We start off with the pages from the preview. Maddie uses her magic piano to put Alex under her spell. After she's done, Alex cuts his own sealed mouth open with a glass shard and sings Maddie's praises, talking about how he also has resentments over his brother, just like her. She kisses his freshly open bloody mouth.
In some other area of Sinister's old labs, Kwannon fights Wild Child. She manages to piece a psy knife through his skull, but that only leaves with his primal instincts i.e. almost the same as before.
Meanwhile, the magic controlled Marauders clones are hungry. Alex wonders why they don't just eat Greycrow, but Maddie says she's saving him for herself. She reminds John that he was the one who shot her in the head and stole her baby. We also get a scene of Maddie explaining her evil plan to Havok, as she feels excluded from the creation mutant paradise and must take all of Sinister's unused clones to burn through Krakoa and remind them of their mistake in ignoring her. She also plans to bring Alex's head specially for Scott. All he can respond is "yesh kween".
Kwannon fights Wild Child again, but this time only using physical force. She manages to overpower him, and apparently that does the job in fixing Wild Child's mind, as he likes to "know who's in charge". There's a data page written by an unknown source that states how the council and security of Krakoa must be wary of Kwannon's influence over her team, since this is probably a beneficial relationship for both of them and Sinister certainly has his own plans as always.
The other clones try to break through Nanny and the Orphan Maker's robot suits to eat them. When they break through Orphan's suit, that causes some sort of goo to leak right in one of the Marauders' face, burning him all the way to his skull. Nanny tries to tell a story about her baby's origins like Maddie and Alex did in the start of the issue, but in a funny scene, she's interrupted by the hungry Marauders. Arclight is another hungry one, and she cuts a piece of Greycrow for her to eat.
The last page shows Kwannon and a now fixed Wild Child ready to face the rest of the mess.
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Another great issue with fantastic art by Segovia. It's really impressive how Wells can build a tense situation while managing various other components - Kwannon's influence over the team, Wild Child's mental state, Maddie's backstory, the mystery of Nanny and Orphan Maker's real forms, etc. And it all manages to be disgusting and disturbing in a non off putting way.