My Quest to Read All X-Men Related Comics in Order from Beginning to Present time

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2 Part Arc called War of the Mutants

Generation X #50 & X-Man #50

Adrienne Frost has agreed to enroll a lot of new, rich, human students. Noticing that everyone’s a bit freaked out, Skin suggests that they head to Boston to relax a bit. At the same time, Emma and Adrienne learn about the existence of Nate Grey, and Emma is interested in him and tries to reach him. It works but, thanks to this, Nate discovers Emma’s past with the Dark Beast and heads towards her. In Boston, the students split up in groups. Meanwhile, the Dark Beast prepares his team of Gene Nation to kidnap the students of Emma Frost to use them as experiments.

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Membrain attacks M and Synch and, after a battle, kidnaps them. Fever Pitch heads to the Boston docks, where, after explaining a bit about his past to Chamber and Skin, he manages to kidnap them as well. Jubilee, Paige and Gaia are attacked by Hemingway and Vessel. Vessel knocks out Gaia and thinks she is dead. They defeat Jubilee and Paige, and kidnap them as well. Later, Gaia gets up again and manages to find Emma and warns her about the attack. Meanwhile, Sean notices a helicopter kidnapping a kid, and investigates the case. However, when following the helicopter and arriving in Vermont, Sean is knocked out as well. After hearing the story, Emma tells Gaia that they best head back to the school to get reinforcements. But, they are disturbed by Nate Grey, who wants Emma to tell her everything she knows about the Dark Beast.

A couple of illusions and battles later, Gaia calms the two telepaths down, reminding Emma that the other kids from Generation X have been kidnapped by Gene Nation. Nate agrees to help out, but only because Emma promises to come clean afterwards. They head down the sewers and a few seconds later, Emma has found the kids, but they are locked behind a huge door. After defeating Membrain’s thugs, Gaia bursts through the door. They find the members of Generation X, but they are trapped on a huge machine and have been painfully experimented on. While Emma releases them, Nate concentrates on the battle against Gene Nation. After the kids are free and join Nate in his battle, Gene Nation is finally defeated, and Nate and Gaia notice that Emma is gone. They follow her trail and find her in the viewing chamber of the Dark Beast, about to kill him. Nate and Gaia manage to calm Emma down, and she releases the Dark Beast, who afterwards pushes a button and detonates his booby-traps in the tunnels, which start to collapse. The Dark Beast vanishes, and Nate manages to use his powers to safely transport him and Generation X outside. Later, they go back at the school, where Nate doesn’t believe Emma’s story about her past with the Dark Beast. Madelyne shows up, and Nate tells her he’s ready to leave after one quick stop first. While Emma sends the kids out to find the missing Banshee, she gives Nate a reward for his help: she telepathically gives him the secret locations where the Dark Beast has gone, which she has discovered while in his viewing room. Nate thanks her, and he and Maddie leave. Later that night, someone in a giant robot called Gauntlet-4 has a lock on Nate, and is ready to kill him.
 
Back at it!!! Damn haven't read since September.

At least this Magneto War storyline is coming up so I can get right back into it.

Gambit v3 #2-3

Gambit steals Moira MacTaggert‘s files for the New Son. Fontanelle dreamprobes Tante Mattie and learns that when she was a little child at the end of the 19th century, Gambit saved her from an angry mob, therefore proving that Gambit is much older than he claims, adding to the mystery of the man. The X-Cutioner hires the former Elysian Guard to help him against Gambit.

Gambit secretly follows the Courier to get more information about the New Son, but instead stumbles into a meeting of a group called A.S.K.E.W. A yellow gas cloud is released it disfigures all the scientists, and after it has been pulled back into a canister, the Mengo Brothers arrive to transport all of them to the Pig.

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Gambit grabs the canister from them and runs, but the Mengos chase him through New York. On the fighting scene is a homeless mutant named Quiet Bill, he randomly calls up teleportation portals and the captured scientists are sucked through. The Mengos escape with what they believe the gas canister, but Gambit has the real one, and knows that the Pig will come after him. Fontanelle probes Sekmeht Conoway, but besides her admiring Gambit finds out nothing useful.

