We open in Camp Gozhoo as grandma Lozen is patching up Warpath's leg. Dani reaches out to Betsy!
She appears to be doing press to counter Orchis' propaganda. Thunderbird says he's not much for teams and tells Dani to save a chunk of Crule once they find him. Dani says teams are dropping left and right these days, that mutants are being kidnapped, children and adults. "The X-Men are busy enough with Cyclops' trial, they can't be everywhere but our kidnappers can."
In Madrid, Spain we see El Aguila approached by Orchis goons as he's cornered on a rooftop. He tries to defend himself but they shoot him off the roof. He's ok but he's now captured. As the goons carry him away one of them says, "Hate when she sends us after the grown ones."
Dani tells John that she came to recruit Jimmy and that this is bigger than John's pride. Too many lives are at stake. Jimmy is in no shape to join them due to his leg even though he protests otherwise. Dani says the Camp more than ever needs protection so it's good that he stay behind. She says Crule and his blindfolded ally were a rude surprise, and that something was strange about the Orchis troops. She doesn't think they're up against just Orchis. John then says Jimmy will mind the shop while he joins the worldwide fight with Dani. Yay!
Dani ensures Jimmy that she's not sidelining him and tells him once he's healed up he needs to find and protect mutants as well. He says he's in and as soon as she needs him to holler for him. Lozen tells John to not only bring their people home but to bring the pain to whoever took them. Just then a teleportation rift opens behind Dani...
So good to see him! John asks where the ride is cause all he sees is a clown car. Shatterstar says that's appropriate coming from ten pounds of meat in a five-pound bag. Oh the banter between these two is going to be fun. Dani thanks Lozen for what she's doing, taking in mutants. She hugs Jimmy who says he'll be out there on the front lines with them soon. Shatterstar says John is a big one. Not the biggest Shatterstar has shown up, but... Dani pulls him away telling him there's a cold shower waiting for him back at the base. This whole scene made me smile.
Great to see the floating headquarters of X-Corps again too!
Final scene. It's nighttime and we're in a Hell, Michigan as two Orchis goons are inside a truck carrying mutant children. One talks about how boring it is working for Orchis and that the transport manifest of mutants they have are half kids that can't even doing anything cool. Suddenly they crash and the children in the back, handcuffed and collared, wonder if it's the X-Men that just stopped the truck. "Gotta be! They're comin' to rescue us!" We see two hands pull back the curtains on the truck.
"Not quite."