Hard Landing

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

Summary

  Betsy uses her TK to soft-land the shuttle at JFK airport and into the bay (cf. UXM 101), while the crew complains about mutants.

  Kurt and Cecelia hide from the Neo; he tries to soothe her conscience over killing Jaeger. An unrelated truck crashes into the building, and Charlotte has a shoot-out with Delgado. Warren sees it with eagle eyes, and swoops down to save her with eagle wings. Cecelia throws her force field over an exploding energy weapon and picks up a syringe of Rave, an illegal stimulant. Kurt, weak, ports away with her.

  Delgado runs into the Neo and takes one hostage. Another gives Warren an illusion of beautiful women, and Charlotte and Delgado an illusion of a skull-filled valley. She arrests him, but then bones grow out of her back. Warren rejects and breaks out of his illusion but bumps his head.

  The Neo surround Kurt and Cecelia; she, desperate, takes the Rave to boost her power.