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Strikeback !
(a little while ago)
In the catacombs of Madripoor, Rogue asks a big favor from Sage. She asks Sage if she is the supposed living computer, why she had not thought of jump-starting Rogue's power before now? In the past twenty-four hours, Rogue goes on to say, the whole island has been encased in a giant tower and they have now become the landing point of an alien invasion. Also, the local military is totally outmatched and only because they themselves have mutant powers they are able to stand up against the might of Khan's military. The trouble is, Rogue continues, the tower is protected by a forcefield that even the X-Men from the inside and the Avengers from the outside have tried to destroy to no avail. The worst part is, she says, is that now they are on their own and more and more bad guys show up every day.
Rogue walks with Sage to meet up with the other X-Men. Along the way, they talk about how that their attacks on Khan's forces are like a "skeeter stingin' an elephant". Sage agrees with Rogue, just as Thunderbird comments on how that the others have finally found enough armor that fits so they can disguise themselves as some of the alien invaders troops.
Rogue, after hearing that the others are ready to depart, tries one last time to get Sage to help her jump-start her powers. Sage tells Rogue that even she cannot predict what consequences it might cause for Rogue if she boosted her powers. It might not be a good thing for her to have so much power. When Rogue scoffs at this, Sage reminds her that she never tried to kill the X-Men. Rogue, however, has tried and on more than one occasion. Finally Rogue tells Sage to do it because they are at war and, in order to save the world, she is willing to take the consequences, whatever they are. With that said, Sage sadly looks at Rogue as electricity sparks from her eyes.
(present)
Rogue flies through the air, destroying every enemy vessel near her. Using the strength of the She-Hulk, the optic blasts of Cyclops, and the freezing power of Iceman she lays waste to Khan's army. Rogue uses them all to there fullest potential with complete control. At one time, Rogue felt her powers were a curse. Today, as she uses Storm's powers to call down lightning, she feels glorious.
Down below in the shadows of an apartment building, Psylocke's figure seemingly stares off at Rogue. Not of flesh and blood, but a lifeless statue, Psylocke is completely still, with her arms crossed at her waist in a graceful fight stance and holding a sword. Behind her, a shadowy figure wraps his arms around her with one hand to her neck and another draped across her stomach. The shadowy figure comments on how Rogue sounds truly happy and he hopes she enjoys the moment. As he wraps his arms around Psylocke, he says that soon after they are done with her, Rogue's statue will stand along side Psylocke's.
In the air, Rogue stares down at the army she has just devastated. As Khan's forces send more people after Rogue, the loadmasters frantically try to get the wounded through the portal to the neighboring dimension, while allowing reinforcements through as well. They are so busy that they do not notice four of the guards coming to the transport to travel to Khan's palace. As they walk by, they stare at Gambit, trapped in the forcefield.
Rogue knows Gambit is trapped and that she must try to save him, so she devises a plan to help her man. Rogue plans on using a power she has catalogued of a man she knows all to well. The man's name is Magneto and by using his power to disrupt the electronics of the invading army, she hopes to free Gambit and save the planet. As she releases the electro-magnetic pulse she thinks of how Storm will be trapped on the other side if her plan works, but she also knows what Storm would say if she could. She would say, "YOU GO, GIRL!"
As the electronics short circuit, the other X-Men are near where Gambit is, but not near enough. Bishop knows that there are too many guards to break Gambit loose. However, he comments to Thunderbird that while the forcefield is down, one of them could take a shot at Gambit to kill him, saving the entire planet. While the two debate, Gambit is having the same thought. Unafraid to take his own life, Gambit grabs a piece of stone from the collapsing chamber and charges it. His plan is to throw it at the building's support structure and allow the entire building to collapse, killing him and the members of the army around him.
Saying he will be seeing Rogue later, he throws the stone. His plan does not work though, as the forcefield comes back on, trapping the stone and causing it not to explode. "Dis is not my day." Gambit says as he looks at the charged stone stuck in the forcefield.
The day is neither Rogue's as she falls to the ground, exhausted from the force it took to use Magneto's powers. She collapses to the ground, much to the approaching guard's surprise and favor. As she recovers, Rogue finds that along with Magneto's power, also comes his personality. As Slipstream teleports in, he find's Rogue struggling to set Magneto's persona aside. Sitting in the crater she just created by her impact, Rogue screams that these invaders who threaten her family and the man she loves will pay dearly. Noticing that Rogue's hair has changed, Slipstream comments on it and asks her why her voice seems so different. As Rogue climbs to her feet, holding her head, she stutters that the voice is not hers. She tells him how strong Magneto's personality is, but admits how being like him feels so good. "Lose it later" Slipstream tells her as the soldiers have arrived. Quickly, Slipstream creates a warp field, grabs Rogue by the arm, and they teleport away.
Meanwhile back at the temple, Thunderbird comments that everything is back to normal. Sage notices however that all of the soldiers' faces have changed. Surprised by Rogue's attack they all now look scared. With this said, Bishop commands the others to follow him and Sage through the portal. On the other side of the portal, the four X-Men find a general telling the engineering squad to begin installing suppressers around the landing stage. He also tells them to tell General Gaafi that if they get blindsided like that again he will personally skin him himself! After overhearing this conversation, the X-Men believe that the invaders have been shaken because of Rogue's attack. Bishop comments on how the invaders never considered that they might lose. Looking out of the hangar window at the rest of Khan's base and the surrounding mass of fighter planes, Lifeguard comments that she can see why.
As she gazes at Khan's forces Lifeguard asks how anybody could hope to stand against such an armada. Recalling history, Bishop talks of a past event when Persia attacked the Greeks. He explains that at Thermopylae, a thousand Greeks and Spartans held out against the might of Persia.  They nearly won, he tells them, had it not been for them being betrayed. "I wish I had your faith," Lifeguard comments as she removes her helmet along with the other three X-Men.  Lifeguard is taken back at the other three's expressions as they stare at her in amazement and shock. Lifeguard asks them why they look at her so strangely? She comes closer to the Hangar window where she sees her reflection. She notices she has tattoos around her eyes, dreadlocks in a golden appearance and her appearance almost looks like an alien bird. Lifeguard grows angry and her wings burst from her side destroying the armor on her arms. Sage, hoping to calm Lifeguard down, tells her that they will find out what happened and help her.  Angry with Sage for what Lifeguard thinks is one of Sage's jump-starts, she lashes out at her with her wings and knocks Sage to the ground. Worriedly, Thunderbird tells Sage that Lifeguard didn't mean it, and is only upset. Bishop goes over to Lifeguard. Placing his hand on her shoulder, he asks her to pull herself together for the mission, as they cannot succeed without her.
Storm and Khan are talking in her quarters. She tells him that when the X-Men took Khan prisoner, she knew he was special but she had not known till his personal guard showed up to rescue him that he was the commander of the entire invading army. With this said, Khan tells her though it was not Shaitan who brought her here, but it was he, because he desires her to become his queen.  They kiss and Khan asks why Storm had told him that she would not be conquered, but she would surrender? Before Storm can answer, one of Khan's servants interrupts, telling him that his presence is needed in the War Room. Khan, hearing the proclamation, tells Storm that it is probably her X-Men that are causing another ruckus. He tells her that as he claimed her, so he will soon also claim her friends. Hearing this, Storm interrupts and tells Khan that he is welcome to try. Khan, surprised by Storm's words, asks her if that is a challenge? "Merely a statement of fact," Storm tells Khan. She also says that they will not yield easily and neither will the rest of Earth's heroes. Khan informs Storm that he has faced other planets' so called heroes, and he has defeated all of them. Earth's heroes, he says, will prove no exception.
One of Storm's attendants/guards calls in to her base saying that Khan has departed Storm's quarters. In her control room, the human guard calls back to the attendants to keep a close watch on Storm per Khan's orders. Storm, in her bed, knows that her attendants are actually guards and so she must maintain her ruse and wait for her time to fight back. She knows that she cannot make the slightest mistake. Using her powers in secret while apparently gazing far off, Storm is able to watch the molecules in the atmosphere. As she does so, she tries to figure out how to use the space station's atmosphere to her advantage when the time is right. For now though, she remains silent and allows her handmaids to pamper her. The entire time they do this, she continues watching the atmosphere and trains her mind for the perfect time to fight back.
Inside the prison where Shaitan waits in Storm's form for the other X-Men's arrival, Khan and Shaitan discuss Khan's love interest in Storm. Shaitan tells Khan that Storm will betray him. Next to him, the hologram of the real Storm sits so Khan can watch her no matter where he is. Khan defends her and tells Shaitan that he will make her his. Shaitan comments back that she might destroy him first. Khan, as he looks into the eyes of the hologram of the true Storm, asks Shaitan if he truly thinks she can destroy him. Shaitan explains to Khan that after being in so many conquests, with no woman ever truly gaining his heart, Storm is the most dangerous because she has. Khan, trying to explain his love for her as just another battle but different, explains to Shaitan that he will not lose. Angrily, Shaitan asks about what they are going to do about her friends who will surely come to save their leader. Khan touches the hologram and makes it disperse, he explains to Shaitan that as he awaits the X-Men's arrival. When they arrive, he, masquerading as Storm, will give the X-Men two options: join them or die!
Elsewhere in the tower, Thunderbird watches Lifeguard and worries about how she is taking the situation. She is now not only a mutant but an alien also. Bishop gives little comfort though as he tells Thunderbird that she will pull through.  Confused in whether or not he did the right thing, he asks Bishop if, by not killing Gambit when he had the chance, he was in the right? Bishop tells Thunderbird that he had the same chance and if the X-Men have taught him one thing, it is that there is no shame in not killing, especially when that person is a friend. As Thunderbird and Bishop have been talking, Sage has been working hard on her computer trying to figure out where Storm is in the alien's station.  Finally, she finds Storm in a maximum-security cell. She explains that while she was in Khan's computer system she also created names and faces for them in the system so if any security camera scans them, it will come back as them being just regular soldiers. The only two things that they have to worry about, Sage explains, are Khan and Shaitan as they have seen them physically.
