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

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X-Force Continued

Sunspot wakes to find himself in an illusion cast by Selene where he is a celebrated hero. Selene reveals herself, impressed that Sunspot saw through her illusion, she informs him that she wants him to join the Hellfire Club, and casts him into another illusion, where he is an advisor to the President on mutant affairs. Sunspot is still not interested, and flies away. Selene’s associate - Blackheart - reveals himself and tells Selene that if she wants Sunspot, she will have to use the girl. Sunspot frees the rest of X-Force from their illusions. Moonstar is being held in stasis by Blackheart - until Hela arrives, pointing out that Moonstar is under her protection and that no harm shall befall her. Blackheart is no match for Hela and forced to release Moonstar. Moonstar then meets up with her teammates and uses her quantum powers to make the Hellfire guards disappear, before announcing Selene is working with Blackheart. Selene and Blackheart appear, revealing that Juliana Sandoval is in their possession, explaining that when she was shot by the Hellfire Club all those years ago she was not meant to die. Sunspot is amazed to see her, and told that they can give Juliana a second lease on life if he joins the Hellfire Club. X-Force are free to leave the Hellfire Club and inside Susnpot asks Selene to keep up her end of the bargain. Selene does, revealing that in a Baltimore hospital a young woman was brought into the emergency room suffering from a massive cerebral aneurysm, and that her soul has passed on - and that Juliana’s soul is now entering her new body. Juliana rises and calls out to Sunspot, while Selene tells him that eventually she will forget that she was ever a girl named Juliana Sandoval, but that is the price you pay for a second chance. Sunspot is more interested in the fact that he can do more damage to the Hellfire Club as a member, than he could as part of X-Force, before regretting the fact he can never be part of Juliana’s new life. And across town, Juliana Sandoval - in her new body - wonders why she dreams of a Brazilian boy.

X-Force make their way through a chaotic San Francisco only to find the Demon Bear tearing up the city. Arcadia appears and after a brief battle the bear swallows them. They land in what Moonstar assumes to be the realm of the Demon Bear. While the rest of X-Force continue to battle the Demon Bear, Meltdown is unaware that she is being watched by two people in suits, and Proudstar is rescued from a large falling sign by Risque. A SHIELD team arrives to use a multiphase plasma cannon against the Demon Bear. Cannonball and Bedlam attempt to stop them, but are unsuccessful. Back in the Demon Bear’s dimension, Moonstar and Arcadia find the “heart” of the Demon Bear, and begin absorbing their energies back from it - but Arcadia is not strong enough to contain the energies, and releases them - causing the Demon Bear to explode in spectacular display. But what is more shocking is what is left behind - four versions of Dani Moonstar!



Next Arcadia turns into the Queen of Swords. X-Force confront the four versions of their teammate, before the Queen and the Moonstars vanish, and the real Moonstar appears, dazed, but otherwise fine - except for the fact that she has lost both her quantum powers and psionic powers. A massive cathedral then appears on Treasure Island, and they realize just how powerful the Queen is. Domino is suspicious of Risque, who explains that she is here at Sledge’s request. Ulysses Dragonblood transports X-Force to the cathedral, and Moonstar opens a portal so they can enter it - only to find themselves separated. Jennifer Kale has learned of what is transpiring and makes her way to the cathedral. Moonstar realizes that the cathedral is a portal to countless alternate realities. Suddenly Cable & Ulysses arrive. Moonstar, Cable and Dragonblood enter a world where X-Force work for the Queen of the Star Swords. Soon, three of the alternate Moonstars appear, as servants for the Queen, they battle Cannonball and Meltdown, and in the process, inadvertently reunite the members of X-Force. Moonstar absorbs the energies of the three alternate selves back into her, and confronts the Queen, trying to reach out to Arcadia. The fourth alternate Moonstar - the cosmic one - is found by Jennifer Kale and the Man-Thing and she jumps into the middle of the battle between Dani and Arcadia, adding her strength to Moonstar. Moonstar uses Cable’s psimitar to finish off the Queen, and Arcadia is reverted to her true form. Moonstar receives instruction from the Man-Thing on how to destroy the cathedral, and with her cosmic power returned, does so. The escape the cathedral - except for Cable, who must return to his true reality.



Meanwhile, Siryn being looked after by her aunt. She finds a strange antique shop, and is greeted by a woman who quickly places a necklace over Siryn’s neck - and the necklace begins to glow. Siryn’s aunt returns home to find the place a wreck - and Siryn mysteriously speaking. Siryn leaves her aunt and takes flight, the mysterious necklace having something to do with it, her possessor decides that she likes this body and will keep it for a while.

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Generation X #59-62
Jubilee, Chamber and Skin are spending Christmas at the school with Banshee and Emma while the others have returned home. Emma’s younger sister Cordelia Frost suddenly crashes through the lounge window, being chased by someone who after fighting the mysterious enemy they learn is Mondo, who they all thought was dead. Mondo is not alone, and soon Black Tom and Juggernaut make their presence known.



Generation X fight Juggernaut and Black Tom Cassidy who along with Mondo were trying to ? Cordelia Frost. They learn that the Mondo who joined the team some time ago was in fact a clone of the one they see now, and that he was a plant among the team the whole time, from Black Tom, who had retrieved Mondo from Cordelia Frost, who wanted to use Mondo to buy her way into the Hellfire Club and become its new White Queen. Generation X teamwork enables them to defeat the Juggernaut, however Black Tom and Juggernaut escape with Mondo.

Meanwhile, Monet realizes that she misses her old teammates now that she is at a new school, but uncovers a mystery preventing her from returning to them, one involving a vampire that just attacked her roommate’s friend. Monet is asked to her new headmaster’s office after the death of her roommate’s friend, and she discovers that the headmaster is in fact the murderer and a vampire. He tries to turn Monet into one, but her telepathy serves as a deflector, however before she manages to fight him off he bites her. Monet was able to “tune out” his control over her because of her telepathy. However when she and the police raided the headmaster’s office they found no evidence that he was the killer. Monet tried exposing him to sunlight, however it didn’t work, and the police thought she was mad. Thinking about what to do, Monet realizes that there are only two ways to stop him – cut off his head or stake him, and she is about to make her plan when she is attacked by Tabitha, a girl who was the most recent victim. Monet stakes her after the battle and proceeds to find Delacorte, who is comforting Monet’s roommate, Charlene. He is about to bite Charlene when Monet bursts through to rescue her, but Delacorte escapes by turning into mist. Charlene goes to safety when Delacorte’s assistant attacks Monet, and again she stakes the old woman before “back tracking” the telepathic link she had with Delacorte to find him, and just in time as he is about to bite his next victim. The two engage in aerial combat, until Monet uses her super strength to force him down on top of the spike, which sits on the bell tower, and he explodes. The school was closed down and Monet had to chose, which school to go to now – and she returns to the Massachusetts Academy.

Gambit v3 #11
Constrictor steals an adamantium stomach that is supposed to be implanted into a Judge Buechler. Daredevil, a friend of the judge, tries to get it back and Gambit too gets involved as he needs some adamantium to save Sabretooth, who has become dependent on the metal to survive.



They follow Constrictor to the crimelord Sal Donato, who needs the stomach for himself (some of his enemies put glass dust into his food) and used Constrictor’s love for his daughter into helping him. In the end a deal is made : Gambit charges the glass particles, Constrictor donates some of his adamantium coils to Creed and the judge gets the stomach. Fontanelle dreamprobes Sinister and sees him buying a newspaper about the Black ? Killer a century ago.

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X-Men: Powerless Arc

[xolor=red]Uncanny X-Men #379-380 - X-Men v2 #99 - Cable #78 - X-Force #101 - Wolverine v2 #149[/color]
Professor Xavier holds a Shi’ar holoempathic matrix crystal in his hand that contains the essence of his fallen student Scott Summers. It is a farewell gift from Shadowcat and Colossus. Having decided to help the mutant Skrulls in their new life, Xavier boards a ship with them and departs. As Xavier leaves Kitty decides it is time to follow her dreams. The High Evolutionary contacts the X-Men in New York to tell them that he has created a device to reverse the mutant genome, making them human. The Evolutionary triggers this device and mutants around the world revert to humans.



Meanwhile on Genosha, Magneto and Polaris stop an open human rebellion and prevents a burgeoning one by Cortez, who is trying to take over the Acolytes. Witnessing this, Polaris is unsure of her place with Magneto. After losing his powers Magneto realizes that his enemies will soon strike now that he has a new handicap. Nearby, the Beast and Iceman secretly reach the Genoshan Coast so Hank can study the Legacy Virus. After they lose their powers Beast realizes that this is the work of the Evolutionary, who may have a secret beneficiary helping him.


In America, Mystique sneaks into the NRO offices to cover up some of her aliases that have recently been compromised. After losing her powers the authorities capture her.

Elsewhere in a hideout, the Blob gathers some villains to pull a heist, but after losing their powers the plan seems to be finished.



Phoenix and X-Man meet in Alaska to discuss what happened to Cyclops and what Nate should do with his future.

Meanwhile, After recent catastrophic events in Cable’s life, he heads home to find a ransacked safehouse and an injured Blaquesmith. After briefing his mentor of the recent events concerning the demise of Apocalypse, Cable learns the purpose behind the attack, a secret part of the building even he didn’t know about, which contains information that might lead to a cure for the T-O virus. Once Cable gets his head back together he stops by Stacey’s work to talk. She tells Cable she loves him and wants to make it work, but Cable refuses because he doesn’t want to put her at risk and end up losing her. He tells Stacey he loves her, but only after he wipes her memory of all traces of him. Cable leaves the diner and shortly after succumbs to the T-O virus due to the High Evolutionary taking away all mutant powers.



High above, Ranshi operatives, hailing from a timeline 2,000 years in the future, detect the energy signatures from some time travelers they assume are the Harmonists. They send down an attack squad to take them out.

Logan has a cup of coffee at Marvel Burger. There, he is recognized by Richard Rider, Nova, who proceeds to follow him. Reaching a junkyard where the Skrull version of himself visited, Logan does some investigating. There, he runs into the Reanimator. Eventually, Logan finds himself in a desperate situation until Nova arrives and helps him out. Logan then sends him to get some help. Shortly, Nova returns with the New Warriors in tow – Aegis, Turbo, Speedball and Namorita. After a brief battle, they destroy all of the Reanimator’s robots. Later that evening, Logan tells Nova that the New Warriors need to have better teamwork but that they did well today.

