X-Men: GenetiX

Issue #6

Unknown Pocket of Space

The Judgment of Benjamin Xavier, En Sabah Nur and Romulus.

Totem of the Mind

"No!" Cordelia cried as she watched her mother vaporized from sight.

"It'll be okay," Christian said as he held his sister, feeling years of resentment fading as he looked his favorite sister, Emma in the eyes.

"All I know is once I am out of here, if they don't kill Charles, I will and all his little brats," Adrienne Frost said as she glared at the man who was actually her grandfather.

"I wish I had my memories back so I could feel this emotional connection, but in some why, my spirit knows I belong somehow to you all," Zan Marko said still in shock of how quickly things have changed.

"I'd probably better you not truly know," Lilandro said as he eyed the young boy.

"Why is that?" Zan asked.

"Because you are like my counter part, Cassandra," Shadow Nova said as she kept her distance in the corner from the others she had no memories of but a hidden desire to kill but now a reason more than ever along with Xavier to see dead.

"What do you," Zan began to say when he froze afraid of the response.

"That you are a spirit given life like Cassandra or Onslaught. The truth we all have realized is you are actually a spirit forced out of a body from the womb, but somehow recreated your own body anyways," Emma explained and then glanced at the three clones, or daughters standing there staring at her in silent shock.

Totem of Power

"I hate feeling so helpless," Scott said as he looked from where Sam's brothers and sisters via Guthrie Clan consoling him and reestablishing their sibling bond over the loss of his bet friend again and then over to where Jean held their future daughter Rachel who was crying over the sudden loss of her future son.

"Don't worry, we'll get out of here and all will be well with Jean again, even though it might be interesting with ol' Emma running the school with ya," Alex tried to joke as he saw both Jean and Emma make eye contact with his brother and look away.

"It's not even about this or them," Scott said as he pushed past his brother in anger.

"What is it, pops?" Gambit joked as he got several death looks.

"It's about my wife, his mother. When we were ripped away to this place, her planet, our home was being invaded and slaughtered. I," Scott began when his year old son began to cry and he quickly knelt down and picked him up so they could cry together.

"Don't worry, son. When we get out of here we will go get her. I will no longer allow for my family to be divided. When I say, my children, we will stand united I mean my daughter and ALL my sons," Corsair said loudly as he nodded, smiled and made eye contact with each of his kids, including Ruby, Gabriel, Sam and a taken back Adam Neramani.

Totem of the Beast

"So, grandpa's secrets are out of the bag now. I no longer have to hide my identity as the one called Dog. As much as I obeyed every one of his wishes, I don't understand why he spent so much time and attention on your family when I was the one that set the stages for all others like us as well as expanding and recreating our race as well as implanting two of my own children into Xavier's. It's not fair, I mean I can understand you, Logan, my brother, but Victor, your nothing but a disgrace that resulted in your son to die once again and I'm sure your daughter won't last either," Maximus Lobo growled at his two half brothers.

"I'll gut you," Creed began to say as the effects of the dower dampening cell had completely reverted him back to human form but stopped his charge due to his new baby daughter crying making him pause and hold her close to him.

"I can't and won't believe he is our father," Rahne said as she and her newly discovered half brother Wolf Cub stared at Lobo.

"We can't always pick who our parents are," Jamie Silverfox said causing Wolverine to bring his attention back from watching Beast crying over the loss of his uncle, Magneto over his newfound son, Warren over the sister he never got to know, the aunt and mother Storm and Magma forgot existed, the Drake's family member, Dagger over her real father and her longtime best friend, the student they new knew about crying over her mother and Logan's friend as well as Piotr losing his only son.

"Here I thought I was daddy's favorite but he equally abandoned all his children," Daken said as he stared into the eyes of his father.

"That's not true or fair. I thought you were dead, Gahek felt that Erista would be safer raised in the Savage Land till he got older and you, I never even knew about. Your mother, she kept you hidden from me," Logan said as he turned toward the young woman in the full silver ninja outfit.

"It seems she, like my half-brother's mom, knew I was better kept away from you. After seeing all this and learning all that I have I can see it was wise on her part to never reveal who my father was," Jamie said, finally breaking her silence from the corner she stood alone watching everyone.

"Why is that?" Wolverine asked, the hurt showing in his voice.

