Sorry I'm late, I wasn't going to wake up at 3am for a Mojo episode.
Gambit made coffee ("with cream") for Rogue. But Magneto made coffee for her first, and he knows how she likes her coffee. Gambit asks for a cappuccino, if Mags is taking orders. But old metal man says that he isn't - he gives orders.
Anyway, he wants everyone to train in case Sinister comes back. The blue Rogaine ad suggests that Jubes sit it out and celebrate her 18th birthday, but Magneto says that she'll be able to celebrate a lot more birthdays if she learns to master her powers. Morph teases Magneto about not getting a pony from his parents on his birthday, but Magneto plays the Dead Parents card.
Jubes comes in. Everyone else is willing to join her at the arcade, but as Jubilee would later explain to Roberto, Magneto had a titsfit over it. Even now, they're not celebrating her birthday because everyone else had to get political at the United Nations, as Genosha was now entering the UN. (Which I guess is why Jubilee is allowed to have a boy in her room without any sort of supervision.) Roberto interrupts her complaints to point out how she has video games. Jubilee doesn't recognize the "Motendo" console she now mysteriously has, but assumes that it might have been a mysterious surprise birthday gift from the X-Men. Jubes is so in on playing it, but Roberto is less interested.
Anyway, the console shoots out tentacles that ensnare them and send their mines into a video game.
They wake up in a recreation of Jubilee's room. A Sentinel rips through and grabs Roberto, but Jubilee manages to fight back and free him. But now they've left the mansion and are somehow a destroyed downtown, much to their confusion. They're beset by Sentinel and the Friends of Humanity. Roberto refuses to use his powers, in case anyone will see him. They find a ringing phone and Roberto answers it, which teleports them away.
Now they're in pre-mutant liberation Genosha, when everyone was enslaved. They're attacked by guards, but they're defeated by a "Hot Topic stalker," Abscissa. Jubilee tries to get closer, but bumps into a transparent wall, and the woman disappears. Jubilee figures that they're now in a video game. Something that Mojo confirms when he pops up through a rift. He explains that they're in a video game based on Jubes' own memories. She's the star of this game!
Also, Mojo got surgery to become a skinny legend. He's been flopping in the ratings, so he's pivoting to video games. And he offers Jubilee a choice: she doesn't have to grow up. Instead, she can be forever young and live amongst her nostalgia-tinted memories forever. This is X-Men: The Rise of Jubilee.
They're transported into a 16/32(?) bit world, where they first face off against Sentinels. The world and the enemies are bit, but Jubilee and Roberto look normal - except when we see the screen from the Mojoworld audience's perspective; then they're also portrayed as bits, and their dialogue is seen in speech bubbles. Mojo is so happy at their success, he becomes fat again.
Stage 2: Savage Land. They beat up some dinosaurs. Jubes sustains some serious damage and her health bar nearly depletes. But the screen temporarily flashes to the Hot Topic stalker. When we go back to the kids, Jubes' health bar has been filled up, much to her relief and confusion. Abscissa is seen as a glitch, a bug. Spiral and Mojo are determined to squash her.
Final Stage: Asteroid M. (And technically I just realized that everyone is watching Roberto and Jubilee play the game, which makes them one of the world's earliest Let's Players.) Roberto recognizes this place from the news, which he watched with his mom. And remind me to go on a rant sometime about how bilingual people are portrayed in media because the way many are written, it feels like I'm watching Dora the Explorer. I'm looking at you, America Chavez, peppering your sentences with kindergarten-level Spanish and adding random words at the end of your sentences like some anime character going "desu." It's not a big issue here, Roberto's not a bad case or anything. But yeah, it bugs me and I want to complain about it. Like his Portuguese just reminded me of characters with awful dialogue and how their flow between languages isn't nearly as natural as it is in real life. Like I get they want the foreign languages to be simple enough for people to understand the one or two words they say. But it sounds so fake half the time.
Anyway, Roberto, still closeted at the time, acted like he hated mutants. A mãe dele saw the news and thought there were also good mutants in the world, though he could tell she was spooked. But he reassured her by being racist. Jubilee relates by complaining about Magneto making her train on her birthday. Roberto makes this funny aside glance at this, then reminds her that they should look for a way out. But Jubes doesn't want to rush her nostalgia trip. Roberto says that she has to grow up eventually. One can't live solely in nostalgia, and that sooner or later, reality will smack them right in the fa- AHHHH. He gets smacked in the face by a giant ball, which sends up crashing into a window and HARD drops him into some control board, breaking it. It looks very painful. He's dead, so he gets a Game Over screen.
Boss Battle! Jubes vs Magneto. Jubes thinks in video logic and decides to watch Magneto for attack patterns. She waits for him cycle through his patterns and hits him at the best opportunities. She wins and it's a flawless victory. Roberto is on the verge of death, but Jubilee finds an X on the ground (an X-tra Life!) and gives it to Roberto to revive him. Meanwhile, Mojo is furious because he never put it there. The bug is back.
Roberto shows that my earlier complaints about language were wrong, because he breaks into justifiably angry Portuguese. But Jubes at least beat Magneto, so there's that... Except he's back now, for another round of battle. But now a portal opens up, and a giant hand carries the kids away from the stage. Abscissa hacked them out of the game server and into a broadcast server to buy them some time. Roberto accuses of her being a plot twist planted by Mojo. The two Jubes move in unison and tell him to zip it at the exact same time, in the exact same way. With this clue, Abscissa is forced to reveal that she's an older Jubilee.
They need to get out of there because Mojo could "download" himself in there any second. (What?????) Jubes asks for an explanation on what's going on though. Abby explains that the game was beta tested by digital duplicates of the kids countless times before the real ones showed up. Abscissa is the only survivor of those trials, having escaped via exploiting a glitch. She then goes into a speech how it's escapism! Can't you see? It's not healthy!
Don't trust this hoe, Jubilee. Life only gets worse as you grow older. Kill her. Kill her now and live forever.
Mojo downloads into the server and initiates a boss battle with them. He's now 5 times larger, 15 times fatter and carrying 50 pounds of crack. Abscissa hard carries them with her sparkling roller skates, fireworks energy disks. Roberto uses his powers to turn his arm black and throw a fireball at Mojo. Jubilee and Abby combine their powers into a super giant energy ball that fires Mojo's ass. The scene is perfection: the music is fantastic, the animation is stellar, the visuals are so pretty. I love it.
Mojo is defeated and the kids are sent back to their world. The Motendo console is fried. Jubilee appreciates Roberto taking a risk to help her, then kisses him. There are fireworks as they lean down on the bed together.