On Genosha, Iceman and Beast are fighting along side some mutates against humans when Magneto and Polaris save them. With Magneto de-powered, the islands factions want to destroy the mutates. Posing as a lawyer, Rogue meets with Mystique, who was recently arrested. Mystique needs Rogue to get her out of prison. In a hidden part of the word, the Neo’s community is devastated due to the loss of their mutant powers. Now, the remaining people, including Domina and her husband Hunter, declare war on humanity, whom they believe caused this. Elsewhere, Jubilee is chased into a dark alley by a group of thugs, when Wolverine saves her. However, he is dying of adamantium poisoning. Dani Moonstar is brought into a psychic plane by her powers, which seem to be mutating. It is here that she is reunited with Cable, who has been taken over by his techno-organic virus. Back on Genosha, the Beast realizes that mutants are only the first step in this worldwide regression. Soon, all living things will be in danger. Magneto gives Iceman and Beast his last remaining ship in hopes that they can reach the X-Men in time so they can save the world. In his space station, the Evolutionary discovers a stray signal, which Dr. Essex reveals is his. Sealing the Evolutionary in his suit, Essex reveals himself as Mr. Sinister. With no one left to stop him, Sinister states he will turn the world into a giant experiment.

The X-Men decide to go off into space aboard a Skrull spaceship they have in order to defeat Sinister and the Evolutionary. Having rocketed into orbit, the X-Men pass the satellites responsible for the regression process and all feel a wave of nausea. Once onboard the station they face a whole horde of the Evolutionary’s New Men, who are being controlled by Sinister. Wolverine sniffs Sinister out and takes Storm and Shadowcat to confront him. The X-Men are ambushed by more New Men, but Wolverine takes the fight straight to Sinister. Sinister blasts Wolverine away, but Logan still survives.



Wondering how Logan survived, Shadowcat realizes that the wave of nausea they felt earlier was the return of their powers. Sinister realizes his mistake but feels that it can be dealt with. Wolverine destroys the control panel for the satellites, which causes part of the station to blow up. Sinister escapes aboard the X-Men’s ship as the team confronts the Evolutionary, who reveals that Wolverine only broke to controls to his tube; the Evolutionary himself destroyed all his research on evolution. The Evolutionary apologizes for being so ignorant and blind and offers the X-Men a ride back to Earth as mutants across the globe regain their powers. Elsewhere, Mystique escapes prison and swears to destroy all those that have betrayed her. Back on Genosha, the re-powered Magneto and his Acolytes defeat the human magistrates and retake the capital. After that, Polaris and Magneto begin to explore the possibilities their powers have on one another.

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Gambit v3 #12-19 & Annual 2000
Jean-Luc LeBeau and Tante Mattie fill in Gambit that they both were saved by him at the end of the 19th century. They even have a hundred year old photo to prove his presence in the past. Gambit asks Sekmeht Conoway for help and she suggests that he uses Dr. Doom’s time machine. Along with the Courier and the Mengo Brothers they invade Latveria, fight their way past many Doombots and reach the platform. Gambit takes Courier with him and they arrive in London 1891. They track down the Thieves Guild and learn that because of an earlier failure, Candra has taken Jean-Luc LeBeau (his grandpa) and Belize Marceaux (both still young boys) hostage and has not renewed the guild pact. Candra needs knowledge on Dr. Essex to prepare herself against Apocalypse, and Gambit offers to provide it, yet the Guild have learned Essex’s whereabouts too and prefer to work off Candra’s debt themselves. Gambit grabs Jean-Luc and leaves, it’s a race to new York, where Essex lives under the alias of Dr. Milbury.

Gambit Still Gettin ? In 1891...


In the past, Gambit, Courier and Jean-Luc head to New York, where Sinister works under the cover of an obstetrician. Courier shapeshifts into a woman and makes an appointment, but Sinister discovers that “she“ is a mutant with morphing abilities and captures her. Remy and Jean-Luc run into the Thieves Guild while checking out Amanda Müeller. Jean-Luc betrays Gambit and leaves with the Guild, who are later attacked in the tunnels below New York. Gambit too enters the tunnels and finds himself in Sinister’s lab; he is offered a deal for the life of Courier. He lets the Guild track down Ozymandias to study his texts for Candra and also restores the Courier from liquid state, in exchange for a cell sample of the shapeshifter, which Sinister uses to give himself the ability to morph. Upon restoring the Courier he makes a wrong assumption that the woman who visited him was Courier’s natural state, and Jacob Gavin is now stuck in the female form. Remy and Sinister follow the Guild to Ozymandias place and defeat Candra, who is then turned over to her fellow Externals, who are not happy that she risked disturbing Apocalypse. Sinister erases the memories of Ozymandias‘ texts from the Guild’s minds and locks the information deep in Gambit’s mind, at the same time he notices that Gambit must have undergone brain surgery before. Gambit and the Courier accomplished all they came for, but now are stuck in the past.



In the present Fontanelle visits Rogue in her dreams to tell her that Remy is in need of help. Rogue searches for the missing Gambit and tracks down Sekmeht and the Mengo Brothers. Since since being on the run they ended up in a place called Folding City, a maze of space-time fragments. The place is run by the father of the Mengos, he attempts to turn all of Latveria into this state, but Rogue defeats him and all of them escape back to reality. Gambit gave Sinister the mysterious vial which contained a part of his brain that improves his powers to such a degree that Gambit can transport himself and Courier to the present.

The New Son contacts Archangel and asks him to ? Gambit. He then explains to Fontanelle that many alternate Gambit’s have been killed in the same way. The New Son dismisses Fontanelle as she has gathered all required information, he then sends the Courier to recruit some assasins. Fontanelle appears in Courier’s dreams and wants to know which side he is on, Gambit’s or the New Son’s.

Gambit now is constantly charged up and able to kiss Rogue, protected by his own bio-field. Yet over a few weeks, the powers get more unstable and he randomly causes burns and explosions. He leaves Rogue and gets back to New Orleans where after being readmitted into the Thieves Guild even becomes their leader. His first day sitting in the throne, he is stabbed in the chest by Bullseye. The Assasins Guild arrives, wanting to ? Remy themselves. In the confusion he slips away and is taken to a secure place be his fellow Thieves Guild members. With help of Tante Mattie and his hypercharged powers Gambit starts to heal from the injury, but the Constrictor crashes in, renders the Guild unconscious and Gambit again has to fight for his life. More villains arrive eager to collect the price money on Gambit’s head; FBI agent Carl Denti offers Gambit a ride, but suddenly they are attacked by Denti’s former alter ego, the X-Cutioner.



More and more superpowered villains arrive to collect the price on Remy’s head. Some of them even fight each other, while Gambit tries to get away from the X-Cutioner. Courier turns against the New Son and calls Archangel to help Gambit. In the end most villains keep themselves busy, the Assasins take on the X-Cutioner causing a big explosion. Gambit and Bella Donna are buried by debris. Outside the two Guilds form a truce, while below the rubble, Gambit and Bella Donna sort out their relationship. The New Son exploits Quiet Bill‘s ability to create dimensional doorways, much to Courier‘s concern. After Gambit has disintegrated enough debris to free himself and his ex-wife, and Denti dealt with the police to let them go, Gambit is suddenly grabbed by his fellow X-Man Archangel. They battle in the skies over New York, but as the X-Men arrive, Warren departs without revealing his reasons. In the New Son’s Crystal Cathedral Courier and Warren realize they are both in this to help Gambit. Bill is no longer sure of the New Son‘s actions and transports the X-Men and Gambit into the Cathedral. Turns out that Warren only played along with the New Son to expose his plans. In the end New Son attacks Remy, Warren and the Courier, but Remy is able to counteract the energies, because the New Son is nobody else than Remy himself; only from an alternate reality, older and more experienced. Before any questions can be answered, the Cathedral collapses. The New Son is taken through a portal, the others get back to earth in Siberia. Gambit writes a warning on the ground that the place belongs to the New Son.

Cool Guild Family Tree:

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Deadpool #38-45

Wade becomes obsessed by trying to get over Loki’s curse, which has completely restored his face. Patch has left the Hellhouse leaving someone named Beef in charge. Wade returns home and his automated security system does not recognize him, therefore blowing up his hideout and destroying his costume. While waiting for a new suit, he finds a beautiful place and decides to take it, though it has one down-part: Deadpool becomes roommates with the Constrictor and Titania. Deadpool, believing that the Constrictor and Titania have been sent to ? him, fights and defeats them. After doing that, Wade decides to take the new place. A few weeks pass, and Wade has already become a little more acquainted with his new roommates. One day their home gets broken into and they find a tape, which has a message recorded, which comes from none other than the Taskmaster looking for Titania. Titania gives Wade the codes she knows, and he travels to the Taskmaster’s hideout. Titania convinces the Taskmaster to let Wade go on the job instead of her. However, little does Wade know that Titania and Constrictor have a scheme plotted, wanting payback for getting beaten up by him. Deadpool attends the Taskmaster’s class, where he gets briefed. Wade gets introduced to his partners for the mission, namely Electa, Pyron and Malovick.

Taskmaster sends them and Deadpool on their way to steal a NASA space shuttle, so they can travel to Baron Zemo’s platform. However, Wade has his suspicions that he’s being set up. Deadpool and his “interns” manage to steal the shuttle and head into space. Once on board of Zemo’s platform, Deadpool starts fighting his teammates, who declare that the Taskmaster was aware that Wade would pull a stint like this. With gravity off, Wade’s body starts turning fat, and Pyron uses his headbeam to have Wade’s mind wiped! They separate the platform in two pieces, and the interns disables Deadpool’s pod, with him only having about ten minutes left to live.



Taskmaster and his crew made it home only to be apprehended by SHIELD. Meanwhile, Wade winds up being beamed inside a cloacked ship, which restores his shape. Wade is introduced to the Last Men, who are each the last man of their species and the most feared in 12 galaxies. They want Deapool to rescue their leader, ? Wolf, in exchange for a ride home. He frees ? Wolf from a prison, but a riot starts resulting in Wade's ride home exploding. Wolf brings Wade to his bike, but Wade steals it, leaving him stranded. He gets approached by the Starjammers but denies their ride and they radio for help.

