The X-Men vs The X-Men (Again)

• Artist - Jim Lee
• Writer - Scott Lobdell
• Inker - Bob Wiacek
• Lettering - Lois Buhalis
• Colorist - Marie Javins
• Editor - Bob Harras
• Editor in Chief - Tom Defalco

Summary

  Mojo II wants Dazzler to help him overthrow Mojo, whose popularity is at an all-time high because of the X-Men broadcast. Suspicious of him, she goes along. Mojo II says the spined slaves of the Mojoverse are ready to revolt if given leadership, and he has his agents controlling the cameras, to broadcast his own victory.

  Longshot can't read Lila out of her mind control, while Betsy stabs Scott with her psionic knife, making him blast Rogue full- force, knocking her out of the arena and out of Mojo's control. Then he blasts Mojo's control booth, but it is made of transparent Mojonium.

  Xavier, unable to break through Mojo's telepathic dampers alone, is linking to each of his students' minds with Betsy's help. She goes to free Jubilee, who then attacks Logan, snapping him out of his cowardice. He slashes at Mojo's control booth weakening it enough for Rogue to smash through.

  Mojo II arrives as well: he is a clone, "flawed" with compassion (and a spine). The spined ones raise rebellion, and Mojo fights. ("Maybe I should have stuck to Brady Bunch reruns?quot;) Longshot stabs his fat belly with a sword, and he disintegrates.

  Mojo II takes over; Xavier senses that Dazzler is expecting. Longshot suggests the name "Shatterstar" (see X-Force, esp. iss. 61).

  Story 2:

  Maverick empties his machine gun on the super soldier, who has omnium skin. Then he tries a grenade, which at least gets himself blown away from the villain. He wishes he still had his mutant healing factor.

  He gets to a hydraulic bolt gun and fires, piercing the weakened skin. The soldier begins to overload with energy; Ryking still insists he doesn't know how Xavier got hold of the Xavier File. Maverick follows his hateful orders, shoots another bolt, and kills them both.