A Nation Rising

• Writer - Scott Lobdell
• Penciler - Bryan Hitch
• Inker - Cam Smith
• Colorist - Steve Buccellato
• Colorist - Electric Crayon
• Lettering - Richard Starkings
• Lettering - Comicraft
• Editor - Bob Harras

Summary

  For once, Rogue is living up to her name, touring the country in her Daisy Dukes, and Bobby (who has bleached his hair, evidently) tags along as nervous-nelly. They get a flat on Route 66 and she doesn't let him use his powers: she wants to get away from mutants, especially Remy.

  Betsy and Warren work out in the Danger Room; Warren is still shaken by the disco massacre. Suddenly Remy wakes from his coma, blasts down the door and demands to see Rogue. He says she was in his head, "in danger," and passes out.

  Sam has Sabretooth on a leash, trying to keep up with him as he runs across the grounds. (Logan pierced his brain in Wolverine 90 and cut off his homicidal mania.) Sabretooth smells Logan; Logan isn't sure his mind was really wiped, especially now that he can talk again. Sam intervenes to prevent homicide, so Logan pops claws on him. Ororo arrives and blows him back; she wants his help investigating the disco.

  Hank goes to the CNBC studio to yell at Trish because she broke the Legacy virus story and inflamed anti-mutant hysteria, indirectly inciting a murder (X-Men Prime). She insists people have a right to know, and he walks out on her.

  At New York's city hall, Graydon gives a speech about the massacre, inflaming anti-mutant hysteria.

  Rogue and Bobby talk, but she doesn't want to say what she saw in Remy's head. Bobby, meanwhile, sees the White Queen in his head (cf. X-Men II:31).

  Ororo, Logan, and Sam go to meet Charlotte, who takes them to the pathologist Chen, who says the 33 killed in the disco had no cause of death. Logan says something smells funny and slashes him; Sam knocks him aside. Sack emerges from Chen's corpse; Vessel comes in through the wall. They say they're from Gene Nation.