Meanwhile, Constrictor and Titania are on a job, when they get attacked by Absorbing Man! Creel thinks the Constrictor is trying to hit on his wife. Titania mysteriously disappears during the battle and leaves Frank to himself. After defeating Creel, he angrily returns back home and demands an explanation, but she simply claims it’s all husband-and-wife stuff. Wade comes back home and tells his story, and refuses to give Titania her money. On that moment, the trio is approached by their new client: Achebe, and adversary of Black Panther who has just came out of a coma. He hints that Titania has a secret, then offers them money if they help him steal a leopard from Erik Killmonger, one of Black Panther's worst enemies. Apparently he has defeated T'Challa and become the head chief of Wakanda, and now is at Avengers mansion trying to take his spot on the team as Black Panther. Deadpool and friends show up at the mansion and fight the Avengers. They lose the battle, Achebe escapes, and Triathalon is transported to Wakanda.

The Avengers have arrived in Africa in search of the missing Triathlon. At the same time, Triathlon and Preyy the leopard wake up to find themselves in the presence of Achebe, who is ready for the next phase of his plan, and teleports Wade out of jail. Achebe orders him to meet up with Triathlon and help him get back home, as his kidnapping was a mere accident. The Avengers are soon attacked by T’Challa’s guards, and Eric is confronted with Deadpool. Achebe messed with his teleporter unit to separate him from Triathlon, in the hopes that Wade would ? Killmonger. Triathlon finds himself lost, but meets a mysterious stranger who tells him to move out of the Avengers, as they don’t even really want him on the team. Deadpool has had enough of this nonsense and teleports home. Not much later, the Avengers find Triathlon again and also leave, but Killmonger decides to stay in Africa to undo the work of Ross, as he dislikes seeing Africa and America united into one.

Meanwhile, Constrictor and Titania are still in jail. “Titania” reveals her true colors and reveals herself to actually be… Copycat?! She transforms into one of the guards and knocks them out, and sets herself free to return to Wade. A few minutes later, Wade meets up with Hayden the salesman and is glad to see him. After eating dinner with him, Wade starts fighting him and Copycat transforms back to her real self. Wade admits that he always had known Titania was actually Vanessa in disguise, but always thought it was just her way to get close to him again. Vanessa denies that, explaining she made a deal with the Wizard and the Taskmaster to steal all of Wade’s money. After carving his pin-code number onto Vanessa’s face, telling her she can have his money; he doesn’t care; the Wizard reveals he has explosives taped all over the Deadlounge and has the place explodes.



Wade luckily survives, and goes drinking. There, he first remembers Loki’s curse when he is approached by an older man. They have a “happy” conversation together and, afterwards, Wade notices that his old, horrible face has returned! He realizes that the old man was actually Loki in disguise.

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Actually bought this as a Trade Paper Back just cuz I saw it

Wolverine #150-153 Blood Debt
In Japan, Logan visits the gravesite of Mariko Yashida where he runs into a drunken Silver Samurai.



After a brief altercation, Logan goes to visit Yukio and sees a grown-up Amiko.



Back at Yukio’s place, they are joined by an injured Silver Samurai, who had been attacked by the men of Haan Kaishek. In short time, Yukio’s place is overrun by Haan’s men. Yukio and Amiko get out safely while Logan and Harada fight the men. Once outside, Logan comes face to face with Haan himself. Haan is able to kick Logan off of the rooftop and proceeds to stab Harada with his own sword. Making his way back onto the rooftop, Logan swipes at Haan, gathers Harada, and makes his way down to the street. There, they are picked up by Gom Kaishek. At Gom’s house, Logan learns that Gom and Haan are at war. Gom wants Logan to help him but Logan declines. However, after learning that Amiko and Yukio have been taken captive, and being shot in the forehead, Logan reluctantly agrees.

In Japan, at Haan’s penthouse, Logan is met by Haan and his army of men. After a vicious and deadly battle, Logan makes his way back to Gom’s penthouse. Haan arrives and sets off an explosive that rocks Gom’s penthouse. When it does, Gom rushes off while Logan faces off against Haan’s men. In the courtyard, Haan catches up to Gom and shoots his brother in the forehead.



In another section of the penthouse, Kia saves Amiko, Yukio and the Silver Samurai from three of Gom’s guards and takes them into her custody, offering them safe passage. Her motives, however, are far more devious as she takes them hostage herself. Later, in the courtyard, Kia convinces Logan to help her stop the bloodshed her family has endured for years. Begrudgingly, Logan accepts but tells her that, if anything happens to Yukio or Amiko, he’ll come after her.

At Haan’s penthouse, Logan enters with Kia by his side. After a brief battle with some of his men, Kia convinces Haan that they need to have a sit-down meeting with Logan present. Meanwhile, Yukio and Amiko are able to overpower their captor, Tupa. Once they do, Yukio proceeds to call Kia on her cell-phone. When Kia answers it during her sit-down meeting with Haan, Yukio yells on the other end and informs Logan that they are free. From there, all hell breaks loose. Kia shoots her brother, Haan, in the chest and then tosses the gun to Logan.



When Haan’s men enter and see him lying on the ground shot, they assume that Logan did it. During their assault on Logan, Kia deftly escapes. After Logan disposes of Haan’s men, Haan tells Logan with his last breath that Kia is the mastermind of the whole thing and that she is going to ? their dad, Yolyn, and to take over the Kaishek Empire. After reconnecting with Amiko and the Silver Samurai at Yukio’s apartment, Logan learns that Yukio has gone to Mongolia to deal with Kia. Logan instantly decides that he is going to Mongolia and with some convincing – and agrees to let Harada and Amiko tag along.

In Mongolia, Kia enters her fathers chambers and proceeds to shoot him. Once she does, Yukio arrives and starts to take out her frustration on Kia herself. Yukio gives chase and is herself shot by Kia. Before she is able to ? her, however, Amiko arrives and saves her. Kia decides to take her hostage and goes deeper into the compound. Catching up, Logan saves Amiko and slashes Kia across the face. After a vicious battle, they tumble down a pit and, in doing so, knock some pipes loose emitting gas. Knowing that her quest is for naught, Kia sacrifices herself and slams her sword into one of Logan’s claws, causing a fiery explosion. Thanks to his healing factor, Logan is able to survive and lands outside after being badly burned. There, he meets up with the Silver Samurai, Yukio and Amiko. When Amiko check on him, Logan simply tells her that he’ll be fine and that it’s time to go home.

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Magneto: Dark Seduction #1-4]
Magneto's Team:


It has been several months since Magneto assumed control of the island nation of Genosha. In that time, he has made incredible strides to unify and rebuild the once war-torn and chaotic country. His success has come from ruling with an iron hand and deftly managing the nation’s remaining assets. His cabinet is an eclectic bunch with some questioning his rule, including his own son, Quicksilver. Genosha’s rebirth is hindered by a rebellion in Carrion Cove and limits on the nation’s resources due to UN sanctions. Magneto finds support for his waning powers from Polaris who in turn is gaining knowledge of her own powers from the true Master of Magnetism. Quicksilver worries that she may be seduced by this power. The rebellion uses former Acolytes turned mercenary to stand their ground and protect a secret so great, it prompts Amelia Voght to join their cause to keep it from Magneto’s hands. The UN decides that their original appointee, Dr. Alda Huxley is too personally involved and sends a new envoy… Magneto’s daughter, the Scarlet Witch.



She cannot help but be impressed by his results despite her misgivings and their past relationship. Quicksilver learns the secret hidden in Carrion Cove and allies himself with those determined to keep it from Magneto. The Genoshan forces take the Krolik Foothills and still do not know how the former Acolytes who work for the rebellion have grown so powerful. Cortez secretly reports to the UN the latest in Genosha, with his own agenda clearly in play. Pipeline realizes that Pietro knows the truth of what Carrion Cove is hiding and teleports him away. He is determined to claim this power for himself and rid Genosha of outside rule once and for all. He then teleports the rebels and their mutant allies away and is about to claim the prize for himself when Carrion Cove is rocked by yet another attack. The UN has deployed a “special task force” of their own to protect the hidden technologies at Carrion Cove. They’ve sent in the Avengers!



The Avengers’ arrival in Genosha sparks a battle with the Genoshan cabinet. Magneto arrives with Polaris and battles the Avengers to a standstill. Alda Huxley learns of Fabian Cortez betrayal and confronts him. He offers information that she finds valuable and they strike a bargain. Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch try to disable the coveted equipment while Magneto is occupied on the battlefield. Magneto pushes Polaris’ powers beyond their limits in order to end his battle with the Avengers. While the assembled heroes try to save lives in the wake of the destruction Magneto unleashes, he goes to claim his prize. All that stands in his way are his estranged children. He chooses to give up his chance for reconciliation to attain this power and forcefully subdues them. He is about to acquire the advanced genetic devices that will restore his powers when Polaris arrives to stop him. Magneto defeats her and uses the machines to repair his damaged DNA. When he emerges once more, he is invigorated and uses his powers to immobilize the Avengers. He tells them to get out of his country and when they try to argue that the UN didn’t agree to this, he points out they have violated their own treaty and that they and Roxxon have been supporting the rebellion against him. He refuses to recognize human law. The Wasp declares that it’s in the world best interest that they stop him here and now. He asks how they plan to do that and as a demonstration of his raw power, he magnetically reaches out to Hammer Bay, grabs the traitorous Fabian Cortez and smashes his body against the rocks before the assembled heroes. He then positions satellites and threatens to crash them into major cities if the Avengers don’t leave. The Wasp relents and Magneto exchanges harsh words with his children: Wanda and Pietro before they depart. He tells them that they have once again disappointed him and they express their disgust with him. Polaris departs as well, explaining that it’s what Alex would have wanted her to do. Magneto is left alone to rebuild Genosha and prepare for the next stage of his plans.

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I arrived at the Six Month Gap, or revoltion. In each series, the "Revolution" issue represented a jump of six months after the previous issue's events. In most cases, "Revolution" also marked an attempt to send each title in a new creative direction, and to this end new creative teams were assigned to the titles. Many characters' costumes were redesigned, and a "Revolution" logo was printed along the right-hand side of each issue.

