being mentioned because— Peter thinks he is looking for an excuse to come to Earth. It might just be gossip, Rocket points out. The Badoon are dumb zarnooks. They will know if someone is coming to Earth as soon as—
There is an alert. Someone has entered Earthspace. Someone being the Shi’ar. His call, Rocket tells Peter. They getting into this? Let’s go, Peter orders.
They track the ship or try to but it cloaks itself. Rocket admits they are better than the Guardians. However, he can calibrate their course and find their destination: Canada. What’s a Canada? Gamora asks. It’s cold and distant. Peter quips. She’ll love it. Drax figures it’s a tap.
Ready for a fight, they leave the ship to find a group of shocked X-Men. Peter realizes they are too late.


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Flashback:Alaska, years ago: A small private plane is under attack by a Shi’ar spaceship. The two kids aboard, Scott and Alex Summers, panic. Their mother Katherine tells them to unbuckle and come with her. When the boys are hysterical, their father Christopher, piloting the plane, orders them to do what their mother says. Katherine straps the parachute onto Scott and tells him to hold onto Alex for dear life. Isn’t she coming? he asks. It’s the only parachute, she tells them. Chris cries he can’t hold it. She hugs the boys and tells them she loves them. They cry her name as she pushes them out. As the parachute opens Scott tells the crying Alex he has him. He looks up to see their parents’ plane exploding.End of flashback
Someone calls his name and Scott Summers wakes up… to find his father sitting next to him, asking if he is all right. Scott can’t believe it at first, then they hug.
Disgusted, Rocket Raccoon asks what they are doing. Some fathers hug and care about their kids, Star-Lord explains. Not theirs. But, you know, some… at least that’s what he’s heard.
Talking of a father of the non-hugging variety… Planet Spartax:King J-son is informed by an advisor about word from the Shi’ar quadrant. They have extracted a young girl from the planet Earth and are setting their tribunal in motion. Already, J-son mutters, to his advisor’s surprise. He tells him to keep going. They have learned the name of the Earth girl is Jean Grey who, as the king may know, was at one time or another possessed by the Phoenix Force. Their data shows that Jean Grey is dead and has been for some time. So this news intel must be false.
Damned Shi’ar and their religious precision! J-son swears. He didn’t think it was going to happen so quickly. Has the Earth responded? They don’t believe they even know. The extraction happened covertly. Why does everyone put him in these positions? J-son rants. They said no one touches Earth! They said!
The advisor continues he is bringing this to him and not their collective affairs council because…. He hesitates, J-son’s son and his Guardians… How does he do it? J-son snarls. How does his son always find a way to put himself in the middle of everything?
The advisor asks for orders. The thing is he was going to leave this alone, J-son sighs. He was going to turn a blind eye to this business and let the Shi’ar have their little production. And now he can’t.
Shi’ar throneworld:The Imperial Guard is at training. Manta asks Gladiator about the ship which hasn’t been heard from since. What did he think was going to happen? she asks. Put himself in their positions. If someone from another system came and took one of his Imperial Guard, would he not follow the trail to the ends of the earth? Gladiator replies a ship goes missing in the vastness of the galaxy. That does not mean it has anything to do with this.
It is the X-Men, Flashfire insists. Smasher points out Earthers do not have the technological capacity to travel this far this fast. They don’t know what those barbarians can do, Electron retorts. They stole one of them and they are coming to get her.
Gladiator doesn’t believe they have the power or wherewithal to reach them in time to stop what is about to happen. They won’t join them as galactic travelers for many generations to come.
Oracle repeats he stole one of the X-Men’s founding members. He has declared war on them. Which means, he has declared war on the mutant population of Earth. They will come for her.
Gladiator doesn’t believe that. And if they come they are ready. He was telling an untruth, Oracle accuses him. He made a difficult decision and he stands by it, but he does not know the outcome and he does not know the consequences. And he does not know if he has it within him to do what he will have to do next.
Get out of his mind, he orders. She didn’t read his mind, she replies. She doesn’t have to read his thoughts to see them. Everyone can see them.
