1 00:00:01,083 --> 00:00:03,124 Previously on X-Men... 2 00:00:03,125 --> 00:00:05,499 To reiterate for those just returning to us. 3 00:00:05,500 --> 00:00:08,124 Regardless of your stance on recent world events... 4 00:00:08,125 --> 00:00:09,207 Oh, my. 5 00:00:09,208 --> 00:00:12,500 the images you are about to see may be disturbing. 6 00:00:17,291 --> 00:00:19,583 I draw its fire away from the gardens. 7 00:00:20,166 --> 00:00:21,290 Save as many as you can. 8 00:00:21,291 --> 00:00:24,750 We shall not live our days wondering if we could've saved more. 9 00:00:28,041 --> 00:00:29,958 The name's Gambit, mon ami. 10 00:00:30,333 --> 00:00:31,333 Remember it. 11 00:00:33,041 --> 00:00:35,541 Sugar. I can't feel you. 12 00:00:39,958 --> 00:00:42,166 Get out of my home, you damn demon! 13 00:00:48,375 --> 00:00:50,291 Is this death? 14 00:02:27,958 --> 00:02:30,250 Shi'ar fools, surren... 15 00:02:37,250 --> 00:02:38,916 Don't move! Stay where you are! 16 00:02:39,541 --> 00:02:40,541 Hands up! 17 00:02:41,375 --> 00:02:42,625 Surrender? 18 00:02:43,541 --> 00:02:45,833 No, just perish. 19 00:02:46,541 --> 00:02:48,208 Stand, Kree. 20 00:02:48,791 --> 00:02:53,875 This pigeon shall not thwart the will of the Supreme Intelligence. 21 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,375 Victory for the Imperial Guard! 22 00:03:19,208 --> 00:03:20,999 A Pyrrhic victory. 23 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:22,750 The Kree do not... 24 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,624 Be honored to fall at my feet, Ronan, 25 00:03:27,625 --> 00:03:31,915 for you shall be memorialized as the corpse upon which I posed. 26 00:03:31,916 --> 00:03:34,666 A true Kree bows to no one. 27 00:03:40,833 --> 00:03:42,208 Thank you, Gladiator. 28 00:03:42,833 --> 00:03:44,083 Ronan dear, 29 00:03:45,125 --> 00:03:47,833 tell me where the Supreme Intelligence has fled, 30 00:03:49,291 --> 00:03:51,583 or your forces shall suffer. 31 00:03:53,666 --> 00:03:55,333 Save them, Ronan. 32 00:03:55,791 --> 00:03:57,665 All you need to do is... 33 00:03:57,666 --> 00:03:59,540 A million pardons, your Highness. 34 00:03:59,541 --> 00:04:03,207 - You dare interrupt my glorious moment? - Oh. 35 00:04:03,208 --> 00:04:05,457 It's your sister, The Empress. 36 00:04:05,458 --> 00:04:07,374 Oh, joy. 37 00:04:07,375 --> 00:04:09,375 Why didn't you say so? 38 00:04:10,375 --> 00:04:15,125 My dearest sister is always of utmost priority. 39 00:04:18,666 --> 00:04:20,249 Greetings, Shi'ar. 40 00:04:20,250 --> 00:04:24,957 One year ago, we offered the skills of our mighty healers 41 00:04:24,958 --> 00:04:27,708 to a Terran man on the verge of death. 42 00:04:32,583 --> 00:04:34,333 No ordinary Terran, 43 00:04:34,833 --> 00:04:38,249 this man helped spare the entire universe 44 00:04:38,250 --> 00:04:40,625 from the madness of my brother, D'ken, 45 00:04:41,125 --> 00:04:44,500 as well as the galactic hunger of the Phoenix. 46 00:04:45,333 --> 00:04:48,916 And now, in his greatest feat yet, 47 00:04:49,583 --> 00:04:53,582 this man has unlocked the secrets to my heart. 48 00:04:53,583 --> 00:04:54,665 Hmm. 49 00:04:54,666 --> 00:04:57,125 So I, Empress Lilandra, 50 00:04:57,708 --> 00:04:59,957 stand before this High Council, 51 00:04:59,958 --> 00:05:02,665 and before you, my loyal people, 52 00:05:02,666 --> 00:05:05,790 with joyous news in times of war, 53 00:05:05,791 --> 00:05:08,416 for your Empress is to be married, 54 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,791 and our empire shall welcome a new emperor. 55 00:05:20,666 --> 00:05:24,333 Professor Charles Xavier. 56 00:05:36,625 --> 00:05:39,958 To the might and glory of the Imperium. 