X-Men Unlimited #27
In India, a kid named Neal Shaara and Karima Shapandar work together to find Neal's missing brother. They are kidnapped by Bastion and discover that he has been kidnapping the poor and is turning them into Prime Sentinels to make a comeback for Operation: Zero Tolerance. Bastion turns Karima into a Sentinel and is about to do the same to Neal, but discovers that he is a mutant and activates his latent powers. Karima rebels against Bastion and the installation is destroyed. However, Neal is forced to part with his lover Karima, who is now a Sentinel. Seven months later, Neal comes to Muir Isle to see Moira MacTaggart, a family friend, and also meets the X-Men. Neal is at first scared by his mutant powers but, after a talk with Jean Grey, he considers learning how to control his powers and accepts Jean’s invitation to join the X-Men. They call him Thunderbird.

X-Men v2 #100-102
Nightcrawler prays in the Church of St. Michael the Archangel when, suddenly, he is shot in the back with an arrow. Frightened, he teleports away from a group called the Neo, led by Domina. Jaeger absorbs Kurt’s powers and goes after him.



Nightcrawler teleports himself to Cecilia Reyes for medical attention and in the infirmary Jaeger shoots Cecilia with an arrow. Right as Jaeger is about the ? Nightcrawler, Cecilia’s force field extends itself and skewers Jaeger. Elsewhere, in space, Shadowcat, Colossus, Psylocke, Rogue, and the new Thunderbird are working on making the High Evolutionary’s station habitable. The new space team arrives at the station aboard the Intrepid and quickly gets to work to get the station on line. During a party, Colossus asks Rogue if she read the letter Corbeau delivered for Gambit. Rogue told her that she ripped it up, because she knows that since Gambit is leading the Thieves Guild, he will one day have to choose sides. Colossus turns into his metal form and kisses Rogue, who is left surprised.



Elsewhere on the station, Shadowcat goes down a vertical tunnel where she meets her new boyfriend Seth, another crewmember. Seth, however, attacks her. Right before she fades into unconsciousness, he tells Kitty that of all on board, only they will live. Awakening, Kitty is wrapped up like a mummy and uses her earring to cut her way out. She finds Seth, who is dressed in a new kind of techno-space suit. Seth tells Domina that the station, which destroyed their civilization, will soon be destroyed. Domina questions Seth’s choice to bring Kitty but Seth tells Domina that Kitty is Neo. Domina’s transmission breaks up as she realizes that Jaeger is dead. The X-Men reveal their identitiesand battle Seth but he ruptures the hull and tosses Rogue out. He says goodbye to Kitty and flies down to Earth. The station falls out of orbit and begins to head towards Earth. The X-Men find that only the Intrepid shuttle is left. Psylocke wraps the shuttle in a bubble to keep the atmosphere in while Colossus and Rogue toss the crew across the space to Thunderbird and Corbeau. Everyone gets aboard but a girder assembly breaks off and heads towards the ship. Shadowcat is tossed by Colossus to the girder and she phases it through the shuttle. Not waiting for Kitty, the team blasts off back to Earth. Kitty returns to where Seth put his suit on and finds one for her. She puts it on and relays a message to the Intrepid to fill them in on her status. Kitty turns the suit on and streaks towards Earth.

The X-Men make a safe landing and return to the mansion to search for Shadowcat. At the Church of St. Michaels, the Neo bring back the body of Jaeger to Domina, who swears revenge on the one who killed her husband. Cecilia takes Kurt to an illegal infirmary for criminals. The criminal Delgado and his boys drive a truck into the building in an attempt to ? Charlotte Jones. Delgado takes out a gun and shoots Jones when Archangel saves her and knocks Delgado down. The gun is about to blow when Cecilia uses her force field to contain the explosion. Jones runs after Delgado with Archangel behind her. The crisis over, Cecilia finds some vials of rave and decides it is unsafe to leave them lying around and pockets them. Elsewhere, Delgado kidnaps Tartarus, one of the Neo. Warren is next lured into a trap and winds up losing conciousness. Following Archangel, Charlotte arrives and hears someone scream. She finds herself in a field of bones with remembrances of Delgado’s victims. Delgado has turned into a monster but Jones defeats him. However, she starts to mutate also. Nearby, the Neo ambush Cecilia and Kurt, who is helpless from his injuries. Without options, Cecilia injects herself with rave, which amplifies mutant powers.

Wolverine and Moonstar break into the remains of one of Sinister’s labs. Wolverine tells Moonstar that this is the 17th attack and the 17th time Sinister was killed. Moonstar uses her powers to show Wolverine Sinister’s death, which reveals to have been done by Domina, leader of the Neo. Wolverine also learns from the image that Sabretooth is alive. Forge calls them back to the mansion, because the space station the X-Men were on was sabotaged. At the Church of St. Michael, Cecilia defends Nightcrawler and the Morlocks from the Neo. Suddenly, the X-Men break in and join the fight and Archangel returns to save Psylocke from Barbican. Domina attacks the X-Men and quickly defeats them all. She goes to ? Cecilia for killing her husband when Wolverine arrives and defeats her. Barbican tries to seal the church so no one can escape, but Psylocke and Cecilia keep a tunnel open with their powers. Cecilia realizes that Charlotte Jones is missing and stays behind to find her as the X-Men and Morlocks escape. Outside the church, the X-Men vow to find a way to save Cecilia and Charlotte.

In Boston, Tessa, former servant of Sebastian Shaw, confronts Senator Kelly in a cemetery. Tessa warns Kelly not to run for president, as he may bring the end of the human race. However, Kelly dismisses her warning, as he wants to avenge his wife’s death.

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Cable #79-84
Cable is mulling over recent life-altering events when three witches visit him. They warn him of three tests tonight and three tomorrow. Then they show him a vision about a good man named Andy who becomes possessed and tried to go on a killing spree at MSG. When Cable stops him he encounters an alien presence in his mind who identifies himself as Aentaros, one of the Undying. Andy falls to the ground dead. Meanwhile, a man by the name of Randall Shire learns he was the target of the assassination attempt from Andy. He also learns Aentaros was behind it. However, he will still continue with his plan to make the world his. In the Sinai Desert, Professor Oxton and Berger come across what they believe to be the Lost City of Atlantis. Also happening concurrently, Blockade lies in his hospital bed with no change in his comatose status. That is until Aentaros chooses him as his next host body. Blockade awakens and decides to go after Cable first, then Shire.



And speaking of Cable, as he walks the city streets a woman in front of him is grabbed by two men and taken through a door. He charges to the rescue only to find the place full of military robots and a soldier in futuristic armor. Cable easily dispatches the robots and when he grabs a hold of the soldier he teleports away. Cable heads back to his safehouse, unsure of the day’s events. When he walks through the front door he finds himself transported to a plush, vibrant landscape. The witches tell him this is the “Third Test.” He soon stumbles upon a woman named Eyla who invites him to her family’s home. It turns out Cable was transported 2,000 years into the future, where Earth is now known as Harmony. Cable, as the first traveler to come through the city in a long time, is an honored guest and they throw him a party. The party is attacked by Ranshi operatives halfway through and during the skirmish Cable is sent back to the present. Cable recaps what happened to him in Harmony to Blaquesmith and Irene. Irene suggests they go check out one of her contacts named Clarity, who may be able to shed more light on the Undying. Later, they’re picked up in limo and driven to Clarity’s residence.



Blockade has broken out of the hospital and has left a trail of death and destruction on his way to see Cable. Randall Shire’s message is reaching more and more people. Berger and Oxton try breaking through the temple door, but fail. They’re met by some soldiers who warn them of the dangers the temple possesses. Controller Sandella of the Ranshi is lenient on Malan for his failure to capture Cable, but warns he better come back with him next time or else. Back at Clarity’s, Blockade busts through the wall and goes after Cable. Immediately after Malan and his crew teleport in, their sights set on Cable as well. Cable finds himself captive on the timeship Conquest. There he learns all about the Ranshi Empire, but when it’s discovered their prisoner is Cable, “the Nexus”, the Ranshi immediately send him back to his encounter with Blockade. Aentaros doesn’t accept defeat and instead snaps his own neck so he can die and be free to choose another host. With the battle finished, Cable has Clarity check up on the Undying. It turns out the Undying have been around for centuries, possessing people and using them to ? countless innocents. Cable takes this all in and wonders what the connection is between Ranshi, Harmony, Randall Shire and the Undying. Speaking of Randall Shire, Bridge pays him a visit to warn him of Blockade’s threat. While there Bridge falls under Shire’s influence. While in the Harmony timeline, Manuel Cire receives a visit from the Three Witches warning him Cable is the key to his future. Manuel sets about preparing a timeship to jump to the past. He has Eyla go with it in the hopes she can convince Cable to start the Harmony timeline. Over in the Sinai Desert, Oxton and Berger learn that the demon ? guards the ancient temple and those who speak of it die instantly. Professor Oxton doesn’t believe in that garbage, but when he tries radioing his find back to base camp he turns into a statue. Berger thinks quickly and sets up a digital camera and his laptop to record the findings. His hope is ? won’t know what any of that stuff is. Cable has Blaquesmith create a device that will trap the Undying in its host body. Then he goes out to meet Bridge for pizza so he can discuss what happened to Blockade. While there Cable figures out Bridge is under the influence of Shire and heads back to the safehouse. Inside, Cable finds Blaquesmith beaten and nearly dead. He also finds Irene, with a ? butcher knife and the Undying symbol on her forehead. Cable doesn’t want to ? her, but on the other hand he doesn’t want to die. While doing his best to keep Irene at bay Cable mentally contacts the local Emergency Center and has an ambulance dispatched to his location. When they arrive he telekinetically gives Irene a heart attack and kills her, thus Aentaros flees her body. The medics bring Irene back to life and take her to the hospital. Cable takes a cab and on the way has a disturbing vision of Rachel Summers trapped in a cage. Meanwhile, Key tries convincing Shire not to ? him and Wall when it’s all over, but Shire doesn’t care. Key decides to take matters into his own hands when he sends information to Clarity on Shire. At the hospital, Cable extracts information from Irene on the Undying, how they operate and their purpose, as well as the identity of another member who only watches, ? . Lea stops by the room with news from Clarity. He’s found ? and wants Cable back at his place. Meanwhile, the Harmonists travel back into the past to make sure Cable starts their timeline. They manage to track down his energy signature, and despite the looming Ranshi who are sure to attack when they let their shields down, the Harmonists plan on extracting him. At Clarity’s, Cable learns about ? who is supposedly guarding some ancient temple in the Sinai. At this point Cable is teleported into the Harmonist ship. The Ranshi take advantage of the situation and teleport in an attack platoon. With both sides tearing each other apart Cable intervenes. He asks each side what they want him to do. The Ranshi want him to prevent the assassination of Shire, thereby allowing their future to unfold. The Harmonists want the assassination to go as planned, thereby starting the path to their future.

