Originally Posted by
ariwl1
We open in space as a an astronaut does maintenance on the international space station. He looks over in shock to see an explosion of flame coming from the moon.
Elsewhere, our friend Jean is trying to sleep but not having much luck. She's having a nightmare and talking in her sleep.
Jean: It's better this way. Quick. Clean. Final.
She wakes with a start and all the objects in the room she was levitating subconsciously come crashing down. Later she's rushing out the door while saying hi to the lawn care man, Jamie. She jokes that she's always late while he seems to be everywhere at once. As she drives away, Jamie...multiplies.
Back at the Xavier institute, Kitty is trying to figure out with her X-Men what is going on. In short, they have no idea except that it involves the Phoenix. Storm asks if this could be Jean coming back. Old Man Logan says it most definitely is not; only the big flaming bird.
Young Scott asks if they're sure the random energy signatures Cerebro found weren't mutant related. After all, that's what it does. Beast affirms that whatever Cerebro found, it's something they haven't seen before. Kitty says they haven't found any new signals because all their psychics are either out of commission or missing. She mentions Teen Jean and everyone who was last seen in Jean Grey #10. No one knows where they are and they have people out looking for them.
Cable asserts that they still have one psychic left.
Elsewhere, Jean is at work at the diner when a customer comes in. His name is Erik, and he's wearing a star of David.
Erik: I was friends with your old teacher.
Jean: Oh, Mr. Claremont?
Erik: No. Not him.
He asks her what she could have if she could have anything. To her this means off the diner menu, but it might not be what Erik was referring to.
Cable is in Cerebro looking for signs of...anything. He picks something up, but when asked to describe it all he can say is "Pain" before Cerebro shorts out knocking him unconscious. Now the X-Men are out of psychics.
Elsewhere, Jean goes back into the diner kitchen to give Erik's order to the diner chef John (Proudstar). Annie quizzes Jean as it's clear she's not feeling well. Jean mentions that she had a nightmare where she died on the moon and it feels like someone's been poking around in her brain. Annie implores Jean to go see Dr. Mactaggert about this, but Jean dodges her concern to take Erik's order out to him...except he's gone.
Kitty is giving her rally the troops speech on the front stoop of the institute. Most of the X-Men will be divided into teams to handle any Phoenix phenomena they can find while Beast and Jubilee's teams look for all their missing teammates. The teams head out to:
- Jamaica Bay
- The ruins of Genosha
- New York City sewers
- The Savage Land
None of them find anything.
Iceman's team has presumably returned to the mansion to be confronted by a posturing Magneto, who's wearing his 90's era costume. He proclaims that not all mutants are fit to rule the world and must be destroyed. Iceman orders his team to take him down. They don't get anywhere, but it's clear Magneto isn't all there as he quips mid-fight:
Erik: May I get a fresh cup when you have a moment?
He gets a lock on Laura, saying she looks oddly familiar. She manages to stab him in the head with her foot claw, but he promptly disappears when she does.
Elsewhere, Erik has appeared in Annie's diner again and Jean is surprised as she thought he'd left. He said he ran out real quick because he thought he saw people he knew. Jean asks if he did. Erik says he didn't know ALL of them. Jean mentions the blood coming out of his nose. He says it's from an old war injury.
Jean: You were in the war?
Erik: I was the war.
Erik mentions Jean seems to be feeling better. Jean says she feel like she is as she looks out the diner window, to see her small town engulfed in Phoenix fire. Erik replies "Good" as he casually drinks his coffee.