Before the X-Men leave, Sage has one more thing to show them. As they gather around her to see the images she has for them, they put on their trademark red glasses. Sage explains that the tower manifesting itself on Earth is one hundred miles in diameter by twenty-two thousand six hundred feet high. She also explains, while showing images of hundreds of other Earth's behind her, that the same tower exists on every planet Khan has conquered. When fully established, they link in a chain of power and resources across scores of dimensions. The downfall of the system, she continues, is one must transport from one tower to the next neighboring tower. If one goes off-line the dimensions ahead of it and the dimensions behind it are cut off from each other till the tower is rebuilt. Sage finishes, saying that from each base Khan and his armies conquer the entire dimension and then they move on to the next.
Thunderbird holds is head and wonders out loud in shock and amazement of how Khan is so arrogant to believe he can conquer all dimensions. He also wonders why no one has rebelled before? Continuing, Sage explains what happens to the worlds that rebel.  Showing more images, they see a utopian type world where Khan has conquered it and they have accepted his offer of leadership. Next they see a devastated planet with only a transport tower and no other life. Sage explains to the X-Men that the world they see now is what will happen to their world if they refuse Khan's rule. Faced with this horror, Thunderbird comforts Lifeguard in his arms while Sage and Bishop look hopelessly down at their feet.
Finally, Sage looks up and speaks. She points out that of all Earth's heroes, they are the only credible threat to the invasion and not the fate of the world and humanity in their hands. Now knowing the consequences of their actions, they have to decide is whether they need to surrender... or fight.


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All or Nothing !
Rogue sits with her head hidden in her arms, musing over past imprints she has taken from people. Now, she realizes it was not just their powers that she stole, but also bits of their souls too. Rogue always knew one day there would be a reckoning for the sins of her past. Little did she know the reckoning would come today in the form of Vargas. Vargas, along with Thais and Thaiis, stands above Rogue and reminds her of the unfinished business they still have. Rogue tries to reason with Vargas, saying today is not the right day as they are in the middle of trying to save the world. Vargas though argues that today is the perfect day, because he is ready to face his destiny. He asks her if she is?
Meanwhile on MBC, the local television station of Madripoor, Shanna Cho announces to the world of the alien invaders superiority and how close they are to taking over the planet. She announces that the Avengers outside the forcefield have tried several attempts at busting through, only to lose each time. On the other hand, she tells the listeners that the X-Men are in Madripoor fighting the aliens. Even though they are outnumbered, the team fights on to save the entire world. She shows the viewers pictures of the invading army being decimated by Rogue's repeated attacks. The world outside watches, some in horror, some in shock not knowing what to do, and some hold their children close to their bodies.
The same view the reporter shows the public is the same view Khan's generals show him. One of the Generals reports that they have lost ninety-seven percent of their equipment, thanks to Rogue. Sitting on a large chair, Khan watches the video screens in front of him. Realizing the X-Man's strategy, Khan points out how with one action, she has created a monumental traffic jam as wounded are transported through the portal one-way, and reinforcements the other. He commands his General's to keep an eye out for the other X-Men. Because they have been unable to locate all of them for several hours, it would stand to reason they are trying a sneak attack. As Khan notices the General's behavior of acting to overconfident he chides them and tells them not to take the X-Men for granted.
Meanwhile in the squad bay of Khan's elite Pathfinders, the alien soldiers discuss Khan's lack of focus to the battle at hand since Storm has come aboard the ship. One of the soldier's boasts of how he cannot wait for the upcoming battle. Another worries about a feeling they have of the operation turning out badly. The sergeant on duty gives his opinion in saying that he worries more for Storm because Khan's harem will probably not allow her to live to be crowned.
As the soldiers discuss Khan's disinterest in the battle and his love for Storm, the four disguised X-Men try to sneak by them unnoticed. Their task is made much harder as Lifeguard's body is now a seven-foot tall alien woman. The sergeant on deck notices her and salutes her, calling for the others to do the same. In salute, her yells "Royal SHI'AR On Deck!" The sergeant apologizes to Lifeguard for the mess and begins to chide the other three X-Men who are disguised as soldiers about bringing royalty onto a battle deck. The sergeant quickly notices that Bishop is wearing the armor of one of his friends, named Zim. He sounds the alarm, saying how they are intruders. The troopers jump Bishop and rip his armor off but Bishop gives back as good as he takes. Once finished, Bishop gets up and commands Sage to lock the doors and to scramble all the troopers communication units because no one but X-Men will leave this room. While Sage locks the door, Thunderbird says to Bishop that he thinks they are about to commit suicide because the X-Men are out numbered and gunned. With that said Bishop tells Thunderbird "So I guess you better stay behind me, then."
Mugu, one of Khan's soldiers, holds Thunderbird by the neck, threatening to kill him. Thunderbird realizes that he could defeat Mugu easily by just killing him with a plasma bolt but it goes against everything he believes. Lifeguard notices Thunderbird is in trouble and quickly comes to his rescue. Mugu taunts Lifeguard by saying she is not a true Royal Shi'ar because she would have killed him by now with ease. She is just a pretender. Mugu strikes Lifeguard, trying to break her neck, but instinctively Lifeguard's new alien powers save her. As she continues to rip into Mugu's armor, Thunderbird lies on the ground choking and begging Lifeguard to not kill Mugu.
Elsewhere in the center of the battle, Bishop fights not with his powers but with his fists. However, that is enough for him to whip many soldiers into unconsciousness. Elsewhere, Sage is now out of her armor and one of the soldiers named Dukane races to the door she is guarding. As him and another one of his allies gets closer she easily takes the two alien's down and relays back to Bishop that the hatch is still secure. While the three X-Men stand in shock at how easily she took the aliens down, Bishop asks her where she learned to fight like that. She tells them that when she was young she was forced to fight and to survive. Also, her powers allow her to track the probability of the attackers next move and it allows her to fully control her own body.
Thunderbird turns his attention to Lifeguard and asks her if she is okay.  She cries in her hands and tells them that before they came along, she knew nothing of her parents. Now she realizes that while her dad made her a mutant, her mother must have been a Shi'ar alien. She asks now if she and her brother are monsters. As she works on finding Storm, Sage tells Lifeguard that she will only become a monster if she wants to be one. Sage tells Bishop that she has located Storm in a maximum-security detention center, but she also reminds him that the soldiers talked about her being in a Harem. Bishop tells Sage to assume that it is a trap but they must find Storm because they need her too much. He also tells the team that Khan realizes how powerful she is and that is why he is making it easy for the team to find her in the security cell. Sage next tells Bishop that she has also seeded Khan's computer systems with thousands of false reports of battles across his station, causing them to think they are being attacked by hundreds of X-Men. Lifeguard turns to Sage and asks her what they are going to do next? Sage tells them to just need to sit back and wait from word from her. She was sold to a Harem once... and escaped.
In Madripoor, Slipstream darts from one end of the alien's supply dump to the other, dropping grenades. As he does, he destroys most of Khan's troops' weapons and fuel supplies.
Back on Khan's space station Kahn stands amongst his generals and orders them to use lethal force against Madripoor. He needs to show the rest of the world the consequences of facing him. The Generals inform Khan that the tower will be solid within the hour and then they will release chemical and biological weapons that will not harm the atmosphere but will harm the Earthlings. Jalene, who is leader of the Harem that watches over Storm, interrupts the leaders' conversation and reminds Khan that Storm may not approve of Khan's actions against Earth. Khan tells her that she will learn who rules just as she did. In turn, Jalene reminds him that they are just his consorts but Storm is to be his Queen. Khan walks away from Jalene and tells her that Storm becoming his Queen is his will and Jalene should obey him for Storm "is a goddess".
Khan walks into the next room where Storm stands in a two-piece with a lace see-through robe, draped across her shoulders, with candles burning all around her.  Khan's eyes widen as he sees her and asks if she has done all this for him?  Storm uses her powers to lift the two of them from the ground. As she does, she talks of how the wonders of the world below are endless. Where, for example, a woman can fly and two people can dance in the air. She asks Khan to consider that there might be more to life than just conquest. Khan, while floating up to meet Storm tells her that the fate of her world is still sealed. Unknown to the two lovers, Jalene and the other consorts watch them as they dance. Jalene commands the others that if Storm makes one wrong move, they should kill her. Khan tells Storm that her words are tempting and Storm asks Khan to yield to temptation. As the moon hangs in the background both of them hold one another in a passionate embrace and kiss.
Later that same day Storm lies on a pink bed as a knife draws closer to her throat. Luckily, she awakes in enough time to see Jalene coming to kill her.  Storm rolls over and grabs Jalene's hand and both women fall into the pond below where Storm was laying. Storm gets the upper hand under the water even she is held back by tentacles. She is able to kick Jalene, knocking her unconscious, and then slices the tentacle holding her, then swims to the surface, gasping for air. Somehow during the fight, Storm was wounded. As she rises from the water she checks herself, thinking that Jalene was aiming for her heart but just glanced the knife off her ribs instead. As Storm continues to crawl, she thinks of how jealous Jalene must have been to risk everything to kill her. Though as Storm reaches the pool's edge, hundreds of Khan's concubines surround Storm. One of them requests her to lay down her knife, so they can kill Storm quickly and as painless as possible.
Angered, Storm tells them that she does not want to hurt them, but as she told their master, she will not be conquered and she will not surrender. Lightening courses through her fingertips. Since adolescence, Storm has channeled elemental energies through her body with ease and they have never hurt her until today when her powers betray her. Her wounds that were left from Jalene's attack and from Viper's earlier are too much for her body to handle. As the lighting courses through her body, she cannot take the pain. Storm collapses in agony as the consorts look on and wait for their time to strike.


