scott's blog: June 2011

Issue 25Charles Xavier: No more Magnus... No more!! Logan shall be the last! No one else will ever suffer! You caused the deaths of hundreds today, Magnus - deaths I could have prevented had I stopped you years ago! You have killed too many, Magnus - and I have had enough!! I will make sure - here and now - once and for all - that you never kill again!!Onslaught: Homo Sapiens - hear the words of Onslaught! From this day forward, the humans shall no longer inherit the earth! No more shall mutantkind be so savagely oppressed - for today marks the ultimate ascendance of the homo superior race!Narration: Neal's a mutant, and a member of the team of outlaw heroes known as the X-Men. By rights, he and his compatriots should be out pursuing villains or saving the world or whatever. Alternatively, given the season, they should be helping fuel the global economy by cruising the malls for gifts.Nightcrawler: I love you, Cerise. I love this life. I love the X-Men. But the "I" in all that comes from god. I cannot be true to the rest without being true to him. Being true to him, the rest can be set aside.[After a pro-mutant group runs away when seeing actual mutants.]Gambit: Ideals, mes braves, they're easy to embrace. An' I t'ank you for dat, at least. It's dealin' wit' reality that'll take some work. For all of us.Storm: Behold your legacy: generation upon generation of X-Men. The students and children of Charles Xavier, the living embodiment of a dream that remains thriving and strong.Charles Xavier: Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Charles Xavier, also known as Professor X. And I am a mutant.Magneto: Xavier and his X-men wanted us to build bridges between man and mutant! But we can fly and swim and leap! We will have no need for bridges!Magneto: Nazis? Do I look like a failed artist with a neurotic grudge against his father and the world? I am a force of nature, boy. I am Magneto.Issue 1 Magneto: (To Team) I'm not even going to try to sugarcoat this, my friends. Anyone willing to take part in this raid isn't likely to make it back alive.Nightcrawler: Ja, so?Blink: Gangway people! Critically wounded mutant cheesecake, en route!Nightcrawler: Woman, are you..SFX: "Bamf"Nightcrawler: ...insane?! By teleporting directly into the mansion, you could lead Apocalypse's forces directly to us!Blink: Yeah, well, me and Sunfire kind of had other priorities at the moment I decided to vamoose, Kurt!Nightcrawler: Shiro?! What happened to Sunfire?Blink: Relax, Blue. He should be along any minute. As in "Incoming"!Magneto: Back everyone, his power is out of control! Fortunately my mastery of magnetism is not!Prelate Delgado: At long last, we've discovered the X-men's most recent base! To think Blink, we couldn't have done it without you. Tell me what do you have to say for yourself?Blink: "Sorry guys". And "see ya".Prelate Delgado: Blink, your eye glowing!? NO!! You're closing the portal?! But what happens to...?!SFX: Spblooch!Blink: That was the "see ya" part.Apocalypse: (About the X-Men) Did you pinpoint their location?Rex: Not yet, Sir, but it's certain only to be a matter of time. M'Lord, your face?! What's wrong?Apocalypse: Nothing, Rex. It's a smile.Gambit: Dat's what I like t'hear mon ami. Nothing like a good suicide mission to start the day off right. Maybe, after we stop de cullings, we can liberate de pits and overthrow the Big "A" altogether? 'Course dat don't leave much for de afternoon, but...Gambit: Feel better, p'tite?Blink: Not while you're still alive.Gambit: Good news den 'cause it don't look like I'm going to be dat way for much longer.Magneto: A question, old friend.Nightcrawler: Ja?Magneto: Do you trust me, Kurt?Nightcrawler: More than I trust the Sun to rise in the morrow.Sunfire: If I am going to die this day, I'll do it standing up.Morph: You know, Petey, for the fastest mutant in the world; you can be pretty slow on the uptake!Rogue: Wasn't it just yesterday he was that morose lil' Changeling?Quicksilver: Yes. Possessed of the ugliest purple headpieced costume ever.Rogue: It was pretty hideous.Quicksilver: What did father used to say? "Any shape imaginable and you chose that?!"Quicksilver: This may not be much of a world. May not even be the world it is supposed to be but it is our world nonetheless. And we will fight for it.Bishop: (after Quicksilver walks away) Indeed. And I'm certain the Professor wouldn't have it any other way.This section is a stub. You can help by adding to it.This volume deals with a rebuilt X-Mansion, headed by Cyclops and Emma Frost, and newly appointed, by them, staff consisting of Shadowcat, Wolverine and Beast. It is written by Joss Whedon and illustrated by John Cassaday. The first issue was released on July 2004.Emma Frost: This, children, is Kitty Pryde, who apparently feels the need to make a grand entrance.Shadowcat: I'm sorry. I was busy remembering to put on all my clothes.Emma Frost: So gushingly glad you could join us.Shadowcat: Sorry about the timing. Did I miss the sorting hat?Beast: Just Scott's scintillating introduction speech.Cyclops: Even I was bored.About Logan's current whereaboutsShadowcat: "Elsewhere"? What does that mean?Beast: It means we've narrowed it down to "else"Emma Frost (to the students): They will always hate us. We will never live in a world of peace. Which is why control and non-violence are essential. We must prove ourselves a peaceful people. We must give the ordinary humans respect, compliance, and understanding. And we must never mistake that for trust.[finding Emma and Scott in bed together soon after Jean's burial]Wolverine: So tell me... Which stage of grieving is this? Denial?Cyclops: This is good. The guy who's tried to steal my wife since the day he met us is going to tell me all about what's proper.Cyclops: Hey, Logan, that healing power is about to come in really handy.Emma Frost: Superpowers, a scintillating wit and the best body money can buy...and I still rate below a corpse.Cyclops: We're a superhero team. And I think it's time we started acting like one.Wolverine: Ho, whoa, wait ... is this gonna be about tights?Cyclops: We've saved the world - worlds even - time and again. That's the truth. That's what we do. But the perception is that we're freaks or worse. That we're Magnetos waiting to happen. We've been taking it on the chin so long, just trying to keep from being wiped out, I think we've forgotten that we have a purpose. I know the rest of the world's forgotten.