57 00:05:44,750 --> 00:05:45,916 Hmm. 58 00:05:48,125 --> 00:05:51,624 I pray our act of performative jingoism 59 00:05:51,625 --> 00:05:54,583 erased any concerns over my heritage? 60 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:57,249 Do not fret. 61 00:05:57,250 --> 00:06:01,333 My subjects trust me when I say you are no mere Terran, Charles. 62 00:06:01,833 --> 00:06:05,624 Well, on Earth, newlyweds whisk off to some faraway island 63 00:06:05,625 --> 00:06:06,958 to celebrate their love. 64 00:06:08,375 --> 00:06:11,458 And how far would my hopeless romantic see us go? 65 00:06:12,250 --> 00:06:15,375 Dare I assume a sandy beach on Earth itself? 66 00:06:16,125 --> 00:06:19,040 Perhaps an empress could even spend a portion of her time 67 00:06:19,041 --> 00:06:21,708 ruling the galaxy from my little corner of it? 68 00:06:23,458 --> 00:06:25,790 My handsome emperor has much to learn, 69 00:06:25,791 --> 00:06:27,833 about masking his manipulations. 70 00:06:28,625 --> 00:06:31,625 You wish to return to your children, don't you? 71 00:06:32,125 --> 00:06:33,208 Merely visit. 72 00:06:33,708 --> 00:06:34,875 See their faces. 73 00:06:35,416 --> 00:06:38,041 Yet families often mimic black holes. 74 00:06:38,541 --> 00:06:42,958 Visit and risk being stuck in its ever-spiraling vacuum of dramas. 75 00:06:43,708 --> 00:06:46,375 This is especially true with your students. 76 00:06:46,958 --> 00:06:49,999 Mmm, didn't your brother nearly destroy the universe 77 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:51,541 with the M'kraan Crystal? 78 00:06:54,291 --> 00:06:55,708 You should message them. 79 00:06:56,166 --> 00:06:57,166 Use a holo-globe. 80 00:06:58,583 --> 00:07:00,083 Invite them to the wedding. 81 00:07:02,166 --> 00:07:05,541 Unless you fear they'll think you've abandoned them. 82 00:07:07,583 --> 00:07:10,249 You've earned a life of your own, Charles. 83 00:07:10,250 --> 00:07:11,458 And I need you. 84 00:07:12,166 --> 00:07:13,790 Once we crush the Kree, 85 00:07:13,791 --> 00:07:17,083 an educator such as you can teach them our ways. 86 00:07:17,666 --> 00:07:19,874 Do as you did on Earth. 87 00:07:19,875 --> 00:07:22,415 Play the role of the peacemaker. 88 00:07:22,416 --> 00:07:25,875 Wasn't aware my X-Men and I were playing make-believe. 89 00:07:26,458 --> 00:07:29,875 Much like my legs in this armor's exoskeleton. 90 00:07:30,541 --> 00:07:32,375 All ruling is make-believe. 91 00:07:33,375 --> 00:07:34,582 I pretend to be perfect, 92 00:07:34,583 --> 00:07:38,290 as my subjects would never love the woman beneath the armor. 93 00:07:38,291 --> 00:07:39,416 Not like you do. 94 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:41,500 Never pretend with me. 95 00:07:42,500 --> 00:07:44,540 Will you at least consider Earth? 96 00:07:44,541 --> 00:07:45,625 I will. 97 00:07:46,625 --> 00:07:48,249 But I remind you, Charles, 98 00:07:48,250 --> 00:07:51,749 the virtue of a teacher lies in showing their students 99 00:07:51,750 --> 00:07:54,000 how to walk on their own. 100 00:07:54,583 --> 00:07:55,583 True. 101 00:07:55,584 --> 00:07:56,999 But only if he is sure 102 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,625 there are no more lessons he can teach them. 103 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:07,625 You must drink. 104 00:08:08,875 --> 00:08:10,999 Why bother? 105 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:12,290 He's a liar. 106 00:08:12,291 --> 00:08:13,415 Traitor. 107 00:08:13,416 --> 00:08:15,625 Cost you everything. 108 00:08:16,125 --> 00:08:18,249 He was trying to help me. 109 00:08:18,250 --> 00:08:21,499 A tawdry romance of guilt and shame. 110 00:08:21,500 --> 00:08:23,915 How many have suffered his gifts? 111 00:08:23,916 --> 00:08:26,165 How many made slaves? 