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Cable #79-84 Continued...

Back at Shire’s, Bridge pays the Undying One a visit and warns him there’s someone coming for him, someone powerful. Shire orders that person killed if they try. Back in the Harmony timeship, Cable wants more details on the assassination attempt, but both sides only know a name, Domino. Cable is released from the Harmony timeship and travels to his safehouse where he fills Blaquesmith in on recent events and receives some new gear. He heads back to Madison Square Garden where Shire is set to speak. He’s not alone as the Aentaros-possessed Domino sneaks inside too. Before the climactic showdown can occur Cable receives another visit from the Three Witches who warn him of the consequences of his decision, that two future realities hang in the balance. The show begins, and after taking Bridge out of the fight, Cable battles Domino. The battle lasts a while, Cable losing his weapon, but in the end he is able to activate a round of ammunition that encases Domino in a tight force field. He also manipulates Shire into a barrage of obscenities, which causes the crowd to turn against him. Both the Ranshi and Harmony timelines immediately erase, as Cable prevented Shire’s death, but also turned everyone against him. Mission accomplished, Cable talks to Key and Wall about his upcoming operation to free Shire and Domino of their possession. During this meeting he receives another brief psychic distress call from Rachel, which he resigns to answer after putting an end to Undying once and for all.



Cable and his crew arrive at the fortress of the Undying. There, they meet Berger and Sheik Hamid. Beast discovers the rocky formation surrounding the door is merely an illusion. Key then uses his mutant powers to interface with the computer system monitoring the door. They gain access and discover not a cavernous lair, but an ancient starship. They also find five bodies in holding tanks in the center of the room. Key heads to the computer terminal and learns that ? is the ship’s artificial intelligence. Suddenly the holding tanks burst open wide, the Undying returning to their host bodies. They attack the invaders and Cable is eventually able to subdue them. Key learns about their origin from the computer system and relays it to everyone else, including the diabolical game they’ve been playing with each other to see who could ? the most people. Cable tells Key to change the settings of the game so that they can only inhabit the bodies of cockroaches. The Undying mount one last offensive, but their bodies fail them. With the new settings locked in Cable and crew leave the starship, satisfied with a job well done. Later, Cable visits Irene in the hospital and tells her the whole story. He suddenly finds himself teleported to either the Ranshi or Harmony timeship where Eyla and Sandella greet him. They forgive him and explain they’re joining forces to make the universe a better place. After they both kiss him he is returned to Irene, none the worse for the wear. Sometime later, Cable meditates on the visions he’s been receiving about his sister, Rachel, captured by some madman name Gaunt.

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X-Force #102-105
Six months ago, Pete Wisdom returned to England aboard a ship, where he encountered Alistaire Stuart. They discussed various things, mostly the under-world of society, spies, and crimes against mutants. Wisdom warned Alistaire that people are keeping an eye on him, and people like him. Today, Major Valentina Rychenko and her officers are attempting to take down the mysterious Russian facility known as Science City 51, where innocent civilians are in danger from meatspore automatons. They are assisted by Pete Wisdom, and X-Force. Meltdown can now manifest her time-bombs as streams of plasma, and Bedlam is more powerful than before. Their combined teamwork takes down Science City 51. Wisdom reminds X-Force about their mission to take down dark places and seek vengeance from wrong doings to mutants. Later, in San Francisco, a woman jogging along a street suddenly convulses and starts shooting beams of energy from her eyes. At Science City 53, somewhere in Russia, Wisdom receives a report from his ally Valentina Rychenko regarding the mysterious Cuckoo, an organisation which was essentially the shadow of the CIA, devoted to analysing, advising on and reacting to “unusual threats”. Dr Niles Roman was Cuckoo’s only known administrator, working with technologies and sciences ten times what Cuckoo’s resources never knew about, but assassination attempts on his life left him transformed. Tension runs a little high between Cannonball and Meltdown, before Wisdom joins them and they depart for San Francisco. Elsewhere, Dr Niles Roman receives a report that the San Francisco installation is active, and the mad scientist is pleased that the bioreactor has finally triggered.



En route home, X-Force learn that they will be taking up base at an old facility that Cuckoo once operated out of. He reveals to them a story about drugs testing on the general population of San Francisco in the 1950s. In San Francisco, people start changing, mutating, developing powers that are out of control. X-Force get caught up in a traffic jam as they head into the city, and their car is soon shunted off the road and down a cliff. Dr Niles Roman and Ford close in on San Francisco. The mad scientist is thrilled to see the chaos that his bio-reactor has unleashed. The city is in flames and people have been transformed. X-Force makes their way back up to the freeway, to find all the civilians in their cars unconscious. In the city itself, numerous civilians now with powers unleash them on others, killing them. Mid-flight, X-Force are attacked by a transformed person, but manage to escape. Roman and Ford arrive at an old observation suite, where they promptly set up and observe the chaos around the city on various monitors. Wisdom takes X-Force to another old Cuckoo facility where he wants to set up base, explaining that it was also used as a SHIELD observation post, but long ago abandoned. He reveals to X-Force more about Niles Roman, and explains that he created a bio-reactor which caused mutants to mutate rapidly, frying specific chemical triggers in the brain, but the bio-reactor was buried under San Francisco, only it was on a timer. Wisdom watches the chaos in the city on monitors, while X-Force depart to save the world from itself. At his own observation facility, the mad scientist Dr Niles Roman finds that he is having trouble keeping watch, as if someone is piggy-backing on their cameras and the signal is being split. Ford is able to the trace the signal. Roman knows the SHIELD facility is abandoned, and supposes that whoever is using it, is in charge of his foes. X-Force soon come across some civilians in danger, holed up in a store, where police officers are shooting at the mutated humans. Cannonball wastes no time in giving X-Force orders as part of a plan, which they carry out, though it involves the ever-reluctant Bedlam once again pushing his powers to the limit. Wisdom discovers a severely mutated group of civilians, merged into one creature, sitting on top of the bio-reactor. Observing the mutated civilians that Bedlam took out with an electro-pulse, X-Force learn that they revert to their normal selves. Wisdom reports that the bio-reactor is at least three hundred feet right underneath them. Cannonball blasts into the sky, ready to “bomb” his way underground, but the creature emerges, and Bedlam is forced to confront it, doing so, he manages to split the creature apart, rescuing the civilians. Cannonball dives into the hole, and destroys the bio-reactor. Wisdom is pleased at X-Force’s good work, but he is soon confronted by Niles Roman, who shoots him. X-Force return to the SHIELD base, on a high after their successful mission, only to find Wisdom, dead.

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X-Force #106-109
Six months ago, Cannonball, Moonstar, Meltdown, Proudstar and Bedlam engage Domino in a training exercise at their warehouse headquarters. But Domino tells them that they are sloppy and slow, and points out that when the High Evolutionary stripped them of their powers, it was a wake-up call that they need to be better trained. Suddenly, Pete Wisdom appears, and after mocking Domino, reveals he was invited. Cannonball and Bedlam admit they invited Wisdom, for after the Genosha incident, Wisdom offered to train them and help them enter the “? world” to seek vengeance on the injustices done to mutants and humanity. Domino refuses to allow this to happen, but Cannonball tells her that it isn’t her choice. Moonstar is the most upset however, and after Cannonball points out that X-Force has no purpose and is always reacting instead of acting, Bedlam declares that Xavier’s dream is just a dream. Wisdom offers to teach X-Force new things about themselves in his quest to make the world a better place. Cannonball and Bedlam have already made up their minds, and Proudstar and Meltdown join them. Moonstar lashes out at Wisdom for tearing X-Force apart, but pointing at himself, Cannonball, Proudstar, Meltdown and Bedlam, he tells her that she is looking at X-Force. Today, Cannonball, Proudstar, Meltdown and Bedlam attend a funeral - for Pete Wisdom.



No one else attends, not even Shadowcat or any of Excalibur. They remember everything Wisdom has done for them, and decide to carry on together, when an old woman arrives. She lights a match on Wisdom’s coffin, then departs. When she leaves, Domino emerges from the shadows and explains that it was Romany Wisdom, Pete’s sister. X-Force accompany their old friend to a coffee house, where Domino begins to reveal her whereabouts since they abandoned her. Domino explains that she is scared, and recounts how she took a mercenary job for a while, which put her in contact with a man called Marcus Tsung, a man with the mutant gene for murder, who is coming for her once more.



Six months ago, Wisdom took X-Force to an old Hulkbuster compound in Nevada, where he trained them further in the use of their mutant powers, most notably, teaching Proudstar to fly and Meltdown to create her plasma in the form of beams as opposed to bombs. Today, Domino seems surprised that Meltdown is able to hack databases and at how much her former teammates know about the underworld. They explain how much Wisdom has changed them, before Domino reveals what she had uncovered about Marucs Tsung’s history, including that he used to ? bull elephants with his bare hands. Meltdown ask Domino why he is after her, to which Domino explains that he has already killed her once before. In California, Marcus Tsung arrives, killing those who were sent to greet him, he leaves ? footprints in the sand, before driving away. Domino shows X-Force the strange creature that is somehow stuck to her back. Bedlam attempts to scan it with his electro-powers, only the creature seems to scan him right back.



