The Prophecy of the Twelve

With no active X-Men Cyclops and Phoenix returned to help a group of mutants called the Mannites. Phoenix contacted their friend's to help. Wolverine, Archangel, X-Man and Cable together they saved the Mantis. Unfortunately while in battle with one of the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse “Death”, Wolverine was killed.

The X-Men, including Magneto and Fiz, make their way to Egypt to rescue their friends. Right away they are hit with an earthquake that damages their jets. A large group of Skrulls and cultists come out of nowhere and engage them in battle. A lot of the Skrulls change their image to appear like X-Men allies. One by one, the Twelve are teleported away by either Skrulls or Horsemen. They all end up in Apocalypse’s chamber. Bishop is retrieved from his timeline and brought to the present. He ends up being the final member of the Twelve caught. Once Apocalypse has everyone he needs, the Skrulls and cultists become fiercer with the remaining X-Men above. Apocalypse reveals his plan to everyone and is ready to initiate it. He wants to bundle the Twelve’s energies through the Living Monolith and send them into Nate Grey, who shall become his new host body. Meanwhile back at the mansion, someone is stealing computer files on all the X-Men from their own mainframe. Shadowcat traces the hacker, who is nearby. The team heads out to find this person.

Jean Grey arrives at Xavier’s School For Gifted Youngsters. She’s greeted by Professor Charles Xavier and his students: Beast, Gambit, Iceman and Storm. The whole time Jean knows something is not right.

Later, Cerebro alerts them to a mutant presence. It’s Magneto and Polaris and they’re up to no good. Later on Asteroid M, Magneto and his Brotherhood discuss their future plans. Sunfire comes in and reports a mutant presence on Earth that they should check out. Back with the X-Men, Cerebro alerts them to another mutant presence nearby. The team heads out to a circus and finds an extremely strong metallic man. While they try to convince him to join the X-Men, Magneto and his Brotherhood show up.

Before they can battle, a stranger nearby yells out to Jean. It’s Scott, but after not too long he turns into Cyclopalypse when Apocalypse choose him as his body host. Everyone attacks him and they start to realize that this reality isn’t right. They start remembering everything that actually happened. Cyclopalypse disappears from the battle and everything returns to normal. They find themselves back in the chamber of The Twelve. Phoenix tries to convince them that Scott is still alive, but Professor X doesn’t believe her. She storms off in anger.

With Wolverine's "Death" all the X-Men returned, along with Colossus's bother Mikhail Rasputin, Jubilee, Psylocke, Archangel and Polaris to find out that it was not Wolverine but a shape shifting Skrull, who was working for Apocalypse. Wolverine was taken by Apocalypse and turned into "Death" one of his four horsemen. Apocalypse sent his four horsemen to capture the "Twelve"- A mythical group of mutant's who would end up changing the world.

The horsemen captured Iceman, Sunfire, Cable and Mikhail Rasputin, and Apocalypse all ready had the Monolith. The X-men then took the battle to Apocalypse, while in battle Bishop reappeared. As the Battle went on the rest of the Twelve were taken Storm, Cyclops, Phoenix, Polaris, Xavier, Magneto, and Bishop. It turned out that the "Twelve"-would change the world, but not save it Apocalypse planed on using them to recreate the world in his image. Apocalypse also captured X-Man and was going to merge with him so he could use he's power's to recreate the world. The Twelve broke free of their prisons. Cyclops, Phoenix and Cable went after Apocalypse the rest stayed to battle the Monolith. While Apocalypse was trying to merge with X-Man, Cyclops jumped in the middle giving he's own life to save X-Man. His son Nate Grey was teleported back to Age of Apocalypse reality where he is from.

Cyclops was temporarily merged with Apocalypse. Then Jean Grey and Cable searched for him. They fought for Apocalypse and they were able to separate Cyclops from the evil- Apocalypse. They went back to the mansion and most of the X-Men had lost their powers after the battle with Apocalypse. Cyclops also temporarily made a leave with the team. In this times, Emma Frost used this time while Cyclops is physically far with Jean Grey, she is keeping on flirting with Scott Summers without Jeans knowledge.