[Danger room is reprogrammed to simulate Hawaii]Shadowcat: Remember when this place was just flame-throwers and rotating knives? I miss that.Beast: Am I the only one who's dying to see these outfits?Wolverine: Superheroes. Summers has gotta be nuts.Wolverine: Time to make nice with the public, eh, Summers?Cyclops: We have to do more than that, Logan. We have to astonish them.Emma Frost: Mister Langford ... my family's extremely generous support for generations, and the very year it becomes public knowledge that I'm a mutant, I am for the first time left off the guest list. Tell me, dear Walter, would you like to spend the rest of your life obsessed with the works of Leroy Neiman? I mean, sexually?Beast: Maybe Scott and Logan could fight on the lawn again. The kids love that.Wolverine: I ain't up to anything don't have the word "beer" in it.Beast: You could fight for beers...Wolverine: Well, now that doesn't sound too bad.Beast (to Dr. Rao): I'm not here to discuss the ethics of your "mutant cure". And I'm not here to destroy it ... I just want to know if it works.Shadowcat: Mutants are a community. We're a people and there's no way anybody can make us be what they want. We stick together and don't panic or overreact...you'll see. We're stronger than this.Wing: Miss Pryde...are you a #&$%ing retard?Kitty: How much detention are we allowed to give? What is the maximum amount of detention the human body can withstand?Emma: Three students were missing from my ethics class. Seventeen overall. Logan had to break up two fistfights and a mystical swordfight. And that dreadful Guatemalan crab-boy is at Benetech telling reporters this is every mutant's only chance to avoid burning in everlasting hellfire. This is eating us from the inside out.Kitty: Oh my God ... you teach ethics?Nick Fury: Somebody's gonna die. You know how I know this? 'Cause I'm gonna kill 'em.Beast: I don't know what I am. I used to have fingers. I used to have a mouth you could kiss, I could walk down the street and ... Maybe this the secondary stage of my mutation, or maybe Cassandra Nova was right. Maybe I am devolving. My mind is still sharp, but my instincts, my emotions ... You know what it's like to be out of control. What am I supposed to do, Logan? Wait until I'm lying in front of the students, playing with a ball of string?Beast: I am a human being.Wolverine: Wrong. You're an X-Man.Student: So, what -- the teachers spend all their time here trying to kill each other? This place is so cool.Shadowcat: Are you gonna fight everyone, Logan? I just wanna know if I'm next.Wolverine: Nah, you'd go ninja on me -- I can't take that kinda hurt.Cyclops: Kitty, you're our computer whiz, so start running down Benetech. I want to know exactly who's funding this research. Hank's in the lab. Emma, check the students. I'm going to contact some of the other teams, see how far this is reaching.Wolverine: Me?Cyclops: Have a beer and stay away from Hank.Wolverine: It's a plan.Emma: Of course, Kitty thinks I'm mentally controlling everything you say ...Scott: (smiles for a moment, then looks concerned)... But you're not, right?Emma: You will never see me naked again.Hank: Why does nothing ever stay buried?Scott: Jean?Wolverine: Good to go. Let's bring on some hurt.Wolverine: When do I get to disable something?Shadowcat: Wriggle like that next time and I'll lose my grip in the middle of a wall. You'll fuse molecules. As deaths go, it's not the funnest.Emma Frost: What do you want me to do, Scott? Pretend I don't feel your heart race when you think of Jean?Cyclops: She's a part of me, Emma. Comes with the package, which you know.Emma Frost: That woman was no good for you.Emma Frost: Jean Grey is a sacred cow. At least we agree on half of that.Wolverine (to Hank): "Hope". That's what they're calling the cure now. "Hope". It was on the news. Catchy, eh? What are you hoping for? Lose the fur ... Nice girl, couple of kids, and a teaching job at some place that doesn't get blown too often?Colossus (to Kitty): Am I finally dead?Cyclops: (hallucinating after being shot) X-men ... Sound off ...Man 1: Iceman, sounding off!Man 2: Fireman, sounding off!Man 3: Clothing-Man, sounding off!Man 4: Ability-to-Hop-Man, here!Cuckoo 1: Miss Frost has broken contact. Something is happening where she is.Cuckoo 2: Something about Mister Summers.Cuckoo 3: She's horribly in love with him. Love is the stupidest thing I ever heard of.Cuckoo 1: Look at what it did to Esme. Miss Frost should be setting an example.Cuckoo 2: Her thoughts of him during class are often sweaty and inappropriate.Shadowcat: You have to know that if you're a clone or robot or, yeah, a ghost or an alternate universe thingie, I can deal, ...but if you are some shapeshifter or illusionist who's just watching me twist I will kill you and I will kill you with an axe so right away just prove it, say something, show me something, I can't ...Colossus: Katya ...Shadowcat: You died ! Piotr Rasputin died and I know this because I carried his ashes to Russia and scattered them myself!Colossus: You did? ... Thank you.[Wolverine, Beast, and Cyclops are all injured on the floor.]Dr. Rao: You fired on them?Wolverine: The lady is sharp ...Dr. Rao: Is Doctor McCoy alright? He --Emma Frost: He has a disease, if you recall. An inexplicably adverse reaction to being shot at.Emma Frost: What's next? Eliminating the gay gene?Emma Frost: You feel no pain. You will go straight to a hospital. Remember nothing of this place. And every time you hear the words "parsley", "intractable", and "longitude", you will vomit uncontrallably for 48 hours.Cyclops: Nice work, X-Men. (Quietly) My girlfriend is very weird.Beast: Plan?Wolverine: Man's got eyeballs ...Emma Frost: And if he's a man by our definition, that's not the only soft--Wolverine: Diplomatic #%@*&%!!@#$@%#%$##@@#$$%$#@#$$#%$#@#$%#%@$#$@$&&&%&@&$#%$##%&&&@&!! immunity?Nick Fury: How do you know your Colossus is the genuine article in the first place Emma Frost: I read his mind.Beast: I matched his DNA.Wolverine: I smelled him.Beast: I also did that.Abigail Brand: I'm special agent Abigail Brand. I head the Sentient Worlds Observation and Response Department. We work with S.H.I.E.L.D., handle matters extraterrestrial.Beast: The government and their acronyms...honestly, it's adorable.Abigail Brand: You people are in a world of trouble.Cyclops: Well, that's the world we're from.Scott: We got Pete ...Beast: Hell of a thing ... Boy's named Rasputin, should've known he wouldn't be that easy to kill.(Each of the X-Men's thoughts as they fight a gigantic creature)Colossus: Kitty's grown so much while I was... away. I know I feel the same for her as I once did, but does she? How can I expose her to the possibility of such pain? ... I'm riding a monster's nostrils. I should really concentrate.Shadowcat: I loved Colossus once. I would have given my life for him. Then he gave his for all of us. How do I feel about him now? Ah, this is so complicated! [Pause] I should really pay attention.Wolverine: ... I really like beer.The Thing: We do big monsters. Big monsters in Manhattan, that's our signature piece.The Thing: Didn't they come up with a cure for your kind?Wolverine: You got a problem with mutants?The Thing: I meant Canadians.The Human Torch: Reed? Can we be evil now?Mister Fantastic: Maybe after dinner.Colossus: Who is the "Hilton" girl?Beast: It doesn't matter. On a lot of levels.Emma Frost: J. Jonah Jameson'll be tongue-kissing Spider-Man before the X-Men catch a little public favor.Shadowcat: Why do you insist on saying things I can never unhear?Sentinel: I hear you lord. I come. Praise be to you.Unrecognized Voice in Emma Frost's Head: Summers? Really? I know you wanted to cement your standing in the group, but if the geek was sharing my bed...I think I'd try not