Previously onX-Men...
Help me, Charles Xavier. Help me.
They're coming!
The space shuttle Starcore is scheduled for launch tomorrow.
You must find a way to get aboard that shuttle.
And go to the Eagle One space station.
All I can tell you is that an event of immense importance
is about to occur in space. You must be ready.
Docking sequence initiated.
- What is it, Jean? - I don't know.
A trap! Quickly! Back to the shuttle!
My purpose here is to intercept an enemy of my emperor,
the rebel Lilandra.
Agent! Has Lilandra's ship been stopped?
Not as yet, Excellency.
But her agents will soon be destroyed.
Back to the shuttle! It's our only chance!
We're going to fly right through the energy contrail!
Look like there gonna be a barbecue and we gonna be the main course.
I must hold on!
Course correction! I must...
Scott! Logan!
Someone, help me.
The capsule appears to have lost its watertight integrity.
The hatch is jammed!
Not for long. Hold your breath.
Jean!
I can't find her!
Jean!
I am Phoenix!
Fascinating.
Help me.
Jean!
Jean! Jean!
And the investigation continues
on what went wrong with the shuttle's flight plan—
I thought we'd lost you.
Then you rose up out of the water.
You said something, and then you lost consciousness.
I don't remember.
How did I survive? Did I survive?
You're here, aren't you?
Yes, but I feel strange, like I'm someone else.
Like I could reach out and touch the moon and crush it in my hand.
Jean, who is Phoenix?
Phoenix? Am I Phoenix?
You claimed her identity once before, Jean, when you rose not from the ashes,
but from the depths of New York Harbor.
I flew?
Yes, Jean.
Some sort of transformation has taken place that none of us yet understands.
Until we know what has happened,
it will be best that you do not leave the hospital.
I spoke privately with Dr. Corbeau.
He informed me that NASA cannot explain the existence
of the alien spacecraft or the strange readings we registered
or, for that matter, how we survived.
All is being denied to prevent a public panic.
He also said a number of governments are concerned
over new activity within the vortex.
Another alien ship coming through?
So it seems.
It's time you told us everything you know, Professor.
I've told you all I can.
All that makes any sense.
That's not good enough!
Jean's lying in there because you sent us in blind
against something that almost destroyed us!
Because you failed to warn us!
You had all the information then available.
A good leader doesn't have to be warned to be on his guard!
Are you saying it's my fault what happened to Jean?
If I might interject.
Concern over Jean's condition has rendered both of you irrational.
Neither preparation nor leadership could have prevented what occurred.
And now, if you will excuse me,
I'm eager to examine the mind-control implants
removed from the space station astronauts.
Fascinating.
I share your concern, Wolverine.
Jean seems to be feeling much better.
Why don't you go see for yourself?
Maybe I don't like hospitals.
Last time I was on an operating table, it didn't turn out so well.
Science can wait.
Perhaps a sojourn to a Manhattan nightspot might help clear your mind.
Maybe.
(WHISTLES) Taxi!
Driver, my friend and I...
Why is it always so difficult to get a cab in New York?
Thanks, Hank. I think I'll just spend some time alone.
Not again!
Who are you?
What—
What are you trying to tell me?
My mind. Must keep control.
Yuriko!
Locked. Good thing I brought a key.
What's going on here?
Professor? Walking?
You're an animal. Always causing trouble.
You never follow orders. It was a mistake to save you.
I'm sick of your selfish, undisciplined arrogance!
I ain't too fond of you right now either, Professor!
- What? - Wolverine!
(SIGHS) Next time I'll walk.
Hey, chere,
where can you and me go and get some good Cajun food in this town, huh?
Hey! You said you'd take me to this Broadway show!
This show not gonna last night, petite, but I still be going.
I have a ticket for you.
One way to oblivion.
Professor Xavier is walking!
'Cause that ain't Xavier.
Wolverine! What's happening?
Silence!
Don't worry, Monsieur Ghost. Plenty more where that came from!
This is not a game.
Where'd he go?
I said distract him, Jub, not disintegrate him.