It is time. Make sure the tribunal is ready, he orders. Who in the galaxy will want to miss this? Plutonia wonders.
On the outskirts of the Shi’ar Empire, Cyclops is still reeling from the revelation. Corsair jokes Scott is the one who traveled through time. Comparatively, his story of alien abduction, prison break and now space pirates is a little more conventional.
He thought he died, Scott bursts out. He knows. Corsair trails off. This is so odd. The two of them have been through this already. They reunited. Made their peace with the past. Well, him and the older Scott.
They found each other? Scott asks. Are they good? Of course they are. Both Scott and his brother. In fact, Alex traveled with him for a-- And mom? Scott asks. Corsair looks down. That happened a long time ago. It’s why he never came back to Earth. The boys had found their way to Xavier and—
At least he found his father, Hank tries to cheer Scott up. The odds on that alone are mathematically--
Corsair continues. Last he heard, Scott had settled down and the older him-- This time travelling adventure is a new twist he wasn’t ready for.
Scott gets up and asks to be excused. He’s just having a really weird day.
Raza tells Corsair not to follow. But X-23 does. She finds him crying in a storage room, assuring her that he is fine. They should get back to it, he sates listlessly. They are out here for a reason. Out here in space, she states. With a talking raccoon and a tree. And his dad, he adds. Can she believe it? No. She doesn’t usually do these, but he seems to need it. She hugs him and after a few moments he gives in.
Jean Grey awakes to find herself back in the telepathic conference room with Oracle again. Oracle asks if she remembers her name. This isn’t real, Jean mutters. She is in her head, Oracle agrees. This is an illusion to steady Jean. She is still in her prison, Jean states. Oracle corrects her. She is being moved to the hall of the imperium tribunals. Today she will be judged.
No lawyer, no trial, Jean sighs. She will be her counsel, Oracle reveals. She doesn’t even know her, Jean replies. She knows that’s not true, Oracle points out. She tells her to keep her words short. Don’t let her young heart betray her best interests. Listen, watch and try not to react too emotionally. She will want to react according to her ways, but the Shi’ar do not respond favorably to demonstrative displays. But she is going to see some things that will upset her.
All of this is upsetting, Jean protests. Oracle tells her to be brave and smart. Don’t let these commanding men of power rattle her. If she is innocent, be innocent. She is innocent! Jean shouts. She will have to be more convincing than that, Oracle replies and the illusion fades. Be strong, her time is now, Oracle tells her.
Jean looks around to find herself in a giant hall on a dais as Gladiator announces the imperium tribunal will now be silent, for they are about to begin. The huge hall is filled with all kinds of alien races.
Gladiator announces they are here for the most important of decisions. And all arguments will be heard. The Earther Jean Grey is here to stand and face her accusers. She is here to pay for her crimes. She is here to answer for her acts of genocide!
The Guardians’ ship and the Starjammer are now deep in the heart of the Shi’ar Empire. Kitty is talking to Star-Lord. And they just live out here? she wonders. As opposed to where? Peter asks. It’s just a different way of life, is all. He introduces himself properly since they never officially said ‘hello’. He asks what the name Kitty stands for and if she is in charge of these kids. Kitty thanks him. This is insanely cool of them. Peter admits he is still steaming they didn’t get to Earth ten minutes sooner. She could have slept in her own bed tonight. She just hopes Jean is still -- Oy vey, she mutters.
Does Corsair see this? Peter asks via comm, namely, a fleet of ships surrounding Chandilar. What did he think they were going to see, once they got to the Shi’ar throneworld? Corsair asks. Not every ship in the empire, Peter retorts. He doesn’t think they fly just in. He assumes this galactic power can see through their cloak. Corsair suggest they leave their ships, sneak aboard one of the outlying ships. Peter thinks it’s too risky but has another idea.
Back at the trial, Gladiator shows a recording of past events: a first class Shi’ar imperial battle cruiser on its last day of existence. The ship was stationed on the far side of the D’Bari system. He shows them the healthy star suddenly bursting into supernova, killing the entire population of the planet orbiting the star.
