Moscow Knights

• Writer - Chris Claremont
• Penciler - Adam Kubert
• Inker - Tim Townsend
• Inker - Dan Panosian
• Colorist - Richard Isanove
• Lettering - Richard Starkings
• Lettering - Comicraft
• Lettering - Saida Temofonte
• Editor - Mark Powers
• Editor in Chief - Bob Harras

Summary

  Ororo flies to Moscow and makes a whirlwind suck up Kurasov, so they can chat. He's a criminal boss also educated by Achmed El-Gibar, and she wants a favor.

  Two days ago in a ex-KGB research facility: the X-Men meet Vazhin, who called in a favor from the Thieves Guild. He sends them to Sole's trendy nightclub to free Levin. Jean disguises them, even reconfiguring their minds, except for Hank, who makes a spectacle of himself as a distraction, and Ororo, who stands by as backup. The security system picks up on them anyway, and Sole has Sketch draw a new reality and capture them. Manacle manacles Ororo, but she defeats him, then flees Revenant's images of the dead from her past.

  Kurasov goes to Sole, delivering an unconscious Storm LMD to him, while the real Ororo sneaks in through an airshaft.

  Sole is auctioning off the X-Men, to either Voge or Farahd's Neo. Bludgeon and Cudgel interrupt Storm's rescue of Levin; she thunderbolts 'em, and Sketch takes this chance to rebel, redrawing the LMD to have machine gun arms, and freeing the X-Men. Jean and Nathan telepathically get the customers to evacuate; Hank hits Sole's pressure points so he releases Kurasov. Remy, Ororo, and Hank trick Manacle into weaving a thorny cage. Revenant attacks Jean but soon vanishes in horror; Sole attacks her, and she releases the Phoenix, which inadvertently knocks out Nathan.

  The Neo port away with Sole and his thugs, including the renegade Neo Galadriel. Levin takes charge and covers up the whole thing. The slave Sketch is free, and the slaver Voge is captured.