Or should we call it a Watch Party? I know this isn't an actual watch party, but it's fun. Also, I can't believe they released this show at 3:00 AM.
Xavier's assassination last year at the hands of Henry Gyrich, people have become more sympathetic to mutants. Things still suck for Sunspot though, because he's been slapped with a power-suppressing collar and brought to a warehouse by members of the Friends of Humanity. He's going to be sold off to a buyer for 10 grand. Sunspot tries to offer them some of his family's riches in exchange for his freedom, but it isn't about the money. Sunspot didn't even try to use his powers before he got the collar, because he's not like other mutants. He's "one of the good ones," as he says. The FoH respond by raising their arm cannons, which are retrofitting Sentinel tech.
So Storm and Bishop come in and kick ass, while also bantering a bit, MCU-style. But then a machine blows up and knocks them out. Luckily, the Cyclops show up to finish the job. Cyclops has this cool trick where he uses beams on the floor to slide himself around, increasing his speed. (I imagine that would kill his feet, but this isn't the first time Cyclops' powers ignore any horrible implications they might have on his body.) The FoH, however, have a secret weapon: a giant Sentinal's hand. Cyke and Sunspot dodge a blast, but the former gets caught in a trap and is knocked down. The FoH take Cyclops' visor away, thinking it'll disarm him. He disarms them by laser-blasting them.
ACADEMY X ALERT: Dust and Loa, along with some other people who aren't from Academy X, appear on a newspaper advertising a fashion show.
The next day, at the mansion, Cyclops is telling Gambit how Storm and Bishop could have been hurt, and that they really needed Gambit there. Gambit's wearing one of those slutty half-shirts while cooking. Cyclops is still worried about how things go down, but Rogue and Gambit dismiss them because, let's be real, Sentinels kinda suck and they kick their butts all the time.
Anyway, a walking Xavier shows up and agrees with the others, Cyke needs to get the stick out of his ass and stop worrying. Oh wait, it's actually Morph in disguise. Jean also shows up in work-out spandex, heavily pregnant.
Meanwhile, Roberto wakes up in Beast's lab. HAPPY AND FUN Beast's lab. Sunspot points out that Beast is blue, and Beast jokes that his observation is very astute. Jubes is also there. Cyclops and Storm show up, wanting to talk to Roberto. He dismisses them, offering money to them for the save, but wanting to leave as soon as he can. They can't let him go just yet, due to the danger the FoH currently pose. Roberto snarks that this is basically another kidnapping, and Jubilee chews him out. But since Roberto is bored, Jubes takes him through a Danger Room simulation against Magneto for funsies. (And we get another reference to future mutants, when Jubilee asks if Roberto can shoot gold balls from his body.) Wolverine sneaks up on Sunspot to scare him.
Meanwhile, the gang discuss things with Val Cooper. The UN had destroyed all the Sentinels and Bolivar Trask is MIA. She assures them that they aren't making Sentinels and they will keep looking into how the FoH got their tech, but Cyclops struggles to trust the gubmint. Jean and Scott them reminisce about their past as teenagers, and Jean wonders if they should consider starting a life beyond the X-Men. The others are family, but they need to think of the baby. Scott protests, but Jean knows he wants to protect everyone, but this is the one time he should be willing to let things go and stop worrying about others.
A basketball crashes through the window and smashed into a portrait of Xavier and the O5. The team was playing basketball and Jubes blasted Logan with fireworks. She did it because Wolverine scared Roberto off, and Jubilee is worried. Cyclops calls them and the other X-Men out (sans Bish and Sotrm) for being lazy shits and sends them off to look for Roberto. Cyclops later tells Jean that he knows someone who can find Bolivar Trask: the man who killed Magneto.
The X-Men track Bobs to a nightclub, where they all split up to look for him. Rogue laments how everyone is getting down and touching skin, but Gambit is still by her side and trying to get his skin touched. They hold hands while wearing gloves. Morph, meanwhile, hangs out with a beer-drinking Wolverine. He turns into Jean and talks smack about Cyclops for having a stick up his butt. The FoH arrive, but the X-Men scare them off. Jubilee tries to get Roberto out, and he says that he'll leave after they share a dance.
Scott, Ororo and Bishop visit Gyrich in prison. Gyrich doesn't want to talk, and he dismisses recent mutant sympathies as a fad. That people only care because they're in vogue now. But most people know that if you make room for others, you have less room for yourselves. "Tolerance is extinction."
Since he's being unreasonable, Jean (using Cerebro) enters Gyrich's mind to learn where he might have kept a second Master Mold. But something's wrong and Jean screams. She has a vision where she's in uniform and not pregnant, in a desert. She runs to a crib to meet a crying baby, then looks down in her arms and finds that she's now holding her infant son. Now they're surrounded by graves. A Master Mold rises up from the ground and vaporizes them. Jean wakes up screaming.
Later, the team go to the Sahara Desert to track Trask and the Master Mold. Their banter is interrupted by a Sentinel attacking their plane. They beat its ass and later find Bolivar, who was warned by Gyrich via friends on the prison staff. He attacks them with Sentinels, but the X-Men beat their asses. Beast even climbs into one and pilots it like a mecha. But the Sentinels overwhelm them through sheer numbers... until an "Omega Level threat" comes to help them. Storm beats their asses. Then Wolverine, with others' assistance, beats Master Mold's ass.
Later, Jubes tries to sell the X-Men to Roberto. They're a family. Roberto feels bad because he can't tell his parents that they're a mutant, and it feels like he's lying to them because of it. He doesn't want to be an X-Men... he doesn't even want to be himself. They flirt and Sunspot hands her his business card before leaving.
Cyclops and Jean are ready to announce to the team that they're leaving. But they get an alert of an intruder. It's Magneto, who has entered Xavier's office and is now reading his will. According to the will, Xavier left everything to Hellion. But until the show is rebranded as X-Men '03, Mags will take over in Julian's stead.
And that's episode 1. Pretty good so far. Animation could be awkward and movements could look gross, but it holds up in action scenes.