"Then I would learn two things. That the man responsible for killing my mother twice was my uncle and that this would make this killer's brother who was a part of the group that led mom to her death my father," Jamie answered trying to hide her emotions.

"What's the big deal?" X-23 asked rolling her eyes at her sister.

"The big deal is that I had vowed to hunt down mom's killer as well as those in that group that led to her death. That means I now have to kill the one man I wished to find and get to know my whole life," Jamie said as a sigh of sadness almost escaped her voice.

"Wow, Logan. When we were in the program, didn't I always tell you that your womanizing over the centuries would one day backfire on ya?" Deadpool asked with a laugh.

"Ah, so it seems I've found another of the group," Jamie said as she swiped her arm that instantly sent a dagger at Deadpool's face.

"Whoa, quite the girl you have there. I think I'm in love," Wade said right after the cell glowed and vaporized the dagger seconds before it hit him in the face to enforce its no powers and no killing each other properties.

"Wade, if you so much as go," Wolverine started to say but then stopped when a loud voice caused everyone who wasn't already, to stop what they were doing and stare up at the giant robots.

"WHY YOU HESITATE?" Boomed the voice of Snodv.

"Sense we were busy we failed to recognize that something was wrong with the alarm system. I did a check and everything is fine. I shall now finish this," Yergen said as he pressed a button upon a control panel.

Suddenly all twenty Totems were in a circle around the three prisoners chained in the middle. They began to glow as Benjamin Xavier, En Sabah Nur and Romulus began to scream. In the next instant two weird thin lines of energy shot out from each Totem and implanted themselves in each of their respective cell and Celestia Majestic. Each Celestia screamed in joy as they each began to glow as all the prisoners began to scream in pain as each cell lit up in a strange white glow. Yergin then hit one final button and the room made a strange noise over everyone's screams right before the entire room lit up in a blinding white glow.

"I feel no different," Phoenix said after the white light faded.

"We're still alive. How is this possible?" Shadowcat asked as she looked at her daughter and then her niece.

"That's because we intervened," a voice called out making them all turn to see Wanda Harkness holding hands with both her sons as a magical light that surrounded them from a recently cast spell faded.

"Wanda, you're alive!" Quicksilver screamed with joy as was hope began to hit a few of the others.

"That's my girl," Magneto said as he got an evil glare from his eldest daughter.

"How is this possible?" Dmin demanded.

"Thanks to a joint spell we stopped the transfer from happening," Wiccan said proudly.

"If you had that kind of power why didn't you use it before they killed everyone?" Adrienne Frost cried.

"Because, we needed the Totems pure and recreated to serve as the anchor to seal the spell making it so none of your powers can ever be taken by the Totems again or be killed in return for the Totems never being recreated or used again. As of now the Totems are forever no more," Wanda said.

"But we did try to squeeze in a spell to revert the others back but not sure if it will work," Wade said as they all glanced to see all the Totems on the floor, cracked and starting to turn to dust but a handful of them had begun to pulse with a strange white light.

"And in balance, the spell allowed each of the Celestai to retain a very small portion of their original power in return for them giving up their cosmic being and taking a more mortal and more robotic body," Wiccan finished.

"What do you mean?" Genout asked as he suddenly realized the answer.

"It means we can kill you now," Wade said as he leapt into the air, invoked a spell that caused his whole body to crackle with electricity and then released a large electrical energy ball that hit Genout, caused the Celestia to crackle and then explode causing his body parts to instantly turn to dust.

"We will kill you all," Yergen declared.

"Wanda, let us out and we can help you," Cyclops pleaded.

"I can't. You all will be safer in your cells, especially from those that might try and flee or back stab us," Wanda said.

"What makes you think that?" Magneto asked also annoyed at not being allowed to be free to fight with his family.

"Because, the only way we will win is if you stay in there and we handle the fight," a young woman with an "M" on her eye said walking into the room.

"They will not be safe in there," Dmin said as a control panel rose up with a button on it and he began to reach for it.

"Who are you and who's this we?" Scott asked immediately.

"I'm Layla Miller and I know stuff," Layla said.

"And we are who she is referring to," a voice said as fifteen figure appeared behind Layla, one of them a woman with pink skin who leapt in the air and threw two glowing objects that hit both the panel and button and Dmin's arm causing them all to vanish instantly from sight.

"Aunt Clarice!" Charles Lehnsherr screamed at seeing his aunt.