 
[Magneto War

X-Men v2 #85-87 - Uncanny X-Men #366-367 - X-Men: Then Magneto War #1


We start off seeing the X-Men, with Xavier back and acting as their leader, saving babies from a burning hospital. Of course they are met with hostility from the police, and Xavier watches wondering if his dream is truly doomed. Luckily, Storm is able to reason with the police and it all ends peacefully, restoring his faith in the dream. Mean while we see Magneto disguised as a board member to a company that owns a building he just toppled himself. He questions a regular crew member in order to test him. When the human seems truly decent, he becomes frustrated, scaring the man into saying hateful things, giving him the "proof" he needs to finally destroy humanity. He heads home to his new base in the North Pole and sends out the call to his followers.

Fabian Cortez leads a group of Acolytes to Xavier’s Institute to learn a secret that only Xavier can answer. The newest Acolyte, Rem-Ram, uses his powers to sneak into Xavier’s head and begins to nudge the man’s dreams towards thinking of Magneto. Eventually, the strain is too much for Xavier, so Rem-Ram links to the minds of Rogue, Gambit and Wolverine and pits them against Magneto, while Xavier watches in hopes that this will prompt some reaction. However, a vicious nightmare in Wolverine’s mind wakes up Xavier, who immediately senses the Acolytes on the school grounds. The X-Men attack, but find themselves taken by surprise by the two new Acolytes, Barnacle and Static. Eventually, the X-Men defeat the Acolytes, though Cortez amplifies Rem-Ram’s powers too much to learn the secret from Xavier, almost killing Rem-Ram. When Xavier and Rogue save Rem-Ram, the Acolytes see this and ask for asylum in the mansion, while Cortez runs away defeated. Xavier turns down the Acolytes and, after they leave, he explains that, while in Rem-Ram’s head, he learned that the Acolytes learned that Magneto returned and wished to know if Joseph was Magneto or not. He sent away the Acolytes so they can follow them on their quest to find Magneto, so the X-Men can learn as well if the master of magnetism is back. Meanwhile, Magneto gathers Amelia Voght and his other loyal Acolytes, to whom he promises action soon. However, he sends Amelia on a special mission to safeguard Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch from the upcoming inferno.

The New Acolytes:

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The X-Men are on the trail of the Acolytes still loyal to Magneto, as they terrorize yet another genetics laboratory in two days. The team has the offending jet in sights then loses the trail but suddenly the Acolytes drop their cloaks when they arrive at their latest target, a chemical plant. The X-Men arrive to stop the Acolytes, but it is a trap. The X-Men quickly regroup and chase the Acolytes, who don’t seem to be making much effort to escape. The X-Men then wonder, what was the point of all of this? Are the Acolytes trying to lead them somewhere – or away from something? As tensions arise on the Blackbird, Magneto sends the robotic Ferris to the United Nations. There, the being speaks to the delegation about the recent failure in having a sanctuary in space for mutants. Thus, Magneto demands a haven for mutants on Earth and the United Nations shall grant it to him. This haven shall be for mutants who wish to live in peace. In his Arctic Circle base, Magneto beefs up his powers with a conductor and uses it to once again tear open the electromagnetic spectrum. The attack sends ripples, which begin to spread across Earth, threatening to shut down all of civilization until Magneto’s demands are met by the United Nations. As the Acolytes streak back to the Arctic, they are protected by their special shields, but the Blackbird is crippled and crashes, leaving the X-Men trapped in the Arctic, but not without hope.

Meanwhile, in Israel, with the help of Sabra, Joseph finds out that his DNA has been forged. When he steps away to think on this, he is attacked by a woman claiming to have created him and calling herself his mother.

 
Magneto War Continued

Joseph finds himself held prisoner by the woman calling herself Astra. She introduces herself as the first member of Magneto’s original Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, but she was also the first one to quit, before the group ever encountered the original X-Men. When Magneto crash landed on Earth when his spatial home was destroyed, she salvaged his mind in order to use his template to make a younger, more powerful clone. After Magneto bashed the clone’s head, he awoke amnesiac in Central America and was found by a nun, and thus he became the man known as Joseph!

Meanwhile, the X-Men find themselves trapped in the Arctic Circle, while the Acolytes watch them from above safely. Above, the Acolytes argue whether this is fair to let the X-Men die like this. Scanner does not think so, but Mellencamp reminds her how the X-Men turned her and other Acolytes into the government months ago when they could have brought her to the Institute. Xavier uses all his strength to tear through the magnetic storm and make psychic contact, but Scanner, still siding with the Acolytes despite her sympathy, uses her powers to attack the astral form. Meanwhile, as the U.N. recruits Dr. Alda Huxley to deal with the current situation with Magneto, which she seemingly has an uncanny interest in, Gabrielle Haller discovers that Russia has sent nukes to destroy Magneto’s base. Magneto, however, senses the nukes and diverts them, setting them off before they reach him. However, the X-Men are caught in the shock waves of the blast.

