ALL HAIL THE HADARI YAO, THE OMEGA'S OMEGA, BEYOND OMEGA, THE VOICE OF SOL!!!! NOW AGAIN THE ONE TRUE AND ONLY GODDESS OF THE X-MEN AS CLAREMONT INTENDED!!!!!
Which is exactly why I don't think it was part of the plan. LOL things like that you can't just plan for.
It's just unfortunate that Storm just so happened to get hit. And she tanked it. Doesn't mean it's part of the plan though.
I think the BETTER Question is...what's with the Lightning Bolt trail that followed her when she got hit. I wonder if that was like her shooting back at the aircraft.
ALL HAIL THE HADARI YAO, THE OMEGA'S OMEGA, BEYOND OMEGA, THE VOICE OF SOL!!!! NOW AGAIN THE ONE TRUE AND ONLY GODDESS OF THE X-MEN AS CLAREMONT INTENDED!!!!!
Easy, not get hit in battle. Simple.
Beating the Vault Defenses quite easily is exactly why Storm getting hit is not part of the plan. It was not mentioned that Storm needed to get hit, it wasn't agreed upon Storm needed to get hit to make a retreat believable.
Nothing, in any of those panels states that in order for this distraction to work Storm needs to get hit.
What you could say her getting hit helped the plan and it made it believable. But you can not say that was definitively part of the plan. Because it wasn't.