Uncanny X-Men #410

Publisher
Marvel
Year
2002
Month
10
LastChanged
1/27/2024 7:56:58 AM
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Hope
Summary

  Vancouver: Sammy is a young fish-headed mutant being spit on by bullies and pushed into the mud. He gets up and walks home, where Mom tells him company's coming. He goes out back to his fort, where he has hung the bullies in effigy, collected newspaper accounts of mutants ("the good kind") and got a gun, to either suicide or kill the bullies with.

  Mom interrupts: company's here. The Blackbird is parked in the street, and Xavier has a "wonderful opportunity" to offer.

  Another Blackbird flies to Scotland, where Xavier has sent the team in response to a distress call. Stacy is annoyed at Jon's abrupt departure to college (see Chamber LS); M is annoyed a prostitute is hitching a ride; before the hair-pulling starts, balls of fire start pummelling the jet. M falls out of a hole in the side, and Stacy jumps out to save her, not knowing she's invulnerable; Warren flies out to rescue Stacy; the jet crashes into a castle on the Scottish coast.

  Sammy's parents question Xavier and are convinced he'll be safe at the school; Sammy eagerly packs his bags. A local cop admires the Blackbird, and Xavier offers to give him a tour next time he's in town. Sammy realizes Xavier has "brain powers", but he assures him he doesn't control people's minds unless lives depend on it.

  Hank is piloting, and Sammy is wowed by him and excited by everything. Xavier makes him turn over the gun, which he brought so nobody else would find and use it. Hank realizes that's why they had to make this sudden stop.

  Xavier tries to contact Warren's team, and in psi-form he sees them all unconscious except Stacy, who is panicked because Warren is dead. Xavier mentally adjusts her hormone levels to get her to focus and start CPR. Kurt wakes and helps; M is now missing; Bobby wakes; Xavier worries he's sent the team into a trap, and Kurt tells him Juggernaut is approaching.