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Issue 4 starts out with Frenzy describing what a possesion by a symbiote feels like. A Knull-infested Kid Cable explains what happened to Krakoa while taunting Manifold. The segment ends with Knull Kid Cable killing Cortez and Sunfire while Manifold looks on in horror.
We cut to Wiz Kid talking to Brand on SWORD Space Station. He clarifies the communication issue, saying the Krakoan gates works as another means of communication. Brand checks in with Mentallo who is having problems convincing the Five to leave with him. Hope and Brand start arguing over the backup plan. Hope calls out Brand as being callous, high and mighty and stuck in old human patterns. Brand says she has her reasons and they are on a need to know basis.
Wiz Kid appears to break up the tension. He transforms Mentallo's tank into a mech and blows up the symbiote blockade.
We cut back to Manifold who starts fighting Knull Kid Cable. More accurately it becomes a game of keep away. Knull uses Kid Cable's transportation tech to chase after Manifold. Knull Kid Cable corners Manifold but Frenzy breaks out of her symbiote cocoon to save him. She rips out Kid Cable's robot arm, hindering Knull's ability to move around. Manifold finishes off Knull Kid Cable by talking the universe into giving him a piece of the sun. He goes all G Gundam on Knull, burning the symbiote and freeing Kid Cable.
The Five see the sun and rejoice. Wiz Kid plays some music and Mentallo pouts. Wiz Kid stole his thunder LOL.
Magneto gives a despondent Kid Cable a pep talk while everyone regroups. Magneto orders the Five to push Sunfire up the ressurection queque and mutants who are symbiote deterrents (ie. those who control fire, electricity, light,) to step forward. Manifold guards the gate.
The issue ends with Magneto saying he and Cortez have matters to discuss while Magneto holds up Cortez's skull Hamlet style. The data pages are tucked away here hinting at what the next arc is gonna be.
Did anyone else pick it up today? What are your thoughts?