Previously on X-Men...
Everyone can relax.
Gambit has returned.
You wanna play with Gambit? Here! Take a card!
Look out!
Life don't get much better than this.
You miss me, petite?
I reckon so.
Five-card stud. Jacks or better to open.
- Quickly, chère! - I knew you would rescue us.
Don't y'all leave now! The fun just starting!
I think maybe you miss me, eh?
If you want to settle this, mon ami,
then let's do it.
What we know about him?
Only a little more than we know about you.
You've never been straight with us, not completely.
Help!
Come on, Gambit. Can't you make this program a little tougher?
What? You don't like Gambit to be gentle?
Our enemies won't be. Crank it up.
- Xavier's School. Remy?
Who is this? How'd you find me?
Remy, it Pierre. You got to come down quick.
- It Bobby. He's in trouble. - Then let him get out of it.
But Remy, it's the tithe! Bobby disappear!
And if he ain't there tonight with the tithe,
you know what gonna happen.
Wait a second. Something's wrong!
Gambit!
Cyclops!
Gambit!
What in tarnation are you doing?
Cyclops was alone in there! You could have killed him!
I got to go home, chère.
They're gonna waste my brother.
Scott!
Gambit... Stop... Stop...
Is he all right?
I don't know yet. What happened?
Something spooked Gambit bad. Something about a brother.
That fool.
That thieving fool.
Best hope we make it in time.
Ugh!
Where Bernard with our tithe? It's time!
They're coming!
They're right behind me!
But the Assassins already placed their tithe! It's time!
The External!
Ten years have passed.
The time for the tithing has come!
Guild of Assassins, send your Chosen One forward.
The Guild of Assassins honor you with this tithe, great External.
By our covenant, your powers shall be increased.
Strength and protection from the powers of mortal men.
Guild of Thieves, send your Chosen One forward.
Offered no tithe at the chosen hour!
(STAMMERING) The Guild of Thieves honors...
You broke the covenant!
To betray the tithe is dishonor!
No!
Fly from this world,
to a darkness never-ending!
In 10 years, we tithe again,
as we have throughout the centuries.
Fail me, Assassin or Thief,
and all your kind shall join the conspirator in oblivion.
Assassin, you are now the Chosen One.
Thief, you are now the Chosen One.
Be faithful to the tithe,
and unimaginable power shall be your reward.
Chosen One.
Bobby...
Really, I feel better.
Whoa, partner! We'll round up the stray X-Men while you heal.
Something was very wrong with Gambit.
When he was running to the plane, I sensed his feelings.
I felt a deep sense of dread that I have never felt in him before.
I never knew old Gambit cared so much about his family.
(SCOFFS) Heck, didn't even know he had one.
I hear you need help tracking a Cajun.
Well, well, looks like he got his licks in before he left.
Can it, wild boy, if you don't want a little of the same.
Gambit's gone off alone against who knows what.
- Pierre! - Over here, Remy!
- Have you found Bobby? - Yeah.
We... We got word...
What's the matter? Tell me!
The Assassins have him and our tithe.
They attack on the day of the tithe! No one has ever—
Who cares about the stupid tithe! When will it stop?
Assassins kill Thieves. Thieves kill Assassins.
For 300 years!
No one knows why anymore. This feud is crazy!
They don't want to kill Bobby.
No? Then what?
They want an exchange.
Bobby and the tithe for you.
Look, there's his plane.
Leave it to Gambit to grow up in a swamp!
Gambit never wanted to come back to this place.
I don't want to find out why.
Dead end. They took a boat.
I wish he would have asked us to help him.
After all this time, he should trust us.
The Cajun don't trust nobody.
Careful, Remy. You been gone a long time.
But to them, you still a Thief.
Remy LeBeau. Here to see my brother.
What you want now?
It me, Bobby.
Remy! So the big X-Man finally come home for a visit.
You know why I come! Thieves! Assassins!
I want nothing to do with you! Any of you.
I thought you wouldn't come, Remy.
- I thought you'd let me die. - I should have!
You got me in the Guild, Bobby. You made me a Thief.
Why? I was your brother!
Pierre say the Assassins will let you deliver the tithe tonight.
- Where is it? - She has it.
- Who? I do, Remy.
Belle? - How nice! You remember.
You like the dress?
Belle, why you do this?
You never saw it, did you?
On the day we were to be married!
We tried to bring the guilds together.
You know it didn't work. They wouldn't have let us live.
You could've taken me with you!
We were young. I was scared.
I still wear your ring.
I have one for you.
Wear it, and your no-count brother is free to deliver the tithe.
Sorry, brother. Goodbye.
What this mean, Belle?
You leave me once...
I been waiting 10 years for this moment.