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Unbeknownst to the Acolytes, Xavier used his powers to telepathically make Cargill extend the ship’s shields in secret to protect his team. He then mentally coerces the Acolytes to attack his X-Men in a ploy to leave their ship unguarded. The X-Men eventually defeat the Acolytes and with the ship secure, the team heads to confront Magneto at his Polar Tower. However, Astra and Joseph have already arrived, and Astra tells Joseph that today is the day he will fulfill his destiny to destroy Magneto. Astra confronts Magneto alone, and finds the man still hooked up to his amplifier. The two argue with each other over their tense past. Magneto tells Astra that she is without honor and never thinks about her mutant brothers, while Astra implies that Magneto purposely agitates the humans and then gets upset when humans won’t let him rule them. After the exchange of words, in which Astra learns Magneto allowed Joseph to live so he could hide and finalize his current plans without distraction, Astra attacks Magneto and destroys his device. The magnetic energy goes out of control and threatens to destroy the atmosphere, but Magneto absorbs it all, as he has no other choice. He is about to kill Astra, when he is attacked by Joseph, who not only is fighting because Astra has total control over him, but because he must fight for man and mutant. Meanwhile, Alda Huxley arrives at the United Nations and tells the delegates that she has an alternative to using more nukes – but they must be willing to sacrifice something.

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The X-Men arrive at the polar tower just in time to see Magneto and Joseph battle it out as Astra watches. Nightcrawler teleports to take out Astra, but before he does so, she makes a comment implying she knew him when he was much younger. Joseph, no longer under Astra’s influence, works to repair the damage down to the magnetosphere and to stop the spreading electromagnetic storm. The others battle Magneto, though Gambit secretly feels that Rogue is going easy on Magnus, due to her old feelings for him. Joseph, who has taxed himself in fixing the magnetosphere and has aged into an old man because of it, uses his last strength to end the storm and then converts himself and the polar tower into magnetic energy that becomes one with the magnetosphere. Before he passes on to a higher plane of existence, he tells Xavier that humans and mutants can only live together when Xavier and Magneto work together. Suddenly, a United Nations convoy arrives with Ferris and Dr. Huxley. Huxley, very well knowing that Magneto’s threats are useless without his polar tower, still gives into his claims for her own mysterious reasons. She then cedes over control of Genosha to Magneto! Wolverine is enraged, so Xavier puts him to sleep. The X-Men leave, unable to do anything more for this situation. After the UN leaves as well, Magneto tries using his powers to lift his helmet but fails. Whether it is exhaustion or some other problem, it doesn’t matter. Neither would bode well at this stage in Magneto’s journey.

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Magnus picking up an epic win here.
 
The Magneto War Epilogue

Magneto Rex #1-3

Magneto arrives in Genosha and assumes control despite worldwide controversy. He is attacked by Magistrate forces but is saved by a mutate who takes him to meet with the existing leadership. His new cabinet includes Dr Huxley, Phillip Moreua, Pipeline & Jenny Ransome. Quicksilver discovers that Amelia Voght has been spying on him under his father’s commands and demands to be taken to Magneto. He is surprised to learn of Magneto’s new role in Genosha and decides to look into the state of affairs there. He is quickly captured by The Zealot, the leader of a mutate rebellion that opposes Magneto’s ascension. Magneto recruits Fabian Cortez into his cabinet to help him maintain his former power levels. Rogue arrives to try and talk some sense into Magneto and discovers The Zealot and his plan to sacrifice Pietro as the opening salvo in his war to reclaim Genosha from Magneto.

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Rogue forms an uneasy alliance with Amelia Voght to try to save him. Their appeals to Magneto to help them fall on deaf ears as his is busy threatening the United Nations who have been keeping a watchful eye on Genosha. Magneto claims he no longer cares for Rogue or Pietro, but gives Rogue enough time in Genosha to try and rescue Quicksilver. Rogue and Amelia succeed in freeing Quicksilver but are quickly intercepted by the Zealot who has determined that Pietro is of no further use to him. Before he can kill Quicksilver, the rest of the Genoshan cabinet arrives including Magneto. Magneto openly challenges the Zealot and declares that when he is done with him, the Zealot will acknowledge his rightful rule of Genosha.

