X-Men Red #5 Review/Spoilers

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We open to Kurt and Cable chatting with the Great Ring on what to do. Idyll is busy zoning out, so Ora translates a prophecy Idyll is apparently making: "An empty heart beats the hardest. An empty hand deals the impossible blow. And the stalement ends with victory's loss."

Uranos shows off, and Isca's power makes her switch sides. She beheads Idyll. Kurt decides to take her off the board by teleporting her to one of Arakko's oceans.

The armories of Uranos activated when he left the exclusion. Machines of death pop up and start wreaking havoc. Within 30 seconds, 11,553 deviants have been corrected.

Over the next few minutes, there's more destruction: SWORD station 2 falls, the art hippies are caught, and Uranos summons a robot fist to punch Ora in the eye. But he's interrupted by Legion, who calls him out to fight. Legion goes down, off-screen, in 35 minutes. Mags, Cable, Logos and Xilo choose to fight Uranos, while Lactuca and Sobunar leave to defend the rest of Arakko.

Nova (Richard Rider, not my boy Sam) holds the line somewhere else, so civilians from other worlds can evacuate safely. After beating Nightcrawler, Isca fell into the ocean and now fights a squid/angler thingy.

In less than fourteen minutes of Uranos' arrival, he punches a hole through Magneto. Cable summons his most powerful weapon, the Omega-One Pulse. It fires hard light bullets along a tunnel of radiation, and can melt osmium. It weakens Uranos and makes him bleed from the mouth, but he's otherwise perfectly fine. The weapon jams about three minutes later, and Uranos kills Cable.

Within 19 minutes of Uranos' arrival, all but 13.5% of Xilo's mass is reduced, and a millennia of eye-witnessed history is lost forever. Brand dies 15 seconds later.

From the dark side of Arakko, the Fisher King feels the wind change. "It is time. Night has fallen."

Luckily for Uranos, he's automatically teleported away before Hellion could show up and kick his ass. But an hour has passed, and 90% of life within a fifty mile radius of Uranos is gone. Ora, Lodus and Xilo have survived... And so has Magneto, who seems to have a glowing pink core in his chest.

Magneto: "This is war. A war we are losing. And so the seat of loss takes command."

The Hour of Magneto begins. The Year of Hellion has already started.

Notes:

• Khorra, Sunspot and Wrongslide appear in a shot as thye fight machines. The anrration says that the Brotherhood of Arakko are fighting.
• Magneto's core has little squiggly lines in it. Maybe it's Xilo's wormy things, holding him together?
• After Idyll dies, her pet serpent thing just kind of looks to the side awkwardly, looking a little uncomfortable. It's never seen again after this scene, but I hope it survived Uranos' attack.
• Lactuca can talk and has quite a few lines in this issue.
• Bb Sobunar.