-After the preview (RIP Mimic), Kitty's team arrives to beat the shit out of Ahab. Jean warns Kitty's team to steer clear of Maxime and Manon (and Santo IMMEDIATELY gets turned). Giant splash page fight commences as the twins sneak up on Ororo as well.
-Storm kills Gentle, Trinary, Rachel, and destroys Searebro for continuity
-kidding
-But Ororo is turned and Jean creates a bubble around herself, Jeen, Wifi, and Tyke to keep the Hounds out. Jean can't reach the Hounds and Jeen can't reach the kids, only for Ahab to explain that he's trained these kids specifically to make Jean look like a fool. Explaining that Xavier's School has spent so much time training young mutants to be weapons against humanity, he figured what he's doing would be poetic justice.
-Jeen, Wifi, and Tyke contemplate what needs to be done with them resolving that they should just go back (huh?). So they broadcast to the rest of the O5 as they say their goodbyes to their predecessors (in a much less calm way than Blue #35). Bobby's scared of going back into the closet, but Bobby reassures him that he just needs to be himself and he'll find the time, to be honest with himself. Tyke says that they need to find a way to invert the Hound status and defeat Ahab before leaving. Warren and Warren say bye to each other (rip Laura)
-Wifi says "oath" and bodyslides these teens away. Ahab says he'll track them down and commands the two children to take down the X-Men (which they probably could have done with this writing).
-Wifi bodyslides them a few years into the future, where he reveals that Maxime and Manon were actually students at the Institute like their parents (begin the speculating). Jeen rushes in the find the twins just as Ahab tracks them down. Jeen runs through the school, sees Rockslide, Armor, and Glob (who are now teachers), and finds Maxime and Manon in the kitchen eating some cereal. Jeen sits down with them and they have a nice little chat and they show her the mechanics of their powers.
-Meanwhile, the rest of the O5 + Wifi are fighting Ahab and the Hounds, with a particularly badass moment between Tyke and Wifi as they blow up Ahab's ship. With Ahab temporally and temporarily stopped, Wifi sends the O5 back to close the time circuit. Ahab then rushes at Wifi, with nothing left to lose, but not before Wifi bodyslides back to the present and shoots him down.
Finally, what we've all been waiting for.....Jeen and the O5 arrive to the past RIGHT as Beast takes the O5 to "Stop the Mutant Apocalypse!" They get dressed up in their ol' 60s suits and say their goodbyes to each other, Scott wondering if they've made a difference in the world to which Jeen says: "I think we did. I think we made a difference. More than we maybe realize. See you guys on the other side." and erases their memory as X-Men #8 continues as normal.
Back in the present, everything snaps back into the place as the O5 (O4?? well O5 if you know what happens later) are flooded with memories of their younger counterparts adventures. Firmly establishing that those stories counted and those stories exist (someone better update those wiki pages). But more importantly. Jean gets that information that she needed to get rid of the Hound programming. Rachel and two other fodder Hounds grab Ahab and they SHOOMs away. Bobby wonders why she wasn't back to normal, but Jean says that her trauma went deeper than false memories. Wifi lets them (and Rachel fans) know that Ahab is stuck in the present and that he cannot have gone far. Jean and Wifi have a cute moment together before he bodyslides away, much to Domino's chagrin. |