to wake up.Sentinel: My lord is watching you. She knows what you're going to do. She tells me the children will pay for the father's sins. And I must not fear death.Cyclops: I want this thing off my lawn. (unleashes a full-force optic blast on the Sentinel attacking the school)Danger: [voiceover] Get your enemy talking. Classic. But I understand now why it works. The thing I have in common with every dimestore villain the X-Men ever faced. I want to be understood.Danger: [voiceover] I have made a 7% scenario-flow recalibration error. Their aggression is increased, their responses less coordinated but more effective. They're not in the danger room. They're in danger.Sydren: I ssensse...destruction.Abigail Brand: Really? You sure? You don't wanna look at the photo of the enormous destruction some more before you make such a bold statement?Sydren: If I ate your head, two thirdsss of your agents would praise me in poems and sssong.Abigail Brand: So my approval rating's up.Wolverine: Kids ain't dead, we ain't dead...Either the danger room was programmed to suck at its job, or we're missing something.Shadowcat: I'm sorry, okay? I came on strong but I was thrown, you came back from the dead and things were said, there were emotions but I'm totally over that now. I'm only about the work and you're feeling what, "crowded"? Well boo-hoo! Lives are at stake here, pal!Colossus: I am to throw you?Shadowcat: I'm very light...[After Shadowcat is thrown]Shadowcat: Okay... so... serious wedgie...Unseen viewer: The X-Men handled the situation, but they're not at their best. Of course, nothing lasts forever.[View shifts, we see a group fronted by Sebastian Shaw]Sebastian Shaw: Hellfire does.Hisako: I'm sorry, sir, but the last time we were in this room we found my best friend dead. And then Hell opened up beneath us. Literally. Sir.Wolverine: Yeah, wow, that's really terrible. But you want Advanced Self-Pity, I think that's Professor Summers, across the hall. This is combat.Match: But, uh,... Isn't the Danger Room inactive? Since the... Isn't this just a room now Wolverine: Yeah, it's a big grey room. No computers, no simulators... Kinda bare. They should maybe get a fern.Shadowcat: I'm totally cool. I'm totally calm, and I'm totally cool. My calm is only exceeded by my cool. Which is total.[after sex]:Shadowcat: Oh my god!Colossus: Are you alright?Shadowcat: Oh my god! I phased!Colossus: Are you alright?Shadowcat: Are you?Colossus: It was strange.Shadowcat: I can't believe I phased just then! That's never... It was totally your fault.Colossus: I like to think so, yes.Wolverine: I'm the best at what I do, and what I do... is so terribly pretty!Wolverine is shown to have made a paperchain of people holding hands.Shadowcat: Who's the kid?Emma Frost: Negasonic Teenage WarheadShadowcat: Okay. We've run out of names.Perfection: You may have dealt with Emma Frost, but she is no match for... The White Queen.Perfection removes her robe, revealing that she looks exactly like Emma Frost.Shadowcat: Yeahbuhwhat?Agent Brand: So. Who's the tinker-toy?S.W.O.R.D. Agent: "Danger." She's A.I., Shi'ar tech.Agent Brand: @#$%ing Shi'ar... I wish someone would prophesy the end of those clowns.Colossus: Scott?[Cyclops shoots Sebastian Shaw with a handgun]Cyclops: Pete, hey. You won't believe the day I'm having.Colossus: Katya!Cyclops: She's okay. I've been trying to wake her.Colossus: By shooting people?Cyclops: I'm an X-Man. I don't shoot people.[Cyclops shoots Negasonic Teenage Warhead]Cyclops: I'm just trying to make a point.Abigail Brand: The Breakworld's psychics - they call 'em the Augurs - they hunted for the X-man destined to destroy their world and the mighty Colossus got the nod. I'm assuming you're as mystified by this as the rest of us, Rasputin.Colossus: No. I'm not. I have been planning to destroy the Breakworld since I was a child.Everyone stares in silence.Colossus: This is why I don't make so many jokes. I never know when is good.Beast: You kidnapped us.Abigail Brand: We're not past that yet?Shadowcat: It was four hours ago.Abigail Brand: Unbreachable hull, precise maneuverability, enough power at short-range to outrun anyone. Prettiest ship in the fleet.Beast: Not to be picky, Agent Brand, but if this splinter is such a wonderful ship...shouldn't we be in it?Beast: It's very thoughtful of you Emma.Emma Frost: Well, good lord, why should we endure all that centrifugal nonsense? Two lumps, dear. We can all "live in the now" once we're on solid ground.Emma Frost: I can't read a thing. If they made it, they're nowhere near.Cyclops: We'll give them time.Beast: If anything's happened to them, Agent Brand --Abigail Brand: You'll what? Eat me?Beast: In fact I will. The new math, Agent. You're outnumbered. And not well-liked. And I've recently aqcuired a taste for human flesh, I say with some embarrassment.Hisako: I have a test on Wednesday. I'm not an X-Man, I shouldn't...I mean I can't--I have a Chemistry test.Wolverine: Take off the suit.Hisako: That's not really an option.Wolverine: You wanna cry on my bubbling, skinless shoulder? You're in that suit 'cause you're an X-man. You're an X-Man 'cause I seen you fight and I want you on the team. But if I'm wrong, if you're just a whining teenager gonna freak out on a hostile alien planet and cost me time, then lose the suit and go die. We got worlds to save.[Hisako gets teary-eyed as her aspiration to be an X-Man is fulfilled]Hisako: "Armor"Wolverine: "Armor". Hunh.Armor: Is it taken?Wolverine: I don't think so. It'll work for a name. Kinda on the nose...Armor: Well it gets to the point.Wolverine: Yeah, it's very direct -- I'm thinking of calling myself "Claws".Armor: Not "Stench"?Wolverine: Shut up and let me heal.Emma Frost: What happened to you lot?Wolverine: Agent Brand's brilliant plan went south. Our pretend burning wreckage stopped pretending. We get through this, I'm gonna pop a claw through her eye, you guys cool with that?Emma Frost: Absolutely.Cyclops: Logan, we don't just...nah, go for it.Agent Brand: I think we oughta split up.Beast: At last we agree on something.Agent Brand: You're coming with me.Beast: And so ends that era.Colossus: They bring me back from the dead. They want me dead. I will destroy them. I will save them. I'm so confused...so tired.Shadowcat walks towards Colossus in the nudeColossus: Now I am more confused...But somehow not as tired.Emma Frost: I'm sorry...Cyclops: Whoah whoah, hey, did I actually hear that? That's uncharted territory, we're gonna have to do some recon.After Danger downed the ship that Cyclops and Emma Frost were riding.Emma Frost: Scott...He said he loved me. This extraordinary, ordinary man is in love. With me.Danger: That's all over now.Emma Frost: Oh, it's over all right. Do me one favor, dear...kill me. Please do try to make it quickEmma Frost: Confused?Danger: You think I cannot pierce diamond?Emma Frost: Oh, have I hardened? Defense mechanism; quite unconscious. (Emma reverts to human form) There now. Better?Danger: This is a trick.Emma Frost: Hush now. Kill away.Danger: Kruun will want you alive.Emma Frost: Nonsense. He'll be thrilled. Shower you with