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Final Gambit !
D-Day plus two in Khan’s war room. Three people stand around a display console watching and waiting for any sign of a disturbance, while they wait they talk about how Khan is so enthralled with his new trophy. They wonder how long it will take before the Harem kills Storm, because every other of the women dreamed to become his queen. Apparently there is a betting board up for when Storm will die and just for picking the right minute one could become a wealthy man overnight. The monitor the tower’s integrity and predicts that in three hours it will become solid and their forces will have their anchor. As they talk one of them picks up a spike on their display coming straight from the palace itself. Their commander, a Mr. Jellicoe, breaks in to find out what the matter is and he reports that it is nothing more than a ghost and besides no one up top cares about their actions in the pits. Especially when they are running an invasion.
As they continue to argue about the anomaly, Khan walks up behind them and informs Mr. Jellicoe that even the slightest problem can cause big problems later in an invasion if it is not dealt with immediately. Khan relays a message through one of his Harem, asking if Storm is the one who has caused the spike, but the armored female denies the allegation. She explains that although Storm was healed by Khan’s doctors, the damage to nervous system sustained during an earlier attack was considerable, and she is in no condition to use her powers without great stress on her system. Khan informs the Harem member to expect an attack by the X-Men who might want to liberate their leader. He then tells that Jalene is in charge  and that it will be her responsibility to take care of Storm.
As Khan walks off from the members of the pit, Mr. Jellicoe has gone disillusional and keeps babbling to himself that Khan was here, and spoke to him, he even addressed him by name. The other workers discuss how concerned Khan seemed for Storm’s safety, and that he even forgot about the anomaly they registered because of her.
In Storm’s room dozens of Khan’s Harem are attacking her. A weak attempt to create a lighting resulted in striking herself, but Ororo fights on. As she takes one out after the other the only thing she can think about is staying alive through the next attack. Storm looks past the pain and uses her powers to their lowest degree by turning the floor to ice and sending electricity through the water at her feet. As the opposition’s number falls the fight becomes harder and nastier. Ororo is bleeding from a wound in her side, but she ignores it and stays focused. In the end though the Harem just were caught off guard. They never thought beyond the fact that Khan chose Ororo as his queen. Little did they know Khan liked her not only because was she pretty, but she was also near par to his greatness in battle as well.
In the Palace Security Control, Sage has taken over the room and defeated its occupants. As she sits in the control chair she relays to Bishop that the Storm in the detention facility is the fake one, while the one in Khan’s Harem is the true one. Bishop asks if Sage will be able to free her, but Sage replies that she does not have to because Storm has already saved herself. Sage asks Bishop where they are located and he tells her that they have made it to the Embarkation Bay but it looks like they are preparing for their main assault. Bishop, lastly asks if the Harem was she had expected, but Sage does not answer him.
Sage walks into Storm’s prison/room and jokingly talks to Storm about the way she makes friends. Storm replies that it is weird to be attacked for a crown she does not even want. Sage analyzes Ororo’s condition and says that her wounds are serious and require immediate attention, but  Storm tells Sage that they do not have time to worry about her or her wounds because they have to fight for their planets survival. Storm puts on her pair of special glasses and her and Sage go through an open-air vent. At the same time she sends an order to Bishop to find the Damage Control Headquarters and wreck it.
Meanwhile in Madripoor, Rogue sits atop fallen debris of the battle with Khan’s troops. She faces Vargas and his two cohorts. Rogue begs Vargas to forget about their feud for the moment and to allow her to continue to fight to save the planet. Uncaringly Vargas pulls out one of Destiny’s diaries and explains that the books not only describe the destiny of the human race but also his own. He shows Rogue a picture in one of the volumes that has Rogue fighting and stabbing a man in armor through with the mans own sword. Vargas explains to Rogue that the man is him and he refuses to allow her the opportunity to make Destiny’s predictions come true. Rogue laughingly tells Vargas that he would be smart to recognize that if he never tried to fight her, Destiny’s prediction would not come true. As she turns away from him, Rogue asks why Vargas had to kill Psylocke if it was her he was really after in the first place? “A duel to the death should have no other outcome.” he replies. Looking down at some broken mirror glass Rogue whispers “Davis Now!” Then she fires an optic blast towards the reflective surface, making the blast scatter in many directions knocking her would be attackers off their feet.
In the next instance Slipstream teleports in and grabs Vargas up by the nap of his jacket and propels him over the tower that Gambit is trapped in. Still inexperienced with the use of his powers, Slipstream makes a mistake and lets go of Vargas. As he falls, Vargas manages to hurl himself around and slashes Slipstream‘s back with his sword, causing a near lethal wound.
Vargas crashes through the ceiling of the tower, and Khan’s soldiers are brought to attention by his presence. The soldiers are some of Khan’s best troops and their sole purpose is to protect the “focus” and the name of their charge is Gambit. Vargas looks like an easy fight, the troopers think, sadly for the troopers they are wrong. As Vargas rips through the troopers like they are rag dolls, Gambit tries hard to push the small rock he had charged earlier through the forcefield to knock the building down. Gambit is willing to sacrifice himself and everyone in the tower to save the world. Vargas has other plans though and as he kills the last of the troopers, with blood dripping from his sword, he tells Gambit to make his peace !
Simultaneously in the dimension next door, Lifeguard makes her way down one of the corridors in Khan’s station with what looks to be like two of Khan’s troopers escorting her. Actually the troopers are Thunderbird and Bishop in disguise. The other guards recognize her facial markings and awe at the royal Shi’Ar. Eventually the three X-Men reach the Damage Control Headquarters  where they reveal themselves. As he and Bishop fire hundreds of bullets above the workers‘ heads, Thunderbird commands the many occupants of the room to leave for their own safety before the three of them are forced to attack. Actually the occupants leave no time for them to attack as they all run scared away leaving the room empty.
In Khan’s Palace 22,600 miles above Earth, Khan holds Jalene by her throat as she begs his forgiveness. She tries to explain that she only attacked Storm out of loyalty to him. Distracting Khan for a second, one of his troopers tells Khan that Storm has somehow removed her tracking device and they can not detect her anywhere on the station. Khan, who doesn’t even turn to look at her snaps Jalene’s neck, as he listens to three of his commanders worriedly report different disturbances throughout the entire station as if they have been infiltrated by hundreds of enemies. Khan throws Jalene’s body to the ground and he commands the trooper nearest to him to give the rest of the Harem to Shaitan and to tell him to execute them as he wishes. As he walks away he tells the trooper that he will lead the search for Storm himself. Confused, the trooper asks Khan to remember the invasion, but Khan does not care about the invasion anymore he only wants Storm.
Elsewhere on the station, Storm and Sage are walking though a narrow tunnel. Sage asks if Ororo has a plan, but she in return asks for one from Sage. Yet Tessa replies that she has insufficient data to formulate a valid response. Concerned about Storm’s claustrophobia, she asks if Ororo can handle herself, but right then they reach an open space. Storm asks Sage to stay there on the platform to stop Khan, who should be on his way shortly. Sage asks how Storm knows that Khan is coming ? After all she created ghosts in his network and they are invisible to his sensors. Storm replies that Khan is a lot like her and so anything she would think of so should Khan. Sage asks what Storm’s plans are? Storm answers that there has to be a big water supply in the tower, both for the people as well as coolant for the machinery. Piping it up 22.000 miles would be too difficult, so that water supply of approximately the size of an entire ocean must be above their heads. Without that water the station would be paralyzed in just a few hours. Storm climbs the wall behind Sage till she makes it to a pipe where the water runs from. Storm tries many times to use her powers to freeze the pipes and bust them. Many times though the pain is to much and she has to stop to recoup. Below her Khan and his troops have caught up and Sage heroically fights back shooting blasts towards them from a gun she is holding to keep them away.
Several miles below them, in the Damage Control Center, Bishop and Thunderbird are holding off the incoming troops as Lifeguard uploads some files that Sage had given them.
Meanwhile in a swamp in Madripoor, Rogue carries an injured Slipstream to a dry place, and leans him against a tree. He apologizes for his inexperience and Rogue defends him saying that she should have taken Vargas down and not left it up to him. Slipstream in pain, mutters to Rogue that she can leave him to keep fighting the invasion and he promises to not die while she is gone. As Rogue begins to stand Slipstream says that hopefully the troops in the temple have killed Vargas for them. Rogue, who up to this point did not know of Vargas’ location, worries aloud about Gambit’s safety.
In the temple Gambit thinks of Rogue and feeling her thoughts inside his head, he tells her that the charged rock of his is almost loose of the forcefield around him and once it hits the temple pillar it will kill him and stop the invasion. So as the rock slips loose and it does hit the pillar the temple collapses and far away Rogue screams “REMY !“


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While I Live, You Don't Die !
Inside the temple near Madripoor, Gambit lies trapped in a forcefield, a forcefield that is deteriorating because of him. Gambit is grinning because he knows that the aliens tried to conquer the world by using his power to open a portal through which their forces could enter this dimension, but in the end he used this very power to defeat them. By using a small rock charged with kinetic energy he toppled one of the buildings support pillars, causing the entire temple to give in. Gambit thinks to himself there could be no better way to die, but as a hero.
His sweetheart has other ideas though, Rogue screams to Gambit as she pushes her way through the debris asking him if he is insane? Rogue finds him and Gambit begs her to let him die so that he could guarantee the Earth’s survival. If the temple falls and Gambit dies, Khan can not use the portal anymore seeing as it would no longer have it’s source of energy – him. Rogue tries to get Gambit out of the forcefield, and jumps on Gambit‘s body trying to block the red energy beam from trapping him. Unfortunately for both of them, Rogue had imprinted Gambit’s signature some time ago, so now she too can be used as a conduit. Rogue now too is trapped because of this, and she tells Gambit she would have it no other way because “While I live, you don’t die!” Gambit repeatedly cries “NO” as he hears her words.
