Before the commander can fully ask who she’s talking to, something comes over him and he’s apologizing and telling the other officers that Wolverine is to be released into the X-Men’s custody. As one officer takes them to where Logan is being held, one soldier asks if there was anyone else on the jet or if these two have psychic powers? The other soldier confirms a negative to both cases and asks why. He seems to begin to say that something was wrong with the commander, but brushes it off with a sudden need to pee.

Logan, clad in some spare army fatigues, is glad they finally got there; he thought he was going to have to extract himself for a bit there. Beast says that a bloodless extraction would look the best, and Logan cops that he was a good boy, even let them handcuff him; but what did they say to get him out? Nothing, Kitty says, as they board the jet. He begins to ask just how, but then the question is answered for him when he gets on and sees Emma seated aboard. He knows how she made the soldiers not see her, but how did she pull that one on a Sentinel? Thankfully, these Sentinels are manned by men and she could send her telepathy through their laser scanner waves right to the pilots. A design flaw that could prove handy in the future. One thing she couldn’t figure out, even after scanning Logan’s mind, is just what happened down there before and where Scott and Rachel are.

Well, they’re apparently locked up in some old abandoned place that looks like it used to be someone’s base. Rachel weakly calls for Scott to wake up, and when he does, he asks where they are, as we get a better look at the base, and we see them strapped to two panels that come out from opposite walls with parts of the walls acting like shackles around their arms. He suggest she blast the shackles since he can’t do anything with arms tied, but she says it’s all she can do to stay awake. He remembers the bad guy saying something about shutting off her brain, and that he took them all out like they were students. She tells him that there’s also something else, Scott’s not wearing his visor.

Back at the school, Beast, Kitty, Emma, and Havok are in Cerebra trying to get it up and running again, with Alex getting frustrated and nearly ruining the machine again when Emma doesn’t read anything. Hank finally orders him out and he leaves, cursing himself for his stupidity, when he hears familiar voices behind him. He turns to see Polaris and Iceman flirting, but they’re in some of their older costumes, and looking rather transparent. They go to leave and pass right through him, unnerving him so that he snaps at Nightcrawler when he arrives and asks if everything is ok.

At the old base, Rachel is picking something up, though her powers aren’t really working still. She senses the Professor there, but it’s only a psychic imprint from long ago. She says she’s getting a jumble of fear, pride, and theory from there and all she really knows is that the place was used for something. Scott says that he’s been with Xavier longer than anyone, but doesn’t recognize the place at all. Except he does, says their just arrived captor, only not from down there. Mystery Man says that he’s seen him and his pals upstairs. Scott thinks this guy is insane, to which he may have to be at this point, but he promises one thing; he won’t lie to them. Scott begins demanding who he is and where his powers have gone, but MM just shushes him, saying that he didn’t agree to answer questions. What’s the point, asks Scott. What’s the point of any imprisonment? Punishment. Scotts and to witness someone elses, which is what the girl is for and the only reason she’s not dead like Wolverine. After he leaves, Scott realizes that he doesn’t know he couldn’t have killed Wolverine the way he thinks he did, so how does he know Scott, yet not know about Wolverine?

Banshee is now on a plane headed to the states and is calling Nightcrawler to tell him he’s on his way to Westchester with some possible information. Kurt notes that he sounds frazzled, and Sean says that’s putting it gently, as he still feels like he’s chasing ghosts. Kurt changes the subject to what he found, but Sean says it’s nothing good and something that he’d only trust himself to deliver. He goes to give the flight information as we see that the Mystery Mutant is listening in on the Blackbird computer.

As Kurt and Logan are leaving the institute in Logan’s jeep, Kurt steals a glance back at the mansion, which his friend easily picks up on. Kurt admits that he’s worried and tells him about the visions he saw and that he thinks something similar happened to the others, including Banshee. Logan then admits to them seeing Jean, which shocks Kurt and wonders if it’s all connected. Logan doesn’t know, but hopes Banshee has some answers.

