I really enjoyed this and I like how Percy set things up. Disclaimer: X-Force continues to do its own thing when it wants to. I don’t know how the timeline of the next few issues will fit with Sabretooth War but we’ll cross that adamantium bridge when we get there.
We open with preview pages, Logan in Upstate NY being chased by two Sentinels. He's been on the run fighting Orchis from the shadows. Suddenly the Bluebird appears overhead and Sage asks him if he's going their way. Off they go and next we see them at the North Pole along with Colossus, Laura, Domino, Quentin, and Omega Red. Sage uses her floating exterior digital screens to create a grid on the ground and sends the coordinates to Black Tom. He's been underwater piloting their mobile base and crashes through the icy surface, approaching the team.
Logan asks Quentin how many mutants are out there but Quentin says his powers have been screwy since returning from the future. Logan tells him to get his s**t together and send out a telepathic beacon for survivors to find their way to them. Black Tom reaches them (in his walking mobile base) then burrows into the ground, modifying the Krakoan flora to become more permanently fixed to the icy land. They call it the Greenhouse.
As they're entering, Logan notices Quentin is falling behind. He approaches him and Quentin is having some kind of painful telepathic flash. We see the reflection of Phoebe in his glasses, reaching out for help. Logan catches him as he then passes out. In the medical bay Logan and Tom are discussing Quentin while Tom uses the flora to help him rest. It's actually quite nice how Tom touches his head in a caring way. We get a close up of Quentin's eye and then the image he's seeing his head. It's the Hellfire Gala, Nimrod killing the X-Men vote team and Moira standing over the Cuckoos, holding one by the throat and pointing her arm cannon at another while Phoebe tries to flee, the same position we saw her before, reaching out and calling out to Quentin.
Later in the control room, Sage is annoyed as she says it'll take months to decrypt all the data in here Beast's mobile base. Tom gets the great line of, "Got to dig deep into the Beastie files to keep Beastie from doing more Beastie things." She asks him how the security perimeter setup is going and he says he has vines and roots spreading outwards a few kilometers. His eyes were closed and then they suddenly open. "... and they're already registering movement." Sage asks what kind of movement and he says someone's coming, somebodies rather. Could be military, Orchis, anybodies.
Three cloaked figures walk through the frozen tundra and are lunged at by Domino and Laura, demanding they stand down. Luckily it's Fang, Northstar and Aurora! Laura and Akihiro give each other a really nice hug. He says they got hit with the telepathic beacon so they came right away. The twins grab all of them and speed back to the Greenhouse. That takes the wind out of Laura and Domino, hehe.
Data page. Sage's Logbook: Colossus Interrogation.
Colossus made a statement about understanding if they want to banish him. He also makes some interesting comments about how he's not pleading absolutely loyalty to everything Krakoa. He doesn't know if he would have joined his brother had his brother asked him at the beginning. He's been under control for so long that he knew really had the opportunity to come to his own conclusions about Krakoa. But he chooses this team, the Greenhouse, and what they currently stand for as a mutant refuge. Sage's log then states that everyone voted for him to stay, "with Logan taking the longest to respond."
Later in what appears to be a new greenhouse (with THE Greenhouse) Peter is tending to some plants. Domino is watching him from the doorway and he says she might as well comes in. She says he seems at peace and he says getting his hands dirty is the only way to clean out his brain. He doesn't think about anything else but the plants. As she gets closer he turns to steel which alarms her. He changes back to flesh, apologizes and says he's feeling very defensive around everyone.
Back at the medical bay Logan apologizes to the sleeping Quentin for being so hard on him earlier. He says if he could wake up that'd be great because they need him. A slight smirk appears on Quentin's face but he's still unconscious. The vision from earlier is continuing and he sees Moira shoot one of the Cuckoos with her cannon point blank. He suddenly wakes up and bolts out of the room, "I'm coming!" Omega Red is outside keeping watch when Quentin flys out of the Greenhouse. He notifies Sage who contacts Quentin warning him not to leave. Quentin is all like "yeah, yeah" and says he's an omega and sent out a temporary jamming signal so he could go dark. Sage tries to warn him that Orchis is using tech they don't know anyt... he don't care and says he's going silent.
Aww!! Quentin picks her up saying he's going to bring her home but just then a Sentinel approaches from above.
Data Page. Sage's Logbook: War Camp.
It's a proposal from Sage on how best to receive any refugees that respond to Quentin's telepathic beacon and setting up a new oversight committee to discuss responsibilities/concerns such as food & water, clothing, medical, terrorism concerns, mutant processing, etc.
Logan and Fang are in the hangar and Fang asks if Logan is going to say something like "I'm glad you're okay." Logan says it, saying he's been distracted but he knew Fang would be okay because he's tough. He touches Fang's face which is nice. Stepping outside Fang asks what they're going to do with all of the mutants that have responded to Quentin's call. We see a number of mutants have shown up (if anyone recognizes some please post them, I think I only recognize Anole and the octopus legged girl from Hickman's X-Men #1.) Logan says they're going to protect them and is about to get everyone into a line to be identified/processed when Peter says he needs to speak to him. Now. About Sabretooth. Logan is about to start talking to him when Quentin comes rocketing in and crash lands into the snowy ground.