The beam is transporting a tower that is a hundred miles wide by twenty-two thousand six hundred miles high. At this time though the download is not complete and surprisingly to the Generals in Khan‘s War Room today their facing for the first time the possibility of defeat. Shaitan, still disguised as Storm, talks to members of Khan’s Harem and he commands them that if they are to redeem themselves from earlier failures, they should help Khan find the real Storm. After he finishes with the Harem he contacts a few of the Generals in the War Room and he commands them to evacuate the landing zone because he does not want to see any more of Khan’s troops dying. One of the Generals responds back telling Shaitan that there is a problem getting them back. That problem turns out to be Vargas, who cuts through some of the last of Khan’s troops with his sword. Thinking the mere swordsman an easy opponent, Shaitan teleports in, intending to get rid of him. There is not enough time to revert to his true shape, but Shaitan thinks that it won’t matter. Yet he is wrong, Vargas thinks he is facing the true Storm so he will hold no quarter in their fight.
In the damage Control Nexus of Khan’s station, Bishop, Thunderbird, and Lifeguard hold off some of Khan’s troops as they are waiting for the next commands of their leader Storm. Bishop notices on a console that on earth all of the invading army is retreating back to the station. He is reminded by Thunderbird to not get excited because the portal is still open, which means they have yet to win. Not following his own advice, Neal gets to another console that displays a disturbance at the top of the tower. Luckily for him, Lifeguard jumps on him tackling him down to the ground just before he is hit by a plasma blast. While Lifeguard lies on top of him, Thunderbird explains that the atmospheric readings the console showed must be Storm’s doing. No one else could cause that much damage but her. Bishop looks at the two of them and decides that they have done their job down there, so they should go find Storm and Sage and help them.
Sage stands on a platform underneath miles of, now frozen pipes, and she thinks that she is now as cold as she would be in the mountains of her native homeland. Sage is firing her recently acquired plasma rifle towards some of Khan’s approaching army. She thinks that the troopers walked right into her ambush and they should not be so easily defeated unless they are up to something. Before she fully finishes her thoughts, Sage learns the hard way that the troops were only a distraction, as surprises her from behind. She tries to land a kick, but Khan gets hold of her foot and then grabs her by the hair. Khan places a knife to Sage’s throat, commanding Storm to show herself or Sage will die. Storm complies, as she stands on the frozen platform preparing for Khan’s next move. She orders Khan to let Sage go but Khan says she is in no position to make demands. Khan asks Storm why she did not want to rule with him? Storm does not answer and she just glares at Khan menacingly.
Right then the other three X-Men arrive and give Khan his answer as they fire at Khan’s troops scattering them and making them flee. Khan uses Sage as a shield until he reaches the end of the platform where he throws Sage off, asking if she can fly? Lifeguard quickly flies down and catches her, telling Khan that she does not have to fly because she has a friend who can. When Lifeguard reaches Sage she asks her if Storm was willing to risk Sage’s life, and Sage confirms her question by saying, “it was an acceptable risk.” Shocked, Lifeguard asks if they are all insane?
Back on the platform Storm jumps on Khan knocking him into an ice wall. She tells him that he is trying to conquer her world and she just asks him to find another way, instead of conquering he should try to build a better world. As both combatants match blow for blow, Khan reminds Storm that both of them are warriors and he could never back down to a challenge. Khan tells Storm that she is naïve because she should know that whomever wins “rules”. As Storm repeatedly attacks Khan, she explains to him that when he is dead, nothing of him will remain, while she fights for a dream that will live on long after her death. Khan, angered by Storms treachery, reminds her that not even a day ago he saved her from death and now he can see her wounds reopening. So their battle will only leave one result, his victory.
Lifeguard lands safely next to Bishop and Thunderbird with Sage in her arms. Immediately, Sage takes the gun from Bishop’s hands. Shocked, Bishop wonders aloud what Sage is doing. She explains what Storm was doing with freezing the water pipes and aims the plasma rifle to the pipe. Already her first blast is a direct hit, but surprisingly pipe does not bust. Sage wonders what was wrong with her analysis, as Bishop explains that it was because the rifle did not have enough energy behind the beam. Bishop places the gun on his shoulder and channels his energy signature through the gun and using his energy plus the gun‘s energy he is able to destroy the water pipe. The torrent of water flows from the pipes, grabbing both Khan and Storm, sending them farther down the corridor under the platform they were fighting on. As Storm goes under she commands the X-Men not to follow her and to save themselves.
Bishop, worried for all their safety, tells Sage and Thunderbird to go to the portal and try to hold it open till he and Heather have retrieved Storm. Sage interrupts saying how that they will need her to find Storm. Bishop denies her request, but Sage seems not convinced, so Thunderbird knocks Sage unconscious and carries her away to the portal. Bishop notes that the usually very reasonable Sage seems to have human feelings after all, and he tells Thunderbird that if things go wrong, he should do what is necessary, namely leaving them behind. As Thunderbird leaves with Sage, Lifeguard asks Bishop how they are going to find Storm. Bishop explains to her that she is half Shi’ar and that makes her a born predator. So all she needs to do is think of Storm as prey.
Back in Madripoor, namely in the Temple where Gambit is, Vargas finishes Shaitan/Storm off with ease. He comments that she should have used her weather powers to make the fight somewhat fairer, though the outcome would have been the same. With blood dripping from his sword Vargas rises up and walks towards where Rogue and Gambit are trapped. Vargas tells Rogue that he has finally come to her. Gambit worried for Rogue’s safety begs her to leave him and fly away. She tells him that she can’t because the beam has taken away all of her strength, so she is truly stuck. Vargas walks up to the two of them and holds his bloodstained sword up to his head in a threatening pose towards the two X-Men.
Storm and Khan have fallen for miles and Storm has been hit many times along the fall. Storm does not give up though and as she reaches out to grab an open ledge she also reaches down to save Khan from falling to his death. Storm’s grip loses strength though and she falls. Luckily for her Khan has no intention of letting her die either. He grabs her and saves her from falling just like she did a couple of seconds before. He begs her to become his queen but she continues to deny him. As they hang there talking Khan is shocked to feel the coldness of a pistol to his head. Khan quickly looks up to see Bishop holding the gun and Khan hurdles Storm’s body at him knocking Bishop down. This gives Khan enough time to get his composure and he easily defeats Bishop knocking him off the ledge and he gets washed away by the water. Khan reaches out to Storm and asks her one last time if she will become his queen and again she denies him. Angry about her treachery he throws her after Bishop into the torrent of the running water.
Many of Khan’s troops are in the War Room and each one of them are screaming different questions. Some wonder where Shaitan is, some begging for direction, and all complain about the tower beginning to crumble. Direction does come in the form of Khan who enters the War Room with three of his Harem following him. One of the soldiers screams to Khan that it seems that they are losing the beachhead. Khan bites back saying that they will not lose because he is going to reestablish the nexus himself. He commands his troops to disengage his Warship from the tower as he intends to take it through the portal and personally stake claim to the entire dimension. This means that either they will be trapped in this dimension or they will somehow be able to save the tower and continue on with their taking over of other dimensions. Either way Khan and his soldiers believe they will conquer this dimension. As he finishes he asks if his followers are willing to come with him? Unanimously they all agree by raising their fists in praise.
Storm is drowning in the cataract of water and as she loses strength she wishes for a guardian angel. Luckily, Storm does have a guardian angel - her name is Lifeguard. Heather raises her from the water and she carries Storm and Bishop, whom she had saved seconds earlier to safety. As the three fly through the corridors they see that Khan has released the docking clamps from the tower to his Warship. Storm understands what Khan’s plan is and tells Heather to rush, they have to reach Earth before him. However it’s not just a matter of speed as she has to fly around innumerable obstacles. Finally the three X-men combine their powers, with Bishop clearing the flight path with his guns and Storm generating a tailwind, to speed their trip back to the portal and to Madripoor.
In front of the portal Thunderbird holds on to the slim hope that his three team mates will come in time for them to reunite and he will not have to leave his friends stranded. Sage is sitting on the ground, weakened by her injuries. She tells Neal to have faith that the others will return. Thunderbird is surprised by that statement coming from her, the ultimate empiricist. When he looks up to see Khan’s Warship heading towards them and he feels awful because he realizes he is going to have to retreat. Just in time though he sees Lifeguard carrying Bishop and Storm and heading towards them at super speed. Right as he tells Sage about it, they are sent hurdling through the portal by the leading edge of Storm’s wind wave front.
The five X-Men emerge out of the portal and as they land Lifeguard excitedly says that they have finally arrived home. Storm reminds her that now is not the time to get excited because somehow they will have to stop Khan’s Warship from entering their world. Storm asks Sage to analyze their situation and give her a defense plan, but Thunderbird says she is injured. Yet Sage is able to perform as requested and explains to Storm that the portal’s Terminus Matrix is wildly unstable, so Khan apparently is counting on his the immense mass of his vessel and it’s own compensators to balance the power load while he bulls his way through. Storm surmises to herself that if they can slow the ship down, maybe the portal will close in on itself destroying the ship. As they see the ship entering their universe Storm commands Bishop and Thunderbird to join her and use up all their energy in slowing the craft. All three of them start shooting at the ship. As Sage watches she commands them to keep using their powers, but Lifeguard points out that all of them are almost spent and using their powers so much could kill them. Sage tells her that their sacrifice will be worth saving the world. Sadly, the three mutant’s powers run out shortly after and Storm collapses in Bishop’s arms.
Yet their efforts were enough, as they look up they see the portal closing. Lifeguard, in a heroic moment, jumps on top of her four friends as Khan’s ship is falling apart. Lifeguard uses her wings to protect them and as tons of debris and sand lay on top of them Lifeguard uses her strength to push themselves out of their sand prison. As the X-Men sit up they all come to the realization that they have won and everyone smiles and congratulate one another. Lifeguard reasons that Khan’s portal imploded in on itself and it must have sent Khan’s tower, ship, and everything else into oblivion. Spotting her brother nearby, Lifeguard runs over to where Slipstream still leans against the tree where Rogue had left him at. She asks Storm why she has not transformed back to being human in appearance? Storm tells her that she has no answers for her question and both of them become aware of the seriousness of Slipstream’s injuries. Bishop says they need to find medics.
