The Channel Tunnel

Meanwhile in Paris, In a speech in Paris, Professor Xavier announces the opening of the X-Corporation office in Paris and promises that it will be a refuge for mutants in times of trouble. Any mutant needing assistance can simply think "X" and a team of trained X-Men will arrive to help. After the speech, same said group of X-Corporation members (Cannonball, Darkstar, Multiple Man, M II, Siryn and Rictor), having just assisted a group of pro-mutant rights protestors in need, discuss its next mission; the train running through the Channel Tunnel, which has derailed, trapping passengers. As a possible gene-hazard is on the train, the X-Corporation has been called.

Shortly after the squad has departed, Xavier and Phoenix are approached by a mysterious man called- Fantomex and he is requesting for sanctuary. He also informs them that, because of something he stole, something big and bad has gotten lose on the train wreck. According to Fantomex, the X-Corporation team is probably already dead.

Fantomex is a fugitive on the run, a thief, and the authorities have him listed as the most wanted mutant in Europe. Fantomex explains that he is being chased because he stole some important documents from a top-secret agency. When he learned that the X-Corp team has been summoned into the subway tunnels in order to clean a train wreck caused by Fantomex when he stole the top-secret documents. The team enters the tunnel only to be scattered and confused. Fantomex explains to Jean and the Professor that he the information he has is related to Weapon X. At this point, the bleeding Fantomex convinces the Professor and Jean to take him to his home and help him escape from the authorities. Upon arrival, they meet Fantomex's mother, who is delusional and we learn that the information is about Weapon XII and that Weapon X is actually Weapon 10. He explains that the train wreck is actually a test of Weapon XII and he has the information to stop the new threat on the disk he stole, and he will sell it to the Professor Charles Xavier, but not without a hefty price...only one billion dollars. The X-Corporation team continues their struggle in the tunnels, but they have no clue what it is they are up against and it seems their only hope will be Jean Grey and Professor X. Fantomex then leaves for the tunnels with Jean and the Professor following, but he says they must help him kill, something against their morals, in order to get the information to save the X-Corps team.

Fantomex explains that Weapon XII was on the train, a genetically engineered monster, bred in incubation units that speed up time and the evolutionary process itself. Proposing a deal, Fantomex offers to help save the X-Corporation rescue team in the Channel Tunnel, if Xavier and Phoenix will assist him in killing Weapon XII itself.

Meanwhile, in the tunnel, Darkstar finds herself separated from her team. Although she uses her darkforce powers to repel a group of wolves and other menacing forms, they continue moving forward, step-by-step. Elsewhere in the Channel, Monet was run over by the same creatures and lies either unconscious or dead.

Teaching the tunnel, Fantomex informs Xavier and Phoenix of the nature of Weapon XII; it is a mind with bacterial properties, infecting his enemies until they become him. Jean telepathically holds off Weapon XII thralls so that the surviving members of X-Corporation Paris, who were about to be overwhelmed, can escape. Fantomex and Phoenix enter the tunnel to oppose the rogue mutant, while Xavier uses his telepathy to peer inside and confront Weapon XII mind to mind. Along with his mental assault, Xavier sends in a wave of Madroxes under his command. With their enemy distracted, Fantomex shoots several of the possessed victims, among them Darkstar, and makes his way to its former containment pod. He activates the "kill switch," ending both the threat and life of Weapon XII. The crisis now passed, Xavier and his X-Men confront the arriving military, which offers a deal in the form of a threat; if the X-Corporation wishes to retain the sanction of the appropriate authorities they will back up the following story: that the X-Men have assisted in the saving of passengers from a biological weapons accident in the Euro tunnel.

Monet helped out the X-Men on a mission but apparently returned to the X-Corporation afterwards. Shocked by Darkstar's death, Cannonball quit the X-Corporation and rekindled with his old flame Lila Cheney. However, after several weeks of touring with her, he discovered that he couldn't leave the heroic life behind him and rejoined the X-Men.

It's Darkstar's funeral and, while X-Men and X-Corporation members are gathered around her grave, Xavier telepathically gives the others a taste of Laynia's life. On their way to visit X-Corporation Mumbai, Xavier and Phoenix stop by on Genosha to investigate some strange electro-magnetic readings. Quicksilver, some other X-Men and Sabra of X-Corporation Europe accompany them.