Finally the Twelve crossovers happen. Turns out that it was only a faked story started by Apocalypse himself to lure these mutants all into one spot. His forces capture all of them, and the twelve mutants are put into containment capsules. They are used in a special machine. The Living Monolith is placed in the center to bundle all of the energies involved. Polaris and Magneto as opposing magnetic poles are on an inner ring, Storm, Iceman and Sunfire as extreme forces of nature are on a middle ring, and the other mutants placed on an outer ring. Cyclops, Jean and Cable representing the unity of family, Bishop and Mikhail providing as control over time and space and Xavier providing the power of pure thought. Combined the Twelve-grant Apocalypse omnipotence, so he has their energies transferred into the body of Nate Grey, aka X-Man, whom he wants to use as his next host body.

That's it! No Gathering (as Cable is among the first captured), no Franklin Richards and no great leaders for mutantkind’s future.

The Evolutionary War

Professor Xavier holds a Shi’Ar holo-empathic matrix crystal in his hand that contains the essence of his fallen student Scott Summers, and remembers both he and X-Men past. It is a farewell gift from Shadowcat and Colossus. Having decided to help the mutant Skrulls in their new life, Xavier boards a ship with them and departs. As Xavier leaves Kitty decides it is time to follow her dreams. Later, as the rest of the X-Men are playing baseball, Storm cannot concentrate, convinced a new evil is going to come. Meanwhile on Genosha, Magneto and Polaris stop an open human rebellion and prevents a burgeoning one by Cortez, who is trying to take over the Acolytes. Witnessing this, Polaris is unsure of her place with Magneto. Nearby, the Beast and Iceman secretly reach the Genoshan Coast so Hank can study the Legacy Virus.

In America, Mystique sneaks into the NRO offices to cover up some of her aliases that have recently been compromised. Elsewhere in a hideout, the Blob gathers some villains to pull a heist. Phoenix and X-Man meet in Alaska to discuss what happened to Cyclops and what Nate should do with his future. Back at the mansion, the High Evolutionary contacts the X-Men in New York to tell them that he has created a device to reverse the mutant genome, making them human. The Evolutionary triggers this device and mutants around the world revert to humans. As a result, the authorities capture Mystique while the Blob and his partners have their plan nipped in the bud. On Genosha, Magneto realizes that his enemies will soon strike now that he has a new handicap. Beast, analyzing what has happened, realizes that this is the work of the Evolutionary, who may have a secret beneficiary helping him.

The Beast is giving the X-Men a presentation on the current state of the Genoshan mutates. He tells the other X-Men gathered that all life would soon be affected by the High Evolutionary’s regression process. While going back through files pertaining to the Herbert Edgar Wyndham, the Evolutionary’s true identity, Beast discovers that he used to work with Mister Sinister, whom the X-Men believe is somehow manipulating the Evolutionary. The team decides to go off into space aboard a Skrull spaceship they have in order to defeat Sinister and the Evolutionary. On his station, Sinister taunts the Evolutionary, who is sealed in a stasis tube and believes Mister Sinister is mad. Having rocketed into orbit, the X-Men pass the satellites responsible for the regression process and all feel a wave of nausea. Once onboard the station they face a whole horde of the Evolutionary’s New Men, who are being controlled by Mister Sinister. Wolverine sniffs Sinister out and takes Storm and Shadowcat to confront him. The X-Men are ambushed by more New Men, but Wolverine takes the fight straight to Sinister. Sinister blasts Wolverine away, but Logan still survives. Wondering how Logan survived, Shadowcat realizes that the wave of nausea they felt earlier was the return of their powers. Sinister realizes his mistake but feels that it can be dealt with. Wolverine destroys the control panel for the satellites, which causes part of the station to blow up. Sinister escapes aboard the X-Men’s ship as the team confronts the Evolutionary, who reveals that Wolverine only broke to controls to his tube; the Evolutionary himself destroyed all his research on evolution. The Evolutionary apologizes for being so ignorant and blind and offers the X-Men a ride back to Earth as mutants across the globe regain their powers. Back on Genosha, the re-powered Magneto and his Acolytes defeat the human magistrates and retake the capital. After that, Polaris and Magneto begin to explore the possibilities their powers have on one another. Elsewhere, Mystique escapes prison and swears to destroy all those that have betrayed her.