112 00:08:26,166 --> 00:08:28,833 Your bite is a sort of demonic infection. 113 00:08:29,333 --> 00:08:31,250 Once the venom reaches his heart... 114 00:08:31,791 --> 00:08:33,332 Leave him. 115 00:08:33,333 --> 00:08:35,665 Don't play martyr. 116 00:08:35,666 --> 00:08:37,582 You will not break me. 117 00:08:37,583 --> 00:08:39,790 But I can fix you. 118 00:08:39,791 --> 00:08:41,832 Forge made his bed. 119 00:08:41,833 --> 00:08:43,374 Let him die in it. 120 00:08:43,375 --> 00:08:45,415 All lives deserve saving. 121 00:08:45,416 --> 00:08:46,583 Even his. 122 00:08:56,041 --> 00:09:00,666 You go for help, but there is no pill for my poison. 123 00:09:01,416 --> 00:09:02,790 Let him die. 124 00:09:02,791 --> 00:09:05,874 Look the other way. Watch. 125 00:09:05,875 --> 00:09:07,415 Get used to it. 126 00:09:07,416 --> 00:09:09,707 You're not an X-Man anymore. 127 00:09:09,708 --> 00:09:11,457 Well, where did that get you? 128 00:09:11,458 --> 00:09:13,375 Kissing the hand that beats you? 129 00:09:20,500 --> 00:09:23,208 I do not fear death. 130 00:09:23,791 --> 00:09:26,957 I know. That's why you rush to play dead. 131 00:09:26,958 --> 00:09:29,915 You fear living. 132 00:09:29,916 --> 00:09:31,415 As you said to Jean, 133 00:09:31,416 --> 00:09:34,082 "I have wondered what it would be like to be human." 134 00:09:34,083 --> 00:09:37,249 It is a tempting daydream. 135 00:09:37,250 --> 00:09:41,416 I... I was so tired. 136 00:09:41,916 --> 00:09:44,165 Is that why you fear your power, 137 00:09:44,166 --> 00:09:46,999 sought refuge with this monotone family? 138 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:48,832 Enough! Let me out! 139 00:09:48,833 --> 00:09:50,083 Let me out! 140 00:09:50,750 --> 00:09:52,457 Look at your family. 141 00:09:52,458 --> 00:09:54,249 Who you follow. 142 00:09:54,250 --> 00:09:55,333 I was wrong. 143 00:09:55,708 --> 00:09:57,540 Forge didn't rob your gifts. 144 00:09:57,541 --> 00:09:59,791 - You had already renounced them. - No! Please! 145 00:10:00,875 --> 00:10:02,207 I cannot breathe. 146 00:10:02,208 --> 00:10:03,333 Sham! 147 00:10:04,041 --> 00:10:07,083 You turned your back on these paths long ago. 148 00:10:07,791 --> 00:10:09,291 Lord of chaos! 149 00:10:13,666 --> 00:10:15,500 Weaver of lies, 150 00:10:16,750 --> 00:10:19,790 I tear your thread and break your loom. 151 00:10:19,791 --> 00:10:22,125 Depart to the desert, demon. 152 00:10:22,875 --> 00:10:24,875 Depart, and be gone. 153 00:10:42,916 --> 00:10:44,875 Mom practiced desert magic. 154 00:10:46,083 --> 00:10:47,208 Some of it sunk in, 155 00:10:47,791 --> 00:10:49,207 despite my best efforts. 156 00:10:49,208 --> 00:10:51,416 Careful. Your shoulder. 157 00:10:52,541 --> 00:10:53,833 Well, give it to me straight. 158 00:10:55,416 --> 00:10:57,750 You need a better bedside face, Doc. 159 00:11:00,291 --> 00:11:01,749 Its bite is magical. 160 00:11:01,750 --> 00:11:04,082 Perhaps your mother's book holds an answer. 161 00:11:04,083 --> 00:11:05,708 She wrote about a cacti, 162 00:11:06,375 --> 00:11:07,416 the midnight cholla. 163 00:11:08,333 --> 00:11:09,791 Grows in nearby caves. 164 00:11:10,333 --> 00:11:11,583 Doesn't need sunlight. 165 00:11:12,166 --> 00:11:14,375 Its aloe is powerful magic medicine. 166 00:11:15,500 --> 00:11:16,582 I can show you the way. 167 00:11:16,583 --> 00:11:19,250 You are too weak. Tell me where to go. 168 00:11:19,750 --> 00:11:21,375 I don't have much time, Ororo. 169 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,083 If this nastiness gets worse while you're gone, 170 00:11:25,125 --> 00:11:26,333 I don't wanna be alone. 