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Synopsis: Jean searches the grounds of the mansion and finds Logan, feral, angry that Sabretooth is being harbored, and psionically invisible. Bishop is having nightmares, from memory compression, vaguely recalling his life in the AOA. He attacks Scott and Hank, whom he remembers as villains. In a drainage tunnel, Marrow kills a homeless man for trespassing. She says the Morlocks are about to move up. She performs the ceremony of light, summoning the Dark Beast, who was the power behind the Morlocks all along. Remy is comatose after kissing Rogue (issue 24), and Ororo tends him. Rogue has run off to Key Largo with Remy's awful memories in her head. She tries to party them away, with Bobby as chaperone. X-Man falls to earth in Switzerland. He is such a strong psi that he causes backlash in all other psis worldwide. Blaquesmith notes him as a temporal anomaly, with foreboding. Arcade finds X-Force using his old Murderworld, so he blows it up. (Roberto is no longer the villain Reignfire, but is Sunspot again.) Scott invites them to Westchester. Near Avalon, Exodus and the Acolytes find Holocaust, trapped in a chunk of ice, floating in space. Hogan is a mutant with no control over his power. He tries to find the X-Men for help but stops at a bar for a bite to eat. His mutancy starts turning him into a vegetable-like state just as Trish broadcasts a story on the Legacy virus, which has spread to humans (Moira). Anti-mutant hysteria erupts, Hogan runs from the bar but is caught and beaten with ball bats. Amy: "I'm curious. I mean, mutants are supposed to be real powerful, right? So tell me -- how powerful do you feel right now?" Xavier senses his distress and races to the scene with Ororo. He sends his astral self to the boy and literally feels his pain as he is beaten to death. The murderers go off, triumphant. The X-Men assemble around the body and resolve to dream, and to fight, for a better world.