After the battle with Apocalypse, the High Evolutionary believed that mutants were not only a danger to them selves but to the world and stripped them of their powers. With no powers and no mutant's to protect most of the X-Men began to lead normal lives. Iceman and Beast were not two of them leading normal lives when they lost their power's they were on Genosha trying to find Polaris who went with Magneto after the battle. While on Genosha It was discovered that if they did not undo what the High Evolutionary did, all of mankind would regress to a primal state. So with the help of Magneto they went back to the U.S. where they gathered the X-men and went to the High Evolutionary's satellite to shut it down. When they got there they found Mister Sinister had used the High Evolutionary. The X-Men destroyed the satellite and regained their powers.

Six months have passed since the High Evolutionary tried to eliminate mutantkind. In the catacombs beneath a building in Venice, Italy, Phoenix shows Cable a room full of treasure that she always meant to show her deceased husband, Cyclops. She tells Cable that his war with Apocalypse is over and, before he starts a new one, he should see the world he strives to protect. The two go outside into the streets to celebrate the Carnival when the Beast, who set up an elaborate stunt to sweep Jean off her feet, comes and scoops the woman up. After Beast’s little show, the two talk and discover that both have been summoned to Venice by Gambit. A group of men called the Shockwave Riders, members of the Neo, attack the X-Men. Storm comes in and saves Jean, but the Riders use their powers to send Cable’s techno-organic virus out of control. As Jean protects him, another Rider uses his powers to steal some memories of Cyclops from Jean. Gambit arrives, as the Neo are defeated. The Neo escape, except for one, who wills himself to death. Jean creates a mind link with him to get her memories back but, if she does not return to her body before he dies, she will die with him. Phoenix defeats him and the other X-Men arrive, only to be ambushed by the Lost Souls who quickly defeat the X-Men and merge the X-Men with themselves, creating new versions of the Lost Souls. The X-Men are sent to deal with their inner demons. Cable is ambushed by more Neo and is quickly overwhelmed. He uses his Psimitar to send psychic energy to the other X-Men, which helps the X-Men escape from the Lost Souls. In his inner soul, Gambit also came to terms with the Mutant Massacre and Rogue’s decision to leave him. Phoenix returns everyone to their bodies, including the Rider. The Riders and X-Men decide to end the battle and fight another day. Later, Gambit tells the X-Men the reason for their summons. He wants to launch a rescue mission.

The Russian Adventure

Neo blamed the X-Men for the deaths their people incurred when the High Evolutionary turned off their powers. Now they want revenge! They have kidnapped Shadowcat believing that she is also a Neo. Shadowcat managed to escape, but she stayed outside the being an X-men life. He went back to Europe trying to save her father but Kitty had changed her attitude after her time with the Neo. Wolverine saved her in that time.

In Russia, Storm kidnaps an old ally named Simyon Borisovitch Kurasov from his home and enlists him in helping her free the other X-Men, who have been captured. Storm tells Simyon her story, how the X-Men came to Russia to help Gambit pay off an old debt to Colonel Alexei Mikhailovitch Vazhin. Their goal was to sneak into a club named “the Slash” and free Major Debra Levin, who went missing while investigating. The X-Men snuck in, but were ambushed by Manacle, Bludgeon, Cudgel, and Revenant, who were sent by the club owner, Ransome Sole. Sole had his slave, Sketch, encase the four captured X-Men in shells but Storm escaped. Simyon agrees to help. He takes a SHIELD like model decoy, programmed to mimic Storm, and pretends to hand the real Storm to Sole. The real Storm sneaks in and frees Levin and attacks Bludgeon and Cudgel. Meanwhile, Sole is trying to sell the captured X-Men to his guests: some Shockwave Riders and the slaver known as Tullamore Voge. Sketch transforms the fake Storm into a machine gun to help out the X-Men. She frees the X-Men and they take down Ransome Sole, Big Casino and the other mutant guards. Some Shockwave Riders escape with Sole and his associates as Revenant teleports away. In the end, the X-Men free Levin, free a slave, and capture Voge, but realize more is going on that meets the eye and that their trip to Moscow will be prolonged.