Magneto confronts and defeats the Zealot, sending his opposition into space as an example to all those who would oppose his rule in Genosha. Quicksilver sees it as his responsibility to oppose Magneto until he sees how much Genosha needs a chance at a better future. He chooses to remain at Magneto’s side in the hopes of tempering his father’s anti-human sentiments and violent approach to ruling the nation. Rogue leaves Genosha after confessing her disappointment and disdain for the man Magneto has become. She also makes it clear that the X-Men will be back if he steps out of line. Magneto cements his new status as ruler of Genosha and establishes his cabinet, which includes Quicksilver. He sets out on creating his vision of a mutant homeland that will be the beginning of an era of mutant ascension and domination.

Also, we see that Apocalypse is watching these events unfold happily.

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X-Man #51-52

Madelyne Pryor & Nate teleport back to London, but as they leave they are unaware that Threnody was lurking about in Nate’s apartment. In Ireland, the MacAleer boarding house has been invaded by Strikesquad Gauntlet operatives, demanding to know Nate’s whereabouts. Nate’s companion Ness observe before Nate and Madelyne soon arrive, and a battle ensues. Madelyne leaves, teleporting the MacAleers to the hospital, while the other hostages are able to escape. Madelyne returns to the battle, and Nate asks her to teleport him inside the armor, but Madelyne isn’t sure she can do that. As she attempts it though, she is shot by one of the Strikesquad operatives. She is relatively unharmed, but Nate is furious and unleashes his rage by destroying the remainder of the boarding house, collapsing it on top of the Strikesquad operatives, only for dozens more of the enemy to appear - and Ness tells Nate that the Strikesquad Gauntlet is a multi-national pan-governmental agency with the whole world on their side.

Maddie, Nate & Ness take on the whole group, with the help of a traitor to the Gauntlet. The whole thing ends with a giant explosion where Maddie leaves Ness to die, after seeming like she aged quite a bit. Nate is thought to be dead as well after he teleports away with the city of Dublin hating him for destroying their town. However, Threnody knows he is not dead and apparently seems to be pregnant??? Well damn!

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Deadpool #27-28

Deadpool is still in therapy session and he keeps seeing a mysterious, black-haired woman he thinks he knows, but can’t put his finger on. In order to get his frustrations away, his therapist tells him to beat someone to death. He travels to Chinatown and finds Wolverine and Shadowcat. At first Wolverine wont fight him until he does this:

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Hilarious...

Dr. Bong discovers that Wade is only hallucinating because it reminds him about his battle against the Destroyer, and that he prevented peace by allowing the universe to have its own free will. Deadpool gets over that and the bunnies disappear. On that very moment, he suddenly remembers who the mysterious woman is, but Wolverine quickly stabs his claws through Deadpool’s back, causing the merc to bleed profusely. Bong teleports himself, Ilaney and Wade back to his office, where Deadpool, before fainting, reveals that the woman he kept seeing was someone who stole his heart a long time ago, but is now dead. Meanwhile in Atlanta, the very same woman of Deadpool’s hallucinations, but very much alive, runs away for her life.

At his new home in the Bolivian jungle, Deadpool can’t stop thinking about the woman and keeps making sculptures about her. Meanwhile in Morocco, Wade’s new field handler, Alistaire, receives a mysterious letter, which contains exploding green fog that was meant as a warning sign towards Deadpool. A few days later in Atlanta, Wade and Ilaney run into the exact same woman from Wade’s hallucinations: a woman named Mercedes. However, she is followed by Bullseye, who has been hired to kill her.

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Wade tries to call off the assignment by suggesting he’ll pay Bullseye himself, but he isn’t interested, so they fight. Eventually, Wade manages to defeat Bullseye. Mercedes realizes he and Wade are one and the same person, and also the fact that they are… married?! Wade admits it’s really him under the mask, and he and Mercedes share a kiss. The mysterious man has witnessed everything and is pleased that everything is going according to plan.

Deadpool & Bullseye back and forth is always the best.
 
Cable #69-70

We last saw Cable when he seemingly died fighting the Harbinger or Apocalypse. However, he was saved by chronologists existing between the bands of time. Here he found Madame Sanctity, a major player in the Sisterhood of Askani. She was to be put to death, but Cable managed to change their minds. He then teleported back to earth to bring The Twelve together, where he found his waitress friend Stacey becoming acquainted with his home and Blaquesmith. He brings her back to her appartment where they are attacked by someone from Nathans future who feels he was betrayed by Cable. They fight, but the dude winds up blowing himself up.

