Synopsis
| - Storm, Wolverine, Colossus, Angel and Nightcrawler confront Mr Sinister and his Marauders, the Acolytes, and the traitorous X-Men , where an all-out battle follows with the psionic presence of the White Queen, in the hopes of retrieving the mutant baby and the incapacitated Rogue. Wolverine and Gambit have a little one-on-one in which Wolverine learns that Sinister and company do not have the baby - one of the X-Men does! However, Wolverine is soon seriously injured by the Malice-possessed Omega Sentinel and is teleported away by Nightcrawler who just received injuries from Scalphunter. In the meantime, the Xavier Institute Students fought Lady Deathstrike and her Reavers, and are soon aided by Rictor. Eventually, Pixie manages to teleport everyone to safety, during which the White Queen learns of their plight, and loses her astral projection with the active team, however, she also learns that the Purifiers do not have the baby either. Iceman goes to collect the students, while two of the Sentinel Squad - Slayton and Lex - inexplicably become merged with their Sentinels, and begin battling the X-Men who are still at the Xavier Institute. Elsewhere, the X-Man that has the mutant baby is revealed to be Cable, very much alive, while in the future, Multiple Man and Layla Miller discuss how to get inside the mutant concentration camp.
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