Conclusion!

• Writer - Scott Lobdell
• Penciler - Leinil Francis Yu
• Inker - Dexter Vines
• Colorist - Liquid!
• Lettering - Richard Starkings
• Lettering - Comicraft
• Ass't Editor - Pete Franco
• Editor - Mark Powers
• Editor in Chief - Joe Quesada

Eve of Destruction

A call to Arms

Summary

  Jean scrambles her team, minus one, against Magneto. Paulie insults him, so he tries to magnetically manipulate his blood but discovers he's truly invulnerable. Jean-Paul punches him repeatedly, but he's used to Quicksilver and catches him. He throws Paulie into the upper atmosphere, so Jean-Paul has to rescue him before he suffocates. Magneto wraps his former Acolyte Cargill in metal and accuses Jean of manipulating her mind.

  Scott and Logan take out two guards; Scott has no qualms about the brutality of war, and Logan is convinced that Apocalypse changed him.

  Leyu blasts Magneto, but he has encased himself in iron and deflects the heat away, then encases her in iron.

  Jean-Paul gets Paulie to an American destroyer offshore and gives him mouth-to-mouth; Paulie pushes him off, mistaking it for a sexual advance. But then he thanks him, as they return to battle.

  Magneto grabs Hector, asking to see his mutant power, and he makes Magneto see-through like him. Magneto, disoriented, tosses him aside. Scott arrives and blasts; Logan is unimpressed with Jean's team. Jean tells him not to free Xavier; Scott is unimpressed with Magneto's megalomania. He blasts; Magneto deflects it, but Scott was opting for a ricochet and knocks Magneto's helmet into him, and then Magneto knocks Scott down with it.

  Magneto vs. Logan, the rematch: Jean has had Alison project holograms to fake her death and impersonate Xavier, while Voght freed the real one, who has telepathically turned off Magneto's powers. Logan guts him.

  Xavier speaks to the Genoshans, sympathizing with their sufferings but warning them not to start a genetic war.

  Back in Westchester, Jean watches her team disband, leaving just her, Scott, Logan, and Xavier.