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Generation Next, Part 3: "Enter Freely and of Your Own Will"
Part 3 of "The Phalanx Covenant"

Synopsis by Niki. Thanks!:

Paige Guthrie wakes up in an unknown place wearing a black techno-organic suit and covered, strangely, with a black blanket who is actually the young mutant known as Angelo Espinosa. There are three other children in the room: Gregor, who held in his arm the frightened Clarice Ferguson, and on the other side of the room, the pensive Monet St. Croix, who's silent the whole time. While she tries to convince Clarice that the X-Men are going to rescue her, Paige doesn't notice that the transmode virus that Harvest infected her with is spreading. Meanwhile, in San Francisco, the X-Men known as Jubilee and Banshee, along with the White Queen and the young mutant named Everett Thomas make their way to Emma Frost's home. They went there after they followed Paige's psionic signature but lost it when they entered the California border. The White Queen then used her computers to look for the S.H.I.E.L.D. Safehouse so they could use their more advanced technology to find techno-organic anomalies and therefore, find the Phalanx and the children! The White Queen's telepathic masking of their presence enables them to bypass security. However, since it is raining, they have puddles on their feet that Emma wasn't able to mask. They are found and after using Sean's power to attack the guards, they have to work faster. Back in the techno-organic dome that holds the young mutants, the once-human Phalanx known as Harvest appears, but after Clarice learns of their plans to cull other beings on the planet, she uses her unstable power to teleport Harvest limb by limb. Unfortunately, Gregor stopped her before she finally destroyed Harvest. Later when everyone is planning to get out of the dome, Gregor insists on staying. Suddenly, Monet tears techno-organic materials from her clothes and slams it into a light source which is also connected to the Phalanx's energy source. The beam that emits from the "window" strikes Gregor and reveals him to be one of the Phalanx. The ray also seems to render him useless and well, dead! Monet explains that Gregor is a Phalanx agent monitoring them from the inside - whatever she did to him had a scientific explanation which was really, really complicated. She punches a whole into the wall which leads them outside to what they believe is freedom.