171 00:11:26,833 --> 00:11:29,916 Then we ride together, my love. 172 00:11:34,833 --> 00:11:38,041 The Empress, Lilandra Neramani, 173 00:11:38,541 --> 00:11:40,500 and her Royal Consort. 174 00:11:44,291 --> 00:11:46,666 Your man speaks as if I am your pet. 175 00:11:47,583 --> 00:11:50,540 Hmm. Not an entirely displeasing thought. 176 00:11:50,541 --> 00:11:53,375 Hush now, beloved. You may bark later. 177 00:12:04,916 --> 00:12:06,583 Your Majesty, 178 00:12:07,083 --> 00:12:09,415 I have known you since you were but a hatchling 179 00:12:09,416 --> 00:12:11,375 and wish only for your happiness. 180 00:12:11,875 --> 00:12:14,165 But given our war with the Kree, 181 00:12:14,166 --> 00:12:17,624 and how it's divided even we Shi'ar, 182 00:12:17,625 --> 00:12:19,582 is a royal wedding... 183 00:12:19,583 --> 00:12:23,707 Gladiator and his Guard fill my ears with news of coming victory. 184 00:12:23,708 --> 00:12:28,624 Yes, but we have been trapped in so much change, 185 00:12:28,625 --> 00:12:34,707 some yearn for the stable comfort of what is familiar for sameness. 186 00:12:34,708 --> 00:12:37,583 Araki sugars his words, my sister. 187 00:12:42,625 --> 00:12:47,166 Your consort was born on the wrong side of the stars. 188 00:12:47,916 --> 00:12:49,457 He is Terran. 189 00:12:49,458 --> 00:12:52,582 Gentle sister, heed my throne. 190 00:12:52,583 --> 00:12:56,124 A throne that is bound to more than the whims of your heart. 191 00:12:56,125 --> 00:12:57,374 A union with the Terran 192 00:12:57,375 --> 00:13:01,582 would bind the Shi'ar into alliance with his inferior home world. 193 00:13:01,583 --> 00:13:05,374 I respect you speaking the quiet part out loud, Deathbird, 194 00:13:05,375 --> 00:13:07,166 so let's speak plainly. 195 00:13:07,750 --> 00:13:09,874 Your Empress and I decide alliances 196 00:13:09,875 --> 00:13:12,165 as well as which world we call home. 197 00:13:12,166 --> 00:13:13,999 Chandilar is home. 198 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:16,124 Our throne world. 199 00:13:16,125 --> 00:13:18,874 - Of course, Lord Chancellor. - I merely meant... 200 00:13:18,875 --> 00:13:20,874 Spoke the quiet part out loud? 201 00:13:20,875 --> 00:13:25,457 Xavier would see his Milky Way ghetto become our new throne world. 202 00:13:25,458 --> 00:13:27,415 You are twisting my words. 203 00:13:27,416 --> 00:13:30,707 High Council, for the sake of the empire, 204 00:13:30,708 --> 00:13:33,041 I must invoke the Rite of M'Dashaa. 205 00:13:35,291 --> 00:13:37,249 Terran, the rite requires... 206 00:13:37,250 --> 00:13:41,707 A non-Shi'ar pass a test of loyalty in order to wed a royal. 207 00:13:41,708 --> 00:13:45,165 I finished that volume my second day here, Deathbird. 208 00:13:45,166 --> 00:13:47,499 Not any mere test, Terran. 209 00:13:47,500 --> 00:13:49,499 A challenge of my own choosing. 210 00:13:49,500 --> 00:13:51,124 Then choose. 211 00:13:51,125 --> 00:13:54,999 To ensure we are protected from your Terran ties, 212 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:59,083 you must renounce Earth and erase all memory of your life there. 213 00:14:00,750 --> 00:14:03,207 Charles is a formidable psychic. 214 00:14:03,208 --> 00:14:05,915 His mind will not be easily scrubbed. 215 00:14:05,916 --> 00:14:09,624 Luckily, we Shi'ar bow to a ruler of equal psychic power. 216 00:14:09,625 --> 00:14:12,999 Charles Xavier must purge all memories of Earth, 217 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:17,416 and you, dear sister, must be the one to do it. 218 00:14:26,833 --> 00:14:28,625 Sharra and K'ythri. 219 00:14:32,291 --> 00:14:33,457 Our highest gods. 220 00:14:33,458 --> 00:14:37,583 Mmm. Once enemies, then forced to marry to bring harmony to the universe. 221 00:14:38,208 --> 00:14:40,290 And here I thought the Shi'ar looked down on art 222 00:14:40,291 --> 00:14:42,708 as a sign of insanity and deviance. 