Fantomex (Jean-Philippe). He is incapable of feeling pain most of the time. His nervous system can separate from his body and transform into a techno-organic flying saucer-like vessel called E.V.A. He can only feel pain when E.V.A. is within him. The relationship between E.V.A and Fantomex is symbiotic, so if E.V.A experiences pain when she is not within Fantomex, he will feel it as well. E.V.A can fly "herself" and can generate electrical charges to be used as weapon. His other powers include the ability to regenerate through the absorption of water and expulsion of foreign solid objects in his body (i.e. bullets) by melting them with heat. Another of his powers is psionic misdirection, which prevents anyone from telling that he is lying. This also allows him to create telepathic illusions that can fool some of the most powerful telepaths such as Professor Xavier and Jean Grey. Fantomex can enter a trance state and perform crucial tasks such as performing surgery on him. His mask incorporates telepathy-blocking ceramics.

After the Channel Tunnel disaster he asked for the asylum and after confessing that he is a product of Weapon Plus, he assures Jean Grey and Professor Xavier that he is nobody’s soldier.

Meanwhile, in orbit, Jean arrives at the remains of the Weapon Plus station, the asteroid around which it was built, and finds Wolverine, standing over the remains of Weapon Fifteen, now dead. It is from Wolverine that Jean realizes the origin of the asteroid-heart of the space station: it is Asteroid M.

Back at the Institute, Xorn finally moves against Xavier and uses his powers to re-cripple his old foe by removing the Nano-Sentinels he had used to fuse Xavier’s spine together. His old foe now helpless, Xorn reveals his true identity to Xavier: he is Magneto… and Xavier’s dream is over....

Magneto begins the devastation that tears apart New York City, transforming it to New Genosha using his powers to destroy such landmarks as the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty.

Meanwhile, Wolverine and Jean are helpless to stop Asteroid M’s collision with the sun, or escape the station before that happens. After a bit of reflection of what villainous machinations have led them to this moment, as well as other recent revelations, they realize they are in their final moments.

Rather than letting Jean die such a death, Wolverine ends her suffers with his claws, killing her instantly. His grim task completed, Wolverine takes Jean’s body and opens the airlock, so that they may face the sun as it consumes them. Just before the they and the Asteroid are consumed, however, Jean’s eyes reopen, burning with a fire of their own.

Having now officially claimed the powers of the Phoenix, Jean saves herself and Wolverine from the gravity well of the sun and returns to Earth, just in time to save the Beast and Emma, who have be stranded on the remains of an X-Plane in the Pacific for days.

Back in Manhattan, Magneto continues his struggle to keep his new Brotherhood from fracturing until he is interrupted by the arrival of the Beak, Fantomex and Cyclops. Working in succession, the three are able to free Professor X and wound Magneto enough to keep him off balance. Realizing that his own lieutenants are disloyal in not defending him, Magneto kills the young Esme in revenge. Magneto manages to shrug off his attackers and return to his followers but finds himself attacked by the rest of the team, Beast, Phoenix and Wolverine. The most mortal blow of the assault, however, comes from Magneto’s followers, when they all proclaim that they no longer wish to follow him. Seemingly in despair, Magneto collapses until Phoenix gets close enough for him to strike.

Planetary X

When Westchester citizens start to riot over a "monster", the X-Men go to calm the scene. Upon returning, the Professor X tells Xorn he had a great performance at the riot, even though Xorn did nothing but ask why the people were afraid. Xorn then decides to in search of the "monster" himself. The monster turns out to be a mutated boy, whose mother has just taken pills to kill her and given some to her son as well. Xorn tries to save the two of them but fails. The two of them die and Xorn did nothing but have another great epiphany on life...again. (Notice he is pondering a cheeseburger on the cover, how lame). The only good thing about the issue at all is that a cop mentions that there is now a mutant side of town, along with the black side and the gay side. It added a much needed sense of realism to go with Xorn's bull crap philosophies.

Back in the Institute of Higher Learning, one day there was a riot in the school wherein one of the Cuckoos Sisters was killed. The impostor recruited a boy named Esme from the inside to led the riot. He was recruited by Nathaniel Essex a.k.a. Mister Sinister. The X-Men came to rescue to settle the chaos. However, the boy was also killed by the entity and later revealed as the Xorn and when he pulled off the helmet it is that he is Magneto in disguised.

