The Fall of the Brotherhood

• Writer - Howard Mackie
• Penciler - Duncan Rouleau
• Inker - Art Thibert
• Lettering - Comicraft
• Lettering - Richard Starkings
• Lettering - Kiff Scholl
• Colorist - Glynis Oliver
• Editor - Kelly Corvese
• Editor - Frank Pittarese
• Editor in Chief - Bob Harras

Summary

  In Poughkeepsie, cops chase a criminal holding hostages on a speeding bus. They try to race past a train, but instead collide. Sprites rescue all the passengers; only Black, Doe, and Young are killed. They are immediately possessed by Sprites containing the minds of Archer, Fixx, and Greystone, resp. Shard, wandering toward Westchester, knows they've arrived.

  Alex muses in Rockefeller Center: how he formed the Brotherhood to get at McCoy, how he no longer trusts even Xavier. A monster attacks Ever and a little girl, so he destroys it. Ever tries to tell him McCoy's body tanks aren't what he thinks.

  Fixx, Archer, and Greystone call Mystique as Mallory Brickman and make her meet them in Grand Central. (Wasn't this book supposed to be based in DC?) They are accosted by a Mystique as a policeman, but they see through her disguise. They tell her a mutual friend put them together, to go into the past and change the future. She fights, until they quote her dead friend Destiny, when she agrees to help them get Havok.

  Alex busts up the sewers, gunning for McCoy. He sends Aurora away and blows Fatale away. Then Mystique and the XUE show up to stop him, and Shard to back him up.