223 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:45,249 In most cases. 224 00:14:45,250 --> 00:14:47,165 But the union of Sharra and K'ythri 225 00:14:47,166 --> 00:14:49,083 is at the core of our principles. 226 00:14:49,583 --> 00:14:51,665 To bind various cultures into one 227 00:14:51,666 --> 00:14:54,250 for the sake of galactic peace and harmony. 228 00:14:55,250 --> 00:14:57,041 How Rudyard Kipling of you. 229 00:14:57,541 --> 00:14:59,165 I do not know this Kipling. 230 00:14:59,166 --> 00:15:01,415 - A Terran? - Yes. 231 00:15:01,416 --> 00:15:03,499 One possessed of many burdens. 232 00:15:03,500 --> 00:15:04,583 None real. 233 00:15:04,916 --> 00:15:06,040 Much like your myth. 234 00:15:06,041 --> 00:15:10,874 What is united if one half must be erased for the sake of the whole? 235 00:15:10,875 --> 00:15:14,083 Idealism is also a sign of insanity. 236 00:15:15,750 --> 00:15:20,332 You know, I have a very old and very dear friend on Earth 237 00:15:20,333 --> 00:15:21,665 who would agree with you. 238 00:15:21,666 --> 00:15:23,083 Wise, for a Terran. 239 00:15:23,666 --> 00:15:24,707 Yes. 240 00:15:24,708 --> 00:15:26,374 His name is Magnus. 241 00:15:26,375 --> 00:15:28,000 And I wish to remember him. 242 00:15:28,500 --> 00:15:30,250 You've made your decision, then? 243 00:15:33,166 --> 00:15:34,166 Forgive me. 244 00:15:34,625 --> 00:15:36,707 I do so love to think. 245 00:15:36,708 --> 00:15:38,916 Do you love me, Charles? 246 00:15:40,083 --> 00:15:41,166 A silly question. 247 00:15:41,791 --> 00:15:45,041 Even you know Deathbird's challenge goes too far. 248 00:15:45,958 --> 00:15:48,665 On Earth, you fought tirelessly to be tolerated 249 00:15:48,666 --> 00:15:50,499 and were nearly killed for it. 250 00:15:50,500 --> 00:15:51,707 Why remember? 251 00:15:51,708 --> 00:15:53,374 Why not let go? 252 00:15:53,375 --> 00:15:54,458 Start anew. 253 00:15:54,833 --> 00:15:58,125 If you refuse, they won't let us be together. 254 00:15:58,833 --> 00:16:00,540 Not unless I forfeit my throne, 255 00:16:00,541 --> 00:16:02,958 which is exactly Deathbird's design. 256 00:16:03,458 --> 00:16:05,082 Imagine the chaos 257 00:16:05,083 --> 00:16:08,957 that my sister would unleash across the galaxy as ruler. 258 00:16:08,958 --> 00:16:11,291 It would rival that of my mad brother. 259 00:16:15,208 --> 00:16:16,666 You saved my life. 260 00:16:17,541 --> 00:16:20,208 Gave me a home, a new future. 261 00:16:20,833 --> 00:16:23,041 Your devotion is beyond measure. 262 00:16:26,500 --> 00:16:29,166 Perhaps it is time to show you mine. 263 00:16:37,583 --> 00:16:39,833 There. That's it. 264 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:42,291 Snowsnake Tower. 265 00:16:47,375 --> 00:16:50,375 Union forces stored weapons here during the Civil War. 266 00:16:52,083 --> 00:16:54,958 It was actually built during the Plains War decades earlier, 267 00:16:55,458 --> 00:16:56,541 by colonists. 268 00:16:57,041 --> 00:16:59,499 Those wars exterminated your people. 269 00:16:59,500 --> 00:17:03,749 Why let them build such a thing into the very foundations of your land? 270 00:17:03,750 --> 00:17:05,707 Well, they said that they were here to help. 271 00:17:05,708 --> 00:17:07,458 Sort of like how I came to you. 272 00:17:09,208 --> 00:17:12,291 I heard The Adversary telling you to let me die. 273 00:17:13,458 --> 00:17:16,750 I'm so sorry, Ororo, for deceiving you. 274 00:17:17,791 --> 00:17:19,333 For drawing the Adversary. 275 00:17:19,958 --> 00:17:22,791 Hush. The demon was not your doing. 276 00:17:23,375 --> 00:17:26,125 A big, evil owl that feeds on anger and self-loathing? 277 00:17:27,041 --> 00:17:28,707 Call me chum in the water. 