- Sage , Beast, and Cece are performing an autopsy on some Russian fighters that I guess they fought and defeated off panel.
- One of the bodies cracks open and a little man pops out and stabs Cece. She dies. Beast kills the little guy only for another, smaller guy to pop out of that body. They are Russian Nesting Soldiers – So Zany.
- Sage and Beast chase the little guy out of the lab as the other bodies begin to pop open.
- Dom asks Colossus to join X-Force, he declines. Some random girl whose name I’ve already forgotten gives Dom attitude and is apparently romantically pursuing Colossus.
- One of the little soldier guys either knocks out or kills Sage and accesses the Krakoan computer. While other little soldier guys cause a big distracting fight elsewhere. This fight spills over to the Savage Land and Colossus joins the fray on Krakoa.
- Black Tom gets Xavier to safety, and one of the little soldier guys steals the Cerebro sword from Xavier’s place.
- The big fight ends, Colossus leaves. Beast seems to be realizing that they have an intelligence leak.
- Quentin and Sophie Cuckoo are secretly hooking up? Ew. She leaves, Quentin gets stabbed with the Cerebro sword and shoved through a gate to Russia, where some guy with a cape (are we supposed to know him?) collects the sword. TBC.
- Data Pages: some Russian author is approached by an agent to work for his country, he is the scribe? Chronicler? I forget, that has been signing the previous data pages.
This issue was not great to me. The constant deaths are getting tedious. I know it’s tonally appropriate for an X-Force book, but that’s why I generally dislike most kill squad X-Force books. I don’t buy that Beast and Sage are dumb enough to leave the other bodies in the lab unattended. Colossus still bores me and this random girl lusting after him is immediately unappealing. Quentin and Sophie is gross, the only way this hook up makes sense is if the Cuckoos really are up to something with the psychic boys of Krakoa. And of course he dies again, time to find a new bit Percy. All this for the Cerebro sword and I find I don’t really care to find out what random Russian dude is up to with it. Boring story, lackluster art, good colors.