Recordings from the battle cruiser show the captain and the science officer trying to piece the situation together. And then they found themselves under attack. The following is the final broadcast to their former empress Lilandra:
The recording shows Captain Juber asking Lilandra if she can see it. Namely the Phoenix raptor closing in on the now helpless ship for the kill.
A star system dead, Gladiator summarizes. Millions and millions of souls dead. Good and noble Shi’ar warriors dead. What say she? he demands of Jean who looks on in horror. How does she plead?


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The Black Vortex – chapter two
Spartax:Gamora has just been transformed into her full potential by the Black Vortex. Guardians, X-Men and their foes, the Slaughter Lords, stare at her. She has this, she announces. Gamora smirks and Star-Lord figures those Slaughter Lords who attack her don’t stand a chance. They don’t know the fight is already over. Quickly and assured, Gamora takes them out.
In the meantime, Storm orders Magik to teleport them away. Jean asks if they should take the Black Vortex with them. Hell, yes! Iceman opines. Drax announces they should smash it and then help Gamora. Peter replies he’s got this. As Peter tells Illyana where to teleport, Rocket shouts for Gamora.
Soon they find themselves amidst the ruins of Spartax’ moon. Storm asks how they can destroy the Black Vortex immediately. Crouching in front of it, young Beast protests about this. He could study this for the rest of his life. How very Hank McCoy of him, she remarks.
Star-Lord suggests they line up and power the hell up. Kitty exclaims she isn’t hearing this. He wants to use this? Gamora announces it is a magnificent tool of war that helped save them and the orphans.
Peter agrees the Slaughter Lords are hunting them. They should use it to power up and keep the Black Vortex from them. He wants to use this, Kitty repeats angrily. Silently, Peter fears she will break up with him over this.
Kitty turns to Captain Marvel for support. Carol points out not everything in the galaxy is bad. They are up to their necks in a fight and Gamora is fine.
Kitty turns to Illyana, who hesitates as well. They cannot turn their backs on power with the stakes that high.
Drax shouts he will destroy this tool of evil. Storm agrees.
Drawing her sword from her cape, Gamora points out that he doesn’t know enough about this. He knows the wrong people want it, he points out. But they have it, Gamora replies. Thanks to her, because of it.
Kitty tells Peter she can’t believe him. He doesn’t want this to turn into a thing between them but accuses her of being close-minded. She wants to tell him a story about a little thing called the Phoenix Force.
Oh here they go! Rocket groans. Anytime you get two Earth mutants together, eventually someone is going to bring up the Phoenix Force, like they invented it.
Jean suggests a vote. No vote! Peter announces. Everyone can do whatever they want. Gamora agrees. He tells Kitty she doesn’t know what they have to deal with out here.
Kitty insists this is a bad move. Gamora points out she finally has the power to end Thanos’ reign of terror. What could be more important?
Peter tells Kitty not to be so fast to throw away a good thing. She turns away. She thought he was a different guy. What does that mean? he asks.
In the meantime, Beast examines the Vortex.
This is the moment when he reveals who he is, Kitty warns. Peter retorts that goes for her too. Out here, they know a bit more about how the galaxy works than she does.
Someone screams, they turns around to see that adult Beast has been changed by the Black Vortex. Oh my stars, he utters, smiling.
Mr. Knife’s flying fortress:What is happening? Thane asks Ebony Maw (whom only he can see). Ebony Maw tells him to be patient and give Knife a moment. He will address him when he is ready. Thane marvels at the Brood emissary entering.
J’son aka Mr. Knife mumbles that his own son Star-Lord is forcing his hand again, daring him again. He didn’t want this! But he’s lost too much now. He can’t let this be his life. Fine, he decides, then tells the Brood he needn’t come here. He can go back to the disgusting Acanti they live in and tell the Brood Queen Mr. Knife is aware of his obligations to her. The Black Vortex will be restored and made available to her before the cycle is finished. But, if she wants to talk to him, she will do so directly. The next messenger Brood will be sent back to her in liquid form. The Brood leaves. So does Mr. Knife.