"Kurt, Cable, they all did survive," Cyclops cheered as he saw his son who looked more like Colossus than human.

"Kill them!" Yergen commanded as the remaining nineteen Celestia prepared to fight.

"Dad?" Hank McCoy questioned in surprise when he saw his father, with feet and hands that looked similar to his when he had first developed his powers leap into battle.

"You are no match for me," Phorm said as the Celestia shape shifted into a large monster with six snake-like heads with sharp teeth and claws to match.

"We'll see abut that," Madrox said as he quickly began to multiply and advance on the beast.

"I will love gutting you," Lafer said becoming more feral and leapt at Spider-Girl.

"Good luck with that," Rachael Parker said as her agility and psionic sixth spider sense just barely kept her one step ahead of the beast.

"This is almost too easy," Netgam said as the power over magnetism allowed him to slam and pin Cable's new all organic-metal body to the ground.

"Why isn't my magic working?" Nightmagik asked as she seemed frozen to move.

"That's because I'm blocking that access to your body with ease as well as taking control of the other mind within you to help control you," Dmin said with a smile as he began to force Nightmagik to turn toward the her dad was in and was going to force her to kill her dad who was being held by Trop who was using his powers now to prevent him and anyone else from teleporting.

Now you will get your wish.

Why don't you stop me?

Because that creature is controlling both our minds and I have no choice but to help you kill our father.

"No, not like this!" Nightmagik suddenly screamed out loud as she found her body moving against her will.

"It's okay, I know you have no choice. Just know I will always love you," Nightcrawler called out to his daughter.

"I can help you," Modifier said from behind her. "Give me permission and I can touch you."

Nightmagik was torn. She had always hated her father for what he had done to her mother, but this man was her father but not the one she had known from her world. In her quest to destroy him by giving his love Cerise to this reality's version of her uncle as well as allowing Stefan Szardos the access to take her dad's team, X-Calibur, Margali had discovered something. That maybe with this realities version of her dad, instead of wanting to kill him she really wanted, deep down to be loved and a chance to have a father. Whether that was true or is she wanted to kill him, it should be by her choice and hers alone.

I know you have good in you. I've been in you long enough to see deep down. Do it, I give my permission.

You know nothing. I do this only because when I kill dad it will be my hands and my time of choosing. "Do it, Modifier," Nightmagik said out load as Modifier swiped her back with his claws just before a blast of energy from Yergen sent him flying backwards.

It was too late, the scratch had made contact and Nightmagik felt her body tingling as he hit the ground and began to convulse. Nightcrawler stared in a parent's horror as he watched his daughter dying. Suddenly something very odd and amazing happened. Nightmagik ripped into two as Modifier's powers had taken their effect on the girl. Within seconds Nightmagik stood there with her blue skin, tail, pointed ears and blond hair wearing her red with black X-Calibur outfit while a very normal looking boy stood next to her with purple eyes and a purple stripe down the center of his short spiked black hair. She couldn't believe it, her head felt empty and she was looking at her brother, Curtis Wagner face to face once again.

"Curtis, you're alive!" Nightcrawler said with tears as he saw the son he always knew was still alive deep down within his daughter's mind.

"Now you will pay," Nightmagik said as she turned on Dmin and released a spell that never happened.

"Seems you are now powerless," Dmin said as the Celestia brought his fist down upon the girl.

"But, I'm not," Curtis said as his skin turned purple and began to glow with a crackling energy while he caught the robot's fist in mid punch with his own hands.

"Seems we have one powerless, one pinned and the other locked in combat. Time to kill all three of you," Yergin said as energy built up within the Celestia's body.

"I," Nightmagik began to say when she stopped and felt a weird sensation when she had gotten closer to her brother and then a realization came to her.

"What are you doing?" Nightcrawler asked in horror as he saw his daughter return on her brother.

Nightmagik wrapped her hand around her brother's throat. Just before anyone could react to this move, Nightmagik felt something inside her charge and she released as spell. Dmin stumbled as Curtis suddenly turned into pure purple energy and wrapped himself around his sister. Nightmagik them screamed a few words and her spell was invoked causing two powerful purple energy blasts to leave her body and hit Dmin and Trop taking their heads clean off and turning both Celestia into ash. She then turned and faced Yergen preparing to unleash another spell as her brother seemed to reform back to normal next to his freed father.

"What?" Nightmagik asked as she her spell did not work and she felt nothing.

