| Synopsis | - Despite being asked by Emma to kill her, Danger does not yet deliver the execution blow, though this is hardly a surprise to Emma. Rather, the request was made to prove a point – that Emma is aware of Danger’s secret: that her programming does not allow her to kill, hence the need for surrogates to try to kill the X-Men over the last few months. Danger’s secret now revealed, Emma makes the synthetic an alternate offer. Meanwhile, still guests of Aghanne and her people, Kitty and Piotr enjoy the respite in each others’ arms. Though much has still happened between them recently, Kitty has been reminded that life is short, and she wants to grab whatever happiness she can with him. The next morning, Brand and the Beast emerge from their snow cave to find the mass of dead citizens of the Breakworld, killed by Kruun’s indiscriminate snowstrike against the two of them. Angered, the Beast harkens on a new plan. Instead of taking the space craft they are about to confiscate directly to the weapon Kruun has constructed, they will use it to regroup with the X-Men and then attack the weapon from the other side. A short while later, the Beast and Brand have picked up all of the rest of the team, including Cyclops and Emma, who have instructed Danger to rendezvous with the remaining SWORD soldiers for another task. En route to the moon where the weapon is located, Kitty is reunited with Lockheed, though the reunion turns bittersweet when Brand coldly informs her that the dragon has been a spy for SWORD for months. Further disheartening, upon their arrival the team discovers to their horror that the moon of their destination itself is the weapon, the whole sphere an artificial construct. Worse still, the moon is guarded by Bruteships, which attack the X-Men’s craft. Attempting to distract them, Cyclops departs in a small repair craft and buys the time the X-Men need to reach their destination. However, as his smaller craft is eventually hit by weapons fire and disintegrates around him, Cyclops finds himself floating in the vacuum of space, all alone in the black.
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