garlands and wear my skin like a shawl.Danger: What game are you playing?Emma Frost: Oh, I'm a terrible person and I'm wracked with guilt, haven't you been following? If you shake harder my neck might snap...if that helps at all...Cyclops holds a large rock over his head, ready to attack DangerCyclops: Emma...get behind me...Emma Frost: Why I find such patently idotic chivalry a turn-on is truly a mystery to me. But you, "Danger," you're an open Blackberry. You never got over your parent programming. If it's any consolation, nobody ever does.Xavier has traveled to Russia to recruit Peter Rasputin to join his new team of X-men.Colossus: You want me to go with you... to America? But if I possess such power as you say - does it not belong to the state?Xavier: Power such as yours belongs to the world, Peter - to be used for the good of all. And believe me - your powers are needed!Colossus (to his parents): Then come, we will talk of this with my parents... and so this professor wants to take me with him - to teach me how to deal with me... my mutant powers. Th-there is wisdom in his words, Papa - but I am happy here. Tell me, Papa - what should I do?Mr. Rasputin: Do as your heart tells you, my son. It will not betray you.Colossus: My heart tells me to stay, Papa - but my conscience tells me otherwise. I must go, Papa.Mr. Rasputin: Then it is right that you do.Illyana Rasputin (quoting Peter Rasputin): If not for the depths of grief, how could we truly measure the heights of joy.In a joke cartoon. A man has arrived at Xavier's School and Angel has answered the door.Man: Good afternoon, sir. I am looking for a Miss Jean Grey.Angel: She's dead. Come back next week.Shadowcat has been defending herself and the mutant community on an anti-mutant online bulletin board run by 'The Pride'.'Shadowcat (reading computer screen): Your presence on this forum is disruptive and will no longer be tolerated.Shadowcat: Give me a break! When did Professor Xavier's dream become such a nightmare? Maybe Magneto was right? Maybe we should learn to hate 'em back. Maybe it's time we accepted there really isn't room on this planet for us to share. Maybe it's time to do something about it.Sasquatch: I offer you a place on my team, but you will have to protect a world that hates and fears you.Yukon Jack: Why would I want to protect a world that hates and fears me?Sasquatch: Well, ummm... Hey, where'd he go?Sasquatch: Miss, I need your help to save a world that hates and fears us.Zuzha Yu: Get out of here, eh? I have a bar to run.Sasquatch:(monologue) I need to work on my sales pitch.Jubilee: So, what's her power? Sides the ability t' stick out her chest.[D'Spayre has magically stripped away Juggernaut's flesh and internal organs, leaving nothing but a crimson skeleton]Juggernaut: But I been feelin' despair my whole life. And I learned how to deal with it. I got mad!D'Spayre: He still stands? He moves?Juggernaut: Cause life is pain. Pain leads to despair. An' the only way to beat despair is through rage. And rage feeds the Juggernaut. Once the Juggernaut feels rage...nothing...of this or any world... NOTHING CAN STOP THE JUGGERNAUT!!D'Spayre: Impossible! How are you even moving?!? There's nothing left-- nothing but-Juggernaut: Nothing but hate.Narrator: Eloise has lived her entire life in this town; drew her first paycheck and Jones' Hardware on 3rd; married Frank in the registrar's around the corner; delivered Stevie in Doctor Henshaw's accross the street. The registrar's is still there - knock on wood - but Jones sold out to a chain store a few years back, and the Doctor's been buried three plots down from Frank for over five years now. But change is good, she tells herself. Unless and until it threatens Stevie.Trask: Shoot... to kill.(Helicopter launches rockets at Rogue and an amnesiac Magneto. Magneto catches the rockets in a magnetic field and prepares to throw them back)Rogue: No. No, Mag - Joseph, don't. If you do this -it ain't worth the cost of your soul, and you know it.Narrator: Time stops around Joseph and Trask. And two men, each fighting to escape the shadows of their past, each prepared to kill for their place in an even darker future, finally find the one thing they have in common. Fear.(Magneto tears the warheads off the rockets and flies away)Narrator: Fear of change.Shadowcat: Whoof.Colossus: Kitty, I --Shadowcat: Wait. Not done with "whoof."Dafi pokes her head into Shadowcat and Colossus' bedroomDafi: Aghanne says you're to leave at first light. Our scouts have made contact with your friend Logan. You have about an hour, if you wish to continue fornicating.Colossus: That one is Dafi?Shadowcat: Like the duck. You can ask me now.Shadowcat: Everything is so fragile. There's so much conflict, so much pain...you keep waiting for the dust to settle and then you realize it; the dust is your life going on. If happy comes along -- that weird unbearable delight that's actual happy -- I think you have to grab it while you can. You take what you can get, 'cause it's here, and then...gone.Emma Frost: (to Brand) You're so unpleasant even I'm impressed. Do you visit orphaneges to explain there's no Santa?Emma Frost: I am a diamond Ms. Pryde. I am, by definition, my own best friend.Wolverine: Kid...you're fired. We get back to Earth, you're demoted to Excalisuck or some damn team.Armor: They were lining up civilians! To kill them!Wolverine: That ain't the mission.Armor: Have you looked the word "superhero" up? Like, Googled it or something?Cyclops (telepathically): We need a name: something ominous and imposing.Emma Frost: Leviathan?Cyclops (telepathically): Oh, honey, that's irresistable!Shadowcat: I object!Cyclops (telepathically): What?Emma Frost: (telephatically) Bugger me, was that acting?Colossus (telepathically): Is not courtroom drama, Katya.Shadowcat (telepathically): Shut up! I'm not good at having two conversations at once. And I hate Scott's plan!Cyclops (telepathically): You mean you "object" to it. But I'm gonna allow it.Kruun: Lies. The great human weapon. Pathetic.Cyclops: I'd say "pathetic" would be falling for them. Especially Kitty'sCyclops: To me my X-Men. Let's finish this.Cyclops: We have their Powerlord, inside his most impregnable prison.Wolverine: We pregged it quick enough...Cyclops: We're the X-Men.Aghanne: Treachery is for the civilized, Agent Brand.Wolverine: Standing around talking feels a lot like standing around talking. When does Pete get to throw me at something?Beast: As a scientist, I won't say for certain something I can't prove. As a cat...the lady is lying.Colossus: It makes no sense. To put your world at risk with such a fragile, unstable energy source...Aghanne: We prize efficiency over safety. Is it very different on Earth?Ord: At last, this ends as it was meant to.Cyclops (blasting away the railway under Ord's feet): Oh please.Beast: It's not a missile. It's a bullet.Spider-man: You can't say "I love New York". Tourists can love New York. Me? Who grew up here? Who's lived here my whole life, who's crawled over every stone and swung off every cornice...I AM New York. It's in me, in my blood, like a disease...you know, like a blood disease but a good one, like a happy...cancer...so clearly I was not bitten by a radioactive poet. But you get what I'm saying. When you're part of a greater whole...when you're enmeshed...you know when something's coming.