Power Play

• Writer - Steve Seagle
• Writer - Joe Kelly
• Penciler - Chris Bachalo
• Inker - Jon Holdredge
• Inker - Scott Hanna
• Inker - Tim Townsend
• Lettering - Richard Starkings
• Lettering - Comicraft
• Colorist - Shannon Blanchard
• Editor - Mark Powers
• Editor in Chief - Bob Harras
• Penciler - Ryan Benjamin

Summary

  Rogue daydreams about being able to touch Remy and lets Agee put her in his DNA Matrix Chamber.

  Jean goes to Shaman, who happens to be in Anchorage, and he doesn't find any physical effects of the psi-plane attack. But she is completely mind-blind; she can't even sense Scott.

  Gyrich and the Brickmans observe Agee's process, highly skeptical. The nurse asks Rogue if she's having second thoughts, but she has recently touched Remy, Joseph, and Logan (iss. 349, 354, and 353), and wants more. Mystique impersonates the nurse, pulls a machine gun, and fires at Agee. Rogue goes after her, so Mystique reveals herself and says she's come to rescue her.

  Jean is inconsolable.

  Rogue goes with Mystique to her Upper West Side apartment and gets bawled out, but she insists she wants to be cured so she can have a lover and babies. Mystique says she's betraying all mutants, like she did Remy, whose form she takes. Rogue throws her down and says she abandoned him only because his voice in her head said to. She touches Mystique, since that is the only way to know the truth.

  Gyrich takes Agee to the Mutopia lab, where there's a backup system. Rogue, having borrowed Mystique's power, takes Mrs. Brickman's form and gets to the lab, busts up the guards, and touches Agee. She learns his experiments killed and mutilated, but now the process works.

  Rogue ignores both Agee and Mystique and makes up her own mind. She destroys the machine and sends Agee to care for his sister.

  Jean finds comfort in Scott's arms, but she'll need time to recuperate.

  Rogue returns to the mansion.