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Generation Next, Part 1: "Encounters"
Part 1 of "The Phalanx Covenant"
Summary by CharleyX:
Monaco. It's a dark and stormy night, and Col. Gayle Cord-Becker, Ret.
is traveling in a limo with her charge, the young Monet
St. Croix. Monet is completely unresponsive, and the Colonel makes a
reference to seomthing bad that happened to her brother and "the twins"
Suddenly the limo swerves out of control and crashes. A Phalanx
unit stands in from of the car, and absorbs the driver. Cord-Becker pushes
Monet out of the car, and tells her to run, but Monet doesn't budge. The
Colonel fires three shots into the Phalanx and then screams as she is absorbed.
The Phalanx then picks Monet up and teleports away with her. Mean while,
in the USA, Banshee, recently returned to the
X-Mansion, is checking in on Emma Frost, whose life
he helped save only days before. She's in the medlab in isolation with power
dampeners on, but she's raving about how the X-Men are trying to keep her
from knowing the truth. Banshee does question the wisdom of having Storm
and Iceman, both of whom have good reason to hate
Emma, run these test, but Storm reassures him as she ushers him out. Sean
tries to work off his frustration in the Danger
Room but it's locked, with Jubilee running
a session inside. Sean wonders at allowing the youngster in there unsupervised,
but shrugs it off. Then he hears an incoming call and picks up to see Cyclops
and Phoenix still on their honeymoon and looking
for Professor X They say they have information
on the Legacy Virus (which they got in
the future - see The Adventures of Cyclops and Pheonix LS). Sean tells them
that Xavier is on Muir Island and they
agree to go there to meet with him. As Sean hangs up Archangel
flies in and grills Sean about what he was doing, berating him for releasing
classified information to "unauthorized personnel." Sean tells him to chill
and Warren cools off and sets about contacting Muir. Then Sean notices Psylocke
strolling out of Xavier's Ready Room, the only off-limits place in the complex.
Sean steels himself and walks in to find Bishop
and Gambit working on some computer equipment.
He jokes with them and throws in some false information about Xavier, with
which they agree, proving to Sean that these X-Men are impostors. He leaves
and tries to locate Storm but the computer tells him that none of the X-Men
are in the Mansion. Sean returns to the comm system to contact Muir but
the equipment has been completely dissected in under half an hour Beast
is responsible, and a few quick lines get Sean out of there. So he goes
to get Creed, whom he knows is real, and encounters Rogue
playing guard. Rogue won't let him in to see Creed, and grabs him, so Banshee
opens up his vocal cords on her, exposing her as a Phalanx. Sean quickly
frees Creed, forcing him to cooperate by means of a detonator linked to
Creed's manacles. The Phalanx recovers, but Creed makes short work of her.
While Creed goes to bust Jubes and Emma out, Sean hoofs it to Cerebro
and sees that the Phalanx are after some neo-mutants, kids whom Xavier had
catalogued in order to recruit them someday. The Phalanx X-Men burst in,
and Banshee defends himself, but then zips down a hole in the floor as the
entire room explodes, unfortunately taking many of Xavier's files with it.
Creed, Emma, and Jubilee meet up with Sean, who tells them they must track
down the neo-mutants before the Phalanx captures them!
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