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The X-Men travel to a space station to rescue their abducted allies and must brave a solar storm to return home. // Based on X-Men #98-101
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  • infinityson FULL SYNOPSIS (Part 1) // It’s Christmas time and the X-Men are celebrating in Manhattan when they are suddenly attacked by Sentinels. Banshee, Wolverine and Jean are captured and taken away. Storm's elemental powers are able to fend off the Sentinel that attempts to apprehend her and Cyclops. Realizing that the Professor is a likely target for the mutant-hunting robots and might not be safe, he and Storm rush to contact him. Their warning comes too late. The Professor is aboard a ship owned by his colleague, Peter Corbeau of StarCore. Xavier is relating his recurrent nightmares to his old friend when the yacht is attacked by a Sentinel. Xavier manages to take it down with a psi-bolt and Peter quickly speeds away. Xavier is struck by another nightmare image, distracting him just as another Sentinel accosts their ship. Charles is abducted and the yacht is destroyed. In an unknown location, Wolverine, Banshee, Jean, and Charles are all prisoners of Stephen Lang and his Project: Armageddon operation. Lang explains to Jean that his goal is to wipe out all mutants because they are a menace to humanity. While Lang is distracted, Wolverine extracts his claws and cuts himself free. He then trashes the Sentinel guards. Lang flees while Wolverine frees Banshee and Jean. As they combat the robots guards, Banshee uses his sonic scream to clear a path through Project: Armageddon's base and smashes through the outer wall of the facility. They are sucked out by the blast and find themselves floating in the vaccuum of space. Back at the X-Mansion, Cyclops has spent the past few days using Cerebro to search for Jean and the others, to no avail. His teammates fear that the Sentinel’s prisoners are already dead. Peter Corbeau arrives and tells the remaining X-Men that he has deduced that the Sentinels took their teammates into outer space. // (X-Men #98)

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  • infinityson FULL SYNOPSIS (Part 2) // Banshee, Wolverine and Jean are rescued by Sentinels, who have been programmed to keep them alive for the time being. They are contained in environmental bubbles and brought back aboard the space station, where Lang assures them that escape is impossible. Peter Corbeau uses his connections with NASA to launch a StarCore shuttle into space under the pretense of examining an approaching solar radiation storm. As the shuttle blasts off into space, StarCore One detects a solar flare with a direct course for Earth’s orbit. They alert Corbeau, but it’s too late to turn back. Corbeau’s shuttle approaches the space station and he rams the shuttle through the hull of the satellite so that they can board the station. Cyclops is contacted telepathically by Jean who tells him that Wolverine and Banshee are being held in a lower deck cell block while she and the Professor are being held in the mission control center. Wanting to save Jean on his own, Cyclops orders the other X-Men to go to Banshee and Wolverine’s rescue. Making his way to the main mission control, Cyclops easily overpowers Lang and is about to beat him to death before Jean stops him. Then someone strikes Cyclops from behind, knocking him out. The other X-Men, now with Wolverine and Banshee, arrive in mission control. They are confronted by what appears to be the original X-Men, all led by Professor X, who demands they kill the new team! // (X-Men #99)

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  • infinityson FULL SYNOPSIS (Part 3) // A battle ensues. Most of the new team fight on the defensive, concerned about injuring their friends and comrades whom they believe are being mind-controlled. Wolverine, however, attacks Xavier and is caught off-guard when the Professor stands on two legs and knocks him down with one punch. Marvel Girl then attacks Wolverine, who now suspects something fishy. Using his feral senses, he deduces the truth and stops pulling punches, savagely slicing Marvel Girl open with his claws. At first, his comrades are shocked that he would use lethal force on Jean, until they see that “Marvel Girl” was really a robot, a Sentinel masquerading as Jean Grey… as are all the others. Now knowing the truth, the X-Men quickly destroy the “X-Sentinels”. Observing the battle from a secure location, Lang is enraged that his ruse has been exposed. He reveals to his captives (Jean, Scott, Xavier, and Corbeau) that he created the X-Sentinels to be unbeatable duplicates of the original X-Men. He intended to have them seek out and exterminate all other mutants, which would advance his genocidal agenda while laying the blame for mass murder on the X-Men themselves. Cyclops uses the opportunity to optic-blast through his confinement and free Jean, Xavier and Corbeau. The whole team is reunited, but find themselves stranded on the space station now that Lang and his minions have used all the escape pods to flee, but the approaching solar flares will very likely kill everyone still aboard the station. Upon examining the shuttle, Corbeau determines they can use it to escape but that the autopilot has been damaged. Although the shuttle has a containment room that will shield its passengers from the solar flares, somebody will have to remain on the bridge and manually pilot the ship back to Earth and whoever that pilot is will be incinerated by the solar flare’s radiation! Jean volunteers for the suicide mission, reasoning that her telekinetic abilities will enable her to work all the controls that a full flight crew would normally have to operate. She telepathically "downloads" all of Corbeau's knowledge on how to pilot the shuttle and confidently states her telekinetic shielding will shield her from the radiation, but all are aware that Jean will likely die. Scott balks, but she knocks him out and orders the other X-Men and Corbeau into the shielded room. Wolverine and Storm try to talk Jean out of sacrificing herself for them, but to no avail. Sealing the hole in the ship with a telekinetic shield, Jean begins the dangerous task of piloting the ship back through Earth. In the shielded room, Cyclops revives and tries to break free, forcing the other X-Men to restrain him. As Jean flies the ship through the solar storm, her powers are pushed to the limits and the radiation pushes through. // (X-Men #100)

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  • infinityson FULL SYNOPSIS (Part 4) // The out-of-control spacecraft crashes into Jamaica Bay, practically disintegrating into pieces. The X-Men and Peter Corbeau all rise to the surface and Scott immediately begins looking for signs of Jean. Everyone is shocked, however, when Jean suddenly flies out of the water in a new costume, proclaiming herself to be power incarnate and calling herself “Phoenix.” But no sooner does she majestically rise into the air, she faints and plunges back into the water below her. Cyclops pulls Jean to shore. As the group awaits news of Jean in the hospital, Scott fears the worst, wondering what he will do if she doesn't pull through. His fears are allayed though when Jean's doctors enter the room and inform them that she will make a full recovery. The news elates the X-Men, none more so than Scott, who slips away to an unoccupied room and privately breaks down in tears. // (X-Men #101)

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