Back in the hideout in Hell’s Kitchen, Hawkeye still has an arrow aimed at Wolverine and is still demanding he crash the tracker, saying he knows that he’s a member of SHIELD. Cage is also still wondering how the mutant knows him, but before he get a chance to answer, Hawkeye has had enough and shoots his arrow through Logan’s neck and takes out the tracker. As Wolverine’s vision fades, Cage begins to berate Hawkeye for his rash actions, especially in front of a child. They continue to argue as Felicia Hardy, a.k.a. The Black Cat, notices Wolverine is waking up and informs the others. He demands to know how long he was out, and Misty Knight says it was about thirty seconds. Too late, he says, they should have removed the tracker before they brought him in. All of a sudden, the ceiling collapses in and two sentinels loom overhead. They open fire and Misty and a couple other resistance members fall. Cloak jumps into action and teleports the survivors out.

In the Kingpin’s empty office, Cloak rises up out of the shadows, then opens his cloak to deposit the rest of the gang, in a not so comfortable manner, back on solid ground. Marc Spector wonders if he got everyone, but Hawkeye, Cage, and Felicia notice they’re missing several people and that they can see a large dust cloud rising up from where their hideout used to be in Hell’s Kitchen. Cage turns to Wolverine and says he better have been worth it and just what does he think is going on. Logan’s apprehensive because he doubts he’ll believe him, but Cage says to try. He begins by first asking why Cage and his gang grabbed him. Cage says that they have sources on his helicarrier, and when they heard he jumped ship, they thought it would be a nice opportunity. Logan then asks if he remembers being in the Avengers with him, but Cage doesn’t even know what an Avenger is. Wolverine then goes into an exposition about who he used to be and how the world used to be with mutants still being in the minority and people always finding a way to fear them. He then talks about the X-Men and their greatest enemy, Magneto, but Hawkeye says everyone knows about him. Logan then tries to move on to Magneto’s children, specifically Wanda, but Clint interrupts again saying that she’s the human. Logan’s shocked at this, as Clint goes into an explanation how she’s always being brought up in the tabloids and how she was brought up equal to his mutant children, and that she’s used as a symbol for those who believe that mutants and humans will still be equals. Well, says Logan, the other day she was a mutant called the Scarlet Witch, and he describes her powers and how she lost her mind and ended up killing several heroes before the X-Men and Avengers went to take care of her, until the world went white, (“White?” questions Cage), and he woke up to all this. Magneto with from mass murderer to world leader, with no heroes to stand in his way of this mutant utopia, and Logan has Hawkeye of all people sticking arrows in his neck. Clint wonders where he fit in before this whole thing, but Logan takes a second before telling him that he was dead. Wanda killed him. Hawkeye doesn’t take it so well.

Felicia doesn’t buy this whole thing, but Cage does, seeing as he’s supposed to have a kid on the way that he saw. It takes Logan a second, but wonders what he saw, before moving on to recognizing Iron Fist and Moon Knight as members of this little resistance. Cage asks what they need to do to get things back to normal, but Wolverine asks why he believes him. Luke points out the young girl who’s been with them, saying that she came up to him the other day, telling him everything that Logan just said, and then she showed him just the way things are supposed to be. Logan goes up to the girl, who introduces herself as Layla, and asks where she came from. She says she lives in Hell’s Kitchen and just woke up yesterday to find everything was just wrong. He tries to test her if she’s psychic, but she doesn’t know what he’s talking about, and asks if she’s crazy. He assures her she’s not, and Felicia, who still doesn’t buy it, asks why it’s just those two who remember the world. Logan reiterates that he’s had his mind wiped so many times, he doesn’t remember who he was before a certain time, but he woke up a couple days ago remembering every moment of his life. It’s all he… All he what, Cage asks. All he ever wanted. Logan has had a light bulb go off and figures that Magneto had his daughter give everyone all they ever wanted so he could have all he ever wanted. Cage asks how that would even be possible, but Wolverine just says, “Charlie,” and asks for a phone book.

At the Summers’ residence in Connecticut, Cloak pops up and deposits everyone into the empty apartment, weapons ready. Felicia asks just who’s place this is. “A friend, (I think).” As Logan examines a wedding photo of Scott and Emma, he asks Layla if she ready to change the world. She freaks out at all this responsibility that has suddenly fallen upon her, saying she doesn’t even know what she did to Cage. He asks her why she went to Luke in the first place, and she says he was the first person he came across after learning the truth, and asks what’s going on. He says she’s a mutant, and then hears Emma approaching. Emma is a bit surprised at what she finds when she enters, and is disgusted that someone has the nerve to rob her of all people. She’s frozen their minds, as she doesn’t want to hear from them, but picks up a strange thought in Wolverine. She asks just how he knows her, and he thinks something else that points her to Layla. She tries to get answers out of Layla this time, and goes prying into her mind, but only activates the young girl’s mutant powers. Layla’s eyes glow a bright green, as do Emma’s as she has flashes of her real life. We see her as a young girl going to school, her time in the Hellfire Club, as a teacher for the X students, and rolling around in bed with Cyclops. She then yells out Charles, and get another look at the memory Logan had with the hidden figures standing behind Xavier, but this time, we get a close up of Xavier’s face, sweating a lot with his eyes bulging and a single tear running down his cheek. Emma collapses into Logan’s arms, demanding to know if he $#^%ing kidding her with this. He introduces her to the others as Emma Frost, leader of the X-Men, but she’s still furious with the revelations, barely able to string a sentence together, but says that they’re going to kill Magneto, and his children. Logan says he’s got no problem with that, but they’ll need more forces and even if they do succeed, that doesn’t mean the world’s not screwed for good.

Review: Very interesting issue. Obviously, this was meant to be one of the big exposition issues to get some of the plot straightened out. Such as how the world is suspected to have been changed and why the people ended up the way they did, with their greatest desires. So not too much action happened, as you can tell by there only being about three scene changes in my review, but the Sentinels were a decent surprise. Kinda surprised to see a character like Misty Knight bite it so early, especially as she was positioned in the artwork in the past to be like a right hand to Cage. I do hope this leads to a bit more panel time to the underused members at least, such as Moon Knight, since he’s supposed to make a big return sometime in the near future.

It is awfully convenient that a good chunk of fixing things seems to lie on the shoulders of one lone new character, but I like what they’re doing with Layla so far, her panic at suddenly having this great power suddenly thrust upon her is very realistic, so I’m willing to go along. Something I’ve been wondering, however, is why Cage is the only one to have been shown the true world by Layla? It’s obvious that no one else was shown it, because several of them are outright questioning Logan’s sanity at this whole thing. Wouldn’t he want the rest of his gang to know the truth as well? He also seemed to have taken it much better than Emma did later, so maybe she didn’t show him everything because she didn’t have Emma tinkering with her powers to bring them to full force that time.

Speaking of Layla, I really liked the effect they did for her powers. It’s creepy, yet intriguing at the same time. The panel with the combination of flashbacks of Emma’s past was also very interesting and beautifully done. They’ve definitely chosen a great artist to go with this title, and he really shows his understanding at how important it is to have great art to go along with something that is being touted to change the entire Marvel Universe for years to come. He’s got a bright future ahead of him even if things don’t pan out story-wise.