End of Days

• Writer - Chris Claremont
• Penciler - Leinil Francis Yu
• Inker - Mark Morales
• Lettering - Richard Starkings
• Lettering - Comicraft
• Colorist - Liquid!
• Editor - Mark Powers
• Editor in Chief - Bob Harras

Summary

  Note: Claremont returns as writer, and six months have passed since last iss.

  Kurt is studying for the priesthood. While saying the Ave at the altar of St. Michael the Archangel, he is shot by an arrow and quickly ports away, hiding among the rooftop gargoyles. Domina sends Jaeger to finish him off; the Neo have declared war on the rest of the world.

  The X-Men are helping Corbeau reconstruct the High Evolutionary's space station over the objections of the Genoshan government, who see it as a security threat.

  Jean loses control of a girder, and Rogue and Piotr have to catch it. Thunderbird is a new member, with laser eyes and rich parents in India. Logan is off somewhere, but Kitty has one of his bone claws to use as a saw. Betsy has no use of her telepathy but has gained TK.

  The station is complete, and the crew throws a party in zero gravity. Piotr talks to Rogue: she has broken up with Remy again, because he is now head of the Thieves' Guild, and therefore can't be loyal to the X-Men, in her opinion. They kiss and realize Rogue doesn't absorb his psyche when he's armored.

  Kurt pops in to Cecelia's clinic for help. She wraps him up, but before they can get to the mansion, she is shot with an arrow. She battles Jaeger, who wasn't expecting her force field. When he is about to kill Kurt, she instinctively extends her field, killing him.

  Kitty has a secret rendezvous with Seth, who reveals himself to be Neo, shocks her, and elaborately binds her. Thinking quickly, she phases part of her face and grabs her sword- shaped earring with her teeth, to use to cut her bonds.

  Seth tells Domina that Kitty is one of them and he loves her; she realizes Jaeger is dead; Kitty kicks Seth, then goes to warn the others as the station begins to explode. Seth, in a pressure suit, jumps three hundred miles to earth. The crew blames the mutants, who rescue them anyway: Kitty phases them outside to Piotr and Rogue, who toss them quickly to Thunderbird and Corbeau aboard the space shuttle Intrepid. A girder breaks off and heads toward the shuttle; Kitty phases it just in time, so she must remain behind. Thunderbird uses his fire to propel the shuttle. Kitty finds a second pressure suit and jumps to earth.