Fools! Your puny mutant powers cannot harm me.
I created the X-Men!
And what I created,
I can destroy!
Storm! - Yes, Jubilee?
Come to Times Square! Hurry! The Professor's going nuts!
With the speed of the wind.
No, Storm!
I can't control it.
Will hurt you, too.
You cannot be trusted, Gambit!
So you must be eliminated.
Freeze, mutants!
Arrest him, not us!
Arrest who?
Can't see him 'cause he ain't there.
Then how come he hurt us so bad?
How should I know, Cajun? But I know he ain't real.
'Cause I can't smell him.
Silence!
He's gone!
Way to go, Wolverine.
I said freeze!
Shut up and get your hands up now!
How you gonna explain we been fighting somebody who ain't there?
I won't.
Wolverine! Allow me.
Let mist cover your retreat!
Come on, let's get lost in the fog.
I can't see a thing.
She's at a small private hospital on the East Side.
A colleague of Beast's is looking after her.
And, Rogue, get back as soon as you can. We may need you.
Ingrate!
Incompetent fool!
Professor, you're...
I am here to destroy you.
- Scott! - Why are you doing this?
I don't want to hurt you.
But I want to hurt you!
No, Scott!
I can't fight it!
He's making you imagine that a force beam's affecting you.
It's all in your mind!
He was just a psychic projection from the Professor's mind.
- But why? - Something's wrong.
His mind seems to be out of control.
See if you can reach him, Jean, while I contact the X-Men.
Professor Xavier. Professor...
He's on the roof.
Professor?
It was here.
What was here, Professor?
I don't know.
I felt a psychic probe of enormous power.
The same one that has been haunting me,
that warned me of the trouble aboard the space station.
Only this time it dug deeper.
The probe overwhelmed all of the safeguards
I have built to control the surging powers of my mind,
including the dark side,
the destructive urges that live within us all.
With the shroud that conceals it ripped away,
that dark side of my nature lashed out, without reason or compassion,
trying to destroy what I care about the most, the X-Men.
Xavier is the key.
We shall be ready.
Until I regain +control of my subconscious, my orders cannot be trusted.
Cyclops will be in command of the X-Men until I return.
Return from where?
So good to see you, Charles.
I'd like you to meet Sean Cassidy, my fiance.
Moira's told me a great deal about you, Mr. Xavier.
How fortunate.
Now if you'll show me my quarters, Moira, I need to rest.
I've not seen him like this, Sean.
It may be even worse than he told me.
Are you out there?
I fear you, yet I sense you may be the answer to my loneliness.
Does he not still love you, Moira?
I dunnae think so, but he needs me.
Charles has given everything for his students, his X-Men.
But friends, aye, that's different.
Sometimes I think I'm the only one he has.
You are driving me insane!
But I must not fight you.
Who are you?
My name is Lilandra.
I come from a world unknown to you. A world called Shi'ar.
Why have you come here, to the Earth?
Charles Xavier. Let me show you.
I am the sister of D'Ken, the emperor of the Shi'ar.
I served my brother loyally,
until I learned that he sought to control
the greatest power in the universe,
the ancient Crystal of M'Kraan. Immeasurably powerful.
My brother hopes to harness the crystal's power
to use it as a weapon.
My brother is mad.
It is written that if the crystal is breached,
both of our galaxies could be at risk.
To keep the crystal from my brother,
I violated its ancient sanctuary,
the most sacred temple of Shi'ar.
I stole the M'Kraan Crystal.
I escaped aboard a star cruiser,
but my brother pursued me, with the warships of the Imperial fleet.
They attempted to destroy me and my ship to get the crystal.
I managed to reach your solar system.
But D'Ken will follow me here, in time.
That is why you must help me.
What led you here, to me?
The Shi'ar believe that two minds can be linked
from the moment of their creation,
destined to seek each other out in their time of need.
It's a bond like love, only deeper.
Do you also believe this?
I do now.
I have seen your face a thousand times, in my mind.
It's all right, Moira.
The name's Juggernaut, dear brother!
And you must be Lilandra!