He claimed that he had used his energy-manipulation powers to fake the fictional Xorn's spurious mutation (Xorn had previously only demonstrated the ability to manipulate magnetism, gravity and electricity and to control nanotechnology, all of which Magneto was easily capable of). Upon this revelation, he once again crippled Xavier, leveled Xavier's mansion.

And Jean Grey confronted him by being the Phoenix but she was killed by Magneto by his magnetic psionic. She was stabbed and was hit severely. Wolverine beheaded Xorn in that action.

As Jean begins to die, Magneto asks for it all to end, to which the enraged Wolverine complies, decapitating the former leader of mutants. Having been likewise fatally injured, Jean dies as well, passing into the light.

The Treachery: Heroes and Villain

Shen Xorn reveals to Havok and Emma Frost that firstly it was not Magneto who did the things to them, but someone acting as an impostor, and that secondly, the person behind it all is still within their midst and has been for sometime. The telepathic Xorn feels that the mysterious assailant will strike again.

Meanwhile, Havok is informed by Iceman that Juggernaut is still missing, and Jay Guthrie reveals that Sammy has gone looking for him. Alex realizes finally what is happening and assembles as many X-Men as he can, to go looking for the Brotherhood. Wolverine, Polaris and Rogue set out in one direction, while Havok, Iceman and Shen Xorn go in another - and run into the Brotherhood. Havok manages to blast Juggernaut away with a plasma blast, but at the same time Sabretooth guts Xorn and Avalanche shatters Iceman, before opening up a gully and causing Havok and Xorn to fall in it. Black Tom puts himself back together, and Exodus is glad that his plan has not turned into a complete failure, before telling the others that they need to go kill the rest of the X-Men.

Xorn (Kuan-Yin Xorn) or (Xian Xorn), Chinese with the ability to heal, manipulate energy, and gravity due to the star, which made up his head.

Shen Xorn, twin brother of Xorn who has the gift of telepathy, ability to survive without oxygen, black hole for a head which is apparently a portal to an unknown dimension.

The Collective Man also confronts X-Men when they arrive at the military base. At the Xavier Institute, Jay Guthrie (Icarus) has a run-in with Mindee of the Stepford Cuckoo's while Squidboy tries to warn the White Queen that Black Tom Cassidy is on campus, but she doesn't believe him.

The X-Men fight off the Collective Man and the Chinese army, Iceman and Juggernaut having to set aside their squabbling as they protect Havok from danger, for Havok is protecting Xorn, preventing him from creating any more black holes. When the Collective Man becomes a giant, Iceman matches him in height, and manages to fell him. Elsewhere Wolverine fights his way through more Collective Men, as Polaris clears the base of all the other Collective Men and soldiers, before using magnetic resonance imaging to locate Xorn's helmet and displaying her incredible powers further by bringing it to them, before flying them all back to Havok and the others. When Cain asks Havok how he ever let Lorna go, Havok replies that sometimes he wonders. Later, back at the Institute, Havok and Annie make up after their fight, Havok telling her that he doesn't want to know if she and Bobby slept together, while Bobby himself spends the night looking at photos of him and Lorna and him and Annie. Squidboy tries to convince Juggernaut that Black Tom Cassidy is amongst the trees, but Cain pretends to not believe him, however after sending Sammy inside, he calls out to his long time friend.

A new Brotherhood consisting of Sabretooth, Exodus, Black Tom Cassidy, Avalanche, Nocturne and Mammomax attack a presentation in Philadelphia, but the X-Men are there and prepared for them - only during the course of the battle, the Brotherhood escape, and the X-Men do not learn what it is they want. At the Institute, Squidboy is looking for Juggernaut, which causes Iceman to argue with his teammates, reminding them that Juggernaut is on parole and needs to be accounted for at all times, especially as he was not with them during the mission. Squidboy's mother also asks Sammy how he would feel if she started dating Juggernaut, which the boy doesn't like.