278 00:17:28,708 --> 00:17:30,291 Then I am chum, too. 279 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,624 Before I lost my gifts, I told a friend, my sister, 280 00:17:34,625 --> 00:17:37,208 that I often wondered about being human. 281 00:17:37,875 --> 00:17:40,333 I confessed this as if to console her. 282 00:17:41,083 --> 00:17:43,249 No matter how many I saved, 283 00:17:43,250 --> 00:17:47,166 my mutant gifts inspired twice as much hate in humanity. 284 00:17:47,833 --> 00:17:51,708 In a way, your machine failing is a blessing. 285 00:17:52,291 --> 00:17:53,750 I am better this way. 286 00:17:56,208 --> 00:17:57,290 Growing up, 287 00:17:57,291 --> 00:17:59,290 I always heard how the worst weapon used 288 00:17:59,291 --> 00:18:01,791 by the Europeans was not bullets or blankets, 289 00:18:02,291 --> 00:18:04,541 but a white lie that they could make us... 290 00:18:08,666 --> 00:18:10,458 The cactus grows in darkness. 291 00:18:11,041 --> 00:18:12,041 Where? 292 00:18:12,042 --> 00:18:13,625 That's why I came. 293 00:18:14,125 --> 00:18:16,791 I know how you feel about tight spaces. 294 00:18:23,958 --> 00:18:25,333 Charles Xavier, 295 00:18:25,916 --> 00:18:30,666 do you stand in our circle to complete the Rite of M'Dashaa? 296 00:18:31,541 --> 00:18:32,541 I do. 297 00:18:34,750 --> 00:18:37,624 And do you renounce all memories of Earth? 298 00:18:37,625 --> 00:18:38,958 Of your life there? 299 00:18:39,541 --> 00:18:40,625 I do. 300 00:18:41,208 --> 00:18:42,583 And of your X-Men? 301 00:18:48,541 --> 00:18:51,791 Xavier, do you renounce your X-Men? 302 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:54,040 See? 303 00:18:54,041 --> 00:18:55,708 He hesitates. 304 00:19:00,625 --> 00:19:02,958 He insults all Shi'ar. 305 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:06,250 This was exactly my fear. 306 00:19:07,083 --> 00:19:10,249 What you ask of him is no small burden. 307 00:19:10,250 --> 00:19:12,332 He seeks to ally us with Earth. 308 00:19:12,333 --> 00:19:14,458 My God, you are dramatic. 309 00:19:15,333 --> 00:19:17,540 How can we entrust our mighty empire, 310 00:19:17,541 --> 00:19:19,915 which has endured for eons, 311 00:19:19,916 --> 00:19:22,332 to a ruler descended of simians? 312 00:19:22,333 --> 00:19:26,374 Have our blood mixed with his inferior freak fluids? 313 00:19:26,375 --> 00:19:27,707 Indeed. 314 00:19:27,708 --> 00:19:31,582 This Xavier is not even a pure Terran. 315 00:19:31,583 --> 00:19:33,499 A lower caste. 316 00:19:33,500 --> 00:19:34,749 A mutant. 317 00:19:34,750 --> 00:19:39,083 My sister, like my brother D'ken, has gone mad. 318 00:19:40,416 --> 00:19:44,040 Renounce her before her lovesick lunacy destroys us all. 319 00:19:44,041 --> 00:19:45,124 Sedition. 320 00:19:45,125 --> 00:19:47,790 Gladiator, arrest this treacherous vulture 321 00:19:47,791 --> 00:19:50,250 and any who dare to stand with her. 322 00:19:56,416 --> 00:19:57,666 By Sharra! 323 00:20:14,916 --> 00:20:16,249 Charles! 324 00:20:16,250 --> 00:20:17,750 Lilandra, behind you! 325 00:20:25,666 --> 00:20:28,875 - Hmm. - No, not this way. 326 00:20:29,458 --> 00:20:31,791 I have forgotten my greatest gift. 327 00:20:33,416 --> 00:20:34,416 Hear me. 328 00:20:34,875 --> 00:20:38,000 Class is now in session. 329 00:20:48,375 --> 00:20:50,665 What is this? What have you done? 330 00:20:50,666 --> 00:20:54,250 Gladiator, please raise your hand if you have a question. 331 00:20:54,833 --> 00:20:57,874 To answer, I have used my vast psychic abilities 332 00:20:57,875 --> 00:20:59,625 to draw us into the astral plane. 333 00:21:00,333 --> 00:21:01,874 Now, pay attention. 334 00:21:01,875 --> 00:21:04,041 It is time for today's lesson. 