In Rio Diablo, New Mexico, Alex Summers and Lorna Dane
are taking a leisurely drive when suddenly they’re run off the road by an
oncoming bus! They tumble down the slope, landing upside down, having been
saved by their seat belts. A huge rock comes falling toward them and Alex
blasts it apart. Later, they inspect the damage, and their groceries, and Lorna
reconstitutes the damaged truck with their magnetic powers. They drive off,
wondering what that was all about. Elsewhere, back in Scotland, Dazzler awakens
to find herself in pitch darkness. She generates a little bit of light and
realizes that she’s been buried alive! Trying not to panic, she assesses the
situation and realizes that Juggernaut must have thought she died when they
fought last issue. She realizes she’s not buried far, with rocks covering her
like a cairn, giving her some room to breathe through the cracks. The faint
sounds of nature help to refuel her powers and she starts to feel hopeful when
suddenly she’s found by Psylocke’s psi-probe. Dazzler uses her remaining energy
to send up a flare before passing out again.
Later, Dazzler awakens once more, this time with the
sun shining on her face! Psylocke and Longshot hug her, overjoyed that she’s
okay. Dazzler feels like she messed up big time and doesn’t belong with the
X-Men, but Rogue points out that it comes with the job; they’ve all messed up
at some point and that’s why they need each other to depend on. They then
overhear a radio broadcast that Juggernaut is tearing up Edinburgh and head out
to stop him. They reach the city and Psylocke directs Rogue through the chaos
of the rampage to Juggernaut’s location. Rogue lands a huge punch on Juggernaut
that shatters all of the windows in the area and he retaliates by hitting her
across the town! Psylocke then drives a truck into Juggernaut which he easily
stops, and tries assaulting him telepathically, managing to hurt him a bit even
through his helmet! Longshot then distracts Juggernaut, dancing around his
attacks until Juggy drops an entire building on him!
The others frantically try to dig Longshot out and
soon find him in the rubble without a scratch! They praise his never-ending
luck and decide to learn from Dazzler’s mistake last issue and actually try
working as a team. They catch back up to Juggernaut and Rogue jumps on him,
absorbing some of his power, the added strength being enough for her to rip his
helmet off and hurl him into a train line. Longshot then notices a train
coming, prompting Rogue to grab him to help deal with it. She drops Longshot
off on the train, telling him to corral everyone to the back while she flies in
front of it to stop it the hard way! Back in the ditch, Dazzler blinds
Juggernaut as Rogue attempts to stop the train moving ever closer! Dazzler is
able to remove Juggernaut’s skullcap, allowing Psylocke to take him out with a
psychic blast. With Juggernaut defeated, they look up to find that Rogue
managed to stop the train just in the nick of time!
Later, they help rebuild the train line, while
Psylocke telepathically keeps anyone there from recognizing them. A job well
done that they won’t get the credit for, as usual. The X-Men are then alerted
by a Brigadier that Juggernaut’s rampage was apparently just a diversion while
his partner Black Tom Cassidy robbed the Scotland bank! While they’re less than
pleased at this revelation, they do feel proud that they’ve started to meld
into a real team. Meanwhile, back in New Mexico, Havok and Polaris check out a
campsite that they think the bus that hit them may have come from. They blast
apart a ridge and discover the campers all dead, along with one of the alien
creatures the Brood use for transportation! They realize that this means the
Brood are likely on earth, which will spell trouble for the human race!
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