Domino reveals that after her first encounter with Tsung, she went underground, changing her appearance, but that he found her and killed her, only she woke to find herself about to undergo an autopsy. She escaped, her appearance back to normal, save the creature on her back. Tsung arrives at a birthday party, where he proceeds to ? everyone in an instant, even the children. He receives a phone call, informing him that he is to concentrate on Domino, that X-Force will be dealt with. X-Force and Domino are waiting for their help - a bus pulls up and a compartment underneath opens. They enter and meet three strange people called Abel, Baker and Charlie. Tensions are high due to the three having association with Wisdom, and are upset at his death. Bedlam locates two archaeological digs which have fossils matching the creature’s physiology - there are two of them, which means there is another creature out there somewhere. Shortly though, black helicopters descend over the city, and drop missiles on the bus! Cannonball takes to the air and engages the choppers, while Bedlam causes one of them to crash to the ground. Tsung closes in on X-Force, attempting to ? Cannonball, he finds his power cannot breach Cannonball’s force field when he is blasting. Tsung runs up the side of a building, and attacks Cannonball, causing him fall to the ground, Tsung prepares to break his neck, but Bedlam attacks him, holding him in an electro-hold, Proudstar prepares to take Tsung out, but Tsung grabs Proudstar and causes him to fall on Bedlam. The villain turns his attention back to Cannonball, only Meltdown places her hands over Tsung’s eyes and releases a massive surge of plasma, seemingly defeating him. Tsung suddenly gets up, his face burnt and one eye missing, he grabs Meltdown, and Domino shoots him, when suddenly, Romany Wisdom appears, she gives the order for her men to take Tsung out, and they do. Romany gives Wisdom’s old allies a stern warning, before telling X-Force that they are to come with her, as Domino has Armageddon attached to her back. Possessed by the creature, Domino attacks Romany and Cannonball, and tentacles emerge from the creature, until Romany shoots her. Later, X-Force are met by Romany, who reports that Domino is fine, that they got to her in time. She reveals that they honestly don’t know what the creature is, but think it is sentient technology of an alien component. Romany assures X-Force that they can go home with Domino, while she will keep the device. Cannonball challenges Romany, questioning as to where she is who she says she is, pointing out her difference in appearance since they last saw her. Romany gives X-Force the hard word about Pete Wisdom, revealing that there is a reason he was a zealot, driven to punish those who had inflicted terrible injustices - because before Black Air, he committed atrocities against mutants himself. Romany suggests to X-Force that they go home and get a life, before they bury another friend, or their friend has to bury them.

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Wolverine #154-157
Amidst some trees, Logan is approached by Deadpool and mercenaries he hired to help take him in. After a brief struggle, Deadpool shoots Logan with some darts that take him down. Falling to the ground, Logan recalls how he got there. He was in a bar and was accosted by the bartender and the waitress, both of them bounty hunters intent on taking him down. Outside the bar, Deadpool tells Reckless Eric of the Scourge to blow up the building. Once he does, Logan comes face to face with Reckless Eric, which brings us back to present time. Eventually, a large towering figure by the name of the Administrator approaches and takes Logan into custody and to the Watchtower. There, Deadpool oversees Siryn who he brought there to be healed of her injuries. The Administrator plans on using Logan’s healing factor to save others. Just then, Logan is saved by four mysterious individuals. They are there to help him and to take on the Administrator. Eventually, Logan makes his way to the Administrator but discovers that it is only a holographic image. Over time, the group makes their way to where Deadpool is moving the tube carrying Siryn.



After a brief battle, a slight truce is met until Deadpool snaps and goes after Shooter. When he does, Shooter takes him out with her hand-gun and knocks him into Siryn’s tube. Upon impact, it breaks and Siryn emerges, voice intact. After discovering what has happened, Siryn flies off with Deadpool in tow, appreciative of his actions. Logan agrees to join Crowe in his journey to take down the Administrator. Sometime later, Logan again meets a holographic image of the Administrator. After said meeting, he is even more determined to take him and the Watchtower down.

After learning of six mysterious slayings in an abandoned Manhattan subway station, Logan chooses to investigate them himself. In the abandoned tunnels, Logan runs across Lieutenant Tara Curson and her crew of heavily armed members of the NYPD. After brief introductions, they are attacked by gigantic rock creatures. Eventually, Logan is able to wound one of them but not before the others decimate Curson’s crew, save for Curson. Logan leaves her there and proceeds after the creatures. After some time, he encounters Spider-Man and together they take down one of the creatures. The two are then joined by Curson and they all head off after the creatures. A little time later they happen upon the Mole Man, his Moloids and a number of the rock creatures.



As Spider-Man, Wolverine and Lieutenant Curson battle with the Mole Man and his Moloids, they stop fighting when one of the rock creatures viciously attacks Curson. The Mole Man is able to subdue the creature and then asks the trio why they have traveled down there. After a discussion, Wolverine discovers that the Mole Man and his followers had nothing to do with the murders but that he is battling another crew who are threatening his turf. Wolverine is able to convince the Mole Man to take them to the offenders. There, Wolverine faces off against Carver and meets the murderer, a gigantic beast by the name of Fugue. They are Morlocks and Wolverine challenges Carver for the leadership role. During the battle, Fugue is knocked into a chasm and Carver tries to save him with the assistance of Wolverine and Spider-Man to no avail as tremors rock the underground. Once they reach safer grounds, Wolverine and the creator of the tremors, the Mole Man, part ways. Wolverine then tells Curson that while it wasn’t a resolution that was most desired, it’ll do since the recent string of murders will cease.

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Generation X #63-66
Six months ago, a man named Warden Coffin was tracked down by SHIELD agents, but he defeated them. He then received a phone call and was offered a new job in the United States. In the present, Generation X are still at the Massachusetts Academy, though things have changed and part of the complex is in ruins. Synch is no longer there, apparently dead, as Banshee comforts M about her loss. Emma Frost now owns her sister Adrienne’s fortune, and the kids no longer train to become superheroes but simply to survive. Paige spends lot of her time at her computer terminal reading newsgroups and emails, she discovers that many teenagers have been arrested for minor degrees of anti-social behavior and then they were never heard of. Generation X decides to investigate. Monet, Husk, Jubilee, Skin and Chamber arrive at the school where Jonathan Somers attended, and after breaking in, they find his file, and learn he had been taken to a correctional facility. Husk takes what little information they have to the internet, and finds the details of the correctional facility. Meanwhile, Jonathan Somers arrives at a mysterious location in the middle of the desert, where he is processed. Several other teens are being held there, and one, a mutant, tries to escape, but is killed by a strange cyborg-like creature called Emma:0052.



Jonathan is taken to meet Warden Coffin, who reveals a little information about himself, that he has been custodian of this facility for many years - a place where America’s shame is sent to. Coffin reveals that America is tired of being viewed as a “bad mother” with so many out of control children, and that it is afraid of those children. Preparing to board a private aircraft to take them to the desert, Generation X are attacked by agents of the House of Corrections. Generation X put their recent training into practice, and take the agents out without any casualties. During the battle, Husk learns of yet another form she can turn her body into, a strange kind of rubber. At the House of Corrections, Warden Coffin tells one of his guards, Baxter, about the current situation, and warns him to be prepared for an attack. Aboard the jet the team discusses what will happen once they have freed the kids inside, and Monet wants justice to done. Not long after Generation X arrive, the House of Correction is under attack, as Generation X follow Jubilee’s lead, and storm through the front door. Generation X take on the House of Correction guards, and easily hold their own against them, particularly Monet. Warden Coffin lets loose his “special children” cyborgs whom he created from children years ago. Skin finds Warden Coffin, who rants on about how he is doing America a favor, and starts to attack Skin, until Banshee arrives. Husk and Chamber ? the cyborgs after the “special children” plead with them do to so. All of the children are freed, and Banshee takes down Warden Coffin. Unsure about how to get the children home, Generation X don’t have to worry about that, as Husk sent a message to all the parents of the children, who arrive to collect their kids.

Generation X #67-70
Six montha go, In London, Adrienne Frost murders her lover, deciding that it is time she returned to the States and paid a visit to her sister, Emma. At the Massachusetts Academy, chemistry runs rampant between Monet and Synch. Later, in the cafeteria Skin defends one of the human students who is being bullied by three others. During the confrontation though, one of the bullies grabs hold of his skin, and sees it stretch. Skin explains the situation to Banshee and the White Queen, who reveal that they have spoken to the mother of the student who stretched Skin’s skin, and explained that he has a rare medical condition. Banshee and the White Queen don’t seem too concerned that Skin was doing the right thing trying to help the other student, and after an outburst from Jubilee, the White Queen declares that she wished they were more like Synch. This of course upsets Jubilee terribly. Later, Monet reveals to Synch that she thought a lot about him while she was away, and they kiss, unaware that they are being watched by Adrienne Frost. Synch is visited by three school bullies, who question him about several of his friends, wanting to know if they are mutants. Synch reports the incident to Banshee, who locates the White Queen and wants to talk to her about it, only to discover that they have an unwelcome guest - Adrienne Frost. Banshee is highly annoyed at Adrienne’s return, and reminds her of what she did when she was last here. Banshee wants to get rid of her, until the revelation is made that Adrienne has documentation and evidence that there are mutants attending the Academy. Adrienne is granted sanctuary at the Academy. Banshee and the White Queen meet with all of Generation X, plus the Academy’s wards - Penance, Leech and Artie Maddicks, and inform them that they must now lay low, as there is a sudden anti-mutant stigma around the school. The kids are told to remain in their rooms, and the White Queen reveals that Adrienne has returned, shocking the kids. En route back to their dorm rooms, several of the kids smell smoke, and soon find that Jubilee’s room is ablaze. Late one night at the Massachusetts Academy, a young male student becomes the latest play-mate of Adrienne Frost, while Banshee installs a security alarm in Monet’s dorm room, which is also the temporary room to Jubilee and Husk. Monet and Husk regroup after doing some investigating around the school, both came up with similar things - that the majority of the students are discussing who is likely to be a mutant. They soon witness the boy from the other day under attack by the school bullies. Monet comes to his rescue, but in doing so, uses her super strength against one of the bullies, in front of several other students. Later that night, Adrienne’s young lover leaves her room, while the White Queen and Banshee discuss the attack on the other boy, who may now live through the night. They discuss what they think they have done wrong, and the White Queen announces that Penance, Leech and Artie have arrived safely in Morocco where Ambassador St. Croix is going to look after them. Suddenly, several cars pull up outside the Academy, and the White Queen senses hate and fear coming from those inside the vehicles.

