Fight and Flight

• Writer - Scott Lobdell
• Penciler - Adam Kubert
• Penciler - Cedric Nocon
• Inker - Jesse Delperdang
• Inker - Scott Hanna
• Lettering - Richard Starkings
• Lettering - Comicraft
• Colorist - Team Bucce
• Editor in Chief - Bob Harras

Summary

  Spider-Man makes his way to Westchester and gets shot at: Bishop thinks he's a villain. Spider-man shoots a web at his gun, then kicks him down, then the X-Men arrive and introduce them to each other.

  Spider-Man is there to warn them that Jameson is going to uncover Graydon's story. Without trying to, Jean reads his mind, which is odd.

  In Falls Edge, Virginia, Mystique considers assassinating Graydon, her son. She notices Bobby undercover on Graydon's staff.

  Hank takes a commercial flight to Muir, trying to spy on JJJ, but he figures it out. Scott, doubting his own leadership ability, is also on the flight, as backup. Ororo and Joseph are trailing in the Blackbird, and she uses the spare time to explain Scott's relationship to Cable.

  Bandouveris is holed up in London, afraid for his life, having discovered that Graydon's parents are mutants and criminals.

  The Brotherhood attacks JJJ's plane; he recognizes Alex as the leader of X-Factor, but he says he has moved on doesn't want JJJ interfering in mutant issues. Hank gets JJJ out of the way; Scott and Alex tussle. Alex threatens to blast JJJ; Scott blasts his brother's antigrav unit, and they fall from the plane, just like when they were kids.

  Joseph magnetically catches the plane, and when the Brotherhood's jet fires on him, he blasts it out of the sky.

  Alex insists he's taking charge of his life, and no one is controlling him, not even Xavier or Scott. He lets go and ports away, leaving his brother to be caught at the last second by Ororo.

  Joseph does an emergency landing at Heathrow, astonished at his own power. JJJ asks Hank if the X-Men should really be recruiting evil mutants.

  Bastion kills Bandouveris and takes the documentation.