The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making 'X2' Page #5

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It's too late. In a few minutes

we'll all be underwater.

Come with me,

and I'll tell you all you wanna know.

You can't help your friends.

They're as good as dead, Wolverine.

You're a survivor.

Always have been.

I thought I was just an animal with claws.

If we die, you die.

There are no answers that way, Wolverine.

Find all the humans. Each and every one.

Find them. Find all the humans. Kill them.

- What is this?

- Cerebro.

- Jean, are you OK?

- I'm fine.

What's happening?

Professor's still in there, with another mutant.

He's trapped in some kind of illusion.

Oh, my God. Magneto's reversed Cerebro.

It's not targeting mutants any more.

- Who is it targeting?

- Everyone else.

Impossible.

- Stand back.

- No. His mind is connected to Cerebro.

Opening it could kill him

and everyone his mind is linked to.

Wait. Kurt, I need you to take me inside.

Who is this guy? Who are you?

My name is Kurt Wagner,

but in the circus...

He's a teleporter.

I told you. If I can't see where I'm going...

I have faith in you.

Don't believe anything you see in there.

Our Father, who art in heaven,

hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come,

thy will be done on Earth...

as it is in heaven.

Hello.

What are you looking for?

Professor, can you hear me?

You've got to stop Cerebro now.

Who are you talking to?

Don't move.

But she's just a little girl.

No, she's not.

I've got my eyes on you.

Mr Stryker.

Funny we keep running into each other.

Mark my words, it'll never happen again.

Kurt, it's about to get very cold in here.

I'm not going anywhere.

What are you doing?

Find all the humans.

Kill them. Every single one of them.

Focus. Find all the humans.

Stop it!

Jason.

He's gonna be so angry at me.

Logan, where are you?

We have to go through the spillway.

You don't wanna go that way. Trust me.

There's another way out of here.

The helicopter was right here.

I will take him.

It's OK, Rogue. You can let go, honey.

- Go. I'll be fine.

- You sure?

Who has the answers, Wolverine?

Those people?

That creature in your arms?

I'll take my chances with him.

One day someone will finish

what I've started, Wolverine.

One day!

We've got to get to Washington.

I fear this has gone beyond Alkali Lake.

I got him.

You OK?

I am now.

- What's wrong?

- Thrusters off line.

- So fix it.

- Has anyone seen John?

Pyro? Where the hell is he?

He's with Magneto.

Come on.

Oh, no. We've lost the power.

There's power in the fuel cells...

- Storm, we need some external power.

- Jean?

Where's Jean?

She's outside.

We're not leaving. Lower the ramp.

Storm, lower it.

I can't.

She's controlling the jet.

- You, get her, now.

- She's not letting me.

Dammit.

I know what I'm doing.

- This is...

...the only way.

Jean...

Listen to me.

Don't do this.

Goodbye.

She's gone.

Don't say that. We gotta go back.

- She's gone.

- No!

She's gone.

"The Lord is my shepherd.

I shall not want."

"He maketh me to lie down

in green pastures."

"Yea, though I walk through the valley

of the shadow of the death,

I will fear no evil,

for thou art with me."

"Today I can shed light on recent occurrences

from the attack that ended in this office..."

Morning. "...to the phenomenon that swept

the Earth, nearly annihilating our way of life."

Do we like this word "annihilating"?

Good morning.

- Good morning, Mr President.

- Thank you.

Mr President, we're live in five,

four, three, two...

My fellow Americans, in this time of adversity

we are being offered a moment.

A moment to recognise

a growing threat in our own population

and take a unique role

in the shape of human events.

Did we just lose the feed? Are we still live?

Good morning, Mr President.

Please, don't be alarmed.

We're not going to harm anyone.

Who are you people?

We're mutants.

My name is Charles Xavier.

- Please, sit down.

- I'd rather stand.

Rogue.

These files were taken from

the private offices of William Stryker.

How did you get this?

Let's just say I know a little girl

who can walk through walls.

- I've never seen this.

- I know.

- So you also know I don't respond to threats.

- This is not a threat. This is an opportunity.

There are forces in this world, mutant and

human alike, who believe a war is coming.

You will see from those files

that some have already tried to start one.

And there have been casualties,

losses on both sides.

Mr President.

What you are about to tell the world is true.

This is a moment.

A moment to repeat the mistakes of the past,

or to work together for a better future.

We're here to stay, Mr President.

The next move is yours.

We'll be watching.

Mr President?

You know, even when Jean was a student,

she was always hesitant about her powers.

Always looking to others.

Feeling that in some way

she was left behind.

Could we have done more to save her?

In the past, she may have let us.

There had to be another way.

Why did she leave the plane?

Because she made a choice.

Yes, come on in.

Listen.

She did make a choice.

It was you.

Professor?

Is everything all right?

Yes, I think it will be.

Tell me, have any of you read a book

by an English novelist named TH White

called The Once and Future King?

Mutation:
It is the key to our evolution.

It is how we have evolved

from a single-celled organism

into the dominant species on the planet.

This process is slow, normally taking

thousands and thousands of years.

But every few hundred millennia

evolution leaps forward.

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