Payback

• Writer - Whilce Portacio
• Writer - John Byrne
• Penciler - Whilce Portacio
• Inker - Art Thibert
• Lettering - Tom Orzechowski
• Colorist - Dana Moreshead
• Editor - Bob Harras
• Editor in Chief - Tom Defalco

Summary

  The Gold Team returns to the mansion, bearing Jean's body and a Sentinel's head. Xavier says Jean isn't dead, but she's in another body.

  Fitzroy goes to Shinobi's penthouse, bearing Frost's body and Pierce's head. He claims victory, but Shinobi is unwilling to concede his father's ring. So Fitzroy cuts his finger off.

  Forge has recovered some data from the Sentinel's head and locates their base on an iceberg.

  A time portal opens in Fitzroy's base, but the people are fused together, and Fitzroy absorbs their life energies. Fitzroy chews out Bantam, who was supposed to stop such intrusions.

  Xavier takes Cerebro to the Arctic and explains to the X-Men that Jean put her mind into Frost's dead body. He is surprised he didn't sense Frost's own death.

  Fitzroy kills Tarot and uses her life energy to open a portal, getting allies Burke, Kroeger, and Stylles from another time. Kroeger refuses to fulfill the bargain, however, and Fitzroy pretends to release him, but when he tries to go back through the portal, it kills him.

  Jean in Frost's body uses her telekinesis to free herself. Xavier immediately senses her and sends the X-Men to her aid. Ororo blasts through the base's shields, and the X-Men easily take out Fitzroy's forces. Then he sends in the Sentinels, but the X-Men have a strategy: Warren and Piotr smash them, then Bobby freezes the damage before they can repair themselves. Fitzroy absorbs the remaining Hellions and opens a wide portal. Future evil mutants stream forth.

  Then Bishop and friends come through and attack Fitzroy.