| Synopsis
| - The battle on Muir Island continues to rage, with Predator X now on the loose. Cyclops sends Wolverine’s X-Force team against Predator X, while ordering the White Queen to send the students against the Marauders and Acolytes, as they are not as familiar with the students powers as they are with the X-Men and X-Factor’s. Cyclops and Professor X confront Cable, each giving his own views as to what should happen to the baby. While Wolverine and company take on Predator X, no one notices Bishop rise from where Predator X had left him for dead. Omega Sentinel, possessed by Malice, takes on Pixie, until Pixie stabs her with her soul dagger. The White Queen and Dust take down Exodus, while Wolverine destroys Predator X once and for all by climbing inside the creature’s mouth and ripping the creature up from the inside. Cable finally gives the baby to Cyclops, and the baby pulls out from under Cyclops’ uniform a locket with a photo of Cyclops and Jean Grey inside it. Cyclops recalls important times in his life. Meanwhile, Rogue wakes, and is furious to learn that Mystique used the baby to cure her, even though the baby survived. Rogue and Mystique debate their causes, before Rogue takes a bare hand to Mystique’s face, absorbing her - but not killing her. It’s only then that Rogue realizes she was indeed cured of all the minds inside her, she was herself - but now has Mystique inside her. Deciding she has to get away, Rogue departs, warning Gambit not to follow her. Finally, Cyclops gives the baby back to Cable, as he believes the baby should choose for itself its own destiny. Several of the others voice their concerns, but Cyclops has made his decision. Cable then begins to teleport away, which is when a mad Bishop opens fire, missing Cable and the baby, but shooting Xavier in the head. Cyclops blasts Bishop away with an optic beam, and the others, who have all regrouped after taking down the last of the Marauders, check on Xavier. It’s not long before the Beast announces that Xavier is dead. Cyclops then declares that there are no more X-Men, and suddenly, Xavier’s body mysteriously vanishes. In the future, Cable and the baby watch the sunrise, and Cable remarks ‘Now comes the hard part’.
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