Wow, things are really heating up!
We open with Selene looking beautiful and scary, blood running down her arms and across the edges of her face. She's walking through the pool of blood in her chamber. She's talking to and taunting Tempo who is still strapped/trapped to a large piece of bone. We learn that the External ascension should take centuries but Tempo's powers have accelerated the process within a handful of days. It's hard to say exactly what happens to Selene next but the top of the tower of her palace explodes in what's like a bomb of blood. Gross. Selene reminds us that to be a true High Lord is to not just be immortal but untouchable, invulnerable. To be beyond the very limits of flesh itself.
Still prisoner in a cell, Cerebra can see and hear the violent movement of blood through a grate on the ceiling. She asks what they are looking at and Dani, on the outside of the cell also looking up at the grate, says, "Nothing good, Shakti..."
Nice! Magma, looking stunning, burns through the walls to create an opening and free the prisoners. She also frees them of their bone shackles but Dani says that if the shackles were somehow enchanted to repress powers then breaking them won't be enough. The magic will linger and people will need a jump-start. Dani comes up with the idea of Cerebra getting a power boost from Khora which would allow her to network with every X-gene in the area and "distribute the juice." Cerebra and Khora hold hands and we get a cool panel of the boosting. Immediately Tulkas' powers return as well as everyone else's. Cerebra says active X-genes or not though, Nova Roma is still crawling with undead guards. Dani says not to worry too much about Selene's foot soldiers because they've got plenty of their own.
We now see a small army of the zombie Orchis soldiers and one of them is telling an intruder to freeze. It's a single Madrox until...
"... you should really start using the plural!" as the dupes start attacking the soldiers.
We then get a small panel of El Aguila in his cell, smirking. He notes that the spell of the shackles has been broken. "This, my friends... is our moment. Shall we seize it?"
Betsy, 'Star, Rictor, Warpath, and Thunderbird are racing towards the palace center but suddenly stop as Warpath points up. He says, "I know Dani and Roberto plan for everything but who could possibly plan for that?"