Recruited to the company of X-Corporation by Tony Stark and Charles Xavier, the X-men are determined to protect a world that hates and fears mutants – which is exactly what they are working towards every day.

Their recent act of trying to protect humans against mutant extremists was a battle against Magneto and his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, determined to find out what his plans for the world are. Magneto's plans included recruiting the less-than-peaceful members of the New York City Morlocks.

Two of these Morlocks members, Gateway and Blink, have teleported our heroes to a place known to the world as the Savage Land – a prehistoric area of Antarctica where dinosaurs continue to roam. However, Gateway and Blink have decided to make it even more of a challenge for the X-men, and separated them from one another.

Now, our heroes are forced to rely on one another for survival. This led to a heated discussion between Wolverine and Rogue, and an intimate moment for Cyclops and Marvel Girl. However, Tony Stark's guilt is additionally exercised as he begins realizing that he needs to take more responsibility for his actions.

Issue 38: Savage Land, Savage Hearts Part 3

Genosha – Magneto's Citadel

It had been exactly three weeks since Magneto and his Brotherhood of Mutants had banded together with the Morlocks to send Charles Xavier and the X-men off on a little "vacation" to the Savage Land. And since then, the new developments on the island of Magneto's new home, Genosha, have been smooth sailing.

Magneto stood in the halls of his citadel, looking out the windows overlooking the island. For a time period, the island of Genosha had been used as a place to discriminate against mutants and experiment on them illegally. Now, the master of magnetism couldn't help but smile as he overlooked the work being done on his island. His Brotherhood and the Morlocks were already building the island up, and they didn't even work for Tony Stark. He marveled at the sight of mutants who had previously been captured on Genosha by Cameron Hodge and Obadiah Stane. Mutants such as Alex Summers, Rusty Collins and Megan Gwynn were already fitting in just fine. In fact, Erik Lehnsherr had approached Alex about a week prior about living on Genosha, considering the fact that Alex's foster family, the Marsters, had been getting such severe harassment from neighbors.

However, Magneto also knew that his work of exposing the hatred that humanity had for mutants wasn't over. In fact, he was not by any means done yet. The scene he had caused with the Morlocks at the chemical factory had only been a distraction from what his ultimate goal was.

"Father?" a voice asked behind him. He turned to see Wanda, his daughter, standing there before him, wearing her red cape and matching headdress.

"My dear Wanda, I see that things here on Genosha are actually moving along quite smoothly," Erik couldn't help but tell her in pride.

"Yes, they are. Even Pietro is hard at work," said Wanda. "However, are you going to tell Lorna that you're –?"

"No, not yet, dear . . . she's still adjusting to her life here. After all, I had gotten her out of that mental hospital she had been staying in, which had been more like a prison than anything else," Erik said. "However, I do have to say that getting the X-men out of our hair for a while was just step one. Step two; well . . . let me show you."

Wanda Maximoff followed her father down the hallways towards their war room, breathing out a heavy sigh. She knew that what they had done with the X-men had been necessary, but, she couldn't help but feel badly about Rogue, whom she had gotten close to when Rogue had been with them. She remembered seeing the look in the younger girl's eyes after Rogue had absorbed Carol Danvers' powers, and that she must've been so scared.

'God . . . Rogue, I'm sorry I haven't –' Wanda couldn't help but think to herself. 'I just feel I should have thought more about you . . .'

Before she knew it, Wanda and her father were in the war room, staring at the vast amounts of computer monitors that were there in the room. However, what struck her the most was what she was seeing on the computer monitors. It appeared to be the footage from security cameras of a bank, of all things.

"Father, what exactly is this?" asked Wanda.

"Phase two in our plan of taking back mutants' rights," Erik told his daughter. "You see, dear daughter, this bank here is not just any bank. It is Risman Financial . . . if you've heard anything about them through the dark web, then, you would know exactly what Matthew Risman has done to try and oppress our people."

Wanda's light brown eyes grew wide as she heard this information. "Well, what is it that you are expecting us to do, Father?" she asked him. "Expose them? Because if this was why you decided to have the Morlocks and Gateway send them away on a vacation to the Savage Land . . ."

