Now, Briggs has locked on to the location of Vulcan, and is heading right for him and the X-Men who have been missing as Vulcan tells Scott that he’s telling him the truth. But Scott still believes that Krakoa let him go and doesn’t believe Xavier would wipe his mind, and this all must be more tricks like the image of Jean. Gabe tries to explain it again, but this is when the Sentinel arrives. Briggs tells him to halt, but Vulcan attacks him and repels a beam from the Sentinel. As the two are fighting, Scott takes this time to tell Rachel to get out of there. She doesn’t want to, but he finally orders her and she takes off just before the Sentinel crashes and takes out half of Moira’s old labs. When Briggs emerges from the Sentinel, he doesn’t last long as Vulcan then fries him with his powers. Scott jumps him, saying he didn’t have to kill him, but no, Vulcan says it’s all a part of his plan. His plan to bring Xavier to him.

In a bar in Wales, the report about Vulcan being responsible for the plane crash and Brigg’s death is playing on the television. A man standing at the bar sees this, and pays his tab and leaves.

The other X-Men are back at the mansion watching the same report. Havok wants to head out immediately, but the others think it’s smart to look into it a bit more. As Emma think she recognizes Vulcan from somewhere, Kitty phases in saying she found something. She looked up the property where the Sentinel fight took place, and found out its ownership history. Beast finally recognizes the place as well and the others begin to figure out that Vulcan is one of the kids Moira was talking about on the video, only he isn’t as dead as she mentioned. But where is he headed now? That’s when Rachel arrives to clue them in.

And it is Muir island that they are headed too. Cyclops wants to know why they’re there, since they already looked for Xavier there. Gabe knows, but one of them, the Irish one, found something out about him there, but he’s dead now. Scott is incensed at the news of his old friend’s death. Gabe tries to say that it was just to create a spectacle to lure Xavier out, but Scott isn’t listening. He never could have been an X-Man if he killed people like this and he could never be his brother either. But Gabe still persists, talking a little about his past with the Shi’ar and how Xavier opened something in his mind to show him what was at risk for him to go to Krakoa. But Scott still doesn’t believe that Xavier wouldn’t tell him and that he’d wipe his memory later. Well, Gabe says, then he can ask him himself. Scott turns to see the man from the bar walking up, who removes his hat to show that he is Xavier!

Scott is shocked to see him walking, and Xavier begins to say that’s how he found himself when the world was remade, but Vulcan immediately shouts to put an end to the little reunion. Xavier tries to tell Gabe that he’s making a mistake, but Gabe is still furious with him, and Scott is wondering just how Xavier knows this guy’s name. Before any answers can be given, one of the X-jets flies over their heads. Vulcan says that he could just kill all of them right now, but Xavier begs him to leave them out of this since they had nothing to do with it, but he just says he’d be doing it to hurt Xavier, not them. Nightcrawler teleports Wolverine and Emma down from the jet and he and Logan go for Vulcan, but he quickly knocks them out. Xavier begs him to just take his revenge on him, and Vulcan says he definitely will and puts an energy collar around the man. The rest of the X-Men have finally gotten of the ship now, and tell him to let Xavier go, or they’ll do whatever they can to make him. He says no, but he’ll cut a deal. They stay right where they are and he promises not to break Xavier’s neck until after he’s done what he wants, and he wants Xavier to tell them the truth. Charles starts by apologizing to Scott, and that yes, Gabriel is his brother. He begins to tell the rest of the story, but Gabe yells for him to stop, completely encircling him in energy, and demands that Xavier show them the way he showed him in the past. Charles says he wishes he could. Apparently, when Wanda remade the world, she wanted to show him what a real cripple is like. He can’t use his telepathy because he isn’t a mutant anymore!

Back-up story: A long time ago, Emma Frost enters the Hellfire Club and is immediately berated by a doorman named Denny for being late Mr. Shaw told him to keep an eye on her. Does that include hands, she asks, as she hangs up her trenchcoat to reveal she’s wearing nothing but the white lingerie she’s known for. He “whatevers” her and tells her she’s got gentlemen to entertain.

Turns out, she’s a dancer at the club, think stripper, and didn’t realize things were about to change for her, because it turns out, that night is when the club was visited by Xavier and Moira. He asks her about a private dance, and no sooner are they in the room, then she is telepathically demanding for him to give her all his money. However, he just shoots a telepathic message back at her asking if this is how she wants to use her powers. She’s shocked that he can do that too, but is also a bit shaken at being out rightly called a mutant. He tries telling her his usual speech about how mutants aren’t supposed to be afraid of their gifts and how they can help, but is laying it on a little more thick this time, which Moira points out, as well as seemingly trying to use some telepathic persuasion that Emma notices. She doesn’t take kindly to all of this and demands for them to leave even though he says everyone else in the club knows about her too.

Outside by their car, Moira congratulates Xavier and such a successful recruitment mission. Why didn’t he just demand her to come with them at gunpoint? However, he says just to wait a bit, and Emma comes running out of the club wondering what he meant about the others knowing about her. He points out that she’s never been able to see into the minds of the men in the club, and they ask her again to come with them, but again she hesitates, and Denny then comes out a tries to drag her back inside. All of a sudden, he’s hit with an energy blast by Vulcan, who was waiting in the car. Before things can get any more out of hand, Xavier freezes everyone surrounding them except Moira and Gabe. Xavier says Moira was right, it was a mistake to come there. Too much else is going on and Emma may never come with them ever, so everyone else is just going to forget what happened. Gabe asks if he can really do that and why doesn’t he just have her change her mind. Xavier says that would be wrong, but Gabe counters asking that messing with memories isn’t? Xavier says there is a difference, and he’s really protecting Emma. They’ll just have to trust him, but they don’t look so sure.

Review: Well, they certainly are living up to revealing lots of stuff in this series. Mainly those two doozies of reveals with Xavier. So, he can walk again, nothing totally new, but he’s also no longer a mutant. That one should be considered the real shocker, even though there’s been rumors swirling for awhile now that he wouldn’t be one when he returned. I actually see this as a positive development. Now, we’ve got Magneto and Xavier, arguably two of the most important mutant characters in the history of Marvel, downgraded to mere human status. That’s a powerful twist right there when you think about all that has gone on between and involving these two over the decades. It also lends to some interesting possibilities in future arcs, especially with Xavier joining the Uncanny team and going into space to the Shi’ar again. Just how his relationship with Lilandra will be affected, even though it wasn’t on such good terms the last time they met, now that they don’t have their telepathic connection anymore because of this is probably the biggest question. It also makes me wish we will get to see more of a depowered Magneto as well. Can you just image a conversation between those two now?

I’m also glad that they took the time to set up a nice precedent for Xavier wiping people’s memories. I know that a lot of times he will freeze them and walk away, but I could never really think of a major time when he started wiping their minds. So, it makes sense for them to go back and do it in here. It was also interesting in have that coincide with the first time Xavier apparently tried to recruit Emma. The setup was clever, and from what I understand, totally in continuity.

Nothing really new to say about the art except that the action was handled nicely, and the details were held really well. The shot of Briggs’ charred bones was especially creepy.

Next issue we should finally get to see what happened on the mission on Krakoa, and the outcomes of the other members of Vulcan’s team. I’m still pulling for them to be brought back to life somehow because I’m really interested in them.