Generation X #51

Banshee is held hostage by Hunter Brawn and his bodyguards. Hunter, however, realizes his mistake when his grandson, Tristan, hands him over a brochure from the school he went to visit, and that Sean is its headmaster. Meanwhile, Emma and the other kids have returned to the school after their heavy battle against the Dark Beast, but can’t find Sean anywhere. Artie demonstrates his projection powers and shows the kids how Sean got caught and where he is now. Emma suggests that she goes out there alone to rescue Sean, and wants to leave the kids behind. Adrienne doesn’t agree and she even gives the kids upgraded uniforms with facial masks in order to protect their identities.

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However, Gaia didn’t get one, as after talking to Nate Grey she understood that the school isn’t what she needs right now, and wants to discover the world by doing. Soon afterwards, the kids ditch Emma and leave alone in her plane, not trusting her anymore after they learned of her past with the Dark Beast. They find Sean, but discover that Brawn has a protection armor of himself, and even a costumed bodyguard. After a battle, Brawn calms down and Sean suggests that they let Tristan decide if he wants to join the school or not. Tristan is more than happy to join, and they leave together.

Gambit v3 #4-5

Gambit is called to New Orleans by Tante Mattie and his father Jean-Luc LeBeau. They alert him to Fontanelle invading their dreams. Also currently a vampire is in New Orleans, he attacked one of the Antiquary’s slave children. With the Antiquary absent, his ministers make a deal with the LeBeaus. They gain access to the Antiquary’s library in exchange for them dealing with the vampire who, controlling the slave children, already has made his way into it. With Blade’s help, Remy and his father destroy the vampire.

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The X-Cutioner trains his lackeys for their next move against Gambit. Fontanelle dreamscapes Carter Ryking, a youth friend of Charles Xavier. They met an old woman who said "Black Womb“. The Pig sends the Mengo Brothers after a young boy named Shiro, who is the source of the yellow, mindcontrolling gas seen last issue.

The X-Cutioner and his lackeys capture Rogue and use her as bait. Gambit attempts to rescue her and bests almost all attacks, though in the end is about to be killed by Denti. Rogue breaks loose from her restrains, together the couples defeats the X-Cutioner. With his sensors damaged, Denti mistakes his own people for the two mutants and kills them, leaving him with a problem. According to his own rules, he should now execute himself. Fontanelle attempts to enter the New Son’s dreams, but is discovered and blocked out after catching a few images, one looking like Beast or Dark Beast. Zoe Ishihara and her brother Shirow apply to Jean-Luc LeBeau for help against the Pig and the Mengo Brothers.
 
Uncanny X-Men #368-369 & X-Men v2 #88

Wolverine runs through Danger Room scenarios, each time trying to kill Magneto. Charles Xavier, meanwhile, visits Dr. Huxley at the United Nations but his brief conversation doesn’t go well. The X-Men prepare for Joseph’s funeral, and Rogue in particular is taking his death hard. Wolverine won't join them. Charles provides everyone with a mental glimpse of what Joseph was feeling when he died, and it moves not only them, but also Wolverine and Sister Maria de la Joya as far away as Brazil. After the funeral, the X-Men join Charles in the Danger Room as he tries to dissuade Wolverine from his current course of actions. As they chat, inexplicably, an alien appears and whisks them away to another dimension.

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The X-Men are teleported by Ejulp to a strange, other-dimensional world. Traditional laws of physics do not apply here and their mutant abilities work much differently and, after using her powers, Storm is rendered unconscious. Ejulp explains to the team that Storm is being kept in a protective trance by the Trion, the sentient manifestations of the forces that comprise this dimension. Black Tom Cassidy also shows up, much to everyone’s surprise, and explains that the Juggernaut has been possessed by an evil force and is now crushing his way across dimensions. It was Black Tom who sent Ejulp to retrieve the X-Men. While Ororo – still locked in her dream – meets a younger version of her self, Xavier’s astral form and Wolverine – the two accidentally merged after touching each other – together with Shadowcat and Nightcrawler pursue Juggernaut and soon discover him. Sadly, he is now of gigantic proportions.