"Indeed, Wanda," Erik said, leaning a hand on his daughter's shoulder. "It's time for us to make a new world."

The Savage Land

Over the course of the three weeks of being in the Savage Land, the X-men found that their fight for survival was proving to be the hardest battle that they had ever gotten in. Needing to constantly depend on one another led into them needing one-hundred percent trust.

Somehow, along the way after a week of being in the Savage Land, Ororo and Professor Xavier managed to find Hank and Forge. However, in that moment, Forge was probably going to end up having PTSD if they ever got out of the Savage Land.

"I swear . . . if I see another T-Rex –!" Forge cried as they ran off from a T-Rex that had attempted at eating them as its late afternoon snack.

"Forge, please!" Storm said in exasperation as they moved through tall blades of grass. "Can we just focus on finding the others, please? Professor, have you had any luck getting into contact with Jean?"

"Yes, I have, and I managed to contact Logan, too, but, without Cerebro, I cannot pinpoint their location," Xavier said as Hank wheeled him through the Savage Land.

"Fall seven times and stand up eight," Hank said simply.

"Hank McCoy, the walking fortune cookie," Forge said as picked at a piece of dinosaur meat that he had managed to salvage.

"Well, we better find them soon, or at least some way to get into contact with Tony," said Ororo. "I'm wondering if he's looking for us right now."

"Believe me, Ororo, I know Tony. He's like a second son to me; he doesn't show it often, but, he has a heart," Xavier said. "Trust me when I say that Tony is probably looking for us right now."

"How many weeks have we been here anyway?" asked Forge.

"Best I can tell, three weeks," said Ororo.

"How can you tell?" asked Hank as they made their way through the jungles.

"When you live life as a thief for so many years, you learn a thing or two about tracking days, weeks and months," Ororo. "I just hope that the others are holding up alright."

"I am sure that they are doing just fine, Ororo," Professor Xavier told her. "I have faith that the rest of my X-men can handle themselves just fine in situations such as this."

Twenty Minutes Later

"SCOTT!" Jean Grey screamed out, grabbing Scott Summers by the hand. Straining, Jean could feel Scott sinking in deeper into the quicksand he'd fallen into.

"Jean!" Scott gasped as his throat tightened. He was struggling to get out of the quicksand, the substance up to his neck with only his head exposed. He choked, his hand slipping from Jean's.

Jean forcefully tightened her grasp on Scott's hand, closing her eyes as she focused her telekinesis towards Scott's sinking body. She grabbed Scott's forearm with her other hand, tugging as hard as she could managed until finally, Scott came crawling out of the quicksand, choking hard. Jean knelt next to him, wrapping her arms around him tightly.

"Oh, my God, are you okay?!" she asked her best friend wildly.

Scott coughed hard, before gasping out, "I . . . I'm okay. I'm okay . . . thanks."

"You would have done the same for me," Jean breathed, stroking his face gently as Scott returned her embrace. The two closed their eyes, breathing sighs of relief.

"But I swear to God you scared me so much," Jean whispered. "I thought I lost you!"

"I'm okay, Jean. I promise. Thank you, for saving my life," Scott told her, stroking her hair.

"I would die for you if necessary," Jean told him.

"Likewise. I don't think I could survive without you," Scott breathed.

"I guess great minds think alike, Slim," Jean whispered, chuckling as she buried her face into Scott's neck. "I don't think I would have been able to live through these weeks without you, either."

Five Minutes Later

Time in the Savage Land over the past three weeks for Logan Howlett and Anna-Marie D'Ancanto proved that any bitterness that they may have had for each other in the past was a steaming pile of crap. Needing to constantly rely on and support each other to survive put things into perspective for the two of them.

As the two pushed their way through tall blades of grass and bushes throughout the Savage Land, it seemed as though somehow, Logan and Anna-Marie working together had erased their trust issues. They needed to trust each other completely in order to survive. It was one of the many things Logan had taught the X-men when he had started training them. And now, he was seeing that he did something right.

Logan and Rogue continued to hike along, their breathing heavy as they looked for water and food. Looking up at the skies above, Logan could tell that it was at least late afternoon. That meant that they had to find a spot to stop and rest for a while before looking for more food.