You not leave me again!
My powers!
The Cajun actually lived in this dump?
That's what the Professor's records say.
Let's just find him and get out of here.
No wonder Gambit's so messed up.
I've seen some of the rat traps you've holed up in.
I sense people nearby.
Not Gambit. It's...
Don't move!
What you want here?
- Some answers, mush-mouth. - And a little bit better hospitality.
The Assassins sent them!
Where's Bobby? Where's our tithe?
I suggest putting the pop gun away,
if you don't want me to feed it to you.
I like a man who'll open a door for a lady.
Mutants!
Jacques! Stop! Remy came. He made the switch.
What switch?
For his brother. For the tithe.
You must be the X-Men.
(LAUGHS) Remy leave us for you?
Remy ain't a piece of meat to trade for anybody.
Sometimes the claw slip.
Take us to Gambit and it won't.
She bring him to the tithe.
She?
Bella Donna, leader of the Assassins.
Their Chosen One.
His woman!
I saved it for you. You will need it.
After the tithe, when we marry.
Why pretend, Belle?
You know the Thieves won't let me stay with you.
After tonight, there be no Thieves!
(LAUGHING) You think I give them the real tithe?
You were traded for a worthless brother and an even more worthless box!
And when he give it to the External, she destroy them all!
Where the Assassins?
The External come in less than five minutes.
What do you care?
From what you say, the Assassins don't show,
the boogie woman melts them, and you take over.
I don't trust Bella Donna.
Until she arrive, and the tithe is done, anything could happen.
Looks like your squeeze made the party after all.
The Assassins are prepared for the tithe
and welcome our newest member,
Remy LeBeau!
(GASPS) I don't believe it.
- The tithe she gave you is a fake! - Traitor!
Huh. I knew he didn't love that swamp witch!
Get away from him!
Seducer! Get away from my husband!
Belle! Stop it!
Give me that ring, Gumbo. You ain't the marrying kind.
You Assassins betray us!
Your crazy woman break her word! You Assassins got no honor!
You Thieves too stupid to check the box.
We not gonna tell you.
Soon it make no difference.
I can't stop you from hating each other, but I can slow you down.
Please!
Hand over the box, swamp rat.
You can blast me away 1,000 times,
but I'll get you sooner or later.
Gambit ain't gonna be your lapdog.
The Thieves are not your people. Remy was wise to leave them.
Remy kiss many women, chère, but love only me.
Go now and I'll let you live.
It's no good fighting, Wolverine.
Unless we find the real tithe box,
every Thief here will be destroyed.
I don't care about which spirit ladies do what to which Cajuns,
- I'm here to stop a wedding. - What's that?
- The External! - The time has come!
Ten years have passed.
The tithe is false!
Chosen Ones, Assassin and Thief, step forward!
The Guild of Assassins honors you with this tithe, great External.
Your tithe is true.
By our covenant, your powers shall be increased.
- The Guild of Thieves... - Dishonors the tithe!
- No, it was the Assassins... I... The boy's right.
It was that low-life mop-squeezer over there who...
Rogue!
We've got to stop her!
Just show me where to slash!
Interlopers! Defilers!
Thieves!
For your treachery, fly from this world to a darkness...
No, wait! You must see the truth.
- The tithe she gave you is a fake! - Traitor!
Your crazy woman break her word! You Assassins got no honor!
You Assassins betray us!
You Thieves too stupid to check the box.
We not gonna tell you.
- Jean! - What's going on?
Liar! Charlatan!
No!
Deceiver! You dare endanger the sacred tithe?
You know the price! Thieves!
Your enemy has become mine.
Pronounce sentence!
Destroy her! Destroy them all!
Bobby, shut up!
We need no more killing to honor you!
Take her powers, but not her life.
It is done.
It's over, Belle.
Remy, don't leave me again.
This is not my home.
I am not Thief or Assassin.
I am an X-Man. And I'm never coming back.
I still don't understand
why he didn't tell us about the problem in the first place.
There are parts of our pasts that
that none of us want our friends to know.
But being an X-Man should mean something.
Gambit has to trust us.
Trust takes time.
With the professor gone,
you and I will have to be the ones to make sure he gets it.
Will there never be an end to this madness?
When I left, the Fall People were living here peacefully.
Even at the ends of the Earth,
the horrors of war find their way into the human heart.
We have seen much suffering in our lives, Magneto.
Each must find his own way to fight against it.
Someone named Magneto once taught us
that the fight goes to the most powerful!
Barbarus! I did not create you for this!
We Mutates follow a new master now,
and you must surrender to me.
Never!
Get them!
Nicely done, Charles!
Magneto!
- Ugh! - Farewell, creator!
No! Stop!
Come on!