335 00:21:27,708 --> 00:21:28,750 Oh! 336 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,083 You had to be the bigger woman. 337 00:21:36,666 --> 00:21:39,208 Had to save him, be above it. 338 00:21:39,833 --> 00:21:40,833 Now look at you. 339 00:21:41,333 --> 00:21:42,333 No! 340 00:21:42,750 --> 00:21:44,541 Forge destroyed you! 341 00:21:44,791 --> 00:21:45,874 Yes. 342 00:21:45,875 --> 00:21:47,333 Yes, let me taste. 343 00:21:47,958 --> 00:21:49,958 Ooh, yummy! 344 00:21:50,458 --> 00:21:53,250 Fear poached in self-loathing. 345 00:21:53,958 --> 00:21:56,832 More! The high road, Storm. 346 00:21:56,833 --> 00:22:01,457 Last stop, you, pancaked by the pressure of existing. 347 00:22:01,458 --> 00:22:03,665 How unfair. 348 00:22:03,666 --> 00:22:04,874 Yes. There. 349 00:22:04,875 --> 00:22:08,791 Yes! Always beg to be saved. 350 00:22:09,333 --> 00:22:14,916 Submit, and I will save you and let you live your tempting daydream. 351 00:22:19,750 --> 00:22:22,291 No, you demon. 352 00:22:24,625 --> 00:22:26,500 Not a daydream. 353 00:22:33,458 --> 00:22:35,457 The X-Cutioner's neutralizer 354 00:22:35,458 --> 00:22:38,625 was not the only weapon tamping down my gifts. 355 00:22:40,875 --> 00:22:42,250 There was that lie. 356 00:22:42,916 --> 00:22:44,416 And I believed it. 357 00:22:44,958 --> 00:22:46,166 Be warned. 358 00:22:46,791 --> 00:22:47,875 Be smart. 359 00:22:48,375 --> 00:22:50,124 Believe the lie. 360 00:22:50,125 --> 00:22:51,791 Deny your power. 361 00:22:52,458 --> 00:22:57,583 Play dead, or humanity will thunder down upon you and your kind. 362 00:22:58,166 --> 00:23:02,125 You all are an echo of who I am. 363 00:23:09,958 --> 00:23:13,125 So let them thunder, 364 00:23:13,666 --> 00:23:16,583 for I am lightning! 365 00:24:28,541 --> 00:24:31,040 Strange, to feel grateful. 366 00:24:31,041 --> 00:24:32,250 Towards the demon? 367 00:24:32,750 --> 00:24:36,250 What are demons, but reflections of our fears and shame? 368 00:24:36,708 --> 00:24:39,291 Things we bury within us, 369 00:24:39,791 --> 00:24:41,707 hide from loved ones, 370 00:24:41,708 --> 00:24:43,583 even as they poison our hearts... 371 00:24:44,875 --> 00:24:50,125 until we finally heal our adversary by embracing it. 372 00:24:51,583 --> 00:24:53,958 There. It's starting to heal. 373 00:24:56,208 --> 00:24:57,208 So, what now? 374 00:24:58,083 --> 00:24:59,999 You've been given a second chance. 375 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,957 Should we whisk away to some tropical island? 376 00:25:02,958 --> 00:25:06,291 Not an entirely unpleasant idea. 377 00:25:07,458 --> 00:25:09,915 Nations refusing to allow mutants 378 00:25:09,916 --> 00:25:12,540 displaced by the brutal attack on Genosha 379 00:25:12,541 --> 00:25:14,665 to return to their home countries. 380 00:25:14,666 --> 00:25:16,374 This, as rumors swirl... 381 00:25:16,375 --> 00:25:18,707 that Genosha is the opening salvo 382 00:25:18,708 --> 00:25:21,540 in the long-feared evolutionary war 383 00:25:21,541 --> 00:25:23,707 between humans and mutants 384 00:25:23,708 --> 00:25:26,082 that the late Professor Charles Xavier... 385 00:25:26,083 --> 00:25:27,958 Let's talk about power. 386 00:25:28,500 --> 00:25:29,833 Real power. 387 00:25:30,416 --> 00:25:34,249 Who can tell me from where the Shi'ar Imperium draws its might? 388 00:25:34,250 --> 00:25:38,708 From the crushed skulls that house inferior minds such as yours. 389 00:25:39,291 --> 00:25:41,375 Demerits. Raise your hand. 390 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,249 The power of your empire is, in truth, 391 00:25:47,250 --> 00:25:49,458 a harvest of stolen worlds. 