"Alright, kid, we better find a place to stop and rest. After all, yer not the one with a healing factor despite yer durability," Logan said to her.

Rogue nodded. "Agreed, sugah," she said.

As they walked along, Logan and Anna-Marie continued to try and find a relatively safe spot to sit and catch their breath. However, that was when Rogue heard Logan let out a loud yell on surprise and shock.

"AHHH!" When Rogue turned around, she saw that Logan had fallen into a pool of quicksand.

"LOGAN!" she screamed out in panic, suddenly reaching over to grab hold of his arm in an effort to pull him out.

'Mah God . . . if he dies, Cyke and Jean will kill meh,' Rogue thought. After five minutes of struggling, with one last tug, she managed to pull Logan out. The two sat there on the ground, panting.

"Thanks, kid," Logan told her roughly.

"No problem," she replied back to him, closing her eyes as they got up off of the ground. Suddenly, that was when they heard the sound of branches and twigs crunching underneath someone's feet. Thinking it to be some sort of animal, Logan and Rogue instantly took a defensive stance. However, when they saw who had turned the corner, they saw it was Scott and Jean.

"Cyke, Jeannie!" Logan yelled, rushing towards his students.

"Logan!" Jean instantly ran up, throwing her arms around him in surprise. She was relieved and happy to see someone familiar. However, when she realized what she had been doing, she pulled away, suddenly embarrassed.

"Good to see ya too, Red," Logan said, patting her head affectionately. He was relieved that Scott and Jean were safe and sound, and that at least they had stuck together through the past three weeks. He couldn't be prouder of the both of them.

"Good to see the two of you," Anna-Marie said in relief, hugging Scott quickly.

"Same here," said Scott.

"Okay, this reunion is sweet and all, but we better find Chuck and the others. Jeannie, have ya been in contact with the prof?" Logan asked as they walked along together.

"Yeah, yeah, I have, but, I don't know his location. I mean, I wouldn't be able to do something like that without Cerebro, and the professor hasn't trained me on how to use it yet. So unless Tony has found someone who can access Cerebro, I'd say our chances of getting out of here are pretty low," Jean said as she moved to stand beside Scott.

"Well, we better work on finding everybody else and regroup. It's clear that those Morlocks didn't wanna make this easy fer any of us because it's clear that they're just lookin' to distract us while Mags does whatever it is he is plannin'," Logan said.

"Agreed." Scott nodded along, and all four proceeded hike their way through the jungles. However, Logan and Rogue watched Scott and Jean and saw how close the two seemed to be with each other. In fact, the two were holding hands. It was clear to Logan that his two students had gotten a lot closer during their time of needing to survive together.

X-Corporation Tower – Cerebro Chamber

Tony Stark found that he was pacing back and forth in the Cerebro chamber, nervous over the fact that he hadn't been contacted by the X-men for a total of three weeks. The fact that they had all gone missing thanks to Magneto was something that concerned the young, billionaire playboy deeply. He didn't often say that he cared, but, he did care. He wasn't that much of an asshole.

Finally, after having searched for a total of two weeks, Tony finally decided to make a call to Nick Fury at SHIELD, hoping that maybe, just maybe Fury had the resources to find the X-men. When Fury had told Tony that he had an agent who was a telepath, it made the young man feel nothing but relief over that.

Suddenly, that was when the doors to the Cerebro room opened up, to reveal Nick Fury standing there with Natasha Romanoff, and a young, Native-American woman who looked no older than twenty years old.

"Mr. Stark," Natasha said as she stood there. She shook his hand to greet him.

"Agent Romanoff," said Tony. He turned to face the young woman who would be manning the Cerebro helmet.

"Mr. Stark, this is my agent, Danielle Moonstar," said Colonel Fury as the young woman made her way to sit down and use Cerebro.

"I take it that you're a telepath?" asked Tony.

"Yes," said Danielle as she took the helmet into her hands. "I grew up on a Cheyenne reservation in Colorado; my mutant powers of telepathically projecting fears of others as well as myself manifested upon seeing my mother and father get mauled by a bear. However, it was that moment Colonel Fury and Natasha Romanoff found me, and they offered to train me to be an agent for SHIELD when I was sixteen," she explained as she placed the Cerebro helmet onto her head.