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Banshee and the White Queen are soon confronted by angry parents who have come to find their kids. Adrienne Frost reveals that she is responsible for all of this, and that there are bombs throughout the Academy. Banshee goes to deal with the bombs, while the White Queen begins a fist-fight with her sister. Banshee and Synch are deactivating another of the bombs, but Synch wants to go and do some himself. Banshee doesn’t let him, but as they move onto the next, Banshee comes across Monet, who has found Jubilee, Husk, Chamber and Skin, only to discover that Synch has gone off on his own. Monet goes to find him, while Banshee and the others being moving parents and students away from the Academy buildings. Synch has located another bomb, but the school bullies grab Synch, thinking he is responsible for what is going on at the school. With only a few seconds left before the bomb goes off, Synch uses his powers to reach out to Monet and synchs what power he can from her, enabling him to break free from the bullies, and throw them from harms way, before the bomb goes off. Generation X hear the explosion and race off in the direction, while the White Queen deals with her gloating sister - permanently (she pulls a gun on her and it is assumed she shoots her). Generation X and Banshee find a devastated Monet with Synch’s motionless body.



Later, the students and parents are gone, with the White Queen ensuring that they forget everything that happened, before she and Banshee announce that the Generation X kids can take things into their own hands, and that they will no longer be kept at school, basically, it’s their world, now they just have to find what they want to do with it.

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X-Man #63-66
An alien monster brutally kills members of a select circle of mutants. One woman witnessing this goes crazy until a vastly changed Nate Grey helps her.



He informs her that the creature will ? them all, unless he leads her to the other members of her group, so that he can help. He considers this his job now, as he has become a shaman and they are all his tribe. Helen leads him to the group and, after a brutal fight with a sadistic telekinetic who acts as security Nate introduces himself to the group. Six months earlier on another Earth, the inventor Forge is murdered by orders of the Queen, so that he won’t be able to share his secrets. Nate telekinetically shields the Gauntlet’s chamber and then swaps stories with the still distrustful group. They are a group of mutants who aren’t interested in Xavier or Magneto’s way, but instead use their powers for their own gains and combine them to explore other times and other dimensions. However, something has followed them back. From someplace down-spiral, the creature attacks them, bypassing Nate’s shield. Nate chases the others out and confronts the creature alone. Nate tries to learn the reason for its vendetta against the Gauntlet, but it refuses to comply. Eventually, Nate brings down the building on it, but he finds only its arm and realizes the creature has survived. Nate considers the creature and its actions and then goes in telepathic search of the Gauntlet. They admit to using their powers to explore other universes, including the broken worlds down-Spiral. They refuse to admit what they did there, though Nate already suspects it was something heinous. Nate then teleports to the creature’s world and announces that he is going to handle the Gauntlet and that he knows what they did. The creature is still hostile, and reveals something Nate was not aware of. Not only did the Gauntlet trap the creature’s people on their world, they also stole their children. The members of the Gauntlet abducted his race’s children, as their adaptability would make them perfect as ? donors. Nate explains that he was the one who failed so far, not the broken man, and vows to take care of this business. After learning that the children have been dead for weeks, he kills all the members of the Gauntlet with the exception of Helen Burnside. He reveals that Helen is the guiltiest one of all, for it was her idea to take the children. He teleports her to the Broken Man’s universe, where the members of his race can take revenge on her. Later, he vows to the dead children that the mutant race has to act more responsibly and he is there to make sure they will.

X-Man #67-70
Nate Grey dreams of destroying a South-American city. When he awakes, he senses that he has used his power in some way. He takes Madelyne on a walk to clear his head, while not noticing her domineering and sinister behavior. By chance, he sees a newspaper and learns that the city of his dream has been destroyed. He takes Madelyne to the place and sees her face etched in the ruins. She has made him do this. She explains that she has wormed her way into his head and the destruction of the city was a final test. He didn’t create her. He created his Madelyne, but she was just a phantom she stepped into. She tantalizes him with more information if he takes her home. From her mind, he learns how to move across dimensions and they arrive on her world, where Mr. Scratch expects them and where Madelyne is a queen. On a higher plane of reality in a place called the Brilliant City, several citizens argue about the consequences of the fact that now the lower dimensions have also spawned dimension-travelers. The one called Qabiri fears that eventually they will discover and spoil the Brilliant City. Over the protest of his comrades, he leaves the City, deciding to destroy all dimension-walkers.



Nate learns of the nature of reality and that Madelyne has gone fishing for Nate Greys before, as he is the ultimate doomsday weapon. She intends to sue him to further and consolidate her rule on the world. When she shows him that she can use his powers against his will and mentions that she will use him to exterminate Asia, Nate flees, guided by a strange telepathic voice. The voice turns out to belong to another, weaker Nate Grey, the one indigenous to this reality. Queen Madelyne rallies her troops to go search for Nate Grey, while Mr. Scratch enforces discipline among the men in his own inimitable fashion. Nate finds himself face-to-face with his counterpart, the Nate Grey from this world. The latter has a hard time convincing Nate of his identity, but eventually succeeds. Nate learns that the Queen keeps on looking for Nate Greys from different universes, as they are the ultimate weapon. However, sooner or later, all have proved faulty and she has killed them. Nate 998 was the first; he was badly damaged and is somewhat insane, but he managed to flee. He has since tried to make his madness work for him, by using his powers for something Nate Grey aren’t built for: being a shaman, helping people instead of being a weapon. He leads Nate to his tribe, which has kept something for him: the corpse of Mr. Forge. Nate 998 explains to Nate that, being more powerful, he can briefly re-animate the corpse and learn Madelyne’s secrets. Nate does so and they learn from Forge who was the Queen’s lover that Queen Maddie is an impostor. She is actually a Jean Grey from another universe. They are surprised by Mr. Scratch, who destroys Forge and promises to do horrible things to Nate. As Scratch is immune to mutant powers, he breaks Nate’s spine and crushes the other Nate’s windpipe. Nate-998 manages to briefly bury him underground and uses that time to ask Nate to merge their powers to help them both. Light engulfs the two Nates and, after that Nate-998 is gone, apparently disintegrated. The paralyzed Nate is brought back to the Queen, who taps into his power to destroy all of Asia, but it turns out the power isn’t anywhere near sufficient to produce more than a light effect. The two Nates tricked her – this is Nate-998, who switched physical aspects with the other Nate. Madelyne reads his mind to learn the whereabouts of the other Nate, then kills him and, in a fit of pique, orders Mr. Scratch to ? himself after preparing the engines of the Gods for her to retrieve Nate. Nate is back on Earth 616, only to be mugged and saved by a friendly Samaritan. Getting to grips with his new appearance and the X-brand that will prolong his life, Nate recalls his experiences on the other world and decides he has unfinished business there. He confronts Maddie/Jean and Scratch, just when Scratch is about to blackmail the Queen into marrying him, and destroys the Engine of the Gods. He literally overloads Jean with power, killing her and destroying all her creations. Power should be used for better things, Nate decides. Months later, Nate has reinvented himself as the shaman of Earth 616 mutants.

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Uncanny X-Men #381-383
Six months have passed since the High Evolutionary tried to eliminate mutant kind. In Venice, Italy, Phoenix shows Cable a room full of treasure that she always meant to show her deceased husband, Cyclops. The two go outside into the streets to celebrate the Carnival where they mee with Beast. They discover that both have been summoned to Venice by Gambit. A group of men called the Shockwave Riders, members of the Neo, attack the X-Men. Storm comes in and saves Jean, but the Riders use their powers to send Cable’s techno-organic virus out of control. As Jean protects him, another Rider uses his powers to steal some memories of Cyclops from Jean. Gambit arrives, as the Neo are defeated. The Neo escape, except for one, who wills himself to death. Jean creates a mind link with him to get her memories back but, if she does not return to her body before he dies, she will die with him. Cable sends the other three into the astral plane to aid Phoenix. Phoenix finds herself in an immense forest, but then immerges into a memory of the land of the Neo. The Rider, whom she was chasing, attacks her and accuses her world of destroying the Neo civilization. Phoenix defeats him and the other X-Men arrive, only to be ambushed by the Lost Souls who quickly defeat the X-Men and merge the X-Men with themselves, creating new versions of the Lost Souls.



The X-Men are sent to deal with their inner demons. Cable is ambushed by more Neo and is quickly overwhelmed. He uses his Psimitar to send psychic energy to the other X-Men, which helps the X-Men escape from the Lost Souls. In his inner soul, Gambit also came to terms with the Mutant Massacre and Rogue’s decision to leave him. Phoenix returns everyone to their bodies, including the Rider. The Riders and X-Men decide to end the battle and fight another day. Later, Gambit tells the X-Men he wants to launch a rescue mission.

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X-Men v2 #103-104 Uncanny X-Men #383-385
While Psylocke trains in the Danger Room with Tessa and Nightcrawler, Rogue is jumped by Wolverine and wakes up in a Danger Room simulation. She winds up defeating Wolverine and finds out it was set up to test her skills for the new leadership position. Nearby, at Harry’s Hideaway, Colossus is attacked by three mutants calling themselves the Goth.



At the mansion, Rogue is not sure she has what it takes to lead, but accepts the offer. Thunderbird, Psylocke, and Archangel go to Harry’s and are attacked by the Goth. The Goth defeat them, but not before Thunderbird sends out a distress call. Rogue, Wolverine, and Nightcrawler head to the bar, but the Goth leave, kidnapping the entire town as they do. Forge calls the remaining team and tells them the bad news. Rogue then decides they need to call Gambit and reunite the whole team for this mission. Meanwhile, it seems Senator Robert Kelly has returned and is going to run for president, using the public’s fear of mutants as his stepping stone.

In Russia, Storm kidnaps an old ally named Simyon Borisovitch Kurasov from his home and enlists him in helping her free the other X-Men, who have been captured. Storm tells Simyon her story, how the X-Men came to Russia to help Gambit pay off an old debt to Colonel Alexei Mikhailovitch Vazhin. Their goal was to sneak into a club named “the Slash!” and free Major Debra Levin. They were ambushed by Manacle, Bludgeon, Cudgel, and Revenant, who were sent by the club owner, Ransome Sole. Sole had his slave, Sketch, encase the four captured X-Men in shells but Storm escaped. Simyon agrees to help. He takes a S.H.I.E.L.D. like model decoy, programmed to mimic Storm, and pretends to hand the real Storm to Sole. The real Storm sneaks in and frees Levin and attacks Bludgeon and Cudgel. Meanwhile, Sole is trying to sell the captured X-Men to his guests: some Shockwave Riders and the slaver known as Tullamore Voge.