"Looks like it's your turn to die," Yergen said as he unleashed an energy blast at the blue skinned woman.

"Margali!" Curtis screamed as he saw the energy blast incinerate the area where his sister had been.

"Don't worry, she is safe," Nightcrawler said as he appeared next to Curtis holding Nightmagik in his arms.

"What's happened to me?" Nightmagik asked as she began to feint.

"I don't know but we will figure out, together," Nightcrawler said with a smile as he was glad to have both his children again.

Everyone in the cells watching safely in horror and fascination as the battle grew to its final climax. Power from both sides flew about the room but the makeup of the cells kept them all protected inside and also left them powerless and with the ability to only watch. Even some who would like to kill their cell mates were powerless to even do that. They all watched and waited to see which side would win. Would they ultimately be freed or also be killed in the end. The answer was coming and it was coming soon as they all watched and waited.

"Cable, you still have any of your powers?" Chamber asked the metal man.

"What little I have is all tied up now keeping my vital organs from becoming organic steel like the rest of my body," Cable said as he faced Rattem.

Cable's entire body had been taken over by the virus. He was now a permanent Colossus. Thankfully he was still human as his powers were in a permanent lock with the virus keeping it from transforming his vital organs and the blood running through his veins. On the plus side, with his entire outer body made of the organic metal, it made his very resistant to injury and attacks and it made him super strong. With anger in his body for what they caused him to become, he used that new found strength to leap up, grab Rettem by the head and pulled with his strength while he fired with his gun taking the Celestia's head clear off turning the creature to ash.

"Way to go, Cable," Chamber said as he suddenly found his body turning back to energy against his will.

"I control energy and that is all you are," Yergen said as the Celestia began to do something to Chamber right before he released blast energy at Chamber and engulfing the mutant.

"Chamber," Cable said as he landed next to the mutant made of energy and held him in his arms as he began to dissipate.

"Cable, he did something to my energy. I feel myself fading as my actual energy is pulled into that thing. Tell Husk I have always loved her," Chamber said as an energy blast from Yergen hit them both.

"No!" Husk screamed as the smoke cleared and all that was laying there was a barely moving Cable.

"I have foreseen it, go ahead," Rees said as Thunderbird called on his powers and slammed his hands together causing thunder to boom sending the Celestia violently back against the wall.

"Glad to see you're still alive," Blink said appearing next to her best friend's man as Norton McCoy landed on the fallen Celestia, ripped its head off turning Rees to dust before leaping onto the next battle.

"We will all soon be out of here," BattleStar said as he through his shield with all his might hitting half way severing the head of Lafer as he almost gutted Spider-Girl.

"Yes and now that I have access to my teleportation," Blink said as threw her javelins with force and accuracy hitting Lefer in the head causing it to vanish and leaving the body to turn to dust a few seconds after.

"Thanks," Spider-Girl began to say when suddenly a large bolt of lightening hit her leaving her broken and charred on the ground.

"Rachel," Blink said as she was suddenly by her side.

"Don't worry, my body should heal," Spider-Girl said as she started coughing up blood and fading.

"Not today. I have the ability to heal, but with the power of life, I can keep her healing abilities from working," Glith said as the light was being kept from Spider-Girl.

"And while she dies I will use my powers over death to end yours," Drak said as a large black spear shot at Blink.

"Clarice, I love you!" BattleStar shouted as he threw himself in front of Blink taking the spear into his back.

"No," Blink cried as BattleStar's skin turned pale and sunken and she now kneeled between two teammates that had both died in her arms.

"But light can stop the dark," Shard said as called on every ounce of her power and absorbed the light from Glith and then shot a pear of light right into Drak causing the Celestia into ash.

"Nice," Spike said as he released several spikes from his body and into Glith while his left arm extended and ripped his claws across the Celestia's face causing it to turn to dust as well.

"We've wasted enough time, let us join our gifts and finish these few off so we can get back to taking care of out prisoners," Yergen said as he and the eleven remaining Celestia stood and looked down at the beaten and remaining mutants that opposed them.

"Now Wanda, do it," Layla said causing Wanda to wonder how she knew what she was planning.

"Boys, take my hand. Please forgive me," Wanda said as each of her son's stepped next to her and she grabbed each of their hands.