In Moscow, Defense Minister Dmitri Koniev is kidnapped by Killian and the Crimson Pirates, who force him to help them gain access to the Research Annex, where the X-Men and Colonel Alexei Vazhin hold their colleague, Tullamore Voge, in custody. At the Research Annex, Phoenix enters the mind of Voge, but is interrupted by Wolverine using Cerebro, who requests aid from her team to help free some captured X-Men from the Goth, who are also slavers like Voge. Before Phoenix can ask more, they are ambushed by Voge, who was expecting Jean to try and enter his mind and tries to make Wolverine his personal Hound. Phoenix sends Wolverine out of the astral plane, but is ambushed by an unknown man whom Phoenix recognizes. Cable follows Jean in the astral plane, but ends up being possessed by the mysterious villain, who seems to have removed the techno-organic virus from Cable’s system. The Crimson Pirates get into the building, but are defeated by Gambit and Storm. Cable, who is possessed, ambushes Gambit and Storm. Vazhin tells Beast, Phoenix, and Major Debra Levin that they have been betrayed, but is murdered by the Sea Dogs before he can say more. Beast, Phoenix, and Levin barely escape the building as the Pirates free Voge and run off with Storm, Cable, and Gambit.

In Madripoor, the captured X-Men join forces with the Goth and the Crimson Pirates to capture more slaves in trade for their own freedom. In truth, though, it is a ploy by Gambit until he can figure a better way to defeat the Goth. The quintet of X-Men still at-large break into the building and find themselves battling their fellow X-Men. However, they still find it too hard to fight friends and hold back. Eventually, though, the free willed X-Men are defeated but not before Gambit can convince Rogue that he has a plan. The X-Men take the captured X-Men to the Goth, but discover that Tullamore Voge was in charge the whole time. The X-Men are betrayed by the Goth.  Phoenix, Psylocke and Beast go through with their part of the plan to deactivate the slaver collars and succeed. The Goth defeats the other X-Men, which leaves Rogue with no other choice but to kill him after absorbing Gambit’s powers. After the other bad guys are captured and the prisoners freed, Gambit consoles Rogue, who feels that she has betrayed the values of the X-Men.

Gambit takes Rogue and his team of X-Men down to New Orleans for some rest after their ordeals during the last few days. Cable has a hard time fitting in with the team and relaxing, even though Rogue tries to help him. Gambit and Rogue discuss how weird Cable has been acting lately and wonder what is wrong with him. Jean follows Cable to the docks, but their conversation about Cyclops is interrupted when Jean picks up a mayday call from Lee Forrester, whose ship is trapped in Hurricane Sam. Storm, Cable and Rogue fly out to the Arcadia, Lee’s ship, and try to help, but Storm is knocked out when pieces of the plane Hercules fall on her. Cable and Rogue try to help Lee and her crew, but to no avail. Lee decides to try to help the crew of the Hercules. Rogue and Cable succeed in saving the airmen. Storm wakes up and rallies the team together to make a run for the eye of the hurricane. Rogue pushes the ship from behind, Storm bends the wind and Cable cuts down the waves. When they reach the eye, Rogue is swept away in the undertow, but follows a vision of Cyclops back to the Arcadia. Cable also has a vision of Cyclops, which leads him to Rogue. As Rogue wonders what this revelation means, Storm comes out and says that they still have a long way to go before they are safe.