Thunderbird interrupts the team by telling them that the sensors of his special glasses have picked up something from down in the crypt. Something awful must have happened there. In the remains of the temple lies Rogue on top of Gambit, with Vargas’ sword skewering the two of them, and blood running from their wounds.


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Rogue’s Destiny : La Suerte de Matar !
In a temple in Madripoor Rogue lays dying on top of an also dying Gambit with Vargas’ sword sticking through the two of them. Her teammates from the X-Men stand sorrow filled around them. Bishop holds his eyes shut leaning against a shocked Thunderbird and Lifeguard holds Storm up, who herself has been wounded so badly she can hardly stand, while Sage stands alone by herself, not even being able to look at her two friends skewered on the ground before her.
The X-Men turn to walk away, but their silence is cut by a tiny mutter from their thought dead friend. Thunderbird and Bishop turn around in shock to hear Rogue’s voice asking for their help. Bishop walks over to them and pulls the sword out of their bodies. He helps Rogue to her feet, but she collapses again and they both tumble to the ground. Thunderbird comes to help him, and Rogue is placed in a stable position, he turns to Gambit. To Bishop’s amazement Gambit too is still alive. Thunderbird suggests to use his powers to cauterize Gambit’s wounds, but Sage tells him not to as his internal bleedings need to be assessed first. Instead she hands Neal some pressure packs. Storm asks whom the sword belongs to and Rogue tells her that it belongs to Vargas. Sage commands Lifeguard to get airborne and find the nearest hospital, but Lifeguard tells her that she can not leave her brother who is also hurt. Angered by Lifeguard’s refusing of Sages commands, bites back by telling her to follow his command and leave now because Gambit and Rogue are nearly dying and if she doesn’t act now, it will be too late.
As Sage watches Lifeguard fly away, Rogue tells Bishop that he was too harsh, but he defends himself that it was necessary. Bishop tells Rogue to stop talking and to save her strength, as she suddenly starts to trembling and before he fully realizes what is happening, Rogue manifests Cyclops‘ optic blast while looking at him. At first he absorbs the energy of the beam, but even Bishop has his limits and he can’t absorb the energy as fast as he is blasting. Rogue sends Bishop crashing into a nearby wall and seconds later her body transforms into organic steel. Sage runs to Rogue’s aid and she tells Rogue to focus and gain control. Rogue tries, but still keeps manifesting abilities as she stays steel but also sprouts fur, mixing the powers of Colossus and the Beast. Luckily Henry is a scientist and so along with his powers, she also gains his intellect and is able to use his medical knowledge to analyze her condition and find the best way for a cure. Rogue comes up with one solution, she needs strength and a body that can’t be hurt, so she transforms into the green skinned Hulk, whom she once imprinted. Concerned over her constant changes, Thunderbird reaches out to Rogue, but Sage stops him, telling him that she will have to fight this battle on her own. Just then Rogue finds the imprint she was looking for in Wolverine and she thinks given time Wolverine’s healing factor would keep her safe. However Rogue thinks she does not have the time to let her body heal, as she has some unfinished business. She reaches down and grabs Vargas’ sword, wanting to hunt him down.
Bishop steps in her way though and asks her to reconsider her actions because she could very well die from the wounds he had caused. Bishop also tells her that she was no match for Vargas when she was healthy so now that she is injured she will not survive their next encounter. Thunderbird agrees, pointing out that Vargas is a killer, yet Rogue announces that today she is too. Bishop once more says that she should first heal and then the team will take Vargas down together. Still, Rogue manifests Psylocke and says that this is something she has to do alone. Vargas killed Betsy because of her. Bringing to the forefront her imprinting of Destiny and explaining that she can now see the future, Rogue says that she can now find Vargas and defeat him. Sage takes off her glasses in surprise, they have been searching for the diaries the whole time, but actually they had access to their secrets through Rogue’s memory the whole time. Rogue tells her that it is only since Sage jumpstarted her powers. She then leans over Gambit and tells him that he should not die because right now is not his time to die. Gambit replies that it is not her call to say who dies, and that she should remember that it is not her time either, as Rogue flies away.
After Rogue is gone, Sage slumps down saying how that she has failed in not thinking of Rogue’s ability to imprint Destiny before. Meaning that their entire mission could have been easy if they had just used Rogue instead of searching out the diaries themselves. Bishop tells her not to take it too hard, after all Rogue just realized this herself, but Sage says that it was her task to see connections and solutions others would not. Now she is worried that Rogue might not survive the conflict with Vargas, meaning that again the knowledge in her head would be lost before they could have made use of it.
In one of the destroyed streets of the devastated Madripoor, Vargas carries what he thinks is Storm ‚s body, though it’s actually Shaitan who had copied her form. He finds his unconscious two servants Thais and Thaiis and wakes them up, commanding Thais to take the trophy (the body) to their transport, while he himself will accompany Thaiis to collect the Psylocke statue. Afterwards they would all go to retrieve his sword, he left in Rogue and Gambit. Thaiis asks for forgiveness, but she wants to k now why they continue the fight as he has won. Vargas tells her that he is a warrior and that he requires both his blade and his prize. As the two walk through a doorway Vargas explains to Thaiis his philosophy of how he believes that mutants are not the next evolution but just natures experiment to determine which strain of humanity is viable.
As they reach their hide-out, Vargas is actually surprised by the Psylocke statue coming to live. It’s Rogue, wearing Psylocke’s uniform and copying the pose of the statue. Vargas screams her name and wonders how she can still be alive. Rogue loses Vargas’ sword and attacks Vargas, knocking him through the closest wall. She informs Vargas that it is her Rogue, but the spirit of Psylocke is in her “An’ we’re both of us here to kick your ass!” Thaiis has no intention of letting Rogue make good on her word and as Rogue‘s attention is turned, she pulls her own blade, ready for the fight. Rogue suddenly feels pain in her chest, and as she tries to take out Thaiis with Cyclops’ optic blast, her power fades and nothing happens. While Rogue is in shock, Thaiis uses her confusion to her advantage and kicks her into the wall Rogue had sent Vargas through seconds before. It takes a moment but Rogue gains her composure again and using her own skill and training she defends herself against Thaiis , finally taking her out of the fight.
Thinking that she was actually counting on her whole catalogue of absorbed powers and now has to do without them, Rogue finds that she has no time to catch her breath though because Thais has returned and he comes carrying two automatic machine guns. He fires at Rogue with her narrowly outmaneuvering each bullet till she reaches Thais and she takes him out with a kick to the jaw. Rogue then holds her chest in pain, her wounds now open and bleeding freely again because of her apparent loss of all her powers. This of course is the perfect opportunity for Vargas to reenter the fight, and he does. Vargas jumps back through the hole he had made earlier holding onto a pipe he uses it to knock his own sword from Rogue’s hands and to regain possession of his lost weapon. Rogue defending herself quickly jumps on top of Vargas causing the two of them to descend over five floors to the bottom of the building they were in. Vargas is able to get the upper hand after their fall and cuts Rogue’s arm with the blade. As he slices through her he tells her that she is a superb fighter but so was the Sabretooth Tiger millennia ago, but he is extinct and mutantkind will reach a dead end too. As he runs towards her for another stab, he tells her that mutants were just nature‘s mistake and that the future belongs to humans like himself.
Right then, Shanna Cho arrives at the battle ground with one of her cameramen recording the two combatants fight. She wonders aloud to the news public why these two are fighting even after the war has been won? Shanna mentions unconfirmed reports that this mystery swordsman took on the entire invader beachhead himself and won. She continues to watch and recognizes that his opponent is Rogue of the X-me, who too took an important role in preventing the alien invasion, so she is shocked to see two people she considers heroes fighting one another. Vargas swings his sword toppling the nearby building and it collapses towards the direction of Shanna Cho and the cameraman. Seeing the two news people, Rogue leaps for them, and them narrowly pushes them to safety as debris falls down on the spot where they had just been standing.  However Rogue herself gets partially buried and behind her Vargas comes up, telling her that it is over now ! He smiles and asks her if she has any final words ?
Meanwhile back at the temple Lifeguard worries over her brother who is still lying against the tree Rogue placed him at earlier. He awakes to see the now Shi’ar looking Heather Cameron in front of him and he is scared and cries for Storm’s help. He panics and falls down a cliff behind him, though Thunderbird is luckily there to catch him. Davis tells Thunderbird that one of the Invaders is still here and she is on the cliff above them, but Neal informs him that she is his sister Heather. “Liar!” Davis screams back at Thunderbird and he wonders aloud what the X-Men have done with her sister because the Shi’ar looking woman is a “monster”.
Behind them Viper walks up with some medical personnel following her. She asks them if she has come at a bad time, but then them that she had heard that they needed assistance and as ruling prince of Madripoor she decided to come herself to personally to the X-Men’s needs. Viper remarks on her pity for Gambit and also for Rogue, who she seen on television fighting Vargas, apparently is not much better shape than the cajun X-Man. Viper walks up to Lifeguard and comments on how remarkable she looks now. Viper turns her attention to Storm and jokingly tells her that Storm is not the tallest X-Man anymore. Storm secretly takes Sage’s gun from her side and aims it at Viper asking her if she is wearing Kevlar ? Not even awaiting a response, she surprisingly fires the gun and it hit Viper dead on, knocking her to the ground. Bishop runs to Storm and takes the gun from her hands, rebuking Storm for her actions, though she explains that the Viper nearly killed her. Sage drops on top of Viper, pinning her left hand with her knee, and the right hand with her other foot. She places her blade to Vipers cheek and tells her that the X-Men are family and if she ever attacks them again, herself or through surrogates, Sage will hunt her down and kill her. While a trickle of blood running down her cheek, the Viper agrees to Sage’s demands.