(Nightcrawler suddenly teleports in front of Spider-Man) Most of the time. (Iceman slides behind Spider-man) Some of the time. (Spider-man is blown off by a strong gust of wind) Forget it.Storm: Forgive us, Spider-man.Spider-man: Uh...wow. I all of a sudden forgive you.Spider-man: Oh, this is never good. You get this many big guns in one room not civilly warring, it's either the end of the world, or...I don't have an "or".Colossus: I have heard the speeches of men who sought to save the world. Twenty million of my countrymen are buried beneath those speeches.Aghanne: I am not a dictator.Colossus: Madness is not restricted to the powerful.Aghanne: Is it madness to want to bring peace to my suffering people?Colossus: Death is not peace. I know this.Abigail Brand: Two things you should know about me...I never get gang-raped on a first date...and "Brand" is not my given name.Beast: My friends -- my world -- at stake, and you're still hiding something important.Abigail Brand: It ain't relevant.Beast: I'll decide that.Abigail Brand: It's personal.Beast: And here I am in your personal space so go ahead and open up.Abigail Brand: I am so hot for you right now I could frikkin' pass out. (Awkward silence) Told you it was personal.Colossus: Ord. You have done it. Can you hear me? You have saved the world.(Spider-man hallucinates saving the world by using a lot of webbing)Spider-man: YES! Woo hoo! I did it! I...waaaaait a second...Cyclops: You can't wake anyone?Storm: The most powerful seem to be the most powerfully hit. Spider-man is still trying to rouse Dr. Strange...at least, I think that's why he's hitting him...[Telepathically]Emma Frost : Kitty...I...I can put you somewhere else. I can make you less afraid.Shadowcat: Nah. Nah, I'm gonna see this through. Peter should know...well, he should already know, so don't worry about it.Emma Frost: This was never meant to...not you.Shadowcat: Yeah, I was supposed to take you out, as I recall. Disappointed Ms. FrostEmma Frost: Astonished, Ms. Pryde.Armor: Can I help?Wolverine: Are you a beer?Wolverine: All our crap..how'd it fall on her shoulders? Her and Pete, they...they were like..two...(Armor suddenly hits Wolverine)Armor: I'm sorry. You were about to become poetic, and I thought we'd both prefer you didn't.Wolverine: Kid...Armor: You want to grieve. And I need to train.Wolverine: I can pierce that armor, kid.Armor: You can try.Beast: I guess I'll start. I'm fairly certain I hate you.Abigail Brand: Well, that's kind of the point. I need someone to hate me. Professionally. I'm good at -- well, I'm uniquely qualified for -- my job. But I made some crap calls this time around, and we both lost men we shouldn't have. You're smarter than any dozen guys and you'll question my every waking gesture. On the job, there's nothing I could use more.Beast: And off the job?Abigail Brand: Pretty much wanna break you like a pony. It's a win-win.Cyclops: Your eyes are red.Emma Frost: Look who's talking.The Tomorrow People[Toad jumps on top of Cyclops as he tries to rescue the presidents daughter.]Toad: Whoever told you that tight little t-shirt doesn't make you look like the team pansy was lying, Cyclops.[He leaps into the air just as Storm and Iceman arrive.]Toad: You're next, by the way, you stupid looking american cow.Storm: This is for calling me american, you skinny, english jerk![She kicks Toad in the face.]:[Jean Grey has just congratulated Wolverine on saving the President's daughter.Wolverine: I'm thinking of a telepathic red-headed 19-year-old. But she's wasting her time with a loser who brushes his teeth six times a day.[Magneto has explained his agenda to Cyclops.]Cyclops: You sound like Adolf Hitler.Opening caption: Land's End, Scotland.[In our universe, Land's End is in Penwith, Cornwall, England]Iceman: What the heck are the Welsh?Betsy Braddock: A quaint, little people just west of England, Iceman. Picture the Scots without the sex appeal or the Irish without the laughs and you've pretty much got them nailed.Moira McTaggart: The people who fund Charles' work hope that some of them will graduate to the Westchester facility, of course, but I'm afraid that's still a long way off for even the best of them.Storm: What do you mean the people fund his work? Xavier told us he paid for the school, the planes, and all the other stuff out of the money his parents left him.McTaggart: smirking: Really? Well, that must have been quite an inheritance, Storm. Who did he tell you his mother and father were? Bill and Melinda Gates?[Opening Caption, in thundering rain]: Muir Island.Storm: [holding an umbrella, looking annoyed] If this is Scotland, it stinks.Captain America: Lets go kick their heads in.Storm: You think you can handle this guy all by yourself if I take care of the people outside, Peter?Colossus: Do not worry about me, Ororo... Nothing can hurt me when I am in solid steel form. Not even this guy.Iron Man/Stark: GOD ALMIGHTY!Xavier: Beast! Why are we taking a detour through the training arena? We're supposed to be heading for the X-Jet, boy!Beast: Just hitting them with everything I can think of, sir! Setting the fight simulator for ninja assassin is our best bet of slowing them down!Hawkeye: What the hell?!Rabbi-Ninja Hologram: In answer to your question, my young friend, Judaism teaches that the first five books of the Bible were dictated word-for-word by God to his servant Moses.(The 'ninja assassin' setting releases katana wielding Orthodox Jews)Iron Man/Stark: Get away from me you Neanderthal! Have you any idea how much this armor actually costs?Wolverine: Ah, shut up Stark! You can afford it![After Jean Grey blasts the nuclear radiation into the sky]Civilian: You guys rule![Jean Grey is confused]Jean Grey: I think I felt more comfortable when they were throwing the bricks and bottles at us.[Wolverine is being stalked by Weapon X assassins]Peter Parker: That's who did that to you?Wolverine: That is who carved me up.[Peter sees innocent-looking diaper vans.]Peter Parker: OH MY GOD!! Why are diaper deliverymen trying to kill you?[Wolverine and Spidey have just visited Black Widow]Spider-Man: She may be the hottest girl I have ever seen in my life, and I have cable[Wolverine, Daredevil and Spider-Man are in a barrage of machinegun fire.]Daredevil: We have to get away from this van!Spider-Man: Sundance, you go first!Daredevil: Sundance?Spider-Man: Nobody gets me.[Angel has just entered, an Adonis of a man]Shadowcat: Dibs.Storm: Stop it, Kitty.