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The Trion have entrapped Ororo inside a dream to prevent her interfering in their plans. Her fellow X-Men have the job of halting the giant Juggernaut’s progress as he crashes from dimension to dimension. Ejulp has taken the X-Men to her own dimension, and both Charles Xavier and Wolverine, joined into one body, try and stop Cain. They manage to enter Cain Marko’s psyche, where they separate and persuade Cain that the dark entity that has possessed him is not to be feared. Cain stands up to the entity, and now free from its possession, causes the giant Juggernaut that has been crashing through dimensions to explode, opening a rift in the fabric of time and space. Ororo figures out what the Trion are trying to do and overcomes them, using her altered powers to heal the rift. Ejulp teleports the team back to their own world. However, when they arrive, things aren’t quite the way the left them.
 
Deadpool #29

Deadpool looks at a sleeping Mercedes. Deadpool fuccin all the fine chicks.

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In Morocco, Alestaire panics and flees towards America. Later that night, Monty reveals to Wade that, while he was doing research on the Mithras Directive, he went through Wade’s files and there was never a mentioning of Mercedes in his life, or that he was married. Wade can only remember a house in the snow and that somebody got killed, but is confused about it all. Suddenly, a zombie army attacks his house! As Deadpool fights, Mercedes dreams about the house she and Wade shared when they were married. She is approached by a mysterious villain, who wants to use her in his evil scheme. He reveals himself to be none other than Black Talon, and has his zombie army outnumbers Deadpool. He even manages to get a hold of Mercedes and sticks a blade through Wade’s chest. However, Wade survives the wounds and, this time, manages to fight so fast he breaks most of Talon’s bones, thereby breaking his power over the zombies, which all turn into dust. Before he faints, Talon whispers to Wade what he wanted with Mercedes. Deadpool finally remembers that, years ago, while he and Mercedes were playing in the snow together behind their house, his wife was murdered.

Generation X #52

Tristan Brawn blackmails Generation X: he knows that they are mutants.He promises not to tell anyone unless Paige goes out on a date with him. Synch, Skin and Husk are introduced by to old friend of Sean, none other than Tom Corsi, who will help them extend their powers. His first class spotlights Paige, and he successfully teaches her how to turn her body into a full glass form. Sean gets a phone call from Cannonball, who reports that Siryn has been injured and Sean leaves to San Fransisco to be with his daughter. Later that day, Tristan promises that he’ll keep his word, and Paige agrees to go out with him. A few hours later, Jubilee goes out to jog a little, and in the woods finds a heavily injured Paladin who he wants to see Adrienne.

 
X-Force #87-90

Five years ago, Christopher Aaronson declined a position at the Massachusetts Academy, angering the White Queen. He departed, assuring Tarot (one of the Hellions) that he would return for her.

Domino finds Bedlam (Aaronson's brother) in a pool hall, revealing that she thinks she has found his brother. She explains that his parents were information analysts for the National Security Department, and has tracked down their handler. Bedlam is allowed to talk to the elderly man, but makes no sense from him. Tarot, who supposedly died with the other Hellions, is visited by a mysterious man who tells her that he doesn’t like her leaving the house. Meltdown is introduced to her father’s new wife, and is horrified to find that he is part of the Triune understanding. Moonstar meets with Jennifer Kale to discuss her new powers, and Jennifer reveals that Moonstar is tapping into some kind of cosmic force. Domino and Bedlam arrive at the location they received from the retirement home, and after Bedlam remembers the last time he saw his brother, they are attacked by Magma, and a strange techno-organic being, before Bedlam’s brother reveals himself, explaining that his power is to cause static to functions of the brain. Calling himself King Bedlam, he explains that he had been identified a mutant by the National Security Department when he was six, and what he had been doing since then. He adds that he was unaware his brother was a mutant, otherwise he would have asked him join them. He then introduces four of the five members of his team - Magma, Paradigm, Tarot and Switch - the New Hellions.