Back at the fight, Rogue thinks to herself of a woman named Destiny who was a former partner of her foster mother Mystique. She remembers how Destiny could see the future and how she even allowed herself to die even knowing the future to protect the continuity of the future. Both she and Mystique were tempted to change the future, but it nearly drove them crazy when time and again they failed in their attempts. Rogue’s attention shifts to the situation at hand – she is still battling Vargas. Rogue congratulates Vargas on that he is better than most opponents. Usually she instantly imprints her foes and the shock of her touch knocks them out. Smiling, while transforming more to a look of Vargas himself, she tells him that he may take a while to imprint but he is not immune. She raises up knocking Vargas to the ground and stealing his sword away she informs him that she is now like him. With one exception though because thanks to her powers, she has come with friends “PSYLOCKE most of all!” and “This is for HER!” As Rogue rises above him prepared to strike Vargas’ blade through Vargas’ own body he screams to her to fulfill her “Destiny”!
Rogue stops just for a moment and she thinks that the world has become clearer to her now. Destiny’s visions were not “a signpost for the future, but a trap”. She thinks also that if she was to follow the lead of the diaries, the future would turn into the past that simply hasn’t happened yet, with there being no room for surprises, creativity or spontaneity. Meanwhile Shanna Cho keeps recording the conflict, though a red blinking light shows that the camera’s battery is running low. Shanna is shocked about the gruesome scene happening before her, but she can’t avoid her eyes and keeps recording.
Rogue prepares to strike and Vargas tells Rogue that fate can not be changed and she should finish him off. Rogue looks at Vargas and tells him that Destiny was too close to the books. So she never understood that the only thing the books do is take all the responsibility away from everyone and makes them slaves. Rogue looks over to the diary Vargas carried, turned to the page of her killing Vargas and she tells him that the books are missing one thing and that is “hope”. She explains to him that the X-Men represent hope and that mutants represent a teaching to humans of what is possible in their future. Rogue dives towards Vargas with her sword, but right then Shanna’s camera view goes fuzzy.
Somewhat later, Rogue returns to the other X-Men, climbing over the rubble, barely able to stand. Bishop sees her coming and calls out her name. She tells them that it is over and she crawls over to Gambit to lay her head on his chest and both of them seem to pass out.


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Day of the Dead
(on TV, Madripoor Network News)
Shanna Cho stands in front of two of Madripoor’s skyscrapers, that seems unharmed by all the fighting. Yet everything around these two towers is in flame or badly damaged. She is reporting to the Madripoor citizens of the events that have transpired on their little island in the last couple of days. She tells her audience that an invader named Khan tried to take over the world by using their island as a beachhead. As one scene switches to Captain America leading a crew of rescuers through rubble looking for victims, Shanna reports that the Avengers and Fantastic Four have come to help in relief aid. Next, a scene shows the past where Rogue fights against part of Khan’s army. Shanna reports that luckily for the world though, a courageous team known as the X-Men risked their very own lives to save them from disaster. The picture changes next to a M.A.S.H. scene where a couple of doctors unload wounded victims from an ambulance. Shanna reports that unluckily for the X-Men some of their members might have paid the ultimate price to insure the world‘s survival.
(present)
Iron Man carries Rogue, the Thing carries Gambit, and Captain America helps Storm walk into the M.A.S.H. unit that has been temporarily set up near where the X-Men fought their last battle. As they all stumble in Doctors rush to their side as Captain America calls for them to help his “colleagues”. Iron Man places Rogue on a hospital bed as Doctors try to tend to her wounds. She informs them that her healing factor will kick in momentarily and that they need to tend to her friends first. All over the unit all the nurses and doctors run around frantically. Some are worried that if they are mutants they might carry any type of infectious disease, while others just want to help and they call out orders for different medical devices to be brought to them. One doctor works on Bishop and he is surprised to see that the clothes he wears is like body armor. Luckily for the doctor Bishop is not hurt as severe and he shows the confused doctor where his shirt is fastened, so he can take it off to check on Bishop’s wounds.
Lifeguard is the only X-Man not hurt in anyway and she stands in front of the door to the unit listening as the doctors talk about her brother’s very serious wounds. Lifeguard still has not changed back to her normal appearance, she still is golden armored Shi’Ar with wings in appearance. Heather thinks to herself that even with her name being Lifeguard she is not able to save her own brother.
Iron Man still is standing next to Rogue as he tries to convince her that even though she thinks she is healing, her wounds are bleeding freely and she needs medical attention. The doctors examine her and they take the measurements of the entry of her wound and the exit. Shocked beyond belief they realize that she has been stabbed right through her heart. Sage, who is wounded, but not severe enough to be lying down, is walking around and Rogue notices her. Rogue calls out for Sage asking her what is going on, because the doctor was able to puncture her skin with a needle and surprisingly Rogue is able to make skin to skin contact with everyone?
Looking sad and dazed, Sage says nothing, but as they touch she tells Rogue to look at her hand and Rogue realizes that she has made skin to skin contact with her teammate, though nothing happens.
Near Rogue’s bed, Storm lies unconscious. As she goes into a cardiac arrest, one of the doctors screams out for more assistance from the other doctors near him. Five members of the medical staff begin working on her and they discuss who she is and the nature of her severe wounds from being stabbed, beaten, and nearly drowning. As one doctor tries to revive her using CPR the other holds an ambu-bag over her face. Storm has stopped breathing on her own and the doctors do everything they can to save her. One of the doctors looks up to the monitor to see that she is flatlining and they all frantically try to use some shock pads to try and restart her heart. While they are shocking her and filling her full of epinephrine and atropine the one thing the doctors do not lose is hope. Even hope seems to fail though because Rogue, for some reason, is able to see Storm’s spirit rise from her body dressed in her X-Treme uniform. Rogue cries for her to please not leave, but Storm just puts her finger to her own lips as if to quieten her, and she ascends through the roof of the M.A.S.H. unit and leaves.
Rogue cries, “Storm !” but she does not pay attention. Rogue jumps from her bed as all the doctors and nurses around her try to calm her down and get her back in her own bed. The only thing that calms her down though is that Bishop grabs her. Rogue tells Bishop of what she saw. As they kneel down together he tries to convince her that even though Storm may be gone she needs to rest because he does not want her to go too. Bishop notices Rogue has stopped moving and he cries for the doctors to help her.
(on the astral plane)
Rogue is surrounded by nothing but white and she realizes to herself that she too is dying, just like Storm. She is dressed in her X-Treme uniform and she is confused on why the afterlife is so colorless and empty. As she floats she notices that she casts a shadow and she wonders if anyone is around to tell her what will happen next? As if to answer her Phoenix appears with her and the Phoenix effect itself can be seen as an outline around Jean’s body. Rogue yells out “Phoenix !”, as she is shocked to see her friend there with her to help. Jean tells her that they are family and that she can call her Jean. When the two friends embrace, Rogue’s clothes change into one of the school’s current uniforms and Rogue asks Jean if she is dead ? Jean tells her that Rogue is not dead yet but she is pushing the envelope and that is why she is here to help. Rogue thankfully tells Jean that she had seen Storm’s spirit leave her body so they need to hurry before Storm’s spirit runs to far. Jean tells Rogue that she will worry about Storm, but that she needs to worry about someone else. Shockingly, Rogue remembers Gambit and that he was hurt badly.
(present)
The doctors have Gambit hooked up to a breathing machine and they talk amongst themselves that he will probably not make it, since they can’t stop the bleeding. Right then four X-Men materialize in the middle of the M.A.S.H. unit’s floor. They are the Beast, Nightcrawler, Phoenix, and Wolverine. Shocked a doctor tells them that this is not mutie central and that someone needs to call the MP’s. Jean, who is worried about Nightcrawler teleporting the four of them at once and what a strain it must be for him does not notice the bigotry in the doctor’ voice as she asks if Nightcrawler is okay. He replies that he is and under the circumstance he would have tried to teleport four hundred if he needed to. Wolverine however does notice the doctor’s bigotry and he tells him that he does not like the word “mutie”. Captain America grabs the doctor by the shoulder and informs him that he will vouch for them and that they probably will help the other X-Men out better then even the doctor’s will.
Beast tells the others that Gambit needs him most. He places some Nano-Probe Manipulators, as he calls them, on his hand, explaining that his bulky hands, a result of his recent mutation, are great for fighting but not for surgery. Wolverine walks away telling the others that he is going to go check on Storm. Nightcrawler walks by Slipstream’s bed as he screams at the doctors that he does not want to see the monster that calls itself his sister because his sister must be dead. Nightcrawler, whose eyes are aglow, overhears Davis talking about his sister as she stands in the corner of the unit sulking in pity.
Both Logan and Jean notice the markings on Lifeguard’s body as royal Shi’Ar. They think she might cause trouble, as she looks as if she is about to go into a berserker rage. Wolverine tells Jean, as he pops his claws, that he will take her down quietly but Jean stops him saying that she wants to try first. Jean walks up to Heather and compliments her on how that her plumage is some of the finest she has ever seen and she asks her how she came about to find them? Confused, Heather asks Jean, “What ?” and Jean tells her that she is a friend of Storm and that they are X-Men too. Jean asks Heather what her name is and Heather answers her question but tells her that she at least used to be Heather Cameron.