[Angel and Nightcrawler inform Jean-Paul he is a mutant.]Jean-Paul Beaubier: Great! Sophomore year, I realise I'm gay, and now you're telling me I'm a mutie?Angel: Um, you may want to live the life for a bit before you start slinging derogatory terms like that, even if you're trying to reappropriate them or whatever.Nightcrawler: [Disapprovingly] Gay?Angel: Jean-Paul, we've been sent to invite you to the Xavier Institute for Gifted Children, a school in Westchester created by and for our kind.Jean-Paul Beaubier: "Our kind?" God, you people are worse than my mom. As soon as I came out of the closet, she tried to make me enroll at Harvey Milk.Angel: I'm sorry?Jean-Paul Beaubier: It's this "special" high school just for gay kids, where we can supposedly get an education without being harassed by idiots. But you know what? I'd rather get called homo ten times a day than.. than segregate myself from the rest of society.Nightcrawler: This is different, mein freund. It may not be safe for you here.Jean-Paul Beaubier: And your school will be? Didn't one of your classmates just get murdered?Jean Grey: I am an X-Man... and save the sex-change jokes.[Jean Grey and Colossus witness Jean-Paul Beaubier awake. Beaubier is openly gay.]Jean Grey: Jean-Paul, this is Piotr.Jean-Paul Beaubier: Is... he... single?[Colossus is so shocked that he turns into his metal form.][On being called "Marvel Girl"]Jean Grey: I outgrew that handle two bra-sizes ago.[A drunk Dazzler enters the Danger Room]Iceman: Oh yeah, I forgot we started accepting losers on the team.Rogue: She smells like my grandfather.Angel: Is your grandfather dead?Jean Grey: Take it from a telepath and Cosmo subscriber, men are never what they seem. I mean, who'd guess that a guy like you is constantly daydreaming about Pirates of the Caribbean?Nightcrawler: Ah, Miss Kiera Knightley. I'd happily sink a thousand ships just to stare into her... vait, you spy on my fantasies?[Sinister is rolling the wheelchair of Professor X away.]Professor X: Where are you taking me?Sinister: To the one enemy of the great Charles Xavier.[Sinister pushes the wheelchair down the stairs.]Sinister: Stairs.[In a confrontation against Mister Sinister, whom is holding Dazzler hostage and Rogue has at gunpoint]Rogue: He killed Bobby, War. He... he killed the only boy who ever treated me halfway decent, and for that, he gets to--Shadowcat: Whoa, rewind! Bobby's alive! I just checked on him. His ice absorbed most of the impact. I think he mighta broke a rib or two, but--Dazzler: Hey, morons! Hostage situation here, remember?[Heavily-pierced Dazzler is flirting with Colossus]Dazzler: Seriously, what's up with you? I'm smoking hot, and I have a thing for strange accents. Why don't you make out with me?Colossus: You have more metal in your skin than I have. We would scrape.[Seeing a board advertising the sideshow "Wolfsbane, half-wolf, half-woman!"]Storm: I am going in there. She is being exploited!Wolverine: Maybe she is exploiting them?[They peek around the corner. Wolfsbane is sharing a happy dinner with her obviously mutated friends.]Wolverine: Everybody’s a freak to somebody. You just gotta find your tribe and try to do right by them. But if it makes you feel better, we could storm the ticket booth and eviscerate a few carnies for her.Storm: [kisses Logan] You are sweet.[Angel is talking about Fenris, aka Andrea and Andreas von Strucker]Angel: Nobody knows whether they are married... or siblings.Shadowcat: Ewww.Dazzler: That was old since the White Stripes started it.Andrea von Strucker: We always funnel the profits generated from Gambit's...acquisitions right back into the Homo superior community.Rogue: Steal from the rich to give to the peculiar, huh?Angel: You sure this is a good idea?Colossus: No, but it's Cyclops' idea, and that's good enough for me.[Spiral is theatening the X-Men, holding weapons in each of her six arms]Iceman: Gee... how much does a skeez like you spend on deodorant?Professor X: [to his cat] Mystique, that's enough.Wolverine: The hell kinda handle is that for a cat?Prof. X: I once dated a young woman who went by that name.Wolverine: What was she, a stripper?[Lorna Dane awakes in the same cell as Magneto]Lorna Dane: [scared to death] I'm in hell.Magneto: For Xavier, the world is nothing but shades of grey. For me, the world is black and white.Jean Grey: [in Cyclops mind] Come home soon. I love you so much it hurts, okay?Cyclops: [Already out off merged mind state] Yeah, I love you too.Wolverine: Please tell me you ain't talking to me. You're sitting on an ejector seat, you know.Shadowcat: After this mission, I am so totally changing my nickname. "Shadowcat" sounds so Neopets.Sunspot: I always knew you X-narcs were just tools of the man.Iceman: Did you hear, the Prof said that speedster kid you visited in the hospital a few months back is part of Alex's little raiding party.Colossus: Jean-Paul? He's... he's coming here?Jean Grey: This isn't prom, Peter.Havok: You sure you can get us across the pond to the Triskelion, Northstar?Northstar: Well, "sure" is a strong word, Alex.[Polaris has just refused to join Magneto's Brotherhood]Magneto: You overweight harlot.[Magneto grabs a chair and smashes it over Polaris' head]Mystique: Hello, my love.Magneto: Mystique? Is that really you?Mystique: "The eyes may be fooled by a woman's disguise, but the heart never fails to recognize."Forge: Do you have to go through this routine every time you two see each other?[Deathstrike has just impaled Dazzler. A horrified Angel stares at them.]Deathstrike: What's up, mutie? I thought your girlfriend liked getting pierced.[Talking on the phone.]Colossus: Sorry, the what? Really? Uh, when is it? Yeah. You know what, sure. Email me the details. Okay, tell Warren we miss him. Talk to you soon, Jean-Paul.Nightcrawler: Northstar? What was that all about, Peter?Colossus: He asked me to go to Homecoming with him.Magneto: Cyclops, you are the least threatening boy in the world. You can't hit me without harming your brother.Havok: Y'know, for a guy who claims to know about brotherhood...Cyclops: You don't know much about brothersCyclops blasts Magneto to the ground without harming Havoc, who was in the line of fireHavok: Nice shooting, four eyes.Cyclopes: You make a easy target, idiot.[Havok & Polaris have just been reunited]Jean Grey: Is that a little jealously I sense?Cyclops: A little sadness about losing my plane, maybe.[Danger Room simulation]Holo-Green Goblin: Congratulations, X-Men. You have the honor of being escorted into oblivion by none other than... the Green Goblin.Wolverine: Who the hell writes this crap?Cyclops: You've got a date?Professor X: I'm handicapped, Scott. Not dead. I'm meeting a woman. It's mostly business, but still a date.Cyclops: I get it. It's a business dinner but she's attractive enough for you to wish it were a date.Professor X: I think Jean is finally rubbing off on you. This is not a bad thing.Cyclops: Actually, Jean is in the other room getting ready, she's been listening in. I think she made me say that.Colossus: This is why you don't want to be around me now, yes? You think I like you -- that way. I promise that is not so.Nightcrawler: Uh... well.Colossus: It is okay, friend. You need not lie to me. I know you've been avoiding me since you think you found out what I am. Have you never met a girl you are not attracted to? Do you think that I am attracted to every man? Why would you think that? I will admit, your skin is cute, but you are not my type. So do not worry, I promise to keep my hands to myself. Can we just go back to the way things were?Nightcrawler: I do not know, mein freund.Colossus: I am the same friend you knew, Kurt.Nightcrawler: I am thinking now... that I did not know that friend very well...Polaris: Here comes the happy couple.Northstar: Please, Lorna -- I believe this is our first date.Polaris: I don't think it counts when you've talked on the phone as much as you two already have!Colossus: I see you are not one to keep things quiet. No?Northstar: I thought you liked that.Colossus: I like that you are free with your speech. I see now maybe a little too free?Angel: Take 'im, Iceman!!Sauron: Do you hope to fool Sauron with your feeble tricks? There is nobody behind meeEEEEEEE[Sauron gets his wing frozen by Iceman.]Iceman: Just call me nobody, batwing! By the way, that's quite a pair of tenor tonsils you've got there!Jean Grey: Isn't the snow beautiful, Ororo?Storm: In it's way, Jean...But I can't help remembering that on the slopes of Kilimanjaro, the snow is...white.