Oh, it was all very provisional, and mostly extrapolations of what I’d already done. Scott continuing the schism, but moreso - I was more comfortable with Scott as a “bad guy”, by the end - I was going to have them in Asteroid M to really lean into it. Emma staying on the team despite the fact she and Scott were no longer together, and lots of tension here. End of the schism for me would have been a confrontation between Scott and Logan’s sides, which Scott wins, and then Emma stabs him in the back at the worst moment takes Scott’s whole organisation (and trainees) away from him, going full “villain.” I half imagined her own school in Latveria as her new status quo. Scott was a weakling… and he’d made her feel weak. For my idea of Emma, that was entirely unforgivable. Emma is nothing if not her pride. (My take on the X-men was that, somewhat uniquely, it doesn’t “need” anyone on the team. The X-men really is a book about the social scene, and the cast is free to move around a bunch. I basically think too many X-men cast have been “redeemed” which removes all the interesting villains, so my run was explicitly moving more of them either towards (or back towards) an antagonist role. Note I don’t say villain. I’m not someone who’s particularly interested in “villains” in drama, as much of my work - Vader, Aphra, WicDiv, Uber - will show.) Oh - most obviously UNIT’s plans would have come to fruition and we’d have had a nice big plot ending with a pretty nifty death scene. There was at least one fight scene I wanted to write - UNIT had hacked all of SWORD’s orbital defences way back in issue 9, so I was going to have him doing full on AKIRA-esque orbital bombardment at will. Probably some more Sinister stuff, but less so. But this is all HYPER provisional - we knew we’d be moving around early enough that I didn’t do anything more than have an idea of what interested me, and ways I’d liked to have taken it. Certainly nothing I’d ever shared with an Editor in any seriousness.