Down in New Orleans, the X-Men recuperate in a secret hospital after saving Lee Forrester and others from a hurricane. Jean and Beast return to the hospital after shopping for treats for the team when they see a jet in the courtyard of the hospital. They soon realize it belongs to the Black Panther and inside they meet Everett K. Ross and another woman, who are looking for Storm. Storm meets the two and tells the X-Men that the Panther has requested for her alone and she must respect his decision. Storm leaves for Wakanda with Ross as the X-Men wonder what is going on. In the solarium of the hospital Lee Forrester gives condolences to Jean after she hears that Scott is dead. Suddenly, the hospital is attacked by Mandroids, but the X-Men quickly defeat them. However, Jean is captured by a man called Starhammer after a few former Shi’Ar Imperial Guardsmen distract the rest of the X-Men. Starhammer is actually a D’bari, whose home planet was destroyed by the Dark Phoenix. Starhammer has come to Earth to kill Jean, which Jean allows him to do in the Astral Plane. The X-Men defeat the aliens and save Jean, who is more determined to live up to the name of Phoenix. Beast, however, is worried when he learns that the aliens claim they are imprisoned on Earth. Jean is distracted, though, with a renewed hope that Cyclops is alive after recent events. In space, Professor Xavier meets with Empress Lilandra on board the Starjammers. Corsair tells Xavier that he blames him for Cyclops’ death, which makes Xavier more intent on saving the Earth and the X-Men to redeem himself. However, his mission is made harder when he discovers that the intergalactic races have turned Earth into a prison planet for the galaxy’s most dangerous criminals out of fear of Earth having too much influence on the galaxy. To make things worse there is nothing Empress Lilandra can do about it…

Dream’s Dead End

In Washington D.C., Senator Kelly addresses the nation to talk about the threat of mutantkind. Around the world, mutants and humans alike watch the speech, including the X-Men, who are troubled by Kelly’s words. Worse yet, Xavier has information leading him to suspect that Mystique is planning on assassinating Kelly, though it is strange that she would let herself be so obvious. Wolverine helps Rogue, who is manifesting the powers of people she has absorbed in the past, to try and cope with the added personalities and powers. All is well until she hears Mystique laugh in her head. Rogue discovers that Mystique is on Muir Isle. Xavier tries to contact Moira but discovers that he cannot reach her.

On Muir Isle, Wolfsbane discovers Mystique and goes to alert the X-Men. Cable and the X-Men continue to watch Kelly, who is speaking in Boston. Kelly suddenly tells the people that they should not persecute mutants but, before he can continue, the Brotherhood of Mutants attack. As Rogue, Wolverine and Bishop reach Muir Isle, the entire island explodes! Unbeknownst to the X-Men, Mystique has mutated the Legacy Virus to only affect humans and plans on unleashing her new disease.

The Brotherhood was lead by Proteus (Kevin MacTaggert), the son of Dr. Moira MacTaggert. The explosion leads to the death of Dr. Moira MacTaggert and her death change the life of Sean Cassidy (Banshee).

At the Xavier Institute, Charles Xavier exercises, while he takes in the events that have occurred in the last few days. While he recalls the events that led to him and Moira to fall in love, Nightcrawler and several others monitor Dr. Cecilia Reyes in the Danger Room, who is fighting her addiction to the performance-enhancing drug called rave, by going cold turkey. Wolverine and Rogue take a break from meditating to drop by Shadowcat’s room, where Rogue reveals that Kitty had been researching the seventh volume of Destiny’s diaries, before she disappeared. After learning that Shadowcat may have known about her disappearance before it occurred, the two flip through the diary and find a section depicting them in the present, as well as Gambit and Storm, confronting Mystique in the hospital.

In the hospital, Mystique warns the X-Men of a dark future for mutantkind. She tried to decipher Destiny’s diaries but failed. That is why she has given her remaining diaries to Xavier. However, many are still missing. At the mansion, Xavier helps Cecilia overcome her fears and helps her begin her journey on the road to recovery.

After seventy-two hours in his laboratory, Beast is able to discover the cure for the Legacy Virus after deciphering the notes of the late Dr. Moira MacTaggert. Xavier, Cecilia Reyes, Gambit and Wolverine congratulate Beast, who explains to them how the cure works. However, Beast and Cecilia realize that the cure can only be released after its host uses his or her power, which will then kill him or her. Beast stores the cure in a cabinet and goes out to play basketball with Gambit and Wolverine to clear his head. While the three debates on how they should be living their lives as mutants, Xavier enters the game. Inside, Cecilia senses something wrong with Colossus, who tells Cecilia all about his dead sister, Illyana. Cecilia realizes what Colossus wants to do, but he knocks her out before she can stop him. He injects the cure into himself and, for the last time, uses his mutant power. Cecilia recovers and desperately tries to save Colossus, but there is nothing she can do, as the longtime X-Man leaves to be reunited with his sister. Piotr Rasputin committed suicide and later his body disappears.

