The Cruelest Cut

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

Summary

  Logan slices his way into the Nebraska orphanage where Scott grew up and finds it trashed like many of Sinister's bases; Sinister has been killed at least 17 times. He has Moonstar with him, and she accesses the place's latent memories to produce of vision of the Neo killing Sinister and Sabretooth.

  Tessa, no longer working for Shaw, meets with Kelly over his wife's grave. He is running for president, and she warns him not to go anti-mutant.

  Cecelia, drug-enhanced, holds off the Neo until the cavalry arrive. Rogue kisses Salvo to get information, then her power goes wild. She absorbs Piotr without touching him, and her arms turn into guns like Salvo's. Cecelia tries to use her force field to stop her, but it takes Kurt porting around the room with her to shock her out of it.

  Then Domina shows up. She can mimic all of her team's abilities, and she single-handedly cuts through the X-Men and captures Cecelia, who killed her husband Jaeger.

  Then Logan shows up. Domina goes down, but she has Barbican seal the building. Betsy uses TK to keep a tunnel open to escape, but Charlotte is missing, so Cecelia stays behind.