I forgot about this tie-in until I was browsing the list of new releases this week. I was hoping for a She-Hulk issue, but Legion of X is always fun, right?
The Progenitor meets up with Legion, who's chilling on Olympus Mons. After Legion snarks at him, the Progenitor asks how Legion would choose to be judged. Legion asks him to settle a debate he was having with himself, on whether he did the right thing.
Legion mostly recaps the first J-Day issue of X-Men Red, before he gets to the part where he showed up to fight Uranos. Legion's plan was to keep him busy while he siphoned some energy to boost Nightcrawler, so Kurt and the others stop Uranny's machines and save all those innocents.
Legion vs Uranos. With their great and awesome powers, they clash in infinite ways: with timelines and ideas, futures and abstractions, fists and puns, dancing and Hellion trivia. (The latter of which I won.)
Stalemate. Uranos says that if they "Make real these visions," they could become undone and erase themselves from existence, time and memory. Legion says that he already did it, back in X-Men: Legacy. Uranos is confident Legion won't do it again this time, because he has more people who respect and need him, and the hope that he can one day become a leader.
Anossy asks Legion if he'd die for the people as they are now? People he hasn't guided or sculped? His father's people? Legion hesitates, and Uranos starts picking on his daddy issues to provoke him. Legion snaps and goes for a punch, but his moment of distraction is enough for Uranos to grab him, take command, and rip him apart - atom by atom.
But then Vox Ignis swooces right in and carries Legion off, saving him. Legion's pretty pissed, since he wanted to die/have a pity party over his self-confidence issues created by parental trauma.
Meanwhile, Nightcrawler saved thousands of people on Arakko my teleporting them to the Altar. Unfortunately, all that trauma flooding in brakes the Altar. On top of that, Uranos has machines attacking the Altar from the outside. Vox Ignis tells Legion that he needs to save his people.
So Legion fixes it. But by the time he's back on Arakko, Uranos is gone and Legion is denied his revenge. But he did walk in on Storm, Magneto and the metal Avenger dude working on their plan to stop Uranos. Legion asks to help, then immediately starts guilting Mags when he doesn't get his way. Magneto tells him to take care of every one of Uranos' weapons all at once, while they fight him. Hold the line. He trusts Legion for the job.
Since Legion got some positive affirmation from a father-figure, he does the job with ease. Then Magneto dies.
Data page: "Magneto was right." That is all.
Flashback over. Legion kind of wishes it was him who died a hero's death, instead of Magneto. Is the world a better place with Magneto dead, and Legion alive? Did he make the right choice? Did he deserve to be in a book, when Hellion had nary a cameo? Luckily, Jenny is here to judge him, and he gives David a thumb's up. He also explains that Hellion may long for a book, but the safety and well-being of his people is more important than his own wants. Legion - or any character, really - can justify their own existence in Hellion's eyes, by helping the people Hellion has dedicated his life and limbs to saving.
Invigorated by Hellion's approval, Legion insults the Progenitor.