The issue opens with a Fall of X recap and roster page. We're reminded that "no longer simply hated and feared, every mutant remaining on planet Earth is a fugitive, living underground, on the lam or in one of an extremely small number of tentative safe havens.
We're at Camp Gozhoo, Arizona where John Proudstar is doing some work while mutant children are hanging out and playing. We learn that he and Jimmy have been rescuing mutants and bringing them back to the Reservation. John says they should be "out there" rather than hiding but Jimmy says they're not hiding, that Orchis doesn't want mutants in "their America" so by them standing firm on their land, they're living. As they talk and share a beer with their grandmother, we see Orchis agents entering the camp moving to take mutants as prisoners including Somnus and Cerebra.
His heightened senses pick up what's happening and he breaks his beer bottle on John's rock solid shoulder then throws the broken piece through the eye gap of one of the Orchis agents' helmet. Oof! Jimmy says they must be lost because they're on their land and John tells them to leave on foot or their asses. One of the agents says the sovereignty of their land doesn't mean anything when they're harboring fugitives. Grandma says if they want to take the mutants then they'll have to take all the residents starting with her. One of the goons points his gun right at her face and she smirks as John and Jimmy start pummeling them. The brothers are showing them no mercy.
Most of the agents are now dead but three remain, one telling them to freeze as they have Somnus and a couple of other mutants at gunpoint.
Somnus looks up while cradling the crying child and compliments the shot, asking if they've ever met.
Jimmy runs at her, relieved and joyous to see her. He says he thought the gates got her and that he was barely able to wrestle John away from one. She says that she did go through a gate but it's a long story, that newly activated mutants are being abducted and they've been watching. (I'm assuming she means she and the Realm of X group have been watching.) She tells them that opening their land to refugees was always going to get Orchis' attention. John is like "No #&@&" and that's the reason why he wants to send them a message such as Devo's head on a plate. Dani is like chill, that will only do so much and that's why she left some of the agents alive.
Dani: "Although something feels wrong about these troops. They're crossing borders. Escalating fast. We need to know why..."
The ground starts shaking but it's not an earthquake as Jimmy says there hasn't been one in years. John turns to see what's causing it...