Scott Summers, a.k.a. Cyclops, takes a trip out into the woods on a weekend getaway before returning back to the X-Men, which is down to only three members currently. Scott waits for some time and reflects on the recent death of his friend Colossus, when suddenly Corsair arrives and apologizes for being late. Both men are uncomfortable around each, though neither says anything out loud. Father and son go fishing, but nothing either of them says can break the ice. Scott finally has enough when his father reveals that he thought Scott could cause fire with his powers. Scott snaps at his father and asks why Corsair never came back for him and Alex (Havok), though he clearly had the means. After dancing around the topic for a few moments, Corsair reveals that he was ashamed to return, because he could do nothing but throw his children out of a crashing plane and watch his wife get murdered. Scott realizes that his father has been through a lot and, even though he will never understand him, Scott Summers will always love his father.

Senator Robert Kelly died while under the protection of the X-Men after devastating mutant demonstration. Nightcrawler went to priesthood and Shadowcat went back to Europe and to stay with Pete Wisdom. After an intimate discussion she taught she loved Pete Wisdom but they parted ways by Pete's verdict.

Generation X: Now Disbanded

When Emma Frost was broke, the school had been opened up to human students as well to raise some money. However, in the long run, this wasn't working, as anti-mutant hysteria started among the students egged on by Emma's mad sister, Adrienne, who had blackmailed Emma and Sean into granting her refuge. It ended in tragedy, as Adrienne had set explosives within the school.

One of the Generation X teenagers, Synch, died defusing one of them and, after that wake-up call, Sean and Emma decided they'd have to go about differently training the kids and give them a chance to become more proactive. They disbanded the Generation X.

Thereafter Sean's life was about to utterly fall apart. Although Moira had been broken out of her quarantine station by the efforts of Excalibur, life had been rather busy for both of them and they had not seen each other for months. Now wanting to renew their relationship, Sean tried to call her but he was redirected to the Xavier Institute. The Professor told him that Moira MacTaggert had been killed only mere days ago, when the mutant terrorist Mystique blew up her lab complex. Sean almost died in an adventure after that, being unable to use all his wits and had to be saved by one of his students, Skin.

In that crossover, Mystique and some members of her Brotherhood of Mutants III (Mystique, Blob, Avalanche, Silver Saber, Sabretooth, Post, mastermind II and Crimson Commando) blew up the lab complex on Muir Island and Moira MacTaggert died of the injuries she received in the explosion. The rest of the Brotherhood tried to assassinate Senator Robert Kelly but the X-Men failed to stop them. At least later Mystique and Mastermind III went into federal custody.

In the following weeks, Sean succumbed to alcohol. In addition to that, Emma's behavior became nastier and, when one of Generation X, Chamber, graduated to X-Man status, the other students felt that they really couldn't learn anything at the Massachusetts Academy anymore. They told Sean that they'd decided to leave. Surprisingly, Sean took it well, telling them he was aware that he wasn't handling his current situation well and that he'd decided to go on a vacation to Ireland. Telling them they were like his own children, he wished them all the best.

Genosha's Ambassador

Magneto has just declared all out war on the human race, his forces seemed to triple over night. Professor Xavier is kidnapped and taken to Genosha, where he is put on display. With most of the X-Men leaving to look for Destiny’s journals, Wolverine and the Newly returned Cyclops  (In a four-way final battle, Jean managed to separate Apocalypse's spirit from Scott and Cable dispersed it with his psimitar. Cyclops returned to the X-Men but forever carried the taint of Apocalypse within him.)  head to Genosha, leaving Phoenix to find a make shift team to help stop Magneto, she Gathers Cargill, Northstar, Hector Rendoza, Paulie Provenzano, and Sunpyre Before her new Team can leave for Genosha an unexpected friend returns The Dazzler .