Sketch transforms the fake Storm into a machine gun to help out the X-Men. She frees the X-Men and they take down Ransome Sole, Big Casino and the other mutant guards. Some Shockwave Riders escape with Sole and his associates as Revenant teleports away. In the end, the X-Men free Levin, free a slave, and capture Voge, but realize more is going on that meets the eye and that their trip to Moscow will be prolonged. Defense Minister Dmitri Koniev is kidnapped by Killian and the Crimson Pirates, who force him to help them gain access to the Research Annex, where the X-Men and Colonel Alexei Vazhin hold their colleague, Tullamore Voge, in custody.

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At the Research Annex, Phoenix enters the mind of Voge, but is interrupted by Wolverine using Cerebro, who requests aid from her team to help free some captured X-Men from the Goth, who are also slavers like Voge. Before Phoenix can ask more, they are ambushed by Voge. Phoenix sends Wolverine out of the astral plane, but is ambushed by an unknown man whom Phoenix recognizes. Cable follows Jean in the astral plane, but ends up being possessed by the mysterious villain, who seems to have removed the techno-organic virus from Cable’s system. The Crimson Pirates get into the building, but are defeated by Gambit and Storm. Cable, who is possessed, ambushes Gambit and Storm. Vazhin tells Beast, Phoenix, and Major Debra Levin that they have been betrayed, but is murdered by the Sea Dogs before he can say more. Beast, Phoenix, and Levin barely escape the building as the Pirates free Voge and run off with Storm, Cable, and Gambit.

In Hollywood, after learning more about Senator Kelly’s plan to use mutants as his presidential campaign topic, Mystique vows to stop Kelly, no matter what. With volume 7 of 13 of Destiny’s diaries, she may very well be able to do so.

In Hong Kong, the five remaining X-Men attack the local Hellfire Club branch in search of another lead to find the Crimson Pirates and the Goth. Phoenix mentally finds their next lead, who is a waitress spying on the Hellfire Club. Wolverine stalks the women to her meeting point with the Goth. Elsewhere, the captured X-Men make an escape attempt, but find themselves neck-deep in a giant slave-processing center, where hundreds of kidnapped people are being packaged for transport. They encounter the leader of the Goth, who is appropriately also called the Goth.



To evade being recaptured, Gambit proposes a deal to the Goth. Rogue absorbs Phoenix’s telepathy and attacks Killian and the Crimson Pirates at their Hong Kong headquarters. There, she meets Kymri, a friend of Nightcrawler’s who has been converted into a personal Hound for Killian. Rogue escapes and the X-Men head out to face the Pirates and the Goth in final confrontation.

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X-Men Forever Mini-Series #1-6
I couldn't find a download for this series so I read the summary. Basically it was made to clear up some plot holes of certian characters. For example:

Toad learned that his deformed body was the result of experimentation by Juggernaut's father, Kurt Marko, at Alamogordo, New Mexico, which left Toad with an unstable genetic structure. The Stranger's equipment corrected his genetic flaws, resulting in an almost complete metamorphosis: Toad had a taller and slimmer appearance and had his powers augmented. Among the most notable changes was a prehensile tongue. Though his change improved his self-esteem, Toad continued to live life without direction.

Iceman developed his powers even further, which led him to not be afraid anymore of the natural course of his powers and he returned to the X-Men.

Mystique's sanity is further damaged by the revelation that Destiny was one of the founding members of the anti-mutant conspiracy Mystique had dedicated countless years to fighting, and had willfully withheld medical treatment to mutant children that would have resulted in them not growing up deformed due to their mutations.

Jean grey learns that she is an "Omega-level" mutant with unlimited potential.

Juggernaut decides to work for the government thinking it will aleviate the guilt he feels.

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Gambit v2 #20-22
In his dreams Gambit is visited by Fontanelle. She explains that when she was originally contacted by the Courier to work for the New Son, she was supposed to do a profile on Gambit. Probing the X-Men, she learned of him having been abandoned in Antarctica, and the New Son rescued Remy from there. Claiming that his goal was to create a new perfect world, Gambit agreed to help him and rescued Courier from the Evolutionary’s base and aquired various objects to complete the task, yet Planet Doom shifting into this universe pulled New Son’s plans to a stop. Also Fontanelle reveals that the job took a personal interest when she found out about Amanda Mueller’s involvement with Mr. Sinister in the past, for Mueller is actually her mother. Conclusion is that they need to find out more about the New Son’s motives, his origin and about the Old Kingdom prophecies of the Guilds, therefore they need to find out about Gambit’s own past. For a start Gambit travels to Washington where he asks Courier to impersonate Xavier to gain access to some governmental facalties. Gambit sends two of his Guild members to search the records of his birth, but they have been erased. Later the Unified Guild opens the Casket of All Tomorrows, but surprisingly it is empty. Gambit suspects that Gris-Gris and Theoren stole it’s content and they confess, though they were asked to destroy the material by Gambit’s father Jean-Luc. In Washington, Courier, posing as Xavier, gains access to Carl Denti’s files. He finds out that Amanda Mueller started a gernetic research programm called Black ? shortly after World War II. Courier is discovered by fellow shapeshifter Mystique. She gets curious and corners Courier, knowing that whoever employed him will show up sooner or later. Like expected Gambit comes to the rescue and is able to surprise Mystique with both his improoved power levels and the time delayed charge.

I thought this was a funny scene, just seeing "Xavier" at a water fountain with the wheel chair behind him LOL.



While the Unified Guild holds a vote of confidence on Gambit’s leadership, he is attacked by Rax of the Neo. Actually he could easily defeat him with his improoved powers, but Gambit has to make sure that some innocent bystanders aren’t endangered. In the end both the Neo and the Guild interrupt. Domina decides for her group to leave and Bella Donna fills in Gambit that he will remain their leader. Fontanelle dreamprobes Quiet Bill and learns that he saw many alternate dead versions of Gambit, yet in one world he witnessed the New Son battling New York’s heroes. Courier uncovers evidence that links FBI agent Fred Duncan and the X-Cutioner armour to Amanda Mueller’s Black ? project. Also in Siberia, New Sun has awakened.

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X-Men v2 105-106 & Uncanny X-Men #386
Betsy and Warren are attacked in Warren’s NYC penthouse by the Twister Sisters, which is left in ruins. The five sisters have been hired to ? one of them, but they do not specify which one they are after. Betsy and Warren assume it is Warren they are after and do their best to escape, but are easily defeated. Rogue and the other X-Men pick up the energy spike when Betsy jettisoned the two from the penthouse and help the lovers fight and defeat the Twisted Sisters. After the Sisters are taken by the NYPD and everything cleared up, Warren and Betsy leave, not knowing that the man who hired the Sisters is watching them. In truth, Betsy was the real target, because the telepathic villain who hired the Sisters has a vendetta against her.

Meanwhile, Mystique discovers that Cable has infiltrated Senator Kelly’s political campaign team. As she wonders where Cable’s loyalties lay, she quickly morphs into Moira MacTaggert before Moira’s daughter Rahne picks up her scent. For her own, unknown reason, Mystique has infiltrated Muir Island and is using it as a base of operations for her latest scheme.

Gambit takes Rogue and his team of X-Men down to New Orleans for some rest after their ordeals during the last few days. Cable has a hard time fitting in with the team and relaxing, even though Rogue tries to help him. Gambit and Rogue discuss how weird Cable has been acting lately and wonder what is wrong with him. Jean follows Cable to the docks, but their conversation about Cyclops is interrupted when Jean picks up a mayday call from Lee Forrester, whose ship is trapped in Hurricane Sam. Storm, Cable and Rogue fly out to the Arcadia, Lee’s ship, and try to help, but Storm is knocked out when pieces of the plane Hercules fall on her. Storm wakes up and rallies the team together to make a run for the eye of the hurricane. Rogue pushes the ship from behind, Storm bends the wind and Cable cuts down the waves. When they reach the eye, Rogue is swept away in the undertow, but follows a vision of Cyclops back to the Arcadia. Cable also has a vision of Cyclops, which leads him to Rogue. As Rogue wonders what this revelation means, Storm comes out and says that they still have a long way to go before they are safe.

In the Church of St. Michael the Archangel, Domina, leader of the Warclan of the Neo, goes through the Harrowing, a ceremony of the Neo to seek redemption for their dead. Thanks to her brother, Ransome Sole, Domina fights and kills simulations of the X-Men in preparation for the inevitable second match. Cecelia Reyes watches the whole time and wonders how long she can survive, especially since she only has a few vials left of Rave left, the mutant enhancing drug she has become addicted to. Domina is called to a murder scene in the building and sends Rax to find and ? Cecelia and Detective Charlotte Jones. What Domina does not know is that Rax has enlisted the aid of Rufus Delgado in taking Domina down. Delgado, however, has been merged with Charlotte Jones, thanks to an accident by Elysia and Tartarus. Outside, Nightcrawler and Wolverine make a plan to teleport inside the stronghold, but once inside they find Elysia being attacked by the Delgado hybrid. Cecilia saves them all as they escape to recuperate. Elysia wakes up and accuses the X-Men of trying to destroy the Neo. Wolverine and Nightcrawler are able to calm the girl down and convince her that it was a madman responsible for the catastrophe that struck the Neo. Elysia believes them, but says it does not matter as long as Domina believes otherwise. Rax enlists Rogue and the others to help him take down Domina, but Rogue turns his plan against him and the team breaks into the church. The team is reunited as Delgado betrays Rax. Wolverine is forced to decapitate Delgado, killing the drug lord, which causes Charlotte to return back to normal. Domina stabs Wolverine in the back and goes for the ? when Elysia intervenes, defending the X-Men. Nightcrawler and Rogue tell Domina that Elysia is telling the truth and that humanity is not responsible for the destruction of the Neo. Inside, Domina trusts the X-Men and lets them go so she can think about what she will do next. The X-Men leave with their people, leaving the next move to Domina.

Elsewhere, in Pennsylvania, Mystique reforms the Brotherhood of Mutants for their latest scheme, which involves Senator Kelly. The team includes Blob, Toad, Avalanche, Post, a female Crimson Commando, and Sabre. In Ohio, Kelly is approached by Valerie Cooper and Sharon Carter, who warn him that if he continues on his chosen path he is going to be put in danger. Kelly refuses to listen and says he is willing to sacrifice his life to save humanity if he has to.