392 00:25:50,041 --> 00:25:53,832 Younger cultures that, had they not been tilled to death, 393 00:25:53,833 --> 00:25:56,750 would now be empires rivaling your own. 394 00:25:57,166 --> 00:25:59,957 Fearing this, you strike at the knees 395 00:25:59,958 --> 00:26:02,083 and claim you can help them walk again. 396 00:26:02,833 --> 00:26:04,833 But only if they assimilate. 397 00:26:05,250 --> 00:26:06,250 Submit. 398 00:26:06,666 --> 00:26:09,083 Which brings us to this conclusion. 399 00:26:09,666 --> 00:26:13,458 The Shi'ar empire is a snake oil racket. 400 00:26:14,458 --> 00:26:17,415 Even you Terrans claim, "Might is right." 401 00:26:17,416 --> 00:26:19,707 The rhyme that sells the lie. 402 00:26:19,708 --> 00:26:23,124 That we must pillage worth from one another. 403 00:26:23,125 --> 00:26:26,999 That for me to be more, you must be less. 404 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,708 Your existence against mine because... 405 00:26:30,500 --> 00:26:31,624 Why? 406 00:26:31,625 --> 00:26:34,707 Says who? Who made up these silly rules? 407 00:26:34,708 --> 00:26:36,291 We did, beloved. 408 00:26:36,875 --> 00:26:37,958 Playing make-believe. 409 00:26:38,458 --> 00:26:40,290 Even if we were to agree, 410 00:26:40,291 --> 00:26:43,290 your idealism would confuse our people. 411 00:26:43,291 --> 00:26:45,291 They might even call it nonsense. 412 00:26:47,125 --> 00:26:48,458 Want to know a secret? 413 00:26:49,333 --> 00:26:51,583 Coexistence is messy. 414 00:26:52,083 --> 00:26:54,125 Thus, my love for education, 415 00:26:54,833 --> 00:26:56,165 for my X-Men. 416 00:26:56,166 --> 00:26:59,916 Their heroism teaches a lesson we mustn't forget. 417 00:27:00,583 --> 00:27:03,290 That the universe is very old, 418 00:27:03,291 --> 00:27:06,083 and all of us, very young. 419 00:27:06,583 --> 00:27:08,583 Born of ancient stardust, 420 00:27:09,291 --> 00:27:11,375 and all children of the atom. 421 00:27:18,958 --> 00:27:19,958 Heavens, no! 422 00:27:26,750 --> 00:27:27,750 Gambit? 423 00:27:30,541 --> 00:27:32,790 No! 424 00:27:32,791 --> 00:27:35,625 They were dancing, drinking wine, making love! 425 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:37,374 Oh, my children! 426 00:27:37,375 --> 00:27:39,708 My children of the atom, destroyed! 427 00:27:40,666 --> 00:27:41,666 No! 428 00:27:46,625 --> 00:27:48,208 Charles! 429 00:27:50,875 --> 00:27:51,999 Beloved. 430 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:53,458 What in the stars? 431 00:27:54,500 --> 00:27:56,957 I must return to Earth immediately. 432 00:27:56,958 --> 00:28:00,124 But we've nearly convinced the council. 433 00:28:00,125 --> 00:28:01,374 It doesn't matter! 434 00:28:01,375 --> 00:28:04,833 While I cowered in the cosmos, the unthinkable has happened. 435 00:28:05,333 --> 00:28:06,707 Charles, if you leave, 436 00:28:06,708 --> 00:28:09,708 you will prove my sister right about your kind. 437 00:28:11,333 --> 00:28:14,457 If that should end our star-crossed affair, 438 00:28:14,458 --> 00:28:15,583 so be it. 439 00:28:16,333 --> 00:28:18,750 I will not abandon my kind. 440 00:28:23,041 --> 00:28:26,666 It is time I return to my X-Men. 441 00:28:37,291 --> 00:28:38,624 I did what you asked. 442 00:28:38,625 --> 00:28:41,375 I gave you my DNA to access Master Mold. 443 00:28:46,541 --> 00:28:47,916 Kill me, please, 444 00:28:48,416 --> 00:28:49,875 for what happened in Genosha. 445 00:28:50,458 --> 00:28:52,750 I beg you. 446 00:28:52,916 --> 00:28:55,457 Don't take all the blame, Bolivar, 447 00:28:55,458 --> 00:28:57,707 and don't fret the future. 448 00:28:57,708 --> 00:29:02,749 Why, Genosha was merely the beginning of a prologue, now past. 449 00:29:02,750 --> 00:29:04,458 You have nothing to fear, 450 00:29:05,041 --> 00:29:09,000 so long as you place your faith in Sinister.