As the peak heads towards earth, Cable does his best to control it while Manifold prepares for it’s arrival on land.
Meanwhile, Gyrich, James Hudson, Orbis and Wiz Kid witness the fall of the peak from their station. Hudson realizes the peak will crash in Australia, and sloiwly starts to turn on Gyrich, who is also concerned about the assassination attempts on Xandra.
The Superman of the Marvel universe, Gladiator is totally useless in defending Xandra so Storm has to save the day with an impressive display of power. (I hate when writes tear down one character to prop another. I would’ve preferred Storm and Gladiator teaming up).
As the peak finally reaches earth, Manifold has a great display of power when he opens a portal redirecting the peak back out into space and saving Australia. Cable is then able to control it now that he’s going with the momentum as opposed to it. An exhausted Manifold falls to the ground to rest.
At this point, Gyrich and Hudson are still arguing about how far they’ll go to stop the mutant menace, when Wiz Kid reveals he’s a double agent and has gathered enough evidence of Gyrich’s betrayal and shared it with the Shiiar. Gyrich runs away trying to contact ORCHIS to save him but Brand shows up and reveals her plan. She also wants Krakoa to fail and ORCHIS to succeed, she’s just mad at Gyrich for being so bad at it. She kills him and makes it look like he killed himself by accident. Brand promises to help ORCHIS end the Krakoan threat as she is the true mole, not Wiz Kid.