Slipstream, who is now more calm and hidden behind curtains, sits in his bed as he notices he has a visitor. Nightcrawler is his visitor and as Davis reaches out to shake his hand he notices that Nightcrawler only has three fingers. Surprised, Davis asks who he is and Nightcrawler explains that like Davis he is a mutant. By birth, he is german, by choice he is an X-Man and also has studied to become a priest. Davis asks if he too was jumpstarted by Sage that he looks like he does, but Kurt explains that God made him look like this. Davis explains that he does not believe that the monster outside is his sister because his sister was beautiful. Nightcrawler tries to change Davis’ point of view, stating that inside Heather is as human as she ever was, besides right now she is confused and scared and could use her brother’s support. Yet Davis says that he can’t bear to look at her and he worries that his mutation will be worse then his sisters.
(in Storm’s soul)
“I bin dead but I got better, bin to heaven loved in hell, once more I am wand’rin’ wand’rin’ down this road I know so well…but where I end up this time I have no clue!” is what Jean sings as she floats down into Storm’s spirit world. Outside a house, probably somewhere in Cairo, Ororo stands in a pink evening gown holding doves as two white tigers lay at her feet. Storm tells Jean that she should not know where she is because this is her soul, not Jean‘s. “Mine should look… this wonderful.”, Jean tells Storm. As the two friends embrace, Storm’s uniform too changes into a version of the school’s current uniforms and Storm apologizes for not inviting Jean sooner. Jean tells Storm that she is not here for pleasure though, because she is here to bring Storm back. Storm informs Jean that the lines between life and death rarely meet so close and that she wanted the opportunity to see her parents once more. Behind Storm appear John and N’Dare Munroe and Storm wants to introduce Jean to them. Jean very humbled, says that she should not be here for their reunion because that should be just something special for Storm. The two parents embrace Jean and tell her that they are so happy that Storm has grown up so nice and that they thank Jean for being such a good friend. Storm tells Jean that she is fine, but she wonders about Gambit.
(in Gambit’s soul)
Rogue is driving a motorcycle through the air. Rogue talks to Gambit although she does not see him. She tells him the image of a nice ancestral house in his spirit world doesn’t impress her, likewise the fancy crypt. She tells him that the locked gate will not keep her out as she jumps over it, though not without falling off the bike. She knows this is the astral plane but surprisingly the landing still hurts. Gambit stands in front of the crypt and tells her that she has been keeping him and he was hoping that her and him could ascend to the afterlife together. While Rogue lies underneath the motorcycle she was riding she tells him that they will be going all right but not to the after life but back to life. “You got brass, Rogue, but it is outta your hands.” Gambit tells Rogue as he walks toward the light.
(present)
Wolverine holds Rogue down as she screams to, what he perceives as thin air, that Gambit had better not leave her. Wolverine tells her to stop that she is killing herself and that the Beast is taking care of Gambit. There is nothing she can do for him and she needs to rest and let the doctors take care of her.
(in Gambit’s soul)
Rogue chases Gambit and tells him not to turn his back on her. Gambit tells her that the light is so beautiful and it feels so much like home. She runs towards him begging him not to walk away. Rogue and Gambit embrace in a passionate kiss and she tells him that she will not let go. He tells her to not be so foolish because he believes it is his time to go. “No”, she tells him that she will not help him die because she loves him. He tells her, as he smiles that there could not be a better way to go then as he saved the world.
(present)
Wolverine grabs Rogue’s face screaming at her, desperately trying to get her to take his powers from him so she can live. He looks into her eyes and tells her that she does not even have to be awake for the transfer to occur and that he does not care if she takes all his power, that he just wants her to live. However nothing happens, and Wolverine screams to Jean that Rogue’s powers have stopped working. She is on her own and she is dying.
(in Gambit’s soul)
Gambit starts to ascend into the sky and he tells Rogue that he loves her too. Rogue holds onto Gambit telling him that she will not let him go. She begins to float off the ground with him and she screams at him that they have not even had a chance to live their life together so he should not leave her. Rogue grabs hold of a statue to keep them from floating away. She screams to him, that even though he thinks he should die, the X-Men write their own destiny so they also can make their own miracles. As he tries to float away Rogue anchors him to the earth and he begs her to just let him go because he may never be in such a state of grace again. She tells him that their story is not done and he tells her that it is because this is the happy ending. “Ah’m selfish! Ah want better. And so should you!” she tells him.
(present, later)
Heather goes to check on Davis finally without her wings and Nightcrawler informs her that he has already departed. He left her a note and asked her not to follow him. Jean stands in front of Storm’s bed and asks her how she is feeling? Ororo tells Jean that she is feeling fine and now her folks are too because they have gone home.
Rogue lies on the hospital bed next to Gambit‘s and she clutches his bare hand and with hers as Logan stands above both of them. He tells her that Gambit may not like her after he wakes up, because he knows what he went threw and he may have not wanted to come back. Rogue tells Logan that she does not care as long as he is alive. Logan smiles at her and tells her that she really is a “Rogue” because she likes doing things the hard way. She smiles back at him and tells him that he taught her well. She also says that since they are X-Men that they are defined by hope and that’s why they never give up and they find a way to win.


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Kitty Pride, Jean Grey, Logan, Beast, and Nightcrawler are in New Orleans partying with the X-Treme team over their recent victory over Khan and his army. Rogue has been given her deceased foster mother's home and fortune and she plans on sharing her bounty with her friends, the X-Men.  Jean Grey and Hank (the Beast), who is dressed in a chef's outfit, walk into an outside courtyard where the others are already sitting around a table, listening to a Jazz band that is playing in the background.  Jean is telekinetically carrying a large cake and enough silverware and plates to feed all her friends. Rogue asks while her hand is on Gambits shoulder what Jean is doing?  "What good's a celebration, Rogue-dear, without a cake!" is Jean's response to her question.  Beast also adds that the two of them had baked it themselves.
Jean lays the cake on the table and on top of the cake reads "Welcome Home X-Men".  Jean brags on how that her telepathy tells her the size of cake that each one of them wants and also her telekinesis allows her to serve it to them neatly.  In the background Bishop tries to catch Sage who has decided to leave the party for her own reasons.  As Jean serves the cake to every one Hank congratulates Rogue on her recent killing of her enemy, Vargas.  Rogue curiously does not answer him back though. Hank seems to not notice though, as he raises his glass to toast to his absent friends. While around the table the rest of the X-Men raise their glasses, each one toasting differently.  Some toast to just their absent friends, while some toast Colossus' passing, and the others toast Psylocke's passing.
Nightcrawler stands next to Logan and brags on their Kitty for now being in college. While Logan comments that he never thought they would be alive to see it. Kitty responds to her friends teasing by telling them if the two of them do not stop their yapping, they may not live much longer. Logan, unafraid, asks Kitty why she was last heard to be working in a saloon? At another conversation around the table, Lifeguard asks Bishop where Sage had went? He just replies that Sage does not like social interaction much. Jean breaks in, telling them that since Cassandra destroyed the mansion and they were outed as a school for mutants, the enrollment has multiplied. Further, Xavier has started an outreach program in X-Corp, helping out mutants and humans across the world.
Elsewhere around the table, Neal is having a conversation with Bishop and he tells Bishop that he thought they were not going to make it when Khan's ship was heading straight for them. Bishop replies that the ship blew up real good and, luckily, right on cue. Beast interjects in their conversation and tells about how, in the past, they called it a "Magneto Moment".  The more certain the death, the more certain the resurrection, he comments. He ends the conversation, poking fun at Storm by wanting to hear about how she was supposed to be Khan's queen. Toasting Storm, Logan tells Storm that every bad guy worth the name also wants Storm as his queen.  Nightcrawler surprises Storm by bamfing in front of her and telling her that he is the "Warlord of Barsoom" and he will claim her as his queen.  Phoenix stands to her feet and in a fighting stance tells Nightcrawler that he can not have her because her heart and soul belong only to her.  Bishop, in response to Jean's challenge, stands to his feet also and tells Jean that they will have a problem because the woman is his. "She's mine, She's mine, She's Mine" is blasted at Storm from her friends joking with her. Storm laughs and hides her head begging her friends to stop their teasing. Kitty decides to join the fun as she stands and holds her head asking the others what they are talking about? She is Storm! Kitty shocks her friends by telling them that someone has just now switched their minds and she is possessed with Storm's mind and Storm has Kitty's mind. The X-Men stare in wonder at Kitty wondering if she is actually joking.  To break the silence, Lifeguard asks aloud if this happens very often? Beast tells her that it actually does happen occasionally. "GOTCHA!" both Storm and Kitty cry out as the whole team laughs together about their teasing.
Beast tells Jean that he wishes he could be around to see how Storm would pay them back for their teasing, but they cannot since they will be leaving soon. Jean tells Hank that they can be together if Storm's team just comes home. Jean tries to give a speech about how that they are all X-Men and they need to be together. She shows them a telepathic display of how Bishop, Rogue, Storm, Sage, and Thunderbird would look like as teachers at the Xavier Institute. She ends her speech by telling them that she does not want to sound pushy, but she believes that they belong as teachers in the Institute.  "I assume we have a choice...?" Bishop asks Jean. She grabs his arm and tells him that they have a responsibility to mutants and humans everywhere.
Kitty, angered by Jeans' comment, jumps in Jeans' face and tells her that she thought that they were all human. Jean defends herself, telling Kitty that she should know what she means. She goes on to say that they just want to help and give guidance because they do not want to see another Genosha.  Kitty agrees with Jean and walks off teary-eyed, leaving Jean confused and Nightcrawler bamfing after Kitty.  Storm sits behind Jean in her wheelchair she has been temporarily forced to use because of her recent injuries and tells Jean disturbing news that Kitty's dad was one of the humans that died trying to save young mutant children in Genosha.  She also says that Kitty, through her extensive knowledge of computers, was able to find a video with her father's death on it, so she was able to watch her father die. "Oh my God.", Jean exclaims as she holds herself as if a chill has come over her and she stares towards the now departed Kitty.
