Just Phenomenal.
We open with a data page which catches us up on the galactic war. The Red Diamond Empire is battling the Interstellar Compact led by Orbis Stellaris. Storm and her Brotherhood battle against both factions to free the peoples of the galaxy. Mystique and her insurgent cell Freedom Force during a doomed mission are able to transmit to the Brotherhood the location and schematics of the Compact's most lethal weapon - a mobile command post the size of a solar system - before Raven and team perish.
100 years since the Sinister takeover. We're at a Storm space station out in deep space with her insignia on it. Noh-Varr is running it and he allows an unknown ship to approach. The visitor guesses the required passwords to enter correctly, even passwords that haven't been generated yet. They let her onboard realizing it is Destiny. She briefly interacts with Khora, Ironfire, and Cable (who is now going by X-Man). It's a catty exchange all around. Destiny asks Nathan if he's too worm-ridden now to give a damn about his own daughter's death. He replies that his body is more history than humanity now and that there's a dead loved one on every page, that they will all be avenged. Destiny removes her mask and angrily asks "where is my vengeance? what about Mystique?"
We get the preview pages of a flashback of Destiny trying to convince Mystique not to leave but Raven wants to fight back against the Empire. Raven says she doesn't want to spend the rest of her life as Destiny's keepsake in a vault. She and her team die while fighting. Back to the present, Destiny sheds a tear and puts her mask back on. Commander Storm, flanked by Ironfire and Ganna, enters. "It's been a long time, Irene. How's that bunker of yours?" They go back and forth with Old Woman Storm effortlessly dragging her. Destiny admits that she lied to Ororo 90 years ago to simply protect Mystique but now that she is dead, it's time to "end this phase of the game. Ororo. It's time to kill Moira for real."
The Brotherhood mothership and three X-Fighter ships are warping through space following the coordinates Mystique provided. X-Man is in X-Fighter Gold, Shockjock (Ganna) in X-Fighter Blue, and Ironfire in X-Fighter Red. Commander Accuser, Storm, Khora, and Destiny are on the mothership. Accuser tells them they'll be dropping out of warp speed in three, two, one...
This is the Death Sphere, a giant version of Orbis' ball that allows his base of operations - the system-sized computer known as The World Farm - to travel anywhere in the galaxy. The enslaved denizens within, the Progenitors, are devoting all their processing power to dominion.
Inside, a Skrull alerts Orbis that they are under attack. Orbis assumes it's the Red Diamonds but is surprised that it's just the Brothership and a few fighters. He's surprised they're attacking him directly with such a small attack force. He deploys standard fighter craft to counter them, deciding not to use the Progenitors. Soccer ball looking ships spill out of a hatch and Shockjock notes that they are immediately outnumbered 100 to 1, at least. But back on the Brothership Storm has a plan.
She has Khora boost Destiny's powers and X-Man will read her mind and broadcast what she sees to the other fighters. Destiny is unsure, saying they may just be broadcasting their inevitable deaths and admits that she can only game the future so far as Raven's death attests. Destiny says she sees a pitched battle but that her "vision, Xilo's processing power and Nathan's strategic sense create an unbeatable combination." She then sees Storm giving the order to destroy the artificial sun at the heart of the sphere and the Moira lab. Then, "a moment's euphoria in victory... and then darkness. No more to see. The end of the universe." Khora and Storm look at each other as Destiny says, "The future is set. We will win."
They execute the plan as X-Man sends out the broadcast. He tells Ironfire to trust his instincts and to obey them without conscious thought. Jon Ironfire is like "obeying without conscious thought is another day at the office for me." Faith. Suddenly Mother Righteous appears sitting on Jon's dashboard. She tells him that she's only a daydream, his mind wandering so he can do the reflex thing better - at least that's what she'll make him remember. She says she's in his head to watch the show and how it's all shaping up to prove her right in all sorts of ways. She asks Jon if he would like to share any regrets. "Anything you'd do differently if you could?" He says he made a mistake during the Genesis War, took a life that still haunts him. His current faith is a penance because he didn't have faith back then. He didn't trust the Storm back then. But he says as long as Ororo is with them, leading them, there's nothing they can do.
Despite the terrible odds Storm's crew, thanks to Nathan's broadcast and Destiny's vision, is kicking the asses of Orbis' defenses. Orbis realizes they must have Destiny with them so he tries to think ahead to figure out her next move. The hatch! He orders the Skrull to close the hatch which is still sending out soccer ball ships. Just before they can close it the Brothership and X-Fighters get inside, the hatch closes, and Orbis' defenses are outside. Absolutely brilliant. Noh-Varr locks a Black Hole Torpedo onto the center-sun of the World Farm system. He tells Storm to say the word and he'll fire it, all of them dying together. Storm says, "Do it."
But her order was not for Noh-Varr as Khora cleaves Destiny's head in half from behind! She was right when she saw darkness and the end of the universe. The end of her own. Storm tells Noh to disable the torpedo and he's confused, asking why they're not blowing up the Moiras. He says this reality is hell and Storm says it's a hell that still supports life and thus supports hope. That one dead planet does not justify a murdered universe. She says they must defuse the Moira Lab, not destroy it. Guard it with their lives. X-Man wants to know how they plan to achieve that when they just lost Destiny, their window to the enemy's tactics. As soon as they get the hatch back open and the soccer balls return, they'll be fish in a barrel.
The wormhole created by Storm's incredible spell sucks the whole system into it. Noh-Varr is shocked, asking if this was the plan all along. Jon Ironfire is giddy as he says they're saving the whole damned universe and getting away without a scratch. "How could it not be, oh ye of little faith? Trust the Storm - the get ready to ride the lightning!" Orbis is beside himself as his Progenitors and his World Farm disappear. "A controlled wormhole just ate them all. And to add insult to injury, my life's work was destroyed by a BLASTED MAGIC SPELL!" He orders the computer to switch off life support.
The Brotherhood emerge from the wormhole and they're at the far edges of the universe. X-Man says no one will be able to find them way out there. Shockjock asks about the Progenitors and X-Man says that's her job, that an electromagnetic pulse in the right place should wipe their current orders and they'll be happy just to be maintaining their artificial planets within the system. He says with a little time and effort this new home could be a fortress, Fort Arakko, a new home for their scattered people. Ironfire says it all sounds good to him as long as the Goddess approves. He asks Khora if Storm is patched in with them...