Ebony Maw tells Thane he should end him. Thane is disbelieving. Ebony Maw explains they are building something big here for the galaxy and that man reveals with every step he is not the man to take them there. So they kill him? Thane asks disgusted At this point, he’d be putting him out of his misery, Ebony Maw points out. Why doesn’t he do it then? Thane retorts. He knows his role, Ebony Maw replies, he advises. And an idiot child’s can see Thane’s: He is a warrior prince. He was born for this. His father Thanos is pulsating within him! Thane protests. Ebony Maw continues his father is the Mad Titan. But, if he had the clarity and vision Thane had, the galaxy would be his. He would absolutely own it. Thane has all of his father’s strength of spirit and none of his defects. He can lead.
After some thinking, Thane orders him back to where he disappears to. He will not speak those words to him again. Yes, he will, Ebony Maw, grinning, tells himself.
Elsewhere:The transformed Beast looks transfixed at the sky, announcing he sees everything. It all makes sense now. He understands how it all works. He’s going to be able to fix everything wrong with their world, their people, with everything.
He shouldn’t have done that, Kitty sighs. He asks her to let the Vortex evolve her. She will see what he is talking about.
Suddenly, X-23 runs toward the Vortex, intending to destroy it. Beast lashes out with an energy blast and stops her.
Star-Lord tries to talk sense into Gamora, who is suddenly distracted. The young Nova lands neaby, having heard Star-Lord’s emergency broadcast. What is going on exactly? he asks.
Gamora decides to show them the truth and holds up the Black Vortex in which everyone sees their perfected self…


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The Black Vortex – chapter 7
An unknown planet:Hank McCoy sinks to the ground in despair. When Gamora asks him what ails him, he explains that he broke the rules of space and time and brought his younger self’s X-Men to the present. He did so because he was convinced it was necessary. To save their people. He knew it was wrong. He knew there would be a punishment. But he also thought there were things he just didn’t know about the universe, things they mere earthly mortals don’t know about time and space and he would find a way to reverse the damage and put everything back the way it was. He thought he would be smart enough to figure out how to make everything all right. But now with the cosmic knowledge in his hands… with total understanding of time and space… he is faced with the knowledge that he will not be able to fix what he has broken. He will not be able to make things right.
On Hala:The X-Men and Guardians are trying to reason with the Supreme Intelligence. Captain Marvel points out that she is part Kree and has tried to live up to the Kree’s standards.
The Supreme Intelligence cuts her off. The Black Vortex is a curse upon the entire galaxy. It was hidden for thousands of years for a reason. And now they come and ask it to see things from their point of view. There is no point of view! There are only facts. Earthling warriors attacked the Kree home planet. They should be more concerned for the repercussions for Earth!
Drax retorts the Kree were the aggressors, as member of the Accuser Corps stole the Black Vortex. The attack on Hala was retribution. The Supreme Intelligence replies that the Black Vortex revealed Ronan to be a traitor to his people and he will atone. The Black Vortex will be put away, never to be seen again. Carol points out their friends have been changed by it and they will need it to restore them.
The others talk silently via Jean’s telepathy, figuring asking nicely won’t work. They need a plan.
The Supreme Intelligence insists their friends chose the Vortex and will pay.
Star-Lord begins insulting the Supreme Intelligence for its lack of empathy. Now! Storm orders and the heroes attack the Kree, while Nova grabs the Black Vortex and flies off.
Captain Marvel hits the Supreme Intelligence and announces she always wanted to do this.
Indiana Jones music! Nova shouts as he flies off. And now sad Indiana Jones music, he mutters a moment later as a Kree warship hovers above him and he is ordered to hand over the Black Vortex. Nova admits he made a mistake; he’s kind of new to this. One Kree on a flying cycle tries to arrest him, when they are attacked by Misa, who goes for the Vortex.
Inside, the battle rages and the heroes are slightly overwhelmed. Jean concentrates and uses her new power, gathering the ambient psychic energy - especially from the Supreme Intelligence - and releasing them as physical bolts of energy which stun all the Kree. The others are amazed. Let’s get the Vortex and get the hell out of here, Jean orders.
Outside, Nova gives chase to Misa, who has the Vortex. He is about to catch up. She twists aside, then shoots him in the back. He falls, losing the Nova helmet and turning normal.