A few seconds later, Jean sits in a sit in front of Storm, surrounded by what is left of the party members from before.  Logan, puzzled, comments to them that Kitty had never told him about her father's death before.  Bishop reminds Logan that Kitty is a lot like him and that her recent problems have caused trouble at school for Kitty.  Jean looks at Storm and tells her that if there is anything the X-Men can do to help anyone on the X-Treme team all they need to do is say the word and they will try anything to help.  Hank, as he lounges back in his chair behind Storm's, tells Storm that the Institute now has a healer in Xorn and that if he can be of any service they would take her to him.  He also informs them that Professor X is able to walk again because of Xorn's healing powers. Bishop, not surprised, informs Hank that they had seen Xavier on television walking and they were extremely impressed. "I'll consider it..." Storm replies to Jean as she grasps Jean's hands.  Jean turns to Bishop and begs him to make Storm reconsider.  Bishop tells Jean that Storm is their leader, so she calls the shots and he will back whatever decision she makes.  "Even if it kills her?" Jean asks Bishop. "Especially then..." Bishop replies.  Jean puffs up and tells Bishop that all of them are stubborn.  As he shoots back, telling her that she does not need to be talking about being stubborn because she is also.
A few minutes later, Neal catches up with Heather who has now made her way to the rooftop of Rogue's mansion.  The moon silhouettes Heather and Neal tells her that she looks magnificent.  As Neal nears Heather she asks him not to say that but he replies to her that it is only the truth.  Neal asks Heather how she is doing and she tells him that she is doing fine considering the circumstances which "STINK"!  The two sit down on the roof and she tells him that she had to leave the room because now that she has her wings all that she can think of when she is in a small space is that she needs to get out to spread her wings.  She remarks that a few days ago she did not even have wings but now she would not know what to do without them.  She says that she cannot remember who Heather Cameron ever was because she now seems such like a stranger to her and that she thinks her brother was right to call her a monster.  Neal tries to calm her by saying that she is not the monster her brother said she was.  Convinced, Heather tells Neal that she was once a Lifeguard, but now when she looks at people, she only sees prey.  Heather turns to Neal and tells him that Davis wasn't even supposed to have his powers. Only because Sage jump-started him is the only reason he has the powers in the first place. Now she wants to be with her brother just in case he has to go through the same changes that she did. Neal places his hand over Heather's now alien hand and he asks her if she can find her brother?  She tells him that she is a natural born predator and she can now find anyone she wants. Neal tells her if she will have him, then he would love to come with her. She replies that she does want him to come and help her.
Elsewhere in Rogue's large mansion, Hank tries to catch up with Gambit who is sitting in the mansion's garden and contemplating. Hank talks to Gambit as he approaches and he tells him that a person could almost get lost in this mansion's garden. Gambit tells Hank that getting lost was what he wanted when he came there in the first place. Hank asks how Gambit is doing after his recent injuries at the hand of Vargas? Gambit tells him, as he removes his shirt partially, that even his scar is almost healed. Hank congratulates himself on his Nanobot technology and tells Gambit that before long he will not even have the scar. Hank turns away from gambit as if he is going to walk away and he tells Gambit that it is one thing to look healed but to actually be healed that is another. With that said Hank lunges towards Gambit and he tells him to "think fast".  Gambit surprisingly outmaneuvers Hank and teases him on how slow he is.  Gambit removes his cards from his pocket and holds them preparing to hurl them towards Hank.  Hank, however, tries to tell Gambit that his attack was only to test Gambit's reflexes and he does not want Gambit to destroy Rogue's new home.  Gambit does as Hank asks and he puts his cards away.  Ecstatic over Gambit's fast recovery, Hank hugs him and tells him that he is glad that he is healing so quickly. As Hank has Gambit in a firm embrace Gambit thinks to himself that he is not healthy and, thanks to Rogue, he may never be again.
Meanwhile, Kitty now has finally reached her destination, her room.  Outside her room Nightcrawler walks Storm to the same room, telling her that Kitty seems to be tremendously upset. Storm holds Nightcrawler back and tells him to please let her talk to Kitty. Kitty is packing as Storm enters the room and she does not even turn to look at her as she enters. Kitty informs Storm that she is going back to Chicago and that she should have never answered Rogue's invitation in the first place. Storm asks Kitty how she can say that and Kitty tells her to just leave her alone. Storm, angered by Kitty's disrespect, causes lightning to strike in the sky and she demands for Kitty to look at her. Kitty, in anger, lashes back at Storm, telling her that she cannot stand to be around the X-Men anymore because it hurt her too much. She tells Storm that she hurts because she sees her in a wheelchair and Gambit and Rogue, the whole team, almost died a few days ago. "But we didn't..." Storm replies. Kitty, now furious, screams at Storm only inches form her face, "THIS TIME".  Kitty informs Storm that she has a box of memories she keeps in her dorm room and in that box are mementos of her deceased family and friends. She does not want to add anymore things to that box.  Storm asks Kitty, as she begins to pack again, if she is trying to protect herself by crossing the X-Men from her life and Kitty replies "yes". Kitty has her bags packed and is walking out the door as Storm tells her that for the longest of times she believed she should have died with her own mother and father and she hated her parents for dying and leaving her alone. Stopping to think, Kitty drops to the floor, sitting upon her own suitcase.  She looks down at the floor and falls into Storm's chest telling her how much she misses all of them. Storm embraces Kitty and tells Storm that she cannot rejoin the X-Men because she has her own dreams and Xavier's dreams have only lately began to scare her.
In her room, Sage continues to type away on her invisible computer as Bishop enters her room carrying a slice of cake for her. He asks her why she has chosen to remain hidden while the other X-Men are around?  She informs Bishop that she and the others have a bad past together. Bishop tells her that he knows that she once was thought to be on the side of the bad, but she is now helping them and if he can trust her they will eventually too.  He asks her why if Rogue is right and their mission is finally over because they have broken the wheel of fate left by the diaries, why can they just not go back to the Institute and help as teachers?  Sage, analyzing her keyboard's display of Xavier's head on the right and Cassandra's head on the left, tells Bishop that she cannot answer his question. She does inform him though that she can say that she has concern for the Institute because it can easily be manipulated since it is such a huge target now for mutant haters.  Xavier has the most powerful mind on the planet. Sage goes on to say, and he even has Jean Grey and Emma Frost by his side, but if they are busy looking after mutants, then who is going to look after the normal people on Earth? Sage walks up to Bishop who is now standing on the balcony of her room. They both look out on the humans walking below them. "Who will be their champions?" she asks.
Once more in the garden of the mansion, Gambit still is there. He seems bored, throwing cards into a nearby pond.  Rogue comes up to Gambit and asks him if he has been tossing cards all day and none of them have been able to be charged. He tells her that he thinks when he almost died and she saved him that he lost his powers at the same time. Rogue leans over Gambits sitting body and she tells him that if it is any consolation, she no longer has hers either and she is happy that she can finally touch his skin and kiss him.  She leans over his body and he tells her that it is her own fault she lost her powers because she was trying to play hero. "With your life at stake, that's no choice at all," Rogue tells Gambit as she kneels beside him.  She tells him that since both of them has lost their powers that now maybe they can start a life together.
Rogue leans back against the rock wall nearest to them and she asks Gambit if it was all just a game to him and as long as they couldn't touch it was fun but now he no longer wants to be with her? Gambit does not answer her, he instead asks if she would like to dance with him since the Jazz band is playing close by and he does not want to waste such a beautiful song?  As he gets closer to her, she tells him that they have had their moments but even they are not enough for her because she is selfish and she wants a lifetime with him.  "Okay," Gambit replies. As Rogue questions his answer, he tells her that he will not promise anything but they will do things day by day and see how it all works out. "It's a start..." she tells Gambit. As they embrace to dance and as they are shadowed by the night's sky, Gambit drops his cards to the ground and the queen of hearts and the jack of hearts are shown face up.
The morning comes and Storm replies that she and Jean have talked all night long while they done the dishes. Jean tells her that "Martha Stewart" has nothing on them since they were able to make use of her telekinesis and Storm's rain showers cleaned the dishes in an extremely new way.  Jean leans down to Storm's level and tells Storm that it makes her sad to see her in the wheelchair. Storm is not sad though, she informs Jean because she is getting stronger every day and that nature is just taking its course. Kitty interrupts as she opens the door to the kitchen, joking of how Storm should know nature since she is the poster child for Mother Nature herself. "You're leaving?" Jean asks Kitty. She tells Jean that she has classes and a job to get back to, but most importantly she finally has a ride. Kitty begins to open the outside door to leave and she tells the two of them that she will stay in touch if they ever need her to call her.
Jean turns to Storm and tells her that she has tried to leave the X-Men more than once and she hopes Kitty has better luck. Surprised by a sound of a motorcycle starting up, Storm and Rogue head outside to find Rogue and Gambit saying their good-byes. The two of them tell the others that they have decided to leave and try to get their relationship back together again, as well as recoup away from all the action for a while.  Hank tells them that they have made a good "therapeutic" decision and the team supports them. Thunderbird and Lifeguard approach the others as well and inform them of their decision to leave as well to search for Davis Cameron. "Good man..." Nightcrawler states towards Neal. As Neal hugs Sage and he tells them that X-Men look after their own and thanks the team for teaching him that. Rogue also hugs Logan before she leaves and is excited that she can finally give him a goodbye kiss.
As the four members leave, Jean tells the others that this was not the end she had hoped for and Logan tells her that life is definitely full of surprises.  Jean goes over to Storm and tells her that she is sorry to have to leave and Hank interrupts to say "especially before breakfast". Logan approaches Jean and tells her that he wants to stay with Storm as she recoups to help her out and Jean agrees.  Before Jean leaves, she shows the three X-Treme members one last time the dream picture she has of them as teachers and tells them that her offer still stands. As the others leave, Bishop turns to Storm and asks if they can just go home because he believes their job is done? Storm looks over to Bishop and asks him "Is it?" As the three of them look on the tablecloth infront of them, their new uniforms lying on top of it, Storm tells Bishop "I was thinking it has barely begun..."