Wanda invoked a spell and wrapped all three of them in a white magical light. Wade stretched out his left hand and pointed at the three prisoners chained in the middle of the floor. Wade invoked a spell that caused a stream of electricity coated in white magic to shoot out and pierce through the bodies of Xavier, Apocalypse and Romulus causing each of them to scream out in pain as their very essence and power were drained from them. Wiccan then raised his right hand and pointed at Madrox, Strong Guy, Norton McCoy and Modifier hitting them with a beam of magical light that caused them to scream as the basis of their powers were pulled from them.

Then Wanda ripped her hand up in the air from her boy's as all the power swarmed into her and then released her spell as both her boys turned white and fell to the ground. Wanda, Mistress X the White Witch released the spell with all her might as a blast of powerful white magic swirling with mutant DNA and power exploded as it engulfed the twelve Celestia. Everyone covered there eyes and then looked when the light faded. Wanda was down on one knee as five Celestia remained standing in a pile of their fallen comrade's ashes. Yergen, Phoenix, Syntide, Elover and Efil all roared with anger and laughter.

"You may have struck down our comrades but we had combined our powers to at least save us five and unlike the rest of you, we are still strong enough to fight," Yergen said.

"It seems your sister is as powerful as I've always suspected," Magneto called out to his two children behind him.

"Maybe too powerful," Cyclops commented as he glanced from Wanda to the evil Magneto.

"There's no way we can stop them, not with the power they have and how beaten we are," Nightcrawler said as he looked at all their comrades that were down for the count including Madrox, Strong Guy, Modifier and Norton McCoy who looked like white statues after that spell of Wanda and her kids as did Xavier, Romulus and Apocalypse.

"No, that spell not only reduced their numbers but it by them interfering they added an element to the spell so that they can never revive their fallen comrades and right now they have a window of a few minutes were they are powerless and vulnerable. Lila, you know what you must now do," Layla said with a tear.

"What is she doing? Lila, no!" Sam Guthrie shouted as his ex-girlfriend and punk rocker Lila Cheney stepped in front of the remaining Celestia, pictured the center of the sun Lila had told her about and in a flash she and the Celestia were gone forever.

"We won but now what?" Blink asked with tears in her eyes as she walked up to Layla.

"I can help. I should be able to talk to their systems," Sage said as she walked up to them.

"Mom?" Alisa Tager cried as she saw her mom walking towards them.

"Yes, Wanda's spell worked. Me and six others managed to be pulled back from the Totems. Unfortunately the others are gone," Sage said as Blink teleported her up to the top of the cells where the control panels where.

Everyone quickly looked over where the totems had been to find six figures standing in the dust and remains of the Totems. Magneto signed when he saw his son, the mutant called Skywalker standing there. Colossus screamed and hugged his sister tight when he saw his son Species there too. More cheers and tears of joy called out when Banshee and Warpath were also among the survivors. The last two survivors were Silver Samurai and about ten years old with light brown hair and glasses.

"Who are you honey?" Banshee asked as he knelt down to the little girl that he had never seen before but yet had a familiarity about her.

"Hi, I'm Moira MacTaggert. Where am I?" The little girl asked as Banshee went white and Mona gasped looking down at her belly and then back at the little girl.

"What's wrong, mom?" Wiccan asked as he was still pretty weak from the spell they had cast.

"They may have survived the transformation from being Totems but I can see an aura around them all and I have a feeling they may or will be the same," Wanda whispered as her other son, Wade joined Wiccan in them all helping each other stand.

"As them," Wade added as he glanced at the seven mutants they had used who had all lost their white stone look and reverted back to flesh but each now looked human and normal, including Apocalypse, Romulus, Norton, Modifier and Strong Guy.

"I think this should do it," Sage said as suddenly the cells vanished and everyone was freed.

"I still don't have my powers," Magnetrix declared as she had whipped her hands violently at her father.

"The effects, hopefully are temporary and will ware off soon," Cyclops said as he looked at Emma and then over to Jean not knowing where to go first.

"How do we get out of here?" Sebastian said as he kept his eye on his son and daughter who both were ready to pounce and kill him.

"Wait, I think I am picking up on something maybe if I," Sage began to mumble when she pressed a bottom and suddenly everyone in the room vanished leaving behind a battle torn room filled with ash and dust and revealed secrets.

The End….of our story but check out Sensational X-Men #46 as the X-Men begin to deal with the aftermath of Xavier and GenetiX.