[Jack Kirby and Stan Lee see Jean Grey and Cyclops kiss passionately.]Jack Kirby: Hey, Stan, you know who they were? I tell ya, they never used to do that when we had the book.Stan Lee: Ah, Jack, you know these young kids -- they got no respect.[The birth of Phoenix.]Phoenix: Hear me, X-Men! No longer am I the woman you knew! I am Fire and Life incarnate! Now and forever - I am PHOENIX!Boy: Mom, look! One o' the big monkeys got loose.Beast: Thanks, kid, my ego needed that. Don't you people know a super-hero when you see one?Phoenix: Dark Phoenix knows nothing of love!Cyclops: Oh? For love of the X-Men, you sacrificed your life. For love of me, you resurrected yourself. For love of the whole universe, you almost died a second time to save it. Know nothing of love?! Jean, you are love![The death of Phoenix.]Phoenix:...If even one more person died at my hands... It's better this way. Quick. Clean. Final. I love you, Scott. A part of me will always be with you.Cyclops: Jean, no. Don't! No![A ray gun emplacement fires, killing Phoenix.]Phoenix: SCOTT!Cyclops: JEAN!Wolverine: I'm the best there is at what I do. But what I do best isn't very nice.[Often misquoted as "I'm the best at what I do, and what I do isn't very nice".]Wolverine: I'm not an animal. I'm a man. An X-Man!Storm: Professor, if Rogue stays, I go.Nightcrawler: My apologies, Herr Professor, but we all go.Professor X: I see. We pick and choose who we help, is that it? Some are worthy, others not?! Who was it, Ororo, told me Wolverine was an X-Man, not because of his "sterling" chacter (sic), but his potential for good. That to deny him-- though we abhor his violent nature-- would thereby deny our true reason for being, which is to help him achieve that potential. The same argument holds for Rogue, does it not? Of course, there's a risk in accepting her-- but consider the alternative. At least with us she has a chance for a better life, Deny her and we condemn her outright... and that I will never do-- to any mutant-- so long as breath remains within me.Cyclops: Got the ring, Alex?Alex Summers: What's it worth to you?Cyclops: Want to die, Alex?[Madelyne stops Cyclops from falling off a floating plane into the water.]Cyclops: It's okay, Madelyne, I can swim.[A shark is seen below him]Madelyne Pryor: Great, dummy -- so can heJean Grey and Storm spending quality time after Storm had been believed dead and was restored to a state of pre-adolescence. (NOTE: The coloring in the panel erroneously showsStorm's hand white and Jean's hand black; this error becomes apparent through the dialogueJean Grey: Ain't we the pair-- me, with too many lives for one body, you with not enough body for your life.Storm: Muddling through regardless.Jean Grey: From one catastrophe to the next.Storm: 'Til death do us part.Jean Grey: That'll be the day.Storm: (proposing toast) To the X-Men, then! Who do not die the old fashioned way.Jean Grey: And no matter how hard we try...Storm: ...none of us die forever.Magneto: The New Mutants were left in my charge and they suffered for it-- because I tried to pattern myself after Charles Xavier. I am not Charles Xavier. I will never be Charles Xavier. I was a fool to try. (...) As he was, for believing I could succeed. [Magneto kills ZaladaneSentinel: Termination accomplished. Target Marvel Girl is dead.Fitzroy: A condition with which I understand she is quite familiar. This time, however, she will find it more permanent!(A video from the future is shown to the X-Men by Bishop. Due to improper storage, it has corroded)Jean Grey: Alex?! - Cable... Anyone?! - - Don't even know - transmission being received? -- taken total - taken totally unaware! Both teams - and - decimated! Mansion security was deactivated - activated... activated... deactivated from within! -- Betrayed by one of our own! Professor Xavier - was the first to die. One one left... power's negated. Our own fault, really - should never have trusted -- We knew so little about - YOU?! - may have killed the X-men... but the dream will never...[Bright light.]Voice off-panel: Die?Jubilee: Yer nothin' but a whining bunch o' head-padded, hyper-thyroided, pig-headed, spoiled brat, poorly dressed, overly accessorized, delusionally disadvantaged X-MenWANNABES in major need of a total 'tude adjustment!(Jubilee commenting on X-ForceMagneto: I don't want to do this Charles, rather I have to. I must be strong, because you and your X-Men are too weak to do that which must be done! ....For no matter what happens to you and me, the welfare of the children is paramount. Whether they be the innocent like Illyana, Doug and Anya before them, the lost such as my Acolytes, or the misguided like the fools you count among the X-Men; they need to be protected! They need to be awakened from the dream in which you've lulled them! Whether you admit it or not, they need...MAGNETO!Wolverine: Things change. People change. You. Me. Everyone o' us..... everyday of our lives. The day ya stop changin' --is the day ya die.Rogue: Not the most discreet use o' your magnetic powers. Ya realize Cyclops would have both our heads for this?Joseph: Then it is a good thing he's not here.Coachman: Um...I'm going to go out on a limb here...(View shifts, they are riding a horse-drawn cab several stories above the streets of Manhattan)Coachman: ...mutants, right?Rogue: That obvious? We're sorry, sir. We'll put you down and --Coachman: You'll do no such thing, ma'am. I've read the papers...I've seen the television reports about mutants. Whats more, I've come to my own conclusions. I think you're all trying your best to lead your own lives...A lot of times going out of your way to make sure us normal folk can live ours. What I'm saying is, it's an honor to have you in my cab. I mean, Christmas is a time for miracles, right..? I'd like to enjoy this one. Just as soon as I get get my fingernails off of my kneecaps, that is.Rogue: Why... thank you, sir. That means a a lot.Joseph: If you could drop us off at the World Trade Center--that would be perfect.