The plane is starting to come in for it’s landing, with Logan and Kurt having arrived and watching, when a kid on the plane notices another jet, the blackbird to be exact, coming towards the plane. Sean quickly jumps into action, stripping down to his uniform, and he leaps from the plane, saying he only has a slim chance at this. He flies towards the jet and lets off a sonic scream, but it does nothing and keeps coming straight at him until it explodes, causing his friends to scream for him on the ground.

Back-up Story: Armando Munoz, an African American boy, has five days that mean the most to him. The first is the day his father left because his son was different, which made his mother cry and reject him. Armando knew he was different too. His arms are longer than normal, strange eyes and shape of his head, and no hair anywhere. His mom’s cruelty never left him, but it made him love her even more.

The second day was when his IQ tested off the charts. Even his mother, who hadn’t soften to him since that day 4 years ago, seemed happy. But mostly out of the fact that there are private schools interested in paying to teach him and take him away. He was enrolled in Baltimore Academy, where he lived for nine years, with the visits home happening less and less, and the kids constantly bullying him. It was this bullying that led to the third day, when a couple kids shoved his head in a toilet, he learned he could breathe underwater, and then he changed his hands into rock to knock them out. They never picked on him again, but Armando lived in denial that he was a mutant for another year.

The fourth day of importance came on one of his few visits home. His mother had fallen asleep in the living room smoking, and the house caught on fire. He carried her out of the house, the heat and the smoke having absolutely no effect on him, and the firemen were amazed. It was as if he has fireproof skin. This changed everything when the scientists at the academy heard, and they subjected him to constant tests. The head scientist even published a paper on him, calling him Darwin, the Evolving Boy, and lead to Armando understanding what he is; a mutant. This infuriated his mother even further, leading to her finally physically slapping him.

The fifth day was soon after what his mother did, when he tried to end his life by jumping off the roof of the academy. Without trying, his body changed, made him lighter with softer bones, and he landed completely unharmed. Later that day, in the psychiatrists office, after he realized killing himself was the wrong thing to do, the psychiatrist had an idea. There’s a lady just outside who’s been wanting a chance to get to meet Darwin, since she works with kids just like him. He’s a bit hesitant at first, but the doctor assures him that he’ll really like her. That was the day he truly became Darwin, when a strange lady he never met came along to save his life.

Review: Another solid issue that really builds up this mystery and makes it even more interesting. Just what is it that Banshee found on that disk with Moira? I think it connects directly to our newest back-up mutant, Darwin. The lady who came to see him clearly would be someone like Moira. What other female scientist can you think of that works with mutants?

As far as my theory from last time, it hasn’t changed much, just the part about how the mystery mutant(s) ended up on Krakoa. Since the main bad guy didn’t know Wolverine, he’d have to have gone to Krakoa before Wolverine’s team. But it wouldn’t make sense to send him alone, so he’d have to have gone with several other people, namely Petra from the last issue, and now Darwin. Darwin is clearly the figure on the far right of the cover to issue 4. The shape of the heads being the big giveaway. That could also explain the nasty message Moira recorded about Xavier, in that Xavier came to take Darwin to save the original X-Men from Krakoa, but Moira didn’t want him to go because of the danger, and then he was killed, leading her to be majorly ticked at him. As far as who the main mystery guy is, I still think it’s very likely that he’ll be the third Summers brother.

Also, Banshee’s totally not dead. At least not yet. He may even turn out to be the guy that Wolverine’s holding on the cover of the next issue. I don’t really want to see him go, but I doubt that he’d be gone for good. They always come back, ya know. I still think there’s a lot that could be done with him, especially now with Siryn’s much larger role in the marvelverse with X-Factor.

The art lost some of its darker, edgier feel to it this issue since Hairsine only did the layouts, but it still looked rather nice compared to much else is that is out there now and fits perfectly in with the tone of the story. Really can’t wait to see where this goes from here!