Spoilers: At the Jean Grey School lab, Arkea awakens in Omega Sentinel’s
body and attacks Beast. She knows Sublime is in there and is seeking to destroy
him. For that end, she activates the Danger Room’s security protocols and locks
the school. Rogue heads down to the labs to check the source of the security
system hack. Elsewhere Psylocke and Rachel cannot sense the Jubilee's baby's mind. Rogue
attacks Arkea. Omega Sentinel’s body tech makes it difficult to defeat her.
Kitty and Storm join Psylocke and Rachel. Sublime explains to them that Arkea
moves through technology. Storm orders Kitty to destroy every system in the
school. Sublime says the only way to kill Arkea is to destroy the host body.
Back at the labs, Arkea has neutralized Rogue and downloaded all data available.
Upon analyzing the data, she’s worried about the one called Kitty Pryde since her
powers are a threat Omega Sentinel’s body. Kitty is reluctant about
killing Karima, which gives Arkea the opportunity to conclude downloading the
X-men’s database and fleeing. Back at the Hangar, the X-Men pinpoint Arkea over
the Atlantic and are ready to pursue her. Jubilee asks to go with them, taking
the baby as well. Storm agrees. Storm, Psylocke, Rachel, Sublime and Jubilee
take the blackbird, while Kitty stays at the school. Sublime reveals that Arkea
was possessing the baby, and after she left it, his psyche was rebooted. At the
school, Kitty gathers the students to clean up the mess left by the invasion. Bling!
finds a bomb about to go off.
“For so long, my life has been out of control. Chaos and serendipity, wrapped in insanity. I have suffered, I have lost. Not just my life, but my very soul, my self. But no more. Now I know who I am.” – Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ Braddock, daughter of Otherworld, mutant, telepath, telekinetic, defender of the realm and, above all, X-Man.
4 comments:
Arkea rebooted the baby's psyche? Poor baby! I hope he'll be alright in the end...
This book is incredible! But although Wood mentioned that he wouldn't explore Jubilee's situation as a vampire too much, I hope next issue she manages to use some of her vampire powers (especially the ability to turn into mist; she's also supposed to be superstrong, but Rogue's also superstrong now, so it would be kinda redundant...).
And of course, I hope Psylocke gets some nice action scenes next issue! Go Betsy!!
...You know, it just occurred to me now: if Arkea possesses technological beings or equipment, how was she able to possess Jubilee's baby?
I'm not sure if this is a mistake or if there is an explanation (like, she CAN possess organic beings but it's easier for her to possess technology, or the baby is actually an android or a cyborg), but I hope Wood addresses this matter soon...
This has become my top X-book. This is like the X-men were when I was growing up. They are family, not the Action team we got for most of the early millennium. Psylocke here is the real one to me. UXF-locke, dunno who she is.
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