Closing her eyes, Danielle was hit with the sensation of seeing every single mind in the world. It was quite the overwhelming sensation for a psychic as young as Danielle was, but, she seemed to have a good grasp on it from what Tony could tell. After about two minutes, the young telepath let out a gasp as she took the helmet off.

"I-I found them; they're in the Savage Land," she said, breathing heavily.

"Alright, we've got the coordinates for that location. Let's get moving, kid," Fury said.

Natasha went over to Danielle. "Are you alright?" she asked.

Danielle nodded. "Yes . . . it was just so overwhelming," she explained as they left the Cerebro room together to get on the SHIELD quinjet. Upon entering, Tony found that passing the medical bay was a hard thing to do. He could see that Carol Danvers was still deep in a coma, relying on machines to keep her alive. The quinjet proceeded to fly towards the Savage Land, but, for Tony, he was sitting near the computer monitors, reflecting on the fact that the X-men had gone missing, and that the location they were in was a place with dinosaurs. Natasha was sitting near him, her legs crossed as she toyed with a handgun.

"You okay over there, Tony?" Natasha asked him in a concerned tone.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm okay . . . it's just . . . the X-men, I'm worried and I'm concerned. They've been missing for three weeks, and I know for a fact that Magneto is planning something big. But what it is, we do not know. Even Rogue doesn't know. And on top of that, the professor is with them," he said. "In a lot of ways, the professor is more of a father to me than my own biological father was."

"Yeah, I know you probably feel that Tony, but, how you might feel about your old man cannot be further from the truth," Fury said as he sat down across from Tony and Natasha.

"Oh, like you knew him any better? He was cold, he was calculated, he never told me that he loved me . . . when I was in middle school he shipped me off to boarding school," Tony said bitterly.

"Actually, I did know him better. In fact, he had been one of the founding members of SHIELD," Fury said. "And sure, he accomplished a lot in his young life, such as building Captain America's shield during World War II, but, when he started SHIELD, he had the country's best interest at heart. In fact, he had started something called the Avengers' Initiative. It was an idea to bring together a group of remarkable people, and see if they can become something more. And I would say, Tony that you have already started doing just that when you and Professor Xavier started the X-men."

Tony sat there, taking in what Nick Fury had to say as they continued to fly towards the Savage Land. Just hearing the fact that his father had founded SHIELD was something that surprised him greatly. Tony always wondered why his father had never been around that much when he was a young child, but, now he knew.

'Damn . . . Dad, you really did it,' he thought as he continued sitting there in silence.

Savage Land

Down in the jungles of the Savage Land, Bobby Drake, Cecilia Reyes and Warren Worthington III continued to fight to the death of survival, looking for the other members of the X-men. Needing to go at living in a jungle filled with dinosaurs for a total of three weeks was draining on all of them. But, for Cecilia, Bobby and Warren, they were the only group that hadn't managed to find the others.

"God, I really, really do hope that the others are having better luck than we are right now," Bobby panted out.

"Yeah, agreed, me too," said Warren as he and Bobby sat there on the grassy jungle floors. Cecilia was off looking for some sort of food for them to sustain themselves for another couple hours. Warren turned to look in Bobby's direction. "Bobby, have you been alright lately? Because it seems as though ever since you came out, you've been . . . you haven't been yourself."

"Yeah, I'm alright. I mean, other than the fact that my parents hadn't called me or answered any of my phone calls," Bobby said bitterly.

"No, Bobby, do not do that. It's been nearly four weeks since the fifteenth birthday party from hell for you. You're not okay, I can see it," Warren insisted. "Nobody just gets over something like that. I saw you that night you had a complete mental breakdown. Jean was terrified for you."

"Warren, I just have to accept the fact that my parents cannot accept me as I am right now." Bobby suddenly found a small group of ants on the ground more interesting. But, Warren could tell that the younger X-man was on the brink of tears.

"It still hurts you?" he asked, moving to put an arm around Bobby's shoulders to try and comfort him.