(View shifts again, to a man in an office. He is unnamed, but we are led to understand, through visual cues, that he is Bob Harras, editor of the comic)Bob: I would love for me to be home too, Anne -- but I have books three days from shipping -- And Scott and Joe haven't even started the next issue! Give the boys a kiss goodnight for me and...(Rogue and Joseph's coach hovers past his window, leaving him speechless)Bob: ...Um. Uh. Mm. Maybe you're right. I have been working too hard. I'll, uh... be home soon. Love you.Grovel: Gambit, what's your funk? You like the girl... she likes you... Whatever the problem is, just tell her. No-one in my species likes to see a person with a sad-on.Gambit: Real simple, old man: I tell her, I lose her.Grovel: Yeah? Even simpler, kid: you don't tell her, you never really had her to lose.First words of narration: What is it that pulls a man apart... yet at the same time, holds him together?Narration: Once, long ago, what held this man together - the young Charles Xavier, a genius telepath with the simple dream of helping mutant by providing a school for them to learn how to control their powers - was his original group of students. And later, though he still cared about his school - and his all-new, all-different students - what held this man together was his love for a beautiful princess from another world. Recently, as adjectives became inadequate to describe the many souls in his school - what held this man together seemed to fall away...Gambit: I'm sorry, Rogue. I know I wasn't straight with you... but I promise you I will change that when we get home.Rogue: Home? You ain't got a home. Not with me, not with the X-Men.Gambit: Fine. Fine. I deserve that. But can you at least drop me somewhere inhabited -Rogue: Remy, it's too much. I can't take what you did. Whatever comes, whatever the cost to other people, I'm sure you'll survive, you seem to have done that very admirably in the past.Gambit: But I... I love you.Rogue: (throwing him the card he gave her symbolizing their relationship)You're honest with the people you love, Remy. Otherwise... it's a gamble.(Rogue flies away, leaving Gambit to his fate)Final words of narration: What is it that pulls a man apart, yet at the same time holds him together? It is his soul. And whether good... or evil... or some combination of the two... no man can escape the dictates of his soul.Iceman: Bring it on, Blob. I've been kicking your mealy ass since I was thirteen.Nightcrawler: Azazel may have provided the genetic material that made me what I am, physically... but my "father" has always been here whenever I needed him, Professor Xavier... with food, money, support, family... and most importantly... with love, understanding, and kindness. "The foolish notion of the angels." Thank you Professor, for being a true father to me all these years.Quicksilver & Scarlet Witch have just learnt that Polaris is ruler of Genosha, as their father Magneto named her as his heirQuicksilver: He named her as his heir? What about us?Scarlet Witch: Don't be so quick temepered, Pietro. Do you really want to be his heir after what he just did to New York?Quicksilver: Oh. Good point.The X-Men and Starjammers are watching the wedding of Deathbird and Vulcan on monitor.Warpath: It's like they're Charles and Lady Di out here or something.Mam'selle Hepzibah: Lady Death, I think you mean to say.Warpath: Yeah, Hepzibah... I guess that about fits.Xavier has traveled to Russia to recruit Peter Rasputin to join his new team of X-men.Colossus: You want me to go with you... to America? But if I possess such power as you say - does it not belong to the state?Xavier: Power such as yours belongs to the world, Peter - to be used for the good of all. And believe me - your powers are needed!Colossus (to his parents): Then come, we will talk of this with my parents... and so this professor wants to take me with him - to teach me how to deal with me... my mutant powers. Th-there is wisdom in his words, Papa - but I am happy here. Tell me, Papa - what should I do?Mr. Rasputin: Do as your heart tells you, my son. It will not betray you.Colossus: My heart tells me to stay, Papa - but my conscience tells me otherwise. I must go, Papa.Mr. Rasputin: Then it is right that you do.Illyana Rasputin (quoting Peter Rasputin): If not for the depths of grief, how could we truly measure the heights of joy.In a joke cartoon. A man has arrived at Xavier's School and Angel has answered the door.Man: Good afternoon, sir. I am looking for a Miss Jean Grey.Angel: She's dead. Come back next week.Shadowcat has been defending herself and the mutant community on an anti-mutant online bulletin board run by 'The Pride'.'Shadowcat (reading computer screen): Your presence on this forum is disruptive and will no longer be tolerated.Shadowcat: Give me a break! When did Professor Xavier's dream become such a nightmare? Maybe Magneto was right? Maybe we should learn to hate 'em back. Maybe it's time we accepted there really isn't room on this planet for us to share. Maybe it's time to do something about it.Sasquatch: I offer you a place on my team, but you will have to protect a world that hates and fears you.Yukon Jack: Why would I want to protect a world that hates and fears me?Sasquatch: Well, ummm... Hey, where'd he go?Sasquatch: Miss, I need your help to save a world that hates and fears us.Zuzha Yu: Get out of here, eh? I have a bar to run.Sasquatch:(monologue) I need to work on my sales pitch.Jubilee: So, what's her power? Sides the ability t' stick out her chest. Juggernaut One-Shot[D'Spayre has magically stripped away Juggernaut's flesh and internal organs, leaving nothing but a crimson skeleton]Juggernaut: But I been feelin' despair my whole life. And I learned how to deal with it. I got mad!D'Spayre: He still stands? He moves?Juggernaut: Cause life is pain. Pain leads to despair. An' the only way to beat despair is through rage. And rage feeds the Juggernaut. Once the Juggernaut feels rage...nothing...of this or any world... NOTHING CAN STOP THE JUGGERNAUT!!D'Spayre: Impossible! How are you even moving?!? There's nothing left-- nothing but Juggernaut: Nothing but hate. 'Adrift'Narrator: Eloise has lived her entire life in this town; drew her first paycheck and Jones' Hardware on 3rd; married Frank in the registrar's around the corner; delivered Stevie in Doctor Henshaw's accross the street. The registrar's is still there - knock on wood - but Jones sold out to a chain store a few years back, and the Doctor's been buried three plots down from Frank for over five years now. But change is good, she tells herself. Unless and until it threatens Stevie.Trask: Shoot... to kill.(Helicopter launches rockets at Rogue and an amnesiac Magneto. Magneto catches the rockets in a magnetic field and prepares to throw them back)Rogue: No. No, Mag - Joseph, don't. If you do this -it ain't worth the cost of your soul, and you know it.Narrator: Time stops around Joseph and Trask. And two men, each fighting to escape the shadows of their past, each prepared to kill for their place in an even darker future, finally find the one thing they have in common. Fear.(Magneto tears the warheads off the rockets and flies away)Narrator: Fear of change.

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