Synopsis & Review by DarkPhoenix89:
Synopsis: Muir Island…
Cable is trapped by Predator X and Bishop who both stand on either side of him. Cable ducks as Bishop fires at him and Predator X flies over Cable and bites off Bishops arm.

Kurt tries to explain to Scott that Pixie tried to save them but Scott says it doesn’t matter. He orders X-Force to go after Predator X but Warpath says he needs them there. Scott says no he doesn’t and asks Emma if she can hear him. Emma is taking on Exodus on the astral plane and she responds to him. He tells her to tell the students to take on the Marauders. Emma says she told them to stay back out of danger but Scott points out Sinister and his people have been studying them for years, let’s throw something at them they wont see coming.

Warpath is sitting on top of Predator X and keeps stabbing it but realizes it is no use because of its healing factor. Scott approaches Cable and tells him to give up the baby. Cable tells him no because she is the future. The one who saves them and if she stays there she will die. You don’t know that replies Scott but Cable points out that everyone around them has a plan, an agenda for her. She wont last a day here. Professor Xavier appears and says to do as Scott says. Let him see what he has been fighting for.

Mystique is sitting next to Rogue crying while Gambit waits patiently. Suddenly she wakes up and Mystique is happy she is alive. Rouge is confused and wants to know where she is and what happened. Mystique tells her it was Destiny. She foresaw it all, Strain 88, the Hecatomb, she saw it and she knew what it take to save her. A terrible price but it worked. It was all-worthwhile and that is what her diaries were for, to make all this happen. Rogue asks what the price was and Mystique says she had to use the baby. Rogue thinks she killed a child but Mystique explains that the baby isn’t dead. It’s still alive and it survived her touch somehow. Rogue is disgusted and slaps Mystique across the face. Rogue says they can’t do this anymore and even when she tries to help, people get caught in the middle and they get hurt, they get killed. Rogue takes off her glove and says that this has to be the last time. It has to be stopped.

X-Force, Angel, Iceman, Colossus and Storm are taking on Predator X. Hepzibah throws some explosive charges at it and they hit. Predator X is not happy and turns around and sprays her with acid. Nearby, Bishop is still alive and sneaking around looking for the baby.

Malice is beating the crap out of Pixie. After some banter from Malice, Pixie conjures up her Souldagger and exorcises Malice from Omega Sentinel.

Emma Frost is still engaging Exodus on the astral plane. He says it is a smart idea because he cannot use his other powers and coughs. But it cuts both ways because she can’t assume her diamond form and when she falls, who will be left to stand between the X-Men and his judgement. He coughs again and Emma points out she has been breathing her in for the last few minutes. They return from the astral plane and Exodus passes out. Emma says he was breathing in sand grains. Silicate crystals with a cutting edge, barely twenty microns wide. Natures little shurikens. She says his lungs will patch up good as new with a little prayer and fasting. Dust exits his body and asks why she taunted him because she took no pleasure in his pain. Emma tells her not to fret, she took enough for the both of them.

Cable says he thought the Professor thought he understood him and believed him. Xavier says he does but Scott is right, the choice isn’t his. The future is what is at stake and it isn’t just his. It’s the future of their kind. Scott is the leader of the X-Men. He must speak for them all. He has done his part and had his say, give him the baby. Cable hugs the baby and passes her over to Xavier who hands her to Scott.

Mystique says she can’t do this. She wont be able to live with herself but Rogue says she doesn’t have a choice. Rogue says she loves her, how can she not love her. She’ll never be able to forgive herself like she says but she will remember her. Mystique is crying and tells her no but Rogue says he will keep her in her heart and soul along with everyone else and puts her bare hand over Mystiques mouth.

Hepzibah is thrown by Predator X and Warpath checks on her. She says he is fine and Laura wonders what Wolverine is doing. He runs up and jumps off some rubble right into Predator X’s mouth and gets swallowed. Laura freaks out and goes berserk, slashing at Predator X’s legs. The other X-Men join in to help her when suddenly, Wolverine guts Predator X from the inside out. Killing it.

Emma telepathically contacts Scott and informs him that the big guns are down. She asks if she has the baby and he says yes. The baby pulls out Scott’s necklace with the picture of him and Jean in it. Scott remembers some of the important moments in his life like giving away Cable so he will survive and Jean dying. Emma wants to know what’s going on and he says he is just assessing the situation. Xavier says that he can’t control the future, he can only allow it to be born. Scott says there are two possible futures and Xavier says yes there are and this baby is the key to unlocking both.

Rogue asks Gambit if he has anything to say. He says no and Rogue says Mystique isn’t dead. The baby washed her clean of strain 88 and all the minds she had absorbed over the years. For a minute it was just her, now it’s just Mystique and her. Gambit says that’s wonderful but Rogue says yeah. Only if she had seen it sooner she would have cut off her own hand rather then touch her. She doesn’t want to see Mystique ever again or be anywhere near her but now she is in her head and she has to go someplace quiet now to think. If he still cares, don’t follow.

The X-Teams all gather around the baby. Scott kisses her on the head and gives her back to Cable and says to take her away from here. Let her choose to be herself and not a key or a resource or a playing piece in someone else’s game. Give her the freedom he was never able to give him. Scott asks if he needs any help getting back to the mainland and Cable says he doesn’t because he has some stuff he took from Forges. He tries to say goodbye to Scott but Scott says to save it for a better time. This isn’t goodbye. Cable says he will drop by as soon as they’re settled to give a progress report. Behind them, an unseen Bishop picks up Scalphunters gun and as Cable goes to the future, Bishop starts firing at Cable. His shots miss and one hits Xavier directly in the head. Scott fires an optic blast at him and Bishop is sent flying through a wall. Scott asks if Xavier is ok. Logan says it was a head shot and it bit deep. Beast checks and realizes he has no pulse and announces he is dead. Iceman asks what do they do. The other X-Teams gather closer and Scott says they should pray that this baby's birth means something and that they wont be the last. That there’s still something good in the world. It was Xavier’s dream, it began with him and it ends with him. There are no X-Men.

The X-Teams gather around him and watch his body and then suddenly, it is gone.

The Future…
Cable arrives in the future and says that now, here comes the hard part.

Review: And that's the end of Messiah Complex. I loved this crossover and Rogue finally woke up. I don't really have much to say really.

Review by Specter313: Well, it’s finally over, but it’s a weird ending, I think. There are just so many other questions that didn’t completely gel with me. Why did Pred X just settle for Bishop’s arm when it’s hunger is supposed to be so great all the time that it would always need whole mutants? If it was such a killing machine that those other writers made it out to be, it would have finished Bishop off and put him out of our misery. What purpose did Rogue’s part in this event really even serve? She had no real connection to the overall story except for some little drama in the background that most people are just tired of because it’s been done to death. What in god’s name was going through Scott’s head to end the X-Men so freakin' quickly after Xavier died? He’s “died” in the past and I remember them seeming to work doubly hard to try and keep Xavier’s dream alive and now all of a sudden they just want to quit? I don’t get it. This one has been bothering the most since first reading this and I just hope that there’s something in the cards to straighten it out later on.