Bobby nodded, swallowing the lump out of his throat. He was sick of crying over his mother and father. He'd shed so many tears the night of his birthday. He'd thrown up over it, and gotten himself sick over it even after that day passed. But his eyes misted over with tears that began falling. Bobby felt Warren pulling him in closer.

"I know it's tough to accept," murmured Warren.

"I just . . . I want to feel good enough for them," Bobby admitted. "I want to be happy when I'm around them, and I'm not."

Warren nodded. "I know. I see that," he said. "But trust me when I say that you are going to be fine. You have a home; you're not out on the streets like I was."

Bobby nodded in agreement. He turned his face up to look at Warren. "Thank you," he said, turning as he and Warren hugged. They were then pulled out of their thoughts over Bobby's parents by Cecilia coming over to them.

"Hey, Bobby, Warren, looks as though somebody's watching over us," she told them.

Warren and Bobby got up from the ground and looked over their heads to see what appeared to be a SHIELD quinjet over them.

"Tony Stark, you son of a bitch," Warren whispered with a grin on his face as he watched the quinjet land down on the ground. The three mutants entered the aircraft to see the rest of the X-men already there.

"About time you showed up," Bobby said to Tony.

"What did you think I was doing, kid? Shooting the breeze?" Tony quipped as he watched Bobby take a seat.

"Okay, I'm officially going to say that I have had enough of nature for the rest of my life! I mean, I missed a class field trip to see an exhibit of radioactive spiders at Dr. Curt Connors' laboratory in Oscorp! I may not be that into science, but the way Peter was describing it, man, he made me want to be there," Bobby said.

"Well, I am sorry you missed it, Bobby, but we've got pressing matters to attend to," Professor Xavier said. "We must figure out exactly what Magneto's ultimate goal was. Because his attack on the chemical factory was just a distraction, and him sending us here was clearly his way of making sure that we are out of his way. Tony, have you heard anything in the news while we were on our rather unexpected vacation?"

"No, old man, I haven't," Tony said.

"Rogue, I know that ya don't know much kid, but, ya've gotta know at least somethin'," Logan said as he took his seat.

"Ah don't know much," Anna-Marie said. "All Mystique kept on tellin' meh was that Magneto was gonna build a new home for the Brotherhood, and for mutants everywhere . . . she kept sayin' that we were gonna make a new world. But, if the Brotherhood are goin' to this "new home" that Mystique speaks of, Ah don't know where it could possibly be."

"You couldn't have stuck around them for a few more weeks to find out more?" asked Bobby, exasperated. Jean elbowed him in the ribs.

"Oh, Ah don't know? Ah was scared outta mah mind because Ah just absorbed Ms. Marvel?" Rogue asked rhetorically.

"Yeah, good point there," Jean said as she sat in her seat, Scott massaging her shoulders. "But, right now, all I want is a shower and to sleep in my own bed!"

"I'll second that," said Warren.

"Well, you all might want to reconsider that, because I think we've got our answer as to what Magneto has been up to since he sent us here," Hank said, turning his attention to the news which was playing on the quinjet.

"We have to cut to a breaking news story which is being shown nationwide. Right now, the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, and their leader, Magneto, are believed to have broken into Risman Financial, with the bank's founder, Matthew Risman, admitting publicly to the world that his bank is the one primarily responsible for having provided the financial backing to Cameron Hodge and Obadiah Stane to experiment on mutants on the island known as Genosha. This plan that Hodge and Stane have had had been foiled by the mutant group known as the X-men, who have exposed their identities to the world nearly six months ago revealing that the X-men are indeed the legal wards of X-Corporation founder Charles Xavier. What Magneto's ultimate plan is, we are not sure, but, he keeps on saying that he wishes to "create a new world". What does he mean by this? What could this mean for the people of this nation? We will return after General Hospital is finished. Gail Bendis, Eye Witness News."

"Clearly, that was Kid Omega's dirty work," Anna-Marie whispered.

"If Magneto keeps up like this, then mutants will no doubt need their own country!" Ororo said, clenching her fists.

"And I have got quite the hunch of what place he is planning on making into his new home," spat Logan, popping out a single claw from his fist. "What was the place that was used to oppress mutants and illegally experiment on 'em?"

"Genosha," Hank whispered in realization. "By stars and fucking garters," he added.

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