Rogue apologizes to the still-blinded Gambit for her part in his injuries, but when he goes off at her, she leaves. When Havok lets slip that the Brotherhood got away to Annie, she panics, and fearing the Brotherhood will come to the Institute she realizes she cannot be there anymore. Havok suggests she go somewhere safe, but what he doesn't know is that she packs up and leaves forever, telling only Polaris. The Brotherhood argue about how the X-Men could have known they were going to attack, when Black Tom brings in his back up plan, which he has had in plotting for quite some time - Juggernaut!

The new Brotherhood of Mutants learns Black Tom and Juggernaut's plan, including the part about Cain being a mole within the X-Men all this time. However Nocturne from the Exile timeline isn't so sure about things, and when she tries to make her exit, Cain, the extent of her injuries unknown, beats her. Squidboy sees his "hero" beat on Nocturne and gets seriously upset, but before Sammy can alert the X-Men, Black Tom attacks kills Sammy. This causes Cain to go on a rampage, tearing Black Tom's head off, and attacking the other members of the Brotherhood.

As they drive out of the Institute, Carter complains to Annie that they cannot leave without saying goodbye, when Annie's close friend Northstar appears before them and converses with Annie about her departure. Suddenly the telepathic Carter reveals to them that Sammy has been killed and now the Institute is under attack. The blinded Gambit has a vision of the Brotherhood attacking and seeks help, but can only find the snobbish Mindee of the Stepford Cuckoos, who is reluctant to help him, until Sabretooth attacks them and she uses her telepathy to guide Gambit's kinetically charged cards. Avalanche joins in the battle, only to be taken out by Mindee as Sabretooth is rushed away by Northstar. Northstar uses his super speed to push Sabretooth through the forest as the ferocious mutant tells Jean-Paul he is more of a girl than his sister was. The mention of his missing sister Aurora gets Northstar so worked up that he beats Sabretooth until he is unconscious, ready to get an explanation as to his sister's whereabouts when he wakes. Wolverine and Polaris discover the body of Sammy when they are approached by Nocturne, who is worried she may have helped the Brotherhood kill everyone at Xavier's.

Juggernaut and Iceman bicker as they dig for the buried Havok and Xorn, eventually uncovering them as Exodus corners Gambit and Mindee and Rogue begins to get crushed alive by Black Tom. Wolverine, Havok, Polaris, Iceman, Northstar, Juggernaut, Xorn and Nocturne all regroup and prepare for battle against the Brotherhood.

Icarus rescues Mindee and Gambit from Exodus, as the school chef Marilyn takes on Black Tom, who has trapped Rogue. Black Tom is repulsed by Marilyn and jibes Rogue as she tries to convince him not to hurt the four-armed chef. Wolverine, Havok, Polaris and the others regroup and run into Sabretooth. Logan is left to deal with Sabretooth on his own as Exodus, Avalanche and Mammomax argue and try to move onwards with the plan - until Havok, Polaris and the others arrive and begin to battle them. Northstar comes to the aid of Marilyn and after telling Black Tom the chef's life story; Jean-Paul breaks the plant-mutant into nothing but twigs and leaves. However, Black Tom is not defeated, and vines spring forth from all over the Institute grounds, trapping the X-Men and their allies. Mindee is unable to use her telepathy to take control of Black Tom's mind because it is so scattered, but Nocturne is able to phase into Tom, but find herself unable to centralize his consciousness.

One hundred fifty years later, two explorers in an unorthodox craft make their way to the Blue Area of the Moon, where they discover to their horror the enigmatic Phoenix Egg.

Emma approached Scott before Jean’s memorial to discuss rebuilding the Xavier Institute in the aftermath of its destruction. With Professor Xavier taking a sabbatical to Genosha, the future of the school was left undecided. The two also shared a passionate first kiss at Jean’s gravesite. Initially, Scott wasn’t interested in running the school, preferring instead to try to carve out some time for a life outside the X-Men, possibly with Emma. If not for Jean Grey reaching out from the afterlife and giving Scott a telepathic nudge, he probably wouldn’t have changed his mind and listened to Emma’s reasoning for the Institute still being needed as a safe place for young mutants in a world that hates and fears them.

Emma tells Cyclops to do what he wants but she will reopen the school with or without him. Days later, after Jean’s official funeral service is held, Scott Summers speaks to his wife in the only way that he can. Admitting his mistakes, he apologizes for his actions before her death. His goodbye made, Scott returns to the Institute, telling himself that it’s time to start over.