A Green and Tender Place

• Writer - Scott Lobdell
• Penciler - Joe Quesada
• Inker - Al Milgrom
• Lettering - Richard Starkings
• Colorist - Tom Smith
• Editor - Kelly Corvese
• Group Editor - Bob Harras
• Editor in Chief - Tom Defalco

Summary

  Lorna prevents Rahne from flying back to the US alone, and they each share their anger about having their minds manipulated.

  Alex is enraged at the lies of the Genoshan government. He destroys the monitoring devices in the president's garden, only to have them reform into Piecemeal, one of the bodyguards. Since he is energy-based, Alex puts him down with a left-cross.

  Val tells Pietro not to come to Genosha, and when Jamie questions this, she yells at and insults him.

  The Genoshan president and Genegineer reveal to X-Factor that the mutates are dying of an untreatable disease (eventually known as the Legacy Virus). Moira is off to Paris to confer with Xavier (Uncanny X-Men 300), and Rahne feels abandoned.

  Mutate 24601, infected, escapes the hospital, and X-Factor runs off to catch him before the Genoshans terminated him.