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The rest of X-Force have arrived at the vineyard where Bedlam and Domino have located Bedlam’s brother. Cannonball tries to connect with Magma, still calling her Amara, she tells him to call her Allison Crestmere, as that is her real name, while Moonstar fails to get any emotional reading from the mysterious Paradigm. Feral, the final member of the New Hellions, appears, and sets about arguing and making snide remarks to her former teammates, who are surprised she is no longer in the Vault. Domino surprisingly tells the others to give him the benefit of the doubt, as she thinks King Bedlam’s ideas are visionary. King Bedlam explains that his vision is to end the war on mutant-kind, and asks X-Force to stay at his home overnight. Proudstar goes to meet Tarot and she is still cryptic about her resurrection, but does reveal that she did die with their teammates, but unlike them is forced to live her life again and again to atone for the sins of her past. She also reveals that she owes King Bedlam her life. Bedlam meets with his brother, who reveals that he has liberated the Armageddon Man from storage, and that he is going to use him to demonstrate to the world that the Hellions mean business. X-Force re-group and discuss what they learned during their exploration, when suddenly Switch appears, revealing that Domino is an impostor, and that he is Domino. Domino accuses him of lying, and they battle, but when Domino is ready to kill Switch, Siryn knows that something is wrong, and uses her sonic scream on them, disrupting Switch’s power, so Domino’s mind returns to her own body. Bedlam is confused about what to do, before X-Force find the Hellions in the distillery, before Magma attacks them, only for Paradigm to transform them into techno-organic statues. Feral warns King Bedlam to kill X-Force, but Paradigm wants to study them. King Bedlam unveils the Armageddon Man, boasting that he has power to bring the world to its knees, causing Bedlam to take his pills again, wondering what he has done in siding with his brother.

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Most of X-Force are under the control of the techno-organic Paradigm, who is forcing them to prepare the Armageddon Man for release on the world. Meanwhile, Feral and Switch have abducted Senator Danville, and bring him to the New Hellions base, where Paradigm is assessing the abilities of X-Force, however when he connects with Moonstar, it is Moonstar who learns Paradigm’s unfortunate origin. The Senator is shocked to see the Armageddon Man being released, for he knows of his power, and King Bedlam blackmails the Senator into contacting his associates in Washington to meet his demands. Bedlam does a runner, but Tarot finds him and tells him that he has the power to stop his brother, bur Bedlam does not seem interested. Tarot meanwhile uses her powers on Paradigm, which forces him to release his hold over X-Force. Moonstar uses her quantum powers on him, forcing him to go fetal. King Bedlam is furious at Tarot for aiding X-Force, and is about to punch her when Bedlam comes to her rescue. X-Force and the New Hellions are about to do battle, when the Armageddon Man breaks free from his restraints.

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Storms rage across the West Coast due to the release of the Armageddon Man. King Bedlam uses a device to psychically control the Armageddon Man. Cannonball flies off to distract the Armageddon Man, while Feral reveals that she has the Legacy Virus. X-Force and the New Hellions engage in battle, but as Siryn tries to take down King Bedlam, Feral slashes her throat.

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Moonstar immediately takes command and orders Sunspot to fly Siryn to a hospital. Meltdown takes on Feral, while Domino takes out Switch. Magma continues to annoy her former teammates, before Cannonball takes her out of the picture. Tarot reluctantly battles Proudstar, before Bedlam makes a surprising return, destroying the device which his brother uses to control the Armageddon Man. King Bedlam reveals that he was responsible for their parents death. Moonstar helps the Senator and finds out how to stop the Armageddon Man, before King Bedlam, Feral, Switch and a reluctant Tarot all make their escape. Moonstar tells her teammates what to do, and they are aided by Magma, before a combination of Moonstar, Cannonball and Proudstar’s abilities take the Armageddon Man down. They bind him in carbon rods, before Paradigm appears, he speaks to Moonstar, before leaving. The Senator convinces X-Force to leave the Armageddon Man with him, so they do, warning him that they will be watching what he does. They leave, and pick up Bedlam on the way out, offering him a second chance. Arriving at the hospital, it is revealed that Siryn may never speak again.
 
X-Men v2 #89-90 + Uncanny X-Men #370

The X-Men find themselves transported in a place that is not their Earth, yet curiously imitates New York City. Nightcrawler and Shadowcat soon discover that this counterfeit version of New York is flooded with doppelgangers of superheroes. Kitty manages to knock out her own doppelganger and replaces her among the impostors, while Kurt teleports Kitty’s copycat back to Xavier for interrogation. Kitty stumbles on the doppelgangers of Captain Marvel, Adam Warlock and Thunderbird, who capture her. Kitty realizes all these impostors are Skrulls, and these three in particular have severed ties with the others. Meanwhile, after examining Kitty’s doppelganger, Xavier also realizes they are Skrulls. Even worse, the X-Men were apparently displaced in time, as well as in space: they have been transported to Skrulls’ homeworld just as it is about to be consumed by Galactus! Meanwhile, Gambit decides to wander around on his own, hoping to get medical treatment for the injured Marrow.

