TESTAMENT

• Writer - Grant Morrison
• Penciler - Ethan Van Sciver
• Penciler - Tom Derenick
• Inker - Tim Townsend
• Inker - Scott Hanna
• Inker - Sandu Florea
• Inker - Fanny Miki
• Lettering - Richard Starkings
• Lettering - Comicraft
• Lettering - Saida Temofonte
• Colorist - Hi-Fi Design
• Ass't Editor - Pete Franco
• Editor - Mark Powers
• Editor in Chief - Joe Quesada

Summary

  Emma dislikes the students; Jean dislikes having to tell humanity they'll be extinct in five generations.

  Emma's girls are the five Stepford Cuckoos, who can combine minds, but Esme ruined it by falling for a new boy, Kato, from Osaka. Emma tells the others to treasure the first blush of love. Logan tells Angel to stop being a hard ass, but she gives Emma lip, and Emma is up for the challenge.

  Jean visits Xavier, whose mind is going. He keeps calling her Moira or Gus, his old dog's name. She cries, collects herself, and speaks to the press:

  Xavier realized he was a mutant at age 11, 30 years ago, when the whole world's thoughts crashed in on him. Jean takes the press to the psi-plane and answers questions. A reporter asks if mutants are now cool (cf. X-Men I:2001 Ann., the new X-Force, Poptopia). Jean doesn't want mutants to see themselves as a persecuted minority but to be proud. She reads a reporter's mind and replies the X-Men aren't an army, but volunteers for emergencies; the reporter doesn't like anybody reading her mind; Emma calls her a bigot and telepathically forces her to agree; Jean has to mind wipe everyone. Then she says they're not training terrorists but scientists and artists. One reporter thinks the school is a utopia, and that many humans will agree.

  Hank, in his lab, realizes what's giving everyone the flu (iss. 118). Esme finds Kato talking to his watch; he says she's going to die. Jean collapses, says Scott is in danger, and tells Emma to go diamond; Hank runs and says the flu is from nano-Sentinels.

  The Shi'ar are in Tibet, having ambushed the monastery and captured Scott and Xorn. They say they're infected with a thought-plague, which almost killed Lilandra.

  Kato shows his true, green blob form: he's a Shi'ar scout, and balls of flame descend on the school. Gladiator arrives and orders his team to destroy all mutants.

Summary

  Cover name was changed to "New X-Men" for Issues 114 - 156.