Misa calls the Slaughter Lords and Mr. Knife’s flying fortress attacks Hala, laying cities to waste. All hail the mighty Kree Empire, J-son remarks cynically.
The Guardians and X-Men run for their ship, believing Nova has the Vortex.
In the air, the falling Sam tries to reach his helmet. He manages it and turns back to Nova. He looks up to see destruction raining from the sky.
Misa gets aboard the flying fortress and J-son wishes he could see the look on the Supreme Intelligence’s smug face.
On Hala, the Intelligence shouts at the Kree to save themselves.
From their ship, the heroes watch horrified. Carol asks what they are doing to the planet. Have they ever seen anything like this before? Once, Star-Lord replies grimly.
Hala breaks apart. Star-Lord screams in rage as he steers the ship away from the destruction.
Shell-shocked, the heroes try to figure out what just happened. Did the Black Vortex do that? And where’s Nova?
Mr. Knife’s fortress still floats nearby the conflagration. Doon suggests they leave but J-son wants to watch the destruction and savor the moment. He has no idea how much crap he had to take from the green-headed monster. Doon nervously points out this changes everything. J-son calmly agrees. The Kree have had a stranglehold on this galaxy as long as there has been one. And they are part of the reason he doesn’t have a planet anymore. “Burn, you blue bastards!” Now bring him the Vortex!
Misa admits she doesn’t have it anymore. She had it but— Who has it? he shouts.
Nova floats in space unconscious, the Black Vortex next to him.
Elsewhere:Flarknard! Rocket curses after Magik has teleported the two of them. Magik assumes he is being disgusting. They have teleported near to where the changed heroes are. Beast is still working on his formula.
Gamora greets Rocket happily, which irritates Rocket as she is never nice to him. He decides to talk to Beast. Coldly. Gamora asks Magik why they are here. The need help, is the reply. Gamora points out the hypocrisy of shunning them before but now wanting their help. And if they refuse?
Rocket addresses the dejected Beast. What the hell is wrong with him? He may have singlehandedly destroyed time and space, comes the reply. Sucks to be him then, Rocket remarks helpfully.
She’s not going to fight her, Illyana tells Gamora. What does she have to offer? Gamora asks. Magik explains she spent her entire life carrying around the burden of a dark force within her. Maybe she can help Gamora maintain hers. Gamora calls her presumptuous. She’s seen Hank McCoy crumble under the weight of his own doing before, Magik points out. She knows what that looks like. They are out here instead of using their power to make their dreams come true. They are overwhelmed. Gamora looks down and doesn’t reply.
Suddenly, Beast notices something and shouts to run for cover. Moments later, there is a detonation and a white flash. Beast grimly explains that Hala is no longer. That was a shockwave from across the galaxy. Magik is horrified. Some of their friends were there. Gamora promises their help and suggests they find out if their friends still live then find who did this and end him.
In a cell aboard Mr. Knife’s flying fortress:“I am Groot,” Groot complains. Iceman orders him to shut up. “I am Groot,” comes the reply. This is his nightmare! Bobby groans. “I am Groot.” He is annoying! Cyclops orders him to leave Groot alone. This isn’t annoying him? Bobby asks. He’s just expressing himself, Scott opines. They’ll be getting out of here soon enough.
How optimistic of him, J-son, standing at the entrance laughs and wonders on what Cyclops bases his optimism. Bobby angrily tells him that their friends are coming for them and they will wipe the smug smirk off his face. J-son replies that is the only reason they are still alive.
Cyclops asks what he wants. He wants the Vortex and their friends have it. Their little baby Nova has it. Their lives for the Vortex. It’s not going to happen, Cyclops replies.
J-son informs them he just blew up the Kree home world. And it was fun. It was cathartic. If their little band of pirates doesn’t hand over the Vortex he will head for Earth. He should have blown up Earth years ago. It would have saved him a lot of trouble. If he does it now, entire planetary systems will throw him a parade. So what will it be?
And somewhere near the remnants of Hala, Nova and the Black Vortex float in space...