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Charles wants to warn the Skrulls of the Galactus arrival via radio, but the Skrulls do not trust his voice. As he transmits, a passing Skrull ship attacks them and they are forced to the moon’s surface once again. Though they evade the ship, they are attacked by a horde of Skrulls in the forms of the Imperial Guard and the Starjammers. While they fend them off, Gambit uses a Skrull doctor to try and treat Marrow. The doctor is killed as soon as he sets up the machine into which Marrow has been placed, and Gambit figures he must keep them away from her. As the X-Men fight off the Skrulls, with more and more arriving for the fight, they look to the skies and see Skrull ships exploding. It’s the work of Nova, the herald of Galactus. He has arrived and wishes to consume the homeworld. Charles has no alternative but to try and communicate with Galactus himself.

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His psi-form leaves his body behind and reaches the homeworld, where he implores Galactus to spare this planet, appealing to his finest qualities. Despite his efforts, though, Galactus rebuffs him.

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Nearby, the previously injured Marrow emerges from the healing medical chamber Gambit placed her in… only now she looks beautiful and with a controlled bone growth! Eventually, the X-Men gather together and Shadowcat pilots the last remaining Skrull lifeboat away moments before Galactus consumes the entire world. Struggling to recover from the shock of bearing witness to this genocide, the team tries to figure out how to return home, considering they are stranded several years in the past. Shadowcat eventually places everyone in suspended-animation, leaving the ship in auto-pilot and programming it to wake them up when they reach their own time and planet. When the team wakes up, they find out that they are, indeed, entering the Earth’s atmosphere.
 
X-Man #53-54

Nate Grey is vacationing with Cyclops and Jean Grey in Alaska. He wakes from a nightmare in which he was back in the Age of Apocalypse, under attack from the Infinites. They continue up the mountain when a deformed Infinite falls from above. As they reach the next ridge, they find Infinites, humans and combinations of the two frozen in the snow. Then, they discover the protective sea walls from the Age of Apocalypse embedded in another part of the mountain. The three powerful mutants are then attacked by some surviving Infinites, and a battle ensues. Cyclops, Jean and Nate trek towards the sea wall, unaware that they are being stalked by a very large and powerful Infinite called Hatchet-9. The trio enter the sea wall, and Nate introduces Cyclops and Jean to his old home, however they are now powerless thanks to the nullification grid. They split up, with Jean going to locate the nullification grid and switch it off, while Cyclops and Nate go to the lower levels to find the Infinite replicator. Jean finds the nullification grid, and realizes that it is malfunctioning. Nate wants to destroy the Infinites before they are fully formed, but Cyclops realizes that Jean is in trouble. At the nullification grid, Jean does her best to dodge the attacks of Hatchet-9. Cyclops and Nate arrive just in time to help her though, and as Cyclops gets Jean to safety, Nate engages Hatchet-9 in combat. Nate tricks Hatchet-9 and he fires his weapons at the nullification grid, blowing it up. Hatchet-9 is seemingly destroyed, but the Infinites complete their “birthing” and swarm around Cyclops, Jean and Nate, who engage them in battle now that their powers are restored. They move the battle outside the sea wall. The heroes are able to work together successfully, and cause the mountain to cave in, sucking the sea wall inside it, and the Infinites. In the process, Nate blacks out, and finds himself in the Age of Apocalypse with Forge and Sonique. He speaks to them, before waking. Cyclops and Jean are with him, and they continue on their trek through the mountain - together.

X-Force #91

Siryn spends her day in various parts of San Francisco, dealing with the loss of her voice. Desperately upset, she buys some alcohol, and is ready to drink it to make the hurt go away, but instead she attends an alcoholics anonymous meeting. Meanwhile, Banshee arrives to X-Force and after some brief reminiscing, they go looking for her. Sunspot and Meltdown get into another argument, which results in Meltdown dumping Sunspot and walking away, before Sunspot is picked up by the INS, who tell him he is in the country illegally and must come with them. Domino is approached by a Detective who has been keeping tabs on her since the bank robbery incident in Washington. But before he can follow through, Domino mysteriously vanishes. Banshee leaves, while Meltdown informs everyone Sunspot is cooling off somewhere after she dumped him. Later that night, Siryn returns to warehouse, and hands Proudstar a letter in which she explains that she is going to stay with a distant aunt, and a sad Proudstar watches his best friend leave.
 

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